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  1. Re:Let's see... on Zen Coding · · Score: 1

    That’s what TypoScript is for. ;))

    You could see them all as domain-specific languages. (Except for HTML and CSS, which are not programming languages at all.)
    Semantics: HTML
    Aesthetics: CSS
    Logic: (3 layers)
        JavaScript - UI layer
        PHP - back end layer
        SQL - data layer

    So, in a way it makes sense. (Except for TypoScript, which makes no fucking sense at all, since PHP already is a easy template language. [PHP = PHP Hypertext Preprocessor!])

    Of course, after 10 years of webapp development experience, I stopped and went back to actual client/server software. You can just as well separate the semantics and aesthetics of those nowadays. But without having to have a different language for every separate layer of logic. :)

  2. Re:Me? Oh wow. Thanks. *takes cup* on James Webb Telescope Passes Critical Tests · · Score: 1

    Oh I get it. The joke just was waaayyyy over your head! Nice EPIC FAIL dude! ^^

    Seems that also any sufficiently advanced joke is indistinguishable from a troll. ^^

    But hey, about how much I care: My Karma: Still Excellent. ^^ So Fuck you motherfucker! :D

  3. Re:Zen on Zen Coding · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, I agreed with you, in having been ignorant about anything but the romantic western views on “zen”.
    So I read up on the actual philosophies behind it. And now I just as much won’t to come near zen, as I don’t want to come near any other religious insanities. (Please bear with me. Or at least read the points, down there where it’s marked bold. Thank you. :)

    See, the goal of Zen, as far as I see, is so get into a “total zero” state. One that they call “enlightement”, but that I call “no different from being a vegetable”. The goal is to seek less and less, and basically just sit there and get into absolute nothingness. Because apparently you don’t exist anyway, as existence is a only defined trough changes (true, but somehow you’re not thinking four-dimensionally, Marty! ^^)
    So reaching Zen, is the art of killing your existence, without killing your body.
    How in hell is that an ideal? It’s sick. And I don’t say that in a derogatory fashion. I say that, because that is an actual form of repression that mentally ill people use.

    See, when we experience horrible things that we can’t fight, we humans tend to go in one of two directions:
    1. Build up an inner imaginary world, and explain the horrible experiences trough it, giving it all a sense, and making it “OK” again. In a very mild form, we all have done this. In a medium form, it’s called “religion” (Christian, Muslim, Jewish, etc). And in the worst form, it’s called by its medical name: schizophrenia.
    2. Run away and make it so that that part of reality and you never ever come into contact with each other again. Ever. And if we can’t physically run away, we do so, be hiding away in our mind itself. Blocking us from reality. Of course we all also have done a bit of this once in a while. But we learned to face it again, and came back. But what Zen does, is generalizing it, and making it an ideal. Going as far as physically possible. And thereby removing themselves from our reality. Which is, to us, equal to stopping to exist.

    So: No thanks. :)

  4. Well, if your goil is energy efficiency... on Hot Aisle Or Cold Aisle For Containment? · · Score: 1

    Then it’s easy: Do the math. Seriously. It’s a question of energy transfer, the simplest thermodynamics, and isolation.
    I’m not a expert in those matters. But I’d say, the goal would be, to minimize energy (heat) differences between areas right next to each other?

    I’m sure there is an expert (please no wannabes) here who can quickly give a nice answer. :)

  5. Re:ICQ is still my main protocol on Russian Company Buys ICQ · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I was not trolling. I’m just pretty angry at the people acting in monkey see, monkey do fashion... switching to MSN and FailBook because "everyone else does it". You know, having lived in Germany most of my life, this reminds me of this being the general excuse of people who did not fight the Nazis back then. They didn’t want “to have the stress” of fighting it. It seems it’s still a popular excuse. :(

    Sure, I can’t and won’t even try to compete with those who actually fought a dictatorship. Those guys are heroes.
    But I would hate myself for not at least withstanding what I think is wrong. Because otherwise I could just as well be a stupid cow following the herd.

  6. Re:Article needs a course in experimental design on The Data-Driven Life · · Score: 1

    Let me boil that down:

    He made a graph. That's more than most people do.

    Ad populum fallacy.

    And yes, its enough to move from 'anecdote' to 'supporting data'.

    This is just a statement about “something’s enough”. Ok, but without arguing why, it’s worthless.

    Is it enough to make a general conclusion about the effect of coffee on society? No.

    While I agree, this is another statement without any arguments supporting it, still hanging freely in the air. We’ll see...

    Is it enough to make a limited conclusion about the effect of coffee on him? Still no.

    I also agree on this. But it is a third statement awaiting supporting arguments. Let’s hope that now they’ll come...

    But is it enough to suggest maybe he should continue avoiding coffee? Sure.

    Oh no. You blew your last line on yet another castle in the clouds. Where’s the "why"?

    Why not?

    Well, the GP comment already made the point why not. And since your answer only consisted of a logical fallacy, and four empty statements without anything backing them up, let alone common paradigms to start from, that point still stands. :)

    (Btw: GP’s point was paraphrased, so I’ll repeat it in a direct way, to avoid confusion: Correlation is not causation. Which is a reaction to the logical fallacy with the same name, that is so well known around here. Unfortunately he also missed to point out, why that is true. He just assumed, being parroted around that much, we all knew it anyway. But since that is clearly not good enough, here’s the explanation why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_causation )

    In short: Unless you eliminate the billion other variables, you will never know for sure. :)

  7. Re:Rise of the Many-to-Many on The Data-Driven Life · · Score: 1

    That’s just as dumb if not even dumber than spreading correct information about you.
    Why? Because misinformation can bite you back later. And it can be much worse for you.
    Say you state that you were in place X, and it happens to be the location of a crime. And that’s a mild one.

    The wisest thing is to understand how the human mind works: We only remember differences from normal. That’s even true for the programs that we write. We always seek the differences from normal. Encryption works that way.

    The best thing of course, is to not put any information at all out there. But if you got no choice, only putting default Joe Random information out there that everybody expects anyway might be wiser. Even wiser is it, to not make the information too perfectly generic. Because that is a exception again, and therefore will get noticed too.

    But I just prefer the 3-identity lifestyle online.
    1. My very private identity. Only available to people I know in real life *and* trust.
    2. My official online identity. Available to all people in real life and online that I know personally.
    3. My anonymous online identity. Not known to anyone but me. Completely distinct from everything up there, yet not suspicious. Only linked by a single mailinator-like e-mail address. The trick to keep you from revealing that this is you, is to name your user and e-mail address after something you don’t want anyone in RL to ever know. A weird sexual fetish will do very well. But I bet you know your secret. :)

  8. Re:slashdot's change password interface on Facebook's "Evil Interfaces" · · Score: 1

    We should stop giving something a negative score, only because some dickheads could use it to write angry replies. You may not like it, but it’s true.

    Oh, and to a certain set of retards: Only because when you talk, you assume that your personal opinion is globally true, that does not mean that healthy people assume that, when they don’t specifically mention it! When I say “The worst interface”m then ob.vi.ous.ly I mean to me. There is no need to mention it, since it’s assumed. Always.

    And I consider the lack of freedom that oversimplified interfaces like the Apple USs provide, to be an extreme limitation of what I can do with a computer. To the point where I don’t use a computer, but are forced to play with a appliance. No individual automation involved, even though that is the very point of having a computer, other than an appliance.
    And Gnome and KDE strongly imitate that trend, you can’t deny that.

    You may prefer that. But then I’t call you a simpleton with a limited mind. And you can call me whatever you want. That’s just as much your right. But do it in a comment. Moderation is for dickheads who don’t have the brains or balls to come up with a proper argument!

  9. Re:Me? Oh wow. Thanks. *takes cup* on James Webb Telescope Passes Critical Tests · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    P.S.: And Troll?? Seriously? Have you even read what I wrote?
    This really proves, that the whole moderating system doesn’t mean shit, if the moderators themselves are not properly moderated too. (Metamoderation is not proper. Because nobody does it. Metamoderation should be done right here, right now. And also metamoderatable.)

  10. Re:Me? Oh wow. Thanks. *takes cup* on James Webb Telescope Passes Critical Tests · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can anyone explain to me, how the very first comment containing some actual content, is redundant? (A: It’s not.)

  11. Re:Provenge? on FDA Approves Vaccine For Prostate Cancer · · Score: 1

    Provenge — a professional, hired for revenge... in a pill!
    Now also in “hooker” flavor! (But you must provide the “protein” ;)

  12. Re:wait on FDA Approves Vaccine For Prostate Cancer · · Score: 1

    What is a MTV? Can you eat that?

    Oh, wait... it was a “TV channel” back when people still watched TV over some old pre-Internet network, right?
    Man, the 80s were crazy times... Bad hair, only five music companies, leggins, landline phones, and TV stations with people calling themselves “producers” for doing nothing. Oh, and MTV still played music too! ^^

  13. Re:4 GB of DRAM ought to be enough for anybody on ARM-Based Servers Coming In 2011 · · Score: 1

    Well, add more cores with their own memory. ^^

  14. Re:Beowulf cluster on ARM-Based Servers Coming In 2011 · · Score: 1

    No wonder with your sissy simpleton calculations. ;)
    Real mad scientists simulate whole universes. At least.
    And the solution is simple: MOAR CORES! ;)

  15. Re:I feel the pain... on ARM-Based Servers Coming In 2011 · · Score: 1

    unless arm cores start performing a LOT better than intel cores of a similar power envelop

    I was under the impression that they already do that.

  16. Re:Me? Oh wow. Thanks. *takes cup* on James Webb Telescope Passes Critical Tests · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now I feel bad. Wait, I’ll at least come up with something interesting:

    ----------

    Why is this the end of Hubble? Does Hubble not have a stable orbit by itself? It could at least continue doing work for a couple of years.
    Also it’s sad that Hubble never gets to see a museum from the inside, isn’t it? It would deserve it.

    I’m excited about the James Webb. Since it is one step further to something that almost sounds surreal:
    In our lifetimes, telescopes will become advanced enough, to be able to see lifeforms on other planets with a better resolution than Google earth/maps right now.
    Think about that for a minute... Just wow.

    We often talk about how bad everything is. But there are also really great things. And this is one of them. :)

    ----------

    Ok, did I do my duty? *hopes* Are we good?

  17. Me? Oh wow. Thanks. *takes cup* on James Webb Telescope Passes Critical Tests · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Help, this is the first time I ever had the chance to make the first comment... what do I do... I’m so unprepared... HELP.
    Ok, maybe I can at least lead the way for people using me to get on top. ;)

  18. Re:slashdot's change password interface on Facebook's "Evil Interfaces" · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The worst interface is one that doesn’t exist.
    Examples:
    - Slashdot name change interface (I know the reasons. But I still find it an excuse for laziness in coming up with a proper solution.)
    - Really any Apple UI ever.
    - Any recent Gnome UI. (Dev. motto: “You don’t need that, because we say so, and because you are stupid anyway.”) [Don’t worry, KDE4 also caught up and is approaching the same territory.] [I don’t know about Windows since I’m not touching that. I start it with K->Games->Windows XP, which should tell you something about what I think it is good for. :]

  19. Re:evil interfaces on Facebook's "Evil Interfaces" · · Score: 2, Informative

    That’s nothing. KDE4 even beats Windows ME in this regard.

    - Placing and resizing plasmids on the dashboard can literally drive you insane. Because after doing so and releasing the mouse button, you *have* to stay on that element, or the plasmid will reset its position to what it was before. Also it is extremely annoying. If you got two elements right next to each other, the drag bar of the wrong plasmid always keeps popping up right between holding the mouse over the right plasmid, and pressing down the mouse button. But since it is hard to see which one you are now dragging (both drag bars are transparent and looking the same), you are always manipulating the wrong one. It takes elaborate mouse acrobatics to get it to do what you want. So much that I’d strangle the designer, right here, right now.
    - There is a nice trick to show the insanity of how Dolphin is set up: Create a fresh user, and start Dolphin for the very first time. Now go to the settings dialog, and change every single option to its very opposite. Then close the dialog, and witness, how now every option is how you would have wanted it to be in the first place. This is not only true for me, but in my opinion for everyone. Try it out yourself! (Attention: Do not forget to also toggle the interface from mouse over selection and single-click execution to single-click selection and double-click execution in the systemsettings.)
    - The K menu seems to be designed in the most annoying way anyone of them could imagine: The "tabs" on the bottom move on hover, but since you always move a bit sideways when moving upwards to select a list item, you "select" another tab half the time, and can start again. Then when you chose a program and go into the apps “tab” the next time, and want to go “up”, you have to click on the bar on the left. Which would be nice and fine, if it weren’t for the one pixel between that bar and the display border, where your mouse always ends up, instead of on the bar.
    - In all KDE4 programs, all the good options are usually disabled by default. So they appear to seriously and extremely lack functionality. Until you dig up the sometimes well-hidden options and enable them all. Then you can finally actually use them for something useful. Doing that with Kate feels like opening MS Notepad, going to the settings for half an hour, and after closing the dialog, having VIM in front of you. It’s insane.
    - The file dialog is an insult in itself. But someone else already wrote a funny and lengthy comparison that already was mentioned on Slashdot in at least two articles.

    The only thing that beats that in insanity, is IE6 DHTML programming. But I’m sure half the users here will already have lost hair and taken heart pills because of it. I consider Trident a weapon of soul raping. ^^

  20. Re: I would ditch it today if... on One In Eight To Cut Cable and Satellite TV In 2010 · · Score: 1

    So to compress your reasoning down to its essence: You think you pay for what you watch. Which would be nice and good... If the original makers would see anything of it.
    But after 98% of the money going to those crappy shows, and at least 95% of those 2% going to the cable company, tv station and distribution company, maybe with a bit of luck, the people who deserve to actually earn the money for their work, get perhaps about 0.1% of what you pay.

    On the other hand, watching the Daily Show on their site, will get nearly all of it to the actual team. But stupidly they don’t let us pay the fraction of a cent that they get from us via advertising, via paypal. I block all ads, since I don’t need to be told lies, and have no interest in frauds. (ALL ads are criminal fraud.) They either offer me a ad-free deal, or I’ll pull it via torrent.

  21. Re:more on Japanese Researchers Make Plastic Out of Water · · Score: 0

    When was the last time you used actual speech to talk to someone? ;)

    Is it “natural breasts implants” or “natural breats implants

    It is obvious, that we meant the former, not the latter, since the latter is not something, someone would want, since for us “users”, it would make no difference if the implants were natural. What counts is if the breasts are natural.

    So whooosh. ^^

  22. Re:in other news on Opera Acquires Fastmail.fm · · Score: 1

    Not correct. I had much better spam fighting than them.
    Setting it up, is pretty hard. But there is a really great and complete HOWTO on the Gentoo Wiki (something with “complete” and “mail” in the title).

    But when you are done with that, it just works. :)

  23. My setup: Better than a TV with a TiVo. on One In Eight To Cut Cable and Satellite TV In 2010 · · Score: 1

    I think everyone here has his small old Linux home server running somewhere.
    So you can implement the following setup:
    1. eztv.it has a feature to generate a RSS feed with torrents out of any TV show.
    2. mldonkey is a headless edonkey/bittorrent/kad/overnet/etc client that can take rss feeds.
    3. You need a small script, run via cron, to check for new entries in the feed, and add them to mldonkey. (The feature to integrate it is planned, but they need developers.)
    4. mldonkey downloads the files, even while your main computer is off, and you are away or sleeping.
    5. Configure it, to send you a e-mail when a file is done.
    6. Use sshfs-fuse (or something else) to mount the server’s incoming directory to your main computer.
    7. And best of all: Get a 3x2m projector and dolby digital 5.1 sound system, an play it trough them at the exact time you want to.
    Of course any other headless torrent client will do too. (You could even use elinks, which has a torrent client and a text interface, which you could control with a bash script. ;)

    I have added all the shows I watch, and the episodes just pop up in my mail client. I have to do absolutely nothing. :)

  24. Re:Halo effect on James Cameron To Develop 3-D Camera For Mars Rover · · Score: 1

    In perl.

    What? DRM? In my NASA?

  25. Re:Yes, but what about the story? on James Cameron To Develop 3-D Camera For Mars Rover · · Score: 1

    Pocahonthas, of course.
    Oh. I mean Dances With Wolves.