I suggest working in Forth. It's not overly difficult to write the innermost Forth kernel, no matter which processor you choose; many are only a few hundred bytes long. From there, you begin using Forth to write more Forth, extending the language as needed for your particular application.
One bonus to this is that not only have your designed and built your own computer from CPU up, but also your own OS/Application from NOP up.
Okay, that was a perfect example of the disconnect between realkity and fantasy that affects SCO and, apparently, you.
In fantasy, aka SCO's world, heavy metal is cool and chicks dig it. When you crank it up to 140dB outside your girlfriend's home, she immediately runs out the door and screws you blue in the back of your van while her family looks out the livingroom window in admiration of your rebel machoism. Cheech will drive by in his ganja van and toss a pound of hash to you, a flock of Playboy bunnies will plead for you to take their virginity, your school principal will get his humiliating upcommance, and the movie cameras will pull out in slow motion to reveal a righteous sunset as your van gently rocks to the force of your fucking.
In reality, you are a loser without a hope in hell of getting laid, and will probably get a billy-club beating from the cops when they show up to ticket you for stalking and disturbing the peace.
A vaporizer, actually. There are guys who use a bit of tinfoil and a lightbulb to vaporize their dope. It'd work just as well on the heatsink on one of these behemoths.
While I'm really enjoying watching this circus, I think it really is time to put Darl out of his misery. He's obviously suffering some sort of beri-beri brain-eating disease. Let's be humane and compassionate. He has suffered enough.
You stumbled on the solution yourself with your last suggested cure: fire. Simply dunk the mouse in cleaning fluid and ignite. The heat thins the hand-oils and forces them to the surface, where they burn off.
Make sure you do it outdoors, though. You'd hate for the nitrogen fire containment system to go off.
Hey, commas are, like, the best invention, ever, except for, maybe, the semicolon; I like semicolons, too, because they're great for, say, joining disparate thoughts.
Patronize the American manufacturer, as the taxes they (and their employees) pay will, in part, include school taxes. One hopes that this, in turn, will benefit you, as you've obviously received a substandard sort of education, as evidenced by your atrocious spelling.
It's not your eardrums that are damaged, but the cilia in your cochlea. These are fine hairs that are vibrated as sound waves travel past them, and stimulate the nerves to which they are attached.
These hairs do not recover from damage. Once the hair is killed, you have lost the ability to hear the frequency that hair was "tuned" for.
You will experience permanent, irreversible hearing damage at 104dB within five minutes.
Decibel Exposure Time Guidelines
Accepted standards for recommended permissible exposure time for continuous time weighted average noise, according to NIOSH and CDC, 2002. For every 3 dBs over 85dB, the permissible exposure time before possible damage can occur is cut in half.
Continuous dB Permissible Exposure Time
85 db 8 hours
88 dB 4 hours
91 db 2 hours
94 db 1 hour
97 db 30 minutes
100 db 15 minutes
103 db 7.5 minutes
106 dB 3.75 min (< 4min)
109 dB 1.875 min (< 2min)
112 dB.9375 min (about 1 min)
115 dB.46875 min (about 30 sec)
Don't fuck with loud sounds. It's just not worth it.
Buy RFID-tagged products! Keep the tags! Spread them around!
I think I will push Mach 3 RFID tags into, oh, a bunch of banannas. Or a loaf of bread. Drop it into a shampoo bottle. And if WalMart starts RFIDing underwear, it will be even more fun...
Why bother? That arsehole who is CEO of Corel is going to sell the whole kit and kaboodle for about 1/100th its actual value to some private outfit in California, who is going to kill the company because Microsoft wants them gone.
It is a complete piss-off. Corel is just about to hit turn-around point now, has an infuckingcredible product lineup -- Painter, XMetal, Ventura, iGrafx stuff, Graphigo, Draw -- and looks like its ready to really start kicking ass.
But no. Kill it instead. Even Cowpland could not accomplish what Burney is proposing.
Excellent point, Jouni. Scott McCloud goes into this in detail in his Understanding Comics thesis.
In his thesis, he compares several comics strips and identifies that those strips with the least-realistic characters are also the strips that people most identify with. "Prince Valiant" is drawn realistically; no one reads that strip and imagines themselves to be PV. Charlie Brown, on the other hand, is not photorealist, and people self-identify with his problems.
Much the same can, I am sure, be said for video games. As you describe, so I will not say more on that.
SOUND is more important than graphics quality. Think back to Doom: awful graphics compared to what we have today -- but the sounds made the game damn intense. And there was that game where you were a thief, which made incredible use of sound -- you had to tiptoe around, to avoid the guards. Very effective.
I would rather have Duke Nukem graphics and killer sound, than killer graphics and poor sound.
IMO, it is far easier to leave the country than to change it. For one thing, I believe the government corruption is so pervasive that it will be impossible to change.
But, yes, the better course of action is to become active in demanding political and social change. There needs to be more accountability on *ALL* levels, from personal responsibility for being the sort of dumbass that has resulted in the bizarre warning labels we now see, to government accountability for the bijillions of dollars that are wasted and the asinine laws that are being passed.
Grrr. I think I will stop before I really start to rant...
Indeed. I've been using 3Com HomeConnect for going on forever now (well, three or four years *at least*), and it's ticking along just fine. Even after I shortcircuited the board when I tried to hang the unit from the wall using a bent paperclip... [hangs head in shame]. Even after it fell from the wall, smashing onto the floor. And even after making sparks fly when plugging it into its power adapter (stupid screw located beside the power plug, just ideal for making contact with the plug "tip". Bah.)
Now personally, I can't imagine being any harder on these devices than I've been, short of storing them underwater, so I should think most any decent brandname AP will do just fine.
It wouldn't surprise me. It seems to me that Apple and Microsoft are engaged in the Sumo foot-stomping routine that takes place just before those massive 500lb bodies slam into each other.
Just the other day Apple killed a Windows desktop mod that emulated the Dock (y'zdock). Windows Longhorn is planning to have a dock-like UI gadget. Microsoft has filed a weird-ass patent that could impact Apple. Apple develops a browser. MS kills a browser. And so on.
I begin to suspect there's some really bad blood between those companies -- perhaps related to Apple taking up the *nix gauntlet o' righteous power -- and that we're going to see a death-battle over the next couple of years.
Also, I've had too much to drink, so my perspective is a little... skewed, let us say, at this point.
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I suggest working in Forth. It's not overly difficult to write the innermost Forth kernel, no matter which processor you choose; many are only a few hundred bytes long. From there, you begin using Forth to write more Forth, extending the language as needed for your particular application.
One bonus to this is that not only have your designed and built your own computer from CPU up, but also your own OS/Application from NOP up.
Okay, that was a perfect example of the disconnect between realkity and fantasy that affects SCO and, apparently, you.
In fantasy, aka SCO's world, heavy metal is cool and chicks dig it. When you crank it up to 140dB outside your girlfriend's home, she immediately runs out the door and screws you blue in the back of your van while her family looks out the livingroom window in admiration of your rebel machoism. Cheech will drive by in his ganja van and toss a pound of hash to you, a flock of Playboy bunnies will plead for you to take their virginity, your school principal will get his humiliating upcommance, and the movie cameras will pull out in slow motion to reveal a righteous sunset as your van gently rocks to the force of your fucking.
In reality, you are a loser without a hope in hell of getting laid, and will probably get a billy-club beating from the cops when they show up to ticket you for stalking and disturbing the peace.
...to becoming an obnoxious French drunk!
First step: drink red wine.
Second step: eat stinky cheeses.
Third step: Run! Run Away!
Fourth step...
(apologies to French readers. It was just too tempting a joke.)
And DocUtils (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/) makes Docbook even easier.
I'm developing a DocUtils XML -> XSL:FO -> PDF set of stylesheets.
A vaporizer, actually. There are guys who use a bit of tinfoil and a lightbulb to vaporize their dope. It'd work just as well on the heatsink on one of these behemoths.
While I'm really enjoying watching this circus, I think it really is time to put Darl out of his misery. He's obviously suffering some sort of beri-beri brain-eating disease. Let's be humane and compassionate. He has suffered enough.
This ain't been nothing compared to what will happen when Microsoft starts feeling really threatened.
SCO's head is so far up its ass that it can lick its own tonsils.
You stumbled on the solution yourself with your last suggested cure: fire. Simply dunk the mouse in cleaning fluid and ignite. The heat thins the hand-oils and forces them to the surface, where they burn off.
Make sure you do it outdoors, though. You'd hate for the nitrogen fire containment system to go off.
Hey, commas are, like, the best invention, ever, except for, maybe, the semicolon; I like semicolons, too, because they're great for, say, joining disparate thoughts.
Patronize the American manufacturer, as the taxes they (and their employees) pay will, in part, include school taxes. One hopes that this, in turn, will benefit you, as you've obviously received a substandard sort of education, as evidenced by your atrocious spelling.
It's not your eardrums that are damaged, but the cilia in your cochlea. These are fine hairs that are vibrated as sound waves travel past them, and stimulate the nerves to which they are attached.
These hairs do not recover from damage. Once the hair is killed, you have lost the ability to hear the frequency that hair was "tuned" for.
You will experience permanent, irreversible hearing damage at 104dB within five minutes.
Decibel Exposure Time Guidelines
Accepted standards for recommended permissible exposure time for continuous time weighted average noise, according to NIOSH and CDC, 2002. For every 3 dBs over 85dB, the permissible exposure time before possible damage can occur is cut in half.
Continuous dB Permissible Exposure Time
85 db 8 hours
88 dB 4 hours
91 db 2 hours
94 db 1 hour
97 db 30 minutes
100 db 15 minutes
103 db 7.5 minutes
106 dB 3.75 min (< 4min)
109 dB 1.875 min (< 2min)
112 dB .9375 min (about 1 min)
115 dB .46875 min (about 30 sec)
Don't fuck with loud sounds. It's just not worth it.
I've seen our landfills. They're full of recycleables, including tons and tons of good metal.
...a Mozilla geek got laid. This means the sex rate has increased from 0% in the last year to 1% now, an infinite improvement!
What do you think happens to old ships, cars, buildings? They are not buried, but smelted again.
You've never actually been to a garbage dump / landfill, have you?
You should make a visit some day. It'll inform your worldview significantly.
Buy RFID-tagged products! Keep the tags! Spread them around!
I think I will push Mach 3 RFID tags into, oh, a bunch of banannas. Or a loaf of bread. Drop it into a shampoo bottle. And if WalMart starts RFIDing underwear, it will be even more fun...
And in return, they get profits of about 2 percent.
oh, sure. bump up the score so that I can be even further embarassed...
Why bother? That arsehole who is CEO of Corel is going to sell the whole kit and kaboodle for about 1/100th its actual value to some private outfit in California, who is going to kill the company because Microsoft wants them gone.
It is a complete piss-off. Corel is just about to hit turn-around point now, has an infuckingcredible product lineup -- Painter, XMetal, Ventura, iGrafx stuff, Graphigo, Draw -- and looks like its ready to really start kicking ass.
But no. Kill it instead. Even Cowpland could not accomplish what Burney is proposing.
Excellent point, Jouni. Scott McCloud goes into this in detail in his Understanding Comics thesis.
In his thesis, he compares several comics strips and identifies that those strips with the least-realistic characters are also the strips that people most identify with. "Prince Valiant" is drawn realistically; no one reads that strip and imagines themselves to be PV. Charlie Brown, on the other hand, is not photorealist, and people self-identify with his problems.
Much the same can, I am sure, be said for video games. As you describe, so I will not say more on that.
SOUND is more important than graphics quality. Think back to Doom: awful graphics compared to what we have today -- but the sounds made the game damn intense. And there was that game where you were a thief, which made incredible use of sound -- you had to tiptoe around, to avoid the guards. Very effective.
I would rather have Duke Nukem graphics and killer sound, than killer graphics and poor sound.
IMO, it is far easier to leave the country than to change it. For one thing, I believe the government corruption is so pervasive that it will be impossible to change.
But, yes, the better course of action is to become active in demanding political and social change. There needs to be more accountability on *ALL* levels, from personal responsibility for being the sort of dumbass that has resulted in the bizarre warning labels we now see, to government accountability for the bijillions of dollars that are wasted and the asinine laws that are being passed.
Grrr. I think I will stop before I really start to rant...
It sounds like it's time to leave the country.
Seriously. Your government has gone looney, and corporations are running amuck. It's simple not worth living there anymore.
When enough sensible people either (a) leave the country or (b) revolt, things will be forced to change.
Indeed. I've been using 3Com HomeConnect for going on forever now (well, three or four years *at least*), and it's ticking along just fine. Even after I shortcircuited the board when I tried to hang the unit from the wall using a bent paperclip... [hangs head in shame]. Even after it fell from the wall, smashing onto the floor. And even after making sparks fly when plugging it into its power adapter (stupid screw located beside the power plug, just ideal for making contact with the plug "tip". Bah.)
Now personally, I can't imagine being any harder on these devices than I've been, short of storing them underwater, so I should think most any decent brandname AP will do just fine.
It wouldn't surprise me. It seems to me that Apple and Microsoft are engaged in the Sumo foot-stomping routine that takes place just before those massive 500lb bodies slam into each other.
Just the other day Apple killed a Windows desktop mod that emulated the Dock (y'zdock). Windows Longhorn is planning to have a dock-like UI gadget. Microsoft has filed a weird-ass patent that could impact Apple. Apple develops a browser. MS kills a browser. And so on.
I begin to suspect there's some really bad blood between those companies -- perhaps related to Apple taking up the *nix gauntlet o' righteous power -- and that we're going to see a death-battle over the next couple of years.
Also, I've had too much to drink, so my perspective is a little... skewed, let us say, at this point.
What's America going to do with a society comprised largely of business students and other "soft" degrees?
Bomb Asia.
(If you can't join 'em...
beat 'em.)