...Is the mental image of a robot's "butt" something we'll never stop laughing about? I mean... Think about it. A robot *butt*. You know they're gonna have to have one... So who designs the butt? You know...like, what do they take into consideration when designing a mechanical butt? Every robot has a butt..Think about it. Even the one on Lost In Space had a butt. Why? What the hell are they gonna do with a butt? Is it just there for humor, or is there some purpose for giving a robot a butt? You gotta ask yourself these questions, man... What happens when your robot has a problem with his butt? Will you be comfortable in trying to fix it yourself? It may be a robot, but it's still got a butt. I mean, i'm gonna marry my fiance' in April....I'll spend the rest of my life with her, and devote the rest of my friggin life to her... But theres no way i'm gonna open up her butt and go in there with a pair of pliers and a soldering iron. No way. But thats what you'de have to do to a robot butt to fix it. You gotta ask yourselves these things. All I know is, robots are gonna have butts, and thats gonna be awesome.
Robot slaves doing the work of humans.. A novel idea, but, have you considered the downsides?
"I'm glad they're using robots to handle some of the day-to-day tasks us humans have to do.. Like for example, some mornings it's just too cold for me to stand in my driveway butt-naked and play with myself. For those occasions, I can simply tell my robot to go do it."
"OMFG dude, your robot was so f*@#!?ng awesome last night, man!! Get this -- we told it to panty-raid the Delta house, come back here, and ram it's head into the wall like 50 times!!!! So off it goes, right? And it comes back carrying a shitload of panties and it's head is all smashed in!! Turns out Dave forgot to tell it to come home. Sara called from the house, and said yer bot rammed a hole their dry-wall with it's head!!! AWESOME!!!"
I've got $5 that says one of the above scenarios occurs by 2013. Any takers?
Involving the entire community in every aspect of an HIG debate is a recipe for disaster. More on that in a moment.
If you ask me, the community would be better served by a building a unified theme standard first. Any attempts at building a unified HIG will be meaningless until this is done first -- You cant institute change from the inside out. You have to work your way from the outside in. I mean, think about it --- Your apps will be pretty, but having inconsistancy outside of the app will defeat the whole purpose of having it in the first place.
Neh, but what do I know. I tried to make this dog and cat live together in '98 and got burnt at the stake for suggesting that Gnome employ consistant design principles.;)
What will ultimately work will be a series of guidelines developed and issued by a small, protected group of people (NOT coders) working and debating in private, while ocassionally asking the community et al for their input. Taking all the little details and laying them bare for the public's parousal is a sure fire way to see that your ideas get completely enbalmed in red tape. Mark my words -- Design by a 10,000 person comittee will fail. Design by a 5 person comittee with dedication and honest intentions will succeed, and marvelously so.
In a related story, Hans Blix has filed a lawsuit against France seeking a bottle of Nix head lice remover, a Twix bar, and a big bowl of kid-tested mother-approved Kix cereal in damages. When asked for his reason for suing the unpleasantly fragrant nation, Blix replied, "I'm a jelly-filled donut."
Saying that "Asterix" and "Mobilix" are too much alike is like saying Sylvester Stallone bares a striking resemblence to a 55-gal drum of pickled herring.
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
That last troll was posted by: McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
Sun, with ANY kind of documentation, is going to be a royal pain in the ass. Here, i'll give you a personal example.
One day, I picked up a SparcStation 1 at a surplus auction. Cool, I thought, I'll learn SPARC architecture, a bit about disaster recovery with Sun hardware, Solaris, you name it. So, I hacked the hell out of it, and learned everything I could without documentation. When it came time to look at a manual. I called Sun.
"Hi... I was wondering if you could send me the owners manual for a SparcStation 1."
"Sorry. Thats handled by SunStore."
"Whats SunStore?"
"They handle all our documentation."
So, I call SunStore, and ask the same question.
"Hi.. I was wondering if I could order a user's manual for a Sun SparcStation 1. I know the machine is like 10 years old, but do you still have the manuals?"
"Yes, we do."
"Great, i'd like to order one, then. Is Visa ok?"
"Uhh.. Well, we can't sell it to you."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, we cant sell you just one."
"Huh?"
"You need to order in lots of 500."
"You mean in order to buy a SparcStation 1 manual, I need to buy 500?!"
"Yes."
"Uhhh.... Ooooh-kaaay.. How much is a lot of 500?"
"$39.95"
"Oh, okay..I guess thats fine.. I dunno what i'm gonna do with 499 Sparc manuals tho. I guess you can keep them, and just send me one. Thats all I need."
"39.95 is the unit price, sir. You're looking at a total of.... $19,975."
1) We already have an "Office of Homeland Security" Its called the CIA/NSA, and has been around, honing their skills for close to 100 years. Shut up, take your tinfoil hat off, and let them do their job. Do yourself a favor..Take your tinfoil hat off and go back to what you were doing. Panic solves nothing.
2) The problem this country faces is largely a self-imposed one. 9/11 was a freak accident, and freak accidents *will* *happen*. Terrible things happen all the time, and they scare all of us. Accidents happen, and theres nothing we can do to avoid them. If you believe otherwise, you're not living in the real world.
Its not a minimzatiion of a tragedy to point out that the WTC site doesn't even amount to so much as a pin-prick on a map of the United States...Its a fact. But yet, we're reacting like it was the entire fucking eastern seaboard that got nailed.. Hell, even if you had an 8.5x11" glossy of just the state of New York, you still couldn't find the WTC. Its not a minimization of a tragedy to point out that the majority of the damage inflicted on this country is psychological, not physical...YES, thousands of people died, and yes, what they did to us is sickening...but no amount of press conferences, phone calls, UN inspectors, meetings, speeches, comittees, foreign diplomats, town hall meetings or other such horseshit is gonna repair that. The only thing that repair's a country's confidence and sense of national identity is war. As unfortunate as that may seem to you, thats how it is. You're more than welcome to point out something besides war that accomplishes the same. If you can come up with something else, let us know. Mankind has been trying to figure out an alternative for about 45,000 years now. Nobody likes war, just the same as nobody likes a tornado in their neighborhood or a tidal wave on their shores, both of which are just as natural and just as necessary.
It's a hard concept to be comfortable with -- the concept that war is a necessary, unavoidable and critically important part of human nature. Its hard to think about, and unpleasant to consider. But consider this: War is what keeps us in balance as a species, and staves off mass extinction. It does so at the price of contained, localized, and periodic killing. It's a regulating force of nature like any other, a cycle of destruction and renewal that has to take place in order for the big picture to sustain itself.
Avoiding war is just as pointless as engadging in war on a continual basis. Like everything in nature, too little war is unhealthy. Too much, and its just as bad.
I'll leave the decision as to whether or not we go to war to the people who have studied all their lives to know how to make the best decision. They dont tell me how to do my job, so, i'm not going to tell them how to do theirs. The government is made up of Joes like you and me anyway.. Not superintelligent uncaring zombies spawned from test tubes.
A patch that allows a WarCraft III player go up against an Age Of Mythology player. Better yet, make some sort of a patchwork quilt where you've got Sims Online to the north, Command & Conquer to the south, EverQuest to the east, and WarCraft to the west.
Anyway... It's obvious he wants attention, so, i'm merely providing him with it. Who knows? Maybe his special brand of wit and personal commentary sounds better at 3 in the morning when thousands of drunken Slashdotters decide to call him.
Dumping the personal information of a troll is an effective way to get them to STFU. He knows that every time he opens his mouth, another 800,000 people know who he is, where to call him, and even where they can stop in for a visit. He also knows that he triggers his personal information being dumped every time he trolls.
Like many lower animals, he'll eventually learn that he can prevent his name, address, and telephone number from being published by simply shutting the fuck up. It may take him a while, but, he'll learn. I've seen invertebrates learn how to unscrew a mason jar---Surely, a troll can learn how to STFU, don't you think?
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
1) Jarod Lanier is a talented, but vastly overhyped individual. Think of the geekiest person you know. Chances are, that person is better qualified to render a decision than this guy.
2) No one will ever write more than 10M lines of code.. Yeah, ok. After all, nobody will ever need more than 640K either, right? Come on. Every decade, someone comes up with one of these nearsighted and baseless claims. Its a common trap. Just a million lines of code in a single program would have been inconcievable to someone just 10-15 years ago. Nowadays, its common. Every generation thinks theyre the top of the heap, when in reality, history proves them wrong every single time. Its fact. More importantly, the fact that Lanier doesn't notice this pattern sort of underscores point #1.
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...Is the mental image of a robot's "butt" something we'll never stop laughing about? I mean... Think about it. A robot *butt*. You know they're gonna have to have one... So who designs the butt? You know...like, what do they take into consideration when designing a mechanical butt? Every robot has a butt..Think about it. Even the one on Lost In Space had a butt. Why? What the hell are they gonna do with a butt? Is it just there for humor, or is there some purpose for giving a robot a butt? You gotta ask yourself these questions, man... What happens when your robot has a problem with his butt? Will you be comfortable in trying to fix it yourself? It may be a robot, but it's still got a butt. I mean, i'm gonna marry my fiance' in April....I'll spend the rest of my life with her, and devote the rest of my friggin life to her... But theres no way i'm gonna open up her butt and go in there with a pair of pliers and a soldering iron. No way. But thats what you'de have to do to a robot butt to fix it. You gotta ask yourselves these things. All I know is, robots are gonna have butts, and thats gonna be awesome.
Freakin' AWESOME!
Robot slaves doing the work of humans.. A novel idea, but, have you considered the downsides?
"I'm glad they're using robots to handle some of the day-to-day tasks us humans have to do.. Like for example, some mornings it's just too cold for me to stand in my driveway butt-naked and play with myself. For those occasions, I can simply tell my robot to go do it."
"OMFG dude, your robot was so f*@#!?ng awesome last night, man!! Get this -- we told it to panty-raid the Delta house, come back here, and ram it's head into the wall like 50 times!!!! So off it goes, right? And it comes back carrying a shitload of panties and it's head is all smashed in!! Turns out Dave forgot to tell it to come home. Sara called from the house, and said yer bot rammed a hole their dry-wall with it's head!!! AWESOME!!!"
I've got $5 that says one of the above scenarios occurs by 2013. Any takers?
And Bowie J. Poag Doesn't Care Why Nemesis Tanked.
Involving the entire community in every aspect of an HIG debate is a recipe for disaster. More on that in a moment.
If you ask me, the community would be better served by a building a unified theme standard first. Any attempts at building a unified HIG will be meaningless until this is done first -- You cant institute change from the inside out. You have to work your way from the outside in. I mean, think about it --- Your apps will be pretty, but having inconsistancy outside of the app will defeat the whole purpose of having it in the first place.
Neh, but what do I know. I tried to make this dog and cat live together in '98 and got burnt at the stake for suggesting that Gnome employ consistant design principles.
What will ultimately work will be a series of guidelines developed and issued by a small, protected group of people (NOT coders) working and debating in private, while ocassionally asking the community et al for their input. Taking all the little details and laying them bare for the public's parousal is a sure fire way to see that your ideas get completely enbalmed in red tape. Mark my words -- Design by a 10,000 person comittee will fail. Design by a 5 person comittee with dedication and honest intentions will succeed, and marvelously so.
Cheers,
while true
do
ln -s $RANDOM.mpeg bigfrigginfile.mpeg
done
Let that run for a few seconds in thy warez directory. Instant motherlode. DirectConnect can't distinguish between normal files and softlinks.
How do you guarantee they all get backed up?
:)
rename everything so it has a prefix of "porn-" on the front of the file.
Distributed Internet Backup System = Gnutella
Bahaha... Somebody mod this one up. Priceless.
In a related story, Hans Blix has filed a lawsuit against France seeking a bottle of Nix head lice remover, a Twix bar, and a big bowl of kid-tested mother-approved Kix cereal in damages. When asked for his reason for suing the unpleasantly fragrant nation, Blix replied, "I'm a jelly-filled donut."
Saying that "Asterix" and "Mobilix" are too much alike is like saying Sylvester Stallone bares a striking resemblence to a 55-gal drum of pickled herring.
Oh wait. Hrm...
Semantic Web = Bored Of The Rings.
That last troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
That last troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
That last troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
Crystal meth in the airvents, probably. They gave me a shit-kicking fit when I tried to order manuals from them.
You'de think with all his money, McNealy could afford to keep taking his anti-psychotic medication.
Cheers,
Sun, with ANY kind of documentation, is going to be a royal pain in the ass. Here, i'll give you a personal example.
One day, I picked up a SparcStation 1 at a surplus auction. Cool, I thought, I'll learn SPARC architecture, a bit about disaster recovery with Sun hardware, Solaris, you name it. So, I hacked the hell out of it, and learned everything I could without documentation. When it came time to look at a manual. I called Sun.
"Hi... I was wondering if you could send me the owners manual for a SparcStation 1."
"Sorry. Thats handled by SunStore."
"Whats SunStore?"
"They handle all our documentation."
So, I call SunStore, and ask the same question.
"Hi.. I was wondering if I could order a user's manual for a Sun SparcStation 1. I know the machine is like 10 years old, but do you still have the manuals?"
"Yes, we do."
"Great, i'd like to order one, then. Is Visa ok?"
"Uhh.. Well, we can't sell it to you."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, we cant sell you just one."
"Huh?"
"You need to order in lots of 500."
"You mean in order to buy a SparcStation 1 manual, I need to buy 500?!"
"Yes."
"Uhhh.... Ooooh-kaaay.. How much is a lot of 500?"
"$39.95"
"Oh, okay..I guess thats fine.. I dunno what i'm gonna do with 499 Sparc manuals tho. I guess you can keep them, and just send me one. Thats all I need."
"39.95 is the unit price, sir. You're looking at a total of.... $19,975."
"No way!"
"Yes sir. Will this be on a Visa or Mastercard?"
*click*
Well put, sir.
Two things.
1) We already have an "Office of Homeland Security" Its called the CIA/NSA, and has been around, honing their skills for close to 100 years. Shut up, take your tinfoil hat off, and let them do their job. Do yourself a favor..Take your tinfoil hat off and go back to what you were doing. Panic solves nothing.
2) The problem this country faces is largely a self-imposed one. 9/11 was a freak accident, and freak accidents *will* *happen*. Terrible things happen all the time, and they scare all of us. Accidents happen, and theres nothing we can do to avoid them. If you believe otherwise, you're not living in the real world.
Its not a minimzatiion of a tragedy to point out that the WTC site doesn't even amount to so much as a pin-prick on a map of the United States...Its a fact. But yet, we're reacting like it was the entire fucking eastern seaboard that got nailed.. Hell, even if you had an 8.5x11" glossy of just the state of New York, you still couldn't find the WTC. Its not a minimization of a tragedy to point out that the majority of the damage inflicted on this country is psychological, not physical...YES, thousands of people died, and yes, what they did to us is sickening...but no amount of press conferences, phone calls, UN inspectors, meetings, speeches, comittees, foreign diplomats, town hall meetings or other such horseshit is gonna repair that. The only thing that repair's a country's confidence and sense of national identity is war. As unfortunate as that may seem to you, thats how it is. You're more than welcome to point out something besides war that accomplishes the same. If you can come up with something else, let us know. Mankind has been trying to figure out an alternative for about 45,000 years now. Nobody likes war, just the same as nobody likes a tornado in their neighborhood or a tidal wave on their shores, both of which are just as natural and just as necessary.
It's a hard concept to be comfortable with -- the concept that war is a necessary, unavoidable and critically important part of human nature. Its hard to think about, and unpleasant to consider. But consider this: War is what keeps us in balance as a species, and staves off mass extinction. It does so at the price of contained, localized, and periodic killing. It's a regulating force of nature like any other, a cycle of destruction and renewal that has to take place in order for the big picture to sustain itself.
Avoiding war is just as pointless as engadging in war on a continual basis. Like everything in nature, too little war is unhealthy. Too much, and its just as bad.
I'll leave the decision as to whether or not we go to war to the people who have studied all their lives to know how to make the best decision. They dont tell me how to do my job, so, i'm not going to tell them how to do theirs. The government is made up of Joes like you and me anyway.. Not superintelligent uncaring zombies spawned from test tubes.
Cheers,
Wanna know what I'm looking for?
A patch that allows a WarCraft III player go up against an Age Of Mythology player. Better yet, make some sort of a patchwork quilt where you've got Sims Online to the north, Command & Conquer to the south, EverQuest to the east, and WarCraft to the west.
THAT would be fun.
For the record, I warned him. He didn't listen.
Anyway... It's obvious he wants attention, so, i'm merely providing him with it. Who knows? Maybe his special brand of wit and personal commentary sounds better at 3 in the morning when thousands of drunken Slashdotters decide to call him.
Dumping the personal information of a troll is an effective way to get them to STFU. He knows that every time he opens his mouth, another 800,000 people know who he is, where to call him, and even where they can stop in for a visit. He also knows that he triggers his personal information being dumped every time he trolls.
Like many lower animals, he'll eventually learn that he can prevent his name, address, and telephone number from being published by simply shutting the fuck up. It may take him a while, but, he'll learn. I've seen invertebrates learn how to unscrew a mason jar---Surely, a troll can learn how to STFU, don't you think?
That last troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
That last troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
That last troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540
United States
(706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
doh.
1,$s/Jarod/Jaron/g
Real Lessons:
1) Jarod Lanier is a talented, but vastly overhyped individual. Think of the geekiest person you know. Chances are, that person is better qualified to render a decision than this guy.
2) No one will ever write more than 10M lines of code.. Yeah, ok. After all, nobody will ever need more than 640K either, right? Come on. Every decade, someone comes up with one of these nearsighted and baseless claims. Its a common trap. Just a million lines of code in a single program would have been inconcievable to someone just 10-15 years ago. Nowadays, its common. Every generation thinks theyre the top of the heap, when in reality, history proves them wrong every single time. Its fact. More importantly, the fact that Lanier doesn't notice this pattern sort of underscores point #1.
Cheers,