I know you're joking, but I wish they'd minimize everything else. They went in reverse with Win7/IE7(and 8) by adding more buttons and taking away what was minimalistic about XP... the ability to combine all those needless bars into one or outright remove them entirely and the ability to make the start menu a small and efficient resource without needless columns, searches, and menus that you never use. Of course, you had to edit the registry to get rid of help and search... but it was an option.
But for 95% of people, including myself, a computer expert for more than a quarter of a century who just does the occasional simple document or a quick tweak to some photos he's taken, MS Office and GIMP do more than enough.
Mistyped? I assume so. I'm in the same boat as you. MS Office has NOTHING I need at home that Open Office doesn't do (besides, MS Office doesn't run on my Debian box.) It probably has everything I need for work as well, but I don't have a choice in that matter since the corporate IT are born again Microsoft junkies who don't allow alternatives. (We are still running IE6 as well because moving to IE7/8 would break virtually everything...)
I however use Paint.NET on Windows as a replacement for Photoshop because I really don't edit that much and Paint just sucks.
I know this is going to sound trollish, but hear me out.
I can't be the only one noticing that there is a recent upswing in what I'd call Microsoft "prototype news." All the blogs are full of Win Mobile 7 System Phone (or whatever they are calling it...), something called Courier that's probably vaporware, Natal, and now IE enhancements that aren't quite done yet. It feels to me like Microsoft shifted a good chunk of change into marketing for some reason.
It kind of feels like they are saying "Oh, don't look at that, we'll have something soon..."
The thing about it is that I don't find playing an instrument fun either, but I'll sit and listen where I wouldn't even want to sit and watch someone play Demon's Souls. So, in a way there is a usefulness to playing a guitar where there isn't in playing a game.
I guess I should have specified... a proper PS3 sequel. I have a 20G, so I can play RTA again, but even with full BC included I just can't replay old games.
2. To me, the current gold standard for a dungeon crawl is Demon's Souls. How are they going to top DS's brutality and innovate features?
To each his own. I actually bought two copies of Demon's Souls because I imported the wrong language at first... and I figured it would be more fun if I could understand what was going on... I didn't. Replaying the same level over and over again to complete it isn't what I'd label fun. Also, logging in to play with a friend and having some ass hole join your game to kill you because he needs the black "karma" isn't fun.
/** * This is a post * @param inputStr post content * @return nothing */ Sometimes commenting is worthless if you ask me. If the code is well written, I get a better sense of what the hell is going on opposed to sifting through garbage comments. Adding more verbose comments usually doesn't help as much as naming the method properly.
No laws supporting any religion should be allowed. Showing favoritism toward any religion will only encourage other religions to request the same, or attack us for supporting it.
Religion is a personal belief and cannot be taken away from anyone, nor shall it be enforced. No Atheist is trying to "remove God" from the lives of US citizens, they are simply trying to remove it from the government.
I'm not saying there is and I agree that there's not. I'm mainly agreeing that I think it's improper to put "God" on Federal money, pledges, etc. which pretty much "establishes" a particular branch of religious belief. After reading my post, I realize I could have added more substance.
Also, the declaration of independence does mention "Nature's God" in the preamble but it doesn't really dictate that as an establishment, more of a statement of inclusion. (Also, the capitalization of "creator" in the first sentence of the second section (the famous one) could constitute religious belief in a higher power... thus alienating atheist citizens)
All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own conscience.... Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction.
I assume being an Atheist makes me less moral knowledgeable than the men who flew those planes into the World Trade Center. After all, they were religious and believed in an almighty god.
Actually, it reminds me a lot of a program that came out some 15(?) years ago where you could drop down objects and draw linkage lines between them like you were building a flow chart. It had simple boxes that were named by class and had little nubs that you could connect lines to that stood for the parameters and the return value.
I wish I remember the name of that. I kind of wonder what happened to it.
In my case, it was trying to explain to my father why I felt my game was more important than that silly quicken folder. That wasn't a game. We only had 40MB to deal with and that was getting in the way of what makes a computer good. Eventually I found QBASIC and GWBASIC on there and it was all I needed to make this machine do what I wanted! I had previously learned on a TRS-80 by copying code out of a magazine and editing it here and there. The new computer didn't seem to have the same interface, so I figured I was at a loss and this machine could only deal with machine code. It wasn't cool enough to have a prompt that you could just start programming in.
Searching the internet for downloads and running downloaded apps to install is a very 1990's way of installing software. Its hard to believe Windows users don't have App repositories yet.
I haven't spent any time looking, but is there possibly a nice cross platform (Win/Lin/Mac) solution for an application developer to stick on his web server and give everyone a link to add that to their package manager of choice? That or some kind of uniform repository "tag" of sorts. This would be something that would contain the developer's repository information and all repository clients could understand how to read it and/or know if they support it.
It definitely would be cool (and avoid silly one click installs) if an indie developer distributing their application could just give their users a link and post their latest version(s) to that application so anyone can keep up to date with the latest version. I have a feeling such a system doesn't exist and people would get all strung up arguing how to do it.
Well... not everyone. How does running Electric lines from Kentucky to New York benefit Minnesota? I realize I'm reaching here, but running nationwide utility lines really only helps the big cities and the other big city from which the power is coming from (in jobs.) Other than that you lose farmland and in some cases you lose a strip of woodland where the lines are run.
Massive projects like this, the Hoover Dam, and everything the government has done (besides the national highways) have only been a benefit to a local community or a few select towns. Granted, the "community" around Hoover Dam is pretty huge.
Another failed proposition are all these high speed rail lines that further strive to mass people into a few select ("lucky") towns that have rail depots while clearing out yet more farmland and wooded areas not to mention creating an artificial barrier to wildlife.
Fine, it's like telling someone they can't say the same thing you just did because it's your saying and they'll have to license it from you. Speaking is just as easily copied as software, therefore software is just a language and therefore not protected. If you want to hire a speech writer to write your speech, or a programmer to write your program, then by all means. After they do it though, all bets are off. It feels like "Happy Birthday" [Copyright Warner/Chappell Music] in here.
Because they are so easily copied, it's impossible for them to be IP. (This is speaking as a programmer who makes a living programming for a major US company. I find that my company pays me for the time it takes me to translate English to computerese and my code is nothing more than instruction for a machine that is disposable and copyable... at least within the company as I know there are people that think bits have value. Damn lawyers.)
if I pay a plumber to fix my tap, I don’t ask him to leave his toolbox so I can fix it myself next time;
No, but if you bought a book on plumbing you might just fix it yourself next time. The results may vary but it's different from compiled code in that the person has no option to 'decompile' the code and go through it. You're right but the analogy has flaws. The plumber isn't producing a copyrighted work for you, he's performing a service. No goods are exchanged between you and the plumber like a software release.
I think a better counter argument to that is that I as a customer am not asking the developer for his computer and compilation software... just my copy of the code he wrote that I can do with whatever way I want, except maybe plagiarizing it and calling it mine.
There's a perfectly valid and working single payer system right now. The customer.
If the customer starts treating their car insurance like their health insurance, you'd dread getting your oil changed or tires rotated because of all the paperwork as well.
Slashdot Mirror
I know you're joking, but I wish they'd minimize everything else. They went in reverse with Win7/IE7(and 8) by adding more buttons and taking away what was minimalistic about XP... the ability to combine all those needless bars into one or outright remove them entirely and the ability to make the start menu a small and efficient resource without needless columns, searches, and menus that you never use. Of course, you had to edit the registry to get rid of help and search... but it was an option.
But for 95% of people, including myself, a computer expert for more than a quarter of a century who just does the occasional simple document or a quick tweak to some photos he's taken, MS Office and GIMP do more than enough.
Mistyped? I assume so. I'm in the same boat as you. MS Office has NOTHING I need at home that Open Office doesn't do (besides, MS Office doesn't run on my Debian box.) It probably has everything I need for work as well, but I don't have a choice in that matter since the corporate IT are born again Microsoft junkies who don't allow alternatives. (We are still running IE6 as well because moving to IE7/8 would break virtually everything...)
I however use Paint.NET on Windows as a replacement for Photoshop because I really don't edit that much and Paint just sucks.
I know this is going to sound trollish, but hear me out.
I can't be the only one noticing that there is a recent upswing in what I'd call Microsoft "prototype news." All the blogs are full of Win Mobile 7 System Phone (or whatever they are calling it...), something called Courier that's probably vaporware, Natal, and now IE enhancements that aren't quite done yet. It feels to me like Microsoft shifted a good chunk of change into marketing for some reason.
It kind of feels like they are saying "Oh, don't look at that, we'll have something soon..."
The thing about it is that I don't find playing an instrument fun either, but I'll sit and listen where I wouldn't even want to sit and watch someone play Demon's Souls. So, in a way there is a usefulness to playing a guitar where there isn't in playing a game.
I guess I should have specified... a proper PS3 sequel. I have a 20G, so I can play RTA again, but even with full BC included I just can't replay old games.
2. To me, the current gold standard for a dungeon crawl is Demon's Souls. How are they going to top DS's brutality and innovate features?
To each his own. I actually bought two copies of Demon's Souls because I imported the wrong language at first... and I figured it would be more fun if I could understand what was going on... I didn't. Replaying the same level over and over again to complete it isn't what I'd label fun. Also, logging in to play with a friend and having some ass hole join your game to kill you because he needs the black "karma" isn't fun.
Baldur's gate was same screen, wasn't it? The only thing split was the inventory if I remember right.
I do agree though, I want more local coop games. I'd kill to get a sequel to Champions of Norrath as well.
multiplayer MUD
Hopefully I can use my NIC Card to play some Local LAN network games as well!
Computer prophylactics...
/**
* This is a post
* @param inputStr post content
* @return nothing
*/
Sometimes commenting is worthless if you ask me. If the code is well written, I get a better sense of what the hell is going on opposed to sifting through garbage comments. Adding more verbose comments usually doesn't help as much as naming the method properly.
No laws supporting any religion should be allowed. Showing favoritism toward any religion will only encourage other religions to request the same, or attack us for supporting it.
Religion is a personal belief and cannot be taken away from anyone, nor shall it be enforced. No Atheist is trying to "remove God" from the lives of US citizens, they are simply trying to remove it from the government.
I'm not saying there is and I agree that there's not. I'm mainly agreeing that I think it's improper to put "God" on Federal money, pledges, etc. which pretty much "establishes" a particular branch of religious belief. After reading my post, I realize I could have added more substance.
Also, the declaration of independence does mention "Nature's God" in the preamble but it doesn't really dictate that as an establishment, more of a statement of inclusion. (Also, the capitalization of "creator" in the first sentence of the second section (the famous one) could constitute religious belief in a higher power... thus alienating atheist citizens)
There is already an establishment of a particular branch of religions in including God though...
Actually, I kind of fear states rights when it comes to religion... Take for example the Ohio Constitution:
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/constitution.cfm?Part=1&Section=07
All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own conscience. ...
Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction.
I assume being an Atheist makes me less moral knowledgeable than the men who flew those planes into the World Trade Center. After all, they were religious and believed in an almighty god.
To be fair... Slashdot was, for a while, free of most people who would associate with Apple or Microsoft. It seems to be a more recent trend.
Actually, it reminds me a lot of a program that came out some 15(?) years ago where you could drop down objects and draw linkage lines between them like you were building a flow chart. It had simple boxes that were named by class and had little nubs that you could connect lines to that stood for the parameters and the return value.
I wish I remember the name of that. I kind of wonder what happened to it.
In my case, it was trying to explain to my father why I felt my game was more important than that silly quicken folder. That wasn't a game. We only had 40MB to deal with and that was getting in the way of what makes a computer good. Eventually I found QBASIC and GWBASIC on there and it was all I needed to make this machine do what I wanted! I had previously learned on a TRS-80 by copying code out of a magazine and editing it here and there. The new computer didn't seem to have the same interface, so I figured I was at a loss and this machine could only deal with machine code. It wasn't cool enough to have a prompt that you could just start programming in.
Searching the internet for downloads and running downloaded apps to install is a very 1990's way of installing software. Its hard to believe Windows users don't have App repositories yet.
I haven't spent any time looking, but is there possibly a nice cross platform (Win/Lin/Mac) solution for an application developer to stick on his web server and give everyone a link to add that to their package manager of choice? That or some kind of uniform repository "tag" of sorts. This would be something that would contain the developer's repository information and all repository clients could understand how to read it and/or know if they support it.
It definitely would be cool (and avoid silly one click installs) if an indie developer distributing their application could just give their users a link and post their latest version(s) to that application so anyone can keep up to date with the latest version. I have a feeling such a system doesn't exist and people would get all strung up arguing how to do it.
Well... not everyone. How does running Electric lines from Kentucky to New York benefit Minnesota? I realize I'm reaching here, but running nationwide utility lines really only helps the big cities and the other big city from which the power is coming from (in jobs.) Other than that you lose farmland and in some cases you lose a strip of woodland where the lines are run.
Massive projects like this, the Hoover Dam, and everything the government has done (besides the national highways) have only been a benefit to a local community or a few select towns. Granted, the "community" around Hoover Dam is pretty huge.
Another failed proposition are all these high speed rail lines that further strive to mass people into a few select ("lucky") towns that have rail depots while clearing out yet more farmland and wooded areas not to mention creating an artificial barrier to wildlife.
I'll agree with that.
Fine, it's like telling someone they can't say the same thing you just did because it's your saying and they'll have to license it from you. Speaking is just as easily copied as software, therefore software is just a language and therefore not protected. If you want to hire a speech writer to write your speech, or a programmer to write your program, then by all means. After they do it though, all bets are off. It feels like "Happy Birthday" [Copyright Warner/Chappell Music] in here.
Because they are so easily copied, it's impossible for them to be IP. (This is speaking as a programmer who makes a living programming for a major US company. I find that my company pays me for the time it takes me to translate English to computerese and my code is nothing more than instruction for a machine that is disposable and copyable... at least within the company as I know there are people that think bits have value. Damn lawyers.)
if I pay a plumber to fix my tap, I don’t ask him to leave his toolbox so I can fix it myself next time;
No, but if you bought a book on plumbing you might just fix it yourself next time. The results may vary but it's different from compiled code in that the person has no option to 'decompile' the code and go through it. You're right but the analogy has flaws. The plumber isn't producing a copyrighted work for you, he's performing a service. No goods are exchanged between you and the plumber like a software release.
I think a better counter argument to that is that I as a customer am not asking the developer for his computer and compilation software... just my copy of the code he wrote that I can do with whatever way I want, except maybe plagiarizing it and calling it mine.
A person can also sell/share/rent a book after reading it and not break the law as well.
There's a perfectly valid and working single payer system right now. The customer.
If the customer starts treating their car insurance like their health insurance, you'd dread getting your oil changed or tires rotated because of all the paperwork as well.
I have three guesses:
Management at a bank, management at a major car manufacturer, or he's somehow affiliated with the government.