What really got me hooked on PC games was DOOM and DOOM II. I hadn't really played any x86 PC games until a buddy of mine let me try out DOOM on his Packard Bell (ewww). That day I spent 6 or 8 hours playing DOOM on his PC... he wasn't too thrilled about that. I eventually talked the parents into bribing me with a new PC to keep my grades up, which eventually led me to the field of Computer Science since I just had to know how it all worked. I have Doom, id Software, my buddy, and my parents to thank for my career.
Before that, I palyed Spy Hunter, Mario Bros., Moon Patrol, Ms. Pacman, and Joust on my Apple IIe for many many years. As a matter of fact I went from a IIe to a Pentium 90... that should tell you how long I played my Apple games. I was a Joust god.
I am sure nothing like this exists yet, but in answer to some of the comments about the problems that can occur if you still have a centralized system you connect to via a client, I wonder if FreeNet(or something like it) could be used to some degree in a situation like this. Programs and data could be stored all over the network like data is on FreeNet. Although, I am sure running a program from a system like this could get interesting. But I think that a distributed approach to this could be the way to go than trying to have a centralized set of servers. I could also be better for privacy. Just an interesting(IMHO) idea to ponder.
The thing I like most about Mozilla and what is coming from the development team isn't the browser (although it is really nice IMHO). I like XUL, and Gecko, and all the other neat little parts in it. I mean there is Galleon and Komodo which are two really cool apps based on the technology. I have thought about using XUL and maybe even Gecko in a game as the engine for the user interface and help system. The browser is great, but I think the ideas, API's, tools, and what not coming out of the whole thing are the most impressive part. Eh, My.02
I work for the "Internet/Intranet development team" of the IT department of a retail business. There are about eight of us. Then there are the girls in the "Telecom" department. Then there is the girl from HR and her roommate, the girl from "Purchasing." We all get together on weekends and go out and have a good time. There is a local pub we like to go hang out at, and one of us has a house where he lives with his girlfriend, who is also in the IT department. We all go play pool, ping-pong, and PS2 there, and watch movies and drink beer and other tasty alcoholic beverages.
We all get along really well. There are actually four of us that live in the same apartment complex, 3 of us right next door to each other and the other not too far away. We are a pretty close-knit group of people.
If one of us needs help moving, or a ride to work or anywhere else, we are all there to help each other out. The management we work for sucks, but we all get along well, and that fact makes this place just bearable enough that we don't leave.
So, I would say yes, there is that kind of bonding and friendship among at least some in TECH/IT.
IBM has provided us with a (IMHO) great Java IDE... Visual Age for Java. Syntax highlighting, nice autoformatting if you want to use it, versioning, autocompletion of method, class, and variable names... a great debugger, good test environment for servlets, JSP's and beans. Great environment. I use it everyday and it really helps productivity and has helped improve my coding style.
Unfortunately it is Not free (of course) and they do not have a Java2 version for linux. They do have a Java 1.1.8 version for linux, and there is supposedly a Java2 version on the way.
I have been curious about the availability of an aftermarket HUD for my car. This would be a great solution.
Of course, there would need to be other equipment to attach to your vehicle... and you would probably want to wirelessly transmit the data from your car to the glasses... but you could keep tabs on everything that is normally on your dash through your glasses... plus other things.
This just gets us back to the whole computer enhanced reality thing of course... but it would be cool!
This shows user@host, current tty your on, time, and date on first line. Second line shows pwd. And its in shiney pretty colors! I have a different color scheme for users than for root. This one is for users. I don't thing any of the characters got munged by the html-ification of it. Looks like there are some extra spaces that get added for some reason. Anyway, there it is.
I like the second one, but I literally fell asleep reading this one. I get tired of hearing people whine about "the man" and the "profiteering glutons" telling society what is cool and how it is so awful. It is really really easy to ignore them you know.
And then, after the rant about the evil empires, the suggestion comes up to create a different one. Why do you need other peoples opinions to decide what you like? Use your own mind, and fsck everyone else. If you like it, like it! Life is too short to worry about it this much. Do something constructive... quit crying.
I was in exactly the same situation in several of my CS classes before I graduated. I had to make my code work in Visual C++ 6, even though I developed on my Debian/GNU Linux box. This was annoying, but when I think about it now, it actually taught me how to make my code more portable. For example, the actual STL and the STL that is in VC++ were different in many respects, M_PI was not defined in VC++ (if I recall), and for OpenGL there were some differences in how to flush the buffer and have it work on both platforms correctly. So it helped me develop the ability to spot the minor differences between platforms and write code that would take them into account.
I hated it when I had to do it, but it made me a better and more well rounded coder in the end. If codewarrior adheres to any standards it should be a trivial task to write code that works in both environments. A little more effort, but worth every bit of it in the end.
I have always been taught that you always try to make your code as lean and fast as possible. It is very obvious Linus was taught the same, and obviously those at Microsoft were not. Heck, Billy Gates dropped out of college, he must have left before he got through cs 101, and missed the "mean and lean" idea.
As far as feature-weak goes...hahahaha...yeah.. okay... you do what I do in Linux and then I might agree with the dude. Hell, I would almost be willing to say I would give him my first born if he could do half of what I do and have seen done, and do it as efficiently and effectively.
... for US. By saying US I mean those of us who are still on the outside watching and learning from what is going on, and who are about to become the people with the oppertunity to fix the mistakes of those who have come before us. I think we can learn what not to do, and what should be done with the whole Open Source/Free Software issue. I don't believe it is rational for us to expect this idea to just work without a growing stage. Things will get better, if WE make them better. If the community really wants this to work, we can make it work... but we may have to be patient.
As I recall, the Mac OS is what makes Macs slow... unless some miracle has occured recently that I am not aware of, or if the "programmers" that write the OS ditched all of their previous work and started from scratch, I imagine that it would be a joke to try to compare the effeciency of the MacOs with any *NIX...
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What is a law if not the government enforcement of a set of morals agreed upon by those being governed?
Take for instance the law against murder. Is that just wrong, or is it wrong because it is immoral?
The EFF has already filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T for aiding the government in this illegal activity, and the Bush administration has already used it's "powers" to begin the "cover-up."
What really got me hooked on PC games was DOOM and DOOM II. I hadn't really played any x86 PC games until a buddy of mine let me try out DOOM on his Packard Bell (ewww). That day I spent 6 or 8 hours playing DOOM on his PC... he wasn't too thrilled about that. I eventually talked the parents into bribing me with a new PC to keep my grades up, which eventually led me to the field of Computer Science since I just had to know how it all worked. I have Doom, id Software, my buddy, and my parents to thank for my career.
Before that, I palyed Spy Hunter, Mario Bros., Moon Patrol, Ms. Pacman, and Joust on my Apple IIe for many many years. As a matter of fact I went from a IIe to a Pentium 90... that should tell you how long I played my Apple games. I was a Joust god.
Sure, sometimes they slice human flesh, but they always make ammends!
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Actually... E17 is more than a window manager... it is suppose to be a desktop shell, which is different than just a window manager... it does more.
Faq entry about desktop shell
It will however, as far as I know (which is relatively little) work with KDE/Gnome.
I think you would call it Whacko Tomacco or wacky tomaccy... you'd get the munchies, so you'd just keep eating them
I am sure nothing like this exists yet, but in answer to some of the comments about the problems that can occur if you still have a centralized system you connect to via a client, I wonder if FreeNet(or something like it) could be used to some degree in a situation like this. Programs and data could be stored all over the network like data is on FreeNet. Although, I am sure running a program from a system like this could get interesting. But I think that a distributed approach to this could be the way to go than trying to have a centralized set of servers. I could also be better for privacy. Just an interesting(IMHO) idea to ponder.
The thing I like most about Mozilla and what is coming from the development team isn't the browser (although it is really nice IMHO). I like XUL, and Gecko, and all the other neat little parts in it. I mean there is Galleon and Komodo which are two really cool apps based on the technology. I have thought about using XUL and maybe even Gecko in a game as the engine for the user interface and help system. The browser is great, but I think the ideas, API's, tools, and what not coming out of the whole thing are the most impressive part. Eh, My .02
I work for the "Internet/Intranet development team" of the IT department of a retail business. There are about eight of us. Then there are the girls in the "Telecom" department. Then there is the girl from HR and her roommate, the girl from "Purchasing." We all get together on weekends and go out and have a good time. There is a local pub we like to go hang out at, and one of us has a house where he lives with his girlfriend, who is also in the IT department. We all go play pool, ping-pong, and PS2 there, and watch movies and drink beer and other tasty alcoholic beverages.
We all get along really well. There are actually four of us that live in the same apartment complex, 3 of us right next door to each other and the other not too far away. We are a pretty close-knit group of people.
If one of us needs help moving, or a ride to work or anywhere else, we are all there to help each other out. The management we work for sucks, but we all get along well, and that fact makes this place just bearable enough that we don't leave.
So, I would say yes, there is that kind of bonding and friendship among at least some in TECH/IT.
IBM has provided us with a (IMHO) great Java IDE... Visual Age for Java. Syntax highlighting, nice autoformatting if you want to use it, versioning, autocompletion of method, class, and variable names... a great debugger, good test environment for servlets, JSP's and beans. Great environment. I use it everyday and it really helps productivity and has helped improve my coding style.
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Unfortunately it is Not free (of course) and they do not have a Java2 version for linux. They do have a Java 1.1.8 version for linux, and there is supposedly a Java2 version on the way.
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I have been curious about the availability of an aftermarket HUD for my car. This would be a great solution.
Of course, there would need to be other equipment to attach to your vehicle... and you would probably want to wirelessly transmit the data from your car to the glasses... but you could keep tabs on everything that is normally on your dash through your glasses... plus other things.
This just gets us back to the whole computer enhanced reality thing of course... but it would be cool!
Mandrake (of enlightenement and other fame) has/had his prompt on his site (mandrake.net) and I took it and modified it to my liking. Here it is.
TERMIMON=`tty|cut -d/ -f3`
COLOR1="\[\033[1;36m\]"
COLOR2="\[\033[1;34m\]"
COLOR3="\[\033[1;33m\]"
COLOR4="\[\033[0m\]"
export PS1="$COLOR3<DA>$COLOR3<C4>$COLOR2[$CO LOR1\u$COLOR3@$COLOR 1\h$COLOR2]$COLOR3<C4>$COLOR2[$COLOR1$TERMIM ON$COLOR2] $COLOR3<C4>$COLOR2[$COLOR1\$(date +%I:%M%P)$COLOR3:$COLOR1\$(date +%m/%d
/%y)$COLOR2]$COLOR3<C4>$COLOR3<C4>$COL OR4\n$COLOR3<C0>$COLOR3<C4>$ COLOR2[$COLOR1\w$COLOR2]$COLOR3>$COLOR4 "
This shows user@host, current tty your on, time, and date on first line. Second line shows pwd. And its in shiney pretty colors! I have a different color scheme for users than for root. This one is for users. I don't thing any of the characters got munged by the html-ification of it. Looks like there are some extra spaces that get added for some reason. Anyway, there it is.
I like the second one, but I literally fell asleep reading this one. I get tired of hearing people whine about "the man" and the "profiteering glutons" telling society what is cool and how it is so awful. It is really really easy to ignore them you know.
And then, after the rant about the evil empires, the suggestion comes up to create a different one. Why do you need other peoples opinions to decide what you like? Use your own mind, and fsck everyone else. If you like it, like it! Life is too short to worry about it this much. Do something constructive... quit crying.
I was in exactly the same situation in several of my CS classes before I graduated. I had to make my code work in Visual C++ 6, even though I developed on my Debian/GNU Linux box. This was annoying, but when I think about it now, it actually taught me how to make my code more portable. For example, the actual STL and the STL that is in VC++ were different in many respects, M_PI was not defined in VC++ (if I recall), and for OpenGL there were some differences in how to flush the buffer and have it work on both platforms correctly. So it helped me develop the ability to spot the minor differences between platforms and write code that would take them into account.
I hated it when I had to do it, but it made me a better and more well rounded coder in the end. If codewarrior adheres to any standards it should be a trivial task to write code that works in both environments. A little more effort, but worth every bit of it in the end.
I have always been taught that you always try to make your code as lean and fast as possible. It is very obvious Linus was taught the same, and obviously those at Microsoft were not. Heck, Billy Gates dropped out of college, he must have left before he got through cs 101, and missed the "mean and lean" idea.
As far as feature-weak goes...hahahaha...yeah.. okay... you do what I do in Linux and then I might agree with the dude. Hell, I would almost be willing to say I would give him my first born if he could do half of what I do and have seen done, and do it as efficiently and effectively.
(Sorry for any spelling errors)
... for US. By saying US I mean those of us who are still on the outside watching and learning from what is going on, and who are about to become the people with the oppertunity to fix the mistakes of those who have come before us. I think we can learn what not to do, and what should be done with the whole Open Source/Free Software issue. I don't believe it is rational for us to expect this idea to just work without a growing stage. Things will get better, if WE make them better. If the community really wants this to work, we can make it work... but we may have to be patient.
As I recall, the Mac OS is what makes Macs slow... unless some miracle has occured recently that I am not aware of, or if the "programmers" that write the OS ditched all of their previous work and started from scratch, I imagine that it would be a joke to try to compare the effeciency of the MacOs with any *NIX...