However: If you already SAW it in the theater, and just need a crappy version so you can watch it again and make sure you understood everything that was going on, then a VHS - heads in the front version is just fine.
In particular, I need to hear scene from "The Source" a few more times to really get it. Similar to the Oracle scene in Matrix1, I'm just not fast enough to digest what the dialog is.
I am getting far less voice mail and email than this time last year. I think it is becuase we laid off a lot of the middle people. As a developer, I constantly have to answer questions from marketing types who really have nothing better to do then write a 50 page spec, of which 2 paragraphs describes what the system does... and those two paragraphs were cut/pasted from an email from me.
Pretty kewl to enter the date/time May 8, 9:00Est, navigate to mars and see the rendered view for yourself. Celstia lets you do this, it's a free solar system simulator. Really high-quality too IMHO. It gets the image pretty close. Make Jupiters moons a little brighter, and the earth is too clear, but it's still an educational exersize... but then again what isn't.
Blogs are people's opinions mostly, or their intrepretation of what happened. LifeLog would be actual useable data. (Yes, I am implying that the blog data is NOT useable)
Think about it like this; If it collects Medical Data (bSick == True?) and geospatial data (bBeenToCanada == True?) it can track the common cold, and irradicate it.
This type of thing might happen on small websites, where developers work on code, unit test, then publish. But any large code-base will have a cycle where things are tested first, and then rolled. Typically these rolls are scheduled for the best possible time, which often is monday morning. Everyone is in house, and you've got a whole week to fix anything that went wrong.
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Where can I get a life? May I emulate you? Please tell me what to do so that everything I do and say may please you.
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18c piece == The tool of the Devil!
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Marge: I'm Marge Simpson, and I have an idea. Everyone: Aw, no. Marge is going to say something. etc. Marge: Now, I know you haven't liked some of my past suggestions,
like switching to the 18 cent piece-- Abe: [stammers a little] The 18 cent piece is the tool of the
devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the
way I likes it. Quimby: The old person's remarks will be stricken from the record. Abe: Who said that?
I think I read this in a Stephenson book, but I forsee a re-classification of developers. Kind of the same as car mechanics. When cars first came out, a mechanic was very expensive, well paid, highly trained individual, and they're weren't that many. Then everyone saw what a great busniess it was to be in, and jumped on the band wagon, and now they are on every street corner, and while they get paid pertty good, the boom-time is long past.
Where I read this, developer's were termed "BitSwappers" and weren't very well respected.
The law doesn't protect war driving. NHPR has a better version of the story which states:
If an operator doesn't take steps to lock down a wireless system, he or she could find it difficult to prosecute anyone who either deliberately or inadvertently gets access to the network.
Upon reflection, he was not whining. I guess it's kind of a projection on myself... I've got a couple projects in mind and never get around to doing them, whining myself that they should get done by someone else.
Slashdot Mirror
While you sleep, the similator uses your "unused cycles" to run the simulation for other people. This is what dreams are.
Sort of like, "Matrix@Home"
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As usual, the Astronomy Picture Of the Day has a very nice picture and explination of this.
And as a bonus, today's APOD is one of the kewlest sunset pictures I've ever seen.
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Aces! Thanks GNUman. I guess I should have assumed this text was out there.
Aprapos, Vi rox.
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However: If you already SAW it in the theater, and just need a crappy version so you can watch it again and make sure you understood everything that was going on, then a VHS - heads in the front version is just fine.
In particular, I need to hear scene from "The Source" a few more times to really get it. Similar to the Oracle scene in Matrix1, I'm just not fast enough to digest what the dialog is.
That and Trinity's ass.
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I am getting far less voice mail and email than this time last year. I think it is becuase we laid off a lot of the middle people. As a developer, I constantly have to answer questions from marketing types who really have nothing better to do then write a 50 page spec, of which 2 paragraphs describes what the system does... and those two paragraphs were cut/pasted from an email from me.
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Pretty kewl to enter the date/time May 8, 9:00Est, navigate to mars and see the rendered view for yourself. Celstia lets you do this, it's a free solar system simulator. Really high-quality too IMHO. It gets the image pretty close. Make Jupiters moons a little brighter, and the earth is too clear, but it's still an educational exersize... but then again what isn't.
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I'm afraid a "puff of compressed air" ain't gonna unstick those pages.
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Blogs are people's opinions mostly, or their intrepretation of what happened. LifeLog would be actual useable data. (Yes, I am implying that the blog data is NOT useable)
Think about it like this; If it collects Medical Data (bSick == True?) and geospatial data (bBeenToCanada == True?) it can track the common cold, and irradicate it.
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This type of thing might happen on small websites, where developers work on code, unit test, then publish. But any large code-base will have a cycle where things are tested first, and then rolled. Typically these rolls are scheduled for the best possible time, which often is monday morning. Everyone is in house, and you've got a whole week to fix anything that went wrong.
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Where can I get a life? May I emulate you? Please tell me what to do so that everything I do and say may please you.
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Marge: I'm Marge Simpson, and I have an idea.
Everyone: Aw, no. Marge is going to say something. etc.
Marge: Now, I know you haven't liked some of my past suggestions,
like switching to the 18 cent piece--
Abe: [stammers a little] The 18 cent piece is the tool of the
devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the
way I likes it.
Quimby: The old person's remarks will be stricken from the record.
Abe: Who said that?
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So this is cowboyneal admitting he doesn't read slashdot?
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I believe it's chepaer to just use a palm interface for that activity.
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A much better flexagon link has been posted in another reply:
SourceForge project
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Never have I seen math and paper folding get more freakishly kewl than this:
Flexagons. For a real challanager, make a hexaflexagon.
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Now we can have that song in our heads for a straight 4 hours.
Bum ba dum-dum! Bum ba dum!
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I think I read this in a Stephenson book, but I forsee a re-classification of developers. Kind of the same as car mechanics. When cars first came out, a mechanic was very expensive, well paid, highly trained individual, and they're weren't that many. Then everyone saw what a great busniess it was to be in, and jumped on the band wagon, and now they are on every street corner, and while they get paid pertty good, the boom-time is long past.
Where I read this, developer's were termed "BitSwappers" and weren't very well respected.
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The law doesn't protect war driving. NHPR has a better version of the story which states:
If an operator doesn't take steps to lock down a wireless system, he or she could find it difficult to prosecute anyone who either deliberately or inadvertently gets access to the network.
Come on people, stop reading so much into things.
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Worst color scheme ever
Also please create duplicates.slashdot.org
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Upon reflection, he was not whining. I guess it's kind of a projection on myself... I've got a couple projects in mind and never get around to doing them, whining myself that they should get done by someone else.
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Why should a company do it? Why don't you do it? Companies don't do anything until it's been shown to work. So do it and stop whining.
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We should probably promote this as a "Ravine Change."
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Why do you have to get it zoned? Just start working. A software company is hardly going to be complained about.
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I was unaware the UK had reinstated the Stupidty defense.
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I've always liked the tagline on the back of the Applied Cryptography book:
"The Book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published..."
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