But this was back when she though her parents were from Alderaan. This was probably a reference to her foster parents, since she didn't know her real father's name[s] at that point.
... from Stripes. Bill Murries character goes off on some rant to inspire the troups.
The quote actually included someone else trying to correct Bill's character and being suppressed by a third person.
If you haven't seen Stripes, go watch it now. It was actually on network TV recently.
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It's from some old joke. Basically, the bathroom in some bar was just a hole in the floor of the second story, directly over the ceiling fan.
I never thought it was funny, but it does make for an "interesting" expression.
My wife tells a story of how, as a child, she did something similar. She equated the blades of a blender with the blades on a neighbors AC. She and her little band of outlaws were trying to make a shit shake for some local undesirable. They collected all the doggy-doodle they could, and threw it, and several glasses of milk, at the AC fan.
I've got it. The next big space eating improvement:
video for everything.
Your desktop background suddenly becomes a nice five minute long video loop of some waterfall, buttons sparkle prettily, nothing on your screen will EVER HOLD STILL! Thankfully, there will always be a command line.
Huge amounts of data, and it'll suck up all that "extra" CPU power too.
It'll be an Attention Deficiet Disorder nightmare.
Seed the universe with life. Lets say intelligent life evolved somewhere (not necessarily Earth). They get lonely. Being the patient species that they are, the figure that they only way to get some company is to make some.
So: They load up a few zillion asteriods with a variety of different microbes, each type tailored to survive in a particular environment. Having sc attered these asteroids throughout the known universe, they sit back and wait for something "interesting" to evolve (say a billion years, give or take).
The universe isn't so lonely any more.
Good taste?! You're kidding, right?
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Holding back a show in the name of good taste?! What a joke. Have you ACTUALLY WATCHED ANY TV LATELY?!
If it weren't for South Park, I would have gotten rid of my cable subscription a LONG time ago.
Taste? Two words:
Jerry Springer
I'm getting less and less impressed with mainstream media as time goes on.
This came out a bit harsher than I intended, but... but... taste!? I'd chalk this up to cowardice long before I credited some media mogul with the decency exibited by the average NAMBLA memer.
(that's North American Man/Boy Love Association for the blissfully ignorant: pedophiles seeking legitimacy. Wow.)
"Code whore"?! Talk about pajorative word use. As a programmer, I'm going to have to take offense to that one (ya foul-mouthed li'l prick!;)
Seriously though, this whole discussion is about removing a negative context from a word that "we" feel applies to "us". I think you'll find that "programmer" applies to many people in this forum as well. And then you come along and whip out "code whore".
Example: You work for a company that has a policy you don't agree with (shocking, right?). Namely, that you may not work for anyone else while you work for them.
You reason that what you do in your spare time is your business, and take the occasional contract job.
Your employer gets all the tax data from the state, and discovers your little indiscresion(s). You're fired.
"Visible light is the most efficient possible means of drawing attention. It goes out in all directions and it's faster than anything."
A: All directions: Not necessarily.
B: Faster than anything: No. All EM radiation travels at the same speed.
Considering the kind of energy it would take to out send more visible, omnidirectional (ooh, big word) light than our sun, I'd suggest that we look elsewhere in the spectrum.
The whole "AI takes over the world/wipes out the human race" plot makes for a good movie, but it gets old real quick.
Hasn't anyone here read "The Callahan Touch" by Spider Robinson? An AI's motivations could be TOTALLY DIFFERENT from our own. NO GLANS. The only urges in an AI would be the ones built into it. No need to reproduce, no survival instinct, no agression, hate, or angst.
"Perl seems to my mind to actually help readability in many ways. the fact that you can tell at a glance that $array is a scalar variable and @variable is an array is (again depite the name) and array is easy. "
I'm going to have to object to your line of reasoning here. Any psycho-looser-poor-ass-excuse-for-a-programmer that names their variables "array" or their arrays "variable" deserves every form of torture their maintainers can dream up.
Maintainers can get downright creative when it comes to thingking up new and interesting ways to inflict pain on the original coder. Be nice to the people who may someday have to read your code. Comments and a clean writing style are all that stand between you and a sever thwacking.
Incidentally, a guy by the name of Bill Beaty thought of using pressurized water instead of ionized air, and doping it with various things to get different ranges and colors. He suggested using WD-40 and magnesium instead of water, for example.
www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/ideas.html#three
No, I don't thing he's ever tried any of this.
This guy is just cool. Loads of good (and/or dubious) engineering and electrical information too. Heaping piles of "here's some crack-pot theory: see if you can get it to work" type stuff, with diagrams/designs. Also has quite a bit of rational discussion about electricity, science education, Tesla Coils, you name it.
Not neccessarily. If you make your code so convoluted its unreadable, that definately doesn't make your program better, it just makes life harder for the poor sod that has to maintain it (even if its you).
If I remove all the whitespace from a 30K source file, does that make it a single LOC?
Line count isn't the best metric around, but it is *A* metric, which is more than some people have going for them.
Metrics while generally a good thing are like benchmarks. They have little meaning in and of themselves, and are prone to misinterpretation by pointy-haired idiots.
Then ya didn't look hard enough. "in the oven", as I recall, is how they described it.
They're working on it, but its not ready yet.
About the license: I skimmed it, and it provides for something I hadn't seen in other, recent licenses: the ability to combine their code into something else entirely, so long as that "something else"'s license is in agreement with the aforementioned;) license. Any idea which commonly used licenses qualify? Any of them?
...can be done. I've even done it. And DAMN, but it was a pain in the ass.
First: Start the Scheduler service, which is off by default (not a huge deal). All scheduled taskes run under a particular user's access privaledges. Not a big deal.
Second: Start a task with the "at" command or "Winat". WinAt is fairly easy (GUI). AT is wildly undocumented. It'll tell you what arguments it expects, but not their format, and since you don't have the source, you can't just look it up.
After a lengthy web search, I found a working example of a command line.
Man. I have to admit that this was the first article I haven't read in full here in a long time. Oh, I might skip an entire article here and there, but for every time I started an article, I finished one.
Seriously, remote viewing? Sorry, but this guy diffinately isn't my cup of [caffine-laced-beverage-of-choice]. I actually read Katz, and in general enjoy his work, but this guy just became my first entry in ye ol' killfile.
I don't think it'll work this way. It's like privacy laws, on a corporate level.
That's like saying "The only people who object to being strip-searched are the ones with something to hide. Drop them trousers, boy!" Not my idea of a good time. Sounds more like a police state. Admittedly, a business isn't a citizen, but some rights DO apply.
On the other hand if you have something vaugely suspicous, you could probably get some judge to supenoa (sp?) the source, but that still wouldn't actually force it to be Open. Even then, you might not see the source. It could be reviewed by some third party.
You're ignoring the bandwith saved by not sending articles to people who don't want them. A little CPU time for a little bandwidth. Seems a fair trade to me.
I wonder what percentage of the users are ignoring Katz? How about the star wars stuff? Quake? Humor? Demographics could be cool.
You used the word "leverage". Corporate mind-slave pig-vermin! Running capitalist dog!;)
Seriously though, is anyone else as irritated by that whole "lexicon-de-corporation" as I am? Leverage, paradimgnnghnm, processes, you know... all those words Dilbert makes fun of.
I actually caught myself using some of that stuff the other day, and had to wipe my mouth out with communist propaganda leaflets. They tasted like vodka for some reason.
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But this was back when she though her parents were from Alderaan. This was probably a reference to her foster parents, since she didn't know her real father's name[s] at that point.
... from Stripes. Bill Murries character goes off on some rant to inspire the troups.
The quote actually included someone else trying to correct Bill's character and being suppressed by a third person.
If you haven't seen Stripes, go watch it now. It was actually on network TV recently.
If you don't have a sense of humor, you can get the new MSHumor, 2.3! This latest upgrade is compatible with all MSComedians, and has even managed to fix that annoying "knock-knock" bug! Order yours today.
It's from some old joke. Basically, the bathroom in some bar was just a hole in the floor of the second story, directly over the ceiling fan.
I never thought it was funny, but it does make for an "interesting" expression.
My wife tells a story of how, as a child, she did something similar. She equated the blades of a blender with the blades on a neighbors AC. She and her little band of outlaws were trying to make a shit shake for some local undesirable. They collected all the doggy-doodle they could, and threw it, and several glasses of milk, at the AC fan.
You can imagine the results.
Relevant? Nah, but amusing.
I've got it. The next big space eating improvement:
video for everything.
Your desktop background suddenly becomes a nice five minute long video loop of some waterfall, buttons sparkle prettily, nothing on your screen will EVER HOLD STILL! Thankfully, there will always be a command line.
Huge amounts of data, and it'll suck up all that "extra" CPU power too.
It'll be an Attention Deficiet Disorder nightmare.
I don't think I've ever heard of any group taking up for the rights of bacteria.
"Penicillin must be stopped. End the killing now!"
Genetic modification is a different matter, but I think you get the idea.
(probably not a new Idea, but what the hell)
Seed the universe with life. Lets say intelligent life evolved somewhere (not necessarily Earth). They get lonely. Being the patient species that they are, the figure that they only way to get some company is to make some.
So: They load up a few zillion asteriods with a variety of different microbes, each type tailored to survive in a particular environment. Having sc attered these asteroids throughout the known universe, they sit back and wait for something "interesting" to evolve (say a billion years, give or take).
The universe isn't so lonely any more.
Holding back a show in the name of good taste?! What a joke. Have you ACTUALLY WATCHED ANY TV LATELY?!
If it weren't for South Park, I would have gotten rid of my cable subscription a LONG time ago.
Taste? Two words:
Jerry Springer
I'm getting less and less impressed with mainstream media as time goes on.
This came out a bit harsher than I intended, but... but... taste!? I'd chalk this up to cowardice long before I credited some media mogul with the decency exibited by the average NAMBLA memer.
(that's North American Man/Boy Love Association for the blissfully ignorant: pedophiles seeking legitimacy. Wow.)
"Code whore"?! Talk about pajorative word use. As a programmer, I'm going to have to take offense to that one (ya foul-mouthed li'l prick! ;)
Seriously though, this whole discussion is about removing a negative context from a word that "we" feel applies to "us". I think you'll find that "programmer" applies to many people in this forum as well. And then you come along and whip out "code whore".
Colorful though, it has a definite ring to it.
Example: You work for a company that has a policy you don't agree with (shocking, right?). Namely, that you may not work for anyone else while you work for them.
You reason that what you do in your spare time is your business, and take the occasional contract job.
Your employer gets all the tax data from the state, and discovers your little indiscresion(s). You're fired.
Life sucks for you.
"Visible light is the most efficient possible means of drawing attention. It goes out in all directions and it's faster than anything."
A: All directions: Not necessarily.
B: Faster than anything: No. All EM radiation travels at the same speed.
Considering the kind of energy it would take to out send more visible, omnidirectional (ooh, big word) light than our sun, I'd suggest that we look elsewhere in the spectrum.
--Mark
Yes, you are the only one that's paranoid.
The whole "AI takes over the world/wipes out the human race" plot makes for a good movie, but it gets old real quick.
Hasn't anyone here read "The Callahan Touch" by Spider Robinson? An AI's motivations could be TOTALLY DIFFERENT from our own. NO GLANS. The only urges in an AI would be the ones built into it. No need to reproduce, no survival instinct, no agression, hate, or angst.
"But... the Matrix was so COOL!"
And that has WHAT exactly to do with reality?
BAH. (humbug!)
"Perl seems to my mind to actually
help readability in many ways. the
fact that you can tell at a glance
that $array is a scalar variable and
@variable is an array
is (again depite the name) and array
is easy. "
I'm going to have to object to your line of reasoning here. Any psycho-looser-poor-ass-excuse-for-a-programmer that names their variables "array" or their arrays "variable" deserves every form of torture their maintainers can dream up.
Maintainers can get downright creative when it comes to thingking up new and interesting ways to inflict pain on the original coder. Be nice to the people who may someday have to read your code. Comments and a clean writing style are all that stand between you and a sever thwacking.
too bad about the background image thing. Great idea though, close to the hearts and minds of slashdotters everywhere.
Incidentally, a guy by the name of Bill Beaty thought of using pressurized water instead of ionized air, and doping it with various things to get different ranges and colors. He suggested using WD-40 and magnesium instead of water, for example.
www.eskimo.com/~billb/freenrg/ideas.html#three
No, I don't thing he's ever tried any of this.
This guy is just cool. Loads of good (and/or dubious) engineering and electrical information too. Heaping piles of "here's some crack-pot theory: see if you can get it to work" type stuff, with diagrams/designs. Also has quite a bit of rational discussion about electricity, science education, Tesla Coils, you name it.
Its not so bad. The lab credit is pretty much a toss-up though. It really depends on your partner... ;)
Not neccessarily. If you make your code so convoluted its unreadable, that definately doesn't make your program better, it just makes life harder for the poor sod that has to maintain it (even if its you).
If I remove all the whitespace from a 30K source file, does that make it a single LOC?
Line count isn't the best metric around, but it is *A* metric, which is more than some people have going for them.
Metrics while generally a good thing are like benchmarks. They have little meaning in and of themselves, and are prone to misinterpretation by pointy-haired idiots.
I'm split about 90/10 in C++/Java, with a sprinkling of (ready?) Lingo. Yep, Macromedia Director: Oh, the pain.
I seem to recall hearing (pun intended) that sound starts to damage your ears at around 80 dB...
That's just one of the [way to many] stats floating around in my head with little or no support other than "as I recall".
Anyone have a value with a more substantial basis?
Then ya didn't look hard enough. "in the oven", as I recall, is how they described it.
;) license. Any idea which commonly used licenses qualify? Any of them?
They're working on it, but its not ready yet.
About the license:
I skimmed it, and it provides for something I hadn't seen in other, recent licenses: the ability to combine their code into something else entirely, so long as that "something else"'s license is in agreement with the aforementioned
...can be done. I've even done it. And DAMN, but it was a pain in the ass.
First: Start the Scheduler service, which is off by default (not a huge deal). All scheduled taskes run under a particular user's access privaledges. Not a big deal.
Second: Start a task with the "at" command or "Winat". WinAt is fairly easy (GUI). AT is wildly undocumented. It'll tell you what arguments it expects, but not their format, and since you don't have the source, you can't just look it up.
After a lengthy web search, I found a working example of a command line.
Ouch.
Man. I have to admit that this was the first article I haven't read in full here in a long time. Oh, I might skip an entire article here and there, but for every time I started an article, I finished one.
Seriously, remote viewing? Sorry, but this guy diffinately isn't my cup of [caffine-laced-beverage-of-choice]. I actually read Katz, and in general enjoy his work, but this guy just became my first entry in ye ol' killfile.
Life goes on.
I love the smell of burning FUD in the morning...
Did our dear friend Bill make a single assertion that hasn't been shot down a couple dozen times?
The tidal-wave of marketing BS contines.
I don't think it'll work this way. It's like privacy laws, on a corporate level.
That's like saying "The only people who object to being strip-searched are the ones with something to hide. Drop them trousers, boy!" Not my idea of a good time. Sounds more like a police state. Admittedly, a business isn't a citizen, but some rights DO apply.
On the other hand if you have something vaugely suspicous, you could probably get some judge to supenoa (sp?) the source, but that still wouldn't actually force it to be Open. Even then, you might not see the source. It could be reviewed by some third party.
You're ignoring the bandwith saved by not sending articles to people who don't want them. A little CPU time for a little bandwidth. Seems a fair trade to me.
I wonder what percentage of the users are ignoring Katz? How about the star wars stuff? Quake? Humor? Demographics could be cool.
You used the word "leverage". Corporate mind-slave pig-vermin! Running capitalist dog! ;)
Seriously though, is anyone else as irritated by that whole "lexicon-de-corporation" as I am? Leverage, paradimgnnghnm, processes, you know... all those words Dilbert makes fun of.
I actually caught myself using some of that stuff the other day, and had to wipe my mouth out with communist propaganda leaflets. They tasted like vodka for some reason.