I have a book titled "Developing Your Own 32-bit Operating System" although i suspect it is out of print. You might try looking for it, though. The book takes you step-by-step through building an OS for x86. It's amazingly complete including all the source code. The guy even wrote his own compiler, if I remember right. Wonderful book.
Ah, ok. I was always under the impression it was a fantasy RPG thing and used the cards as sort of a place-holder for set rules so it'd eliminate the silly arguments and debates about the my-magic-is-more-powerful stuff that seems to dominate a normal roleplaying game (or at least the ones I've been to).
Maybe I should pick some of these cards up sometime and have a go at it...
The cow has all sorts of natural patterns that could aid us. Or what about chickens? We wouldn't want to forget about the utility of pecking at problems until they go away, would we?
Isn't it true that before the PS2 all consoles basically started over each generation? SuperNES didn't natively play NES games as far as I remember and that didn't hurt sales or adoption at all. I think the history of breaking compatibility is one of the strengths of the console market.
Never busy? Man, you need to go there during lunch sometime. The BK near me has people almost spilling out the door at noon. I, for one, and glad they have the maze--it keeps people from clogging up the access to the bathrooms... And not only that, it's way fun to have BK maze races. (Just don't do it when they have those helpful "caution, floor is wet" signs out...)
Cory released Down and Out online about the same time he released for print publication. From what I've seen it seems to have helped sales a bit. Then again, he got a lot of free press about it then, too, so that probably helped.
Warcraft II was basically the benchmark for all RTS games that followed. It was the first RTS game I ever liked and its still one of my all time favorite games.
I've run across his stuff in Asimov's and online and found it to be quite entertaining. He's really a good writer. Cool that he releases a lot of his stuff online for free, too.:-)
I know this discussion topic is pretty much dead by now... But I'm working on a project I call Jiggle which (currently) merges JavaScript with OpenGL. Eventually I want to turn it into a powerful game/toy development enviroment for beginner-types.
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Yes. I agree. I may not be as qualified or as experienced as you, but basically I'm asking for the same thing: respect as a human. After reading Joel's article and some slashdot posts, I went ahead and wrote a rant of my own about getting a job which I posted up at K5. I figured I'd mention it in case you are anyone else is looking for some entertainment.:-)
Actually, it is "Secret Government Postal Facility Beams." They only want you to *think* it's poor mastering.
Seriously, though... I got the DVD set and have watched the entire series already. I only had one glitch someplace on the 3rd disk where I had to fast-forward past a small bit of dialogue at the beginning of Trash in order for it to not jump back to the start of the episode. I just assumed it was maybe a minor scratch or perhaps a hair or something fell under the disc when I dropped it in the player. Didn't notice any other problems with playback.
Censorship is when the government or another body imposes restrictions on information onto a 3rd party. It sounds like in this case the company that made the game is choosing to take out certain elements. It is not the same thing.
"Really? I live in a beautiful and small European town, with a very good standard of living."
Well, I'm not the original poster, and I don't like a whole lot of things about my country and my government, but... Replace "European" with "Iowan" and you've just described my situation.
Contrary to popular belief, most cities of the US are actually small, quiet, and rural-ish and not huge dirty, noisy, and over-populated.
If the per capita income is that low but piracy is apparently insanely out of control, wouldn't that imply there are a LOT of computer users there? How do they afford machines to run Windows on if they make so little?
What kind of hardware is available/common in that part of Asia?
You ever look around and see just how boring modern buildings are? How everything on your desk is a carbon-copy of everything on everyone else's desk? It sucks. It is dry and boring. We need style to spice things up and inspire us!
The way Jabber works is basically just like e-mail. Your Jabber ID isn't just a single name, it is a name and a server. In fact Jabber IDs look exactly like e-mail address:
username@jabberserver.whatever.
That is how the servers know how to route. When you try to send a message to a user on a different server, the server makes a connection to the destination jabber server and then delivers it for you. Your client only needs to talk to your Jabber server, but your Jabber server can communication with all other Jabber servers to deliver messages.
Why don't we just engineer some cute little bacteria to eat bad things (maybe nuclear waste?) and make hydrogen. Heck, what if we just let these fellas lose on huge city dumps or something? They could eat and eat and eat and we'd just harvest off the hydrogen. We'd be breaking down some of our material waste and solving the dirty energy problem all at the same time!
It happened here at work a year or so ago. We got some new computers with 30x drives in them, and an Oracle installation CD exploded as it spun up. Destroyed the entire drive and shiny things sort of puffed out the front as the door cover popped off. Pretty cool, really.:-)
I got a CS degree because I liked to code and play with computers. It had been my hobby since I was about 7 and my job since I was 15. When I was going through school nearly all of my fellow classmates were in it for the money. They knew next to nothing compared to me and had no real world experience. Now most of them are making more than I am by doing less because they're better at bullshit and became managers as soon as possible. Meanwhile my boss breaths down my neck every-other week saying things like "you are underachieving." Because he recognizes that I have more talent and ability than the average, I'm supposed to be working harder and doing more even though I'm tied for lowest paid programmer on staff. (Less pay because I'm new and fresh out of college--but there is no way the standard yearly raises will ever catch me up to anyone else.) I'm only 23 and I'm sick of it now.
The corporate attitudes have ruined most of my desire to code. When I get home I tend to avoid the computer now. I check my email, browse the web for a bit, and end up watching TV, reading, or *gasp* being social. The sad part is that I have been doing very little actual programming at work lately. It is just the amazing stupidity of the system. It wears me down. And when we do get around to actually writing code at work, the process itself is becoming painful as we change our "processes" and add more and more useless features, bloat the software, and destroy structures because marketing thinks that adding wiz-bang feature BLAH will sell more units. The depressing thing is that those sorts of things DO sell software because they look good during demos--not because they are useful.
The whole system is currently very self destructive. The industry isn't dead yet, but it needs an intervention.
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I have a book titled "Developing Your Own 32-bit Operating System" although i suspect it is out of print. You might try looking for it, though. The book takes you step-by-step through building an OS for x86. It's amazingly complete including all the source code. The guy even wrote his own compiler, if I remember right. Wonderful book.
Ah, ok. I was always under the impression it was a fantasy RPG thing and used the cards as sort of a place-holder for set rules so it'd eliminate the silly arguments and debates about the my-magic-is-more-powerful stuff that seems to dominate a normal roleplaying game (or at least the ones I've been to).
Maybe I should pick some of these cards up sometime and have a go at it...
Aren't professional role players generally called actors? I'm confused...
The cow has all sorts of natural patterns that could aid us. Or what about chickens? We wouldn't want to forget about the utility of pecking at problems until they go away, would we?
Isn't it true that before the PS2 all consoles basically started over each generation? SuperNES didn't natively play NES games as far as I remember and that didn't hurt sales or adoption at all. I think the history of breaking compatibility is one of the strengths of the console market.
Never busy? Man, you need to go there during lunch sometime. The BK near me has people almost spilling out the door at noon. I, for one, and glad they have the maze--it keeps people from clogging up the access to the bathrooms... And not only that, it's way fun to have BK maze races. (Just don't do it when they have those helpful "caution, floor is wet" signs out...)
Cory released Down and Out online about the same time he released for print publication. From what I've seen it seems to have helped sales a bit. Then again, he got a lot of free press about it then, too, so that probably helped.
Warcraft II was basically the benchmark for all RTS games that followed. It was the first RTS game I ever liked and its still one of my all time favorite games.
I've run across his stuff in Asimov's and online and found it to be quite entertaining. He's really a good writer. Cool that he releases a lot of his stuff online for free, too. :-)
I know this discussion topic is pretty much dead by now... But I'm working on a project I call Jiggle which (currently) merges JavaScript with OpenGL. Eventually I want to turn it into a powerful game/toy development enviroment for beginner-types.
Yes. I agree. I may not be as qualified or as experienced as you, but basically I'm asking for the same thing: respect as a human. After reading Joel's article and some slashdot posts, I went ahead and wrote a rant of my own about getting a job which I posted up at K5. I figured I'd mention it in case you are anyone else is looking for some entertainment. :-)
Well, if you look at my real-world situation it is this:
Friend 1: Employed
Friend 2: Lost Tech Job
Myself 1: Lost Tech Job
Whoa! That's a 66% unemployment rate! Yep. It's pretty bad out there...
Actually, it is "Secret Government Postal Facility Beams." They only want you to *think* it's poor mastering.
Seriously, though... I got the DVD set and have watched the entire series already. I only had one glitch someplace on the 3rd disk where I had to fast-forward past a small bit of dialogue at the beginning of Trash in order for it to not jump back to the start of the episode. I just assumed it was maybe a minor scratch or perhaps a hair or something fell under the disc when I dropped it in the player. Didn't notice any other problems with playback.
Censorship is when the government or another body imposes restrictions on information onto a 3rd party. It sounds like in this case the company that made the game is choosing to take out certain elements. It is not the same thing.
I'm reading this book right now and this is how the whole "end of the world" stuff starts....
Is there a reason that your sig has "i" and "j" in the wrong position? Just wondering.... :-)
"Really? I live in a beautiful and small European town, with a very good standard of living."
Well, I'm not the original poster, and I don't like a whole lot of things about my country and my government, but... Replace "European" with "Iowan" and you've just described my situation.
Contrary to popular belief, most cities of the US are actually small, quiet, and rural-ish and not huge dirty, noisy, and over-populated.
If the per capita income is that low but piracy is apparently insanely out of control, wouldn't that imply there are a LOT of computer users there? How do they afford machines to run Windows on if they make so little?
What kind of hardware is available/common in that part of Asia?
You ever look around and see just how boring modern buildings are? How everything on your desk is a carbon-copy of everything on everyone else's desk? It sucks. It is dry and boring. We need style to spice things up and inspire us!
The way Jabber works is basically just like e-mail. Your Jabber ID isn't just a single name, it is a name and a server. In fact Jabber IDs look exactly like e-mail address:
username@jabberserver.whatever.
That is how the servers know how to route. When you try to send a message to a user on a different server, the server makes a connection to the destination jabber server and then delivers it for you. Your client only needs to talk to your Jabber server, but your Jabber server can communication with all other Jabber servers to deliver messages.
Why don't we just engineer some cute little bacteria to eat bad things (maybe nuclear waste?) and make hydrogen. Heck, what if we just let these fellas lose on huge city dumps or something? They could eat and eat and eat and we'd just harvest off the hydrogen. We'd be breaking down some of our material waste and solving the dirty energy problem all at the same time!
It happened here at work a year or so ago. We got some new computers with 30x drives in them, and an Oracle installation CD exploded as it spun up. Destroyed the entire drive and shiny things sort of puffed out the front as the door cover popped off. Pretty cool, really. :-)
I've had good luck with Exodus. Maybe give that one a shot.
I got a CS degree because I liked to code and play with computers. It had been my hobby since I was about 7 and my job since I was 15. When I was going through school nearly all of my fellow classmates were in it for the money. They knew next to nothing compared to me and had no real world experience. Now most of them are making more than I am by doing less because they're better at bullshit and became managers as soon as possible. Meanwhile my boss breaths down my neck every-other week saying things like "you are underachieving." Because he recognizes that I have more talent and ability than the average, I'm supposed to be working harder and doing more even though I'm tied for lowest paid programmer on staff. (Less pay because I'm new and fresh out of college--but there is no way the standard yearly raises will ever catch me up to anyone else.) I'm only 23 and I'm sick of it now.
The corporate attitudes have ruined most of my desire to code. When I get home I tend to avoid the computer now. I check my email, browse the web for a bit, and end up watching TV, reading, or *gasp* being social. The sad part is that I have been doing very little actual programming at work lately. It is just the amazing stupidity of the system. It wears me down. And when we do get around to actually writing code at work, the process itself is becoming painful as we change our "processes" and add more and more useless features, bloat the software, and destroy structures because marketing thinks that adding wiz-bang feature BLAH will sell more units. The depressing thing is that those sorts of things DO sell software because they look good during demos--not because they are useful.
The whole system is currently very self destructive. The industry isn't dead yet, but it needs an intervention.
Anything like this for MacOS X? I checked the system requirements on grid.org and it seems to be windows only.