User: Linux crashed! Zealot: No it didn't, that crappy X app crashed you l00ser, the kernel is just fine! User: Huhr? WTF do I care? I'm switching back to Windows.
"Even today, you can still get to a C: prompt under Windows XP, which means a disk operating system is hiding there no matter what Microsoft wants us to believe."
WRONG. From NT onward, Windows has been an entirely new OS, not a windowing system "running on" DOS. Yes, NT/2000/XP etc have a command processor that LOOKS like DOS, and in fact they have DOS emulation SUPPORT (including the familiar "command.com" binary), but that does not mean they run on it, any more than it means Lindows runs on DOS because of Wine, or that any machine is running on Amiga just because it has an Amiga emulator.
or throw out this whole "page"- and "document"- oriented metaphor for serving complicated interactive applications, which so many sites seem to be trying so hard to do with their whizbang flash and javascript menus and stuff
I've wondered myself why there couldn't be a set of pre-installed dictionaries for general web content, that could be used in compressing downloads. Obvious candidates are: HTML, major languages, preambles/postambles/structures of common types of files. Hell, just take the top 10 download sites and create dictionaries out of their binaries, figuring that at some point users will download something from one of those places. Or, just create synthetic preloaded dictionaries, and compress towards them. Lots of possibilities.
The day he passed, I printed out and tacked this quote to my cube:
"I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself, "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well that would be enough immortality for me" --Edsger Dijkstra
"But the question we should be asking ourselves is not "is that reporter a liberal" but rather, is the overall media prespective biased against conservitives."
Conservatives shilling for Liberals in order to grab more money. Should I laugh or cry? I have a nice rope for sale which features enough tensile strength to bear a human body, anybody interested?
...is something like a cross between a meta-data based document repository (like this or like The Brain), with automatic-mirroring capability for websites - or at least something that can be integrated into a weblog. I like to store interesting links and articles I encounter daily and be able to search them later. However, as we all know, what a link points to today, may be gone tomorrow, so that article you want to reference or remember might have *poof*ed out of existence. Right now this involves me manually mirroring every weblog post with 'wget' which is decidedly non-optimal and provides very little as far as searching and crossreferencing (which would be the real win: "what other articles do I have that relate to this article"). I'm sure it would be easy to hack together something for this specific case (cookies are a problem though), but I would hope there could be a general solution.
Isn't "swearing" just another word for "affirming"? If they asked you to "affirm" would you do it? If the bible said not to "affirm" would you not do it? It seems sort of arbitrary, although I respect you for holding to your ideals. I'm not sure *what* I personally would swear on since I'm not religious. Maybe a pet?
"Flash is a powerful and rich development environment, which - through Macromedia's changes this year - took a step closer to J2EE."
Huh? Excuse me? Flash is anywhere *near* J2EE? Last I looked, Flash is entirely orthogonol to J2EE. It is just a media/presentation layer. That's like saying HTML or SMIL just took a step closer to J2EE. Nonsense.
All my inspiration comes from Demotivators
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Are we alone?
"If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone.
"And if you look at it from a time paradox point of view, if the first Terminator had succeeded in killing Sarah Conner, Teradyne wouldn't have had the chips and what not to reverse-engineer the T-800."
Right, if you want to go with the consistent-universe theory, then it can easily be explained by "no matter WHAT you send back, physics/history will conspire to not change history in such a way that you send anything but what you sent back".
Ties it up in a nice little bow. So, perhaps skynet could not possibly have sent back anything but one T800.
In A.D. 2101 War was beginning. Sarah Connor: What happen ? Kyle Reese: Somebody set up us the nuclear bomb. John Connor: We get signal. Sarah Connor: What ! John Connor: Main screen turn on. Sarah Connor: It's You !! Terminator: How are you gentlemen !! Terminator: All your base are belong to us. Terminator: You are on the way to destruction. Sarah Connor: What you say !! Terminator: You have no chance to survive make your time. Terminator: HA HA HA HA.... stalavista Sarah Connor: Take off every 'zig' !! Sarah Connor: You know what you doing. Sarah Connor: Move 'zig'. Sarah Connor: For great justice.
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"It's finite. Sorry."
Darn, I guess I will never see my *infinately fast* browser. I guess I should give up on browsing the web altogether.
6) MPAA/RIAA mandated TCPA/DRM mechanism will render their hardware immune from attack!
Well, the fallback plan is to name the project "SpongeBob" and ship the NC-"SquarePants"-1701.
no, i guess that wasn't funny
User: Linux crashed!
Zealot: No it didn't, that crappy X app crashed you l00ser, the kernel is just fine!
User: Huhr? WTF do I care? I'm switching back to Windows.
"then they'll all jump ship to the next small thing" ...*BSD, watch out...
"Even today, you can still get to a C: prompt under Windows XP, which means a disk operating system is hiding there no matter what Microsoft wants us to believe."
WRONG. From NT onward, Windows has been an entirely new OS, not a windowing system "running on" DOS. Yes, NT/2000/XP etc have a command processor that LOOKS like DOS, and in fact they have DOS emulation SUPPORT (including the familiar "command.com" binary), but that does not mean they run on it, any more than it means Lindows runs on DOS because of Wine, or that any machine is running on Amiga just because it has an Amiga emulator.
_Showstopper_ is a good read.
or throw out this whole "page"- and "document"- oriented metaphor for serving complicated interactive applications, which so many sites seem to be trying so hard to do with their whizbang flash and javascript menus and stuff
"The problem comes when certain establishments mandate that you wear trackable underwear!"
There is of course the tried and true GRITS-DOWN-PANTS approach. But maybe I'm just being old-fashioned.
I've wondered myself why there couldn't be a set of pre-installed dictionaries for general web content, that could be used in compressing downloads. Obvious candidates are: HTML, major languages, preambles/postambles/structures of common types of files. Hell, just take the top 10 download sites and create dictionaries out of their binaries, figuring that at some point users will download something from one of those places. Or, just create synthetic preloaded dictionaries, and compress towards them. Lots of possibilities.
Well I for one don't know what the hell all of you are talking about. Social fiction? Architecture? Walking? Disco Socialism? Huh? WTF?
The day he passed, I printed out and tacked this quote to my cube:
...Ok, I'm a square...can somebody please define the "demo scene"? I gather it has something to do with indie music and computer graphics...
+1 Creepy
"But the question we should be asking ourselves is not "is that reporter a liberal" but rather, is the overall media prespective biased against conservitives."
Conservatives shilling for Liberals in order to grab more money. Should I laugh or cry? I have a nice rope for sale which features enough tensile strength to bear a human body, anybody interested?
I think all these people trying to ban violent games just need a good beating.
...is something like a cross between a meta-data based document repository (like this or like The Brain), with automatic-mirroring capability for websites - or at least something that can be integrated into a weblog. I like to store interesting links and articles I encounter daily and be able to search them later. However, as we all know, what a link points to today, may be gone tomorrow, so that article you want to reference or remember might have *poof*ed out of existence. Right now this involves me manually mirroring every weblog post with 'wget' which is decidedly non-optimal and provides very little as far as searching and crossreferencing (which would be the real win: "what other articles do I have that relate to this article"). I'm sure it would be easy to hack together something for this specific case (cookies are a problem though), but I would hope there could be a general solution.
"Packaging by itself isn't enough to make a successful product."
Of course not. You also need a prize scam!
Now you can get a FREE tricycle, or vacation in the bahamas if you just drink 5e99 cans of Mr. Blech!
"In any multiple choice selection, one always needs to be "other"."
And, not to forget, "Cowboyneal"
Isn't "swearing" just another word for "affirming"? If they asked you to "affirm" would you do it? If the bible said not to "affirm" would you not do it? It seems sort of arbitrary, although I respect you for holding to your ideals. I'm not sure *what* I personally would swear on since I'm not religious. Maybe a pet?
"I'm Mimekiller and I think kiddie porn is awesome!"
No, that would probably be slander/libel. Parody usually includes some aesthetic value.
"Flash is a powerful and rich development environment, which - through Macromedia's changes this year - took a step closer to J2EE."
Huh? Excuse me? Flash is anywhere *near* J2EE? Last I looked, Flash is entirely orthogonol to J2EE. It is just a media/presentation layer. That's like saying HTML or SMIL just took a step closer to J2EE. Nonsense.
Are we alone?
"If you find yourself struggling with loneliness, you're not alone. And yet you are alone. So very alone.
...that sourceforge has a "Project Help Wanted" forum, right?
"And if you look at it from a time paradox point of view, if the first Terminator had succeeded in killing Sarah Conner, Teradyne wouldn't have had the chips and what not to reverse-engineer the T-800."
Right, if you want to go with the consistent-universe theory, then it can easily be explained by "no matter WHAT you send back, physics/history will conspire to not change history in such a way that you send anything but what you sent back".
Ties it up in a nice little bow. So, perhaps skynet could not possibly have sent back anything but one T800.
...here is the transcript of the trailer:
.... stalavista
In A.D. 2101
War was beginning.
Sarah Connor: What happen ?
Kyle Reese: Somebody set up us the nuclear bomb.
John Connor: We get signal.
Sarah Connor: What !
John Connor: Main screen turn on.
Sarah Connor: It's You !!
Terminator: How are you gentlemen !!
Terminator: All your base are belong to us.
Terminator: You are on the way to destruction.
Sarah Connor: What you say !!
Terminator: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Terminator: HA HA HA HA
Sarah Connor: Take off every 'zig' !!
Sarah Connor: You know what you doing.
Sarah Connor: Move 'zig'.
Sarah Connor: For great justice.