It just takes one. I had no idea who he was, and innocently walked into island of the dead. It was horrible, just amazingly bad. I've never felt so disoriented after watching a movie. It was like this giant vortex of suck and fail. It's as close as a person can come to actually being mentally attacked by a movie. I know how it sounds, but I can understand how people could carry a grudge.
Off topic perhaps, but I really miss "OMG PONIES!!!". I think that, and the evil bit, were the only things I've actually found funny on slashdot's april fools tradition.
I'd say the customer is the one who gets to say how the transaction goes, or rather if it does. And if I can't read the ebook, I'm not going to buy it.
I think the apple fanboys easily win for the moment. I'm a long time linux user, and often found the zelotry a bit embarrassing. But looking at the comments on digg when apple comes up actually make me feel a bit uneasy in general. It actually can be borderline scary seeing the amount of nerd rage apple stories can unleash there.
I believe we've reached the point where analogy has before more hindrance than help. I don't think there's really any good president to base a decision on.
You might not find it in the official repository, but I'd be surprised if it wouldn't compile from source for you. It's kind of a pain to get the hang of compiling it the first time around, but after that not too bad to tweak. I'm thinking the vanilla linux binary might do the trick for you as well.
The lack of destruction was the main thing for me as well. Battlebots, the show with no actual battling going on and no actual robots. On comedy central, but also featuring no comedy. The show failed on so many levels.
Just like you and I are facsimiles of the people who raised us. Ever answer the phone at your parent's house only to have the other person mistake you for your same-gendered parent?
That is a good point. I think humans have a distinct tenancy to overestimate how far our personality and speech veers out from anyone in the same culture in general, and from a selection of their social group and genes in particular.
Interesting, that's actually how I go about it as well. Though mine's just hobbiest stuff, unlikely to make it past the yawns of the household. Still, one of the cool things about that method is it provides a good steady input of data. Scraping my own online activity has provided more than one instance of me being annoyed by an aspect of it not working correctly, and another person pointing out that I usually get it wrong in the same way.
So called psychics are going to look pretty pathetic as well, when anyone can transmit like this with 100% accuracy. Much of the allure of that whole scene is that it's firmly in the real of an unavailable other, and that the illusion of a 1% or so success rate can be spun as impressive. When any teen can get 99% success in transmitting information without speech or writing, there's going to be a lot less people falling for mentalisim disguised as reality.
His example is smokers standing outside a doorway, which means there would be no means of entering the place other than walking through their smoke. Though I agree the smoke itself is negligible in comparison to all the other environmental toxins encountered walking along a sidewalk. It does stink a lot more though.
Being in the realm of science fiction, you can bet that in a fit of irony an immortality pill will be invented shortly after you leave. One which can't survive the trip to mars. What a twist!
I agree 100% with your point, and complain about it fairly often myself. But I have to say that if anything slashdot has improve a million times over from when it first sprang on the web. Memory might be tainting things a bit, but it seemed like back in the day even the most trivial tech trivia was hailed as the end of the world. "Lack of these fonts will kill you and everyone you love!!!" And, come on, remember almost anything by Katz? The only thing there not filled with gloom was how excited he was about his new book.
The one thing I think they could have a huge value for is public access to journals. There really isn't a good way for a person without access to a university to easily stay up to date on scientific topics from primary sources. Which, really, is the only worthwhile way to access a subject in anything but a superficial way. We bemoan a public that will take snakeoil over real treatment, when there's no way for that person to access the resources which prove something to be one or the other. Now lack of the proper education to understand the studies is important too, but one has to start somewhere. Journal access plus public lectures and discussions like many libraries have for computer literacy could go a long way to increasing the general level of scientific understanding among the public.
One of his earlier games, for the gameboy color, was pretty much snatched up from him by the distributor. After receiving 0% of the sales, I imagine he's a little paranoid this time around.
Demi! It's been so long since I thought about the old romhacking days that I didn't make the link. Great to see that he's still active in this kind of thing.
I hated the first season, possibly even the second. But the show's grown on me, and has become something of a semi-guilty pleasure that I look forward to watching. The characters are still stereotypes for the most part, but they're still changing as the show progresses. That alone is pretty amazing for a wacky joke show.
Top-tier? Their linux flash releases are buggy and always behind those of windows and osx. Even simple changes that should take a day to roll out wind up taking months. And air from the beginning was pushed back because they couldn't be bothered to step up the work on the flash player for linux. As much as I'm happy to see any support of linux, adobe's doing it as an afterthought at best.
For the most part it's been slow, memory heavy, and prone to lockups. Things are getting a lot better, but even now there's huge room for improvement before I'll give it even the level of usability which comes from swing. And I tend to avoid swing based java apps in general for the most part.
That, combined with the general lackluster performance of adobe's builds of flash for linux have always been a very bad combination for me. It's a lot better with betas of both, but they both still get into fights.
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I used to hate that attitude. But it's when anyone at the level of mildly competent or above winds up punished that I start to side that way.
It just takes one. I had no idea who he was, and innocently walked into island of the dead. It was horrible, just amazingly bad. I've never felt so disoriented after watching a movie. It was like this giant vortex of suck and fail. It's as close as a person can come to actually being mentally attacked by a movie. I know how it sounds, but I can understand how people could carry a grudge.
Off topic perhaps, but I really miss "OMG PONIES!!!". I think that, and the evil bit, were the only things I've actually found funny on slashdot's april fools tradition.
I'd say the customer is the one who gets to say how the transaction goes, or rather if it does. And if I can't read the ebook, I'm not going to buy it.
I think the apple fanboys easily win for the moment. I'm a long time linux user, and often found the zelotry a bit embarrassing. But looking at the comments on digg when apple comes up actually make me feel a bit uneasy in general. It actually can be borderline scary seeing the amount of nerd rage apple stories can unleash there.
Pfft. I wear a long sleeve shirt under a short sleeve shirt under a long sleeve shirt.
I believe we've reached the point where analogy has before more hindrance than help. I don't think there's really any good president to base a decision on.
You might not find it in the official repository, but I'd be surprised if it wouldn't compile from source for you. It's kind of a pain to get the hang of compiling it the first time around, but after that not too bad to tweak. I'm thinking the vanilla linux binary might do the trick for you as well.
I love how it was removed from competition for the crime of actually being interesting to watch.
The lack of destruction was the main thing for me as well. Battlebots, the show with no actual battling going on and no actual robots. On comedy central, but also featuring no comedy. The show failed on so many levels.
Just like you and I are facsimiles of the people who raised us. Ever answer the phone at your parent's house only to have the other person mistake you for your same-gendered parent?
That is a good point. I think humans have a distinct tenancy to overestimate how far our personality and speech veers out from anyone in the same culture in general, and from a selection of their social group and genes in particular.
Interesting, that's actually how I go about it as well. Though mine's just hobbiest stuff, unlikely to make it past the yawns of the household. Still, one of the cool things about that method is it provides a good steady input of data. Scraping my own online activity has provided more than one instance of me being annoyed by an aspect of it not working correctly, and another person pointing out that I usually get it wrong in the same way.
So called psychics are going to look pretty pathetic as well, when anyone can transmit like this with 100% accuracy. Much of the allure of that whole scene is that it's firmly in the real of an unavailable other, and that the illusion of a 1% or so success rate can be spun as impressive. When any teen can get 99% success in transmitting information without speech or writing, there's going to be a lot less people falling for mentalisim disguised as reality.
His example is smokers standing outside a doorway, which means there would be no means of entering the place other than walking through their smoke. Though I agree the smoke itself is negligible in comparison to all the other environmental toxins encountered walking along a sidewalk. It does stink a lot more though.
Being in the realm of science fiction, you can bet that in a fit of irony an immortality pill will be invented shortly after you leave. One which can't survive the trip to mars. What a twist!
I agree 100% with your point, and complain about it fairly often myself. But I have to say that if anything slashdot has improve a million times over from when it first sprang on the web. Memory might be tainting things a bit, but it seemed like back in the day even the most trivial tech trivia was hailed as the end of the world. "Lack of these fonts will kill you and everyone you love!!!" And, come on, remember almost anything by Katz? The only thing there not filled with gloom was how excited he was about his new book.
The one thing I think they could have a huge value for is public access to journals. There really isn't a good way for a person without access to a university to easily stay up to date on scientific topics from primary sources. Which, really, is the only worthwhile way to access a subject in anything but a superficial way. We bemoan a public that will take snakeoil over real treatment, when there's no way for that person to access the resources which prove something to be one or the other. Now lack of the proper education to understand the studies is important too, but one has to start somewhere. Journal access plus public lectures and discussions like many libraries have for computer literacy could go a long way to increasing the general level of scientific understanding among the public.
One of his earlier games, for the gameboy color, was pretty much snatched up from him by the distributor. After receiving 0% of the sales, I imagine he's a little paranoid this time around.
Demi! It's been so long since I thought about the old romhacking days that I didn't make the link. Great to see that he's still active in this kind of thing.
Are you sure about the SDK release? I was under the impression that they were just going to talk about it a bit and give a new release date.
I hated the first season, possibly even the second. But the show's grown on me, and has become something of a semi-guilty pleasure that I look forward to watching. The characters are still stereotypes for the most part, but they're still changing as the show progresses. That alone is pretty amazing for a wacky joke show.
Good times did turn into something that might as well have been the "Dynomiiiiiiiiiiite!" show after a couple seasons.
Top-tier? Their linux flash releases are buggy and always behind those of windows and osx. Even simple changes that should take a day to roll out wind up taking months. And air from the beginning was pushed back because they couldn't be bothered to step up the work on the flash player for linux. As much as I'm happy to see any support of linux, adobe's doing it as an afterthought at best.
For the most part it's been slow, memory heavy, and prone to lockups. Things are getting a lot better, but even now there's huge room for improvement before I'll give it even the level of usability which comes from swing. And I tend to avoid swing based java apps in general for the most part.
That, combined with the general lackluster performance of adobe's builds of flash for linux have always been a very bad combination for me. It's a lot better with betas of both, but they both still get into fights.