If you try hard enough, you can find connections between just about anything.
I took a couple of English courses throughout University for interest sake and I found that this is what English people do. I think the purpose is to maybe find subconscience links from one thing to another. Many connections, like the one between the bathroom tiles and the space stations, aren't necessarily on the conscience level, but the author is looking for a reason the docking stations are hexagonal shaped instead of circular.
Anyway - I had the same problem that you're having, but I think you have to be in the same mindset that the author is. I think this book would be an interesting read and I'd like to check it out sometime.
I haven't gotten anything free off the web in a while. The last time I got something was about 4 or 5 years ago when I got a mug from a RAID company (I didn't know what a RAID was at the time - I just thought the mug was cool). Anyway - about a week later I started getting phone calls (I wasn't smart enough to not put my real phone number on the request form - I figured if I put a fake number, I wouldn't get the mug) from the company asking if I liked the mug my employees ordered for me (I had a growing staff of 20) and if I had a chance to look over their catalogue. I had said we already owned a couple of their products and we were using them in our NT servers. By the 3rd call I was quite annoyed so I asked the guy to hold on a second, put down the phone and started yelling at my 'co-workers' what did they mean the RAID controller just went down? When I picked up the phone again, the guy wasn't there and he never called back again:)
There's a nice program called Starry Night it lets you pick any point in time and view the cosmos. You can also go to any planet and view what the stars look like from there. Of course it's only for windows or mac and it costs money. It's still very cool though.
as even learning about Linux in the past weeks was an amazing experience. But I appreciate the corrections, and the feedback, always the neatest part of writing. I sure was rushed, but I liked Slashdot so much I joined up and hope to figure out the stuff you all talk about.
So Microsoft changed the way that data is read from CD-ROMs. How long will it take for a company to realize that and release an updated version of their product? Software companies aren't going to let their products fall by the wayside because Microsoft changed something in their OS.
They're not saying that you can't listen to mp3s still. They're saying the built in software won't rip and encode at higher than 56 kbps.
Relavent quote: The new restrictions in Windows XP won't prevent other vendors' software applications from recording MP3 music at a higher fidelity
This doesn't mean that you can't encode your own using something else (I've been using Audiocatalyst for a couple of years). It simply means that you can't use Microsoft's to encode.
This is kinda like microsoft saying that IE6 isn't going to display the colour blue in their browser anymore. It really sounds like a bunch of FUD to me.
I'm apalued that one would place security at a $7/hour paying job, over the safety of a child.
I don't think it's about the job - the author quit his job a couple of days later. I think the reason that he didn't give out the user's name and location is because of the law. I think there could have been all sorts of messey lawsuits and charges if he gave out the person's name and address. Think about it - do you want Taco your ISP giving out your home address to anyone who calls?
I'll be mightily disapppointed that I can't update my OS online for free, considering that my pirated windows is updated for free whenever I choose to update it. It's a sad day when MS is able to favorably compare to linux;).
hmmm...perhaps you should think of it this way: Windows *needs* the updates. Linux is so much more stable it discourages screwing with success.
As far as the editors go, i wasn't sure if joe was installed by default.
I didn't think it was - but still - having emacs and vi silmultaneously on a system even is overkill. How big is emacs anyway? 30-40 megs? This is ok on a modern system, but what about those little firewalls? I've got more than one P133-32mb RAM boxes, with 500 meg hdds.
I think the 3 Win2k editors all serve a different (for the most part purpose). Wordpad does RTFs, notepad does straight text (I know wordpad does text too...my experience is it usually screws it up) and dos edit works for command line stuff (y'know - for the mostly useless telnet they built into Win2k - is this a case of Windows catching up with *NIX? Didn't someone accuse Linux and *NIX in general of playing catch up with Windows?).
Most importantly, none of these text editors are 40 megs.
I don't think my original post meant to complain about which text editors are installed on Linux, but rather the fact there's alot of redundancy on a Linux bux and text editors was merely an example.
I really think though that alot of the bloat comes from redundant packages being installed. Maybe Linux would gain more noteriety if it's distros were more flexible and less confusing for newbies (I know that I was confused the first time I saw emacs and vi and pico on the same system...but...they're the same aren't they...? I think it would be even more confusing for people who knew less about UNIX)
I think half the problem is people still don't know what they're installing when they install Linux. The other half is the crappy installation process that comes with linux.
I've been using Redhat for almost 3 years now and everytime I install a new copy of it on a computer I'm amazed at how much crap is installed by default. I think the stupid wizards that come with Redhat actually make more work. I know that you can disable them, but isn't the point to make the OS friendlier?
On a typical install I think that half of the stuff is pure crap. I use a couple of linux boxes as servers and when I do an install, I find that most of the default packages installed are redundant. I mean - who needs a copy of vi, emacs, pico and joe on a machine that's basically a firewall/web server?
I know that Linux is a very versitile OS and all of these options can be disabled - but do I really need 4 text editors installed by default? I also find it time consuming and a general pain in the ass to go through every single package andd deselect 75% of them. I'd much rather have a simple workstation that I can add things to as I need them instead of be given everything and have to figure out 1) what the package does and 2) if I'm really going to need it.
I think the distros need to lighten the bloat.
umm...that's because she has Quadriplegia, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and any other disability where the user lacks the hand control to use a standard mouse but retains good head movement.
I'm not sure if Jon gets the movie or not. He calls the romance "silly", but it shows that heroes aren't necessarily ruthless killers. Vasliy talks about killing people when he can see their faces up close and it haunts him. This is meant to be a contrast to Major Konig who kills without second thought and who seems to have no emotions (although Ed Harris was excellent in the role). Here's the review off of Salon. It's a much more complete and thoughtful review.
ITYM "will" be written, especially since C# requires a runtime that doesn't (yet?) exist for anything but Windows:-)
You're quite right - my mistake:)
The presenter at the conference also mentioned that the.net runtime would be made available for someone to develop for other OSs like Linux, Solaris or Mac. I wish I had a link to this. Does anyone have anything that says something like this?
The truth is that SUN had it right from the start. They kept spouting all that "the network is the computer" stuff but now we see that it is the truth. And ironically enough that is exactly what Microsoft is saying when they talk about the.NET "platform".
I was at a Microsoft training session yesterday on VisualStudio.net and I actually found it very interesting. They talked about a bunch of different things that.net change and how it would affect us: the developer. They talked about XML/XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, DISCO, Visual C++, C# (which really looks like a cool language), Visual BASIC and how this will change those people who choose to develop under microsoft. I was actually very impressed with the amount of work Microsoft has put into this release.
While this might seem revolutionary and more than enough for now, it will not be enough in the future. What we really need is somthing which supports the full OO architecture.
But.net does support full OO achitechture. Web services allow for objects to be exectuted over the web. This is a more elegent way to call remote methods since they happen over a web port instead of an RPC port. If you're talking about client side objects then you should see how.net has improved client side javascript. Everything is an object in.net, javascript included.
Let's not waste anymore time with SOAP and legacy technologies and give our full opensource attention to the real future, java and jini.
SOAP is a legacy technology? It's closed source? Did you read the article? Do you know anything about it?
I saw Monkeybone last night and I'm still digesting it. The action sequence towards the end of the movie was some of the funniest bits of movie making in years. Some of the movie, however kind of dragged on and was just inappropiate. The theatre I was in was full of kids who didn't get the sex jokes (That seduction thing with the bed was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time!) and I think they were kinda disturbed by the Downtown stuff - heck, it weirded me out.
After I got back from the theatre, I wanted to see what other people thought so I checked out some other reviews. Canoe and The Toronto Star hated it. Salon loved it, calling it a classic. The Globe and Mail was somewhere inbetween calling saying: Kids won't know what to make of it, adults will think it's for kids, and critics will eagerly dump on the thing. Of all the reviews I think I agree the most with this one.
I'm still undecided witch my opinion. It's much more than a simple gross out movie and there's some interesting imagry and throughts in the movie (exploring the subconscious) and there were some excellent lines ("Choke my monkey" hehe - still gets me). I really think it's going to take another viewing to get a real handle on this movie.
The Salon review linked above also has a bit on the studios reaction to the movie.
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If you try hard enough, you can find connections between just about anything.
I took a couple of English courses throughout University for interest sake and I found that this is what English people do. I think the purpose is to maybe find subconscience links from one thing to another. Many connections, like the one between the bathroom tiles and the space stations, aren't necessarily on the conscience level, but the author is looking for a reason the docking stations are hexagonal shaped instead of circular.
Anyway - I had the same problem that you're having, but I think you have to be in the same mindset that the author is. I think this book would be an interesting read and I'd like to check it out sometime.
Voice 1 : "Oh, geeze, our break is over."
Voice 2 : "Would you like some fries with that?"
I haven't gotten anything free off the web in a while. The last time I got something was about 4 or 5 years ago when I got a mug from a RAID company (I didn't know what a RAID was at the time - I just thought the mug was cool). Anyway - about a week later I started getting phone calls (I wasn't smart enough to not put my real phone number on the request form - I figured if I put a fake number, I wouldn't get the mug) from the company asking if I liked the mug my employees ordered for me (I had a growing staff of 20) and if I had a chance to look over their catalogue. I had said we already owned a couple of their products and we were using them in our NT servers. By the 3rd call I was quite annoyed so I asked the guy to hold on a second, put down the phone and started yelling at my 'co-workers' what did they mean the RAID controller just went down? When I picked up the phone again, the guy wasn't there and he never called back again :)
Go here to not get the silly Yahoo ad at the top of the page. Anyone know how to get rid of the other ads on the page?
There's a nice program called Starry Night it lets you pick any point in time and view the cosmos. You can also go to any planet and view what the stars look like from there. Of course it's only for windows or mac and it costs money. It's still very cool though.
From JonKatz's first article:
...and still do...
:)
Thanks. I usually mess up on pieces like this,
as even learning about Linux in the past weeks was an amazing experience. But I appreciate the corrections, and the feedback, always the neatest part of writing. I sure was rushed, but I liked Slashdot so much I joined up and hope to figure out the stuff you all talk about.
...of course he's still working on it...
Not really.
So Microsoft changed the way that data is read from CD-ROMs. How long will it take for a company to realize that and release an updated version of their product? Software companies aren't going to let their products fall by the wayside because Microsoft changed something in their OS.
They're not saying that you can't listen to mp3s still. They're saying the built in software won't rip and encode at higher than 56 kbps.
Relavent quote:
The new restrictions in Windows XP won't prevent other vendors' software applications from recording MP3 music at a higher fidelity
This doesn't mean that you can't encode your own using something else (I've been using Audiocatalyst for a couple of years). It simply means that you can't use Microsoft's to encode.
This is kinda like microsoft saying that IE6 isn't going to display the colour blue in their browser anymore. It really sounds like a bunch of FUD to me.
pre-release versions of dead-tree documents are called drafts. Draaaaaafts
I was just about to post this! Damn you!
Few things are exciting about school in 4th year.
This article says many of the same things, but from another perspective.
I'm apalued that one would place security at a $7/hour paying job, over the safety of a child.
I don't think it's about the job - the author quit his job a couple of days later. I think the reason that he didn't give out the user's name and location is because of the law. I think there could have been all sorts of messey lawsuits and charges if he gave out the person's name and address. Think about it - do you want Taco your ISP giving out your home address to anyone who calls?
I'll be mightily disapppointed that I can't update my OS online for free, considering that my pirated windows is updated for free whenever I choose to update it. It's a sad day when MS is able to favorably compare to linux ;).
hmmm...perhaps you should think of it this way: Windows *needs* the updates. Linux is so much more stable it discourages screwing with success.
heh - I did get a little silly there didn't I?
Buy Microsoft...buy Microsoft.
Install Windows CE into my children.
As far as the editors go, i wasn't sure if joe was installed by default.
I didn't think it was - but still - having emacs and vi silmultaneously on a system even is overkill. How big is emacs anyway? 30-40 megs? This is ok on a modern system, but what about those little firewalls? I've got more than one P133-32mb RAM boxes, with 500 meg hdds.
I think the 3 Win2k editors all serve a different (for the most part purpose). Wordpad does RTFs, notepad does straight text (I know wordpad does text too...my experience is it usually screws it up) and dos edit works for command line stuff (y'know - for the mostly useless telnet they built into Win2k - is this a case of Windows catching up with *NIX? Didn't someone accuse Linux and *NIX in general of playing catch up with Windows?).
Most importantly, none of these text editors are 40 megs.
I don't think my original post meant to complain about which text editors are installed on Linux, but rather the fact there's alot of redundancy on a Linux bux and text editors was merely an example.
I agree and I do!
I really think though that alot of the bloat comes from redundant packages being installed. Maybe Linux would gain more noteriety if it's distros were more flexible and less confusing for newbies (I know that I was confused the first time I saw emacs and vi and pico on the same system...but...they're the same aren't they...? I think it would be even more confusing for people who knew less about UNIX)
Geeze - my copy of MSDN has gotta be close to a gig and a half - I did do a full installation of it thought.
I think half the problem is people still don't know what they're installing when they install Linux. The other half is the crappy installation process that comes with linux.
I've been using Redhat for almost 3 years now and everytime I install a new copy of it on a computer I'm amazed at how much crap is installed by default. I think the stupid wizards that come with Redhat actually make more work. I know that you can disable them, but isn't the point to make the OS friendlier?
On a typical install I think that half of the stuff is pure crap. I use a couple of linux boxes as servers and when I do an install, I find that most of the default packages installed are redundant. I mean - who needs a copy of vi, emacs, pico and joe on a machine that's basically a firewall/web server?
I know that Linux is a very versitile OS and all of these options can be disabled - but do I really need 4 text editors installed by default? I also find it time consuming and a general pain in the ass to go through every single package andd deselect 75% of them. I'd much rather have a simple workstation that I can add things to as I need them instead of be given everything and have to figure out 1) what the package does and 2) if I'm really going to need it.
I think the distros need to lighten the bloat.
The girl in the picture looks kinda stoned
umm...that's because she has Quadriplegia, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and any other disability where the user lacks the hand control to use a standard mouse but retains good head movement.
I'm not sure if Jon gets the movie or not. He calls the romance "silly", but it shows that heroes aren't necessarily ruthless killers. Vasliy talks about killing people when he can see their faces up close and it haunts him. This is meant to be a contrast to Major Konig who kills without second thought and who seems to have no emotions (although Ed Harris was excellent in the role).
Here's the review off of Salon. It's a much more complete and thoughtful review.
ITYM "will" be written, especially since C# requires a runtime that doesn't (yet?) exist for anything but Windows :-)
:)
.net runtime would be made available for someone to develop for other OSs like Linux, Solaris or Mac. I wish I had a link to this. Does anyone have anything that says something like this?
You're quite right - my mistake
The presenter at the conference also mentioned that the
Let's not waste anymore time with SOAP and legacy technologies and give our full opensource attention to the real future, java and jini.
.net infastructure. It's written mostly in C and C#.
I forgot to include this link. The link is to an open source OS that is built on the
The truth is that SUN had it right from the start. They kept spouting all that "the network is the computer" stuff but now we see that it is the truth. And ironically enough that is exactly what Microsoft is saying when they talk about the .NET "platform".
I was at a Microsoft training session yesterday on VisualStudio .net and I actually found it very interesting. They talked about a bunch of different things that .net change and how it would affect us: the developer. They talked about XML/XSLT, SOAP, WSDL, DISCO, Visual C++, C# (which really looks like a cool language), Visual BASIC and how this will change those people who choose to develop under microsoft. I was actually very impressed with the amount of work Microsoft has put into this release.
While this might seem revolutionary and more than enough for now, it will not be enough in the future. What we really need is somthing which supports the full OO architecture.
But .net does support full OO achitechture. Web services allow for objects to be exectuted over the web. This is a more elegent way to call remote methods since they happen over a web port instead of an RPC port. If you're talking about client side objects then you should see how .net has improved client side javascript. Everything is an object in .net, javascript included.
Let's not waste anymore time with SOAP and legacy technologies and give our full opensource attention to the real future, java and jini.
SOAP is a legacy technology? It's closed source? Did you read the article? Do you know anything about it?
I saw Monkeybone last night and I'm still digesting it. The action sequence towards the end of the movie was some of the funniest bits of movie making in years. Some of the movie, however kind of dragged on and was just inappropiate. The theatre I was in was full of kids who didn't get the sex jokes (That seduction thing with the bed was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time!) and I think they were kinda disturbed by the Downtown stuff - heck, it weirded me out.
After I got back from the theatre, I wanted to see what other people thought so I checked out some other reviews.
Canoe and The Toronto Star hated it. Salon loved it, calling it a classic. The Globe and Mail was somewhere inbetween calling saying: Kids won't know what to make of it, adults will think it's for kids, and critics will eagerly dump on the thing. Of all the reviews I think I agree the most with this one.
I'm still undecided witch my opinion. It's much more than a simple gross out movie and there's some interesting imagry and throughts in the movie (exploring the subconscious) and there were some excellent lines ("Choke my monkey" hehe - still gets me). I really think it's going to take another viewing to get a real handle on this movie.
The Salon review linked above also has a bit on the studios reaction to the movie.