He only really slowed down once he got a book deal, and started devoting his time to writing for pay. You can't really blame him; most college students who contribute to open-source projects find they have much less time and drive to do so after they get hired.
#7 is really not their problem. If you want to bike to work, that's great, but otherwise the only way your vehicle is going to help you stay in shape is to be large enough to contain a mobile gym. Which seems pretty silly.
That gives me an idea: make an electric car that contains bicycle pedals inside. You don't have to pedal hard enough to keep the car running, but any energy you put into the pedals recharges the battery. It would keep you in shape, and would extend the range of the car, even if not by that much.
Conversely, some of the fast websites use basic TEXT and skimp on the graphics.
As I said in another thread the other day: Whether or not you like his writing, I think Maddox hit the peak of usable web design: dark background, with large-font bright text. It's the easiest webpage on the internet to read, and despite having some graphics, it loads very quickly because he uses the graphics as actual content, not just filler.
BTW, shouldn't that be TLTR instead of TLDR? Oh, too long DIDN'T read. Gotcha. You wouldn't like most of my journals, or anybody's books.
"tl;dr" usually implies more than just the length of the text involved (although in some cases people are just that impatient). Usually it means that the writing either drags, or is just unnecessarily long for the message conveyed.
Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?
Actually, there are tons of good examples where pairs resulted in fantastic creative endeavors. Go see a Rogers and Hammerstein musical, or a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Or watch "The Matrix" or "The Big Lebowski" while sitting in an Eames lounge chair.
Except that pairs almost always divvy the work between them in a very delineated way:
In an episode of Top Gear from a couple years ago, Jeremy Clarkson was reviewing the Alfa Romeo 8C, asking "Can a car be a piece of art?"
He quoted an artist friend of his, who said that a car can never be art because art must have no function outside itself; it must only be a piece of art. He concluded that the 8C is a piece of art, because it's useless as a car, despite its utter beauty.
I agree; something industrial can be beautiful if it was created to be beautiful, and not simply engineered to meet a need or to fit a market segment.
I think that's going a bit too far the other way. What about works that are released after the author's death, for instance? I think the estate (in most cases, read: family) should be able to benefit from the proceeds of a work for at least 5 or 10 years after the creator's death, or after the date of release, whichever comes later.
I saw a piece of software that does something similar to what you're talking about; recently I watched James May's Big Ideas, they showed a camera that you wear around to create a lifelog.
The camera took photos every 30 seconds or so, and the software was able to divide sets of photos into "events"; it distinguished between the time the wearer was in the kitchen making breakfast, and when they sat at their computer typing up an article, for instance. I imagine that someone's created similar software for public use, then.
Easy. Just watch the Independent Film Channel all day. The movies you watch will most likely not be owned by the MPAA.;)
You could also watch more foreign films, but be careful; in some cases you're just funding the MPAA's foreign equivalent.
While I have a chance to plug this movie while being on-topic: I recommend checking out With Fire and Sword. It's a historical epic, and since at the time it was the highest-budget Polish movie ever made, the production looks on par with Hollywood movies in the same genre (Braveheart, for instance).
I have no idea if With Fire and Sword is owned by an evil company, but it's a damned good movie, and at least it's not in the actual MPAA.
Or, from Bart Simpson's trial for the murder of Principal Skinner: "Your honor, I move that Principal Skinner's entire testimony be stricken from the record." "DENIED! Case dismissed."
I had a high school chemistry class just a few years ago where we cut open pennies, melted the zinc inside them, and flung the molten zinc out onto the counter. Only one kid burned his hand.
Compared to that experiment, soldering is safe. I would say "as safe as bowling", but bowling causes a fair number of injuries annually.
During the summer I shut down my desktop daily. Besides the electricity used directly, it also means my AC has to work harder to keep a certain temperature.
I'd love to have a reasonably powerful desktop machine that idles at 20W or less, but for now it idles at 100W, and that's quite a bit of heat to be needlessly generated in a small apartment in the summer.
I can't wait until I get a powerful desktop machine that has an idle power draw low enough that I'd get no noticeable benefit to my electric bill by turning the machine off.
Whether or not you like his writing, I think Maddox hit the peak of usable web design: dark background, with large-font bright text. If you don't like the yellow, you could go with old-CLI-style green. Either way, it's the easiest webpage on the internet to read.
Personally, I think Insurgency lives up to the standards of a commercial game... it has good graphics, plays very well, and often crashed until it was patched!
What game released in the last 3 years hasn't had all three of those attributes (especially the third!)?
On a forum, make a new thread, and post nothing but an image, showing cover art from a movie or album. That image has a hidden torrent file inside it.
If you do this, then the users of the forum can easily figure out if they want to download it, but it's very hard to automate, so anyone doing a purely textual search can't find it.
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He only really slowed down once he got a book deal, and started devoting his time to writing for pay. You can't really blame him; most college students who contribute to open-source projects find they have much less time and drive to do so after they get hired.
#7 is really not their problem. If you want to bike to work, that's great, but otherwise the only way your vehicle is going to help you stay in shape is to be large enough to contain a mobile gym. Which seems pretty silly.
That gives me an idea: make an electric car that contains bicycle pedals inside. You don't have to pedal hard enough to keep the car running, but any energy you put into the pedals recharges the battery. It would keep you in shape, and would extend the range of the car, even if not by that much.
Conversely, some of the fast websites use basic TEXT and skimp on the graphics.
As I said in another thread the other day: Whether or not you like his writing, I think Maddox hit the peak of usable web design: dark background, with large-font bright text. It's the easiest webpage on the internet to read, and despite having some graphics, it loads very quickly because he uses the graphics as actual content, not just filler.
BTW, shouldn't that be TLTR instead of TLDR? Oh, too long DIDN'T read. Gotcha. You wouldn't like most of my journals, or anybody's books.
"tl;dr" usually implies more than just the length of the text involved (although in some cases people are just that impatient). Usually it means that the writing either drags, or is just unnecessarily long for the message conveyed.
Alright you Primitive Screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?
the Caverns of Time
Is that anything like the Timesink Cavern?
Actually, there are tons of good examples where pairs resulted in fantastic creative endeavors. Go see a Rogers and Hammerstein musical, or a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Or watch "The Matrix" or "The Big Lebowski" while sitting in an Eames lounge chair.
Except that pairs almost always divvy the work between them in a very delineated way:
With Rodgers composing the music and Hammerstein adding the lyrics...
Gilbert, who wrote the words... Sullivan composed the music...
Partnerships between two people with very similar opinions and skillsets (the Coen brothers, for instance) are extremely rare.
In an episode of Top Gear from a couple years ago, Jeremy Clarkson was reviewing the Alfa Romeo 8C, asking "Can a car be a piece of art?"
He quoted an artist friend of his, who said that a car can never be art because art must have no function outside itself; it must only be a piece of art. He concluded that the 8C is a piece of art, because it's useless as a car, despite its utter beauty.
I agree; something industrial can be beautiful if it was created to be beautiful, and not simply engineered to meet a need or to fit a market segment.
70 years after the author's death is completely unreasonable, but 28 years after publication is fair - no matter if the author dies or not.
I don't know about you, but if I wrote a book, I'd want to be dead before someone does something that makes me spin in my grave. ;)
I'm a deist, you insensitive clod! If God has to issue a patch, he can't do it without hitting Ctrl+C, recompiling, and starting over!
I think that's going a bit too far the other way. What about works that are released after the author's death, for instance? I think the estate (in most cases, read: family) should be able to benefit from the proceeds of a work for at least 5 or 10 years after the creator's death, or after the date of release, whichever comes later.
and not simply out to make a name for himself/herself.
Lionel Hutz: "Murder one!?! Wow, even if I lose I'll be famous!"
If a tree falls on the car, is it covered?
Yes, but it won't make a sound while doing so.
Just because better security exists does not mean that people use it.
I use a properly secure passphrase on my credit card's website, but on accounts that aren't as critical (Slashdot), I use a simpler password.
P.S.: It's "hunter2".
I saw a piece of software that does something similar to what you're talking about; recently I watched James May's Big Ideas, they showed a camera that you wear around to create a lifelog.
The camera took photos every 30 seconds or so, and the software was able to divide sets of photos into "events"; it distinguished between the time the wearer was in the kitchen making breakfast, and when they sat at their computer typing up an article, for instance. I imagine that someone's created similar software for public use, then.
Easy. Just watch the Independent Film Channel all day. The movies you watch will most likely not be owned by the MPAA. ;)
You could also watch more foreign films, but be careful; in some cases you're just funding the MPAA's foreign equivalent.
While I have a chance to plug this movie while being on-topic: I recommend checking out With Fire and Sword. It's a historical epic, and since at the time it was the highest-budget Polish movie ever made, the production looks on par with Hollywood movies in the same genre (Braveheart, for instance).
I have no idea if With Fire and Sword is owned by an evil company, but it's a damned good movie, and at least it's not in the actual MPAA.
Or, from Bart Simpson's trial for the murder of Principal Skinner:
"Your honor, I move that Principal Skinner's entire testimony be stricken from the record."
" DENIED! Case dismissed."
Are you just bitter? I know plenty of young kids who are really interested in science, even more than I was at their age.
This may be the age of emo, but keep in mind that Generation X was the age of "Whatever."
I had a high school chemistry class just a few years ago where we cut open pennies, melted the zinc inside them, and flung the molten zinc out onto the counter. Only one kid burned his hand.
Compared to that experiment, soldering is safe. I would say "as safe as bowling", but bowling causes a fair number of injuries annually.
Yeah, I'd hate to be overcharged by -2^63 dollars! That would be tragic!
During the summer I shut down my desktop daily. Besides the electricity used directly, it also means my AC has to work harder to keep a certain temperature.
I'd love to have a reasonably powerful desktop machine that idles at 20W or less, but for now it idles at 100W, and that's quite a bit of heat to be needlessly generated in a small apartment in the summer.
I can't wait until I get a powerful desktop machine that has an idle power draw low enough that I'd get no noticeable benefit to my electric bill by turning the machine off.
Whether or not you like his writing, I think Maddox hit the peak of usable web design: dark background, with large-font bright text. If you don't like the yellow, you could go with old-CLI-style green. Either way, it's the easiest webpage on the internet to read.
Personally, I think Insurgency lives up to the standards of a commercial game... it has good graphics, plays very well, and often crashed until it was patched!
What game released in the last 3 years hasn't had all three of those attributes (especially the third!)?
Here's an idea:
On a forum, make a new thread, and post nothing but an image, showing cover art from a movie or album. That image has a hidden torrent file inside it.
If you do this, then the users of the forum can easily figure out if they want to download it, but it's very hard to automate, so anyone doing a purely textual search can't find it.