I'm your age, and advertising is killing TV for me as well. I use a TiVo, so I don't see actual commercials (I even look away while fast-forwarding; I have no interest in even being aware what brands are being pushed). But the product placement and #$%%ing popups about other shows are pissing me off so much that I'm not going to bother replacing my analog cable box with a digital one whenever they stop transmitting the analog signal, which I think is going to happen Real Soon Now.
I used to say that I was going to hold out and not cancel my service until the Simpsons were finished, but I'm not going to make it that far.
The company I work for does all its work in Visual Foxpro, too (we went from dBase II ->FoxBase->FoxPro->VFP). With the EOL coming, I've been trying to convince them to go with Python for the front end. Wish me luck:-).
I simply mark as 'Foe' anyone with a link like that attached to their posts. It's not a true Slashdot 'signature'; those can be turned off in your preferences. It's deliberately done (by a browser add-on, I assume) to bypass the mechanism in place to avoid it, so your description of it as 'spam' is right on.
Hah, thanks very much for that link. Just yesterday I was thinking back to the neat astronaut toys I had when I was a kid, circa 1973. They were rubber over a flexible metal frame. I don't remember having any accessories other than helmets for them - certainly not all the nifty stuff shown in the picture in the wikipedia article - so maybe my parents got them for me second-hand or something.
He was referring to John Norman's "Gor" books. Gor is a counter-Earth, inhabited mostly by humans transplanted from Earth by aliens. They were ok to read, but the male-supremacist crap (men are superior to women, all women crave to serve mens' every need, etc) got very old very fast. I got through the first 10 or so books (I believe there are over 20 now?). It's sad because the world and storyline were actually fairly interesting, but it was ruined by the misogynist garbage shoveled in more and more as the series went on.
Disclosure: I hate Microsoft: the company, its products, Bill Gates, everything about it. I would rate myself as 0.9 on the twitter scale.
But, after thinking about it, I decided to have Vista put on a high-end gaming machine I bought last week - only for the DirectX 10 'benefit'. I don't plan to actually use the OS or the machine for anything but to install and run games. I'm not going to be watching movies, surf the web outside of game sites, or develop on it. Though I suppose if I ever need to test some code under vista, I can do that now.
I turned off the UAC crap ASAP, and set everything to Classic mode. It's been about the same as XP for me so far: sucky, but sucky in known Windows ways. It did choke on one of its own updates, but the update went through after a reboot (I hadn't rebooted it after a previous update, as it hadn't asked me to do so; I should have known it seemed to good to be true). As for speed: this is a very fast system, and I've disabled the aero junk, so any slowness isn't apparent to me. I've only had the machine for 2 days, which really isn't long enough to form a strong opinion. Certainly it runs Age of Conan very well, but that's about all I've tried.
I should mention that the vendor gave me 50% off the price; that made the choice quite a bit easier.
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Patriotic? Are you kidding?!? My shit is red, white, and blue; it smells like apple pie; and mom wipes my ass!
I just hope it doesn't run like a Chevrolet. :-)
RMS never told you what happened to your father. Vista is your father.
So he should also stop listening to Led Zeppelin.
Wow, Mott the Hoople. That takes me back lots of years.
Please use the proper term: "Freedom Fructose". Thank you.
I (am learning to) play bass, you insensitive clod! It's that thin little G-string that hurts most.
Yes. The force is strong with this one.
We would have also given credit for:
I am "Lindor's legal team", you insensitive clod!
And it wants my credit card number! Well, that's only fair...
I just wish someone could have scraped up 160 more characters somewhere:
Read 31177 More Bytes...
It might go a log way
Nicely played. :-)
I'm your age, and advertising is killing TV for me as well. I use a TiVo, so I don't see actual commercials (I even look away while fast-forwarding; I have no interest in even being aware what brands are being pushed). But the product placement and #$%%ing popups about other shows are pissing me off so much that I'm not going to bother replacing my analog cable box with a digital one whenever they stop transmitting the analog signal, which I think is going to happen Real Soon Now.
I used to say that I was going to hold out and not cancel my service until the Simpsons were finished, but I'm not going to make it that far.
Liquid Television was good. I was never much of a fan of Beavis and Butthead either, but I did like Daria quite a bit.
The only other attractions MTV had for me was Weird Al, Monty Python, and The Young Ones.
Perhaps an even better logo would be the mythical beast with an elephant's ass on one end and the ass of an ass on the other? :-)
That's odd, I don't recall seeing any press releases by K'breel, the speaker for the Council of Elders.
That's essentially what I had in mind, too - PostgreSQL, wx, and more emphasis on web accessibility.
The company I work for does all its work in Visual Foxpro, too (we went from dBase II ->FoxBase->FoxPro->VFP). With the EOL coming, I've been trying to convince them to go with Python for the front end. Wish me luck :-).
I simply mark as 'Foe' anyone with a link like that attached to their posts. It's not a true Slashdot 'signature'; those can be turned off in your preferences. It's deliberately done (by a browser add-on, I assume) to bypass the mechanism in place to avoid it, so your description of it as 'spam' is right on.
Hah, thanks very much for that link. Just yesterday I was thinking back to the neat astronaut toys I had when I was a kid, circa 1973. They were rubber over a flexible metal frame. I don't remember having any accessories other than helmets for them - certainly not all the nifty stuff shown in the picture in the wikipedia article - so maybe my parents got them for me second-hand or something.
Yeah- I stopped reading them by the time I was 16. I guess they must appeal to *someone*; according to wikipedia there are 26 of them now.
He was referring to John Norman's "Gor" books. Gor is a counter-Earth, inhabited mostly by humans transplanted from Earth by aliens. They were ok to read, but the male-supremacist crap (men are superior to women, all women crave to serve mens' every need, etc) got very old very fast. I got through the first 10 or so books (I believe there are over 20 now?). It's sad because the world and storyline were actually fairly interesting, but it was ruined by the misogynist garbage shoveled in more and more as the series went on.
> Puma Leopard Snow Leopard Tiger Bear Lion Shark Killer Whale Man
I can't wait to run an OS named "Killer"!
I'd been wondering whatever happened to Chris Knight after he sabotaged that Air Force laser...
Disclosure: I hate Microsoft: the company, its products, Bill Gates, everything about it. I would rate myself as 0.9 on the twitter scale.
But, after thinking about it, I decided to have Vista put on a high-end gaming machine I bought last week - only for the DirectX 10 'benefit'. I don't plan to actually use the OS or the machine for anything but to install and run games. I'm not going to be watching movies, surf the web outside of game sites, or develop on it. Though I suppose if I ever need to test some code under vista, I can do that now.
I turned off the UAC crap ASAP, and set everything to Classic mode. It's been about the same as XP for me so far: sucky, but sucky in known Windows ways. It did choke on one of its own updates, but the update went through after a reboot (I hadn't rebooted it after a previous update, as it hadn't asked me to do so; I should have known it seemed to good to be true). As for speed: this is a very fast system, and I've disabled the aero junk, so any slowness isn't apparent to me. I've only had the machine for 2 days, which really isn't long enough to form a strong opinion. Certainly it runs Age of Conan very well, but that's about all I've tried.
I should mention that the vendor gave me 50% off the price; that made the choice quite a bit easier.
DOS batch files.