Hear hear! While I program for a living, it's not because of the paychecks, but because it's the only job I could tolerate for a long time. I love to program (I do so for over 16h a day:) and so I chose to make it my living. What I found horifying was working with programmers that not only didn't like programming, but often hated computers! And their code showed it:/
Ahem. As one of the core developers of the QuakeForge project, I take deep insult at the suggestion that Quake will be forgotten. I've been working on the Quake source since shortly after it was released GPL Christmas '99. It's been a package in contrib in debian since last January. We're releasing a new stable version as soon as we have win32 bins. I don't think Quake will be forgotten "long before Marathon". I'm not dissing Marathon's GPL release (I think it's great), just your lack of research:P.
what double click? do you mean doing a big sweep around the mouse cursor? try the middle button. if you don't have a middle button, try both buttons at once or get a real mouse:)
I stayed at work all night and re-wrote it anyway. It's kinda hard for them to argue with fait accompli (though they can fire you, but then you'ld have a good case against them:).
Um, since when does any company have rights to my money? Especially when they did nothing to deserve it? As to the relatives ov J.S. Bach, they can get off their sorry asses and do something. Anyway, I doubt he has any surviving relatives that are entitled to any portion of his estate:)
Hehe. ever since that crap started up, I've checked urls in/. comments by waving my mouse over it (and then disabled javascript when that mouse-over hack started, but it didn't last long:). But yes, this sort of things is very good. eg, put doubleclick's network in there instead:)
What about trusting important moments to delicate media? Open a regular camera at a bad time and "poof", no more photos. Mechanics can be made VERY robust. Photographic film cannot: it's either light sensitive, or it's not (and useless for taking photos). Similar for magnetic media: get too close to a big magnet and your moments are gone.
I'm not saying dvd would be better, just not worse. They all have their advantages and disadvantages.
I still stand by then "no temperature in space", "space has no temperature" is the same thing just phrased differently (though I just saw your point: mine is a little ambiguous). Radiation is not temperature as temperature is a measure of how much thermal energy is stored in a mass.
Solar wind wouldn't give you a vector I think, but it would give you a wind chill effect:) (mind you negligable due to it's sparsity).
~270C, but that doean't help anything. That's the background radiation. There is no temperature in space because there's nothing to cool you other than you radiating your heat away (winter is cold because the air conducts and convects the heat away from your body). I've read that in space, heating isn't the problem: cooling is because it's so hard to get rid of the excess heat.
yeah, iirc, Easter Island is one of the places. I can't remember if one of the others was in Africa or greenland (there are very few qualifying places that won't drown you), but I remember the four points chosen for the gravity guns were South Africa, Greenland, Easter Island and Papua New Guinea (?). I really need to read that book again (I rather like the final final chapter (after the acknowledgments).
Try living in Calgary. It's currently over 9 degrees C (warmer than parts of Florida:) due to a chinook blowing through (which happens every couple of weeks).
Actually, I'm kinda peeved about the chinook: most of the snow is gone:(
I don't think OS X will affect LinuxPPC all that much. There are those that like Apple hardware but hate Apple software and many of those are probably the types developing LinuxPPC in the first place:). Also, another thing to remember is that Darwin is BSD based while Linux is svr4 based. Those what would be interested in Darwin for it's unix flavour probably wouldn't be interested in Linux anyway (it might, however, affect the prospects of {Free,Open,Net}BSD ppc ports (do they exist?), but I can't say in which direction). The most likely scenario I forsee wrt Darwin and Linux is new Darwin users (because they baught the PPC machine with Darwin) finding out about Linux and going "hrmm, what's this? I think I'll give it a go". Some will like it, some will hate it, but in the end, I feel Darwin is actually an opportunity for LinuxPPC (and mklinux, I imagine).
No matter what, LinuxPPC (and Linux in general) is and will be creating interesting times:)
The beauty of Linux is that it doesn't have to target just the server market (what is Linux anyway? Surely not Red Hat?:). Those that are interested in developing Linux's server capabilities do so, as with those interested in the desktop. There is no conflict of interest/resources because one side is more or less unavailable to the other anyway (ie, someone interested in working on Linux's desctop prospecs will not, in general, be well suited to working on the server aspects). And when you get kernel specific, improvements on one side generally help the other.
There are a lot of hightly specialised Linux distros out there (check out the distros page on lwn.net) with all sorts of uses (routers, terminals, servers, workstations,...). There is no real shortage of resources for Linux developement. When something new is needed, it's generally done by the group that needs it which is often a new group, not an old one abandoning their previous project.
Oh, I can agree with that, though I suspect that the decoder is as stable as mp3 (ie, the format is fixed so only quality is affected, so a good hw implementation could probably be made now). However, xiph.org doesn't seem to be accessable atm to check on the stability of the decoder:(.
They already do (though not 6 foot, more like 3-4). Your headphone cord. Don't believe me? Ever wondered where they put the FM antena for walkmen? There's no reason it can't be used to broadcast (other than the FCC and related would have a field day).
As noted above me, the format is stable. It's the encoder/decoder that are in flux. ie, just like LAME, they're working with a stable format but unstable process (ie, finding better ways to create/read the format).
(disclaimer, I'm white:). I've never really cared for console games. Sure, I thought the atari was neat as a kid, until I discovered the Appl ][. Ever since then, I've always preferred a `real' computer (ie, one I can program and thus creat my own games). Yes, consoles have special purpose hardware and a lot more games, but I prefer quality over quantity (yes, lots of crap on PCs too). I also prefer to tinker. Much harder to do this on a console. I think I'll actually be glad to see them fade away for a time.
Again, ever since I discovered programming, which I consider to be a game in itself, I've loathed consoles: where's the keyboard and disk?!?
A bot to keep the channel open? That's what chanserv is for:). However, bots are good for logging and topic management (ie, using the topic as a message board, six lines of topic, anybody?:). Bots have their place on IRC, but keeping a channel open is not it (what if the bot PTOs?).
Yes, this sort of thing seems to work well. I'm with the QuakeForge project and we've helped a few newbies along and we're currently helping two at the moment (though one isn't really contributing at the moment, but that's ok:).
Ways that newbies can contribute:
give bug reports (the more detailed, the better and this is good practice for debugging)
provide help testing (kinda goes with above)
find a small, simple thing (eg, displaying a clock) that you want to implement and don't be afraid to ask for help.
as you become more familiar with both the programming language and the project, work your way up in complexity.
providing documentation is always a benefit and a good way to become familiar with the project. ("Oh, what does this cvar do?" grep study "oh, ok":)
Just hang around with the crew in IRC. Just because we live in our basements in front of our computers doesn't mean we're hermits. A friendly smiley is always nice to see, especially when that heisenbug has been driving you crazy for a week:)
There's probably all sorts of other things a newbie can do to contribute, and I was not being facetious with that last item: never underestimate the value of morale support.
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I'm not saying dvd would be better, just not worse. They all have their advantages and disadvantages.
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I still stand by then "no temperature in space", "space has no temperature" is the same thing just phrased differently (though I just saw your point: mine is a little ambiguous). Radiation is not temperature as temperature is a measure of how much thermal energy is stored in a mass.
Solar wind wouldn't give you a vector I think, but it would give you a wind chill effect :) (mind you negligable due to it's sparsity).
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Actually, I'm kinda peeved about the chinook: most of the snow is gone :(
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No matter what, LinuxPPC (and Linux in general) is and will be creating interesting times :)
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There are a lot of hightly specialised Linux distros out there (check out the distros page on lwn.net) with all sorts of uses (routers, terminals, servers, workstations, ...). There is no real shortage of resources for Linux developement. When something new is needed, it's generally done by the group that needs it which is often a new group, not an old one abandoning their previous project.
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Again, ever since I discovered programming, which I consider to be a game in itself, I've loathed consoles: where's the keyboard and disk?!?
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Ways that newbies can contribute:
There's probably all sorts of other things a newbie can do to contribute, and I was not being facetious with that last item: never underestimate the value of morale support.
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