1: low volume 2: keep one ear free 3: have music you "know" by heart- that way you aren't really listening to the music, its just background. And then when you hear a child scream or a snow cat roar, you say "Hey! That's not part of the chorus!" and you either stop or get out of the way.
There is nothing better than ending your day on a blue square run with some kickin' 'choons.
I remember when I first saw a pair of pants with the inner thigh stash pocket... I just about flipped my wig. I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Sure, cops were probably on to it shortly after they came out, but still. Dare to dream.
Because if you do, all the software running the show was made by gov't contractors (like myself).
Gov't contractors aren't gov't employees- they are real businesses that get paid by the gov't.
Yes- due to versions and editing
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Wow, this is super cool. Why? Because off the bat there will be two versions- a tech one and a suit one. Can you think of a more concrete way of showing (not just telling kids) that there are multiple facets to every story?
Then by giving the kids some editing tools (A mac with premier, and not even an expensive mac. For the cost of a case of beer I lent out my Power Mac 7200 with 40 megs of ram to a friend a few years ago and he made an educational video/cd-rom) and they: 1) get skills on how to link and cut scenes (okay- you argue that this may not be very valuable, point taken) 2) get experience on "creating" a story line 3) get to see how their classmates started with the same raw footage and created vastly different final products.
If this can teach a young mind conspicuous consumption regarding news, media and information, HALLELUJIA!!! (doubtful...)
But if this can teach a young'in there are multiple sides to a story, then super-duper.
And if you can do some fancy editing and make Cringley burp, fart, and insert bathroom jokes, the school bullies will be laughing too hard to beat the snot out of you. Besides, you get a chance to make friends with them with the detention you got.
I've seen that Ti leaf guy's website- next time I'm on the big island, we'll have some hen!
But his website even suggests that the ti leaves are acting as insulation. FIrst you are steaming the chicken, and who knows whats happening when the steam hits some of the lava- I'm sure it cools down and the lava closest to the leaves get hard. It becomes more like a salt-crust bake (for the Iron Chef fans out there).
What Mr ICee should do is experiment in an oven: wrap a hen in some ti leaves and see what cooks.
regardless- that's a pretty frickin' neat-o trick. I wanna play with lava.
The car is the way to go. Another recommendation: Books on tape. I got a CD of William Gibson reading "Neuromancer"- it never gets old. The miles just fly by even when you are only going 65...
Now if only I can find a way to drive the wife and I to Ireland next summer...
oh and P.S.- I work in the air traffic control industry.
Dewd, I'm in the same camp as you. Mac plus, 40 mb JASMINE harddrive, and I did it all.
But can you run a modern web browser on a mac plus? (Oh sure, you can hack a web server into one, such as camneerG, but...)
But until you can get AOL 6.0 running on the 68000 processor I don't think you are going to have enough of a draw for the average person to want some old, crappy hardware.
SURE- they can type papers on it, but does it have enough to hold their interest? For you and me, the mac plus was enough. But I think for most it isn't.
just my two bits. I'd actually LOVE to be proven wrong!
For this exact reason I have stopped the time honored practice of "checking the wifi atennae in the buff."
I haven't tried this yet, but I'll check what my outside reception is like. I'm still trying to figure out how to set things up inside. I get AWESOME reception two floors below in the "dungeon", but who wants to compute in the dungeon? (INSERT BDSM PRON JOKE HERE)
I'm not sure if the heating ducts running up and through the house are helping it or not...
And my "spot" at the dining room table gets BALLS. Its quite close to the open stairwell (at the top of which is the room with the WAP diagonally opposite the door) but the waves will not travel.*
* Actually, I haven't checked since I re-positioned the wap on top of a 100 blank cd-r tower and tried to tilt the antennae in the right direction.
Cyberpunk vs. Cyberpunk 2020... they streamlined!
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I picked up the original Cyberpunk rpg at a game con 10+ years ago. Their combat system Friday Night Fire Fight was an exhaustive statistical work culled from numerous reports on inner city gun usage- most "fire fights" were in dark alleys, a few quick shots exchanged at close range and they weren't very "successful."
So they had an incredibly indepth system that was a bitch to use.
When Cyberpunk 2020 came out they revised the combat. It was like pure heaven. It was easy! You pointed and shot, you said bang, your gun said "bang", damaged got doled out and you were done. They also completely vamped up their net-running section. And we had hours of fun.
If you want realism, walk outside. Otherwise give me streamlined, bastardized, home brewed specifically for our current campaign.
ah yes, I forgot to mention the best part- Don't worry about he schedule- overruns are okay!
The time card is fine... infact my wife's (a lawyer-to-be who just received an offer from her firm, Congrats to her! (and me)) experience at law firm time carding is FAR worse.
An example: we;re on the phone and she says "good lord! We've been talking for 9 minutes and 47 seconds! I gotta go!"
For obselete tech: for realtime human grade systems our tech is always far behind the curve.
THe one unfortunate reality you mentioned is that sometimes they run out of money and gotta wait until congress can give them more. And you get left holding the bag. They love the work you've done and they think you are doing a great job, but they have no money left in budget.
I work with a major company who's prime source of contracts is with governments (US, UK,some china)and its the best/worst of all worlds.
THE BAD: Since all government contracts start as bids, your company will invariably underbid. That means a death march. Tight schedules, reduced resources. Some marches are more livable than others. However, becuase the SW development field is so young, I think you are going to find death marches everywhere.
Additionally, you are a servant to many masters. Those paying, those managing, and those who will eventually get your product. However I find politics to be quite fun, especially when you outperform (See above comment) and your adversaries "fall on their ass" (its an industry term...)
THE GOOD: Everything you heard about public sector jobs, but with better salary. Whoo hooo!
without having actually checked the page myself (in TRUE slashdot style) I assume they use the dollar sign to signify that this is a literal, and the 0x to signify that this is a hex literal- not a char, not base 10.
Shit, we're using hex numbers on slashdot. Where's that annoying guy who always complains about people not using hex on slashdot? This would make him proud!
I'm totally with you. But not just about games. It was about computers themselves. They were so powerful that they left science behind and took on an aura of magic. And much of the "common art" of the day (television shows, movies, magazines, books, etc.)used computers as a device to suspend disbelief: maybe a computer could do this...
actually, I'm not going back far enough- from the 50s and 60's computers were the enemy- the mechanization and resultant dehumanization was the constant theme played into the ground. 2001, Colossus the forbin project, etc. etc. "computers are evil becuase they can destroy you" - then there was a switch to the thinking that "well, they're dangerous, but thats becuase they're powerful..." and that is what I am a product of.
So my childhood was filled with the movies "war games", "tron", "wierd science" (oh yeah, my parents tried to instill a sense of "culture", but all that crap went in one ear and out the other)
Now I'm sure this can be related to the first time you had a computer go "on line" not necessarily internet, but through a modem to a local bbs. It was empowerment. There were others out there who had the knowledge and there was plenty for the taking. Everything from computer hacks, to zero-day warez, to Ann-R-Key (say it real fast) files, this was the final step.
And in the background of my mind I knew that all the pieces of the recipe were in place, and the new revolution was just an arms length away. It was the future, and it was dying to be discovered.
yes friends, it was pr0n.;)
(oh-kay, ignore that last line. But you know what I mean!)
The closest thing you get to intelligent commentary is "line numbers" where these 20 lines of assy are related to this one line of C or ADA or whatever.
Comnbine that with the manual that says what the hack an rlinm is, and you have enough to shed a LEEETLE bit of light. Not enough to make it easy, but enough to help the dogged developer/problem determinator.
compiling with the -a (or -s) option to produce assy code. Especially wicked in combination with the -o optimization option!
our compiler has an affinity for the RLINM (rotate left AND mask) where it rotates for ZERO and masks with xFFFFFFFF. I guess simply storing a number into gpr23 wasn't fancy enough.
Also, IBM has some assy manuals for AIX. I use a 32 bit POWER architecture (as one could glean from the hex number above), but I think they have the PPC ones online (came in handy with my powermac at home) also a quickie link: right here
digital binary logic calls this the Hi-Z (high impedence) setting. It's not logic zero (voltage 0, voltage -5, etc.), its not logic one (voltage 5, etc.) it's hi-z.
It's a bitch but thats how the circuits are defined.
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1: low volume
2: keep one ear free
3: have music you "know" by heart- that way you aren't really listening to the music, its just background. And then when you hear a child scream or a snow cat roar, you say "Hey! That's not part of the chorus!" and you either stop or get out of the way.
There is nothing better than ending your day on a blue square run with some kickin' 'choons.
Just to throw off the fuzz!
I remember when I first saw a pair of pants with the inner thigh stash pocket... I just about flipped my wig. I thought that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Sure, cops were probably on to it shortly after they came out, but still. Dare to dream.
Because if you do, all the software running the show was made by gov't contractors (like myself).
Gov't contractors aren't gov't employees- they are real businesses that get paid by the gov't.
Wow, this is super cool.
Why? Because off the bat there will be two versions- a tech one and a suit one.
Can you think of a more concrete way of showing (not just telling kids) that there are multiple facets to every story?
Then by giving the kids some editing tools (A mac with premier, and not even an expensive mac. For the cost of a case of beer I lent out my Power Mac 7200 with 40 megs of ram to a friend a few years ago and he made an educational video/cd-rom)
and they:
1) get skills on how to link and cut scenes (okay- you argue that this may not be very valuable, point taken)
2) get experience on "creating" a story line
3) get to see how their classmates started with the same raw footage and created vastly different final products.
If this can teach a young mind conspicuous consumption regarding news, media and information, HALLELUJIA!!! (doubtful...)
But if this can teach a young'in there are multiple sides to a story, then super-duper.
And if you can do some fancy editing and make Cringley burp, fart, and insert bathroom jokes, the school bullies will be laughing too hard to beat the snot out of you. Besides, you get a chance to make friends with them with the detention you got.
blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah.
CORE WARS, devised in the 60's, played in the mid 80's, this was what you did!
Now the sadness: I had both corewars and robo war for my mac plus. Guess which one I wrote bots for? That's right! NEITHER.
Is there anything worse than a lazy geek?!
Oh but I do, unicron, I do!
[winces towards the sky in anguish, followed by howling and the gnashing of teeth]
that's not even a typo, that's a thinko!
let this be a lesson to you kiddies... ALWAYS preview!
Before you view, preview.
The wiley will find ways around it.
The rest won't miss it.
At least its stepping up the challenge for those who are wiley!
(I think it's pretty devious that they aren't blocking google searches, just sending them to a less efficient search engine! ha!)
I've seen that Ti leaf guy's website- next time I'm on the big island, we'll have some hen!
But his website even suggests that the ti leaves are acting as insulation. FIrst you are steaming the chicken, and who knows whats happening when the steam hits some of the lava- I'm sure it cools down and the lava closest to the leaves get hard. It becomes more like a salt-crust bake (for the Iron Chef fans out there).
What Mr ICee should do is experiment in an oven: wrap a hen in some ti leaves and see what cooks.
regardless- that's a pretty frickin' neat-o trick.
I wanna play with lava.
The car is the way to go. Another recommendation: Books on tape. I got a CD of William Gibson reading "Neuromancer"- it never gets old. The miles just fly by even when you are only going 65...
Now if only I can find a way to drive the wife and I to Ireland next summer...
oh and P.S.- I work in the air traffic control industry.
Dewd, I'm in the same camp as you. Mac plus, 40 mb JASMINE harddrive, and I did it all.
But can you run a modern web browser on a mac plus? (Oh sure, you can hack a web server into one, such as camneerG, but...)
But until you can get AOL 6.0 running on the 68000 processor I don't think you are going to have enough of a draw for the average person to want some old, crappy hardware.
SURE- they can type papers on it, but does it have enough to hold their interest? For you and me, the mac plus was enough. But I think for most it isn't.
just my two bits. I'd actually LOVE to be proven wrong!
For this exact reason I have stopped the time honored practice of "checking the wifi atennae in the buff."
I haven't tried this yet, but I'll check what my outside reception is like. I'm still trying to figure out how to set things up inside. I get AWESOME reception two floors below in the "dungeon", but who wants to compute in the dungeon? (INSERT BDSM PRON JOKE HERE)
I'm not sure if the heating ducts running up and through the house are helping it or not...
And my "spot" at the dining room table gets BALLS. Its quite close to the open stairwell (at the top of which is the room with the WAP diagonally opposite the door) but the waves will not travel.*
* Actually, I haven't checked since I re-positioned the wap on top of a 100 blank cd-r tower and tried to tilt the antennae in the right direction.
I picked up the original Cyberpunk rpg at a game con 10+ years ago. Their combat system Friday Night Fire Fight was an exhaustive statistical work culled from numerous reports on inner city gun usage- most "fire fights" were in dark alleys, a few quick shots exchanged at close range and they weren't very "successful."
So they had an incredibly indepth system that was a bitch to use.
When Cyberpunk 2020 came out they revised the combat. It was like pure heaven. It was easy! You pointed and shot, you said bang, your gun said "bang", damaged got doled out and you were done. They also completely vamped up their net-running section. And we had hours of fun.
If you want realism, walk outside. Otherwise give me streamlined, bastardized, home brewed specifically for our current campaign.
Thanks for the correction...
yeah, but it's like 76% the speed of light.
I can't tell the difference! They both seem pretty damn fast to me! And I can't drive 55!
ah yes, I forgot to mention the best part-
Don't worry about he schedule- overruns are okay!
The time card is fine... infact my wife's (a lawyer-to-be who just received an offer from her firm, Congrats to her! (and me)) experience at law firm time carding is FAR worse.
An example: we;re on the phone and she says "good lord! We've been talking for 9 minutes and 47 seconds! I gotta go!"
For obselete tech: for realtime human grade systems our tech is always far behind the curve.
THe one unfortunate reality you mentioned is that sometimes they run out of money and gotta wait until congress can give them more. And you get left holding the bag. They love the work you've done and they think you are doing a great job, but they have no money left in budget.
You are a genius!
IT beats thrashing or "excessive paging", or congested, or "bogged down by trolls."
well, its synonymous with "bogged down by trolls"
I work with a major company who's prime source of contracts is with governments (US, UK,some china)and its the best/worst of all worlds.
THE BAD: Since all government contracts start as bids, your company will invariably underbid. That means a death march. Tight schedules, reduced resources. Some marches are more livable than others. However, becuase the SW development field is so young, I think you are going to find death marches everywhere.
Additionally, you are a servant to many masters. Those paying, those managing, and those who will eventually get your product. However I find politics to be quite fun, especially when you outperform (See above comment) and your adversaries "fall on their ass" (its an industry term...)
THE GOOD: Everything you heard about public sector jobs, but with better salary. Whoo hooo!
at zoom level 4 its' creaking...
You'd think OSDN would be able to code around the slashdot effect!
This would be useful if it can be mirrored a thousand fold.
without having actually checked the page myself (in TRUE slashdot style) I assume they use the dollar sign to signify that this is a literal, and the 0x to signify that this is a hex literal- not a char, not base 10.
Shit, we're using hex numbers on slashdot. Where's that annoying guy who always complains about people not using hex on slashdot? This would make him proud!
I'm totally with you. But not just about games. It was about computers themselves. They were so powerful that they left science behind and took on an aura of magic. And much of the "common art" of the day (television shows, movies, magazines, books, etc.)used computers as a device to suspend disbelief: maybe a computer could do this...
;)
actually, I'm not going back far enough- from the 50s and 60's computers were the enemy- the mechanization and resultant dehumanization was the constant theme played into the ground. 2001, Colossus the forbin project, etc. etc. "computers are evil becuase they can destroy you" - then there was a switch to the thinking that "well, they're dangerous, but thats becuase they're powerful..." and that is what I am a product of.
So my childhood was filled with the movies "war games", "tron", "wierd science" (oh yeah, my parents tried to instill a sense of "culture", but all that crap went in one ear and out the other)
Now I'm sure this can be related to the first time you had a computer go "on line" not necessarily internet, but through a modem to a local bbs. It was empowerment. There were others out there who had the knowledge and there was plenty for the taking. Everything from computer hacks, to zero-day warez, to Ann-R-Key (say it real fast) files, this was the final step.
And in the background of my mind I knew that all the pieces of the recipe were in place, and the new revolution was just an arms length away. It was the future, and it was dying to be discovered.
yes friends, it was pr0n.
(oh-kay, ignore that last line. But you know what I mean!)
IANAL, blah blah, but I remember auctions on usenet groups ages ago. Specifically for collectible goods!
I haven't read their patent, but can't some silver-tongued "law-talking-guy" (simpsons ref) spin this patent into the ground?
The closest thing you get to intelligent commentary is "line numbers" where these 20 lines of assy are related to this one line of C or ADA or whatever.
Comnbine that with the manual that says what the hack an rlinm is, and you have enough to shed a LEEETLE bit of light. Not enough to make it easy, but enough to help the dogged developer/problem determinator.
compiling with the -a (or -s) option to produce assy code. Especially wicked in combination with the -o optimization option!
our compiler has an affinity for the RLINM (rotate left AND mask) where it rotates for ZERO and masks with xFFFFFFFF. I guess simply storing a number into gpr23 wasn't fancy enough.
Also, IBM has some assy manuals for AIX. I use a 32 bit POWER architecture (as one could glean from the hex number above), but I think they have the PPC ones online (came in handy with my powermac at home)
also a quickie link: right here
digital binary logic calls this the Hi-Z (high impedence) setting. It's not logic zero (voltage 0, voltage -5, etc.), its not logic one (voltage 5, etc.) it's hi-z.
It's a bitch but thats how the circuits are defined.