that depends a lot on the general work environment. Not out of a flame, or anything, but were any of those 10 years spent in even mildly shaky job conditions, or big companies? because I've never seen a job that wasn't almost surreally stable go that smoothly, and I feel that in my skin. Not through myself (I'm still in college), but through the time I don't spend with my dad.
but maybe it's the other professionals who should be complaining, rather than the geeky software engineer who should shut up. I mean, there's bitching and moaning, and there's human rights.
on this line, teach them to use grep, pipes, redirects, sed, awk (I wish I knew how to really use those last two...) and all those cool CLI tools. Then add to that some basic BASH scripting. Say, have them manipulate text files and what not on one terminal, and have another one sitting next to it doing while true; do clear; ls -l; sleep 2; done, and let them see things happening!
the closest thing you have that resembles that "pay for tech support" concept is MMORPGs.
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having a game developed for a *nix should require little porting effort to run on another *nix. Meaming the Linux rather than BSD change for MacOS would be moot. And I thought that the PS/2 ran linux? The problem there is that developing a game for linux or windows is secondary to developing a game for x86 or ppc or [insert the PS/2 architecture here]
And I suppose warmongering and hipocrisy are integral parts of the american culture, celecbrated and encouraged by most americans (apparently true, as Bush won 2nd time round)
well, if the parenting was good and they did some graffities, I'd say you were right. If they come and say that "videogames made me do it", then I'm pretty sure their parents had a say in what the kids declared, and the moral values they're transmiting are NOT your average good parent's!
I saw some blokes around 18-20 take a 6-8 year old to red dragon on the cinema. Unsurprisingly, the kid didn't make it through the film, and they left halfway through...
Blaming the media for the parents' attitude is, once again, scapegoating them out of their duties as parents.
Also, blaming the media for their contents is a bit silly. For one, it's going like "I like free speech, but only insofar as I agree what's being said". On the other hand it's also failing to see that most art is not meant for the public at large, but rather has a pretty specific target audience. Games, while not being considered mainstream art, fall into the same category. And GTA's target audience is not 12 year olds. Otherwise, you couldn't make films like fight club (which is not as wanton and gratuitoustly violent as one would think at first sight), or metallica's music would be banned, despite some of their lyrics being quite moral in a way (like master of puppets and its anti-drug abuse undertones). Curiously, despite all the criminal activities in GTA3, the really utterly evil bad guys there were the drug dealers, so despite the general contents it also contains a moral message buried inside.
So, anyway, yes. I'd blame it on the kids' parents. Sure, the kids are too young to be held FULLY accountable for their actions (but they sure as hell should be aware of the gravity of said actions), but the parents are (theoretically) of age and, supposedly, capable of independent thought. The fact that the choose to be sheep and not exert that capacity is their fault, not the media's
I have to answer "Free as in freedom, mot free as in 'free beer'". There is a great big difference, and being open source makes the software freer (spellcheck? more free? ACK!) than most. Of course you could be talking about this meaning of 'free' and I'm just being a jackass
XP even provided a compatibility mode for older applications.
Which was so generous of them. And efficient as well. I'd say under 20% of all apps/games I've tried to run under compatibility ever ran.
Slackware, v9.1 and v10.0 both package java and javac. Since those are the only two versions I've used, I can't assure you of the rest. I think gentoo and debian probably also "package" a JVM, but do those even count?:)
AFAIK, java is no longer based on bytecodes, but rather JIT compilation. This means it CAN and WILL be slow as molasses in the winter when first starting up, but will probably be just as fast as your usual C program when running. The garbage collection bit could slow it down, but I don't think its impact is tremendows.
I was under the impression that the linux kernel having all the drivers tied in was actually a conscious option, based on the idea that they wouldn't have to keep support for obsolete APIs, thus preventing some of the flaky windows drivers we get.
Plus, you don't actually HAVE to recompile the kernel. Just compile it once with EVERYTHING as modules. Then modprobe for what you want:) (or perhaps there is some intrinsic limitation to this that I'm not aware of?)
not sure if anyone mentioned it, but perhaps wikipedia, google or some other free source of proper knowledge is exactly what the doctor ordered. Many interesting, simple things are available in wikipedia, and googling about for more specifics is always a good learning activity.
If/when they actually grasp the concepts at hand is when you want software to experiment with them, til then it's a waste of their time and their computer's HD
most addicts -- especially tobacco and cannabis ones in my experience -- will swear that they do it for the joy of it, not as a matter of addiction, so their opinions don't really count. I'd say someone quiting a job because of a game IS an addiction. He's capable of getting another job to recover, so it seems its only a mild addiction, but an addiction nonetheless
Extreme measures -- either way around -- are ALWAYS problematic. Taking the computer away is a solution, but the WORST I can find. The best is, IMO, finding a middle term that's acceptable. It's not as though the computer is a drug that in and of itself can harm or even kill you, so there's not that factor to cope with.
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that depends a lot on the general work environment. Not out of a flame, or anything, but were any of those 10 years spent in even mildly shaky job conditions, or big companies? because I've never seen a job that wasn't almost surreally stable go that smoothly, and I feel that in my skin. Not through myself (I'm still in college), but through the time I don't spend with my dad.
but maybe it's the other professionals who should be complaining, rather than the geeky software engineer who should shut up. I mean, there's bitching and moaning, and there's human rights.
on this line, teach them to use grep, pipes, redirects, sed, awk (I wish I knew how to really use those last two...) and all those cool CLI tools. Then add to that some basic BASH scripting. Say, have them manipulate text files and what not on one terminal, and have another one sitting next to it doing while true; do clear; ls -l; sleep 2; done, and let them see things happening!
isn't winelib's purpose ensuring support for this sort of thing?
forgive my innocence, but isn't SDL it? I mean, the Linux port of NWN was done in SDL, for crying out loud!
the closest thing you have that resembles that "pay for tech support" concept is MMORPGs.
having a game developed for a *nix should require little porting effort to run on another *nix. Meaming the Linux rather than BSD change for MacOS would be moot. And I thought that the PS/2 ran linux? The problem there is that developing a game for linux or windows is secondary to developing a game for x86 or ppc or [insert the PS/2 architecture here] And I suppose warmongering and hipocrisy are integral parts of the american culture, celecbrated and encouraged by most americans (apparently true, as Bush won 2nd time round)
well, if the parenting was good and they did some graffities, I'd say you were right. If they come and say that "videogames made me do it", then I'm pretty sure their parents had a say in what the kids declared, and the moral values they're transmiting are NOT your average good parent's!
and parents not giving a damn about what their buyign for their kids just makes it all that much better, eh?
I saw some blokes around 18-20 take a 6-8 year old to red dragon on the cinema. Unsurprisingly, the kid didn't make it through the film, and they left halfway through...
I'm afraid it might be just korea. Everywhere else, even older folks will shirk their responsibilities and blame something else
Blaming the media for the parents' attitude is, once again, scapegoating them out of their duties as parents. Also, blaming the media for their contents is a bit silly. For one, it's going like "I like free speech, but only insofar as I agree what's being said". On the other hand it's also failing to see that most art is not meant for the public at large, but rather has a pretty specific target audience. Games, while not being considered mainstream art, fall into the same category. And GTA's target audience is not 12 year olds. Otherwise, you couldn't make films like fight club (which is not as wanton and gratuitoustly violent as one would think at first sight), or metallica's music would be banned, despite some of their lyrics being quite moral in a way (like master of puppets and its anti-drug abuse undertones). Curiously, despite all the criminal activities in GTA3, the really utterly evil bad guys there were the drug dealers, so despite the general contents it also contains a moral message buried inside. So, anyway, yes. I'd blame it on the kids' parents. Sure, the kids are too young to be held FULLY accountable for their actions (but they sure as hell should be aware of the gravity of said actions), but the parents are (theoretically) of age and, supposedly, capable of independent thought. The fact that the choose to be sheep and not exert that capacity is their fault, not the media's
No, but he will buy that product when the fact it makes the developer's job easier starts to mean the developer's product works better on it
could be from the fact that the portuguese were the first europeans to get to japan, and we call holland "holanda". Just a mild variation there.
I have to answer "Free as in freedom, mot free as in 'free beer'". There is a great big difference, and being open source makes the software freer (spellcheck? more free? ACK!) than most. Of course you could be talking about this meaning of 'free' and I'm just being a jackass
so amd64 and the much touted efficiency of the 32-bit x86 implementation (never mind the 64-bit extensions) is "very little in the way of RnD"?
if your ISP has logs placing you doing illegal stuff, you want the logs that say it was the guy 3 houses down!
XP even provided a compatibility mode for older applications. Which was so generous of them. And efficient as well. I'd say under 20% of all apps/games I've tried to run under compatibility ever ran.
Slackware, v9.1 and v10.0 both package java and javac. Since those are the only two versions I've used, I can't assure you of the rest. I think gentoo and debian probably also "package" a JVM, but do those even count? :)
AFAIK, java is no longer based on bytecodes, but rather JIT compilation. This means it CAN and WILL be slow as molasses in the winter when first starting up, but will probably be just as fast as your usual C program when running. The garbage collection bit could slow it down, but I don't think its impact is tremendows.
I was under the impression that the linux kernel having all the drivers tied in was actually a conscious option, based on the idea that they wouldn't have to keep support for obsolete APIs, thus preventing some of the flaky windows drivers we get. Plus, you don't actually HAVE to recompile the kernel. Just compile it once with EVERYTHING as modules. Then modprobe for what you want :) (or perhaps there is some intrinsic limitation to this that I'm not aware of?)
not sure if anyone mentioned it, but perhaps wikipedia, google or some other free source of proper knowledge is exactly what the doctor ordered. Many interesting, simple things are available in wikipedia, and googling about for more specifics is always a good learning activity. If/when they actually grasp the concepts at hand is when you want software to experiment with them, til then it's a waste of their time and their computer's HD
most addicts -- especially tobacco and cannabis ones in my experience -- will swear that they do it for the joy of it, not as a matter of addiction, so their opinions don't really count. I'd say someone quiting a job because of a game IS an addiction. He's capable of getting another job to recover, so it seems its only a mild addiction, but an addiction nonetheless
Extreme measures -- either way around -- are ALWAYS problematic. Taking the computer away is a solution, but the WORST I can find. The best is, IMO, finding a middle term that's acceptable. It's not as though the computer is a drug that in and of itself can harm or even kill you, so there's not that factor to cope with.
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