Good post. Speaking as a minor league linux nerd who is working making a flash app for a win centric company, you might try GVIM. It'a gui'd version of vim and it's all i use. Of course, there's probably a million reasons I should be using something else, but the speed at which I've been able to add features myself really makes me happy. Updating the syntax highlighting to include undocumented actionscript? Took about 10 minutes. Assign common structures to F[1-12]. Oh, 15 minutes. Write a script to automatically renumber huge xml files? Wow, that took 30-45 minutes. I loves me some vim.
I was in a position a couple years ago to hire somebody. I decided to do it the 'tech' way since it was a tech job and post the job on Monster and Dice. I would never, ever do that again. My job for three weeks was to sort through the over 100 resumes I got a day. Most of which were laughably unsuited. I kept a few of the emails I thought were really funny around for years.
Like the ones that were in all caps. If you're applying for a computer job, I think some mastery of the caps lock key might be a demosntrable asset. But those were the entertaining ones. Most of it was just depressing.
Since then whenever anybody I work with has to hire somebody, I recommend checking the posted resumes, talking to agencies, asking friends, posting on craigslist, but not posting on the commercial boards. It just hurts.
Actually Guy Piccoletto of Fugazi used to pretty much do that with his band Rites of Spring. And he looked like a comp sci geek of the endomorphic variety.
France was against the war because it has the largest arab population of any country in Europe. They thought, and they might be right, that the only thing this war would do would be to increase worldwide terrorist activity. The last thing they need is any more terrorism there.
Did anybody else notice that the new file dialogue shown here: http://scr.golem.de/?d=0310/gimp&p=7
includes a form for toilet paper? My god I love open source software!
Okay, this is/., let's use a software metaphor. Take a huge, complicated, C program that does something mathematical. Let's say factoring numbers (I know that doesn't need to be huge, but this is a metaphor). Now take a couple of giant functions used for pushing pixels around in a different program, give them names that the math program is using and stick them in there. What do you think the odds are that the math program is going to function more efficiently? I'd guess pretty damn low.
Your body is more complicated than that by a factor that would involve some serious scientific notation. Synthetic chemicals are also extrememly complicated, and have nothing to do with the way your body works.
Most people are missing the point about this. Yeah, it probably won't seriously affect a grown person, although long-term cancer rates are never discussed in these studies. However, we know that a developing infant is much more seriously affected by the introduction of these chemicals. It's not that we don't care that the mother has these chemicals in her body, it's that the infant is going to be much more affected by them, and for the rest of it's life.
I want future generations to have access to kirk/spock gay fan stories! How could we just let that dissapear?
Really. Methinks the author of this didn't really take a look at the majority of webpages on the net. I mean we're not talking about the library of Alexandria here, we're talking about pron sites and endlessly cross-linked blogs. Fun? Yeah. Important to the preservation of culture? God I hope not.
"This is a part I went after really aggressively," says Affleck. "I've always been a fan of Philip K. Dick, both his writings and the movie adaptations...."
Man, if you can say you're a fan of his writings and the movie adaptations with a straight face, you're obviously a couple beers short of a six-pack. How anybody could claim that Total Recall is a 'big-budget movie for smart people' is beyond me.
See, the thing is, PKD wanted to pry at the surface of manufactured reality and peel away the layers. Hollywood wants to slap some more varnish on and make it glossier. Sometimes those contradictions can make good movies, but it's usually unintentionally.
I'm a huge PKD fan, but when I see a movie that says it's based on one of his stories, I go running in the other direction. (until it's on video and I'm feeling masochistic)
I completely agree. I think the third book in the Valis trilogy, 'The Transmigration of Bishop Timothy Archer' is also one of the more amazing books about dealing with insanity from the outside. If you can find the collected version of the Valis trilogy, it's worth buying. It's out of print, but the introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson makes it worth the search. It talks a lot about Dick's relationship with his own struggles with mental illness and how it affected his writing and personal relationships.
Reading that, and all three Valis books in a row, really put Dick's work in general in a new light for me.
Yeah, it's pretty easy. David Lynch is a lame filmmaker (with an admittedly amazing eye) who is given big checks to make movies by hollywood so that they can drag people into the mall who would otherwise be out looking for real art films. If you'd like to see what a real visionary can do with the same themes, watch any Jodorowsky film.
...even though I'm really sorry to see they're having problems. As somebody who is forced to use a Win box at work, I've found foobar to be the best audio player hands down. It's really small footprint means I can work using three open memory hogging programs at once and still listen to music. If only it did streaming windows media, I'd never use anything else.
I'm really hoping that this story leads to more attention being paid to foobar, as I think it's a real gem.
Does it strike anybody else as odd that the favorite desktp is KDE and the favorite email app is Evolution? Are there that many people mixing the two? I'm genuinely wondering because I seem to get mixed results when I do that. That's why I stuck to kmail.
That seems remarkably ridiculous as it's their bandwidth that's getting toasted. I was on vacation in the deep maine woods when the sobig hit it's stride. obviously, all three of my main email accounts went over limit. It also tied up other email accounts getting bouncebacks from my isp's server. I think they were a little peeved at me.
Actually, you just pointed out my problem with most of fantasy I've read in the last decade or so. Falling back on the 'it's magic, and you can't explain it, so there!' to move the story forward always seems juvenile and random to me. Rather than enveloping you in a different world, you just see the hand of the author messing with you.
Now, I'm not saying that this problem with fantasy makes science fiction inherently better, or that a larger percentage of sci-fi is better, I'm just saying what you percieve as a strength, I percieve as shoddy writing. By the same token sci-fi that neglects it's characters is also shoddy writing.
Oh, btw, for the people complaining about sci-fi beeing too futury and not character driven, have you read any of Sterlings recent work? Distraction, Holy Fire, and Zeitgeist are all about human beings and the weirdness they can generate. I highly recommend them. (especially Zeitgeist)
--There is nothing unsafe about a defensive nuclear missle.--
Wow. That's the most jaw-dropping pile of bullshit I've ever seen. What, is defensive fallout magically good for you because it's defensive? Maybe we could take some of the nuke power plants and christen them defensive so that if they blow, no problem. Pick up the dust and sprinkle it on your cereal, kids! It's defensive!
Seriously, the Patriot system was deeply flawed, but let's say that the most optimistic assumptions were true and it hit like 50% of the time. That's 50% misses. With a targeted nuke, that's a random pile of death for thousands of years with no real idea where it's going. Great idea.
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Tell me this means a remake of Chiller!
Good post. Speaking as a minor league linux nerd who is working making a flash app for a win centric company, you might try GVIM. It'a gui'd version of vim and it's all i use. Of course, there's probably a million reasons I should be using something else, but the speed at which I've been able to add features myself really makes me happy. Updating the syntax highlighting to include undocumented actionscript? Took about 10 minutes. Assign common structures to F[1-12]. Oh, 15 minutes. Write a script to automatically renumber huge xml files? Wow, that took 30-45 minutes.
I loves me some vim.
I was in a position a couple years ago to hire somebody. I decided to do it the 'tech' way since it was a tech job and post the job on Monster and Dice. I would never, ever do that again. My job for three weeks was to sort through the over 100 resumes I got a day. Most of which were laughably unsuited. I kept a few of the emails I thought were really funny around for years.
Like the ones that were in all caps. If you're applying for a computer job, I think some mastery of the caps lock key might be a demosntrable asset. But those were the entertaining ones. Most of it was just depressing.
Since then whenever anybody I work with has to hire somebody, I recommend checking the posted resumes, talking to agencies, asking friends, posting on craigslist, but not posting on the commercial boards. It just hurts.
Actually Guy Piccoletto of Fugazi used to pretty much do that with his band Rites of Spring. And he looked like a comp sci geek of the endomorphic variety.
Hope it isn't this guy doing the installing.
France was against the war because it has the largest arab population of any country in Europe. They thought, and they might be right, that the only thing this war would do would be to increase worldwide terrorist activity. The last thing they need is any more terrorism there.
Did anybody else notice that the new file dialogue shown here:
http://scr.golem.de/?d=0310/gimp&p=7
includes a form for toilet paper? My god I love open source software!
Uh, I don't know where to start with this....
/., let's use a software metaphor. Take a huge, complicated, C program that does something mathematical. Let's say factoring numbers (I know that doesn't need to be huge, but this is a metaphor). Now take a couple of giant functions used for pushing pixels around in a different program, give them names that the math program is using and stick them in there. What do you think the odds are that the math program is going to function more efficiently? I'd guess pretty damn low.
Okay, this is
Your body is more complicated than that by a factor that would involve some serious scientific notation. Synthetic chemicals are also extrememly complicated, and have nothing to do with the way your body works.
Most people are missing the point about this. Yeah, it probably won't seriously affect a grown person, although long-term cancer rates are never discussed in these studies. However, we know that a developing infant is much more seriously affected by the introduction of these chemicals. It's not that we don't care that the mother has these chemicals in her body, it's that the infant is going to be much more affected by them, and for the rest of it's life.
In case you lost track, that's bad.
I want future generations to have access to kirk/spock gay fan stories! How could we just let that dissapear?
Really. Methinks the author of this didn't really take a look at the majority of webpages on the net. I mean we're not talking about the library of Alexandria here, we're talking about pron sites and endlessly cross-linked blogs. Fun? Yeah. Important to the preservation of culture? God I hope not.
"This is a part I went after really aggressively," says Affleck. "I've always been a fan of Philip K. Dick, both his writings and the movie adaptations...."
Man, if you can say you're a fan of his writings and the movie adaptations with a straight face, you're obviously a couple beers short of a six-pack. How anybody could claim that Total Recall is a 'big-budget movie for smart people' is beyond me.
See, the thing is, PKD wanted to pry at the surface of manufactured reality and peel away the layers. Hollywood wants to slap some more varnish on and make it glossier. Sometimes those contradictions can make good movies, but it's usually unintentionally.
I'm a huge PKD fan, but when I see a movie that says it's based on one of his stories, I go running in the other direction. (until it's on video and I'm feeling masochistic)
I completely agree. I think the third book in the Valis trilogy, 'The Transmigration of Bishop Timothy Archer' is also one of the more amazing books about dealing with insanity from the outside. If you can find the collected version of the Valis trilogy, it's worth buying. It's out of print, but the introduction by Kim Stanley Robinson makes it worth the search. It talks a lot about Dick's relationship with his own struggles with mental illness and how it affected his writing and personal relationships.
Reading that, and all three Valis books in a row, really put Dick's work in general in a new light for me.
Yeah, it's pretty easy. David Lynch is a lame filmmaker (with an admittedly amazing eye) who is given big checks to make movies by hollywood so that they can drag people into the mall who would otherwise be out looking for real art films. If you'd like to see what a real visionary can do with the same themes, watch any Jodorowsky film.
You did actually see that it was posted under a humour header, right? Right?
I can't seem to find any screenshots of it. Anybody have any? They're touting bluecurve, so I'd like to see it.
I'm really hoping that this story leads to more attention being paid to foobar, as I think it's a real gem.
Does it strike anybody else as odd that the favorite desktp is KDE and the favorite email app is Evolution? Are there that many people mixing the two? I'm genuinely wondering because I seem to get mixed results when I do that. That's why I stuck to kmail.
Well, there is Foobar 2000. But I doubt that's going to solve any integration problems. (being about 200 dollars short of an mp3 player I don't know)
I don't know about in hospitals, but I know they certainly spread the 'I don't know enough to shut the hell up in a movie theater' infection.
That seems remarkably ridiculous as it's their bandwidth that's getting toasted. I was on vacation in the deep maine woods when the sobig hit it's stride. obviously, all three of my main email accounts went over limit. It also tied up other email accounts getting bouncebacks from my isp's server. I think they were a little peeved at me.
Actually, you just pointed out my problem with most of fantasy I've read in the last decade or so. Falling back on the 'it's magic, and you can't explain it, so there!' to move the story forward always seems juvenile and random to me. Rather than enveloping you in a different world, you just see the hand of the author messing with you.
Now, I'm not saying that this problem with fantasy makes science fiction inherently better, or that a larger percentage of sci-fi is better, I'm just saying what you percieve as a strength, I percieve as shoddy writing. By the same token sci-fi that neglects it's characters is also shoddy writing.
Oh, btw, for the people complaining about sci-fi beeing too futury and not character driven, have you read any of Sterlings recent work? Distraction, Holy Fire, and Zeitgeist are all about human beings and the weirdness they can generate. I highly recommend them. (especially Zeitgeist)
It's also a pubic hair wig. Just so you know.
Metallica needs to be sent back in time so they can get their asses kicked.
by Metallica.
From Frank Miller's 300.
That, or Flaming Carrot
UT!
What, as opposed to the happy shiny people that are running around now?
--There is nothing unsafe about a defensive nuclear missle.--
Wow. That's the most jaw-dropping pile of bullshit I've ever seen. What, is defensive fallout magically good for you because it's defensive? Maybe we could take some of the nuke power plants and christen them defensive so that if they blow, no problem. Pick up the dust and sprinkle it on your cereal, kids! It's defensive!
Seriously, the Patriot system was deeply flawed, but let's say that the most optimistic assumptions were true and it hit like 50% of the time. That's 50% misses. With a targeted nuke, that's a random pile of death for thousands of years with no real idea where it's going. Great idea.