I'm sure a lot of open source developers are poor. And as I pointed out in other places, how do you even know that this guy doesn't donate to the poor or other causes? If he's at the level of thinking about donating to software projects, he probably already donates to other more 'worthy' causes as well?
I had considered that too. But there will always be disasters in the world. Maybe this guy already donates to such projects. I would think that's quite likely if he's even considering donating to software projects (something I've never really considered before). Anyway, this guy is asking about donating to software projects, so less patronising suggestions please!
How is that offtopic? It's a suggestion for a donation. "I would" is short for "If I were you, I would", which is a valid suggestion rather than just a piece of random information.
People saying "donate your time rather than your money" are very slightly offtopic, because the guy doesn't sound like he would rather support other projects financially than become a developer himself.
Actually, way more users and laptops if you count all the guys who are travelling out on jobs etc, and more servers if you count the webserver, and computers that people remote desktop into for doing ANSYS/CFX solves (because they can make better use of their time doing 3D CAD work while leaving a solve running):p I like working at a small/medium business. I'd never want to be a manager in any large business, and the owner of the business has said that he intends to keep the company as small as possible - but it has been growing pretty quickly in the last 5 years anyway, so he may just end up in charge of quite a large business at some point! I'd have to get more than just a half assistant in that case (my assistant does half legal work, half IT support):P
Press Windows R. I don't know where to get the 'run as' in Vista as I've only used it a couple of times, I just ended up pressing Windows R rather than waste time looking around the re-re-re-designed start menu.
IT Manager of three (soon to be four) separate sites around the world, around 40 full-time users, 60 computers, 4 servers, lots of annoying printers, yada yada yada. I spend most of my time developing in-house apps, and at the moment code for one of our dredgers that's going to be operating at 1km under the sea in August, and is designed to handle up to 3km. Just because you are only managing your home computer doesn't mean everyone else on/. is. Apologies if I'm being cranky but I've just got in, there was only 1/4 of a cup of coffee left in the machine (everyone finished it early because it had vanilla in it), and you are being a prick.
I was confused too, I wasn't sure if gnutoo was a puppet. The journal he posts to is interesting enough - it seems twitter can't help but upset people wherever he goes, even if he realises what is happening and tries to 'fix' it, he ends up making things worse. I wonder how it got to the stage where he needs to have conversations with himself o_0
Well, in games like Uncharted and GTA IV, where you can in fact take cover, I do. I was just using it as an example. It does indeed work in games - maybe it wouldn't work against a professional sniper or even an experienced gamer, but even in those cases random movement is better than predictable movement:p Taking cover is fine unless you have no escape route, in which case you are screwed. Maybe I'm thinking about this too much. I'm reminded of an eposide of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex though, where they're all pinned down by a sniper:)
Yeah that's why I talked about patches too.. OSS apps have patches out all the time, and that is a Good Thing. Designing and implementing the system with appropriate permissions can stop most exploits from doing anything useful though. Antivirus really only is a Windows issue at the moment, and so technically it is a waste if it means that Microsoft are more lax about security issues (and maybe even in their quest for profit would let things slip a bit just to keep certain AV vendors in business, if the price was right? that's pure speculation of course)
And that is why if you are going to test the temperature of something, use the *back* of your finger/hand/whatever.. may hurt a little more as those areas are more sensetive, but at least if it is boiling your instinctive flinch will pull your hand/fingers away rather than pushing it down even more. For example if you need to test a metal door handle when exiting a burning building, do it with the back of your hand..:s
Why not just buy a similar sized fan, or even a completely different heatsink/fan arrangement of approximately the right size?:P Surely it would be better to bodge on some kind of cooling than just leave it..
ew... I can't quite see why anyone would ever want to watch that. I mean, I know some people are weird and would generally count myself as one of them.. but that video sounds almost as bad as having to judge your country's possible entries into the Eurovision song contest..
Patching software does work though, I don't see the alternative if you have an exploitable bug in your code? You want that code fixed. It doesn't matter if no damage can be done to your system, you still want all your applications running as expected.
Yep. While I enjoyed games like the original Settlers and Civilisation a lot, I also realised that I prefer more action oriented games rather than ones where I'm just managing resources. I know I could get into those games if I took some time to do so, but I'm the kind of guy that gets pissed off watching the little soldiers run around in RTSes etc, because I know if I were that little soldier I'd f*ckin STRAFE instead of just standing still or running straight towards the enemy, that kind of thing:p I've always been more of a worker than a manager (despite my title being 'IT Manager', in a 1.5 man department that doesn't mean much:p )
We did have that cat neutered after she had the kittens, and the same for her son. It's sad that so many are homeless, but in our case at least, all the kittens found homes (I think there were 7, we kept one, gave another to my uncle who had recently lost his cat when it got run over, and the rest went to my sisters' friends). We got our granny's dog after a year or so because she wasn't able to keep a reign on it, and it wasn't a great experience. He always just would try to get away with whatever he could and mope around the rest of the time. I was teaching him to sit, lie down and so on when he was really young and we were visiting my gran (we had bought her the dog as a pet since my grandad had died pretty recently), but after we left she just didn't put the effort into training him. Admittedly my dad probably should have got her something less energetic than a terrier.. but still, if I ever get a pet for myself, I'd prefer it to be one that I have known since it was very young otherwise it could have a similar problem of a lack of respect or trust? I know some animals would just be happy to have a home and would love their owner, but then again, some wouldn't.
I think I may have visited that site a couple of years ago, but I can't remember what it was like. Is it a regular thing that they do, making up headlines?
not a great game I really liked the original Civilisation game, but I haven't played any in the series since then. Likewise Quake I was a great game, but I haven't been that interested by subsequent versions (I did buy 3 and play it a lot, tried out mods, making my own weapons etc, but if I was going to play old school deathmatch today, I'd still choose Quake I).
GTA was a good idea and they keep making it better. Of course, Two was quite similar to One, and Four is quite similar to Three. The main improvement from 3 to 4 is the multiplayer, rather than a change in the single player gameplay. San Andreas was a lot more experimental and probably was slightly more fun overall, but with 4 they had a lot to do, and by moving the game back to Liberty City I guess they were showing that they were getting back to the basics. It is simpler than Vice City and San Andreas in many ways (don't have to keep track of your character's skills, weight, properties, gang respect, all that stuff), but I'm sure now that they have a solid fun 'next gen' base setup with Four, they will start experimenting again with subsequent versions. And as long as they don't just keep recycling things the way that EA do, but actually make valid improvements to the experience, I will keep buying the games. If the other GTA games didn't exist I think/hope you would reconsider whether it was 'great' or not, because I can't think of any other game that operates on such a scale in a free roaming world, and offers such a variety of gameplay all in the one package.
If people still prefer the original Quake or Civilisation, etc to the sequels, that just shows that the sequels didn't really improve significantly on the original! Why play GTA IV if GTA V provides a vastly improved experience? For example me and one of my friends think the game would be awesome with a co-operative story mode. Why go back to playing the older games if the newer ones have a better experience? That's kind of analogous to reading hand generated news pages over a 56k connection, rather than reading/. over broadband.
I appreciate what you are saying about the industry, and it is what put me off getting into games development - I would enjoy much more working in a small team and producing large parts of the code myself, rather than being involved in only one tiny part of a project. Lots of games these days are also just recycled trash. GTA is one of the games that still gets me hyped up though. IV was very different to what I expected, but just because V will be better doesn't mean that IV isn't a great game on its own, does it? Apologies for not being more concise, it's just that the GTA series is one of the few things I have found worth spending money on in the last 5 years!
I wouldn't call acting in movies even 50% of the movie either. Sure it is a lot of the final content, but the time taken to act out the scenes would be nothing to the time that is put into modelling, skinning and animating them, not to mention any music and other sound effects that are needed.
Yep, it would be better just to have two dogs and let them have puppies or something. I think the most important thing is to get the pet at a really young age so that it develops a strong bond with you. We had a couple of cats, one was a bit friendlier than the other, she had kittens and then the kitten that we kept was even more attached to us. In fact in the end the mother and son seemed to hate each other but both of them wanted attention from me:p
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I'm sure a lot of open source developers are poor. And as I pointed out in other places, how do you even know that this guy doesn't donate to the poor or other causes? If he's at the level of thinking about donating to software projects, he probably already donates to other more 'worthy' causes as well?
I had considered that too. But there will always be disasters in the world. Maybe this guy already donates to such projects. I would think that's quite likely if he's even considering donating to software projects (something I've never really considered before). Anyway, this guy is asking about donating to software projects, so less patronising suggestions please!
How is that offtopic? It's a suggestion for a donation. "I would" is short for "If I were you, I would", which is a valid suggestion rather than just a piece of random information.
People saying "donate your time rather than your money" are very slightly offtopic, because the guy doesn't sound like he would rather support other projects financially than become a developer himself.
Actually, way more users and laptops if you count all the guys who are travelling out on jobs etc, and more servers if you count the webserver, and computers that people remote desktop into for doing ANSYS/CFX solves (because they can make better use of their time doing 3D CAD work while leaving a solve running) :p I like working at a small/medium business. I'd never want to be a manager in any large business, and the owner of the business has said that he intends to keep the company as small as possible - but it has been growing pretty quickly in the last 5 years anyway, so he may just end up in charge of quite a large business at some point! I'd have to get more than just a half assistant in that case (my assistant does half legal work, half IT support) :P
Press Windows R. I don't know where to get the 'run as' in Vista as I've only used it a couple of times, I just ended up pressing Windows R rather than waste time looking around the re-re-re-designed start menu.
IT Manager of three (soon to be four) separate sites around the world, around 40 full-time users, 60 computers, 4 servers, lots of annoying printers, yada yada yada. I spend most of my time developing in-house apps, and at the moment code for one of our dredgers that's going to be operating at 1km under the sea in August, and is designed to handle up to 3km. Just because you are only managing your home computer doesn't mean everyone else on /. is. Apologies if I'm being cranky but I've just got in, there was only 1/4 of a cup of coffee left in the machine (everyone finished it early because it had vanilla in it), and you are being a prick.
I was confused too, I wasn't sure if gnutoo was a puppet. The journal he posts to is interesting enough - it seems twitter can't help but upset people wherever he goes, even if he realises what is happening and tries to 'fix' it, he ends up making things worse. I wonder how it got to the stage where he needs to have conversations with himself o_0
Well, in games like Uncharted and GTA IV, where you can in fact take cover, I do. I was just using it as an example. It does indeed work in games - maybe it wouldn't work against a professional sniper or even an experienced gamer, but even in those cases random movement is better than predictable movement :p Taking cover is fine unless you have no escape route, in which case you are screwed. Maybe I'm thinking about this too much. I'm reminded of an eposide of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex though, where they're all pinned down by a sniper :)
Yeah that's why I talked about patches too.. OSS apps have patches out all the time, and that is a Good Thing. Designing and implementing the system with appropriate permissions can stop most exploits from doing anything useful though. Antivirus really only is a Windows issue at the moment, and so technically it is a waste if it means that Microsoft are more lax about security issues (and maybe even in their quest for profit would let things slip a bit just to keep certain AV vendors in business, if the price was right? that's pure speculation of course)
And that is why if you are going to test the temperature of something, use the *back* of your finger/hand/whatever.. may hurt a little more as those areas are more sensetive, but at least if it is boiling your instinctive flinch will pull your hand/fingers away rather than pushing it down even more. For example if you need to test a metal door handle when exiting a burning building, do it with the back of your hand.. :s
WTF, someone has blocked off all your sweat ducts and you can still exercise for hours without dying? Wowee!
Why not just buy a similar sized fan, or even a completely different heatsink/fan arrangement of approximately the right size? :P Surely it would be better to bodge on some kind of cooling than just leave it..
ew... I can't quite see why anyone would ever want to watch that. I mean, I know some people are weird and would generally count myself as one of them.. but that video sounds almost as bad as having to judge your country's possible entries into the Eurovision song contest..
How long will that be though? 2 years? 3 years?
Companies are wasting money on Windows ;)
Patching software does work though, I don't see the alternative if you have an exploitable bug in your code? You want that code fixed. It doesn't matter if no damage can be done to your system, you still want all your applications running as expected.
Yep. While I enjoyed games like the original Settlers and Civilisation a lot, I also realised that I prefer more action oriented games rather than ones where I'm just managing resources. I know I could get into those games if I took some time to do so, but I'm the kind of guy that gets pissed off watching the little soldiers run around in RTSes etc, because I know if I were that little soldier I'd f*ckin STRAFE instead of just standing still or running straight towards the enemy, that kind of thing :p I've always been more of a worker than a manager (despite my title being 'IT Manager', in a 1.5 man department that doesn't mean much :p )
Yeah I was mostly kidding :p I haven't seen the movie, but I knew what you meant
We did have that cat neutered after she had the kittens, and the same for her son. It's sad that so many are homeless, but in our case at least, all the kittens found homes (I think there were 7, we kept one, gave another to my uncle who had recently lost his cat when it got run over, and the rest went to my sisters' friends). We got our granny's dog after a year or so because she wasn't able to keep a reign on it, and it wasn't a great experience. He always just would try to get away with whatever he could and mope around the rest of the time. I was teaching him to sit, lie down and so on when he was really young and we were visiting my gran (we had bought her the dog as a pet since my grandad had died pretty recently), but after we left she just didn't put the effort into training him. Admittedly my dad probably should have got her something less energetic than a terrier.. but still, if I ever get a pet for myself, I'd prefer it to be one that I have known since it was very young otherwise it could have a similar problem of a lack of respect or trust? I know some animals would just be happy to have a home and would love their owner, but then again, some wouldn't.
I think I may have visited that site a couple of years ago, but I can't remember what it was like. Is it a regular thing that they do, making up headlines?
GTA was a good idea and they keep making it better. Of course, Two was quite similar to One, and Four is quite similar to Three. The main improvement from 3 to 4 is the multiplayer, rather than a change in the single player gameplay. San Andreas was a lot more experimental and probably was slightly more fun overall, but with 4 they had a lot to do, and by moving the game back to Liberty City I guess they were showing that they were getting back to the basics. It is simpler than Vice City and San Andreas in many ways (don't have to keep track of your character's skills, weight, properties, gang respect, all that stuff), but I'm sure now that they have a solid fun 'next gen' base setup with Four, they will start experimenting again with subsequent versions. And as long as they don't just keep recycling things the way that EA do, but actually make valid improvements to the experience, I will keep buying the games. If the other GTA games didn't exist I think/hope you would reconsider whether it was 'great' or not, because I can't think of any other game that operates on such a scale in a free roaming world, and offers such a variety of gameplay all in the one package.
If people still prefer the original Quake or Civilisation, etc to the sequels, that just shows that the sequels didn't really improve significantly on the original! Why play GTA IV if GTA V provides a vastly improved experience? For example me and one of my friends think the game would be awesome with a co-operative story mode. Why go back to playing the older games if the newer ones have a better experience? That's kind of analogous to reading hand generated news pages over a 56k connection, rather than reading
I appreciate what you are saying about the industry, and it is what put me off getting into games development - I would enjoy much more working in a small team and producing large parts of the code myself, rather than being involved in only one tiny part of a project. Lots of games these days are also just recycled trash. GTA is one of the games that still gets me hyped up though. IV was very different to what I expected, but just because V will be better doesn't mean that IV isn't a great game on its own, does it? Apologies for not being more concise, it's just that the GTA series is one of the few things I have found worth spending money on in the last 5 years!
I knew what you meant :p
I wouldn't call acting in movies even 50% of the movie either. Sure it is a lot of the final content, but the time taken to act out the scenes would be nothing to the time that is put into modelling, skinning and animating them, not to mention any music and other sound effects that are needed.
I was just carrying out a complicated procedure to ensure that there wouldn't be anymore little coresnakes running around.
What were people doing driving around an ancient indian burial ground anyway? >_>
I see you don't believe in homonymns
Yep, it would be better just to have two dogs and let them have puppies or something. I think the most important thing is to get the pet at a really young age so that it develops a strong bond with you. We had a couple of cats, one was a bit friendlier than the other, she had kittens and then the kitten that we kept was even more attached to us. In fact in the end the mother and son seemed to hate each other but both of them wanted attention from me :p