There was pussy cat and Razor who were pretty destructive too. I think a lot of people who dont think Robot Wars is very destructive only see one or two of the less interesting episodes and make a judgement on that. For some reason they seem to sometimes pit all the crappest robots against each other so while it may seem fairer what you get is an episode where flimsy robots try to push each other slowly around the ring.
Living in the UK i'd never seen battlebots and basically found it very amusing the first time I saw it. I couldnt understand why they'd decided to mix american football/boxing/WWF style cheesy presenters with robot fighting.
The robots seemed to be a similar mix of good and bad as you get in UK robot wars though so I can't fault the people doing the fighting.
The worst thing about UK Robot Wars is damned Craig Charles, he irritates the hell out of me (and I used to love Red Dwarf) - he makes me cringe...
In my experience spontaneous reboots can be caused by amongst other things:
CPU overheating, use motherboard monitor to keep an eye on cpu temps, check heatsink is seated firmly, especially if you are overclocking (overclockable cpu you got there)
Dodgy power supply, I had a dying PSU and it kept doing this, eventually it died:-(
Hope you figure it out, on the subject of mac hardware - I wish I could afford some, it looks sweet as does OS X. For one it has transparent terminals i'd die for (awww yes I guess i'm shallow!)
An interesting post so I thought i'd have a look, an hour later and not much luck. Looking at this site maybe its not very practical for you to grow your own, given it has as little as 0.07% by weight, but I dont know what amount you need to take.
My second thought is that you are having trouble getting it because its a cash cow, who would sell you the goose that lays golden eggs? Instead you might benefit from trying to find someone who lives/goes to the regions it grows such as china and india and they may either be able to get the plants for you to grow or the extract much cheaper (i.e before it's passed through x number of middle men.)
I have some connections to that area of the world so if you dont have any luck you could email me dazs (at) tarbard.co.uk, I will see if I can help find any.
Question:
Do you think that continuing to make windows products more "user friendly" by dumbing them down you will end up with (ahem) less and less technically capable users?
For SuSE would it be hard to produce ISO's of the ftp directory, or would YAST fall over because it couldnt find stuff?
I've paid for numerous versions of SuSE, and would like to try the new version without having to pay full price. For one thing I certainly dont need the manual *again*, and the new "cheaper" personal edition actually contains less software then SuSE used to - I mean, whats up with that?
Does anyone stock Cheapbytes style copy of SuSE 7.1?
Wow, looks like I hit a nerve. I said I'm not talking about what ASP actually is, just what people usually mean when they say ASP i.e vbscript ASP, by people I dont mean rabid foaming at the mouth geeks such as yourself but real people. I don't use ASP, but I have a 1300 page book published by Wrox on my shelf called "Active server Pages 3.0", they mention perl exactly once on page 13 referring to it as a cgi language. All job adverts i've seen mention ASP as the vbscript kind. Another poster says most ASP books refer to vbscript. Chillisoft call their software "ASP" but hey, guess what they dont use fucking perlscript or python. Maybe i'm wrong to say ASP and infer a particular kind but i'm certainly not alone. The whole damned story is about chillisoft who dont do perlscript OR python, how dumb are you to not understand context? Now I start to wonder who really is trolling. Chill out.
I dont say this to argue with you, but looking at python it doesnt seem any easier to use than Perl, rather Perl seems to fit in the way I think - I can juggle data easily in a few lines that would take an age in another language. To be honest it comes down to using the language that best fits the way you think and is best for that particular application.
The previous post about candygrammar is very true, it actually means that to do something in ASP would take me longer than in Perl because allthough it might look relatively simple it is also less powerful.
Now, completely unscientific (so no flames please!) I ran a very short script on Perl(linux) and ASP(win2k & IIS) and the ASP outperformed it. The testing conditions were not scientific at all, but I still wouldnt switch to ASP for a couple of reasons:
It is not a great web language, if you are a web developer then imho you are shooting yourself in the foot from the start deciding to use ASP.
Easily most of the errors I see on web sites are ASP errors, while this may be due to them being written by monkeys it still doesnt fill me with confidence.
Of course it the chillisoft software is of short term use for porting, but if you are thinking long term and you are on a unix server you might as well eventually port it to php/perl (etc).
I had to stop playing sims, I dreamt about it and everything reminded me of it. Besides its too much like real hard work looking after them, I have real life for stuff like that. Reminds me of the "yard work simulator" in an episode of The Simpsons.
Not just me then.
I've stopped playing baldurs gate 2 for exactly that reason. The engine is much prettier than the original but you get a quest, halfway on your way to the location you are stopped by someone who gives you another quest, you try to do that quest then realise theres yet another quest you have to do first. It sucks. They have also imho broken the point in rpg's in that you dont have reasonable free will! Say you want to kill someone, no matter how weak they are if Bioware decided you arent going to kill them then you CANNOT kill them no matter what. They should let you kill them but just not do whatever quest etc.. you would have got. Scripting is fine in an RPG but they are trying to script what the PLAYER does which is frustrating.
I guess I will never be able to enjoy a computer RPG as much as I did real AD&D and Cyberpunk - with real people.
(Oh, btw was it released as "Baulders Gate" in America?)
X is good, low bandwidth would be better (and judging by what the site says it is better) but I can't help thinking VNC is actually more useful because its only a couple hundred k of program and runs on platforms as diverse as Linux, beos and windows CE (amongst others). Of course YMMV
Do you really want to sit over your childs shoulder while s/he's spending a couple of hours on the Boyzone chat board,
You do realise that this is exactly the kind of place that paedophiles hang out to find kids dont you? I assume you let your kids hang around on street corners too because you can't be bothered keeping an eye on them for a couple of hours. I must be realisitic though (its easy to flame:-) perhaps you should log all the internet access so you can quickly search through it later for keywords.
What level of hits constitute being slashdotted?
How much does it take to make a server go down? I ask out of genuine interest, I'm scared to even mention one of my sites in a comment:-)
Can I ask what might be a stupid question. If you download one of the nightly builds (I try the win32 regularly) what options are they compiled with?
Thanks
Thanks for the advice. I would have stuck around to tweak it a little but without the network working I didnt have much use for it. I will try the new version of QNX.
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Maybe there could be a "friendly fire" section where the robots accidentally attack themselves :-)
There was pussy cat and Razor who were pretty destructive too. I think a lot of people who dont think Robot Wars is very destructive only see one or two of the less interesting episodes and make a judgement on that. For some reason they seem to sometimes pit all the crappest robots against each other so while it may seem fairer what you get is an episode where flimsy robots try to push each other slowly around the ring.
Living in the UK i'd never seen battlebots and basically found it very amusing the first time I saw it. I couldnt understand why they'd decided to mix american football/boxing/WWF style cheesy presenters with robot fighting.
The robots seemed to be a similar mix of good and bad as you get in UK robot wars though so I can't fault the people doing the fighting.
The worst thing about UK Robot Wars is damned Craig Charles, he irritates the hell out of me (and I used to love Red Dwarf) - he makes me cringe...
Hope you figure it out, on the subject of mac hardware - I wish I could afford some, it looks sweet as does OS X. For one it has transparent terminals i'd die for (awww yes I guess i'm shallow!)
An interesting post so I thought i'd have a look, an hour later and not much luck. Looking at this site maybe its not very practical for you to grow your own, given it has as little as 0.07% by weight, but I dont know what amount you need to take.
My second thought is that you are having trouble getting it because its a cash cow, who would sell you the goose that lays golden eggs? Instead you might benefit from trying to find someone who lives/goes to the regions it grows such as china and india and they may either be able to get the plants for you to grow or the extract much cheaper (i.e before it's passed through x number of middle men.)
I have some connections to that area of the world so if you dont have any luck you could email me dazs (at) tarbard.co.uk, I will see if I can help find any.
Sometimes I wish there was a moderation option -1 : Makes everyone read fixed width text but stupid enough to try HTML tags anyway
Question:
Do you think that continuing to make windows products more "user friendly" by dumbing them down you will end up with (ahem) less and less technically capable users?
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*glazes over after second sentence and skips to another comment*
:-)
Damn my attention span
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Hm, still more than I paid for 6.3....
Thanks anyway.
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For SuSE would it be hard to produce ISO's of the ftp directory, or would YAST fall over because it couldnt find stuff?
I've paid for numerous versions of SuSE, and would like to try the new version without having to pay full price. For one thing I certainly dont need the manual *again*, and the new "cheaper" personal edition actually contains less software then SuSE used to - I mean, whats up with that?
Does anyone stock Cheapbytes style copy of SuSE 7.1?
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Whoever modded you as flamebait is spot on. If we all had your attitude we'd all still be sitting in ditches poking berries up our noses.
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Wow, looks like I hit a nerve. I said I'm not talking about what ASP actually is, just what people usually mean when they say ASP i.e vbscript ASP, by people I dont mean rabid foaming at the mouth geeks such as yourself but real people.
I don't use ASP, but I have a 1300 page book published by Wrox on my shelf called "Active server Pages 3.0", they mention perl exactly once on page 13 referring to it as a cgi language. All job adverts i've seen mention ASP as the vbscript kind. Another poster says most ASP books refer to vbscript. Chillisoft call their software "ASP" but hey, guess what they dont use fucking perlscript or python. Maybe i'm wrong to say ASP and infer a particular kind but i'm certainly not alone.
The whole damned story is about chillisoft who dont do perlscript OR python, how dumb are you to not understand context?
Now I start to wonder who really is trolling. Chill out.
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Can you not change your language preferences at http://www.google.com/preferences ?
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Maybe technically, but in reality most people mean the IIS/MS kind. I have a big ASP book and take my word for it, it does not talk about perl.
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To be honest it comes down to using the language that best fits the way you think and is best for that particular application.
The previous post about candygrammar is very true, it actually means that to do something in ASP would take me longer than in Perl because allthough it might look relatively simple it is also less powerful.
Now, completely unscientific (so no flames please!) I ran a very short script on Perl(linux) and ASP(win2k & IIS) and the ASP outperformed it. The testing conditions were not scientific at all, but I still wouldnt switch to ASP for a couple of reasons:
- It is not a great web language, if you are a web developer then imho you are shooting yourself in the foot from the start deciding to use ASP.
- Easily most of the errors I see on web sites are ASP errors, while this may be due to them being written by monkeys it still doesnt fill me with confidence.
Of course it the chillisoft software is of short term use for porting, but if you are thinking long term and you are on a unix server you might as well eventually port it to php/perl (etc).--
I had to stop playing sims, I dreamt about it and everything reminded me of it.
Besides its too much like real hard work looking after them, I have real life for stuff like that. Reminds me of the "yard work simulator" in an episode of The Simpsons.
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I can imagine this turning up in lots of places now, hidden comments in HTML code, thinkgeek T-Shirts, you name it.
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For me it's not work that stresses me out, its the idiots I have to work with.. :-)
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Not just me then. I've stopped playing baldurs gate 2 for exactly that reason. The engine is much prettier than the original but you get a quest, halfway on your way to the location you are stopped by someone who gives you another quest, you try to do that quest then realise theres yet another quest you have to do first. It sucks. They have also imho broken the point in rpg's in that you dont have reasonable free will! Say you want to kill someone, no matter how weak they are if Bioware decided you arent going to kill them then you CANNOT kill them no matter what. They should let you kill them but just not do whatever quest etc.. you would have got. Scripting is fine in an RPG but they are trying to script what the PLAYER does which is frustrating.
I guess I will never be able to enjoy a computer RPG as much as I did real AD&D and Cyberpunk - with real people.
(Oh, btw was it released as "Baulders Gate" in America?)
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X is good, low bandwidth would be better (and judging by what the site says it is better) but I can't help thinking VNC is actually more useful because its only a couple hundred k of program and runs on platforms as diverse as Linux, beos and windows CE (amongst others). Of course YMMV
I assume you let your kids hang around on street corners too because you can't be bothered keeping an eye on them for a couple of hours.
I must be realisitic though (its easy to flame
What level of hits constitute being slashdotted? :-)
How much does it take to make a server go down? I ask out of genuine interest, I'm scared to even mention one of my sites in a comment
They can take a photo of palestine while they're at it too.
Can I ask what might be a stupid question. If you download one of the nightly builds (I try the win32 regularly) what options are they compiled with?
Thanks
Thanks for the advice. I would have stuck around to tweak it a little but without the network working I didnt have much use for it. I will try the new version of QNX.