11-12 years ago I started my own business as an independant 3D animator and multimedia content developer. I spent something like $15,000 on an SGI Indy with a 100Mhz MIPS R4000 CPU in it and Softimage|3D.
A few years later, after the SGI had fallen apart and was long since replaced by a far cheaper NT Workstation running the newly ported-to-NT Softimage|3D, I went out and bought a PDA to assist me with my meeting and contact organization.
I was flipping through the technical specs in the manual when I ran across:
Casio Cassiopeia E-100/105 Info
Processor: Mips R4000
ROM CPU: 131 MHz
The concept of disobedience only operates when the person involved understands and has ill will towards the recourse of disobeying. In other words, children learn to obey because when they don't something "bad" happens to them. They get spanked, scolded, whatever. The recourse, even if only mental, is always associated with something bad. If you are Adam and Eve, pre-fruit-munching, you do not understand the concept of bad, unpleasurable. Therefore, you do not have the mental capacity or reasoning skills to weigh obedience with the recourse of disobedience. They are equal in their outcome if all you know is good and love. If they are equal in their outcome you cannot be expected to reliably choose one over the other. It is like punishing a mentally handicapped or mentally incapacitated person when they don't understand at all what they have done or what punishment is. That would be unjustified, and the punisher would be a tyrant.
So don't punish the liar, but punish those that believe in the lie?
So, for example, when I come home one day to find my house has been broken into and I call the police. I file a police report and insurance papers. I then discover later, that I wasnt actually robbed but my brother hid my stuff at his place as a joke (lie). I fell for it. So now, you're saying I (and everyone who comes after me for thousands of years) should all be burned in eternal fire, rather than my brother.
Mmmkay.
And Jesus didn't "set things right again". The environment of the Garden of Eden (or so the myth goes) is one of perfection on earth. The earth and my life and everyone elses life is nowhere near like the Garden of Eden. He promised AFTER you die youll be in a perfect place, well thats neato, I promise AFTER You die you'll be on the Pirates of the Carribean ride at Disneyland. Now prove me wrong. Oh wait, you can't, you'll be dead. How very convenient.
10/10 implies (to me) the developers put as much conceivable effort as any large project can be expected to require. That the designers and coders have worked hard to make it the best game the (always) limiting funds, time and current technology can provide.
Despite owning a few key apps (Photoshop, LightWave, Maya) my art production output is rather poor.
All the money in the world doesn't buy you personal artistic talent. Leave it to someone who has it. You could give my grandma a copy of Eclipse, VS.NET, EditPlus and vi and she'd still suck as a coder.
I never understood why everyone assumes low voter turnout is something negative. Seems to me a large portion of the US Citizens didn't vote because they didn't feel compelled to choose between two simliar candidates and, like it or not, the US is a pretty overall satisfying place to live in the world.
If the country were in shambles all around, the politicians running were all radicals, etc, you'd see a higher turn-out, but when one of the top things to be decided is whether or not two men or women you don't even know somewhere in your state can get married, well, seems to me things are going well enough that half the people don't mind letting the other half decide between the two moderates for them.
Pi was made on like $30,000 - Home Alone 5 was probably made on *$30,000,000. Seems to me the easiest way to increase profits is quit wasting money. With as inexpensive as 3D hardware and software is, and with very very talented actors and actresses out there that only want a very small fraction of what some mega celebrity with no talent commands, they're just making movies incorrectly. They're pissing away money like it's water because they usually make it back. Make a good movie. Don't piss away money on zero ROI stuff like using Keanu Reeves when you could use a real actor for about 1/100th the salary, and watch your profits go up by a factor of 10, compared to suing some torrent kiddies and really getting nothing out of it.
That and some better names. Linux is missing any sort of refined look and all the names are like "ymmv", "knrk", "ooo". Yeah, thats all great for us geeks and shit, but someone needs to take a few classes in psychology and marketing.
Firefox is growing in popularity not just because it's a solid browser, but because "Firefox" rolls off the tongue, they have a clean, concise, and very obviously laid out website, and they have a professionally created logo. Simple as that.
Packaging and catchy names sell. If you want to push your Linux to the masses, package and name it for the masses.
I've never c0d3r3d at that low level before, and while I have a basic idea of what the kernel is, can someone please post a quick For Dummies on kernel description and the advantages of something being "compiled into the kernel"?
Im all for a web-browser being a general shell able to host "applications". That's really what is it, an OS agnostic frame to hold platform-independant content. Web applications could be just as powerful local applications as server applications.
The problem is, installing web applications right now sucks. It isn't double-click setup pretty, and not everyone has a personal web server running, and the libraries that web applications use, from PHP to JSP to NET arent evenly distributed, nor can they be installed (at least not easily) as part of a setup.exe type deployment.
If someone could rectify that, so that a person could receive MyCoolAccountingApp_Setup.exe, run it, and bang, it looks and acts like any other local piece of software, then it would definately be an advancement. But right now its more "Well install IIS or Apache, then install PHP and these 4 modules, then hand register this DLL with the COM server, then copy all these files to these 3 locations. Zzzzz. Totally fine for server central web-applications, but not for personal ones.
I would think just an additional lane appended to each side of major interstates would be plenty. I dont think we really need automated pilots to drive 3 blocks of residental roads to a McDonalds. But a single, controlled-environment, automatic-pilot-only lane on I-80 would rock and feasible far sooner. Something with no bikes, no motorcycles, just cars equipped with special equipment. Maybe a verification booth at each end of long stretches to make sure people entering have said equipment.
How about this. You make it so when I highlight something on the page or the URL bar, copy it, then paste it into another window... It pastes. Everytime. Then I pay for it. I mean this is basic functionality to every app we're talking about.
Windows XP SP2 / FF 1.0PR
I get so tired of having to copy, tab, paste, didnt work, tab back, copy, copy, copy, copy, tab, paste. Dammit. tab, copy, copy, tab, paste. FUCKING COME ON. tab, copy, copy, tab, paste. There, finally.
Uh. I think I love you. Ive been wondering if something like that existed, figured it didn't and never got around to looking for it. Just installed the demo and it rocks. Thanks again.
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A few years later, after the SGI had fallen apart and was long since replaced by a far cheaper NT Workstation running the newly ported-to-NT Softimage|3D, I went out and bought a PDA to assist me with my meeting and contact organization.
I was flipping through the technical specs in the manual when I ran across:
Casio Cassiopeia E-100/105 Info
Processor: Mips R4000
ROM CPU: 131 MHz
The best of both worlds?
The concept of disobedience only operates when the person involved understands and has ill will towards the recourse of disobeying. In other words, children learn to obey because when they don't something "bad" happens to them. They get spanked, scolded, whatever. The recourse, even if only mental, is always associated with something bad. If you are Adam and Eve, pre-fruit-munching, you do not understand the concept of bad, unpleasurable. Therefore, you do not have the mental capacity or reasoning skills to weigh obedience with the recourse of disobedience. They are equal in their outcome if all you know is good and love. If they are equal in their outcome you cannot be expected to reliably choose one over the other. It is like punishing a mentally handicapped or mentally incapacitated person when they don't understand at all what they have done or what punishment is. That would be unjustified, and the punisher would be a tyrant.
So don't punish the liar, but punish those that believe in the lie? So, for example, when I come home one day to find my house has been broken into and I call the police. I file a police report and insurance papers. I then discover later, that I wasnt actually robbed but my brother hid my stuff at his place as a joke (lie). I fell for it. So now, you're saying I (and everyone who comes after me for thousands of years) should all be burned in eternal fire, rather than my brother. Mmmkay. And Jesus didn't "set things right again". The environment of the Garden of Eden (or so the myth goes) is one of perfection on earth. The earth and my life and everyone elses life is nowhere near like the Garden of Eden. He promised AFTER you die youll be in a perfect place, well thats neato, I promise AFTER You die you'll be on the Pirates of the Carribean ride at Disneyland. Now prove me wrong. Oh wait, you can't, you'll be dead. How very convenient.
Replease "Jesus, He and Him" with "my conscience" and the sentence reads the same except seems a little more likely.
Is your crotch as I imagine it? (Smooth like a Ken doll.)
Why I am replying to this, I don't know.
I swear to God, Ill subscribe to a $100 a month pay Slashdot subscription if they implement a regex post filter.
Mmmkay.
All the money in the world doesn't buy you personal artistic talent. Leave it to someone who has it. You could give my grandma a copy of Eclipse, VS.NET, EditPlus and vi and she'd still suck as a coder.
If the country were in shambles all around, the politicians running were all radicals, etc, you'd see a higher turn-out, but when one of the top things to be decided is whether or not two men or women you don't even know somewhere in your state can get married, well, seems to me things are going well enough that half the people don't mind letting the other half decide between the two moderates for them.
Sorry couldn't help it :P
*just a guess, but you get the idea.
That and some better names. Linux is missing any sort of refined look and all the names are like "ymmv", "knrk", "ooo". Yeah, thats all great for us geeks and shit, but someone needs to take a few classes in psychology and marketing.
Firefox is growing in popularity not just because it's a solid browser, but because "Firefox" rolls off the tongue, they have a clean, concise, and very obviously laid out website, and they have a professionally created logo. Simple as that.
Packaging and catchy names sell. If you want to push your Linux to the masses, package and name it for the masses.
Beat me for my sub-geek intellectual prowess :(
All the servers in the world won't do you any good if your c0d3rs are idiots. I've seen as many or more PHP MySQL taco's as I have .NET.
The problem is, installing web applications right now sucks. It isn't double-click setup pretty, and not everyone has a personal web server running, and the libraries that web applications use, from PHP to JSP to NET arent evenly distributed, nor can they be installed (at least not easily) as part of a setup.exe type deployment.
If someone could rectify that, so that a person could receive MyCoolAccountingApp_Setup.exe, run it, and bang, it looks and acts like any other local piece of software, then it would definately be an advancement. But right now its more "Well install IIS or Apache, then install PHP and these 4 modules, then hand register this DLL with the COM server, then copy all these files to these 3 locations. Zzzzz. Totally fine for server central web-applications, but not for personal ones.
Paypal no longer has such worries, so expect the quality of service and customer service to only go down.
That party in your sig is really cool... If you're into socialism/communism.
I would think just an additional lane appended to each side of major interstates would be plenty. I dont think we really need automated pilots to drive 3 blocks of residental roads to a McDonalds. But a single, controlled-environment, automatic-pilot-only lane on I-80 would rock and feasible far sooner. Something with no bikes, no motorcycles, just cars equipped with special equipment. Maybe a verification booth at each end of long stretches to make sure people entering have said equipment.
Phew. Good to know. All this time I thought Microsoft was successful because they were a monopoly that uses predatory business practices.
Just a guess, but I'd bet you're gainfully employed. Live on a student's budget and see how your viewpoint changes. Just an observation.
Windows XP SP2 / FF 1.0PR
I get so tired of having to copy, tab, paste, didnt work, tab back, copy, copy, copy, copy, tab, paste. Dammit. tab, copy, copy, tab, paste. FUCKING COME ON. tab, copy, copy, tab, paste. There, finally.
Apparently I'm not the only one with the issue.
Results 1 - 10 of about 13,200 for copy paste bug firefox.
Uh. I think I love you. Ive been wondering if something like that existed, figured it didn't and never got around to looking for it. Just installed the demo and it rocks. Thanks again.