I can see playing with that goal in mind (re: lots of cars), but I prefer to find the car whose handling I like best, and then try to beat the times on different tracks. Racing against other people is more fun for me when the car<->driver link is stronger.
This one's easy. A google search for "zork" revealed the following useful link: INFOCOM Tribute Homepage, which contains walkthroughs, downloads, information, history, trivia, etc., for a lot of Infocom games.
And you can download a number of Z-machine interpreters from Metalab. In my spare time, I've been fiddling with a Z-machine front-end for IRC, but I have nothing to show for my efforts yet;)
I'd like to see something like Need for Speed 3 ported..or Wipeout XL (or even the outstanding Wipeout 3!) I've never been able to get into FPS shooters, so having Q3 native means nothing to me. Likewise with a native port of halflife, etc.
The original Diablo would also be quite cool... it had just the right amount of complexity and playability for my tastes. It seems to me that the sequels to good games sometimes try to cram in twice or thrice as much complexity into the game, and just learning the usefulness and function of all the new features/abilities/characters takes too long for me to remain interested. (even GT2- it has over 500 cars? how'm I ever going to find the one I can drive the best??)
Alternately, if the WINE people could emulate DirectX enough to play these windows games on my desktop (and if my X would gain the ability to do full-screen, which it mysteriously has never had [slackware X funny in any way?]), then I'd be happy and noone would need to port anything.:)
I think it's kind of a silly question to ask. Are geeks so far removed from ordinary human life that their marriages are something special? I'd certainly think not- I write perl for a living, I've got a dsl connection and run a server off it, I know my named config files, but I'm also engaged to a beautiful and intelligent woman.
Maybe a better question would be, "Do anti-social people with highly focused lives have successful marriages?" And that's a question I think you could guess the answer to yourself.
By the definition I just mentioned, though, I'm not a geek and my anecdotal evidence has no relevance to this thread.
Sign it only if YOU WOULD PAY FOR THE PRODUCT! Filling a petition with bogus/useless signatures is a sure way to make companies look at the linux developer community as a pack of scheming liars. If you sign it, you'd better be ready not to lambast them for not being open-source, too.
they'll cross-breed JonKatz with CmdrTaco. the result? Slashdot articles will disappear and sometimes the whole thing will grind to a halt, but nobody minds much anymore except the flamers.
Someone in another thread commented that gem dealers now look for rubies with natural flaws- the artificially produced ones are too plentiful and too perfect... and reading this article made me think; why wouldn't our own standards for beauty change in a new world like that? Would the Leonardos and Camerons of the future really be upheld as the standard for beauty?
Could it be that once everyone looks the same, beauty will fall on those who look different? Likewise for other traits.. when everyone's kid has an awesome jump shot, maybe people just won't watch basketball anymore. Games could become complicated and challenging again... (when was the last time you saw a tic-tac-toe tournament on tv?)
I just don't see genetic engineering as a real threat.. i'd wager the pre-fab kids become the new shunned class, or they move off into their own little cliquey world (sort of like they have now- after high school, i never see em and never deal with em;) )..
in fact, you know, i never even think about cliquey-type things unless jonkatz is writing an article. Hmm....
The Calcaria Linux project already boots linux on the psion series 5. I'd have tested it, but I'm lazy.;) Also, I can't quite understand the use of linux on this device. The Epoc32 operating system already interfaces with the touch screen, which Linux doesn't (yet.) Epoc32 has a lot of very useful apps built in, that the Linux command-line would have trouble replacing... and I hardly see the advantage of running Linux/and/ and X server on the palmtop, just to replace the word processor that Epoc already provided in the rom. The file management is well-enough thought out that you don't need to do anything through the command line (no, not that linux console is only command-line-based, but that midnight commander won't do a better job than epoc's file manager.)
The one advantage of Linux that I can see is the interfacing. if you were running linux on the palmtop and on the desktop, you could do nfs over the serial port for easy backups and access to data like that *snaps fingers*
In fact, that's the one thing I regret about the psion- it doesn't have any easy way to access the gigs of data I have on my hard drive. Granted, I've got desktop apps for that, but it'd be/kinda/ cool to have the interoperability in both directions:)
I think what'll happen is that someone will offer a Free Quantum Computer, and all you have to do is sign up for 3 years of quantum-ISP service (offering 56k connections that you always connect at 38.6k to), or maybe there'll be a 2" border around your screen that displays quantum ads.
Or something. quantum quantum quantum (trying to increase the quantum content of this post.)
Just like online magazines, they could advertise for pornography. They could start having page 5 girls every month! Hey, centerfolds, too. You are reading it for the articles, aren't you?
Geez, it's funny! Laugh! To everyone who wrote, "Well, these are serious reasons why you/should/ write maintainable code," YES! OF COURSE! Of course you should do your best to make your code reusable, modifyable, easy to understand, efficient, etc. but this article was about doing the exact opposite! because IT'S A JOKE!
Just the other day I was trying to explain a stance from my martial art to a friend over IRC, and he couldn't picture it and couldn't picture it, so I sketched him something in xpaint, dcc'd it to him, and a minute later he said, "Ohh!!"
See?;)
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I thought the best quick study of pokey really came from gettingit.com- look through their archives for a story titled "Internet for Assholes" or "Mocking Rick Wallace for Assholes." I'd post the link but it's too long for slashdot not to break it.
I'd also recommend to anyone to read Scott McCloud's outstanding book, "Understanding Comics." This book examines comics with an amazing insight, and touches on everything from philosophy to history, both of comics and of people in general. Two thumbs up!:)
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Compare usenet postings to real life- if someone is sending you threatening letters, you don't have to read them. You can throw them out. Or if someone calls you by the telephone and harasses you, again, you don't have to answer the phone./But/ if someone is doing these things to you, the law is on your side, because their rights do not extend so far that they may trample all over yours.
The usenet posting is the same way. Yeah, you can block it, or you can not read it, but why should you have to? If someone threatens me with bloody death time and time again in a public forum, I'm going to do anything I can to stop them, from filtering to legal redress. (before you say, 'killfile is all you need!' - what about slashdot? you can't filter slashdot posts. If someone followed up to every post of mine with "I will rape your sister and murder you," I'll try my damndest to convince Rob & co. to stop him from posting again.)
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Yahhhhhh!!!
Go read POKEY THE PEGNUIN!!! It will challenge you! It assaults your brain-pan and criticizes your senses! It's a full frontal assault of pixelized fury~! And you die!#@
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I got mine for $250 (plus $12 s/h). Works great! Check on pricewatch.com. The Series 5mx is more expensive, but that's because it's twice as fast, has twice as much memory, and maybe something else. The 5 is all you need for cheap, small connectivity, though. Even almost touch-typeable!
The rumor kitchen reports that the geheimnisumwobene processor prozessorschmiede Transmeta on the first Comdex day, to which 15 November -- as announced by Transmeta coworker Linus Torvalds already - admits now finally the date for the conception of their long expected processor to give wants.
*snicker*.. the rumor kitchen. Mahir, head chef of the rumor kitchen, kiss you!
It's not that they're unknown, or that their SEC filings are shady, or that they're doing a pretty shoddy job of ripping off/reclaiming another distro. It's all of these things together that make people wonder, Why should we support LinuxOne?
Redhat has a long history of providing GPL software, paying people to work on the kernel, giving back to the community. LinuxOne hasn't given anything back to anyone. They have violated the GPL, their CEO has been involved in another shady IPO, and they have no product to speak of (providing DSL drivers for Linux? what is that supposed to mean?)
Let them give the linux community one reason to support them. Being a new guy doesn't count.
Ok, here's my history with zen- I used to work for a campus department that maintained the general access labs. We were running NT and used ZEN to distribute applications and manage workstation printing. The problems we encountered were that printers would sometimes distribute and sometimes fail- it seemed arbitrary why they'd do that. Novell tech support couldn't help us at all. Applications, associated with workstation groups, would distribute, but after an arbitrary and changing number of reboots. Again, Novell's response was, "Yeah, it sometimes takes two or three reboots. We don't know why." Lastly, the ZEN client (and this is still an issue- I quit working for the department to go write perl, which helps pay for classes better:) ) makes the zip drives stop working. The machines they're trying to do this on are Gateways, so maybe there's a hardware conflict somewhere... but when I dropped by the office yesterday to work on a paper, they were saying that they'd have to decide between ZEN and the zip drives for some of their labs.
So that's my experience with flaky ZEN. If you don't have any problems, then it's probably as sweet a package manager as the writing on the box makes it out to be.:)
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YMMV, though ;) (HAR HAR HAR! ok, time to die.)
And you can download a number of Z-machine interpreters from Metalab. In my spare time, I've been fiddling with a Z-machine front-end for IRC, but I have nothing to show for my efforts yet ;)
The original Diablo would also be quite cool... it had just the right amount of complexity and playability for my tastes. It seems to me that the sequels to good games sometimes try to cram in twice or thrice as much complexity into the game, and just learning the usefulness and function of all the new features/abilities/characters takes too long for me to remain interested. (even GT2- it has over 500 cars? how'm I ever going to find the one I can drive the best??)
Alternately, if the WINE people could emulate DirectX enough to play these windows games on my desktop (and if my X would gain the ability to do full-screen, which it mysteriously has never had [slackware X funny in any way?]), then I'd be happy and noone would need to port anything. :)
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Maybe a better question would be, "Do anti-social people with highly focused lives have successful marriages?" And that's a question I think you could guess the answer to yourself.
By the definition I just mentioned, though, I'm not a geek and my anecdotal evidence has no relevance to this thread.
Dave Barry is quite popular, based almost entirely on the popularity of booger jokes with all walks of life. Just watch and see how funny they are:
Two boogers walk into a bar... Ha ha, I can't even finish typing! The mirth.. it's painful..
Could it be that once everyone looks the same, beauty will fall on those who look different? Likewise for other traits.. when everyone's kid has an awesome jump shot, maybe people just won't watch basketball anymore. Games could become complicated and challenging again... (when was the last time you saw a tic-tac-toe tournament on tv?)
I just don't see genetic engineering as a real threat.. i'd wager the pre-fab kids become the new shunned class, or they move off into their own little cliquey world (sort of like they have now- after high school, i never see em and never deal with em ;) )..
in fact, you know, i never even think about cliquey-type things unless jonkatz is writing an article. Hmm....
The Calcaria Linux project already boots linux on the psion series 5. I'd have tested it, but I'm lazy. ;) Also, I can't quite understand the use of linux on this device. The Epoc32 operating system already interfaces with the touch screen, which Linux doesn't (yet.) Epoc32 has a lot of very useful apps built in, that the Linux command-line would have trouble replacing... and I hardly see the advantage of running Linux /and/ and X server on the palmtop, just to replace the word processor that Epoc already provided in the rom. The file management is well-enough thought out that you don't need to do anything through the command line (no, not that linux console is only command-line-based, but that midnight commander won't do a better job than epoc's file manager.)
The one advantage of Linux that I can see is the interfacing. if you were running linux on the palmtop and on the desktop, you could do nfs over the serial port for easy backups and access to data like that *snaps fingers*
In fact, that's the one thing I regret about the psion- it doesn't have any easy way to access the gigs of data I have on my hard drive. Granted, I've got desktop apps for that, but it'd be /kinda/ cool to have the interoperability in both directions :)
anyway, sorry for the rant...
Wait, I'm curious now! (this is all I ask on slashdot these days ;) ) How did it work??
Now I'm curious... why does the '0' have a slash through it?
Or something. quantum quantum quantum (trying to increase the quantum content of this post.)
Hey, who hasn't slept in days? It's me! ;)
I've poured hot grits down my pants! Hi Eric Raymond!
Just like online magazines, they could advertise for pornography. They could start having page 5 girls every month! Hey, centerfolds, too. You are reading it for the articles, aren't you?
Sheesh. :)
See? ;)
I'd also recommend to anyone to read Scott McCloud's outstanding book, "Understanding Comics." This book examines comics with an amazing insight, and touches on everything from philosophy to history, both of comics and of people in general. Two thumbs up! :)
The usenet posting is the same way. Yeah, you can block it, or you can not read it, but why should you have to? If someone threatens me with bloody death time and time again in a public forum, I'm going to do anything I can to stop them, from filtering to legal redress. (before you say, 'killfile is all you need!' - what about slashdot? you can't filter slashdot posts. If someone followed up to every post of mine with "I will rape your sister and murder you," I'll try my damndest to convince Rob & co. to stop him from posting again.)
Go read POKEY THE PEGNUIN!!! It will challenge you! It assaults your brain-pan and criticizes your senses! It's a full frontal assault of pixelized fury~! And you die!#@
I got mine for $250 (plus $12 s/h). Works great! Check on pricewatch.com. The Series 5mx is more expensive, but that's because it's twice as fast, has twice as much memory, and maybe something else. The 5 is all you need for cheap, small connectivity, though. Even almost touch-typeable!
*snicker* .. the rumor kitchen. Mahir, head chef of the rumor kitchen, kiss you!
Redhat has a long history of providing GPL software, paying people to work on the kernel, giving back to the community. LinuxOne hasn't given anything back to anyone. They have violated the GPL, their CEO has been involved in another shady IPO, and they have no product to speak of (providing DSL drivers for Linux? what is that supposed to mean?)
Let them give the linux community one reason to support them. Being a new guy doesn't count.
So that's my experience with flaky ZEN. If you don't have any problems, then it's probably as sweet a package manager as the writing on the box makes it out to be. :)
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