Got released in April, but the CDs didn't come out until everything was polished?
If you roll out two releases, then you have to support two releases, which isn't very fun. If you REALLY want the latest Ubuntu in April, you can just install the latest snapshot. That way you can help test it, and file bug reports, etc!
Congratulations, you have been demoted from Nerd to Dweeb. Reason: Threatening fellow Slashdotters with modpoints you don't have. I'll be politically correct and not use the word that describes the situation (hint: it starts with a 'g'), but lets just say that in the old days, we'd take you and your same-sex partner out back with a rope and let god take care of the rest. wink wink, nudge nudge:D
I think we need to make the terms "Indie Developers" and "Indie Studios" the standard...
I think we should, you know,freakin write it out! Such as "Indiependant", using whatever spelling system (ubiquetous-collective-)your "innovative" grade school teacher encouraged you to use.
No, thats not true. Service packs are releases of Windows in their own right. There are alot of users out there who get the latest version, but never install service packs, particularly in a slow-moving corporate environment, or slow-moving grandmas. The gold releases have the biggest footprint, so he's saying Microsoft wants to get everything right by the time Vista is out the door.
Kind of like Firefox 1.0. You'll probably see "Firefox/1.0" join Netscape 4 in the "browser versions that just won't friggin die" category in the years to come, but "Firefox 1.0.7" will fall off the map shortly. People who don't upgrade often tend to track major releases.
... can you remember having the same contempt for the french prior to their [justified] opposition to Iraq II?
Yes.
In summer 1998 some French exchange studnets were staying at a friends house. They had funny accents, ate jam sandwiches and smoked alot, but they seemed okay. At the end of the summer, I went along with my friend to send them off, and before they boarded the airplane, one of them shouted "Fuck America!" to the people in the terminal, and his cohorts repeated the sentiment after him. Then, I thought to myself, "That was really....French"
Replace the menial jobs that don't matter with robots
Hmm, this begs question of what will happen the lower %30 of the bell curve. Oh wait, those are employed by government....the lower %30-%60 then?
Are they doomed to a life predicted by Star Trek, where their only purpose is wandering around the hallways, and getting killed by aliens on away mission? (Yes, the officers in Star Trek never get killed, its always that enlisted shmuck that's along for the ride).
What do we do when robots have taken the place of everything, and only businessmen and engineers have jobs?
Well, since I'm an asshat I know what I'd do...put an ad in the news[sic]paper! "Bow down to Zorg! Zorg will pay you $25/week to cook and clean all day long, and maybe Zorg let you sleep if you always bow down to Zorg!"
And even with this abusive add, there will be at least a 40 broke-ass tools enqueued outside. Then I can delightfully test their tolerance for verbal abuse as they drink the tea and eat the scone they really came for. Once I find a suitible unit, or resource, or whatever these things are called, I can announce to the still-lengthy queue outside that the position has been filled, and gleefully watch the sea of faces fall, the chins pucker, and then watch them shuffle to the government-subsidized dormatories full of decay and disease, care of an institution desperate to reduce the surplus population.
Oh yes, I'm looking forward to it actually. It won't last long before anarchy or communism take the reins, but in the meantime I can be delightfully fetid:D
Customer-Noservice: We need you to run this diagnostic software.
Joe Blow: But my computer won't boot.
Customer-Noservice: We need the results to send you a new one.
Joe Blow: Thats impossible, my windows are broken.
Customer-Noservice: Ok, we'll send you a WD Caviar 2GB to get you up and running for week or so till it shits its boot sector...enough time to run the diagnostic. *Click*
Here's a real rat brain sequence. Look it up on BLAST, I'm sure you'll find the results amusing. (After Format, scroll down below the chart for matches).
Anyway, Windows XP tries to defrag your HD when it is idle, which could be bad. I know my work laptop, now running XP, suffered a lot more fragmentation after the upgrade from 2000 (before I turned auto defrag off). I think it has to do with the fact that either I'm working on my laptop, or its off. There is some accidental idle time in there, but only enough time to fragment the HD even worse before I resume my work. So, I turned it off, and it seems to be fragmenting normally now.
So, YMMV, I've done no quantitative analysis on this, it may be due to changing usage patterns, but if your users keep their computers busy, turning off auto defrag could help. It certainly won't make it worse then you had before the upgrade, since you're back at Windows 2000 behavior.
Another thing I thought of, but haven't tried, is set the registry size limit to something low like 1 MB, possibly cutting down on all the crud in there. I'd do it myself, but my laptop is too important to risk downtime, and the rest of my machines don't have registries.
Even if you don't let it sit for a few days the worst thing you'r generally risking is a breif stinging shock.
I see you've (luckily) never got your fingers caught around a power supply. The discharge caused my leg muscles to go from 0-60 in 0.01 seconds, sending me flying across the room... Fucking. Ow. I'm just glad it sent me flying away from instead of into the tube, cause I defininately don't want to join the circus^H^H^H^H^H^H plastic surgeon's waiting room.
Just take my advice kids, unless you get a kick out of eating sheet rock and/or glass shards, wear rubber gloves.
I play ET fairly often (current nick: TinfoilSweatervest), and aimbots are really rare, particularly lately. Its been months since I've seen one. The way you can tell is, you'll get pissed if someone is really kicking your ass. However, when you're up against an aimbot, you can't get pissed cause its so rediculous.
Although, my list is set to ignore non-punkbuster servers, which may help.
Moving back on-topic...the AI on those bots can be funny, try "your mother was a can opener" and such.
Well, if your software is entirely yours (contributors?), and there aren't any extra copies floating around on the web, just relicense (no "at your option"), and remove the old code and binaries from your site. Nothing in the GPL says anything about code dropping off the face of the earth.:)
(Although, this is why places like sourceforge/freshmeat/etc are important, a place to keep code in the public in the event the original source vanishes... *cough* Nessus *cough*)
The binary opposite of the color 'black' is 'not black'.
I dunno bud, if your defining black as something other than the opposite of white, then your doing something bad. Even if you consider that you might have other slots available in the bit slice you are considering, you really should make them Don't Cares for sanity.
!white = !00000000 00000000 00000000 = 11111111 11111111 11111111 = black.If you're having to think about things some other way, something is wrong. Or you're a mathematician:P
Anyway to stay on topic, here's my particular path so far in the quest for coding:
Now write at least 3 different (as in technique) programs that crash your computer before you continue. You can boot into Windows if you're feeling lazy.:)
Buy C++ Primer Plus, and go as far as you can till you're bored out of your mind and itching to code something real. (Optional)
Make a xxeyes program. Like xeyes but looks away from your mouse. (That way you can get outside crosseyes dammit!:D)
Make a program that scrambles an image into 10x10 blocks.
Reimplement pong.
Make a program to play wav files. Brownie points if you can get a spectrum analyzer or some other representation working with GLUT. (Read up on fast Fourier transforms, which is what you'll be using. Don't use a library for it, thats cheating:) )
Check out wxWidgets. Walk through the tutorials.
Make your own text editor.
Make a basic sound player app with a spectrum analyzer. Make it echo/reverb output. (Read up on FIR Filters)
Well, there are less good movies made outside California studios. Foreign cinemas feature translated or subtitled California-made films fairly often, good ones. The locally made films usually, more or less, suck. So, in a US cinema, you can pick any random movie and 90% of the time you won't think you wasted your money coming out, and with a French cinema, thats more like 50-75% depending on the year. Of course, I was there over a decade ago, so things might have changed, but I doubt it.
Hmm, I don't remember laughing. I call it non-drama, because the main character opened her mouth, what, all of 3 or so times during the movie?:D I don't know if wandering around, trying not to be a hopeless shut-in qualifies as dramatic. It still was a good movie though.
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Got released in April, but the CDs didn't come out until everything was polished?
If you roll out two releases, then you have to support two releases, which isn't very fun. If you REALLY want the latest Ubuntu in April, you can just install the latest snapshot. That way you can help test it, and file bug reports, etc!
Congratulations, you have been demoted from Nerd to Dweeb. Reason: Threatening fellow Slashdotters with modpoints you don't have. I'll be politically correct and not use the word that describes the situation (hint: it starts with a 'g'), but lets just say that in the old days, we'd take you and your same-sex partner out back with a rope and let god take care of the rest. wink wink, nudge nudge :D
I think we need to make the terms "Indie Developers" and "Indie Studios" the standard...
I think we should, you know,freakin write it out! Such as "Indiependant", using whatever spelling system (ubiquetous-collective-)your "innovative" grade school teacher encouraged you to use.
Try it, post a screen shot, it'd probably work. Someone's already tried ReactOS under QEMU under ReactOS
No, thats not true. Service packs are releases of Windows in their own right. There are alot of users out there who get the latest version, but never install service packs, particularly in a slow-moving corporate environment, or slow-moving grandmas. The gold releases have the biggest footprint, so he's saying Microsoft wants to get everything right by the time Vista is out the door.
Kind of like Firefox 1.0. You'll probably see "Firefox/1.0" join Netscape 4 in the "browser versions that just won't friggin die" category in the years to come, but "Firefox 1.0.7" will fall off the map shortly. People who don't upgrade often tend to track major releases.
... can you remember having the same contempt for the french prior to their [justified] opposition to Iraq II?
Yes.
In summer 1998 some French exchange studnets were staying at a friends house. They had funny accents, ate jam sandwiches and smoked alot, but they seemed okay. At the end of the summer, I went along with my friend to send them off, and before they boarded the airplane, one of them shouted "Fuck America!" to the people in the terminal, and his cohorts repeated the sentiment after him. Then, I thought to myself, "That was really....French"
Actually, I think it tastes a bit bitter. :)
Replace the menial jobs that don't matter with robots
:D
Hmm, this begs question of what will happen the lower %30 of the bell curve. Oh wait, those are employed by government....the lower %30-%60 then?
Are they doomed to a life predicted by Star Trek, where their only purpose is wandering around the hallways, and getting killed by aliens on away mission? (Yes, the officers in Star Trek never get killed, its always that enlisted shmuck that's along for the ride).
What do we do when robots have taken the place of everything, and only businessmen and engineers have jobs?
Well, since I'm an asshat I know what I'd do...put an ad in the news[sic]paper! "Bow down to Zorg! Zorg will pay you $25/week to cook and clean all day long, and maybe Zorg let you sleep if you always bow down to Zorg!"
And even with this abusive add, there will be at least a 40 broke-ass tools enqueued outside. Then I can delightfully test their tolerance for verbal abuse as they drink the tea and eat the scone they really came for. Once I find a suitible unit, or resource, or whatever these things are called, I can announce to the still-lengthy queue outside that the position has been filled, and gleefully watch the sea of faces fall, the chins pucker, and then watch them shuffle to the government-subsidized dormatories full of decay and disease, care of an institution desperate to reduce the surplus population.
Oh yes, I'm looking forward to it actually. It won't last long before anarchy or communism take the reins, but in the meantime I can be delightfully fetid
Man, that's gotta suck.
Customer-Noservice: We need you to run this diagnostic software.
Joe Blow: But my computer won't boot.
Customer-Noservice: We need the results to send you a new one.
Joe Blow: Thats impossible, my windows are broken.
Customer-Noservice: Ok, we'll send you a WD Caviar 2GB to get you up and running for week or so till it shits its boot sector...enough time to run the diagnostic. *Click*
Nice point! Someone who isn't good in front of a camera or a crowd of people can still be a fine leader where it counts, as is in both cases.
Actually the first match is the rat cannabinoid receptor, there's a homo sapiens in the list too cause they're all quite similar, but yes.
There's a good study for you bio majors out there: Hypothesis: Rats Can Get Stoned Too.
Actually, thats part of a cow protein.
Here's a real rat brain sequence. Look it up on BLAST, I'm sure you'll find the results amusing. (After Format, scroll down below the chart for matches).
ttaggtcgtt aggagaactt actgtgaaca ggctctttta tttcttcaaa agatgtctcc
catttcaagc aaggagcacc catggctgag ggttccctcc cggcatctct ttctcagtca
ccttgagtct ggcctaatca aagactgagg ttatgaagtc gatcctagat ggccttgcag
acaccacctt ccgtaccatc accacagacc tcctctacgt gggctcgaat gacattcagt
atgaagatat caaaggagac atggcatcca aattaggata cttcccacag aaattccctc
taacttcctt caggggtagt cccttccaag aaaagatgac cgcaggagac aactccccgt
tggtcccagc aggagacaca acaaacatta cagagttcta taacaagtct ctctcgtcgt
tcaaggagaa tgaggagaac atccagtgtg gggagaactt tatggacatg gagtgcttta
tgattctgaa tcccagccag cagctggcca tcgctgtact gtccctcaca ctgggcacct
tcacggttct ggagaaccta ctggtgctgt gtgtcatcct gcactcccgc agtctccgat
gcaggccttc ctaccacttc atcggcagcc tggcagtggc cgacctcctg ggaagtgtca
tttttgtgta cagctttgtt gacttccatg tattccaccg taaagacagc cccaatgtgt
ttctgttcaa actgggtggg gttacagcct ccttcacagc ttctgtgggc agcctgttcc
tcacagccat cgacaggtac atatccattc acaggcctct ggcctataag aggatcgtca
ccaggcccaa ggccgttgtg gccttttgcc tgatgtggac tatcgcaata gtaatcgctg
tgttgcctct cctgggctgg aactgcaaga agctgcaatc tgtttgctcg gacattttcc
cactcattga cgagacctac ctgatgttct ggattggggt gaccagtgtg ctgctgctgt
tcattgtgta cgcgtacatg tacattctct ggaaggctca cagccacgcg gtccgcatga
ttcagcgtgg gacccagaag agcatcatca tccacacgtc agaagacggc aaggtgcagg
tgacccggcc tgaccaagcc cgcatggaca ttaggctggc caaaaccctg gttctgatcc
tggtggtgtt gatcatctgc tggggccctc tgcttgcgat catggtgtat gacgtcttcg
ggaagatgaa caagcttatc aagacggtgt ttgccttctg cagtatgctc tgcctgctga
actccaccgt gaaccccatc atctatgctc tgaggagcaa ggacctgaga catgctttcc
gaagcatgtt cccttcgtgc gaaggcaccg cacagcctct agacaacagc atgggggact
cagactgcct gcacaagcac gccaacaaca cagccagcat gcacagggcc gcggagagct
gcatcaagag caccgttaag atcgcgaagg tgaccatgtc tgtgtccaca gacacgtccg
ccgaggctct gtgagcctgc tgcttttgtg gc
Anyway, Windows XP tries to defrag your HD when it is idle, which could be bad. I know my work laptop, now running XP, suffered a lot more fragmentation after the upgrade from 2000 (before I turned auto defrag off). I think it has to do with the fact that either I'm working on my laptop, or its off. There is some accidental idle time in there, but only enough time to fragment the HD even worse before I resume my work. So, I turned it off, and it seems to be fragmenting normally now.
So, YMMV, I've done no quantitative analysis on this, it may be due to changing usage patterns, but if your users keep their computers busy, turning off auto defrag could help. It certainly won't make it worse then you had before the upgrade, since you're back at Windows 2000 behavior.
Another thing I thought of, but haven't tried, is set the registry size limit to something low like 1 MB, possibly cutting down on all the crud in there. I'd do it myself, but my laptop is too important to risk downtime, and the rest of my machines don't have registries.
Even if you don't let it sit for a few days the worst thing you'r generally risking is a breif stinging shock.
I see you've (luckily) never got your fingers caught around a power supply. The discharge caused my leg muscles to go from 0-60 in 0.01 seconds, sending me flying across the room... Fucking. Ow. I'm just glad it sent me flying away from instead of into the tube, cause I defininately don't want to join the circus^H^H^H^H^H^H plastic surgeon's waiting room.
Just take my advice kids, unless you get a kick out of eating sheet rock and/or glass shards, wear rubber gloves.
I play ET fairly often (current nick: TinfoilSweatervest), and aimbots are really rare, particularly lately. Its been months since I've seen one. The way you can tell is, you'll get pissed if someone is really kicking your ass. However, when you're up against an aimbot, you can't get pissed cause its so rediculous.
Although, my list is set to ignore non-punkbuster servers, which may help.
Moving back on-topic...the AI on those bots can be funny, try "your mother was a can opener" and such.
.. that makes Linux a cigarette do-it-yourself kit complete with rolling papers ..
I guess that would make BSD a doobie do-it-yourself-kit? Now I know why BSD is so much better! 'cause Herb is the word, my man.
While still in alpha, KTechLab looks pretty promising for layout and simulation.
Well, if your software is entirely yours (contributors?), and there aren't any extra copies floating around on the web, just relicense (no "at your option"), and remove the old code and binaries from your site. Nothing in the GPL says anything about code dropping off the face of the earth. :)
(Although, this is why places like sourceforge/freshmeat/etc are important, a place to keep code in the public in the event the original source vanishes... *cough* Nessus *cough*)
That got me thinking...
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON:
HI! Y AN AC HL TROLL NIMROD!
AN OLD THIN CHILLY RAMHORN
Ok, to be fair
LAURA WELCH BUSH:
A WHALE CURB LUSH
BLEW RUSH, UCLA, HA!
On PvP servers, female avatars are much more likely to be played by men.
Alright, how would you like to think you hooked up with a hot gamer chick online (hot = has vagina, who gives a shit), and
Uhghhh.... ok, on the other hand, lets not finish that thought.
Hi! The name's Richard Head. Call me Dick. *warm goobery handshake*
I'll give you that copy of SuSE for $42.
Now, boys and girls, whats the morale of this story? Dick Head will never be found under his Harry competitors!
I liked Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, I hated Spirited Away. 50% :D
The binary opposite of the color 'black' is 'not black'.
:P
:)
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:D)
:) )
I dunno bud, if your defining black as something other than the opposite of white, then your doing something bad. Even if you consider that you might have other slots available in the bit slice you are considering, you really should make them Don't Cares for sanity.
!white = !00000000 00000000 00000000 = 11111111 11111111 11111111 = black.If you're having to think about things some other way, something is wrong. Or you're a mathematician
Anyway to stay on topic, here's my particular path so far in the quest for coding:
Walk through this online course:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/cclass/
Now write at least 3 different (as in technique) programs that crash your computer before you continue. You can boot into Windows if you're feeling lazy.
Buy C++ Primer Plus, and go as far as you can till you're bored out of your mind and itching to code something real. (Optional)
Get this library, then go thru tutorials. Then frolick and play:
http://www.opengl.org/resources/libraries/glut.ht
Make a xxeyes program. Like xeyes but looks away from your mouse. (That way you can get outside crosseyes dammit!
Make a program that scrambles an image into 10x10 blocks.
Reimplement pong.
Make a program to play wav files. Brownie points if you can get a spectrum analyzer or some other representation working with GLUT. (Read up on fast Fourier transforms, which is what you'll be using. Don't use a library for it, thats cheating
Check out wxWidgets. Walk through the tutorials.
Make your own text editor.
Make a basic sound player app with a spectrum analyzer. Make it echo/reverb output. (Read up on FIR Filters)
I'm sure I've forgotten things...oh well. Just tackle whatever sounds fun.
Well, there are less good movies made outside California studios. Foreign cinemas feature translated or subtitled California-made films fairly often, good ones. The locally made films usually, more or less, suck. So, in a US cinema, you can pick any random movie and 90% of the time you won't think you wasted your money coming out, and with a French cinema, thats more like 50-75% depending on the year. Of course, I was there over a decade ago, so things might have changed, but I doubt it.
Hmm, I don't remember laughing. I call it non-drama, because the main character opened her mouth, what, all of 3 or so times during the movie? :D I don't know if wandering around, trying not to be a hopeless shut-in qualifies as dramatic. It still was a good movie though.