* Astonishing Legends - Basically the "Unsolved Mysteries" of podcasts, and it's amaz... er, astonishing! * The Eastern Border - Latvian Journalist's perspective on living in the baltic states in the soviet era * The Dangerous History Podcast - An anarchist/libertarian college history professor's take on various historical events.
I found out about Astonishing Legends when I was reading up on Tamam Shud, and one podcast led to the other, which led to the other...
Astonishing Legends is both great and pretty universal. I think everybody should listen to it. The other two are great too, but probably appeal to more specific audiences. I will say, though, that if you're not particularly libertarian (I'm not), you might still give Dangerous History a chance. It's very good about calling out all the actors in any given event on what they've done, without slipping into a mythological "this was the good guy, this was the bad guy" simplified narrative.
Google doesn't need our sympathy--Oracle needs our antipathy. The people behind Oracles side of the case are sociopaths attempting to do something that will set a precedent that is extremely negative for technological progress in American society. Once set, it could extend beyond the country as part of our continual series of copyright treaties, making Oracle responsible for doing serious damage to human society as a whole. They're monsters who should be locked up.
Nobody seriously should care whether Google has to pay a million or even a billion dollars to some company, but they should care about the dangerous precedent Oracle was trying to set.
In Silent Hill 2, the main character wanders through a forest into the town of Silent Hill. Once in Silent Hill, if you enter a certain building, you're greeted with the following:
Any maintained blacklist of any reasonable size is going to end up with false positives. It's one of those things you just have to accept. People notice and report it, the entry gets removed, and we move on.
If it's on a forum, chances are it's going to be some example code in response to a "what's wrong with this code?" or "how do I do such and such?" post, in which case I wouldn't worry. It's probably trivial code that the author doesn't care about, and intentionally shared under the assumption that it might be used elsewhere, regardless of whether there's any explicit permission, and even if there isn't clear legal permission, there might as well be. It might even be common sense enough that it isn't copyright-able.
Of course, if it's something particularly creative, it might be worth it to rewrite it, so you still don't technically have a license to use the code.
I haven't used any myself in quite a while, but there are alternative shells for windows that replace explorer (start menu et al) that are very unixy. I used to use LiteStep, which made it seem a lot like AfterStep. I even had a theme that made it seem kinda' WindowMaker-y (though it was a bit cheesy).
I'm not current, don't know what's "the best" these days, but it's a direction you might want to look in to, if you're employers will let you do it.
"Reinvented"? I'd think "invented" would be more like it. Doom *was* the genre for a while. Wolf3d came before it, and Catacomb 3d came before wolf3d, and Hovertank 3d came before that. I'm sure you can go through the annals of video game history and find things that are at least fps-like, but practically speaking, wolf3d may not have been absolutely the first game you could possibly describe as an fps, but it was the game that created the genre, with every subsequent game drawing their main elements from it.
Wolf3d was basically the template for the 2.5d fps.
Doom improved on it, making it *the* one uberpopular genre on the PC.
Quake evolved it into the 3d fps, and so on. If anything reinvented the genre, I'd say Quake. Or maybe Half-Life.
...and not straying far at all, Jane Jensen should have gotten a mention at well. She was the creater of the "Gabriel Knight" series, as well as doing work on other Sierra titles, such as King's Quest 6.
Honesting, ANY designer should be on the list over a "Director of Human Resources" or "Marketing Director" or many of the other titles of the people on the list, and Roberta Williams was hugely influential, and Jane Jensen has gotten tons of praise for her work with Gabriel Knight...
Why do so many linux programmers insist on such crazy naming conventions. Sabayon?
[...] The name is simple and describes perfectly what the program does. On the other hand, 90% of the linux applications
[...] I'm sure that the programmers think they've very clever by choosing a name that means something in some obscure language- or they just thing the name sounds cool- but that simple lack of meaningful names is detrimental.
Whatever you think about various program names is fine, but dude... Sabayon is a linux distro.
Linux distro's are usually referred to as [something] Linux. Redhat Linux. Slackware Linux. SuSE Linux. It's an arbitrary name attached to the word "Linux". The arbitrary name is used to distinguish one from the other. The "Linux" part is the functional part of the name. Give it a functional name, like say "OS"... OS Linux. Possibly arrogent, but a bit vague and redundant either way. Qwerty Linux, I think people know what it is and does. Whether the name rolls of the tongue or not is a different issue.
Your rant is entirely about application names, and has nothing to do with the name of the distro or the distro itself. You segue from the distro name before you can explain how it's an example. You're pretending this distro is an example of an entirely unrelated issue for no apparent reason...
License to own a compiler is a bit extreme, don't you think?
One of the items from the article included a medical product that killed five people due to an error written by an inexperienced programmer. In situations like this, yes, a license-to-program would be fantastic. The people who wrote the software for the Toyota Prius, that too. The guy who wrote "Finger"... maybe not.
Lord, it seems like slashdot'll post a story about John Romero and Linux Torvalds teaming up on a Linux toaster, and somebody will feel like chiming in "...is this really news for nerds? I mean, it's about toast!". But post an ORIGAMI CONVENTION on the FRONT PAGE and everybody's just like "Origami...? Cool!".
While a death threat is certainly a worse crime than an e-mail (or two, or three, or four-thousand), it's important to understand the morals of the entities involved.
The Spammers: Knowingly (and calmly, I would assume) do their thing. Their "thing" being taking advantage of (addmittedly ignorant or stupid) people for profit. Or in other words, they are doing something wrong, are aware of this, and are indifferent.
The Dude: Reacted out of frustration and anger. He was not (necessarily) in his right mind making these death threats, and though it could be a sham he put on to seem more sympathetic for his trial, he stated that he shouldn't have made the death threats because it was an overreaction.
The spammers are intentionally and knowingly doing something wrong, as where the guy just blew up. The potential consequences of their actions differ, but IMHO, until the spammers stop, they deserve no sympathy for anything that happens to thhem, and deserve no human rights what-so-ever, even if nobody else has a right to take advantage of that.
Well, just for the sake of proving you wrong, I'd like to remind you of Win32s. It was Win32 extensions for Windows 3.1 (or maybe just 3.11+ & WFW).
All I really remember about it was that I needed it to run Netscape or Mozilla or Trumpet Winsock or some silly internet-related thing around '94 or so.:) I don't think it was quite the same thing as being able to run regular Win32 apps...
Actually, I see MMDDYY as going little-to-big, since that's what the actual numbers going into the date will be ordered in. Months only have a range of 1-12. Days have a larger range of 1-31. Years have a very large range.
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* Astonishing Legends - Basically the "Unsolved Mysteries" of podcasts, and it's amaz... er, astonishing!
* The Eastern Border - Latvian Journalist's perspective on living in the baltic states in the soviet era
* The Dangerous History Podcast - An anarchist/libertarian college history professor's take on various historical events.
I found out about Astonishing Legends when I was reading up on Tamam Shud, and one podcast led to the other, which led to the other...
Astonishing Legends is both great and pretty universal. I think everybody should listen to it. The other two are great too, but probably appeal to more specific audiences. I will say, though, that if you're not particularly libertarian (I'm not), you might still give Dangerous History a chance. It's very good about calling out all the actors in any given event on what they've done, without slipping into a mythological "this was the good guy, this was the bad guy" simplified narrative.
...or just because he said his VP would be in charge of both foreign and domestic policy...
No, that's when you pull over and look at the Thomas Guide.
Google doesn't need our sympathy--Oracle needs our antipathy. The people behind Oracles side of the case are sociopaths attempting to do something that will set a precedent that is extremely negative for technological progress in American society. Once set, it could extend beyond the country as part of our continual series of copyright treaties, making Oracle responsible for doing serious damage to human society as a whole. They're monsters who should be locked up.
Nobody seriously should care whether Google has to pay a million or even a billion dollars to some company, but they should care about the dangerous precedent Oracle was trying to set.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I distinctly hear: "The beat goes steady like a firm cock..."
Exim uses gnutls on debian (and ubuntu, and probably other derivates).
In Silent Hill 2, the main character wanders through a forest into the town of Silent Hill. Once in Silent Hill, if you enter a certain building, you're greeted with the following:
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/56/258639-sh2_neelybar_hole_super.jpg
If you happen across a 404 on Battle.Net's wow forums, you're greeted with the following:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/d
And admin here proposed naming our lab computers with the following scheme:
lab[lab #][computer a-z]
So... that way the first one would be lab1a.
Any maintained blacklist of any reasonable size is going to end up with false positives. It's one of those things you just have to accept. People notice and report it, the entry gets removed, and we move on.
If it's on a forum, chances are it's going to be some example code in response to a "what's wrong with this code?" or "how do I do such and such?" post, in which case I wouldn't worry. It's probably trivial code that the author doesn't care about, and intentionally shared under the assumption that it might be used elsewhere, regardless of whether there's any explicit permission, and even if there isn't clear legal permission, there might as well be. It might even be common sense enough that it isn't copyright-able.
Of course, if it's something particularly creative, it might be worth it to rewrite it, so you still don't technically have a license to use the code.
And so he's sticking with xp, because he has no need for Vista.
I haven't used any myself in quite a while, but there are alternative shells for windows that replace explorer (start menu et al) that are very unixy. I used to use LiteStep, which made it seem a lot like AfterStep. I even had a theme that made it seem kinda' WindowMaker-y (though it was a bit cheesy). I'm not current, don't know what's "the best" these days, but it's a direction you might want to look in to, if you're employers will let you do it.
"Reinvented"? I'd think "invented" would be more like it. Doom *was* the genre for a while. Wolf3d came before it, and Catacomb 3d came before wolf3d, and Hovertank 3d came before that. I'm sure you can go through the annals of video game history and find things that are at least fps-like, but practically speaking, wolf3d may not have been absolutely the first game you could possibly describe as an fps, but it was the game that created the genre, with every subsequent game drawing their main elements from it.
Wolf3d was basically the template for the 2.5d fps.
Doom improved on it, making it *the* one uberpopular genre on the PC.
Quake evolved it into the 3d fps, and so on. If anything reinvented the genre, I'd say Quake. Or maybe Half-Life.
Honesting, ANY designer should be on the list over a "Director of Human Resources" or "Marketing Director" or many of the other titles of the people on the list, and Roberta Williams was hugely influential, and Jane Jensen has gotten tons of praise for her work with Gabriel Knight...
This was probably just some social experiment to see how many people would post "Netcraft confirms" references.
Why do so many linux programmers insist on such crazy naming conventions. Sabayon?
[...]
The name is simple and describes perfectly what the program does. On the other hand, 90% of the linux applications
[...]
I'm sure that the programmers think they've very clever by choosing a name that means something in some obscure language- or they just thing the name sounds cool- but that simple lack of meaningful names is detrimental.
Whatever you think about various program names is fine, but dude... Sabayon is a linux distro.
Linux distro's are usually referred to as [something] Linux. Redhat Linux. Slackware Linux. SuSE Linux. It's an arbitrary name attached to the word "Linux". The arbitrary name is used to distinguish one from the other. The "Linux" part is the functional part of the name. Give it a functional name, like say "OS"... OS Linux. Possibly arrogent, but a bit vague and redundant either way. Qwerty Linux, I think people know what it is and does. Whether the name rolls of the tongue or not is a different issue.
Your rant is entirely about application names, and has nothing to do with the name of the distro or the distro itself. You segue from the distro name before you can explain how it's an example. You're pretending this distro is an example of an entirely unrelated issue for no apparent reason...
Are they really saying that?
License to own a compiler is a bit extreme, don't you think?
One of the items from the article included a medical product that killed five people due to an error written by an inexperienced programmer. In situations like this, yes, a license-to-program would be fantastic. The people who wrote the software for the Toyota Prius, that too. The guy who wrote "Finger"... maybe not.
Lord, it seems like slashdot'll post a story about John Romero and Linux Torvalds teaming up on a Linux toaster, and somebody will feel like chiming in "...is this really news for nerds? I mean, it's about toast!". But post an ORIGAMI CONVENTION on the FRONT PAGE and everybody's just like "Origami...? Cool!".
Not really complaining, but it's kinda' weird.
He was thinking of MSAV that came with MS-DOS 6. MSAV is a licensed and re-branded version of CPAV (Central Point Anti-Virus).
While a death threat is certainly a worse crime than an e-mail (or two, or three, or four-thousand), it's important to understand the morals of the entities involved.
The Spammers: Knowingly (and calmly, I would assume) do their thing. Their "thing" being taking advantage of (addmittedly ignorant or stupid) people for profit. Or in other words, they are doing something wrong, are aware of this, and are indifferent.
The Dude: Reacted out of frustration and anger. He was not (necessarily) in his right mind making these death threats, and though it could be a sham he put on to seem more sympathetic for his trial, he stated that he shouldn't have made the death threats because it was an overreaction.
The spammers are intentionally and knowingly doing something wrong, as where the guy just blew up. The potential consequences of their actions differ, but IMHO, until the spammers stop, they deserve no sympathy for anything that happens to thhem, and deserve no human rights what-so-ever, even if nobody else has a right to take advantage of that.
Well, just for the sake of proving you wrong, I'd like to remind you of Win32s. It was Win32 extensions for Windows 3.1 (or maybe just 3.11+ & WFW).
:) I don't think it was quite the same thing as being able to run regular Win32 apps...
All I really remember about it was that I needed it to run Netscape or Mozilla or Trumpet Winsock or some silly internet-related thing around '94 or so.
Actually, I see MMDDYY as going little-to-big, since that's what the actual numbers going into the date will be ordered in. Months only have a range of 1-12. Days have a larger range of 1-31. Years have a very large range.
(like the fact that I just shot my sniper rifle at some counter-terrorist)
What did you shoot it with?