Or why they don't bench mark them against my Nintendo 64. Or my Jaguar 64 (it's 4 times better then super nintendo, kids)...
Sadly, I think the AMD, with an emulator running Mario 64, would (forgive the L33t speak) r0x0r my N-64 any day of the week...
The russians did an excellent job fighting the germans but one of teh most important contributions of the US was, after teh war, stopping the russians. Towards the end of the war it was becoming considerably more clear that Russia had less then altruistic motives for 'liberating' eastern europe from the nazi opressors.
That is not to say, the Americans didn't play a hugely important role towards the end of the war. Their constent air raids along side the british helped gain teh upper hand in europe and, no one can doubt the impact the bombing of hiroshima had on the war.
Still, the Americans did not single handedly win the war, though, having not endured the burden of combat as long as the rest of the Allies (and only once having been directly attacked), they emerged looking less fatigued and scarred then the rest of their allies
Forgive me for being the bearer of bad news, but didn't the Ariane-5 die a horrible death moments after launch...
I was told it was the result of an overlow error. Apprarantly no one bothered to check if the Ariane-4s code hadnled as many points of percision...
correct spelling and grammer eh?
'cause all the L337 b4d455 c0D3rZ out there can spell...
the only thing that html teaches you that could help with actual programming is how to make simple code look like crap
frankly, lego mindstorms is a simple and effective programming language that can allow you to do cool shit (like make lego attack your cat) and it even supports conditoinals, looping, etc. AND IT'S LEGO!!!
My personal recomendation, fro someone wanting to try programming but has no aspperations of using it is get them to try get them to write some obfuscated Perl. They'll think you are really smart and never bug you again...
or make themselves look... you know... bigger... ahem...
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Look. Lets drop it. Obiously you people don't even know what a good web page looks like so i'm going to direct you to the tutorial of someone who does. (Warning: This site is flash... it'd have to be wouldn't it) Anyway, armed with the advice of this web guru I'm sure we can all make the internet an even more overcrowded, useless dump of misinformation (W3C be damned). Now lets get bloggin'!!!
Might i be the first to say (now that we have gotten off on this tangent):
"Burninate the peasents. Burninate the village. Troooooooooogdor!!!"
Thank you
Sincerly,
Hey now, calm down there. Just because everyone and his grandmother has a blog and can write whatever they want doesn't mean it's a biased source. I'm sure the guy probably has a degree in knowing stuff not too mention his mood of the moment was weepy and he was listening to some barenaked ladies at teh time he decided to be political...
Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote the first programming language EVER!!! So how could they have bought BASIC?
It's even on an official microsoft page so it must be true...
The problem with free 'as in freedom' is it can result in free 'as in beer' which is all well and fine for generic applications but not good for specialised software.
for example, the software company i work for produces structural engineering software. These applications take many years to develop and improve apon and have a very limited customer base. As a result, in order to turn even a marginal profit, the company has to charge a fairly high sum (3-5 grand depending on the product).
I simply purchase a single copy of their software and sell it for half the price. That is until someone else does the same thing to me. Thus the cost of the product falls considerably and the comapny can't even cover the costs of development
I understand how GPL makes a lot of sense for a kick ass web browser or word processor, but for specialised niche software where most users aren't programmers, open source isn't and shouldn't eb the model of choice
Java = no licensing cost
Qt = licensing cost for windows commercial use
might be it
or they just like Java
Qt is easy to use and the best looking, cross platform library i've seen (though Gtk 2 is a lot better then 1) but that doesn't mean it's the obvious choice to everyone.
In 2034 we'll all own consoles powerful enough to calculate nuclear bomb simulations or global weather systems. And what will we use our Playstation 17s or nintendo Funstations for?
Why, those quircky atari retro games of course. Afterall nostalgia growth is linearly proportional to technological advancment
however, i think this is only true if a meteor hits the earth bang on
the body that hit the gulf of mexico entered at a more shallow 30 degrees
of course this creates a lot more debris and is more damaging world wide (as apposed to a strong focused blow)
poor dinosaurs... couldn't swim... so they drowned
what about pliesiosaurs and icthyosaurs... all packed up and went to scotland?
not to mention the fact that, over the mesazoic era, we see various species of dinosaurs come and go...
evolution aside, i think literal translation of the bible doesn't allow for dinosaurs
however, with some liberal hebrew translations, genesis can be altered from "And G-d created the great sea monsters, and many kinds of living creatures that creep." to "And G-d created the great lizards, and many kinds of living creatures that creep." and BAM, we have dinosaurs again.
just food for thought. going off to defy gravity now...
"If Pacman had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
What? People do that? Oh damn...
I think, infact, laws on many crimes are becoming far more slack and certain thigns are no longer being considered crimes. I think that we aren't seeing a penalty inflation, we're just seeing the judicial focal point shifting. Of course maybe this is just becaues i'm in canada, and maybe the war against drugs, gay marrige, and such is still raging strong in some states, but up here we've been pruning off the laws that society is starting to see as silly, while maintaining the laws that actualyl protect people.
Better Yet, Why don't you just register coolAstroPicture_210@gmail.com and store your picture there. Total cost per gig of storage, nothing. Thanks google!
While I have come ahead in black jack more times then i have lost, technically if you play 1 million $1 games, you should come out with $995,000 provided you are playing perfectly (which isn't hard to do given the small number of possible hands). Various house rules of course lower or raise the odds. Card counting, of course, is the way to go if you want to even the odds but it won't work on 8 decks and, to even the odds, single deck games only give a 6-5 payout on black jacks (rather then the expected 3-2).
At the end of the day, your odds are pretty close to 50-50 provided you play well, and you can get a lot of free booze complements of the house (down in vegas)
Pocker of course is the best way to earn money because, unlike blackjack, you are playing against other players, not the house and thus, your odds are as good as anyone elses so it comes down to skill. Of course the house takes a cut so the table loses overall, but, generally, if you want to earn money gambeling you need to find a game where you compete against other people and get bloody good at it
My dear friend, you are surely denigning yourself quite the treat. You see Diablo II predates final fantasy X by some time and i can assure you that warcraft III's cinematics put it to shame and (IMHO, though many might argue) are sexier even then the final fantasy X in game cinematics (though this is more of a style preference). Check out some of the World of Warcraft previews! Both model detail and physics are incredibly polished.
Tipex is a specific name brand of white out that in many other countries has become the defacto name used to describe it (much like Band-Aid is used to describe addhesive strips and J-ello is used to describe those coloured jelly deserts)
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Man, a gentoo box on a AMD-64 w/ the right flags ... *drools a bit.* Frozen Bubble is going to be soooo smooth.
Or why they don't bench mark them against my Nintendo 64. Or my Jaguar 64 (it's 4 times better then super nintendo, kids)...
Sadly, I think the AMD, with an emulator running Mario 64, would (forgive the L33t speak) r0x0r my N-64 any day of the week...
The russians did an excellent job fighting the germans but one of teh most important contributions of the US was, after teh war, stopping the russians. Towards the end of the war it was becoming considerably more clear that Russia had less then altruistic motives for 'liberating' eastern europe from the nazi opressors.
That is not to say, the Americans didn't play a hugely important role towards the end of the war. Their constent air raids along side the british helped gain teh upper hand in europe and, no one can doubt the impact the bombing of hiroshima had on the war.
Still, the Americans did not single handedly win the war, though, having not endured the burden of combat as long as the rest of the Allies (and only once having been directly attacked), they emerged looking less fatigued and scarred then the rest of their allies
Forgive me for being the bearer of bad news, but didn't the Ariane-5 die a horrible death moments after launch...
I was told it was the result of an overlow error. Apprarantly no one bothered to check if the Ariane-4s code hadnled as many points of percision...
correct spelling and grammer eh?
'cause all the L337 b4d455 c0D3rZ out there can spell...
the only thing that html teaches you that could help with actual programming is how to make simple code look like crap
frankly, lego mindstorms is a simple and effective programming language that can allow you to do cool shit (like make lego attack your cat) and it even supports conditoinals, looping, etc. AND IT'S LEGO!!!
My personal recomendation, fro someone wanting to try programming but has no aspperations of using it is get them to try get them to write some obfuscated Perl. They'll think you are really smart and never bug you again...
or make themselves look... you know... bigger... ahem...
Look. Lets drop it. Obiously you people don't even know what a good web page looks like so i'm going to direct you to the tutorial of someone who does. (Warning: This site is flash... it'd have to be wouldn't it) Anyway, armed with the advice of this web guru I'm sure we can all make the internet an even more overcrowded, useless dump of misinformation (W3C be damned). Now lets get bloggin'!!!
Might i be the first to say (now that we have gotten off on this tangent):
"Burninate the peasents. Burninate the village. Troooooooooogdor!!!"
Thank you
Sincerly,
As 83% of people already know, you can't prove anything with statisics...
Hey now, calm down there. Just because everyone and his grandmother has a blog and can write whatever they want doesn't mean it's a biased source. I'm sure the guy probably has a degree in knowing stuff not too mention his mood of the moment was weepy and he was listening to some barenaked ladies at teh time he decided to be political...
Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote the first programming language EVER!!! So how could they have bought BASIC?
It's even on an official microsoft page so it must be true...
The problem with free 'as in freedom' is it can result in free 'as in beer' which is all well and fine for generic applications but not good for specialised software.
for example, the software company i work for produces structural engineering software. These applications take many years to develop and improve apon and have a very limited customer base. As a result, in order to turn even a marginal profit, the company has to charge a fairly high sum (3-5 grand depending on the product).
I simply purchase a single copy of their software and sell it for half the price. That is until someone else does the same thing to me. Thus the cost of the product falls considerably and the comapny can't even cover the costs of development
I understand how GPL makes a lot of sense for a kick ass web browser or word processor, but for specialised niche software where most users aren't programmers, open source isn't and shouldn't eb the model of choice
Java = no licensing cost
Qt = licensing cost for windows commercial use
might be it
or they just like Java
Qt is easy to use and the best looking, cross platform library i've seen (though Gtk 2 is a lot better then 1) but that doesn't mean it's the obvious choice to everyone.
In 2034 we'll all own consoles powerful enough to calculate nuclear bomb simulations or global weather systems. And what will we use our Playstation 17s or nintendo Funstations for?
Why, those quircky atari retro games of course.
Afterall nostalgia growth is linearly proportional to technological advancment
I hereby demand the return of 45 minute keyboard solos and poodle cut hair
*looks around*
stiiill waiting...
however, i think this is only true if a meteor hits the earth bang on
the body that hit the gulf of mexico entered at a more shallow 30 degrees
of course this creates a lot more debris and is more damaging world wide (as apposed to a strong focused blow)
... the dinosaurs died for our sins... or how does that go again...
poor dinosaurs... couldn't swim... so they drowned
what about pliesiosaurs and icthyosaurs... all packed up and went to scotland?
not to mention the fact that, over the mesazoic era, we see various species of dinosaurs come and go...
evolution aside, i think literal translation of the bible doesn't allow for dinosaurs
however, with some liberal hebrew translations, genesis can be altered from "And G-d created the great sea monsters, and many kinds of living creatures that creep." to "And G-d created the great lizards, and many kinds of living creatures that creep." and BAM, we have dinosaurs again.
just food for thought. going off to defy gravity now...
"If Pacman had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."
What? People do that? Oh damn...
I think, infact, laws on many crimes are becoming far more slack and certain thigns are no longer being considered crimes. I think that we aren't seeing a penalty inflation, we're just seeing the judicial focal point shifting. Of course maybe this is just becaues i'm in canada, and maybe the war against drugs, gay marrige, and such is still raging strong in some states, but up here we've been pruning off the laws that society is starting to see as silly, while maintaining the laws that actualyl protect people.
"...that's what you said about Cloud Insurance. Now look at them, plotting."
Better Yet, Why don't you just register coolAstroPicture_210@gmail.com and store your picture there. Total cost per gig of storage, nothing. Thanks google!
While I have come ahead in black jack more times then i have lost, technically if you play 1 million $1 games, you should come out with $995,000 provided you are playing perfectly (which isn't hard to do given the small number of possible hands). Various house rules of course lower or raise the odds. Card counting, of course, is the way to go if you want to even the odds but it won't work on 8 decks and, to even the odds, single deck games only give a 6-5 payout on black jacks (rather then the expected 3-2).
At the end of the day, your odds are pretty close to 50-50 provided you play well, and you can get a lot of free booze complements of the house (down in vegas)
Pocker of course is the best way to earn money because, unlike blackjack, you are playing against other players, not the house and thus, your odds are as good as anyone elses so it comes down to skill. Of course the house takes a cut so the table loses overall, but, generally, if you want to earn money gambeling you need to find a game where you compete against other people and get bloody good at it
My dear friend, you are surely denigning yourself quite the treat. You see Diablo II predates final fantasy X by some time and i can assure you that warcraft III's cinematics put it to shame and (IMHO, though many might argue) are sexier even then the final fantasy X in game cinematics (though this is more of a style preference). Check out some of the World of Warcraft previews! Both model detail and physics are incredibly polished.
Tipex is a specific name brand of white out that in many other countries has become the defacto name used to describe it (much like Band-Aid is used to describe addhesive strips and J-ello is used to describe those coloured jelly deserts)