The thing is that if the DOJ just came out and admitted, "We're letting Microsoft off the hook completely in exchange for them giving us the ability to spy on terrorists for national security reasons.", most Americans would be all for it. The DOJ shouldn't be hiding this fact; they should be advertising it as a feature. That will win them all the public support they could want.
Perhaps the DOJ needs to borrow Microsoft's PR
spin doctor folks.
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ChicagoFan
The commercial has a new Meatloaf song
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The company that makes dashPC has hired Meatloaf to provide a theme song for their product: "Paradise by the Dashboard Linux".
Some one define "platonic truths" for me please. I don't think I grasp the point of the quoted statement in the article.
A "platonic truth" is a law regarding platonic
behavior. The First Platonic Truth, for example, is, "she wants to be just friends". If it were not for the platonic truths, most scientists would never have turned to science to begin with, so these truths are very influential in driving scientific discovery.
...and please. That stupid dot-in-the-bottom-of-the-left-eyelid would never happen. If clone's creator wants them to assimilate among the general population, the last thing they need is a definitive marker, saying "kick me!".
The funniest part of the movie was when the Main Bad Guy says to the female assassin, "how many times have you been cloned", and she says, "I've lost count". Main Bad Guy then tells Arnold about the dot-in-the-eye, and assassin woman pulls down
her eyelid to reveal she's been cloned four times.
And I thought, "You lost count after only four times???"
I was hoping this movie would be good because it is (to my knowledge) the first starring role for Zoe McLellan, the actress who played the mage Marina in the film.
"Sliders" fans (all two of us:-) ) might remember her as Logan St. Claire, the "alternate Quinn" villain from the episode "Double Cross". Logan St. Claire is widely considered to be the best villain in the history of the show by the "Sliders" fandom, so of course Ms. McLellan was the one actress that the dimwit producer of "Sliders" -- the one who ruined the show after its promising start under another producer -- refused to bring back for a second appearance.
Anyway, many of the "Sliders" fans who knew she was going to be in this film were hoping it might turn out to be good. It's too bad that that isn't the case, for whatever reason. Hopefully this won't kill the career of Ms. McLellan, since she has generally shown an affinity for the sci-fi/fantasy genre in her role choices and I think that sort of thing should be encouraged.
I wouldn't claim to "know" c/c++/perl and then in the same breath say "i have no real programming experience." code for a decade in one of the above, then come back and tell us you know it.
Walt Parazadier, saxophonist for the band Chicago, once told a story about his dad, who is a 70 or 80 year old trumpet player who had played trumpet his entire life. His dad apparently was practicing one recent day, and turned to his son, who was visiting, and said of the trumpet, "Someday I'm going to learn this thing." The point, of course, being that you have never truly mastered the instrument and that there is always more to learn.
I'd say it's the same with C++. You could program in it for 20 years, and you'll still look at your code one day and say, "Someday, I'm going to learn this language."
Now I'm off to play the Bard's Tale II on my old trusty Apple IIgs (it's still more enjoyable than about 90% of the games I've seen in the past few years).
I had an Intellivision when I was younger. There was a game called "Operation" or "Infection" (you control a tiny medical probe that must zoom through the body killing tumors and kidney stones and such while not being eaten by viruses) that was loads of fun, and I'd play it even today.
Plus of course there are all those classics as well...
The point being, I agree that it's not good graphics that make a game fun.
ChicagoFan
The return of Logan St. Claire!
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As a fan of the "Sliders" epsidoes that were actually halfway decent, it's nice to see Zoe McLellan getting a major movie role (she's Marina, one of the folks on the quest).
A method by which the volume level of a sound device may be extended past the limit originally built into it during the manufacturing process. This is accomplished through the replacement of the existing scale of graduation with a scale that has a finer level of granularity. This finer granularity results in a greater number of volume levels within the existing hardware constraints of the device. For example, a stereo amplifier that previously had a maximum volume level of "10", could, through the use of this technique, now achieve a volume level of "11" instead.
Besides, when I'm busy programming or almost any other form of hacking like setting up my LAN, it really annoys me to be interrupted in the middle of whatever I'm doing. As it is, the phone loves to ring at the most pessimal moments, like right after I get home from work and sit on the crapper.
So ignore it. What people forget is that this stuff is there for *your* convenience, not the caller's. I ignore my phone all the time. My family knows to leave their message because I screen calls and will pick up if it's them. And even then sometimes I don't pick up.:-)
Anyone who later complains "I was IM-ing you!" and gets pissed that you couldn't chat at that exact particular moment isn't worth knowing anyway. In my opinion, at least.
The twin cities of Urbana and Champaign -- home of the largest branch of the University of Illinois -- are finally trying to attract some more high tech business. There is a technology and research park being built in south Champaign, and another being planned for Urbana, just east of campus. In addition, the Computer Science department here just got a huge endowment -- $40 million -- that is being matched with state funds, and that can lead to good things as well.
So, while it's not a "fabulous jobs every you look!" situation *today*, keep your eye on the Champaign-Urbana area over the next few years. The cost of living here is still very decent, there's a great technical university right next door, and I think the area is finally poised for some heavy tech business growth. Chicago is just 2-3 hours north (depending on how fast you drive:-) ), and most of that trip can be spent on one highway which has farmland on either side nearly the entire way north -- meaning that if traffic between Chicago and CU starts to increase, the highway can easily be widened to accommodate. So travel between Chicago and CU should remain convenient as well.
Anyway, sorry if I'm sounding like a Chamber of Commerce.:-) Keep an eye on Champaign-Urbana is all I'm saying.
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Perhaps the DOJ needs to borrow Microsoft's PR spin doctor folks.
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ChicagoFan
The company that makes dashPC has hired Meatloaf to provide a theme song for their product: "Paradise by the Dashboard Linux".
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ChicagoFan
A "platonic truth" is a law regarding platonic behavior. The First Platonic Truth, for example, is, "she wants to be just friends". If it were not for the platonic truths, most scientists would never have turned to science to begin with, so these truths are very influential in driving scientific discovery.
ChicagoFan
My parents did the same, for both me and my sister. But since my sister was named "Rebecca" and not "Gene", the food didn't successfully modify her.
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The funniest part of the movie was when the Main Bad Guy says to the female assassin, "how many times have you been cloned", and she says, "I've lost count". Main Bad Guy then tells Arnold about the dot-in-the-eye, and assassin woman pulls down her eyelid to reveal she's been cloned four times.
And I thought, "You lost count after only four times???"
ChicagoFan
"Sliders" fans (all two of us :-) ) might remember her as Logan St. Claire, the "alternate Quinn" villain from the episode "Double Cross". Logan St. Claire is widely considered to be the best villain in the history of the show by the "Sliders" fandom, so of course Ms. McLellan was the one actress that the dimwit producer of "Sliders" -- the one who ruined the show after its promising start under another producer -- refused to bring back for a second appearance.
Anyway, many of the "Sliders" fans who knew she was going to be in this film were hoping it might turn out to be good. It's too bad that that isn't the case, for whatever reason. Hopefully this won't kill the career of Ms. McLellan, since she has generally shown an affinity for the sci-fi/fantasy genre in her role choices and I think that sort of thing should be encouraged.
ChicagoFan
Walt Parazadier, saxophonist for the band Chicago, once told a story about his dad, who is a 70 or 80 year old trumpet player who had played trumpet his entire life. His dad apparently was practicing one recent day, and turned to his son, who was visiting, and said of the trumpet, "Someday I'm going to learn this thing." The point, of course, being that you have never truly mastered the instrument and that there is always more to learn.
I'd say it's the same with C++. You could program in it for 20 years, and you'll still look at your code one day and say, "Someday, I'm going to learn this language."
ChicagoFan
I had an Intellivision when I was younger. There was a game called "Operation" or "Infection" (you control a tiny medical probe that must zoom through the body killing tumors and kidney stones and such while not being eaten by viruses) that was loads of fun, and I'd play it even today.
Plus of course there are all those classics as well...
The point being, I agree that it's not good graphics that make a game fun.
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So ignore it. What people forget is that this stuff is there for *your* convenience, not the caller's. I ignore my phone all the time. My family knows to leave their message because I screen calls and will pick up if it's them. And even then sometimes I don't pick up. :-)
Anyone who later complains "I was IM-ing you!" and gets pissed that you couldn't chat at that exact particular moment isn't worth knowing anyway. In my opinion, at least.
ChicagoFan
Oh my goodness, that would be hilarious!
"Luke, the f-f-f-force is with you...you...you." ChicagoFan
So, while it's not a "fabulous jobs every you look!" situation *today*, keep your eye on the Champaign-Urbana area over the next few years. The cost of living here is still very decent, there's a great technical university right next door, and I think the area is finally poised for some heavy tech business growth. Chicago is just 2-3 hours north (depending on how fast you drive :-) ), and most of that trip can be spent on one highway which has farmland on either side nearly the entire way north -- meaning that if traffic between Chicago and CU starts to increase, the highway can easily be widened to accommodate. So travel between Chicago and CU should remain convenient as well.
Anyway, sorry if I'm sounding like a Chamber of Commerce. :-) Keep an eye on Champaign-Urbana is all I'm saying.
ChicagoFan