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I mean, if Apple announced that a study found that there was absolutely nothing wrong with slot-loading drives, and did so while you were on the phone with an Apple tech, that'd be ironic. You sir (or madam, I really didn't bother to find out) experienced a coincidence. For more info, check out Dictionary.com's definition of ironic, specifically the "Usage Note".

Insightful: wrong
Informative: wrong
Interesting: Maybe if you have a very small mind
Funny: Sure, I get a chuckle out of it
Underrated/Overrated: not really
Offtopic: yes
Flamebait: yes
Troll: possibley

Now, lets review, are you saying that it is accurate to claim that:

This is embarrassing actually. We're not even sure Bush can read without some help sounding-out the big words...

Is Insightful? What insight does this lend to your life? You are obviously already slanted against the president. Has it let you think of him in a new way that will enrich your life? If you answer yes to that you are a very shallow person. Here's a website more up your alley.

Insightful: wrong
Informative: wrong
Interesting: Maybe if you have a very small mind
Funny: Sure, I get a chuckle out of it
Underrated/Overrated: not really
Offtopic: yes
Flamebait: yes
Troll: possibley

Now, lets review, are you saying that it is accurate to claim that:

This is embarrassing actually. We're not even sure Bush can read without some help sounding-out the big words...

Is Insightful? What insight does this lend to your life? You are obviously already slanted against the president. Has it let you think of him in a new way that will enrich your life? If you answer yes to that you are a very shallow person. Here's a website more up your alley.

Insightful: wrong
Informative: wrong
Interesting: Maybe if you have a very small mind
Funny: Sure, I get a chuckle out of it
Underrated/Overrated: not really
Offtopic: yes
Flamebait: yes
Troll: possibley

Now, lets review, are you saying that it is accurate to claim that:

This is embarrassing actually. We're not even sure Bush can read without some help sounding-out the big words...

Is Insightful? What insight does this lend to your life? You are obviously already slanted against the president. Has it let you think of him in a new way that will enrich your life? If you answer yes to that you are a very shallow person. Here's a website more up your alley.

Insightful: wrong
Informative: wrong
Interesting: Maybe if you have a very small mind
Funny: Sure, I get a chuckle out of it
Underrated/Overrated: not really
Offtopic: yes
Flamebait: yes
Troll: possibley

Now, lets review, are you saying that it is accurate to claim that:

This is embarrassing actually. We're not even sure Bush can read without some help sounding-out the big words...

Is Insightful? What insight does this lend to your life? You are obviously already slanted against the president. Has it let you think of him in a new way that will enrich your life? If you answer yes to that you are a very shallow person. Here's a website more up your alley.

Insightful: wrong
Informative: wrong
Interesting: Maybe if you have a very small mind
Funny: Sure, I get a chuckle out of it
Underrated/Overrated: not really
Offtopic: yes
Flamebait: yes
Troll: possibley

Now, lets review, are you saying that it is accurate to claim that:

This is embarrassing actually. We're not even sure Bush can read without some help sounding-out the big words...

Is Insightful? What insight does this lend to your life? You are obviously already slanted against the president. Has it let you think of him in a new way that will enrich your life? If you answer yes to that you are a very shallow person. Here's a website more up your alley.

Insightful: wrong
Informative: wrong
Interesting: Maybe if you have a very small mind
Funny: Sure, I get a chuckle out of it
Underrated/Overrated: not really
Offtopic: yes
Flamebait: yes
Troll: possibley

Now, lets review, are you saying that it is accurate to claim that:

This is embarrassing actually. We're not even sure Bush can read without some help sounding-out the big words...

Is Insightful? What insight does this lend to your life? You are obviously already slanted against the president. Has it let you think of him in a new way that will enrich your life? If you answer yes to that you are a very shallow person. Here's a website more up your alley.

You've got the funky spelling for Buddist, but it's Nairobi.
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The Fourth Reich Spelling Nazi

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=humor

Did you really not spot the other deliberate mistakes in the same sentence?

And you would have got away with it too, if it hadn't been for those pesky ks.

bric-a-brac

Yah, and gullible isn't in the dictionary.

Show me where in the berne convention pornography is excepted. I've even linked you to the appropriate section. HTH.

they say that intra-ISP and intra-country bandwidth is the most expensive and is what must be kept under control.

Don't you mean inter-ISP and international? I don't mean to be nit-picky, but intra means the opposite of inter and as such dramatically changes the meaning of your sentence.

they say that intra-ISP and intra-country bandwidth is the most expensive and is what must be kept under control.

Don't you mean inter-ISP and international? I don't mean to be nit-picky, but intra means the opposite of inter and as such dramatically changes the meaning of your sentence.

First find the link you want Second??? Post it to Slashdot

You were usually evaluated by a jury of your peers

Peers meaning:
A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age.

By that definition I would think these 'peers' would also have thier own stash for sampling. That normally not being the case, I considered them freeloaders.

flat Fixed; unvarying: a flat rate.

If an ISP wants to have a tiered rate system, that's fine... but don't try to fool the customers by calling it a flat rate when it isn't. That's like saying the US income tax system is a flat tax, because people making $X pay a flat Y%.

The British billion is a million million.

sarcasm

\Sar"casm\, n. [F. sarcasme, L. sarcasmus, Gr. sarkasmo`s, from sarka`zein to tear flesh like dogs, to bite the lips in rage, to speak bitterly, to sneer, fr. sa`rx, sa`rkos, flesh.] A keen, reproachful expression; a satirical remark uttered with some degree of scorn or contempt; a taunt; a gibe; a cutting jest.

n : witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid" [syn: irony, satire, caustic remark]

(Assuming, of course, that you were replying to my response)

see the link: _ in my original (and NOT redundant!) post

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wherefore P Pronunciation Key (hwârfôr, -fr, wâr-)
adv.
For what purpose or reason; why.
Therefore.

n.
A purpose or cause: wanted to know all the whys and wherefores.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

You can do that sort of thing yourself, too. The simplest form of steganography is to diddle the LSB of one of the colours. Since the human eye doesn't focus well in the blue wavelengths, you would filter the host image to create a 23-bit RGB (887) image and OR it with your one-bit RGB (001) data image. Extracting the data is a matter of scanning the original (if not already in electronic form) and filtering out everything but the blue LSB. The real challenge is determining the best patterns to use to encode your data so that it can be recovered if the image is damaged enroute (as would quickly happen with currency). Like a barcode image, you would want the embedded data to have a large surface area, delimiters, CRCs and have redundant copies distributed throughout the host image.

First, embedded systems are no longer thought of, or designed from the perspective of being, "closed". A very simple digital watch is the an example of a "closed" embedded system, being that it does not have to communicate with or rely on another device's logic/input to function (closed loop). On the other hand, the embedded systems found in cars/routers/switches/cellphones/servers etc. are not, and cannot be described as "closed systems" - they rely on input from other digital devices such as sensors or other embedded logic in order to function. By definition, there is NO communication/input in a closed system. Learn. Learn more.

"In order to be flexible enough to do everythign a computer can do, computer languages have to be allowed to crash the computer. Otherwise you are severly limiting what they can do and slowing thigns down."

Yes, as we have learned, if you want to create a system that is based on any type of varibles/input, it has to be open. You do not seem to understand that an embedded system is called "embedded" because the OS instructions are contained in the chip architecture. Instead writing code which uses a defined chip architecture (x86,PPC,Alpha), the code/logic is "embedded" in the chip. You can write software for imbedded devices - my cell phone runs java apps. There are many devices which utilize embedded linux, I have a webcam that runs its own apache webserver. So, no, embedded devices are not "severly" limited, and they most defiantly not slow! They instantly boot when turned on! Ha.

"1) accept a restricted operating system that will never be able to compete with a commercial system like Windows."

Your assumption of being restricted is wrong, check out Transmeta - and what does windows being "commercial" have to do with anything? How is an embedded system not commercial? Why can't a "non-commercial" system compete with a "commercial" system? Is my cellphone not commercial? Do you know the definition of commercial?

"2) Never install a program that was not A) created by the same company/group that wrote your operating sytem, B) specifically designed for your particular computer, and C) designed to be used with and thoroughly tested against all the other software that is currently installed on your PC."

How does something being created by "the same company/group" have anything to do with embedded systems, and/or system stability? (proprietary/opensorce) Not designed for my PC? I thought we were talking about embedded devices... What does your misinformed/erronous ideas about embedded devices have to do with a PC?

Your argument is based on numerous false assumptions which makes it untrue, and your misuse of words and their definitions makes your reasoning/correlations invalid. Basically, you have no idea what you are talking about.

Look it up

Once again, the fools of slashdot speak...

Definition and usage of the word "data"

Read up.. you might learn something.

Entry for Myriad:

adj.
1. Constituting a very large, indefinite number; innumerable: the myriad fish in the ocean.
2. Composed of numerous diverse elements or facets: the myriad life of the metropolis.

n.
1. A vast number: the myriads of bees in the hive.
2. Archaic. Ten thousand.

Usage Note: Throughout most of its history in English myriad was used as a noun, as in a myriad of men. In the 19th century it began to be used in poetry as an adjective, as in myriad men. Both usages in English are acceptable, as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Myriad myriads of lives." This poetic, adjectival use became so well entrenched generally that many people came to consider it as the only correct use. In fact, both uses in English are parallel with those of the original ancient Greek. The Greek word mYrias, from which myriad derives, could be used as either a noun or an adjective, but the noun mYrias was used in general prose and in mathematics while the adjective mYrias was used only in poetry.

This is legal grammer.

You could just as easily say the "myriad of Microsoft court cases" as you could "the myriad Microsoft court cases," though the latter case denotes variety while the former denotes a large quantity.

Look it up.

First of all if you want to parody an Intitialism such as BSoD you want to keep it the same amount of letters. Beachball is actually two words according to Dictionary.com beach ball is the correct spelling. So SBBoD just doesn't work, it looks and sounds stupid.

Next up the Pizza, it in no way looks like any pizza I have seen under any state of mind. So you can just quit it with that. How many blue and purple pizza slices have you seen not counting Japanese Squid Ink Pizza? Even that's more black than either color.

In its most general form the spinning "Beach Ball" or "Pizza" cursor is really just a Disc.

I've been calling it a Spinning Disc of Death for as long as I can remember but someone made a good point in a post to this /. article that unlike the Blue Screen of Death, the cursor doesn't mean an imminent and uncertain end, i.e. a crash.

So I'd like to maybe switch the D of Death to maybe be the D of Doom, because to most of us having to wait makes it feel more like we're doomed when we're in a hurry more than it makes us feel like we're going to die.

My Spinning Disc of Death will now be known as a Spinning Disc of Doom. :)

I also like what user jo_ham called it "The Beach Ball of Rumination"

In addition, the colorful cursor isn't one of a kind, it has an older brother that you sometimes see when using Classic or Carbon apps like Mozilla. It is made up of four quarter slices alternating black and white. When you use the term SDoD you cover all the bases...

The Anonymous Coward is right. Sexism, "discrimination based on gender, especially discrimination against women." (emphasis added by me)

The real question is whether the submitter knew the origin and full meaning of the word "hysterical".

1. Hysteric \Hys*ter"ic\, Hysterical \Hys*ter"ic*al\, a. [L. hystericus, Gr. ?, fr. "yste`ra the womb; perh. akin to ? latter, later, and E. utter, out.] Of or pertaining to hysteria; affected, or troubled, with hysterics; convulsive, fitful.

2. adj 1: characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia" [syn: hysteric] 2: marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion; "hysterical laughter"; "a mob of hysterical vigilantes"

Is the reference...

1. - "'ra the womb" and it's relation to the female sex?

2. - "convulsive" as in shocking

3. - marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion" as in a stereotype against women

What I want to know is... can you jump-start a car with this? :)

Davak

Who the heck moderated this as "informative"?

For a start, it is unlikely that a little sunlight would "literally" boil them (unless focussed with a lens). Specific heat capacity and boiling point of water, anybody?

And secondly, of course they have no spinal structure - they're invertebrates. Finally, what does one have to do with the other?

• One who enthusiastically pursues a game or sport
• someohw who plays golf poorly
• an expert or enthusiast of any kind

For hack (much more fun - but certainly related) :

• a carriage or hackney for hire
• a horse used for riding or driving, a hackney
• a worn-out horse for hire, a jade
• a writer hired to produce routine or commercial writing
• a procuress (!!)

dictionary.com can help us do this as it searches foldoc and the jargon file. Actually we really want to look at the definition for hacker to get the whole picture;

(Originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe) 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.

See also hack value. Effort expended toward a seemingly useless goal.

I personally would define a hack as something which leads to a deeper understanding of a system, allowing you to make the system do something it was not designed to do, or to accomplish something it was designed to do in a way that was not intended by the creators. Improving any system (including, say, physics models via research) is hacking because you are extending it; The hack value increases as it becomes more difficult and/or unusual.

So making soap, that's not hacking. That's following instructions. Making soap better - either improving on antiquated processes in such a way that you can make better soap with old technology based on science which was developed sinc ethe invention of soap - well, that's hacking. Making antibacterial soap (I know, I know, all soap is antibacterial) with ingredients readily available in medieval times would also qualify.

Also, using new technology to make better versions of old things quite reasonably qualifies. For instance, using computer computation to do stress modeling to determine the best shape to make a breastplate shed blows would be hacking, even if you make the end product with completely traditional means and don't improve on the process at all. But then again, how can an intelligent person fail to improve on any process unless they're just doing a job the way they're told to do it?

dictionary.com can help us do this as it searches foldoc and the jargon file. Actually we really want to look at the definition for hacker to get the whole picture;

(Originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe) 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.

See also hack value. Effort expended toward a seemingly useless goal.

I personally would define a hack as something which leads to a deeper understanding of a system, allowing you to make the system do something it was not designed to do, or to accomplish something it was designed to do in a way that was not intended by the creators. Improving any system (including, say, physics models via research) is hacking because you are extending it; The hack value increases as it becomes more difficult and/or unusual.

So making soap, that's not hacking. That's following instructions. Making soap better - either improving on antiquated processes in such a way that you can make better soap with old technology based on science which was developed sinc ethe invention of soap - well, that's hacking. Making antibacterial soap (I know, I know, all soap is antibacterial) with ingredients readily available in medieval times would also qualify.

Also, using new technology to make better versions of old things quite reasonably qualifies. For instance, using computer computation to do stress modeling to determine the best shape to make a breastplate shed blows would be hacking, even if you make the end product with completely traditional means and don't improve on the process at all. But then again, how can an intelligent person fail to improve on any process unless they're just doing a job the way they're told to do it?

dictionary.com can help us do this as it searches foldoc and the jargon file. Actually we really want to look at the definition for hacker to get the whole picture;

(Originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe) 1. A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary.
2. One who programs enthusiastically (even obsessively) or who enjoys programming rather than just theorizing about programming.

See also hack value. Effort expended toward a seemingly useless goal.

I personally would define a hack as something which leads to a deeper understanding of a system, allowing you to make the system do something it was not designed to do, or to accomplish something it was designed to do in a way that was not intended by the creators. Improving any system (including, say, physics models via research) is hacking because you are extending it; The hack value increases as it becomes more difficult and/or unusual.

So making soap, that's not hacking. That's following instructions. Making soap better - either improving on antiquated processes in such a way that you can make better soap with old technology based on science which was developed sinc ethe invention of soap - well, that's hacking. Making antibacterial soap (I know, I know, all soap is antibacterial) with ingredients readily available in medieval times would also qualify.

Also, using new technology to make better versions of old things quite reasonably qualifies. For instance, using computer computation to do stress modeling to determine the best shape to make a breastplate shed blows would be hacking, even if you make the end product with completely traditional means and don't improve on the process at all. But then again, how can an intelligent person fail to improve on any process unless they're just doing a job the way they're told to do it?

actually the quote is ...

I didn't say it was a quote. I called it an aphorism. It's something you'll hear from pretty much every racer in one form or another, and surely predates Mario Andretti.

Well according to this, they can mean the same thing. Thanks for the heads up, though. I always try and improve my use of language, and if I didn't decide to research exactly what my error was, I'd have never confirmed that they could be used as synonyms. It was an honest mistake, but I'm just glad that it happened to be correct, none the less.

No worship of gods and deities indeed, but worship of budda.

Not worship, but reverence. The Buddha is not considered a deity like Christ, or someone with a direct line to God like Mohammed, but rather a regular guy who thought real hard about What It's All About and came up with an interesting insight, for which his followers are grateful.

No worship of gods and deities indeed, but worship of budda.

Not worship, but reverence. The Buddha is not considered a deity like Christ, or someone with a direct line to God like Mohammed, but rather a regular guy who thought real hard about What It's All About and came up with an interesting insight, for which his followers are grateful.

...the ability of the hoi-paloi to...

I try not to comment on grammar, but the proper term, from Greek, is hoi polloi.

whose -- the possesive form of "who" or "which"
"who's" is the same thing as "who is," which makes no sense in the sentence.
"... the same federal agency who is supposed purpose is to ..."
See? Doesn't really work.

I'd go with less. Gamecubes are like paper. I wouldn't ever count them all.

Performing a query for 'drive' on reference.com, I found the following definition:

Computer Science. A device that reads data from and often writes data onto a storage medium, such as a floppy disk.

I would say this watch qualifies as a drive.

Quit holding onto those archaic ideas :)

Because then we could only tell them from humans by the epithet used. There's already too many epithets thrown around.

Or maybe there is: devolve. Look at verb, intransitive, definition 2: To degenerate or deteriorate gradually.

Actually, no.

I don't mind people who use the words "genii" or "boxen" to be colorful or interesting, but don't correct people who use perfectly acceptable usage like "geniuses".

In the English language, "should" can be synonymous with "must". This is the unfortunate problem with specifications - English isn't rigid enough that interpretation cannot introduce errors. What you read as "ought to" I read as "obliged to"

For clarification, see the following entry : in the dictionary

Ohhh, for a minute I thought the article meant *defecate*.

200 years after people stop raiding other people at sea,

But they haven't stopped - trying to uncouple IP theft from Blackbeard doesn't make it less of a crime than it was before. It is the meaning of the word: Piracy 2. The unauthorized use or reproduction of copyrighted or patented material: software piracy.

One might argue that this is because Intuit has competition, while Hollywood is in fact several dominant companies working together in a de facto monopoly. When a group of companies act together to influence or regulate a given industry it's a cartel not a monopoly. RTFD

Anyway I agree with your point. Also, they construe lost sales always as piracy. What do we have to do? The less we buy, the more they cry PIRACY!