"Linux has a stable tree and an unstable tree. Developers work on the stable tree to fix bugs and on the unstable tree to put in new features. I think this is a great system. I wish Microsoft learns from it."
The New Coke is a different thing from Vanilla Coke, and it tastes significantly worse. It also predates it by a decade or two.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode parodying The Cosby Show:
"Kids these days, with their hippin' and their hoppin' and their bippin' and their boppin', they don't know what the jazz is all about. Well I'll tell ya. The jazz is like a cup of Jell-o pudding. No, it's like a roll of Kodak film. No, it's like the New Coke. It's gonna be around forever."
Dvorak needs to say these things every now and then to maintain his position as public enemy #2 (after Bill) to Mac users. As I recall, he had some interesting predictions on those newfangled "mouse" thingies as well.
Actually, it's 'doubleplusthinkful'. Also, any respectable Ingsoc citizen would probably say 'doubleplusgoodthinkful' because it doesn't stand to reason that ungoodful persons can be thinkful.
The graphic designers give you levels and textured objects and animations. It's your job as the programmer to make sure that John NPC dies when he gets shot in the head and to make sure that Wally the Wonder Beaver stops when you try to walk into a wall. A lot of the low-level grunge work of making sure that things like distant objects apearing infront of close ones and such don't happen is handled by the engine, but you have to have a pretty good understanding of 3d to use the APIs. A graphic artist will give you models to work with, but you need to make them work.
Yes, I know this is all a vast oversimplification. Shoot me.
I think that was part of the subtle irony, thus adding to the humor.
Or maybe not.
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I am an anti-environmentalist, and I'm the only one I know. I don't believe there is any value to this planet beyond its ability to serve us. I don't think it's economically worth while to try to save the planet. By the time we notice the long-term benefits of environmentalist action, we'll have developed technology that will make us much less dependant on the environment. The oceans will be black, the rainforests will be gone, and most of the people living in indoor cities or in space stations won't care. My two cents.
"For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building."
But people do pay real money for virtual goods, money, and characters (though, admittedly, illegally). If this were common enough a currency exchange factor would emmerge. The money has some worth to some people. If MMORPGs become more dominant and widespread in the future, virtual money might be worth something to a lot of people.
Sue for degrading the quality? Right, and I suppose it's the cable company's responsibility to provide me with a private movie theater and DVD-quality film. Believe it or not, some stations actually used to broadcast television over the airwaves and the quality would fluctuate with weather conditions and the positioning of metal objects on top of the TV set. I don't think sueing for a bad picture would hold up well in court. Nobody's forcing you to buy digital cable, anyways. If the cable company is actually promoting that the picture quality is superior, that's something different, but they're just claiming it has more channels and a "digital picture". Buyer beware.
c) A person who realizes that if there are no commercials, there is no program, and that the program should be designed to minimize the negative effect of the commercials on the program. Designing the program so that the commercials don't come in at annoying times is fighting the damage that commercials do, not helping it.
The sad thing is that the length of these breaks has increased over time, so a lot of classic TV shows have parts cut out by the television station to allow more commercials to be shown. It's even more annoying since half of these commercials are just self-promotional things made by the station.
You would have to factor in the fact that the computer would be rendering twice as many polygons and textures, too. Also, who would want to look at anything running at 42Hz for an extended period of time? Migraine city. Neat idea, none the less.
Strange that in a world of space ships and helicopters and supersonic jets people still think of "flying cars" as a fantasy technology of the future. How do helicopters and other personal aircraft _not_ qualify as flying cars?
You should try driving with one eye closes some time to remove your depth perception. See how well you can avoid those giant orange pyramids in the distance. You certainly need 3d for driving.
If someone had asked me to guess whether or not Yahoo distributed spyware yesterday, I would say yes. It's pretty much expected that if any large company gives something away for free, its probably adware or spyware. Most people don't know they're getting spyware, worse, most people don't care, and worse yet, Yahoo knows this. The solution is simple: don't use software with such absurd EULAs.
It's called logical quoting. It's widely used on the internet to prevent confusion when quoting commands and things. In many ways, it's superior to traditional American and British quoting. Learn to love it.
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If some person you never heard about sues the maker of some cheap book you've never heard about, would you hear about it?
Duh.
"Linux has a stable tree and an unstable tree. Developers work on the stable tree to fix bugs and on the unstable tree to put in new features. I think this is a great system. I wish Microsoft learns from it."
Um... NT and 9x?
Such irony that your post will undoubtedly be moderated as funny.
The New Coke is a different thing from Vanilla Coke, and it tastes significantly worse. It also predates it by a decade or two.
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode parodying The Cosby Show:
"Kids these days, with their hippin' and their hoppin' and their bippin' and their boppin', they don't know what the jazz is all about. Well I'll tell ya. The jazz is like a cup of Jell-o pudding. No, it's like a roll of Kodak film. No, it's like the New Coke. It's gonna be around forever."
"If a 'second' is the amount of time it takes light to travel x distance" You left out the oh-so-important "in a vacuum" part.
Dvorak needs to say these things every now and then to maintain his position as public enemy #2 (after Bill) to Mac users. As I recall, he had some interesting predictions on those newfangled "mouse" thingies as well.
Actually, it's 'doubleplusthinkful'. Also, any respectable Ingsoc citizen would probably say 'doubleplusgoodthinkful' because it doesn't stand to reason that ungoodful persons can be thinkful.
People downloading good quality TV shows...
Good quality? We're still talking about Friends, aren't we?
Android, not cyborg. He was comlpetely artificial.
The graphic designers give you levels and textured objects and animations. It's your job as the programmer to make sure that John NPC dies when he gets shot in the head and to make sure that Wally the Wonder Beaver stops when you try to walk into a wall. A lot of the low-level grunge work of making sure that things like distant objects apearing infront of close ones and such don't happen is handled by the engine, but you have to have a pretty good understanding of 3d to use the APIs. A graphic artist will give you models to work with, but you need to make them work.
Yes, I know this is all a vast oversimplification. Shoot me.
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I think that was part of the subtle irony, thus adding to the humor.
Or maybe not.
I am an anti-environmentalist, and I'm the only one I know. I don't believe there is any value to this planet beyond its ability to serve us. I don't think it's economically worth while to try to save the planet. By the time we notice the long-term benefits of environmentalist action, we'll have developed technology that will make us much less dependant on the environment. The oceans will be black, the rainforests will be gone, and most of the people living in indoor cities or in space stations won't care. My two cents.
"For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building."
But people do pay real money for virtual goods, money, and characters (though, admittedly, illegally). If this were common enough a currency exchange factor would emmerge. The money has some worth to some people. If MMORPGs become more dominant and widespread in the future, virtual money might be worth something to a lot of people.
Sue for degrading the quality? Right, and I suppose it's the cable company's responsibility to provide me with a private movie theater and DVD-quality film. Believe it or not, some stations actually used to broadcast television over the airwaves and the quality would fluctuate with weather conditions and the positioning of metal objects on top of the TV set. I don't think sueing for a bad picture would hold up well in court. Nobody's forcing you to buy digital cable, anyways. If the cable company is actually promoting that the picture quality is superior, that's something different, but they're just claiming it has more channels and a "digital picture". Buyer beware.
c) A person who realizes that if there are no commercials, there is no program, and that the program should be designed to minimize the negative effect of the commercials on the program. Designing the program so that the commercials don't come in at annoying times is fighting the damage that commercials do, not helping it.
The sad thing is that the length of these breaks has increased over time, so a lot of classic TV shows have parts cut out by the television station to allow more commercials to be shown. It's even more annoying since half of these commercials are just self-promotional things made by the station.
You would have to factor in the fact that the computer would be rendering twice as many polygons and textures, too. Also, who would want to look at anything running at 42Hz for an extended period of time? Migraine city. Neat idea, none the less.
Strange that in a world of space ships and helicopters and supersonic jets people still think of "flying cars" as a fantasy technology of the future. How do helicopters and other personal aircraft _not_ qualify as flying cars?
You should try driving with one eye closes some time to remove your depth perception. See how well you can avoid those giant orange pyramids in the distance. You certainly need 3d for driving.
If someone had asked me to guess whether or not Yahoo distributed spyware yesterday, I would say yes. It's pretty much expected that if any large company gives something away for free, its probably adware or spyware. Most people don't know they're getting spyware, worse, most people don't care, and worse yet, Yahoo knows this. The solution is simple: don't use software with such absurd EULAs.
I will strangle anyone who says "4) ???, 5) Profit."
Does this mean that people who lived before the invention of free software were not really free? Someone should go write a letter to Locke about this.
It's called logical quoting. It's widely used on the internet to prevent confusion when quoting commands and things. In many ways, it's superior to traditional American and British quoting. Learn to love it.