I dunno man. I think EVE's stories are pretty amazing sometimes, just for the sheer scope of 2000 players spontaneously deciding to kill 2000 other players all kitten piling each other and melting the server. Add that your *allowed* to scam cheat spy and generally be a space dufas, it makes for some amazing stories. Especially the scams but also the huge battles that flare up once in a blue moon.
Current state of game: the 15000+ players of the RSF currently have the 10,000+ players of the GBC cornered into a cluster of constelations in the siege that may well end the largest player initiated war in MMORPG history
We could fire them off in space and make the biggest craziest fuck-off sized fireworks ever.
And if any pesky little green men have any funny ideas, well they'd sure be thinking twice
"Man. Those hairless monkeys on planet Terra sure are fucking psycho. Lets... uh.. invade Alpha Centuri instead. The man-crabs there have just built ANOTHER hippy commune"
Shame it'd nuke all the satelites with all that stray EMP radiation.
Theyve done shit like this before. When I brought Half life 2 originally, Valve had some hissy fit fight with the distributor , or something like that, and it meant I was prohibited from buying other steam titles WITHOUT re-buying HL2 again.
Add to that steam making me wait a whole week before my download started for ep 2, and seriously steam sucks badly, this can not be stressed enough.
As a former domain registrar employee, MOST domains registered are fraudulent or typo type things. I kid you not. The whole industry needs to be razed to the ground, preferably by angry federal agents. Acording to the CEO of go-daddy, in April 2006, 32 million of 35 million domain registrations where part of Kiting schemes. It fucks up legitimate registrars, and ICANN doesn't want to do a god damn thing about it. The system is broken almost beyond repair, and frankly the dot COM system needs to be reformed so that you have to PROVE you have a legitimate use for the domain. Its getting harder and harder to surf the net without seeing good sites destroyed by fucking domain squatters. Sure the site might of folded, but DONT STEAL THE FUCKING DOMAIN NAME.
Now Verizon wants to profit of the fucking thing?
Seriously someone get these crooks the fuck away from the Internet.
"What you need, when you need it"???
Honestly the internet is one fucked up mutant flipper baby at the moment.
He's just trying to make a point. And I think he makes a great one with DRM.
Keep in mind, Stallman comes from a generational philosophy that , following Wittgenstein, notes that words have the ability to confuse, so precise language ensures your being understood. (Wittgenstein famously argued that all problems in philosophy are problems of language. Ambiguous language makes logical problems where in reality none exist. I think he backed away from the strong form of that position later on however.)
Stallman, DOESNT argue for opening up source for the utility of it, he argues for what he believes is the freedom dividend of it. Consequently, he'd like people to keep talking about freedom, and not be so distracted by the marketing.
I personally think that this tactic hasn't helped his cause an awful lot, but I certainly understand why he does it.
"Possibly true, But also think about all the people who have heard of Radiohead BECAUSE of the media hoopla surrounding the fact they have decided to sell the album direct to the public via the website and cut out the RIAA/Record Companies."
Oh come on, your just being silly now. Radiohead where one of the biggest bands of the late 1990's. They hardly are a small-following band.
Ahaha Awesome. At school, some of us kids built a network based on cassette jacks. We used a bunch of wires from the joystick ports to signal that the thing was busy to stop network collisions. When we showed the ComSci teacher he almost fainted with surprised. We designed and built a fucking network. 13yos. This was mid-late 80s
Logo was an (ALMOST) full featured lisp dialect with proper structured programming,functional and other 'modern' things going on.
The basics of the day, everything from Qbasic and back, where nowhere near as sophisticated. Early Logo I'm talking about , not newer ones.
They just didn't teach that stuff. But remember all the classes on the funcy Iteration things LOGO could do that they'd teach with it? That wasn't just a 'cool feature'. Its a fundamental concept in functional programing. Considering a contextless gosub was about the best basic could manage, it wasn't even in the ballpark.
Actually what folk missed was that Logo was a real language, and one that conceptually left basic in the dust. It wasn't dumbed down, it was for all intents a repurposed LISP of sorts. I remember back in primary school in the 80s , learning it, and thinking "Well , its kinda cool, but it aint BASIC".
20 years later I had a play around with it, and quickly discovered that in so many ways it was a far more powerful language , supporting most of the basic functional type constructs, full structural programming. Sorry no OO, but back then precious little else did either, and so on.
If you dislodged the turtle from it, and added 'serious business' constructs, you'd probably have a fine little serious language Remember, at the time Basic didn't even do functions and procedures, whereas logo was at the same level something like python is at now (Language construct wise, and not including OO)
I can't help being reminded of the 'workgroup' stuff out there that can't work with outlook , but hey it can tell you a horoscope. I just wonder how many of you guys actually have to deal with clients and get paid for it.
Don't get me wrong , I love OO , and use it exclusively, but when we are honest about its weaknesses, its much more clear where the work needs to go.
To badly mis-quote Linus Torvalds (My memory sucks, so this wording will be all wrong);- "A bad review is a bug report and should be treated as such". And thats why the whole world loves Linus.
ahahhaha. Those where great. I still crack up at Natalie Portman and Gritts references as banal as they where.
The cleverest ones where the BSD is dying / Firefox is dying posts. First time I saw them I rattled off huge angry rants at them, only to realize it was a GNAA style troll. Good times.
A friend also showed me a setting called "Failurevision" , where you basically tweak the mod settings so all the -1 posts become +1 posts and vice versa, and your left with JUST the trolls and terrible posters.
But the harm minimisation advocates would point out , that if pot was legal, there would be no drama or conflict from the police to sell that Cheech and Chong movie viable.
Ergo;- Cheech and chong is a product of prohibition and therefore pot must be legalised at once.
An australian comedy show, "The Chaser" (The guys who dressed like Osama bin laden and snuck past the guards at the APEC meeting in sydney ) have done numerous kick-the-door-in type "Raids" on Current-affairs show hosts houses at strange times of the morning , usually causing all sorts of hilarious anger bursts from the victims. Its bloody hilarious, considering the usual victims of the current affairs shows tends to be "UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE NOT WORKING: WE SHOW THE PROOF" type beat ups.
Ifs its doing any sort of auto-layout (No idea , never used visio), expect that. The sort of graph mathematics that network diagramming algorithms use tends to be messy and intensive.
Web 2.0 should really be called web 1.9, because its still BETA.
Also, MAN, I'm glad the "BETA!" fad has faded. I could not quite for the life of me how the marketing loonies turned a phrase that means "Not quite ready for mass use yet" into a selling point.
Me: Uh, this car is missing a steering wheel? Salesman: It's Beta! Me: I'LL BUY IT. GROOVY ORANGE PAINT JOB TOO!
The templating thing is crucial in real-world web design, because of the workflow of large team web design. Consultant specs it up. Team nuts out a plan. Graphics designer goes off and makes pretty pages, gives it to the team to use.
All you have to train your designer is "Stick these sorts of things "{firstNAME} , {secondName} in the templates: and hope he has a bit of a grasp of good page design.
CSS is all good and fine, but the reality is , you the coder don't make presentation. You make the logic.
And sure Seaside does have some template engines, but if they aint supported, then good luck convincing the boss to invest in it.
Which is a shame, because Seaside really has some cool shit going on, and other than the whole templating separation of logic and presentation, it eats rails for breakfast.
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Because the make file is part of the source, thus it'd be a GPL violation.
I dunno man. I think EVE's stories are pretty amazing sometimes, just for the sheer scope of 2000 players spontaneously deciding to kill 2000 other players all kitten piling each other and melting the server. Add that your *allowed* to scam cheat spy and generally be a space dufas, it makes for some amazing stories. Especially the scams but also the huge battles that flare up once in a blue moon.
Current state of game: the 15000+ players of the RSF currently have the 10,000+ players of the GBC cornered into a cluster of constelations in the siege that may well end the largest player initiated war in MMORPG history
But yeah. UO had some fairly nutty stuff too.
We could fire them off in space and make the biggest craziest fuck-off sized fireworks ever.
And if any pesky little green men have any funny ideas, well they'd sure be thinking twice
"Man. Those hairless monkeys on planet Terra sure are fucking psycho. Lets... uh.. invade Alpha Centuri instead. The man-crabs there have just built ANOTHER hippy commune"
Shame it'd nuke all the satelites with all that stray EMP radiation.
Theyve done shit like this before. When I brought Half life 2 originally, Valve had some hissy fit fight with the distributor , or something like that, and it meant I was prohibited from buying other steam titles WITHOUT re-buying HL2 again.
Add to that steam making me wait a whole week before my download started for ep 2, and seriously steam sucks badly, this can not be stressed enough.
As a former domain registrar employee, MOST domains registered are fraudulent or typo type things. I kid you not. The whole industry needs to be razed to the ground, preferably by angry federal agents. Acording to the CEO of go-daddy, in April 2006, 32 million of 35 million domain registrations where part of Kiting schemes. It fucks up legitimate registrars, and ICANN doesn't want to do a god damn thing about it. The system is broken almost beyond repair, and frankly the dot COM system needs to be reformed so that you have to PROVE you have a legitimate use for the domain. Its getting harder and harder to surf the net without seeing good sites destroyed by fucking domain squatters. Sure the site might of folded, but DONT STEAL THE FUCKING DOMAIN NAME.
Now Verizon wants to profit of the fucking thing?
Seriously someone get these crooks the fuck away from the Internet.
"What you need, when you need it"???
Honestly the internet is one fucked up mutant flipper baby at the moment.
Whatever the case is, its a nasty piece of work. Theres precious little that'll stand up to that thing focusing fire on a target.
He's just trying to make a point. And I think he makes a great one with DRM.
Keep in mind, Stallman comes from a generational philosophy that , following Wittgenstein, notes that words have the ability to confuse, so precise language ensures your being understood. (Wittgenstein famously argued that all problems in philosophy are problems of language. Ambiguous language makes logical problems where in reality none exist. I think he backed away from the strong form of that position later on however.)
Stallman, DOESNT argue for opening up source for the utility of it, he argues for what he believes is the freedom dividend of it. Consequently, he'd like people to keep talking about freedom, and not be so distracted by the marketing.
I personally think that this tactic hasn't helped his cause an awful lot, but I certainly understand why he does it.
No. Thats exactly what they are doing. Moving font designers away from the kernel code is probably the smartest move they'll ever make!
"Possibly true, But also think about all the people who have heard of Radiohead BECAUSE of the media hoopla surrounding the fact they have decided to sell the album direct to the public via the website and cut out the RIAA/Record Companies."
Oh come on, your just being silly now. Radiohead where one of the biggest bands of the late 1990's. They hardly are a small-following band.
"the statistical prediction of future trends"
ugh. I'm not even going to begin to explain whats wrong with this whole damn idea.
You strangled your inner lisp coder at birth with the single act of using a GOTO in a functional language.
:(
I didn't even know you could
Ahaha Awesome. At school, some of us kids built a network based on cassette jacks. We used a bunch of wires from the joystick ports to signal that the thing was busy to stop network collisions. When we showed the ComSci teacher he almost fainted with surprised. We designed and built a fucking network. 13yos. This was mid-late 80s
Logo was an (ALMOST) full featured lisp dialect with proper structured programming ,functional and other 'modern' things going on.
The basics of the day, everything from Qbasic and back, where nowhere near as sophisticated. Early Logo I'm talking about , not newer ones.
They just didn't teach that stuff. But remember all the classes on the funcy Iteration things LOGO could do that they'd teach with it? That wasn't just a 'cool feature'. Its a fundamental concept in functional programing. Considering a contextless gosub was about the best basic could manage, it wasn't even in the ballpark.
Actually what folk missed was that Logo was a real language, and one that conceptually left basic in the dust. It wasn't dumbed down, it was for all intents a repurposed LISP of sorts. I remember back in primary school in the 80s , learning it, and thinking "Well , its kinda cool, but it aint BASIC".
20 years later I had a play around with it, and quickly discovered that in so many ways it was a far more powerful language , supporting most of the basic functional type constructs, full structural programming. Sorry no OO, but back then precious little else did either, and so on.
If you dislodged the turtle from it, and added 'serious business' constructs, you'd probably have a fine little serious language
Remember, at the time Basic didn't even do functions and procedures, whereas logo was at the same level something like python is at now (Language construct wise, and not including OO)
"Do a pilot project of OO.o and ODF"
I can't help being reminded of the 'workgroup' stuff out there that can't work with outlook , but hey it can tell you a horoscope. I just wonder how many of you guys actually have to deal with clients and get paid for it.
Don't get me wrong , I love OO , and use it exclusively, but when we are honest about its weaknesses, its much more clear where the work needs to go.
To badly mis-quote Linus Torvalds (My memory sucks, so this wording will be all wrong);- "A bad review is a bug report and should be treated as such". And thats why the whole world loves Linus.
You could probably do more damage with firewire.
(Ok, terrible joke. I know)
ahahhaha. Those where great. I still crack up at Natalie Portman and Gritts references as banal as they where.
The cleverest ones where the BSD is dying / Firefox is dying posts. First time I saw them I rattled off huge angry rants at them, only to realize it was a GNAA style troll. Good times.
A friend also showed me a setting called "Failurevision" , where you basically tweak the mod settings so all the -1 posts become +1 posts and vice versa, and your left with JUST the trolls and terrible posters.
Sounds like a sure way to get declared a vexatious litigant.
Judge: So in the US you where found to of lost the case?
MS: Yes your honor. However we....
Judge: CASE DISMISSED.
But the harm minimisation advocates would point out , that if pot was legal, there would be no drama or conflict from the police to sell that Cheech and Chong movie viable.
Ergo;- Cheech and chong is a product of prohibition and therefore pot must be legalised at once.
Put *that* in your pipe and smoke it!
An australian comedy show, "The Chaser" (The guys who dressed like Osama bin laden and snuck past the guards at the APEC meeting in sydney ) have done numerous kick-the-door-in type "Raids" on Current-affairs show hosts houses at strange times of the morning , usually causing all sorts of hilarious anger bursts from the victims. Its bloody hilarious, considering the usual victims of the current affairs shows tends to be "UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE NOT WORKING: WE SHOW THE PROOF" type beat ups.
Thats whats puzzling me. I was always under the impression your not supposed to patent business practices. These are not INVENTIONS.
Well it wouldn't be the first time. See the (early) Windows deliberately crashing on DR-Dos fiasco.
Ifs its doing any sort of auto-layout (No idea , never used visio), expect that. The sort of graph mathematics that network diagramming algorithms use tends to be messy and intensive.
Web 2.0 should really be called web 1.9, because its still BETA.
Also, MAN, I'm glad the "BETA!" fad has faded. I could not quite for the life of me how the marketing loonies turned a phrase that means "Not quite ready for mass use yet" into a selling point.
Me: Uh, this car is missing a steering wheel?
Salesman: It's Beta!
Me: I'LL BUY IT. GROOVY ORANGE PAINT JOB TOO!
"Templating was crucial ten years ago. "
I gather you don't work with graphics designers?
The templating thing is crucial in real-world web design, because of the workflow of large team web design. Consultant specs it up. Team nuts out a plan. Graphics designer goes off and makes pretty pages, gives it to the team to use.
All you have to train your designer is "Stick these sorts of things "{firstNAME} , {secondName} in the templates: and hope he has a bit of a grasp of good page design.
CSS is all good and fine, but the reality is , you the coder don't make presentation. You make the logic.
And sure Seaside does have some template engines, but if they aint supported, then good luck convincing the boss to invest in it.
Which is a shame, because Seaside really has some cool shit going on, and other than the whole templating separation of logic and presentation, it eats rails for breakfast.