First off, I went into the site and couldn't even figure out the navigation well enough to even want to go through it. And, for a scholarship don't they think they could have come up with a little bit of a harder problem? After giving up on their silly site, I perused slashdot and was kind of disappointed that it was that silly.
The college I attended had an annual competition where high school students built robotics or coded something, and would give out some degree of scholarships or other financial assistance towards prospective students and I can tell you that anybody who wrote a program to find the summation of all natural numbers would be laughed out. These were things like kernels, AI schemes, language recognition applications. I fail to see the cool factor in this. Any nerd deserving a scholarship for brains alone should really be challenged and not something that can be solved by a 2 minute script.
Your school sucks ass then. I would be willing to bet that your sensai is probably some 3rd dan american guy named John if you aren't feeling any vital point shots.
After 3 months in WHKD Kung Fu, I learned every vital point along the arms. Also, if you want real excitement, go to a traditional martial art tournament with full contact fighting. That's contact that will put any boxer to shame.
Karate is bland because it in and of itself is useless. TKD is a horrible art because of it's unnecessary flash, but combining the flash with technique will actually help you in fluid form.
Blanket statements aren't dangerous, if you look at the traditional effective arts, kung fu forms and grappling arts are always ranked higher than any japanese-based stand up art.
Choy Li Fut, Wun Hop Kuen Do, and Wushu are all effective, not too flashy, and powerful arts. Karate is about a small set of moves, combining to make a large set of forms. However, it's not the number of moves you learn it's how well and how adaptive they are. The major reason why karate fails as an effective fighting art is because it has the stance of defense and offense. This is a flawed interpretation of military science, and Miyamoto Musashi should be turning in his grave because of the implementation of todays karate.
I gave up on japanese-based arts after 9 years, because of it's futile attempt to encompass everything in a small series of non-adaptive moves. I have learned Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Aikido, and I am now studying Wun Hop Kuen Do (Choy Li Fut, mixed with Wushu and Kajukenbo, a new art created in 1969 by sifu Al Dacascos) and from a purely effectiveness standpoint, it puts to shame any art I have studied first hand. What I have found is that only people who have studied only japanese arts, attest to their superiority and power.
I didn't mean my original post as a flame, or a troll, just stating that Karate is a bland art. It is not exciting, mostly because of it's rigidness.
As for my prejudices, they aren't prejudices because that would require me to not have knowledge in them. I have studied them for years.
Please go ahead and learn about Kung Fu before posting. Kung Fu simply means excellent through hard work. The form of Kung Fu that I study deals with a lot of grappling technique as well as standup fighting. I will however give you credit for Karate and TKD, I have studied both.
Try a different martial art. Karate is a very bland art in and of itself. If you like the strict form japanese-style I would recommend tae kwon do. It's range of attacks are much more diversified.
I'm currently under the belief that japanese-derived martial arts are inferior to chinese arts (Kung Fu, specifically). If you want an art that will actually make something of you, try a traditional-based kung fu art.
As for chess, and the same with a martial arts tournament, when it comes down to victory nothing is sweeter. You know you are better. It feels good. It's great mental discipline because if you think you have won and you haven't yet, you may very well lose. The thing between a martial arts tournament and a chess tournament, in martial arts, you can usually tell if the guy you are going up against is trained well and can overpower you.
The only feasible way in which this would work is if the people in charge of the packages (authentication across a P2P network is another issue in and of itself.. but a checksum algorithm against a trusted source would work, assuming your trusted source file never gets overwritten) were to accept binary builds through a trust metric system (think Advogato) then it may possibly work. However, the risk of something like this would be rather large I doubt any decent level of inception from system admins.
Ok, you responded to a thread about the openness of PS and clarity about the trademark issues and the Adobe PS RIP sayin that PDF was not open and brought Dmitry's case into it to add extra emotional excitement.
You don't even make any sense anymore. I wish I would have just modded you down, which is a practice I typically don't do but you have proven yourself stupid and misinformed.
I was also discussing your mentality. Relating two non-relating things by a sad legal incident is, at best, stupid and wrong. PS is FREE. PS is OPEN. No matter how much you want to distort your reality, that fact remains.
Deal with it. Also, learn the difference between PS and PDF, k?
I thought about mod'ing you down for this, but decided to post because I believe that you may need to get a few things straight.
First off, PS is an open format. It is publicly documented and you can develop freely upon it. What Dmitry did was violating Adobe's IP rights when he released it. This is a fact. Is it right? No. Is the DMCA right? No. But, Adobe's actions in the eBook case have absolutely nothing to do with the openness of the PS format.
Because of this, you are trolling because you are saying inflammatory and incorrect statements with an intent to get a negative reaction from the croud. The moderation was valid, and you made no valid point in your post.
To further clarify, you can't say that everything a company does is wrong based off a set of actions. That's called bigotry. Even Microsoft has it's merits of positive contribution to the computing industry. Deal with it, and get off the band wagon.
Funny how it works out that some people go through their whole lives without ever getting in an accident.
By the time I was 17 I had been hit by a car (on a bike.. that one hurt like hell), and been in 2 accidents.
Hope you did everything you could to screw that lady over, I think if you do something that negligbly(sp?) endangers someones life with a vehicle you should have to go on a probationary license. (No freeway driving, cannot exceed 45mph, no night-time driving)
SUVs account for 0% of the accidents that have happened to my poor cars. (5 accidents, as stated above).
I think that the major problem isn't that it's SUVs, it's that people do too many things while driving. I'm totally for banning cell phones without handsfree devices (still not that good, but sometimes you actually have a necessity to talk). Stupid people are everywhere, SUVs only in some places. I'd rather ban (or tax) stupidity.
Let me document them:
I have been hit as a bicyclist once, pedestrian twice. Once while in a cross walk because the driver wasn't paying attention and once a car came out of a driveway and again wasn't paying attention. Both times, I was talking to someone who was at the opposite direction and was looking at them.
As for car-car accidents, first time I was at a stop sign, and got rear-ended by a lady screaming at her kids. Second time, someone let their car roll forward in neutral (that didn't do anything other than a scratch), Third time was someone not paying attention reading a movie theater sign and not looking at the traffic. Fourth time was in a campus parking lot and my car was hit after it was parked (go figure). Fifth time, the guy was on a cell phone and I was stopped in traffic for quite sometime on a freeway and promptly got smashed into (he was going around 55).
Wow.
You have some serious issues, and I would recommend you not driving anymore if you have this weird mind set that SUVs really are all that evil.
Please actually back up your claims as to SUVs being so much more dangerous and causing more accidents. I see many more smaller passenger car accidents than SUVs. I'd look up statistics because I'm confident you are wrong, but I'll leave the burden of proof to you since you are the one making wild accusations.
As for point 1, there are a few places who have 'Truck' laws in which SUVs do qualify where you cannot drive in the far left lane and have a seperate posted speed limit. This is mostly due to commercial vehicles (semi-trucks) which are much much much more "dangerous" than any SUV you've seen.
Onto point 2, Do you even have a drivers license dipshit? Did you ever look at the little forms that DMV has all over the place explaining where the DMV fees go? Have you ever wondered why licensing fees go up for trucks, and other luxory vehicles?
And, the most innane point, #3. SUV victims fund? Are you joking? Nobody made you get a car. Nobody made you drive it. The only victims in your twisted scenario are the people reading it. I have been hit by 3 cars, neither of which were SUVs. I have been in about 5 car accidents (all rear-ended while I was at a stop.. go figure, bad luck) neither of which were SUVs. Worst was a truck used for business purposes, and that was only bad because he was going 55mph when he hit. I don't care what type of car you drive, if you hit a stationary object at 55 it's gonna screw the other person. The only benefit in the whole situation is his car was mostly ok from it. I say more power to him.
I've already wasted too much time, but every argument you posted except #4 was just absolutely stupid. Do yourself a favor though, and take mass-transit, because it obviously stresses you out way to much to have all those SUVs stalking you and just waiting to make their killing move.
I would rather see a suite of applications that tie in not only to other cell phones but central computers so you can have an Exchange-style system setup delivering that information. I think that for a lot of people who are out of the office a lot and on the go this would really come in handy.
Instead of logging into a terminal somewhere, you can just update your status via cell phones through the system.. I ended up writing something similar that operated via email, but you basically were stuck with whatever email client the phone had and had to deal with that.
This is a beautiful troll, really. But I have a few points that you may want to address to make it not so obvious.
1. Any animation is obviously not going available to those that are vision-impaired.
2. Nothing on the internet is NEEDED. You may want to tone this down a bit.
3. You should conclude with something more drastic. Everyone knows that most sites are stupid and not easily navigable. You should say that everyone should all go back to gopher or HTML 1.0...
Saying that it contains no vapor is one thing, saying that WC3 is vapor is just stupid. If it were any other company, I would say you have a point. But it's Blizzard. Hell, if they ever hit a release date hell would freeze over.
Please explain to me how something which is having a call for beta testers in 6.5 hours, dozens of screenshots, and follows Blizzards usual development/release cycle "nailing one"?
Built to get a PhD and thus a better job. Do you think that Transmeta would have hired Torvalds had he not built the Linux Kernel.
No, built to come up with an alternative to Minix and a number of different reasons. Considering he just now received his honorary doctorate a couple years back I don't see this as relevant.
As for Da Vinci - Most of his now famous inventions were works he did on the side, not those in which he was commissioned too.
Galileo was a professor and was paid to teach. If that was the case, why do we not know the name of every professor and fail to see they were artists? Simple, because Galileo had passion and did what he did for love of science and the artwork of creating not the receival of money.
And please don't assume I am violating an artists copyright -- first off, it's seldom the artists copyright because the rights get signed over to the company. Start coming up with valid arguments as well, the fact remains that artists do what they do because they love it -- not because they get paid. The payment for it is just an added bonus. How many people do you know do something outside of what they get paid for that could be considered art? Sometimes it's not good enough to get paid for, sometimes it is but they still won't because lack of exposure yet they still do it. That is what art is about.
Art isn't about making money. It's about creating something.
I code for passion, but I still want to make money out of it!
Doing something for a reason, is different than doing it. If you could not get a job as a programmer, would you still code? If you answer no, you aren't an artist. You aren't a real programmer.
It's as simple as that. Companies don't go into business for any other reason other than to make money. If they don't - it's no ones fault but the companies.
I never said artists don't want to make money. I'm just saying that is not the primary goal of any real artist.
Yeah - and does every artist you know have another job? How many of them get paid for what they do? How many of them stop doing it because they can't get paid?
If they stop because they don't make money -- they aren't artists, capitalists.
You have just successfully backed yourself into a corner. Thank you for making this easier to intellectually bitch slap you.
First off, artists do it because it is a passion. Yes, they also get paid for it but they would continue to do it even if they had to choose another line of work because it's what they love to do.
Don't believe me? Then you are blind.
Slashdot - started as a volunteer/freetime project.
Linux Kernel
Da Vinci's Inventions
Galileo's Inventions
No artist, whether by code, paint, sculpting, or design does it to get paid. If they get paid, it is just an added bonus.
Who worked their ass off and expects to be paid? Napster? Hardly, I would not call Napster 'working your ass off' -- the original version was a hacked IRC network.. no feat of work went there. Then, they get a bunch of money and get a bunch of developers and marketroids. Sure, there's a group of folk who are working hard. At that point all it is is a company, trying to make a profit. They are not trying to create. They are not trying to design a work of art, a piece of beauty. So, in a nutshell, people like you don't have half a clue as to what it's like to do something artistic, whether for a living or not, to understand that it is a passion that drives it -- not a paycheck. So fuck off.
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First off, I went into the site and couldn't even figure out the navigation well enough to even want to go through it. And, for a scholarship don't they think they could have come up with a little bit of a harder problem? After giving up on their silly site, I perused slashdot and was kind of disappointed that it was that silly.
The college I attended had an annual competition where high school students built robotics or coded something, and would give out some degree of scholarships or other financial assistance towards prospective students and I can tell you that anybody who wrote a program to find the summation of all natural numbers would be laughed out. These were things like kernels, AI schemes, language recognition applications. I fail to see the cool factor in this. Any nerd deserving a scholarship for brains alone should really be challenged and not something that can be solved by a 2 minute script.
Your school sucks ass then. I would be willing to bet that your sensai is probably some 3rd dan american guy named John if you aren't feeling any vital point shots.
After 3 months in WHKD Kung Fu, I learned every vital point along the arms. Also, if you want real excitement, go to a traditional martial art tournament with full contact fighting. That's contact that will put any boxer to shame.
Karate is bland because it in and of itself is useless. TKD is a horrible art because of it's unnecessary flash, but combining the flash with technique will actually help you in fluid form.
Blanket statements aren't dangerous, if you look at the traditional effective arts, kung fu forms and grappling arts are always ranked higher than any japanese-based stand up art.
Choy Li Fut, Wun Hop Kuen Do, and Wushu are all effective, not too flashy, and powerful arts. Karate is about a small set of moves, combining to make a large set of forms. However, it's not the number of moves you learn it's how well and how adaptive they are. The major reason why karate fails as an effective fighting art is because it has the stance of defense and offense. This is a flawed interpretation of military science, and Miyamoto Musashi should be turning in his grave because of the implementation of todays karate.
I gave up on japanese-based arts after 9 years, because of it's futile attempt to encompass everything in a small series of non-adaptive moves. I have learned Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Aikido, and I am now studying Wun Hop Kuen Do (Choy Li Fut, mixed with Wushu and Kajukenbo, a new art created in 1969 by sifu Al Dacascos) and from a purely effectiveness standpoint, it puts to shame any art I have studied first hand. What I have found is that only people who have studied only japanese arts, attest to their superiority and power.
I didn't mean my original post as a flame, or a troll, just stating that Karate is a bland art. It is not exciting, mostly because of it's rigidness.
As for my prejudices, they aren't prejudices because that would require me to not have knowledge in them. I have studied them for years.
Please go ahead and learn about Kung Fu before posting. Kung Fu simply means excellent through hard work. The form of Kung Fu that I study deals with a lot of grappling technique as well as standup fighting. I will however give you credit for Karate and TKD, I have studied both.
Try a different martial art. Karate is a very bland art in and of itself. If you like the strict form japanese-style I would recommend tae kwon do. It's range of attacks are much more diversified.
I'm currently under the belief that japanese-derived martial arts are inferior to chinese arts (Kung Fu, specifically). If you want an art that will actually make something of you, try a traditional-based kung fu art.
As for chess, and the same with a martial arts tournament, when it comes down to victory nothing is sweeter. You know you are better. It feels good. It's great mental discipline because if you think you have won and you haven't yet, you may very well lose. The thing between a martial arts tournament and a chess tournament, in martial arts, you can usually tell if the guy you are going up against is trained well and can overpower you.
Can you imagine a cluster of these babies!?
I never thought that would actually come up seriously.
The only feasible way in which this would work is if the people in charge of the packages (authentication across a P2P network is another issue in and of itself.. but a checksum algorithm against a trusted source would work, assuming your trusted source file never gets overwritten) were to accept binary builds through a trust metric system (think Advogato) then it may possibly work. However, the risk of something like this would be rather large I doubt any decent level of inception from system admins.
You do realize you just introduced the first fatal unix trojan, right?
Please don't ever ever ever ever design something like this. For if you do, I shall smite thee.
Ok, you responded to a thread about the openness of PS and clarity about the trademark issues and the Adobe PS RIP sayin that PDF was not open and brought Dmitry's case into it to add extra emotional excitement.
You don't even make any sense anymore. I wish I would have just modded you down, which is a practice I typically don't do but you have proven yourself stupid and misinformed.
Uhm, PS == Open Format. Go re-read the thread.
I was also discussing your mentality. Relating two non-relating things by a sad legal incident is, at best, stupid and wrong. PS is FREE. PS is OPEN. No matter how much you want to distort your reality, that fact remains.
Deal with it. Also, learn the difference between PS and PDF, k?
I thought about mod'ing you down for this, but decided to post because I believe that you may need to get a few things straight.
First off, PS is an open format. It is publicly documented and you can develop freely upon it. What Dmitry did was violating Adobe's IP rights when he released it. This is a fact. Is it right? No. Is the DMCA right? No. But, Adobe's actions in the eBook case have absolutely nothing to do with the openness of the PS format.
Because of this, you are trolling because you are saying inflammatory and incorrect statements with an intent to get a negative reaction from the croud. The moderation was valid, and you made no valid point in your post.
To further clarify, you can't say that everything a company does is wrong based off a set of actions. That's called bigotry. Even Microsoft has it's merits of positive contribution to the computing industry. Deal with it, and get off the band wagon.
Funny how it works out that some people go through their whole lives without ever getting in an accident.
By the time I was 17 I had been hit by a car (on a bike.. that one hurt like hell), and been in 2 accidents.
Hope you did everything you could to screw that lady over, I think if you do something that negligbly(sp?) endangers someones life with a vehicle you should have to go on a probationary license. (No freeway driving, cannot exceed 45mph, no night-time driving)
SUVs account for 0% of the accidents that have happened to my poor cars. (5 accidents, as stated above).
I think that the major problem isn't that it's SUVs, it's that people do too many things while driving. I'm totally for banning cell phones without handsfree devices (still not that good, but sometimes you actually have a necessity to talk). Stupid people are everywhere, SUVs only in some places. I'd rather ban (or tax) stupidity.
Let me document them:
I have been hit as a bicyclist once, pedestrian twice. Once while in a cross walk because the driver wasn't paying attention and once a car came out of a driveway and again wasn't paying attention. Both times, I was talking to someone who was at the opposite direction and was looking at them.
As for car-car accidents, first time I was at a stop sign, and got rear-ended by a lady screaming at her kids. Second time, someone let their car roll forward in neutral (that didn't do anything other than a scratch), Third time was someone not paying attention reading a movie theater sign and not looking at the traffic. Fourth time was in a campus parking lot and my car was hit after it was parked (go figure). Fifth time, the guy was on a cell phone and I was stopped in traffic for quite sometime on a freeway and promptly got smashed into (he was going around 55).
I just have bad luck with cars.
Wow.
You have some serious issues, and I would recommend you not driving anymore if you have this weird mind set that SUVs really are all that evil.
Please actually back up your claims as to SUVs being so much more dangerous and causing more accidents. I see many more smaller passenger car accidents than SUVs. I'd look up statistics because I'm confident you are wrong, but I'll leave the burden of proof to you since you are the one making wild accusations.
As for point 1, there are a few places who have 'Truck' laws in which SUVs do qualify where you cannot drive in the far left lane and have a seperate posted speed limit. This is mostly due to commercial vehicles (semi-trucks) which are much much much more "dangerous" than any SUV you've seen.
Onto point 2, Do you even have a drivers license dipshit? Did you ever look at the little forms that DMV has all over the place explaining where the DMV fees go? Have you ever wondered why licensing fees go up for trucks, and other luxory vehicles?
And, the most innane point, #3. SUV victims fund? Are you joking? Nobody made you get a car. Nobody made you drive it. The only victims in your twisted scenario are the people reading it. I have been hit by 3 cars, neither of which were SUVs. I have been in about 5 car accidents (all rear-ended while I was at a stop.. go figure, bad luck) neither of which were SUVs. Worst was a truck used for business purposes, and that was only bad because he was going 55mph when he hit. I don't care what type of car you drive, if you hit a stationary object at 55 it's gonna screw the other person. The only benefit in the whole situation is his car was mostly ok from it. I say more power to him.
I've already wasted too much time, but every argument you posted except #4 was just absolutely stupid. Do yourself a favor though, and take mass-transit, because it obviously stresses you out way to much to have all those SUVs stalking you and just waiting to make their killing move.
I would rather see a suite of applications that tie in not only to other cell phones but central computers so you can have an Exchange-style system setup delivering that information. I think that for a lot of people who are out of the office a lot and on the go this would really come in handy.
Instead of logging into a terminal somewhere, you can just update your status via cell phones through the system.. I ended up writing something similar that operated via email, but you basically were stuck with whatever email client the phone had and had to deal with that.
This is a beautiful troll, really. But I have a few points that you may want to address to make it not so obvious.
1. Any animation is obviously not going available to those that are vision-impaired.
2. Nothing on the internet is NEEDED. You may want to tone this down a bit.
3. You should conclude with something more drastic. Everyone knows that most sites are stupid and not easily navigable. You should say that everyone should all go back to gopher or HTML 1.0...
Saying that it contains no vapor is one thing, saying that WC3 is vapor is just stupid. If it were any other company, I would say you have a point. But it's Blizzard. Hell, if they ever hit a release date hell would freeze over.
;)
Nice joke w/ the source thing though
You have to look at the source.
Blizzard has a history of lengthy development times, and their beta's are often times higher quality than the games other companies ship gold.
They also have dozens of screenshots, complete story lines, and it is in beta very soon.
This is not vapor. This is waiting for a good product, from a good manufacturer who wont release shit. More companies need to do this, in my opinion.
6: Warcraft III
Hey, they finally nailed one!
Please explain to me how something which is having a call for beta testers in 6.5 hours, dozens of screenshots, and follows Blizzards usual development/release cycle "nailing one"?
Built to get a PhD and thus a better job. Do you think that Transmeta would have hired Torvalds had he not built the Linux Kernel.
No, built to come up with an alternative to Minix and a number of different reasons. Considering he just now received his honorary doctorate a couple years back I don't see this as relevant.
As for Da Vinci - Most of his now famous inventions were works he did on the side, not those in which he was commissioned too.
Galileo was a professor and was paid to teach. If that was the case, why do we not know the name of every professor and fail to see they were artists? Simple, because Galileo had passion and did what he did for love of science and the artwork of creating not the receival of money.
And please don't assume I am violating an artists copyright -- first off, it's seldom the artists copyright because the rights get signed over to the company. Start coming up with valid arguments as well, the fact remains that artists do what they do because they love it -- not because they get paid. The payment for it is just an added bonus. How many people do you know do something outside of what they get paid for that could be considered art? Sometimes it's not good enough to get paid for, sometimes it is but they still won't because lack of exposure yet they still do it. That is what art is about.
Art isn't about making money. It's about creating something.
Thank you for supporting my argument.
I code for passion, but I still want to make money out of it!
Doing something for a reason, is different than doing it. If you could not get a job as a programmer, would you still code? If you answer no, you aren't an artist. You aren't a real programmer.
It's as simple as that. Companies don't go into business for any other reason other than to make money. If they don't - it's no ones fault but the companies.
I never said artists don't want to make money. I'm just saying that is not the primary goal of any real artist.
Yeah - and does every artist you know have another job? How many of them get paid for what they do? How many of them stop doing it because they can't get paid?
If they stop because they don't make money -- they aren't artists, capitalists.
You have just successfully backed yourself into a corner. Thank you for making this easier to intellectually bitch slap you.
First off, artists do it because it is a passion. Yes, they also get paid for it but they would continue to do it even if they had to choose another line of work because it's what they love to do.
Don't believe me? Then you are blind.
Slashdot - started as a volunteer/freetime project.
Linux Kernel
Da Vinci's Inventions
Galileo's Inventions
No artist, whether by code, paint, sculpting, or design does it to get paid. If they get paid, it is just an added bonus.
Who worked their ass off and expects to be paid? Napster? Hardly, I would not call Napster 'working your ass off' -- the original version was a hacked IRC network.. no feat of work went there. Then, they get a bunch of money and get a bunch of developers and marketroids. Sure, there's a group of folk who are working hard. At that point all it is is a company, trying to make a profit. They are not trying to create. They are not trying to design a work of art, a piece of beauty. So, in a nutshell, people like you don't have half a clue as to what it's like to do something artistic, whether for a living or not, to understand that it is a passion that drives it -- not a paycheck. So fuck off.
the musicians' lament: Seems kind of sad that so much work will be done on something that everyone will steal.
An artist works for passion, a company works for greed.