Who's got the sig? Something to the effect of: Ideas are delicate things, do not attack them. Attack the people instead.
Luckily you kept your mouth shut. Sometimes shooting down an idea is good - like when your buddy decides to buy a large house with a woman with which there is no legal bond. Otherwise, give them the benefit of the doubt - you'll probably wind up in a better mood.
I'm sorry, but over here, the smokers are not concerned with their 10 minute Safety Break. They are killing themselves with Government Sponsored poisonous gasses. Near the public exits and entrances at that.
If the flipside to smoking is reduced risk of Carpal-Tunnel, they ought to start marketing that. It would definately fly in a world (or country) where losing a war only means you're "not winning".
"At least they're smart enough to realize they need a break from time to time"
Huh?! They are not in control, buddy, the ciggies are.
They are heading out like clockwork because they are *ADDICTED*.
The monkey says, "Light up! NOW!!"
I got tired of losing out on "smoke breaks", so I started taking my own breaks when I needed them - at 30 to 50 minutes per pop. Just hop up and vaporize.
exists. All Obj C, mostly better than Microsoft's offerings of the same era. Definately better (IMO) than StarOffice (by any name) (Google for screenshots if you doubt that)
No apparent hope of resurrecting it, though. The "Dude" at Lighthouse is now "The Dude" at Sun.
Aside from that, I wouldn't say ObjC is/is not a way to go on its own, but you'd have to start looking beyond Obj C alone, to GNUSTEP/Cocoa. Would anyone want to do that? Probably, just not now.
OO.o is there, KOffice is there, MS Office is there, iWork is there.. Plus a plethora of single-purpose apps to fill in the gaps or satisfy the peculiar taste.
Access? Who needs that in a world of PHP/MySQL and increasing simplicity in mounting the task?
Excel? Beyond cells and '=sum(A3+B17)' what more do you need 99% of the time?
What would be the show stopper is if all these interfaces supported the same XML-formated, tied together (a'la OpenDoc/meta info), backend data. Then the program is just your chosen means to a sharable end.
How much dialogue do you think they add? At the expense of what?
If it's all about the dialogue, the typical movie-goer (who is going to decide whether sequels are made) ain't gonna sit through 2 hours of more than one English accent (Without boxing, drugs, or booze involved) - especially when they have probably read less than 1/4 of the series.
If we can wow them with "Shiny Bits", we can hopefully share inside jokes over more of these awful reviews. They may even be able to get people exited over the "Trilogy" pun..
Are they duplicate files, or little 30 byte file descriptors? GIMP used to burn me with that damned.xvpics directory, but then, it saved my ass a time or too..
Is it that big of a deal? The script does it's job, so what't the beef?
"And what do those screenshots tell us anyways? I did not see anything new..."
One thing I noticed *IMMEDIATELY* from the screenshots is that the windows are drawn in gray, with a centrally-highlighted region, that from a distance, looks entirely too similar to the gray windows with a centrally-highlighted region from that *OTHER* operating system.
Jobs was right - they are copying fast. Even the icons are changing again. They are afraid to stand on their own two feet and just "do what they do". Longhorn won't be a better Windows, it will be a clone of OS X on PCs.
It will be irrelevant once the market share picks up under the Mac Mini and Tiger.. Windows will be that "Old OS" that nobody uses because it doesn't play UNIX like Linux/OS X does. It will 'pretend' but, it just won't be there.
The lowest common denominator is always a factor when it comes to *anything* media.
I have to automatically discount, rather prepare myself for 20-30% more tepid, weaker, more stupid movie, CD, or TV program than I, personally, expect.
That goes for anything, from the Scooby-Doo Movie to Spirited Away.
It's when the expectations of that grading curve are exceeded that I can go, "Yes - that was a good $medium_delivered_experience"
This is what makes it suck to live among so very, very many people who couldn't give any more of a shit about so very much.
"look at small form Tfactor PCs and you'll pay $200 just on the chasis, and it still won't be as small or quiet as a Mac mini."
That's because it's a "chassis". It's a wide open flexible machine - with a hefty internal power supply.
To use an Automotive analogy, it's like a GM truck chassis (a smallish, more sylin' one) vs. a single-purpose, unibody-type setup. What we have is a small GM/Isuzu box truck vs. a Lotus Elise - they even cost about the same.
Make one Nano-ATX motherboard with simple DC power jack, purpose build one case around it, include laptop hard drive (that you have happen to have piles of), spend a year tweaking a GNU OS solution for it, and you'd have yourself a $250 machine if people were sure to buy 100,000 of them.
NeXT did the Cube, people went "Ooooh.."
Apple re-did the Cube, people went "Ooooh.."
ASUS and Shuttle did the Cube, people went "Ooooh.."
Apple did the Mini, people went "Ooooh.."
Somebody will take it another step, Dell, or someone with bigtime laptop presence. Perhaps even one of the.tw laptop contractors..
It is a detailed examination of the long-awaited film adaptation of a much-loved science-fiction book by an individual who knows the material, loves the material, and feels deeply that what made the story worth making into a movie has not been represented.
I know the story, and that's what I want to know. Did they fuck up.
That's all I want to know when I read any movie review. If I have an opinion, I want a review to match. If it's "New Movie Du Jour", I could care less, even go without a review - like Sin City.
From what I understand, Sin City is a triumph in regards to "telling the tale". HHG is exactly the opposite.
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I haven't tried VLC, but QuickTime 6 is doing that for me.
I think I'd get as much out of reading the "English" that those MIT guys feed the Converter..
"Now that we're done thinking about eating, we're going to resume thinking about _main_..."
If that's plain english to the converter, it seems like it would need another level of conversion before you could stand back and watch a cluster chew through the Million Book Project and generate executable Shakespeare.
Romeo and Juliet in C.
You'd have to break down the semantics of literature, the generalities at least - with the whole beginning, subject, character attributes, etc., and make the appropriate translations into C, Java, what have you..
But wow - what a fulfillment of the promise of a giant Computer Brain. One step closer to JOSHUA!
But the point is, I personally would get a lot out of colorful, storybook-like Programming Instruction, even with something as simple as Pac-Man.
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Who's got the sig?
Something to the effect of:
Ideas are delicate things, do not attack them. Attack the people instead.
Luckily you kept your mouth shut. Sometimes shooting down an idea is good - like when your buddy decides to buy a large house with a woman with which there is no legal bond. Otherwise, give them the benefit of the doubt - you'll probably wind up in a better mood.
They are Sun Cobalts now. No relation.
I forgot about the option to go out and buy a shiny new part.
HULK SMASH!!
"At least the smokers get that;"
I'm sorry, but over here, the smokers are not concerned with their 10 minute Safety Break. They are killing themselves with Government Sponsored poisonous gasses. Near the public exits and entrances at that.
If the flipside to smoking is reduced risk of Carpal-Tunnel, they ought to start marketing that. It would definately fly in a world (or country) where losing a war only means you're "not winning".
...and that hot jet exhaust streaming from the CRT on his desk gave him a Mentos-gasm.
Daring? European?
"Extremely funny". Who checks this crap?
Extremely lame. It's like they thought, "Hey, let's get CRAZY!!" then they forgot where they were going with it.
Let's get CRAZY!! WHOO! now we're all CRAZY!! Now what? Oh I know! Let's end here!
Hey! Know what'll *really* slay 'em? She takes a BITE out of her CELL PHONE, and DOESN'T EVEN REALIZE!! How CRAZY is that?! Whoo!
The videos are swf (flash).
There's some things being done with video > flash.. VNC can do it now, you just watched some videos.
Adobe's stock will definately go up when they start tying Premeire into Flash or vice-versa.
"At least they're smart enough to realize they need a break from time to time"
Huh?! They are not in control, buddy, the ciggies are.
They are heading out like clockwork because they are *ADDICTED*.
The monkey says, "Light up! NOW!!"
I got tired of losing out on "smoke breaks", so I started taking my own breaks when I needed them - at 30 to 50 minutes per pop. Just hop up and vaporize.
Where's Juddy? Smoke break - carton at a time...
That's actually pretty lame.
The epoxy bond would have to be way good, or else the thing would tip right off that tiny contact point.
Maybe some modification would be necessary to the laptop (holes drilled, back filled with epoxy)
Oh well. I have thought about this before, just never planned it out..
It would be brilliant for some company to engineer in such a thing, though.
1 thrift store 35MM camera
1 package 2-part epoxy
1 hacksaw/dremel
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1. Extract brass ferrule from cheap "Camon" camera.
2. Prepare 2-part epoxy.
3. Affix ferrule (optionally ferrule/camera-body substrate combination) to bottom of laptop
4. Cure and compute.
Someplace deep within Sun, probably under Jonathan Schwartz' desk, lies the code for:
OpenWrite (MAJOR)P aint
AirMail
Concurrence
Diagram
EquationBuilder
ParaSheet (MAJOR)
Quantrix (MAJOR)
TaskMaster
VarioBuilder
VarioData
Wet
exists. All Obj C, mostly better than Microsoft's offerings of the same era. Definately better (IMO) than StarOffice (by any name) (Google for screenshots if you doubt that)
No apparent hope of resurrecting it, though. The "Dude" at Lighthouse is now "The Dude" at Sun.
Aside from that, I wouldn't say ObjC is/is not a way to go on its own, but you'd have to start looking beyond Obj C alone, to GNUSTEP/Cocoa. Would anyone want to do that? Probably, just not now.
OO.o is there, KOffice is there, MS Office is there, iWork is there.. Plus a plethora of single-purpose apps to fill in the gaps or satisfy the peculiar taste.
Access? Who needs that in a world of PHP/MySQL and increasing simplicity in mounting the task?
Excel? Beyond cells and '=sum(A3+B17)' what more do you need 99% of the time?
What would be the show stopper is if all these interfaces supported the same XML-formated, tied together (a'la OpenDoc/meta info), backend data. Then the program is just your chosen means to a sharable end.
What does that make me?
Which means that not enough people saw the series and/or listened to the play to see the consistencies.
The movie was true to all. When I heard the banjo start up, I had no doubts.
It's not as bas as all that..
How much dialogue do you think they add? At the expense of what?
If it's all about the dialogue, the typical movie-goer (who is going to decide whether sequels are made) ain't gonna sit through 2 hours of more than one English accent (Without boxing, drugs, or booze involved) - especially when they have probably read less than 1/4 of the series.
If we can wow them with "Shiny Bits", we can hopefully share inside jokes over more of these awful reviews. They may even be able to get people exited over the "Trilogy" pun..
What's so obnoxious?
/home?! .gtkrc! BLAST!
/etc, too?! Is there no shame?!
.xvpics directory, but then, it saved my ass a time or too..
Ewww! A Thumbs.db file on my drive!!
Ick! What's this in
Gasp! Here in
Are they duplicate files, or little 30 byte file descriptors? GIMP used to burn me with that damned
Is it that big of a deal? The script does it's job, so what't the beef?
Avalon and WinFS are?
Consumers hardly ever care about the underlying technology.
I never mentioned "Consumers".. I was thinking about 14-24 year-old Males. They buy a hell of a lot more computers than your Grandma.
"And what do those screenshots tell us anyways? I did not see anything new..."
One thing I noticed *IMMEDIATELY* from the screenshots is that the windows are drawn in gray, with a centrally-highlighted region, that from a distance, looks entirely too similar to the gray windows with a centrally-highlighted region from that *OTHER* operating system.
Jobs was right - they are copying fast. Even the icons are changing again. They are afraid to stand on their own two feet and just "do what they do". Longhorn won't be a better Windows, it will be a clone of OS X on PCs.
It will be irrelevant once the market share picks up under the Mac Mini and Tiger.. Windows will be that "Old OS" that nobody uses because it doesn't play UNIX like Linux/OS X does. It will 'pretend' but, it just won't be there.
Are you kidding? In 5 years time:
ColdFusion will die.
Flash will make babies with PDF.
Dreamweaver and GoLive will collide in a major trainwreck, with blinding feature-carnage everywhere.
InDesign, PageMaker, and Freehand will be rolled into "The" killer, multiplatform DTP app.
Adobe will be steering web publishing for a long, long time.
The chips and the linux boxes are out there in numbers.
Those ProSavage cards are commonly found in, inexpensive datacenter specials.
The OS/Chip ratio is good, and the numbers are pretty high in general, compared to 5 years ago when this kind of story would have been real news.
Still, I doubt that any of those machines would be used for their open source display capabilities.
Still good.
The lowest common denominator is always a factor when it comes to *anything* media.
I have to automatically discount, rather prepare myself for 20-30% more tepid, weaker, more stupid movie, CD, or TV program than I, personally, expect.
That goes for anything, from the Scooby-Doo Movie to Spirited Away.
It's when the expectations of that grading curve are exceeded that I can go, "Yes - that was a good $medium_delivered_experience"
This is what makes it suck to live among so very, very many people who couldn't give any more of a shit about so very much.
There's no tampon made than could contain the leak that would create.
Bad Scientists! Bad!
"look at small form Tfactor PCs and you'll pay $200 just on the chasis, and it still won't be as small or quiet as a Mac mini."
.tw laptop contractors..
That's because it's a "chassis". It's a wide open flexible machine - with a hefty internal power supply.
To use an Automotive analogy, it's like a GM truck chassis (a smallish, more sylin' one) vs. a single-purpose, unibody-type setup. What we have is a small GM/Isuzu box truck vs. a Lotus Elise - they even cost about the same.
Make one Nano-ATX motherboard with simple DC power jack, purpose build one case around it, include laptop hard drive (that you have happen to have piles of), spend a year tweaking a GNU OS solution for it, and you'd have yourself a $250 machine if people were sure to buy 100,000 of them.
NeXT did the Cube, people went "Ooooh.."
Apple re-did the Cube, people went "Ooooh.."
ASUS and Shuttle did the Cube, people went "Ooooh.."
Apple did the Mini, people went "Ooooh.."
Somebody will take it another step, Dell, or someone with bigtime laptop presence. Perhaps even one of the
Because it's not an opinion of a movie.
It is a detailed examination of the long-awaited film adaptation of a much-loved science-fiction book by an individual who knows the material, loves the material, and feels deeply that what made the story worth making into a movie has not been represented.
I know the story, and that's what I want to know. Did they fuck up.
That's all I want to know when I read any movie review. If I have an opinion, I want a review to match. If it's "New Movie Du Jour", I could care less, even go without a review - like Sin City.
From what I understand, Sin City is a triumph in regards to "telling the tale". HHG is exactly the opposite.
I haven't tried VLC, but QuickTime 6 is doing that for me.
Is it a raw resource file or something?
I think I'd get as much out of reading the "English" that those MIT guys feed the Converter..
"Now that we're done thinking about eating, we're going to resume thinking about _main_..."
If that's plain english to the converter, it seems like it would need another level of conversion before you could stand back and watch a cluster chew through the Million Book Project and generate executable Shakespeare.
Romeo and Juliet in C.
You'd have to break down the semantics of literature, the generalities at least - with the whole beginning, subject, character attributes, etc., and make the appropriate translations into C, Java, what have you..
But wow - what a fulfillment of the promise of a giant Computer Brain. One step closer to JOSHUA!
But the point is, I personally would get a lot out of colorful, storybook-like Programming Instruction, even with something as simple as Pac-Man.