Speak for yourself. I love that guy. He rocked in Matrix and he rocked in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. If he's typecast in your mind as Agent Smith, watch Priscilla. I was watching Potter with the kids yesterday and they played the FotR trailer. It was the first time I spotted him as Elrond - one more reason to see the film.
"We have the human data," says Shestack. "Now we need the brute-force processing power. We need high-density SNP mapping and microarray analysis so we can design pharmaceutical interventions. We need Big Pharma to wake up to the fact that while 450,000 people in America may not be as large a market as for cholesterol drugs, we're talking about a demand for new products that will be needed from age 2 to age 70.
OK, I work in Big Pharma (though I don't speak for them, blah blah). The big $$ here would not be "curing" those 450k. The $$ would be creating a drug to *induce* an Asperger like state in the normals. Think of it as Viagra for study skills. I think we could sell a few doses of that....
Vernor Vinge (wonder if he reads/.) experimented with this idea in his latest book, calling it "Focus". The ramifications where not totally positive, to say the least.
The lame Weirding modules were the worst thing in the movie to me. What a lazy excuse to blow off most of the most interesting philosophical subtext in the book.
My wife insists that the "Paul and Chani's love grew" and jump cut to 3 years later was even more lame. But sorta explains why they start the film with a 20 year old Paul (he's supposed to be about 13 in most of the book).
I seem to recall that the mini-series people set themselves a "no voiceovers" rule for the 1st mini-series. That went too far.
A lot of the voiceovers in the Lynch/Smithee movie were the meta-text that started most chapters. I don't mind those, they fill in lots of misc info and set the tone that you are reading an account of ancient history (from the narration perspective) and seem to imply that some of the book text itself may be seen through the cracked glass of history.
I remember when the mini-series came out at least one reviewer said that Dune was going to be like Macbeth or Hamlet in that it would be redone every generation with a different perspective.
Yep. Got one last week, couldn't resist. Stop at blockbuster on the way home to rent a game and they say they've stopped renting them (bad). Then he says they are selling the used ones for ~5$ each on an endcap (sweet!). Cheap is cool!
Skies of Arcadia is indeed pretty col so far. Kind of ugly character designs, but that's life. Dead or alive has the best character designs -- my goodness, she really does kick high doesn't she?
The book is 90% interior dialog. A lot of it is actually important to the overall Dune world though. I wonder how they will handle that? Probably ignore it. Children of Dune is far more filmable, so I imagine that's where they will spend screen time.
This sold out long ago. For the enterprising type there is probably one gathering dust in a Suncoast somewhere, but it may take checking a few of them.
And mine isn't for sale.
Less geeky, but the Cowboy Bebop box set is, I think, supposed to be out by then.
Like many others I just don't see it that way. Sure, most people like sameness and conformity. For those of us that don't so far it's a net increase in diversity. I'm sitting here at my computer in California writing a perl script on an OS originating in Finland to process some testing for a product destined for Malaysia. I'm listening to japanese pop music by someone from New York (though try to find an Utada Hikaru album in the US). In another window I'm trying to get a good deal on a car designed mostly in UK and Japan from a US dealer even though it's 100% made in Hermosillo, Mexico. Oh, and I just now got a spam email in Korean (no, I can't read a single char of Korean).
Confusing? Hell yea. Homogenized? I don't think so.
You must watch "blockbusters" then. I watch obscure foriegn/ art house films and anime. it's the only game in town no matter how it sucks. of the 4 I have at the moment only 1 (sopranos 2nd season) is likely to be in BB, and maybe not even that.
I agree with your comment that there are simply not enough raw materials ON EARTH for these things. One more reason it's past time to enlarge the pie. Jovian planets are basically *made* of hydrocarbons, many asteriods are big hunks of decent grade metals, etc, etc.
PS: figuring in exponential growth we don't have the recources to live like starving peasants either.
Would you really want to deny people in the 3rd world a chance to move ahead far more quickly than America ever did?
Do you call Nike's sweatshops and government assisted oppression of attempts to break them "moving ahead far more quickly than America ever did?"
Yup. They are moving along faster. Nobody said they got to skip steps. Nike is a good example of this. They have to keep moving sweat shops to more and more primitive countries. In the 60's it was "made in Japan". Now it's *way* to expensive to manufacture things in Japan. Cheap labor moved to Korea, got too expensive, moved to Malaysia (where it still is AFAIK). I think Korea got through the most brutish part of the industrial revolution a lot faster than the US or UK did.
Sure they still have some sweatshops in places like Korea, but so do we. Some of the worlds worst sweatshops are 1/2 hour from me in downtown LA's jewelry and garment districts. Overall and over the long term it's more positive than negative. The people working in those sweatshops (excluding the outright slaves) are there because they think it's the best way, for right now, for them to get ahead and make a better life for their children. In a lot of cases they are probably right.
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It's interesting to me how these even more underground" articles and things propogate. It seems to propogate to the media too. The stalwart conservative news anchors may decry them but clearly they scan drudgereport, and subscribe pseudonymously to some of the more wakbar mailing lists where these things first turn up.
Someone said that CNN would never cover something like htis because the panic is good for ratings. True, but I wouldn't be a bit surpised to see the author of this on Larry King tomorrow night either. Remember that Afghan ex-pat that circulated his email comparing radial islamics to christian kkk members? I can't find a link to it at the moment but many/most of us saw it. Bill Moyers dug the guy up and interviewed him on PBS for 15 minutes. That incredibly preachy West Wing script basically plagarized the entire thing and put in in a character's mouth.
>If your child is not learning from school, then something must be done.
>Unfortunately, because of the virtual monopoly the government has on the education system, there is little you can do except
>1) send your kid to private school, or
>2) home school the little blighter.
My children are learning. That part I can fix. What about the kid next to her? Her dad works undocumented day labor and with overtime (he hopes) works 10-12 hours a day. Her Mom is home, but sadly never attended school at all as a child. She isn't literate in her native language. No help with homework there. Home school totally not an option. They are very proud of their daughter. She will be the first person in their family to graduate high school. This was an unreasonable dream when they were children. They badly want her to succeed, but she tests about a year below grade level.
They are not the type to demand reforms to the system. By the cultural standards of, say, Guatemala a techer is a higher order of being and not to be questioned. They *like* the "virtual monopoly the government has on the education system" sucky as it seems to you and I. It's a thousand times better than they had before.
>But do you think that a Web enabled computer helps a kid that is motivated to learn?
Unquestionably.
> but not nearly as helpful as a
> well-stocked library.
oops. Another bad assumption. School libraries (I'm thinking particularly elementary school here) are not well stocked by any stretch of the imagination. I took a tour through my son's Jr High library a couple months ago and the story isn't much better. They aren't really libraries in the traditional sense of the word, they are curriculum support services. If you're trying to find out anything that isn't considered a normal part of the curriculum the library probably won't have it.
>Plopping a kid in front of a computer is better than in front of a TV
conventional wisdom, but I'm not sure it's always true. Mine are picking up some japanese, even if it's only wierd bits. Nickelodeon can rot in Hell though, if that's what you mean.
>A computer is a poor replacement for caring teachers, involved parents and a supportive community.
How about as a replacement for uncaring or ill-educated teachers, uninvolved parents and an apathetic community? This is defacto for many/most kids you do realize?
Fix those things you say? People try, but it's very very hard. Fix the 50 year old teacher that is just trying to get to retirement age without having to learn anything new? Fix parents that themselves never went beyond the equiv of 6th grade? Fix the community that votes down school bonds and that usually has 0 community attendance at things like PTA meetings?
Yes, please - Go - Do. Many of us are trying. Just don't pretend it's easy. In the meantime I'd rather the kids have a few computers in the room where they can doublecheck that the history lesson they just got is accurate or just old wives tales. "Mrs. Grundy...it says here that that Washington cherry tree story you were telling is a..poc..ry..phpal, whats that?"
You CAN be tossed in jail for comtempt if the judge is pissy. You CAN be tossed in jail (for a long time) for perjury if during Voix Dire the judge asked if you would accept him as the final authority on matters of law and you said "yes".
>You can get removed from the jury (in fact, the second best way* to get out of jury duty is to mention to the prosecutor that you are aware that jury nullification exists), but the prosecuting attorney can only remove a few people
But, sadly, they have to ask. I got trapped on a panel a year ago. I kept waiting to be asked a question that would get me booted - but he just didn't ask them. They seem to always ask on drug cases, but not murder.
Also, they can only toss out so many jurors without cause. Not being willing to accept the judge as having papal authority over interpretation of law is considered very much "cause".
To tie back to copyright issues (neat trick) - the high court has said that while a jury has the right to act as judges of law - the judge is under no obligation to tell the jurors that. Just like you have "fair use" rights but that doesn't obligate the copyright holder to make it easy for you to excercise them.
garyr
Is the only response I can think of. My understanding is that he was arrested for actually selling the software at defcon. If so, that is a violation of the DMCA. Like it or not I think we would all agree on that.
It's a bad law. What can you do about a bad law? Since it's an unconstitutional law what we can do is put forth a test case that gets to the high
court where it gets thrown out. that requires someone to be arrested, charged and supported all the way to the supreme court. We could also
get it repealed by congress, but I don't think that is likely. Congress no longer represents US citizens and and has already showed their distain
for the constitution.
Dimitri is a cruel test case. He's a foriegn national. He wrote a program that not only is legal where he lives, but without which the Adobe
software is itself illegal in Russia. Most important, this is not his fight - it's ours. Send him home. This behaviour makes many of us ashamed to be Americans. Send him home. Use any excuse you have to to cover your collective asses. Say you are releasing him as a gesture of goodwill to Russia for releaseing that drug dealer they sent back to the US this morning. Just let him go.
You can take me instead. I don't think I've violated the DCMA recently but I'm willing to. Get me a copy of this software and I'll happily sell it to an FBI agent. I'm a US citizen, even when you make me ashamed to be. It *is* my fight, for good or ill. I've got a wife and kids that depend on me, just like Dimitri, but that's the way it shakes out sometimes.
Who's with me? The Ghost of Henry Thoreau is calling.
Is the only response I can think of. My understanding is that he was arrested for actually selling the software at defcon. If so, that is a violation of the DMCA. Like it or not I think we would all agree on that.
It's a bad law. What can you do about a bad law? Since it's an unconstitutional law what we can do is put forth a test case that gets to the high court where it gets thrown out. that requires someone to be arrested, charged and supported all the way to the supreme court. We could also get it repealed by congress, but I don't think that is likely. Congress no longer represents US citizens and and has already showed their distain for the constitution.
Dimitri is a cruel test case. He's a foriegn national. He wrote a program that not only is legal where he lives, but without which the Adobe software is itself illegal in Russia. Most important, this is not his fight - it's ours. Send him home. This behaviour makes many of us ashamed to be Americans. Send him home. Use any excuse you have to to cover your collective asses. Say you are releasing him as a gesture of goodwill to Russia for releaseing that drug dealer they sent back to the US this morning. Just let him go.
You can take me instead. I don't think I've violated the DCMA recently but I'm willing to. Get me a copy of this software and I'll happily sell it to an FBI agent. I'm a US citizen, even when you make me ashamed to be. It *is* my fight, for good or ill. I've got a wife and kids that depend on me, just like Dimitri, but that's the way it shakes out sometimes.
Who's with me? The Ghost of Henry Thoreau is calling.
I assume you're referring to the "Surgical Team" style development team where someone is the "chief surgeon" and everyone else fills in to support this individual. I can see your point, but I doubt many surgeons would pull the type of shit prima donna programmers pull.
Surgical Team Member: What's route do you plan to send the arthroscope down doctor?
Chief Surgeon: I can't tell you what I'm doing, it's too complicated, now look away everyone, only I may look at this stage of the
operation.
Surgical Team Member: I've finished the sutures, doctor.
Chief Surgeon: You call those sutures? My cat has coughed up better work than that.
You haven't known many surgeons, have you? The above sounds like a fairly typical heart surgeon. Surgery attracts MDs that don't like people, since the patient is out cold when they do their work.
Interesting. so the bottom line is that the search engine is still not even as good as mentioning what you were looking for in an aside on slashdot in a not terribly busy thread (everyone is pounding the MS thread).
I'm not sure if that is a slam against images.google.com or a validation of the value of the lint trap like quality of the mind of the/. community.
I can go to 'X' and get nice quiet fans, I can go to 'Y' and get a silly red porthole for the side of the case I buy from 'Z', etc. with all the companies selling boxes and their 'custom configurators' none seem to put it together. I need to put together a new box soon. I want a nice cool quiet duron system with a decent power supply, etc and I want it to already have the red porthole installed, and if it can have transfer art on the box (like on the bottom of skateboards) featuring Ed from Cowboy Beebop so much the better!
It really surprises me that I can't at least easily find companies selling cases that already have portholes and lights installed. Once you've gon to all the trouble to set up jigs and such for cutting sheet metal it's as easy to do 50 as it it to do 1.
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Speak for yourself. I love that guy. He rocked in Matrix and he rocked in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. If he's typecast in your mind as Agent Smith, watch Priscilla. I was watching Potter with the kids yesterday and they played the FotR trailer. It was the first time I spotted him as Elrond - one more reason to see the film.
garyr
I saw this in the Wired article:
/.) experimented with this idea in his latest book, calling it "Focus". The ramifications where not totally positive, to say the least.
"We have the human data," says Shestack. "Now we need the brute-force processing power. We need high-density SNP mapping and microarray analysis so we can design pharmaceutical interventions. We need Big Pharma to wake up to the fact that while 450,000 people in America may not be as large a market as for cholesterol drugs, we're talking about a demand for new products that will be needed from age 2 to age 70.
OK, I work in Big Pharma (though I don't speak for them, blah blah). The big $$ here would not be "curing" those 450k. The $$ would be creating a drug to *induce* an Asperger like state in the normals. Think of it as Viagra for study skills. I think we could sell a few doses of that....
Vernor Vinge (wonder if he reads
garyr
The lame Weirding modules were the worst thing in the movie to me. What a lazy excuse to blow off most of the most interesting philosophical subtext in the book.
My wife insists that the "Paul and Chani's love grew" and jump cut to 3 years later was even more lame. But sorta explains why they start the film with a 20 year old Paul (he's supposed to be about 13 in most of the book).
garyr
I seem to recall that the mini-series people set themselves a "no voiceovers" rule for the 1st mini-series. That went too far.
A lot of the voiceovers in the Lynch/Smithee movie were the meta-text that started most chapters. I don't mind those, they fill in lots of misc info and set the tone that you are reading an account of ancient history (from the narration perspective) and seem to imply that some of the book text itself may be seen through the cracked glass of history.
I remember when the mini-series came out at least one reviewer said that Dune was going to be like Macbeth or Hamlet in that it would be redone every generation with a different perspective.
garyr
Yep. Got one last week, couldn't resist. Stop at blockbuster on the way home to rent a game and they say they've stopped renting them (bad). Then he says they are selling the used ones for ~5$ each on an endcap (sweet!). Cheap is cool!
Skies of Arcadia is indeed pretty col so far. Kind of ugly character designs, but that's life. Dead or alive has the best character designs -- my goodness, she really does kick high doesn't she?
garyr
The book is 90% interior dialog. A lot of it is actually important to the overall Dune world though. I wonder how they will handle that? Probably ignore it. Children of Dune is far more filmable, so I imagine that's where they will spend screen time.
garyr
but here it is
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20011130wo72.htm
Geez. It's been bilingual as long as I can remember. Here's the link to the english artcle: Here
>Serial Experiments: Lain Box Set
This sold out long ago. For the enterprising type there is probably one gathering dust in a Suncoast somewhere, but it may take checking a few of them.
And mine isn't for sale.
Less geeky, but the Cowboy Bebop box set is, I think, supposed to be out by then.
Like many others I just don't see it that way. Sure, most people like sameness and conformity. For those of us that don't so far it's a net increase in diversity. I'm sitting here at my computer in California writing a perl script on an OS originating in Finland to process some testing for a product destined for Malaysia. I'm listening to japanese pop music by someone from New York (though try to find an Utada Hikaru album in the US). In another window I'm trying to get a good deal on a car designed mostly in UK and Japan from a US dealer even though it's 100% made in Hermosillo, Mexico. Oh, and I just now got a spam email in Korean (no, I can't read a single char of Korean).
Confusing? Hell yea. Homogenized? I don't think so.
You must watch "blockbusters" then. I watch obscure foriegn/ art house films and anime. it's the only game in town no matter how it sucks. of the 4 I have at the moment only 1 (sopranos 2nd season) is likely to be in BB, and maybe not even that.
If I had to give up one or the other: cable modem or netflix? Tough choice.
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I agree with your comment that there are simply not enough raw materials ON EARTH for these things. One more reason it's past time to enlarge the pie. Jovian planets are basically *made* of hydrocarbons, many asteriods are big hunks of decent grade metals, etc, etc.
PS: figuring in exponential growth we don't have the recources to live like starving peasants either.
garyr
Would you really want to deny people in the 3rd world a chance to move ahead far more quickly than America ever did?
Do you call Nike's sweatshops and government assisted oppression of attempts to break them "moving ahead far more quickly than America ever did?"
Yup. They are moving along faster. Nobody said they got to skip steps. Nike is a good example of this. They have to keep moving sweat shops to more and more primitive countries. In the 60's it was "made in Japan". Now it's *way* to expensive to manufacture things in Japan. Cheap labor moved to Korea, got too expensive, moved to Malaysia (where it still is AFAIK). I think Korea got through the most brutish part of the industrial revolution a lot faster than the US or UK did.
Sure they still have some sweatshops in places like Korea, but so do we. Some of the worlds worst sweatshops are 1/2 hour from me in downtown LA's jewelry and garment districts. Overall and over the long term it's more positive than negative. The people working in those sweatshops (excluding the outright slaves) are there because they think it's the best way, for right now, for them to get ahead and make a better life for their children. In a lot of cases they are probably right.
It's interesting to me how these even more underground" articles and things propogate. It seems to propogate to the media too. The stalwart conservative news anchors may decry them but clearly they scan drudgereport, and subscribe pseudonymously to some of the more wakbar mailing lists where these things first turn up.
Someone said that CNN would never cover something like htis because the panic is good for ratings. True, but I wouldn't be a bit surpised to see the author of this on Larry King tomorrow night either. Remember that Afghan ex-pat that circulated his email comparing radial islamics to christian kkk members? I can't find a link to it at the moment but many/most of us saw it. Bill Moyers dug the guy up and interviewed him on PBS for 15 minutes. That incredibly preachy West Wing script basically plagarized the entire thing and put in in a character's mouth.
>If your child is not learning from school, then something must be done.
>Unfortunately, because of the virtual monopoly the government has on the education system, there is little you can do except
>1) send your kid to private school, or
>2) home school the little blighter.
My children are learning. That part I can fix. What about the kid next to her? Her dad works undocumented day labor and with overtime (he hopes) works 10-12 hours a day. Her Mom is home, but sadly never attended school at all as a child. She isn't literate in her native language. No help with homework there. Home school totally not an option. They are very proud of their daughter. She will be the first person in their family to graduate high school. This was an unreasonable dream when they were children. They badly want her to succeed, but she tests about a year below grade level.
They are not the type to demand reforms to the system. By the cultural standards of, say, Guatemala a techer is a higher order of being and not to be questioned. They *like* the "virtual monopoly the government has on the education system" sucky as it seems to you and I. It's a thousand times better than they had before.
>But do you think that a Web enabled computer helps a kid that is motivated to learn?
Unquestionably.
> but not nearly as helpful as a
> well-stocked library.
oops. Another bad assumption. School libraries (I'm thinking particularly elementary school here) are not well stocked by any stretch of the imagination. I took a tour through my son's Jr High library a couple months ago and the story isn't much better. They aren't really libraries in the traditional sense of the word, they are curriculum support services. If you're trying to find out anything that isn't considered a normal part of the curriculum the library probably won't have it.
>Plopping a kid in front of a computer is better than in front of a TV
conventional wisdom, but I'm not sure it's always true. Mine are picking up some japanese, even if it's only wierd bits. Nickelodeon can rot in Hell though, if that's what you mean.
>A computer is a poor replacement for caring teachers, involved parents and a supportive community.
.it says here that that Washington cherry tree story you were telling is a..poc..ry..phpal, whats that?"
How about as a replacement for uncaring or ill-educated teachers, uninvolved parents and an apathetic community? This is defacto for many/most kids you do realize?
Fix those things you say? People try, but it's very very hard. Fix the 50 year old teacher that is just trying to get to retirement age without having to learn anything new? Fix parents that themselves never went beyond the equiv of 6th grade? Fix the community that votes down school bonds and that usually has 0 community attendance at things like PTA meetings?
Yes, please - Go - Do. Many of us are trying. Just don't pretend it's easy. In the meantime I'd rather the kids have a few computers in the room where they can doublecheck that the history lesson they just got is accurate or just old wives tales. "Mrs. Grundy..
garyr
>You can't get tossed in jail for it.
You CAN be tossed in jail for comtempt if the judge is pissy. You CAN be tossed in jail (for a long time) for perjury if during Voix Dire the judge asked if you would accept him as the final authority on matters of law and you said "yes".
>You can get removed from the jury (in fact, the second best way* to get out of jury duty is to mention to the prosecutor that you are aware that jury nullification exists), but the prosecuting attorney can only remove a few people
But, sadly, they have to ask. I got trapped on a panel a year ago. I kept waiting to be asked a question that would get me booted - but he just didn't ask them. They seem to always ask on drug cases, but not murder.
Also, they can only toss out so many jurors without cause. Not being willing to accept the judge as having papal authority over interpretation of law is considered very much "cause".
To tie back to copyright issues (neat trick) - the high court has said that while a jury has the right to act as judges of law - the judge is under no obligation to tell the jurors that. Just like you have "fair use" rights but that doesn't obligate the copyright holder to make it easy for you to excercise them.
garyr
Is the only response I can think of. My understanding is that he was arrested for actually selling the software at defcon. If so, that is a violation of the DMCA. Like it or not I think we would all agree on that.
It's a bad law. What can you do about a bad law? Since it's an unconstitutional law what we can do is put forth a test case that gets to the high
court where it gets thrown out. that requires someone to be arrested, charged and supported all the way to the supreme court. We could also
get it repealed by congress, but I don't think that is likely. Congress no longer represents US citizens and and has already showed their distain
for the constitution.
Dimitri is a cruel test case. He's a foriegn national. He wrote a program that not only is legal where he lives, but without which the Adobe
software is itself illegal in Russia. Most important, this is not his fight - it's ours. Send him home. This behaviour makes many of us ashamed to be Americans. Send him home. Use any excuse you have to to cover your collective asses. Say you are releasing him as a gesture of goodwill to Russia for releaseing that drug dealer they sent back to the US this morning. Just let him go.
You can take me instead. I don't think I've violated the DCMA recently but I'm willing to. Get me a copy of this software and I'll happily sell it to an FBI agent. I'm a US citizen, even when you make me ashamed to be. It *is* my fight, for good or ill. I've got a wife and kids that depend on me, just like Dimitri, but that's the way it shakes out sometimes.
Who's with me? The Ghost of Henry Thoreau is calling.
Is the only response I can think of. My understanding is that he was arrested for actually selling the software at defcon. If so, that is a violation of the DMCA. Like it or not I think we would all agree on that.
It's a bad law. What can you do about a bad law? Since it's an unconstitutional law what we can do is put forth a test case that gets to the high court where it gets thrown out. that requires someone to be arrested, charged and supported all the way to the supreme court. We could also get it repealed by congress, but I don't think that is likely. Congress no longer represents US citizens and and has already showed their distain for the constitution.
Dimitri is a cruel test case. He's a foriegn national. He wrote a program that not only is legal where he lives, but without which the Adobe software is itself illegal in Russia. Most important, this is not his fight - it's ours. Send him home. This behaviour makes many of us ashamed to be Americans. Send him home. Use any excuse you have to to cover your collective asses. Say you are releasing him as a gesture of goodwill to Russia for releaseing that drug dealer they sent back to the US this morning. Just let him go.
You can take me instead. I don't think I've violated the DCMA recently but I'm willing to. Get me a copy of this software and I'll happily sell it to an FBI agent. I'm a US citizen, even when you make me ashamed to be. It *is* my fight, for good or ill. I've got a wife and kids that depend on me, just like Dimitri, but that's the way it shakes out sometimes.
Who's with me? The Ghost of Henry Thoreau is calling.
garyr
They say they have heard from a highly placed source that Gary Condit's worthless brother did it.
I assume you're referring to the "Surgical Team" style development team where someone is the "chief surgeon" and everyone else fills in to support this individual. I can see your point, but I doubt many surgeons would pull the type of shit prima donna programmers pull.
Surgical Team Member: What's route do you plan to send the arthroscope down doctor?
Chief Surgeon: I can't tell you what I'm doing, it's too complicated, now look away everyone, only I may look at this stage of the operation.
Surgical Team Member: I've finished the sutures, doctor.
Chief Surgeon: You call those sutures? My cat has coughed up better work than that.
You haven't known many surgeons, have you? The above sounds like a fairly typical heart surgeon. Surgery attracts MDs that don't like people, since the patient is out cold when they do their work.
Interesting. so the bottom line is that the search engine is still not even as good as mentioning what you were looking for in an aside on slashdot in a not terribly busy thread (everyone is pounding the MS thread).
/. community.
I'm not sure if that is a slam against images.google.com or a validation of the value of the lint trap like quality of the mind of the
I can go to 'X' and get nice quiet fans, I can go to 'Y' and get a silly red porthole for the side of the case I buy from 'Z', etc. with all the companies selling boxes and their 'custom configurators' none seem to put it together. I need to put together a new box soon. I want a nice cool quiet duron system with a decent power supply, etc and I want it to already have the red porthole installed, and if it can have transfer art on the box (like on the bottom of skateboards) featuring Ed from Cowboy Beebop so much the better!
It really surprises me that I can't at least easily find companies selling cases that already have portholes and lights installed. Once you've gon to all the trouble to set up jigs and such for cutting sheet metal it's as easy to do 50 as it it to do 1.
garyr