If you can, get your mitts on a Velfarre CD. This is a selection of music from the DJ's of Velfarre, Tokyo's hottest nightclub (often considered to be the best club in the world). The music is mixed techno, eurodance, R&B, jungle, etc. Real dancy stuff, high-energy, sounds like the kind of music that comes pumping out of a DDR machine. But REAL fun to listen to.
I don't think that the Mac (OS 10) has shared libraries, per se. Most of the Mac software I've seen has fallen into three broad categories: applications, "desk accessories", and extensions which are like TSRs: they are loaded at boot time and work by "patching traps", modifying the hooks into the operating system to point to their own code.
The fact that Mozilla has gotten its shared-library-based architecture up and going is a mini-marvel in itself. It certainly isn't a traditional Mac app.
On the flip side, the Jargon File defines "user friendly" as "programmer hostile" and with good reason. Programming for the Mac is a bit like living in one of those planned communities where you can be arrested for painting your house an unapproved color. Inside Macintosh, the definitive programming docs for the machine, contains numerous dogmatic directives like "The first two menu items in a Macintosh application must be called File and Edit." That is how UI consistency is achieved, and why Linux will never have what is commonly called a "user friendly" interface: to achieve that one must appoint a Fuhrer of UI, a grand poobah with whose decisions all developers must comply in uniform, unwavering orthodoxy. And Linux hackers are just too damned stubborn and independent.:) Sure, there are certain conventions that are usually followed, but if you break the convention in order to achieve a cool hack, that's fine. You may even get some l33tness points for it. If you're a Macintosh developer and you break the rules, you will be chewed out endlessly by anyone calling themselves a "usability expert" so your program better do something no one else can in order to justify your violation of the Time-Honored Interface Guidelines.
Personally, I like the Linux way better. But then again my mind is dextrous enough to learn, and find different non-conflicting uses for, both vi and Emacs.:)
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Freon, the chemical, represents a moneymaking scheme that Bill Gates can only have wet dreams about.
See, the patents that DuPont held to the Freon compound expired in 1992... the same year the UN adopted a treaty banning the use of CFC-based refrigerants with support from DuPont and a lot of enviro-hype. The approved refrigerant, HFC-134a, is less efficient, highly toxic, and protected by exclusive patents owned by DuPont.
It's a bit like if Microsoft somehow got a law passed declaring Windows 98 illegal, and requiring all users to upgrade to Windows XP, replete with customs agents stopping smugglers of legitimate, but now contraband, Windows 98 copies at the border.
Believe me guys, MS is just small-time evil. Quasi-evil. Not evil enough.
What Linux (as a community) REALLY needs to do is create a sexy commercial featuring a scantily-clad Britney Spears doing an 'apt-get install' with wild camera angles and dance music. I'm thinking directed by Hype Williams, fish-eyed lens and all. Because we all know that advertising is the only REAL way to increase market share...or something.;)
Guy: "Well, the computers look good." Cow: "What computers?"
John K. is a genius. It takes a certain level of genius to create a cartoon show that is irresistibly hilarious, heartwarming, and disturbing all at once. A lot of the humor is very subtle: cartoons during the 80's tended to have a stock of certain, standard sound effects for various events; kids knew and recognized them deep in their subconscious. Ren & Stimpy tended to use the same sound effects for entirely different events, and even added some of their own. I busted a gut laughing the first time I heard the sound of sloshing water for a character shaking his head, or the sound of a young woman shrieking when Stimpy was suddenly struck with the right words to add to his Gritty Kitty poem.
As for Mr. Hankey, well, considering that Ren & Stimpy aired a Christmas episode in which Stimpy went off in search of his lost fart, Mr. Hankey seems very much in that same vein of humor, and if it weren't for R&S, Southpark probably would not exist. The Shaven Yak is much cooler, anyway.:)
The problem with being "the mysterious Count Dooku" is that the "mysterious" appellation has the opposite of the intended effect, and removes all mystery. Yep, he's the bad guy. Otherwise why would he be so mysterious?
An example: The CFC's emitted as propellant and leaked as coolant nearly wiped out the ozone layer. Enforced by international treaty, we changed the chemical compounds used for these purposes to a similar, but benign cousin of CFC's and we are now making progress undoing that damage. In terms of global warming, raising the CAFE standards would be a major step in the right direction.
Nevermind that the ozone hole is a naturally occurring phenomenon. And you carefully avoided answering the question. Good work.
... And the fact that the bans on CFC's were enacted just as the patents DuPont had on the chemicals were ready to expire. Of course, DuPont had a much more expensive (and incidentally more poisonous) chemical waiting in the wings (patented, of course).
Now correlation doesn't imply causation, but I'd be willing to bet that when DuPont's patents expire on the currently legal refrigerant chemicals, they will goad the UN into banning them, too, based on Newly Released Information that they make tree frogs grow three heads or whatever...
How many Slashdotters recognize Saturday Night Live skits?
A while back I posted something about C-3PO's vaporators line, and got a response recalling the SNL Star Wars screen tests skit, with Richard Dreyfuss auditioning for 3PO.
The problem is that you can't play a QuickTime file without paying for a patent-protected, licensed player. Contrast this with other Evilly Patented Formats, such as GIF and MP3, whose ubiquity was established in part because it's still legal to view/play those files without paying a royalty.
"Open Source" as defined by the Open Source Initiative, means that software is available in source form, and that you are free to read, modify, and distribute that source code. Simply including source isn't enough to be considered Open Source.
This movie was mentioned because it was definitely inspired by video games, with its wire-fu, fighting-game-physics fight scenes, even though it wasn't actually based off a video game.
Sometimes the inspiration is a bit more deliberate. There is an old Jackie Chan kung fu movie in which Jackie, his friends, and his opponent are all electrocuted by a Street Fighter II arcade game, and temporarily turn into various Street Fighter characters. (Imagine Jackie Chan as Chun Li!)
While it's true that many of Tesla's inventions are useful to us, the crackpot factor kicks in when you move out to the intellectual fringes and discover hordes of people who believe he cooked up improbable inventions, but was smote down by the mighty hand of the evil Thomas Edison. Buckminster Fuller fanatics exhibit a somewhat similar phenomenon. It looks like Wolfram may head into the same territory if he isn't careful.
Wolfram will probably end up having a place on the intellectual fringes, worshipped by people who are often smart but who haven't bothered/aren't trained well enough to see why specialists don't really pay attention to them. In nerd idea-space Ayn Rand is the other main example of this type.
Let's not forget Nikola Tesla! If only we'd listened to him, we'd be beaming electricity through the air and travelling through time!
Apple, Adobe, etc. use all three of these things. Microsoft's sheer staggering success is largely due to being at the right place at the right time (the IBM DOS deal).
I'm aware of what you speak. Illuminatus, right? It's just that there were a bunch of MOD kiddies going around during the early nineties also using the name KLF. (They later changed their name to KFMF, but the fact that they were trying to hitch themselves to Cauty and Drummond's horse in the first place is somewhat significant.) I've been a big fan of The KLF's music for quite some time now; whether or not you like it is a matter of taste, but they've been sort of jabbing the commercial music industry in the ribs long before it was Slashdotty-cool to do so.
Oh, I've heard of and read the Principia Discordia. But just because I haven't read your entire canon of geek books, doesn't make me a moron.
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If you can, get your mitts on a Velfarre CD. This is a selection of music from the DJ's of Velfarre, Tokyo's hottest nightclub (often considered to be the best club in the world). The music is mixed techno, eurodance, R&B, jungle, etc. Real dancy stuff, high-energy, sounds like the kind of music that comes pumping out of a DDR machine. But REAL fun to listen to.
If it came to Triple H vs. a panda, my money is on the panda.
That should read "OS LESS THAN 10". Slashdot folded the less than symbol. Darn. :(
I don't think that the Mac (OS 10) has shared libraries, per se. Most of the Mac software I've seen has fallen into three broad categories: applications, "desk accessories", and extensions which are like TSRs: they are loaded at boot time and work by "patching traps", modifying the hooks into the operating system to point to their own code.
The fact that Mozilla has gotten its shared-library-based architecture up and going is a mini-marvel in itself. It certainly isn't a traditional Mac app.
On the flip side, the Jargon File defines "user friendly" as "programmer hostile" and with good reason. Programming for the Mac is a bit like living in one of those planned communities where you can be arrested for painting your house an unapproved color. Inside Macintosh, the definitive programming docs for the machine, contains numerous dogmatic directives like "The first two menu items in a Macintosh application must be called File and Edit." That is how UI consistency is achieved, and why Linux will never have what is commonly called a "user friendly" interface: to achieve that one must appoint a Fuhrer of UI, a grand poobah with whose decisions all developers must comply in uniform, unwavering orthodoxy. And Linux hackers are just too damned stubborn and independent. :) Sure, there are certain conventions that are usually followed, but if you break the convention in order to achieve a cool hack, that's fine. You may even get some l33tness points for it. If you're a Macintosh developer and you break the rules, you will be chewed out endlessly by anyone calling themselves a "usability expert" so your program better do something no one else can in order to justify your violation of the Time-Honored Interface Guidelines.
:)
Personally, I like the Linux way better. But then again my mind is dextrous enough to learn, and find different non-conflicting uses for, both vi and Emacs.
Freon, the chemical, represents a moneymaking scheme that Bill Gates can only have wet dreams about.
See, the patents that DuPont held to the Freon compound expired in 1992... the same year the UN adopted a treaty banning the use of CFC-based refrigerants with support from DuPont and a lot of enviro-hype. The approved refrigerant, HFC-134a, is less efficient, highly toxic, and protected by exclusive patents owned by DuPont.
It's a bit like if Microsoft somehow got a law passed declaring Windows 98 illegal, and requiring all users to upgrade to Windows XP, replete with customs agents stopping smugglers of legitimate, but now contraband, Windows 98 copies at the border.
Believe me guys, MS is just small-time evil. Quasi-evil. Not evil enough.
What Linux (as a community) REALLY needs to do is create a sexy commercial featuring a scantily-clad Britney Spears doing an 'apt-get install' with wild camera angles and dance music. I'm thinking directed by Hype Williams, fish-eyed lens and all. Because we all know that advertising is the only REAL way to increase market share...or something.
Guy: "Well, the computers look good."
Cow: "What computers?"
"Yit's de funnest game in de yole vide yorld!"
It's Stinky Wizzleteats.
"I don't think you're happy enough! I'll teach you to be happy! I'll teach yur grandmother to suck eggs! Now, boys and girls, let's try it again!"
John K. is a genius. It takes a certain level of genius to create a cartoon show that is irresistibly hilarious, heartwarming, and disturbing all at once. A lot of the humor is very subtle: cartoons during the 80's tended to have a stock of certain, standard sound effects for various events; kids knew and recognized them deep in their subconscious. Ren & Stimpy tended to use the same sound effects for entirely different events, and even added some of their own. I busted a gut laughing the first time I heard the sound of sloshing water for a character shaking his head, or the sound of a young woman shrieking when Stimpy was suddenly struck with the right words to add to his Gritty Kitty poem.
:)
As for Mr. Hankey, well, considering that Ren & Stimpy aired a Christmas episode in which Stimpy went off in search of his lost fart, Mr. Hankey seems very much in that same vein of humor, and if it weren't for R&S, Southpark probably would not exist. The Shaven Yak is much cooler, anyway.
Mozilla was always a code-name for Netscape, and was to be originally the real name for the browser.
The READMEs that came with Netscape downloads said at the end something like, "Remember, it's spelled N-e-t-s-c-a-p-e, but pronounced Mozilla."
Darth Sidious, Lord Tyranno, Count Dooku (?!?)
The problem with being "the mysterious Count Dooku" is that the "mysterious" appellation has the opposite of the intended effect, and removes all mystery. Yep, he's the bad guy. Otherwise why would he be so mysterious?
An example: The CFC's emitted as propellant and leaked as coolant nearly wiped out the ozone layer. Enforced by international treaty, we changed the chemical compounds used for these purposes to a similar, but benign cousin of CFC's and we are now making progress undoing that damage. In terms of global warming, raising the CAFE standards would be a major step in the right direction.
Nevermind that the ozone hole is a naturally occurring phenomenon. And you carefully avoided answering the question. Good work.
... And the fact that the bans on CFC's were enacted just as the patents DuPont had on the chemicals were ready to expire. Of course, DuPont had a much more expensive (and incidentally more poisonous) chemical waiting in the wings (patented, of course).
Now correlation doesn't imply causation, but I'd be willing to bet that when DuPont's patents expire on the currently legal refrigerant chemicals, they will goad the UN into banning them, too, based on Newly Released Information that they make tree frogs grow three heads or whatever...
How many Slashdotters recognize Saturday Night Live skits?
A while back I posted something about C-3PO's vaporators line, and got a response recalling the SNL Star Wars screen tests skit, with Richard Dreyfuss auditioning for 3PO.
"Your Honor, I'm just a caveman. Your world frightens and confuses me..."
The problem is that you can't play a QuickTime file without paying for a patent-protected, licensed player. Contrast this with other Evilly Patented Formats, such as GIF and MP3, whose ubiquity was established in part because it's still legal to view/play those files without paying a royalty.
Here is the full definition.
Hey, I'd take a "how-to" on the front page of /. over more of Katz's re-heated takes on "geek culture" any day of the week.
Meesa suggest that weesa give the Chancellor emergency powers!
This movie was mentioned because it was definitely inspired by video games, with its wire-fu, fighting-game-physics fight scenes, even though it wasn't actually based off a video game.
Sometimes the inspiration is a bit more deliberate. There is an old Jackie Chan kung fu movie in which Jackie, his friends, and his opponent are all electrocuted by a Street Fighter II arcade game, and temporarily turn into various Street Fighter characters. (Imagine Jackie Chan as Chun Li!)
... do we get a Fruit Fucker with this Matrix game? :)
While it's true that many of Tesla's inventions are useful to us, the crackpot factor kicks in when you move out to the intellectual fringes and discover hordes of people who believe he cooked up improbable inventions, but was smote down by the mighty hand of the evil Thomas Edison. Buckminster Fuller fanatics exhibit a somewhat similar phenomenon. It looks like Wolfram may head into the same territory if he isn't careful.
Let's not forget Nikola Tesla! If only we'd listened to him, we'd be beaming electricity through the air and travelling through time!
Apple, Adobe, etc. use all three of these things. Microsoft's sheer staggering success is largely due to being at the right place at the right time (the IBM DOS deal).
I'm aware of what you speak. Illuminatus, right? It's just that there were a bunch of MOD kiddies going around during the early nineties also using the name KLF. (They later changed their name to KFMF, but the fact that they were trying to hitch themselves to Cauty and Drummond's horse in the first place is somewhat significant.) I've been a big fan of The KLF's music for quite some time now; whether or not you like it is a matter of taste, but they've been sort of jabbing the commercial music industry in the ribs long before it was Slashdotty-cool to do so.
Oh, I've heard of and read the Principia Discordia. But just because I haven't read your entire canon of geek books, doesn't make me a moron.