Sorry, I can't see the connection between catching cold and shoving white powder up my nose. There seems, to me, to be a real, qualitative difference here -- one involves volition, one does not. No sympathy here.
What makes you so sure that SCO customers would immediately migrate to linux? SCO isn't/wasn't the only high-end mucho-money Unix out there, you know. They'll probably dribble over to Solaris, or AIX, or something else expensive, proprietary and closed, unless they're running a very small installation, in which case linux's cheapness might buy it a slice.
But don't think this is going to be some huge linux windfall, 'cause it ain't.
That is the squishiest, leftest post I've seen on this topic.
Are you implying that an agency formed for the good of humanity would rise above petty politics and economics and take us to the stars? It's called NASA, and it's done just about the opposite.
I know that no one can predict the effect alien contact / real space travel will have with humanity, but I do know that it won't be a panacea. I can see everyone becoming united to hate aliens (the same way groups of whites suddenly forgot the differences between Italian, Irish and French when the Asians started immigrating...), but human nature can't change.
Anyone motivated by anything other that a desire to preserve / better themselves is extremely scary to me, unpredictable and dangerous. (Extremely religious people fall into this category.)
On the other hand, such a display of optimism and hope for the future gives me a warm fuzzy on the inside.
You've hit the nail on the head. Props to you for coming forth.
My girlfriend is smart as all-git-out, but she's more the people type. I'm painfully introverted, she's outgoing and charming. Plus, she's cuter than me.
My first all-night hacking run was inspiring and euphoric (at the end, until sleep deprivation caught up with me at six-thirty), but mostly on a personal level. My lab partner became giggly and incoherent around 3 AM, but before that I had a wonderful sense of teamwork...
What? When did we kill forty million people? Did I miss this? Are we talking about the Indians here? Does this mean that we should never have invented syphilis and the compass?
Hmm... GTK does this, but you can get GTK-- or another wrapper (I think another exists, I just forget its name) to wrap the functions into nice, neat classes.
Of course, QT is class-based from scratch, if you like that sort of thing.
And my two biggest reasons for developing under Linux?
* vim's syntax highlighting whups MSVC's five times a week and twice on sundays. Try to get MSVC to highlight 90% of the formats that vim supports. (e.g.,.sql,.spec...)
I, for one, had trouble sleeping in my room the night before I went off to college. Then it hit me -- my box was shut down, leaving only the eerie quiet of creaking rafters and settling house. When I go to a new place, I can't sleep unless I put on a fan, which itself is a poor substitute for the distinctive case-muffled hum of my baby.
If it were silent, I'd be in serious trouble. Serious -- I become nervous and scared in complete silence. (I'm not a freak!)
Those Singularity guys are scary! Not the creating-AI part, not the research, just the part where they expect that once the Singularity ('transhuman' intelligence) comes into being, it will be able to synthesize nanotechnology to spread across the globe and wrest control from the hands of humanity.
Personally, I find it much less spooky to remember that the word 'cyber' comes from a word meaning 'helmsman'. These things are tools; tools we can use to better ourselves. We won't be replaced by the AI, we'll become the AI.
I just got new glasses after two years, and they (were when I got them) as good as could be -- my vision was limited not by fuzziness, but by smallness of the object. The problem was that I got sensory overload looking at anything more than twenty feet away, which had been fuzzed out, and now was super-high-fidelity.
On the other hand, I really did feel superhuman for being able to read the fine print on bumper stickers on the cars ahead of me. But my head hurt intermittently, and my eyes seem to now have adjusted back to slightly-fuzzy. Oh well, I'll just get replacement pieces when they're available.
What are some instances where this has actually happened? I keep hearing about backdoor this, and backdoor that, but has this happened on anything other than a very small scale since 1990?
Oh, I see. You subscribe to your ideals -- "Don't Imitate The Divine Plan!" -- which sound really nice when shouted loudly, and ignore all the nasty little side-effects, like the wheel being evil, and Against God.
No, no, no. Jesus is frequently cryptic, proprietary and a bastard for no particular reason... okay, I see your point.
Five years ago, I showed a career network administrator, one of the most talented support people I've ever worked with, how I could just click and drag or whatever to create buttons, tabs, menus and such. His reaction? "That's wrong!" He sensed the beginning of the end, why couldn't I?
Just because a tool deludes people into thinking they can code, does not make them hackers. Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. (Apologies to Tyler Durden.) I learned BASIC when I was a kid, and I'm still trying to get my brain to work right.
I suppose you have a point in that we've always been consensus-based. But it doesn't have to be that way! Witness, somewhere else in this discussion, I boldly make an idiot out of myself by defending FF3 to an Ivy League professor. Do I wait for consensus? No! I didn't even start playing the game until two years after it came out, when it was cheap and plentiful.
At least John Carmack probably won't lop off an ear and commit suicide, right? He wouldn't want to bleed on that extremely nice Ferarri...
And as for Madonna/John Cage... Well, I venture to postulate that GEB will be remembered after Madonna. John Cage, the singular popcultural reference (Zen and Alice are old enough to be part of our generic background) in GEB will live on with it. I wonder if Hofstadter thought of that...
I dunno, finishing FF3 was a near-religious experience for me. Sort of... operatic. The falling empires, ridiculously evil bad guys, and struggling heroes. And the music. Mmm, the music. I don't care if no one in the establishment has labeled Uematsu a genius, big, passionate emotions were evoked.
And yes, I have been to the opera, twice. Madame Butterfly and Tosca. It was fscking incredible, but it's supposed to be, isn't it...
In any case, why don't you offer constructive criticism about FF3 -- no about anything interesting? What would interest you? Whip out a plot for an RPG. I double-dog dare you.
Shakespeare this, Shakespeare that. I am fscking tired of this inane, vapid culture fostering its own delusions of literary grandeur by rehashing a small subset of the classics. How many people who talk about how Shakespeare is the acme of literature have even heard of Ben Jonson? I personally think that Alexander Pope and John Milton could whup Shakespeare any day of the week and twice on Sundays, but that's just my personal opinion.
But to pay all this lip service to 'high culture' or what-have-you... grow up! The man, like Steven Spielberg, does not shit gold! There are other things worth your time! Pick up something new, different, daring, something that other people may have overlooked. Remember, most people that we consider artistic geniuses today were overlooked in their own day and age -- what has changed? We're incapable of judging for ourselves, we need a cultural consensus! Bah!
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Sorry, I can't see the connection between catching cold and shoving white powder up my nose. There seems, to me, to be a real, qualitative difference here -- one involves volition, one does not. No sympathy here.
-grendel drago
What makes you so sure that SCO customers would immediately migrate to linux? SCO isn't/wasn't the only high-end mucho-money Unix out there, you know. They'll probably dribble over to Solaris, or AIX, or something else expensive, proprietary and closed, unless they're running a very small installation, in which case linux's cheapness might buy it a slice.
But don't think this is going to be some huge linux windfall, 'cause it ain't.
-grendel drago
Props. Respect, 'ups'. Shorthand for 'Hey, that was worthy of props!', in a self-referential sense.
-grendel drago
That is the squishiest, leftest post I've seen on this topic.
Are you implying that an agency formed for the good of humanity would rise above petty politics and economics and take us to the stars? It's called NASA, and it's done just about the opposite.
I know that no one can predict the effect alien contact / real space travel will have with humanity, but I do know that it won't be a panacea. I can see everyone becoming united to hate aliens (the same way groups of whites suddenly forgot the differences between Italian, Irish and French when the Asians started immigrating...), but human nature can't change.
Anyone motivated by anything other that a desire to preserve / better themselves is extremely scary to me, unpredictable and dangerous. (Extremely religious people fall into this category.)
On the other hand, such a display of optimism and hope for the future gives me a warm fuzzy on the inside.
-grendel drago
You've hit the nail on the head. Props to you for coming forth.
My girlfriend is smart as all-git-out, but she's more the people type. I'm painfully introverted, she's outgoing and charming. Plus, she's cuter than me.
- grendel drago
My first all-night hacking run was inspiring and euphoric (at the end, until sleep deprivation caught up with me at six-thirty), but mostly on a personal level. My lab partner became giggly and incoherent around 3 AM, but before that I had a wonderful sense of teamwork...
- Grendel Drago
Hey, I was *on* ESPN! (It was just for half a second in the background while I was playing with my HS band, but still...
What? When did we kill forty million people? Did I miss this? Are we talking about the Indians here? Does this mean that we should never have invented syphilis and the compass?
-Grendel Drago
> there were a lot of things that looked like skin to it. Especially light colored woodwork.
Well, it's a good thing my kids won't be seeing lurid pictures of rigid, hard... wood. Heh. wood.
The irony here is way too good.
-Grendel Drago
Hmm... GTK does this, but you can get GTK-- or another wrapper (I think another exists, I just forget its name) to wrap the functions into nice, neat classes.
.sql, .spec...)
Of course, QT is class-based from scratch, if you like that sort of thing.
And my two biggest reasons for developing under Linux?
* vim's syntax highlighting whups MSVC's five times a week and twice on sundays. Try to get MSVC to highlight 90% of the formats that vim supports. (e.g.,
* rpm/dpkg beats InstallShield hands down.
-Grendel Drago
I, for one, had trouble sleeping in my room the night before I went off to college. Then it hit me -- my box was shut down, leaving only the eerie quiet of creaking rafters and settling house. When I go to a new place, I can't sleep unless I put on a fan, which itself is a poor substitute for the distinctive case-muffled hum of my baby.
If it were silent, I'd be in serious trouble. Serious -- I become nervous and scared in complete silence. (I'm not a freak!)
-Grendel Drago
Those Singularity guys are scary! Not the creating-AI part, not the research, just the part where they expect that once the Singularity ('transhuman' intelligence) comes into being, it will be able to synthesize nanotechnology to spread across the globe and wrest control from the hands of humanity.
Personally, I find it much less spooky to remember that the word 'cyber' comes from a word meaning 'helmsman'. These things are tools; tools we can use to better ourselves. We won't be replaced by the AI, we'll become the AI.
-Grendel Drago
I just got new glasses after two years, and they (were when I got them) as good as could be -- my vision was limited not by fuzziness, but by smallness of the object. The problem was that I got sensory overload looking at anything more than twenty feet away, which had been fuzzed out, and now was super-high-fidelity.
On the other hand, I really did feel superhuman for being able to read the fine print on bumper stickers on the cars ahead of me. But my head hurt intermittently, and my eyes seem to now have adjusted back to slightly-fuzzy. Oh well, I'll just get replacement pieces when they're available.
-Grendel Drago
What are some instances where this has actually happened? I keep hearing about backdoor this, and backdoor that, but has this happened on anything other than a very small scale since 1990?
-Grendel Drago
Heh. Isn't tat nifty -- kernal.org redirects to kernel.org. Too bad colonel.org is the homepage of the Kentucky Fried Colonels. Not kidding.
Well, maybe about the Fried part.
-Grendel Drago
Oh, I see. You subscribe to your ideals -- "Don't Imitate The Divine Plan!" -- which sound really nice when shouted loudly, and ignore all the nasty little side-effects, like the wheel being evil, and Against God.
I know, I know, it's a troll. But it's fun!@
-Grendel Drago
No, no, no. Jesus is frequently cryptic, proprietary and a bastard for no particular reason... okay, I see your point.
Five years ago, I showed a career network administrator, one of the most talented support people I've ever worked with, how I could just click and drag or whatever to create buttons, tabs, menus and such. His reaction? "That's wrong!" He sensed the beginning of the end, why couldn't I?
Just because a tool deludes people into thinking they can code, does not make them hackers. Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. (Apologies to Tyler Durden.) I learned BASIC when I was a kid, and I'm still trying to get my brain to work right.
-Grendel Drago
I suppose you have a point in that we've always been consensus-based. But it doesn't have to be that way! Witness, somewhere else in this discussion, I boldly make an idiot out of myself by defending FF3 to an Ivy League professor. Do I wait for consensus? No! I didn't even start playing the game until two years after it came out, when it was cheap and plentiful.
At least John Carmack probably won't lop off an ear and commit suicide, right? He wouldn't want to bleed on that extremely nice Ferarri...
And as for Madonna/John Cage... Well, I venture to postulate that GEB will be remembered after Madonna. John Cage, the singular popcultural reference (Zen and Alice are old enough to be part of our generic background) in GEB will live on with it. I wonder if Hofstadter thought of that...
-Grendel Drago
Actually, I think it was the gratuitous use of the word 'poop!'.
Yes, that would definitely do it.
Notice that other people can express their opinions without using the fecal metaphor. Why not you?
-Grendel Drago
"content (Score:0)"
I couldn't have said it better myself, man.
-Grendel Drago
I dunno, finishing FF3 was a near-religious experience for me. Sort of... operatic. The falling empires, ridiculously evil bad guys, and struggling heroes. And the music. Mmm, the music. I don't care if no one in the establishment has labeled Uematsu a genius, big, passionate emotions were evoked.
And yes, I have been to the opera, twice. Madame Butterfly and Tosca. It was fscking incredible, but it's supposed to be, isn't it...
In any case, why don't you offer constructive criticism about FF3 -- no about anything interesting? What would interest you? Whip out a plot for an RPG. I double-dog dare you.
-Grendel Drago
So I suppose this medium's Kubrick and Kurosawa would be Sid Meyer and Hironobu Sakaguchi, while its Joel Schumacher would be John Carmack...
-Grendel Drago
Hasn't anyone ever heard of UltraVixen, the sort of game version of Urotsukidoji? I certainly haven't. Wouldn't know anything about it, officer.
-Grendel Drago
Or maybe they're Perl hackers.
Didn't think of that, did you?
-Grendel Drago
Shakespeare this, Shakespeare that. I am fscking tired of this inane, vapid culture fostering its own delusions of literary grandeur by rehashing a small subset of the classics. How many people who talk about how Shakespeare is the acme of literature have even heard of Ben Jonson? I personally think that Alexander Pope and John Milton could whup Shakespeare any day of the week and twice on Sundays, but that's just my personal opinion.
But to pay all this lip service to 'high culture' or what-have-you... grow up! The man, like Steven Spielberg, does not shit gold! There are other things worth your time! Pick up something new, different, daring, something that other people may have overlooked. Remember, most people that we consider artistic geniuses today were overlooked in their own day and age -- what has changed? We're incapable of judging for ourselves, we need a cultural consensus! Bah!
I repeat, for those in the cheap seats -- Bah!
See, now you've gotten me all worked up.
-Grendel Drago