Someone claims X is art. If X pisses someone off, then X is probably art. If X pisses someone off so much that they want to ban it, then X is definitely art. If X doesn't piss anyone off, it probably is not art.
Ok, so technically that's more fuzzy than easy, but you get the idea.
Here's the plan. We ID the students who selected the choice "newspapers should NOT be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories". Then we round each one up, and bind their hands & feet. We make their parents kneel in front of them, and then we execute their parents w/ a bullet to the head. Then we gouge the kids' eyes out so that their dead ma & pa are the last things they ever see. Then we throw them out of the country.
(If you haven't already, go grab a copy. It explains how PowerPoint killed the Columbia astronauts, and if that doesn't drive the message home, I don't know what will...)
This is tricky, but it can be done. Regularly grab the latest prices of the gizmos n doodads that you want from Apple. The right time to "switch" is when you see them on eBay for 75% of their retail cost.
It may seem scary @ first, but you've got to believe in yourself. Good luck.
Remember when Capt. Crunch was randomly dialing numbers, and he found Richard Nixon's # in the White House? Good, now place yourself in a similar situation.
100 years from now, you're randomly wardialing and you stumble onto the Dick Cheney's fax machine. Now you fax him the "scaffolding" for a tribble. The president of the time will be like "WTF? HAX!" and VP Cheney will say "Toss it." So whoever's there crumples it up and throws it in the recycle bin...
Good so far?
Except crumpling it up is precisely what's required to assemble the cellsheet into a working tribble! So 100 years and 3 days from now, it's feasible to conceive of the possibility of the Democrats retaking the White House!
Here's the quote that fortune spit out @ the bottom of this page:
A friend of mine won't get a divorce, because he hates lawyers more than he hates his wife.
Can you name a single man here on slashdot who wouldn't get hot @ the thought of his wife wanting to use a UNIX-based operating system?
Get her the Mac Mini and get the AppleCare stuff so you won't have to worry about a damn thing in the event terrorists strike. And when she asks for help, you put one arm around her to work the keyboard, reach around her to grab the mouse, and whisper in her ear, "Oh no, baby, Safari is so much better than IE. Let me show you..."
Well, supposedly C code will compile straight in Cyclone, unless it's not typesafe. Whatever that means. So whereas Eiffel means you have to learn a new language, Cyclone means you only have to learn the new markup characters. NOTE! I only sat through the presentation on this once last year, it was the first thing that sprang (?) to mind, so I'm probably wrong.
Have you looked at D? Supposedly it's like C++ but w/ Design by Contract? (It also has an as ridiculous-to-google-for name as.NET...)
Reading the article, I don't think anyone would ever actually see the XML unless they edited the file w/ their own text editor. I think the point is that the editor adds and parses the XML for its own benefit. See, our text files were written in ASCII, now Unicode. Therefore, the evolution to a higher representation is (supposedly) logical. The best way to reason about it is a/. post I saw many moons ago, something like: "You wouldn't put ASCII on your résumé, would you? So why would you put XML?"
If I'm wrong, then this might be slightly more interesting in the long run than, say, Cyclone, where you have to learn a tiny amount more of additional syntax to mark that "this pointer was meant to point to data, not code", "this pointer should not write beyond this boundary", "this function has no business mucking up its stack", etc.
The latter is a bit more readable but more annoying to write. Better we have tools to generate this stuff for us.
And then someone will come out of the woodworks to say "Knuth had Literate Programming back in the 80s, why the fuck aren't we using that?" but that's another rant altogether.
I'm guessing How Would You Move Mt. Fuji would be the definitive book on the subject. It's been covered here before. That review is from 2003, so it's not a stretch to suspect that it's filtered out to all the HR llamas...
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There's a very easy way to answer this question:
Someone claims X is art.
If X pisses someone off, then X is probably art.
If X pisses someone off so much that they want to ban it, then X is definitely art.
If X doesn't piss anyone off, it probably is not art.
Ok, so technically that's more fuzzy than easy, but you get the idea.
I'm just not trying hard enough. :p
Sometimes I'm replying to someone else's post, so I don't bother changing the subject?
I suspect that if you have to ask "Who owns my weblog content?", then the answer probably won't be what you want to hear.
Great, so which one of you is going to teach these robots what "love" means?
Here's the plan. We ID the students who selected the choice "newspapers should NOT be allowed to publish freely without government approval of stories". Then we round each one up, and bind their hands & feet. We make their parents kneel in front of them, and then we execute their parents w/ a bullet to the head. Then we gouge the kids' eyes out so that their dead ma & pa are the last things they ever see. Then we throw them out of the country.
How can I justify this? Easy: self-defense.
Snood was the game that introduced me to spyware. "Gator? What's this?"
I'm more curious about how many people on the rescue team have read The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint?
(If you haven't already, go grab a copy. It explains how PowerPoint killed the Columbia astronauts, and if that doesn't drive the message home, I don't know what will...)
RAWR, no discussion of dual-core CPUs is complete w/out a mention of Herb Sutter's The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software!
This is tricky, but it can be done. Regularly grab the latest prices of the gizmos n doodads that you want from Apple. The right time to "switch" is when you see them on eBay for 75% of their retail cost.
It may seem scary @ first, but you've got to believe in yourself. Good luck.
Lack of imagination, I guess. ^^;;
Just curious, does anyone have a list of predictions made by John Dvorak which turned out to be true?
Can anyone recommend cool plants in the same vein as the submitter, but ones that don't have flowers? You know, for all the geeks allergic to pollen?
No, we shouldn't, but thanks for letting us know that we have another thing to bitch to our congresscritters about.
I die on the day I can no longer write my own code. Figuratively and literally.
What do I win?
Remember when Capt. Crunch was randomly dialing numbers, and he found Richard Nixon's # in the White House? Good, now place yourself in a similar situation.
100 years from now, you're randomly wardialing and you stumble onto the Dick Cheney's fax machine. Now you fax him the "scaffolding" for a tribble. The president of the time will be like "WTF? HAX!" and VP Cheney will say "Toss it." So whoever's there crumples it up and throws it in the recycle bin...
Good so far?
Except crumpling it up is precisely what's required to assemble the cellsheet into a working tribble! So 100 years and 3 days from now, it's feasible to conceive of the possibility of the Democrats retaking the White House!
Off-topic, but the FPP should have said Carnage4Life instead of Dare Obasanjo...
Can you name a single man here on slashdot who wouldn't get hot @ the thought of his wife wanting to use a UNIX-based operating system?
Get her the Mac Mini and get the AppleCare stuff so you won't have to worry about a damn thing in the event terrorists strike. And when she asks for help, you put one arm around her to work the keyboard, reach around her to grab the mouse, and whisper in her ear, "Oh no, baby, Safari is so much better than IE. Let me show you..."
*cough*
Well, supposedly C code will compile straight in Cyclone, unless it's not typesafe. Whatever that means. So whereas Eiffel means you have to learn a new language, Cyclone means you only have to learn the new markup characters. NOTE! I only sat through the presentation on this once last year, it was the first thing that sprang (?) to mind, so I'm probably wrong.
.NET...)
Have you looked at D? Supposedly it's like C++ but w/ Design by Contract? (It also has an as ridiculous-to-google-for name as
I would've said "evading robots", but you're spot on.
If I'm wrong, then this might be slightly more interesting in the long run than, say, Cyclone, where you have to learn a tiny amount more of additional syntax to mark that "this pointer was meant to point to data, not code", "this pointer should not write beyond this boundary", "this function has no business mucking up its stack", etc.
Alternatively, look at Visual Studio.NET. vs. The latter is a bit more readable but more annoying to write. Better we have tools to generate this stuff for us.
And then someone will come out of the woodworks to say "Knuth had Literate Programming back in the 80s, why the fuck aren't we using that?" but that's another rant altogether.
So when does he get fired and replaced by a chick? Just curious.
I'm guessing How Would You Move Mt. Fuji would be the definitive book on the subject. It's been covered here before. That review is from 2003, so it's not a stretch to suspect that it's filtered out to all the HR llamas...
Just went through the article, and they failed to mention how tasty it was...