That festering pusbag of a movie (you know, the one with Chris O'Donnell, Arnie Swartzenegger, and Alicia Silverstone, the unholy trinity of acting craptitude) has ruined the Batman series forever. Not that the Batman with Jim Carrey/Tommy Lee Jones was all that great to begin with.
I have two favorite Batman & Robin moments--the first is the part where Alicia first rings the doorbell looking for her Uncle Albert, and mumbles, "Bees stung my lips." Unfortunately, that was just Tom Servo saying that in the MST3K Summer Movie Preview, so that one probably doesn't count.
The other favorite part is when Robin is underwater fighting some plant monster (Feed me Seymor!) and the editor decided they needed a shot of Robin struggling in the water. Lacking such footage, they took the footage of Robin leaving the water, and play it backwards and forwards several times, thinking we won't notice that the splash defies the forward arrow of time. Hint: WE NOTICED!
Neal, I sure hope you don't get pulled into this hellhole of a series.
While the USB web site claims that USB 2.0 is the bee's knees, they are a bit misleading when they give performance numbers. As this article points out, the backwards compatablity of USB 2.0 eats into the speed by quite a bit. And according to this article, USB lacks a lot of features of Firewire, may add significant complexity to hubs, and require more costly cables. (And I thought that I was getting ripped off on USB cables today!)
USB is a great spec, but USB 2.0 isn't the right solution to the problems that Firewire is designed to solve.
You've got a totally messed up perspective on the interview process. They're not interviewing you, you're interviewing THEM. Along with "Is this someone I would like to work with?" you should also be asking yourself "Is this something I could see myself doing?" If you don't find out anything about what you'll be doing, you can't properly find the answers to these questions, and you shouldn't take the job.
I mean, imagine this: Someone comes up to you and says, "I have a job offer. It pays 90K a year. You're qualified. But I can't tell you what the job is until you commit." If you say yes to something like this, you're insane.
You haven't heard of Ruby? (Or for you English speakers out there, Ruby) To quote the FAQ:
Ruby is a simple and powerful object-oriented programming language, created by
Yukihiro Matsumoto (who goes by the handle "matz" in this document and on the
mailing lists).
Ruby is pretty dammed cool--it borrows (or maybe even just plain steals) a lot from perl, but the OO support was designed in from the beginning.
First off, I'd like to ask just how much credibility does one have who
writes "to" as "2" and "be" as "b"
You have to realize, Prince INVENTED this stuff. (Or at least, he was the first dude to popularize it.) "Nothing compares 2 U", "U Got the Look", "Maybe I'm just 2 demanding Maybe I'm just like my father 2 bold". That's just Prince, baby!
You are not the first person to wonder about this; in fact, it's usually the first tangent followed in the traditional "If a tree fell in the woods" discussion in freshman philosophy classes the world over.
We're living in a great time for games. Diablo II (You can call me DAME Annika, thank you very much), Counter-Strike (which I suck at, but it still kicks ass), Deus Ex, The Sims (which allows me to torture all my ex-girlfriends in their lesbian love-shack), Daikatana (just kidding), and Shogun:Total War all rock, and those are all going strong right now.
I understand the appeal of classic games (Jumpman, M.U.L.E, Ultima IV, Telengard, now I'm getting all nostalgic) but don't ignore the fine gaming goodness going on right now.
I'm marketing a new product: saltines for black-hat hackers. I'm going to mostly market to white trash from the south.
I'm going to call this product Cracker Cracker Crackers(tm). How's that for an objective difference?
If you want the media to use a word other than "hacker" they need a better alternative than "cracker". As many others here have stated (in this thread and others) the word cracker is lame.
A lot of C could be written in something better, but C (or C++) is pretty much mandatory for a lot of tasks.
Ask Linus.
Ask Larry Wall.
If you're involved in a LARGE project (millions of lines of code across dozens of large packages) it's pretty much a necessity to use something like C++. (Eiffel and Ada probably fit the bill here too, but I have no hands-on experience with either )
P.S. Pascal isn't high level. Pascal is C, simplified for teaching, but much much worse.
A somewhat misinformed dude on the net is somewhat upset about a recent announcement. That's not news, that happens a million times a day on the net! It's certainly not newsworthy.
Anybody who had been paying any attention to Topaz wasn't very suprised by the announcement. And it's been clear to me that the p5p mailing list has had far too much needless personality conflict on it in the recent past. Several noted and valuable developers dropped off the list because of such conflicts. Something new is needed.
Perl 6 may be strange and new, but it's a good thing, not something to fear.
First, let me point out that when it comes to EM, you're basically talking about a 1/(distance^2) relationship. Thus, although the EM power output of the transmitter is low, the fact that you're pressing it directly against your skull puts a lot of that power into your head.
And it's not inconceivable that the EM could tweak a molecule of DNA. Honestly, we don't have enough data--it's a probablistic effect, that would only show up over time, in different rates in different people. I doubt it causes much harm, but then again, ask Madam Curie about being a pioneer. (Yeah, yeah, differnt kind of radiation, but it's still tweaked DNA.)
What I do wonder is how much investigation is being done about these 900Mhz and 2.4Ghz phones. Some of these seem to put out a lot of power, and you're holding them to your head the same way. Does anybody have any links on this?
Look: I know that a lot of people are on a fool's quest to preserve the ancient meaning of the word 'hacker', but the word cracker is a terrible substitute. I honestly thought that a Saltine had wedged itself into the shuttle's computers.
The mass media has changed the meaning of the word hacker into something negative. What's the big problem with that? Words have changed meaning throughout history. 'Awful' used to mean about the same thing as 'awesome', and 'gay' used to mean 'happy', but they really aren't used that way anymore. The world has moved on.
The Hacker Dictionary can deny this fact all it wants and claim that the negative meaning is deprecated, but the truth of the matter is, most of the English speaking world thinks of hackers as guys who break into NASA. And everybody understands what "hacker" means when used in an article like this. Give it up.
Ok, I really was going to post "the Amiga was good for its day but it should die in peace" but you beat me to the punch.
I guess I just don't understand WHY I should care about the Amiga. This is an honest question; what advantages do I get over other modern systems?
It will replace going to Blockbuster, though.
on
Movies Online?
·
· Score: 3
As numerous people have already pointed out, the experience of watching a movie on even a 24" wide-screen monitor is still a poor substitute for even the worst movie screen. People do go to see movies on the big screen that are available on video (did you see the re-release of Star Wars?), because the theater experience is something far beyond the home experience.
On the other hand, I do think that within the very near future, somebody's going to figure out how to kill the trip to the local video store. TiVo and ReplayTV are the first baby step towards this, demonstrating a digital recording and playback system.
The only thing that will stand in the way of this will be the movie industry itself. But I think that despite their best efforts, a sytem will come out that lets me download movies, and the movie industry will be better off in the end.
...I'm not the guy who is going to have to scour the neighborhood, digging through body parts, in a futile attempt to find the jawbone so that a positive dental identification can be made.
Battlefield earth provides today's youth with a cultural reference point for bad. And let's get that clear, BE was bad. Fortunately, it was also big, and therin lies the benefit.
When people need an example of an out-of-control, runaway, nightmare of a production, we now have the perfect example, understood by anyone. For example, "Not only was my date last night bad, it was BATTLEFIELD EARTH bad."
Gee I'm dumb. As several people pointed out, it's 100 Teraflops. Well, so much for my theory, "I don't get any dumber after a few beers."
As a consolation, here's a link to IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer. It's still about 5 years off, but it will likely be the first Petaflop computer. It's being built specifically to solve a single problem--modelling protein folding. The best bit is that even at a petaflop, it will take about a YEAR to simulate a single protein.
If you re-read the article, you'll see that 500 billion is just ONE OF THE BOARDS in the GRAPE. There are going to be 200 boards in this puppy, making for a machine that's getting 100 petaflops.
Slashdot Mirror
It sure seems like it. First, low availability of Ghz+ systems. Second, the Rambus debacle. Now this. AMD couldn't have planned it any better.
They would probably be as useful.
There is a word for people like you.
That word is dinosaur.
Once upon the time, dinosaurs ruled the world.
Now they power your car.
Enjoy being a dinosaur while it lasts.
That festering pusbag of a movie (you know, the one with Chris O'Donnell, Arnie Swartzenegger, and Alicia Silverstone, the unholy trinity of acting craptitude) has ruined the Batman series forever. Not that the Batman with Jim Carrey/Tommy Lee Jones was all that great to begin with.
I have two favorite Batman & Robin moments--the first is the part where Alicia first rings the doorbell looking for her Uncle Albert, and mumbles, "Bees stung my lips." Unfortunately, that was just Tom Servo saying that in the MST3K Summer Movie Preview, so that one probably doesn't count.
The other favorite part is when Robin is underwater fighting some plant monster (Feed me Seymor!) and the editor decided they needed a shot of Robin struggling in the water. Lacking such footage, they took the footage of Robin leaving the water, and play it backwards and forwards several times, thinking we won't notice that the splash defies the forward arrow of time. Hint: WE NOTICED!
Neal, I sure hope you don't get pulled into this hellhole of a series.
While the USB web site claims that USB 2.0 is the bee's knees, they are a bit misleading when they give performance numbers. As this article points out, the backwards compatablity of USB 2.0 eats into the speed by quite a bit. And according to this article, USB lacks a lot of features of Firewire, may add significant complexity to hubs, and require more costly cables. (And I thought that I was getting ripped off on USB cables today!)
USB is a great spec, but USB 2.0 isn't the right solution to the problems that Firewire is designed to solve.
You've got a totally messed up perspective on the interview process. They're not interviewing you, you're interviewing THEM. Along with "Is this someone I would like to work with?" you should also be asking yourself "Is this something I could see myself doing?" If you don't find out anything about what you'll be doing, you can't properly find the answers to these questions, and you shouldn't take the job.
I mean, imagine this: Someone comes up to you and says, "I have a job offer. It pays 90K a year. You're qualified. But I can't tell you what the job is until you commit." If you say yes to something like this, you're insane.
You haven't heard of Ruby? (Or for you English speakers out there, Ruby) To quote the FAQ:
Ruby is pretty dammed cool--it borrows (or maybe even just plain steals) a lot from perl, but the OO support was designed in from the beginning.
First off, I'd like to ask just how much credibility does one have who writes "to" as "2" and "be" as "b"
You have to realize, Prince INVENTED this stuff. (Or at least, he was the first dude to popularize it.) "Nothing compares 2 U", "U Got the Look", "Maybe I'm just 2 demanding Maybe I'm just like my father 2 bold". That's just Prince, baby!
do you mean the artist formally known as prince? or is there a guy named prince?
No, he means the artist Prince (However, this is the the artist formerly known as "The artist formerly known as Prince")
what comes out in 2 weeks?
Quake III: Team Arena.
You are not the first person to wonder about this; in fact, it's usually the first tangent followed in the traditional "If a tree fell in the woods" discussion in freshman philosophy classes the world over.
Interesting. I'll bet the administration thought that we were going to filter OUT the porn.
We're living in a great time for games. Diablo II (You can call me DAME Annika, thank you very much), Counter-Strike (which I suck at, but it still kicks ass), Deus Ex, The Sims (which allows me to torture all my ex-girlfriends in their lesbian love-shack), Daikatana (just kidding), and Shogun:Total War all rock, and those are all going strong right now.
I understand the appeal of classic games (Jumpman, M.U.L.E, Ultima IV, Telengard, now I'm getting all nostalgic) but don't ignore the fine gaming goodness going on right now.
I'm marketing a new product: saltines for black-hat hackers. I'm going to mostly market to white trash from the south.
I'm going to call this product Cracker Cracker Crackers(tm). How's that for an objective difference?
If you want the media to use a word other than "hacker" they need a better alternative than "cracker". As many others here have stated (in this thread and others) the word cracker is lame.
A lot of C could be written in something better, but C (or C++) is pretty much mandatory for a lot of tasks.
Ask Linus.
Ask Larry Wall.
If you're involved in a LARGE project (millions of lines of code across dozens of large packages) it's pretty much a necessity to use something like C++. (Eiffel and Ada probably fit the bill here too, but I have no hands-on experience with either )
P.S. Pascal isn't high level. Pascal is C, simplified for teaching, but much much worse.
1. What's the going rate for one of these things (are they charging a premium for the sentimental value?)
2. What's do they use as a replacement? (Probably "a cluster of ..."?)
3. Anybody have benchmarks for this sucker?
4. Does that come with a color monitor? (grin, Dilbert reference)
A somewhat misinformed dude on the net is somewhat upset about a recent announcement. That's not news, that happens a million times a day on the net! It's certainly not newsworthy.
Anybody who had been paying any attention to Topaz wasn't very suprised by the announcement. And it's been clear to me that the p5p mailing list has had far too much needless personality conflict on it in the recent past. Several noted and valuable developers dropped off the list because of such conflicts. Something new is needed.
Perl 6 may be strange and new, but it's a good thing, not something to fear.
First, let me point out that when it comes to EM, you're basically talking about a 1/(distance^2) relationship. Thus, although the EM power output of the transmitter is low, the fact that you're pressing it directly against your skull puts a lot of that power into your head.
And it's not inconceivable that the EM could tweak a molecule of DNA. Honestly, we don't have enough data--it's a probablistic effect, that would only show up over time, in different rates in different people. I doubt it causes much harm, but then again, ask Madam Curie about being a pioneer. (Yeah, yeah, differnt kind of radiation, but it's still tweaked DNA.)
What I do wonder is how much investigation is being done about these 900Mhz and 2.4Ghz phones. Some of these seem to put out a lot of power, and you're holding them to your head the same way. Does anybody have any links on this?
Look: I know that a lot of people are on a fool's quest to preserve the ancient meaning of the word 'hacker', but the word cracker is a terrible substitute. I honestly thought that a Saltine had wedged itself into the shuttle's computers.
The mass media has changed the meaning of the word hacker into something negative. What's the big problem with that? Words have changed meaning throughout history. 'Awful' used to mean about the same thing as 'awesome', and 'gay' used to mean 'happy', but they really aren't used that way anymore. The world has moved on.
The Hacker Dictionary can deny this fact all it wants and claim that the negative meaning is deprecated, but the truth of the matter is, most of the English speaking world thinks of hackers as guys who break into NASA. And everybody understands what "hacker" means when used in an article like this. Give it up.
Ok, I really was going to post "the Amiga was good for its day but it should die in peace" but you beat me to the punch.
I guess I just don't understand WHY I should care about the Amiga. This is an honest question; what advantages do I get over other modern systems?
As numerous people have already pointed out, the experience of watching a movie on even a 24" wide-screen monitor is still a poor substitute for even the worst movie screen. People do go to see movies on the big screen that are available on video (did you see the re-release of Star Wars?), because the theater experience is something far beyond the home experience.
On the other hand, I do think that within the very near future, somebody's going to figure out how to kill the trip to the local video store. TiVo and ReplayTV are the first baby step towards this, demonstrating a digital recording and playback system.
The only thing that will stand in the way of this will be the movie industry itself. But I think that despite their best efforts, a sytem will come out that lets me download movies, and the movie industry will be better off in the end.
...I'm not the guy who is going to have to scour the neighborhood, digging through body parts, in a futile attempt to find the jawbone so that a positive dental identification can be made.
Battlefield earth provides today's youth with a cultural reference point for bad. And let's get that clear, BE was bad. Fortunately, it was also big, and therin lies the benefit.
When people need an example of an out-of-control, runaway, nightmare of a production, we now have the perfect example, understood by anyone. For example, "Not only was my date last night bad, it was BATTLEFIELD EARTH bad."
Thank you, John Travolta.
Gee I'm dumb. As several people pointed out, it's 100 Teraflops. Well, so much for my theory, "I don't get any dumber after a few beers."
As a consolation, here's a link to IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer. It's still about 5 years off, but it will likely be the first Petaflop computer. It's being built specifically to solve a single problem--modelling protein folding. The best bit is that even at a petaflop, it will take about a YEAR to simulate a single protein.
If you re-read the article, you'll see that 500 billion is just ONE OF THE BOARDS in the GRAPE. There are going to be 200 boards in this puppy, making for a machine that's getting 100 petaflops.
Damn fast!