Yep. This whole "its a natural fluctuation!" thing just seems so friggin' ridiculous. Doesn't it seem like an unusual coincidence that a massive, drastic climactic shift correllates with the expansion of human civilization? Good god, and I thought Slashdotters were educated. "Gee, we may or may not be killing ourselves, but just in case, lets keep killing ourselves anyways".
Keep swallowing your cool-aid. When Rove tells you to be scared, you're scared. When Exxon tells you everything is fine, everything is fine.
Besides that, last time I checked the nerdy prisoners are the ones who'd play violent games and the beefy prisoners would probably more likely to be playing the sports games, not vice versa.
US prisons suck not because of the perks and bennys like games and TV that the prisoners receive, its the laissez-faire attitude to rape and violence in the prison.
IMHO, if prisoners were treated like teenagers at a tough-love boot-camp (no recreation, no life, no privacy), but never assraped or shivved or anything, then prisons would be more oppressive but simultaneously less cruel.
The games are orthogonal to the problem. I think we'd all rather be in a Canadian prison without an XBox than a US prison with one.
Rehabilitation _IS_ the most important job of a prison. The problem is that limp-wristed idiots think that coddling felons is gonna help them be rehabilitated. Its not. If a guy is so homniscidal that he needs electroshock therapy before he can function in normal society, then bring out the electrodes. That's rehabilitation.
If a thug goes in there and rapes and pillages his 5 years away, spending half his time high up on nose candy and living like a king, then odds are he won't be deterred from coming back. If he comes back, then he's not rehabilitated.
Deterrent and rehabilitation go hand in hand. There are millions of out-of-work MAs and PhDs in socio and pysch out there - train them as guards, put 'em to work in the prisons, and make their jobs dependant on the out-of-prison behaviour of their charges.
Which ties into the fundamental problem with violent prisons: the kind of monsters who'd beat a man down and rape him are the ones who should be punished harder, and yet they live like kings in a lax prison system.
So BitTorrent took the whole "everybody's on the same network" and converted it into "one network per file".... and now this new system puts it *back* like that? How is this different from every other p2p filewhoring system?
RBLs create their own problem - one popular RBL blocks all email sent by SMTP servers located in dynamic IP ranges. This prevents home users from running SMTP servers at all. A far better solution would be having the ISP cut out the relays, rather than leave these home users with the loss of a service.
The free availability of Abandonware is based not on the fact that its free from copyright - I don't think anyone said otherwise. Its based on the fact that it seems morally right, and it is really unlikely that the copyright holder will give a flying fsck about their old crap that they're no longer making a dime over. The-Underdogs.org approach is this: post it unless you can buy it, or there's a legal letter on the subject - and that's gotten them pretty far. They've thrown some heavy hitters onto their site like WipeOut XL, and its a site that industry bigwigs know about, and are still chugging along fine.
Wow, generators, decorators.... how much more linguistic cruft is it gonna take before they just give up and implement Ruby style blocks? It seems like 90% of these are created because lamdba sucks and def isn't anonymous.
No worries then. Have you watched Enterprise? It tries to be a manly show, but cannot escape its wussiness of being the Star Trek with the soft-rock intro. Methinks its already gay, but not proudly "we're here, we're queer, get used to it" gay like TNG - it's a pathetic, wife-abusing closet case.
Because that would be consistent. What, haven't you ever used Python? Its no less a hack than Perl, its just a much more legible, better documented hack.
Gee, its too bad Linux doesn't have a single, consolidated tree-based system for storing type-specific environment variables. It would be handy for registryng such things.
j/k.
One flat file per app is fine, thanks. Alternately, the Windows registry wouldn't be so bad if it was easy to find keys related to program X or Y (rather than its sluggish search) and the damn thing had some form of docstrings. If Python has tought me one thing, its that you can never have too many docstrings.
Amen. Stealing focus should be punishable by death, especially if a dangerous option could pop under my pointer.
And the corollary, applications that don't steal focus and don't create an entry in the taskbar - so they just sit there in behind your windows - like Winzip at its license screen. Did it finish loading? Where is it? Idunno. Or even worse, windows properties windows and the way they pile up back there.
But the biggest one: apps which can have a subform that disables access to the rest of the app, but if you move to another window and then move back, you can obscure the active subform with the disabled forms, leaving you with a missing form and a curiously locked application.
you can tell I'm a windozer can't you. And anyone who complains about mounting/unmounting should find out what an excruciating pani the old 3.5" drive is on a win box.
Actually, its funny, but the whole "monsters teleport in right behind you" is exactly what turned me off of Serious Sam. Not the best game to use for a counterexample, really.
Better language support is cool, because I'll never understand why a nice tool like Delphi standardised on a painful language like Pascal. Replacing the symbols in C with words just makes less legible C. The only nice part of the Pascal languages is the:= assignment.
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Bull. The average office user uses outlook. Home users (and many small users) use OE, and don't need a groupware-enabled PIM.
Yep. This whole "its a natural fluctuation!" thing just seems so friggin' ridiculous. Doesn't it seem like an unusual coincidence that a massive, drastic climactic shift correllates with the expansion of human civilization? Good god, and I thought Slashdotters were educated. "Gee, we may or may not be killing ourselves, but just in case, lets keep killing ourselves anyways".
Keep swallowing your cool-aid. When Rove tells you to be scared, you're scared. When Exxon tells you everything is fine, everything is fine.
Besides that, last time I checked the nerdy prisoners are the ones who'd play violent games and the beefy prisoners would probably more likely to be playing the sports games, not vice versa.
US prisons suck not because of the perks and bennys like games and TV that the prisoners receive, its the laissez-faire attitude to rape and violence in the prison.
IMHO, if prisoners were treated like teenagers at a tough-love boot-camp (no recreation, no life, no privacy), but never assraped or shivved or anything, then prisons would be more oppressive but simultaneously less cruel.
The games are orthogonal to the problem. I think we'd all rather be in a Canadian prison without an XBox than a US prison with one.
Rehabilitation _IS_ the most important job of a prison. The problem is that limp-wristed idiots think that coddling felons is gonna help them be rehabilitated. Its not. If a guy is so homniscidal that he needs electroshock therapy before he can function in normal society, then bring out the electrodes. That's rehabilitation.
If a thug goes in there and rapes and pillages his 5 years away, spending half his time high up on nose candy and living like a king, then odds are he won't be deterred from coming back. If he comes back, then he's not rehabilitated.
Deterrent and rehabilitation go hand in hand. There are millions of out-of-work MAs and PhDs in socio and pysch out there - train them as guards, put 'em to work in the prisons, and make their jobs dependant on the out-of-prison behaviour of their charges.
Which ties into the fundamental problem with violent prisons: the kind of monsters who'd beat a man down and rape him are the ones who should be punished harder, and yet they live like kings in a lax prison system.
So BitTorrent took the whole "everybody's on the same network" and converted it into "one network per file".... and now this new system puts it *back* like that? How is this different from every other p2p filewhoring system?
Okay, I was high as a kite when I saw FF:SW.... and it still sucked.
And the first TR movie was friggin' weak. Didn't even bother with the second. An unremarkable, uninteresting action flick.
My fave video-game based movie: Street Fighter Animated Movie.
Disable the "x new messages" thing so that messenger doesn't check their email for them.
vnc
RBLs create their own problem - one popular RBL blocks all email sent by SMTP servers located in dynamic IP ranges. This prevents home users from running SMTP servers at all. A far better solution would be having the ISP cut out the relays, rather than leave these home users with the loss of a service.
The free availability of Abandonware is based not on the fact that its free from copyright - I don't think anyone said otherwise. Its based on the fact that it seems morally right, and it is really unlikely that the copyright holder will give a flying fsck about their old crap that they're no longer making a dime over.
The-Underdogs.org approach is this: post it unless you can buy it, or there's a legal letter on the subject - and that's gotten them pretty far. They've thrown some heavy hitters onto their site like WipeOut XL, and its a site that industry bigwigs know about, and are still chugging along fine.
We're not talking about your users, but home users, who don't have an IT guy to babysit their computer for them.
Wow, generators, decorators.... how much more linguistic cruft is it gonna take before they just give up and implement Ruby style blocks? It seems like 90% of these are created because lamdba sucks and def isn't anonymous.
No worries then. Have you watched Enterprise? It tries to be a manly show, but cannot escape its wussiness of being the Star Trek with the soft-rock intro. Methinks its already gay, but not proudly "we're here, we're queer, get used to it" gay like TNG - it's a pathetic, wife-abusing closet case.
DS9 pwnd tho.
Because that would be consistent. What, haven't you ever used Python? Its no less a hack than Perl, its just a much more legible, better documented hack.
What about old type associations? Don't want to leave those pointing to an old location if you move the program.
@this
@is
@an
@ugly
@character
def is(it, not):
pass
Maybe now cafes will have to carry games other than fucking Counterstrike.
Gee, its too bad Linux doesn't have a single, consolidated tree-based system for storing type-specific environment variables. It would be handy for registryng such things.
j/k.
One flat file per app is fine, thanks. Alternately, the Windows registry wouldn't be so bad if it was easy to find keys related to program X or Y (rather than its sluggish search) and the damn thing had some form of docstrings. If Python has tought me one thing, its that you can never have too many docstrings.
Simple: in Switzerland, at least the people know how to use their guns. They've been trained to be responisble for them.
Amen. Stealing focus should be punishable by death, especially if a dangerous option could pop under my pointer.
And the corollary, applications that don't steal focus and don't create an entry in the taskbar - so they just sit there in behind your windows - like Winzip at its license screen. Did it finish loading? Where is it? Idunno. Or even worse, windows properties windows and the way they pile up back there.
But the biggest one: apps which can have a subform that disables access to the rest of the app, but if you move to another window and then move back, you can obscure the active subform with the disabled forms, leaving you with a missing form and a curiously locked application.
you can tell I'm a windozer can't you. And anyone who complains about mounting/unmounting should find out what an excruciating pani the old 3.5" drive is on a win box.
Actually, its funny, but the whole "monsters teleport in right behind you" is exactly what turned me off of Serious Sam. Not the best game to use for a counterexample, really.
Better language support is cool, because I'll never understand why a nice tool like Delphi standardised on a painful language like Pascal. Replacing the symbols in C with words just makes less legible C. The only nice part of the Pascal languages is the := assignment.
My bad - looked it up, its IUDs that do that.