To the _real_ old folks (like me), it's not Christopher Reeve, it's my man George.
Now that guy was Superman! He was an excellently wooden Clark, a sufficiently boy-scout Supes. Not too powerful but still the man.
Oh, and the 1950s series had the best Jimmy Olson and Chief as well. I'll give you Terri Hatcher as Lois Lane though, although I like the 40s Cartoon Lois better.
Have you recently been to Kansas? They talk like normal people. Maybe with more of a midwestern "Bob Dole doesn't take no guff" twang.
As far as the east coast, there's more dialects there than I can think of: bahstonn, lon guyland, new joisey, philly, bal'mer. And don't even get me started with the deep south...
I'm not sure I can justify writing something in Ruby at this point, seeing as its adoption is far below Python, while its advantages over Python are slim to questionable.
if you...
s/Python/Perl/g s/Ruby/Python/g
You would be making a statement I heard many many times in 1999.
Yet Python use has been growing. I just recently started looking at Ruby (I bought "Programming Ruby" 1st Edition from the overstock rack for $5 the other day) and I see it has a lot of the 'just makes sense' things that drew me to Python over Perl and drew me to Perl over Java.
Picking a development environment for a project is important if you're spending someone else's money. If you're hacking around at home, you deserve to use what you like.
Much of the reason why Python has grown so successful (besides Guido Van Rossum, BDFL) is that lots of 'regular folk' liked it better than Perl.
Also, from what I've seen so far, the surface differences between Ruby and Python can probably be learned in a day or two. If you know one, you probably should learn the other just to put it on the resume.
America isn't polarized, it's a big mess of folks right in the middle.
The folks on Crossfire represent their opinions as wholesome American values and the other side represents evil.
Seriously, do you think most Americans think it's right to out a CIA agent for any reason? And Begala ("Politics is show business for ugly people"). These people aren't interested in improving America, they're interested in improving ratings.
Stewart's biggest point is that they don't get paid for coming to consensus on difficult issues and getting both sides to talk instructively on issues. Crossfire is about baiting the other side, spin, and gotchas. It's theater, not debate.
You saw that after the first debate when Stewart interviewed Rudy Giuliani in "Spin-Alley". Jon tried to ask the Mayor about Bush's uneven performance at the debate. Giuliani kept spouting embarrassing spin. It was awful, transparent, and crass. CNN paid attention too. By the second debate, Jeff Greenfield (on CNN) said he didn't like cutting to "spin alley" for instant reaction. By the third presidential debate, CNN toned down the spin to the campaign chairs (which didn't embarrass themselves) and Judy Woodruff talking about spin alley.
Tucker Carlson obviously thought that Stewart would be funny and even tried to divert him to talk about O'Reilly. Stewart kept on the theme that CNN should inform not entertain.
The Daily Show wouldn't be half as interesting and popular if the "News Media" did its job and skewed political spin (read lies) when they saw it. But they won't, because they're part of the party (wink wink nudge nudge). You won't see John King exposing the president's BS because his career is linked to how well he gets along with the White House. So the 'real newsmen' are stifled and the commentators like Carlson, O'Reilly, Begala, and Carville get to do whatever they want, just as long as they stay 'on the reservation' of their political backers. Gross.
It's the movie Network, for real. I wouldn't have be surprised if Jon Stewart yelled "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore".
Sorry, it's not _not_ a hassle. It's just not a big one.
Indentation sometimes gets screwed up when you move a chunk of text around. Sometimes you 'fail to proceed' when you run tests and it's because of a screwed up indentation. It's easy enough to diagnose and pretty easy to fix, but it is a hassle.
Also, if you have a crappy text editor (or if you have crap skillz) you can get in trouble when you have to indent a chunk of text. Not a big hassle, just a little one.
Despite these two exception, python's meaningful whitespace has a lot of benefits. The most obvious: it makes code chunky. You don't have to check braces or check to see the previous author formatted correctly. It might be more rigorous to write, but it's easier to read (which may be the only reason some people prefer python to perl).
If you had a choice to spend $90 to make $100 or spend $10 to make $50, which one would you choose? If you had a choice to make $5 profit on 100 units or $1 profit on 10,000 units which one would you choose?
There's plenty of reasons why Apple should or shouldn't port OS X to PC architechture, and profit margin is one of them, but it's not a simple matter of gross sales.
On an alternate note, you _do_ have OS X available for PC architecture, it's called Linux... One of the reasons I buy from Apple is:
(a) I like the hardware, I feel it's better made and lasts longer
(b) I like the software: Safari, Mail.app, iTunes, and the unix-y command prompt work for me
(c) I like the durability and backward compatability. My main desktop is a iMac DV SE (Graphite), which I bought in 2000. I've never had anything break on it, and it runs Mac OS X 10.3 Panther like a champ. I'm getting ready to replace it with an iMac G5, not because I have to, but because I want to reclaim desk space.
I won the game but I didn't do so good with naming the videos. What can I say, I'm a trivia geek, not a music geek.
The buzzer is the key to success. There's an off-camera light that appears that signifies when you can buzz-in. Get used to buzzing in after that light appears.
If you know the answer, it's really hard to wait until the right moment. If you can keep calm, relax, and be the first one in, then you will get points for the questions you know.
There's nothing worse than knowing the answer and having the other person beat you on the buzzer.
If you need practice with trivia questions, try to get you hands on "College Bowl" questions. They're uniformly excellent.
Anyhow, being on remote control was one of the high points to life so far (bigger deal than Graduation, smaller deal than my wedding). Hope you get a chance!
As means of comparison, in Sept 2000 I got a Compaq laptop at work. The POS only lasted two years before pieces of plastic started breaking off. When I turned it in March 2003 I told my boss it was unusable because it was falling apart.
At the same time, my wife bought a tangerine clamshell iBook. She's still got it, it still runs and, except for the tangerine leaf in the lid of the case all the pieces are there and the computer still runs.
During the summer my dad started sending letters to the editor. The only problem was they wouldn't publish more than one a month.
He got kinda bummed out about it because he had over a years worth of rants already. So he started to send them to other news papers, farther afield.
When I was home earlier in the month, I decided to set him up at Blogger. He's very happy.
My mom, she's a different story... My dad doesn't know how to type, so my mom is his secretary. Fortunately, I taught her to 'copy from the word processor and paste in the browser field' trick, so she's doing minimal extra typing.
Anyhow, my dad is retired, he's very smart and he doesn't stand for anyone's bullshit. Can you guess from the title who he's voting for? Hubris, thy name is Bush.
I don't do much downloading. Frankly, if I do, it's to broaden my listening tastes. Thanks to finding music sharing I was turned onto music by Lee Morgan and Hank Mobley. I've since bought CDs of each artist.
But here's the service that I want.
I own a vinyl copy of Big Brother & The Holding Company's classic live album "Cheap Thrills". I do not have the hardware to facilitate ripping the songs to mp3. I think it is quite ethical for me to download songs from that album.
Actually, I want a service where I show someone my cassette tape or vinyl album collection and then download mp3s for that music. I would pay a reasonable service fee (say 50 cents per album) for this service.
This might be a nice moneymaker for the label. Imagine getting an extra 50 cents profit from each album people submit.
Lots of people remember the Chicago Daily News headline, but this story harkens back to the 1948 race.
Back in 1948, Thomas Dewey (he-of-the-new-york-state-thruway-fame) was polling ahead of President Truman. No one expected that Truman would win. However, after the votes were counted, Truman won.
Afterward it was discovered that extra Truman support came from urban and rural poor, the people who didn't have phones, and therefore they weren't polled.
There was even a third-party candidate back then: Strom Thurmond, the "Dixiecrat" who bailed on the Democratic party because Truman had the gall to support civil rights reforms (like integrating the military). "Ol' Lizard King", as I like to call Thurmond, apparently felt it was okay to secretly father children with "Negroes" (although he preferred a different N-word), but southern states shouldn't have to give up segregation.
Of course, back in 1948 you had two decent, qualified people running for president, today we're lucky if we get one.
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The first amendment is very pertinent. Either you have freedom of speech or you don't. What good is the first amendment if "societal norms" prevent you from speaking?
Second of all, given all the media attention given to Jeopardy, it would be foolish to think there would be no media attention when Ken stopped being on the show. He's the biggest game show prize winner ever. If you seriously wanted to be surprised, you would have to do more than censor Slashdot.
So, according to GGP, I'm allowed freedom of speech, but not if it offends his world view. I should have common courtesy for people I've never met and have no idea what would offend them.
Plus, if I get it wrong, GGP calls me a "FUCKER".
I still think he's a hypocrite. Either there's freedom of speech or there isn't. If you don't like my message, change the channel.
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Using Drudge to uncover bias is kind of like putting Fox in charge of the hen house.
Pun intended.
Q: Number of strikeouts a given batter has against red-headed left-handed pitchers who prefer knuckle-balls
A: Rusty Staub: 42
All Hail Stat-o-Matic Baseball!
To the _real_ old folks (like me), it's not Christopher Reeve, it's my man George.
Now that guy was Superman! He was an excellently wooden Clark, a sufficiently boy-scout Supes. Not too powerful but still the man.
Oh, and the 1950s series had the best Jimmy Olson and Chief as well. I'll give you Terri Hatcher as Lois Lane though, although I like the 40s Cartoon Lois better.
Have you recently been to Kansas? They talk like normal people. Maybe with more of a midwestern "Bob Dole doesn't take no guff" twang.
As far as the east coast, there's more dialects there than I can think of: bahstonn, lon guyland, new joisey, philly, bal'mer. And don't even get me started with the deep south...
if you
s/Python/Perl/g
s/Ruby/Python/g
You would be making a statement I heard many many times in 1999.
Yet Python use has been growing. I just recently started looking at Ruby (I bought "Programming Ruby" 1st Edition from the overstock rack for $5 the other day) and I see it has a lot of the 'just makes sense' things that drew me to Python over Perl and drew me to Perl over Java.
Picking a development environment for a project is important if you're spending someone else's money. If you're hacking around at home, you deserve to use what you like.
Much of the reason why Python has grown so successful (besides Guido Van Rossum, BDFL) is that lots of 'regular folk' liked it better than Perl.
Also, from what I've seen so far, the surface differences between Ruby and Python can probably be learned in a day or two. If you know one, you probably should learn the other just to put it on the resume.
That if you can do something and stick to it for 21 days, then you've successfully created a habit that will be hard to break.
It worked for me with flossing (I still hate to do it) and cutting out caffeine (although the headaches were a bitch).
There are hack writers and there are blocked writers, but there are no hack blocked writers... :-)
Many good writers have the skills to write well, it's the writing fast which confounds them.
My wife is a writer and she summarizes succinctly: "It's easier to fix crap than air".
Nanowrimo does many would-be writers a service: permission to write lots of crap and then spend the next 11 months fixing it.
I'm finally going to get that story together next month. It might not be 50,000 words, but it'll be better than nothing.
America isn't polarized, it's a big mess of folks right in the middle.
The folks on Crossfire represent their opinions as wholesome American values and the other side represents evil.
Seriously, do you think most Americans think it's right to out a CIA agent for any reason? And Begala ("Politics is show business for ugly people"). These people aren't interested in improving America, they're interested in improving ratings.
Stewart's biggest point is that they don't get paid for coming to consensus on difficult issues and getting both sides to talk instructively on issues. Crossfire is about baiting the other side, spin, and gotchas. It's theater, not debate.
You saw that after the first debate when Stewart interviewed Rudy Giuliani in "Spin-Alley". Jon tried to ask the Mayor about Bush's uneven performance at the debate. Giuliani kept spouting embarrassing spin. It was awful, transparent, and crass. CNN paid attention too. By the second debate, Jeff Greenfield (on CNN) said he didn't like cutting to "spin alley" for instant reaction. By the third presidential debate, CNN toned down the spin to the campaign chairs (which didn't embarrass themselves) and Judy Woodruff talking about spin alley.
Tucker Carlson obviously thought that Stewart would be funny and even tried to divert him to talk about O'Reilly. Stewart kept on the theme that CNN should inform not entertain.
The Daily Show wouldn't be half as interesting and popular if the "News Media" did its job and skewed political spin (read lies) when they saw it. But they won't, because they're part of the party (wink wink nudge nudge). You won't see John King exposing the president's BS because his career is linked to how well he gets along with the White House. So the 'real newsmen' are stifled and the commentators like Carlson, O'Reilly, Begala, and Carville get to do whatever they want, just as long as they stay 'on the reservation' of their political backers. Gross.
It's the movie Network, for real. I wouldn't have be surprised if Jon Stewart yelled "I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore".
Sorry, it's not _not_ a hassle. It's just not a big one.
Indentation sometimes gets screwed up when you move a chunk of text around. Sometimes you 'fail to proceed' when you run tests and it's because of a screwed up indentation. It's easy enough to diagnose and pretty easy to fix, but it is a hassle.
Also, if you have a crappy text editor (or if you have crap skillz) you can get in trouble when you have to indent a chunk of text. Not a big hassle, just a little one.
Despite these two exception, python's meaningful whitespace has a lot of benefits. The most obvious: it makes code chunky. You don't have to check braces or check to see the previous author formatted correctly. It might be more rigorous to write, but it's easier to read (which may be the only reason some people prefer python to perl).
If you had a choice to spend $90 to make $100 or spend $10 to make $50, which one would you choose? If you had a choice to make $5 profit on 100 units or $1 profit on 10,000 units which one would you choose?
There's plenty of reasons why Apple should or shouldn't port OS X to PC architechture, and profit margin is one of them, but it's not a simple matter of gross sales.
On an alternate note, you _do_ have OS X available for PC architecture, it's called Linux... One of the reasons I buy from Apple is:
(a) I like the hardware, I feel it's better made and lasts longer
(b) I like the software: Safari, Mail.app, iTunes, and the unix-y command prompt work for me
(c) I like the durability and backward compatability. My main desktop is a iMac DV SE (Graphite), which I bought in 2000. I've never had anything break on it, and it runs Mac OS X 10.3 Panther like a champ. I'm getting ready to replace it with an iMac G5, not because I have to, but because I want to reclaim desk space.
Yes, I knew Colin Quinn when he was funny...
And Ken Ober when he was famous...
And Kari Whuler when she was an A-cup...
I won the game but I didn't do so good with naming the videos. What can I say, I'm a trivia geek, not a music geek.
The buzzer is the key to success. There's an off-camera light that appears that signifies when you can buzz-in. Get used to buzzing in after that light appears.
If you know the answer, it's really hard to wait until the right moment. If you can keep calm, relax, and be the first one in, then you will get points for the questions you know.
There's nothing worse than knowing the answer and having the other person beat you on the buzzer.
If you need practice with trivia questions, try to get you hands on "College Bowl" questions. They're uniformly excellent.
Anyhow, being on remote control was one of the high points to life so far (bigger deal than Graduation, smaller deal than my wedding). Hope you get a chance!
Not true...
All you need is a rip from an 80s-era Laser Disk. It probably wouldn't be digital video quality (but I don't put anything past hardware geeks.
I'm surprised that there aren't bootlegs floating around.
Ho hum. I just got Gmail and all I can say is "Is that all there is?". It's frankly not much niftier than Yahoo mail.
Less spam though... that alone might be enough for me to switch.
Sean O
Look Toby, the guys in that movie are not 28-year-old file clerks who live with their grandmothers in an ethnic ghetto.
They didn't get their computers like you did -- by trading in a bunch of box tops and $49.50 at the supermarket.
Amen brother...
As means of comparison, in Sept 2000 I got a Compaq laptop at work. The POS only lasted two years before pieces of plastic started breaking off. When I turned it in March 2003 I told my boss it was unusable because it was falling apart.
At the same time, my wife bought a tangerine clamshell iBook. She's still got it, it still runs and, except for the tangerine leaf in the lid of the case all the pieces are there and the computer still runs.
I don't want a converting service. You know how much pop and hiss are on my albums, and how god-awful my cassette tapes have gotten?
I just want medium quality MP3s once I prove I bought the original music.
Oh well, too bad.
During the summer my dad started sending letters to the editor. The only problem was they wouldn't publish more than one a month.
He got kinda bummed out about it because he had over a years worth of rants already. So he started to send them to other news papers, farther afield.
When I was home earlier in the month, I decided to set him up at Blogger. He's very happy.
My mom, she's a different story... My dad doesn't know how to type, so my mom is his secretary. Fortunately, I taught her to 'copy from the word processor and paste in the browser field' trick, so she's doing minimal extra typing.
Anyhow, my dad is retired, he's very smart and he doesn't stand for anyone's bullshit. Can you guess from the title who he's voting for? Hubris, thy name is Bush.
I don't do much downloading. Frankly, if I do, it's to broaden my listening tastes. Thanks to finding music sharing I was turned onto music by Lee Morgan and Hank Mobley. I've since bought CDs of each artist.
But here's the service that I want.
I own a vinyl copy of Big Brother & The Holding Company's classic live album "Cheap Thrills". I do not have the hardware to facilitate ripping the songs to mp3. I think it is quite ethical for me to download songs from that album.
Actually, I want a service where I show someone my cassette tape or vinyl album collection and then download mp3s for that music. I would pay a reasonable service fee (say 50 cents per album) for this service.
This might be a nice moneymaker for the label. Imagine getting an extra 50 cents profit from each album people submit.
Lots of people remember the Chicago Daily News headline, but this story harkens back to the 1948 race.
Back in 1948, Thomas Dewey (he-of-the-new-york-state-thruway-fame) was polling ahead of President Truman. No one expected that Truman would win. However, after the votes were counted, Truman won.
Afterward it was discovered that extra Truman support came from urban and rural poor, the people who didn't have phones, and therefore they weren't polled.
There was even a third-party candidate back then: Strom Thurmond, the "Dixiecrat" who bailed on the Democratic party because Truman had the gall to support civil rights reforms (like integrating the military). "Ol' Lizard King", as I like to call Thurmond, apparently felt it was okay to secretly father children with "Negroes" (although he preferred a different N-word), but southern states shouldn't have to give up segregation.
Of course, back in 1948 you had two decent, qualified people running for president, today we're lucky if we get one.
See, you bastards in Florida didn't vote for Al so he took the internet he invented and went home.
Well, maybe if she drank a little milk she wouldn't have gotten freaking cancer.
Vegetarians. Worthless anti-evolutionary bleeding hearts.
The first amendment is very pertinent. Either you have freedom of speech or you don't. What good is the first amendment if "societal norms" prevent you from speaking?
Second of all, given all the media attention given to Jeopardy, it would be foolish to think there would be no media attention when Ken stopped being on the show. He's the biggest game show prize winner ever. If you seriously wanted to be surprised, you would have to do more than censor Slashdot.
So, according to GGP, I'm allowed freedom of speech, but not if it offends his world view. I should have common courtesy for people I've never met and have no idea what would offend them.
Plus, if I get it wrong, GGP calls me a "FUCKER".
I still think he's a hypocrite. Either there's freedom of speech or there isn't. If you don't like my message, change the channel.
Don't you know J'onn J'onzz is the Martian Manhunter?
Trust me, he knows Mars!
You tell me I have a right to speak but I don't have the right to tell you what you don't want to hear?
Sounds like a pretty narrow view of the first amendment.
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Besides which, did you think he was going to play forever? Did you think that it wouldn't be on the news when he lost?
And the chick in the Crying Game is really a Dude...
And David Gale really did kill his wife...
And Bruce Willis is a ghost...
And the Planet of the Apes is really Earth in the far future...