Actually I think that here in Canada, they also sold Commodores eventually. It's hard to find hard data to cite, but I think after they killed off the CoCos in 1991, they briefly had Commodores, until they switched to PCs. I have pretty distinct memories of having seen people do this prank out in front of a Radio Shack around here on a C64. If my memory is correct about this, then it would definitely not have been a very long time that they had them, because they were building PCs in 1992. But anyway, the joke still stands:-p
Actually I think that here in Canada, they also sold Commodores eventually. It's hard to find hard data to cite, but I think after they killed off the CoCos in 1991, they briefly had Commodores, until they switched to PCs. I have pretty distinct memories of having seen people do this prank out in front of a Radio Shack around here on a C64. If my memory is correct about this, then it would definitely not have been a very long time that they had them, because they were building PCs in 1992.
If they make AvP non-canon, then maybe they can do the same with Alien3 and Alien: Resurrection.
Agreed. I really wish they would film William Gibson's script for Alien III instead. If you get a chance, read it, it's awesome. It reads more like a novel than a script.
In summary... it was written at the time where Sigourney Weaver didn't want to do a sequel, and picks up where Aliens left off, except that the Sulaco drifts into Communist territory and is intercepted. Problem is, there are still aliens on the ship. The script basically centres around Hicks, as Ripley spends most of it in a coma. Lots of combat action... a true sequel to Aliens, rather than the butchering of the franchise we have been subjected to instead.
I've used eclipse since version 2. I can't comment on it, I'm still waiting for it to open.
This is a common theme. People tried out version 1 or 2 of Eclipse, bitched that it was slow, and never tried it again. Version 2 was... jeeze... probably about 2001 or 2002? I know when I started working on CDT in 2004, version 3.0 had just come out.
Eclipse has come a long way in the last 5 years, and so have the JVMs. I think you'd find that there is a world of difference now in comparison.
I tried [Eclipse] as a C++ IDE for a while and found it quite nice, only to find out that C++ sucks compared to Java (from a developer's POV). I had to look at someone else's code and it was uber-hard to locate the places where all those macros and typedefs are. I haven't found an IDE that can help you here, so I ended up grepping a lot.
Ummm...
Highlight macro name or type name. Hit F3 for "Open Declaration." Or if you want the references to it, context menu->References->In Workspace. Or, use the language aware search dialog. Yep, difficult.
Disclaimer: I work on CDT.
You make sure the passphrase is lyrics to a popular song... and have the RIAA take them to court for typing out those lyrics.
I now have the humorous image in my head of "The Others" on LOST getting sued for using Good Vibrations as the basis of their password for the jamming device.
Will your project be part of this summers' massive release (named after some spacey thing or another, no doubt) or do you have any milestones that are targeted around then?
Release plans for 2.2 haven't been finalized yet, but probably it will happen sometime around September if I had to guess.
An other version would be to run your IDE from your netbook but alias make to "ssh make" or using a well configured distcc. The last point would be transfering datas. Two options are available here. Either you rsync them to the server, or you mount the code directory on your local machine using ssh, fuse and sshfs
Mounting via NFS or SMB is generally dog slow and not recommended. Using an intelligent IDE like Eclipse that wants to parse and index all your source code, and trying to do that on a mounted drive is going to make things even worse as it crawls through every single file in your source tree.
A better solution is an IDE that leaves the files where they are, and offloads all the heavy lifting to that machine, where disk accesses are fast, or are at least fast compared to sending everything over the wire.
I mentioned this in another post, but due to my screwup of not applying good formatting to that one, I'll repost it here, as it's just as relevant. (mods, please ignore the other one)
Shameless plug... I work on an Eclipse project (Remote Development Tools aka RDT) that allows you to have a local Eclipse that targets a C/C++ project that lives on the remote machine. No SMB or NFS mounting required, nor do you have to deal with the slowness of running Eclipse over X. Nor do you have to run your IDE in a browser. The UI runs natively on your local machine, so all that nice stuff like copy/paste and drag n' drop just works (mostly..).
When you do something such as build your project (e.g. "make all", but it can be whatever you wish), the build commands are sent to the remote machine via the remote protocol of your choice. This can be via SSH if that's what you want. The output of the build is populated back to the local machine over the wire, and errors and warnings in your code are mapped onto those remote files so you can do lovely things such as clicking on the errors and being taken to the right location in that file.
If you want all the whizz-bang features like intelligent search, content assist, call hierarchy, etc. to work in a secure environment then tunnel the mandatory dstore connection over SSH, or setup SSL (I'd recommend the SSH tunnel route).
Here are the release notes for our first release. I'd recommend downloading the latest 2.1.1 nightly build over the 2.1 build to get some key bug fixes.
Shameless plug... I work on an Eclipse project (Remote Development Tools aka RDT) that allows you to have a local Eclipse that targets a C/C++ project that lives on the remote machine. No SMB or NFS mounting required, nor do you have to deal with the slowness of running Eclipse over X.
When you do something such as build your project, the build commands are sent to the remote machine via the remote protocol of your choice. This can be via SSH if that's what you want. If you want all the whizz-bang features like intelligent search, content assist, call hierarchy, etc. to work in a secure environment then tunnel the mandatory dstore connection over SSH, or setup SSL (I'd recommend the SSH tunnel route).
Here are the release notes for our first release.
I'd recommend downloading the latest 2.1.1 nightly build over the 2.1 build to get some key bug fixes.
May as well pass a low mandating all shoes to have "clicky" heels so that we can't sneak up on anyone. Silent shoes are the highest contributors to predatory actions!
Don't forget bare feet. We need to ban those too. They can be just as quiet.
Oh, and standing still, which is *gasp* totally silent!
Yes, drones need to be refueled and maintained. But since you can have a whole squadron of them in place, that offsets a lot of the negatives. Lose one? Launch another. Need to watch an area for a month straight 24/7? Put one on station and relieve it every 24 hours with another drone. Now, try and refuel or maintain a spy sat. Better yet, try getting two live vantage points from a spy sat. Or upgrading a camera. Or added a different sensor package. Drones define two things that the intelligence community loves to hear: Flexibility and cost effectiveness.
Agreed... let the tool fit the job. I don't think drones nor satellites are going anywhere any time soon. They both have their strengths and weaknesses.
I'm sure there's some cool stuff that can be done with satellites that can't be done with drones, But when it comes to taking pictures of who is where? I'll take a few drones at 50,000ft with good cameras (that can watch an area uninterrupted for days / weeks) over a satellite with an awesome camera that's 400 miles away.
Interesting thought. I assume though that keeping drones up constantly is probably not cost effective. Satellites, while expensive to build and send into orbit, are cheap once they're up there, as they have few moving parts and are largely solar powered. Drones have to keep returning to base for fuel and require more maintenance. There have been some interesting experiments with long flight time solar powered drones and blimps, but I think most of these have either not allowed for any significant extra payload (the drones), or have been ineffective due to winds (the blimps).
You have a point perhaps with most of what you wrote (admittedly I am not up on the latest and greatest of US spy satellite tech), but there are a few issues with the below:
Even easier would be to, oh, I don't know, do things at night (yes, IR-capable satellites exist but it makes things harder straight away)? Or do things in large warehouses with a roof?
Some things are just difficult to hide in this manner, not to mention expensive. Yes, there is a history of say, the Soviets building nuclear submarines in caves and whatnot to avoid overhead surveillance, but the bigger something is, the harder it is to hide in such a way that you can keep working on it while it's hidden. It's going to look a bit odd when all those cement trucks that are pouring the foundation for an ICBM site keep going into a supposedly finished warehouse in the middle of Buttfuck, Siberia where there's nothing around for 100 miles. The intelligence analysts are still going to know you're up to something.
Construction in the dark is a pain in the ass as well. You'd have to light everything so that the workers can see what the hell they are doing, so in effect much of it would be visible anyway. Outfitting every worker with night vision goggles is not typically cost effective I would think.
So how long before this can be used to determine when spy satellites are/are not overhead and able to observe you? I would assume that with some basic armchair assumptions about the FOV and zoom capabilities of the satellites' cameras, one could project a cone onto a model representing the surface of the earth and determine the viewable area to each satellite (the existence of which and orbits of which are generally known by satellite buffs).
I've long wondered if something like this is already available to foreign intelligence operatives... it's long been said that say the Russians know exactly when US spy satellites are due to be overhead, and change their behaviour and camouflage anything they don't want seen in time for when the satellites pass overhead.
It raises some interesting issues with respect to national security, the war on drugs/terror/etc. However, given it's all based on public knowledge and you can't exactly outlaw math, I fail to see what the government could do about it.
There are two forces in this world keeping the pirates in check: ninjas and scurvy. If the seas were suddenly full of lime, scurvy would be vanquished. The balance of power would be horribly altered, and no one's booty would be safe.
Yes, but by tricking the pirates into drinking the seawater because they think it will prevent scurvy, we'll actually fool them all into dehydrating themselves to DEATH! Normally we ninjas prefer a bloodier method of killing, but there's a certain amount of satisfaction we gain from just plain outsmarting them, and so the plan was given the go-ahead by the International Order of Ninjas. We do however intend to continue a captive breeding program in order to keep a small stock of pirates alive for recreational killing purposes.
I would normally be honor bound to kill you for revealing our plot, however most pirates are unable to operate a computer due to destroying the keyboard every time they try to type with the hooks that are in place of their hands. That and they are usually illiterate. The few that can read and aren't amputees are usually too drunk to know what's going on anyway. So really, the element of surprise is still on our side.
That being said, don't interpret the above statement as a guarantee that I won't kill you, because I am, after all, a NINJA. I kill on average about 4.2 million people every day, so simple statistics say that I will most likely kill you eventually.
and replace them as they 'fail'... that way we've always got a batman.
I am not the real Batman. My name is Ryan; I inherited the Batmobile from the previous Batman, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Batman either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Batman has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.
... I am pretty sure that if a spy satellite needs to go up, or an old one needs to be fixed, the shuttles will be pressed into service. I doubt the US government wants even its allies handling that.
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Actually I think that here in Canada, they also sold Commodores eventually. It's hard to find hard data to cite, but I think after they killed off the CoCos in 1991, they briefly had Commodores, until they switched to PCs. I have pretty distinct memories of having seen people do this prank out in front of a Radio Shack around here on a C64. If my memory is correct about this, then it would definitely not have been a very long time that they had them, because they were building PCs in 1992. But anyway, the joke still stands :-p
Actually I think that here in Canada, they also sold Commodores eventually. It's hard to find hard data to cite, but I think after they killed off the CoCos in 1991, they briefly had Commodores, until they switched to PCs. I have pretty distinct memories of having seen people do this prank out in front of a Radio Shack around here on a C64. If my memory is correct about this, then it would definitely not have been a very long time that they had them, because they were building PCs in 1992.
The same thing everyone used to do with the C64 out in front of Radio Shack back in the day...
10 PRINT "PENIS!!!!!!"
20 GOTO 10
Agreed. I really wish they would film William Gibson's script for Alien III instead. If you get a chance, read it, it's awesome. It reads more like a novel than a script.
In summary... it was written at the time where Sigourney Weaver didn't want to do a sequel, and picks up where Aliens left off, except that the Sulaco drifts into Communist territory and is intercepted. Problem is, there are still aliens on the ship. The script basically centres around Hicks, as Ripley spends most of it in a coma. Lots of combat action... a true sequel to Aliens, rather than the butchering of the franchise we have been subjected to instead.
Only if you are planning to send Kurt Russell there to make sure that The Thing does not escape!
... is that Peter North finds women really, really, really attractive?
This is a common theme. People tried out version 1 or 2 of Eclipse, bitched that it was slow, and never tried it again. Version 2 was... jeeze... probably about 2001 or 2002? I know when I started working on CDT in 2004, version 3.0 had just come out.
Eclipse has come a long way in the last 5 years, and so have the JVMs. I think you'd find that there is a world of difference now in comparison.
Ummm... Highlight macro name or type name. Hit F3 for "Open Declaration." Or if you want the references to it, context menu->References->In Workspace. Or, use the language aware search dialog. Yep, difficult. Disclaimer: I work on CDT.
I now have the humorous image in my head of "The Others" on LOST getting sued for using Good Vibrations as the basis of their password for the jamming device.
Release plans for 2.2 haven't been finalized yet, but probably it will happen sometime around September if I had to guess.
Mounting via NFS or SMB is generally dog slow and not recommended. Using an intelligent IDE like Eclipse that wants to parse and index all your source code, and trying to do that on a mounted drive is going to make things even worse as it crawls through every single file in your source tree.
A better solution is an IDE that leaves the files where they are, and offloads all the heavy lifting to that machine, where disk accesses are fast, or are at least fast compared to sending everything over the wire.
I mentioned this in another post, but due to my screwup of not applying good formatting to that one, I'll repost it here, as it's just as relevant. (mods, please ignore the other one)
Shameless plug... I work on an Eclipse project (Remote Development Tools aka RDT) that allows you to have a local Eclipse that targets a C/C++ project that lives on the remote machine. No SMB or NFS mounting required, nor do you have to deal with the slowness of running Eclipse over X. Nor do you have to run your IDE in a browser. The UI runs natively on your local machine, so all that nice stuff like copy/paste and drag n' drop just works (mostly..).
When you do something such as build your project (e.g. "make all", but it can be whatever you wish), the build commands are sent to the remote machine via the remote protocol of your choice. This can be via SSH if that's what you want. The output of the build is populated back to the local machine over the wire, and errors and warnings in your code are mapped onto those remote files so you can do lovely things such as clicking on the errors and being taken to the right location in that file.
If you want all the whizz-bang features like intelligent search, content assist, call hierarchy, etc. to work in a secure environment then tunnel the mandatory dstore connection over SSH, or setup SSL (I'd recommend the SSH tunnel route).
Here are the release notes for our first release. I'd recommend downloading the latest 2.1.1 nightly build over the 2.1 build to get some key bug fixes.
Ugh... sorry for the lack of formatting. I was in a rush and didn't preview.
Shameless plug... I work on an Eclipse project (Remote Development Tools aka RDT) that allows you to have a local Eclipse that targets a C/C++ project that lives on the remote machine. No SMB or NFS mounting required, nor do you have to deal with the slowness of running Eclipse over X. When you do something such as build your project, the build commands are sent to the remote machine via the remote protocol of your choice. This can be via SSH if that's what you want. If you want all the whizz-bang features like intelligent search, content assist, call hierarchy, etc. to work in a secure environment then tunnel the mandatory dstore connection over SSH, or setup SSL (I'd recommend the SSH tunnel route). Here are the release notes for our first release. I'd recommend downloading the latest 2.1.1 nightly build over the 2.1 build to get some key bug fixes.
Don't forget bare feet. We need to ban those too. They can be just as quiet.
Oh, and standing still, which is *gasp* totally silent!
Emphasis mine. His statement doesn't preclude them participating in other unethical practices.
No, it's plaid.
Oops, wait, wrong franchise.
They've gone to plaid!
Agreed... let the tool fit the job. I don't think drones nor satellites are going anywhere any time soon. They both have their strengths and weaknesses.
Interesting thought. I assume though that keeping drones up constantly is probably not cost effective. Satellites, while expensive to build and send into orbit, are cheap once they're up there, as they have few moving parts and are largely solar powered. Drones have to keep returning to base for fuel and require more maintenance. There have been some interesting experiments with long flight time solar powered drones and blimps, but I think most of these have either not allowed for any significant extra payload (the drones), or have been ineffective due to winds (the blimps).
Some things are just difficult to hide in this manner, not to mention expensive. Yes, there is a history of say, the Soviets building nuclear submarines in caves and whatnot to avoid overhead surveillance, but the bigger something is, the harder it is to hide in such a way that you can keep working on it while it's hidden. It's going to look a bit odd when all those cement trucks that are pouring the foundation for an ICBM site keep going into a supposedly finished warehouse in the middle of Buttfuck, Siberia where there's nothing around for 100 miles. The intelligence analysts are still going to know you're up to something.
Construction in the dark is a pain in the ass as well. You'd have to light everything so that the workers can see what the hell they are doing, so in effect much of it would be visible anyway. Outfitting every worker with night vision goggles is not typically cost effective I would think.
So how long before this can be used to determine when spy satellites are/are not overhead and able to observe you? I would assume that with some basic armchair assumptions about the FOV and zoom capabilities of the satellites' cameras, one could project a cone onto a model representing the surface of the earth and determine the viewable area to each satellite (the existence of which and orbits of which are generally known by satellite buffs).
I've long wondered if something like this is already available to foreign intelligence operatives... it's long been said that say the Russians know exactly when US spy satellites are due to be overhead, and change their behaviour and camouflage anything they don't want seen in time for when the satellites pass overhead.
It raises some interesting issues with respect to national security, the war on drugs/terror/etc. However, given it's all based on public knowledge and you can't exactly outlaw math, I fail to see what the government could do about it.
Agreed. Thankfully, it appears that they are working on one already. Although I assume it's based on the new World of Darkness and not the old one.
Yes, but by tricking the pirates into drinking the seawater because they think it will prevent scurvy, we'll actually fool them all into dehydrating themselves to DEATH! Normally we ninjas prefer a bloodier method of killing, but there's a certain amount of satisfaction we gain from just plain outsmarting them, and so the plan was given the go-ahead by the International Order of Ninjas. We do however intend to continue a captive breeding program in order to keep a small stock of pirates alive for recreational killing purposes.
I would normally be honor bound to kill you for revealing our plot, however most pirates are unable to operate a computer due to destroying the keyboard every time they try to type with the hooks that are in place of their hands. That and they are usually illiterate. The few that can read and aren't amputees are usually too drunk to know what's going on anyway. So really, the element of surprise is still on our side.
That being said, don't interpret the above statement as a guarantee that I won't kill you, because I am, after all, a NINJA. I kill on average about 4.2 million people every day, so simple statistics say that I will most likely kill you eventually.
Looking forward to killing you soon!
The Ninja
I am not the real Batman. My name is Ryan; I inherited the Batmobile from the previous Batman, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Batman either. His name was Cummerbund. The real Batman has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.
... I am pretty sure that if a spy satellite needs to go up, or an old one needs to be fixed, the shuttles will be pressed into service. I doubt the US government wants even its allies handling that.