Actually, I'd say it isn't even a linguistic but a cultural problem. The New Yorker employed a Russian guy to explain his reasoning; he is a sort of Russian hermit. Imagine if Tolstoy went up against a person like Yau. I think there would be mutual disgust and bad feeling towards the literary community at large. Such a thing probably happened here.
This is basically going to mean that LJ, which was in a good position as an unincorporated open source project and a somewhat uncared for and misunderstood position under Six Apart, is being sold to a shoddy and inconsistent company an ocean away from half of its userbase. There is no guarantee that LiveJournal's new owners will take as good care of the seven years of information (ranging from useless to invaluable) its users have saved up.
Let this stand as a warning to new community start-ups: pick who you deal with wisely, because once you sell there's no going back.
I would like to call Slashdot's attention to several design elements of this laptop which most coverage has overlooked:
1. The laptop will carry Esperanto teaching utilities. 2. The laptop will include an Office Assistant sort of creature which was, quote, "inspired by the Tamagotchi toys, and its purpose is to allow kids to interact with the control of the computer in a simple and fun way". The assistant is named "Amiko" because that is Esperanto for "friend". 3. The laptop will have its own UI, unlike any UI which has ever been used on a real (non-toy) laptop, which for me at least recalls bad memories of Microsoft Bob.
There does not seem to be any page on the website for people to discuss how the laptop actually ought to work, or if these ideas are at all sane.
Is it just me, or when reading these software details, doesn't the whole thing seem just a little less plausible to you?
You don't have freedom of choice for what country you want to live in. Where would the 1 billion people of China go if they all got fed up with the system?
The saddest thing about this story is that there is already a GPL visual novel script program, called Ren'py, which supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. But Slashdot gave Ren'py zero publicity. And why should they? It's only a tool for making dating sims. The crazy arbitrariness of the editors never fails to astound me.
If he is able to realize how much of his time is being wasted waiting around in an online game where all of his "accomplishments" are ultimately meaningless.
I've been saying that to myself for five years now, but I haven't stopped posting stupid crap to Internet forums yet.
A Microsoft representative said: "MSN works closely with law enforcement officials worldwide to assist them when requested....It is our policy to respond to legal requests in a very responsive and timely manner, in full compliance with applicable law." The company would not confirm or deny whether it complied with the Justice Department's subpoena.
While we're on the subject of these great Slashdot comments, you could improve yours noticably by substituting "at" for "@" and "Slashdot" for "/.". If you are really in a rush you can just find-and-replace in your favorite text editor.
There's already an extension for this, and unlike the subject of this article it's not vaporware. But there's no fancy-schmancy press release about it so damn if Slashdot's going to approve my article.
Exactly. Wikipedia is known for its long and annoying debates, but these debates do something important: they create a neutral point of view that presents all the important facts. If you have, say, a Turkish scholar write an article about Turkey, there's a good chance that the resulting article will skip over the less wonderful things Turkey has done.
That's actually pretty damn good. Consider that this was before you could edit recordings in any way-- what you're hearing is exactly how they sang in the studio, with a real band playing behind them, not mixed in later.
Slashdot Mirror
FYI this is completely untrue.
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/infpoint.html
Let's use this thread to post our favorite Miku videos.
Song of Grass and Snow
Sinners in the Hands of God
My Life is Over
No Thank You
Kurutto Odotte
Actually, I'd say it isn't even a linguistic but a cultural problem. The New Yorker employed a Russian guy to explain his reasoning; he is a sort of Russian hermit. Imagine if Tolstoy went up against a person like Yau. I think there would be mutual disgust and bad feeling towards the literary community at large. Such a thing probably happened here.
Why is it that whenever I read an article by Joel I feel like I'm being talked down to?
Here's some of the dirt on SUP:
http://community.livejournal.com/no_lj_ads/tag/sup
This is basically going to mean that LJ, which was in a good position as an unincorporated open source project and a somewhat uncared for and misunderstood position under Six Apart, is being sold to a shoddy and inconsistent company an ocean away from half of its userbase. There is no guarantee that LiveJournal's new owners will take as good care of the seven years of information (ranging from useless to invaluable) its users have saved up.
Let this stand as a warning to new community start-ups: pick who you deal with wisely, because once you sell there's no going back.
I would like to call Slashdot's attention to several design elements of this laptop which most coverage has overlooked:
1. The laptop will carry Esperanto teaching utilities .
2. The laptop will include an Office Assistant sort of creature which was, quote, "inspired by the Tamagotchi toys, and its purpose is to allow kids to interact with the control of the computer in a simple and fun way". The assistant is named "Amiko" because that is Esperanto for "friend".
3. The laptop will have its own UI, unlike any UI which has ever been used on a real (non-toy) laptop, which for me at least recalls bad memories of Microsoft Bob .
There does not seem to be any page on the website for people to discuss how the laptop actually ought to work, or if these ideas are at all sane.
Is it just me, or when reading these software details, doesn't the whole thing seem just a little less plausible to you?
You don't have freedom of choice for what country you want to live in. Where would the 1 billion people of China go if they all got fed up with the system?
The saddest thing about this story is that there is already a GPL visual novel script program, called Ren'py, which supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. But Slashdot gave Ren'py zero publicity. And why should they? It's only a tool for making dating sims. The crazy arbitrariness of the editors never fails to astound me.
Doc Brown:
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit."
Let's hear another scientist top that quote.
Try clicking the button while using Internet Explorer :)
The Dark Side of the Freenet is a pathway to many websites some consider to be unnatural.
If he is able to realize how much of his time is being wasted waiting around in an online game where all of his "accomplishments" are ultimately meaningless.
I've been saying that to myself for five years now, but I haven't stopped posting stupid crap to Internet forums yet.
Maybe tomorrow I'll finally give up.
So, this stuff will be floating into the air? Sounds pleasant.
It's like the DMCA message you get when you search for things right here in the motherland.
http://www.google.com/search?q=xenu (look at the bottom of the page)
And now, the $1000 question... which local government is not censoring these results?
http://www.google.cn/search?q=xenu
MSN response (from the same article):
A Microsoft representative said: "MSN works closely with law enforcement officials worldwide to assist them when requested....It is our policy to respond to legal requests in a very responsive and timely manner, in full compliance with applicable law." The company would not confirm or deny whether it complied with the Justice Department's subpoena.
While we're on the subject of these great Slashdot comments, you could improve yours noticably by substituting "at" for "@" and "Slashdot" for "/.". If you are really in a rush you can just find-and-replace in your favorite text editor.
There's already an extension for this, and unlike the subject of this article it's not vaporware. But there's no fancy-schmancy press release about it so damn if Slashdot's going to approve my article.
Check it out: seeder-chan.sf.net
It's pretty close-minded (mainly for use with "imageboard" scripts) but it can be easily expanded into a full Coral cache system.
Don't worry, it's only illegal in France, and they don't celebrate Christmas anyway.
Exactly. Wikipedia is known for its long and annoying debates, but these debates do something important: they create a neutral point of view that presents all the important facts. If you have, say, a Turkish scholar write an article about Turkey, there's a good chance that the resulting article will skip over the less wonderful things Turkey has done.
That's actually pretty damn good. Consider that this was before you could edit recordings in any way-- what you're hearing is exactly how they sang in the studio, with a real band playing behind them, not mixed in later.
A cylinder was the first form of music recording, before what we call records. It doesn't get any older than this.
By the way, is it just me or is that "Peggy" song linked in the OP awesome in a box??
The Yahoo Mail team didn't do any work. They just bought a company called Oddpost that already had the product ready to go.
According to the blog some of the Oddpost workers have been fired, so they're definitely not congratulating those guys.
It's already included right now...
Windows comes with IE.
Everyone uses IE.
IE's default start page is MSN.
You think Google wouldn't have safety measures against that?
Hmm... it has gradients... it has shadows... why, this must be Web 2.0!