This is a great point i've never thought of before. It would be a far cry from 1984, but if the only ones that can record footage without hassles are the networks themselves you couldn't really trust them anymore.
Only in the US. In the UK (and the rest of Europe, AFAIK) the telcos don't charge you for receiving textsand even the idea of them doing so is considered absurd.
Ditto for most Lain American countries. SMS aren't exactly cheap down here, but receiving is always free of charge.
It was the part where the screen turns red and you hear the woman's voice "my baby, somebody help my baby" moments before flying baby demons come screaming at you from everywhere.
That very part fucked me up for days. I should have known better before following those bloody footsteps...
I mean, it's great that it's released under Creative Commons and stuff, but, unlike previous efforts (which were damn good BTW), this one has me completely psyched. The look and feel, the theme, storyline... it reminds me of one of those old campy sci-fi flicks.
If you're stuck with a cheap Canon point-and-shoot camera and have feature envy over the neighbor's sophisticated latest model, fret not!
The headline makes it sound (unintentionally) like Canons are crap, but actually they make some of the finest point-and-shoot cameras out there. I have an old Powershot A530 that, despite having "only" 5 megapixels, take beautiful sharp photographs, either in manual or auto mode, and holds it own when compared to newer cameras.
Anyway, i'm so downloading this. Sounds like a great addition.
Meaning that the abstractions offered by C++ (objects) are not needed, or offer no real benefits. C is as close as a portable assembler you'll get in that sense, and while understanding how a C++ program compiles to asm is no rocket science it introduces a layer of separation that might not be desired in an operative system kernel.
There's a lot of OS written (at least partially) in C++, don't get me wrong, but i don't think the lazyness or lack of knowledge of developers has much to do here.
Good point, though a slim percentage of modern kernel-mode C actually falls into this category in my experience. The majority of "OS code" these days could comfortably be written in C++ (with C++-style resource management), but isn't because that's simply not the skillset that skilled kernel hackers have.
I disagree. Couldn't it be that it's not written in C++ because it's not necesary?
The list itself proves it - they're the only two low-level, compiled languages in the top 10. Garbage collection is nice if you're lazy or don't really need to be bothered with it, but they're different tools for different scenarios and they all have their place. Even when seeing VB and PHP up there hurts me in my stomach.
And no, JIT and bytecode execution is not compiling. Get over it.
Ditto. MAME is a great choice for co-op games, there's a lot of classics available out there. A few weeks ago we played "Vendetta" with some friends and had a blast. It was like being 15 again.
In the lengthy and scatological exchange, the poster of the source code attempts to get some answers about CCPs much maligned security practices, particularly concerning the rife issue of bots and scripting in their flagship game. The conversation was a little less than professional.
Well, atleast on the tidbit shown on the article, the CCP representative sounds perfectly rational and professional. Am i missing something here?
And by the way, how does this guy ended up with the sourcecode on the first place?!
These are all (interesting) variation of basic logic gates implemented without electronic components. I was expecting something in the vein of the transputer...
Does it work in Linux? X-Fi on Linux is terrible at best and doesn't exist at normal. Can someone some insight as to whether it works in Linux or not?
I was just checking it myself and seems like ALSA supports the card allright. I've been interested on a high quality, cheap soundcard because of my main gripe with onboard audio: noise levels. I can hear hiss through my nVidia onboard audio adapter (which otherwise sounds damn fine), and even faint pop and crackles when the HDD is doing heavy work.
Yes. It has been stated that the chances for these events to happen are extremely slim since we have much more energetic collisions taking place as we speak in Earth's atmosphere, but the possibility is there. I don't really know about the implications of the existence of magnetic monopoles, but they are predicted in most modern physical models, yet to this day no one has been able to detect one.
instant fail. i'm well aware of what it's like to run linux boxes, and the updating is -never- as smooth as it is with windows. your example of compiling from source in gentoo is an exceptionally bad example.
Why is this? The fact that it compiles from source is completely transparent to the end user (minus the build time:), and i have to agree - on Linux, updating is a painless operation 99% of the time, and this is because the distro centralizes everything: OS and applications. Gentoo in particular has a very nice package handling system that, while still having some issues (slow db, for example), allows for very easy updating. "emerge -U world" will leave your system completely up to date, and that's all there is to it. I've had only a couple issues with upgrading Gentoo in almost 4 years i've been using it, and all were resolved with a revdep-rebuild.
On distros based on binary packages, this is even easier. And faster.
And it's not just Safari. It's iTunes as well. If you have QuickTime or Safari (it's been in beta on Windows since last summer), but not iTunes, the updater will offer you iTunes -- preselected -- every time a new version comes out, and call it an update.
This annoys the living fuck out of me. I make a point of not using Quicktime at home, but i run on it every once in a while at work, and the autoupdater insists on installing iTunes. It seems it's a trend with crappy media players, since i recall RealMedia doing the same with RealPlayer and some forgotten third party applications.
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What level was that?
Alpha Labs sector 4 (the science division).
This is a great point i've never thought of before. It would be a far cry from 1984, but if the only ones that can record footage without hassles are the networks themselves you couldn't really trust them anymore.
Only in the US. In the UK (and the rest of Europe, AFAIK) the telcos don't charge you for receiving textsand even the idea of them doing so is considered absurd.
Ditto for most Lain American countries. SMS aren't exactly cheap down here, but receiving is always free of charge.
*SPOILER ALERT* (as if it matters)
It was the part where the screen turns red and you hear the woman's voice "my baby, somebody help my baby" moments before flying baby demons come screaming at you from everywhere.
That very part fucked me up for days. I should have known better before following those bloody footsteps...
He takes them out to the range with a high-powered rifle and puts rounds thru them.
Ah! Finesse!
Is the dumbest thing I've ever seen here.
/. in years. Hell, i think it's the lamest story i've ever seen here.
Fucking A.
Who the hell is this "Ben Mallahan",
Internet meme dork of the month, it seems...
and would it be okay to break his knee caps?
Yes. In fact, partial credit for trying.
Notice I don't pick on Timothy, some things are expected.
Never mind. Forget that partial credit.
Perhaps its April Fools somewhere in the universe?
God, i hope. This is the lamest story i've seen on
Is it god hinting at me that I should spend more time wading though the Obama spam on Reddit?
It would only be clearer if he posted a damn billboard on a cloud. Atleast you might caugth a glimpse of something useful there!
Has Slashdot jumped the shark?
Like an olympic pole jumper.
Is there a cowboy neal option?
No way. That would make it, you know, funny.
... who completely loved that short trailer?
I mean, it's great that it's released under Creative Commons and stuff, but, unlike previous efforts (which were damn good BTW), this one has me completely psyched. The look and feel, the theme, storyline... it reminds me of one of those old campy sci-fi flicks.
I can't wait for the release!
If you're stuck with a cheap Canon point-and-shoot camera and have feature envy over the neighbor's sophisticated latest model, fret not!
The headline makes it sound (unintentionally) like Canons are crap, but actually they make some of the finest point-and-shoot cameras out there. I have an old Powershot A530 that, despite having "only" 5 megapixels, take beautiful sharp photographs, either in manual or auto mode, and holds it own when compared to newer cameras.
Anyway, i'm so downloading this. Sounds like a great addition.
Fair enough. We'll start with your family.
I can't help but feel that anything written in this is going to be very slow, and I can't, personally, see why anybody would bother.
I'm lost. Are you talking about Javascript, Java, or both?
Meaning that the abstractions offered by C++ (objects) are not needed, or offer no real benefits. C is as close as a portable assembler you'll get in that sense, and while understanding how a C++ program compiles to asm is no rocket science it introduces a layer of separation that might not be desired in an operative system kernel.
There's a lot of OS written (at least partially) in C++, don't get me wrong, but i don't think the lazyness or lack of knowledge of developers has much to do here.
Good point, though a slim percentage of modern kernel-mode C actually falls into this category in my experience. The majority of "OS code" these days could comfortably be written in C++ (with C++-style resource management), but isn't because that's simply not the skillset that skilled kernel hackers have.
I disagree. Couldn't it be that it's not written in C++ because it's not necesary?
The list itself proves it - they're the only two low-level, compiled languages in the top 10. Garbage collection is nice if you're lazy or don't really need to be bothered with it, but they're different tools for different scenarios and they all have their place. Even when seeing VB and PHP up there hurts me in my stomach.
And no, JIT and bytecode execution is not compiling. Get over it.
Ditto. MAME is a great choice for co-op games, there's a lot of classics available out there. A few weeks ago we played "Vendetta" with some friends and had a blast. It was like being 15 again.
So let me get this straight? I pay money to be buried in a cardboard box?
Well, it's not exactly like you'll notice...
Somewhere, a physicist just got a boner.
In the lengthy and scatological exchange, the poster of the source code attempts to get some answers about CCPs much maligned security practices, particularly concerning the rife issue of bots and scripting in their flagship game. The conversation was a little less than professional.
Well, atleast on the tidbit shown on the article, the CCP representative sounds perfectly rational and professional. Am i missing something here?
And by the way, how does this guy ended up with the sourcecode on the first place?!
These are all (interesting) variation of basic logic gates implemented without electronic components. I was expecting something in the vein of the transputer...
Does it work in Linux? X-Fi on Linux is terrible at best and doesn't exist at normal. Can someone some insight as to whether it works in Linux or not?
I was just checking it myself and seems like ALSA supports the card allright. I've been interested on a high quality, cheap soundcard because of my main gripe with onboard audio: noise levels. I can hear hiss through my nVidia onboard audio adapter (which otherwise sounds damn fine), and even faint pop and crackles when the HDD is doing heavy work.
I would settle for Natasha Henstridge
Dude! Can i hang out with you?!
Yes. It has been stated that the chances for these events to happen are extremely slim since we have much more energetic collisions taking place as we speak in Earth's atmosphere, but the possibility is there. I don't really know about the implications of the existence of magnetic monopoles, but they are predicted in most modern physical models, yet to this day no one has been able to detect one.
instant fail. i'm well aware of what it's like to run linux boxes, and the updating is -never- as smooth as it is with windows. your example of compiling from source in gentoo is an exceptionally bad example.
:), and i have to agree - on Linux, updating is a painless operation 99% of the time, and this is because the distro centralizes everything: OS and applications. Gentoo in particular has a very nice package handling system that, while still having some issues (slow db, for example), allows for very easy updating. "emerge -U world" will leave your system completely up to date, and that's all there is to it. I've had only a couple issues with upgrading Gentoo in almost 4 years i've been using it, and all were resolved with a revdep-rebuild.
Why is this? The fact that it compiles from source is completely transparent to the end user (minus the build time
On distros based on binary packages, this is even easier. And faster.
Ada Lovelace was the daughter of Lord Byron who was strongly associated and interacted greatly with Percy Shelly who was married to Mary Shelly.
My, that sounds like a bad soap opera plot...
And clicking through an install or update without watching everything until the actual files are being downloaded and/or installed is retarded.
You might want to read the definition of "update", and why Safari has nothing to do with iTunes in the first place.
And it's not just Safari. It's iTunes as well. If you have QuickTime or Safari (it's been in beta on Windows since last summer), but not iTunes, the updater will offer you iTunes -- preselected -- every time a new version comes out, and call it an update.
This annoys the living fuck out of me. I make a point of not using Quicktime at home, but i run on it every once in a while at work, and the autoupdater insists on installing iTunes. It seems it's a trend with crappy media players, since i recall RealMedia doing the same with RealPlayer and some forgotten third party applications.