Emacs and Vi have both been around for a very long time. Back in the mid-late 80's, I remember taking some computational math and fluid dynamics classes. Part of the projects involved writing FORTRAN code and the professors used Vi. As a result, documentation was readily available so, I used Vi as well. Of course, Emacs was there too but the documentation was not as available. Frankly, just shutting the command line version of Emacs down took some research. Anyway, there was a palpable elitism among the Emacs crowd which I always assumed to be more due to them using the "un-official" and more complex editor. As for myself, I didn't care, the editor was the means to the end, not the end in itself.
Nowadays, Emacs (and XEmacs) have nice GUI's in front of them that greatly simplify their use. I use XEmacs on my Windows box (through Cygwin) at work and Emacs on my Ubuntu and SuSE Linux boxen at home. I still use Vi (Vim nowadays) when I need to quickly pop into the command line and do a config file edit, but I program in (X)Emacs. I know there is some sort of friction between the Emacs and XEmacs camp but that's not my concern. I use them both and I like them both.
It's very bizarre that, 20 some odd years later, the Emacs/Vi war still rages on. For me, the editor is the means to the end and always will be. Heck, with Ubuntu, I'm starting to use gedit more and more.
was, "Well, noone will be able to accuse him of deviating from the original story line." Back in the Liquid TV days, this seemed more about an artist having a little creative fun with a character without being hindered by any consistent storyline. Oh sure, toward the end he played around with an actual story, but I always got the impression that this was just a character study.
On the other hand, I'm sorry I never got to see Reign. The concept was interesting and I'd really liked to have seen what he would have done with a fully developed study.
These games are based upon fantasy people! Of course the characters will reflect that. By the way, I have a Dreamcast copy of Resident Evil: Code Veronica, as I recall the heroine, while attractive, is proportionally pretty normal looking....not a "Laura Croft" as it were.
On the other hand, Gordon Freeman is no Grunt (from Quake II/Quake III).
When I was younger, I got my hand on "Pinball Wizard" in guitar tablature. The very next thing I did was get a recording of "Pinball Wizard" to help me learn it.
Point is, all those your guitar wannabees out there who are given access to the sheet music will want to purchase the associated CD's to help them learn to play it. THE SHEET MUSIC SELLS THE CD!!
Even today, I'm trying to learn a celtic folk piece called "The Wind the Shakes the Barley". I need to hear several examples of how that is played to get an idea.
You guys at the MPA and RIAA are pushing me too far....I'm *this close* to giving a verbal account of an NFL football game.
Neither side actually, just making the point that the loss of one method of communication need not be viewed as a "death nell". For example "Wall Street Journal", "USA Today", "Delaware Online", "Chicago Tribune", etc. and etc. all publish hardcopy newspapers and also all publish on the internet. They didn't lose a medium, they gained one. Should hard-copy new go out of style, who cares? They are already up and running with the internet versions. They can all start selling licensed versions of the "Newspad" [Ref. 2001 Space Odessy].
BTW - I rely on the internet for my newspaper these days but my wife still prefers the "hard copy". So, it would seem the market has not quite dried up yet. I'm quite certain that, as soon as it is no longer profitable to print newspapers, companies will stop doing so.
Radio stations will just add internet broadcasting and/or simulcast on satellite. It's not a restriction, it's an increase in avenues of broadcast. If and when radio waves no longer become viable, they will already be broadcasting through these other media. If not, then they've no one to blame but themselves.
KDE and GNOME have both matured to a point where they both have established "personalities" and there are good reasons for choosing one over the other. In my case, I prefer using KDE on the "family" computer while my home workstation uses GNOME. Additionally, the two desktops are getting pretty good at dealing with each others applications provided the appropriate libraries are there.
My point is, two dominant desktops need not be a weakness provided the two desktops agree to "play nice" with each other. I would instead propose that both teams develope a single login manager that works equally well with either GNOME or KDE. Call it "IDM" since "I" is halfway between "G" and "K".
Actually, that you mention it, I've farted around with Debian and noted that apt-get worked great up until the point that it broke.....then it was a serious pain in the ass sorting out what broke what.
With Ubuntu, realizing it's Debian based, I have been careful not to venture too far from the "official" repositories. For example, I'd love to install OpenOffice 2.0 (Breezy comes with 1.9.192 or something like that), but I can't find it on the repositiories, so I wait.
Did get the SLAX liveCD, looks like any typical other Linux distribution to me.
Ubuntu is the current distribution to beat for me, but I may have to do another "test install".
In my endless quest to build the perfect "at home" workstation, I'm more or less narrowed down to Novell/SuSE or Ubuntu. One has a lot of history, it pretty danged polished, and has a large corporation behind it. The other does pretty much everything I need it to do and it fits on a single CD. Right now, I'm leaning toward Ubuntu. I've kind of discounted Slackware, not because of the lack of graphical auto-configuration "gee-gaws and gimcracks" (couldn't avoid the hat-tip to J.R. "Bob" Dobbs), but more because the lack of sohphisticated package management.
Actually, as long as the documentation is there, I think I'd prefer just editing the config files myself. At least I'd get familiar with them that way. The "purist" nature of Slackware appeals to me, but what is holding me back is a perceived journey into "dependancy hell" as I try to manually sort out package management.
So, if you don't mind my picking your brain, how do you manage packages on Slackware?
"Is the mainstream market not yet ready for portable video?"
Better question, "How much is the average person willing to pay to watch TV on his cellphone?"
Speaking for myself, $0.00. The only possible market I can think of for this (outside of you hardcore "gadget heads") would be sports fans that want to be able to immediately see instant replays while at a game. However, aren't games often "blacked out" in the area near the stadium anyways?
I can see how a Phone/PDA has potential - especially if Palm and Blackberry join forces. Problem is, you'd only want to have that as part of your work. You certainly don't want to take that anywhere it could get damaged.
Therefore, give me a reliable phone that is small and can tolerate rough handling. Something I can throw in the seat pack of my mountain bike and not worry about it getting scratched up or beat up if I drop the bike.
A Basic phone that is reliable, waterproof, shockproof, and small. If you absolutely must add a "gadget", make it an MP3 player - the fitness crowd can use that during thier morning jogs, spin sessions, bike rides, etc.
I'll lay odds that phone will outsell any "gadget phone" out there.
Not to long ago, an idea was presented to link voter registration with getting your driver's license. The underlying idea, reportedly, was that, by making it easier for the average adult to register to vote, there would be a greater population of registered American voters thus making elections more reflective of "the will of the people".
Seems like a good idea really, but the debates on C-SPAN went a little differently
The Republicans were not happy and saying that this was just a ruse to get a disproportionate number of Democrats registered to vote. The implication is kind of interesting. Apparantly, Republicans (and likely Democrats) were of the opinion that persons of the GOP were more likely than Democrats to register without the assistance of the "motor-voter" legislation - at least that was my interpretation.
With the present situation, the implication seems to be that Republicans have more cash reserves than Democrats and, by making blogs not susceptible to campaign fund contribution limits, they can more easily use that advantage.
So, both sides seek to exploit a "hidden" advantage in a particular legislation. It's like the old saying, for every endeavor there is a "good reason" and the "real reason".
Family Guy is low-brow humor and doesn't even pretend to be anything else but.
On the other hand, even "low-brow" has its flashes of brilliance. For example, I recall an episode of "King of the Hill" that gave a pretty intellegent treatment of sexual harassment. I even suggested it to our HR department.
I have a nearly 5 year old son that plays video games. One that he used to play (until the wife got nervous about it) was Rayman II. I could see that the games draw was the problem solving elements, it really captured his interest. Plus, the spoken text portions were motivating him to learn how to read - which was, in turn, motivating me to look for computer games that taught reading skills. So, OK, I can see how popular media can be used as a tool to stimulate intellectual development.
Also, I can recall a few years ago reading a study about how children that read a lot of comic books tended to have better reading skills than those that didn't. I believe that, comic books often don't "dumb down" the language. I recall learning a lot of complex words as a child by reading comics. I also understand that a "graphic novel" recently won a Hugo Award ("The Watchers", I think).
On TV, shows like Mythbusters seen to have achieved some popularity. Shows like "The Simpson's" and especially "Futurama" sneak in some pretty sophisticated stuff from time to time as well.
Sadly, TV by and large is still prone to the lowest common denominator. Things like news channels that cycle the same 10-15 minutes worth of stories over and over throughout the day, or so-called "Reality TV" which is really just encouraging the worst in human behavior. In fairness, "Faking It" was cool because it allowed people to explore new experiences and "No Opportunity Wasted" was, in my opinion, the best of the lot, but it didn't make ratings apparently....too bad. Reality TV has gotten so pervasive that there are parodies of it ("Drawn Together", etc.).
So, I guess like everything else, there is good and bad - even in so-called "Reality TV". All the same, the next time someone wants to do "He's a Lady", perhaps we can make it more about what it takes to successfully pull off the role as opposed to simply pandering to gender sterotypes?
Enough pontificating...in the end, I suppose it's how you use the medium/art form that ultimately matters.
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it was on a VAX system...
Emacs and Vi have both been around for a very long time. Back in the mid-late 80's, I remember taking some computational math and fluid dynamics classes. Part of the projects involved writing FORTRAN code and the professors used Vi. As a result, documentation was readily available so, I used Vi as well. Of course, Emacs was there too but the documentation was not as available. Frankly, just shutting the command line version of Emacs down took some research. Anyway, there was a palpable elitism among the Emacs crowd which I always assumed to be more due to them using the "un-official" and more complex editor. As for myself, I didn't care, the editor was the means to the end, not the end in itself.
Nowadays, Emacs (and XEmacs) have nice GUI's in front of them that greatly simplify their use. I use XEmacs on my Windows box (through Cygwin) at work and Emacs on my Ubuntu and SuSE Linux boxen at home. I still use Vi (Vim nowadays) when I need to quickly pop into the command line and do a config file edit, but I program in (X)Emacs. I know there is some sort of friction between the Emacs and XEmacs camp but that's not my concern. I use them both and I like them both.
It's very bizarre that, 20 some odd years later, the Emacs/Vi war still rages on. For me, the editor is the means to the end and always will be. Heck, with Ubuntu, I'm starting to use gedit more and more.
was, "Well, noone will be able to accuse him of deviating from the original story line." Back in the Liquid TV days, this seemed more about an artist having a little creative fun with a character without being hindered by any consistent storyline. Oh sure, toward the end he played around with an actual story, but I always got the impression that this was just a character study.
On the other hand, I'm sorry I never got to see Reign. The concept was interesting and I'd really liked to have seen what he would have done with a fully developed study.
As this movie goes, it just screams "renter"
These games are based upon fantasy people! Of course the characters will reflect that. By the way, I have a Dreamcast copy of Resident Evil: Code Veronica, as I recall the heroine, while attractive, is proportionally pretty normal looking....not a "Laura Croft" as it were.
On the other hand, Gordon Freeman is no Grunt (from Quake II/Quake III).
Haven't we been over this subject once before?
When I was younger, I got my hand on "Pinball Wizard" in guitar tablature. The very next thing I did was get a recording of "Pinball Wizard" to help me learn it.
Point is, all those your guitar wannabees out there who are given access to the sheet music will want to purchase the associated CD's to help them learn to play it. THE SHEET MUSIC SELLS THE CD!!
Even today, I'm trying to learn a celtic folk piece called "The Wind the Shakes the Barley". I need to hear several examples of how that is played to get an idea.
You guys at the MPA and RIAA are pushing me too far....I'm *this close* to giving a verbal account of an NFL football game.
Neither side actually, just making the point that the loss of one method of communication need not be viewed as a "death nell". For example "Wall Street Journal", "USA Today", "Delaware Online", "Chicago Tribune", etc. and etc. all publish hardcopy newspapers and also all publish on the internet. They didn't lose a medium, they gained one. Should hard-copy new go out of style, who cares? They are already up and running with the internet versions. They can all start selling licensed versions of the "Newspad" [Ref. 2001 Space Odessy].
BTW - I rely on the internet for my newspaper these days but my wife still prefers the "hard copy". So, it would seem the market has not quite dried up yet. I'm quite certain that, as soon as it is no longer profitable to print newspapers, companies will stop doing so.
Radio stations will just add internet broadcasting and/or simulcast on satellite. It's not a restriction, it's an increase in avenues of broadcast. If and when radio waves no longer become viable, they will already be broadcasting through these other media. If not, then they've no one to blame but themselves.
KDE and GNOME have both matured to a point where they both have established "personalities" and there are good reasons for choosing one over the other. In my case, I prefer using KDE on the "family" computer while my home workstation uses GNOME. Additionally, the two desktops are getting pretty good at dealing with each others applications provided the appropriate libraries are there.
My point is, two dominant desktops need not be a weakness provided the two desktops agree to "play nice" with each other. I would instead propose that both teams develope a single login manager that works equally well with either GNOME or KDE. Call it "IDM" since "I" is halfway between "G" and "K".
Actually, that you mention it, I've farted around with Debian and noted that apt-get worked great up until the point that it broke.....then it was a serious pain in the ass sorting out what broke what.
With Ubuntu, realizing it's Debian based, I have been careful not to venture too far from the "official" repositories. For example, I'd love to install OpenOffice 2.0 (Breezy comes with 1.9.192 or something like that), but I can't find it on the repositiories, so I wait.
Did get the SLAX liveCD, looks like any typical other Linux distribution to me.
Ubuntu is the current distribution to beat for me, but I may have to do another "test install".
In my endless quest to build the perfect "at home" workstation, I'm more or less narrowed down to Novell/SuSE or Ubuntu. One has a lot of history, it pretty danged polished, and has a large corporation behind it. The other does pretty much everything I need it to do and it fits on a single CD. Right now, I'm leaning toward Ubuntu. I've kind of discounted Slackware, not because of the lack of graphical auto-configuration "gee-gaws and gimcracks" (couldn't avoid the hat-tip to J.R. "Bob" Dobbs), but more because the lack of sohphisticated package management.
Actually, as long as the documentation is there, I think I'd prefer just editing the config files myself. At least I'd get familiar with them that way. The "purist" nature of Slackware appeals to me, but what is holding me back is a perceived journey into "dependancy hell" as I try to manually sort out package management.
So, if you don't mind my picking your brain, how do you manage packages on Slackware?
Thanks,
This goes on for almost three hours of it...
I think the director was right to "tighten that up" a bit.
Surely you can smell the heavy aroma of BS...
'nuff said?
Looks like the beginning of a "good news / bad news' scenario to me.
I clicked on this thread because my first thought was "Strategic Arms Limitation Talks" followed by "crap, not again".
I was expecting to see someting about negotiations with Korea or something.
oh wait...you said Rabbi's
nevermind
"Is the mainstream market not yet ready for portable video?"
Better question, "How much is the average person willing to pay to watch TV on his cellphone?"
Speaking for myself, $0.00. The only possible market I can think of for this (outside of you hardcore "gadget heads") would be sports fans that want to be able to immediately see instant replays while at a game. However, aren't games often "blacked out" in the area near the stadium anyways?
I can see how a Phone/PDA has potential - especially if Palm and Blackberry join forces. Problem is, you'd only want to have that as part of your work. You certainly don't want to take that anywhere it could get damaged.
Therefore, give me a reliable phone that is small and can tolerate rough handling. Something I can throw in the seat pack of my mountain bike and not worry about it getting scratched up or beat up if I drop the bike.
A Basic phone that is reliable, waterproof, shockproof, and small. If you absolutely must add a "gadget", make it an MP3 player - the fitness crowd can use that during thier morning jogs, spin sessions, bike rides, etc.
I'll lay odds that phone will outsell any "gadget phone" out there.
Yes, that was the Republican mantra on this issue
easier to register => greater liklihood of fraud
therefore, don't make it easier to register.
As a registered independant, I suppose it's easier for me to see how specious that argument is.
something wierd happens here and we don't really know why.
[paraphrasing of course, sure the math battallion will come in to clarify]
Not the greatest marketing name I would think
Bear with me, this connects
Not to long ago, an idea was presented to link voter registration with getting your driver's license. The underlying idea, reportedly, was that, by making it easier for the average adult to register to vote, there would be a greater population of registered American voters thus making elections more reflective of "the will of the people".
Seems like a good idea really, but the debates on C-SPAN went a little differently
The Republicans were not happy and saying that this was just a ruse to get a disproportionate number of Democrats registered to vote. The implication is kind of interesting. Apparantly, Republicans (and likely Democrats) were of the opinion that persons of the GOP were more likely than Democrats to register without the assistance of the "motor-voter" legislation - at least that was my interpretation.
With the present situation, the implication seems to be that Republicans have more cash reserves than Democrats and, by making blogs not susceptible to campaign fund contribution limits, they can more easily use that advantage.
So, both sides seek to exploit a "hidden" advantage in a particular legislation. It's like the old saying, for every endeavor there is a "good reason" and the "real reason".
and the games go on
Family Guy is low-brow humor and doesn't even pretend to be anything else but.
On the other hand, even "low-brow" has its flashes of brilliance. For example, I recall an episode of "King of the Hill" that gave a pretty intellegent treatment of sexual harassment. I even suggested it to our HR department.
I have a nearly 5 year old son that plays video games. One that he used to play (until the wife got nervous about it) was Rayman II. I could see that the games draw was the problem solving elements, it really captured his interest. Plus, the spoken text portions were motivating him to learn how to read - which was, in turn, motivating me to look for computer games that taught reading skills. So, OK, I can see how popular media can be used as a tool to stimulate intellectual development.
Also, I can recall a few years ago reading a study about how children that read a lot of comic books tended to have better reading skills than those that didn't. I believe that, comic books often don't "dumb down" the language. I recall learning a lot of complex words as a child by reading comics. I also understand that a "graphic novel" recently won a Hugo Award ("The Watchers", I think).
On TV, shows like Mythbusters seen to have achieved some popularity. Shows like "The Simpson's" and especially "Futurama" sneak in some pretty sophisticated stuff from time to time as well.
Sadly, TV by and large is still prone to the lowest common denominator. Things like news channels that cycle the same 10-15 minutes worth of stories over and over throughout the day, or so-called "Reality TV" which is really just encouraging the worst in human behavior. In fairness, "Faking It" was cool because it allowed people to explore new experiences and "No Opportunity Wasted" was, in my opinion, the best of the lot, but it didn't make ratings apparently....too bad. Reality TV has gotten so pervasive that there are parodies of it ("Drawn Together", etc.).
So, I guess like everything else, there is good and bad - even in so-called "Reality TV". All the same, the next time someone wants to do "He's a Lady", perhaps we can make it more about what it takes to successfully pull off the role as opposed to simply pandering to gender sterotypes?
Enough pontificating...in the end, I suppose it's how you use the medium/art form that ultimately matters.
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nope...don't get it.
considering that many art scholars believe the Mona List is a self portrait.
Yea but look at how long it took them to write that.