beauty is in the eye of the beholder. some people love brushed metal windows, some hate them, so any list is going to have some level of bias.
but I think it's more important to care what apps are [b]useable[/b]. Mix beauty and functionality into a big soup bowl, and rate them accordingly. Just rating apps on their look is as redundant as underpants on a Saint Bernard.
You obviously didn't see the infamous Son Of Stimpy episode which played some role in the decision to fire the creator. I've never in my life seen a sorrier piece of animation than that episode. The episode was created only to stick it to Nickelodeon. Anyone who thinks this episode has any merit at all is quite blunty an idiot. Had I been an executive at Nickelodeon at the time and seen this episode, I not only would have fired creator John Kricfalusi for it, I would have tried to sue him to recover the costs of making it.
And if I was the creator, I would have counter sued for the company not implementing an approval process. If they're stupid enough to allow a creator who is an obvious druggie to go off and create freely, then they should expect to get a few duds.
Magazines and books have editors, movies and TV shows go through many stages of approval before a final product is in the consumer's hands. If they haven't got this approval process in place, then there is surely no legal justification to fire him. I heard it was because John K wasn't producing episodes fast enough. But maybe one was an excuse to get around legal issues of another.
GMail (including GMail for hosted domains) is not encrypted. Logins are, but once you're in it's not. How many emails do you receive that contain passwords to sites you registered with? Every time you open one of those messages, the data has the potential to be sniffed.
I don't believe this is any worse than that.
You can't hide in the shadows your whole life. You've gotta come out of your closet and let someone sniff you once in a while. It's very liberating.
I'll be buying a Wii the day they release and it will be the only next-gen console I buy...
Ahh, so you're a biased Nintendo fanboy who will sink to any level of depravity in support of your chosen brand. Sounds like Windows fanboys worldwide, and Debian fanboys, and......
maybe for their next gen console they will have learned not to call your console something stupid and childish. the name to me implies they're still going after the 10-year-old market.
What sane teenager or adult is going to publicly announce that they have to go home to play with their Wii?
Seriously, no amount of 3rd party support and game diversity is going to encourage me to buy their console. Call me narrow-minded if you will, but ok, I am...
Python is pretty cool. The advantage of the Mac is that Apple don't charge you out of your nose for development tools. You've also got Applescript and free dev tools and Xcode, also free. Huge download, but you might be able to get the guys at an Apple store to burn it onto a CD for you.
If you haven't used Xcode, you should look into it. You can use it to develop anything in any language, including Python if you want. It's a really nice environment.
While I agree that it's a non-story and written by some technical incompetent who probably saw a javascript dump or a system crash log, I do like seeing them on slashdot. It gives me something humourous to read, and it's nice to know what the Mac-naysayers are up to this week. Maybe it shouldn't hit front page, but it's interesting to read nonetheless. And there's no way I'm ever going to go out of my way to visit MSNBC for everyday unbiased news, so I never would have seen it.
The ones taking the bait are the ones getting upset and posting inflamatory comments.
don't worry about C++, if you need to, you can pick it up later. C and C++ evangalists will always butt heads, but I think the main thing for you to do while still learning is to just stick to one language and learn it well. I never really got anywhere with programming because I was just lost in the sea of languages on offer -- and that was 15 years ago. These days the options are literally endless.
However, I do notice that you have a mac.com email address. does that mean you have a Mac? Instead of going down the C++ path in the future, you may want to even consider Objective C. But this will make it easier if you're developing apps, not kernel stuff.:) Either way, good luck, and don't be pressured into changing languages because something is coller in someone elses eyes.
as computers get more complex, the bar for cluefulness keeps rising
really? I've noticed a trend going the other way. Have you ever tried to delete a file on a Commodore 64? It's a damn sight more complicated than it is on today's computers.
Back in those days, people needed to have more of a clue to operate their computers. Now any monkey can use them. And quite often, they do.
The cluefulness bar you speak of is currently down around my ankles.
not an option in a country as small as this, I'm afraid. NZ is a country of 4 million people. I'm sure the States have cities bigger than that... Most vendors only have one local distributor. Some have to be bought from overseas like Australia.
I looked into buying a netapp a few years ago, but the NZ sales manager at the time was the rudest wanker I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. He didn't stop short of trying to force me to buy, and even called me an idiot for considering competitor's products. So I politely told him to go fuck himself and this company will never touch a NetApp.
Too many whiny bitches think that services on the net should be free-for-all.
When you're playing in someone else's sandbox, you have to play by their rules. While I agree that articles getting dugg by lots of the same people in a row is suspicious, there are other avenues for bringing these concerns to light. What do you think is going to happen when you log on to someone's site and start ragging it? You're certainly not going to make friends and influence people.
If I ran digg, or anything like it, I would be banning bitches left right and center for being whiny gits. If you don't like it, GET THE FUCK OUT. It's not your given right to use the page. Start up something better if you don't like it.
What possible reason would *any* company have of announcing that they are going to beat someone... in 6 months?
Don't they have the money to beat them now? Do they have to save their pennies?
If after all these years and all the resources they've thrown at trying to beat google they still can't do it, they never will.
But even if they can do it, why don't they just shut the hell up and do it? Then announce it. Flapping their mouths without something to show is the sort of thing that SCO do, and Infinium do.
Perhaps Microsoft, SCO and Infinium are the Unholy Trinity.
It's funny how even comic fans misinterpret the term Graphic Novel. There are two types of comics. The usual 'pamphlet' types which are 32 odd pages, come out monthly, etc. Graphic Novels refer to larger stories that may be 100 or more pages and feel more like a novel in size.
At a guess, the term came about when people 'ported' novels into a comic book style novel -- ie; a graphic novel. It may have been someone like Gaiman, but going back to the late 80's even authors like Peirs Anthony had their novels adapted.
These are two distinct forms of the same medium.
Games are always just games. Genres are irrelevant. Content, mature or otherwise, is irrelevant. You could try and make a cinematic games category, but they're still games. When they're all cinematics and no interaction, they're movies.
that's assuming those things are not already in the business case. I can't imagine a business case that doesn't have reasons to make the change, risks associated with the change, risks associated with not making the change, alternatives, financial positives, financial risks, and all that. If that stuff isn't in it, then all you're getting is a request.
Requests can take months to even get considered over work that has a good business case and has been agreed to by the business.
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ah, geez. spot the forum whore. :(
beauty is in the eye of the beholder. some people love brushed metal windows, some hate them, so any list is going to have some level of bias.
but I think it's more important to care what apps are [b]useable[/b]. Mix beauty and functionality into a big soup bowl, and rate them accordingly. Just rating apps on their look is as redundant as underpants on a Saint Bernard.
You obviously didn't see the infamous Son Of Stimpy episode which played some role in the decision to fire the creator. I've never in my life seen a sorrier piece of animation than that episode. The episode was created only to stick it to Nickelodeon. Anyone who thinks this episode has any merit at all is quite blunty an idiot. Had I been an executive at Nickelodeon at the time and seen this episode, I not only would have fired creator John Kricfalusi for it, I would have tried to sue him to recover the costs of making it.
And if I was the creator, I would have counter sued for the company not implementing an approval process. If they're stupid enough to allow a creator who is an obvious druggie to go off and create freely, then they should expect to get a few duds.
Magazines and books have editors, movies and TV shows go through many stages of approval before a final product is in the consumer's hands. If they haven't got this approval process in place, then there is surely no legal justification to fire him. I heard it was because John K wasn't producing episodes fast enough. But maybe one was an excuse to get around legal issues of another.
I thought the mafia were Italian, not Spanish...
GMail (including GMail for hosted domains) is not encrypted. Logins are, but once you're in it's not. How many emails do you receive that contain passwords to sites you registered with? Every time you open one of those messages, the data has the potential to be sniffed.
I don't believe this is any worse than that.
You can't hide in the shadows your whole life. You've gotta come out of your closet and let someone sniff you once in a while. It's very liberating.
Honest.
don't you want some a bit more lowbrow like edlin?
I'll be buying a Wii the day they release and it will be the only next-gen console I buy...
Ahh, so you're a biased Nintendo fanboy who will sink to any level of depravity in support of your chosen brand. Sounds like Windows fanboys worldwide, and Debian fanboys, and......
I think nintendo are taking the piss out of game players. I'm not buying into that.
maybe for their next gen console they will have learned not to call your console something stupid and childish. the name to me implies they're still going after the 10-year-old market.
What sane teenager or adult is going to publicly announce that they have to go home to play with their Wii?
Seriously, no amount of 3rd party support and game diversity is going to encourage me to buy their console. Call me narrow-minded if you will, but ok, I am...
well, of course they'll keep coming to you, because you're free, and you never say no. One or both of these has to change.
What was wrong with the original? Why do people feel that perfectly good movies need to be remade?
Python is pretty cool. The advantage of the Mac is that Apple don't charge you out of your nose for development tools. You've also got Applescript and free dev tools and Xcode, also free. Huge download, but you might be able to get the guys at an Apple store to burn it onto a CD for you.
If you haven't used Xcode, you should look into it. You can use it to develop anything in any language, including Python if you want. It's a really nice environment.
While I agree that it's a non-story and written by some technical incompetent who probably saw a javascript dump or a system crash log, I do like seeing them on slashdot. It gives me something humourous to read, and it's nice to know what the Mac-naysayers are up to this week. Maybe it shouldn't hit front page, but it's interesting to read nonetheless. And there's no way I'm ever going to go out of my way to visit MSNBC for everyday unbiased news, so I never would have seen it.
The ones taking the bait are the ones getting upset and posting inflamatory comments.
don't worry about C++, if you need to, you can pick it up later. C and C++ evangalists will always butt heads, but I think the main thing for you to do while still learning is to just stick to one language and learn it well. I never really got anywhere with programming because I was just lost in the sea of languages on offer -- and that was 15 years ago. These days the options are literally endless.
:) Either way, good luck, and don't be pressured into changing languages because something is coller in someone elses eyes.
However, I do notice that you have a mac.com email address. does that mean you have a Mac? Instead of going down the C++ path in the future, you may want to even consider Objective C. But this will make it easier if you're developing apps, not kernel stuff.
as computers get more complex, the bar for cluefulness keeps rising
really? I've noticed a trend going the other way. Have you ever tried to delete a file on a Commodore 64? It's a damn sight more complicated than it is on today's computers.
Back in those days, people needed to have more of a clue to operate their computers. Now any monkey can use them. And quite often, they do.
The cluefulness bar you speak of is currently down around my ankles.
not an option in a country as small as this, I'm afraid. NZ is a country of 4 million people. I'm sure the States have cities bigger than that... Most vendors only have one local distributor. Some have to be bought from overseas like Australia.
A pity, cos NetApp gear looks pretty swish.
I looked into buying a netapp a few years ago, but the NZ sales manager at the time was the rudest wanker I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. He didn't stop short of trying to force me to buy, and even called me an idiot for considering competitor's products. So I politely told him to go fuck himself and this company will never touch a NetApp.
Too many whiny bitches think that services on the net should be free-for-all.
When you're playing in someone else's sandbox, you have to play by their rules. While I agree that articles getting dugg by lots of the same people in a row is suspicious, there are other avenues for bringing these concerns to light. What do you think is going to happen when you log on to someone's site and start ragging it? You're certainly not going to make friends and influence people.
If I ran digg, or anything like it, I would be banning bitches left right and center for being whiny gits. If you don't like it, GET THE FUCK OUT. It's not your given right to use the page. Start up something better if you don't like it.
It was hard to get access to usenet feeds down here back in the day. FIDOnet was as flash as we got. :)
A regionalised internet, is in fact, an intranet.
Why don't we just take another step backwards and just communicate with smoke signals?
What possible reason would *any* company have of announcing that they are going to beat someone... in 6 months?
Don't they have the money to beat them now? Do they have to save their pennies?
If after all these years and all the resources they've thrown at trying to beat google they still can't do it, they never will.
But even if they can do it, why don't they just shut the hell up and do it? Then announce it. Flapping their mouths without something to show is the sort of thing that SCO do, and Infinium do.
Perhaps Microsoft, SCO and Infinium are the Unholy Trinity.
maybe it's too early in the morning, but at first glance, I'm convinced that it was the Open Source Bitterness Conference.
It's funny how even comic fans misinterpret the term Graphic Novel. There are two types of comics. The usual 'pamphlet' types which are 32 odd pages, come out monthly, etc. Graphic Novels refer to larger stories that may be 100 or more pages and feel more like a novel in size.
At a guess, the term came about when people 'ported' novels into a comic book style novel -- ie; a graphic novel. It may have been someone like Gaiman, but going back to the late 80's even authors like Peirs Anthony had their novels adapted.
These are two distinct forms of the same medium.
Games are always just games. Genres are irrelevant. Content, mature or otherwise, is irrelevant. You could try and make a cinematic games category, but they're still games. When they're all cinematics and no interaction, they're movies.
Games are defined by their interactivity.
No matter how fast the chip is, unless it runs 0x86 it's never going to show up in home or bussiness computers.
:)
That's a very defeatist attitude.
btw, 0x86 looks like you're talking about the numeral 86 in hexidecimal. You might want to refer to the chips as x86 or 80x86.
that's assuming those things are not already in the business case. I can't imagine a business case that doesn't have reasons to make the change, risks associated with the change, risks associated with not making the change, alternatives, financial positives, financial risks, and all that. If that stuff isn't in it, then all you're getting is a request.
Requests can take months to even get considered over work that has a good business case and has been agreed to by the business.