The build quality is ludicrous - the magnet clasps fell out 3 days after I put it on.
Plus, even though I ordered a medium, it still seems like you have to be a fat, overweight geek with 17 gadgets in his pockets in order for it to fit right.
My opinion is this: don't get one unless you're going to walk around with $2,000 of gear stuffed into the pockets, because it won't fit right otherwise...
a) You wouldn't run this script unless you wanted it to. Your comment is like saying, of a crowbar, that "people who have been living in a house for so long wouldn't want this crowbar used to demolish their house"... well no, thats true... "unless they wanted to demolish their house".
b) Wiping and starting over, on a system that you've been running for a long time, doesn't help. Duh.
This script is useful if:
i) You have a running system, and don't want to change your system services setup (Apache config, for example), and ii) You -want- to, for some reason, convert to using Debian packages and management tools on your system, without interrupting too many of your existing running services.
Yup, I can think of cases where I'd want to use this tool. I've got Server A which has stuff running on it, and I want to move to debians' pkg tools and libraries for managing the system... cool.
Anyone else notice that he didn't really answer the questions, just kept it at "well, we're inspired, quality artists who love Halo2, so we just did it".
I mean, okay, thats a good enough reason, but... eh... I forget what I was trying to say. It just seems like the dude waffles on about art instead of really getting into 'WHY' make a non-functioning suit of body armor based on designs from a video game.
Now, if it was -really- functioning body armor, that'd be interesting, but I'm gonna just put these guys in the same camp as those freaky Japanese girl-mask guys... fat fanboix with too many credit cards and no real job.
Sheesh. Some people have too much time on their hands. Including me. Why am I even thinking about this crap? Think I'll go out back and shoot meself...
Screeners are only a problem because the Movie Industry is too lazy to make custom copies of each screener they send out, watermarked/stamped/steganized with an individual identifier which can finger the perpetrator of the deed.
Hint, Mr. Movie Mogul: Mass Production == DEATH.
Not that I agree with it, but man it sure seems like the Movie Industry is Fucking Stupid sometimes. Don't they know anything about technology?
I made up 'ampfea', and among our little group it has come to mean 'any meeting place for electronic artists'... we've had 8 meets since we started getting together for jam sessions, and 'ampfea' has started to take hold as a word in common use among our little crowd.
This whole iThing is just Madison Avenue counting on the memetic nature of human interaction... but humans interact in entirely arbitrary ways so... just make up new words, people. Its easy!
I dunno about you, but I consider the notion of a plane-load full of sweaty fat Americans to be far more terrorizing than any pig-shit bomb fashioned together by half-ass 16 year olds in a foreign land...
I agree with this, although my case is very different.
I started programming computers professionally when I was 12 years old - it started as a hobby, but fortunately for me in 1982 anyone with any sort of production experience with computers could find work. Lucky for me I was interested in filesystems work back then - that seriously propelled me into the stratosphere as a working programmer.
It hasn't changed - I still code for the fun of it, but it has fed me all these years quite well.
My current job combines all of my hobbies (music, electronics, programming, design, living in a foreign land) and I still get paid. I attribute this situation (ideal) to the fact that I have -always- enjoyed computer science first, and sought to make a living from it second.
I'd be happy hauling bricks 8 hours a day if I knew I could have at least 4 hours hacking time at home, but as it happens I don't need to... There is *PLENTY* of work for those who are serious about computer science, and very little work for dilettantes who only got into it for the money/prestige/security.
I consider that whatever 'slumps' there are in the "IT" industry (man, I hate "IT", what a shit name for this business) to be pretty much the result of a massive influx of dilettantes. It has to be said: the MTV generation are dilettante like no other...
And hey, before you go nuts, I lived there and have very good friends there, but with the current government scenario, I no longer wish to participate in the smoke and mirror parade which is the American dream, in any respect, and thus I'm not going to the States again until it changes.
You'll see. The American flight industry will suffer from this, grandly...
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Dude, the logic is easy.
If you have.WMA files floating around your disk, you want to play them.
Its as simple as that. Any 'modern' music player shouldn't *ACTUALLY* be limited by the codec. A real music player would have -extensible- codec capabilities...
What's needed is someone with the balls and cash to put Linux in a smallpocket format, open the source to -everything- and stand back while everyone and their brother ports their codecs to it... its not that hard.
... what hurts the industry more is lame-duck journo's trying to make waves with controversy and tabloid tactics in a field which has no truck with these sorts of tactics, usually...
Take the RAMJET ride to the LEO hub, from LEO to Lagrange by nuclear, and from Lagrange to Tranquility its pretty much all downhill anyway, so conventional chemical rockets could be used for that (I think nuclear rockets would be overkill for that leg of the journey, wouldn't it?).
The gravity well (ours) is the most difficult part of the trek. From there, its pretty much 'anywhere you want to go' as long as you've got O2 for the ride...
This would have been insightful in... say... the 50's.
But public opinion/perception is so easily swayed these days, I don't really think the issue of nuclear energy in the public eye is a big problem.
All it'd take is the right coffers being filled, and we'll have a campaign put together in months that would turn things around. A few key articles in WSJ, some TIME magazine articles (4 or 5, over a year), some prominent scientists and leaders of opinion, and you're set.
Of course, actually -developing- safe nuclear rockets would have to happen first, though... so maybe what you're saying is that this can't happen if the public don't want it to happen? It doesn't take public opinion to develop technology at Groom Lake, you know...
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... and I have to say that its crap.
The build quality is ludicrous - the magnet clasps fell out 3 days after I put it on.
Plus, even though I ordered a medium, it still seems like you have to be a fat, overweight geek with 17 gadgets in his pockets in order for it to fit right.
My opinion is this: don't get one unless you're going to walk around with $2,000 of gear stuffed into the pockets, because it won't fit right otherwise...
... now those mocorhorchlorian thingies, are they the 'bad' kind of force, or the 'good' kind of force in this plant?
I'd go for bad, since its a stinker. Darth Rafflesia, anyone?
Point:
... well no, thats true ... "unless they wanted to demolish their house".
a) You wouldn't run this script unless you wanted it to. Your comment is like saying, of a crowbar, that "people who have been living in a house for so long wouldn't want this crowbar used to demolish their house"
b) Wiping and starting over, on a system that you've been running for a long time, doesn't help. Duh.
This script is useful if:
i) You have a running system, and don't want to change your system services setup (Apache config, for example), and
ii) You -want- to, for some reason, convert to using Debian packages and management tools on your system, without interrupting too many of your existing running services.
Yup, I can think of cases where I'd want to use this tool. I've got Server A which has stuff running on it, and I want to move to debians' pkg tools and libraries for managing the system... cool.
Anyone else notice that he didn't really answer the questions, just kept it at "well, we're inspired, quality artists who love Halo2, so we just did it".
... eh ... I forget what I was trying to say. It just seems like the dude waffles on about art instead of really getting into 'WHY' make a non-functioning suit of body armor based on designs from a video game.
... fat fanboix with too many credit cards and no real job.
...
I mean, okay, thats a good enough reason, but
Now, if it was -really- functioning body armor, that'd be interesting, but I'm gonna just put these guys in the same camp as those freaky Japanese girl-mask guys
Sheesh. Some people have too much time on their hands. Including me. Why am I even thinking about this crap? Think I'll go out back and shoot meself
It implies that you will only be jamming, whereas ampfea is not just about jamming, its about meeting other electronic artists.
Enough said.
Screeners are only a problem because the Movie Industry is too lazy to make custom copies of each screener they send out, watermarked/stamped/steganized with an individual identifier which can finger the perpetrator of the deed.
Hint, Mr. Movie Mogul: Mass Production == DEATH.
Not that I agree with it, but man it sure seems like the Movie Industry is Fucking Stupid sometimes. Don't they know anything about technology?
Make some new ones up. It doesn't matter.
... but humans interact in entirely arbitrary ways so ... just make up new words, people. Its easy!
I made up 'ampfea', and among our little group it has come to mean 'any meeting place for electronic artists'... we've had 8 meets since we started getting together for jam sessions, and 'ampfea' has started to take hold as a word in common use among our little crowd.
This whole iThing is just Madison Avenue counting on the memetic nature of human interaction
Who is to say that _SQUID_ are not more evolved than us?
The problem with evolution is it implies a superiority which can only be described in Mans terms.
When I hear a dolphin telling me that "Man is the evolutionary master", I'll believe it, but not until then...
I dunno about you, but I consider the notion of a plane-load full of sweaty fat Americans to be far more terrorizing than any pig-shit bomb fashioned together by half-ass 16 year olds in a foreign land...
Duh. Any by-product which cannot be broken down by natural processes is a harmful one, hydrocarbon or not.
So, hey, I suppose you have both Exxon -and- Enron on your CV, eh?
... and when your land is burning, to whom will you come for help?
Whatever.
JACK makes this all irrelevant.
Pipeline-management should be the *USERS* responsibility, not the programmers...
Those in education must learn to make their corsework reflect the needs of the real world
...
Problem is, the perception in academia is that "unless you know Microsoft, you're not employable"
This is the result of a well-crafted campaign by Microsoft and its underlings to get Education pimping their product for them.
How do you undo such things?
I concur.
Teach PRODUCT, not PROCESS!
I agree with this, although my case is very different.
I started programming computers professionally when I was 12 years old - it started as a hobby, but fortunately for me in 1982 anyone with any sort of production experience with computers could find work. Lucky for me I was interested in filesystems work back then - that seriously propelled me into the stratosphere as a working programmer.
It hasn't changed - I still code for the fun of it, but it has fed me all these years quite well.
My current job combines all of my hobbies (music, electronics, programming, design, living in a foreign land) and I still get paid. I attribute this situation (ideal) to the fact that I have -always- enjoyed computer science first, and sought to make a living from it second.
I'd be happy hauling bricks 8 hours a day if I knew I could have at least 4 hours hacking time at home, but as it happens I don't need to... There is *PLENTY* of work for those who are serious about computer science, and very little work for dilettantes who only got into it for the money/prestige/security.
I consider that whatever 'slumps' there are in the "IT" industry (man, I hate "IT", what a shit name for this business) to be pretty much the result of a massive influx of dilettantes. It has to be said: the MTV generation are dilettante like no other...
You know, the one that was supposed to take anything and turn it into oil?
Seems to me that company should've stepped in to take over this problem - or maybe its the same people/research group?
In one fell swoop, the right to:
a) travel freely
and
b) have your information be private
has been withdrawn. If I were an American Citizen, I would be calling for the heads of my elected government on pikes.
America lost the War on Terror the -moment- it reacted to 9/11, and the True Terrorists now have the helm.
There isn't any technical reason for it, no sir, none at all.
Its purely politics.
And hey, before you go nuts, I lived there and have very good friends there, but with the current government scenario, I no longer wish to participate in the smoke and mirror parade which is the American dream, in any respect, and thus I'm not going to the States again until it changes.
You'll see. The American flight industry will suffer from this, grandly...
Dude, the logic is easy.
.WMA files floating around your disk, you want to play them.
If you have
Its as simple as that. Any 'modern' music player shouldn't *ACTUALLY* be limited by the codec. A real music player would have -extensible- codec capabilities...
What's needed is someone with the balls and cash to put Linux in a smallpocket format, open the source to -everything- and stand back while everyone and their brother ports their codecs to it... its not that hard.
... what hurts the industry more is lame-duck journo's trying to make waves with controversy and tabloid tactics in a field which has no truck with these sorts of tactics, usually ...
Take the RAMJET ride to the LEO hub, from LEO to Lagrange by nuclear, and from Lagrange to Tranquility its pretty much all downhill anyway, so conventional chemical rockets could be used for that (I think nuclear rockets would be overkill for that leg of the journey, wouldn't it?).
...
The gravity well (ours) is the most difficult part of the trek. From there, its pretty much 'anywhere you want to go' as long as you've got O2 for the ride
This would have been insightful in ... say ... the 50's.
... so maybe what you're saying is that this can't happen if the public don't want it to happen? It doesn't take public opinion to develop technology at Groom Lake, you know ...
But public opinion/perception is so easily swayed these days, I don't really think the issue of nuclear energy in the public eye is a big problem.
All it'd take is the right coffers being filled, and we'll have a campaign put together in months that would turn things around. A few key articles in WSJ, some TIME magazine articles (4 or 5, over a year), some prominent scientists and leaders of opinion, and you're set.
Of course, actually -developing- safe nuclear rockets would have to happen first, though
I've considered a *BSD for one of my embedded projects, but Linux is just too easy to use...
Its pretty nice actually, to run something like ROCK linux on all systems - development, deployment, testing...
I guess I got tripped up on "embedded linux" versus "linux".
My point is, with Linux being what it is, there's very little actual difference between an 'embedded linux' and a 'linux' kernel...
Sorry for being brash. Get what I mean though?
{Linux rocks. Put it in a box, any box.}