As the basketball article mentioned, the easiest way to teach something is to re-learn it yourself. I've personally written tutorials for people on various libraries that I was myself learning the week before. I commented the heck out of the code I was writing at the time so I'd know what it meant next time I looked at it (for reference), and thought "If I added some exposition here, it'd be a great tutorial for other people".
I only have that unfiltered view of a new system that once, so now whenever I'm learning something that someone else is going to want to know, I take copious notes so I can write it up later. Usually the stumbling blocks that I hit are the ones that other new people to the topic will hit. The only downside is that I might do something wrong in the tutorial due to lack of knowledge on the topic, but once I release it I get corrected pretty quickly:)
Is it just me, or does the China/Taiwan situation remind anyone of the stalker boyfriend who just won't give up?
It's like Taiwan broke it off years ago but China keeps coming by late at night, drunk, saying "Come on baby, we can make this work!" and no matter how often Taiwan calls the police they keep saying they can't do anything until China actually gets violent.
"That Hong Kong floozy doesn't mean anything to me! It's all you, baby! Come baaaack!"
What's interesting is that Statesman - sorry, I mean Jack - is now doing nearly the opposite on the CoH boards. He's very careful about what he says, because he's learned if he so much as hints at a feature people will expect it. And god help him if he gives anything resembling a timetable for anything.
This does not, however, stop him from teasing the fanbase by answering questions like "Feature X and Feature Y would be neat, but I don't like Z, what's the plan?" with nothing more than "Soon."
I've actually seen this movie; caught it one extremely lazy sunday afternoon on television. That's how far it's fallen. My reaction after the first 10 minutes or so:
Slashdot's usually one of the first places I stop by in a day, but I generally check my e-mail first. Today my account was (again) over-quota due to good old SoBig's messages. I used to only check once a day but if I want to actually get any messages I've had to do it a bit more often. So today as I was going through the cleanup, I thought to myself "Oh well, at least it'll be over soon."
Then I went to Slashdot. Front page, first story there - "The Worst is Yet to Come".
Thanks Slashdot. You really know how to lighten up someone's day.
It is a ripoff of Warcraft, yes. Their goal was to clone the engine, as a open-source way to play WCII in linux. The reason the art in the screenshot looked the same as the game is because it is the same; Freecraft came with a script which would take the art off of a WCII CD you had and put it in the game so you wouldn't have to use the programmer art they'd put in.
the secretive Xymos desert lab in Nevada where nothing is as it seems.
Don't you hate that? I mean, you go through all the trouble and background checks and retinal scans to get to these cool secretive labs and then, almost immediately, everything goes straight to hell.
Oh well, at least that won't happen this next time. I've got this great job lined up at a place called 'Black Mesa'. I'm pretty sure everything there is on the up-and-up.
The most recent game in the Zork series (Zork: Grand Inquisitor) was graphical and actually had a scene which made fun of the 'click all the current screens' phenomenon so common in such games:
I believe you were trying to get into the underworld and it was guarded by some two-headed fellow. The actual solution was fairly complicated and did not, IIRC, involve pulling something out of your inventory. So whenever you did do that, the guard would (mockingly) say something like "Oh, I don't know what to do, so I'll just pull something out of the old inventory!"
Load test? I mean, in order to do that you'd have to be running some sort of website which got a lot of people to click on a link at once. It would have a large effect on slashdot, some sort of "Slashdot effect", if you will.
You know, the ones who play FPSes and are constantly yelling at each other! If they're going to stay 1337, they need to keep talking differently than others. One day, I'm going to log onto a quake server and see this:
EliteFellow: Ah-ha! My aiming skills are unmatched. I have such prowess it is as though I own you.
TricksterMan: Not so! Network latency has inhibited my natural reflexes!
EliteFellow: You deserved your comeuppance, you have been jealously guarding the Quadruple Damage for some time now without moving elsewhere!
I think that would scare me more than leetspeak, really.
I've been putting "uce@ftc.gov" into forms when sites make me register for no good reason for years now. Other addresses of note include "blarg@example.com", "postmaster@domain.name.of.site.making.me.register " and "malda@slashdot.org".
Um... and if you're a site admin, just ignore that last one...
It took me a bit of googling to find it, but what NaN did here seems similar to the Street Performer Protocol. I've often wondered whether or not something along those lines would work from an open-source perspective (i.e. "I've got this game, and I'll GPL it if I get $X"). It's nice to see that, apparently, it can.
Of course, Blender is relatively well known and had the benefit of being freely available in the beer sense. Starting something from scratch using this model might be a bit more difficult.
Harlan Ellison sued AOL (among others) for having the temerity to permit users to upload copies of his copyrighted works across their networks on the Usenet
Come on man, get with it! Suing over usenet piracy is so 90's. It's all about suing p2p now!
Next thing you know, he'll start railing off on the evils of DOOM.
A lot of the linux companies are trying to win back customers with sales - why just the other day I was at the Debian homepage, and they were offering their free downloads half off!
I've had a ton of problems getting to certain places on the internet. Whole IP blocks are giving me trouble. Some include:
10.x.x.x
172.16.x.x - 172.31.x.x
192.168.x.x
That's not even the strangest thing. I think I've discovered some sort of strange parallel universe gateway at 127.0.0.1! The computer there is exactly like mine!
People, you're well aware at this point that the editors don't check the links in the articles submitted. Luckily, I managed to actually click on it before a lot of people saw the article. I'm warning you, don't click on it!
No, it's not a link to goatse, whatever sick bastard sent this in linked to a place far, far worse. Don't click!
I'm telling you, if you go there, you'll have horrible flashbacks to high-school gym! You'll get locker-induced claustrophobia all over again! It'll be like listening to everyone drone on and on about the latest game while you say nothing in order to disguise the fact that you didn't watch it! Yes, you're suspecting now so I'll just say it right out:
NSync's new CD will be released in a least 3 different versions
CHANGELOG:
- Initial release
-- CD uncopyable
-- Band unlistenable
- 2.0 release
-- Fixed 2,144 bugs enabling people to copy CD. CD now uncopyable.
-- Changed demographic to younger audience; teens beginning to sense lack of talent. Note that this breaks backward compatibility
- 3.0 release
-- Fixed 53,944 bugs enabling people to copy CD. Gave up.
- 3.0.1 bugfix
-- Fired previous maintainer when it was discovered he had a soul.
-- Fixed another 128,535 bugs enabling people to copy CD. CD uncopyable.
-- Discovered simple cabling could be used to make a D-A-D copy. Sucessfully lobbied to illegalize cabling.
-- Hired armed enforcers to prevent people from humming songs.
-- Added technology to CDs to prevent any sort of listening to them whatsoever. Players now burn in unholy flame.
-- Band still unlistenable.
Slashdot Mirror
Something like the Seven day roguelike?
As the basketball article mentioned, the easiest way to teach something is to re-learn it yourself. I've personally written tutorials for people on various libraries that I was myself learning the week before. I commented the heck out of the code I was writing at the time so I'd know what it meant next time I looked at it (for reference), and thought "If I added some exposition here, it'd be a great tutorial for other people".
:)
I only have that unfiltered view of a new system that once, so now whenever I'm learning something that someone else is going to want to know, I take copious notes so I can write it up later. Usually the stumbling blocks that I hit are the ones that other new people to the topic will hit. The only downside is that I might do something wrong in the tutorial due to lack of knowledge on the topic, but once I release it I get corrected pretty quickly
Is it just me, or does the China/Taiwan situation remind anyone of the stalker boyfriend who just won't give up?
It's like Taiwan broke it off years ago but China keeps coming by late at night, drunk, saying "Come on baby, we can make this work!" and no matter how often Taiwan calls the police they keep saying they can't do anything until China actually gets violent.
"That Hong Kong floozy doesn't mean anything to me! It's all you, baby! Come baaaack!"
What's interesting is that Statesman - sorry, I mean Jack - is now doing nearly the opposite on the CoH boards. He's very careful about what he says, because he's learned if he so much as hints at a feature people will expect it. And god help him if he gives anything resembling a timetable for anything.
This does not, however, stop him from teasing the fanbase by answering questions like "Feature X and Feature Y would be neat, but I don't like Z, what's the plan?" with nothing more than "Soon."
I've actually seen this movie; caught it one extremely lazy sunday afternoon on television. That's how far it's fallen. My reaction after the first 10 minutes or so:
"This is like a bad fanfic!"
Which I think pretty much sums it up nicely.
Yes, I think I've seen this before somewhere. I tell you, even in the future Slashdot reports outdated events!
He's predicted the death of the internet?
All I have to ask is, will there be a film about it? And if so, at what hour?
Slashdot's usually one of the first places I stop by in a day, but I generally check my e-mail first. Today my account was (again) over-quota due to good old SoBig's messages. I used to only check once a day but if I want to actually get any messages I've had to do it a bit more often. So today as I was going through the cleanup, I thought to myself "Oh well, at least it'll be over soon."
Then I went to Slashdot. Front page, first story there - "The Worst is Yet to Come".
Thanks Slashdot. You really know how to lighten up someone's day.
It is a ripoff of Warcraft, yes. Their goal was to clone the engine, as a open-source way to play WCII in linux. The reason the art in the screenshot looked the same as the game is because it is the same; Freecraft came with a script which would take the art off of a WCII CD you had and put it in the game so you wouldn't have to use the programmer art they'd put in.
Don't you hate that? I mean, you go through all the trouble and background checks and retinal scans to get to these cool secretive labs and then, almost immediately, everything goes straight to hell.
Oh well, at least that won't happen this next time. I've got this great job lined up at a place called 'Black Mesa'. I'm pretty sure everything there is on the up-and-up.
The most recent game in the Zork series (Zork: Grand Inquisitor) was graphical and actually had a scene which made fun of the 'click all the current screens' phenomenon so common in such games:
I believe you were trying to get into the underworld and it was guarded by some two-headed fellow. The actual solution was fairly complicated and did not, IIRC, involve pulling something out of your inventory. So whenever you did do that, the guard would (mockingly) say something like "Oh, I don't know what to do, so I'll just pull something out of the old inventory!"
Load test? I mean, in order to do that you'd have to be running some sort of website which got a lot of people to click on a link at once. It would have a large effect on slashdot, some sort of "Slashdot effect", if you will.
I just don't think we can manage it.
You know, the ones who play FPSes and are constantly yelling at each other! If they're going to stay 1337, they need to keep talking differently than others. One day, I'm going to log onto a quake server and see this:
EliteFellow: Ah-ha! My aiming skills are unmatched. I have such prowess it is as though I own you.
TricksterMan: Not so! Network latency has inhibited my natural reflexes!
EliteFellow: You deserved your comeuppance, you have been jealously guarding the Quadruple Damage for some time now without moving elsewhere!
I think that would scare me more than leetspeak, really.
I've been putting "uce@ftc.gov" into forms when sites make me register for no good reason for years now. Other addresses of note include "blarg@example.com", "postmaster@domain.name.of.site.making.me.registe
Um... and if you're a site admin, just ignore that last one...
It took me a bit of googling to find it, but what NaN did here seems similar to the Street Performer Protocol. I've often wondered whether or not something along those lines would work from an open-source perspective (i.e. "I've got this game, and I'll GPL it if I get $X"). It's nice to see that, apparently, it can.
Of course, Blender is relatively well known and had the benefit of being freely available in the beer sense. Starting something from scratch using this model might be a bit more difficult.
Come on man, get with it! Suing over usenet piracy is so 90's. It's all about suing p2p now!
Next thing you know, he'll start railing off on the evils of DOOM.
Am I the only one who read the headline as "Zig to file for Chapter 11"?
My first thought was "It can't be! What am I supposed to take off when CATS - the jerk - steals the deed to all my base yet again?"
My second thought was "Take off every bancruptcy lawyer! For great settlements!"
My third thought was "I'd better post this, before I realize how stupid a post it is and think twice."
My final thought was "Boy, that was a stupid post", but by then, I'd already posted it.
Sorry.
A lot of the linux companies are trying to win back customers with sales - why just the other day I was at the Debian homepage, and they were offering their free downloads half off!
I've had a ton of problems getting to certain places on the internet. Whole IP blocks are giving me trouble. Some include:
That's not even the strangest thing. I think I've discovered some sort of strange parallel universe gateway at 127.0.0.1! The computer there is exactly like mine!
It's the daemon that listens for connections on port 'chris'. Kinda like httpd.
We're computer programmers, we do the same thing we've always done.
We apply a patch
People, you're well aware at this point that the editors don't check the links in the articles submitted. Luckily, I managed to actually click on it before a lot of people saw the article. I'm warning you, don't click on it!
No, it's not a link to goatse, whatever sick bastard sent this in linked to a place far, far worse. Don't click!
I'm telling you, if you go there, you'll have horrible flashbacks to high-school gym! You'll get locker-induced claustrophobia all over again! It'll be like listening to everyone drone on and on about the latest game while you say nothing in order to disguise the fact that you didn't watch it! Yes, you're suspecting now so I'll just say it right out:
They linked to a sports site!
Run! Flee! Don't make the same mistake I did!!!
I mean, there's no way in hell we could get a Trans-warp drive working, we don't have nearly enough people working fuel ore.
For god's sake, we haven't even built a citadel yet, let alone upgraded it!
CHANGELOG:
- Initial release
-- CD uncopyable
-- Band unlistenable
- 2.0 release
-- Fixed 2,144 bugs enabling people to copy CD. CD now uncopyable.
-- Changed demographic to younger audience; teens beginning to sense lack of talent. Note that this breaks backward compatibility
- 3.0 release
-- Fixed 53,944 bugs enabling people to copy CD. Gave up.
- 3.0.1 bugfix
-- Fired previous maintainer when it was discovered he had a soul.
-- Fixed another 128,535 bugs enabling people to copy CD. CD uncopyable.
-- Discovered simple cabling could be used to make a D-A-D copy. Sucessfully lobbied to illegalize cabling.
-- Hired armed enforcers to prevent people from humming songs.
-- Added technology to CDs to prevent any sort of listening to them whatsoever. Players now burn in unholy flame.
-- Band still unlistenable.