I say keep marriage as a civil institution, open to all [...] and let churches perform their own "spiritual unions" instead.
Which is exactly as it goes in several european countries: religious weddings have no legal validity whatsoever. So you get married in a brief civil ceremony, and then move the whole gang of onlookers to the church where you start over with the organ music and things. The priest will actually check your marriage certificate and won't 'perform' unless you have it.
There's lots of bands that only really have one song with rewritten lyrics each time
The french singer Antoine is famous for having only one song and every year he changes the lyrics and makes a new round and enough money to keep sailing on his yacht. The faster RIAA/Sacem and their 'artists' die in poverty, the better.
Go a little farther: collect strange images from the web (craption, photoshop contests, orsm, etc), put them on and sprinkle with false user info before you 'lose' it; with a possible "If found please contact..." with almost valid info refering to slashdot, facebook or other social sites. Use existing usernames of friends (?) as references. Watch as the fun unfolds on the net.
I've never heard a stamp collector writes more letters or postcards than average.
Sorry to pour cold water on your analogy, but they do. I worked in Antarctica where we have special and unique stamps. Collectors would send us packages full of envelopes to send back so they'd get the stamps and nice stamps on them. During the winterover (9 months with no outside communication, locked out by the ice), there was a full-time mailman who was there just to stamp the shitload of envelopes sent by those guys. It did pay one fifth of the cost of hiring the ship to go there in the first place !!! The nicest of those guys would put some gifts in their packages (like a bottle of wine).
Easy to solve, does the first lesson in the morning start with a bell ? Does the last one in the evening end with a bell ? And if it's like Europe where church bells ring every hour (including the damn night), all bets are off.
Some of your examples are impressive and would be hard to replicate simply in bash, but that's too little way too late.
For almost 2 decades I taught myself the most of batch scripting, constantly hitting the wall of its limitations. Then I tried various shitty POSIX tools for Windows. Then when Cygwin came out it was a revolution, I always had 5 cygwin shells open at the same time. But now it's too late for me, if I spend more time in a cygwin bash shell than in Windows Explorer, I might as well jump ship and go off to Linux, which I did professionally and personally within the last 2 years.
On the other hand Unix shell scripting has always been about piping text from one command to the other (and the return value), while your examples clearly show more going on with some data structure being transfered and finally converted to text. It's certainly powerful, but having had to deal with it on some other scripting language like ROOT, I find that you never know what is going on or what it's possible to do with the returned and mostly hidden structure.
In order to learn postscript in the late 80s, I wrote a Mandelbrot set program that could be sent as a print job, would run for about 2 hours and then print the result at the highest resolution of the printer. It was neat and short, and yes, I did get a few complaints of hogging the laser printer !
Yeah, digital evidence can be such a bitch, especially when you gather it remotely
Once example that makes me nervous is that my ADSL router changes public IP every few hours. It doesn't really bother me, but if someday I stand accused of "That day, your IP illegally downloaded Britnez.mp5", then there's a very good chance it was somebody else. Even if their timestamp is up to the second, is their timezone correct ? It changes everything and I'm now logging my own IP changes.
apparently, the Tibetans are "uncivilized savages who eat people and drink blood"
Well, I don't know about the eating people part, but when I was in a restaurant in Tibet, I remember a dish of "sheep's intestine in goat's blood". I did try to order it but first our customary chinese 'guide' wouldn't let me, then they were out.
Both vi and EMACS seem to have taken the "fuck the users" approach to heart.
I've always felt that if you didn't start with either when they were first written in the 70s and kept on with each new version, there is no way to get started. I'd be curious to see usage curves with time of those two 'products'.
There are digital signal processing tricks that can slow down / speed up a tempo without changing the pitch of the tune. I don't see why you can't let the drummer play in his own rhythm and then synchronize everything in post-processing.
Cross compilation is hard to get into. I cross compile for the PPC (not PowerPC yet) architecture daily from a PC, using buildroot, busybox and uclibc. Once to toolchain is defined properly, things go rather smoothly.
Transient Crater Depth: 237 m [...] Richter Scale Magnitude: 4.4
Huh ? You make a 200m deep hole in the ground in one second and it doesn't even register as a worthwhile earthquake ?!? There must be something wrong here.
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And I see his point: other people will need to maintain the code afterwards.
The notion of "good ruler, evil advisors/subordinates" is an ages-old excuse for all kinds of tyranny.
And it's opposite "But I was just following orders" also didn't work that great at Nuremberg...
I say keep marriage as a civil institution, open to all [...] and let churches perform their own "spiritual unions" instead.
Which is exactly as it goes in several european countries: religious weddings have no legal validity whatsoever. So you get married in a brief civil ceremony, and then move the whole gang of onlookers to the church where you start over with the organ music and things. The priest will actually check your marriage certificate and won't 'perform' unless you have it.
There's lots of bands that only really have one song with rewritten lyrics each time
The french singer Antoine is famous for having only one song and every year he changes the lyrics and makes a new round and enough money to keep sailing on his yacht. The faster RIAA/Sacem and their 'artists' die in poverty, the better.
the Stasi who maintained a "smell register" of dissidents
It's visible in use in the excellent and highly recommended film The lives of others.
Go a little farther: collect strange images from the web (craption, photoshop contests, orsm, etc), put them on and sprinkle with false user info before you 'lose' it; with a possible "If found please contact..." with almost valid info refering to slashdot, facebook or other social sites. Use existing usernames of friends (?) as references. Watch as the fun unfolds on the net.
If you have time read his book as well.
Moderation: Interesting but overrated.
I've never heard a stamp collector writes more letters or postcards than average.
Sorry to pour cold water on your analogy, but they do. I worked in Antarctica where we have special and unique stamps. Collectors would send us packages full of envelopes to send back so they'd get the stamps and nice stamps on them. During the winterover (9 months with no outside communication, locked out by the ice), there was a full-time mailman who was there just to stamp the shitload of envelopes sent by those guys. It did pay one fifth of the cost of hiring the ship to go there in the first place !!! The nicest of those guys would put some gifts in their packages (like a bottle of wine).
Easy to solve, does the first lesson in the morning start with a bell ? Does the last one in the evening end with a bell ? And if it's like Europe where church bells ring every hour (including the damn night), all bets are off.
So, hmm, when is the Linux version coming out ? C:-P
For almost 2 decades I taught myself the most of batch scripting, constantly hitting the wall of its limitations. Then I tried various shitty POSIX tools for Windows. Then when Cygwin came out it was a revolution, I always had 5 cygwin shells open at the same time. But now it's too late for me, if I spend more time in a cygwin bash shell than in Windows Explorer, I might as well jump ship and go off to Linux, which I did professionally and personally within the last 2 years.
On the other hand Unix shell scripting has always been about piping text from one command to the other (and the return value), while your examples clearly show more going on with some data structure being transfered and finally converted to text. It's certainly powerful, but having had to deal with it on some other scripting language like ROOT, I find that you never know what is going on or what it's possible to do with the returned and mostly hidden structure.
| %{$sam.Speak($_)}
Perl ? is that you ?!? Stop playing with the MS kid, he'll give you measles.
Google's search algorithm ignores special characters, like the dollar sign
Don't use Perl or Basic. Problem solved.
People hoard things. Either that or it's Attila and his horde. </pedantic>
So we can still get the IE render in firefox with the IE Tab Add-on ? Good. Good. C:-P
In order to learn postscript in the late 80s, I wrote a Mandelbrot set program that could be sent as a print job, would run for about 2 hours and then print the result at the highest resolution of the printer. It was neat and short, and yes, I did get a few complaints of hogging the laser printer !
A P2P program running as a print job would be an impressive feat. And yes, I did work as a postscript programmer 2 decades ago.
Yeah, digital evidence can be such a bitch, especially when you gather it remotely
Once example that makes me nervous is that my ADSL router changes public IP every few hours. It doesn't really bother me, but if someday I stand accused of "That day, your IP illegally downloaded Britnez.mp5", then there's a very good chance it was somebody else. Even if their timestamp is up to the second, is their timezone correct ? It changes everything and I'm now logging my own IP changes.
apparently, the Tibetans are "uncivilized savages who eat people and drink blood"
Well, I don't know about the eating people part, but when I was in a restaurant in Tibet, I remember a dish of "sheep's intestine in goat's blood". I did try to order it but first our customary chinese 'guide' wouldn't let me, then they were out.
Both vi and EMACS seem to have taken the "fuck the users" approach to heart.
I've always felt that if you didn't start with either when they were first written in the 70s and kept on with each new version, there is no way to get started. I'd be curious to see usage curves with time of those two 'products'.
There are digital signal processing tricks that can slow down / speed up a tempo without changing the pitch of the tune. I don't see why you can't let the drummer play in his own rhythm and then synchronize everything in post-processing.
The only problem is that color e-ink is only at the research stages yet. Maybe something like this in the meanwhile ?
DRM ?
Cross compilation is hard to get into. I cross compile for the PPC (not PowerPC yet) architecture daily from a PC, using buildroot, busybox and uclibc. Once to toolchain is defined properly, things go rather smoothly.
Transient Crater Depth: 237 m [...] Richter Scale Magnitude: 4.4
Huh ? You make a 200m deep hole in the ground in one second and it doesn't even register as a worthwhile earthquake ?!? There must be something wrong here.