Dear god, you didn't put quotes around that string!
I definitely noticed as I went from budding programmer to decent programmer, that my mind became a bit more analytical. I started predicting a few outcomes to problems that haven't happened yet. However, I also noticed that when I begin working on something complicated to me, and not just programs, I tend to zone out from the rest of the world much more often now. I think if being a programmer has a mental benefit (Analysis) then it also has a detriment (Excessive focus on one's work, perhaps?)
Nowadays I hardly make grammar or syntax errors at a SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
Exactly as you say. It is sad, but companies aren't magical places where the people in charge adore you and ride unicorns into work every day; they want your money. Badly! Yet, if the company wants to play dirty and constrain you into having to pay them twice, I feel no guilt in breaking said restraints forcibly and paying them once, as intended, and getting what was agreed to out of the deal.
I haven't pirated a single copy of Windows; this computer is over five years old and came with XP on it. Any future computer I plan to build but if I had to buy one normally, Vista would be taking a hike as soon as BitTorrent comes for a visit.
I've said "I wish I was using 98 instead!" when I was trying to get a few DOS games to work. Master of Magic, Dungeon Keeper, Arena, Daggerfall (Although it'd still be tough) and so on...
Well, for starters, let ME try making the drivers. They said it was daft to build a computer next to a swamp, but I did it anyway! The first computer, it sank into the swamp. The second computer fell over and sank into the swamp. If I make the drivers for the next one, that one will probably burn down, fall over and sink into the swamp. But the next one; that one will stay up! And then I'll give that one to you; the strongest computer in all of Slashdot.
I have no idea how or why I integrated a Monty Python joke into driver discussion.
I don't know about you, but FLAC as wonderful as it is, isn't all that nice for MP3 Players. If you have a 40gb iPod or something, then I'm wrong, but I use and I assume plenty of others use, small, cheap flash based MP3 players that range from 512mb to 8gb, I hear. 1gb seems pretty common; FLAC files will fill that VERY quickly. Is a marginal increase in sound quality worth losing half of the music you could put on the player? Ideal I think would be a high quality lossless format for your PC (FLAC) and a high quality lossy format for MP3 players (Ogg?) and the ability to convert lossless to lossy quickly. Of course, throw in a lack of DRM into that and "ideal" is lost instantly.
Never paid all that much attention to DRM at first. I used to use Napster. Er. Lately, when it has been "legitimate". I got under twenty songs at $0.99 a song. I didn't like that they were WMAs, but at first I didn't mind. Tried to make a data CD once for a CD player I bought, that can play MP3s and WMAs off discs.
"Protected data."
I stared at the little LCD message for a moment and thought to myself. Bull-crap. I just bought myself hand-cuffs. I never used another service like Napster or any other after that.
I don't know about that; I'd think that'd be a pretty cushy job. Sort of like being paid to check porn to see if it should be censored. Of course, it might get a little futile flagging episode after episode of naruto, just to see them come back again. Great. Now we have to deal with YouTube homicides, if people start uploading 4kids-dubbed anime. It'd take less then twenty episodes for the poor fool to lose his nerve and walk through the office collecting necks...
It might be difficult. Critics will practically REQUIRE both yellow and white cheese RAM, or else you'll have a group that loves the idea and one that hates it. Granted, both the yellow and white versions will function identically, but it's a strange preference as old as time itself.
Now, while you're all working on this and replacing parts every year, I'll be working on my computer made out of wine. Everyone else is forking out a ton of cash for upgrades while mine will just keep getting better by leaving it alone!
Amazing how well it works as an advertising device though. You bring in a machine and put some cheap candy in it and people are flocking all over to sign up with you, proclaiming you God. Don't get me wrong! I like Google. But it's amazing how easy it is to draw such attention. "Whoa," you'd think, "They give out free candy. BEST JOB EVER." Too good to be true, I'm positive. Check the fine print and search for some clause that requires you to sell your soul.
In the case of NWN and Baldur's Gate II, this could be avoided. Fan made modules in NWN could start you at any level (for instance, start at 20 which is near god-like and aim to end near 40 which IS god-like.) and Baldur's Gate II started you off at a pretty high level for D around seven to nine I believe, depending on class.
I think what games need is to push the scope of the game forward; I've nothing against advancement but when a hulking warrior is slain by a rat, I get angry. Especially when that warrior has a thirty pound axe with him. This can be avoided by just making the enemies more... interesting. A rat should never be a challenge, but a zombie might be more fitting, or a bandit. Instead of clearing the inn of rats, I'd rather clear the nearby forest of thieves, even if in both cases I'm "level one." It's a matter of entertainment.
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If you're feeling particularly radical, try the new Sins of a Solar Surgeon.
Dear god, you didn't put quotes around that string!
I definitely noticed as I went from budding programmer to decent programmer, that my mind became a bit more analytical. I started predicting a few outcomes to problems that haven't happened yet. However, I also noticed that when I begin working on something complicated to me, and not just programs, I tend to zone out from the rest of the world much more often now. I think if being a programmer has a mental benefit (Analysis) then it also has a detriment (Excessive focus on one's work, perhaps?)
Nowadays I hardly make grammar or syntax errors at a SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
Exactly as you say. It is sad, but companies aren't magical places where the people in charge adore you and ride unicorns into work every day; they want your money. Badly! Yet, if the company wants to play dirty and constrain you into having to pay them twice, I feel no guilt in breaking said restraints forcibly and paying them once, as intended, and getting what was agreed to out of the deal. I haven't pirated a single copy of Windows; this computer is over five years old and came with XP on it. Any future computer I plan to build but if I had to buy one normally, Vista would be taking a hike as soon as BitTorrent comes for a visit.
I've said "I wish I was using 98 instead!" when I was trying to get a few DOS games to work. Master of Magic, Dungeon Keeper, Arena, Daggerfall (Although it'd still be tough) and so on...
You just had to, huh?
Nine out of ten headcrab victims interviewed at the incident agree; "Blarrghharhaghhhh..."
Well, for starters, let ME try making the drivers. They said it was daft to build a computer next to a swamp, but I did it anyway! The first computer, it sank into the swamp. The second computer fell over and sank into the swamp. If I make the drivers for the next one, that one will probably burn down, fall over and sink into the swamp. But the next one; that one will stay up! And then I'll give that one to you; the strongest computer in all of Slashdot. I have no idea how or why I integrated a Monty Python joke into driver discussion.
You just have to... Go the distance.
Departm- School of Redundancy School.
Sun is not really all that old, being founded in 1982 and all. I never knew that Java had a part in global warming though. Yikes.
I'm not sold until we find four giant elephants to go along with it.
I don't know about you, but FLAC as wonderful as it is, isn't all that nice for MP3 Players. If you have a 40gb iPod or something, then I'm wrong, but I use and I assume plenty of others use, small, cheap flash based MP3 players that range from 512mb to 8gb, I hear. 1gb seems pretty common; FLAC files will fill that VERY quickly. Is a marginal increase in sound quality worth losing half of the music you could put on the player? Ideal I think would be a high quality lossless format for your PC (FLAC) and a high quality lossy format for MP3 players (Ogg?) and the ability to convert lossless to lossy quickly. Of course, throw in a lack of DRM into that and "ideal" is lost instantly.
Never paid all that much attention to DRM at first. I used to use Napster. Er. Lately, when it has been "legitimate". I got under twenty songs at $0.99 a song. I didn't like that they were WMAs, but at first I didn't mind. Tried to make a data CD once for a CD player I bought, that can play MP3s and WMAs off discs. "Protected data." I stared at the little LCD message for a moment and thought to myself. Bull-crap. I just bought myself hand-cuffs. I never used another service like Napster or any other after that.
You make L. Ron Hubbard cry. And probably more then a few Thetans.
It might be difficult. Critics will practically REQUIRE both yellow and white cheese RAM, or else you'll have a group that loves the idea and one that hates it. Granted, both the yellow and white versions will function identically, but it's a strange preference as old as time itself. Now, while you're all working on this and replacing parts every year, I'll be working on my computer made out of wine. Everyone else is forking out a ton of cash for upgrades while mine will just keep getting better by leaving it alone!
Amazing how well it works as an advertising device though. You bring in a machine and put some cheap candy in it and people are flocking all over to sign up with you, proclaiming you God. Don't get me wrong! I like Google. But it's amazing how easy it is to draw such attention. "Whoa," you'd think, "They give out free candy. BEST JOB EVER." Too good to be true, I'm positive. Check the fine print and search for some clause that requires you to sell your soul.
In the case of NWN and Baldur's Gate II, this could be avoided. Fan made modules in NWN could start you at any level (for instance, start at 20 which is near god-like and aim to end near 40 which IS god-like.) and Baldur's Gate II started you off at a pretty high level for D around seven to nine I believe, depending on class. I think what games need is to push the scope of the game forward; I've nothing against advancement but when a hulking warrior is slain by a rat, I get angry. Especially when that warrior has a thirty pound axe with him. This can be avoided by just making the enemies more... interesting. A rat should never be a challenge, but a zombie might be more fitting, or a bandit. Instead of clearing the inn of rats, I'd rather clear the nearby forest of thieves, even if in both cases I'm "level one." It's a matter of entertainment.