The purpose (and fun part) is not to shock yourself, but to shock the person with whom you are competing. It's like gambling with pain -- it's a blast to see your friend get zapped, and it's a great motivator to do well if you'll be shocked when you don't, and that's suspense and fear and thrill and excitement, and that's what gaming is all about.
Oh you mean like the card game called, "Bloody Knuckles"! Now I understand...
I like the look of Gnome too, but after trying Gnome2.2 for a while now, I have to say it's probably not for me. And no, KDE is not the alternative.
What I miss most is integration of the loads of programs available for Gnome. Wouldn't it be nice if MrProject and the Evo calendar were linked in some way? Or if I could use the same filters for mail and news? Or look up people I meet in IRC in a global address book, and send them a mail or something?
KDE is not in the same boat. While you may get a consistent widget-look with most of the major applications(open office, evo, mozilla,etc)/w Gnome, KDE has a much tighter integration with many of its components.
This is because of Kparts and you can see this easily with Konqueror: You can open a pdf, browse a webpage, open a Konsole all in one window. They even have a mozilla kpart, so you can integrate mozilla into konqueror(though it's using kdebindings to glue non-kde/gtk apps).
I'm pretty sure Gnome has something like this, but I never got past Nautilus and it's clunky integration into Gnome's desktop-environment.
We learn something new everyday: "seq". And here I was creating a bash for loop from 1 to 256 manually!(Which is one of the reasons I converted to Perl)
the annoying part is that as complex as you can make software, you can't fix the people who are morons, which is where the real problem lies.
Yup, I agree, and why? Here's a snippet from the article:
"The infected file itself has either a.exe,.scr, or a.pif extension â" blocking those extensions will protect e-mail users against infection, according to Ken Dunham, senior intelligence analyst with iDefense.com"
When we need "Senior Intelligent Analysts" for "common sense" answers, you know we're all fucked:)
More rather the next *huge* change. People hate huge changes, especially if it fucks up how they love to do things everyday on their computer.
Palladium could be a huge hit(amongst M$ and the middlemen/third part "goons") or it could be a BIG failure. I anticipate it would be the latter, and sudden big changes don't make people happy.
If anyone is considering of joining the OS business, it should be NOW and pounce on M$ when their Palladium business model fails.
Hell, every behemoth(sp?) died when trying to due some so wacky and stupid that no one liked it(i.e. The car Homer Simpson designed for this brother).
I usually look at the latest and greatest fps benchmark for the latest and greatest game anyway.
This is not that good, either.
Way back in the TNT2 time frame, Nvidia had optimized their 'texture management' algorithms for small textures since Quake2 used small textures. This gave TNT2 cards an artificial boost. Though the same could not be said for Unreal Tournament. UT used huge textures along with detail&procedural textures, causes a lot of frame jitters, while 3dfx cards managed pretty well. It essentially turned out TNT2/Ultra and the early Geforce1 cards had performance problems with texture-thrashing and slower texture upload speeds(compared to 3dfx).
So what I wanted to say, just because your vid card performs great in one game doesn't mean it'll perform the same in another.
I've read that article, and while it mentions good points(like the bug fixes that made functions look uglier and complex) it lacks one essential fact of inheriting code: not everyone *needs* to reuse 100% of the codebase. And this is the case when company X decides to use an open source project which has X,Y, and Z features, but you need X and Z only.
So what happens to the code base? You don't need to re-write it, but(as the previous poster mentioned) remove all the fucking complex crap that you don't need. In my case, I have some high availability software that is complex -- to do the simplest things requires so many fucking states and so many points where things go wrong. There's approx. 8 daemons trying to communicate properly, and when the top-most daemon can't talk to one of the 7 other daemons -- all hell breaks loose.
Do whatever you can to simplify the design, reduce the number of states, and handle errors at any level safely(integration-wise). If you have to re-write some code because of a bad design - do it.
Well, if you looked over the article and especially the keyboard pictures, the movements are basically "Street Fighter 2" style moves. For example, to do a fireball with Ryu, one simply need to do a "down,down-forward,forward "
On the same token to type a 'd', you need to do "back,forward". I credit the creator of the device for taking moves that are used in fighting games and using them in unique ways(like this keyboard).
In fighting games, you have endless number of moves, which I've seen many people(not me) master very well in the arcades. So maybe this new keyboard will work?
Everywhere we look in the universe the picture is the same. Billions of galaxies, countless trillions of stars. Was the universe "created" so only one planet orbiting just one of these stars would produce life? I don't think so.
The universe is magnificent...it awes and shocks you. It's funny though how mere mortals like us who have absolutely no hand in the architecture and scope of this universe, make "well, I think" arguments like they saw the Universe's source code:)
Also, it troubles me why people give a rats ass about "life on mars" or other planets, when their mortal intruments cannot prove the existence of a certain set of invisible species living on this planet. Just because phenoma phenomona can't be measured/detected/seen by scientific tools consistently, doesn't mean such phenomona is thrown out.
Mere mortals. So weak and proud, yet they don't even understand their purpose. Suckers.
They simply sit in front of their pre-configured machines at home and use the thing. The other types of users are the ones that usually end up doing clean installs of their operating system, those are the ones that like to tinker with their systems. If you know enough to be dangerous, you will be doing this on a regular basis. If you know what kind of software poses a risk to your computer, then you will be able to tinker with your computer for many years without the need for a re-install, providing you are using a modern operating system.
I'm going to have to say you're wrong. I've got a couple of cousins, who among normal users, browse and MSN chat. But they also download game demos, and download stuff off kazaa(like movies, games, etc).
My 'lil cousins don't 'tinker' with their system, but the fact they use Kazaa opens their computer to a whole can of viruses, as it's not one central public server that hosts files but assholes who share viruses that look like Grandtheftauto3.exe and what not.
Given that there is a problem with such a system, how about shipping all of the votes off to a secret black box designed and built by a company in the Netherlands, which phones up a central computer and tells us who won the election?
Isn't this the same as the US Military telling us Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, using their own little pawns(i.e. *high* level UN inspectors) and their own troops they allegdly found bunkers full of chemical weapons.
Yet, where is the public investigating the truth of these claims through *independent* scientists and researchers not being funded directly by US gov't?
The media tells us through our TV that they found instruction booklets and bomb-making equipment, and there must be terrorist cells in iraq...
But again, where are the independant public investigators to authenticate such claims?
Rather, US military, the media, and associated goons in the govt keep REAL FACTS bolted down. You may think I'm putting on my tinfoil hat, but regardless of the consipiracy, there MUST be some public body(not some so-called "international" union) to check claims and facts mentioned by the above parties, only then can we really know why the US never disclosed info on the black boxes on planes crashed on 9/11 and whether there is really WMOD in Iraq.
Sigh. We live in a fucked up world. I only wish people applied the same logic of open-sourcing the voting system to everything else any govt says.
If you run a multi-threaded/multi-process app, then each input must be associated with time.
So suddenly your inputs, (a,b,c,d) become (a @t-a, b @t-b, c@t-c, d@t-d). Of course no one can test for all values of t-n, that would be infeasible. So you gotta test causal effects.
The result: a crash that happens only sometimes, at random, even given the exact same starting conditions.
Yeah, I have the same problem who those f*cking multithreaded programs. You see, my software only crashes everyday of the week except on Thursdays. Why? Go figure.
And just when you thought your program was running, like on Thursday just before you leave for the weekend...when you come on Monday morning all the testers scream, "`tis not working!!!".
At my full-time job, I'd occasionally fire up a game of Starcraft and spend about 45 mins or so (part of it during lunch break) playing it.
Pick-up style games like starcraft, quake3, etc. are easy to get into and satisfy you for 30 minutes, and then it's easy to stop playing(except if all you co-workers start playing). You find a server, frag some f*cking assholes with no chatting, and then stop. They shouldn't have an impact on productivity.
Long drenched games OTOH, like Dues Ex and FFX make you want to play "just a little bit more" and keep you potentially hooked longer with the involved story lines and mesmerizing action. These games can have an impact on your productivity...because they cloud what is reality and what is not reality.
"Lamers will always want to install hacks that allow them to cheat their rear ends off and pretend to be l33t."
This is the fucking thing I hate about cheaters. Play honestly, holding your honour -- losing or winning. I mean, isn't the thrill of doing battle satisfying...especially when you lose -- then come back and try hard to win or get close to winning.
Everyone plays to win -- but few play for the thrill of fighting. Some players are really good, but have no sportsmanship(i.e. they are too snobby). This is no good either. Hell, if you're team was winning by a land-slide, isn't it more fun to switch to the other side and kick the was-winning team's ass?
#1 rule to avoid fucking lamers and cheaters: Play when the 12-year olds have eaten their milk & cookies and have gone to sleep(i.e. post 11pm).
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You have to watch out with Redhat8(don't know about 9). It disabled DMA on my hd causing massive performance problems /w any disk access.
/etc/sysconfig.
use hdparm and hdparm defaults setting in
My computer was running flawlessly with DMA enabled on Redhat 7.2/7.3. So I don't know why they disabled it.
The purpose (and fun part) is not to shock yourself, but to shock the person with whom you are competing. It's like gambling with pain -- it's a blast to see your friend get zapped, and it's a great motivator to do well if you'll be shocked when you don't, and that's suspense and fear and thrill and excitement, and that's what gaming is all about.
Oh you mean like the card game called, "Bloody Knuckles"! Now I understand...
It can also means he will get a job, as he's all over the press.
I like the look of Gnome too, but after trying Gnome2.2 for a while now, I have to say it's probably not for me. And no, KDE is not the alternative. What I miss most is integration of the loads of programs available for Gnome. Wouldn't it be nice if MrProject and the Evo calendar were linked in some way? Or if I could use the same filters for mail and news? Or look up people I meet in IRC in a global address book, and send them a mail or something? KDE is not in the same boat. While you may get a consistent widget-look with most of the major applications(open office, evo, mozilla,etc) /w Gnome, KDE has a much tighter integration with many of its components.
This is because of Kparts and you can see this easily with Konqueror: You can open a pdf, browse a webpage, open a Konsole all in one window. They even have a mozilla kpart, so you can integrate mozilla into konqueror(though it's using kdebindings to glue non-kde/gtk apps).
I'm pretty sure Gnome has something like this, but I never got past Nautilus and it's clunky integration into Gnome's desktop-environment.
Is this the First News Items that even the "Insightful+5" brats haven't RTFA?
Kashif
Hey thanks,
We learn something new everyday: "seq". And here I was creating a bash for loop from 1 to 256 manually!(Which is one of the reasons I converted to Perl)
Kashif
So you mean to tell me, I just have to set my refresh rate to 76hz /w vertical sync and I can jump higher then the little 12-year brat?
I guess it helps to look down on the floor, so that your frame rate doesn't drop below 76fps while you jump...
Weeeeee.....
Crap. It broke my machine. I can't play GTA anymore!
Hurry! Go here to play your games with the new patch!
the annoying part is that as complex as you can make software, you can't fix the people who are morons, which is where the real problem lies.
.exe, .scr, or a .pif extension â" blocking those extensions will protect e-mail users against infection, according to Ken Dunham, senior intelligence analyst with iDefense.com"
Yup, I agree, and why? Here's a snippet from the article:
"The infected file itself has either a
When we need "Senior Intelligent Analysts" for "common sense" answers, you know we're all fucked:)
Kashif
6) Palladium - next big thing...
More rather the next *huge* change. People hate huge changes, especially if it fucks up how they love to do things everyday on their computer.
Palladium could be a huge hit(amongst M$ and the middlemen/third part "goons") or it could be a BIG failure. I anticipate it would be the latter, and sudden big changes don't make people happy.
If anyone is considering of joining the OS business, it should be NOW and pounce on M$ when their Palladium business model fails.
Hell, every behemoth(sp?) died when trying to due some so wacky and stupid that no one liked it(i.e. The car Homer Simpson designed for this brother).
Kashif
I usually look at the latest and greatest fps benchmark for the latest and greatest game anyway.
This is not that good, either.
Way back in the TNT2 time frame, Nvidia had optimized their 'texture management' algorithms for small textures since Quake2 used small textures. This gave TNT2 cards an artificial boost. Though the same could not be said for Unreal Tournament. UT used huge textures along with detail&procedural textures, causes a lot of frame jitters, while 3dfx cards managed pretty well. It essentially turned out TNT2/Ultra and the early Geforce1 cards had performance problems with texture-thrashing and slower texture upload speeds(compared to 3dfx).
So what I wanted to say, just because your vid card performs great in one game doesn't mean it'll perform the same in another.
Kashif
http://www.nullsoft.com/pinkumbrella.phtml
You would see that 10 products are open-source compared to 4 products closed-source. So maybe waste is the new, 11th open-source product.
I don't think so. You can trust your own code(as long as it has not been hacked/tampored with) for not overstepping a buffer.
Where you have to bound check are inputs: incoming network packets, cli input, file input, web input, etc.
I've read that article, and while it mentions good points(like the bug fixes that made functions look uglier and complex) it lacks one essential fact of inheriting code: not everyone *needs* to reuse 100% of the codebase. And this is the case when company X decides to use an open source project which has X,Y, and Z features, but you need X and Z only.
So what happens to the code base? You don't need to re-write it, but(as the previous poster mentioned) remove all the fucking complex crap that you don't need. In my case, I have some high availability software that is complex -- to do the simplest things requires so many fucking states and so many points where things go wrong. There's approx. 8 daemons trying to communicate properly, and when the top-most daemon can't talk to one of the 7 other daemons -- all hell breaks loose.
Do whatever you can to simplify the design, reduce the number of states, and handle errors at any level safely(integration-wise). If you have to re-write some code because of a bad design - do it.
Well, if you looked over the article and especially the keyboard pictures, the movements are basically "Street Fighter 2" style moves. For example, to do a fireball with Ryu, one simply need to do a "down,down-forward,forward "
On the same token to type a 'd', you need to do "back,forward". I credit the creator of the device for taking moves that are used in fighting games and using them in unique ways(like this keyboard).
In fighting games, you have endless number of moves, which I've seen many people(not me) master very well in the arcades. So maybe this new keyboard will work?
You just proved my point about mortal intruments.
Everywhere we look in the universe the picture is the same. Billions of galaxies, countless trillions of stars. Was the universe "created" so only one planet orbiting just one of these stars would produce life? I don't think so.
The universe is magnificent...it awes and shocks you. It's funny though how mere mortals like us who have absolutely no hand in the architecture and scope of this universe, make "well, I think" arguments like they saw the Universe's source code:)
Also, it troubles me why people give a rats ass about "life on mars" or other planets, when their mortal intruments cannot prove the existence of a certain set of invisible species living on this planet. Just because phenoma phenomona can't be measured/detected/seen by scientific tools consistently, doesn't mean such phenomona is thrown out.
Mere mortals. So weak and proud, yet they don't even understand their purpose. Suckers.
I would have to say cscope is an amazing cross-reference development tool -- much better than vi,grep, and ctags.
And a bonus - it integrates with your favorite *nix editor.
Yes, credit should be given where and who it is due.
They simply sit in front of their pre-configured machines at home and use the thing. The other types of users are the ones that usually end up doing clean installs of their operating system, those are the ones that like to tinker with their systems. If you know enough to be dangerous, you will be doing this on a regular basis. If you know what kind of software poses a risk to your computer, then you will be able to tinker with your computer for many years without the need for a re-install, providing you are using a modern operating system.
I'm going to have to say you're wrong. I've got a couple of cousins, who among normal users, browse and MSN chat. But they also download game demos, and download stuff off kazaa(like movies, games, etc).
My 'lil cousins don't 'tinker' with their system, but the fact they use Kazaa opens their computer to a whole can of viruses, as it's not one central public server that hosts files but assholes who share viruses that look like Grandtheftauto3.exe and what not.
Given that there is a problem with such a system, how about shipping all of the votes off to a secret black box designed and built by a company in the Netherlands, which phones up a central computer and tells us who won the election?
Isn't this the same as the US Military telling us Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, using their own little pawns(i.e. *high* level UN inspectors) and their own troops they allegdly found bunkers full of chemical weapons.
Yet, where is the public investigating the truth of these claims through *independent* scientists and researchers not being funded directly by US gov't?
The media tells us through our TV that they found instruction booklets and bomb-making equipment, and there must be terrorist cells in iraq...
But again, where are the independant public investigators to authenticate such claims?
Rather, US military, the media, and associated goons in the govt keep REAL FACTS bolted down. You may think I'm putting on my tinfoil hat, but regardless of the consipiracy, there MUST be some public body(not some so-called "international" union) to check claims and facts mentioned by the above parties, only then can we really know why the US never disclosed info on the black boxes on planes crashed on 9/11 and whether there is really WMOD in Iraq.
Sigh. We live in a fucked up world. I only wish people applied the same logic of open-sourcing the voting system to everything else any govt says.
If you run a multi-threaded/multi-process app, then each input must be associated with time.
So suddenly your inputs, (a,b,c,d) become (a @t-a, b @t-b, c@t-c, d@t-d). Of course no one can test for all values of t-n, that would be infeasible. So you gotta test causal effects.
The result: a crash that happens only sometimes, at random, even given the exact same starting conditions.
:)
Yeah, I have the same problem who those f*cking multithreaded programs. You see, my software only crashes everyday of the week except on Thursdays. Why? Go figure.
And just when you thought your program was running, like on Thursday just before you leave for the weekend...when you come on Monday morning all the testers scream, "`tis not working!!!".
Ahhh fuck.
At my full-time job, I'd occasionally fire up a game of Starcraft and spend about 45 mins or so (part of it during lunch break) playing it.
Pick-up style games like starcraft, quake3, etc. are easy to get into and satisfy you for 30 minutes, and then it's easy to stop playing(except if all you co-workers start playing). You find a server, frag some f*cking assholes with no chatting, and then stop. They shouldn't have an impact on productivity.
Long drenched games OTOH, like Dues Ex and FFX make you want to play "just a little bit more" and keep you potentially hooked longer with the involved story lines and mesmerizing action. These games can have an impact on your productivity...because they cloud what is reality and what is not reality.
If their ping times are comparable to yours, those brats are in your time zone. And in my case, they are.
Heck, you can't expect to have good ping times if you live in New York and play on a Seattle server.
"Lamers will always want to install hacks that allow them to cheat their rear ends off and pretend to be l33t."
This is the fucking thing I hate about cheaters. Play honestly, holding your honour -- losing or winning. I mean, isn't the thrill of doing battle satisfying...especially when you lose -- then come back and try hard to win or get close to winning.
Everyone plays to win -- but few play for the thrill of fighting. Some players are really good, but have no sportsmanship(i.e. they are too snobby). This is no good either. Hell, if you're team was winning by a land-slide, isn't it more fun to switch to the other side and kick the was-winning team's ass?
#1 rule to avoid fucking lamers and cheaters: Play when the 12-year olds have eaten their milk & cookies and have gone to sleep(i.e. post 11pm).