I live in Portland too. But I don't necessarily think it's all it's cracked up to be.
Firstly, the weather. I love the rain. I love the wind. I love the snow. I love the majority of the year. But these summers have got go. That temperature gauge should never cross the line of 84 F.
The people. There are some seriously mentally ill people here. They're not coming back from beyond the bend. There's all the young punks and their dogs, the shoplifting and violent addicts all over the place. I lived in San Francisco for years and their sanity:insanity ratio pales in comparison to Portland.
The jobs. Don't get me started at what they pay around here for programmers.
I moved to Portland because for some reason I got it in my head that I couldn't "take" San Francisco anymore. I wanted a gentler life of trees and moss. Rainy days. Meeting cool people. I've been here in Portland now for almost 4 years. Most of the people I meet rarely extend beyond aquaintance. I know some of that is me, but...
There are some beautiful reasons to live here, and the Gorge is one of them. McMenamins is another. I got married at Edgefield Hotel just 2 months ago. This is a great place to live overall, if you like funky little houses (I do) and funky little neighborhoods (I do) but these are all surface-level things. Behind them is a place that just never settles in your stomach quite right.
The high points of transit are great. The heat is miserable. Scared to buy a home here because I'd feel locked in. Prices on homes are low here, but the pays are so low the prices are high.
I don't think that just because CS Degrees are in decline that it means there will be any less programmers on the field. Programming is context-oriented, and sure a CS degree can help a lot of people in programming, but at what cost?
Sometimes I feel that majors in the humanities, in communication, literature, critical thinking, psychology, philosophy, linguists, and financial planning are better qualified as developers, because they understand what is most often to be coded these days: interfaces to information, with the ability manipulate, display, and interact with said information. That information has context.
The closer a programmer is to context, the more likely they'll get it right the first time.
Not to say a CS degree isn't useful -- it is, obviously for the more hardcore programming and understanding of the bigger picture.
In an effort to be more informative than "there are already programs to get various web items onto it, like one that gets google news and outputs it onto the iPod when you sync it", I did some quick googling..
Googleget - Grabs Google News and syncs it onto your iPod. Looks great, can't wait to try it.
Many other iPod tools written in.NET for Windows (haven't found out if these are open-source, if so I'd love to try to port some of them to mono/gtk) available at iPodSoft -- I tried out a few of these and they look great.
And then there's the big list over a iPodLounge...
If you made it to college, you were not left behind, and further attempts at monitoring citizens should be
I would argue that because so many children are not "left behind" in high school that more students end up getting left behind in college. The lower the common denominator in college, the worse-off the classes end up being. You end up like I did, in classes on books as simple as Homer's the Odyssey spending 50 to 120 minutes a day discussing "what happened" rather than "what does what happened mean?"
Some children are meant to be left behind, and you're not going to weed them out with more testing. These tests are useless in teaching students to think critically and with an apt amount of abstraction to prepare them for college. All that I've seen these new policies instigate is a lowering of the bar for college academics and the quality of an education. A Bachelor's degree means nothing to me and will mean nothing in the future if it's as easy to get as it was and is currently.
I think the reason perl was the easiest language for me to grasp from the get-go was because variables were just that... variable! And very! I didn't have any real brain blocking in learning a programming language until I tried one that was very strongly typed, where you have to set the possible size of said variable ahead of time... know how many slices an array might have ahead of time, etc.
Perl just seems to connect better with me, in that any given variable can be any given thing. A number. A string. An array. A hash. A reference to any of these things. It can even be an object, or subroutine. All things are mutable and transient.
Now if this makes perl a good starting language or not I don't know -- maybe it makes learning other languages harder, because you always with that the other language was more like perl.
Reason gives you the illusion of control, but always winds up making EuroDance/Trance
Very wrong on that count. Some organically complex systems can be created with reason, with a little creativity you can create evolutionary synths that sound spetacular & complex. Reason is no illusion, it's the right tool for the right kind of creator.
You say this and you have a Robert Anton Wilson quote in your sig? He's doing this because he can, because he should, and because it's his right and for the benefit of America that his voice is heard even if he is not allowed to speak aloud.
He is not doing it for himself. Or for what the media is friendly towards. People can think he's a wacko, but people as a rule are stupid. Individuals are what's he after, not "people".
There's a fine line in the difference, and it is abstract, perhaps intangible. But that doesn't mean it isn't there.
I've always been interested in interactive storytelling. When I was a creative writing major over at San Francisco State University I was exploring such options, I purchased the excellent StorySpace software thinking that perhaps the web or a hypertext environment was the right way to go, only to be disappointed at the limitations. (The software is excellent for what it is capable of, even if it didn't fit the bill in my aspirations).
The conclusions that I drew are financially unreachable at this time. As well as the age-old problem that I think any interactive fiction will ever have: lack of interest. What I've always wanted to do is create locations much like Disneyland rides that tell a story interactively with a participant using computer projections and robotics, possibly with the interaction of psychedelic substances to help prime the "reader" for their experience.
Alas, I will probably never feel fufilled creatively as my ideas have no possibility for ever coming into fruition. (More on these ideas here).
It's a chicken/egg problem. Those of us who are but poor artists can't realize their dreams without heavy investment, and cannot get the heavy investment without an interested public to interact with. And an interest public cannot exist until the artistry is to be seen.
1. I'm not sure about that, as I did not take that route. From the installer it was obvious you would already have had to partition your drives. I've had past experience setting up a dual boot PPC system, and it's not very difficult as long as you are comfortable with yaboot and have already partitioned your drives.
2. X came up with zero configuration done. That said, I have a pre-Quartz iBook and don't know how the process would go with something more modern.
Hope that helps ya out, or at least shows how I cannot.:)
This attitude pisses me off so much. There's nothing wrong with a duplicate story. New spins on the old, even if semi-recent, should always be welcome because it will foster comments, some comments that actually hold some sort of communication, or relevancy to the topic...
This is not your website. It's not their website either. It's everyone's, even those people who have yet to read it, or this article, or this particular repeat of this article. And that's a good thing.
Are you mad because you feel taking the 10 seconds to read an article headline is too much of your precious time? Or your own memory eluding you, and perhaps clicking on the link to the article and reading the article a second time.. and then you remember -- I've already read this. You are wasting my time.
I'll stand apart and say that I actually like these movies. They are much more psychedelic than the mainstream Star Wars movies, well, I'll take that back -- Episode 1 had some highly mind altering segments -- holding this quality that was instilled in me during my youth, along with classic like Pippi in the South Seas, Mary Poppins, and Kiss Meets the Phantom. Nostalgia purposes these movies are great for.
Besides, the annoying whining of the little Girl ("more water!.. i have a headache") make for great laughing fodder as well as little Ewok Wickett saying "Star cruiser... star cruiser crash!"...
Well. They aren't good movies by any means. But they are not totally without value.
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Thanks for mentioning ChucK -- it is obviously the shit! I've been looking for something cross-platform like SuperCollider for a long time.
Still not automatic though. In this real world, that I for one would rather just forget about, people don't like to right-click on a link to a file and "Save As.." they like to hit the link and have it open up their spreadsheet program. OO will do that with an HTML.xls file. Gnumeric won't. It'll open it, true, but it doesn't do a sanity check. It makes the assumption that all files with the extension.xls are going to actually be MS Excel files. Wrong. That's not the unix way.
Ah but Gnumeric is missing a very key feature that is required in the business I'm in. It doesn't automatically interpret HTML tables as a spreadsheet. With both OOCalc and Excel, if you have an HTML table labeled as an.xls file, either program will automatically open it as if it were an excel file. Incredibly useful feature for custom web programming with report generation.
Perl matters. Larry Wall wrote Perl. Larry does these State of the Onion things. They aren't news. But it is news that he has done one. Since Perl matters and Larry wrote Perl, and many people are interested in reading the State of the Onion, the news therefore matters. Perhaps not to you. But it would only need to matter to one person in order to qualify for mattering.
So to clarify, the news here wasn't supposed to be what was contained within the presentation (though there is news in there if you open your mind to read in between the lines, which I think you have done) but instead that the presentation exists at all.
> We also download the movies because the theatres charge entirely too much money (anywhere from $8 to $11 from what I have seen) to watch it.
I can't believe people say stuff like this.
a) matinees exist. try to see a movie before 6pm sometime, pay half the price. I know they try to configure their timing such that this is difficult, but if your job is flexible and you want to see a movie after work without paying an arm and a leg, go in earlier.
b) I don't know where you live, but here in Portland, Oregon we have dozens of second-run theaters of high quality, mostly of the McMenamins variety. You can drink hard cider (beer if you're into that shite), eat pizza or stuffed blue-cheese and carmalized onions hamburgers-- I digress. $2 to $4 for a movie. Only have to wait 3 to 4 weeks depending on the movie for it to get there.
I tried installing the Developer Studio C# Express on my Crossover Office installation this morning and it was a no-go. Perhaps others will be able to get it to install, but I certainly couldn't. Understandble of course.
I have never used any IDE in programming before and was curious, but it looks as if I will have to wait longer to try it out.
Question: Is it possible to develop Mono-compatible code while actually utilizing the tools in the IDE? (As in not just using it as a glorified text-editor).
But I think what's there already is enough for at least debian to populate such things, using the default icons associated with the applications in each package. While installing the icon with the package in the gnome environment, it should install it for all windowing environments.
The only way I can stand to use wmaker anymore is with gnome panels set up rather than the dock, and that's not using wmaker at all really.
I've always been a big fan of Windowmaker, but I just wish a distribution (hint--Debian, Gentoo) would pay as much attention to it's visual experience as it does Gnome or KDE. This means having default icons with applications. Debian is probably the best suited for this with its menu architecture, it associates icons with applications for Gnome with no problem at all -- how hard could it be to include a default icon set for WindowMaker? Maybe I should be directing these comments to the package maintainer.
To call the music obscure is very limiting. Most of the stuff I listed is not obscure at all. Obscure to the clueless, sure, but to anyone with a thirst in music -- they are finding this music, listening to it, supporting it, going to the shows.
The bands really aren't that obscure. Your kind of elitist anti-elitist attitude is actually a kind of psychlogical disorder prevalent among American males these days.
To even begin to assume that one listens to such bands because they are obscure is so incredibly stupid. I, and those others who listen, listen because the music speaks to them beyond the base-level psychology of the standard moronic fare presented to the majority.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, prentiousness in art is a buzzkill concept initiated by the unimaginative and emotional-conceptualy bankrupt who aren't willing to stretch their minds and hearts beyond the chickenshit coops they were born into.
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I am just amazed that Twin Peaks isn't on this list.
Does eat oates and little lambs eat ivy.
I live in Portland too. But I don't necessarily think it's all it's cracked up to be.
Firstly, the weather. I love the rain. I love the wind. I love the snow. I love the majority of the year. But these summers have got go. That temperature gauge should never cross the line of 84 F.
The people. There are some seriously mentally ill people here. They're not coming back from beyond the bend. There's all the young punks and their dogs, the shoplifting and violent addicts all over the place. I lived in San Francisco for years and their sanity:insanity ratio pales in comparison to Portland.
The jobs. Don't get me started at what they pay around here for programmers.
I moved to Portland because for some reason I got it in my head that I couldn't "take" San Francisco anymore. I wanted a gentler life of trees and moss. Rainy days. Meeting cool people. I've been here in Portland now for almost 4 years. Most of the people I meet rarely extend beyond aquaintance. I know some of that is me, but...
There are some beautiful reasons to live here, and the Gorge is one of them. McMenamins is another. I got married at Edgefield Hotel just 2 months ago. This is a great place to live overall, if you like funky little houses (I do) and funky little neighborhoods (I do) but these are all surface-level things. Behind them is a place that just never settles in your stomach quite right.
The high points of transit are great. The heat is miserable. Scared to buy a home here because I'd feel locked in. Prices on homes are low here, but the pays are so low the prices are high.
I'm still glad OSCON comes here to happen.
I don't think that just because CS Degrees are in decline that it means there will be any less programmers on the field. Programming is context-oriented, and sure a CS degree can help a lot of people in programming, but at what cost?
Sometimes I feel that majors in the humanities, in communication, literature, critical thinking, psychology, philosophy, linguists, and financial planning are better qualified as developers, because they understand what is most often to be coded these days: interfaces to information, with the ability manipulate, display, and interact with said information. That information has context.
The closer a programmer is to context, the more likely they'll get it right the first time.
Not to say a CS degree isn't useful -- it is, obviously for the more hardcore programming and understanding of the bigger picture.
And this, just in time to coincide with a current plot point / terrorist threat in 24!
Don't get any big ideas, the government has got us covered.
In an effort to be more informative than "there are already programs to get various web items onto it, like one that gets google news and outputs it onto the iPod when you sync it", I did some quick googling..
Googleget - Grabs Google News and syncs it onto your iPod. Looks great, can't wait to try it.
Many other iPod tools written in .NET for Windows (haven't found out if these are open-source, if so I'd love to try to port some of them to mono/gtk) available at iPodSoft -- I tried out a few of these and they look great.
And then there's the big list over a iPodLounge...
I would argue that because so many children are not "left behind" in high school that more students end up getting left behind in college. The lower the common denominator in college, the worse-off the classes end up being. You end up like I did, in classes on books as simple as Homer's the Odyssey spending 50 to 120 minutes a day discussing "what happened" rather than "what does what happened mean?"
Some children are meant to be left behind, and you're not going to weed them out with more testing. These tests are useless in teaching students to think critically and with an apt amount of abstraction to prepare them for college. All that I've seen these new policies instigate is a lowering of the bar for college academics and the quality of an education. A Bachelor's degree means nothing to me and will mean nothing in the future if it's as easy to get as it was and is currently.
I think the reason perl was the easiest language for me to grasp from the get-go was because variables were just that
Perl just seems to connect better with me, in that any given variable can be any given thing. A number. A string. An array. A hash. A reference to any of these things. It can even be an object, or subroutine. All things are mutable and transient.
Now if this makes perl a good starting language or not I don't know -- maybe it makes learning other languages harder, because you always with that the other language was more like perl.
At least I do.
Reason gives you the illusion of control, but always winds up making EuroDance/Trance
Very wrong on that count. Some organically complex systems can be created with reason, with a little creativity you can create evolutionary synths that sound spetacular & complex. Reason is no illusion, it's the right tool for the right kind of creator.
Ever read From Satori to Silicon Valley?
It's the acid. Left an imprint in his brain.
You say this and you have a Robert Anton Wilson quote in your sig? He's doing this because he can, because he should, and because it's his right and for the benefit of America that his voice is heard even if he is not allowed to speak aloud.
He is not doing it for himself. Or for what the media is friendly towards. People can think he's a wacko, but people as a rule are stupid. Individuals are what's he after, not "people".
There's a fine line in the difference, and it is abstract, perhaps intangible. But that doesn't mean it isn't there.
I've always been interested in interactive storytelling. When I was a creative writing major over at San Francisco State University I was exploring such options, I purchased the excellent StorySpace software thinking that perhaps the web or a hypertext environment was the right way to go, only to be disappointed at the limitations. (The software is excellent for what it is capable of, even if it didn't fit the bill in my aspirations).
The conclusions that I drew are financially unreachable at this time. As well as the age-old problem that I think any interactive fiction will ever have: lack of interest. What I've always wanted to do is create locations much like Disneyland rides that tell a story interactively with a participant using computer projections and robotics, possibly with the interaction of psychedelic substances to help prime the "reader" for their experience.
Alas, I will probably never feel fufilled creatively as my ideas have no possibility for ever coming into fruition. (More on these ideas here).
It's a chicken/egg problem. Those of us who are but poor artists can't realize their dreams without heavy investment, and cannot get the heavy investment without an interested public to interact with. And an interest public cannot exist until the artistry is to be seen.
1. I'm not sure about that, as I did not take that route. From the installer it was obvious you would already have had to partition your drives. I've had past experience setting up a dual boot PPC system, and it's not very difficult as long as you are comfortable with yaboot and have already partitioned your drives.
2. X came up with zero configuration done. That said, I have a pre-Quartz iBook and don't know how the process would go with something more modern.
Hope that helps ya out, or at least shows how I cannot.
I had nothing but a good experience installing Ubuntu on my iBook G3. Detected all the hardware and was installed fully within a half hour.
Excellent. Finally a PPC distro for the older computers I don't want to put Gentoo on.
This attitude pisses me off so much. There's nothing wrong with a duplicate story. New spins on the old, even if semi-recent, should always be welcome because it will foster comments, some comments that actually hold some sort of communication, or relevancy to the topic...
This is not your website. It's not their website either. It's everyone's, even those people who have yet to read it, or this article, or this particular repeat of this article. And that's a good thing.
Are you mad because you feel taking the 10 seconds to read an article headline is too much of your precious time? Or your own memory eluding you, and perhaps clicking on the link to the article and reading the article a second time.. and then you remember -- I've already read this. You are wasting my time.
I'm done.
I'll stand apart and say that I actually like these movies. They are much more psychedelic than the mainstream Star Wars movies, well, I'll take that back -- Episode 1 had some highly mind altering segments -- holding this quality that was instilled in me during my youth, along with classic like Pippi in the South Seas, Mary Poppins, and Kiss Meets the Phantom. Nostalgia purposes these movies are great for.
Besides, the annoying whining of the little Girl ("more water!
Well. They aren't good movies by any means. But they are not totally without value.
Thanks for mentioning ChucK -- it is obviously the shit! I've been looking for something cross-platform like SuperCollider for a long time.
Can't wait to waste a few hours trying this out.
Still not automatic though. In this real world, that I for one would rather just forget about, people don't like to right-click on a link to a file and "Save As.." they like to hit the link and have it open up their spreadsheet program. OO will do that with an HTML
Ah but Gnumeric is missing a very key feature that is required in the business I'm in. It doesn't automatically interpret HTML tables as a spreadsheet. With both OOCalc and Excel, if you have an HTML table labeled as an .xls file, either program will automatically open it as if it were an excel file. Incredibly useful feature for custom web programming with report generation.
Here's how it goes.
Perl matters.
Larry Wall wrote Perl.
Larry does these State of the Onion things. They aren't news. But it is news that he has done one.
Since Perl matters and Larry wrote Perl, and many people are interested in reading the State of the Onion, the news therefore matters. Perhaps not to you. But it would only need to matter to one person in order to qualify for mattering.
So to clarify, the news here wasn't supposed to be what was contained within the presentation (though there is news in there if you open your mind to read in between the lines, which I think you have done) but instead that the presentation exists at all.
> Buy prison stock now.
Isn't that voting with your dollars? Profiting from heinous acts is nearly as bad as commiting them.
> We also download the movies because the theatres charge entirely too much money (anywhere from $8 to $11 from what I have seen) to watch it.
I can't believe people say stuff like this.
a) matinees exist. try to see a movie before 6pm sometime, pay half the price. I know they try to configure their timing such that this is difficult, but if your job is flexible and you want to see a movie after work without paying an arm and a leg, go in earlier.
b) I don't know where you live, but here in Portland, Oregon we have dozens of second-run theaters of high quality, mostly of the McMenamins variety. You can drink hard cider (beer if you're into that shite), eat pizza or stuffed blue-cheese and carmalized onions hamburgers-- I digress. $2 to $4 for a movie. Only have to wait 3 to 4 weeks depending on the movie for it to get there.
I tried installing the Developer Studio C# Express on my Crossover Office installation this morning and it was a no-go. Perhaps others will be able to get it to install, but I certainly couldn't. Understandble of course.
I have never used any IDE in programming before and was curious, but it looks as if I will have to wait longer to try it out.
Question: Is it possible to develop Mono-compatible code while actually utilizing the tools in the IDE? (As in not just using it as a glorified text-editor).
This is exactly what it should do.
But I think what's there already is enough for at least debian to populate such things, using the default icons associated with the applications in each package. While installing the icon with the package in the gnome environment, it should install it for all windowing environments.
The only way I can stand to use wmaker anymore is with gnome panels set up rather than the dock, and that's not using wmaker at all really.
I've always been a big fan of Windowmaker, but I just wish a distribution (hint--Debian, Gentoo) would pay as much attention to it's visual experience as it does Gnome or KDE. This means having default icons with applications. Debian is probably the best suited for this with its menu architecture, it associates icons with applications for Gnome with no problem at all -- how hard could it be to include a default icon set for WindowMaker? Maybe I should be directing these comments to the package maintainer.
To call the music obscure is very limiting. Most of the stuff I listed is not obscure at all. Obscure to the clueless, sure, but to anyone with a thirst in music -- they are finding this music, listening to it, supporting it, going to the shows.
The bands really aren't that obscure. Your kind of elitist anti-elitist attitude is actually a kind of psychlogical disorder prevalent among American males these days.
To even begin to assume that one listens to such bands because they are obscure is so incredibly stupid. I, and those others who listen, listen because the music speaks to them beyond the base-level psychology of the standard moronic fare presented to the majority.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, prentiousness in art is a buzzkill concept initiated by the unimaginative and emotional-conceptualy bankrupt who aren't willing to stretch their minds and hearts beyond the chickenshit coops they were born into.