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Living Room / Re: "Grivitation-like" paradigm would have helped in the interim
« Last post by f0dder on March 20, 2008, 12:33 AM »
Imho, probably it shouldn't be revealed who are moderators and who are not, at least not in avatar status text. Perhaps it should be visible on a special subpage... that way, people with moderator powers can talks as themselves, without worrying "which cap they are worrying". I have much faith in people here not abusing their powers.

That way, we could focus solely on friendly discussions without bringing irrelevant topics in. Yes, I'm naïve.
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Living Room / Re: a 3D game that is only 97kb!
« Last post by f0dder on March 20, 2008, 12:29 AM »
lanux: games are developed with console specs in mind, nowadays... and those specs aren't always adjusted to PC hardware before published.

A modern games has pretty insane texture and model requirements, which (on PCs) require a lot of GPU memory, but on consoles are generally shared memory.
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Living Room / Re: "Grivitation-like" paradigm would have helped in the interim
« Last post by f0dder on March 20, 2008, 12:25 AM »
If we are truly friends here, then we care enough to have contact and find a way to do it outside the forum long before the forum has an issue. It's kind of an automatic thing.
IRC is one great place :) - but more never hurts. I still think the idea of a decentralized forum is nice, even if I haven't thought out just HOW that should work :)

I agree totally with the rest of your points too. Which reminds me, I should hunt down Jibz :)
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Living Room / Re: a 3D game that is only 97kb!
« Last post by f0dder on March 20, 2008, 12:09 AM »
Thing is, you can't do everything procedurally. You can do cool stuff that way, but not everything, and with the amount of textures in a modern game... you would need long load times, or large disk caches. Iirc, the farb-rausch demos used to take ~30-60 seconds of pre-computation before loading on contemporary hardware.
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Living Room / Re: "Grivitation-like" paradigm would have helped in the interim
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 11:57 PM »
CodeTRUCKER: I don't think anything non-automated would work. It's too much pressure on the end-user, and it would leave us with a totally fragmented view in the case of a breakdown. And even without breakdown, we would either need custom reading clients (NOT going to happen!), or having to click a lot more links, and those links being external... OK OK, ajax embedded stuff could help, but...
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Living Room / Re: "Grivitation-like" paradigm would have helped in the interim
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 11:11 PM »
I don't think most of us are "normal" (by their terms), but most of us can blend in and have decent lives - that's what matters in that regard :). And the friendly tone and level of understanding here rocks.

So let's forget about the personals and think about the technicals again...
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Living Room / Re: "Grivitation-like" paradigm would have helped in the interim
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 10:16 PM »
No, backups only guarantee we can get back on track - a distributed approach would mean we never go down. There's several issues to address, though... first, servers would need to be heterogenous (ie, linux, bsd and NT, something like that) to ensure not all get hacked at one time. And, because of how the internet protocols work, there would need to be a "single point of failure" server that was unhackable, which would arbitrate against the distributed servers...
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Living Room / Re: "Grivitation-like" paradigm would have helped in the interim
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 09:38 PM »
tin: newsgroups are very different from forums, even though a decent newsreader will make them somewhat similar. But still, the conversational tone on usenet tends to be very different from what we have achieved here.

Wordzilla: with distributed, I meant in a unified way :), so you wouldn't have to check out a boatload of forums... just that the information would be replicated and load-balanced.
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General Software Discussion / Re: What’s this "Linux" thing and why should i try it?
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 09:15 PM »
Don't get me wrong, I like the software and the IDEs associated with MS, but the direction Bill and the Gang are going doesn't make me sleep real well at night.
-CodeTRUCKER
I feel that way as well, but I don't see any alternatives, when keeping stability, documentation, ease-of-use and performance in mind. Linux (kernel as well as distros) have a lot of good things going, and a bunch of stuff I miss in Windows, but there's too much half-baked crap and incoherency for me to use it as a desktop replacement.
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Living Room / Re: "Grivitation" would have helped in the interim
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 09:02 PM »
The (hard core of the) DC community stayed together on IRC during the forum-hack...

But I think I see the essence of CodeTRUCKER's point. Grivitations very likely isn't the solution. But some distributed forum type sounds like an interesting idea... but also like a LOT of coding :) (and a problem is that you'd probably set up the distributed hosts equally, thus if one was hacked, the others would be, too)
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Living Room / Re: a 3D game that is only 97kb!
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 08:49 PM »
I just wondered why you posted to the same game that the topic was originally about :), and then claimed it was 104kb (the exe is 96kb, but yeah, it uses exe compression). But I'm repeating myself :)
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Living Room / Re: Poo time?
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 08:38 PM »
Considering that there are people who get turned on by feeding their partner to groooooossly obese weights, this doesn't seem so unrealistic. But on a toilet? Hm. Insane :)
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Encryption software
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 08:14 PM »
I would have missed out on TrueCrypt 5 for a long time, if it hadn't been because of Josh's post about it :) - boot-time auth and system partition encrypt = pure :-*
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Should I add desktop screencast(movie) recording to ScreenshotCaptor?
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 05:00 AM »
callouts?
rubberstamp?

I don't think PDF belongs in SSC, it would add too much luggage... but being able to trigger capture from the commandline could be useful.
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Living Room / Re: Strange problem - Cannot access a few sites through my router...
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 04:59 AM »
Can you ping/traceroute the sites? Have you compared what IP is returned by DNS lookup from behind-router and directly-plugged?
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General Software Discussion / Re: What’s this "Linux" thing and why should i try it?
« Last post by f0dder on March 19, 2008, 04:55 AM »
To be fair, slackware isn't the easiest distro to get along with, and is mostly used by elitists, imho. If you don't mind wasting (yes, wasting!, since it doesn't give much real benefit) some time on compiling things from source, I find gentoo is the distro I've gotten best along with for my server needs. Flexible, relatively decently laid out, etc.

Ubuntu is nice if you don't need to do anything special, but as soon as you do, you're back to opening terminals and hand-editing config files. Last time I checked, things like installing Java, decent video drivers, and getting multi-monitor support were to be considered special ;)
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Living Room / Re: The upside-down-ternet
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2008, 09:12 PM »
Heh, pretty lovely little series :)
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Living Room / Re: Martian Headsets and the upcoming Browser War
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2008, 06:56 PM »
Ì think lot of Joel's blog posts suck, that he's a bit self-important, and a lot of the stuff he writes is pretty meh, self-evident, or flat out wrong. He does write well though, and sometimes he gets it right... and I'll have to agree that MS is damned whatever they do. Partly their own fault, and partly W3C's (write better/clearer specs, write reference browser - duh).
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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2008, 11:17 AM »
Who decides? Depends on the context, and the scale of things. Not allowing unhealthy crap and candy in schools isn't a government decision here yet (pity!), but there's a few schools where the school board / parent group have enforced it (that's democracy for you).

Things like pesticide control, hormone regulation, etc. has to be taken to government level, otherwise it can't be effectively controlled.

Denmark has a representative democracy, so in the end it's the politicians that take the big decisions. But those politicians have, you guessed it, been voted for. And we have a bunch of different political parties with more-or-less different agendas, so there's enough to choose from. (Of course all politicians are more or less the same in the end, but at least it's a lot less populist and corrupt in .dk than other countries).

But those are examples of medical, biological, environmental (etc.) decisions that made for the greater good of the entire population, at the expense of a few greedy megacorps who would rather have no rules in order to maximize their profits. And no, I'm not a bloody socialist, but I do believe there should be limits to how much the environment and consumers should be exploited by the megacorps.

Oh, and it's not about a silly moral stance on "I hate fat people", it's about limiting what chemicals corporations can put in our food, and what they can serve at our schools. You wouldn't want your kids drinking alcohol there, would you? Filling them with sugar makes them dull and slower at learning, after the sugar rush is off.

There's a difference between oppression and having some decent ground rules to live by. I could claim that "thou shalt not kill" is oppression and a severe limit of my personal freedom, but... :-\ :-\ :-\

Sorry if this is drifting too far and becoming too political...
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Developer's Corner / Re: The DC Coders' Breakfast Club
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2008, 07:26 AM »
Hm, thanks for pointing me at iPython, tinny - seems like it could be pretty useful when prototyping stuff.
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Living Room / Re: Mobo Mystery
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2008, 07:11 AM »
Tried putting a PCI (as opposed to AGP and PCI-e) video card in it? Might be the AGP or primary PCI-e slot (depending on what the board uses, too lazy to look it up) that's somewhat damaged?
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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2008, 07:06 AM »
cpilot: you have to look at where people are now, not just what happened in the past - keep in mind that the .us is a lot younger than the rest of the world, so you haven't had as much time to make mistakes as we have :) (I wonder how the picture look if amount of bad-stuff-done is correlated with nation's age, hmmm). You should also keep in mind the the .us is basically one country lead by one guy, europe is a bunch of pretty different autonomous states lead in different ways. Denmark != France != Germany != Sweden.

Also, to clarify, I was talking about UK (that's europe, in case you didn't know :P) and not US wrt. the massive amount of camera surveillance, and wrt. population growing fat & complacent & gameshow-zombies, I was referring to the so-called civilized world as a whole, not exclusively the US.

There's a lot of problems in the world today, and a decent amount is caused directly or indirectly by the US. Some of it is a PUSH effect by your president, by some of the megacorps etc., some of it is a PULL effect because people imitate some of the not-so-good things like your fast food culture, Gangzta attitude, etc. I'm not saying the US is responsible for all trouble in the world, we have a lot of our own even in little Denmark, I'm just saying there is an influence, and it's pretty big.

There's no such thing as absolute freedom either, every choice has consequences. To ensure the largest amount of freedom for the largest amount of people, some limits have to be put on the individual freedom (and a lot of limits on corporate freedom :)).

Peace out.
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Developer's Corner / Re: The DC Coders' Breakfast Club
« Last post by f0dder on March 18, 2008, 06:50 AM »
30k+ lines to process files and insert to database? Do you have really complex input files and an overcomplex database transport, or is it's some shiiiiiitty code? :)
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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 11:32 PM »
hey guys and gals, remember that we try to avoid politics on this forum!  :mad:
-mouser (March 17, 2008, 11:29 PM)
...for good reason, apparently. Perhaps the thread should just be locked & forgotten?
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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Most Depressing Quotes from Orwell's 1984
« Last post by f0dder on March 17, 2008, 11:27 PM »
So it's all right for the government to tell you what to eat and how much to weigh?
No, but it's alright to have some rules & regulations. Like not allowing candy & sodas in schools (or at least not selling it in the school cafeteria), limiting the substances companies are allowed to add to your food, and not putting some restrictions on advertisements (like, disallowing blatant advertisements masquerading as children's shows).

Who the hell are you to determine how much someone is entitled to use legal substances?
It's more about limiting what the big evil corporations can do to the unweary consumers. Like, adding extra chemicals to tobacco with the sole purpose of making it more addictive.

What your saying is it's alright for the government to monitor you if you approve of it but bad if you don't.
No, that's not what I'm saying. But the government does need to enforce some limits and regulations to protect the population against corporate greed. I'm not advocating for socialism or any other form of totalitarian state, but an entirely free and unregulated market is not the solution either. Overuse of pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, unnecessary additives in food, monopolies, ... you name it.

As for the rest of your post: Denmark, part of scandinavia, Europe. And keep it civil.
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