If you played, you'd understand the skill going into it.
It's like the manager who can't possibly understand how hard it can be to add search functionality to the program... I mean, all you have to do is add that button that says "Search", right?
I propose the new nomenclature of a "Jeremy" as an SI unit, which is equivalent to the amount of porn viewed by the average 15 year old, broadband connected male per week. That'll put the bits into perspective;)
Given that, what was this golf thing, something like 15-20 Jeremys?
And that would be a bet I'd take with 1000 to 1 odds any day of the week. You bet a dollar, I'd pay you $1000 if you're right.
The VAST majority of offices have no TV service whatsoever. They do have Internet as a cost of doing business, though. Major golf event that happens during the business day? You bet your bottom dollar that the C?O and most VP's are going to be watching a live stream of it.
Amazing? The publishers just looked and said "Oohh, pretty!". They don't know the games. Independent developers who do it the right way have a harder time because it actually does take a lot of work and time to get good artwork in a game, even a simple 2.5D adventure software based game.
This should be modded "Insightful", not "Funny". Even if he did make some clever jokes, he's right. We'd all go play the game on a lark to see what we could find if it were free. The fact that the guy is charging for it when someone else did all the heavy graphic and design lifting is what's causing the furor here.
You don't have to distribute the source on the web though. You aren't in violation of the GPL until you refuse to provide sources, or don't respond to such requests. How you provide them is up to you, as long as they're machine-readable.
I'm surprised anything makes sense to you... seriously. I mean, you misspelled 7 words in a 31 word line, not to mention the atrocious grammar. Just FYI, "usualy", "sence", "arn't", "normaly", "encompasing", "posiable", "writen" are only somewhat close to English words.
The GPL is not that confusing... it says if you make changes and distribute the software, you have to make the source available. And that's about it. Period, end of story. How is that harder than commercial licenses which require you to do X if you do A, Y if you do B, but WQ and Z if you do C and D. Commercial licenses are a bitch, especially when you start having multiple different libraries that are all licensed differently.
If the speed limit is 65, that's usually the SLOWEST that traffic is going. I really don't feel like getting rear-ended because I'm being an unpredictably slow driver, so I keep up with traffic.
I know it's legal for me to go slower, but damn it it's not stupid as hell to do so. Like my father in law says... "You'd be right. You'd be dead right."
"inconsiderate" is only if you fail to consider other people. He considered other people... he just failed to make allowances for them driving like jackasses. There is a difference between someone signaling they want over and me making room (which I always do), and someone racing to the end of the lane that had 5 signs warning that it's ending, all the other cars get over, and then they try to get over (which I generally don't let them). It's like talking in a movie theater... if you ignore it, everyone starts thinking that they should.
Depends on what the limit is. If the limit's 45, yeah, I'll agree with you. But if the speed limit is 65+, you'll use a lot more gas with the window open, not to mention it being very noisy.
BTW, I drive a 2004 Corolla, and I get over the rated mileage, even with A/C on. I just turn it off when needing to accelerate hard and use the brakes as little as possible, so I don't have to use the gas much more than necessary.
Really? Here in Colorado, it's usually an Audi, a Lexus or a Saab that's being a douchebag speeding, whipping in and out of traffic, passing on the right after the lane ends, and generally being a self-centered ass. The immigrants drive slow, and generally stay to the right. It's annoying, but not nearly as dangerous as the yuppie twats trying to get somewhere fast because they think they're more important than everyone else.
If you want to upgrade the rest of the system, but leave some packages the same, there's the concept of pinning. There's very little reason to do so, but it's available.
The best part of Linux distros is that all your software is kept up-to-date without having to continually have each individual application check itself or have to go around personally checking for new versions of the programs that you use. Why would you NOT want that, except possibly for very specific cases like a version of the JVM that has a certain broken behavior your program depends on? There's no other good reason I can think of.
You don't get upgrades. You get security patches that sometimes don't hose your apps. With Linux, you get free upgrades AND updates supported to exactly the same degree that your Windows updates are supported (ie, not at all), and the base cost of the system is free. And the per-incident cost is the same through his company. I'd think that Linux looks like a much better deal.
So let the firm make the pictures and hang them. There are lots of printers out there. It's still up to them to decide what they want... no outside firm can do that. Slashdot has lots of... eccentric... geeks that have lots of neat ideas. I'd guess that he's probably not looking to Slashdot for a finished product... just inspiration.
But hey, who am I to rain on the "Asking slashdot for anything is stupid" parade
The Internet features are great if you travel for a living. I don't have to hunt down an open wifi (or even worse, pay for one). I just connect to my phone and I'm able to get my emails sent and received, get everything done, no matter where I am, as long as I have cell service.
Don't forget that with raytracing things like collision detection are "free". That opens up a lot of other things that no longer require a loop through everything to see if your gunshot is actually hitting something.
Raytracing has a lot of advantages. It's main disadvantage is that there's a lot of specific acceleration hardware out there that's tuned to work on a competing algorithm, and it's not really a transferable operation.
There is a type of amplifier that uses a separate unloaded wire for its feedback and makes sure that the voltage across the speaker terminals is undistorted even when using a long run of cheap cable. It costs pennies to make this modification to an amplifier but the company that invented this is not very successful selling them. Apparently people WANT to pay a lot of money for their cables. It makes them feel good. Got any info on this nameless company? I feel that they fail more at advertising than at technology, because I'd be quite interested in buying it if I knew about it.
I agree. I fixed a macro at work that would take geometrically longer to run the larger the data set. Turns out it was searching for the next row to match from the top of the worksheet every single time, rather than simply starting again where it left off. Changed a 10,000 line spreadsheet process from 20 minutes to about 5 seconds.
Keep at it. Eventually you'll get to where you have one computer that can boot into Windows if you absolutely have to go to that LAN party, and that's it;)
At least, that's where I am. And I have 6 machines.
All that means is that you haven't properly applied your logical and critical thinking skills to your beliefs. Having a default position unsupported by ANY evidence of any kind (no, an old storybook is not evidence) is vehemently anti-logical.
Feel free to keep believing in God. Don't pretend that it's logical.
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If you played, you'd understand the skill going into it.
It's like the manager who can't possibly understand how hard it can be to add search functionality to the program... I mean, all you have to do is add that button that says "Search", right?
I propose the new nomenclature of a "Jeremy" as an SI unit, which is equivalent to the amount of porn viewed by the average 15 year old, broadband connected male per week. That'll put the bits into perspective ;)
Given that, what was this golf thing, something like 15-20 Jeremys?
And that would be a bet I'd take with 1000 to 1 odds any day of the week. You bet a dollar, I'd pay you $1000 if you're right.
The VAST majority of offices have no TV service whatsoever. They do have Internet as a cost of doing business, though. Major golf event that happens during the business day? You bet your bottom dollar that the C?O and most VP's are going to be watching a live stream of it.
Actually, he first juvenile put to death in the New World was sentenced to that fate specifically because he fucked a turkey.
;)
Just, you know, so you know. It's taking the thread further off-topic, but still interesting
Amazing? The publishers just looked and said "Oohh, pretty!". They don't know the games. Independent developers who do it the right way have a harder time because it actually does take a lot of work and time to get good artwork in a game, even a simple 2.5D adventure software based game.
This should be modded "Insightful", not "Funny". Even if he did make some clever jokes, he's right. We'd all go play the game on a lark to see what we could find if it were free. The fact that the guy is charging for it when someone else did all the heavy graphic and design lifting is what's causing the furor here.
You don't have to distribute the source on the web though. You aren't in violation of the GPL until you refuse to provide sources, or don't respond to such requests. How you provide them is up to you, as long as they're machine-readable.
I'm surprised anything makes sense to you... seriously. I mean, you misspelled 7 words in a 31 word line, not to mention the atrocious grammar. Just FYI, "usualy", "sence", "arn't", "normaly", "encompasing", "posiable", "writen" are only somewhat close to English words.
The GPL is not that confusing... it says if you make changes and distribute the software, you have to make the source available. And that's about it. Period, end of story. How is that harder than commercial licenses which require you to do X if you do A, Y if you do B, but WQ and Z if you do C and D. Commercial licenses are a bitch, especially when you start having multiple different libraries that are all licensed differently.
Twice. They were down twice a couple weeks ago, not just the one time.
No. It'll go from "awful" to "better than Firefox 2.0". It's just a slight change with how you interact with it.
If the speed limit is 65, that's usually the SLOWEST that traffic is going. I really don't feel like getting rear-ended because I'm being an unpredictably slow driver, so I keep up with traffic.
I know it's legal for me to go slower, but damn it it's not stupid as hell to do so. Like my father in law says... "You'd be right. You'd be dead right."
"inconsiderate" is only if you fail to consider other people. He considered other people... he just failed to make allowances for them driving like jackasses. There is a difference between someone signaling they want over and me making room (which I always do), and someone racing to the end of the lane that had 5 signs warning that it's ending, all the other cars get over, and then they try to get over (which I generally don't let them). It's like talking in a movie theater... if you ignore it, everyone starts thinking that they should.
Depends on what the limit is. If the limit's 45, yeah, I'll agree with you. But if the speed limit is 65+, you'll use a lot more gas with the window open, not to mention it being very noisy.
BTW, I drive a 2004 Corolla, and I get over the rated mileage, even with A/C on. I just turn it off when needing to accelerate hard and use the brakes as little as possible, so I don't have to use the gas much more than necessary.
Really? Here in Colorado, it's usually an Audi, a Lexus or a Saab that's being a douchebag speeding, whipping in and out of traffic, passing on the right after the lane ends, and generally being a self-centered ass. The immigrants drive slow, and generally stay to the right. It's annoying, but not nearly as dangerous as the yuppie twats trying to get somewhere fast because they think they're more important than everyone else.
If you want to upgrade the rest of the system, but leave some packages the same, there's the concept of pinning. There's very little reason to do so, but it's available.
The best part of Linux distros is that all your software is kept up-to-date without having to continually have each individual application check itself or have to go around personally checking for new versions of the programs that you use. Why would you NOT want that, except possibly for very specific cases like a version of the JVM that has a certain broken behavior your program depends on? There's no other good reason I can think of.
You don't get upgrades. You get security patches that sometimes don't hose your apps. With Linux, you get free upgrades AND updates supported to exactly the same degree that your Windows updates are supported (ie, not at all), and the base cost of the system is free. And the per-incident cost is the same through his company. I'd think that Linux looks like a much better deal.
So let the firm make the pictures and hang them. There are lots of printers out there. It's still up to them to decide what they want... no outside firm can do that. Slashdot has lots of... eccentric... geeks that have lots of neat ideas. I'd guess that he's probably not looking to Slashdot for a finished product... just inspiration.
But hey, who am I to rain on the "Asking slashdot for anything is stupid" parade
Man, and here I am thinking I was old just being born in 1980... ;)
The Internet features are great if you travel for a living. I don't have to hunt down an open wifi (or even worse, pay for one). I just connect to my phone and I'm able to get my emails sent and received, get everything done, no matter where I am, as long as I have cell service.
"Made up"? It's so refreshing seeing an optimist in this day and age ;)
Don't forget that with raytracing things like collision detection are "free". That opens up a lot of other things that no longer require a loop through everything to see if your gunshot is actually hitting something.
Raytracing has a lot of advantages. It's main disadvantage is that there's a lot of specific acceleration hardware out there that's tuned to work on a competing algorithm, and it's not really a transferable operation.
I agree. I fixed a macro at work that would take geometrically longer to run the larger the data set. Turns out it was searching for the next row to match from the top of the worksheet every single time, rather than simply starting again where it left off. Changed a 10,000 line spreadsheet process from 20 minutes to about 5 seconds.
Keep at it. Eventually you'll get to where you have one computer that can boot into Windows if you absolutely have to go to that LAN party, and that's it ;)
At least, that's where I am. And I have 6 machines.
All that means is that you haven't properly applied your logical and critical thinking skills to your beliefs. Having a default position unsupported by ANY evidence of any kind (no, an old storybook is not evidence) is vehemently anti-logical.
Feel free to keep believing in God. Don't pretend that it's logical.