a. gentoo is 100% free b. gentoo offers the best package manager ive ever used (and yes, i have used both debian and slack). c. gentoos package crew are cowboys, the give you the lates and greates of everything. Fast, gnome2 is for example allready available in the portage tree. d. gentoos community is the most helpfull crowd ive ever stumbled over, there are allways tons of help to get if u need it @ #gentoo on openproject.Theres allways a ton of people in there, even the creator finds time to hang out there in a regular basic. Forget paying for support, the support you will get from the community will probertly be better than any support you would get for money.
I could go on and on, gentoo rocks(best disto out there in my opp). And they have a PPC build, soo go for it. No need to waste hard earned money.
To all you people who post that graphics dont matter in a game, I think you are wrong.
Im not saying that a game cant be good if the graphis are bad, but the newer consoles/higher end PCs out there are getting to a point where the gamedevelopers can create pretty much what they want(i not talking polygon numbers where, im taking possibilities in the gaming world). And this IS great for gaming..
I know that some genres today, are stuck. As somebody commented about Doom 3, its just another 3D shooter. And yes, that is true. But realize that IDs priority is creating new functionality to their engine(Doom3 is pretty much a techdemo). Since that is thier product, more than any of the Quake/Doom/Wolf games that has come out from them. That why at the E3 showing, what there was most talk about on the stand was the engines new algorithm that reduced polycont at runtime(with no visible effect loss on the models, it is actually kinda amazing). But that s only because they want to impress the little up and rising gamehouse from Florida, who are looking for a engine to put their creativity into.
Todays platform games are a great example i think, theres a WORLD of difference between Siderman and Rayman. But more importantly, between sonic and mario the differnce have grown even larger. Platform games was all pretty equal when we had 2D, the only real diffence between playing sonic or mariobros. Was the speed of which you scrolled through the level(in the ealier versions, you even had to jump the same attack, jump on the enemy =)
And its not just the platform games, games like shenmue, GTA3, BlacknWhite, Everyquest, FinalFantasy and more. Shows what can be accomblished inside a 3D world.
There will probertly allways be the techdemos and the beatemups that will pretty much have their competion on pure gfx quality/speed.
Yea, and now there probertly running around looking for signs with big I, N, U and X letters. So they can make thier hollywoodescue LINUX sign in silicon valley.
I live in denmark, and when i buy my dvds online from England i pay vat/taxes there. And i dont need to pay anyforms of importtaxes etc, I checked it with the "importoffice"(dont really know the english word:). They told me when ever buying stuff from other EU countries, I will always pay the taxes etc. that applies for that country.
So, theyd just have to open their browser and order the hardisks. And theyll have it a 1-2 days later.
(btw. this creates a HUUGE advantage in placing european internet stores in low vat countries. When i buy a DVD(or whatever) from england,i save 7% on the VAT alone. On top on that DVDs are generally waay cheaper in england than in denmark. If I was sellig dvds/videos/other-small-realtively-cheap-product in denmark via the internet. Id be scared(and move to england =))
First, im not at all a legal expert. But Ill bet good money that if you found a bug in ISS and posted on you personal security homepage WITHOUT informing/communicating with microsoft first you could be in trouple.
But this is not the issue here, the issue here is security and common sence. Why would a sercurity team(with common sence =):
Fail to talk to the people behind the software inflicted with a bug? Who knows, maybe they knew it was there, and in the process of fixing it. This is one of the senarios that MS fears about opensource, not having control over which/when bugs are made official to the public.
Post information on a exploit, and how to use the exploit. When they have no solution for the bug? Crackers use thiese pages to you know? this senario is a crackers wet dream.
Make millions of websites MORE insecure?
I dont get ISS-X Forces behavior in this case, I must admit I find them extremely questionable.
Why? think of it in this way. If that guy who found a bug in oreilys site (customer information leak thing(easy, supposedly no cc info leak=)), hadnt talked to oreily. But had shut his mouth and posted it on some security webpage, wouldnt u find him questionable?
But I dont think the desktop will become the battlefield, to fight explorer on "the desktop"(windows/mac) would be very VERY lame(imagine M$ fighting Apache by creating a *nixport of iis).
No Mozilla/Geckos secret weapon MUST be embedded devices, because here M$ simply doesnt stand a chance. Because:
A. to quote mozilla.org: "It is Open Source. Unlike other embedding choices, all of Gecko's source code is freely available and fully customizable. You can tinker and tweak as much as you need. Yet, depending on the license chosen, it is quite possible to use Gecko as a component in what is otherwise a fully proprietary commercial product"
B. Gecko is designed to leave as small as possible fingerprint on the memory. This will help in wrist mounted browsers etc:)
C. Almost ALL embedded applications run some sort of custom(ized;) OS, gecko is actually the only choise here.
In 5-7 years time, i think most people will use gecko on a daily basic. But, i think the usage will be transparent. Etc. when browsing the net on their new television or what ever.
Take an example, this year the Geckobased browser will arrive for the PS2. As i understand the first 500,000 units that are being manufactured of the netkit (modem, networkcard(for broadband) and a netscape browski) is alread spokenfor in japan. This is more new Netscape users than netscape have been able to lure in the last ##??## years, and its just the tip of the iceberg. I dont have the imagination visualize what theyll end up putting browsers in. But im positive that a shiteload of new gecko users will be created through embedded devices, and knowing how anal most webmasters are. This will mean a LOT less sites will render incorrectly in our favorite interpreter.
I dont think mozilla will challenge on the desktop though, BUT i think when gecko finds its way out into various telephones, televisions , satelite recivers consoles etc etc. This will help ernormusly with getting M$ to follow the w3c guidelines for HTML/XML/WHATEVER-ML implentations.Because nomatter how arrogant they are, they want to give the customer an illusion of being satisfied. Meaning if a customer watch a webpage on his television(through his sons ps2) and on his new Palm2004 and they look fine in both, hell be mad @microsoft if they look kinkay in exploder.
As a huge nr. of post allready have stated before this, its no big surprise that the projects on sourceforge arent huge. If they where they would probertly not be there.
Personally i would find it way more interesting to find out how many projects on sourceforge that are making exactly the same thing. This is in my oppinion the biggest irretation with OSS rigth now, "Yet-Another-appnamehere" is running out of control. Do i really need to beable to choose between twentysomething different (mostly ½finished) cdrecord frontends? I think its great being able to have options, but seriusly, finding good OSS software like finding stuff on gnutella. You need try half of them to find one that works proberly/satisfying. I know everybody keeps telling me that in the future, you will love having all thiese great apps to choose from.
Yea yea, but take scripting languages, we have quite a few REALLY REALLY mature OSS projects in this category. But imagine if Guido had gotten together with Larry and showed him his ideas, instead of creating his own again. Then maybe we all didnt have to dream about parrots.
ooh, damn.. han lots more to write on this subject. But they are starting a soccer match in the tele rigth now.. gotta go:)
Us linux people often critisise windows applications for being bloatware, and we argue that one will never need half of the functionality of certian win32 apps. But linux is bloated to, if i install redhat with everything, i get like 7 differnt text editors installed. Do i really need that? especially when taking the quality of a few of them into account. Though on linux ofcourse, were free to remove the ones we dislike. And not contstantly have them battle eachother for right to edit certain file types. But nevertheless it baffels me that people are still making new editors for linux.
Trust me i like soccer:) Ive played in a club from age 10-17, now I just love to play for the fun in it. And I love to watch it to, BUT i hate defensive football. The system/way that senegal played is well know in modern football, its Norways last national coachs, "Drillo", work. Its wide know as the most defensive way to play football. Its based on the idea that its easier to destroy than create. And i dislike that.
Maybe because I usally play an offensive midfielder , i dont know.
Btw. i disagree on the notion that all france have is Zidane. Trezeguet , Henry and Pirés springs to mind. Zindane is important, no doubt. But, France dominated the match yesterday anyways. Henry and Trezeguet both hit the woodworks, u dont get closer than that.
Seriusly, half the players playing football (the entire, oftenly very FAT defensive line springs to mind) could never be even ½ good at soccer. Because its a game not filled with 20something breaks to make room for all the commercials, no you have to actually RUN the entire game, 45*2 minutes. That why u need to be fit, not a fat football paying fuck.. That couldnt catch a retired old lady if she was to steal his crotch strap.
Oh, yeah btw. "football" is ruby for sissies.. did'nt you know?
First im danish, were grouped with both france and senegal. I hate the french team, mostly because a. they are xtremely good, and denmark is grouped with them. B. They allways seem to kick our but when we meet them, only time i can remeber us winning was in Euro 92(but we had a awsome team back then, and we won the entire tournament). And ofcource C. They are french..
BUT, i HATE the fact senegal won. I know everybody loves a underdog win and everything, but jessus! never had i seen such a boring soccer game.They way they won was one of the ugliest things ever seen in football. , they played 4-5-1. But using prettymuch ALL their midfieldser as defenders. So in reality they played something like 8-1-1, which is about as defensive as it gets. The French played all the ball, since only one senegal player seemed to want to leave his own side of the field. But it worked, they won.. But it was one of the most boring VM matches ive ever seen.. The French had possesion (65 france 35 senegal), all they did was running around trying to find a hole in the abnormally big wall of a defence.
In basket terms, if one of the teams desides to not wanna play the game. And everybody just stands under their basket proctecing it, letting only one guy attack once in a while(hoping for a lucky punch).
I dropped out of my education, because i got a good job offer. And since i had no money at the time, it seemed like a really good idea to take it. I was also lured by all the promise about certification and other various training, so i dropped out and took the job. Everything went great there, and after being there only one year, i got a better job as a programmer on a intranet product. Everything was dandy, i earned pretty good money and was bacially a happy camper. When i started at this job, i also began to take a two year programming education at nighttime(i didnt want to be the only guy there with no education at all). It went great, and i aced alot of the coding related classes. BUT, then came a cource called "algoriths and datastructures". And here i began to feel the lack of a completed college education, I needed to use ALOT of energy just keeping up with the math, in the end i passed. But i certainly didnt ace that one.
Also on the hobby level I began to have problems with the lack of education. Since I love to code c++ and i love games. I decided to try getting into opengl programming, and this was where it hit me. Im bacially an complete idiot, and I need to learn more math/physics. For each page of opengl doc/text i read, i needed to read 5 pages of math stuff. And after spending an entire weekend on trigemetri,vectors and matrices. I decided that this was stupid, the best way to learn all this was simply to go back to school. So I quitted my job, and began to study fulltime again(after being on the coding team for almost two years). Ive been studying a year now(finishing the programming edu, and starting to take the math/physic/cemistry/english/danish/etc i need to enter the university), and i have a year more to go before i actually can start to take a B.sc EE degree(i choosed enginering because of all the math and physic:). Im going to be 28 when Im done, and a 28 year old graduate probertly wont be the most atractive thing on the job marked. But i dont care, im doing it for the matrial. I want to learn high level math,physics etc.
So what im I trying to say? Bacially this: I think it possible for a self taught person to land a good job, earn good money and everything. But, A. you never know what you want to do in 10 years time, what if you get tired of being a sysad? Then then a college/uni education is worth its weight in gold, because it would make a carrer change way easier. And B. knowledge is nice, chances are that you(like me) will face alot of siturations where you wouldve wished you had stayed in school.
But good luck in the future, what ever path you may choose:)
eeh, EA is the worlds largest games publisher. Its actually the biggest fish you can lose as a gamehardware creator.
I agree that VisualConcepts are doing a GREAT job over at Sega Sports, ever since the Virtua Tennis on the dreamcast those guys have had nothing but my greatest respect. But, there are MUCH more to EA than EA Sports.
Im willing to bet gooood money that M$, is disliking the fact that they wont get no online sims.. just as an example:)
of the very relevant(->sarcasm) questions raised in Mallrats..
Like when brodie meets stan lee(played by stan, kinda cool:) and asks:
Do you think Mr. Fantastic can stretch his dinky also? And do you think The Thing is hard all over? I mean really all over.
or even..
T.S.: But they're engaged. Brodie: Doesn't matter, can't happen. T.S.: Why not? It's bound to come up. Brodie: It's impossible, Lois could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle the sperm? I gurantee you he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it's strong enough to carry her child? T.S.:Sure, why not? Brodie: He's an alien, for christ sake. His Kyrptonian biological makeup is enhanced by earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan the kid could kick right through her stomach. Only someone like Wonder Woman has a strong enough uterus to carry his kid. The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom. That would kill him!
is brodie right or is he jumping to conclusions? I really NEED to take this class!
The election results would be prosponed forever, because every single candidate that lost. Have hired a horde of computer scientists to find possible problems with the software being used, that could have effected the results;)
"well, maybe Majel Roddenberry, the voice of the computer in Start Trek"
Start Trek, to boldly go where no user have gone before(and ofcourse, to figure out why the **** you have to press start to stop windoze).
Sorry.. couldnt help my self:)
Btw. I for one think the voice scheme should be configurable. Imagine the joy of having your personal droid talking to you like Marlon Brando, it would be like a daily comicrelief(i guess im just easily amused:)
"It slowed down as it entered the first-floor ward, whose corridor was crowded with elderly patients in wheelchairs, and carefully avoided each one."
Aha! i smell a future benchmark for drugdroids(!).. How well do the unit handle a hallway filled with slow moving, kinda confused objects(btw. theise poor elderly people must think theyve gone nuts. The journalist should have interviewed some of the seniors, i would like to know if the droid actually scare any of them:)
I bought EQ a ½ year ago, just to see what the fuzz was about. I never got to upgrade my subscription though, because of one simple fact. I dont want/have the time to play 5+ hours per day.
I played one, sometimes two nights per week. Sometimes not at all. This didnt really seem as a option for EQ, since most the monsters that have stuff of value. Are in camps, aka. they have friends. And, you too simply need a group of friends too kick their little monster-hinds. Now here comes the fun part, you cant group with people to powerfull. Hence, if the people you add to you friends list are playing the game more than you. You cant group with them. So, you NEED to keep up with the group.
My big problem with EQ, and what i actually find kinda scary. Is that the people i met online all seemed to play ALOT, i simply coudnt find a group to stick with. Because the people i "socialized" with in the game all played min. 15 hours per week. They found me weird for not playing more.
I guess what im trying to say is that in my experince, the "EQ addict" seemed more the rule than the exception.
Slashdot Mirror
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=3094
hopes that helps =)
I would put put gentoo/PPC on it, since:
a. gentoo is 100% free
b. gentoo offers the best package manager ive ever used (and yes, i have used both debian and slack).
c. gentoos package crew are cowboys, the give you the lates and greates of everything. Fast, gnome2 is for example allready available in the portage tree.
d. gentoos community is the most helpfull crowd ive ever stumbled over, there are allways tons of help to get if u need it @ #gentoo on openproject.Theres allways a ton of people in there, even the creator finds time to hang out there in a regular basic. Forget paying for support, the support you will get from the community will probertly be better than any support you would get for money.
I could go on and on, gentoo rocks(best disto out there in my opp). And they have a PPC build, soo go for it. No need to waste hard earned money.
To all you people who post that graphics dont matter in a game, I think you are wrong.
Im not saying that a game cant be good if the graphis are bad, but the newer consoles/higher end PCs out there are getting to a point where the gamedevelopers can create pretty much what they want(i not talking polygon numbers where, im taking possibilities in the gaming world). And this IS great for gaming..
I know that some genres today, are stuck. As somebody commented about Doom 3, its just another 3D shooter. And yes, that is true. But realize that IDs priority is creating new functionality to their engine(Doom3 is pretty much a techdemo). Since that is thier product, more than any of the Quake/Doom/Wolf games that has come out from them. That why at the E3 showing, what there was most talk about on the stand was the engines new algorithm that reduced polycont at runtime(with no visible effect loss on the models, it is actually kinda amazing). But that s only because they want to impress the little up and rising gamehouse from Florida, who are looking for a engine to put their creativity into.
Todays platform games are a great example i think, theres a WORLD of difference between Siderman and Rayman. But more importantly, between sonic and mario the differnce have grown even larger. Platform games was all pretty equal when we had 2D,
the only real diffence between playing sonic or mariobros. Was the speed of which you scrolled through the level(in the ealier versions, you even had to jump the same attack, jump on the enemy =)
And its not just the platform games, games like shenmue, GTA3, BlacknWhite, Everyquest, FinalFantasy and more. Shows what can be accomblished inside a 3D world.
There will probertly allways be the techdemos and the beatemups that will pretty much have their competion on pure gfx quality/speed.
Graphics DOES matter, just my 2euros..
when the linux client comes out, you wont need a windows to install it.
Yea, and now there probertly running around looking for signs with big I, N, U and X letters. So they can make thier hollywoodescue LINUX sign in silicon valley.
I live in denmark, and when i buy my dvds online from England i pay vat/taxes there. And i dont need to pay anyforms of importtaxes etc, I checked it with the "importoffice"(dont really know the english word :). They told me when ever buying stuff from other EU countries, I will always pay the taxes etc. that applies for that country.
So, theyd just have to open their browser and order the hardisks. And theyll have it a 1-2 days later.
(btw. this creates a HUUGE advantage in placing european internet stores in low vat countries. When i buy a DVD(or whatever) from england,i save 7% on the VAT alone. On top on that DVDs are generally waay cheaper in england than in denmark. If I was sellig dvds/videos/other-small-realtively-cheap-product in denmark via the internet. Id be scared(and move to england =))
I dont hope u are right, but that actually sounds like a plausiable senario.
But this is not the issue here, the issue here is security and common sence. Why would a sercurity team(with common sence =):
I dont get ISS-X Forces behavior in this case, I must admit I find them extremely questionable.
Why? think of it in this way. If that guy who found a bug in oreilys site (customer information leak thing(easy, supposedly no cc info leak=)), hadnt talked to oreily. But had shut his mouth and posted it on some security webpage, wouldnt u find him questionable?
Just my opp.
I know loads or 'programmers' who don't know how to turn a recursive function into a loop.
:)
Thiese shouldnt have to be HTML 'programmers' (lets callem markupers)?
I have a hard time imagining a CS/EE not being able to turn a recursive function into a loop.
cheers
But I dont think the desktop will become the battlefield, to fight explorer on "the desktop"(windows/mac) would be very VERY lame(imagine M$ fighting Apache by creating a *nixport of iis).
:)
;) OS, gecko is actually the only choise here.
No Mozilla/Geckos secret weapon MUST be embedded devices, because here M$ simply doesnt stand a chance. Because:
A. to quote mozilla.org: "It is Open Source. Unlike other embedding choices, all of Gecko's source code is freely available and fully customizable. You can tinker and tweak as much as you need. Yet, depending on the license chosen, it is quite possible to use Gecko as a component in what is otherwise a fully proprietary commercial product"
B. Gecko is designed to leave as small as possible fingerprint on the memory. This will help in wrist mounted browsers etc
C. Almost ALL embedded applications run some sort of custom(ized
In 5-7 years time, i think most people will use gecko on a daily basic. But, i think the usage will be transparent. Etc. when browsing the net on their new television or what ever.
Take an example, this year the Geckobased browser will arrive for the PS2. As i understand the first 500,000 units that are being manufactured of the netkit (modem, networkcard(for broadband) and a netscape browski) is alread spokenfor in japan. This is more new Netscape users than netscape have been able to lure in the last ##??## years, and its just the tip of the iceberg. I dont have the imagination visualize what theyll end up putting browsers in. But im positive that a shiteload of new gecko users will be created through embedded devices, and knowing how anal most webmasters are. This will mean a LOT less sites will render incorrectly in our favorite interpreter.
I dont think mozilla will challenge on the desktop though, BUT i think when gecko finds its way out into various telephones, televisions , satelite recivers consoles etc etc. This will help ernormusly with getting M$ to follow the w3c guidelines for HTML/XML/WHATEVER-ML implentations.Because nomatter how arrogant they are, they want to give the customer an illusion of being satisfied. Meaning if a customer watch a webpage on his television(through his sons ps2) and on his new Palm2004 and they look fine in both, hell be mad @microsoft if they look kinkay in exploder.
i just got a A+ in math, wooohoo!
As a huge nr. of post allready have stated before this, its no big surprise that the projects on sourceforge arent huge. If they where they would probertly not be there.
:)
Personally i would find it way more interesting to find out how many projects on sourceforge that are making exactly the same thing. This is in my oppinion the biggest irretation with OSS rigth now, "Yet-Another-appnamehere" is running out of control. Do i really need to beable to choose between twentysomething different (mostly ½finished) cdrecord frontends? I think its great being able to have options, but seriusly, finding good OSS software like finding stuff on gnutella. You need try half of them to find one that works proberly/satisfying. I know everybody keeps telling me that in the future, you will love having all thiese great apps to choose from.
Yea yea, but take scripting languages, we have quite a few REALLY REALLY mature OSS projects in this category. But imagine if Guido had gotten together with Larry and showed him his ideas, instead of creating his own again. Then maybe we all didnt have to dream about parrots.
ooh, damn.. han lots more to write on this subject. But they are starting a soccer match in the tele rigth now.. gotta go
Us linux people often critisise windows applications for being bloatware, and we argue that one will never need half of the functionality of certian win32 apps. But linux is bloated to, if i install redhat with everything, i get like 7 differnt text editors installed. Do i really need that? especially when taking the quality of a few of them into account. Though on linux ofcourse, were free to remove the ones we dislike. And not contstantly have them battle eachother for right to edit certain file types. But nevertheless it baffels me that people are still making new editors for linux.
Trust me i like soccer :) Ive played in a club from age 10-17, now I just love to play for the fun in it. And I love to watch it to, BUT i hate defensive football. The system/way that senegal played is well know in modern football, its Norways last national coachs, "Drillo", work. Its wide know as the most defensive way to play football. Its based on the idea that
its easier to destroy than create. And i dislike that.
Maybe because I usally play an offensive midfielder , i dont know.
Btw. i disagree on the notion that all france have is Zidane. Trezeguet , Henry and Pirés springs to mind. Zindane is important, no doubt. But, France dominated the match yesterday anyways. Henry and Trezeguet both hit the woodworks, u dont get closer than that.
Damn, u simply couldnt be more wrong..
Seriusly, half the players playing football (the entire, oftenly very FAT defensive line springs to mind) could never be even ½ good at soccer. Because its a game not filled with 20something breaks to make room for all the commercials, no you have to actually RUN the entire game, 45*2 minutes. That why u need to be fit, not a fat football paying fuck.. That couldnt catch a retired old lady if she was to steal his crotch strap.
Oh, yeah btw. "football" is ruby for sissies.. did'nt you know?
First im danish, were grouped with both france and senegal. I hate the french team, mostly because a. they are xtremely good, and denmark is grouped with them. B. They allways seem to kick our but when we meet them, only time i can remeber us winning was in Euro 92(but we had a awsome team back then, and we won the entire tournament). And ofcource C. They are french..
BUT, i HATE the fact senegal won. I know everybody loves a underdog win and everything, but jessus! never had i seen such a boring soccer game.They way they won was one of the ugliest things ever seen in football. , they played 4-5-1. But using prettymuch ALL their midfieldser as defenders. So in reality they played something like 8-1-1, which is about as defensive as it gets. The French played all the ball, since only one senegal player seemed to want to leave his own side of the field. But it worked, they won.. But it was one of the most boring VM matches ive ever seen.. The French had possesion (65 france 35 senegal), all they did was running around trying to find a hole in the abnormally big wall of a defence.
In basket terms, if one of the teams desides to not wanna play the game. And everybody just stands under their basket proctecing it, letting only one guy attack once in a while(hoping for a lucky punch).
Teams like this kill soccer...
I dropped out of my education, because i got a good job offer. And since i had no money at the time, it seemed like a really good idea to take it. I was also lured by all the promise about certification and other various training, so i dropped out and took the job. Everything went great there, and after being there only one year, i got a better job as a programmer on a intranet product. Everything was dandy, i earned pretty good money and was bacially a happy camper. When i started at this job, i also began to take a two year programming education at nighttime(i didnt want to be the only guy there with no education at all). It went great, and i aced alot of the coding related classes. BUT, then came a cource called "algoriths and datastructures". And here i began to feel the lack of a completed college education, I needed to use ALOT of energy just keeping up with the math, in the end i passed. But i certainly didnt ace that one.
:)
Also on the hobby level I began to have problems with the lack of education. Since I love to code c++ and i love games. I decided to try getting into opengl programming, and this was where it hit me. Im bacially an complete idiot, and I need to learn more math/physics. For each page of opengl doc/text i read, i needed to read 5 pages of math stuff. And after spending an entire weekend on trigemetri,vectors and matrices. I decided that this was stupid, the best way to learn all this was simply to go back to school. So I quitted my job, and began to study fulltime again(after being on the coding team for almost two years). Ive been studying a year now(finishing the programming edu, and starting to take the math/physic/cemistry/english/danish/etc i need to enter the university), and i have a year more to go before i actually can start to take a B.sc EE degree(i choosed enginering because of all the math and physic:). Im going to be 28 when Im done, and a 28 year old graduate probertly wont be the most atractive thing on the job marked. But i dont care, im doing it for the matrial. I want to learn high level math,physics etc.
So what im I trying to say? Bacially this: I think it possible for a self taught person to land a good job, earn good money and everything. But, A. you never know what you want to do in 10 years time, what if you get tired of being a sysad? Then then a college/uni education is worth its weight in gold, because it would make a carrer change way easier. And B. knowledge is nice, chances are that you(like me) will face alot of siturations where you wouldve wished you had stayed in school.
But good luck in the future, what ever path you may choose
No big loss.
:)
eeh, EA is the worlds largest games publisher. Its actually the biggest fish you can lose as a gamehardware creator.
I agree that VisualConcepts are doing a GREAT job over at Sega Sports, ever since the Virtua Tennis on the dreamcast those guys have had nothing but my greatest respect. But, there are MUCH more to EA than EA Sports.
Im willing to bet gooood money that M$, is disliking the fact that they wont get no online sims.. just as an example
of the very relevant(->sarcasm) questions raised in Mallrats..
:) and asks:
Like when brodie meets stan lee(played by stan, kinda cool
Do you think Mr. Fantastic can stretch his dinky also? And do you think The Thing is hard all over? I mean really all over.
or even..
T.S.: But they're engaged.
Brodie: Doesn't matter, can't happen.
T.S.: Why not? It's bound to come up.
Brodie: It's impossible, Lois could never have Superman's baby. Do you think her fallopian tubes could handle the sperm? I gurantee you he blows a load like a shotgun right through her back. What about her womb? Do you think it's strong enough to carry her child?
T.S.:Sure, why not?
Brodie: He's an alien, for christ sake. His Kyrptonian biological makeup is enhanced by earth's yellow sun. If Lois gets a tan the kid could kick right through her stomach. Only someone like Wonder Woman has a strong enough uterus to carry his kid. The only way he could bang regular chicks is with a kryptonite condom. That would kill him!
is brodie right or is he jumping to conclusions? I really NEED to take this class!
Redhat obviously feels that getting rid of that big bloaty pile off poo of a OS is enough of a reward for the user.
The election results would be prosponed forever, because every single candidate that lost. Have hired a horde of computer scientists to find possible problems with the software being used, that could have effected the results ;)
If I build a Jabber solution, it will be in java, so PERL/TK samples don't do me a lot of good
;)
Dont read the syntax, read the semantics
(May i suggest maybe looking at Dr. Robert Sebastas exellent book "Concepts of programming languages"(isbn: 0-201-38596-1))
"well, maybe Majel Roddenberry, the voice of the computer in Start Trek"
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Start Trek, to boldly go where no user have gone before(and ofcourse, to figure out why the **** you have to press start to stop windoze).
Sorry.. couldnt help my self
Btw. I for one think the voice scheme should be configurable. Imagine the joy of having your personal droid talking to you like Marlon Brando, it would be like a daily comicrelief(i guess im just easily amused
"It slowed down as it entered the first-floor ward, whose corridor was crowded with elderly patients in wheelchairs, and carefully avoided each one."
:)
Aha! i smell a future benchmark for drugdroids(!).. How well do the unit handle a hallway filled with slow moving, kinda confused objects(btw. theise poor elderly people must think theyve gone nuts. The journalist should have interviewed some of the seniors, i would like to know if the droid actually scare any of them
I now this is completely redundant to this story and everything. But i just had to post a comment, somewhere....
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I JUST SAW A M$ BANNER ON
Pinch me somebody.. please..
I bought EQ a ½ year ago, just to see what the fuzz was about. I never got to upgrade my subscription though, because of one simple fact. I dont want/have the time to play 5+ hours per day.
I played one, sometimes two nights per week. Sometimes not at all. This didnt really seem as a option for EQ, since most the monsters that have stuff of value. Are in camps, aka. they have friends. And, you too simply need a group of friends too kick their little monster-hinds. Now here comes the fun part, you cant group with people to powerfull. Hence, if the people you add to you friends list are playing the game more than you. You cant group with them. So, you NEED to keep up with the group.
My big problem with EQ, and what i actually find kinda scary. Is that the people i met online all seemed to play ALOT, i simply coudnt find a group to stick with. Because the people i "socialized"
with in the game all played min. 15 hours per week. They found me weird for not playing more.
I guess what im trying to say is that in my experince, the "EQ addict" seemed more the rule than the exception.