I'm sorry. What on Earth lead you to believe that I have some kind of a problem with FS/OSS development methodologies? I feel that, for good programmers, brace matching and incremental search provide all the "ease of use" that's necessary for living without code folding.
What sort of a response would I have been trolling for?
Code folding is where you can collapse a block of code between a set of squirrely braces so it reads"
{... }
or
//...
or
/*... */
Or whatever. Yes, this is like VS.NET and a million other IDEs. I use it all the time, but it never would have occured to me that it was a big deal. I figgered y'all FS/OSS types would use incremental search and brace matching to go anywhere in your code, rather than the scrolly-wheel. Isn't that what "real" programmers would do?
You're right. I just hope his thought process is "some kids hope to be mass murderers, thus some kids are actually this dangerous" rather than "some kids hope to be mass murderers, thus all kids are actually this dangerous."
It wasn't the crime of the century, but taking place barely two weeks ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Columbine massacre, the hoaxes unnerved some residents of the Detroit suburb, which boasts a population in the high four digits. "I don't put anything past these kids now days, I really don't," says Keck.
Well, don't put anything past anyone. But it's not "these kids" that we need to worry about, it's people that are complete fucking psychopaths. Eric Harris was hateful and paranoid. So sure, he thought everyone at school was out to get him. He thought everyone everywhere was out to get him. Check out his journals and make up your own mind. He lied for fun and idolized mass murderers. He wasn't targetting the people he hated specifically, he wanted to kill everyone at the school. The only reason they didn't succeed was that they were bad at making bombs, and the bombs didn't go off when they planned. In the cafeteria. At lunch time.
And psychopaths like this always think they're being bullied. That's because they're fucking paranoid and crazy. It's certainly not that kids are inherently paranoid and crazy. Yes, we need to pay more attention to children, but not because they're a threat.
Ugh. I hope that's just the cop mentality speaking. I hope most people don't actually think like that "Keck" guy.
My girlfriend is completely the opposite, but that's ok too.
When I get her a gift, the only factor that determines her enjoyment is it's shinyness.
So I got her a $25 rhinestone copy of J-Lo's engagement ring for her birthday (along with a few other things) and she went *nuts*. She wears that thing everywhere. It's like she's retarded.
And cute. Cute and retarded. About shiny things, at least. Most of the time she's smart and rude.
There will always be "rogue nations." To North Korea, we're the rogue nation. To us, it's North Korea. I think we're right, but whatever.
Both of us will weaponize nanotech, treaties or no.
What we have to do ASAP, is develop countermeasures. There *will* be a nanotech arms race. Otherwise, "rogue nations" will realize the age-old desire to reduce their enemies to bloody soup. The arms race is ok, so long as the defense keeps up against the offense, and we can get a nice, heady detente.
Unless this advocacy group has some really convincing argument, I don't see how they can say, "It's going to be like Diamond Age, except that for us, treaties will work." Explain why treaties will work. Neal Stephenson already explained why they wouldn't. I liked his argument.
Sometimes, better writing/creation/etc is better than having the most recent effects technology, in films, games, or elsewhere.
What he's talking about is improving writing/creation/etc, not the special effects. He's not saying "black and white movies are crappy" he was just saying that they hadn't properly figured out how to organize a movie production. This is not to say that games are crappy or that movies were crappy, it's just to say that it can be done cheaper and faster with higher quality results.
Why did you think he'd license someone else's engine if his only concerns were the newest special effects?
I don't think the numbers work like that. You could similarly say $46 million profit minus 28% margin on 749,000 CPUs, etc.
I don't think the "margin" works quite the way you're suggesting. Even if you're wrong, though, I guess I don't have evidence that they're making money on their CPUs. I have no idea how to figure that out.
Slashdot Mirror
Uh... are there any terminals that will allow you to detach processes like screen?
I'm sorry. What on Earth lead you to believe that I have some kind of a problem with FS/OSS development methodologies? I feel that, for good programmers, brace matching and incremental search provide all the "ease of use" that's necessary for living without code folding.
What sort of a response would I have been trolling for?
The accepted way to pluralize an acronym is without any sort of apostrophe:
Does it support SMB ACLs?
btw, Google says it's "Driver, why have we stopped here? This is not the Howard Johnson's!"
I certainly don't remember for sure.
I'll point out that in the case of Herpes, you're talking about viruses, in which case "family" probably doesn't mean the same thing as with bacteria.
I'm sure Herpes "type 1" and Herpes "type 2" are almost genetically identical.
Because his book with John Markoff is self-aggrandizing bullshit. I don't know if that's his fault or Markoff's, but it still smells.
You're right. I just hope his thought process is "some kids hope to be mass murderers, thus some kids are actually this dangerous" rather than "some kids hope to be mass murderers, thus all kids are actually this dangerous."
And psychopaths like this always think they're being bullied. That's because they're fucking paranoid and crazy. It's certainly not that kids are inherently paranoid and crazy. Yes, we need to pay more attention to children, but not because they're a threat.
Ugh. I hope that's just the cop mentality speaking. I hope most people don't actually think like that "Keck" guy.
so why can't the gamining industry get up the politicians butt??
Too crowded.
Yes, she knows perfectly well that it cost $25, and not $4.5 million.
You should come to San Francisco, and check out Sony's "Metreon" destination mall.
Everytime I'm there, I'm impressed. "Woah. It's like a time capsule to 1998!"
Um, upon cursory inspection of the site, I think they may detail exactly why treaties will work.
It's just a whole lot of text. Maybe I'll get my dander up some other time.
Yeah, and open-source nano-immune systems.
My girlfriend is completely the opposite, but that's ok too.
When I get her a gift, the only factor that determines her enjoyment is it's shinyness.
So I got her a $25 rhinestone copy of J-Lo's engagement ring for her birthday (along with a few other things) and she went *nuts*. She wears that thing everywhere. It's like she's retarded.
And cute. Cute and retarded. About shiny things, at least. Most of the time she's smart and rude.
VBScript.
/?" at your command prompt.
Type "wscript
It's all there, hon.
Dunno of any good IDEs for it, but you don't need word in order to run VBS. That's why all those viruses are written in VBS...
There will always be "rogue nations." To North Korea, we're the rogue nation. To us, it's North Korea. I think we're right, but whatever.
Both of us will weaponize nanotech, treaties or no.
What we have to do ASAP, is develop countermeasures. There *will* be a nanotech arms race. Otherwise, "rogue nations" will realize the age-old desire to reduce their enemies to bloody soup. The arms race is ok, so long as the defense keeps up against the offense, and we can get a nice, heady detente.
Unless this advocacy group has some really convincing argument, I don't see how they can say, "It's going to be like Diamond Age, except that for us, treaties will work." Explain why treaties will work. Neal Stephenson already explained why they wouldn't. I liked his argument.
We're having plenty of trouble with the robotics involved in a "humanoid replacement" as we are with full AI.
It takes a hell of a lot of intelligence to walk around a room on two legs, identify objects and manipulate them.
That sort of task is humongous. If we ever succeed at that, I can't imagine saying we'll never get full AI. Maybe full AI isn't that much harder.
Can't way to see
I'm sorry... do you mean "Can't wait to see"?
That doesn't look like a typo. That looks like using words you don't understand...
though some would point out that minimum wage is a form of legal slavery
I'm a great big pinko commie liberal, and I don't understand what you're saying at all. Minimum wage earners can leave.
As soon as we see people physically detained for defaulting on debts, I'll agree with you. 'Till then, iduno.
Always glad to hear when I'm full of crap.
Sometimes, better writing/creation/etc is better than having the most recent effects technology, in films, games, or elsewhere.
What he's talking about is improving writing/creation/etc, not the special effects. He's not saying "black and white movies are crappy" he was just saying that they hadn't properly figured out how to organize a movie production. This is not to say that games are crappy or that movies were crappy, it's just to say that it can be done cheaper and faster with higher quality results.
Why did you think he'd license someone else's engine if his only concerns were the newest special effects?
I don't think the numbers work like that. You could similarly say $46 million profit minus 28% margin on 749,000 CPUs, etc.
I don't think the "margin" works quite the way you're suggesting. Even if you're wrong, though, I guess I don't have evidence that they're making money on their CPUs. I have no idea how to figure that out.
Designing an intuitive, efficient UI is no easy task.
They bought the software for that UI from Pixo.
Not to say that they didn't do a fast and excellent job.