i think the replacement(s) of o's with 0's and other "eleet" signatures may lead one to believe such a distribution to be unsafe. if you think this is wrong, then i am guilty, because i'm not touching this distro with a ten foot pole.
this sort of reminds me of an irc client no one would touch for the exact same reason. but it was relatively ages ago, so i'm going to go back to eating my breakfast. cheers!
i think the replacement(s) of o's with 0's and other "eleet" signatures may lead one to believe such a distribution to be unsafe. if you think this is wrong, then i am guilty, because i'm not touching this distro with a ten foot pole.
maybe slashdot's news background checks should be a little more complete. especially since this site is rob's primary income (AFAIK). maybe a better system would prevent news posters to jump the gun like they did today and for the repeat linux vs nt story yesterday.
and a little on the conspiracy side, does anyone think this story would have been posted if it was not submitted by a girl? don't get me wrong, i'm not calling anyone a sexist. just that maybe having a female webmaster/admin/whatever made the story a tad more interesting to the poster.
in my data structures course, we briefly covered game trees. this seems to be a very effective (yet ridiculously simple) AI method. but because it is recursive it totally was not efficient. does anyone here know how most game developers implement a.i ? even in starcraft, if the computer was trying to control just 30 units using the game tree method, it would probably bring a PIII to its knees.
It always disappoints me when i hear of unix users trading their rationality for religious fervor.
and i'm not saying that religious fervor will hurt the "linux movement" like many others; i don't really care much about the linux movement. i just think that as computer scientists, technicians, hobbyists, etc etc you have to remember that a particular piece of software or hardware is just a tool. once you lose your objectivity and become emotionally attached, you will become limited in your computing endeavors. i don't want to think of the hours and money that i have lost just because "i _had_ to do task X on operating system Y with Z software".
i also have a theory that the flamers and psychos on slashdot are experiencing serious deficiencies in terms of their social lives. if mail bombing unsuspecting journalists on your free time isn't a hint that you need to get out more, i don't know what is. god help us.
keep your cool and keep it impersonal - you will have everything to gain.
hehee... we still see some of those nexts lying inside closets and unknown corners of the McConnel building. they pretty much force the cs students to use linux boxes for everything, to the dismay of everyone but me. who needs some lame commercial IDE for programming when you have the power and glory of XEmacs ?!?!? (let the flames begin...)
a funny side note - the assembly course (273) is teaching the fundamentals of assembly programming in M68K... however we never actually get to sit in front of those cute black boxes, we are just given the host names and told to rlogin in and compile.
i actually used to be a big next nut, but i got over it when i bought an sgi... although i'm still convinced that a next turbo color is at least 10 years ahead of the latest PC =)
right on! that's exactly how i feel about it. i actually love learning all the theoretical stuff... sorting algorithms... ADT's... all that is SO fun to learn.
many people do not understand the difference between a computer SCIENTIST and a programmer. looking beyond the pretention of being able to call oneself a "scientist", it is really a way of thinking. IMHO the most important thing i am learning is how to think like a scientist, and i must say it feels good. taking a 6 month programming (crash) career course at some college does *not* make you a scientist, just a programmer... which is fine if you just want to make cash as quickly as possible. as a side note, a little cash wouldn't hurt either... the past week i've only been eating jell-o pudding and toaster strudles, because that's all i have:) food is definately Good. *sigh*
as far as i'm concerned, everything before university sucked. but being a cs student is something i really enjoy.
here at McGill, cs enrollment has apparently ballooned in the past couple years.
i barely have room to move my mouse in the linux labs. and i should add that there is too much CO2 being emitted in those rooms. i feel faint just thinking of it.
i thought the article was about Oz the tv show on HBO. heh. is it generally known that "Oz" means australia? anyway...
i think the web is a representation of what is on people's minds. i am not surprised to find out that a great chunk of the net consists of porn, and i bet most freudians wouldn't be surprised either.
i don't see why people should be protected from what is most probably on their minds. if i had kids, i'd rather they be exposed to sexual material rather than violent stuff... but i still think neither of those has any effect on a person as long as she is mentally stable.
refused are awesome. they have that cool rock sound, like you can totally rock out to refused even though they are hardcore. have you ever seen their music videos? total crap.
is it just me or is it not _really_ surprising that slashdot is at #28 in the world's most viewed sites.
i remember stopping by at malda's site even before slash... he always had cool window manager stuff =) (of course, i am too old and busy now to play with window managers).. ha ha
keep it up, rob. charge a buck for user registration and you'll be rich.
i remember access entertainment (maker of cool looking games like crime wave and mean streets) were making vga games way back. king's quest V was definately not the first vga game (even WC was vga and was released at least a couple years before KQV). one thing i do remember, though, is that KQV was the first game to extensively use digitized paintings as backdrops. graphically it was way ahead of its time, and it pretty much blew everyone away when released.
WC1 was definately cool, but WC2 was when the game really shined. It was one of the first games to have a truly awesome cinematic intro. Thinking about how much fun I had with the first two WC's gives me goose bumps =)
Other cool games from sorta-way-back (i guess i mean early vga games):
-A-10 Tank Killer -King's Quest V -RISE OF THE DRAGON --- play this!!! makes blade runner pathetic -Battle Chess II -Wolf3d -Golden Axe -Stellar 7 -4x4 racing(?) : kinda isometric view with tiny trucks, you get to build them up as you win $, and you buy speed boosters called "nitros"... what's the name of this game? -maniac mansion 2
apparently the bright young lads at microsoft write all their software in visual basic and use some kind of internal parser/code conversion utility (could i have said compiler?) that converts the VB code to C++.
but more importantly, who cares. the whole "MS Office tax" thing is bullshit. i say screw word processors and office suites in general. everyone should just switch to LaTeX. it's got a learning curve, but damn it produces some nice documents =)
Slashdot Mirror
i think the replacement(s) of o's with 0's and other "eleet" signatures may lead one to believe such a distribution to be unsafe. if you think this is wrong, then i am guilty, because i'm not touching this distro with a ten foot pole.
this sort of reminds me of an irc client no one would touch for the exact same reason. but it was relatively ages ago, so i'm going to go back to eating my breakfast. cheers!
i think the replacement(s) of o's with 0's and other "eleet" signatures may lead one to believe such a distribution to be unsafe. if you think this is wrong, then i am guilty, because i'm not touching this distro with a ten foot pole.
maybe slashdot's news background checks should be a little more complete. especially since this site is rob's primary income (AFAIK). maybe a better system would prevent news posters to jump the gun like they did today and for the repeat linux vs nt story yesterday.
and a little on the conspiracy side, does anyone think this story would have been posted if it was not submitted by a girl? don't get me wrong, i'm not calling anyone a sexist. just that maybe having a female webmaster/admin/whatever made the story a tad more interesting to the poster.
in my data structures course, we briefly covered game trees. this seems to be a very effective (yet ridiculously simple) AI method. but because it is recursive it totally was not efficient. does anyone here know how most game developers implement a.i ? even in starcraft, if the computer was trying to control just 30 units using the game tree method, it would probably bring a PIII to its knees.
It always disappoints me when i hear of unix users trading their rationality for religious fervor.
and i'm not saying that religious fervor will hurt the "linux movement" like many others; i don't really care much about the linux movement. i just think that as computer scientists, technicians, hobbyists, etc etc you have to remember that a particular piece of software or hardware is just a tool. once you lose your objectivity and become emotionally attached, you will become limited in your computing endeavors. i don't want to think of the hours and money that i have lost just because "i _had_ to do task X on operating system Y with Z software".
i also have a theory that the flamers and psychos on slashdot are experiencing serious deficiencies in terms of their social lives. if mail bombing unsuspecting journalists on your free time isn't a hint that you need to get out more, i don't know what is. god help us.
keep your cool and keep it impersonal - you will have everything to gain.
cheers,
mani
hehee ... we still see some of those nexts lying inside closets and unknown corners of the McConnel building. they pretty much force the cs students to use linux boxes for everything, to the dismay of everyone but me. who needs some lame commercial IDE for programming when you have the power and glory of XEmacs ?!?!? (let the flames begin ...)
... however we never actually get to sit in front of those cute black boxes, we are just given the host names and told to rlogin in and compile.
....
a funny side note - the assembly course (273) is teaching the fundamentals of assembly programming in M68K
i actually used to be a big next nut, but i got over it when i bought an sgi... although i'm still convinced that a next turbo color is at least 10 years ahead of the latest PC =)
cheers
right on! that's exactly how i feel about it. i actually love learning all the theoretical stuff ... sorting algorithms ... ADT's ... all that is SO fun to learn.
... which is fine if you just want to make cash as quickly as possible. as a side note, a little cash wouldn't hurt either ... the past week i've only been eating jell-o pudding and toaster strudles, because that's all i have :) food is definately Good. *sigh*
many people do not understand the difference between a computer SCIENTIST and a programmer. looking beyond the pretention of being able to call oneself a "scientist", it is really a way of thinking. IMHO the most important thing i am learning is how to think like a scientist, and i must say it feels good. taking a 6 month programming (crash) career course at some college does *not* make you a scientist, just a programmer
as far as i'm concerned, everything before university sucked. but being a cs student is something i really enjoy.
here at McGill, cs enrollment has apparently ballooned in the past couple years.
i barely have room to move my mouse in the linux labs. and i should add that there is too much CO2 being emitted in those rooms. i feel faint just thinking of it.
i thought the article was about Oz the tv show on HBO. heh. is it generally known that "Oz" means australia? anyway ...
... but i still think neither of those has any effect on a person as long as she is mentally stable.
i think the web is a representation of what is on people's minds. i am not surprised to find out that a great chunk of the net consists of porn, and i bet most freudians wouldn't be surprised either.
i don't see why people should be protected from what is most probably on their minds. if i had kids, i'd rather they be exposed to sexual material rather than violent stuff
refused are awesome. they have that cool rock sound, like you can totally rock out to refused even though they are hardcore. have you ever seen their music videos? total crap.
are you saying that you can draw with a mouse? i don't believe you, unless "drawing" is limited to stick figures =)
is it just me or is it not _really_ surprising that slashdot is at #28 in the world's most viewed sites.
... he always had cool window manager stuff =) (of course, i am too old and busy now to play with window managers) .. ha ha
... mani
i remember stopping by at malda's site even before slash
keep it up, rob. charge a buck for user registration and you'll be rich.
peece
a friend of mine talked to one of the Ramones' roadies. he said that joey ramone is so far gone that he needs help tying his shoelaces and stuff.
...
apparently backstage they were serving all sort of nice pastries and sandwiches, but joey kept demanding for "bubble gum and boiled octopus".
hehehehe
rise of the dragon was one of the first games developed by Dynamix after they were incorporated into the Sierra family.
they also developed Red Baron and Wall of China neither of which were as good as rise of the dragon.
i remember access entertainment (maker of cool looking games like crime wave and mean streets) were making vga games way back. king's quest V was definately not the first vga game (even WC was vga and was released at least a couple years before KQV). one thing i do remember, though, is that KQV was the first game to extensively use digitized paintings as backdrops. graphically it was way ahead of its time, and it pretty much blew everyone away when released.
WC1 was definately cool, but WC2 was when the game really shined. It was one of the first games to have a truly awesome cinematic intro. Thinking about how much fun I had with the first two WC's gives me goose bumps =)
Other cool games from sorta-way-back (i guess i mean early vga games):
-A-10 Tank Killer
-King's Quest V
-RISE OF THE DRAGON --- play this!!! makes blade runner pathetic
-Battle Chess II
-Wolf3d
-Golden Axe
-Stellar 7
-4x4 racing(?) : kinda isometric view with tiny trucks, you get to build them up as you win $, and you buy speed boosters called "nitros"... what's the name of this game?
-maniac mansion 2
what other games should be added to this list?
apparently the bright young lads at microsoft write all their software in visual basic and use some kind of internal parser/code conversion utility (could i have said compiler?) that converts the VB code to C++.
but more importantly, who cares. the whole "MS Office tax" thing is bullshit. i say screw word processors and office suites in general. everyone should just switch to LaTeX. it's got a learning curve, but damn it produces some nice documents =)
peece out