Plus, 95 just sucks. No Windows 98 user would go back to 95 just for increased stability (I never thought that I would have the option, though...:).
Um, I'm still running Win95 despite having a Win98 upgrade CD aquired gratis. I hated W98 and still run W95 OSR2.1 with shitloads of updates to the networking packages.
How else am I gonna play counterstrike with a 56k modem?
I swear to god. I've never seen them do worse coverage of such time-honored games. I think I heard NPR do a review of NBC's (un)coverage, and the critic said that their Target Audience was a 20-Something Female.
Seroiusly - how many 20-year-old females are watching the games? How many more goddamn equistrian events do I have to sit through, knowing that something actually cool, like Judo or Tae Kwon D(em)o, or Fencing or Boxing is getting a total browing? I wanna see some real wrestling, not Synchronized Diving!
Kagenin
They want your info so that they can prove that you exist.
And people who exist, exist to consume. Companies like consumers so much they pay for consumers addresses. ICANN has still not shown what they will do with your information after they confirm that you exist.
And it's no better for PCs now that M$ has added the useless Windows and Menu keys to the mix (a thinly veiled ploy to get their logo on every PC keyboard), because you can't remap them in a sane manner under Windows.
Actually, The Windoze & Menu Keys are easily remappable with the Windoze PowerToys package. Well, not *Easily* - you can only remap them to other meta keys, really. But it is a rather sick ploy on M$'s part - In retaliation, I think that the Happy Hacker Keyboards should replace one of their metakeys' icon's with a little Ewing Penguin.
I always thought that Sega would drop the ball with DreamCast. I had (have) Zero expectations and confidence in it's longevity as a Console. It's headed right in that corner where all my friends keep their Saturns' but never play them.
Hey, i wouldn't mind a PS2, but i love my DC, already have a dvd player, and for christs sake i wouldn't want to use a game controller as a remote for my dvd player:)
I've already got a DVD Drive/Mpeg board, too (Buggy Piece of shit) What's wrong with using a console controller for a DVD player? I haven't had any other CD player in my room other than my PSX/TV and I've never minded the User Interface (although I wish I had better low-end sounds)- hell, *I can't wait to play DVD's on my PSX2.*
That's something no DC owner can say about their console.
Lemme start off by saying that my first programming language is C++. Not good C++, mind you, most instructors/books/courses ignore it's robust Standard Library and opt for proprietary extensions to the compilers they have at their disposal. Usually this can be remedied by getting Stroustroups's 3rd edition and reading it on your own time.
My second language, however, is Perl. I like Perl more than C++. I especially like OOP in Perl more than C++.
Another in this thread noted that Perl's OOP support is a ugly. I'd say 'nonsense' to that. I find Perl's OOP support to be at least as elegant as C++'s.
Don't get me wrong, C++ can be a fun language. But Perl can be more fun.
Perl is expressive. One thing C++ prides itself upon is the fact that it can be such an expressive language. But I find that expressions in Perl can not only look more elegant, but take less time to code/debug.
Any language can teach bad habits. Nearly every book I've read on C++ in school taught
void main() { return; }
as being proper code. This is abhorantly wrong - main() must return an int according to the ANSI/ISO standards.
Yes, Perl is extremely powerful in the right hands, but it can also be a breeding ground for poor programming practice (even among experienced programmers).
So teacher'sll have to require 'use strict' and a -w on the shebang line. Whoopie crap ^_^.
Um, looking under the hood of my desktop, I can see that my Pentium II is just about the size of a brick, give or take a few inches around, when its heatsink is on. Of course it's all casing, but nonetheless, it is a brick.
The GCC Compiler listed above will take in nearly any code that MSVC will and spit out native, Win32 PE executable code. It has no problem linking with the MFC, OpenGL, CRT & MSVCRT DLLs that are included with windoze.
Your resounding 'nope' is very unfounded. The compiler Shawn (Allegro Rulz dude!) mentioned above is one of my favorites.
Agreed. I avoid M$ software like the plague whenever I can, but you have to admit, the beast knows how to make an input device - and fsck it up in a redesign.
The M$ Natural Keyboard is a dream. I've heard quite the opposite about it's revision, the M$ Natural Elite. The Arrow keys are funky on the Elite model (The left, right, and down keys aren't lined up traditionally; it looks more like a cross), and I've heard the angle of the split is different. The non-elite has a more traditional arrowkey layout, generous key size ('specially that huge backspace key ^_^), a comfortable split, and you can raise the front.
It kinda sucks since the Elite model is a lot easier to find than the better, non-elite model.
BTW, this was all typed out with an M$ Natural. I really wanna get a sticker to cover up that ugly logo in it's upper right corner...
Kagenin
PS: Off topic, but has anyone gotten an IntelliEye Explorer to work under GNU/Linux?
Windows uses a relativly open Executable File format called PE. I think it's similar to COFF IIRC.
MS Visual C++ does compile C++ code. I believe it's always supported C++ since at least version 2 (prolly earlier). It's up to 6 now, and still compiles C++ code fine. It was a lot more up to the latest standards than BCC 5 (which didn't support Namespaces and had buggy template support).
Since I'm already using MSC6, I think I'll just let this pass. Didn't you hear that MS has stake in Inprise? I guess there really is no escape, other than GCC.
...where Eros is in relation to Earth. I saw a whole buncha numbers about where it is in relation to NEAR, but not to home. Anybody got some REALLY pertinant numbers?
Kagenin
"Space boy, I'll kill you...it won't be long" Smashing Pumpkins
Best Dressed: John Carmack in "After Y2K." He looks SOOO pimp at the Geek Rehab clinic.
Patent Bully: This is a tossup between Amazon.com for pushing around bn.com and the guys in charge of the LZW Algorythm for pushing whoever they can. Also, I'd like to nominate the DVD Control Association for using crypto to limit the number of DVD Hardware vendors. This is not a good application of Crypto.
Domain Bully: To either AOL.com for trying to push around aolsucks.com, or to Etoys.com for their threats (and legal action) to etoy.com.
FUD: Without question, I nominate Bob Metcalf, Credited with the creation of Ethernet, for his article about Linux's "Open Sores." How's that 30 year old technology treating ya, Bob?
I totally Disagree with you here. Geeks are the Counter-Culture - Like "The McGovern Vote" back in '72. We have issues we want discussed and dealt with (like Crypto-export laws, Freedom of Speech and Expression, freedom to write any freaking piece of software we want to).
If geekdom isn't broad enough to warrant a Ticket, then that's still a lot of people without a Voice.
I seriously think that this could replace the Keys part of my Mouse'n'keys config for Quake/Q2. I could replace my keyboard just like I got rid of my mouse pad when I bought that IntelliMouse Explorer.
Man, that's one Clean Desktop of the Future. I wonder when they'll have a model that'll replace your Mouse or TrackPad.
Have a cover of the GIMP Mascot drawing a target on Adobe's Logo. Even better when Paired w/ a Gimp article. If you don't think a target is shocking enough, you could have him doing a very unclean act to it.
Another Idea - A Tux penguin with a Rocket Launcher from Quake III: Arena. Nothing yells 'HIGH END GRAPHICS' like Quake3.
I'm getting quite bored of looking at 3D rendering on a 2D display. What do you think the feasiblility of a 3D display, a holographic display, perhaps, entering the Home user market?
I remember seeing something kinda like this on an old episode of that Futuristic Submarine Drama NBC had going for a while...what was it...SeaQuest? Something like that? Like a 3D one-on-one Street Fighter clone... I'm wondering if we'd be able to get a Quake on to a platform like that ^_^
Looking at some of the Maps on the site, one can clearly see that Virgina has very little claim as the 'Capitol of the Internet.' Siteing an ISP-Saturated California, I hereby claim The Golden State the Capitol of the Internet. Birthplace of BSD, home of Intel (blech, but it proves my point), as well as UCLA, where the First Packets were sent.
If any Virginians wanna go toe to toe with me on this one, I'd be glad to make you see my Point.
What is your opinion on Virginia's claim to be the Capitol of the Internet? What is your opinion on what SHOULD be the capitol?
It's always been my understanding that California was the Capitol State, what with Silicon Valley (easily the capitol of High Technology), UCLA (part of the first experiment 30 years ago), UCB (who begat BSD)... What does Virgina have? AOL?!? C'mon...that's not even funny!
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Um, I'm still running Win95 despite having a Win98 upgrade CD aquired gratis. I hated W98 and still run W95 OSR2.1 with shitloads of updates to the networking packages.
How else am I gonna play counterstrike with a 56k modem?
Kagenin
WNBA Kicks Ass. You've obviously never even been to one of those skillfully played games that are commonplace among the WNBA.
Go Monarchs!
Kagenin
I swear to god. I've never seen them do worse coverage of such time-honored games. I think I heard NPR do a review of NBC's (un)coverage, and the critic said that their Target Audience was a 20-Something Female. Seroiusly - how many 20-year-old females are watching the games? How many more goddamn equistrian events do I have to sit through, knowing that something actually cool, like Judo or Tae Kwon D(em)o, or Fencing or Boxing is getting a total browing? I wanna see some real wrestling, not Synchronized Diving! Kagenin
And people who exist, exist to consume. Companies like consumers so much they pay for consumers addresses. ICANN has still not shown what they will do with your information after they confirm that you exist.
Kagenin
Actually, The Windoze & Menu Keys are easily remappable with the Windoze PowerToys package.
Well, not *Easily* - you can only remap them to other meta keys, really. But it is a rather sick ploy on M$'s part - In retaliation, I think that the Happy Hacker Keyboards should replace one of their metakeys' icon's with a little Ewing Penguin.
(/me prays to the Karma Faeries)
Kagenin
Jeez - the story hasn't even been up for that long, and the Nerd-Out Secret Menu page seems to be taking for days to load!
*sigh*
All this bandwidth at school and nothing to burn it on right now... Think I'll go download some more Q3 Patches ^_^
Kagenin
I always thought that Sega would drop the ball with DreamCast. I had (have) Zero expectations and confidence in it's longevity as a Console. It's headed right in that corner where all my friends keep their Saturns' but never play them.
:)
Hey, i wouldn't mind a PS2, but i love my DC, already have a dvd player, and for christs sake i wouldn't want to use a game controller as a remote for my dvd player
I've already got a DVD Drive/Mpeg board, too (Buggy Piece of shit) What's wrong with using a console controller for a DVD player? I haven't had any other CD player in my room other than my PSX/TV and I've never minded the User Interface (although I wish I had better low-end sounds)- hell, *I can't wait to play DVD's on my PSX2.*
That's something no DC owner can say about their console.
Kagenin
Lemme start off by saying that my first programming language is C++. Not good C++, mind you, most instructors/books/courses ignore it's robust Standard Library and opt for proprietary extensions to the compilers they have at their disposal. Usually this can be remedied by getting Stroustroups's 3rd edition and reading it on your own time.
My second language, however, is Perl. I like Perl more than C++. I especially like OOP in Perl more than C++.
Another in this thread noted that Perl's OOP support is a ugly. I'd say 'nonsense' to that. I find Perl's OOP support to be at least as elegant as C++'s.
Don't get me wrong, C++ can be a fun language. But Perl can be more fun.
Perl is expressive. One thing C++ prides itself upon is the fact that it can be such an expressive language. But I find that expressions in Perl can not only look more elegant, but take less time to code/debug.
Any language can teach bad habits. Nearly every book I've read on C++ in school taught
void main() {
return;
}
as being proper code. This is abhorantly wrong - main() must return an int according to the ANSI/ISO standards.
Yes, Perl is extremely powerful in the right hands, but it can also be a breeding ground for poor programming practice (even among experienced programmers).
So teacher'sll have to require 'use strict' and a -w on the shebang line. Whoopie crap ^_^.
Kagenin
Or Pentiuns are the size of a brick?
Um, looking under the hood of my desktop, I can see that my Pentium II is just about the size of a brick, give or take a few inches around, when its heatsink is on. Of course it's all casing, but nonetheless, it is a brick.
Kagenin
The GCC Compiler listed above will take in nearly any code that MSVC will and spit out native, Win32 PE executable code. It has no problem linking with the MFC, OpenGL, CRT & MSVCRT DLLs that are included with windoze.
Your resounding 'nope' is very unfounded. The compiler Shawn (Allegro Rulz dude!) mentioned above is one of my favorites.
Kagenin
Agreed. I avoid M$ software like the plague whenever I can, but you have to admit, the beast knows how to make an input device - and fsck it up in a redesign.
The M$ Natural Keyboard is a dream. I've heard quite the opposite about it's revision, the M$ Natural Elite. The Arrow keys are funky on the Elite model (The left, right, and down keys aren't lined up traditionally; it looks more like a cross), and I've heard the angle of the split is different. The non-elite has a more traditional arrowkey layout, generous key size ('specially that huge backspace key ^_^), a comfortable split, and you can raise the front.
It kinda sucks since the Elite model is a lot easier to find than the better, non-elite model.
BTW, this was all typed out with an M$ Natural. I really wanna get a sticker to cover up that ugly logo in it's upper right corner...
Kagenin
PS: Off topic, but has anyone gotten an IntelliEye Explorer to work under GNU/Linux?
Well yeah. Duh.
Windows uses a relativly open Executable File format called PE. I think it's similar to COFF IIRC.
MS Visual C++ does compile C++ code. I believe it's always supported C++ since at least version 2 (prolly earlier). It's up to 6 now, and still compiles C++ code fine. It was a lot more up to the latest standards than BCC 5 (which didn't support Namespaces and had buggy template support).
Since I'm already using MSC6, I think I'll just let this pass. Didn't you hear that MS has stake in Inprise? I guess there really is no escape, other than GCC.
Kagenin
Yes, OT, but it does make a decent point. That Java banner is pissin' me off.
/. guys, don't suppose you could knock off the Caffinated Banners, couldya?
Hey
Kagenin
...where Eros is in relation to Earth. I saw a whole buncha numbers about where it is in relation to NEAR, but not to home. Anybody got some REALLY pertinant numbers?
Kagenin
"Space boy, I'll kill you...it won't be long"
Smashing Pumpkins
==
Best Dressed: John Carmack in "After Y2K." He looks SOOO pimp at the Geek Rehab clinic.
Patent Bully: This is a tossup between Amazon.com for pushing around bn.com and the guys in charge of the LZW Algorythm for pushing whoever they can. Also, I'd like to nominate the DVD Control Association for using crypto to limit the number of DVD Hardware vendors. This is not a good application of Crypto.
Domain Bully: To either AOL.com for trying to push around aolsucks.com, or to Etoys.com for their threats (and legal action) to etoy.com.
FUD: Without question, I nominate Bob Metcalf, Credited with the creation of Ethernet, for his article about Linux's "Open Sores." How's that 30 year old technology treating ya, Bob?
I totally Disagree with you here. Geeks are the Counter-Culture - Like "The McGovern Vote" back in '72. We have issues we want discussed and dealt with (like Crypto-export laws, Freedom of Speech and Expression, freedom to write any freaking piece of software we want to).
If geekdom isn't broad enough to warrant a Ticket, then that's still a lot of people without a Voice.
Kagenin for President
I seriously think that this could replace the Keys part of my Mouse'n'keys config for Quake/Q2. I could replace my keyboard just like I got rid of my mouse pad when I bought that IntelliMouse Explorer.
Man, that's one Clean Desktop of the Future. I wonder when they'll have a model that'll replace your Mouse or TrackPad.
Kagenin
Didn't you see the Note? Wait a Fscking hour!
Kagenin
Have a cover of the GIMP Mascot drawing a target on Adobe's Logo. Even better when Paired w/ a Gimp article. If you don't think a target is shocking enough, you could have him doing a very unclean act to it.
Another Idea - A Tux penguin with a Rocket Launcher from Quake III: Arena. Nothing yells 'HIGH END GRAPHICS' like Quake3.
Kagenin
According to the slackware.com, yes.
Kagenin
Squashing a World Wide Phenomemna such as Linux takes more than One company with an agenda.
You don't seem to hear about SCO in the news, anyway. They HAD to invest in a Linux company, any company.
I just realized that all my Linux CDs came from LinuxMall...I'm prolly gonna get a shit load more spam and junkmail from SCO now...
Kagenin
I'm getting quite bored of looking at 3D rendering on a 2D display. What do you think the feasiblility of a 3D display, a holographic display, perhaps, entering the Home user market?
I remember seeing something kinda like this on an old episode of that Futuristic Submarine Drama NBC had going for a while...what was it...SeaQuest? Something like that? Like a 3D one-on-one Street Fighter clone... I'm wondering if we'd be able to get a Quake on to a platform like that ^_^
Kagenin
Looking at some of the Maps on the site, one can clearly see that Virgina has very little claim as the 'Capitol of the Internet.' Siteing an ISP-Saturated California, I hereby claim The Golden State the Capitol of the Internet. Birthplace of BSD, home of Intel (blech, but it proves my point), as well as UCLA, where the First Packets were sent.
If any Virginians wanna go toe to toe with me on this one, I'd be glad to make you see my Point.
What is your opinion on Virginia's claim to be the Capitol of the Internet? What is your opinion on what SHOULD be the capitol?
It's always been my understanding that California was the Capitol State, what with Silicon Valley (easily the capitol of High Technology), UCLA (part of the first experiment 30 years ago), UCB (who begat BSD)... What does Virgina have? AOL?!? C'mon...that's not even funny!
Screw 'em! They're the furthest thing from what they were when Suck was started. Wired's changed it to it's own personal Masturbation Pit.
The cartoony pictures have always been drawn the same, except back in the beginning, they were more inspired. Now they're lame & flat.
Kagenin's Bottom Line is that Suck can't be taken seriously anymore. Not that they could ever be taken seriously.
Kagenin (who wonders where the Barrel, Fish, and Smoking Gun went to...)