When I finally watched it, I was really primed, but... the thing was, they weren't funny. Not even a little bit.
I know this sounds pretentious, but the humor is largely referential, and most of it relates to pop culture from the 60's on to the 90's. A bulk of the jokes will fly over my head, but the ones that hit are absolutely gold. Mostly because they are very subtle, and will not try to beat the jokes to death by trying to explain them.
I also suggest watching the Joel Hodgson episodes (Comedy Central), as opposed to the Mike Nelson episodes (Sci-Fi Channel), since the older episodes had more classically bad movies like all the Godzilla/Gamera stuff and a lot of the Ed Wood movies (Plan 9 from Outer Space).
Also don't forget to view the all-time best episode: "Manos" Hands of Fate. The ending scene with the Torgo Pizza Delivery Service still cracks me up even after my 8th viewing!
Yuck, you actually use that crappy excuse for a "hello world" win32 app? EMACS all the way, baby.
Pshaw! You kids with your new-fangled "bloatware". When I want a text editor, I want a text editor! Not a "command shell/Email/newsreader/webbrowser/game-platform"!
That's why I stick with vi, the greatest editor ever made.:)
Install Linux on your computer and buy several O'Reilly books. Play around until you are ultra-familiar with the shell and the basic elements of shell programming (including reg-ex). Congratulations, you are now a Unix power user, are one-step away from being a Perl programmer and companies want you like you're crack.
Compare that to the following: You're a home NT user. Same scenario, only the bug wasn't reported. One super criminal has it... and maybe the Fortune 500 company is now screwed (which is why they need 24/7 sysadmins on a patchable OS), but there are no script kiddies around to attack you.
...or rather: a few high-level black hats know about this unpublished bug, and go around cracking whomever they choose indiscriminately for months upon months without anybody knowing what is going on until word leaks out and a gray hat posts it on the Bugtraq. At which point Microsoft starts working on a service pack that may or may not fsck up something else on your system.
Its called being: "dragged around by the short-hairs".
This means that if you don't want to install ChatZilla (which rocks by the way, full IRC client in a 400k install, IIRC) you don't have to. Same with mail/news. Even the PSM comes as an XPI. And skins? Skins are wrappable in XPI.
Well, that's great and all, but I believe the original poster's point was, and correct me if I'm wrong: the the Mozilla developers have spread themselves too thin with all these features and should have focused on just getting a final working web browser out the door first.
All these other features (i.e. news reader, email client, chat client, programming platform, XUL, gui skinning) are extraneous to what we all want out of Mozilla, which is a fast, stable, standards-compliant browser. I don't care if I can put a H.R. Giger skin on my browser, as long as it can do those basic things.
SQL is actually a "declarative" language, in that you concentrate more on utilizing the available functionality to make relationships between data rather than create the actual functionality like in imperative languages.
Do you really think you can defeat me and my plans to take over the world with my army of giant, super-intelligent, green-glow-in-the-dark, insulin-producing, human-ear-backed, mutant mice?
I think the fitaly keyboard is similar in concept to the Number key-pad. Basically, by laying everything out in a "square-ish" format where vertical movement is more prevalent, it reduces hand movement and thus increases typing speed.
I believe the Great Flood would be a great example of Yahweh's imperfection. After all, he fucked up so royally with his first batch of creations, that he decided he needed to drown everything land animal and plant on earth. (Excluding several hundred thousand pairs of animals that Noah and his family collected for his wooden Ark.)
Of course, where all that water came from and went is a whole 'nother story...
Just because and advanced technology/society might be indstinguishable from God, dos not mean that god does not exist.
Well, depending on how you define "God", it would certainly be easier to believe in a super-advanced alien-life form, than an omnipotent, omniscient, all-benevolent, perfect "creator-of-all-things".
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and "God" happens to be the most extraordinary claim of all.
Free as defined by Western Civilization? The problem, my friend, is China has its own history. They reject our ideals. Who is to say we're right and they're wrong. I suspect that if you were born in Beijing you might have a different perspective.
Naaah. China's problem is that the government consists of a bunch of backward, totalitarian, despots.
Take a look at what Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore have been doing, and you will see what the Chinese can do in a free nation.
You should probably save your condescension for another venue. China finds a lot of things that Western Civilization has given us (homelessness, high crime, etc.) "shameful". The only difference is they don't try to condemn us for it.
Naaah, they condemn us quite regularly in their propagandist publications like the PLA newspaper. At least the homeless guy is free to say whatever he wants about the government.
This seems to me to sound like the argument over Cable content scrambling. I have always been of the opinion that I can do whatever I want with data, once its in my posession. So if they don't want me to descramble, decrypt or whatever, then they shouldn't send me the signal in the first place, should block it outside the home.
The argument for DeCSS is even stronger. You haven't paid for the Spice channel that you just descrambled, however DVD owners have already paid for the content. We should be able to watch it whereever and however we want to.
They slandered him, he libeled them. The kids father wants the other students held to the same standard, but what they did wasn't the same, legally. Morally or ethically, yes they're pretty much the same.
Ehh.. wrong, the school libeled him, he libeled them back. He could have gone out and sued the school for libel, but he was a lot less of an alarmist and just decided to write a retort on the web. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the school and its principal.
He didn't call another kid a dork, he called several of his classmates 'sluts'. If you know anything about Utah, you would know how much of an insult that is there. Same with calling school staff drunks. Utahns take themselves very seriously about stuff like that.
Yeah, well too bad for the Utahns that they live in the United States. Perhaps these folks would feel more at home in Afghanistan with the Taliban thought-control regime?
BTW, the kid is out to prove all his "libelous" statements, so I guess these "sluts" and "drunks" are going to have their whole lives exposed to the whole world to see, heheheheh.. serves them right.
Hmmm... I agree that the Internet isn't what it used to be (when I say "used to" I mean pre-1996.) However, in this case, it is the government doing the dirty work, not corporations. After all, isn't it in the government's very nature to "govern"?
Therefore, anything involving a substantial number of people will attract the watchful eye of the government. Big Brother is just as much them as it is the corporations.
The Legend of Arislan is also a decent Fantasy-Setting Anime. The art is beautiful (it looks like they changed artists halfway through the series, which is a little disconcerting), but the story is decent and there are a lot of interesting characters.
This guy said his kids really want to be programmers. If that is true, they are probably math geeks that can take on raw code
What you're forgetting is that all these kids have ever been exposed to is Win98. They're whole lifes have been WYSIWYG-GUI.
Unlike you and me, who started out on computers and OS's where CLI was the default, these kids don't know anything besides the Micro$oft start bar. You don't want to shell shock these kids out of programming altogether by throwing into gcc, perl, or even the antiquated Borland Turbo C++ IDE.
By slowly weaning them through simple-to-use programming languages, you are lowering the learning curve, which is a good thing.
Visual Basic is sort of like a Fisher Price "My First Programming Language"
The drag-and-drop methodology keeps it simple for the kids to pick up, and the object-based nature gives them a headstart on true OO programming. Visual Basic also tends to have more non-esoteric keywords (unlike perl) so it might be more intuitive and a little easier to follow. Once they master Visual Basic, then can move on to more advanced languages like Perl, Java, and C.
BTW, you should start weaning them onto UNIX. Maybe you can install Enlightenment Window Manager, and show them how much cooler it looks than Windows. They'll slowly gravitate to it after that.
Star Trek had it all wrong with its replicator technology.
If things continue this way, the company that invents and creates the replicator would be sued to oblivion before its potential could be fully realized.
By banning this world-changing technology, companies will be able to continue with the status-quo. After all... change is bad.
Imagine being able to replicate a TV, a computer, or a Lamborghini. Boy, would big companies be pissed off at that.
(P.S. By the way, I think Holodecks would also cause a real big stink amongst the big corporations).
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China has an military full of cannon-fodder and grunt infantry. Because if there is one thing China has in spades, its people.
Their artillery and heavy machinery are all aging and outdated, thus the recent spending increase in the military. But the Chinese government doesn't have a problem throwing a few hundred thousand soldiers as a buffer against the U.S., theres always more where that came from.
just like you brother walk into to your home and said half of your home is his. That's what Taiwan is saying. I would pull out my.45 and say "get lost". China has the right to tell those japanese(aka taiwanese) go away.
First of all: I'm sorry, "half"? Do you understand proportions and geometry? Taiwan is a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean with 21 million people. China is an immense country stretching as far as the Himalayas with over 1.4 billion people, how does your analogy fit here?
Second of all: How do you figure that Taiwan (the island) "belongs" to China? Because China says so? You'll notice that the Japanese were the last nation to occupy the island. If you say that China had it before Japan, then I'll point out that the *Dutch* had it before them! It can't be the people, since you just claimed that they were all japanese. So where does China's justification for ownership come from?
Third of all: Your answer to a disagreement with your brother is to pull a gun on him?! Do you not see the immorality of this whole situation? 75% percent of Taiwanese have absolutely no desire to reunite with China, yet somehow it thinks that it can just try (and I do mean, try, since the Taiwanese military is nothing to sneeze at) to invade and conquer Taiwan and everyone will just change their mind?
China is threatening to kill millions of people because it can't have what it wants on its own terms.
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I know this sounds pretentious, but the humor is largely referential, and most of it relates to pop culture from the 60's on to the 90's. A bulk of the jokes will fly over my head, but the ones that hit are absolutely gold. Mostly because they are very subtle, and will not try to beat the jokes to death by trying to explain them.
I also suggest watching the Joel Hodgson episodes (Comedy Central), as opposed to the Mike Nelson episodes (Sci-Fi Channel), since the older episodes had more classically bad movies like all the Godzilla/Gamera stuff and a lot of the Ed Wood movies (Plan 9 from Outer Space).
Also don't forget to view the all-time best episode: "Manos" Hands of Fate. The ending scene with the Torgo Pizza Delivery Service still cracks me up even after my 8th viewing!
Pshaw! You kids with your new-fangled "bloatware". When I want a text editor, I want a text editor! Not a "command shell/Email/newsreader/webbrowser/game-platform"!
That's why I stick with vi, the greatest editor ever made. :)
vi 0wnZ j00!
Install Linux on your computer and buy several O'Reilly books. Play around until you are ultra-familiar with the shell and the basic elements of shell programming (including reg-ex). Congratulations, you are now a Unix power user, are one-step away from being a Perl programmer and companies want you like you're crack.
Its called being: "dragged around by the short-hairs".
Well, that's great and all, but I believe the original poster's point was, and correct me if I'm wrong: the the Mozilla developers have spread themselves too thin with all these features and should have focused on just getting a final working web browser out the door first.
All these other features (i.e. news reader, email client, chat client, programming platform, XUL, gui skinning) are extraneous to what we all want out of Mozilla, which is a fast, stable, standards-compliant browser. I don't care if I can put a H.R. Giger skin on my browser, as long as it can do those basic things.
7.) The "Description of what kind of Posts this article will be getting" karma-whore post.
Thank you, goodnight.
Eeeh.. I don't know about that.
SQL is actually a "declarative" language, in that you concentrate more on utilizing the available functionality to make relationships between data rather than create the actual functionality like in imperative languages.
If he meant for us to stand out in the sun... blah blah...
Do you really think you can defeat me and my plans to take over the world with my army of giant, super-intelligent, green-glow-in-the-dark, insulin-producing, human-ear-backed, mutant mice?
I, along with Microsoft's Legion of Evil Monkeys will crush you, Linux-boy!
MuuaHaaaaHahahahaahahaahaha..hahe..ah.he..ahem.
Thats why the key-pad basically 0wnz j00!
Of course, where all that water came from and went is a whole 'nother story...
Well, depending on how you define "God", it would certainly be easier to believe in a super-advanced alien-life form, than an omnipotent, omniscient, all-benevolent, perfect "creator-of-all-things".
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and "God" happens to be the most extraordinary claim of all.
Naaah. China's problem is that the government consists of a bunch of backward, totalitarian, despots.
Take a look at what Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore have been doing, and you will see what the Chinese can do in a free nation.
You should probably save your condescension for another venue. China finds a lot of things that Western Civilization has given us (homelessness, high crime, etc.) "shameful". The only difference is they don't try to condemn us for it.
Naaah, they condemn us quite regularly in their propagandist publications like the PLA newspaper. At least the homeless guy is free to say whatever he wants about the government.
The argument for DeCSS is even stronger. You haven't paid for the Spice channel that you just descrambled, however DVD owners have already paid for the content. We should be able to watch it whereever and however we want to.
Ehh.. wrong, the school libeled him, he libeled them back. He could have gone out and sued the school for libel, but he was a lot less of an alarmist and just decided to write a retort on the web. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for the school and its principal.
Yeah, well too bad for the Utahns that they live in the United States. Perhaps these folks would feel more at home in Afghanistan with the Taliban thought-control regime?
BTW, the kid is out to prove all his "libelous" statements, so I guess these "sluts" and "drunks" are going to have their whole lives exposed to the whole world to see, heheheheh.. serves them right.
Therefore, anything involving a substantial number of people will attract the watchful eye of the government. Big Brother is just as much them as it is the corporations.
Or a big fat panda for a dad!
The Legend of Arislan is also a decent Fantasy-Setting Anime. The art is beautiful (it looks like they changed artists halfway through the series, which is a little disconcerting), but the story is decent and there are a lot of interesting characters.
What you're forgetting is that all these kids have ever been exposed to is Win98. They're whole lifes have been WYSIWYG-GUI.
Unlike you and me, who started out on computers and OS's where CLI was the default, these kids don't know anything besides the Micro$oft start bar. You don't want to shell shock these kids out of programming altogether by throwing into gcc, perl, or even the antiquated Borland Turbo C++ IDE.
By slowly weaning them through simple-to-use programming languages, you are lowering the learning curve, which is a good thing.
The drag-and-drop methodology keeps it simple for the kids to pick up, and the object-based nature gives them a headstart on true OO programming. Visual Basic also tends to have more non-esoteric keywords (unlike perl) so it might be more intuitive and a little easier to follow. Once they master Visual Basic, then can move on to more advanced languages like Perl, Java, and C.
BTW, you should start weaning them onto UNIX. Maybe you can install Enlightenment Window Manager, and show them how much cooler it looks than Windows. They'll slowly gravitate to it after that.
If things continue this way, the company that invents and creates the replicator would be sued to oblivion before its potential could be fully realized.
By banning this world-changing technology, companies will be able to continue with the status-quo. After all... change is bad.
Imagine being able to replicate a TV, a computer, or a Lamborghini. Boy, would big companies be pissed off at that.
(P.S. By the way, I think Holodecks would also cause a real big stink amongst the big corporations).
Their artillery and heavy machinery are all aging and outdated, thus the recent spending increase in the military. But the Chinese government doesn't have a problem throwing a few hundred thousand soldiers as a buffer against the U.S., theres always more where that came from.
First of all: I'm sorry, "half"? Do you understand proportions and geometry? Taiwan is a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean with 21 million people. China is an immense country stretching as far as the Himalayas with over 1.4 billion people, how does your analogy fit here?
Second of all: How do you figure that Taiwan (the island) "belongs" to China? Because China says so? You'll notice that the Japanese were the last nation to occupy the island. If you say that China had it before Japan, then I'll point out that the *Dutch* had it before them! It can't be the people, since you just claimed that they were all japanese. So where does China's justification for ownership come from?
Third of all: Your answer to a disagreement with your brother is to pull a gun on him?! Do you not see the immorality of this whole situation? 75% percent of Taiwanese have absolutely no desire to reunite with China, yet somehow it thinks that it can just try (and I do mean, try, since the Taiwanese military is nothing to sneeze at) to invade and conquer Taiwan and everyone will just change their mind?
China is threatening to kill millions of people because it can't have what it wants on its own terms.
End of story.