Make it an opt-in SlashBox or, if possible, an opt-in only topic. Or something. I want something better than a link I keep forgetting to follow -- this is one of the things I enjoy listening to most (that, and new GAMH songs...).
I'd go for the twice-weekly show. I've enjoyed all six episodes immensely. If y'all don't feel you have enough material to manage that much, though, don't push it =)
I vote for the radio show as a topic (to be filtered in/out by interested/disinterested persons), although a SlashBox would also be cool. Silly me, I completely forgot to check for a new episode until today =(
I love the show. My wife doesn't "get it", but too bad =) More is naturally better, but only as long as it continues to be as fun to listen to as it is at present. It's like chatting with and listening to some of my geekier friends =)
I do have one question: Are the Myth II crashes mentioned by Hemos related to glibc+voodoo+pthreads? Or is it a different issue? Just curious, I just picked up a Voodoo3 for my brand-spanking-new box (which currently has Q1/Offering, Q2/Colossus, and Civ:CTP on it) and am probably going to get Myth2 soonest. Don't forget Fenris for Loki bug-tracking, and a newsgroup.
(Not that anyone will see this -- it's a week after the episode, and it's really buried...)
Inherit the Wind is, of course, a play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, apparently in 1951, and is a thinly fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial. It was turned into a movie in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March as Henry Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady. For the record, Drummond argued the defense (allowing the teaching of evolution in public schools), and Brady argued for the prosecution (forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools).
The Internet Movie Database lists as well a 1988 remake TV movie (with Kirk Douglas as Brady and Jason Robards as Drummond) and a 1999 remake (with Jack Lemmon as Drummond and George C. Scott as Brady). Hmmm, that would have Lemmon arguing for evolution, and Scott arguing against.
I haven't seen either re-make, but I just checked the original movie out from the library (along with the play) over lunch, because it's time to re-watch it anyways. Great movie, worth the effort to see.
I'd love to hear whether or not the remakes are any good, and whether or not they are available anywhere.
Also, I'd like to know if anyone has a recommendation for a book or three about the Scopes Monkey Trial. I've turned up some rather interesting web pages, but they're not quite easy bed-side reading =)
Try the following paragraph (by my count, the 16th in the article, 3rd paragraph under the heading "Loss Leader", and just before the heading "Building a Base"):
Microsoft has already launched its strategy to help drain profits from the Internet-access business. The company's deals with retailers and PC makers to offer customers bounties of $400 in return for three-year MSN service contracts has boosted sign-up rates by 50%, the company says. The company also has tested a price point of $9.95 a month and is considering offering free service to consumers who commit to a certain level of spending with Microsoft's electronic-commerce partners.
Wasn't CodeByDesign porting one of Stardock's titles (Galactic Civilizations?) to Linux? Anyone know what happened to the port? There isn't any information on those pages any more.
I consider Windows 2000 to be an absolutely amazing products cause of it's choke full of features, as well as remaning stable and fast.
Remaning stable and fast? Window hasn't been fast since 3.11 and has never been stable. I have never even heard of a Windows98 machine being up for more than a month.
If it's only remaining stable, this could be problematic -- my work machine (P2-450, 128M RAM, NT4.0sp3) rarely lasts 5 days without (a) blue-screening; (b) eating itself up memory-wise (that is to say, losing a block of 100+ meg for no apparent reason); (c) explorer crashing and doubling-up some of the apps; (d) getting very user-app crash-prone and slow as molasses.
[sigh] It's not like I don't want to like NT, but it's so goddamned opaque. I have to live in this environment at work, and I've done what I can, but it still feels like I'm pulling my teeth out sometimes.
Auto personalising menus.
I don't know what this is
It's where the menus re-arrange themselves based on what you've clicked on. Which means you can't actually learn the menus (since they periodically change), but have to keep hunting. When I first heard of this feature (slated for, um, Chicago, was it?), the first thought I had was: How in the world are they going to support products which keep changing their interface?
I hope it can be turned off. That is one "feature" that would drive me batty!
From what I've heard, correct me if I'm wrong, development of Gimp has really fallen off since the original developers graduated college.
OK, you're wrong:-) Take a peek at the Gimp-Devel summary page ( http://www.kt.opensrc.org/KC/gimp-devel/). It summarizes a lot of the activity on the gimp-devel list.
If I understand the history correctly, frustration at the lack of 1.1 releases (since all work was being done in CVS) resulted in a semi-fork and the series of 1.1. A reasonably comprehensive guide to the changes can be found at http://sven.gimp.org/1.1/. Pay particular attention to the feature list.
Development isn't stalled, and it is moving forward, but it's not being shouted from the treetops. Personally, I noted a marked difference when I tried one of the 1.1.x released, at least as compared with 1.0.x. There's a lot of exciting new stuff in there.
Or, fast-save could be enabled, which means that a diff against the previous document is appended at the end instead of re-writing the whole file. I saw a 1-page memo balloon to close to 1 meg (with the requisite griping from the author) before we disabled fast-save on her computer.
No way to say for certain what will help and what won't. Talking to a psychiatrist (once I was able to open up enough to actually be honest -- and it took some time to build up that trust) brought me back from the edge of despair. It was very nice to have someone I could talk with and feel like I wasn't being judged.
One of the anti-depressants did my wife wonders after plain old therapy failed -- there really was a chemical imbalance of some sort inducing depression.
It depends on the person and situation as to what will help, but it's certainly worth a try.
As for kinks, it helps if your kinks align with your partner's kinks. Immensely.
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Make it an opt-in SlashBox or, if possible, an opt-in only topic. Or something. I want something better than a link I keep forgetting to follow -- this is one of the things I enjoy listening to most (that, and new GAMH songs...).
I'd go for the twice-weekly show. I've enjoyed all six episodes immensely. If y'all don't feel you have enough material to manage that much, though, don't push it =)
I vote for the radio show as a topic (to be filtered in/out by interested/disinterested persons), although a SlashBox would also be cool. Silly me, I completely forgot to check for a new episode until today =(
I love the show. My wife doesn't "get it", but too bad =) More is naturally better, but only as long as it continues to be as fun to listen to as it is at present. It's like chatting with and listening to some of my geekier friends =)
I do have one question: Are the Myth II crashes mentioned by Hemos related to glibc+voodoo+pthreads? Or is it a different issue? Just curious, I just picked up a Voodoo3 for my brand-spanking-new box (which currently has Q1/Offering, Q2/Colossus, and Civ:CTP on it) and am probably going to get Myth2 soonest. Don't forget Fenris for Loki bug-tracking, and a newsgroup.
(Not that anyone will see this -- it's a week after the episode, and it's really buried...)
Inherit the Wind is, of course, a play written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, apparently in 1951, and is a thinly fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial. It was turned into a movie in 1960 starring Spencer Tracy and Fredric March as Henry Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady. For the record, Drummond argued the defense (allowing the teaching of evolution in public schools), and Brady argued for the prosecution (forbidding the teaching of evolution in public schools).
The Internet Movie Database lists as well a 1988 remake TV movie (with Kirk Douglas as Brady and Jason Robards as Drummond) and a 1999 remake (with Jack Lemmon as Drummond and George C. Scott as Brady). Hmmm, that would have Lemmon arguing for evolution, and Scott arguing against.
I haven't seen either re-make, but I just checked the original movie out from the library (along with the play) over lunch, because it's time to re-watch it anyways. Great movie, worth the effort to see.
I'd love to hear whether or not the remakes are any good, and whether or not they are available anywhere.
Also, I'd like to know if anyone has a recommendation for a book or three about the Scopes Monkey Trial. I've turned up some rather interesting web pages, but they're not quite easy bed-side reading =)
Try the following paragraph (by my count, the 16th in the article, 3rd paragraph under the heading "Loss Leader", and just before the heading "Building a Base"):
Microsoft has already launched its strategy to help drain profits from the Internet-access business. The company's deals with retailers and PC makers to offer customers bounties of $400 in return for three-year MSN service contracts has boosted sign-up rates by 50%, the company says. The company also has tested a price point of $9.95 a month and is considering offering free service to consumers who commit to a certain level of spending with Microsoft's electronic-commerce partners.
Emphasis was mine, of course.
Wasn't CodeByDesign porting one of Stardock's titles (Galactic Civilizations?) to Linux? Anyone know what happened to the port? There isn't any information on those pages any more.
I consider Windows 2000 to be an absolutely amazing products cause of it's choke full of features, as well as remaning stable and fast.
Remaning stable and fast? Window hasn't been fast since 3.11 and has never been stable. I have never even heard of a Windows98 machine being up for more than a month.
If it's only remaining stable, this could be problematic -- my work machine (P2-450, 128M RAM, NT4.0sp3) rarely lasts 5 days without (a) blue-screening; (b) eating itself up memory-wise (that is to say, losing a block of 100+ meg for no apparent reason); (c) explorer crashing and doubling-up some of the apps; (d) getting very user-app crash-prone and slow as molasses.
[sigh] It's not like I don't want to like NT, but it's so goddamned opaque. I have to live in this environment at work, and I've done what I can, but it still feels like I'm pulling my teeth out sometimes.
Auto personalising menus.
I don't know what this is
It's where the menus re-arrange themselves based on what you've clicked on. Which means you can't actually learn the menus (since they periodically change), but have to keep hunting. When I first heard of this feature (slated for, um, Chicago, was it?), the first thought I had was: How in the world are they going to support products which keep changing their interface?
I hope it can be turned off. That is one "feature" that would drive me batty!
From what I've heard, correct me if I'm wrong, development of Gimp has really fallen off since the original developers graduated college.
OK, you're wrong :-) Take a peek at the Gimp-Devel summary page ( http://www.kt.opensrc.org/KC/gimp-devel / ). It summarizes a lot of the activity on the gimp-devel list.
In addition, the May issue of TheGimp.com has an article about some of the new features ( http://www.thegimp.com/articles/1999 05.html ).
If I understand the history correctly, frustration at the lack of 1.1 releases (since all work was being done in CVS) resulted in a semi-fork and the series of 1.1. A reasonably comprehensive guide to the changes can be found at http://sven.gimp.org/1.1/ . Pay particular attention to the feature list.
Development isn't stalled, and it is moving forward, but it's not being shouted from the treetops. Personally, I noted a marked difference when I tried one of the 1.1.x released, at least as compared with 1.0.x. There's a lot of exciting new stuff in there.
Or, fast-save could be enabled, which means that a diff against the previous document is appended at the end instead of re-writing the whole file. I saw a 1-page memo balloon to close to 1 meg (with the requisite griping from the author) before we disabled fast-save on her computer.
Wowks.
No way to say for certain what will help and what won't. Talking to a psychiatrist (once I was able to open up enough to actually be honest -- and it took some time to build up that trust) brought me back from the edge of despair. It was very nice to have someone I could talk with and feel like I wasn't being judged.
One of the anti-depressants did my wife wonders after plain old therapy failed -- there really was a chemical imbalance of some sort inducing depression.
It depends on the person and situation as to what will help, but it's certainly worth a try.
As for kinks, it helps if your kinks align with your partner's kinks. Immensely.
Good luck.