Cool! That would be akin to my lifelong dream of an asteroid passing the planet and infecting all bears with some kind of mutation that would make them as big as godzilla and give them a taste for people filled buildings. Life is too boring without that kind of thing happening more often.
Do you remember
Rampage for the sega master system?
The releases of Debian go through the following stages:
Unstable
Testing
Stable
Dead
And for most users, at any one point in time the Unstable one offers the best tradeoff between features and stability. The current situation is that Sid is unstable, Sarge is testing and Woody is Stable.
Real Soon Now, they'll all shuffle along one, Woody will die and Sarge will become stable. I run sarge on my home and work machines and it's completely rock solid.
I completely agree. I worked in games for three years (almost to the day) before the hours killed me off. For all but the last 6 weeks I was absolutely happy with the situation. The secret is to get out as soon as you loose the sparkle.
Anybody working in games who is complaining about the hours needs to realise that that's the way the industry works, and it ain't changing anytime soon. If you actually notice the hours you're working, then you've been at it too long. There's some fresh young recruit just dying to have your job, so move on and let them have it.
It's obviously not intentionally designed to let the driver fall asleep, but it will make the car seem safer. If the driver feels safer, they'll allow greater risk in their driving.
"I've spent a lot of time helping my fellow students"
There was a previous discussion on this a long time ago on slashdot. One side of the argument was:
Never help fellow students
... the reasoning being that they need to figure out things work, and that you're not always going to be around to help them out, etc etc etc.
I do agree with these points, but I'm also glad I took the time to help other people, as explaining a programming concept to a non-techie is a skill you will need in the real world.
Is RAM usage actually a real issure for you? Fair play if it is (multi-user system perhaps?), but I'm typing this on a laptop with only 256Mb RAM, and a couple of firefoxes run just fine on KDE 3.2, as well as a Thunderbird and a terminal.
I use Firefox (0.9.3 on WinXP, and whatever version comes with debian sarge). It works great for every site apart from Slashdot, where all the text and graphics overlap.
I'm a coder in the UK, working in a very small company (12 people). We have a very small number of clients, all within a couple of hours' drive. We often need to visit them in person, which would be impossible with outsourced development.
If your customer base is global, then so will be your development team. If your customers are localised, then it's sensible to have your coders near to them.
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I know you're only kidding, but Debian Sarge is out there right now. I spent all of today in front of a sarge desktop ssh-ed into a sarge server.
Don't be put off by the 'testing' label. Debian Sarge is the most stable linux distro I've used (Woody didn't like my laptop much)
You can really see the lotus styling as well (if you look at the esprit from about the same time).
I'd never seen one before, despite going to a motor museum specificly to see it. Really made an otherwise dull day.
Just thought I'd share that with somebody!
Do you remember Rampage for the sega master system?
Heheh, made me laugh, but only because I suffered a year at the hands of CDE at university.
Sorry, got confused with what message was replying to what. On a new machine and seem to need to set up my /. display perferences again.
Yeah, that's what I mean. Perhaps I worded it vaguely :)
And for most users, at any one point in time the Unstable one offers the best tradeoff between features and stability. The current situation is that Sid is unstable, Sarge is testing and Woody is Stable.
Real Soon Now, they'll all shuffle along one, Woody will die and Sarge will become stable. I run sarge on my home and work machines and it's completely rock solid.
Anybody working in games who is complaining about the hours needs to realise that that's the way the industry works, and it ain't changing anytime soon. If you actually notice the hours you're working, then you've been at it too long. There's some fresh young recruit just dying to have your job, so move on and let them have it.
Remember, this is KDE, so you should spell it Krap
On this picture you can see what I'm sure is an 'Intel Inside' sticker on the bottom of some of the cabinets.
It's obviously not intentionally designed to let the driver fall asleep, but it will make the car seem safer. If the driver feels safer, they'll allow greater risk in their driving.
The amount of technology designed to let the car driver fall asleep is terrifying to those who actually have something to loose from an accident.
There was a previous discussion on this a long time ago on slashdot. One side of the argument was:
Never help fellow students
... the reasoning being that they need to figure out things work, and that you're not always going to be around to help them out, etc etc etc.
I do agree with these points, but I'm also glad I took the time to help other people, as explaining a programming concept to a non-techie is a skill you will need in the real world.
'top' says:
Thanks for the info.
Is this firefox's problem or slashdot's?
You spelt "EV4R11!!!1111!!1oneoneone" wrong ;)
It was such an anticlimax ;)
If your customer base is global, then so will be your development team. If your customers are localised, then it's sensible to have your coders near to them.
Isn't storing state from one game to the next a form of cheating? I always assumed the process should be stateless.
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Java has had multiple inheritance since the start (interfaces and the 'implements' keyword). You just can't multiply inherit instance variables.
I'm not saying that this proves anything, but it's worth keeping in mind as you read the article.