yeah, fight for this. it's really cool. our school couldn't effort buying radio frequencies, so we used the pa the school band had and placed two giant speakers at the windows in the 3rd floor (no joke). our teachers and the principal were with us.
and in every break, we did it. it was quite fun, but the coolest thing is, that some of the "djs" continued their "jobs" and are now local djs making their living from that. me not, but that's another story (y'know, this geek issue...)
but school radio is a cool thing according to breeding.
Harvard Business Review has 243,000 extremely influential readers. So if it publishes an article saying that information technology doesn't matter, then an awful lot of important business leaders are going to believe it
this means two things:
a) an awful lot of important business leaders are unable to read a magazine (or has it printed on it's front "TRUTH"?)
b) we need an awful lot of new important business leaders. pick me, i've got a mind on my own.
i mean not particular your statement. but all this claims about java isn't crossplatform is just rubbish. when you track it down, it's almost some developer who thinks hardcoded file/ or fontnames are funny.
proof: one of the more complex pieces of software is for sure a j2ee app server. now, take jboss. download this one archive. unpack it to your solaris, HP-UX, linux, bsd, even windows. start it. it runs. more? try sourceforge.
Both Pink and Eminem are musical geniuses not only in their respective genres but to the music world as a whole.
what song did "pink" actually wrote? most of her songs were written by the 4 non blonde singer (don't know the name). while one could argue about eminem, but pink's music is nothing more than straight-forward pop-rock, done by thousands of other "artists" before. but i think this one's a troll.
at first i think, the whole music business suffers at the moment also a lot from the 2000 internet boom: due all the rubbish that was spoken then joe sixpack is still waiting for The Big Revolution.
but this will never come. there was some change, and mobile music became more popular, but this way the business goes since sony came up with the walkman.
but the RIAA still talks this rotten rubbish, just in order to a) sell stupid so called "concepts" to the customer and b) to make everyone believe you need the music industry to enjoy all the new comforts and live a happy life.
but you don't. the best thing they could do is to free their content from all this drm shit (you may only copy this cd 3 times) and sell standard cds as they used to do 6 years ago. and if you like, yeah, run some online shops for downloading. but leave it there. let them share, this will not ruin your business. and if you have to fight sharing, do it the way you (hopefully) learned at business school: make the content they buy from you more attractive than the content they get from kazaa. ie, insert coupons in your cds that enables the customer to get a concert ticket at a cheaper price. something like this. man, think!
all the money you put into lobbying and law suits will never come back. uh, and don't lie in your cinema spots. i was in berlin for some time and saw a spot that says: illegal copying music, including illegal downloads, will be punished with jail. that is a fuckin lie. when you're in the bootleg business you may get problems, but downloading a file from kazaa is not a crime in germany (they haven't figured out if that would be a "private copy" cause they can't identify the other one. oh, and in case someone's got filed, just buy the cd and burn the case).
I mean, multiple drug busts, the last one involving a firearm? I'll be the last one to criticize him for smoking dope, but it's not like it helps his credibility.
geez, i'm not the only one cursing this pattern insanity nowadays.
What about creating reuseable, database linked components, that can be dropped into any screen in a line of code?
i also think that ides do make a difference (i'm trying to say that ides influence your way of coding and also your productivity. not to forget the fun). using eclipse for example is like using xwindows and, say, gnome. it takes some time until everything is configured well, but when it is, you do drop your db linked components into any frame without writing even a line of code. a company i once worked for was primilary doing frontends, mostly for databases. all widgets in the gui part are standard widgets, wrote once, wrapped in beans. so the only real work was creating a laf according to style guides and occasionally to modify some jdbc drivers for rare dbs. like oracle (man, "classes.zip" somehow works, but it is the worst jdbc driver i saw. and you have to pay much if you want their network protocol in order to write your own drivers. or you jad and sniff;)
it is also possible to ship complete ejb applications with a one (nearly one) click installer (just use the ant classes. their license allowes this and it's the best way to gain access to the os). every technology that wants to incorporate with java should not restrain that way of coding (that's the reason i use this language). cocoa does.
but it basically says you can photograph anything visible from public property except national-security-restricted-places and places where people have secluded themselves to have an expectation of privacy (their bathroom).
these humans are quite funny. what is it you're beeing sued for? sharing? even this pope creature says that sharing is a good thing. na, anyways. arthur phillip dent? yes, you. you are an asshole.
i used to work there. i'm in my fifties now, but i still remember.
it's deep under the earth, and at least two alien spacecrafts are hidden there, one still able to fly. five alien pilots are also hidden there, two are alive and held prisoners, cause only they know how to fly these spacecraft with only one finger.
these aliens come from a planet called ursa minor, and one is called wowbagger, all he can do is talking in insults....mom, what's it your doing with the cable? this is for homework, i'm not surfing. mom, don't...
While I agree with your point, I don't see what that has to do with you being from Europe at all.
honestly, tarantino found the best answer to that question, i mean the conversation between travolta and jackson in the car ("i mean, a glass of beer..."). i mean, it's true, we do the same shit over here, just a bit different. funny thing though, many people complain about the government for adopting "american things" like fast food (don't mind, they always blame the gov). as i see it, the same ideas just evolved into different directions. ie, the us admin acts as a "fighter for democracy" and makes many people think they are "fighting" for the ideas of their "founding fathers". but how many know about the origin of the word, or the origin of the original idea? just a bad example that a word means not the same, even though we're using the same language. don't get me wrong, i did not imply any valuation.
Lob all you want, but dont forget that that same inept government developed the internet or at least what became the internet, and without it, you would still be posting comments like yours on dial up BBS's...
man, always these false claims.
this for the net. ant btw, the phone was invented by p. reis.
So, the point of paiting is making something that is as close as possible to a photography?
maybe he did neglect everything after the renaissance. till then, it was a major aim of painting to come as close to reality as possible. but then, some people noticed: "ok, we can reproduce reality. we got the lightning and perspective right. what next?" and finally someone came up with the idea to use not only the context, but the technique to transport information. this was like the reply my art teacher gave to anyone who claimed: "pah! art! every child could draw these things you call surrealism!". maybe this "painter" should take some art lessons by her. would do him good, i suppose, i started drawing comics (now that i knew i can call it "art";).
the problem is: there is a control system for content in nearly every western country: rating. so if it's forbidden for a 14 old child to buy a 17-rated game, you already have a solution. stick to it. but this crap has reached europe a long time ago: it is forbidden for kids under 16 to buy cigarettes and wine, and it is forbidden for kids under 18 to buy hard alcoholics. instead of enforcing this law (uhm, they can't, you know, the stores are making profit, gov. can't hinder someone making profit), cigs get more expensive every month, and you know what? in some countries there is an extra-tax on tasty alcoholics, like longdrinks sold in bottles, in order to make it too expensive to children. damn, this is stupid. just control the shops a bit. if you manage to bug our flats, you also can manage that. where's this heading? LCD is toxic to any pluralistic society.
i do not know the nephew, but take a look around: most younger people grew up with realistic "violent" games: wolfenstein, doom, quake, just to name a few. older people grew up with unrealistic "violent" games like mario bros, turrican, mortal combat. and since the first computergame that involved "killing" (at least some pixels) saw the face of earth, this discussion goes on and on... so, we've got "violent" computer games for a long time now, and since a long time they are a very vital part of children's subculture. but did we notice any effect on the children playing these games? they're at least two generations of hardcore gamers around us now, the third playing pokemon. there are no such effects.
and please, do not refer to things like columbine or something, cos you do not have a clue why such single massacres happend, and if you believe marylin manson (or maniac mansion, i think nurse edna is much more frightening than marylin) and john carmack are the reason for several children beeing "evil", you should spend more time with your children and don't just shut em up with a tv set. btw, i can't remember bush playing quake or listening to manson (what's your frag count, georgy boy? i bet it's higher than mine, but i fragged just some mdl models).
it seems some abbreviations will never die like ddr ram. but "dance dance revolution"... i bet they choose this silly name only because they are nasty communists planning to take over the world. if i remember correctly, ddr is the german abbrev. for gdr (you know, the country that always won the olympic games). man, this is so obvious, a console game involved physical action with the name "ddr". btw, i'm starving, but i can't go outside, i read somewhere that they now have rays that go even through tinfoil hats.
sorry, i'm from europe, so i tend to not understand some things. i can understand if someone puts some nice things together with a lot of duct tape, calls this "bicycle with 8 wheels" or "telephone" and gets a patent for that. however, what i do not understand: someone buys some products and uses them exactly the way they are supposed to be used and gets a patent for that. really, i do not understand that.
yeah, a bit offtopic, but nevermind. a friend of mine lives in a house where a lot of other students live and they're running their own lan (yeah, still mostly used for quakeworld) but also use it for this funny internet/intranet thingy. since most of the students are, erm, not that geekish, he came up with the idea to build a custom distro that includes all they need for their net activities. they all use standard, well supported hardware (like old geforces and stuff). since i like this kinda thing, what would be a good starting point for that? debian? lfs? i mean, i crossinstall hurd once a month (i know, i'm sooo brave), so i'm a bit biased in terms of usability.
if shitty advertisements disguised as films are the best Hollywood can put out, it's no wonder they need the video game industry
and as a fan of these horror classics (i mean the books) i am very dissapointed. i saw a "making of" (read "ad") yesterday about the van helsing movie, man... i mean, frankenstein's monsters and the count in one movie? what screwed-up story this should be? and btw, the van helsing character in the book is a 60 year old professor. how is it possible that some real good stories were turned into something, so, buffy-like?
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yeah, fight for this. it's really cool. our school couldn't effort buying radio frequencies, so we used the pa the school band had and placed two giant speakers at the windows in the 3rd floor (no joke). our teachers and the principal were with us.
and in every break, we did it. it was quite fun, but the coolest thing is, that some of the "djs" continued their "jobs" and are now local djs making their living from that. me not, but that's another story (y'know, this geek issue...)
but school radio is a cool thing according to breeding.
Harvard Business Review has 243,000 extremely influential readers. So if it publishes an article saying that information technology doesn't matter, then an awful lot of important business leaders are going to believe it
this means two things:
a) an awful lot of important business leaders are unable to read a magazine (or has it printed on it's front "TRUTH"?)
b) we need an awful lot of new important business leaders. pick me, i've got a mind on my own.
i mean not particular your statement. but all this claims about java isn't crossplatform is just rubbish. when you track it down, it's almost some developer who thinks hardcoded file/ or fontnames are funny.
proof: one of the more complex pieces of software is for sure a j2ee app server. now, take jboss. download this one archive. unpack it to your solaris, HP-UX, linux, bsd, even windows. start it. it runs. more? try sourceforge.
Both Pink and Eminem are musical geniuses not only in their respective genres but to the music world as a whole.
what song did "pink" actually wrote? most of her songs were written by the 4 non blonde singer (don't know the name). while one could argue about eminem, but pink's music is nothing more than straight-forward pop-rock, done by thousands of other "artists" before. but i think this one's a troll.
at first i think, the whole music business suffers at the moment also a lot from the 2000 internet boom: due all the rubbish that was spoken then joe sixpack is still waiting for The Big Revolution.
but this will never come. there was some change, and mobile music became more popular, but this way the business goes since sony came up with the walkman.
but the RIAA still talks this rotten rubbish, just in order to a) sell stupid so called "concepts" to the customer and b) to make everyone believe you need the music industry to enjoy all the new comforts and live a happy life.
but you don't. the best thing they could do is to free their content from all this drm shit (you may only copy this cd 3 times) and sell standard cds as they used to do 6 years ago. and if you like, yeah, run some online shops for downloading. but leave it there. let them share, this will not ruin your business. and if you have to fight sharing, do it the way you (hopefully) learned at business school: make the content they buy from you more attractive than the content they get from kazaa. ie, insert coupons in your cds that enables the customer to get a concert ticket at a cheaper price. something like this. man, think!
all the money you put into lobbying and law suits will never come back. uh, and don't lie in your cinema spots. i was in berlin for some time and saw a spot that says: illegal copying music, including illegal downloads, will be punished with jail. that is a fuckin lie. when you're in the bootleg business you may get problems, but downloading a file from kazaa is not a crime in germany (they haven't figured out if that would be a "private copy" cause they can't identify the other one. oh, and in case someone's got filed, just buy the cd and burn the case).
I mean, multiple drug busts, the last one involving a firearm? I'll be the last one to criticize him for smoking dope, but it's not like it helps his credibility.
;)
read it again. this is doublespeak
as stupid as this new "law" is, but for this one:
and the revelation of their misdeeds in Italy's two national newspapers, La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera.
they should be kicked out of the european union instantly. i mean, sorry, but this is a punishment from the middle age.
geez, i'm not the only one cursing this pattern insanity nowadays.
What about creating reuseable, database linked components, that can be dropped into any screen in a line of code?
i also think that ides do make a difference (i'm trying to say that ides influence your way of coding and also your productivity. not to forget the fun). using eclipse for example is like using xwindows and, say, gnome. it takes some time until everything is configured well, but when it is, you do drop your db linked components into any frame without writing even a line of code. a company i once worked for was primilary doing frontends, mostly for databases. all widgets in the gui part are standard widgets, wrote once, wrapped in beans. so the only real work was creating a laf according to style guides and occasionally to modify some jdbc drivers for rare dbs. like oracle (man, "classes.zip" somehow works, but it is the worst jdbc driver i saw. and you have to pay much if you want their network protocol in order to write your own drivers. or you jad and sniff;)
it is also possible to ship complete ejb applications with a one (nearly one) click installer (just use the ant classes. their license allowes this and it's the best way to gain access to the os). every technology that wants to incorporate with java should not restrain that way of coding (that's the reason i use this language). cocoa does.
...he mentioned Java because there's a Bridge mechanism in OS X that allows Java code to call ObjC code, and ObjC code to call Java code
sounds interesting. does it work like jni ore more like using the python - c bridge?
if this has any bad effect on people living in houses, it would be the first "official" thing that did something good to homeless people.
have fun with tcp/ip without http and pop3.
but it basically says you can photograph anything visible from public property except national-security-restricted-places and places where people have secluded themselves to have an expectation of privacy (their bathroom).
so no more dirty things on the kitchen table.
these humans are quite funny. what is it you're beeing sued for? sharing? even this pope creature says that sharing is a good thing. na, anyways. arthur phillip dent? yes, you. you are an asshole.
In a civil trial, all you have to prove is that it's possible and probable that you did it.
this is actually written in your laws? everyone has the possibility to do (nearly) everything.
i used to work there. i'm in my fifties now, but i still remember.
...mom, what's it your doing with the cable? this is for homework, i'm not surfing. mom, don't...
it's deep under the earth, and at least two alien spacecrafts are hidden there, one still able to fly. five alien pilots are also hidden there, two are alive and held prisoners, cause only they know how to fly these spacecraft with only one finger.
these aliens come from a planet called ursa minor, and one is called wowbagger, all he can do is talking in insults.
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While I agree with your point, I don't see what that has to do with you being from Europe at all.
honestly, tarantino found the best answer to that question, i mean the conversation between travolta and jackson in the car ("i mean, a glass of beer..."). i mean, it's true, we do the same shit over here, just a bit different. funny thing though, many people complain about the government for adopting "american things" like fast food (don't mind, they always blame the gov). as i see it, the same ideas just evolved into different directions. ie, the us admin acts as a "fighter for democracy" and makes many people think they are "fighting" for the ideas of their "founding fathers". but how many know about the origin of the word, or the origin of the original idea? just a bad example that a word means not the same, even though we're using the same language. don't get me wrong, i did not imply any valuation.
Lob all you want, but dont forget that that same inept government developed the internet or at least what became the internet, and without it, you would still be posting comments like yours on dial up BBS's...
;)
man, always these false claims. this for the net. ant btw, the phone was invented by p. reis.
false claims can be very unpleasant
So, the point of paiting is making something that is as close as possible to a photography?
;).
maybe he did neglect everything after the renaissance. till then, it was a major aim of painting to come as close to reality as possible. but then, some people noticed: "ok, we can reproduce reality. we got the lightning and perspective right. what next?" and finally someone came up with the idea to use not only the context, but the technique to transport information. this was like the reply my art teacher gave to anyone who claimed: "pah! art! every child could draw these things you call surrealism!". maybe this "painter" should take some art lessons by her. would do him good, i suppose, i started drawing comics (now that i knew i can call it "art"
saving Black Mesa from an alien invasion
no no, that was me. i dunno about this mario-princess business of yours, but at black mesa, that was me. i did it twice, just to be sure.
the problem is: there is a control system for content in nearly every western country: rating. so if it's forbidden for a 14 old child to buy a 17-rated game, you already have a solution. stick to it. but this crap has reached europe a long time ago: it is forbidden for kids under 16 to buy cigarettes and wine, and it is forbidden for kids under 18 to buy hard alcoholics. instead of enforcing this law (uhm, they can't, you know, the stores are making profit, gov. can't hinder someone making profit), cigs get more expensive every month, and you know what? in some countries there is an extra-tax on tasty alcoholics, like longdrinks sold in bottles, in order to make it too expensive to children. damn, this is stupid. just control the shops a bit. if you manage to bug our flats, you also can manage that. where's this heading? LCD is toxic to any pluralistic society.
i do not know the nephew, but take a look around: most younger people grew up with realistic "violent" games: wolfenstein, doom, quake, just to name a few. older people grew up with unrealistic "violent" games like mario bros, turrican, mortal combat. and since the first computergame that involved "killing" (at least some pixels) saw the face of earth, this discussion goes on and on... so, we've got "violent" computer games for a long time now, and since a long time they are a very vital part of children's subculture. but did we notice any effect on the children playing these games? they're at least two generations of hardcore gamers around us now, the third playing pokemon. there are no such effects.
and please, do not refer to things like columbine or something, cos you do not have a clue why such single massacres happend, and if you believe marylin manson (or maniac mansion, i think nurse edna is much more frightening than marylin) and john carmack are the reason for several children beeing "evil", you should spend more time with your children and don't just shut em up with a tv set. btw, i can't remember bush playing quake or listening to manson (what's your frag count, georgy boy? i bet it's higher than mine, but i fragged just some mdl models).
it seems some abbreviations will never die like ddr ram. but "dance dance revolution"... i bet they choose this silly name only because they are nasty communists planning to take over the world. if i remember correctly, ddr is the german abbrev. for gdr (you know, the country that always won the olympic games). man, this is so obvious, a console game involved physical action with the name "ddr". btw, i'm starving, but i can't go outside, i read somewhere that they now have rays that go even through tinfoil hats.
sorry, i'm from europe, so i tend to not understand some things. i can understand if someone puts some nice things together with a lot of duct tape, calls this "bicycle with 8 wheels" or "telephone" and gets a patent for that. however, what i do not understand: someone buys some products and uses them exactly the way they are supposed to be used and gets a patent for that. really, i do not understand that.
yeah, a bit offtopic, but nevermind. a friend of mine lives in a house where a lot of other students live and they're running their own lan (yeah, still mostly used for quakeworld) but also use it for this funny internet/intranet thingy. since most of the students are, erm, not that geekish, he came up with the idea to build a custom distro that includes all they need for their net activities. they all use standard, well supported hardware (like old geforces and stuff). since i like this kinda thing, what would be a good starting point for that? debian? lfs? i mean, i crossinstall hurd once a month (i know, i'm sooo brave), so i'm a bit biased in terms of usability.
if shitty advertisements disguised as films are the best Hollywood can put out, it's no wonder they need the video game industry
and as a fan of these horror classics (i mean the books) i am very dissapointed. i saw a "making of" (read "ad") yesterday about the van helsing movie, man... i mean, frankenstein's monsters and the count in one movie? what screwed-up story this should be? and btw, the van helsing character in the book is a 60 year old professor. how is it possible that some real good stories were turned into something, so, buffy-like?