Third place in an undergrad playwriting contest does not make your opinion any more right than anyone else's. Steven Spielberg's opinion is no more valid than anyone else's. The point to this whole exchange is that a person doesn't have to be "in the business" to have an opinion about it.
You don't have to be a chef to know if a meal tastes good or bad.
Fair enough.
But I recall my father, who grabs a salt shaker and layers his food in sodium chloride before the first bite, and I think--hey, have a go at being the chef before dismissing someone else's work.
No, my opinion doesn't deserve any more privilege; wasn't trying to say that.
Lucky for him the general public is easily impressed.
While I support the idea that the government should offer some leadership, and tax people to support services they need but do not want, we also should leverage the power of IT to support more interactive spending, so we can buy space pork barrels instead of the traditional pork barrels, if we're so inclined.
Nothing like rose-colored thinking on a Saturday morning.
Bill looks at the organist, rockin' some (Janice|Scott) Joplin, and says of the flowers on the instrument: "You know what's better than those tulips on the organ?"
They look at him almost as blankly as the reader does this post. "Petals About the Rose."
Will the internet increase the turnover frequency, as all DBE sources go PHB, to be replaced by "untainted" ones?
Or will the PHB outfits reach an Infinite Diabolical Regress (IDR), where TLAs are AFU, too?
It's the Information Age, yet the Combine's fog machine obscures more and more...
The only way to get a BSOD on XP is to have some really broken drivers.
Maybe you aren't being adventurous enough?
Afte I worked through a few of these gems, installing PowerToys and such, I did manage to get one(1) BSOD.
I actually laughed. It was like one of those classic ascii-art skulls from the golden age of/., before it became endless advertising-driven dreck, deleteriously dumped.
For the record, I took third place in a one-act playwriting contest as an undergrad (not bad for an engineering major) which was then staged by the theater group.
The fellow who was to direct the piece ripped my face off, editorially speaking, for having turned in some work that would have made a nifty little short film, but utterly sucked for stage. I had a lot of characters, substantially older characters, and difficult scene transitions.
The play was, in a sentence, like an episode of "Friends" set at a college with a lot of card playing.
Suffice it to say that, while I don't have a lot of experience, my insight is that these things are non-trivial, and the original "pile of crap" accusation directed at GL remains unfair.
Oh, pshaw: when you have box office release #1 under your belt (irrespective of whether it draws vacuum) then you may be in a position to call Lucas's body of work a "pile of crap".
That's like whining about a Sourceforge project, when you've no tarballs of your own, much less hair on them.
I may be close on that one.
Credit where due: all these Lucas flicks are great entertainment.
However, since, in my yute, Episode IV came out, I have never achieved the quasi-religious devotion to the story that some seem to reach.
Maybe I'll buy all of the LoTR movies, and all the Star Wars movies, put them on opposing TVs, and let them fight it out...
8. Emacs
Your devotion to the One True Editor is such that you (secretly) don't care what manner of kernel/windowing system you use to light off to run brilliant stuff like Gnus, ECB, or ERC.
You like the substance of the GPL, even if you fall short of the full-on reactionary "ethical" style that some are capable of achieving.
You wonder why the OS can't be as unobtrusive as the BIOS, and just serve Emacs quietly.
Well, I certainly can't recommend it to a casual user.
I just upgraded glibc, and X11 was down for a couple of days untill there were nvidia-glx uprades available.
I did one time-management application for a small group of people
where an MS Abcess database published.xls files for people to track time usage.
Files were returned to an "inbox" folder on the network, and periodically merged to
the.mdb for reporting.
The.xls was the moral equivalent of an HTTP form, and the whole system a beautifully retro batch application.
Of course, even such a dert simple tool still can have problems; this one was perceived as PHB-ware, and I haven't heard whether or not it ever achieved reasonable acceptance.
Yeah, you might have good judgment, but is your box an island?
In the case of cars, traffic lights, while an admitted PITA, do make commuting possible.
Or are you one of those just-put-in-a-roundabout Brits?:)
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You will do nothing of the kind, once my patent is approved, mister!
For additional style points, load all lookup tables in one query, and concatenate the HTML into the values.
But I may be the Kurtz of SQL...
But I recall my father, who grabs a salt shaker and layers his food in sodium chloride before the first bite, and I think--hey, have a go at being the chef before dismissing someone else's work.
No, my opinion doesn't deserve any more privilege; wasn't trying to say that.
Recall that his target audience is kids.
While I support the idea that the government should offer some leadership, and tax people to support services they need but do not want, we also should leverage the power of IT to support more interactive spending, so we can buy space pork barrels instead of the traditional pork barrels, if we're so inclined.
Nothing like rose-colored thinking on a Saturday morning.
Bill looks at the organist, rockin' some (Janice|Scott) Joplin, and says of the flowers on the instrument: "You know what's better than those tulips on the organ?"
They look at him almost as blankly as the reader does this post.
"Petals About the Rose."
Claymore, with a piobaireached chaser: The Lament for the Old Sword.
So, if the TLA is Obviously Fscked Up, does that make it TOFU?
I worry about stuff like that...
Will the internet increase the turnover frequency, as all DBE sources go PHB, to be replaced by "untainted" ones?
Or will the PHB outfits reach an Infinite Diabolical Regress (IDR), where TLAs are AFU, too?
It's the Information Age, yet the Combine's fog machine obscures more and more...
It happens. Some days, you're simply abaft the beam.
Afte I worked through a few of these gems, installing PowerToys and such, I did manage to get one(1) BSOD.
I actually laughed. It was like one of those classic ascii-art skulls from the golden age of
For the record, I took third place in a one-act playwriting contest as an undergrad (not bad for an engineering major) which was then staged by the theater group.
The fellow who was to direct the piece ripped my face off, editorially speaking, for having turned in some work that would have made a nifty little short film, but utterly sucked for stage. I had a lot of characters, substantially older characters, and difficult scene transitions.
The play was, in a sentence, like an episode of "Friends" set at a college with a lot of card playing.
Suffice it to say that, while I don't have a lot of experience, my insight is that these things are non-trivial, and the original "pile of crap" accusation directed at GL remains unfair.
Next time, recall Solomon's warning about the Strange Woman...
Oh, pshaw: when you have box office release #1 under your belt (irrespective of whether it draws vacuum) then you may be in a position to call Lucas's body of work a "pile of crap".
That's like whining about a Sourceforge project, when you've no tarballs of your own, much less hair on them.
Credit where due: all these Lucas flicks are great entertainment.
However, since, in my yute, Episode IV came out, I have never achieved the quasi-religious devotion to the story that some seem to reach.
Maybe I'll buy all of the LoTR movies, and all the Star Wars movies, put them on opposing TVs, and let them fight it out...
8. Emacs
Your devotion to the One True Editor is such that you (secretly) don't care what manner of kernel/windowing system you use to light off to run brilliant stuff like Gnus, ECB, or ERC.
You like the substance of the GPL, even if you fall short of the full-on reactionary "ethical" style that some are capable of achieving.
You wonder why the OS can't be as unobtrusive as the BIOS, and just serve Emacs quietly.
Well, I certainly can't recommend it to a casual user.
I just upgraded glibc, and X11 was down for a couple of days untill there were nvidia-glx uprades available.
I did one time-management application for a small group of people .xls files for people to track time usage. .mdb for reporting. .xls was the moral equivalent of an HTTP form, and the whole system a beautifully retro batch application.
where an MS Abcess database published
Files were returned to an "inbox" folder on the network, and periodically merged to the
The
Of course, even such a dert simple tool still can have problems; this one was perceived as PHB-ware, and I haven't heard whether or not it ever achieved reasonable acceptance.
Yeah, but when you're looking for more work, won't some "requirements development" .xls be just the "God help us" boon you seek?
in an
I submit that you're viewing a organizational behavior problem through a technical eye.
Because they target a neophyte audience, which has no grasp of an extension, much less a file.
Ah, but do you see the peril in the phrase "hide useful"?
What a messy, subjective discussion is hidden behind these two words...
Cynically, you can stay employed for a good length of time cleaning up the dirty diapers.
Less cynically, what other tools support such easy exploration by the user? Play, man, play!
Yeah, you might have good judgment, but is your box an island? :)
In the case of cars, traffic lights, while an admitted PITA, do make commuting possible.
Or are you one of those just-put-in-a-roundabout Brits?