You could always go scavenging, remember the MIT guy that built the fusion reactor, he found his plasma accelerator(or insert some other fancy tech stuff that is impossible to find while scavenging) while scavenging.
I found a DVD player by accident, yay! I haven't checked if it works yet though, it's quite dirty, smells strange and doesn't include any cables:/
I don't want Average Joe to use Linux, I want it to be an elite OS for only the best of the best:)
Yes, that's what I think, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks so either. I know for sure that there are people that like user friendlyness and stuff like that(*cough*Mandrake*cough*), my advice for them is: Stick to Windows, install FireFox and ThunderBird, enjoy!
I don't even understand why some people switch to Linux, "waaah windoze crashz waahh", "lookie momma, I'm using teh intarnet1!1~~", grow up kiddies!
Uh... yeah this is only a Mandrake-bash:) I also hate RedHat and Fedora for using RPMs!(Mandrake included). The reason I don't like RPMs is that users won't learn how to compile and install software on their own. They will simply ask: "waaah where kan i d/l shareware rpmz??~~". Listen to RMS, he's right about shareware, whatever he said, I can't even remember if he said something... I think I need an 'on teh spokesman' from the FSF to come to my school. It might convert 2 people.
It seems to be Gentoo to me, it's always suggested when someone asks for a new distro(I won't say where though as I'm afraid of being laughed upon;)), and everyone seem to be using it. I'm happy with Slackware and FreeBSD. I really should check our Gentoo, it might just work on my crappy 5 year old Wintel machine...
Writing bugless code is not a good idea, in my opinion, think about it: Debugging is the art of removing bugs, therefore programming is the art of adding bugs.
Writing bugless code would throw the universe upside down and could possibly mean the end of the world!
"geeks might be charged with going to the mall or reading a page of code from their extreme programming experiment aloud to all of their friends - how embarrassing!"
Yes, spyware won't do anything if it can't get root access. If everyone used safe software, or if Microsoft improved iexplore, there would be nothing to worry about.
I would assume that the security would have improved at least a little until the Longhorn release. When is that, by the way? No I did not read the article, or the newspost very carefully.
And maybe, for some reason, people would not surf the dangerous web using the administrator account? It's not a Good Thing to do, it is more like a DANGEROUS kernel feature. You don't know if it will do anything, but when it does... it's too late.
I think I'll activate IPv6 next time I recompile my kernel. That should be a few hours from now... if there is a 2.6.2-pre version, that is... *looks it up*... 2.6.2-rc1, yay. That'll do.
Does anyone have a IPv6 HOWTO or some information on what I need to do to upgrade my system. Do I have to get new ping, etc tools?
[PATCH] modules: skip debug sections
From: Tom Rini
Skip debug sections of modules - taking 12 minutes to load the ipv6 module
is a bug.:)
Hmm... I'd better recompile my kernel right away:)
It's definitely not the standard 'I hate campers' article.
Sounds more like the standard 'I hate snipers' article to me. I, for one, like snipers, I would welcome our new sniper overlords, if there were any, that is,,,,.
Anyway, I included the article text, firingsquad.com doesn't sound like something with a lot of bandwidth.
Why like them
Sniper rifles suck
There, I said it. Deal with it. Let me say it again - sniper rifles suck. Don't like it? Tough, because odds are that if you're annoyed, you don't have the skills to use any other weapon. So go back to humping the dirt in Call of Duty or camping the bridge on de_aztec with all your l33t skill.
That sniper rifles are the bane of first-person shooters is an indisputable fact, yet people choose to dispute it anyway. Why? Because everyone has the little fantasy of being the lone wolf, the deadly, stalking sniper who hits without being seen, goes 10-0 every round and by the time the map is over he'll be hailed as living god by the peons he's slain or saved from certain death. Sniper rifles exist in games because they appeal to the Munchkin inside all of us, because we all want to run around with the BFG 9000 and lay waste to earth, heaven and hell. And make no mistake about it, if there is a BFG 9000 in a game, odds are it fires one shot at a time and has a big huge zoom on it.
Every other 'reason' for the existence of sniper rifles - realism, historical accuracy, weapon diversity, giving players identifiable roles - is a lie. There's nothing realistic about sniper rifles as they appear in games, nothing historically accurate, they not only don't improve weapon diversity they make it worse, there is NO skill involved, but yes, scoped weapons do give a new role to players - the dirt-humping camper.
So let me dispatch these myths and send them to hell before we tackle the reasons why sniper rifles should never, ever be implemented in any other game again.
1. Realism. No, sorry, there's nothing realistic about taking a shot every second with your scoped Mosin-Nagant or Springfield. They're bolt-action rifles and need to manually load the next bullet, meaning losing sight of the target. The guns also aren't one-shot kills. If they are, so would be the MP44 Sturmgewehr or AK-47 at shorter distances, which use similarly sized ammunition. As it is, most games set sniper rifles to be the Finger of God - simply look at your target, twitch your finger and boom, he's dead. Forget that it's called "sniper rifle" and imagine it's called "Finger of God" - would you implement a weapon with that name, as a designer?
2. Historical Accuracy. Sorry son, the battlefield just isn't comprised of 50% snipers. Yes, limiting their use to 1 or 2 people per team is possible, but that has other drawbacks, like making 1 or 2 people on each team 5:1 kill ratio gods, while everyone else suffers.
3. Weapon Diversity. No, when a sniper rifle makes it into a game, everyone wants to use it. All other weapons lose a tremendous amount of appeal. Who wants to rush with the MP40 or AK when you know you're going to run into a veritable wall of lead - why not just snipe back?
4. Skill. Yeah, right. Sorry buddy, but poking your head out every few seconds to take a cheap shot before moving to a new location isn't skill. All you need is the most basic semblance of aim and reflexes to get a sniping kill. In a sniper duel, it's just a matter of who's faster and more accurate - just TWO basic, basic abilities get exaggerated in importance.
Not neccesarily, the older users(previously clueless newbies) might actually, agains all odds, have learned something useful that they wish to share with their fellow comrades. Trolls might actually belong to this group(no offense, fellow trolls, I know it's not really true!).
Are there anyone left at Blizzard? It seems like they are leaving every month or so.
I, for one, would like to work at blizzard... for a while... damn, professional programming is boring. I can understand them, even if they are not coders.
I totally love shoot'em ups where the BPM(bullets per minute) is extremely high, a lot of them were made back in the day, less now, but there still are some produced. I guess the production costs are higher nowadays.
DoDonPachi(arcade, a.k.a. download MAME rom, also avaible for the saturn and ps) is my favorite:) I can't get enough of the trance-like effect you experience when you become one with the multiple simultaneous waves of bullets.
I also love the combo system used in DoDonPachi, especially on level 5 when the whole screen is covered by enemies and bullets. Can you say 500 kill combo;)? Beat my 21M highscore! I do not feel guilty about this though, why should I?
It's not very strange that the gay joke frequency rises through the roof anytime Linus is mentioned. I mean, he's both a geek and incredibly sexy, right;)?
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You could always go scavenging, remember the MIT guy that built the fusion reactor, he found his plasma accelerator(or insert some other fancy tech stuff that is impossible to find while scavenging) while scavenging.
:/
I found a DVD player by accident, yay! I haven't checked if it works yet though, it's quite dirty, smells strange and doesn't include any cables
I don't want Average Joe to use Linux, I want it to be an elite OS for only the best of the best :)
:) I also hate RedHat and Fedora for using RPMs!(Mandrake included). The reason I don't like RPMs is that users won't learn how to compile and install software on their own. They will simply ask: "waaah where kan i d/l shareware rpmz??~~". Listen to RMS, he's right about shareware, whatever he said, I can't even remember if he said something... I think I need an 'on teh spokesman' from the FSF to come to my school. It might convert 2 people.
Yes, that's what I think, and I'm sure I'm not the only one that thinks so either. I know for sure that there are people that like user friendlyness and stuff like that(*cough*Mandrake*cough*), my advice for them is: Stick to Windows, install FireFox and ThunderBird, enjoy!
I don't even understand why some people switch to Linux, "waaah windoze crashz waahh", "lookie momma, I'm using teh intarnet1!1~~", grow up kiddies!
Uh... yeah this is only a Mandrake-bash
It seems to be Gentoo to me, it's always suggested when someone asks for a new distro(I won't say where though as I'm afraid of being laughed upon ;)), and everyone seem to be using it. I'm happy with Slackware and FreeBSD. I really should check our Gentoo, it might just work on my crappy 5 year old Wintel machine...
And BSD is not dying!!
// Before we read the bits, seek to the correct location in the file
while (_bmfh.bfOffBits > (unsigned)cbRead)
{
BYTE abDummy[1024];
int cbSkip;
cbSkip = _bmfh.bfOffBits - cbRead;
if (cbSkip > 1024)
cbSkip = 1024;
if (!Read(abDummy, cbSkip))
goto Cleanup;
cbRead += cbSkip;
}
Easy enough:
- int cbSkip;
+ unsigned int cbSkip;
Great image quality! Mars Express is successful. All other Mars images I've seen pale in comparision.
Now, I just hope that they will move the probe to the secret american base where they keep aliens.
Moderation Guideline: +2 Funny
Writing bugless code is not a good idea, in my opinion, think about it: Debugging is the art of removing bugs, therefore programming is the art of adding bugs.
Writing bugless code would throw the universe upside down and could possibly mean the end of the world!
Moderation Guideline: +3 Funny.
Sealand would be a better choice methinks.
"geeks might be charged with going to the mall or reading a page of code from their extreme programming experiment aloud to all of their friends - how embarrassing!"
At least it won't ruin the FS, or something like that.
All users would not be affected.
And it would be significally easier to uninstall it.
Yes, spyware won't do anything if it can't get root access. If everyone used safe software, or if Microsoft improved iexplore, there would be nothing to worry about.
I would assume that the security would have improved at least a little until the Longhorn release. When is that, by the way? No I did not read the article, or the newspost very carefully.
And maybe, for some reason, people would not surf the dangerous web using the administrator account? It's not a Good Thing to do, it is more like a DANGEROUS kernel feature. You don't know if it will do anything, but when it does... it's too late.
NOTE: You are not allowed by American law to download this encryption module if you live in a terrorist country!
:(
User: Damn it! I really wanted it, but now that I see that message, I just can't download it
(Yeah, I know that the one sharing it is committing the heinous crime...)
What is the age group(s) of Linux users in Iraq?
OK, I don't even know what it's in Sweden, but it would be interesting, right?
This kind of reminds me of this old story.
I think I'll activate IPv6 next time I recompile my kernel. That should be a few hours from now... if there is a 2.6.2-pre version, that is... *looks it up*... 2.6.2-rc1, yay. That'll do.
:)
:)
Does anyone have a IPv6 HOWTO or some information on what I need to do to upgrade my system. Do I have to get new ping, etc tools?
[PATCH] modules: skip debug sections
From: Tom Rini
Skip debug sections of modules - taking 12 minutes to load the ipv6 module
is a bug.
Hmm... I'd better recompile my kernel right away
Luckily I don't use any kernel modules.
Why, thank you!
Some people need to learn basic web design...
It's definitely not the standard 'I hate campers' article.
,,,,.
Sounds more like the standard 'I hate snipers' article to me. I, for one, like snipers, I would welcome our new sniper overlords, if there were any, that is
Anyway, I included the article text, firingsquad.com doesn't sound like something with a lot of bandwidth.
Why like them
Sniper rifles suck
There, I said it. Deal with it. Let me say it again - sniper rifles suck. Don't like it? Tough, because odds are that if you're annoyed, you don't have the skills to use any other weapon. So go back to humping the dirt in Call of Duty or camping the bridge on de_aztec with all your l33t skill.
That sniper rifles are the bane of first-person shooters is an indisputable fact, yet people choose to dispute it anyway. Why? Because everyone has the little fantasy of being the lone wolf, the deadly, stalking sniper who hits without being seen, goes 10-0 every round and by the time the map is over he'll be hailed as living god by the peons he's slain or saved from certain death. Sniper rifles exist in games because they appeal to the Munchkin inside all of us, because we all want to run around with the BFG 9000 and lay waste to earth, heaven and hell. And make no mistake about it, if there is a BFG 9000 in a game, odds are it fires one shot at a time and has a big huge zoom on it.
Every other 'reason' for the existence of sniper rifles - realism, historical accuracy, weapon diversity, giving players identifiable roles - is a lie. There's nothing realistic about sniper rifles as they appear in games, nothing historically accurate, they not only don't improve weapon diversity they make it worse, there is NO skill involved, but yes, scoped weapons do give a new role to players - the dirt-humping camper.
So let me dispatch these myths and send them to hell before we tackle the reasons why sniper rifles should never, ever be implemented in any other game again.
1. Realism. No, sorry, there's nothing realistic about taking a shot every second with your scoped Mosin-Nagant or Springfield. They're bolt-action rifles and need to manually load the next bullet, meaning losing sight of the target. The guns also aren't one-shot kills. If they are, so would be the MP44 Sturmgewehr or AK-47 at shorter distances, which use similarly sized ammunition. As it is, most games set sniper rifles to be the Finger of God - simply look at your target, twitch your finger and boom, he's dead. Forget that it's called "sniper rifle" and imagine it's called "Finger of God" - would you implement a weapon with that name, as a designer?
2. Historical Accuracy. Sorry son, the battlefield just isn't comprised of 50% snipers. Yes, limiting their use to 1 or 2 people per team is possible, but that has other drawbacks, like making 1 or 2 people on each team 5:1 kill ratio gods, while everyone else suffers.
3. Weapon Diversity. No, when a sniper rifle makes it into a game, everyone wants to use it. All other weapons lose a tremendous amount of appeal. Who wants to rush with the MP40 or AK when you know you're going to run into a veritable wall of lead - why not just snipe back?
4. Skill. Yeah, right. Sorry buddy, but poking your head out every few seconds to take a cheap shot before moving to a new location isn't skill. All you need is the most basic semblance of aim and reflexes to get a sniping kill. In a sniper duel, it's just a matter of who's faster and more accurate - just TWO basic, basic abilities get exaggerated in importance.
That's a mighty impressive demo, but I somehow get the impression that he used slow motion at times.
:) Nothing can beat the blue ship! Except for the baby-wasp-boss...
All the small movements and the fast switches between laser and bullet spam modes.
Apart from that, I do now know that I am indeed using the best ship
Not neccesarily, the older users(previously clueless newbies) might actually, agains all odds, have learned something useful that they wish to share with their fellow comrades. Trolls might actually belong to this group(no offense, fellow trolls, I know it's not really true!).
The CIA World Factbook is a nice place to go for information like this. (Communications->Internet users for example)
Here's a list of how many internet users there are in each county. No percentages though, which would have been more interesting.
Are there anyone left at Blizzard? It seems like they are leaving every month or so.
I, for one, would like to work at blizzard... for a while... damn, professional programming is boring. I can understand them, even if they are not coders.
Will Harry Potter play Shinji :D?
I totally love shoot'em ups where the BPM(bullets per minute) is extremely high, a lot of them were made back in the day, less now, but there still are some produced. I guess the production costs are higher nowadays.
:) I can't get enough of the trance-like effect you experience when you become one with the multiple simultaneous waves of bullets.
;)? Beat my 21M highscore! I do not feel guilty about this though, why should I?
DoDonPachi(arcade, a.k.a. download MAME rom, also avaible for the saturn and ps) is my favorite
I also love the combo system used in DoDonPachi, especially on level 5 when the whole screen is covered by enemies and bullets. Can you say 500 kill combo
It's not very strange that the gay joke frequency rises through the roof anytime Linus is mentioned. I mean, he's both a geek and incredibly sexy, right ;)?
It's a set of books, 5 of them, actually. Originally a radio show that aired 'back in the days', before I was born, probably.
Go visit your local library, if you know what that is, and go get the Guide, you won't regret it for the rest of your life!
It's a joke, a joke is supposed to be funny, get it?
It's officially called Trilogy.