These voice actors are essentially partners in a business venture with Fox.
It's a cartoon that's been on for over a decade. There are so many episodes, Fox could probably fire all the voice actors and just splice together snippets from earlier episodes to make up a complete dialog. Seriously, Homer has about a dozen-word vocabulary; any teenage audio hacker can make do.
That damned punk band in the neighbor's basement must be driving them nuts! I warned them, but did they listen? NO! "But it has a vaulted ceiling and nice wallpaper," she said. "It's close to my job," he said. It makes me sick.
And it's not even a good cut of pork. It's the kind of mangled mystery-meat pork they would at school cafeterias under a label reading "Tenderloin Medallions" or something, but, in the end, no one eats it and it just goes to waste.
Am I horribly short-sighted for thinking this model would work for software too ?
No. In fact it would put an end to endless feature creep and code bloat. Programmers would be paid to do things well rather than too many things poorly.
However, it would mean that customers would need to wean themselves off of their useless feature addiction. Expecting discipline from customers is not good PR.
I believe that the C language achived 99% of the abstraction needed to write robust software, because the complexity of software really doesn't change (writing an office suite is really really hard whether written in C, Java, or C#). All one language does over another is hide and expose different aspects of that immense immovable complexity.
They aren't going to shoot themselves in the foot.
Let's elaborate on this. Below, I'd like people to discuss things like NMCI, warships running Windows, not eliminating people and manual processes from a new-fangled web-based workflow due to employment politics, etc. etc. etc. and all the other things politicians like to do.
Try finding a source for the Stalin numbers, and you will probably end up finding that they were American estimates used mainly for anti-communist propaganda purposes, and that the actual numbers (as substantiated by extensive paper records) were many orders of magnitude lower. Unfortunately, most people are hopelessly brainwashed by American propaganda.
Actually, no one really knows. Further, Russian propoganda against the Russian people was much much worse than any American propoganda campaign. There is a lot still being discovered about Russian history and only time will finish the debate.
You will very likely find that the numbers do not support the notion that the Stalin regime killed millions of people.
Just like many people praised Saddam Hussein? If you feared for the safety of yourself, your family, and your family's families, what would you have said?
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We're talking about some reasonably smart people here. Most of whom don't just buy off on an idea because they see it in print, and most of whom know how to research things a bit.
They are smart, but in the midst of the complexity of business, finance, and management, where would they get the energy to understand the technology, too? Many technology decisions really do take the path of least resistance, simply because technology is just one more massive layer of complexity, risk, and volatility to deal with. It is simply the easiest thing to look around, see that Microsoft makes a good sales pitch and their technology is at least barely functional. Further, Microsoft is a brand that can make people feel good about themselves. It's sort of like driving an expensive good-looking car and feeling good simply by being seen in it.
You are very much a troll. Installing Java is not difficult. I have done it several times, even on Linux, and had it working withing moments of downloading and unpacking it. Native threads on OpenBSD? Given that there isn't a Sun-supported JVM on that platform, you should have been satisfied with green threads. Don't take charity and then ask for more, troll.
Java is opaque for good reason: it is a portable API! Do you really care what hoops it jumps through to write a file to NTFS vs. UFS? If you do really care, then go get the source code for Java directly from Sun.
Lack of information?!? There is more documentation available to Java than I could ever hope for. The books and JavaDoc provided by Sun are not only well-written but generally very complete, too!
Actually, it can be other way - GCC supports pretty much every recent standard, while unix vendor's compilers don't.
True, but Sun's compiler is pretty good. It also comes with some top-notch lint utilities and a very good debugger. I've used it several times to really clean up source code (and eliminating a few bugs, too).
The bugs thing is what gets me. Thorough compilers really can help catch obscure bugs, especially regarding typecasts and function argument types. If GCC is too permissive in supporting multiple standards, my faith in it drops quite a bit.
I saw a mathematics textbook that had been written in MS Word (the author said so himself). The book was the ugliest POS ever put onto paper. The formulas were ugly, the text spacing was off, it was hard to read.
It is so sad that LaTeX and PostScript were invented well over a decade ago (more like 15 to 20 years ago) and produced absolutely gorgeous output only to be pushed into obscurity by crappy memo editors like MS Word.
Well, actually, they phrased it as, the GNU development environment was unable to build WordPerfect, but considering the existence of megaprojects like OpenOffice.org and Mozilla that build just fine under GNU, I don't think that's true.
It is quite common for one piece of software to compile under one compiler and not another. GNU GCC has several GNU-isms, for example, that can lead developers to write "broken" code (and, presumably, Corel's compiler of choice had its own issues). Recently, I tried compiling something under both GCC and Sun's C compiler, and was suprised how many errors Sun's compiler was finding in the code while GCC just whipped out executables without a second thought. I would much rather have the errors found and fixed via a strict compiler rather than have them ignored by GCC. This sort of stuff leads to the often trolled conspiracy theories about GNU "lock in".
Yeah, I went into one and was suprised how bleak it was (a couple demo computers and one rack of accessories). They didn't have anything significant in stock, so I went up the street and bought what I needed from a white-box supplier. I really couldn't see what would motivate someone to buy from a Gateway store, because Gateway is hardly a brand like Sharper Image or something that sets them apart from every other PC company on the planet.
Don't be disappointed, please. The article is based on leaked insider information. Here's some more dirt: the PowerPod will also feature three G5 CPUs, Radeon 9900XXX graphics, and new even larger white headphones (the headphones are affectionally called the iHelmet--not to be confused with Apple's line of trendy condoms).
"Jar Jar? Ah, yes. We first met during auditions, and our eyes met and it was like sparks were flying, but only we could see them. I met up with him after the auditions were over and asked him out for coffee. We really hit it off, you know? There is just something about how his ears flow in the wind and his accent is so charming...I just can't help myself. We really haven't figured out sex, yet, but I haven't been happier than during these wonderful years so I don't mind. Jar Jar is the best."
Believe it or not, a lot of folks around here were not too appreciative of someone with what was perceived as a foreign name.
That's very interesting, given that the midwest is largely populated by immigrants from Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Pennsylvania Dutch (hybrid for'ners), etc. etc. The USA is so massively based on immigration from so many countries that using people's names for profiling at airports, for example, is just plain sad.
Dunno why they're too blind to see that this would be as good an idea for Java.
??? Java Community Process ???
Java is very comparible in openness to SPARC. All the Java specs are there just as they are for SPARC. Compliance tests are there just as they are for SPARC.
Anyone is free to make their own JVM, class libraries, and Java compiler just as anyone is free to make their own SPARC core.
I see practically no difference between Sun's strategies regarding SPARC and Java. The OSS community should really be able to appreciate this.
And just like every other ranking, the southern states are rock-bottom (unless high is bad, where they would be at the top). South/North Dakota have an excuse: no one lives there! BTW, I'm surpised that South Carolina scored so high, but that must be due to all the automotive plants in the upstate.
Before people get too excited about this big "development", remember that SPARC was a completely open architecture since something like 1987. Sun and Fujitsu manufacture their chips independently, and there are free SPARC designs downloadable over the WWW. IIRC, the only licensing cost is if you want to use the "SPARC" logo for branding and marketing.
Unless you're a really good actor, at the interview they'll immediately see that you'll be out the door whenever the next real job comes along...
They won't know what you don't tell them. I see nothing wrong in de-embellishing a resume to fit the job's expectatations. Even if your prior job was "Chief Software Architect for a Fortune 100 company", you can put down something more mundane like "Programmer" or, even better, "Technician."
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The humor is what makes the show, and the writers are responsible for that.
Including sight gags?
These voice actors are essentially partners in a business venture with Fox.
It's a cartoon that's been on for over a decade. There are so many episodes, Fox could probably fire all the voice actors and just splice together snippets from earlier episodes to make up a complete dialog. Seriously, Homer has about a dozen-word vocabulary; any teenage audio hacker can make do.
That damned punk band in the neighbor's basement must be driving them nuts! I warned them, but did they listen? NO! "But it has a vaulted ceiling and nice wallpaper," she said. "It's close to my job," he said. It makes me sick.
Hmm. I smell pork.
And it's not even a good cut of pork. It's the kind of mangled mystery-meat pork they would at school cafeterias under a label reading "Tenderloin Medallions" or something, but, in the end, no one eats it and it just goes to waste.
Am I horribly short-sighted for thinking this model would work for software too ?
No. In fact it would put an end to endless feature creep and code bloat. Programmers would be paid to do things well rather than too many things poorly.
However, it would mean that customers would need to wean themselves off of their useless feature addiction. Expecting discipline from customers is not good PR.
I believe that the C language achived 99% of the abstraction needed to write robust software, because the complexity of software really doesn't change (writing an office suite is really really hard whether written in C, Java, or C#). All one language does over another is hide and expose different aspects of that immense immovable complexity.
They aren't going to shoot themselves in the foot.
Let's elaborate on this. Below, I'd like people to discuss things like NMCI, warships running Windows, not eliminating people and manual processes from a new-fangled web-based workflow due to employment politics, etc. etc. etc. and all the other things politicians like to do.
Try finding a source for the Stalin numbers, and you will probably end up finding that they were American estimates used mainly for anti-communist propaganda purposes, and that the actual numbers (as substantiated by extensive paper records) were many orders of magnitude lower. Unfortunately, most people are hopelessly brainwashed by American propaganda.
Actually, no one really knows. Further, Russian propoganda against the Russian people was much much worse than any American propoganda campaign. There is a lot still being discovered about Russian history and only time will finish the debate.
You will very likely find that the numbers do not support the notion that the Stalin regime killed millions of people.
Just like many people praised Saddam Hussein? If you feared for the safety of yourself, your family, and your family's families, what would you have said?
We're talking about some reasonably smart people here. Most of whom don't just buy off on an idea because they see it in print, and most of whom know how to research things a bit.
They are smart, but in the midst of the complexity of business, finance, and management, where would they get the energy to understand the technology, too? Many technology decisions really do take the path of least resistance, simply because technology is just one more massive layer of complexity, risk, and volatility to deal with. It is simply the easiest thing to look around, see that Microsoft makes a good sales pitch and their technology is at least barely functional. Further, Microsoft is a brand that can make people feel good about themselves. It's sort of like driving an expensive good-looking car and feeling good simply by being seen in it.
You are very much a troll. Installing Java is not difficult. I have done it several times, even on Linux, and had it working withing moments of downloading and unpacking it. Native threads on OpenBSD? Given that there isn't a Sun-supported JVM on that platform, you should have been satisfied with green threads. Don't take charity and then ask for more, troll.
Java is opaque for good reason: it is a portable API! Do you really care what hoops it jumps through to write a file to NTFS vs. UFS? If you do really care, then go get the source code for Java directly from Sun.
Lack of information?!? There is more documentation available to Java than I could ever hope for. The books and JavaDoc provided by Sun are not only well-written but generally very complete, too!
Why your post was modded up is baffling.
Actually, it can be other way - GCC supports pretty much every recent standard, while unix vendor's compilers don't.
True, but Sun's compiler is pretty good. It also comes with some top-notch lint utilities and a very good debugger. I've used it several times to really clean up source code (and eliminating a few bugs, too).
The bugs thing is what gets me. Thorough compilers really can help catch obscure bugs, especially regarding typecasts and function argument types. If GCC is too permissive in supporting multiple standards, my faith in it drops quite a bit.
I saw a mathematics textbook that had been written in MS Word (the author said so himself). The book was the ugliest POS ever put onto paper. The formulas were ugly, the text spacing was off, it was hard to read.
It is so sad that LaTeX and PostScript were invented well over a decade ago (more like 15 to 20 years ago) and produced absolutely gorgeous output only to be pushed into obscurity by crappy memo editors like MS Word.
Well, actually, they phrased it as, the GNU development environment was unable to build WordPerfect, but considering the existence of megaprojects like OpenOffice.org and Mozilla that build just fine under GNU, I don't think that's true.
It is quite common for one piece of software to compile under one compiler and not another. GNU GCC has several GNU-isms, for example, that can lead developers to write "broken" code (and, presumably, Corel's compiler of choice had its own issues). Recently, I tried compiling something under both GCC and Sun's C compiler, and was suprised how many errors Sun's compiler was finding in the code while GCC just whipped out executables without a second thought. I would much rather have the errors found and fixed via a strict compiler rather than have them ignored by GCC. This sort of stuff leads to the often trolled conspiracy theories about GNU "lock in".
Hold on... Gateway still had stores open?
Yeah, I went into one and was suprised how bleak it was (a couple demo computers and one rack of accessories). They didn't have anything significant in stock, so I went up the street and bought what I needed from a white-box supplier. I really couldn't see what would motivate someone to buy from a Gateway store, because Gateway is hardly a brand like Sharper Image or something that sets them apart from every other PC company on the planet.
All that makes me think is how much Jar Jar needs the goatse treatment.
You are in for a real treat at the end of Episode III! Jar Jar is where the Empire hides the Death Star from the Rebellion.
dude! run away, she's really a guy!
No, girls with penises is simply the latest fashion trend.
But no link to Apple's press release...
Don't be disappointed, please. The article is based on leaked insider information. Here's some more dirt: the PowerPod will also feature three G5 CPUs, Radeon 9900XXX graphics, and new even larger white headphones (the headphones are affectionally called the iHelmet--not to be confused with Apple's line of trendy condoms).
"Boss, I'm just configuring this firewall, honest!"
"Jar Jar? Ah, yes. We first met during auditions, and our eyes met and it was like sparks were flying, but only we could see them. I met up with him after the auditions were over and asked him out for coffee. We really hit it off, you know? There is just something about how his ears flow in the wind and his accent is so charming...I just can't help myself. We really haven't figured out sex, yet, but I haven't been happier than during these wonderful years so I don't mind. Jar Jar is the best."
Believe it or not, a lot of folks around here were not too appreciative of someone with what was perceived as a foreign name.
That's very interesting, given that the midwest is largely populated by immigrants from Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Pennsylvania Dutch (hybrid for'ners), etc. etc. The USA is so massively based on immigration from so many countries that using people's names for profiling at airports, for example, is just plain sad.
There was a boy named Ben Dover at school. At least your name was inherited and not assigned by your parents.
What about Asskickotron the Destroyer?
Dunno why they're too blind to see that this would be as good an idea for Java.
??? Java Community Process ???
Java is very comparible in openness to SPARC. All the Java specs are there just as they are for SPARC. Compliance tests are there just as they are for SPARC.
Anyone is free to make their own JVM, class libraries, and Java compiler just as anyone is free to make their own SPARC core.
I see practically no difference between Sun's strategies regarding SPARC and Java. The OSS community should really be able to appreciate this.
And just like every other ranking, the southern states are rock-bottom (unless high is bad, where they would be at the top). South/North Dakota have an excuse: no one lives there! BTW, I'm surpised that South Carolina scored so high, but that must be due to all the automotive plants in the upstate.
Before people get too excited about this big "development", remember that SPARC was a completely open architecture since something like 1987. Sun and Fujitsu manufacture their chips independently, and there are free SPARC designs downloadable over the WWW. IIRC, the only licensing cost is if you want to use the "SPARC" logo for branding and marketing.
Check www.sparc.org for the rest.
Unless you're a really good actor, at the interview they'll immediately see that you'll be out the door whenever the next real job comes along...
They won't know what you don't tell them. I see nothing wrong in de-embellishing a resume to fit the job's expectatations. Even if your prior job was "Chief Software Architect for a Fortune 100 company", you can put down something more mundane like "Programmer" or, even better, "Technician."