Leaving aside all the lesser-used/open-source IM clients, of MSN, AIM, Yahoo and ICQ, ICQ is the best one. MSN doesn't offer offline messages, AIM sucks, Yahoo is not too bad but ICQ is the most useable and reliable imho.
Merging it with AIM will just take it downhill I imagine...
" BitTorrent, while being a cool technology, still only exists for users to download files which are either copyrighted (warez/mp3/svcd) and/or illigal (porn of varying extrmes) and therefore will eventually die:"
Did you miss the part where major Linux distros use it to send out the latest version?
Lack of publicity causing no-one to hear about it which means no-one talks about it... I've never heard of XPCOM but I've heard of the others.
Grady is a man's name? You learn something new every day (especially when you know as little as me!)
Ive never checked out Modula-3 I might take a look. Never heard of OCaml (only the mighty occam;), Python might deserver looking into.
Smalltalk is very odd as it is a total environment and you ship the whole environment including changes such as changing how integer addition works if you like(!!!), it looks good but I couldnt quite get my head round the language. What is tcl and such things like if anyone knows? Can it do GUIs?
Firstly get rid of any ideas that game testing is as fun as enthusiasts believe it is, it will probably be mind-numbingly dull for you.
As other posters have pointed out it will pay a low wage (I saw figures from the UK of around 8,000-10,000 GBP, roughly 12,000-15,000 US dollars iirc) and involve poor hours because everyone wants to do it so there's no shortage of replacements.
If you do want to get involved with games though I'd suggest other, more skilled, positions. Or maybe lead QA or something rather than just tester monkey.
I'm a guy who generally (over)uses C++ for most applications because I know it very well and am not familiar with many other general-purpose languages. The author of the article suggests not using C/C++ for many applications e.g. for an IRC client.
What would you use for this? Or for any general GUI-program doing something general like IRC? There's Java, sure, but there must be other alternatives.
I'd argue it's more to do with realism - no-one could really argue against stratego or chess as they are so abstract. C&C gets right in there showing tanks blowing up and guys dying.
I think it sounds like a good system - the game isn't banned but it isn't allowed to be advertised, better than anything the RIAA or MPAA might impose in similar circumstances!
It seems cheeky to me but good luck to them! It's a double-edged sword for MS, it might mean more X-box sales but I think the fact that they might see it as losing face will mean they will say no (despite the kudos they would get from the open source community)
I couldn't pass up the opportunity to agree that Cowboy Bebop is one of the greatest shows to be produced, anime or otherwise. I thoroughly recommend this to anyone and agree that as long as you're not a slow reader go with the subtitles!
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In related news, http://www.twistedsquare.com/ has recieved a letter accusing it of blatant and cheap advertising on slashdot ;-)
Leaving aside all the lesser-used/open-source IM clients, of MSN, AIM, Yahoo and ICQ, ICQ is the best one. MSN doesn't offer offline messages, AIM sucks, Yahoo is not too bad but ICQ is the most useable and reliable imho.
Merging it with AIM will just take it downhill I imagine...
Clearly the calorie burn meter is to find out how much energy you waste playing snake...
" BitTorrent, while being a cool technology, still only exists for users to download files which are either copyrighted (warez/mp3/svcd) and/or illigal (porn of varying extrmes) and therefore will eventually die:" Did you miss the part where major Linux distros use it to send out the latest version?
And in case you can't be bothered to click, the site currently reads "Slashdot sucks. Oh yeah, we'll be back." due to this link being posted...
Yep that would be very useful if someone could provide it.
Lack of publicity causing no-one to hear about it which means no-one talks about it... I've never heard of XPCOM but I've heard of the others. Grady is a man's name? You learn something new every day (especially when you know as little as me!)
Four pages of the letter s would probably be modern art if the right artist had done it... Still it won't take them too long to type /. will it
Also check out an early work, Lazarus Churchyard. Good to see slashdot getting in some comics interviews :)
BitTorrent would be good, and preferably not in a propietary format...
It won't be soon, it'll be when it's ready... ;-)
Ive never checked out Modula-3 I might take a look. Never heard of OCaml (only the mighty occam ;), Python might deserver looking into.
Smalltalk is very odd as it is a total environment and you ship the whole environment including changes such as changing how integer addition works if you like(!!!), it looks good but I couldnt quite get my head round the language. What is tcl and such things like if anyone knows? Can it do GUIs?
Firstly get rid of any ideas that game testing is as fun as enthusiasts believe it is, it will probably be mind-numbingly dull for you. As other posters have pointed out it will pay a low wage (I saw figures from the UK of around 8,000-10,000 GBP, roughly 12,000-15,000 US dollars iirc) and involve poor hours because everyone wants to do it so there's no shortage of replacements. If you do want to get involved with games though I'd suggest other, more skilled, positions. Or maybe lead QA or something rather than just tester monkey.
War is not a game...
Even Wolfenstein 3D wasn't really a maze game... 2 generations on and QuakeWorld was?
I'm a guy who generally (over)uses C++ for most applications because I know it very well and am not familiar with many other general-purpose languages. The author of the article suggests not using C/C++ for many applications e.g. for an IRC client. What would you use for this? Or for any general GUI-program doing something general like IRC? There's Java, sure, but there must be other alternatives.
I'd argue it's more to do with realism - no-one could really argue against stratego or chess as they are so abstract. C&C gets right in there showing tanks blowing up and guys dying. I think it sounds like a good system - the game isn't banned but it isn't allowed to be advertised, better than anything the RIAA or MPAA might impose in similar circumstances!
It seems cheeky to me but good luck to them! It's a double-edged sword for MS, it might mean more X-box sales but I think the fact that they might see it as losing face will mean they will say no (despite the kudos they would get from the open source community)
I couldn't pass up the opportunity to agree that Cowboy Bebop is one of the greatest shows to be produced, anime or otherwise. I thoroughly recommend this to anyone and agree that as long as you're not a slow reader go with the subtitles!