yes, I know FEMA depends on it. Yes, I know it's valuable in emergencies. Two points:
1) if there's an emergency, the power's probably out, and ham will work anyway. If you want to practice, do what amateur astronomers do and go out in the country where I can guarantee they won't have this. It's nice to get out of the city anyway. 2) If ham radio dies, there will be something to replace it in your life. Most of the longtime computer users I knew where I grew up got into it in the Altair days as an extension of ham radio. If you don't want something different, well, I knew a lot of people that loved to ride 3-wheeled ATVs, and hated quads, but they got used to them. the times they are a-changin' and all that shit.
Don't drag down progress by clinging to an anachronism. Please.
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You're not going to find any girl geeks who look like Playboy playmates Doesn't Playboy have a contest right now to pick a TechTV hostess to appear in the magazine?
But those girls aren't really geeks, they're just playing the role to get lonely horny geek guys to watch the station and think "there's got to be another Morgan Webb out there".
Reminds me of the guy that owned the comic shop in the town where I grew up. He would hire the hottest girls he could get that were still literate enough to not look stupid and instruct them all to flirt with the customers, to keep repeat business up.
What makes Madden 2004 so good is that EA incorporated the Front Office Football code into the Madden engine. This is where all the in depth franchise stuff came from.
If you use this argument to say that outsourcing is OK with you, then you have to support welfare too, because both are providing a salary to people outside the US work force in the hopes that that money will come back and support the work force.
I've got no problem with them wanting it. Their "men folk" paid their dues. That the women didn't work for it is no fault of their own, that was the culture at that time.
seems to me that the people that can figure out how to live without working are the enlightened ones, not the ones whose lives are spent enslaved to corporations.
I have a debian box that's been running and serving up files since before your OS existed. I must go to my local quarry and buy enough marble to build a suitable temple to your obviously superior penis.
my wife can be just as obsessive about games as I can be. She's been sick most of the last month, and while she's been off of work, she's filled up her time by playing RPGs on our PS2 near-constantly. We've also played a lot of co-op on games that support it.
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When asked to comment, Marla Gibbs said "Shut up, chile!"
in 2001 I got cut from a contract in mid-april. by the end of april my Monster resume had gotten me another job. That was within two weeks. I didn't even miss a paycheck. I also got the contract that I got cut from via Monster. I'm sure it's different now, but my experience was positive.
I'm sure Perl 6 will be like getting a blow job from Larry Wall himself, but I've had enough of Perl's community and their "cleverness". I want languages that help me write programs, not that are good for writing haiku in. First of all, I've only been married for 6 months so my wife still gives BJs, so I don't need one from Wall. The mustache would itch anyway.
But you're dead fucking on about how the Perl community has focused on total bullshit and playing with the language rather than practical improvements.
People like to say that that sort of experimentation shows innovation but if the experimenters don't work for anyone influential it's all just mental masturbation.
Look at it this way. Rush recorded "La Villa Strangiato" (a 9-minute masturbatory instrumental that goes through a bunch of time signatures, if you're not familiar with the song) in one take, live, with no overdubbing or editing. They had it all together and knew what they were going to do well before the tape got rolling.
Today, they would probably record one part at a time and an engineer would cut and paste it together and smooth out the transitions with a plugin.
It's hard to know whether you should respect a band's musicianship or not because it's too easy to fake it now.
Now, whether you like Rush or not (most people don't and I don't want to get into that) you can't argue with their technical musicianship. Sure, they could have faked part of it then, but you couldn't cut and paste portions of individual tracks without loss like you can with today's systems and someone with good trained ears would be able to hear it.
Zappa used to say that the studio was where the composition gets perfected, so there's no shame in using studio tricks to enhance your music. I agree with that, but to me as an anal semi-purist I don't think you should use studio tricks to CREATE your music.
it's possible for pitch to be TOO correct. For example, Zeppelin (on topic, sort of) wouldn't be nearly as interesting if Plant had been right on pitch down to the cent on every note. Top 40 listeners don't care because top 40 listeners in general can't appreciate the nuances of the voice.
Worse yet is that with Auto-Tune and digital tracking, you can't trust an album anymore. There's so much that can be done now to cover up bad musicianship that you can't believe that a CD represents the true abilities. There have been studio tricks and editing for a long time but not the ability to change the complete program of a track like Pro Tools and similar systems give you.
Gibson tried to do this in the 50's. That's why the bridge that's found on most of their electric guitars is still called a "tune-o-matic" bridge - they had a prototype device that automatically kept a guitar in tune but the tech of the day made it impractical.
this is just some political crackpot trying to make a point in an election year. It'll never pass, it's too invasive. Especially out west, where people value their privacy.
The way I originally learned OO was that objects are analogous to what are now called components. That is, objects should be wholly self-contained - every class is its own model, view, and controller - and you hook them together through composition.
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the european republics had to go through a fascist period before they saw the light. that must apply to us, too.
yes, I know FEMA depends on it. Yes, I know it's valuable in emergencies. Two points:
1) if there's an emergency, the power's probably out, and ham will work anyway. If you want to practice, do what amateur astronomers do and go out in the country where I can guarantee they won't have this. It's nice to get out of the city anyway.
2) If ham radio dies, there will be something to replace it in your life. Most of the longtime computer users I knew where I grew up got into it in the Altair days as an extension of ham radio. If you don't want something different, well, I knew a lot of people that loved to ride 3-wheeled ATVs, and hated quads, but they got used to them. the times they are a-changin' and all that shit.
Don't drag down progress by clinging to an anachronism. Please.
You're not going to find any girl geeks who look like Playboy playmates
Doesn't Playboy have a contest right now to pick a TechTV hostess to appear in the magazine?
But those girls aren't really geeks, they're just playing the role to get lonely horny geek guys to watch the station and think "there's got to be another Morgan Webb out there".
Reminds me of the guy that owned the comic shop in the town where I grew up. He would hire the hottest girls he could get that were still literate enough to not look stupid and instruct them all to flirt with the customers, to keep repeat business up.
Only the nose knows.
oh shit that was hilarious. you rule
What makes Madden 2004 so good is that EA incorporated the Front Office Football code into the Madden engine. This is where all the in depth franchise stuff came from.
If you use this argument to say that outsourcing is OK with you, then you have to support welfare too, because both are providing a salary to people outside the US work force in the hopes that that money will come back and support the work force.
sure they can walk away, if they want to be homeless and hungry. Corporations control the survival of the people.
I've got no problem with them wanting it. Their "men folk" paid their dues. That the women didn't work for it is no fault of their own, that was the culture at that time.
seems to me that the people that can figure out how to live without working are the enlightened ones, not the ones whose lives are spent enslaved to corporations.
I have a debian box that's been running and serving up files since before your OS existed.
I must go to my local quarry and buy enough marble to build a suitable temple to your obviously superior penis.
rumor has it leia did once
my wife can be just as obsessive about games as I can be. She's been sick most of the last month, and while she's been off of work, she's filled up her time by playing RPGs on our PS2 near-constantly. We've also played a lot of co-op on games that support it.
When asked to comment, Marla Gibbs said "Shut up, chile!"
in 2001 I got cut from a contract in mid-april.
by the end of april my Monster resume had gotten me another job. That was within two weeks. I didn't even miss a paycheck. I also got the contract that I got cut from via Monster. I'm sure it's different now, but my experience was positive.
flamebait? I'm a fan of perl, and I hate how it's gone in the shitter. I'm sorry I insulted your girlfriend, but remember, I get mod points too..
I'm sure Perl 6 will be like getting a blow job from Larry Wall himself, but
I've had enough of Perl's community and their "cleverness". I want languages
that help me write programs, not that are good for writing haiku in.
First of all, I've only been married for 6 months so my wife still gives BJs, so I don't need one from Wall. The mustache would itch anyway.
But you're dead fucking on about how the Perl community has focused on total bullshit and playing with the language rather than practical improvements.
People like to say that that sort of experimentation shows innovation but if the experimenters don't work for anyone influential it's all just mental masturbation.
I think we agree, basically.
Look at it this way. Rush recorded "La Villa Strangiato" (a 9-minute masturbatory instrumental that goes through a bunch of time signatures, if you're not familiar with the song) in one take, live, with no overdubbing or editing. They had it all together and knew what they were going to do well before the tape got rolling.
Today, they would probably record one part at a time and an engineer would cut and paste it together and smooth out the transitions with a plugin.
It's hard to know whether you should respect a band's musicianship or not because it's too easy to fake it now.
Now, whether you like Rush or not (most people don't and I don't want to get into that) you can't argue with their technical musicianship. Sure, they could have faked part of it then, but you couldn't cut and paste portions of individual tracks without loss like you can with today's systems and someone with good trained ears would be able to hear it.
Zappa used to say that the studio was where the composition gets perfected, so there's no shame in using studio tricks to enhance your music. I agree with that, but to me as an anal semi-purist I don't think you should use studio tricks to CREATE your music.
it's possible for pitch to be TOO correct. For example, Zeppelin (on topic, sort of) wouldn't be nearly as interesting if Plant had been right on pitch down to the cent on every note. Top 40 listeners don't care because top 40 listeners in general can't appreciate the nuances of the voice.
Worse yet is that with Auto-Tune and digital tracking, you can't trust an album anymore. There's so much that can be done now to cover up bad musicianship that you can't believe that a CD represents the true abilities. There have been studio tricks and editing for a long time but not the ability to change the complete program of a track like Pro Tools and similar systems give you.
Gibson tried to do this in the 50's. That's why the bridge that's found on most of their electric guitars is still called a "tune-o-matic" bridge - they had a prototype device that automatically kept a guitar in tune but the tech of the day made it impractical.
this is just some political crackpot trying to make a point in an election year. It'll never pass, it's too invasive. Especially out west, where people value their privacy.
The way I originally learned OO was that objects are analogous to what are now called components. That is, objects should be wholly self-contained - every class is its own model, view, and controller - and you hook them together through composition.
Where did this go?
It depends on if Bush wins or not. If he does, then OSS is dead.
you're questioning the party line. report to the ministry of truth for correction or be shot.
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