Thank you for pointing me towards "The C Programming Language" book. My dad had purchased it tens of years ago, but never got around to messing with it, and I had noticed it in his bookshelf many times when I was younger. You've inspired me to pick up the book and start learning. Thanks.
Trusting that none of my crazy teachers read Slashdot, I'll say that I have a hardware keylogger sitting at my highschool right now, and it's been there for several days. Nobody has noticed yet, and I doubt they ever will. I really have no motivation to get passwords or sensitive information from my teachers, or to change my grades, as they're pretty decent, but doing it as an experiment is pretty interesting. Honestly, most teachers wouldn't notice a hardware keylogger, as they leave it up to the tech staff to do hardware related stuff. I know this is Slashdot, but how many of you have checked your keyboards for bugs lately? If a Slashdotter doesn't check for new hardware on every visit to the computer, what the monkeys is a teacher doing checking?
At my highschool, we have a class dedicated to JavaScript. The thing that got our class most motivated was making simple little games. A few of my friends and I were a bit ahead of the curve, so a few days into the course, we got seperated into a different group, where we were faced with the task of making our own games. Pong, tetris, breakout, and all of their buddies were the first to be put out.
Now, about the game you were talking about in Java. That was the first challenge that our teacher gave to the class. Needless to say, we had dipped in that realm a few years ago, so it was relatively simple for us to whip something out, but it really gave a challenge to other students. Understanding concepts like ways to store the state, and having a main loop, were valuable lessons that were learned from this little excercise.
Lesson: Take small steps. Don't just dive into something huge. Now, maybe it's just me and my script kiddie ways, but JavaScript's a good place to start. Works anywhere you have a browser, and no need to compile every time you make a mistake getting used to the langauge.
Better yet, e-mail all your republican friends. Remind them about the change. Remember, all people voting for Kerry go to the polls on the regular day. All people voting for Bush go to the polls a day after.
Well, I don't *really* have a dog, but if I had one, it sure as hell wouldn't be for functionality.
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Voice-Collar: The dog has urinated at 9:18:36PM Voice-Collar: The dog has done business behind the sofa at 9:19:45PM Voice-Collar: Female dog alert: "Back, bitch!"
So, I could see someone saying "Oh, Redhat violates x copyrights", but lumping all these distros together isn't fair. Seems to me, it's like saying that computers violate compyrights. I want to see a list, broken down into sections, by distro, by type, anything. As long as it's not all lumped together.
One thing that I always notice is clothing. It never seems to hold onto the body like it does in reality. It's always floating right above the surface.
There are two displays. Thus the amount of pixels _should_ be multiplied by two. 307,200*2=614,400. You can only multiply the resolution of one axis by two, not the both of them.
A friend and I played this game for about fifteen minutes at the Comic Con, and we were impressed.
We talked to one of the guys running the show and learned that the demo we had playes was running on a 2.8GHz computer with 2 gigs of RAM. Don't remember what graphics card, however. It ran remarkably well, really high FPS, great graphics, and wonderful features.
We ended up playing Helm's Deep, and after about ten minutes of playing, we were all prepared, plenty of flaming arrows, and the orcs came. Some came with ladders, some with towers, even the giant flaming battering ram. They didn't really need them, however, as we forgot to close the gate, and they walked right in.
However, it was a great demo, and I was truly impressed. All of my hero characters dies, but strangely, most of the damage they took came from the bodies of falling orcs from atop the walls. We absolutely sucked at the game, died quickly, but the fifteen minute demo was enough to persuade me to buy it. Great game.
Oh, and if you're atop the front wall, and push the ladders over that the orcs are climbing up, they all die:-).
One thing first, it's internet in this case, not Internet.
Now, have any of you slashdotters tried this? I've been thinking of trying to do something like this in my neighborhood with a few friends that live near me. I'm only what, 14 now, so the best I've been able to do is hang an extension USB cable out my window attached to one of those cheap USB 802.11b sticks. I sorta propped up a bowl, and stuck the wifi stick at the center of the bowl even with the opening, and hoped it'd help a little bit. We got a connection across the four yards seperating us, but it's a crappy one, and doesn't get too much speed. It's just a cheesy ad-hoc setup, which sucks, but has anyone else had any experiences like this? It would be pretty nice to have your entire neighborhood be a wifi hotspot. I wouldn't really mind hanging out in the front yard with my friends playing DOOM 3, it's be pretty nice, and I bet I'd meet some new people, even though I'm not _that_ interested in meeting people. If you've got any ideas of how to set something up like this, tell me, I'd love to know.
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Thank you for pointing me towards "The C Programming Language" book. My dad had purchased it tens of years ago, but never got around to messing with it, and I had noticed it in his bookshelf many times when I was younger. You've inspired me to pick up the book and start learning. Thanks.
He may not have trouble smelling rot, but he sure does have problems spelling root.
Dear Editor: This is Slashdot, the least you could so it spell 'root' correctly.
Trusting that none of my crazy teachers read Slashdot, I'll say that I have a hardware keylogger sitting at my highschool right now, and it's been there for several days. Nobody has noticed yet, and I doubt they ever will. I really have no motivation to get passwords or sensitive information from my teachers, or to change my grades, as they're pretty decent, but doing it as an experiment is pretty interesting. Honestly, most teachers wouldn't notice a hardware keylogger, as they leave it up to the tech staff to do hardware related stuff. I know this is Slashdot, but how many of you have checked your keyboards for bugs lately? If a Slashdotter doesn't check for new hardware on every visit to the computer, what the monkeys is a teacher doing checking?
--On second thought, I'll post AC...
At my highschool, we have a class dedicated to JavaScript. The thing that got our class most motivated was making simple little games. A few of my friends and I were a bit ahead of the curve, so a few days into the course, we got seperated into a different group, where we were faced with the task of making our own games. Pong, tetris, breakout, and all of their buddies were the first to be put out.
Now, about the game you were talking about in Java. That was the first challenge that our teacher gave to the class. Needless to say, we had dipped in that realm a few years ago, so it was relatively simple for us to whip something out, but it really gave a challenge to other students. Understanding concepts like ways to store the state, and having a main loop, were valuable lessons that were learned from this little excercise.
Lesson: Take small steps. Don't just dive into something huge. Now, maybe it's just me and my script kiddie ways, but JavaScript's a good place to start. Works anywhere you have a browser, and no need to compile every time you make a mistake getting used to the langauge.
The important part, do they do no evil?
...This is Major Tom to ground control...
Genius.
Genius.
Better yet, e-mail all your republican friends. Remind them about the change. Remember, all people voting for Kerry go to the polls on the regular day. All people voting for Bush go to the polls a day after.
;)
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Netcraft Confirms! IE is dying!
Wait, you're not in Japan?
Damn, I assumed from the strangely capitalized latters, bad grammar, and aZn smiley, you were AzN yourself.
ZAN PRYD~~~
Pop! Pffffffffffffffffffffft. Oops.
Well, I don't *really* have a dog, but if I had one, it sure as hell wouldn't be for functionality.
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Voice-Collar: The dog has urinated at 9:18:36PM
Voice-Collar: The dog has done business behind the sofa at 9:19:45PM
Voice-Collar: Female dog alert: "Back, bitch!"
So, I could see someone saying "Oh, Redhat violates x copyrights", but lumping all these distros together isn't fair. Seems to me, it's like saying that computers violate compyrights. I want to see a list, broken down into sections, by distro, by type, anything. As long as it's not all lumped together.
Grass, Glass. Pff, they must have been Japanese.
See, this is how you can tell the youngun's from the oldies. At least I now know that I'm not talking to a bunch of teens living in their basements!
...Or not.
One thing that I always notice is clothing. It never seems to hold onto the body like it does in reality. It's always floating right above the surface.
Actually, think about it.
640x480=307,200 pixels.
1280x96 =1,228,800.
There are two displays. Thus the amount of pixels _should_ be multiplied by two. 307,200*2=614,400. You can only multiply the resolution of one axis by two, not the both of them.
I bought a new 4g iPod, which I love slightly less than my mother.
So you're bashing your iPod, or what?
Lemme note, this was the LOTR game, not anything about the DVD. Great game though
A friend and I played this game for about fifteen minutes at the Comic Con, and we were impressed.
:-).
We talked to one of the guys running the show and learned that the demo we had playes was running on a 2.8GHz computer with 2 gigs of RAM. Don't remember what graphics card, however. It ran remarkably well, really high FPS, great graphics, and wonderful features.
We ended up playing Helm's Deep, and after about ten minutes of playing, we were all prepared, plenty of flaming arrows, and the orcs came. Some came with ladders, some with towers, even the giant flaming battering ram. They didn't really need them, however, as we forgot to close the gate, and they walked right in.
However, it was a great demo, and I was truly impressed. All of my hero characters dies, but strangely, most of the damage they took came from the bodies of falling orcs from atop the walls. We absolutely sucked at the game, died quickly, but the fifteen minute demo was enough to persuade me to buy it. Great game.
Oh, and if you're atop the front wall, and push the ladders over that the orcs are climbing up, they all die
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winfs/
If this is (was) supposed to be a key part of the OS, I don't know what they're thinking up in Redmond.
This book was awesome, I've been using it for awhile, and it's a really good python guide.
One thing first, it's internet in this case, not Internet. Now, have any of you slashdotters tried this? I've been thinking of trying to do something like this in my neighborhood with a few friends that live near me. I'm only what, 14 now, so the best I've been able to do is hang an extension USB cable out my window attached to one of those cheap USB 802.11b sticks. I sorta propped up a bowl, and stuck the wifi stick at the center of the bowl even with the opening, and hoped it'd help a little bit. We got a connection across the four yards seperating us, but it's a crappy one, and doesn't get too much speed. It's just a cheesy ad-hoc setup, which sucks, but has anyone else had any experiences like this? It would be pretty nice to have your entire neighborhood be a wifi hotspot. I wouldn't really mind hanging out in the front yard with my friends playing DOOM 3, it's be pretty nice, and I bet I'd meet some new people, even though I'm not _that_ interested in meeting people. If you've got any ideas of how to set something up like this, tell me, I'd love to know.
You mean bell-bottom pants aren't cool?
You should have told me years ago!