Wow real writer type people! I'll bet with all the debate about tax breaks and job flow, it's horribly (big word) arduous to write up to one's true standards. What was it J. Joyce said of 'Finnegan's Wake' (sp) "It took me seventeen years to write it. It can take them seventeen years to read it." Whoa extreme d00d! But then he was just some crazy who didn't write for a pay check or work for some mega corporation and beef about others stealing their market share.
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The movie business is an adventure in trade. It's a manufacturing concern and it produces what sells. To write for Hollywood you have to be a '...poor dumb son of a bitch.' Leave the art of crafting one phoneme to another out of the picture. Go grab a drink pool side at the Polo Club and bitch about how much money you didn't make and leave the writting to those in garrets (yea they still live in small bed sitting rooms) who go hungry and slightly mad to learn their craft.
Since I'll probably get modded down for this... Katz is just a fine fit for/. and spelling and grammar do not a writer make. I believe it was old man papa Hemmingway who said if he had to choose between the erudite writtings of T.S. Eliot and Conrad then he'd be on the way to England to grind Eliot to pepper flakes
John Locke's vision of a series of checks and balances in government seems sometimes to have achieved something akin to democratic consensus. Not bad for something that doesn't seem sensical
I was alluding more to the cooperative multitasking environment. The more common uncooperative multitasking environment left the endless rank and file of Windows users staring at the hourglass icon. This happened with such frequency that many users saw it as a metaphor for Bill Gates having control over the number of their days and lead to the rumour Mr. Gates is the AntiChrist! Utterly unfounded rumour, but still...
Remember the trials and tribulations that was Win 3.x and 286 before it? These complaints have been around since the inception of the PC, except that in the darkest days users were demanding and not getting something as simple as UnInstall.
I stopped reading Prachett about eight years ago and even then the initial premise had been played out. The first books made me laugh raucously outloud.
Why do/. ters hang out at a site where, even with broadband, it's likely the site they want to acess is unavailable?
"One of the injured, a VP for product marketing aptly named Dana Frydman, tries to put a positive spin on having her feet flame-broiled like so much ground chuck. "It made you feel a sense of empowerment and that you can accomplish anything," she tells the Miami Herald.
The above from the fire walking marketing types is my favourite thus far. Doesn't the response say it all. The glass is half-full, I live in the best of all possible worlds and I love Mary Poppins. Marketing... fundamentalist religions got noth'n on it.
Thnx I thought the change happened with NT5 akaa Windows 2000, my mistake, sorry:) So David Cutler's original 3.1 design was fundamentally changed with the intro of NT4... I guess that would explain the new version number.
The next-generation Graphics Device Interface is part of Windows XP, meaning that the operating system itself could be at risk.
Am I right in assuming this won't effect NT4 and is a direct outcome of putting the GDI back in the kernel unlike in the true microkernel architecture like HURD?
The Status Quo Ante prevails simply because the internet is a cultural tsunami that existing institutions are incapable of servicing or managing. The cultural forces that are pushing the internet will reinvent most aspects of culture but the status quo ante everfearful of the new must struggle to redefine the future in the guise of the past and face known devils rather than face the unknown. When the going gets weird and 'the weird turn pro' the most part of society begins a cautious advance with it's back turned to the future.
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Given the off topic mod it appears not only are/. editors too stupid to tell class from a member of a class but the moderators they empower are too stupid to distinguish off topic from unaligned material... you're a bigot sad but very very true:(
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." Most used laptops run twice their cpu clock speed in dollars [$ = MHz * 2($/MHz)]. Auction prices seem to be worse than that of wholeseller. So I come to you,/.ers, in the hopes that there are still some used laptop deals to be had. Is there such a thing as a low-end used laptop anymore, and where?"
Stupid people stir up a storm of ambivalence within me. Take the above quote. 'Most laptops'...'Auction prices'... 'wholeseller'...'such a thing'. Do you see it? No. Sad.:(
If I had the opportunity to rid the world of one baddie I'd go for the inability of people to separate thinking in terms of a class from thinking in terms of a member of a class. Auction prices (prices plural) and wholeseller imply sets and, in terms of prices, mean averages. 'a thing' implies a one off unit, say a bargin, say something bought or something sold to someone without access to market information and therefore unwilling or unable to establish market value. Either one can post personal ads on the front page of slashdot requesting a bargin or slashdot editors can't grasp something as elementary as distinguishing between a set and an element of a set. Anyway if/. takes personal requests I wanna alot o' freebeer:)
This is old hat to anyone who has bothered to read beyond the precusory level(s) of chinese history. Try http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1028.htm for a quick introduction. Sadly the journey(s) only serve to underscore the xenophobia rife throughout China's history. On a lighter note researching the itinerant buddhist monk who supposedly recorded the journey provides good entertainment. Fusang has long been worth a book by a wannabe historian/archeologist. Now that the main stream media has the bit in its mouth hollywood might go along for the ride. Do I see a vessel for the rebirth of the careers of Cheech and Chong sailing over the horizon.
I've read an number of historians who designate the year 1950 as the first year of the present age and accordingly date every year before 1950 as Before the Present. C. Shannon presented the Mathematical Theory of Communications in 1948 and John von Neumann had the first 'modern' computer up and running about the same time. We could take 1950 as a conveinent year with which to begin the Information Technology revolution.
Noting the submission's referral to Kipling, Disney and The Jungle Book it's not uninteresting to note the technology to reinvent The Jungle Book has only just become available and prior to Disney and movies the only 'threat' to the book might have been an unauthorized printing and stage presentation. But Disney, TV, and the movie industry represent a reinvention of the work in a novel venue with it's attendant technology and the entrechment of that technology in patent law. The net and it's attendant conflicts and revolution of copyright law is also a case of new technology presenting a potential for reinvention and redistribution of existing works, which, are sometimes movies or recorded music. Putting aside the nuts and bolts of the law and it's processes it's interesting to take in the overview as a lack of social structures capable of keeping up with the growth of technological change, as much as, power grabs by the mature patent corporations.
I rarely bother to react to reactionary statements, but what with the distemper attendant upon a bout of the flu, bitchslapping an idiot has a perverse appeal.
Column A is vacuous and needn't be commented upon further.
Column B is idiotic. China's 'rich cultural heritage' is rife with xenophobic internecine warfare. The present regime is but the latest set of warlords. I've worked with and for Chinese families of substantial wealth, they were urbane, informed and loath to live in China. The Chinese mythos has long held the 'middle kingdom' will 'soon' rule the earth. It's quite funny to hear a chinese person self-deprecatingly state the inevitable rise to world dominance of the Chinese people. It's like they really don't want to rule the earth but destiny *is* destiny. China can barely feed it's people. The Three Gorges Dam is a grandiose scheme to implement a hydroelectric panacea. China historically came 'online', if you will, by development of a series of canal works, but the Three Gorges Dam is thought to be fundamentally flawed and might well silt up in plus/minus thirty years. Long stretches of China's rivers are dead. Environmentally China is a sludge pressure cooker overheating. China had damn well better scramble to advance every and any frontier of learning because in all likelihood when the shit (night soil) hits the fan over the next decade or two were all going to be splattered and forced to help clean up the mess.
I most enjoy/. when the best of the posts provide more benefit than the posted article(s), and as is the case on this thread.
I spent the greater part of a day in deep discussion with a fellow who traversed WWII as a polish soldier brought into Russian intelligence, who then moved on to British Intelligence, and ended his career having much to do with the founding of the Canadian Intelligence Service. A fair measure of our talk centred around the need for covert intelligence gathering in the face of laws either protecting the rights of citizens or curtailing the access to information. The facts of the world as it is brought home the inescaple need for covert intelligence gathering but also the prerequisites for said actions. The Russians, my military intelligence type relatives tell me, were (in)famous for garnerning intelligence at social gatherings by simply working the cocktail circuit and baldly asking pointed questions of targets in the offhand manner of party chatter. I'm told it was a very effective ploy. Working sources of information requires access and understanding, more especially of the social mindset of those under observation, and to this end the philosophical gap between Open Source Software and Intelligence gathering can be bridged by the seemingly trival observation that intelligence is most effective in an open enviornment where the information is freely available. Gadetry comes into play more so where direct access is not available. The recent reports of 23 bugs found on the American made jet for the Chinese President is a case in point.
Perhaps most telling is the obvious fact that intelligence gathering requires we better understand one another.
Cross 'slime skating' with the odour weapon just developed and civil disobedience is over. The new and improved 'Who me?' smell bomb (developed in WWII) is an admixture of burning flesh (or putrid), food gone bad and human waste. There's *so* much to be said for the sedentary, bubble boy existence of a geek.
Shakespeare and Bach would never have made it. Not only did they, and most,if not all, of their contemporaries borrow heavily from the works of others, they frequently 'stole' from themselves. Artists, with few or no exceptions, spend their formative years painstakingly 'plagiarising' the works of the masters. Yet now we have become obsessed not only with copyright but with novelty. To what end?
Bertrand Russell spoke to assuming the mind of another in order to understand their work. Becoming another through their work to the point of inadvertantly plagairising isn't a bad thing and is as much a valid learning experience as the deft copy and paste job of a blatant theft.;-) Who's to say that the Forest Bueller's of academica are not the better students.
You wrote: "...so we all have to pick our fights."
I agree, and, after having made my post, I realized I had left out what you rightly noted. My post reflected an overly visceral, kneejerk reaction to the woman's plight.
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Wow real writer type people! I'll bet with all the debate about tax breaks and job flow, it's horribly (big word) arduous to write up to one's true standards. What was it J. Joyce said of 'Finnegan's Wake' (sp) "It took me seventeen years to write it. It can take them seventeen years to read it." Whoa extreme d00d! But then he was just some crazy who didn't write for a pay check or work for some mega corporation and beef about others stealing their market share.
cheersThe movie business is an adventure in trade. It's a manufacturing concern and it produces what sells. To write for Hollywood you have to be a '...poor dumb son of a bitch.' Leave the art of crafting one phoneme to another out of the picture. Go grab a drink pool side at the Polo Club and bitch about how much money you didn't make and leave the writting to those in garrets (yea they still live in small bed sitting rooms) who go hungry and slightly mad to learn their craft.
Since I'll probably get modded down for this... Katz is just a fine fit for /. and spelling and grammar do not a writer make. I believe it was old man papa Hemmingway who said if he had to choose between the erudite writtings of T.S. Eliot and Conrad then he'd be on the way to England to grind Eliot to pepper flakes
Ceteris Paribus but can you draw the inference from the data as to 'exactly how much editors research before posting...'?
John Locke's vision of a series of checks and balances in government seems sometimes to have achieved something akin to democratic consensus. Not bad for something that doesn't seem sensical
uhm no. You've spewn some madness from Win9x. The discussion was centred on NT4. You're wrong you now must go far far away never to return. 'ta
I was alluding more to the cooperative multitasking environment. The more common uncooperative multitasking environment left the endless rank and file of Windows users staring at the hourglass icon. This happened with such frequency that many users saw it as a metaphor for Bill Gates having control over the number of their days and lead to the rumour Mr. Gates is the AntiChrist! Utterly unfounded rumour, but still...
Remember the trials and tribulations that was Win 3.x and 286 before it? These complaints have been around since the inception of the PC, except that in the darkest days users were demanding and not getting something as simple as UnInstall.
I stopped reading Prachett about eight years ago and even then the initial premise had been played out. The first books made me laugh raucously outloud.
The Parent Post is offtopic but iterating this through replies to the parent is redundant.
Why do /. ters hang out at a site where, even with broadband, it's likely the site they want to acess is unavailable?
"One of the injured, a VP for product marketing aptly named Dana Frydman, tries to put a positive spin on having her feet flame-broiled like so much ground chuck. "It made you feel a sense of empowerment and that you can accomplish anything," she tells the Miami Herald.
The above from the fire walking marketing types is my favourite thus far. Doesn't the response say it all. The glass is half-full, I live in the best of all possible worlds and I love Mary Poppins. Marketing... fundamentalist religions got noth'n on it.
Alright then _no_ rock music how 'bout just these violent video games. Here's one titled "Kill for Jesus!"
Thnx I thought the change happened with NT5 akaa Windows 2000, my mistake, sorry :) So David Cutler's original 3.1 design was fundamentally changed with the intro of NT4... I guess that would explain the new version number.
maybe... try 'hippoCrickey' this is the sound the happy hippo hunter from Australia makes when successful in his hippo hunt
The next-generation Graphics Device Interface is part of Windows XP, meaning that the operating system itself could be at risk.
Am I right in assuming this won't effect NT4 and is a direct outcome of putting the GDI back in the kernel unlike in the true microkernel architecture like HURD?
The essence of reasoning is maintaining the right to contradict oneself.
The Status Quo Ante prevails simply because the internet is a cultural tsunami that existing institutions are incapable of servicing or managing. The cultural forces that are pushing the internet will reinvent most aspects of culture but the status quo ante everfearful of the new must struggle to redefine the future in the guise of the past and face known devils rather than face the unknown. When the going gets weird and 'the weird turn pro' the most part of society begins a cautious advance with it's back turned to the future.
Given the off topic mod it appears not only are /. editors too stupid to tell class from a member of a class but the moderators they empower are too stupid to distinguish off topic from unaligned material... you're a bigot sad but very very true :(
Stupid people stir up a storm of ambivalence within me. Take the above quote. 'Most laptops'...'Auction prices'... 'wholeseller'...'such a thing'. Do you see it? No. Sad.:(
If I had the opportunity to rid the world of one baddie I'd go for the inability of people to separate thinking in terms of a class from thinking in terms of a member of a class. Auction prices (prices plural) and wholeseller imply sets and, in terms of prices, mean averages. 'a thing' implies a one off unit, say a bargin, say something bought or something sold to someone without access to market information and therefore unwilling or unable to establish market value. Either one can post personal ads on the front page of slashdot requesting a bargin or slashdot editors can't grasp something as elementary as distinguishing between a set and an element of a set. Anyway if /. takes personal requests I wanna alot o' freebeer :)
This is old hat to anyone who has bothered to read beyond the precusory level(s) of chinese history. Try http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1028.htm for a quick introduction. Sadly the journey(s) only serve to underscore the xenophobia rife throughout China's history. On a lighter note researching the itinerant buddhist monk who supposedly recorded the journey provides good entertainment. Fusang has long been worth a book by a wannabe historian/archeologist. Now that the main stream media has the bit in its mouth hollywood might go along for the ride. Do I see a vessel for the rebirth of the careers of Cheech and Chong sailing over the horizon.
I've read an number of historians who designate the year 1950 as the first year of the present age and accordingly date every year before 1950 as Before the Present. C. Shannon presented the Mathematical Theory of Communications in 1948 and John von Neumann had the first 'modern' computer up and running about the same time. We could take 1950 as a conveinent year with which to begin the Information Technology revolution.
Noting the submission's referral to Kipling, Disney and The Jungle Book it's not uninteresting to note the technology to reinvent The Jungle Book has only just become available and prior to Disney and movies the only 'threat' to the book might have been an unauthorized printing and stage presentation. But Disney, TV, and the movie industry represent a reinvention of the work in a novel venue with it's attendant technology and the entrechment of that technology in patent law. The net and it's attendant conflicts and revolution of copyright law is also a case of new technology presenting a potential for reinvention and redistribution of existing works, which, are sometimes movies or recorded music. Putting aside the nuts and bolts of the law and it's processes it's interesting to take in the overview as a lack of social structures capable of keeping up with the growth of technological change, as much as, power grabs by the mature patent corporations.
insightful and funny but, sorry, they won't let me moderate. ;)
I rarely bother to react to reactionary statements, but what with the distemper attendant upon a bout of the flu, bitchslapping an idiot has a perverse appeal.
Column A is vacuous and needn't be commented upon further.
Column B is idiotic. China's 'rich cultural heritage' is rife with xenophobic internecine warfare. The present regime is but the latest set of warlords. I've worked with and for Chinese families of substantial wealth, they were urbane, informed and loath to live in China. The Chinese mythos has long held the 'middle kingdom' will 'soon' rule the earth. It's quite funny to hear a chinese person self-deprecatingly state the inevitable rise to world dominance of the Chinese people. It's like they really don't want to rule the earth but destiny *is* destiny. China can barely feed it's people. The Three Gorges Dam is a grandiose scheme to implement a hydroelectric panacea. China historically came 'online', if you will, by development of a series of canal works, but the Three Gorges Dam is thought to be fundamentally flawed and might well silt up in plus/minus thirty years. Long stretches of China's rivers are dead. Environmentally China is a sludge pressure cooker overheating. China had damn well better scramble to advance every and any frontier of learning because in all likelihood when the shit (night soil) hits the fan over the next decade or two were all going to be splattered and forced to help clean up the mess.
cheersI most enjoy /. when the best of the posts provide more benefit than the posted article(s), and as is the case on this thread.
I spent the greater part of a day in deep discussion with a fellow who traversed WWII as a polish soldier brought into Russian intelligence, who then moved on to British Intelligence, and ended his career having much to do with the founding of the Canadian Intelligence Service. A fair measure of our talk centred around the need for covert intelligence gathering in the face of laws either protecting the rights of citizens or curtailing the access to information. The facts of the world as it is brought home the inescaple need for covert intelligence gathering but also the prerequisites for said actions. The Russians, my military intelligence type relatives tell me, were (in)famous for garnerning intelligence at social gatherings by simply working the cocktail circuit and baldly asking pointed questions of targets in the offhand manner of party chatter. I'm told it was a very effective ploy. Working sources of information requires access and understanding, more especially of the social mindset of those under observation, and to this end the philosophical gap between Open Source Software and Intelligence gathering can be bridged by the seemingly trival observation that intelligence is most effective in an open enviornment where the information is freely available. Gadetry comes into play more so where direct access is not available. The recent reports of 23 bugs found on the American made jet for the Chinese President is a case in point.
Perhaps most telling is the obvious fact that intelligence gathering requires we better understand one another.
cheersCross 'slime skating' with the odour weapon just developed and civil disobedience is over. The new and improved 'Who me?' smell bomb (developed in WWII) is an admixture of burning flesh (or putrid), food gone bad and human waste. There's *so* much to be said for the sedentary, bubble boy existence of a geek.
Shakespeare and Bach would never have made it. Not only did they, and most,if not all, of their contemporaries borrow heavily from the works of others, they frequently 'stole' from themselves. Artists, with few or no exceptions, spend their formative years painstakingly 'plagiarising' the works of the masters. Yet now we have become obsessed not only with copyright but with novelty. To what end?
Bertrand Russell spoke to assuming the mind of another in order to understand their work. Becoming another through their work to the point of inadvertantly plagairising isn't a bad thing and is as much a valid learning experience as the deft copy and paste job of a blatant theft.;-) Who's to say that the Forest Bueller's of academica are not the better students.
I agree, and, after having made my post, I realized I had left out what you rightly noted. My post reflected an overly visceral, kneejerk reaction to the woman's plight.
cheers