The phrase 'hasta la vista, baby' features in an exchange between the film's characters John Connor (Edward Furlong) and 'The Terminator' (Arnold Schwarzenegger):
John Connor: No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say "affirmative," or some shit like that. You say "no problemo." And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say "eat me." And if you want to shine them on it's "hasta la vista, baby." The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby. John Connor: Yeah but later, dickwad. And if someone gets upset you say, "chill out"! Or you can do combinations. The Terminator: Chill out, dickwad. John Connor: Great! See, you're getting it! The Terminator: No problemo.
I have yet to meet anyone with enormous digital collections of copyrighted works that didn't also have enormous physical collections of copyrighted works.
Fully agreed, although there is often a "time shift". When I was 18 I had stacks of compact cassettes (the 1980s variant of MP3:-), By the time I was 38 I had a much bigger stack of CDs on the shelf and the cassettes had left the house through the garbage bin. In modern MP3 terms the latter probably corresponds with "oops, my harddisk crashed and I forgot to make a backup"......
What? Do they now have a CD drive that can read any part of the disc with no moving parts? Cool!
Yes, that's called a USB stick!! A one gig one (CD size) is nearly a give-away, and a DVD matching 4 GB stick is by now pretty affordable as well. And hey, you can even boot from them.
I am having doubts as to whether Hubble was worth it
I still could agree with that. But I don't thing you should compare it with what that money could have done "on earth", but how it compares to other space projects. And then I personally think that the Hubble project as a whole was much more useful than let's say a shuttle bringing some fresh food to the space station and getting its garbage back.
Or a bit stronger, what was a better space program, the Hubble telescope or putting a couple of guys on the moon? I think the telescope. The moon trip was exiting, but it involved a lot of ego tripping.
But I maybe could agree with you if you would say that _any_ money spent on space exploration would better be given to education and health. I explicitly don't say "health care", because that's an even worse, useless money drain than space. I digress....
Yes, as mankind we're wasting money on useless, nonsense and horrible things (in that order: politics, porn, war ??? or shuffle if you like:-)... left, right and center. I don't think space exploration is the worst of those and within that frame, I think the Hubble telescope was one of the best. Even better than driving a mini hummer over the surface of Mars.:-)
Here in Canada, ID checking at the gate before entering the plane is happening 100%, since 9/11....
Which reminds me of the time (it was 2002) I couldn't find my driver license in my wallet. The only piece of photo ID I managed to find was a security visitor badge for.... (drum roll).... the World Trade Center in NY. When I approaced the Air Canada staff and explained the situation she was very clear that I couldn't get on board with that. And the reason was not the type of ID (although that was a bit sinister) but the fact that the photo on it was soooo bad, that as she said "it could have been anyone". And she was absolutely correct.
That badge was from 2000. After the first attack on the WTC there was massive security. But it was so badly implemented that things like this could happen. IMHO today's airport security is exactly the same. I really doubt if all the "shampoo scanning" will stop a real terrorist. At least I don't feel any safer.
OK, CFLs or LEDs use less electricity. But the electricity I'm currently "wasting" is still heating the house. And where I live, the heating is on 9 months a year.:) So, for the correct math on how much CFLs save, the gain is only the difference in efficiency between electric heating versus natural gas heating. It's not that all those kWh's are wasted. Which is of course different during the summer months, but then you also have much less the lights on.
Since OS X, Apple has been a big supporter of Open Source software Do you mean that in the sense of "using open source" or of "contributing". I like Apple, but objectively I can't remember much of the latter. I could be proven wrong of course.
Do I get this right? You suck the object and then it gets "hard to use", it gets "bloated, unresponsive, slow and hard". So, it was "a tough fight", but that all happened after a cup of Java?? Oh it was not normal coffee, it was Java S..X.:-) Wow......
And let's not forget, Steve Jobs has been there, done it. NeXTstep was lateron also available as an i386 platform, open for all Intel/AMD CPUs (and couple more). Don't know if there is a correlation, but that was unfortunately the end of NeXT. At least I don't thing Jobs will go there again.
I've used some "real" PhotoShop in the past, but my main graphics tool has always been an old copy of PaintShop Pro 4.
On my Linux/Solaris boxes I started using GIMP since it came out and still I've trouble doing with it the most basic stuff. I guess that is because it's much more oriented towards PhotoShop, with its layers, transparencies, objects, etc. and not similar to simpler programs like PsP or Paint.
And that's OK as long as the advanced features don't stand in the way of simple operation, but here it does. Let me give an example: if I need to draw a filled rectangle, I'm used to select a foreground color, select a 'rectangle' tool, drag a box and voila, I've my colored box. Not so in GIMP, maybe it's there somewhere hidden, but after years of usage I still haven't found it. The closest I've come is to select a rectangle region, than select the color, fill the region and then I've to merge that object with the background. Something like that. Which in my eyes is way too complex for the simple job that needs to be done.
So I think I prabably would like a mini-Gimp program (named "Gimpie"?:-), that does away with all the layer stuff (transparency can be handy though), simply allows me to manipulate photo's (touch-up work, cut-paste, cropping, rotating, that's all) and nothing else.
It should be the other way around. An internship which is done remotely is IMHO a waste of everybody's time and energy. And a normal job should definitely have a mixture of on site and remote (at home) elements. Of course all depending on the type of job.
bash-3.00$ ping -s www.yahoo.com PING www.yahoo.com: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from f1.www.vip.mud.yahoo.com (209.191.93.52): icmp_seq=0. time=57.436 ms 64 bytes from f1.www.vip.mud.yahoo.com (209.191.93.52): icmp_seq=1. time=53.995 ms
bash-3.00$ ping -s www.google.com PING www.google.com: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from qb-in-f147.google.com (72.14.205.147): icmp_seq=0. time=7.700 ms 64 bytes from qb-in-f147.google.com (72.14.205.147): icmp_seq=1. time=7.029 ms
As an example, here is the Dutch way. Besides the fact that people "living together" can get the same civil rights as married couples, but if you want to get married, you will do that at the city in a non-religious ceremony. And that's called "marriage"... no, not a dilluted "civil union", it's the real deal and therefore called marriage. And for gay couples, no difference.
Then on top of that (and I guess more than 60-70% of people will do, but it's a "free for all") you can have your religious wedding. It will normally happen on the same day, and although for many the religious wedding is more important, the civil wedding is the one that's legally binding.
I like this system, because it's not an "either, or" but a "one civil wedding, the same for all" and then you make your personal decision, on top of that.
OK, if XP is so bad, does he wants us to go back to Windows 2000. Probably not, so this is just another marketing push to get us from XP to Vista. Yep, it all sounds very embracing, and "we are sorry", but funny coincidence that this talk happens at the same time a new version (which brings in new money) is just released. Duh, isn't this normally called product promotion and shouldn't it happen with Leno or Letterman:-) instead of down-under?
. ..a file called "spybotsd14.exe" instead of . ..
Must be because on his site, network security is handled by FreeBSD, instead of Linux or Solaris.;-)
Jokes aside, I 100% agree with GP. Each of these unixy OSes have their own strength. And in a professional environment, you should use them where they have the best fit.
We had in our office a little WiFi network based on those blue/purple Linksys routers. And it worked really well for couple of years. After some failures one of my colleagues decided it was time for a state-of-the-art replacement with those new silver colored Cisco/Linksys boxes. Yep, consumer pricing, but branded by Cisco.
Well, if I would get just 10 bucks for every hour he was on the phone with Cisco support or installing new firmware, I would be a rich man. Even up to stupid things that an configuration webpage for firewall port forwarding has 20 fields, but the moment you put in more than 10 entries, number 11 and higher don't work. Seems that the GUI designers didn't talk to the developers of the firewall software.
Not to mention the number of times we have to power-switch those stupid boxes (BTW, they look like grey Mac mini's). And half the time after replugging the power brick, the thing doesn't want to reboot and no lights come on. Because we have four of them, in a roaming network, I know it's not simply the failure of a single unit, but design flaws.
These are simply crappy design. Yes, they were cheap (like Linksys also always was) and yes they are Cisco branded. But definitely not professional Cisco quality!! I think Cisco should be careful, there is the chance they are dilluting their professional brand recognition with these low-cost, low-quality consumer products.
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The phrase 'hasta la vista, baby' features in an exchange between the film's characters John Connor (Edward Furlong) and 'The Terminator' (Arnold Schwarzenegger):
John Connor: No, no, no, no. You gotta listen to the way people talk. You don't say "affirmative," or some shit like that. You say "no problemo." And if someone comes on to you with an attitude you say "eat me." And if you want to shine them on it's "hasta la vista, baby."
The Terminator: Hasta la vista, baby.
John Connor: Yeah but later, dickwad. And if someone gets upset you say, "chill out"! Or you can do combinations.
The Terminator: Chill out, dickwad.
John Connor: Great! See, you're getting it!
The Terminator: No problemo.
Hasta la Vista, Baby .....
I have yet to meet anyone with enormous digital collections of copyrighted works that didn't also have enormous physical collections of copyrighted works.
:-), By the time I was 38 I had a much bigger stack of CDs on the shelf and the cassettes had left the house through the garbage bin. In modern MP3 terms the latter probably corresponds with "oops, my harddisk crashed and I forgot to make a backup"......
Fully agreed, although there is often a "time shift". When I was 18 I had stacks of compact cassettes (the 1980s variant of MP3
Yes, that's called a USB stick!! A one gig one (CD size) is nearly a give-away, and a DVD matching 4 GB stick is by now pretty affordable as well. And hey, you can even boot from them.
A case of /. having a "direct impact". But this site should know how to handle that, given their name. :)
I am having doubts as to whether Hubble was worth it
:-) ... left, right and center. I don't think space exploration is the worst of those and within that frame, I think the Hubble telescope was one of the best. Even better than driving a mini hummer over the surface of Mars. :-)
I still could agree with that. But I don't thing you should compare it with what that money could have done "on earth", but how it compares to other space projects. And then I personally think that the Hubble project as a whole was much more useful than let's say a shuttle bringing some fresh food to the space station and getting its garbage back.
Or a bit stronger, what was a better space program, the Hubble telescope or putting a couple of guys on the moon? I think the telescope. The moon trip was exiting, but it involved a lot of ego tripping.
But I maybe could agree with you if you would say that _any_ money spent on space exploration would better be given to education and health. I explicitly don't say "health care", because that's an even worse, useless money drain than space. I digress....
Yes, as mankind we're wasting money on useless, nonsense and horrible things (in that order: politics, porn, war ??? or shuffle if you like
why did I yesterday give away all my mod points ???
Here in Canada, ID checking at the gate before entering the plane is happening 100%, since 9/11 ....
.... (drum roll) .... the World Trade Center in NY. When I approaced the Air Canada staff and explained the situation she was very clear that I couldn't get on board with that. And the reason was not the type of ID (although that was a bit sinister) but the fact that the photo on it was soooo bad, that as she said "it could have been anyone". And she was absolutely correct.
Which reminds me of the time (it was 2002) I couldn't find my driver license in my wallet. The only piece of photo ID I managed to find was a security visitor badge for
That badge was from 2000. After the first attack on the WTC there was massive security. But it was so badly implemented that things like this could happen. IMHO today's airport security is exactly the same. I really doubt if all the "shampoo scanning" will stop a real terrorist. At least I don't feel any safer.
OK, CFLs or LEDs use less electricity. But the electricity I'm currently "wasting" is still heating the house. And where I live, the heating is on 9 months a year. :) So, for the correct math on how much CFLs save, the gain is only the difference in efficiency between electric heating versus natural gas heating. It's not that all those kWh's are wasted. Which is of course different during the summer months, but then you also have much less the lights on.
Since OS X, Apple has been a big supporter of Open Source software
Do you mean that in the sense of "using open source" or of "contributing". I like Apple, but objectively I can't remember much of the latter. I could be proven wrong of course.
Do I get this right? You suck the object and then it gets "hard to use", it gets "bloated, unresponsive, slow and hard". :-) Wow......
So, it was "a tough fight", but that all happened after a cup of Java?? Oh it was not normal coffee, it was Java S..X.
Why don't I have mod-points today!! Both P and GP.
That's all fine, people can live without Microsoft Office and more than you expect are now on cable or DSL.
But wait three to five months, until it doesn't run QuickTax .....
How many AOL users even know what an OS is ??
And let's not forget, Steve Jobs has been there, done it. NeXTstep was lateron also available as an i386 platform, open for all Intel/AMD CPUs (and couple more). Don't know if there is a correlation, but that was unfortunately the end of NeXT. At least I don't thing Jobs will go there again.
I've used some "real" PhotoShop in the past, but my main graphics tool has always been an old copy of PaintShop Pro 4.
:-), that does away with all the layer stuff (transparency can be handy though), simply allows me to manipulate photo's (touch-up work, cut-paste, cropping, rotating, that's all) and nothing else.
On my Linux/Solaris boxes I started using GIMP since it came out and still I've trouble doing with it the most basic stuff. I guess that is because it's much more oriented towards PhotoShop, with its layers, transparencies, objects, etc. and not similar to simpler programs like PsP or Paint.
And that's OK as long as the advanced features don't stand in the way of simple operation, but here it does. Let me give an example: if I need to draw a filled rectangle, I'm used to select a foreground color, select a 'rectangle' tool, drag a box and voila, I've my colored box. Not so in GIMP, maybe it's there somewhere hidden, but after years of usage I still haven't found it. The closest I've come is to select a rectangle region, than select the color, fill the region and then I've to merge that object with the background. Something like that. Which in my eyes is way too complex for the simple job that needs to be done.
So I think I prabably would like a mini-Gimp program (named "Gimpie"?
It should be the other way around. An internship which is done remotely is IMHO a waste of everybody's time and energy. And a normal job should definitely have a mixture of on site and remote (at home) elements. Of course all depending on the type of job.
So the whole deal is about a 17 year old's steady hand work. :-) We all remember the result of that .....
Ehhhh:
:)
bash-3.00$ ping -s www.yahoo.com
PING www.yahoo.com: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from f1.www.vip.mud.yahoo.com (209.191.93.52): icmp_seq=0. time=57.436 ms
64 bytes from f1.www.vip.mud.yahoo.com (209.191.93.52): icmp_seq=1. time=53.995 ms
bash-3.00$ ping -s www.google.com
PING www.google.com: 56 data bytes
64 bytes from qb-in-f147.google.com (72.14.205.147): icmp_seq=0. time=7.700 ms
64 bytes from qb-in-f147.google.com (72.14.205.147): icmp_seq=1. time=7.029 ms
Over here 7.5 ms is still faster than 55 ms.
As an example, here is the Dutch way. Besides the fact that people "living together" can get the same civil rights as married couples, but if you want to get married, you will do that at the city in a non-religious ceremony. And that's called "marriage" ... no, not a dilluted "civil union", it's the real deal and therefore called marriage. And for gay couples, no difference.
Then on top of that (and I guess more than 60-70% of people will do, but it's a "free for all") you can have your religious wedding. It will normally happen on the same day, and although for many the religious wedding is more important, the civil wedding is the one that's legally binding.
I like this system, because it's not an "either, or" but a "one civil wedding, the same for all" and then you make your personal decision, on top of that.
S**T, don't have mod-points today!!
OK, if XP is so bad, does he wants us to go back to Windows 2000. Probably not, so this is just another marketing push to get us from XP to Vista. Yep, it all sounds very embracing, and "we are sorry", but funny coincidence that this talk happens at the same time a new version (which brings in new money) is just released. Duh, isn't this normally called product promotion and shouldn't it happen with Leno or Letterman :-) instead of down-under?
I was thinking along the same lines as GP. And you are correct about your explaining the urge and ideas of "going FOSS".
But if poster is a "proprietary stuff" hater, than why in the first place does he land an iMac on his desk. Is that an "Open Platform"?
So, in his place I would (as GP) go the "Parallels" route. Just run Linux next to OS-X in a virtualized environment.
Must be because on his site, network security is handled by FreeBSD, instead of Linux or Solaris.
Jokes aside, I 100% agree with GP. Each of these unixy OSes have their own strength. And in a professional environment, you should use them where they have the best fit.
We had in our office a little WiFi network based on those blue/purple Linksys routers. And it worked really well for couple of years. After some failures one of my colleagues decided it was time for a state-of-the-art replacement with those new silver colored Cisco/Linksys boxes. Yep, consumer pricing, but branded by Cisco.
Well, if I would get just 10 bucks for every hour he was on the phone with Cisco support or installing new firmware, I would be a rich man. Even up to stupid things that an configuration webpage for firewall port forwarding has 20 fields, but the moment you put in more than 10 entries, number 11 and higher don't work. Seems that the GUI designers didn't talk to the developers of the firewall software.
Not to mention the number of times we have to power-switch those stupid boxes (BTW, they look like grey Mac mini's). And half the time after replugging the power brick, the thing doesn't want to reboot and no lights come on. Because we have four of them, in a roaming network, I know it's not simply the failure of a single unit, but design flaws.
These are simply crappy design. Yes, they were cheap (like Linksys also always was) and yes they are Cisco branded. But definitely not professional Cisco quality!! I think Cisco should be careful, there is the chance they are dilluting their professional brand recognition with these low-cost, low-quality consumer products.