I prefer to give out my exact latitude and longitude, then have my correspondent send a specially GPS-equipped pigeon to me, carrying a flash drive with a copy of his email address stored in a plain text file.
One particularly unhelpful wrinkle of the U.S. version of capitalism + culture has been investors' singular motivation to hit it big and rake in the bucks and a general social unwillingness (management, the population, investors, regulators) to believe there is any social good in any business that does not generate massive returns and growth on a quarter after quarter basis.
Whilst I totally agree with you on principle, I would take issue with one point. It's not that no-one believes there is any social good in these businesses, it's that no-one cares.
If you'll forgive me replying to the most trivial of the ten points: I really don't see what the problem is here. Intents, Services, Activities. They're all nouns, none of them have any problem with being plural, writing with them doesn't seem the least bit stilted to me.
e.g. "My intents in posting this reply are firstly to point out the error in the author's thinking, and secondly to demonstrate that I am an annoying grammar nazi. Having availed you of my services in successfully completing both of these activities, I shall now leave you in peace."
Why should this necessarily be a bad thing? It's only because the vast majority of movies are so soul-destroyingly abysmal that you feel that way.
Admittedly, some films are perfect as a single, one-off entity. Sequels are usually produced solely to cash in on the success of the original, which is why they so rarely work.
Now imagine one of the greatest films you've ever seen, but with a story so epic that it couldn't possibly be told over the course of two or three hours. Imagine going to see the first instalment, and already you're hooked, and gagging to see more. The story arc has already been planned, and the next movie is out in a couple of months time. The story plays out across the course of six movies, all of them released over the course of a year or 18 months. Then the story comes to its natural end, with no possibility of pointless sequels or tiresome reboots.
Sure, it couldn't happen with the current Hollywood system, but it's looking increasingly unlikely that any decent films could.
or 4. I am not a lawyer, I do not have any opinion about the question asked, but boy your project sounds cool and I'll happily follow the link to your site.
Not that this appears to be the reasoning in this case, unless the submitter just completely forgot to include the link.:)
Your best bet is not to bother relying on the legal advice of a bunch of random strangers on a site like Slashdot. It's still a good idea to ask the question though, as a front page story gains you a huge amount of free publicity for your project. Make sure you don't forget to put a link to your game in the summary, however, or the whole exercise becomes rather pointless.
Yeah, no doubt that's why he said "don't be disappointed, read between the lines — why am I not allowed to talk about it?"
Because the most exciting thing possible for fans would be Jon's not allowed to talk about it because it was all a big fuck up! Oh, the excitement is pretty much killing me.
Fundamentally, I see nothing wrong with your string of l33t-speak (or text-speak as the kids are calling it now) as long as its meaning is unambiguous.
I see nothing fundamentally wrong with it either, providing it's used in a context where it's understood and therefore accepted. Someone texting their friends using it is fair enough (using "proper" language might even be frowned upon by one's peers). Using it on your resumé just means you're unlikely to get a job.
You could spell every other word in your post wrong, and I would probably still understand it, but it might take me rather longer and my opinion of you would be consequentially lower. If it was too annoying, I might not even bother to read it.
If "irregardless" makes you wince, how do you feel about flammable/inflammable?
It's a shame if someone feels the need to use the obsolete "inflammable" of course, but at least the etymology of it is somewhat understandable. "Irregardless" is different, since its origins lie only in ignorance.
Evolution is, by definition, made of aberrations.
After such mutations, the useful ones survive and the remainder die out.
If you dig in your heels and stick to "proper" spelling and grammar, you will rapidly find yourself unable to communicate with the rest of us.
If I insist on using the correct word, you will somehow become incapable of understanding me? Everyone knows the meaning of "regardless", while some people may be confused by "irregardless". I prefer to use the word which is shorter, more widely understood, more elegant and (least importantly) technically correct.
As for others using "irregardless", I am perfectly capable of guessing their true meaning by context, but my opinion of them will be lower.
No doubt, but it only takes one influential manufacturer to display a proof of concept that's way better than the competition, even if it's "not affordable quite yet", and people will think twice before becoming an early adopter of some "inferior" tech.
Hehe, that's a totally fair point. It's just that 3D seems to pop up as "the best thing ever" every so often, with a flurry of exciting releases, and then sinks under the radar again after everyone gets sick of the gimmick.
3D is great fun, but I can't imagine wanting to see it every time I go to the cinema. It's even harder to believe I'll ever be bothered enough about it to want it in my home. I can't picture "serious" films being in 3D somehow. As a technology used in a minority of films which are particularly suited to it, I can see the appeal.
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Then again, perhaps I should stick to using proper spelling and grammar. That way it will be easy for you to work out what I mean.
Those of us who sometimes feel compelled to point out errors are only doing so because we love our language. I have no objection whatsoever to the constant evolution of language, but aberrations such as "irregardless" make me wince. When a word is used to mean the exact opposite of what it says, this can only cause confusion. I have to live with people using it, but I certainly don't have to like it.
In yet further news, these kinds of surveys are utterly worthless drivel foisted upon as as supposed 'news', and the less publicity we give them the better.
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What you can't do is produce viable offspring.
I think you'll find a lot of mid western farmers' sons disagree and can prove you wrong by contradiction.
I prefer to give out my exact latitude and longitude, then have my correspondent send a specially GPS-equipped pigeon to me, carrying a flash drive with a copy of his email address stored in a plain text file.
No-one's suggesting keeping people dumb, GPP's just pointing out that dumb is difficult to remedy.
One particularly unhelpful wrinkle of the U.S. version of capitalism + culture has been investors' singular motivation to hit it big and rake in the bucks and a general social unwillingness (management, the population, investors, regulators) to believe there is any social good in any business that does not generate massive returns and growth on a quarter after quarter basis.
Whilst I totally agree with you on principle, I would take issue with one point. It's not that no-one believes there is any social good in these businesses, it's that no-one cares.
I'm shocked and sickened that you would objectify women to such an extent.
It should be "Hooter hooters, on a girl who's dumb".
So use USB3. :)
7. "Intents"
If you'll forgive me replying to the most trivial of the ten points: I really don't see what the problem is here. Intents, Services, Activities. They're all nouns, none of them have any problem with being plural, writing with them doesn't seem the least bit stilted to me.
e.g. "My intents in posting this reply are firstly to point out the error in the author's thinking, and secondly to demonstrate that I am an annoying grammar nazi. Having availed you of my services in successfully completing both of these activities, I shall now leave you in peace."
Untitled Sam Raimi Project sounds awesome, when's that out?
Why should this necessarily be a bad thing? It's only because the vast majority of movies are so soul-destroyingly abysmal that you feel that way.
Admittedly, some films are perfect as a single, one-off entity. Sequels are usually produced solely to cash in on the success of the original, which is why they so rarely work.
Now imagine one of the greatest films you've ever seen, but with a story so epic that it couldn't possibly be told over the course of two or three hours. Imagine going to see the first instalment, and already you're hooked, and gagging to see more. The story arc has already been planned, and the next movie is out in a couple of months time. The story plays out across the course of six movies, all of them released over the course of a year or 18 months. Then the story comes to its natural end, with no possibility of pointless sequels or tiresome reboots.
Sure, it couldn't happen with the current Hollywood system, but it's looking increasingly unlikely that any decent films could.
I could personally care less if it uses ASCII graphics
Yeah, me too, that would be horrible!
or 4. I am not a lawyer, I do not have any opinion about the question asked, but boy your project sounds cool and I'll happily follow the link to your site.
Not that this appears to be the reasoning in this case, unless the submitter just completely forgot to include the link. :)
Your best bet is not to bother relying on the legal advice of a bunch of random strangers on a site like Slashdot. It's still a good idea to ask the question though, as a front page story gains you a huge amount of free publicity for your project. Make sure you don't forget to put a link to your game in the summary, however, or the whole exercise becomes rather pointless.
an extra retina which is shared with the whole population... extended through time like a movie... write to it for communication or pleasure...
Looks like the cellular automata aren't the only things that are high around here.
You're half right IMO - the extra links provide some useful context, but it's incredibly irritating not knowing which is the main article.
I realise this goes against all tradition, but why not just have the main link prominently displayed above the summary?
Don't worry, we've set you up a logic-free buffer zone.
Yeah, no doubt that's why he said "don't be disappointed, read between the lines — why am I not allowed to talk about it?"
Because the most exciting thing possible for fans would be Jon's not allowed to talk about it because it was all a big fuck up! Oh, the excitement is pretty much killing me.
Fundamentally, I see nothing wrong with your string of l33t-speak (or text-speak as the kids are calling it now) as long as its meaning is unambiguous.
I see nothing fundamentally wrong with it either, providing it's used in a context where it's understood and therefore accepted. Someone texting their friends using it is fair enough (using "proper" language might even be frowned upon by one's peers). Using it on your resumé just means you're unlikely to get a job.
You could spell every other word in your post wrong, and I would probably still understand it, but it might take me rather longer and my opinion of you would be consequentially lower. If it was too annoying, I might not even bother to read it.
If "irregardless" makes you wince, how do you feel about flammable/inflammable?
It's a shame if someone feels the need to use the obsolete "inflammable" of course, but at least the etymology of it is somewhat understandable. "Irregardless" is different, since its origins lie only in ignorance.
Evolution is, by definition, made of aberrations.
After such mutations, the useful ones survive and the remainder die out.
If you dig in your heels and stick to "proper" spelling and grammar, you will rapidly find yourself unable to communicate with the rest of us.
If I insist on using the correct word, you will somehow become incapable of understanding me? Everyone knows the meaning of "regardless", while some people may be confused by "irregardless". I prefer to use the word which is shorter, more widely understood, more elegant and (least importantly) technically correct.
As for others using "irregardless", I am perfectly capable of guessing their true meaning by context, but my opinion of them will be lower.
No doubt, but it only takes one influential manufacturer to display a proof of concept that's way better than the competition, even if it's "not affordable quite yet", and people will think twice before becoming an early adopter of some "inferior" tech.
Hehe, that's a totally fair point. It's just that 3D seems to pop up as "the best thing ever" every so often, with a flurry of exciting releases, and then sinks under the radar again after everyone gets sick of the gimmick.
3D is great fun, but I can't imagine wanting to see it every time I go to the cinema. It's even harder to believe I'll ever be bothered enough about it to want it in my home. I can't picture "serious" films being in 3D somehow. As a technology used in a minority of films which are particularly suited to it, I can see the appeal.
I believe that at least one manufacturer (Hyundai, if I remember rightly) uses a system exactly as GPP describes, rows of alternating polarisation.
Experience has demonstrated that once every decade audiences will buy into the 3D hype, and go along to the theatre to see what all the fuss is about.
If there's another major 3D release in the next year that does equally well, I'll happily concede that you were right.
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Then again, perhaps I should stick to using proper spelling and grammar. That way it will be easy for you to work out what I mean.
Those of us who sometimes feel compelled to point out errors are only doing so because we love our language. I have no objection whatsoever to the constant evolution of language, but aberrations such as "irregardless" make me wince. When a word is used to mean the exact opposite of what it says, this can only cause confusion. I have to live with people using it, but I certainly don't have to like it.
I remember being able to rent a copy of Star Trek Generations 8-10 months before I could find a copy for sale. And I promptly dubbed a copy of it.
Sure, the acting was bad, but dubbing your own voice over it is a bit extreme.
In other news, the Wall Street Journal finds that software engineer is very nearly the best job ever.
In yet further news, these kinds of surveys are utterly worthless drivel foisted upon as as supposed 'news', and the less publicity we give them the better.
The only thing funny about this post is how it seems to totally not get the point of my post. :)