The Far Cry and Crysis engines also use it. It's pretty popular, from what I've heard.
I've looked at it and it looks like it'd be something really nice to incorporate into projects where you'd like to give people scripting abilities, but it's got some really really annoying things:
It looks like a cross between Pascal and BASIC
OK, well, that's all I could think of. It almost makes my head hurt.
I suppose if I had been doing VB over the past decade instead of using all C-like languages, I could wrap my head around it.. but, I've been using C, C++, PHP, LPC, UnrealScript, and just about any other C-syntax language. Everyone else in the world has been using C-syntax languages too. Why did they come out with a bastardization of Pascal / BASIC together?
Agreed - I bankrupted myself at one point just hiring a lawyer to get a suit against me dropped, basically to explain that I was a broke individual, and that there wasn't a damn thing they could possibly squeeze me for. Had the civil court system worked like this, "Loser Pays", my lawyer would've taken it all the way wherever it had to go, without charging me a dime, because the suit wouldn't have lasted in a court session.
I'd doubt this - any person with knowledge of a programming language can potentially write code that will achieve virtually any task. The difference between them is in how they would do it, and the code they would actually write. Skilled programmers would do it in a much more efficient or extensible or whatever their style is, and unskilled programmers would achieve it in a longer length of time, with less efficient or less functional or whatever code.
I would doubt, seriously, that there is anything beyond a function being a couple of lines of code, that can only be done one way.
I would like to commend the Subversion community for being the one piece of open source software that I have used in several years that had a support community (between their websites, and the #svn channel) that is not just full of arrogant elitists.
If I ask a question on #svn, I almost always get an answer from someone who can point me to where in the manual to look - and that's pretty valuable, since if you aren't intimiately familiar with the product, you might have no idea how to search for what you're actually looking for.
The people who would care if it runs on several platforms are probably not developing the software as a hobby, anyway. I'm not saying it should be encouraged, in fact, as portable as possible is always the best way to do things, and that way you don't have to change things so much when things on your own operating system change. However, even when it was an available and free resource from SourceForge, apparently not enough people used it to make it worth it to keep going. I'm not saying that that's how it should be, but that that's how it IS.
The general attitude is "it's not my platform, if you want it, you port it."
no, you just have people who have spare computers or lots of spare processing time, offer up free accounts on said computers. No big deal at all, and in fact, something that goes back to the beginnings of Open Source, when everyone in the world could login to RMS's MIT account.
I'd guess if the service in question were used by any largish number of people, that they probably would've found a way to turn it into a profit instead of a drain. But, if not many people are interested in your free product, you're going to kill it entirely if you have to make money with it.
This is true.. how many operating systems are in wide use for most applications these days?
We have... Windows, MacOS, Linux, and BSD.
Anyone else?
I spose there's still people working with Sun/Solaris and HP/UX and AIX, but for the most part, open source devs care that it works on their stuff, and to heck with whatever else.
Well, I don't know, load up a page 1 of a 2 page Slashdot comment listing, and my browser will go out to lunch, and stay out to lunch for several minutes.
I've never read a Digg comments thread, I was just looking at the main page.
I have a really blurry and dim CRT display, on my Nvidia. but I've swapped it for two other ATI cards and another Nvidia, and they all do pretty much the same thing. I then plugged it into a $200 Monster surge suppressor/power conditioner, and it improved the situation a fair amount. I'm buying a new CRT, though, because it's pretty obvious this one has seen better days.. or was fucked up from the bgeinning.
Let me get this straight.. you need an AGP video card with a DVI output?
That qualifies for virtually every video card that you can actually PURCHASE NEW right about now. My GF6200 has DVI, my Radeon 9550, 9600, have DVI. All are the extreme bottom of the line right now.
Anyone know where one can get a list of the stores that are closing? Likely to be some pretty fine deals if they are closing that many! Gotta get rid o that stuff...
You're probably referring to the corporate stores -- that is pretty much the concentration at corporate stores. The franchises can carry and sell whatever they want, so long as X% of it is RadioShack merchandise, typically.
When I worked for RadioShack (and when I work for -anyone-) I make sure I know the business cold.
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Yeah, I bought the 133+ tin edition the day it was available, for Windows.
:P
2 years later, I bought the tin edition for Linux, as it was still in the same store.
So, I have no idea what you're talking about
The Far Cry and Crysis engines also use it. It's pretty popular, from what I've heard.
.. but, I've been using C, C++, PHP, LPC, UnrealScript, and just about any other C-syntax language. Everyone else in the world has been using C-syntax languages too. Why did they come out with a bastardization of Pascal / BASIC together?
I've looked at it and it looks like it'd be something really nice to incorporate into projects where you'd like to give people scripting abilities, but it's got some really really annoying things:
It looks like a cross between Pascal and BASIC
OK, well, that's all I could think of.
It almost makes my head hurt.
I suppose if I had been doing VB over the past decade instead of using all C-like languages, I could wrap my head around it
I'd seriously want to use it if it were C-like.
Just because you have a right to the source, how does this entitle you to a right to use a particular service for free?
Sane people recognise the value of services rendered, and are willing to pay for it.
At least, those few that still have any money left to pay for things after our country has been assraped for the last 6 years.
Expect this person, as well as any other NSL recipient that they could possibly claim might be this guy, to disappear.
Agreed - I bankrupted myself at one point just hiring a lawyer to get a suit against me dropped, basically to explain that I was a broke individual, and that there wasn't a damn thing they could possibly squeeze me for. Had the civil court system worked like this, "Loser Pays", my lawyer would've taken it all the way wherever it had to go, without charging me a dime, because the suit wouldn't have lasted in a court session.
I'd doubt this - any person with knowledge of a programming language can potentially write code that will achieve virtually any task. The difference between them is in how they would do it, and the code they would actually write. Skilled programmers would do it in a much more efficient or extensible or whatever their style is, and unskilled programmers would achieve it in a longer length of time, with less efficient or less functional or whatever code.
I would doubt, seriously, that there is anything beyond a function being a couple of lines of code, that can only be done one way.
Even non-geeks want to know why on earth you're using a 640x480 screen.
But, you have to press them all at the SAME TIME.
It takes like 4 arms to operate Emacs, doesn't it?
I would like to commend the Subversion community for being the one piece of open source software that I have used in several years that had a support community (between their websites, and the #svn channel) that is not just full of arrogant elitists.
If I ask a question on #svn, I almost always get an answer from someone who can point me to where in the manual to look - and that's pretty valuable, since if you aren't intimiately familiar with the product, you might have no idea how to search for what you're actually looking for.
The people who would care if it runs on several platforms are probably not developing the software as a hobby, anyway. I'm not saying it should be encouraged, in fact, as portable as possible is always the best way to do things, and that way you don't have to change things so much when things on your own operating system change. However, even when it was an available and free resource from SourceForge, apparently not enough people used it to make it worth it to keep going. I'm not saying that that's how it should be, but that that's how it IS.
The general attitude is "it's not my platform, if you want it, you port it."
no, you just have people who have spare computers or lots of spare processing time, offer up free accounts on said computers. No big deal at all, and in fact, something that goes back to the beginnings of Open Source, when everyone in the world could login to RMS's MIT account.
I'd guess if the service in question were used by any largish number of people, that they probably would've found a way to turn it into a profit instead of a drain. But, if not many people are interested in your free product, you're going to kill it entirely if you have to make money with it.
This is true.. how many operating systems are in wide use for most applications these days?
We have... Windows, MacOS, Linux, and BSD.
Anyone else?
I spose there's still people working with Sun/Solaris and HP/UX and AIX, but for the most part, open source devs care that it works on their stuff, and to heck with whatever else.
Well, I don't know, load up a page 1 of a 2 page Slashdot comment listing, and my browser will go out to lunch, and stay out to lunch for several minutes.
I've never read a Digg comments thread, I was just looking at the main page.
Trust me, that is -far- more confusing to people.
Guy #1: What's the command to find out if a net site is up?
Guy #2: man ping!
Guy #1: WTF?! I didn't ask for a chinese menu, d00d.
Also don't forget that probably upwards of 90% of computer users are incapable of operating a command line.
Perhaps it's time you upgraded the 486 to something a little more reasonable with today's computing needs?
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What the Hell are you talking about? I just flipped through digg, and there's no indication whatsoever of what you were talking about in it.
Java, PDF, and Flash support depend on the environment just as much as your browser does
I built the entire POS system for my gf's business over the course of about 4 hours, in PHP. It works great. :)
I have a really blurry and dim CRT display, on my Nvidia. but I've swapped it for two other ATI cards and another Nvidia, and they all do pretty much the same thing. I then plugged it into a $200 Monster surge suppressor/power conditioner, and it improved the situation a fair amount. I'm buying a new CRT, though, because it's pretty obvious this one has seen better days .. or was fucked up from the bgeinning.
DVI is VGA but for TVs, really.
Let me get this straight.. you need an AGP video card with a DVI output?
That qualifies for virtually every video card that you can actually PURCHASE NEW right about now. My GF6200 has DVI, my Radeon 9550, 9600, have DVI. All are the extreme bottom of the line right now.
sweet, all but one of the Michigan locations are closing.. wonder when they start selling stuff cheap?
Anyone know where one can get a list of the stores that are closing? Likely to be some pretty fine deals if they are closing that many! Gotta get rid o that stuff...
You're probably referring to the corporate stores -- that is pretty much the concentration at corporate stores. The franchises can carry and sell whatever they want, so long as X% of it is RadioShack merchandise, typically.
When I worked for RadioShack (and when I work for -anyone-) I make sure I know the business cold.