Well Doom and Quake were the (3D) killer apps that drove thousands (millions?) of gamers to upgrade their hardware. 386 to 486 in the case of Doom, and 486 to Pentium along with the 3Dfx graphcis card in the case of Quake.
While Wolf3d and Duke3D are an important part of gaming history, no other shooters even come close to the same impact as Doom + Quake which defines the FPS genre for decades. (Although Counter-Strike deserves a honorable mention.)
* noun, a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. * verb, make a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word.
The recursive acronym, GNU, means 3 things. So, YES, GNU is a pun. But I guess some self-righteous people feel that computer scientists / programmers can't have a sense of humor.
Well said ! That is precisely why Wikipedia is shit. Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away. This delusion of censorship just makes them look like a tool. The only sensible approach is to boycott Wikipedia over its retarded policies(*).
A fantastic movie is the 1970 iconic Soldier Blue (starring a young Candice Bergen before she was the famous Murphy Brown). It is available on Amazon Prime (but not Netflix.) The trailer does a great job of showing the brutality that both sides engaged in.
It definitely raises some interesting question: Your land is being threatened by (British and American) foreigners who believed in the delusions of "Might makes Right" and won't stop at anything; they make treaties and go back on their word; they brutally kill and genocide anyone who disagrees with their politics. Seriously, WTF were the Indians supposed to do? Sadly, nothing has changed for the USA.:-(
I guess they say History is written by the Winner(s). It is sad that people have no respect that they feel they must censor the truth of mass genocide the British Empire engaged in.
(*) Note: Another example of Wikipedia's dumb policies is "No Trivia". Hey dumb-fuck-wikipedia-administrators: Just because the information has no value to you, doesn't imply it has no values to others. Oblg./sarcasm Oh noes! We might have useful information for (some) people!The Horror!
-- In this life, or the next, you WILL answer for the consequences of your relationship with a) your family, and b) God.
> ZFS, in short is a bullet-proof file system, if setup correctly.... Because underneath ZFS is essentially a very smart software RAID 6 and journaling system.
Well, considering hardware RAID has a silent corruption bug, I'd say it more then "essentially":-) Especially with Raid-Z2 and Raid-Z3.
Measurements at CERN * Wrote a simple application to write/verify 1GB file * Write 1MB, sleep 1 second, etc. until 1GB has been written * Read 1MB, verify, sleep 1 second, etc. * Ran on 3000 rack servers with HW RAID card * After 3 weeks, found 152 instances of silent data corruption * Previously thought âoeeverything was fineâ * HW RAID only detected âoenoisyâ data errors
1. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Ben Franklin 2. You do realize that the courts have ruled a citizen has the right to travel, right?
> But it's confusing if you're not - and it's even worse if you don't understand the underlying data model
The basics of git aren't that difficult as this post points out. Even this git tutorial walks one though the basics.
Searching images for git model shows everyone loves to over-complicate git. Here is one example or the popular A successful git branching model. How many freaking arrows do you need?? K.I.S.S. and add *layers* to explain the more complicated git stuff.
Do you need to understand git's underlying data model to use git effectively? No. Does it help? Probably.
The fundamentals of git aren't really that difficult:
* Every git repo is a glorified (local) database. * Every entry has a unique hash. * Branches are no different then a commit * There is a chain of hashes. Head points to the start of this chain. * Your repo is linear or non-linear as you make it. <--- Thisis what gets people into trouble.
> Git's not perfect,...
I don't think anyone is claiming THAT. Anything more advanced then the trivial add, commit, push, pull is going to require a little bit of extra work. GitHub makes managing pull request pretty trivial.
Since Git supports non-linear actions by default, it takes discipline to maintain the expected linear development. Having a way to visualize the commit / branch tree makes dealing with this complexity significantly easier.
Git is a powerful tool with lots of options. IMO if there were less crappy tutorials people wouldn't find it to be so complicated.
While VR / AR is cool-as-hell, it is still a (overpriced) fad IMO. We've been promised VR for *decades.*
Quake was literally the 3D "killer app". Whole generations of gamers upgraded their CPUs, GPUs, and Internet in order to frag.
I haven't seen any "must have" VR app/games that make me say something other then "Yeah, that's nice."
Part of the problem is _demoing_ VR sucks. When your product has a marketing problem then yeah, good luck trying to get it popular. Not to mention the bulky & pricey headpiece, requires an expensive gaming rig (GTX 970 or better), the contradictory and inconsistent sensory input (eyes tells your brain you are moving, ears tells brain you're NOT moving).
VR has tons of problems to overcome first before I see it taking off.
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Well Doom and Quake were the (3D) killer apps that drove thousands (millions?) of gamers to upgrade their hardware. 386 to 486 in the case of Doom, and 486 to Pentium along with the 3Dfx graphcis card in the case of Quake.
While Wolf3d and Duke3D are an important part of gaming history, no other shooters even come close to the same impact as Doom + Quake which defines the FPS genre for decades. (Although Counter-Strike deserves a honorable mention.)
I really shouldn't feed stupid Arrogant Cunts ...
pun:
* noun, a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
* verb, make a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word.
Why do you think the GNU logo is a gnu animal.
The recursive acronym, GNU, means 3 things. So, YES, GNU is a pun. But I guess some self-righteous people feel that computer scientists / programmers can't have a sense of humor.
.
So you're saying:
* Clever puns are not allowed? Gee, thousands of years of writings shows people love puns.
* The intelligent must pander to the whims of the stupid?
Get off your high horse already.
Well said ! That is precisely why Wikipedia is shit. Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away. This delusion of censorship just makes them look like a tool. The only sensible approach is to boycott Wikipedia over its retarded policies(*).
A fantastic movie is the 1970 iconic Soldier Blue (starring a young Candice Bergen before she was the famous Murphy Brown). It is available on Amazon Prime (but not Netflix.) The trailer does a great job of showing the brutality that both sides engaged in.
It definitely raises some interesting question: Your land is being threatened by (British and American) foreigners who believed in the delusions of "Might makes Right" and won't stop at anything; they make treaties and go back on their word; they brutally kill and genocide anyone who disagrees with their politics. Seriously, WTF were the Indians supposed to do? Sadly, nothing has changed for the USA. :-(
I guess they say History is written by the Winner(s). It is sad that people have no respect that they feel they must censor the truth of mass genocide the British Empire engaged in.
(*) Note: Another example of Wikipedia's dumb policies is "No Trivia". Hey dumb-fuck-wikipedia-administrators: Just because the information has no value to you, doesn't imply it has no values to others. Oblg. /sarcasm Oh noes! We might have useful information for (some) people! The Horror!
--
In this life, or the next, you WILL answer for the consequences of your relationship with a) your family, and b) God.
> ZFS, in short is a bullet-proof file system, if setup correctly. ... Because underneath ZFS is essentially a very smart software RAID 6 and journaling system.
Well, considering hardware RAID has a silent corruption bug, I'd say it more then "essentially" :-) Especially with Raid-Z2 and Raid-Z3.
See Pages 13 .. 18
ZFS The Last Word in FileSystems
Measurements at CERN
* Wrote a simple application to write/verify 1GB file
* Write 1MB, sleep 1 second, etc. until 1GB has been written
* Read 1MB, verify, sleep 1 second, etc.
* Ran on 3000 rack servers with HW RAID card
* After 3 weeks, found 152 instances of silent data corruption
* Previously thought âoeeverything was fineâ
* HW RAID only detected âoenoisyâ data errors
Whoops, that first link should be:
* ZFS: The Last Word In File Systems
Here's an introduction to ZFS.
* http://wiki.illumos.org/download/attachments/1146951/zfs_last.pdf
At the time ZFS was written, nothing even came close to its features.
ZFS got famous for demos like this:
* ZFS is Smashing Baby
-- :-(
Robin Williams: Lived a hero, died a coward.
/sarcasm Let's play with fullbright mode. LAME. At least they used the original textures. :-)
You need to re-read your Black's Law Dictionary. At one point it was before freedom got hijacked.
/sarcasm Oh noes! Only 2 domains shot down; another million left to pick from!
Good luck trying to stomp out piracy.
1. "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Ben Franklin
2. You do realize that the courts have ruled a citizen has the right to travel, right?
/sarcasm But think of the ... < insert inanimate object > !
[ ] Terrorism
[ ] War
[ ] Socialism
[ ] Drugs
[ ] Countries that don't agree with us
>> I've found that MKV + Handbrake.
> I am pretty sure Handbrake does not decrypt.
Reading. You might want to try it sometime. :-)
What, you expect the /. editors to do their job?
LOL
That's funny.
> Kroah-Hartman said the latest release (4.5) made two months ago contains over 21 million lines of code.
Yeah, I found that 21 millions of code strange too.
Microsofts claims Windows XP has ~45 million lines of code.
> pornography enthusiasts
I was going to ask "Are there any other kinds?" but then I remembered the fundamentalists who hate it.
Nonsense.
Back in 2006 I put together 192 page PDF in OpenOffice 1.x or 2.x. Never had any problems with styles the way I did with Office corrupting them.
And I abused the hell out of styles too.
> The ribbon reduces the effort required to find the function you want.
Assuming the window width is wide enough to show ALL the icons.
The menu bar doesn't play these shenanigans of "Guess where I'm hiding?" games.
> Never liked mods for any games.
Then you missed out on Counter-Strike, and Team Fortress (not to mention the original Capture the Flag.)
Mods that eventually became their own games, and/or game modes in almost every FPS.
/cheeky Well, they are called Arrogant Cunts, er, Anonymous Cowards for a reason ... ;-)
> But it's confusing if you're not - and it's even worse if you don't understand the underlying data model
The basics of git aren't that difficult as this post points out. Even this git tutorial walks one though the basics.
Searching images for git model shows everyone loves to over-complicate git. Here is one example or the popular A successful git branching model. How many freaking arrows do you need?? K.I.S.S. and add *layers* to explain the more complicated git stuff.
Do you need to understand git's underlying data model to use git effectively? No. Does it help? Probably.
The fundamentals of git aren't really that difficult:
* Every git repo is a glorified (local) database.
* Every entry has a unique hash.
* Branches are no different then a commit
* There is a chain of hashes. Head points to the start of this chain.
* Your repo is linear or non-linear as you make it. <--- This is what gets people into trouble.
> Git's not perfect, ...
I don't think anyone is claiming THAT. Anything more advanced then the trivial add, commit, push, pull is going to require a little bit of extra work. GitHub makes managing pull request pretty trivial.
Since Git supports non-linear actions by default, it takes discipline to maintain the expected linear development. Having a way to visualize the commit / branch tree makes dealing with this complexity significantly easier.
Git is a powerful tool with lots of options. IMO if there were less crappy tutorials people wouldn't find it to be so complicated.
The only race that matters ...
The human race. :-)
While VR / AR is cool-as-hell, it is still a (overpriced) fad IMO. We've been promised VR for *decades.*
Quake was literally the 3D "killer app". Whole generations of gamers upgraded their CPUs, GPUs, and Internet in order to frag.
I haven't seen any "must have" VR app/games that make me say something other then "Yeah, that's nice."
Part of the problem is _demoing_ VR sucks. When your product has a marketing problem then yeah, good luck trying to get it popular. Not to mention the bulky & pricey headpiece, requires an expensive gaming rig (GTX 970 or better), the contradictory and inconsistent sensory input (eyes tells your brain you are moving, ears tells brain you're NOT moving).
VR has tons of problems to overcome first before I see it taking off.
Yes, there are always exceptions. Far Cry was non-linear which bucked the trend of most FPSers.
> what is it that people hate so much about the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare trailer? I
Jim Sterling, aka Jimquisition, does a decent job explaining the problems with COD:
Modern Warfare Rebastard (The Jimquisition)
TL:DR;
* DLC
* FPS Map Design