I understand how game-pricing is supposed to work, but I think it's strange that it does work. My response to their pricing strategy is to buy Fallout II, which is probably about $10 now. That, and other $10 games, will keep me busy for the next 2-3 years, at which time I'll be able to buy Diablo II for $10.
According to what I see on TV, everyone does. Some guys even surprise their wives with a new car for Chirstmas.
And don't forget those multi-$1000 rings with bits of compressed carbon that middle-age guys give their middle-age-but-still-quite-attractive wives for anniversary presents.
Thanks for reminding me of that! I had an elementary-school teacher who taught us those methods. The most impressive are the multiplication by 12, 11, and 9, which are far easier using Trachtenberg than by the usual methods.
I also recall reading a book about him, and there were some really cool techniques for multiplying by multi-digit numbers that required almost no intermediate calculations to be written down. Unfortunately, one of my teachers marked me down when I used them, as she assumed I had to be cheating.
Husband buys wife an MP3 player. Wife begins installing included software on Windows machine. Husband finds open-source project that supports the player and downloads it on the Linux machine.
Wife encounters program crashes during installation. Wife also has to reboot Windows 2-3 times.
Husband has open-source program, including a KDE GUI for it, running while wife is waiting for Windows to reboot for 2nd time. Wife grabs mouse on Linux machine and plugs MP3 player into USB port.
Husband hides because he doesn't even know if the open-source program will work. But a little later, he peeks in to see wife successfully uploading music to the MP3 player from the Linux machine.
A couple days later, he asks her if the Windows software works too. Wife says she had no reason to hassle with it anymore.
Yes, it's like buying a computer and assuming the software that comes with it will actually work, then reading in the EULA that you have no guarantee of that happening.
I remember when Japanese cars started becoming popular in the US. American-made vehicles were prettier and more comfortable, but the quality was terrible. Japanese cars were too small and full of unattractive plastic bits, but they ran well and had far fewer problems.
It only took a few years before the Japanese cars were also attractive and confortable, but it took at least a decade before Detroit even started to catch up in reliability.
Note also that GEM (a windowing environment superior to Windows at the time), also from DRI, ran on both 68K and x86 processors. I found that it only took a day to port a fairly large GEM program from the AtariST to a DOS PC.
Are there others out there who aren't kept up by caffeine? I can drink a cup of coffee in the middle of the day and take a nap half-an-hour later. But then, I've fallen asleep during rock concerts.
This would happen faster if we were actually paying market prices for gasoline, which should include the cost of all our Middle-East military ventures.
Sure, I'm not stupid enought to buy the junk sold by the spammers.
But do you really expect me to give up the $500 US DOLLARS lottery I won last Monday, and the $1 million US DOLLARS lottery I won the next day? What are the odds of that ever happening again?
Maybe we'll end up with DVD-on-demand. That way, Frye's won't have to waste stock space on old versions of "My Mother the Car". But you could still buy it, by choosing it at a terminal, and waiting a few minutes while they burn the disks for you.
Wait until you've had a few more jobs... Lots of software positions involve very little development, with most of your time spent arguing in meetings or writing memos. Then you'll feel more like writing stuff at home.
I keep trying to imagine the code that SCO claims relies on their libraries, and that couldn't possibly be ported to Linux in such a small amount of time:
sprintf(str, "Order code: %s", order).....
if (getenv("bleh"))...
exit(0);
Okay, there was probably lots of GUI stuff too. But seeing how this was an older Unix app., it's probably using some common X library.
The problem I've had with RPM-based distributions isn't having to specify two RPM's in a circular dependency. It's that when I want to update one program about 3 months after installation, I have to update the 'glibc' RPM, which then means I have to updated practically every RPM.
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I understand how game-pricing is supposed to work, but I think it's strange that it does work. My response to their pricing strategy is to buy Fallout II, which is probably about $10 now. That, and other $10 games, will keep me busy for the next 2-3 years, at which time I'll be able to buy Diablo II for $10.
Also, there really wasn't anything in the article to back up the assertion in the title, that "programming still sucks".
Anyway, I don't think programming sucks, at least not on a Linux box.
According to what I see on TV, everyone does. Some guys even surprise their wives with a new car for Chirstmas.
And don't forget those multi-$1000 rings with bits of compressed carbon that middle-age guys give their middle-age-but-still-quite-attractive wives for anniversary presents.
Thanks for reminding me of that! I had an elementary-school teacher who taught us those methods. The most impressive are the multiplication by 12, 11, and 9, which are far easier using Trachtenberg than by the usual methods.
I also recall reading a book about him, and there were some really cool techniques for multiplying by multi-digit numbers that required almost no intermediate calculations to be written down. Unfortunately, one of my teachers marked me down when I used them, as she assumed I had to be cheating.
Here are my questions:
1. Does this mean I won't be able to install Linux on one of these machines?
2. Assuming I leave Windows on it, will I not be able to install open-source applications like, say, OpenOffice?
Husband buys wife an MP3 player. Wife begins installing included software on Windows machine. Husband finds open-source project that supports the player and downloads it on the Linux machine.
Wife encounters program crashes during installation. Wife also has to reboot Windows 2-3 times.
Husband has open-source program, including a KDE GUI for it, running while wife is waiting for Windows to reboot for 2nd time. Wife grabs mouse on Linux machine and plugs MP3 player into USB port.
Husband hides because he doesn't even know if the open-source program will work. But a little later, he peeks in to see wife successfully uploading music to the MP3 player from the Linux machine.
A couple days later, he asks her if the Windows software works too. Wife says she had no reason to hassle with it anymore.
There's a section (Eclesiastes?) written about 3000 years ago that goes on for many pages claiming how "There's nothing new under the sun."
Yes, it's like buying a computer and assuming the software that comes with it will actually work, then reading in the EULA that you have no guarantee of that happening.
I remember when Japanese cars started becoming popular in the US. American-made vehicles were prettier and more comfortable, but the quality was terrible. Japanese cars were too small and full of unattractive plastic bits, but they ran well and had far fewer problems.
It only took a few years before the Japanese cars were also attractive and confortable, but it took at least a decade before Detroit even started to catch up in reliability.
Note also that GEM (a windowing environment superior to Windows at the time), also from DRI, ran on both 68K and x86 processors. I found that it only took a day to port a fairly large GEM program from the AtariST to a DOS PC.
Are there others out there who aren't kept up by caffeine? I can drink a cup of coffee in the middle of the day and take a nap half-an-hour later. But then, I've fallen asleep during rock concerts.
This would happen faster if we were actually paying market prices for gasoline, which should include the cost of all our Middle-East military ventures.
Sure, I'm not stupid enought to buy the junk sold by the spammers.
But do you really expect me to give up the $500 US DOLLARS lottery I won last Monday, and the $1 million US DOLLARS lottery I won the next day? What are the odds of that ever happening again?
...is even better, in case the enemy manages to wipe out your moon missles.
That gives new meaning to the term "flushed" (as in, 'He tried to ask her out be he was flushed').
And if you remove the battery backup, it will start singing "Daisy, Daisy..."
Maybe we'll end up with DVD-on-demand. That way, Frye's won't have to waste stock space on old versions of "My Mother the Car". But you could still buy it, by choosing it at a terminal, and waiting a few minutes while they burn the disks for you.
Wait until you've had a few more jobs... Lots of software positions involve very little development, with most of your time spent arguing in meetings or writing memos. Then you'll feel more like writing stuff at home.
Sierra did a couple kids games which are still entertaining for adults: "Pepper's Adventures in Time" and "The Search for Cetus".
Then there was "Dragonsphere" (forgot the company), which was really good despite terrible voice-acting.
'Cause if you're successful in creating a fan-made Sam & Max, you're almost sure to get sued by LucasArts when you distribute it.
You're probably thinking of Loom, also from LucasArts. There was supposed to be a sequel.
Me too, but one question. Where do I attach those plugs to my motherboard? And will that oil help to reduce the fan noise?
I keep trying to imagine the code that SCO claims relies on their libraries, and that couldn't possibly be ported to Linux in such a small amount of time:
....
sprintf(str, "Order code: %s", order).
if (getenv("bleh"))...
exit(0);
Okay, there was probably lots of GUI stuff too. But seeing how this was an older Unix app., it's probably using some common X library.
I can't wait until I have grandkids who ask, "GrandDad, what was Windows like?"
Funny, but...
The problem I've had with RPM-based distributions isn't having to specify two RPM's in a circular dependency. It's that when I want to update one program about 3 months after installation, I have to update the 'glibc' RPM, which then means I have to updated practically every RPM.