Wouldn't it be nice if more application developers used obsolete, slow, crapulent hardware?
Come on, most of them currently work on the "Okay, it's barely usable on an 800MHz Athlon, time to release" method... imagine how quick and lightweight applications could be if they were developed for a P-100 with 16MB of RAM?
I regularly read comp.graphics.rendering.renderman, and while there are people posting "I am wondering how I can make toy story graphics with renderman?", there are still interesting discussion about antialiasing, algorithmic considerations and various RIB exporters.
And Larry Gritz posts regularly. That's good enough for me.
This feels like losing Phil Hartman all over again.
Aaargh!
You expect your idols to live to a ripe old age. Who's next, Tatsuya Ishida? Linus? Stallman? Vincent D'Onofrio? Grr. Cruel and uncertain world!
I don't even want to to think about if this had happened to Heinlein. Of course, he died when I was seven, and I didn't read anything of his until senior year of high school, but... sigh.
Have you been smacking the shit out of your creature when he does that? My creature ate a villager once, but I beat him stupid (it's a guilty pleasure... I'm good, honest!) and he hasn't done it since.
Wasn't there an article here a few days ago about how mind-bogglingly big the hardware requirements were for Black and White?
The article seemed quite nervous at the idea that most people would see awful performance on their current hardware... but given the astounding hype surrounding B&W, it could be that killer app... especially given the developers' histories of making groundbreaking games. If the legions of fans need a P4-1500 to properly experience it, a large contingent of them will spring for the hardware.
I dunno... the big reason I tossed another 64M of RAM in my box was to appease X 4's memory-hogging nature for a little bit longer. That, and editing four multi-layer print-size images in the Gimp while listening to XMMS and running FoldingAtHome...
How can anyone work for these evil, evil companies?
"What did you do at work, sweetie?"
"Invaded the privacy of millions!" [Sparkling grin]
"Wow, that's swell. Pass the potatoes..."
How? It must take an army of underpaid monkeys to do this evil thing. Government employees I can see, but these are normal people not looking for an agenda.
I think Annie Sprinkle and Carol queen would take issue with that.
Really, though, I must commend you -- brilliant research with COINTELPRO. The best way to destroy feminism is to call yourself a feminist, then act like a fucking moron. Brilliant job so far...
Yeah, it was overrated. Effects were good, but the same quality was used in Fight Club, and that actually helped out the plot. And of course The Cell looked just as cool, though in an entirely different way, and had a big fucking cape to boot.
People who thought The Matrix had a deep plot are fooling themselves. If you want a deep plot, with moral ambiguity and stuff, that manages to include swordplay and decapitation, go watch Princess Mononoke.
This is why: It took a complex and difficult issue, the Microsoft monopoly, and made it into a good-guy-bad-guy movie shootout. It pretended to be about a lot more than it was. (I'm surprised Gates didn't sue for slander.)
Summary: A ruthless corporate honcho is planning on unleashing an incredibly powerful new software system on the planet. Open-source hackers rush to stop him. This is too heady, so they make Mr. Honcho into a petty thug who kills the hackers and steals their code. Oh, and there's some vague attempt at a plot twist near the end. The should have gone for Keyser-Soze-Tyler-Durden broke or just not bothered.
Do feminists say "okay, we're going to start over with another word, because this one's loaded"? Wait, they do. But see where it gets them? Do you take someone seriously when they say 'womyn' or 'zie' and 'hir'?
You can't just start over like that. 'Hacker' will be our 'nigga'. That, or 'queer'. That sort of thing.
Yeah, especially the part about hackers being thin, attractive and unbearded.
And about how hacking ability is, of course, measured in bright flashing colors. And how the sysadmin can't torch a remote terminal, just gnash his teeth and look like a petty villain.
Err... no. The biggest issue I had with Hackers was that the characters were all attractive teen idol type. Come on, how many people that good looking invest the time and effort to be hackers?
Oh, no, wait, the movie would have been okay if it was called scr1pt k1dd1ez: 4LL j00r b4s3...
And you may think there's nothing destructive here, but... Joe and Jane {Senator,Sixpack} watch The Sixth Day and want to ban cloning research because THEY COULD BE CLONED AND REPLACED BY AN 3V1L DUPLICATE!! This is sad, but movies that inaccurately portray science and technology while pretending to be true-to-life are a fucking pox.
Ha. Would like to. Have no fucking chance. Have no fucking clue how I got with the woman I've spent 2 1/4 years with.
Have one friend. She's my girl, she's my everything. I need to bond closely with more people. Sure, I have acquaintances. But that bond with lots of folks, and extended Heinleinian Family O' Lovin'? Keep dreaming...
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Really? I thought "this chapter's finished" sounded kind of cool. And the Colonel's dialogue was pretty damned good.
Of course, the translation in the currently-being-released collected manga version actually does justice to Otomo.
-grendel drago
Wouldn't it be nice if more application developers used obsolete, slow, crapulent hardware?
Come on, most of them currently work on the "Okay, it's barely usable on an 800MHz Athlon, time to release" method... imagine how quick and lightweight applications could be if they were developed for a P-100 with 16MB of RAM?
-grendel drago
IANA electrical engineer, but I'm pretty sure LCDs aren't made of little light bulbs.
Come on, people, where's the cluefulness? Am I the only person who noticed this?
-grendel drago
Bull.
I regularly read comp.graphics.rendering.renderman, and while there are people posting "I am wondering how I can make toy story graphics with renderman?", there are still interesting discussion about antialiasing, algorithmic considerations and various RIB exporters.
And Larry Gritz posts regularly. That's good enough for me.
-grendel drago
No, no... the really disturbing part is
"Yes, of course they're anonymous. Unless we don't like the answers, then we hunt you down and fine the shit out of you."
Anyone else notice this bit? Isn't there something very, very wrong with looking at census results before stripping off the identifying information?
-grendel drago
This feels like losing Phil Hartman all over again.
Aaargh!
You expect your idols to live to a ripe old age. Who's next, Tatsuya Ishida? Linus? Stallman? Vincent D'Onofrio? Grr. Cruel and uncertain world!
I don't even want to to think about if this had happened to Heinlein. Of course, he died when I was seven, and I didn't read anything of his until senior year of high school, but... sigh.
It's a black day for all of us.
-grendel drago
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/29/1426228.shtm l
(Comment #120, the direct link doesn't seem to be working...)
Yeah, that was me. Here's a (slightly modified) repost:
[Neo-Tokyo EXPLODES.]
Tetsuo: KANEDA!
Kaneda: TETSUO!
[Neo-Tokyo EXPLODES.]
Creepy blue dude: Akeeeeera!
[CONFUSING METAPHYSICAL THINGS happen.]
[Credits.]
apologies to RinkWorks,
-grendel drago
Have you been smacking the shit out of your creature when he does that? My creature ate a villager once, but I beat him stupid (it's a guilty pleasure... I'm good, honest!) and he hasn't done it since.
-grendel drago
Okay, Overrated, thank you.
No offense to the poster, but that was a bit much...
"Brought to you by ConglomoCorp: We Own You"
Yeah, they really bash those corporations, what with the commercials (yeah, they put them between programs, whee) and blurbs...
-grendel drago
This is +5?
An interesting point that starts a thread is fine at 2, but a cheesy one-liner is +5?
I give up...
-grendel drago
'Photorealistic graphics with the G3'? Pah! What universe do you live in?
Actual photorealistic graphics take hours per frame to produce on a very high-end machine. The G3 may make pretty pictures, but don't fool yourself.
-grendel drago
Wasn't there an article here a few days ago about how mind-bogglingly big the hardware requirements were for Black and White?
The article seemed quite nervous at the idea that most people would see awful performance on their current hardware... but given the astounding hype surrounding B&W, it could be that killer app... especially given the developers' histories of making groundbreaking games. If the legions of fans need a P4-1500 to properly experience it, a large contingent of them will spring for the hardware.
-grendel drago
I dunno... the big reason I tossed another 64M of RAM in my box was to appease X 4's memory-hogging nature for a little bit longer. That, and editing four multi-layer print-size images in the Gimp while listening to XMMS and running FoldingAtHome...
-grendel drago
How can anyone work for these evil, evil companies?
"What did you do at work, sweetie?"
"Invaded the privacy of millions!" [Sparkling grin]
"Wow, that's swell. Pass the potatoes..."
How? It must take an army of underpaid monkeys to do this evil thing. Government employees I can see, but these are normal people not looking for an agenda.
Truly mind-boggling.
-grendel drago
I think Annie Sprinkle and Carol queen would take issue with that.
Really, though, I must commend you -- brilliant research with COINTELPRO. The best way to destroy feminism is to call yourself a feminist, then act like a fucking moron. Brilliant job so far...
-grendel drago
Yeah, it was overrated. Effects were good, but the same quality was used in Fight Club, and that actually helped out the plot. And of course The Cell looked just as cool, though in an entirely different way, and had a big fucking cape to boot.
People who thought The Matrix had a deep plot are fooling themselves. If you want a deep plot, with moral ambiguity and stuff, that manages to include swordplay and decapitation, go watch Princess Mononoke.
It fucking sucked balls.
This is why: It took a complex and difficult issue, the Microsoft monopoly, and made it into a good-guy-bad-guy movie shootout. It pretended to be about a lot more than it was. (I'm surprised Gates didn't sue for slander.)
Summary: A ruthless corporate honcho is planning on unleashing an incredibly powerful new software system on the planet. Open-source hackers rush to stop him. This is too heady, so they make Mr. Honcho into a petty thug who kills the hackers and steals their code. Oh, and there's some vague attempt at a plot twist near the end. The should have gone for Keyser-Soze-Tyler-Durden broke or just not bothered.
It more than sucked. It ubersucked.
-grendel drago
Don't defend Hackers. It was a fucking minstrel show. Teen idols in hackface...
Heh. 'Hackface'.
-grendel drago
Well... no.
Do feminists say "okay, we're going to start over with another word, because this one's loaded"? Wait, they do. But see where it gets them? Do you take someone seriously when they say 'womyn' or 'zie' and 'hir'?
You can't just start over like that. 'Hacker' will be our 'nigga'. That, or 'queer'. That sort of thing.
-grendel drago
Super and Hyper keys? Why hasn't this obviously whupass idea caught on?!
Well, it's in the jargon file.
But not being auctioned on eBay. *sigh*... Anyone find a picture?
-grendel drago
Yeah, especially the part about hackers being thin, attractive and unbearded.
And about how hacking ability is, of course, measured in bright flashing colors. And how the sysadmin can't torch a remote terminal, just gnash his teeth and look like a petty villain.
-grendel drago
Err... no. The biggest issue I had with Hackers was that the characters were all attractive teen idol type. Come on, how many people that good looking invest the time and effort to be hackers?
Oh, no, wait, the movie would have been okay if it was called scr1pt k1dd1ez: 4LL j00r b4s3...
And you may think there's nothing destructive here, but... Joe and Jane {Senator,Sixpack} watch The Sixth Day and want to ban cloning research because THEY COULD BE CLONED AND REPLACED BY AN 3V1L DUPLICATE!! This is sad, but movies that inaccurately portray science and technology while pretending to be true-to-life are a fucking pox.
-grendel drago
Wow, I guess there just aren't any gay or lesbian geeks out there who want/need relationship advice...
Well, maybe they're smart enough not to get it from Slashdot.
-grendel drago
Ha. Would like to. Have no fucking chance. Have no fucking clue how I got with the woman I've spent 2 1/4 years with.
Have one friend. She's my girl, she's my everything. I need to bond closely with more people. Sure, I have acquaintances. But that bond with lots of folks, and extended Heinleinian Family O' Lovin'? Keep dreaming...
INTJ certainly has its ups and downs.
-grendel drago