Fond memories of high school, but I think THC Slowdown goes better with a 10,000 year snowboarding season. Or 10,000 years of marshmallow creme and funyuns.
Blue's News always has more gaming news than you can read in a day (but you should still try!), including slashdot-friendly summarizations of the proceedings. E3 Insider is the "official virtual gateway" to E3 that started I believe last year. I don't know to what extent the coverage will be, but its got more of a marketing feel to it so take that for what its worth.
Its not that I don't want to be in tune with world news, but when this site shows all the same stories are being read everywhere anyways, and I can get all of those same stories with less flash and flare directly from google news, whats the point? Perhaps I've missed it.
All of the english-printing countries are reporting about the same 10 subjects anyways, and I can't read the other ones. Its a flashy front end to localized news articles, nothing innovative here.
The main issue at hand isnt the sexual content, its the "ethnic cleansing". Unfortunately if this goes through either we will be hypocritical (how about all of the current WWII games, and our lust for killing the japanese?) or be out a lot of healthy, violent games. Taking my mind off of some of the more stressful issues that stem from Real Life with a few *virtual* insane stunt bonuses and a *virtual* city wide rampage is really quite theraputic. I wonder where my diversions will take me without them?
The Rio Nitrus is 1.5gb and has sold for as low as $150. The price on these mini hard drives is dropping fast as IBM and others continue to refine the manufacturing process. I doubt Apple will earn as much margin as they are on the higher ends, but these Jr's will look attractive to buyers such as myself who don't need a 40 gig brick.
A single patron can start to cause a lot of problems, as we've already seen with all the musicians, artists, and poets that you mentioned. Their (the donors) ideas are the only ones that get seen through, since they control the purse strings. (FuzzyBunnyWare anyone?)
This was one of the contributing factors to all of the revolutions seen in the 1770s, the death of classicism (with patronage) and the birth of romanticism (with paid-for instead of pledged-for services such as concerts).
This 'pledged-by-the-masses' idea, however, is a brilliant model for oss, assuming it works as well as necessary.
I've seen this same thing in a number of places. I had friends that used to keep one of the big heavy duty maglights to shine at the light when we went driving around at night. Talk about obvious, but how is a flashlight illegal I suppose. I'm sure some of the areas were just weight sensored, but it definitely seemed to improve those that weren't as well (usually you can tell around here, as the pavement is cut up).
I think this is one of the best points yet. How many layers of abstraction can we add between ourselves and our actual money? Its thing like this that give my bad money management skills the opportunity to really shine.
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They weren't even revolutionary in not being revolutionary. Why, I was just not revolutionary last week, and then they had to follow up with a non-revolution evolution to my non-revolutionism.
The funny thing about Vancouver is that as progressive as it is in many ways, the liquor laws are anachronistically draconian. ... a lot of sleazy bars and clubs that tend to be populated with bimbos and knuckle-dragging frat boys
And people that stare when you say anachronistically draconian...
Throughout my higher education we have had paired and extreme programming shoved down our throats. I consider myself to be a fairly competent programmer, and have worked with others that have a wide array of skill sets. It has helped me personally in dealing with people that have such a wide array of skill sets. My communication skills have improved drastically. I'm sure there are other things which factored in to this, but paired programming certainly played a big role. My experiences overall have been pleasant. This is entirely subjective. I know people that feel completely different, and will rationalize it to the end. But, when I have worked with less knowledgable programmers we are able to get tasks done in almost the same amount of time it would have taken me to do it by myself, and a small fraction of the time it would have taken the other person to do it. When I work with people that have similar capabilities, and especially when we have personalities that work well together, we are able to get a ton more accomplished together than we ever could individually. And, when I work with people more knowledgable than mine, the earlier situation is reversed and I have the opportunity to learn at an accelerated pace. The most helpful thing I have found in my paired programming experiences is to have an open mind because in that kind of a close environment your ideas and thoughts can be trampled on rather quickly, and you have to be able to accept that environment and both acknowledge that some solutions are better and be able to rationalize any decisions you are making. In my experience it is entirely worth it. The code usually has less bugs when testing, and the end product is much more understandable in terms of structure and future upkeep.
"He dips the pen...in the ink, and he's off! It's the first word, but it's not a word - oh, no! - it's a doodle. Way up on the top of the lefthand margin is a piece of meaningless scribble - and he's signed his name underneath it! Oh dear, what a disapointing start. But his off again - and here he goes - the first word of Thomas Hardy's new novel, at ten thirtyfive on this very lovely morning, it's three letters, it's the definite article, and it's "The". Dennis."
"Well, this is true to form, no surprises there. He started five of his eleven novels to date with the definite article. We had two of them with "It", there's been one "But", two "At"s, one "On" and a "Dolores", but that of course was never published."
Of course they were, SCO reported on this already... along with suing Harrods' for the use of the phrase '42', which they have long claimed as a number of their own devising.
Sun has released screenshots of its upcoming Mad Hatter Linux desktop... [with] minor modifications to Gnome to make it more familiar to Windows users.
Just like the Mad Hatter... "We only go around in circles in Wonderland, but we always end up where we started."
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Even better, the artists will get even less from this than before!
I think I'm going to start an Association of America.
Or any number of other movies where "Woah" is said more than 5 times.
Fond memories of high school, but I think THC Slowdown goes better with a 10,000 year snowboarding season. Or 10,000 years of marshmallow creme and funyuns.
Blue's News always has more gaming news than you can read in a day (but you should still try!), including slashdot-friendly summarizations of the proceedings. E3 Insider is the "official virtual gateway" to E3 that started I believe last year. I don't know to what extent the coverage will be, but its got more of a marketing feel to it so take that for what its worth.
Its not that I don't want to be in tune with world news, but when this site shows all the same stories are being read everywhere anyways, and I can get all of those same stories with less flash and flare directly from google news, whats the point? Perhaps I've missed it.
All of the english-printing countries are reporting about the same 10 subjects anyways, and I can't read the other ones. Its a flashy front end to localized news articles, nothing innovative here.
The main issue at hand isnt the sexual content, its the "ethnic cleansing". Unfortunately if this goes through either we will be hypocritical (how about all of the current WWII games, and our lust for killing the japanese?) or be out a lot of healthy, violent games. Taking my mind off of some of the more stressful issues that stem from Real Life with a few *virtual* insane stunt bonuses and a *virtual* city wide rampage is really quite theraputic. I wonder where my diversions will take me without them?
The Rio Nitrus is 1.5gb and has sold for as low as $150. The price on these mini hard drives is dropping fast as IBM and others continue to refine the manufacturing process. I doubt Apple will earn as much margin as they are on the higher ends, but these Jr's will look attractive to buyers such as myself who don't need a 40 gig brick.
A single patron can start to cause a lot of problems, as we've already seen with all the musicians, artists, and poets that you mentioned. Their (the donors) ideas are the only ones that get seen through, since they control the purse strings. (FuzzyBunnyWare anyone?)
This was one of the contributing factors to all of the revolutions seen in the 1770s, the death of classicism (with patronage) and the birth of romanticism (with paid-for instead of pledged-for services such as concerts).
This 'pledged-by-the-masses' idea, however, is a brilliant model for oss, assuming it works as well as necessary.
I've seen this same thing in a number of places. I had friends that used to keep one of the big heavy duty maglights to shine at the light when we went driving around at night. Talk about obvious, but how is a flashlight illegal I suppose. I'm sure some of the areas were just weight sensored, but it definitely seemed to improve those that weren't as well (usually you can tell around here, as the pavement is cut up).
impulse-buyable
I think this is one of the best points yet. How many layers of abstraction can we add between ourselves and our actual money? Its thing like this that give my bad money management skills the opportunity to really shine.
They weren't even revolutionary in not being revolutionary. Why, I was just not revolutionary last week, and then they had to follow up with a non-revolution evolution to my non-revolutionism.
The funny thing about Vancouver is that as progressive as it is in many ways, the liquor laws are anachronistically draconian.
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a lot of sleazy bars and clubs that tend to be populated with bimbos and knuckle-dragging frat boys
And people that stare when you say anachronistically draconian...
Where is all the code? But countless others have already asked and not been shown anything undeniably infringing, so good luck.
Throughout my higher education we have had paired and extreme programming shoved down our throats. I consider myself to be a fairly competent programmer, and have worked with others that have a wide array of skill sets. It has helped me personally in dealing with people that have such a wide array of skill sets. My communication skills have improved drastically. I'm sure there are other things which factored in to this, but paired programming certainly played a big role. My experiences overall have been pleasant. This is entirely subjective. I know people that feel completely different, and will rationalize it to the end. But, when I have worked with less knowledgable programmers we are able to get tasks done in almost the same amount of time it would have taken me to do it by myself, and a small fraction of the time it would have taken the other person to do it. When I work with people that have similar capabilities, and especially when we have personalities that work well together, we are able to get a ton more accomplished together than we ever could individually. And, when I work with people more knowledgable than mine, the earlier situation is reversed and I have the opportunity to learn at an accelerated pace. The most helpful thing I have found in my paired programming experiences is to have an open mind because in that kind of a close environment your ideas and thoughts can be trampled on rather quickly, and you have to be able to accept that environment and both acknowledge that some solutions are better and be able to rationalize any decisions you are making. In my experience it is entirely worth it. The code usually has less bugs when testing, and the end product is much more understandable in terms of structure and future upkeep.
"He dips the pen...in the ink, and he's off! It's the first word, but it's not a word - oh, no! - it's a doodle. Way up on the top of the lefthand margin is a piece of meaningless scribble - and he's signed his name underneath it! Oh dear, what a disapointing start. But his off again - and here he goes - the first word of Thomas Hardy's new novel, at ten thirtyfive on this very lovely morning, it's three letters, it's the definite article, and it's "The". Dennis."
"Well, this is true to form, no surprises there. He started five of his eleven novels to date with the definite article. We had two of them with "It", there's been one "But", two "At"s, one "On" and a "Dolores", but that of course was never published."
- Novel Writing (Live from Wessex)
Really? Where do I sign up?!?
And they're all in /dev/null?
They didn't tell you until it was too late to quit, did they?
Most importantly.. to not seem french?
Well thats still made my Microsoft, so its still good enough for me!
Of course they were, SCO reported on this already... along with suing Harrods' for the use of the phrase '42', which they have long claimed as a number of their own devising.
Very insightful.
Only in haiku, funny.
This post? Not so much.