As someone who is ordinarily a Linux zealot and hater of all things Microsoft, I want to state for the record that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 Professional fuckin' rocks! It is, without a doubt, the coolest game I have ever played. I actually went out and bought a new HD, a nice flight stick, and installed win2k exclusively for this game.
it's a bird, it's a plane...
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Whether you say "0.13-micron" as most of us do, or "130-nanometer" as PR flacks prefer, the phrase is weighing heavily on both Intel's and AMD's minds.
How the hell is it that we, in the USA, are reduced to using techniques Heinlein was driven to using in the freaking Soviet Union under Leninist Communism, just to avoid being ripped off and cheated?
You seem to be forgetting that it has been this way for a Very Long Time (tm). Long before Heinlein. Long before businesses existed. Long before humans were walking the earth. This is reptilian brain stuff.
First mix the dry ingredients. While stirring, slowly mix in beeswax until you're left with a thick, dough-like paste. Knead 5 drops of the eucalyptus oil in, one drop at a time. Alternate
adding a swallows nest and a drop of the oil until everything is mixed well. Bury the mixture in a dry, earthenware pot for 6 days. Note: You must remove it precisely six days after burying it. It is very important that it cures properly.
Apply it liberally to muscles after workout, or eat 3 pea sized balls per day. For best results, combine both the topical and internal methods.
moderators should not be able to mod a post up that has changed karma points since the viewing of the post.
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As a social misfit, disgruntled programmer, and militant loather of all things e-business, let me assure everyone that I will personally make your businesses appear on fuckedcompany in one (1) month.
Smokers (tobacco or otherwise) have been persecuted enough in this failing republic. Do us all a favor, and exercise your right to move away from the smoke if it bothers you that much.
I have to deal with this crap all the time. I can't smoke indoors so I, like many of the oppressed masses, go outside to get my nicotine fix. Whiny little weasels like you come up to me at least once a week and say mindless drivel like "Go ahead and kill yourself, but your second-hand smoke is killing me too" or "Can't you smoke that somewhere else?" or "I find that offensive". Some of the cockier ones will say stuff like "Ugh. That smells like shit".
You know what I do? I contemplatively look at them, nodding my head in agreement, while simultaneously taking a big drag off the cigarette. Then I forcefully exhale it in their direction. Sometimes, if the mood strikes me, I'll follow this up by winking and blowing a kiss.
I have rights too, you know.
And I'm hypersensitive to you oppressive little twats.
No kidding. What more is really needed besides the web, usenet and email? Maybe IRC or an instant messaging program. Those are *the* killer apps for human interaction, and hence education.
You don't need to actually fabricate a cartridge. Just pick up one of the Super Famicom/SNES "development and backup consoles" here.
It's been a while since I owned one (1993 I think) but even back then, you could copy, disassemble, and hack every game that existed on these little buggers. Back when Street Fighter II just came out on the Famicom, some friends and I patched the nintendo version to behave like arcade hacks popular at the time (check out the various sfII
roms for mame if you don't know what I'm talking about).
Write a little message on your website saying something like:
"I have given up working on this software. You are free to use it as usual. It works fine, and I can't think of anything else I want to do with it. If you'd like to take over the project and add new and exciting features, please contact me at [insert email here]. Cheers."
Looks like you have it backwards. If you're going to mix languages, why not do your control code in some high level language and then call your c++ or c from that? I guess it really depends on what you're doing, though.
Lately I've been using python a good deal. I write the major features in python because it's wicked fast and yet scales well. Once you have a program written in python it's pretty damn easy to convert modules to C or C++ (especially with SWIG) for optimization.
My reasoning is simple. Hack out the major features quickly, look at where your bottlenecks are, then optimize those 1) in python if possible (maybe just a bad algorithm)...otherwise 2)in c/c++. It just seems counter productive to me to have some c/c++ code calling modules written in some higher level language. The glue languages of choice are perl, python, and shell.
Then again, if what you're doing works well for you, by all means use it.
It may very well be a sick joke, but I heard it on KWMU this morning on my way to work. That's the local NPR station in St. Louis, MO. NPR doesn't typically propagate bullshit like this. I honestly don't care so I'm not going to go hunting for urls, but just wanted to say I heard this as well. I'm sure you could contact them to find out more.
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Gimme a break.
Repeat after me: "The whole point of a gaming console is to play games."
Most people don't buy consoles to double as a bloody servers. Sure, it can be done, and there's a lot of hack value there, but dude...get a clue! "The dream of having some kind of decent server in everyone's house" is NOT going to happen with an Xbox. Maybe with a good PC with a good OS, but NOT some mediocre gaming console. Compared to real PCs made in the last year or so, the xbox is by no means "a strong PC".
Lemme turn your argument around a little bit. Hey guys! I'm really excited. My furnace and air conditioner contain a Hitachi H8/3292 microcontroller, which is really a pretty hefty little CPU. I'm gonna hack the thing and run a server on my airconditioner! It keeps me cool in the summer, warm in the winter, it serves mp3s, and is now running Apache! Finally! The dream of running a server can be realized by the masses. w00t!
I wish the authors would have included all the details, instead of protecting the guilty by anonymizing individual failure stories.
Well, the bit about "karma prostitution" and "John Dogz" in chapter 5 certainly was enough detail to clue me into what site he was talking about in that section.
Attack of the Clones conjures up images of massive armies of robots marching across the landscape for as far as you can see. Is it just me or is this stuff getting a little old?
I propose that Lucas just makes a 2-3 hour movie of "breathtaking" effects like marching clones beating the crap out of each other until they explode. Once he gets that out of his system the remaining Star Wars movies could then focus primarily on something important...
like, oh...say... a decent story.
Or at the very least Natalie Portman disrobed, flaunting 16 luscious blue breasts.
A nice quilted maple. or maybe AAAAA grade Italian birdseye maple would look nice too. Both woods look amazing when finished. I can see it now: gold power/reset buttons and external drive plates, crystal LED covers.
Damn. I should start building these. I'd probably make a fortune advertising in the Robb Report and the like. Now available in the following models: Monarch, Presidente, and Ambassadore.
It doesn't work. You MUST have some real code before you go open source. Look up the freedows project on google to see a classic example of a
project that failed at the bazaar mode off the bat. I think people want code to play with to get them motivated, not some open source planning committee.
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I could be wrong, but I swear this article was "written" by the Postmodernism generator.
Blah.
As someone who is ordinarily a Linux zealot and hater of all things Microsoft, I want to state for the record that Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002 Professional fuckin' rocks! It is, without a doubt, the coolest game I have ever played. I actually went out and bought a new HD, a nice flight stick, and installed win2k exclusively for this game.
Whether you say "0.13-micron" as most of us do, or "130-nanometer" as PR flacks prefer, the phrase is weighing heavily on both Intel's and AMD's minds.
Egads! It's the son of Jon Katz.
How the hell is it that we, in the USA, are reduced to using techniques Heinlein was driven to using in the freaking Soviet Union under Leninist Communism, just to avoid being ripped off and cheated?
You seem to be forgetting that it has been this way for a Very Long Time (tm). Long before Heinlein. Long before businesses existed. Long before humans were walking the earth. This is reptilian brain stuff.
I hope Cox doesn't go down but I am definately going to be
;-)
Indeed.
Hey, you said it. I just read it.
...China actually giving their atheletes hard to detect performance enhancing drugs.
Leung's Double Happiness Super Power Muscle Balm:
3 taels ginseng (powdered)
1/4 catty rhino horn (powdered)
1 dried tiger penis (crushed)
5 rehydrated swallows nests
1 tael Ma Huang bark (powdered)
4 taels Xiao Chuan beeswax (melted)
10 drops eucalyptus oil
2 dried carp maws
First mix the dry ingredients. While stirring, slowly mix in beeswax until you're left with a thick, dough-like paste. Knead 5 drops of the eucalyptus oil in, one drop at a time. Alternate
adding a swallows nest and a drop of the oil until everything is mixed well. Bury the mixture in a dry, earthenware pot for 6 days. Note: You must remove it precisely six days after burying it. It is very important that it cures properly.
Apply it liberally to muscles after workout, or eat 3 pea sized balls per day. For best results, combine both the topical and internal methods.
moderators should not be able to mod a post up that has changed karma points since the viewing of the post.
I have a solution. Put slashdot in a critical section. Yes, you heard me correctly and I mean all of it. One user at a time. No pushing. Please take a number and queue up, we'll notify you when it is your turn.
Dear sirs,
As a social misfit, disgruntled programmer, and militant loather of all things e-business, let me assure everyone that I will personally make your businesses appear on fuckedcompany in one (1) month.
Thank you.
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Good lord.
Smokers (tobacco or otherwise) have been persecuted enough in this failing republic. Do us all a favor, and exercise your right to move away from the smoke if it bothers you that much.
I have to deal with this crap all the time. I can't smoke indoors so I, like many of the oppressed masses, go outside to get my nicotine fix. Whiny little weasels like you come up to me at least once a week and say mindless drivel like "Go ahead and kill yourself, but your second-hand smoke is killing me too" or "Can't you smoke that somewhere else?" or "I find that offensive". Some of the cockier ones will say stuff like "Ugh. That smells like shit".
You know what I do? I contemplatively look at them, nodding my head in agreement, while simultaneously taking a big drag off the cigarette. Then I forcefully exhale it in their direction. Sometimes, if the mood strikes me, I'll follow this up by winking and blowing a kiss.
I have rights too, you know.
And I'm hypersensitive to you oppressive little twats.
No kidding. What more is really needed besides the web, usenet and email? Maybe IRC or an instant messaging program. Those are *the* killer apps for human interaction, and hence education.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those?!
I am a Beowulf cluster of those.
You don't need to actually fabricate a cartridge. Just pick up one of the Super Famicom/SNES "development and backup consoles" here.
It's been a while since I owned one (1993 I think) but even back then, you could copy, disassemble, and hack every game that existed on these little buggers. Back when Street Fighter II just came out on the Famicom, some friends and I patched the nintendo version to behave like arcade hacks popular at the time (check out the various sfII
roms for mame if you don't know what I'm talking about).
They were, and probably still are, pretty fun.
Write a little message on your website saying something like:
"I have given up working on this software. You are free to use it as usual. It works fine, and I can't think of anything else I want to do with it. If you'd like to take over the project and add new and exciting features, please contact me at [insert email here]. Cheers."
What's the problem?
Looks like you have it backwards. If you're going to mix languages, why not do your control code in some high level language and then call your c++ or c from that? I guess it really depends on what you're doing, though.
Lately I've been using python a good deal. I write the major features in python because it's wicked fast and yet scales well. Once you have a program written in python it's pretty damn easy to convert modules to C or C++ (especially with SWIG) for optimization.
My reasoning is simple. Hack out the major features quickly, look at where your bottlenecks are, then optimize those 1) in python if possible (maybe just a bad algorithm)...otherwise 2)in c/c++. It just seems counter productive to me to have some c/c++ code calling modules written in some higher level language. The glue languages of choice are perl, python, and shell.
Then again, if what you're doing works well for you, by all means use it.
Have no fear, progeny. You will have a great future! Microsoft is going to settle for you. $1.1 billion! Quite a future indeed!
It may very well be a sick joke, but I heard it on KWMU this morning on my way to work. That's the local NPR station in St. Louis, MO. NPR doesn't typically propagate bullshit like this. I honestly don't care so I'm not going to go hunting for urls, but just wanted to say I heard this as well. I'm sure you could contact them to find out more.
Gimme a break.
Repeat after me: "The whole point of a gaming console is to play games."
Most people don't buy consoles to double as a bloody servers. Sure, it can be done, and there's a lot of hack value there, but dude...get a clue! "The dream of having some kind of decent server in everyone's house" is NOT going to happen with an Xbox. Maybe with a good PC with a good OS, but NOT some mediocre gaming console. Compared to real PCs made in the last year or so, the xbox is by no means "a strong PC".
Lemme turn your argument around a little bit. Hey guys! I'm really excited. My furnace and air conditioner contain a Hitachi H8/3292 microcontroller, which is really a pretty hefty little CPU. I'm gonna hack the thing and run a server on my airconditioner! It keeps me cool in the summer, warm in the winter, it serves mp3s, and is now running Apache! Finally! The dream of running a server can be realized by the masses. w00t!
Bah.
Third. The French call it troisième, the Germans say drittes, and throughout much of Latin America, it's called tercer.
I wish the authors would have included all the details, instead of protecting the guilty by anonymizing individual failure stories.
Well, the bit about "karma prostitution" and "John Dogz" in chapter 5 certainly was enough detail to clue me into what site he was talking about in that section.
Attack of the Clones conjures up images of massive armies of robots marching across the landscape for as far as you can see. Is it just me or is this stuff getting a little old?
I propose that Lucas just makes a 2-3 hour movie of "breathtaking" effects like marching clones beating the crap out of each other until they explode. Once he gets that out of his system the remaining Star Wars movies could then focus primarily on something important...
like, oh...say... a decent story.
Or at the very least Natalie Portman disrobed, flaunting 16 luscious blue breasts.
...IIS is a lot more powerful in what its capabilities are.
As was so wonderfully illustrated with the recent worms.
...ponder...
There's a tremendous amount of potential.
in emacs you can do M-x spook
A nice quilted maple. or maybe AAAAA grade Italian birdseye maple would look nice too. Both woods look amazing when finished. I can see it now: gold power/reset buttons and external drive plates, crystal LED covers.
Damn. I should start building these. I'd probably make a fortune advertising in the Robb Report and the like. Now available in the following models: Monarch, Presidente, and Ambassadore.
Note to self: buy saws, wood, clamps, glue, sandpaper, lacquer, router
It doesn't work. You MUST have some real code before you go open source. Look up the freedows project on google to see a classic example of a
project that failed at the bazaar mode off the bat. I think people want code to play with to get them motivated, not some open source planning committee.