And what's all this tripe about Lewis being a "fanatic". Dedicated, yes. And sympathetic to doubters of all kinds, as well.
He came to his faith late in life, and did so through a deep examination of himself and what he could ascertain of the devine. He was not a hypocrite - some thing which cased him a world of pain to endure, and about which he wrote at length.
Screwtape is a work of quiet genius - wheather you are Christian or not. It picks apart the subtle self-deceptions and hidden selfishness common to each of us, and in it they are exposed to an almost Holmsian examination. A Jungian agnostic or a Zen Bhuddist would recognize and appreciate the things Lewis found through examining first himself.
It is through the things I insist are "me", that the devils find their entry...
All are stories based on ideas and meaningful personal interactions. Hollywood don't play that way. Lowest Common Denominator, that's what guarantees a return on our $75 Million investment.
"Who does the wizard kill? Schmendrick, you say? O.K., we'll get Billy Crystal!"
Seventy-one is right! Somewhere I lost my marbles there. That's why the oldies were still floating around when I was a kidlet, and you still heard people saying "Bob" for shilling. I would've gone mad, figuring out all the 12s and 20s!
God, now they're going to rape "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". I can hear the "high concept" on this one: "Harry Potter meets that Hobbit movie, with Talking Animals! We've "sexed up" the magic and the fighting!"
British coins were crappy sizes in the sixties and seventies! Especially when all the Shilling coins and whatnot were still floating around. I'm sure that's why the coins were so well thought out inthe eighties, and why they limited redemption of £1 notes for coin to just two years.
Before the L/S/D reform of the money in '64, £10 notes were just that - large "notes" almost like letters! "Billfold" was no idle descriptive
I'm not fond of the editorializing in the presentation of this story...
Penalize?
You've made your gargantuan Billions off of using free software. You've saved tens of Millions over the licensing from Sun and Microsoft and Adobe and BEA and Rationa and whatall. Hosting Wikipedia isn't much payback!
Funny how you can run across an old BofE pound or blue note in a desk drawer or old suit of clothes. Not worth a damn thing now! And you think "why didn't I know that was lying there, back then, when I was skint?"
It's in the states I always find the old stuff. No good on visits, nowadays.
Didn't know that about Bank of Scotland. Funny! I don't know if I ever laid eyes on one - never was north of Leeds. Got Robbie Burns on it, I suppose?
The one pound coin in the U.K. is pretty great. Thick as two or three others, so there is writing on the edge. It's possible to even have one land this way in a toss - tho not too possible!
Easy to tell the things apart from others, and they naturally sort themselves out in your pocket. Makes me not miss the old "Isaac Newton" quid that was phased out in the 'eighties. It's also the best reason I can think of for Great Britain to stay out of the Euro.
I didn't mean Linus should use Perforce. I meant that Perforce occupied a Market position that Bitkeeper can't dislodge it from - disributed repository or not.
McVoy dismisses fundamental Free Software positions, while claiming "this is really an open source community problem and I have to say that the open source community couldn't have failed more than they have."
He goes on to compare the activities of an individual deleoper to a "bad apple" in the Marine Corps!
Rhetorical fussilades like this really expose what an unbearable asshole he is.
Linus "picked" Bitkeeper because Larry harangued him in Linus' home, around the release time of 2.4>
Linus was dropping important patches - cos his versioning was done from a mail spool.
Larry was writing Bitkeeper and had been pushing this for a couple years. Finally Linus gave in - saying there was a problem - and agreed to use a vcs that didn't get in his way. Then Larry made his pitch...
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Linspire has been doing this - and making excuses for the practice - ever since Hector was a pup.
That's about four years, or somethin'.
They are changing the name to International Business Leeches
The new "Sid'!
Well,
If he does so on Ipanema beach, sure!
He came to his faith late in life, and did so through a deep examination of himself and what he could ascertain of the devine. He was not a hypocrite - some thing which cased him a world of pain to endure, and about which he wrote at length.
Screwtape is a work of quiet genius - wheather you are Christian or not. It picks apart the subtle self-deceptions and hidden selfishness common to each of us, and in it they are exposed to an almost Holmsian examination. A Jungian agnostic or a Zen Bhuddist would recognize and appreciate the things Lewis found through examining first himself.
It is through the things I insist are "me", that the devils find their entry...
All are stories based on ideas and meaningful personal interactions. Hollywood don't play that way. Lowest Common Denominator, that's what guarantees a return on our $75 Million investment.
"Who does the wizard kill? Schmendrick, you say? O.K., we'll get Billy Crystal!"
Seventy-one is right! Somewhere I lost my marbles there. That's why the oldies were still floating around when I was a kidlet, and you still heard people saying "Bob" for shilling. I would've gone mad, figuring out all the 12s and 20s!
God, now they're going to rape "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe". I can hear the "high concept" on this one: "Harry Potter meets that Hobbit movie, with Talking Animals! We've "sexed up" the magic and the fighting!"
Oh, yeah. We got extra Knuths, just dropping out of the trees.
Before the L/S/D reform of the money in '64, £10 notes were just that - large "notes" almost like letters! "Billfold" was no idle descriptive
Piscene face, mammalian, uhhhh... mammaries.
Penalize?
You've made your gargantuan Billions off of using free software. You've saved tens of Millions over the licensing from Sun and Microsoft and Adobe and BEA and Rationa and whatall. Hosting Wikipedia isn't much payback!
It's in the states I always find the old stuff. No good on visits, nowadays.
Didn't know that about Bank of Scotland. Funny! I don't know if I ever laid eyes on one - never was north of Leeds. Got Robbie Burns on it, I suppose?
Easy to tell the things apart from others, and they naturally sort themselves out in your pocket. Makes me not miss the old "Isaac Newton" quid that was phased out in the 'eighties. It's also the best reason I can think of for Great Britain to stay out of the Euro.
Broad methods and gerneral mechanisms are being patented - not individual realizations and expressions.
I hope you know something more than I about this, that is less discouraging...
That the newsletter they e-mail every month becomes "ManDrivel"?
This is how Governments add to anything! :-)
Don't forget Barrage Balloons - Strung up over london to tangle Stukas and HE-111's in the dark!
Is the fox guarding the henhouse?!!?
What're all these damned chicken feathers doing everywhere!? Ay! What's all this bloody mess here too?
Kids these days... We knew the airships were a "Great War" item, that passed (gas) with the Hindenburg.
SLASHBACK:
That section of Slashdot.org that directly links Windows executables without warning.
I think there are reasons Larry McVoy is not Bill Joy or John Osterhout.
I didn't mean Linus should use Perforce. I meant that Perforce occupied a Market position that Bitkeeper can't dislodge it from - disributed repository or not.
He goes on to compare the activities of an individual deleoper to a "bad apple" in the Marine Corps!
Rhetorical fussilades like this really expose what an unbearable asshole he is.
Linus was dropping important patches - cos his versioning was done from a mail spool.
Larry was writing Bitkeeper and had been pushing this for a couple years. Finally Linus gave in - saying there was a problem - and agreed to use a vcs that didn't get in his way. Then Larry made his pitch...