You're corrent that he didn't build a lens. That misrepresetation is the editor/submitters fault. It's entirely possible neither of them knew any better.
I want to point out that any vitriol anyone needs to spew about this should be directed to the editor himself, and not confused with comments about this guy's work. He built a cool hack, turning several pieces of cheap equipment into one piece of expensive equipment in the finest tradition of geekiness.
Just because someone mischaracterised his work doesn't make his work of lesser intrinsic value. It's not what we were told it was when we clicked on the article, but it's pretty cool in and of itself. Let's not let that get lost.
Most of the geek girls I know shave at least as often as the geek guys I know.
Think about it, on average it takes 1,000 geek girls not shaving for a week to equal one RMS. I'm almost certain it's been 1,000 weeks since he last shaved.
Just wait til you're 30, chief. It get's much, much worse.
You'll tell kids nine years younger than you about what it used to be like, and they'll think you're lying to them. And after a while, you won't even bother anymore.
Just for the record, I shined shoes to earn the money to buy a 300/1200 baud modem for my Apple ][e. Ah, The Source.
When I got my Novice in 1986, it was 13 wpm for general. (20 for Extra).
The idea that a man who's been running Morse all his life could school a kid with a cellphone doesn't surprise me at all. I'm sure he could also beat a manic blackberry user. I knew guys who could regularly clock 35-50 wpm. That's damned hard to do on a keyboard.
Trust me, I know. I don't have any pictures of two of my great grandmothers. They were all burned after their deaths, because their children wanted to erase the fact that they were Comanche.
ah, grasshopper, that was called the 'line item veto'. it was ruled unconstitutional.
Line-Item Veto Outlawed (June 25, 1998): In a 6-3 decision, justices rule Constitution prohibits president from rewriting legislation by striking out single items of spending or specific tax breaks passed by Congress.
we'll need an amendment to get it back, but considering that the L.I.V. was the product of a divided legislative/executive world, I don't anticipate it's revival by the present administration or congressional leadership.
I have it on very good authority from people at the V.P. level inside IBM that SCO, and it's executives, are slated for personal destruction. When they sent letters to IBM's customers threatening lawsuits becuase they did Linux business with IBM, they crossed the line into open warfare. And no prisoners will be taken.
Never, ever, threaten IBMs customers' desire to do business with IBM. They've got billions to spend to destroy you, and their lawyers walk six inches off the ground.
And many of Enron's subsidiaries are actually very legit and continued functioning pretty much as they were when Enron was riding high.
Yeah, they're owned by other companies, like Berkshire Hathaway, who bought them for pennies on the dollar. But no one who owned Enron stock saw even a dime of the buyout price. That's the fun part of common stock ownership.
If Hillary Clinton ends up as the Democratic nominee for President, it's going to do a very uncomfortable thing for the right-wing coalition. It's going to lay the fault-lines bare. Kerry's campaign was sufficiently muddled as to obscure a lot of them. Anyone named Clinton, however, is so polarizing that not knowing where you stand won't be possible. So far, that polarization has worked well for motivating the evalgelical vote, but with Clinton it'll motivate *all* the vote, and as history has shown time and time again, the higher the turnout across all segments of the population, the lower the Republicans' percentage of the vote is.
All anyone can ever do is supress their urges. Child molesters, murderers, thieves, drunk drivers, junkies, speeders, music pirates. There's nothing special about any particular class. They're mostly normal people who had a moment of anger or a moment of weakness at the wrong time.
Every person on earth has felonious urges every day. Most of us don't act on them, and the people who do and are caught and punished often don't act on them again. Some do, but that doesn't mean that everyone accused and convicted of anything is a permanent loss to society or should serve a life sentence (which being tracked in perpetuity would mean.)
You're absolutely correct about the intent of these regulations, but I've always thougth that poetry was a concerted effort to point out the non-obvious, rather than to deny the obvious.
I've seen religions that did the same. Those are the ones I think of as 'good' ones.
True, but that's assuming that power prices stay at current levels. I work under the assumption that we're going to be looking at a three-fold increase in cents-per-kilowatt-hour over the next 10-15 years as natural gas prices increase, so I see a much quicker payoff.
Of course, that's speculative, but so is any equity investment, whether in rooftop solar technology or stock mutual funds or real estate.
Damn, I wish I had a quicktake, just to see what iPhoto would do with it.
I just have this ridiculous store of Apple trivia, and like to bust it out occasionally.
But you're basic point is well taken, I've never been happier with Apple's OS team than when I plugged a smart card into a USB smart card reader connected to a machine running 10.0.2, and the card mounted as a disk image without my having to touch the keyboard or the mouse.
Apple had the 'It just works' philosophy a long time before they had the 'It Just Works' technology. If there's one thing that Steve Jobs brought to Apple other than NeXTStep, it was a zero-tolerance policy for crap. Good intentions counted for a lot more under the old management.
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1999 called.
They want their bullshit screed back.
You're corrent that he didn't build a lens. That misrepresetation is the editor/submitters fault. It's entirely possible neither of them knew any better.
I want to point out that any vitriol anyone needs to spew about this should be directed to the editor himself, and not confused with comments about this guy's work. He built a cool hack, turning several pieces of cheap equipment into one piece of expensive equipment in the finest tradition of geekiness.
Just because someone mischaracterised his work doesn't make his work of lesser intrinsic value. It's not what we were told it was when we clicked on the article, but it's pretty cool in and of itself. Let's not let that get lost.
Did you ever go to TIP?
I ask, because those were six of the best weeks of my life. I wouldn't trade them for anything, and it was damn near 20 years ago.
TIP taught me that there was a world out there which was fundamentaly different from the one I lived in, in Angleton, Texas circa 1988.
Without that knowledge, I honestly don't know how I'd have made it to where I am today.
Most of the geek girls I know shave at least as often as the geek guys I know.
Think about it, on average it takes 1,000 geek girls not shaving for a week to equal one RMS. I'm almost certain it's been 1,000 weeks since he last shaved.
Just wait til you're 30, chief. It get's much, much worse.
You'll tell kids nine years younger than you about what it used to be like, and they'll think you're lying to them. And after a while, you won't even bother anymore.
Just for the record, I shined shoes to earn the money to buy a 300/1200 baud modem for my Apple ][e. Ah, The Source.
Good times.
Unfortunately, the Carbon-13 signatures on what we're currently pumping are all wrong to be abiotic.
I'm not saying it can't exist. I'm saying that the oil we burn every day was formed from decaying organic matter under geologic heat and pressure.
I hate to tell you this, Chief, but if you've got a 4-digit UID, you're a geek by definition.
Just like me.
You're not in the Carribean anymore.
When I got my Novice in 1986, it was 13 wpm for general. (20 for Extra).
The idea that a man who's been running Morse all his life could school a kid with a cellphone doesn't surprise me at all. I'm sure he could also beat a manic blackberry user. I knew guys who could regularly clock 35-50 wpm. That's damned hard to do on a keyboard.
Trust me, I know. I don't have any pictures of two of my great grandmothers. They were all burned after their deaths, because their children wanted to erase the fact that they were Comanche.
ah, grasshopper, that was called the 'line item veto'. it was ruled unconstitutional.
Line-Item Veto Outlawed (June 25, 1998): In a 6-3 decision, justices rule Constitution prohibits president from rewriting legislation by striking out single items of spending or specific tax breaks passed by Congress.
we'll need an amendment to get it back, but considering that the L.I.V. was the product of a divided legislative/executive world, I don't anticipate it's revival by the present administration or congressional leadership.
I have it on very good authority from people at the V.P. level inside IBM that SCO, and it's executives, are slated for personal destruction. When they sent letters to IBM's customers threatening lawsuits becuase they did Linux business with IBM, they crossed the line into open warfare. And no prisoners will be taken.
Never, ever, threaten IBMs customers' desire to do business with IBM. They've got billions to spend to destroy you, and their lawyers walk six inches off the ground.
And many of Enron's subsidiaries are actually very legit and continued functioning pretty much as they were when Enron was riding high.
Yeah, they're owned by other companies, like Berkshire Hathaway, who bought them for pennies on the dollar. But no one who owned Enron stock saw even a dime of the buyout price. That's the fun part of common stock ownership.
If Hillary Clinton ends up as the Democratic nominee for President, it's going to do a very uncomfortable thing for the right-wing coalition. It's going to lay the fault-lines bare. Kerry's campaign was sufficiently muddled as to obscure a lot of them. Anyone named Clinton, however, is so polarizing that not knowing where you stand won't be possible. So far, that polarization has worked well for motivating the evalgelical vote, but with Clinton it'll motivate *all* the vote, and as history has shown time and time again, the higher the turnout across all segments of the population, the lower the Republicans' percentage of the vote is.
Except for that whole 'death camp' thing.
Americans have done some nasty shit to the black people within our borders, but systematic genocide isn't on that list.
All anyone can ever do is supress their urges. Child molesters, murderers, thieves, drunk drivers, junkies, speeders, music pirates. There's nothing special about any particular class. They're mostly normal people who had a moment of anger or a moment of weakness at the wrong time.
Every person on earth has felonious urges every day. Most of us don't act on them, and the people who do and are caught and punished often don't act on them again. Some do, but that doesn't mean that everyone accused and convicted of anything is a permanent loss to society or should serve a life sentence (which being tracked in perpetuity would mean.)
"Why does Rice play Texas?" ;)
You're absolutely correct about the intent of these regulations, but I've always thougth that poetry was a concerted effort to point out the non-obvious, rather than to deny the obvious.
I've seen religions that did the same. Those are the ones I think of as 'good' ones.
Most of them are shit, though.
Doing it "dirty" takes more time in the end.
Rimshot!
True, but that's assuming that power prices stay at current levels. I work under the assumption that we're going to be looking at a three-fold increase in cents-per-kilowatt-hour over the next 10-15 years as natural gas prices increase, so I see a much quicker payoff.
Of course, that's speculative, but so is any equity investment, whether in rooftop solar technology or stock mutual funds or real estate.
Who demands artists pay $20,000/hour for some "big name" producer to hit a few buttons in Pro Tools?
Dude, it's the grossly underpaid engineers who hit the buttons on Pro Tools.
The "big name" producers usually sit on the couch and go "I don't know, what do you think."*
*Yes, there are exceptions, but not many.
I'm guessing he knew that, hence his scrupulous use of the phrase 'Nobel Laureate'.
Dude, the punchline of the The Village was that you figured it out halfway through, which made the actions of the Elders inhuman and horrible.
Then of course, there's what you can infer from the actions of the guards.
That movie is *much* deeper and more multi-layered than any of Shyamalan's other work.
of New Haven, not Crawford.
Damn, I wish I had a quicktake, just to see what iPhoto would do with it.
I just have this ridiculous store of Apple trivia, and like to bust it out occasionally.
But you're basic point is well taken, I've never been happier with Apple's OS team than when I plugged a smart card into a USB smart card reader connected to a machine running 10.0.2, and the card mounted as a disk image without my having to touch the keyboard or the mouse.
Apple had the 'It just works' philosophy a long time before they had the 'It Just Works' technology. If there's one thing that Steve Jobs brought to Apple other than NeXTStep, it was a zero-tolerance policy for crap. Good intentions counted for a lot more under the old management.