Why is the above post a troll? It's completely true. There is a ridiculous amount of Mac worship going on in Slashdot. Where are the stories about Dell, Sony, Toshiba, etc. releasing new laptops?
Another great Java "robot" platform is Intergalactics. Here, you right computer players for a risk-based strategy game. The best thing about this is that humans and robots all compete on the same playing field. And, the game is such that robots and humans compete fairly equally. It's pretty fun, and it's an easy API to learn and use.
My favorite RTS game is the lean and mean intergalactics, a Risk-like web-based game that seems simple, but is amazingly complex. It doesn't have that aspect of "getting good at building up resources", like most RTSes do. Instead, you are thrown right in to pure human vs. human strategic situations. The amount of tactics and strategies that arise from this are astounding!
So, because somebody else paid more for it, that makes it a good deal? I've got some Enron shares to sell you-- purchased at $25, you can have them for $20.
CowboyNeal is on the money, here. Mutt is already more advanced than Pine and is rapidly improving. I'm not surprised to hear that Pine isn't open-source, because it's development just didn't seem as fast and responsive as popular open source products usually are. For God's sake, let's get a threaded view in there, already!
The problem is as Hemos demonstrates-- he doesn't want to move off Pine because "that's the way it is." C'mon Hemos, what happened to the hacker instincts? Get it learned!
"Techies" should be hitting college for sure. Not because they need to learn technical skills, or because they need to have a theoretical background, or becuase they need to learn a work ethic. They should go to college to develop a social life! That's right people, go to college, move in to residence and meet some humans. Multiplayer Strategy
Let's face it, from Netscape's point of view, it was a terrible idea. The market share is gone, and the release of Mozilla is not going to make a dent on the installed base of IE browsers on Windows machines. It might have been great for us, but as a company, Netscape should not have opened Communicator. Multiplayer Strategy
It _seems_ too late for MS to try to take over with a Java clone (as this most likely is), yet it also seemed too late when MS released Internet Explorer, and yet they toughed it out and now dominate the browser scene.
This situation is similar, but on the server-side. It must kill MS to see the enormous success of Java on the server-side. Very likely, C# will attempt to steal some of this market away, but can it succeed? MS seems to be doing miserable in the server market, so they won't have nearly the leverage they had when they invaded the browser market by pre-installing IE. Oracle, Sun and IBM are ruling the server-side right now and Microsoft is the underdog. I predict that this product will not be an overwhelming success.
This book looks great. In general, more technical books need to made available online. Right now, the web seems well-suited as a reference guide for technical info, but there are few topics for which you can find a complete, book-like read on the net. The Gimp is no longer one of those!
...because I have never seen so many nasty-looking iMac knock-off computer cases, printers, mice and keyboards as there are right now. Damn. Seriously, it makes the "boring beige case" look good all over again.
Everywhere it reigns, from Wal-Mart to AOL/Time Warner to Microsoft, corporatism discourages creativity, pushes individuals to the margins and promotes conformity and control of software, hardware, intellectual content and culture.
Obviously, this is an opinion piece, but this little paragraph definitely falls under the category of "sensationalism". Such a strong statement should be backed up with some evidence, lest it be dismissed as superstition. Multiplayer Strategy
This hand-held burrito thing isn't going to cut it. Until these things reach pill format, I'm not interested. Currently, the closest thing to the ultimate geek food I know of is Greens+.
How many times have you programmed for about 12 hours straight only to realize that you are parched, starving and your bladder is about to burst?
The fact is, geeks don't like to eat, drink or even take a whiz when they're programming. All of those things are distractions... they are crude, biological mechanisms.
So, spare us your so-called "future-food", Dilbert. I'm sticking with my IV.
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Americans may have beat the Russians to space, but I guarantee they've beat the Americans to this... they've had that manned space station up there for a while. How could it NOT have happened?
Inter-species breeding is not what is being talked about here. The embryo in this case is pure wildcat, it was just implanted and gestated inside a domestic cat... and that's what is far-fetched. /\ X | O M
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For patching IE/Outlook, simply use some widespread and well-known WAN patching tools: Melissa, I Love You, Klez to name a few.
Why is the above post a troll? It's completely true. There is a ridiculous amount of Mac worship going on in Slashdot. Where are the stories about Dell, Sony, Toshiba, etc. releasing new laptops?
Another great Java "robot" platform is Intergalactics. Here, you right computer players for a risk-based strategy game. The best thing about this is that humans and robots all compete on the same playing field. And, the game is such that robots and humans compete fairly equally. It's pretty fun, and it's an easy API to learn and use.
TESTINGA!
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My favorite RTS game is the lean and mean intergalactics, a Risk-like web-based game that seems simple, but is amazingly complex. It doesn't have that aspect of "getting good at building up resources", like most RTSes do. Instead, you are thrown right in to pure human vs. human strategic situations. The amount of tactics and strategies that arise from this are astounding!
So, because somebody else paid more for it, that makes it a good deal? I've got some Enron shares to sell you-- purchased at $25, you can have them for $20.
Check out Mutt's threaded view and you'll see the difference-- but good point.
CowboyNeal is on the money, here. Mutt is already more advanced than Pine and is rapidly improving. I'm not surprised to hear that Pine isn't open-source, because it's development just didn't seem as fast and responsive as popular open source products usually are. For God's sake, let's get a threaded view in there, already! The problem is as Hemos demonstrates-- he doesn't want to move off Pine because "that's the way it is." C'mon Hemos, what happened to the hacker instincts? Get it learned!
Man, Streamsicle does rock! But what's the dilly with that dancing popsicle?
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> Cost to me: less than $1 Cost to feed a starving citizen so they can survive another day: less than $1
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... their.mp3.com.
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"Techies" should be hitting college for sure. Not because they need to learn technical skills, or because they need to have a theoretical background, or becuase they need to learn a work ethic. They should go to college to develop a social life! That's right people, go to college, move in to residence and meet some humans.
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Let's face it, from Netscape's point of view, it was a terrible idea. The market share is gone, and the release of Mozilla is not going to make a dent on the installed base of IE browsers on Windows machines. It might have been great for us, but as a company, Netscape should not have opened Communicator.
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...and found that there were none.
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This situation is similar, but on the server-side. It must kill MS to see the enormous success of Java on the server-side. Very likely, C# will attempt to steal some of this market away, but can it succeed? MS seems to be doing miserable in the server market, so they won't have nearly the leverage they had when they invaded the browser market by pre-installing IE. Oracle, Sun and IBM are ruling the server-side right now and Microsoft is the underdog. I predict that this product will not be an overwhelming success.
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This book looks great. In general, more technical books need to made available online. Right now, the web seems well-suited as a reference guide for technical info, but there are few topics for which you can find a complete, book-like read on the net. The Gimp is no longer one of those!
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...because I have never seen so many nasty-looking iMac knock-off computer cases, printers, mice and keyboards as there are right now. Damn. Seriously, it makes the "boring beige case" look good all over again.
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Obviously, this is an opinion piece, but this little paragraph definitely falls under the category of "sensationalism". Such a strong statement should be backed up with some evidence, lest it be dismissed as superstition.
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This hand-held burrito thing isn't going to cut it. Until these things reach pill format, I'm not interested. Currently, the closest thing to the ultimate geek food I know of is Greens+.
How many times have you programmed for about 12 hours straight only to realize that you are parched, starving and your bladder is about to burst?
The fact is, geeks don't like to eat, drink or even take a whiz when they're programming. All of those things are distractions... they are crude, biological mechanisms.
So, spare us your so-called "future-food", Dilbert. I'm sticking with my IV.
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C'mon guys!?!? I'm disappointed that almost everybody here needs to be told that this is a satire... it's not real, it's a lame attempt at comedy.
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Americans may have beat the Russians to space, but I guarantee they've beat the Americans to this... they've had that manned space station up there for a while. How could it NOT have happened?
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Seriously, exactly who's palm got greased as a result of this useless posting? A contest on the web? Yikes
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Inter-species breeding is not what is being talked about here. The embryo in this case is pure wildcat, it was just implanted and gestated inside a domestic cat... and that's what is far-fetched.
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Not bad, but when do we get milk that passes itself?
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