LeGiun's stories are psychological/social, as opposed to outward/physical. For those who like action movies with lots of fighting and explosions (testosterone orgy), her stories are comparatively boring.
A common theme in her stories is the hero narrative: one person fights against all odds to change history. The internal struggles are often just as intense as the outward ones.
Many of us struggle internally with lots of difficult issues, like how to prevent the environmental devastation happening right now, or how to prevent radical extremists (and every society has them) from destroying all the good in the world. It's nice that LeGuin is around to help us realize we're not alone.
TotenKopf can just as easily be translated as "Deadhead". So get in the spirit and smoke a bowl just before watching the movie; you'll be happy you did!
Thanks, that does the trick. I didn't know about "tr"; I've been a unix user since 1988. The man page seems to suggest that it's a relatively new command. Useful one, too.
I probably wasn't clear enough, but I want to take the lines matched by grep and single out just the matching words (i.e., the one word on a line that matched).
Maybe sed has something like this? I've only used it for string replacement.
It's hard to find the "f" word inside another word, but when I grep through linux 2.4 looking for other words, I find quite a few hits on:
Matsushita (a hardware vendor, I guess) scrap
While I have your attention, does anyone happen to know how to isolate specific words from the lines that match? I wanted to come up with a matching wordlist without the surrounding words that "grep" produces.
#3: What the hell is "using!?" There's no such keyword in C++. To make base functions visible, first mark them as virtual in the base, then to call them, use the syntax BaseClass::function.
You're partially right. There is a "using" keyword, but it's used to bring symbols from a namespace into scope. At least, that's the only way I've ever seen it used before. And I've never seen anyone claim that what looks like method overloading is hiding symbols instead. I call BS on this "hiding" idea the guy mentions and will stand corrected if anyone can provide me with a reference saying I'm wrong.
I can think of cases where C is the right tool for the job (small memory embedded systems), and I can think of cases where Java/C# is (large scale enterprise software); but I don't see C++ as the right tool for either job.
I can, since I've been using C++ for the past ten years in industry. OO is extremely useful for large software projects split over multiple developers, so I'm not disagreeing with your idea that Java/C# are useful in this arena.
However, Java is not the right paradigm when you're writing computationally intensive programs (in my case, data mining software) for specific hardware. The Java philosophy says write once, run everywhere. I don't know about C#, but I'm guessing since it's aimed at enterprise solutions, it's not going to have Pixar Studios, weather forecasting labs, or anyone similar jumping onto the C# bandwagon.
C++ is great for large, computationally intensive programs. You have the benefits of OO for large developer teams, control over memory management and object creation/copying details, and access to the underlying hardware.
Tennis worked for me. I'm not the most coordinated person in the world, but the number of skills you have to master are relatively few. Get the racket back early, run if you want to go forward/backward, and skip, jumping-jack-fashion, to go sideways.
It's amazing how much harder you can hit the ball than your bigger teammates if you learn to leverage your whole body, rather than just your arms.
There's nothing like being able to school your peers, as video game hounds well know.
I have two kids with mild Asperger's, and it probably comes from my side of the family. Here are a couple of things I've learned:
* There are extroverts and introverts. Introverts gain energy from being alone; extroverts gain energy from talking with others. It's good to know both kinds of people, but don't forget what is good for your soul.
* The outdoors are a wonderful place. Endless miracles everywhere. Getting away from the modern world allows space for the quiet mind. The whole world slows down.
* Activities that don't require verbal communication, such as gardening, hiking, foraging, tracking, fishing, etc. are a blessing.
* Be happy with the special gifts you have; stop worrying about whether you measure up to everyone around you. It's wonderful to be different.
* There are plenty of quiet people; you just have to realize that these are the people you want to be around and seek them out.
* Be extra careful with intense relationships. Don't be careless about sex; being a parent is often very tough if caregiving is not part of your upbringing.
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So, that's a real brief primer on anonymity, and the fact that you have little or no anonymity. If you don't like the way the country's going, get out and vote in the next election.
And you would you recommend voting for? I don't remember any platforms mentioning the protection of privacy, especially if it shields all our supposed "terrorists" in hiding.
Myself, I'll assume that I'm too boring to be on anyone's hit list. Another advantage of being a computer scientist.:-)
I was watching a local news program (I live in Florida) on touchscreen voting about a month ago, where the issue of a paper trail was raised in debate.
One representative against the idea of a paper trail said that a paper trail wouldn't work because blind voters would have to ask for help on confirming their vote from the printout, which would violate their right to keep their voting choices private.
I truly am terrified that the accuracy of this election will be unverifiable. Did you know that Diebold has made huge contributions to the Republican party, and that Diebold operators have remote Administrator privileges on every voting machine out there? It's soooo easy to put two and two together, isn't it?
No. You can't. Statistics is a very rigorous mathematical process.
It is a rigorous tool, but I would claim that the problem is that it can be used selectively. The media's abuse of statistics is not always confusion. It is also a matter of deciding what statistic to compute, which is controlled by unconscious bias.
Nah, get a MSDN subscription (or just the DDK). Not
everyone that writes drivers works for Microsoft.
The device developers kit contains everything you
need to know.
Then MSDN must have gotten better in the last year or two. I have written a linux joystick driver that is now part of the 2.6 kernel, but 18 months ago I could not find enough information on ActiveX to port the driver to Windows XP. I'm still really keen on doing this. I need to know how to poll the joystick port and register up to four independent joystick devices.
If you think ActiveX actually shows you how to do this now, I'd appreciate a reply, but I doubt that they have improved their documentation since I'm assuming they have not improved their joystick interface.
http://gametz.com/?x&A=Games&attr=PC&availitem=G ra vis%20GrIP%20MultiPort
Just trying to help out those who might be looking for one.
When I first announced the drivers (a little over a year ago), they were much easier to find online. I hope the slashdot article encourages some people to make them available to retro-gamers. For SNES emulators, these gamepads are pretty ideal.
I have some to give away (the hub and four gamepads). They were bought unused from a reseller.
I'd really be interested in making binary RPMS available for the driver.
I'm hoping someone who knows how to write DirectX joystick drivers will port it to WinXP. Insert your favorite bash about sucky MSDN driver documentation here.
If anyone manages to help out in these ways, I'd be more than happy to mail you one.
Perhaps a legitimate question coming from those who have been into gaming on the PC for a long time.
Don't forget that there are people who are curious about gaming and want a way to find out what's there and how well it works without shelling out a considerable amount. If they like what they see after spending $15, then they can go ahead and shell out more for better stuff.
got one of these -- just the controllers, not the gamepads -- back in the day when I was looking for a good emulator controller. It looks like it has 8 buttons, but it actually only supports the old standard of 4 -- the extras are just "turbo" buttons.
Uh, then you didn't "have one of these things".
They've worked great for me. All buttons work fine, including the two on top for your index fingers. They're comfortable. And the whole point is that you don't have to pay $15 for EACH controller, which makes playing four-player games a bit more in some people's reach.
2.6.0 includes a driver I wrote for an older Gravis gamepad system called the "Grip Multiport". It lets up to 4 people play multiplayer games using SNES-style gamepads.
The multiport used to cost > $100; now you can pick up a hub and 4 gamepads on ebay for under $10.
If any of your officemates are over 30, they may enjoy going down memory lane with some head-to-head arcade action.
There is a cheap, multiplayer gamepad that allows up to 4 simultaneous players. I've used it with XMAME to play Gauntlet, etc. with friends. I've even got some extra hubs if you're interested. Installing the driver involves a quick download and cutting and pasting a few commands.
If that's really true, I have a device driver for you to port from linux to Windows that could make you semi-famous. It should be a snap to port; it makes straightforward calls to the linux joystick interface API.
anyone who reads this and wants to give it a try is welcome to it.
I've had at least one guy who's used the Windows API for more than ten years tell me that there is no good documentation for writing device drivers using Microsoft's DirectX, even to something as simple as the joystick port. It would be so cool for you to prove him wrong, and people would adore you from afar.:-)
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LeGiun's stories are psychological/social, as opposed to outward/physical. For those who like action movies with lots of fighting and explosions (testosterone orgy), her stories are comparatively boring.
A common theme in her stories is the hero narrative: one person fights against all odds to change history. The internal struggles are often just as intense as the outward ones.
Many of us struggle internally with lots of difficult issues, like how to prevent the environmental devastation happening right now, or how to prevent radical extremists (and every society has them) from destroying all the good in the world. It's nice that LeGuin is around to help us realize we're not alone.
TotenKopf can just as easily be translated as "Deadhead". So get in the spirit and smoke a bowl just before watching the movie; you'll be happy you did!
It might be more Matsushita drivers.
No, seriously.
Thanks, that does the trick. I didn't know about "tr"; I've been a unix user since 1988. The man page seems to suggest that it's a relatively new command. Useful one, too.
I probably wasn't clear enough, but I want to take the lines matched by grep and single out just the matching words (i.e., the one word on a line that matched).
Maybe sed has something like this? I've only used it for string replacement.
But I believe you still get back a whole line of text. I was hoping to single out just the matching word on a line.
It's hard to find the "f" word inside another word, but when I grep through linux 2.4 looking for other words, I find quite a few hits on:
Matsushita (a hardware vendor, I guess)
scrap
While I have your attention, does anyone happen to know how to isolate specific words from the lines that match? I wanted to come up with a matching wordlist without the surrounding words that "grep" produces.
You're partially right. There is a "using" keyword, but it's used to bring symbols from a namespace into scope. At least, that's the only way I've ever seen it used before. And I've never seen anyone claim that what looks like method overloading is hiding symbols instead. I call BS on this "hiding" idea the guy mentions and will stand corrected if anyone can provide me with a reference saying I'm wrong.
I can think of cases where C is the right tool for the job (small memory embedded systems), and I can think of cases where Java/C# is (large scale enterprise software); but I don't see C++ as the right tool for either job.
I can, since I've been using C++ for the past ten years in industry. OO is extremely useful for large software projects split over multiple developers, so I'm not disagreeing with your idea that Java/C# are useful in this arena.
However, Java is not the right paradigm when you're writing computationally intensive programs (in my case, data mining software) for specific hardware. The Java philosophy says write once, run everywhere. I don't know about C#, but I'm guessing since it's aimed at enterprise solutions, it's not going to have Pixar Studios, weather forecasting labs, or anyone similar jumping onto the C# bandwagon.
C++ is great for large, computationally intensive programs. You have the benefits of OO for large developer teams, control over memory management and object creation/copying details, and access to the underlying hardware.
Yes, but what if (like me) he doesn't know what the hell to say next?
What we really need is a "Get Laid HOWTO". Any chance of that getting added to the LDP?
Tennis worked for me. I'm not the most coordinated person in the world, but the number of skills you have to master are relatively few. Get the racket back early, run if you want to go forward/backward, and skip, jumping-jack-fashion, to go sideways.
It's amazing how much harder you can hit the ball than your bigger teammates if you learn to leverage your whole body, rather than just your arms.
There's nothing like being able to school your peers, as video game hounds well know.
I have two kids with mild Asperger's, and it probably comes from my side of the family. Here are a couple of things I've learned:
* There are extroverts and introverts. Introverts gain energy from being alone; extroverts gain energy from talking with others. It's good to know both kinds of people, but don't forget what is good for your soul.
* The outdoors are a wonderful place. Endless miracles everywhere. Getting away from the modern world allows space for the quiet mind. The whole world slows down.
* Activities that don't require verbal communication, such as gardening, hiking, foraging, tracking, fishing, etc. are a blessing.
* Be happy with the special gifts you have; stop worrying about whether you measure up to everyone around you. It's wonderful to be different.
* There are plenty of quiet people; you just have to realize that these are the people you want to be around and seek them out.
* Be extra careful with intense relationships. Don't be careless about sex; being a parent is often very tough if caregiving is not part of your upbringing.
So, that's a real brief primer on anonymity, and the fact that you have little or no anonymity. If you don't like the way the country's going, get out and vote in the next election.
And you would you recommend voting for? I don't remember any platforms mentioning the protection of privacy, especially if it shields all our supposed "terrorists" in hiding.
Myself, I'll assume that I'm too boring to be on anyone's hit list. Another advantage of being a computer scientist. :-)
I've been a linux user for years, and I had no idea that Autozone, Daimler-Chrysler, and BofA all used linux on a widespread basis.
I'll just bet PHB's are thinking more about Linux, thanks to all the SCO press.
I love irony.
I was watching a local news program (I live in Florida) on touchscreen voting about a month ago, where the issue of a paper trail was raised in debate.
One representative against the idea of a paper trail said that a paper trail wouldn't work because blind voters would have to ask for help on confirming their vote from the printout, which would violate their right to keep their voting choices private.
I truly am terrified that the accuracy of this election will be unverifiable. Did you know that Diebold has made huge contributions to the Republican party, and that Diebold operators have remote Administrator privileges on every voting machine out there? It's soooo easy to put two and two together, isn't it?
No. You can't. Statistics is a very rigorous mathematical process.
It is a rigorous tool, but I would claim that the problem is that it can be used selectively. The media's abuse of statistics is not always confusion. It is also a matter of deciding what statistic to compute, which is controlled by unconscious bias.
Nah, get a MSDN subscription (or just the DDK). Not everyone that writes drivers works for Microsoft. The device developers kit contains everything you need to know.
Then MSDN must have gotten better in the last year or two. I have written a linux joystick driver that is now part of the 2.6 kernel, but 18 months ago I could not find enough information on ActiveX to port the driver to Windows XP. I'm still really keen on doing this. I need to know how to poll the joystick port and register up to four independent joystick devices.
If you think ActiveX actually shows you how to do this now, I'd appreciate a reply, but I doubt that they have improved their documentation since I'm assuming they have not improved their joystick interface.
Watching an exploding lemon, caught endlessly in the throes of passionate destruction, well...it feels a little pornographic, doesn't it?
I'm not affiliated with the person selling this:
G ra vis%20GrIP%20MultiPort
http://gametz.com/?x&A=Games&attr=PC&availitem=
Just trying to help out those who might be looking for one.
When I first announced the drivers (a little over a year ago), they were much easier to find online. I hope the slashdot article encourages some people to make them available to retro-gamers. For SNES emulators, these gamepads are pretty ideal.
I have some to give away (the hub and four gamepads). They were bought unused from a reseller.
If anyone manages to help out in these ways, I'd be more than happy to mail you one.
Perhaps a legitimate question coming from those who have been into gaming on the PC for a long time.
Don't forget that there are people who are curious about gaming and want a way to find out what's there and how well it works without shelling out a considerable amount. If they like what they see after spending $15, then they can go ahead and shell out more for better stuff.
got one of these -- just the controllers, not the gamepads -- back in the day when I was looking for a good emulator controller. It looks like it has 8 buttons, but it actually only supports the old standard of 4 -- the extras are just "turbo" buttons.
Uh, then you didn't "have one of these things".
They've worked great for me. All buttons work fine, including the two on top for your index fingers. They're comfortable. And the whole point is that you don't have to pay $15 for EACH controller, which makes playing four-player games a bit more in some people's reach.
2.6.0 includes a driver I wrote for an older Gravis gamepad system called the "Grip Multiport". It lets up to 4 people play multiplayer games using SNES-style gamepads.
The multiport used to cost > $100; now you can pick up a hub and 4 gamepads on ebay for under $10.
For more details, follow this link.
If any of your officemates are over 30, they may enjoy going down memory lane with some head-to-head arcade action.
There is a cheap, multiplayer gamepad that allows up to 4 simultaneous players. I've used it with XMAME to play Gauntlet, etc. with friends. I've even got some extra hubs if you're interested. Installing the driver involves a quick download and cutting and pasting a few commands.
Click this link for details. It's got links to information on linux arcade games near the bottom.
If that's really true, I have a device driver for you to port from linux to Windows that could make you semi-famous. It should be a snap to port; it makes straightforward calls to the linux joystick interface API.
anyone who reads this and wants to give it a try is welcome to it.
Click this link to learn more about a cool, cheap, multiplayer joystick driver that would be cool to have working under Windows.
I've had at least one guy who's used the Windows API for more than ten years tell me that there is no good documentation for writing device drivers using Microsoft's DirectX, even to something as simple as the joystick port. It would be so cool for you to prove him wrong, and people would adore you from afar. :-)