"Can anyone enlighten me? perhaps they drank warm beer 100 years ago and it has just stuck, but it is highly inaccurate today."
We drink lager cold, but we drink ale (beer) at room temperature (or slightly chilled) because it's a living drink (the yeast is still alive) and, IIRC, it brings out the flavour (similar to drinking red wine at room temperature I guess).
This confused belief has come from people referring to 'lager' as 'beer', which it isn't, and is rightly served ice fucking cold whenever people want it.
Except the unknown number of people browsing the WWW using Firefox and a User-Agent switcher. I, for one, have had to use it many times to visit sites I need to visit.
So, in short, _every_ statistic out there on IE usage is definitely skewed to make it look like more people are using it than actually are.
That's one of the best ideas related to the Mozilla project I've heard in a long time - various people have suggested things similar but they've never been taken on board! If this happened then I'd install (say) libgecko (~4mb?) and firefox (~1mb?) to use Firefox and then (maybe) thunderbird (~1mb?) to use Thunderbird? Hey presto, you've cut down on lots of download time and disk space use.
Hell, an even funkier idea would be to have a persistant Gecko daemon that served rendering requests on demand from Firefox, Thunderbird or even... err... is it Sunbird? I forget what the calendar is called.
Interesting, a study we did showed that in terms of productivity and readability 2 space tab indents was optimimum. "Why?" I hear you ask - any developer that's worked on a project of any size above "tiny" will know that large indents don't aid readibility, unless your code is very 'squished'. Which brings us onto one of the most important aspects of any project - white space.
Let's look at the following chunks of code;
Many would write a simple for-loop like this (using standard 8-space unexpanded tabs);
for(int l=0;l10;++l){
printf("%d\n",l); }
versus the more experienced coder (using 2 space expanded tabs);
for ( int l = 0; l 10; ++l ) {
printf ( "%d\n", l ); }
Maybe it's just my opinion (and many others on projects I've worked on), but the second is far more readable and when a new coder comes along to maintain the code she/he would have a much easier job going through the code to figure out how it works. You may not believe me, but take any large chunk of code you may have and take the time to space it out and re-indent it - I guarantee that any decent coder will see my argument is correct.
"There is also no mention as to whether this connection allows servers or not. However, I am guessing it doesn't, considering that Speakeasy is an exception on this policy rather than the rule."
Maybe across the pond server/service limitation is common, but here in the UK I've never had any problems with service filtering.
However, the bandwidth cap is a definate no-no and will ensure I definately don't sign up!
Erm, how long does it take to fire up gmplayer (or Xine) and click DVD->Open (or whatever the equivalent is in Xine)? That's all I have to do... besides, does anybody actually use their PC as their primary DVD player? I sure as hell don't.
Seriously, I don't know a single person who'll watch DVDs on their PC except us geeks because we want to watch something while we work.
Perhaps you're not aware, but most applications (be they game, CGI, GUI or whatever) usually require considerable arithmetic to achieve their result, therefore it's generally a good idea to go with the tool(s) that will produce the optimal result(s). So yea, we may be talking 50ms vs 25ms multiplied several thousand times a second.
I've written code in many, many different languages. I got interested in Ruby a long while ago but never bothered doing anything about it, then a few weeks ago I started looking into it seriously. After doing quite a lot of speed testing (in particular various mathematic statements) against PERL I found that Ruby usually took twice as long to complete an operation than PERL did, which was rather disappointing. However, IIRC Parrot is going to support Ruby so any speed concerns should be eliminated - maybe I'll dive in properly sometime:)
Ok, so the word 'prevent' was the wrong choice, but it's still fucking irresponsible. It's all a little confusing mind you, from the Guardian's article;
"The WHO has condemned the Vatican's views, saying: "These incorrect statements about condoms and HIV are dangerous when we are facing a global pandemic which has already killed more than 20 million people, and currently affects at least 42 million.""
"The only problem is educating people about the danger, and that's mostly solved in developed countries."
Wrong, it's far from solved when the vatican are 'educating' people regarding condoms and saying that they don't prevent the spread of Aids (http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,10590 68,00.html).
I'm finding myself using "I f**king hate IE" more and more recently. The reason being that I've been converting some rather complicated and detailed Web designs to HTML & CSS (sometimes using Javascript) and have found over and over that IE causes me hours and hours of headaches tweaking the CSS so that IE can render it correctly - meaning that the CSS (and HTML) is almost always way too overly complicated just to accomodate the way that IE breaks the standards etc. Stupid fucking IE. It's just as bad when people write IE specific Javascript when they could just as easily write browser-independant Javascript but are too fu**ing stupid to do so... ARGH! I could rant for days on the stupidness of IE... USE FIREFOX TODAY! PLEASE!
I stopped using PayPal a long time ago due to their dodgy business practices. The way that they (seemingly) randomly suspend customer's accounts and absorb the funds contained there-in is plain shocking. I know of one case where an account with in excess of $6,000 was suspended by PayPal as they suspected the account had received money from a fraudulant source; after lots of research, investigation (Google for cases of PayPal cheating their customers and you'll find plenty of examples of this happening) and communication with PayPal the owner or the account was forced to, basically, give up on his account - and them money stored in it. Since I hear this story and read for myself the many many occasions where this has happened I try to use PayPal as little as possible. I recommend to others that they boycott PayPal until they change their 'style'.
I blame the beer. Like I said in two other posts (?), I made a mistake, it's amazing how often people do actually make mistakes, learn to live with it fuckmook.
I find it hard to believe how any American can feel proud after seeing such devastation caused by their country. Possibly the biggest atrocity ever committed by any country, or organisation, ever. That includes any "terrorist act" that the US seems so amazingly worried about.
(sic) and it's alternatives would not, IMO, fall under the subject of grammar as they are meant as 'helpers' or 'side thoughts' when I use them. A friend and I developed a few extras to the standard (sic) notation for use in e-mails, I suppose that I adopted them elsewhere too;
(!sic) - spell is not correct (sic?) - is spelling correct? (sic) - (obviously) spelling is correct
And there are a few others. They are meant to ease our laziness and not as a grammatical slur.
IMHO problem was bad set of people and terrible organisation of whole project.
A bad set of people? I think not, the group were a talented bunch. I would not argue that organisation was a problem either, though it is hard to organise a distributed group of people on a major project.
From selected 8 coders only Steve Baker and I were experienced in graphics - and in 3D at all.
Whether or not the group were experienced in graphics or not (I forget who had experience in what), how many developers do you think need to be experience in graphics on a game project? A game's graphics are only it's visual representation and is a very small part of development.
Steve Baker left, when it was clear that LGP wasn't able to give us good artists
I think, although Steve may say differently, that he left due to lack of progress and not lack of good artists.
Then even discussions on mailing list dissapear. And I think it was exact moment of death.
Interesting. I received 1,147 e-mails from the list after Steve left (of a total of 2,809). This wasn't the moment of death, though it didn't help.
In all honesty the project was going to be incredibly difficult to make work due to the lack of regular monetary motivation (as in a wage), which meant maintaining motivation for the project was incredibly difficult.
On the topic of motivation, it didn't help to have a person who is quite possibly the most pessimistic (sic?) and most difficult to work with ever (certainly of all the people that I have ever worked with). Oh, that was Jacek btw.
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"Can anyone enlighten me? perhaps they drank warm beer 100 years ago and it has just stuck, but it is highly inaccurate today."
We drink lager cold, but we drink ale (beer) at room temperature (or slightly chilled) because it's a living drink (the yeast is still alive) and, IIRC, it brings out the flavour (similar to drinking red wine at room temperature I guess).
This confused belief has come from people referring to 'lager' as 'beer', which it isn't, and is rightly served ice fucking cold whenever people want it.
Except the unknown number of people browsing the WWW using Firefox and a User-Agent switcher. I, for one, have had to use it many times to visit sites I need to visit.
So, in short, _every_ statistic out there on IE usage is definitely skewed to make it look like more people are using it than actually are.
That's one of the best ideas related to the Mozilla project I've heard in a long time - various people have suggested things similar but they've never been taken on board! If this happened then I'd install (say) libgecko (~4mb?) and firefox (~1mb?) to use Firefox and then (maybe) thunderbird (~1mb?) to use Thunderbird? Hey presto, you've cut down on lots of download time and disk space use.
... err ... is it Sunbird? I forget what the calendar is called.
Hell, an even funkier idea would be to have a persistant Gecko daemon that served rendering requests on demand from Firefox, Thunderbird or even
Food for thought!
Interesting, a study we did showed that in terms of productivity and readability 2 space tab indents was optimimum. "Why?" I hear you ask - any developer that's worked on a project of any size above "tiny" will know that large indents don't aid readibility, unless your code is very 'squished'. Which brings us onto one of the most important aspects of any project - white space.
Let's look at the following chunks of code;
Many would write a simple for-loop like this (using standard 8-space unexpanded tabs);
for(int l=0;l10;++l){
printf("%d\n",l);
}
versus the more experienced coder (using 2 space expanded tabs);
for ( int l = 0; l 10; ++l )
{
printf ( "%d\n", l );
}
Maybe it's just my opinion (and many others on projects I've worked on), but the second is far more readable and when a new coder comes along to maintain the code she/he would have a much easier job going through the code to figure out how it works. You may not believe me, but take any large chunk of code you may have and take the time to space it out and re-indent it - I guarantee that any decent coder will see my argument is correct.
"There is also no mention as to whether this connection allows servers or not. However, I am guessing it doesn't, considering that Speakeasy is an exception on this policy rather than the rule."
Maybe across the pond server/service limitation is common, but here in the UK I've never had any problems with service filtering.
However, the bandwidth cap is a definate no-no and will ensure I definately don't sign up!
Erm, how long does it take to fire up gmplayer (or Xine) and click DVD->Open (or whatever the equivalent is in Xine)? That's all I have to do ... besides, does anybody actually use their PC as their primary DVD player? I sure as hell don't.
Seriously, I don't know a single person who'll watch DVDs on their PC except us geeks because we want to watch something while we work.
You *do* know this is /., right?
"the person who only cares about "good enough", not "awesome" performance"
:)
:P)
Hrm, people still buy Windows
(I can't remember, nor find, the old fortune about porsches
Perhaps you're not aware, but most applications (be they game, CGI, GUI or whatever) usually require considerable arithmetic to achieve their result, therefore it's generally a good idea to go with the tool(s) that will produce the optimal result(s). So yea, we may be talking 50ms vs 25ms multiplied several thousand times a second.
I've written code in many, many different languages. I got interested in Ruby a long while ago but never bothered doing anything about it, then a few weeks ago I started looking into it seriously. After doing quite a lot of speed testing (in particular various mathematic statements) against PERL I found that Ruby usually took twice as long to complete an operation than PERL did, which was rather disappointing. However, IIRC Parrot is going to support Ruby so any speed concerns should be eliminated - maybe I'll dive in properly sometime :)
Ok, so the word 'prevent' was the wrong choice, but it's still fucking irresponsible. It's all a little confusing mind you, from the Guardian's article;
"The WHO has condemned the Vatican's views, saying: "These incorrect statements about condoms and HIV are dangerous when we are facing a global pandemic which has already killed more than 20 million people, and currently affects at least 42 million.""
"The only problem is educating people about the danger, and that's mostly solved in developed countries."
0 68,00.html).
Wrong, it's far from solved when the vatican are 'educating' people regarding condoms and saying that they don't prevent the spread of Aids (http://www.guardian.co.uk/aids/story/0,7369,1059
Go (Catholic) Church.
I'm finding myself using "I f**king hate IE" more and more recently. The reason being that I've been converting some rather complicated and detailed Web designs to HTML & CSS (sometimes using Javascript) and have found over and over that IE causes me hours and hours of headaches tweaking the CSS so that IE can render it correctly - meaning that the CSS (and HTML) is almost always way too overly complicated just to accomodate the way that IE breaks the standards etc. Stupid fucking IE. It's just as bad when people write IE specific Javascript when they could just as easily write browser-independant Javascript but are too fu**ing stupid to do so ... ARGH! I could rant for days on the stupidness of IE ... USE FIREFOX TODAY! PLEASE!
Note to poster :)
I stopped using PayPal a long time ago due to their dodgy business practices. The way that they (seemingly) randomly suspend customer's accounts and absorb the funds contained there-in is plain shocking. I know of one case where an account with in excess of $6,000 was suspended by PayPal as they suspected the account had received money from a fraudulant source; after lots of research, investigation (Google for cases of PayPal cheating their customers and you'll find plenty of examples of this happening) and communication with PayPal the owner or the account was forced to, basically, give up on his account - and them money stored in it. Since I hear this story and read for myself the many many occasions where this has happened I try to use PayPal as little as possible. I recommend to others that they boycott PayPal until they change their 'style'.
Because if it's an art project then it's (technically) not pointless :) even though some people might say most modern art *is* pointless.
I blame the beer. Like I said in two other posts (?), I made a mistake, it's amazing how often people do actually make mistakes, learn to live with it fuckmook.
Ooooooooooh shit, sorry, waaaaaaaaaaay off topic! /me begs forgiveness...
(Oh, I wasn't suggesting that any American actually does feel proud, just a heat of the moment thing!)
I find it hard to believe how any American can feel proud after seeing such devastation caused by their country. Possibly the biggest atrocity ever committed by any country, or organisation, ever. That includes any "terrorist act" that the US seems so amazingly worried about.
(sic) and it's alternatives would not, IMO, fall under the subject of grammar as they are meant as 'helpers' or 'side thoughts' when I use them. A friend and I developed a few extras to the standard (sic) notation for use in e-mails, I suppose that I adopted them elsewhere too;
(!sic) - spell is not correct
(sic?) - is spelling correct?
(sic) - (obviously) spelling is correct
And there are a few others. They are meant to ease our laziness and not as a grammatical slur.
IMHO problem was bad set of people and terrible organisation of whole project.
A bad set of people? I think not, the group were a talented bunch. I would not argue that organisation was a problem either, though it is hard to organise a distributed group of people on a major project.
From selected 8 coders only Steve Baker and I were experienced in graphics - and in 3D at all.
Whether or not the group were experienced in graphics or not (I forget who had experience in what), how many developers do you think need to be experience in graphics on a game project? A game's graphics are only it's visual representation and is a very small part of development.
Steve Baker left, when it was clear that LGP wasn't able to give us good artists
I think, although Steve may say differently, that he left due to lack of progress and not lack of good artists.
Then even discussions on mailing list dissapear. And I think it was exact moment of death.
Interesting. I received 1,147 e-mails from the list after Steve left (of a total of 2,809). This wasn't the moment of death, though it didn't help.
In all honesty the project was going to be incredibly difficult to make work due to the lack of regular monetary motivation (as in a wage), which meant maintaining motivation for the project was incredibly difficult.
On the topic of motivation, it didn't help to have a person who is quite possibly the most pessimistic (sic?) and most difficult to work with ever (certainly of all the people that I have ever worked with). Oh, that was Jacek btw.
Oh well, c'est la vie.
Dude, If this thing detected cursing i'd suddenly be the best Quake player at every LAN I went to ;)