Putting your project in a Subversion repository takes an hour or two, maybe half a day if you're an idiot.
Oh really? I must be an idiot then. Because I just converted a large (~4GB) and very old (some of the code in there dates ~25 years back) repository from CVS to SVN using the appropriately named "cvs2svn". It took me more than a day to adequately straighten out a bunch of the problems with the old, crufty repository that couldn't adequately be translated into SVN, make all the decisions on ambiguous cases, etc. Then the repository conversion took 9 hours. And I don't *think* that had anything to do with me being an idiot...
That might not have been what you meant, but you should consider blanket statements like that before you make them.
I bought an Alienware PC (I'm using it to type this post) a few years ago. I'd agree with GP, though perhaps with a slightly different choice of words.
Now, I literally would not buy from them if you payed me money to do it. It's just not worth it. "Best support in the industry"? Bull. My computer was an absolute lemon and Alienware did nothing to fix it except lead me around until my warranty expired. Plus they falsified my support records. Failing videocard? Only a few months old? Went down on the books as "Customer had loosely plugged in video card. Fixed." More like "Video card defective, about to explode." Which it did, right after my warranty expired. I've had just about every type of problem you can imagine with this machine, and Alienware has treated me like crap the whole time.
I'd never buy from them again, and the fact that Dell bought them cheapens Dell in my eyes, not the other way around.
I just lost my mods in this conversation to reply to you, but it's worth it. I always used to think the same thing about people hanging from things by their fingertip in movies, but I've since changed my mind.
I was free climbing on a cliff when I worked my way into a patch of rotted rock. A smarter climber would backed off and gone around, but I thought "Nah, I'll be careful. I can go right through it." I put my hand up on a finger-wide ledge and gave it a tug. It held, so I thought I was good to go.WRONG. The whole chunk of rock came off when I put my weight on it. I dropped a couple of feet, slightly tilted and coming away from the cliff face for one heart-stopping moment as I seriously thought "This is it. I'm going to die. That was my whole life." But I didn't. At least I don't think so:D I caught myself on a similar projection just a couple feet down, scrabbled frantically for more purchase, and clung shaking to a dirty rock wall that was suddenly one of the greatest things I have ever felt.
Don't try this at home, but it's not impossibile. Just improbable.
Burn in hell, Joe Sixpack. I would have modded you Funny without the "Burn in hell" comment, but now I've wasted every chance I'd have to moderate in this story, just to tell you that I didn't.
Come on, was that really necessary? It was a great one liner all by itself.
Man, the first half of your comment is cool but the second half pulled me out of lurker mode to comment.
Why can't you develop a means of not smoking in public places? I personally could care less if you want to feed your nicotine addiction by smoking tobacco or shooting it, or whether you'd like to chew fiberglass or smoke arsenic in your spare time. But for the rest of us who find the smell and smog offensive and the thought of even more lethal second-hand smoke less than attractive, please abstain. Especially in crowded areas like airports.
Have you ever been to Frankfurt? After my last couple visits I'll be routing flights around it if for no other reasons than that it smells like a truck stop. Wait, I'll take that back as it's unfair to the last couple of truck stops I've been to.
I've seen smoking booths and umbrella/fume hood lounge arrangements in airports, and as a non-smoker I've got to say that it just doesn't work.
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As a Live player who frequently encounters modders who use their modifications to gain unfair (read ridiculous) advantage over the competition, I have to say that I approve of this policy.
In an ideal world people would be able to mod their DVD players to their heart's content without having to worry about things like this.
Unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world. As a Live player who frequently encounters modders who use their modifications to gain unfair (read ridiculous) advantage over the competition. It's no fun to play the game and service you're paying for when you have opponents with auto-aiming snipers that shoot through walls. Or even if they can just fly (a far more rare and less threatening occurrence that is nonetheless not an exaggeration. As long as stuff like that exists banning modded 360's from live is a good way to protect the greatest part of your paying customer base from such behavior.
I could also show you some Counterstrike demos of some 12 year old flailing madly across the map and say "See? Keyboards suck!" but that doesn't really prove a point does it? Watch someone who's good Halo and you'll see a different story.
After watching that guy play I'm pretty confident that me (or anyone I play with) would treat that guy like target practice, not an opponent. And I would just classify myself as just a "competent" Halo player, not "good."
You'll find different control schemes better for different environments, and that skill (not the lack of a mouse) is the contributing factor to the gameplay you'll observe in many beta videos. Want to see what the console controller can do? Go and find out.
I don't know about your specific video card and I definitely wouldn't call myself a guru, but I'm using an ATI video card and a Creative Audigy soundcard and I've found that Sabayon Linux is great. You might want to give it a shot. It's very visually appealing and polished, and seems to be be fairly quick-paced and innovative. The developers are still excited about their project and I've found the community to be one of its greatest assets. I've talked to both of Sabayon's most prominent developers, and though I am the most abject of Linux newbs I didn't get a feeling of elitism from either of them.
Parenthetical note: Sabayon Linux is based on Gentoo, but is pre-compiled and thus won't cost you 20-26 hours of compile time to install. You can find good people on #sabayon on irc.freenode,org(or the "Get Live Help" icon on the desktop) who are usually willing to help you if they can.
<rant>Be aware, should you be tempted to try #gentoo, that the same definitely can't be said of that community from my experience. A lot of them hate Sabayon (your guess is as good as mine) and... yeah. I've been banned from the #gentoo IRC channel, on my second sentence, for asking a question. But that's a tale for another day. </rant>
"...starcraft if it actually required minimal tactical strategy competence."
Hold up there. If you're implying that Starcraft doesn't require tactical competence then perhaps you're dealing with some strange definition of tactics that I was unaware of. Tactics: Tactics is the collective name for methods of winning a small-scale conflict, performing an optimization, etc. This applies specifically to warfare, but also to economics, trade, games and a host of other fields such as negotiation.
That kind of tactics is essential in Starcraft. Have you ever seen a really good game of Starcraft? It's one of the most fascinating, tactical, and fast-paced games I've ever seen at the higher levels. From micro-management of units (try controlling the individual targeting of every unit in a squad, in real time) to precise maneuvering, ranging and timing Starcraft at its best requires incredible tactical thought. Fine-grain options are weighed out and balanced, opponents predicted or deceived, tens of units of crystal measured against seconds in a struggle against a cunning and relentless adversary (the other guy).If that's not tactics, what is?
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Oh really? I must be an idiot then. Because I just converted a large (~4GB) and very old (some of the code in there dates ~25 years back) repository from CVS to SVN using the appropriately named "cvs2svn". It took me more than a day to adequately straighten out a bunch of the problems with the old, crufty repository that couldn't adequately be translated into SVN, make all the decisions on ambiguous cases, etc. Then the repository conversion took 9 hours. And I don't *think* that had anything to do with me being an idiot...
That might not have been what you meant, but you should consider blanket statements like that before you make them.
I bought an Alienware PC (I'm using it to type this post) a few years ago. I'd agree with GP, though perhaps with a slightly different choice of words.
Now, I literally would not buy from them if you payed me money to do it. It's just not worth it. "Best support in the industry"? Bull. My computer was an absolute lemon and Alienware did nothing to fix it except lead me around until my warranty expired. Plus they falsified my support records. Failing videocard? Only a few months old? Went down on the books as "Customer had loosely plugged in video card. Fixed." More like "Video card defective, about to explode." Which it did, right after my warranty expired. I've had just about every type of problem you can imagine with this machine, and Alienware has treated me like crap the whole time.
I'd never buy from them again, and the fact that Dell bought them cheapens Dell in my eyes, not the other way around.
Oh yeah? I've done it.
:D I caught myself on a similar projection just a couple feet down, scrabbled frantically for more purchase, and clung shaking to a dirty rock wall that was suddenly one of the greatest things I have ever felt.
I just lost my mods in this conversation to reply to you, but it's worth it. I always used to think the same thing about people hanging from things by their fingertip in movies, but I've since changed my mind.
I was free climbing on a cliff when I worked my way into a patch of rotted rock. A smarter climber would backed off and gone around, but I thought "Nah, I'll be careful. I can go right through it." I put my hand up on a finger-wide ledge and gave it a tug. It held, so I thought I was good to go.WRONG. The whole chunk of rock came off when I put my weight on it. I dropped a couple of feet, slightly tilted and coming away from the cliff face for one heart-stopping moment as I seriously thought "This is it. I'm going to die. That was my whole life." But I didn't. At least I don't think so
Don't try this at home, but it's not impossibile. Just improbable.
I'm almost sure you meant "chaos ensues", didn't you?
ensue: Happen, or come afterwards or as a result.
Come on, was that really necessary? It was a great one liner all by itself.
Yes, in all their teeming hordes.
I stand corrected. Thanks for the correction, and may you be favorably moderated. :)
Come on guys.
wizardforce [slashdot.org] already has a better response to your question.
A nuke in the upper atmosphere?
Holey Rusted Metal, Batman! That's the worst idea I've heard all week. And I've heard some doozies. Here.
You say "The Will and the Word", capitalized. Have you read the Belgariad by David Eddings?
Man, the first half of your comment is cool but the second half pulled me out of lurker mode to comment.
Why can't you develop a means of not smoking in public places? I personally could care less if you want to feed your nicotine addiction by smoking tobacco or shooting it, or whether you'd like to chew fiberglass or smoke arsenic in your spare time. But for the rest of us who find the smell and smog offensive and the thought of even more lethal second-hand smoke less than attractive, please abstain. Especially in crowded areas like airports.
Have you ever been to Frankfurt? After my last couple visits I'll be routing flights around it if for no other reasons than that it smells like a truck stop. Wait, I'll take that back as it's unfair to the last couple of truck stops I've been to.
I've seen smoking booths and umbrella/fume hood lounge arrangements in airports, and as a non-smoker I've got to say that it just doesn't work.
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An 'em' is the width of one character 'm'.
Thus:
'1 em' is this wide: m
'3 em' is this wide: mmm
It's a pretty good metric.
I payed 20 bucks for an extension... and not
I would pay 20 bucks for an extension... Man, I got my hopes up for nothing.
Where did you find that extension? That sounds like something I'd be interested in.
*NP*
As a Live player who frequently encounters modders who use their modifications to gain unfair (read ridiculous) advantage over the competition, I have to say that I approve of this policy.
In an ideal world people would be able to mod their DVD players to their heart's content without having to worry about things like this.
Unfortunately, we don't live in an ideal world. As a Live player who frequently encounters modders who use their modifications to gain unfair (read ridiculous) advantage over the competition. It's no fun to play the game and service you're paying for when you have opponents with auto-aiming snipers that shoot through walls. Or even if they can just fly (a far more rare and less threatening occurrence that is nonetheless not an exaggeration. As long as stuff like that exists banning modded 360's from live is a good way to protect the greatest part of your paying customer base from such behavior.
*NP*
I'll tell you why. Because he's not very good.
I could also show you some Counterstrike demos of some 12 year old flailing madly across the map and say "See? Keyboards suck!" but that doesn't really prove a point does it? Watch someone who's good Halo and you'll see a different story.
After watching that guy play I'm pretty confident that me (or anyone I play with) would treat that guy like target practice, not an opponent. And I would just classify myself as just a "competent" Halo player, not "good."
You'll find different control schemes better for different environments, and that skill (not the lack of a mouse) is the contributing factor to the gameplay you'll observe in many beta videos. Want to see what the console controller can do? Go and find out.
Really? Since when? As long as I played it was always 2 scourges per larva, 1/2 a food unit each. Has it been changed since 1.10?
I don't know about your specific video card and I definitely wouldn't call myself a guru, but I'm using an ATI video card and a Creative Audigy soundcard and I've found that Sabayon Linux is great. You might want to give it a shot. It's very visually appealing and polished, and seems to be be fairly quick-paced and innovative. The developers are still excited about their project and I've found the community to be one of its greatest assets. I've talked to both of Sabayon's most prominent developers, and though I am the most abject of Linux newbs I didn't get a feeling of elitism from either of them.
Parenthetical note: Sabayon Linux is based on Gentoo, but is pre-compiled and thus won't cost you 20-26 hours of compile time to install. You can find good people on #sabayon on irc.freenode,org(or the "Get Live Help" icon on the desktop) who are usually willing to help you if they can.
<rant>Be aware, should you be tempted to try #gentoo, that the same definitely can't be said of that community from my experience. A lot of them hate Sabayon (your guess is as good as mine) and... yeah. I've been banned from the #gentoo IRC channel, on my second sentence, for asking a question. But that's a tale for another day. </rant>
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"...starcraft if it actually required minimal tactical strategy competence."
Hold up there. If you're implying that Starcraft doesn't require tactical competence then perhaps you're dealing with some strange definition of tactics that I was unaware of.
Tactics: Tactics is the collective name for methods of winning a small-scale conflict, performing an optimization, etc. This applies specifically to warfare, but also to economics, trade, games and a host of other fields such as negotiation.
That kind of tactics is essential in Starcraft. Have you ever seen a really good game of Starcraft? It's one of the most fascinating, tactical, and fast-paced games I've ever seen at the higher levels. From micro-management of units (try controlling the individual targeting of every unit in a squad, in real time) to precise maneuvering, ranging and timing Starcraft at its best requires incredible tactical thought. Fine-grain options are weighed out and balanced, opponents predicted or deceived, tens of units of crystal measured against seconds in a struggle against a cunning and relentless adversary (the other guy).If that's not tactics, what is?