73,477,000,000,000,000,000.00 (Moon weight in tons) 00,000,012,162,748,511,374.98 (US Debt) ** Only 6 more decimal places to go! **
I think it's sad that when I look at numbers referring to things like moon weight or number of stars in the galaxy that the first thing that comes to my mind is my countries national debt in relation to those numbers. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ -> $12,162,748,511,374.98 as of January 4th, 2010.
I hate uncommented code, I hate it with a passion. I hate having to track down how this or that works with no comments or documentation to figure something out. I hate hearing people say, "The code is the documentation!" because I just want to slap them silly.
I comment my code, whenever I make changes I damn well do my best to document those in the code and developer guides I usually write for projects. I figure if nobody is going to be kind enough to me and leave good documentation and code comments then I should set an example. Thankfully at my current job, the last developer to retire left such good documentation I'm in heaven and even tried to clean up my documenting methods more based on his work.
"Scientists found proof of intelligent life on Mars - recent underground civilization uncovered by asteroid impact"
In other news, an asteroid impact on Mars has wiped out their entire food supply. Please prepare yourselves for processing and restoring this food supply by getting aboard the giant walking machine outside your home that has a large vacuum cleaner hose and laser gun.
"There's this thing called "sex". I highly recommend trying it. It can be awkward at the beginning, but once you find a suitable partner I'm confident you'll find that some kinds of real life play are quite fun.
There are some requirements though... You need to get your partner into "the mood", which at times is very challenging. "Protection" is also important, otherwise you might get a nasty infection or possibly spawn unwanted processes."
Never heard of it, is that some kind of MMO where you spend most of your time grinding for cash and rep rewards? From what I've been researching on the Internets, you ultimately only have one mount to use. Also these spawned processes you speak of also have chances on spawning new unwanted processes that could come back to me if the child process doesn't handle things properly.
Yes, the country that didn't have the foresight and planning to have a new vehicle ready for the moment the space shuttle retires. So now we Americans will rely on the Russians to ferry our collective backsides to the ISS till we build one based off of stuff we tossed aside for the vehicle we are retiring. We'll save the Earth, look out world!
And hire a new one that isn't so nit picky. The music I listen to while coding keeps me from being distracted by coworkers in other cubicles especially when they have people on a speaker phone and you can hear it from across the room.
A full comparison of alternate search engines instead of recommending just Bing would have been a better statement. He could have lined up Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, etc and compared privacy policies side by side for the people he's speaking too.
"Has it come down to using Google before a man page?"
Yes because more people know how to click on a web browser and look up something on their search engine of choice then go to a command prompt and type man <program>. Also not all programs have man pages so the web search has more information. Also my last experience with man pages showed references but I couldn't really click on those references to see other information like a web page lets you do.
Good documentation including screen shots of various steps to show people what they should experience can make a world of difference then some basic text on a screen in a command prompt window for new users. Going the extra mile to highlight various screen shots for each step in the process of performing tasks with your program can really be helpful when married with clear meaningful text.
I wonder how many of those netbooks were SSD drive netbooks vs regular HD netbooks? Part of me thinks the regular HD netbooks would fail more because of moving parts banging around and the heat generated by said moving parts.
I'm going on a year almost now with my netbook and it's an SSD netbook (1000 40g EEE). Never really had heat problems with it and since there are no moving parts other then a fan it trucks right along. Course now watch it not fire up next time I start it.;)
I write my comments in my code for the person coming in and having no clue about anything but has to fix something. It can happen and I've had to deal with situations like that for code that had no comments or documentation. Comments are there not only to remind me months or years down the road what I did back then but also to help the poor soul who gets thrown in to the project because maybe something happened to me and I want as much info as possible not only in the documentation but also the code. For all I know something may have happened to the documentation as well.
"How much did those users pay for their copy of Karmic?"
Actually when 9.04 came out I bought 20 CD's from them to give to people. I'm a little hesitant this time given the black screen of boot death some people have gotten. I myself have gotten this screen from a USB installer I made. It wasn't until the distro update came over the updater that I did upgrade and that worked fine.
I would love to be able to go and buy 20 more CDs from them and give those to people. I'm putting that off for now till things settle down.
The video on that site gives me a horrible feeling. The same feeling I had when I was sent to look for a scientist down in the bowels of a base just as all Hell broke loose. I'm stocking up on D cells and gas for the chain saw.
Over a year and no problems. It sits on my desk when I'm at work cranking out streaming music and video running Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix with an ext2 file system since I heard journal file systems put more wear on them. I've yet to have any real problems at this point. Also do some web surfing and even used it to do a few days work when my work PC was down.
The RIAA and MPAA as well as the newspaper business would have one word about that article.
"Tease!"
On a more serious note, think of all the MMO addicts suddenly without a game. Imagine the daily grind for them now as they try to cope without farming. On one hand they'd never have to worry about gold farmers. On the other the source for their main addiction would be gone and it would be an interesting wake up to reality for some who let their local social contacts slip away.
.. what Windows Vista should have been. I've been a day 1 adopter of both and Vista made me pull my hair out with driver problem, slow file operations, and a long boot time with a fresh install. Windows 7 on the other hand has had no driver issues for me, file operations are fast, and the boot time is even faster.
Microsoft needs to stop rushing and stop promising big. They also need to suck it up when people think something sucks and go back to the drawing board like they did to turn an ugly Vista duckling in to a nice 7 swan.
"Serious relationship = Life + Offspring = No Time For Games..."
You have no clue the number of times I have couples in the same group as well as AFK's for kid aggro. Serious relatioinships can find time for games. It helps them keep their sanity and gives them an activity they can do together if they both enjoy it.
I personally like OpenArena on Linux. I loved Quake 3 back in the day and it's a nice continuation of that. I can even pull out my old CDs of models, levels, etc I downloaded from Planet Quake and play them on there. Granted some don't work or work well and other need tweaking but I've not had too many problems. Heck I even edited the old Q3 bot files for some of the models I downloaded to get them up to date.:P
I miss Friday night frag fests in the old Computer Science lab at my college. Most fun I ever had on a Friday night with friends. I hate growing older some days.:/
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
There goes the liberty to make money off the events here in the US because we couldn't sell ourselves over our paranoia. I wonder how long the safety will last as our debt keeps going up and up and up?
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"I don't see any reason that they have to physically decommission or repurpose anything in this day & age."
Money.
73,477,000,000,000,000,000.00 (Moon weight in tons)
00,000,012,162,748,511,374.98 (US Debt) ** Only 6 more decimal places to go! **
I think it's sad that when I look at numbers referring to things like moon weight or number of stars in the galaxy that the first thing that comes to my mind is my countries national debt in relation to those numbers. http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/ -> $12,162,748,511,374.98 as of January 4th, 2010.
I hate uncommented code, I hate it with a passion. I hate having to track down how this or that works with no comments or documentation to figure something out. I hate hearing people say, "The code is the documentation!" because I just want to slap them silly.
I comment my code, whenever I make changes I damn well do my best to document those in the code and developer guides I usually write for projects. I figure if nobody is going to be kind enough to me and leave good documentation and code comments then I should set an example. Thankfully at my current job, the last developer to retire left such good documentation I'm in heaven and even tried to clean up my documenting methods more based on his work.
"Scientists found proof of intelligent life on Mars - recent underground civilization uncovered by asteroid impact"
In other news, an asteroid impact on Mars has wiped out their entire food supply. Please prepare yourselves for processing and restoring this food supply by getting aboard the giant walking machine outside your home that has a large vacuum cleaner hose and laser gun.
"There's this thing called "sex". I highly recommend trying it. It can be awkward at the beginning, but once you find a suitable partner I'm confident you'll find that some kinds of real life play are quite fun.
There are some requirements though... You need to get your partner into "the mood", which at times is very challenging. "Protection" is also important, otherwise you might get a nasty infection or possibly spawn unwanted processes."
Never heard of it, is that some kind of MMO where you spend most of your time grinding for cash and rep rewards? From what I've been researching on the Internets, you ultimately only have one mount to use. Also these spawned processes you speak of also have chances on spawning new unwanted processes that could come back to me if the child process doesn't handle things properly.
Yes, the country that didn't have the foresight and planning to have a new vehicle ready for the moment the space shuttle retires. So now we Americans will rely on the Russians to ferry our collective backsides to the ISS till we build one based off of stuff we tossed aside for the vehicle we are retiring. We'll save the Earth, look out world!
And hire a new one that isn't so nit picky. The music I listen to while coding keeps me from being distracted by coworkers in other cubicles especially when they have people on a speaker phone and you can hear it from across the room.
A full comparison of alternate search engines instead of recommending just Bing would have been a better statement. He could have lined up Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, etc and compared privacy policies side by side for the people he's speaking too.
"Has it come down to using Google before a man page?"
Yes because more people know how to click on a web browser and look up something on their search engine of choice then go to a command prompt and type man <program>. Also not all programs have man pages so the web search has more information. Also my last experience with man pages showed references but I couldn't really click on those references to see other information like a web page lets you do.
Good documentation including screen shots of various steps to show people what they should experience can make a world of difference then some basic text on a screen in a command prompt window for new users. Going the extra mile to highlight various screen shots for each step in the process of performing tasks with your program can really be helpful when married with clear meaningful text.
I wonder how many of those netbooks were SSD drive netbooks vs regular HD netbooks? Part of me thinks the regular HD netbooks would fail more because of moving parts banging around and the heat generated by said moving parts.
;)
I'm going on a year almost now with my netbook and it's an SSD netbook (1000 40g EEE). Never really had heat problems with it and since there are no moving parts other then a fan it trucks right along. Course now watch it not fire up next time I start it.
You could make a video game of getting guy developing and publishing a video game in China.
Oh the Onion'y of it all.
I write my comments in my code for the person coming in and having no clue about anything but has to fix something. It can happen and I've had to deal with situations like that for code that had no comments or documentation. Comments are there not only to remind me months or years down the road what I did back then but also to help the poor soul who gets thrown in to the project because maybe something happened to me and I want as much info as possible not only in the documentation but also the code. For all I know something may have happened to the documentation as well.
If piracy is really that bad -> https://reporting.bsa.org/usa/home.aspx
It is what they are there for.
As long as @stinky and people like him bring eyeballs and money to their website.
"How much did those users pay for their copy of Karmic?"
Actually when 9.04 came out I bought 20 CD's from them to give to people. I'm a little hesitant this time given the black screen of boot death some people have gotten. I myself have gotten this screen from a USB installer I made. It wasn't until the distro update came over the updater that I did upgrade and that worked fine.
I would love to be able to go and buy 20 more CDs from them and give those to people. I'm putting that off for now till things settle down.
The video on that site gives me a horrible feeling. The same feeling I had when I was sent to look for a scientist down in the bowels of a base just as all Hell broke loose. I'm stocking up on D cells and gas for the chain saw.
Over a year and no problems. It sits on my desk when I'm at work cranking out streaming music and video running Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix with an ext2 file system since I heard journal file systems put more wear on them. I've yet to have any real problems at this point. Also do some web surfing and even used it to do a few days work when my work PC was down.
The RIAA and MPAA as well as the newspaper business would have one word about that article.
"Tease!"
On a more serious note, think of all the MMO addicts suddenly without a game. Imagine the daily grind for them now as they try to cope without farming. On one hand they'd never have to worry about gold farmers. On the other the source for their main addiction would be gone and it would be an interesting wake up to reality for some who let their local social contacts slip away.
.. what Windows Vista should have been. I've been a day 1 adopter of both and Vista made me pull my hair out with driver problem, slow file operations, and a long boot time with a fresh install. Windows 7 on the other hand has had no driver issues for me, file operations are fast, and the boot time is even faster.
Microsoft needs to stop rushing and stop promising big. They also need to suck it up when people think something sucks and go back to the drawing board like they did to turn an ugly Vista duckling in to a nice 7 swan.
I'm back in the 80's!!!
http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/radio-shack-trs-80-model-100-mobile-computer.jpg
http://www.phys.uwosh.edu/mike/calcs/pc1.html
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Sharp-PC1500-IMG_0306.JPG
All they need with that thing is a thermal printer and someone with frizzy hair!
"Serious relationship = Life + Offspring = No Time For Games..."
You have no clue the number of times I have couples in the same group as well as AFK's for kid aggro. Serious relatioinships can find time for games. It helps them keep their sanity and gives them an activity they can do together if they both enjoy it.
I personally like OpenArena on Linux. I loved Quake 3 back in the day and it's a nice continuation of that. I can even pull out my old CDs of models, levels, etc I downloaded from Planet Quake and play them on there. Granted some don't work or work well and other need tweaking but I've not had too many problems. Heck I even edited the old Q3 bot files for some of the models I downloaded to get them up to date. :P
:/
I miss Friday night frag fests in the old Computer Science lab at my college. Most fun I ever had on a Friday night with friends. I hate growing older some days.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
There goes the liberty to make money off the events here in the US because we couldn't sell ourselves over our paranoia. I wonder how long the safety will last as our debt keeps going up and up and up?
They tried that at CERN, here's what happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaWVmLNvbqM
I have to say that hair brained scheme amuses me.