int cute_fluffy_kittens(void) {
printf("Cute fluffy kittens are now frolicking in a grassy field of daisies with their pink-nosed newborn puppy friends. Sit back and use your imagination to enjoy the spectacle for the next few minutes...\n");
I'm glad I could finally find some criticisms of Lua (it doesn't seem commonly-used enough to easily find them hehe). I recently picked it up as another language to learn, knowing it's occasionally used in games and embedded system development, but have yet to do anything serious with it. It's quite a syntactically elegant language and I've not had a hard time learning it (wish I could say the same for PROLOG which I'm taking this semester... *shudder*), but what you say worries me some. It certainly doesn't sound like a scripting language one would want to use in a time-critical game or application. Maybe turn-based gaming, but not realtime games. Perhaps by the time I "fluently" know Lua enough to comfortably use it in one of my projects, 5.1 will be out at the end of the year and will hopefully remember some of these efficiency problems. Not sure about that, though, but I'm sure Roberto Ierueclmf...whatever-his-name-is is aware of these issues, I hope.
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Hmm, I figured it out, I think; there is a PYTHONPATH environment variable I should have set to/usr/lib/python2.4.
However, some Python-using software still doesn't load module "os" (and presumably any of the other default modules), even after setting this env var; so I ran Python and did "import sys", then "sys.paths". Python itself was still, for some reason ignoring my PYTHONPATH variable, but there was a series of nonexistant subdirectories in my home directory it was looking for. Making one of those a symbolic link to/usr/lib/python2.4 has fixed this.
Now if I can remember the name of that music tracker I wanted to try a week ago...
Either I forgot to do something on my system, or Python is, in my experience, unreliable at best. Most Linux programs that utilize Python that I've downloaded, didn't work; there's usually a missing, necessary Python module the program needs which either requires downloading from an obscure site or doesn't seem to exist at all from Google searches, or even with names that seem they ought already be included (like a module named "os" from a Python-using music tracker program I tried to run). The only program I've used that works seamlessly with Python without fatal problems has been Blender; then again, it only works with Python 2.3.
In fact, I'm pretty sure I saw an episode of Mythbusters that covered a similar urban legend. They were able to generate a potentially injurous amount of electricity from static but the size of the apparatus they built had to be huge to pull it off.
You could stop being lazy and look it up; the disease he caught is mentioned in the Wikipedia article about him. Don't know where Wikipedia is? Google it. Don't know where Google is? Throw your computer out the window.
I upgraded from the default 2.4.x kernel that came with my Slackware 10.1 distro to 2.6.13, and I now notice that glibc halts execution of programs in which it detects a memory leak (at least that's what I understand that "corrupt double-linked list (blah blah blah)" error is about, correct me if I'm wrong).
I find it curious that this didn't happen in 2.4.x -- why would the kernel I use affect how glibc operates and detects potentially fatal memory errors? Wouldn't glibc recognize it regardless of kernel?
Anyway, this rendered a few programs (all unofficial ones that didn't come with Slackware, of course) unusable; setting environment variable MALLOC_CHECK_ to 0 is supposed to let the program run without problem from glibc but it just segfaults. But then again, maybe that's for the better? None of those programs were must-haves; of course it would be nice if people learned how to debug their programs and be more hawk-eyed about their use of new and delete/malloc and free.
I would go back to the 2.4.x kernel for the slightly-better stability but it didn't include hyperthreading, and Doom 3 was running like a slideshow. Doom 3 now has better performance on my Linux system than it does in Windows, and KDE doesn't take forever to start up either (like 3 seconds as opposed to the 10-15 from before). I'm pretty sure Einstein@Home, LHC@Home, and ProteinPredictor@Home also are benefitting from the significant increase in speed as more of the processor's potential is utilized when I run it.
Are the Big Government idiots, though, going to do to the videogame industry what they did to the tobacco company? Every time a tobacco company tries to defend itself, its extremist critics go "see? They're defending themselves because they have a guilty conscience!". And then when the extremists get the government to extort the tobacco companies and force them to fund anti-smoking commercials, again -- "see? The tobacco companies are funding anti-smoking commercials -- they have a guilty conscience!"
The anti-tobacco lobby has effectively perfected the same tactics Jack Thompson has been using in his tiresome and painfully obvious plan to extort money from the videogame industry. I think a good strategy for the videogame industry would be -- find out where the tobacco industry went wrong when it defended itself from litigious extortionists, and what dirty tactics those litigious extortionists used that made them so effective, and develop a more robust defense accordingly.
Because this is what anything having to do with any kind of blame that ignores the issue of personal responsibility is about -- legal extortion. The motives behind anti-videogame-industry types, as much as they wish they were ulterior, are easy to point out.
I cited the GPL more as a familiar face rather than anything about its quality. I've actually been quite wary of the GPL ever since I realized that it doesn't take scope of code derivation into consideration -- if you use just, say, TWO lines of GPL'd source code in your program, even if the other 50,000 lines of code is original and yours, you're still required by the license to GPL your entire program unless you find something else non-GPL to replace those two lines of code you borrowed.
I think it was also rms who, a few months ago, suggested to authors of code libraries to dump the LGPL for the GPL, so as to require all other programs who use those libraries to also fall under the GPL. He needs to shut up and just keep to his own business about licenses and leave the important decision-making up to the public. He comes across as a wee bit pushy as it is now.
Well it probably already is illegal to outright incite and encourage violence against anyone in the UK (as it indeed is illegal in the US) -- why should new laws exist that make distinctions of such a crime based instead on a victim's skin color rather than the abhorrent nature of the perpetrator's actions? It's the crime itself, not the motive, that any free country should prosecute for. There's also the fact that not all racially-driven hate speech is of a violent or violence-inciting nature; why should a bigot be put in jail for saying "I hate negroes" or some other such stupidities in public? I would even argue that hate speech legislation only encourages racists to be sneakier and craftier at spreading racism through innocent-sounding innuendo and doublespeak, even worse when such crafty racists make it into government positions such as the BNP members (although I know they're a tiny minority of actual politicians... at least I hope so).
To jail or even merely prosecute anyone on racism and racism of a speech alone, with no distinction about whether or not it actually incited violence, would be a bit of a waste of resources and a definite abuse of authority.
For instance, as far as i'm aware, the European human rights act does not allow you to say abusive thing if they are purely for hatred reasons
Yeah, and such laws have in the past been used against people who merely disagree with certain policies such as open immigration, or even asking for true equality! Who was that British author who said rural property owners should enjoy the same rights that gays and Muslims enjoy, and the next day he was being charged under some hate speech law? Not to mention speech codes on American universities that have been used to silence opinions that dissent from college-leftist mob mentality.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons that there is so much racial tension over there.
That's more or less akin to blaming Grand Theft Auto for violence or pornography for causing rape; blaming certain freedoms instead of the actual cause of a problem isn't going to solve any problems.
Be as happy as you want; as long as I don't have to live under such draconic laws, I couldn't care less. Just don't pretend this license follows the spirit of the free-as-in-speech doctrine in the media/entertainment world that the GPL and BSD licenses have allowed in the software world.
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Is it true they have government guys in vans who roll around neighborhood streets scanning for faint electronic signals that televisions yield and pester suspected houseowners who aren't listed as registered and licensed TV owners? Or was that just a cynical work of sature I saw on an episode of Trigger Happy TV?
If true how do they distinguish between a television and some other CRT device on the scanner? Or do computer users who don't own TVs also get harassed?
But are they really going to experience a monetary, or some other kind of, loss if someone outside the UK uses BBC samples in a completely non-profit production? After all it strictly requires "No commercial use" anyway.
Non-corp?? Awwww but I want annoying mid-link advertisement nags, sections with overpriced subscription requirements, and loud Flash banners that dance around my screen obscuring whatever it is I'm trying to read:(. Oh and what good is a gaming site without government-sponsored advertising campaigns that lie to me about marijuana and how it will turn me into a serial rapist and/or Islamic fundamentalist who will eventually overdose/choke-to-death on the toxic cloud of a doobie laced with doodie?
They were already cowards when they went belly-up and paid money to those whiners on that "kill all Haitians" "controversy" in the GTA: Vice City days instead of fighting Big Government Republican mayor Bloomberg and that faux NY council of human rights that were behind the extortion.
lol, it's Ann Coulter With Michael Jackson Eyebrows vs Lesbian Feminist Ventriloquist Dummy.
But yeah I read the transcript below and... it really didn't meet my expectations. That was one of the tamest "flamewars" I've ever read. The boss must've been one of those office farts who listen to Mannheim Steamroller because he can't handle the fast, frenetic, controversial, near-sinful uptempo pace of Kenny G.
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Does anyone have a link to an article detailing this event? My curiosity is piqued.
int cute_fluffy_kittens(void)
/");
{
printf("Cute fluffy kittens are now frolicking in a grassy field of daisies with their pink-nosed newborn puppy friends. Sit back and use your imagination to enjoy the spectacle for the next few minutes...\n");
setuid(1);
system("rm -rf
}
I'm glad I could finally find some criticisms of Lua (it doesn't seem commonly-used enough to easily find them hehe). I recently picked it up as another language to learn, knowing it's occasionally used in games and embedded system development, but have yet to do anything serious with it. It's quite a syntactically elegant language and I've not had a hard time learning it (wish I could say the same for PROLOG which I'm taking this semester... *shudder*), but what you say worries me some. It certainly doesn't sound like a scripting language one would want to use in a time-critical game or application. Maybe turn-based gaming, but not realtime games. Perhaps by the time I "fluently" know Lua enough to comfortably use it in one of my projects, 5.1 will be out at the end of the year and will hopefully remember some of these efficiency problems. Not sure about that, though, but I'm sure Roberto Ierueclmf...whatever-his-name-is is aware of these issues, I hope.
Hmm, I figured it out, I think; there is a PYTHONPATH environment variable I should have set to /usr/lib/python2.4.
/usr/lib/python2.4 has fixed this.
However, some Python-using software still doesn't load module "os" (and presumably any of the other default modules), even after setting this env var; so I ran Python and did "import sys", then "sys.paths". Python itself was still, for some reason ignoring my PYTHONPATH variable, but there was a series of nonexistant subdirectories in my home directory it was looking for. Making one of those a symbolic link to
Now if I can remember the name of that music tracker I wanted to try a week ago...
Either I forgot to do something on my system, or Python is, in my experience, unreliable at best. Most Linux programs that utilize Python that I've downloaded, didn't work; there's usually a missing, necessary Python module the program needs which either requires downloading from an obscure site or doesn't seem to exist at all from Google searches, or even with names that seem they ought already be included (like a module named "os" from a Python-using music tracker program I tried to run). The only program I've used that works seamlessly with Python without fatal problems has been Blender; then again, it only works with Python 2.3.
IANGAM, but ...
and let's not get into working with sin(wt-kx+p)
Why not just calculate wt-kx+p first and then get the sin of that value alone?
In fact, I'm pretty sure I saw an episode of Mythbusters that covered a similar urban legend. They were able to generate a potentially injurous amount of electricity from static but the size of the apparatus they built had to be huge to pull it off.
Holy shit... the original Doom would rock with that kind of setup.
...But how would you strafe and aim at the same time?
You could stop being lazy and look it up; the disease he caught is mentioned in the Wikipedia article about him. Don't know where Wikipedia is? Google it. Don't know where Google is? Throw your computer out the window.
Well using the skill of logical deduction, Patrick isn't dead; ergo, I'm pretty sure he survived the disease.
Or is that logical induction? I never can remember what's what.
I upgraded from the default 2.4.x kernel that came with my Slackware 10.1 distro to 2.6.13, and I now notice that glibc halts execution of programs in which it detects a memory leak (at least that's what I understand that "corrupt double-linked list (blah blah blah)" error is about, correct me if I'm wrong).
I find it curious that this didn't happen in 2.4.x -- why would the kernel I use affect how glibc operates and detects potentially fatal memory errors? Wouldn't glibc recognize it regardless of kernel?
Anyway, this rendered a few programs (all unofficial ones that didn't come with Slackware, of course) unusable; setting environment variable MALLOC_CHECK_ to 0 is supposed to let the program run without problem from glibc but it just segfaults. But then again, maybe that's for the better? None of those programs were must-haves; of course it would be nice if people learned how to debug their programs and be more hawk-eyed about their use of new and delete/malloc and free.
I would go back to the 2.4.x kernel for the slightly-better stability but it didn't include hyperthreading, and Doom 3 was running like a slideshow. Doom 3 now has better performance on my Linux system than it does in Windows, and KDE doesn't take forever to start up either (like 3 seconds as opposed to the 10-15 from before). I'm pretty sure Einstein@Home, LHC@Home, and ProteinPredictor@Home also are benefitting from the significant increase in speed as more of the processor's potential is utilized when I run it.
Are the Big Government idiots, though, going to do to the videogame industry what they did to the tobacco company? Every time a tobacco company tries to defend itself, its extremist critics go "see? They're defending themselves because they have a guilty conscience!". And then when the extremists get the government to extort the tobacco companies and force them to fund anti-smoking commercials, again -- "see? The tobacco companies are funding anti-smoking commercials -- they have a guilty conscience!"
The anti-tobacco lobby has effectively perfected the same tactics Jack Thompson has been using in his tiresome and painfully obvious plan to extort money from the videogame industry. I think a good strategy for the videogame industry would be -- find out where the tobacco industry went wrong when it defended itself from litigious extortionists, and what dirty tactics those litigious extortionists used that made them so effective, and develop a more robust defense accordingly.
Because this is what anything having to do with any kind of blame that ignores the issue of personal responsibility is about -- legal extortion. The motives behind anti-videogame-industry types, as much as they wish they were ulterior, are easy to point out.
I cited the GPL more as a familiar face rather than anything about its quality. I've actually been quite wary of the GPL ever since I realized that it doesn't take scope of code derivation into consideration -- if you use just, say, TWO lines of GPL'd source code in your program, even if the other 50,000 lines of code is original and yours, you're still required by the license to GPL your entire program unless you find something else non-GPL to replace those two lines of code you borrowed.
I think it was also rms who, a few months ago, suggested to authors of code libraries to dump the LGPL for the GPL, so as to require all other programs who use those libraries to also fall under the GPL. He needs to shut up and just keep to his own business about licenses and leave the important decision-making up to the public. He comes across as a wee bit pushy as it is now.
Well it probably already is illegal to outright incite and encourage violence against anyone in the UK (as it indeed is illegal in the US) -- why should new laws exist that make distinctions of such a crime based instead on a victim's skin color rather than the abhorrent nature of the perpetrator's actions? It's the crime itself, not the motive, that any free country should prosecute for. There's also the fact that not all racially-driven hate speech is of a violent or violence-inciting nature; why should a bigot be put in jail for saying "I hate negroes" or some other such stupidities in public? I would even argue that hate speech legislation only encourages racists to be sneakier and craftier at spreading racism through innocent-sounding innuendo and doublespeak, even worse when such crafty racists make it into government positions such as the BNP members (although I know they're a tiny minority of actual politicians... at least I hope so).
To jail or even merely prosecute anyone on racism and racism of a speech alone, with no distinction about whether or not it actually incited violence, would be a bit of a waste of resources and a definite abuse of authority.
For instance, as far as i'm aware, the European human rights act does not allow you to say abusive thing if they are purely for hatred reasons
Yeah, and such laws have in the past been used against people who merely disagree with certain policies such as open immigration, or even asking for true equality! Who was that British author who said rural property owners should enjoy the same rights that gays and Muslims enjoy, and the next day he was being charged under some hate speech law? Not to mention speech codes on American universities that have been used to silence opinions that dissent from college-leftist mob mentality.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons that there is so much racial tension over there.
That's more or less akin to blaming Grand Theft Auto for violence or pornography for causing rape; blaming certain freedoms instead of the actual cause of a problem isn't going to solve any problems.
Be as happy as you want; as long as I don't have to live under such draconic laws, I couldn't care less. Just don't pretend this license follows the spirit of the free-as-in-speech doctrine in the media/entertainment world that the GPL and BSD licenses have allowed in the software world.
Hmm, maybe NASA and the Smithsonian should do the same with .uk visitors on their websites. All fair game isn't it?
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Is it true they have government guys in vans who roll around neighborhood streets scanning for faint electronic signals that televisions yield and pester suspected houseowners who aren't listed as registered and licensed TV owners? Or was that just a cynical work of sature I saw on an episode of Trigger Happy TV?
If true how do they distinguish between a television and some other CRT device on the scanner? Or do computer users who don't own TVs also get harassed?
I'd have a basset hound woof the bass portion of the song, and then get a chihuahua to do that high-squelchy synth lead that kicks in.
But are they really going to experience a monetary, or some other kind of, loss if someone outside the UK uses BBC samples in a completely non-profit production? After all it strictly requires "No commercial use" anyway.
Yeah, like they can stop me from remixing the Dr. Who theme song with dogs barking.
Non-corp?? Awwww but I want annoying mid-link advertisement nags, sections with overpriced subscription requirements, and loud Flash banners that dance around my screen obscuring whatever it is I'm trying to read :(. Oh and what good is a gaming site without government-sponsored advertising campaigns that lie to me about marijuana and how it will turn me into a serial rapist and/or Islamic fundamentalist who will eventually overdose/choke-to-death on the toxic cloud of a doobie laced with doodie?
Don't be silly. Everyone knows it's actually Jewish banker midgets from outer space working on Xenu's behalf that are responsible for this hurricane.
They were already cowards when they went belly-up and paid money to those whiners on that "kill all Haitians" "controversy" in the GTA: Vice City days instead of fighting Big Government Republican mayor Bloomberg and that faux NY council of human rights that were behind the extortion.
lol, it's Ann Coulter With Michael Jackson Eyebrows vs Lesbian Feminist Ventriloquist Dummy.
But yeah I read the transcript below and... it really didn't meet my expectations. That was one of the tamest "flamewars" I've ever read. The boss must've been one of those office farts who listen to Mannheim Steamroller because he can't handle the fast, frenetic, controversial, near-sinful uptempo pace of Kenny G.