I've never played a game that awarded points for violence and gore alone.
There's always a goal that requires some strategy (and if not, you're playing a really shit game)
To me, the mechanics of a game are the most important. The graphics -- wether they are cute pink puppies, or blood and guts -- are just a GUI real-world metaphor.
'course puzzles are my favorite. I'm still trying to get through Lolo 3. So irritating.
Those screenshots are terrible. I hope that's a GTK theme or something, because I'd hate to have THAT on my desktop. I'm probably wrong. It's probably all hard-coded ugliness. Or even worse, they went ahead and wrote a whole theming engine for their one app while Qt or GTK already have the ability to make your desktop as ugly as you want.
I thought web sites were supposed to look more like applications in order to be more usable, not the other way around.
or maybe it was the job I had a few years ago that had a specialized keyboard where we were using our right pinkys for 50% of keystrokes. that sucked.
but anyway, my left hand can do anything, but my right hand aches after too long of anything, especially mousing.. sometimes I get a weird bruise on the top of my hand.
I've started doing mouse stuff with the left hand.. and i'm quite good at it, though sometimes, like with the gimp (a real *killer* app.. on my hand.. haha) it's much easier to use the left hand for modifier keys needed for certain clicks.
Anyway, the best thing I've done so far was getting a microsoft natural (for free, ok?).. the one with the half-sized F and cursor keys. They just feel really good to me.
but mostly, the whole cursor/10-key area is smaller so the mouse was not as far away as with my old keyboard. And all the keys in general are smaller so you don't have to do as much reacing.
(though the "windows" keys put the alt and ctrl in potentially harmful spots. oh well.)
a happy hacker would be even smaller and might be what I really need. sometimes I want to take hack-saw to keyboards to get rid of the useless 10-key
A bit ironic that some prodigy gets a tutor while people like.. well, me.. have to do it on their own. Almost flunking out of HS and trying the college thing for the 3rd time. 'Course I am tutoring other people in my class who aren't "getting it" as far as programming goes (C++).. I know some of them will never "get it", but I may as well try and help out. I'm the class know-it-all for once.
(My whine for today.. I know, I suck at the karma game.)
In the few spams I've gotten, any e-mail address seems like it is either one of the addresses on their list, or it is made up..
I've gotten different messages for the same product/scam/whatever, but they both list totally different reply addresses in the "to unsubscribe..." section.
The only relevent contact information is a 1-888 number that I don't want to call because I have no idea if I can be charged by calling that number.
Problem number one is figuring out how large projects are organized and compiled.
If you are unexperienced, it is probably best to finish learning the language. If it's C++, make sure you fully understand how to use classes.. all the way up to templates, because then the source code for a program is actually going to make sense. I don't know any other language as well, but most large projects are going to take full advantage of all the abstraction available in the language.. you've got to know it backwards and forwards as well as whoever wrote the code.
After that, find a project that suits your skill level and just spend a lot of time reading the code. When you come across something you don't understand, look it up. I've spent a few weeks just reading the source code for icewm and dfm, and I've learned quite a lot.
I've had several phone-whoring jobs.. the first was national directory assistance for a couple years.. every few months the rules got stricter and stricter, soon we had a limit of 12 seconds per call, taking almost 700 calls a day.. if we took any longer than that, and if we did more than one search on the database (which worked half the time), the company was losing money, and a lot of people got fired because they couldn't do it. "I'm sorry, there is no listing, thank you for calling." *click* Of course, for the last couple of months, they got rid of the "thank you for calling" part to save time.
Then they shut down that department and shoved most of us into third-party verification. This job stunk. Our clients were all phone slammers who would call us with clients because they needed our verification (by law) to change their phone service. They would tell the customers to say yes to everything we asked before they called us. "What is your first name?" "Yes"
I quit there becuause they had a huge lull in business where I personally took 1 or 2 calls a day (if I didn't get sent home) for a few months, and my next raise was coming up (10 cents, whee!)
So then I got a job taking calls for DirecTV.. customer service.. this job was so horrible. We had the same limitations as in the article, but more strict. The customers were all idiots. My strategy consisted of "Can you please hold for two minutes?".. then I'd try to find a solution for them on the web-based help system, but then on most calls I just sat there wasting time with them on hold, and then just hit release, because I had no idea what to tell the customer, and there was nobody there to tell me what to do.
That job was so stressful and scarring.. I eventually got fired because I stopped showing up.. I've had a few jobs after that, but I can't even remember the names of the places.. because I can't keep a job for more than a week now. I'm studying computer programming, but I constantly worry that I'll never be able to work again.
If you are teaching people who already know some C or C++ how to move over to Linux..
Beginning Linux Programming from Wrox Press is pretty good.
It's the only book I've read like it, but I'm sure there are many other choices.. that don't assume you already know C.
It covers shell programming, the file system, terminals, curses, memory/database management, gnu development tools, gnu debugger, processes, pipes, semaphores and shared memory, sockets, tcl, tk and x, html, cgi, and portability
..for there to be "alternative" namespaces on the internet.
But now that I've spend a good two minutes looking around youcann.net, I don't want to bother mucking with config files just to see "the rest of the web".. and I can imagine a future where we'll see links like "Click _here_, and BTW, you have to connect to Misc. Nameserver XYZ to get there.." ugh.
Perhaps if as well as nameservers, we could have nameserver servers.. ugh.
i'm a fan of wasting time on web bulletin boards.. but the reload/reload/reload/reload interface kinda sucks.
i'd like a web board that had an optional client side program that could show threads popping up in real time and let you expand/collapse or change views (ubb style vs. nested).. download all messages from last visit to current.. allow you to post publicly or to one person. etc..
it would blur the distinction between instant messaging/chat/e-mail quite nicely.
well, the calendaring would be secondary to the messaging, but for organizing a project on-line.. I think the flexibility would be useful.
If you ever go to a custom car show, you see cars that are customized in every aspect, immaculate engine bays, chromed nuts and bolts etc...
Cars with mobile electronics often have the wiring strung/routed/cut perfectly.. or with neat tricks like hidden wiring.. neon lighting.. custom enclosures and racks etc...
In all the case modification articles, I see things that get closer and closer to car customization.
From what I've read about freenet, you have to know specific file names in order to find anything..
I hope somebody incorporates some kind of hyperlink document (i dunno, html?) that you can download from freenet as a starting point -- perhaps even using a regular web browser -- which will link you to other freenet or even web documents..
..Instead of having to type in keywords or document names for everything.
it's only kinda tough the first time around, but I believe if you do it without dying too many times (or something) it gives you a password to a very difficult version of the game that I'm sure is impossible.. it's just too difficult
maybe I'm dumb, but I've been playing Jigsaw for months and I've only cleared the first few chapters..
most of the time when I sit down to play it, i get nothing done.
It is nice that a game can keep me interested (or not so interested sometimes) for a very very very long period of time, and that I actually get a very nice story out of it..
but sometimes you want something more entertaining, less challenging.
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I've never played a game that awarded points for violence and gore alone.
There's always a goal that requires some strategy (and if not, you're playing a really shit game)
To me, the mechanics of a game are the most important. The graphics -- wether they are cute pink puppies, or blood and guts -- are just a GUI real-world metaphor.
'course puzzles are my favorite. I'm still trying to get through Lolo 3. So irritating.
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This is one arena where I hope MS does succeed.
Some game developers will make a lot of money programming for the Xbox. I hope to be one of them.
is 2001 always going to be so DARK outside??
Those screenshots are terrible. I hope that's a GTK theme or something, because I'd hate to have THAT on my desktop. I'm probably wrong. It's probably all hard-coded ugliness. Or even worse, they went ahead and wrote a whole theming engine for their one app while Qt or GTK already have the ability to make your desktop as ugly as you want.
I thought web sites were supposed to look more like applications in order to be more usable, not the other way around.
Who designs this crap?
or maybe it was the job I had a few years ago that had a specialized keyboard where we were using our right pinkys for 50% of keystrokes. that sucked.
but anyway, my left hand can do anything, but my right hand aches after too long of anything, especially mousing.. sometimes I get a weird bruise on the top of my hand.
I've started doing mouse stuff with the left hand.. and i'm quite good at it, though sometimes, like with the gimp (a real *killer* app.. on my hand.. haha) it's much easier to use the left hand for modifier keys needed for certain clicks.
Anyway, the best thing I've done so far was getting a microsoft natural (for free, ok?).. the one with the half-sized F and cursor keys. They just feel really good to me.
but mostly, the whole cursor/10-key area is smaller so the mouse was not as far away as with my old keyboard. And all the keys in general are smaller so you don't have to do as much reacing.
(though the "windows" keys put the alt and ctrl in potentially harmful spots. oh well.)
a happy hacker would be even smaller and might be what I really need. sometimes I want to take hack-saw to keyboards to get rid of the useless 10-key
have studying to do..
..must resist the pretty blocks
A TV ad isn't likely to crash your television.
Perhaps this type of advertising would work on tv network web sites... 'course I don't visit those.
They're kinda boring with akamai blockfiled.
Why can't he?
A bit ironic that some prodigy gets a tutor while people like.. well, me.. have to do it on their own. Almost flunking out of HS and trying the college thing for the 3rd time. 'Course I am tutoring other people in my class who aren't "getting it" as far as programming goes (C++).. I know some of them will never "get it", but I may as well try and help out. I'm the class know-it-all for once.
(My whine for today.. I know, I suck at the karma game.)
In the few spams I've gotten, any e-mail address seems like it is either one of the addresses on their list, or it is made up..
I've gotten different messages for the same product/scam/whatever, but they both list totally different reply addresses in the "to unsubscribe..." section.
The only relevent contact information is a 1-888 number that I don't want to call because I have no idea if I can be charged by calling that number.
Problem number one is figuring out how large projects are organized and compiled.
If you are unexperienced, it is probably best to finish learning the language. If it's C++, make sure you fully understand how to use classes.. all the way up to templates, because then the source code for a program is actually going to make sense. I don't know any other language as well, but most large projects are going to take full advantage of all the abstraction available in the language.. you've got to know it backwards and forwards as well as whoever wrote the code.
After that, find a project that suits your skill level and just spend a lot of time reading the code. When you come across something you don't understand, look it up. I've spent a few weeks just reading the source code for icewm and dfm, and I've learned quite a lot.
I've had several phone-whoring jobs.. the first was national directory assistance for a couple years.. every few months the rules got stricter and stricter, soon we had a limit of 12 seconds per call, taking almost 700 calls a day.. if we took any longer than that, and if we did more than one search on the database (which worked half the time), the company was losing money, and a lot of people got fired because they couldn't do it. "I'm sorry, there is no listing, thank you for calling." *click* Of course, for the last couple of months, they got rid of the "thank you for calling" part to save time.
Then they shut down that department and shoved most of us into third-party verification. This job stunk. Our clients were all phone slammers who would call us with clients because they needed our verification (by law) to change their phone service. They would tell the customers to say yes to everything we asked before they called us. "What is your first name?" "Yes"
I quit there becuause they had a huge lull in business where I personally took 1 or 2 calls a day (if I didn't get sent home) for a few months, and my next raise was coming up (10 cents, whee!)
So then I got a job taking calls for DirecTV.. customer service.. this job was so horrible. We had the same limitations as in the article, but more strict. The customers were all idiots. My strategy consisted of "Can you please hold for two minutes?".. then I'd try to find a solution for them on the web-based help system, but then on most calls I just sat there wasting time with them on hold, and then just hit release, because I had no idea what to tell the customer, and there was nobody there to tell me what to do.
That job was so stressful and scarring.. I eventually got fired because I stopped showing up.. I've had a few jobs after that, but I can't even remember the names of the places.. because I can't keep a job for more than a week now. I'm studying computer programming, but I constantly worry that I'll never be able to work again.
If you are teaching people who already know some C or C++ how to move over to Linux..
Beginning Linux Programming from Wrox Press is pretty good.
It's the only book I've read like it, but I'm sure there are many other choices.. that don't assume you already know C.
It covers shell programming, the file system, terminals, curses, memory/database management, gnu development tools, gnu debugger, processes, pipes, semaphores and shared memory, sockets, tcl, tk and x, html, cgi, and portability
..for there to be "alternative" namespaces on the internet.
But now that I've spend a good two minutes looking around youcann.net, I don't want to bother mucking with config files just to see "the rest of the web".. and I can imagine a future where we'll see links like "Click _here_, and BTW, you have to connect to Misc. Nameserver XYZ to get there.." ugh.
Perhaps if as well as nameservers, we could have nameserver servers.. ugh.
i'm a fan of wasting time on web bulletin boards.. but the reload/reload/reload/reload interface kinda sucks.
i'd like a web board that had an optional client side program that could show threads popping up in real time and let you expand/collapse or change views (ubb style vs. nested).. download all messages from last visit to current.. allow you to post publicly or to one person. etc..
it would blur the distinction between instant messaging/chat/e-mail quite nicely.
well, the calendaring would be secondary to the messaging, but for organizing a project on-line.. I think the flexibility would be useful.
If you ever go to a custom car show, you see cars that are customized in every aspect, immaculate engine bays, chromed nuts and bolts etc...
Cars with mobile electronics often have the wiring strung/routed/cut perfectly.. or with neat tricks like hidden wiring.. neon lighting.. custom enclosures and racks etc...
In all the case modification articles, I see things that get closer and closer to car customization.
From what I've read about freenet, you have to know specific file names in order to find anything..
I hope somebody incorporates some kind of hyperlink document (i dunno, html?) that you can download from freenet as a starting point -- perhaps even using a regular web browser -- which will link you to other freenet or even web documents..
..Instead of having to type in keywords or document names for everything.
if the same algorighm used to make 2d mazes were applied, and if the thing were bigger, it would be very very difficult..
/moving/ the way it tends to do in real life.
'specially if the 4th dimension ("time"?) were
perhaps another project to further my own education.
of a game designer or anybody..
"bailey" is slang for swim suit.. and so samus aran appears "just in" her swim suit.
'course I read this on the net somewhere, so it could be horribly wrong.
she appears in a bikini in the ending.
it isn't a rumor.. i've seen it with my own eyes.
it's only kinda tough the first time around, but I believe if you do it without dying too many times (or something) it gives you a password to a very difficult version of the game that I'm sure is impossible.. it's just too difficult
Apple's page is one big blank if you have akamai blockfiled.
Is there a better way to block just the ads from akamai? Most of the major tv network sites are big blanks too.
especially if you have any amount of dandruff
but what's grosser is the stuff stuck on the sides of the keys and around the keys..
probably dust stuck on oils from my fingers.. gets on my mouse too. ewie.
Apparently you can put most keyboards in the dishwasher to clean them.. because the electronics are sealed off.
maybe I'm dumb, but I've been playing Jigsaw for months and I've only cleared the first few chapters..
most of the time when I sit down to play it, i get nothing done.
It is nice that a game can keep me interested (or not so interested sometimes) for a very very very long period of time, and that I actually get a very nice story out of it..
but sometimes you want something more entertaining, less challenging.
Just imagine the cash-flow associated with that kind of demographic information.