Well, if any of you are irritated by Flash, this move should reduce the number of folks using it. It'll be too bloated to load within a release or two.
I suppose you could consider the difficulty in maintaining "togetherness" the real challenge of the game--a "couple" has to maintain the same "emotional tack" to really gather points, but in the game's environment, there's no real need to couple with a particular meshuga; just any-old coupling will do. Did the game's author intend to make this statement? Are the individual partners in a relationship so interchangeable? Does the author feel that two equally-sad/stupid/insane/whatever partners can maintain togtherness? An interesting Flash exercise for the author, I'm sure, but the relevance of the game to emotional-control/togetherness seems a distant leap, even for an abstract artist. It makes an interesting statement, but I question the notion that some of the meanings were even intended.
Overall, the game is little more than an exercise in mouse-clicking. Give it a pass.
If you leave things up to venture capitalists there will be no regulation at all, profits for a few investors and a lower quality of life for just about everybody...
You know, I'm normally a very libertarian sort of guy, but this is one situation where I have to agree that regulation is the best course of action. These particular venture capitalists are the most money-hungry folks I've ever had the displeasure to deal with. These venture capitalists would like nothing more than to see gigawatt transmitters--transmitters utilizing every part of the EM spectrum--placed on every block, so long as their precious holdings were profitable. There are few people who hold humanity in less regard than those who would pollute the EM spectrum. This article, though it makes a valid point that the currently-available spectrum could be better utilized, is merely a precursor of the collective "FUCK YOU!" that these hoarding monsters would shout upon the deregulation of transmission and the utilization of EM frequencies.
First version of NT was 3.1, so-named to match the current version of Windows at the time, Windows 3.1. If I recall correctly, NT was developed with multi-platform capabilities from the get-go. Did NT 3.1 actually support Alpha and MIPS initially, or did it only work in the 3.5 release? I know 3.5 and 3.51 worked on Alpha and MIPS, but I don't recall ever trying to run 3.1 on those boxes.
Read the NT story in the book, SHOWSTOPPER--a book worth your time, if just to read the Dave Cutler stories. The book's been in remainders for some time, so it's nice and cheap.
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Serious, either you have the ability to do this or you don't.
Of course, it's much more productive to ask Slashdot to do it for you.
One nice thing is that if you're looking for a job on ".jobs" you know that its just another brain dead recruiter/body shop and not a real company looking for someone.
Right, just like all the.net sites are network-related, the.org sites are all organizations (in the non-profit sense of the term), etc. Why would anyone think that the TLD extensions are actually GOING to the appropriate category of purchaser? Do you really think blow.jobs is going to offer jobs to people in the blower industry?
Please note, I made only a wisecrack, and did not describe nor otherwise outline a system of child rearing. I don't think the OP really meant "beat the shit out of your kids all the time." He took it in the manner it was meant.
Personally, I feel that kids need to learn discipline and respect through modeled behavior, not simple force. There are limits to the reasoning ability of a child, and my job, as a parent, is to help them handle the situations they can handle and to keep them out of the situations they can't. 8 hours of shopping is NOT a situation kids can handle. 1 hour of shopping in the late afternoon is NOT a situation many kids can handle. You have to read their moods and act accordingly, not simply knock hell out of them if they won't act according to your whim. Spanking may have its place in some situations, but I've never found a public situation that warranted it with my three children. Generally, I've found parents spank in those situations out of embarrassment or anger, not the willingness to discipline or guide their child. Your job is neither to be friend nor executioner to your children, but a parent who guides growth and development with thought and wisdom...something far too much of the population lacks.
I'm glad Mr. Nick has it all in hand and has graced us with his wonderful literary prowess. His kids will live in fear until they're large enough or frightened enough to kill him in his sleep.
Mmmmm....such a well-adjusted man you've become. I'm sure dying alone will be fun for you.
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Federal "Martials?" That puts an interesting spin on the term. It's normally "marshals," but I like that. Of course, Maritals would be interesting, too.
Thanks! I'm was technical editor and a contributor for C++ Primer Plus. Unfortunately, this book wouldn't be eligible for 2004. It came out a couple of years ago.
There is a Fifth edition coming out this year, however. Make sure to check it out.
No. I do NOT consider an HTML "coder" a programmer, any more than I would consider the ability to bold and italicize words in a word-processor programming. It makes me absolutely SICK when someone tells me (and I hear it an awful lot), "..and I program web pages."
HTML work ain't programming until scripting is involved.
(That vein on my head is popping out just writing this. Arrrrgh!)
If you're Alan Cooper, you think that people should be protected from having to understand such things. Arguably, many of the metaphors we use in computing today--most notably the file-cabinet--are dated and becoming less useful. Should a user HAVE to know exactly where a document is placed on a harddrive? Or should the computer know FOR him and offer it to him in another manner? A long, horrible battle to fight on the Internet, for sure...
Anyway, you've hit the nail on the head about the lack of knowledge in the general populous. The truth is, most people don't CARE and don't WANT to know, as it clutters their already-confused minds. If you're too busy tracking the latest celebrity news and sports stats, why on earth would you want to fill up your precious grey-matter with computer trivia? Apply this to politics, and you derive our current two-party system in the US. Apply this to health-care and you get the insurance/medical costs/tort-reform trifecta.
Don't we "smart" people have to, at some point, start taking responsibility for protecting these folks from themselves? Maybe we should worry about this stuff for them, and steer the world to a place more to our liking. I seem to recall a Philip K. Dick story along these lines--about a medical bag--that certainly is apropos to this discussion. Anyone up for a new illuminati?
Of course, this underscores the essential problem with teleportation...you're not really transported anywhere. An exact duplicate is made of the teleported human, but the first one is dead. Will you notice? No one else will care, because there's an exact copy prancing about somewhere.
I own a 2004 Prius, and I must say that I DON'T get the mileage advertised, although I have seen per-trip variations outside what I so-far consider my normal range. My own figures are closer to 47MPG (combined) for the life of the car, now at 4000 miles. However, my style of driving tends to be shorter trips taken in a hilly locale--both of which negatively influence mileage. Slightly longer trips (a daily commute of 60+ miles) and flatter terrain (coming north to town on the coastal plain) allows a friend here (also with an '04 Prius) to average 53 or so. All other factors seem similar--we have similar driving styles, same tires at same pressure, etc.--but there's a big difference in the mileage figures for the same car. I don't think the EPA takes this into account; they're looking at a bad extrapolation of data based on emissions and a short test--almost a perfect, no-wind, flat-land drive.
I believe the Prius is a good, capable machine. I can see how, in the right circumstances, the car would do as well as, or better than, the EPA figures. Lots of folks do it.
Actually, you're right. I WAS awfully close to Edwin Starr's "War," but I didn't mean to be. I was doing a generic James Brown, I suppose, that sorta turned the corner...
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Well, if any of you are irritated by Flash, this move should reduce the number of folks using it. It'll be too bloated to load within a release or two.
Run, Tommy! Run like the wind! ...Can you hear me now?
C'est Québécois ou les abrutis .
You got yours before I got mine. I think our mailman's on a bender, again.
(Still waiting)
I suppose you could consider the difficulty in maintaining "togetherness" the real challenge of the game--a "couple" has to maintain the same "emotional tack" to really gather points, but in the game's environment, there's no real need to couple with a particular meshuga; just any-old coupling will do. Did the game's author intend to make this statement? Are the individual partners in a relationship so interchangeable? Does the author feel that two equally-sad/stupid/insane/whatever partners can maintain togtherness? An interesting Flash exercise for the author, I'm sure, but the relevance of the game to emotional-control/togetherness seems a distant leap, even for an abstract artist. It makes an interesting statement, but I question the notion that some of the meanings were even intended.
Overall, the game is little more than an exercise in mouse-clicking. Give it a pass.
If you leave things up to venture capitalists there will be no regulation at all, profits for a few investors and a lower quality of life for just about everybody...
You know, I'm normally a very libertarian sort of guy, but this is one situation where I have to agree that regulation is the best course of action. These particular venture capitalists are the most money-hungry folks I've ever had the displeasure to deal with. These venture capitalists would like nothing more than to see gigawatt transmitters--transmitters utilizing every part of the EM spectrum--placed on every block, so long as their precious holdings were profitable. There are few people who hold humanity in less regard than those who would pollute the EM spectrum. This article, though it makes a valid point that the currently-available spectrum could be better utilized, is merely a precursor of the collective "FUCK YOU!" that these hoarding monsters would shout upon the deregulation of transmission and the utilization of EM frequencies.
You didn't understand the table. The first column is NOT the investor, but the spyware company. The SECOND column is the investment firm.
Oh robot, thou prowess tall (..ro-o-bot thou prowess tall...),
Thou can'st well-kick that rounded ball (..rou-ounded ball...)
For, constructed well, you havst no knees(...no kneeeees...)
Good luck in semis 'ganst Germany (Germaneeeee...)
Canon? Like this? Or did you mean cannon?
First version of NT was 3.1, so-named to match the current version of Windows at the time, Windows 3.1. If I recall correctly, NT was developed with multi-platform capabilities from the get-go. Did NT 3.1 actually support Alpha and MIPS initially, or did it only work in the 3.5 release? I know 3.5 and 3.51 worked on Alpha and MIPS, but I don't recall ever trying to run 3.1 on those boxes.
Read the NT story in the book, SHOWSTOPPER--a book worth your time, if just to read the Dave Cutler stories. The book's been in remainders for some time, so it's nice and cheap.
Of course, it's much more productive to ask Slashdot to do it for you.
meatstick? Snap into it!
Oh, and the word is poontang.
You just can't hide class. Glad you could make it today.
One nice thing is that if you're looking for a job on ".jobs" you know that its just another brain dead recruiter/body shop and not a real company looking for someone.
Right, just like all the
Please note, I made only a wisecrack, and did not describe nor otherwise outline a system of child rearing. I don't think the OP really meant "beat the shit out of your kids all the time." He took it in the manner it was meant.
Personally, I feel that kids need to learn discipline and respect through modeled behavior, not simple force. There are limits to the reasoning ability of a child, and my job, as a parent, is to help them handle the situations they can handle and to keep them out of the situations they can't. 8 hours of shopping is NOT a situation kids can handle. 1 hour of shopping in the late afternoon is NOT a situation many kids can handle. You have to read their moods and act accordingly, not simply knock hell out of them if they won't act according to your whim. Spanking may have its place in some situations, but I've never found a public situation that warranted it with my three children. Generally, I've found parents spank in those situations out of embarrassment or anger, not the willingness to discipline or guide their child. Your job is neither to be friend nor executioner to your children, but a parent who guides growth and development with thought and wisdom...something far too much of the population lacks.
I'm glad Mr. Nick has it all in hand and has graced us with his wonderful literary prowess. His kids will live in fear until they're large enough or frightened enough to kill him in his sleep.
Mmmmm....such a well-adjusted man you've become. I'm sure dying alone will be fun for you.
Federal "Martials?" That puts an interesting spin on the term. It's normally "marshals," but I like that. Of course, Maritals would be interesting, too.
No, no, no! It's the "Hitler" Channel--something I found even those who work there call it.
Again, not a 2004 book (unless there's a new edition I didn't see).
Still, a truly excellent book.
Thanks! I'm was technical editor and a contributor for C++ Primer Plus. Unfortunately, this book wouldn't be eligible for 2004. It came out a couple of years ago.
There is a Fifth edition coming out this year, however. Make sure to check it out.
"Would you consider a HTML coder a programmer?"
No. I do NOT consider an HTML "coder" a programmer, any more than I would consider the ability to bold and italicize words in a word-processor programming. It makes me absolutely SICK when someone tells me (and I hear it an awful lot), "..and I program web pages."
HTML work ain't programming until scripting is involved.
(That vein on my head is popping out just writing this. Arrrrgh!)
If you're Alan Cooper, you think that people should be protected from having to understand such things. Arguably, many of the metaphors we use in computing today--most notably the file-cabinet--are dated and becoming less useful. Should a user HAVE to know exactly where a document is placed on a harddrive? Or should the computer know FOR him and offer it to him in another manner? A long, horrible battle to fight on the Internet, for sure...
Anyway, you've hit the nail on the head about the lack of knowledge in the general populous. The truth is, most people don't CARE and don't WANT to know, as it clutters their already-confused minds. If you're too busy tracking the latest celebrity news and sports stats, why on earth would you want to fill up your precious grey-matter with computer trivia? Apply this to politics, and you derive our current two-party system in the US. Apply this to health-care and you get the insurance/medical costs/tort-reform trifecta.
Don't we "smart" people have to, at some point, start taking responsibility for protecting these folks from themselves? Maybe we should worry about this stuff for them, and steer the world to a place more to our liking. I seem to recall a Philip K. Dick story along these lines--about a medical bag--that certainly is apropos to this discussion. Anyone up for a new illuminati?
You have to realize, we're GEEKS. Who else is going to care what our penis is like?
Now, of course, the race is on to register the epenis.com domain name. No, I'm NOT looking for it from work.
Of course, this underscores the essential problem with teleportation...you're not really transported anywhere. An exact duplicate is made of the teleported human, but the first one is dead. Will you notice? No one else will care, because there's an exact copy prancing about somewhere.
Not the retina...the CORNEA. Sheesh. What kinda eye surgery goes through the back of your skull?
and everyone's mileage DOES vary.
I own a 2004 Prius, and I must say that I DON'T get the mileage advertised, although I have seen per-trip variations outside what I so-far consider my normal range. My own figures are closer to 47MPG (combined) for the life of the car, now at 4000 miles. However, my style of driving tends to be shorter trips taken in a hilly locale--both of which negatively influence mileage. Slightly longer trips (a daily commute of 60+ miles) and flatter terrain (coming north to town on the coastal plain) allows a friend here (also with an '04 Prius) to average 53 or so. All other factors seem similar--we have similar driving styles, same tires at same pressure, etc.--but there's a big difference in the mileage figures for the same car. I don't think the EPA takes this into account; they're looking at a bad extrapolation of data based on emissions and a short test--almost a perfect, no-wind, flat-land drive.
I believe the Prius is a good, capable machine. I can see how, in the right circumstances, the car would do as well as, or better than, the EPA figures. Lots of folks do it.
Check out Greenhybrid.com and Prius Chat and see what others have to say.
Actually, you're right. I WAS awfully close to Edwin Starr's "War," but I didn't mean to be. I was doing a generic James Brown, I suppose, that sorta turned the corner...