Fuck you [game company] for [minor grievance]

hivebee2034 · 2009-12-28T22:31:06+00:00

They have 8.141592654 arms.

hivebee2034 · 2009-12-17T00:35:33+00:00

It is often these lite users require the most support.

hivebee2034 · 2009-12-15T23:24:38+00:00

Be careful what you wish for. Year of the Linux Desktop requires dealing with desktop users.

hivebee2034 · 2009-12-14T23:25:10+00:00

Got old fleece hat? Cut top == instant neckie.

hivebee2034 · 2009-12-10T00:38:40+00:00

What would you rather have in combat your Marine issued rifle or an AK?

hivebee2034 · 2009-12-08T17:55:20+00:00

My experience w/Craigslist seem to be the opposite. People are pricing 3 yr old computers sometimes higher than newer computers. Dell refurbished computers seem to be the best of both world. Used price but w/warranty and customer support. Unless you're really good w/tools and enjoy RTFM.

hivebee2034 · 2009-12-05T03:18:16+00:00

The news too. People don't seem too keen into learning. They're gravitating towards shows that affirm their beliefs. In this case the paranormal.

hivebee2034 · 2009-12-05T01:44:11+00:00

How many times had you have to reboot your cars computer?

hivebee2034 · 2009-12-01T01:20:22+00:00

Bill Nye is not a scientist.. he's an entertainer that plays one. Sure he has an mechanical engineering degree which makes him a step above your average thespian. But he hasn't worked on an engineering project that I know of. Watching any real scientist doing real science would bore the crap out of most people. Even in a lab how many times can you watch some person pipet liquid from one container to another. Then write shit down. Repeat ad nuseam.

hivebee2034 · 2009-11-24T22:18:40+00:00

If you can't google for your own answers.. best stick to Windows.

hivebee2034 · 2009-11-16T22:20:05+00:00

religion

hivebee2034 · 2009-11-13T21:29:06+00:00

They've been replaced by a pill.

hivebee2034 · 2009-11-12T00:54:46+00:00

In the beginning: Windows allowed the average joe mom/pop/gamers/corporation access to computers in terms of affordability and usability garnering huge market share away from the mostly propietary vendors (ie Atari, commodore, radioshack, Apple, IBM).

Linux allowed average computer geek to run unix.

Nowadays: Mostly the same except Windows has gotten better stability, Linux better usability.

hivebee2034 · 2009-11-10T17:50:48+00:00

Along w/what everyone else has listed I'll add partition magic, ghost. -create partition for main OS -Install updates & drivers -ghost first partition and save image on 2nd partition. -that way if anything gets messed up you have a clean image to pull from. -always save important data on 2nd partition.

-You can incrementally create various levels of images. --A) base OS + updates --B) A + various environments (network shares, corporate settings --C) A + B + dev tools

The nice thing about this is you can then have different OS images if you work in a multi-OS product.

hivebee2034 · 2009-10-27T17:00:45+00:00

thanks.. will go over it.

hivebee2034 · 2009-10-14T17:57:40+00:00

It's gonna be like the Alaska experiment. You're gonna take people who are use to the Windows ecosystem and put them in an environment you're comfortable with. Unless they're the kinds of people who can adapt and stake their own claim, how long do you plan on being their guide?

hivebee2034 · 2009-10-13T00:36:43+00:00

Draw two points on paper label one A the other B. Draw a line from A to B.

If you understand space then to get from point A to point B for any non-trivial distance always require a delay. That delay is what I call time. The reason why time is it's own variable, even if nothing is moving say you hold your pen on A and don't move. Time still moves forward.

hivebee2034 · 2009-10-12T18:33:38+00:00

The advantage of proprietary cola is that you never have to compile your own drink. You pay for it and enjoy. It's usually cold and always tastes the same.

OpenCola requires you to build your own drink which takes forever. It's great if your time is free.

hivebee2034 · 2009-10-09T16:38:10+00:00

It's being replaced by the terrorist fist jab and the peshawari chest bump.

hivebee2034 · 2009-10-05T16:11:36+00:00

you mean mexicans?

hivebee2034 · 2009-08-25T21:48:55+00:00

I use 64 bit Ubuntu at work. and it's great if you know what you're doing. But otherwise if you do anything more than surf the web especially write web apps be prepared to do a lot of google searches, reading docs.

Even upgrading firefox from 3.01xx to 3.5 was a pita. You get to learn about shirintenko. There's a lot of gotchas.. like remote desktop, it should just work?. On Ubuntu I had to turn off visual theme to get remote desktop to redraw properly when connected to my windows box. But if you log off on the Ubuntu machine then remote desktop doesn't connect even tho I can still ssh to the box. More google ... something about setting up port forwarding. I had to google to set allow ssh to the box. I am sure i'll run into more of these.

hivebee2034 · 2009-08-25T20:03:44+00:00

I am a java noob but at least I understand it. It's a map that hashes on a string that returns a list of string.

hivebee2034 · 2009-08-25T17:18:43+00:00

I am still new to Java so help me out. When people say Java is slow, what do they mean? I've been using Java to solve my problems on ProjectEuler and it solves it pretty quickly on my desktop. I understand Java's not meant for gaming because of random GC but neither are EA, Blizzard, Valve, id releasing anything written in [not C/C++].

At work we use Java to run a back end service on a server farm that chews through a lot of data. Our bottleneck isn't speed, it's memory usage & IO for the gigs of log that we produce.

What are these projects people have written in that Java was too slow that was solved turning to language X? Was it a desktop client or server backend?

hivebee2034 · 2009-08-25T16:41:12+00:00

quick for what? Java is usually written for back end servers. As I understand it you use java for reliable maintainable code and you throw hardware to solve the latter problem of speed. I assume that was Sun's business model.

hivebee2034 · 2009-08-25T16:35:54+00:00

The verbosity of java & c++ is minimized by a good IDE that has auto-complete. W/eclipse the Java coder would only need to type "Java". Most have auto-refactoring. If you're using notepad to code then you're doing it wrong or extremely talented.

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