... and yet if you were abandoned in a uninhabited island you'll face more difficulties to survive that someone who lived 500 years ago. You are able to adapt to current systems, just like people adapted to "systems" ages ago. The "systems" have changed but that doesn't really mean that they're more complex now. Just different.
I *think* that society moves forward but the average individual moves backwards. That's the feeling I have.
The oldest one I remember was Severance: Blade of Darkness. It ran perfectly in a P3 500. Released in 2001. It also featured some really revolutionary graphics and other technologies. For example, real-time lights like in Doom3 except that not so-well done and with more restrictions; and also a physics engine. Sorry for being a little off-topic here, but that game impressed me when it was released.
While not completelly correct, you can use tr -d '\r' to remove CR characters. Another completelly correct way of doing it is to use sed -e 's/\r\n/\n/g'.
Eventhough this doesn't relate to GUI applications, just imagine:
$ rm -fr/ This will erase the whole tree! Type "Yes, I know" to continue: _
Even for correct input, an application should prevent you from making dangerous actions and things that, while for a computer are perfectly legal, might be an error from the human point of view.
The rm example is just an example. You have to take into account the type of users that are using your application, if they're experts or not, etc. Well, sometimes a little bit of error prevention from the application can save your ass:).
Sorry to reply to myself, but a search for Fermat's Last Theorem in Google returns this URL as the first result, and it mentions the proof I was talking about right at the end:
I thought Fermat's Last Theorem was proved not so long ago by someone else, using some sort of complex geometry concepts. Can any expert confirm this or explain why this is relevant?
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... and yet if you were abandoned in a uninhabited island you'll face more difficulties to survive that someone who lived 500 years ago. You are able to adapt to current systems, just like people adapted to "systems" ages ago. The "systems" have changed but that doesn't really mean that they're more complex now. Just different.
I *think* that society moves forward but the average individual moves backwards. That's the feeling I have.
The oldest one I remember was Severance: Blade of Darkness. It ran perfectly in a P3 500. Released in 2001. It also featured some really revolutionary graphics and other technologies. For example, real-time lights like in Doom3 except that not so-well done and with more restrictions; and also a physics engine. Sorry for being a little off-topic here, but that game impressed me when it was released.
http://www.codemasters.com/severance/eng/
While not completelly correct, you can use tr -d '\r' to remove CR characters. Another completelly correct way of doing it is to use sed -e 's/\r\n/\n/g'.
Here's a link: http://www.filerush.com/download.php?target=quake3 -1.32b-source.zip
Romero wanted to make an RPG, but he decided to make a throatless rocket engine.
Eventhough this doesn't relate to GUI applications, just imagine:
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:).
$ rm -fr
This will erase the whole tree! Type "Yes, I know" to continue: _
Even for correct input, an application should prevent you from making dangerous actions and things that, while for a computer are perfectly legal, might be an error from the human point of view.
The rm example is just an example. You have to take into account the type of users that are using your application, if they're experts or not, etc. Well, sometimes a little bit of error prevention from the application can save your ass
Nice time to use one of those Unix fire extinguishers :).
http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~henkm/extinguisher.html
Sorry to reply to myself, but a search for Fermat's Last Theorem in Google returns this URL as the first result, and it mentions the proof I was talking about right at the end:
o pics/Fermat's_last_theorem.html
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistT
I thought Fermat's Last Theorem was proved not so long ago by someone else, using some sort of complex geometry concepts. Can any expert confirm this or explain why this is relevant?