The incredible quantity of design that went into X still produces an end result which causes the uninitiated to say "it's way too complex, and it just plain sucks."
Of course, then we explain that it doesn't suck, and that it's based on a perfectly sound architecture, and that it's really a work of beauty.
None of that changes the fact that it sucks.
The fonts look better with this (ugly) hack. Much, much better. This is the Sistine Chapel of two-line hacks.
"We're fighting our own terrorist war," said Mr. Valenti, whose lawyers sent 54,000 letters to Internet service providers last year requesting the removal of copyrighted material from customers' Web sites...
And here I thought our "president" had a monopoly on the Terrorism Tie-In Business.
'Cause, you know, iSO-NeWS kiddies blow up buildings and shit.
Hell, you've got to watch out for all those college students, ready to tear open the throat of an unsuspecting TV exec.
Will someone explain to me why Jack Valenti couldn't find a more reputable line of work, such as peddling his ass for urine-soaked cigarette butts?
Go on DalNet (#simpsons-central, #futurama-central, #x-files-central, #blahfoobar-central...)and either wait in one of those interminable queues or suck it up and donate half your cable-modem bandwidth as an fserve in exchange for sweet, sweet FTP access.
"Look, it's something strange and dangerous." "No, it is harmless and ordinary." "Oh. Well, back to the office."
Somehow, I don't smell a smash hit here. Go see The Amazing Randi if you want debunking. The rest of us would like a smidgen of escapist drivel with our TV.
Wonder when she'll be posing in Playboy to "boost her career"?
No, they do that to start careers. Just look at what the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" actors have gone on to do.
Umm.
Appear in a series of movies based on the show but not nearly as good (though the effects rocked), as well as in "Red Shoe Diaries" and as voiceovers in "Gargoyles".
Yeah, she's got a long and illustrious career ahead of her... in B-movies, where everyone will yell out "It's Scully!!!", and then "Take it off!".
Series finale. Apparently, unlike Gary Larson and Bill Watterson, Chris Carter failed to master the art of "quitting while ahead".
I stopped watching it shortly after "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", 3x04. Was there anything remotely as good ever again on the series?
Who knows, maybe they'll fire all the screenwriters, post a slash competition somewhere on Usenet, and the final episode will end with a Mulder/Skinner/Krycek three-way.
But see, the only reason we think they're ugly is because
We associate nudity with sex, because people are never casually naked.
We assume that the average naked person looks like a pornstar (well, most slashdotters see more naked pornstars than naked people, I think)
If we didn't load nudity so much, we'd realize that our puffy, flabby, furry hides are pretty normal. Really---if you're having nudity issues, go to a gym and see that even people who work out occasionally are kinda blah-looking by pornstar standards.
Err, not "Ron Jeremy" standards. I think we can all live up to those, with the exception of the ten-inch cock requirement.
Heh. David Fincher's "Star Wars". The first rule of Jedi Club... is do not talk about Jedi Club. The second rule of Jedi Club... is do not talk about Jedi Club!
Spike Lee's "Star Wars". Mace Windu: Muthafucka!
Kevin Smith's "Star Wars". Silent Bob: [meaningful look] Jay: Snootch to the bootch! [to Amidala] Can I see your tits? [smokes a comedically large blunt] Noitch!"
Pierre Boule's "Star Wars". Obi-Wan: It's a madhouse! A MADHOUSE!! Anakin: Doctor, I'd like to kiss you goodbye. Monkey Amidala: All right, but you're so damned ugly.
Culture is being re-defined right before our eyes.
And now Jon Katz will do his best impression of 1996. Coming up next: how the internet will erase borders and make prejudice and hatred a thing of the past.
Oh, and how the Dow will reach ten billion by next week. It's a new economy, after all.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you available for rental? That kind of thing would come in handy a lot, and I suck horribly at languages.
--grendel drago
http://graphics.stanford.edu/lab/soft/prman/Toolki t/AppNotes/appnote.25.html
Frequency clamping isn't the best or only way to deal with aliasing. Convolution is used too. Antialiasing is a big and scary field.
--grendel drago
Regardless, it works.
The incredible quantity of design that went into X still produces an end result which causes the uninitiated to say "it's way too complex, and it just plain sucks."
Of course, then we explain that it doesn't suck, and that it's based on a perfectly sound architecture, and that it's really a work of beauty.
None of that changes the fact that it sucks.
The fonts look better with this (ugly) hack. Much, much better. This is the Sistine Chapel of two-line hacks.
--grendel drago
What sanctions are we talking about here?
--grendel drago
They're marketers. You should be surprised that they manage to avoid choking to death on their own snot.
It's called a "restaurant".
Their security is called "washing dishes".
--grendel drago
Payphone numbers all end in -9xxx. He'd know if it was a payphone.
'Cause, you know, iSO-NeWS kiddies blow up buildings and shit.
Hell, you've got to watch out for all those college students, ready to tear open the throat of an unsuspecting TV exec.
Will someone explain to me why Jack Valenti couldn't find a more reputable line of work, such as peddling his ass for urine-soaked cigarette butts?
--grendel drago
Yep. Broadband + IRC + CD Toaster + APEX AD-1500 = Sweet Sweet Quality.
Go on DalNet (#simpsons-central, #futurama-central, #x-files-central, #blahfoobar-central...)and either wait in one of those interminable queues or suck it up and donate half your cable-modem bandwidth as an fserve in exchange for sweet, sweet FTP access.
--grendel drago
Pfft. As is that ever stopped slash writers.
And if "no necro" was stipulated, I'm sure they could also bring him back from the dead. 'Cause TV does that. Far too much.
--grendel drago
But debunking is bloody dull!
"Look, it's something strange and dangerous."
"No, it is harmless and ordinary."
"Oh. Well, back to the office."
Somehow, I don't smell a smash hit here. Go see The Amazing Randi if you want debunking. The rest of us would like a smidgen of escapist drivel with our TV.
--grendel drago
Umm.
Appear in a series of movies based on the show but not nearly as good (though the effects rocked), as well as in "Red Shoe Diaries" and as voiceovers in "Gargoyles".
Yeah, she's got a long and illustrious career ahead of her... in B-movies, where everyone will yell out "It's Scully!!!", and then "Take it off!".
--grendel drago
Series finale. Apparently, unlike Gary Larson and Bill Watterson, Chris Carter failed to master the art of "quitting while ahead".
I stopped watching it shortly after "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", 3x04. Was there anything remotely as good ever again on the series?
Who knows, maybe they'll fire all the screenwriters, post a slash competition somewhere on Usenet, and the final episode will end with a Mulder/Skinner/Krycek three-way.
--grendel drago
If we didn't load nudity so much, we'd realize that our puffy, flabby, furry hides are pretty normal. Really---if you're having nudity issues, go to a gym and see that even people who work out occasionally are kinda blah-looking by pornstar standards.
Err, not "Ron Jeremy" standards. I think we can all live up to those, with the exception of the ten-inch cock requirement.
--grendel drago
Wait, I get it. "his" language. Ha ha ha!!
Wait, how is C sexist? Perl?
--grendel drago
I fail to see how the destruction of OPEC would make the oilfields in western Siberia, the Caspian region, various points about the USA...
I'm just surprised he left out social predictions, e.g. WTO organizes first death camps, 2005, or somesuch.
--grendel drago
Heh. David Fincher's "Star Wars". The first rule of Jedi Club... is do not talk about Jedi Club. The second rule of Jedi Club... is do not talk about Jedi Club!
Spike Lee's "Star Wars". Mace Windu: Muthafucka!
Kevin Smith's "Star Wars". Silent Bob: [meaningful look] Jay: Snootch to the bootch! [to Amidala] Can I see your tits? [smokes a comedically large blunt] Noitch!"
Toshio Maeda's "Star Wars". Amidala: Aieee!! Tentacle Beast: [unspeakable weirdness] Amidala: Oooh... Tentacle Beast: [decapitates Amidala] Ahh...
Pierre Boule's "Star Wars". Obi-Wan: It's a madhouse! A MADHOUSE!! Anakin: Doctor, I'd like to kiss you goodbye. Monkey Amidala: All right, but you're so damned ugly.
Ahh, I'm all out of +1 Insightful.
--grendel drago
See, I'd think it would be *lick* *blink* *lick* *blink*, but that's just me...
The kids in Hartford, CT get laptops with their schoolbooks in electronic form.
No, I'm not making this up. http://users.ntplx.net/~hphs/index.html
--grendel drago
Yeah, I was all happy when I saw that there were eleven comments at +1 so far and so I'd get an easy +5 'cause no one else had said it yet.
Oh, and how the Dow will reach ten billion by next week. It's a new economy, after all.
--grendel drago
Sure, if you're sitting in front of the console and interrupt it at boot-time.
I fail to see the problem here. Linux doesn't *pretend* to secure all your data if you're sitting in front of the bloody machine...
What, you mean with tomsrtbt? If you're sitting in front of it, you *have* broken into it already.
Sheesh.
http://www.plif.com/archive/wc263.gif
Yeah, you saw it on PLIF first.
Well, maybe not first, but it rang a bell for me.
-grendel drago