My point is, that NeXTStep / Cocoa is NOT among the wonderful user-editable software inspired by HyperCardCounter-examples of "wonderful user-editable software inspired by HyperCard"?
At this point, it's an old, obsolete architecture [...]Did you miss your parent's mention that iWork and practically all the other Apple-blessed apps are built with Xcode using Cocoa? How exactly is a framework currently in wide use producing great software "obsolete"?
It does not support run-time scripting and user interface building and customization like HyperCard and OpenDoc did.Just plain wrong... F-script. Allows run-time scripting of Cocoa apps.
Methinks ya need to get off the HyperCard horse. It was a toy. A very neat, powerful, interesting, creative toy, but still a toy. How many programming languages could be used w/ HyperCard? Can you give me examples of HyperCard applications of any significant complexity? I thought not...
Seriously, HyperCard isn't even in the same league as Cocoa w/ Xcode.... might as well come off it already... sheesh...
What with the suspension of Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus in the last few months, I'd like to know when they are going to be pulling their business out of the US. Quite frankly, things are "getting bad" here to, and a much more alarming pace than China even. Hell, China has IMPROVED since the 80's, which the same can't be said of terror-dominated U.S.A.
mod parent up. Seriously though, this is perhaps the one single moustache-twisting strategy I could actually see coming out of MS (beyond tin-foil'd, if historically supported, "embrace and extend (read "extinguish")" strategy).
Currently the seemly "best" way to get a good PHP experience on Windows is to use mod_php w/ Apache. It is just my humble experience that the majority of the nasty problems are with people attempting to use the CGI method on Windows (that is, if you look past all the ubiquitous noob questions... PHP is a serious gateway drug...)
If there was a tighter integration between IIS and PHP such that it could be brought into the MS stack, they hope to replace LAMP installations presumably with WISP (Windows, IIS, SQLServer, PHP).
On a lighter note, OS X is including python and ruby complete with bridges "in place" to do Cocoa development...:)
"Slack" isn't a trademark first of all (AFAIK anyhow), but it may very well be something of an inside joke with some of the SubGeniues that Google has working for them...
from the wikipedia article:
The central belief in the Church is the pursuit of Slack, which generally stands for the sense of freedom, independence, and original thinking that comes when you achieve your personal goals. The Church states that we are all born with Original Slack, but that Slack has been stolen from us by a worldwide conspiracy of normal people, or "pinks". The Church encourages originality and frowns on actions seen as pinkness, which happens when one bows down to authority and the accepted limits of society. Popular Church phrases supporting these goals are "The SubGenius Must Have Slack" and "Fuck 'Em If They Can't Take A Joke."
The Linux distribution Slackware is named for Slack.
Some may argue (and probably will) but I have always found Scheme to be an interesting language to lets kids play with because of the "instant gratification" of an interpreted language's "read-eval-print" paradigm. Plus, with "The Little Schemer", which presents things in a very logical, pedogogical way, which is well suited to clever children.
Yeah, Ninjas are cool, Ninjas are mysterious, but face it: They're outdated. As outdated as the record industry, but they have a worse lobby.
On the contrary, I should think that the concepts which rest at the core of the Bujinkan tradition would be even more applicable in today's environment of "cold" and covert war with other nation-states...
While fighting as a sport, or for close combat, will continue to exist and has its right to exist, the art of sneaky assassination is no longer a business. If you want someone dead, hire a hitman. Easier to train, more numerous, thus cheaper.
Ah... but to catch a thief...
It's simply a matter of technology. It's really no longer feasible to have a person get close to your target and have him strike there. Surveillance equipment makes it virtually impossible to get him close enough. Sneaky and stealthy or not, it's hard to beat a good surveillance system. Whatever you do, a heat or movement sensor will catch you.
I would have to agree with you here... it is a matter of technology. Surveillance equipment probably needs repair. By a repairman. Who is that repairman, and what are his intentions?
Getting close enough to your target is also no longer as possible as it was. Bodyguards are well equipped. Communication is by far superior than it was 100 years ago. And to get into a bulletproof car, you also need more than just a can opener.
There was a special on cable not long ago about ninjas I saw (can't recall the channel, might have been Discovery). There was a scene at the end that embodied this example the most: A "target" was kept in a house of two floors (the first of which was set with motion sensors) and several rooms, guarded by several "armed" men. These men had to periodically move from one end of the house to the other on the second floor in order to answer questions provided by an outside party (there was a dictionary/encyclopedia in the far room). This was to simulate "daily operations" of guards protecting a witness or the like, and to keep the guards from just "waiting for attack". Then two teams were set to the task of removing a hat from the head of the target. The first team was a SWAT team, the second was a single ninja.
The SWAT team was immediately detected by the motion detectors, were engaged by the guards, and after casualties resulted on both sides, the target was inevitably taken.
The ninja wore the garb of a service technician and entered the building with a ladder and can of spray air. He was detected immediately but then let upstairs under the guise of needing to spray off the cameras shooting the show that were being made dusty by the chemical smoke used in the hallways. After gaining trust by helping the guards answer a question without having to traverse through the house, he made his way "repairing cameras" into the room with the bathroom holding the target. He innocently looking inside while asking "Who are you?", then quickly dove and snatched the hat, defeating the guards!
It's over. Killing is no longer really an artform. Everyone can do it. Just pull the trigger.
Killing has become a way of life these days. From selling it to a nation of people, to using it to control world events, there is great value in not knowing who to point the finger at once the deed is done!
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My point is, that NeXTStep / Cocoa is NOT among the wonderful user-editable software inspired by HyperCardCounter-examples of "wonderful user-editable software inspired by HyperCard"?
At this point, it's an old, obsolete architecture [...]Did you miss your parent's mention that iWork and practically all the other Apple-blessed apps are built with Xcode using Cocoa? How exactly is a framework currently in wide use producing great software "obsolete"?
It does not support run-time scripting and user interface building and customization like HyperCard and OpenDoc did.Just plain wrong... F-script. Allows run-time scripting of Cocoa apps.
Methinks ya need to get off the HyperCard horse. It was a toy. A very neat, powerful, interesting, creative toy, but still a toy. How many programming languages could be used w/ HyperCard? Can you give me examples of HyperCard applications of any significant complexity? I thought not...
Seriously, HyperCard isn't even in the same league as Cocoa w/ Xcode.... might as well come off it already... sheesh...
Perhaps you were thinking of.... this?
iBuzz Doubles Your iPod Pleasure...
*grin*
Here ya go:
Milgram Experiment
YA article...
Would that be Bill Atkinson?
The Apple II holds that claim to fame, methinks... Plus, I don't recall Microsoft selling computers... IBM PC?
Scorpion and the Frog (Aesop's Fables)
Slashdot covered this: Bush Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law, not that suspension of Habeas Corpus isn't "enough" as it is...
What with the suspension of Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus in the last few months, I'd like to know when they are going to be pulling their business out of the US. Quite frankly, things are "getting bad" here to, and a much more alarming pace than China even. Hell, China has IMPROVED since the 80's, which the same can't be said of terror-dominated U.S.A.
mod parent up. Seriously though, this is perhaps the one single moustache-twisting strategy I could actually see coming out of MS (beyond tin-foil'd, if historically supported, "embrace and extend (read "extinguish")" strategy).
Currently the seemly "best" way to get a good PHP experience on Windows is to use mod_php w/ Apache. It is just my humble experience that the majority of the nasty problems are with people attempting to use the CGI method on Windows (that is, if you look past all the ubiquitous noob questions... PHP is a serious gateway drug...)
If there was a tighter integration between IIS and PHP such that it could be brought into the MS stack, they hope to replace LAMP installations presumably with WISP (Windows, IIS, SQLServer, PHP).
On a lighter note, OS X is including python and ruby complete with bridges "in place" to do Cocoa development... :)
Somewhat redundant (see post above), but slackware wasn't "there first". The Church of the Subgenius was however... :)
from the wikipedia article:
Fnord!
....I can finally get to work on my teletubbies Hallowe'en costume, complete with working belly screen?
Now, I wonder where I can find stock footage of that monk incinerating himself in protest from the Vietnam Conflict?
Some may argue (and probably will) but I have always found Scheme to be an interesting language to lets kids play with because of the "instant gratification" of an interpreted language's "read-eval-print" paradigm. Plus, with "The Little Schemer", which presents things in a very logical, pedogogical way, which is well suited to clever children.
The Little Schemer
Just a thought...
Thankfully they still haven't evolved opposable thumbs.
no kidding... the last species to do so with any success made rather quick work of the planet...sigh
Yeah, Ninjas are cool, Ninjas are mysterious, but face it: They're outdated. As outdated as the record industry, but they have a worse lobby.
On the contrary, I should think that the concepts which rest at the core of the Bujinkan tradition would be even more applicable in today's environment of "cold" and covert war with other nation-states...
While fighting as a sport, or for close combat, will continue to exist and has its right to exist, the art of sneaky assassination is no longer a business. If you want someone dead, hire a hitman. Easier to train, more numerous, thus cheaper.
Ah... but to catch a thief...
It's simply a matter of technology. It's really no longer feasible to have a person get close to your target and have him strike there. Surveillance equipment makes it virtually impossible to get him close enough. Sneaky and stealthy or not, it's hard to beat a good surveillance system. Whatever you do, a heat or movement sensor will catch you.
I would have to agree with you here... it is a matter of technology. Surveillance equipment probably needs repair. By a repairman. Who is that repairman, and what are his intentions?
Getting close enough to your target is also no longer as possible as it was. Bodyguards are well equipped. Communication is by far superior than it was 100 years ago. And to get into a bulletproof car, you also need more than just a can opener.
There was a special on cable not long ago about ninjas I saw (can't recall the channel, might have been Discovery). There was a scene at the end that embodied this example the most: A "target" was kept in a house of two floors (the first of which was set with motion sensors) and several rooms, guarded by several "armed" men. These men had to periodically move from one end of the house to the other on the second floor in order to answer questions provided by an outside party (there was a dictionary/encyclopedia in the far room). This was to simulate "daily operations" of guards protecting a witness or the like, and to keep the guards from just "waiting for attack". Then two teams were set to the task of removing a hat from the head of the target. The first team was a SWAT team, the second was a single ninja.
The SWAT team was immediately detected by the motion detectors, were engaged by the guards, and after casualties resulted on both sides, the target was inevitably taken.
The ninja wore the garb of a service technician and entered the building with a ladder and can of spray air. He was detected immediately but then let upstairs under the guise of needing to spray off the cameras shooting the show that were being made dusty by the chemical smoke used in the hallways. After gaining trust by helping the guards answer a question without having to traverse through the house, he made his way "repairing cameras" into the room with the bathroom holding the target. He innocently looking inside while asking "Who are you?", then quickly dove and snatched the hat, defeating the guards!
It's over. Killing is no longer really an artform. Everyone can do it. Just pull the trigger.
Killing has become a way of life these days. From selling it to a nation of people, to using it to control world events, there is great value in not knowing who to point the finger at once the deed is done!
-- novice student of the Bujinkan Taijutsu Dojo.