It is Bruce Swift, along with the original bass player and drummer. Rick Macias, the keyboard player, passed away, and Rey Parra, the former vocalist, dropped out due to living too far away.

You know, I always thought Rey Parra sounded a LOT like Geoff Tate from Queensryche. To my ears, the new guy sounds a little more like Bruce Dickinson - and this is not a bad thing. And yes, Wicked Generation kicks ass.

But yeah, I remembered you liking Sacred Warrior as much as I did - I was going to just email you but don't have your address. My gmail is Naqamel, you can contact me there. Despite posting a couple of things, I have no intention of visiting slashdot on a regular basis - looks like it's just gotten worse since I quit reading / posting last year, and honestly there's just too much better stuff for me to do than waste time arguing with barely literate trolls... which outside of a very small set of people seems to be all that's left here.

By the way - you might check out Demon Hunter if you've never heard of them. They're terrific. Drop me an email and stay in touch dude.


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Slow Down Cowboy!

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Yeah, fuck this site.

I was in line at Wal-Mart picking up a few groceries...

In line ahead of me was a very large woman - easily 300 pounds - and her 4 kids (I'd guess the oldest was around 14, and the youngest around 8)

On the conveyor were a collection of T-Bone steaks - quite a bit of them - and other high ticket food items. When it was time to pay, the (presumably) oldest daughter walks over and swipes an EBT card.

What was remarkable wasn't that a person living on the government teat was essentially getting free steaks, when hard working people NOT on the government teat scramble for ground beef - no, what was remarkable was that the 14 year old had to put her iPhone into her pocket in order to swipe the EBT card.

Her other 3 siblings all had iPhones as well.

This is what is wrong with the Entitlement state of the Federal Government. If you can afford 4 iPhones, and the data plan / calling plan, then clearly you don't need government assistance on your grocery bill. Cancel the iPhone service, and you can pay for your own damn groceries.

"Soon"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcCQCIs5Tdw

You know the routine... You can always change companies to work for.. or buy your own phone.

Of course. And eventually I'll upgrade my personal phone to a Droid.

Sadly, I tried to get the company to get me a Droid. And they gave me an iPhone.

Some tools suck. Consider a poorly made off brand drill, or my 1/2 inch Heavy Duty DeWalt drill. The DeWalt drill is so much better of a tool, that it's not even funny.

So yeah, tools, and the quality thereof, matter.

Conquest = Complex. Fucking iPhone.

Profane MuthaFucka - a textbook example of a person suffering from a Napoleon Conquest.

Therefore, since you clearly suffer from a Napoleon Complex, Waterloo should keep you busy for a while.

Jeez, you're like a whiny little girl.

Says the Red Sox fan... heh heh heh heh

When I click the red X in the window, I expect the Window, and the Application, to exit. On Mac OS X, the application is still running, even though there's no window. This makes it difficult to run multiple copies of the same application. In Windows, or Linux, I can have multiple instances of Visual Studio, KDevelop, whatever... but multiple instances of XCode4? I don't think so. Homey don't play that.

On a PC, to take a screenshot, you press the Print Screen button. If you want a screen shot of a specific window, it's Alt + Print Screen.

On a Mac, it's Command + Shift + 4, followed by the space bar, to take a screen cap of a window. OMG SO INTUITIVE.

On a PC, when something needs to be updated, there's a small icon in the system tray. On a Mac, the Software Update appears and jumps up and down like a Jack Russell terrier on the dock. There's no way to ignore it until later, no, you have to click and specifically cancel the update to put it off, and after a bit... JACK RUSSELL TERRIER TIME!

And the Finder. Let's say I want to delete a file. I select the file, and press delete. What happens? THE DAMN THING JUST BEEPS. No, to delete a file, I have to right click on it, or, if I'm not lucky enough to have a mouse, do the two finger click thing on the touchpad - but not too close, because otherwise it won't work, and select 'Move to Trash'. Again, it's intuitive that if I want to delete a file, I select the file in Finder and press DELETE. Which is the way Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, hell every OS except Mac OS X works.

It's maddening. Mac OS X is absolutely NOT intuitive.

message passing

Maybe it's a semantics issue that bugs me then, because I'm mentally associating the "message passing" with "method invocation". In my head, I see these things as functionally equivalent:

[self myMethod:42];

and

this->myMethod (42);

(or in Java, this.myMethod (42); )

I'm fine with the compiler letting it through with a warning... but the Linker? Ugh. The Linker has to catch that.

Perl is an interpreted language, and this kind of thing bothers me a whole lot less in an interpreted language. But ObjC? Compiled. Everything is in the executable image (or an explicit reference to a shared library, which the linker can also determine if it's valid or not... and in my humble opinion - should).

Even in Windows, if you're using a DLL - and not using LoadLibrary () - you still have to link to a stub library that contains the method you're trying to call - you might crash if the DLL is garbage though. If you are using LoadLibrary (), you don't crash if you test the result of GetProcAddress() properly...

In this example though... [self noSuchMethod] bombs you every time.

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it isn't completely stupid.

In this case, the market is correct - comparing the market of C++ to Objective-C, the superior technology won out in the marketplace.

Then how did your fictional character miss this tidbit?

Genesis 3:17-19

17 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat from it';

Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face
You will eat bread,
Till you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return."


Or this one? 2 Thessalonians 3:8-15

8 We didn't eat anyone's food without paying for it. Instead, we worked night and day with effort and hard work so that we would not impose on you. 9 We did this to give you an example to imitate, not because we didn't have a right to insist on financial support. 10 Even when we were with you we were giving you this command: "If anyone doesn't want to work, they shouldn't eat." 11 We hear that some of you are living an undisciplined life. They aren't working, but they are meddling in other people's business. 12 By the Lord Jesus Christ, we command and encourage such people to work quietly and put their own food on the table. 13 Brothers and sisters, don't get discouraged in doing what is right. 14 Take note of anyone who doesn't obey what we have said in this letter. Don't associate with them so they will be ashamed of themselves. 15 Don't treat them like enemies, but warn them like you would do for a brother or sister.