Jesse Ventura became governor of Minnesota running on a third-party ticket (Reform Party), in 1998. There have been representatives from both Vermont and New Hampshire from third parties. (Note that this is not to dispute the implied rage; that I share.)
While I love your new.sig, I'm not sure why you can't comprehend the possibility of the existence of local cache servers. Or, even, local-only servers, so that Google can sell something to those companies that might not trust it to keep their data on its servers...
For me, I quit after my sister quit. She was the 2-pack-a-day smoker; I was the 1-pack-a-month smoker. But lighting up after picking her up from the train and getting an earful, well, that was enough to push me over the edge, and I haven't smoked since. Cigarettes, that is; had a cigar when my brother got married, but then you don't inhale that stuff, just like Clinton.
It can be. I did so, after the very first time of choosing the wrong fucking drop-down. Now if only someone could invent some sort of Web 2.0 confirmation dialog...
Yeah, right. After buying Hotmail and "converting" it from a few number of Linux servers to a ridiculous number of Windows servers, I'm sure they've learned their lesson!
The emergency system is stupid. It doesnt matter what it says on there.. if I look outside and don't directly witness something akin to Armageddon, I'm not leaving the house. If something akin to Armageddon IS heppening, then quite frankly I don'y need an alert system to tell me about it.
Yeah, and: if something akin to Armageddon is happening, then I most likely won't want to leave the house anyway!
I'll move down to the basement, fire up the XBOX, and... oh.
I much prefer the "attempted murder is punishable by death" state[1]. Then, when your botched suicide is noticed by the authorities, they helpfully finish the job for you!
[1] -- Note: this state exists only inside my mind, and hopefully won't there for much longer.
[...] and I typed that acronym because I only want searches containing that acronym and not the word that looks like it. And finding actual reviews of a product rather than sales sites with Google is simply hopeless.
When I want reviews, I generally just add "review" to the search terms. Putting the acronym in quotes generally helps as well.
(First of all: WTF Slashdot! I used to be able to drag-and-drop text into the comment box. Oh well, whatever.)
Copyrights have "show" expiration dates. Eldred was shot down in the Supreme Court, but make no mistake; before the copyrights on The Mouse are up, we will have an additional 20-year extension (retroactive!) applied to copyright.
Now, extending copyrights for newly-created works after the extension is passed, that's one thing.
But extending copyrights for works that were create under the social contract that existed at the time is ridiculous on the face of it. Disney's works should have long ago entered the public domain, so that we can riff off of them in the exact same manner that they legally riffed off of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Well, the good news is money won't really matter in any future capable of reviving us. So, worry not, and freeze yourself immediately! I charge only $10,000 per freezing, 100% deposit required before partying^W freezing commences!
Unfortunately those of us who slept through the present end up smelling particularly foul in the future, to those who didn't sleep through it. (I think I'm referencing a short story by Larry Niven but I could be wrong; 10 minutes of searching couldn't find it, oh well. In the story, a ship is sent to Alpha Centauri; the inhabitants are awoken to claxons during the flight, with a giant flash showing on the screen, but nothing else, so go back to sleep; then when they eventually get there, they learn that the flash was the second generation ship which moved much faster, and arrived before them, and there's a thriving human population on a planet surrounding Alpha Centauri, and the first ship's inhabitants exude an odor that the future culture finds abhorrent.)
What a way to wake into the future! Only consolation being, now we know about nanotechnology and major technology changes, so in that particular future we'd be able to modify the odors exuded by anyone. But anyway, it was a great story about massive time scales. And, I agree with you: regardless of how few people or cultural artifacts I was (will be?) aware of, I intend to cling to life for as long as possible. In the immortal words of Woody Allen, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying!"
I find when I'm implementing a complex algorithm, I'll write out a fairly long-winded comment that explains, in prose, what the code is doing, and then in the code itself, I'll include comments for the trickier bits. I do this because I find that a bunch of small comments in a routine is harder to conceptualize, as you have to assemble the global picture yourself
One of the things I prefer doing, in fact, is to write out a series of "steps" that I intend to do in comment form, one per line (perhaps multi-line), e.g.:
# 1. Initiate communication with database
# 2. Does the schema exist? If so, goto 6
# 3. Configure the schema
# 4. Upload initial template
# 5. Configure initial node
# 6. Add the node we're working with
# (etc)
Then, in the code that I'm working on, I copy each of the above comment lines, and then fill in the code in between.
I find that this gives a great overview, with an easy-to-parse view of how it happens. And, if someone changes one set of comments without another, it's a great clue to the future maintainer to review the source control history because I would never initially write mis-matched comments.
Or maybe I would, but then, I rarely code maliciously.:)
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"I do not think that word means what you think it means."
Well, I just need to look in the mirror to see an Artificially Enhanced Person. (Take off my glasses, and I can't even see my face in the mirror...)
Resources, mostly. Same reason most wars are fought.
Jesse Ventura became governor of Minnesota running on a third-party ticket (Reform Party), in 1998. There have been representatives from both Vermont and New Hampshire from third parties. (Note that this is not to dispute the implied rage; that I share.)
Flash cards help with memory.
No. The principal question is this: Skinner?!?!
I much prefer my misreading of your statement.
While I love your new .sig, I'm not sure why you can't comprehend the possibility of the existence of local cache servers. Or, even, local-only servers, so that Google can sell something to those companies that might not trust it to keep their data on its servers...
For me, I quit after my sister quit. She was the 2-pack-a-day smoker; I was the 1-pack-a-month smoker. But lighting up after picking her up from the train and getting an earful, well, that was enough to push me over the edge, and I haven't smoked since. Cigarettes, that is; had a cigar when my brother got married, but then you don't inhale that stuff, just like Clinton.
One down, one (perhaps two) to go...
Agreed on the old. (Which is, of course, why I knew to post "Zombie Carl" :)
It can be. I did so, after the very first time of choosing the wrong fucking drop-down. Now if only someone could invent some sort of Web 2.0 confirmation dialog...
Yeah, right. After buying Hotmail and "converting" it from a few number of Linux servers to a ridiculous number of Windows servers, I'm sure they've learned their lesson!
Yeah, and: if something akin to Armageddon is happening, then I most likely won't want to leave the house anyway!
I'll move down to the basement, fire up the XBOX, and ... oh.
Warning: player color missing from Gauntlet emergency alert system!
I much prefer the "attempted murder is punishable by death" state[1]. Then, when your botched suicide is noticed by the authorities, they helpfully finish the job for you!
[1] -- Note: this state exists only inside my mind, and hopefully won't there for much longer.
When I want reviews, I generally just add "review" to the search terms. Putting the acronym in quotes generally helps as well.
Well, except for the inconvenient fact that he has hired more RIAA attorneys into the Justice Department than, well, anyone else ever did?
(First of all: WTF Slashdot! I used to be able to drag-and-drop text into the comment box. Oh well, whatever.)
Copyrights have "show" expiration dates. Eldred was shot down in the Supreme Court, but make no mistake; before the copyrights on The Mouse are up, we will have an additional 20-year extension (retroactive!) applied to copyright.
Now, extending copyrights for newly-created works after the extension is passed, that's one thing.
But extending copyrights for works that were create under the social contract that existed at the time is ridiculous on the face of it. Disney's works should have long ago entered the public domain, so that we can riff off of them in the exact same manner that they legally riffed off of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Well, the good news is money won't really matter in any future capable of reviving us. So, worry not, and freeze yourself immediately! I charge only $10,000 per freezing, 100% deposit required before partying^W freezing commences!
Unfortunately those of us who slept through the present end up smelling particularly foul in the future, to those who didn't sleep through it. (I think I'm referencing a short story by Larry Niven but I could be wrong; 10 minutes of searching couldn't find it, oh well. In the story, a ship is sent to Alpha Centauri; the inhabitants are awoken to claxons during the flight, with a giant flash showing on the screen, but nothing else, so go back to sleep; then when they eventually get there, they learn that the flash was the second generation ship which moved much faster, and arrived before them, and there's a thriving human population on a planet surrounding Alpha Centauri, and the first ship's inhabitants exude an odor that the future culture finds abhorrent.)
What a way to wake into the future! Only consolation being, now we know about nanotechnology and major technology changes, so in that particular future we'd be able to modify the odors exuded by anyone. But anyway, it was a great story about massive time scales. And, I agree with you: regardless of how few people or cultural artifacts I was (will be?) aware of, I intend to cling to life for as long as possible. In the immortal words of Woody Allen, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying!"
Yeah, that's just what the superstitious need: Zombie Carl to explain the not-coming apocalypse!
I see your Steaming Heap of Innovative Technology, and raise you one Critical Update Notification Tool. (Yes, it really existed!)
One of the things I prefer doing, in fact, is to write out a series of "steps" that I intend to do in comment form, one per line (perhaps multi-line), e.g.:
# 1. Initiate communication with database
# 2. Does the schema exist? If so, goto 6
# 3. Configure the schema
# 4. Upload initial template
# 5. Configure initial node
# 6. Add the node we're working with
# (etc)
Then, in the code that I'm working on, I copy each of the above comment lines, and then fill in the code in between.
I find that this gives a great overview, with an easy-to-parse view of how it happens. And, if someone changes one set of comments without another, it's a great clue to the future maintainer to review the source control history because I would never initially write mis-matched comments.
Or maybe I would, but then, I rarely code maliciously. :)