Over the last few months while they've been "static" I must admit that, on occasion, i've been annoyed at nothing seemingly happening.
Knowing (personally) some of the maintainers at irc.themes.org and that they're probably as annoyed as I was helped me look at things in a different perspective though.
These guys work hard and deserve every praise they get, and no critisism (critique is ok)... they don't get paid for this remember. I know at least one person responsible at irc.themes.org was considering resigning from his position because of lack of progress... just glad he didn't. I'm just glad that things _are_ happening. Kudos to the themes.org team.
You're right about the FP shoot-em-ups, but that was a limitation of the hardware of the time. The Amiga used "bit-planes" to form colours. Basically the processing required to break up colour values into seperate bits and shove them into the seperate bit-planes pretty much was the only technical reason the Amiga could not have FP shoot-em-ups (at the time Wolfenstein3d). If the Amiga hardware had "chunky pixels" i.e. "This pixel at x,y has a value of 213" then FP games would have been possible. IIRC the next generation of Amiga h/ware was supposed to support chunky pixels, but C= folded before we ever saw it.
Mind you, I still have an A3000. I almost never use it any more, but up until less than 1 year ago, I still used it reasonably regularly.
I'm in the same boat, except I still use my Amiga 1200 (as a dumb terminal I must say, but why waste perfectly functional hardware...).
The Amiga was a great machine. I learnt to program C on the Amiga, and learnt a lot from it's design. The API wasn't all that abstracted so it basically taught me all those silly things like linked lists and stacks and semaphores and GUI design etc etc. By the time I got to university I basically knew all the first year course material - from programming on the Amiga. I scoffed at all those using pee-cees as I viewed pc's as inferior (which at the time, I still reckon is true). Gradually though (the Amiga/Commodore crumbled in my first year at uni) I made the pilgramage over to IBM/PC, for many reasons, but mostly because my course required it. I hated the PC. I hated Windows 3.11 and laughed at it's stupid interface and lack of multitasking (true multitasking). It all seemed so, I dunno, "kludgy". I spent most of my time in DOS, and even wrote my own GUI for use on top of DOS (I was so adamant that I wouldn't use Windows).
Around about 1996 I discovered this thing called Linux (yggdrasil dist). I looked at the poorly packaged cd-rom, and the "looked like home typewritten" with(iirc) a picture of some da-vinci painting on the cover manual, and decided to give it a go.
Well, guess what... I suddenly didn't mind so much that I was using this PC hardware. Suddenly I was in a place kinda Amiga'ish... I had all the source code, the system wasn't closed up and locked behind iron bars. I had a "hacker box" once again. Never looked back. I sometimes fire up UAE and remeniss (sp?) but that's about all. I don't expect a return of the Amiga (and if it does it will be in name only), but for it's time it was IMO a revolution; a slick GUI, multi-tasking and it felt like power under my fingers. But that time is gone, and I don't really want my memories tainted by some new "Amiga" that will never truly be Amiga.
C-style notation is used throughout the state diagrams and
protocol diagrams, although the logic functions AND, OR, and XOR are written out where a textual description would be more clear.
The concatenation operator ' || ' combines two values into one.
I stopped reading about there to go off and fix all my C code. Since when has || been a concatenation operator? To think that for all these years I thought it was a logical OR. No wonder none of my programs work.
Maybe we can make a new comic book series
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The thing is... they're not really asking for "handouts" (sic) for themselves. They're saying "Hey look, there's all this cool stuff, why not show them your appreciation and volunteer a contribution"?
MS and other non-free software companies say "You MUST show your appreciation, whether you appreciate it or not; give us money i.e. non-voluntary contribution".
You're entitled to your opinion of what failure is... me? I prefer the Free Software approach.
I've donated to the Debian project before, but I think Mandrake having a way to donate to other projects is pretty cool. The only reason I've not donated to other projects before is because I am lazy and couldn't be bothered trying to find out how. Kudos to Mandrake (the dist).
I don't use Mandrake, but hey... they make it easy to donate, so they must be OK.
I think some lateral thinking should be used here. Perhaps a different representation of the "Web", rather than trying to devolop solutions for the current "Web".
Well, recreational drug use is a fairly controvercial subject, and I am a bit hesitant about posting about it. But, here goes;
I don't know much about drugs, but I _do_ know that drugs were used by many to reach "higher levels of consciousness". These people were not dumb, but rather articulate and intelligent individuals who sought to explore the human mind. Artists, genius's, all kinds of people used drugs.
In the 30's/40's(? circa?) LSD was used as a psychiatric drug for the use of schitzophrenia(sp?). So called medical students then started using LSD as a way to understand the "disease". By the 60's LSD was a recreational drug, by which stage it's medicinal "advantages" were also debunked. These days it's a banned substance (figure that out... a miracle cure banned) My point is... All drugs are dangerous, open to abuse and misunderstanding. Drugs are not the problem, People are. Period.
They state they're nervous that the washer will end up somewhere critical. Can you imagine what would happen if you armed the astronauts with magnets rather than just washers? They'd have this magnet floating around inside the space station 'cause they lost it, and it'd end up stuck to the hard disk drive that contains their Outlook Expr... err wait. Give them magnets, good idea.
And I really don't see the problem, if you're a law abiding citizen. The only problem I can forsee is mis-identification. Apart from that, what's the problem?
I remember as a kid watching a show called "The Wiz Kids" (I think that's what it was called). I loved it; a bunch of nerds doing all this fun stuff. I haven't seen it since I was about 10 I guess, so I can't really comment on it's accuracy of the portrayal of hackers, but from memory it was pretty good.
ircII EPIC4-1.0 was released on april fools day. Teh fact that it was april fools day and the release number is 1.0... well I assume it's a real release, and am using it now. If it's a joke, well I guess I am a person who fell for it. Just feeling very paranoid at the moment:-)
Something that ESR didn't mention, but should be included is something that Linus, in all his wisdom, knows without even thinking about it... wear a paper hat.
There are a couple of basics every guy should know. You want to take on the body language
of relaxation and confidence -- so speak softly, and move gracefully and deliberately. Use the lower end of your normal vocal range; high notes
come from a tense throat.
This is what I have been saying for ages. Grace is the key. This is why you will see me at parties walking around gracefully, like a ballerina, in my pink armour. I also tend to speak softly, but in a low low voice... It really turns them on. "Hey baby... wanna dance?"/me winks and walks gracefully away, swaying his hips in his pink armour... (that'll get her *wink* *wink*)
(1)
This software may be distributed, in whole or in part, in sickness or in health, for better or for worse, forsaking all others, for as long as we both shall live. Upon such occasion as deemed appropriate by the laws of this state and the Attorney General, or the General Attorney, or the King of Pop, you will transferred to a correctional facility until such time as you will be put to death.
Is this ok for debian? Or will it have to go in non-free?
Also, I am trying to install it, but the install.sh is not executable. You have to do chmod +x install.sh. I've submitted a bug report, so hopefully this will be fixed in the next version.
the fear of death is an inherent part of what makes us human.
I mustn't be human then, because I do not fear death.
I must admit I do fear a painful death, but then, it's the pain I am fearful of rather than actual death itself. We're all dying, from the moment we're born... that's an inherent part of being human. Get over it, and get on with life;)
What if I make an AIM clone that displays banner ad's? Your anology is kind of like saying "Only Sony DVD players are allowed because X technology is incorporated into their players".
Slashdot Mirror
This really is a great site.
Over the last few months while they've been "static" I must admit that, on occasion, i've been annoyed at nothing seemingly happening.
Knowing (personally) some of the maintainers at irc.themes.org and that they're probably as annoyed as I was helped me look at things in a different perspective though.
These guys work hard and deserve every praise they get, and no critisism (critique is ok)... they don't get paid for this remember. I know at least one person responsible at irc.themes.org was considering resigning from his position because of lack of progress... just glad he didn't. I'm just glad that things _are_ happening. Kudos to the themes.org team.
You're right about the FP shoot-em-ups, but that was a limitation of the hardware of the time. The Amiga used "bit-planes" to form colours. Basically the processing required to break up colour values into seperate bits and shove them into the seperate bit-planes pretty much was the only technical reason the Amiga could not have FP shoot-em-ups (at the time Wolfenstein3d). If the Amiga hardware had "chunky pixels" i.e. "This pixel at x,y has a value of 213" then FP games would have been possible. IIRC the next generation of Amiga h/ware was supposed to support chunky pixels, but C= folded before we ever saw it.
Mind you, I still have an A3000. I almost never use it any more, but up until less than 1 year ago, I still used it reasonably regularly.
I'm in the same boat, except I still use my Amiga 1200 (as a dumb terminal I must say, but why waste perfectly functional hardware...).
The Amiga was a great machine. I learnt to program C on the Amiga, and learnt a lot from it's design. The API wasn't all that abstracted so it basically taught me all those silly things like linked lists and stacks and semaphores and GUI design etc etc. By the time I got to university I basically knew all the first year course material - from programming on the Amiga. I scoffed at all those using pee-cees as I viewed pc's as inferior (which at the time, I still reckon is true). Gradually though (the Amiga/Commodore crumbled in my first year at uni) I made the pilgramage over to IBM/PC, for many reasons, but mostly because my course required it. I hated the PC. I hated Windows 3.11 and laughed at it's stupid interface and lack of multitasking (true multitasking). It all seemed so, I dunno, "kludgy". I spent most of my time in DOS, and even wrote my own GUI for use on top of DOS (I was so adamant that I wouldn't use Windows).
Around about 1996 I discovered this thing called Linux (yggdrasil dist). I looked at the poorly packaged cd-rom, and the "looked like home typewritten" with(iirc) a picture of some da-vinci painting on the cover manual, and decided to give it a go.
Well, guess what... I suddenly didn't mind so much that I was using this PC hardware. Suddenly I was in a place kinda Amiga'ish... I had all the source code, the system wasn't closed up and locked behind iron bars. I had a "hacker box" once again. Never looked back. I sometimes fire up UAE and remeniss (sp?) but that's about all. I don't expect a return of the Amiga (and if it does it will be in name only), but for it's time it was IMO a revolution; a slick GUI, multi-tasking and it felt like power under my fingers. But that time is gone, and I don't really want my memories tainted by some new "Amiga" that will never truly be Amiga.
C-style notation is used throughout the state diagrams and protocol diagrams, although the logic functions AND, OR, and XOR are written out where a textual description would be more clear.
The concatenation operator ' || ' combines two values into one.
I stopped reading about there to go off and fix all my C code. Since when has || been a concatenation operator? To think that for all these years I thought it was a logical OR. No wonder none of my programs work.
The Adventures of Repoman and Robbin'
Ok Ok, mod me down I am drunk
I don't think he'd dare... even a repoman would not be seen driving that thing.
The thing is... they're not really asking for "handouts" (sic) for themselves. They're saying "Hey look, there's all this cool stuff, why not show them your appreciation and volunteer a contribution"?
MS and other non-free software companies say "You MUST show your appreciation, whether you appreciate it or not; give us money i.e. non-voluntary contribution".
You're entitled to your opinion of what failure is... me? I prefer the Free Software approach.
Thanks
I've donated to the Debian project before, but I think Mandrake having a way to donate to other projects is pretty cool. The only reason I've not donated to other projects before is because I am lazy and couldn't be bothered trying to find out how. Kudos to Mandrake (the dist).
I don't use Mandrake, but hey... they make it easy to donate, so they must be OK.
Could be worse, they could attach the jumper cables to your nipples.
I think some lateral thinking should be used here. Perhaps a different representation of the "Web", rather than trying to devolop solutions for the current "Web".
Ooops. I clicked on the link from the front page before reading the comments. My bad. Maybe a link to the mirrors would be nice in the story headline.
Well, recreational drug use is a fairly controvercial subject, and I am a bit hesitant about posting about it. But, here goes;
I don't know much about drugs, but I _do_ know that drugs were used by many to reach "higher levels of consciousness". These people were not dumb, but rather articulate and intelligent individuals who sought to explore the human mind. Artists, genius's, all kinds of people used drugs.
In the 30's/40's(? circa?) LSD was used as a psychiatric drug for the use of schitzophrenia(sp?). So called medical students then started using LSD as a way to understand the "disease". By the 60's LSD was a recreational drug, by which stage it's medicinal "advantages" were also debunked. These days it's a banned substance (figure that out... a miracle cure banned) My point is... All drugs are dangerous, open to abuse and misunderstanding. Drugs are not the problem, People are. Period.
They state they're nervous that the washer will end up somewhere critical. Can you imagine what would happen if you armed the astronauts with magnets rather than just washers? They'd have this magnet floating around inside the space station 'cause they lost it, and it'd end up stuck to the hard disk drive that contains their Outlook Expr... err wait. Give them magnets, good idea.
Yeah, except Velcro was not invented by NASA. It was invented by some swiss guy called George de Mestral.
How does one lose a washing machine? I mean how big _is_ this International Space Station?
And I really don't see the problem, if you're a law abiding citizen. The only problem I can forsee is mis-identification. Apart from that, what's the problem?
I remember as a kid watching a show called "The Wiz Kids" (I think that's what it was called). I loved it; a bunch of nerds doing all this fun stuff. I haven't seen it since I was about 10 I guess, so I can't really comment on it's accuracy of the portrayal of hackers, but from memory it was pretty good.
ircII EPIC4-1.0 was released on april fools day. Teh fact that it was april fools day and the release number is 1.0... well I assume it's a real release, and am using it now. If it's a joke, well I guess I am a person who fell for it. Just feeling very paranoid at the moment :-)
The Land of Oz
Something that ESR didn't mention, but should be included is something that Linus, in all his wisdom, knows without even thinking about it... wear a paper hat.
There are a couple of basics every guy should know. You want to take on the body language of relaxation and confidence -- so speak softly, and move gracefully and deliberately. Use the lower end of your normal vocal range; high notes come from a tense throat.
/me winks and walks gracefully away, swaying his hips in his pink armour... (that'll get her *wink* *wink*)
This is what I have been saying for ages. Grace is the key. This is why you will see me at parties walking around gracefully, like a ballerina, in my pink armour. I also tend to speak softly, but in a low low voice... It really turns them on. "Hey baby... wanna dance?"
The Free Object-Oriented License
(1) This software may be distributed, in whole or in part, in sickness or in health, for better or for worse, forsaking all others, for as long as we both shall live. Upon such occasion as deemed appropriate by the laws of this state and the Attorney General, or the General Attorney, or the King of Pop, you will transferred to a correctional facility until such time as you will be put to death.
Is this ok for debian? Or will it have to go in non-free?
Also, I am trying to install it, but the install.sh is not executable. You have to do chmod +x install.sh. I've submitted a bug report, so hopefully this will be fixed in the next version.
the fear of death is an inherent part of what makes us human.
;)
I mustn't be human then, because I do not fear death.
I must admit I do fear a painful death, but then, it's the pain I am fearful of rather than actual death itself. We're all dying, from the moment we're born... that's an inherent part of being human. Get over it, and get on with life
What if I make an AIM clone that displays banner ad's? Your anology is kind of like saying "Only Sony DVD players are allowed because X technology is incorporated into their players".
I don't understand. Why use the AOL servers at all. Why not boycott them and make our own protocol?