Anya Shanahan's Shack

Do not, under penalty of me beating you three ways from sunday even think of wasting and I mean wasting your money on this crap.
it doesn’t understand resolution, apparently I decided that I could only display the screen at the lowest definition of the attached screens, even though it managed to identify the fact that I was plugged into multiple monitors (hint to developers – when multiple monitors are present, assume that they each are capable of independent resolution choices).
Then there’s the audio… or lack thereof. Once the pre-rendered scenes complete, I hear nothing. Best guess is that it redirects audio to /dev/null, although it’s most likely that it’s going to one of the ~25 audio sinks of vista.
whine, pants, realistically, I have played a sum total of 5 seconds of this game, and I feel cheated.

I was booking the flight to visit my sister in the UK in the next few weeks when I encountered some of the fun changes to the way this airline works. Every check-in bag must be paid for, which I vaguely remember some stuff on a consumer affairs program on the radio over the last few weeks. I need to fly into Heathrow as it’s the easiest airport to deal with for visiting the sister, so I’m pretty much stuck with the fungus. I did check out bmi, but they’re a euro more expensive when tax is included. I should have booked earlier 🙂
Well, the long and the short of it is that they have a check-box at the bottom of the booking page that tells you that you need to check the box to ‘opt-out’ of having your inbox spammed. I thought that the EU had rules stating that you needed to opt-in to have marketing sent to you. It’s two bloody sentences long and I had to read it twice to make sure that I was not going to get spammed by checking on the box.

Ok, who’s bright idea was it to create the delete[] operator. I know that deep down, you may possibly, perhaps, in a million damned years, want a separate destructor for array as opposed to individual items, but bear in mind this isn’t the damned slab allocator you’re dealing with once that happens.
Oh, you say, but it knows that because this is an array of objects it will invoke the destructor for each object. So what, I have 4 bytes here that says you should not make me be concerned for that.
Once we’ve passed from the bounds of single-threaded, linear applications, it becomes difficult to maintain such fineries as reference counts and guarantees that we actually are damned certain that we’re the last owner of an object.
Hey, C++, I’m looking at you passing references around like chocolate. Yes; I’m damned aware of all the ways that allow you to keep the reference alive – smart references and all that.
COM – i(f*king)unknown. Oh yeah, that works all right. And if you believe that, here’s a memory manager I’ve got to sell you.
Messages. That’s pretty much it. Everything goes through the message (including the object). That keeps things simple. If you need to pass something back it has the object as well.
Incidentally, this rant was brought to you by the letters A, K and Z and the number 14. After all, it’s not prime.