Turns out the aliens were using Windows 98 SE, which explains why it was so easy for them to destroy their ship. All Goldblum had to do was install RealPlayer.
To summarize the summary of the summary: They're the same.
So what if they're the same? Most source forks in the F/OSS world don't fall far from the tree, so to speak. Just look at what happened to Ethereal and Wireshark, or Netscape Navigator and Mozilla (the browser).
Give it time—LibreOffice is still a young'un yet and is still growing into its own. It already hates its parents so it's pretty much already an adolescent.
OK, after we get rid of all the "wasteful" spending at the NSF, can we take a look at the DoD? I have several hundreds of billions of dollars worth of recommendations for spending cuts on that front...
Perhaps it was just an error (or an easter egg) on the part of the server software. Maybe they piped the votes through /bin/tr 'A' 'F'.
I recommend that all of you, your children, your grandmothers and your mothers download the "history insurance" file that was tweeted 3 days ago.
I sense that they will soon give up trying to go about this in a diplomatic fashion and just leak the key for the AES256 encryption. Then BOOM! Thousands of people will have the entire cable archive (or at least a large part of it) on their home computers.
ICANN is really a perfect example of where a bunch of wise-beard Unix hacker types could do a better job than the corporate whores currently doing it could. Or better yet, a proper distributed alternative to DNS.
I feel I'm in the same boat as the OP; I used to game a lot when I was younger. I still remember fondly the first time I played DOOM for so long that I couldn't see straight. Then it was Blood, then Quake, then Half-Life.
The decline started when I decided I was going to uninstall Windows and switch to a completely Linux system six years ago; I decided it wasn't worth the effort to restart my computer and risk infection just so I could play Battlefield 1942 against bots for a few hours. At first I still tried to keep my favorite old games around via projects like prboom, ScummVM and the engines at icculus.org. (Little did I know, this was slowly turning me into a *NIX admin and guru.)
Then, a couple years ago I lost almost everything in a hard drive crash. I decided that was the winds of fate trying to tell me that I should just give up.
Now that I'm 25, I'm a coder by day and a musician/sound engineer by night. I find I don't even have the patience or the hand-eye coordination to play some of the flash games on Newgrounds.
MMORPs seem to be more addicting social habits than games.
I completely agree. I guess I'm lucky never to have gotten into the whole scene (not enough cash, having sex with girls, etc.).
"Cougar" is also a term for a middle-aged woman who seduces younger men. The Apple 1 seduced many young men as well, causing them to become obsessed and spend excess amounts of time with it (her?).
I think the bigger story is that after all these iterations... developers still don't know how to properly use the hardware.
It'll be a dark day when companies release a "hands free" console and have the API locked down so tight that the only way to develop for them is to use their hands-free IDE.
Can you imagine what it would be like using a hands-free keyboard to write code?
Person advocates policy that is in his own best interest! News at 10!
"When asked about his reasons for his objections to the bill, Ballmer was quoted as saying 'DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!' for twenty minutes straight."
our source code be able to be wrapped to 78 characters
a tab (0x09) character is equal to 8 spaces (unless you specify otherwise)
most major programming languages have function names that are in US English, even Ruby, which was developed by the Japanese, and Scilab's programming language which was developed by French scientists
POSIX regular expressions' [:alphanum:] character class is most often written as [A-z0-9]
The truth is that we programmers prefer to be able to type things quickly without having to memorize character codes for a variety of Unicode characters; we want to be able to type simple variable and function names using a standard set of glyphs and not have to worry about remembering which variation of a Chinese pictograph was used.
If it comes down to it, we could all just use Ook and not worry about language barriers (or getting much of anything done for that matter).
Slashdot Mirror
Or a single Pirate Bay download...
:slow clap:
That's just what they *want* you to think. O__O
Something tells me he hasn't tried writing a chat bot, ELIZA style. There are only so many ways to write "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
Meanwhile, in a parallel universe...
I trust the sun.
Just like Windows was designed for piracy.
Sure, blame all your inabilities to adapt to different distribution models on your target platform. :rolls eyes:
I much prefer shred -z /dev/[hs]d[a-z]*
Turns out the aliens were using Windows 98 SE, which explains why it was so easy for them to destroy their ship. All Goldblum had to do was install RealPlayer.
Or BonziBuddy. Or the AOL client. Or WeatherBug.
To summarize the summary of the summary: They're the same.
So what if they're the same? Most source forks in the F/OSS world don't fall far from the tree, so to speak. Just look at what happened to Ethereal and Wireshark, or Netscape Navigator and Mozilla (the browser).
Give it time—LibreOffice is still a young'un yet and is still growing into its own. It already hates its parents so it's pretty much already an adolescent.
But the thing about Socialism is... that there's no money in it. ;-)
OK, after we get rid of all the "wasteful" spending at the NSF, can we take a look at the DoD? I have several hundreds of billions of dollars worth of recommendations for spending cuts on that front...
Perhaps it was just an error (or an easter egg) on the part of the server software. Maybe they piped the votes through /bin/tr 'A' 'F' .
I once knew a woman named Jenn Jameson. True story.
Also, Linus Torvalds is just a "stage" name.
Do your shopping on Amazon in text-mode browsers and whine to their customer service department when they require JavaScript.
I recommend that all of you, your children, your grandmothers and your mothers download the "history insurance" file that was tweeted 3 days ago.
I sense that they will soon give up trying to go about this in a diplomatic fashion and just leak the key for the AES256 encryption. Then BOOM! Thousands of people will have the entire cable archive (or at least a large part of it) on their home computers.
ICANN is really a perfect example of where a bunch of wise-beard Unix hacker types could do a better job than the corporate whores currently doing it could. Or better yet, a proper distributed alternative to DNS.
We can and are.
With enough Linux geeks, anything is possible.
I feel I'm in the same boat as the OP; I used to game a lot when I was younger. I still remember fondly the first time I played DOOM for so long that I couldn't see straight. Then it was Blood, then Quake, then Half-Life.
The decline started when I decided I was going to uninstall Windows and switch to a completely Linux system six years ago; I decided it wasn't worth the effort to restart my computer and risk infection just so I could play Battlefield 1942 against bots for a few hours. At first I still tried to keep my favorite old games around via projects like prboom, ScummVM and the engines at icculus.org. (Little did I know, this was slowly turning me into a *NIX admin and guru.)
Then, a couple years ago I lost almost everything in a hard drive crash. I decided that was the winds of fate trying to tell me that I should just give up.
Now that I'm 25, I'm a coder by day and a musician/sound engineer by night. I find I don't even have the patience or the hand-eye coordination to play some of the flash games on Newgrounds.
MMORPs seem to be more addicting social habits than games.
I completely agree. I guess I'm lucky never to have gotten into the whole scene (not enough cash, having sex with girls, etc.).
Apple users prefer the term "Cougar" ;)
"Cougar" is also a term for a middle-aged woman who seduces younger men. The Apple 1 seduced many young men as well, causing them to become obsessed and spend excess amounts of time with it (her?).
...except the Apple 1 is way sexier.
First contact with the Vulcans in April 2063.
As long as it handles the GOPHER protocol I'll use it.
I think the bigger story is that after all these iterations... developers still don't know how to properly use the hardware.
It'll be a dark day when companies release a "hands free" console and have the API locked down so tight that the only way to develop for them is to use their hands-free IDE.
Can you imagine what it would be like using a hands-free keyboard to write code?
Person advocates policy that is in his own best interest! News at 10!
"When asked about his reasons for his objections to the bill, Ballmer was quoted as saying 'DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!' for twenty minutes straight."
I'm also wondering why we insist that:
The truth is that we programmers prefer to be able to type things quickly without having to memorize character codes for a variety of Unicode characters; we want to be able to type simple variable and function names using a standard set of glyphs and not have to worry about remembering which variation of a Chinese pictograph was used.
If it comes down to it, we could all just use Ook and not worry about language barriers (or getting much of anything done for that matter).
In all honesty, you are in fact cooking all the microorganisms in the water...
I wonder how many single-celled organisms it takes to make soup.
It was the AI in the iPod saying, "Okay, you're cooking at maximum power. Perhaps you should concentrate on your cooking before you kill someone."
Damn auto-configuration. It's exactly why I don't use Ubuntu.