I've seen maybe 5 new movies in the last two years. I thought they were all trash. Two of the best ones had a scientologist killing people, and that should tell you something.
IF ANYTHING my original comment was unfair to Bollywood. Bollywood at least tries.
Is that a good programming language for a beginning programmer?
Yes, I know it doesn't have to and isn't really supposed to look like that, but a language that does a bit more readability enforcement, like Python, would almost certainly be a better choice than Perl. Perl is a language by and for Perl programmers. I'd go so far as to say it's a mess.
Maybe that's why I get so incredibly tired when I'm typing 20-30 pages a day. Earlier this summer it was so bad I thought I had narcolepsy. Then it got better, but now that I'm writing a lot again it's heated up. I slept for 23 hours yesterday.
I installed this, now how do I access the bindery?
I'm a CNE, so if you tell me where the bindery is I should be ok.
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Let's let these incredibly expensive and wasteful junkets sit on the back burner until, say, 90% of people on earth have enough food to eat.
The idea of the super rich entertaining themselves at the expense of untold amounts of fossil fuel, and contributing to the global warming crisis, all so that they can sit up in space for a while oooh-ing and aah-ing at the earth so tiny down below-- this makes me want to vomit.
Sounds to me like they think information is such an important resource that they want to control it. This radio station sounds like it might not be run by Clearchannel, and it might put out some information that might sound bad, so they have to clamp down on it right away to limit media outlets to government controlled spin.
Kind of like how the National Guard is preventing people from photographing the reportedly huge number of corpses in East NOLA.
I haven't watched more than a few hours of broadcast (or cable) TV since 95 or so. Before that it was about 8 years.
There's nothing that appeals to me on broadcast OR cable. A few censored date movies. Once in a while a good movie. The Hitlery channel. But I just can't justify the time spent staring dumbly at the screen. Just about ANYTHING, including sleeping, would be preferable to me than watching TV.
The TV and movie execs talk about how they're worried about the numbers of late. The reason is their shows are all designed by committee and aimed at the lowest common denominator.
Last week, after the whole 40m CC flap, a helicopter transporting six executives of MBNA Financial Services-- the company implicated in the security breach-- crashed into the East River.
I run linux because I develop for Nvidia cards. Nvidia support has been horseshit on BSD. I have a BSD install. In many ways I prefer BSD to linux. I love the ports collection and the greater stability of it. That could just be my installation.
But the community is with Linux, the hardware manufacturers are with Linux, and when you're talking about operating systems run by community and vendor support, you know what that means.
They could want the moon to be made of marzipan, too, for all the good it would do them.
Their efforts to crush things in the last few years have been rather unsuccessful. Most of their stuff hangs around, but when I hear of them trying to crush something I just have to think back to Blackbird, C#, etc etc. Bittorrent ain't goin nowhere.
Just the other day, I overheard a number of noted French art-film directors and aficionados at La Petite Couchon, a Cannes sidewalk bistro, enthusing about how excited they were about the prospect of a Halo movie. They were also excited about a possible Halo II movie, and were practically beside themselves with joy at the idea of the angst, dystopianism and emotional involvement of the Master Chief being brought to the silver screen.
Acrylic is pretty nice for making quick sketches, like caricatures, and having them look like pen and ink.
Is it to a threat to Photoshop? Hell no. It's a threat to Paintbrush.
That said, it's kinda neat. I'll look at it again once they finish it. Microsoft's stuff is so committee-driven that it's very rare for them to come out with anything even this neat.
If anything, I'm makign fun of my own previous attitude about Windows. I didn't like it but I used it anyway, as a dual boot, because I didn't see any alternative and I had too many programs that only ran on Windows (mostly games.)
Now, Windows still runs but it's in a VMware window spawned from one of my older servers. For day to day use, including gaming, I now run Redhat exclusively, and I fscking hate Windows.
You know, I used to think all the microsoft bashing that goes on on slashdot was kind of silly. I mean, I agreed with it, but after all, the OS was necessary, wasn't it?
Now I wonder what's going on under the hood there that takes so much processor time. And why does it grind your drives the way it does? Why do the drives have to tick all the time writing to the FAT table, et cetera? It's not because of spyware. Microsoft does this on a freshly installed machine not connected to the net and with no software installed.
I don't get it.
The worst part of it is the fact that XP is the most end-user usable OS they've ever released. And it's still shit.
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Those damned rivers.
Here in the United States, and eventually the world, I think the Christian Church should be the ones to decide.
If we're going to have faith based science, why not faith based nuclear waste disposal?
Oh, wait. You mean it has to be something different than the way we do it now.
This has been going on for months and months. It was better for a while in late summer but has flared up again.
Yeah, NO SHIT.
I've seen maybe 5 new movies in the last two years. I thought they were all trash. Two of the best ones had a scientologist killing people, and that should tell you something.
IF ANYTHING my original comment was unfair to Bollywood. Bollywood at least tries.
Do the terms E-Cinema and D-Cinema have anything to do with the fact that 99% of films that are coming out these days are B movies?
I am usually against "mod it down" zealots, but man, I have to admit, Drakaan's advice was flat out HORRIBLE.
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Is that a good programming language for a beginning programmer?
Yes, I know it doesn't have to and isn't really supposed to look like that, but a language that does a bit more readability enforcement, like Python, would almost certainly be a better choice than Perl. Perl is a language by and for Perl programmers. I'd go so far as to say it's a mess.
Maybe that's why I get so incredibly tired when I'm typing 20-30 pages a day. Earlier this summer it was so bad I thought I had narcolepsy. Then it got better, but now that I'm writing a lot again it's heated up. I slept for 23 hours yesterday.
Thanks, that helped, but that talks about emulation.
Does this mean I have to run it under VMware?
I installed this, now how do I access the bindery?
I'm a CNE, so if you tell me where the bindery is I should be ok.
Let's let these incredibly expensive and wasteful junkets sit on the back burner until, say, 90% of people on earth have enough food to eat.
The idea of the super rich entertaining themselves at the expense of untold amounts of fossil fuel, and contributing to the global warming crisis, all so that they can sit up in space for a while oooh-ing and aah-ing at the earth so tiny down below-- this makes me want to vomit.
Interesting that it has control over the locks.
I wonder if Onstar can remotely lock your vehicle too.
Watch this "service" become mandatory.
Sounds to me like they think information is such an important resource that they want to control it. This radio station sounds like it might not be run by Clearchannel, and it might put out some information that might sound bad, so they have to clamp down on it right away to limit media outlets to government controlled spin.
Kind of like how the National Guard is preventing people from photographing the reportedly huge number of corpses in East NOLA.
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She may be the operator of the DVR, but I have root on it.
And I have root on her.
I haven't watched more than a few hours of broadcast (or cable) TV since 95 or so. Before that it was about 8 years.
There's nothing that appeals to me on broadcast OR cable. A few censored date movies. Once in a while a good movie. The Hitlery channel. But I just can't justify the time spent staring dumbly at the screen. Just about ANYTHING, including sleeping, would be preferable to me than watching TV.
The TV and movie execs talk about how they're worried about the numbers of late. The reason is their shows are all designed by committee and aimed at the lowest common denominator.
Last week, after the whole 40m CC flap, a helicopter transporting six executives of MBNA Financial Services-- the company implicated in the security breach-- crashed into the East River.
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Things that make you go HMMMMM.
I run linux because I develop for Nvidia cards. Nvidia support has been horseshit on BSD. I have a BSD install. In many ways I prefer BSD to linux. I love the ports collection and the greater stability of it. That could just be my installation.
But the community is with Linux, the hardware manufacturers are with Linux, and when you're talking about operating systems run by community and vendor support, you know what that means.
They could want the moon to be made of marzipan, too, for all the good it would do them.
Their efforts to crush things in the last few years have been rather unsuccessful. Most of their stuff hangs around, but when I hear of them trying to crush something I just have to think back to Blackbird, C#, etc etc. Bittorrent ain't goin nowhere.
Just the other day, I overheard a number of noted French art-film directors and aficionados at La Petite Couchon, a Cannes sidewalk bistro, enthusing about how excited they were about the prospect of a Halo movie. They were also excited about a possible Halo II movie, and were practically beside themselves with joy at the idea of the angst, dystopianism and emotional involvement of the Master Chief being brought to the silver screen.
Acrylic is pretty nice for making quick sketches, like caricatures, and having them look like pen and ink.
Is it to a threat to Photoshop? Hell no. It's a threat to Paintbrush.
That said, it's kinda neat. I'll look at it again once they finish it. Microsoft's stuff is so committee-driven that it's very rare for them to come out with anything even this neat.
After all, the sun never sets on the british empire, right?
The Japanese build robotic exoskeletons straight out of Mobile Suit Gundam.
The Brits build robotic dustbins and benches.
Typical.
We wouldn't have to worry about RTFA because we already know what the damn thing is going to be anyway.
Dunno where you got that idea, the people I know and associate with are more united than they've ever been
I guess that's what they get for being ubiquitous.
Kind of ironic and strange that they can be sued for patents on interactions between their own software packages.
Could I patent, just as an example, methods for converting between PDF and PSD files, and then sue Adobe for infringing when they do the obvious?
Something not right about this; I guess it's just showing up yet another problem with copyright law. Pretty thorny one if you think about it.
Why is this modded troll?
If anything, I'm makign fun of my own previous attitude about Windows. I didn't like it but I used it anyway, as a dual boot, because I didn't see any alternative and I had too many programs that only ran on Windows (mostly games.)
Now, Windows still runs but it's in a VMware window spawned from one of my older servers. For day to day use, including gaming, I now run Redhat exclusively, and I fscking hate Windows.
You know, I used to think all the microsoft bashing that goes on on slashdot was kind of silly. I mean, I agreed with it, but after all, the OS was necessary, wasn't it?
Now I wonder what's going on under the hood there that takes so much processor time. And why does it grind your drives the way it does? Why do the drives have to tick all the time writing to the FAT table, et cetera? It's not because of spyware. Microsoft does this on a freshly installed machine not connected to the net and with no software installed.
I don't get it.
The worst part of it is the fact that XP is the most end-user usable OS they've ever released. And it's still shit.