Don't know how much good would software do for that, I feel I can always rely on a HB2 dead-tree-meat-enclosed graphite shaft and a nice wad of dead-tree-flakes, of course periodical persistence of task states to any available neuron-driven state persistence machine does help also with few notable exceptions.
Device manager-->View hidden devices-->sort by connection-->SbcpHid-->Properties-->Driver-->Stop.
Now you may RIP as you please, just in case ye fergot to hold the shift key before.
Nicholas Negroponte is f a r being from a geek. He is a suit that pretends to be one. I have not read a single piece written by this person having anything resembling substance. He embodies the prototypical techological-determinist, quite ill read or prepared for anything besides business-talk. For this, amongst many other reasons, I'd rather read a publication like "Scientific American" than "Wired" any day. This guy is seriously brain-damaged.
Now what would an interview with this guy be doing in Slashdot?
IMHO, Mr. Bull is full of it. His statements certainly belong to the annals of worst generalizations of humankind. He deserves to be shot and hung to dry above an electric dryer. He makes me think of Alzheimer, conformism and dried tobacco leaves. He smells of wretch and I hope he hasn't spawned.
I sometime like listening to concept albums in the original order though. Does that mean I deserve to be shot and hung to dry above an electric dryer? Certainly not.
I am a software developer and I contribute as much as I can to OSS. I believe that is important that the building blocks of culture, be it musical composition or software, should be freely available to anyone who wants to experience it.
I am an advocate for a similar model for performing musicians. Give the songs away for free, charge for live performances. Give your source code for free, charge for customizations. If venues and labels are screwing you, get organized and produce your own shows.
Oh and by the way, I am also a performing musician myself.
I agree that not all cultural recombinators (aka "artists", musicians in this case) possess equal amount of talent or disposition to get off their lazy asses and play more live shows. If you can only make money by selling t-shirts in a concert, it would look like both venues and labels are really screwing you.
Judging from your conformist "that's the way it is, get used to it" stance, I think you won't be doing much about that.
I will not pay one cent for the music I listen to. Megacorporations (read: marketing scum) owe me enough for raping my brain up until the age I was able to begin understading this. They owe me even more for all the active filtering I must still employ to block inexistent-necesity-inducing (read: advertisements) images they post everywhere. Not to mention the rest of the Mtv-Hollywood-disco-dancing-fever drones I have to deal with every day.
Artists: (cultural recombinators, actually) GIVE YOUR MUSIC AWAY, charge for many live performances, and leave the mental-space fuckers to rot.
I'm somewhat happy with my programmer/analyst job. I cannot be plain happy, that would tend to balance the equation and thus make The Architect quite unpleased + side-effect me awakening inside a pod with fuschia colored ooze and a serious need for a sun tan.
Orlando Soto, today you've made Corporate America proud. Ease away those spoon-fed-by-our-marketing-firm feelings of inadequacy by consuming. What's good for you, is good for the economy!
Everyone knows the word Morph's first use in science fiction can be traced back to Lord Albiron's 1929 novel "Danger, Danger High voltage." Quoting from the 3rd edition (Bantam), p. 33, 3rd paragraph:
"Blast it Timmy!, that durn George Bush specimen has morphed into some kind dumb ass nucular monkey. They must be running some kind of avatar process on him."
Programming is essentially a creative endeavor where beauty emerges from the harmonious implementation of function - i.e. a function (creation) in harmony with the object (material or imagined) which is the program's intention to model and with a given set of factors or rules (the API, language, instruction set.) This kind of creativity is in this sense more akin to that expressed in building architecture and industrial design than that expressed in the fine arts and philosophy.
Terming programming as a fine art is quite a stretch apart from the latter's primary concern - which is the creation of beautiful objects. Programming's primary concern is the creation of interactive models of objects in harmony with their material or imaginary counterparts and the boundaries that define the model space.
In this other sense, the aesthetic pleasure derived from programming or observing beautiful code is similar in nature to that derived from the construction or contemplation of philosophical concepts - both can recur to visual metaphors but are in essence invisible.
IHMO, available cycles should not be sacrificed to the overhead this will introduce when the problem is sloppy programming, whether it is programmer or retarded-i-can't-plan-manager induced.
By the way, anyone caught using try-catch-finally clauses for 'liberal' conditioning need be hung by way of testicles or fallopian tubes.
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Don't know how much good would software do for that, I feel I can always rely on a HB2 dead-tree-meat-enclosed graphite shaft and a nice wad of dead-tree-flakes, of course periodical persistence of task states to any available neuron-driven state persistence machine does help also with few notable exceptions.
Solid. This guy pokes nice holes in Negroponte's chest. You might also be interested in the works of the CAE. All their publications are available here free of charge. I have found this essay particularly interesting.
Cheerio
Device manager-->View hidden devices-->sort by connection-->SbcpHid-->Properties-->Driver-->Stop.
Now you may RIP as you please, just in case ye fergot to hold the shift key before.
Nicholas Negroponte is f a r being from a geek. He is a suit that pretends to be one. I have not read a single piece written by this person having anything resembling substance. He embodies the prototypical techological-determinist, quite ill read or prepared for anything besides business-talk. For this, amongst many other reasons, I'd rather read a publication like "Scientific American" than "Wired" any day. This guy is seriously brain-damaged.
Now what would an interview with this guy be doing in Slashdot?
Man, just when I though Hot Java was dead. http://java.sun.com/products/hotjava/3.0/
LOL++
This is not news to me as a software developer. Only infrastructure people seem to enjoy overtime pay benefits.
IMHO, Mr. Bull is full of it. His statements certainly belong to the annals of worst generalizations of humankind. He deserves to be shot and hung to dry above an electric dryer. He makes me think of Alzheimer, conformism and dried tobacco leaves. He smells of wretch and I hope he hasn't spawned.
I sometime like listening to concept albums in the original order though. Does that mean I deserve to be shot and hung to dry above an electric dryer? Certainly not.
I am a software developer and I contribute as much as I can to OSS. I believe that is important that the building blocks of culture, be it musical composition or software, should be freely available to anyone who wants to experience it.
I am an advocate for a similar model for performing musicians. Give the songs away for free, charge for live performances. Give your source code for free, charge for customizations. If venues and labels are screwing you, get organized and produce your own shows.
Oh and by the way, I am also a performing musician myself.
I agree that not all cultural recombinators (aka "artists", musicians in this case) possess equal amount of talent or disposition to get off their lazy asses and play more live shows. If you can only make money by selling t-shirts in a concert, it would look like both venues and labels are really screwing you.
Judging from your conformist "that's the way it is, get used to it" stance, I think you won't be doing much about that.
I will not pay one cent for the music I listen to. Megacorporations (read: marketing scum) owe me enough for raping my brain up until the age I was able to begin understading this. They owe me even more for all the active filtering I must still employ to block inexistent-necesity-inducing (read: advertisements) images they post everywhere. Not to mention the rest of the Mtv-Hollywood-disco-dancing-fever drones I have to deal with every day.
Artists: (cultural recombinators, actually) GIVE YOUR MUSIC AWAY, charge for many live performances, and leave the mental-space fuckers to rot.
Not really. Check the contract you signed with your employer. When are we geeks forming a political global syndicate?.
I'm somewhat happy with my programmer/analyst job. I cannot be plain happy, that would tend to balance the equation and thus make The Architect quite unpleased + side-effect me awakening inside a pod with fuschia colored ooze and a serious need for a sun tan.
Seriously, I try to balance my g33kiness with other activities, such as reading tech-related-but-not-directly stuff and playing the bass in a traditional ska band.
Well, looks like Dr. Lecter won't get his vacation RSN.
Orlando Soto, today you've made Corporate America proud. Ease away those spoon-fed-by-our-marketing-firm feelings of inadequacy by consuming. What's good for you, is good for the economy!
Whose economy?
--"Economists need to learn how to subtract."
It was posted yesterday, you ninny-head.
Everyone knows the word Morph's first use in science fiction can be traced back to Lord Albiron's 1929 novel "Danger, Danger High voltage." Quoting from the 3rd edition (Bantam), p. 33, 3rd paragraph :
"Blast it Timmy!, that durn George Bush specimen has morphed into some kind dumb ass nucular monkey. They must be running some kind of avatar process on him."
I'll never forget the first time i read that.
That is one _very_ crappy image. I want my money back.
Programming is essentially a creative endeavor where beauty emerges from the harmonious implementation of function - i.e. a function (creation) in harmony with the object (material or imagined) which is the program's intention to model and with a given set of factors or rules (the API, language, instruction set.) This kind of creativity is in this sense more akin to that expressed in building architecture and industrial design than that expressed in the fine arts and philosophy.
Terming programming as a fine art is quite a stretch apart from the latter's primary concern - which is the creation of beautiful objects. Programming's primary concern is the creation of interactive models of objects in harmony with their material or imaginary counterparts and the boundaries that define the model space.
In this other sense, the aesthetic pleasure derived from programming or observing beautiful code is similar in nature to that derived from the construction or contemplation of philosophical concepts - both can recur to visual metaphors but are in essence invisible.
IHMO, available cycles should not be sacrificed to the overhead this will introduce when the problem is sloppy programming, whether it is programmer or retarded-i-can't-plan-manager induced.
By the way, anyone caught using try-catch-finally clauses for 'liberal' conditioning need be hung by way of testicles or fallopian tubes.
LOL
A couple of my faves:
LOL.
Jedi don't stand a chance.
This mirror is up and running.