Yeah, like they gonna sell millions of these. Keep your commie green cool aid to yourself, eh, monkey boy?!
"Commie" is a bit inappropriate, considering the immense environmental damage caused by communist regimes. It kinda figures, considering that they were all about "progress", technology and industrial "victory". The Nazis, OTOH, were relatively "green", at least in theory. Hitler was even a vegetarian (sort of). Cue Godwin!
Things like PERL are deeply disturbing to anyone with a sense of design.
Perl is glue. Glue is messy. It's supposed to be messy; it handily fits things together that wouldn't otherwise interoperate.
Not much of a designer if you don't even know what glue is for.
If you're talking about Perl's intended purpose, then I guess I agree (although given enough time/money, I think you can always engineer something more robust and maintainable than a perl script). However, Perl, as a language, is an affront to anybody with a sense of design, and for no good reason. What does Perl's crazy syntax have to do with it being a "glue language"? Simple, readable scripting languages do exist.
Btw - something that's composed of several different systems and held together by a huge globs of glue, doesn't sound like a great real-world design either.
If you want designers/video guys embrace a new technology, you have to plug into Adobe's tools and Apple Quicktime framework in a perfect, seamless way.
Flash succeeded despite crappy integration with Adobe's tools.
Adobe only bought Flash a couple of years ago, remember?
By pointless crap, he meant eye-candy that is useless, with fricking animations everywhere that distract you from the actual content and that and only gets in the way of productivity and accessibility. I don't ever remember seeing a Flash website that had an usable interface.
Pointless animations that distract from the content are bad graphic/web design - the work of the talentless hacks JobyOne was probably talking about.
I disagree. Fucking up someone's life is much worse than ending one. The murdered might find peace in the afterlife, but the raped has to keep living with it for the rest of his/her life.
Yeah, that's the kind of logic that made blasphemy a worse crime than murder in the middle ages. After all, life is only a phase, while your soul is immortal.
Anyway, bizarre religious ideas aside, your perceptions about rape are entirely over-the-top. Rape victims do suffer from life-long traumas, but they often recover and live happy, productive lives.
After all, if it was a "fate worse than death", they could just opt for the "better" choice and commit suicide.
So, we have impressionable kids playing games that teach that you MUST rape little girls to succeed.
There's a lot of stuff I wouldn't like impressionable kids to watch, but the solution for this is a good rating system, not censorship.
The idea of censorship is to protect "public moral standards" and the innocent souls of adults, at the expense of the freedom of speech. That's why it's wrong.
Those games are already clearly labeled as hardcore rape simulators. If you allow your kids to play those, then fuck you.
Your drugs/booze/guns example is bullshit. If your kids actually use any of those, the result is much worse than playing a rape simulator.
P.S.
Rape is a horrible thing, but murder is still worse. I have no idea why you think that simulating and glamorizing murder (among other felonies) is somehow better than simulating rape. In the end, it's all about the bizarre American obsession with sex.
Why is there such huge demand for this perverse behavior in Japan?
Hmmm. Japan doesn't have a monopoly on perversity. American Idol, Australian Idol, Britain's Got Talent come to mind. Capitalising on humiliation and misery is arguably a form of rape, and I've only scratched the surface with what I know of those shows...
Uhm, if search for "japanese game show" in youtube, you'll find things much more humiliating than American Idol.
But if you're talking about the US, you should probably mention that it still produces most of the pornography in the world. This means two things:
If you think about what's considered the norm in American porn, you'll reach the conclusion that Americans are no small perverts themselves.
Anyone who's just "mildly" perverse (according to American standards), just watches American porn. Foreign porn producers are drawn to the niche market of "stuff Americans won't watch/allow".
It might refer to the fact that Americans tend to embrace those changes later than the rest of the world. The abolition of slavery and income tax existed in Britain for several decades before it was adopted by the Americans, Americans were never great champions of trade unions when compared to the world, and the longstanding discrimination of blacks was pretty unique (and a result of a compromise rather than a revolution, as well).
The fact that there are some progress-hindering IP lawyers means jack shit in the greater scheme of things. Lawyers led to more change than any other occupation.
2. medical scanners. For sure this is what is MRI today. Or the further development of ultrasound. And it's getting to the size of the tri-corder sooner or later. The room you have to put the unit it gets smaller every year.
Star Trek's medical scanners are as similar to regular x-rays as they are to MRIs, and those existed since the turn of the 20th century.
The people who DID that weren't Americans, they were English. They BECAME Americans after the big revolution. Never since has such a radical change in the structure of society been accepted.
Consider, the revolutionary communists and socialists were declared enemies of the state and hounded out of the country ior beaten down until we didn't hear from them anymore.
You're implying that the English are great revolutionaries, and that's not the case. Compared to most democracies of the world, they're the biggest proponents of slow, gradual change (except for that Cromwell hiccup). Note that the parliament still, in theory, belongs to the queen, and that the aristocracy had real political power until 1911.
I'm afraid you're the person having problems with definitions. Vi is very easy to use; it can be difficult to learn (IMHO, it depends on your mind set and willing to do a little reading first).
He doesn't have a problem with definitions. Just because vi fanbois made up the "easy to use"-"easy to learn" dichotomy, doesn't mean that he, or anybody else on the planet has to accept it.
A tool that's hard to learn, but makes you more productive is called "professional", not "easy to use but not to learn". When people talk about ease of use, the learning curve is an important factor.
I think it means exactly what he think it means. I think that what you mean is it is much harder to learn.
Just a thought - do you know of anything other than vi that's "easy to use" but not "easy to learn"?
Because in the real world, things that are hard to master but are more useful to a trained professional are called "professional" and "powerful", but never "easy to use".
I had to explain to him that you cant go to the car wash and demand the dirt off your car given to you after the wash cycle. It's gone, they delete all of it when you stop paying them.
Wow, talk about contrived analogies. Unless the purpose of carbonite is to remove the data from you, I don't see how it's even related. A parking lot that destroys your car if you don't pay them is a more precise (though more extreme) example.
And it's incredibly unprofessional, and not at all obvious. You'd expect a backup service to handle your data with some care - their fucking motto is "Because your life is on your computer"! At the very least, they could've put it in big, red letters on the front page, instead of cowardly hiding in section 10 of the TOS. I have no idea why you'd go as far as to belittle your "college-educated business owner", for being absolutely right.
That is, he believes every computer user is enough of a hacker to compile and run all the software they will ever need.
Yes! I mean, what the fuck is he thinking?! I'm not a damned hacker who can type a document in OpenOffice and save it to - of ALL PLACES - my LOCAL machine!
This man should have a haircut and shave mandated by law enforcement!
Talk about fallacies...
Maybe, but serving a photo gallery so your uncle who lives abroad could see it might prove somewhat harder.
My dog lacks the skills to survive in the wild, and so she happily submits to all of the restrictions that I impose on her life. She can't even pee unless I'm willing to get off my ass and take her outside. The tyrrany is about as absolute as tyrrany gets. If she could talk to you, though, she would probably say that this is just fine, and there's no need to change things.
Wow, wonderful example. The only alternative is to set her free. Try it. See how she likes it ( =how long she survives) on the streets. If your dog knew about how "free" dogs live, it would've only made her more loyal to you. To think of it, it's not that bad of an example - I used Linux (just kidding...).
Or maybe the dog in this example is you, and RMS is the master? In that case he better do more than give you a shitty LISP VM posing as a text editor, some UNIX utility clones, and scores of misguided, narcissistic edicts (sure his UNIX utility clones is what really makes an OS - how could you browse the Internet without mailing to a daemon that runs wget?)
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Yeah, like they gonna sell millions of these. Keep your commie green cool aid to yourself, eh, monkey boy?!
"Commie" is a bit inappropriate, considering the immense environmental damage caused by communist regimes. It kinda figures, considering that they were all about "progress", technology and industrial "victory". The Nazis, OTOH, were relatively "green", at least in theory. Hitler was even a vegetarian (sort of). Cue Godwin!
OK, just stop right there. Porn and beehives do NOT mix.
Rule 34.
No exceptions.
Things like PERL are deeply disturbing to anyone with a sense of design.
Perl is glue. Glue is messy. It's supposed to be messy; it handily fits things together that wouldn't otherwise interoperate.
Not much of a designer if you don't even know what glue is for.
If you're talking about Perl's intended purpose, then I guess I agree (although given enough time/money, I think you can always engineer something more robust and maintainable than a perl script). However, Perl, as a language, is an affront to anybody with a sense of design, and for no good reason. What does Perl's crazy syntax have to do with it being a "glue language"? Simple, readable scripting languages do exist.
Btw - something that's composed of several different systems and held together by a huge globs of glue, doesn't sound like a great real-world design either.
What if this had happened in Soviet Russia?
it'd be google.ru instead of google.com
If Soviet Russia still existed, there would be no .ru TLD - it would be google.su
Once real news is happening in home turf (see: 9/11),
You do know that people outside of North America use the Internet as well, right?
Funny, we've been a customer of Microsoft's for 20 years and have yet to experience this "raping" you speak of
Are you sure you're not suffering from stockholm syndrome?
It's not rape if it's consensual
It is, for web developers (a nice percentage of /. users) who used javascript obfuscation...
Just because you don't find it interesting, doesn't mean that nobody does
Let them see if resources of 10 million mega-rich people can buy more MRI machines than resources of 300 million not-so-rich people
I really wouldn't like to test that theory in place like the US, where (according to Wikipedia) 10% of the population holds 80% of the wealth.
If you want designers/video guys embrace a new technology, you have to plug into Adobe's tools and Apple Quicktime framework in a perfect, seamless way.
Flash succeeded despite crappy integration with Adobe's tools.
Adobe only bought Flash a couple of years ago, remember?
By pointless crap, he meant eye-candy that is useless, with fricking animations everywhere that distract you from the actual content and that and only gets in the way of productivity and accessibility. I don't ever remember seeing a Flash website that had an usable interface.
Pointless animations that distract from the content are bad graphic/web design - the work of the talentless hacks JobyOne was probably talking about.
From what you described it seems very much like Drupal + Views module + CCK module out of the box but maybe I am getting the wrong impression
Kinda, but it's more powerful and, most importantly, you don't have any kind of GUI for this - you're expressing all of that in Python code.
In a way, it's much more like Drupal module development, but with a vastly superior API.
I disagree. Fucking up someone's life is much worse than ending one. The murdered might find peace in the afterlife, but the raped has to keep living with it for the rest of his/her life.
Yeah, that's the kind of logic that made blasphemy a worse crime than murder in the middle ages. After all, life is only a phase, while your soul is immortal.
Anyway, bizarre religious ideas aside, your perceptions about rape are entirely over-the-top. Rape victims do suffer from life-long traumas, but they often recover and live happy, productive lives.
After all, if it was a "fate worse than death", they could just opt for the "better" choice and commit suicide.
Its not just the IP attorneys, 90% of our current problems are caused by them and the 'environment' they have bred over generations in this country.
[citation needed]
And i wont comment on the Lincoln reference, as yes i realize he was an attorney ( as is most people in high levels of government )
As are many freedom fighters, human/civil rights activists, and all kinds of do-gooders.
And you "won't comment on the Lincoln reference"? Why the hell not? I've noticed that you didn't find my Ghandi reference to be comment-worthy either.
So, we have impressionable kids playing games that teach that you MUST rape little girls to succeed.
There's a lot of stuff I wouldn't like impressionable kids to watch, but the solution for this is a good rating system, not censorship.
The idea of censorship is to protect "public moral standards" and the innocent souls of adults, at the expense of the freedom of speech. That's why it's wrong.
Those games are already clearly labeled as hardcore rape simulators. If you allow your kids to play those, then fuck you.
Your drugs/booze/guns example is bullshit. If your kids actually use any of those, the result is much worse than playing a rape simulator.
P.S.
Rape is a horrible thing, but murder is still worse. I have no idea why you think that simulating and glamorizing murder (among other felonies) is somehow better than simulating rape. In the end, it's all about the bizarre American obsession with sex.
Why is there such huge demand for this perverse behavior in Japan? Hmmm. Japan doesn't have a monopoly on perversity. American Idol, Australian Idol, Britain's Got Talent come to mind. Capitalising on humiliation and misery is arguably a form of rape, and I've only scratched the surface with what I know of those shows...
Uhm, if search for "japanese game show" in youtube, you'll find things much more humiliating than American Idol.
But if you're talking about the US, you should probably mention that it still produces most of the pornography in the world. This means two things:
It might refer to the fact that Americans tend to embrace those changes later than the rest of the world. The abolition of slavery and income tax existed in Britain for several decades before it was adopted by the Americans, Americans were never great champions of trade unions when compared to the world, and the longstanding discrimination of blacks was pretty unique (and a result of a compromise rather than a revolution, as well).
Lawyers.
Like, say, Abraham Lincoln?
The fact that there are some progress-hindering IP lawyers means jack shit in the greater scheme of things. Lawyers led to more change than any other occupation.
Even Ghandi was a lawyer.
Star Trek's medical scanners are as similar to regular x-rays as they are to MRIs, and those existed since the turn of the 20th century.
The people who DID that weren't Americans, they were English. They BECAME Americans after the big revolution. Never since has such a radical change in the structure of society been accepted.
Consider, the revolutionary communists and socialists were declared enemies of the state and hounded out of the country ior beaten down until we didn't hear from them anymore.
You're implying that the English are great revolutionaries, and that's not the case. Compared to most democracies of the world, they're the biggest proponents of slow, gradual change (except for that Cromwell hiccup). Note that the parliament still, in theory, belongs to the queen, and that the aristocracy had real political power until 1911.
I'm afraid you're the person having problems with definitions. Vi is very easy to use; it can be difficult to learn (IMHO, it depends on your mind set and willing to do a little reading first).
He doesn't have a problem with definitions. Just because vi fanbois made up the "easy to use"-"easy to learn" dichotomy, doesn't mean that he, or anybody else on the planet has to accept it.
A tool that's hard to learn, but makes you more productive is called "professional", not "easy to use but not to learn". When people talk about ease of use, the learning curve is an important factor.
I think it means exactly what he think it means. I think that what you mean is it is much harder to learn.
Just a thought - do you know of anything other than vi that's "easy to use" but not "easy to learn"?
Because in the real world, things that are hard to master but are more useful to a trained professional are called "professional" and "powerful", but never "easy to use".
I had to explain to him that you cant go to the car wash and demand the dirt off your car given to you after the wash cycle. It's gone, they delete all of it when you stop paying them.
Wow, talk about contrived analogies. Unless the purpose of carbonite is to remove the data from you, I don't see how it's even related. A parking lot that destroys your car if you don't pay them is a more precise (though more extreme) example.
And it's incredibly unprofessional, and not at all obvious. You'd expect a backup service to handle your data with some care - their fucking motto is "Because your life is on your computer"! At the very least, they could've put it in big, red letters on the front page, instead of cowardly hiding in section 10 of the TOS. I have no idea why you'd go as far as to belittle your "college-educated business owner", for being absolutely right.
That is, he believes every computer user is enough of a hacker to compile and run all the software they will ever need.
Yes! I mean, what the fuck is he thinking?! I'm not a damned hacker who can type a document in OpenOffice and save it to - of ALL PLACES - my LOCAL machine!
This man should have a haircut and shave mandated by law enforcement!
Talk about fallacies...
Maybe, but serving a photo gallery so your uncle who lives abroad could see it might prove somewhat harder.
My dog lacks the skills to survive in the wild, and so she happily submits to all of the restrictions that I impose on her life. She can't even pee unless I'm willing to get off my ass and take her outside. The tyrrany is about as absolute as tyrrany gets. If she could talk to you, though, she would probably say that this is just fine, and there's no need to change things.
Wow, wonderful example. The only alternative is to set her free. Try it. See how she likes it ( =how long she survives) on the streets. If your dog knew about how "free" dogs live, it would've only made her more loyal to you. To think of it, it's not that bad of an example - I used Linux (just kidding...).
Or maybe the dog in this example is you, and RMS is the master? In that case he better do more than give you a shitty LISP VM posing as a text editor, some UNIX utility clones, and scores of misguided, narcissistic edicts (sure his UNIX utility clones is what really makes an OS - how could you browse the Internet without mailing to a daemon that runs wget?)
There's a version III of the Wii already? What happened to version II? And why would they use Comic Sans as the system's typeface?
Ironically, the confusion could have been avoided if slashdot used Comic Sans for the title (1, l and I are clearly distinguishable in that font)