I read this book awhile ago. If you want to know what real pirating was like, check it out. It is very very interesting. Rober Culliford is the freakin' man.
Being prayed for by others obviously wont help your odds in any activity. But I'm a firm believer in mind over matter. The placebo effect is great evidence of this. If someone truly believes that they will survive through some surgery, or live another day because of some deity or something, then they probably will. Their religeon, deity, values and morals could all be completely false and it doesn't matter. Because in their brain they truly believe that X will happen, it does. Because you truly believe a surgar pill is actually the perfect cure for your ailment, it will be.
That's my real problem with religeon is that it gives some imaginary omiscient being credit for the achievments of flesh and blood people.
"Save me Jebus!"
Jebus didn't save you, you saved you. Because you believed you would survive the surgery, you did. It had nothing to do with your Jebus, who is completely imaginary and such.
I probably could have gotten my point across in fewer and better words, but I'm too lazy now.
For real this time. I've said it before. When I have kids, I'm making them play video games right. No johnny, you can't have zelda 2 until you beat zelda 1. Now sit your ass down and find some triforce pieces. You want a PS4? Hah! You haven't even beaten pitfall yet! How can you expect to play those new fancy games if you suck at the old ones so much.
I will raise my children to be the video game masters. Out of the womb and into the hands goes the joystick. The kind with a single orange button.
than video games are board games. Imagine playing risk with someone who can't tell red from green. Or even something like El Grande. They can't tell the difference between who's pieces are whos and it messes up everything.
Quote Bjarne Stroustrup: Yes. If every data can have any value, then it doesn't make much sense to have a class. Take a single data structure that has a name and an address. Any string is a good name, and any string is a good address. If that's what it is, it's a structure. Just call it a struct. Don't have anything private. Don't do anything silly like having a hidden name and address field with get_name and set_address and get_name and set_name functions. Or even worse, make a virtual base class with virtual get_name and set_name functions, and override it with the one and only representation. That's just elaboration. It's not necessary.
Thank You! This is the number one java peeve. Every time I just want to make a structure I've got to make a whole class. That's a whole file. That's a whole lot of extra code. In C/C++ I can make an equivalent struct in a few lines.
This is why I like python so much. I can do all the object-orientedness I want and all the proceduralness I want and they work together perfect. And everything pops out into super efficient C code and then into executable with my gcc. And if I want it cross platform I can just use jython and get workin.class files.
I'd rather take risks and have fun during the years I've got rather than add crummy useless old years on at the end.
I mean, say I exercise every day for 15 minutes for the rest of my life. That's a lot of frickin' time. I could be having fun in that time. Sure, I might live longer, but those will be years when I'm old and decrepit.
There's no point in adding more years if those years aren't fun. To have a lot of fun you usually have to take risks. Acceptable risks though, no drugs or stunt motorcycle jumps. Can't be that stupid. Just a little stupid, like bungee jumping and sky diving.
I repeat many times, live better lives, not longer ones.
I can't believe people don't know about this program. It's great for all kinds of diagrams. I mostly use it for UML diagrams and E/R database diagrams. Being a programmer, that's the type of stuff I do.
Maybe some more decent Serial ATA support. I still can't get this thing to work well. And how about writing data to ntfs partitions without completely destroying them. That would be excellent.
I overestimated Roblimo's intelligence. He's frickin' dumb as hell.
The bottom panel on my KDE desktop is filled with icons for my 'daily use' applications. No matter how covered my screen is with applications windows (and it is almost always fully covered), I can click on a panel icon and open a new app. I haven't figured out how to put app icons on the Windows bottom panel. I don't even know if it can be done. Perhaps it can only be done by smart Windows geeks, but not by simple-minded Linux people like me.
Have you tried dragging and dropping the icon for the app from the start menu into the taskbar? *gasp* How about using some context sensitive menus, they're very nice.
Also, does he not know about the Firebird? I'm a dual boot XPpro/Gentoo guy. But I use the same general software in both OSs. Firebird, Thunderbird, gaim, cygwin, winamp2/xmms, gimp, openoffice.
Which OS I'm in doesn't really matter. But when I need to play a game, if I'm in linux I restart. And if I need to code a cs project, and I'm in windows I restart. Other than that I use whichever os my pc is in, in order to minimize restarting. If you avoid MS software (besides of course the OS itself, and the powertoys) Windows doesn't suck that bad.
I would also like to note that he somehow thinks that installing any software in linux is as easy or easier than in windows. Double clicking on an icon, then clicking ok is infinitely easier than even the amazing apt-get or emerge will ever be. Simply because you have to know beforehand the command and the name of the software and such. With windows you just click on the picture. The necessity of the user to know a piece of information without any prompting makes it really really hard. But, for smart people who know what they're doing it makes it really really easy. So yeah, linux stuff is just as easy as windows stuff, after you give someone an hour lecture on all the commands and such. A monkey can use windows. Hell, a newborn baby can use windows. They'll never be efficient as the linux guy, but in order to be that efficient they have to have a higher level of intelligence and learning. Something most people can't achieve. Lack of brain capacity and such.
Right now I'm a pooor college student. I have a cell phone because my dad got a new one (the phone was free) and my mom made me take it because she was worried. I share minutes with my still in high school brother back at home, and my mom pays for it. Once I get a decent paying job I will probably switch to T-Mobile or Sprint. They have the badass intarweb features I want. I might even get one of those cool sidekick/hiptop thingies. But if possible I would like to keep my current cell-phone number with Verizon. It would just be super convenient. Heck, I would even pay a small one time fee for the convenience if I had to. Like $10 or something. I must say, that I am not so displeased with my current service. Verizon seems to have excellent coverage and I have a great plan for telphoning. But in the future I'm looking to do more with portable thingies I can't yet afford.
What are you talking about. Gaming with multiple monitors is awesome. One the main screen (hopefully a CRT for gaming quality) they've got a fullscreen CounterStrike or other fps action. On the second monitor they've got gaim or other IM program, winamp, maybe a cygwin shell, audio controls, maybe even an ssh into the game server if they're the admin. They could even have a browser at gamefaqs or slashdot while they play. No more IMs forcing half-life to lose focus! Double monitors for gamers are great. It lets them keep doing stuff they always do while they play games. It also gives the other team a huge advantage since the dual monitor guy isn't paying so close attention.
Or even better, a Motor Scooter. You can't take them on the train, but you can park them at the station. Moped is good too.
And if you really don't want to pay for gas or parking, a skateboard or unicycle is quality. They both allow you to go hands free for carrying stuff. Who cares if it's for kids or whatever, you'll be the coolest dude in the office.
With the relatively widespread use of RSS I'm really surprised that we are constantly forced to "roll our own" feeds. I mean, all I want is the front page of google news. Is it really that hard that all these news sites and such can't set up RSS for us? Freakin' Penny Arcade has RSS.
My favorite pen ever is the Pilot GX300. It is excellent in shape and feel on the hands. However, the Pilot G2 has the nicest point and it glides on the paper niceley. I plan soon to do some super geeky pen modding. I will use the ink and point of the G2 in the body of the GX300. And possibly add an LED. It is retractable, so the LED can go change from red to green every time I click it.
ph33r.
If I had a lot of money I would probably have some fine point personalized parker pens. They are teh awesome.
mplayer is awesome. It plays anything and everything. I would love nothing more than to have a version of mplayer for windows. I've heard of people running it under cygwin, but I haven't been able to make it compile. I got it under gentoo, and it rules. Go mplayer go!
man I played Diablo 2, 4 years ago, when it first came out. It didn't take me more than 2 or 3 times on the battle.net to realize that it was crap. Let's spend all day clicking on monsters, then they die, then I click on monsters, and then they die. Pretty frickin' boring if you ask me. Not much game there. Hell I could write a program where stuff appears, you click on it, and then it dies. It's not much of a game.
But as for cheating, all cheaters of all sorts need to be banned. I'd go so far as to say game companies should share cheater information. Gamers usually play more than one game, and someone who cheats at CS probably cheats at WC3. There should be an international video game cheater black list.
You might say, that's not fair! They paid for the game, if they want to play it that way, let them. Well here's the thing. If you cheat at say a 1 player game, you're only hurting yourself. I will lose a lot of respect for your gaming skills, but it's not hurting me so I don't care. In multiplayer online games when you cheat you hurt the community and others. If 20 guys are playing CS and one of them has the aimbot the game is ruined. Now one team has a serious advantage and the game is no longer fun. If no admin is around the cheater will continue. The only choice is to quit playing. When you're a game company and 19 people quit playing because of 1, well the numbers speak for themselves. Ban the 1, keep the 19.
If ever I take part in creating or running an online type game I will have the harshest penalties on cheaters. Especially if it is a game that costs money. I think a great idea would be to put a clause in the EULA. Confirmed cheaters will be permanently banned with no second chances. They will also be required to pay a fine of $X. Make this policy well known and I guarantee a huge decrease in cheating. Especially if you make use of it fairly often. Heck, the money from catching the cheaters could pay the salaries of 1 or 2 guys who can spend all day catching them.
Man, I could talk all day about cheaters. Pretty much all there is to it is that if you cheat at video games in any way shape or form you suck ass. Be ashamed, your video game skills are so weak that you depend on something else to do the game for you. I'll tell you what, next time you buy a game and you just cheat and have the computer beat it for you, call me. I'll take the game beat it for you and give it back. I'll save 50 bucks and you'll save yourself some embarassment.
Nooooooo! That's the best chapter. Whit Saruman being all old and stuff. It's hilarious.
Hopefully they'll at least put it on the extended DVD version. They at least have to show the trip to the gray havens in some fashion. Ring falling in volcano != end of story.
One thing everyone has to realize is that these issues are only present in real time online multiplayer games. If companies made some more turn based online multiplayer games, then things would be super awesomer. I imagine a day when there will be an X-COM type game online and multiplayer. Ahhhh, ph33r that.
But yeah, Tribes 2 was the best ever, until they fucked it up. Counter-Strike is also awesome. The trick to not getting pissed at it is to be naturally good. That way you can kill cheaters without cheating.
Hey, they got these new things. They call them, laptops. They're great when you want a computer anywhere without a lot of clutter. You can even plug mice and keyboards into them!
Running video cable from the video card all the way over will limit you. USB is iffy, it only goes so far. A Viewsonic Wireless Monitor might do the trick, but then you might as well get a powerbook or thinkpad or tablet or something.
Looking at these specs I see one really really good use. Set top box. use the Mini-PCI to put in a TV-IN. Use the SATA for a 3.5" hard drive of 80 or 120gigs. Insert best ram stick that will fit. Make nice little box for it to go in. Put the little thing on top of the tv, install software, the end. Use LAN to transfer files to/from it. Install mplayer also for playing downloaded goods. This sure beats all those people I know with mid-towers next to their televisions.
The rest of the gaming world still dominated by those who greatly desire Korean games. Demands still not met.
If they like our Blizzard games so much, we should cut them off. I've seen a few Korean students playing Korean games and such in the labs around campus. Holy Crap! There are like a zillion awesome video games, mostly rpg types, that we just don't have here. And apparently I can't play them because I don't have a KSSN. So, I say we cut them off of Battle.net until I get some Shining Lore.
Dude, this guy was only wrong twice! That's a pretty good percentage of correctness.
5) Not social? No, some video games aren't social. Like some card games aren't social. Solitair for instance. Obviously, he hasn't played Mario Party or Mario Golf.
11) Myst was piss poor crap. It was the game that ruined games. Fancy graphics != good gameplay. He provided no real argument that the gameplay of Myst was entertaining or quality. Because there isn't one.
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if 2.6 has better serial ata support than currently? I still can't get it to work.
I read this book awhile ago. If you want to know what real pirating was like, check it out. It is very very interesting. Rober Culliford is the freakin' man.
Being prayed for by others obviously wont help your odds in any activity. But I'm a firm believer in mind over matter. The placebo effect is great evidence of this. If someone truly believes that they will survive through some surgery, or live another day because of some deity or something, then they probably will. Their religeon, deity, values and morals could all be completely false and it doesn't matter. Because in their brain they truly believe that X will happen, it does. Because you truly believe a surgar pill is actually the perfect cure for your ailment, it will be.
That's my real problem with religeon is that it gives some imaginary omiscient being credit for the achievments of flesh and blood people.
"Save me Jebus!"
Jebus didn't save you, you saved you. Because you believed you would survive the surgery, you did. It had nothing to do with your Jebus, who is completely imaginary and such.
I probably could have gotten my point across in fewer and better words, but I'm too lazy now.
For real this time. I've said it before. When I have kids, I'm making them play video games right. No johnny, you can't have zelda 2 until you beat zelda 1. Now sit your ass down and find some triforce pieces. You want a PS4? Hah! You haven't even beaten pitfall yet! How can you expect to play those new fancy games if you suck at the old ones so much.
I will raise my children to be the video game masters. Out of the womb and into the hands goes the joystick. The kind with a single orange button.
than video games are board games. Imagine playing risk with someone who can't tell red from green. Or even something like El Grande. They can't tell the difference between who's pieces are whos and it messes up everything.
Yes, I'm talking about you Colin.
Quote Bjarne Stroustrup: Yes. If every data can have any value, then it doesn't make much sense to have a class. Take a single data structure that has a name and an address. Any string is a good name, and any string is a good address. If that's what it is, it's a structure. Just call it a struct. Don't have anything private. Don't do anything silly like having a hidden name and address field with get_name and set_address and get_name and set_name functions. Or even worse, make a virtual base class with virtual get_name and set_name functions, and override it with the one and only representation. That's just elaboration. It's not necessary.
.class files.
Thank You! This is the number one java peeve. Every time I just want to make a structure I've got to make a whole class. That's a whole file. That's a whole lot of extra code. In C/C++ I can make an equivalent struct in a few lines.
This is why I like python so much. I can do all the object-orientedness I want and all the proceduralness I want and they work together perfect. And everything pops out into super efficient C code and then into executable with my gcc. And if I want it cross platform I can just use jython and get workin
I'd rather take risks and have fun during the years I've got rather than add crummy useless old years on at the end.
I mean, say I exercise every day for 15 minutes for the rest of my life. That's a lot of frickin' time. I could be having fun in that time. Sure, I might live longer, but those will be years when I'm old and decrepit.
There's no point in adding more years if those years aren't fun. To have a lot of fun you usually have to take risks. Acceptable risks though, no drugs or stunt motorcycle jumps. Can't be that stupid. Just a little stupid, like bungee jumping and sky diving.
I repeat many times, live better lives, not longer ones.
I can't believe people don't know about this program. It's great for all kinds of diagrams. I mostly use it for UML diagrams and E/R database diagrams. Being a programmer, that's the type of stuff I do.
Get it here: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/
It works with windows or linux, you just needs the gtk. And if you use gaim for windows, then you've already got it.
http://gaim.sf.net IYDAK
Maybe some more decent Serial ATA support. I still can't get this thing to work well. And how about writing data to ntfs partitions without completely destroying them. That would be excellent.
I overestimated Roblimo's intelligence. He's frickin' dumb as hell.
The bottom panel on my KDE desktop is filled with icons for my 'daily use' applications. No matter how covered my screen is with applications windows (and it is almost always fully covered), I can click on a panel icon and open a new app. I haven't figured out how to put app icons on the Windows bottom panel. I don't even know if it can be done. Perhaps it can only be done by smart Windows geeks, but not by simple-minded Linux people like me.
Have you tried dragging and dropping the icon for the app from the start menu into the taskbar? *gasp* How about using some context sensitive menus, they're very nice.
Also, does he not know about the Firebird? I'm a dual boot XPpro/Gentoo guy. But I use the same general software in both OSs. Firebird, Thunderbird, gaim, cygwin, winamp2/xmms, gimp, openoffice.
Which OS I'm in doesn't really matter. But when I need to play a game, if I'm in linux I restart. And if I need to code a cs project, and I'm in windows I restart. Other than that I use whichever os my pc is in, in order to minimize restarting. If you avoid MS software (besides of course the OS itself, and the powertoys) Windows doesn't suck that bad.
I would also like to note that he somehow thinks that installing any software in linux is as easy or easier than in windows. Double clicking on an icon, then clicking ok is infinitely easier than even the amazing apt-get or emerge will ever be. Simply because you have to know beforehand the command and the name of the software and such. With windows you just click on the picture. The necessity of the user to know a piece of information without any prompting makes it really really hard. But, for smart people who know what they're doing it makes it really really easy. So yeah, linux stuff is just as easy as windows stuff, after you give someone an hour lecture on all the commands and such. A monkey can use windows. Hell, a newborn baby can use windows. They'll never be efficient as the linux guy, but in order to be that efficient they have to have a higher level of intelligence and learning. Something most people can't achieve. Lack of brain capacity and such.
Damn, I made a post that is too long again. Shit.
Right now I'm a pooor college student. I have a cell phone because my dad got a new one (the phone was free) and my mom made me take it because she was worried. I share minutes with my still in high school brother back at home, and my mom pays for it. Once I get a decent paying job I will probably switch to T-Mobile or Sprint. They have the badass intarweb features I want. I might even get one of those cool sidekick/hiptop thingies. But if possible I would like to keep my current cell-phone number with Verizon. It would just be super convenient. Heck, I would even pay a small one time fee for the convenience if I had to. Like $10 or something. I must say, that I am not so displeased with my current service. Verizon seems to have excellent coverage and I have a great plan for telphoning. But in the future I'm looking to do more with portable thingies I can't yet afford.
What are you talking about. Gaming with multiple monitors is awesome. One the main screen (hopefully a CRT for gaming quality) they've got a fullscreen CounterStrike or other fps action. On the second monitor they've got gaim or other IM program, winamp, maybe a cygwin shell, audio controls, maybe even an ssh into the game server if they're the admin. They could even have a browser at gamefaqs or slashdot while they play. No more IMs forcing half-life to lose focus! Double monitors for gamers are great. It lets them keep doing stuff they always do while they play games. It also gives the other team a huge advantage since the dual monitor guy isn't paying so close attention.
Or even better, a Motor Scooter. You can't take them on the train, but you can park them at the station. Moped is good too.
And if you really don't want to pay for gas or parking, a skateboard or unicycle is quality. They both allow you to go hands free for carrying stuff. Who cares if it's for kids or whatever, you'll be the coolest dude in the office.
With the relatively widespread use of RSS I'm really surprised that we are constantly forced to "roll our own" feeds. I mean, all I want is the front page of google news. Is it really that hard that all these news sites and such can't set up RSS for us? Freakin' Penny Arcade has RSS.
omg, you beat me to it lol!
My favorite pen ever is the Pilot GX300. It is excellent in shape and feel on the hands. However, the Pilot G2 has the nicest point and it glides on the paper niceley. I plan soon to do some super geeky pen modding. I will use the ink and point of the G2 in the body of the GX300. And possibly add an LED. It is retractable, so the LED can go change from red to green every time I click it.
ph33r.
If I had a lot of money I would probably have some fine point personalized parker pens. They are teh awesome.
mplayer is awesome. It plays anything and everything. I would love nothing more than to have a version of mplayer for windows. I've heard of people running it under cygwin, but I haven't been able to make it compile. I got it under gentoo, and it rules. Go mplayer go!
man I played Diablo 2, 4 years ago, when it first came out. It didn't take me more than 2 or 3 times on the battle.net to realize that it was crap. Let's spend all day clicking on monsters, then they die, then I click on monsters, and then they die. Pretty frickin' boring if you ask me. Not much game there. Hell I could write a program where stuff appears, you click on it, and then it dies. It's not much of a game.
But as for cheating, all cheaters of all sorts need to be banned. I'd go so far as to say game companies should share cheater information. Gamers usually play more than one game, and someone who cheats at CS probably cheats at WC3. There should be an international video game cheater black list.
You might say, that's not fair! They paid for the game, if they want to play it that way, let them. Well here's the thing. If you cheat at say a 1 player game, you're only hurting yourself. I will lose a lot of respect for your gaming skills, but it's not hurting me so I don't care. In multiplayer online games when you cheat you hurt the community and others. If 20 guys are playing CS and one of them has the aimbot the game is ruined. Now one team has a serious advantage and the game is no longer fun. If no admin is around the cheater will continue. The only choice is to quit playing. When you're a game company and 19 people quit playing because of 1, well the numbers speak for themselves. Ban the 1, keep the 19.
If ever I take part in creating or running an online type game I will have the harshest penalties on cheaters. Especially if it is a game that costs money. I think a great idea would be to put a clause in the EULA. Confirmed cheaters will be permanently banned with no second chances. They will also be required to pay a fine of $X. Make this policy well known and I guarantee a huge decrease in cheating. Especially if you make use of it fairly often. Heck, the money from catching the cheaters could pay the salaries of 1 or 2 guys who can spend all day catching them.
Man, I could talk all day about cheaters. Pretty much all there is to it is that if you cheat at video games in any way shape or form you suck ass. Be ashamed, your video game skills are so weak that you depend on something else to do the game for you. I'll tell you what, next time you buy a game and you just cheat and have the computer beat it for you, call me. I'll take the game beat it for you and give it back. I'll save 50 bucks and you'll save yourself some embarassment.
I was just thinking about that.
Nooooooo! That's the best chapter. Whit Saruman being all old and stuff. It's hilarious.
Hopefully they'll at least put it on the extended DVD version. They at least have to show the trip to the gray havens in some fashion. Ring falling in volcano != end of story.
One thing everyone has to realize is that these issues are only present in real time online multiplayer games. If companies made some more turn based online multiplayer games, then things would be super awesomer. I imagine a day when there will be an X-COM type game online and multiplayer. Ahhhh, ph33r that.
But yeah, Tribes 2 was the best ever, until they fucked it up. Counter-Strike is also awesome. The trick to not getting pissed at it is to be naturally good. That way you can kill cheaters without cheating.
Hey, they got these new things. They call them, laptops. They're great when you want a computer anywhere without a lot of clutter. You can even plug mice and keyboards into them!
Running video cable from the video card all the way over will limit you. USB is iffy, it only goes so far. A Viewsonic Wireless Monitor might do the trick, but then you might as well get a powerbook or thinkpad or tablet or something.
Looking at these specs I see one really really good use. Set top box. use the Mini-PCI to put in a TV-IN. Use the SATA for a 3.5" hard drive of 80 or 120gigs. Insert best ram stick that will fit. Make nice little box for it to go in. Put the little thing on top of the tv, install software, the end. Use LAN to transfer files to/from it. Install mplayer also for playing downloaded goods. This sure beats all those people I know with mid-towers next to their televisions.
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The rest of the gaming world still dominated by those who greatly desire Korean games. Demands still not met.
If they like our Blizzard games so much, we should cut them off. I've seen a few Korean students playing Korean games and such in the labs around campus. Holy Crap! There are like a zillion awesome video games, mostly rpg types, that we just don't have here. And apparently I can't play them because I don't have a KSSN. So, I say we cut them off of Battle.net until I get some Shining Lore.
Dude, this guy was only wrong twice! That's a pretty good percentage of correctness.
5) Not social? No, some video games aren't social. Like some card games aren't social. Solitair for instance. Obviously, he hasn't played Mario Party or Mario Golf.
11) Myst was piss poor crap. It was the game that ruined games. Fancy graphics != good gameplay. He provided no real argument that the gameplay of Myst was entertaining or quality. Because there isn't one.