Set up an e-mail account for every domain owner. Use a password based solely on the domain name. Mass e-mail everyone to let them know, and make sure it's "opt-out" rather than "opt-in". Sit back and watch the wackiness.
For example, I am about the staunchest support of the Catholic Church your likely to see (on/. anyway), however I can recognize that the current scandal is not just the media blowing a few cases out of proportion (even if they are). I also don't think that the Church is fundamentally flawed and am willing to ackowledge that members of it have done and continue to do very bad things... even at the top.
However, being reasonably well-educated I can see the context in which things are happening and realize that a few bad apples won't spoil the entire barrel, and a failure on the part of some does not imply a predilection on the part of many. I can also recognize that it is the failure of people rather than ideals.
The same holds for the U.S.. I'm not afraid to face the fact that bad things have been done on behalf of or even by my country, and even if I think some of its leaders are incompetant or even corrupt that it doesn't invalidate the ideals upon which the U.S. is founded. I am concerned at the plasticity that has been imparted on the Constitution since the latter half of the 20th century, but I believe that things will work out correctly in the long run.
We need to remind educators that they need to teach _how_ to think, not _what_ to think. Education without values is hollow and not very useful, however dogmatic indoctrination that flies in the face of facts is even worse. Ultimately, the unbiased truth will serve people the best.
Since when did doing something useful ever take precedence over the appearance of doing something useful.
If Congress constained themselves to measures that were actually designed to _be_ useful rather than _sound_ useful they'd have a lot more time for sex scandals.
Sounds like a win-win situation for everyone but the interns.
I picked up the regular VS.NET for $99 at Best Buy. Aside from compiling substantially slower on my geezy old hardware and having a tremendous amount of useless (although sometimes interesting) baggage, it seems like a neat product.
The professional and enterprise level packages are exorbitantly priced, but they're geared towards businesses. The sheer volume of development capability that can be had for $99 is pretty amazing.
I know, I know, Microsoft is evil and gcc is free, but that doesn't change my mind.
The high price of development tools doesn't seem so bad compared to more or less _doubling_ the price of the OS between Win2k and XP.
The fact of the matter is Microsoft is in it for the money.
Hey, the Simpson's has years of great stories left. Why, the first example on the recent clipshow showed Homer jumping a shark. That's gotta be funny. Also, I don't recall hearing "The Simpsons are going to Antarctica!" yet. We haven't seen Homer quit his job and move to Connecticut to raise chickens, or better yet, move to California. We haven't seen Marge open up cute gift shop and have George Clooney as her handyman. Also, we haven't seen the cute little kid join the cast, the lame spin-offs, or 37 timeslot changes over 6 months.
Living near D.C., you can hear what goes on in detail from the local news and if as tenth of these stories are true, the District government would be considered incompetant.
One example, the D.C. schools spend just shy of $10000 per pupil per year, one of the highest amounts in the country, and their schools are horrible. Without even considering the poor educations that the kids are receiving, the other year a large proportion of the schools in D.C. opened several weeks late in the school year because the government was scrambling to bring buildings up to code. Now, having seen what private schools can do with a third of that money, (and even taking into account the fact that public schools are inherently more expensive because they generally provide more services, e.g., special ed) I have a hard time believing that D.C. couldn't put kids in modern building, hire good teachers, and get rid of the bloated and wasteful bureaucracy.
Another good example is the D.C. ambulance system, which suffered from problems that would be comedic if they weren't tragic. Ambulances routinely took upwards of an hour to arrive and often never showed up because the drivers got lost!
Although it's gotten better in recent years, D.C. has one of the highest murder rates in the country. Just blocks from the U.S. Capitol it's almost like being in a third world country.
You can't go for more than a week without hearing examples of horror stories of dealing with the D.C. government in the media. There are also plenty of examples of other basic services (like water) being unavailable for excessive amounts of time.
There's no doubt that people resent higher taxes regardless of whether they are needed, and no doubt there are many examples of hard-working and efficient governments in the U.S., after all we are the most prosperous country in the world, but D.C. is not one of them.
Well, if the D.C. government weren't about as efficient as a third-world dictatorship, there might be some value to your statement, but the sad fact is that the D.C. government hemorr money like water balloons at a dart throwing party. D.C. has always been vicious with its traffic enforcement, and obviously only for revenue. The government is bloated, corrupt and grotesquely incompetant, and this is their way of dealing with it.
It's all about the Benjamins, they don't care one bit about safety.
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What I mean was "futuristic" as a style in the late 20th and early 21st century...
I'm not discounting previous efforts at all (and as an aside, I just picked up Metropolis on DVD the other day), but what we currently think of "futuristic" these days I believe is in large part because of Syd Mead's artwork. Let's face it "Metropolis" is stunning cinematography, but the future never looked like that and never will.
It was funny going to Tomorrowland in Disneyworld in the late 1980's and seeing how dated and goofy it looked. "Futuristic" changes with the times. Things never really looked like Tomorrowland, and while it was a good crack at "futuristic" circa 1972, it turns out "futuristic" is as much a product current pop culture as anything else.
Of course, Disney got smart and remodelled Tomorrowland in a classic "30's futuristic" look, which will always be cool (although I've never seen it in person). Something can only look "futuristic" (as in what things might actually look like) for a few years. Then it just looks kinda sad.
I think there are a few exceptions to that trend of old futuristic looking dated. To me, "Blade Runner" looks as fresh today as it did in 198-wherever-it-came-out. "2001" with its look of spartan utility is still very convincing.
Heck, I even consider "Forbidden Planet" (minus Robby the Robot) or the old Soviet-bloc classic "First Spaceship on Venus" from about 1960 as pretty timeless looking, but the first couple Star Trek movies (especially the first) look stylistically dated, not even bothering to mention the original series which screamed "1960's" at you in loud paisley letters.
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"Futuristic" as a style was practically created by Syd Mead. I understand he's pretty old, I'm glad he's still around and am realy looking forward to seeing what he comes up with.
"Days of Future Passed" (echoing the Moody Blues 1967 album title) appeared in X-Men 141 and 142. It was actually John Byrne's next-to-last two issues, Claremont took over again shortly after (and the book was never as good again). The character who travelled back in time was Kate (nee Kitty) Pryde. Rachel Summers used her powers to send Kate's mind back in time to when she was 14 or 15 and had just joined the X-Men. Kate then had to help the X-Men prevent the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (or whatever they called themselves c. 1980) from assassinating Senator Kelly (yes, the same guy in the movie) during a presidential campaign that started the hysteria that culminated in the creation of an army of Sentinels that ultimately took over the world and killed every superhuman.
Anyhow, I can only spout this much detail about a few series of comic books for the 12 years or so I collected, and John Byrne's run on the X-Men rates a CBG "Best! Series! Ever!" in my book. I bought 'em off the newstand in the day, but they've been reprinted many times since.
As an aside when X-Men 137 came out, I was about 16 and I made the decision that I bought comics because I liked them and not for profit, so I didn't buy extra speculative copies. I'm sure they're worth a bit now, but that's OK. I'm glad I was only in it for fun.
That's it, you chumps and chumpettes can bite my shiny metal daffodil. I'm on the first pimpmobile outta here.
C'mon. Futurama unlike a lot of Fox's comedy shows is lot more than just ass-jokes. I have found it in the last few seasons to be pretty consistently (but not always) better than the Simpsons. The format of the show allows for a lot more flexibility to spoof current culture and take advantage of the animated medium.
You can ask my wife what I think of Fox after they consistently pre-empt Futurama for football for 6 months straight. Fox treated that show like crap. I just hope we don't have to wait 12 years or more for a region 1 DVD release of the episodes.
I've never seen a library of any kind that couldn't be used hard without eventually having to look at (or wishing you could look at) the source. Since the source for STL isn't comprehendable by anyone short of the people who wrote it (perhaps not even them), I would be very reluctant to use it.
In fact, I have been working for over a year on a project that I didn't write that is part in VC++ and part in Borland C++ (don't ask), and STL has been a real headache for me.
As long as it works, I'm fine, but debugging it, and sometimes even working out the header file dependancies is horrible.
I'm of the category of folks who uses a home-grown container library that is easier to use and more consistent than STL, at the expense of some flexibility, some performance, and a whole lotta obfuscation.
And yes, I use macros in a templatey way, but it's totally portable, has full type checking and is reasonable to debug.
My advise is take some non-trivial time to educate yourself or you may make a decision (for or against) that you will come to regret later.
If you are not personally handing a certified check to Hilary Rosen's entourage every time the idea of commercial music enters into your head you are commiting piracy.
Hey, public TV is _BIG_ business. Their lawyers would crush you in a nanosecond. Seeing as how the government subsidizes the TV shows, they can put that much more of their billions of profits into hiring lawyers.
I agree, why in the world would someone need a full-blown computer when there are undoubtedly thousands of less-expensive devices designed for this exact purpose.
I was building an LED flashlight for my 2-year-old that would turn off after about a minute because he sometimes leaves it on. I certainly didn't consider using a Linux machine.
Bad analogy... clock choice is often as much an aesthetic consideration as a practical consideration. I don't care how cool or usable your digital watch is, an analog watch _looks_ better. Same goes even more for the clock on the wall.
I also recall in 8th grade (about 24 years ago) that there was a kid who couldn't read analog clocks, because there were none in his home.
Here's a better analogy, how many analog radio tuners are being made these days? If there are any, it's strictly a function of cost.
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Set up an e-mail account for every domain owner. Use a password based solely on the domain name. Mass e-mail everyone to let them know, and make sure it's "opt-out" rather than "opt-in". Sit back and watch the wackiness.
Thinking critically is the key to everything.
/. anyway), however I can recognize that the current scandal is not just the media blowing a few cases out of proportion (even if they are). I also don't think that the Church is fundamentally flawed and am willing to ackowledge that members of it have done and continue to do very bad things... even at the top.
For example, I am about the staunchest support of the Catholic Church your likely to see (on
However, being reasonably well-educated I can see the context in which things are happening and realize that a few bad apples won't spoil the entire barrel, and a failure on the part of some does not imply a predilection on the part of many.
I can also recognize that it is the failure of people rather than ideals.
The same holds for the U.S.. I'm not afraid to face the fact that bad things have been done on behalf of or even by my country, and even if I think some of its leaders are incompetant or even corrupt that it doesn't invalidate the ideals upon which the U.S. is founded. I am concerned at the plasticity that has been imparted on the Constitution since the latter half of the 20th century, but I believe that things will work out correctly in the long run.
We need to remind educators that they need to teach _how_ to think, not _what_ to think. Education without values is hollow and not very useful, however dogmatic indoctrination that flies in the face of facts is even worse. Ultimately, the unbiased truth will serve people the best.
Since when did doing something useful ever take precedence over the appearance of doing something useful.
If Congress constained themselves to measures that were actually designed to _be_ useful rather than _sound_ useful they'd have a lot more time for sex scandals.
Sounds like a win-win situation for everyone but the interns.
Naah, actually it turns out Luke was a clone. So was Leia, but he didn't tell her. You can tell because of the origami Wookiee.
P-R-A-Y F-O-R M-O-J-O
Even that would be OK as long as there isn't a motorcycle that can fly with lunch-tray wings...
...and Bart and Lisa aren't replaced by Lester and Eliza because Nancy and Yeardley quit.
"Kiss my shiny metal daffodil?"
Doesn't fit.
I picked up the regular VS.NET for $99 at Best Buy. Aside from compiling substantially slower on my geezy old hardware and having a tremendous amount of useless (although sometimes interesting) baggage, it seems like a neat product.
The professional and enterprise level packages are exorbitantly priced, but they're geared towards businesses. The sheer volume of development capability that can be had for $99 is pretty amazing.
I know, I know, Microsoft is evil and gcc is free, but that doesn't change my mind.
The high price of development tools doesn't seem so bad compared to more or less _doubling_ the price of the OS between Win2k and XP.
The fact of the matter is Microsoft is in it for the money.
Hey, the Simpson's has years of great stories left. Why, the first example on the recent clipshow showed Homer jumping a shark. That's gotta be funny. Also, I don't recall hearing "The Simpsons are going to Antarctica!" yet. We haven't seen Homer quit his job and move to Connecticut to raise chickens, or better yet, move to California. We haven't seen Marge open up cute gift shop and have George Clooney as her handyman. Also, we haven't seen the cute little kid join the cast, the lame spin-offs, or 37 timeslot changes over 6 months.
Don't write the show off yet.
Well, even if you move the decimal point 6 spaces over to where it belongs, Microsoft could buy everyone in the country a copy of XP.
Living near D.C., you can hear what goes on in detail from the local news and if as tenth of these stories are true, the District government would be considered incompetant.
One example, the D.C. schools spend just shy of $10000 per pupil per year, one of the highest amounts in the country, and their schools are horrible. Without even considering the poor educations that the kids are receiving, the other year a large proportion of the schools in D.C. opened several weeks late in the school year because the government was scrambling to bring buildings up to code. Now, having seen what private schools can do with a third of that money, (and even taking into account the fact that public schools are inherently more expensive because they generally provide more services, e.g., special ed) I have a hard time believing that D.C. couldn't put kids in modern building, hire good teachers, and get rid of the bloated and wasteful bureaucracy.
Another good example is the D.C. ambulance system, which suffered from problems that would be comedic if they weren't tragic. Ambulances routinely took upwards of an hour to arrive and often never showed up because the drivers got lost!
Although it's gotten better in recent years, D.C. has one of the highest murder rates in the country. Just blocks from the U.S. Capitol it's almost like being in a third world country.
You can't go for more than a week without hearing examples of horror stories of dealing with the D.C. government in the media. There are also plenty of examples of other basic services (like water) being unavailable for excessive amounts of time.
There's no doubt that people resent higher taxes regardless of whether they are needed, and no doubt there are many examples of hard-working and efficient governments in the U.S., after all we are the most prosperous country in the world, but D.C. is not one of them.
Well, if the D.C. government weren't about as efficient as a third-world dictatorship, there might be some value to your statement, but the sad fact is that the D.C. government hemorr money like water balloons at a dart throwing party. D.C. has always been vicious with its traffic enforcement, and obviously only for revenue. The government is bloated, corrupt and grotesquely incompetant, and this is their way of dealing with it.
It's all about the Benjamins, they don't care one bit about safety.
What I mean was "futuristic" as a style in the late 20th and early 21st century...
I'm not discounting previous efforts at all (and as an aside, I just picked up Metropolis on DVD the other day), but what we currently think of "futuristic" these days I believe is in large part because of Syd Mead's artwork. Let's face it "Metropolis" is stunning cinematography, but the future never looked like that and never will.
It was funny going to Tomorrowland in Disneyworld in the late 1980's and seeing how dated and goofy it looked. "Futuristic" changes with the times. Things never really looked like Tomorrowland, and while it was a good crack at "futuristic" circa 1972, it turns out "futuristic" is as much a product current pop culture as anything else.
Of course, Disney got smart and remodelled Tomorrowland in a classic "30's futuristic" look, which will always be cool (although I've never seen it in person). Something can only look "futuristic" (as in what things might actually look like) for a few years. Then it just looks kinda sad.
I think there are a few exceptions to that trend of old futuristic looking dated. To me, "Blade Runner" looks as fresh today as it did in 198-wherever-it-came-out. "2001" with its look of spartan utility is still very convincing.
Heck, I even consider "Forbidden Planet" (minus Robby the Robot) or the old Soviet-bloc classic "First Spaceship on Venus" from about 1960 as pretty timeless looking, but the first couple Star Trek movies (especially the first) look stylistically dated, not even bothering to mention the original series which screamed "1960's" at you in loud paisley letters.
"Futuristic" as a style was practically created by Syd Mead. I understand he's pretty old, I'm glad he's still around and am realy looking forward to seeing what he comes up with.
You're not too much of a geek:
"Days of Future Passed" (echoing the Moody Blues 1967 album title) appeared in X-Men 141 and 142. It was actually John Byrne's next-to-last two issues, Claremont took over again shortly after (and the book was never as good again). The character who travelled back in time was Kate (nee Kitty) Pryde. Rachel Summers used her powers to send Kate's mind back in time to when she was 14 or 15 and had just joined the X-Men. Kate then had to help the X-Men prevent the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (or whatever they called themselves c. 1980) from assassinating Senator Kelly (yes, the same guy in the movie) during a presidential campaign that started the hysteria that culminated in the creation of an army of Sentinels that ultimately took over the world and killed every superhuman.
Anyhow, I can only spout this much detail about a few series of comic books for the 12 years or so I collected, and John Byrne's run on the X-Men rates a CBG "Best! Series! Ever!" in my book. I bought 'em off the newstand in the day, but they've been reprinted many times since.
As an aside when X-Men 137 came out, I was about 16 and I made the decision that I bought comics because I liked them and not for profit, so I didn't buy extra speculative copies. I'm sure they're worth a bit now, but that's OK. I'm glad I was only in it for fun.
That's it, you chumps and chumpettes can bite my shiny metal daffodil. I'm on the first pimpmobile outta here.
C'mon. Futurama unlike a lot of Fox's comedy shows is lot more than just ass-jokes. I have found it in the last few seasons to be pretty consistently (but not always) better than the Simpsons. The format of the show allows for a lot more flexibility to spoof current culture and take advantage of the animated medium.
You can ask my wife what I think of Fox after they consistently pre-empt Futurama for football for 6 months straight. Fox treated that show like crap. I just hope we don't have to wait 12 years or more for a region 1 DVD release of the episodes.
I've never seen a library of any kind that couldn't be used hard without eventually having to look at (or wishing you could look at) the source. Since the source for STL isn't comprehendable by anyone short of the people who wrote it (perhaps not even them), I would be very reluctant to use it.
In fact, I have been working for over a year on a project that I didn't write that is part in VC++ and part in Borland C++ (don't ask), and STL has been a real headache for me.
As long as it works, I'm fine, but debugging it, and sometimes even working out the header file dependancies is horrible.
I'm of the category of folks who uses a home-grown container library that is easier to use and more consistent than STL, at the expense of some flexibility, some performance, and a whole lotta obfuscation.
And yes, I use macros in a templatey way, but it's totally portable, has full type checking and is reasonable to debug.
My advise is take some non-trivial time to educate yourself or you may make a decision (for or against) that you will come to regret later.
If you are not personally handing a certified check to Hilary Rosen's entourage every time the idea of commercial music enters into your head you are commiting piracy.
Hey, public TV is _BIG_ business. Their lawyers would crush you in a nanosecond. Seeing as how the government subsidizes the TV shows, they can put that much more of their billions of profits into hiring lawyers.
I agree, why in the world would someone need a full-blown computer when there are undoubtedly thousands of less-expensive devices designed for this exact purpose.
I was building an LED flashlight for my 2-year-old that would turn off after about a minute because he sometimes leaves it on. I certainly didn't consider using a Linux machine.
Yes, but by your definition, information equals entropy, and there's definitely too much of that. We need some way to reverse that trend.
I wonder what could be done with a really hot cup of tea...
Upside:
Lotus Notes does all kinds of things automagically.
Downside:
It's _Lotus Notes_, the application that makes Microsoft Office look lean and mean.
Bad analogy... clock choice is often as much an aesthetic consideration as a practical consideration. I don't care how cool or usable your digital watch is, an analog watch _looks_ better. Same goes even more for the clock on the wall.
I also recall in 8th grade (about 24 years ago) that there was a kid who couldn't read analog clocks, because there were none in his home.
Here's a better analogy, how many analog radio tuners are being made these days? If there are any, it's strictly a function of cost.
...while she takes credit for the work of Kevin Gilbert who was the one who actually had the talent.