Yahoo was great - a categorical index of noteworthy websites. You could drill down through the hierarchy looking at sites in categories or subcategories of those you were interested in. Back in the day there were even huge listings of personal homepages indexed by last name.
Yahoo was a portal to that huge, amazing index. But over the years they slowly hid the index and became a portal to a world of crap services.
People who are really intelligent know to evaluate based on content, not form. Grammar nazi's, by contrast, are just autistics who've managed to find a dictionary.
If you can't spell or read, demonstrating your ignorance to others does you no favors. That doesn't mean you're unintelligent, but it's difficult to evaluate content when the form is wrong. Imagine someone you just met ejecting spittle in your face during a conversation because they haven't yet learned how to speak. Sure, maybe their message is fine, but you'd probably rather talk to someone else.
You know, I actually never thought about pinning it to the Start Menu. Pretty stupid, as I've done that with the DOS prompt and a few other programs I use often. Thanks for the reminder!
I'm fairly anal with my desktop. I limit the taskbar pinned programs to a few specifics (Putty, WinSCP, Thunderbird, etc.) and IDLE just isn't used enough to warrant inclusion.
Loaded quickly and code seemed to execute quickly. Some sort of documentation/about/FAQ would be nice.
Sadly I'll probably use this neat tool because of Windows 7... You see, in Windows XP I could click Start, navigate quickly to All Programs > IDLE, and have a Python command line to do simple math or quickie calculations. However Windows 7 makes me click on Start, click on All Programs, click on the scroll gadget to scroll down to Python 3.2, click on Python 3.2 to open its directory, and finally click on IDLE.
I have to agree with this, several bugs. The most annoying one is having the comments scroll to the top of the page when I click anything.
Links are now unclickable, at least on the first 4 or 5 tries. Each time you click a link in someone's post, the page jumps and/or another post expands/collapses. The sheer level of ignorance and/or lack of interest in their own site on the part of the Slashdot owners is mind-boggling.
In Japan, a country that considers a train late if it arrives more than 20 seconds later than scheduled...
As someone who lived in Japan for 7 years, HA HA HA. Right. Trains are mostly timely but arrival times vary widely from published schedules, frequently by multiple minutes.
I use Godaddy almost exclusively for my many (too many) domains... that said, let's be honest.
It's not a mistake. Their checkout process is designed to wave as many unnecessary - yet seemingly useful - options as possible in front of novice domain customers, in hopes that one or two will fall into their basket by mistake. No doubt their logs are full of new customers landing and searching for an unavailable.com domain, repeat, repeat, repeat, give up.
Now by defaulting to.co and hiding.com they can sell a shit ton of Columbian domains like "smithfamily.co" to unsuspecting customers, and at a higher price, too!
Depends on the author. You can write sloppy CPU-abusing code in ActionScript 3 as easily as you can in most other languages.
I always notice games written in the AS3 Flixel framework (just as an example) cause my laptop fan to start spinning immediately, no matter how little is happening onscreen. Yet when I write complex games using copyPixels to update an entire 640x480 bitmap screen at 60 FPS the CPU usage by the Flash player just barely rises.
And when you install Java you get the Yahoo toolbar, as well! (Unless you uncheck it.) It's like Sun (or Oracle, I don't know which) sat around a table and brainstormed ways to make Java appear as malware-ific as possible.
Great job guys. You're lucky Flex's mxmlc.exe (and now Minecraft) require Java or I'd have no use whatsoever for your tainted runtimes...
Also, doing something the "hard way" the first time often leads to a greater understanding and appreciation of the "easy way."
Reading the article, I fail to see why I should avoid PIL for ImageMagick. In neither case is Linux going to just "do it" for me. And in either case I have to tell PIL or ImageMagick how to process my images, right?
What seems silly to me is including C64 users as a cult and only jokingly mentioning Amiga advocates in an aside. Hard to believe any tech observer including the former instead of the latter. Diehard AmigaOS advocates much more deserve "cult" status.
Every game developer has thousands of ideas of their own. They could not care less about yours.
Unless your game concept is a one in a million idea that only comes around once a decade (to change the face of the gaming industry and inspire a thousand and one clones), there is no market for it.
Also, when I was visiting Japan, baseball was by far the most popular sport, played by just about every boy after school.
I've only been in China on vacation, but I lived in Japan for more than seven years. By far, soccer, not basketball, is the most popular sport.
After school boys play whatever sport they belong to in their school's sports club. Those in the basketball club play basketball, those in the baseball club play baseball, etc. The only exception are the chubby kids in the table tennis club. They goof around for about an hour and then go home and play video games.
Several others have noted this as well - for Asian languages, Google has a lot of work to do. The Chinese translation near the top is impressive, but while Chinese and Japanese translations are probably pretty good on Google, other Asian languages suffer greatly.
I have all but given up on Google's Japanese translation. Altavista (now Yahoo) 's Babel Fish is much more reliable when it comes to Japanese. Sometimes the Google translation is so wrong that I can't even understand how it came up with the response returned. At least with Babel Fish I can usually figure out where it missed an idiom or failed to choose the correct meaning of a certain kanji character.
Another vote for Webfaction. I was so impressed after getting a first account that I bought two more for other projects. They don't overfill their servers like Godaddy, Dreamhost (both of which I also use for basic, throwaway sites) or other hosts. They're extremely Python-friendly (just try to find a Python package they don't support, let alone allow you to install). Of course they also support PHP, if you're forced to use it...
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Yahoo was great - a categorical index of noteworthy websites. You could drill down through the hierarchy looking at sites in categories or subcategories of those you were interested in. Back in the day there were even huge listings of personal homepages indexed by last name.
Yahoo was a portal to that huge, amazing index. But over the years they slowly hid the index and became a portal to a world of crap services.
People who are really intelligent know to evaluate based on content, not form. Grammar nazi's, by contrast, are just autistics who've managed to find a dictionary.
If you can't spell or read, demonstrating your ignorance to others does you no favors. That doesn't mean you're unintelligent, but it's difficult to evaluate content when the form is wrong. Imagine someone you just met ejecting spittle in your face during a conversation because they haven't yet learned how to speak. Sure, maybe their message is fine, but you'd probably rather talk to someone else.
Would be funny if it wasn't so informative...
You know, I actually never thought about pinning it to the Start Menu. Pretty stupid, as I've done that with the DOS prompt and a few other programs I use often. Thanks for the reminder!
I'm fairly anal with my desktop. I limit the taskbar pinned programs to a few specifics (Putty, WinSCP, Thunderbird, etc.) and IDLE just isn't used enough to warrant inclusion.
Loaded quickly and code seemed to execute quickly. Some sort of documentation/about/FAQ would be nice.
Sadly I'll probably use this neat tool because of Windows 7... You see, in Windows XP I could click Start, navigate quickly to All Programs > IDLE, and have a Python command line to do simple math or quickie calculations. However Windows 7 makes me click on Start, click on All Programs, click on the scroll gadget to scroll down to Python 3.2, click on Python 3.2 to open its directory, and finally click on IDLE.
Yes, I am lazy.
Never much caught on in the U.S., you mean.
In the late 1990's, early 2000's portable minidisc players/recorders were incredibly popular in Japan and Europe.
As buggy as the latest incarnation of Slashdot is, I'm surprised your comment didn't take it down as well.
I have to agree with this, several bugs. The most annoying one is having the comments scroll to the top of the page when I click anything.
Links are now unclickable, at least on the first 4 or 5 tries. Each time you click a link in someone's post, the page jumps and/or another post expands/collapses. The sheer level of ignorance and/or lack of interest in their own site on the part of the Slashdot owners is mind-boggling.
(Click on links? I must be new here.)
Seriously, Slashdot, fix your goddam site.
In Japan, a country that considers a train late if it arrives more than 20 seconds later than scheduled ...
As someone who lived in Japan for 7 years, HA HA HA. Right. Trains are mostly timely but arrival times vary widely from published schedules, frequently by multiple minutes.
A young little application called Beluga caught the attention of Facebook, which purchased the company a Thursday.
Nice. Wish someone would buy me a Thursday.
I use Godaddy almost exclusively for my many (too many) domains... that said, let's be honest.
It's not a mistake. Their checkout process is designed to wave as many unnecessary - yet seemingly useful - options as possible in front of novice domain customers, in hopes that one or two will fall into their basket by mistake. No doubt their logs are full of new customers landing and searching for an unavailable .com domain, repeat, repeat, repeat, give up.
Now by defaulting to .co and hiding .com they can sell a shit ton of Columbian domains like "smithfamily.co" to unsuspecting customers, and at a higher price, too!
Depends on the author. You can write sloppy CPU-abusing code in ActionScript 3 as easily as you can in most other languages.
I always notice games written in the AS3 Flixel framework (just as an example) cause my laptop fan to start spinning immediately, no matter how little is happening onscreen. Yet when I write complex games using copyPixels to update an entire 640x480 bitmap screen at 60 FPS the CPU usage by the Flash player just barely rises.
And when you install Java you get the Yahoo toolbar, as well! (Unless you uncheck it.) It's like Sun (or Oracle, I don't know which) sat around a table and brainstormed ways to make Java appear as malware-ific as possible.
Great job guys. You're lucky Flex's mxmlc.exe (and now Minecraft) require Java or I'd have no use whatsoever for your tainted runtimes...
This looks like a bunch of U-Joints with servo motors, its "rolling" up the tree, after "rolling" on the ground.
It's also obviously being controlled..
Many years ago for a Comp Sci project, I had to model a snake and it's movements (virtually -- it was an OpenGL assignment).
Flipping a quarter to determine which of its/it's to use isn't the best way, man! But hey, you lucked out and got one right!
(I tease because I can - I learned the difference between the two uses in school! Agreed completely about the robosnake, by the way.)
Also, doing something the "hard way" the first time often leads to a greater understanding and appreciation of the "easy way."
Reading the article, I fail to see why I should avoid PIL for ImageMagick. In neither case is Linux going to just "do it" for me. And in either case I have to tell PIL or ImageMagick how to process my images, right?
If only more people were as wise as you!
Then I could finally unload the domain bacondiet.com that I bought a while back and have been unable to sell! (True story...)
What you describe sounds a lot like a 30 day free trail. If only he had one of those...
Hiking is one of my favorite activities, but even I draw the line at 30 days. Free or otherwise.
Commodore 65
(Did you even bother to read the article?)
What seems silly to me is including C64 users as a cult and only jokingly mentioning Amiga advocates in an aside. Hard to believe any tech observer including the former instead of the latter. Diehard AmigaOS advocates much more deserve "cult" status.
The Escapist: Why Your Game Idea Sucks
Every game developer has thousands of ideas of their own. They could not care less about yours.
Unless your game concept is a one in a million idea that only comes around once a decade (to change the face of the gaming industry and inspire a thousand and one clones), there is no market for it.
It's even more obvious than you think. He's open-sourced the advisory position so anyone can fill the position and make changes.
Excellent. It's about time we borrowed some ideas from the Cameroi people.
Also, when I was visiting Japan, baseball was by far the most popular sport, played by just about every boy after school.
I've only been in China on vacation, but I lived in Japan for more than seven years. By far, soccer, not basketball, is the most popular sport.
After school boys play whatever sport they belong to in their school's sports club. Those in the basketball club play basketball, those in the baseball club play baseball, etc. The only exception are the chubby kids in the table tennis club. They goof around for about an hour and then go home and play video games.
As disgusting as it sounds, the faint taste of cigarettes and alcohol on a woman's breath is quite arousing.
Wow, -1 for poor taste.
(If I had mod points.)
Cheyenne Alexis McKeehan was a girl. Perhaps reading the story, Taco, might have been useful?
Several others have noted this as well - for Asian languages, Google has a lot of work to do. The Chinese translation near the top is impressive, but while Chinese and Japanese translations are probably pretty good on Google, other Asian languages suffer greatly.
I have all but given up on Google's Japanese translation. Altavista (now Yahoo) 's Babel Fish is much more reliable when it comes to Japanese. Sometimes the Google translation is so wrong that I can't even understand how it came up with the response returned. At least with Babel Fish I can usually figure out where it missed an idiom or failed to choose the correct meaning of a certain kanji character.
Another vote for Webfaction. I was so impressed after getting a first account that I bought two more for other projects. They don't overfill their servers like Godaddy, Dreamhost (both of which I also use for basic, throwaway sites) or other hosts. They're extremely Python-friendly (just try to find a Python package they don't support, let alone allow you to install). Of course they also support PHP, if you're forced to use it...
I highly recommend Webfaction.
And I won't post a spammy referral link.