shatner on snl was perhaps one of the funniest episodes of that show ever. Shatner just doesn't take himself seriously (or at least is cunning enough not to seem to, which ammounts to the same thing).
"..what was the combination?" Brilliant!
and since I'm in a musical mood: quote Wheaton:
Sometimes it just makes me feel bad, and other times, it makes me mad.
sometimes it makes me want to swear and curse. But when you're chewing on life's gristle, \\ don't grumble, give a whisle, \\ and this'll \\ make things turn out for the best. \\ eh!
I've been trying to figure out where that sample comes from: "However, as a beginner, it's often best to just kill everyone as fast as you can with the pump action"
And now that we have halloween, the Charlie Brown sample "I got a rock!" is cool.
I am aware that Kid Koala is more Nija Tune than Bullfrog in general, but I thought perhaps you might know.
The details are... well, details, but the conclusion is the same. Apple records had no grounds on which to object until Apple computer got [tangentially] into sound
Trademarks (tho not so sure about product names) are specific to industry. This is why apple was prohibited from adding music support to its early apple-II's, until Apple records (the beatles' old label) promised not to sue. Had Apple Computers been even marginally in the music buisiness, Apple Records would have had grounds to sue for trademark infringment.
Whether Personal Trasportable Computers and Personal Commuter Transports are too close to each other, we'll let the courts decide.
(yes I know that prosthetic legs aren't commuter transport, but the pun required some poetic licence to work)
Can these be used as a "screen" for X (a-la the FSF text mode program of the same name)? I want that
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actually, with a bit of hand editing of the url, they can be turned off for any ammount of time. The argument controls how many days in the future the cookie expires. I personally went with one that expires in 3000 days.
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I love as next (more, likely) as the next guy, but open a couple of buffers above and next to each other (I prefer a 2 column display, each column with 3 odd buffers), and even simple things like moving the cursor up and down become noticably slower.
This is easy enough to work around, just make a key/command that moves several lines at once, but it IS slow. and as I pointed out above, not multi-threaded.
However, appart from its faults, it is still the tool without I could not compute. My computer is basically a tool with which to run mozilla and emacs and pan (a recently discovered gem).
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tell you what I want:
anti-aliased text in emacs. I really don't care about the rest of the OS, but I spend 90% of my monitor-time using emacs, so that needs to be easy on the eyes. If that comes by GTK-ing it, then so be it. If I have to run KDE, then so be it. If I need to install Berlin \alpha 0.0.01, then so be it, but, to quote Dire Straights, with sting doing backing vocals: I want my Anti Aliased Emacsen!
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ah.
full fledged os? For that, you'd need...
multithreading! The fact that emacs still locks up when scanning my riduculously large email directory is laughable. I presume that there are deep reasons for this not to be acheivable, as otherwise it would seem like an obvious improvement.
As you point out, the change logs are, well, trs (C speak for terse). Does anyone care to comment on why, or should I just ask Kai Grossjohann?
because the moon doesn't spin (it's tidally locked with earth; we always see the same side) and space elevators depend on centripital force to keep them taught.
That and the fact that the orbital terminus needs to be in geostationary orbit during the construction phase. The closest the moon has to a geostationary orbit is, well, the earth.
whatever happened to that DJ kit availible for BeOS; the one with the time-track encoded vinyl LP, which you could scratch/delay/loop just like a normal record, but whcih was sampled by the software to modify the playing of an mp3 file instead?
Now that BeOS is pushing up the daisys, I was wondering whether it was avilible for other OSs
Those numbers explain why nt/2000 is such a dog when compiling in the background.
Three seconds is just a long time for any task to be in the run queue. Seems MUCH too long. The NTtimeslice would be 20ms according to you, so three seconds is what -- 150 slices?Sounds like something is rotten in the state of art.
Heard on NPR this morning, in an interview with a policeofficer (likely in new york, but I stepped out of the room):
"To hell with the ACLU, people's safety is at stake."
The reporter went on to point out what a few weeks ago would have been fodder for multi-million dollar lawsuits is today conscidered routine. The risk is of course that our enforcement bodies are required to work under different standards, without being told when the standards change.
To paraphrase churchill:
Yes I may be drunk, but you, sir, are an idiot. In the morning I will be sober.
Giving up liberties for security is a slippery slope. You never acheive security, and find that you have given up all your liberties to acheive very little.
The name of the game is a clue: terrorism. Those who let them selves be cowed by its spectre are already victims, even if they are not directly hurt by the attack.
all I want for xmas is a side scrolling space shoot-em-up. Or an omnidirectional multi-fire shootem-up. Or pretty much any shootem-up. As long as they are fast, have LOADS of powerups, a LOUD soundtrack, and endless streams of baddies in formation punctuated by over-rendered bosses.
I would pay through the NOSE for that [mental image you DIDN'T need].
I miss my amiga sometimes. It liked to run 3-d games as much as I like to play them: not at all.
more to the point, hotspot will do very little for this example. Hotspot is a VM implementation in the style of SELF, and does a very bad job at compiling code the first time around; maybe even interpreting it directly. Then, when enough profiling data has been collected, it goes back and recompiles the code agressively, using the full profiling info to specialise code to be fast for the dynamic common case.
Thus, hotspot is great for servers that have uptimes measured in weeks and programs with long common paths. You aren't going to see much speed in a small program, as your time will be dominiated by profiling costs, rather than payoffs.
As for the classloading delay, people seem to accept an initial delay when starting an application (which can be augmented by quickly slapping up a splash screen), so this isn't really a real world issue.
The 1x1 gifs are only useful in email: they already know to whom they served the page. However, they are really useful when embedded in html mail. They let the sender know that you tend to read your pr0n spam rather than just delete it immediately.
So what is needed is to only accept html email that is self-contained (ie, all the ref'd images are attachments in the same email).
As for javascript, all you need to do is disable mouseovers. I know many sites that rely on javascript, but can't think of a single one that relies on mouseovers.
in addition to the conversion step, you have to use DSA keys.
Using OpenSSH on the client, and Commercial on the Server, I was eventually able to get automatic authentication to work using DSA keys. RSA using same procedure failed.
Oh, and unlike ssh1, I had to put the key in its own file and then add a reference to it in a second file. Rather cumbersome.
I would be interested in how LISP and Scheme work in a team programming environment. I definitely agree that they are great languages for my own hacking, but am not sure how the almost fanatical flexibility would interact with teams.
Or to ask the question in reverse: why did Dylan choose to move to a pseudo OO paradigm with optional type checking?
I suspect the answer is that for larger projects, the skeleton/framework provided by a more static system allows some bugs to caught early, and in general acts to guide development.
Getting AA right is more than just \alpha blending. The rasterisation of the character to decide how to use the extra subpixles is non-trivial (I believe that microsoft or truetype has a patent or two on this). It makes a big difference for characters where the pixel is a large fraction of the character size.
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"..what was the combination?" Brilliant!
and since I'm in a musical mood:
quote Wheaton:
sometimes it makes me want to swear and curse. But when you're chewing on life's gristle, \\ don't grumble, give a whisle, \\ and this'll \\ make things turn out for the best. \\ eh!
Kid Koala kicks ass!
I've been trying to figure out where that sample comes from: "However, as a beginner, it's often best to just kill everyone as fast as you can with the pump action"
And now that we have halloween, the Charlie Brown sample "I got a rock!" is cool.
I am aware that Kid Koala is more Nija Tune than Bullfrog in general, but I thought perhaps you might know.
ok.
I haven't asked a stupid question all day, so now's my chance.
Are the frame drops related to the low-latency stuff? Ie, perhaps the card only has so much buffer space, and linux takes too long to read it?
I admit, it sounds weak, as memory is cheap and I would expect the card to DMA the stuff into main memory... but hey, it IS a possible explanation.
if taken litteraly, then yes. An example of such a function would be parity.
however, to be precise, SHA has every output bit influenced by every input bit. As does every other block cipher that comes to mind.
could be, could be.
The details are... well, details, but the conclusion is the same. Apple records had no grounds on which to object until Apple computer got [tangentially] into sound
screen has been around since 1987, according to its splashscreen (c).
Trademarks (tho not so sure about product names) are specific to industry. This is why apple was prohibited from adding music support to its early apple-II's, until Apple records (the beatles' old label) promised not to sue. Had Apple Computers been even marginally in the music buisiness, Apple Records would have had grounds to sue for trademark infringment.
Whether Personal Trasportable Computers and Personal Commuter Transports are too close to each other, we'll let the courts decide.
(yes I know that prosthetic legs aren't commuter transport, but the pun required some poetic licence to work)
stupid question re: xvfb (or vnc for that matter)
Can these be used as a "screen" for X (a-la the FSF text mode program of the same name)? I want that
actually, with a bit of hand editing of the url, they can be turned off for any ammount of time. The argument controls how many days in the future the cookie expires. I personally went with one that expires in 3000 days.
I love as next (more, likely) as the next guy, but open a couple of buffers above and next to each other (I prefer a 2 column display, each column with 3 odd buffers), and even simple things like moving the cursor up and down become noticably slower.
This is easy enough to work around, just make a key/command that moves several lines at once, but it IS slow. and as I pointed out above, not multi-threaded.
However, appart from its faults, it is still the tool without I could not compute. My computer is basically a tool with which to run mozilla and emacs and pan (a recently discovered gem).
tell you what I want:
anti-aliased text in emacs. I really don't care about the rest of the OS, but I spend 90% of my monitor-time using emacs, so that needs to be easy on the eyes. If that comes by GTK-ing it, then so be it. If I have to run KDE, then so be it. If I need to install Berlin \alpha 0.0.01, then so be it, but, to quote Dire Straights, with sting doing backing vocals: I want my Anti Aliased Emacsen!
ah.
full fledged os? For that, you'd need...
multithreading! The fact that emacs still locks up when scanning my riduculously large email directory is laughable. I presume that there are deep reasons for this not to be acheivable, as otherwise it would seem like an obvious improvement.
As you point out, the change logs are, well, trs (C speak for terse). Does anyone care to comment on why, or should I just ask Kai Grossjohann?
because the moon doesn't spin (it's tidally locked with earth; we always see the same side) and space elevators depend on centripital force to keep them taught.
That and the fact that the orbital terminus needs to be in geostationary orbit during the construction phase. The closest the moon has to a geostationary orbit is, well, the earth.
Perhaps you know:
whatever happened to that DJ kit availible for BeOS; the one with the time-track encoded vinyl LP, which you could scratch/delay/loop just like a normal record, but whcih was sampled by the software to modify the playing of an mp3 file instead?
Now that BeOS is pushing up the daisys, I was wondering whether it was avilible for other OSs
Those numbers explain why nt/2000 is such a dog when compiling in the background.
Three seconds is just a long time for any task to be in the run queue. Seems MUCH too long. The NTtimeslice would be 20ms according to you, so three seconds is what -- 150 slices?Sounds like something is rotten in the state of art.
Heard on NPR this morning, in an interview with a policeofficer (likely in new york, but I stepped out of the room):
"To hell with the ACLU, people's safety is at stake."
The reporter went on to point out what a few weeks ago would have been fodder for multi-million dollar lawsuits is today conscidered routine. The risk is of course that our enforcement bodies are required to work under different standards, without being told when the standards change.
To paraphrase churchill:
Yes I may be drunk, but you, sir, are an idiot. In the morning I will be sober.
Giving up liberties for security is a slippery slope. You never acheive security, and find that you have given up all your liberties to acheive very little.
The name of the game is a clue: terrorism. Those who let them selves be cowed by its spectre are already victims, even if they are not directly hurt by the attack.
Thanks for the heads up, but no tv => no dreamcast. I will check out star monkey tho.
all I want for xmas is a side scrolling space shoot-em-up. Or an omnidirectional multi-fire shootem-up. Or pretty much any shootem-up. As long as they are fast, have LOADS of powerups, a LOUD soundtrack, and endless streams of baddies in formation punctuated by over-rendered bosses.
I would pay through the NOSE for that [mental image you DIDN'T need].
I miss my amiga sometimes. It liked to run 3-d games as much as I like to play them: not at all.
actually, if it were exponentially, it would be the zeroth generation.
And I suspect he meant monotonically asymptotic, but that is a bit of a mouthful.
</pendant mode>
well,
more to the point, hotspot will do very little for this example. Hotspot is a VM implementation in the style of SELF, and does a very bad job at compiling code the first time around; maybe even interpreting it directly. Then, when enough profiling data has been collected, it goes back and recompiles the code agressively, using the full profiling info to specialise code to be fast for the dynamic common case.
Thus, hotspot is great for servers that have uptimes measured in weeks and programs with long common paths. You aren't going to see much speed in a small program, as your time will be dominiated by profiling costs, rather than payoffs.
As for the classloading delay, people seem to accept an initial delay when starting an application (which can be augmented by quickly slapping up a splash screen), so this isn't really a real world issue.
The 1x1 gifs are only useful in email: they already know to whom they served the page. However, they are really useful when embedded in html mail. They let the sender know that you tend to read your pr0n spam rather than just delete it immediately.
So what is needed is to only accept html email that is self-contained (ie, all the ref'd images are attachments in the same email).
As for javascript, all you need to do is disable mouseovers. I know many sites that rely on javascript, but can't think of a single one that relies on mouseovers.
in addition to the conversion step, you have to use DSA keys.
Using OpenSSH on the client, and Commercial on the Server, I was eventually able to get automatic authentication to work using DSA keys. RSA using same procedure failed.
Oh, and unlike ssh1, I had to put the key in its own file and then add a reference to it in a second file. Rather cumbersome.
I would be interested in how LISP and Scheme work in a team programming environment. I definitely agree that they are great languages for my own hacking, but am not sure how the almost fanatical flexibility would interact with teams.
Or to ask the question in reverse: why did Dylan choose to move to a pseudo OO paradigm with optional type checking?
I suspect the answer is that for larger projects, the skeleton/framework provided by a more static system allows some bugs to caught early, and in general acts to guide development.
Has anyone used LISP/Scheme in a larger project?
Getting AA right is more than just \alpha blending. The rasterisation of the character to decide how to use the extra subpixles is non-trivial (I believe that microsoft or truetype has a patent or two on this). It makes a big difference for characters where the pixel is a large fraction of the character size.