I basically agree except finishing GNUStep's cocoa compatibility would have other dividends than just TextMate. It would allow write-once, compile everywhere for Mac apps, something we don't have with Windows except through winelib.
[...]Or perhaps if I could just say "if you want that, go ahead and do that in the admin then". As it stands, I feel like drupal is costing me more time than it is saving me, and thus the learning curve doesn't seem worth it.
Bingo. I wouldn't suggest that Drupal is poorly written or that the documentation is bad. The fundamental problem with it is it creates more work than it saves. If your needs are specific, it's too rigid and if your needs are generic, it's too complicated to be worth it. I suffered from the former problem as every little thing I wanted to do required tapping into the core, meaning I had to redo whatever I did upon an upgrade. If you think Drupal might be a good solution for you, then you ought to try Django or writing something from scratch using Ruby on Rails or the Zend framework.
What's the best open-source license to use for biological innovations and strains?
I personally prefer the MPL, the BSD/MIT and lGPL, but would also be interested in seeing what GPL-lovers (those who agree with the FSF's positions) have to say as well.
Let me start by saying I am a huge fan of you, Billy West (you're especially good in Futurama!) and that I'm just as huge a fan of John K. We all have heard plenty of both sides of the Ren & Stimpy saga, so I won't get into that. I just ask you this: as mad as you are at him and he you (I assume), do you think there's any possibility of a Billy West-John K. reconciliation or reunion? It needn't be to make new Ren & Stimpy episodes, but to make any new John K. cartoon, such as George Liquor.
Most fans agree that the best Ren & Stimpy episodes were the first two seasons, with you and him. The later Nickelodeon episodes, as well as the John K. episodes made later for USA, though great in their own right, lacked the certain magic of the first two seasons. I believe that this must mean you two worked well together, leading to my quasi-follow up question: did you two work well together or was it some sort of freak accident that Ren & Stimpy was so great?
The change in the atmospheric composition is happening rapidly while new forests are not appearing rapidly. Climate change is okay as long as it doesn't happen so fast humankind and the critters and plants we share the planet with can't adjust in time. Rather than worrying about minor influences, we should look at the biggest influences (hell, water vapor contributes to global warming). This research, however, should stop people from thinking they can plant their way out of the situation.
That's not what he meant. Note the "could." Can you name anything that has sentience that *doesn't* have a backbone? (maybe cephlapods, but they are wierd so they shouldn't count)
Someone already said that, and the linked to article is about subliminal advertising, not those tapes you listen to in your sleep. Mayhaps they should do a study on that, too?
I think you just answered yourself. We must concern ourselves with not fucking up the environment not for the environment's sake.. it'll be fine without us, but for our sake, for christ's sake!
It's not a logical fallacy, it's just not having the facts straight.
I think his point is that it is grossly ineficient, and I agree. We can only grow so much at a given time and when you use resources for one thing, you are forgoing using them for another (yay! economics 101) The problem is Americans have burgers several times a week and that adds up. not only making the burgers, but the healthcare costs of an obese population. I'm not saying Americans should stop eating their beloved burgers altogether, but it shouldn't be a large part of their diet, for christ's sake!
No, really? What if we just ate those plants instead? Hell, then we could feed more people than just a smaller amount of us fat Americans.
<liberal hippie mode off>
<fat American mode on> Don't worry, it doesn't even come close to the amount of trash I make. If someone doesn't eat those cows, they will just go to waste anyway.
Sun thinks they have a chance at long term survival.
SCO realizes they do not, so they hire clever lawyers. SCO burns to the ground, and the execs get out of it smelling like hotel soap.
Um, your little site is a (poorly supported) theory on how evolution could have happened with the help of God. It's for people that are too sentimental of the view that there's a creator God too throw it away, but too logical to ignore such fully-backed theories as evolution. Unfortunately, people like this screw science up. In science, nothing can be an infallible fact. If the existence of God was a proper scientific theory, it would have been thrown out many times by now. Instead, people have found ways to fit science in, starting with the catholic church accepting the earth revolving around the sun up to this nonsense.
hard drives don't get much faster. currently, it is the hard drive that is the bottleneck in most systems. ram is cheap and fast, same for processors, but it's that archaeic mechanical monstrosity that is causing most of the noise in my computer (other than the fan) and is by far the slower than anything else in my computer. even scsi or this new serial stuff is just a faster interface to the same contraption.
You mean emotionally affected me? The top two are the SNES classics Chrono Trigger and Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past. Maybe the only reason new games don't affect me like those did is because I was younger and more impressionable and that I don't really have time to play games any more. Because the new Zelda game is really, really good.
This may sound really stupid, but it seems to me that they spend less on manufacturing necessary to make something that lasts to keep costs down since longevety isn't a real issue these days. The idea is that it will become obsolete before it breaks down.
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I basically agree except finishing GNUStep's cocoa compatibility would have other dividends than just TextMate. It would allow write-once, compile everywhere for Mac apps, something we don't have with Windows except through winelib.
[...]Or perhaps if I could just say "if you want that, go ahead and do that in the admin then". As it stands, I feel like drupal is costing me more time than it is saving me, and thus the learning curve doesn't seem worth it.
Bingo. I wouldn't suggest that Drupal is poorly written or that the documentation is bad. The fundamental problem with it is it creates more work than it saves. If your needs are specific, it's too rigid and if your needs are generic, it's too complicated to be worth it. I suffered from the former problem as every little thing I wanted to do required tapping into the core, meaning I had to redo whatever I did upon an upgrade. If you think Drupal might be a good solution for you, then you ought to try Django or writing something from scratch using Ruby on Rails or the Zend framework.
What's the best open-source license to use for biological innovations and strains?
I personally prefer the MPL, the BSD/MIT and lGPL, but would also be interested in seeing what GPL-lovers (those who agree with the FSF's positions) have to say as well.
Let me start by saying I am a huge fan of you, Billy West (you're especially good in Futurama!) and that I'm just as huge a fan of John K. We all have heard plenty of both sides of the Ren & Stimpy saga, so I won't get into that. I just ask you this: as mad as you are at him and he you (I assume), do you think there's any possibility of a Billy West-John K. reconciliation or reunion? It needn't be to make new Ren & Stimpy episodes, but to make any new John K. cartoon, such as George Liquor.
Most fans agree that the best Ren & Stimpy episodes were the first two seasons, with you and him. The later Nickelodeon episodes, as well as the John K. episodes made later for USA, though great in their own right, lacked the certain magic of the first two seasons. I believe that this must mean you two worked well together, leading to my quasi-follow up question: did you two work well together or was it some sort of freak accident that Ren & Stimpy was so great?
The change in the atmospheric composition is happening rapidly while new forests are not appearing rapidly. Climate change is okay as long as it doesn't happen so fast humankind and the critters and plants we share the planet with can't adjust in time. Rather than worrying about minor influences, we should look at the biggest influences (hell, water vapor contributes to global warming). This research, however, should stop people from thinking they can plant their way out of the situation.
That's not what he meant. Note the "could." Can you name anything that has sentience that *doesn't* have a backbone? (maybe cephlapods, but they are wierd so they shouldn't count)
Someone already said that, and the linked to article is about subliminal advertising, not those tapes you listen to in your sleep. Mayhaps they should do a study on that, too?
It's about bloddy time. Isn't that what's next?
middle english. it wouldn't even make sense if it was old english. wes thu hal, folde. fira modor, beo thu blowende.. etc, etc, etc
I think you just answered yourself. We must concern ourselves with not fucking up the environment not for the environment's sake.. it'll be fine without us, but for our sake, for christ's sake!
First of all, imagine how much of an atrocity seeing Amelie dubbed would be!
Actually, the translations tend to differ, with the translation for the dub making less sense.
um, Slashdot already has an RSS stream that you can parse.
Do realize that this probe already went around Mars and back to Earth. It's pretty amazing that the thing has been functioning all this time.
It's not a logical fallacy, it's just not having the facts straight.
I think his point is that it is grossly ineficient, and I agree. We can only grow so much at a given time and when you use resources for one thing, you are forgoing using them for another (yay! economics 101) The problem is Americans have burgers several times a week and that adds up. not only making the burgers, but the healthcare costs of an obese population. I'm not saying Americans should stop eating their beloved burgers altogether, but it shouldn't be a large part of their diet, for christ's sake!
No, really? What if we just ate those plants instead? Hell, then we could feed more people than just a smaller amount of us fat Americans.
<liberal hippie mode off>
<fat American mode on> Don't worry, it doesn't even come close to the amount of trash I make. If someone doesn't eat those cows, they will just go to waste anyway.
ehehehe. what apostrophe misues are you talking about? hehehe.
Sun thinks they have a chance at long term survival. SCO realizes they do not, so they hire clever lawyers. SCO burns to the ground, and the execs get out of it smelling like hotel soap.
That's the Japanese that can't pronounce their Rs. Geez, get yer demeaning national stereotypes right
It was an interesting trip nonetheless :)
Perhaps the stars were flooded out by the sun and they had to darken the whole image?
Um, your little site is a (poorly supported) theory on how evolution could have happened with the help of God. It's for people that are too sentimental of the view that there's a creator God too throw it away, but too logical to ignore such fully-backed theories as evolution. Unfortunately, people like this screw science up. In science, nothing can be an infallible fact. If the existence of God was a proper scientific theory, it would have been thrown out many times by now. Instead, people have found ways to fit science in, starting with the catholic church accepting the earth revolving around the sun up to this nonsense.
hard drives don't get much faster. currently, it is the hard drive that is the bottleneck in most systems. ram is cheap and fast, same for processors, but it's that archaeic mechanical monstrosity that is causing most of the noise in my computer (other than the fan) and is by far the slower than anything else in my computer. even scsi or this new serial stuff is just a faster interface to the same contraption.
You mean emotionally affected me? The top two are the SNES classics Chrono Trigger and Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past. Maybe the only reason new games don't affect me like those did is because I was younger and more impressionable and that I don't really have time to play games any more. Because the new Zelda game is really, really good.
This may sound really stupid, but it seems to me that they spend less on manufacturing necessary to make something that lasts to keep costs down since longevety isn't a real issue these days. The idea is that it will become obsolete before it breaks down.
grave of the fireflies? watch it if you want to be sad. this is the closest a movie has gotten to making me cry.