Well, shit. I'm going to hold on to any possible chance that he's being unreasonably curmudgeonly. Any... possible... chance. Any chance that this line will not be in the movie:
V: "This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vangquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
Evey: Are you like, a crazy-person?
I shall wait until Roger Ebert provides his... verdict.
In another 50 years they'll probably have achieved they're goal of being nothing more than a well marketed image of two opposing points of view while both parties continue to expand upon their only remaining policy: Feeding at the public trough via an ever expanding Federal government. In the meantime I'm sure they'll continue to argue bitterly and promote divsion in every media form available so that no one will notice that it's mostly bluster without substance, and that enriching themselves and their contributors is about the only action they ever really take.
Huh. Could have fooled me---I was pretty certain that their eventual goal would be nothging more than a well-marketed image of two opposing points of view, which, in reality, represent a single remaining true policy: Impoverishing the public to feed their wealthy friends, and using the ever-growing power of the state to make serfs of us all in the service of corporate power.
And here I thought I'd never be able to find links to the ACM's portal page asking me to pay grotesque fees to access their papers! Truly this is a great step forward toward the free exchange of information! I for one nibble the knobs of our new Google overlords!
I keep seeing features pushed back from Longhorn, pardon me, Vista. No WinFS or Monad; Avalon, Indigo and IE7 are all going to be backported to WinXP. What, precisely, is Vista going to include?
I hate phones, I really do. I've resisted getting voice mail set up on the cell phone I got for when my car dies, because if I get voice mail, then people will leave me messages on it, and act very surprised when I don't pick them up, because I don't actually enjoy being needled by messages every goddamned waking hour.
There's a tragic disconnect between the level of horribly annoying technology we can construct, and the level we should construct.
The first widely-distributed version of GNU Emacs was 15.34, which appeared in 1985. (Versions 2 through 12 never existed. Earlier versions of GNU Emacs had been numbered "1.x.x", but sometime after version 1.12 the decision was made to drop the "1", as it was thought the major number would never change. Version 13, the first public release, was made on March 20, 1985.)
Because really good SF on film is so bad, we're about ready to drink the sand, so to speak. In a culture that considers "Star Wars" to be science fiction, Firefly is way, way ahead of the rest.
If we don't encourage them to get it right, how will they ever learn?
That said, I'm rather intrigued by the notion of XRC, especially since it's cross-platform.
There was something about replacing boring, repetitive and brittle code generation with data wherever possible; it seems silly that the wx folks were the first to do this. It expresses constructed GUIs in data form, then lets the program put in hooks and callbacks. I'm told that newer versions of Glade can do the same.
To me, that's one of the most impressive, obvious-in-hindsight-only advances in programming I've seen in the last couple of years.
Well, go ahead and compare the work that went into cygwin against the work that would be needed to port a bare-minimum win32 system to run on top of Linux. I suppose the comparison can't be very precise, since cygwin can run in an entirely command-line fashion, but there are plenty of well-designed applications like Audacity that are built in a cross-platform fashion. (I'd like to include Hugin in that list, but it's way too crashy right now.)
That's first one is a horribly designed website. But it's a pretty interesting idea; it'd certainly be a good idea for cities. Perhaps it could be run like the subway or other public transit systems currently are. I'd certainly like to see how a real public trial would work out.
See here. Brazil has had their "Proalcool" program for the last thirty years, and it's just coming to fruition now. They use a less energy-intensive process, with sugarcane instead of corn, and doing so, they've managed massive cuts in their oil imports. That's not really something you can fake.
Corn may be a bad source of ethanol, and Archer Daniels Midland may be liquid evil poured into a suit, but that doesn't mean other folks can't do it right.
When I think of consolidation, I think of Gnome and KDE. Yes, choice is good. Yes, it's lovely that we have such a diversity of effort.
But doesn't it strike anyone else as fucking stupid that if I want to run Konqueror alongside Evolution, I have to load two cripplingly large environments into memory? That if I want to script KOffice, I can use DCOP, but of course, GNOME has its own scripting interface?
This is not like having a choice of syslog daemons. This is just fucking stupid.
I believe it was TLC; I had a stack of VHS tapes that a friend of a friend with cable had made.
Ah, you're right. It's available, though $150 is a mite steep. Amazon carries it used for around $100 per series. Gleep. VHS will run something around $70 each. Still gleep.
Ah, and I recall The Day the Universe Changed as well. Available for the low, low price of $750. Educational pricing is a racket.
I do phone tech support for a major hospital. They recently decided to go all HIPAA-compliant, and lock the workstations after fifteen minutes of inactivity. There then followed two weeks---weeks!---of vitriol from the users hurled at me and at my coworkers, from furious users.
The nurses aren't very well trained; we're supposed to use only chart numbers or account numbers, not names or anything personally identifying outside the hospital system. But the callers will frequently start off with, "I can't get Josh Greenberg's chart to cross over into the Mental Health system!". Sheesh. Not to mention "I can't log into Windows; my password is monkeybutter01".
These are the people who make spam profitable, I'm certain of it.
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It's only ironic if you can't tell the difference between a careless mistake and intentional ass-hatted stupidity.
--grendel drago
Well, shit. I'm going to hold on to any possible chance that he's being unreasonably curmudgeonly. Any... possible... chance. Any chance that this line will not be in the movie:
V: "This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vangquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
Evey: Are you like, a crazy-person?
I shall wait until Roger Ebert provides his... verdict.
--grendel drago
In another 50 years they'll probably have achieved they're goal of being nothing more than a well marketed image of two opposing points of view while both parties continue to expand upon their only remaining policy: Feeding at the public trough via an ever expanding Federal government. In the meantime I'm sure they'll continue to argue bitterly and promote divsion in every media form available so that no one will notice that it's mostly bluster without substance, and that enriching themselves and their contributors is about the only action they ever really take.
Huh. Could have fooled me---I was pretty certain that their eventual goal would be nothging more than a well-marketed image of two opposing points of view, which, in reality, represent a single remaining true policy: Impoverishing the public to feed their wealthy friends, and using the ever-growing power of the state to make serfs of us all in the service of corporate power.
Ayep.
--grendel drago
The main difference was that under Stalin you had a higher chance to be killed if you were close to him, than you had under Hitler.
Well, your odds still sucked under Hitler. Ask Ernst Roehm.
--grendel drago
And here I thought I'd never be able to find links to the ACM's portal page asking me to pay grotesque fees to access their papers! Truly this is a great step forward toward the free exchange of information! I for one nibble the knobs of our new Google overlords!
--grendel drago
'Monad' Scripting Shell Unlikely to Debut in Longhorn
WinFS Axed From Longhorn Client and Server
Avalon faces axe as Microsoft dismembers Longhorn
Are we talking about the same operating system? And what does "native" even mean, in this context?
--grendel drago
Emacs is a floor wax and a dessert topping!
--grendel drago
I keep seeing features pushed back from Longhorn, pardon me, Vista. No WinFS or Monad; Avalon, Indigo and IE7 are all going to be backported to WinXP. What, precisely, is Vista going to include?
--grendel drago
I hate phones, I really do. I've resisted getting voice mail set up on the cell phone I got for when my car dies, because if I get voice mail, then people will leave me messages on it, and act very surprised when I don't pick them up, because I don't actually enjoy being needled by messages every goddamned waking hour.
There's a tragic disconnect between the level of horribly annoying technology we can construct, and the level we should construct.
--grendel drago
--grendel drago
That was one of the best scenes, you insensitive clod!
--grendel drago
Because really good SF on film is so bad, we're about ready to drink the sand, so to speak. In a culture that considers "Star Wars" to be science fiction, Firefly is way, way ahead of the rest.
If we don't encourage them to get it right, how will they ever learn?
--grendel drago
That said, I'm rather intrigued by the notion of XRC, especially since it's cross-platform.
There was something about replacing boring, repetitive and brittle code generation with data wherever possible; it seems silly that the wx folks were the first to do this. It expresses constructed GUIs in data form, then lets the program put in hooks and callbacks. I'm told that newer versions of Glade can do the same.
To me, that's one of the most impressive, obvious-in-hindsight-only advances in programming I've seen in the last couple of years.
--grendel drago
Perl 5 (I don't know if the foreach construct was in Perl 4 or earlier) has been around since 1993. Where have you been?
--grendel drago
Well, go ahead and compare the work that went into cygwin against the work that would be needed to port a bare-minimum win32 system to run on top of Linux. I suppose the comparison can't be very precise, since cygwin can run in an entirely command-line fashion, but there are plenty of well-designed applications like Audacity that are built in a cross-platform fashion. (I'd like to include Hugin in that list, but it's way too crashy right now.)
--grendel drago
That's first one is a horribly designed website. But it's a pretty interesting idea; it'd certainly be a good idea for cities. Perhaps it could be run like the subway or other public transit systems currently are. I'd certainly like to see how a real public trial would work out.
And hey, there's an article.
--grendel drago
They don't? They're not supporting D-BUS, and GNORBA goesn't work that way? Well, shit. I wanted to use GnuCash and K3B on the same machine.
--grendel drago
See here. Brazil has had their "Proalcool" program for the last thirty years, and it's just coming to fruition now. They use a less energy-intensive process, with sugarcane instead of corn, and doing so, they've managed massive cuts in their oil imports. That's not really something you can fake.
Corn may be a bad source of ethanol, and Archer Daniels Midland may be liquid evil poured into a suit, but that doesn't mean other folks can't do it right.
See a rather good writeup of the issue.
--grendel drago
When I think of consolidation, I think of Gnome and KDE. Yes, choice is good. Yes, it's lovely that we have such a diversity of effort.
But doesn't it strike anyone else as fucking stupid that if I want to run Konqueror alongside Evolution, I have to load two cripplingly large environments into memory? That if I want to script KOffice, I can use DCOP, but of course, GNOME has its own scripting interface?
This is not like having a choice of syslog daemons. This is just fucking stupid.
So, is there any way to fix it?
--grendel drago
I bet there's like fifty, no, six hundred and ninety-one of you guys just waiting to mock the newbies like me...
--grendel drago
Say "left" again! I bet you get a shiny nickel every time you do!
--grendel drago
You hang around just waiting for "my UID is so low!" threads so you can bitch-slap everyone, don't you.
--grendel drago
I'm off to score mad educational goodness from eMule...
--grendel drago
I believe it was TLC; I had a stack of VHS tapes that a friend of a friend with cable had made.
Ah, you're right. It's available, though $150 is a mite steep. Amazon carries it used for around $100 per series. Gleep. VHS will run something around $70 each. Still gleep.
Ah, and I recall The Day the Universe Changed as well. Available for the low, low price of $750. Educational pricing is a racket.
--grendel drago
I do phone tech support for a major hospital. They recently decided to go all HIPAA-compliant, and lock the workstations after fifteen minutes of inactivity. There then followed two weeks---weeks!---of vitriol from the users hurled at me and at my coworkers, from furious users.
The nurses aren't very well trained; we're supposed to use only chart numbers or account numbers, not names or anything personally identifying outside the hospital system. But the callers will frequently start off with, "I can't get Josh Greenberg's chart to cross over into the Mental Health system!". Sheesh. Not to mention "I can't log into Windows; my password is monkeybutter01".
These are the people who make spam profitable, I'm certain of it.
--grendel drago