Humans are indeed violent, but nothing more than the scale of our destruction outweighs other creatures. Primates as a whole have been observed to be quite violent. Perhaps it's primates that are more savage than other families (not up on my taxonomy, but it goes family genus species, right?)
Chimps have been observed slaughtering other groups of chimps, practicing cannibalism, etc.
The same has been observed in many other primate species (baboons, particularly.)
OTOH, one of my coworkers commented that if he had been alone in the car, he would have shot and killed another driver for forcing people out of his way on the road.
Larson (it's an `o`) said his original point was the futility of attempting individuality. Remember, the publisher of the poster-size cartoon was the one who made the one penguin yellow.
And that line from Anakin "I heard you talking to Yoda about M(how's it spelled, anyway?) What are M__?
COME ON!!! A nine year old would be much more likely to say "I heard you talking about M__, what is that, anyway?"
Script needed some shit-serious rewriting.
Needed to be recast, too. And like Slate's reviewer pointed out, if Anakin built C3PO, why didn't Vader notice him in the other films? (My own point is, wouldn't a 9 year old be more likely to name a droid with a real name? And wouldn't he be more reluctant to just walk away from all that work?)
Dude, the Riverside 8 had a short line. I got there at 12:30 and by 3:00 I had my tix: 1 for the 12:01 and one for 7:00 on Friday. Yeeuh. I think I'm going to write a review.
Yet another attempt to compare two very different things. He is using Quicktime for the quality. Quality he believes he can't get out of mpeg or avi. Like others have said, it's his prerogative.
Actually, I've done all that with a text editor. It's a lot easier than you might think, and much nicer than clearing out all the unnecessary tags that something like Composer or Frontpage puts in.
The Webmonkeys, to answer the poster's question, use text editors (BBedit on Macs) and recommend Dreamweaver, which at least generates clean HTML.
So why is DSL so damned expensive? When I was living in Hawaii, GTE was talking ADSL at $80/month including phone, internet account, and modem rental. Here in Austin, it's $80/month for just the line and modem, and and extra $40/month for an internet account. Hawaii put out cable modems a year ago, Time-Warner has yet to do a wide distribution. Grr...
Well, there is a slippery slope here. After all, if he had a legitimate complaint that he thought the other employees should know about, that should be protected. But if he was just harassing, that's bad.
okay...think about it this way. I've done a (very) little stand-up comedy. You wouldn't believe how much material I've lost because I wasn't sitting at a computer. Also, being an aspiring filmmaker/screenwriter without a laptop, I write alot by hand. A reliable speech-recog program would be great for getting either recorded riffs (stuff I talk about to myself in the car) or handwritten stuff into the computer without the boredom of typing.
Also, MP3 is not something you have to invest a whole lot of money in right now. Readers for your pc are free, after all. It's not like running out and buying an 8-track and hundreds of cassettes only to have ??? tape and then CD's come along.
So you agree with a zero-sympathy statement, then say that it's okay to sympathize with the motives of the killers...?
If I choose to be different, I should be treated according to my actions. If I am different by loudly insulting people and spitting on them, that is one thing. If I don't like sports and choose to play computer and role-playing games, I shouldn't have to put up with the kind of crap that I (and most people who are into that kind of stuff) had to put up with in school.
I think we can all sympathize with the rage that builds up in people who have been beaten down all their lives. Why do you think punk rock and metal tend to be geek music (in my experience.) However, sympathizing and condoning are not the same thing. I believe killing is wrong, unless it is done in self-defense or the defense of others. However, sometimes I fantasized about hurting or killing my tormentors. I'm sure plenty of us have. That doesn't mean we do it, though, and that is the difference.
You are right about one thing, though. We need to take responsibility for our actions. I think everyone can learn from this: don't torment others. God knows, it's easy, and I gave as well as I got, though of course never to the same people. So rather than snap at someone, be nice, okay?
See, unfortunately, even though I went to a private school, where there was tremendous pressure to perform, being a geek still wasn't cool. I mean, obviously, if you were into computers, you had some kind of disease. There was this catch-22 where you had to pretend you weren't smart, but still get good grades. About the only time people made nice with me was when I could help them with a computer problem. My friends and I were all "weird," somehow, and I'm sure that if I was still there, we all would be in the counseling office. Of course, we were the only people who could have demolished the school, if we had chosen to....
I think the people investing would have to understand linux and the free software movement. People like most/.ers. I think a lot of people would look at any prospectus that said "We sell something that's available for free" and forget about investing. However, some people who understand what is really going on, would probably invest. Red Hat might be the first tech stock in years to make an IPO that doesn't inflate the stock price. Incidentally...you wouldn't happen to write for Suck, would you?
Myst wasn't even a game, for Christ's sake! What the hell is he doing talking about games? The people in the dialog, yeah, sure. But if I were putting together a videogame issue, the "talk about your next project" feature would be Sid Meier. No one else.
But... What's important is what you don't see. Working on webpages, I view source. A lot. And most of the JavaScript I see, like most of the best software in any case, is transparent. It's doing stuff so pages look better for you. Just like any good piece of software. Go to Hotwired for another article about this Ebay thingy. One person comments that he can't believe Ebay allows Javascript in people's auction descriptions, which I have to say is a pretty salient point. I think Ebay should not only ban javascript, but all browser-specific HTML. Just think: Ebay could force all auctioneers to submit to HTML 4.0 standards, creating a new breed of >technically good web authors. (I use the term technically because AFAIK, HTML 4 doesn't standardize taste, thereby preventing nausea-inducing color combinations.)
No. M$ sees someone developing something, develops something kind of like it, but inferior, and then forces it's OEMs to bundle the software with new computers. Then it declares their product the standard, and makes sure the next release of windows makes it impossible for the original to work.
This is simply putting money in places where it will improve Linux as a whole. After all, anyone can download KDE, neh?
...Because it couldn't be that high school inherently alienates teenagers when they need the most nurturing, and it certainly couldn't be that maybe they had a lousy homelife and that's why they didn't know that mass murder is not the way to solve problems.
I wonder...if they were big Voodoo Glow Skulls fans, would that be blamed? ("And when they get a load of me/I'll take them on a killing spree/ with my gun/and then you'll see what I call fun." or "...but when I kill your girlfriend/you'll wish you were my friend!")
What's the deal? I think the point made yesterday (that Quake et al. are more ways to release that violent intent than build it up) is very salient. The fact is, there is very little in the human experience that can be explained as "he did this because of this." Most attempts to make such a statement fall victim to the fallacy "because of this, therefore this." Like (a few centuries ago) "because I've never _seen_ a black person (or any group considered subhuman at the time) read, obviously, they can't read." The media is perpetuating the myth of simple cause and effect in human interaction. There are always going to be millions of reasons why people do antything. Blaming the internet or games like Duke Nukem is just farking retarded.
Plus they were BLACK. Took IBM how many years to figure that one out? Took how long for a major OEM to start making systems available in something other than beige or white?
Of course the point that Jobs killed Next is also true. I wonder what life would have been like if only little Stevie had had an ego kicked down a couple notches...
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Humans are indeed violent, but nothing more than the scale of our destruction outweighs other creatures. Primates as a whole have been observed to be quite violent. Perhaps it's primates that are more savage than other families (not up on my taxonomy, but it goes family genus species, right?)
Chimps have been observed slaughtering other groups of chimps, practicing cannibalism, etc.
The same has been observed in many other primate species (baboons, particularly.)
OTOH, one of my coworkers commented that if he had been alone in the car, he would have shot and killed another driver for forcing people out of his way on the road.
Larson (it's an `o`) said his original point was the futility of attempting individuality. Remember, the publisher of the poster-size cartoon was the one who made the one penguin yellow.
>Mace Windu: 3 lines, and none of them involved >the word 'muthafucka'
Anakin: "But Sir-"
Mace Windu: "I don't remember askin' you a GOD DAMN THING!"
And that line from Anakin "I heard you talking to Yoda about M(how's it spelled, anyway?) What are M__?
COME ON!!! A nine year old would be much more likely to say "I heard you talking about M__, what is that, anyway?"
Script needed some shit-serious rewriting.
Needed to be recast, too. And like Slate's reviewer pointed out, if Anakin built C3PO, why didn't Vader notice him in the other films? (My own point is, wouldn't a 9 year old be more likely to name a droid with a real name? And wouldn't he be more reluctant to just walk away from all that work?)
Oi. In my opinion, he was worse than Herr Binks.
I've been told they tried to fire him. I wish they had succeeded.
That's why I use Yahoo and Excite email. Okay, it's not the reason, but I will now be able to get net time @ BK.
Dude, the Riverside 8 had a short line. I got there at 12:30 and by 3:00 I had my tix: 1 for the 12:01 and one for 7:00 on Friday. Yeeuh. I think I'm going to write a review.
Yet another attempt to compare two very different things. He is using Quicktime for the quality. Quality he believes he can't get out of mpeg or avi. Like others have said, it's his prerogative.
Actually, the paragraph tag is a mark. What is really bad is stuff like the font tags and such.
Actually, I've done all that with a text editor. It's a lot easier than you might think, and much nicer than clearing out all the unnecessary tags that something like Composer or Frontpage puts in.
The Webmonkeys, to answer the poster's question, use text editors (BBedit on Macs) and recommend Dreamweaver, which at least generates clean HTML.
So why is DSL so damned expensive? When I was living in Hawaii, GTE was talking ADSL at $80/month including phone, internet account, and modem rental. Here in Austin, it's $80/month for just the line and modem, and and extra $40/month for an internet account. Hawaii put out cable modems a year ago, Time-Warner has yet to do a wide distribution. Grr...
Hey, maybe people should start calling their game 64 to take advantage of the N64 marketing strategy. Muhahahahaha!
Well, there is a slippery slope here. After all, if he had a legitimate complaint that he thought the other employees should know about, that should be protected. But if he was just harassing, that's bad.
okay...think about it this way. I've done a (very) little stand-up comedy. You wouldn't believe how much material I've lost because I wasn't sitting at a computer. Also, being an aspiring filmmaker/screenwriter without a laptop, I write alot by hand. A reliable speech-recog program would be great for getting either recorded riffs (stuff I talk about to myself in the car) or handwritten stuff into the computer without the boredom of typing.
Also, MP3 is not something you have to invest a whole lot of money in right now. Readers for your pc are free, after all. It's not like running out and buying an 8-track and hundreds of cassettes only to have ??? tape and then CD's come along.
So you agree with a zero-sympathy statement, then say that it's okay to sympathize with the motives of the killers...?
If I choose to be different, I should be treated according to my actions. If I am different by loudly insulting people and spitting on them, that is one thing. If I don't like sports and choose to play computer and role-playing games, I shouldn't have to put up with the kind of crap that I (and most people who are into that kind of stuff) had to put up with in school.
I think we can all sympathize with the rage that builds up in people who have been beaten down all their lives. Why do you think punk rock and metal tend to be geek music (in my experience.) However, sympathizing and condoning are not the same thing. I believe killing is wrong, unless it is done in self-defense or the defense of others. However, sometimes I fantasized about hurting or killing my tormentors. I'm sure plenty of us have. That doesn't mean we do it, though, and that is the difference.
You are right about one thing, though. We need to take responsibility for our actions. I think everyone can learn from this: don't torment others. God knows, it's easy, and I gave as well as I got, though of course never to the same people. So rather than snap at someone, be nice, okay?
See, unfortunately, even though I went to a private school, where there was tremendous pressure to perform, being a geek still wasn't cool. I mean, obviously, if you were into computers, you had some kind of disease. There was this catch-22 where you had to pretend you weren't smart, but still get good grades. About the only time people made nice with me was when I could help them with a computer problem. My friends and I were all "weird," somehow, and I'm sure that if I was still there, we all would be in the counseling office. Of course, we were the only people who could have demolished the school, if we had chosen to....
I think the people investing would have to understand linux and the free software movement. People like most /.ers. I think a lot of people would look at any prospectus that said "We sell something that's available for free" and forget about investing. However, some people who understand what is really going on, would probably invest. Red Hat might be the first tech stock in years to make an IPO that doesn't inflate the stock price.
Incidentally...you wouldn't happen to write for Suck, would you?
Myst wasn't even a game, for Christ's sake! What the hell is he doing talking about games? The people in the dialog, yeah, sure. But if I were putting together a videogame issue, the "talk about your next project" feature would be Sid Meier. No one else.
Well, that and the fact that it makes the Ebay interface break out in pustules and vomit black crap with bits of its lungs...
Wait. No. That's Win95 and me.
Sorry.
But... What's important is what you don't see. Working on webpages, I view source. A lot. And most of the JavaScript I see, like most of the best software in any case, is transparent. It's doing stuff so pages look better for you. Just like any good piece of software. Go to Hotwired for another article about this Ebay thingy. One person comments that he can't believe Ebay allows Javascript in people's auction descriptions, which I have to say is a pretty salient point. I think Ebay should not only ban javascript, but all browser-specific HTML. Just think: Ebay could force all auctioneers to submit to HTML 4.0 standards, creating a new breed of >technically good web authors. (I use the term technically because AFAIK, HTML 4 doesn't standardize taste, thereby preventing nausea-inducing color combinations.)
No. M$ sees someone developing something, develops something kind of like it, but inferior, and then forces it's OEMs to bundle the software with new computers. Then it declares their product the standard, and makes sure the next release of windows makes it impossible for the original to work.
This is simply putting money in places where it will improve Linux as a whole. After all, anyone can download KDE, neh?
...Because it couldn't be that high school inherently alienates teenagers when they need the most nurturing, and it certainly couldn't be that maybe they had a lousy homelife and that's why they didn't know that mass murder is not the way to solve problems.
I wonder...if they were big Voodoo Glow Skulls fans, would that be blamed? ("And when they get a load of me/I'll take them on a killing spree/ with my gun/and then you'll see what I call fun." or "...but when I kill your girlfriend/you'll wish you were my friend!")
What's the deal? I think the point made yesterday (that Quake et al. are more ways to release that violent intent than build it up) is very salient. The fact is, there is very little in the human experience that can be explained as "he did this because of this." Most attempts to make such a statement fall victim to the fallacy "because of this, therefore this." Like (a few centuries ago) "because I've never _seen_ a black person (or any group considered subhuman at the time) read, obviously, they can't read." The media is perpetuating the myth of simple cause and effect in human interaction. There are always going to be millions of reasons why people do antything. Blaming the internet or games like Duke Nukem is just farking retarded.
Plus they were BLACK. Took IBM how many years to figure that one out? Took how long for a major OEM to start making systems available in something other than beige or white?
Of course the point that Jobs killed Next is also true. I wonder what life would have been like if only little Stevie had had an ego kicked down a couple notches...
Remember Sangamon's Principle.