See, the only thing that's been preventing the gameboy from being a kickass calculator is the relatively awful control system. However, the upcoming DS has two screens, one of them a touchscreen; you can't get a better small-platform simulation setup than that, IMO, since you can change the key layout per task, and if nessecary trade the keys temporarily for a whole second screen.
It's like a palm pilot calculator, except that it still has a screen while the keys are up, eliminating the most sucking thing about palm pilot calculators.
Seperately, you never need to bother with a connection cable, because it does 802.11, and the screen is quite nice - backlit 256x192 fullcolor with hardware-assisted 3D with antialiasing. The graphing potential of such hardware is massive. You can use sprites for things like cursors and flow analysis.
Oh, right: and the underlying CPU blows the doors off of a 4mHz ARM9. It's got a 66mHz ARM9 *and* a 33mHz arm7. 8 meg of ram for large matrix calculations. The ability to network.
Oh, and games on a gameboy are better than games on any TI.
The end is nigh. HEED MY WARNING. Calculator advocates, repent - unification is at hand, commodity hardware defeats characteristic purpose hardware, generalization is cheaper than specific hardware, the ASIC falls at the sword of the CPU.
Linux boxes for VCRs, Linux boxes for game systems, Linux boxes for kitchen appliances, but when it matters, turn to Nintendo for your calculator.
And in case you were wondering, yes, I'm the gameboy stonecypher, and yes, my calculator, based largely on gnuplot and yacas, is about three quarters done. I may not know shit about math, but my Nintendo sure does.
+1, Insightful to anyone who compares YACAS and whatever other computer algebra systems there are to HP's bujillion calculators I can't be bothered to research.
I'm curious how you think an agency saying no for 30 years, then changing its position when a Cornell study says "hey, this way works," is naive, exactly.
It seems equally naive to suspect every branch of government of skullduggery in the hopes of promotion of bad technology and bad economics in the hope of porkbelly support.
This is a misunderstanding of the definition. Getting a better dictionary would help; I recommend an etymological dictionary such as the American Heritage.
Transparent comes from trans- crossing and parent view (appearance). Something transparent allows an appearance to be passed. Glass is transparent not because it allows no light interference, which isn't true besides, but because you can see specific images on the other side. Frosted glass, which doesn't reduce light value compared to normal light, is not transparent, even though the image is being passed without reduction, as you imply in your interpretation of the above is your belief what the word means.
To give you a sense of things, television is also transparent.
Translucent is what frosted glass is; other people may point this out as the word for reduced light passage, but they're actually incorrect. Translucent means "allows the passage of light;" something which allows partial passage of light isn't translucent as opposed to transparent. Instead, it's partially translucent. Shaded car glass is still fully transparent, but is only partially translucent, which is exactly the opposite of what most people will tell you.
It is best not to work with a word's definition as if it could be summed up by a single sentence. You'll find that often you've misunderstood the single sentence. It is better to know where the word comes from and how it was put together. Few things help you understand your own language as learning its root languages; for English, you would be well advised to learn Latin, Greek and arguably some German.
Unfortunately, as interesting as it is, that set of numbers is quite deceptive. The number of isolated skyscrapers is virtually nil; the land value to justify such a building only occurs in major city centers. In such city centers, such buildings are almost a no-brainer; they cluster. Light isn't likely to reach more than 20 or 30 percent of the surface in any significant quantity.
Do you honestly think they'd ruin a perfectly good opportunity for one of the largest food crops in the US by speaking badly of corn derived ethanol? Please...
Absolutely. In fact, they've been doing exactly that for 30 years; that it's now economically feasable is a recent change. Maybe you don't realize this, but some people have ethics (the need to behave honestly at work and in one's personal life.) Moreover, these government bureaus have oversight, and the factuality of their reports are checked both in retrospect and by independant organizations and the educational institution. If they lied, they would be caught and replaced.
The US will not spend 3 units of money cleaning up the ecological problems invoked by getting 2 units of money from producers. Our system is significantly more advanced than that. Whereas the right hand and left hand may not always know exactly what one another are doing, they watch out for each other's thumbs with the hammer.
Yeah, and this is before you begin to factor in the various other costs involved. These glasses stand to seriously reduce insulation, and insulation has an absolutely tremendous ecological cost.
Look, you're acting like there's no return involved. So what if it takes 5 years to pay off its energy creation ost? Solar panels often run for twenty years with no serious problems beyond being a pain in the ass to clear.
Besides, if you're going to use big words like fallacy, please find out what they mean. A fallacy is an argument using an invalid support mechanism, not an argument based on false or limited data.
The transparent panels will still cool your house, and if they're generating significantly more power, chances are they'll cool better (the potential difference coming in loss from efficiency splitting between the house's interior and exterior.) The electricity they create is coming from somewhere, notably the same somewhere which converts into heat dissapation. I find myself wondering if these panels work entirely in the invisible spectrum, or if they just leech uniformly from the visible spectrum.
The DS Wiki has a significant amount of technical information, and has for months. Also, drop in on efNet #gbadev and ask around. #dsdev is still pretty empty. We've already got two emulators underway, a toolchain which is probably complete short of hardware defines (based on gcc 3.4,) and a fair amount of knowledge about the host machine.
No. The DS has no cable slot whatsoever. However, the GBA has had a wireless device for some time now which is usable with all cable-based games, and it is suspected that the N-proprietary protocol that services that is the same which is offered alongside 802.11 in the DS. Nintendo has always gone a considerable distance to maintain backwards compatability in their portable devices, this time going as far as offering two seperate cart slots, and for two generations now including multiple host CPUs to accomodate previous generations. The amateur community believes that backwards connectivity will be offered, but only via wireless. (Because the plug changed between the CGB and the GBA, this means no more network GBC games, as there's no GBC wireless adaptor.)
As far as how the cube connects today, all you need is a device which supports JoyBUS. Cube doesn't care if it's SIO, ethernet, wireless, tin cans and string, maybe even appletalk.
So what exactly differentiates a so-called fully flight capable aircraft from other aircraft?
Um. Probably the ability to fly. This may seem like a silly distinction today, but back then and at Kitty Hawk it most certainly was not (various forms of hang-glider posing serious contemporary arguments.)
Maybe it's a clumsy phrasing, but it's not exactly inobvious, and it is at least satisfactorily literal. What would you prefer? Self-powered aircraft?
Man, that'd be a great story if city mayors had the authority to call in Military Aircraft, much less cause them to strike, less still to strike domestic ground.
The bit about granting immunity, well, that can slide, because that was actually possible in minor dictatorships and the middle ages and in lots of pulp novels and so on. But you really think Philadelphia's mayor can just dial 1-800-bomb-us and watch the bunker busters rain?
(Oh, and surely nobody in Philly would find out about that and, y'know, send him to jail or write a newspaper story or anything. This neatly explains why googling 'philadelphia "air strike" -iraq' turns up nothing in the first 300 hits. That said, the results are funny enough to check for yourself; lots of talk about TWA flight 800 and so on.)
It appears that what really happened was that police dropped the bomb from a police helicopter, which admittedly I would also have mocked as total bullshit if I hadn't just read it on CNN. The real guilty parties appear to have been the police and fire commissioners of the day, Sambor and Richmond, allowed the fire to burn out of control once it had started, as retaliation for an hour and a half gun fight earlier in the day. Moreover, it looks like Sambor and Richmond, as well as the city of Philadelphia itself, were in fact sued, and have in fact paid out millions in damages to survivors. That said, an independant circuit judge exempted Mayor Goode from the charges, which can't be done without cause; this suggests that Goode wasn't directly related.
It was quite an incident, I hope I got all the details right.
Almost none of them. You were right that a bomb was dropped, and presumably that you lived there. However, you blamed the wrong man, claimed he effectively pardonned people when he did not and in fact could not, implied that the people involved with the incident were let off the hook when they were not, implied military support which did not exist, and totally misconstrued the MOVE movement, which were essentially extreme seperationsists. Whereas they did preach a shallow Ludditic order, they were stockpiling weapons and ammunition, and there's much debate whether the technophobic message was a cover to allow argument for legal assembly.
But, uh, you got the city right. I realize you live there and all, but maybe next time you could do some research? For that matter, moderators, could you check that someone's even remotely correct before moderation?
Whoever modded parent insightful deserves to be shot. The guy's webpage shows photos "of his house" which clearly aren't of his house, photos "of his car" which clearly aren't of his car, et cetera. Parent wasn't saying "he's poor so he's a crook." Parent was saying "I took a look at this guy's web page photos, recognized the address as a run-down neighborhood, went and checked, and whaddya know, his Lexus is a gremlin missing a door and both bumpers."
Irony - the deliberate use of a word in a fashion contrary to its superficial meaning. A large branch of sarcasm is irony. Making the same mistake you're accusing someone else of is not.
PHP is a simple document embedded code web framework. ASP.NET is a component oriented web framework.
This is the very first thing the author addresses. Did you even read the article?
2.) Event driven - Everyone who has used VB/Delphi/C++ Builder knows what a time saver this paradigm is.
Yeah, and it's not like you could write event driven code in PHP. Like, the entire error model. Which the author talks about.
3.) Browser abstraction
What? They output HTML. How is either one of them not abstracted?
4.) Unified coding model. No more fiddling with half the code in JavaScript and half on whatever you use on server side.
Horseshit.
5.) Complex, yet simple. ASP.NET does a LOT, yet is as easy as one can imagine. A RAD developer can pick the general application model up in a day. This is a sign of good engineering.
PHP has proven itself the single language I've had least trouble teaching, ever. Php has shown itself to generate small to mid-sized applications more quickly than ASP, but also in long-term case studies run by various large organizations, most publicly Yahoo!.
PHP has it's advatanges but it is a simple and primitive framework by current technology standards.
You'll find this very difficult to display with specifics. Besides, as anyone who remembers PL/I knows well, it doesn't matter how hard or beautifully you engineer the language. If it bloats, and oh god does ASP bloat (even from the perspective of PHP) then it's not going to compete in a real-world setting.
With all that money Microsoft is pouring into it, into free toolchains for it, into free hosting for it, why isn't it winning? PHP has no economic advantage over ASP, is a newcomer compared to Microsoft's web automation presence, and yet it's currently stomping ASP 3:1.
Tout all the vaguaries you like, but the numbers speak for themselves.
Of course, in these criteria, truck driving, bacterial growth, and the ability to fill the bongwater close to the line without looking are all sports.
Perhaps you shouldn't set the vaguest guidelines you can think of, assume that they're correct, and go on to pontificate about them? For example, m-w.com 's definition of sport, which is of traditionally low quality, is as follows:
1 a : a source of diversion : RECREATION b : sexual play c (1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure (2) : a particular activity (as an athletic game) so engaged in
Now, unless you want to pretend that the definitions live in isolation of and do not affect one another and then want to go on to classify mathematics as solely diversionary and of no non-recreational value, then I'm unsure exactly how math qualifies as for fun, of a sexual nature, a physical activity, a game or competition.
5, Insightful my fat hairy ass. Moderators, you will be the first against the wall.
You know, I'm honestly fairly torn about this. On the one hand, accessability is important. On that same hand, what this person did was careful, thoughtful, did not diminish Odeon's business, did not consume any of Odeon's traffic or name recognition. He didn't sully the cinema's name; arguably, he repaired one of their problems, and moreover did something they were required to have done and which they failed to do.
On the other hand, I would be furious if someone chose to replicate my website, for any reason, be it good or bad. Now, I know, corporations usually have their heads buried deep in the sand over handling issues like accessability which are seen as obscure and unimportant, much less accepting free help from the outside world, or "getting right on it" when someone notifies them of a problem. Moreover, it wouldn't at all surprise me that this guy actually needed an accessable version of the site; most people don't do things like this unless it matters to them personally, and a movie chain isn't the biggest PR getter if it's a question of getting the issue into the papers. Still, really, who does this guy think he is, choosing to take the corporation's name into his hands and do what he will with it, even if he's doing the right thing, doing a very good job of it, and from many perspectives should be being thanked right now?
There was, once, a corporate tendency to Do The Right Thing. Back in the day, when a corporate problem or vulnerability was exposed, ignored, and fixed by an outsider, generally the corporation would turn around, fix it properly, and thank the watchdog, then find out the manager which had ignored the watchdog's pleas and put their job in jeopardy, and finally admonish the watchdog to speak with this other manager instead, who will listen instead of being a wall.
Will Odeon do this? Well, that remains to be seen. Someone somewhere probably believes that this was a huge risk and brand dilution, probably hasn't even looked at the site and is ignoring that a good job was done of a task which needed to happen. Corporations no longer attempt to behave civilly; now they defend every red cent like it's the last one that would ever be made, and if there's a hair of a chance that maybe somehow this could have been bad if he had been swearing, then we'd better god damned well make an example out of the guy trying to do the right thing, so that nobody else tries to do the right thing.
It would be appropriate for slashdotters in Britain, the US or Canada to call or write to Cineplex (depending on your nation, you may have to look for Lowe's Cineplex or Sony Theaters; they're all the same company.) It is spectactuarly difficult to track down a way to reach them, but the investor relations tab (as usual) has information that nobody else has.
If you feel strongly about web accessability or about corporations not lashing out for people trying to do the Right Thing for them by proxy, please consider placing a five minute phone call in this man's support.
Actually, there's no correct spelling of a Japanese word in English; transliterations do not have a specific spelling. Besides, most literature spells it with the C. Pretty much only hollywood uses a K. For that matter, which finger is cut off is not a simple rule; it has a lot to do with the severity of the action. For example, if you attempt to kill the wrong person accidentally, your ability to hold a gun/sword is taken away.
Nice try to seem authoritative, though. It's good that you realized before your gums started flapping that even had you been right it would have been valueless save to ruin the joke, in which you succeeded magnificantly; at least that way I don't have to explain to you what an asshole you've been.
Slashdot Mirror
... is nigh.
See, the only thing that's been preventing the gameboy from being a kickass calculator is the relatively awful control system. However, the upcoming DS has two screens, one of them a touchscreen; you can't get a better small-platform simulation setup than that, IMO, since you can change the key layout per task, and if nessecary trade the keys temporarily for a whole second screen.
It's like a palm pilot calculator, except that it still has a screen while the keys are up, eliminating the most sucking thing about palm pilot calculators.
Seperately, you never need to bother with a connection cable, because it does 802.11, and the screen is quite nice - backlit 256x192 fullcolor with hardware-assisted 3D with antialiasing. The graphing potential of such hardware is massive. You can use sprites for things like cursors and flow analysis.
Oh, right: and the underlying CPU blows the doors off of a 4mHz ARM9. It's got a 66mHz ARM9 *and* a 33mHz arm7. 8 meg of ram for large matrix calculations. The ability to network.
Oh, and games on a gameboy are better than games on any TI.
The end is nigh. HEED MY WARNING. Calculator advocates, repent - unification is at hand, commodity hardware defeats characteristic purpose hardware, generalization is cheaper than specific hardware, the ASIC falls at the sword of the CPU.
Linux boxes for VCRs, Linux boxes for game systems, Linux boxes for kitchen appliances, but when it matters, turn to Nintendo for your calculator.
And in case you were wondering, yes, I'm the gameboy stonecypher, and yes, my calculator, based largely on gnuplot and yacas, is about three quarters done. I may not know shit about math, but my Nintendo sure does.
+1, Insightful to anyone who compares YACAS and whatever other computer algebra systems there are to HP's bujillion calculators I can't be bothered to research.
They look a lot like an xbox controller, but contains 42 buttons and a analog stick.
Oh, so more like a simplified X-Box controller.
Listen to the rabbit.
I'm curious how you think an agency saying no for 30 years, then changing its position when a Cornell study says "hey, this way works," is naive, exactly.
It seems equally naive to suspect every branch of government of skullduggery in the hopes of promotion of bad technology and bad economics in the hope of porkbelly support.
This is a misunderstanding of the definition. Getting a better dictionary would help; I recommend an etymological dictionary such as the American Heritage.
Transparent comes from trans- crossing and parent view (appearance). Something transparent allows an appearance to be passed. Glass is transparent not because it allows no light interference, which isn't true besides, but because you can see specific images on the other side. Frosted glass, which doesn't reduce light value compared to normal light, is not transparent, even though the image is being passed without reduction, as you imply in your interpretation of the above is your belief what the word means.
To give you a sense of things, television is also transparent.
Translucent is what frosted glass is; other people may point this out as the word for reduced light passage, but they're actually incorrect. Translucent means "allows the passage of light;" something which allows partial passage of light isn't translucent as opposed to transparent. Instead, it's partially translucent. Shaded car glass is still fully transparent, but is only partially translucent, which is exactly the opposite of what most people will tell you.
It is best not to work with a word's definition as if it could be summed up by a single sentence. You'll find that often you've misunderstood the single sentence. It is better to know where the word comes from and how it was put together. Few things help you understand your own language as learning its root languages; for English, you would be well advised to learn Latin, Greek and arguably some German.
Unfortunately, as interesting as it is, that set of numbers is quite deceptive. The number of isolated skyscrapers is virtually nil; the land value to justify such a building only occurs in major city centers. In such city centers, such buildings are almost a no-brainer; they cluster. Light isn't likely to reach more than 20 or 30 percent of the surface in any significant quantity.
Do you honestly think they'd ruin a perfectly good opportunity for one of the largest food crops in the US by speaking badly of corn derived ethanol? Please...
Absolutely. In fact, they've been doing exactly that for 30 years; that it's now economically feasable is a recent change. Maybe you don't realize this, but some people have ethics (the need to behave honestly at work and in one's personal life.) Moreover, these government bureaus have oversight, and the factuality of their reports are checked both in retrospect and by independant organizations and the educational institution. If they lied, they would be caught and replaced.
The US will not spend 3 units of money cleaning up the ecological problems invoked by getting 2 units of money from producers. Our system is significantly more advanced than that. Whereas the right hand and left hand may not always know exactly what one another are doing, they watch out for each other's thumbs with the hammer.
Yeah, and this is before you begin to factor in the various other costs involved. These glasses stand to seriously reduce insulation, and insulation has an absolutely tremendous ecological cost.
This is insightful?
Look, you're acting like there's no return involved. So what if it takes 5 years to pay off its energy creation ost? Solar panels often run for twenty years with no serious problems beyond being a pain in the ass to clear.
Besides, if you're going to use big words like fallacy, please find out what they mean. A fallacy is an argument using an invalid support mechanism, not an argument based on false or limited data.
The transparent panels will still cool your house, and if they're generating significantly more power, chances are they'll cool better (the potential difference coming in loss from efficiency splitting between the house's interior and exterior.) The electricity they create is coming from somewhere, notably the same somewhere which converts into heat dissapation. I find myself wondering if these panels work entirely in the invisible spectrum, or if they just leech uniformly from the visible spectrum.
Why should we need a semi-colon to end a statement. The line feed should be enough.
Why should we need a closing brace. Cannot the compier SEE that it is the end of a block simply because the indenting is different?
Buhuhu. Someone doesn't write Python.
Let me just say that I want to be one of the first to start doing some homebrew coding on this.
C'mon in. Water's just fine.
The DS Wiki has a significant amount of technical information, and has for months. Also, drop in on efNet #gbadev and ask around. #dsdev is still pretty empty. We've already got two emulators underway, a toolchain which is probably complete short of hardware defines (based on gcc 3.4,) and a fair amount of knowledge about the host machine.
No. The DS has no cable slot whatsoever. However, the GBA has had a wireless device for some time now which is usable with all cable-based games, and it is suspected that the N-proprietary protocol that services that is the same which is offered alongside 802.11 in the DS. Nintendo has always gone a considerable distance to maintain backwards compatability in their portable devices, this time going as far as offering two seperate cart slots, and for two generations now including multiple host CPUs to accomodate previous generations. The amateur community believes that backwards connectivity will be offered, but only via wireless. (Because the plug changed between the CGB and the GBA, this means no more network GBC games, as there's no GBC wireless adaptor.)
As far as how the cube connects today, all you need is a device which supports JoyBUS. Cube doesn't care if it's SIO, ethernet, wireless, tin cans and string, maybe even appletalk.
So what exactly differentiates a so-called fully flight capable aircraft from other aircraft?
Um. Probably the ability to fly. This may seem like a silly distinction today, but back then and at Kitty Hawk it most certainly was not (various forms of hang-glider posing serious contemporary arguments.)
Maybe it's a clumsy phrasing, but it's not exactly inobvious, and it is at least satisfactorily literal. What would you prefer? Self-powered aircraft?
Man, that'd be a great story if city mayors had the authority to call in Military Aircraft, much less cause them to strike, less still to strike domestic ground.
The bit about granting immunity, well, that can slide, because that was actually possible in minor dictatorships and the middle ages and in lots of pulp novels and so on. But you really think Philadelphia's mayor can just dial 1-800-bomb-us and watch the bunker busters rain?
(Oh, and surely nobody in Philly would find out about that and, y'know, send him to jail or write a newspaper story or anything. This neatly explains why googling 'philadelphia "air strike" -iraq' turns up nothing in the first 300 hits. That said, the results are funny enough to check for yourself; lots of talk about TWA flight 800 and so on.)
It appears that what really happened was that police dropped the bomb from a police helicopter, which admittedly I would also have mocked as total bullshit if I hadn't just read it on CNN. The real guilty parties appear to have been the police and fire commissioners of the day, Sambor and Richmond, allowed the fire to burn out of control once it had started, as retaliation for an hour and a half gun fight earlier in the day. Moreover, it looks like Sambor and Richmond, as well as the city of Philadelphia itself, were in fact sued, and have in fact paid out millions in damages to survivors. That said, an independant circuit judge exempted Mayor Goode from the charges, which can't be done without cause; this suggests that Goode wasn't directly related.
It was quite an incident, I hope I got all the details right.
Almost none of them. You were right that a bomb was dropped, and presumably that you lived there. However, you blamed the wrong man, claimed he effectively pardonned people when he did not and in fact could not, implied that the people involved with the incident were let off the hook when they were not, implied military support which did not exist, and totally misconstrued the MOVE movement, which were essentially extreme seperationsists. Whereas they did preach a shallow Ludditic order, they were stockpiling weapons and ammunition, and there's much debate whether the technophobic message was a cover to allow argument for legal assembly.
But, uh, you got the city right. I realize you live there and all, but maybe next time you could do some research? For that matter, moderators, could you check that someone's even remotely correct before moderation?
Whoever modded parent insightful deserves to be shot. The guy's webpage shows photos "of his house" which clearly aren't of his house, photos "of his car" which clearly aren't of his car, et cetera. Parent wasn't saying "he's poor so he's a crook." Parent was saying "I took a look at this guy's web page photos, recognized the address as a run-down neighborhood, went and checked, and whaddya know, his Lexus is a gremlin missing a door and both bumpers."
Irony - the deliberate use of a word in a fashion contrary to its superficial meaning. A large branch of sarcasm is irony. Making the same mistake you're accusing someone else of is not.
Watch more Futurama. Listen to Bender.
PHP is a simple document embedded code web framework. ASP.NET is a component oriented web framework.
This is the very first thing the author addresses. Did you even read the article?
2.) Event driven - Everyone who has used VB/Delphi/C++ Builder knows what a time saver this paradigm is.
Yeah, and it's not like you could write event driven code in PHP. Like, the entire error model. Which the author talks about.
3.) Browser abstraction
What? They output HTML. How is either one of them not abstracted?
4.) Unified coding model. No more fiddling with half the code in JavaScript and half on whatever you use on server side.
Horseshit.
5.) Complex, yet simple. ASP.NET does a LOT, yet is as easy as one can imagine. A RAD developer can pick the general application model up in a day. This is a sign of good engineering.
PHP has proven itself the single language I've had least trouble teaching, ever. Php has shown itself to generate small to mid-sized applications more quickly than ASP, but also in long-term case studies run by various large organizations, most publicly Yahoo!.
PHP has it's advatanges but it is a simple and primitive framework by current technology standards.
You'll find this very difficult to display with specifics. Besides, as anyone who remembers PL/I knows well, it doesn't matter how hard or beautifully you engineer the language. If it bloats, and oh god does ASP bloat (even from the perspective of PHP) then it's not going to compete in a real-world setting.
With all that money Microsoft is pouring into it, into free toolchains for it, into free hosting for it, why isn't it winning? PHP has no economic advantage over ASP, is a newcomer compared to Microsoft's web automation presence, and yet it's currently stomping ASP 3:1.
Tout all the vaguaries you like, but the numbers speak for themselves.
Of course, in these criteria, truck driving, bacterial growth, and the ability to fill the bongwater close to the line without looking are all sports.
Perhaps you shouldn't set the vaguest guidelines you can think of, assume that they're correct, and go on to pontificate about them? For example, m-w.com 's definition of sport, which is of traditionally low quality, is as follows:
1 a : a source of diversion : RECREATION b : sexual play c (1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure (2) : a particular activity (as an athletic game) so engaged in
Now, unless you want to pretend that the definitions live in isolation of and do not affect one another and then want to go on to classify mathematics as solely diversionary and of no non-recreational value, then I'm unsure exactly how math qualifies as for fun, of a sexual nature, a physical activity, a game or competition.
5, Insightful my fat hairy ass. Moderators, you will be the first against the wall.
You know, I'm honestly fairly torn about this. On the one hand, accessability is important. On that same hand, what this person did was careful, thoughtful, did not diminish Odeon's business, did not consume any of Odeon's traffic or name recognition. He didn't sully the cinema's name; arguably, he repaired one of their problems, and moreover did something they were required to have done and which they failed to do.
On the other hand, I would be furious if someone chose to replicate my website, for any reason, be it good or bad. Now, I know, corporations usually have their heads buried deep in the sand over handling issues like accessability which are seen as obscure and unimportant, much less accepting free help from the outside world, or "getting right on it" when someone notifies them of a problem. Moreover, it wouldn't at all surprise me that this guy actually needed an accessable version of the site; most people don't do things like this unless it matters to them personally, and a movie chain isn't the biggest PR getter if it's a question of getting the issue into the papers. Still, really, who does this guy think he is, choosing to take the corporation's name into his hands and do what he will with it, even if he's doing the right thing, doing a very good job of it, and from many perspectives should be being thanked right now?
There was, once, a corporate tendency to Do The Right Thing. Back in the day, when a corporate problem or vulnerability was exposed, ignored, and fixed by an outsider, generally the corporation would turn around, fix it properly, and thank the watchdog, then find out the manager which had ignored the watchdog's pleas and put their job in jeopardy, and finally admonish the watchdog to speak with this other manager instead, who will listen instead of being a wall.
Will Odeon do this? Well, that remains to be seen. Someone somewhere probably believes that this was a huge risk and brand dilution, probably hasn't even looked at the site and is ignoring that a good job was done of a task which needed to happen. Corporations no longer attempt to behave civilly; now they defend every red cent like it's the last one that would ever be made, and if there's a hair of a chance that maybe somehow this could have been bad if he had been swearing, then we'd better god damned well make an example out of the guy trying to do the right thing, so that nobody else tries to do the right thing.
It would be appropriate for slashdotters in Britain, the US or Canada to call or write to Cineplex (depending on your nation, you may have to look for Lowe's Cineplex or Sony Theaters; they're all the same company.) It is spectactuarly difficult to track down a way to reach them, but the investor relations tab (as usual) has information that nobody else has.
Cineplex executives and contact information.
If you feel strongly about web accessability or about corporations not lashing out for people trying to do the Right Thing for them by proxy, please consider placing a five minute phone call in this man's support.
Heh. I remember betting that on Quake 2. Also Red Faction. Also the heat death of the universe.
Lost every bet.
simply leave your RFID tag *within* the school
Aw c'mon, mister weatherbee, i've been in my locker all day!
How is that an amazing interface? It's an imitation of a lackluster mid-nineties email client in HTML which doesn't even manage to be portable.
That interface could be hacked together by any competant web scripter in a couple of hours.
What am I missing?
pity you posted that two days late. that deserves to be modeed up, and i can't use my mod points here.
Actually, there's no correct spelling of a Japanese word in English; transliterations do not have a specific spelling. Besides, most literature spells it with the C. Pretty much only hollywood uses a K. For that matter, which finger is cut off is not a simple rule; it has a lot to do with the severity of the action. For example, if you attempt to kill the wrong person accidentally, your ability to hold a gun/sword is taken away.
Nice try to seem authoritative, though. It's good that you realized before your gums started flapping that even had you been right it would have been valueless save to ruin the joke, in which you succeeded magnificantly; at least that way I don't have to explain to you what an asshole you've been.
Unix, almost 35 years old, looks to be once again the wave of the future
This post is significantly older than unix is. Cicero started it; they more things change, the more they stay the same.