Those numbers are just way too low. I pinpointed all of the source code I wrote in 1998 in all of the public directories all of us programmers use to store code. I then cat'd all my source in the first directory and piped it through 'wc' which resulted in just over 60,000 LINES. The next one at 45,000, and the next one at 25,000. That's 130,000 LOC in 1998 for me. And that's not even unreasonable. Look at it this way: 130,000 LOC / 2,080 hours/yr = 62.5 LOC per hour, or 500 LOC/day. And this includes reading slashdot 5 times a day, other news sites, ComputerWorld magazine (which I saw this article in), dealing with bitchy customers who don't know what they want. And I thought I was SLACKING because I read slashdot, etc. 5 times a day. Damn. I sure as heck deserve a raise.
No, I don't think the companies are to blame. It's completely bad parenting. "Mommy mommy mommy! Can you buy me this cool game in which i'm some dude that kills everything in site with shotguns, grenade launchers, and nail guns?" "No problem, honey"... If parents think their kids are going to say, download porn, there's dozens of options available. However, playing shoot-em-up games is ok? Wouldn't they notice that the kid has become a social outcast because all he does is play quake all day in his underwear? But of course, this is freakin' America, where everything is always someone else fault. Take some freakin' responsibility for once. The shootings were blamed on the game. Funny. Aren't parents supposed to teach their children right from wrong?
Oh, how I loved Nibble. Too bad you had remember to replace all PRINT statements with ? as to not exceed 255 characters per line, no spaces between:'s, etc. At least they started doing checksums with their programs later on, which was kind of stupid because you had to type in the checksum program to begin with... Ahh, the memories. Too bad my ex-non-sentimental roommate decided my stacks of Nibble from June '85 to July '90 were garbage. Argh.
It's the same old recycled information, all packaged in a cutesy wrapper. The writing style was pathetic. I had journalistic skills like that in early high school.
Actually, it's quite sickening. Every non geek-only news site I visit has links upon links of Kosovo-related material. Even if I did not want to know what was going on over there, I'd have very few choices. I could not use the Internet. I could not watch TV. I could not listen to the radio. Those are THE only options. What's going on over there is tragic, but that's not what I want to hear ALL the time. The situation tomorrow is not going to be any different than the situation today. There will still be airstrikes, injustice, and refugees. What bugs me most is that news sources assume I want to know every "late-breaking" development over there. After all, it's the American way. Americans generally adore soap operas and gore, which strike ME as an odd combination. Be it your OJ, McVeigh, or JonBenet, Americans NEED to know everything. There's public demand for tragedies. That may sound sick, and even absurd, but think about it. America fell in love with the OJ trial. Everybody needed to know everything about it. Evidence was misused/misplaced/whatever and this and that and blah blah blah and what happened? He was found not guilty. Yet most of the "He's Guilty" believers still believe he's guilty. Yet he was found not guilty in a court of law. It was a damn soap opera, folks. And neither you nor I had any choice but to hear every bloody detail about it. Flipping through 73 channels of crap on cable, at least 5 channels at any one time have some sort of coverage of Kosovo. I know enough about it within 1 minute of reading foxnews.com in the morning to last me days. And these are just HEADLINES. This whole thing may be tragic, but aren't you getting sick of it? I know I am. Now, if it was World War III on the other hand, I'd be sure to take the steps to be informed. I'm getting sick of "All bad news All the time." Call me strange, but I actually ENJOY hearing about GOOD news... It's sad that bad news has priority over good news.
Micro$oft must be paying their idiot lawyers a hefty sum. What kind of lucrative company charges people for their own mistakes? Ninety bucks for BUG fixes. BUG FIXES. Not only has M$ screwed their customers for years with shoddy products, but now they're screwing the same people again by expecting them to pay for bug fixes; Micro$oft's own damn fault. Like hell I'd ever pay for bug fixes. For that bread, I could buy 45 Linux CDs from cheapbytes. When will BG be assassinated?
RTFM? Yes, but sometimes that just doesn't always cut it. Just like sometimes when RedHat says to "do this" according to the manual, and it doesn't work. I know that's not what the article was focusing on, but still...
With all of Micro$oft's sneaky "let me embed all your vital information into all the documents you create" attitude, whatever happened to privacy? Granted, I don't necessarily condone malicious behavior, but any idiot that accepts M$ Word email attachments as normal and reads them deserves to get screwed. Whatever happened to plain text? Bah. M$ can kiss my ass. And because I don't run M$ garbage, Melissa can kiss my ass too.
It was practically the same as any other mp3 search on the Internet. Comes up with 90+% garbage. Same broken links, incomplete songs, etc. What the hell good was it for anyway? Now, it's not good that their getting sued over it, but I've heard very little about non-corporation sites getting sued for having better searches... Bastards.
This is one of the most stupid things I've heard all year. While printing via TCP/IP is certainly possible now, think of all the attacks on printers that will happen. It reminds me of a pascal program i wrote way back in high school. uses printer; var i:longint; billisgay:boolean; begin repeat inc(i); write(lst,#12,i); until billisgay; {don't ask} end. Hacking printers. Neato.
While it disturbs me that M$ is still hitting below the belt, it is not surprising at all. However, it still is a damn shame. Having a PC running any M$ product is 10 times worse than running a non-M$ OS. I wonder if the demo machine crashed because of windows again. Heh.
It probably cost them tens of millions of dollars to develop their new and "improved" SQL server. What's $1 million back? Besides, Oracle probably came up with some funky test that will most definitely slow to a crawl on M$'s server... It's rather comical.
Put the original disk if you have it (heh, yeah right) in the drive upside down, then boot. The entire game will play upside down. Of course, the copy of the game I once had, many moons ago, was distributed as a two-sided game, complete with the upside down version cracked with the upside down version of the cracked message from the first side. 'twas cool. br0derbund used to be cool. whatever happened to them?
Newtek has been making the Video Toaster for PC-based systems for several years now. They started doing so as soon as they realized that their Amiga-based product lines were not going to succeed if the Amiga was going to die. Or in the immortal words of the original Amiga developers, "We made Amiga. They(commodore) fucked it up." (found in 1.2 ROMs with some funky keystroke combo upon startup)
Hell no. An x86 based Amiga would surely put the last nail in the coffin. Even if it's not going to have Motorola inside (god bless them 680x0's!) it sure as hell better not have Intel. Hell, my 14mhz 68020 easily outperformed my 120mhz Intel... Bah.
that's weird. there was one comment when i clicked on "read more" and it said there were over 100 comments, so i had to click on the only one comment there to read it. weird. as for the namechange, kudos to them. it's about time...
I also wasn't aware that robots were capable of having astrological signs. After all, they aren't technically born. Unless defining "born" means "bringing into this world[/universe/whatever]..." But if machines are capable of having signs, all the Windows boxes at work are definitely Aries. (inflicting pain on people) -mickey
While I have always been a fan of the Amiga, I have zero respect for Commodore, and what they did to the machine. The Amiga had the best architecture of any home PC. What killed it? They never (er, rarely) marketed the machine. Yes, it was HUGE in Europe. It was also a relative success in the US. However, companies can't rely on word of mouth alone. This led to the demise of a spectacular machine. I sincerely doubt this new machine will be anywhere close to successful. As far as I'm concerned, Amiga is dead, and it's going to take a helluva lot more than CPR to bring it back from 6 feet under. Plus, the fact that Gateway is in charge of resuscitation is even more frightening. -mickey
I had that problem as well. It was a very silly and stupid problem. I accidentally made the main ATAPI/IDE function a module because it let me. I was then unable to mount root. So I read the help for that, and it explains that you can't modularize that option if your root filesystem is on an IDE drive. Make it Y, recompile, reboot, and it worked for me. If this is not the problem, can't help ya... -mickey
So why doesn't Nintendo sue creators of NES/SNES/GB emulators? Gameboy is still relatively hot, and SNES still has new games being made for it. I've seen all the emus and ALL the games for those two machines. I haven't really heard anything of any other Nintendo software emulator authors getting threatened with a half a million dollar lawsuit. If everyone had huge bandwidth and could download 8-20MB ROM images lickety split, THEN I MIGHT be able to see where Nintendo's coming from. But even then, I really can't. In a way, it's just like the mp3. Try before you buy. I hate spending 60 bucks for a game that is just eye candy and sucks. But even then, why don't they pursue the N64 console (warez) manufacturers instead? It doesn't matter what anyone does, because there's always going to be piracy. But even then, if you waste 60 bucks on a game, you should be able to play it on any freakin' system you want. -mickey
Yaknow, I've never liked Jesse Berst. He follows nothing but the latest "trend" although Linux isn't a trend. What makes me absolutely disgusted by this jerk is the fact that he makes a point to declare what is right or WRONG (Linux, a year ago), and then he goes on, many months later, to follow up on what he has said was RIGHT (Linux, now) or wrong. Does anybody with an IQ over 32 actually listen to what this hypocritical contradicting bastard says? It's poor journalism ("Linux sucks" - Berst, last year. "Linux r00lz!" - Berst, this year)... Well, apparently people DO listen to him, considering he still somehow has a job. -mickey
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Those numbers are just way too low. I pinpointed all of the source code I wrote in 1998 in all of the public directories all of us programmers use to store code. I then cat'd all my source in the first directory and piped it through 'wc' which resulted in just over 60,000 LINES. The next one at 45,000, and the next one at 25,000.
That's 130,000 LOC in 1998 for me. And that's not even unreasonable. Look at it this way:
130,000 LOC / 2,080 hours/yr = 62.5 LOC per hour, or 500 LOC/day. And this includes reading slashdot 5 times a day, other news sites, ComputerWorld magazine (which I saw this article in), dealing with bitchy customers who don't know what they want. And I thought I was SLACKING because I read slashdot, etc. 5 times a day. Damn. I sure as heck deserve a raise.
No, I don't think the companies are to blame. It's completely bad parenting. "Mommy mommy mommy! Can you buy me this cool game in which i'm some dude that kills everything in site with shotguns, grenade launchers, and nail guns?"
"No problem, honey"... If parents think their kids are going to say, download porn, there's dozens of options available. However, playing shoot-em-up games is ok? Wouldn't they notice that the kid has become a social outcast because all he does is play quake all day in his underwear? But of course, this is freakin' America, where everything is always someone else fault.
Take some freakin' responsibility for once. The shootings were blamed on the game.
Funny.
Aren't parents supposed to teach their children right from wrong?
Oh, how I loved Nibble. Too bad you had remember to replace all PRINT statements with ? as to not exceed 255 characters per line, no spaces between :'s, etc. At least they started doing checksums with their programs later on, which was kind of stupid because you had to type in the checksum program to begin with... Ahh, the memories. Too bad my ex-non-sentimental roommate decided my stacks of Nibble from June '85 to July '90 were garbage. Argh.
It's the same old recycled information, all packaged in a cutesy wrapper. The writing style was pathetic. I had journalistic skills like that in early high school.
Actually, it's quite sickening. Every non geek-only news site I visit has links upon links of Kosovo-related material. Even if I did not want to know what was going on over there, I'd have very few choices. I could not use the Internet. I could not watch TV. I could not listen to the radio. Those are THE only options. What's going on over there is tragic, but that's not what I want to hear ALL the time. The situation tomorrow is not going to be any different than the situation today. There will still be airstrikes, injustice, and refugees. What bugs me most is that news sources assume I want to know every "late-breaking" development over there. After all, it's the American way. Americans generally adore soap operas and gore, which strike ME as an odd combination. Be it your OJ, McVeigh, or JonBenet, Americans NEED to know everything. There's public demand for tragedies. That may sound sick, and even absurd, but think about it. America fell in love with the OJ trial.
Everybody needed to know everything about it. Evidence was misused/misplaced/whatever and this and that and blah blah blah and what happened? He was found not guilty. Yet most of the "He's Guilty" believers still believe he's guilty. Yet he was found not guilty in a court of law. It was a damn soap opera, folks. And neither you nor I had any choice but to hear every bloody detail about it. Flipping through 73 channels of crap on cable, at least 5 channels at any one time have some sort of coverage of Kosovo. I know enough about it within 1 minute of reading foxnews.com in the morning to last me days. And these are just HEADLINES. This whole thing may be tragic, but aren't you getting sick of it? I know I am. Now, if it was World War III on the other hand, I'd be sure to take the steps to be informed. I'm getting sick of "All bad news All the time."
Call me strange, but I actually ENJOY hearing about GOOD news... It's sad that bad news has priority over good news.
Micro$oft must be paying their idiot lawyers a hefty sum. What kind of lucrative company charges people for their own mistakes? Ninety bucks for BUG fixes. BUG FIXES. Not only has M$ screwed their customers for years with shoddy products, but now they're screwing the same people again by expecting them to pay for bug fixes; Micro$oft's own damn fault. Like hell I'd ever pay for bug fixes. For that bread, I could buy 45 Linux CDs from cheapbytes.
When will BG be assassinated?
RTFM? Yes, but sometimes that just doesn't always cut it. Just like sometimes when RedHat says to "do this" according to the manual, and it doesn't work. I know that's not what the article was focusing on, but still...
With all of Micro$oft's sneaky "let me embed all your vital information into all the documents you create" attitude, whatever happened to privacy? Granted, I don't necessarily condone malicious behavior, but any idiot that accepts M$ Word email attachments as normal and reads them deserves to get screwed. Whatever happened to plain text? Bah. M$ can kiss my ass. And because I don't run M$ garbage, Melissa can kiss my ass too.
It was practically the same as any other mp3 search on the Internet. Comes up with 90+% garbage. Same broken links, incomplete songs, etc. What the hell good was it for anyway? Now, it's not good that their getting sued over it, but I've heard very little about non-corporation sites getting sued for having better searches... Bastards.
This is one of the most stupid things I've heard all year. While printing via TCP/IP is certainly possible now, think of all the attacks on printers that will happen. It reminds me of a pascal program i wrote way back in high school.
uses printer;
var i:longint; billisgay:boolean;
begin
repeat
inc(i);
write(lst,#12,i);
until billisgay; {don't ask}
end.
Hacking printers. Neato.
While it disturbs me that M$ is still hitting below the belt, it is not surprising at all. However, it still is a damn shame. Having a PC running any M$ product is 10 times worse than running a non-M$ OS. I wonder if the demo machine crashed because of windows again. Heh.
It probably cost them tens of millions of dollars to develop their new and "improved" SQL server. What's $1 million back?
Besides, Oracle probably came up with some funky test that will most definitely slow to a crawl on M$'s server... It's rather comical.
Put the original disk if you have it (heh, yeah right) in the drive upside down, then boot. The entire game will play upside down. Of course, the copy of the game I once had, many moons ago, was distributed as a two-sided game, complete with the upside down version cracked with the upside down version of the cracked message from the first side. 'twas cool. br0derbund used to be cool. whatever happened to them?
Newtek has been making the Video Toaster for PC-based systems for several years now. They started doing so as soon as they realized that their Amiga-based product lines were not going to succeed if the Amiga was going to die.
Or in the immortal words of the original Amiga developers, "We made Amiga. They(commodore) fucked it up." (found in 1.2 ROMs with some funky keystroke combo upon startup)
Hell no. An x86 based Amiga would surely put the last nail in the coffin. Even if it's not going to have Motorola inside (god bless them 680x0's!) it sure as hell better not have Intel. Hell, my 14mhz 68020 easily outperformed my 120mhz Intel...
Bah.
SICKNESS... Something that just doesn't sound too appealing.
that's weird. there was one comment when i clicked on "read more" and it said there were over 100 comments, so i had to click on the only one comment there to read it. weird.
as for the namechange, kudos to them. it's about time...
Yes, but who really wants to own something like "kj387fh3m4fha9123.com"???
I also wasn't aware that robots were capable of having astrological signs. After all, they aren't technically born. Unless defining "born" means "bringing into this world[/universe/whatever]..."
But if machines are capable of having signs, all the Windows boxes at work are definitely Aries. (inflicting pain on people)
-mickey
While I have always been a fan of the Amiga, I have zero respect for Commodore, and what they did to the machine. The Amiga had the best architecture of any home PC. What killed it? They never (er, rarely) marketed the machine. Yes, it was HUGE in Europe. It was also a relative success in the US. However, companies can't rely on word of mouth alone. This led to the demise of a spectacular machine.
I sincerely doubt this new machine will be anywhere close to successful. As far as I'm concerned, Amiga is dead, and it's going to take a helluva lot more than CPR to bring it back from 6 feet under. Plus, the fact that Gateway is in charge of resuscitation is even more frightening.
-mickey
I had that problem as well. It was a very silly and stupid problem. I accidentally made the main ATAPI/IDE function a module because it let me. I was then unable to mount root. So I read the help for that, and it explains that you can't modularize that option if your root filesystem is on an IDE drive. Make it Y, recompile, reboot, and it worked for me. If this is not the problem, can't help ya...
-mickey
So why doesn't Nintendo sue creators of NES/SNES/GB emulators? Gameboy is still relatively hot, and SNES still has new games being made for it. I've seen all the emus and ALL the games for those two machines. I haven't really heard anything of any other Nintendo software emulator authors getting threatened with a half a million dollar lawsuit. If everyone had huge bandwidth and could download 8-20MB ROM images lickety split, THEN I MIGHT be able to see where Nintendo's coming from. But even then, I really can't. In a way, it's just like the mp3. Try before you buy. I hate spending 60 bucks for a game that is just eye candy and sucks.
But even then, why don't they pursue the N64 console (warez) manufacturers instead? It doesn't matter what anyone does, because there's always going to be piracy. But even then, if you waste 60 bucks on a game, you should be able to play it on any freakin' system you want.
-mickey
More old news. I read about this half a year ago, and the guy is still a freak.
-mickey
Damn. I haven't seen that in about 6 months, but it's still funny each time I read it.
-mickey
Yaknow, I've never liked Jesse Berst. He follows nothing but the latest "trend" although Linux isn't a trend.
What makes me absolutely disgusted by this jerk is the fact that he makes a point to declare what is right or WRONG (Linux, a year ago), and then he goes on, many months later, to follow up on what he has said was RIGHT (Linux, now) or wrong.
Does anybody with an IQ over 32 actually listen to what this hypocritical contradicting bastard says? It's poor journalism ("Linux sucks" - Berst, last year. "Linux r00lz!" - Berst, this year)... Well, apparently people DO listen to him, considering he still somehow has a job.
-mickey