Cyclops: What *are* his eyebeams? They are not lasers because the don't cut or reflect. They seem to be an impact weapon that breaks/bashes. That's the only explanation for the fact that there was a Sabretooth/Magneto at the end of the movie.
Ask yourself after seeing it: did I enjoy it? Answer yes if you are pondering it the next day.
"Three Kings" failed (because it presented what I already knew in a particularly glamorous fashion). Not to say it wasn't good, but not good for me.
"The 13th Warrior" passed!!! It presented some aspects of different cultures that couldn't be brought down by Desperado Man. It was campy and the mesage was narrow, but it felt good and that's the point.
"X-Men" passed. It's not great, but i'm thinking enough about it to write this, and i'll go to the sequel. Can't say that about some of our other recent comic adaptations. I think it's most powerful feature is that it presents a fantastic (as in 'of fantasy') world so well that it thins gap between our reality and our fantasy. And folks, our dreams/goals are part of our fantasy until we bridge that gap. I liked it.
"X-Men" has *Infinite* extensibility. There's room to go with any of 10 characters and over time more can be brought it.
I read the book when I was twelve, and I liked it. If I read the book now (I'm 29), I would hate it.
So, When I saw the movie I went with the perspective that this is something a 12-year old would like, and I modified my expectations accordingly. And *I liked it*.
So my one good thing to say is: This is a fun *not good* movie if viewed from a simplistic perspective.
I encourage everyone to vote with their dollar for the business that offends the least. It isn't difficult.
With Amazon, if you buy from them and select "Do not spam me", they will anyway. I boycotted them when they started sending me 'important information'.
So then I use Barnes&Noble, where I again clicked "Do not spam me". They recently sent me a 'holiday gift' for $5. So now I don't use BN. Merry Christmas.
I'm using FatBrain now, hopefully they won't screw up either.
Your dollar holds real power in the eyes of the suits. Use it, and if you convince a few people to join you, you lend your messages (email comments usually) real power.
And it's a no-brain and no-effort task with today's competition.
Any system that depends on 'tamper-resistant software' running in an unprotected machine is vulnerable, no matter how hard you protect the key. The system was doomed, only waiting for the enterprising individual to break it, and then the Real people saved this individual all the trouble. I think it was fairly considerate.
But wait, there's more....I question whether their business model allows for good security at all. A real secure system might introduce too much extra cost.
Grace is important, but the truth is that to master something, time cannot be a consideration.
see the "book of five rings".
Depending on what appears in your mind when you say "Geek", you envision someone with extreme focus; someone who prioritizes their computer above the natural social interactions.
Where the individual is focused on mastering a task, social graces will come with mastery of their task.
The other option is addiction and despair; the truth is that we need others. If those others are on computers over the internet, the 'social graces problem' is drek, geeks just have another culture.
Well, let's look at why we become addicted; I feel it's becouse our minds, needing focus, find the easiest place to put it. Other examples are TV, alcohol, etc.
It's not easy to focus on kids, other people (unless it's sappy social trivialities), or (god forbid!) using a computer for productive behaviour. We all know the experience of sitting down at the PC intending to make that cool new driver and ending up spending hours surfing. I've considered deleting my web browser.
So how do you break this habit? It's an issue of empowerment. When you whittle away your time, you feel controlled by your habit, disempowered. To break the habit you need to adress your personal needs; you need to concentrate on what empowers you and do it. If you feel yourself being distracted the resolution is simple: ask yourself if this distraction is empowering or not and make the right decision.
So there I am at Fry's gleefully caressing the box.....and what does the description omit? Details of Java support. On their web page it says 'supports libraries java.x,...', which implies 'less than Java 1' to me., but I still feel confused...Java 1,2, what?
I use JIndent (http://www.c-lab.de/~jindent/), which seems to address many of the concerns expressed here regarding Java prettyprinters. The default style is the one blessed by Sun (http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/index.html), but it's configurable to my taste. -ted PS: Here's my configuration file; this should answer configuration nitpicky comments in advance: ............... ### Convention Note
How about borrowing from another well-established term that already has a positive connotation? That would make it more difficult to corrupt.
I like 'wizard' and it has been used in this sense before anyway. Heck, it even makes sense. What is a wizard but someone proficient at something another does not understand?
Slashdot Mirror
These two games were very important to the child-me, perhaps not so much as Ultima IV, but pretty important.
-ted
Ted
I remember not too long ago when 3Dfx (b4 the 'D' got depressed) has this image and NVIDIA was the little guy.
'Course back then if you wanted to use the graphics features of your game you needed a VoodooX...
Cyclops:
What *are* his eyebeams? They are not lasers because the don't cut or reflect. They seem to be an impact weapon that breaks/bashes. That's the only explanation for the fact that there was a Sabretooth/Magneto at the end of the movie.
Ask yourself after seeing it: did I enjoy it?
Answer yes if you are pondering it the next day.
"Three Kings" failed (because it presented what I already knew in a particularly glamorous fashion). Not to say it wasn't good, but not good for me.
"The 13th Warrior" passed!!! It presented some aspects of different cultures that couldn't be brought down by Desperado Man. It was campy and the mesage was narrow, but it felt good and that's the point.
"X-Men" passed. It's not great, but i'm thinking enough about it to write this, and i'll go to the sequel. Can't say that about some of our other recent comic adaptations. I think it's most powerful feature is that it presents a fantastic (as in 'of fantasy') world so well that it thins gap between our reality and our fantasy. And folks, our dreams/goals are part of our fantasy until we bridge that gap. I liked it.
"X-Men" has *Infinite* extensibility. There's room to go with any of 10 characters and over time more can be brought it.
rant over.
Ted
I read the book when I was twelve, and I liked it.
If I read the book now (I'm 29), I would hate it.
So, When I saw the movie I went with the perspective that this is something a 12-year old would like, and I modified my expectations accordingly. And *I liked it*.
So my one good thing to say is: This is a fun *not good* movie if viewed from a simplistic perspective.
-tpr
I encourage everyone to vote with their dollar for the business that offends the least. It isn't difficult.
With Amazon, if you buy from them and select "Do not spam me", they will anyway. I boycotted them when they started sending me 'important information'.
So then I use Barnes&Noble, where I again clicked "Do not spam me". They recently sent me a 'holiday gift' for $5. So now I don't use BN. Merry Christmas.
I'm using FatBrain now, hopefully they won't screw up either.
Your dollar holds real power in the eyes of the suits. Use it, and if you convince a few people to join you, you lend your messages (email comments usually) real power.
And it's a no-brain and no-effort task with today's competition.
-tpr
Any system that depends on 'tamper-resistant software' running in an unprotected machine is vulnerable, no matter how hard you protect the key. The system was doomed, only waiting for the enterprising individual to break it, and then the Real people saved this individual all the trouble. I think it was fairly considerate.
But wait, there's more....I question whether their business model allows for good security at all. A real secure system might introduce too much extra cost.
-tpr
Grace is important, but the truth is that to master something, time cannot be a consideration.
see the "book of five rings".
Depending on what appears in your mind when you say "Geek", you envision someone with extreme focus; someone who prioritizes their computer above the natural social interactions.
Where the individual is focused on mastering a task, social graces will come with mastery of their task.
The other option is addiction and despair; the truth is that we need others. If those others are on computers over the internet, the 'social graces problem' is drek, geeks just have another culture.
-t
What makes someone addicted?
Well, let's look at why we become addicted; I feel it's becouse our minds, needing focus, find the easiest place to put it. Other examples are TV, alcohol, etc.
It's not easy to focus on kids, other people (unless it's sappy social trivialities), or (god forbid!) using a computer for productive behaviour. We all know the experience of sitting down at the PC intending to make that cool new driver and ending up spending hours surfing. I've considered deleting my web browser.
So how do you break this habit? It's an issue of empowerment. When you whittle away your time, you feel controlled by your habit, disempowered. To break the habit you need to adress your personal needs; you need to concentrate on what empowers you and do it. If you feel yourself being distracted the resolution is simple: ask yourself if this distraction is empowering or not and make the right decision.
-ted
tee-hee: the timeout message is "slashdot effect...come back later"
The ? is...was that timeout message there before this quickie was posted?
another ?...should it have been?
Any enterprising virus writers want to attack the error message files on web servers?
-t
So there I am at Fry's gleefully caressing the box.....and what does the description omit? Details of Java support. On their web page it says 'supports libraries java.x, ...', which implies 'less than Java 1' to me., but I still feel confused...Java 1,2, what?
-t
I use JIndent (http://www.c-lab.de/~jindent/), which seems to address many of the concerns expressed here regarding Java prettyprinters. The default style is the one blessed by Sun (http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/index.html), but it's configurable to my taste.
-ted
PS: Here's my configuration file; this should answer configuration nitpicky comments in advance:
...............
### Convention Note
conventionName = "Teds Convention"
setConventionNote = false
### Tabulator
emulateTabs = false
tabulatorSize = 8
### Indent
indentSize = 4
firstLevelIndent = 0
indentCaseFromSwitch = false
indentDeclarations = true
indentTooLongComments = false
indentAlwaysAtTabColumn = false
minimumCommentIndent = 4
### Braces
leftBraceNewLine = false
rightBraceNewLine = false
indentLeftBrace = 1
indentRightBrace = 0
indentAfterRightBrace = 1
cuddleEmptyBraces = true
indentCuddledBraces = 1
### Code Modification
insertBracesAtIfElse = true
insertBracesAtFor = true
insertBracesAtWhile = true
insertBracesAtDoWhile = true
### JavaDocs and Comments
createMissingJavaDocs = false
javaDoc_method_top[00] = "/**"
javaDoc_method_top[01] = " * Method declaration"
javaDoc_method_top[02] = " *"
javaDoc_method_param_separator[00] = " *"
javaDoc_method_param[00] = " * @param"
javaDoc_method_return[00] = " *"
javaDoc_method_return[01] = " * @return"
javaDoc_method_exception_separator[00] = " *"
javaDoc_method_exception[00] = " * @throws"
javaDoc_method_bottom[00] = " *"
javaDoc_method_bottom[01] = " * @see"
javaDoc_method_bottom[02] = " */"
javaDoc_constructor_top[00] = "/**"
javaDoc_constructor_top[01] = " * Constructor declaration"
javaDoc_constructor_top[02] = " *"
javaDoc_constructor_param_separator[00] = " *"
javaDoc_constructor_param[00] = " * @param"
javaDoc_constructor_exception_separator[00] = " *"
javaDoc_constructor_exception[00] = " * @throws"
javaDoc_constructor_bottom[00] = " *"
javaDoc_constructor_bottom[01] = " * @see"
javaDoc_constructor_bottom[02] = " */"
javaDoc_class[00] = "/**"
javaDoc_class[01] = " * Class declaration"
javaDoc_class[02] = " *"
javaDoc_class[03] = " *"
javaDoc_class[04] = " * @author"
javaDoc_class[05] = " * @version %I%, %G%"
javaDoc_class[06] = " */"
javaDoc_interface[00] = "/**"
javaDoc_interface[01] = " * Interface declaration"
javaDoc_interface[02] = " *"
javaDoc_interface[03] = " *"
javaDoc_interface[04] = " * @author"
javaDoc_interface[05] = " * @version %I%, %G%"
javaDoc_interface[06] = " */"
ignoreJavaDocs = false
ignoreMultiLineComments = false
ignoreSingleLineComments = false
### Blank Lines
blankLinesAfterDeclarations = 1
blankLinesAfterMethods = 1
blankLinesBetweenClassInterface = 2
blankLinesBetweenChunks = 1
blankLinesBeforeJavaDocs = 1
blankLinesAfterJavaDocs = 0
blankLinesBeforeMultiComments = 1
blankLinesAfterMultiComments = 0
blankLinesBeforeSingleComments = 1
blankLinesAfterSingleComments = 0
keepBlankLines = false
### Whitespaces
separateAssignmentOperators = true
separateConditionalOperators = true
separateComparisonOperators = true
separateNumericalOperators = true
spaceAfterComma = true
spaceAfterSemicolon = true
spaceAfterCasting = true
spaceBeforeMethodParameters = false
spaceBeforeStatementParameters = true
paddingParenthesis = false
paddingBrackets = false
### Line Wrapping
wrapLines = false
wrapBecauseOfComments = true
wrapLongMethodNames = false
maxLineLength = 78
deepIndent = 45
forceIndent = 8
forceIndentTolerance = 3
### Labels
labelNewLine = true
...........
Does anybody know of intentions to port SimCity to Linux? I'm having a "Hey, me too!" reaction...
--t
How about borrowing from another well-established term that already has a positive connotation? That would make it more difficult to corrupt.
I like 'wizard' and it has been used in this sense before anyway. Heck, it even makes sense. What is a wizard but someone proficient at something another does not understand?
paz,
t