Awww, fuck it. McVoy was not only wrong, he was acting like a git, bastard, son of a bitch and annoying fucktard. There. Can I have my flamebait mode now, please?
Every time I read anything about this McVoy guy I hate him even more. I've met my share of bastards, gits, sons of bitches and annoying fucktards and this guy would probably rate in the top 10 in my all times list.
Ah... This new wave of Jazz I hear about. Mitch Benn played a twat's version of a Hendix's song and I suddenly had a pretty good idea what I think about this new wave of Jazz coming out.:)
I consider, say, REM and U2 in this category of bland sound-alike drek.
Today I was time-shifting (like a certain Doctor) to listen to Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music and it had a brilliant finishing song: "Everything sounds like Coldplay Now". Brilliant song.:P
Really, can you tell the difference between a 3 Doors Down / Maroon 5 / Simple Plan / Puddle of Mud / POD and so forth? I can't.
IMHO, based is not the exact word because the radio series actually never went far enough to cover the books and that's why we had the latest series of it on BBC Radio 4 last year.
It has to be understood that Douglas Adams more or less hated writing because he used to labour too much to be perfect. In his life his most memorable contributions to humanity are limited to a Trilogy in Five Parts, a radio series of two seasons, a BBC TV series of one single season and a couple of computer games. Almost all of them based on one single thing: The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy idea.
In my opinion, although they are very funny and brilliant (and I have a hard cover version of the original trilogy in my bookcase) I would say it is an underachievment. The society never let him do more of what he wanted to and write he wanted to. He wrote "Mostly Harmless" just to kill Arthur Dent so that no one would ask for some more. He is the typical "type-cast" personality where everyone demands more of the same from him and he is not given the freedom to do whatever he wants. I wish he had written more Dirk Gently books...
. I'm a little too old (nearing 30) for new stuff that all sounds bland and alike to me
Hey, I'm 31 this year but I'm pretty sure 10 years ago my kind of music (mostly speed metal, already out of date by the time I fell in love with it) sounded the same to 30 year old crowd of my time.
It is just a fact of life. After a while a person's ideas and tastes stop evolving and we tend to get stuck at a particular year and age. Only a small fraction of people can evolve and find something new everyday. Unfortunately I'm not one of them.
I used to listen to John Peel on BBC World and his programs introduced me to many strange tastes across the world music scene. BBC is always a good choice to listen to. Today I've mostly tuned my DAB radio to an 'off the mill Rock' channel and there hasn't been a single track which made me search the lyrics and band info on the net. A single Peel program would get me out of bed at 3AM in the morning and would make me start searching what else I can find about the band I just heard on the dinky worldband radio.
I have huge jars full of 1 and 2p coins. Some are older than me and I am 31 this year. It's just plain stupidity because you can't buy almost anything for less than 20p. At least even when they fill a couple of jars they don't worth more than a tenner so there is absolutely no point keeping them. I use them as paperweights.
We have loads of SuSE SLES8/United Linux 1.0 machines around. I haven't seen SuSE's support guys neededeven once. Previously I was using Red Hat in the office. I was told 'not to'.:(
Just for the launching cost of Hubble b shuttle (1Billion US$) you can build at least ten of these gorgeous observatories all around the world. Who needs Hubble? When we didn't have adaptive optics and deformable mirrors it made sense, James Webb telescope now makes sense, no one knows what will happen in the next 10 years.
Right. What the heck is this? Couldn't you post less into the intro of the article? I'm fed up with sloppy editors in/. (What? Am I new here? Who's asking?)
to pander to the people who claim they can smell it once they find out somebody is smoking (just to be anal)
You got that wrong, we can smell and you stink.:) Then we ask you, politely, "are you a smoker?" and you say "yes" and we say "you stink", you say "you're saying that 'cause I just told you that I smoke", we say "no, you stink" and so on.
Thinking of his track record, I wouldn't bet on his software. First you couldn't do anything, then you couldn't even use it if you were messing with other source control systems, now he is saying it is free for anything. If someone reverse engineers a GPL/BSDL BitKeeper server clone using the client will he tolerate it or will he try to crush it? That's the crux of it.
Come on! You have to seize turn-key paradigms to transform transparent action-items so that you can embrace e-business applications. Everyone worth their salts know that. Does agile methods help? You betcha!
1 Gig is not enough. My mail-archive directory in my laptop is well over 2GB. I'm using Gmail for some time now and it's over 20% full and I've been using it for only persinal communication. 1 Gig won't last long (an other 6 months, maybe).
Wait a sec, does this mean Thunderbird doesn't use mbox format? Darn, I have to rethink my policy. I won't suggest anything to anyone if I can't debug/support it.
When I was using Mozilla, I could symlink the files to my mailbox and use Pine to read them. I still can do the same using Evolution. For a year I was forced to use Outlook (Express variety) and after loosing a gig ov mail archives I will not do it, fullstop. I haven't used Mozilla as a mail client again but convinced some others to ditch Outlook and start using Thunderbird. All of those are pretty happy now. I am content with Evolution, so far.
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Every time I read anything about this McVoy guy I hate him even more. I've met my share of bastards, gits, sons of bitches and annoying fucktards and this guy would probably rate in the top 10 in my all times list.
There. I said it. I feel better now.
Ah... This new wave of Jazz I hear about. Mitch Benn played a twat's version of a Hendix's song and I suddenly had a pretty good idea what I think about this new wave of Jazz coming out. :)
Today I was time-shifting (like a certain Doctor) to listen to Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music and it had a brilliant finishing song: "Everything sounds like Coldplay Now". Brilliant song. :P
Really, can you tell the difference between a 3 Doors Down / Maroon 5 / Simple Plan / Puddle of Mud / POD and so forth? I can't.
Wha wha whaaaat? Sorry, waaaay out of my genre.
It has to be understood that Douglas Adams more or less hated writing because he used to labour too much to be perfect. In his life his most memorable contributions to humanity are limited to a Trilogy in Five Parts, a radio series of two seasons, a BBC TV series of one single season and a couple of computer games. Almost all of them based on one single thing: The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy idea.
In my opinion, although they are very funny and brilliant (and I have a hard cover version of the original trilogy in my bookcase) I would say it is an underachievment. The society never let him do more of what he wanted to and write he wanted to. He wrote "Mostly Harmless" just to kill Arthur Dent so that no one would ask for some more. He is the typical "type-cast" personality where everyone demands more of the same from him and he is not given the freedom to do whatever he wants. I wish he had written more Dirk Gently books...
Rush and Annilihator are also from Canada and they rock. So the net gain is zero... So far...
You got me there for a sec. There is no alt.rock.bands newsgroup in my feed. Are you sure it isn't alt.rock-n-roll.something?
Hey, I'm 31 this year but I'm pretty sure 10 years ago my kind of music (mostly speed metal, already out of date by the time I fell in love with it) sounded the same to 30 year old crowd of my time.
It is just a fact of life. After a while a person's ideas and tastes stop evolving and we tend to get stuck at a particular year and age. Only a small fraction of people can evolve and find something new everyday. Unfortunately I'm not one of them.
I used to listen to John Peel on BBC World and his programs introduced me to many strange tastes across the world music scene. BBC is always a good choice to listen to. Today I've mostly tuned my DAB radio to an 'off the mill Rock' channel and there hasn't been a single track which made me search the lyrics and band info on the net. A single Peel program would get me out of bed at 3AM in the morning and would make me start searching what else I can find about the band I just heard on the dinky worldband radio.
Most of the bird familia would disagree.
I have huge jars full of 1 and 2p coins. Some are older than me and I am 31 this year. It's just plain stupidity because you can't buy almost anything for less than 20p. At least even when they fill a couple of jars they don't worth more than a tenner so there is absolutely no point keeping them. I use them as paperweights.
We have loads of SuSE SLES8/United Linux 1.0 machines around. I haven't seen SuSE's support guys neededeven once. Previously I was using Red Hat in the office. I was told 'not to'. :(
Just for the launching cost of Hubble b shuttle (1Billion US$) you can build at least ten of these gorgeous observatories all around the world. Who needs Hubble? When we didn't have adaptive optics and deformable mirrors it made sense, James Webb telescope now makes sense, no one knows what will happen in the next 10 years.
Wait until they write the sequel "Missing link in eCommerce - 3: ???? in a Nutshell"
I have a nice SQL in a nutshell book which I can lend to Timothy...
Right. What the heck is this? Couldn't you post less into the intro of the article? I'm fed up with sloppy editors in /. (What? Am I new here? Who's asking?)
Nope, as a child of smoking parents, I can't stand the smell.
You got that wrong, we can smell and you stink. :) Then we ask you, politely, "are you a smoker?" and you say "yes" and we say "you stink", you say "you're saying that 'cause I just told you that I smoke", we say "no, you stink" and so on.
I'm a non-smoker and I can tell you if a person is a smoker or not. They do smell like a dog without a nose.
Thinking of his track record, I wouldn't bet on his software. First you couldn't do anything, then you couldn't even use it if you were messing with other source control systems, now he is saying it is free for anything. If someone reverse engineers a GPL/BSDL BitKeeper server clone using the client will he tolerate it or will he try to crush it? That's the crux of it.
Come on! You have to seize turn-key paradigms to transform transparent action-items so that you can embrace e-business applications. Everyone worth their salts know that. Does agile methods help? You betcha!
Duh!. 7 /dev/zero writes is nothing.
Wow.. does anyone still play Rifts?
1 Gig is not enough. My mail-archive directory in my laptop is well over 2GB. I'm using Gmail for some time now and it's over 20% full and I've been using it for only persinal communication. 1 Gig won't last long (an other 6 months, maybe).
Wait a sec, does this mean Thunderbird doesn't use mbox format? Darn, I have to rethink my policy. I won't suggest anything to anyone if I can't debug/support it.
When I was using Mozilla, I could symlink the files to my mailbox and use Pine to read them. I still can do the same using Evolution. For a year I was forced to use Outlook (Express variety) and after loosing a gig ov mail archives I will not do it, fullstop. I haven't used Mozilla as a mail client again but convinced some others to ditch Outlook and start using Thunderbird. All of those are pretty happy now. I am content with Evolution, so far.