Binaries usually are out of date, especially when you consider that most publishers rarely seem to update the CDs, even for newer editions of the book.
Now, if the CDs had CVS tarballs instead, then it shouldn't be so much trouble to update everything. Just plop the contents down somewhere, and pull source on top. Don't forget to use -z6 though, else it still might take a good long time before you have something buildable.
And yeah, sample code from the book, that's worthwhile, always! Saves the trouble of typing it in by hand, fixing errors (there's always at least one when copying from a book by hand), etc. ad nauseum.
The closest to what I have now is HiSpeed Lite. But, like all things Rogers, it's just as screwed up as the rest. Between their new paper collection, their ISP functions, and their cable rates, hell, even avian carrier would probably be better.
And anything with any sort of b/w restriction is an abomination!
We have three (or is it now two) cable providers in southern Ontario, each in their nice little zones. Where I am, there's Rogers Cable, with horrible cable internet access since before @Home died. Cogeco, out in the boonie areas (Niagra, Belleville, other places like those) provides access too, better from what I've heard, but then again, I'm not in a Cogeco zone. Shaw, the company that seems to have all but vanished, never provided cable internet access, at least not when they had control of the zone I live in.
So my only alternative is to go with Bell/Sympatico for broadband access, or get a T1. Considering what either costs, compared to hellish cable or my so-so dialup, I'll stick to Primus, thanks very much.
Let's see real cable competition in Ontario, followed by _working_ (as opposed to spotty) cable internet access.
My t-shirt says "Satan Inside" and comes complete with the swirly thingy! Good thing there's all those lawyers down there, or the Dark Prince might be out of a job!
What I mean, is that I forgot to lock him off of Slashdot. Usually, I make sure that he can't get on with some editing to the hosts file, but I forgot this time. Obviously, he quickly got himself an account.
I'll have to keep him off the computer for a week, that should be suitable punishment.
Hrm, sorry about that post. I let my son onto the computer and didn't remember to get off Slashdot first. He's a very contrary child. I actually do not support ICANN.
How about this: I bought 8.1 about 2 months ago when I decided to get a new hard drive. The Fujitsu drives, the only ones I can get around here, wouldn't work at all. So I haven't been able to get enough empty space for installing.
Then, look what pops up. I guess something could be said about waiting until you have working hardware.
As I was taught: First world are the capital nations of the world, such as the USA, Britain, Germany, etc. Second world are nations such as Canada, Australia... While not world leaders in their own right, are still listened to by the world and heeded. The third world are 'developing' and war-torn nations.
Actually, I think you're catching something the rest of us haven't. That this might be a pipe dream after all. But then again, it never hurts to imagine.
Actually, I've yet to read the RGB (I think they're in that order, but even if they aren't, easier to remember:) Mars books, but can't wait to. I'll have to add them to my wishlist (no more clothing, mother!) and hope somebody gets them for my b-day.
As for Total Recall, yet another insipid action flick thrown to the masses. Prolefeed.
From an earlier/. article, this is the NASA plan for terraforming. Though I still think that some of the more interesting parts of Mars (the Pyramid, anyone?) should be investigated thoroughly before any plans begin.
And I still like my roving iron plant idea from an earlier post regarding this article. Cheap iron, and more greenhouse gasses to create an atmosphere with. The only concern would be fuel, but I'll bet a Coke that if it goes to the boards, the design team will figure that issue out.
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Yes, and with the Fe all over, set up roving factories to scoop up, filter, and create iron ingots. This should cause some greenhouse emissions, I believe, and a number of other gasses, I believe including steam, would help in the creation of an atmosphere.
What would really be interesting, though, would be how the Martian cities are in Cowboy Bebop. Though, I don't think that such a plan is really workable. It would be simpler and less expensive (in terms of more than just money) to terraform the entire planet.
Before Mars is terraformed, however, someone should be sent out to check the Pyramid, ruins, and other features of that area.
Gotta love Preston Manning, Stockwell Day, and all the other Canadian Alliance (nee Reform) party. And their current name is misleading too -- The Alliance was meant to be the merger and sum of both Manning's Reform Party and Joe Clark's (Joe who?) Progressive Conservative Party. What's so progressive about conservatism, I don't know... Seems more regressive to me...:P
It would elevate the position of subscribers through money, rather than through the thoughtful prose which they post. There's enough status symbols existing to let me know that I'm in the lowest tax bracket of any first or second world country, so adding this one would be another straw on this camel's back.
The rejects bin is a good idea, though, and perhaps earlier access to articles (they can read articles thirty minutes before they appear to the general public, and post to them then). This would help with the 'f1r5t pS0t' issue, because I doubt that the trolls would bother paying any money to read Slashdot. Perhaps also e-mail notification of when an article appears (which would be nessesary under the early article idea). I'd shill for that, had I enough income to spend on it.
But please, no status symbols or karma. That's unfair to those of us with insight posted, yet empty pockets.
The SSSCA is stupid, yeah!
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However, if it comes into effect, there's always the option of smuggling in copy-unprotected hw from other countries, such as Canada. After all, the USA may be able to push a lot of third world countries around, but I doubt that they'll try to force this bucketload of crap down my country's throat.
Now's the best time, I figure, to start spamming politicians and threaten not to re-elect them if they support SSSCA. Chances are that they won't listen, but there's still quite a few who fear for their political careers.
Of course, there's also smearing, riots, terrorist activities (you don't have to be from another country to be a terrorist, contrary to what Dubya wants you to think), and other more violent ways of getting the message across.
Just don't get busted. Americans, your country is in more danger of stupidity from your government. Remind your officials in Washington why you voted for them -- to keep tripe like the SSSCA in the garbage, where it belongs.
Still, if it's already in use, then you're not supposed to be able to patent it. If you apply for a patent and then start rolling it out (patent pending) that's okay, but if it's already in use as wide as it is now, for almost any length of time, then you can't go out and get a patent.
This is another scam. IMHO, the new BT.
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Edit->Preferences.
The Advanced page in Preferences has a check box near the bottom that turns it on and off. However, I (and quite a few others) have found it to be pretty buggy, and a source of memleaks. Hopefully it's better now, but I'm not using it until the 1.0 milestone.
Of course, other than that, no worries. I've been using Mozilla as my default browser since M18, and haven't looked back since!
Heh, a (long) while ago, I remember reading about doing the same thing, but with the Quake 1 engine. Of course, it was probably more of a novelty then than it is now, since most building planning software I know of has a 3D mode.
Anyways, the idea of designing a house or other building as a Quake level is appealing... Especially since it wouldn't be hard to add some weapons here and there for play as an actual Quake level. Mwhahaha.
Heh, I don't know why I didn't reply here as soon as it popped up, seeing how I got this article mentioned on GameDev.net and all...
Anyways, on to the post.
Yeah, games are a form of art, perhaps the penultimate form. You have different types of art all rolled together with the added bonus of interactivity. It's like a painting that stares back, or something.
I can tell you, if San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art thinks that they aren't, I know of a few people who will try to incite a riot, but will instead be pointed and laughed at. Heeh, my friends are hilarious.
Oh well, I'm sure that this has been said already.:P
If you want to build units, you need to spend civilians. If you want your buildings not to decay and fall apart, you need civilians around to do upkeep. Etc.
In short, if you don't have civilians, you're up the creek without a paddle. You can capture them from the wild or from other players (mostly by getting troops to enter an enemy ghetto or village), lure them with promises, etc.
Of course, it's more complicated than I'm telling you, but you can wait until my game is in stores. Suckers!:D
Mozilla isn't all-american. People from various different countries work on Mozilla too... From South Africa to here in Canada. Identifying the lizard with the USA would more than likely alienate a good number of Mozilla hackers, and that would be a BAD THING.
And communism isn't the only thing associated with the color red you know... What happened to raspberry jam, huh?:P
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Binaries usually are out of date, especially when you consider that most publishers rarely seem to update the CDs, even for newer editions of the book.
Now, if the CDs had CVS tarballs instead, then it shouldn't be so much trouble to update everything. Just plop the contents down somewhere, and pull source on top. Don't forget to use -z6 though, else it still might take a good long time before you have something buildable.
And yeah, sample code from the book, that's worthwhile, always! Saves the trouble of typing it in by hand, fixing errors (there's always at least one when copying from a book by hand), etc. ad nauseum.
The closest to what I have now is HiSpeed Lite. But, like all things Rogers, it's just as screwed up as the rest. Between their new paper collection, their ISP functions, and their cable rates, hell, even avian carrier would probably be better.
And anything with any sort of b/w restriction is an abomination!
Thanks, though, jest3r.
We have three (or is it now two) cable providers in southern Ontario, each in their nice little zones. Where I am, there's Rogers Cable, with horrible cable internet access since before @Home died. Cogeco, out in the boonie areas (Niagra, Belleville, other places like those) provides access too, better from what I've heard, but then again, I'm not in a Cogeco zone. Shaw, the company that seems to have all but vanished, never provided cable internet access, at least not when they had control of the zone I live in.
So my only alternative is to go with Bell/Sympatico for broadband access, or get a T1. Considering what either costs, compared to hellish cable or my so-so dialup, I'll stick to Primus, thanks very much.
Let's see real cable competition in Ontario, followed by _working_ (as opposed to spotty) cable internet access.
My t-shirt says "Satan Inside" and comes complete with the swirly thingy! Good thing there's all those lawyers down there, or the Dark Prince might be out of a job!
What I mean, is that I forgot to lock him off of Slashdot. Usually, I make sure that he can't get on with some editing to the hosts file, but I forgot this time. Obviously, he quickly got himself an account.
I'll have to keep him off the computer for a week, that should be suitable punishment.
Hrm, sorry about that post. I let my son onto the computer and didn't remember to get off Slashdot first. He's a very contrary child. I actually do not support ICANN.
How about this: I bought 8.1 about 2 months ago when I decided to get a new hard drive. The Fujitsu drives, the only ones I can get around here, wouldn't work at all. So I haven't been able to get enough empty space for installing.
Then, look what pops up. I guess something could be said about waiting until you have working hardware.
And _why_ is it so amazing that Mozilla displays that correctly?
Hmph.
Well, it's a little too late to change my post, so hopefully this conversation will help any confused readers, heh.
:P
BTW, thanks for the link and fixing something that my stoopid teachers told me. That's what happens when Conservatives get voted into Ontario.
As I was taught: First world are the capital nations of the world, such as the USA, Britain, Germany, etc. Second world are nations such as Canada, Australia... While not world leaders in their own right, are still listened to by the world and heeded. The third world are 'developing' and war-torn nations.
Actually, I think you're catching something the rest of us haven't. That this might be a pipe dream after all. But then again, it never hurts to imagine.
Actually, I've yet to read the RGB (I think they're in that order, but even if they aren't, easier to remember :) Mars books, but can't wait to. I'll have to add them to my wishlist (no more clothing, mother!) and hope somebody gets them for my b-day.
As for Total Recall, yet another insipid action flick thrown to the masses. Prolefeed.
From an earlier /. article, this is the NASA plan for terraforming. Though I still think that some of the more interesting parts of Mars (the Pyramid, anyone?) should be investigated thoroughly before any plans begin.
And I still like my roving iron plant idea from an earlier post regarding this article. Cheap iron, and more greenhouse gasses to create an atmosphere with. The only concern would be fuel, but I'll bet a Coke that if it goes to the boards, the design team will figure that issue out.
Yes, and with the Fe all over, set up roving factories to scoop up, filter, and create iron ingots. This should cause some greenhouse emissions, I believe, and a number of other gasses, I believe including steam, would help in the creation of an atmosphere.
What would really be interesting, though, would be how the Martian cities are in Cowboy Bebop. Though, I don't think that such a plan is really workable. It would be simpler and less expensive (in terms of more than just money) to terraform the entire planet.
Before Mars is terraformed, however, someone should be sent out to check the Pyramid, ruins, and other features of that area.
Canadian Conservative Reform Alliance Party.
:P
Gotta love Preston Manning, Stockwell Day, and all the other Canadian Alliance (nee Reform) party. And their current name is misleading too -- The Alliance was meant to be the merger and sum of both Manning's Reform Party and Joe Clark's (Joe who?) Progressive Conservative Party. What's so progressive about conservatism, I don't know... Seems more regressive to me...
It's sophisticated irony. So sophisticated, in fact, I didn't even realize it until I read your post. :)
Heh...
It would elevate the position of subscribers through money, rather than through the thoughtful prose which they post. There's enough status symbols existing to let me know that I'm in the lowest tax bracket of any first or second world country, so adding this one would be another straw on this camel's back.
The rejects bin is a good idea, though, and perhaps earlier access to articles (they can read articles thirty minutes before they appear to the general public, and post to them then). This would help with the 'f1r5t pS0t' issue, because I doubt that the trolls would bother paying any money to read Slashdot. Perhaps also e-mail notification of when an article appears (which would be nessesary under the early article idea). I'd shill for that, had I enough income to spend on it.
But please, no status symbols or karma. That's unfair to those of us with insight posted, yet empty pockets.
However, if it comes into effect, there's always the option of smuggling in copy-unprotected hw from other countries, such as Canada. After all, the USA may be able to push a lot of third world countries around, but I doubt that they'll try to force this bucketload of crap down my country's throat.
Now's the best time, I figure, to start spamming politicians and threaten not to re-elect them if they support SSSCA. Chances are that they won't listen, but there's still quite a few who fear for their political careers.
Of course, there's also smearing, riots, terrorist activities (you don't have to be from another country to be a terrorist, contrary to what Dubya wants you to think), and other more violent ways of getting the message across.
Just don't get busted. Americans, your country is in more danger of stupidity from your government. Remind your officials in Washington why you voted for them -- to keep tripe like the SSSCA in the garbage, where it belongs.
Thank you.
Still, if it's already in use, then you're not supposed to be able to patent it. If you apply for a patent and then start rolling it out (patent pending) that's okay, but if it's already in use as wide as it is now, for almost any length of time, then you can't go out and get a patent.
This is another scam. IMHO, the new BT.
Edit->Preferences.
The Advanced page in Preferences has a check box near the bottom that turns it on and off. However, I (and quite a few others) have found it to be pretty buggy, and a source of memleaks. Hopefully it's better now, but I'm not using it until the 1.0 milestone.
Of course, other than that, no worries. I've been using Mozilla as my default browser since M18, and haven't looked back since!
Heh, a (long) while ago, I remember reading about doing the same thing, but with the Quake 1 engine. Of course, it was probably more of a novelty then than it is now, since most building planning software I know of has a 3D mode.
Anyways, the idea of designing a house or other building as a Quake level is appealing... Especially since it wouldn't be hard to add some weapons here and there for play as an actual Quake level. Mwhahaha.
Heh, I don't know why I didn't reply here as soon as it popped up, seeing how I got this article mentioned on GameDev.net and all...
:P
Anyways, on to the post.
Yeah, games are a form of art, perhaps the penultimate form. You have different types of art all rolled together with the added bonus of interactivity. It's like a painting that stares back, or something.
I can tell you, if San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art thinks that they aren't, I know of a few people who will try to incite a riot, but will instead be pointed and laughed at. Heeh, my friends are hilarious.
Oh well, I'm sure that this has been said already.
If you want to build units, you need to spend civilians. If you want your buildings not to decay and fall apart, you need civilians around to do upkeep. Etc.
:D
In short, if you don't have civilians, you're up the creek without a paddle. You can capture them from the wild or from other players (mostly by getting troops to enter an enemy ghetto or village), lure them with promises, etc.
Of course, it's more complicated than I'm telling you, but you can wait until my game is in stores. Suckers!
See this /. article about the calendar. It's post-1.0 work, if you can, help us out with getting Mozilla to that milestone.
Mozilla isn't all-american. People from various different countries work on Mozilla too... From South Africa to here in Canada. Identifying the lizard with the USA would more than likely alienate a good number of Mozilla hackers, and that would be a BAD THING.
:P
And communism isn't the only thing associated with the color red you know... What happened to raspberry jam, huh?