That's interesting. I have both, but I started with Lord Jim. One of maybe three books I haven't finished in my life. I'll have to try Heart of Darkness.
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You want a real-life example? Gaim. They don't even bother with cop-outs anymore. There's zero response to any kind of "when" question. I understand "it's ready when it's ready," but the total lack of communication is just stupid.
A lot of you have noticed that while we typically release every three weeks, we haven't had a release in a while. We've shifted all our efforts to finishing Gaim 2.0.0. Gaim 2.0.0 has a ton of great features, fixes every problem you've ever had with Gaim, makes drastic changes to huge parts of Gaim---especially status, includes three new protocols, and does a bunch of other amazing stuff. We're looking to feature freeze at the end of this month and release a month or so later, so be sure to get on our cases and make sure we get it finished.
That'd be from October 12th, 2005. Yes, seven months ago. Meanwhile, we're going to be going through the *second* Summer of Code without a stable release including some of the major accomplishments, like file transfers actually working.
lmao. Methinks you ought to familiarize yourself with The Facts. Sony's grossing FOUR BILLION DOLLARS A QUARTER. I put that all in caps, so you won't miss it.
Sony is absolutely bleeding money - wrong.
The game division was just about their only profitable division - wrong again.
Where do people come up with this shit? Doesn't anyone do basic fact-checking anymore, or is that too much work?
Things get stupid as soon as you bring genre into it. I shudder when I see people including genre in their classifying methods. Both Musicbrainz and CD/FreeDB are way off for a lot of albums.
I wrote this over on last.fm, and it has more to do with with CDs than digital stuff, but it's just some thoughts on how to sort my own collection. Might as well paste it in here.:) Plus, it's pretty metal-specific, so nobody'll know what the hell I'm talking about anyway. (BTW, I use amaroK, with Music/[artist]/[album] folders. What's easier than typing 'ant ent' and coming up with Emperor's Ye Entrancemperium?)
I'm pushing 3,500 CDs right now, and it's nice to know exactly how they're arranged so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily. There are probably as many different ways to categorize bands as there are bands to categorize, but I've been thinking about it a lot lately.
What I've had for the last few years is kind of a custom scheme. A first pass, which separates them into "Heavy" and "Not-Heavy," totally arbitrary and decided by me.:-) Emperor/Metallica/Helmet are Heavy. Jewel, Madonna, Dire Straits, Not-Heavy. That's the majority of my collection. At the end goes the small, specific stuff: blues, comedy, soundtracks, classical, and so on.
Within those two big ones, artists are arranged alphabetically. If it's a solo artist, they go under last name (Tori Amos is at A). Somebody asked me once why Michael Jackson was under M, and I said I think it's because I don't really consider him human.
Solo records from band people (singer has to make an album) go after the band they're with. Unless they've had a distinguished solo career, like Ozzy (under O).
Within each artist, releases are arranged chronologically, old to new. Singles go before the album they come from, live shows go after. Tributes to a band come after that band.
Soooo, that worked for a while, but now I'm not as happy with it. Hendrix is Heavy, but in a different sort of way. This is where we start getting into genres, and it becomes a total mess. Some stuff is fairly easy (Britney's pop, Madonna is pop), and I think they'll stay that way. Others can be trickier - Eric Clapton is what, blues? Rock? Blues rock? Most people here will know about metal though. How much do you want to split that up? You can't put Finntroll next to Immortal next to In Flames if you're getting real specific. Swedish death metal (Soilwork, say) can be vastly different from Latin death metal (Krisiun), or it can be very similar (The Crown). I guess that's an argument that "death metal" doesn't have the granularity it needs, but that doesn't even take into account changes within bands. Master of Puppets is a thrash metal album, but Load certainly isn't. Volcano and Now, Diabolical have one kind of sound, which isn't even close to Nemesis Divina. Black Aria isn't much like How the Gods Kill. Pat Boone did a metal tribute album. Where the hell does that go? (I know, I know... In the dustbin.:-P)
Anyway, I think it's fascinating from a musicological perspective, especially when I can't find the stupid album I'm looking for.:-) Anybody can tell you that Britney and Cannibal Corpse are in different genres, but it's the explaining why that gets complicated.
Frankly speaking, it's going to take far far far less technical knowledge to turn on the outbound firewall than what it will take to download a Linux Distro and put it on CD. That's the long and short of it.
So? It certainly doesn't take much technical knowledge to download Zone Alarm. It doesn't take much technical knowledge to grab Firefox. Lethargy rules in Windowsland. WTF does technical knowledge have to do with anything? We're talking about sensible defaults, which is what 90% of Windows users will run, and that isn't a particularly good one. I don't know anybody who thinks that outbound firewalls (or lackthereof) are going to make anybody switch. It's still a stupid idea. Sounds like you have some unresolved issues.
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I don't know about that. Cable around here would just randomly lose my mail at times, so at least with DSL somebody trying to reach me gets an error message.:-)
Or maybe not. Stupid Google. I hate flamebait issues like this where you can't tell anything true. And stupid/., so I can't take back a post that makes me look like an IDIOT in PUBLIC./me sobs.
AND like, I lost half my mods. They were really really good mods too. It's kind of a bummer.
Well, he either has a Ph.D. or he's an ex-chemical company executive. You decide. I'm gonna go drink myself into oblivion.
No software project I have managed has been late by more than 10% of the total schedule.
Well, Microsoft could argue that Vista is the culmination of 20 years of work, and so the "total schedule" being what it is, they... oh. Damn, still late!
The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine's capability to perform human-like conversation. Described by Alan Turing in the 1950 paper "Computing machinery and intelligence", it proceeds as follows: a human judge engages in a natural language conversation with two other parties, one a human and the other a machine; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test.
It is assumed that both the human and the machine try to appear human. In order to keep the test setting simple and universal (to explicitly test the linguistic capability of the machine instead of its ability to render words into audio), the conversation is usually limited to a text-only channel such as a teletype machine as Turing suggested or, more recently IRC or instant messaging.
Because of response #1 you got, but I'd also argue that when most people think "Sony," they don't come up with CDs. Consumer electronics, remember - PS3 and your amplifier. Maybe your TV. Speakers. People like name-brand stuff, for good or bad (Bose? Yeesh.), and when it doesn't break, they're happy. I'd be surprised if most people could even name what music they own from Sony artists, even though it's more than they think.
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That's interesting. I have both, but I started with Lord Jim. One of maybe three books I haven't finished in my life. I'll have to try Heart of Darkness.
You could always, you know, buy a not-iPod.
Just a thought.
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Burger King: Have it your way!
McDonald's: I'm loving it!
Jack in the Box: Maybe you'll have lunch, maybe you'll FUCKING DIE!
lmao. Methinks you ought to familiarize yourself with The Facts. Sony's grossing FOUR BILLION DOLLARS A QUARTER. I put that all in caps, so you won't miss it.
Sony is absolutely bleeding money - wrong.
The game division was just about their only profitable division - wrong again.
Where do people come up with this shit? Doesn't anyone do basic fact-checking anymore, or is that too much work?
lol. I like that crazy bearded dude in the back. Bet he runs Hurd.
I wrote this over on last.fm, and it has more to do with with CDs than digital stuff, but it's just some thoughts on how to sort my own collection. Might as well paste it in here.
"Larry, have you tried PostgreSQL? It's fantastic, and free!"
You know the woman who says "For English, press 1" isn't actually sitting there, right?
Frankly speaking, it's going to take far far far less technical knowledge to turn on the outbound firewall than what it will take to download a Linux Distro and put it on CD. That's the long and short of it.
So? It certainly doesn't take much technical knowledge to download Zone Alarm. It doesn't take much technical knowledge to grab Firefox. Lethargy rules in Windowsland. WTF does technical knowledge have to do with anything? We're talking about sensible defaults, which is what 90% of Windows users will run, and that isn't a particularly good one. I don't know anybody who thinks that outbound firewalls (or lackthereof) are going to make anybody switch. It's still a stupid idea. Sounds like you have some unresolved issues.
Try this one.
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I don't know about that. Cable around here would just randomly lose my mail at times, so at least with DSL somebody trying to reach me gets an error message. :-)
Or maybe not. Stupid Google. I hate flamebait issues like this where you can't tell anything true. And stupid /., so I can't take back a post that makes me look like an IDIOT in PUBLIC. /me sobs.
AND like, I lost half my mods. They were really really good mods too. It's kind of a bummer.
Well, he either has a Ph.D. or he's an ex-chemical company executive. You decide. I'm gonna go drink myself into oblivion.
Undoing mods to post this, but oh well...
He has a Ph.D. in political science, making him, yes, both a doctor and a political scientist.
That's not a particularly good reason to laud them for promoting it.
No software project I have managed has been late by more than 10% of the total schedule.
Well, Microsoft could argue that Vista is the culmination of 20 years of work, and so the "total schedule" being what it is, they... oh. Damn, still late!
That's the hospital bill after you eat said deadly concoction.
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Because of response #1 you got, but I'd also argue that when most people think "Sony," they don't come up with CDs. Consumer electronics, remember - PS3 and your amplifier. Maybe your TV. Speakers. People like name-brand stuff, for good or bad (Bose? Yeesh.), and when it doesn't break, they're happy. I'd be surprised if most people could even name what music they own from Sony artists, even though it's more than they think.
So that's what you do all day! And here I thought it was just crumpets and polo matches.
CRAWFORD, TEXAS -- A tragic fire on Sunday destroyed the personal library of President George W. Bush. Both of his books have been lost.
A presidential spokesman said the president was devastated, as he had not finished coloring the second one.