True, but quick and simple tools are also valuable. I'm a newbie in this area, but I miss something straighforward like Fruit Loops, on which I created a (rather bad) song using only unedited Quake 3 sounds.
In fact, I tried many Linux trackers, but Fruit Loops was the only one I was able to easely understand and use, though I have not tried really hard.
I live in a third world country, and my parents came from a poor rural area. Having an encyclopedia at home there was not uncommon, even in the 1970's.
I don't think skinning and eye-candy is that important. Winamp2 interface is good enough. There are other more important fields to advance. I would like to have a MPlayer backend to play all the media files in XMMS. (There is also a plugin for video files, but why not a plugin to play *every* file through MPlayer?)
I disagree about cinematic action, but surely Doom 1 is the best first person game ever made. Suberb level design and atmosphere, and truly fast-paced action with LOTS of enemies. I never expected Doom 3 to be as good, it's just eye candy to me. Nothing comes close to Doom 1 and 2.
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13. There are times the 'unless' fits right in. Like when the action will take place by default, but have some exception. Like
print $dirname unless $dirname =~/\A\.[\.]+\Z/;
16. Spagheti code is evil, not goto. Since Perl have more flexible flow control, I don't remember to have used it yet, but when coding in C, sometimes I use goto to cleanly escape a function that deals with many resources. It really can make the code much simpler and more readable by avoiding having many exit points. resource* get_r1() {
resource r1 = NULL;
resource r2 = NULL;
resource r3 = NULL;
r1 = alloc_resource();
if(r1 == NULL) {
perror("blah");
return NULL;
}
r2 = alloc_resource();
if(r2 == NULL) {
perror("blah");
free_resource(r1);
return NULL;
}
r3 = alloc_resource();
if(r3 == NULL) {
perror("blah");
free_resource(r1);
free_resource(r2);
return NULL;
}
use_resources(r1, r2, r3);
free_resource(r2);
free_resource(r3);
return r1; }
4. I disagree. The tab is useful. The fact that they display differently in various terminals/editors is a FEATURE! But I agree that mixing spaces and tabs is a bad idea.
6. bullshit. That's personal taste.
13. utter bullshit. What's confusing about 'unless'? It may be unique to perl, but it's a pretty obvious english word.
14. bah
16. good! good that you don't prohibit gotos
18. bullshit. The $_ variable has a nice semantic value. Of course it should be used only in small blocks.
21. hmm.. Sometimes it's nice to declare them near place they're used.
22. Sometimes it makes sense to declare many inter-related variables on one line. Like my ($display_width, $display_height);
23. nice. I prever to use just g_
26. I like to use dashes instead #---------
29. hun?
perl optimization vs general optimization
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Optimizing Perl
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Many optimizations listed in the article are not pertinent to Perl, but to any programming language, and as such are inapropriate to be there. Like the part about avoiding calling functions inside loops, short-circuit logic, sorting, etc..
But there are some good tips there, too: the part about string handling, references, and the AutoLoader.
I know the parent was (trying to be) funny, but I'll reply seriously, with another new concept on GUI programming: Zero Memory Widget, that uses no memory at all!
Many years ago there was NPR Quake, a mod for Quake I that adds a new rendering system that looks like hand-made pencil drawing. Checkthesescreenshots.
Why editors still don't point to BugMeNot, instead of just complaining about the compulsory registration?
There's even a nice Firefox extension. Last time I checked, it was not on the official extensions page anymore, but you can grab it from the original homepage. It's working here, with the latest (0.10.1) version of Firefox.
i absolutely refuse to sell/give my cd's to people i know that swap mp3's online. I've worked too hard and spent too much time and money to have some pimply faced teen downloading my music for free
I feel the oposite. I spent too much time and money to get my CDs, so the more people benefit from them, the better.
I bought roughly 200 CDs, in the pre-mp3 era. I just think I gave RIAA enough money, and since late 90's I never bought a CD anymore. Now I grab albums from edonkey.
Re:been there, done that
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Glitch Art
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Oh, just forgot to say: these were not intentional. They happened while we were regurlarly using the computer labs..:P
Slashdot Mirror
My time is preciouss.
:)
And you're not only reading, but also posting in slashdot.
Riiiiiiiight....
True, but quick and simple tools are also valuable.
I'm a newbie in this area, but I miss something straighforward like Fruit Loops, on which I created a (rather bad) song using only unedited Quake 3 sounds.
In fact, I tried many Linux trackers, but Fruit Loops was the only one I was able to easely understand and use, though I have not tried really hard.
I live in a third world country, and my parents came from a poor rural area. Having an encyclopedia at home there was not uncommon, even in the 1970's.
To someone not in europe or north america, this may be the only encyclopedia they ever see.
Are you kidding?
Any half-decent citzen of any quarter-decent country has access to an encyclopedia , and in it's own language.
Or at least the source of the great viz plugin AVS. That's the only thing I miss in XMMS.
I don't think skinning and eye-candy is that important. Winamp2 interface is good enough. There are other more important fields to advance. I would like to have a MPlayer backend to play all the media files in XMMS. (There is also a plugin for video files, but why not a plugin to play *every* file through MPlayer?)
I disagree about cinematic action, but surely Doom 1 is the best first person game ever made. Suberb level design and atmosphere, and truly fast-paced action with LOTS of enemies. I never expected Doom 3 to be as good, it's just eye candy to me. Nothing comes close to Doom 1 and 2.
WTF???
/\A\.[\.]+\Z/;
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13. There are times the 'unless' fits right in. Like when the action will take place by default, but have some exception. Like
print $dirname unless $dirname =~
16. Spagheti code is evil, not goto. Since Perl have more flexible flow control, I don't remember to have used it yet, but when coding in C, sometimes I use goto to cleanly escape a function that deals with many resources. It really can make the code much simpler and more readable by avoiding having many exit points.
resource* get_r1()
{
resource r1 = NULL;
resource r2 = NULL;
resource r3 = NULL;
r1 = alloc_resource();
if(r1 == NULL) {
perror("blah");
return NULL;
}
r2 = alloc_resource();
if(r2 == NULL) {
perror("blah");
free_resource(r1);
return NULL;
}
r3 = alloc_resource();
if(r3 == NULL) {
perror("blah");
free_resource(r1);
free_resource(r2);
return NULL;
}
use_resources(r1, r2, r3);
free_resource(r2);
free_resource(r3);
return r1;
}
I much prefer:
resource* get_r1()
{
resource r1 = NULL;
resource r2 = NULL;
resource r3 = NULL;
r1 = alloc_resource();
if(r1 == NULL) goto error;
r2 = alloc_resource();
if(r2 == NULL) goto error;
r3 = alloc_resource();
if(r3 == NULL) goto error;
use_resources(r1, r2, r3);
goto clean;
error:
perror("blah");
if(r1 != NULL) free_resource(r1);
clean:
if(r2 != NULL) free_resource(r2);
if(r3 != NULL) free_resource(r3);
return r1;
}
29. Oh!.. a printout. That makes sense. I just coundn't think of a reason for that lines. It's just that I never chop trees to look at code.
4. I disagree. The tab is useful. The fact that they display differently in various terminals/editors is a FEATURE! But I agree that mixing spaces and tabs is a bad idea.
6. bullshit. That's personal taste.
13. utter bullshit. What's confusing about 'unless'? It may be unique to perl, but it's a pretty obvious english word.
14. bah
16. good! good that you don't prohibit gotos
18. bullshit. The $_ variable has a nice semantic value. Of course it should be used only in small blocks.
21. hmm.. Sometimes it's nice to declare them near place they're used.
22. Sometimes it makes sense to declare many inter-related variables on one line. Like my ($display_width, $display_height);
23. nice. I prever to use just g_
26. I like to use dashes instead #---------
29. hun?
Many optimizations listed in the article are not pertinent to Perl, but to any programming language, and as such are inapropriate to be there. Like the part about avoiding calling functions inside loops, short-circuit logic, sorting, etc..
But there are some good tips there, too: the part about string handling, references, and the AutoLoader.
If so, why not warez cadega?
Well, id did that with Doom3.
They started writing it before the hardware capable of running it actually existed.
I know the parent was (trying to be) funny, but I'll reply seriously, with another new concept on GUI programming: Zero Memory Widget, that uses no memory at all!
Many years ago there was NPR Quake, a mod for Quake I that adds a new rendering system that looks like hand-made pencil drawing.
Check these screenshots.
And here is a more modern version.
I've been asking, since Quake 3, for a mod to turn the in-game console into a full text terminal. You could post via elinks then..
Why editors still don't point to BugMeNot, instead of just complaining about the compulsory registration?
There's even a nice Firefox extension. Last time I checked, it was not on the official extensions page anymore, but you can grab it from the original homepage. It's working here, with the latest (0.10.1) version of Firefox.
or just drag it and drop on the tab bar (over an existing tab to load there, or onto an empty space (or the 'x' button) to create a new one)
the password is "www.eselfilme.com"
have fun.
i absolutely refuse to sell/give my cd's to people i know that swap mp3's online. I've worked too hard and spent too much time and money to have some pimply faced teen downloading my music for free
I feel the oposite.
I spent too much time and money to get my CDs, so the more people benefit from them, the better.
You don't care, but I'll say it: it is not a joke.
That was what I felt like when I saw the 9/11 news on the TV.
1) 60%
2) 0%
3) 1%
4) 30%
5) 9%
I bought roughly 200 CDs, in the pre-mp3 era.
I just think I gave RIAA enough money, and since late 90's I never bought a CD anymore. Now I grab albums from edonkey.
Oh, just forgot to say: these were not intentional. They happened while we were regurlarly using the computer labs.. :P
..but I like the raw style: no post producing, just take photos from the screen.
This one is my favourite (I'm the guy at the right), but there are some other good ones.
FFFFFFFFF PPPPPPPP
FF PP PP
FF PP PP
FFFFFF PPPPPPPP
FF PP
FF PP
FF PP
FF PP
i love the ability to preview a divx download remotely on a text terminal
why a similar site, and not this same site?
it's a wiki..