then you can tell me icq and aim are two different clients.
then you can also hazard a guess as to how much longer that'll remain true.
then everyone will wake their goddamned asses up and realize that aim's protocol, toc, has been open for as long as aim's been around and stop beating up aol about it.
if the government forces aol to open their protocol, i'd imagine aim closing toc and oscar servers... i mean, if they're letting other people use it for free, and it's trivial to shut off aim ads, how much money can they be making? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
thanks, it's a good suggestion for news for geeks... occasionally slashdot has news on science and games and lego and famous people and generally nerdy news... even some of the political stuff is news for nerds when it's accurate and not a rehash of the same story that's been posted for months on end. maybe when kur05hin comes back up? ^^;; --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
what John Carmack was bitching about a while ago? How he could make Quake run better if he could just get to Windows' networking code? Is this at all relevant to that? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
is Neal Stephenson so goddamn good at predicting things that happen to show up later on? (more or less, and stuff) --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
The "release it already" dept. What happened to waiting until the software was of sufficient quality to warrant release, aka, v1.0 == bug free? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It doesn't have support for http (not https, who cares about that) proxy, it still needs socks 4 or 5... So it's still useless to me... Maybe I should get a new job just so I can use AIM. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I'm glad Sir Taco took the time to apologize. Every now and then on the TiK mailing list we get people scared to death that AOL has blocked TiK users, but it always ends up being a network or tcl problem. Nothing to see here, move on. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I tried giving the EFF money, and I had to fill out waaaaay to many forms and eventually I just gave up. I'd gladly donate 10% of my paycheck every two weeks to them because I know they're actually going to something useful that pertains to me with it. But what happened to anonymity? I don't want to give them my life story just so I can try to help them defend my privacy... Now I just don't care. (unless of course someone can tell me where I'm supposed to send my check)
Apathy: that which is killing us all because we're too damn lazy to do anything about this. Seriously:
1. Starcraft or lobby against DMCA?
2. Porn or trying to figure out what candidate is right for us? (everyone says go with Nader but his foreign policy is laughable)
3. Speak out in favor of personal freedom or go try out gnutella freenet?
Ai yai yai, we're not gonna win jack like this.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
when you know damn well if chains voluntarily take up something like this, laws won't necessarily be passed and politicians will stop bitching about violent video games... The whole video game rating system is voluntary by the publishers, right? It wasn't forced on them or anything... right? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
has a co-op program... You work and go to school alternating semesters in exchange for staying an extra year at school... You get a top notch education plus alot of practical experience. (this isn't "fetch my coffee boy" it's "change the routines to work with OpenSSL 0.95, finish the ODBC 2.5 routines, then start on the 3.0 driver")
I'm actually overloading on classes because I'm having such a blast in them. Sure, I could have taught all this stuff to myself, but I'm not arrogant enough to think that I'd be able to do a better job than some of the people who are being paid to do it for me... I say some because while most of my teachers have been great, there are still a few who aren't. ^^;;
There's nothing wrong with holding a professional IT job w/out a college college education... Hell, I was a computer tech Junior year of HS, and a web developer (backend, not frontend) Senior year... But from what I learned in college (things I overlooked because they weren't obvious, like data structures, run time analysis, induction) I can see that alot of the code I wrote way back when was inefficient/insecure and could definitely stand some improvement.
Obviously this doesn't apply to anyone except me because of one big deal: I'm in this because I like coding, I'm not in it for the cash. People who skip college for work are obviously going for those stock options, etc. But I'll be damned if I graduate without getting at least one cool research paper published.
Huge huge question: yes, money talks, so what? Where are you gonna find it easier to pick up nice chicks, after work in a bar or cocktail party or at a college? Skipping college for work is a choice, but I don't think it's a good one. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
instead of physicists causing the end of the world (that brookhaven fiasco with people saying, "the reason we've never run into an alien species is because once you become so advanced, you wipe yourselves out") we're going to be obliterated by Intel?! (or transmeta or amd, or your microprocessor company of choice... fuck you and your 'freedom of choice' if the world's gonna end, let it be intel) --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Is this under Your Rights Online instead of Games? We've seen plenty of emulators get sued, but plenty of emulators go on with no interference. If no use of copyrighted or NDAed [sp] materials were involved, then there's not much of a case...
Before they started sucking ass, FSGS used to be the premiere alternative Battle.net. They still are because they never released their source code and drove all the other bnet servers into oblivion. They'll have Diablo II support 'soon.' Blizzard initially sued people making stuff outta starcraft (anyone remember the starhack flap?) but eventually stopped. (actually it was the spa representing someone or other, i forget)
The big question is (i'm on a sloooooooooow ass modem): is it open source? If so, Verant's gonna have a field day taking down EVERYone who's working on it. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
You do realize if XBox comes with Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts built in, Sony, Nintendo, and Sega are fucked to high hell, right? --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Re:Questionable competition listed.
on
Salon on the XBox
·
· Score: 1
"ARM chips have horrible FP performance "
^^;; I wonder if this will have an impact on the Game Boy Advance...
How many FP ops will we need for Pokémon Titanium/Plantinum? Hm... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Time, what about everyone in Europe? Those wacky Europeans are so high on drugs they usually produce some really wacky stuff. We don't see most of it over here because of the stupid different tv format bs, but they DO make games... And while I can't think of any offhand, (damn memory is bad) I'd be surprised if they don't make xbox games...
Oh yeah, Rare, EA, Ubisoft (i think), Havas owns Blizzard, Infogrames (i think)...
The main bitch is that the XBox is just a slim downed pc. There are lots of PC developers in the US. The XBox is a slimmed down pc but it's not a moving target! While I think the Salon author is a raving bofty, I do think PC developers are going to drool... It sounds silly, but you know how people complain that OpenGL isn't fully supported on some video cards? Even if it says a certain version of D3D is supported, methods/functions/objects may be missing or may be implemented differently than what MS wanted... So it will be nice to develop for.
erf, i'll shut up now ^^;; --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
considering Nintendo sued Bung out of existance. Bung used to make programmable flash carts for the GB/GBC and they ran a contest or two for best homebrew game.
Nintendo has let dextrose stay around for a while and they've been providing lots of N64 and GBC programming info for a while... And while there's a GCC available for N64 and a C compiler available for GB/GBC, they're hardly the main development tools... --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Seriously, you didn't anticipate technology like this? To hell with the "digital lies department" there has to be some cool uses for this...
Cigarette Smoking Man is hatching a plot again!? Nay, that's not CGB, it's CmdrTaco laying out disinformation for Mulder and... Hemos?!
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Direct3D is definitely ahead of OpenGL. Hardware manufacturers like MS' roadmap so they know when they have to implement hardware, and when they do, they know that it'll be supported by an OS (windows whatever). OpenGL is a bit behind, but it's cross platform.
If you know for a fact that your program is only going to be run on Windows, you're a fool if you use anything but Direct3D. If there's the possibility that it's cross platform, fuck it, use a little bit of abstraction, write the other OSes' stuff in OpenGL and write the Windows stuff in D3D.
If there are other 3d libraries and such, I'm pretty sure they're just abstraction layers for one API or the other. --
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Slashdot Mirror
someone moderate this boy up, he's onto something... i also like that site he reffed, geekpress.com.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
log onto aim with your icq # and password.
then you can tell me icq and aim are two different clients.
then you can also hazard a guess as to how much longer that'll remain true.
then everyone will wake their goddamned asses up and realize that aim's protocol, toc, has been open for as long as aim's been around and stop beating up aol about it.
if the government forces aol to open their protocol, i'd imagine aim closing toc and oscar servers... i mean, if they're letting other people use it for free, and it's trivial to shut off aim ads, how much money can they be making?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
thanks, it's a good suggestion for news for geeks... occasionally slashdot has news on science and games and lego and famous people and generally nerdy news... even some of the political stuff is news for nerds when it's accurate and not a rehash of the same story that's been posted for months on end. maybe when kur05hin comes back up? ^^;;
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
so if I wanted real news for nerds, where would I go?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
what John Carmack was bitching about a while ago? How he could make Quake run better if he could just get to Windows' networking code? Is this at all relevant to that?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
is Neal Stephenson so goddamn good at predicting things that happen to show up later on? (more or less, and stuff)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
The "release it already" dept. What happened to waiting until the software was of sufficient quality to warrant release, aka, v1.0 == bug free?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It doesn't have support for http (not https, who cares about that) proxy, it still needs socks 4 or 5... So it's still useless to me... Maybe I should get a new job just so I can use AIM.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I'm glad Sir Taco took the time to apologize. Every now and then on the TiK mailing list we get people scared to death that AOL has blocked TiK users, but it always ends up being a network or tcl problem. Nothing to see here, move on.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
me too, I like Clinton. 2 term limit my nutsack ^^;;
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I tried giving the EFF money, and I had to fill out waaaaay to many forms and eventually I just gave up. I'd gladly donate 10% of my paycheck every two weeks to them because I know they're actually going to something useful that pertains to me with it. But what happened to anonymity? I don't want to give them my life story just so I can try to help them defend my privacy... Now I just don't care. (unless of course someone can tell me where I'm supposed to send my check)
Apathy: that which is killing us all because we're too damn lazy to do anything about this. Seriously:
1. Starcraft or lobby against DMCA?
2. Porn or trying to figure out what candidate is right for us? (everyone says go with Nader but his foreign policy is laughable)
3. Speak out in favor of personal freedom or go try out gnutella freenet?
Ai yai yai, we're not gonna win jack like this.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
when you know damn well if chains voluntarily take up something like this, laws won't necessarily be passed and politicians will stop bitching about violent video games... The whole video game rating system is voluntary by the publishers, right? It wasn't forced on them or anything... right?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
has a co-op program... You work and go to school alternating semesters in exchange for staying an extra year at school... You get a top notch education plus alot of practical experience. (this isn't "fetch my coffee boy" it's "change the routines to work with OpenSSL 0.95, finish the ODBC 2.5 routines, then start on the 3.0 driver")
I'm actually overloading on classes because I'm having such a blast in them. Sure, I could have taught all this stuff to myself, but I'm not arrogant enough to think that I'd be able to do a better job than some of the people who are being paid to do it for me... I say some because while most of my teachers have been great, there are still a few who aren't. ^^;;
There's nothing wrong with holding a professional IT job w/out a college college education... Hell, I was a computer tech Junior year of HS, and a web developer (backend, not frontend) Senior year... But from what I learned in college (things I overlooked because they weren't obvious, like data structures, run time analysis, induction) I can see that alot of the code I wrote way back when was inefficient/insecure and could definitely stand some improvement.
Obviously this doesn't apply to anyone except me because of one big deal: I'm in this because I like coding, I'm not in it for the cash. People who skip college for work are obviously going for those stock options, etc. But I'll be damned if I graduate without getting at least one cool research paper published.
Huge huge question: yes, money talks, so what? Where are you gonna find it easier to pick up nice chicks, after work in a bar or cocktail party or at a college? Skipping college for work is a choice, but I don't think it's a good one.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I'm a programmer, now a lawyer... TO hell with your 'license' crap.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
instead of physicists causing the end of the world (that brookhaven fiasco with people saying, "the reason we've never run into an alien species is because once you become so advanced, you wipe yourselves out") we're going to be obliterated by Intel?! (or transmeta or amd, or your microprocessor company of choice... fuck you and your 'freedom of choice' if the world's gonna end, let it be intel)
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Is this under Your Rights Online instead of Games? We've seen plenty of emulators get sued, but plenty of emulators go on with no interference. If no use of copyrighted or NDAed [sp] materials were involved, then there's not much of a case...
Before they started sucking ass, FSGS used to be the premiere alternative Battle.net. They still are because they never released their source code and drove all the other bnet servers into oblivion. They'll have Diablo II support 'soon.' Blizzard initially sued people making stuff outta starcraft (anyone remember the starhack flap?) but eventually stopped. (actually it was the spa representing someone or other, i forget)
The big question is (i'm on a sloooooooooow ass modem): is it open source? If so, Verant's gonna have a field day taking down EVERYone who's working on it.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
You do realize if XBox comes with Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts built in, Sony, Nintendo, and Sega are fucked to high hell, right?
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
"ARM chips have horrible FP performance "
^^;; I wonder if this will have an impact on the Game Boy Advance...
How many FP ops will we need for Pokémon Titanium/Plantinum? Hm...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
honest, there really is no text, i just agree with what the guy said, and i feel i should voice that
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Time, what about everyone in Europe? Those wacky Europeans are so high on drugs they usually produce some really wacky stuff. We don't see most of it over here because of the stupid different tv format bs, but they DO make games... And while I can't think of any offhand, (damn memory is bad) I'd be surprised if they don't make xbox games...
Oh yeah, Rare, EA, Ubisoft (i think), Havas owns Blizzard, Infogrames (i think)...
The main bitch is that the XBox is just a slim downed pc. There are lots of PC developers in the US. The XBox is a slimmed down pc but it's not a moving target! While I think the Salon author is a raving bofty, I do think PC developers are going to drool... It sounds silly, but you know how people complain that OpenGL isn't fully supported on some video cards? Even if it says a certain version of D3D is supported, methods/functions/objects may be missing or may be implemented differently than what MS wanted... So it will be nice to develop for.
erf, i'll shut up now ^^;;
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
considering Nintendo sued Bung out of existance. Bung used to make programmable flash carts for the GB/GBC and they ran a contest or two for best homebrew game.
Nintendo has let dextrose stay around for a while and they've been providing lots of N64 and GBC programming info for a while... And while there's a GCC available for N64 and a C compiler available for GB/GBC, they're hardly the main development tools...
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Seriously, you didn't anticipate technology like this? To hell with the "digital lies department" there has to be some cool uses for this...
Cigarette Smoking Man is hatching a plot again!? Nay, that's not CGB, it's CmdrTaco laying out disinformation for Mulder and... Hemos?!
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
It's called C Sharp!
*runs*
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
I play Game Boy games. They are fun. I don't care what genre the games are, because I am having fun.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057
Direct3D is definitely ahead of OpenGL. Hardware manufacturers like MS' roadmap so they know when they have to implement hardware, and when they do, they know that it'll be supported by an OS (windows whatever). OpenGL is a bit behind, but it's cross platform.
If you know for a fact that your program is only going to be run on Windows, you're a fool if you use anything but Direct3D. If there's the possibility that it's cross platform, fuck it, use a little bit of abstraction, write the other OSes' stuff in OpenGL and write the Windows stuff in D3D.
If there are other 3d libraries and such, I'm pretty sure they're just abstraction layers for one API or the other.
--
Peace,
Lord Omlette
ICQ# 77863057