Those "From the ____ department" lines should be included in the RSS feeds, they're wonderful but I only get to read them for stories I actually care about enough to click through to.
Journaling should advertise: "hey, I just saved your butt! Check it out, file blah.foo is all happy now. Thank you, have a nice day."
This is the way Windows works. If I wanted Windows, I'd buy Windows. I don't want Windows. I have a Mac.
Yes, except windoze does not tell you quite how much space is wasted by keeping logs and cache which never get flushed, just to be able to tell you useless bits of info like that:)
Not long ago I had a poke round my windoze machine and found IE cache files from sites I know I havn't visited in at least four years.
I dunno about that, when I meta-mod (ie when I'm bored and have nothing better to do), and I find an obscure post I dont have a clue what its about, I look at the thread, and thus would have seen the comment and rated the original mod down. Then again, you're quite right that the mod/metamod system isnt ideal, as it requires people to actually give a shit, which most dont.
Not only that, but you have to first work out the persons name (not always easy), then enter several levels of menus to find them and ignore them, all the while leaving yourself standing around vulnerable to people shooting at you. Its not really worth it, especially for short games.
Most people actually buy games rather than pirating them. Most people dont have the ability/knowladge to even download and burn pirate games, let alone install mod chips and the like. However, if a system had a fanbase of pirates, they would (in the opinion of the original poster (I assume)) be enough of a force to raise the popularity of the system to the point where it is of a much bigger apeal to the law abiding populace.
This does imvho make sense. Most "hardcore" gamers are able (and quite willing) to pirate games, but they are also the most vocal part of the gaming population. If a system gets a good reputation there, it will spread into the mainstream, and the whole system will benifit.
I dunno about that, get one measurement wrong or add in some new ingredient that looks good on paper but isnt and you'd have to drink something really quite foul.
Rebooting a computer is a pain, but shampooing the carpet is worse.
Last time someone.sig'd me it was me saying "So, say I was an octopus..." (I never got any further than that, it was going to be a deep insight into the mindset of octopi, but it got derailed by fits of giggles)
I think his point was that if you are visiting a firefox support wiki, there is a good chance your install of firefox is in some way in need of support, and thus you may well have to use IE to get to the support wiki:)
The BBC is independant, because the public would not tolerate government interference with it. Managers may sweat at the prospect of being punched in the wallet, but governments sweat at the sight of people out in the streets en mass.
Ah but at least you know where you stand with a viral license. If I release something GPL'd, I *KNOW* it will spend all of eternity GPL'd and wont wind up somewhere else. I for one welcome our new^h^h^h viral overloards.
As long as it does not bother your boss that no more of those nice virtual things he keeps asking you for will be produced the way he wants them to be, then no, wouldnt really bother me too much, I'd rather be poor than work for an idiot.
Slashdot's style of hiding posts that have been modded down does lead to some interesting threads, where else would you get the argument "I hate having to add www. to a domain" being dismissed with "so what? the number of the beast is 616 anyway"
Yeah but dude, they're never as satisfying as the real thing. I'd much rather stare at a cute, fully dressed girl, sitting 10 feet from me, as watch the most hot and filthy of porn flicks.
Unless of course you can sit in the coffee shop, stare at the cute girl, then break in and download her home made hot and filthy porn right off her laptop;)
You're both right, and wrong, as is always the case with all things, pretty much:)
Sure the code makes a fairly heavy use of (often very outdated) api's and toolkits to do its work (many of which it seems were writen for windows 3.1), but, the biggest part of the problem for educational software is the research and design of it, the way of teaching or explaining or whatever the program is designed to do and the knowladge it contains. Once that has been done, the program itself would usually be trivial to re-write, especially if one used another toolkit to create the interface, preferably a cross platform one.
I think this applies to ALL multiplayer games really. Action Quake2 at college was so much more fun because we could take the piss out of each other verbally, and listen in to the other team working out where we were and their strategies (we had mastered the art of audio message hotkeys and headphones). Damn that was fun.
Very few online games have the same feeling, its always a case of victory above all else. There are a few highly co-operative games that come to mind. SubSpace Trench Wars for example, where without a few key specialists the whole team falls apart and looses, and of course online mmorpgs (if you have a nice friendly clan as I was fortunate enough to have). Without some stong reason to cooperate, the only reason anyone hits the talk key seems to be to badmouth their opponents, which is inherently not that much fun, especially when it was a cheap kill not worth boasting about anyway.
On the whole, I find games against AI's or on lans are played purely for fun, whereas online gamers seem to find their fun not in the game, but the victory, they could just as easily play chess or dominoes and get the same rush from victory as they do in the latest FPS with the most amazing technical innovations, all of which are wasted on the hardcore online gamer since all that matters is the kill, the victory, and the rankings.
I would say its sad, but then they would say we're sad for finding pleasure even in defeat.
Hell! If only I had friends like yours, I want some TA playing friends who fight like that. AI's are too incompetent, most humans are too... "task orientated"... ah well, guess I'll just have to introduce more of my friends to it and see how they play:)
An excelent thread, thank you, both of you, for presenting two utterly different, and yet true and valid views, and for the most part for doing so in a polite and sensible manner.
Some of us prefer the pre-combat phase. Often in TA I'll set up a game with 3 AI's ganging up against me and just build defenses, find my spot of land and hold it against the AI's. Of course this dosnt work so well against humans who can mount much more effective attacks, and it does get a little boring sometimes, but its nice watching anything that enters weapons range getting wiped out in moments:)
To hell with dragons teeth, build walls of missile towers instead.
Windows: A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.
Looks like its time to add a new line for 64 bits... any suggestions?
Every school I've ever worked in has some way to ghost images around the system in a heartbeat. Since its not an office and no documents or customisations are saved on the local drives it has become routine to simply re-image a faulty machine, so rolling out OOo would take very little time at all. The only hard part of a deployment would be retraining the teachers (and thus the students) in the new ways to do things, but that is not a big enough issue imvho to prevent such a switch over.
Without wishing to put words into others mouths, I do believe the intention of the authors of the GPL was to take a flawed system (IP/copyright law) and use it against itself. Effectively turning the prison into a protective cage.
Windoze has handled multiple desktops (on multiple monitors) really rather well for quite some time, it shouldnt take much of an effort for someone at ms to extend this to multiple desktops you can alt-tab between (or some such)... then again, its often the things that seem logically so easy to do in windoze that are nigh on impossible.
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Those "From the ____ department" lines should be included in the RSS feeds, they're wonderful but I only get to read them for stories I actually care about enough to click through to.
Journaling should advertise: "hey, I just saved your butt! Check it out, file blah.foo is all happy now. Thank you, have a nice day."
:)
This is the way Windows works. If I wanted Windows, I'd buy Windows. I don't want Windows. I have a Mac.
Yes, except windoze does not tell you quite how much space is wasted by keeping logs and cache which never get flushed, just to be able to tell you useless bits of info like that
Not long ago I had a poke round my windoze machine and found IE cache files from sites I know I havn't visited in at least four years.
I dunno about that, when I meta-mod (ie when I'm bored and have nothing better to do), and I find an obscure post I dont have a clue what its about, I look at the thread, and thus would have seen the comment and rated the original mod down. Then again, you're quite right that the mod/metamod system isnt ideal, as it requires people to actually give a shit, which most dont.
Not only that, but you have to first work out the persons name (not always easy), then enter several levels of menus to find them and ignore them, all the while leaving yourself standing around vulnerable to people shooting at you. Its not really worth it, especially for short games.
Ah but it's not quite that simple.
Most people actually buy games rather than pirating them. Most people dont have the ability/knowladge to even download and burn pirate games, let alone install mod chips and the like. However, if a system had a fanbase of pirates, they would (in the opinion of the original poster (I assume)) be enough of a force to raise the popularity of the system to the point where it is of a much bigger apeal to the law abiding populace.
This does imvho make sense. Most "hardcore" gamers are able (and quite willing) to pirate games, but they are also the most vocal part of the gaming population. If a system gets a good reputation there, it will spread into the mainstream, and the whole system will benifit.
I dunno about that, get one measurement wrong or add in some new ingredient that looks good on paper but isnt and you'd have to drink something really quite foul.
Rebooting a computer is a pain, but shampooing the carpet is worse.
Aww, thank you *bows*
.sig'd me it was me saying "So, say I was an octopus..." (I never got any further than that, it was going to be a deep insight into the mindset of octopi, but it got derailed by fits of giggles)
Last time someone
Anyone who gets woken up on new years day, even by a loud piercing alarm, has clearly not had enough to drink.
I think his point was that if you are visiting a firefox support wiki, there is a good chance your install of firefox is in some way in need of support, and thus you may well have to use IE to get to the support wiki :)
The BBC is independant, because the public would not tolerate government interference with it. Managers may sweat at the prospect of being punched in the wallet, but governments sweat at the sight of people out in the streets en mass.
Ah but at least you know where you stand with a viral license. If I release something GPL'd, I *KNOW* it will spend all of eternity GPL'd and wont wind up somewhere else. I for one welcome our new^h^h^h viral overloards.
As long as it does not bother your boss that no more of those nice virtual things he keeps asking you for will be produced the way he wants them to be, then no, wouldnt really bother me too much, I'd rather be poor than work for an idiot.
...what are people who call them mouses?
Slashdot's style of hiding posts that have been modded down does lead to some interesting threads, where else would you get the argument "I hate having to add www. to a domain" being dismissed with "so what? the number of the beast is 616 anyway"
Yeah but dude, they're never as satisfying as the real thing. I'd much rather stare at a cute, fully dressed girl, sitting 10 feet from me, as watch the most hot and filthy of porn flicks.
;)
Unless of course you can sit in the coffee shop, stare at the cute girl, then break in and download her home made hot and filthy porn right off her laptop
You're both right, and wrong, as is always the case with all things, pretty much :)
Sure the code makes a fairly heavy use of (often very outdated) api's and toolkits to do its work (many of which it seems were writen for windows 3.1), but, the biggest part of the problem for educational software is the research and design of it, the way of teaching or explaining or whatever the program is designed to do and the knowladge it contains. Once that has been done, the program itself would usually be trivial to re-write, especially if one used another toolkit to create the interface, preferably a cross platform one.
I think this applies to ALL multiplayer games really. Action Quake2 at college was so much more fun because we could take the piss out of each other verbally, and listen in to the other team working out where we were and their strategies (we had mastered the art of audio message hotkeys and headphones). Damn that was fun.
Very few online games have the same feeling, its always a case of victory above all else. There are a few highly co-operative games that come to mind. SubSpace Trench Wars for example, where without a few key specialists the whole team falls apart and looses, and of course online mmorpgs (if you have a nice friendly clan as I was fortunate enough to have). Without some stong reason to cooperate, the only reason anyone hits the talk key seems to be to badmouth their opponents, which is inherently not that much fun, especially when it was a cheap kill not worth boasting about anyway.
On the whole, I find games against AI's or on lans are played purely for fun, whereas online gamers seem to find their fun not in the game, but the victory, they could just as easily play chess or dominoes and get the same rush from victory as they do in the latest FPS with the most amazing technical innovations, all of which are wasted on the hardcore online gamer since all that matters is the kill, the victory, and the rankings.
I would say its sad, but then they would say we're sad for finding pleasure even in defeat.
Ah if only I had mod points.
:)
Hell! If only I had friends like yours, I want some TA playing friends who fight like that. AI's are too incompetent, most humans are too... "task orientated"... ah well, guess I'll just have to introduce more of my friends to it and see how they play
An excelent thread, thank you, both of you, for presenting two utterly different, and yet true and valid views, and for the most part for doing so in a polite and sensible manner.
Some of us prefer the pre-combat phase. Often in TA I'll set up a game with 3 AI's ganging up against me and just build defenses, find my spot of land and hold it against the AI's. Of course this dosnt work so well against humans who can mount much more effective attacks, and it does get a little boring sometimes, but its nice watching anything that enters weapons range getting wiped out in moments :)
To hell with dragons teeth, build walls of missile towers instead.
It ended worse for you americans, look where the war on ira^H^H^Hterror has taken your economy.
Windows: A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.
Looks like its time to add a new line for 64 bits... any suggestions?
Every school I've ever worked in has some way to ghost images around the system in a heartbeat. Since its not an office and no documents or customisations are saved on the local drives it has become routine to simply re-image a faulty machine, so rolling out OOo would take very little time at all. The only hard part of a deployment would be retraining the teachers (and thus the students) in the new ways to do things, but that is not a big enough issue imvho to prevent such a switch over.
From the looks of the latest images it looks like that volcano is just about to go off :)
What a shame the picture only updates once an hour.
Without wishing to put words into others mouths, I do believe the intention of the authors of the GPL was to take a flawed system (IP/copyright law) and use it against itself. Effectively turning the prison into a protective cage.
Windoze has handled multiple desktops (on multiple monitors) really rather well for quite some time, it shouldnt take much of an effort for someone at ms to extend this to multiple desktops you can alt-tab between (or some such)... then again, its often the things that seem logically so easy to do in windoze that are nigh on impossible.