Isn't there one like that? In fact, I think I have it turned on. Its output is thus:
date: 9:36pm
uptime: 235 days, 12:21, 0 users,
load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
processes: 48
yesterday: 136329
today: 1
ever: 206134133
I wish to take issue with that. It's not all that bad; I do it a lot. Granted, editors (always raw, never wysiwyg) can make it a bit easier, but coding by hand is not nightmarishly difficult. I do it often both for my school's online paper and for my perosnal webpage (as well as just about anything else...). To me it provides the optimum in control over the code. The only major benefit I can see an editor having is "syntax highlighting," so that I can easily distinguish tags and text. MDI sometimes makes life easier, as well. And an editor certainly helps in ColdFusion, where I can never remember syntax.
Maybe I misinterpreted what you meant by that. Or else we just disagree.
I don't participate in the ritualistic Katz-bashing, but I don't usually read his stuff, because it really gets on my nerves. One thing I've noticed is his tendency to take any concept or desrciption and make it superlative; eg, "This is the best book ever written," "This movie is totally revolutionary," " this system is compeltely messed up."
It's hyperbole, overused and beaten into the ground. Plus he writes funny (don't ask me to explain that. he just does.).
I have to agree with you. I'm not a video game devotee at all, but I can't see myself doing similar things for any of my passions. I wouldn't wait oustide Borders all night for a new book, or stay up all night waiting for the next nethack release (though those are never announced until it happens). But I guess the main difference is availability. I know that The Truth is going to be on the New Books shelf for at least several weeks, and they aren't going to run out when it first gets released. Whereas with the PS2... it sounds like there was a bit more scarcity.
But still. It's just a video game...
Eh. Maybe I can't understand it without sharing the passion.
Hmmm... they'd need a spellbook of Mailman Summoning, hey and the Gnomish Mining Town could have a post office!
Worse yet, the game could treat your entire mailbox as an item (like a Bag of Holding), and if you happen to die or lose, it deletes the mail directory(if a nymph steal sit, the mail directory is moved ot a a random location until you get it back).
Ow, not cool. We were doing so well until that last bit...;)
The IM thing is nothing outlandishly special. NetHack has a mailer daemon which comes up to you and delivers scrolls on which are written new emails which arrive while you play.
My ninth grade math teacher was fond of this. he had one with a small pig figurine, and he would amaze us with the floating pig (or flying pig; yikes, I just got that). But that depends on you looking at one of the concave mirrors. This new system seems to just generate the object in the air (using mirrors, of course). Marvelously cool.
Watching NBC briefly, I noticed something very interesting. In the five states that are not known right now, wherever Gore is trailing, the difference between his count and W's is fairly equal to Nader's pcount.
Hmmm.
It cannot be denied that Nader takes votes from Gore. Seeing these numbers makes me wonder just how differently this would turn out if Nader weren't around. -J
If public schools are not supposed to advocate one political stance or another, why is my high school closed today to be a voting place?
It's a public building that has the necessary space. The church is playing a non-religious community role, like the daycare center in my neighborhood. -J
Certainly the "Safe return" thing is funny. There's no way they could guarantee the code was deleted or anything.
But the second bit... well, that's the attitude I sometimes see reading slashdot. I can see how it would be easy for media "outsiders" to make that assumption. -J
Last year, I recall that my amazing Journalism teacher(who almost idolizes Mr. Ellsburg) was able to get Mr. Ellsburg in to talk to us about sundry things (this was during our unit on Vietnam). It was a very interesting experience. As I recall, this was in the middle of the IMF/World Bank protests here in the DC area, and Mr. Ellsburg was in town for them. He urged us all to go out and stand up for our rights, get arrested, commit acts of civil disobedience, etc.
And this to a bunch of 10th graders. Either a really good thing or a really bad thing; I'm not sure. -J
I have a 486 in my bedroom with abovementioned OSes. I use it for schoolwork, nethack, programming (C/C++, QB, VB, perl, python, etc.), and all the old games i find. I'm actually trying to hunt down an old High-Densit 5_1/2" drive to install the orginal Wing Commander(!) with. I was plannign to make it dual-booting or soemthing, but it's low on hard drive space. I just got an old Pentium which I am considering installing Linux on, however. Distribution suggestions(I'm a bit of a newbie)? i'm thinking mandrake.
So. that's what i'm still doing with DOS 6.22 and Win 3.1.;) -J
Right on! I was about to post the same thing. I find that comment in the story kind of off-putting. No, I'm not glad I use open source, because I don't! (except for nethack and gcc...;)
I use Win98 SE, Win95, DOS6.22 and Win3.1 on assorted machnes (though I use Linux at school) and I really don't care that they aren't open source. Assuming that we all do is just a wee bit rude. I'm not deeply offended or anything, but it's slightly annoying. As if I'm not part of the "open source in-crowd" or something.
The reflex testing page is written in JavaScript. Gimme a break. JavaScript is a slow, interpreted language found inside slow, bloated Web browsers. The measurements this program offers are highly suspect.
I think a bit of lightening up is in order.
I would doubt that the author of the page was going for high performance, nanosecond accuracy. It was just in fun. Complaining as you have is kind of like people who pester me for occasionally playing around with QBasic. OF COURSE it's not a totally portable, high speed, low-level language, OF COURSE it's interpreted, but that doesn't mean that it's not a good language for some things (some great games have been hacked out with QBasic) or that it isn't good for learning some principles of programming.
For what I think this person was trying to accomplish (ie, let everyone have fun), javascript is a great choice. Why? Because most browesr that the average user uses support it, and it can be written right in with the HTML. Use Java? I doubt it. There is little advantage, and it can be slow. Java takes considerable time to load on any browser over my 56k connection. Javascript, here, is the optimal choice.
The Reflex Tester is not a device for intensive research. It needn't be chock full of high-performance, low-latency software components.
i hope this isn't taken as a flame. a vehement disagreement, perhaps. alternatively, if your tone is not the one which I interpreted from your post, I apologize. -J
Actually, i didn't find them that amusing, either. I mean... it's a couch. A bed. if I didn't know it used to be pornographic, i'd be even more confused.
I know it doesn't have to be funny, but still. Without the context, it's virtually meaningless. -J
Slashdot Mirror
Isn't there one like that? In fact, I think I have it turned on. Its output is thus:
;)
date: 9:36pm
uptime: 235 days, 12:21, 0 users,
load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
processes: 48
yesterday: 136329
today: 1
ever: 206134133
I don't understand some of that, though...
-J
37704. I would swear that jumped a couple thousand in the last five minutes.
Amazing. And it wasn't even in the body of the story...
-J
pure HTML 4.0 is a nightmare to code by hand
I wish to take issue with that. It's not all that bad; I do it a lot. Granted, editors (always raw, never wysiwyg) can make it a bit easier, but coding by hand is not nightmarishly difficult. I do it often both for my school's online paper and for my perosnal webpage (as well as just about anything else...). To me it provides the optimum in control over the code. The only major benefit I can see an editor having is "syntax highlighting," so that I can easily distinguish tags and text. MDI sometimes makes life easier, as well. And an editor certainly helps in ColdFusion, where I can never remember syntax.
Maybe I misinterpreted what you meant by that. Or else we just disagree.
-J
I don't participate in the ritualistic Katz-bashing, but I don't usually read his stuff, because it really gets on my nerves. One thing I've noticed is his tendency to take any concept or desrciption and make it superlative; eg, "This is the best book ever written," "This movie is totally revolutionary," " this system is compeltely messed up."
It's hyperbole, overused and beaten into the ground. Plus he writes funny (don't ask me to explain that. he just does.).
-J
Actually, I thought that was interesting. I'd never gtten that error message from a slashdotted site before. ;)
-J
I think what we have to worry about is the early Borg finding it and giving it sentience.
-J
I have to agree with you. I'm not a video game devotee at all, but I can't see myself doing similar things for any of my passions. I wouldn't wait oustide Borders all night for a new book, or stay up all night waiting for the next nethack release (though those are never announced until it happens). But I guess the main difference is availability. I know that The Truth is going to be on the New Books shelf for at least several weeks, and they aren't going to run out when it first gets released. Whereas with the PS2... it sounds like there was a bit more scarcity.
But still. It's just a video game...
Eh. Maybe I can't understand it without sharing the passion.
-J
Hmmm... they'd need a spellbook of Mailman Summoning, hey and the Gnomish Mining Town could have a post office!
;)
Worse yet, the game could treat your entire mailbox as an item (like a Bag of Holding), and if you happen to die or lose, it deletes the mail directory(if a nymph steal sit, the mail directory is moved ot a a random location until you get it back).
Ow, not cool. We were doing so well until that last bit...
-J
The IM thing is nothing outlandishly special. NetHack has a mailer daemon which comes up to you and delivers scrolls on which are written new emails which arrive while you play.
-J
My ninth grade math teacher was fond of this. he had one with a small pig figurine, and he would amaze us with the floating pig (or flying pig; yikes, I just got that). But that depends on you looking at one of the concave mirrors. This new system seems to just generate the object in the air (using mirrors, of course). Marvelously cool.
-J
That's what I was thinking.
-J
Watching NBC briefly, I noticed something very interesting. In the five states that are not known right now, wherever Gore is trailing, the difference between his count and W's is fairly equal to Nader's pcount.
Hmmm.
It cannot be denied that Nader takes votes from Gore. Seeing these numbers makes me wonder just how differently this would turn out if Nader weren't around.
-J
If public schools are not supposed to advocate one political stance or another, why is my high school closed today to be a voting place?
It's a public building that has the necessary space. The church is playing a non-religious community role, like the daycare center in my neighborhood.
-J
Yes. And my Palm is also a PC that fits in a my pocket, but it is not a PocketPC.
;)
Oh, the confusion.
-J
Win Ce for handhelds
-J
Certainly the "Safe return" thing is funny. There's no way they could guarantee the code was deleted or anything.
But the second bit... well, that's the attitude I sometimes see reading slashdot. I can see how it would be easy for media "outsiders" to make that assumption.
-J
Heh. I don't plan to.
-J
Last year, I recall that my amazing Journalism teacher(who almost idolizes Mr. Ellsburg) was able to get Mr. Ellsburg in to talk to us about sundry things (this was during our unit on Vietnam). It was a very interesting experience. As I recall, this was in the middle of the IMF/World Bank protests here in the DC area, and Mr. Ellsburg was in town for them. He urged us all to go out and stand up for our rights, get arrested, commit acts of civil disobedience, etc.
And this to a bunch of 10th graders. Either a really good thing or a really bad thing; I'm not sure.
-J
Yipes, I was hoping to use it as a desktop machine. Well... I'll look into it, I suppose. THanks for the advice.
-J
That would be true if this were a linux users' site.
-J
I have a 486 in my bedroom with abovementioned OSes. I use it for schoolwork, nethack, programming (C/C++, QB, VB, perl, python, etc.), and all the old games i find. I'm actually trying to hunt down an old High-Densit 5_1/2" drive to install the orginal Wing Commander(!) with.
;)
I was plannign to make it dual-booting or soemthing, but it's low on hard drive space. I just got an old Pentium which I am considering installing Linux on, however. Distribution suggestions(I'm a bit of a newbie)? i'm thinking mandrake.
So. that's what i'm still doing with DOS 6.22 and Win 3.1.
-J
Right on! I was about to post the same thing. I find that comment in the story kind of off-putting. No, I'm not glad I use open source, because I don't! (except for nethack and gcc... ;)
I use Win98 SE, Win95, DOS6.22 and Win3.1 on assorted machnes (though I use Linux at school) and I really don't care that they aren't open source. Assuming that we all do is just a wee bit rude. I'm not deeply offended or anything, but it's slightly annoying. As if I'm not part of the "open source in-crowd" or something.
Bah.
-J
The reflex testing page is written in JavaScript. Gimme a break. JavaScript is a slow, interpreted language found inside slow, bloated Web browsers. The measurements this program offers are highly suspect.
I think a bit of lightening up is in order.
I would doubt that the author of the page was going for high performance, nanosecond accuracy. It was just in fun.
Complaining as you have is kind of like people who pester me for occasionally playing around with QBasic. OF COURSE it's not a totally portable, high speed, low-level language, OF COURSE it's interpreted, but that doesn't mean that it's not a good language for some things (some great games have been hacked out with QBasic) or that it isn't good for learning some principles of programming.
For what I think this person was trying to accomplish (ie, let everyone have fun), javascript is a great choice. Why? Because most browesr that the average user uses support it, and it can be written right in with the HTML. Use Java? I doubt it. There is little advantage, and it can be slow. Java takes considerable time to load on any browser over my 56k connection. Javascript, here, is the optimal choice.
The Reflex Tester is not a device for intensive research. It needn't be chock full of high-performance, low-latency software components.
i hope this isn't taken as a flame. a vehement disagreement, perhaps. alternatively, if your tone is not the one which I interpreted from your post, I apologize.
-J
At least they could have left such a change in an advanced dialog box for experienced users ..."
;-)
No, then the complaint would have been, "It is too hard for the average user to change their homepage! Oppression! Oppresion! Aiee!"
Cynical? Perhaps. Realistic? Likely (though not necessarily with the last bit
I don't intend this as a criticism, just an observation...
-J
What am I missing?
;)
Probably the naked people...
Actually, i didn't find them that amusing, either. I mean... it's a couch. A bed. if I didn't know it used to be pornographic, i'd be even more confused.
I know it doesn't have to be funny, but still. Without the context, it's virtually meaningless.
-J