In fact, the only reason FreeHand didn't go to Adobe at that time was because of contractural obligations not to compete with Illustrator. Freehand's (independent of Aldus) developers (Altsys) were bought by Macromedia. But since then FreeHand's been killed. If it weren't dead already, it would be now, because of Illustrator.
In the end all force comes down to deadly force. If you want to force me out of your house, the only way you can truly make me leave is through deadly force if I choose extreme enough tactics to stay. Not that this is necessarily bad, it's just intellectually honest to say that our society is based mainly on deadly force at some level. Look at the history of how we got here. Outlawing abortion or the death penalty will not change the underlying fundamentals.
p.s., what is this, flame day? First Intelligent Design, now abortion and death penalty.
I don't know why (some) Christians insist on trying to prove God exists. Indeed, to the extent that ID is a mathematically proven theorem (which no one suggests it is, but take that as a reductio ad absurdum given), it is a contradiction to another major Christian axiom. God, it is said, exists by faith and cannot be proven to exist. But what about the Babel fish? That proves you exist, therefore you don't. (and God dissapeared in a puff of logic).
And certainly George Washington and the others were traitors to their King. I don't know how anyone could deny that. In any case, like most truths it is far more complicated than the simple story taught to first-graders. They are also taught about atoms, math, and other things that become less clear-cut as you look into them more deeply, but you have to start somewhere. I think it is healthy to learn that truth is never simple (as we do when our education progresses), makes you look below the surface on many things. College history is a bit different to 1st grade; we learn more about the "not nice" aspects of history.
You need to watch A Day Without a Mexican. While essentially a comedy, this movie offers up many statistics about illegals and their (largely unrefunded) contributions to the state economy. Much of the surplus you cite is provided on their backs.
I was there at a shuttle launch once (inadvertently, actually). It was 3-4 years ago and I was with my family at DW, just as the comedian was coming on to warm up the audience for the big show on the water (can't remember now what it's called). Anyway, in the middle of his act, the shuttle launches behind him beautifully right around sunset, and everyone stops listening and just stares. He drops the act long enough for the shuttle to launch, then resumes. Sometimes you have to know when you're beat.
Well, if you're only going to count torture, chemical weapons, and invading countries as terrorism, the I guess you're right, Bush isn't a... wait, something about depleted uranium, Abu Ghraib, Iraq... never mind.
The baroque cycle by Neal Stephenson covers many of these topics in a historical fiction way. I would expect that many slashdot nerds by now would have read this. The Royal Society also did dog vivisection, but supposedly Newton was against that. He did experiments on his own eyeballs to determine their optical properties, etc. I expect, it being Stephenson, most of this is factual.
As far as CS programs are concerned, I think University of Texas at Dallas is bigger and better. The CS faculty at UT Dallas numbers about 60, vs about 35 for UT Austin. Of course there are corresponding differences in enrollment. Also, UT Austin's enrollment is declining, whereas UT Dallas's is increasing, and the average SAT for incoming freshmen to UT Dallas is perhaps the highest in the state at 1230. UT Austin has to deal with all those 10 percenters.
Yes, and Lucas got it wrong after all. It doesn't fit his universe nearly as well as the "seduced by the dark side in order to learn more about how to destroy it" plotline that he should have used. Much more epic and elegant in the SW universe/character set. The idea that someone as well-trained as a Jedi, somewhat paralleling martial artist monks, would "turn evil" simply for selfish reasons is absurd. Trying to save your country is one thing (Boromir), sacrificing your country to save your wife is a whole other.
Yeah, I used to have AAoWaS, it was cool. They had the concept of battling ships from a distance with broadsides, then when they got up close you could try to board and do man-to-man battles on the decks. One thing I never mastered was managing time properly. They had a time dial that let you speed up and slow down time, but the computer wouldn't care what setting you were on, it played just as well. So I would end up running past the important parts of battles sometimes and losing horribly.
Engineers need to adhere to Murphy's law to succeed. If we design it in a way that it can fail, it will. If we design it in a way that it can only fail if a certain thing happens at a certain time, it will. This restatement of Murphy's law better captures the original intended spirit. No, Murphy was not an optimist. He was a good pessimist engineer like me.
However, in this case TFA on cnn at least, gives a figure of 1300 user accounts deleted in one instance. That probably involved real cost. He wasn't just looking for info, he was also being malicious.
I think the main problem with the S-W movies and reviewing them fairly is that I was 15 when the first one came out, and now I'm 42. MY expectations of a movie have certainly changed over that span. There have also been a few blockbuster sci-fi movies released in that time which serve for comparison. I'd say no matter what, our collective expectations are at an all-time high, and there's simply no way to match that first experience of the giant Imperial Star Destroyer coming on-screen in pursuit of the rebel blockade runner. None of this will diminish the new experience for me, however.
According to the wiki article, the composer is distantly related to the keyboard guy, but the journalist is not, afaik. Interesting to note that in this case the term Dvoraks referring to all three is unpronouncable, because the composer went by the Czech pronunciation (with an elided Z in it) and the other two use the American pronunciation (English phonetic more or less).
Then, of course, there's the tack taken in Stephenson's In the beginning, there was the command line which is that geeks did create the universe by tweaking constants. But at least he was writing an essay, with metaphor, not a serious-minded text.
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I can't wait until a tree powers my iPod to play the Rush song "Trees".
Yes, it's ironic that the only correct example of irony in the song "Ironic" is the song itself, in that it has no examples of irony in it.
I thought this thread was about cutting to the chase...
In fact, the only reason FreeHand didn't go to Adobe at that time was because of contractural obligations not to compete with Illustrator. Freehand's (independent of Aldus) developers (Altsys) were bought by Macromedia. But since then FreeHand's been killed. If it weren't dead already, it would be now, because of Illustrator.
Yeah, yeah, I know, wouldn't ever leave the house, etc... like you don't play with what you have enough as it is.
In the end all force comes down to deadly force. If you want to force me out of your house, the only way you can truly make me leave is through deadly force if I choose extreme enough tactics to stay. Not that this is necessarily bad, it's just intellectually honest to say that our society is based mainly on deadly force at some level. Look at the history of how we got here. Outlawing abortion or the death penalty will not change the underlying fundamentals. p.s., what is this, flame day? First Intelligent Design, now abortion and death penalty.
I don't know why (some) Christians insist on trying to prove God exists. Indeed, to the extent that ID is a mathematically proven theorem (which no one suggests it is, but take that as a reductio ad absurdum given), it is a contradiction to another major Christian axiom. God, it is said, exists by faith and cannot be proven to exist. But what about the Babel fish? That proves you exist, therefore you don't. (and God dissapeared in a puff of logic).
And certainly George Washington and the others were traitors to their King. I don't know how anyone could deny that. In any case, like most truths it is far more complicated than the simple story taught to first-graders. They are also taught about atoms, math, and other things that become less clear-cut as you look into them more deeply, but you have to start somewhere. I think it is healthy to learn that truth is never simple (as we do when our education progresses), makes you look below the surface on many things. College history is a bit different to 1st grade; we learn more about the "not nice" aspects of history.
You need to watch A Day Without a Mexican. While essentially a comedy, this movie offers up many statistics about illegals and their (largely unrefunded) contributions to the state economy. Much of the surplus you cite is provided on their backs.
I was there at a shuttle launch once (inadvertently, actually). It was 3-4 years ago and I was with my family at DW, just as the comedian was coming on to warm up the audience for the big show on the water (can't remember now what it's called). Anyway, in the middle of his act, the shuttle launches behind him beautifully right around sunset, and everyone stops listening and just stares. He drops the act long enough for the shuttle to launch, then resumes. Sometimes you have to know when you're beat.
Well, the other number of the beast is 616, so it's that plus a thousand.
Well, if you're only going to count torture, chemical weapons, and invading countries as terrorism, the I guess you're right, Bush isn't a... wait, something about depleted uranium, Abu Ghraib, Iraq... never mind.
The baroque cycle by Neal Stephenson covers many of these topics in a historical fiction way. I would expect that many slashdot nerds by now would have read this. The Royal Society also did dog vivisection, but supposedly Newton was against that. He did experiments on his own eyeballs to determine their optical properties, etc. I expect, it being Stephenson, most of this is factual.
Hackers turn caffiene into software (exchangeable for gold in some parts) all the time.
As far as CS programs are concerned, I think University of Texas at Dallas is bigger and better. The CS faculty at UT Dallas numbers about 60, vs about 35 for UT Austin. Of course there are corresponding differences in enrollment. Also, UT Austin's enrollment is declining, whereas UT Dallas's is increasing, and the average SAT for incoming freshmen to UT Dallas is perhaps the highest in the state at 1230. UT Austin has to deal with all those 10 percenters.
Yes, and Lucas got it wrong after all. It doesn't fit his universe nearly as well as the "seduced by the dark side in order to learn more about how to destroy it" plotline that he should have used. Much more epic and elegant in the SW universe/character set. The idea that someone as well-trained as a Jedi, somewhat paralleling martial artist monks, would "turn evil" simply for selfish reasons is absurd. Trying to save your country is one thing (Boromir), sacrificing your country to save your wife is a whole other.
Apparently these games are avaiable for download as abandonware: http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc /strategy_games/games_a/ancient_art_of_war_the.htm l
I don't know how reliable this site is.
Yeah, I used to have AAoWaS, it was cool. They had the concept of battling ships from a distance with broadsides, then when they got up close you could try to board and do man-to-man battles on the decks. One thing I never mastered was managing time properly. They had a time dial that let you speed up and slow down time, but the computer wouldn't care what setting you were on, it played just as well. So I would end up running past the important parts of battles sometimes and losing horribly.
Engineers need to adhere to Murphy's law to succeed. If we design it in a way that it can fail, it will. If we design it in a way that it can only fail if a certain thing happens at a certain time, it will. This restatement of Murphy's law better captures the original intended spirit. No, Murphy was not an optimist. He was a good pessimist engineer like me.
I can't wait until the protesters start thrwoing red paint on my nano-pants!!!
However, in this case TFA on cnn at least, gives a figure of 1300 user accounts deleted in one instance. That probably involved real cost. He wasn't just looking for info, he was also being malicious.
I think the main problem with the S-W movies and reviewing them fairly is that I was 15 when the first one came out, and now I'm 42. MY expectations of a movie have certainly changed over that span. There have also been a few blockbuster sci-fi movies released in that time which serve for comparison. I'd say no matter what, our collective expectations are at an all-time high, and there's simply no way to match that first experience of the giant Imperial Star Destroyer coming on-screen in pursuit of the rebel blockade runner. None of this will diminish the new experience for me, however.
According to the wiki article, the composer is distantly related to the keyboard guy, but the journalist is not, afaik. Interesting to note that in this case the term Dvoraks referring to all three is unpronouncable, because the composer went by the Czech pronunciation (with an elided Z in it) and the other two use the American pronunciation (English phonetic more or less).
Nope, still all spammy.
Then, of course, there's the tack taken in Stephenson's In the beginning, there was the command line which is that geeks did create the universe by tweaking constants. But at least he was writing an essay, with metaphor, not a serious-minded text.