The election was fair this time, so blame your damn neighbors, not Bush
Seriously, I didn't vote because of this shit and in some ways, I really wish people like you would go away. I'd like to have, well, you know, a nice relaxing conversation about something slightly more significant than how much GWB's last bowel movement weighed.
I mean, don't you people have more important things, like alien sightings and black helicopters to talk about?
No shit, the fact that my previous company owns source code which (I was told, sorry) they bought from a company who sold their application to Amazon, then Amazon traded it in for a custom product....
I don't know, maybe someone who really could give a shit less about what religion^WOS is popular this week and just wants to play movies and music?
You've got a lot of balls calling the majority stupid. Don't you read history, do you know what happened to people like Socrates and Galileo? And heck, they were right.
Oh, wait, this is the internet, you are insignificant, and probably wrong.
Frankly, I'm just glad the voting process is generally being accepted as genuine this time. I'm glad the people got their wish, regardless if I agree or disagree with the views.
Of course, you're probably just sore because someone pissed on your expected celebration.
Seriously, I didn't vote for either of these yahoos but it's.... sad that people don't get it through their thick skull that the majority did vote him in.
If you can't respect that, well, perhaps you shouldn't vote and instead take the country by force? It sounds like you'll have enough followers to at least make the news.
Do something illegal, get arrested, and excercise your right to trial before 4 years of Bush-appointed, Republican confirmed Supreme Court appointees uphold the Patriot Act's elimination of right to trial.
Just to be clear, before you don your tinfoil hat you might want to remember that the order is innocent until proven guilty, so calling the election a fraud (which I didn't get very far down the posts, but I'm sure someone has already), is not a very good defense.
I apologize for taking this stance, but do you even have the slightest clue of what you're talking about?
root@myhost:~# file/bin/rm/bin/rm: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 4.9.1, statically linked, stripped
root@myhost:~# uname -s FreeBSD
Binary format has nothing to do with the system, but FreeBSD requires kernel support and a userland set of support to run linux binaries. Why might that be?
I run HLDS - Half Life Dedicated Server, on the box that I pasted that from. They don't have a FreeBSD native version (if that's changed recently, I would love to hear about it), so I use the linux emulation.
v6 of the linux_base userland would constantly complain about not being able to "emulate" mmap2(), because it's not supported in FreeBSD's libc. This would cause HLDS to crash.
What FreeBSD is doing is mapping linux libc calls to the FreeBSD equivalent with a little glue to make things go smoother.
You can see this in action very easily - run Linux oracle and then natively build a DBD::Oracle against the Linux client.
When you've figured out that doesn't work, stop there. You don't want to build separate versions of perl and everything else that it requires.
I highly suggest you thoroughly read 'man ld' before you continue spouting off your cheering.
One of the things that originally attracted me to CoH was the more action-geared combat. As I'm sure you know, a good deal of games in your selected genre involve basically initiating an attack, and pressing a key at an interval or not at all. Magic is "fun" by letting you do different attacks instead of just one.
My point is, you guys have carved a niche that is not so much action it's a FPS (Planetside), but has not made combat so dull it could all be done on pen and paper with relative ease (FFXI, EQ, etc). CoH does a great job mixing things like proper positioning with powers and great teamplay.
Where do you see this going in the future? If I may be so coy to coin your game as a "Massively Multiplayer Platformer", do you agree with this assertion, and (heh) without violating any contracts, do you think it has room to allow for expansive gameplay beyond what CoH offers?
I'm not trying to plug someone else's game in this forum, but I have had immense success with FFXI and NWN.
The Missions and Quests in the game really take the "grind" off, although it's most certainly still there. But you have to get past the control interface on the PC first, which is really geared towards a Playstation controller.
Also, a good number of NWN games are architected in a way that makes levelling up a very gratifying experience.
Yep. I got CoH a week within release (my first MMORPG purchase), and then bought FFXI. After spending some time with the quests in FFXI (which normally follow "you need to do this, killing stuff is something you'll need to do to get to it but however it's done is none of the game's business"), I just got disenfranchised with CoH and unfortunately cancelled my account about 2 weeks ago, which had some characters that I'd like to keep. I'm hoping that CoV won't let me down.
TF's were the in-game answer to this, but only marginally better (you fight better bad guys:) and very limited. No one wants to play Synapse 5 times because it's more interesting.
I don't know what the future is, but I know I traded in 8 years of "Linux as a Desktop" usage for a $2000 Mac because my time is not free, either. $2000 has saved me a lot of frustration so I can make my servers better, where hard-nosed configuration really does matter.
I just want my workstation/desktop to work. I don't care if it has whizbang monkey desktop 2.0 with fancy themes. I just want to install applications, the OS, and forget about it. I want to write shell scripts which help me get work done, not scripts to boot me into my GUI with the options that I want.
I guess the Mac gives me that now, along with a consistent user interface clean enough that really only compares to WindowMaker in the GNU world, and basically puts WM down like the NeXT-wannabe it is (I know the WM guys work hard, but it's just not the same).
Even if I can plop in a CD and SuSE installs for me without ever asking me a question, gets everything right, calculates the ultimate answers of the universe, the fact that the Mac interface is so intuitive that it's spoiled me will take a small act of god to even get my attention on the desktop.
And considering I trashed a SuSE 9.1 install to buy a Mac, I think I know what I'm talking about.
Some seem to take that acronym to mean "all ways are good". People who have been in the trenches for a little longer know better, and will not lie.
I like the choice when it's appropriate. I also don't think you really have a good grasp on "more than one way". In reality, there aren't many situations which, when you know the language, don't immediately pop out at you and say: "this one is the best".
Also, I don't know of any language that doesn't have it's unreadable bits. I guess I can make the distinction between reading a language and understanding what the code does. I've seen tons of python that reads great but makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The same could be said for AppleScript. Both languages have great "readability". I think it would be best to leave my criticisms of Java and C++ left alone. Haskell and OCaml.... guys, just stick with Fortran, you'll sleep at night instead of contemplating if you accidentally invoked type checking, closures, tail recursion....
I think the only real, justifiable criticism of perl that I could accept knowing the language as well as I do at this point would be that there are too many side effects that are taken for granted.
A foreach() or map{} can modify a named array. There is no reason for that at all. grep takes block and 'inline' form - for what grep does, block form is pretty damned silly. Use map instead.
The 'nan' problem. This is fun:
$string = 'nancy@hotmail.com';
if ($string == 0) { print "foo" };
I'll save you a few hours of searching perldoc. If the string starts with 'nan' and is used in an integer comparison, it's treated as 'not a number'. Yes, it sucks.
But if you think this is bad:
@slice = @{$ref}[0..9];
Compare:
ArrayList slice;
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
slice.push(ref[i]); }
String[] aSlice = (String) slice.toArray();
For me, knowing both of these languages, I know which one is going to cause the least confusion when I read it. The fact that one is one line of code and uses no temporary variables, and the other is several lines, in my opinion, "obfuscated" (it's not immediately apparent what you're doing or why), and uses temporary variables to subvert types does not seem more readable.
I was actually talking about recieving mail in that scenario, but it's simple.
Let's establish context:
- Spammers rarely use pipelining. - My mail host isn't geared to big concurrency (although I am patched to take advantage of it) - There was nothing stopping tcpserver from going apeshit.
When it takes several minutes to get a list of qmail-smtpd processes, I'm sure you can figure the rest out.
Although, the 130 had SA and qmail-scanner in the mix. The time before that (time #2 meant that I had to re-evaluate my mail system because I wasn't going to deal with this on a daily basis) got it up to around 80.
I disagree. Budget is really only a concern when you feel the need for a gaggle of ultimately useless people that can be supplanted by one./How/ many executive producers?
Sometimes this isn't as easy, (see: computer generated scenes) but there are many movies that have been shot at a fraction of what an equivalent movie made by a guy who names his ranch, sound technology, and studios after stuff he's done before, or less oblique but just as conceited, his name.
There is really no price that can be put on a good story, nor can any ratio be applied.
And frankly, I've never been a fan of sly, vin diesel, or arnie, and they are pretty expensive actors to hire. And Tom Cruise should stay far away from action movies. And it'd be/really/ nice if Tom Hanks could get back to making movies where the funny parts were a little deeper than his accent (c'mon, I need Bosom Buddies: The Movie!)
Some of us could care less, and are happy to live with your comments and IE in the workplace (especially when we build and configure our systems, not IT - hint) because we have a browser that we enjoy.
If you like [browser of the week] and want to make it a personal crusade to put that software up to some high moral standard...
Oh give over. No one would ever suggest that every/.er out there is a super genuis. Truth be told though, the/. crowd tends to be pretty intelligent (aside from spelling and grammar). This is especially true when it comes to computers and technology.
I don't come here for intelligent discussion, to be honest. I get bored, come here, and post. I doubt the very generic group that is slashdot would be interested in my musings on state machines, and I'll be damned if I talk about the merits of FreeBSD administration because I'll just get flamed for "trolling" or some random untrue bullshit.
I really only take issue with this point because for some reason, people think/. is more than just the National Enquirer of the technology world. If you'd be honest with yourself, you'd find it much less engaging and much more enjoyable.
Unfortunately even the ACM these days is looking to make an extra buck and a lot of the articles in rags like Queue really ruin it.
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Seriously, I didn't vote because of this shit and in some ways, I really wish people like you would go away. I'd like to have, well, you know, a nice relaxing conversation about something slightly more significant than how much GWB's last bowel movement weighed.
I mean, don't you people have more important things, like alien sightings and black helicopters to talk about?
I hope you weren't actually suggesting that as an alternative to prediction algorithms.
No shit, the fact that my previous company owns source code which (I was told, sorry) they bought from a company who sold their application to Amazon, then Amazon traded it in for a custom product....
The fact that most likely these recommendations are based on Likert Scaling or Guttman (otherwise known as Cumulative) Scaling makes me flare up at the concept that they even have the balls to propose this.
I don't know, maybe someone who really could give a shit less about what religion^WOS is popular this week and just wants to play movies and music?
You've got a lot of balls calling the majority stupid. Don't you read history, do you know what happened to people like Socrates and Galileo? And heck, they were right.
Oh, wait, this is the internet, you are insignificant, and probably wrong.
Frankly, I'm just glad the voting process is generally being accepted as genuine this time. I'm glad the people got their wish, regardless if I agree or disagree with the views.
Of course, you're probably just sore because someone pissed on your expected celebration.
OMGWTFBBQ!!111one
Waah. You lost.
.... sad that people don't get it through their thick skull that the majority did vote him in.
Seriously, I didn't vote for either of these yahoos but it's
If you can't respect that, well, perhaps you shouldn't vote and instead take the country by force? It sounds like you'll have enough followers to at least make the news.
Do something illegal, get arrested, and excercise your right to trial before 4 years of Bush-appointed, Republican confirmed Supreme Court appointees uphold the Patriot Act's elimination of right to trial.
Just to be clear, before you don your tinfoil hat you might want to remember that the order is innocent until proven guilty, so calling the election a fraud (which I didn't get very far down the posts, but I'm sure someone has already), is not a very good defense.
I apologize for taking this stance, but do you even have the slightest clue of what you're talking about?
/bin/rm /bin/rm: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 4.9.1, statically linked, stripped
root@myhost:~# file
root@myhost:~# uname -s
FreeBSD
Binary format has nothing to do with the system, but FreeBSD requires kernel support and a userland set of support to run linux binaries. Why might that be?
I run HLDS - Half Life Dedicated Server, on the box that I pasted that from. They don't have a FreeBSD native version (if that's changed recently, I would love to hear about it), so I use the linux emulation.
v6 of the linux_base userland would constantly complain about not being able to "emulate" mmap2(), because it's not supported in FreeBSD's libc. This would cause HLDS to crash.
What FreeBSD is doing is mapping linux libc calls to the FreeBSD equivalent with a little glue to make things go smoother.
You can see this in action very easily - run Linux oracle and then natively build a DBD::Oracle against the Linux client.
When you've figured out that doesn't work, stop there. You don't want to build separate versions of perl and everything else that it requires.
I highly suggest you thoroughly read 'man ld' before you continue spouting off your cheering.
This is almost exactly how WINE works as well.
Thanks!
Hi Jack,
One of the things that originally attracted me to CoH was the more action-geared combat. As I'm sure you know, a good deal of games in your selected genre involve basically initiating an attack, and pressing a key at an interval or not at all. Magic is "fun" by letting you do different attacks instead of just one.
My point is, you guys have carved a niche that is not so much action it's a FPS (Planetside), but has not made combat so dull it could all be done on pen and paper with relative ease (FFXI, EQ, etc). CoH does a great job mixing things like proper positioning with powers and great teamplay.
Where do you see this going in the future? If I may be so coy to coin your game as a "Massively Multiplayer Platformer", do you agree with this assertion, and (heh) without violating any contracts, do you think it has room to allow for expansive gameplay beyond what CoH offers?
I'm not trying to plug someone else's game in this forum, but I have had immense success with FFXI and NWN.
The Missions and Quests in the game really take the "grind" off, although it's most certainly still there. But you have to get past the control interface on the PC first, which is really geared towards a Playstation controller.
Also, a good number of NWN games are architected in a way that makes levelling up a very gratifying experience.
Perhaps Extreme SuperHero Ironing?
Yep. I got CoH a week within release (my first MMORPG purchase), and then bought FFXI. After spending some time with the quests in FFXI (which normally follow "you need to do this, killing stuff is something you'll need to do to get to it but however it's done is none of the game's business"), I just got disenfranchised with CoH and unfortunately cancelled my account about 2 weeks ago, which had some characters that I'd like to keep. I'm hoping that CoV won't let me down.
:) and very limited. No one wants to play Synapse 5 times because it's more interesting.
TF's were the in-game answer to this, but only marginally better (you fight better bad guys
I guess I'm not seeing it.
I don't know what the future is, but I know I traded in 8 years of "Linux as a Desktop" usage for a $2000 Mac because my time is not free, either. $2000 has saved me a lot of frustration so I can make my servers better, where hard-nosed configuration really does matter.
I just want my workstation/desktop to work. I don't care if it has whizbang monkey desktop 2.0 with fancy themes. I just want to install applications, the OS, and forget about it. I want to write shell scripts which help me get work done, not scripts to boot me into my GUI with the options that I want.
I guess the Mac gives me that now, along with a consistent user interface clean enough that really only compares to WindowMaker in the GNU world, and basically puts WM down like the NeXT-wannabe it is (I know the WM guys work hard, but it's just not the same).
Even if I can plop in a CD and SuSE installs for me without ever asking me a question, gets everything right, calculates the ultimate answers of the universe, the fact that the Mac interface is so intuitive that it's spoiled me will take a small act of god to even get my attention on the desktop.
And considering I trashed a SuSE 9.1 install to buy a Mac, I think I know what I'm talking about.
Of course, until you actually DO anything on the machine.
I'm just sick of the attitude that for some reason, people think authors of popular free applications owe them something.
They didn't force you to bet the business on their app, just because you're kicking themselves in the ass about it doesn't mean they have to take it.
Well,
.... guys, just stick with Fortran, you'll sleep at night instead of contemplating if you accidentally invoked type checking, closures, tail recursion....
Some seem to take that acronym to mean "all ways are good". People who have been in the trenches for a little longer know better, and will not lie.
I like the choice when it's appropriate. I also don't think you really have a good grasp on "more than one way". In reality, there aren't many situations which, when you know the language, don't immediately pop out at you and say: "this one is the best".
Also, I don't know of any language that doesn't have it's unreadable bits. I guess I can make the distinction between reading a language and understanding what the code does. I've seen tons of python that reads great but makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The same could be said for AppleScript. Both languages have great "readability". I think it would be best to leave my criticisms of Java and C++ left alone. Haskell and OCaml
I think the only real, justifiable criticism of perl that I could accept knowing the language as well as I do at this point would be that there are too many side effects that are taken for granted.
A foreach() or map{} can modify a named array. There is no reason for that at all. grep takes block and 'inline' form - for what grep does, block form is pretty damned silly. Use map instead.
The 'nan' problem. This is fun:
$string = 'nancy@hotmail.com';
if ($string == 0) { print "foo" };
I'll save you a few hours of searching perldoc. If the string starts with 'nan' and is used in an integer comparison, it's treated as 'not a number'. Yes, it sucks.
But if you think this is bad:
@slice = @{$ref}[0..9];
Compare:
ArrayList slice;
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
slice.push(ref[i]);
}
String[] aSlice = (String) slice.toArray();
For me, knowing both of these languages, I know which one is going to cause the least confusion when I read it. The fact that one is one line of code and uses no temporary variables, and the other is several lines, in my opinion, "obfuscated" (it's not immediately apparent what you're doing or why), and uses temporary variables to subvert types does not seem more readable.
I was actually talking about recieving mail in that scenario, but it's simple.
Let's establish context:
- Spammers rarely use pipelining.
- My mail host isn't geared to big concurrency (although I am patched to take advantage of it)
- There was nothing stopping tcpserver from going apeshit.
When it takes several minutes to get a list of qmail-smtpd processes, I'm sure you can figure the rest out.
Although, the 130 had SA and qmail-scanner in the mix. The time before that (time #2 meant that I had to re-evaluate my mail system because I wasn't going to deal with this on a daily basis) got it up to around 80.
Heh, I think you're thinking of the Eagle 4WD. :)
Only if your box has 6 sides.
I disagree. Budget is really only a concern when you feel the need for a gaggle of ultimately useless people that can be supplanted by one. /How/ many executive producers?
/really/ nice if Tom Hanks could get back to making movies where the funny parts were a little deeper than his accent (c'mon, I need Bosom Buddies: The Movie!)
Sometimes this isn't as easy, (see: computer generated scenes) but there are many movies that have been shot at a fraction of what an equivalent movie made by a guy who names his ranch, sound technology, and studios after stuff he's done before, or less oblique but just as conceited, his name.
There is really no price that can be put on a good story, nor can any ratio be applied.
And frankly, I've never been a fan of sly, vin diesel, or arnie, and they are pretty expensive actors to hire. And Tom Cruise should stay far away from action movies. And it'd be
Sorry, that was supposed to say "Go for it".
(Damn freudian slips)
Some of us could care less, and are happy to live with your comments and IE in the workplace (especially when we build and configure our systems, not IT - hint) because we have a browser that we enjoy.
If you like [browser of the week] and want to make it a personal crusade to put that software up to some high moral standard...
Go to hell.
I've seen it on Panther, with 1.0PR
If your dialer says "carrier lost", you're usin+++ATH0
some people would argue that there are times for communism and fascism too (although everyone hates McCarthy but no one likes to be called either).
Oh well, I imagine that point is bound to be lost on this group.
Oh give over. No one would ever suggest that every /.er out there is a super genuis. Truth be told though, the /. crowd tends to be pretty intelligent (aside from spelling and grammar). This is especially true when it comes to computers and technology.
/. is more than just the National Enquirer of the technology world. If you'd be honest with yourself, you'd find it much less engaging and much more enjoyable.
I don't come here for intelligent discussion, to be honest. I get bored, come here, and post. I doubt the very generic group that is slashdot would be interested in my musings on state machines, and I'll be damned if I talk about the merits of FreeBSD administration because I'll just get flamed for "trolling" or some random untrue bullshit.
I really only take issue with this point because for some reason, people think
Unfortunately even the ACM these days is looking to make an extra buck and a lot of the articles in rags like Queue really ruin it.