Comment Re:Refactoring can be done by any decent editor (Score 1) 586
there's an IDE that can do global replacement reliably while taking scope into account?
Comment Re:Refactoring can be done by any decent editor (Score 1) 586
don't do that globally, try one by one. Its still faster than manually unless you used the word manually wrong
Comment Re:The fuck? How did you get that? (Score 1) 54
thanks, i deserve that lol.
Comment Blender3D is better (Score 1) 54
Please, BLENDER 3D is better than this crap! All you need is the blender starter kit BGhelper , (something that needs to be better advertised) thanks Solar Lune. Its in a decent scripting language (python) it has a 3d world editor where everything stays put! All this for beginners, if you want more, you can learn about shaders, extend it in python OR C++, AND it's open source! GPLv2 (licence arguments aside) but your games can be any licence unlike tourque (pre open source) OR Unity. Besides, its like saying, "but Star office is open source," the DAY it goes open source
Comment Re: Unity (Score 1) 54
I never said that Unity3d was open source (though you do get a source licence with the pro licence, I said that Unity3d was far supurior BEFORE it was open source. Its like saying, "but Star office is open source," the DAY it goes open source.
Comment Re:First (Score 0) 54
Also, Unity3d is much prittier. After Unity3d became freeware, tourque3d (not tourque2) was completely useless.
Comment Re:First (Score 2) 54
agreed. Also, I HATE that engine, Have you ever used it? Imagine if Powerpoint or flash moved all your elements slightly esque every time you pushed the play button!
Comment Re:So which field of engineering (Score 1) 1774
yeah, what happened to metamoderation? It still exists in the help section but i have no idea how, now that the site has changed
Comment Re:So which field of engineering (Score 1) 1774
I wish that were true but too many fundamentalist have hijacked our religion and now we have people believing outrageous things. Natural Revelation coincides very well with science, the way you describe here, but there's the creationist museum which changes the very definition of the word
Comment Re:It's about damn time (Score 1) 193
I love your sig. Also, even this dev is noticing a trend with BSD licensed projects.
Submission + - TextMate 2 released as open source (macromates.com)
DaBombDotCom writes: Allan Odgaard, the author of the popular text editor for Mac OS X, TextMate has posted on his blog:
"Today I am happy to announce that you can find the source for TextMate 2 on GitHub.
I’ve always wanted to allow end-users to tinker with their environment, my ability to do this is what got me excited about programming in the first place, and it is why I created the bundles concept, but there are limits to how much a bundle can do, and with the still growing user base, I think the best move forward is to open source the program.
The choice of license is GPL 3. This is partly to avoid a closed source fork and partly because the hacker in me wants all software to be free (as in speech), so in a time where our platform vendor is taking steps to limit our freedom, this is my small attempt of countering such trend."
"Today I am happy to announce that you can find the source for TextMate 2 on GitHub.
I’ve always wanted to allow end-users to tinker with their environment, my ability to do this is what got me excited about programming in the first place, and it is why I created the bundles concept, but there are limits to how much a bundle can do, and with the still growing user base, I think the best move forward is to open source the program.
The choice of license is GPL 3. This is partly to avoid a closed source fork and partly because the hacker in me wants all software to be free (as in speech), so in a time where our platform vendor is taking steps to limit our freedom, this is my small attempt of countering such trend."
Submission + - Sapphire disk to last tens of thousands of years (sciencemag.org)
Frosty Piss writes: No data storage medium seems to last long before becoming obsolete. This has become an issue for the builders of nuclear waste repositories, who are trying to preserve records of what they've buried and where, not for a few years but for tens of thousands of years. The solution may be a sapphire disk inside which information is engraved using platinum. The prototype costs around $30,493 to make, but Patrick Charton of the French nuclear waste management agency ANDRA says it will survive for a million years. The aim, Charton says, is to provide 'information for future archaeologists.' But, he concedes: 'We have no idea what language to write it in.'
Submission + - Canadian banks rushing to offer virtual wallets (theglobeandmail.com) 1
silentbrad writes: From the Globe and Mail: Canada’s big banks are preparing to launch “virtual wallets” as early as this fall that will allow consumers to digitally consolidate their credit and debit cards from any financial institution, and use them to make purchases online and through their cellphones at cash registers. It is being called the biggest change to the way consumers pay for goods in Canada in decades, and for the banks moving quickly into this space, the strategy is about keeping ownership of the vast and potentially lucrative stores of data that are involved in transactions. Royal Bank of Canada is expected to be first into the market in October, when it launches a digital wallet for mobile phones that will use RBC cards at first, but will eventually expand to welcome all brands of debit and credit cards. A few months later, the bank will launch a digital wallet for online purchases in partnership with Visa that holds all varieties of cards, regardless of brand. The majority of the banking sector is expected to follow suit in the next year or so, with each financial institution relying on the concept of “aliases,” where a password lets consumers access their payment cards, but protects personal information from being passed to the merchant. The alias method is similar to how online services such as PayPal work. ... Retailers can use the information contained in transactions, stripped of details that violate privacy laws, to tailor offerings or promotions to consumers. And the banks figure they can build a new business from that new world. Location data on phones can help neighbourhood stores connect with customers in the area, while transaction data online can give insight into consumer habits and tastes. Consumers will be able to turn this feature on and off, Mr. McKay said, but will have access to offers, promotions and sales that would make it attractive. It is a potentially lucrative new business for the banks – making money off the data collected from each payment made via credit or debit cards, and the access the bank has to the consumer.
Submission + - PC Sales are Flat-lining (ibtimes.co.uk)
DavidGilbert99 writes: "Gartner has released figures showing that PC shipments globally declined 0.1 percent in the last three months, making it the seventh consecutive month of little-to-no growth in the PC market. This was despite the launch a number of new Ultrabooks, the much-vaunted slim-and-light platform promoted by Intel. The decline has been put down to the poor economic situation around the globe, increased spending on tablets and smartphones instead of PCs as well as the imminent launch of Windows 8, making people hold out on updating their PCs."
Submission + - Was SpamCop compromised? (spamcop.net)
reybo writes: I've been reporting spam to SpamCop for many years. I average 2 to 4 reports a day, about 100 a month.
Last week they became hard to connect to, and once connected, they were slow to accept a report if they accepted at all.
When a report was accepted, it was followed by a message that I had unreported spam, and did I want to report it.
At the first one of these I said yes. The spam that was reported was the one I reported previously. After that I said no to additional reporting. That was followed by a message that nn unreportecd spams were deleted, nn being 10 or 12.
Twice I wrote to service@admin.spamcop.net to call it to their attention. The response was this, cancelling my account.
"In the 24 hours starting Mon Jul 9 12:48:20 2012, you have submitted over spams for processing, which exceeds our daily submission limit. No more submissions will be accepted. Your reporting account is disabled. Please reply if you are reporting spam in good faith and feel your account should be reinstated."
The place for a number in the message was blank. Does that seem normal? My responses to the email address they gave were ignored.
Then today,Thursday, I got this, a promise from SpamCop/Cisco that everyone registered at SpamCop will get $15 worth of fuel. Huh? And the message itself is bizarre, leading me to think the site's been captured.
"News: (Last Modified: July 12, 2012 2:51:27 AM EDT -0400) (Email-account news)
SpamCop Access and Performance Issues:
Cisco recognizes the performance issues many users of SpamCop.net have been experiencing, and would like to apologize
to the community for the service delays. Over the past week our researchers have been actively monitoring increased
global spam volumes caused by heightened botnet activity. Our investigations have revealed this as a global event not
specific to SpamCop. In the past, the service has successfully processed higher volumes of spam, but our team has
identified performance issues within our infrastructure. SpamCop remains an important part of our technology, and
Cisco is working diligently to restore SpamCop to its previous service levels.
Even as we continue the investigation, the spam and botnet data collected from SpamCop is improving Cisco’s
industry-leading anti-spam solution for our customers. To show appreciation to the SpamCop community, Cisco is
offering $15 worth of fuel to all registered users of the SpamCop spam reporting service. Registered users will
receive an email notification within 3-5 days with further instructions and details on the credit.
Cisco remains committed to the community and we acknowledge their contributions are integral in the continuing fight
against spam. We remain a committed partner to the cause.
Again, we apologize for the intermittent delays, and as our investigation continues, we will provide regular updates to
the SpamCop community."
Has anyone had a similar experience?
Last week they became hard to connect to, and once connected, they were slow to accept a report if they accepted at all.
When a report was accepted, it was followed by a message that I had unreported spam, and did I want to report it.
At the first one of these I said yes. The spam that was reported was the one I reported previously. After that I said no to additional reporting. That was followed by a message that nn unreportecd spams were deleted, nn being 10 or 12.
Twice I wrote to service@admin.spamcop.net to call it to their attention. The response was this, cancelling my account.
"In the 24 hours starting Mon Jul 9 12:48:20 2012, you have submitted over spams for processing, which exceeds our daily submission limit. No more submissions will be accepted. Your reporting account is disabled. Please reply if you are reporting spam in good faith and feel your account should be reinstated."
The place for a number in the message was blank. Does that seem normal? My responses to the email address they gave were ignored.
Then today,Thursday, I got this, a promise from SpamCop/Cisco that everyone registered at SpamCop will get $15 worth of fuel. Huh? And the message itself is bizarre, leading me to think the site's been captured.
"News: (Last Modified: July 12, 2012 2:51:27 AM EDT -0400) (Email-account news)
SpamCop Access and Performance Issues:
Cisco recognizes the performance issues many users of SpamCop.net have been experiencing, and would like to apologize
to the community for the service delays. Over the past week our researchers have been actively monitoring increased
global spam volumes caused by heightened botnet activity. Our investigations have revealed this as a global event not
specific to SpamCop. In the past, the service has successfully processed higher volumes of spam, but our team has
identified performance issues within our infrastructure. SpamCop remains an important part of our technology, and
Cisco is working diligently to restore SpamCop to its previous service levels.
Even as we continue the investigation, the spam and botnet data collected from SpamCop is improving Cisco’s
industry-leading anti-spam solution for our customers. To show appreciation to the SpamCop community, Cisco is
offering $15 worth of fuel to all registered users of the SpamCop spam reporting service. Registered users will
receive an email notification within 3-5 days with further instructions and details on the credit.
Cisco remains committed to the community and we acknowledge their contributions are integral in the continuing fight
against spam. We remain a committed partner to the cause.
Again, we apologize for the intermittent delays, and as our investigation continues, we will provide regular updates to
the SpamCop community."
Has anyone had a similar experience?
