think xdoclet. or JDO byte code enhancements, or logging. the java logging api lets you log.entering("classname", "methodname", new Object[] { param} ); and similarly for exiting. but that's a terrible bore to have to go in and add by hand, and also a terrible waste of code-realestate. i just want the logging to be there implicityly. with AOP you could define the entry and exit logging as aspects of each method both in your code, and in any code libraries you are using.
did you see 'supersize me'? after the film my friend and i discussed how it was that he could put on so much weight so fast and came to the conclusion it was not the high fat content of the food, but more likely the growth hormones in the meat and fat and the general overprocessing of the food in general. Her take was that she could probably eat the same amount of pure fat by eating organicly reared, delicious smoked spec and fresh whipped cream and there is no way she'd put on that sort of weight. I tend to concur. The slime you feel in your system after any kind of fast food - whether from mcdonnalds or a meal-4-1 from the local supermarket - is not the sugar and fat, it's the pure evil. I saw that film 'the corporation' and the shots of those cows bumbling around with their distended, bleeding udders - erch. pumping these poor animals full of drugs and forcing upon them a manacled life or horror, fear, shit and death is no way to feed the masses. soylent green is looking better and better every day.
luckily i live in amsterdam where there are amazing local farmers markets and the EU is doing its best to keep the very worst of US food practices at bay, despite incredible pressure. but don't get me started there. man if ever a country needed a 'truth and reconcilliation comission' it's the USA.
exactly right, thus clearly showing this is all just some sort of 21c slave ship. they could easily lure young Indian and Asian developers with promises of big money etc and then when on board they take their passports and voila - commence oppression. I've seen the same thing happen in restaurants. There was a case of a restaurant in Adelaide where the entire kitchen staff had been brought over to Australia and then enslaved with the threat of prison and routine physical intimidation by the ruthless restaurant owners. Just look at the volume of people-trafficing that goes on, 1,000's of young girls are adbucted and sold into sex-slavery and shipped from one end of the earth to another like so many marks-n-spencers boardroom sandwich packs.
Imho human beings have no limit to the evil they can do, but their capacity for goodness is capped by their widening culture of self interest. Lies have become as relevant as truths for most people. No-one really gives a shit about Iraq or Afghanistan, or people being boiled alive in Uzbekistan or whatever the fuck other horrible thing is happening out there. The peaking of oil, the rise of the neocons, a pope who was a member of the hitler youth! climate change, species die-off, blah blah blah. [[[allows sputtering rage to subside - grabs ipod and gets on bike, it's a beautiful day outside.]]]
Way back when i went to university, the computer science department would let you buy all of the lecture notes for the semester, in advance, for around $10. It was an awesome deal; cheaper than photocopying them in fact. Now I hear they still do the same but the notes are all available electronically in advance free-of-charge through the department's intranet. Of course there were no university fees at all when I was there. Nowadays those free notes probably cost you $500 but the cost is hidden in your fees.
well i guess it's back to the old school - telecini a projection of the dvd onto an HD recorder. if it can be seen and heard, it can be copied. and one open copy is enough.
top work - i just wrote to all of the MEPs in the Netherlands as I could not work out who exactly is my local MEP. I am well curious to see the responses. Come on EU slashdotters - get writing!
My fear though, is that VideoLAN and other OSS companies will simply shift production to Asia where patents are not that well respected.
My hope is that VideoLAN and other OSS companies will simply shift production to Asia where patents are not that well respected. Who the fuck cares if the USA is 'left behind' technology wise. That just means its harder for americans to rape, plunder, and kill the rest of the world. Sorry but America, Fuck you.
that's a war on Terra you are thinking of, and last i looked, US Taxpayers are funding that one. It's it's as successful as the war on drugs has been that'll be money well spent too.
mmmm JDO.
I switched from Hibernate to JDO last year and love it. I have always avoided EJB, preferring Jini should I need to build distributed systems, and POJOs with JDO (or Hibernate, honestly it's 6 of one, half dozen of the other). The big plus for JDO is there are loads of JDO vendors competing and so far it's been prety much plug'n'play to swap out one JDO impl and use another. JDO2 is really flexible, much more so than Hibernate IMHO and the whole i really dig the byte code enhancement idea a whole lot as it keeps your code small and tidy. hibernate's use of the getters and setters to persist fields can be very annoying and forces you to make specific adjustments to your objects which can be annoying.
you must be thinking of a different world bank. The World Bank always has been an instrument of US Power Projection and nothing more. It has worked well to suck what remaining economic life remains from developing nations. Only developing countries who rejected the World bank's Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) have prospered at all. Those who followed the SAPs got right royally fucked in the ass; just as they were supposed to.
Wofi is the natural best choice for the world bank and is sure to advance their already well developed program for strip mining the rest of the planet.
I'd buy an iPod 40GB with GSM phone like a shot. And I'd pay HKD$4000 to do so. That's around $500 USD.
yep me too. if my iPod could make calls that's one less device in my pocket. perhaps ipod + wifi + bluetooth + skype:-)
sorry for being almost 100% off topic but the parent post just brough flooding back the time I was visiting this place in the middle of nowhere in australia, between melbourne and adelaide, called Kryal Castle. it's some sort of castle that got moved brick by brick from europe somewhere. anyway the point is they have wild cats, including lions and tigers (see relevent) in cages in the middle of the castle grounds. I was standing there as this massive female lion turned, aimed,(ie looked carefully, turned a bit more, ) and then shot a hot stream of lion piss about 6 metres all over a middle aged couple and their teenaged kids. this was a directed blast - like a firehose of piss. Oh how we laughed that day. the other 60 or so tourists wandering about there thought it was hillarious too. and watching these parents try to calm their howling kids down was just the icing on the cake. i laughed aloud just recalling it. and remember kids - lions can shoot hot piss 20 feet! that's not something they teach you lions can do!
Have you seen it come to anything but a neat cyberspace chatsubo?
not yet. there is probably a very good reason why more visually interactive environments tend to be places you run around and blow each other up in, rather than sit about and chat in.
how funny you should mention this. takes me back about 11 years. pretty much the first thing i did when I discovered xerox parc's labda-moo was to create a rose, with a plethora of descriptions and actions and then give it to another player. My first even online flirt. I went on to attempt a quite complex model railway before I stopped taking acid and sitting in a dark room, excited by the potential of a 2400baud slip connection.
and your emails, faxes, telexes, phone calls, google searches, the ads you click on, the google news links you follow. read the european parliament's report on echelon and be amazed.
Jef raskin dies of pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs was diagnosed late last year and whisked off to hospital also for pancreatic cancer - If I were andy hertzfeld, i'd be off getting tested. could this be a mac founder's curse? of course not - all a coincidence. nothing to see here folks, move along.
I can concur directly - I have been programming for money for 25 years (started in high school) and over that time have experienced all manner of boom/bust cycles. i have found that by focussing on some specific, slightly esoteric and difficult areas, you improve your income considerably. the aim should always be to be able to bill the maximum amount for the fewest hours. That means making sure you have a non-exclusive work contract and high rates. to paraphrase some old comic book characters "high rates will get you though times of no work better than lots of work will get you through times of low rates."
you can only keep your rates high by specialising in something tricky.
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I also recommend "Quantum Evolution" by Johnjoe McFadden. It too makes the case that consciousness is a product of quantum phenomena.
think xdoclet. or JDO byte code enhancements, or logging. the java logging api lets you log.entering("classname", "methodname", new Object[] { param} ); and similarly for exiting. but that's a terrible bore to have to go in and add by hand, and also a terrible waste of code-realestate. i just want the logging to be there implicityly. with AOP you could define the entry and exit logging as aspects of each method both in your code, and in any code libraries you are using.
luckily i live in amsterdam where there are amazing local farmers markets and the EU is doing its best to keep the very worst of US food practices at bay, despite incredible pressure. but don't get me started there. man if ever a country needed a 'truth and reconcilliation comission' it's the USA.
yep, cos we'll see IE7 on the mac sometime after we see IE6 i guess. too little too late i say.
Imho human beings have no limit to the evil they can do, but their capacity for goodness is capped by their widening culture of self interest. Lies have become as relevant as truths for most people. No-one really gives a shit about Iraq or Afghanistan, or people being boiled alive in Uzbekistan or whatever the fuck other horrible thing is happening out there. The peaking of oil, the rise of the neocons, a pope who was a member of the hitler youth! climate change, species die-off, blah blah blah. [[[allows sputtering rage to subside - grabs ipod and gets on bike, it's a beautiful day outside.]]]
and he'll be able to say "We're in this for the species, boys and girls" I hope he wears a long black coat when he says this.
Way back when i went to university, the computer science department would let you buy all of the lecture notes for the semester, in advance, for around $10. It was an awesome deal; cheaper than photocopying them in fact. Now I hear they still do the same but the notes are all available electronically in advance free-of-charge through the department's intranet. Of course there were no university fees at all when I was there. Nowadays those free notes probably cost you $500 but the cost is hidden in your fees.
well i guess it's back to the old school - telecini a projection of the dvd onto an HD recorder. if it can be seen and heard, it can be copied. and one open copy is enough.
darn. my old g3 powerbook will be sad.
now we are one step closer to the dream of sending remote controlled downs' syndrome people into battle. who will make our wicker baskets now!
FYI: If you live in The Netherlands, the MEP to write to is Edith Mastenbroek. <emastenbroek at europarl dot eu dot int>.
top work - i just wrote to all of the MEPs in the Netherlands as I could not work out who exactly is my local MEP. I am well curious to see the responses. Come on EU slashdotters - get writing!
My hope is that VideoLAN and other OSS companies will simply shift production to Asia where patents are not that well respected. Who the fuck cares if the USA is 'left behind' technology wise. That just means its harder for americans to rape, plunder, and kill the rest of the world. Sorry but America, Fuck you.
that's a war on Terra you are thinking of, and last i looked, US Taxpayers are funding that one. It's it's as successful as the war on drugs has been that'll be money well spent too.
mmmm JDO. I switched from Hibernate to JDO last year and love it. I have always avoided EJB, preferring Jini should I need to build distributed systems, and POJOs with JDO (or Hibernate, honestly it's 6 of one, half dozen of the other). The big plus for JDO is there are loads of JDO vendors competing and so far it's been prety much plug'n'play to swap out one JDO impl and use another. JDO2 is really flexible, much more so than Hibernate IMHO and the whole i really dig the byte code enhancement idea a whole lot as it keeps your code small and tidy. hibernate's use of the getters and setters to persist fields can be very annoying and forces you to make specific adjustments to your objects which can be annoying.
you must be thinking of a different world bank. The World Bank always has been an instrument of US Power Projection and nothing more. It has worked well to suck what remaining economic life remains from developing nations. Only developing countries who rejected the World bank's Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) have prospered at all. Those who followed the SAPs got right royally fucked in the ass; just as they were supposed to. Wofi is the natural best choice for the world bank and is sure to advance their already well developed program for strip mining the rest of the planet.
I'd buy an iPod 40GB with GSM phone like a shot. And I'd pay HKD$4000 to do so. That's around $500 USD. yep me too. if my iPod could make calls that's one less device in my pocket. perhaps ipod + wifi + bluetooth + skype :-)
sorry for being almost 100% off topic but the parent post just brough flooding back the time I was visiting this place in the middle of nowhere in australia, between melbourne and adelaide, called Kryal Castle. it's some sort of castle that got moved brick by brick from europe somewhere. anyway the point is they have wild cats, including lions and tigers (see relevent) in cages in the middle of the castle grounds. I was standing there as this massive female lion turned, aimed,(ie looked carefully, turned a bit more, ) and then shot a hot stream of lion piss about 6 metres all over a middle aged couple and their teenaged kids. this was a directed blast - like a firehose of piss. Oh how we laughed that day. the other 60 or so tourists wandering about there thought it was hillarious too. and watching these parents try to calm their howling kids down was just the icing on the cake. i laughed aloud just recalling it. and remember kids - lions can shoot hot piss 20 feet! that's not something they teach you lions can do!
not yet. there is probably a very good reason why more visually interactive environments tend to be places you run around and blow each other up in, rather than sit about and chat in.
how funny you should mention this. takes me back about 11 years. pretty much the first thing i did when I discovered xerox parc's labda-moo was to create a rose, with a plethora of descriptions and actions and then give it to another player. My first even online flirt. I went on to attempt a quite complex model railway before I stopped taking acid and sitting in a dark room, excited by the potential of a 2400baud slip connection.
and don't forget those men who stare at goats!
and your emails, faxes, telexes, phone calls, google searches, the ads you click on, the google news links you follow. read the european parliament's report on echelon and be amazed.
I am a huge fan of VLC but for many of my disks VLC just doesn't work.
Jef raskin dies of pancreatic cancer, Steve Jobs was diagnosed late last year and whisked off to hospital also for pancreatic cancer - If I were andy hertzfeld, i'd be off getting tested. could this be a mac founder's curse? of course not - all a coincidence. nothing to see here folks, move along.
I can concur directly - I have been programming for money for 25 years (started in high school) and over that time have experienced all manner of boom/bust cycles. i have found that by focussing on some specific, slightly esoteric and difficult areas, you improve your income considerably. the aim should always be to be able to bill the maximum amount for the fewest hours. That means making sure you have a non-exclusive work contract and high rates. to paraphrase some old comic book characters "high rates will get you though times of no work better than lots of work will get you through times of low rates." you can only keep your rates high by specialising in something tricky.