Yes. I have many, many memories of that game. Each screen was a seperate puzzle, trying to get across through the robots and all. Pretty dim memories at this stage, though.
Chances are high that there's a criss-crossing web of cross-licensed patents which prevents second-order licensing (i.e. making the "thing" - in this case firmware) freely available to people who want to make it freely available - recursively.
As an aside, I imagine that's going to be a strategy that Microsoft is going to use in the future to fight Linux.
If punishment is inflicting visible suffering, then it comes under your second point. In reality, this covers two purposes: convincing others not to offend, and providing some kind of Biblical comfort for people who thirst for revenge.
If it's about "convincing" (aka conditioning in the Pavlovian sense) the convicted not to reoffend, then it is rehabilitation (and thus comes under your fourth point) by the most brutal and uncivilized means - and it need not be visible suffering.
Your post isn't self-consistent and exhibits no evidence of thought. It reads like the groupthink response of an immature teenager.
I can't agree with you. I spent 10 years (11yo to 21yo) learning about:
* programming: everything from machine code on the Z80 through C/C++/Pascal/Delphi/Java/C# to functional programming with Haskell.
* computer science, almost entirely from Knuth's Art of Computer Programming I got on my 18th birthday.
* software lifecycle: from waterfall through spiral-like iteration through agile methods such as extreme programming.
* hardware: from 2's complement binary subtraction, and adder circuits, to empirical understanding of cache hierarchy effects.
* maths: from stuff in what would be American high school (differential & integral calculus, applied mathematics) to matrices as used in 3D software.
I was just conferred with a first class honours degree last Friday. I didn't study at all in college, and I learned absolutely nothing. It was a waste of time. The job I'm in now (software engineer) is entirely about C# and internal library stuff, and nothing in college prepared me for any of it.
I type using the Dvorak layout, and I can type more sensibly than I can speak (since pauses don't look stupid) and faster and more legibly than I can write.
This continuous drift towards 'alternative' input methods on the part of the OS vendors (read: Microsoft) seems mistaken from my desktop-bound existence.
Don't even get me started on Microsoft's MixedUp keyboards. The moment any keyboard manufacturer starts playing with the function block (Insert / Delete and friends), they lose my business for one.
Encoding CDs will only take time; it can be done in the background.
Another poster has indicated a doubt as to the possibility of playing without skipping. MP3 playback on 133MHz Win95 systems with 16MB rarely took more than 10% CPU, back in the day.
From what I hear of the requirements to run X, it sounds like it has bloated terribly since the old 486 / 1MB graphics card days.
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Varargs is a problem in C/C++ because it isn't type-safe. It is type-safe in C#, and thus isn't a problem.
The problem with your idea is that we can really only live a couple of lives.
I'm currently a software engineer, and system design is my true passion in life. However, I may become a laywer at some point in the future. My career choices mean I can never also be (say) a detective, a teacher / lecturer, a special-ops soldier, or a number of other career paths which I'm unwilling to dedicate a part of my life to for a variety of reasons.
This is where fantasy, cinema, fiction and games come in. They help fill in the gaps where alternative life choices might have been made.
... it comes down to people seeing what other people have gotten, and wanting to get it too.
The marketing words matter a whole lot less than marketing people think. Marketing teaches you to "sell the benefit, not the feature", but the spiel ends up turning benefits into features because cliched "benefit" phrases become impersonal corporate-speak meaningless nouns in the minds of the listeners.
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In my experience, X is amazingly slower than Windows for all UI stuff - including percieved mouse and keyboard latency.
Yes. I have many, many memories of that game. Each screen was a seperate puzzle, trying to get across through the robots and all. Pretty dim memories at this stage, though.
Chances are high that there's a criss-crossing web of cross-licensed patents which prevents second-order licensing (i.e. making the "thing" - in this case firmware) freely available to people who want to make it freely available - recursively.
As an aside, I imagine that's going to be a strategy that Microsoft is going to use in the future to fight Linux.
apt-get install hpoj
That's too much information right there. AD obviates any nead for this.
AD support? That's rich.
Do you know what AD is? What comparable enterprise-wide technology comes with linux and windows support and is extant in the wild?
Care to expand on your erudite argument?
Your post is bullshit.
What is punishment?
If punishment is inflicting visible suffering, then it comes under your second point. In reality, this covers two purposes: convincing others not to offend, and providing some kind of Biblical comfort for people who thirst for revenge.
If it's about "convincing" (aka conditioning in the Pavlovian sense) the convicted not to reoffend, then it is rehabilitation (and thus comes under your fourth point) by the most brutal and uncivilized means - and it need not be visible suffering.
Your post isn't self-consistent and exhibits no evidence of thought. It reads like the groupthink response of an immature teenager.
You can pick up a language in about 3 hours. The libraries and technologies take longer.
ask them to write a parser, small compiler or interpreter.
ask them to have their code embed another language as a scripting engine.
Funny. My life between ages 14 to 16 existed only to write compilers!
-- Barry
I can't agree with you. I spent 10 years (11yo to 21yo) learning about:
* programming: everything from machine code on the Z80 through C/C++/Pascal/Delphi/Java/C# to functional programming with Haskell.
* computer science, almost entirely from Knuth's Art of Computer Programming I got on my 18th birthday.
* software lifecycle: from waterfall through spiral-like iteration through agile methods such as extreme programming.
* hardware: from 2's complement binary subtraction, and adder circuits, to empirical understanding of cache hierarchy effects.
* maths: from stuff in what would be American high school (differential & integral calculus, applied mathematics) to matrices as used in 3D software.
I was just conferred with a first class honours degree last Friday. I didn't study at all in college, and I learned absolutely nothing. It was a waste of time. The job I'm in now (software engineer) is entirely about C# and internal library stuff, and nothing in college prepared me for any of it.
-- Barry
Which is better:
/proc filesystem
1) Quickly and silently removing the file, while leaving access hidden inside a link in the
2) Failing to remove the file (because you're using it right now) and informing you
?
I reckon removing a file should be harder if it's currently being used. I don't think it should succeed silently.
I type using the Dvorak layout, and I can type more sensibly than I can speak (since pauses don't look stupid) and faster and more legibly than I can write.
This continuous drift towards 'alternative' input methods on the part of the OS vendors (read: Microsoft) seems mistaken from my desktop-bound existence.
Don't even get me started on Microsoft's MixedUp keyboards. The moment any keyboard manufacturer starts playing with the function block (Insert / Delete and friends), they lose my business for one.
Get more RAM then! I'm using a machine with 2GB. I don't see any excuses for machines having less than 1GB.
Encoding CDs will only take time; it can be done in the background.
Another poster has indicated a doubt as to the possibility of playing without skipping. MP3 playback on 133MHz Win95 systems with 16MB rarely took more than 10% CPU, back in the day.
From what I hear of the requirements to run X, it sounds like it has bloated terribly since the old 486 / 1MB graphics card days.
Varargs is a problem in C/C++ because it isn't type-safe. It is type-safe in C#, and thus isn't a problem.
The problem with your idea is that we can really only live a couple of lives.
I'm currently a software engineer, and system design is my true passion in life. However, I may become a laywer at some point in the future. My career choices mean I can never also be (say) a detective, a teacher / lecturer, a special-ops soldier, or a number of other career paths which I'm unwilling to dedicate a part of my life to for a variety of reasons.
This is where fantasy, cinema, fiction and games come in. They help fill in the gaps where alternative life choices might have been made.
Cygwin with bash on rxvt works very sweetly on WinXP.
... it comes down to people seeing what other people have gotten, and wanting to get it too.
The marketing words matter a whole lot less than marketing people think. Marketing teaches you to "sell the benefit, not the feature", but the spiel ends up turning benefits into features because cliched "benefit" phrases become impersonal corporate-speak meaningless nouns in the minds of the listeners.
-- Barry Kelly
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