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Also, an hour out of town there's the junkyard associated with the Planes of Fame aircraft museum. You walk around half-dismantled F-4's and F-14's and check out parts.
The most LA part of the article, though, is "Some of its best customers have also been car customizers looking for cheap, spaceflight-grade hydraulic valves." LOW-RI-DER!
1) The science fiction audience spends its time online now. The few people who still go to movies aren't interested in exploration of the human condition.
2) Related to #1, thoughtful drama is the province of television now. Movies (and this is where Lucas and Spielberg are responsible) are about explosions.
3) Realistically, how good, or how thoughtful, a movie was 2001, anyway? It's as overblown and boring as Heinlein novels that the sci-fi fanboys also insist are Really Important.
OK, an intelligent, helpful comment deserves a reply!
(And does Bollywood count as Asia? I can never figure out how people draw their boundaries...)
I assumed from the context that the OP was referring to East Asia, not to the geological continent of Asia. Given the overall stupidity of the "According to wikipedia, the total population of Asia is 3,902,404,193. North America has 518,575,412. I would venture to say their music industries are probably more diverse and robust than ours." reasoning, that distinction hardly seemed worth arguing with that guy.
At any rate, after reading your and other comments, I still don't think my point was mistaken. Obviously, I wasn't claiming that in all of Asia there isn't a single musician of interest. (See Puppypet for example.) But that contemporary Asian music is overwhelmingly dominated by teenybopper pop of no concern to anyone else in the world, and that transforming the North American and European industries to produce similar lineups of product would be a huge step backward -- is anyone seriously disputing that? Namedropping a handful of artists (Faye Wong and Jackie Chan, no less!) hardly makes for a new British Invasion.
Except for a handful of anime dorks, who outside of Asia listens to any Asian music? It's all godawful cloned spew aimed at 14-year-old girls -- i.e. exactly what you'd expect from a profit model driven solely by concerts and bento box sales.
Is this poster complaining about Google, or are they praising?
I think the actual complaint is that workers who were formerly part of the Google perkfest are now punching a clock, not the mandatory breaks per se. The link is incoherent ("Retarted."?!?) and the submitter seems to have mostly repeated it.
But I'm going to find it hard to believe that monkeys have an advanced sense of specific morals like you should or shouldn't file share because it helps or hurts the artists.
Frankly, after all the "Music and movies suck so that's why it's so important that I steal them!" comments I've read here, I'm wondering when some of you idiots are going to catch up with the monkeys.
Incidentally, not to pick on the submitter but in general: when people throw capital letters at completely inappropriate words (like "Biologists", in this case), is there some logic to it that I'm missing or is it just random? It's not like they're German speakers, because they don't do it for every noun.
Neatness does not imply productive ease of access and mess does not imply disorganization.
In fairness, Izsak makes exactly that point a few sentences above. It's the guys promoting their book, with their made-up "findings", who are blurring the difference between the two.
Note that TFA never claims that it is the same percentage of oxygen, only the same amount.
Gee whiz, Professor Le Chatelier -- maybe it's obvious to you that the limiting factor for combustion is relative oxygen, not absolute oxygen. But it wasn't obvious to me from first principles that reducing oxygen by percentage would work differently than removing it by reducing pressure, especially when the article uses exactly the opposite reasoning to explain why the air is safe to breathe.
Crafting tools is not wasting time. Frequently the fastest way to accomplish s six-week project is to take a month to write the tool...which will then complete the project in under a week.
He's not saying not to write the tool, he's saying that you should be given another tool to write when you're done. Gosling seems to be surprised that developers aren't getting fired instead.
I'm not sure about anyone else but that sounds like one of the worst "vacations" possible to me.
I think his point isn't that it's a superior alternative to a non-working vacation, but that it's better than being at work and isn't charged against his vacation time.
Anyway, when backpacking you wind up with long stretches on a bus or ferry where a little coding wouldn't be an unwelcome distraction.
After several years of constant hype about how Google employees are the smartestest people in the world (because they make, y'know, some nice, not-quite-finished Javascript apps) and how free lunch and other perks provided by the bestest managers in the world make those employees even smarterer...!
It's reassuring to see how poorly they thought through this YouTube thing instead of getting their ducks in a row beforehand. the content providers, though, are exactly as shortsighted as one would have thought.
The first thing to do is to stop emerging world. Emerge things when you know you want them, otherwise just run glsa-check (really "glsa-check|grep '\[N\]'") to scan for vulnerabilities. And if you do upgrade a big package, run revdep-rebuild.
I would give exactly the opposite advice (Do as many small world updates as possible instead of waiting until updating something you want turns into a whole-ball-of-wax nightmare!) but either way, there's something obviously wrong when the package manager needs to be babysat like that.
But I think it's important to consider the fact that, from my personal perspective and in my own experience, I have had less issues in the last 6 months with Gentoo (except for a hardware failure on one of my main hard drive), than I have had in all the time I've used Gentoo.
My impression is that the people who are running 'emerge -uD world' every week are doing just fine and don't understand what all the fuss is about. It's those of us who update infrequently (I have dial-up at home, and anyway don't usually leave my Mac unless I need Linux for some reason) who hit the intractable problems, go into the forum and find user after user complaining about the same unfixed issue for months.
No offense, but perhaps the problem here is that the numbers don't work out, not that the most sophisticated computer retailer in the world needs your condescending "help"?
In this case, one rather obvious objection is that Dell's name and reputation are tied to their subsidiary's performance, so they can't just jump into some half-baked new scheme to sell "GNU/Linux" systems.
To the degree that the goal is to persuade Dell to support Linux, reinforcing the impression that Linux users are a bunch of hypersensitive crackpots who think the world owes them everything seems counterproductive.
The major labels do perform the filtering service for you, but you'd be amazed at how much excellent stuff gets filtered out.
I think his point is that this particular site (which hasn't emerged from under the Slashdotting, so I have no idea if it's true) doesn't provide any filtering. As opposed to GarageBand, Live365, Pandora, LastFM and all sorts of other routes to finding new music.
There is something peculiar about how far you have to dig to even find what she worked on (optimizing compilers, apparently) and no one here seems to have heard of her. If you look at the history of the Lovelace Awards, she's only noted as "First woman to be named IBM Fellow", in contrast to "Adele Mildred Koss:
Developed the first compilers" or "Betty Holberton:
One of the six original programmers of ENIAC".
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The most LA part of the article, though, is "Some of its best customers have also been car customizers looking for cheap, spaceflight-grade hydraulic valves." LOW-RI-DER!
2) Related to #1, thoughtful drama is the province of television now. Movies (and this is where Lucas and Spielberg are responsible) are about explosions.
3) Realistically, how good, or how thoughtful, a movie was 2001, anyway? It's as overblown and boring as Heinlein novels that the sci-fi fanboys also insist are Really Important.
(And does Bollywood count as Asia? I can never figure out how people draw their boundaries...)
I assumed from the context that the OP was referring to East Asia, not to the geological continent of Asia. Given the overall stupidity of the "According to wikipedia, the total population of Asia is 3,902,404,193. North America has 518,575,412. I would venture to say their music industries are probably more diverse and robust than ours." reasoning, that distinction hardly seemed worth arguing with that guy.
At any rate, after reading your and other comments, I still don't think my point was mistaken. Obviously, I wasn't claiming that in all of Asia there isn't a single musician of interest. (See Puppypet for example.) But that contemporary Asian music is overwhelmingly dominated by teenybopper pop of no concern to anyone else in the world, and that transforming the North American and European industries to produce similar lineups of product would be a huge step backward -- is anyone seriously disputing that? Namedropping a handful of artists (Faye Wong and Jackie Chan, no less!) hardly makes for a new British Invasion.
Except for a handful of anime dorks, who outside of Asia listens to any Asian music? It's all godawful cloned spew aimed at 14-year-old girls -- i.e. exactly what you'd expect from a profit model driven solely by concerts and bento box sales.
I think the actual complaint is that workers who were formerly part of the Google perkfest are now punching a clock, not the mandatory breaks per se. The link is incoherent ("Retarted."?!?) and the submitter seems to have mostly repeated it.
Frankly, after all the "Music and movies suck so that's why it's so important that I steal them!" comments I've read here, I'm wondering when some of you idiots are going to catch up with the monkeys.
Incidentally, not to pick on the submitter but in general: when people throw capital letters at completely inappropriate words (like "Biologists", in this case), is there some logic to it that I'm missing or is it just random? It's not like they're German speakers, because they don't do it for every noun.
In fairness, Izsak makes exactly that point a few sentences above. It's the guys promoting their book, with their made-up "findings", who are blurring the difference between the two.
Gee whiz, Professor Le Chatelier -- maybe it's obvious to you that the limiting factor for combustion is relative oxygen, not absolute oxygen. But it wasn't obvious to me from first principles that reducing oxygen by percentage would work differently than removing it by reducing pressure, especially when the article uses exactly the opposite reasoning to explain why the air is safe to breathe.
He's not saying not to write the tool, he's saying that you should be given another tool to write when you're done. Gosling seems to be surprised that developers aren't getting fired instead.
A friend of mine works for Mitsubishi (in the US), and says the whole company calls it J-SOX. No, makes no sense to me either.
The point is that he is in the jungle while you and I are bitching at each other from our desks in the middle of a snowstorm!
I don't understand what is so freaking difficult about this concept -- the idea is that you get **MORE** vacation, not that you enjoy it less.
I think his point isn't that it's a superior alternative to a non-working vacation, but that it's better than being at work and isn't charged against his vacation time.
Anyway, when backpacking you wind up with long stretches on a bus or ferry where a little coding wouldn't be an unwelcome distraction.
In fairness, the OP was observing that her intellectual accomplishment is "hot".
It's reassuring to see how poorly they thought through this YouTube thing instead of getting their ducks in a row beforehand. the content providers, though, are exactly as shortsighted as one would have thought.
It's too bad we didn't turn the Internet over to the UN like you guys all wanted...
I would give exactly the opposite advice (Do as many small world updates as possible instead of waiting until updating something you want turns into a whole-ball-of-wax nightmare!) but either way, there's something obviously wrong when the package manager needs to be babysat like that.
My impression is that the people who are running 'emerge -uD world' every week are doing just fine and don't understand what all the fuss is about. It's those of us who update infrequently (I have dial-up at home, and anyway don't usually leave my Mac unless I need Linux for some reason) who hit the intractable problems, go into the forum and find user after user complaining about the same unfixed issue for months.
Gates and his father oppose the repeal of the tax, not the tax. (Presumably the OP meant to say that).
In this case, one rather obvious objection is that Dell's name and reputation are tied to their subsidiary's performance, so they can't just jump into some half-baked new scheme to sell "GNU/Linux" systems.
This is the FCC, not the police. They don't have any authority over the labels.
To the degree that the goal is to persuade Dell to support Linux, reinforcing the impression that Linux users are a bunch of hypersensitive crackpots who think the world owes them everything seems counterproductive.
So, the article we're discussing is nonsensical, that's what's "so".
That said, neither "open source" nor "free" requires the publically accessible development repositories the author is demanding.
I think his point is that this particular site (which hasn't emerged from under the Slashdotting, so I have no idea if it's true) doesn't provide any filtering. As opposed to GarageBand, Live365, Pandora, LastFM and all sorts of other routes to finding new music.
There is something peculiar about how far you have to dig to even find what she worked on (optimizing compilers, apparently) and no one here seems to have heard of her. If you look at the history of the Lovelace Awards, she's only noted as "First woman to be named IBM Fellow", in contrast to "Adele Mildred Koss: Developed the first compilers" or "Betty Holberton: One of the six original programmers of ENIAC".