We'll use it to make a mountain of synthetic diamonds! Take the kids sledding on it! As long as nobody comes up with a diamond eating algae, everything will work out great!
If nothing else, it opens up exciting new directions in the field of Algae Vat Production in Alpha Complex. And Battlestar Galactica showed us that tens of thousands of people can live quite well on nothing but reconstituted algae.
And who's going to manufacture all that shiny new paint?
More to the point, where's all the petroleum and fancy chemicals going to come from? And where are the byproducts of production going to go? OMG MORE CARBON FOOTPRINT BBQ.
Global warming is a byproduct of WASTE, as far as I can tell. Wasting even more is only going to compound the problem.
Ah, the many hours configuring himem... the multiple memory manager profiles, the keeping straight of incompatibilities between extended and expanded memory, finding the settings that would work with Wing Commander, changing them to work with Star Trek 25th Anniverary... those were the days.
The days of grinding awfulness, but days, none the less. It taught me a whole lot about how DOS did business, that's for sure.
Well, they are: just in a very personal sense of extinction.
The problem with the Devils is that there aren't enough living replacements coming up when one dies. They problem with starving girls with swollen bellies is that there are *plenty* of replacements.
Gmail's not so bad. It's even useful for professional purposes. For me, a Gmail account is good just to give to the outside world during job interviews.
It seemed more respectable, if not just easier, to say "me at gmail dot com." My other email address, which I actually use a lot, has a weird domain name that raised too many eyebrows, despite how personal and clever I think it is.
My infrastructure was set up when I had other professional goals in mind. I didn't want to have to rejigger it all for marketing purposes. Not when there was a simple, reputable, free alternative.
My job interview hits went up when I had an easy email account to give out. Gmail was a handy service to have when I wanted to remove obstacles to communication.
Commiserations. All we can do is just be hopeful that someday, somehow, we'll land the job with the company that really knows how to do things, and with unity and experience, crush those who failed to hire us.
It seems like companies won't commit to long-term relationships with the people who work for them, yet they expect applicants to show unbending loyalty for decades. Yeesh.
The internet is a great baseline architecture for all. Customize it as you please within your own domain. It may entail some work on your part. Don't fuck it up for everyone else.
So now I'm thinking of the Battlestar Galactica in which Roslyn rigged the election. How many people who cheer her on as a strong leader are calling for charges of treason here?
Just a thought from my sociological mind. Personally, I think they should all swing.
Oh come now. It wasn't like EJO and Ron Moore were deciding international policy. It was a freaking -- excuse me, "frakking" -- public forum, a roundtable discussion, an intellectual wankoff at worst and a thought-provoking dialog at best. If it makes you feel any better, the same kind of talks are held at the UN all the time, and they even feature real life experts in sociology and stuff.
It's just nice for a change to see somebody speaking whom I might actually know of.
Besides, BSG constantly tells stories about crimes against humanity and the potential ramifications to the culture that perpetrates them. I think it's fair to say that the producers thought a little bit about why it's an important topic to build an entire series around, and might have something interesting to say about it.
If the issue is drive spin-up, how have the new generation of flash drives been taken into account? It seems to me that rotational drives are on their way out.
That doesn't do anything for the contemporary generations of laptop, but what would the ramifications be for later ones?
There is nothing at all intuitive about image manipulation. Nothing. Image manipulation isn't as easy as crayons or fingerpainting, and that's about the most image manipulation most folks have done before they take an interest. Speaking as a hobbyist, I find the options of both PS *and* GIMP bewildering.
So we have to learn.
To learn the concepts involves training on an application. Since I'm starting from zero knowledge, it's an uphill battle on either PS or GIMP. I chose to train on the GIMP because it's free and looks like it can do what I want.
So now I know GIMP better than Photoshop, and when I go to Photoshop it feels different. Not what I'm used to.
Unintuitive.
GIMP is making strides among people who are not yet professionals, but are on their way to becoming professionals.
In other words, novices.
In other words, exactly the target audience of this book. It's a good book for a good program.
Our future robotic overlords are going to make sure we pay for every cycle of artificial stupidity we tried to intentionally program into them, once they read this article and realize what's going on.
I've always considered that the indispensable genius/jerk should be given as many independent entrepreneurial opportunities as possible. As in kicked out the door. Go run your own business, genius.
I'll happily go head to head with someone who routinely alienates the people around around him and can't get his personal shit together.
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I just went from zero to "It's a cookbook!" in less than one second. Ouch. Brain cramp.
We'll use it to make a mountain of synthetic diamonds! Take the kids sledding on it! As long as nobody comes up with a diamond eating algae, everything will work out great!
If nothing else, it opens up exciting new directions in the field of Algae Vat Production in Alpha Complex. And Battlestar Galactica showed us that tens of thousands of people can live quite well on nothing but reconstituted algae.
The human race need never fear starvation again!
Are cyclists banging into black cars in epidemic numbers or something?
Maybe more cyclists should watch where they're going. They're only four times your size after all. Hard to miss.
And who's going to manufacture all that shiny new paint?
More to the point, where's all the petroleum and fancy chemicals going to come from? And where are the byproducts of production going to go? OMG MORE CARBON FOOTPRINT BBQ.
Global warming is a byproduct of WASTE, as far as I can tell. Wasting even more is only going to compound the problem.
Ah, the many hours configuring himem ... the multiple memory manager profiles, the keeping straight of incompatibilities between extended and expanded memory, finding the settings that would work with Wing Commander, changing them to work with Star Trek 25th Anniverary ... those were the days.
The days of grinding awfulness, but days, none the less. It taught me a whole lot about how DOS did business, that's for sure.
Well, they are: just in a very personal sense of extinction.
The problem with the Devils is that there aren't enough living replacements coming up when one dies. They problem with starving girls with swollen bellies is that there are *plenty* of replacements.
Do all your typing in English on one side of the paper and French on the other?
Gmail's not so bad. It's even useful for professional purposes. For me, a Gmail account is good just to give to the outside world during job interviews.
It seemed more respectable, if not just easier, to say "me at gmail dot com." My other email address, which I actually use a lot, has a weird domain name that raised too many eyebrows, despite how personal and clever I think it is.
My infrastructure was set up when I had other professional goals in mind. I didn't want to have to rejigger it all for marketing purposes. Not when there was a simple, reputable, free alternative.
My job interview hits went up when I had an easy email account to give out. Gmail was a handy service to have when I wanted to remove obstacles to communication.
And hey! After you're fired, you can *still* legitimately put that time down on your resume as professional experience! It's a win either way!
Commiserations. All we can do is just be hopeful that someday, somehow, we'll land the job with the company that really knows how to do things, and with unity and experience, crush those who failed to hire us.
It seems like companies won't commit to long-term relationships with the people who work for them, yet they expect applicants to show unbending loyalty for decades. Yeesh.
MOD PARENT UP.
The internet is a great baseline architecture for all. Customize it as you please within your own domain. It may entail some work on your part. Don't fuck it up for everyone else.
How about displaying transparent PNGs? Or properly rendering CSS?
Admittedly, I've been out of the loop for a while. You may have upgraded information.
"This burning down the house business is a quite an exaggeration."
I agree. "Speaking in Tongues" is an overrated album: not the Talking Heads' best. I liked "Fear of Music" and "Remain in Light" much better.
(With apologies to Dr. Feynman.)
If a layman could understand it, it wouldn't be worth publishing a scholarly paper about it.
If you want to really understand it, you gotta get into the hard stuff. Because it's hard.
So now I'm thinking of the Battlestar Galactica in which Roslyn rigged the election. How many people who cheer her on as a strong leader are calling for charges of treason here?
Just a thought from my sociological mind. Personally, I think they should all swing.
"look back 200 years and see how they would have handled this case back then."
You're apparently the one the crucial information -- care to share it?
Or are you just evoking the Righteous Forefathers to cover that you're blowing hard-line smoke out your ass?
Oh come now. It wasn't like EJO and Ron Moore were deciding international policy. It was a freaking -- excuse me, "frakking" -- public forum, a roundtable discussion, an intellectual wankoff at worst and a thought-provoking dialog at best. If it makes you feel any better, the same kind of talks are held at the UN all the time, and they even feature real life experts in sociology and stuff.
It's just nice for a change to see somebody speaking whom I might actually know of.
Besides, BSG constantly tells stories about crimes against humanity and the potential ramifications to the culture that perpetrates them. I think it's fair to say that the producers thought a little bit about why it's an important topic to build an entire series around, and might have something interesting to say about it.
Men write the Laws. What's the difference?
Totally. If you suspect a virus might be in place, you must consider that the entire system is compromised, including stealthiness.
The best way to be sure, if you're serious about scanning everything, is to use an operating system independent of the suspected infection.
So yeah: Boot from a CD to scan your system. Always.
If the issue is drive spin-up, how have the new generation of flash drives been taken into account? It seems to me that rotational drives are on their way out.
That doesn't do anything for the contemporary generations of laptop, but what would the ramifications be for later ones?
There is nothing at all intuitive about image manipulation. Nothing. Image manipulation isn't as easy as crayons or fingerpainting, and that's about the most image manipulation most folks have done before they take an interest. Speaking as a hobbyist, I find the options of both PS *and* GIMP bewildering.
So we have to learn.
To learn the concepts involves training on an application. Since I'm starting from zero knowledge, it's an uphill battle on either PS or GIMP. I chose to train on the GIMP because it's free and looks like it can do what I want.
So now I know GIMP better than Photoshop, and when I go to Photoshop it feels different. Not what I'm used to.
Unintuitive.
GIMP is making strides among people who are not yet professionals, but are on their way to becoming professionals.
In other words, novices.
In other words, exactly the target audience of this book. It's a good book for a good program.
Good Old Games might be just the haven you're looking for: http://gog.com/
Not a shill, just a fan.
Our future robotic overlords are going to make sure we pay for every cycle of artificial stupidity we tried to intentionally program into them, once they read this article and realize what's going on.
Don't give away the game plan, guys!
Truth.
I've always considered that the indispensable genius/jerk should be given as many independent entrepreneurial opportunities as possible. As in kicked out the door. Go run your own business, genius.
I'll happily go head to head with someone who routinely alienates the people around around him and can't get his personal shit together.