I've always wanted to learn a second language and I've tried when I was younger. However, growing up in a small town in the mid-west, I'd have to travel hundreds of miles to find someone who spoke the language natively. So sure, I could memorize words, syntax, etc., but, without the ability to use that knowledge on a regular basis, the memory fades.
It's called reading. Or listening to music as an aid.
I learned english that way when I was a kid. Reading D&D manuals and listening to the radio.
Does anyone that knows more than just java as a programming language actually like it?
I know perl, php, java, C (although I haven't used it for so long I can barely code a hello world anymore), and have dabbled a little in lisp and prolog.
But still, games were better back then, when they concentrated more on the gameplay and/or story before the prettiness of the graphics.
Hear hear!
In 2003 I was playing pretty heavily (2 hours UT2k3 a day mostly) but I lost interest. No new game could hold my interest more than a couple of days (notable exception was Max Payne II, though I blame the fact that I was unemployed for three weeks when I was playing it:).
Now I'm hooked again. On what? Eye of the Beholder. And OMF2049. Games that ask if your system supports CGA, EGA or VGA. $DEITY bless dosbox!
Those are fun games, never mind the ugly graphics and cheesy sounds. Games that are fun to PLAY, not nice to WATCH. Those are games that entertain, not games that look like nVidia/ATi screensavers. Yes Doom3, I'm looking at you.
Yeah, I read "SCOX plunges", opened finance.yahoo.com, and I see that it is currently trading at US$4.17. Hell, right now it is almost at a 3-month high! (bottom in late october/early november where it hit less than US$3, according to the chart.)
Why, an obscenely high quantity of money, of course! You think an exclusive license goes for the same money a plain-vanilla license to use the names and such goes for? Think again.
That said, I'd be a lot more upset about the aforementioned NFL deal if it meant we'd only see Madden games for one platform. That's not going to happen anytime soon, I don't think. But imagine a day when the only place you might find "official" NFL or NBA games would be the PSn, and all the other consoles would have brand-x football and basketball games.
_If the game in itself is good_, I don't see how upsetting it would be to have a player named "Joe Sixpack" instead of "Joe Andruzzi".
And I'm sure he's willing to say "Yes, mr. Police Officer, I did rip the DVDs and infringe the copyright, and I'm willing to eat whatever punishment the unjust law decides I'm getting." instead of "What DVDs?" while dialing in the special code in his cell phone that sends his PC the signal to erase all movies and mp3s from the hard drive.
Plus, if you use a custom theme you have to recreate it after upgrading, which is a right pain in the arse as all the paths are hardcoded... even with sed/grep it takes an hour or two to turn subSilver into CustomSilver.
God forbid security get in the way of our pretty themes.
Xp does crash on me occasionally. Most often explorer.exe, but a few BSODs, although I think those were hardware related.
You are an average slashdotter. You know about running computers, and keep it shipshape. I used to go on vacation (winXP box) and come home to find the computer wrecked from the use of parents and siblings.
Nowadays when I visit my parents now, the eMac is running as good as it was running the first day.
For people who know how to run their computers, sure, WinXP is enough. Me, I wouldn't buy an Apple, at least not right now, I've got a lot of things that outpriorize a $1000+ computer, and WinXP is enough for me, running on my years-old XP1700+. But for mom/dad/joe sixpack? Come on.
So for most folks there is no more value in OS X than in XP.
Maybe they don't think in OS terms, but they sure want "that computer that doesn't crash as much". I made my parents buy an eMac when I got married because the free tech support was leaving the nest. They appreciate it, even though the eMac was a bit slower than the machine that it replaced, because it doesn't crash every time you look at it sideways. It just works a lot better.
So I guess what your telling me here is that a professional musician with a few gold albums under his sleave should just be thrown under the bus by the high school kid who just learned to play a drum machine?
No, I suggest that the guitar player go learn how to play the drums instead of moaning how all his guitar experience couldn't get him a drummer job. When both candidates can say "I know how to play drums", then the pro musician gets the job. But "I can learn to play the drums... oh, but I play a mean guitar" doesn't do much against "I know how to play drums" when the needed skill is knowing how to play drums.
Nope there unemployed telecom engineers with 15 years of C/C++/Assembler experience. But they don't have JSP or J2EE on their resume. They were too busy putting people on the moon or building the phone network so everyone on the planet could talk on a voice line.
So, putting people on the moon should trump the fact that you don't have the required skills to do the job?
I need a drummer for my band. I hold auditions. A guitar player shows up and demands the job, saying he deserves it because he has played with the greats. Should I give him the drummer job? Sorry, I don't care if you have 20 years C/C++/Assembler experience or if you taught Jimi Hendrix how to play guitar if what I need is a Java/JSP programmer or a drummer.
What OSS has to do is release ads to TELL people how bad IE is
Worked wonders for Kerry, didn't it?
Saying that your competitor sucks doesn't say anything about you. Maybe your ads will leave the customer thinking that something's wrong with the competitor, but you haven't planted any awareness of YOUR product in their minds.
Firefox also was the first "mainstream" tabbed browser I've ever seen, although there could have been others.
*cough* Opera *cough*.
And Galeon, in linux... that's not so mainstream, though. I remember one time I was using the Windows box at my parent's home, and my dad wanted to browse the web, so I booted up my linux box (it was mandrake 8.2... long ago) and loaded galeon for him. He was so thrilled with it that I had to set him up an account, and lost control of my box for several days:(
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It's called reading. Or listening to music as an aid.
I learned english that way when I was a kid. Reading D&D manuals and listening to the radio.
Luckily I had the arts/lit/otherthingsotherthanCS down beforehand.
I know perl, php, java, C (although I haven't used it for so long I can barely code a hello world anymore), and have dabbled a little in lisp and prolog.
I like Java.
Your daughter has been subjected to a) Keanu Reeves' wooden acting and b) Keanu Reeves' naked butt?!?!?!
I sure don't envy the shrink bills you'll be getting...
There.
You said it. I was thinking "too bad there isn't a '+1, Insightfuly Funny' moderation" while reading your post.
Though maybe it should be '+1, sadly insightful' :(
Really? I'd imagine they would say "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose".
Hear hear!
In 2003 I was playing pretty heavily (2 hours UT2k3 a day mostly) but I lost interest. No new game could hold my interest more than a couple of days (notable exception was Max Payne II, though I blame the fact that I was unemployed for three weeks when I was playing it :).
Now I'm hooked again. On what? Eye of the Beholder. And OMF2049. Games that ask if your system supports CGA, EGA or VGA. $DEITY bless dosbox!
Those are fun games, never mind the ugly graphics and cheesy sounds. Games that are fun to PLAY, not nice to WATCH. Those are games that entertain, not games that look like nVidia/ATi screensavers. Yes Doom3, I'm looking at you.
Cricket? Why of course, indian children with HB1s...
Remember the napster trial? Saying "I just post links" doesn't cut much cheese against deep-pocket *AA's lawyers.
Yeah, I read "SCOX plunges", opened finance.yahoo.com, and I see that it is currently trading at US$4.17. Hell, right now it is almost at a 3-month high! (bottom in late october/early november where it hit less than US$3, according to the chart.)
Why, an obscenely high quantity of money, of course! You think an exclusive license goes for the same money a plain-vanilla license to use the names and such goes for? Think again.
That said, I'd be a lot more upset about the aforementioned NFL deal if it meant we'd only see Madden games for one platform. That's not going to happen anytime soon, I don't think. But imagine a day when the only place you might find "official" NFL or NBA games would be the PSn, and all the other consoles would have brand-x football and basketball games.
_If the game in itself is good_, I don't see how upsetting it would be to have a player named "Joe Sixpack" instead of "Joe Andruzzi".
Ooops! Must tell my linux box to stop running ET and UT2k3! OpenGL is windows only!
And I'm sure he's willing to say "Yes, mr. Police Officer, I did rip the DVDs and infringe the copyright, and I'm willing to eat whatever punishment the unjust law decides I'm getting." instead of "What DVDs?" while dialing in the special code in his cell phone that sends his PC the signal to erase all movies and mp3s from the hard drive.
Please explain how RAID5 will save you from anything but a hard drive malfunction.
...cringing at the fact that his "backup" was on the same machine? And it was writable by apache?
God forbid security get in the way of our pretty themes.
Xp does crash on me occasionally. Most often explorer.exe, but a few BSODs, although I think those were hardware related.
You are an average slashdotter. You know about running computers, and keep it shipshape. I used to go on vacation (winXP box) and come home to find the computer wrecked from the use of parents and siblings.
Nowadays when I visit my parents now, the eMac is running as good as it was running the first day.
For people who know how to run their computers, sure, WinXP is enough. Me, I wouldn't buy an Apple, at least not right now, I've got a lot of things that outpriorize a $1000+ computer, and WinXP is enough for me, running on my years-old XP1700+. But for mom/dad/joe sixpack? Come on.
Maybe they don't think in OS terms, but they sure want "that computer that doesn't crash as much". I made my parents buy an eMac when I got married because the free tech support was leaving the nest. They appreciate it, even though the eMac was a bit slower than the machine that it replaced, because it doesn't crash every time you look at it sideways. It just works a lot better.
Malware for apache vs Malware for IIS, anyone?
No, I suggest that the guitar player go learn how to play the drums instead of moaning how all his guitar experience couldn't get him a drummer job. When both candidates can say "I know how to play drums", then the pro musician gets the job. But "I can learn to play the drums... oh, but I play a mean guitar" doesn't do much against "I know how to play drums" when the needed skill is knowing how to play drums.
So, putting people on the moon should trump the fact that you don't have the required skills to do the job?
I need a drummer for my band. I hold auditions. A guitar player shows up and demands the job, saying he deserves it because he has played with the greats. Should I give him the drummer job? Sorry, I don't care if you have 20 years C/C++/Assembler experience or if you taught Jimi Hendrix how to play guitar if what I need is a Java/JSP programmer or a drummer.
What makes you think they aren't charging you the shipping cost along with the stocking fee and taxes?
Worked wonders for Kerry, didn't it?
Saying that your competitor sucks doesn't say anything about you. Maybe your ads will leave the customer thinking that something's wrong with the competitor, but you haven't planted any awareness of YOUR product in their minds.
*cough* Opera *cough*.
And Galeon, in linux... that's not so mainstream, though. I remember one time I was using the Windows box at my parent's home, and my dad wanted to browse the web, so I booted up my linux box (it was mandrake 8.2... long ago) and loaded galeon for him. He was so thrilled with it that I had to set him up an account, and lost control of my box for several days :(