There are various areas in the TRON project. BTRON would be the desktop-OS oriented part, and that's where the Chokanji OS comes from, still the best environment for DTP in Japanese.
I can remember when TRON was going to save us all from Unicode with its TRON Multilingual Environment. It didn't work out but it did result in quite a nice platform for Mojikyo.
>I think the US government is now far worse than >the british government was in 1776.
Yes, it's inferior to the Dutch government of 1491 but not as bad as the Ethiopian regime of 1732. On the other hand the French monarchy of 1288 was worse than the Xixian theocracy of the late 14th century, and almost as awful as the Tupi tribal councils of the 1920's.
...to watch that darn thing but it's just sooooo slow-moving and reactionary. It kind of reminds me of that British comic from the late 80's, Crisis. Except that you have to sit there looking at it for ages waiting for the next character to sliiiide into view:)
But I persevered, slow as it was, until I was sure the actual content was a bunch of studenty drivel about saving the third world and getting in touch with your feminine side. I think it's safe to conclude that the same stuff that has always sold to college kids still sells to college kids:)
Firebird is based on the Mozilla rendering engine, right? The one without a full, documented API that enables you to actually do things to the content, right? The one that doesn't allow you to get actual rendered layout values? The one that doesn't support the ruby tag?
Actually, I guess nobody except me cares about the ruby tag.:)
It's almost time for my yearly 'has mozilla caught up to the point where I can actually chop and change and regenerate a document on the fly yet?' check... if they did that and implemented the tag I'd theoretically be able to use it.
Speaking of ruby, it's also almost time for my biennial 'has ruby started supporting proper strings and threads yet?' check. That's one of my favorites! I think I'll have to scale it back to one check every decade, though, to avoid disappointments.
Maine isn't REAL America. Places like Detroit and Houston and Palm Beach and Phoenix are REAL America. Why, you guys are right next to Vermont, and what have *they* given us? Howard Dean!
I'm in the same position as you, but I'm not as pissed off. More than half my programming work is with old MFC programs, and I have to stick with the VS version 6 that I've been using since 1998.
So what?
I use that to develop MFC apps, like I use vim to develop Ruby apps. I use VS.NET to develop.NET apps, which is generally a more productive experience than either of the above two.
One day maybe I will only develop.NET (although they'd have to bring out.NET for a lot of platforms first). Until then I use a different set of tools for each environment I program for.
I think playing through the great SNES RPGs of the Golden Age (Final Fantasy, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Tales of Fantasia, Secret of Mana, and so on) was a very important, formative, and educational experience for me.
Among the things I learned:
You can never carry more than a certain fixed number of objects.
People may be small moving 16x16 blobs from far away, but up close they turn into large still images.
Don't hit anyone, because if you do a little number will bounce out of them and it's kind of unnerving.
When just wandering around in life, you'll need a wide range of area attacks to keep little problems at bay. But when facing a major crisis, such as Kefka or the Profound Darkness, you need big heavy single-target attacks.
Two or three people co-operating can be much more effective than one -- but only if the game supports combo attacks. Unless it's Chrono Trigger in which case the combos are weaker than individual attacks. I guess there's a moral there.
It is possible for an art to flourish and die out completely not only within one lifetime, but within just a couple of decades.
A Contour, the mid-range model which is programmable but cheaper than the high-end model. The contour is their main keyboard; that funny one in two halves seems to be intended as an executive toy.
The kinesis keyboard that the original article refers to is just such an ergonomic keyboard that uses real switches. It rocks -- I'm typing this with it now and I'm always conscious of a vague poorness of design when I have to use a staggered flat mushy keyboard. Click go the keys -- but not my tendons.
Incidentally, the original article 'Absolute Crap' contained sensible comments, so it shouldn't have a name that makes me automatically assume it's a troll. It should have been called 'Sir, I find myself forced to differ from you on more than one point'. Or something.
Pretty well everywhere I've been, they'd give Excel as the main or only reason to go with MS -- even at places that are soldiering on with Lotus groupware just because they don't want to use Exchange.
Disclaimer:
Whenever I mention Excel on slashdot, someone replies in a way that indicates that they think it is just a grid of formulas and numbers. This, in turn, enables me to understand why nobody produces an open source excel-beater. The purpose of this disclaimer is to prevent anyone from replying and going 'But Open Office has a spreadsheet!', but it won't work.
Not that I'm in favor of the IP clampdown we're seeing in this era... but a teensy little connection with reality would probably help some people.
Look at other examples:
okay.
DMCA - control of your sewing patterns you dig out of the trash; control of the xbox that you purchased.
Sewing patterns that belonged to someone else.
Palladium - control of the computer that you purchased
The fact that you purchased a computer does not affect your rights (or lack of them) vis a vis software. For instance, it does not confer on you the right to run any software you want.
DRM - control of the information that you purchased
You did not purchase it. When you buy a Smurfs CD, you don't start owning the Smurfs theme song. You purchased the right to make certain uses of the information, not the information itself.
EULAs - not only control of the software you bought (lawyers like to call it 'the license you bought' which of course, can be revoked at any time),
And they're right. You bought a license. Depending on what the license happens to say, it may be that it can be revoked at any time.
Just FYI.
You may now resume your regular complaining:)
Look, games don't *have* eyeballs.
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A quadriplegic game could just look in the right direction and shoot.
This is a good example of the 'hey, I know what I mean, so if I string together a few kind of related words I'm sure you'll know what I mean too' school of self-expression that has done internet discussion so much good over the years:)
That or it's a a terrifying new plan to create games that can shoot back at you, even after you chop their limbs off.
I really liked Snood, in that it was a good twist on the bubble bobble / naname de magic / puzzle de pon / etc etc etc theme. Since I played it quite a bit, I would have registered it.
But, every 10 games or so it slowly prints up a little 4-line poem telling you to register it. Stuff like:
Dave's kids need clothes Dave's kids need food Dave's kids need college So register Snood!
And, man, I REALLY REALLY don't give a shit about Dave's kids and their various needs. It actually makes me want to contact the author, offer him words of encouragement and interesting feedback, gain his trust, find out where he lives, and go round there one night and kill his kids and cut their heads off and sew the heads back onto the wrong bodies and leave the bodies in the living room propped up in lifelike positions.
I have a very low tolerance for doggerel, kids, people going on and on about their families, and nagware, and all these things seem to combine in Snood:)
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...a language so strongly committed to OO as Java...
Mmmmmm.
Netscape, the one good American software that really scared the shit out of MS
:)
Hee hee hee. You're cute
Because the Western open source community is heavily based in Unix culture.
There are various areas in the TRON project. BTRON would be the desktop-OS oriented part, and that's where the Chokanji OS comes from, still the best environment for DTP in Japanese.
I can remember when TRON was going to save us all from Unicode with its TRON Multilingual Environment. It didn't work out but it did result in quite a nice platform for Mojikyo.
I'm afraid you're drastically overestimating libertarians :)
>I think the US government is now far worse than >the british government was in 1776.
Yes, it's inferior to the Dutch government of 1491 but not as bad as the Ethiopian regime of 1732. On the other hand the French monarchy of 1288 was worse than the Xixian theocracy of the late 14th century, and almost as awful as the Tupi tribal councils of the 1920's.
But I persevered, slow as it was, until I was sure the actual content was a bunch of studenty drivel about saving the third world and getting in touch with your feminine side. I think it's safe to conclude that the same stuff that has always sold to college kids still sells to college kids
Firebird is based on the Mozilla rendering engine, right? The one without a full, documented API that enables you to actually do things to the content, right? The one that doesn't allow you to get actual rendered layout values? The one that doesn't support the ruby tag?
Actually, I guess nobody except me cares about the ruby tag.
Yes, yes, I entered the expression without using entities... I know... my cheeks burn with shame, so they do...
It's almost time for my yearly 'has mozilla caught up to the point where I can actually chop and change and regenerate a document on the fly yet?' check... if they did that and implemented the tag I'd theoretically be able to use it.
Speaking of ruby, it's also almost time for my biennial 'has ruby started supporting proper strings and threads yet?' check. That's one of my favorites! I think I'll have to scale it back to one check every decade, though, to avoid disappointments.
Yes, but we never mention New H*mpshire.
Not since the accident.
Maine isn't REAL America. Places like Detroit and Houston and Palm Beach and Phoenix are REAL America. Why, you guys are right next to Vermont, and what have *they* given us? Howard Dean!
Mm, maple syrup.
I'm in the same position as you, but I'm not as pissed off. More than half my programming work is with old MFC programs, and I have to stick with the VS version 6 that I've been using since 1998.
.NET apps, which is generally a more productive experience than either of the above two.
.NET (although they'd have to bring out .NET for a lot of platforms first). Until then I use a different set of tools for each environment I program for.
So what?
I use that to develop MFC apps, like I use vim to develop Ruby apps. I use VS.NET to develop
One day maybe I will only develop
I don't see the problem.
I think playing through the great SNES RPGs of the Golden Age (Final Fantasy, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Tales of Fantasia, Secret of Mana, and so on) was a very important, formative, and educational experience for me.
Among the things I learned:
You can never carry more than a certain fixed number of objects.
People may be small moving 16x16 blobs from far away, but up close they turn into large still images.
Don't hit anyone, because if you do a little number will bounce out of them and it's kind of unnerving.
When just wandering around in life, you'll need a wide range of area attacks to keep little problems at bay. But when facing a major crisis, such as Kefka or the Profound Darkness, you need big heavy single-target attacks.
Two or three people co-operating can be much more effective than one -- but only if the game supports combo attacks. Unless it's Chrono Trigger in which case the combos are weaker than individual attacks. I guess there's a moral there.
It is possible for an art to flourish and die out completely not only within one lifetime, but within just a couple of decades.
I dunno why I wrote 'that isn't keigo'... I guess I don't think of teineigo as 'keigo' but of course it is.
That isn't keigo.
A Contour, the mid-range model which is programmable but cheaper than the high-end model. The contour is their main keyboard; that funny one in two halves seems to be intended as an executive toy.
ffs learn something about finance...
The kinesis keyboard that the original article refers to is just such an ergonomic keyboard that uses real switches. It rocks -- I'm typing this with it now and I'm always conscious of a vague poorness of design when I have to use a staggered flat mushy keyboard. Click go the keys -- but not my tendons.
Incidentally, the original article 'Absolute Crap' contained sensible comments, so it shouldn't have a name that makes me automatically assume it's a troll. It should have been called 'Sir, I find myself forced to differ from you on more than one point'. Or something.
Pretty well everywhere I've been, they'd give Excel as the main or only reason to go with MS -- even at places that are soldiering on with Lotus groupware just because they don't want to use Exchange.
Disclaimer:
Whenever I mention Excel on slashdot, someone replies in a way that indicates that they think it is just a grid of formulas and numbers. This, in turn, enables me to understand why nobody produces an open source excel-beater. The purpose of this disclaimer is to prevent anyone from replying and going 'But Open Office has a spreadsheet!', but it won't work.
Not that I'm in favor of the IP clampdown we're seeing in this era... but a teensy little connection with reality would probably help some people.
Look at other examples:
okay.
DMCA - control of your sewing patterns you dig out of the trash; control of the xbox that you purchased.
Sewing patterns that belonged to someone else.
Palladium - control of the computer that you purchased
The fact that you purchased a computer does not affect your rights (or lack of them) vis a vis software. For instance, it does not confer on you the right to run any software you want.
DRM - control of the information that you purchased
You did not purchase it. When you buy a Smurfs CD, you don't start owning the Smurfs theme song. You purchased the right to make certain uses of the information, not the information itself.
EULAs - not only control of the software you bought (lawyers like to call it 'the license you bought' which of course, can be revoked at any time),
And they're right. You bought a license. Depending on what the license happens to say, it may be that it can be revoked at any time.
Just FYI.
You may now resume your regular complaining
A quadriplegic game could just look in the right direction and shoot.
:)
This is a good example of the 'hey, I know what I mean, so if I string together a few kind of related words I'm sure you'll know what I mean too' school of self-expression that has done internet discussion so much good over the years
That or it's a a terrifying new plan to create games that can shoot back at you, even after you chop their limbs off.
Why yes... yes, I do have such a pet... sometimes I add bits to it...
Excel.
:)
Note for those from academic backgrounds: Excel is not just a grid of numbers
I really liked Snood, in that it was a good twist on the bubble bobble / naname de magic / puzzle de pon / etc etc etc theme. Since I played it quite a bit, I would have registered it.
But, every 10 games or so it slowly prints up a little 4-line poem telling you to register it. Stuff like:
Dave's kids need clothes
Dave's kids need food
Dave's kids need college
So register Snood!
And, man, I REALLY REALLY don't give a shit about Dave's kids and their various needs. It actually makes me want to contact the author, offer him words of encouragement and interesting feedback, gain his trust, find out where he lives, and go round there one night and kill his kids and cut their heads off and sew the heads back onto the wrong bodies and leave the bodies in the living room propped up in lifelike positions.
I have a very low tolerance for doggerel, kids, people going on and on about their families, and nagware, and all these things seem to combine in Snood
P.S. Yes I am a grouch.