Well said. The constant that exists is that people have to eat, and they will invent ways to make a living if the old way doesn't work anymore.
Eliminating inefficient uses of people causes those people to find other jobs, hopefully in more efficient tasks. This helps to drive the economy forward, because the global productivity value goes up.
Oh, it made perfect sense. It's not a short story, it's a microstory, with a problem, a climax, and a resolution. It even has two specific examples of sarchasm, each one about the two main characters. For example, Linus' first comment about the kernel release date is a statement directly relating to real life. The second sentence, where Jobs emits a stream of vulgarity, mocks that particular tendency he has to viciously abuse his employees.
So, Mr. Smarty Pants, let's see you pack more literaty stuff into a 3 line story than I have. Good luck.
Actually, that's backwards. Making perfect spheres and parabolas is hugely easier than making an optical flat. There's a reason why amateur scope makers usually will grind their own primary mirror, but buy a secondary.
But, if you know your history, you'd understand that public water supplies at that time weren't safe. Drinking alcohol was a necessity if you wanted to avoid intestinal nasties. As the water supply improved in safety, you see that alcohol consumption went down. Not many people realize that the founding fathers drank enormously during the Constitutional Convention. Amazing to see they could still work.
The person I replied to claimed that the US was on the fast track to complete and utter inebriation (all your kegs are belong to us?) before prohibition. This is clearly untrue, as shown by the data in the links.
GODDAMN! I thought the stupidest guy in the world wasn't on/.
I guess I was wrong.
Ever play a game? I once played one that simulated a nuclear reactor. It was fun. I bet you would have hated it. You would have bitched "but that's WAY different than reality. In reality, there would be all these men that look like Homer Simpson running the frickin reactor. A realistic simulation would be extremely boring because you would sit there and watch the Homers run the plant with some difficulty."
Oh for chrissake. You're just like those people who say let's not go to the moon because there's people starving on Earth.
I say, why not turn the static display Saturn V at the Cape into rent controlled housing? Two birds, one rocket. Wait, the rocket is a bird. Make that three birds.
First, define "drunkeness". What do you mean? The 13 day moving average of my blood alcohol content? Perhaps you mean the amount of alcohol consumed?
Check out this link and you'll see that beer consumption did go down, but the hard liquor consumption was unaffected.
Check out this link and you'll see that consumption has far exceeded in the years after prohibition any level seen before prohibition. Do you still think we're on the fast track to the level of drunkeness only seen in Russia (ha ha)?
Sorry to interrupt this discussion with some FACTS. I know that sort of behavior is considered rude by some.
Make a little beehive simulation. Like a SimBeehive.
Bees need to be allocated to: gathering nectar, building the nest, taking care of larvae, taking care of the queen, sitting at the entrance of the hive fanning their wings to cool it, defend the hive, mating, dancing, doing John Belushi killer bee imitations.
Disasters can include: disease, famine, death of flowers, honey bears, kids throwing rocks, queen dies, pesticides.
Allocate the wrong bees in the wrong amounts to the wrong jobs, and the batch of honey goes bad and everyone dies. Figure out how to relate to kids that this complicated balance of things is handled with great skill by unintelligent insects coordinating instinct and movement, bringing us a delicious breakfast treat.
I looked at SDL, and it does really seem to be awesome at handling things that can otherwise be very difficult to handle yourself.
Does anyone have any arguments agains using something like Qt with their OpenGL and they Canvas widgets? Lots of games don't need to be programmed at the very low level of "put this image here" and "draw this pixel here" particularly the user interface parts of games. The Qt canvas also has sprites that can be bitmaps, and can move by themselves. They can even do collision detection. Wouldn't this higher level library be a bit easier for people to get into game programming? I see a lot of people asking questions about how to program games, because they are baffled by the complexity of figuring out the details of their video card. These same programmers can certainly handle something higher level, like "put this image here, and move it in this direction, and let me know if it hits something."
I really like this idea. Free Market people should also really like this idea. If you think that all traditional taxes should go away, to be replaced by usage fees for all government services, then this is a reasonable solution. I personally don't necessarily subscribe to that idea, but I can see the beauty of forcing companies to pay for the copyrights that are provided as a government service.
To make it fair though, you'd have to make a scale based on percentage of income realized. Everybody's copyright would start at $1. If you didn't make any money off the idea, then the cost would go up just a slight percentage each year. If you made a million dollars off the idea, then the cost would go up the next year by a rather large percentage. This could be a straight scale, based on the largest and smallest amount of money realized by the copyright holder in a given year.
This is paying for your government services as you go, and when the government service becomes too expensive, you can seek a private source of copyright enforcement if you choose. But, beware the fees surrounding the judicial system, which are based on how many lawsuits you file...
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Where can you find a used 5mx? Those psions sure look great. My Newton 130 is awesome, but getting a bit dated now. Gotta buy a new toy.
Somebody marked that article offtopic?
Jebus! Get a clue. I'll spank you in meta, you bad moderator you.
Well said. The constant that exists is that people have to eat, and they will invent ways to make a living if the old way doesn't work anymore.
Eliminating inefficient uses of people causes those people to find other jobs, hopefully in more efficient tasks. This helps to drive the economy forward, because the global productivity value goes up.
I was moderated redundant? Your moderation is a piece of crap
Oh, it made perfect sense. It's not a short story, it's a microstory, with a problem, a climax, and a resolution. It even has two specific examples of sarchasm, each one about the two main characters. For example, Linus' first comment about the kernel release date is a statement directly relating to real life. The second sentence, where Jobs emits a stream of vulgarity, mocks that particular tendency he has to viciously abuse his employees.
So, Mr. Smarty Pants, let's see you pack more literaty stuff into a 3 line story than I have. Good luck.
Linus: Hey Steve, kernel 2.4 is going to come out when I think it's good and ready.
Steve Jobs: FUCK FUCK GODDAMN FUCK FUCK SHIT WHORE KILL MICROSOFT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Linus: Hey Jobs, You're a piece of crap
As a mission statement, "hate Microsoft" isn't a bad one. It seems to be working pretty well for both Oracle and Sun.
Quit beating around the bush and just tell us what you really think about OSX! No need to mince words. We can take it.
Maybe he could hook up with Amiga.
So, we're a Sun-3.
Actually, that's backwards. Making perfect spheres and parabolas is hugely easier than making an optical flat. There's a reason why amateur scope makers usually will grind their own primary mirror, but buy a secondary.
OK Mr. Cochrain, April Fool's Day is over.
The article is about UML, not XML.
:-)
If I could draw graphics here, I'd remodel your sentence for you.
But, if you know your history, you'd understand that public water supplies at that time weren't safe. Drinking alcohol was a necessity if you wanted to avoid intestinal nasties. As the water supply improved in safety, you see that alcohol consumption went down. Not many people realize that the founding fathers drank enormously during the Constitutional Convention. Amazing to see they could still work.
The person I replied to claimed that the US was on the fast track to complete and utter inebriation (all your kegs are belong to us?) before prohibition. This is clearly untrue, as shown by the data in the links.
GODDAMN! I thought the stupidest guy in the world wasn't on /.
I guess I was wrong.
Ever play a game? I once played one that simulated a nuclear reactor. It was fun. I bet you would have hated it. You would have bitched "but that's WAY different than reality. In reality, there would be all these men that look like Homer Simpson running the frickin reactor. A realistic simulation would be extremely boring because you would sit there and watch the Homers run the plant with some difficulty."
Oh for chrissake. You're just like those people who say let's not go to the moon because there's people starving on Earth.
I say, why not turn the static display Saturn V at the Cape into rent controlled housing? Two birds, one rocket. Wait, the rocket is a bird. Make that three birds.
Wow, what a simple viewpoint.
First, define "drunkeness". What do you mean? The 13 day moving average of my blood alcohol content? Perhaps you mean the amount of alcohol consumed?
Check out this link and you'll see that beer consumption did go down, but the hard liquor consumption was unaffected.
Check out this link and you'll see that consumption has far exceeded in the years after prohibition any level seen before prohibition. Do you still think we're on the fast track to the level of drunkeness only seen in Russia (ha ha)?
Sorry to interrupt this discussion with some FACTS. I know that sort of behavior is considered rude by some.
Yah I knew that. Snake handling is religious.
But I didn't know that "snake handling" (wink wink - nudge nudge - get it? huh did you get it? huh? did you?) was religious.
Make a little beehive simulation. Like a SimBeehive.
Bees need to be allocated to: gathering nectar, building the nest, taking care of larvae, taking care of the queen, sitting at the entrance of the hive fanning their wings to cool it, defend the hive, mating, dancing, doing John Belushi killer bee imitations.
Disasters can include: disease, famine, death of flowers, honey bears, kids throwing rocks, queen dies, pesticides.
Allocate the wrong bees in the wrong amounts to the wrong jobs, and the batch of honey goes bad and everyone dies. Figure out how to relate to kids that this complicated balance of things is handled with great skill by unintelligent insects coordinating instinct and movement, bringing us a delicious breakfast treat.
I looked at SDL, and it does really seem to be awesome at handling things that can otherwise be very difficult to handle yourself.
Does anyone have any arguments agains using something like Qt with their OpenGL and they Canvas widgets? Lots of games don't need to be programmed at the very low level of "put this image here" and "draw this pixel here" particularly the user interface parts of games. The Qt canvas also has sprites that can be bitmaps, and can move by themselves. They can even do collision detection. Wouldn't this higher level library be a bit easier for people to get into game programming? I see a lot of people asking questions about how to program games, because they are baffled by the complexity of figuring out the details of their video card. These same programmers can certainly handle something higher level, like "put this image here, and move it in this direction, and let me know if it hits something."
I didn't realize that "snake handling" was religious...
I really like this idea. Free Market people should also really like this idea. If you think that all traditional taxes should go away, to be replaced by usage fees for all government services, then this is a reasonable solution. I personally don't necessarily subscribe to that idea, but I can see the beauty of forcing companies to pay for the copyrights that are provided as a government service.
To make it fair though, you'd have to make a scale based on percentage of income realized. Everybody's copyright would start at $1. If you didn't make any money off the idea, then the cost would go up just a slight percentage each year. If you made a million dollars off the idea, then the cost would go up the next year by a rather large percentage. This could be a straight scale, based on the largest and smallest amount of money realized by the copyright holder in a given year.
This is paying for your government services as you go, and when the government service becomes too expensive, you can seek a private source of copyright enforcement if you choose. But, beware the fees surrounding the judicial system, which are based on how many lawsuits you file...
I remember Lantastic was a peer to peer network. That sucked really hard too.
I've got this great idea. Let's adopt the term "workgroup" for the gnutella replacement.
What is the name of the library? I love the signals and slots from Qt, but haven't gotten into GTK programming.
You're right. I was thinking to myself: "What, ANOTHER Perl Apocalypse????"