Well, I don't know what Alton would think (actually, I know, he doesn't trust aluminum) but I have some ideas.
1) Target has a nice set of heavy drop forged Henkel knives for under $200. Not cheap, but they are good knives with good steel that will last, and aren't overkill. Make sure you do get knives with a flat edge - those "eversharp" things with the little teeth suck. And perhaps most importantly, when you get a good knife, learn how to sharpen it and do it correctly, otherwise it is a waste.
2) Check out something like (again, expensive) Calphalon Hard Anodized aluminum. If you use it the way the instructions say, it should be as easy to clean as non-stick, and still work like a good old pan (i.e. sear, etc) Alton recommends cast-iron, which I don't really like working with, but that's a much less expensive option.
3) Get your ass married. I'm on my way, and the best part so far was registering for my cookware.
On a related note, one of the grocery stores near me has started to enter in your Driver's License ID# instead of your age when you buy beer. I still bought the beer, but I think I am going to switch stores (or refuse to let them enter it first and see what happens). I don't know if I want that being tracked.
Interesting thought. Not sure if I agree completely (there seems to be a large gray zone where it wouldn't apply (i.e. semantics and syntax match well), but it is certainly an intriguing point of view.
You are allowed to do any of those things. But it might frustrate me. Again, I am not talking about rights, I am saying I understand the Directors' point of view.
As Good As it Gets - did they make Simon straight?
Blow - who knows what they did
Dead Man Walking - another very subtle movie that could easily be hurt
The Godfather - The artistic importance of this is recognized enough that it is shown uncut on TV
LA Confidential - I saw this edited on TV, and it was sad - and that was mostly language, not "moral" content
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - how do you make this a clean movie?
Platoon - Same as above
The Shawshank Redemption - What happens to this movie if the rape scenes are edited out?
It stands to reason that these might be edited differently than for TV, because they are being marketed to a more specific, more conservative group. Our mission is to provide access to Hollywood entertainment free from objectionable elements, thus helping maintain high moral values. What they fail to see (or what thier clients fail to see, is that sometimes the morally objectionable material is what makes the movie worthwhile.
Whoa, whoa... I never said anything about "moral rights."
All I was saying was I understand the Directors' frustration, and I think they have a point. If you had your friend rip a sex scene out of a book that I had written, and then read it, feeling like you got the experience I intended on, then yeah, I'd be pissed off. Because I wanted the sex scene to disgust you, or excite out, or make you feel uncomfortable. That's why I spent those words (or that film) portraying it.
OK, but isn't this sort of like putting a loincloth on David, or covering up Venus's breasts? Or removing the n-work from Huck Finn? Perhaps some art is intended on being experienced and viewed as harshly as it was created. Perhaps you feel that it is not neccesary (for instance, I don't see what David would lose in a loincloth), but I posit that that choice ought be left to the creator.
Legal issues aside, I understand the Directors feelings. Certainly when you get a competent director who make thoughtful stuff, like Stanley Kubrik or Dave Fincher or Quentin T., it's an insult to have people watching your movies under some sanitary cut. This isn't a plane or TV, where the audience will like the movie and then go to view the real thing. This is either really pathetic people not wanting to be offended, or parent's trying to show your art to children in a butchered manner. I think there is a difference, and I'd be damn pissed off if I took the time to create A Clockwork Orange, Se7en, or Fight Club, or Pulp Fiction, only to have people stipping it's essense out and changing the experience.
Again, it's not the same as the TV or plane version, because the goal here is not to open the movie for a wider audience (who can then go and see the real thing), it's a viewer asking someone else to protect them permenatly from the scenes that often make the movie.
But I guess I am sort of a sadist when it comes to these things, and prefer movies that make me uncomfortable and show raw humanity at it's best and worst. Also, note that if you think Stanley's, David's, or Quentin's work sucks, pick another director - the point still stands.
I looked at the screenshots, and the transparent menus and the drop shadows on the menu look really nice. I'm curious - are these KDE application things? Are they part of the windows manager that comes with KDE? Are they QT? And will they work over everything, or will they only work when QT menus are displayed over QT aps?
Just wondering if it is possible to have such nifty eyecandy work with my 95% GTK+/Sawfish environment, or if I would have to switch to the KDE environment to see this features.
...get really turned off by Knuth's over-inflated ego? I don't doubt that the guy is smart, but I can't stand even reading his FAQ, let alone trying to make it through tAoCS. I don't buy into all his bullshit about batch processing, etc... I think he's just a smart guy who's full of himself and likes to be eccentric. And has a lot of people eating out of his hand.
As evidence of this, I point to Dick Feynman, who was incredibly smart, amassed a decent body of work, both in terms of theories created and teaching books/lessons written, but at the same time took time out to play in a native Brazillian band.
I might be a computer scientist, but I look up to Dick Feynman, and I shake my head at Donald Knuth.
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That sucks, but it's also a good practice to only order stuff when you can test EVERYTHING before your exchange period is up, as a general rule of buying anything from anywhere.
Germany should simply offer to pay Argentina to rescue it's citizens. And perhaps throw in some foriegn aid. I can see why Argentina would be a little hesitant, since thier economy has been tanking recently - it's hard to sell a rescue mission for 107 people from another country to your populace when your economy is in the hole.
I use tccomputers.com for most of my stuff - they don't have bottom basement prices, but they are competitive and have good support (buy you MB & CPU from them, and they'll help you get it all running right if you have trouble)
Gotta get your memory from Crucial.com, they have Great prices, Great memory, and Free shipping (2nd day air).
For the remaining bits I either recycle from old PCs, use Pricewatch (with caution), or talk to friends who have parts I need.
Another thing to get in the habit of doing is buying lots of stuff when you find deals. I once got a bunch of IBM 10/100 Intel chip NICs for $15 a piece - I bought 5 of the suckers, and haven't had to buy a NIC since, even as my LAN has grown.
Huh... sounded like a rock plunking into water to me.
I guess I question how they justify thinking it was an animal, and not just some gas escaping from a sac of some sort (rock, vegetation, rotting marine life?)
Ovisouly I am no marine scientist, but it seems that something that sounds like air escaping in water could have a lot more origins than just a "sea monster".
Actually, that was more hyperbole than anything else - I was just making the point that it'd be a good excercise for RMS if he had to use his programming skills to earn a living rather than (and I am assuming this is the case) living off speaking fees and the FSF money.
Every time I read something by RMS, I get pissed off. I think that if he had been given a religious text rather than a computer during his formative years, he would be another David Koresh (spelling?). It's rare to find such an intelligent person so blinded by his own extreme ideology.
He excels at throwing the baby out with the bathwater. First off, as others have pointed out, a normal Linux distro has software that is non-GNU - it is not just the GNU project plus a kernel, which he seems to discount as being a trivial part of the thing (which baffles me). And as others have pointed out, BSDs rely on GNU tools as well. Hell, I use Cygwin all the time - but I guess that should be called GNU/Cygwin. Or perhaps it ought to be abolished becuase it runs on (non-free!) Windows.
The bottom line is that pragmatic, intelligent people - like myself, Linus, and the vast majority of Linux users - are going to run whatever combination of software they see fit, as long as the licenses don't offend thier sense of privacy, etc. If someone came out with a commercial DVD player that ran on Linux/PPC as well as the Mac OS X one did, I would buy it (for a reasonable price) immediately. I want a tool that does the job well - why should a tool on my computer be treated any differently than the torque wrench I use on my truck. Sure, it'd be a nice to have a free torque wrench, with the specs to build my own. And often I will find free and open instructions for doing something on my truck. But at the same time, when I deem that the best soultion is commercial and I feel the price is fair, I pay for it. Same with my computer - I love Linux, becuase it works better than anything else I've tried. I also like being able to talk to the developers and fiddle with the source myself (I once added a minor feature and had it incorporated, even). But I am not about to cripple my computer and make my life inconvenient for RMS and his overblown and arrogant views of the software world. He needs to wake up and realize that the software industry is just like every other - and it will never, nor should it ever, be 100% "free" software. It's not practical, it's not logical, and it would force me to find another career or live like a pauper.
In fact, with that in mind, I would love for everyone to stop giving any money to the FSF and/or RMS, and watch the guy either starve to death or come to the realization that *GASP* he's gonna get paid to write code for a company that is going to make money off it.
Am I the only one that found this book next to impossible to read? Everyone seems to use this book, but I have yet to find a student who thinks it is a clear and consise presentation of the material. Perhaps for a Senior/Graduate course for computer engineers, but when I had to use it for a (poorly taught) mid-level computer science course on architecture, I found it more infuriating than anything else.
I've found (and understood) good books on Computational Theory, so I figure I am capable of understanding Computer Architecture from a book as well, if it was presented well.
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Someone finally beat out Katz in the full-of-myself, over-opinionated, no-one-bothers-to-read-the-whole-thing useless article contest.
I like how you tried to fend off the "Just f*cking use Google!!!" responses. But again, this sounds like someone with a job taking a shortcut by asking the/. community rather than just spending time searching and experimenting.
Geesh - I'd love to get paid for writing down stuff that the majority of moderatly intelligent people in this world already know. Where can I sign up?
Seriously, this isn't news, this is common-fucking-sense. Bad information with apparent credibility, whether from the 'net, religion, slanted news sources, revolutionary leaders, etc causes hate and misunderstanding. An objective and skeptical pursuit of truth and understanding (and aplication of your own intelligence, rather than trusting someone elses) erases same.
This guy needs to stop writing editorials, take a few history courses, and realize that his views are nothing new, and nothing amazing.
I am just a simple Caveman... your money and technology frighten and confuse me. But there is one thing I can understand - user interfaces with built in Alpha blending are l33t.
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Well, I don't know what Alton would think (actually, I know, he doesn't trust aluminum) but I have some ideas.
1) Target has a nice set of heavy drop forged Henkel knives for under $200. Not cheap, but they are good knives with good steel that will last, and aren't overkill. Make sure you do get knives with a flat edge - those "eversharp" things with the little teeth suck. And perhaps most importantly, when you get a good knife, learn how to sharpen it and do it correctly, otherwise it is a waste.
2) Check out something like (again, expensive) Calphalon Hard Anodized aluminum. If you use it the way the instructions say, it should be as easy to clean as non-stick, and still work like a good old pan (i.e. sear, etc) Alton recommends cast-iron, which I don't really like working with, but that's a much less expensive option.
3) Get your ass married. I'm on my way, and the best part so far was registering for my cookware.
Without further ado, I am off to make dinner!
Teaches you something about using IE, eh?
On a related note, one of the grocery stores near me has started to enter in your Driver's License ID# instead of your age when you buy beer. I still bought the beer, but I think I am going to switch stores (or refuse to let them enter it first and see what happens). I don't know if I want that being tracked.
Interesting thought. Not sure if I agree completely (there seems to be a large gray zone where it wouldn't apply (i.e. semantics and syntax match well), but it is certainly an intriguing point of view.
You are allowed to do any of those things. But it might frustrate me. Again, I am not talking about rights, I am saying I understand the Directors' point of view.
- The Shawshank Redemption - What happens to this movie if the rape scenes are edited out?
It stands to reason that these might be edited differently than for TV, because they are being marketed to a more specific, more conservative group. Our mission is to provide access to Hollywood entertainment free from objectionable elements, thus helping maintain high moral values. What they fail to see (or what thier clients fail to see, is that sometimes the morally objectionable material is what makes the movie worthwhile.Yeah, I'll give you that... but that's a whole other issue.
Whoa, whoa... I never said anything about "moral rights."
All I was saying was I understand the Directors' frustration, and I think they have a point. If you had your friend rip a sex scene out of a book that I had written, and then read it, feeling like you got the experience I intended on, then yeah, I'd be pissed off. Because I wanted the sex scene to disgust you, or excite out, or make you feel uncomfortable. That's why I spent those words (or that film) portraying it.
OK, but isn't this sort of like putting a loincloth on David, or covering up Venus's breasts? Or removing the n-work from Huck Finn? Perhaps some art is intended on being experienced and viewed as harshly as it was created. Perhaps you feel that it is not neccesary (for instance, I don't see what David would lose in a loincloth), but I posit that that choice ought be left to the creator.
Legal issues aside, I understand the Directors feelings. Certainly when you get a competent director who make thoughtful stuff, like Stanley Kubrik or Dave Fincher or Quentin T., it's an insult to have people watching your movies under some sanitary cut. This isn't a plane or TV, where the audience will like the movie and then go to view the real thing. This is either really pathetic people not wanting to be offended, or parent's trying to show your art to children in a butchered manner. I think there is a difference, and I'd be damn pissed off if I took the time to create A Clockwork Orange, Se7en, or Fight Club, or Pulp Fiction, only to have people stipping it's essense out and changing the experience.
Again, it's not the same as the TV or plane version, because the goal here is not to open the movie for a wider audience (who can then go and see the real thing), it's a viewer asking someone else to protect them permenatly from the scenes that often make the movie.
But I guess I am sort of a sadist when it comes to these things, and prefer movies that make me uncomfortable and show raw humanity at it's best and worst. Also, note that if you think Stanley's, David's, or Quentin's work sucks, pick another director - the point still stands.
I looked at the screenshots, and the transparent menus and the drop shadows on the menu look really nice. I'm curious - are these KDE application things? Are they part of the windows manager that comes with KDE? Are they QT? And will they work over everything, or will they only work when QT menus are displayed over QT aps?
Just wondering if it is possible to have such nifty eyecandy work with my 95% GTK+/Sawfish environment, or if I would have to switch to the KDE environment to see this features.
...get really turned off by Knuth's over-inflated ego? I don't doubt that the guy is smart, but I can't stand even reading his FAQ, let alone trying to make it through tAoCS. I don't buy into all his bullshit about batch processing, etc... I think he's just a smart guy who's full of himself and likes to be eccentric. And has a lot of people eating out of his hand.
As evidence of this, I point to Dick Feynman, who was incredibly smart, amassed a decent body of work, both in terms of theories created and teaching books/lessons written, but at the same time took time out to play in a native Brazillian band.
I might be a computer scientist, but I look up to Dick Feynman, and I shake my head at Donald Knuth.
Sorry, IBM's VM already called dibs on that one.
That sucks, but it's also a good practice to only order stuff when you can test EVERYTHING before your exchange period is up, as a general rule of buying anything from anywhere.
Germany should simply offer to pay Argentina to rescue it's citizens. And perhaps throw in some foriegn aid. I can see why Argentina would be a little hesitant, since thier economy has been tanking recently - it's hard to sell a rescue mission for 107 people from another country to your populace when your economy is in the hole.
I use tccomputers.com for most of my stuff - they don't have bottom basement prices, but they are competitive and have good support (buy you MB & CPU from them, and they'll help you get it all running right if you have trouble)
Gotta get your memory from Crucial.com, they have Great prices, Great memory, and Free shipping (2nd day air).
For the remaining bits I either recycle from old PCs, use Pricewatch (with caution), or talk to friends who have parts I need.
Another thing to get in the habit of doing is buying lots of stuff when you find deals. I once got a bunch of IBM 10/100 Intel chip NICs for $15 a piece - I bought 5 of the suckers, and haven't had to buy a NIC since, even as my LAN has grown.
Huh... sounded like a rock plunking into water to me.
I guess I question how they justify thinking it was an animal, and not just some gas escaping from a sac of some sort (rock, vegetation, rotting marine life?)
Ovisouly I am no marine scientist, but it seems that something that sounds like air escaping in water could have a lot more origins than just a "sea monster".
Actually, that was more hyperbole than anything else - I was just making the point that it'd be a good excercise for RMS if he had to use his programming skills to earn a living rather than (and I am assuming this is the case) living off speaking fees and the FSF money.
Every time I read something by RMS, I get pissed off. I think that if he had been given a religious text rather than a computer during his formative years, he would be another David Koresh (spelling?). It's rare to find such an intelligent person so blinded by his own extreme ideology.
He excels at throwing the baby out with the bathwater. First off, as others have pointed out, a normal Linux distro has software that is non-GNU - it is not just the GNU project plus a kernel, which he seems to discount as being a trivial part of the thing (which baffles me). And as others have pointed out, BSDs rely on GNU tools as well. Hell, I use Cygwin all the time - but I guess that should be called GNU/Cygwin. Or perhaps it ought to be abolished becuase it runs on (non-free!) Windows.
The bottom line is that pragmatic, intelligent people - like myself, Linus, and the vast majority of Linux users - are going to run whatever combination of software they see fit, as long as the licenses don't offend thier sense of privacy, etc. If someone came out with a commercial DVD player that ran on Linux/PPC as well as the Mac OS X one did, I would buy it (for a reasonable price) immediately. I want a tool that does the job well - why should a tool on my computer be treated any differently than the torque wrench I use on my truck. Sure, it'd be a nice to have a free torque wrench, with the specs to build my own. And often I will find free and open instructions for doing something on my truck. But at the same time, when I deem that the best soultion is commercial and I feel the price is fair, I pay for it. Same with my computer - I love Linux, becuase it works better than anything else I've tried. I also like being able to talk to the developers and fiddle with the source myself (I once added a minor feature and had it incorporated, even). But I am not about to cripple my computer and make my life inconvenient for RMS and his overblown and arrogant views of the software world. He needs to wake up and realize that the software industry is just like every other - and it will never, nor should it ever, be 100% "free" software. It's not practical, it's not logical, and it would force me to find another career or live like a pauper.
In fact, with that in mind, I would love for everyone to stop giving any money to the FSF and/or RMS, and watch the guy either starve to death or come to the realization that *GASP* he's gonna get paid to write code for a company that is going to make money off it.
Am I the only one that found this book next to impossible to read? Everyone seems to use this book, but I have yet to find a student who thinks it is a clear and consise presentation of the material. Perhaps for a Senior/Graduate course for computer engineers, but when I had to use it for a (poorly taught) mid-level computer science course on architecture, I found it more infuriating than anything else.
I've found (and understood) good books on Computational Theory, so I figure I am capable of understanding Computer Architecture from a book as well, if it was presented well.
Someone finally beat out Katz in the full-of-myself, over-opinionated, no-one-bothers-to-read-the-whole-thing useless article contest.
I like how you tried to fend off the "Just f*cking use Google!!!" responses. But again, this sounds like someone with a job taking a shortcut by asking the /. community rather than just spending time searching and experimenting.
Geesh - I'd love to get paid for writing down stuff that the majority of moderatly intelligent people in this world already know. Where can I sign up?
Seriously, this isn't news, this is common-fucking-sense. Bad information with apparent credibility, whether from the 'net, religion, slanted news sources, revolutionary leaders, etc causes hate and misunderstanding. An objective and skeptical pursuit of truth and understanding (and aplication of your own intelligence, rather than trusting someone elses) erases same.
This guy needs to stop writing editorials, take a few history courses, and realize that his views are nothing new, and nothing amazing.
I am just a simple Caveman... your money and technology frighten and confuse me. But there is one thing I can understand - user interfaces with built in Alpha blending are l33t.