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Aye, laddie.
Be thankful of the fact we've (as humans) have been building shelter for 20000+ years.
As software developers, we've been making stuff for a little over 50 years.
We are In the MudHut age of Software Development:
Garrett's Rule #3: "MudHut software" We are continually re-writing software that performs the functionality we require, simply to make the software run on the platform that we rewrote, so that we can make better software.
You see, 20,000 years ago, our clever, but inexperienced ancestors had to make new shelter every few days/months/years/whatever, simply because they made them from mud.
When the next wind, rain or hail came, it outdated their technology, and forced them to upgrade.
took thousands of years to make the difference, an build structures that could stand up to the changing environment.
So, just when it looks like MS will rule the desktop forever, just remember, while some clever frickin' caveman probably added the first straw and dung to his hut, and improved it, it never lasted. Cooler heads prevailed.
Now, for those who didn't catch it: I just compared MS products to shit and straw.
Some weeks ago a friend of mine brought along a movie which turned out to be the sequel to a piece of cinema I really like and have seen more than once: Starship Troopers. The moment he told me I was shaking with joy. Joy became terror, soon enough. Starship Troopers 2: "Hero of the Federation" suffers from a complete lack of quality concerning any aspect you could think of. Don't get me wrong... it's not just that I didn't *like* it. This movie truly is disgustingly bad. Where shall I start? The actors (well... the unlucky guys they paid for standing in front of the camera) move through an environment so badly done it literally screams for a budget above 5 dollars per room. Wherever you look your eyes are insulted by artificial plastic decoration in some of the most fake sets ever. Even the Power Rangers had better sets! Where Starship Troopers 1 had mindblowing special effects the sequel takes a very smart turn: In order to save money for something that must have been cut out of the final version the producers of Starship Troopers 2 just used the special effects of the first movie again. Yep, you're right. Same images. Most of fight scenes are created like this: It's dark night - Most of the time, people stand in front of a hill so you don't get to see the imaginary battlefield - In the background, some bug-attacks from the first movie are replayed while the actors run around in front of the blatantly overused bluescreen - from time to time some poor guy the director might have picked up on the street waves a plastic-thingie shaped like a bug's limb from the side of the screen. (A friend of mine actually started calling it "Eddy" as it became his favorite character). Anyway.. let's proceed to the dialog: Although I only watched the German Dub-version, I was revolted. Just to give you a picture of what I'm talking about: In one scene a soldier carries a blonde girl from the battlefield who had tragically found death between the mandibles of a bug. At the time he has reached the middle of the screen and therefor a maximum of attention he starts smiling with a grin of pure rapture and says something, that when translated to English would quite precisely read "Hey, she's indeed lighter than that dog of mine at my house!" You get the idea, I guess... The plot: Well... there actually is one....features some slimy parasites that control humans by entering them through their mouth. (That's the only new cgi, by the way!) The score's alright; at least it didn't disturb me.
I'm tired now of wasting my time writing a review on this truly ridiculous joke on celluloid. Worth a rent? No. Worth buying? For the love of god, NO! Worth seeing? Not at all. If you should somehow get hold of a copy in spite of my warnings, burn it while performing ritual dances or get stoned, watch it and laugh until you're out of breath. Rating: 1.5/10 (incl. 0.5 bonus points for Eddy)
I'm sure that from someone's perspective that it may be, but speaking as a Canadian, I *Know* that when someone says "Pacific Northwest" that they mean the northwestern states.
From My perspective, BC is "West" not "Northwest"... If you asked what was "northwest" in Canada, you'd find the Yukon.:p
Still, I'm not sure how to solve that. Pretty much have to screw somebody, don't we.
It's actually quite funny. It is the fundamental problem with democracy, that the majority makes the rules. How small of minority can we have before they *really* don't count tho'?
Feh. Given that TV(cable/sat) is one of those things you pay for, not based on consumption, but selection, I'm sure it's not quite fair anyway.
Yes, in our socialist state of Canuckistan, we are indeed forced to accept the Canadian programming along with the Foreign content.
However, I'd still take a-la-carte programming within those restrictions.
Canadian content must be 1/3 of the total availible programming. Ok, I want 14 foreign channels, I'll take 7 Canadian ones. (7/21) That to me seems fair.
Instead, I'm forced to take shit by the tier, and in order to get two fucking channels I want I need to take somewhere near 60. And none of which I care about.
APTN? The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network? I'm sorry that there is not enough people to support such a station, but If I don't wanna watch it, why should I have to pay for it.
No fucking wonder there are a million households in Canada pirating US satellite service.
Loved the LOTR. Loved the Theatrical Releases. Loved the DVDs. Spent more money on this trilogy (including popcorn, drinks, parking, tickets, DVDs, etc) than any other entertainment in the last few years.
My Problem: I'm wracked by nightmares.
You KNOW there is some movie exec out there thinking... "What if Sauramon wasn't Really dead. We could make a sequel!"
Or
"What if the Ring wasn't Really destroyed. We could make a sequel! Yeah, gollum got the ring yeah! yeah... ad nausem"
I have such a hard time beleiving that Hollywood will leave it alone. (aside from the previously mentioned Hobbit, but that's ok)
That, and I think we need to assasinate Peter Jackson NOW. What will happen 25 years from now when he loses all his marbles. (Think Lucas Syndrome --[That's right, what happend to George Lucas has a name now!])
Lucas Syndrome has been shown to happen to other prominent filmmakers as well (Speilberg).
I hereby am not inferring in any way shape or form that Tim Roberts is a fiendish twitfuck or that he sleeps with goats regulary.
I have no knowledge whatsoever that he is a godless freak, a communist, and a subversive terrorist. I am not aware of any connection between Tim Roberts and Saddam Hussein. I know not of any cash transfers between Infinium labs and Al-Queda.
I am perfectly sure that Tim Roberts is not a convicted felon, nor has he ever been a suspected pope-abuser.
I'd like to take this opportunity to make everyone aware that I've never heard of Tim Roberts dressing up in drag and singing show tunes in a gay biker bar.
There probably isn't even any connection between Tim Roberts and the fucknuts that may or may not be referred to as litigious bastards
Oh, for crying out loud, does every irritating jackass who uses intimidation tactics have to be called a "terrorist" now?
Well, hang on a minute here.
Sure, comparing them to 9/11 terrorists, Saddam Hussein, Hitler, or Osama is somewhat overrated, and Certianly within a stones throw of a Godwin's Law Violation, but there is a stone of truth in there.
SCO has begun an attack on Free Software's way of life. They have done so by inciting fear into the hearts of those who participate, based solely on their desire to milk the Free software out of their rights.
Fear is getting awfully close to terror, but I'll grant the split hair, and say Terror is too far. Still, we need a word for this... "Fearist?" hmm, too pansey...
You've come to the wrong room. This is "Computer Geeks and Coders". You're looking for "Liberal Arts Pansies"
Seriously, I'm curious what kind of Job you want after you get this degree. How technical? If you don't wish to write code, and earn a degree that's related to "Computer Science", I'm not sure that you are going to find a Technical-related career all that fun. This is what we do.
If you are imagining a career that you just use a computer, anything will do these days.
And further to the point, if you can't hack coding (pun welcome) , RUN AWAY FROM CS. If you end up in a career where you are going to be building interactions between users and computers, and can't code, I don't want to work with you.
This stuff belongs in the same category as the Infinite compression technology, the Bidirectional unbreakable encryption that works like a one time pad (but it's generated, so you don't have to exchange anything) and the Sasquatch.
This guy spent more time without a valid license than with it. For a number of years he had one of these installed in his car. He had it circumvented in no time flat.
The company that installed it claimed it was 'tamper proof'. Kinda the way that Windows is secure I guess.
Feh. I can not beleive that these people are voting this into law. *sigh*:p
I mean, I've been doing C for almost 20 years. One of the first lessons I learned --And not for 'security' so much as crash free programs-- was not to do such things.
I mean, holy crap, it's too damn simple to see the bug. What kindof idiots do they have working at MS?
Bill Gates does not own more than 50% of the Stock of Microsoft.
Bill has 1,209,713,228 shares of Microsoft Stock. Microsoft has a total of 10,700,000,000 shares outstanding, worth a total of $289,649,000,000, which is Microsoft's market capitalization. (That's $289.65 Billion.)
Bill has about 11.3% of the Stock in Microsoft.
Heck, Bill has NEVER owned more than 50%. He and Paul Allen each had 50% to start with, until they went IPO.
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Aye, laddie.
Be thankful of the fact we've (as humans) have been building shelter for 20000+ years.
As software developers, we've been making stuff for a little over 50 years.
We are In the MudHut age of Software Development:
Garrett's Rule #3: "MudHut software" We are continually re-writing software that performs the functionality we require, simply to make the software run on the platform that we rewrote, so that we can make better software.
You see, 20,000 years ago, our clever, but inexperienced ancestors had to make new shelter every few days/months/years/whatever, simply because they made them from mud.
When the next wind, rain or hail came, it outdated their technology, and forced them to upgrade.
took thousands of years to make the difference, an build structures that could stand up to the changing environment.
So, just when it looks like MS will rule the desktop forever, just remember, while some clever frickin' caveman probably added the first straw and dung to his hut, and improved it, it never lasted. Cooler heads prevailed.
Now, for those who didn't catch it: I just compared MS products to shit and straw.
Thanks,
I for one, welcome our new (old) Debian Overlords.
Feh, What can you do?
It is quite true!
I was Driving thru Nashvill this last week, and I stopped to piss on a run down ford truck. This guy came up to me and said "Your taillight is broken"
Some weeks ago a friend of mine brought along a movie which turned out to be the sequel to a piece of cinema I really like and have seen more than once: Starship Troopers. The moment he told me I was shaking with joy. Joy became terror, soon enough. Starship Troopers 2: "Hero of the Federation" suffers from a complete lack of quality concerning any aspect you could think of. Don't get me wrong... it's not just that I didn't *like* it. This movie truly is disgustingly bad. Where shall I start? The actors (well... the unlucky guys they paid for standing in front of the camera) move through an environment so badly done it literally screams for a budget above 5 dollars per room. Wherever you look your eyes are insulted by artificial plastic decoration in some of the most fake sets ever. Even the Power Rangers had better sets! Where Starship Troopers 1 had mindblowing special effects the sequel takes a very smart turn: In order to save money for something that must have been cut out of the final version the producers of Starship Troopers 2 just used the special effects of the first movie again. Yep, you're right. Same images. Most of fight scenes are created like this: It's dark night - Most of the time, people stand in front of a hill so you don't get to see the imaginary battlefield - In the background, some bug-attacks from the first movie are replayed while the actors run around in front of the blatantly overused bluescreen - from time to time some poor guy the director might have picked up on the street waves a plastic-thingie shaped like a bug's limb from the side of the screen. (A friend of mine actually started calling it "Eddy" as it became his favorite character). Anyway.. let's proceed to the dialog: Although I only watched the German Dub-version, I was revolted. Just to give you a picture of what I'm talking about: In one scene a soldier carries a blonde girl from the battlefield who had tragically found death between the mandibles of a bug. At the time he has reached the middle of the screen and therefor a maximum of attention he starts smiling with a grin of pure rapture and says something, that when translated to English would quite precisely read "Hey, she's indeed lighter than that dog of mine at my house!" You get the idea, I guess... The plot: Well... there actually is one. ...features some slimy parasites that control humans by entering them through their mouth. (That's the only new cgi, by the way!) The score's alright; at least it didn't disturb me.
I'm tired now of wasting my time writing a review on this truly ridiculous joke on celluloid. Worth a rent? No. Worth buying? For the love of god, NO! Worth seeing? Not at all. If you should somehow get hold of a copy in spite of my warnings, burn it while performing ritual dances or get stoned, watch it and laugh until you're out of breath. Rating: 1.5/10 (incl. 0.5 bonus points for Eddy)
Says enough?
Yikes
I'm sure that from someone's perspective that it may be, but speaking as a Canadian, I *Know* that when someone says "Pacific Northwest" that they mean the northwestern states.
:p
From My perspective, BC is "West" not "Northwest"... If you asked what was "northwest" in Canada, you'd find the Yukon.
Opera isn't the only browser with a Kiosk Mode.
:p
Firefox(Mozilla) has One, and so does IE.
Hardly worth spitooing money into a corporate hole
mmmm.
Good point.
Still, I'm not sure how to solve that. Pretty much have to screw somebody, don't we.
It's actually quite funny. It is the fundamental problem with democracy, that the majority makes the rules. How small of minority can we have before they *really* don't count tho'?
Feh. Given that TV(cable/sat) is one of those things you pay for, not based on consumption, but selection, I'm sure it's not quite fair anyway.
Yes, in our socialist state of Canuckistan, we are indeed forced to accept the Canadian programming along with the Foreign content.
However, I'd still take a-la-carte programming within those restrictions.
Canadian content must be 1/3 of the total availible programming. Ok, I want 14 foreign channels, I'll take 7 Canadian ones. (7/21) That to me seems fair.
Instead, I'm forced to take shit by the tier, and in order to get two fucking channels I want I need to take somewhere near 60. And none of which I care about.
APTN? The Aboriginal Peoples Television Network? I'm sorry that there is not enough people to support such a station, but If I don't wanna watch it, why should I have to pay for it.
No fucking wonder there are a million households in Canada pirating US satellite service.
Feh;
From the code that I've seen, I'd rather drink turpentine and piss on a brush fire.
Yeesh.
Wait a sec.
He tried these 12 steps With Netscape. Then this guy went and founded LoudCloud.
I'm not sure that we even want this guy giving us his support or opinon.
It's kinda like getting political backing from Nixon.
Feh.
Does anyone have the keygen for the latest Mozilla (Linux Version)?
Oh, and OpenOffice. I need the keygen for OpenOffice. I think mine is about to expire.
Oh. Wait. I'm using Open Source.
Feh. Whatever.
Loved the LOTR. Loved the Theatrical Releases. Loved the DVDs. Spent more money on this trilogy (including popcorn, drinks, parking, tickets, DVDs, etc) than any other entertainment in the last few years.
... "What if Sauramon wasn't Really dead. We could make a sequel!"
My Problem: I'm wracked by nightmares.
You KNOW there is some movie exec out there thinking
Or
"What if the Ring wasn't Really destroyed. We could make a sequel! Yeah, gollum got the ring yeah! yeah... ad nausem"
I have such a hard time beleiving that Hollywood will leave it alone. (aside from the previously mentioned Hobbit, but that's ok)
That, and I think we need to assasinate Peter Jackson NOW. What will happen 25 years from now when he loses all his marbles. (Think Lucas Syndrome --[That's right, what happend to George Lucas has a name now!])
Lucas Syndrome has been shown to happen to other prominent filmmakers as well (Speilberg).
It can happen to Peter Jackson too.
These thoughts are mine, I could be wrong.
If the grant for the patent was a vaild one, the USPTO has no right to reject the patent
:p
Ahh. The Crux of the matter.
Having followed this for quite some time, it was clear that the patent infringed upon prior art.
The putz at Eolas was quite aware of the prior art too.
Look here for information about the prior art
I hereby am not inferring in any way shape or form that Tim Roberts is a fiendish twitfuck or that he sleeps with goats regulary.
I have no knowledge whatsoever that he is a godless freak, a communist, and a subversive terrorist. I am not aware of any connection between Tim Roberts and Saddam Hussein. I know not of any cash transfers between Infinium labs and Al-Queda.
I am perfectly sure that Tim Roberts is not a convicted felon, nor has he ever been a suspected pope-abuser.
I'd like to take this opportunity to make everyone aware that I've never heard of Tim Roberts dressing up in drag and singing show tunes in a gay biker bar.
There probably isn't even any connection between Tim Roberts and the fucknuts that may or may not be referred to as litigious bastards
Oh, for crying out loud, does every irritating jackass who uses intimidation tactics have to be called a "terrorist" now?
Well, hang on a minute here.
Sure, comparing them to 9/11 terrorists, Saddam Hussein, Hitler, or Osama is somewhat overrated, and Certianly within a stones throw of a Godwin's Law Violation, but there is a stone of truth in there.
SCO has begun an attack on Free Software's way of life. They have done so by inciting fear into the hearts of those who participate, based solely on their desire to milk the Free software out of their rights.
Fear is getting awfully close to terror, but I'll grant the split hair, and say Terror is too far. Still, we need a word for this... "Fearist?" hmm, too pansey...
anyone?
You've come to the wrong room. This is "Computer Geeks and Coders". You're looking for "Liberal Arts Pansies"
Seriously, I'm curious what kind of Job you want after you get this degree. How technical? If you don't wish to write code, and earn a degree that's related to "Computer Science", I'm not sure that you are going to find a Technical-related career all that fun. This is what we do.
If you are imagining a career that you just use a computer, anything will do these days.
And further to the point, if you can't hack coding (pun welcome) , RUN AWAY FROM CS. If you end up in a career where you are going to be building interactions between users and computers, and can't code, I don't want to work with you.
eof
Uh, Whatever buddy.
The "French Military Victories" +I'm feeling lucky does too work.
Check it out for yourself: Here
Pity you can't fact check before looking like a complete idiot.(but that's slashdot eh?)
This stuff belongs in the same category as the Infinite compression technology, the Bidirectional unbreakable encryption that works like a one time pad (but it's generated, so you don't have to exchange anything) and the Sasquatch.
:p
FUCKING FIGMENTS OF PEOPLES IMAGINATION!
feh
I'm sure that we've all seen this coming:
Mand---- Linux ?
*sigh*
I had a brother who was a carreer drunk driver.
:p
This guy spent more time without a valid license than with it. For a number of years he had one of these installed in his car. He had it circumvented in no time flat.
The company that installed it claimed it was 'tamper proof'. Kinda the way that Windows is secure I guess.
Feh. I can not beleive that these people are voting this into law. *sigh*
Simple.
:p
Lie.
I know, I know, everyone will tell you that that's not a good idea.
You know what?
Screw'em.
My grandpappy told me the most important thing you can remember in an interview:
You can slide furthur on bullshit, than you can on concrete
Come up with something, and sell it. Simple, Direct, to the point.
...I believe just about everything you need should be able to fit on a 800mb disk
:p
I've heard this before... waitaminute...
Got It!
640K ought be enough for anybody
I'm a bit confused.
:p
I mean, I've been doing C for almost 20 years. One of the first lessons I learned --And not for 'security' so much as crash free programs-- was not to do such things.
I mean, holy crap, it's too damn simple to see the bug. What kindof idiots do they have working at MS?
"The Very Best Kind"
Point of information Mr Speaker.
Bill Gates does not own more than 50% of the Stock of Microsoft.
Bill has 1,209,713,228 shares of Microsoft Stock. Microsoft has a total of 10,700,000,000 shares outstanding, worth a total of $289,649,000,000, which is Microsoft's market capitalization. (That's $289.65 Billion.)
Bill has about 11.3% of the Stock in Microsoft.
Heck, Bill has NEVER owned more than 50%. He and Paul Allen each had 50% to start with, until they went IPO.
Wait for it...
;P
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