When silicon electronics are dead, this is what many speculate is going to take over.
One of the disadvantages of using Firehose is seeing idiotic asides like this inserted into submissions, but knowing that it'll make the front page anyway, and also knowing that absolutely no editing will be done.
> I think you were outside in a desert-style area, and possibly near a dam?
Nope, it's in a desert area first, and you're running between shallow caves and trying to guess where it is by ear (which is definitely not easy to do with a chopper). The dam is later, and that's when it starts dropping off troops when it's not shooting at you. And then there's the cliffs, the rocket launcher, and payback. Mmm yeah. Never knew you could shoot it down beforehand though, and I kinda figured the script would just replace it anyway.
> CompUSA has a much wider inventory than Best Buy
Arooo? Best Buy sells Computers, CDs, TVs, and major appliances. CompUSA sells computer gear, and a smattering of TVs and PVRs. If anything, CompUSA's inventory goes deeper, but certainly not wider. And it's NewEgg and the like that are cutting their legs off by offering as base price what CompUSA makes you do the rebate dance for.
Best Buy also seems to put more into store appearance -- the CompUSA in San Francisco is a freaking dungeon, while the Best Buy is clean and bright with super wide isles. 'course it's also three times bigger and not in a 100 year old building, but even so there's some psychographic that BB is getting right that CUSA isn't. Probably the blue and yellow, it's brighter than the red. Or maybe it's that I can't remember the last time I actually saw a CompUSA television advert.
So as far as HL2 goes, was getting the crowbar that late in "half hearted" or not? Because I sure as hell felt the panic of someone chased when running through the apartments completely unarmed while CP stormed the place, and after they've been shooting at you while you frantically looked for an exit from the train yard, it's rather satisfying to club a CP thug to get your first pistol to gun down his buddy. Not too half-hearted if you ask me.
The gunships always felt kind of contrived though, and taking them down was nothing like the immense satisfaction you got from blasting the chopper that had been harrassing you through a good chunk of HL1. Or maybe I'm just jaded.
FPS's in general though are getting really quite old. In virtually all of them, you zip around on perfectly flat surfaces at cheetah speeds shooting with perfect accuracy due to your glass-smooth and unfaltering run, with your main interface to the world being your always-visible gun. Games like Gears of War may not be advancing cliched concepts much, but are at least shaking up the stale control mechanics somewhat. Normally I rail against "console-ification" of games, but I can only welcome these developments.
Okay, to be fair, it's the code example picked out from the PHPTemplate manual in the Drupal docs. I will grant that it's got good docs. I am left wondering where the "template" part comes in however.
Wordpress gets no love from me either. A good chunk of any WP site's functionality is actually embedded code in the theme. If you change themes around, you break features. Isn't that special?
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Python won't install any extra daemons or services out of the box, and no python package you install is going to do that either. The only additional resource it'll suck up is disk space.
Boa Constructor is actually pretty awful. PyDev for Eclipse is decent -- yeah, it's a Java IDE, but it's a good plugin. Now THAT will eat resources when you run it. For a lighter alternative, you can always use emacs if you can get used to its weirdness, and it has a great python mode (never thought I'd call emacs slim).
There's also SPE, though I've found it crashier than a glider in a hurricane. Still more stable than Boa. Komodo's not too bad if you want to pay for it.
I really don't have anything to add. Well actually I do, but I don't think I need to.
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Python works great on windows as well as any unix. I recommend unix systems in general for development, but it's mostly a matter of using what you're comfortable with. Most tutorials are going to assume you're on Linux. And I see you've already discovered where you can get the interpreter from python.org. Ubuntu comes with python, but not necessarily a full install -- you'll probably want to install python2.5 from apt anyway.
The other trick I liked was to build boat bridges between islands using boats captured from pirates but that was a bit harder to pull off.
I spent all day doing that once. Then the whirlpool came and sucked them all down to Davey Jones' Locker.
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Python's definitely a good fit. It's not my favorite language in the world, but it's got sensible syntax that isn't too alien (the indent thing really won't bite you unless you have a really crappy editor or you copy and paste code). And it also has loads of libraries, good support for all major platforms (OSX support is so-so, but pyobjc is nice), and a lot of people who can help you out (#python on irc.freenode.net for example).
Here's the bad part: there's virtually no decent introductory programming texts for python or most other languages. Most of them tacitly assume you know some other language and gloss over basic things like structuring a program with control flow, functional (de)composition, and proper use of objects, or they make a hash out of trying to introduce them. To that end, I'd really recommend Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (aka SICP) as a learning text, but dear lord is it tedious and didactic. It's also going to teach you an abstract way of thinking that doesn't really map to python's practical structures (i.e. you're never going to use tail recursion generally, let alone an amb operator).
I really love smalltalk for playing around with programming, not so much for the language itself (it's just okay) but for the way that you don't think about "compiling" or "modules" so much as you just have objects that you fiddle around with, and your changes just happen. Unfortunately, Squeak is such a poorly-documented disastrous hodgepodge that I can't recommend it to new programmers.
So it's kind of a desert out there for decent introductory texts, but a language with good community support and mostly helpful people will be a big boost, and python does stand out.
Dammit, not only is no one buying my TurdShakes(TM), they're buying ice cream from the store across the street for a nickel. That's just dishonest and unamerican. I know, I'll lobby congress to make it the law for all malteds to require excrement in them. In fact, I'll have them require that it gets built into every cups and straw!
It's not so much astonishment, but an ingrained prejudice that renders many people incapable of accepting the fact that ancient peoples were _not_ less intelligent than us.
I wouldn't exactly call them ancient. Islam is practically brand spanking new compared to the arc of civilizations. At any rate, I feel pretty confident that they in fact did not have a deep understanding of the math, for the simple fact that despite this skill being known by many thousands, they didn't write the math down. Creating these tilings was almost demonstrably a valuable trade skill, probably a trade secret, and craftsmen aren't usually big on theoretical topology. Any idiot can see that the tiling is aperiodic by simply drawing it out, but thankfully for the craftsmen, the average mosaic wasn't infinite.
> The Japanese, as you will recall, used this technique to attack Allied navies in WWII.
The Imperial Japanese probably wouldn't have thought much of someone strapping explosives to themselves and blowing up a cafe or a market. They were busy trying to take out military targets.
I don't think demanding business class is exhorbitant, which is all he wants for speaking engagements. Yikes, I just looked at that -- he really expanded the hell out of it with minutae. Objection retracted.
I used to think highly of him, but now I see him as an overall embarrassment that far outstrips RMS's worst behaviors. The guy's a complete narcissist. That's all.
So let me get this straight: your chosen ideology is supposed to be all about personal responsibility, but anything wrong with society is blamed on the political left?
> This kid could have lead a better life. He chose not to. It had nothing to do with his mental chemistry.
So what qualifies you to make this diagnosis? Your blathering about free will is just as empty as your (and my) dismissal of satanic possession. Let me put it to you this way: locate this guy's free will. Or is it his "soul" that chose to be that way?
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When silicon electronics are dead, this is what many speculate is going to take over.
One of the disadvantages of using Firehose is seeing idiotic asides like this inserted into submissions, but knowing that it'll make the front page anyway, and also knowing that absolutely no editing will be done.
> I think you were outside in a desert-style area, and possibly near a dam?
Nope, it's in a desert area first, and you're running between shallow caves and trying to guess where it is by ear (which is definitely not easy to do with a chopper). The dam is later, and that's when it starts dropping off troops when it's not shooting at you. And then there's the cliffs, the rocket launcher, and payback. Mmm yeah. Never knew you could shoot it down beforehand though, and I kinda figured the script would just replace it anyway.
> Comes with a draft notice for assignment to Korea
Clearly a product of the US Education system. That, or you don't remember the 70's, in which case this is actually authentic.
> CompUSA has a much wider inventory than Best Buy
Arooo? Best Buy sells Computers, CDs, TVs, and major appliances. CompUSA sells computer gear, and a smattering of TVs and PVRs. If anything, CompUSA's inventory goes deeper, but certainly not wider. And it's NewEgg and the like that are cutting their legs off by offering as base price what CompUSA makes you do the rebate dance for.
Best Buy also seems to put more into store appearance -- the CompUSA in San Francisco is a freaking dungeon, while the Best Buy is clean and bright with super wide isles. 'course it's also three times bigger and not in a 100 year old building, but even so there's some psychographic that BB is getting right that CUSA isn't. Probably the blue and yellow, it's brighter than the red. Or maybe it's that I can't remember the last time I actually saw a CompUSA television advert.
> Seriously editors...what the hell's wrong with you?
The editors get an extra button on Firehose to post an article to the front page. That is all they do.
So as far as HL2 goes, was getting the crowbar that late in "half hearted" or not? Because I sure as hell felt the panic of someone chased when running through the apartments completely unarmed while CP stormed the place, and after they've been shooting at you while you frantically looked for an exit from the train yard, it's rather satisfying to club a CP thug to get your first pistol to gun down his buddy. Not too half-hearted if you ask me.
The gunships always felt kind of contrived though, and taking them down was nothing like the immense satisfaction you got from blasting the chopper that had been harrassing you through a good chunk of HL1. Or maybe I'm just jaded.
FPS's in general though are getting really quite old. In virtually all of them, you zip around on perfectly flat surfaces at cheetah speeds shooting with perfect accuracy due to your glass-smooth and unfaltering run, with your main interface to the world being your always-visible gun. Games like Gears of War may not be advancing cliched concepts much, but are at least shaking up the stale control mechanics somewhat. Normally I rail against "console-ification" of games, but I can only welcome these developments.
> That's some random theme you picked.
Okay, to be fair, it's the code example picked out from the PHPTemplate manual in the Drupal docs. I will grant that it's got good docs. I am left wondering where the "template" part comes in however.
Wordpress gets no love from me either. A good chunk of any WP site's functionality is actually embedded code in the theme. If you change themes around, you break features. Isn't that special?
Python won't install any extra daemons or services out of the box, and no python package you install is going to do that either. The only additional resource it'll suck up is disk space.
Boa Constructor is actually pretty awful. PyDev for Eclipse is decent -- yeah, it's a Java IDE, but it's a good plugin. Now THAT will eat resources when you run it. For a lighter alternative, you can always use emacs if you can get used to its weirdness, and it has a great python mode (never thought I'd call emacs slim).
There's also SPE, though I've found it crashier than a glider in a hurricane. Still more stable than Boa. Komodo's not too bad if you want to pay for it.
I really don't have anything to add. Well actually I do, but I don't think I need to.
Python works great on windows as well as any unix. I recommend unix systems in general for development, but it's mostly a matter of using what you're comfortable with. Most tutorials are going to assume you're on Linux. And I see you've already discovered where you can get the interpreter from python.org. Ubuntu comes with python, but not necessarily a full install -- you'll probably want to install python2.5 from apt anyway.
The other trick I liked was to build boat bridges between islands using boats captured from pirates but that was a bit harder to pull off.
I spent all day doing that once. Then the whirlpool came and sucked them all down to Davey Jones' Locker.
Python's definitely a good fit. It's not my favorite language in the world, but it's got sensible syntax that isn't too alien (the indent thing really won't bite you unless you have a really crappy editor or you copy and paste code). And it also has loads of libraries, good support for all major platforms (OSX support is so-so, but pyobjc is nice), and a lot of people who can help you out (#python on irc.freenode.net for example).
Here's the bad part: there's virtually no decent introductory programming texts for python or most other languages. Most of them tacitly assume you know some other language and gloss over basic things like structuring a program with control flow, functional (de)composition, and proper use of objects, or they make a hash out of trying to introduce them. To that end, I'd really recommend Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (aka SICP) as a learning text, but dear lord is it tedious and didactic. It's also going to teach you an abstract way of thinking that doesn't really map to python's practical structures (i.e. you're never going to use tail recursion generally, let alone an amb operator).
I really love smalltalk for playing around with programming, not so much for the language itself (it's just okay) but for the way that you don't think about "compiling" or "modules" so much as you just have objects that you fiddle around with, and your changes just happen. Unfortunately, Squeak is such a poorly-documented disastrous hodgepodge that I can't recommend it to new programmers.
So it's kind of a desert out there for decent introductory texts, but a language with good community support and mostly helpful people will be a big boost, and python does stand out.
Dammit, not only is no one buying my TurdShakes(TM), they're buying ice cream from the store across the street for a nickel. That's just dishonest and unamerican. I know, I'll lobby congress to make it the law for all malteds to require excrement in them. In fact, I'll have them require that it gets built into every cups and straw!
Ironically, the last moderation I got was 'underrated'. That'll go nicely with with my other post that only got one mod, 'overrated' :)
It's not so much astonishment, but an ingrained prejudice that renders many people incapable of accepting the fact that ancient peoples were _not_ less intelligent than us.
I wouldn't exactly call them ancient. Islam is practically brand spanking new compared to the arc of civilizations. At any rate, I feel pretty confident that they in fact did not have a deep understanding of the math, for the simple fact that despite this skill being known by many thousands, they didn't write the math down. Creating these tilings was almost demonstrably a valuable trade skill, probably a trade secret, and craftsmen aren't usually big on theoretical topology. Any idiot can see that the tiling is aperiodic by simply drawing it out, but thankfully for the craftsmen, the average mosaic wasn't infinite.
> The Vedas even describes how to make space-ships, has manuals for controlling space-ships
From the warning-signs-that-your-medication-is-wearing-off department...
> The Japanese, as you will recall, used this technique to attack Allied navies in WWII.
The Imperial Japanese probably wouldn't have thought much of someone strapping explosives to themselves and blowing up a cafe or a market. They were busy trying to take out military targets.
> I don't have the link
Your wish is my karma whoring opportunity: http://www.nodaddy.com/
> Supreme Commander was recently released, and it's an awesome game
Yes, and it's DX9. DX10 is only available in Vista, and game studios simply aren't going to abandon XP for some years yet.
> * Regularly sends "open letters", ostensibly to some party he disagrees with, but really to the public.
Perhaps you're unaware of what "open letter" means? But yes, he writes a fair number of rants disguised as "open letters".
> * His obnoxious "travel rules" -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/travelrules.html
I don't think demanding business class is exhorbitant, which is all he wants for speaking engagements. Yikes, I just looked at that -- he really expanded the hell out of it with minutae. Objection retracted.
I used to think highly of him, but now I see him as an overall embarrassment that far outstrips RMS's worst behaviors. The guy's a complete narcissist. That's all.
> Go ahead and start modding me down now
Okay.
Hint: if you have a point of view, state it. Don't demand we treat you as some kind of martyr ahead of time for it.
So let me get this straight: your chosen ideology is supposed to be all about personal responsibility, but anything wrong with society is blamed on the political left?
mmm-hmm.
> This kid could have lead a better life. He chose not to. It had nothing to do with his mental chemistry.
So what qualifies you to make this diagnosis? Your blathering about free will is just as empty as your (and my) dismissal of satanic possession. Let me put it to you this way: locate this guy's free will. Or is it his "soul" that chose to be that way?
> Only last year was the last Dreamcast game released
I heard it received rave reviews from both Dreamcast owners.