Man, get on with the technology revolution! We've got these crazy-fast monitors & keyboards that talk with our server at 9600 baud! They are so well-made and miniturized that they must have fit a whole PC into this tiny little 13 inch monitor! How about that!
Sorry for flying off the handle, if it is indeed a joke. What the hell is it supposed to mean? It's not funny in the slightest, unless I misread it. Nope, I read it again, it still makes no sense.
Sorry if I made a typo you nitpicking jerk. Excuse me if I don't have all day to sit around making sure every letter is correct. But, that's because I have a job and am therefore not idle... I also don't feel the need to belittle people because they hit the wrong key on a keyboard, but I guess that's because I'm not an asshole christian, like you. I actually get off my ass and take responsibility for things I do instead of blaming some mythical, mystical man who lives above the clouds.
Jesus must have wept because he knew he was a liar and fooled idiots like yuo into believing him.
Oh no! I misspelled "you!" I'm going to hell now!!! Get a life.
> But just like all elections in this country, your vote doesn't count and somebody else decides the outcome
Oh, so half of the population didn't vote for the winner? Wow, I didn't realize no one voted for GWB. What terrific insight. DUH Just because you believe something doesn't mean everyone else (or anyone, for that matter) does. Or even that it is remotely true.
> What the fuck is a "presidence", you incompetent, illiterate FUCK?
The condition of being a president, but that doesn't matter. For one, he's obviously not illiterate because you knew what he meant. Secondly, you don't seem to be to compenent yourself, if that's the best reply you could come up with. At least he can think of words like precedent and not just say "fuck fuck, fucketty fuck!" like some other dimwitted individuals here.
> So, now will death be refered to as a power outage?
Well, it sort of is. As I understand it, death is usually just a lack of oxygen to the brain (explains why guillotine victims seemed to be alive a few moments after being decapitated -- there was still blood/oxygen/power in the head, feeding the brain.
> as in the case where IBM is accused of putting SCO IP into "Linux".
That is a lawsuit, the whole point of which is to flesh out the details of the issue and resolve the complaints. But in common discussion, which of course this is, the details are not the problem, but the idea that is being portrayed. If you wanted to talk about OGG containers in general, you call them OGG containers. Otherwise, you simplify it to the most common type of OGG container, which is Vorbis. If you (not necessarily you, per se) know that the person says OGG and means OGG Vorbis, then he got his point across and that is all that matters.
Grammar Nazis anger me because language is about getting across ideas between people, not to find a solution, like math. If the person receiving the information gets the right parts of it and reconstructs it in their mind to come up with the same or functionally similar ideas, then the conversation was a success, regardless of whether the exact words or structure were used.
That said, I emphasize the "same ideas" part. Some people's (now I'm paranoid, is that right?) grammar is so bad that you have no idea what the hell they are talking about.
> Is it that difficult to grasp! Ogg is a container file! Vorbis is the audio codec!
IT DOESN'T F'ING MATTER!
Just like Linux isn't an OS, (it's a kernel) no one aside from you and some other geeks (not meant as an insult, I am a geek too, obviously) will ever convince others of the truth.
More importantly it doesn't even matter. The details are subtle and by continuing the geeky "I'm better than the stupid lusers" all you are doing is keeping Vorbis from becoming more popular -- people will become pissed off that they get hassled every time they mention it, and then ignore it in the future.
> Should the atmosphere have to suffer because of your Impala?
That's assuming the atmosphere suffers at all from the Impala. I understand the exaggeration, but I think it's all-too-common for people to assume that something is more complex than it really is. Life changing decisions aren't all that hard unless the person making the decision decides that it is hard.
I don't doubt that it has the potential to be a very deadly disease (or infection, whatever), and may already be, but we have enough other things to worry about from which we have just as much chance of dieing. If I worried about every nasty little thing (not to underplay the significance of SARS -- I work in a hospital) that cropped up I would drive myself insane.
> sometimes I think legislation is the only way to change this.
It's attitudes like that that got us into this horrible political situation we are in now. We (I know, not everyone) complain about all these stupid laws, yet when we get some "brilliant" idea or someone pisses us off a little; "We should make a law."
Here's what you do if you come across a peace-loving hippie: 1. Punch him in the face 2. If he tries to fight back, point out nicely that violence only breeds violence, until he nicely agrees and stands down. 3. Go back to step one until the idiot learns to defend himself 4. Profit???
(Blatantly stolen and paraphrased from someone else)
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> Yeah, but 600 baud will never die!
Man, get on with the technology revolution! We've got these crazy-fast monitors & keyboards that talk with our server at 9600 baud! They are so well-made and miniturized that they must have fit a whole PC into this tiny little 13 inch monitor! How about that!
Sorry for flying off the handle, if it is indeed a joke. What the hell is it supposed to mean? It's not funny in the slightest, unless I misread it. Nope, I read it again, it still makes no sense.
No, I am suggesting that over 50% of the votes in your ersatz election were not for your candidate.
And you say "your election" as if you weren't a part of it. You must not have voted then and therefore "your vote" was not wasted. Problem solved!
Sorry if I made a typo you nitpicking jerk. Excuse me if I don't have all day to sit around making sure every letter is correct. But, that's because I have a job and am therefore not idle... I also don't feel the need to belittle people because they hit the wrong key on a keyboard, but I guess that's because I'm not an asshole christian, like you. I actually get off my ass and take responsibility for things I do instead of blaming some mythical, mystical man who lives above the clouds.
Jesus must have wept because he knew he was a liar and fooled idiots like yuo into believing him.
Oh no! I misspelled "you!" I'm going to hell now!!! Get a life.
read it again, this time realizeing that it's not binary. That's why he didn't call it "binary" duh.
> "If Bill Gates got a dime every time windoze crashed...oh, wait, he does"
Oh, please.... He'd be much richer than he is now.
> The latest ones, in fact, need a drill to get through the casing
Wouldn't that get plastic shavings into the cartridge & clog it up?
> But just like all elections in this country, your vote doesn't count and somebody else decides the outcome
Oh, so half of the population didn't vote for the winner? Wow, I didn't realize no one voted for GWB. What terrific insight. DUH Just because you believe something doesn't mean everyone else (or anyone, for that matter) does. Or even that it is remotely true.
> What the fuck is a "presidence", you incompetent, illiterate FUCK?
The condition of being a president, but that doesn't matter. For one, he's obviously not illiterate because you knew what he meant. Secondly, you don't seem to be to compenent yourself, if that's the best reply you could come up with. At least he can think of words like precedent and not just say "fuck fuck, fucketty fuck!" like some other dimwitted individuals here.
> They violate the buyer's-obligation-law
> wtf should we care about them?
What the hell are you talking about? Are you stupid or just a troll? Or flamebait like this...:(
Flamebait? Yeah right, that's Funny. Just 'cuz some overly-sensitive woman (or man, I guess) might get all flustered doesn't mean it's not humor.
That was odd... I didn't find that terribly funny right at first, but I couldn't stop chuckling because of the irony.
> So how much of the potential will be wasted to decimal?
Good question(?): none. It's DNA, not math. There is no number base. (Sorta' like "there is no spoon")
> So, now will death be refered to as a power outage?
Well, it sort of is. As I understand it, death is usually just a lack of oxygen to the brain (explains why guillotine victims seemed to be alive a few moments after being decapitated -- there was still blood/oxygen/power in the head, feeding the brain.
> as in the case where IBM is accused of putting SCO IP into "Linux".
That is a lawsuit, the whole point of which is to flesh out the details of the issue and resolve the complaints. But in common discussion, which of course this is, the details are not the problem, but the idea that is being portrayed. If you wanted to talk about OGG containers in general, you call them OGG containers. Otherwise, you simplify it to the most common type of OGG container, which is Vorbis. If you (not necessarily you, per se) know that the person says OGG and means OGG Vorbis, then he got his point across and that is all that matters.
Grammar Nazis anger me because language is about getting across ideas between people, not to find a solution, like math. If the person receiving the information gets the right parts of it and reconstructs it in their mind to come up with the same or functionally similar ideas, then the conversation was a success, regardless of whether the exact words or structure were used.
That said, I emphasize the "same ideas" part. Some people's (now I'm paranoid, is that right?) grammar is so bad that you have no idea what the hell they are talking about.
> > "As Keenly As I Know", AFAIK.
> IANAL, though. (:
Evidently you are a liar, contrary to your statement d:
> Is it that difficult to grasp! Ogg is a container file! Vorbis is the audio codec!
IT DOESN'T F'ING MATTER!
Just like Linux isn't an OS, (it's a kernel) no one aside from you and some other geeks (not meant as an insult, I am a geek too, obviously) will ever convince others of the truth.
More importantly it doesn't even matter. The details are subtle and by continuing the geeky "I'm better than the stupid lusers" all you are doing is keeping Vorbis from becoming more popular -- people will become pissed off that they get hassled every time they mention it, and then ignore it in the future.
> > "Lay off the acid, please..."
:)
> Or at least bring enough to share with the rest of the class.
Yes, I prefer sharing to stopping
> Should the atmosphere have to suffer because of your Impala?
That's assuming the atmosphere suffers at all from the Impala. I understand the exaggeration, but I think it's all-too-common for people to assume that something is more complex than it really is. Life changing decisions aren't all that hard unless the person making the decision decides that it is hard.
> Isuzu might disagree with you
And that is... why? Because Isuzus are crap?
> I find this viewpoint intriguing. Please provide some URLs to elaborate.
That's funny. Unfortunately, I almost missed the humor -- and hopefully it was intentional.
I don't doubt that it has the potential to be a very deadly disease (or infection, whatever), and may already be, but we have enough other things to worry about from which we have just as much chance of dieing. If I worried about every nasty little thing (not to underplay the significance of SARS -- I work in a hospital) that cropped up I would drive myself insane.
> Luckily we don't have to depend on _you_ for anything.
Oh no!!! I depend on him to change my Depends! whatever shall I do!?!?!?!?
> sometimes I think legislation is the only way to change this.
It's attitudes like that that got us into this horrible political situation we are in now. We (I know, not everyone) complain about all these stupid laws, yet when we get some "brilliant" idea or someone pisses us off a little; "We should make a law."
"Stop hitting me or else I'll say 'stop' again!"
Here's what you do if you come across a peace-loving hippie:
1. Punch him in the face
2. If he tries to fight back, point out nicely that violence only breeds violence, until he nicely agrees and stands down.
3. Go back to step one until the idiot learns to defend himself
4. Profit???
(Blatantly stolen and paraphrased from someone else)