Most browsers allow you to disable Java and Javascript. It'd be nice if that extended to all plug-ins. I'd love to see an end to lame intro pages but I see no point in a life without StrongBad.
Ditto replacement hard drives, optical drives, cables and pretty much anything else they sell that you could buy from the local PC shop for a fraction of the price.
Macs themselves aren't exactly cheap either. What kind of a crazy person would buy an iMac. And a G4 tower. And an iBook. And Panther will be out soon. And......
I didn't ask if DirectX was free, which it may or may not be. I asked if it was Free, which it isn't. It is closed, proprietary, you may not see the code, you may not change the code, you may not port the code. It only runs on Windows which, as I noted, is an OS I don't (won't) run.
I'll grant you my post was a teensy bit inflammatory. The point I was trying to make is that the use of DirectX ties you inexorably to Windows. By contrast a project developed with SDL can be ported relatively painlessly.
Second of all, DirectX might as well be called Direct ProprietaryStupidOnlyWorksOnWindowsX and actually that's what I'm going to call it from now on because the whole idea of it makes me sick to the stomach.
And thirdly, you are still an idiot.
And you know if you use GLUT with OpenGL I'm pretty darn sure you can get all the mousey, keyboardy, inputy thing-a-ling all happening, which is nice I suppose.
And sound in games is for sissys.
And what sort of crap is Direct ProprietaryStupidOnlyWorksOnWindowsX anyway. Is it Free? Does it run on any machine I own? Pointless stupid and crap.
Really. They have them in shops. You go to the boss and you say, 'Some trifling small but well heeled cashed up segment of the market uses these damn fancy computers and I don't see how I can do my job effectively if I don't have one. I'd like a G4 Powerbookintosh with 64 Farnarkles of electric eels and 256 MongoBlobs of front side antipasto with the little keyboard light thing and stuff.'. Yeah. That's what you do.
And what is that frickin' dot. I can see it you know. I can see the little dot up there all white and dotty under the green laser pointers all green and pointy.
OK, you get everybody in the whole country who is registered to vote, which I hear is about 25 people or something in America, and you put them all in a big room with only one way out and a big turnstile so once you're out you can't get back in and then I'm sure their is some room for electric cattle prods here and maybe a guy near the turnstile with a pencil and he can take notes on a piece of paper or the back of an old bus ticket or something and then as each voter tries to get through the turnstile to get away from the cattle prod guys this one guy with the pencil might say, 'Oh hey dude, who do you vote for?' and then the voter might say like, 'The Terminator' or 'That Wrestling Guy' or something like that and then the pencil guy could keep a tally right there on the bus ticket and then when everybody's gone except the cattle prod guy and the pencil guy then you could just add up the results and declare a winner. The only problem would be if the cattle prod guy or the pencil guy wanted to vote as well but I say those guys are barred from voting or even knowing who the candidates are because you can never trust some pencil using ludite I mean haven't you heard of biros and that cattle prod stuff is a little too kinky for me.
So there you have it. My New Voting System. Thank You.
Yeah, rocket shoes and mind control lasers and fully immersive 3D porn with virtual hot chicks who are dying for it 24 hours a day and a robot to be my personal slave and computers that are so smart you can program them in English by just reading the spec to them and they work the whole thing out for you without you having to fiddle about with actual code so programming could be reduced to the fine art of specifying more or less what you actually want but most of all, rocket shoes.
One lap. Three laptops. Hmmmm. And why the hell do people put tower cases on their desk instead of under it.
Oh, and I agree with you. But I'm worried about your lap. Or laps. Perhaps even lapse. Prolapse? That could give rise to prolapstop computers I suppose. Or not. Time for my pills.
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Maaaaaaate.
Most browsers allow you to disable Java and Javascript. It'd be nice if that extended to all plug-ins. I'd love to see an end to lame intro pages but I see no point in a life without StrongBad.
Ditto replacement hard drives, optical drives, cables and pretty much anything else they sell that you could buy from the local PC shop for a fraction of the price.
Macs themselves aren't exactly cheap either. What kind of a crazy person would buy an iMac. And a G4 tower. And an iBook. And Panther will be out soon. And......
I didn't ask if DirectX was free, which it may or may not be. I asked if it was Free, which it isn't. It is closed, proprietary, you may not see the code, you may not change the code, you may not port the code. It only runs on Windows which, as I noted, is an OS I don't (won't) run.
I'll grant you my post was a teensy bit inflammatory. The point I was trying to make is that the use of DirectX ties you inexorably to Windows. By contrast a project developed with SDL can be ported relatively painlessly.
And you are an idiot.
What's wrong with DirectX?
OK, first up I've gotta say, 'You are an idiot.'
Second of all, DirectX might as well be called Direct ProprietaryStupidOnlyWorksOnWindowsX and actually that's what I'm going to call it from now on because the whole idea of it makes me sick to the stomach.
And thirdly, you are still an idiot.
And you know if you use GLUT with OpenGL I'm pretty darn sure you can get all the mousey, keyboardy, inputy thing-a-ling all happening, which is nice I suppose.
And sound in games is for sissys.
And what sort of crap is Direct ProprietaryStupidOnlyWorksOnWindowsX anyway. Is it Free? Does it run on any machine I own? Pointless stupid and crap.
And you are an idiot.
extra life
I remember this one time I was monitoring this umm thing and something and there was an explosion and ahh.
and into Bjarne's.
ssa
Position?
Short words are easier.
Context is important.
Two vowels ('i' and 'o') are repeated.
Really. They have them in shops. You go to the boss and you say, 'Some trifling small but well heeled cashed up segment of the market uses these damn fancy computers and I don't see how I can do my job effectively if I don't have one. I'd like a G4 Powerbookintosh with 64 Farnarkles of electric eels and 256 MongoBlobs of front side antipasto with the little keyboard light thing and stuff.'. Yeah. That's what you do.
And what is that frickin' dot. I can see it you know. I can see the little dot up there all white and dotty under the green laser pointers all green and pointy.
Two systems I'm currently connected to report 0ms. And a whole bunch of others don't.
AIX 4.3
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0 ms
GNU/Linux x86
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.0 ms
bad Dobby, bad Dobby.
The contestants have a few minutes to examine the cube before being blindfolded.
OK, you get everybody in the whole country who is registered to vote, which I hear is about 25 people or something in America, and you put them all in a big room with only one way out and a big turnstile so once you're out you can't get back in and then I'm sure their is some room for electric cattle prods here and maybe a guy near the turnstile with a pencil and he can take notes on a piece of paper or the back of an old bus ticket or something and then as each voter tries to get through the turnstile to get away from the cattle prod guys this one guy with the pencil might say, 'Oh hey dude, who do you vote for?' and then the voter might say like, 'The Terminator' or 'That Wrestling Guy' or something like that and then the pencil guy could keep a tally right there on the bus ticket and then when everybody's gone except the cattle prod guy and the pencil guy then you could just add up the results and declare a winner. The only problem would be if the cattle prod guy or the pencil guy wanted to vote as well but I say those guys are barred from voting or even knowing who the candidates are because you can never trust some pencil using ludite I mean haven't you heard of biros and that cattle prod stuff is a little too kinky for me.
So there you have it. My New Voting System. Thank You.
sha na na
C# is really good compared to ahhh.....J# which is really good compared to being eaten by a crocodile which is really good compared to Micro$haft C++
Stuff that matters to people WHO don't.
RMS plays recorder.
Yeah, rocket shoes and mind control lasers and fully immersive 3D porn with virtual hot chicks who are dying for it 24 hours a day and a robot to be my personal slave and computers that are so smart you can program them in English by just reading the spec to them and they work the whole thing out for you without you having to fiddle about with actual code so programming could be reduced to the fine art of specifying more or less what you actually want but most of all, rocket shoes.
I choose not to use American spelling because I am not American, nor am I in America.
I choose not to use the Imperial system of measurement because it is retarded.
We are finding that most of the stuff in our universe is abnormal ....
Hey Darl, have a good long thing about option 4 above.
You will be my new woman.
One lap. Three laptops. Hmmmm. And why the hell do people put tower cases on their desk instead of under it.
Oh, and I agree with you. But I'm worried about your lap. Or laps. Perhaps even lapse. Prolapse? That could give rise to prolapstop computers I suppose. Or not. Time for my pills.
is on my pen drive. Which I don't have. But if I did. It would be porn.