> What if they made "releases" of wikipedia every year or so
Yeah! And they could print it out and bind it all in a series of books. Maybe they could have door-to-door Wikipedia salesmen. What a truly original idea!
But seriously, part of the idea is to be better than an encyclopedia because the articles aren't stuck in semi-permanent revisions.
That's a good point, and it's sometimes used by the police to catch people. They send them letters saying they won a prize, or some other unbelievable circumstance, and the person needs to go to some location to get it. Then the most idiotic criminals actually go there, because they are dumb and greedy.
The Biggest Loser -- a "reality" show -- has commercials in the show itself, where a trainer whores some "health food" product, acting like they are doing it to help the person, and not selling out their profession.
realized that if this had been twenty years ago, while I might have had the scotch, I wouldn't have the ability to freely talk to someone from Scotland on a whim.
They did have phones 20 years ago... and even transatlantic phone cables. Although the random Scotsman who answered your phone call may have been confused why some American he doesn't know spent a hundred dollars to call him to ask about the scotch he was drinking.
That happens all the time with various fruits and vegetables. It's because most people want to buy nice, round watermelons, and not one that looks like it has tumors, despite the fact that they are just as good. The markets know this, so the farmers sell the best product to the markets to keep them coming back. The rest becomes personal use, gifts, and possibly fertilizer for the next crop.
I have no idea why "database records" keeps coming up; the records searched were an excel sheet.
I believe it could apply to databases as well. Excel could be considered (in a loose way) to be a database that includes the capability to format the data.
He's correct. If C-Span has video archives you could go back to when it was being debated and listen to the authors of the bill pronounce it that way. Of course websites aren't going to tell you how it's pronounced, it's irrelevant to what they are trying to tell you.
I can't speak to your cable provider, but the residential cable (and DSL for that matter) that everyone I know uses is a hell of a lot less reliable than a T1. Also, the cable/DSL speeds aren't guaranteed, and can drop below the 1.5Mbps of a T1, depending on where you are.
I was wondering that myself. I don't know how the FF movie was made, but is it possible they used human actors to do the positioning in FF, and this was all made on computers? I don't know what it's called, but it's where an actor wears a funky spandex suit with dots all over it so a computer can follow their movements and mimic it with a CG character. It was used for Gollum in LotR.
Your troll is supposed to at least sound like it makes sense. Also, work on your consistency, as your next reply (probable cause) completely invalidates everything you said in this post. The two points are for the egregious and obvious use of a straw man argument, as well as insulting someone for doing the same thing you are.
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He didn't call you a troll: his post's GP was Dog-Cow's, #30242430.
> What if they made "releases" of wikipedia every year or so
Yeah! And they could print it out and bind it all in a series of books. Maybe they could have door-to-door Wikipedia salesmen. What a truly original idea!
But seriously, part of the idea is to be better than an encyclopedia because the articles aren't stuck in semi-permanent revisions.
That's a good point, and it's sometimes used by the police to catch people. They send them letters saying they won a prize, or some other unbelievable circumstance, and the person needs to go to some location to get it. Then the most idiotic criminals actually go there, because they are dumb and greedy.
I was thinking the same thing. I had no idea who the guy was to begin with, so my first reaction was "who cares".
Hey, don't forget "bailing out incompetently-run companies".
The Biggest Loser -- a "reality" show -- has commercials in the show itself, where a trainer whores some "health food" product, acting like they are doing it to help the person, and not selling out their profession.
realized that if this had been twenty years ago, while I might have had the scotch, I wouldn't have the ability to freely talk to someone from Scotland on a whim.
They did have phones 20 years ago... and even transatlantic phone cables. Although the random Scotsman who answered your phone call may have been confused why some American he doesn't know spent a hundred dollars to call him to ask about the scotch he was drinking.
I want to call it a "CD-man" because its a walkman that plays CD's
Sony made the Discman.
That happens all the time with various fruits and vegetables. It's because most people want to buy nice, round watermelons, and not one that looks like it has tumors, despite the fact that they are just as good. The markets know this, so the farmers sell the best product to the markets to keep them coming back. The rest becomes personal use, gifts, and possibly fertilizer for the next crop.
You can tell someone who doesn't really understand reality because they refer you to Atlas Shrugged.
I have no idea why "database records" keeps coming up; the records searched were an excel sheet.
I believe it could apply to databases as well. Excel could be considered (in a loose way) to be a database that includes the capability to format the data.
He's correct. If C-Span has video archives you could go back to when it was being debated and listen to the authors of the bill pronounce it that way. Of course websites aren't going to tell you how it's pronounced, it's irrelevant to what they are trying to tell you.
That's weird, I still get the button at the bottom of the page, and no onChange action.
I can't speak to your cable provider, but the residential cable (and DSL for that matter) that everyone I know uses is a hell of a lot less reliable than a T1. Also, the cable/DSL speeds aren't guaranteed, and can drop below the 1.5Mbps of a T1, depending on where you are.
No, it would have been considered a webpage. A website is a collection of those pages hosted on a single domain or server.
Friends don't let friends post on /. on crystal meth.
You're saving 100GB. Whether it ends up on one drive or a RAID of a billion drives, it's still 100GB of data going through the bus.
First? I swear I read a /. article quite a while ago about this exact same thing... It was the cover of some magazine.
I was wondering that myself. I don't know how the FF movie was made, but is it possible they used human actors to do the positioning in FF, and this was all made on computers? I don't know what it's called, but it's where an actor wears a funky spandex suit with dots all over it so a computer can follow their movements and mimic it with a CG character. It was used for Gollum in LotR.
Or that we're smart enough to figure it out on our own.
Or because he didn't want to acknowledge the droids, lest it lead to revealing too many dirty secrets too soon.
2/10: trolling needs improvement
Your troll is supposed to at least sound like it makes sense. Also, work on your consistency, as your next reply (probable cause) completely invalidates everything you said in this post. The two points are for the egregious and obvious use of a straw man argument, as well as insulting someone for doing the same thing you are.
It only means he beat everyone else involved. If a dumb person beats a group of complete morons, it does not make him smart; only smarter than them.
I find it difficult to take seriously a musical critique from "anus.com", thank you.
not to mention that the lyrics are often charged with interesting political and literary themes. Rap is someone spewing ego into a drum machine.
There is a shit tonne of rap that have "political and literary themes" as well. You just haven't listened to any of it.