Haha.. I have almost the exact opposite experience to yours:p
You can get PS1 games and budget PSP/PS3 games on the PS Store. Likewise with the Wii Console thing and Xbox Live. Not as big a selection as old PC games though obviously, but what is there is usually the cream of the crop type thing.
I have my PC hooked up to the HDTV in the lounge, so that doesn't apply to me.. though I have an identical HDTV in my room, so it kind of does..
My first computers were heavily used for games.. Commodore 128, Amiga 500, 600, 1200, Macs.. then we got our first console (PlayStation 1) around the same time that we got our first x86 PC, and I've had PlayStations since then. I stopped PC gaming altogether for a while after the PS3 came out.
Good thing some of us like to actually do things for fun every now and then. The Open Source philosophy isn't about making money, it's about sharing knowledge.
Sorry to be the one to break this to you, but it's quite possible that there are two real racists on Slashdot. Maybe more! In the short term a post may have a silly moderation like that, but over the course of a day or two things will usually average out.
Besides - if you're the original AC, you're the one who is creating multiple accounts for the purposes of shilling and up-modding yourself, so you have no right to complain.
He's actually making me want to visit Slashdot less with the way he always gets first post and derails discussions with his bullshit and sock puppet moderation.. it's nice to see I'm not the only one who's noticed and getting frustrated. I've wondered who reviews his work, and if we can contact them to show that he's a failure. They could at least send someone more intelligent.
He's right that at least 4 of those accounts are the same guy, though he missed NorthKorea somehow. This is the guy who rambled about travelling around Asia, fucking she-males and eventually catching some disease that had him bedridden for 6 months. He likes the word "frankly", and the phrase "you can't deny". He defends North Korea quite a lot. He has said on a couple of his accounts that he works in marketing. He claims that Visual Studio is the best thing ever. He likes to slander Google and praise MS. It's not hard to figure out if you're paying attention.
I sometimes wonder if he's just an amazingly clever troll who is trying to get those who've mellowed slightly in their hate for MS (such a myself) to lose all respect for them again. If so, it's working.
I liked the article soon after the disaster where the old guy said there were a group of old Japanese people willing to help out in the cleanup. His reasoning was that they were going to die relatively soon anyway (but still strong enough to be helpful), so the exposure wouldn't make be that big a deal. I thought that was a good idea, and kind of admirable.
I know, but as far as nut allergies are concerned, both peanuts and tree nuts are pretty bad, and I've never heard of a distinction being made on those warnings.
Indeed. Where once he might have been able to figure out for himself that a packet of peanuts may contain nuts, now it is printed right there on the packet in small letters.
No, I'm not quite sure what I'm getting at either, but the "ordinary man" is hardly the most observant of people.
If only there were some way to get a chair and desk installed in your home.. and connect via some kind of communications network to your workplace and/or colleagues to share files. Maybe some way of sending text, audio or even visual communications.. that would be cool. It would save billions of units of currency of fuel each year, not to mention commuting time.
Of course we just don't have the technology, and probably never will. Why do I torture myself with such dreams?
If the contractors aren't being made aware of their cumulative radiation exposure levels and possible risks, then NO. The "free market system" is not a reason to let people into hazardous environments without knowing wtf they're doing.
If they know exactly what they're getting into, then it is hard to argue against letting them do it, but it still feels cheap.
It reminds me of the Foxconn situation where workers were committing suicide just so that their families could get the insurance money. Only this time rather than a nice short death, your family gets to enjoy months/years of watching you suffer. I don't know about you, but I'd rather just be poor than go through that, from either side.
Anyone that thinks PC gaming is "dead" isn't exactly firing on all cylinders.
Yes, sometimes ports are done poorly, but not always. I actually much prefer the menus in Skyrim to those of Oblivion and Morrowind, even if they obviously were designed to work well with joypads.
Once modding becomes common on consoles (surely it has to happen eventually) then the only thing PCs will really have going for them - and against them - are adjustable graphics levels though.
I didn't even have a PC that I gamed on for a few years there, but now that the PS3 and Xbox are getting a bit long in the tooth (and that Windows 7 is actually a passable OS), I'm back to PC gaming. I'll definitely be getting a PS4 for the Gran Turismo, Uncharted and LittleBigPlanet games, but this time I'll probably keep my PC up to date too.
I wasn't thinking of government departments attacking themselves, so much as criminal organisations doing something purely for money, but pretending it was a politically driven Anonymous attack. Certain government departments could try to damage Anonymous' image by perpetrating fake attacks against public companies too of course.
Actually, we were talking about how to write linked lists in a brand new language. If nobody implements linked lists in that language, then nobody will be able to use them.
Also, what if you want to write a variant of a linked list, so it's more of a tree? What happens if you want to create a completely arbitrary and complex network comprised of multiple classes of object? What happens when someone is just wanting to learn, and all they get in reply is people complaining?
These problems have all been solved before, yes, but people should understand the solutions and be able to recreate the solutions from scratch if necessary, rather than relying on books and libraries. The OP talked about linked lists as if they were baked into a language, but really they're just a pleasant side effect of being able to use references, and any programmer should be able to recreate them.
If you used a null that matches with any class, you're back to the start. What's the point in that? I assume that getting rid of a universal null has something to do with stronger typing resulting in less chance of bugs, but I'm not very up on my language design theory tbh.
Hence why it's a good idea to try to make that process easier with languages that make it harder to make common mistakes. Nothing has replaced C++ so far, but that doesn't mean that nobody should even try to develop more usable languages.
Who cares? How many of those "bazillion" C++ programmers would you entrust the security of your computer to, ideally?
I am not one to hop onto a new language simply because it's there, but when the language is actually being designed by a bunch of guys to get shit done in a production environment rather than just as a lab project, that IMO seems like a good start. Maybe it's just because I've almost run out of stuff to do at work and am looking for new things to work on/with, but this seems interesting to me.
What is the problem with marking a list element as the end element, or perhaps having an element that specifically denotes the end of your list?
You could always create an element with a name like NullListElement that you assign as the end of all lists if you're that fussed about the terminology (as long as you don't expect to be able to go backwards from that, hehe).
I doubt texting is cheaper than even the most expensive data rates. Here in the UK it apparently costs 12p per message on PAYG (used to be 10p when I still paid my own phone bill). That's £0.12 for 140 bytes of data. If you posted the same message on a Twitter app, even on the most expensive data plans you'd probably still pay way less than £0.01.
Texting is only "preferred" because it's universal and therefore convenient.
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I take it by this that you mean you usually have to pay if you want to have sex with women, whereas in jail you got it for free?
Haha.. I have almost the exact opposite experience to yours :p
You can get PS1 games and budget PSP/PS3 games on the PS Store. Likewise with the Wii Console thing and Xbox Live. Not as big a selection as old PC games though obviously, but what is there is usually the cream of the crop type thing.
I have my PC hooked up to the HDTV in the lounge, so that doesn't apply to me.. though I have an identical HDTV in my room, so it kind of does..
My first computers were heavily used for games.. Commodore 128, Amiga 500, 600, 1200, Macs.. then we got our first console (PlayStation 1) around the same time that we got our first x86 PC, and I've had PlayStations since then. I stopped PC gaming altogether for a while after the PS3 came out.
Firefly is Cowboy Bebop
I saw a lot more resemblance in Outlaw Star, right down to the girl in cryogenic storage, and the "Miranda" thing.
Some people say Outlaw Star is a ripoff of Cowboy Bebop though.
Sarcasm does not become you, AC.
Good thing some of us like to actually do things for fun every now and then. The Open Source philosophy isn't about making money, it's about sharing knowledge.
Sorry to be the one to break this to you, but it's quite possible that there are two real racists on Slashdot. Maybe more! In the short term a post may have a silly moderation like that, but over the course of a day or two things will usually average out.
Besides - if you're the original AC, you're the one who is creating multiple accounts for the purposes of shilling and up-modding yourself, so you have no right to complain.
He's actually making me want to visit Slashdot less with the way he always gets first post and derails discussions with his bullshit and sock puppet moderation.. it's nice to see I'm not the only one who's noticed and getting frustrated. I've wondered who reviews his work, and if we can contact them to show that he's a failure. They could at least send someone more intelligent.
He's right that at least 4 of those accounts are the same guy, though he missed NorthKorea somehow. This is the guy who rambled about travelling around Asia, fucking she-males and eventually catching some disease that had him bedridden for 6 months. He likes the word "frankly", and the phrase "you can't deny". He defends North Korea quite a lot. He has said on a couple of his accounts that he works in marketing. He claims that Visual Studio is the best thing ever. He likes to slander Google and praise MS. It's not hard to figure out if you're paying attention.
I sometimes wonder if he's just an amazingly clever troll who is trying to get those who've mellowed slightly in their hate for MS (such a myself) to lose all respect for them again. If so, it's working.
I liked the article soon after the disaster where the old guy said there were a group of old Japanese people willing to help out in the cleanup. His reasoning was that they were going to die relatively soon anyway (but still strong enough to be helpful), so the exposure wouldn't make be that big a deal. I thought that was a good idea, and kind of admirable.
I know, but as far as nut allergies are concerned, both peanuts and tree nuts are pretty bad, and I've never heard of a distinction being made on those warnings.
Indeed. Where once he might have been able to figure out for himself that a packet of peanuts may contain nuts, now it is printed right there on the packet in small letters.
No, I'm not quite sure what I'm getting at either, but the "ordinary man" is hardly the most observant of people.
If only there were some way to get a chair and desk installed in your home.. and connect via some kind of communications network to your workplace and/or colleagues to share files. Maybe some way of sending text, audio or even visual communications.. that would be cool. It would save billions of units of currency of fuel each year, not to mention commuting time.
Of course we just don't have the technology, and probably never will. Why do I torture myself with such dreams?
Are they actually turning a profit yet, or did the bailout just delay the inevitable?
The fact that they are selling more cars than anyone else is completely worthless if they are still operating at a loss.
If the contractors aren't being made aware of their cumulative radiation exposure levels and possible risks, then NO. The "free market system" is not a reason to let people into hazardous environments without knowing wtf they're doing.
If they know exactly what they're getting into, then it is hard to argue against letting them do it, but it still feels cheap.
It reminds me of the Foxconn situation where workers were committing suicide just so that their families could get the insurance money. Only this time rather than a nice short death, your family gets to enjoy months/years of watching you suffer. I don't know about you, but I'd rather just be poor than go through that, from either side.
Anyone that thinks PC gaming is "dead" isn't exactly firing on all cylinders.
Yes, sometimes ports are done poorly, but not always. I actually much prefer the menus in Skyrim to those of Oblivion and Morrowind, even if they obviously were designed to work well with joypads.
Once modding becomes common on consoles (surely it has to happen eventually) then the only thing PCs will really have going for them - and against them - are adjustable graphics levels though.
I didn't even have a PC that I gamed on for a few years there, but now that the PS3 and Xbox are getting a bit long in the tooth (and that Windows 7 is actually a passable OS), I'm back to PC gaming. I'll definitely be getting a PS4 for the Gran Turismo, Uncharted and LittleBigPlanet games, but this time I'll probably keep my PC up to date too.
I wasn't thinking of government departments attacking themselves, so much as criminal organisations doing something purely for money, but pretending it was a politically driven Anonymous attack. Certain government departments could try to damage Anonymous' image by perpetrating fake attacks against public companies too of course.
Since the group is fairly anonymous though, anybody could pretend to be them. It's not the best position to be in in terms of public image.
I hadn't heard that term before, no. But apparently anything which terminates the list is a sentinel, it doesn't have to be the list itself.
Actually, we were talking about how to write linked lists in a brand new language. If nobody implements linked lists in that language, then nobody will be able to use them.
Also, what if you want to write a variant of a linked list, so it's more of a tree? What happens if you want to create a completely arbitrary and complex network comprised of multiple classes of object? What happens when someone is just wanting to learn, and all they get in reply is people complaining?
These problems have all been solved before, yes, but people should understand the solutions and be able to recreate the solutions from scratch if necessary, rather than relying on books and libraries. The OP talked about linked lists as if they were baked into a language, but really they're just a pleasant side effect of being able to use references, and any programmer should be able to recreate them.
If you used a null that matches with any class, you're back to the start. What's the point in that? I assume that getting rid of a universal null has something to do with stronger typing resulting in less chance of bugs, but I'm not very up on my language design theory tbh.
Hence why it's a good idea to try to make that process easier with languages that make it harder to make common mistakes. Nothing has replaced C++ so far, but that doesn't mean that nobody should even try to develop more usable languages.
Who cares? How many of those "bazillion" C++ programmers would you entrust the security of your computer to, ideally?
I am not one to hop onto a new language simply because it's there, but when the language is actually being designed by a bunch of guys to get shit done in a production environment rather than just as a lab project, that IMO seems like a good start. Maybe it's just because I've almost run out of stuff to do at work and am looking for new things to work on/with, but this seems interesting to me.
Sounds less like a stream and more like a water processing plant.
What is the problem with marking a list element as the end element, or perhaps having an element that specifically denotes the end of your list?
You could always create an element with a name like NullListElement that you assign as the end of all lists if you're that fussed about the terminology (as long as you don't expect to be able to go backwards from that, hehe).
I doubt texting is cheaper than even the most expensive data rates. Here in the UK it apparently costs 12p per message on PAYG (used to be 10p when I still paid my own phone bill). That's £0.12 for 140 bytes of data. If you posted the same message on a Twitter app, even on the most expensive data plans you'd probably still pay way less than £0.01.
Texting is only "preferred" because it's universal and therefore convenient.