But consider: Hines will bring elegance and a touch of class to the re-creation, despite special effects that may be reminiscent of Doctor Who, on a good day.
Spielberg's special effects will certainly make it quite the blockbuster. Can Spielberg do "class"? Based on some of his recent efforts (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List), I think maybe he can!
Believe me, I have utmost respect for the Gnome developers, and I've been a FreeBSD volunteer for years now, but as much as it pains me to say it, I really think Apple Computer has made the finest Unix desktop experience so far with MacOS X. My server platforms are all Linux and FreeBSD, but my desktop and laptop are both Apple, and I couldn't be happier with the user experience.
And best of all, MacOS X is based on FreeBSD 5... see, this is on-topic!
Western languages like English use alphabetical glyphs which are combined to form words, which can recursively combine to form acronyms and abbreviations.
By in China, Mandarin, Cantonese and other dialects are all written using ideographs, where one glyph represents a single word. As a result, it is impossible to form acronyms. And as a result, technological progress is impossible.
Compared. The older design's bold black and intense orangish yellow, combined with serif fonts, make it look amateurish compared with the previous design's Verdana font and soft colors.
But now... now they've gone corporate!
But I guess beauty's in the eye of the beholder...
... that I must say, with such a list of ailments, that I fear the slightest hangnail will do the poor guy in.
Seriously, I grew up admiring "Scotty" as an engineer, and he was an aspiration throughout my formative years. Sure enough, I'm not an actor today, but a professional engineer, although in software, not warp drive.
Look, I will do anything, anything... yes, even subscribe to Slashdot to avoid having to see Roland Piquepaille submit his own damn, repetitive, annoying, better-than-thou, and already-covered-by-other-media-outlets-multiple-ti mes stories appear on Slashdot. Really, you're making me want to stop visiting altogether!
Karma? I won't submit, comment, or even visit for karma! That's not a reward system unless you can turn in your karma for cash. Forget it!
Please! Please censor Roland Piquepaille.
(His last name is French, isn't that clue enough?)
You must have some odd bones indeed... with CTRL in the lower-left hand corner, I have to press it with the knuckle of my pinky finger curled inward. If CTRL is where it's supposed to be, then I can press it with the tip of the finger, like I press all the other keys.
If you're actually using a finger tip to hit CTRL way down there, then I congratulate you on your flexibility!
Yes, that certainly comes across more like a manifesto than a detailed exposition of software architecture. I have to admit, reading through it, my KOOK Alert was almost reaching critical stages... if they only included SOME ALL CAPS SECTIONS as well as a reference to Einstein, who was on the brink of making a similar discovery, but was forced to suppress it DUE TO GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION, then the KOOK alarms would be blaring and I'd've discounted the entire thing.
Now, all I'm interested in doing is exploring the potential of doing everything in the "manifesto" literary style. My next letter to the editor? Manifesto. My thank-you note to grandma? Manifesto. My resume? Manifesto. My next Slashdot posting? Manifesto.
Oh yes... they never trusted me at the academy... but they'll learn the hard way... mwuahaha, er... ha.
I've got similar experiences with my Apple iBook G4 12", which just keeps going on and on. When I do travel, I don't even think about plugging in and recharging until I go to bed in the hotel.
Best of all, it's Unix under all that glistening eye candy.
I have to concur... I don't go mobile much, but my 12" Apple iBook G4 just keeps going on and on and on and on. When I do travel, I don't even think about plugging in and recharging, except when I get to the hotel.
Best of all, it's Unix under the hood. Yeah, Unix.
I have to concur... I don't go mobile much, but my Apple iBook G4 12" just keeps going on and on and on. When I do travel, I don't even think about plugging in and recharging.
Best of all, it's Unix under the hood. Glistening eye candy, and yet I can still fire up vi. Nice.
I have to concur... I don't go mobile much, but my Apple iBook G4 just keeps going on and on and on. When I do travel, I don't even think about plugging in and recharging.
For anyone who says that lines of code isn't a useful measure, just remember "Gilb's Law":
Two years ago at a conference in London, I spent an afternoon with Tom Gilb, the author of
Software Metrics... I found that an easy way to get him heated up was to suggest that something you need to know is "unmeasurable." The man was offended by the very idea. He favored me that day with a description of what he considered a fundamental truth about measurability. The idea seemed at once so wise and so encouraging that I copied it verbatim into my journal under the heading of Gilb's Law:
Anything you need to quanitfy can be measured in some way that is superior to not measuring it at all.
Gilb's Law doesn't promise you that measurement will be free or even cheap, and it may not be perfect---just better than nothing.
--Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, Peopleware 2/E, Dorset House Publishing, New York, 1999.
Ah, you've touched another of my nerves... System Shock 2 was the only game to capture sci-fi horror so well that I literally jumped out of my seat on several occcasions while playing it.
From the little brandnames of the various contractors who put together the starship, to the baleful gaze of Xerxes, to the little ambient noises of consoles and what-not, to the tortured cries of your fellow crewmates, possessed by The Many, apologizing as they beat you to death with a wrench, it was so immersive and so utterly picturesque and encompassing that if the future of space travel isn't like System Shock 2 then I'll just stay on Earth!
You knew you were in for a treat when you fired up Fallout: the kitschy black and white TV airing 50's style media slowly zoomed back and back and back, all to an optimistic tune, revealing finally a desolate cityscape devestated by nuclear war.
The game certainly took a number of popular concepts in the bleak future of a post-nuclear holocaust, but it did it with such style that you could ignore many of the familiar sci-fi memes. It was just a heck of a lot of fun to play, to discover what actions would lead to widescale changes in what were the remnants of California.
Although by the time Fallout 2 came out there were vast advances in graphics and sound, the game didn't take advantage of them, re-using the same engine from before. And that was OK, actually, because while others pushed for so much in 3D goroud shaded volumetric fullbrights with translucent starbright shadows and supercharged texels, the folks at Interplay concentrated on story. (OK, they threw in some excellent voice talent, too.) And it, too, was a damn good game.
I wonder what directions Bethesda will take with the franchise.
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But consider: Hines will bring elegance and a touch of class to the re-creation, despite special effects that may be reminiscent of Doctor Who, on a good day.
Spielberg's special effects will certainly make it quite the blockbuster. Can Spielberg do "class"? Based on some of his recent efforts (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List), I think maybe he can!
Believe me, I have utmost respect for the Gnome developers, and I've been a FreeBSD volunteer for years now, but as much as it pains me to say it, I really think Apple Computer has made the finest Unix desktop experience so far with MacOS X. My server platforms are all Linux and FreeBSD, but my desktop and laptop are both Apple, and I couldn't be happier with the user experience.
... see, this is on-topic!
And best of all, MacOS X is based on FreeBSD 5
Western languages like English use alphabetical glyphs which are combined to form words, which can recursively combine to form acronyms and abbreviations.
By in China, Mandarin, Cantonese and other dialects are all written using ideographs, where one glyph represents a single word. As a result, it is impossible to form acronyms. And as a result, technological progress is impossible.
Now, where's my company acronym dictionary again?
A company called 312, Inc. already has a commercial product for P2P backups called Lean On Me.
I don't work for them, etc.
Compared. The older design's bold black and intense orangish yellow, combined with serif fonts, make it look amateurish compared with the previous design's Verdana font and soft colors.
... now they've gone corporate!
...
But now
But I guess beauty's in the eye of the beholder
... that I must say, with such a list of ailments, that I fear the slightest hangnail will do the poor guy in.
Seriously, I grew up admiring "Scotty" as an engineer, and he was an aspiration throughout my formative years. Sure enough, I'm not an actor today, but a professional engineer, although in software, not warp drive.
I raise this glass to you, Mr Doohan.
Look, I will do anything, anything ... yes, even subscribe to Slashdot to avoid having to see Roland Piquepaille submit his own damn, repetitive, annoying, better-than-thou, and already-covered-by-other-media-outlets-multiple-ti mes stories appear on Slashdot. Really, you're making me want to stop visiting altogether!
Karma? I won't submit, comment, or even visit for karma! That's not a reward system unless you can turn in your karma for cash. Forget it!
Please! Please censor Roland Piquepaille.
(His last name is French, isn't that clue enough?)
OK, for those of us who've never seen a Nokia N-GAGE in action, what is the big lament over? Why the webpage towards eulogizing the whole deal?
No, Vint Cerf remembered. The person who forgot the Internet's birthday was, of course, it's "inventor": Al Gore.
Of course, I use "inventor" quite loosely. More loose than a crackwhore on a sex tour.
You must have some odd bones indeed ... with CTRL in the lower-left hand corner, I have to press it with the knuckle of my pinky finger curled inward. If CTRL is where it's supposed to be, then I can press it with the tip of the finger, like I press all the other keys.
If you're actually using a finger tip to hit CTRL way down there, then I congratulate you on your flexibility!
Yes, that certainly comes across more like a manifesto than a detailed exposition of software architecture. I have to admit, reading through it, my KOOK Alert was almost reaching critical stages ... if they only included SOME ALL CAPS SECTIONS as well as a reference to Einstein, who was on the brink of making a similar discovery, but was forced to suppress it DUE TO GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION, then the KOOK alarms would be blaring and I'd've discounted the entire thing.
... they never trusted me at the academy ... but they'll learn the hard way ... mwuahaha, er ... ha.
Now, all I'm interested in doing is exploring the potential of doing everything in the "manifesto" literary style. My next letter to the editor? Manifesto. My thank-you note to grandma? Manifesto. My resume? Manifesto. My next Slashdot posting? Manifesto.
Oh yes
Ah, "to scupper":
v. 2. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
Yep, that's it.
I've got similar experiences with my Apple iBook G4 12", which just keeps going on and on. When I do travel, I don't even think about plugging in and recharging until I go to bed in the hotel.
Best of all, it's Unix under all that glistening eye candy.
I have to concur ... I don't go mobile much, but my 12" Apple iBook G4 just keeps going on and on and on and on. When I do travel, I don't even think about plugging in and recharging, except when I get to the hotel.
Best of all, it's Unix under the hood. Yeah, Unix.
Besides, is a wonderful tool.
I have to concur ... I don't go mobile much, but my Apple iBook G4 12" just keeps going on and on and on. When I do travel, I don't even think about plugging in and recharging.
Best of all, it's Unix under the hood. Glistening eye candy, and yet I can still fire up vi. Nice.
I have to concur ... I don't go mobile much, but my Apple iBook G4 just keeps going on and on and on. When I do travel, I don't even think about plugging in and recharging.
Best of all, it's Unix under the hood.
9 comments, and the site's already bogging down hard ... heck, we need a BitTorrent source just for the dang BitTorrent source for the movie!
MacSense makes the "iPod for the home", in the form of their HomePod. It doesn't run MacOS; it runs Linux and Java (J9).
More info at GlooLabs.
Does he really have one?
Employee, are you?
... email me at intrig at seankelly dot biz, mmkay? I'd love to hear any insights you might have.
... "War ... war never changes ..."
No, really, I'm intrigued
Even now, I can bring up the memories
Ah, you've touched another of my nerves ... System Shock 2 was the only game to capture sci-fi horror so well that I literally jumped out of my seat on several occcasions while playing it.
... *sigh*
From the little brandnames of the various contractors who put together the starship, to the baleful gaze of Xerxes, to the little ambient noises of consoles and what-not, to the tortured cries of your fellow crewmates, possessed by The Many, apologizing as they beat you to death with a wrench, it was so immersive and so utterly picturesque and encompassing that if the future of space travel isn't like System Shock 2 then I'll just stay on Earth!
All the good companies seem to fold
You knew you were in for a treat when you fired up Fallout: the kitschy black and white TV airing 50's style media slowly zoomed back and back and back, all to an optimistic tune, revealing finally a desolate cityscape devestated by nuclear war.
The game certainly took a number of popular concepts in the bleak future of a post-nuclear holocaust, but it did it with such style that you could ignore many of the familiar sci-fi memes. It was just a heck of a lot of fun to play, to discover what actions would lead to widescale changes in what were the remnants of California.
Although by the time Fallout 2 came out there were vast advances in graphics and sound, the game didn't take advantage of them, re-using the same engine from before. And that was OK, actually, because while others pushed for so much in 3D goroud shaded volumetric fullbrights with translucent starbright shadows and supercharged texels, the folks at Interplay concentrated on story. (OK, they threw in some excellent voice talent, too.) And it, too, was a damn good game.
I wonder what directions Bethesda will take with the franchise.
See, now that's what I'm talking about! Yeah!