If I ever get around to it I'm going to re-edit the entire of the 6 films into 2 films mirroring the style of KILL BILL. heck STAR WARS even has the same numbers of letters in the words and the cover can be luke + lightsaber instead of Uma. That way you only need 2 / 3 handy flashbacks from the prequels to get back story and you can miss out a load of ewok garbage too. Just got to try to make Part 2 less talky
or the human race itself could grow up, and we could collectively acknowledge that we ALL did and said stuff when we were younger that on reflection probably wasn't that wise. It's like we're all living under a single big fat lie
When everyone's bad deeds and naked photos are on the internet, noone will care.
Guess that would put a bunch of tabloid newspapers out of business though.
I grew up in C, C++, Java and - for £income purposes - trained up in c#.Net... but 5 years ago I moved into a vb.net shop and you know what, I actually quite like it now, the feature set is 99.99% on parity with C# and i actually LIKE that it's in english, in C# we have obscure words like virtual & abstract while the VB equivalents are overridable & mustinherit .
I think part of the hate against VB (shocking pre.net days aside) is snobbery from people who consider themselves "proper" programmers who think that if the code is too to understand they'll loose their hard earned super-clever status
it's like programming languages are deliberately designed to use obscure terms, syntax, symbols and squiggly characters for no reason other than to obfuscate it from puny humans
Like ignoring the mainstream/chart music industry and supporting local/DIY live bands, musicians, DJs & poets?
In my experience people get terrified at the thought of paying circa £3 to go see a handful of acts that they've never heard of. They'd much rather stay in their comfort zone than risk actually liking something that Big Media hasn't pre-approved for them. Fucking sheeple.
OT: My other half is a music/arty promoter type person and last year she was at Edinburgh Fringe chatting with someone who does a similar job in the US. She was telling this person about a recent gigs she'd put on in an Arts centre, a converted medieval church. ~Said person remarked words to the effect "Holy crap, your venue is older than my country!"
This. One of these represents where I currently work, one of them represents when I was self employed, guess which one is which:
1: Monday: Dev team commences work on todo list, Customer commences testing and evaluation of latest build Friday: Latest build given to Customer for evaluation. Bugs and new-feature-requests given to dev team Notes: Dev team happy. Customer happy watching progress as project continues. Project delivered on time.
2: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesay, Thursday: Bugs & new features are constantly delivered to dev team, all of which expected to be delivered by Thursday. Friday: Build probably doesn’t happen because a new feature was dreamt up Thursday morning and half of dev team is scrambling to get it in place, and then it’s buggy anyway Notes: Dev team under constant pressure to deliver ASAP, stressed, mistakes and bugs creep in. Customer continues to want to see shiney new idea #743 yesterday.
And next up is lossless. FLAC and PNG already have it covered for audio and photo but personally I'm itching for lossless video all the way from camera to eyeball and every transcoding, editing, transmitting and storage step in between. In 8k.
Hi, vinyl DJ here (waves).... I'm personally sick of people arguing about audio quality. I just like having a physical copy of the music i can fumble with, MP3 vs Vinyl is like porn vs sex. I'm also an electronic noise artist * and would love to do a run of vinyl, but at the moment you have to fork out for about 300 units at a time, when maybe I just want 12.
Have been getting used to Traktor lately, and now need to get me some timecode vinyl so I can exist in the netherplane inbetween both worlds. Guess in terms of porn vs sex that's a bit like videoing yourselves and playing it on the tv while you're doing it. Or something.
What was the subject again?
*If i use the word musician then some old people will complain that if it doesn't have electric guitars in it can't be music, just like the old people before them saying how electric guitars couldn't POSSIBLY be musical instruments
Saw one of these filming crowd shots at a music festival I went to in Madrid last September. And they even used one on the latest Top Gear episode (Africa/Nile special).
I commute and when home I tend to walk/cycle around town so my car spends 22 out of every 24 hours parked. At weekends it might sit there from friday night to monday morning untouched. If I plugged it in at home and at work then I'd never need to worry about it.
Problem is that that's the opposite of liquid fuelled cars, people are used to charging during their journey. It's a complete mental shift, and we all know how good humans are at that, I'm honestly surprised no one attacked the Tesla with a pitch fork, the bastard demon magic car!
Sisko all the way. Plus he got the best stern-telling-off (of Worf, no less) bit out of all of Star Trek:
"As your captain, it is my duty to inform you that you made the wrong choice. I don't think Starfleet will file any formal charges -- even a secret court-martial would run the risk of revealing too much about their intelligence operations. But this will go in to your service record... and to be completely honest, you probably won't be offered a command on your own after this." "I understand." "I have also issued new orders -- you and Jadzia are not to be assigned to a mission on your own ever again... and one last thing: as a man who had a wife... if Jennifer had been lying in that clearing... I wouldn't have left her either."
Because "it MUST be a monolithic kernel" is not the main driving philosophy behind all Linux development, the big fat kernel is just the way it happens to work
Yeah and I'd go further than that what with the fact that a LOT of things are software and a lot of other things are "a chip"... Take for example the iPhone, we had touch screen PDAs for at least a decade before that, yet apple just* stuff in a GSM chip and suddenly it's a new invention?!
Someone takes a phone and stuffs in a CCD chip... Someone takes a camera and stuffs in a wifi chip.... Someone takes a TV and adds an RJ45 socket and an IP stack...
This is NOT invention. This is digital Lego
* yes yes, antenna, sim card, etc, but you get the idea = Modules
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If I ever get around to it I'm going to re-edit the entire of the 6 films into 2 films mirroring the style of KILL BILL. heck STAR WARS even has the same numbers of letters in the words and the cover can be luke + lightsaber instead of Uma. That way you only need 2 / 3 handy flashbacks from the prequels to get back story and you can miss out a load of ewok garbage too. Just got to try to make Part 2 less talky
Maybe an electron tunnelling high res scanner to take a photo of the data layer. Then write software to "read" the disc and archive the ISO. Simple
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
Developers should stop creating password based systems and think of something else.
or the human race itself could grow up, and we could collectively acknowledge that we ALL did and said stuff when we were younger that on reflection probably wasn't that wise. It's like we're all living under a single big fat lie
When everyone's bad deeds and naked photos are on the internet, noone will care.
Guess that would put a bunch of tabloid newspapers out of business though.
I grew up in C, C++, Java and - for £income purposes - trained up in c# .Net ... but 5 years ago I moved into a vb.net shop and you know what, I actually quite like it now, the feature set is 99.99% on parity with C# and i actually LIKE that it's in english, in C# we have obscure words like virtual & abstract while the VB equivalents are overridable & mustinherit .
I think part of the hate against VB (shocking pre .net days aside) is snobbery from people who consider themselves "proper" programmers who think that if the code is too to understand they'll loose their hard earned super-clever status
it's like programming languages are deliberately designed to use obscure terms, syntax, symbols and squiggly characters for no reason other than to obfuscate it from puny humans
Alternately while in the near-dead state they can still HEAR and their evidence is accurate based on that.
Like ignoring the mainstream/chart music industry and supporting local/DIY live bands, musicians, DJs & poets?
In my experience people get terrified at the thought of paying circa £3 to go see a handful of acts that they've never heard of. They'd much rather stay in their comfort zone than risk actually liking something that Big Media hasn't pre-approved for them. Fucking sheeple.
Yeah and they almost literally tried that, next one out was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedknobs_and_Broomsticks
OT: My other half is a music/arty promoter type person and last year she was at Edinburgh Fringe chatting with someone who does a similar job in the US. She was telling this person about a recent gigs she'd put on in an Arts centre, a converted medieval church. ~Said person remarked words to the effect "Holy crap, your venue is older than my country!"
This. One of these represents where I currently work, one of them represents when I was self employed, guess which one is which:
1:
Monday: Dev team commences work on todo list, Customer commences testing and evaluation of latest build
Friday: Latest build given to Customer for evaluation. Bugs and new-feature-requests given to dev team
Notes: Dev team happy. Customer happy watching progress as project continues. Project delivered on time.
2:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesay, Thursday: Bugs & new features are constantly delivered to dev team, all of which expected to be delivered by Thursday.
Friday: Build probably doesn’t happen because a new feature was dreamt up Thursday morning and half of dev team is scrambling to get it in place, and then it’s buggy anyway
Notes: Dev team under constant pressure to deliver ASAP, stressed, mistakes and bugs creep in. Customer continues to want to see shiney new idea #743 yesterday.
Just replying to draw attention to my sig, thanks
Have always wanted to hack apart the PSx controller and swap the D pad and main buttons. Envisioned calling it the Leftpad or somesuch.
You must be new here
Ah, slashdot, clearly you read the headline but not the summary
You go on holiday to remote places, and take a games console? Next time take a book instead. Disconnect!
And next up is lossless. FLAC and PNG already have it covered for audio and photo but personally I'm itching for lossless video all the way from camera to eyeball and every transcoding, editing, transmitting and storage step in between. In 8k.
Hi, vinyl DJ here (waves) .... I'm personally sick of people arguing about audio quality. I just like having a physical copy of the music i can fumble with, MP3 vs Vinyl is like porn vs sex. I'm also an electronic noise artist * and would love to do a run of vinyl, but at the moment you have to fork out for about 300 units at a time, when maybe I just want 12.
Have been getting used to Traktor lately, and now need to get me some timecode vinyl so I can exist in the netherplane inbetween both worlds. Guess in terms of porn vs sex that's a bit like videoing yourselves and playing it on the tv while you're doing it. Or something.
What was the subject again?
*If i use the word musician then some old people will complain that if it doesn't have electric guitars in it can't be music, just like the old people before them saying how electric guitars couldn't POSSIBLY be musical instruments
Saw one of these filming crowd shots at a music festival I went to in Madrid last September. And they even used one on the latest Top Gear episode (Africa/Nile special).
Do they actually get around to showing it in action or is the whole 12 minutes just this guy talking?
I commute and when home I tend to walk/cycle around town so my car spends 22 out of every 24 hours parked. At weekends it might sit there from friday night to monday morning untouched. If I plugged it in at home and at work then I'd never need to worry about it.
Problem is that that's the opposite of liquid fuelled cars, people are used to charging during their journey. It's a complete mental shift, and we all know how good humans are at that, I'm honestly surprised no one attacked the Tesla with a pitch fork, the bastard demon magic car!
Just in case the internet was wondering : wain/wean = wee-one = small-one
Sisko all the way. Plus he got the best stern-telling-off (of Worf, no less) bit out of all of Star Trek:
"As your captain, it is my duty to inform you that you made the wrong choice. I don't think Starfleet will file any formal charges -- even a secret court-martial would run the risk of revealing too much about their intelligence operations. But this will go in to your service record... and to be completely honest, you probably won't be offered a command on your own after this."
"I understand."
"I have also issued new orders -- you and Jadzia are not to be assigned to a mission on your own ever again... and one last thing: as a man who had a wife... if Jennifer had been lying in that clearing... I wouldn't have left her either."
Because "it MUST be a monolithic kernel" is not the main driving philosophy behind all Linux development, the big fat kernel is just the way it happens to work
Yeah and I'd go further than that what with the fact that a LOT of things are software and a lot of other things are "a chip"... Take for example the iPhone, we had touch screen PDAs for at least a decade before that, yet apple just* stuff in a GSM chip and suddenly it's a new invention?!
Someone takes a phone and stuffs in a CCD chip ... Someone takes a camera and stuffs in a wifi chip.... Someone takes a TV and adds an RJ45 socket and an IP stack...
This is NOT invention. This is digital Lego
* yes yes, antenna, sim card, etc, but you get the idea = Modules
"You call that an antenna?"