I saw this site mentioned in the earlier slashdot article and wget -r'd the demo archive. Note that these are NOT videos of the demos, they are just the orginal demo files themselves! The machine is on a decent.edu network, however it's an old retired pentium 133 with 32 megs of ram so please be easy on it (laugh)! Yea I know it'll probably set the dorms on fire, and there's nobody there this time of year:O
Does anyone know the original author of this? I'm just curious, for it borrows heavily from my Tao of Eggdrop that I wrote a few years ago(which borrows heavily from the Tao of Programming and Tao of IRC).
There once was a user who scripted in Perl: "Look at what I have to work with here," he said to a master of core, "My code is interpreted dynamically, the syntax is unique and simple, I have sockets, strings, arrays, and everything I could ever need. Why don't you stop meddling in C and come join me?"
The C programmer described his reasoning to the scripter: "Script is to C as ebonics is to Latin. If the scripter does not grow beyond that of which he scripts, he will surely [die]. Besides, without C, how can there be script?"
The scripter was enlightened, and the two became close friends.
"... he will surely [die]." ??? [die] doesn't make much sense in Perl, but does for Eggdrop-TCL script:P
I'll toss in some more info (I must regrettably say I am a cashier at a Home Depot).
The cash registers are basically old 386s that boot up in some kind of DOS, run a bunch of batch files, then remote connect to a HPUX machine. Some of the functions are hosted on separate AIX machines as well. On the other hand, the returns/refunds registers (which are touchscreen) actually run Windows 95. Yes, 95 - It's part of the normal routine to reboot them every night when we close. Also, the machines that customers use to fill out an "electronic resume" to apply for jobs also run Win95. Occasionally I'll wander over there to see one of them has crashed back to the Windows desktop. It's quite amusing:P
Carl: "Hey, I heard we're goin' to Ape Island." Lenny: "Yeah, to capture a giant ape." Carl: "I wish we were going to Candy Apple Island." Charlie: "Candy Apple Island? What do they got there?" Carl: "Apes. But they're not so big."
My favorite was the game 'Overkill' by Epic Megagames (back in the day). F10 or 11 or something would bring up a fake spreadsheet in the game. Halarious!
Ah the days of the 'boss' key.
For *public* labs at a university, Linux is simply not your answer. If the environment was *entirely* CS and CE majors, it would do fine (all our CS labs are almost exclusively Debian); however, for your typical English major running in to type up a paper 5 minutes before class - he/she will want Word, not Star/Open Office or KOffice, etc. You can deny it till your face turns blue, but it's the truth.
Audio mp3-encoded at a quality of 160kB/s translates to a little over 1 MB/min in file size. A CD of about 60 minutes gives you about 60-70 megs of mp3.
An 80GB hd would hold over a thousand CDs.
~ (80 * 1024) / 60
Now if we're talking legit, that'd be over $15 grand in new RIAA-priced CDs.
Looking at it in another way, that comes out to be about 50 solid days of recorded audio.
I'd rather see it for a cheaper price than with hordes of unnecessary space.
I read that line in the interview and instantly picked up the reference, and laughed out loud. Then I thought, "Hrm, I bet NO ONE picked that up! I better post a reply! Whoops, looks like someone else caught it too, darnit."
I read Wil's site somewhat often, and he quotes the Simpsons and Futuramma here and there.
Blah etc
A reason perhaps that designers do not open source their (closed source) projects after they've gone past their intended usefulness, is that their code was done terribly messy and they gain no benefit from going back and cleaning it up - and releasing this 'embarrasing' code may potentially harm future sales (No one wants to hire you after they've reviewed your past projects and seen how poorly they're written).
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Obligatory post: the Battletech Treehouse. All other tree houses are inferior :P
Well shit, it'd helped if I included the URL: http://www.kidnappedbyninjas.com/demos
I saw this site mentioned in the earlier slashdot article and wget -r'd the demo archive. Note that these are NOT videos of the demos, they are just the orginal demo files themselves! The machine is on a decent .edu network, however it's an old retired pentium 133 with 32 megs of ram so please be easy on it (laugh)! Yea I know it'll probably set the dorms on fire, and there's nobody there this time of year :O
I'll toss in some more info (I must regrettably say I am a cashier at a Home Depot). The cash registers are basically old 386s that boot up in some kind of DOS, run a bunch of batch files, then remote connect to a HPUX machine. Some of the functions are hosted on separate AIX machines as well. On the other hand, the returns/refunds registers (which are touchscreen) actually run Windows 95. Yes, 95 - It's part of the normal routine to reboot them every night when we close. Also, the machines that customers use to fill out an "electronic resume" to apply for jobs also run Win95. Occasionally I'll wander over there to see one of them has crashed back to the Windows desktop. It's quite amusing :P
Carl: "Hey, I heard we're goin' to Ape Island."
Lenny: "Yeah, to capture a giant ape."
Carl: "I wish we were going to Candy Apple Island."
Charlie: "Candy Apple Island? What do they got there?"
Carl: "Apes. But they're not so big."
My favorite was the game 'Overkill' by Epic Megagames (back in the day). F10 or 11 or something would bring up a fake spreadsheet in the game. Halarious! Ah the days of the 'boss' key.
For *public* labs at a university, Linux is simply not your answer. If the environment was *entirely* CS and CE majors, it would do fine (all our CS labs are almost exclusively Debian); however, for your typical English major running in to type up a paper 5 minutes before class - he/she will want Word, not Star/Open Office or KOffice, etc. You can deny it till your face turns blue, but it's the truth.
Audio mp3-encoded at a quality of 160kB/s translates to a little over 1 MB/min in file size. A CD of about 60 minutes gives you about 60-70 megs of mp3.
An 80GB hd would hold over a thousand CDs.
~ (80 * 1024) / 60
Now if we're talking legit, that'd be over $15 grand in new RIAA-priced CDs.
Looking at it in another way, that comes out to be about 50 solid days of recorded audio.
I'd rather see it for a cheaper price than with hordes of unnecessary space.
I read that line in the interview and instantly picked up the reference, and laughed out loud. Then I thought, "Hrm, I bet NO ONE picked that up! I better post a reply! Whoops, looks like someone else caught it too, darnit." I read Wil's site somewhat often, and he quotes the Simpsons and Futuramma here and there. Blah etc
I so coulda swore this a story quite similar to this was posted here not so long ago...
The nascar race on nbc has been put over on tnn, so they may cover what's going on...
A reason perhaps that designers do not open source their (closed source) projects after they've gone past their intended usefulness, is that their code was done terribly messy and they gain no benefit from going back and cleaning it up - and releasing this 'embarrasing' code may potentially harm future sales (No one wants to hire you after they've reviewed your past projects and seen how poorly they're written).