The only way I can look at these is to think, "what moves is what matters", and "what matters most gets squished". There's some aesthetic amusement when I don't think about it too. The chopped up dancer is... well... interesting. I'm not ready to order framed prints though. It might be interesting to play with the "what matters" and "what matters most gets... " parameters. Oh, and the first one is confusing until you realize it's not a short movie taken at one time. It had to be at least two short movies, because of the way the shadows are.... right?
Duh. Because Dawkins' definition of "insulting" can't be forced on people any better than a religion can be forced on people. They're insulted. The argument that matters is whether or not we are obliged to change society because some groups are insulted, and the obvious answer to anybody but an insultee seeking political gain is "no, No, NO! A thousand times, No. You have no right to live in a world where your precious little thin-skin doesn't itch".
Dude! I think you're on to something but let's take it a step further. We don't really want electricity in the car. We want the car to go places. So take the spinning motion, and stretch it out along a cable. Then, have the car grab the cable. Then you've got the motion transferred directly to the car via cable, without any electricity involved. There's just a cable and a car. We could call it a "cable-car". I bet it would really safe since there's no electro-magnetic waves at all anywhere. Just motion, trasmitted by cable as our earth-mother goddess intended.
There's a decent chance he really is better than the previous guy. Just how do you propose that he "fix himself"? Sometimes there really is lously code. I'm always reminded of the story about the guy who left code where all the variable names were things like ass_function(), butt_fucking_variable(), stinking_anus; I'm not kidding. Totally non-descriptive, every permutation on posterior. Look me straight in the eye and tell me that ain't bad code, and that he should "just get used to it".
I'm also surprised nobody has gotten modded up with an answer that's obvious to me: In-place re-write, preferably in collaboration with several other programmers, according to best practices. Just go through, replace the worst functions, write plenty of tests, rinse, lather, repeat until you have a performant, robust and maintainable codebase.
Budget cuts, you know. Because the MF, the pean Central Bank and the Word Ban won't give you any more lans unless you turn over a letter or two. Maybe they can buy a vowl from Vanna and Pat. OK, that's all 've got...
So Slashdot was bought by Dice, right? Have they done ANYTHING to improve it?
Apparently not, and that's a good thing. When big companies buy little companies and change them, it often gets ugly. If Google bought it, they might have turned it into Sloogle.
Customers are attracted to $firmA because something about their products resonates with them. The same is true of $firmB. If one tries to copy the other, it's only a copy. Everybody knows it's a copy. Because the methodology of the first is the driver of the 2nd, it'll always be an inferior copy. Worse, you are putting your competition in the driver's seat. You and your customers BOTH lose in this scenario, and MSFT trying to copy AAPL isn't the only example.
1. Bing gets fancy background on search homepage. Google copies. Yuck! I was attracted to Google's search for its simplicity, and repelled by Bing for it's eye candy. Google annoys me by copying Bing, and probably doesn't attract people who think Bing is better.
2. Yahoo's FaceBook integration. If I wanted FaceBook, I'd be on FaceBook, dammit.
So yes, of course MS shouldn't try to be Apple. If I wanted the Apple experience, I'd have Apple products. I wouldn't be using a laptop with XP and thinking about purchasing another one with Windows 7. Windows 8 is a total "skip it" for soooo many reasons. This just adds to the skipit factor.
Part of what I, a long-timer Windows user like about the "Microsoft ecosystem", aka, "Wintel" is that we got a wide variety of compatable hardware in exchange for a dominant OS and some security issues. True, it's a trade that a lot of people make without thinking; but some of us make it on purpose because we remember the 80s world of competing hardware in the living room (only works on Atari, not ported to Commodore yet, may never get an Apple port, blah, blah, blah).
The Wintel ecosystem and all the compatable hardware is what makes Microsoft worth having around. If they try to vertically integrate, it's right back to the 80s and Microsoft could Commodore itself into oblivion. I know a lot of people on/. hate MS, but I've been standing by them over 10 years here. Maybe, just maybe, some of you are starting to come around. I know it's absolute heresy; but without MS forcing hardware open, Linux is almost a non-starter. There is no "Unix for PCs" without PCs.
Yes, but was it stable or was it switching every few seconds? There's nothing quite like having aspect on "auto" and letting the station bother you dozens of times before you impose a compromise manually.
Depending on the age of the tires, you may have stumbled upon a historic dump! Tires hold up remarkably well over time.
The land that forms Shenandoah National Park was condemned in the 1930s. Most of them have passed on, but you might still find some folks who remember being evicted off their land and have an abiding hate for the Federal government which is part of a long tradition among mountain folk dating back to the Whiskey Rebellion, carried on by Prohibition, and nurtured by various other grievances to this very day. Their children are certainly still alive and brought up on the stories.
I haven't seen a dump site, but I have seen a marked site where a school and some other buildings formerly existed. Only the stone walls endured. Some of the smaller parks in Virginia have backstories like this too. Bull Run is fascinating--ruins and Civil War brestworks which are kind of like half-open trenches. There's another web site out there that explains how a "ditch in the woods" that I never thought twice about is actually the channel for a mill that once ground grain.
Anyway, you might have found an archaelogical site as opposed to a modern dump. When the trash was left, there was a poorly graded road which is now overgrown with trees. Finding 80 year old roads in the woods is an art; it's amazing how quicly nature reclaims things.
The first thing that comes to mind is that a round craft might be good at hypersonic speeds. Instead of one leading edge taking all the heat, all sides would take a fraction of the heat. I wonder if they've run any models with rotating heat shields for re-entry capsules. Of course, anything that has to move like that is always somewhat risky. AFAIK, variable wing geometry for civilian supersonic transports was rejected for this reason. Variable geometry is used on fighters though, so it's not a total non-starter...
And this, ladies and gents, is why I won't touch AAPL stock with a 3.048 meter pole. Fads can turn on a dime. It's absolutely unpredictable. They thrive on "cool", and if that picks up and goes, begging for it to come back just makes you look even less cool.
This is even more pointless than stealing "The Scream". At least you could just walk out with a painting so hot it sets your house on fire. With this spaceplane heist you're putting an awful lot of time and money in to acquire something with zero return.
Copyright *is* a social bargain, but nobody has a right to "ass shoving". The copyright holders have a right to perform their work without being exploited and/or being forced to seek wealthy patrons as their only source of income. The General Public has a right to receive the productions of the IP holders without being subject to disproportionate penalty for violations, undue terms of restriction, or other features of a system that might skew things too far in favor of the other party.
Neither side has an absolute "ass shoving" right over the others, because as usual there's a HEALTY BALANCE that exists somewhere between absolutism on either side.
I seem to have woken up on the wrong side of the Internet this morning. I looked back over some other stuff I wrote and it was crabby too.
I don't think I'll wake up liking bike shops tomorrow though. The $3000+ purchaser is their best customer, just like the 32 oz. big gulp buyer is the best customer at 7-11. You made me remember that back in the late 80s/early 90s there *was* a "decent bike shop" where I grew up. It started out selling lawn mowers and servicing them. They got into bikes as a sideline. Never pretentious IIRC. This was when bikes were still made in America. Maybe that's part of the problem... OK... I'd better quit before I get crabby again...
OK, a lot more responses than I anticipated for such a late post. I picked yours because of that particular turn of phrase. Just to clarify, I understand that the kind of bike I'm talking about exists. Maybe I should have pointed the finger more at the existance (or lack thereof) of the "decent bike shop" you describe. That sounds just a bit mythical to me. Most of us are put off by bike shops because they might have a handful of cruisers which aren't quite what we're looking for, and then rack after rack of $3000 road bikes or similarly priced mountain bikes with crazy suspensions and shocks we don't need. The big box stores have a smaller selection, and come closer to meeting the "regular Joe" market, but it's all sketchy imports...
Anyway, maybe it's the bike shops that annoy me and give me the feeling that "racers killed it" because the staff is giving you that "bum who orders a coke in the black tie restaurant" look.
Yeah, I could to that or I could just buy a Prius. With the trade-in from my Honda that cash outlay might be comparable, and it would only take a few hours.:)
Of course there's plenty of room for research in this field. I wouldn't mind learning that type of engineering and having a corporation pay me for my time. There are plenty of people doing that and... designing cars like the Prius, Leaf, Volt, etc.
These box stores sell what customers want. The problem with cycling for most of us is that RACERS KILLED IT:
1. We don't want toe clips. 2. We don't want handlebars that force you to hunch over. 3. We don't want tires that will go out of true after 200 miles on potholed roads. 4. We don't want to spend any more than $500. 5. Steel is fine. Really. Sturdiness is hella more important than saving a few blasted kg. Yes. I said kg. Not grams. 6. We want a seat you can actually sit on..
Anyway, you see a lot of steel cruisers here with fat tires (but they are slick usually), wide handlebars, steel frames, and AFAIK most have on gear but they have handle brakes. People don't want overpricd finicky racing machines that cost as much as a car. We're not Lance Armstrong.
In the 1970s, you were getting free phone calls from AT&T. Today Apple partners with that same company and has established a "walled garden". Your youthfull counterparts are jailbreaking phones. It's a lot less bold than stealing LD and calling the Vatican; but it's the same revolutionary spirit. Does it bother you that the company you helped found is the "new boss" of a consumerist world with Chinese labor at one end, and hacker barriers at the other? Is this just a simple case of "if you're not conservative by the time you're 40 you have no brain" that you always figured would happen, and doesn't really upset you?
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The only way I can look at these is to think, "what moves is what matters", and "what matters most gets squished". There's some aesthetic amusement when I don't think about it too. The chopped up dancer is... well... interesting. I'm not ready to order framed prints though. It might be interesting to play with the "what matters" and "what matters most gets... " parameters. Oh, and the first one is confusing until you realize it's not a short movie taken at one time. It had to be at least two short movies, because of the way the shadows are.... right?
Duh. Because Dawkins' definition of "insulting" can't be forced on people any better than a religion can be forced on people. They're insulted. The argument that matters is whether or not we are obliged to change society because some groups are insulted, and the obvious answer to anybody but an insultee seeking political gain is "no, No, NO! A thousand times, No. You have no right to live in a world where your precious little thin-skin doesn't itch".
Dude! I think you're on to something but let's take it a step further. We don't really want electricity in the car. We want the car to go places. So take the spinning motion, and stretch it out along a cable. Then, have the car grab the cable. Then you've got the motion transferred directly to the car via cable, without any electricity involved. There's just a cable and a car. We could call it a "cable-car". I bet it would really safe since there's no electro-magnetic waves at all anywhere. Just motion, trasmitted by cable as our earth-mother goddess intended.
Was it code for a gay porn site? It could be descriptive.
No, IIRC it was quick-n-dirty code (no pun intended) written by an admin.
Slow down, Cowboy. You seem to have filed too many frivolous patents. Come back in 15 minutes.
There's a decent chance he really is better than the previous guy. Just how do you propose that he "fix himself"? Sometimes there really is lously code. I'm always reminded of the story about the guy who left code where all the variable names were things like ass_function(), butt_fucking_variable(), stinking_anus; I'm not kidding. Totally non-descriptive, every permutation on posterior. Look me straight in the eye and tell me that ain't bad code, and that he should "just get used to it".
I'm also surprised nobody has gotten modded up with an answer that's obvious to me: In-place re-write, preferably in collaboration with several other programmers, according to best practices. Just go through, replace the worst functions, write plenty of tests, rinse, lather, repeat until you have a performant, robust and maintainable codebase.
To criticize the Constitution is human. To ammend it is divine. :)
Budget cuts, you know. Because the MF, the pean Central Bank and the Word Ban won't give you any more lans unless you turn over a letter or two. Maybe they can buy a vowl from Vanna and Pat. OK, that's all 've got...
So Slashdot was bought by Dice, right? Have they done ANYTHING to improve it?
Apparently not, and that's a good thing. When big companies buy little companies and change them, it often gets ugly. If Google bought it, they might have turned it into Sloogle.
If anything I do could be a crime, then I might as well do anything.
Why $firmA shouldn't copy $firmB.
Customers are attracted to $firmA because something about their products resonates with them. The same is true of $firmB. If one tries to copy the other, it's only a copy. Everybody knows it's a copy. Because the methodology of the first is the driver of the 2nd, it'll always be an inferior copy. Worse, you are putting your competition in the driver's seat. You and your customers BOTH lose in this scenario, and MSFT trying to copy AAPL isn't the only example.
1. Bing gets fancy background on search homepage. Google copies. Yuck! I was attracted to Google's search for its simplicity, and repelled by Bing for it's eye candy. Google annoys me by copying Bing, and probably doesn't attract people who think Bing is better.
2. Yahoo's FaceBook integration. If I wanted FaceBook, I'd be on FaceBook, dammit.
So yes, of course MS shouldn't try to be Apple. If I wanted the Apple experience, I'd have Apple products. I wouldn't be using a laptop with XP and thinking about purchasing another one with Windows 7. Windows 8 is a total "skip it" for soooo many reasons. This just adds to the skipit factor.
Part of what I, a long-timer Windows user like about the "Microsoft ecosystem", aka, "Wintel" is that we got a wide variety of compatable hardware in exchange for a dominant OS and some security issues. True, it's a trade that a lot of people make without thinking; but some of us make it on purpose because we remember the 80s world of competing hardware in the living room (only works on Atari, not ported to Commodore yet, may never get an Apple port, blah, blah, blah).
The Wintel ecosystem and all the compatable hardware is what makes Microsoft worth having around. If they try to vertically integrate, it's right back to the 80s and Microsoft could Commodore itself into oblivion. I know a lot of people on /. hate MS, but I've been standing by them over 10 years here. Maybe, just maybe, some of you are starting to come around. I know it's absolute heresy; but without MS forcing hardware open, Linux is almost a non-starter. There is no "Unix for PCs" without PCs.
Yes, but was it stable or was it switching every few seconds? There's nothing quite like having aspect on "auto" and letting the station bother you dozens of times before you impose a compromise manually.
The International Shiny Thing on Another Planet Registry might have something to say about that.
Depending on the age of the tires, you may have stumbled upon a historic dump! Tires hold up remarkably well over time.
The land that forms Shenandoah National Park was condemned in the 1930s. Most of them have passed on, but you might still find some folks who remember being evicted off their land and have an abiding hate for the Federal government which is part of a long tradition among mountain folk dating back to the Whiskey Rebellion, carried on by Prohibition, and nurtured by various other grievances to this very day. Their children are certainly still alive and brought up on the stories.
I haven't seen a dump site, but I have seen a marked site where a school and some other buildings formerly existed. Only the stone walls endured. Some of the smaller parks in Virginia have backstories like this too. Bull Run is fascinating--ruins and Civil War brestworks which are kind of like half-open trenches. There's another web site out there that explains how a "ditch in the woods" that I never thought twice about is actually the channel for a mill that once ground grain.
Anyway, you might have found an archaelogical site as opposed to a modern dump. When the trash was left, there was a poorly graded road which is now overgrown with trees. Finding 80 year old roads in the woods is an art; it's amazing how quicly nature reclaims things.
The first thing that comes to mind is that a round craft might be good at hypersonic speeds. Instead of one leading edge taking all the heat, all sides would take a fraction of the heat. I wonder if they've run any models with rotating heat shields for re-entry capsules. Of course, anything that has to move like that is always somewhat risky. AFAIK, variable wing geometry for civilian supersonic transports was rejected for this reason. Variable geometry is used on fighters though, so it's not a total non-starter...
If employees had more free time, they might think.
And this, ladies and gents, is why I won't touch AAPL stock with a 3.048 meter pole. Fads can turn on a dime. It's absolutely unpredictable. They thrive on "cool", and if that picks up and goes, begging for it to come back just makes you look even less cool.
How do you fence it?
This is even more pointless than stealing "The Scream". At least you could just walk out with a painting so hot it sets your house on fire. With this spaceplane heist you're putting an awful lot of time and money in to acquire something with zero return.
Copyright *is* a social bargain, but nobody has a right to "ass shoving". The copyright holders have a right to perform their work without being exploited and/or being forced to seek wealthy patrons as their only source of income. The General Public has a right to receive the productions of the IP holders without being subject to disproportionate penalty for violations, undue terms of restriction, or other features of a system that might skew things too far in favor of the other party.
Neither side has an absolute "ass shoving" right over the others, because as usual there's a HEALTY BALANCE that exists somewhere between absolutism on either side.
Back in DC I had a pattern going for a while. Jeans and T-shirt. Shirt colors were: black, red, green, $random, $usually_black.
"It must be Wednesday. My shirt is green".
I seem to have woken up on the wrong side of the Internet this morning. I looked back over some other stuff I wrote and it was crabby too.
I don't think I'll wake up liking bike shops tomorrow though. The $3000+ purchaser is their best customer, just like the 32 oz. big gulp buyer is the best customer at 7-11. You made me remember that back in the late 80s/early 90s there *was* a "decent bike shop" where I grew up. It started out selling lawn mowers and servicing them. They got into bikes as a sideline. Never pretentious IIRC. This was when bikes were still made in America. Maybe that's part of the problem... OK... I'd better quit before I get crabby again...
half-way decent local bike shop
OK, a lot more responses than I anticipated for such a late post. I picked yours because of that particular turn of phrase. Just to clarify, I understand that the kind of bike I'm talking about exists. Maybe I should have pointed the finger more at the existance (or lack thereof) of the "decent bike shop" you describe. That sounds just a bit mythical to me. Most of us are put off by bike shops because they might have a handful of cruisers which aren't quite what we're looking for, and then rack after rack of $3000 road bikes or similarly priced mountain bikes with crazy suspensions and shocks we don't need. The big box stores have a smaller selection, and come closer to meeting the "regular Joe" market, but it's all sketchy imports...
Anyway, maybe it's the bike shops that annoy me and give me the feeling that "racers killed it" because the staff is giving you that "bum who orders a coke in the black tie restaurant" look.
Yeah, I could to that or I could just buy a Prius. With the trade-in from my Honda that cash outlay might be comparable, and it would only take a few hours. :)
Of course there's plenty of room for research in this field. I wouldn't mind learning that type of engineering and having a corporation pay me for my time. There are plenty of people doing that and... designing cars like the Prius, Leaf, Volt, etc.
These box stores sell what customers want. The problem with cycling for most of us is that RACERS KILLED IT:
1. We don't want toe clips. 2. We don't want handlebars that force you to hunch over. 3. We don't want tires that will go out of true after 200 miles on potholed roads. 4. We don't want to spend any more than $500. 5. Steel is fine. Really. Sturdiness is hella more important than saving a few blasted kg. Yes. I said kg. Not grams. 6. We want a seat you can actually sit on..
Anyway, you see a lot of steel cruisers here with fat tires (but they are slick usually), wide handlebars, steel frames, and AFAIK most have on gear but they have handle brakes. People don't want overpricd finicky racing machines that cost as much as a car. We're not Lance Armstrong.
In the 1970s, you were getting free phone calls from AT&T. Today Apple partners with that same company and has established a "walled garden". Your youthfull counterparts are jailbreaking phones. It's a lot less bold than stealing LD and calling the Vatican; but it's the same revolutionary spirit. Does it bother you that the company you helped found is the "new boss" of a consumerist world with Chinese labor at one end, and hacker barriers at the other? Is this just a simple case of "if you're not conservative by the time you're 40 you have no brain" that you always figured would happen, and doesn't really upset you?