I'm sorry, I should update my.sig - wouldn't want the Committee and their Dark Master to be displeased with me, after all. Sauron is seeking the Republican nomination, so Perot's political career will be safe. Until Sauran casts him into the infernal abyss of Mount Doom, of course.
Vietnam aside, I really don't like the chances of any army against one with significantly superior technology - and the US army is heavily trained to rely on the superiority of its tech.
Futhermore, the peaceniks would have a field day with this - I doubt the Elf War would be very popular on the home front. It would take a really strong president to overcome this...
Vote Sauron in 2004!
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Wasn't there a series of science fictions stories about "Slow Glass" - glass which can hold light for years before emitting it? I love when nature imitates art.
Does this really matter? We all know some ass is going to push The Button, or unleash a super-virus, or some damn thing within a few hundred years - it's plain luck we've lasted this long without a nuclear war.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn he's got a low=end pentium or pentium 2 with a whole lot of crap shareware and software toys installed - that's probably what's killing his system stability. I've got no love for Win98, but it isn't as bad as Barry says.
You didn't play Majestic. That's a shame, because if you had you'd know that there's this nice little checkbox you can click on the user configuration page. I forget the exact text, but it basically says "Click this if you want us to put 'This message is from Majestic the game' on the end of every phone call/IM/email/fax."
The game was immersive and cool, but there was always a very clear border between the game world and reality for those who wanted it.
You're entitled to post your opinion, of course - and thank you for admitting you never player, too many people on/. never admit they're uninformed - but it would be better still if you'd actually look at their web page before condemning the game as yet another sign of the Collapse of Western Civilization and Our Moral Decay. (Note: "Collapse of Western Civilization" and "Our Moral Decay" are registered trademarks of the Christian Coalition, RIAA, and Republican Party. You are free to use these phrases for non-commercial, private use, but public viewings require written permission from these parties.)
...do you really trust him to exercise that sort of discretion?
I wouldn't call them just kid's movies
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They were rated PG, and certainly appealed to kids, but there were elements that really were targeted at adults. I'd call them family films in the truest sense of the phrase - films everyone in the family can enjoy, as opposed to the pasturized crap they call "Family Films" now.
It's one of those things that's simple in concept, but is full of fiddly little details. But here's hoping you do get/.ed - although considering the number of dupelicate posts lately, multiple/.ings are more likely:-)
Where do you get the fuel cell mixture, or the fuel cells themselves? And fuel cells of batteries, they're still heavey as heck. Still, good luck - I'd really like to see this hack. What motor are you using?
Your electric motor is going to have a lot less kick to it than the old ICE - I hope you're doing this to a fairly small car, and a newer one - they're made of lighter materials that the older Detroit iron. Uh, you do know they build electric car chassises out of lighter materials than conventional ones, don't you? Also, the weight of the bateries will eat up any weight loss you gain from removing the internal combustion engine. Is this really something you want to do?
But those little hacks aren't nearly the bulk of sysadmin work, and they CAN be done in scripting languages - not as quickly, but you do gain the advantage that more people will know the scripting language, and be able to maintain your hack. I don't know about you, but I find other peoples' assembly code a bitch to read.
If you want to do it quick and dirty, asm is very nice. But I still don't think it's worth the time to learn if you're only using it as a sysadmin.
Someone actually did that for doom
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You can find the game (I forget if it's TADS of INFORM, sorry) at ifarchive.org .
Jesus Christ, man, stay quiet! Are you trying to destroy the credibility of our 133t reputations?!
It's like this, erroneus: No one on Slashdot - in fact, no one at all, not even the creators - can play tt or aa quake. Very few people - perhaps no one - can even compile any version of textmode quake. But saying we can compile and play it makes us sound very smart and techy to the uninformed, so for the sake of us all-
SHUT THE [EXPLETIVE] UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ASCII Porn has been around a long time, my friend
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I'm not going to post a link, because I'm not going to take pageview away from the hard-working REAL pornographers, but ascii pr0n has existed for literally decades - people used to post it to USENET.
I'm inviting friends over to watch Das Boot (director's cut, three hours long with subtitles instead of crap dubbing) and Run Lola Run (chickflick, yeah, but the chick insisted.) When this gets old, it's dreamcast time! Crazy Taxi, the Quake 1 port, the Doom port, some old Mame roms, who knows. I know a gamepad isn't the best way to play an FPS, but trust me, the big screen makes up for it.
And of course, plenty of food. No booze, though - none of us is older than 18:-(.
Unless you have other functions as well, your job as sysadmin is to keep the system running as often as possible - this means fixing problems as quickly as possible, and also keeping the system maintainable by other admins. Using any given scripting language - especially on a *nix platform - will let you carry out any standard sysadmin task quickly, efficiently, and in a way that is easy for admins less talented than yourself to understand. So in a non-development shop, you should certainly feel free to learn asm for the joy of learning (I intend to), but don't use it on the job.
In a software dev house or other highly technical environment, of course, you may actually be called on to do debugging work. In that case, yah, you need assembly. That's actually a pet peeve of mine, though: it seems to me that having a hopefully well-trained individual with experience and skill in system administration do a programmer's job is a waste, just as having a programmer take over sysadmin roles in inefficient a lot of the time. Let your programming gurus do their think, and your admin gurus do theirs, I say.
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I'm sorry, I should update my .sig - wouldn't want the Committee and their Dark Master to be displeased with me, after all. Sauron is seeking the Republican nomination, so Perot's political career will be safe. Until Sauran casts him into the infernal abyss of Mount Doom, of course.
Vietnam aside, I really don't like the chances of any army against one with significantly superior technology - and the US army is heavily trained to rely on the superiority of its tech.
Futhermore, the peaceniks would have a field day with this - I doubt the Elf War would be very popular on the home front. It would take a really strong president to overcome this...
Vote Sauron in 2004!
(This post was a paid message from the Committe to Elect Sauron, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to America's future as the stronghold of the Dark Lord.)
Wasn't there a series of science fictions stories about "Slow Glass" - glass which can hold light for years before emitting it? I love when nature imitates art.
Does this really matter? We all know some ass is going to push The Button, or unleash a super-virus, or some damn thing within a few hundred years - it's plain luck we've lasted this long without a nuclear war.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn he's got a low=end pentium or pentium 2 with a whole lot of crap shareware and software toys installed - that's probably what's killing his system stability. I've got no love for Win98, but it isn't as bad as Barry says.
In my family (don't know about others, sorry), $200 is usually the cap for total money spent on gifts per person.
That would make it "Several weeks", just. Although an X-Box is a little pricey for a Hanukkah gift. :-)
You didn't play Majestic. That's a shame, because if you had you'd know that there's this nice little checkbox you can click on the user configuration page. I forget the exact text, but it basically says "Click this if you want us to put 'This message is from Majestic the game' on the end of every phone call/IM/email/fax."
/. never admit they're uninformed - but it would be better still if you'd actually look at their web page before condemning the game as yet another sign of the Collapse of Western Civilization and Our Moral Decay. (Note: "Collapse of Western Civilization" and "Our Moral Decay" are registered trademarks of the Christian Coalition, RIAA, and Republican Party. You are free to use these phrases for non-commercial, private use, but public viewings require written permission from these parties.)
The game was immersive and cool, but there was always a very clear border between the game world and reality for those who wanted it.
You're entitled to post your opinion, of course - and thank you for admitting you never player, too many people on
We have the Red Hat Linux Bible with Red Hat 7.1 CDs - I love my local librarians!
...do you really trust him to exercise that sort of discretion?
They were rated PG, and certainly appealed to kids, but there were elements that really were targeted at adults. I'd call them family films in the truest sense of the phrase - films everyone in the family can enjoy, as opposed to the pasturized crap they call "Family Films" now.
A tabloid or the shiny things network? I'm inclined to go with the tabloid - at least their fans are semi-literate. :-)
They have to make at least a decent effort at encryption, after all.
It's one of those things that's simple in concept, but is full of fiddly little details. But here's hoping you do get /.ed - although considering the number of dupelicate posts lately, multiple /.ings are more likely :-)
Where do you get the fuel cell mixture, or the fuel cells themselves? And fuel cells of batteries, they're still heavey as heck. Still, good luck - I'd really like to see this hack. What motor are you using?
Your electric motor is going to have a lot less kick to it than the old ICE - I hope you're doing this to a fairly small car, and a newer one - they're made of lighter materials that the older Detroit iron. Uh, you do know they build electric car chassises out of lighter materials than conventional ones, don't you? Also, the weight of the bateries will eat up any weight loss you gain from removing the internal combustion engine. Is this really something you want to do?
But those little hacks aren't nearly the bulk of sysadmin work, and they CAN be done in scripting languages - not as quickly, but you do gain the advantage that more people will know the scripting language, and be able to maintain your hack. I don't know about you, but I find other peoples' assembly code a bitch to read.
If you want to do it quick and dirty, asm is very nice. But I still don't think it's worth the time to learn if you're only using it as a sysadmin.
You can find the game (I forget if it's TADS of INFORM, sorry) at ifarchive.org .
Jesus Christ, man, stay quiet! Are you trying to destroy the credibility of our 133t reputations?!
It's like this, erroneus: No one on Slashdot - in fact, no one at all, not even the creators - can play tt or aa quake. Very few people - perhaps no one - can even compile any version of textmode quake. But saying we can compile and play it makes us sound very smart and techy to the uninformed, so for the sake of us all-
SHUT THE [EXPLETIVE] UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not going to post a link, because I'm not going to take pageview away from the hard-working REAL pornographers, but ascii pr0n has existed for literally decades - people used to post it to USENET.
...until I see a Dreamcast port. :-)
I'm inviting friends over to watch Das Boot (director's cut, three hours long with subtitles instead of crap dubbing) and Run Lola Run (chickflick, yeah, but the chick insisted.) When this gets old, it's dreamcast time! Crazy Taxi, the Quake 1 port, the Doom port, some old Mame roms, who knows. I know a gamepad isn't the best way to play an FPS, but trust me, the big screen makes up for it.
:-(.
And of course, plenty of food. No booze, though - none of us is older than 18
...you lucky, lucky bastard. :-)
Unless you have other functions as well, your job as sysadmin is to keep the system running as often as possible - this means fixing problems as quickly as possible, and also keeping the system maintainable by other admins. Using any given scripting language - especially on a *nix platform - will let you carry out any standard sysadmin task quickly, efficiently, and in a way that is easy for admins less talented than yourself to understand. So in a non-development shop, you should certainly feel free to learn asm for the joy of learning (I intend to), but don't use it on the job.
In a software dev house or other highly technical environment, of course, you may actually be called on to do debugging work. In that case, yah, you need assembly. That's actually a pet peeve of mine, though: it seems to me that having a hopefully well-trained individual with experience and skill in system administration do a programmer's job is a waste, just as having a programmer take over sysadmin roles in inefficient a lot of the time. Let your programming gurus do their think, and your admin gurus do theirs, I say.
Last sentence should have read: "But women used it long before he did...". I'm an idiot, I blame my cat.