- Neuromancer trilogy by William Gibson - "Crime And Punishment" by Dostojewski
Non-fictional: - "Krieger, Feldherren und Strategen - Krieg in der Antike von Achill bis Attila" (German) by Raimund Schulz. The title translates to "Warriors, Generals and Strategists - War in the Ancient World from Achilles to Attila". Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an english translation. For anyone, who's interested in the classical ancient world, it's a must-read. It's about how war formed societies and vice versa. Fascinating in-depth details about battlefield tactics, weaponry and logistics.
I work as a software developer and I'v known a lot of other developers now. Whenever the conversation is about programming languages it will sooner or later turn into a flame war such as 'I hate language X' or 'Language Y is the best'. I've heard practically any programming language out there being criticized by experienced senior developers... with one exception: Python. No developer I've ever met criticized it. Anybody seems to love it. And rightfully so. Besides Pascal it's one of my favourite programming languages: It's easy to learn, it's used in a lot of sectors and it seems to replace some of the older languages: In High Performance Computing it _seems_ to be slowly replacing Fortran and in systems administration it takes over the role of Perl as configuration language. Furthermore, it's used in Gaming as a scriping language (Blender Game Engine), it's used for Plug-Ins and configuration in many many Applications, in Web Development, in combination with R it's the de-facto standard in Data Science. I sincerely hope, that Python will become more popular.
I live in the larger Düsseldorf metropolitan area in Germany and work as a PHP coder. There are a lot of web agencies and start ups here. And the dominant programming language is without a doubt PHP. In Berlin, Germany's start up capital, however, a lot of start ups use Ruby.
I don't know why that is but apparently which programming language is hot or not seems to depend on the geographical area you live in and, of course, on the industry. I seriously doubt that SpaceX rockets run on Java code...
The views stated in the abstract are very US centric.
Black Adder: To Mr. Charlie Chaplin, Sennet Studios, Hollywood, California. Congrats stop. Have found only person in world less funny than you stop. Name Baldrick stop. Signed E. Blackadder stop. Oh, and put a P.S.: please, please, please stop
Chaplin's answer at end of episode: Twice nightly filming of my films in trenches: excellent idea stop. But must insist that E. Blackadder be projectionist stop. P.S. Don't let him ever... stop
I wish the browser makers would replace that annoying JavaScript language with the elegant, nowadays rarely used (Object) Pascal. Then I'd love to work on AJAX web applications.
I still use the Winamp-style XMMS 1.2.x. It's fast, slick, easy-to-use and intuitive. However, it seems to be from another era. Since the rise of iTunes, many audio players tend to become huge software packages with library functionality and dozens of other unnecessary functions like showing covers. All of them support that "You-don't-have-to-know-where-you're-files-are-we-will-find-them-for-you" thinking which is aimed at totally inexperienced computer users who don't get the concept of files being organised in folders.
Another more modern Winamp-style player is Audacious but it doesn't seem to work properly on my workstation. Luckily, there always seems to be someone who creates XMMS 1.2.x packages for current Linux distributions.
And if i go, while you're still here... Know that I live on, vibrating to a different measure -behind a thin veil you cannot see through. You will not see me, so you must have faith. I wait for the time when we can soar together again, -both aware of each other. Until then, live your life to its fullest. And when you need me, Just whisper my name in your heart,...I will be there.
I read the article and I'm a bit stunned about the way she writes about a working Amiga like if it was something really special and really rare. You will get thousands of working Amigas over here in Europe from EBay. I still own one (Amiga 500) and a couple of my friends still own their Amigas, too - working of course. Was the Amiga really that rare in the United States?
Huh? They listed Ankh 2 under Role Play but it's a classic adventure.
By the way, if you'd like to support the development of commercial Linux games you should consider pre-ordering Jack Keane at ixsoft.de. If 200 pre-orders are reached the game will be ported to Linux. It's from the same company that's responsible for the wonderful Ankh series of which the first to games are already available for Linux.
I'm a bit stunned that Australian law obviously allows extraditing their citizens to other countries. Here in Germany such action is _strictly_ prohibited by the German Constitution.
I'm a synaesthete, I visualize music as shapes and colors and words, digits and letters have a color. I downloaded Thunderbird 2.0 today and learnt about the colorful tagging which is totallay awesome for synaesthetes!
An example: A friend of mine is called "Philip", a navy blue word to me, so I created a navy blue tag "Philip" and "tagged" all of his emails. I guess you get the idea.
As I am tagging all my emails according to the first names of the sender, my incoming folder becomes more and more colorful. Really great stuff! Now it looks like I have always perceived it.
Whatever you do, you can obviously never please a Linux user. First they complain about the missing support from software companies, then when some company ports their application to Linux, they complain about missing sources.
I've been using Linux for years now and I love open source software but I don't expect a software company to open their sources if it's not part of their business model.
I still do VRML coding just for fun on my SGI Octane since this workstation has an ideal VRML development setup.
However, I'm aware that VRML is nearly dead although I find it easy to code. There was a bit of an hype between 1996 and 2000, but today no one cares about VRML anymore.
In my opinion, VRML is brilliant to produce interactive 3D content but it simply came too early. Back in the mid nineties most people only had modem and isdn access to the internet and the amount of VRML 3D data - especially of complex 3D models - was way to huge and made VRML sites load very slow.
Furthermore, graphics cards didn't have the 3D capabilites of today and the 3D engines of VRML viewers were obviously not as efficiently coded as 3D game engines in those days. That's why VRML failed although the concept was great.
I don't like the "new" standard X3D. XML is nice but there's no need to make _EVERYTHING_ XML based.
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- Neuromancer trilogy by William Gibson
- "Crime And Punishment" by Dostojewski
Non-fictional:
- "Krieger, Feldherren und Strategen - Krieg in der Antike von Achill bis Attila" (German) by Raimund Schulz. The title translates to "Warriors, Generals and Strategists - War in the Ancient World from Achilles to Attila". Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an english translation. For anyone, who's interested in the classical ancient world, it's a must-read. It's about how war formed societies and vice versa. Fascinating in-depth details about battlefield tactics, weaponry and logistics.
I work as a software developer and I'v known a lot of other developers now. Whenever the conversation is about programming languages it will sooner or later turn into a flame war such as 'I hate language X' or 'Language Y is the best'. I've heard practically any programming language out there being criticized by experienced senior developers... with one exception: Python. No developer I've ever met criticized it. Anybody seems to love it. And rightfully so.
Besides Pascal it's one of my favourite programming languages: It's easy to learn, it's used in a lot of sectors and it seems to replace some of the older languages: In High Performance Computing it _seems_ to be slowly replacing Fortran and in systems administration it takes over the role of Perl as configuration language. Furthermore, it's used in Gaming as a scriping language (Blender Game Engine), it's used for Plug-Ins and configuration in many many Applications, in Web Development, in combination with R it's the de-facto standard in Data Science.
I sincerely hope, that Python will become more popular.
I live in the larger Düsseldorf metropolitan area in Germany and work as a PHP coder. There are a lot of web agencies and start ups here. And the dominant programming language is without a doubt PHP. In Berlin, Germany's start up capital, however, a lot of start ups use Ruby.
I don't know why that is but apparently which programming language is hot or not seems to depend on the geographical area you live in and, of course, on the industry. I seriously doubt that SpaceX rockets run on Java code...
The views stated in the abstract are very US centric.
Black Adder:
To Mr. Charlie Chaplin, Sennet Studios, Hollywood, California. Congrats stop. Have found only person in world less funny than you stop. Name Baldrick stop. Signed E. Blackadder stop. Oh, and put a P.S.: please, please, please stop
Chaplin's answer at end of episode:
Twice nightly filming of my films in trenches: excellent idea stop. But must insist that E. Blackadder be projectionist stop. P.S. Don't let him ever... stop
I wish the browser makers would replace that annoying JavaScript language with the elegant, nowadays rarely used (Object) Pascal. Then I'd love to work on AJAX web applications.
-Nahooda
I still use the Winamp-style XMMS 1.2.x. It's fast, slick, easy-to-use and intuitive. However, it seems to be from another era. Since the rise of iTunes, many audio players tend to become huge software packages with library functionality and dozens of other unnecessary functions like showing covers. All of them support that "You-don't-have-to-know-where-you're-files-are-we-will-find-them-for-you" thinking which is aimed at totally inexperienced computer users who don't get the concept of files being organised in folders.
Another more modern Winamp-style player is Audacious but it doesn't seem to work properly on my workstation. Luckily, there always seems to be someone who creates XMMS 1.2.x packages for current Linux distributions.
-nahooda
And if i go, ...I will be there.
while you're still here...
Know that I live on,
vibrating to a different measure
-behind a thin veil you cannot see through.
You will not see me,
so you must have faith.
I wait for the time when we can soar together again,
-both aware of each other.
Until then, live your life to its fullest.
And when you need me,
Just whisper my name in your heart,
By Colleen C. Hitchcock
I read the article and I'm a bit stunned about the way she writes about a working Amiga like if it was something really special and really rare. You will get thousands of working Amigas over here in Europe from EBay. I still own one (Amiga 500) and a couple of my friends still own their Amigas, too - working of course.
Was the Amiga really that rare in the United States?
-Nahooda
Check out Papyrus Office at http://www.rom-logicware.com/. It's really great for scientific documents and it's only 5-10MB on your hard disk.
Papyrus Office is also known to be extremely stable.
-Dennis
Check out the yacy search engine. It's an interesting approach (based on p2p technology) and - theoretically - can't be censored.
-Dennis
I'm German too and I fully agree. This comment pretty much sums it all up! Wonder who'll win...
-DBS
Huh? They listed Ankh 2 under Role Play but it's a classic adventure.
By the way, if you'd like to support the development of commercial Linux games you should consider pre-ordering Jack Keane at ixsoft.de. If 200 pre-orders are reached the game will be ported to Linux. It's from the same company that's responsible for the wonderful Ankh series of which the first to games are already available for Linux.
-nahooda
No, he probably woke up in Hamburg... ;-P
This site is so ridiculous it must be fake!
Don't forget the Eyebrow Cut. A very bloody version!
In Germany, German citizens can be charged for crimes they committed outside Germany.
I'm a bit stunned that Australian law obviously allows extraditing their citizens to other countries. Here in Germany such action is _strictly_ prohibited by the German Constitution.
I'm a synaesthete, I visualize music as shapes and colors and words, digits and letters have a color. I downloaded Thunderbird 2.0 today and learnt about the colorful tagging which is totallay awesome for synaesthetes!
An example: A friend of mine is called "Philip", a navy blue word to me, so I created a navy blue tag "Philip" and "tagged" all of his emails. I guess you get the idea.
As I am tagging all my emails according to the first names of the sender, my incoming folder becomes more and more colorful. Really great stuff! Now it looks like I have always perceived it.
-Nahooda
No, they won't! They'll blame it on somebody else.
Whatever you do, you can obviously never please a Linux user. First they complain about the missing support from software companies, then when some company ports their application to Linux, they complain about missing sources.
I've been using Linux for years now and I love open source software but I don't expect a software company to open their sources if it's not part of their business model.
So, thanks Google for the great job!
-DBS
Looking for secret nuclear plants in Iran?
-DBS
"Therefore "Das Keyboard", the German word for "the keyboard" came up as a natural name."
If a German says "Keyboard", he usually refers to the music instrument. A computer keyboard is "Tastatur" in German.
So the name must be "Die Tastatur" ;-)
You forgot a cool online music shop: www.finetunes.de (German/English) provides Ogg and MP3.
-DBS
3D web content makes sense when presented on the right display:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volumetric_display
-DBS
I still do VRML coding just for fun on my SGI Octane since this workstation has an ideal VRML development setup.
However, I'm aware that VRML is nearly dead although I find it easy to code. There was a bit of an hype between 1996 and 2000, but today no one cares about VRML anymore.
In my opinion, VRML is brilliant to produce interactive 3D content but it simply came too early. Back in the mid nineties most people only had modem and isdn access to the internet and the amount of VRML 3D data - especially of complex 3D models - was way to huge and made VRML sites load very slow.
Furthermore, graphics cards didn't have the 3D capabilites of today and the 3D engines of VRML viewers were obviously not as efficiently coded as 3D game engines in those days. That's why VRML failed although the concept was great.
I don't like the "new" standard X3D. XML is nice but there's no need to make _EVERYTHING_ XML based.
-DBS