Actually, for me it was the other way round. I bought the Linux Version of Q3, which came in a beautiful metal box. Unfortunetaly I didn't get it working with my soundcard at that time, so I installed from Linux, downloaded the Windows patch and played on Windows. I'd really rather buy the Linux version of any software, although due to EverQuest I mainly use Windows now.
I once heard, it may be a rumour, but at least it's a nice story, that (once upon a time) russian coders liked to write code with obfuscation built in. They were so scared to loose their jobs that they wrote code only themselves could understand, using strange/misleading variable names, senseless loops or whatever. Can anyone confirm this? I think it's a nice technique;-) Maybe the compiled code is even easier to understand...
What about traffic information? If I hear the same radio programs from west coast to east cost, do they tell me about traffic jams in SF and NYC? Doesn't really make sense, and I didn't find anything on this on their site.
Plus, will they be able to be heard in europe as well?
I got the first part of the set of PDFs, and at a first glance I thought it was an advertisement for OSS projects, nothing else. It reads like "KDE is the greatest thing you've ever seen". But fortunetaly it's not so blind and lists some risks of OSS as well:
Lack of accountability.
Reduced set of supported hardware.
Reduced set of business applications.
Lack of guide-lines. (meaning "which application should i choose from the 234827525823 different ones?"
No guarantee that development will happen.
Some limitations regarding high-end installations.
Being an OSS fan, after this I was happy enough to find a decent list of "possible reasons" to use OSS in public sectors nevertheless, most notably they found out about Security and Privacy, which they even seperated from another bonus, Freedom. Did RMS write this report? I think it is definitely worth reading!
Well, for me the idea of finding the funniest joke in the world is funny enough to be examined further...
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Well, maybe this explains why Windows is so very unstable. MS didn't code it themselves, they just searched PI for something that would compile, then sell it as an operating system. Oh, well...
Hi all,
on the screenshot page, the third from above, what's the name of that level again? I played this on Zeki server for years, and loved it, but cant remember the name:-((
Please help, thanks!
We do see OpenGL games, just have a look at Loki, they sell plenty, including Quake3 and Unreal.
ID Software releases Quake3 for various platforms, and they are able to do so because they use OpenGL.
Erm, I must have smoked it as well... because I don't remember you could ask a server about a checksum? "Please, server don't give me that page but only it's checksum?"? Or does the webserver has a routine to check a received checksum itself? I am sorry I am not that firm in RFCs...
The header thing I understand, but this one not, can anyone explain?
It seems like everyone is blaming Collab.nets marketing for the failure of sourceXchange. I have been involved in two sXc projects, one as a developer, on as a peer reviewer. While the project I did as developer (RDBMS support for ArgoUML) went quite well in terms of speed, the second, where I was peer reviewer, was never really completed. Both projects were sponsored by Collab.net, so this was actually some kind of marketing, producing more active projects. But unfortunetaly I was the only one who was pushing these projects, there was little feedback and pressure from Collab.net as organizer (sXc) or Collab.net as sponsor. So in the end it was me as peer reviewer who kept the second project alive, since the developer himself was quite frustrated not getting feedback.
I really hoped that sXc would have been a success, and I am far from saying that it's all just Collab.nets fault, I admire them for their courage and power to try this. Please just don't say it's all just marketing failure, it would have needed more active developers and altogether a more active community.
Yes of course, it is different, but if you read "The cathedral and the bazaar" and then "eXtreme Programming explained", then you see many point that fit, and many that don't at all. I've been to XP Conference 2000, the first conference on this topic, and it was then that I had the idea to do some research on XP in Open Source. Pity I didn't do it by now...
So, for one thing, pair programming does not work in OS teams. Even if we'd use an IDE that supports multiple users at one time with different cursor colours and video conferencing, it wouldn't be the same. But we could get nearer, a lot.
But then there is collective ownership or continuous integration and short release cycles, which is all kind of built into OS projects. Of course, there are OS projects without collective ownership of code, where only RMS may touch the code, but in most projects you only need to give some good contribution to get CVS write access.
What is very interesting, to me at least, is the on-site customer. XP claims that there should be a customer, the one who pays for the software, constantly in touch with the programmers, so they can ask questions quick and he/she can interfer. But who is the customer of an OS project? Noone pays, noone can claim "that certain feature like this and nothing else!". Sould OS projects take "customers" on their teams? Who would be such a customer? What may he/she claim, what not?
At least, I think there's a lot more to say about OS projects being XP than just "They are the same" or "They are completely different!". Anyone interested in further discussion?
...and I admire him for that. ESR makes us read his writings, as he made us read the "Cathedral". First he makes some fun (and has fun, obviously) talking about how we could be more sexy, but it's only in the last three chapters that he gets to the core. Does noone ask the question: Is having a sexual relationship with a random, good looking girl really what we want? Is this about "looking sexy" in the end, about "getting chicks into my bedroom"? Or, rather, how do I find out which of the tremedous amount of good looking females is the right for me to hold me in her arms when I'm tired? Of course, the main reason of us being here is reproduction... sure.
It's the last chapters that are really interesting, and really important. Read them.
And don't care about my.sig...
You are all so happy to live in a country with reasonable internet connections. We here in medieval germany have to deal with ex-monopolist Telekom, who "offer" DSL with 768 kBit/s downstream and 128kBit/s upstream. I ordered this last year in September, and still don't have it. Last time I heard about there were 500.000 germans waiting for T-DSL.
Fortunetaly I live in Hamburg, where a local company HanseNet now offers a "broadband-smile" DSL line with 2MBit/s down and 192kBit/s upstream. I really hope they will give it to me soon...
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Actually, for me it was the other way round. I bought the Linux Version of Q3, which came in a beautiful metal box. Unfortunetaly I didn't get it working with my soundcard at that time, so I installed from Linux, downloaded the Windows patch and played on Windows. I'd really rather buy the Linux version of any software, although due to EverQuest I mainly use Windows now.
I still don't see the need for .biz, isn't .com for commercial stuff on the net?
I once heard, it may be a rumour, but at least it's a nice story, that (once upon a time) russian coders liked to write code with obfuscation built in. They were so scared to loose their jobs that they wrote code only themselves could understand, using strange/misleading variable names, senseless loops or whatever. Can anyone confirm this? I think it's a nice technique ;-) Maybe the compiled code is even easier to understand...
If I had moderation points, I'd moderate this as a troll. But I don't, so I just laugh my ass off :-))
Oh yes you can, you're just not allowed to do so ;-)
Heise says it's in the shelves here on saturday. And they say that in german, of course, so use the fish.
What about traffic information? If I hear the same radio programs from west coast to east cost, do they tell me about traffic jams in SF and NYC? Doesn't really make sense, and I didn't find anything on this on their site.
Plus, will they be able to be heard in europe as well?
Oh my god, just imagine they would use this machine for something really useful, like, say, SETI? No?
Being an OSS fan, after this I was happy enough to find a decent list of "possible reasons" to use OSS in public sectors nevertheless, most notably they found out about Security and Privacy, which they even seperated from another bonus, Freedom. Did RMS write this report? I think it is definitely worth reading!
Well, for me the idea of finding the funniest joke in the world is funny enough to be examined further...
Well, maybe this explains why Windows is so very unstable. MS didn't code it themselves, they just searched PI for something that would compile, then sell it as an operating system. Oh, well...
Actually, this conversation reminds me of Weizenbergs stupid Eliza, which still runs on so many platforms... HAL should be a lot more brainy :-))
They are having serious connection and server uptime issues, which is pissing off all the players
;-)
Well, that is exactly why the game is called "Anarchy Offline" by most players I know
... since they will go to Mars and back as a weekend trip ;-)
But maybe even better, is there an option to view the movie with JarJar turned off?
:-) well, thanks anyway. I guess I only like it because it looks like "home" where I haven't been for quite a while...
Hi all, on the screenshot page, the third from above, what's the name of that level again? I played this on Zeki server for years, and loved it, but cant remember the name :-((
Please help, thanks!
We do see OpenGL games, just have a look at Loki, they sell plenty, including Quake3 and Unreal.
ID Software releases Quake3 for various platforms, and they are able to do so because they use OpenGL.
Erm, I must have smoked it as well... because I don't remember you could ask a server about a checksum? "Please, server don't give me that page but only it's checksum?"? Or does the webserver has a routine to check a received checksum itself? I am sorry I am not that firm in RFCs...
The header thing I understand, but this one not, can anyone explain?
Erm, is it still Aprils Fools Day? Just a thought...
It seems like everyone is blaming Collab.nets marketing for the failure of sourceXchange. I have been involved in two sXc projects, one as a developer, on as a peer reviewer. While the project I did as developer (RDBMS support for ArgoUML) went quite well in terms of speed, the second, where I was peer reviewer, was never really completed. Both projects were sponsored by Collab.net, so this was actually some kind of marketing, producing more active projects. But unfortunetaly I was the only one who was pushing these projects, there was little feedback and pressure from Collab.net as organizer (sXc) or Collab.net as sponsor. So in the end it was me as peer reviewer who kept the second project alive, since the developer himself was quite frustrated not getting feedback.
I really hoped that sXc would have been a success, and I am far from saying that it's all just Collab.nets fault, I admire them for their courage and power to try this. Please just don't say it's all just marketing failure, it would have needed more active developers and altogether a more active community.
Yes of course, it is different, but if you read "The cathedral and the bazaar" and then "eXtreme Programming explained", then you see many point that fit, and many that don't at all. I've been to XP Conference 2000, the first conference on this topic, and it was then that I had the idea to do some research on XP in Open Source. Pity I didn't do it by now...
So, for one thing, pair programming does not work in OS teams. Even if we'd use an IDE that supports multiple users at one time with different cursor colours and video conferencing, it wouldn't be the same. But we could get nearer, a lot.
But then there is collective ownership or continuous integration and short release cycles, which is all kind of built into OS projects. Of course, there are OS projects without collective ownership of code, where only RMS may touch the code, but in most projects you only need to give some good contribution to get CVS write access.
What is very interesting, to me at least, is the on-site customer. XP claims that there should be a customer, the one who pays for the software, constantly in touch with the programmers, so they can ask questions quick and he/she can interfer. But who is the customer of an OS project? Noone pays, noone can claim "that certain feature like this and nothing else!". Sould OS projects take "customers" on their teams? Who would be such a customer? What may he/she claim, what not?
At least, I think there's a lot more to say about OS projects being XP than just "They are the same" or "They are completely different!". Anyone interested in further discussion?
...on the second picture is really sweet... (still reading ESRs Sex Tips For Geeks...)
...and I admire him for that. ESR makes us read his writings, as he made us read the "Cathedral". First he makes some fun (and has fun, obviously) talking about how we could be more sexy, but it's only in the last three chapters that he gets to the core. Does noone ask the question: Is having a sexual relationship with a random, good looking girl really what we want? Is this about "looking sexy" in the end, about "getting chicks into my bedroom"? Or, rather, how do I find out which of the tremedous amount of good looking females is the right for me to hold me in her arms when I'm tired? Of course, the main reason of us being here is reproduction... sure. .sig...
It's the last chapters that are really interesting, and really important. Read them.
And don't care about my
You are all so happy to live in a country with reasonable internet connections. We here in medieval germany have to deal with ex-monopolist Telekom, who "offer" DSL with 768 kBit/s downstream and 128kBit/s upstream. I ordered this last year in September, and still don't have it. Last time I heard about there were 500.000 germans waiting for T-DSL.
Fortunetaly I live in Hamburg, where a local company HanseNet now offers a "broadband-smile" DSL line with 2MBit/s down and 192kBit/s upstream. I really hope they will give it to me soon...