If you're careful, no one has to find the body in your lifetime.
That law is disproportionally stupid if you ask me - if you can get into jail and get life when someone passes you AIDS, you are probably smart enough to go all the way and kill the bastard.
I'm not sure if what he needs is just a simple "man ln" ???!?. In linux, you keep both files (for instance mysuperlib.so.2.3 and mysuperlib.so.2.4) and make a symbolic link (with ln -s) called the same but without the versioning (mysuperlib.so).
Then, you install the program to use the particular version it has to use (it will most probably do itself by the standard distro procedure, or./configure, make, make install).
- no phone - wifi is an add-on - expensive (especially considering the two above) - the cool environment (pdaXrom) is not the standard. PITA for developers like me.
So... I have to shell out over $1k to get it with wi-fi, plus carry my cell phone.
I've been stolen my PDA once (that's why I need one now). It was hard to swallow, and it didn't cost me half $1k... I have a problem with carrying so much value in my pocket.
A friend has it. It's great, but I don't want to spend more than $300 this time. Still looking for my next PDA...
But you're not helping anyone other than the advertisers. The adbar is run in test mode: the developer doesn't make a dime, and google doesn't make a dime.
Google does make a dime. They get payed for every click those ads get.
Chess was widely taught in schools in the ex-USSR and now in Iceland too. Both to males and females. Still, males clearly outnumber females.
I have to say most of the people I know who can actually enjoy chess are males. Most females I know don't like it. It's a fact.
I'm a decently rated chess player and dude... not only females are not discriminated. They're worshipped. Females who do decently are considered an example and get higher promotion for their ranks than males.
It's clear that chess doesn't appeal to women. Possibly because they're not very good at it, that's just a conjecture, but they obviously don't like it as much as males in the average.
You've hit the nail on the head. Why on earth would you make a statement about how "disappointing" it is that Xeon may be better in some ways? Why is it disappointing to have a CHOICE?
That's right. You'd only say it's "dissappointing" if you're talking to a supposedly pro-AMD audience and you're trying to sell some pro-Intel FUD , because as mentioned before, those processors don't run at the same speed, and there is a huge price difference so you're comparing a high-end chip to a medium-end chip.
Because it was unique. It was a 3d-platformer action arcade. From those you mention, Gex is the only one I consider close, but not in playability. Pandemonium was released Nov 1996 which is one month after Mario 64 and I'd say it was more of a 2.5D game a-la-Klonoa than a real 3D game. The cameras in those games were also awful, including the first Tomb Raiders (besides being absolutely boring).
Parent didn't claim "first 3d platformer" but "the game to popularize 3d platformers" which is quite true.
This game is rated M: mature.
Johny may also want a bike. Why not stealing it?
Disclaimer: copyright infringement is not burglary - the point is breaking the law to get whatever you want.
Johny may also want to f**k Sue, but for some reason he can't (hint: Sue doesn't agree). The course of action here is rape. Anything goes, right?.
Terra belongs to Telefónica (biggest telecom in Spain, coming from a national monopoly). In year 2000 the CEO was Villalonga (close friends with ex-PM Aznar) whose strategy was expanding through the Americas, thus buying Lycos made sense. Villalonga was expelled by political pressure, since in Spain, american practices like stock options are considered bribery and corruption.
The new CEO (who has devalued the company substantially) had a completely different approach and Lycos no longer makes sense in the company.
First thing you should consider is working less hours. Yes that may not be easy (switching jobs, or quit working overtime - they don't appreciate it anyway), but after 9 hours in front of a computer, going back home to sit again in front of another computer isn't good for your health. You should consider exercise instead, so you would get healthier and that will give you longer concentration capabilities and attention span, then dedicate your projects some hours in the weekend.
You must also sleep well, and quit caffeine completely. From your nick I infer you're into caffeine and that simply shortens your productive hours.
In short: try to keep fit and quit consuming caffeine. 12 hours a day in front of your computer are bad for you. Extra weight and back problems affect your programming performance negatively. Trust me.
It's all about feasibility. Adventures without plot are almost by definition boring, and if they have a plot, playing in 5 minute episodes will let you barely get into the game. It sucks to have to leave the game when you're barely into it - kills your game "productivity".
I'm not saying some genres are "forbidden" for busy people (like me - that's why I'm reading this now) but you should leave some genres for when you have the time. It's like no one is banning me from trying to get a third degree in my measly hours of spare time - it's not I wouldn't like it, it's just I realize that's a ticket for frustration. I would waste my time until I finally give up.
By the way I said lower levels are low enough "for many games" not for most games.
Again, trial and error is fine with moderation and in adequate genres (no magical recipe for all games here). Not trial or error for the sake of it - just reasonable leveling so you actually notice you're getting better at it.
I think you just felt like disagreeing with me. Not a thing you stated contradicts what I wrote. No bad feelings, huh?
For the record I'm a 27 soon 28 CS and EE who's been quite busy studying and now working. The point was there are genres NOT MEANT to be played in 30 minute intervals. Try clearing a 1000-hour RPG in 30 minute interval. Multiply that with your community college math and you get 2000 sessions or way over 5 years if you play daily. You wouldn't even remember the beginning of the game.
I've experienced this situation for years and the conclusion is you shouldn't play those genres during busy periods or you'll get your ass fired/failed (which you probably know already) or very frustrated.
Since you've obviously read just two parragraphs (and you're not the only one) my guess is your attention span is way too short. Stick to tic-tac-toe.
This guy has preconceived some game in his mind. What he's saying makes little sense to me.
If you're so busy you can't dedicate one daily hour to a game, you shouldn't even try playing adventures. Instead of playing stupidly simple games, one would rather go to a web design company sitemap and start pointing and clicking while watching the multimedia. The whole point of adventure games is the challenge.
I've been quite busy myself for some years now and I only play adventures when I'm on vacation. Best games for busy people are multiplayer games with short rounds. I don't really need the latest and greatest. There are many oldies that never get really old. Tekken 3 for instance allows for several rounds in 30 minutes. SNES Mario Kart, or N64 Diddy Kong Racing in multiplayer mode are also great options if you have someone around. You can also look for adversaries online: Bomberman Online for DC is just great, so is soldat for PC (give it a download). Crazy Taxi or Jet Set Radio allow for short sessions. Short deadmatches of your FPS of choice are also very adequate.
This guy probably doesn't know what he's talking about by experience. I don't need a stupidly simple adventure game babysitting me to the end. If you want that, just try the lowest difficulty level and for many games you're set.
Trial and error is just fine. R-type and Ikaruga come to mind. There should be enough save points so you don't have to repeat the same level a ridiculous number of times. In other words: arcades so easy you don't even need to retry are silly (this only applies to arcades).
I agree in a couple of things, though: being lost is not fun (busy or not) and stupid long animations you need to see must die. Busy or not, I don't like wasting my time watching long animations. Most Final Fantasies are excessive, but FF X is just unbearable. Games are not movies, and Square sucks at making movies anyway. Let me play. Shenmues are much better in this respect. They don't bore the shit out of you every minute with a long animation: animations are short, to the point, instructive and often interactive. It also takes you notes so you can easily retake the game after long breaks.
But Seagate is not the Kia of the HDD world, but rather the BMW. Also, warranties in HDDs usually mean replacement, and people make use of them when they have the opportunity.
Making parallels like that is often oversimplifying.
If I ever make consumer oriented Open Source software, I intend to sell it on my webpage, and not provide it for free download. I will tell them that if they can't afford the download, they should get a copy from their friends. I will provide source with the download. If someone wants to grab my source and try to compete with me in selling it under a different name, they're welcome to try, but I'm fairly confident that I can continue to add value to this software that I originally wrote better than anybody else, and they will eventually decide to rejoin my project anyway.
Please try that and come back. That model is doomed. You're basically telling people to open their P2P application of choice by telling them it's legal to copy it from their friends, but they're just not going to get it directly from your site.
That was pointed out by the author. Serious projects like those flagships of OSS are or were maintained by big corporations. Niche software wouldn't ever get that kind of support, but may still very necessary (medical software, for instance) and extremely complex and expensive to maintain.
The model itself is not scalable to the vast majority of the development going on in the world, and you're trading your freedom - you depend on those large corporations to continue funding these projects.
Not directed to you, but I'm sick of reading people defending the tech-support model and the customization model as Universal. Not everybody is developing CRMs or Linux distros. Most software just CAN'T be marketed like that. Take for instance professional audio or video editing software; you're not maintaining that by putting some google adwords in your page! It's software for a very small minority of professionals who are going to make a lot of money out of it and thus can justify paying for it.
...but where are the plug-ins that work so well and are so available for the browsers I use?
I've run into bugs so many times now I'm not sure I want to try again anytime soon.
Do you have any links?
(I use Firefox on various OSs and sometimes Konqueror, Galeon, or IE especially for testing - good IE support is crucial is your clients are in the average Joe demographic).
- Sites intending to gather real information about their visitors, and their feedback.
- Sites with non-spiderable generated server-side response. This includes the common case when they have archives and databases the user should be able to browse, and slashdot is not mirroring it all.
Which is basically when google cache doesn't work so well.
Slashdot Mirror
If you're careful, no one has to find the body in your lifetime.
That law is disproportionally stupid if you ask me - if you can get into jail and get life when someone passes you AIDS, you are probably smart enough to go all the way and kill the bastard.
I'm not sure if what he needs is just a simple "man ln" ???!?. In linux, you keep both files (for instance mysuperlib.so.2.3 and mysuperlib.so.2.4) and make a symbolic link (with ln -s) called the same but without the versioning (mysuperlib.so).
./configure, make, make install).
Then, you install the program to use the particular version it has to use (it will most probably do itself by the standard distro procedure, or
Easy as pie.
- no phone
- wifi is an add-on
- expensive (especially considering the two above)
- the cool environment (pdaXrom) is not the standard. PITA for developers like me.
So... I have to shell out over $1k to get it with wi-fi, plus carry my cell phone.
I've been stolen my PDA once (that's why I need one now). It was hard to swallow, and it didn't cost me half $1k... I have a problem with carrying so much value in my pocket.
A friend has it. It's great, but I don't want to spend more than $300 this time. Still looking for my next PDA...
LOL then I must be the only one paying...
Google does make a dime. They get payed for every click those ads get.
...with Linux installed, it could defeat a newer, stronger machine several years ahead in tech. You must be right!
Chess was widely taught in schools in the ex-USSR and now in Iceland too. Both to males and females. Still, males clearly outnumber females.
I have to say most of the people I know who can actually enjoy chess are males. Most females I know don't like it. It's a fact.
I'm a decently rated chess player and dude... not only females are not discriminated. They're worshipped. Females who do decently are considered an example and get higher promotion for their ranks than males.
It's clear that chess doesn't appeal to women. Possibly because they're not very good at it, that's just a conjecture, but they obviously don't like it as much as males in the average.
94 is still a whole lot.
Nor parent nor sibling got this right. AMD's PR are not based on Intel's Xeons nor Pentium-4s, but a hypothetical Thunderbird.
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http://forums.ocfaq.com/archive/index.php/t-74.ht
That's right. You'd only say it's "dissappointing" if you're talking to a supposedly pro-AMD audience and you're trying to sell some pro-Intel FUD , because as mentioned before, those processors don't run at the same speed, and there is a huge price difference so you're comparing a high-end chip to a medium-end chip.
Because it was unique. It was a 3d-platformer action arcade. From those you mention, Gex is the only one I consider close, but not in playability. Pandemonium was released Nov 1996 which is one month after Mario 64 and I'd say it was more of a 2.5D game a-la-Klonoa than a real 3D game. The cameras in those games were also awful, including the first Tomb Raiders (besides being absolutely boring).
Parent didn't claim "first 3d platformer" but "the game to popularize 3d platformers" which is quite true.
Mario 64 is one of my favs ever.
I'd swear all the pages are .php
Am I missing something?
This game is rated M: mature. Johny may also want a bike. Why not stealing it? Disclaimer: copyright infringement is not burglary - the point is breaking the law to get whatever you want. Johny may also want to f**k Sue, but for some reason he can't (hint: Sue doesn't agree). The course of action here is rape. Anything goes, right?.
Terra belongs to Telefónica (biggest telecom in Spain, coming from a national monopoly). In year 2000 the CEO was Villalonga (close friends with ex-PM Aznar) whose strategy was expanding through the Americas, thus buying Lycos made sense. Villalonga was expelled by political pressure, since in Spain, american practices like stock options are considered bribery and corruption.
The new CEO (who has devalued the company substantially) had a completely different approach and Lycos no longer makes sense in the company.
First thing you should consider is working less hours. Yes that may not be easy (switching jobs, or quit working overtime - they don't appreciate it anyway), but after 9 hours in front of a computer, going back home to sit again in front of another computer isn't good for your health. You should consider exercise instead, so you would get healthier and that will give you longer concentration capabilities and attention span, then dedicate your projects some hours in the weekend.
You must also sleep well, and quit caffeine completely. From your nick I infer you're into caffeine and that simply shortens your productive hours.
In short: try to keep fit and quit consuming caffeine. 12 hours a day in front of your computer are bad for you. Extra weight and back problems affect your programming performance negatively. Trust me.
$10 a month for unlimited downloads. Too bad neither you or the EFF will set the price.
I think setting a fixed fee would be a bad idea. No incentive -> degraded quality -> socialism -> death of the industry.
I'd gladly pay $200 for the latest Ferrari.
It's all about feasibility. Adventures without plot are almost by definition boring, and if they have a plot, playing in 5 minute episodes will let you barely get into the game. It sucks to have to leave the game when you're barely into it - kills your game "productivity".
I'm not saying some genres are "forbidden" for busy people (like me - that's why I'm reading this now) but you should leave some genres for when you have the time. It's like no one is banning me from trying to get a third degree in my measly hours of spare time - it's not I wouldn't like it, it's just I realize that's a ticket for frustration. I would waste my time until I finally give up.
By the way I said lower levels are low enough "for many games" not for most games.
Again, trial and error is fine with moderation and in adequate genres (no magical recipe for all games here). Not trial or error for the sake of it - just reasonable leveling so you actually notice you're getting better at it.
I think you just felt like disagreeing with me. Not a thing you stated contradicts what I wrote. No bad feelings, huh?
For the record I'm a 27 soon 28 CS and EE who's been quite busy studying and now working. The point was there are genres NOT MEANT to be played in 30 minute intervals. Try clearing a 1000-hour RPG in 30 minute interval. Multiply that with your community college math and you get 2000 sessions or way over 5 years if you play daily. You wouldn't even remember the beginning of the game.
I've experienced this situation for years and the conclusion is you shouldn't play those genres during busy periods or you'll get your ass fired/failed (which you probably know already) or very frustrated.
Since you've obviously read just two parragraphs (and you're not the only one) my guess is your attention span is way too short. Stick to tic-tac-toe.
This guy has preconceived some game in his mind. What he's saying makes little sense to me.
If you're so busy you can't dedicate one daily hour to a game, you shouldn't even try playing adventures. Instead of playing stupidly simple games, one would rather go to a web design company sitemap and start pointing and clicking while watching the multimedia. The whole point of adventure games is the challenge.
I've been quite busy myself for some years now and I only play adventures when I'm on vacation. Best games for busy people are multiplayer games with short rounds. I don't really need the latest and greatest. There are many oldies that never get really old. Tekken 3 for instance allows for several rounds in 30 minutes. SNES Mario Kart, or N64 Diddy Kong Racing in multiplayer mode are also great options if you have someone around. You can also look for adversaries online: Bomberman Online for DC is just great, so is soldat for PC (give it a download). Crazy Taxi or Jet Set Radio allow for short sessions. Short deadmatches of your FPS of choice are also very adequate.
This guy probably doesn't know what he's talking about by experience. I don't need a stupidly simple adventure game babysitting me to the end. If you want that, just try the lowest difficulty level and for many games you're set.
Trial and error is just fine. R-type and Ikaruga come to mind. There should be enough save points so you don't have to repeat the same level a ridiculous number of times. In other words: arcades so easy you don't even need to retry are silly (this only applies to arcades).
I agree in a couple of things, though: being lost is not fun (busy or not) and stupid long animations you need to see must die. Busy or not, I don't like wasting my time watching long animations. Most Final Fantasies are excessive, but FF X is just unbearable. Games are not movies, and Square sucks at making movies anyway. Let me play. Shenmues are much better in this respect. They don't bore the shit out of you every minute with a long animation: animations are short, to the point, instructive and often interactive. It also takes you notes so you can easily retake the game after long breaks.
But Seagate is not the Kia of the HDD world, but rather the BMW. Also, warranties in HDDs usually mean replacement, and people make use of them when they have the opportunity.
Making parallels like that is often oversimplifying.
Please try that and come back. That model is doomed. You're basically telling people to open their P2P application of choice by telling them it's legal to copy it from their friends, but they're just not going to get it directly from your site.
That was pointed out by the author. Serious projects like those flagships of OSS are or were maintained by big corporations. Niche software wouldn't ever get that kind of support, but may still very necessary (medical software, for instance) and extremely complex and expensive to maintain.
The model itself is not scalable to the vast majority of the development going on in the world, and you're trading your freedom - you depend on those large corporations to continue funding these projects.
Not directed to you, but I'm sick of reading people defending the tech-support model and the customization model as Universal. Not everybody is developing CRMs or Linux distros. Most software just CAN'T be marketed like that. Take for instance professional audio or video editing software; you're not maintaining that by putting some google adwords in your page! It's software for a very small minority of professionals who are going to make a lot of money out of it and thus can justify paying for it.
...but where are the plug-ins that work so well and are so available for the browsers I use?
I've run into bugs so many times now I'm not sure I want to try again anytime soon.
Do you have any links?
(I use Firefox on various OSs and sometimes Konqueror, Galeon, or IE especially for testing - good IE support is crucial is your clients are in the average Joe demographic).
- Sites intending to gather real information about their visitors, and their feedback.
- Sites with non-spiderable generated server-side response. This includes the common case when they have archives and databases the user should be able to browse, and slashdot is not mirroring it all.
Which is basically when google cache doesn't work so well.
Because you don't want to optimize the number of logic gates in a digital circuit scheme.
This has nothing to do with that.