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He's also dead, and thus far less impressive than he once was. Please give up your wannabe-samurai thing. It might be amusing in a Japanese, but it's sort of pathetic in a westerner.
Re:SNES Zelda Rocked, N64 Zelda SUCKED
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Hey, you may laugh at wrestling games, but... but...
You aren't laughing hard enough. I don't even see who buys the damned things. I guess it's the same "people" that make fishing and hunting games sell.
Okay, I know that sports games are very popular amount the non-videogamer gamer crowd, but I just really have never seen the point. Probably because I'm not a jock. The only sports games that I've enjoyed were the original (very, very old) ICE HOCKEY for NES, and a more recent hockey game for N64. Those are great because the games are combinations of cops'n'robbers and action games... "he's got the puck! chase him down and beat his ass!" I also remember a few fun hours spent with an ancient NES baseball games.
But the vast majority of sports games are just... wrong. Maybe it's just because I'm a geek, but I find them offensive.
My feelings aside, are the sports "gamers" the people who buy wrasslin' games? The kind of people that consider NASCAR "high art" and mourn that Dale Earnheart guy as if he were something more than a hick with a fast car?
You wish, dollface. Sorry -- I dislike loose, drippy assholes. You're just as cheap a slut as Malda... he sold his ass to Bendover, VA Itsux, and OSDN (Oh, suckin dick's nice!).
Heh... well I guess those service packs aren't for nothing.:-)
Microsoft Knowledgebase Article #182623903932232 Visual C++ Compiler is a Broken Piece of Shit
Symptoms Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler does compile C++ code.
Resolution Install Visual Studio Service Pack 18.
Also see Article #492834850: Microsoft C++ 6.0 Does Not Install
Article #593030239202: Microsoft C++ 6.0 Retail Package does not contain media
I'm no huge MS fan, and I dislike IDEs in general. I use the command-line VC++ compiler to build tools on my NT workstation at the office. Almost all of my experience is with GCC and several UNIX CCs, so the IDE actually slows me down. Luckily I found a document online which maps standard UNIX compiler options to the various VC++ dialog boxes, or else I never would have been able to debug a DLL when a production system running on NT crashed a few weeks ago, with the primary developer on vacation.:-)
Yes, and your post is further proof that "all the good posters have either left Slashdot or no longer actively partcipate."
:-)
Yes, Slashdot sucks, it's been going downhill for two years. But it's funny, sometimes at work I just involuntarily pop open a new browser window and type "slashdot.org". We keep coming back despite the lack of content, blatant and pointless Microsoft bashing, and lame editors -- Taco is apparently a marketing genius. Kick ass for a year to get 'em hooked, then start sucking and rake in the advertising dollars while doing no actual work! Hell, Slashdot is one of the few sites on the WWW that can still make money selling banner adspace.
ESR. Actually, at first I thought that The Cathedral and the Bazaar was supposed to be comedy, but ever since someone told me that ESR was serious, just thinking about that trash gives me nightmares.
Once again, if you're using the cheapo "standard" version, you aren't using the real VC++ compiler. The optimizing compiler is only present in the professional and enterprise versions , which respectively cost around $500 and $1000, IIRC.
The standard compiler is great for fucking around but you really want the real one for production systems. At my office the Windows weenies have a MSDN Universal subsrciption so they have all the cool toys anyway. If you aren't familiar with the wacky world of Windows, the MSDN Universal subscription is about $3000 per year and includes monthly (!!) shipments of the latest patched Microsoft OSs (all of them... Win2k Pro and Server, Me, et cetera), Visual Studio Enterprise (which includes VC++, InterDev and a whole bunch of other shit), plus beta releases of upcoming products. If you're a MS shop it's pretty sweet.
It may come with other toys; I'm not really sure, I'm not in the Windows group (I'm in the "web" group, we run AIX) and just use their VC++ install media on my NT workstation.
Come on, NT Server licenses cost $600-800 a piece. You think they're going to practically give away their fast compiler?
My dev server is Intel (hey, give me a break, the AMD760MP wasn't available three months ago), and I've considered buying the Intel compiler. But I'm wondering, would it run on my Athlon workstation? Obviously I wouldn't be able to use the Intel extensions -- or the AMD extensions, for that matter, ha ha -- but would it run at all? Knowing Intel, I wouldn't be surprised if the compiler refused to run on an Athlon.
I imagine that Intel's compiler market is rather small. Almost every Windows shop runs either Microsoft's or Borland's compilers, most GNU/Linux shops run GCC, and UNIX shops run either GCC or a vendor's compiler (but most UNIX shops don't run x86 anyway, heh).
This very minute, I am sitting in the same office as five PL/1 programmers. And about four Delphi "programmers." (Ha...) Eight of the nine are Windows weenies, and the ninth uses VMS.
But I don't mind... I get $800k worth of RS/6000 kit to develop on.:-)
I agree completely. In terms of pure multiplayer fun, MK64 is it. I think I've played that game more than any other racing game. (Then again, I don't play many racing games, but I've logged more hours in MK64 than Gran Turismo, and that's saying something!)
And all you SMK losers can fuck off! SMK is awesome, but MK64 is godlike. Remember the first time you saw someone perform "The Jump" shortcut at Wario's Stadium? Or being knocked off a ramp by a well-timed red shell? Or playing the block battle level where, after five minutes of play, the ground level would become "greem shell hell?" Or the ice level which had the power to make GNU/Linux geeks curse at penguins?:-)
MK64 ranks up there with Half-Life in terms of pure multiplayer goodness. Rock on.
I can think of no better use for such a technology than immortalizing the honorable visage of Mr. Gary Oatse in a universal data format. I weep when I think that even after I am long departed, my people will be able to gaze upon Gary's tribute to eternal horror, squeal "Ewww!" and close their HML browsers before their coworkers notice.
Blaming Qwest for loss of service because of Code Red is roughly the same as blaming the state of california becuase your house fell into the San Andreas fault.
Isn't the downtime really the fault of the morons running unpatched IIS servers on DSL service? And who are, in the case of residential service, probably violating their service agreement? Qwest should give everyone the money, and recoup their losses by port-scanning their DSL subscribers and charging offenders an extra monthly fee. Every Qwest customer, redidential and business, who is running unpatched IIS is to blame.
Or if Qwest doesn't wish to offend their customers, they should just blame Microsoft. I understand that this is standard practice... just yesterday, some Delphi fucktard (you know the type... "just drag and drop the components! yes, that all it takes to be a real programmer!" ha ha ha) was telling me that the ability to blame Microsoft -- even for things that aren't really Redmond's fault -- is an advantage of running NT! It's really getting difficult for me to defend Windows as a rightful player in the heterogenous world of computing when its users display such poor judgement and reasoning.
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I concur... Asus rocks for AMD systems. Unfortunately, most new Asus boards use VIA chipsets, which have a reputation for stablity problems and serious hardware compatability issues. (SBLive owners know what I'm talking about!) But Asus boards are a better choice than anything from Abit.
I am currently preparing for a rather large hardware purchase (adding two rackmount servers and a workstation to my curent single server and single workstation), and since I've been a hardcore Athlon convert since last year, I'm trying to find some good, stable AMD boards for the servers. I wish that decent boards with AMD chipsets were easier to find... like the 760...
It's a quick interview, but a good read. Interesting that to talk about the Mac OS now is to talk about UNIX.
FreeBSD is not UNIX. UNIX is a brand of systems including Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, UnixWare and several other products. See the Open Group for more details.
FreeBSD is based upon 4.4BSD-lite, the last CSRG release, which contained no AT&T code. There is no common codebase. And, even if there were a common codebase, BSD systems are no longer considered UNIX. So FreeBSD can't even be called a UNIX-workalike; GNU/Linux fits that description better.
But we can't expect Timothy to understand this. He's still recovering from Code Red II, which I understand affected every single unlicensed copy of Windows 2000 that OSDN/Bendover/VA Itsux/Cocksmackers is running. And that's a lot of unlicensed copies! (Hint, hint, lurking astroturfers...)
...and the Linux kernel is dependant on the GNU libraries and tools. Unless IBM is going to port Linux to its own C library and include its own UNIX tools and utilities in a custom distribution, it's GNU/Linux. Linux would never have escaped Torvalds' 386 without the GNU common tools, and I find his arrogance towards RMS insulting. We owe just as much -- if not more -- to RMS than Torvalds for GNU/Linux's current popularity.
IBM is talking about an operating system, not a kernel. GNU/Linux is an operating system. Linux is a kernel.
Is it desirable to have one OS everywhere, or a multitude of interoperable OSes tuned for their particualr niche?
But it wouldn't just be one OS... Just as Sun, IBM, et al run UNIX implementations which are optimized to run on their respective own hardware systems, each vendor will tweak GNU/Linux to meet its own needs. I don't like RMS's or ESR's politics, and I have a lot of issues with both the Free Software and Open Source camps. But I'm starting to think that industry adoption of Linux is a good thing. However loony RMS may be, he is a visionary, and forsaw in 1984 the world of today, and how a Free software system could help that world.
Of course he will... that's part of the hypocrisy that makes this site so "special." It isn't uncommon to find the usual "M$ is evil and Windows is sucks! h4w h4w!" stories followed by stories about games like Diablo 2 and The Sims. Like most of Slashdot's readers, Malda doesn't really use GNU/Linux on the desktop.
And no one plays games on VMWare, so you devil's advocates can crawl back under your rocks. Malda's metioned his Windows boxes numerous times. Someday, when the mood strikes me, I'm going to make a phone call to an influential friend, and, the next day, OSDN/VA Itsux will get a nice letter from Redmond, asking for license documentation.
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He's also dead, and thus far less impressive than he once was. Please give up your wannabe-samurai thing. It might be amusing in a Japanese, but it's sort of pathetic in a westerner.
You aren't laughing hard enough. I don't even see who buys the damned things. I guess it's the same "people" that make fishing and hunting games sell.
Okay, I know that sports games are very popular amount the non-videogamer gamer crowd, but I just really have never seen the point. Probably because I'm not a jock. The only sports games that I've enjoyed were the original (very, very old) ICE HOCKEY for NES, and a more recent hockey game for N64. Those are great because the games are combinations of cops'n'robbers and action games... "he's got the puck! chase him down and beat his ass!" I also remember a few fun hours spent with an ancient NES baseball games.
But the vast majority of sports games are just... wrong. Maybe it's just because I'm a geek, but I find them offensive.
My feelings aside, are the sports "gamers" the people who buy wrasslin' games? The kind of people that consider NASCAR "high art" and mourn that Dale Earnheart guy as if he were something more than a hick with a fast car?
You wish, dollface. Sorry -- I dislike loose, drippy assholes. You're just as cheap a slut as Malda... he sold his ass to Bendover, VA Itsux, and OSDN (Oh, suckin dick's nice!).
I'm no huge MS fan, and I dislike IDEs in general. I use the command-line VC++ compiler to build tools on my NT workstation at the office. Almost all of my experience is with GCC and several UNIX CCs, so the IDE actually slows me down. Luckily I found a document online which maps standard UNIX compiler options to the various VC++ dialog boxes, or else I never would have been able to debug a DLL when a production system running on NT crashed a few weeks ago, with the primary developer on vacation. :-)
:-)
Yes, Slashdot sucks, it's been going downhill for two years. But it's funny, sometimes at work I just involuntarily pop open a new browser window and type "slashdot.org". We keep coming back despite the lack of content, blatant and pointless Microsoft bashing, and lame editors -- Taco is apparently a marketing genius. Kick ass for a year to get 'em hooked, then start sucking and rake in the advertising dollars while doing no actual work! Hell, Slashdot is one of the few sites on the WWW that can still make money selling banner adspace.
ESR. Actually, at first I thought that The Cathedral and the Bazaar was supposed to be comedy, but ever since someone told me that ESR was serious, just thinking about that trash gives me nightmares.
The standard compiler is great for fucking around but you really want the real one for production systems. At my office the Windows weenies have a MSDN Universal subsrciption so they have all the cool toys anyway. If you aren't familiar with the wacky world of Windows, the MSDN Universal subscription is about $3000 per year and includes monthly (!!) shipments of the latest patched Microsoft OSs (all of them... Win2k Pro and Server, Me, et cetera), Visual Studio Enterprise (which includes VC++, InterDev and a whole bunch of other shit), plus beta releases of upcoming products. If you're a MS shop it's pretty sweet.
It may come with other toys; I'm not really sure, I'm not in the Windows group (I'm in the "web" group, we run AIX) and just use their VC++ install media on my NT workstation.
Come on, NT Server licenses cost $600-800 a piece. You think they're going to practically give away their fast compiler?
I imagine that Intel's compiler market is rather small. Almost every Windows shop runs either Microsoft's or Borland's compilers, most GNU/Linux shops run GCC, and UNIX shops run either GCC or a vendor's compiler (but most UNIX shops don't run x86 anyway, heh).
The "standard" version is for newbies. Only the professional and enterprise versions have the optimizing compiler. And, yes, it's worth it.
Are you two done with you gaylovefest yet?
I'm sick and tired of hearing about the goddamned jeep. MGS2 will own all your sorry asses.
But I don't mind... I get $800k worth of RS/6000 kit to develop on. :-)
And all you SMK losers can fuck off! SMK is awesome, but MK64 is godlike. Remember the first time you saw someone perform "The Jump" shortcut at Wario's Stadium? Or being knocked off a ramp by a well-timed red shell? Or playing the block battle level where, after five minutes of play, the ground level would become "greem shell hell?" Or the ice level which had the power to make GNU/Linux geeks curse at penguins? :-)
MK64 ranks up there with Half-Life in terms of pure multiplayer goodness. Rock on.
I can think of no better use for such a technology than immortalizing the honorable visage of Mr. Gary Oatse in a universal data format. I weep when I think that even after I am long departed, my people will be able to gaze upon Gary's tribute to eternal horror, squeal "Ewww!" and close their HML browsers before their coworkers notice.
but I'm starting to agree with Gibson. Imagine how much worse the flood would have been if NT5 had the power of real sockets.
Microsoft would probably just offer everyone a free month of MSN Internet connectivity. :-)
Never underestimate Johnnie Cochran.
Are you saying that there's more to Slashdot than trying to first post?
Or if Qwest doesn't wish to offend their customers, they should just blame Microsoft. I understand that this is standard practice... just yesterday, some Delphi fucktard (you know the type... "just drag and drop the components! yes, that all it takes to be a real programmer!" ha ha ha) was telling me that the ability to blame Microsoft -- even for things that aren't really Redmond's fault -- is an advantage of running NT! It's really getting difficult for me to defend Windows as a rightful player in the heterogenous world of computing when its users display such poor judgement and reasoning.
I am currently preparing for a rather large hardware purchase (adding two rackmount servers and a workstation to my curent single server and single workstation), and since I've been a hardcore Athlon convert since last year, I'm trying to find some good, stable AMD boards for the servers. I wish that decent boards with AMD chipsets were easier to find... like the 760...
FreeBSD is not UNIX. UNIX is a brand of systems including Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Tru64, UnixWare and several other products. See the Open Group for more details.
FreeBSD is based upon 4.4BSD-lite, the last CSRG release, which contained no AT&T code. There is no common codebase. And, even if there were a common codebase, BSD systems are no longer considered UNIX. So FreeBSD can't even be called a UNIX-workalike; GNU/Linux fits that description better.
But we can't expect Timothy to understand this. He's still recovering from Code Red II, which I understand affected every single unlicensed copy of Windows 2000 that OSDN/Bendover/VA Itsux/Cocksmackers is running. And that's a lot of unlicensed copies! (Hint, hint, lurking astroturfers...)
IBM is talking about an operating system, not a kernel. GNU/Linux is an operating system. Linux is a kernel.
But it wouldn't just be one OS... Just as Sun, IBM, et al run UNIX implementations which are optimized to run on their respective own hardware systems, each vendor will tweak GNU/Linux to meet its own needs. I don't like RMS's or ESR's politics, and I have a lot of issues with both the Free Software and Open Source camps. But I'm starting to think that industry adoption of Linux is a good thing. However loony RMS may be, he is a visionary, and forsaw in 1984 the world of today, and how a Free software system could help that world.
And no one plays games on VMWare, so you devil's advocates can crawl back under your rocks. Malda's metioned his Windows boxes numerous times. Someday, when the mood strikes me, I'm going to make a phone call to an influential friend, and, the next day, OSDN/VA Itsux will get a nice letter from Redmond, asking for license documentation.