Low-cost connections will proliferate, encouraging creativity, collaboration
No, really? I could have sworn that's already happening.
and telecommuting.
To an extent, maybe. But I know a couple sysadmins who are able to work from home (I refuse to use pointless buzzwords) but choose not to. I just can't see many businesses or employees wanting to do this, except in fringe cases. In-person communication is usually vastly more efficient than electronic communication.
If you're under 21, you likely don't care much about any supposed difference between virtual and actual, online and off.
I'm 21, and you're a fucking moron. Yes, young people tend to use the Internet. Some spend way too much time documenting their shallow lives and stalking others on MySpace. This doesn't mean that they have difficulty telling the difference. For example, it is extraordinarily difficult to have sex online.
Like the real world, the Net will be increasingly international and decreasingly reliant on English.
Uh, we're already there. Try to keep up.
It will be wrapped in a Chinese kung fu outfit, intoned in an Indian accent, oozing Brazilian sex appeal.
What? If this means anything, it escapes me.
Now a TypePad account is a license to deliver nose-to-the-pavement perspective with an attitude.
The Internet allows for easy communication. Fancy that. It doesn't mean anyone will listen to you or give a crap about your "perspective with an attitude" (I assume it's also EXTREEEEME!)
Today's Internet-savvy futurist is more likely to describe himself as a strategy consultant or venture capital researcher. That development doesn't surprise me. Frankly, I saw it coming.
Again, you make a statement that doesn't really mean anything, then pat yourself on the back for "predicting" it? Yes, people who can accurately predict trends will do well in business. Wow.
Why? Is there a problem with the code, or the license? You're free to start your own company and offer tech support and other services for MySQL, and there's always PostgreSQL. But if the MySQL coders are still doing good work, I see no reason to fork.
Really? I'm a LaTeX freak, and I was really impressed with Office 2007. The whole blue color scheme is a little strange, but the interface works beautifully. It's pretty, it's fast, it's organized in an intelligent way, and it doesn't try to "personalize" the menus. I can even use my mouse wheel to scroll through the tabs on the ribbon. I don't see how it could possibly considered inferior to OOo, which is pretty much a cheap clone of Office 97.
For whatever reason, I've never had to activate my copy of XP from Dell, or even enter the CD key printed on the side of my PC case. It Just Works, and I don't question a good thing.
This is getting boring. The same exact poll has 69% in favor of:
"Do you think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have health care coverage, or is that not the responsibility of the federal government?"
That is the definition of universal health care. Frankly, I really don't care very much about single-player vs. semi-privatized. The notion that "it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure all Americans have health care coverage" is a far more radical idea than any health care reform proposed by a powerful Democrat.
Remember all those free hosting services? Where are they now?
Alive and kicking. I'm using one (AwardSpace) to host my domain for now. I have 200MB of space, 5GB transfer, a small MySQL database, and Perl and PHP support. For nothing, that's pretty damn good. Personally I need more, and will eventually be moving to a cheap VPS.
I should also mention that I could have easily cherry-picked much more shocking numbers. For example:
Protecting the environment is so important that requirements and standards cannot be too high, and continuing environmental Improvements must be made regardless of cost.
But I don't see the numbers for gun control, environment over economy, or universal health care as being realistic.
Why don't you actually look at the site and see that the trends hold up in multiple polls and with different questions?
Well, at least many of those are still controlled by the states. If you don't like the laws in one state on these issues...move to another.
I'm planning to move to Belgium in a few years, though not for political reasons. Regardless, I don't see how any of the above issues (except maybe affirmative action) can be effectively addressed at a state level. BTW, I was as shocked as you were to see 57-35 explicitly in favor of protecting the environment at the cost of economic growth. Go to the site and read the questions and the results. The common perception of what is "mainstream" and what isn't is often laughably wrong.
about 60% for universal health care (and years ago)
50-37 for stem cell research
57-35 favor the environment over economic growth
54% favor stricter gun control laws
49-43 favor affirmative action
56-39 are against privatization of Social Security (various questions, same overall picture)
60% favor withdrawal from Iraq in six months
Tell me again how the public loves far-right ideas? On issues without broad public support, it's our responsibility to lead social change. The Dems don't pander to the base. They're to the right of the fucking majority of Americans on many issues!
Lincoln Chafee was on The Daily Show last night claiming that primaries encouraged both parties towards the extremes, but I have yet to see any evidence that this is true for the Democrats. Okay, there was Ned Lamont. That was an extreme case, and he still lost, and Lamont never ran as more liberal than Joe. Clinton was a centrist. Gore ran as a centrist. In one of the most liberal states in the country, Hillary Clinton is a social conservative who doesn't even support withdrawal from Iraq. Could someone name some of Kerry's liberal positions in 2004?
The GOP panders to their base, and fulfills many of their promises. The Democrats, much to the chagrin of lefties like me, do no such thing. If you don't even support gay marriage, you can go fuck yourself as far as liberal street cred goes. Eliot Spitzer is one of the few notable politicians that does. Only now is universal health care finally taking hold as a mainstream Democratic idea.
So again, I'd ask for any examples of politicians that have moved to the left to get a nomination. Oh, and in case you didn't notice, John McCain was never a centrist except for a few pet issues -- he just played one on TV.
Would a newspaper or TV news program show a picture of a person "believed to be a rapist?" However, if someone has a cell phone camera picture of someone leaving the scene of a rape, you can bet some web site will put it up with the caption "He did it!!!!" What does this do to the idea of a fair trial?
Nancy Grace.
Seriously, I don't disagree with your concerns, but the mainstream media is already there. The quality of reporting and analysis on all but the most bland, uncontroversial subjects is obscene.
I've been sporadically working on a remake/sequel/whatever to Darklands in my spare time. I'll have a few weeks over the holidays to continue. The amount of time required for research alone is overwhelming, even with access to a university library and resources like JSTOR. There's so much that goes into creating an accurate setting. My goals include a fully simulated world (trade/economy, wars, city growth, communication, etc.), realistic combat, and mythologically-accurate alchemy. It's a massive project that I wish I had time for. My first milestone is just a simple one-on-one mêlée combat in much the same style as the original Darklands combat view. I'm pretty close to this; the code in SVN displays a plane with a few models that can be selected (left-click) and told to walk around (right-click on plane). It needs a GUI display and a combat backend.
Work on the game engine itself has been difficult because PyOgre sort of died, so I switched to a combination of C++ and Python, with only the parts I need exposed via Boost.Python. Anyway, I hope to get a few people re-interested once I've gotten something playable. I don't know what I'm going to do about artwork. The Darklands Yahoo group is the best (and only) DL community around, and probably worth subscribing to for the occasional interesting post. Look for posts by Ron Losey, who has real-life experience in fighting with swords and knives, and the injuries that result.
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It's not trivial to just install "mod" modules to get Rails and Django to work
But that's exactly what PHP requires!
and you have to own root permissions to do that.
True enough. Django and RoR aren't for people who only have cheapo shared web hosting plans.
I'd sure love to see the folks who are writing the Django book drop whatever chapter they are writing and move on to the deployment chapter.
They've had instructions since forever. It does require some meddling with the Apache config, but it's not too difficult. Yeah, it takes some time to set up Django and learn how it works, but once you've got it working, it's ridiculously good at doing complex things with only a few lines of code.
Did you play Ultima Online at its 1998-2000 peak? That's the closest I've come to a CRPG that felt like something more than a computer game. If you were lucky enough to be on the same shard as a large group of dedicated roleplayers, the possibilities were almost endless. In the single-player realm, Darklands and Daggerfall both contain hints at something greater. Especially Darklands. If you've never played it, I absolutely recommend downloading it from HOTU. I could rave for paragraphs about its uniqueness, but just go and play it.
What's with all the new "AAA" games that run like crap and/or look like crap on any system more than a year old? Oblivion, NWN2, the new Total War games (even in map mode), Company of Heroes, etc. Whatever happened to the idea of a scalable graphics engine, or just plain good code design? Dear game developers: if your game is halfway decent, nobody gives a shit that you haven't used all the latest masturbatory DirectX features to make everything extra shiny. Oh, and could you make memory usage slightly less obscene? I haven't seen any feature that merits such awful performance. I submit to you World of Warcraft and GTA: San Andreas as two games that look great and run smoothly even on ancient hardware.
Did you sleep through your courses on operating systems and computer organization? Because I have no trouble understanding how a console emulator works, even though I don't know the details.
So in the case of something like a missing chain of custody, you'd use the evidence but prosecute the unknown person who has the missing documentation?
I think the GP means that in case of something like an illegal search, the evidence would still be admissible. If the evidence is possibly tainted, that's a different case entirely. Sounds like a good idea to me, as long as the penalties are severe enough.
First of all, a lot of the code that actually comprehends the VB programming language is actually tangled up in the GUI code. Second, the code has huge blocks of code that are written in processor-specific assembly. That means that they either have to fundamentally redesign the entire product or maintain separate versions for all of the different processors they support (32-bit PPC, 32-bit x86, 64-bit x86). Third, he rules out the possibility of porting the windows version of VBA over to the mac because the damn thing actually makes assumptions about how the actual.exe file is formatted.
Jesus Christ! And I thought people were exaggerating when they said that Microsoft code is a mess. Why in the world would you write a script interpreter in assembly? It's been a few years since the last Office release, and they'd rather cripple a product than get a couple guys to refactor the VBA code?
It's disappointing how many people have given Oblivion absurdly overblown praise. What does it say about the current standards for greatness when such a flawed game averages 93% on GameRankings? The UI, the hand-holding quest system, the idiotic conversations and behavior caused by "Radiant AI", the lack of any kind of meaningful choices...and on and on, not even including the bugs. TES was so promising; I played Daggerfall for years. And this is the direction you decided to take the series? A mediocre game system with tons of *stuff* thrown in? Sigh. Maybe someone else will make the series that TES could have been.
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To an extent, maybe. But I know a couple sysadmins who are able to work from home (I refuse to use pointless buzzwords) but choose not to. I just can't see many businesses or employees wanting to do this, except in fringe cases. In-person communication is usually vastly more efficient than electronic communication.
I'm 21, and you're a fucking moron. Yes, young people tend to use the Internet. Some spend way too much time documenting their shallow lives and stalking others on MySpace. This doesn't mean that they have difficulty telling the difference. For example, it is extraordinarily difficult to have sex online.
Uh, we're already there. Try to keep up.
What? If this means anything, it escapes me.
The Internet allows for easy communication. Fancy that. It doesn't mean anyone will listen to you or give a crap about your "perspective with an attitude" (I assume it's also EXTREEEEME!)
Again, you make a statement that doesn't really mean anything, then pat yourself on the back for "predicting" it? Yes, people who can accurately predict trends will do well in business. Wow.
Why? Is there a problem with the code, or the license? You're free to start your own company and offer tech support and other services for MySQL, and there's always PostgreSQL. But if the MySQL coders are still doing good work, I see no reason to fork.
It's the system. They really need to work out a better way of displaying threads where the first post is hidden.
Really? I'm a LaTeX freak, and I was really impressed with Office 2007. The whole blue color scheme is a little strange, but the interface works beautifully. It's pretty, it's fast, it's organized in an intelligent way, and it doesn't try to "personalize" the menus. I can even use my mouse wheel to scroll through the tabs on the ribbon. I don't see how it could possibly considered inferior to OOo, which is pretty much a cheap clone of Office 97.
I'll add a third common task: plotting more than one line on a graph. It's simply impossible in OO.
For whatever reason, I've never had to activate my copy of XP from Dell, or even enter the CD key printed on the side of my PC case. It Just Works, and I don't question a good thing.
I've been using nLite and RyanVM's update pack to do this for a while now. Great stuff, even works with my Dell OEM version of XP.
Tell me again how the public loves far-right ideas? On issues without broad public support, it's our responsibility to lead social change. The Dems don't pander to the base. They're to the right of the fucking majority of Americans on many issues!
Lincoln Chafee was on The Daily Show last night claiming that primaries encouraged both parties towards the extremes, but I have yet to see any evidence that this is true for the Democrats. Okay, there was Ned Lamont. That was an extreme case, and he still lost, and Lamont never ran as more liberal than Joe. Clinton was a centrist. Gore ran as a centrist. In one of the most liberal states in the country, Hillary Clinton is a social conservative who doesn't even support withdrawal from Iraq. Could someone name some of Kerry's liberal positions in 2004?
The GOP panders to their base, and fulfills many of their promises. The Democrats, much to the chagrin of lefties like me, do no such thing. If you don't even support gay marriage, you can go fuck yourself as far as liberal street cred goes. Eliot Spitzer is one of the few notable politicians that does. Only now is universal health care finally taking hold as a mainstream Democratic idea.
So again, I'd ask for any examples of politicians that have moved to the left to get a nomination. Oh, and in case you didn't notice, John McCain was never a centrist except for a few pet issues -- he just played one on TV.
Seriously, I don't disagree with your concerns, but the mainstream media is already there. The quality of reporting and analysis on all but the most bland, uncontroversial subjects is obscene.
I've been sporadically working on a remake/sequel/whatever to Darklands in my spare time. I'll have a few weeks over the holidays to continue. The amount of time required for research alone is overwhelming, even with access to a university library and resources like JSTOR. There's so much that goes into creating an accurate setting. My goals include a fully simulated world (trade/economy, wars, city growth, communication, etc.), realistic combat, and mythologically-accurate alchemy. It's a massive project that I wish I had time for. My first milestone is just a simple one-on-one mêlée combat in much the same style as the original Darklands combat view. I'm pretty close to this; the code in SVN displays a plane with a few models that can be selected (left-click) and told to walk around (right-click on plane). It needs a GUI display and a combat backend.
Work on the game engine itself has been difficult because PyOgre sort of died, so I switched to a combination of C++ and Python, with only the parts I need exposed via Boost.Python. Anyway, I hope to get a few people re-interested once I've gotten something playable. I don't know what I'm going to do about artwork. The Darklands Yahoo group is the best (and only) DL community around, and probably worth subscribing to for the occasional interesting post. Look for posts by Ron Losey, who has real-life experience in fighting with swords and knives, and the injuries that result.
Did you play Ultima Online at its 1998-2000 peak? That's the closest I've come to a CRPG that felt like something more than a computer game. If you were lucky enough to be on the same shard as a large group of dedicated roleplayers, the possibilities were almost endless. In the single-player realm, Darklands and Daggerfall both contain hints at something greater. Especially Darklands. If you've never played it, I absolutely recommend downloading it from HOTU. I could rave for paragraphs about its uniqueness, but just go and play it.
What's with all the new "AAA" games that run like crap and/or look like crap on any system more than a year old? Oblivion, NWN2, the new Total War games (even in map mode), Company of Heroes, etc. Whatever happened to the idea of a scalable graphics engine, or just plain good code design? Dear game developers: if your game is halfway decent, nobody gives a shit that you haven't used all the latest masturbatory DirectX features to make everything extra shiny. Oh, and could you make memory usage slightly less obscene? I haven't seen any feature that merits such awful performance. I submit to you World of Warcraft and GTA: San Andreas as two games that look great and run smoothly even on ancient hardware.
Did you sleep through your courses on operating systems and computer organization? Because I have no trouble understanding how a console emulator works, even though I don't know the details.
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House
The Colbert Report
You can get your boobs and cursing from movies. Go watch seasons 1 - 4 of The West Wing and tell me it isn't great TV.
It's disappointing how many people have given Oblivion absurdly overblown praise. What does it say about the current standards for greatness when such a flawed game averages 93% on GameRankings? The UI, the hand-holding quest system, the idiotic conversations and behavior caused by "Radiant AI", the lack of any kind of meaningful choices...and on and on, not even including the bugs. TES was so promising; I played Daggerfall for years. And this is the direction you decided to take the series? A mediocre game system with tons of *stuff* thrown in? Sigh. Maybe someone else will make the series that TES could have been.
To a scientist, the difference is significant figures. 0.50 implies greater precision than 0.5.