I doubt that's illegal in Japan. I doubt it's very popular, as that age is a bit extreme, but I don't think it's illegal there (of course, it's illegal to actually show the genetalia coupling - those parts of the pictures are always blurry/pixellated out - try and figure that one out).
I know, eh? Optiplex's are sweet. Man, if I could get an Optiplex w/ Linux at work, you can bet your ass it would take me half a second to expense it:-) (our company has a contract or something with Dell so that all our new workstations are Dells - the Optiplex pIII/450's are nice, but Win98 is *such* a pig on it. I gotta get permission to wipe and reinstall with 98lite)
"30 or 40 years ago . . . it seemed to be that mom was in the kitchen with the hot breakfast cooking as everybody woke up in the morning." -- Mike Harris talking about why we need school breakfast programs. Child hunger is the fault of lazy mothers, apparently (November 1996).
"Just as hula hoops went out, and those workers had to have a factory and a company that would manufacture something else that's in, it's the same in government." -- Premier Mike Harris offering solace to laid-off hospital workers (March 1997).
"He's there for the full school day, in uniform, fully equipped with a weapon and carrying out a whole range of duties while he's there or she's there. If a problem crops up, I think it certainly raises the comfort levels of the teachers as well, there's no question about that." -- Solicitor General Bob Runciman explaining the role of armed cops in the school system (April 1999).
"My Solicitor-General didn't say that." -- Mike Harris in denial (April 1999).
And of course, the truly classic Harris line :
"We have to make sure those dollars don't go to beer." -- Premier Mike Harris explaining why pregnant women on welfare no longer get $37 per month to buy extra food. Officials in the Ministry of Social Services said they had no evidence of women misusing their allowance (April 1998).
Mike Harris - Hero of the white, middle class male. Champion of Crypto laws, enemy of hospitals, schools and free political protest.
Yes, he kept his promises on cutting taxes (the wisdom of which escapes me), but what about his promises not to close any Hospitals? The promises to prevent introduction of user fees (which have just about balanced the difference from the tax cuts anyway.)? What about promises to control tuition increases? What about him just dumping responsibily onto the municipalities, causing an organizational nightmare? What about the incresases in property taxes that we have because responsibilty has been shirked onto the municipalities?
Oh, but he cut provincial income tax. That makes everything all right. Silly me. I forgot that Cutting Income Tax is a magic phrase which trumps anything else he did wrong.
When I first read this I thought that, through some miracle, the Harris goverenment actually did something right for once. Looks to be a provincial comittee. Anyone know if this was due to Mikey's little gov't there? I'm looking for a reason, even one, not to hate him:-)
I'm also getting a DNS look up error on http://www.ipc.on.ca/, which was what the Wired article linked to. Anyone know if that's the right link?
Watch it if you're running NT. The last several times I've run it on my machine, NT's filesystem has decided that it just doesn't feel like existing any more (i.e. I boot up one day to 'no operating system found', and then proceed to thank various Ancient & Powerful(tm) deities that I never kept any Real Work on there). The filesystem implosion thing has happened twice to me, and at least once to another person I know.
Am I alone in this happening to me?
(yes, well, obviously if it happened to another person I know, I'm not really alone in it, but I was speaking within the context of slashdot. I think. Anyway, it's coffee time. mmmm.... raspberry chocolate.......)
How good are you at q3test? Can Dust Puppy kick your ass?
When you came up with the design document for 'Pac Man', how many of your co-workers laughed at you, saying it would never work? How many of them are dead now?
Relate to us the tale of how you prevented the Nazi's from gaining control of our atomic weapons at the end of World War II.
When you were lost in the deserts of Turkey, dying of thirst, did you, even once, wish you were back in Seattle in a bubblebath with Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates?
The one thing that I appreciate about running Linux is that it runs the CPU several degrees cooler than in Windows (my impression was that it's because Linux actually sends idle commands to the CPU, whereas Windows sits in a tight loop and polls (or something along those lines)), allowing more freedom in how fast my CPU runs. *inModems would worsen this no?
Anyway, this just seems like another version of the circle of life that video hardware has undergone. Why should communications hardware be any different?
Excuse me if I am not looking forward to a future populated by chat rooms and disconnected OS wars.
This is just another in a continuing series of articles that are simply trying to attract readers who style themselves 'geeks'. Katz suffers the same symptoms - by glorifying the ideal of 'being a geek' (without truly understanding what he's saying - i.e. that anyone who is different on even a remotely intellecutal scale is suddenly a 'geek' according to the new Geek Chic social forces), and by attacking old social structures (not realizing that any new ones that get built will suck just as much for those who aren't a part of them) he feels he is now sufficently rebellious and intellectual to hand down 'Geek Manifestos'.
This article is just more of the same, just not from Katz. It's writer is just trying to appeal to geeks that have inferiority complexes, without really realizing what a 'Net-Set' crowd would be like (i.e. sitting around trading pr0n and playing Quake is what I would imagine a 'Net-Set' get-together would be like).
How can you have a social elite comprised of a (by the classical pop definition of 'geek') socially inept group of people?
(The social elites of the future, btw, will likely be those who further mutilate thier bodys and minds in order to become physically and sexually attractive - and most of us will care less and less, just like it's always been) (because, when you get right down to it, the social elites are the ones that you see on the cover of tabloids and on TV tabloid shows, etc. And I wouldn't wish being a 'social elite' on my worst enemy.)
IMHO this guy has made the the most disturbing, dark, and creative videos ever seen.
This film should be the best scifi movie to date.
Would you mind telling me how these two statements relate to each other?
Neuromancer is probably going to suck for just this reason - that CC is going to go gonzo on the music video special effects, and leave any sort of character or plot development to the dogs. The whole thing that made Neuromancer's world so compelling were the type of people that inhabited the Sprawl. Just making a cool looking city, and neat-o cyberspace effects, inhabited by cardboard cutouts of characters will make a shitty, disappointing movie. Case was a perfect Anti-Hero - he encountered transcendence, touched divinity, and then went back and got a new liver so he could take more drugs. He simply didn't care about anyone but himself. How has hollywood ever made a protagonist like that? Even Ralph Fiennes from Strange Days was a good guy, albiet an ambiuous one. Try and imagine how hollywood is going to treat the sexual encounter between Molly & Case in the foam-padded 'hotel room'. Do you really think that it's going to be in tune with the character's attitudes, or is it just going to be an excuse for CC to show off Molly's body (probably with more cybernetics than we expect).
Neruomancer was compelling because it was about people who were not heros, who were not hollywoodesque leading men & women - they were moral and physical degenerates that needed to be threatend with thier life and have the capacity to take drugs be cut off in order to get them to do anything.
Do we really think that this is what we're going to see in the movie? Or are we going to see Case as an actual 'hero' who actually cares about what he is doing? And if we, god forbid, do actually see someone as degenerate and apathetic as Case on the screen, is it going to be enjoyable to watch? (See Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas for an example of something that can be enjoyable to read, but not to watch). Neuromancer was an excellent book, because Gibson took (in some people's opinion too much) advantage of the English language to describe everything in a nearly poetic and gritty manner. Is seeing it on the screen going to be at all worthwhile? I doubt it.
Especially since there was an identical post in the last perl article, which didn't get moderated down.
All hail moderation.
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Most people don't like toys and don't think children should be able to play with toys. But I'm a big fan of toys, and I think it helps kids be able to play and expand their imaginations.
Excuse me, but is this not the most glaring straw man argument you have ever seen? Is George Lucas trying to do a bit of PR work for himself because his baby got a lukewarm reception? Did all the net.flames make him insecure? Is he just an idiot? Who knows....
I'm pretty sure that MSVC compiles all of the requisite header files into an intermediate file, (if you use MSVC, you see *.pch files in with the rest of your object files - that be them), and so instead of recompiling and repreprocessing every one of the massive Windows header files every time you hit the compile button... well, you get the point.
There are probably other techniques involved as well, but I know that one is there.
I'm sure if you really want Spam, it can be arranged. It's generally not hard to come by:-)
Maybe it's some silly prank, or someone trying to show off his ability to "spoof" mailadresses. (Obviously not aware of headers n stuff)
No, it's spam... It's intended to get you to click on the link, so you can look at thier porn site, and maybe sign up. That's it. It's not about ego or l33t hax0r 5ki11s, just about getting someone to click. Once that is accomplished it's useless.
And we know how well Action/Strategy games do in the market. The most excellent best-game-of-1998 Battlezone tanked, as did Uprising and Urban Assult. TF2 has a following, but outside of those who grok it already, it's going to be a hard sell. Q3's very virtue and marketability come from the fact that it's a "simple, shallow arcade game" (John Carmack).
Let's encourage people to write Glide games. Yeah, that's the ticket....
Nowhere is there any mention of Mesa or OpenGL.
Linux is at the stage that Windows was a while ago -- 3dfx, for one reason or another, is the only viable platform for 3d game development. The result of this in Windows was a bunch of Glide only games, and a tendency to only support 3dfx (cough, cough, unreal, starsiege). This sucked.
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I doubt that's illegal in Japan. I doubt it's very popular, as that age is a bit extreme, but I don't think it's illegal there (of course, it's illegal to actually show the genetalia coupling - those parts of the pictures are always blurry/pixellated out - try and figure that one out).
I know, eh? Optiplex's are sweet. Man, if I could get an Optiplex w/ Linux at work, you can bet your ass it would take me half a second to expense it :-) (our company has a contract or something with Dell so that all our new workstations are Dells - the Optiplex pIII/450's are nice, but Win98 is *such* a pig on it. I gotta get permission to wipe and reinstall with 98lite)
"30 or 40 years ago . . . it seemed to be that mom was in the kitchen with the hot breakfast cooking as everybody woke up in the morning."
-- Mike Harris talking about why we need school breakfast programs. Child hunger is the fault of lazy mothers, apparently (November 1996).
"Just as hula hoops went out, and those workers had to have a factory and a company that would manufacture something else that's in, it's the same in government."
-- Premier Mike Harris offering solace to laid-off hospital workers (March 1997).
"He's there for the full school day, in uniform, fully equipped with a weapon and carrying out a whole range of duties while he's there or she's there. If a problem crops up, I think it certainly raises the comfort levels of the teachers as well, there's no question about that."
-- Solicitor General Bob Runciman explaining the role of armed cops in the school system (April 1999).
"My Solicitor-General didn't say that."
-- Mike Harris in denial (April 1999).
And of course, the truly classic Harris line :
"We have to make sure those dollars don't go to beer."
-- Premier Mike Harris explaining why pregnant women on welfare no longer get $37 per month to buy extra food. Officials in the Ministry of Social Services said they had no evidence of women misusing their allowance (April 1998).
Mike Harris - Hero of the white, middle class male. Champion of Crypto laws, enemy of hospitals, schools and free political protest.
Yes, he kept his promises on cutting taxes (the wisdom of which escapes me), but what about his promises not to close any Hospitals? The promises to prevent introduction of user fees (which have just about balanced the difference from the tax cuts anyway.)? What about promises to control tuition increases? What about him just dumping responsibily onto the municipalities, causing an organizational nightmare? What about the incresases in property taxes that we have because responsibilty has been shirked onto the municipalities?
Oh, but he cut provincial income tax. That makes everything all right. Silly me. I forgot that Cutting Income Tax is a magic phrase which trumps anything else he did wrong.
When I first read this I thought that, through some miracle, the Harris goverenment actually did something right for once. Looks to be a provincial comittee. Anyone know if this was due to Mikey's little gov't there? I'm looking for a reason, even one, not to hate him :-)
I'm also getting a DNS look up error on http://www.ipc.on.ca/, which was what the Wired article linked to. Anyone know if that's the right link?
Watch it if you're running NT. The last several times I've run it on my machine, NT's filesystem has decided that it just doesn't feel like existing any more (i.e. I boot up one day to 'no operating system found', and then proceed to thank various Ancient & Powerful(tm) deities that I never kept any Real Work on there). The filesystem implosion thing has happened twice to me, and at least once to another person I know.
Am I alone in this happening to me?
(yes, well, obviously if it happened to another person I know, I'm not really alone in it, but I was speaking within the context of slashdot. I think. Anyway, it's coffee time. mmmm.... raspberry chocolate.......)
How good are you at q3test? Can Dust Puppy kick your ass?
When you came up with the design document for 'Pac Man', how many of your co-workers laughed at you, saying it would never work? How many of them are dead now?
Relate to us the tale of how you prevented the Nazi's from gaining control of our atomic weapons at the end of World War II.
When you were lost in the deserts of Turkey, dying of thirst, did you, even once, wish you were back in Seattle in a bubblebath with Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates?
Anyway, this just seems like another version of the circle of life that video hardware has undergone. Why should communications hardware be any different?
How can it be 'about time' for a Linux port of a game that isn't out yet?
Excuse me if I am not looking forward to a future populated by chat rooms and disconnected OS wars.
This is just another in a continuing series of articles that are simply trying to attract readers who style themselves 'geeks'. Katz suffers the same symptoms - by glorifying the ideal of 'being a geek' (without truly understanding what he's saying - i.e. that anyone who is different on even a remotely intellecutal scale is suddenly a 'geek' according to the new Geek Chic social forces), and by attacking old social structures (not realizing that any new ones that get built will suck just as much for those who aren't a part of them) he feels he is now sufficently rebellious and intellectual to hand down 'Geek Manifestos'.
This article is just more of the same, just not from Katz. It's writer is just trying to appeal to geeks that have inferiority complexes, without really realizing what a 'Net-Set' crowd would be like (i.e. sitting around trading pr0n and playing Quake is what I would imagine a 'Net-Set' get-together would be like).
How can you have a social elite comprised of a (by the classical pop definition of 'geek') socially inept group of people?
(The social elites of the future, btw, will likely be those who further mutilate thier bodys and minds in order to become physically and sexually attractive - and most of us will care less and less, just like it's always been) (because, when you get right down to it, the social elites are the ones that you see on the cover of tabloids and on TV tabloid shows, etc. And I wouldn't wish being a 'social elite' on my worst enemy.)
Neuromancer is probably going to suck for just this reason - that CC is going to go gonzo on the music video special effects, and leave any sort of character or plot development to the dogs. The whole thing that made Neuromancer's world so compelling were the type of people that inhabited the Sprawl. Just making a cool looking city, and neat-o cyberspace effects, inhabited by cardboard cutouts of characters will make a shitty, disappointing movie. Case was a perfect Anti-Hero - he encountered transcendence, touched divinity, and then went back and got a new liver so he could take more drugs. He simply didn't care about anyone but himself. How has hollywood ever made a protagonist like that? Even Ralph Fiennes from Strange Days was a good guy, albiet an ambiuous one. Try and imagine how hollywood is going to treat the sexual encounter between Molly & Case in the foam-padded 'hotel room'. Do you really think that it's going to be in tune with the character's attitudes, or is it just going to be an excuse for CC to show off Molly's body (probably with more cybernetics than we expect).
Neruomancer was compelling because it was about people who were not heros, who were not hollywoodesque leading men & women - they were moral and physical degenerates that needed to be threatend with thier life and have the capacity to take drugs be cut off in order to get them to do anything.
Do we really think that this is what we're going to see in the movie? Or are we going to see Case as an actual 'hero' who actually cares about what he is doing? And if we, god forbid, do actually see someone as degenerate and apathetic as Case on the screen, is it going to be enjoyable to watch? (See Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas for an example of something that can be enjoyable to read, but not to watch). Neuromancer was an excellent book, because Gibson took (in some people's opinion too much) advantage of the English language to describe everything in a nearly poetic and gritty manner. Is seeing it on the screen going to be at all worthwhile? I doubt it.
This is going to suck.
Because the new one sucks.
Especially since there was an identical post in the last perl article, which didn't get moderated down.
All hail moderation.
Excuse me, but is this not the most glaring straw man argument you have ever seen? Is George Lucas trying to do a bit of PR work for himself because his baby got a lukewarm reception? Did all the net.flames make him insecure? Is he just an idiot? Who knows....
*yawn*
Unreal = last year.
I used to hate this kind of knee-jerk-esque rhetoric about Netscape....
Until I started to have to do some web design....
Now I feel like I wish I was allowed to not support Netscape.
I'm pretty sure that MSVC compiles all of the requisite header files into an intermediate file, (if you use MSVC, you see *.pch files in with the rest of your object files - that be them), and so instead of recompiling and repreprocessing every one of the massive Windows header files every time you hit the compile button... well, you get the point.
There are probably other techniques involved as well, but I know that one is there.
Because human arms, as was shown eons ago with light pens, don't like being held elevated for long periods of time.
It might be a cool idea, but try holding your hands up front of you and moving them intracately for an hour. Imagine 8 hours of that. A day.
And is a clever email bot really that hard to imagine?
I'm sure if you really want Spam, it can be arranged. It's generally not hard to come by
Maybe it's some silly prank, or someone trying to show off his ability to "spoof" mailadresses. (Obviously not aware of headers n stuff)
No, it's spam... It's intended to get you to click on the link, so you can look at thier porn site, and maybe sign up. That's it. It's not about ego or l33t hax0r 5ki11s, just about getting someone to click. Once that is accomplished it's useless.
Wondered what would happen if 15 year old lamer gets shown that the veil of anonymity on the net is wafer thin?
http://www.planetcrap.com/929372550/
It's an interesting thread. And Open Source related to boot. Go nuts.
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This sounds almost as bad as my recent Alpha Centarui addiction.
:-)
4 am, have to be up in 2 hours, nahh, I can just finish this last secret project....
If I thought that I could survive it, I'd go out and get EQ.
TF2 = Multiplayer Action strategy.
And we know how well Action/Strategy games do in the market. The most excellent best-game-of-1998 Battlezone tanked, as did Uprising and Urban Assult. TF2 has a following, but outside of those who grok it already, it's going to be a hard sell. Q3's very virtue and marketability come from the fact that it's a "simple, shallow arcade game" (John Carmack).
Correction, there's a small mention of OpenGL...
Let's encourage people to write Glide games. Yeah, that's the ticket....
Nowhere is there any mention of Mesa or OpenGL.
Linux is at the stage that Windows was a while ago -- 3dfx, for one reason or another, is the only viable platform for 3d game development. The result of this in Windows was a bunch of Glide only games, and a tendency to only support 3dfx (cough, cough, unreal, starsiege). This sucked.
Don't do it again.