Yeah, seems so. I'm pulling it down right now. Although I'm only getting 20K/sec, which is weird 'cause I'm on the same side of the world. Unless you're getting the rate in bits and I'm getting it in bytes. No, I've got a good four minutes left on the download. Odd. Anyway, thanks. I wasn't going to try again for a day or so.:)
If he's only using Sourceforge as the primary data source, then things are obviously going to be skewed. How many times have you contributed to an Open-Source project by emailing a patch to a mailing list or an author? Let me guess how often that shows up on sourceforge. It's like Freshmeat's "Vitality Rating." Unless you do ALL of your project management stuff via Freshmeat, it considers you basically a dead project.
Ah, well that would do it then, eh? I suppose it would be pretty trivial to write a non-gui installer, though. Pity nobody has, but it should be relatively simple to do. Point taken, though.
If Kurt Vonnegut wants to rewrite Slaughterhouse Five, more power to him. Why not? It's his creation. I'm guessing there would also be a little "(revised)" or whatever after the title. Just like when Lucas spiffed up Star Wars the first time around, it was "Ultimate" or whatever he called it. If Lucas does it again, it'll be labeled that way. If you're fed up with directors and producers messing around with what you perceive to be classic, great movies, then just follow your own advice and don't see the new versions! Nobody's forcing you to go see a revised Episode 4, and I'm guessing if it ever gets made, nobody will be trying to pass it off as the authentic, original version.
Urm, that's the thing about crowds of people, see? Each person in the crowd can have different opinions. Perhaps the people who care about this stuff just aren't the same people who care about copyrights. Blah, I've been trolled. Whatever.
It's like removing words from the dictionary in 1984.
lol. Right. It's imperative that we ensure our fiction is as absolutely accurate as possible. How will future generations know what might really have happened on Tatooine if it would have been a real place? Who can our children trust when they need to find out how the Rebel Alliance could possibly have destroyed the first Death Star assuming that either of those things existed in the first place.
Please. Okay, yeah, Lucas may be a jerk for changing stuff around (if, indeed, he ends up doing so), but hell, don't liken it to 1984. It's just a movie.
Here I go, disagreeing again.:) I feel that was was aimed chiefly at the Bush administration, or at least the very upper echelons of the military, not the military as a whole. Obviously your average foot soldier isn't going to have a choice where he's stationed, and certainly isn't going to be involved in the high-level political games played to get him to where he currently is.
Correct. And despite the fact that Bush is, technically speaking, Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces, I don't feel that issuing digs at him implies they should be taken against the military as a whole. The way I understand it, if Bush orders the military to go invade somewhere, they're bound to comply (although I'm guessing (and certainly hope) that there's some amount of checks-and-balances there as well) with the order. I still say that there's nothing in that statement that should offend anyone who is out there risking their lives, &c.
Well, I don't bitch when they plug merchanise. It's their site. They can do with it what they want. If I find it offensive I'll stop reading, or just filter out posts by particular editors. So have at it, editors! If Slashdot were a "real" news source, I might feel differently, but anyone who uses Slashdot as a source of unbiased news is insane.:)
No, he wasn't making fun of the game, he was using joke game titles to belittle the work done by the army.
Well, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it, of course, but I disagree. Anyone who joins into a branch of the military expecting to be all action and intrigue and excitement is going to be disappointed, if what my friends in the service have told me is true. Sure, there certainly is some more "glamorous" things that happen, but unless I'm mistaken, you can also expect a hell of a lot of boredom. Again, if you feel that he was belittling the armed services, that's your perogative, but it's also my right to disagree with you. I didn't find anything at all insulting in the jokes, and I stand by that opinion.
As to your dig at moderation, does that mean that you have absolute control over what other people consider insightful, or interesting? If I find a post interesting and moderate it so, but you disagree, does that mean that the system doesn't work? If you're going to get pissed off about it, just wait until you've got some mod points of your own and then mod it down. That's the beauty of it - YOU control moderation as much as the next guy, so what are you complaining about?
Um, wasn't he making fun of the game? I didn't see anything in there ridiculing the actual armed forces . . . Unless you consider programming video games equivalent to "Risking Their Lives." I don't.
. . . is just knowing people. The only job I've ever gotten based off of just applying was some stupid summer job in High School so many years ago. I was offered a job when I went into college because I knew the person who was the Assistant Network Manager at the college, so I got introduced to the right people. Then when my boss changed jobs I went with him. Then one of my college buddies got a job at a tech company and got my resume to the right people. Two-and-a-half years and a corporate bankruptcy later, I landed a job through some people my girlfriend knew through years of freelancing.
Now, I suppose it's entirely possible that I just suck and my resume is horrible and the only way I can ever hope to get a job is by knowing the right people. I don't think that's the case, though. Leverage the people you know! If you don't know people, meet them!
Of course, then you've gotta deal with the fact that your job, should the need arise, is to kill people, or at least actively help others kill people. If you're cool with that, though, it's a good deal.:)
We have a ban on kids watching sex, why not kids watching killing?
Which I've never quite understood. In my mind, I'd much rather have my (purely hypothetical) kids watching sex than watching violence. Sex is something I'd hope that they'd eventually be able to enjoy once they've grown up (and moved the hell out of my house, that is), whereas I'd rather they not get entagled in violence. I've often wondered about why that is.
Then again, maybe if I ever do have kids, I'll want 'em to grow up being axe-wielding maniacs. You never know.:)
We know that sometimes kids who are never exposed to alcohol until they are 19 or 21 can go way overboard the first time... is there a possibility of the same thing happening with violent video games?
Sure. Everyone knows that before kids had access to violent video games practically every person grew up to be a homicidal maniac wielding whatever sharpened impliment he/she could find, butchering family members and strangers alike.
Oh, so you're worried about sissy things like performance and will my box still be able to function? Wimp.:P
Seriously, though, if you're applying these rules for everyone on the system, doing it via a procmail pipe probably wouldn't be the best way to do it. (Although I suppose you could always flip the sticky bit on the executable to help things a little.) Might as well just have sendmail take care of it for you. If you do a search on Freshmeat, there seems to be a number of things out there . . .
To be fair, most other operating systems just don't generate the sheer amonut of hate that people throw at Windows. The same can be said of companies and Microsoft. Windows users may dislike Macs, or be wary of Linux, but disgruntled ex-MS-product people tend to be exceptionally bitter towards MS. So what do you suppose the virii are going to be written to attack?
Just a theory, of course, with no evidence, but that's how it seems to me.
Yup. Just take a look at Yoda from the original Star Wars trilogy. He's infinitely more believable than the CG characters of today. It's a shame to see models and puppets go away.
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Yeah, seems so. I'm pulling it down right now. Although I'm only getting 20K/sec, which is weird 'cause I'm on the same side of the world. Unless you're getting the rate in bits and I'm getting it in bytes. No, I've got a good four minutes left on the download. Odd. Anyway, thanks. I wasn't going to try again for a day or so. :)
Regardless, great news! Me == happy.
If he's only using Sourceforge as the primary data source, then things are obviously going to be skewed. How many times have you contributed to an Open-Source project by emailing a patch to a mailing list or an author? Let me guess how often that shows up on sourceforge. It's like Freshmeat's "Vitality Rating." Unless you do ALL of your project management stuff via Freshmeat, it considers you basically a dead project.
Ah, well that would do it then, eh? I suppose it would be pretty trivial to write a non-gui installer, though. Pity nobody has, but it should be relatively simple to do. Point taken, though.
What's wrong with the Cygwin installer? I've always liked it.
If Kurt Vonnegut wants to rewrite Slaughterhouse Five, more power to him. Why not? It's his creation. I'm guessing there would also be a little "(revised)" or whatever after the title. Just like when Lucas spiffed up Star Wars the first time around, it was "Ultimate" or whatever he called it. If Lucas does it again, it'll be labeled that way. If you're fed up with directors and producers messing around with what you perceive to be classic, great movies, then just follow your own advice and don't see the new versions! Nobody's forcing you to go see a revised Episode 4, and I'm guessing if it ever gets made, nobody will be trying to pass it off as the authentic, original version.
Urm, that's the thing about crowds of people, see? Each person in the crowd can have different opinions. Perhaps the people who care about this stuff just aren't the same people who care about copyrights. Blah, I've been trolled. Whatever.
lol. Right. It's imperative that we ensure our fiction is as absolutely accurate as possible. How will future generations know what might really have happened on Tatooine if it would have been a real place? Who can our children trust when they need to find out how the Rebel Alliance could possibly have destroyed the first Death Star assuming that either of those things existed in the first place.
Please. Okay, yeah, Lucas may be a jerk for changing stuff around (if, indeed, he ends up doing so), but hell, don't liken it to 1984. It's just a movie.
Hey, I bash both Lucas and Sony at every chance I get. I'm an equal-opportunity basher, as it were.
Here I go, disagreeing again. :) I feel that was was aimed chiefly at the Bush administration, or at least the very upper echelons of the military, not the military as a whole. Obviously your average foot soldier isn't going to have a choice where he's stationed, and certainly isn't going to be involved in the high-level political games played to get him to where he currently is.
Correct. And despite the fact that Bush is, technically speaking, Commander-In-Chief of the armed forces, I don't feel that issuing digs at him implies they should be taken against the military as a whole. The way I understand it, if Bush orders the military to go invade somewhere, they're bound to comply (although I'm guessing (and certainly hope) that there's some amount of checks-and-balances there as well) with the order. I still say that there's nothing in that statement that should offend anyone who is out there risking their lives, &c.
Well, I don't bitch when they plug merchanise. It's their site. They can do with it what they want. If I find it offensive I'll stop reading, or just filter out posts by particular editors. So have at it, editors! If Slashdot were a "real" news source, I might feel differently, but anyone who uses Slashdot as a source of unbiased news is insane. :)
Well, that's your opinion and you're entitled to it, of course, but I disagree. Anyone who joins into a branch of the military expecting to be all action and intrigue and excitement is going to be disappointed, if what my friends in the service have told me is true. Sure, there certainly is some more "glamorous" things that happen, but unless I'm mistaken, you can also expect a hell of a lot of boredom. Again, if you feel that he was belittling the armed services, that's your perogative, but it's also my right to disagree with you. I didn't find anything at all insulting in the jokes, and I stand by that opinion.
As to your dig at moderation, does that mean that you have absolute control over what other people consider insightful, or interesting? If I find a post interesting and moderate it so, but you disagree, does that mean that the system doesn't work? If you're going to get pissed off about it, just wait until you've got some mod points of your own and then mod it down. That's the beauty of it - YOU control moderation as much as the next guy, so what are you complaining about?
Um, wasn't he making fun of the game? I didn't see anything in there ridiculing the actual armed forces . . . Unless you consider programming video games equivalent to "Risking Their Lives." I don't.
Now, I suppose it's entirely possible that I just suck and my resume is horrible and the only way I can ever hope to get a job is by knowing the right people. I don't think that's the case, though. Leverage the people you know! If you don't know people, meet them!
Of course, then you've gotta deal with the fact that your job, should the need arise, is to kill people, or at least actively help others kill people. If you're cool with that, though, it's a good deal. :)
Then again, maybe if I ever do have kids, I'll want 'em to grow up being axe-wielding maniacs. You never know. :)
Sure. Everyone knows that before kids had access to violent video games practically every person grew up to be a homicidal maniac wielding whatever sharpened impliment he/she could find, butchering family members and strangers alike.
Please.
Answer: Blah blah blah I don't know blah.
Brilliant, really.
Seriously, though, if you're applying these rules for everyone on the system, doing it via a procmail pipe probably wouldn't be the best way to do it. (Although I suppose you could always flip the sticky bit on the executable to help things a little.) Might as well just have sendmail take care of it for you. If you do a search on Freshmeat, there seems to be a number of things out there . . .
Just a theory, of course, with no evidence, but that's how it seems to me.
Can't procmail redirect a message to a program? Using a pipe? Should be easy to write your own . . .
Yup. Just take a look at Yoda from the original Star Wars trilogy. He's infinitely more believable than the CG characters of today. It's a shame to see models and puppets go away.