I have the world's darkest sense of humor, so "tasteless" is a thing I don't care about. Being a vast misanthrope doesn't help matters. Tasteless is a word, in my not so humble opinion, used by wweak people.
And, actually, I DID make jokes on 9/11 and after the tsunami.
Why the obsession with some universal catch-all "Documents" folder? Or "My Pictures" or some other Playskool approach to design?
Especially at work where I start a new directory for a new project in an easy to reach location. I want *MY* documents and *MY* images and *MY* code or whatever colocated in the project directory and its subdirectories.
Sadly, Apple has picked up that bad habit, with many apps on the Mac defaulting to the "Movies" or "Documents" folders in the user's home directory.Honestly, I don't know a single user, power or otherwise, who works like that.
Hey, when the guy is right, he's right. Anything I can do to not give the League Of People In Vegetative States (AKA the California State Legislature) any tax money is fine by me.
As for the thief, actually, that's kind of a clever idea, morality aside. Someone should hire him as a marketer, although leave implementation to someone else. That's where he faltered. At least remove the library tag. I knew to do that in junior high when I stole books from my school library.
Hey, the librarian falsely accused me stealing books because she hated for reasons I was never able to discover. I was one one of the "good" kids. Fortunately, no one bought her story, but I stole several way cool science books in revenge. I carefully obliterated any evidence that they were library books, put a price inside the cover, and claimed to my parents that were from a remaindered clearance and a small bookstore. You know, when they put the books on tables outside.
And I hope that bitch had a long, slow, miserable and medically unsound old age. You don't take your personal problems out on some random kid.
It's just the way the media works. They are lazy, and point their sensor arrays at the noisiest targets. Look at the Terry Schaivo case. I've heard the televised opinion of eighty seven million doctors *EXCEPT* the ones that have actually examined her.
And even when it's normal text, it's still horrid as the posted example shows. Simulatable VHDL models generated by some IP core generators do a similar thing. Every signal name is replaced with something like "hhhd002102hduh283ghd1hd01hahahayoucantreadthis32j hd10hd3120dh12". Of course, several hours in a text editor with a global search and replace gets you to something readable, and you can infer the signal functions from the code itself.
Still... I can make my way through the ASCII version. It's doesn't seem that impossible to reverse engineer for a small, dedicated team. The real trick is to get a non-binary version, which someone already posted an example of.
Is it so bad? You can choose the carrier you want, and the phone pretty much comes free much of the time. My Nextel phone wound up giving me a net +$50 after rebates.
The one change I would like to see is the end of being locked into a service contract, or at least not one over three months.
Just as an example, the HEP program at FermiLab is budgeted at $737 million for FY 2005. That's an increase over 2004 of a few million dollars. Science spending is up all over the place.
You can smoke all the evil death cylinders you like... out on the wing.
And I have yet to understand this terrible drive to be productive during flights. I had to fly six times last year for work, and I made them put me on Jet Blue so I could zone out to DirecTV. It's bad enough I have to travel 1000s of miles for my employers, so I'm going to take some relaxation time in between those vast annoyance factories called airports. Yeah, I'm talking about YOU, Logan Airport, and your goddamned tunnel closure that dumped me into downtown Boston, recently voted the least navigable city on the continent, and no detour signs and airport signs that have no connection to reality.
And my damn boss wouldn't pay me time and a half for taking one flight on 9/11, although the nearly empty plane gave me a whole row seats to myself. I had one monitor set to the plane position on a map, another to a ballgame and the third to something on the History Channel. And then I lay back with my Bose noise cancelling headphones. Now that's the way to fly!
"Incorporating the fourth dimension into the film will allow much more flexibility," said Ana Sukaloti, the tall, blonde Japanese spokesbabe for Lucasfilm Limited & Pastry Outlet. "The interactive features will grant the real fan boys the ability to alter the films to their liking."
According to the press release, tROo FaNBoyZZ will be able to spawn alternate time lines. Already there is buzz about a timeline where ROTJ takes place on the wookie homeworld instead of a moon that is, as one fan was heard to say, "infested with those godamned, motherfucking, cockgobbling Ewok pieces of fucking shit damn damn damn them to heeeellllll!"
Other timelines being discussed by fans are the "that motherfucking cockgobbling Jar-Jar gets his head blown off in his first scene" version, the "Han Solo not only shoots first, but hunts down and kills Greedo's whole family execution style, and bangs several whores along the way" scenario, the "Anakin tuens to the dark side because he gets anally raped by space monkeys" gambit, and the "Boba Fett kicks everyone's ass ten times over and opens up entire fleet sized shipments of whoop-ass on every dumbass alien in the galaxy" fantasy.
I have no big feelings for or against Randi, but I have read about some of his experiments, and found his methods to be a bit lacking in many cases.
Now let me start off by saying I do *NOT* believe in dowsing. One of the leading theories by dowsing enthusiasts (I can't use the word practitioner) is that large, flowing bodies of water underground may have some effect on people, including inducing arm muscle reactions that move the little rods they carry. Or something like that. Whatever. The key was very large amounts of water worth drilling a well to get at.
An experiment by Randi buried PVC pipes underground and challenged dowsers to find the pipes. Well, how does 3/4" PVC tubes with water mimic a large underground water source? It was just a really piss poor experiment. Yeah, I suppose a proper test would involves burying a large tank of water underground, but the expense of a proper experiment does not excuse a poor one.
I'm a skeptic myself, but, I'm sorry, I can't get excited over Randi or his methods.
Penn & Teller do the same thing, although it can be argued their show is more for entertainment. There was one testing whether public toilets were really so dangerous. They went out and swabbed a selection of peoples asses to see if there is a threat from all those other butts sitting on those seats. The swabs are rubbed into Petri dishes with the usual solutions to see if anything grows. Not much grew.
Well, that completely fails to address the real issue. [1] They selected three or four relatively clean and normal people. [2] It's not really other people's butts that cause me concern in a public loo, it's what comes out of those butts (and other parts).
They should have swabbed a random selection of public toilet seats, and see what grew from those.
Have any of you ever thought that if something LOOKED good, there might, just might be something worthy under the cover too?
Agreed, but such things ARE pretty rare in this plastic, dippy world. Tech people can be pretty prejudiced against the artistic world. People like me who straddle both worlds can have a rough time.
Personally, I wuv my Macs, but I'd like to buy a really UGLY computer some day.:-)
But I think I've had a few too many mystery meat web pages for my taste, or font-size: 2px Search or Products links waaaaay down in the corner, underneath the giant 3D rotating links to Mission Statements and Press Releases and CEO's Whores.
Slashdot Mirror
Raise shields! Warp away! Warp away!
I have the world's darkest sense of humor, so "tasteless" is a thing I don't care about. Being a vast misanthrope doesn't help matters. Tasteless is a word, in my not so humble opinion, used by wweak people.
And, actually, I DID make jokes on 9/11 and after the tsunami.
Especially at work where I start a new directory for a new project in an easy to reach location. I want *MY* documents and *MY* images and *MY* code or whatever colocated in the project directory and its subdirectories.
Sadly, Apple has picked up that bad habit, with many apps on the Mac defaulting to the "Movies" or "Documents" folders in the user's home directory.Honestly, I don't know a single user, power or otherwise, who works like that.
As for the thief, actually, that's kind of a clever idea, morality aside. Someone should hire him as a marketer, although leave implementation to someone else. That's where he faltered. At least remove the library tag. I knew to do that in junior high when I stole books from my school library.
Hey, the librarian falsely accused me stealing books because she hated for reasons I was never able to discover. I was one one of the "good" kids. Fortunately, no one bought her story, but I stole several way cool science books in revenge. I carefully obliterated any evidence that they were library books, put a price inside the cover, and claimed to my parents that were from a remaindered clearance and a small bookstore. You know, when they put the books on tables outside.
And I hope that bitch had a long, slow, miserable and medically unsound old age. You don't take your personal problems out on some random kid.
I'm sorry. It's Friday. That's all I can muster.
I know. My point was more the pointlessness of hearing from anyone else.
It's just the way the media works. They are lazy, and point their sensor arrays at the noisiest targets. Look at the Terry Schaivo case. I've heard the televised opinion of eighty seven million doctors *EXCEPT* the ones that have actually examined her.
Or a bartender only partially pouring my cold frosty one.
Or a dealer only partially dealing me my hand.
You savvy?
There appears to be nothing at http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/word ml
wordml. Is that like Manimal? Never mind. :)
Still... I can make my way through the ASCII version. It's doesn't seem that impossible to reverse engineer for a small, dedicated team. The real trick is to get a non-binary version, which someone already posted an example of.
Shouldn't an XML format be easy to reverse engineer? Exactly how are they obfuscating their? Anyone have a link to an example file?
Eh... I guess I don't care about pretty phones. I bought a basic Motorola with a black ruggedized case. Works fine. Makes calls.
Once again, I am glad not to be most people. :)
How strange? You mean some sort of sneaky, underhanded mind-meld sort of thing?
The one change I would like to see is the end of being locked into a service contract, or at least not one over three months.
Just as an example, the HEP program at FermiLab is budgeted at $737 million for FY 2005. That's an increase over 2004 of a few million dollars. Science spending is up all over the place.
$50K buys a lot of rubber bands...
Huh? "Unbuyable" in what way?
I want the one with the face and blinking nose that the Powerpuff Girls have.
And I have yet to understand this terrible drive to be productive during flights. I had to fly six times last year for work, and I made them put me on Jet Blue so I could zone out to DirecTV. It's bad enough I have to travel 1000s of miles for my employers, so I'm going to take some relaxation time in between those vast annoyance factories called airports. Yeah, I'm talking about YOU, Logan Airport, and your goddamned tunnel closure that dumped me into downtown Boston, recently voted the least navigable city on the continent, and no detour signs and airport signs that have no connection to reality.
And my damn boss wouldn't pay me time and a half for taking one flight on 9/11, although the nearly empty plane gave me a whole row seats to myself. I had one monitor set to the plane position on a map, another to a ballgame and the third to something on the History Channel. And then I lay back with my Bose noise cancelling headphones. Now that's the way to fly!
Mode card battle games! And escort misssions! We LOVE escort missions!
According to the press release, tROo FaNBoyZZ will be able to spawn alternate time lines. Already there is buzz about a timeline where ROTJ takes place on the wookie homeworld instead of a moon that is, as one fan was heard to say, "infested with those godamned, motherfucking, cockgobbling Ewok pieces of fucking shit damn damn damn them to heeeellllll!"
Other timelines being discussed by fans are the "that motherfucking cockgobbling Jar-Jar gets his head blown off in his first scene" version, the "Han Solo not only shoots first, but hunts down and kills Greedo's whole family execution style, and bangs several whores along the way" scenario, the "Anakin tuens to the dark side because he gets anally raped by space monkeys" gambit, and the "Boba Fett kicks everyone's ass ten times over and opens up entire fleet sized shipments of whoop-ass on every dumbass alien in the galaxy" fantasy.
Now let me start off by saying I do *NOT* believe in dowsing. One of the leading theories by dowsing enthusiasts (I can't use the word practitioner) is that large, flowing bodies of water underground may have some effect on people, including inducing arm muscle reactions that move the little rods they carry. Or something like that. Whatever. The key was very large amounts of water worth drilling a well to get at.
An experiment by Randi buried PVC pipes underground and challenged dowsers to find the pipes. Well, how does 3/4" PVC tubes with water mimic a large underground water source? It was just a really piss poor experiment. Yeah, I suppose a proper test would involves burying a large tank of water underground, but the expense of a proper experiment does not excuse a poor one.
I'm a skeptic myself, but, I'm sorry, I can't get excited over Randi or his methods.
Penn & Teller do the same thing, although it can be argued their show is more for entertainment. There was one testing whether public toilets were really so dangerous. They went out and swabbed a selection of peoples asses to see if there is a threat from all those other butts sitting on those seats. The swabs are rubbed into Petri dishes with the usual solutions to see if anything grows. Not much grew.
Well, that completely fails to address the real issue. [1] They selected three or four relatively clean and normal people. [2] It's not really other people's butts that cause me concern in a public loo, it's what comes out of those butts (and other parts).
They should have swabbed a random selection of public toilet seats, and see what grew from those.
Agreed, but such things ARE pretty rare in this plastic, dippy world. Tech people can be pretty prejudiced against the artistic world. People like me who straddle both worlds can have a rough time.
Personally, I wuv my Macs, but I'd like to buy a really UGLY computer some day. :-)
But I think I've had a few too many mystery meat web pages for my taste, or font-size: 2px Search or Products links waaaaay down in the corner, underneath the giant 3D rotating links to Mission Statements and Press Releases and CEO's Whores.
Well, OK I exaggerate.
The 3D links don't rotate.