You're just SOL if the guy who stocked the ATM puts 5's in the 20's bin.
In many countries bills (notes? shit, my English is tragic) are marked Braille-like so that blind (visually impaired?) people know what they have in their hands.
But even if you're not blind (vis. imp.?) what can you do when an ATM gives you a 5 instead of a 20?
The foreign release often happens about the same time as the domestic video/DVD release. They don't want people to be able to mail order a DVD from the US instead of going to the theater.
I've got a better solution that region codes - why don't they release the movies (in the theaters) at the same time worldwide. Seriously, why?
I'm not sure if it is possible to make a playble video DVD without regional encoding,
Yeah, it's possible - many older movies are released that way.
Frac is right, Carmack wanted to release the Q3 engine open source and has stated so deep down in his.plan file a while back. There was some conflict amongst the other members of ID that ended up with Carmack agreeing to keep it closed source. You can find it all in his.plan.
I read every Carmack's.plan update for about 3 years and don't remember anything like that. Maybe you could show it to me on finger.planetquake.com?
In fact, Carmack wanted to have the Quake3 engine developed open-source, but other founders won't let him (learned from the already-defunct planetcrap.com)
I don't think so.
Besides, other founders = Adrian Carmack (no relation) and he's an artist, not a programmer so I think he doesn't care whether it's open source or not.
Other founders (Hall, Romero) have left id long time ago.
> But in high school (the Germans call it > "gymnasium", or is that primary school?), > you don't call yourself a CS student, and > that's the environment that we're talking about
OK.
(They taught us C/C++ and Pascal in my high school, anyway.:)
> This isn't talking about teaching > programming to CS students. This is > talking about teaching programming to > the general public, early in high school.
So I must have misunderstood the original post.
But then again, it says "C++ is just too difficult for first-year CS students in high school".
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30 years from now you go to a library and see a super-duper-DVD labelled "Internet 1999".
:)
(I know, we'll be using digital libraries by then.
-jfedor
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000
...
1973 Dodge Charger
1974 Dodge Charger
...
And like Pentiums too - Corvette C3, C4, C5...
-jfedor
What about this one?
:)
No new TLDs necessary, just convince the guy who owns index.pl.
-jfedor
I know "Daikatana Sucks" isn't Slashdot's official position but it looks bad anyway.
-jfedor
Then create a boot floppy from floppy.img, and reboot! (try dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 conv=sync; sync )
I don't have a floppy drive, what do I do?
-jfedor
ftp://dl.xs4all.nl/pub/mirror/Beos/
-jfedor
I just got their message saying that BeOS 5 is available.
It even started to appear on ftp.sunet.se.
-jfedor
Wouldn't it be easier just to disable downloading images that are 468x60? This fixes the problems with ads in general. :)
-jfedor
The page says that Region 2 is "Japan and Asia". Actually, it is Japan, Europe, South Africa and Middle East (including Egypt).
-jfedor
1. Good Net access.
:)
2. Good cinemas.
3. Good university.
(Well, the third one isn't really necessary...
-jfedor
Only time can tell how well this will work but since it was such a good strategy for Apple, why not SGI ?
a t-nobody-will-care-what's-inside... :)
:))
I thought Apple's strategy to save the company was more like let's-make-this-really-cool-looking-machine-so-th
SGI's Visual Workstations looked cool and it didn't work though...
-jfedor
You're just SOL if the guy who stocked the ATM puts 5's in the 20's bin.
In many countries bills (notes? shit, my English is tragic) are marked Braille-like so that blind (visually impaired?) people know what they have in their hands.
But even if you're not blind (vis. imp.?) what can you do when an ATM gives you a 5 instead of a 20?
-jfedor
The foreign release often happens about the same time as the domestic video/DVD release. They don't want people to be able to mail order a DVD from the US instead of going to the theater.
I've got a better solution that region codes - why don't they release the movies (in the theaters) at the same time worldwide. Seriously, why?
I'm not sure if it is possible to make a playble video DVD without regional encoding,
Yeah, it's possible - many older movies are released that way.
-jfedor
This CNN article talks about another alternative input device for PalmPilots/Visor.
-jfedor
I have to ask this, even if it's not considered a 'serious' question.
Can you please give us an Official List of Carmack's Ferraris(tm)?
-jfedor
Frac is right, Carmack wanted to release the Q3 engine open source and has stated so deep down in his .plan file a .plan.
.plan update for about 3 years and don't remember anything like that. Maybe you could show it to me on finger.planetquake.com?
while back. There was some conflict amongst the other members of ID that ended up with Carmack agreeing to keep
it closed source. You can find it all in his
I read every Carmack's
-jfedor
In fact, Carmack wanted to have the Quake3 engine developed open-source, but other founders won't let him (learned from the already-defunct planetcrap.com)
I don't think so.
Besides, other founders = Adrian Carmack (no relation) and he's an artist, not a programmer so I think he doesn't care whether it's open source or not.
Other founders (Hall, Romero) have left id long time ago.
-jfedor
You can play the shareware version (1st episode).
To play the rest you have to pay.
-jfedor
Maybe Commander Keen code isn't id Software's property.
At that time they sticked with Apogee and that could be a problem.
-jfedor
> But in high school (the Germans call it
:)
> "gymnasium", or is that primary school?),
> you don't call yourself a CS student, and
> that's the environment that we're talking about
OK.
(They taught us C/C++ and Pascal in my high school, anyway.
-jfedor
> Programming does not require any extra
> level of intelligence;
Well, actually, yes it does.
As for the rest, you're probably right about the accountants and financial analysts.
-jfedor
> This isn't talking about teaching
> programming to CS students. This is
> talking about teaching programming to
> the general public, early in high school.
So I must have misunderstood the original post.
But then again, it says "C++ is just too difficult for first-year CS students in high school".
-jfedor
I don't know about US, but in my country if you call yourself a CS student people assume you're smart enough to learn Pascal or C.
Not that I don't like Python (actually I don't know anything about it).
-jfedor
What's an Alteon?
How does it work?
-jfedor
Seems like Windows people have just invented an X terminal...
Amazing!
-jfedor