Actually, I think your parent poster got it backwards- prove to a blind person that sight exists. A quick check of thought experiments do not give me any readily usable scenerios; I'm not a great theoretical thinker, though, so you'll probably be able to come up with something.
As for providing proof about religion, I guess that is why they call it "faith". This kind of reminds me of an episode of "Stargate SG-1"- Hollywood makes a spoof of the real Stargate team, and at the end a real spaceship lands near the shooting area, and the FX guys say something like "That's so obviously fake, we could do better" or some such. With all the people that don't even believe in the moon landings, what good would it be if God came down in a chariot of flaming monkeys and proclaimed "I am your God!" Would anyone really believe it? With all the digital Jar-Jar stuff, is there anyway to even tell the diffence now? I gotta go find a priest to ask. What if a government DID fake some kind of God landing? I assume that they gotta have some good CGI.
My brain is twisting into uncomfortable positions. I'm not sure if I just talked myself into believing in God or if I just talked myself out of believing in God.
Haven't read the replies (or the FA), but wasn't a big concern about Passport that you would need to sign over your first 3 children just to get authenticated?
Well, I won't go into why deafness is special compared to other disabilities, because I feel for everyone that has a disability, but in the terms that the parent was talking about, adding features for the deaf shouldn't be too hard. Too hard to add a visual indicator in additon to a aural indicator for a hit in a game? You already have collision detection for the incoming object, how hard can it be to add a line or 2 saying "When hit play audio, and show explosion pixel #3"?
I can't speak for your software product, so I'm sure that when you say it would be hard to implement disability features, I believe you. But I still agree that there is at least some price gouging in other disability projects- a phone that has a flasing strobe or LED on the phone to indicate an incoming call (just that, no TTY or other features) costs a bunch more than a similarly featured (minus flashing light) phone. I doubt that LED costs $40.
Anyway, I'm not trying to rip into you, I've just seen several (many maybe?) products that are slightly modified, where that modification would cost sometime cents to add to an entire line, cost way more than what should be reasonable. Maybe it's insurance coverage, maybe the companies can just get away with it. I have no agenda here- no diabled relatives or friends- but just trying to point out another angle.
He missd the point about free enterprise that "rents" IP rights. ALmost any company can buy these rights for the "right" price, but yet we let these companies "use" rights as long as the contracts for both companies are not violated. Usually, both companies profit from such an arrangement.
Funny, I just applied at a Info Tech Specialist for the DOI. Maybe I can work some mojo...
"Watch as I use my crack squad of badgers (badgerbadgerbadger....) to fix servers and thwart evil! Watch as I bend plastic zip ties with only 4 fingers!"
Oooh, I hope no hiring managers are reading this. Where's that delete button...
I thought it was pretty good- decent acting, plausible plots. In this episode a man wants to grow a clone of his son (illegal in the future US) to harvest the liver(?) to save his son's life. The other case involves a boy band from the '90s who has used youth treatments for 40 years so they look 20ish while they are all about 70. Plus some internal office squabbling about a genetically modified lawyer.
Seems like a standard lawyer show, but with technological twists in the plot. If they can keep up with new ideas it may play for a while, but I can see that falling by the wayside in a bout a season, leaving Just Another Lawyer Show.
As for Open Source issues, none this episode. I also don't know what kind of plots they could wrap around Open Source. Stealing GPL code for a proprietary system, open source insurance? Don't know how much drama could come from that.
I'll give this episode a solid B.
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Anyone else remember this show? It was on for one season ('82-'83), set in 1939 or so in the Pacific. Had a guy with a seaplane and a dog, Nazis, and a bar called the "Golden Monkey".
I've found a few sites about it, but I have yet to meet anyone besides the site operators that remembers this show. It was probably horrible, but as a 9 year old I have fond memories of it.
I've seen "make 'help foobar' a link to 'man foobar'" to "(paraphrase) all these digital devices I know use NEED a GUI rather than CLI".
Of course I'm biased, I grew up on an Apple 2, then Macs till '94, but then worked on an Amiga from '94 until '96, and then got totally confused by Win95 when I first saw it. Yeah, somehow I missed the start of MS dominance.
Getting back to the point, I love using the CLI, execpt when I need to do something but can't figure out how to do it. I know "man" and "/?" but what happens if my question isn't covered by these options? I have found Windows help GUI usefull many times, basically because the weird question I have is covered somewhere but buried somewhere else, but I could back and forth till I found it. Yes, you could also do this with the CLI, but you lose the graphical references, which people seem to like since we are generally visually oriented.
There is also a point for the GUI, also. It tends to allow "newbies" the freedom to explore stuff more easily than the CLI. Left click this, right click this, double click that, see what happens; usually this will not destroy anything without a prompt. This is also true with a good CLI, but if I do rm -r *.* on some systems.... poof!
Now, why can't importing your digicam be as easy as typing "import movies from digicam" or "download from cam" or "whatever the heck ya want ta call it, yo"? Because on the CLI you need specificity, for the good or the bad. You could give options, but for the most part that would reduce the simplicity of the CLI, and at that point you might as well just have a GUI.
Whew! Giving all that, I am not a GUI designer or a CLI expert, just giving my (probably limited in this group's experiences) views, and should be taken with 12-15 grains of salt.
This may have changed, but Apple has (or had) the largest margins on their machines; something around 25-28% or so. This was the average along their entire line, with laptop having the top margins and iMacs eMacs having the lowest margins.
As for the lawsuit, well it does seem a bit shady that adding RAM is gonna screw you. Maybe there is something more going on here that is not being disclosed?
There used to be a website called "Crusade for Crusade" that posted info relating to the Crusade series, that now seems to be defunct. They put up a lot of Straczynski comments, as well as press releases from SciFi. I read the paraphrased quote on the C for C site, which linked to the official SciFi release. That's about as good as I can do since I haven't been able to track the press release down recently.
Just wait until March 4th, when SciFi debuts "Mad Mad House, the Rift, and ?. Soon we will be able to call it the FoxSciFi channel. sigh....
And driving a car is not a right. You give up certain rights for the right to drive. Now we can all quibble as to how many of those rights are justifiable.
Just because you refuse to take a BAL test doesn't mean they can't prosecute for a DWI/DUI. You can fight it, but you've already lost your license and any money you may save from not getting DWI/DUI fines will be sucked up by lawyer fees.
"Of course, to pubescent living-in-mom's-basement pasty faced geeks, Lexx was cool because it had a hot chick."
And the chicks on Farscape were not hot? Sure, they were a bit older (as am I), but they were pretty dang good lookin'.
As for Lexx, I think it tried for a "Plan 9" kinda feel, and it hit and missed. The original movies were pretty good, the first series or 2 was ok, and then it fell to utter shit, in my opinion.
But I do agree with you about Sci-Fi going in strange directions- when I heard that Bonnie Hunt (used to be a big Bab5 supporter) said "we want to get away from space shows" (ah, WTF? Sci-Fi?) I cringed. Since then I've seen what Sci-Fi has put on and I can't remember the last time I watched the channel.
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So far it hasn't worked for you or the parent, so let's continue the theme.
Someone please mod me Redundant.
"what would you do if you had that kind of potential?"
Lots of robots, mistresses, monkeys, and robot monkey mistresses?
No Microsoft, no Steve Ballmer (well, maybe not so prominent), so no "DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!"
I.E., no geek workout sessions, therefore no sweet hot female geek love, there.... snnrt! Dang, it's time to wake up already!
Actually, I think your parent poster got it backwards- prove to a blind person that sight exists. A quick check of thought experiments do not give me any readily usable scenerios; I'm not a great theoretical thinker, though, so you'll probably be able to come up with something.
As for providing proof about religion, I guess that is why they call it "faith". This kind of reminds me of an episode of "Stargate SG-1"- Hollywood makes a spoof of the real Stargate team, and at the end a real spaceship lands near the shooting area, and the FX guys say something like "That's so obviously fake, we could do better" or some such. With all the people that don't even believe in the moon landings, what good would it be if God came down in a chariot of flaming monkeys and proclaimed "I am your God!" Would anyone really believe it? With all the digital Jar-Jar stuff, is there anyway to even tell the diffence now? I gotta go find a priest to ask. What if a government DID fake some kind of God landing? I assume that they gotta have some good CGI.
My brain is twisting into uncomfortable positions. I'm not sure if I just talked myself into believing in God or if I just talked myself out of believing in God.
I need my blanky.
Haven't read the replies (or the FA), but wasn't a big concern about Passport that you would need to sign over your first 3 children just to get authenticated?
Well, I won't go into why deafness is special compared to other disabilities, because I feel for everyone that has a disability, but in the terms that the parent was talking about, adding features for the deaf shouldn't be too hard. Too hard to add a visual indicator in additon to a aural indicator for a hit in a game? You already have collision detection for the incoming object, how hard can it be to add a line or 2 saying "When hit play audio, and show explosion pixel #3"?
I can't speak for your software product, so I'm sure that when you say it would be hard to implement disability features, I believe you. But I still agree that there is at least some price gouging in other disability projects- a phone that has a flasing strobe or LED on the phone to indicate an incoming call (just that, no TTY or other features) costs a bunch more than a similarly featured (minus flashing light) phone. I doubt that LED costs $40.
Anyway, I'm not trying to rip into you, I've just seen several (many maybe?) products that are slightly modified, where that modification would cost sometime cents to add to an entire line, cost way more than what should be reasonable. Maybe it's insurance coverage, maybe the companies can just get away with it. I have no agenda here- no diabled relatives or friends- but just trying to point out another angle.
(BTW- good luck on your company)
Do you know what the name of this is? I mean that the sound of air molecules is called "(some guy's name) threshold". Like the "Barry Threshold".
I'm just wondering why the kids felt the need to leave the city? Pop got scammed, not like he killed a cop or a mobster.
He missd the point about free enterprise that "rents" IP rights. ALmost any company can buy these rights for the "right" price, but yet we let these companies "use" rights as long as the contracts for both companies are not violated. Usually, both companies profit from such an arrangement.
Nice to see that my alma mater is at least somewhat forward thinking. I can see the testing- billions of JoePa pics whizzing around the world.
Funny, I just applied at a Info Tech Specialist for the DOI. Maybe I can work some mojo...
"Watch as I use my crack squad of badgers (badgerbadgerbadger....) to fix servers and thwart evil! Watch as I bend plastic zip ties with only 4 fingers!"
Oooh, I hope no hiring managers are reading this. Where's that delete button...
I thought it was pretty good- decent acting, plausible plots. In this episode a man wants to grow a clone of his son (illegal in the future US) to harvest the liver(?) to save his son's life. The other case involves a boy band from the '90s who has used youth treatments for 40 years so they look 20ish while they are all about 70. Plus some internal office squabbling about a genetically modified lawyer.
Seems like a standard lawyer show, but with technological twists in the plot. If they can keep up with new ideas it may play for a while, but I can see that falling by the wayside in a bout a season, leaving Just Another Lawyer Show.
As for Open Source issues, none this episode. I also don't know what kind of plots they could wrap around Open Source. Stealing GPL code for a proprietary system, open source insurance? Don't know how much drama could come from that.
I'll give this episode a solid B.
Anyone else remember this show? It was on for one season ('82-'83), set in 1939 or so in the Pacific. Had a guy with a seaplane and a dog, Nazis, and a bar called the "Golden Monkey".
I've found a few sites about it, but I have yet to meet anyone besides the site operators that remembers this show. It was probably horrible, but as a 9 year old I have fond memories of it.
Ah, wasted youth.....
I've seen "make 'help foobar' a link to 'man foobar'" to "(paraphrase) all these digital devices I know use NEED a GUI rather than CLI".
Of course I'm biased, I grew up on an Apple 2, then Macs till '94, but then worked on an Amiga from '94 until '96, and then got totally confused by Win95 when I first saw it. Yeah, somehow I missed the start of MS dominance.
Getting back to the point, I love using the CLI, execpt when I need to do something but can't figure out how to do it. I know "man" and "/?" but what happens if my question isn't covered by these options? I have found Windows help GUI usefull many times, basically because the weird question I have is covered somewhere but buried somewhere else, but I could back and forth till I found it. Yes, you could also do this with the CLI, but you lose the graphical references, which people seem to like since we are generally visually oriented.
There is also a point for the GUI, also. It tends to allow "newbies" the freedom to explore stuff more easily than the CLI. Left click this, right click this, double click that, see what happens; usually this will not destroy anything without a prompt. This is also true with a good CLI, but if I do rm -r *.* on some systems.... poof!
Now, why can't importing your digicam be as easy as typing "import movies from digicam" or "download from cam" or "whatever the heck ya want ta call it, yo"? Because on the CLI you need specificity, for the good or the bad. You could give options, but for the most part that would reduce the simplicity of the CLI, and at that point you might as well just have a GUI.
Whew! Giving all that, I am not a GUI designer or a CLI expert, just giving my (probably limited in this group's experiences) views, and should be taken with 12-15 grains of salt.
More modding down to come-
Jackass- I labeled this previous post as Off Topic!
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This may have changed, but Apple has (or had) the largest margins on their machines; something around 25-28% or so. This was the average along their entire line, with laptop having the top margins and iMacs eMacs having the lowest margins.
As for the lawsuit, well it does seem a bit shady that adding RAM is gonna screw you. Maybe there is something more going on here that is not being disclosed?
There used to be a website called "Crusade for Crusade" that posted info relating to the Crusade series, that now seems to be defunct. They put up a lot of Straczynski comments, as well as press releases from SciFi. I read the paraphrased quote on the C for C site, which linked to the official SciFi release. That's about as good as I can do since I haven't been able to track the press release down recently.
Just wait until March 4th, when SciFi debuts "Mad Mad House, the Rift, and ?. Soon we will be able to call it the FoxSciFi channel. sigh....
And driving a car is not a right. You give up certain rights for the right to drive. Now we can all quibble as to how many of those rights are justifiable.
Ah, no.
Just because you refuse to take a BAL test doesn't mean they can't prosecute for a DWI/DUI. You can fight it, but you've already lost your license and any money you may save from not getting DWI/DUI fines will be sucked up by lawyer fees.
"Of course, to pubescent living-in-mom's-basement pasty faced geeks, Lexx was cool because it had a hot chick."
And the chicks on Farscape were not hot? Sure, they were a bit older (as am I), but they were pretty dang good lookin'.
As for Lexx, I think it tried for a "Plan 9" kinda feel, and it hit and missed. The original movies were pretty good, the first series or 2 was ok, and then it fell to utter shit, in my opinion.
But I do agree with you about Sci-Fi going in strange directions- when I heard that Bonnie Hunt (used to be a big Bab5 supporter) said "we want to get away from space shows" (ah, WTF? Sci-Fi?) I cringed. Since then I've seen what Sci-Fi has put on and I can't remember the last time I watched the channel.
Dear God man, do you hate us that much!
Burning eyeballs..... the pain....
Well, I have no proof of this, but I think Alfred Hitchcock was pretty much focused on telling good stories.
However, I could be totally wrong,
I am so going to rip you b**** off that your scank of a s*** girl is going to (bleeP) on her (bleep) and then (bleepin) (bleep) (bleepoid).
....click....
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Me: "Where's the ANY key?"
Tech: (Booya dubba hooba eagh!)