The text is approximate. And it could have been someone other than Alasdair delivering the setup line.
But yes, the cast members' names I remembered without resorting to google. I remember most of the main ones: Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Alasdair Gillis, Doug Ptolemy, Kevin Kubusheskie, and the two principal adults, Les Lye and Abby Hagyard.
And of course Alanis. I used to think Christine was way hotter than the other female cast members, even Alanis who was posited as "the pretty one". This is because despite playing an ostensible teenager, Christine was in her early 20s at the time, while many of her co-stars were still going through puberty. Heck, I saw recent pics of Christine, she's in her 40s and still hot.
As for encouraging Steve Jobs, you're too late: all Macs these days ship with speech-synth software.
That's how I first heard of the Lisa -- through YCDTOTV locker jokes.
Alasdair: "Oh, Christine!" Christine: "Yes, Alasdair?" Alasdair: "Did you know they made a computer called the Lisa?" Christine: "I hope it doesn't talk!"
(note: Castmember Lisa Ruddy was portrayed as annoyingly, excessively talkative.)
I woke up one day and realised, "Hey, wait a minute! C++ is crap! I'd been using crap for years and calling it ice cream!"
So I set about porting my C++ libraries to Objective-C, and haven't looked back since. In ObjC they are smaller, cleaner, leaner, and meaner.
Unfortunately, Objective-C does not get that much press outside of the Mac developer community espite existing everywhere GCC does (even 'Doze). Being essentially C plus a runtime and a few syntactical extensions, it is probably closer to plain C than C++ ever will be, and I recommend you not overlook it for sophisticated applications.
I think you and an aspie have different and conflicting ideas about effective communication.
Sir Isaac Newton expressed the principles of physics in a beautiful way. He didn't use PowerPoint or sit in a boardroom explaining the mechanics of force and mass in corporate bafflegab.
Newton is widely believed to have either Asperger's or the mercury poisoning some connect with autism.
A great idea which isn't communicated is infinitely better than a bad idea which is well communicated because uncommunicated great ideas do nothing whereas well-communicated bad ideas seep into society and get implemented, doing damage.
All PC compatible computers these days boot into real mode. They must be changed over to protected mode by the OS, or the bootloader.
There may be some exceptions to this rule (e.g., SGI's short-lived "Visual Workstation") but in general if you buy an x86 box, it follows the same procedure to boot Linux or Windows XP as the original PC did to boot DOS. What the operating system does from there is up to that OS.
Anyone remember Space Quest IV? In one scene, Roger goes to the mall and visits a store called Radio Shock to buy a connector for his PocketPal(tm) dumb terminal laptop. Due to trademark problems the name of the store was changed to Hz. So Good in SQIV's CD-ROM release.
From this I'm forced to conclude that if Radio Shack sues they may very well win or get a settlement.
How many Alan Kays or Tim Berners-Lees could be hired with the immense pile of wealth they've reaped off the Windows/Office juggernaut? A lot. Lots of money means the potential to be hella innovative by hiring the right people.
In fact, Microsoft already has some top-notch researchers working for them (the inventor of Haskell, I believe, is among them) and they *could* turn that stuff into product; they choose not to for profitability and empire-maintenance reasons. Should their empire crumble they would by necessity go into shark mode: move forward (innovate) or die.
First of all, John Dvorak, is that you? This looks like fresh copy for a business IT rag, bolded headers and all, but the main feature being clueless rambling that sounds knowledgeable and sophisticated. Now on to my main point:
With few exceptions (COBOL, C++) I find I can pick up a new *language* in a matter of hours. Where the time really needs to be taken to learn, is in APIs. Oftentimes, as is the case in languages like Perl and Python, a new API is implied by learning the language, since you have to know the syntax the language uses for strings, regexps, and so forth. Smalltalk is a very tiny language with a very big API. Grokking the syntax can be done in minutes; finding out what all those little objects do, what methods they expose and how they may best be fit together to solve a problem requires lots of time, skill, and creativity.
With.NET, the multi-language "feature" is really a non-feature, as most.NET languages expose the same API which is the set of classes in the.NET framework..NET is like the ultimate "skinnable" programming environment; the language syntax tends to be different for each of.NET's guest languages but the underlying API, the base upon which the language is founded, is the same. There's some syntactic sugar here and there for people who are familiar with Visual Basic... but in actuality,.NET is no more multi-language than Java (which as noted elsewhere also plays host to code from diverse programming languages); and, it does not eliminate the far less trivial barrier to adoption that is its class API (which is different from both Java and Win32).
"I'm gonna give you to the count of ten to get your ugly, yella, no-good keister off my property before I pump yer guts full of lead. One... two... TEN!" *ACKACKACKACKACKACK* *pizza guy runs away all scared*
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Insert Credit is one game site I hit up consistently. They frequently look at Japanese releases and what's going to be coming here stateside. Katamari Damacy is one of those bizarre, fiendishly successful titles which showed up on IC's radar first in the Western gaming-news scene.
The other site that really interests me is Tetsuya Mizuguchi's personal blog. It is like a glimpse into the life and mind of a game designer -- not just any designer mind you but the genius behind Rez. So hearing what he has to say on games and the Japanese techno-culture is interesting if only for the context it lends.
Head of NASA: Mr. Senator, in light of the recent (airquotes) "X-Prize" I'd like for NASA to receive funding to sponsor contract prizes of its own, in amounts up to..... (pinky to corner of mouth) ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
The big concern, Kyoto-wise, is China. A nation long famous for its citizens using bicycles, China's economic growth is expected to bring with it a rise in fossil-fuel-burning industrial factories... and automobile usage.
It's just kind of odd that a nation with a billion-plus population poised to become an industrial juggernaut gets a free pass on Kyoto.
It is important to note that as soon as Dave Cutler and crew developed the NT kernel, Microsoft marketroids descended upon it like a swarm of locusts and started demanding that this and that feature be added -- till the design itself which was ostensibly very robust was compromised. The "video drivers in the kernel" thing is but one of many examples. And until recently, it seemed to get worse with every NT release: companies were reluctant to switch to NT4 because it had more issues as a server OS than NT 3.51.
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Darth Vader and Japanese schoolgirls!
The text is approximate. And it could have been someone other than Alasdair delivering the setup line.
But yes, the cast members' names I remembered without resorting to google. I remember most of the main ones: Christine McGlade, Lisa Ruddy, Alasdair Gillis, Doug Ptolemy, Kevin Kubusheskie, and the two principal adults, Les Lye and Abby Hagyard.
And of course Alanis. I used to think Christine was way hotter than the other female cast members, even Alanis who was posited as "the pretty one". This is because despite playing an ostensible teenager, Christine was in her early 20s at the time, while many of her co-stars were still going through puberty. Heck, I saw recent pics of Christine, she's in her 40s and still hot.
As for encouraging Steve Jobs, you're too late: all Macs these days ship with speech-synth software.
That's how I first heard of the Lisa -- through YCDTOTV locker jokes.
Alasdair: "Oh, Christine!"
Christine: "Yes, Alasdair?"
Alasdair: "Did you know they made a computer called the Lisa?"
Christine: "I hope it doesn't talk!"
(note: Castmember Lisa Ruddy was portrayed as annoyingly, excessively talkative.)
"We don't know who struck first, us or them, but we do know it was us who scorched the sky."
You know you're a turbo nerd when you hear "Monad Shell" and think, "Was it written in Haskell?!"
I woke up one day and realised, "Hey, wait a minute! C++ is crap! I'd been using crap for years and calling it ice cream!"
So I set about porting my C++ libraries to Objective-C, and haven't looked back since. In ObjC they are smaller, cleaner, leaner, and meaner.
Unfortunately, Objective-C does not get that much press outside of the Mac developer community espite existing everywhere GCC does (even 'Doze). Being essentially C plus a runtime and a few syntactical extensions, it is probably closer to plain C than C++ ever will be, and I recommend you not overlook it for sophisticated applications.
...for the PowerPC eieio instruction.
s/widely believed to have/widely believed to have had/g
I think you and an aspie have different and conflicting ideas about effective communication.
Sir Isaac Newton expressed the principles of physics in a beautiful way. He didn't use PowerPoint or sit in a boardroom explaining the mechanics of force and mass in corporate bafflegab.
Newton is widely believed to have either Asperger's or the mercury poisoning some connect with autism.
A great idea which isn't communicated is infinitely better than a bad idea which is well communicated because uncommunicated great ideas do nothing whereas well-communicated bad ideas seep into society and get implemented, doing damage.
.... skeet shooting.
"PULL!"
*BLAM*
*satisfying explosion of Windows disc into a zillion teeny shards*
All PC compatible computers these days boot into real mode. They must be changed over to protected mode by the OS, or the bootloader.
There may be some exceptions to this rule (e.g., SGI's short-lived "Visual Workstation") but in general if you buy an x86 box, it follows the same procedure to boot Linux or Windows XP as the original PC did to boot DOS. What the operating system does from there is up to that OS.
Mr. Irving R. POINTYSTICK!!!
I bought a PSP so I could play Lumines. It's the only game I own for the thing, and will likely keep me occupied for some time.
Lumines is awesome. Hopefully more people will grok its awesomeness than did its predecessor, Rez (which is arguably even more awesome).
Anyone remember Space Quest IV? In one scene, Roger goes to the mall and visits a store called Radio Shock to buy a connector for his PocketPal(tm) dumb terminal laptop. Due to trademark problems the name of the store was changed to Hz. So Good in SQIV's CD-ROM release.
From this I'm forced to conclude that if Radio Shack sues they may very well win or get a settlement.
Fact: Microsoft has lots of money.
How many Alan Kays or Tim Berners-Lees could be hired with the immense pile of wealth they've reaped off the Windows/Office juggernaut? A lot. Lots of money means the potential to be hella innovative by hiring the right people.
In fact, Microsoft already has some top-notch researchers working for them (the inventor of Haskell, I believe, is among them) and they *could* turn that stuff into product; they choose not to for profitability and empire-maintenance reasons. Should their empire crumble they would by necessity go into shark mode: move forward (innovate) or die.
That site at donderevo.com appears to be to robots what Real Ultimate Power is to ninjas.
I was waiting to get to the part where the robots flip out and kill people. I was also definitely pumped.
First of all, John Dvorak, is that you? This looks like fresh copy for a business IT rag, bolded headers and all, but the main feature being clueless rambling that sounds knowledgeable and sophisticated. Now on to my main point:
.NET, the multi-language "feature" is really a non-feature, as most .NET languages expose the same API which is the set of classes in the .NET framework. .NET is like the ultimate "skinnable" programming environment; the language syntax tends to be different for each of .NET's guest languages but the underlying API, the base upon which the language is founded, is the same. There's some syntactic sugar here and there for people who are familiar with Visual Basic... but in actuality, .NET is no more multi-language than Java (which as noted elsewhere also plays host to code from diverse programming languages); and, it does not eliminate the far less trivial barrier to adoption that is its class API (which is different from both Java and Win32).
With few exceptions (COBOL, C++) I find I can pick up a new *language* in a matter of hours. Where the time really needs to be taken to learn, is in APIs. Oftentimes, as is the case in languages like Perl and Python, a new API is implied by learning the language, since you have to know the syntax the language uses for strings, regexps, and so forth. Smalltalk is a very tiny language with a very big API. Grokking the syntax can be done in minutes; finding out what all those little objects do, what methods they expose and how they may best be fit together to solve a problem requires lots of time, skill, and creativity.
With
provided it's enough for me to get my Lumines on.
"I'm gonna give you to the count of ten to get your ugly, yella, no-good keister off my property before I pump yer guts full of lead. One... two... TEN!" *ACKACKACKACKACKACK* *pizza guy runs away all scared*
Insert Credit is one game site I hit up consistently. They frequently look at Japanese releases and what's going to be coming here stateside. Katamari Damacy is one of those bizarre, fiendishly successful titles which showed up on IC's radar first in the Western gaming-news scene.
The other site that really interests me is Tetsuya Mizuguchi's personal blog. It is like a glimpse into the life and mind of a game designer -- not just any designer mind you but the genius behind Rez. So hearing what he has to say on games and the Japanese techno-culture is interesting if only for the context it lends.
Tycho's cat maybe got his MCSE from that place.
Head of NASA: Mr. Senator, in light of the recent (airquotes) "X-Prize" I'd like for NASA to receive funding to sponsor contract prizes of its own, in amounts up to..... (pinky to corner of mouth) ONE BILLION DOLLARS.
The big concern, Kyoto-wise, is China. A nation long famous for its citizens using bicycles, China's economic growth is expected to bring with it a rise in fossil-fuel-burning industrial factories... and automobile usage.
It's just kind of odd that a nation with a billion-plus population poised to become an industrial juggernaut gets a free pass on Kyoto.
namely, that there is no spoon.
It is important to note that as soon as Dave Cutler and crew developed the NT kernel, Microsoft marketroids descended upon it like a swarm of locusts and started demanding that this and that feature be added -- till the design itself which was ostensibly very robust was compromised. The "video drivers in the kernel" thing is but one of many examples. And until recently, it seemed to get worse with every NT release: companies were reluctant to switch to NT4 because it had more issues as a server OS than NT 3.51.