How about "the thing about soldiers is, they are needed to kill people"?
I didn't mean to suggest that they are themselves are less human or mindless, just that the fact remain that they must kill people, and that that can not be sanitized.
Infantry use derogatory names for the enemy, they hoot and holler after a kill, and they do lots of other things that people don't like to think about. The OP thought that was inappropriate.
Yeah, the last bit was pretty trite. How about "There will always be a disconnect between what we want our army to be, and what they have to be to get the job done."?
See, the thing about soldiers is; they need to kill people. As a society far removed from our warrior class, that still seems to need to fight wars, we are uncomfortable seeing this perceived callousness. We are collectively shocked when we see photos of US soldiers abusing prisoners, but then demand that those same soldiers find the aggression needed to hunt down humans and kill them. It is impossible for most psyches to kill a human they have not dehumanized.
The answer to this paradox, IMO, is that war is simply incompatible with civil society.
I use screen intermittently when I know I'll need it. It's those times when you didn't know you would need it that hurt. I going to stick it in my startup now, and make an effort to use more of its features, as it is a pretty useful app. I've gotten pretty comfortable with Alt-tab flipping through terminals, though.
Here's a hint for terminal junkies; Get your consoles using the framebuffer running at the same specs as your X display. Then you can Alt-arrow though X and the virtual consoles without pausing for a mode change.
Your comment makes little sense in the context of what he was talking about. His only point, as far as I can see, is that one simply can not evaluate a desktop for stability in a matter of weeks. Well, maybe when comparing Win95 with Win3.1, but we're not. He's right. My current GUI has never crashed.
You seem to be suggesting that stability has no value in a GUI, which is retarded. If my GUI crashed right now, I would lose login sessions and jobs on 3 machines. maybe you would just lose your game of minesweeper?
Yes. IIRC, a lot of it is already available in CVS. I played around with Cairo and Luminocity a while ago, and some o the other bits and pieces going into our next desktop. I must say, I'm very impressed. The feature list is huge, the flexibility will allow designers to deliver nice looking stuff, and the performance is going to be stellar.
I've been using Windows a bit lately, after a long hiatus. It was apparent to me upon booting that my ubuntu desktop looks far better out of the box. When did that happen? Gee, I remember when we didn't even have X. Now it looks like we might even pull ahead of Apple in gooey eye candy goodness.
Some pretty interesting things might come of just letting it be used by employees for now. I'm sure a few of them have had ideas that would need oodles of power to flesh out, that nobody would pay for the big iron to run. I, of course, would recompile Quake 3 and get myself some geek cred with a stupidly high FPS.
Why would you have a reason to use debian in the first place? Assuming you need a workstation, rather than a server, ubuntu, mepis or knoppix are much better choices for the desktop.
Well gosh! I never thought about it like that! Seriously.
Why yes, I would like control over my data. Being able to license my data securly to 'users', revoke such license, and track access would be a great boon.
I never was against DRM, if the *AA's want to screw with customers like that, then the market will go elsewhere. Nor can I see a moral argument against allowing an entity to attempt to dictate how its product is used. It's not like my tax dollars were involved. But I do have a problem with the spread of hardware that isn't completly open. So an industry acceptable, open source DRM implemented entirely in software would be great.
Of course, that's probably impossible. In fact, a working solution in hardware is probably impossible. If one can watch it, one can copy it, and if one can download it and watch it with a lot less hassle then buy it, it'll get downloaded. p2p is unkillable, it's the core idea behind the internet, so all this foolishness is just society adjusting to the digital age. The best part is that society will probably benifit greatly, as we find and develop new channels for producing and consuming content.
As a (mostly) mature adult who thinks that multiplayer gaming is one of the funnest things since sex, I would offer a few suggestions for anyone scared of by idiots.
Different games have different cultures. Halo (that I've never played) is pretty famous for being full of idiots. Games that are more team based (et, BF1942) have less.
Different servers have different cultures. The quickest path to a better server is too find one that automutes swearing. Or find a clan that stresses good behaviour and play on their servers. One thing that's becoming more common is servers where many players are given basic admin privileges.
Lastly, remember that the casual use of insults is simply part of the culture. Little of it is hateful, even if it rarely includes a smiley. Don't take anything too personally.
On the whole, this is a problem that game producers are taking seriously, as they know how many people are being kept from going online by it. Multiplaying gaming belongs in the living room with the whole family. The situation has been improving and will continue to do so, with better server management tools and browsers that allow the grownups to find each other.
"Approximately 212 RFCs, or about 7% of RFCs issued so far, starting
with [RFC269], contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' used as a
metasyntactic variable..."
float InvSqrt (float x) { float xhalf = 0.5f*x; int i = *(int*)&x; i = 0x5f3759df - (i >> 1); x = *(float*)&i; x = x*(1.5f - xhalf*x*x); return x; }
It runs much faster than math.h, and it's very usefull.
This paper says that it was first found in the Quake 3 source. I guess it's in the SDK somewhere?
I wanted to add, too, that this is an example of why companies don't release code. They view things like this as secrets to be kept. Kudos to Carmack for having the confidence.
That's Carmacks magic number! Of course it doesn't need commenting!
It's the first guess for finding an inverse sqare root using Newtons method. We're still waiting for a mathamatitian to tell us if it's the best choice, but it works. That's one of Carmack's claims to fame in the CS world.
I would be open to that if it was available on other platforms! But it's not, it's only available on windows, and no matter how you feel about OSS, GNU hippies, and the like, that's not good.
IMO, very important. The tech, as others have noted, has been around for a while. The label 'AJAX' has allowed people to publish books 'Learn AJAX in 24 hours', and allows one to throw a buzzword at PHBs. And with google and others providing slick examples of what's possible, more is sure to come.
Timekeeping in space takes relativity into account. They have to, or they would wind up in the wrong place. Interplanetary NTP, IIRC, has some fancy tricks to manage this. Interstellar distances and velocities should make no difference, but we're a long way from that.
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It was badly worded. I meant soldiers are needed to kill, not that they have a need to kill.
I didn't mean to suggest that they are themselves are less human or mindless, just that the fact remain that they must kill people, and that that can not be sanitized.
Infantry use derogatory names for the enemy, they hoot and holler after a kill, and they do lots of other things that people don't like to think about. The OP thought that was inappropriate.
Yeah, the last bit was pretty trite. How about "There will always be a disconnect between what we want our army to be, and what they have to be to get the job done."?
I hope Apple sticks with gcc.
The answer to this paradox, IMO, is that war is simply incompatible with civil society.
Here's a hint for terminal junkies; Get your consoles using the framebuffer running at the same specs as your X display. Then you can Alt-arrow though X and the virtual consoles without pausing for a mode change.
My local library, I guess.
You seem to be suggesting that stability has no value in a GUI, which is retarded. If my GUI crashed right now, I would lose login sessions and jobs on 3 machines. maybe you would just lose your game of minesweeper?
I've been using Windows a bit lately, after a long hiatus. It was apparent to me upon booting that my ubuntu desktop looks far better out of the box. When did that happen? Gee, I remember when we didn't even have X. Now it looks like we might even pull ahead of Apple in gooey eye candy goodness.
Some pretty interesting things might come of just letting it be used by employees for now. I'm sure a few of them have had ideas that would need oodles of power to flesh out, that nobody would pay for the big iron to run. I, of course, would recompile Quake 3 and get myself some geek cred with a stupidly high FPS.
Why would you have a reason to use debian in the first place? Assuming you need a workstation, rather than a server, ubuntu, mepis or knoppix are much better choices for the desktop.
Admitadly, Sony has stretched the truth in the past, but there is no way that they will not put bluray in the ps3. Sony needs bluray to succeed.
I met a guy on one of those a few weeks ago. He was 6'8'' and thick. He was very happy to have it. To top it off, his had a nitro kit.
Why yes, I would like control over my data. Being able to license my data securly to 'users', revoke such license, and track access would be a great boon.
I never was against DRM, if the *AA's want to screw with customers like that, then the market will go elsewhere. Nor can I see a moral argument against allowing an entity to attempt to dictate how its product is used. It's not like my tax dollars were involved. But I do have a problem with the spread of hardware that isn't completly open. So an industry acceptable, open source DRM implemented entirely in software would be great.
Of course, that's probably impossible. In fact, a working solution in hardware is probably impossible. If one can watch it, one can copy it, and if one can download it and watch it with a lot less hassle then buy it, it'll get downloaded. p2p is unkillable, it's the core idea behind the internet, so all this foolishness is just society adjusting to the digital age. The best part is that society will probably benifit greatly, as we find and develop new channels for producing and consuming content.
Different games have different cultures. Halo (that I've never played) is pretty famous for being full of idiots. Games that are more team based (et, BF1942) have less.
Different servers have different cultures. The quickest path to a better server is too find one that automutes swearing. Or find a clan that stresses good behaviour and play on their servers. One thing that's becoming more common is servers where many players are given basic admin privileges.
Lastly, remember that the casual use of insults is simply part of the culture. Little of it is hateful, even if it rarely includes a smiley. Don't take anything too personally.
On the whole, this is a problem that game producers are taking seriously, as they know how many people are being kept from going online by it. Multiplaying gaming belongs in the living room with the whole family. The situation has been improving and will continue to do so, with better server management tools and browsers that allow the grownups to find each other.
Actually, the semicolon means the same thing to the python interpreter as to gcc, a end-of-statement toke. You just don't need it.
1 hour, 34 minutes.
The crash under linux when topshot and personal stats were large enough to overlap drove me insane. Thank you.
"Approximately 212 RFCs, or about 7% of RFCs issued so far, starting with [RFC269], contain the terms `foo', `bar', or `foobar' used as a metasyntactic variable..."
You just made at least one foe!
This paper says that it was first found in the Quake 3 source. I guess it's in the SDK somewhere?
I wanted to add, too, that this is an example of why companies don't release code. They view things like this as secrets to be kept. Kudos to Carmack for having the confidence.
It's the first guess for finding an inverse sqare root using Newtons method. We're still waiting for a mathamatitian to tell us if it's the best choice, but it works. That's one of Carmack's claims to fame in the CS world.
I would be open to that if it was available on other platforms! But it's not, it's only available on windows, and no matter how you feel about OSS, GNU hippies, and the like, that's not good.
IMO, very important. The tech, as others have noted, has been around for a while. The label 'AJAX' has allowed people to publish books 'Learn AJAX in 24 hours', and allows one to throw a buzzword at PHBs. And with google and others providing slick examples of what's possible, more is sure to come.
He bought it on ebay. No joke.
Timekeeping in space takes relativity into account. They have to, or they would wind up in the wrong place. Interplanetary NTP, IIRC, has some fancy tricks to manage this. Interstellar distances and velocities should make no difference, but we're a long way from that.