As a recent slashdot poster mentioned, in the USA you can get locked up for not watching the adverts they show in schools on Channel One. So it's obviously a matter of time before they extend that to the rest of the population.
(I've finally got around to start reading Naomi Klein's "No Logo"... does it show?;-)
does it mean that. Mind you, the Flintstones usage of it has been blamed (by the nailbomber David Copeland) for him killing 4 people (including a pregnant woman). Does that rank with the "twinkie bar" defence (murder of Harvey Milk being allegedly caused by eating a mini-cake) as being a particularly weak excuse?
But there are better reasons to look down at the/. mentality than that! </smug>
And there are worse forums than/., for example http://www.fijilive.com has a forum which seems to be mostly made up of racist insults between the two main races on those islands. They use english because using either fijian or hindi would be conceding to the other side:-)
So instead of staying saturday night at their own expense and getting the cheaper airfare for their employer, they fritter away the money instead?
That sounds very Dilbertian.
On the (alas only) two business trips I have been on (as a techie), I managed to get holiday tacked onto the end, which saved both me and the company money.
If US just has voluntary age limits for porn/movies, are the ones for alcohol, sex and cigarettes optional too?
I know in the UK it is 18 (alcohol), 16 (sex) and (16 but they tried to make it 18) for cigarettes (of course 14 year olds often do all three of these) but I'm sure those are by law. Selling an 18 movie to a 17yo can by law get the shopkeeper into a whole lot of pain.
are useful - I don't need to set my alarm clock, just wake up at 10am when some other company I've never knew sold electricity rings and wants me to change my supplier. I could get my name on the telephone preferences list to get rid of this weekly distraction, but I enjoy the conversation:-)
Look at the description for it. Nasty. Automatically runs if you have an unpatched windows machine and you preview or view your email. I have been sent several copies of it in the last two days. I am glad I patched my internet explorer, otherwise there would be something nasty on my system.
Once there was a guy who applied for the job painting lines on the road (by hand).
The first day he did great, painting 10 miles. The supervisor was very impressed.
The second day, he just managed 5 miles, and looked a bit flustered at the end of the day. The supervisor said, "well, that's not as good as yesterday, but still it's not bad".
The third day, he only did 1 mile, and came back late sweating and completely exhausted. The supervisor said "Why have you only done 1 mile; you started off great two days ago".
The guy says "Yeah boss, I try hard, but each day the paint pot gets further and further away!"
Moral of the story: live on a route which connects with your job.
By "SPC700 processor", I meant "entire SPC700 side of the system". Without any method of debugging the sound loader, there is no way to know why a program isn't working. I gauge difficulty of programming an audio system by how much effort it takes to say "Hello World".
Simply don't bother to put any bugs in the code, and then it works fine!:-) What confused me was the odd handshaking, but after that it was plain sailing (says he of great memory loss:-)
Yeah, I think the GBA sound guys are using a mod like format, given that the words "pattern completed" appears on their driver sometimes. I prefer less regimented schemes myself, but I guess MODs run faster than MIDI.
someone threw fireworks into the cinema (which went off! They (later) canceled the showing). But no-one shouted "Fire!"; the closest people just ran silently. Is it because that is always being used as an example of a thing not to do? So even when it is legitimate to say it, and warn other people, no-one does it?:-/
apparently... I couldn't figure that one out either...
I understand targetting oranges to hurt florida etc. and other locations that bush almost won last time (and his brother/cousin/campaign advisor arranged for us to think he had won) but t-shirts seems a little strange!
I thought it had a lovely instruction set compared to most 8 bit machines.
The DSP registers are OK too - the real pain was the tiny and seemingly unpredictable ports between the 658C16 and the SPC700 - four ports (one byte each way) but when you poked bytes in one end you didn't know what order they were going to come out the other end in:-(
But I let the sound guys write the GBA driver instead of doing it myself - which makes me wonder - is it so hard for them to give me envelope controls on indivual samples? Pretty please! I had it on the SNES, so why not on the GBA? (I think they are mixing them in software so they claim it would cost too much processor power):-(
Hmm... I've tried to collate my statistics and they don't match yours. Here's my list of top homosexual names...
Matthew. Too many bloody matts, matties, matthews. Every second person in the pub is a Matt, so when someone asks me where Matt is, I say "which one????"
Chris/Christian/Kristoff
Mark/Marc/Marcie
David. Still loads about.
Danny/Daniel
George/Jorge - Georgeous!
Gary/Garry/Gareth
Carl/Karl. This was fairly unique, but then a whole bunch of them turned up.
Michael/Mike/Mikey/Miguel
Stuart/Stewart - yup.
Steve/Stefan/Stephan - a few around.
Paul. Less than there were...
Russell. A couple about...
Martin. There used to be loads, but there seem to be less now. Maybe they've all settled down and gone to live in the suburbs.
John/Jon/Jonathan. Hmm, less of them around these days too. A few Jans though (pronounced Yan)
Other names (one offs) - Spencer, Sam, Spike, Yakir, Damri, Marion (OK that does sound a little bit girly) Sergei, Patrick, etc.
See! doesn't match your list at all:-) Now just go to the official list of popular names are see how it compares - fairly similar I would hope.
That's why I like to visit cities when they are having Gay Pride, or Mardi Gras, or Notting Hill Carnival, or some such event. Then I meet lots of nice people who have bathed that day, chosen their clothes carefully, are in the mood for buying me drinks:-) and are feeling rather chipper!
Since such events are staggered across the continents you can get quite a rose coloured view of the world if you just pick your route carefully!:-)
I also get to talk to a lot of people that way and get to hear their points of view, from funloving lumpenproleteriat to funloving CEOs.
Since the compiler status page on www.boost.org dated 7 Feb 2002, testing Comeau C++ 4.2.45 beta 2 with libcomo beta 14 claims that it fails several tests. Not having the compiler myself I do not know whether or not this is significant. I know my day-to-day compiler fares much much worse.
However, Greg Comeau thinks that the forthcoming version 4.3.0 plus dinkumware libs will be compliant, which is a very good thing.
Well, it is the oldest extant c++ compiler after all (15 years old?). I've only been writing C++ commercially for 12 years, so it predates my knowledge.
It told junkies not to buy cocaine, because the money would get to the CIA, which was involved with overthrowing the democratic govt. of [insert country here]. (See any books by Chomsky (apart from the techie ones) for details).
Personally I think that form of income would be very minor in comparison to their tax revenues...:-)
We have highly advanced bright LED monitor systems, coupled with CRT monitors which seemingly use advanced neural networks and dead-reckoning technology to work out how late each train is expected to be!
The investment continues, with automatic announcements carefully graded according to how late each train is, for example "I am" "sorry for the" "delay" becomes "I am" "deeply" "sorry for the" "severe" "delay" depending on how long the expected delay is! The system effortlessly handles times like 23 hours 38 minutes (I wonder if that was a date miscalculation;-)
Lesser advanced societies like Germany make do with merely printing timetables on posters, and letting the trains run according to those - where is the suspense? The drama? In Italy they have even been known to paint the timetables onto the walls. How can you start a conversation if even simple things like the trains keep to some artificial timetable?
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As a recent slashdot poster mentioned, in the USA you can get locked up for not watching the adverts they show in schools on Channel One. So it's obviously a matter of time before they extend that to the rest of the population.
(I've finally got around to start reading Naomi Klein's "No Logo"... does it show? ;-)
But there are better reasons to look down at the /. mentality than that! </smug>
And there are worse forums than /., for example http://www.fijilive.com has a forum which seems to be mostly made up of racist insults between the two main races on those islands. They use english because using either fijian or hindi would be conceding to the other side :-)
and the HQ of Kemco. That's the company that makes games (and other stuff) not coffee.
that must put him firmly on the publisher side of the publisher/developer fence. :-)
Phil is very high up in Sony ;-)
and we just ended up with a lot of pretty boxes stacked unopened in the corner of the office :-)
(e.g. MIT) has more IP addresses than a country with 1.2 billion people? I wonder who designed that setup :-)
Of course the US would prefer all resources to be allocated in that manner, not just netblocks.
Mac running Unix? Hollywood was just a little ahead of its time!
So instead of staying saturday night at their own expense and getting the cheaper airfare for their employer, they fritter away the money instead?
That sounds very Dilbertian.
On the (alas only) two business trips I have been on (as a techie), I managed to get holiday tacked onto the end, which saved both me and the company money.
If US just has voluntary age limits for porn/movies, are the ones for alcohol, sex and cigarettes optional too?
I know in the UK it is 18 (alcohol), 16 (sex) and (16 but they tried to make it 18) for cigarettes (of course 14 year olds often do all three of these) but I'm sure those are by law. Selling an 18 movie to a 17yo can by law get the shopkeeper into a whole lot of pain.
...where they are not programmers, i.e. I have the degree, and they know how to use MS project.
Many small to medium companies are also run by ex-programmers.
are useful - I don't need to set my alarm clock, just wake up at 10am when some other company I've never knew sold electricity rings and wants me to change my supplier. I could get my name on the telephone preferences list to get rid of this weekly distraction, but I enjoy the conversation :-)
Look at the description for it. Nasty. Automatically runs if you have an unpatched windows machine and you preview or view your email. I have been sent several copies of it in the last two days. I am glad I patched my internet explorer, otherwise there would be something nasty on my system.
[yes this is relevant!]
Once there was a guy who applied for the job painting lines on the road (by hand).
The first day he did great, painting 10 miles. The supervisor was very impressed.
The second day, he just managed 5 miles, and looked a bit flustered at the end of the day. The supervisor said, "well, that's not as good as yesterday, but still it's not bad".
The third day, he only did 1 mile, and came back late sweating and completely exhausted. The supervisor said "Why have you only done 1 mile; you started off great two days ago".
The guy says "Yeah boss, I try hard, but each day the paint pot gets further and further away!"
Moral of the story: live on a route which connects with your job.
By "SPC700 processor", I meant "entire SPC700 side of the system". Without any method of debugging the sound loader, there is no way to know why a program isn't working. I gauge difficulty of programming an audio system by how much effort it takes to say "Hello World".
Simply don't bother to put any bugs in the code, and then it works fine! :-) What confused me was the odd handshaking, but after that it was plain sailing (says he of great memory loss :-)
Yeah, I think the GBA sound guys are using a mod like format, given that the words "pattern completed" appears on their driver sometimes. I prefer less regimented schemes myself, but I guess MODs run faster than MIDI.
someone threw fireworks into the cinema (which went off! They (later) canceled the showing). But no-one shouted "Fire!"; the closest people just ran silently. Is it because that is always being used as an example of a thing not to do? So even when it is legitimate to say it, and warn other people, no-one does it? :-/
I understand targetting oranges to hurt florida etc. and other locations that bush almost won last time (and his brother/cousin/campaign advisor arranged for us to think he had won) but t-shirts seems a little strange!
I thought it had a lovely instruction set compared to most 8 bit machines.
The DSP registers are OK too - the real pain was the tiny and seemingly unpredictable ports between the 658C16 and the SPC700 - four ports (one byte each way) but when you poked bytes in one end you didn't know what order they were going to come out the other end in :-(
But I let the sound guys write the GBA driver instead of doing it myself - which makes me wonder - is it so hard for them to give me envelope controls on indivual samples? Pretty please! I had it on the SNES, so why not on the GBA? (I think they are mixing them in software so they claim it would cost too much processor power) :-(
Matthew. Too many bloody matts, matties, matthews. Every second person in the pub is a Matt, so when someone asks me where Matt is, I say "which one????"
Chris/Christian/Kristoff
Mark/Marc/Marcie
David. Still loads about.
Danny/Daniel
George/Jorge - Georgeous!
Gary/Garry/Gareth
Carl/Karl. This was fairly unique, but then a whole bunch of them turned up.
Michael/Mike/Mikey/Miguel
Stuart/Stewart - yup.
Steve/Stefan/Stephan - a few around.
Paul. Less than there were...
Russell. A couple about...
Martin. There used to be loads, but there seem to be less now. Maybe they've all settled down and gone to live in the suburbs.
John/Jon/Jonathan. Hmm, less of them around these days too. A few Jans though (pronounced Yan)
Other names (one offs) - Spencer, Sam, Spike, Yakir, Damri, Marion (OK that does sound a little bit girly) Sergei, Patrick, etc.
See! doesn't match your list at all :-) Now just go to the official list of popular names are see how it compares - fairly similar I would hope.
Since such events are staggered across the continents you can get quite a rose coloured view of the world if you just pick your route carefully! :-)
I also get to talk to a lot of people that way and get to hear their points of view, from funloving lumpenproleteriat to funloving CEOs.
Since the compiler status page on www.boost.org dated 7 Feb 2002, testing Comeau C++ 4.2.45 beta 2 with libcomo beta 14 claims that it fails several tests. Not having the compiler myself I do not know whether or not this is significant. I know my day-to-day compiler fares much much worse.
However, Greg Comeau thinks that the forthcoming version 4.3.0 plus dinkumware libs will be compliant, which is a very good thing. Well, it is the oldest extant c++ compiler after all (15 years old?). I've only been writing C++ commercially for 12 years, so it predates my knowledge.
because some job interview questions I sat recently were taken directly from the book/site :-)
Argh, the difference between implicit and explicit copy construction and direct construction :-/
It told junkies not to buy cocaine, because the money would get to the CIA, which was involved with overthrowing the democratic govt. of [insert country here]. (See any books by Chomsky (apart from the techie ones) for details).
Personally I think that form of income would be very minor in comparison to their tax revenues... :-)
Nah, just elect him mayor of some insignificant city near Baltimore :-)
no compiler on any platform will compile all of the boost and loki libraries, not even gcc on linux.
But many compiler vendors are seeking to increase their compliance. Hey, it's not a toy language :-)
The investment continues, with automatic announcements carefully graded according to how late each train is, for example "I am" "sorry for the" "delay" becomes "I am" "deeply" "sorry for the" "severe" "delay" depending on how long the expected delay is! The system effortlessly handles times like 23 hours 38 minutes (I wonder if that was a date miscalculation ;-)
Lesser advanced societies like Germany make do with merely printing timetables on posters, and letting the trains run according to those - where is the suspense? The drama? In Italy they have even been known to paint the timetables onto the walls. How can you start a conversation if even simple things like the trains keep to some artificial timetable?