We-eelll... it comes from a latin word, theoretically, so thymi is the "proper" plural. On the other hand, that word is from a greek adjective, "thymos." So who the hell knows.
Known Space also provides incentive to advance organ-growing technology. I'm thinking of the organlegging black market and especially all the "Flatlander" stories. Veeery interesting. (I believe it is China that takes the organs from people they execute - not necessarily with permission)
As long as they're careful with it... don't want to open up any portals to "fluidic space;" we might get all sorts of horrible beasties coming through.
Sorry, but I think that's kind of absurd. First, he can do whatever he wants, and ought to follow his interests. Second, the law is an important part of our society, and someone has to deal with it. Why not he?
Slashdot fits the "original" description of "weblog" - a journal of interesting links described and disseminated to the readership. There are a few other "weblogs" - "blogs" - like that still out there, but you're right, "blog" these days does tend to refer to personal journals.
Now imagine me doing Dr.-Evil-air-quotes for the whole thing. (An evil weblog?)
I agree wholeheartedly. The average personal weblog (can't stand the word "blog") these days is mostly personal rantings. Those that still have the interesting-link approach are still not journalism. If you hold something up (especially someone else's news story) and say "Look what I found!" it's not journalism.
If you talk to people do your research, and assemble a balanced report to inform the people, that's journalism.
So, basically, I agree with everything you say. Huzzah.
Hey, watch it. There's a difference between Islam, the religion, and oppressive Islamic organizations.
For instance, I have a good friend who is a Catholic. Does she molest children? No. There's a major difference between the personal religion of Catholicicsm and the pope-ruled Catholic Church.
'sides, what is it the Christians say? Judge not lest you be judged yourself or some such?:P
The Washington Post's Hank Stuever said it well: There's no point telling SW fans to "Get a life."
They have one. This is it.
People are entitled to their interests. You like programming? Fine. I like star trek. My friend likes star wars. The guy next to me in math class likes wrestling. So what?
Damn! I knew it wasn't a good idea to try religious humor late at night.
Just did some quick research, and there seems to be some confusion over the matter. Apparently, the official protocol ("element of faith" as one site put it) for unbaptized babies is Purgatory, but the generally held belief among theologians and others is limbo. Seems some Pope made a statement at one point that utterly confused the matter. Boy, those popes.
Purgatory, limbo, heaven, hell... so confusing... give me Hades any day, or simple reincarnation....
If you recall, the first DOOM was space marines vs Hell. In the grand tradition of Dante's divine comedy, DOOM 3's space marine protagonist will take on the mildly rude legions of Purgatory.
On the distant moon of Pluto, a top secret government project goes horribly wrong, opening a portal into Purgatory itself! Heathens, unbaptised babies and who knows what else have been set loose, and only you can save humanity. And they killed your rabbit.
This will not only make graphics-heavy web pages easier to download
Oh great! Even more websites designed with the idea that Photoshop is a webdesign tool and that the best way to make a webpage is lots of massive images instead of text and styling.
Mumble mutter grouse.
Good thing it looks like it'll take ages to catch on.
In the Timothy Zahn short story "Time Bomb" (I believe), a scientist discovers how to make a time machine and then, just from the possibility that he would build the machine, things around him that people hate so much they would go make in time to destroy start falling apart. He can't hold cigarettes in his hand for more than a few seconds before they disintegrate; internal combustion engines seize up; computers simply stop. Etc. Given the motives of warning about smoking, it seems particularly relevant.
The scientist manages to halt the effect, by the way, by building the machine and wiring sticks of dynamite to the "back in time" lever.
Yeah, the physics and logic are a bit goofy.... It's still a good story.
What if I just want some damn information? Which is why they should just _switch off_ whatever styles or code make it not work on non-ie when a non-ie loads it. That leaves the material readable but not fancy. It's just courtesy.
Yeah, I know you can upgrade IE. I don't _want_ to. I'd like to keep IE5.5 on my win2k partition (it's closer, bugwise, to what we have at school) and have 6 on my winme partition. Of course, WinMe won't talk to my ethernet, but that's a different matter entirely... grumble mutter grouse.
There's also NetHack 3.2 for CE. I dunno if that will work on PocketPC or not, not being a pocketpc guy, but I hope so.
What I'd really like is a palm nethack that will sync with my desktop nethack, but the devteam has made it clear a palmtop version is not in the cards.... (though these guys are working on it)
Maybe two months ago, my laptop's win2k partition started getting scuzzy, and I decided it was time to reformat and reinstall (needed to repartition for WinMe (only for ie6, i swear) anyway). Before, I had had MS office, installed on a workplace license from the summer. but I didn't have access to that any more, so I decided to go with some form of StarOffice.
5.2 was not desirable, so i ended up with the latest OpenOffice. I haven't looked back. The word processor is slick and responsive (128MB, 833mHz piii) and uses the formats I need. The powerpoint analog (forget the name; i use it rarely) served very well when a family member needed a laptop for a powerpoint (as in a.ppt file) presentation.
I don't usually use many Office apps these days besides word processing, but when it comes to word processing, the latest OO is excellent. The only problem I've encountered- and I remember this from MS Word - is when pasting content from MS IE. OO makes it a bizarre formatted content block, but i'm used to filtering clipboard text through notepad. Heh, it's even replicated the ms word annoyances.
So. OO word processing rocks. Nothing missing, that I've found.
I found a book in my local library's used book sale room from 1988 titled The Race to Mars (I don't remember the authoring organization and sadly, the book is downstairs and I am far too lazy to get it at this point in the morning).
It talks about the progresss made, mostly Soviet, up to the date of publication, with lots of cool diagrams and photos.
What bugs me the most is the introduction, with phrases to the effect of "the Soviets intend to land a man on Mars by the end of the century" and "during the nineties, the Soviets will map and survey mars extensively in preparation for a manned mission."
And still nobody's there. But I guess it's okay, cause we have Utah....
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And how! I was considering a facetious comment along the lines of "Hey, that looks like a nethack level..." but that would only work in a group of nethack players.
Anyway, you left out the part about it being the best game in the world, etc. Diablo? Diablo is for people with short attention spans who like shiny graphics. Us hardcore gamers (with, er, 386s...) know where it's at. [/joking- play whatever you like, it's a theoretically free world]
The curious ought to go to nethack.org and give it a shot. If you're new and using DOS/Win, try the graphics version. But whatever the interface, the game is highly addictive.
I don't think dear old Mr. Columbus' salughtering of natives who didn't comply with his wishes (see Howard Zinn's people's history of the us) represents any beneficient intentions... the europeans came and with an attitude that the natives were vastly inferior and thus, even through the 1800s, had no problem with killing them en masse. Trail of Tears, anyone?
We may be miscommunicating. My point was that the post-Columbian Europeans are more "noticeable" because they annihilated native populations, whereas it seems most people just took a look around, maybe set up a settlement or two, and left it at that.
Read American Gods by Neil Gaiman? One of his premises is just that - a lot of the "old gods" we know from Rome, Egypt, etc are in the Americas as a result of theoretical expeditions like that.
Slashdot Mirror
(thymi? nah)
We-eelll... it comes from a latin word, theoretically, so thymi is the "proper" plural. On the other hand, that word is from a greek adjective, "thymos." So who the hell knows.
(dork dork dork, aiee)
Known Space also provides incentive to advance organ-growing technology. I'm thinking of the organlegging black market and especially all the "Flatlander" stories. Veeery interesting.
(I believe it is China that takes the organs from people they execute - not necessarily with permission)
I'm no expert, but it probably has to do with climate, gravity, avialaibility of certain materials, not being a gas giant, etc.
As long as they're careful with it... don't want to open up any portals to "fluidic space;" we might get all sorts of horrible beasties coming through.
Sorry, but I think that's kind of absurd. First, he can do whatever he wants, and ought to follow his interests. Second, the law is an important part of our society, and someone has to deal with it. Why not he?
Slashdot fits the "original" description of "weblog" - a journal of interesting links described and disseminated to the readership. There are a few other "weblogs" - "blogs" - like that still out there, but you're right, "blog" these days does tend to refer to personal journals.
Now imagine me doing Dr.-Evil-air-quotes for the whole thing. (An evil weblog?)
I agree wholeheartedly. The average personal weblog (can't stand the word "blog") these days is mostly personal rantings. Those that still have the interesting-link approach are still not journalism. If you hold something up (especially someone else's news story) and say "Look what I found!" it's not journalism.
If you talk to people do your research, and assemble a balanced report to inform the people, that's journalism.
So, basically, I agree with everything you say. Huzzah.
Hey, watch it. There's a difference between Islam, the religion, and oppressive Islamic organizations.
:P
For instance, I have a good friend who is a Catholic. Does she molest children? No. There's a major difference between the personal religion of Catholicicsm and the pope-ruled Catholic Church.
'sides, what is it the Christians say? Judge not lest you be judged yourself or some such?
The Washington Post's Hank Stuever said it well: There's no point telling SW fans to "Get a life."
They have one. This is it.
People are entitled to their interests. You like programming? Fine. I like star trek. My friend likes star wars. The guy next to me in math class likes wrestling. So what?
Damn! I knew it wasn't a good idea to try religious humor late at night.
Just did some quick research, and there seems to be some confusion over the matter. Apparently, the official protocol ("element of faith" as one site put it) for unbaptized babies is Purgatory, but the generally held belief among theologians and others is limbo. Seems some Pope made a statement at one point that utterly confused the matter. Boy, those popes.
Purgatory, limbo, heaven, hell... so confusing... give me Hades any day, or simple reincarnation....
Think the storyline might be different this time?
If you recall, the first DOOM was space marines vs Hell. In the grand tradition of Dante's divine comedy, DOOM 3's space marine protagonist will take on the mildly rude legions of Purgatory.
On the distant moon of Pluto, a top secret government project goes horribly wrong, opening a portal into Purgatory itself! Heathens, unbaptised babies and who knows what else have been set loose, and only you can save humanity.
And they killed your rabbit.
And his new robo-arms are capable of ripping open enemy tanks like they were nutshells,,
Nutshells of universal proportions, perhaps?
This will not only make graphics-heavy web pages easier to download
Oh great! Even more websites designed with the idea that Photoshop is a webdesign tool and that the best way to make a webpage is lots of massive images instead of text and styling.
Mumble mutter grouse.
Good thing it looks like it'll take ages to catch on.
In the Timothy Zahn short story "Time Bomb" (I believe), a scientist discovers how to make a time machine and then, just from the possibility that he would build the machine, things around him that people hate so much they would go make in time to destroy start falling apart. He can't hold cigarettes in his hand for more than a few seconds before they disintegrate; internal combustion engines seize up; computers simply stop. Etc. Given the motives of warning about smoking, it seems particularly relevant.
The scientist manages to halt the effect, by the way, by building the machine and wiring sticks of dynamite to the "back in time" lever.
Yeah, the physics and logic are a bit goofy.... It's still a good story.
Aye. Best part is, NS4 reads the site just fine.
What if I just want some damn information?
Which is why they should just _switch off_ whatever styles or code make it not work on non-ie when a non-ie loads it. That leaves the material readable but not fancy. It's just courtesy.
....
Yeah, I know you can upgrade IE. I don't _want_ to. I'd like to keep IE5.5 on my win2k partition (it's closer, bugwise, to what we have at school) and have 6 on my winme partition. Of course, WinMe won't talk to my ethernet, but that's a different matter entirely... grumble mutter grouse.
Someone mentioned iRogue; I'm a fan of that.
There's also NetHack 3.2 for CE. I dunno if that will work on PocketPC or not, not being a pocketpc guy, but I hope so.
What I'd really like is a palm nethack that will sync with my desktop nethack, but the devteam has made it clear a palmtop version is not in the cards.... (though these guys are working on it)
Good luck!
You missed the parenthetical clause. I only installed it so i'd have access to IE6. Web development demands as many platforms for testing as possible.
Okay, I agree with you.
Maybe two months ago, my laptop's win2k partition started getting scuzzy, and I decided it was time to reformat and reinstall (needed to repartition for WinMe (only for ie6, i swear) anyway). Before, I had had MS office, installed on a workplace license from the summer. but I didn't have access to that any more, so I decided to go with some form of StarOffice.
5.2 was not desirable, so i ended up with the latest OpenOffice. I haven't looked back. The word processor is slick and responsive (128MB, 833mHz piii) and uses the formats I need. The powerpoint analog (forget the name; i use it rarely) served very well when a family member needed a laptop for a powerpoint (as in a .ppt file) presentation.
I don't usually use many Office apps these days besides word processing, but when it comes to word processing, the latest OO is excellent. The only problem I've encountered- and I remember this from MS Word - is when pasting content from MS IE. OO makes it a bizarre formatted content block, but i'm used to filtering clipboard text through notepad. Heh, it's even replicated the ms word annoyances.
So. OO word processing rocks. Nothing missing, that I've found.
I found a book in my local library's used book sale room from 1988 titled The Race to Mars (I don't remember the authoring organization and sadly, the book is downstairs and I am far too lazy to get it at this point in the morning).
It talks about the progresss made, mostly Soviet, up to the date of publication, with lots of cool diagrams and photos.
What bugs me the most is the introduction, with phrases to the effect of "the Soviets intend to land a man on Mars by the end of the century" and "during the nineties, the Soviets will map and survey mars extensively in preparation for a manned mission."
And still nobody's there. But I guess it's okay, cause we have Utah....
And how! I was considering a facetious comment along the lines of "Hey, that looks like a nethack level..." but that would only work in a group of nethack players.
Anyway, you left out the part about it being the best game in the world, etc. Diablo? Diablo is for people with short attention spans who like shiny graphics. Us hardcore gamers (with, er, 386s...) know where it's at. [/joking- play whatever you like, it's a theoretically free world]
The curious ought to go to nethack.org and give it a shot. If you're new and using DOS/Win, try the graphics version. But whatever the interface, the game is highly addictive.
Hmm. Go play some nethack and we'll consider it. :P
I don't think dear old Mr. Columbus' salughtering of natives who didn't comply with his wishes (see Howard Zinn's people's history of the us) represents any beneficient intentions... the europeans came and with an attitude that the natives were vastly inferior and thus, even through the 1800s, had no problem with killing them en masse. Trail of Tears, anyone?
We may be miscommunicating. My point was that the post-Columbian Europeans are more "noticeable" because they annihilated native populations, whereas it seems most people just took a look around, maybe set up a settlement or two, and left it at that.
Read American Gods by Neil Gaiman? One of his premises is just that - a lot of the "old gods" we know from Rome, Egypt, etc are in the Americas as a result of theoretical expeditions like that.