"1943 saw the need for computing artillery firing charts, and ENIAC was born."
This always struck me as odd. I think it went more like: Shit. We invented the programmable digital computer. We've got 1001 uses for it so we need to declassify it. We can't very well declassify what we've been USING it for, so we gotta make up a bullshit reason for inventing it.
So uh The ARMY needed a programmable whatsahoozit to do... um... computation... er... The army computes what now? Ok artillery firing charts! Yeah the reds will buy that.
Ok something off-topic is being dredged up from my deepest earliest childhood memories. Some children's reading show on PBS with Marian the Librarian. She had a machine she'd put objects in and a book would come out the other end.
"There took place this curious chase through meadow, tree, and flower. Til at last they ended up right at the witch's tower. So now Marian the Librarian, a prisoner she'll stay, until the witch is happy and lets Marian go away."
Code Gordon was supposed to be out "before HL2" even before the HL2 hack fiasco. So, unless the Code Gordon developers' servers have been hacked and all their code stolen, then they're completely full of shit.
Yeah or maybe it's Gnome with the Simple theme, which is exactly what it looks like given the quality of the image.
So the parent comment is insightful, or was it intended to be funny?
You would honestly believe that the use-what-we-know-works attitude that NASA is famous for applies all the way down to the desktop of the guy doing image analysis?
I guess I see that as putting the cart before the horse. I don't write an open source game so that I can get out of my day job, I work a day job so that I can write an open source game.
Even Linus worked at Transmeta all those years, yeah they gave him lattitude to spend time on Linux, but they didn't hire him to do it.
Making a game for the enjoyment of making a game is not a reason? You're a programmer, so I assume you enjoy programming. I assume you'd enjoy seeing people deriving pleasure from your software. I assume you'd appreciate comments and praise and the increase in credibility you would gain from putting out a quality piece of software.
Every one of your reasons is economic. Does no one write software for the sake of writing software anymore?
I believe that a project like this misses the point. As I see it, most Open Source developers do not write code because they want to Make The World A Better Place. Their motivation is not the satisfaction of users.
Programmers write code because that's what they love to do. This is why there are dozens of editors, mailers, etc, rather than a single well-maintained application of each type. A coder says to himself "I feel like writing yet another mp3 ripper GUI". He proceeds to do so despite the fact that numerous examples already exist because his motivation is his own pleasure, rather than a desire to fill some gap.
Trying create a carrot to dangle in front of these people is pointless. They don't want your carrot. They want to write the code that they want to write.
I can go down to 7-11 and pay cash for a prepaid phone card. The card has a many-digit number on the back, and when I want to make a call I gotta type in that number. This is a bit of a pain, but the entire system works without me having to give up a CC number or even my name.
This is how I want web micropayments to work. I wanna go to 7-11 for beer, and a weekend of webcomics. Nicely anonymous.
Just after the droid control ship is destroyed and the droid army shuts down Jar Jar is standing next to a defunct droid. He smacks it and it falls down.
The printing on the droid's back identifies it as droid number 1138. It seems Lucas likes to make that reference.
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"1943 saw the need for computing artillery firing charts, and ENIAC was born."
This always struck me as odd. I think it went more like: Shit. We invented the programmable digital computer. We've got 1001 uses for it so we need to declassify it. We can't very well declassify what we've been USING it for, so we gotta make up a bullshit reason for inventing it.
So uh The ARMY needed a programmable whatsahoozit to do... um... computation... er... The army computes what now? Ok artillery firing charts! Yeah the reds will buy that.
Ok something off-topic is being dredged up from my deepest earliest childhood memories. Some children's reading show on PBS with Marian the Librarian. She had a machine she'd put objects in and a book would come out the other end.
"There took place this curious chase through meadow, tree, and flower. Til at last they ended up right at the witch's tower. So now Marian the Librarian, a prisoner she'll stay, until the witch is happy and lets Marian go away."
WTF am I thinking of?
Code Gordon was supposed to be out "before HL2" even before the HL2 hack fiasco. So, unless the Code Gordon developers' servers have been hacked and all their code stolen, then they're completely full of shit.
Would any Worthian, Farker, or SA goon care to photoshop a kibipenguin pulling a plow for us?
Yeah or maybe it's Gnome with the Simple theme, which is exactly what it looks like given the quality of the image.
So the parent comment is insightful, or was it intended to be funny?
You would honestly believe that the use-what-we-know-works attitude that NASA is famous for applies all the way down to the desktop of the guy doing image analysis?
I guess I see that as putting the cart before the horse. I don't write an open source game so that I can get out of my day job, I work a day job so that I can write an open source game.
Even Linus worked at Transmeta all those years, yeah they gave him lattitude to spend time on Linux, but they didn't hire him to do it.
Huh. So you can't think of ONE MORE reason eh?
Making a game for the enjoyment of making a game is not a reason? You're a programmer, so I assume you enjoy programming. I assume you'd enjoy seeing people deriving pleasure from your software. I assume you'd appreciate comments and praise and the increase in credibility you would gain from putting out a quality piece of software.
Every one of your reasons is economic. Does no one write software for the sake of writing software anymore?
I believe that a project like this misses the point. As I see it, most Open Source developers do not write code because they want to Make The World A Better Place. Their motivation is not the satisfaction of users.
Programmers write code because that's what they love to do. This is why there are dozens of editors, mailers, etc, rather than a single well-maintained application of each type. A coder says to himself "I feel like writing yet another mp3 ripper GUI". He proceeds to do so despite the fact that numerous examples already exist because his motivation is his own pleasure, rather than a desire to fill some gap.
Trying create a carrot to dangle in front of these people is pointless. They don't want your carrot. They want to write the code that they want to write.
I thought this thing was supposed to process my feces!
I thought the whole point of the Internet, being a packet-switched network, was that it could survive damage... like from nuclear war.
So now we're worried that a terrorist with a scissors is gonna bring it down?
I can go down to 7-11 and pay cash for a prepaid phone card. The card has a many-digit number on the back, and when I want to make a call I gotta type in that number. This is a bit of a pain, but the entire system works without me having to give up a CC number or even my name.
This is how I want web micropayments to work. I wanna go to 7-11 for beer, and a weekend of webcomics. Nicely anonymous.
>To actually fumble through the dictionary at every 4 letter word. THAT'S dedication. :P
/usr/dict/words in combinarion with a little "pearl".
One might assume he just used
Just after the droid control ship is destroyed and the droid army shuts down Jar Jar is standing next to a defunct droid. He smacks it and it falls down.
The printing on the droid's back identifies it as droid number 1138. It seems Lucas likes to make that reference.