Oh yeah! I had a black one, my mate had a white one.
We soon discovered they didn't duel to the death when put front-to-front though.
I still remember the day I pulled mine to bits to see how it worked. Expecting to see stacks of ICs and cool electronic stuff all I got was a mini record player, amp and a motor. But the little record with the pre-recorded "I am the Atomic Powered RO-bot" etc was still very cool.
As far as the Iraqi executions, yes. I'd like people to see what our government is up to.
I was actually referring to the Iraqi beheading of kidnapped foreign engineers, but okay. (You don't really think what your government has done is worse, do you?)
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
I don't get your sig. Are you implying that consulting Wikipedia is like asking a group of people at a bus stop? So if I wanted to know about Quantum Mechanics I'd be better off going to the library and reading books by people who know about it rather than asking some random folks. Is that what you're getting at?
Perhaps Encyclopedia Galactica versus The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy would be a better analogy.
Those rights you think you have are an illusion I'm afraid.
They became nonviable the day some guy called Muhammad said "Now go kill all the infedels".
You see, there are entire nations that are teaching their subjects right from childhood that the west is evil and needs to be cleansed in the name of Allah. These people are setting up little cells in your country right now pretty much just biding time. Go ask at your local mosque how long they think it will be until your wife/partner will be wearing a burqa.
Iran, for example, is now run by a man who claims his role is to quicken the arrival of the muslim messiah, an event which according to the Quaran can only come to pass by means of greatly increased chaos in the world.
Yes people use terrorism to push their own agendas. Yes America is rife with corruption and far from perfect. Yes freedom is important and people must be wary of attempts to subjigate it. But to pretend that people would be better off without any terrorism safeguards is utterly irresponsible beyond stupidity.
Well if you believe half the foks around here you'd think Sony copied the eyeToy, light gun, Buzz controls, Singstar microphones and Guitar hero from Nintendo.
...then please please PLEASE first take a look at the hundreds of other OSS games out there and consider building on (read: contributing to) one of those.
It's sad looking at the large number of games that have shown promise but for one reason or another have been abandoned or development has slowed or forked. We really don't need another nethack clone, MMORPG or 3D engine. We have all of those in abundance. What we need now is to build on these, both with shader code and good content. It's often easy to tell the OSS games from the commercial ones from a single screenshot because the commercial studios have good artists and the OSS devs don't (I am being overly broad here and there are exceptions such as Frozen Bubble, but these are rare).
One not-quite example: I am a fan of the excellent OSS flight simulator FlightGear. The latest version 0.9.10 has some nice ground textures and real-world data that makes for a truly beautiful view when flying at 30,000 feet. But the planes themselves look like crap. The model detail and decals are average but what really lets it down is the way the plane interacts with light. The engine is badly need of work to take advantage of OpenGL shaders. And the sky looks completely wrong. As you ascend beyond 50,000 feet you should see the sky darken to a very deep blue with some stars becoming visible but the engine doesn't allow for this (you're basically inside a big solid-blue sphere). Not vital properties for learning to fly a 747 I know, but still important polish for a realistic flying experience.
If you have a truly original idea then by all means start from scratch if nothing existing fits the bill, but don't just fire up a text editor and start another MMORPG from scratch. The OSS gaming community don't need it.
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Oh yeah! I had a black one, my mate had a white one.
We soon discovered they didn't duel to the death when put front-to-front though.
I still remember the day I pulled mine to bits to see how it worked. Expecting to see stacks of ICs and cool electronic stuff all I got was a mini record player, amp and a motor. But the little record with the pre-recorded "I am the Atomic Powered RO-bot" etc was still very cool.
what's with the sudden change of /. style?
I was just getting used to scores at the far right of every message and was beginning to like it.
What, no .ods?
Still in development, I guess.
A pity it's crippled with RPC-2 for DVD playback.
Anyone know of a way to fix this?
As far as the Iraqi executions, yes. I'd like people to see what our government is up to.
I was actually referring to the Iraqi beheading of kidnapped foreign engineers, but okay. (You don't really think what your government has done is worse, do you?)
So you'd have no objections to hard-core porn and Iraqi executions being broadcast on free-to-air TV and printed in newspapers then?
After all, you can always turn it off, right?
So you're not sending them to a state school then?
I assume you also don't let them play with any other kids, right?
but I'm beginning to have my doubts about Zonk.
... for people to switch back to MSOffice from OOo has gurgled noisily down the drain.
(OOo has had native PDF export for some time now)
Personally I'm hanging out for Windy Weasel, soon to be followed by Flatulent Ferret.
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
I don't get your sig. Are you implying that consulting Wikipedia is like asking a group of people at a bus stop? So if I wanted to know about Quantum Mechanics I'd be better off going to the library and reading books by people who know about it rather than asking some random folks. Is that what you're getting at?
Perhaps Encyclopedia Galactica versus The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy would be a better analogy.
How quickly we forget.
Those rights you think you have are an illusion I'm afraid.
They became nonviable the day some guy called Muhammad said "Now go kill all the infedels".
You see, there are entire nations that are teaching their subjects right from childhood that the west is evil and needs to be cleansed in the name of Allah. These people are setting up little cells in your country right now pretty much just biding time. Go ask at your local mosque how long they think it will be until your wife/partner will be wearing a burqa.
Iran, for example, is now run by a man who claims his role is to quicken the arrival of the muslim messiah, an event which according to the Quaran can only come to pass by means of greatly increased chaos in the world.
Yes people use terrorism to push their own agendas. Yes America is rife with corruption and far from perfect. Yes freedom is important and people must be wary of attempts to subjigate it. But to pretend that people would be better off without any terrorism safeguards is utterly irresponsible beyond stupidity.
One of the coolest movies evar too :)
Here's a few
I know, but u=6 just doesn't look as funny.
To the best of my knowledge Patrick McGoohan also never said "If i aren't a number, then please free the memory at location man!"
I think the point is that it's not illegal in Sweden.
Haven't you been keeping up with current events?
The intelligent designer rose from the cave on the third day.
Because those Rover thingys float on water quite well. :)
:)
No, actually it's just there to make it more obvious that it's C code.
And yes, it does compile if you wrap it in a main() function
Well if you believe half the foks around here you'd think Sony copied the eyeToy, light gun, Buzz controls, Singstar microphones and Guitar hero from Nintendo.
Oooh, I've got one:
I've seen the code for the OSX/intel kernel and it's nothing fancy.
In fact, it's more of a guideline really...
hear hear
Wrong, guess again.
By the way a lot of Britain and Europe aren't happy with this either.
...then please please PLEASE first take a look at the hundreds of other OSS games out there and consider building on (read: contributing to) one of those.
It's sad looking at the large number of games that have shown promise but for one reason or another have been abandoned or development has slowed or forked. We really don't need another nethack clone, MMORPG or 3D engine. We have all of those in abundance. What we need now is to build on these, both with shader code and good content. It's often easy to tell the OSS games from the commercial ones from a single screenshot because the commercial studios have good artists and the OSS devs don't (I am being overly broad here and there are exceptions such as Frozen Bubble, but these are rare).
One not-quite example: I am a fan of the excellent OSS flight simulator FlightGear. The latest version 0.9.10 has some nice ground textures and real-world data that makes for a truly beautiful view when flying at 30,000 feet. But the planes themselves look like crap. The model detail and decals are average but what really lets it down is the way the plane interacts with light. The engine is badly need of work to take advantage of OpenGL shaders. And the sky looks completely wrong. As you ascend beyond 50,000 feet you should see the sky darken to a very deep blue with some stars becoming visible but the engine doesn't allow for this (you're basically inside a big solid-blue sphere). Not vital properties for learning to fly a 747 I know, but still important polish for a realistic flying experience.
If you have a truly original idea then by all means start from scratch if nothing existing fits the bill, but don't just fire up a text editor and start another MMORPG from scratch. The OSS gaming community don't need it.
You can really say 'cthool' all in one syllable? Is that even possible without bringing on some kind of seizure?
Number 1 here...
Uh, are you saying you would pick option 1, or that you are number 1?
(see below)