Imagine that in 1952, an IBM RAMAC 350 disk drive would have been able to hold only one.MP3 song.
Considering in 1952, MP3 songs didnt exist, i cant really imagine it. Oh sorry, we are moving onto Beta Slashdot, where the target audience are perceived as so dense, they need the marketing standard "MP3 units" size system.
I'm picturing you just waving your arms at your keyboard and slurring "cyniiicisssssm" here. You did actually read the article, yes? Oh, I can answer that: no, you didn't.
cost = 50 cents item = paper Final Product = non-reusable 3rd world countries will be forced to reuse item = diseases transferred on paper
You dont even need to read the article to suss that out, its basic logic.
Catb is Eric S. Raymond's page. If you're not familiar with ESR yet, he's pretty awesome. I highly recommend two of his essays, "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" and "the Cathedral and the Bazaar".
Thanks for the sharing the link, will have a good read:)
Google finds content, it doesn't create content. Google found that definition somewhere, and we don't know where. Therefore citing Google is precisely the same thing as saying "some random web site says..."
Additionally, jargon file is maybe 20-25 years older than Google, so for the _original_ meaning of a term jargon file trumps Google by a long shot.
If Google cant find your "Jargon File", how the hell will i ever find it? lol
Please, for the love of God, link this "Jargon File" and prove me wrong:)
I don't suppose you have any early text using the term? The jargon file itself is pretty old now. If you have a clear use of the term much earlier it could be of historical interest to many people.
Seems referencing some proof to backup claims on Slashdot isnt the way to go anymore.
Just look at my Google reference with 0 scores...:)
According the the Jargon File, the definitive dictionary of hacker terminology, the word "hacker" ORIGINALLY referred to radio experimenters who did things like make or modify radar units. Later, it was used to describe people doing similar hacks with computer systems.
Google has the correct definition.
hacker hak/Submit
noun noun: hacker; plural noun: hackers
1. a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data. informal an enthusiastic and skilful computer programmer or user.
Users are the issue here. If the user stopped downloading/installing "crap", they wouldn't be a place for them in the market.
The only reason 99% of the app market is full of junk, is because people have a habbit of installing junk and accepting crap handed to them on a plate.
Fix the user's knowledge and acceptance levels of "junk", fix the issue.
Since when has Hardware Engineering being incorrectly classed as "hacker"?
I cant stand it when the word "hack" is used by everyone, incorrectly, for everything. Its just insulting to their own intelligence. I hacked my cup of coffee today, i added a sweetener instead of sugar, omg!......
"As an IT professional, I've got a problem common to many of you: dealing with a lot of passwords."
If you cant remember passwords, or, optimize your passwords for specific areas, your not an IT professional.
Its your job to remember them. Putting them anywhere but inside your brain is just lazy on your part, and, asking for trouble. Dont use the "old age" excuse, do your job and take the extra time to learn them if needed.
I dare you to tell your CEO/Manager you plan to store your company passwords on Dropbox, or some open source password program, i dare you.
I'am sick of descriptions and subjects written in gibberish. Reminds me of spam emails.
Do you have a big cock, how big can your cock get? Win £xxx pounds if your cock can be bigger than their cock. Is your cock hidden? can people see your cock? CLICK HERE NOW!
How the fuck did this get authed? Not only is it the worst subject and description i've seen in a while, its an insult to the readers here. Seriously we are here for a reason, we dont have an attention span of a fish. Oh yeah thats right, its a Slashadvert supplied by Corex.
No offence, but if this shit carries on, i may as well start reading my spam emails. Target your audience, not Facebook muppets ffs.
F-Zero (n64) Goldeneye (n64) Daytona USA (dreamcast) Xtreme G 2 (pc) Urban Assault (pc) Descent (pc) Tr-Zero (pc)
For me, there something about classic games and the gameplay element that has been lost over the years. We live in this era where graphics/cutsceens and real money purchasable unlockables are all game devs seem to care about. Profit is great, but creating "simple shit" that doesnt even play well, doesnt help the world lol.
Do you remember when the controls of games were smooth, not relying on flaky phsyx for everything. Good old Vector3's and Quats that offered a solid response from the players input. With delicate tweaks to their internal numbers that offer an edge and reward to those who master it. Oh the days where games were about pride before mass profits
Shit code made in a shit language which runs like shit = Java. Thats not to say all Java programmers are bad, but, the same code in C++ would run at least 10x faster.
Unity has Unityscript (which is like Javascript) and Boo (which is a little like Python),
Last time i checked, it supported Java or C#.
but I'd guess that most games are written in C#. And what does the language matter anyway?
No, most games are written in C++. For the performance (hence why the language matters).
Honestly, i wish Godot the best of luck with their engine. But comparing anything to Unity is just telling me it may be "easy" to use, but the performance will never exist.
I'am yet to play any Unity game that doesn't make my PC feel like its 10 years old. It annoys me when i see a Unity logo on any game, as i know what to expect. If Developers spent a little more time using a pure IDE based engine, the current indie games market would promote excellence, rather than cheap physx titles running on some hashed job Java code and being emulated by the engine.
Good luck to Godot, but I'd like to see more performance related project examples and stats. Show me your engine cares about performance and not just ease of use. A project demo to showcase the engine's capabilities wouldnt go a miss either:)
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One way to reduce stress is through prayer.
And in 2014, we also call it meditation. We have also learned, you dont have to be religious to meditate.
Imagine that in 1952, an IBM RAMAC 350 disk drive would have been able to hold only one .MP3 song.
Considering in 1952, MP3 songs didnt exist, i cant really imagine it.
Oh sorry, we are moving onto Beta Slashdot, where the target audience are perceived as so dense, they need the marketing standard "MP3 units" size system.
Go trashdot!
Windows XP
Debian + LXDE
Both on my IT appliance (the PC).
Both simple, fast and designed for functionality and not some new buzzword called "user experience".
And in other news websites, they make it CLEAR that 15GB of drive storage will cost you £0.00!
Go Slashadvert!
A "better" slashdot news article would of contained:
- Data transfer Benchmarks
- System infrastructure information
But seems we are way past that in 2014, trying to blind everyone with pure ignorance. Shame. Good news for Beta i suppose!
I'm picturing you just waving your arms at your keyboard and slurring "cyniiicisssssm" here. You did actually read the article, yes? Oh, I can answer that: no, you didn't.
cost = 50 cents
item = paper
Final Product = non-reusable
3rd world countries will be forced to reuse item = diseases transferred on paper
You dont even need to read the article to suss that out, its basic logic.
“I wanted to make the best possible disease-detection instrument that we could almost distribute for free,”
And without any doubt.
Unless "3rd world" countries spend 50 cents to create a new one each time, those diseases will be distributed for free.
Not only played instruments, waved a sword at baddies and turned into a wolf. He could use paragraphs.
Like this one here.
"Spy no need learn English yes?"
"Spy only need Twitter, must 150 letters yes?"
Good to know, I'am being spied on by someone who is just a glorified, selfish, Twitter fuck.
LXDE + Debian:
- Faster
- Smaller
- Simpler
- More like XP than KDE/gnome
Trust me, she'll like it better than KDE.
My post has a typo. That should be http://www.catb.org/jargon/
Catb is Eric S. Raymond's page. If you're not familiar with ESR yet, he's pretty awesome. I highly recommend two of his essays, "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" and "the Cathedral and the Bazaar".
Thanks for the sharing the link, will have a good read :)
Google finds content, it doesn't create content. Google found that definition somewhere, and we don't know where. Therefore citing Google is precisely the same thing as saying "some random web site says ..."
Additionally, jargon file is maybe 20-25 years older than Google, so for the _original_ meaning of a term jargon file trumps Google by a long shot.
If Google cant find your "Jargon File", how the hell will i ever find it? lol
Please, for the love of God, link this "Jargon File" and prove me wrong :)
I don't suppose you have any early text using the term? The jargon file itself is pretty old now. If you have a clear use of the term much earlier it could be of historical interest to many people.
Seems referencing some proof to backup claims on Slashdot isnt the way to go anymore.
Just look at my Google reference with 0 scores... :)
According the the Jargon File, the definitive dictionary of hacker terminology, the word "hacker" ORIGINALLY referred to radio experimenters who did things like make or modify radar units. Later, it was used to describe people doing similar hacks with computer systems.
Google has the correct definition.
hacker
hak/Submit
noun
noun: hacker; plural noun: hackers
1. a person who uses computers to gain unauthorized access to data.
informal
an enthusiastic and skilful computer programmer or user.
2. a person or thing that hacks or cuts roughly.
Users are the issue here.
If the user stopped downloading/installing "crap", they wouldn't be a place for them in the market.
The only reason 99% of the app market is full of junk, is because people have a habbit of installing junk and accepting crap handed to them on a plate.
Fix the user's knowledge and acceptance levels of "junk", fix the issue.
amatuer hardware hacker
http://hackaday.com/
Since when has Hardware Engineering being incorrectly classed as "hacker"?
I cant stand it when the word "hack" is used by everyone, incorrectly, for everything. Its just insulting to their own intelligence.
I hacked my cup of coffee today, i added a sweetener instead of sugar, omg!......
"As an IT professional, I've got a problem common to many of you: dealing with a lot of passwords."
If you cant remember passwords, or, optimize your passwords for specific areas, your not an IT professional.
Its your job to remember them. Putting them anywhere but inside your brain is just lazy on your part, and, asking for trouble.
Dont use the "old age" excuse, do your job and take the extra time to learn them if needed.
I dare you to tell your CEO/Manager you plan to store your company passwords on Dropbox, or some open source password program, i dare you.
I'am sick of descriptions and subjects written in gibberish. Reminds me of spam emails.
Do you have a big cock, how big can your cock get?
Win £xxx pounds if your cock can be bigger than their cock.
Is your cock hidden? can people see your cock? CLICK HERE NOW!
How the fuck did this get authed? Not only is it the worst subject and description i've seen in a while, its an insult to the readers here. Seriously we are here for a reason, we dont have an attention span of a fish.
Oh yeah thats right, its a Slashadvert supplied by Corex.
No offence, but if this shit carries on, i may as well start reading my spam emails. Target your audience, not Facebook muppets ffs.
Did they mean "2nd biggest"?
Why not just write "Second biggest"?
My personal favorite:
WhatsApp: Not the Biggest Tech Acquisition of All Time
F-Zero (n64)
Goldeneye (n64)
Daytona USA (dreamcast)
Xtreme G 2 (pc)
Urban Assault (pc)
Descent (pc)
Tr-Zero (pc)
For me, there something about classic games and the gameplay element that has been lost over the years. We live in this era where graphics/cutsceens and real money purchasable unlockables are all game devs seem to care about.
Profit is great, but creating "simple shit" that doesnt even play well, doesnt help the world lol.
Do you remember when the controls of games were smooth, not relying on flaky phsyx for everything.
Good old Vector3's and Quats that offered a solid response from the players input. With delicate tweaks to their internal numbers that offer an edge and reward to those who master it.
Oh the days where games were about pride before mass profits
Now with Fisheye as standard.
360 view, nothing new.
At least get the camera smoothed out like the gyro system in Moto GP, then it will be news worth reading.
Frantzesco Kangaris for The Wall Street Journal
Oxford, England
In England, where the article is referring to, we call it Maths.
Lets put some electricity through someone's head and see what happens, or, drink a Red Bull for the same effect. Mmm, hard choice :P
Most _Unity3D_ games are written in C#. Seriously, go learn English and come back. You're too illiterate to engage in any sort of conversation
Roger that Mr A C Unity.
I wasnt aware you were conducting English lessons for Slashdot?
I'd suggest reading the below regarding your emulated C# code.
All of those are then converted into the same common code then compiled to the final platform ala a custom version of mono.
I found a DVD of Ubuntu in the bin.
I must of put it there after i realised Debian + LXDE was a much, much, much better choice.
Oh dear oh dear lol
What on earth is a "pure IDE based engine"?
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/V... .dll linkage, or, included .h .cpp files.
eg: a engine which uses a IDE, either by
And what do you mean by "hashed job Java code"?
Shit code made in a shit language which runs like shit = Java.
Thats not to say all Java programmers are bad, but, the same code in C++ would run at least 10x faster.
Unity has Unityscript (which is like Javascript) and Boo (which is a little like Python),
Last time i checked, it supported Java or C#.
but I'd guess that most games are written in C#. And what does the language matter anyway?
No, most games are written in C++. For the performance (hence why the language matters).
You are bad programmer, because you should know that not even single bugless software exists.
But 400+ is acceptable?
You must be the best programmer in the world...
Honestly, i wish Godot the best of luck with their engine.
But comparing anything to Unity is just telling me it may be "easy" to use, but the performance will never exist.
I'am yet to play any Unity game that doesn't make my PC feel like its 10 years old. It annoys me when i see a Unity logo on any game, as i know what to expect.
If Developers spent a little more time using a pure IDE based engine, the current indie games market would promote excellence, rather than cheap physx titles running on some hashed job Java code and being emulated by the engine.
Good luck to Godot, but I'd like to see more performance related project examples and stats. Show me your engine cares about performance and not just ease of use. A project demo to showcase the engine's capabilities wouldnt go a miss either :)