Heh, what's really bad is when you've had a day of editing files on console and you come back to the one true editor and try to eval the lisp expression 'wq'
Note: I'm primarily an emacs user, but I like vi for quick jobs.
I don't know about you, but I program all day, and god knows that if I *really* needed to use my mouse in an editor it'd just slow me down and make my life horrible.
And just because vi is a console editor doesn't mean it can't be used in a terminal emulator (ie, a windowed one)... You say you use MacOSX... does that thing really even have a true 'console'?
vi has more features than most modern editors and probably is only surpassed by emacs, which as you might know is the grand-daddy of configurable editors.
End point: it's all about knowing your tool. Terminal/GUI does not matter, and in most cases, the GUI slows you down you end up having to use the ugly rat.
heh, actually the biggest thing about MOO2 that I love *is* the micromanagement. It adds a level of play to the game that I just can't get in Civ, unfortunately.
If you have a good setup with MOO2, you can manage it pretty easily, that is, using the various screens instead of managing your planets and fleets through the main screen.
That's why I liked alpha centauri so much, adding the ability to design new units with your acquired technologies was a BIG bonus to me.
That's because Halo took a lifetime to develop! That, and they promised a 'unique' gaming experience, and really didn't deliver on that.
That, and I don't want to speak for anyone else, but the one console genre that I will never consider buying is an FPS. The keyboard and mouse are significantly more tactile combination to aim and move.
Myself, I have a couple of linux machines for development and a windows machine for gaming. I enjoy both aspects of the spectrum.
Personally, why do you guys keep posting this drivel instead of not frequenting the site?
They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience.
Exactly what is the core audience here? Do you work for OSDN marketing? Would you like to present some figures? I thought so.
Slashdot is FUN. I don't consider it fun in the sense of learning new API's or algorithms, but fun in the 'leisure' sense.
One of these days people are going to realize, that the bigger a publication gets, no matter WHAT field(s) it covers, the less specialized it is going to be.
And if you weren't bitching, it'd be the other half of the/. populace, the casemodding windows gamers who like to look at porn and flash animations all day. Think about it for a second.
Heh, yes, escaflowne has one of these characters.. The cat-girl, which I cannot remember the name of.
Here's a little activity for owners of the series. Watch one of the first episodes, and count the amount of times the Cat-Girl says "Lord Van!". If 5 minutes have passed and you still have fingers and toes, you are not watching that early of an episode:)
Seriously, I've been one of those people who's been checking with the various games shops around here, and everytime I come in it seems that they have a new release date.
on that note though, it better be pretty good. I still play MOO2, and the only thing that really bothers me about the game is the serious problems with multiplayer support (I can deal with IPX, but the crashes are unbearable)
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Uh, Q3Test was out almost a year before the game was released.
And before that, there was the Q3 IHV test, which is essentially the same thing that happened with the Doom 3 leak.
Maybe if you weren't speaking for him, that might solve your problem with your lack of psychic abilities:)
Goverment makes law. Government is made of Politicians.
The best people qualified to make laws are those who are the most familiar with the legal code. Lawyers.
OTOH, Those who are the most skilled at abusing it are those who know the most about it. Can we say hack?:)
In any profession there are corrupt people. Unfortunately, you can make a better living being a corrupt lawyer than not being one.
Of course, the majority of these laws are created by advisors to your various politicians. The politician does very little in the actual law dept, he comes up with an idea and gets a cadre of attack monkeys to do the rest of it. He thinks it's a good idea and his campaign advisors do too, and then it makes it to wherever your country of origin passes laws. End of story.
The handsome actor's father was a worldwide-known physicist that had to leave him in early childhood to help out with The Great War(tm). He dies in the war. Throughout the story, the handsome actor is plagued by the premonition that he will die as well.
Well, while I agree with you the importance of those matters, you should probably think about this:
- In your preferences page, you can turn the preference to see 'games' articles off. That's why articles have different categories... For instance, I don't see articles written by Jon Katz.:)
- Those items are important, but slashdot is much more than just a techie's political activist haven. In fact, since chips and bits existed, it's been all about what CmdrTaco thinks is 'cool'. The concept of user-submitted articles makes it so that we DON'T get 100% anime and games and palm pilot crap.
- I'm going to assume that you don't give microsoft any money because you don't find their products useful or interesting. Why, exactly, does slashdot have to come under some double-standard when it comes to voting with your dollar? Remember guys, slashdot makes money off of ad impressions and views. If you don't like the site enough to take the time to write a 30 line diatribe about how you think the site should be run differently, well, get your own site and publish your own stuff, or alternately, don't visit the site. It's your choice.
(This is coming from a person who's written CmdrTaco email asking him to limit the selection of stuff several times - I just gave up and realized it's not my place to say)
The problem with software and business patents isn't that the reasoning behind them, it's the way they are DEFINED.
Since software and business are both abstract in reality, they are leading to abstract patents. LOTS of them. Software 'methods' are being patented, as are business 'methods' and things aren't being examined closely enough.
There are an infinite number of ways to express software design A. There is only one way to build the cotton gin, as the patent describes it.
If someone else builds a 'method to process cotton', no one files for patent infringement. They have to essentially build a copy of the device for it to be infringing on the patent, using the specifically designed spec covered in it.
Now, if someone patents 'architecture to store dynamic data in solid-state devices' (writing to memory), that currently *is* a valid software patent, and would be covered by our current system. But as I'm sure you know, that is such a broad patent in the software world as ALL programs write to memory.
But things get passed like this everyday. Look at the PanIP issues, or this current one.
That being said, if someone were to itemize exactly how the process worked (which would be literally suicide in our closed-source world), then it would be a valid software patent, as we could easily design something else that would perform the same function but using different methods.
I didn't say he wasn't. I just think he's a pompous self-centered.... that goes out of his way to point out he has a lot of money and power and thinks it gives him some right to 'predict' things unlike a scientist that works his whole life to make 'visionary predictions'.
But are Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie constantly putting out books about their visionary abilities, or listing themselves as 'philanthropists' in microsoft encarta?
I thought not. Which is why this always becomes more and more hilarious everytime I read it.
Hear hear! I was doing 'IT' for friends and family before it was called 'IT' and before people charged $50/hr for it.
Every single time, I gave a long lecture about how to use it and sat them down and explained it to them.
Those that kept calling even after that, I pointed tehm to a manual and/or went over there, fixed the problem, and gave them an exponetially longer lecture.
You know what? It works rather well... Those who don't want to take the time to learn their product don't call me anymore....
Because if you've ever heard my lectures, you'd understand:)
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Heh, what's really bad is when you've had a day of editing files on console and you come back to the one true editor and try to eval the lisp expression 'wq'
Note: I'm primarily an emacs user, but I like vi for quick jobs.
I don't know about you, but I program all day, and god knows that if I *really* needed to use my mouse in an editor it'd just slow me down and make my life horrible.
And just because vi is a console editor doesn't mean it can't be used in a terminal emulator (ie, a windowed one)... You say you use MacOSX... does that thing really even have a true 'console'?
vi has more features than most modern editors and probably is only surpassed by emacs, which as you might know is the grand-daddy of configurable editors.
End point: it's all about knowing your tool. Terminal/GUI does not matter, and in most cases, the GUI slows you down you end up having to use the ugly rat.
heh, actually the biggest thing about MOO2 that I love *is* the micromanagement. It adds a level of play to the game that I just can't get in Civ, unfortunately.
If you have a good setup with MOO2, you can manage it pretty easily, that is, using the various screens instead of managing your planets and fleets through the main screen.
That's why I liked alpha centauri so much, adding the ability to design new units with your acquired technologies was a BIG bonus to me.
That's because Halo took a lifetime to develop! That, and they promised a 'unique' gaming experience, and really didn't deliver on that.
That, and I don't want to speak for anyone else, but the one console genre that I will never consider buying is an FPS. The keyboard and mouse are significantly more tactile combination to aim and move.
3 letters - LWP.
Isn't there room for both?
/. populace, the casemodding windows gamers who like to look at porn and flash animations all day. Think about it for a second.
Myself, I have a couple of linux machines for development and a windows machine for gaming. I enjoy both aspects of the spectrum.
Personally, why do you guys keep posting this drivel instead of not frequenting the site?
They're the kind of people that glittery casemods attract, and they're the exact people slashdot should NOT cater to, as they're alienating their core audience.
Exactly what is the core audience here? Do you work for OSDN marketing? Would you like to present some figures? I thought so.
Slashdot is FUN. I don't consider it fun in the sense of learning new API's or algorithms, but fun in the 'leisure' sense.
One of these days people are going to realize, that the bigger a publication gets, no matter WHAT field(s) it covers, the less specialized it is going to be.
And if you weren't bitching, it'd be the other half of the
Heh, yes, escaflowne has one of these characters.. The cat-girl, which I cannot remember the name of.
:)
Here's a little activity for owners of the series. Watch one of the first episodes, and count the amount of times the Cat-Girl says "Lord Van!". If 5 minutes have passed and you still have fingers and toes, you are not watching that early of an episode
Emotional Content?
When I watch porn, I want to see acts of sex. If I wanted 'emotional content', I'd watch a soap opera.
heh, has it actually gone gold?
Seriously, I've been one of those people who's been checking with the various games shops around here, and everytime I come in it seems that they have a new release date.
on that note though, it better be pretty good. I still play MOO2, and the only thing that really bothers me about the game is the serious problems with multiplayer support (I can deal with IPX, but the crashes are unbearable)
Uh, Q3Test was out almost a year before the game was released.
:)
And before that, there was the Q3 IHV test, which is essentially the same thing that happened with the Doom 3 leak.
Maybe if you weren't speaking for him, that might solve your problem with your lack of psychic abilities
Goverment makes law.
:)
Government is made of Politicians.
The best people qualified to make laws are those who are the most familiar with the legal code. Lawyers.
OTOH, Those who are the most skilled at abusing it are those who know the most about it. Can we say hack?
In any profession there are corrupt people. Unfortunately, you can make a better living being a corrupt lawyer than not being one.
Of course, the majority of these laws are created by advisors to your various politicians. The politician does very little in the actual law dept, he comes up with an idea and gets a cadre of attack monkeys to do the rest of it. He thinks it's a good idea and his campaign advisors do too, and then it makes it to wherever your country of origin passes laws. End of story.
If the earth is fucked, living on the moon isn't going to be much better.
But you forgot....
The handsome actor's father was a worldwide-known physicist that had to leave him in early childhood to help out with The Great War(tm). He dies in the war. Throughout the story, the handsome actor is plagued by the premonition that he will die as well.
Well, while I agree with you the importance of those matters, you should probably think about this:
:)
- In your preferences page, you can turn the preference to see 'games' articles off. That's why articles have different categories... For instance, I don't see articles written by Jon Katz.
- Those items are important, but slashdot is much more than just a techie's political activist haven. In fact, since chips and bits existed, it's been all about what CmdrTaco thinks is 'cool'. The concept of user-submitted articles makes it so that we DON'T get 100% anime and games and palm pilot crap.
- I'm going to assume that you don't give microsoft any money because you don't find their products useful or interesting. Why, exactly, does slashdot have to come under some double-standard when it comes to voting with your dollar? Remember guys, slashdot makes money off of ad impressions and views. If you don't like the site enough to take the time to write a 30 line diatribe about how you think the site should be run differently, well, get your own site and publish your own stuff, or alternately, don't visit the site. It's your choice.
(This is coming from a person who's written CmdrTaco email asking him to limit the selection of stuff several times - I just gave up and realized it's not my place to say)
I just wonder what they do on major news sites, where probably a good 60% of the stuff they read is un-interesting to them...
Hear hear! Mod this guy up, I'm sick of wanna be reporters interviewing the '/. mentality' en masse.
The problem with software and business patents isn't that the reasoning behind them, it's the way they are DEFINED.
Since software and business are both abstract in reality, they are leading to abstract patents. LOTS of them. Software 'methods' are being patented, as are business 'methods' and things aren't being examined closely enough.
There are an infinite number of ways to express software design A. There is only one way to build the cotton gin, as the patent describes it.
If someone else builds a 'method to process cotton', no one files for patent infringement. They have to essentially build a copy of the device for it to be infringing on the patent, using the specifically designed spec covered in it.
Now, if someone patents 'architecture to store dynamic data in solid-state devices' (writing to memory), that currently *is* a valid software patent, and would be covered by our current system. But as I'm sure you know, that is such a broad patent in the software world as ALL programs write to memory.
But things get passed like this everyday. Look at the PanIP issues, or this current one.
That being said, if someone were to itemize exactly how the process worked (which would be literally suicide in our closed-source world), then it would be a valid software patent, as we could easily design something else that would perform the same function but using different methods.
I didn't say he wasn't. I just think he's a pompous self-centered .... that goes out of his way to point out he has a lot of money and power and thinks it gives him some right to 'predict' things unlike a scientist that works his whole life to make 'visionary predictions'.
:)
That's all
But are Brian Kernighan or Dennis Ritchie constantly putting out books about their visionary abilities, or listing themselves as 'philanthropists' in microsoft encarta?
I thought not. Which is why this always becomes more and more hilarious everytime I read it.
"Secure Titties" generally require things like:
:)
1) A Ring
2) An Expensive Wedding
3) House
4) Kids
Not all that fun anymore eh? I'd prefer 'titties with security holes' that I can fill myself
Does it really matter? It's just another way of expressing data. The good parsers (generally eyes) will figure it out.
Virginia.
(no taxes on tobacco)
Hear hear! I was doing 'IT' for friends and family before it was called 'IT' and before people charged $50/hr for it.
:)
Every single time, I gave a long lecture about how to use it and sat them down and explained it to them.
Those that kept calling even after that, I pointed tehm to a manual and/or went over there, fixed the problem, and gave them an exponetially longer lecture.
You know what? It works rather well... Those who don't want to take the time to learn their product don't call me anymore....
Because if you've ever heard my lectures, you'd understand
Re-performing is not copying.
If I give you audio books of the same book, one read by william shatner and another by star jones, are they really copies?
It depends on how popular it gets. Microsoft is only known for playing along when it's to their advantage.
At least for me, I'm going to be one of those people that has a different account for each one of these passport-ish things, per site.
I'm not about to give the keys to my car to all the auto shops in the town that I live and only put the battery in when I want to use it.