I sympathize, although for my desktop system I do prefer just grabbing the latest stable stuff every nine months or so ala the Ubuntu release cycle. But for a server of course, it's nice to have things stable. Or is it UI changes that bug you?
But as the Anonymous One suggested, there are other flavors of Linux which move at a slower pace, such as http://debian.org/ or RHEL (or the free version of it, CentOS).
On my server, you can get Major Mana potions from a friendly undead gentleman who opens up a shop called Phials every Tuesday night. It's a big RP event -- people gather to gossip, plot, and of course to stock up on potions for the rest of the week. Much more fun.
Hmm, point taken about how feedback regarding gameplay and balance issues (always a sore spot, where someone's always going to be unhappy) is not the same thing as technical support. Now go take Remedial Politeness.
Now that's an announcement I'd like to see. If Intel went ahead and added ObjC support, then I'd suspect Apple of maybe switching compilers. However, I suspect that their huge efforts put into GCC, plus the value of having the source themselves, will keep Apple with GCC for a long, long time.
I've learned more about geography and history from Europa Universalis II than maybe anywhere else. The user community tends to be well-read and informed; inspires me to go out and find out more about the Timurid Empire or early Tsarist Russia.
I've worked with a couple of folks who swore by this book, but I never really heard much from them about why. Is it about good algorithms? Or larger design issues (such as)?
Or is it more about just giving programmers a common vocabulary with which to discuss the way they bulid software?
Is it good reading for an amatuer programmer, or more as an advanced topic?
Depends on where you live and grow up, too. As a Hawaii kid, I now see some of my grown-up friends getting skin cancer after all those many young burns.
Of course it's healthy to get some rays. Just use the right SPF and plan your time out there so you get a little tan rather than a burn.
The biggest insight into Book's character, IMO, comes in the final episode, when we finally see things from River's "special" perspective. When she looks at Book, he says something like, "I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not - so where does that leave you?" Nasty!
I have a serious love/hate relationship with Howard's stories. The excellent swashbuckling action, full of stealth, weird magics, beautiful monsters and ravening princesses...Yes!
but then there's the nasty racism. I was really startled when I ran into some of that.
It also means that instead of having a bunch of different autobuilder machines to maintain, you can just build every arch on one fast machine, with failure reports and fresh binaries ready for testers quickly and easily.
If only they had just let Cate Blanchett act! I bet she could have pulled off the "pizazz" of the scene without being made to look like a yelling ghost.
Hmm, I formed my opinion on this from playing with a model in the Pasadena Apple Store. It was uncomfortably hot on my wrists. That's one of the reasons (the other being price) that my wife got an iBook instead.
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I sympathize, although for my desktop system I do prefer just grabbing the latest stable stuff every nine months or so ala the Ubuntu release cycle. But for a server of course, it's nice to have things stable. Or is it UI changes that bug you?
But as the Anonymous One suggested, there are other flavors of Linux which move at a slower pace, such as http://debian.org/ or RHEL (or the free version of it, CentOS).
On my server, you can get Major Mana potions from a friendly undead gentleman who opens up a shop called Phials every Tuesday night. It's a big RP event -- people gather to gossip, plot, and of course to stock up on potions for the rest of the week. Much more fun.
Hmm, point taken about how feedback regarding gameplay and balance issues (always a sore spot, where someone's always going to be unhappy) is not the same thing as technical support. Now go take Remedial Politeness.
The Mac division gives great support, even talking and giving support on forums like Inside Mac Games.
Now that's an announcement I'd like to see. If Intel went ahead and added ObjC support, then I'd suspect Apple of maybe switching compilers. However, I suspect that their huge efforts put into GCC, plus the value of having the source themselves, will keep Apple with GCC for a long, long time.
I've learned more about geography and history from Europa Universalis II than maybe anywhere else. The user community tends to be well-read and informed; inspires me to go out and find out more about the Timurid Empire or early Tsarist Russia.
I've worked with a couple of folks who swore by this book, but I never really heard much from them about why. Is it about good algorithms? Or larger design issues (such as)?
Or is it more about just giving programmers a common vocabulary with which to discuss the way they bulid software?
Is it good reading for an amatuer programmer, or more as an advanced topic?
Depends on where you live and grow up, too. As a Hawaii kid, I now see some of my grown-up friends getting skin cancer after all those many young burns.
Of course it's healthy to get some rays. Just use the right SPF and plan your time out there so you get a little tan rather than a burn.
The biggest insight into Book's character, IMO, comes in the final episode, when we finally see things from River's "special" perspective. When she looks at Book, he says something like, "I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not - so where does that leave you?" Nasty!
I have a serious love/hate relationship with Howard's stories. The excellent swashbuckling action, full of stealth, weird magics, beautiful monsters and ravening princesses...Yes!
but then there's the nasty racism. I was really startled when I ran into some of that.
Perforce is stable, fast, and well-tested. I don't see how using a great tool is a handicap, even for an open-source project.
How do I share out drive space and a printer on my FreeBSD server via Rendevous?
I guess the problem would just be at launch. How hard would it press you?
The terrain-mapped music in that game didn't sound totally awful.
How about those two games?
Well, for one, the stories infiltrate the players' consciousnesses in very different ways than they might in a movie.
Still, the same basis might make for some great movies.
Hypercard was certainly an odd beast, but I miss it. It made demos easier!
It also means that instead of having a bunch of different autobuilder machines to maintain, you can just build every arch on one fast machine, with failure reports and fresh binaries ready for testers quickly and easily.
If only they had just let Cate Blanchett act! I bet she could have pulled off the "pizazz" of the scene without being made to look like a yelling ghost.
One of the few bits that really grated on me.
Hmm, I formed my opinion on this from playing with a model in the Pasadena Apple Store. It was uncomfortably hot on my wrists. That's one of the reasons (the other being price) that my wife got an iBook instead.
Running linux is great...but there's no reason to slight MacOS X.
Especially with the fink/gentoo collaboration.
You know they wouldn't have chosen it if they couldn't make a good laptop with it.
Now, they'd better make sure they sort out that heat problem that the current 12" G4 Powerbooks suffer from.
I wonder why they chose Mac nuts. those little buggers are hard...I remember having to use a hammer to crack them out on the porch as a kid.
I assumed on first reading it that they meant third-party code they'd licensed to include in Windows, like so many of their utilities and whatnot.
The article isn't clear, though.
How much for the Lightwave models used to create Babylon 5?