Ha! A year and a half, by the time he's out of the jug it'll all be different (except luddites who are still using the same version of Windows they bought over 18 months back) and he won't
even be able to recognize the world anymore.
Maybe Their Charity, the Lord Protector, will assign him to tranlate old MS-DOS textbooks.
18 months in a Minnesota prison may only seem like 2000 years. Maybe his cellmate will be like that guy from Fargo...
In other news, the BBC series is available on Netflix.
My sister gave this to me, Christmas 2004, I've watched parts of it. Really, I'm expecting the TV series will compare favorably to this movie and it was done, what in the 80's?
Here's a linky to the toys and office products from the movie. Marvin looks too cute and I want one of those mugs!
The Vogons are GREEN! Crap! As for Marvin, he looks nothing at all like I imagined, absolutely awful, too. A one-headed two-armed Zaphod, how unspecial. And I couldn't help but notice Disney in the upper right corner.
Something tells me 75% share-and-enjoy vs. 25% up-against-the-wall-when-the-revolution-comes is going to be generous. I may just sit this suspected travesty out. I think I've already met my quota of Movies I'd Like To Have My Money Back After Seeing Them for this decade.
Can someone please give examples of when a book converted to a movie was anywhere near as good as the book? Some are satisfactory conversions... but I have never had one instance where a good book became a better movie...
Perhaps the adaptation of Do Electronic Sheep Dream to Bladerunner...
Ironically, I've found the H2G2 books to be somewhat less enjoyable with subsequent re-readings, which doesn't seem to be the case with many other books or series I've read. I just kept getting the impression that it's not really humourous as much as it's biting satire, cynicism and such. The last two books I really haven't much interest in re-reading as I felt DNA really didn't like the characters and the who story and was eager to be done with it, but for the money pubishers (a) gave him OR (b) would give him for each additional book. The highlight seemed to be Last Chance to See which did strike me as a labor of love, unlike all his other works.
When I programmed in RSTS Basic I rarely had more than one statement per line.
The worst of that cramped coding style was when you had to debug someone elses program. It took considerable time simply to determine what it was doing. I've still had to cope with things like that a few times over the years and usually bring it up in a text editor and split out individual statements and to show where nesting is taking place.
I mostly program in C, Java,php and C++(and several other languages that I dont use as much), and am always interested in picking up new languages to play around with. Is Fortran worth learning? And are there any things that it does a lot better than other languages?
No real reason left, unless you're trying to decypher some FORTRAN to convert to something else. It's major charm, among engineers, was the complex math library, which you can pretty much throw into anything you like now, though i don't know about Visual Studio stuff (there may be complex datatypes and library, I just haven't looked for them) I developed a complex math library for C about a decade ago.
I took over from a guy with a Masters Degree, who only took Fortran in his day and everything he wrote looked like it. (He also was a pretty bad coder besides, with at least one variable spelled three different ways in one module. eek)
I'm more of a western coder... lots of wide open spaces in between clauses for readability. Documentation in bits rather than 100 lines of code then a paragraph about what happened in there.
I'm sure someone somewhere would gripe about my style too.
I guess that leaves the door open for whatever the upcoming Lucas Arts games.
Sure, but the question on everyone's mind is, will Lucas Arts Games acquire exclusive rights to Premiership Soccer or NHL Hockey before returning to writing games about jedis, droids and lightsabre duels.
Look. Look.
See. See.
Look. Look. Look.
See. See. See.
See Anakin. See Anakin turn. Turn Anakin turn.
See Jedis. See Jedis die. Die Jedis die.
See Palpatine. See Palpatine rule. Rule Palpatine rule.
Look. See Darth Vader. See Amidala. See Amidala give birth and hide children. Hide them Amidala.
See Amidala die. Die Amidala die.
I hope they have something to add to browser use that isn't already covered by Firefox, and I'm not just talking about having the Google logo plastered all over it in an attempt at 'integration'. Otherwise it's going to be what is known as a pointless endeavour.
I'm waiting for slashgoogle.org, the up-and-coming Google news blog site.
Building in 120GB, 160GB or higher capacity drives, for example, will mean miniature PCs able to match larger machines in storing large numbers of MP3 files or even digital photos.
Oh come on. Not many people have enough photos and MP3s to fill even 10GB nevermind 120GB or 160GB. I am still using a 10GB HD in my XP machine. Yeah, my music is stored elsewhere but it's still less than 7GB of MP3s and 10GB more for SHN/FLAC (which most people aren't into). I want to know how many regular computer userse have 100GB of music and photos. Geeks are in the minority when it comes to computer purchases from major vendors that would be hurt by this "gamble". I'm sure it won't be anything for them to worry about.
Ah, the old 640K is good enough for anybody line... I hardly do anything, yet find my drive filling up faster than I'd have ever dreamed on my old Amiga 2000 (which has a measely 80 MB HD) thanks to all the extra bloat in everything.
People are packrats, they fill drives with everything they ever received as an email attachment or downloaded from the internet. Every PDF, XLS, DOC, ZIP, etc. It adds up fast, especially if you do what I do, which is archive my email on my HD since the policy is to clear the server of any over 6 months old. I keep the junk because I inevitably have to look back in it to see what was decided, done, not done, or how something was/was not done, and so on.
I don't even have any MP3's on my computer at work and only a few flash, mov or such stashed anywhere.
Installs are another thing, it seems every few years an install doubles the number of CD's in a distro of anything from Microsoft (yeah, we're pretty much one of their shops, but I still fiddle with other stuff as needed.)
As to the initial question of smaller desktops, foo, there've been smaller desktops for years and people still go with the big boxes. The main thing people opt for now is LCD monitors as that imediately impacts desktop realestate.
Whatever do you mean? I've been a Sirius subscriber for 3.5 years now and it rocks. At a paltry $100 or so for 12 months, you gotta be shitting me that that's expensive, when to get the same hours of enjoyment out of cable or satellite TV I'd have blown that wad for only two months service.
I just hope they keep the price down. It's a steal.
Cripes. I read about it this morning and could see it wasn't even remotely likely as it would have to cut the mustard with the feds, i.e.:
It's Ok for there to be a monopoly if one goes out of business, but not Ok if the only two merge.
That aside... that's the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) logo up there in the corner. WTF does the defunct maker of Vaxen and PDP's have to do with satellite radio????
Maybe EA is shaking its developers up for the foreseeable battle with TakeTwo?
shmaybe..
And it's undeniable that EA is in a good position to pull this kind of team-balancing stunt, because there are simply too many willing-to-work-25-hours-a-day multimedia graduates. If you come across an apple tree full of apples, you'll surely pick the best ones too.
Maybe they're getting ready to ship development overseas, too, it's not beyond possibility, as we've seen all too much of in IT and Engineering.
Why pay coders chicken feed when they can pay someone off-shore a fraction of chicken feed.
Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy about the company which brought us M.U.L.E. and Mail Order Monsters, back in the day.
Even if you consider the lowering of prices, the fact remains that you could spend $400-$500 to bring the Mac Mini up to a reasonable configuration by today's standards. IMHO, this doesn't go against their business model.
I was probably the only one to hear this, but on KCBS, the San Jose station, ripped the cost of upgrades on the Mac Mini. I expect Apple people were listening to their radios and considered this and thus you see a quick about face.
does anyone else see the serious rights issues here? What's to prevent this being used by police to block their images when they're beating or otherwise mistreating people?
Just figure out how it detects the blurring signal and jam it. If it's visual, try some filters, if it's RF just put a tin-foil-hat on it.
Duh! I thought/. catered to hackers. I don't see much hacker aptitude in such worry-warting.
Another excellent read is Leadership secrets of Atilla the Hun
Don't forget to place it in a visible place on your bookshelf, or better yet right on the corner of your desk where none of your minions can miss it. A picture of him and his army pillaging and looting would be a great addition too.
As long as you're doing that, include The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
The meetings will continue until we find out why nothing gets done around here.
(This really was the case where I worked years ago, I was found to be a very useful person to invite to meetings as my analytical nature cut to the chase quickly and resolved issues, sometimes in as little as five minutes even, though the meeting was scheduled to last hours. Problem was, I got invited to so many meetings I couldn't get done all my work and other things from other meetings.)
Dilbert is humor and perhaps useful insights into what happens under ineffective (or malignent) management.
I think Scott has some good things to say on what's wrong in business, but I haven't read enough to see ways to fix it. Check out the books by Scott Adams: Dilbert Principle and such.
It is absolutely crucial to read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. That will turn anyone into a good manager. Best manager I had was an analytical type like us back at GE. He read lots of books and practiced what they preached. The Carnegie book is the most important!
Another excellent read is Leadership secrets of Atilla the Hun (no joke) the man turned yak herders into a formidable force.
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Maybe Their Charity, the Lord Protector, will assign him to tranlate old MS-DOS textbooks.
18 months in a Minnesota prison may only seem like 2000 years. Maybe his cellmate will be like that guy from Fargo...
Since they fscked with the script so much to create merchandise.
"I think you ought to know, I'm feeling very depressed about being in a Disney movie."
My sister gave this to me, Christmas 2004, I've watched parts of it. Really, I'm expecting the TV series will compare favorably to this movie and it was done, what in the 80's?
The Vogons are GREEN! Crap! As for Marvin, he looks nothing at all like I imagined, absolutely awful, too. A one-headed two-armed Zaphod, how unspecial. And I couldn't help but notice Disney in the upper right corner.
Something tells me 75% share-and-enjoy vs. 25% up-against-the-wall-when-the-revolution-comes is going to be generous. I may just sit this suspected travesty out. I think I've already met my quota of Movies I'd Like To Have My Money Back After Seeing Them for this decade.
Perhaps the adaptation of Do Electronic Sheep Dream to Bladerunner...
Ironically, I've found the H2G2 books to be somewhat less enjoyable with subsequent re-readings, which doesn't seem to be the case with many other books or series I've read. I just kept getting the impression that it's not really humourous as much as it's biting satire, cynicism and such. The last two books I really haven't much interest in re-reading as I felt DNA really didn't like the characters and the who story and was eager to be done with it, but for the money pubishers (a) gave him OR (b) would give him for each additional book. The highlight seemed to be Last Chance to See which did strike me as a labor of love, unlike all his other works.
Yes. Back when we had 8K or 12K to program in.
When I programmed in RSTS Basic I rarely had more than one statement per line.
The worst of that cramped coding style was when you had to debug someone elses program. It took considerable time simply to determine what it was doing. I've still had to cope with things like that a few times over the years and usually bring it up in a text editor and split out individual statements and to show where nesting is taking place.
No real reason left, unless you're trying to decypher some FORTRAN to convert to something else. It's major charm, among engineers, was the complex math library, which you can pretty much throw into anything you like now, though i don't know about Visual Studio stuff (there may be complex datatypes and library, I just haven't looked for them) I developed a complex math library for C about a decade ago.
I'm more of a western coder ... lots of wide open spaces in between clauses for readability. Documentation in bits rather than 100 lines of code then a paragraph about what happened in there.
I'm sure someone somewhere would gripe about my style too.
Star Wars is sci-fi Lite
Haven't you figured that out by now? It's the sort even a 5 year old can follow.
*sigh*
Why 'General Grievous?'? Because General Electric was already taken!
rimshot
Sure, but the question on everyone's mind is, will Lucas Arts Games acquire exclusive rights to Premiership Soccer or NHL Hockey before returning to writing games about jedis, droids and lightsabre duels.
See. See.
Look. Look. Look.
See. See. See.
See Anakin. See Anakin turn. Turn Anakin turn.
See Jedis. See Jedis die. Die Jedis die.
See Palpatine. See Palpatine rule. Rule Palpatine rule.
Look. See Darth Vader. See Amidala. See Amidala give birth and hide children. Hide them Amidala.
See Amidala die. Die Amidala die.
There's so much to see.
I'm waiting for slashgoogle.org, the up-and-coming Google news blog site.
Ah, the old 640K is good enough for anybody line... I hardly do anything, yet find my drive filling up faster than I'd have ever dreamed on my old Amiga 2000 (which has a measely 80 MB HD) thanks to all the extra bloat in everything.
People are packrats, they fill drives with everything they ever received as an email attachment or downloaded from the internet. Every PDF, XLS, DOC, ZIP, etc. It adds up fast, especially if you do what I do, which is archive my email on my HD since the policy is to clear the server of any over 6 months old. I keep the junk because I inevitably have to look back in it to see what was decided, done, not done, or how something was/was not done, and so on.
I don't even have any MP3's on my computer at work and only a few flash, mov or such stashed anywhere.
Installs are another thing, it seems every few years an install doubles the number of CD's in a distro of anything from Microsoft (yeah, we're pretty much one of their shops, but I still fiddle with other stuff as needed.)
As to the initial question of smaller desktops, foo, there've been smaller desktops for years and people still go with the big boxes. The main thing people opt for now is LCD monitors as that imediately impacts desktop realestate.
Geo. W. Bush, The Religious Right and The Catholic Church is going to go nuts on this, because:
1. They shouldn't have done it.
2. If they abort any in progress or kill any it's murder.
"You can use my cells, but it's gotta be raise a Catholic!"
Whatever do you mean? I've been a Sirius subscriber for 3.5 years now and it rocks. At a paltry $100 or so for 12 months, you gotta be shitting me that that's expensive, when to get the same hours of enjoyment out of cable or satellite TV I'd have blown that wad for only two months service.
I just hope they keep the price down. It's a steal.
Cripes. I read about it this morning and could see it wasn't even remotely likely as it would have to cut the mustard with the feds, i.e.:
It's Ok for there to be a monopoly if one goes out of business, but not Ok if the only two merge.
That aside... that's the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) logo up there in the corner. WTF does the defunct maker of Vaxen and PDP's have to do with satellite radio????
shmaybe..
And it's undeniable that EA is in a good position to pull this kind of team-balancing stunt, because there are simply too many willing-to-work-25-hours-a-day multimedia graduates. If you come across an apple tree full of apples, you'll surely pick the best ones too.
Maybe they're getting ready to ship development overseas, too, it's not beyond possibility, as we've seen all too much of in IT and Engineering.
Why pay coders chicken feed when they can pay someone off-shore a fraction of chicken feed.
Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy about the company which brought us M.U.L.E. and Mail Order Monsters, back in the day.
I was probably the only one to hear this, but on KCBS, the San Jose station, ripped the cost of upgrades on the Mac Mini. I expect Apple people were listening to their radios and considered this and thus you see a quick about face.
Just figure out how it detects the blurring signal and jam it. If it's visual, try some filters, if it's RF just put a tin-foil-hat on it.
Duh! I thought /. catered to hackers. I don't see much hacker aptitude in such worry-warting.
Government bans Sims 2, they don't like competition when trying to run the lives of 1.5 billion people.
As long as you're doing that, include The Art of War by Sun Tzu.
Also:
The meetings will continue until we find out why nothing gets done around here.
(This really was the case where I worked years ago, I was found to be a very useful person to invite to meetings as my analytical nature cut to the chase quickly and resolved issues, sometimes in as little as five minutes even, though the meeting was scheduled to last hours. Problem was, I got invited to so many meetings I couldn't get done all my work and other things from other meetings.)
I think Scott has some good things to say on what's wrong in business, but I haven't read enough to see ways to fix it. Check out the books by Scott Adams: Dilbert Principle and such.
Another excellent read is Leadership secrets of Atilla the Hun (no joke) the man turned yak herders into a formidable force.