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There all all kinds of comics out these days where the art and story exceed anythign you will find in the newspapers: Sinfest Explotation now MegaTokyo
And for the 18+ crowd:
The Thin H Line
Of course I'd never expect a major newspaper to carry anything positive about the Thin H Line.:)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
From the screenshots, it looks like Doom II is another ID game where your space marine has no trouble picking up hundreds of rounds of ammo off of his fallen comrades, but can't seem to find a single flashlight anywhere. Heck, usually when you find a flashlight in a FPS some joker has put 20 year old Ni-cads in it and it lasts like 30 seconds or so. You'd think you'd be able to power a flashlight for quite a while off of those cells the BFG/Plasma Rifle uses...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
The old saying that there is nothing more dangerous than a little bit of knowledge is proven over and over again in these debates.
Telomeres (for those of you who don't want to do a quick bit of research) are basically the "endcaps" for DNA strands. Each time a cell divides, the telomeres get shortened slightly, and once they are gone the dna unravels and the cell dies. If Adam and Eve didn't have telmeres (As was allueded to in the previous post) they would have died at birth (or creation).
As for the "conservation of energy" approach to biology I see used a lot in these debates; whose argument usually goes something like: Nothing can exceed it's creator, therefore each "iteration" of humanity is one step worse than the previous iteration, and God is the only one that we could have descended from. To this I can only say: what proof do you have? I've got all sorts of evidence of people exceeding their parents and ancestors (Einstein's Mother was NOT an elite particle physicist). It also tries to apply a theory from a different field of science that doesn't even make sense from a short term biological point of view (short term being only ~1 trillion years or so), and rarely (if ever) explains in what way we are worse than our ancestors.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I know I'll be modded down for this, but I have to say it:
IMHO Mozilla is a perfect example of the "beauty" weakness in open source. Not all code is pretty, not all code SHOULD be pretty. I've seen lots of people (particularly academics) that focus a lot more on getting the most elegant or most technically correct solution instead of the one that works the best in real life. Mozilla has a beautifully designed interface system, that is scriptable and modifiabe...that takes a full 1/2 second to draw a menu on a PII 400 with 128MB of memory. I've not seen menus move this consistanly slow since my Mac LC (16 Mhz 68020 w/4MB of memory) days. In addition, Mozilla has taken approximatly forever to write (granted a web browser is a pretty compilcated thing to write).
Yes, I know the mantra: put out (code) or shut up, but quite frankly, I'm only one man, I can't contribute code to the dozens of programs I use regularly (although I do file bug reports whenever I can get a good backtrace and reproducable crash).
Beautiful code is one thing, fast and useful may not be be the same.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Pinball enthusiasts aren't dead, but arcades these days don't seem to want these "old school" machines when they can stick in 2 more Tekken Tag Tournament consoles that will draw the crowds for six months or until another fighting game comes along, whichever comes first. Quite frankly, the people who love Pinball games have grown up and don't spend nearly as much time in the arcades as they used to.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Really, it makes sense. I don't want to pick up a piece of software with the "GPL" and discover later that the licenese specifically allowed the program to email everyone in my address book with spam or something else. If you change the GPL, change its name as well, otherwise you just invite confusion and hatred.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
P.S.-->Oh, the other reasons that traditional arcades will never die out. You can play pool, pinball, and meet girls in them. Girls are good.
Maybe I've been out of the arcade scene for too long, but best I remember a video arcade was about as good a place to meet women as a CS department as a Tech school. Naturally there are some flukes, but I can't seriously recommend going to arcades to meet women.
Also, very few arcades anymore have pool tables (at least in this area). If you want to play pool with a bunch of friends, you have to seek out a community centre or one of those smoke filled pool halls. Finally, pinball is certainly out of style, although you can usually find a couple of old disused machines in the back corner of the arcade these days, I'm not sure how long they will stay around.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
That's from an old Sega Genesis game called Zero Wing. The gameplay wasn't all that great, but it does have that horribly translated (and hilarious) opening sequence. All of the images in that video are from an effort that the people over at Something Awful did with putting that phrase over all every picture they could get their hands on. The pictures are availble seperately in several places.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
The simple fact is that copyright establishes ownership. It allows the artist to establish control over his work.
Actually I thought that line was pretty interesting. Mr. Rosen said something interesting: "They simply don't have the technology available for an authorized agreement" that would protect the interests of copyright owners, Rosen said.
What isn't said here is that the Record Label is the copyright owner is the Record label not the Artist (that the line was supposed to make you think). In reality, he said he wants to keep his cash flow safe, and could care less if the Artists ever get a cent.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
2 flips of a coin can lead to 4 possible outcomes:
head, head
head, tail
tail, head
tail, tail
This means 1 out of 4 possible outcomes are 2 heads, 1 out of 4 are 2 tails, and 2 out of 4 (or 1/2) are 1 head and 1 tail. You stand a better chance of getting one head and one tail than anything else. Your point about small sample sets is still valid, but it doesn't necesarrily follow from your argument.
Finally, why do you want an anonymous website making your arbitration decisions? What's to prevent a company from registering a whole pile of Slashdot IDs and stacking the discussion/vote? When was the last time the people on Slashdot agreed on anything anyway?
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Ajax is a footbal club, a cleaning liquid and a brand of fire extinguishers. So who has the rights to ajax.com? Is it the most monied trademark holder or the oldest one?
The one who got there first. However, if one of the other Ajaxes go to this judge, then they will likely be able to wrest the domain from the legitimate owner...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Personally, I use Galeon at home on my FreeBSD machine and Mozilla at work on my Windows machine. I don't know if anybody else has noticed this, but Mozilla's interfaces feels a lot slower on FreeBSD (and Linux) than it does on Windows. In Windowsland I don't get a 1/2 second delay between clicking on a menu and having it show up (Aagh! Mac LC 8 bit mode flashbacks!) and the selection bar doesn't lag behind my pointer. I thought the code was supposed to be mostly the same?
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
They forgot to ask what sex the boxes are. I don't want my box to get get hooked up with another little-endian box, I don't think it could take the embarassment. And just think of the horror of taking out a nice big-endian PPC box only to have it switch on you unexpectedly when you get home! Darn transbytesexual processors...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
You've apparently never used a news client since 1992 or so. These days all of the collating and uudecoding is done behind the scenes. Just select a file in Pan and press "D". In fact the Usenet is a great way to distribute Fansubbed Anime without overloading any particular server.
Now the problems (that havn't been mentioned yet): data on the usenet has a short lifetime, frequently less than 24 hours. If you don't keep on top of it, it is easy to miss things (like the fourth episode of a series). Second, you can't search out a particular song on the Usenet, you have to more or less take what is available. If you are looking for a particular song, the Usenet may not be for you (although you can certainly request it).
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
If you are losing EVERY drive you buy for lab machines, you might want to take a good look at your lab. Does it shoot up to 200 degrees at night? Frequent earthquakes? Really bad power? Do you buy your drives from the back of a pickup truck? If you just had a whole batch of drives go bad on you (I've seen a whole department of Maxtors come in more or less DOA) then I could belive it, but if you're spreading out your drive vendors, then I have trouble beliveing it is the drives fault.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
NOOO!!! It is only with the declining popularity of the Usenet that many of the more egregious trolls and spammers have left (freqently to Slashdot). In many groups these days, the signal to noise ratio is back up to the pre-september that never ended days, especially since your average AOL user doesn't even know newsgroups exist anymore (not with that shiny pretty web thing to play with).
I much prefer the way Usenet is heading now, where you have to be at least a little savvy before you even find out about the Usenet.
It is really too bad that so many people were turned off of the usenet entirely a few years ago when the S/N ratio hit rock bottom, they could really help get the Usenet back to the way it should be.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Or I can go somewhere else that DOESN'T require a card to get the discounts and avoid the problem altogether. I hate carrying around dozens of cards for different stores just so I can save a few bucks here and there, instead I've taken up a policy of only shopping at stores that don't require a stuipid card. Goodbye Kroger, hello Shoppers.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
You obviously didn't read the review for Tresspasser
I nearly got kicked out of the lab when I read this one the first time, and I can still remember some of the lines years later.
My problem with Gamecenter was that they seemed to give "famous" games a couple of points automatically. For instance, Mechwarrior III got an 8/10 while Heavy Gear II (a decidedly better game IMHO) got 7/10.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
No, frames didn't come along until the 2.x series. I remember when 2.0 came out and I discovered frames (only to be appalled at them and hoped they wouldn't be used). The 2.x series had terrible frame support though, the back button would bring you to the previous non-frame page you were on, it was really annoying. Thank you Netscape.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Re:European Beef - or GM Rice? Gee, Tough Call.
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...also, stop calling Europeans snobby and elitist.
You don't have to believe everything the ad companies or the government tell you.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Er, I don't think Netscape 1.0 supported bgcolor (and I'm fuzzy on tables, but I don't remember it supporting tables). I remember for a while NCSA Mosaic was actually marginally better than Netscape 1.0 because it supported background colors (wooo!). Then Netscape 1.1 came around and blew it away. I can still remember the days when people tried to avoid using the table tag because of all of the problems it caused (not working in many browsers, slow to render on Netscape, forcing Netscape to load the entire table before it even tried to render, etc...)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Problem is, PDAs are TOO small for a lot of things. For instance, as a mobile terminal (great for plugging into the serial port of a machine with a messed up network config). Currently we use an ancient Winbook 386 for this, but it's battery life is for shame and the whole thing is starting to die mechanically. Plus it can't run Netscape and is quite slow by today's standards.
Finally, monochrome != Low-res, in fact I'd like to see a fairly high resolution (200 dpi or better). This would make reading a book off the laptop quite comfortable, especially if you are on a plane and have the backlight turned off. Reading off the Palm is ok, but you have to more or less continually page down while reading because the screen just doesn't hold that much character data.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
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There all all kinds of comics out these days where the art and story exceed anythign you will find in the newspapers: :)
Sinfest
Explotation now
MegaTokyo
And for the 18+ crowd: The Thin H Line
Of course I'd never expect a major newspaper to carry anything positive about the Thin H Line.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
From the screenshots, it looks like Doom II is another ID game where your space marine has no trouble picking up hundreds of rounds of ammo off of his fallen comrades, but can't seem to find a single flashlight anywhere. Heck, usually when you find a flashlight in a FPS some joker has put 20 year old Ni-cads in it and it lasts like 30 seconds or so. You'd think you'd be able to power a flashlight for quite a while off of those cells the BFG/Plasma Rifle uses...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
The old saying that there is nothing more dangerous than a little bit of knowledge is proven over and over again in these debates.
Telomeres (for those of you who don't want to do a quick bit of research) are basically the "endcaps" for DNA strands. Each time a cell divides, the telomeres get shortened slightly, and once they are gone the dna unravels and the cell dies. If Adam and Eve didn't have telmeres (As was allueded to in the previous post) they would have died at birth (or creation).
As for the "conservation of energy" approach to biology I see used a lot in these debates; whose argument usually goes something like: Nothing can exceed it's creator, therefore each "iteration" of humanity is one step worse than the previous iteration, and God is the only one that we could have descended from. To this I can only say: what proof do you have? I've got all sorts of evidence of people exceeding their parents and ancestors (Einstein's Mother was NOT an elite particle physicist). It also tries to apply a theory from a different field of science that doesn't even make sense from a short term biological point of view (short term being only ~1 trillion years or so), and rarely (if ever) explains in what way we are worse than our ancestors.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I know I'll be modded down for this, but I have to say it:
IMHO Mozilla is a perfect example of the "beauty" weakness in open source. Not all code is pretty, not all code SHOULD be pretty. I've seen lots of people (particularly academics) that focus a lot more on getting the most elegant or most technically correct solution instead of the one that works the best in real life. Mozilla has a beautifully designed interface system, that is scriptable and modifiabe...that takes a full 1/2 second to draw a menu on a PII 400 with 128MB of memory. I've not seen menus move this consistanly slow since my Mac LC (16 Mhz 68020 w/4MB of memory) days. In addition, Mozilla has taken approximatly forever to write (granted a web browser is a pretty compilcated thing to write).
Yes, I know the mantra: put out (code) or shut up, but quite frankly, I'm only one man, I can't contribute code to the dozens of programs I use regularly (although I do file bug reports whenever I can get a good backtrace and reproducable crash).
Beautiful code is one thing, fast and useful may not be be the same.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Pinball enthusiasts aren't dead, but arcades these days don't seem to want these "old school" machines when they can stick in 2 more Tekken Tag Tournament consoles that will draw the crowds for six months or until another fighting game comes along, whichever comes first. Quite frankly, the people who love Pinball games have grown up and don't spend nearly as much time in the arcades as they used to.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Haven't you ever seen "Contact"?
Wow, Contact was a documentary? Here I thought it was wildy inaccurate fiction. Silly me.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Really, it makes sense. I don't want to pick up a piece of software with the "GPL" and discover later that the licenese specifically allowed the program to email everyone in my address book with spam or something else. If you change the GPL, change its name as well, otherwise you just invite confusion and hatred.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
P.S.-->Oh, the other reasons that traditional arcades will never die out. You can play pool, pinball, and meet girls in them. Girls are good.
Maybe I've been out of the arcade scene for too long, but best I remember a video arcade was about as good a place to meet women as a CS department as a Tech school. Naturally there are some flukes, but I can't seriously recommend going to arcades to meet women. Also, very few arcades anymore have pool tables (at least in this area). If you want to play pool with a bunch of friends, you have to seek out a community centre or one of those smoke filled pool halls. Finally, pinball is certainly out of style, although you can usually find a couple of old disused machines in the back corner of the arcade these days, I'm not sure how long they will stay around.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
That's from an old Sega Genesis game called Zero Wing. The gameplay wasn't all that great, but it does have that horribly translated (and hilarious) opening sequence. All of the images in that video are from an effort that the people over at Something Awful did with putting that phrase over all every picture they could get their hands on. The pictures are availble seperately in several places.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
The simple fact is that copyright establishes ownership. It allows the artist to establish control over his work.
Actually I thought that line was pretty interesting. Mr. Rosen said something interesting:
"They simply don't have the technology available for an authorized agreement" that would protect the interests of copyright owners, Rosen said.
What isn't said here is that the Record Label is the copyright owner is the Record label not the Artist (that the line was supposed to make you think). In reality, he said he wants to keep his cash flow safe, and could care less if the Artists ever get a cent.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
2 flips of a coin can lead to 4 possible outcomes:
- head, head
- head, tail
- tail, head
- tail, tail
This means 1 out of 4 possible outcomes are 2 heads, 1 out of 4 are 2 tails, and 2 out of 4 (or 1/2) are 1 head and 1 tail. You stand a better chance of getting one head and one tail than anything else. Your point about small sample sets is still valid, but it doesn't necesarrily follow from your argument.Finally, why do you want an anonymous website making your arbitration decisions? What's to prevent a company from registering a whole pile of Slashdot IDs and stacking the discussion/vote? When was the last time the people on Slashdot agreed on anything anyway?
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Ajax is a footbal club, a cleaning liquid and a brand of fire extinguishers. So who has the rights to ajax.com? Is it the most monied trademark holder or the oldest one?
The one who got there first. However, if one of the other Ajaxes go to this judge, then they will likely be able to wrest the domain from the legitimate owner...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Personally, I use Galeon at home on my FreeBSD machine and Mozilla at work on my Windows machine. I don't know if anybody else has noticed this, but Mozilla's interfaces feels a lot slower on FreeBSD (and Linux) than it does on Windows. In Windowsland I don't get a 1/2 second delay between clicking on a menu and having it show up (Aagh! Mac LC 8 bit mode flashbacks!) and the selection bar doesn't lag behind my pointer. I thought the code was supposed to be mostly the same?
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
They forgot to ask what sex the boxes are. I don't want my box to get get hooked up with another little-endian box, I don't think it could take the embarassment. And just think of the horror of taking out a nice big-endian PPC box only to have it switch on you unexpectedly when you get home! Darn transbytesexual processors...
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
You've apparently never used a news client since 1992 or so. These days all of the collating and uudecoding is done behind the scenes. Just select a file in Pan and press "D". In fact the Usenet is a great way to distribute Fansubbed Anime without overloading any particular server.
Now the problems (that havn't been mentioned yet): data on the usenet has a short lifetime, frequently less than 24 hours. If you don't keep on top of it, it is easy to miss things (like the fourth episode of a series). Second, you can't search out a particular song on the Usenet, you have to more or less take what is available. If you are looking for a particular song, the Usenet may not be for you (although you can certainly request it).
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
If you are losing EVERY drive you buy for lab machines, you might want to take a good look at your lab. Does it shoot up to 200 degrees at night? Frequent earthquakes? Really bad power? Do you buy your drives from the back of a pickup truck? If you just had a whole batch of drives go bad on you (I've seen a whole department of Maxtors come in more or less DOA) then I could belive it, but if you're spreading out your drive vendors, then I have trouble beliveing it is the drives fault.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
NOOO!!! It is only with the declining popularity of the Usenet that many of the more egregious trolls and spammers have left (freqently to Slashdot). In many groups these days, the signal to noise ratio is back up to the pre-september that never ended days, especially since your average AOL user doesn't even know newsgroups exist anymore (not with that shiny pretty web thing to play with).
I much prefer the way Usenet is heading now, where you have to be at least a little savvy before you even find out about the Usenet.
It is really too bad that so many people were turned off of the usenet entirely a few years ago when the S/N ratio hit rock bottom, they could really help get the Usenet back to the way it should be.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Or I can go somewhere else that DOESN'T require a card to get the discounts and avoid the problem altogether. I hate carrying around dozens of cards for different stores just so I can save a few bucks here and there, instead I've taken up a policy of only shopping at stores that don't require a stuipid card. Goodbye Kroger, hello Shoppers.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
You obviously didn't read the review for Tresspasser I nearly got kicked out of the lab when I read this one the first time, and I can still remember some of the lines years later.
My problem with Gamecenter was that they seemed to give "famous" games a couple of points automatically. For instance, Mechwarrior III got an 8/10 while Heavy Gear II (a decidedly better game IMHO) got 7/10.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
No, frames didn't come along until the 2.x series. I remember when 2.0 came out and I discovered frames (only to be appalled at them and hoped they wouldn't be used). The 2.x series had terrible frame support though, the back button would bring you to the previous non-frame page you were on, it was really annoying. Thank you Netscape.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
...also, stop calling Europeans snobby and elitist.
You don't have to believe everything the ad companies or the government tell you.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
I think we need a new moderation category: -1 technobabble.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
And just so I can say it: fear my low slashdot uid!
Bah, who cares about that?
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Er, I don't think Netscape 1.0 supported bgcolor (and I'm fuzzy on tables, but I don't remember it supporting tables). I remember for a while NCSA Mosaic was actually marginally better than Netscape 1.0 because it supported background colors (wooo!). Then Netscape 1.1 came around and blew it away. I can still remember the days when people tried to avoid using the table tag because of all of the problems it caused (not working in many browsers, slow to render on Netscape, forcing Netscape to load the entire table before it even tried to render, etc...)
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Problem is, PDAs are TOO small for a lot of things. For instance, as a mobile terminal (great for plugging into the serial port of a machine with a messed up network config). Currently we use an ancient Winbook 386 for this, but it's battery life is for shame and the whole thing is starting to die mechanically. Plus it can't run Netscape and is quite slow by today's standards.
Finally, monochrome != Low-res, in fact I'd like to see a fairly high resolution (200 dpi or better). This would make reading a book off the laptop quite comfortable, especially if you are on a plane and have the backlight turned off. Reading off the Palm is ok, but you have to more or less continually page down while reading because the screen just doesn't hold that much character data.
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.