How is it withdrawl, when I only have one or two smokes every couple months? If even that? It's best used in moderation... You assume I'm an addicted smoker who needs a fix, and that could be the only reason for the effects?
Have you ever had nicotine? It's a stimulant, like caffeine/etc. It's also rather different. Currently, one of the best drugs out there to help people kick nicotine addiction is Welbutrin (sp?), which is an anti-depressant. It works, because you are replacing the anti-depressant effect of the nicotine with something else, allowing you to kick the nicotine.
This is a nice, and usefull effect, if you use it carefully. I know several people that use it like that.
Or are all of us just "addicts in denial", like you are assuming? Because we use one pack a YEAR?
This is something I never understood about people that don't like drugs (any of them). There's always this careful Personal Failing you need to sucumb to to use the drugs. "You aren't Cool, and if you take this, you Will Be", or something. They always seem to forget that we might actually like the effect!
You still haven't explained this assertion you make about "brand loyalty", either.
You caffeine users, always trying to look cool with your lattes and other trendy drinks! You're just trying to fit in, and follow the Starbucks bandwagon. What? You like the effects of caffeine? Where did you get that, from the bottom of your coffee cup?
I like it when anti-smokers pretend that nicotine has no effect, and that some people might like that effect.
When I smoke (not often), it is because I want the stimulation effect of the nicotine. It has a clarifying effect, and a not-so-mild anti-depressant effect, among others.
But no... it's just peer-preasure, and trying to look cool.
You know, some of us got past the dicksize wars of "looking cool" in gradeschool, and actualy do things because we like it.
Oh, and WTF does corporate loyalty have to do with anything?
hmm... that's a good idea. I'm not filtering js, though. images and iframes from quite a few well known hosts, yes...
I'm more and more confused about this the more I look at it. Perhaps it is something borked up with my solaris install? This would not exactly be a revalation.
that just lends evidence to my theory that using heavyweight client side code is too fragile. if it breaks that easily, why trust it?
The thing is, maps.google.com works great here, and the ruby-on-rails stuff didn't. badly.
maybe google is only using a "safe subset" of features?
Yah, firefox should be the same everywhere, I'd think, but it's not apparently.
When I drag item in the shoping cart, I don't get a picture of the drag, just the basic mouse pointer. When I try the auto-complete, nothing happens at all.
I'll have to try it on Firefox/Linux when I get home...
and the point isn't just solaris. Using heavyweight client side code like this is great for eyecandy-type features, but it's extreemly inconsistent in it's implementation.
have they validated that this works on Opera, Safari, other strange platforms, etc etc? I don't mean it has to support all of the cool new features - it should degrade nicely, not "click, do nothing besides render badly".
wow... I really want to try this... I love the idea of ruby on rails, but all of this client side code is nuts.
Of all the samples, only the shoping cart works at all on Firefox1.04 on solaris. Everything else just does nothing and renders horribly. Even the shoping cart demo fails to render things properly, even when it works.
sigh...
I really really really want to like this... but how is relying on the client to run code properly sane, with all the different clients out there?
With the software, at least, there is some hope...
I'm constantly writing wrappers around things to make them sane, and re-implementing stuff in a hopefully more useable way. Now if only the'd let me BSD licence the results.
Now if I only had time to work on a consed replacement, like I've wanted to do for quite a while. That is the most unholy piece of software I've ever seen... "../chromat_dir" and "../phd_dir" are HARD CODED in the source!
I need to think of a way to convince the higher-ups to let us hire some heavy-CS-background people. Things might work!
Can we please let the term "Bioinformatics" die already?!
I never understood why people think it's special. We used to call these run-time studys, search algorithms, etc "Computer Science", or maybe just "Informatics".
It seems that biologists decided to learn Perl, and discovered (on their own, maybe!) that you could use it to search these sequence files they generate. Suddenly, they decided they needed to create this entire new field, totally ignoring all of the CS research before them.
It shows in the software they use, too. A huge ammount of software that is considered "production", fails in ways you'd expect a fresman CS student to fail.
"Blast" doesn't have consistent return codes!
"cross_match"/"PXM" has no concept of memmap(), and will happly malloc() multi-GB spaces so it can slurp in entire files!...sigh...
Ok, I'm bitter... Working here, and see this all the time. It's CS people! Grrr...
There is the theory of the Mobius, A rift in the fabric of space, Where time becomes a loop... Where time becomes a loop... Where time becomes a loop... Where time becomes a loop... Where time becomes a loop... Where time becomes a loop... Where time becomes a loop... Where time becomes a loop... Where time becomes a loop... Where time becomes a loop... Where time becomes a loop...
Many people dislike buying CDs because they get a song or two they like, and a bunch of filler crap.
What the heck are you listening to? I buy CDs because I like the music that's on them. All of it (well, generally speaking). Most artists create a wonderfull stream of music, beginning to end. Or are you just listening to the drivel that they put on MTV?
Could this possibly solve the IPv6 deployment problem? If everything is mux'ed over one socket, with most of the work being done above it, it would only require one socket between computers as a generic data channel.
In theory, it would only take a few OS utils to generate this connection, and apps could use it, not knowing if it was running over IPv4 or v6, and therefor one wouldn't have to rewrite the apps for the new IP protocol. Of course, you have to rewrite the apps for bxxp, so I suppose you havn't really gained that much.
Arrg. You're corrent - this is re-inventing way too much... time would be better spent fixing current protocols to be firewall friendly and such.
Umm... maybe that the CPU is probably going to be soldered to the motherboard (as all consoles have been so far)? That, and a console where the hardware can change breaks the fundamental advantage they have over PCs -- the assurance for the developer that all target systems are EXACTLY the same!
True... lain is quite good cyberpunk, but by far not the best.
It is one of the best anime to come out in a long time (and I've seen almost all of them - running reg at fanime con (the guy in the red hat) for the last three years should tell you that...), but it's not the best cyberpunk.
By FAR the best cyberpunk put to film as of yet is Bladrunner. It DID have cyber. If you missed it, you obviously don't get the genre. I'd recomend you go read Gibson and Sterling as a refresher... to even put the Matrix in that catagory (absolutly NO punk whatsoever; just a cheep rehash of a few of the flashier points) is complete hersey.
But Serial Experiment Lain is great stuff. Maybe it's that I first saw each episode while tripping heavily on acid... Ok; rant mode off...
so the underworld is deprived of their astronomical profits
That's an angle I hadn't thought of before. If you believe the numbers the War on Drugs is producing, the underworld is making quite a pretty penny on drugs. The question then becomes do they have another source of income? I would say not. Nothing that simple and lucrative.
If that souce of income was deprived the underbelly of the world, what would be the result of that? I, personally, wonder if it would severly curtail large-scale crime, simple from the lack of funds?
Of course, I'm sure some heads will roll at the pharmacutical companies as soon as they start making these things, as dealers don't like having their turf invaded...
Umm... we are not talking about silly desktop dvd drives here; anybody seriously trying to pirate a dvd will do what the pirates of CDs have done all along: buy a professional CD/DVD press. The same ones that make your dvds right now. Sure, it may cost lots of $$$, but they are pros. They will sell 10k+ copies of a dvd, and are into profit. Just look at southeast asia...
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the last smallpox vaccinations were given in 1973
Actually, a friend of mine who was born in Turkey in 1980 received a smallpox vaccination when she was young. I'm not sure exactly when, but it had to be the early/mid '80s.
Apparently the doctor was considered a kook for still giving smallpox vaccinations... but maybe that's a good thing now? hmm...
After watching all of B.A.D. (Bad American Dubbing), BAD Too, and BAD 3: Still more Bitching, I would have to say that yes, it can indeed be that bad. While these shows didn't have any SW stuff, and primarity spent their time bitching about badly dubbed anime, some of the clips showed that some people will stop at nothing to have the worst footage in the world.
That Streamline pictures comercially released a movie, dubbed into english, without removing the japanese dialogue first (you couldn't hear either; the two languages walked all over eachother), clearly shows that some people should never be allowed to get near any sort of video production. The worst part was that they later went on to release on with the video upside down... now how the hell does one do that?!
Kindof makes me want to see this SW video to see if it is even worse than all of the stuff they showed in BAD...
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wow, thanks asshole
way to assume and insult
someone poses arguments that disagree with your axioms, and you just make up stories on how they are lying!
such a nice way to argue...
wow, way to have a completely uninformed opinion.
How is it withdrawl, when I only have one or two smokes every couple months? If even that? It's best used in moderation... You assume I'm an addicted smoker who needs a fix, and that could be the only reason for the effects?
Have you ever had nicotine? It's a stimulant, like caffeine/etc. It's also rather different. Currently, one of the best drugs out there to help people kick nicotine addiction is Welbutrin (sp?), which is an anti-depressant. It works, because you are replacing the anti-depressant effect of the nicotine with something else, allowing you to kick the nicotine.
This is a nice, and usefull effect, if you use it carefully. I know several people that use it like that.
Or are all of us just "addicts in denial", like you are assuming? Because we use one pack a YEAR?
This is something I never understood about people that don't like drugs (any of them). There's always this careful Personal Failing you need to sucumb to to use the drugs. "You aren't Cool, and if you take this, you Will Be", or something. They always seem to forget that we might actually like the effect!
You still haven't explained this assertion you make about "brand loyalty", either.
You caffeine users, always trying to look cool with your lattes and other trendy drinks! You're just trying to fit in, and follow the Starbucks bandwagon. What? You like the effects of caffeine? Where did you get that, from the bottom of your coffee cup?
I like it when anti-smokers pretend that nicotine has no effect, and that some people might like that effect.
When I smoke (not often), it is because I want the stimulation effect of the nicotine. It has a clarifying effect, and a not-so-mild anti-depressant effect, among others.
But no... it's just peer-preasure, and trying to look cool.
You know, some of us got past the dicksize wars of "looking cool" in gradeschool, and actualy do things because we like it.
Oh, and WTF does corporate loyalty have to do with anything?
hmm... that's a good idea. I'm not filtering js, though. images and iframes from quite a few well known hosts, yes...
I'm more and more confused about this the more I look at it. Perhaps it is something borked up with my solaris install? This would not exactly be a revalation.
that just lends evidence to my theory that using heavyweight client side code is too fragile. if it breaks that easily, why trust it?
yah, maybe. if I can narrow it down more to what the problem is, I may file a bug report.
I still don't trust heavyweight client stuff, though.
At least with java-applets (shudder) it should work on any browser with a JVM.
The thing is, maps.google.com works great here, and the ruby-on-rails stuff didn't. badly.
maybe google is only using a "safe subset" of features?
Yah, firefox should be the same everywhere, I'd think, but it's not apparently.
When I drag item in the shoping cart, I don't get a picture of the drag, just the basic mouse pointer. When I try the auto-complete, nothing happens at all.
I'll have to try it on Firefox/Linux when I get home...
what, like my entire lab?
and the point isn't just solaris. Using heavyweight client side code like this is great for eyecandy-type features, but it's extreemly inconsistent in it's implementation.
have they validated that this works on Opera, Safari, other strange platforms, etc etc? I don't mean it has to support all of the cool new features - it should degrade nicely, not "click, do nothing besides render badly".
wow... I really want to try this... I love the idea of ruby on rails, but all of this client side code is nuts.
Of all the samples, only the shoping cart works at all on Firefox1.04 on solaris. Everything else just does nothing and renders horribly. Even the shoping cart demo fails to render things properly, even when it works.
sigh...
I really really really want to like this... but how is relying on the client to run code properly sane, with all the different clients out there?
Shouldn't that be Zeno, not Archemides?
Oh, great!
ANOTHER thing wrong with this industry I can blame on dotcom!
Woosh! The sound you hear is my sanity slipping away...
With the software, at least, there is some hope...
I'm constantly writing wrappers around things to make them sane, and re-implementing stuff in a hopefully more useable way. Now if only the'd let me BSD licence the results.
Now if I only had time to work on a consed replacement, like I've wanted to do for quite a while. That is the most unholy piece of software I've ever seen... "../chromat_dir" and "../phd_dir" are HARD CODED in the source!
I need to think of a way to convince the higher-ups to let us hire some heavy-CS-background people. Things might work!
Can we please let the term "Bioinformatics" die already?!
...sigh...
I never understood why people think it's special. We used to call these run-time studys, search algorithms, etc "Computer Science", or maybe just "Informatics".
It seems that biologists decided to learn Perl, and discovered (on their own, maybe!) that you could use it to search these sequence files they generate. Suddenly, they decided they needed to create this entire new field, totally ignoring all of the CS research before them.
It shows in the software they use, too. A huge ammount of software that is considered "production", fails in ways you'd expect a fresman CS student to fail.
"Blast" doesn't have consistent return codes!
"cross_match"/"PXM" has no concept of memmap(), and will happly malloc() multi-GB spaces so it can slurp in entire files!
Ok, I'm bitter... Working here, and see this all the time. It's CS people! Grrr...
#include [std_disclamer.h]
There is the theory of the Mobius,
A rift in the fabric of space,
Where time becomes a loop...
Where time becomes a loop...
Where time becomes a loop...
Where time becomes a loop...
Where time becomes a loop...
Where time becomes a loop...
Where time becomes a loop...
Where time becomes a loop...
Where time becomes a loop...
Where time becomes a loop...
Where time becomes a loop...
[Ooo... lets feal that karma burn...]
Many people dislike buying CDs because they get a song or two they like, and a bunch of filler crap.
What the heck are you listening to? I buy CDs because I like the music that's on them. All of it (well, generally speaking). Most artists create a wonderfull stream of music, beginning to end. Or are you just listening to the drivel that they put on MTV?
It's a good thing there aren't Pentium 4.1's and Pentium 3.2's.
Wasn't that the Pentium MMX or something? ^_^
Could this possibly solve the IPv6 deployment problem? If everything is mux'ed over one socket, with most of the work being done above it, it would only require one socket between computers as a generic data channel.
In theory, it would only take a few OS utils to generate this connection, and apps could use it, not knowing if it was running over IPv4 or v6, and therefor one wouldn't have to rewrite the apps for the new IP protocol. Of course, you have to rewrite the apps for bxxp, so I suppose you havn't really gained that much.
Arrg. You're corrent - this is re-inventing way too much... time would be better spent fixing current protocols to be firewall friendly and such.
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Umm... maybe that the CPU is probably going to be soldered to the motherboard (as all consoles have been so far)? That, and a console where the hardware can change breaks the fundamental advantage they have over PCs -- the assurance for the developer that all target systems are EXACTLY the same!
It is one of the best anime to come out in a long time (and I've seen almost all of them - running reg at fanime con (the guy in the red hat) for the last three years should tell you that...), but it's not the best cyberpunk.
By FAR the best cyberpunk put to film as of yet is Bladrunner. It DID have cyber. If you missed it, you obviously don't get the genre. I'd recomend you go read Gibson and Sterling as a refresher... to even put the Matrix in that catagory (absolutly NO punk whatsoever; just a cheep rehash of a few of the flashier points) is complete hersey.
But Serial Experiment Lain is great stuff. Maybe it's that I first saw each episode while tripping heavily on acid... Ok; rant mode off...
That's an angle I hadn't thought of before. If you believe the numbers the War on Drugs is producing, the underworld is making quite a pretty penny on drugs. The question then becomes do they have another source of income? I would say not. Nothing that simple and lucrative.
If that souce of income was deprived the underbelly of the world, what would be the result of that? I, personally, wonder if it would severly curtail large-scale crime, simple from the lack of funds?
Of course, I'm sure some heads will roll at the pharmacutical companies as soon as they start making these things, as dealers don't like having their turf invaded...
> MS will probably use some flavor of WINE when porting office to Linux.
Um... why? They would probably use something like the virtual win32 environment they used to port IE to Solaris. Huge, bloated, doesn't work well...
That would probably help them, even, for if the Linux version was horrible to use, it might disuade people from using it, and switch back to windows.
Or not; who knows.
> Black smoking meat is what you get when you frag a W2K box.
Is that anything like the Black Meat from "Naked Lunch"? ^_^
> You cannot copy a DVD without css-auth.
Umm... we are not talking about silly desktop dvd drives here; anybody seriously trying to pirate a dvd will do what the pirates of CDs have done all along: buy a professional CD/DVD press. The same ones that make your dvds right now. Sure, it may cost lots of $$$, but they are pros. They will sell 10k+ copies of a dvd, and are into profit. Just look at southeast asia...
the last smallpox vaccinations were given in 1973
Actually, a friend of mine who was born in Turkey in 1980 received a smallpox vaccination when she was young. I'm not sure exactly when, but it had to be the early/mid '80s.
Apparently the doctor was considered a kook for still giving smallpox vaccinations... but maybe that's a good thing now? hmm...
> Nothing can be this bad.
After watching all of B.A.D. (Bad American Dubbing), BAD Too, and BAD 3: Still more Bitching, I would have to say that yes, it can indeed be that bad. While these shows didn't have any SW stuff, and primarity spent their time bitching about badly dubbed anime, some of the clips showed that some people will stop at nothing to have the worst footage in the world.
That Streamline pictures comercially released a movie, dubbed into english, without removing the japanese dialogue first (you couldn't hear either; the two languages walked all over eachother), clearly shows that some people should never be allowed to get near any sort of video production. The worst part was that they later went on to release on with the video upside down... now how the hell does one do that?!
Kindof makes me want to see this SW video to see if it is even worse than all of the stuff they showed in BAD...