Oddly enough, it was mainly the so-called "progressives" on the court who voted to give the Big Bad Corporate World the legal means to get governments to push you out of your homes by promising to deliver better tax revenues with the land.
It's the 'progressives' who are into the kind of central planning and strong government/corporate coordination that the particular eminent domain case in question represented.
Those sorts just fawn over 'community development' initiatives.
I have a Sparc 'portable' system that is a huge military box with Sparc hardware on VME cards inside it. It has a huge full-side-of-the-case keyboard/trackball interface and LCD screen.
It is hellaciously large for a portable machine, but, then, it has 8 VME slots.
I think a more clear statement of what you are saying is:
The barrier to entry and extreme cost of developing big 'whoop-dee-doo' 3D games means only a few 'big players' can develop them. As a result, the number of games coming out each year goes down, and there is less room for creative new talent in the market.
In the days of 2D games, anybody with regular hardware could develop a game with one or two other people, and as a result the people who had good ideas got them implemented. Now whole teams of multimedia wonks, who are into multimedia-for-the-sake-of-it, are involved and dominate the field.
It's time consuming, a little bad weather or blight can undo everything you've done,
No, actually, there is a slang term for marijuana where it is called 'weed.' And this is because it grows like weeds. Very easy to cultivate. It will grow indoors without a lot of effort, for instance.
It's very different from tobbacco in this regard. Tobbacco is a fussy plant and it's VERY labor intensive to cultivate and harvest it.
I was thinking more like it could automagically pop up a vi window to a config file in a maze of folders under/etc
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A year of Wired is worth what? It's gotten to be so much filler and hype (well, always was, sadly. Mondo 2000 was the mag. Wired was a bad ripoff of) that it's like that big sheaf of unbound advertising material in the mailbox that you shoot direct to the wastebasket.
But it seems to me that many nerds will like anything and everything sci-fi just because its sci-fi.
You're dealing wholesale in stereotypes. Give the rest of us some credit.
I'm not sure that most of the 'nerds' who like 'anything and everything sci-fi' are even nerds. There's a guy at work who is a Star Wars fanatic, but he actually once worked at Radio Shack (hence he can never be considered a nerd).
your best defense is the same reason that you don't get dates - what you do is just not that interesting to anyone else.
This is drifting off topic, but I am coming to feel you hinted at something fairly interesting to bring up. Big Windows networks are boring, to the point where it's uninteresting to hack them and/or 'dig around' to see what's there.
At my last job, the network was a big old-school conglomerate. There were Solaris, Netware, OS2 Warp (!), and Windows NT servers all mixed together on a single net. It was really cool.
Where I'm working now it's a big enterprise NT setup without anything else. It's monotonous and there's really nothing of interest in 'the system' to check out.
Anybody who 'hacks' at my current workplace is likely there to steal the info on the servers. At the old workplace it was interesting just to map the whole thing out and figure out how it all connected.
In this regard, all-Windows shops might have less problem with 'hacking' in the classical sense. Who finds it interesting to get 'root' on some crummy all-NT environment?
Shame MS has such a big "Not Invented Here" syndrome that they can't accept other languages into their OS that they haven't written themselves...
Wow. After reading your comment, that old looseleaf binder labeled 'Microsoft C' that I've had on my bookshelf for 20+ years seems to have completely disappeared.
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Why do writers have to take actions that some pundits think 'is to their advantage' to keep face?
Oddly enough, it was mainly the so-called "progressives" on the court who voted to give the Big Bad Corporate World the legal means to get governments to push you out of your homes by promising to deliver better tax revenues with the land.
It's the 'progressives' who are into the kind of central planning and strong government/corporate coordination that the particular eminent domain case in question represented.
Those sorts just fawn over 'community development' initiatives.
Woo-hoo. Another six figure account for Sun.
I bet they really notice you when you call into Sun headquarters.
I have a Sparc 'portable' system that is a huge military box with Sparc hardware on VME cards inside it. It has a huge full-side-of-the-case keyboard/trackball interface and LCD screen.
It is hellaciously large for a portable machine, but, then, it has 8 VME slots.
I have a whole stack of Beige G3 boxes in the second bedroom here, and they ALL have floppy drives in them. Several of them also have Zip drives.
The floppy 'went away' on the Mac with the iMac, and not before.
I think a more clear statement of what you are saying is:
The barrier to entry and extreme cost of developing big 'whoop-dee-doo' 3D games means only a few 'big players' can develop them. As a result, the number of games coming out each year goes down, and there is less room for creative new talent in the market.
In the days of 2D games, anybody with regular hardware could develop a game with one or two other people, and as a result the people who had good ideas got them implemented. Now whole teams of multimedia wonks, who are into multimedia-for-the-sake-of-it, are involved and dominate the field.
I play Yahtzee mostly, on my Palm Tungsten E.
Hours of it, in little bits of time when I'm waiting for something.
Otherwise, I'm mostly too busy doing other stuff to play games.
My wife is addicted to pogo.com.
Sad thing is...whenever I push conservatives against the wall on the issue
Many people on the editorial staff of National Review Magazine, considered one of the most conservative in the United States, favor legalization.
You need to encounter a better grade of conservative.
And lose some stereotypes.
It's time consuming, a little bad weather or blight can undo everything you've done,
No, actually, there is a slang term for marijuana where it is called 'weed.' And this is because it grows like weeds. Very easy to cultivate. It will grow indoors without a lot of effort, for instance.
It's very different from tobbacco in this regard. Tobbacco is a fussy plant and it's VERY labor intensive to cultivate and harvest it.
It has no problem viewing our house. And the four large maple trees out back. And the field behind that.
Now, if I lived in a beehive suburb, it might be difficult to pick out our house...
I was thinking more like it could automagically pop up a vi window to a config file in a maze of folders under /etc
A year of Wired is worth what? It's gotten to be so much filler and hype (well, always was, sadly. Mondo 2000 was the mag. Wired was a bad ripoff of) that it's like that big sheaf of unbound advertising material in the mailbox that you shoot direct to the wastebasket.
Failed Steve Jobs company?
They assimilated the dying hulk of Apple, and made it successful. (kept the better-known company name, though)
Indeed.
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Now if the help info was just packaged in the eminently user-friendly 'info' system. .
Why the hell would you accept paypal payment for an item picked up in person? You should have asked for cash at the door.
$67/month per person isn't that bad, if the service were available city-wide.
Umm, try $67 per day for the 27 people who used it all month.
But it seems to me that many nerds will like anything and everything sci-fi just because its sci-fi.
You're dealing wholesale in stereotypes. Give the rest of us some credit.
I'm not sure that most of the 'nerds' who like 'anything and everything sci-fi' are even nerds. There's a guy at work who is a Star Wars fanatic, but he actually once worked at Radio Shack (hence he can never be considered a nerd).
One hundred years ago, humans could look up in the sky and see other animals in flight. So flight was always plausible.
The reason FTL travel is looked down on in SF is that it's a 'cheap gimmick' that has been badly overused.
It'd be a great OSS project and a great firefox plugin!!
And the popup generator you're suggesting would be a wonderful delivery vehicle for the spammers, who would latch right onto it.
your best defense is the same reason that you don't get dates - what you do is just not that interesting to anyone else.
This is drifting off topic, but I am coming to feel you hinted at something fairly interesting to bring up. Big Windows networks are boring, to the point where it's uninteresting to hack them and/or 'dig around' to see what's there.
At my last job, the network was a big old-school conglomerate. There were Solaris, Netware, OS2 Warp (!), and Windows NT servers all mixed together on a single net. It was really cool.
Where I'm working now it's a big enterprise NT setup without anything else. It's monotonous and there's really nothing of interest in 'the system' to check out.
Anybody who 'hacks' at my current workplace is likely there to steal the info on the servers. At the old workplace it was interesting just to map the whole thing out and figure out how it all connected.
In this regard, all-Windows shops might have less problem with 'hacking' in the classical sense. Who finds it interesting to get 'root' on some crummy all-NT environment?
But, back to on-topic...
I guess that depends on wether it is a good thing to dumb down things.
If this factor leads to new 'easier to use' distros that is fine. If it means a good current distro goes Fischer-Price, it's a bad thing.
Why do some people think advocacy has to mean 'become more like the other'?
I'm not convinced that everybody wants to pay a $150-300 license fee per CPU to run on all their 'desktop' systems.
I'm not even conviced that Apple is going to allow their OS software to run on non-Apple hardware (but haven't we argued that point to death?).
I am fairly certain that this 'issue' is just a new angle to bash linux and freenixes in general with. More of the same from the usual folks.
We're talking about a USER interface, not programming interfaces.
We're talking about sysadmins, who can run "perl -v || apt-get install perl"
In single user mode when only the root partition is mounted? You have a rather limited grasp of the value of simple-small-powerful shells.
Shame MS has such a big "Not Invented Here" syndrome that they can't accept other languages into their OS that they haven't written themselves...
Wow. After reading your comment, that old looseleaf binder labeled 'Microsoft C' that I've had on my bookshelf for 20+ years seems to have completely disappeared.