Who said anything about selling a game? If I want to write a damn tic-tac-toe game, save it to a cartridge, and play it at home on my GBA, then who the hell is Nintendo to tell me I can't?
Actually inertia doesn't *make* anything do anything. Inertia is merely the tendency for an object at rest to stay there, or a moving object to continue in a straight line. It doesn't *cause* motion. Oh well, I guess this comment is not only off topic, but annoyingly criticizes the technical merits of a joke...
Sometimes, a programmer who "learned CS" by his own, has acquired many bad habits that he would not have acquired if he had any formal training ("goto statement considered harmfull" comes to mind), and design rules, software engineering, etc.
I believe Ender's Game came out in the early '90s ('91 maybe). "Predicting" the Internet in 1991 would really not be too difficult, considering it was already there. You might not have been browsing web pages, but IRC, newsgroups, etc. were all there.
Actually Adobe didn't hire them. Read the article. In Germany (where the law firm that wrote the letter is from) law firms can send letters to companies that infringe on anothers trademark without the consent of the company, and the charge the "offending" company.
I personally think that this is great for Open Source in general. Any support from major companies is a Good Thing (TM). The more that Linux is out in the public eye, the more likely that people will start seeing it as a viable alternative to other more proprietary/closed operating systems.
I'm sorry Mr. IronChef, but I'm going to have to ask you not to post as you are infringing upon the Iron Chef (TM) trade mark. If you continue to post, we will of course have to take legal action against you.
I agree totatlly. From early elementry I was always seen as the "smart kid." In third grade I was chosen to attend the "gifted" school once a week. It was one of the best and worst things that ever happened to me. On one hand, having the intellectual challenge was one of the few things that got me through school. On the other, it set me apart and made me a targe for ridicule.
By 7th grade it had become almost unbearable. Not a day went by that I didn't get picked on. I had given up and just started standing there while I was pummeled. Toward the end of the year my parents enrolled me in a martial arts class. Over the summer I trained extremely hard and incorporated what I was learing into my way of life.
I never had to fight in 8th grade. No one even tried. They didn't know that I had been taking classes- I just carried myself differently. Things started getting better. My freshman year of HS one person started a fight with me. I finished it very quickly and have never had to fight again.
Bullies have an uncanny way of detecting weakness. They also tend to fear those who have learned to truly respect themselves.
(Stupid teachers on the other hand you generally just have to live through...)
The beta search interface also prevents people from following newsgroup threads or searching by newsgroup hierarchies -- such as "alt." -- or by dates.
Try going to the Advanced Search. You can also view a thread by clicking on the View Complete Thread link when viewing an article! I haven't seen a search including dates yet, but if you're going to complain, at least do some research...
Depends on how cynical you are.
I can see two people who are good friends actually sharing something that is a golden nugget in their lives.
But you'd have to have a really good friend.
Perhaps. I used to be an optimist. Then I turned 4. Surely you can't think it's cynical to belive realism==cynicism?:-)
And when there are problems, doesn't the public have the right to know? (Whose dollars put those folks up there in the first place?)
Just because our tax dollars are spent on a federal program doesn't mean we have a "right" to know everything about the program that those dollars may have been spent on. Do we get to know the troop locations of our military because we paid our taxes? Do you have the codes to launch nuclear weapons because your accountant couldn't quite keep you from paying the government something this year?
It has been my observation that it helps to ACTUALLY READ about something before you post. You do not make money for uploading things on mojonation, you get mojo (which can be turned in for cash at a later date) for sharing your system resources (ie hard drive space, cpu cycles, running a relay server, etc.) I don't see how anyone could consider selling hard drive space or clock cycles immoral... come on people THINK!
(B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and
(3) he reasonably believes that:
(A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means
Wow, if I read the Texas law correctly, if it's nighttime and some guy runs into my house, takes a chair and straps it to his back and starts to run down the street and I can't catch him- I can shoot him in the head to get my chair back. Now that's pretty cool.
Intel Celeron(TM) 366 MHz CPU or faster
20 GB Hard Disk or more
Support for ISDN, PSTN, xDSL or Cable modem
Accelerated 3D graphics and special effects Conditional Access and Parental Control
Linux Operating System
Mozilla browser - enhanced for PAL/NTSC screen displays
HTML, HTTP, JavaScript, DVB and ATVEF compliant
Support for GIF, JPEG, MIDI, PDF, MACROMEDIA, etc
Don't know about you, but if it runs linux I don't think the "parental control" will be much of an impediment to some of us of the younger generation...;-)
You own stuff you pay for. If you pay for your house, you own it - until then, the bank does. If you buy a car, you own it. If you lease a car, you don't. If someone gives you a barcode scanner...
... you own the barcode scanner.
You OWN anything that is given as a GIFT. Unfortunately, when I gave an engagement ring to a lying cheating wench, the ring was hers. Even after she broke the engagement. So I was out $1800.00. Moral of the story: Make sure you realize when you give someone a gift it is theirs. You have no more right to it.
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Who said anything about selling a game? If I want to write a damn tic-tac-toe game, save it to a cartridge, and play it at home on my GBA, then who the hell is Nintendo to tell me I can't?
That'll piss him off...
That's why I us an assumed name...
Actually inertia doesn't *make* anything do anything. Inertia is merely the tendency for an object at rest to stay there, or a moving object to continue in a straight line. It doesn't *cause* motion. Oh well, I guess this comment is not only off topic, but annoyingly criticizes the technical merits of a joke...
Real Programmers aren't afraid of goto statements.
x+0y=10 and 0x=y=20 (two larger theoretical packets)
and this magically saves bandwidth how?
I believe Ender's Game came out in the early '90s ('91 maybe). "Predicting" the Internet in 1991 would really not be too difficult, considering it was already there. You might not have been browsing web pages, but IRC, newsgroups, etc. were all there.
Actually Adobe didn't hire them. Read the article. In Germany (where the law firm that wrote the letter is from) law firms can send letters to companies that infringe on anothers trademark without the consent of the company, and the charge the "offending" company.
The even have their own OSI approved license. NOKOS, the Nokia Open Source License.
I personally think that this is great for Open Source in general. Any support from major companies is a Good Thing (TM). The more that Linux is out in the public eye, the more likely that people will start seeing it as a viable alternative to other more proprietary/closed operating systems.
Warning IAACP:
All computer people are nuts.
I'm sorry Mr. IronChef, but I'm going to have to ask you not to post as you are infringing upon the Iron Chef (TM) trade mark. If you continue to post, we will of course have to take legal action against you.
Letigiously,
Media Daibatsu
I agree totatlly. From early elementry I was always seen as the "smart kid." In third grade I was chosen to attend the "gifted" school once a week. It was one of the best and worst things that ever happened to me. On one hand, having the intellectual challenge was one of the few things that got me through school. On the other, it set me apart and made me a targe for ridicule.
By 7th grade it had become almost unbearable. Not a day went by that I didn't get picked on. I had given up and just started standing there while I was pummeled. Toward the end of the year my parents enrolled me in a martial arts class. Over the summer I trained extremely hard and incorporated what I was learing into my way of life.
I never had to fight in 8th grade. No one even tried. They didn't know that I had been taking classes- I just carried myself differently. Things started getting better. My freshman year of HS one person started a fight with me. I finished it very quickly and have never had to fight again.
Bullies have an uncanny way of detecting weakness. They also tend to fear those who have learned to truly respect themselves.
(Stupid teachers on the other hand you generally just have to live through...)
Nope. Never heard of it.
kasparov
The beta search interface also prevents people from following newsgroup threads or searching by newsgroup hierarchies -- such as "alt." -- or by dates.
Try going to the Advanced Search. You can also view a thread by clicking on the View Complete Thread link when viewing an article! I haven't seen a search including dates yet, but if you're going to complain, at least do some research...
Perhaps. I used to be an optimist. Then I turned 4. Surely you can't think it's cynical to belive realism==cynicism? :-)
Is it me or is it shameless site promotion to put the interview in two parts on two differnet sites?
Guess it was hard to find a virgin back then too...
If you want to read about the creation of Pinball 2000 from one of the inventors standpoints check out this article.
Just because our tax dollars are spent on a federal program doesn't mean we have a "right" to know everything about the program that those dollars may have been spent on. Do we get to know the troop locations of our military because we paid our taxes? Do you have the codes to launch nuclear weapons because your accountant couldn't quite keep you from paying the government something this year?
It has been my observation that it helps to ACTUALLY READ about something before you post. You do not make money for uploading things on mojonation, you get mojo (which can be turned in for cash at a later date) for sharing your system resources (ie hard drive space, cpu cycles, running a relay server, etc.) I don't see how anyone could consider selling hard drive space or clock cycles immoral... come on people THINK!
for the lazy... (yes i know this is ugly)
#include <iostream.h>
#include <iomanip.h>
void main ()
{
int x[254],y=0;
cout << endl << "Enter hex digits (0 to end): ";
x[y-1]=1;
while (x[y-1] != 0)
{
cin >> hex >> x[y];
y++;
};
for (int z=1;z < y; z++)
cout << char(x[z]);
}
Wow, if I read the Texas law correctly, if it's nighttime and some guy runs into my house, takes a chair and straps it to his back and starts to run down the street and I can't catch him- I can shoot him in the head to get my chair back. Now that's pretty cool.
Intel Celeron(TM) 366 MHz CPU or faster
20 GB Hard Disk or more
Support for ISDN, PSTN, xDSL or Cable modem
Accelerated 3D graphics and special effects
Conditional Access and Parental Control
Linux Operating System
Mozilla browser - enhanced for PAL/NTSC screen displays
HTML, HTTP, JavaScript, DVB and ATVEF compliant
Support for GIF, JPEG, MIDI, PDF, MACROMEDIA, etc
Don't know about you, but if it runs linux I don't think the "parental control" will be much of an impediment to some of us of the younger generation... ;-)
You OWN anything that is given as a GIFT. Unfortunately, when I gave an engagement ring to a lying cheating wench, the ring was hers. Even after she broke the engagement. So I was out $1800.00. Moral of the story: Make sure you realize when you give someone a gift it is theirs. You have no more right to it.