Yup, I'm happy with the subscription too, for the same reasons. I seriously doubt any other poster to this thread has used 2.0. I'm pretty sure virtually all of them did use 1.0, though.;)
Will we be able to make our Vocaloid more realistic by installing "Drug Addict (Weiland build)", "Delusions of Godhood (Bono upgrade)", or "Continually Primping (80s band ret-con)" as well?
Looks like this will push Flash blocking through quickly.:)
Looks like I don't have to wait. SlimBrowser for Windows has the ability to filter Flash animations already, listed under Tools -> Download Control -> In-Page Ad Filter Options. I guess I'll find out soon enough.
I have no idea how old the guy is, but surely he can't be so young as to not remember some of the hoops we had to jump through back in the old, 8 bit, tape-based days?
It's been twenty years since my first exposure to gaming on a tape-based machine; that was typing in lines of BASIC code just to play a simulated game of darts, so the author could be too young to remember the heady TRS-80 days.
In the year 5057 A.D., a consortum of middle aged monks form a weapons production business, selling their wares exclusively to Christian battle outposts and missionaries in distant galaxies
Could be worse. They might be Shaolin monks, in which case Taco's going to get seven kinds of stuff kicked out of him for putting their bandwidth bill into the stratosphere.
Get married. Your spouse will "organize" your stuff into the large bin outside the garage at frequent intervals until your former storage space contains all of her stuff.
No, I don't actually believe Iraq has WMD these days.
I guess all those Kurds gassed themselves, then. The UN never questioned Iraq's possession of WMDs, not France nor anyone else. The UN just put off making any real effort to determine the extent of WMD production and possession for some 12 years.
You probably saw the review earlier this summer. It's a good read. The concept of getting "sheathed" from a, heh, well-rounded geek body to a fully tricked-out tech ninja body should catch some imaginations.
The problem with this "Switch To Apple!" line of thinking is failing to account for business needs. In my personal corporate hell, all the big apps only run on Windoze. Big apps, like warehouse inventory management and flow control, sales force management, customer research, etc. There doesn't seem to be anyone doing the sort of enterprise-scale development of software we use that would run on a Mac.
I'd love to see all our M$ machines cast into Mount Doom, but it just won't happen. Apple had their chance to be the big dog in the desktop world and blew it. Too much inertia in the world to see that change happen now.
Your assumption is incorrect, as is that of the poster you responded to. I was asked to build a fax server. I was told there was no budget to do this beyond my time on the project and whatever hardware I could assemble.
My PHB assumed I would use Linux. There is no policy, formal, informal, or otherwise, specifying OS usage. PHB is a Linuxphile bordering on bigot. I was once a Linuxphile too, using Redhat distros, and finally decided I liked the BSD approach to the OS better. The pending SCO nonsense, which isn't going to go away nicely, also influenced my decision.
I also know my Corporate Masters, who aren't Linuxphiles at all, will cheerfully send around their hit squad from IT Auditing to make sure we the humble subsidiary weren't exposing them the stock option holders to any potential drop in portfolio value. I've lost that battle once already, and it wasn't pleasant.
Anyway, thanks for your opinions, but I'm a grumpy bastard who likes tweaking the boss. And I only do that when I believe I can justify my horrid behavior.
Jack
Oh, and yes, forgiveness is easier to get than permission. How do you think PHB got all of his Linux boxen in place?
Anyone remember Eddie Murphy in "The Distinguished Gentleman"? He's reassured by a more senior Congressman that being for or against an issue won't cost him campaign contributions; he'll just get money from whoever is lobbying in that direction.
Favor tort reform? Forget about getting Peter Angelos to come by your fundraiser; besides, you'll have the CEO of Philip Morris sitting in Peter's seat when the chicken Marsala comes around the table.
Why use something GPL'd when you can use *BSD that has little or no encumbarance like this?
Great question. My PHB is a big Linuxphile, and was not pleased when I built my latest project on a FreeBSD box. I politely pointed out the ongoing SCO badness and suggested we might wish to rethink our OS preferences for certain projects until a satisfactory resolution has been reached.
For this I'm sure I will be punished. But at least I won't be a defendant.
If this were me, I'd spend some time creating a nice presentation on how their network could be improved (and how much I'd charge), and the next time I was called upon to fill in, I'd do my best to get someone to listen to my pitch for five minutes. This sounds like some serious low-hanging fruit begging to be plucked.
Jack
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Drama, without a doubt, needs humor...Star Trek: TNG which, incedentally, is why that was considered the last great Star Trek series.
Best TNG one-liner: Q loses his powers and ends up onboard the Enterprise. When Q complains and asks what he must do to prove he's human, Worf sums it up perfectly: Die.
Cool: tiny ricegrain-sized chip enables EMTs to immediately know your blood type and you are allergic to certain meds when then cut your ass out of a car wreck to begin treatment.
Not Cool: same as above, except that one of the EMTs has a beloved relative who needs an organ transplant and learns from your chip that you are a potential organ donor. And no other witnesses are nearby at the moment.
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Sunless Jowler is an anagram for W Russell Jones. I think that connotes an appropriate image.
That would be what's called tenure.
Yup, I'm happy with the subscription too, for the same reasons. I seriously doubt any other poster to this thread has used 2.0. I'm pretty sure virtually all of them did use 1.0, though. ;)
Worse, you might get the "Oh so you're the guy who modded me '-1 offtopic' last week" line instead.
Will we be able to make our Vocaloid more realistic by installing "Drug Addict (Weiland build)", "Delusions of Godhood (Bono upgrade)", or "Continually Primping (80s band ret-con)" as well?
Looks like I don't have to wait. SlimBrowser for Windows has the ability to filter Flash animations already, listed under Tools -> Download Control -> In-Page Ad Filter Options. I guess I'll find out soon enough.
It's been twenty years since my first exposure to gaming on a tape-based machine; that was typing in lines of BASIC code just to play a simulated game of darts, so the author could be too young to remember the heady TRS-80 days.
Jack
The gentle folk at Gethesmani do an excellent bourbon fudge. Mmmm...
Sound vaguely familiar to me.
Could be worse. They might be Shaolin monks, in which case Taco's going to get seven kinds of stuff kicked out of him for putting their bandwidth bill into the stratosphere.
One problem solved.
Jack
Get married. Your spouse will "organize" your stuff into the large bin outside the garage at frequent intervals until your former storage space contains all of her stuff.
but that's ok, you can always read the man page if you must.
I guess all those Kurds gassed themselves, then. The UN never questioned Iraq's possession of WMDs, not France nor anyone else. The UN just put off making any real effort to determine the extent of WMD production and possession for some 12 years.
I guess they want to be free radicals, then...
Of course, I could be completely wrong.
Jack
I'd love to see all our M$ machines cast into Mount Doom, but it just won't happen. Apple had their chance to be the big dog in the desktop world and blew it. Too much inertia in the world to see that change happen now.
Jack
Your assumption is incorrect, as is that of the poster you responded to. I was asked to build a fax server. I was told there was no budget to do this beyond my time on the project and whatever hardware I could assemble.
My PHB assumed I would use Linux. There is no policy, formal, informal, or otherwise, specifying OS usage. PHB is a Linuxphile bordering on bigot. I was once a Linuxphile too, using Redhat distros, and finally decided I liked the BSD approach to the OS better. The pending SCO nonsense, which isn't going to go away nicely, also influenced my decision.
I also know my Corporate Masters, who aren't Linuxphiles at all, will cheerfully send around their hit squad from IT Auditing to make sure we the humble subsidiary weren't exposing them the stock option holders to any potential drop in portfolio value. I've lost that battle once already, and it wasn't pleasant.
Anyway, thanks for your opinions, but I'm a grumpy bastard who likes tweaking the boss. And I only do that when I believe I can justify my horrid behavior.
Jack
Oh, and yes, forgiveness is easier to get than permission. How do you think PHB got all of his Linux boxen in place?
Anyone remember Eddie Murphy in "The Distinguished Gentleman"? He's reassured by a more senior Congressman that being for or against an issue won't cost him campaign contributions; he'll just get money from whoever is lobbying in that direction.
Favor tort reform? Forget about getting Peter Angelos to come by your fundraiser; besides, you'll have the CEO of Philip Morris sitting in Peter's seat when the chicken Marsala comes around the table.
Jack
Great question. My PHB is a big Linuxphile, and was not pleased when I built my latest project on a FreeBSD box. I politely pointed out the ongoing SCO badness and suggested we might wish to rethink our OS preferences for certain projects until a satisfactory resolution has been reached.
For this I'm sure I will be punished. But at least I won't be a defendant.
Jack
That's intentional; they want people to come back each week and see what new feature has been added.
Yeah, and it will also dual boot Debian as well.
Jack
Jack
Java: Write Once, Debug Anywhere
Best TNG one-liner: Q loses his powers and ends up onboard the Enterprise. When Q complains and asks what he must do to prove he's human, Worf sums it up perfectly:
Die.
Jack
Jack