Actually, as far as I can recall, this kind of sacrifice is really frowned upon. To be honest, I think that according to the Halacha, it will be considered suicide - something that doesn't lead to a very happy afterlife.
(Disclaimer: I am Jewish, but not religious at all, so there's a chance that I'm wrong).
"A policy-less GUI has its disadvantages, but the advantages outweigh them."
"A policy-less GUI means it won't impose a standard on you."
Yeah right! In fact, it imposes several different standards, that do more or less the same thing, but behave a little differently (and because of that you have to learn the subtle nuances of each standard) and makes
collaboration between programs that use different standards impossible.
Should I blame the widget-sets for not having a unified standard for DnD? Why shouldn't I blame X for not making this standard from the head-on?
[note: Actually, I think they did make a standard for DnD - XDND. I don't know why they (who is they? I don't know much about this standard, could someone enlighten me please on the subject?) waited so long, but it's here, and it works (right?)]
And another thing: who is "you"? I mean, if "you" is an application developer, it does mean having a wide selection of standards to choose from (if you care to learn them). On the other hand, if "you" is the user, then multiple standards is in fact a bad thing, since you have to re-learn doing the same thing many times (I wonder if I could make that sentence a little *more* redundant... oh well), and
won't even mention the interoperability problems. The user does not benefit in any way from having multiple DnD/Clipboard/etc standards.
"Otherwise there would have to be some standard out there with enough teeth for Sun to adhere to. A standard with that much teeth in it is detrimental to my freedom."
How so? What makes a standard have "too much teeth"? Does the X standard have to much teeth? If so, why not? This is a really interesting statement that you did not elaborate.
I'm quite sure that Mozart would've never composed The Magic Flute if he wasn't about to be paid a rather large sum of money that, by the way, allowed him to wage a rather exuberant lifestyle, so I seriously don't think your remark is in place (no copyright law == no money for poor Amadeus).
Actually, the myth of the struggling artist, suffering because of his love of music, that's usually applied to Mozart, is completely untrue. He certainly had good (one might even say Britney-good) income from his works. Then, of course, he tended to waste his all of this money (on clothes, gambling, etc.).
Err.. Unless you meant it as a joke. If so blame the moderators. Granted, I don't feel it's extremely funny, but the current rating is just misleading.
Audio recording device? Why not just, say, 10 boxes of properly packaged, er, empty bottles (or something). Check how much of those came back broken, and then make the results public (to be honest, both tests are better done when you is a well-respected institution, and not, say, you). Faces? Who needs faces. If UPS can't find who to blame, it's their fucking problem. No need doing the IA work for them.
There are a lot medication for the flu. You can find a few dozen at your local pharmacy.
Ahm, I don't really know what you mean. There're drugs that temporarily reduce the symptoms (paradecamol[..] and aspirin), but they aren't a "cure" for the disease. If you mean antibiotics, these won't work against the flu (or any other virus, afaik).
Bah, I know it's petty and kinda silly, but this mistake annoys me so (why flu? why not, say, tuberculosis? ah, maybe because you CAN treat a person with tb against his will, since public health is involved, as one/.er noted, ah).
Just figuring out what some of the major buttons do was a triumph for me
Hmm, you know, that's the way I feel when I use Blender. However, I'll let you in on a little secret - it has nothing to do with the complexity of the program. With all due respect, 3D Studio MAX 3 is still a *little* more complex (and powerful) than blender, and yet, it has a very intuitive interface I could learn within minutes, even without prior knowledge in 3d-animation/modeling.
Hmm, did you notice that the only source of income they get from distributing Blender for free is from selling a book that describes how to use the friggin program? OK, it sounds a little too much like a conspiracy theory, but it's an interesting thought. A new way of software distribution - make people download it for free, but make the interface so weird and unintuitive so people will have to pay for documentation.
You see, eliminating the ugly and distracting unnecessary kernel messages will make Linux look somewhat more elegant, prettier and friendlier to the user. This is, of course, something that shouldn't be allowed to happen.
Why? When you can handle a system that prints hundreds of lines of meaningless and wonderfully cryptic information when it boots, you look cool. You are a revered computer guru. If you can handle a system that prints lines like "Loading modem...done" (or say, a pretty loading screen with an animated and uninformative stripe at the bottom just to show that the system hasn't crashed, but I'm digressing) when it loads, you're just someone who can turn on a computer. Big deal. Even I (says the PHB) can do that.
Don't get me wrong here, it's not just an ego thing. It has a direct effect on the average Linux hacker's/admin's salary. If you can handle a system that cryptic, you are indispensable. If you're indispensable, you get paid more.
In fact, I suggest that the kernel should actually print more messages, and make them much more cryptic and weird. Why not use more braces, asterisks, hashes, ampersands and "at" signs (ooh, those "at" signs)? Why not add blinking (and totally meaningless) messages in several different colors (I mean, several different colors within the same message)? Why not add some text-animations depicting obscure internal operations of the kernel?
I'm telling you, if these changes will be inserted in the kernel (and in the distributions - look at the atrocity that is Mandrake 8!), making a living by working with Linux will really start to pay.
"This review of the NVIDIA GeForce3 at The Tech Report does a nice job explaining how the GF3 chip can create advanced graphics effects in real time. The author raises the prospect of having real-time Final Fantasy or Shrek-style animation on the desktop in a consumer graphics card. The examples from the GF3 he uses to back it up are almost convincing, even if it isn't quite there yet. Will render farms go the way of the dodo?"
It's clear that he was talking about raw computing/rendering power, nothing to do with talent.
You know, because of you, I did something I rarely do before replying to a comment - I read the article. In that article, I found nothing that suggests that computing power will replace creativity.
Seriously, I think you're barking at a fantom here (it's not a real expression but so what), and besides, aren't the people who make the games 3d artists as much as those who make big-screen cartoons? The only thing that's suggested in the article is that in some point, we could see graphics in the quality of those movies, but in real-time. Nothing to do with creativity or talent. Period (god i love being annoying).
I'm sorry, no longer News? How long were MS trashing the GPL and Open Source in general? Note that this is the first time Bill Gates said something negative about GPL.
However,/. was very paranoid about this kind of attack, long before it actually existed. I can't count the number of times people over here mentioned the dreaded "MS's anti-GPL FUD", when MS didn't even spit in GPL's general direction. This paranoia is probably the cause of your feeling that "BillG saying GPL is bad is not news anymore", but it is.
I think slashdot has every right to post this story, since it shows that their paranoia wasn't unjustified.
Shakespeare's primary source for "Romeo and Juliet" is a popular poem, "The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet", by Arthur Brooke (1562). Among other sources, Brooke's poem is based on Luigi da Porta's tale of Romeo and Giulietta. Although the tale exists in previous adaptations - it probably originated as a folk tale - da Porta was the first to insist that the lovers were historical figures, a conviction that persists today.
And another source claims that the original Hamlet's father was killed after a coup (and not assasination), and that after killing his uncle, he took hold of the crown himself, rather than dying in a heroic fight. (http://www.pathguy.com/hamlet.htm).
OK, I know these are not very credible sources, but mind you, I only did a quick google search. If you want, you can check the sources yourself. I have no time - I'm late for, how ironic, my final exam in Literature.
Actually, my point was that Hamlet was an actual historical figure as well, though not as famous as Julius Caesar or Richard III.
About Romeo And Juliet - the houses of Capulet and Montague really existed (quite obviously, and besides, they are mentioned in the Divine Comedy), and while you can assume that the actual story of the two lovers comes from Greek myth, I think it would've been safer to assume that it's based on a (now forgotten) folk legend about how the two houses stopped fighting (that might've or might've not been true).
Hamlet, like many of the bawdy bard's works, was just a retelling of assorted chunks of greek myths that he liked. The greek myths were old stories that had been handed down orally for centuries.
If I remember it correctly, Hamlet, like Romeo And Juliet (and, to be honest, most, if not all of his tragedies), was based on real historical events, and not on greek mythology (though it is kinda interesting to know what particular greek myth you had in mind).
Actually, I think the article talks more about image than money-making. It's not only about money, it's about game developers being as much celebrities as film actors, computer games appearing regularily on entertainment news shows (at least as much as TV, movies, and mainstream music), etc. Basically - being a mainstream form of entertainment.
And about the porn industry? As profitable as it is, there is much more people who want to become movie/tv stars than people who want to be porn stars (that is, as far as I know:).
Well, this article is not about how harmful for the young gamers' psyche the games are. Therefore, I think that this comment, while true in many other cases, has absolutely nothing to do with this article.
The article speaks about how embarassing the link between the gaming industry and softcore porn, and, in general, the 13-year-old geeky boy mentality is. I think they're right on this one - this is an annoying, pathetic and condescending way to appeal to the gamers, even if they are 13-year-old geeky boys.
I wrote a small program that was supposed to do RLE compression, and I ran the Windows logo through it.
It worked! And with an amazing ratio too!
Of course, then I found out that I didn't do any compression (in fact, I commented the compress() function) at all. I just opened the file in ASCII mode.
After I understood what I did, I refined the program by deleting the whole portion that reads from the file.
And this was years ago! HA! Not as original as you thought, eh?
Am I the only one to notice it, or did Microsoft adopt Apple's habit of giving names to its interfaces?
I mean, there was Platinum, but was there a name for the "3.11 look"? I don't think so. Now, when the "Aqua" look gets so much hype, Microsoft decided to ride this wave by making their own, similiarly pseudo-latin-named interface that looks like the graphics designer team was twice the size of the programming team.
On the other hand, Microsoft never really knew how to copy stuff (not on the first time, anyway). I mean, "Aqua" really looks like drops of water. "Luna"?. Does it look even remotely like the moon? I mean, heh?
I wonder how those who oppose Israel's (sometimes harsh) laws will feel about this. I think I'll go do some patent research and sue someone, anyone, for the sake of popularity.
Ah, yeah. The laws in Israel can be sometimes harsh, but I have no idea how you can know this. (reasoning: israelis are ruthless people -> they have ruthless laws).
Now, seriously. "White-collar" offenses are treated in a somewhat strange (in my opinion, though, as, yes, you guesssed it, IANAL) way in relation to other criminal offenses. You see, such things as copyright violation mean up to 5 years in jail, while rape is up to 3 (?!!!), however, if a new law (labelled "The Der'i" law, since it is assumed to be made to free the political leader / white-collar offender Der'i from jail), may allow people who made white collar offenses to be released after serving half of the time for good behaviour (instead of 2/3).
How is this related to your remark? Well, it isn't, in any way. I am just annoyed when people make statements about stuff they probably know very little about (and especially about Israel).
Of course, if you're an Israeli lawyer then:
a. I'm sorry about this comment, I guess...
b. Ha ha ha good luck finding a job
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I'm way too tired to respond to every misguided (though in a cute way, I must note) point you made, since, as far as I understand, even the GeekCorps don't go to famine-striken villages and bring them computers and DSL connections, as you suggest. Maybe, in a way, that's a point against me and Urban Existentialist, for suggesting that the GeekCorps are really weirder people than they really are.
However, you really shock me. I will not call you a moron, but I will, however, note that in my opinion, not only have you never suffered from, forget hunger, bad conditions - you can't even remotely understand people who have.
The most shocking sentence is the one about the groceries. I can almost hear your mocking tone as you pronounce the word "groceries". Groceries. And why should you? You probably didn't have a hungry day in your life (if you did, than I just can't explain this) - you don't even know people who have. In your comfortable life, you computer and your internet connection are so important. You vaguely understand that this might not be the case for other people, but not really. Not in the deep sense of the word. Groceries. Brr.
Waaaaait a second there... Do you mean that abusive parents is not something we should get rid of, or are you claiming that it's just one of the many things (like art and history) we should keep our children from? I'm confused (or a little slow, depends on your view).
In any case, about the bible getting an NC-17 rating, it's time for (ta ta da daaa) Meaningless Facts That No-One Gives A Fuck About (I should really invent a shorter name for this). In Israel, when kids learn Torah in elementary school, they skip the naughty parts, which are taught only when they reach highschool. Really, it's amusing to find out that while I learned chapter (x) when I was 7, in chapter (x+1) there are laws about bestiality (I think they're against it).
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You must be kidding me, slashdot. I mean, I've seen some weird shit here, but this is by far, the most aggravating thing I've seen on the Net in the last couple of days.
You label the comment above as "Insightful", and yet label it's parent as "Troll". And why? For claiming that Internet might not be the most important thing in the world.
Guess what? It's really not. And the interesting thing about this comment is that it doesn't even provide something that remotely resembles an adequate explaination of this point. Just saying "But the Internet is so k3wl, why don't the poor Africans deserve it?" and "What did you do for them lately?".
More than anything it reminds me of a bad joke from Clueless or Darja (getting pathetic, I know - but it's TV and bad movies that killed my mind, how can you blame me?) - "How can we help the poor people? Give them fashion tips!". Really. I am so annoyed (oh, have I mentioned that already?).
And yet, while in the normal world, this comment would be considered (a rather pathetic) troll, in the magical world of "technology is God" that is slashdot, it was rated 4, Insightful. How nice.
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Actually, as far as I can recall, this kind of sacrifice is really frowned upon. To be honest, I think that according to the Halacha, it will be considered suicide - something that doesn't lead to a very happy afterlife.
(Disclaimer: I am Jewish, but not religious at all, so there's a chance that I'm wrong).
"A policy-less GUI means it won't impose a standard on you."
Yeah right! In fact, it imposes several different standards, that do more or less the same thing, but behave a little differently (and because of that you have to learn the subtle nuances of each standard) and makes collaboration between programs that use different standards impossible.
Should I blame the widget-sets for not having a unified standard for DnD? Why shouldn't I blame X for not making this standard from the head-on?
[note: Actually, I think they did make a standard for DnD - XDND. I don't know why they (who is they? I don't know much about this standard, could someone enlighten me please on the subject?) waited so long, but it's here, and it works (right?)]
And another thing: who is "you"? I mean, if "you" is an application developer, it does mean having a wide selection of standards to choose from (if you care to learn them). On the other hand, if "you" is the user, then multiple standards is in fact a bad thing, since you have to re-learn doing the same thing many times (I wonder if I could make that sentence a little *more* redundant... oh well), and won't even mention the interoperability problems. The user does not benefit in any way from having multiple DnD/Clipboard/etc standards.
"Otherwise there would have to be some standard out there with enough teeth for Sun to adhere to. A standard with that much teeth in it is detrimental to my freedom."
How so? What makes a standard have "too much teeth"? Does the X standard have to much teeth? If so, why not? This is a really interesting statement that you did not elaborate.
Actually, the myth of the struggling artist, suffering because of his love of music, that's usually applied to Mozart, is completely untrue. He certainly had good (one might even say Britney-good) income from his works. Then, of course, he tended to waste his all of this money (on clothes, gambling, etc.).
Err.. Unless you meant it as a joke. If so blame the moderators. Granted, I don't feel it's extremely funny, but the current rating is just misleading.
Yeah, and it could have a silly name like Digital Millenium Copyright Act... Nah... That's too stupid to be true.
Though to be honest, I don't see in this case why you (the cr4X0r) are right and Microsoft is wrong. But hey.
Audio recording device? Why not just, say, 10 boxes of properly packaged, er, empty bottles (or something). Check how much of those came back broken, and then make the results public (to be honest, both tests are better done when you is a well-respected institution, and not, say, you). Faces? Who needs faces. If UPS can't find who to blame, it's their fucking problem. No need doing the IA work for them.
Ahm, I don't really know what you mean. There're drugs that temporarily reduce the symptoms (paradecamol[..] and aspirin), but they aren't a "cure" for the disease. If you mean antibiotics, these won't work against the flu (or any other virus, afaik).
Bah, I know it's petty and kinda silly, but this mistake annoys me so (why flu? why not, say, tuberculosis? ah, maybe because you CAN treat a person with tb against his will, since public health is involved, as one /.er noted, ah).
Ahm, I know it's kinda offtopic, but does a medicine for the influenza virus (including all of its strains) exist? What is it?
Hmm, you know, that's the way I feel when I use Blender. However, I'll let you in on a little secret - it has nothing to do with the complexity of the program. With all due respect, 3D Studio MAX 3 is still a *little* more complex (and powerful) than blender, and yet, it has a very intuitive interface I could learn within minutes, even without prior knowledge in 3d-animation/modeling.
Hmm, did you notice that the only source of income they get from distributing Blender for free is from selling a book that describes how to use the friggin program? OK, it sounds a little too much like a conspiracy theory, but it's an interesting thought. A new way of software distribution - make people download it for free, but make the interface so weird and unintuitive so people will have to pay for documentation.
Why? When you can handle a system that prints hundreds of lines of meaningless and wonderfully cryptic information when it boots, you look cool. You are a revered computer guru. If you can handle a system that prints lines like "Loading modem...done" (or say, a pretty loading screen with an animated and uninformative stripe at the bottom just to show that the system hasn't crashed, but I'm digressing) when it loads, you're just someone who can turn on a computer. Big deal. Even I (says the PHB) can do that.
Don't get me wrong here, it's not just an ego thing. It has a direct effect on the average Linux hacker's/admin's salary. If you can handle a system that cryptic, you are indispensable. If you're indispensable, you get paid more.
In fact, I suggest that the kernel should actually print more messages, and make them much more cryptic and weird. Why not use more braces, asterisks, hashes, ampersands and "at" signs (ooh, those "at" signs)? Why not add blinking (and totally meaningless) messages in several different colors (I mean, several different colors within the same message)? Why not add some text-animations depicting obscure internal operations of the kernel?
I'm telling you, if these changes will be inserted in the kernel (and in the distributions - look at the atrocity that is Mandrake 8!), making a living by working with Linux will really start to pay.
"This review of the NVIDIA GeForce3 at The Tech Report does a nice job explaining how the GF3 chip can create advanced graphics effects in real time. The author raises the prospect of having real-time Final Fantasy or Shrek-style animation on the desktop in a consumer graphics card. The examples from the GF3 he uses to back it up are almost convincing, even if it isn't quite there yet. Will render farms go the way of the dodo?"
It's clear that he was talking about raw computing/rendering power, nothing to do with talent.
Seriously, I think you're barking at a fantom here (it's not a real expression but so what), and besides, aren't the people who make the games 3d artists as much as those who make big-screen cartoons? The only thing that's suggested in the article is that in some point, we could see graphics in the quality of those movies, but in real-time. Nothing to do with creativity or talent. Period (god i love being annoying).
However, /. was very paranoid about this kind of attack, long before it actually existed. I can't count the number of times people over here mentioned the dreaded "MS's anti-GPL FUD", when MS didn't even spit in GPL's general direction. This paranoia is probably the cause of your feeling that "BillG saying GPL is bad is not news anymore", but it is.
I think slashdot has every right to post this story, since it shows that their paranoia wasn't unjustified.
Shakespeare's primary source for "Romeo and Juliet" is a popular poem, "The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet", by Arthur Brooke (1562). Among other sources, Brooke's poem is based on Luigi da Porta's tale of Romeo and Giulietta. Although the tale exists in previous adaptations - it probably originated as a folk tale - da Porta was the first to insist that the lovers were historical figures, a conviction that persists today.
(http://www.seasidemusictheater.org/guides/romeo.h tm)
And another source claims that the original Hamlet's father was killed after a coup (and not assasination), and that after killing his uncle, he took hold of the crown himself, rather than dying in a heroic fight. (http://www.pathguy.com/hamlet.htm).
OK, I know these are not very credible sources, but mind you, I only did a quick google search. If you want, you can check the sources yourself. I have no time - I'm late for, how ironic, my final exam in Literature.
About Romeo And Juliet - the houses of Capulet and Montague really existed (quite obviously, and besides, they are mentioned in the Divine Comedy), and while you can assume that the actual story of the two lovers comes from Greek myth, I think it would've been safer to assume that it's based on a (now forgotten) folk legend about how the two houses stopped fighting (that might've or might've not been true).
If I remember it correctly, Hamlet, like Romeo And Juliet (and, to be honest, most, if not all of his tragedies), was based on real historical events, and not on greek mythology (though it is kinda interesting to know what particular greek myth you had in mind).
And about the porn industry? As profitable as it is, there is much more people who want to become movie/tv stars than people who want to be porn stars (that is, as far as I know :).
The article speaks about how embarassing the link between the gaming industry and softcore porn, and, in general, the 13-year-old geeky boy mentality is. I think they're right on this one - this is an annoying, pathetic and condescending way to appeal to the gamers, even if they are 13-year-old geeky boys.
Yep. NSPA, like the MPAA or the RIAA is a four-letter word.
Therefore, I have only one thing to say: MPAA you, you RIAAing NSPA!
It worked! And with an amazing ratio too!
Of course, then I found out that I didn't do any compression (in fact, I commented the compress() function) at all. I just opened the file in ASCII mode.
After I understood what I did, I refined the program by deleting the whole portion that reads from the file.
And this was years ago! HA! Not as original as you thought, eh?
I mean, there was Platinum, but was there a name for the "3.11 look"? I don't think so. Now, when the "Aqua" look gets so much hype, Microsoft decided to ride this wave by making their own, similiarly pseudo-latin-named interface that looks like the graphics designer team was twice the size of the programming team.
On the other hand, Microsoft never really knew how to copy stuff (not on the first time, anyway). I mean, "Aqua" really looks like drops of water. "Luna"?. Does it look even remotely like the moon? I mean, heh?
Ah, yeah. The laws in Israel can be sometimes harsh, but I have no idea how you can know this. (reasoning: israelis are ruthless people -> they have ruthless laws).
Now, seriously. "White-collar" offenses are treated in a somewhat strange (in my opinion, though, as, yes, you guesssed it, IANAL) way in relation to other criminal offenses. You see, such things as copyright violation mean up to 5 years in jail, while rape is up to 3 (?!!!), however, if a new law (labelled "The Der'i" law, since it is assumed to be made to free the political leader / white-collar offender Der'i from jail), may allow people who made white collar offenses to be released after serving half of the time for good behaviour (instead of 2/3).
How is this related to your remark? Well, it isn't, in any way. I am just annoyed when people make statements about stuff they probably know very little about (and especially about Israel).
Of course, if you're an Israeli lawyer then:
a. I'm sorry about this comment, I guess...
b. Ha ha ha good luck finding a job
However, you really shock me. I will not call you a moron, but I will, however, note that in my opinion, not only have you never suffered from, forget hunger, bad conditions - you can't even remotely understand people who have.
The most shocking sentence is the one about the groceries. I can almost hear your mocking tone as you pronounce the word "groceries". Groceries. And why should you? You probably didn't have a hungry day in your life (if you did, than I just can't explain this) - you don't even know people who have. In your comfortable life, you computer and your internet connection are so important. You vaguely understand that this might not be the case for other people, but not really. Not in the deep sense of the word. Groceries. Brr.
Waaaaait a second there... Do you mean that abusive parents is not something we should get rid of, or are you claiming that it's just one of the many things (like art and history) we should keep our children from? I'm confused (or a little slow, depends on your view).
In any case, about the bible getting an NC-17 rating, it's time for (ta ta da daaa) Meaningless Facts That No-One Gives A Fuck About (I should really invent a shorter name for this). In Israel, when kids learn Torah in elementary school, they skip the naughty parts, which are taught only when they reach highschool. Really, it's amusing to find out that while I learned chapter (x) when I was 7, in chapter (x+1) there are laws about bestiality (I think they're against it).
You label the comment above as "Insightful", and yet label it's parent as "Troll". And why? For claiming that Internet might not be the most important thing in the world.
Guess what? It's really not. And the interesting thing about this comment is that it doesn't even provide something that remotely resembles an adequate explaination of this point. Just saying "But the Internet is so k3wl, why don't the poor Africans deserve it?" and "What did you do for them lately?".
More than anything it reminds me of a bad joke from Clueless or Darja (getting pathetic, I know - but it's TV and bad movies that killed my mind, how can you blame me?) - "How can we help the poor people? Give them fashion tips!". Really. I am so annoyed (oh, have I mentioned that already?).
And yet, while in the normal world, this comment would be considered (a rather pathetic) troll, in the magical world of "technology is God" that is slashdot, it was rated 4, Insightful. How nice.