Yeah, people would never use language they had to pay for. That whole Visual Studio thing MS thunk up a while back- pure insanity! [1]
[1] though now you can get the CLI C# compiler free in the.NET SDK... But older versions of VS, with C++ and VB were far from free and very, very popular dev tools and languages.
The point wasn't that morphine at any dose is toxic. The point was at the right dose it is. As you point out, you can even OD on nutmeg.... Just like mineral oil! Sure, you can take a little to help give you the runs, and at that dosage it isn't going to kill you. But inhaling vaporized mineral oil for an extended period (e.g. the 10 hours a day this bloke may be at his machine) may not be the best idea.
Next time you're going to try to be a superior asshole, try to have a handle on what you trying to tear down. Maybe my point was a little obtuse, but now that I've explained it in more detail, I hope you understand.
Windows can't do SSH, but if can do FTP filesystem browsing. It's what I use as a cross-platform means of sharing, at least in my personal behind-the-firewall network... The insecurity of FTP would make me avoid doing it over the greater internet, but at home it works great, and what can't do FTP? Ubuntu, Windows and OS X all give you a nice GUI for FTP with the finder-equivalents.
I used to work the University helpdesk... When folks would call in to find out how to FTP something to their web accounts, I would just tell them to type "ftp://username@www.d.umn.edu" and login- they were always so happy to find out that FTP doesn't have to be hard. Most folks in IT just would explain how to use the command line client.:P
Morphine isn't that toxic. They used to and continue to use it for an effective pain killer, cough supressant and anti-diahreal medicine. Must not be toxic then, huh?
Strangely enough, that name is JEHOVAH. Makes you wonder why it is that in more modern revisions of the King James, God's name has been removed, doesn't it? I mean, why remove the name of God in the very book that God provided for His worshipers?
Perhaps Jehovah's Witnesses have aren't so bad, eh? After all at least they know how to address God using His name.
Calling God Jehovah makes about as much sense as calling Yeshua/Yehushua Jesus. Meaning, it doesn't. The name of God that you're talking about isn't Jehovah, it's YHVH, or spelt out in Hebrew letters Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh. Which is, incidentally, unpronouncable, since we don't know the vowels to use to make it pronouncable. So either you say Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh outloud, or you do what they did to make Yahweh out of it- take the vowels from another godname, Adonai, and toss them in there. Goofy as all hell, and just plain incorrect.
Jehovah is even farther off, as you're anglosizing it incorrectly, getting that hard J sound. There is no "J" in Hebrew, Aramic or Latin. Some Ch sounds may come close, but it's not ChHVH or TzHVH.
Not that I know much about Hebrew, but it doesn't take a scholarly rabbi to know these basics.
Looks like there is. Either from Microsoft, or this outfit which isn't too expensive. $15 for the latter vs untold MILLIONS (of pesos) for the former. But still, it's there if you want it.
I thought the movie Zaphod was not only not very likeable, I thought the was semi-despisable. I guess I thought of him as as callous, but likeable rockstar kind of guy... In the film he seemed like a big asshole, and not in a good way.
Well, I work in the industry too, and guess what? Farting at the wrong time can cause a huge catastrophy. So, obviously, our gentle readers should believe me over you and the grandparent!
Precisely. The first time I tried this- before it was renamed Archy, over a year ago- I just thought (rather, really hoped) it was a very well crafted joke on Raskin's part. What's easier than Windows, Icons, Menu and Pointers? Having to memorize textual commands and do some backassword things to invoke them! Maybe Archy will have tab completion one day (I use it all the time in emacs after I hit M-x), but that is still light years from optimal...
In Squeak's defense: you can use it to create your single-purpose apps. And thanks to support for wxWidgets, you can even create native-looking, single-purpose apps in Squeak. Or, you can still use Morphic and do it the cooler way, but either way it's pretty easy to package an app for delivery, having two files (the VM and the.image) as a part of installer/zip/tgz. I think there's a way to even embed the.image file in the VM's exe as a resource, but no one has found that much of a concern for quite a while...
Ugh, I'm with you. I hate typing ~n. The more annoying part is when you don't know which number to use in n- it's not like like everything is ~1 and magically works.
He must be using Windows 95/98, which in a DOS shell will list both Program Files and Progra~1 when you do a 'dir.' you can't type "cd \program files" in 9x; you have to use either "cd \progra~1" or 'cd "\program files"' which is also annoying. On NT4/2k/XP it shows up as c:\program files, not c:\progra~1, though "cd \progra~1" works for me on XP.
But yeah, I really doubt anyone else is so worked up about this. Very few folks give even a third of a damn about the decrepid OSes of 95 and 98, especially when 2000 runs better than either of them even on pretty crappy and old hardware (233 MHz p2 w/ 96 MB of RAM or more). Especially in an app that doesn't even use filenames.
this isn't the first time i've seen something akin to this. haujobb released a 2-disc album (on the metropolis label, not "major," but bigger than nothing records). the first album contained remixes of the songs on haujobb's "solutions for a small planet," while the second disc contained all of the audio samples and loops that went into making the music. you could use them to make remixes of haujobb's music, and also to make original music of your own, using their samples with others to make your own stuff. this was waaay back, maybe in 1996-8 IIRC. badass.
Dare I say that might be a good idea, so much as it's not the USSR past 1925 or so. All power to the Soviets! This time, for real! Not just to the Politburo or General Secretary/Chairman of the Presidium.
If you're going to mention Lisp, the key is not just that there are Lisp implementations for OS X- we've got them on Linux and Windows too. But what you can get on OS X that you can't get anywhere is the marrying of a really kick ass API- Cocoa- with almost any great language. You can do a tremendous amount with a language like Smalltalk, Lisp, Ruby, Python, Perl, Lua, etc etc with access to the Cocoa classes, and you can do it in only a few lines...
Saying "Aim high" is a bit of a joke compared to lossless formats, but I do pretty much this same thing. I rip to high VBR MP3, 324 kb IIRC. And then for my Axim with it's 1 GB SD card (over half of which is my local mirror of Wikipedia!) I transcode (using GX::Transcode, great free [or shareware, not sure] app for Windows) to 128 bit ogg. I personally don't notice any difference between transcoding and just ripping to OGG from CD or transcoding from FLAC, but I'm no extreme audiophile- but in general, compressed sound artefacts bug the hell out of me when I *can* hear them, and I've been satisfied with this method of mine so far.
I've got a handy macro/script to automate this. If I'm listening to something in iTunes and I decide I want it on my Axim, I go to my well-organized Music folder, right-click on the folder with the album, select Send To then "OGGify and Copy to PDA." It converts it and copies it to my PDA, or if it's already transcoded, copies it to my PDA.
I wonder what percentage of those who make comments like in this posting ("i.e. lifelong virgins") are either virgins, or were only deflowered by their best friend at boy scout camp, a paid lady for Nevada, or the cheapest technicality- counting oral sex or a handjob as something that qualifies you as a non-virgin. Or, maybe their girlfriend almost never puts out, so they feel compelled to put other people down to make themselves feel more like a man.
Anyway, it's lame and old. That's all I'm trying to say.
P.S. My girlfriend wants to sit in line for Episode 3. Although, she only wants to wait in line for the night, but still- I'm in. Those whacky experiences are the things you remember for your whole life- like a road trip, etc. To each his own.
P.P.S. I even have sex with her.
P.P.P.S. Nerd girlfriends are the best girlfriends, most of the time. Except when their nuts. Then they're the worst.
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I 2nd the reccomendation for 10 thumbs; they also make a really cool RAD IDE. :) My girlfriend loved learning Dvorak with it.
Yeah, people would never use language they had to pay for. That whole Visual Studio thing MS thunk up a while back- pure insanity! [1]
.NET SDK... But older versions of VS, with C++ and VB were far from free and very, very popular dev tools and languages.
[1] though now you can get the CLI C# compiler free in the
Give me the morphine and I'll happily take it.
... Just like mineral oil! Sure, you can take a little to help give you the runs, and at that dosage it isn't going to kill you. But inhaling vaporized mineral oil for an extended period (e.g. the 10 hours a day this bloke may be at his machine) may not be the best idea.
The point wasn't that morphine at any dose is toxic. The point was at the right dose it is. As you point out, you can even OD on nutmeg.
Next time you're going to try to be a superior asshole, try to have a handle on what you trying to tear down. Maybe my point was a little obtuse, but now that I've explained it in more detail, I hope you understand.
Joy: Smalltalk
Windows can't do SSH, but if can do FTP filesystem browsing. It's what I use as a cross-platform means of sharing, at least in my personal behind-the-firewall network... The insecurity of FTP would make me avoid doing it over the greater internet, but at home it works great, and what can't do FTP? Ubuntu, Windows and OS X all give you a nice GUI for FTP with the finder-equivalents.
:P
I used to work the University helpdesk... When folks would call in to find out how to FTP something to their web accounts, I would just tell them to type "ftp://username@www.d.umn.edu" and login- they were always so happy to find out that FTP doesn't have to be hard. Most folks in IT just would explain how to use the command line client.
Morphine isn't that toxic. They used to and continue to use it for an effective pain killer, cough supressant and anti-diahreal medicine. Must not be toxic then, huh?
*phew* that's a relief! fish can live in veggie oil, after all.
Strangely enough, that name is JEHOVAH. Makes you wonder why it is that in more modern revisions of the King James, God's name has been removed, doesn't it? I mean, why remove the name of God in the very book that God provided for His worshipers?
Perhaps Jehovah's Witnesses have aren't so bad, eh? After all at least they know how to address God using His name.
Calling God Jehovah makes about as much sense as calling Yeshua/Yehushua Jesus. Meaning, it doesn't. The name of God that you're talking about isn't Jehovah, it's YHVH, or spelt out in Hebrew letters Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh. Which is, incidentally, unpronouncable, since we don't know the vowels to use to make it pronouncable. So either you say Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh outloud, or you do what they did to make Yahweh out of it- take the vowels from another godname, Adonai, and toss them in there. Goofy as all hell, and just plain incorrect.
Jehovah is even farther off, as you're anglosizing it incorrectly, getting that hard J sound. There is no "J" in Hebrew, Aramic or Latin. Some Ch sounds may come close, but it's not ChHVH or TzHVH.
Not that I know much about Hebrew, but it doesn't take a scholarly rabbi to know these basics.
Hell, I have USERS with less than 512 MB of brains!
Isn't there already a web version of Outlook?
Looks like there is. Either from Microsoft, or this outfit which isn't too expensive. $15 for the latter vs untold MILLIONS (of pesos) for the former. But still, it's there if you want it.
I second the reccomendation. Either Croquet or just regular Squeak Smalltalk which includes the Alice 3D engine.
I thought the movie Zaphod was not only not very likeable, I thought the was semi-despisable. I guess I thought of him as as callous, but likeable rockstar kind of guy... In the film he seemed like a big asshole, and not in a good way.
...does anyone here seriously think that bash.org or /. is the first time anyone else discussed this?
Well, I work in the industry too, and guess what? Farting at the wrong time can cause a huge catastrophy. So, obviously, our gentle readers should believe me over you and the grandparent!
Precisely. The first time I tried this- before it was renamed Archy, over a year ago- I just thought (rather, really hoped) it was a very well crafted joke on Raskin's part. What's easier than Windows, Icons, Menu and Pointers? Having to memorize textual commands and do some backassword things to invoke them! Maybe Archy will have tab completion one day (I use it all the time in emacs after I hit M-x), but that is still light years from optimal...
Well, it was a cute dream. Maybe next time?
In Squeak's defense: you can use it to create your single-purpose apps. And thanks to support for wxWidgets, you can even create native-looking, single-purpose apps in Squeak. Or, you can still use Morphic and do it the cooler way, but either way it's pretty easy to package an app for delivery, having two files (the VM and the .image) as a part of installer/zip/tgz. I think there's a way to even embed the .image file in the VM's exe as a resource, but no one has found that much of a concern for quite a while...
Ugh, I'm with you. I hate typing ~n. The more annoying part is when you don't know which number to use in n- it's not like like everything is ~1 and magically works.
He must be using Windows 95/98, which in a DOS shell will list both Program Files and Progra~1 when you do a 'dir.' you can't type "cd \program files" in 9x; you have to use either "cd \progra~1" or 'cd "\program files"' which is also annoying. On NT4/2k/XP it shows up as c:\program files, not c:\progra~1, though "cd \progra~1" works for me on XP.
But yeah, I really doubt anyone else is so worked up about this. Very few folks give even a third of a damn about the decrepid OSes of 95 and 98, especially when 2000 runs better than either of them even on pretty crappy and old hardware (233 MHz p2 w/ 96 MB of RAM or more). Especially in an app that doesn't even use filenames.
this isn't the first time i've seen something akin to this. haujobb released a 2-disc album (on the metropolis label, not "major," but bigger than nothing records). the first album contained remixes of the songs on haujobb's "solutions for a small planet," while the second disc contained all of the audio samples and loops that went into making the music. you could use them to make remixes of haujobb's music, and also to make original music of your own, using their samples with others to make your own stuff. this was waaay back, maybe in 1996-8 IIRC. badass.
I say we urge Putin to bring back the USSR.
Dare I say that might be a good idea, so much as it's not the USSR past 1925 or so. All power to the Soviets! This time, for real! Not just to the Politburo or General Secretary/Chairman of the Presidium.
OK, OK- point taken. How about metal pins?
If you're going to mention Lisp, the key is not just that there are Lisp implementations for OS X- we've got them on Linux and Windows too. But what you can get on OS X that you can't get anywhere is the marrying of a really kick ass API- Cocoa- with almost any great language. You can do a tremendous amount with a language like Smalltalk, Lisp, Ruby, Python, Perl, Lua, etc etc with access to the Cocoa classes, and you can do it in only a few lines...
Well, first we'd need a revolution and a country to carry it out in. Who here is for a Trotskyist Canada?
Saying "Aim high" is a bit of a joke compared to lossless formats, but I do pretty much this same thing. I rip to high VBR MP3, 324 kb IIRC. And then for my Axim with it's 1 GB SD card (over half of which is my local mirror of Wikipedia!) I transcode (using GX::Transcode, great free [or shareware, not sure] app for Windows) to 128 bit ogg. I personally don't notice any difference between transcoding and just ripping to OGG from CD or transcoding from FLAC, but I'm no extreme audiophile- but in general, compressed sound artefacts bug the hell out of me when I *can* hear them, and I've been satisfied with this method of mine so far.
I've got a handy macro/script to automate this. If I'm listening to something in iTunes and I decide I want it on my Axim, I go to my well-organized Music folder, right-click on the folder with the album, select Send To then "OGGify and Copy to PDA." It converts it and copies it to my PDA, or if it's already transcoded, copies it to my PDA.
I wonder what percentage of those who make comments like in this posting ("i.e. lifelong virgins") are either virgins, or were only deflowered by their best friend at boy scout camp, a paid lady for Nevada, or the cheapest technicality- counting oral sex or a handjob as something that qualifies you as a non-virgin. Or, maybe their girlfriend almost never puts out, so they feel compelled to put other people down to make themselves feel more like a man.
Anyway, it's lame and old. That's all I'm trying to say.
P.S. My girlfriend wants to sit in line for Episode 3. Although, she only wants to wait in line for the night, but still- I'm in. Those whacky experiences are the things you remember for your whole life- like a road trip, etc. To each his own.
P.P.S. I even have sex with her.
P.P.P.S. Nerd girlfriends are the best girlfriends, most of the time. Except when their nuts. Then they're the worst.