I've been a/. user since 1996 and I'm seriously considering leaving this site. The user-interface is broken and unintelligible and the comments seem to be heading towards brain-dead.
Excellent rant! You sir have articulated exactly why I think that Linux on the desktop will never succeed. This deserves to be posted on Reddit, Hacker News, etc...
"I'm a soon-to-be Master's graduate from a public university majoring in carpentry â" with all that carpentry entails. Of course, it's come time to start job hunting, and while there are a few actual carpentry-type jobs around, I've noticed that a few carpentry jobs would be substantially more convenient for me personally. But this leads me to the question (assuming they would hire me, of course) â" would having carpentry experience hurt my job prospects down the road? Would future employers see that and be less likely to hire me â" or pigeon-hole me into carpentry?"
Exactly the point I wanted to make in this thread.
Modern AAA games all seem to be the same because the developers and publishers want to keep playing it safe. Back in the 80s and 90s there was a lot more experimentation going on because it was the frontier of gaming concepts.
If you really want to recapture your childhood and yet have fun with a modern game, play indie titles or Flash games. I personally think that Flash games is where it's at. There is an AMAZING amount of experimentation going on in that space.
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OH HAI
My first post since 2012. Left for Digg and now Reddit. Time to move on to something else. It's not Slashdot.
KTHXBYE
A remark like is is modded interesting? Really?
I've been a /. user since 1996 and I'm seriously considering leaving this site. The user-interface is broken and unintelligible and the comments seem to be heading towards brain-dead.
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Documentation is a waste of time. You're better off writing your code cleanly so that somebody else can decipher it easily.
I'm waiting for Google to port Go to Android.
Excellent rant! You sir have articulated exactly why I think that Linux on the desktop will never succeed. This deserves to be posted on Reddit, Hacker News, etc...
How come I've never heard of it till now? I don't live under a rock. I read tech sites daily and listen to poscasts. How did this slip under my radar?
Just thought I'd mention it. "Aging" is not a word in the English dictionary.
http://youtu.be/rxcoe1Y2Ua8?t=52s
Inflatable autopilot.
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This line says it all:
"My granddaughters don't even know what Microsoft does."
Aha so it was you who wrote all those self-replicating Outlook viruses. Thanks a lot dude.
i19[ESC][CTRL-A] Doesn't work in Windows by default ...
Here's what TTimo has to say about it:
http://ttimo.typepad.com/blog/2009/09/id-software-and-linux.html
The line you're looking for is the last one:
"It is likely i will be involved with idTech 5 in the near future, I'll be damned if we don't find the time to get Linux builds done."
This post is from 2009 but I think it was posted after id was sold to BethSoft. Let's hope he succeeds in convincing his bosses.
You mean "get ready Github ..."
Something tells me that the only reason this article exists is because of the intended pun in the title.
"I'm a soon-to-be Master's graduate from a public university majoring in carpentry â" with all that carpentry entails. Of course, it's come time to start job hunting, and while there are a few actual carpentry-type jobs around, I've noticed that a few carpentry jobs would be substantially more convenient for me personally. But this leads me to the question (assuming they would hire me, of course) â" would having carpentry experience hurt my job prospects down the road? Would future employers see that and be less likely to hire me â" or pigeon-hole me into carpentry?"
What Windows 8 is, is Microsoft ticking the boxes:
When I watched the keynote I had a sense of déjà vu because basically Windows 8 is exactly what Ubuntu is supposed to be.
Cool.
Can I hook up my laptop to it and copy the files? That way, the drive will be worth even more money because I'm duplicating the files.
If everybody does this, then the exhibit can be renamed '5 Trillion Dollars' (pinky on mouth).
Yup. It just looks like "Urbana 3" in my browser.
My webbrowser (Chrome, Win7) makes it looks like Urbana III. I was wondering if he had lived on a planet ...
Because the xbox 360 is a pretty decent piece of hardware sold at a price the fraction of an equivalent PC.
Why? This video is already full-length. It has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Quake3 is hands down the best arena shooter out there and I don't think anything will replace it ever.
Ok, but honestly, how many people have played Prey or are still playing it?
I'm close to the end of "Cryptonomicon" and man what a narcissistic pile of garbage it is. I agree wholeheartedly.
Exactly the point I wanted to make in this thread.
Modern AAA games all seem to be the same because the developers and publishers want to keep playing it safe. Back in the 80s and 90s there was a lot more experimentation going on because it was the frontier of gaming concepts.
If you really want to recapture your childhood and yet have fun with a modern game, play indie titles or Flash games. I personally think that Flash games is where it's at. There is an AMAZING amount of experimentation going on in that space.