Yup, I love my SciAm subscription. Ditched New Scientist a few years back after they started padding with advertising so such an extent it became a waste of paper.
Cyclists and intersections are a bloody menace. Every time I'm on the road and some fool of a cyclist tries to make a right-hand turn at a 4-way intersection as though they were just another car my blood pressure goes up a notch.
Seriously cyclists, just dismount and use the pedestrian crossing segments. It's not going to kill you to hop off the bike for 2 minutes and it's certainly going to improve your life expectancy...
Intersections also fail in heavy traffic though because of people sneaking by on the orange. The result is the center of the intersection gets filled by traffic from one direction that prevents the most of the perpendicular line of traffic from moving forward.
Personally, I throw in with A and use a combination of longboard and train to get many places.
B can work, if they put the lanes in the right place, which the tend not to.
C can also work but what about the traffic jams that happen at those residential areas with a stupidly low number in exit/entrance points?
Let's be frank: Parody and satire can be clever and they can also be funny. However, they can also fall flat, usually as a result of being stupid.
DNF does not classify as intelligent parody or satire. It classifies as juvenile BS.
Claiming that those people, like myself, who find DNF to be unfunny and rather insulting are missing the point and not getting the joke is ignoring the fact that DNF is frankly a piece of crap in the humour department.
Unless moronic humour like this appeals, in which case be my guest and enjoy this sack of crap game for all it's worth...
Personally, I got over the DNF brand of humour when I stopped being 15...
Wow, someone who actually has the guts to say this:-)
Congrats:-)
I don't hate Python as much as you, but having had to work with it properly now for a while I have found a lot of things I don't like, most especially the whole fiasco with the GIL...
Even here in the semi-third world of South Africa this is the case. Price-wise, a lot of things are just not well adjusted. Generally we pay prices that are basically the UK price but in our currency.
Frankly, it's a farse. The UK has the most notoriously overinflated currency in the world but for some moronic reason we're forced to pay for stuff at UK levels.
However, this is variable here. DVDs and music have come down in price somewhat, but are still somewhat expensive. Cinema prices have gone up rather than down. Video games and other electronics are horribly overpriced. For example, a new video game is about R600 often, which is the equivalent of about $90 USD. Insane!
I imagine it must be even worse in the real third world.
Yes, well, that's what you get for using Gnome.
I would recommend you try KDE, it has better support for vertical panels.
@TheLink: You're obviously a Windows Power User and not a Linux User, because if you were the latter you would already known about the multi-desktop paradigm which most Linux users live by. My own setup consists of a my laptop hooked up to a 24" LCD. My system runs KDE 4.6 and is configured to use 8 virtual desktops organised into 2 columns. The laptop screen is configured as primary display and located to the left of my LCD which is set up as a secondary. Usage -wise, at home I use the LCD as my primary, while on the go the laptop screen takes over this role. My laptop screen is scattered with various widgets such as TODO lists and so forth as well as a vertical panel containing useful things like the system tray etc, while the LCD is a big empty space with no panels or anything. For fast terminal access I use Yakuake.
To me, this is the natural order. The fact that Windows 7 still doesn't support Virtual Desktops out of the box means I never run more than about 5 apps at once when I do use it. Then and again, I only use Windows for gaming. Linux is where the work happens, which is as it should be.
It complains about various things which haven't changed:
1: No linuxconf? Try webmin...
7: Linus Torvalds still rocks. Git for the win...
9: The vi/emacs wars never ended...
10: There are still hundreds of distros...
The problem is you're trying to find work in the wrong places. Smaller companies are generally a lot more appreciative of experience and actual skills than large companies. Large corporates are the worst.
So at the end of the day the pay is a little less. The work is generally more rewarding you, the red tape minimal and you're not treated like an expendable resource.
*Disclaimer: I have never worked for a real corporate. The largest company I ever worked at had about 100 people and in my opinion that was 80 people too many. More people == more beauracracy == more inefficiency
Personally I found that movie to be terrible. Long, dull and packed with far too much loud music simply for the sake of loud music. I don't have a problem with loud music, I listen to powernoise and aggrotech after all. But wacthmen was just an unpleasant experience.
Then and again, considering it was a product of the same moron who directed 300, I'm not surprised it came out crap.
Take a look at the Play web framework for Java. It's a refreshing dose of sanity that takes all the lessons learned about
web dev in the last 10 years and applies them to Java. It's a really nice experience and it also supports Scala.
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Yup, I love my SciAm subscription. Ditched New Scientist a few years back after they started padding with advertising so such an extent it became a waste of paper.
You sound like me, 10 years ago. Back then I was a penniless student and justified my piracy as much as necessary.
Nowadays, since I'm employed and doing well, I've pretty much paid for all my piracy a number of times over thanks to Steam and Sales.
Long story short, remove the stick from your ass.
Sabayon is also an option. It's like Gentoo but with Sanity Included.
True, but new Linux ports seem to be en-route.
I opened up Steam Linux this morning to discover than a Linux port of X3: Reunion is available for me to test :-)
Yes
Nope, we're basically still being raided for raw resources by the rest of the world.
That is an awesome roundabout. And it's actually very clever to boot in allow traffic in two alternate directions at once.
Cyclists and intersections are a bloody menace. Every time I'm on the road and some fool of a cyclist tries to make a right-hand turn at a 4-way intersection as though they were just another car my blood pressure goes up a notch.
Seriously cyclists, just dismount and use the pedestrian crossing segments. It's not going to kill you to hop off the bike for 2 minutes and it's certainly going to improve your life expectancy...
Intersections also fail in heavy traffic though because of people sneaking by on the orange. The result is the center of the intersection gets filled by traffic from one direction that prevents the most of the perpendicular line of traffic from moving forward.
Personally, I throw in with A and use a combination of longboard and train to get many places.
B can work, if they put the lanes in the right place, which the tend not to.
C can also work but what about the traffic jams that happen at those residential areas with a stupidly low number in exit/entrance points?
I could have swallowed the first two, but claiming the Starship Troopers movie is better than the book is just deluded.
Thing is, I'm not PC, not at all.
What I am is anti-stupid,
It's a losing battle ;-)
Okay, I'm a little sick of this apologist shit...
Let's be frank: Parody and satire can be clever and they can also be funny. However, they can also fall flat, usually as a result of being stupid.
DNF does not classify as intelligent parody or satire. It classifies as juvenile BS.
Claiming that those people, like myself, who find DNF to be unfunny and rather insulting are missing the point and not getting the joke is ignoring the
fact that DNF is frankly a piece of crap in the humour department.
Unless moronic humour like this appeals, in which case be my guest and enjoy this sack of crap game for all it's worth...
Personally, I got over the DNF brand of humour when I stopped being 15...
Wow, someone who actually has the guts to say this :-)
Congrats :-)
I don't hate Python as much as you, but having had to work with it properly now for a while I have found a lot of things I don't like, most especially the whole fiasco with the GIL...
I need to see you movie! Make it, please :-)
Nice snapback.
However, some of us actually like the X model. It tends to work better for remote work.
I guess it's just the sad/happy truth the *nix development does not revolve around keeping game developers happy.
As for running Windows drivers under a wrapper, why would you want to? You speak like NDISwrapper was worth using.
Aha, but doesn't the Wii homebrew development layer use OpenGL?
Even here in the semi-third world of South Africa this is the case. Price-wise, a lot of things are just not well adjusted. Generally we pay prices that are basically the UK price but in our currency. Frankly, it's a farse. The UK has the most notoriously overinflated currency in the world but for some moronic reason we're forced to pay for stuff at UK levels. However, this is variable here. DVDs and music have come down in price somewhat, but are still somewhat expensive. Cinema prices have gone up rather than down. Video games and other electronics are horribly overpriced. For example, a new video game is about R600 often, which is the equivalent of about $90 USD. Insane! I imagine it must be even worse in the real third world.
Yes, well, that's what you get for using Gnome. I would recommend you try KDE, it has better support for vertical panels. @TheLink: You're obviously a Windows Power User and not a Linux User, because if you were the latter you would already known about the multi-desktop paradigm which most Linux users live by. My own setup consists of a my laptop hooked up to a 24" LCD. My system runs KDE 4.6 and is configured to use 8 virtual desktops organised into 2 columns. The laptop screen is configured as primary display and located to the left of my LCD which is set up as a secondary. Usage -wise, at home I use the LCD as my primary, while on the go the laptop screen takes over this role. My laptop screen is scattered with various widgets such as TODO lists and so forth as well as a vertical panel containing useful things like the system tray etc, while the LCD is a big empty space with no panels or anything. For fast terminal access I use Yakuake. To me, this is the natural order. The fact that Windows 7 still doesn't support Virtual Desktops out of the box means I never run more than about 5 apps at once when I do use it. Then and again, I only use Windows for gaming. Linux is where the work happens, which is as it should be.
It complains about various things which haven't changed: 1: No linuxconf? Try webmin... 7: Linus Torvalds still rocks. Git for the win... 9: The vi/emacs wars never ended... 10: There are still hundreds of distros...
Sabayon is Gentoo done right...
The problem is you're trying to find work in the wrong places. Smaller companies are generally a lot more appreciative of experience and actual skills than large companies. Large corporates are the worst. So at the end of the day the pay is a little less. The work is generally more rewarding you, the red tape minimal and you're not treated like an expendable resource. *Disclaimer: I have never worked for a real corporate. The largest company I ever worked at had about 100 people and in my opinion that was 80 people too many. More people == more beauracracy == more inefficiency
Unlike Watchmen, Scott Pilgrim was actually a good movie.
Personally I found that movie to be terrible. Long, dull and packed with far too much loud music simply for the sake of loud music. I don't have a problem with loud music, I listen to powernoise and aggrotech after all. But wacthmen was just an unpleasant experience. Then and again, considering it was a product of the same moron who directed 300, I'm not surprised it came out crap.
Meh, I've not had any problems with my X10 Mini Pro. Sony Ericsson is not exactly sleeping in the same bed as SCE...
Take a look at the Play web framework for Java. It's a refreshing dose of sanity that takes all the lessons learned about web dev in the last 10 years and applies them to Java. It's a really nice experience and it also supports Scala.