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I work with OSISoft's Plant Information (PI) system.
My wife posted the following:
An opinion without 3.14 is an onion. You'll understand.
Because of my work, she understood.
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I always loved chess, and lately got some time to check the most powerful engines out-there...
And now I following TCEC...Those engines are computing beast with frightening abilities, even on average hardware...
But there is nothing entertaining about the games...
Very disappointing...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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That's the trouble with games on computers.
They guys developing them get all excited about "possibilities", and forget what games are for -- i.e. to have fun.
It's like with 3rd-person shooters and racing games: it's ten times harder to aim & shoot a gun or drive a car in the games than it is to do either in real life.
And flight sims are made a lot more difficult because there isn't room on a monitor for a complete cockpit, so it's all crammed in, and the (mainly shortcut-key) controls not only have to be memorised on top of the actual aviation stuff, but they are completely disconnected from the sim controls on the screen.
Game developers never seem to consider that if they were to take the differences from reality into account (e.g. simplify everything so that it's not so crowded, and remove some of the things that Just Don't Work in a sim, so that it's not so ridiculously complicated), that they might actually be able to make an enjoyable game.
I'm not a fan of chess, but I sympathise with your discontent.
The trouble is that everyone will buy your chess sim and be too afraid to say that they don't like it, so the devs (and the critics) will believe that they've done a perfect job, and further chess sims will follow their example.
IIWY, I'd go and b1tch about it on all the gaming sites.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And flight sims are made a lot more difficult because there isn't room on a monitor for a complete cockpit, so it's all crammed in, and the (mainly shortcut-key) controls not only have to be memorised on top of the actual aviation stuff, but they are completely disconnected from the sim controls on the screen.
Thanks for reminding me. I have to make an appointment.[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Now THAT is a flight sim!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You can rent an hour or two, including a real flight instructor. I have already been sitting on the left seat and now want another flight. It's a real UH-1 Huey cockpit and was previously used to train military pilots, but the Hueys are slowly retired.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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But aren't you worried that the guys running it look like a bunch of psychos and serial killers?
Then again, I suppose that adds to the allure.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I just had a brief exchange of mails with the psychos. They offer appointments at the weekend and the evening. At +25% on the price. I don't want to look what they want when I choose some late time during the weekend. I just wanted to know from their boss wether they were running a service for housewives, jobless and retired.
for the +25% alone I can go watch a movie or sit in a pub, who don't ask any special weekend or evening fees.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Typical. They screw what they can out of people who have little choice.
During work-day rush hours, though, they'll be all "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses... and a packet of fava beans and a case of nice chianti...".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...in Q&A today.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Why so?
(He asked, with trepidation)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's gonna take a lot for me to maintain my typical sensitive and gentle nature towards the retards asking questions.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: sensitive and gentle nature
Obviously you haven't made it to the "FTP isn't the right way to transfer files" question yet.
Speed of sound - 1100 ft/sec
Speed of light - 186,000 mi/sec
Speed of stupid - instantaneous.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: sensitive and gentle nature
Can you translate it to English?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Blanks instead of real ammo!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Dang. I just wanted to ask for a little help. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Meaning you wish to have Rocky on your side so to smash each of them into pieces?
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Q&A riddled with bullets.
I'm staying on the sidelines.
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The missus giving you problems?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When beavers divorce, do they start to sea otter people?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They just stop giving a dam.
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Wood you leave me alone, so I could chew on this one for a while
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dam'd if they do, dam'd if they don't!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Sounds like one of them got caught in a web of defeet.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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