I know you're not kidding, which makes it scary. Whenever I encounter a fundamentalist who believes this and behaves this way, I ask him/her "If Heaven is so great and where we're all going, why not just jump off a building now and speed up the process?" They always answer, but not without a lot of sputtering:-)
This is an exquisitely BAD IDEA. It's not portable: They will learn these aliases and then wonder why they don't work on another system!
An experienced admin friend of mine was working at a console with me looking over his shoulder once, and I saw him type things like "dc" and "vm" and yet the "cd" and "mv" commands were working -- I asked him why and he said he has aliases for all of his typos. THIS ENFORCED BAD BEHAVIOR and, years later, wishes he hadn't done that.
In other news, scientists have discovered that cheese is made from milk, skydiving without a parachute has a 99.99998% chance of resulting in death, and that galvanized rubber is not edible.
Come on, this was news? Website attacks are STILL GOING ON... performed by KIDS? Announcing that the earth was still round would have been more surprising.
At a former financial employer, I didn't hesitate to put encryption into the backup system I designed for a particular product. You have to protect the data at every single failure point, including those of the "whoops, where did we put that tape?" kind.
Anyone here old enough to remember Lotus Magellan? If any company or product could be considered first in the desktop search category, it would be Magellan. Released in the late 1980s, it indexed every file on your hard drive into Btrees; when you searched for a term, it would narrow the results in realtime with every keystroke -- blazingly fast. Found files were displayed (many looking just like they would in their native program thanks to several file type filters) with the search word highlighted. Truly one of the MS-DOS highlights of the 1980s.
I miss the *experience* of playing pinball (or coin-op video games). I can put a pinball in my house, or emulate a video game on my PC/console, but none of that can reproduce:
Having a crowd slowly form around you as you outperform most people who normally play the game. (And the crowd makes you play even better!)
Putting a quarter or two on the glass to reserve your place in line.
Good times with friends, especially 2- or 4-player games.
Setting a score on a game, coming back a week later and seeing it still there.
Same, only seeing it BEATEN and then striving to do better:-)
I miss the experience most of all. Once a year, I'll set up my arcade stick, put it on a table, put a monitor at eye level, dim the lights, play some Journey or Yaz at loud levels -- even go so far as playing a sound loop of what an arcade used to sound like. But it's still not the same.
If working from home saves you 2 hours a day you would otherwise be commuting, then you've automatically given yourself nearly 3 extra weeks of time per year to do whatever you want it.
"I remember seeing something on the making of X-Men, and one of the designers said yellow spandex looks great in a comic book, but it looks stupid on screen."
No offense to the parent poster, but coding a few text-based games like othello, hearts, etc. is not going to get you a job in the industry (unless your othello uses some advanced algorithm that always wins and you can demonstrate why).
I would suggest the original poster hang out game development websites (use google, search for gamedev, others) and try to learn all he can there first. Subscribe to Game Developer's Magazine.
Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of ReplayTV owners who are quite happy. The only two features they removed were internet sharing and automatic channel skip. You can still happily suck shows off of the unit over ethernet in MPEG-2 format until the cows come home. I am *still* laughing at people who purchase TiVo units.
My last effort in this area was a Dual Pentium 933 with 1GB RAM, and a 3Ware Escalade 6400 hardware RAID-5 (real RAID, it has a RISC on it) handling four IDE drives. My total cost three years ago was $500 for the server, $240 for the drives, and $300 for the 3ware controller. I installed Red Hat 7.2 at the time.
So why haven't I upgraded since then? I haven't needed to! It's still my fileserver, and has never had a problem. I have been especially happy with 3ware's linux software, and in their latest updates they have allowed rebuilding a RAID where there are known bad sectors, just so you can get SOMETHING back from a catastrophic crash.
Don't bother, just buy a ReplayTV. No ads, downloading shows to MPEG-2 or DVD over ethernet, commercial skipping, $50 (refurb). I honestly HONESTLY don't understand why people buy TiVo when ReplayTV is the better product!!
MythTV is nice, but only from a hack-it-yourself standpoint. The hardware MPEG-2 encoder in a ReplayTV unit is extremely good so I never found the need to build my own Myth box to the tune of $500 or more...
I am not a Jobs lover, but he is (was) indeed a pariah. Not a *Geek* pariah, but he does (did?) possess a rare skill known as a Reality Distortion Field, where in his presence, reality is malleable. Jobs saw the importance of introducing a computer for the masses, and he was able to pick a decent team and make them meet targets that most people would consider impossible. Yes, he rode on Wozniak's coattails for a while, but you have to give Jobs credit for recognizing Woz was the person to encourage and push.
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The whole part between 1996 and 2005 seemed to be a blur in the article.
Maybe that's because the HEADLINE reads "1975-1995".
I know you're not kidding, which makes it scary. Whenever I encounter a fundamentalist who believes this and behaves this way, I ask him/her "If Heaven is so great and where we're all going, why not just jump off a building now and speed up the process?" They always answer, but not without a lot of sputtering :-)
This is an exquisitely BAD IDEA. It's not portable: They will learn these aliases and then wonder why they don't work on another system!
An experienced admin friend of mine was working at a console with me looking over his shoulder once, and I saw him type things like "dc" and "vm" and yet the "cd" and "mv" commands were working -- I asked him why and he said he has aliases for all of his typos. THIS ENFORCED BAD BEHAVIOR and, years later, wishes he hadn't done that.
In other news, scientists have discovered that cheese is made from milk, skydiving without a parachute has a 99.99998% chance of resulting in death, and that galvanized rubber is not edible.
Come on, this was news? Website attacks are STILL GOING ON... performed by KIDS? Announcing that the earth was still round would have been more surprising.
I concur. I know many people who have reverse-engineered "unknown" compression schemes so compression != encryption.
At a former financial employer, I didn't hesitate to put encryption into the backup system I designed for a particular product. You have to protect the data at every single failure point, including those of the "whoops, where did we put that tape?" kind.
Anyone here old enough to remember Lotus Magellan? If any company or product could be considered first in the desktop search category, it would be Magellan. Released in the late 1980s, it indexed every file on your hard drive into Btrees; when you searched for a term, it would narrow the results in realtime with every keystroke -- blazingly fast. Found files were displayed (many looking just like they would in their native program thanks to several file type filters) with the search word highlighted. Truly one of the MS-DOS highlights of the 1980s.
I mean, imagine if the time travel was the core of the show, and not just a Deus Ex Machina gimmick to pull a retcon out of a hat?
I think Scott Bakula has had enough of that already.
Having a crowd slowly form around you as you outperform most people who normally play the game. (And the crowd makes you play even better!)
Putting a quarter or two on the glass to reserve your place in line.
Good times with friends, especially 2- or 4-player games.
Setting a score on a game, coming back a week later and seeing it still there.
Same, only seeing it BEATEN and then striving to do better :-)
I miss the experience most of all. Once a year, I'll set up my arcade stick, put it on a table, put a monitor at eye level, dim the lights, play some Journey or Yaz at loud levels -- even go so far as playing a sound loop of what an arcade used to sound like. But it's still not the same.
MobyGames runs on PostgreSQL and has done so for over 5 years.
writes at 500MB+/minute
Sorry, I think you meant 500mbit/s, not 500MB/s.
If working from home saves you 2 hours a day you would otherwise be commuting, then you've automatically given yourself nearly 3 extra weeks of time per year to do whatever you want it.
...Buffalo's Terastation. Check this.
"I remember seeing something on the making of X-Men, and one of the designers said yellow spandex looks great in a comic book, but it looks stupid on screen."
Well, it worked for Bruce Lee (and Uma!)
"and the PCI card means you get close to 800 lines of horizontal resolution"
Uh, just how do you get 800 lines of resolution from an NTSC (486 visible lines) or PAL (576 visible lines) source?
No offense to the parent poster, but coding a few text-based games like othello, hearts, etc. is not going to get you a job in the industry (unless your othello uses some advanced algorithm that always wins and you can demonstrate why).
I would suggest the original poster hang out game development websites (use google, search for gamedev, others) and try to learn all he can there first. Subscribe to Game Developer's Magazine.
Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of ReplayTV owners who are quite happy. The only two features they removed were internet sharing and automatic channel skip. You can still happily suck shows off of the unit over ethernet in MPEG-2 format until the cows come home. I am *still* laughing at people who purchase TiVo units.
My last effort in this area was a Dual Pentium 933 with 1GB RAM, and a 3Ware Escalade 6400 hardware RAID-5 (real RAID, it has a RISC on it) handling four IDE drives. My total cost three years ago was $500 for the server, $240 for the drives, and $300 for the 3ware controller. I installed Red Hat 7.2 at the time.
So why haven't I upgraded since then? I haven't needed to! It's still my fileserver, and has never had a problem. I have been especially happy with 3ware's linux software, and in their latest updates they have allowed rebuilding a RAID where there are known bad sectors, just so you can get SOMETHING back from a catastrophic crash.
How is this easier than Zope? Zope isn't smalltalk, but it does inherit (pun intended) OOP from Python and other sources.
These sports games are getting really stale anyway.
Tell that to the rest of the industry. EA took in 3.3 billion from sports games ALONE last year.
For the record, I'm not a console sports fan either. But they sure do bring in da bux!
Don't bother, just buy a ReplayTV. No ads, downloading shows to MPEG-2 or DVD over ethernet, commercial skipping, $50 (refurb). I honestly HONESTLY don't understand why people buy TiVo when ReplayTV is the better product!!
MythTV is nice, but only from a hack-it-yourself standpoint. The hardware MPEG-2 encoder in a ReplayTV unit is extremely good so I never found the need to build my own Myth box to the tune of $500 or more...
You're BOTH wrong. The Koalas merely rode on the Kangaroos' backs, of course!
I am not a Jobs lover, but he is (was) indeed a pariah. Not a *Geek* pariah, but he does (did?) possess a rare skill known as a Reality Distortion Field, where in his presence, reality is malleable. Jobs saw the importance of introducing a computer for the masses, and he was able to pick a decent team and make them meet targets that most people would consider impossible. Yes, he rode on Wozniak's coattails for a while, but you have to give Jobs credit for recognizing Woz was the person to encourage and push.
They can really make people look like fools by posting things, such as this, and completely misrepresenting it's worth.
Like stating "300% compression"? (that's an expansion, not reduction)
Stop being paranoid. PNGGauntlet is one optimizer that won't lose anything unless you explicitly tell it to.