Yeah, I was in an advanced program myself, in California, in the mid-70s.
Less 'trons, more math and reading. I was several years ahead, but then we moved north (the life of a Navy brat) and I just slimed my way through the rest of school.
Education, as a subset of life, is something from which you take what you desire.[1]
As much as I enjoyed Animal House/Tommy Boy, the American Asshat archetype is probably the biggest threat to the education system going.
But maybe that's more of a feature than a bug: "Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too." Judge Smails
[1]As long as you didn't pick the wrong location/gender/race/mutations at birth, of course.
French resistance, while not terribly effective, was also present in the Franco-Prussian War. See Showalter, who was a bit of a scholarly overload, but most of the damage has healed.;)
Of the kingdoms rising from the ashes of the Roman Empire, only that of the Franks had a name surviving to modern times.
Yeah, I like a good Gallic gouging too, but I recently read The Glorious Cause, as well.
The US has a lot to thank the French for, in the way of underwriting the Revolution (for all their motives were questionable). There were more French at Yorktown than Colonials, and the French fleet was key at Virginia Capes (though later kindling in the West Indies).
Would that more Yanks had clue #1 about history.
The entropy of the human soul is unavoidable, but Open Source can help minimize the damage.
Re your sig:
How can you quote Lemmy without any Motorhead attribution? (He said, realizing that he wasn't crediting Devo in his own).
Why the time machine?
Implement it now, with an API facade so that the b0rkenness of legacy code holds constant.
As for on what MS should focus, my recommendation is seppuku.
So why not do something intelligent and implement it as a SQLite database?
What's less than half a meg of C that already works on Windows between friends? It's not like the existing registry files are exactly svelte.
Ah, yes: good ideas can be discerned by the Redmond refusal to implement them.
The really great mobile applications won't come around until industry stops trying to cram PC oriented web pages at pocket devices.
Dude: look at how cleverly industry sold laptops with just a slightly bigger screen every year throughout the 90's, then went towards a wider, less-square form factor (driven by Apple?) post 2000. There will be no end-point, "really great mobile applications". Closure is as anti-sales as giving people the source code: WTF the coercion?
I like http://www.google.com/reader
Keeping all my subscriptions on a server makes a lot of sense--I can view the same content at work or at home.
Plus, we're talking RSS on AJAX: double your buzzword pleasure!
The interface may be simpler than some, but I call that a feature.
DRM and region coding are going to be the best advertisement F/OSS ever had.
Furthermore, people who otherwise have no problem paying for content will feel increasingly comfortable doing things that are "technically" illegal, concepts of what is "reasonable" having been thoroughly sodomized.
So, let's blow by the angst and instead focus on promoting companies at every point in the chain who treat their customers like free, adult human beings.
Flew Lufthansa back from Europe last week.
Some fashion show on the screen.
Strange peach-colored dress draped on the bulemic girl
Wore a cloth covering her entire head, save a bit of hair in the back.
Most terrifying was her handbag, which leads to this variation:
Leap A(human)head.
Maybe the commercial has a Mongol horde swooping through, decapitating a bunch of blue men, and then coke-addled fashionistas accessorizing. Nahhh, too conservative.
Look, Mr. Softy has become the richest outfit on earth by understanding the fundamental truth: people are sheep.
You can lead those sheep to water, but it's going to take an enema to spare them from death by dehydration, oral methods carrying too great a drowning risk.
I guess that may have sounded negative.
Give 'em a box and let them virtualize an entire network under, say, VMWare. All of the mad fantasies are explorable, albeit with a performance hit.
Be sure to tell the person that, if it's not their job to be fannying about that way, the hours are to be charged to vacation.
The wallet is a lense capable of impressive focusing of the thoughts...
Slashdot Mirror
Parrot!
(because we just can't resist pulling for the VM born as an April Fool's joke on this very website).
Yeah, I was in an advanced program myself, in California, in the mid-70s.
Less 'trons, more math and reading. I was several years ahead, but then we moved north (the life of a Navy brat) and I just slimed my way through the rest of school.
Education, as a subset of life, is something from which you take what you desire.[1]
As much as I enjoyed Animal House/Tommy Boy, the American Asshat archetype is probably the biggest threat to the education system going.
But maybe that's more of a feature than a bug: "Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too." Judge Smails
[1]As long as you didn't pick the wrong location/gender/race/mutations at birth, of course.
When money is the master metric, all manner of madness is manageable.
Also put in a cameo on Satriani's "Strange Beautiful Music" on "Sleepwalk". Desert island.
Don't these people know how hard it is to boot Windows on an AN/UYK-7(v)?
We should be in awe of Unisys, not arguing over who billed who.
French resistance, while not terribly effective, was also present in the Franco-Prussian War. See Showalter, who was a bit of a scholarly overload, but most of the damage has healed. ;)
Of the kingdoms rising from the ashes of the Roman Empire, only that of the Franks had a name surviving to modern times.
Yeah, I like a good Gallic gouging too, but I recently read The Glorious Cause, as well.
The US has a lot to thank the French for, in the way of underwriting the Revolution (for all their motives were questionable). There were more French at Yorktown than Colonials, and the French fleet was key at Virginia Capes (though later kindling in the West Indies).
Would that more Yanks had clue #1 about history.
The entropy of the human soul is unavoidable, but Open Source can help minimize the damage.
Re your sig:
How can you quote Lemmy without any Motorhead attribution? (He said, realizing that he wasn't crediting Devo in his own).
I, for one, favor a Soviet Russia-style devolution to the clay tablet and stylus, in the name of restoring comment template security.
Are 'they' in Redmond, or elsewhere?
ODF AOK WRT WMF WTF.
Why the time machine?
Implement it now, with an API facade so that the b0rkenness of legacy code holds constant.
As for on what MS should focus, my recommendation is seppuku.
So why not do something intelligent and implement it as a SQLite database?
What's less than half a meg of C that already works on Windows between friends? It's not like the existing registry files are exactly svelte.
Ah, yes: good ideas can be discerned by the Redmond refusal to implement them.
There will be no end-point, "really great mobile applications". Closure is as anti-sales as giving people the source code: WTF the coercion?
I like http://www.google.com/reader
Keeping all my subscriptions on a server makes a lot of sense--I can view the same content at work or at home.
Plus, we're talking RSS on AJAX: double your buzzword pleasure!
The interface may be simpler than some, but I call that a feature.
DRM and region coding are going to be the best advertisement F/OSS ever had.
Furthermore, people who otherwise have no problem paying for content will feel increasingly comfortable doing things that are "technically" illegal, concepts of what is "reasonable" having been thoroughly sodomized.
So, let's blow by the angst and instead focus on promoting companies at every point in the chain who treat their customers like free, adult human beings.
Some fashion show on the screen.
Strange peach-colored dress draped on the bulemic girl
Wore a cloth covering her entire head, save a bit of hair in the back.
Most terrifying was her handbag, which leads to this variation:
Maybe the commercial has a Mongol horde swooping through, decapitating a bunch of blue men, and then coke-addled fashionistas accessorizing. Nahhh, too conservative.
Look, Mr. Softy has become the richest outfit on earth by understanding the fundamental truth: people are sheep.
You can lead those sheep to water, but it's going to take an enema to spare them from death by dehydration, oral methods carrying too great a drowning risk.
I guess that may have sounded negative.
Give 'em a box and let them virtualize an entire network under, say, VMWare. All of the mad fantasies are explorable, albeit with a performance hit.
Be sure to tell the person that, if it's not their job to be fannying about that way, the hours are to be charged to vacation.
The wallet is a lense capable of impressive focusing of the thoughts...
Let's just write him in, kicking and screaming if necessary.
Loyalty, man: loyalty.
We don't care if you can't manage two nuns in one minute of silent prayer.
You just have to be loyal about it.
Well, if the lady I married is not a woman, then my non-command of detail is worse than I thought. ;)
That copy of the Monopoly "get out of jail free" card in the car's glove box? That was the EULA.
What is the difference between "respond" and "respond back"?
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