Indeed, French is meaningless compared to Mandarin, Hindi, English, Spanish... But don't forget French is spoken in... Canada.
Well, just to pick nits, French (Quebecois, actually, which real French speakers regard as a bastardized creole) is spoken in Quebec and a couple nearby pockets. In the majority of the country it's a nonentity.
For instance, here in Vancouver French is the 49th most common native language of children enrolled with the Vancouver school board... just behind Tagalog. Your first statement is dead on. Particularly with Mandarin and Hindi, which are 2 and 3 behind English respectively.
On the Mac you can't see the full filename, you can't increase the size of the dialog, you cant re-sort the files by size/date/name, you can't create directories or delete files etc.
I really hate to feed trolls, but this particular statement some people still believe.
FYI, all of the above and a great deal more comes with using Navigation Services, which has been around since 8.0 and is no longer optional under Carbon.
Granted several common applications still don't use it, but that's their fault for not adopting a technology shipped with the System for over two years now. And unless they want to ship Classic-only apps for OS X, they'll have to get a clue soon.
Is it me, or is the whole 2-party system just a big "good-cop/bad-cop" scam?:^P
Well, it's not you.
However, it's more along the lines of Pepsi and Coke competing with each other only secondarily to their more important goal of keeping any third parties out of their common market than it is the conspiracy theory that you imply.
Republicans and Democrats don't have to be controlled by the same people for them to all come to the conclusion that switching power between themselves every few years is much better than having to compete against genuine alternatives...
Why do we have an environmental problem in the first place? Because capitalism requires companies to continuously grow or else die,
*scratches head*
And just how do you reconcile this statement with the real world facts that the worst environmental disaster areas are found in the formerly Communist nations?
Soccer moms and yuppies are the ones driving the suvs. I find it disgusting that they never go off-road.
Ummmm.... virtually all of the 'SUV' class these days aren't capable of going offroad. The Range Rover and the Isuzu Trooper are the only two of the class you can claim with a straight face are a good offroad truck. At least, the Trooper is once you toss the pansy bouncy shocks it comes with and put in some Rancho 5000s and ditch it's pussy car tires for something in a steel belted 33". Then you can really tell you're driving a truck!
Of course, I drive up stream beds looking for new launch sites, so my definition of 'capable' is a pretty restrictive one:)
Poster, what this really means is the TA, much less the lecturer, is NOT EVEN LOOKING AT your code to start with.
As a former TA speaking here: No fucking shit. You think the TA gives a toss about your worthless self? It is to laugh. Ho ho! The TA is trying to get through school just like you, and wants to put in the least possible effort for the money. Like, duh.
You are being deprived of informed criticism of your work by a competent and skilled instructor/authority beyond your own judgement.
If you don't understand something, then come ask about it in office hours. If you don't, then I assume you figured it out and I give you perfect marks, that's far easier than actually bothering to figure out if you have a clue or what.
I've got better things to do, like my own work, drinking beer, and shagging all the little hotties in the class. (Note to prospective TAs: Your school probably has some equivalent of mine's CMPT 100, "Introduction to BASIC programming for Business Students". It is full of 18 year old wannabe MBA hotties with no fucking clue whatsoever who look up to you as second only to God. Can you say "target-rich environment"? And this nincompoop thinks I give a flying fuck about whether some geeky frosh can write code or what. Hah!)
Also, court filings are usually made under the penalty of perjury. Submitting deliberately false filings to the effect that I'm a goatfucker when they know I'm not could land them with fines or jail.
True. However, the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the filing was deliberately malicious lies on you, and that's pretty damned difficult to prove for anything less blatant than "goatfucker":)
I really think some high profile people should sue the MPAA over this particular piece of fiction. It's incredibly insulting.
Legal filings are specifically exempted from liability of allegation in virtually all jurisdictions inheriting from British common law. The theory is that this prevents the target of a lawsuit crushing the plaintiff with their greater legal resources and so forth.
In practice, this means they can say Open Source advocates are crooks and goatfuckers if they feel like it... and there's nothing you can do.
You do _NOT_ get jurisdiction over every single human being in the entire world merely because they post something on the 'net.
Well, they're not arguing that, they're arguing that a CA court has jurisdiction over another US resident. Things like RICO set a fairly strong legal standard in support of their argument, so I won't be surprised in the slightest if the court upholds this.
Now, what you bring up is the next logical step. Copyright violation of a U.S. held copyright is not a crime in any country which has not signed the Berne Convention. So posting DeCSS code, or the movies themselves straight from Hollywood, is 100% legal in, say, Kyrgyzstan.
What's going to be interesting is to see what the movie industry does when pissed off people start putting up sites like www.getyourdecsscodehere.kg, www.firstrunmoviesforfree.kg, etc. etc...
Hell, if *I* ran Napster, and *I* had that $15 mil they got, www.napster.kg would be running now...
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obviously, you haven't read the Bible. cite me one scripture where it says that you will be eternally damned, or burn in hell for not believing in God...you won't.
"Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:"
-- Numbers 14:22-23
" the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD."
-- Numbers 14:35-37
And, your kids aren't going to be too well off:
"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;"
-- Exodus 20:5
As for the burning, that seems to be what God resorts to whenever he gets pissed off:
"And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them:"
-- Exodus 32:9-10
Hell, you get eternal damnation for working on Sunday!
"For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people."
-- Leviticus 23:29-30
And he wasn't just joshin', he MEANT that:
"And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses."
-- Numbers 15:32-36
So be careful gathering them sticks!
I'd go on here for another several thousand words, but I have work to do...
Christ didn't start appearing in any sort of texts until centuries after he supposedly died.
There not a single mention of him in any text, record, or any document whatsoever during the time he allegedly lived.
Wildly incorrect. His existence was very well known at the time. The reason that existing records don't bear it out is because of their systematic destruction by the Catholic church over the centuries, the most notorious of which is the destruction of the library in Alexandria.
In recent years archaelogy has unearthed things like the Gnostic Gospels which have allowed us to put together a more well balanced picture of contemporary religious thought, which also explain a whole lot of stuff in the canon which makes no sense otherwise.
The first reference which can be unambiguously identified as Jesus Christ of the Gospels is a piece written by the Roman military governor in AD 48 referring to "the followers of the Egyptian magician." This explains why Jesus was persecuted by the rabbinical establishment; Judaism has always been extremely tolerant of differing interpretations of its scriptures, but has resisted fiercely attempts to merge beliefs from different cultures. And the winemaking, walking on water, raising the dead, all that stuff -- those weren't anything particularly special at the time, they were well known tricks of the initiates of the Egyptian mystery schools. Note, for instance, in Acts where they go up against Simon Magus doing the exact same tricks that the Jesus worshippers were pulling. And that bit with the feet anointing that freaked all the watchers out? Ritual straight out of Isis worship.
So that's why the Establishment did away with him -- nothing to do with claiming to be the Messiah, they were actually expecting said Messiah to show up somewhere around that time, and dozens of cult leaders were claiming that They Were The One, not just Jesus -- it's because he was an Egyptian assimilationist mofo!
As an aside, it seems that Coptic Christianity is the extant flavor that bears the greatest resemblance to what Jesus actually preached. But I digress.
but Steve Jobs picture and not Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman?
Read all the way to the bottom.
"You may be wondering "Why does Steve Jobs appear in this unix history?". Simply because he has made the best unix computer ever : a NeXTcube powered with NeXTSTEP operating system."
Which seems reasonable, other than his odd misspelling of "G4 Cube powered with OS X operating system.":)
On the other hand, it might be fun to taste the games industry for a few years. Please try and talk to some people at the company, IN PRIVATE, before you commit.
The person I was having the beers with went to this Very Big Game Company after working for me on Mac stuff three years ago, and is now big in their PS2 world, so I'm getting the pretty straight dope here I think.
Very Big Game Makers tend to be Fascist Bastards.
Very Big anything tend to be Fascist Bastards... the advantage to being a T&L head is that if you get pissed off, NOTHING ships until they find a replacement, which tends to tilt the negotiations in your favor depending on how replaceable you are. Presumably a Dolphin lead would not be replaceable quickly or cheaply:)
This is a rather serendiptious posting -- last night over beers I was apprised that A Very Big Game Maker (not that I should probably say who, but I live in Vancouver, figure it out for yourself) is planning to commit bigtime to Dolphin, as in hoping to have at least three games shipping at launch... and they have no tools and libraries team yet, and I should sign on and head it up.
I, however, have been a Mac programmer for fifteen years (earlier this spring I was offered the chance to port said Very Big Game Maker's T&L suite to the Mac... and ran away screaming when I saw the code) and have won a large number of awards for my various Mac products, so therefore I'm more inclined to learn NeXTStep, er, OPENSTEP, er, Yellow Box, er, Cocoa instead for the brave new OS X world. But if Dolphin goes big... being The Man for it at this Very Big Game Company would be a pretty cool position to be in.
So, so, so. What would all of YOU do if you were me?
As for my (perhaps sexist) opinion, I think female warriors could be effective in combat, but their weapon of choice probably wouldn't be any of the heavier hand-to-hand weapons.
You should go through the Norse sagas to find some striking counterexamples. However, Teutonic women are a special case, as any of you who have visited Nordic countries probably know already:)
Valkryies aside, effective women warriors have historically been archers, as any reasonably strong woman can pull a bow of the rather pathetic draws that historical bows were capable of handling. Also, being a good archer requires a lot more training and discipline than a footsoldier while being less individually glorious, which traits are more often to be found acceptable by women than macho male warriors, oddly enough:) The Amazons were foot archers, as much as what Amazons actually were can be pulled out of the myths; many of the Central Asian steppe tribes used women (and children) as horse archers; Chinese had women crossbow regiments; it seems the Incans had women sling corps, but we don't really know enough about them to be sure of that. Et cetera.
?Er. Pardon my ignorance, but what is a koshigatana?
Koshigatana are Japanese twin swords. Generally a little shorter and rather wider than a wakizashi, they are used for trapping parries, redirections, and blocks as well as the typical kenjutsu slashing attacks.
There's no way a koshigatana wielder can trade blows straight up with someone with a full size weapon, or go for a single crippling stroke -- the key to their use is extreme speed and dexterity to deflect blows while giving the opponent the death of a thousand cuts. In other words, upper body strength is not that relevant, which is why this a weapon a geisha girl ("kunoichi", as "kunoichijutsu" is the technical term for female ninjutsu) can take out armored samurai with.
At this point, I'm sure, all the EverQuest fanboys are getting ready to claim I don't know what I'm talking about and that a koshigatana is a one-handed piercing weapon because their databases say so. Well, yes, anything small and pointy can be used as that, but that is historically inaccurate and stupid besides. It is a two-handed weapon, one in each hand, and to model combat with it properly in an RPG you should give the wielder a full parry defensive bonus plus a gladius/cutlass caliber slashing attack each round, or no defensive bonus and two separate attacks, with none of whatever penalties usually apply for using a weapon in each hand. However, since speed and dexterity are so important, if the wielder has any armor heavier than a leather vest, none of this applies -- then they just have a rather light shortsword in each hand:)
In European terms I suppose koshigatana style would be closest to the swordbreaker/rapier combo used by Renaissance-era thiefcatchers, but with the intent to leave the target looking like they were worked over with straight razors, not just disarmed, and swordbreakers are dependent on the wielder having comparable arm strength to their attacker to work well. As koshigatanas are meant to parry and deflect rather than trap or block, raw strength is much less important. A chick weapon, in other words. Which brings us back to where we started:)
Feminism. For crying out loud, a female "warrior" is not going to be as effective as a male warrior in combat!
No... she'll be a more effective warrior because of her greater discipline. Historical examples of female warrior castes prove this every time; the reason there aren't more examples to draw from is that historically most cultures were not on a constant war footing and thus women could be relegated to babymaking and surplus male population to warmaking. In cultures where everyone had to fight, women were vital components of the order of battle in some position where their average lack of upper body strength wasn't particularly relevant.
The overwhelmingly female Samartian horse archer corps are a striking example of this; another is the Viking shieldmaidens. Stabbing spears poking out from shieldwalls aren't particularly valiant or odeworthy... but they are very effective. And female ninjas were actually more prevalent and dreaded than male ninjas, contrary to current movie mythology; there are several recorded instances of ninja geishas with their koshigatanas taking out multiple samurai. Ninja geishas. Mmmmmm. Mmmmm.:)
(It's a troll, I know, but enough people are ignorant enough to agree that I thought it was worth correcting anyway...)
So if I were to offer you a competetive salary to write and maintain an accounting package that automatically maintained a double set of books -- the real set, and the one you show to the film/music artists when they demand a royalty audit -- you'd do it?
Just how competitive are we talking?
Without even a moment's hesitation?
Well, obviously I'd hesitate long enough to make sure that you were offering the maximum I could get out of you...
Boils down to, you want to do DSP stuff, AltiVec kicks serious ass, especially if you go to the trouble to understand how to restructure your algorithms to take advantage of it. You don't, well, it's not of any real great use then.
For Photoshop users, video compressors, sound filterers, stuff like that, it's a pretty damned big win. Errrr... did I just describe the industries Macs dominate? Weird. You'd think Apple was actually trying to serve the needs of their core market, or something silly like that.
I'll never use Mac because there is no method for switching between apps from the keyboard.
I had an INIT that did this in 1989. It's been in the System since 8.0. 1997, baby. Come on, keep up.
Having to reach for the mouse slows you down.
Actually, this isn't so. Using the mouse feels slower than the keyboard -- because pointing with your arm is a muscle memory task, while remembering a keystroke and locating the key is a cognitive task. While your brain is occupied, your time sense is suspended.
You know that "Holy fuck, it's 6:30 AM, how the fuckin' hell could I have been playing Civ II for ten hours straight when it feels like fifteen minutes or so" feeling? This is the same effect on a micro level.
The upshot is, that although people swear up down right left that hotkeys are faster than mousing through menus and so forth, actual objective timings prove the exact opposite. People of course refuse to admit that the timings could possibly be right, because they "know" that it was faster when they were using the keys.
Apple did a lot of research on this in the eighties; they eventually had to start making videotapes for proof because the test subjects simply would not accept that the recorded times could possibly be correct.
Why was SoF ever even submitted to or looked at by the Film Classification Board?
Let us rephrase this in generic terms.
"Why did a government bureaucracy of essentially static responsibility and budget decide to attempt to aggrandize more jurisdiction and authority unto itself?"
Hmmmm. I wonder. Yes, I do. Snort.
No need to look for Evil Plans or Grand Designs here, I think... just the natural tendency of any cancer^H^H^H^H^H^H government bureaucracy to entrench itself and extend its power and influence. For the sake of the children, naturally...
That's cool; is there some sort of method naming convention?
That problem is addressed through the use of protocols. Some are formal, like the reference counting protocol for instance (implementing them is known as "adopting" that protocol), informal protocols can be defined at will. Note that this also gives you basically all the design capabilities of C++'s multiple inheritance with none of the associated problems.
"Protocols free method declarations from dependency on the class hierarchy, so they can be used in ways that classes and categories cannot. Protocols list methods that are (or may be) implemented somewhere, but the identity of the class that implements them is not of interest. What is of interest is whether or not a particular class conforms to the protocol--whether it has implementations of the methods the protocol declares. Thus objects can be grouped into types not just on the basis of similarities due to the fact that they inherit from the same class, but also on the basis of their similarity in conforming to the same protocol. Classes in unrelated branches of the inheritance hierarchy might be typed alike because they conform to the same protocol."
What I like about Scheme is that you can query the datatype to see what it is,
In Obj-C you can ask an object what it is, if what it is is a kind of some of other thing, if it responds to a given message (note that through the use of categories, this capability may be added at runtime), conforms to a given protocol, yadayadayada.
On the other side of the fence, Java has a type for everything, and is correspondingly complex, too.
Obj-C is, well, C. You add just as much or little complexity as you wish.
I wonder what the probability is of Apple porting it to Intel? I guess slim,
The chance of that is the chance that Itanium and/or Sledgehammer turn out to kick Power4's butt. I would put that as a good deal less than 'slim'.
Oh, you meant the current processor generation? Right up there with Satan ordering snowmobiles, dude. Not absolutely impossible if somebody like Compaq makes an offer Apple can't refuse, though.
I guess thats what they want, more Mac purchases.
Yes. Apple is a hardware company. Many people miss this fundamental reality. Including Apple management, occassionally.
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Maybe society will switch and value living on farms more. Then I'll be screwed (maybe). Till then.
As someone who spent pretty much all the first 17 years of his life growing up on a dairy farm, I can assure you with the utmost rock-solid certainty that this is not a problem with which you need to concern yourself.
Only city kids whine about how wonderful it would be to live with nature, yadayadayada. The vast majority who actually try it scurry whimpering back to the safe whiffle ball world of the big city within mere months.
There is a REASON that living in cities, "civilization", is considered an ADVANCE. It's because the alternatives SUCK.
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Indeed, French is meaningless compared to Mandarin, Hindi, English, Spanish... But don't forget French is spoken in ... Canada.
... just behind Tagalog. Your first statement is dead on. Particularly with Mandarin and Hindi, which are 2 and 3 behind English respectively.
Well, just to pick nits, French (Quebecois, actually, which real French speakers regard as a bastardized creole) is spoken in Quebec and a couple nearby pockets. In the majority of the country it's a nonentity.
For instance, here in Vancouver French is the 49th most common native language of children enrolled with the Vancouver school board
On the Mac you can't see the full filename, you can't increase the size of the dialog, you cant re-sort the files by size/date/name, you can't create directories or delete files etc.
I really hate to feed trolls, but this particular statement some people still believe.
FYI, all of the above and a great deal more comes with using Navigation Services, which has been around since 8.0 and is no longer optional under Carbon.
Granted several common applications still don't use it, but that's their fault for not adopting a technology shipped with the System for over two years now. And unless they want to ship Classic-only apps for OS X, they'll have to get a clue soon.
Is it me, or is the whole 2-party system just a big "good-cop/bad-cop" scam? :^P
Well, it's not you.
However, it's more along the lines of Pepsi and Coke competing with each other only secondarily to their more important goal of keeping any third parties out of their common market than it is the conspiracy theory that you imply.
Republicans and Democrats don't have to be controlled by the same people for them to all come to the conclusion that switching power between themselves every few years is much better than having to compete against genuine alternatives...
Why do we have an environmental problem in the first place? Because capitalism requires companies to continuously grow or else die,
*scratches head*
And just how do you reconcile this statement with the real world facts that the worst environmental disaster areas are found in the formerly Communist nations?
Soccer moms and yuppies are the ones driving the suvs. I find it disgusting that they never go off-road.
.... virtually all of the 'SUV' class these days aren't capable of going offroad. The Range Rover and the Isuzu Trooper are the only two of the class you can claim with a straight face are a good offroad truck. At least, the Trooper is once you toss the pansy bouncy shocks it comes with and put in some Rancho 5000s and ditch it's pussy car tires for something in a steel belted 33". Then you can really tell you're driving a truck!
:)
Ummmm
Of course, I drive up stream beds looking for new launch sites, so my definition of 'capable' is a pretty restrictive one
Poster, what this really means is the TA, much less the lecturer, is NOT EVEN LOOKING AT your code to start with.
As a former TA speaking here: No fucking shit. You think the TA gives a toss about your worthless self? It is to laugh. Ho ho! The TA is trying to get through school just like you, and wants to put in the least possible effort for the money. Like, duh.
You are being deprived of informed criticism of your work by a competent and skilled instructor/authority beyond your own judgement.
If you don't understand something, then come ask about it in office hours. If you don't, then I assume you figured it out and I give you perfect marks, that's far easier than actually bothering to figure out if you have a clue or what.
I've got better things to do, like my own work, drinking beer, and shagging all the little hotties in the class. (Note to prospective TAs: Your school probably has some equivalent of mine's CMPT 100, "Introduction to BASIC programming for Business Students". It is full of 18 year old wannabe MBA hotties with no fucking clue whatsoever who look up to you as second only to God. Can you say "target-rich environment"? And this nincompoop thinks I give a flying fuck about whether some geeky frosh can write code or what. Hah!)
Also, court filings are usually made under the penalty of perjury. Submitting deliberately false filings to the effect that I'm a goatfucker when they know I'm not could land them with fines or jail.
:)
True. However, the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the filing was deliberately malicious lies on you, and that's pretty damned difficult to prove for anything less blatant than "goatfucker"
I really think some high profile people should sue the MPAA over this particular piece of fiction. It's incredibly insulting.
... and there's nothing you can do.
Legal filings are specifically exempted from liability of allegation in virtually all jurisdictions inheriting from British common law. The theory is that this prevents the target of a lawsuit crushing the plaintiff with their greater legal resources and so forth.
In practice, this means they can say Open Source advocates are crooks and goatfuckers if they feel like it
You do _NOT_ get jurisdiction over every single human being in the entire world merely because they post something on the 'net.
Well, they're not arguing that, they're arguing that a CA court has jurisdiction over another US resident. Things like RICO set a fairly strong legal standard in support of their argument, so I won't be surprised in the slightest if the court upholds this.
Now, what you bring up is the next logical step. Copyright violation of a U.S. held copyright is not a crime in any country which has not signed the Berne Convention. So posting DeCSS code, or the movies themselves straight from Hollywood, is 100% legal in, say, Kyrgyzstan.
What's going to be interesting is to see what the movie industry does when pissed off people start putting up sites like www.getyourdecsscodehere.kg, www.firstrunmoviesforfree.kg, etc. etc...
Hell, if *I* ran Napster, and *I* had that $15 mil they got, www.napster.kg would be running now...
obviously, you haven't read the Bible. cite me one scripture where it says that you will be eternally damned, or burn in hell for not believing in God...you won't.
"Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it:"
-- Numbers 14:22-23
" the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die. And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up a slander upon the land, Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD."
-- Numbers 14:35-37
And, your kids aren't going to be too well off:
"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;"
-- Exodus 20:5
As for the burning, that seems to be what God resorts to whenever he gets pissed off:
"And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people: Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them:"
-- Exodus 32:9-10
Hell, you get eternal damnation for working on Sunday!
"For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people."
-- Leviticus 23:29-30
And he wasn't just joshin', he MEANT that:
"And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses."
-- Numbers 15:32-36
So be careful gathering them sticks!
I'd go on here for another several thousand words, but I have work to do...
Christ didn't start appearing in any sort of texts until centuries after he supposedly died.
There not a single mention of him in any text, record, or any document whatsoever during the time he allegedly lived.
Wildly incorrect. His existence was very well known at the time. The reason that existing records don't bear it out is because of their systematic destruction by the Catholic church over the centuries, the most notorious of which is the destruction of the library in Alexandria.
In recent years archaelogy has unearthed things like the Gnostic Gospels which have allowed us to put together a more well balanced picture of contemporary religious thought, which also explain a whole lot of stuff in the canon which makes no sense otherwise.
The first reference which can be unambiguously identified as Jesus Christ of the Gospels is a piece written by the Roman military governor in AD 48 referring to "the followers of the Egyptian magician." This explains why Jesus was persecuted by the rabbinical establishment; Judaism has always been extremely tolerant of differing interpretations of its scriptures, but has resisted fiercely attempts to merge beliefs from different cultures. And the winemaking, walking on water, raising the dead, all that stuff -- those weren't anything particularly special at the time, they were well known tricks of the initiates of the Egyptian mystery schools. Note, for instance, in Acts where they go up against Simon Magus doing the exact same tricks that the Jesus worshippers were pulling. And that bit with the feet anointing that freaked all the watchers out? Ritual straight out of Isis worship.
So that's why the Establishment did away with him -- nothing to do with claiming to be the Messiah, they were actually expecting said Messiah to show up somewhere around that time, and dozens of cult leaders were claiming that They Were The One, not just Jesus -- it's because he was an Egyptian assimilationist mofo!
As an aside, it seems that Coptic Christianity is the extant flavor that bears the greatest resemblance to what Jesus actually preached. But I digress.
but Steve Jobs picture and not Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman?
:)
Read all the way to the bottom.
"You may be wondering "Why does Steve Jobs appear in this unix history?". Simply because he has made the best unix computer ever : a NeXTcube powered with NeXTSTEP operating system."
Which seems reasonable, other than his odd misspelling of "G4 Cube powered with OS X operating system."
On the other hand, it might be fun to taste the games industry for a few years. Please try and talk to some people at the company, IN PRIVATE, before you commit.
... the advantage to being a T&L head is that if you get pissed off, NOTHING ships until they find a replacement, which tends to tilt the negotiations in your favor depending on how replaceable you are. Presumably a Dolphin lead would not be replaceable quickly or cheaply :)
The person I was having the beers with went to this Very Big Game Company after working for me on Mac stuff three years ago, and is now big in their PS2 world, so I'm getting the pretty straight dope here I think.
Very Big Game Makers tend to be Fascist Bastards.
Very Big anything tend to be Fascist Bastards
This is a rather serendiptious posting -- last night over beers I was apprised that A Very Big Game Maker (not that I should probably say who, but I live in Vancouver, figure it out for yourself) is planning to commit bigtime to Dolphin, as in hoping to have at least three games shipping at launch ... and they have no tools and libraries team yet, and I should sign on and head it up.
... and ran away screaming when I saw the code) and have won a large number of awards for my various Mac products, so therefore I'm more inclined to learn NeXTStep, er, OPENSTEP, er, Yellow Box, er, Cocoa instead for the brave new OS X world. But if Dolphin goes big ... being The Man for it at this Very Big Game Company would be a pretty cool position to be in.
I, however, have been a Mac programmer for fifteen years (earlier this spring I was offered the chance to port said Very Big Game Maker's T&L suite to the Mac
So, so, so. What would all of YOU do if you were me?
As for my (perhaps sexist) opinion, I think female warriors could be effective in combat, but their weapon of choice probably wouldn't be any of the heavier hand-to-hand weapons.
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:) The Amazons were foot archers, as much as what Amazons actually were can be pulled out of the myths; many of the Central Asian steppe tribes used women (and children) as horse archers; Chinese had women crossbow regiments; it seems the Incans had women sling corps, but we don't really know enough about them to be sure of that. Et cetera.
You should go through the Norse sagas to find some striking counterexamples. However, Teutonic women are a special case, as any of you who have visited Nordic countries probably know already
Valkryies aside, effective women warriors have historically been archers, as any reasonably strong woman can pull a bow of the rather pathetic draws that historical bows were capable of handling. Also, being a good archer requires a lot more training and discipline than a footsoldier while being less individually glorious, which traits are more often to be found acceptable by women than macho male warriors, oddly enough
?Er. Pardon my ignorance, but what is a koshigatana?
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Koshigatana are Japanese twin swords. Generally a little shorter and rather wider than a wakizashi, they are used for trapping parries, redirections, and blocks as well as the typical kenjutsu slashing attacks.
There's no way a koshigatana wielder can trade blows straight up with someone with a full size weapon, or go for a single crippling stroke -- the key to their use is extreme speed and dexterity to deflect blows while giving the opponent the death of a thousand cuts. In other words, upper body strength is not that relevant, which is why this a weapon a geisha girl ("kunoichi", as "kunoichijutsu" is the technical term for female ninjutsu) can take out armored samurai with.
At this point, I'm sure, all the EverQuest fanboys are getting ready to claim I don't know what I'm talking about and that a koshigatana is a one-handed piercing weapon because their databases say so. Well, yes, anything small and pointy can be used as that, but that is historically inaccurate and stupid besides. It is a two-handed weapon, one in each hand, and to model combat with it properly in an RPG you should give the wielder a full parry defensive bonus plus a gladius/cutlass caliber slashing attack each round, or no defensive bonus and two separate attacks, with none of whatever penalties usually apply for using a weapon in each hand. However, since speed and dexterity are so important, if the wielder has any armor heavier than a leather vest, none of this applies -- then they just have a rather light shortsword in each hand
In European terms I suppose koshigatana style would be closest to the swordbreaker/rapier combo used by Renaissance-era thiefcatchers, but with the intent to leave the target looking like they were worked over with straight razors, not just disarmed, and swordbreakers are dependent on the wielder having comparable arm strength to their attacker to work well. As koshigatanas are meant to parry and deflect rather than trap or block, raw strength is much less important. A chick weapon, in other words. Which brings us back to where we started
Feminism. For crying out loud, a female "warrior" is not going to be as effective as a male warrior in combat!
... she'll be a more effective warrior because of her greater discipline. Historical examples of female warrior castes prove this every time; the reason there aren't more examples to draw from is that historically most cultures were not on a constant war footing and thus women could be relegated to babymaking and surplus male population to warmaking. In cultures where everyone had to fight, women were vital components of the order of battle in some position where their average lack of upper body strength wasn't particularly relevant.
... but they are very effective. And female ninjas were actually more prevalent and dreaded than male ninjas, contrary to current movie mythology; there are several recorded instances of ninja geishas with their koshigatanas taking out multiple samurai. Ninja geishas. Mmmmmm. Mmmmm. :)
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The overwhelmingly female Samartian horse archer corps are a striking example of this; another is the Viking shieldmaidens. Stabbing spears poking out from shieldwalls aren't particularly valiant or odeworthy
(It's a troll, I know, but enough people are ignorant enough to agree that I thought it was worth correcting anyway...)
So if I were to offer you a competetive salary to write and maintain an accounting package that automatically maintained a double set of books -- the real set, and the one you show to the film/music artists when they demand a royalty audit -- you'd do it?
Just how competitive are we talking?
Without even a moment's hesitation?
Well, obviously I'd hesitate long enough to make sure that you were offering the maximum I could get out of you...
How will they respond to Intel dumping dragonballs into the market?
Probably with slack-jawed incredulity, same as I would, since the MC68328 'DragonBall' is not an Intel product...
Does anyone have any first hand experience with whether or not Altivec was a bad move?
... did I just describe the industries Macs dominate? Weird. You'd think Apple was actually trying to serve the needs of their core market, or something silly like that.
Well, take a look at how much more efficient it is on Intel's own DSP benchmarks. Also check out the inimitable David Every's pretty good review of AltiVec vs. KNI.
Boils down to, you want to do DSP stuff, AltiVec kicks serious ass, especially if you go to the trouble to understand how to restructure your algorithms to take advantage of it. You don't, well, it's not of any real great use then.
For Photoshop users, video compressors, sound filterers, stuff like that, it's a pretty damned big win. Errrr
I'll never use Mac because there is no method for switching between apps from the keyboard.
I had an INIT that did this in 1989. It's been in the System since 8.0. 1997, baby. Come on, keep up.
Having to reach for the mouse slows you down.
Actually, this isn't so. Using the mouse feels slower than the keyboard -- because pointing with your arm is a muscle memory task, while remembering a keystroke and locating the key is a cognitive task. While your brain is occupied, your time sense is suspended.
You know that "Holy fuck, it's 6:30 AM, how the fuckin' hell could I have been playing Civ II for ten hours straight when it feels like fifteen minutes or so" feeling? This is the same effect on a micro level.
The upshot is, that although people swear up down right left that hotkeys are faster than mousing through menus and so forth, actual objective timings prove the exact opposite. People of course refuse to admit that the timings could possibly be right, because they "know" that it was faster when they were using the keys.
Apple did a lot of research on this in the eighties; they eventually had to start making videotapes for proof because the test subjects simply would not accept that the recorded times could possibly be correct.
Why was SoF ever even submitted to or looked at by the Film Classification Board?
... just the natural tendency of any cancer^H^H^H^H^H^H government bureaucracy to entrench itself and extend its power and influence. For the sake of the children, naturally...
Let us rephrase this in generic terms.
"Why did a government bureaucracy of essentially static responsibility and budget decide to attempt to aggrandize more jurisdiction and authority unto itself?"
Hmmmm. I wonder. Yes, I do. Snort.
No need to look for Evil Plans or Grand Designs here, I think
That's cool; is there some sort of method naming convention?
That problem is addressed through the use of protocols. Some are formal, like the reference counting protocol for instance (implementing them is known as "adopting" that protocol), informal protocols can be defined at will. Note that this also gives you basically all the design capabilities of C++'s multiple inheritance with none of the associated problems.
"Protocols free method declarations from dependency on the class hierarchy, so they can be used in ways that classes and categories cannot. Protocols list methods that are (or may be) implemented somewhere, but the identity of the class that implements them is not of interest. What is of interest is whether or not a particular class conforms to the protocol--whether it has implementations of the methods the protocol declares. Thus objects can be grouped into types not just on the basis of similarities due to the fact that they inherit from the same class, but also on the basis of their similarity in conforming to the same protocol. Classes in unrelated branches of the inheritance hierarchy might be typed alike because they conform to the same protocol."
-- Object-Oriented Programming and the Objective-C Language, p.99.
What I like about Scheme is that you can query the datatype to see what it is,
In Obj-C you can ask an object what it is, if what it is is a kind of some of other thing, if it responds to a given message (note that through the use of categories, this capability may be added at runtime), conforms to a given protocol, yadayadayada.
On the other side of the fence, Java has a type for everything, and is correspondingly complex, too.
Obj-C is, well, C. You add just as much or little complexity as you wish.
I wonder what the probability is of Apple porting it to Intel? I guess slim,
The chance of that is the chance that Itanium and/or Sledgehammer turn out to kick Power4's butt. I would put that as a good deal less than 'slim'.
Oh, you meant the current processor generation? Right up there with Satan ordering snowmobiles, dude. Not absolutely impossible if somebody like Compaq makes an offer Apple can't refuse, though.
I guess thats what they want, more Mac purchases.
Yes. Apple is a hardware company. Many people miss this fundamental reality. Including Apple management, occassionally.
Maybe society will switch and value living on farms more. Then I'll be screwed (maybe). Till then.
As someone who spent pretty much all the first 17 years of his life growing up on a dairy farm, I can assure you with the utmost rock-solid certainty that this is not a problem with which you need to concern yourself.
Only city kids whine about how wonderful it would be to live with nature, yadayadayada. The vast majority who actually try it scurry whimpering back to the safe whiffle ball world of the big city within mere months.
There is a REASON that living in cities, "civilization", is considered an ADVANCE. It's because the alternatives SUCK.