Not exactly a new thought... lyrics to a song from frelling 1994 (it's a great song, by the way):
Peace is Out words and music by Roy Zimmerman
We used to take a nonviolent stance In Nehru jackets and bell-bottom pants We even used to sing, "Give peace a chance" God, we must have been joking
We used to slander the words of our prez And praise whatever the Tao Te Ching says We used to wanna sing like Joan Baez Jesus, what we were smoking?
Now when someone says, "Hell no, we won't go" What they mean is "to Berkeley"
Peace is out, love is out No one wants to hear about Peace and love anymore Now we're fighting In a war against homelessness, a war against drugs 'Cause it's in to be in a war
We used to traipse around in tie-dye tights Dropping daisies in enemy sights Now we're fighting for property rights Must have come to our senses
We used to say all we needed was love Olive branches and sign of the dove Now we're looking for something above 90K plus expenses
Now when someone says, "What the world needs now" It's a private police force
Peace is out, love is out No one wants to hear about Peace and love anymore Now we're fighting In a war against joblessness, a war against crime 'Cause it's in to be in a war
All we wanna say Is peace... ain't PC, it's passé
Now when someone says, "We shall overcome" They mean, "We'll be right over"
Peace is out, love is out No one gives a rat's ass about Peace and love anymore Now we're fighting In a war against violence, a war against poverty A war against ignorance, a war against obesity A war against censorship, a war against cavities 'Cause it's in to be in... in to be in... in to be in... a war.
Then I suppose there's no such thing as Chinese, either? After all, there are multiple dialects of the language spoken by people in China, which differ quite dramatically.
Obligatory Frontalot lyrics post: lurking in #pass chans on the irc got dcc'd unexpectedly with an 80-minute XviD: Nuns In Heat Part Three, Bad Habits. I'm so l337 that I had that one already skipped to the part with the fishnet teddy whipped it out, but to my chagrin one toss from a win and the boss walked in said "nuh-uh Front, that terminal ain't for a latex crucifix spanking a taint in big 32-bit color while them rosary beads get yanked out the cruller" I said "you can't fire me; I quit!" opened up the case, yanked out the hard disk
Now go download (or, preferably, buy) the rest of Frontalot's work already. He's pretty awesome (I think his first cd, off which those lyrics were taken, is still his best.)
Nope. At the very least, Kingdom of Loathing players all refer to the Jack in the Box familiar as the JitB; clearly we should refer to this thing as Java in the Box?
It *would* contribute to a faster browser... if it weren't for the fact that it eats all your memory, and then craps itself when it doesn't have any memory left to eat, and runs like a snail. Seriously, I love Firefox, except that it just keeps getting worse and worse at garbage collection.
I'm getting *close* to giving up and using Chrome for everything except the couple places I really do need a working Greasemonkey. I'm not quite there, but it's close.
Funny, when someone actually says LOL in a verbal conversation, it makes me... LOL.:p (Really, it does. It tends to make me laugh; I find it pretty hilarious.) I never type "lol" nonironically myself, though, but it doesn't really bother me, either. (As for your example of "fail", I think you got that backwards.)
I'm a bit late to this party, but I agree with you there: the point of the "quantum leap" metaphor is that, rather than some particular technology progressing continuously from less advanced to more, it's possible to identify a moment in which the technology's "advancedness" jumps suddenly (and discretely) from a lower state to a higher one. The metaphor makes perfect sense when thought of like that, as far as I'm concerned.
It's true, though... hanging everyone who steals a loaf of bread *would* cut down on a lot of problems. But long as we're doing that, why not go further: let's hang everyone who doesn't have a job. Let's hang everyone who isn't making enough to support their family. Heck, the world is getting overpopulated, let's just do like the Romans and decimate the population (kill a tenth, chosen at random).
Would solve a lot of problems (for those still alive), wouldn't it? (Granted, it would introduce new ones, but I'm sure we could work around them.)
> Remember VB6, DDE, OLE and WIN32?
I do, but not because I was around when they were new. Until a couple years ago, I was in school, out in the mythical ivory towerish land where 2 months was a "large" project, and most coding was done in a text editor, in linux, and compiled and run from command line. Now I'm out in the real world, working for a company that writes real code designed to be run by real customers (who are using Windows), and while I haven't had to write large amounts of code in older Microsoft languages/APIs, I've certainly had to *interact* with all of those outdated technologies, and holy *frack* is C# code nicer to read and modify than any of those. I won't deny that M$ loves pushing the newest and greatest thing, even when you don't care and it would just be a waste of time (hi, Silverlight), but C# is not one of those things. Seriously, if I never had to look at a CString or a _bstr_t ever again, I would be way happier.
I like to think I'm influenced more by shows like Castle, where there's one guy who is shown to have means, motive and opportunity to commit the murder, and it's really obvious he did it, except that of course he never did, it's always someone else. Which is of course equally unlikely - usually the guy standing at the scene of a murder with a gun in his hand *did* commit the murder, but it's still a good lesson in not confusing "likely assumption" with "fact".
You probably torrented Vista, too. I mean, I could imagine torrenting it solely on the basis of enjoying the thought of piracy against such crap, but really, "upgrading the quality"? Like Vista, I'd say "upgrading the quality" should go the other direction. (And really, I'm unlikely even to torrent it, it's *not* worth a few hours of my bandwidth.)
Funny - I play a F2P game called Kingdom of Loathing, which releases a powerful item at the start of every month, and retires the old one (thus ensuring in-game prices for them will go up over time, as you can still buy old ones from players, but no new ones will ever be generated). Every so often a new item of the month will obsolete an old one, and people generally *like* that this happens. In fact, there have been times when many people have complained about it *not* happening - about an old IotM still being necessary, despite it having gotten to be ludicrously expensive.
Of course, the difference, I think, is in how the developers treat us, their customers - those particular game designers go well out of their way to make sure they're not perceived as money-grubbing, most notably by making sure that you actually can enjoy all the content without giving them a penny (it'll just cost you way more in-game dough, to buy them from players who did give them cash). It's a good system, I think. (I've definitely seen F2P games that *were* obvious money grabs *cough*maplestory*cough* - I try to avoid those.)
Or just do what Petra did, and get people to start using your image as their sig/avatar, until it goes memetic. (Yeah, this idea is a bit old. I actually made a forum avatar that has her message steganographically written into it a while back, just for my own amusement.)
Another obligatory reference: http://xkcd.com/16/ (not originally about xkcd, and I love quoting things as much as the next guy, but the point is still an apt one.)
Yup - Burn Notice was the first thing I thought of when I saw this headline: "Cracking an old-school safe is pretty tough, but modern hi-tech security makes it much easier. Thing is, nobody wipes off a fingerprint scanner after they use it. So what's left on the scanner, nine times out of ten, is a fingerprint."
It *is* good advice, too, if you happen to ever use a scanner. Not that I have.
You could probably experimentally determine a speed beyond which it's rarely going to be safe regardless of road conditions, an actual "maximum speed". It is well above the speed limit in most places (except, perhaps, the limit on residential areas near schools...), because the real point of speed limits (on the freeway, at least) is for cops to have an excuse to give people tickets, so their department can stay alive. As someone who recently got a ticket, I would say, if that weren't the case, they wouldn't feel the need to add so many obvious unnecessary nickel-and-dimey fees and charges to the already obscene initial ticket (and I wasn't driving at all unsafely. Past the speed limit, yes, but not like this guy).
Obviously, though, I'm not defending this particular idiot.
While you're at it, perhaps you could fix some of the ridiculous crippling bugs in the second one? (That said, I've never had any trouble getting either of them to run on XP, without dosbox or anything. Just saw a whole lot of game-becomes-unwinnable bugs in WotR. Man, I haven't thought about that series in *years*...)
I don't think it's generally *you* that has the software, but rather one's employer that runs it on their network. And I assume "pay to surf" would imply some sort of anonymization along with the paying? (Or, as likely, it's just categorized as a sort of site you just have no particular business visiting during work hours. Sort of like/. - no clue why that isn't blocked here.)
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Yeah... just need to buy swamp lands that's sufficiently close to Disney World for next time they feel like expanding, right?
I know my rights. I want my phone call.
Tell me, Mr. Anderson... what good is a phone call... if you're unable to speak?
Austin Powers: "This coffee tastes like shit!" Basil: "It is shit, Austin." Austin Powers: "I thought so. A bit nutty."
Not exactly a new thought... lyrics to a song from frelling 1994 (it's a great song, by the way):
Peace is Out
words and music by Roy Zimmerman
We used to take a nonviolent stance
In Nehru jackets and bell-bottom pants
We even used to sing, "Give peace a chance"
God, we must have been joking
We used to slander the words of our prez
And praise whatever the Tao Te Ching says
We used to wanna sing like Joan Baez
Jesus, what we were smoking?
Now when someone says, "Hell no, we won't go"
What they mean is "to Berkeley"
Peace is out, love is out
No one wants to hear about
Peace and love anymore
Now we're fighting
In a war against homelessness, a war against drugs
'Cause it's in to be in a war
We used to traipse around in tie-dye tights
Dropping daisies in enemy sights
Now we're fighting for property rights
Must have come to our senses
We used to say all we needed was love
Olive branches and sign of the dove
Now we're looking for something above
90K plus expenses
Now when someone says, "What the world needs now"
It's a private police force
Peace is out, love is out
No one wants to hear about
Peace and love anymore
Now we're fighting
In a war against joblessness, a war against crime
'Cause it's in to be in a war
All we wanna say
Is peace... ain't PC, it's passé
Now when someone says, "We shall overcome"
They mean, "We'll be right over"
Peace is out, love is out
No one gives a rat's ass about
Peace and love anymore
Now we're fighting
In a war against violence, a war against poverty
A war against ignorance, a war against obesity
A war against censorship, a war against cavities
'Cause it's in to be in... in to be in...
in to be in... a war.
Then I suppose there's no such thing as Chinese, either? After all, there are multiple dialects of the language spoken by people in China, which differ quite dramatically.
It's true... playing Nethack does lead to dying... over and over and over again.
Obligatory Frontalot lyrics post:
lurking in #pass chans on the irc
got dcc'd unexpectedly
with an 80-minute XviD: Nuns In Heat
Part Three, Bad Habits. I'm so l337
that I had that one already
skipped to the part with the fishnet teddy
whipped it out, but to my chagrin
one toss from a win and the boss walked in
said "nuh-uh Front, that terminal ain't
for a latex crucifix spanking a taint
in big 32-bit color
while them rosary beads get yanked out the cruller"
I said "you can't fire me; I quit!"
opened up the case, yanked out the hard disk
Why not? You hear about guys going to the cops complaining about their dealer selling them fake pot at least once a year. :p
Now go download (or, preferably, buy) the rest of Frontalot's work already. He's pretty awesome (I think his first cd, off which those lyrics were taken, is still his best.)
Nope. At the very least, Kingdom of Loathing players all refer to the Jack in the Box familiar as the JitB; clearly we should refer to this thing as Java in the Box?
> "now it's being super seeded by about a dozen other platforms."
Huh... how exactly do platforms put other platforms up on bittorrent? (I think you mean "superseded".)
It *would* contribute to a faster browser... if it weren't for the fact that it eats all your memory, and then craps itself when it doesn't have any memory left to eat, and runs like a snail. Seriously, I love Firefox, except that it just keeps getting worse and worse at garbage collection.
I'm getting *close* to giving up and using Chrome for everything except the couple places I really do need a working Greasemonkey. I'm not quite there, but it's close.
Funny, when someone actually says LOL in a verbal conversation, it makes me... LOL. :p (Really, it does. It tends to make me laugh; I find it pretty hilarious.)
I never type "lol" nonironically myself, though, but it doesn't really bother me, either. (As for your example of "fail", I think you got that backwards.)
I'm a bit late to this party, but I agree with you there: the point of the "quantum leap" metaphor is that, rather than some particular technology progressing continuously from less advanced to more, it's possible to identify a moment in which the technology's "advancedness" jumps suddenly (and discretely) from a lower state to a higher one. The metaphor makes perfect sense when thought of like that, as far as I'm concerned.
It's true, though... hanging everyone who steals a loaf of bread *would* cut down on a lot of problems. But long as we're doing that, why not go further: let's hang everyone who doesn't have a job. Let's hang everyone who isn't making enough to support their family. Heck, the world is getting overpopulated, let's just do like the Romans and decimate the population (kill a tenth, chosen at random).
Would solve a lot of problems (for those still alive), wouldn't it? (Granted, it would introduce new ones, but I'm sure we could work around them.)
> Remember VB6, DDE, OLE and WIN32? I do, but not because I was around when they were new. Until a couple years ago, I was in school, out in the mythical ivory towerish land where 2 months was a "large" project, and most coding was done in a text editor, in linux, and compiled and run from command line. Now I'm out in the real world, working for a company that writes real code designed to be run by real customers (who are using Windows), and while I haven't had to write large amounts of code in older Microsoft languages/APIs, I've certainly had to *interact* with all of those outdated technologies, and holy *frack* is C# code nicer to read and modify than any of those. I won't deny that M$ loves pushing the newest and greatest thing, even when you don't care and it would just be a waste of time (hi, Silverlight), but C# is not one of those things. Seriously, if I never had to look at a CString or a _bstr_t ever again, I would be way happier.
I like to think I'm influenced more by shows like Castle, where there's one guy who is shown to have means, motive and opportunity to commit the murder, and it's really obvious he did it, except that of course he never did, it's always someone else. Which is of course equally unlikely - usually the guy standing at the scene of a murder with a gun in his hand *did* commit the murder, but it's still a good lesson in not confusing "likely assumption" with "fact".
You probably torrented Vista, too. I mean, I could imagine torrenting it solely on the basis of enjoying the thought of piracy against such crap, but really, "upgrading the quality"? Like Vista, I'd say "upgrading the quality" should go the other direction. (And really, I'm unlikely even to torrent it, it's *not* worth a few hours of my bandwidth.)
Funny - I play a F2P game called Kingdom of Loathing, which releases a powerful item at the start of every month, and retires the old one (thus ensuring in-game prices for them will go up over time, as you can still buy old ones from players, but no new ones will ever be generated). Every so often a new item of the month will obsolete an old one, and people generally *like* that this happens. In fact, there have been times when many people have complained about it *not* happening - about an old IotM still being necessary, despite it having gotten to be ludicrously expensive.
Of course, the difference, I think, is in how the developers treat us, their customers - those particular game designers go well out of their way to make sure they're not perceived as money-grubbing, most notably by making sure that you actually can enjoy all the content without giving them a penny (it'll just cost you way more in-game dough, to buy them from players who did give them cash). It's a good system, I think. (I've definitely seen F2P games that *were* obvious money grabs *cough*maplestory*cough* - I try to avoid those.)
Or just do what Petra did, and get people to start using your image as their sig/avatar, until it goes memetic. (Yeah, this idea is a bit old. I actually made a forum avatar that has her message steganographically written into it a while back, just for my own amusement.)
Another obligatory reference: http://xkcd.com/16/ (not originally about xkcd, and I love quoting things as much as the next guy, but the point is still an apt one.)
Yup - Burn Notice was the first thing I thought of when I saw this headline: "Cracking an old-school safe is pretty tough, but modern hi-tech security makes it much easier. Thing is, nobody wipes off a fingerprint scanner after they use it. So what's left on the scanner, nine times out of ten, is a fingerprint."
It *is* good advice, too, if you happen to ever use a scanner. Not that I have.
You could probably experimentally determine a speed beyond which it's rarely going to be safe regardless of road conditions, an actual "maximum speed". It is well above the speed limit in most places (except, perhaps, the limit on residential areas near schools...), because the real point of speed limits (on the freeway, at least) is for cops to have an excuse to give people tickets, so their department can stay alive. As someone who recently got a ticket, I would say, if that weren't the case, they wouldn't feel the need to add so many obvious unnecessary nickel-and-dimey fees and charges to the already obscene initial ticket (and I wasn't driving at all unsafely. Past the speed limit, yes, but not like this guy).
Obviously, though, I'm not defending this particular idiot.
While you're at it, perhaps you could fix some of the ridiculous crippling bugs in the second one? (That said, I've never had any trouble getting either of them to run on XP, without dosbox or anything. Just saw a whole lot of game-becomes-unwinnable bugs in WotR. Man, I haven't thought about that series in *years*...)
I don't think it's generally *you* that has the software, but rather one's employer that runs it on their network. And I assume "pay to surf" would imply some sort of anonymization along with the paying? (Or, as likely, it's just categorized as a sort of site you just have no particular business visiting during work hours. Sort of like /. - no clue why that isn't blocked here.)