I know it doesn’t make much sense to appeal to you people out there about this.. In a world gone mad.. What’s the point? But hey, you just ignore it then, aight?
Get this movie and watch it:
Food Inc at IMDB
Food Inc Homepage
Food Inc at TPB
Enjoy Life! Respect Life! Go Vegan!
There are so many things in life you can have fun with.. Make your choices.. Wisely..
Amen,
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 1:22 am under Rant, Vegan, World
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From time to time I help people clean up their laptops and PCs. Uninstall stuff. Reinstall the OS. And things like that.
When Windows Vista came around I started telling people sorry, can’t do it. Don’t want to do it. Luckily for me most people skipped Vista. Those with Vista came running to me with Wifi trouble and stuff like that. And I usually shrugged my shoulders and say sorry. Well, we all know what a great job Microsoft did with Vista.. :)
Now there’s Windows 7. And for some time it looked like it could be a replacement for Windows XP. Finally.
But it’s not. It’s crap. The same as Vista. Same problems. New problems. Usability is really bad. We don’t have to get into any discussions about security I assume. With the latest IE8 hacks out there it is futile for anyone to defend Microsoft in the area of security.
Anyway, I have to continue shrugging my shoulders and will continue to urge people to stick with Windows XP as long as possible. Or switch to Ubuntu/Linux. A few converters are really happy with Ubuntu. The switch does make sense by now. If you are into games you can keep a dual boot Windows partition or switch to a console. But don’t bother with the Windows 7 crap as your main desktop OS.. Please..
Amen,
tfdj
it’s like the matrix reloaded.. something went wrong.. when the antenna guys added the new v2 preprocessor.. trying to move closer to j2me polish? integrating the same bad decisions.. amazing how things go sometimes..
i’ve been working with an older antenna version for quite some time now. i don’t see a reason to upgrade. or let me put it another way: i see the need to replace antenna with something else. or new. or maybe add a v3 preprocessor to it.. :)
i’m not saying antenna or j2me polish are bad tools. looks like they are good if you want tools that integrate tightly with your IDE. but i want something else. clean preprocessing directives. clean API. made for command line and/or ant use.
in my rage :) i totally forgot to mention a few things. for example this: in my world i’d like a preprocessor to understand
#if true
without me having to define anything. simple things like that.. i also simply don’t like defines that look like
#ifdef something:defined or #if something:defined
instead i would argue that
#ifdef something or #if something
should suffice. and i would also argue that it is a good practice to keep names of defines all uppercase. and reserve lowercase to other things. like for example built-in values or variables..
as you can see this is a lot about me not liking something. nothing else.. i guess..
well, my two cents only..
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 12:57 pm under Development, J2ME, Rant
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After reading some (in theory :) useful comments on Symbian development here, I thought adding my own two cents could make sense. Here we go:
DO Use Python S60 to write applications.
DON’T Use the Symbian C++ SDK for anything.
Oh how much anger do I feel when looking back to my Symbian C++ programming days.. :) The most horrible SDK I’ve ever had to work with.. Of course, in the last four or five years the SDK has improved quite a lot. Especially the Eclipse-based Carbide IDE seems to provide a rather good development experience.
Anyway, I’m happy that I was able to move on to Python S60 and J2ME development.
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 2:30 pm under Development, Mobile, Rant
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Finally some intelligent words on software piracy: Ignore Software Pirates Check out the /. comments, too.
I personally think that copy protection and fighting piracy implies you have a shoddy product and you’re trying to get as much money out of it as you can. Ok. Oversimplifying a bit.
Now take another useless comment like this from the Tetris father.
Of course this is a high level system discussion. But putting wealth and prosperity over freedom (of any kind – and for god’s sake, FOSS is about freedom :) is plain and simple stupid.
Anyway.. the world we live in.. funny..
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 1:40 pm under Development, Rant, World
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Found this one on The.Pirate.Bay: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
Right now it’s still on Google Video. You can find some more videos there from the same user. Fucked up world.
Sometimes it feels really good to be part of this intelligent and highly educated race.. :/
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 7:08 pm under Rant, World
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Two amazing things about this /. article: Interview With Pirate Party Leader Rick Falkvinge
First: I nearly lost hope in face of all this stupid surveillance, IP and enforcing copyright crap going on world-wide. Let’s hope Sweden will save our freedom! It looks like Rick Falkvinge knows what he is doing. Let’s hope there are some more wise men around who stand up against the big companies. Being in Germany, it’s weird to know that everything I’m doing right now in the Internet, every web site I read, every link i click, every post I write, is logged by my ISP and available to “authorities”. Good job, Germany! Yes, you got me. I’m an evil terrorist trying to copy Hollywood movies and sell them for big money. Woohoo.. :)
Second: Read through the /. comments. There are really people who don’t get it. How brain dead must one be to think that all that is going on in the last few years with software patents, DRM, enforcing copyrights will help us? It’s like starting a war after a terrorist attack. Doh..
Make fucking love – not war.
Give – don’t take.
:)
Amen,
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 11:05 am under Rant, World
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If you haven’t read Zed’s rant, yet, do so now: Rails Is A Ghetto
Here are my two cents..
I never got into RoR myself. Looked at it. Saw some weird stuff. Dropped it. When I had to write some “web services” I wrote my own stuff. No Mongrel at that time. Later, when Mongrel was around, I had to work with it. And, well, it was ok. But I saw things I didn’t like. But I guess if you could see my code, you’d puke.. :) So what the heck..
But what about Zed.. He’s funny.. The rant is funny.. But I did not really get the ’smart’ part. About smart people and everything.. Wouldn’t someone ’smart’ see it coming all along? Now he doesn’t exactly say he’s smart (or that he’s not).. But I’m saying: It’s a funny rant. But in a way it’s also redundant. Look at the Rails community.. That’s enough.. :)
I currently enjoy writing Java code for the J2ME platform. How sick is that? Pushing my second (commercial) mobile project out the door. Woohoo. 2008 – The Java Year. LOL. Looking forward to Android already..
Whatever.. Happy New Year, I guess..
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 11:08 pm under Development, Rant
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just a funny thing i stumbled upon today:
Throw your Mac out the Window/
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 7:59 pm under Rant
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Maybe you stumbled upon LINA. It got quite a bit of press coverage the last few days/weeks.
Now some more details emerged. Let’s just say “a few issues remain”.. :)
But here’s a funny and already pretty stable and mature alternative – at least for Windows. Run coLinux with a Gentoo or Debian image and the CygWin X server in “coherence” mode.
Nothing beats a nice xterm with bash. Especially not the Windows “shell” crap.. :)
tfdj
Filed by The.French.DJ at 7:35 pm under Rant
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