"Another plus, it fit perfectly inside a ski boot bag, so it is very inconspicuous when carried around."
Damn straight. I carry my laptop in a cassette-tape box with a handle. $8, and as long as I don't open it up, nobody in the world would try to nick it.
(Tomorrow, 800/. readers will have sad looks on their faces after having hopefully boosted somebody's "Winger" collection.)
They're hard to find, and it's nearly impossible to find a power supply that will run the bigger iron, but I would think that an mATX motherboard in a mATX case would do it for you.
Alternatively, just find the mATX motherboard, and hook it up open-air. Fun! This has the added benefit of keeping the machine running the latest hardware, as you replace components every 6 months due to failure anyway.
All else aside, the fact that this was an april fools "joke" was obvious from the journalistic tone of the text, in contrast to the standard "I was just coming down off some meth, and a guy told me about something cool" aura surrounding most of the posts.
Ok, so I get most of my music from the record stores, right now, with some hard-to-find tracks off Napster or newsgroups. Everything gets ripped, stored, and mixed into CDs with songs that I actually like, at least when I'm done being lazy.
Let's say that this thing happens, and I can't rip the majority of the CDs that I buy. Through methods outlined elsewhere under this topic, there will be other people who can rip tracks with good enough quality for road trip listening, which is what I mainly listen to CDs for these days, anyway. So. I have no incentive to buy CDs. Therefore, I will go from 75% wholesome consumer, 25% NASTY EVIL BAD PIRATE WANTS OUR PRECIOUSSSS to 100% NASTY &c.
I'm sorry, I watched one play - exactly one - from the XFL festivities this weekend, and it was enough for me to know that what was on display was not top-notch football.
Of course, the play I watched was a quarterback getting clotheslined before he was even ready to take a snap.
So, I open this shop, and I sell combs. I figure, who wants a comb, unless they got a nice hairdo. So I decide to give out free haircuts to anyone who comes in, figuring they'll want a comb afterwards, and boom - that's when I'll hit 'em. Alright, so then this principal comes in with his entire elementary school and says, "These young ladies and gentlemen would like their complementary haircut, please." So I give them their haircut, and the guy buys ONE comb. Then he says, "Hey, I just realised - they all need another haircut RIGHT NOW." So I says to the guy, "HEY! YOU'RE TRESSPASSING! GET THE HELL OUT OF MY STORE!"
And that's how we ended up in court.
Actually, I live in Texas, so I just shot the fucker.
(In Texas, if someone is harming your property, or someone else's property, and you feel that the only way to stop them is to respond with deadly force, it is not felony homicide.)
Heh. Again, I have not made myself clear to this troll.
My point is that you cannot say, "This project, which took 5 years to develop, did not actually write a line of code for the first 2 years of development. Therefore, no project which will last less than 2 years should use OO, because they will not write a single line of code."
You are, apparently, trying way too hard to see the forest, here, buddy, and forgetting that you need to back up each individual tree. Maybe if you started writing down some of these references when you make them up############come across them...
Uh... I must have failed to make myself clear. The guy's point was that because there were two competing theories, that OO was basically worthless until someone got back to him on which of the two was better. My contention is that the existence of two models does not imply that one or both models must therefore be inferior.
Please direct me to the school of design that consistently outperforms OO where it is always clear how to apply the design model.
"owing to Verio's robot. In her opinion, Judge Jones said that the harm estimate was 'thoroughly undercut' by Vario in pretrial discovery,"
Did this bug the living shit out of anyone else? Is there one company, or two? None of my friends who work for Verio have mentioned a sister company called Vario. And it would have been funnier if they had spelled it Varyo.
Actually, I think the Rhein Fire had a better editor.
Oops - I was wrong. I forgot about the one part of the article that's more insightful than any comment about programming ever:
"In addition, the OOP community is strongly divided on whether the "component" model or the "inheritance" model is the way to go.
Microsoft seams to favor the component model. The jury is still out on this one. Without getting into the details of this battle, let's just
say OOP still has some growing up to do."
Holy fuck! There might be more than one right way to do things! ABANDON FUCKING SHIP!
I think, far and away, the best part of this article, is the part where he takes vague numbers from studies of large (2+ year before initial shipment) development efforts and tries to apply them to products that can go through 10 whole number versions and get abandoned by the roadside in 2 years. The slowdown he talks about in the beginning of an OO dev cycle is partially proportional to the length of the dev cycle overall - NOBODY spends 3 years developing objects for a 3 month project, no matter how fanatical their devotion to OO.
Someone want to show me where they say you can't view porn or use anonymous e-mail? I missed both of those. I see where you can't impersonate someone else, or forge headers/identifying information, but I don't believe anon e-mail falls under any of those categories.
Not that anyone will ever see this, but you're a fucking moron. Motion blur is not perceptible at slow speeds. Period. If it were, we would notice that any still picture looked fake because we could see that the atoms were not vibrating.
And it was a bloody typographical error, not "poor form". I was transcribing your text, and missed typing a word which WAS considered in my point.
I am looking out the window at cars driving roughly 60mph. I'm about 500 feet away from them. I have a REAL MOTHERFUCKING REAL sense that they are moving, and yet, I don't witness any motion blur. Of course, your claim is that the motion blur is STILL THERE, it's just so SMALL that I don't NOTICE it. However, if I move my cursor at the same speed across my monitor, I get EXACTLY the same sense that it is moving. I don't know how much more REAL MOTHERFUCKING REAL my senses get than the degree to which I am able to sense them.
ps dont make grammatical errors when yur flaming someone because of a typographical error.
No, that's "why you want (calculated motion blur) or (higher resolutions and faster frame rates)". I love your claim that without motion blur, there is no sense of speed or motion, by the way. Excellent use of hyperbole to disarm whatever point you may have had.
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"I thought beer was invented in Europe sometime around or in the middle ages."
No, you're thinking of 'sex'. Beer is much older. http://www.spatenusa.com/germanbeerhistory.html. Moron.
"Another plus, it fit perfectly inside a ski boot bag, so it is very inconspicuous when carried around."
/. readers will have sad looks on their faces after having hopefully boosted somebody's "Winger" collection.)
Damn straight. I carry my laptop in a cassette-tape box with a handle. $8, and as long as I don't open it up, nobody in the world would try to nick it.
(Tomorrow, 800
Forgot to mention - my girlfriend has an Osborne you're welcome to.
Ok, well, it's not actually an Osborne, but the same form-factor, and slightly heavier, I think.
They're hard to find, and it's nearly impossible to find a power supply that will run the bigger iron, but I would think that an mATX motherboard in a mATX case would do it for you.
Alternatively, just find the mATX motherboard, and hook it up open-air. Fun! This has the added benefit of keeping the machine running the latest hardware, as you replace components every 6 months due to failure anyway.
All else aside, the fact that this was an april fools "joke" was obvious from the journalistic tone of the text, in contrast to the standard "I was just coming down off some meth, and a guy told me about something cool" aura surrounding most of the posts.
Ok, so I get most of my music from the record stores, right now, with some hard-to-find tracks off Napster or newsgroups. Everything gets ripped, stored, and mixed into CDs with songs that I actually like, at least when I'm done being lazy.
Let's say that this thing happens, and I can't rip the majority of the CDs that I buy. Through methods outlined elsewhere under this topic, there will be other people who can rip tracks with good enough quality for road trip listening, which is what I mainly listen to CDs for these days, anyway. So. I have no incentive to buy CDs. Therefore, I will go from 75% wholesome consumer, 25% NASTY EVIL BAD PIRATE WANTS OUR PRECIOUSSSS to 100% NASTY &c.
Sucks to be a recording artist.
I'm sorry, I watched one play - exactly one - from the XFL festivities this weekend, and it was enough for me to know that what was on display was not top-notch football.
Of course, the play I watched was a quarterback getting clotheslined before he was even ready to take a snap.
Go to Google. You know where to find it.
Punch in "Dumb Motherfucker".
Click "I'm feeling lucky".
No, you were trolling.
"How about not placing a machine on a free, publicly accessible network if you`re not up for letting people use it?"
Uh... You have just described the planet earth.
So, I open this shop, and I sell combs. I figure, who wants a comb, unless they got a nice hairdo. So I decide to give out free haircuts to anyone who comes in, figuring they'll want a comb afterwards, and boom - that's when I'll hit 'em. Alright, so then this principal comes in with his entire elementary school and says, "These young ladies and gentlemen would like their complementary haircut, please." So I give them their haircut, and the guy buys ONE comb. Then he says, "Hey, I just realised - they all need another haircut RIGHT NOW." So I says to the guy, "HEY! YOU'RE TRESSPASSING! GET THE HELL OUT OF MY STORE!"
And that's how we ended up in court.
Actually, I live in Texas, so I just shot the fucker.
(In Texas, if someone is harming your property, or someone else's property, and you feel that the only way to stop them is to respond with deadly force, it is not felony homicide.)
Heh. Again, I have not made myself clear to this troll.
My point is that you cannot say, "This project, which took 5 years to develop, did not actually write a line of code for the first 2 years of development. Therefore, no project which will last less than 2 years should use OO, because they will not write a single line of code."
You are, apparently, trying way too hard to see the forest, here, buddy, and forgetting that you need to back up each individual tree. Maybe if you started writing down some of these references when you make them up############come across them...
Uh... I must have failed to make myself clear. The guy's point was that because there were two competing theories, that OO was basically worthless until someone got back to him on which of the two was better. My contention is that the existence of two models does not imply that one or both models must therefore be inferior.
Please direct me to the school of design that consistently outperforms OO where it is always clear how to apply the design model.
"owing to Verio's robot. In her opinion, Judge Jones said that the harm estimate was 'thoroughly undercut' by Vario in pretrial discovery,"
Did this bug the living shit out of anyone else? Is there one company, or two? None of my friends who work for Verio have mentioned a sister company called Vario. And it would have been funnier if they had spelled it Varyo.
Actually, I think the Rhein Fire had a better editor.
For those of you not afraid of goatse.cx, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/12/technology/12CYB ERLAW.html
Does this mean that we're going to need to sign a license agreement before initiating a TCP/IP connection with a machine we don't own?
Oops - I was wrong. I forgot about the one part of the article that's more insightful than any comment about programming ever: "In addition, the OOP community is strongly divided on whether the "component" model or the "inheritance" model is the way to go. Microsoft seams to favor the component model. The jury is still out on this one. Without getting into the details of this battle, let's just say OOP still has some growing up to do." Holy fuck! There might be more than one right way to do things! ABANDON FUCKING SHIP!
I think, far and away, the best part of this article, is the part where he takes vague numbers from studies of large (2+ year before initial shipment) development efforts and tries to apply them to products that can go through 10 whole number versions and get abandoned by the roadside in 2 years. The slowdown he talks about in the beginning of an OO dev cycle is partially proportional to the length of the dev cycle overall - NOBODY spends 3 years developing objects for a 3 month project, no matter how fanatical their devotion to OO.
Someone want to show me where they say you can't view porn or use anonymous e-mail? I missed both of those. I see where you can't impersonate someone else, or forge headers/identifying information, but I don't believe anon e-mail falls under any of those categories.
"Top 15 Most Undeservedly Uninfluential Games of All Time"
Here, I'll get them started on some games that I wish they would make more like.
The Fool's Errand
Darklands
Heaven and Earth
I can't decide - should I learn to be an airline pilot, or a doctor.
I hear the pay is roughly the same, these days.
/., help me out!
Not that anyone will ever see this, but you're a fucking moron. Motion blur is not perceptible at slow speeds. Period. If it were, we would notice that any still picture looked fake because we could see that the atoms were not vibrating.
why don't you FUCKING inform me then MOTHERFUCKING JACKASS?
Or bring your ass over here and show me a 1200dpi image at 240Hz that DOESN'T appear to simulate motion blur without software motion blurring?
Because of course, our senses are real.
And it was a bloody typographical error, not "poor form". I was transcribing your text, and missed typing a word which WAS considered in my point.
I am looking out the window at cars driving roughly 60mph. I'm about 500 feet away from them. I have a REAL MOTHERFUCKING REAL sense that they are moving, and yet, I don't witness any motion blur. Of course, your claim is that the motion blur is STILL THERE, it's just so SMALL that I don't NOTICE it. However, if I move my cursor at the same speed across my monitor, I get EXACTLY the same sense that it is moving. I don't know how much more REAL MOTHERFUCKING REAL my senses get than the degree to which I am able to sense them.
ps dont make grammatical errors when yur flaming someone because of a typographical error.
No, that's "why you want (calculated motion blur) or (higher resolutions and faster frame rates)". I love your claim that without motion blur, there is no sense of speed or motion, by the way. Excellent use of hyperbole to disarm whatever point you may have had.