Authors call it writer's block and it happens to every programmer I know. You just spend too much time with your code so you get you get tired of it and your work gets done very slowly. then you stress about it so you try to code more but the more you worry and code, the slower your work gets done. You just need to take your mind off things and actually do and think about something else for a while.
Unfortunately, you're in school so you *have* to do the work. You just have to take advantage of every time off the IDE you can get. I've had writer's block a few times and it just goes away after a while.
"I don't care about the eye candy, I like my computer to be a tool. "
Amen to that. It always surprised me how slow it is compared to the Windows file manager. And it's not like it does anything out of the ordinary for christ's sake. they need to either update GMC or scrap a lot of eye candy out of Nautilus.
Bin Laden has no authority over anything that goes on in Saudi Arabia so that's why he's ignored. It's not even the same country. It's like Belgians saying they will bomb Canada if the US doesn't withdraw Mc Donald's in Russia.
the only thing that would make Star Trek "culturally daring" is if some important male character would be an homo. But that, compared Hohura (however it's spelled) the black crew member, would NEVER make it in there since the show would be labeled as a gay show and no geek would admit to watching it.
I myself admit that I'd be a bit disturbed(although not offended) by a gay captain but that's about the last thing that could make a series like Star Trek daring.
I agree. What would be neet is making the GPLed Quake source into a kind of 3D browser. The main reason why games dont act as browsers by linking diffent levels together is because levels take a long time to load. However, Dynamix (RIP) has managed to code Tribes 2 in a way that you can use the games' existing content to create server side levels. The only thing missing is the ability to link the together.
It would be nice to see a project like Quakeforge try to replicate Dynamix's design for the Quake engine and implement linking.
As for levels, they would be created the way they have always been and how it should always be: in a 3D level editing program.
But then, that's just me fantasizing:-)
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Hum, I don't think that's the story. Israel is occupied by the Jews but according to International law, they are illegaly occupying it. The Palestinians were there before them.
It is not the israeli Jews who are being slaughtered but the palestininans that are shot almost daily in a brital civil war. Sure, now Jews are being slaughtered too by kamikaze bombers butnthis is a reaction to lots of inocents being murdered by the Israel army.
SWF is not as open as SVG. Only Macromedia publishes a Flash plugin and only thier tools can edit Flash natively. And regardless of it's market share, Flash is still just a plug-in.
If both Explorer and Netscape implement SVG natively, it will be much more usefull than flash. SVG can be scripted with Javascript through the DOM like any XML format. If SVG is implemented early enough in both browsers, it could replace HTML in 2-3 years as the format of choice for web design.
The best tool on Win32 is Jasc WebDraw which has SVG as it's native format. That's a big distinction from all the other packages like Illustrator, Corel Draw, etc. which only have import and export filters for it.WebDraw allows you to edit the source and since SVG is an XML format, you can access it through the DOM and make things move with Javascript.
So far, all the Linux vector drawing programs that I know of only have export and import filters.
Er, university professors don't qualify as "general users". Regardless of their field of study, they are educated and informed compared to joe consumer.
Hum, ctually, if you go back to the paragraph where he speaks of slashdot, you'll see that all that he says is that there are no neutral news site on Linux and he even sais that Slashdot is not neutral because it's more of an advocacy site than a news site. He also says that sdvocacy are OK but that there should be some neutral sites that cover Linux.
He does no slashdot bashing. Go read it again and if you don't beleive me, read the comments bellow the article where he responds to accusations like yours.
THAT is the fundamental reason IMO. I work for a small ISV (http://cogilex.com) and we sell a software library. We distribute a GUI test program that uses our library and we wouldn't want to have to either GPL our stuff or par the Qt license so Qt is out of the question.
The argument that a fee for a software toolkit is just a small part of development cost is relevant only if there are no other free ($$$, LGPL, beer) toolkits available.
As long as the US alone enforces it's own patent laws in it's own country, there will be enough incentive to develop new medecin. The US alone probably generates more sales money for these companies that all of south america and africa.
Still, the Tribes franchise is very successfull. They already sold 200 000 copies and they probably will sell another 300 000. There just isen't anything that compares to Tribes in terms of sophistication.
I would have at least expected Siera to keep the core programmers and artists since it's them more than anyone else that made Tribes what it is today. I don't have much hope that a Tribes 3 would be just as good.
Personally, I think all ISPs shoud host a Jabber server and give away a custom Jabber client to their subscribers. Why this is not a part of every ISP's "internet connection kit" is beyond me. You put the CD in, it dials to the ISP, installs a browser, mail client and Jabber client and you already have a working account on your ISP's server just like POP3.
"In Russia, apparently, it's illegal to sell software without the ability to make "at least one backup copy of the data it works with. That's Russia. I'm in the U.S., land of the free..."
There's so much much piracy in Russia that half the country probably runs on backup copies of the same Windows 98 disc;-)
So how many f-sub-tau Ghz do curent 1Ghz clock speed processors have? It's difficult to see how much of an improvement this is if you're not an engineer.
Hun? Idon't recall of any kind of free software or open source ethic that was against taking someone's work and using it in your own open source project. Red Hat are entirely entitled to do this kind of thing and the original developers of any open source program shouldn't (and in this case, don't) feel like they are bieng abused. If a free software programmer gets hangry about someone else using using his work in his own free software product, then it's their fault for having chosen a license which has put them in this situation in the first place.
Red Hat is a very generous contributor to all kinds of free software projects and you don't see them complaining when some new distro makes a copy of theirs and calls it something else.
I think that before asking ourselves if aliens have rights, we should be asking ourselves if humans that live in other countries have rights to. If so, why do we keep doing buisness with them? Shoulden't our government exercise more pressure on other governments so that human rights be better in other countries instead of turning a blind eye because it's very profitable for north american and european buisnesses to exploit cheap labor and an an autoritarian government is handy when workers try to form teamster organizations.
Is it not a bit hypocritical to indirectly support an oppressive regime financially?
Ho but I'm sorry, this is not on topic. I wouldn't want to spoil this very important conversation about alien rights. I'd better watch more television cause I think I'm starting to think for myself or something.
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Authors call it writer's block and it happens to every programmer I know. You just spend too much time with your code so you get you get tired of it and your work gets done very slowly. then you stress about it so you try to code more but the more you worry and code, the slower your work gets done. You just need to take your mind off things and actually do and think about something else for a while.
Unfortunately, you're in school so you *have* to do the work. You just have to take advantage of every time off the IDE you can get. I've had writer's block a few times and it just goes away after a while.
Amen to that. It always surprised me how slow it is compared to the Windows file manager. And it's not like it does anything out of the ordinary for christ's sake. they need to either update GMC or scrap a lot of eye candy out of Nautilus.
Bin Laden has no authority over anything that goes on in Saudi Arabia so that's why he's ignored. It's not even the same country. It's like Belgians saying they will bomb Canada if the US doesn't withdraw Mc Donald's in Russia.
Not for the environement though. Rockets polute the air *A LOT*
He only used it as an example. SVG is not encumbered by patents.
All right, then they should make an episo with Gay Planet VS Straight Planet :-)
the only thing that would make Star Trek "culturally daring" is if some important male character would be an homo. But that, compared Hohura (however it's spelled) the black crew member, would NEVER make it in there since the show would be labeled as a gay show and no geek would admit to watching it.
I myself admit that I'd be a bit disturbed(although not offended) by a gay captain but that's about the last thing that could make a series like Star Trek daring.
It would be nice to see a project like Quakeforge try to replicate Dynamix's design for the Quake engine and implement linking.
As for levels, they would be created the way they have always been and how it should always be: in a 3D level editing program.
But then, that's just me fantasizing :-)
Hum, I don't think that's the story. Israel is occupied by the Jews but according to International law, they are illegaly occupying it. The Palestinians were there before them.
It is not the israeli Jews who are being slaughtered but the palestininans that are shot almost daily in a brital civil war. Sure, now Jews are being slaughtered too by kamikaze bombers butnthis is a reaction to lots of inocents being murdered by the Israel army.
SWF is not as open as SVG. Only Macromedia publishes a Flash plugin and only thier tools can edit Flash natively. And regardless of it's market share, Flash is still just a plug-in.
If both Explorer and Netscape implement SVG natively, it will be much more usefull than flash. SVG can be scripted with Javascript through the DOM like any XML format. If SVG is implemented early enough in both browsers, it could replace HTML in 2-3 years as the format of choice for web design.
The best tool on Win32 is Jasc WebDraw which has SVG as it's native format. That's a big distinction from all the other packages like Illustrator, Corel Draw, etc. which only have import and export filters for it.WebDraw allows you to edit the source and since SVG is an XML format, you can access it through the DOM and make things move with Javascript.
So far, all the Linux vector drawing programs that I know of only have export and import filters.
Er, university professors don't qualify as "general users". Regardless of their field of study, they are educated and informed compared to joe consumer.
If quake is you stuff, maybe you should consider buying Tribes 2 for Linux from Loki. It kicks quakes's ass in every aspect.
Hum, ctually, if you go back to the paragraph where he speaks of slashdot, you'll see that all that he says is that there are no neutral news site on Linux and he even sais that Slashdot is not neutral because it's more of an advocacy site than a news site. He also says that sdvocacy are OK but that there should be some neutral sites that cover Linux.
He does no slashdot bashing. Go read it again and if you don't beleive me, read the comments bellow the article where he responds to accusations like yours.
The argument that a fee for a software toolkit is just a small part of development cost is relevant only if there are no other free ($$$, LGPL, beer) toolkits available.
As long as the US alone enforces it's own patent laws in it's own country, there will be enough incentive to develop new medecin. The US alone probably generates more sales money for these companies that all of south america and africa.
For USB monitors to take off, 3D accelerator card have to have an USB plug on them. That's probably the only reason a switch hasen't happened.
I would have at least expected Siera to keep the core programmers and artists since it's them more than anyone else that made Tribes what it is today. I don't have much hope that a Tribes 3 would be just as good.
Nope, sorry but Snap Action Tongue and Mini Rocketlauncher are patented and used exclusively on Monika and Bill action figures.
Personally, I think all ISPs shoud host a Jabber server and give away a custom Jabber client to their subscribers. Why this is not a part of every ISP's "internet connection kit" is beyond me. You put the CD in, it dials to the ISP, installs a browser, mail client and Jabber client and you already have a working account on your ISP's server just like POP3.
There's so much much piracy in Russia that half the country probably runs on backup copies of the same Windows 98 disc ;-)
So how many f-sub-tau Ghz do curent 1Ghz clock speed processors have? It's difficult to see how much of an improvement this is if you're not an engineer.
Red Hat is a very generous contributor to all kinds of free software projects and you don't see them complaining when some new distro makes a copy of theirs and calls it something else.
Ho but I'm sorry, this is not on topic. I wouldn't want to spoil this very important conversation about alien rights. I'd better watch more television cause I think I'm starting to think for myself or something.
Hum, there's not such thing as a "corporations' fundamental right to make money". There is now law or constitution that gives this "right".