If I were David Brinn, nine digits worth of sour grapes might make me wanna slam TPM and Lucas too.
I don't know much about the guy, but if he's a SF author I'm pretty sure he didn't go into it for the money. By the way, James Cameron claimed jealousy in response to Titanic criticism but I can't imagine that a guy like George Lucas would.
Don't know, and this is just as I've heard it applied: mainly whether someone is ungainly, i.e. physically misproportioned, and to a lesser degree disheveled. No, you wouldn't get many bonus points for sandals. =^) Maybe geek has a social aspect in other places but I've always heard it used as a physical description.
Whether it's pejorative or not, I've always heard "geek" used as a physical description. Recently, it's been used as a synonym for "nerd" by the media ignoranti, but I've never heard it that way in person. The use of geek tends toward ungainly males in general. Bonus points for glasses, a distant stare, pale skin, a rumpled t-shirt, unkempt hair, sandals, or acne. In any case, geekiness is a purely physical quality.
Speaking of "nerd," it's increasingly being used as a whimsical synonym for a hardcore enthusiast. For example, someone who's had their picture taken with the Stanley Cup and can name the last five Selke Trophy winners would be described as a "hockey nerd."
>>.. the linux kernel is not for sale at any price. right?) >Last I looked, some company http://store.redhat.com/commerce/ >was hawking it for $80 bucks...
Exactly. Just the opposite of what was said: it is for sale (by just about everyone), at any price they like.
Let's see... the original poster used an account with an email address given, didn't call people rude names, and has currently received a +4 score from the moderators for that comment. What kind of a response is this?
There were no negative posts until this BeOS zealot posted his foolish remarks. There was no trouble so the idiot BeOS advocate decided to stir up some controversy.
Because of these routine trolls by BeOS zealots I vow that I will never give BeOS a look. My life is very busy, and I would rather spend what little free time I have associating with grown-ups.
The Lothar Project is from Linux Mandrake (the distro). VA bought Enlightened Solutions from mandrake (the person), who we all know from his work on Enlightenment (Enlightened Solutions, get it...)
Unfortunate play on words, in fact...
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eBayla looks a lot like eBay LA (or eBayLA), which is the name of eBay's upcoming Los Angeles-area listing directory. "eBayla virus" is a little too cute to be anything but a nickname.
I always regard it as a goof-up when I find I've left my JavaScript turned on in Netscape for no particular reason...
Let me recommend one of my favorite books, The Writer's Journey, a fantastic guide to understanding movies through an interpretation of The Hero With A Thousand Faces. I also found it far more readable than Campbell's book, which is dense with great mythological examples. If you don't read The Hero With A Thousand Faces, at least read The Writer's Journey. It's a terrific real-world introduction to the relevance of Joseph Campbell and the power of mythology.
I love Perl, but it's a little too eclectic, and string-oriented, for doing game scripting in. It's also kind of big; library size is important for console games. Ideally you want something that can be stripped down to just math libraries, then you can add in all other functionality yourself.
Javascript turns out to be really suitable. It's easy to pare down, has a good native interface, can compile to bytecode at runtime, and supports multiple contexts.
BTW, also worth a look are tinyscheme (which is a nice small embeddable Scheme), Python, Lua, and the fairly obscure ICI. ICI is a very nifty C dialect for scripting but it doesn't seem to be intended for embedded applications.
Nothing wrong with rolling your own, though. Especially if you've got a lot of scripters to support. I'm interested in seeing how Q3A's plans for scripting in ANSI C (using lcc) turns out.
Hey, this site for some reason reminds me: for decidedly more low-tech corporate terror, check out the utterly classic Temp Slave! If you luck out and come across one of TS!'s published-at-Kinko's issues on a newsstand, give it a shot. The "Best Of" book is available from their page or at bookstores. It's an anthology of millenial horror stories from temps within the corporate beast. The misery that flows from these tales is like therapy to those who can identify with them, and leave everyone else thankful that they can't.
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I don't know much about the guy, but if he's a SF author I'm pretty sure he didn't go into it for the money. By the way, James Cameron claimed jealousy in response to Titanic criticism but I can't imagine that a guy like George Lucas would.
Sorry... 24 times 7 times 365.25 is not the number of hours in a year.
Don't know, and this is just as I've heard it applied: mainly whether someone is ungainly, i.e. physically misproportioned, and to a lesser degree disheveled. No, you wouldn't get many bonus points for sandals. =^) Maybe geek has a social aspect in other places but I've always heard it used as a physical description.
Speaking of "nerd," it's increasingly being used as a whimsical synonym for a hardcore enthusiast. For example, someone who's had their picture taken with the Stanley Cup and can name the last five Selke Trophy winners would be described as a "hockey nerd."
>>.. the linux kernel is not for sale at any price. right?)
>Last I looked, some company http://store.redhat.com/commerce/
>was hawking it for $80 bucks...
Exactly. Just the opposite of what was said: it is for sale (by just about everyone), at any price they like.
There were no negative posts until this BeOS zealot posted his foolish remarks. There was no trouble so the idiot BeOS advocate decided to stir up some controversy.
Because of these routine trolls by BeOS zealots I vow that I will never give BeOS a look. My life is very busy, and I would rather spend what little free time I have associating with grown-ups.
If you said "a flame," you made the right call!
What a great phrase! Let's use it as a slang term.
"All right already, don't overflow your jiffies!"
"When I saw httpd was using 300 megs of memory, I nearly overflowed my jiffies."
The Lothar Project is from Linux Mandrake (the distro). VA bought Enlightened Solutions from mandrake (the person), who we all know from his work on Enlightenment (Enlightened Solutions, get it...)
eBayla looks a lot like eBay LA (or eBayLA), which is the name of eBay's upcoming Los Angeles-area listing directory. "eBayla virus" is a little too cute to be anything but a nickname.
I always regard it as a goof-up when I find I've left my JavaScript turned on in Netscape for no particular reason...
Let me recommend one of my favorite books, The Writer's Journey, a fantastic guide to understanding movies through an interpretation of The Hero With A Thousand Faces. I also found it far more readable than Campbell's book, which is dense with great mythological examples. If you don't read The Hero With A Thousand Faces, at least read The Writer's Journey. It's a terrific real-world introduction to the relevance of Joseph Campbell and the power of mythology.
Gift horse? Gift horse?
I didn't realize this game was a quadruped mammal. How interesting...
Javascript turns out to be really suitable. It's easy to pare down, has a good native interface, can compile to bytecode at runtime, and supports multiple contexts.
BTW, also worth a look are tinyscheme (which is a nice small embeddable Scheme), Python, Lua, and the fairly obscure ICI. ICI is a very nifty C dialect for scripting but it doesn't seem to be intended for embedded applications.
Nothing wrong with rolling your own, though. Especially if you've got a lot of scripters to support. I'm interested in seeing how Q3A's plans for scripting in ANSI C (using lcc) turns out.
Hey, this site for some reason reminds me: for decidedly more low-tech corporate terror, check out the utterly classic Temp Slave! If you luck out and come across one of TS!'s published-at-Kinko's issues on a newsstand, give it a shot. The "Best Of" book is available from their page or at bookstores. It's an anthology of millenial horror stories from temps within the corporate beast. The misery that flows from these tales is like therapy to those who can identify with them, and leave everyone else thankful that they can't.