Godel, Escher and Bach is a damned good book, and any self-respecting geek should have read it. Twice.
Other favourites include Capital by Marx, Crime & Punishment by Dostoeyevsky, Also Spracht Zarathustra (Nietzsche), The Fountainhead (Rand), The heart of a dog (Bulgakov) and Dubliners (Joyce).
If you're a programmer, the last thing you're going to want to read are code books.
I agree - the Nazis had the best dress sense of any governmental organisation *ever* - some seriously good look! Bit of a shame that they developed into a bunch of xenophobic genocidal maniacs.
Nah, this sucks. What kind of total airhead comes up with this kind of thing? I think he's full of hot air. Anyhow, his entire paper is just twisted facts. Wait until the media frenzy blows over, and you'll see that this is just another investment siphon.
True, although adverts in AO tend to be pretty unobtrusive - they appear on billboards which usually just have game-related advertising anyhow. And the adverts are pretty well tailored to the audience - Massive Inc seem to know their business pretty well.
I was fiercly hooked - I'd generally have my first drink by about 11am, and generally wouldn't stop until I passed out sometime early the next morning - that went on for a good 6 months. I then quit cold turkey. Which hurt. A lot. And I do still drink, just not in any quantity ever - if I didn't ever drink again, I'd always be scared, always unsure - the fact that I *can*, and I *can* put it down, and walk away now is reassuring.
I'll second you on that. I found anarchy online (MMORPG) during the summer after my first year at uni. It cost me my girlfriend of 2 years, and also almost my degree.... I managed to kick the game habit when she dumped me (guess it gave me something else to worry about), however I did end up as an alcoholic and with a fierce coke habit. A year of that, and I was fine... Got my degree (2:1 in Physics, huzzah!), and now doing quite nicely tyvm.
I think it's very much something that people need to 'get out of their system' - I still drink, I still play AO from time to time (once every few weeks, at most), but I no longer feel the same compulsion that I used to to do either of the above.
Games, alcohol, drugs, whatever - none of them are the 'devil' - all you have to face is the devil inside yourself. Let it take over for a bit - it'll make you stronger when you kick it in the ass.
Seriously - why don't they just leave the maps thing alone - the market is saturated - we have, what, google maps, microsoft maps (or whatever they call it), mapquest, map24, mapit, streetmap, maporama, and the list goes on. If they're not bringing *anything* innovative or new to the table, what the £"$£ is the point?!
Slashdot Mirror
They've gone down!
No, they need a mirror. They go down if they don't have one. Actually, screw it. Don't give them a mirror.
E17 is a desktop shell. It is aiming to be of the kin of KDE or Gnome, and the toolkits supplied (evas etc) are nothing short of incredible.
Get E!
Whether the mice become sentient or not, you can be sure some lawyer will file a class action suit on their behalf.
Rand... Communist.... sure..... And Marx wasn't a communist. Nor was he a Marxist.
Not to forget The fatal eggs
which man? cat man?
kill man.
Godel, Escher and Bach is a damned good book, and any self-respecting geek should have read it. Twice.
Other favourites include Capital by Marx, Crime & Punishment by Dostoeyevsky, Also Spracht Zarathustra (Nietzsche), The Fountainhead (Rand), The heart of a dog (Bulgakov) and Dubliners (Joyce).
If you're a programmer, the last thing you're going to want to read are code books.
Actually it's a market depth view. Each column displays the buy and sell side of the market, and the associated depth & volumes.
I agree - the Nazis had the best dress sense of any governmental organisation *ever* - some seriously good look! Bit of a shame that they developed into a bunch of xenophobic genocidal maniacs.
Of course not.
More pictures and videos here
As an aside, does anyone else have problems with copy/paste in firefox 1.5?
It really looks like a Fossa - usually native to Madagascar. Wikipedia Fossa.
It's a member of the Viverridae family, which is fairly poorly known, due to their being a) nocturnal b) rare and c) furtive.
Nah, this sucks. What kind of total airhead comes up with this kind of thing? I think he's full of hot air. Anyhow, his entire paper is just twisted facts. Wait until the media frenzy blows over, and you'll see that this is just another investment siphon.
Mmmmm Unicorns.
True, although adverts in AO tend to be pretty unobtrusive - they appear on billboards which usually just have game-related advertising anyhow. And the adverts are pretty well tailored to the audience - Massive Inc seem to know their business pretty well.
Like this : here
I was fiercly hooked - I'd generally have my first drink by about 11am, and generally wouldn't stop until I passed out sometime early the next morning - that went on for a good 6 months. I then quit cold turkey. Which hurt. A lot. And I do still drink, just not in any quantity ever - if I didn't ever drink again, I'd always be scared, always unsure - the fact that I *can*, and I *can* put it down, and walk away now is reassuring.
Yeah and my abacus is ready to use just like *that* so STFU both of you.
I'll second you on that. I found anarchy online (MMORPG) during the summer after my first year at uni. It cost me my girlfriend of 2 years, and also almost my degree.... I managed to kick the game habit when she dumped me (guess it gave me something else to worry about), however I did end up as an alcoholic and with a fierce coke habit. A year of that, and I was fine... Got my degree (2:1 in Physics, huzzah!), and now doing quite nicely tyvm.
I think it's very much something that people need to 'get out of their system' - I still drink, I still play AO from time to time (once every few weeks, at most), but I no longer feel the same compulsion that I used to to do either of the above.
Games, alcohol, drugs, whatever - none of them are the 'devil' - all you have to face is the devil inside yourself. Let it take over for a bit - it'll make you stronger when you kick it in the ass.
There already is.
Venereal?
I store all of my data in relational arrays. Written on napkins. In my sock drawer (sockd!).
This is how we have run hotmail for the last 7 years. *ducks*
Seriously - why don't they just leave the maps thing alone - the market is saturated - we have, what, google maps, microsoft maps (or whatever they call it), mapquest, map24, mapit, streetmap, maporama, and the list goes on. If they're not bringing *anything* innovative or new to the table, what the £"$£ is the point?!