Having more than one person on a project helps a whole lot. Especially when you have people with different skills that are all good coders.
I'm working on a "hobby" project right now, where we have 1 person that does alot of the major coding because he is really good with the catagory the software falls into. Another person codes the UIs, and I do alot of other work, planning and support (I coded the network classes for our project, for example). Things are working quite well, it's been really nice.
I've seen almost every single Star Trek episode and movie in existance (except Voyager and DS9, which I didn't like very much).
We *do* have too much of the same old thing. The recent episode "Chosen Realm" just proved to me my long-standing idea that I hate Archer's command style.
Senario: People take over the ship and say that they will destroy it and themselves. Their leader is on the bridge saying he's now in command and he could order anyone to detonate an explosive.
Kirk: Give a neat speech on freedom, probably in a discussion with Bones and Spock in his quarters, then take over the ship, using Spock's Vulcan Neck Pinch to disable guards.
Picard: Give a rather short speech on the morals of terrorism (ala, that episode where Beverly falls in "love" with the terrorist). Then end up in front of the Master Control Board saying "Computer: Enable Auto-Destruct Sequence, code blah..."... "Alright, you say you'll destroy us, we'll destroy ourselves just to show how wrong your viewpoint is.
Archer: Allow them to take over the ship. At first I was wondering what happened to the marines, I expected a full scale phaser battle for the ship. But right ask I vocalize that Q, I see the marines being herded into a room...
I don't know about you, but playing along can really expose a Captain's weakness infront of his crew, which is something no Captain would ever do ("The Enemy Within" TOS).
I'd say, give it a 4th season, if they can't come up with anything better, then cancel it and give Star Trek a decade to refresh itself, like the 70's all over again.
(and btw, "Chosen Realm" was just like the TOS episode with the half Black, half White faced people... the name of the episode escapes me at the moment....)
And GET RID OF THAT SILLY TITLE SEQUENCE! We need a good "Where no man has gone before" from Archer!
First, you didn't seem to realize that I AM AN AMERICAN (I live outside Chicago, IL).
"Well, I'm sure you'd rather enjoy having your spouse or parent killed"
Of course not, but (maybe it's been slow news lately), things could be far, far worse, and many people don't seem to get that.
"And uh, civil rights are only suspended in a real war?"
Have civil rights been suspended by Congress? No.
"I don't think I need to say anything."
I was just highlighting the major strategical strategies (to modify a word with its own adjective). I probably went too general there and sounded a little racist (as pointed out by a good friend).
" it's technically a federal democratic republic."
Of course, but being on/., we know these things, the typical high school student (my peers, don't).
" aren't necessarily true, like, "All Americans ' want to do is conquer Iraq for it's oil", or, "Americans are always messing up the world""
Did I say either of those? No. There were some important reasons to remove Former President Hussein from his post (to put it lightly). But there were also some not-so-good ones.
"I'd like to recall for you several serious things happening to us in the past 100 years:"
Strangely, you seem to have made my point with that list. I have nothing to add there.
"The lemmings bit is laughable"
Just from what I see around me where I live...
"It's perfectly fine and dandy for him, but saying, "May God bless the Iraqis", is very stupid!"
I agree.
"some anti-American thing because of one(maybe even several) stupid mistake(s) made by a stupid man"
hmm... wasn't intended as anti-American (more like anti-no-thought, as I am American).
"It's almost like you forgot WW2 ever happened!"
The comment about the Japanese was based on their WW2 determination as a people to win at all costs. The rest of the time, I didn't mention it, mainly because we (Americans) didn't make many mistakes. One of the major ones being that we chose to ignore and even told the French Resistance to stop feeding up intel on the Holocaust due to no particular Allied country wanting an influx of Jewish refugees. It's pity we didn't join the fight sooner, we could have possibly saved many lives.
" calling everyone that was not a radical republican a lemming"
I am NOT a radical republican. And the big caps thing was just a random phrase anyway:).
" Just a thought...
Where?"
Good one.
Thank you for a well-thoughtout post that obviously took a great deal of time to format so nicely.:).
It's late for me, so I didn't make my reply look as good as yours, but I hope it clears up any misunderstandings (not that there were any, you sort of made my point(s)).
We've had several centuries to figure war out, but it seems people in this country (USA) don't seem to get it. We constantly hear about 1 (ONE!) soldier getting killed and everyone is so sad about it. I'd hate to be around to see when the US finally faces an actual war (fully declared by Congress, civil rights suspended, etc). If we face an actual conflict/war with a large, highly organized force, I only hope the top guys will figure things out quick enough that we don't end up with the fight on our own turf. We would end up with much more than this 200 we keep hearing about for Iraq.
Anyway, with this simulator, I'm interesting in what kind of AI is being used. Different countries have different fighting styles. The Japanese will just keep coming until the last man/woman/child/ house pet has run out of ammo and killed he/she/it's self. The Germans will be highly organized and efficient. Mexicans will try to either surround you or divide-and-conquer. Is this sort of thing being taken into account?
Either way, as they say "The sun never sets on the American Empire.". I'd bet Bush can fit the order to take over the planet into 2 sentences.
Now, people, think. The typical American doesn't even know that we AREN'T a democracy, we are a Republic. Heck 1/2 of Americans don't know the time period of their own Civil War. Americans in general don't think a whole lot, and we'll be in deep... stuff if we ever have anything serious happen.
DON'T BE LEMMINGS, VOTE FAR RIGHT! THE PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO RULE!
If this post gets modded down, I know then that/. isn't the place for people who understand History and when it's about to be repeated (sad for us then, that it's full of mistakes...)
RH9 was the only Linux distro (and the first) that I ever tried. It was ok, the only reason I don't use it anymore is that 1024x768 resolution wouldn't work on the computer I was using at the time.
When I get another harddrive for my current computer, it'll definitely have Fedora on it before you can say "Put it on your main drive, you Windows Troll!".
First of all, I like fixed-width font, dunno why just do.
The reason I use these "piece-of-shit" line breaks is because I like properly formatted text. At some point I could indent my paragraphs as well. This just makes it slightly easier to read as the eyes don't have to go all the way across the screen. (that was BS, wasn't it;)).
I'm also paranoid/obsessive about horizontal scrollbars, even though they are likely impossible around here.
How many people watched the Nova show about Spirit? It was absolutely fascinating how many obsticles have to be overcome and how much it must cost (yep, that's where the $400 Mil comes in, I suppose...). At the end, it really gives you a good feeling when you finally see the rocket liftoff.:)
much about how the brain really works except for approximately what section does what, and basicly how nuerons themselves work (think neural nets (AI)), and how certain drugs affect the brain in whatever ways. (Am I right about the above, not entirely sure, based on the "monkeys use remote control" article?)
It's entirely possible that many of these so called "diseases" are entirely normal. For example, being gay was once considered a disease. Is this really much different?
how Congress will aprove huge sums of money the second anyone has Weapons of Mass Destruction, but when it comes to creation or anything interesting, they don't care...
We could take that $87 bil. and build 10 perfectly good NCC 1701s, except with M2P2 propulsion instead of warp...
But it doesn't mean we should continue to make files bigger and bigger.
If anything, we should compress everything, and have even more space. There's no reason to fill a 1TB drive as quickly as it can be these days. Compress, Compress, Compress.
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Having more than one person on a project helps
a whole lot. Especially when you have people
with different skills that are all good coders.
I'm working on a "hobby" project right now, where
we have 1 person that does alot of the major coding
because he is really good with the catagory the
software falls into. Another person codes the
UIs, and I do alot of other work, planning and
support (I coded the network classes for our
project, for example). Things are working quite
well, it's been really nice.
Does anyone have a registration free link to the article?
You can't forget about Data.
:)
Data will always be my favorite android!
that runs factoring software on a supercomp for
a month win?
I've seen almost every single Star Trek episode
and movie in existance (except Voyager and DS9,
which I didn't like very much).
We *do* have too much of the same old thing. The
recent episode "Chosen Realm" just proved to me
my long-standing idea that I hate Archer's
command style.
Senario:
People take over the ship and say
that they will destroy it and themselves.
Their leader is on the bridge saying he's now
in command and he could order anyone to detonate
an explosive.
Kirk:
Give a neat speech on freedom, probably in a
discussion with Bones and Spock in his quarters,
then take over the ship, using Spock's Vulcan
Neck Pinch to disable guards.
Picard:
Give a rather short speech on the morals of
terrorism (ala, that episode where Beverly falls
in "love" with the terrorist). Then end up in
front of the Master Control Board saying "Computer:
Enable Auto-Destruct Sequence, code blah..."...
"Alright, you say you'll destroy us, we'll destroy
ourselves just to show how wrong your viewpoint is.
Archer:
Allow them to take over the ship.
At first I was wondering what happened to the
marines, I expected a full scale phaser battle
for the ship. But right ask I vocalize that Q,
I see the marines being herded into a room...
I don't know about you, but playing along can
really expose a Captain's weakness infront of
his crew, which is something no Captain would
ever do ("The Enemy Within" TOS).
I'd say, give it a 4th season, if they can't
come up with anything better, then cancel it
and give Star Trek a decade to refresh itself,
like the 70's all over again.
(and btw, "Chosen Realm" was just like the
TOS episode with the half Black, half White faced
people... the name of the episode escapes me at
the moment....)
And GET RID OF THAT SILLY TITLE SEQUENCE!
We need a good "Where no man has gone before"
from Archer!
Just a thought...
oops, duhh.. Of, course. You're right. I guess I wasn't thinking there, sorry.
How are they going to know if someone is 18 or not?
On the web, all you have to do is click "Yes" or
"I agree" and your in, it's not exactly "secure".
I can just see "Press 1 if your over 18, now".
First, you didn't seem to realize that I AM AN AMERICAN (I live outside Chicago, IL).
/., we know these things,
:).
:).
"Well, I'm sure you'd rather enjoy having your spouse or parent killed"
Of course not, but (maybe it's been slow news lately), things could be far, far worse, and many people don't seem to get that.
"And uh, civil rights are only suspended in a real war?"
Have civil rights been suspended by Congress? No.
"I don't think I need to say anything."
I was just highlighting the major strategical
strategies (to modify a word with its own adjective). I probably went too general there
and sounded a little racist (as pointed out by
a good friend).
" it's technically a federal democratic republic."
Of course, but being on
the typical high school student (my peers, don't).
" aren't necessarily true, like, "All Americans ' want to do is conquer Iraq for it's oil", or, "Americans are always messing up the world""
Did I say either of those? No. There were some
important reasons to remove Former President Hussein from his post (to put it lightly). But there were also some not-so-good ones.
"I'd like to recall for you several serious things happening to us in the past 100 years:"
Strangely, you seem to have made my point with that list. I have nothing to add there.
"The lemmings bit is laughable"
Just from what I see around me where I live...
"It's perfectly fine and dandy for him, but saying, "May God bless the Iraqis", is very stupid!"
I agree.
"some anti-American thing because of one(maybe even several) stupid mistake(s) made by a stupid man"
hmm... wasn't intended as anti-American (more like anti-no-thought, as I am American).
"It's almost like you forgot WW2 ever happened!"
The comment about the Japanese was based on their WW2 determination as a people to win at all costs.
The rest of the time, I didn't mention it, mainly
because we (Americans) didn't make many mistakes.
One of the major ones being that we chose to ignore and even told the French Resistance to stop feeding up intel on the Holocaust due to no particular Allied country wanting an influx of Jewish refugees. It's pity we didn't join the fight sooner, we could have possibly saved many
lives.
" calling everyone that was not a radical republican a lemming"
I am NOT a radical republican. And the big caps
thing was just a random phrase anyway
" Just a thought...
Where?"
Good one.
Thank you for a well-thoughtout post that obviously took a great deal of time to format
so nicely.
It's late for me, so I didn't make my reply
look as good as yours, but I hope it clears up any misunderstandings (not that there were any, you sort of made my point(s)).
cout "Thanks" endl;
cout "Bye" endl;
Anyone here seen the History Channel?
... stuff if we ever have anything
/. isn't the place for people who understand
We've had several centuries to figure war
out, but it seems people in this country (USA)
don't seem to get it. We constantly hear about
1 (ONE!) soldier getting killed and everyone is
so sad about it. I'd hate to be around to see
when the US finally faces an actual war (fully
declared by Congress, civil rights suspended, etc).
If we face an actual conflict/war with a large,
highly organized force, I only hope the top guys
will figure things out quick enough that we don't
end up with the fight on our own turf. We would
end up with much more than this 200 we keep
hearing about for Iraq.
Anyway, with this simulator, I'm interesting in
what kind of AI is being used. Different countries
have different fighting styles. The Japanese will
just keep coming until the last man/woman/child/
house pet has run out of ammo and killed he/she/it's self. The Germans will be highly organized
and efficient. Mexicans will try to either surround you or divide-and-conquer. Is this sort
of thing being taken into account?
Either way, as they say "The sun never sets on
the American Empire.". I'd bet Bush can fit the
order to take over the planet into 2 sentences.
Now, people, think. The typical American doesn't
even know that we AREN'T a democracy, we are a
Republic. Heck 1/2 of Americans don't know the
time period of their own Civil War. Americans
in general don't think a whole lot, and we'll
be in deep
serious happen.
DON'T BE LEMMINGS, VOTE FAR RIGHT! THE PEOPLE
ARE SUPPOSED TO RULE!
If this post gets modded down, I know then that
History and when it's about to be repeated (sad
for us then, that it's full of mistakes...)
Just a thought...
I've just patent scroll bars.
You used one to get to this comment, didn't you?
PAY ME!
Didn't URLs get invented along with internet-like
systems?
If they did, subdomains is just the most logical
thing to you can add to URLs...
They HAVE to lose and the USPTO needs to start
doing a better time figuring out what patents
are BS and which are not...
Just a thought...
RH9 was the only Linux distro (and the first) that
I ever tried. It was ok, the only reason I don't
use it anymore is that 1024x768 resolution
wouldn't work on the computer I was using at the
time.
When I get another harddrive for my current
computer, it'll definitely have Fedora on it
before you can say "Put it on your main drive,
you Windows Troll!".
First of all, I like fixed-width font, dunno
;)).
why just do.
The reason I use these "piece-of-shit" line breaks
is because I like properly formatted text. At some
point I could indent my paragraphs as well. This
just makes it slightly easier to read as the eyes
don't have to go all the way across the screen.
(that was BS, wasn't it
I'm also paranoid/obsessive about horizontal
scrollbars, even though they are likely impossible
around here.
Where's the artificial object in that pic? All I see is a necktie...
I didn't think it would be 1MP camera either..
:)
How many people watched the Nova show about
Spirit? It was absolutely fascinating how many
obsticles have to be overcome and how much it
must cost (yep, that's where the $400 Mil comes
in, I suppose...). At the end, it really gives
you a good feeling when you finally see the rocket
liftoff.
There is no spoon...
Oh wait, that'd be evidence...
now I can fit more episodes of Star Trek
on 1 disk!
Seriously though, I personally love DVDs as I've
had some terrible experiences with VHS tapes
CONSTANTLY getting eaten by the VCR...
a maglev train?
:)
They are cool and all, but why aren't trains
fast enough to begin with?
I still want to hear choo-choo! chugga-chugga!
(Yes, I know that's backwards..)
Atleast I can build my own and my cat can get
around the house easier
much about how the brain really works except
for approximately what section does what, and
basicly how nuerons themselves work (think
neural nets (AI)), and how certain drugs affect
the brain in whatever ways.
(Am I right about the above, not entirely sure,
based on the "monkeys use remote control"
article?)
It's entirely possible that many of these so
called "diseases" are entirely normal. For
example, being gay was once considered a disease.
Is this really much different?
Hopefully the moon will end up with a similar
status to Antartica, except with considerably
more people living there.
how Congress will aprove huge sums of money
the second anyone has Weapons of Mass Destruction,
but when it comes to creation or anything interesting, they don't care...
We could take that $87 bil. and build 10 perfectly
good NCC 1701s, except with M2P2 propulsion
instead of warp...
Not sure I like the analogy between cigars and
HDs... Do you want your HD on fire?
Although, If my HD was on fire, I might get depressed enough to smoke it...
that we can be sued for using an elevator?
30 years from now it will *still* just be
elevator music...
But it doesn't mean we should continue to make
files bigger and bigger.
If anything, we should compress everything, and
have even more space. There's no reason to fill
a 1TB drive as quickly as it can be these days.
Compress, Compress, Compress.
How long until a 1TB iPod?