It's no coincidence that "conservative" and "conservation" have the same roots, there are green currents in pretty much all sections of the political spectrum! It's not really a "left"/"right" thing - the USSR had a ludicrously bad environmental record, and they were meant to be left wing! (Although, personally I'm of the opinion that Mr Cameron is trying to monopolise on a popular issue...)
On a flight on Continental Airlines I was on recently, all the screens had the unmistakable blank X Window session in between the terrible films they were showing:-)
A good DJ is someone who knows record collection inside out, and can mix 100s of records together to create a completely new thing.
It takes years of dedication to become a genuinely good DJ. "Master" of DJs are very rare.
On a side note, I don't think the term "musician" can be applied to DJing in the traditional sense, it's completely different from playing an instrument.
Oops, screwed up that link, never mind, a previous poster go there first (damned slow connection!)
OBOT: I think Tim Burton's a good choice for director, since he understands cheesy (His Hero-worship biopic of Ed Wood, and of course most of Mars Attacks, although it was out-cheesed by the awful Independance Day) --
According to the article Mars Attacks was "ill recieved" -- by who exactly? I don't know anyone who didn't love it (although that's probably not a good judge of films;) I suspect it's popular on/. due to Natalie Portman being in it.
Oh btw, Planet of the Apes is listed as having been on the imdb since last April! --
There's also BEAST/BSE. I've got to say Buzz Tracker is one of the few applications I keep W*****s on my system for, and can't wait to see how these turn out. --
Interesting point, but you forget one thing: if programmers can use it, then it will have either a known structure, or an API (which I doubt). Either way, a free version can be written, negating the need for the M$ Office license. OTOH, if Linux programmers actually needed a M$-style registry, it would probably already have been written. --
I believe they were going to change the ending and have Spielberg & Lucas dig up the corpse of Kubrick and violate it on screen
I'd heard McGregor, but not the other two, sounds a bit dodgy, was Irvine Welsh going to draft the screenplay? - "Me an' Alex wur up fir a bit aye the old ultra-violence, likesay"
I believe they were going to change the ending and have Spielberg & Lucas dig up the corpse of Kubrick and violate it on screen
*rofl* reminds me of the Lee and Herring sketch of the alternative ending to "Blues Brothers 2000", where Dan Akroyd and John Goodman piss on John Belushi's grave, while throwing about all the money they'd made. --
That's the original, I was talking about the rumour about a remake. Personally, I can't wait for the re-release, nice to watch it on the big screen with proper sound, rather than a dodgy Scandinavian copy. --
I remember reading about this at the time of Kubrick's funeral. Also put about was the rumour that Speilberg and George Lucas were going to team up to do a re-make of "A Clockwork Orange" (was going to be 2001, but they decided it would take far too long;). Anyone know any more about this? --
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couldn't get into "The Bridge" (the mad Scots accent did it for me)
Being Scottish helps a lot for this;)
stopped reading "Canal Dreams" after the bit where they shoot the hostages, repulsed by the violence
And you liked "the Wasp Factory" and "Complicity"???
I think "Whit" was just him having a dig at organised religion (as was the Wasp Factory, and bits of the Crow Road... you get the idea).
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Ouch, Amazon links!
I agree on Canal Dreams, and Walking on Glass, but I must say I really enjoyed Song of Stone. What did you make of "Whit"? --
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I'm a massive fan of Iain Banks' "literary" books, but I've never been able to finish any of his sci-fi books other than "Player of Games" (which I thought it was an excellant book, probably because it's closer to his non-sci-fi books than the others I read). disclaimer: I've never been a heavy sci-fi book buff, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the odd William Gibson or Neal Stephenson is as far as it goes, so this is probably explainable.
Banks has always experimented with his literary books. Sometimes it works (The Bridge is probably the best example of this, although it borrows heavily from Gray's Lanark.), sometimes it doesn't (Canal Dreams was directionless and obvious). Perhaps you'd rather read a book that mindlessly follows a genre without trying to explore differant avenues, but personally I think that's dull.
As for telling a good story, read "Espedair Street", "The Crow Road", or "Complicity" and try telling me he can't. --
computer simulation results can only be verified through testing.
Very good point. IIRC, the ASCI stuff was driven by international testing restrictions. The problem, of course, is that the most dangerous and unstable countries are the ones least likely to adhere to international restrictions:(
Open source nuclear secrets would be a Very Bad Thing [tm].
Aw, no fun! in case you were in some doubt, those comments where ever-so-slightly tongue-in-cheek, although I'm sure ESR would argue that restricting the public's free use nuclear weapons is infringing on some right or other;) (disclaimer: that wasn't meant as a gun-rights troll, honest) --
I suppose a country performing Nuclear simulations isn't as bad as it performing tests (IIRC, the reason that the scary ASCI supercomputers where set up in the first place was to eliminate the need for nuclear testing), so this could be seen by some people as a "good" thing...
However, most nuclear tests these days seem to be for shows of strength (France and the India/Pakistan tests spring to mind), so it is actually more dangerous, in my view, to develop and test nuclear technology using supercomputers, than to develop and test them in "the open", since open testing is a good deterent to other countries.
Perhaps there should be a clause in the GPL, that GPL'd software can't be used to bring about armageddon. OK, that won't work since: a) it violates the Open Source Definition, and b) Emacs would have to be removed from all sites;) - but at least require any nuclear technology developed under Linux be released GPL, maybe have nuke.soureforge.net. This would actually be cool, perhaps VA Linux could fund tests of the open-source nukes on some random place (off the top of my head - Redmond?), if an angry penguin running at you at 100mph is scary, what'll an angry penguin with a nuclear warhead be like?
Sorry about the incoherence of the above post, it's been a long day (and it's only half-way through as well) --
I'm just waiting for a WYSIWYG word processor with vi key bindings, best of both worlds without resorting to writing everything in LaTeX;)
btw, those hours playing Angband were wasted, especially when your character is taken out by a massive pack of Zephyr hounds on level 40 (not that I'm bitter;) --
If the theme uses copyrighted material from the movie, then I suppose there is fair game. Just doing something in the "style" of a film, like, say, the "neuromancer" theme is in the style of the book.
Personally I think that things like that are actually beneficial to the company, since it's basically a big advert (Like someone's likely to think they don't need to watch the Matrix because they've already seen the theme;) --
What I was trying to do was ape those 'in/out' filler articles that magazines write when they can't think of anything else, the choices weren't supposed to mean anything in particular;) --
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It's no coincidence that "conservative" and "conservation" have the same roots, there are green currents in pretty much all sections of the political spectrum! It's not really a "left"/"right" thing - the USSR had a ludicrously bad environmental record, and they were meant to be left wing! ...)
(Although, personally I'm of the opinion that Mr Cameron is trying to monopolise on a popular issue
On a flight on Continental Airlines I was on recently, all the screens had the unmistakable blank X Window session in between the terrible films they were showing :-)
You can always visit the penguin museum in Belgium ...
Scratching is only a very small part of DJing.
A good DJ is someone who knows record collection inside out, and can mix 100s of records together to create a completely new thing.
It takes years of dedication to become a genuinely good DJ. "Master" of DJs are very rare.
On a side note, I don't think the term "musician" can be applied to DJing in the traditional sense, it's completely different from playing an instrument.
Surely it'll be treated like returning references in C++, so the following should work:
:lvalue {
sub mysub
if ($_[0] > 0) { return $a } else { return $b }
}
mysub(2) = 15; # Set $a to 15
$myvar = mysub(2); # Set $myvar to 15
similar to declaring:
int& mysub(int foo)
{
return localvariable;
}
and calling
mysub() = 15;
will set localvariable to 15, but
myvar = mysub();
will set myvar to the value of mysub.
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So M$'s bug affects Apache then? ;-P
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OBOT: I think Tim Burton's a good choice for director, since he understands cheesy (His Hero-worship biopic of Ed Wood, and of course most of Mars Attacks, although it was out-cheesed by the awful Independance Day)
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Oh btw, Planet of the Apes is listed as having been on the imdb since last April!
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I can see it now ...
d00dz: 3y3 g07 d1z 3l337 z3r0-d@yZ \/\/1n2001 wAr3z, @Nd f0\/nD d@T t|-|3 c0|\|7r0L p@N3l cR@sH3z \/\/h3N 3y3 pR3zz t|=|3 d3L373 k3Y
p.s. 3y3 0\/\/N 3w3!!1!1!!!!1!!!!!11!!!!!
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There's also BEAST/BSE. I've got to say Buzz Tracker is one of the few applications I keep W*****s on my system for, and can't wait to see how these turn out.
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Interesting point, but you forget one thing: if programmers can use it, then it will have either a known structure, or an API (which I doubt). Either way, a free version can be written, negating the need for the M$ Office license. OTOH, if Linux programmers actually needed a M$-style registry, it would probably already have been written.
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I'd heard McGregor, but not the other two, sounds a bit dodgy, was Irvine Welsh going to draft the screenplay? - "Me an' Alex wur up fir a bit aye the old ultra-violence, likesay"
I believe they were going to change the ending and have Spielberg & Lucas dig up the corpse of Kubrick and violate it on screen
*rofl* reminds me of the Lee and Herring sketch of the alternative ending to "Blues Brothers 2000", where Dan Akroyd and John Goodman piss on John Belushi's grave, while throwing about all the money they'd made.
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That's the original, I was talking about the rumour about a remake. Personally, I can't wait for the re-release, nice to watch it on the big screen with proper sound, rather than a dodgy Scandinavian copy.
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I remember reading about this at the time of Kubrick's funeral. Also put about was the rumour that Speilberg and George Lucas were going to team up to do a re-make of "A Clockwork Orange" (was going to be 2001, but they decided it would take far too long;). Anyone know any more about this?
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Being Scottish helps a lot for this ;)
stopped reading "Canal Dreams" after the bit where they shoot the hostages, repulsed by the violence
And you liked "the Wasp Factory" and "Complicity"???
I think "Whit" was just him having a dig at organised religion (as was the Wasp Factory, and bits of the Crow Road ... you get the idea).
hmmm ... three posts to this thread, this must be my "work avoidance tactics" again
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I agree on Canal Dreams, and Walking on Glass, but I must say I really enjoyed Song of Stone. What did you make of "Whit"?
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Banks has always experimented with his literary books. Sometimes it works (The Bridge is probably the best example of this, although it borrows heavily from Gray's Lanark.), sometimes it doesn't (Canal Dreams was directionless and obvious). Perhaps you'd rather read a book that mindlessly follows a genre without trying to explore differant avenues, but personally I think that's dull.
As for telling a good story, read "Espedair Street", "The Crow Road", or "Complicity" and try telling me he can't.
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Let me guess ... the masked killer goes on a rampage in Endor, killing thousands of ewoks?
(we can but hope;)
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Very good point. IIRC, the ASCI stuff was driven by international testing restrictions. The problem, of course, is that the most dangerous and unstable countries are the ones least likely to adhere to international restrictions :(
Open source nuclear secrets would be a Very Bad Thing [tm].
Aw, no fun! in case you were in some doubt, those comments where ever-so-slightly tongue-in-cheek, although I'm sure ESR would argue that restricting the public's free use nuclear weapons is infringing on some right or other ;) (disclaimer: that wasn't meant as a gun-rights troll, honest)
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However, most nuclear tests these days seem to be for shows of strength (France and the India/Pakistan tests spring to mind), so it is actually more dangerous, in my view, to develop and test nuclear technology using supercomputers, than to develop and test them in "the open", since open testing is a good deterent to other countries.
Perhaps there should be a clause in the GPL, that GPL'd software can't be used to bring about armageddon. OK, that won't work since: a) it violates the Open Source Definition, and b) Emacs would have to be removed from all sites;) - but at least require any nuclear technology developed under Linux be released GPL, maybe have nuke.soureforge.net. This would actually be cool, perhaps VA Linux could fund tests of the open-source nukes on some random place (off the top of my head - Redmond?), if an angry penguin running at you at 100mph is scary, what'll an angry penguin with a nuclear warhead be like?
Sorry about the incoherence of the above post, it's been a long day (and it's only half-way through as well)
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I'm just waiting for a WYSIWYG word processor with vi key bindings, best of both worlds without resorting to writing everything in LaTeX ;)
btw, those hours playing Angband were wasted, especially when your character is taken out by a massive pack of Zephyr hounds on level 40 (not that I'm bitter;)
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Personally I think that things like that are actually beneficial to the company, since it's basically a big advert (Like someone's likely to think they don't need to watch the Matrix because they've already seen the theme;)
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not that such pendantry really matters anyway ;-)
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What I was trying to do was ape those 'in/out' filler articles that magazines write when they can't think of anything else, the choices weren't supposed to mean anything in particular ;)
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also minimalist is
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reply good
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