Hmm. I think the problem here is that when someone wants to start helping out in the open-source world they don't want to do something boring like checking or writing documentation.
In my view, the checking of documentation is best done by thorough/intelligent/in-depth end-users (or programmers if it's a library or compiler).
People usually start helping out without realising it as they have an "itch to scratch", i.e. some fairly small but useful feature some app lacks or a small but annoying and easily-fixed bug.
The important part is that they read up on the proper way to submit that fix/feature patch so that everyone else can benefit from it.
Glue your Aibo to the roof of your car, then your Aibo can "drive" everywhere! Better than a skateboard!
Or, if you just happen to own a surplus AH-64D you could stick your Aibo on top (careful it doesn't get chopped up by the main rotor!) - now your Aibo can fly!
And yet when I am in the living room using the computer connected to the TV my mouse pointer will stick if I sit at just the wrong angle on the sofa, making the distance to the receiver over 1.5m...
Technology, eh? Always works when you don't want it to, fails when you need it.
The site is/.ed, but I noticed that you get a friendly message from IIS which tells you that too many people are connected- but have you seen the unnecessary bulk of the HTML source ? It would be funny if you had a really plain web site and "turning people away" like this actually used more bandwidth...
I used to play a lot of computer and console games but I got pretty bored of the same old thing again and again. Rarely there would be a true gem that I would play even after completing it, e.g. Diablo 2.
Nowadays I tend to play Go (The oriental board game) a lot. I am kind of addicted to it. I am still so rubbish that GnuGo can whip my ass on its max difficulty setting, but it's still fun playing against other people on the internet.
I have found something in Go that I couldn't find in any computer game, but still lacking is the eye-candy you get with modern games. Sometimes I have to get the latest 3d shooter and play it for a bit just to watch shiny things rotate.
graspee
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" celebrates pure Evil and the power of Satin"
If I had enough rolls of satin I could make a dress to fit the whole Earth, and the entire planet would look like a woman! Mwuhahahahhaah!
I'm mainly just writing this to see if I can, since/. seems to be borken, judging by the number of comments on each story.
So, what to say ?
You see a lot of "old time" computer programmers slowing down these days- it's sort of sad. It shows us that however brilliant we are at programming there will come a time when we have to slow down.
The difference between true greats and us (if you consider yourself a "true great" then apologies, and "fuck you!") is that when they slow down they are still brilliant enough and have enough energy to change the world, either through writing, or lectures.
Does anyone know of any great programmers who are old, say over 60 ? I would be interested. Probably some people who are really famous are that old, but I just didn't realize their age....
I was not saying that nudity and homosexuality are evil- in fact I think Sailor Moon is a kids' show, and is suitable as a kids' show- everything I mentioned is OK by me, but I realise that it would offend most Western parents.
I know the part you mean with the gun but then the image of Chibi-Usa pointing a gun at Usagi is just too funny to take out. (It happens again in one of the movies).
Also I would like to point out that at least *I* am not in denial. I know SM is a kids' show, and if I were Japanese I would probably not like it, but the reason I do is because it is from a different culture and is interesting.
Anyway, you can just look at the manga, which came first, and see the same elements as the TV show, and the manga was hardly "merchandised" at all.
Violating the ancient traditions for truth and justice (eating while walking in Shinjuku) it's the Sailor-suited freak, Sailor Graspee!
"Sailor Moon wasn't really a kids show until the editors got ahold of it."
You think Sailor Moon the original is not suitable for kids ? Was it anything to do with the occasional torture, death, crucifiction of main characters, the nudity, the homosexuality or perhaps the main character being a new Messiah ?;)
It's interesting to see what the cutting edge is capable of, but you pay such a stupidly massive premium for the latest processor that only fools would use their own money to buy it.
In the UK you usually have the ultimate latest Intel at about 700 UKP- the sweet spot in the price/performance trade-off tends to be around the 200 UKP mark, which will probably be the 2.5Ghz by the time this 3Ghz one is out.
The Ghost in the Shell dude's mouse looks cool, but seems more suited to racing in the Wipeout series (if it were a ship) than using on a daily basis.
The Gundam dude's mouse is very boring and square, but then I think the Gundam mech's are pretty square and chunky- like Gundam vs. Eva is a Ford Cortina vs. a BMW Z8...
" Wow. That's almost enough to make me devote myself to tracking down your real name and posting it to this thread... Almost. It wasn't a two minute process, though, so you escape for now."
So who cares if you do find out my real name ? Everyone who knows me knows these things already. I have no shame and I'm brutally honest. Who would be laughing at me who wasn't already? If you put my address are/.ers going to knock on my door then laugh and run away ? (It's getting near Halloween so I would probably misinterpret their actions anyway).
"Because you enjoy being supported by you super-model wife?"
Dude, if only. The last time I so much as *kissed* a woman was 1993, and as for sex we're talking the 80s. In fact George Micheal has had sex with a woman more recently than me. (I am totally the geek stereotype).
But hey, there's blissfully happy without sex. I think the shit you have to deal with in a relationship far outweighs the good anyway. (But then I would say that, wouldn't I?).
" I don't play RPGs, I have a JOB. I don't watch anime, I have a LIFE."
The fact that you've posted 24 comments in the last 3 days on/. tells me otherwise.
Anyway, for the record, I play RPGs, I don't have a job, I watch lots of anime. According to you I "have no life". Why is it that I am blissfully happy then ?
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Is calling it "brain cancer" an American thing ? In the UK we always refer to the condition as a "brain tumour".
Incidentally I never read any of Charles Sheffield, but the death of any SF author is a loss and a shame.
graspee
Hmm. I think the problem here is that when someone wants to start helping out in the open-source world they don't want to do something boring like checking or writing documentation.
In my view, the checking of documentation is best done by thorough/intelligent/in-depth end-users (or programmers if it's a library or compiler).
People usually start helping out without realising it as they have an "itch to scratch", i.e. some fairly small but useful feature some app lacks or a small but annoying and easily-fixed bug.
The important part is that they read up on the proper way to submit that fix/feature patch so that everyone else can benefit from it.
graspee
From the article:
/. then...
"There are always people who would rather talk about it than actually help with development."
So we can take it he reads
graspee
Glue your Aibo to the roof of your car, then your Aibo can "drive" everywhere! Better than a skateboard!
Or, if you just happen to own a surplus AH-64D you could stick your Aibo on top (careful it doesn't get chopped up by the main rotor!) - now your Aibo can fly!
graspee
And yet when I am in the living room using the computer connected to the TV my mouse pointer will stick if I sit at just the wrong angle on the sofa, making the distance to the receiver over 1.5m...
Technology, eh? Always works when you don't want it to, fails when you need it.
graspee
The site is /.ed, but I noticed that you get a friendly message from IIS which tells you that too many people are connected- but have you seen the unnecessary bulk of the HTML source ? It would be funny if you had a really plain web site and "turning people away" like this actually used more bandwidth...
graspee
...But I thought Fallout Tactics was a great game. It wasn't exactly the same as FO1 & 2, but was a great game in its own right.
I agree with you about Farscape though, but I realize that other people may have liked it.
graspee
" ...RMS is set to release gnu4u, "GNU's Norton Utilities 4 Unix". Wow..."
Ugh, RMS in a pink shirt and a smile. Thanks for sticking that image in my brain.
graspee
" So what I need is something she can use for a few weeks -- still accessing her docs on her Windows partition -- until she's sold."
Dude, there's no need to sell your girlfriend just because she uses Word.
graspee
" Copying a 20$ DVD is the same as stealing 20$ from the company that made it."
No it isn't, trolling fuck-nuts person.
For a start, if you legally bought the DVD then the company would be out the actual (albeit small) cost of producing the DVD.
2nd - it's only lost revenue if you would have bought the DVD anyway.
3rd - depriving of profit is not "stealing"- it's depriving of profit.
graspee
Cool- I want one. But how much are they ? Something tells me that they'll be about 4 million of some currency.
Hmm- actually that's my guess - 4 million yen- which is about 20,000 UK Pounds.
It's certainly not going to look attractive compared to a Vaio running FreeBSD.
graspee
I used to play a lot of computer and console games but I got pretty bored of the same old thing again and again. Rarely there would be a true gem that I would play even after completing it, e.g. Diablo 2.
Nowadays I tend to play Go (The oriental board game) a lot. I am kind of addicted to it. I am still so rubbish that GnuGo can whip my ass on its max difficulty setting, but it's still fun playing against other people on the internet.
I have found something in Go that I couldn't find in any computer game, but still lacking is the eye-candy you get with modern games. Sometimes I have to get the latest 3d shooter and play it for a bit just to watch shiny things rotate.
graspee
" celebrates pure Evil and the power of Satin"
If I had enough rolls of satin I could make a dress to fit the whole Earth, and the entire planet would look like a woman! Mwuhahahahhaah!
Next year: the diabolical plan involving silk.
graspee
" Any user running Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 is running exactly the same system that was evaluated"
Their test system had two 120Gig HDs full of fansubbed anime and was running at 100 cpu doing divx encodes ?
Well, they said "exactly the same system".
Wait, did they mean my exact system ? How do I sue them for wasting my cpu cycles running benchmarks ?
This post was nearly funny. Blame the cough syrup.
graspee
I'm mainly just writing this to see if I can, since /. seems to be borken, judging by the number of comments on each story.
So, what to say ?
You see a lot of "old time" computer programmers slowing down these days- it's sort of sad. It shows us that however brilliant we are at programming there will come a time when we have to slow down.
The difference between true greats and us (if you consider yourself a "true great" then apologies, and "fuck you!") is that when they slow down they are still brilliant enough and have enough energy to change the world, either through writing, or lectures.
Does anyone know of any great programmers who are old, say over 60 ? I would be interested. Probably some people who are really famous are that old, but I just didn't realize their age....
graspee
"he Catholic Church itself has, throughout the years, advocated everything from slavery, to torture, to execution
Your evidence being..."
The Maleus Malificarum. The inquisition was not the response of the civil authorities to the Turks.
I think you meant:
free!=Open Source.
Because if free=!OpenSource then !OpenSource=free, so Windows must be free...
graspee
I was not saying that nudity and homosexuality are evil- in fact I think Sailor Moon is a kids' show, and is suitable as a kids' show- everything I mentioned is OK by me, but I realise that it would offend most Western parents.
I know the part you mean with the gun but then the image of Chibi-Usa pointing a gun at Usagi is just too funny to take out. (It happens again in one of the movies).
Also I would like to point out that at least *I* am not in denial. I know SM is a kids' show, and if I were Japanese I would probably not like it, but the reason I do is because it is from a different culture and is interesting.
Anyway, you can just look at the manga, which came first, and see the same elements as the TV show, and the manga was hardly "merchandised" at all.
Violating the ancient traditions for truth and justice (eating while walking in Shinjuku) it's the Sailor-suited freak, Sailor Graspee!
"Sailor Moon wasn't really a kids show until the editors got ahold of it."
;)
You think Sailor Moon the original is not suitable for kids ? Was it anything to do with the occasional torture, death, crucifiction of main characters, the nudity, the homosexuality or perhaps the main character being a new Messiah ?
graspee the sailor moon fan
It's interesting to see what the cutting edge is capable of, but you pay such a stupidly massive premium for the latest processor that only fools would use their own money to buy it.
In the UK you usually have the ultimate latest Intel at about 700 UKP- the sweet spot in the price/performance trade-off tends to be around the 200 UKP mark, which will probably be the 2.5Ghz by the time this 3Ghz one is out.
graspee
The Ghost in the Shell dude's mouse looks cool, but seems more suited to racing in the Wipeout series (if it were a ship) than using on a daily basis.
The Gundam dude's mouse is very boring and square, but then I think the Gundam mech's are pretty square and chunky- like Gundam vs. Eva is a Ford Cortina vs. a BMW Z8...
graspee
" Wow. That's almost enough to make me devote myself to tracking down your real name and posting it to this thread... Almost. It wasn't a two minute process, though, so you escape for now."
/.ers going to knock on my door then laugh and run away ? (It's getting near Halloween so I would probably misinterpret their actions anyway).
So who cares if you do find out my real name ? Everyone who knows me knows these things already. I have no shame and I'm brutally honest. Who would be laughing at me who wasn't already? If you put my address are
graspee
" I used to hear this every day in high school during band practice.... "
I didn't hear this in band practice- I was too busy being distracted by some girl and what she was doing with her flute...
graspee
"Because you enjoy being supported by you super-model wife?"
Dude, if only. The last time I so much as *kissed* a woman was 1993, and as for sex we're talking the 80s. In fact George Micheal has had sex with a woman more recently than me. (I am totally the geek stereotype).
But hey, there's blissfully happy without sex. I think the shit you have to deal with in a relationship far outweighs the good anyway. (But then I would say that, wouldn't I?).
Moderate accordingly. I don't care.
graspee
" I don't play RPGs, I have a JOB. I don't watch anime, I have a LIFE."
/. tells me otherwise.
The fact that you've posted 24 comments in the last 3 days on
Anyway, for the record, I play RPGs, I don't have a job, I watch lots of anime. According to you I "have no life". Why is it that I am blissfully happy then ?
graspee