? Do you know what they do? You're thinking of an obstrecian (sp), who handle pregnancies. Gyns do routine check-ups and handle anything else related to feminine sexual health, which can affect a woman regardless of relationship status.
There is no distinction between government employees and the common people when the government is "we the people."
Well, this isn't a democracy, first off. It's a republic. So the will of the people doesn't mean much.
Have you ever read Thucydides? I ask because it's a great portrait of a pure democracy (especially during times of war and turmoil). The Athenians (Athens was a democracy for most of the war) are idiots who can be swayed by the most idiotic speeches and appeals to the "Greatness of Athens" and glories of war. Needless to say, they overextended their forces, and ended up losing their empire and sea trade monopoly (this isn't covered in the book - Th. died before he could finish it). It's worth reflecting on, especially as Athens was the "birthplace" of Democracy, and held up as an example of a great society.
So they are going to sit around and talk about the "digital commons" (whatever that means -- I can only assume that it is all those blogs which so thoughtfully use Creative Commons licensing so that we can one day collect their best posts in a convenient coffee-table book format), and to what end? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Free Software movement get started without a "symposium" of "more than 100 speakers"? Didn't Open Source happen without a yearly conference? Hell, Project Gutenburg is probably older than many of the speakers -- the very same speakers who want to tell us all about free content, and how great it is, and what we can do with it, despite the fact that we already know all they could possibly have to say.
You can take any bottom-up, individual-centered ideal, like those of the Free Software or Open Source communities, hold a conference on it, attended by maybe a few hundred people, and what's the end result? The vast bulk of people producing the quote-unquote content don't need to be told what to do, so they won't attend the conference anyway. The whole point seems to be to allow a (excessively large) number of speakers to indulge in pointless navel-gazing, all of which will be rercorded and analyzed ad nauseum by the other speakers in their weblogs. Free Software and Open Source geeks don't need to hold conferences, or have an agenda set by some cabal from above -- they do, quite simply, what they want, and that self-centered view has given us Linux, GNU, KDE, GNOME, and other great pieces of software. Why attempt to change that with some yearly "conference" and excercise in self-aggrandizement for a mish-mash of genuine techies and blogging "celebrities"?
Seriously, I would like to hear from someone going to this, specifically as to why they are going, and what exactly they expect to achieve (other than writing more blog entries)?
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Almost every time I make an anonymous inner class for a JButton I end up extracting it to a nested class so I can also use it for a JMenuItem
You've heard of AbstractAction, right? That allows for exactly what you want, only its a part of Swing, so other people will understand what you're doing, and you wont have to re-invent the wheel (or the Action interface, in your case).
Anyway, it's been there since the dawn of Swing (I think, anyway at least since 1.3), so there's really no excuse to not use it.
these titles show how little detail is needed in a 3D game for basic enjoyable gameplay
Reminds me of Hard Drivin', although the Genesis port was pretty bad. They used to have one of these arcade machines (the full cabinet one, mind you) at the Franklin Institute in Philly, where you could play for free. I think it was in the technology section, and is was supposed to demonstrate VR, and how, by 2000, we would all have VR suits and do everything virtually. Anyway, I mostly remember it for running over the cow, and falling off the loop at the top of it. Ouch.
Another blast from the early-3D-past (for PC gamers) is Corncob 3D, a kind of bizzaro combat flight sim for DOS, which is now available as Open Source.
The DC was a great machine, but there's really only a small number of titles available. That said, many of them are pretty unique (Seaman, anyone?), but if you like RPGs, you're almost out of luck, since there are only three good ones (Skies of Arcadia, Grandia 2, and Record of Lodoss War). There are, however, no less than 50 bazillion racing and fighting games.
that Sci-Fi fans and video gamers are obsessive nerds who care about pointless (to everyone else) details at the expense of everything else?
I suppose that gaming (in my day, that was a euphamism for gambling) can be a healthy hobby, but c'mon - when you're 45 will you really be glad that you spent so much time at LAN parties, and not so mcuh with pretty girls? (or boys, whatever you prefer)
Yeah, why haven't they gotten to work on the game.com yet? I mean, jeez.
Seriously, though, there used to be this great (so far as Tiger video game web sites go) with videos from game.com games, all sped up so the system wouldn't look so bad. I guess if you can hack a Pokemon mini-game, you can hack anything.
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Do you know what they do? You're thinking of an obstrecian (sp), who handle pregnancies. Gyns do routine check-ups and handle anything else related to feminine sexual health, which can affect a woman regardless of relationship status.
Geez, you geeks really are clueless.
There is no distinction between government employees and the common people when the government is "we the people."
Well, this isn't a democracy, first off. It's a republic. So the will of the people doesn't mean much.
Have you ever read Thucydides? I ask because it's a great portrait of a pure democracy (especially during times of war and turmoil). The Athenians (Athens was a democracy for most of the war) are idiots who can be swayed by the most idiotic speeches and appeals to the "Greatness of Athens" and glories of war. Needless to say, they overextended their forces, and ended up losing their empire and sea trade monopoly (this isn't covered in the book - Th. died before he could finish it). It's worth reflecting on, especially as Athens was the "birthplace" of Democracy, and held up as an example of a great society.
Sounds like Konspire2b, but not open source, and only for windows.
Besides, the guy who wrote konspire is also the guy who wrote MUTE, so I think he knows a thing or two about P2P.
Well, apparently they've got at least one guy from that conference to speak at this one.
So they are going to sit around and talk about the "digital commons" (whatever that means -- I can only assume that it is all those blogs which so thoughtfully use Creative Commons licensing so that we can one day collect their best posts in a convenient coffee-table book format), and to what end? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Free Software movement get started without a "symposium" of "more than 100 speakers"? Didn't Open Source happen without a yearly conference? Hell, Project Gutenburg is probably older than many of the speakers -- the very same speakers who want to tell us all about free content, and how great it is, and what we can do with it, despite the fact that we already know all they could possibly have to say.
You can take any bottom-up, individual-centered ideal, like those of the Free Software or Open Source communities, hold a conference on it, attended by maybe a few hundred people, and what's the end result? The vast bulk of people producing the quote-unquote content don't need to be told what to do, so they won't attend the conference anyway. The whole point seems to be to allow a (excessively large) number of speakers to indulge in pointless navel-gazing, all of which will be rercorded and analyzed ad nauseum by the other speakers in their weblogs. Free Software and Open Source geeks don't need to hold conferences, or have an agenda set by some cabal from above -- they do, quite simply, what they want, and that self-centered view has given us Linux, GNU, KDE, GNOME, and other great pieces of software. Why attempt to change that with some yearly "conference" and excercise in self-aggrandizement for a mish-mash of genuine techies and blogging "celebrities"?
Seriously, I would like to hear from someone going to this, specifically as to why they are going, and what exactly they expect to achieve (other than writing more blog entries)?
Almost every time I make an anonymous inner class for a JButton I end up extracting it to a nested class so I can also use it for a JMenuItem
You've heard of AbstractAction, right? That allows for exactly what you want, only its a part of Swing, so other people will understand what you're doing, and you wont have to re-invent the wheel (or the Action interface, in your case).
Anyway, it's been there since the dawn of Swing (I think, anyway at least since 1.3), so there's really no excuse to not use it.
these titles show how little detail is needed in a 3D game for basic enjoyable gameplay
Reminds me of Hard Drivin', although the Genesis port was pretty bad. They used to have one of these arcade machines (the full cabinet one, mind you) at the Franklin Institute in Philly, where you could play for free. I think it was in the technology section, and is was supposed to demonstrate VR, and how, by 2000, we would all have VR suits and do everything virtually. Anyway, I mostly remember it for running over the cow, and falling off the loop at the top of it. Ouch.
Another blast from the early-3D-past (for PC gamers) is Corncob 3D, a kind of bizzaro combat flight sim for DOS, which is now available as Open Source.
Don't forget BOOB!, either, it's a great site.
The DC was a great machine, but there's really only a small number of titles available. That said, many of them are pretty unique (Seaman, anyone?), but if you like RPGs, you're almost out of luck, since there are only three good ones (Skies of Arcadia, Grandia 2, and Record of Lodoss War). There are, however, no less than 50 bazillion racing and fighting games.
that Sci-Fi fans and video gamers are obsessive nerds who care about pointless (to everyone else) details at the expense of everything else?
I suppose that gaming (in my day, that was a euphamism for gambling) can be a healthy hobby, but c'mon - when you're 45 will you really be glad that you spent so much time at LAN parties, and not so mcuh with pretty girls? (or boys, whatever you prefer)
Yeah, why haven't they gotten to work on the game.com yet? I mean, jeez.
Seriously, though, there used to be this great (so far as Tiger video game web sites go) with videos from game.com games, all sped up so the system wouldn't look so bad. I guess if you can hack a Pokemon mini-game, you can hack anything.