I doubt I could tell you who wrote any particular game. I know the game companies are "famous" but matching up software to who wrote it ? Not a chance.
As I'm writing this I'm struggling to think who wrote Doom - I know Carmack, Cash et al did it - but the name of the company escapes me ! ( Looked at the box - it's ID software * slaps head, DOH! * )
I looked at the Codemasters site as I know that I've heard of them - they've done some well regarded stuff.
I used to be a fisherman for a living. Miles and miles of nets, rope etc. When the "knot gnomes" had their way with that lot it was a nightmare! There are also undersea variants of the "gnot knome". You go to haul your nets after a couple of days and they're gnotted all to hell.
Backups are for wimps !
That adrenaline rush you get when 6 months work sits on your (not backed up) HDD and the machine takes a bit longer than usual to boot - you can't beat the thrill of living on the edge;)
I read an article in the computer press that said "MySpace is for morons, Facebook is for morons with a degree". Bit of an oxymoron with the facebook statement but I know what he means. TBH/what/ is point of them? It's like "Hey, look at me, I've got a page on the intarweb ( but I'm too stupid to actually write my own code )".
I can see how/some/ people can use social networking to easily further their "product" eg musicians posting MP3s but the sites are mostly full of drivel.
Mind you most of the internet's full of drivel:)
I'm pretty sure the BBC runs a whole load of Linux boxes. Seem to remember an article ( perhaps even on/. ) that they use Linux, Apache and SSI to get a lot of their work done.
Eriksson is a Swedish person who was funded by The Football association. England was not very well developed by the turnip Eriksson and were unfortunately as useless as Darius Danesh.
I read somewhere on the net that RFID tags can be rendered useless by microwaving them for a while. So all an employee has to do is go and stand in a huge microwave oven for some time. Oh... wait... I'm starting to see a flaw in my argument here - It's going to be difficult to find ovens big enough to stand in. However babies are small enough to go in your average kitchen appliance !
No, phones are not important safety tools. The number of cases where a cell has actually prevented some major tragedy is infintessimally small. Major tragedies do not include 'Having to walk a mile or so home' etc.
Mostly Cells are just used for playing games, talking / texting rubbish to your friends and other useless junk. We all got on fine before Cells were invented, there's no reason we can't now. If ( as is inceasingly the case ) Cells are being used to disrupt classes / take surreptitious Pics of teachers cleavages for publication on the net etc. etc. Then just ban the bloody things from school. Nobody's going to die because of it ( well maybe one or two in the whole country if my 'infintessimally small' is correct ).
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If you like free ( or at least VERY cheap games ), try Soldat. The guy's made a very playable game IMHO and it's fully working for free with few extras that are functional on registration.
It's a shoot 'em up network frag fest based on the Quake engine I think. If you like guns & explosions it's worth a look.
I'm nothing to do with Soldat ( apart from being a player ) and if a few/. guys register it'll be more power to the indie movement.
Unbelievable !! That's two posts in a row using the dreaded goto. Surely in these enlightened days of software engineering the goto should never be used in such simple algorithms as these ! I propose a re-write of the original post using modern techniques.
Yes, I am being facetious. I woke up feeling that way =P
Hurrah, someone with a viewpoint similar to mine !
The plethora of "communication" devices available today has effectively led to a decrease in good, old-fashioned, face to face, verbal communication - that's 'talking' btw;) The amount of times I've been chatting with friends in the pub and someone just stops talking instantly as soon as they get a text / call on their mobile; it's downright rude. If someone's sitting in a bar, maybe waiting for mates to turn up, do they have a chat with the people around them ? No, they often just piddle about with their PDA / mobile 'phone or whatever making ridiculous bleeping noises or testing their new ring tone.
I'm not anti all this modern electronic gadgetry but please try to use it with a modicum of restraint and actually chat to people - face to face - it matters !
Actually the extinction of the dinosaurs was due to this:
Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the maths, you can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface. This would explain the death of the dinosaurs. At least the tallest ones.:-)
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Ah, if only they did explode randomly.
I for one would spend my free time sitting in the park looking out for gyrating youths and betting with my friends whether they were dancing or in severe pain from their exploding portable music players.
Hours of fun.... But then I don't get out much;-)
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I doubt I could tell you who wrote any particular game. I know the game companies are "famous" but matching up software to who wrote it ? Not a chance. As I'm writing this I'm struggling to think who wrote Doom - I know Carmack, Cash et al did it - but the name of the company escapes me ! ( Looked at the box - it's ID software * slaps head, DOH! * ) I looked at the Codemasters site as I know that I've heard of them - they've done some well regarded stuff.
I thought it was white men
That's the thing - find the "unknown" exception(s) !
Neither - it's Airplane
I used to be a fisherman for a living. Miles and miles of nets, rope etc. When the "knot gnomes" had their way with that lot it was a nightmare!
There are also undersea variants of the "gnot knome". You go to haul your nets after a couple of days and they're gnotted all to hell.
Exactly my thoughts.
In other news : People decelerating causes those behind them to decelerate causing general slowdown of traffic. Who'd of thought it !
Backups are for wimps ! ;)
That adrenaline rush you get when 6 months work sits on your (not backed up) HDD and the machine takes a bit longer than usual to boot - you can't beat the thrill of living on the edge
I read an article in the computer press that said "MySpace is for morons, Facebook is for morons with a degree". Bit of an oxymoron with the facebook statement but I know what he means. TBH /what/ is point of them? It's like "Hey, look at me, I've got a page on the intarweb ( but I'm too stupid to actually write my own code )".
/some/ people can use social networking to easily further their "product" eg musicians posting MP3s but the sites are mostly full of drivel. :)
I can see how
Mind you most of the internet's full of drivel
I'm pretty sure the BBC runs a whole load of Linux boxes. Seem to remember an article ( perhaps even on /. ) that they use Linux, Apache and SSI to get a lot of their work done.
There's an animated version of "Shada" here Shada
I've watched it and it's not bad.
Eriksson is a Swedish person who was funded by The Football association. England was not very well developed by the turnip Eriksson and were unfortunately as useless as Darius Danesh.
I read somewhere on the net that RFID tags can be rendered useless by microwaving them for a while. So all an employee has to do is go and stand in a huge microwave oven for some time. Oh... wait...
I'm starting to see a flaw in my argument here - It's going to be difficult to find ovens big enough to stand in.
However babies are small enough to go in your average kitchen appliance !
;-)
Scenario 1: The mission is successful and the lightsabre is fired into space probably never to be seen again.
Scenario 2:The Shuttle explodes and the lightsabre will probably never be seen again.
=P
In further news biologists have been told to find a new collective name for a load of whales.
Answers on a po(stcar)d =P
"Less people die."
;)
Ummm... No, the same amount of people die, they always have and always will
No, phones are not important safety tools. The number of cases where a cell has actually prevented some major tragedy is infintessimally small. Major tragedies do not include 'Having to walk a mile or so home' etc.
Mostly Cells are just used for playing games, talking / texting rubbish to your friends and other useless junk.
We all got on fine before Cells were invented, there's no reason we can't now. If ( as is inceasingly the case ) Cells are being used to disrupt classes / take surreptitious Pics of teachers cleavages for publication on the net etc. etc. Then just ban the bloody things from school. Nobody's going to die because of it ( well maybe one or two in the whole country if my 'infintessimally small' is correct ).
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No, the goatse guy looks like this (={O}=)
If you like free ( or at least VERY cheap games ), try Soldat. The guy's made a very playable game IMHO and it's fully working for free with few extras that are functional on registration.
/. guys register it'll be more power to the indie movement.
It's a shoot 'em up network frag fest based on the Quake engine I think. If you like guns & explosions it's worth a look.
I'm nothing to do with Soldat ( apart from being a player ) and if a few
Yes, I've heard of Occam's Razor.
If I remember correctly he liked it so much he bought the company.
=P
Obligatory drummer jokes:
"Mom, when I grow up, I want to be a drummer."
His mother scoffs and replies... "Well, you can't do both."
What do you call someone who hangs around with musicians?
A drummer.
What's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?
You only have to punch the information into the drum machine once.
Why are orchestra intermissions limited to 20 minutes?
So they don't have to retrain the drummers.
How do you get a drummer to play an accelerando?
Ask him to play in 4/4 at a steady 120 bpm.
Grateful Dead ? Pah ! ;-)
They're not grateful and they're not dead ( at least not all of them )
Unbelievable !!
That's two posts in a row using the dreaded goto.
Surely in these enlightened days of software engineering the goto should never be used in such simple algorithms as these !
I propose a re-write of the original post using modern techniques.
Yes, I am being facetious. I woke up feeling that way =P
Hurrah, someone with a viewpoint similar to mine !
;)
The plethora of "communication" devices available today has effectively led to a decrease in good, old-fashioned, face to face, verbal communication - that's 'talking' btw
The amount of times I've been chatting with friends in the pub and someone just stops talking instantly as soon as they get a text / call on their mobile; it's downright rude. If someone's sitting in a bar, maybe waiting for mates to turn up, do they have a chat with the people around them ? No, they often just piddle about with their PDA / mobile 'phone or whatever making ridiculous bleeping noises or testing their new ring tone.
I'm not anti all this modern electronic gadgetry but please try to use it with a modicum of restraint and actually chat to people - face to face - it matters !
Actually the extinction of the dinosaurs was due to this:
:-)
Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet measurable distance from the earth every year.
If you do the maths, you can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth at a distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface.
This would explain the death of the dinosaurs.
At least the tallest ones.
Ah, if only they did explode randomly.
;-)
I for one would spend my free time sitting in the park looking out for gyrating youths and betting with my friends whether they were dancing or in severe pain from their exploding portable music players.
Hours of fun.... But then I don't get out much