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But yes, in fact, many people are gung ho about developing for.NET/deploying it. Anyone Win32 developer...
Ah, yess, Win32 programmers. I'm sure lots of them are hanging around OSCON.
It's only been one day, and I've spent all my time in perl tutorials, but I've yet to talk to a Win32 developer at OSCON. Lot's of Linux/Unix and even one Mac developer, but not yet a Win32 developer.
I'm just really skeptical that.NET will catch on outside of Windows shops. I'm really skeptical that the Open Source community (outside of those few Mono folks) will embrace any technology started by Microsoft.
I'm really skeptical that the majority of Win32-only developers care anything about Open Source beyond the "Stay away! It will infect your code! The GPL is a virus!"
This should be one of the biggest announcements of the conference
Who really cares about this? Is anyone really all gung-ho to deploy.NET? Do consumers really want "Web Services"?
I'd rather run my office apps on my local box, and keep my data private, thank you.
On a side note Covalent spammed the hell out of OSCON attendees. I'm really dissapointed that O'Reilly gave out my *work* email address to them. I wasn't all that hot on Covalent products before, and now that they spammed me, I'll think twice before looking at them again.
Lets write some more utilities so that drug runners and crazies can send undetectible messages to eachother with great ease.
What's the difference between criminals and "legitimate" political dissidents? To the governments of the world, nothing.
I'm sure King George thought Washington and Jefferson were "crazies".
I'm sure the British government thought Ghandi was a criminal. They put him in jail several times.
The price of a truly free country is that "drug runners and crazies can send undetectible messages to eachother with great ease". This has to be so that future Ghandis and Mandellas can do so also.
Or we can just shut everybody up. Yeah, lets do that. Let's start with you.
It's called "mental illness" and it's caused by a chemical imbalace in the brain.
A friend of mine is bi-polar, and it's not pretty. He also thinks everyone schemes against him, has wild mood swings, etc.
Sometimes he is fine, just like his old, normal, self. But those days are fewer and fewer.
For people like this, it's next to impossible to hold a job, keep friends, etc.
To say "...ego has outgrown their brain to the point they've driven themselves into depression over it." is short sighted. It's a physical problem, not a bad personality.
I was surprised to find a lot of anime at the Fry's Electronics in San Diego. I'm not a big anime fan, but from what I do know, they had all the classics. Also, they had a lot of "adult" anime (read: tentacle rape)
They had 2 whole shelf units full. Thats about (rough estimate from memory) 200 - 300 DVDs.
Re:Trouble? Trouble at the Gentlemans Club
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no matter what a stripper says, there is no sex in the champaign room.
Loki was a game company that ported current (or slightly old) games to Linux. SDL was originally developed there for thier porting process (it's quite similar to DirectX).
Loki ported Myth 2, Alpha Centari, Sim City 3000, Tribes 2 and others.
The Blizzard developer quoted in the article is non other than Sam Lantinga, of Loki and SDL fame.
In my very limited email correspondance with Sam, he proves to be a great guy. SDL is an awesome development API, and he already ported it to the Playstaion 2 Linux.
I am an avid consumer of tech books. I buy about 1 a month or more, at $50+ a pop.
Whatever subject I am currently interested in gets my money. Lately it's been OpenGL and game programming (especially math). In the last 3 months I've purchased or recieved for X-mas (by request):
OpenGL Game Programming
Programming Linux Games
3D Math For Game Programmers
Physics For Game Programmers
Tk/TCL For Real Programmers
3D Game Engine Design
DNS and BIND
SSH (the O'Reilly one)
Game Programming Gems 2
and a few more.
So, what am I looking for?
It depends what I am interested in today. Right now I need a really good C++ STL reference book.
I also need a math primer. I haven't thought about math since my aborted attempt at college 12 years ago. While I did get an A in Calculus, that was 12 years ago and I remember nothing. The 3D Math book I mentioned above pretty much assumes you already know Calc.
It seems to me that there are alot of beginning programming books, especially about game design and C++, but few advanced books.
Also, there are few game AI books out there, but I see on Amazon that there are 2 promising titles to be released in the next few months.
One of my favorite programming books of all time is The Perl Cookbook. Now, I make my living programming Perl on Linux, and this book gets cracked open by me at least once a week. I've even seem comments in other people's code that said "If you don't understand this next bit, see the Cookbook page xxx". A Cookbook type thing for C++ would really be cool.
The linux version of the multi-player test 1 (there is no "demo" yet. When people say "demo" they mean the mp-test) came out a week after the windows version.
The linux version of the mp-test 2 came out the day after the windows version.
Here is a section of Todd Hollenshead's.plan file that refers to the linux version of the final game:
No date yet on the Mac version, but it's coming soon (not gold yet,
though). We don't have plans to sell Linux in retail, but Timothee
has done great work on the downloadable binaries so far, and I expect
that to continue.
So there ya go.
I have been looking, but I see no final linux version yet. But it's been just 1 day. I just hope that Timothee isn't on vacation or something, because the tin box is sitting right here just waiting to get installed... (Timo: hint hint):-)
poster a: To imply that nothing would get ever done without the incentive of making obscene amounts of money is to be a greedy, cheap, cynical, amoral, capitalist bastard.
Poster b: Money=work... Your foolish assertion that it's just a will and "passion" that makes it happens is absolutely hilarious.
The reality is somewhere in between. If no work is done wothout money, then how the hell did we get Linux and the entire GNU project?
On the other hand, money is a VERY powerfull incentive.
I think that talented people with a passion for thier work will do it if it pays or not. I know a few people (my father, for one) who are teachers, making a teachers salary, who could be making WAY more money doing some thing else, in fact DID do something else for more money, but came back to teaching because it is more rewarding in non-financial ways.
How many hours and hours of programming have gone into GPL software? Are these programmers doing it for the money?
Now, on drug development specifically, I can't comment. But in general, people are motivated to do work by things other than money. (but a fat paycheck is a powerful motivator, too)
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But yes, in fact, many people are gung ho about developing for
Ah, yess, Win32 programmers. I'm sure lots of them are hanging around OSCON.
It's only been one day, and I've spent all my time in perl tutorials, but I've yet to talk to a Win32 developer at OSCON. Lot's of Linux/Unix and even one Mac developer, but not yet a Win32 developer.
I'm just really skeptical that
I'm really skeptical that the majority of Win32-only developers care anything about Open Source beyond the "Stay away! It will infect your code! The GPL is a virus!"
This should be one of the biggest announcements of the conference
.NET? Do consumers really want "Web Services"?
Who really cares about this? Is anyone really all gung-ho to deploy
I'd rather run my office apps on my local box, and keep my data private, thank you.
On a side note Covalent spammed the hell out of OSCON attendees. I'm really dissapointed that O'Reilly gave out my *work* email address to them. I wasn't all that hot on Covalent products before, and now that they spammed me, I'll think twice before looking at them again.
Lets write some more utilities so that drug runners and crazies can send undetectible messages to eachother with great ease.
What's the difference between criminals and "legitimate" political dissidents? To the governments of the world, nothing.
I'm sure King George thought Washington and Jefferson were "crazies".
I'm sure the British government thought Ghandi was a criminal. They put him in jail several times.
The price of a truly free country is that "drug runners and crazies can send undetectible messages to eachother with great ease". This has to be so that future Ghandis and Mandellas can do so also.
Or we can just shut everybody up. Yeah, lets do that. Let's start with you.
Yeah. "Here's the link. be nice and don't click on it!"
:)
Now that's responsible journalism.
If you were to actually read the article, you would see that Dr. Wallace has been diagnosed as bi-polar.
So, he's probably not "just an asshole".
Jesus, people. The man is mentally ill.
It's called "mental illness" and it's caused by a chemical imbalace in the brain.
A friend of mine is bi-polar, and it's not pretty. He also thinks everyone schemes against him, has wild mood swings, etc.
Sometimes he is fine, just like his old, normal, self. But those days are fewer and fewer.
For people like this, it's next to impossible to hold a job, keep friends, etc.
To say "...ego has outgrown their brain to the point they've driven themselves into depression over it." is short sighted. It's a physical problem, not a bad personality.
If this gent needs cash, he can just make a cybersex version of Alice and sell her to the porn sites.
Actually, I bet this has already been done.
I was surprised to find a lot of anime at the Fry's Electronics in San Diego. I'm not a big anime fan, but from what I do know, they had all the classics. Also, they had a lot of "adult" anime (read: tentacle rape)
They had 2 whole shelf units full. Thats about (rough estimate from memory) 200 - 300 DVDs.
no matter what a stripper says, there is no sex in the champaign room.
;-)
Apparently, with both size and color the same, foreigners have a hard time differenciating between the bills.
One would think the big number in each corner would be a pretty big giveaway as to the bill's value.
:-)
I'm all for color on our bills. Our money is pretty boring compared to "exciting" foreign money.
But then, when it come to money, I'll all for boring. When "exciting" and "money" are used in the same sentence, it usually means I'm losing my ass.
On the other hand, you pay tax when you resell your land
Dammit, I'm not buying this land. It's used. Just look how dirty it is! And it has this, this green stuff all over it.
I'd rather they spam themselves than spam the little children!
Please, think of the children!
if the government says it, it must be true!
And then there is good ol' pulp fiction (not the movie, but actual pulp fiction)
I thought so too, when I saw the headline.
Do we really need that much more heroin in the world?
What does that say about our geek-ness, or lack of it, when we see "H" and think heroin instead of hydrogen?
I know what I think when I see "weed" and if I find it in my garden I am *not* going to kill it.
$20 for me buys a (short) lapdance. :-)
I let my account lapse (on monday no less) becuase they had gone 4 months (!!) with out releasing squat.
$20 oh no! it's financial ruin!
:-)
Loki was a game company that ported current (or slightly old) games to Linux. SDL was originally developed there for thier porting process (it's quite similar to DirectX).
Loki ported Myth 2, Alpha Centari, Sim City 3000, Tribes 2 and others.
They went out of business a few months ago.
The Blizzard developer quoted in the article is non other than Sam Lantinga, of Loki and SDL fame.
In my very limited email correspondance with Sam, he proves to be a great guy. SDL is an awesome development API, and he already ported it to the Playstaion 2 Linux.
Well, I work for a top 50 corporation, and I make plenty of money programming in Perl.
I am an avid consumer of tech books. I buy about 1 a month or more, at $50+ a pop.
Whatever subject I am currently interested in gets my money. Lately it's been OpenGL and game programming (especially math). In the last 3 months I've purchased or recieved for X-mas (by request):
OpenGL Game Programming
Programming Linux Games
3D Math For Game Programmers
Physics For Game Programmers
Tk/TCL For Real Programmers
3D Game Engine Design
DNS and BIND
SSH (the O'Reilly one)
Game Programming Gems 2
and a few more.
So, what am I looking for?
It depends what I am interested in today. Right now I need a really good C++ STL reference book.
I also need a math primer. I haven't thought about math since my aborted attempt at college 12 years ago. While I did get an A in Calculus, that was 12 years ago and I remember nothing. The 3D Math book I mentioned above pretty much assumes you already know Calc.
It seems to me that there are alot of beginning programming books, especially about game design and C++, but few advanced books.
Also, there are few game AI books out there, but I see on Amazon that there are 2 promising titles to be released in the next few months.
One of my favorite programming books of all time is The Perl Cookbook. Now, I make my living programming Perl on Linux, and this book gets cracked open by me at least once a week. I've even seem comments in other people's code that said "If you don't understand this next bit, see the Cookbook page xxx". A Cookbook type thing for C++ would really be cool.
Alright. Lunchtime. Off to Fry's.
-geekd
That's not the point. the point is that OpenGL is cross platform.
I don't think I'll be seeing DirectX on my linux box anytime soon.
you mean the Agenda? I saw one at Fry's the other day for $99
Abit Geforce 2 MX AGP 32 MB $49.95.
GeForce 2 MX400 64MB AGP $69.95
It rocks pretty good for 50 bucks.
The linux version of the mp-test 2 came out the day after the windows version.
Here is a section of Todd Hollenshead's
So there ya go.
I have been looking, but I see no final linux version yet. But it's been just 1 day. I just hope that Timothee isn't on vacation or something, because the tin box is sitting right here just waiting to get installed... (Timo: hint hint)
-geekd
poster a: To imply that nothing would get ever done without the incentive of making obscene amounts of money is to be a greedy, cheap, cynical, amoral, capitalist bastard.
Poster b: Money=work... Your foolish assertion that it's just a will and "passion" that makes it happens is absolutely hilarious.
The reality is somewhere in between. If no work is done wothout money, then how the hell did we get Linux and the entire GNU project?
On the other hand, money is a VERY powerfull incentive.
I think that talented people with a passion for thier work will do it if it pays or not. I know a few people (my father, for one) who are teachers, making a teachers salary, who could be making WAY more money doing some thing else, in fact DID do something else for more money, but came back to teaching because it is more rewarding in non-financial ways.
How many hours and hours of programming have gone into GPL software? Are these programmers doing it for the money?
Now, on drug development specifically, I can't comment. But in general, people are motivated to do work by things other than money. (but a fat paycheck is a powerful motivator, too)