I just have vivid memories of trying to make the free edition compile something on Windows. I seem to recall in the end, I could make it produce something provided I didn't use the runtime library - but that's why I think of it as a bitch, heh
I was going to ask if there were any performance comparisons around showing how Watcom performed, but then I realised that anyone with half a brain ran something through Google before Slashdot.
It's a shame that the RIAA are completely oblivous of the fact that me downloading a file costs them no money whatsoever. I buy as many CD's as I can, but there's so many songs I just can't buy. Those songs I download. If I hadn't d/l'ed them, they wouldn't have any money *and* I wouldn't have any song. At least this way one of us gets something.
It's also worth noticing that the main reason I can't buy all the music I'd like is the ridiculously high prices - I saw an 45-minute album retailing for £20 the other week. Of course, there's also the fact that the nearest record store is 20 miles away and the fact that music in America gets released months before we even hear about it in England.
Would it really take much more effort to support OpenBSD and NetBSD as well? For a simple recompile and changing a few device names, double the market base. (I know FreeBSD is the most common BSD on i386, but it seems a shame to support one and not the others - and I'm damned if I'm switching my entire operating system.)
Of course, in our house this will continue to be a moot point until it's possible to get *anything* other than dialup. The village has a population of something like 2500, but of that probably only 3 or 4 houses would actually buy internet access. Add to that the fact that our telephone exchange is in a different *country* (happens to be Wales, and it's about half an hour's walk away, but even that is apparently too far for data to travel), and.. essentially, we're screwed. Until I have the immense joy of moving somewhere where there more people than sheep, all I can really do is post on slashdot every time the topic of cable/DSL/broadband/whatever comes up, whining about how I have a maximum of like 4.1KB/s.
And, oh, GO OUTSIDE. I've been told that doesn't need a fast connection.
It's been proved that in an average day, an average QWERTY typist's fingers move an average of around 20 miles. On an average Dvorak the same average typist's fingers would travel around 1 mile. Sounds to me like a great way to prevent RSI.
But be nice, don't slashdot the scene.org servers that pouët is hosted on:)
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To be fair, Shareaza has no spyware either. What's more, it's almost the *only* P2P client that doesn't eat up half the system resources - Kazaa, Bearshare, XoloX, Grokster (which installs more spyware than I thought was humanely possible anyway) and many others are all huge and silly. Shareaza (and at least one other Windows Gnutella client, though I forget the name) will happily multitask.
FWIW, Bearshare doesn't install insane amounts of spyware. Okay, it's not as good as the 100%-free clients, but they seem to have said "Hey, let's sell an improved version of this to make money" rather than, "Hey, let's piss off all our users to make money"
If I'm not mistaken, ICQ has always displayed the names/nicknames of your contacts rather than plain contacts. I know for a fact Trillian does this automatically, and I can't remember ever having to choose between (for example) 112802831 and 120114113 when I used the official ICQ client (2000b or something at that point).
And just for the record, I have a friend with a six-digit number:) The first digit is seven.
I haven't seen this URL posted yet (I thought it came from Slashdot a while ago, but I guess I was mistaken:)
Be sure you can answer all of these questions before you even start to think about GUI design. I agree with pretty much everything the guy says.
One other thing, be sure to keep to conventions wherever possible. For example, people are used to having the Exit command at the bottom of the File menu, so (unless you're doing something completely different, as you may be) don't stick it anywhere else. Little things like that make programs more intuitive.
And one other thing: make it as unlike Blender as possible:)
So, could I be sued for ignoring spam? It's just another type of blocking, and think of the costs he'd need to wipe all memory of his previous spamming from my brain. As it happens I get no spam, as I've always been careful with my email address... is that also a felony? The costs he's lost not being able to sell me products because I hid my address from him.. maybe I should get a solicitor. Or a soda. Mmm, caffeine...
Here in school we get our passwords changed whenever the admin feels like it; once every few years. They're all simple six-letter dictionary jobs because, hell, you can't trust kids to remember P2q4Ee4t or something:)
Anyway, this morning I came in to find some guy (maybe he's reading this - hi Greg:) had found a file on the server, available for viewing by anyone, which contained a list of everyone's passwords.
I kid you not, this was a genuine list which had obviously been left there by some idiot who deserves to be eaten by crocodiles. Needless to say, I now have a different password and the file has vanished:)
Still, shows you just how useless passwords against my mortal enemy (stupidity).
You should see the comps in my school.. I've been asking staff for years to at least get the keyboards and mice cleaned occasionally, seeing as most of them have now had at least four years of grubby little fingers (side note: before now I've found up to a centimetre of fluff on the mouse rollers). You think an office is bad, think of the little year sevens who pick their noses:)
Still, I haven't noticed getting any more diseases from them so I've never really seen it as a problem; and seeing as their definition of an upgrade is "throw absolutely everything out and spend £10,000 on completely new equipment, and then wonder why the budget is empty" it's never too unsanitary. Maybe I should make a point of getting out a baby wipe and cleaning them off every so often:)
Forgetting, of course, that many people are locked into using Windows and even Outlook at work and places. I get away as far as using Pegasus, but I've hardly got installing freedom.
One of the major gripes I have had with big labels for some time is their fear of signing anything new. Westlife, Steps, S Club 7, lots of other semi-talented people singing complete and utter recycled rubbish got signed instantly.. after being put together by the industry.
Meanwhile, the good bands have to work. They play the so-called 'toilet circuit'. Eventually they will probably be picked up by a small to medium-sized record label.
A record label with sense, more sense than to do anything like this. So I'm not going to miss out on any music due to this - major labels don't have anything worth listening to.
Okay, there are some exceptions, but generally the above is true.
but couldn't the data be read from the CD in any device?
I've never done SUPER HARDCORE CD-ROM PROGRAMMING. But I'm guessing that they work the same way as other disk drives, whereby at the lowest level you just read a chunk of data at a time. CD drives quite possibly have built-in Redbook playing support, that's how they have can play audio CDs without even a sound card. But there must be a way to tell it that it's just a random data CD, right? If so, all (heh) that is needed is to read the headers and work out where the tracks are, then save them all to disk. Sorted.
there could be life on there sometime?
Obviously not the same life that thrives on Earth, but who knows how advanced genetic engineering technologies could be in a few decades?
The next question, of course, would be 'why?'.
I know there's zplet, which is a 'terp in Java. There's an HTML one somewhere, but off-hand I can't remember where. YOu can also play them through TELNET.. lots of fun.
no. A z5 is zcode. It runs on the Z-machine: the imaginary computer that Infocom created for their games. The z-machine has emulators for just about every platform in existance, many of which are downloadable from (iirc) here.
Frotz is probably a good bet unless you're on some funky platform.
No, really... trying to kill off the console is a stupid idea. I'd like to see Bill Gates try to, say, rename five thousands files from ZIP to BAK. Of course, I could just type REN *.ZIP *.BAK and be done by the time Bill was on his fifth file, heh. But I use DOS, so I'm outdated, and should be completely alienated so I have to go and buy another version of Windows. Though all they are really achieving is locking me out of ever wanting to use Windows.
And SOMEONE at MICROS~1 must have realised this, because there is a 'command prompt here' powertoy. Which is insanely useful.
me and my friend used to have bitter wars over who got to build the red robot and who had to make do with all the other colours.
these 'robots' were really just buggies, and tended to end up pushing each other down the stairs.
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I just have vivid memories of trying to make the free edition compile something on Windows. I seem to recall in the end, I could make it produce something provided I didn't use the runtime library - but that's why I think of it as a bitch, heh
I was going to ask if there were any performance comparisons around showing how Watcom performed, but then I realised that anyone with half a brain ran something through Google before Slashdot.
Win32 compilers (not including Watcom - and with good reason, it's a bitch to set up on Win32)
as linked from the djgpp FAQ, some info on DOS compilers.
So, hooray! A lesson in using Google before Slashdot mixed with some blatant karma-whoring.
PS. this is good too.
It's a shame that the RIAA are completely oblivous of the fact that me downloading a file costs them no money whatsoever. I buy as many CD's as I can, but there's so many songs I just can't buy. Those songs I download. If I hadn't d/l'ed them, they wouldn't have any money *and* I wouldn't have any song. At least this way one of us gets something.
It's also worth noticing that the main reason I can't buy all the music I'd like is the ridiculously high prices - I saw an 45-minute album retailing for £20 the other week. Of course, there's also the fact that the nearest record store is 20 miles away and the fact that music in America gets released months before we even hear about it in England.
Attend concerts and/or buy merchandise.
Would it really take much more effort to support OpenBSD and NetBSD as well? For a simple recompile and changing a few device names, double the market base. (I know FreeBSD is the most common BSD on i386, but it seems a shame to support one and not the others - and I'm damned if I'm switching my entire operating system.)
Of course, in our house this will continue to be a moot point until it's possible to get *anything* other than dialup. The village has a population of something like 2500, but of that probably only 3 or 4 houses would actually buy internet access. Add to that the fact that our telephone exchange is in a different *country* (happens to be Wales, and it's about half an hour's walk away, but even that is apparently too far for data to travel), and.. essentially, we're screwed. Until I have the immense joy of moving somewhere where there more people than sheep, all I can really do is post on slashdot every time the topic of cable/DSL/broadband/whatever comes up, whining about how I have a maximum of like 4.1KB/s.
And, oh, GO OUTSIDE. I've been told that doesn't need a fast connection.
It's been proved that in an average day, an average QWERTY typist's fingers move an average of around 20 miles. On an average Dvorak the same average typist's fingers would travel around 1 mile. Sounds to me like a great way to prevent RSI.
I mean, grep? How counter-intuitive is that?
You might want to look at its page on pouët, the group's other work, other games from the demoscene and some other stuff.
:)
But be nice, don't slashdot the scene.org servers that pouët is hosted on
To be fair, Shareaza has no spyware either. What's more, it's almost the *only* P2P client that doesn't eat up half the system resources - Kazaa, Bearshare, XoloX, Grokster (which installs more spyware than I thought was humanely possible anyway) and many others are all huge and silly. Shareaza (and at least one other Windows Gnutella client, though I forget the name) will happily multitask.
FWIW, Bearshare doesn't install insane amounts of spyware. Okay, it's not as good as the 100%-free clients, but they seem to have said "Hey, let's sell an improved version of this to make money" rather than, "Hey, let's piss off all our users to make money"
If I'm not mistaken, ICQ has always displayed the names/nicknames of your contacts rather than plain contacts. I know for a fact Trillian does this automatically, and I can't remember ever having to choose between (for example) 112802831 and 120114113 when I used the official ICQ client (2000b or something at that point).
:) The first digit is seven.
And just for the record, I have a friend with a six-digit number
I haven't seen this URL posted yet (I thought it came from Slashdot a while ago, but I guess I was mistaken :)
Be sure you can answer all of these questions before you even start to think about GUI design. I agree with pretty much everything the guy says.
One other thing, be sure to keep to conventions wherever possible. For example, people are used to having the Exit command at the bottom of the File menu, so (unless you're doing something completely different, as you may be) don't stick it anywhere else. Little things like that make programs more intuitive.
And one other thing: make it as unlike Blender as possible :)
So, could I be sued for ignoring spam? It's just another type of blocking, and think of the costs he'd need to wipe all memory of his previous spamming from my brain. As it happens I get no spam, as I've always been careful with my email address... is that also a felony? The costs he's lost not being able to sell me products because I hid my address from him.. maybe I should get a solicitor. Or a soda. Mmm, caffeine...
Here in school we get our passwords changed whenever the admin feels like it; once every few years. They're all simple six-letter dictionary jobs because, hell, you can't trust kids to remember P2q4Ee4t or something :)
:) had found a file on the server, available for viewing by anyone, which contained a list of everyone's passwords.
:)
Anyway, this morning I came in to find some guy (maybe he's reading this - hi Greg
I kid you not, this was a genuine list which had obviously been left there by some idiot who deserves to be eaten by crocodiles. Needless to say, I now have a different password and the file has vanished
Still, shows you just how useless passwords against my mortal enemy (stupidity).
You should see the comps in my school.. I've been asking staff for years to at least get the keyboards and mice cleaned occasionally, seeing as most of them have now had at least four years of grubby little fingers (side note: before now I've found up to a centimetre of fluff on the mouse rollers). You think an office is bad, think of the little year sevens who pick their noses :)
:)
Still, I haven't noticed getting any more diseases from them so I've never really seen it as a problem; and seeing as their definition of an upgrade is "throw absolutely everything out and spend £10,000 on completely new equipment, and then wonder why the budget is empty" it's never too unsanitary. Maybe I should make a point of getting out a baby wipe and cleaning them off every so often
Forgetting, of course, that many people are locked into using Windows and even Outlook at work and places. I get away as far as using Pegasus, but I've hardly got installing freedom.
One of the major gripes I have had with big labels for some time is their fear of signing anything new. Westlife, Steps, S Club 7, lots of other semi-talented people singing complete and utter recycled rubbish got signed instantly.. after being put together by the industry.
Meanwhile, the good bands have to work. They play the so-called 'toilet circuit'. Eventually they will probably be picked up by a small to medium-sized record label.
A record label with sense, more sense than to do anything like this. So I'm not going to miss out on any music due to this - major labels don't have anything worth listening to.
Okay, there are some exceptions, but generally the above is true.
but couldn't the data be read from the CD in any device?
I've never done SUPER HARDCORE CD-ROM PROGRAMMING. But I'm guessing that they work the same way as other disk drives, whereby at the lowest level you just read a chunk of data at a time. CD drives quite possibly have built-in Redbook playing support, that's how they have can play audio CDs without even a sound card. But there must be a way to tell it that it's just a random data CD, right? If so, all (heh) that is needed is to read the headers and work out where the tracks are, then save them all to disk. Sorted.
I could also just use the line-in jack, heh.
there could be life on there sometime? Obviously not the same life that thrives on Earth, but who knows how advanced genetic engineering technologies could be in a few decades? The next question, of course, would be 'why?'.
I know there's zplet, which is a 'terp in Java. There's an HTML one somewhere, but off-hand I can't remember where. YOu can also play them through TELNET.. lots of fun.
no. A z5 is zcode. It runs on the Z-machine: the imaginary computer that Infocom created for their games. The z-machine has emulators for just about every platform in existance, many of which are downloadable from (iirc) here. Frotz is probably a good bet unless you're on some funky platform.
No, really... trying to kill off the console is a stupid idea. I'd like to see Bill Gates try to, say, rename five thousands files from ZIP to BAK. Of course, I could just type REN *.ZIP *.BAK and be done by the time Bill was on his fifth file, heh. But I use DOS, so I'm outdated, and should be completely alienated so I have to go and buy another version of Windows. Though all they are really achieving is locking me out of ever wanting to use Windows. And SOMEONE at MICROS~1 must have realised this, because there is a 'command prompt here' powertoy. Which is insanely useful.
me and my friend used to have bitter wars over who got to build the red robot and who had to make do with all the other colours. these 'robots' were really just buggies, and tended to end up pushing each other down the stairs.