Re:I'll freely admit to it
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The Amiga Turns 25
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· Score: 3, Informative
They were good machines, but my A1200 was revolutionary (for me at least). Smaller than the A500, packing 2MB RAM standard and an internal hard drive. Since I could use the Power supply + monitor at my clients office, it was almost like a laptop for me. I used it to write the accounting system for a small business using HiSoft Basic, rendered my first 3D stuff on it, and even got on the net with SLIP, later PPP, and had my first experience with the web.
I thought at the time the web was unbearably slow with the speeds of the day being 14.4kbps, and Mosaic performing quite badly in only 2MB. These days I have 4GB RAM and 4Mbps downstream, and pages still seem to take forever to load.
I don't remember the (68000 based) Amiga ever being marketed as a 32-bit platform, nor was this touted by the numerous fanboys I knew (and was among) - perhaps the confusion came from later models (68020+) which were indeed 32-bits on both instruction and address buses.
Where I live, many government agencies such as Police and the Tax Department call from blocked numbers. Ignoring the obvious joke that you don't want to talk to these people anyway, the reality is you'll often get calls from numbers that aren't in your phonebook. My income certainly would suffer if I adopted your suggestion, ever job I've ever got in the last ten years would have resulted from saying "Hello?" to a stranger.
What he's saying is: tinyurls don't fly here because - mainly as a result of the moderation system completely failing - you've not much choice as to whose posts (and tinyurl goatse links) you see. Additionally, it's not necessary, since any URL can fit in a slashdot post, and you can even anchor them properly.
On twitter, you've a choice as to who you follow, and can reasonably expect tinyurl links will be useful and interesting.
Yes, I know about 'preview', and I don't care. Stop breaking the Web where it isn't necessary. Use tinyurls only when you must.
If you want him to debate on the point of whatever it is you link to, give him the courtesy of knowing what he's in for when he clicks the link.
You can get R/W support but only if you disable the journal on the HFS+ fs on MacOS. That's unless they've taken that away too in 10.6, but I routinely do this with HFS+ between 10.5 and Linux.
Fair enough. As my laptop and WiFi capable phone go from place to place, my (unspoofed) MAC address gets pissed all over the place. Much like the licence plate on my car does. This doesn't really bother me.
And it's just as sensible as spoofing your home address when ordering pizza that you ultimately want to eat.
Re:Blender 2.49 still very much alive
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Blender 2.49 Scripting
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· Score: 3, Insightful
So if you give me a script, I'll have to install whatever language binding you used, plus any libraries and modules for that language as well.
I see what you mean when a project is shared (for example included with Blender as an example project). I doubt this will be an issue for the majority of Blender users who have no intention at all of sharing their project files. Even if you decided to develop your own binding and language just for your own specific in-house task, as long as your work is proprietary it's not going to be any more of an issue than my private collection of shell scripts that so specific to my purposes they're essentially useless to anyone else.
There isn't one. That cartoon has constituted the majority of most peoples investigation into what Twitter is / does. He is yet to learn the concept of "following" feeds you find interesting, and the implicit default action of "not-following" feeds that don't interest you.
Smart idea that. Only subscribing to the stuff you're interested in. Wonder if it'll catch on.
Although not a perfect analogy, what if he signed documents for the execution using a big red crayon instead of a pen? Equivalent functionality by no means implies equivalent meaning.
You're certainly doing yourself a favour with "not a perfect analogy". If the President of the United States is using a big red crayon, why should it matter if the Utah A.G. does as well?
Conversely, I think the death penalty is a delicious ice-cream flavour. It doesn't matter, because that's not really what's being discussed. If you want to get capital punishment abolished, don't waste your time here.
Sorry. My interpretation was probably more due to dopiness on my part than your writing, though I'm glad I'm not the only one, and as politely as I can do so, I agree you 'should have known better'.
I guess my genuine belief that there really are people who would feel that way (especially here) and respond with a similar comment got in the way of considering you were being sarcastic.
An example of a relatively recent, and linux-specific command, is 'mdadm'. (for managing Linux Software RAID in case you weren't aware). All of its submodes are selected as the first argument. This is an example of a utility that was undoubtedly created by core Linux Developers, and would seem contradictory to your ideal.
I used to alternate between writing the in-house accounting system, and helping out in a fish-packing shed. The jokes you make about women who work in such places are entirely true.
The boss seemed to think my time in the shed would help familiarise me with fish species. That it did, but they couldn't understand how that knowledge was next to useless to me for the job. They also didn't understand how being the highest paid person in the shed on my first day wouldn't stir things up.
If you insist on clicking a button before proofreading your post, then make it the 'Preview' button. It behaves exactly as you seem to desire, with the option of completely abandoning your post at that stage if you wish.
I said that I realise it's annoying when you make a mistake, but that I believe this is outweighed by the need for commitment. If you want to debate with me, debate the point I make, or not at all.
The inability to edit / delete comments after posting is one of the few good things left about Slashdot, in my opinion.
Otherwise, people have the tendency to retroactively "not say something", and make one of their responders look like an over-reacting fool. Sure, I've fallen prey to exactly the same problem you've had there and had to suck up the shame and reply to myself on occasion, but I think this is far out-weighed by the need for commitment to one's expressions.
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I thought at the time the web was unbearably slow with the speeds of the day being 14.4kbps, and Mosaic performing quite badly in only 2MB. These days I have 4GB RAM and 4Mbps downstream, and pages still seem to take forever to load.
I don't remember the (68000 based) Amiga ever being marketed as a 32-bit platform, nor was this touted by the numerous fanboys I knew (and was among) - perhaps the confusion came from later models (68020+) which were indeed 32-bits on both instruction and address buses.
Where I live, many government agencies such as Police and the Tax Department call from blocked numbers. Ignoring the obvious joke that you don't want to talk to these people anyway, the reality is you'll often get calls from numbers that aren't in your phonebook. My income certainly would suffer if I adopted your suggestion, ever job I've ever got in the last ten years would have resulted from saying "Hello?" to a stranger.
Actually, MobileMe is an entirely different and thoroughly crappy and overpriced service from Apple.
On twitter, you've a choice as to who you follow, and can reasonably expect tinyurl links will be useful and interesting.
Yes, I know about 'preview', and I don't care. Stop breaking the Web where it isn't necessary. Use tinyurls only when you must.
If you want him to debate on the point of whatever it is you link to, give him the courtesy of knowing what he's in for when he clicks the link.
You can get R/W support but only if you disable the journal on the HFS+ fs on MacOS. That's unless they've taken that away too in 10.6, but I routinely do this with HFS+ between 10.5 and Linux.
That's what she said.
No, but my three-year-old AMD Athlon64 does, which would have been a better comparison.
"Verbing wierds language."
-Calvin and Hobbes.
Fair enough. As my laptop and WiFi capable phone go from place to place, my (unspoofed) MAC address gets pissed all over the place. Much like the licence plate on my car does. This doesn't really bother me.
And it's just as sensible as spoofing your home address when ordering pizza that you ultimately want to eat.
I see what you mean when a project is shared (for example included with Blender as an example project). I doubt this will be an issue for the majority of Blender users who have no intention at all of sharing their project files. Even if you decided to develop your own binding and language just for your own specific in-house task, as long as your work is proprietary it's not going to be any more of an issue than my private collection of shell scripts that so specific to my purposes they're essentially useless to anyone else.
Smart idea that. Only subscribing to the stuff you're interested in. Wonder if it'll catch on.
You're certainly doing yourself a favour with "not a perfect analogy". If the President of the United States is using a big red crayon, why should it matter if the Utah A.G. does as well?
Conversely, I think the death penalty is a delicious ice-cream flavour. It doesn't matter, because that's not really what's being discussed. If you want to get capital punishment abolished, don't waste your time here.
I guess my genuine belief that there really are people who would feel that way (especially here) and respond with a similar comment got in the way of considering you were being sarcastic.
So, basically it runs on everything except the ZX81 and the iPhone
An example of a relatively recent, and linux-specific command, is 'mdadm'. (for managing Linux Software RAID in case you weren't aware). All of its submodes are selected as the first argument. This is an example of a utility that was undoubtedly created by core Linux Developers, and would seem contradictory to your ideal.
You need to look into bash-completion. Tab-completion works for command line params too. Fairly well, anyway.
Yeah, I know. Must be new here.
The boss seemed to think my time in the shed would help familiarise me with fish species. That it did, but they couldn't understand how that knowledge was next to useless to me for the job. They also didn't understand how being the highest paid person in the shed on my first day wouldn't stir things up.
I love it when all the supported filesystems also work as well
Nothing to do with my point, and nothing you say changes it in any way. Think about it.
I said that I realise it's annoying when you make a mistake, but that I believe this is outweighed by the need for commitment. If you want to debate with me, debate the point I make, or not at all.
Otherwise, people have the tendency to retroactively "not say something", and make one of their responders look like an over-reacting fool. Sure, I've fallen prey to exactly the same problem you've had there and had to suck up the shame and reply to myself on occasion, but I think this is far out-weighed by the need for commitment to one's expressions.