My apartment is filled to the brim with crap. Stuff that I thought was cool at one time and I now realize I'll probably never look at again. I've been trying to toss it out and find it remarkably difficult at times. Well, not so much difficult as time consuming.
I can imagine the perceived "value" attached to all the material sold with that U2 CD. But, do you think it will still be useful/topical/interesting 5 or 10 years from now? Isn't the point of acquiring music from U2 the music?
Wouldn't it be better to compact all that music into some sort of format that you don't need a bunch of material crap to store and shuffle around?
I've seen games that give you a verbal description of armor or whatnot hindering you. For example, it is possible to have all the mechanics be exactly as you described within the game system, and all the player knows is
"The shoulder guard gets in your way while firing."
or
"It is difficult to hide in shadows while wearing full plate."
A man page is traditionally supposed to be concise. The kinds of misinterpretation problems that he explained in his article don't lend themselves to concise explanations.
AFAIK, this is also why the 'info' page system was attempted. Feeling constricted by the consensus that man pages should be as pithy as possible, 'info' was created so that you could have pages and pages of explanation. Unfortunately, it seemed that 'info' was/is hard to work with because it assumes EMACS familiarity.
Um, in any case, a whole writeup like what this guy did doesn't really belong in a man page.
I can't formulate a proper response right now, but it runs along the lines of:
I used to use a lot of cracked software because it was the only way to submit documents in the proper format. There was no way I could afford the software to do it, but it was completely necessary. It made me sick. How could I, a student, be expected to buy these $300 programs to generate a single document for a particular school's requirements? ASCII was never good enough. Even a written (typed with a typewriter) document was not good enough for schools that were using Adobe's latest software. They expected that you had Acrobat to fill in the forms. (this was 1997 or so).
I haven't used Word/Excel in a long time, but I remember it being pretty nifty to embed a chart in a Word document and have it automatically updated when I changed the data points in Excel.
When you write up documents in multiple programs you need to find some sort of shared format (like PDF) within which to transfer plots and figures around. It's not always perfect, though. Converting an eps file to a pdf file is not always clean and there a seeming million other things which can go wrong at any given point.
The office "suite" should at least provide that sort of functionality.
I think it might be more effective if it only made you beat Simon once in a while. If sometimes it shut off when you hit the sleep button, but other times required that you pass a Simon test, then you'll be thinking about it.
I totally agree with using high(er) speed film for instant replays. Slow-mo has had its day. What with the general import of instant replays in the NFL it seems ludicrous they are still flipping back and forth from one frame to the next where the guy is in the air, on the ground, in the air, on the ground... INCONCLUSIVE. What a joke.
Also, as far as the chains go, the chain guys don't screw up. There is a marker they put on a yard line to set the chains properly. What's ludicrous about that whole procedure, like you mentioned, is that the guy placing the ball on the field just throws it down wherever he wants. SOMEWHERE AROUND HERE WAS FORWARD PROGRESS... then these guys run in and measure to the inch. It reminds me of a retarded chemistry experiment.
For some reason, when my buddies and I watch hockey we'll inevitably joke about what it would be like if, during the broadcast, the players were replaced with 3d models of whatever. Instead of necessarily watching humans play you could switch to an alternate broadcast where the positions and motions of the players were preserved, but everyone would be Teletubbies, political figures, supermodels, Gundams, Transformers, etc. Just slap a few sensors in some key places on the uniform and let the digitizing begin. I guess the topic came up when they put a sensor in the puck.
Questek has also not gone over very well. There have been complaints about the cameras being in different positions in different ballparks, not capturing the motion of the ball and/or the batter during the pitch, and the "sterilization" of the strike zone to name a few.
It's a good idea which wasn't implemented well enough, IMO.
I agree. I pre-ordered my PS2 months in advance and received it at the same time as everyone was making all that fuss about there not being enough to go around.
Years, and countless DVDs from Netflix/Blockbuster/friends later, my wife and I have never seen a reason to get another DVD player.
Nevermind that I went through a couple years (and maybe 100 games) with RedOctane.
I really just don't see the point of bashing on the DVD capabilities of the system. It's played everything we've thrown at it, unless there was a huge scratch, and I really don't know what else it's supposed to do.
My point was, though, that whatever the closed-source company needs to do in order to get their software to be run across all the different distributions seems to be traditionally handled by the company themselves, as opposed to the example given about "all that free open source software" that just runs.
So, the original guy whined about how hard it would be to support all these different distributions. I think a better answer is something along the lines of, "Well, it's not really that hard." Pointing to packages that are built and maintained by each distribution separately is not a particularly good counter-example, IMO.
Don't you think that a lot of the technicalities for making "free open source programs" run are handled by the maintainers of the package for the particular distro?
It might be hard for a closed-source company to get the different distributions to do all the legwork for them to provide a suitable package. Might be. I don't really know.
The only closed-source software I've run on Linux came with it's own installer and was typically independent of distribution. The scripts needed to do some checking on their own.
I remember reading the original Hodgkin-Huxley paper and wondering why their plots stopped in "the middle". Well, it's because they wrote a differential equation and hand-cranked every little dot on their plots. That was tedious and, within the plot, once the point was made they just stopped.
Nowadays a researcher is expected to be able to generate data from a differential equation using computers. How to do so is taught in undergraduate engineering.
IMO, computers have not made us more intelligent, or dumber, but they have made what was once difficult, tractable, and, to be honest, expected. Yes, you can test your equation out right away, but you should also be responsible for the eight-billion related articles that are easily accessible if you want to talk about it. Typically, the previously published research is a few mouse clicks away, and "why didn't you read that first?"
This article also reminds me of something else I read about how "back in the day" researchers could focus on research and not mess around with making the actual plots and/or typing things up and formatting them properly. The same goes for business executives. One always had a professional assistant to do the menial layout tasks and whatnot while the "intelligent" person went on and did the skilled stuff. Nowadays, though, everyone is expected to be able to do their own desktop publishing, so extremely capable people are pissing time away trying to get the right font. Dictating is a thing of the past. Throwing data at someone and expecting them to be an expert at how to format and present it is also a thing of the past.
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Append and insert mean different things. They're not synonyms. Why would you have them _not_ be distinct in nature?
Don't you have 10 kids? It's hip.
It's not accurate to use "as a nation" to tar everyone with responsibility for decisions made by earlier generations.
Oh, come, come now. It's much more fun that way.
As a nation, they are poo, spew petrochemicals, and probably club fluourescent baby seals.
Changing zoning wouldn't help Los Angeles. It's built with a car culture in mind.
My apartment is filled to the brim with crap. Stuff that I thought was cool at one time and I now realize I'll probably never look at again. I've been trying to toss it out and find it remarkably difficult at times. Well, not so much difficult as time consuming.
I can imagine the perceived "value" attached to all the material sold with that U2 CD. But, do you think it will still be useful/topical/interesting 5 or 10 years from now? Isn't the point of acquiring music from U2 the music?
Wouldn't it be better to compact all that music into some sort of format that you don't need a bunch of material crap to store and shuffle around?
I've seen games that give you a verbal description of armor or whatnot hindering you. For example, it is possible to have all the mechanics be exactly as you described within the game system, and all the player knows is
"The shoulder guard gets in your way while firing."
or
"It is difficult to hide in shadows while wearing full plate."
w3rd
Obviously. He. Tires. Of. People. That. Dictate. To. Secretaries. That. Overuse. Periods.
Install Cedega
Install Starcraft
Play
No patches, no extra computers.
A man page is traditionally supposed to be concise. The kinds of misinterpretation problems that he explained in his article don't lend themselves to concise explanations.
AFAIK, this is also why the 'info' page system was attempted. Feeling constricted by the consensus that man pages should be as pithy as possible, 'info' was created so that you could have pages and pages of explanation. Unfortunately, it seemed that 'info' was/is hard to work with because it assumes EMACS familiarity.
Um, in any case, a whole writeup like what this guy did doesn't really belong in a man page.
Where I live you can place a hold on a book online, they'll ship it to your local library, and then send you an email saying it's in.
You really can't get much more convenient than that.
Tabasco only makes it better.
Was the delivered dosage abnormal in any sense?
Would a blinking prompt saying ARE YOU SURE? have helped at all?
Wow! An honest person! :)
I can't formulate a proper response right now, but it runs along the lines of:
I used to use a lot of cracked software because it was the only way to submit documents in the proper format. There was no way I could afford the software to do it, but it was completely necessary. It made me sick. How could I, a student, be expected to buy these $300 programs to generate a single document for a particular school's requirements? ASCII was never good enough. Even a written (typed with a typewriter) document was not good enough for schools that were using Adobe's latest software. They expected that you had Acrobat to fill in the forms. (this was 1997 or so).
I haven't used Word/Excel in a long time, but I remember it being pretty nifty to embed a chart in a Word document and have it automatically updated when I changed the data points in Excel.
When you write up documents in multiple programs you need to find some sort of shared format (like PDF) within which to transfer plots and figures around. It's not always perfect, though. Converting an eps file to a pdf file is not always clean and there a seeming million other things which can go wrong at any given point.
The office "suite" should at least provide that sort of functionality.
oh man, that is such a funny idea
I think it might be more effective if it only made you beat Simon once in a while. If sometimes it shut off when you hit the sleep button, but other times required that you pass a Simon test, then you'll be thinking about it.
I totally agree with using high(er) speed film for instant replays. Slow-mo has had its day. What with the general import of instant replays in the NFL it seems ludicrous they are still flipping back and forth from one frame to the next where the guy is in the air, on the ground, in the air, on the ground ... INCONCLUSIVE. What a joke.
... then these guys run in and measure to the inch. It reminds me of a retarded chemistry experiment.
Also, as far as the chains go, the chain guys don't screw up. There is a marker they put on a yard line to set the chains properly. What's ludicrous about that whole procedure, like you mentioned, is that the guy placing the ball on the field just throws it down wherever he wants. SOMEWHERE AROUND HERE WAS FORWARD PROGRESS
For some reason, when my buddies and I watch hockey we'll inevitably joke about what it would be like if, during the broadcast, the players were replaced with 3d models of whatever. Instead of necessarily watching humans play you could switch to an alternate broadcast where the positions and motions of the players were preserved, but everyone would be Teletubbies, political figures, supermodels, Gundams, Transformers, etc. Just slap a few sensors in some key places on the uniform and let the digitizing begin. I guess the topic came up when they put a sensor in the puck.
Questek has also not gone over very well. There have been complaints about the cameras being in different positions in different ballparks, not capturing the motion of the ball and/or the batter during the pitch, and the "sterilization" of the strike zone to name a few.
It's a good idea which wasn't implemented well enough, IMO.
It simply doesn't have much of a history here...
And it's boring.
I agree. I pre-ordered my PS2 months in advance and received it at the same time as everyone was making all that fuss about there not being enough to go around.
Years, and countless DVDs from Netflix/Blockbuster/friends later, my wife and I have never seen a reason to get another DVD player.
Nevermind that I went through a couple years (and maybe 100 games) with RedOctane.
I really just don't see the point of bashing on the DVD capabilities of the system. It's played everything we've thrown at it, unless there was a huge scratch, and I really don't know what else it's supposed to do.
Yeah, the UT2004 installer was pretty cool.
My point was, though, that whatever the closed-source company needs to do in order to get their software to be run across all the different distributions seems to be traditionally handled by the company themselves, as opposed to the example given about "all that free open source software" that just runs.
So, the original guy whined about how hard it would be to support all these different distributions. I think a better answer is something along the lines of, "Well, it's not really that hard." Pointing to packages that are built and maintained by each distribution separately is not a particularly good counter-example, IMO.
Don't you think that a lot of the technicalities for making "free open source programs" run are handled by the maintainers of the package for the particular distro?
It might be hard for a closed-source company to get the different distributions to do all the legwork for them to provide a suitable package. Might be. I don't really know.
The only closed-source software I've run on Linux came with it's own installer and was typically independent of distribution. The scripts needed to do some checking on their own.
I remember reading the original Hodgkin-Huxley paper and wondering why their plots stopped in "the middle". Well, it's because they wrote a differential equation and hand-cranked every little dot on their plots. That was tedious and, within the plot, once the point was made they just stopped.
Nowadays a researcher is expected to be able to generate data from a differential equation using computers. How to do so is taught in undergraduate engineering.
IMO, computers have not made us more intelligent, or dumber, but they have made what was once difficult, tractable, and, to be honest, expected. Yes, you can test your equation out right away, but you should also be responsible for the eight-billion related articles that are easily accessible if you want to talk about it. Typically, the previously published research is a few mouse clicks away, and "why didn't you read that first?"
This article also reminds me of something else I read about how "back in the day" researchers could focus on research and not mess around with making the actual plots and/or typing things up and formatting them properly. The same goes for business executives. One always had a professional assistant to do the menial layout tasks and whatnot while the "intelligent" person went on and did the skilled stuff. Nowadays, though, everyone is expected to be able to do their own desktop publishing, so extremely capable people are pissing time away trying to get the right font. Dictating is a thing of the past. Throwing data at someone and expecting them to be an expert at how to format and present it is also a thing of the past.
Have you ever heard of the term, "pearls before swine"?
Seriously, man, why try?
Because you're not a fag?