You can stack two CD-Roms together and put them between your eyes and the sun. If you get the angle just right, you can actually see the sun and the eclipse.
For people like me who lives in the Bay Area, CA, the one big hole is North Lake Tahoe. When I go up in the winter for snowboarding, the signal is so bad that I could barely make a call. I think the worst is Kings Beach where Northstar is.
wonder how the chickens taste like. I know for a fact that chickens in other countries taste better than ones in the US, but I doubt that the space chicken in the Chinese satellite would taste better than the ones in the US satellite.
Maybe a little offtopic but: I have made 3 empirical observations of the game industry: 1. Games are about 5 years behind cutting-edge graphics research (academica (SIGGRAPH), mostly. 2. The graphics/engine programmers generally have the best hardware in the graphics team to allow them to test out the latest hardware advancements 3. Games nowadays takes around 2-3 years that the cutting edge hardware they use at first will become midranged by the time game got released.
I'm currently reading Barrayar, my first by Bujold. One thing I find very different for her books is the character development. Maybe it is because the author is female, she pays so much attention to details of how people think and their emotions at different times. The other refreshing aspect is that the female characters are very well developed if not better than the male counterparts. However, I'm still not sure if I would put her books as a Sci-Fi book or a "not sure what genre yet" book that happens to take place in non-earth non-current world. There is not much interesting technological aspects yet except maybe test-tube babies. So if you are interested in these aspects, you should go read Dan Simmons' Hyperion series. Otherwise, Bujold is a great author with definitely a different kind of Sci-Fi touch.
I think a lot of people like me either fly on business by free upgrade or mileage upgrade. It's always better for the service to be at least available so it may trickle down to the economy class in time. Although that is only when there is a business reason to do so.
Well said. I urge every vim user to try vim + konsole. Or even, vim + konsole + ion. This way your hands never have to stray from the normal resting position. BTW, to really use vim, you need a sun layout keyboard. The ESC and CTRL keys have to be at the right place.
Vim is something you have to get used to. It's like snowboarding. You cannnot just do it for one day and after falling on your asses for all day and just call it quit. Vim is something that the more you use it, the more you love it. Yes, after you get used to it, all the other editors seems slow and unproductive. It's productivity that vim users are after, not ease of use. You can write code in notepad but it's going to be much slower. Vim is great for making changes to the content in the minimal time. You might want to buy "Learning vi" to really learn it right. After you work on it for 3 days, you will know what I mean. The main thing is that there is no point to say some editor sucks without understanding it. You can use whatever editor you want. Another thing, to really use vim in its potential get a good keyboard with the sun layout.
I personally think vim + konsole is better than gvim or kvim. Although vim already has split (horizontal and verticle), multiple buffers, and escape to shell, sometimes, its nice to be able to open another shell or do something on the command line. Konsole enables me to do so much more. I can vim one file and then open anothe shell from console to run the program and then go back to fix the problem. Having buttons on kvim is not that useful since most of vim users use only keyboards anyway. For people who works strictly without X, use "screen" will also work. If you are like me who dislikes overlapping windows, using the window manager ion makes the workspace even more convenient from keyboards.
... like me for example. Nothing is more valuable than a running source code. I believe we should encourage this kind of education opportunities. Whether anyone can use this to create a game derivative is less significant in this case. Just my 2 cents.
This reminded me of South Park where mothers will never blame themselves or their children. Their angles are never responsible, it's always the EVIL outside influences. Mothers Against Sony!
For many of my friends, (20-30+), one of the real reason is the games. Although we do real work on our pcs (I write programs on my Linux boxes and some of my friends design websites on their windows boxes), the real reason for many of us is that we want our machine to be GAME-COMPATIBLE. Sure there are games for Macs but they are much less (just checkout a local Fry's Electronics or Bestbuy), more expensive, and generally comes out much later or not at all. For my younger cousin and his friends, they are their family computer whiz, and their buying decision is whether they can run the latest games. For my gf, her primary use other than school work is to surf the web and chat with friends. Although she is an architecture (mostly uses Autocad on pcs) student in an art school (they use all Macs), she is so used to IE with the 5 button Microsoft mouse that she totally dislikes the 1 button mouse, the sluggishness and the interface of the Macs (from her words) in her school.
My company also need to network boot a large number of linux boxes. We use Redhat kickstart. It's one of the easiest way to install a large number of workstations.
I also use windowmaker. But in addition, I use konsole. So Ctrl-(left, right) to switch between the virtual windows, and Shift-(left, right) to switch between konsole terminals. I still haven't found a good browser yet. I'm still looking for some konsole hack that embeds a GRAPHICAL browser (mozilla?). Does anyone know of one?
I tried out PS2 Linux in Game Developer's Conference last week. Here are two points that are probably already addressed by other posts: 1. The PS2 only has 32 Megs of RAM, so when you really want to use it as a general PC, it is VERY slow. I was running WindowMaker, a MP3 player (I think it was XMMS), and xpdf to read the documentation. The mouse and xpdf was crawling whenever I click on the next page button. 2. Although you cannot boot from a custom DVD, you can recompile the kernel and store it on the memory card.
1. It's very difficult to find an authorized dealer that sells unpirated version. In many cases, there is no authorized dealer.
2. It's very very easy to find pirated version of anything. In many cases, authorized dealer also sell pirated version on the side.:) BTW, each pirated CD costs about $1 in China.
3. Anyone making $600 a month is considered doing very well. So no one can really afford the authorized versions.
4. Chinese version of Adobe software is simply the English version + additional step to install a localization executable.
5. For many people, they'd rather get English version. I know of many people who specifically asks for English version.
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You can stack two CD-Roms together and put them between your eyes and the sun. If you get the angle just right, you can actually see the sun and the eclipse.
For people like me who lives in the Bay Area, CA, the one big hole is North Lake Tahoe. When I go up in the winter for snowboarding, the signal is so bad that I could barely make a call. I think the worst is Kings Beach where Northstar is.
Gamers care more about games than the price or ability of the systems.
The subject says it all but abstraction is good if used in moderation. I think game programmers can attest to that.
I wholeheartedly agree. That would be exactly what I would want.
wonder how the chickens taste like. I know for a fact that chickens in other countries taste better than ones in the US, but I doubt that the space chicken in the Chinese satellite would taste better than the ones in the US satellite.
I think bnetd can benefit blizzard if blizzard allows them to file bugs as well.
Maybe a little offtopic but:
I have made 3 empirical observations of the game industry:
1. Games are about 5 years behind cutting-edge graphics research (academica (SIGGRAPH), mostly.
2. The graphics/engine programmers generally have the best hardware in the graphics team to allow them to test out the latest hardware advancements
3. Games nowadays takes around 2-3 years that the cutting edge hardware they use at first will become midranged by the time game got released.
I'm currently reading Barrayar, my first by Bujold. One thing I find very different for her books is the character development. Maybe it is because the author is female, she pays so much attention to details of how people think and their emotions at different times. The other refreshing aspect is that the female characters are very well developed if not better than the male counterparts. However, I'm still not sure if I would put her books as a Sci-Fi book or a "not sure what genre yet" book that happens to take place in non-earth non-current world. There is not much interesting technological aspects yet except maybe test-tube babies. So if you are interested in these aspects, you should go read Dan Simmons' Hyperion series. Otherwise, Bujold is a great author with definitely a different kind of Sci-Fi touch.
I think a lot of people like me either fly on business by free upgrade or mileage upgrade. It's always better for the service to be at least available so it may trickle down to the economy class in time. Although that is only when there is a business reason to do so.
Well said. I urge every vim user to try vim + konsole. Or even, vim + konsole + ion. This way your hands never have to stray from the normal resting position. BTW, to really use vim, you need a sun layout keyboard. The ESC and CTRL keys have to be at the right place.
Vim is something you have to get used to. It's like snowboarding. You cannnot just do it for one day and after falling on your asses for all day and just call it quit. Vim is something that the more you use it, the more you love it. Yes, after you get used to it, all the other editors seems slow and unproductive. It's productivity that vim users are after, not ease of use. You can write code in notepad but it's going to be much slower. Vim is great for making changes to the content in the minimal time. You might want to buy "Learning vi" to really learn it right. After you work on it for 3 days, you will know what I mean.
The main thing is that there is no point to say some editor sucks without understanding it. You can use whatever editor you want. Another thing, to really use vim in its potential get a good keyboard with the sun layout.
I personally think vim + konsole is better than gvim or kvim. Although vim already has split (horizontal and verticle), multiple buffers, and escape to shell, sometimes, its nice to be able to open another shell or do something on the command line. Konsole enables me to do so much more. I can vim one file and then open anothe shell from console to run the program and then go back to fix the problem. Having buttons on kvim is not that useful since most of vim users use only keyboards anyway. For people who works strictly without X, use "screen" will also work. If you are like me who dislikes overlapping windows, using the window manager ion makes the workspace even more convenient from keyboards.
... like me for example. Nothing is more valuable than a running source code. I believe we should encourage this kind of education opportunities. Whether anyone can use this to create a game derivative is less significant in this case. Just my 2 cents.
This reminded me of South Park where mothers will never blame themselves or their children. Their angles are never responsible, it's always the EVIL outside influences. Mothers Against Sony!
For many of my friends, (20-30+), one of the real reason is the games. Although we do real work on our pcs (I write programs on my Linux boxes and some of my friends design websites on their windows boxes), the real reason for many of us is that we want our machine to be GAME-COMPATIBLE. Sure there are games for Macs but they are much less (just checkout a local Fry's Electronics or Bestbuy), more expensive, and generally comes out much later or not at all. For my younger cousin and his friends, they are their family computer whiz, and their buying decision is whether they can run the latest games.
For my gf, her primary use other than school work is to surf the web and chat with friends. Although she is an architecture (mostly uses Autocad on pcs) student in an art school (they use all Macs), she is so used to IE with the 5 button Microsoft mouse that she totally dislikes the 1 button mouse, the sluggishness and the interface of the Macs (from her words) in her school.
My company also need to network boot a large number of linux boxes. We use Redhat kickstart. It's one of the easiest way to install a large number of workstations.
I also use windowmaker. But in addition, I use konsole. So Ctrl-(left, right) to switch between the virtual windows, and Shift-(left, right) to switch between konsole terminals. I still haven't found a good browser yet. I'm still looking for some konsole hack that embeds a GRAPHICAL browser (mozilla?). Does anyone know of one?
I tried out PS2 Linux in Game Developer's Conference last week. Here are two points that are probably already addressed by other posts:
1. The PS2 only has 32 Megs of RAM, so when you really want to use it as a general PC, it is VERY slow. I was running WindowMaker, a MP3 player (I think it was XMMS), and xpdf to read the documentation. The mouse and xpdf was crawling whenever I click on the next page button.
2. Although you cannot boot from a custom DVD, you can recompile the kernel and store it on the memory card.
1. It's very difficult to find an authorized dealer that sells unpirated version. In many cases, there is no authorized dealer. :) BTW, each pirated CD costs about $1 in China.
2. It's very very easy to find pirated version of anything. In many cases, authorized dealer also sell pirated version on the side.
3. Anyone making $600 a month is considered doing very well. So no one can really afford the authorized versions.
4. Chinese version of Adobe software is simply the English version + additional step to install a localization executable.
5. For many people, they'd rather get English version. I know of many people who specifically asks for English version.