You tell me one world power, who at their prime, was better behaved than the USA?
The fact that we haven't had any "world power" "at their prime" for more than 50 years (I'd say that's when USSR was at their prime, Britain was 100 years ago, and others further back) makes your point void. All countries (with the occasional exception) behaves better than they - or any country did 100+ years ago. Setting your standards in foreign politics by looking at how countries behaved centuries ago doesn't really make anyone look better by today's standards...
People are not very sensitive at all to upper/lowercase letters.
lEt ME asK yOu OnE thiNG jOUNI, arE yOu aBSoLuTElY SURe abOuT thAt?
I know for sure that I am sensitive about it, and it really gets on my nerves when they're not used properly. Of course, people are different, but most [non 1337 script kiddies] people do care...
...that we use a Random NY Times Registration Generator to falsify [our] registration details to access an article about ways to persuade people to give correct answers to survey questions?
Once again Timothy couldn't let something by without stupid editorializing.
Except, of course, for the fact that Timothy didn't edit it. The slashdot editors are making enough mistakes for you to not have to make some up for them.
>> As most coders, I'd eventually like to crack into the gaming industry.
> If by "coders" you mean programmers, I don't know where you would get that idea. Maybe amongst your peers. While writing games does indeed require great skills in a lot of areas, many programmers tend to aspire to slightly more lofty goals for their creations than to merely capture the attention of distracted teenagers for brief periods of time.
What an inane comment! I must say that I, like the original poster, want to code games. I know that pretty much every other programmer I know also wants this. Games are, I'd say, propably one of the most important things you can do with a computer. It's quite simple really - what is life, if not for having fun? If you can come up with new things with which to entertain people, you have done a lot! "merely capture the attention of distracted teenagers" is just the start. Fully entertaining a large group of people, ranging from very young to very old (I know at least one 56 year old computer game player, which indeed does not count as very old but you get the idea) is definately a worthwhile cause. Do you also scoff at litterature, movies, theatre, painting, sculptures and everything else that is only there to provide entertainment?
What's shocking to me is that almost no open source authors or advocates give a hoot about automated testing of any kind. The only free software I've found with a test suite is gcc.
...we're more or less encourage to take most, if not all our vacation in one large block, usually during July. This so called "industry vacation" usually means that the entire country grinds to a virtual halt during the summer months. Quite distressing really...
Anyhoo, it's of course up to the employer to accept your vacation request, but I'd be surprised if anybody was denied vacation (even five consecutive weeks or more) unless a project depended on it.
Oh, and btw, five weeks is the legal minimum. I've had two employers so far that offered six week vacation contracts.
Ah, but the topic here was posession of virtual child porn. If Peder O'Phile has a bunch of GIFs with underaged kids he might turn them over to the police, in order to help any investigation. Thing is, even if he's giving the pictures to the police (as he should) he might still have them left on his disc.
We're not talking negatives here. We're talking digital data.
There are other words, and other concepts that represent the FSF's ideals. Open. Shared. Community. Perhaps we could embroider some of those words onto our flag for a while, just until the Freedom Fad blows over.
Yes! Shared! That's it. Let's go for "shared source" instead!
That's one, quite misleading, way to put it.. another would be that he wants to remove a producer's right to force people (by law) to not do what they want with his/her work, once they've lawfully aquired it. For the record, I don't agree with RMS on this point, but I don't really like it when he (or anybody else) is being intentionally misinterpreted. It's pretty much along the lines of the you have to give GPL software away for no charge myth...
Even though I agree with you, I just have to point out that this is not/.'s joke, but rather Linus' own. And a damn funny one it is too, if you read his mail:-)
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4. Fewer open source competitors. Java is infested with open sourcers which makes it an unattractive market for commercial companies.
One word: Huh?
I've yet to encounter a (non Microsoft) company that actually view a broad range of alternative suppliers as a Bad Thing. How on earth does open source products make it unnatractive for commercian companies?
I've worked with one of the (IMHO) most inbread and inflexible of large computer companies (TLA, but not the one you're thinking), and even that one embraced open source when it could further their cause, or ignored it when (they thought) it couldn't.
It would seem to me that the "Native Americans" were the ones to first "discover" America.
Why do white people always think they come first?
Of course only white people count. That's blatantly obvious from the fact that this article is about Chinese people making the discovery;)
Seriously, I think the "discovery" part refers to when it was known to non americans that there was a continent over there. Otherwise, nothing could possibly be discovered, as it was obviously there before we noticed =)
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Hack the card, upload youre own scan and you can get access while using the name of someone else.
:) You do have a good point in your post :)
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When unsure about whether it's your or you're, make dead certain you get it wrong by combining the two =)
Sorry
oh.. it's your btw
You tell me one world power, who at their prime, was better behaved than the USA?
The fact that we haven't had any "world power" "at their prime" for more than 50 years (I'd say that's when USSR was at their prime, Britain was 100 years ago, and others further back) makes your point void.
All countries (with the occasional exception) behaves better than they - or any country did 100+ years ago. Setting your standards in foreign politics by looking at how countries behaved centuries ago doesn't really make anyone look better by today's standards...
People are not very sensitive at all to upper/lowercase letters.
lEt ME asK yOu OnE thiNG jOUNI, arE yOu aBSoLuTElY SURe abOuT thAt?
I know for sure that I am sensitive about it, and it really gets on my nerves when they're not used properly. Of course, people are different, but most [non 1337 script kiddies] people do care...
The Napoleonic code is used in Europe, and requires the defence to prove innocence.
I don't know which country you visited when you were in Europe back in the eighties, but it most likely doesn't exist any more.
...that we use a Random NY Times Registration Generator to falsify [our] registration details to access an article about ways to persuade people to give correct answers to survey questions?
:)
Helluva page btw, majcher. Thanks
Or, we could try to decrease our numbers.
Europe is dd/mm/yyyy
Not really. There are various date formats in different parts of Europe. Sweden, e.g. uses the same format as the ISO standard; yyyy-mm-dd.
It depends... if you are accept KDE as the default desktop, then it is C++ uber-alles and other languages can just fuck off.
Interesting. I'd better go tell my boss that we have to switch from Python to C++ for the QT based Client we're developing for our system.
I've thought about this before, and came to the conclusion that if I ever build my own universe [...]
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I like that in a man! Big plans
Once again Timothy couldn't let something by without stupid editorializing.
Except, of course, for the fact that Timothy didn't edit it.
The slashdot editors are making enough mistakes for you to not have to make some up for them.
Or are there simply more than one /. reader, with different views on the matter?
Welcome to the net, man =)
>> As most coders, I'd eventually like to crack into the gaming industry.
> If by "coders" you mean programmers, I don't know where you would get that idea. Maybe amongst your peers. While writing games does indeed require great skills in a lot of areas, many programmers tend to aspire to slightly more lofty goals for their creations than to merely capture the attention of distracted teenagers for brief periods of time.
What an inane comment! I must say that I, like the original poster, want to code games. I know that pretty much every other programmer I know also wants this.
Games are, I'd say, propably one of the most important things you can do with a computer. It's quite simple really - what is life, if not for having fun? If you can come up with new things with which to entertain people, you have done a lot!
"merely capture the attention of distracted teenagers" is just the start. Fully entertaining a large group of people, ranging from very young to very old (I know at least one 56 year old computer game player, which indeed does not count as very old but you get the idea) is definately a worthwhile cause. Do you also scoff at litterature, movies, theatre, painting, sculptures and everything else that is only there to provide entertainment?
What's shocking to me is that almost no open source authors or advocates give a hoot about automated testing of any kind. The only free software I've found with a test suite is gcc.
Bullshit
...we're more or less encourage to take most, if not all our vacation in one large block, usually during July. This so called "industry vacation" usually means that the entire country grinds to a virtual halt during the summer months. Quite distressing really...
Anyhoo, it's of course up to the employer to accept your vacation request, but I'd be surprised if anybody was denied vacation (even five consecutive weeks or more) unless a project depended on it.
Oh, and btw, five weeks is the legal minimum. I've had two employers so far that offered six week vacation contracts.
Ah, but the topic here was posession of virtual child porn. If Peder O'Phile has a bunch of GIFs with underaged kids he might turn them over to the police, in order to help any investigation. Thing is, even if he's giving the pictures to the police (as he should) he might still have them left on his disc.
We're not talking negatives here. We're talking digital data.
'nuff said.
The Misanthropic Bitch has a fairly good article about why child porn ought to be legal.
There are other words, and other concepts that represent the FSF's ideals. Open. Shared. Community. Perhaps we could embroider some of those words onto our flag for a while, just until the Freedom Fad blows over.
Yes! Shared! That's it. Let's go for "shared source" instead!
=)
That's one, quite misleading, way to put it.. another would be that he wants to remove a producer's right to force people (by law) to not do what they want with his/her work, once they've lawfully aquired it.
For the record, I don't agree with RMS on this point, but I don't really like it when he (or anybody else) is being intentionally misinterpreted. It's pretty much along the lines of the you have to give GPL software away for no charge myth...
It was someone's joke, but not Linus's.
My apologies. I just got that far...
Even though I agree with you, I just have to point out that this is not /.'s joke, but rather Linus' own. And a damn funny one it is too, if you read his mail :-)
4. Fewer open source competitors. Java is infested with open sourcers which makes it an unattractive market for commercial companies.
One word: Huh?
I've yet to encounter a (non Microsoft) company that actually view a broad range of alternative suppliers as a Bad Thing. How on earth does open source products make it unnatractive for commercian companies?
I've worked with one of the (IMHO) most inbread and inflexible of large computer companies (TLA, but not the one you're thinking), and even that one embraced open source when it could further their cause, or ignored it when (they thought) it couldn't.
they really should ask timothy to actually play the game first
I wonder how that would have helped, considering the fact that timothy didn't write the review...
It would seem to me that the "Native Americans" were the ones to first "discover" America.
;)
Why do white people always think they come first?
Of course only white people count. That's blatantly obvious from the fact that this article is about Chinese people making the discovery
Seriously, I think the "discovery" part refers to when it was known to non americans that there was a continent over there. Otherwise, nothing could possibly be discovered, as it was obviously there before we noticed =)
I'd definately go for GNU-Script.
Now, just click that link, and you won't even have to make the choice any more. GNU-Script does that for you.