Isnt this the whole philosophy behind OO programming? ISTR my OO teacher saying something like "every class should reflect a real-world concept"... but hey, it's been a while. I could be wrong.
My roof is kinda leaky and I have no money to pay someone to fix it. I dont have paypal (no credit card) but if you want to contribute to my keep-eggy-from-waking-up-at-4am-with-freezing-rain water-falling-on-his-head fund, email me at eggstasy@clix.pt:) Will also take random computer-related tasks such as web development and other programming things. I'm a portuguese C.S. student and I know most of the right buzzwords and have had some professional web-dev experience too. Check out some (paid) projects i've been working on: http://mco.edunau.net http://porao.edunau.net http://www.telespot.pt
I can also do translations. I've had some prof. exp. translating stuff from english to portuguese and back. Can do other languages such as french and spanish. Any takers?:)
I watched a show once that demonstrated how the lines could have been made. They made a Neo-Nazca figure with just sticks and ropes. If you plant a stick in the ground and attach a rope to it, you can walk in a circle by keeping your distance. Similarly, by varying the distance you can make spirals. You can vary the distance in precise amounts (more or less) by tying equidistant knots in the rope. But really its far less complicated than it seems. Another researcher claims that if you walk along the lines you can get a pretty clear picture of what they are, and in order to prove it he tried to make a figure that he drew on paper first, and then when viewed from above it was a pretty good match. Yet another possibility is that they could have made an actual hot air baloon. They had better cloth than most modern parachutes and someone actually made a primitive baloon with the materials available around that flew up to 400ft for about 3 minutes, after being filled with hot air from one of their fire pits. I find it hard to believe that such a primitive people understood any of the underlying principles of baloon flight however... though it could have been discovered accidentally.
How to crash an XP box regularly? How about merely attempting to install it? When I was installing XP on my gf's PC I had to try like 10 times to get it working (it crashed DURING the installation!) and even then the mean uptime was like 5 minutes. I cant for the life of me understand why the fuck XP reboots the whole box automatically whenever some tiny little error occurs. Apparently you can disable that behaviour in the administrative options, a friend tells me, but with an uptime of minutes I didnt mess around with it a whole lot. I had lots of trouble on my box too. Hardly anyone had XP drivers for their hardware when it was launched and some even announced they werent planning on making them. I had to buy a new modem to get XP to run! Motorola claimed their win2k drivers worked in XP. BULLSHIT! Installing the drivers on a clean XP would give me another one of those marvelous insta-reboots. After a few tries I did get them to install but then I got the same wonderful 5 minutes uptime. I ended up putting 98 back on both boxes but have now migrated to win2k. Aside from some weird incompatibility problems now and then (quake2 refuses to install) it works fine and is very stable (for a microsoft product that is). I never loved linux as much as I did after trying out Windows XP. I did the "stick-to-Linux-for-a-month" thing and it was OK, though neither Mozilla and Opera worked with the silly javascript menus in Archspace, and having gotten addicted to it I went back to 'doze. I'm now planning on giving Linux another shot, though, I'm using Moz under 'doze and it works wonderfully. The browser that is. The mailer refuses to send any mail, though it receives fine:|
Are you out of your mind? I do tech support for lusers all the time, and charge like $50 for a simple reinstall and defrag. You wouldnt believe the speed increase. Ppl specifically ask me to go to their houses and "make their PC go faster". The amount of cruft an unmaintained windows box can accumulate over time is incredible. The registry bloats to over 10 times its original size and makes booting up go from "instant" to "endless". The unnecessary DLLs and temporary files clog up your memory and disk space in a flash. And then there's spyware. Even if I tell ppl that they just need to run this and that proggy once in a while, they never do it. They'd rather pay me $50 (and thats a lot in a poor country like mine) to do something as simple as reinstalling and defragging... you just have no idea how dumb some ppl are, do you? I imagine it will have a lesser impact on modern boxes, but most ppl around here think a P3-500 is a GOOD computer...
Don't you know that we are the humans? The single most advanced species on the surface of the planet? Look at the pretty opposable thumb! LOOK AT THE THUMB DAMNIT! *CHOMP*
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MOZILLA??? HAHAHAHAHAHA Mozilla taxes the resources of my 1.3GHz Athlon let alone a 486:) As for the latest 16 bit versiond of Opera (3.62) or Netscape (4.7), well, they're both rather primitive, and while Opera may be fast, NS4 takes more time to render a page than it takes to download it. And Lynx sucks because it's text only. Dont even know if theres a version for dos/win3.x
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It's exactly the same IE5, but it comes with some extra stuff like the MS TCP/IP stack which 3.x versions of windows didnt have by default. It's got Outlook Express and a user manager tool, its a real true-blue IE5 version for 3.x.
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Well, maybe because IE5 had a 3.x version? Check Tucows Classic, it has all the old 3.x software you will ever need.
It runs windows 3.11 and opera 3.62 at very impressive speeds, given its age. It just goes to show how much of an overkill modern CPUs are for most people's needs. My mother does the internet on it: As long as you dont stumble upon a website with lots of flash or pop-ups, even IE5 runs acceptably! What I've been thinking, and here's the part that's useful to you, is if it wouldnt be a whole lot faster to just run it as a VNC client and let my speedy box do the actual processing and disk-spinning. I did download the dos VNC client but apparently its for 32-bit dos prompts and not real 16-bit ms-dos? I guess I could try my hand at some sort of LFSish setup but I'm still a bit of a n00b:)
sithkhan, it's called HTML and you do it like this: <a href="http://www.yourstuffhere.com"> Fancy Word Description</a> You have an "Allowed HTML" reference below you, I won't go to deeply into it, the B tag is for Bold, I for Italics, P for Paragraph, try them out, but do remember that all tags delimit an area of text and so they have to have an end tag. For instance to make a word bold you do <B> this </B> and it should look like this. Any more questions feel free to ask.
I could be wrong but wasnt the ozone layer formed due to cosmic radiation impacting our O2 atoms and combining them into O3? This might just fix our ozone hole!
Physics engines arent necessarily for shooting people like in UT. Ever heard of Pontifex? The old one stresses the heck out of my 1333 Tbird although admittedly, only on very large bridges. The thing with physics is that it can be a game in and of itself. Once you break away the chains of abstract, made-for-computer, models of reality, and start focusing on actually producing the real thing through the very mathematical equations that physicysts and engineers use on a day-to-day basis, you introduce a whole new level of flexibility into your game, allowing good old human creativity to kick in. People have been doing the craziest stuff with this series of games, thanks to its realistic physics model. For example, instead of merely building bridges like the game tells us to do, some of us build skyscrapers, mechanical contraptions, or even try to design structures that will withstand being dropped from a certain height. The aforementioned flexibility is perfectly examplified in Pontifex Olympics, a fan-made map pack where you try to build gadgets that mimic the olympic sports. The problem with real physics versus computer physics is, of course, that you need more computing power in your box in order to provide an accurate simulation. Raytracing versus rendering, for instance, there's lots of examples out there. Finding more is left as an exercise to the reader;)
Small intro: The VZ was a Z80 based computer sold around the world, under many names. VZ in Australia, Laser in Germany, and also known as "Texet" and "Salora Fellow" IIRC. We on the vzemu mailing list have been tossing around ideas on how to get the old VZ games up and running on the PC. There's more than one emulator but we could use some more software. We have copied some of the stuff over using some pretty weird processes (like manually typing in memory dumps) but we could use something better. Since these guys are german, who knows? Shameless plug: If there's anyone even remotely interested in this machine we would LOVE to have you on the mailing list since the active members are currently very few, and for a machine that was sold to hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, only having 5 or 6 ppl interested in its emulation strikes us as a bit odd. Anyway you can subscribe by sending a blank email to vzemu-subscribe@yahoogroups.com I better go and post a link on the mailing list now!:)
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.tk is free. You can get yours at www.tk (courtesy of the tiny island of Tokelau)
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Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and disable all services. At no time does Win2k give you a warning that this might be dangerous, but upon rebooting your system will be totally and irrecoverably screwed, as Win2k will tell you that you need the plug and play service to enable any service that you try to enable, INCLUDING the PnP service itself! Reinstalling restored the services to their settings, but it was still not working very well for reasons I cannot understand, so I had to do a clean install to a separate directory! You gotta love MS's monolithic integration...
Awesome games still fit on a floppy. Bridge-Builder is less than 150k I think and its sequel Pontifex is less than one meg.Both of them are 3D OpenGL games for building bridges. On especially large bridges they slow down my 1333 Tbird like nothing else ever has due to their realistic physics model. Go check them out at the company's website, www.chroniclogic.com or a very popular fansite www.bridgebuilder-game.com - Their next game, Pontifex 2, will be 20 megs and feature a Linux version. Can't wait for it to be released!
One wonders what MS's true intentions are in porting this to Linux... embrace and extend? Can you even do that to something as complex and loosely-coupled as the open source community of linux developers? They probably just realized how large a marketshare Linux is getting on the server side and want to attain total market dominance for their worthless Passport product, lest we develop a better, more secure alternative. Hint, hint: won't work, MS. Much like Gnome, KDE and the other 10 or so windows managers, we are all about freedom and choice and will code alternatives to the alternatives to the alternatives until sourceforge runs out of disk space. Just because we can, just because we love coding and have common ideals for what life should be like: Free, especially of YOUR control.
Wasn't the challenger like over 10 years ago? How many planes have crashed since then? How many cars? How many trains? (...) Rockets do NOT blow up all the time. Granted, they're not used as often as other vehicles today, but claiming that they blow up all the time isn't doing them justice.
It's called travelling. You make it sound like you've never been more than 15 minutes away from home. If you're out in the middle of nowhere on a road that's not even on the map what do you do? a)Wander around aimlessly in hopes of making it back to the main roads? b)Call someone who knows the area better than you do? c)Download a better map from the web? d)Profit!?:)
I'd love to have a web enabled phone thingy. It's much less clunky than a laptop, and it will soon be affordable to everyone. Most people nowadays fail to realize the potential of the web, seeing it as some sort of frivolous entertainment thing that you could do well without. The web is an extension of your limited memory. With omnipresent web access and well developed google skills you effectively know *everything*, it's just not on your brain yet. Computers (and the web), as foretold by Vannevar Bush, are increasingly becoming an indispensable expansion of your brain. Learn how to live with it, and you'll have a great advantage over those who don't.
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Define rich. He's a CTO, so therefore he probably makes more money in a month than I make in a year. I don't see him complaining anywhere in the linked web pages:) Furthermore, there's nothing in the GPL (and most other licenses) forbidding creators of open source software to sell their product or even their code. Also, you probably want to fix your homepage adress, since xoom.com went under like 2 years ago or something:)
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Isnt this the whole philosophy behind OO programming? ISTR my OO teacher saying something like "every class should reflect a real-world concept"... but hey, it's been a while. I could be wrong.
My roof is kinda leaky and I have no money to pay someone to fix it. I dont have paypal (no credit card) but if you want to contribute to my keep-eggy-from-waking-up-at-4am-with-freezing-rain water-falling-on-his-head fund, email me at eggstasy@clix.pt :)
:)
Will also take random computer-related tasks such as web development and other programming things.
I'm a portuguese C.S. student and I know most of the right buzzwords and have had some professional web-dev experience too.
Check out some (paid) projects i've been working on:
http://mco.edunau.net
http://porao.edunau.net
http://www.telespot.pt
I can also do translations. I've had some prof. exp. translating stuff from english to portuguese and back. Can do other languages such as french and spanish. Any takers?
I watched a show once that demonstrated how the lines could have been made. They made a Neo-Nazca figure with just sticks and ropes. If you plant a stick in the ground and attach a rope to it, you can
walk in a circle by keeping your distance. Similarly, by varying the distance you can make spirals. You can vary the distance in precise amounts (more or less) by tying equidistant knots in the rope. But really its far less complicated than it seems. Another researcher claims that if you walk along the lines you can get a pretty clear picture of what they are, and in order to prove it he tried to make a figure that he drew on paper first, and then when viewed from above it was a pretty good match.
Yet another possibility is that they could have made an actual hot air baloon. They had better cloth than most modern parachutes and someone actually made a primitive baloon with the materials available around that flew up to 400ft for about 3 minutes, after being filled with hot air from one of their fire pits.
I find it hard to believe that such a primitive people understood any of the underlying principles of baloon flight however... though it could have been discovered accidentally.
Uh-huh. Wake me up when your sissy laptops can provide the same gaming experience as a 21 inch CRT and 5.1 surround speakers...
How to crash an XP box regularly? How about merely attempting to install it? :|
When I was installing XP on my gf's PC I had to try like 10 times to get it working (it crashed DURING the installation!) and even then the mean uptime was like 5 minutes. I cant for the life of me understand why the fuck XP reboots the whole box automatically whenever some tiny little error occurs. Apparently you can disable that behaviour in the administrative options, a friend tells me, but with an uptime of minutes I didnt mess around with it a whole lot.
I had lots of trouble on my box too. Hardly anyone had XP drivers for their hardware when it was launched and some even announced they werent planning on making them. I had to buy a new modem to get XP to run! Motorola claimed their win2k drivers worked in XP. BULLSHIT! Installing the drivers on a clean XP would give me another one of those marvelous insta-reboots. After a few tries I did get them to install but then I got the same wonderful 5 minutes uptime. I ended up putting 98 back on both boxes but have now migrated to win2k. Aside from some weird incompatibility problems now and then (quake2 refuses to install) it works fine and is very stable (for a microsoft product that is). I never loved linux as much as I did after trying out Windows XP. I did the "stick-to-Linux-for-a-month" thing and it was OK, though neither Mozilla and Opera worked with the silly javascript menus in Archspace, and having gotten addicted to it I went back to 'doze. I'm now planning on giving Linux another shot, though, I'm using Moz under 'doze and it works wonderfully. The browser that is. The mailer refuses to send any mail, though it receives fine
Are you out of your mind? I do tech support for lusers all the time, and charge like $50 for a simple reinstall and defrag. You wouldnt believe the speed increase. Ppl specifically ask me to go to their houses and "make their PC go faster".
The amount of cruft an unmaintained windows box can accumulate over time is incredible. The registry bloats to over 10 times its original size and makes booting up go from "instant" to "endless". The unnecessary DLLs and temporary files clog up your memory and disk space in a flash. And then there's spyware.
Even if I tell ppl that they just need to run this and that proggy once in a while, they never do it. They'd rather pay me $50 (and thats a lot in a poor country like mine) to do something as simple as reinstalling and defragging... you just have no idea how dumb some ppl are, do you?
I imagine it will have a lesser impact on modern boxes, but most ppl around here think a P3-500 is a GOOD computer...
Don't you know that we are the humans? The single most advanced species on the surface of the planet?
Look at the pretty opposable thumb! LOOK AT THE THUMB DAMNIT!
*CHOMP*
MOZILLA??? HAHAHAHAHAHA Mozilla taxes the resources of my 1.3GHz Athlon let alone a 486 :)
As for the latest 16 bit versiond of Opera (3.62) or Netscape (4.7), well, they're both rather primitive, and while Opera may be fast, NS4 takes more time to render a page than it takes to download it.
And Lynx sucks because it's text only. Dont even know if theres a version for dos/win3.x
It's exactly the same IE5, but it comes with some extra stuff like the MS TCP/IP stack which 3.x versions of windows didnt have by default. It's got Outlook Express and a user manager tool, its a real true-blue IE5 version for 3.x.
Well, maybe because IE5 had a 3.x version? Check Tucows Classic, it has all the old 3.x software you will ever need.
It runs windows 3.11 and opera 3.62 at very impressive speeds, given its age. It just goes to show how much of an overkill modern CPUs are for most people's needs. My mother does the internet on it: As long as you dont stumble upon a website with lots of flash or pop-ups, even IE5 runs acceptably! :)
What I've been thinking, and here's the part that's useful to you, is if it wouldnt be a whole lot faster to just run it as a VNC client and let my speedy box do the actual processing and disk-spinning. I did download the dos VNC client but apparently its for 32-bit dos prompts and not real 16-bit ms-dos?
I guess I could try my hand at some sort of LFSish setup but I'm still a bit of a n00b
The tape recorder must be protected from the terrible secret of space.
PAK CHOOIE UNF
sithkhan, it's called HTML and you do it like this:
<a href="http://www.yourstuffhere.com"> Fancy Word Description</a>
You have an "Allowed HTML" reference below you, I won't go to deeply into it, the B tag is for Bold, I for Italics, P for Paragraph, try them out, but do remember that all tags delimit an area of text and so they have to have an end tag. For instance to make a word bold you do <B> this </B> and it should look like this.
Any more questions feel free to ask.
I could be wrong but wasnt the ozone layer formed due to cosmic radiation impacting our O2 atoms and combining them into O3?
This might just fix our ozone hole!
3. Profit!!!
Oh, no! AAAARRRRRGHHHHHH!!!! *splat*
Why two separate boxes? Why not just RAID them? :(
Call me an ignorant but I don't understand.
Physics engines arent necessarily for shooting people like in UT. Ever heard of Pontifex? ;)
The old one stresses the heck out of my 1333 Tbird although admittedly, only on very large bridges.
The thing with physics is that it can be a game in and of itself. Once you break away the chains of abstract, made-for-computer, models of reality, and start focusing on actually producing the real thing through the very mathematical equations that physicysts and engineers use on a day-to-day basis, you introduce a whole new level of flexibility into your game, allowing good old human creativity to kick in.
People have been doing the craziest stuff with this series of games, thanks to its realistic physics model. For example, instead of merely building bridges like the game tells us to do, some of us build skyscrapers, mechanical contraptions, or even try to design structures that will withstand being dropped from a certain height. The aforementioned flexibility is perfectly examplified in Pontifex Olympics, a fan-made map pack where you try to build gadgets that mimic the olympic sports.
The problem with real physics versus computer physics is, of course, that you need more computing power in your box in order to provide an accurate simulation. Raytracing versus rendering, for instance, there's lots of examples out there.
Finding more is left as an exercise to the reader
Small intro: The VZ was a Z80 based computer sold around the world, under many names. VZ in Australia, Laser in Germany, and also known as "Texet" and "Salora Fellow" IIRC. :)
We on the vzemu mailing list have been tossing around ideas on how to get the old VZ games up and running on the PC. There's more than one emulator but we could use some more software. We have copied some of the stuff over using some pretty weird processes (like manually typing in memory dumps) but we could use something better. Since these guys are german, who knows?
Shameless plug:
If there's anyone even remotely interested in this machine we would LOVE to have you on the mailing list since the active members are currently very few, and for a machine that was sold to hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, only having 5 or 6 ppl interested in its emulation strikes us as a bit odd.
Anyway you can subscribe by sending a blank email to vzemu-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
I better go and post a link on the mailing list now!
.tk is free. You can get yours at www.tk (courtesy of the tiny island of Tokelau)
Go to Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and disable all services. At no time does Win2k give you a warning that this might be dangerous, but upon rebooting your system will be totally and irrecoverably screwed, as Win2k will tell you that you need the plug and play service to enable any service that you try to enable, INCLUDING the PnP service itself! Reinstalling restored the services to their settings, but it was still not working very well for reasons I cannot understand, so I had to do a clean install to a separate directory!
You gotta love MS's monolithic integration...
Awesome games still fit on a floppy. Bridge-Builder is less than 150k I think and its sequel Pontifex is less than one meg.Both of them are 3D OpenGL games for building bridges. On especially large bridges they slow down my 1333 Tbird like nothing else ever has due to their realistic physics model.
Go check them out at the company's website, www.chroniclogic.com or a very popular fansite www.bridgebuilder-game.com - Their next game, Pontifex 2, will be 20 megs and feature a Linux version. Can't wait for it to be released!
One wonders what MS's true intentions are in porting this to Linux... embrace and extend?
Can you even do that to something as complex and loosely-coupled as the open source community of linux developers?
They probably just realized how large a marketshare Linux is getting on the server side and want to attain total market dominance for their worthless Passport product, lest we develop a better, more secure alternative. Hint, hint: won't work, MS. Much like Gnome, KDE and the other 10 or so windows managers, we are all about freedom and choice and will code alternatives to the alternatives to the alternatives until sourceforge runs out of disk space. Just because we can, just because we love coding and have common ideals for what life should be like: Free, especially of YOUR control.
Wasn't the challenger like over 10 years ago? How many planes have crashed since then? How many cars? How many trains? (...)
Rockets do NOT blow up all the time.
Granted, they're not used as often as other vehicles today, but claiming that they blow up all the time isn't doing them justice.
It's called travelling. You make it sound like you've never been more than 15 minutes away from home. :)
If you're out in the middle of nowhere on a road that's not even on the map what do you do?
a)Wander around aimlessly in hopes of making it back to the main roads?
b)Call someone who knows the area better than you do?
c)Download a better map from the web?
d)Profit!?
I'd love to have a web enabled phone thingy. It's much less clunky than a laptop, and it will soon be affordable to everyone. Most people nowadays fail to realize the potential of the web, seeing it as some sort of frivolous entertainment thing that you could do well without. The web is an extension of your limited memory. With omnipresent web access and well developed google skills you effectively know *everything*, it's just not on your brain yet. Computers (and the web), as foretold by Vannevar Bush, are increasingly becoming an indispensable expansion of your brain. Learn how to live with it, and you'll have a great advantage over those who don't.
Define rich. He's a CTO, so therefore he probably makes more money in a month than I make in a year. I don't see him complaining anywhere in the linked web pages :) :)
Furthermore, there's nothing in the GPL (and most other licenses) forbidding creators of open source software to sell their product or even their code.
Also, you probably want to fix your homepage adress, since xoom.com went under like 2 years ago or something