Funny, this is kinda like my visualisation of the article headline. I visualise Wal-Mart as a 400 pound greeter woman with a perm, and the RIAA as a skinny coke-addicted lawyer with a nose ring and bleached hair. And the "squeezing" is the lawyer being crushed between the the greeter woman's cottage-cheese thighs in a scissor hold.
It occurs to me that this is kind of the whole point of having an RIAA. Collectivised bargaining. They've been using it to fix prices against us, the consumers, for decades. Reapply it here:
"Wal-Mart - STFU, or no soup for you. Stop bugging us or the only records you'll be getting are old Hootie albums and OMC's How Bizarre"
Yup. The creepiest thing about those places is how they also have meeting centres, photo labs, halls, etc. This is the old Town Hall. The goal is that they become the only store in the community. Not just the only department store, or electronics store, or grocer - but the only store. They become the centre of town. The local Wal-Mart then dwarfs the government in power - they provide access to all goods for a community.
Consider this: you have one company that provides for all of the needs of the citizen in the town, and a lion's share of the citizens work for that company. How is this not a commune? Its like communism's evil twin!
The problem is that Python's slowness isn't just from the interpreter, but the nature of the language. Notice how two similar objects don't require an interface to be used in the same way with the same methods? Because of that it will be hard to store members as anything but dictionaries, which are necessarily slow.
Either way Parrot will be an improvement, allowing shared Python/Perl/Ruby libraries, importing pure-python modules nicely, and most importantly: maybe we can finally sandbox Python. Rexec has been dead a long time, and Python is currently unusable as an embedding language without a lot of hacking because of that.
Well, perhaps his opinions of the US are libertarian, but from what I gather his foreign policy as shown in the movie is pretty much solid planet-fscking destructo neo-conservative. Stephen Notly of angryflower.com had a review that discussed this, but he's a flower-power-leftist and thus ignorable by 90% of readers.
You misunderstand. Poster was stating that Parker is very right wing, and echoes Drudge, not vice versa. He was contradicting the "Parker is libertarian" statement.
I find that the 2d map is an equal oversimplification - everyone's just saying "the issues are just complicated enough to allow for the differentiation of my viewpoint and no more complicated!"
Its not 1d or 2d or 5d. Its sixteen hojillion little issues that happen to conform to certain political stereotypes, but there is no overarching geometric theory.
For example, one model I like is to treat it as an array of lines - not full 2d. Each line is a subject - authoritarian vs. libertarian. Conservatives are authoritarian on matters of international politics and personal conduct, whereas liberals are authoritarian on matters of personal finances and business actions. Both are authoritarian on some subjects - like drugs. With this model you can more easily differentiate totalitarianism from communism - totalitarianism is the opposite of libertarianism - total control of everything, whereas communists (theoretically) leave you your personal life to run as you wish, and theoretically some control of the political authority itself. Similar concerns go for fascism and totalitarianism - fascism tends to allow for big businesses.
Dunno, some of us like the extra features that OOo brings. After struggling with Dia to make simple organisation charts, OO Draw is a dream (and much nicer than any of the MS office products for drawing unless you splurge for the newest office with Visio).
Funny, I could custom build a PC with all those features for less than $500. I agree that what he's asking is unlikely, but I doubt its for technical reasons.
Honestly, I think Molyneux games are overrated. He starts out with good concepts, but then ruins it with creepingfeaturitis that's not even relevant to the gameplay (Black and White was terrible for this). Compare StarTopia, an obviously Molyneux-inspired game. Tons of variety, excellent gameplay, a wide variety of buildings. Comes out being a far better-feeling strategy than Molyneux games, even though it has the same premises (all your people are totally autonomous, and you are just an administrator).
Take the old "growing trees" example: that's a big PITA to implement, and yet he wanted this to be a major feature. And its nothing - its a minor, unimportant feature of the background.
I agree. A magstrip works fine - its not my fault that nobody has ever bothered to scan the goddamn thing in the many years I've owned it.
RFID will be the same: cops won't scan it - too lazy. Others won't scan it 'cause its another piece of equipment on your desk. Only people who'll scan it are those who are taking advantage of its increased range. People who are spying on you, for legitimate reasons or otherwise.
Well, consider how much more complicated embedded apps are getting - think about the onboard computer in the Audi, and the increasing numbes of mp3 players, movie players and whatnot. While "upgrade or else" is stupid, damn if this thing won't be useful.
So, when do I get my full-pentium-PC-on-a-chip so I can play X-Com on my watch?
I meant just being able to play RTS games with a separate terminal per person, compared to consoles. This could've been done on the GBA, but GBA didn't have a pointing device. After seeing PA's Metroid screenies, I'm starting to think this pointing device will be often used as an analog controller - sounds like a good idea. My only problem is that playing with a stylus in-hand sounds really uncomfortable. Maybe the "fingerpick" will be better.
I've often thought about this myself - the fact is that "good driving habits" like not tailgating, not constantly accelerating and breaking to keep perfect pace with the movements of the next car - these things increase congestion.
So maybe Minority Report was right? The future isn't flying cars, but AI cars that work together in the city.
Either way, just take the friggin' subway you planet-screwing losers.
Well, either way, there are good things that come in tubes or tube-like-storage - Patee, caviar, dulce de lechee. The only catch is that all of those things go best on crackers/bread, which create crumbs and are space inefficient. Maybe offer small soft tortillas?
Still, I don't think the tube is really necessary but space/weight efficiency, cleanliness, and convenience. That's why patee and similar meats would be good - its dense, its tasty, and it doesn't need to be cooked on-site. Just vacuum-pack it instead of tin it.
In any case, SpaceShipOne's trips are so short that serving food would be unnecessary. Beverages at most.
Speaking of Soviet Russia, how international is this? I was looking at the business search function and noticed it used a US zipcode. What about us Canuckistanis?
Any ideas of how these games will use the 2nd screen? I mean, if it was hand touch I could understand steering with my thumb, but I understand you're supposed to use a stylus with the damn thing. How's that gonna work with Mario Kart? Or are you only going to be using the touch capability for a handful of games where a stylus is appropriate (doesn't seem to be a long list).
Still, what I really hope to see are some handheld RTS games. The console world sucks for RTS's, partially because splitscreen is not a good environment for such things. DS gives each player their own screen and a good pointing device to command with, so I hope to see some good RTS titles - maybe ports of the classics? Z? Total Annihilation? Dune 2? StarCraft?
RTFA, no mars. I don't think even Id gives a crap if it still has the "oldschool" feel - after all, they took the fastest, slipperiest, most energetic FPS and turned it into a crawling survival-horror/flashlight simulator with Doom 3. Not that doom 3 was bad - quite the opposite, it just didn't maintain the feel of the old DOom games.
I'm actually very frustrated at the name selection. It has made googling within the source-port community nearly impossible beause of all the Half Life coverage. For example, I was trying to find out what Quake 1 source ports (such as tenebrae et al) suported Team Fortress mod. Very difficult to find out now with the "Source engine" muddling up Google.
I'm not a fan of the games, so I can't vouch for accuracy, but I really didn't enjoy the WC movie. Unlike my friends I was able to suspend disbelief for the whole "Das Boot In Space" theme of the physics and combat, but the actual story was dull, scripting was poor, the ending was anticlimactic, the acting was weak, and the whole "colonist" think with the medallion was campy in the extreme.
No. That would be like running the engine slower, but less efficient. The energy you gain from the engine is always less than the engergy spent on breaking down the hydrogen it would take to power that little generator "skim". Thermodynamics, sorry. Regenerative breaking to generate power would help, but there's no motor on the engine.
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Funny, this is kinda like my visualisation of the article headline. I visualise Wal-Mart as a 400 pound greeter woman with a perm, and the RIAA as a skinny coke-addicted lawyer with a nose ring and bleached hair. And the "squeezing" is the lawyer being crushed between the the greeter woman's cottage-cheese thighs in a scissor hold.
Yummy, eh?
It occurs to me that this is kind of the whole point of having an RIAA. Collectivised bargaining. They've been using it to fix prices against us, the consumers, for decades. Reapply it here:
"Wal-Mart - STFU, or no soup for you. Stop bugging us or the only records you'll be getting are old Hootie albums and OMC's How Bizarre"
Yup. The creepiest thing about those places is how they also have meeting centres, photo labs, halls, etc. This is the old Town Hall. The goal is that they become the only store in the community. Not just the only department store, or electronics store, or grocer - but the only store. They become the centre of town. The local Wal-Mart then dwarfs the government in power - they provide access to all goods for a community.
Consider this: you have one company that provides for all of the needs of the citizen in the town, and a lion's share of the citizens work for that company. How is this not a commune? Its like communism's evil twin!
The problem is that Python's slowness isn't just from the interpreter, but the nature of the language. Notice how two similar objects don't require an interface to be used in the same way with the same methods? Because of that it will be hard to store members as anything but dictionaries, which are necessarily slow.
Either way Parrot will be an improvement, allowing shared Python/Perl/Ruby libraries, importing pure-python modules nicely, and most importantly: maybe we can finally sandbox Python. Rexec has been dead a long time, and Python is currently unusable as an embedding language without a lot of hacking because of that.
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I think that says all you need to know about the worldview this is catering to. Or are you going to try and defend Coulter and O'Reilly?
Lever? Hell, Canada has done just fine with a friggin' X on a paper ballot, thanks.
Well, perhaps his opinions of the US are libertarian, but from what I gather his foreign policy as shown in the movie is pretty much solid planet-fscking destructo neo-conservative. Stephen Notly of angryflower.com had a review that discussed this, but he's a flower-power-leftist and thus ignorable by 90% of readers.
You misunderstand. Poster was stating that Parker is very right wing, and echoes Drudge, not vice versa. He was contradicting the "Parker is libertarian" statement.
I find that the 2d map is an equal oversimplification - everyone's just saying "the issues are just complicated enough to allow for the differentiation of my viewpoint and no more complicated!"
Its not 1d or 2d or 5d. Its sixteen hojillion little issues that happen to conform to certain political stereotypes, but there is no overarching geometric theory.
For example, one model I like is to treat it as an array of lines - not full 2d. Each line is a subject - authoritarian vs. libertarian. Conservatives are authoritarian on matters of international politics and personal conduct, whereas liberals are authoritarian on matters of personal finances and business actions. Both are authoritarian on some subjects - like drugs. With this model you can more easily differentiate totalitarianism from communism - totalitarianism is the opposite of libertarianism - total control of everything, whereas communists (theoretically) leave you your personal life to run as you wish, and theoretically some control of the political authority itself. Similar concerns go for fascism and totalitarianism - fascism tends to allow for big businesses.
Dunno, some of us like the extra features that OOo brings. After struggling with Dia to make simple organisation charts, OO Draw is a dream (and much nicer than any of the MS office products for drawing unless you splurge for the newest office with Visio).
Just wish OO Draw could import Dia shapes.
Funny, I could custom build a PC with all those features for less than $500. I agree that what he's asking is unlikely, but I doubt its for technical reasons.
Good god, that rocks. So where's my 4" battery-operated DOS box? Aging gamers want to know!
Honestly, I think Molyneux games are overrated. He starts out with good concepts, but then ruins it with creepingfeaturitis that's not even relevant to the gameplay (Black and White was terrible for this). Compare StarTopia, an obviously Molyneux-inspired game. Tons of variety, excellent gameplay, a wide variety of buildings. Comes out being a far better-feeling strategy than Molyneux games, even though it has the same premises (all your people are totally autonomous, and you are just an administrator).
Take the old "growing trees" example: that's a big PITA to implement, and yet he wanted this to be a major feature. And its nothing - its a minor, unimportant feature of the background.
Many specialised micros have parallel to-memory moves for quickly moving stuff in and out of the L1 cache. DSPs are an excellent example of this.
I agree. A magstrip works fine - its not my fault that nobody has ever bothered to scan the goddamn thing in the many years I've owned it.
RFID will be the same: cops won't scan it - too lazy. Others won't scan it 'cause its another piece of equipment on your desk. Only people who'll scan it are those who are taking advantage of its increased range. People who are spying on you, for legitimate reasons or otherwise.
Well, consider how much more complicated embedded apps are getting - think about the onboard computer in the Audi, and the increasing numbes of mp3 players, movie players and whatnot. While "upgrade or else" is stupid, damn if this thing won't be useful.
So, when do I get my full-pentium-PC-on-a-chip so I can play X-Com on my watch?
I meant just being able to play RTS games with a separate terminal per person, compared to consoles. This could've been done on the GBA, but GBA didn't have a pointing device. After seeing PA's Metroid screenies, I'm starting to think this pointing device will be often used as an analog controller - sounds like a good idea. My only problem is that playing with a stylus in-hand sounds really uncomfortable. Maybe the "fingerpick" will be better.
I've often thought about this myself - the fact is that "good driving habits" like not tailgating, not constantly accelerating and breaking to keep perfect pace with the movements of the next car - these things increase congestion.
So maybe Minority Report was right? The future isn't flying cars, but AI cars that work together in the city.
Either way, just take the friggin' subway you planet-screwing losers.
Well, either way, there are good things that come in tubes or tube-like-storage - Patee, caviar, dulce de lechee. The only catch is that all of those things go best on crackers/bread, which create crumbs and are space inefficient. Maybe offer small soft tortillas?
Still, I don't think the tube is really necessary but space/weight efficiency, cleanliness, and convenience. That's why patee and similar meats would be good - its dense, its tasty, and it doesn't need to be cooked on-site. Just vacuum-pack it instead of tin it.
In any case, SpaceShipOne's trips are so short that serving food would be unnecessary. Beverages at most.
Speaking of Soviet Russia, how international is this? I was looking at the business search function and noticed it used a US zipcode. What about us Canuckistanis?
Any ideas of how these games will use the 2nd screen? I mean, if it was hand touch I could understand steering with my thumb, but I understand you're supposed to use a stylus with the damn thing. How's that gonna work with Mario Kart? Or are you only going to be using the touch capability for a handful of games where a stylus is appropriate (doesn't seem to be a long list).
Still, what I really hope to see are some handheld RTS games. The console world sucks for RTS's, partially because splitscreen is not a good environment for such things. DS gives each player their own screen and a good pointing device to command with, so I hope to see some good RTS titles - maybe ports of the classics? Z? Total Annihilation? Dune 2? StarCraft?
RTFA, no mars. I don't think even Id gives a crap if it still has the "oldschool" feel - after all, they took the fastest, slipperiest, most energetic FPS and turned it into a crawling survival-horror/flashlight simulator with Doom 3. Not that doom 3 was bad - quite the opposite, it just didn't maintain the feel of the old DOom games.
I'm actually very frustrated at the name selection. It has made googling within the source-port community nearly impossible beause of all the Half Life coverage. For example, I was trying to find out what Quake 1 source ports (such as tenebrae et al) suported Team Fortress mod. Very difficult to find out now with the "Source engine" muddling up Google.
I'm not a fan of the games, so I can't vouch for accuracy, but I really didn't enjoy the WC movie. Unlike my friends I was able to suspend disbelief for the whole "Das Boot In Space" theme of the physics and combat, but the actual story was dull, scripting was poor, the ending was anticlimactic, the acting was weak, and the whole "colonist" think with the medallion was campy in the extreme.
Plus I wanted to see more Kilrathi.
No. That would be like running the engine slower, but less efficient. The energy you gain from the engine is always less than the engergy spent on breaking down the hydrogen it would take to power that little generator "skim". Thermodynamics, sorry. Regenerative breaking to generate power would help, but there's no motor on the engine.