he did, however, develop his/her own point of view on a subject, which is what the university is paying him to teach. If all the notes on a teacher's views are available for public consumption, there would appear to be less incentive to pay the huge amounts of tuition money that colleges (in much of the US) require for your attendance.
as opposed to having a single god with severe personality disorder... (a just god, a vengeful god, a peaceable god, a forgiving god... which one are you getting?)
polytheisms are similar because they are all trying to describe/explain/answer the same events/questions. lightning will always have to be explained, earthquakes, seasonal changes...(quick what did persephone/proserpine eat? depends on what fruits you know about.)
All gods are there to explain the unexplainable. what is truly interesting is people who continue to believe when the alternative explanation comes out. I truly envy those who live with the belief that everything is being handled by a benevolent higher power. what a catharsis to not have to worry about things like that...
it's been a few thousand years so far, what make you think it will go away in the next 100? (~2000 if you go by the new testament only...)
Personally, I tend to give more credence to Zeus, Apollo, Hera, Artemis etc. I like the idea of gods with frailties, personalities and simple well defined tastes. Of course my big childhood book was a copy of D'Aullaire's [sp?] greek myths, not a bible. Happily my father (70+) goes around with a button on his jacket declaring "Born again Pagan."
great, now instead of just your email being recorded in a database and completely dying due to corruption, you can spread that out to your entire filesystem! should be fun, will they start putting airbags outside tall buildings?
Does this mean a reliance on RAID5 as well as a second processor?
I'm guessing that WinFS also means that the filesystem will also be inaccessible by any other means? so much for the Knoppix rescue disc idea that seems to be popular around here... I have to admit that I generally would rather give up a bit of speed in favor of an alternative access method.
I admit I'm bashing a bit, but after one or two bites, one is entitled to be a bit shy.
There was a scientific american article some years back about Murphy's law. The article was trying to prove that Murphy's law was a universal constant and was using the fact that bread always landed butter side down as the start of its proof. in order to prove this, the writers went into a great deal of detail about rotational speed of toast falling off a table, the range of table heights that were required for a 180 degree turn of the bread, and the beings that might sit at such a table.
The end result of the article was a proof that the maximum height of a bipedal being, (one that would not crack its skull and die every time it fell over,) was about 9'8", and such a being would use a table that was of a height that fit into the previously described range, therefore Murphy's law, (as it applied to bread landing butter side down,) was in fact a universal truth.
and I generally use emacs to edit the.as files, so I'm all set there. It really sucks to have an IDE that kills your source code when it crashes, so never again. if I have to use flash at all, I have a stock fla that contains a single line.
#include "includes.as"
and go from there.
I have unfortunately discovered that commercial/government contracts seem to have a technology lag. so a compiler that only handles the latest rewrite of the language, (actionscript 2) is not much good when you have to target the flash 5 player. for that matter having a compiler that doesn't handle the above include statement doesn't help for migration either. but hey, that sort of stuff should probably be rewritten anyway. (though I note they are supporting 6)
Regardless, near as I can tell from the documentation you still need to have the flash IDE around to create the original.swf that mtasc then updates. am I misreading?
I have the last version of the studio. and with the exception of Motion, which requires a bigger video chip, it all runs, albeit slowly, on a 667 Ti. I wouldn't recommend it though.
I'm waiting till after NAB to order my new one. here's hoping for some price drops, I can live without the latest and greatest, but I want my compositor!
like all those people who couldn't say that they worked for the NSA while they were buying and giving away stuff from the NSA gift shop with a big NSA logo on the side?
or better yet, the devolving of flash into writable SVG, though that will never happen since you wouldn't need the authoring software anymore... (the secret reason the eval() statement was de-powered in late versions of flash?)
despite the local feelings about flash, it would be kind of fun to have a DHTML construct that would mimic the "movieclip"
aha! now I have something to do with the rest of my day! (bwa-ha-ha-ha!!!!! urinating-dog,urinating-dog...)
GIMP probably, (or whatever their preference is,) the image is a reference to what should happen, assuming the standard were fully adhered to.
Since the standard is fairly clear about what should happen when certain things are done, you can follow the declarations in the style sheet and work out the layout with a pencil if you need to.
two problems I had with LOTR 1)merry and pippin's bit with the ents reminded me too much of leia's "do it for the trees" speech from ROTJ which was also not good.
2) the destruction of Faramir. In the books, one of the main themes of the story was the way in which people responded to the test of the ring, and how people responded to those who had been tested. Boromir failed the test of the ring, but was beloved by his father. Faramir passed, and was hated by same. this latter part was not only glossed over in the movie, but in parts, destroyed. Since it always seemed to me that the books as a whole were about tests of faith and will, and the example of Boromir/Faramir was the closest analogue to an average human's responses, ( as opposed to a king's, wizard's, hobbit's) removing or altering this part was the biggest crime of the movies. I could live with pretty much everything else, but that part in the second movie, blew the rest for me. I enjoyed the first one quite a bit, but after this gaffe, the third didn't mean much.
of course, this is a personal opinion (not to mention OT) and I'm sure there are disagreements to come.
as far as h2g2 the movie, try to view it with a short memory. unlike LOTR, h2g2 has a history of being fluid in content, there's always the possibility it might be a good time.
high hopes, low expectations... recipe for (some sort of) happiness.
get perpendicular perhaps? http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_h ead/pr/ attacking flash for being useless is like attacking tv for being useless. 90%or so, of the time you are right, but to someone else it's quite important.
I think soap operas are not worth the tape they are recorded on, some people can't live without them. personally I feel most websites would benefit by having little to no advanced formatting, much less flash as, for the most part, I am looking for the information in the page rather than the joy of lookng at it. and I definitely agree that flash should not be used as a place where information should be searchable or bookmarkable.
That said, for those who wish to make pretty moving pictures for their website, flash makes it very easy to create. bearing in mind that the flash is there to attract a different sort of person than you. By all means, avoid that site, or advertiser. there is a flash ad on this site that has a couple of horn blasts, and If I ever meet the marketing manager who thought that was a good idea, I will blast an airhorn in their ear.)
dhtml and css, though possibly more proper, are not easy by comparison, if they were, something like google maps would have arrived sooner.
as for another counter example, I was recently introduced to someone from ben and jerry's, who created thishttp://www.benandjerrys.com/fun_stuff/cow_to_c one/. Please try to bear in mind the audience it was intended for. this leans towards the idea that the web is leaning towards ending up to be a replacement for tv, or 'surfing from the couch' as I've recently heard it put.
we who tend to treat the web like an encyclopaedia will rue this, but we are a regrettably small minority. tv has annoying commercials, now movies do, and so will follow, or lead, the web.
one can only hope that there are more instances of things that are really good, (like school house rock) than really bad.
it occurred to me that since I spend a lot of time writing and speaking in parenthetical statements, that it might be worthwhile to learn a language that "speaks" like I do.
I'm actually leaning towards Objective-C though, less like me, but such pretty graphics/interfaces, (through cocoa anyway.) I hear tell that there is a lisp/cocoa bridge being worked on, though the last time I checked it wasn't for SBCL, which to date is the most reliable lisp for the mac that I could afford. it seems to be a fun language. have begun experimenting with pyObjC a bit, and that looks promising as a middle ground of sorts.
In response to some of the other posts that responded to my other post, I didn't mean to suggest that Apple should port GB to windows, in retrospect I feel that I may have phrased the question poorly. I would be very happy if Apple managed to achieve a level of about 10% of the market, (I can hear the collective 'hah' from here, (I have read somewhere recently that they were headed back up to 5%, but I haven't the link to back that up, sorry)) as that is a level that guarantees a large enough market for 'major' software companies to write for, (assuming of course that the company/developer in question does not write an application that turns out to be a really great idea for addition to the OS. (because at that point, well, you know what seems to happen...) though honestly they seem to be doing pretty well for 2 or 3%. As they start to make more of their own software that is a worthwhile alternative to the established packages, so long as they remain profitable, who cares what the percentage is?
I suppose what I was really wondering was whether or not anyone else thought that this might be an addition, (or the proverbial straw,) that causes the hoped for halo effect that the iPod and iTunes were supposed to do. since they have previously ported those two products over to windows, there wasn't very much incentive to switch. Now, however, a famous person, (whether you like his stuff or not, (I do, (well some of it) but that's just me)) has released a product, that will only run on a piece of software that runs on an Apple. Where will this go, (if anywhere?)
Personally, having bought a number of DVDs with "PC only" 'features,' I'm thrilled.
when I was in college, it was mostly Macintosh, <disclaimer> it was an art school</disclaimer> though we did have Irix and AIX stations for 3D work (and even an amiga for video.) I understand that things have changed since then ( I haven't really been paying attention,) to be mostly a windows thing. (It is for the college I currently work for, (though I was lucky enough to be given a mac to work on instead.))
do you all think that the mix of iPod, iTunes and now GarageBand are enough to grab a reasonable share of the impressionable, fashion-conscious, future buyer? Or do you think that Apple might cave, and put out GarageBand for windows? (though guessing its dependence on coreAudio might make that port a more significant challenge.)
(iNote with some interest that the spell checker in panther passes iPod and iTunes with out a pause, but fails with GB and iNote. It will be interesting to see the dictionary in Tiger to see what iThings will pass the spellchecker... note that it does not offer iPod as an alternative spelling, it just doesn't mark it as misspelled.)
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I submit that the only way that we could elect a 'slashpope' would be that we all burn our computers and see if white smoke rises.
hmmmmmm...
he did, however, develop his/her own point of view on a subject, which is what the university is paying him to teach. If all the notes on a teacher's views are available for public consumption, there would appear to be less incentive to pay the huge amounts of tuition money that colleges (in much of the US) require for your attendance.
as opposed to having a single god with severe personality disorder... (a just god, a vengeful god, a peaceable god, a forgiving god... which one are you getting?)
polytheisms are similar because they are all trying to describe/explain/answer the same events/questions. lightning will always have to be explained, earthquakes, seasonal changes...(quick what did persephone/proserpine eat? depends on what fruits you know about.)
All gods are there to explain the unexplainable. what is truly interesting is people who continue to believe when the alternative explanation comes out. I truly envy those who live with the belief that everything is being handled by a benevolent higher power. what a catharsis to not have to worry about things like that...
I hope you're right.
it's been a few thousand years so far, what make you think it will go away in the next 100?
(~2000 if you go by the new testament only...)
Personally, I tend to give more credence to Zeus, Apollo, Hera, Artemis etc. I like the idea of gods with frailties, personalities and simple well defined tastes. Of course my big childhood book was a copy of D'Aullaire's [sp?] greek myths, not a bible. Happily my father (70+) goes around with a button on his jacket declaring "Born again Pagan."
Makes me proud...
flat does not preclude round (circular.)
just ask A'tuin...
also makes the best food...
cheese,
wine,
beer,
yoghurt,
(aged) meat,
what am I forgetting?
...cuba... ...russia... (W. Wilson, ~1918,1920 I think...)
great, now instead of just your email being recorded in a database and completely dying due to corruption, you can spread that out to your entire filesystem! should be fun, will they start putting airbags outside tall buildings?
Does this mean a reliance on RAID5 as well as a second processor?
I'm guessing that WinFS also means that the filesystem will also be inaccessible by any other means? so much for the Knoppix rescue disc idea that seems to be popular around here... I have to admit that I generally would rather give up a bit of speed in favor of an alternative access method.
I admit I'm bashing a bit, but after one or two bites, one is entitled to be a bit shy.
There was a scientific american article some years back about Murphy's law. The article was trying to prove that Murphy's law was a universal constant and was using the fact that bread always landed butter side down as the start of its proof. in order to prove this, the writers went into a great deal of detail about rotational speed of toast falling off a table, the range of table heights that were required for a 180 degree turn of the bread, and the beings that might sit at such a table.
= A3B20D65-8339-4260-A5D1-4E6E083116A&methodnameCHAR =&interfacenameCHAR=browse.cfm&ISSUEID_CHAR=C2A9E0 84-7CAA-4ABC-9BAE-BF9C44829FB&ArticleTypeSubInclud e_BIT=0&sequencenameCHAR=itemP
The end result of the article was a proof that the maximum height of a bipedal being, (one that would not crack its skull and die every time it fell over,) was about 9'8", and such a being would use a table that was of a height that fit into the previously described range, therefore Murphy's law, (as it applied to bread landing butter side down,) was in fact a universal truth.
I think the article was printed around '95 so you have to buy the archive... http://www.sciamdigital.com/browse.cfm?ITEMIDCHAR
(for those who read this far, it wasa joke...)
and I generally use emacs to edit the .as files, so I'm all set there. It really sucks to have an IDE that kills your source code when it crashes, so never again. if I have to use flash at all, I have a stock fla that contains a single line.
.swf that mtasc then updates. am I misreading?
#include "includes.as"
and go from there.
I have unfortunately discovered that commercial/government contracts seem to have a technology lag. so a compiler that only handles the latest rewrite of the language, (actionscript 2) is not much good when you have to target the flash 5 player. for that matter having a compiler that doesn't handle the above include statement doesn't help for migration either. but hey, that sort of stuff should probably be rewritten anyway. (though I note they are supporting 6)
Regardless, near as I can tell from the documentation you still need to have the flash IDE around to create the original
I have the last version of the studio. and with the exception of Motion, which requires a bigger video chip, it all runs, albeit slowly, on a 667 Ti. I wouldn't recommend it though.
I'm waiting till after NAB to order my new one. here's hoping for some price drops, I can live without the latest and greatest, but I want my compositor!
like all those people who couldn't say that they worked for the NSA while they were buying and giving away stuff from the NSA gift shop with a big NSA logo on the side?
or better yet, the devolving of flash into writable SVG, though that will never happen since you wouldn't need the authoring software anymore... (the secret reason the eval() statement was de-powered in late versions of flash?)
despite the local feelings about flash, it would be kind of fun to have a DHTML construct that would mimic the "movieclip"
aha! now I have something to do with the rest of my day! (bwa-ha-ha-ha!!!!! urinating-dog,urinating-dog...)
errr. fireworks is a macromedia product, is there another one?
GIMP probably, (or whatever their preference is,) the image is a reference to what should happen, assuming the standard were fully adhered to.
Since the standard is fairly clear about what should happen when certain things are done, you can follow the declarations in the style sheet and work out the layout with a pencil if you need to.
if this is the usual response by a developer at Apple...
5 _04.html
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/200
he hasn't gotten it all fixed yet, but what an effort.
all the more reason, I guess, to keep the data and its presentation separate. let's hear it for data delivery format standards!
quite likely,
I just meant to point out that the basis for the mormon church is that they had already "found" more new testament books.
Something about jesus having appeared in the Americas at some point. there were some tv ads in the early 90s, but it's been a while.
two problems I had with LOTR
1)merry and pippin's bit with the ents reminded me too much of leia's "do it for the trees" speech from ROTJ which was also not good.
2) the destruction of Faramir. In the books, one of the main themes of the story was the way in which people responded to the test of the ring, and how people responded to those who had been tested. Boromir failed the test of the ring, but was beloved by his father. Faramir passed, and was hated by same. this latter part was not only glossed over in the movie, but in parts, destroyed. Since it always seemed to me that the books as a whole were about tests of faith and will, and the example of Boromir/Faramir was the closest analogue to an average human's responses, ( as opposed to a king's, wizard's, hobbit's) removing or altering this part was the biggest crime of the movies. I could live with pretty much everything else, but that part in the second movie, blew the rest for me. I enjoyed the first one quite a bit, but after this gaffe, the third didn't mean much.
of course, this is a personal opinion (not to mention OT) and I'm sure there are disagreements to come.
as far as h2g2 the movie, try to view it with a short memory. unlike LOTR, h2g2 has a history of being fluid in content, there's always the possibility it might be a good time.
high hopes, low expectations... recipe for (some sort of) happiness.
anyone else find it curious that researchers from Brigham Young might be finding new christian gospels?
get perpendicular perhaps?h ead/pr/
c one/. Please try to bear in mind the audience it was intended for. this leans towards the idea that the web is leaning towards ending up to be a replacement for tv, or 'surfing from the couch' as I've recently heard it put.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_
attacking flash for being useless is like attacking tv for being useless. 90%or so, of the time you are right, but to someone else it's quite important.
I think soap operas are not worth the tape they are recorded on, some people can't live without them. personally I feel most websites would benefit by having little to no advanced formatting, much less flash as, for the most part, I am looking for the information in the page rather than the joy of lookng at it. and I definitely agree that flash should not be used as a place where information should be searchable or bookmarkable.
That said, for those who wish to make pretty moving pictures for their website, flash makes it very easy to create. bearing in mind that the flash is there to attract a different sort of person than you. By all means, avoid that site, or advertiser. there is a flash ad on this site that has a couple of horn blasts, and If I ever meet the marketing manager who thought that was a good idea, I will blast an airhorn in their ear.)
dhtml and css, though possibly more proper, are not easy by comparison, if they were, something like google maps would have arrived sooner.
as for another counter example, I was recently introduced to someone from ben and jerry's, who created thishttp://www.benandjerrys.com/fun_stuff/cow_to_
we who tend to treat the web like an encyclopaedia will rue this, but we are a regrettably small minority. tv has annoying commercials, now movies do, and so will follow, or lead, the web.
one can only hope that there are more instances of things that are really good, (like school house rock) than really bad.
(just learning)
it occurred to me that since I spend a lot of time writing and speaking in parenthetical statements, that it might be worthwhile to learn a language that "speaks" like I do.
I'm actually leaning towards Objective-C though, less like me, but such pretty graphics/interfaces, (through cocoa anyway.) I hear tell that there is a lisp/cocoa bridge being worked on, though the last time I checked it wasn't for SBCL, which to date is the most reliable lisp for the mac that I could afford. it seems to be a fun language. have begun experimenting with pyObjC a bit, and that looks promising as a middle ground of sorts.
In response to some of the other posts that responded to my other post, I didn't mean to suggest that Apple should port GB to windows, in retrospect I feel that I may have phrased the question poorly. I would be very happy if Apple managed to achieve a level of about 10% of the market, (I can hear the collective 'hah' from here, (I have read somewhere recently that they were headed back up to 5%, but I haven't the link to back that up, sorry)) as that is a level that guarantees a large enough market for 'major' software companies to write for, (assuming of course that the company/developer in question does not write an application that turns out to be a really great idea for addition to the OS. (because at that point, well, you know what seems to happen...) though honestly they seem to be doing pretty well for 2 or 3%. As they start to make more of their own software that is a worthwhile alternative to the established packages, so long as they remain profitable, who cares what the percentage is?
I suppose what I was really wondering was whether or not anyone else thought that this might be an addition, (or the proverbial straw,) that causes the hoped for halo effect that the iPod and iTunes were supposed to do. since they have previously ported those two products over to windows, there wasn't very much incentive to switch. Now, however, a famous person, (whether you like his stuff or not, (I do, (well some of it) but that's just me)) has released a product, that will only run on a piece of software that runs on an Apple. Where will this go, (if anywhere?)
Personally, having bought a number of DVDs with "PC only" 'features,' I'm thrilled.
for apple sales to the college crowd...
when I was in college, it was mostly Macintosh, <disclaimer> it was an art school</disclaimer> though we did have Irix and AIX stations for 3D work (and even an amiga for video.) I understand that things have changed since then ( I haven't really been paying attention,) to be mostly a windows thing. (It is for the college I currently work for, (though I was lucky enough to be given a mac to work on instead.))
do you all think that the mix of iPod, iTunes and now GarageBand are enough to grab a reasonable share of the impressionable, fashion-conscious, future buyer? Or do you think that Apple might cave, and put out GarageBand for windows? (though guessing its dependence on coreAudio might make that port a more significant challenge.)
(iNote with some interest that the spell checker in panther passes iPod and iTunes with out a pause, but fails with GB and iNote. It will be interesting to see the dictionary in Tiger to see what iThings will pass the spellchecker... note that it does not offer iPod as an alternative spelling, it just doesn't mark it as misspelled.)
maybe they can find writers with a slightly wider world view...
oooooh, I'l get you for that ;)
I lied, I'm still annoyed.