Comment Many many other people (Score 1) 213
I have a Biblical first name and a Chinese last name. I disappear in the noise. In fact, I've met three other people with the same first and last name as me, in person. We're thinking of starting a club.
I have a Biblical first name and a Chinese last name. I disappear in the noise. In fact, I've met three other people with the same first and last name as me, in person. We're thinking of starting a club.
The person who does the "official" Windows build of XChat charges for it as well.
The / and \ used on the C64 are much more 45* angles than the console / and \, making it look pretty.
Oh, and since they're adjacent in PETSCII, you can print out either one randomly with a neat little line of code. That's it.
Could do the same in C with
putchar((random(2)-1) ? 47 : 92);
if int random(int max) were defined to return a random integer from 0 to max.
I did not think I could placidly endure another gleaming salesman tell me that I had to have quadraphony sound, coming at me from all directions. I have never felt any urge to stand in the middle of a group of musicians. They belong over there, damn it, and I belong over here, listening to what they are doing over there. Music that enfolds you, coming from some undetectable set of sources, is gimmicky, unreal, and eminently forgettable.
-- John D MacDonald, _The Dreadful Lemon Sky_
If I see an indie game I wish to buy, and it just came out, I'll buy it. (Assuming no Steam.)
But from now on, if I want to buy it but it's a year or two old, I'll figure it'll be in Humble Bundle soon enough, with no DRM and possibly a Linux version, and thus won't buy it from the developers.
That's what I meant.
This makes me less likely to buy indie games. I paid full price for Gratuitous Space Battles not six weeks ago.
At least the Trine 2 page warns me: "Linux and DRM free versions will be added to Humble Store purchases in 2012." (Which is why I'm waiting on it. Screw Steam-spyware.)
Because they care more about cool features than security. See: Windows XP pre SP2.
Look up the Freespace SCP. You can get the original games (for the data files) off gog.com for $10 each.
I've never been a fan of Flash/Java/Javascript/ActiveX.
Let random webpages run arbitary code on my computer? Sounds like a great idea!
Some marketeer must have come up with that one.
"Portion of this graph that looks like Pac-Man."
I'm surprised Slashdot compiler doesn't bitch that I call strlen() on every loop iteration.
Wow. When I got bored with having to write it for the 12th damn time, all I did was this:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
srand((unsigned)time(0));
char* target = "Hello, world!";
char work = (char)(rand()%97)+32;
int cycle = 0;
while (cycle != strlen(target)){
while ((work = (char)(rand()%97)+32) != target[cycle]) {}
putchar(work);
++cycle;
}
return 0;
}
My favorite of these were the old Comcast ads.
The ones that said something alone the lines of " Unlimited internet! Download music and more!"
The point of a netbook is size and weight, not speed. More power is nice, but the creep up towards 12" screens is annoying.
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I hear they seem a little 'strange'.
This place just isn't big enough for all of us. We've got to find a way off this planet.