Man, this looks like we are seeing (yet another) Isaac Asimov's Book: The Robots of Dawn.
AFAIR, there was two robots that looked like humans, and one woman used one as a "boyfriend" (in the biblical sense). No one knew about that, except the guy who was inspecting the case. In the background, a lot of people in that planet (it was a "not so large" one, and a few humans lived there, with lots of robots working as servants) imagined that "that" could be happening in a big house, with a woman and a robot that looked like a human, and worried about the day where robots would replace humans for the more "carnal" things.
Also, I can remember a ST:TNG episode where Data meets Tasha "in the biblical sense".
So, what I mean by all that, is that some people will be worried about the idea of robots that look like humans, as they could "stole" the place of a husband or a wife.
Man, sometimes I *hate* living in Brazil. The original series (first season?) was truly amazing. I thought putting Genndy drawing was a big mistake (his lines didn't fit in the way the movies where made), but, for some very misterious destiny things, his drawings where perfectly on sync with the Star Wars universe. Even better: the stories where so impressive that someone should take that Lucas guy out of the direction of the next movie and put Genndy there!:)
Actually, if you check the GNOME-Announces list, you will see that every package was already updated to work with GNOME 2.6. They just want to double check everything.
Same here. I just love coding, I love seeing just a bunch of words making something funny on screen. I just HATE dealing with some code that I must maintain, code that wasn't write by me. They just do some very stupid things (and I mean really very stupid, like creating plugins and running over every symbol in the so to find them, or not using assert, or things like that).
Seeing all that every day really made me think if I really want to keep working on the IT area....
You are using it on Windows, right? I have Opera installed on my GNU/Linux box (I'm working on a project with some stupid CGI that has to work with HTMLs coded for IE) and that thing surely sucks more than a blackhole. I mean, the fonts are ugly, I don't have any anti-aliasing or option to turn it on, the tabs behave oddly, etc.
Last time I played with GNOME 2.5 (it was the release before this beta), GTK 2.3.3 felt a lot faster, running in the same machine with the latest GNOME 2.4 (ang GTK 2.2).
Shit, I really though there was something wrong there, but after 36 hours coding with MFC without sleep, things really get messy inside your brain.
But you really should read the book. The way psychohistory plays inside the history is very interesting. What would you do knowing all the big events in the humanity?
That reminds me the excellent "Fundation" series by Isaac Asimov. In that book, there was a man that created a new research line called "psico-history". That research allow him to say what would happen in the future by using statistics over a large group of people, and the predictions only worked on large groups, not on individuals. Someting like "a group will always work in some ways, but an individual will work randomly".
It seems that we are seeing the born of psico-history, using games.
We need a "Star Trek: Galaxy Quest", to show up all the jokes about the series! Something like "Nemesis IV: Paroudious" (or something like that), where Konami make a comic game about their famous game (at the time), "Nemesis" (AKA Gradius).
Something like that happened to a friend of mine. He was called by the IT department of my uni to configure apache on a Solaris box. Everything ready, he decided to kill apache the wrong way: "killall httpd".
Well, if you are a GNU/Linux user, you know that this command will kill every process that has the name "httpd". On Solaris, "killall" doesn't have a parameter. It just kill every process in the machine.
I remember he telling that every phone start ringing 2 seconds after he pressed Enter...
Well, I did something like that. I was working late on a project and, for some wicked destiny act, instead of type "vim file" I did "rm file". Never understood how I could do something that lame...
Because C pointers don't help with writing faster code, but their existence in the language inhibits a lot of optimizations.
C pointers are easy to understand if you understand the machine you are working in. If you don't (or don't care), then you can use a language that doesn't have pointers.
Also, optimizations are not a code problem. There are part of the project design. A well designed project will need no explicit code optimization, since the compiler will take care of it. And in my experience (I'm a coder for 16 years), compilers can do a better job optimizating your code than you.
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Man, this looks like we are seeing (yet another) Isaac Asimov's Book: The Robots of Dawn.
AFAIR, there was two robots that looked like humans, and one woman used one as a "boyfriend" (in the biblical sense). No one knew about that, except the guy who was inspecting the case. In the background, a lot of people in that planet (it was a "not so large" one, and a few humans lived there, with lots of robots working as servants) imagined that "that" could be happening in a big house, with a woman and a robot that looked like a human, and worried about the day where robots would replace humans for the more "carnal" things.
Also, I can remember a ST:TNG episode where Data meets Tasha "in the biblical sense".
So, what I mean by all that, is that some people will be worried about the idea of robots that look like humans, as they could "stole" the place of a husband or a wife.
This has to be one of the lamest attempts to cash in on the Bond franchise yet.
I bet you didn't saw "Die Another Day"...
Vi (as 6.2.x, at least) have code folding:
.vimrc:
/* add function {{{ */ /* }}} */
:help fold
Add in your
set foldmethod = marker
And, on your code, do comments like this:
void stuff(void)
{
weird_stuff();
}
use 'zc' to close the fold and 'zo' to open it. More info?
Login: yes
Password: i dont have one
password is incorrect
Login: yes
Password: incorrect
This isn't what MS Bob wanted to be?
Ok, let's try:
slashdot.org open ME
(ahn, oops?)
Man, sometimes I *hate* living in Brazil. The original series (first season?) was truly amazing. I thought putting Genndy drawing was a big mistake (his lines didn't fit in the way the movies where made), but, for some very misterious destiny things, his drawings where perfectly on sync with the Star Wars universe. Even better: the stories where so impressive that someone should take that Lucas guy out of the direction of the next movie and put Genndy there! :)
Actually, if you check the GNOME-Announces list, you will see that every package was already updated to work with GNOME 2.6. They just want to double check everything.
Same here. I just love coding, I love seeing just a bunch of words making something funny on screen. I just HATE dealing with some code that I must maintain, code that wasn't write by me. They just do some very stupid things (and I mean really very stupid, like creating plugins and running over every symbol in the so to find them, or not using assert, or things like that).
Seeing all that every day really made me think if I really want to keep working on the IT area....
You are using it on Windows, right? I have Opera installed on my GNU/Linux box (I'm working on a project with some stupid CGI that has to work with HTMLs coded for IE) and that thing surely sucks more than a blackhole. I mean, the fonts are ugly, I don't have any anti-aliasing or option to turn it on, the tabs behave oddly, etc.
Man, I surely miss working with Mozilla again...
You should not do everything as root.
(Yup, I bet my pants that there would be no root, just Goku).
Oh, great! What we just needed! Another name for Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox...
j/k
(I just hope my sarcasm isn't b0rked again...)
And Jabber
Last time I played with GNOME 2.5 (it was the release before this beta), GTK 2.3.3 felt a lot faster, running in the same machine with the latest GNOME 2.4 (ang GTK 2.2).
Shit, I really though there was something wrong there, but after 36 hours coding with MFC without sleep, things really get messy inside your brain.
But you really should read the book. The way psychohistory plays inside the history is very interesting. What would you do knowing all the big events in the humanity?
That reminds me the excellent "Fundation" series by Isaac Asimov. In that book, there was a man that created a new research line called "psico-history". That research allow him to say what would happen in the future by using statistics over a large group of people, and the predictions only worked on large groups, not on individuals. Someting like "a group will always work in some ways, but an individual will work randomly".
It seems that we are seeing the born of psico-history, using games.
Well, I, for one, welcome our new spyware-that-changes-xml-atributes overlords.
It is just me or almost every text between [] on Linus interview could be changed by some variation of the f word?
He argues that it is too easy to be a good sniper in a game like CS.
CS allows you to headshot someone with the knife. Everything is too easy on CS (that's one of the reasons why I don't like it)
Now, my friend, YOU HAVE THE ANSWER!
We need a "Star Trek: Galaxy Quest", to show up all the jokes about the series! Something like "Nemesis IV: Paroudious" (or something like that), where Konami make a comic game about their famous game (at the time), "Nemesis" (AKA Gradius).
What do you mean "new phenomenon"? This happens all the time in Slashdot. They are called Trolls.
Even better: use screen. It saved a lot of times when working remotely, doing stupid stuff on my local machine.
Something like that happened to a friend of mine. He was called by the IT department of my uni to configure apache on a Solaris box. Everything ready, he decided to kill apache the wrong way: "killall httpd".
Well, if you are a GNU/Linux user, you know that this command will kill every process that has the name "httpd". On Solaris, "killall" doesn't have a parameter. It just kill every process in the machine.
I remember he telling that every phone start ringing 2 seconds after he pressed Enter...
Well, I did something like that. I was working late on a project and, for some wicked destiny act, instead of type "vim file" I did "rm file". Never understood how I could do something that lame...
Also, optimizations are not a code problem. There are part of the project design. A well designed project will need no explicit code optimization, since the compiler will take care of it. And in my experience (I'm a coder for 16 years), compilers can do a better job optimizating your code than you.