I really think the world needs to pop Dvorak's nipple out of their mouth and start thinking for themselves. We needed him 20 years ago when nobody knew what a computer is, but this is the 21st century, and many things have changed. When we live in a world where a 12 yo girl can be sodomized by the RIAA, even the most modest of people look at every little legal repercussion that come of what they do online.
E-mail shouldn't really go away, we need to recreate it from scratch with builtin security, authentication, encryption, etc, and those mechanisms need to be as transparent as today's e-mail.
And Plenty of backdoors so the NSA can watch our every move.
I know these threads are always full of the "I only pay X for video cards, Y is too much. My stuff all plays fine."
Articles like this are not for you. Your stuff plays fine for you. It does not play fine for the target audience of setups like are discussed above. A Ford gets you down the road well enough for most people, but not for a car enthusiast. This is no different.
We're all proud of your frugalness, and are glad you're having a good experience with the games you play. But others like to compare and discuss the bleeding edge of graphics technology, and comments of the formula above don't really add to that.
Ehem... alow me...
I know these replies are always full of the "my penis is only X inches, Y is too big"
Replies like this are not for you. Your penis size is fine for you. It does not ejaculate fine for the target audience of penis sizes like are discussed above. A 5 dollar hooker gets you down the road well enough for most people, but not for a chronic masturbator. This is no different.
We're all proud of your small penis, and are glad you're having a good experience whacking off in your mother's basment. But others like to compare and discuss the fact that the gaming industry needs to work on good software design, and not rely on 300 million transistors of GPU processing power to make a good game, and replies to the formula above don't really add to that.
Let's see.... Sony doing brilliant marketing? Not in this decade.
PSP - crap
UMD - No UMD writable, little support from the movie inustry
MiniDisc - all but killed off (SonicStage - cringe)
And do I have to bring up the Root Kit?
And when Hollywood does in fact do stories that break a mold, they do it with movies like Brokeback Mountain that they know are going to alienate fans of the genre.
That's why it's called Ground Breaking
Imagine if Schindler's List http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/ came out in the 1930's. Or God forbid, The Color Purple http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088939/ came out in the 1950s. Jews! Colored folk? Not in my country! God hates them! The bible says so..... some where... (thumbing through King James)... oh yeah. Leviticus. Where it also says Eating birds of prey, eating shellfish, cross breeding livestock, picking up sticks on a Saturday, planting a mixture of seeds in a field, and wearing clothing that is a blend of two textiles are examples of acts of ritual impurity which made a Child of Isreal unclean. These were not necessarily minor sins, some called for the death penalty. BorkeBack Mountain, and Copote were exceptional movies. Not even for what some would call controversial topics, but the fact that the directors sculpted moving stories and incredible cinemetography. You van try to doubt me, but the Oscars pretty much speak for themselves. God bless Ang Lee
He single-handedly murdered them himself. It took an ingenious director/animator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendy_Tartakovsky) to actually bring some life to the post 1980s Star Wars saga, and save it from the horrible mess that Lucas created.
I just use 7zip to archive my nighly builds, and email them to myself on my gmail account. I put the comments on the code in the message body. Gmail gives you over 2.5 gigs of storage space, and you can search you message bodies and headers. I can also retrieve my code and projects from anywhere in the world, and don't have to worry about hard drive crashes.
I'm an independent software developer (translation: marketing, life cycle, engineering, development), and I can honestly say I seldom create an application in one language. To tie yourself to one language, it's pros and cons, is nothing short of shooting yourself in the foot.
I'm not even sure VB.net provides that much legacy support for vb6. VB.net and c# are essentially the same language. (You can actually design half a program in vb.net and the other half in c# if you were so inclined) VB.net is just a little easier on the eyes if you come from a Visual Basic background.
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I hope the Futurama prophecy comes true, and they rename that damn planet to Urectum. These childish jokes just aren't very becoming.
Programs with odd names performing illegal operations and offering them the change to debug, only to do nothing useful.
:)
Dont be silly. Buffer overflows can be very usefull
I can't wait until I can use this free energy to power my flying car and heat my aquarium of mermaids.
They're only brine shrimp.
We've been reviewing patents here on Slashdot for years. Does anyone ever listen? Nooooooo.
I really think the world needs to pop Dvorak's nipple out of their mouth and start thinking for themselves. We needed him 20 years ago when nobody knew what a computer is, but this is the 21st century, and many things have changed. When we live in a world where a 12 yo girl can be sodomized by the RIAA, even the most modest of people look at every little legal repercussion that come of what they do online.
They seem to be outsourcing everything to India these days anyways
humane execution of adult cane toads
You mean like this? -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_gun
Other posts in this thread seem to be suggesting that Japan isn't part of the US.
(ALERT!! SARCASM)
Understandable mistake. The US IS the center of the known universe.
If this thing gets popullar, though, there are going to be deaths.
Well, there are way too many people on that tiny island of Japan.
E-mail shouldn't really go away, we need to recreate it from scratch with builtin security, authentication, encryption, etc, and those mechanisms need to be as transparent as today's e-mail.
And Plenty of backdoors so the NSA can watch our every move.
I'd love to see the facility set up to store the output, to say nothing of processing it. I wonder how they'll archive it?
Well, someone has to start buying those thousand dollar blue-ray drives.
I know these threads are always full of the "I only pay X for video cards, Y is too much. My stuff all plays fine." Articles like this are not for you. Your stuff plays fine for you. It does not play fine for the target audience of setups like are discussed above. A Ford gets you down the road well enough for most people, but not for a car enthusiast. This is no different. We're all proud of your frugalness, and are glad you're having a good experience with the games you play. But others like to compare and discuss the bleeding edge of graphics technology, and comments of the formula above don't really add to that.
Ehem... alow me...
I know these replies are always full of the "my penis is only X inches, Y is too big"
Replies like this are not for you. Your penis size is fine for you. It does not ejaculate fine for the target audience of penis sizes like are discussed above. A 5 dollar hooker gets you down the road well enough for most people, but not for a chronic masturbator. This is no different.
We're all proud of your small penis, and are glad you're having a good experience whacking off in your mother's basment. But others like to compare and discuss the fact that the gaming industry needs to work on good software design, and not rely on 300 million transistors of GPU processing power to make a good game, and replies to the formula above don't really add to that.
Let's see.... Sony doing brilliant marketing? Not in this decade. PSP - crap UMD - No UMD writable, little support from the movie inustry MiniDisc - all but killed off (SonicStage - cringe) And do I have to bring up the Root Kit?
And when Hollywood does in fact do stories that break a mold, they do it with movies like Brokeback Mountain that they know are going to alienate fans of the genre.
That's why it's called Ground Breaking
Imagine if Schindler's List http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/ came out in the 1930's. Or God forbid, The Color Purple http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088939/ came out in the 1950s. Jews! Colored folk? Not in my country! God hates them! The bible says so..... some where... (thumbing through King James)... oh yeah. Leviticus. Where it also says Eating birds of prey, eating shellfish, cross breeding livestock, picking up sticks on a Saturday, planting a mixture of seeds in a field, and wearing clothing that is a blend of two textiles are examples of acts of ritual impurity which made a Child of Isreal unclean. These were not necessarily minor sins, some called for the death penalty. BorkeBack Mountain, and Copote were exceptional movies. Not even for what some would call controversial topics, but the fact that the directors sculpted moving stories and incredible cinemetography. You van try to doubt me, but the Oscars pretty much speak for themselves. God bless Ang Lee
George Lucas Predicts Death of Big Budget Movies
He single-handedly murdered them himself. It took an ingenious director/animator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendy_Tartakovsky) to actually bring some life to the post 1980s Star Wars saga, and save it from the horrible mess that Lucas created.
Reading this is making me nostalgic for LISP machines [comcast.net]
I bet you're real fun in the sack
but the Clone Wars sucked ASS
What, are you insane? Both volumes won a friggin Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program. 'Twas the movies that sucked ass.
And when Google goes bankrupt? or it just bubble-explodes, and takes down all the data with it? Unless you do the backups, you are not in control.
:)
A good sign the apocalypse is nigh, so my source probably won't be much use by then
I just use 7zip to archive my nighly builds, and email them to myself on my gmail account. I put the comments on the code in the message body. Gmail gives you over 2.5 gigs of storage space, and you can search you message bodies and headers. I can also retrieve my code and projects from anywhere in the world, and don't have to worry about hard drive crashes.
You could always spend your cash on moving to the UK
yes, but the the food is so...... bleh.
I'm an independent software developer (translation: marketing, life cycle, engineering, development), and I can honestly say I seldom create an application in one language. To tie yourself to one language, it's pros and cons, is nothing short of shooting yourself in the foot.
Anyone who's had a hangover can validate this.
We'll soon have a Firefly MMO
Screw that! I want Buffy the MMO Slayer! WooHoo!
Visual C++, which despite being a good IDE is not very visual.
Yup, Visual C++, one of the greatest misnomers of the 20th century.
other than vb6 legacy support of course
I'm not even sure VB.net provides that much legacy support for vb6. VB.net and c# are essentially the same language. (You can actually design half a program in vb.net and the other half in c# if you were so inclined) VB.net is just a little easier on the eyes if you come from a Visual Basic background.