Why is this in Slasback, and not a main story? It's certainly long enough. Let's keep Slashback limited to minor updates and errata, and put major updates like this one in full-fledged articles.
She is nearly perfect...super hot...and either smart enough to come up with that stuff her self or at least smart enough to hire someone who can (I hear shes really smart though) another perfect woman.
Great, now we're going to be inundated with "Open Source Courtney Love" posts.
Right. Since there are only 5 vowel sounds in Japanese (English has 5 vowel letters, but those can be pronounced many different ways, and then the diphthongs...), and syllable stress is predictable, it is absurdly easy to rhyme in Japanese.
Additionally, Japanese has a very flexible sentence structure. In English, word order determines the grammatical roles of the words, while in Japanese you can do pretty much whatever you want (only: verb at the end of the clause, particles modify the preceding word, and "no" falls between the possessor and possessed in that order)
The true strength of Japanese lies in puns, thanks to kanjii. When one character can have many different readings (one syllable or more), and one syllable can be written as several different characters, the possibilities are endless! Throw in English words and it's almost impossible not to use puns. My personal favorite is Masamune Shirow's equating the naga-dragon (of Japanese Buddhist myth) with Cthulhu: "naga" can be written as two characters that can also be read as "katuru", which is the Japanese pronunciation of Cthulhu. The entire plot of "Orion" hinges on this.
If quote is pronounced, the second line is 8 syllables: "print quote the sound of shebang quote". If not, it is only 6: "print the sound of shebang"
#!/bin/perl5 print 'shebang! a firecracker?' or die 'like #!'
The second line on this one has too many syllables already: print she-bang a fi-re-crack-er 12345 678 ...unless you're from the midwest and pronounce "fire" like "far".
Rot13 would work. It would obscure it enough that it wouldn't be immediately obvious in the source (unless someone rot13ed the source, but what sort of nut would do that?)
you could move around as much as you want...and polarized glasses aren't as heavy as head mounted displays.
Not really. You'd see the image from the same virtual angle no matter what angle you're viewing the screen at. Just like how, in the old Captain EO show at Disneyland, everybody in the audience would see the same thing no matter where they were sitting.
The only way to get around that would be through head-tracking (or puil-tracking at best, to tell how the user is focusing). That's a whole new can of worms, however.
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The CRT-pinball idea is sort of interesting, but IMO Revenge from Mars does it better. The only real problem with these games is that the machine isn't wide enough...there isn't any space for the ball to bounce around, and the result is that it falls down the side gutters way too often.
Far be it from me to criticize Slashdot's poet laureate, but stick to haiku, man. Your rhyme scheme here is ABCCD, not AABBA. "Tech", "reject", and "secret" do not rhyme. It's like trying to rhyme "kiss" with "desk". Close only counts in horseshoes and rock lyrics.
That doesn't work. The second line had at least 8 syllables. In Japanese, a long vowel is two syllables, and an "n" not followed by a vowel usually counts as its own syllable--and senryuu is a quoted Japanese word. --- Zardoz has spoken!
"H. Export controls: except for export to canada for use in canada by canadian citizens, the program may not be exported outside of the united states or to any foreign entity or "foreign person" as defined by the u.s. government regulations, including without limitation anyone who is not a citizen, national or lawful permanent resident of the united states. By using the program, you are warranting that you are not a "foreign person" or under the control of a "foreign person""
So if someone is secretly being manipulated by the Gnomes of Zurich, they can't legally use WordPerfect? Well, since it's impossible to tell if anyone is being manipulated by a large multinational conspiracy, or even if you're being manipulated without your knowledge, I'd say this clause is unenforceable.
You really don't get it, do you? The software is *licensed* to you, meaning you are granted an explicit right to use it. The terms of your license to use the software dictate your ability to copy it, resell it, distribute it...seeing a trend here? ONCE AGAIN FOR THE HARD OF HEARING, YOU HAVE NO FIRST-SALE RIGHTS IN SOFTWARE BECAUSE YOU DO NOT OWN IT.
If you owned Windows when you bought it then you would be Bill Gates. Duh!?
So you're saying, if I buy "Snow Crash", then I'm Neal Stephenson? Owning a copy of copyrighted material is not the same as being the copyright holder.
This reminds me of the original This Modern World. Unfortunately, Tom Tomorrow hasn't put his old zines up on the web yet, just his current comics, but it has been reprinted (in "The Wrath of Sparky" IIRC).
Slashdot Mirror
Every little thing
No matter how small, angers
PC policeman
Moral leaders allow
Innocuous words only
Doubleplus ungood
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Two points for this post?
Second line too long by one
Moderate down please
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Doh! I missed that one
And I'd corrected some too
I feel sheepish now
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A microkernel BIOS, like Mach or Amoeba implemented in BIOS. This would be faster than fast, and still flexible enough to support multiple OSs.
With a box like this, I could...dare I say it?...rule the world!
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Why is this in Slasback, and not a main story? It's certainly long enough. Let's keep Slashback limited to minor updates and errata, and put major updates like this one in full-fledged articles.
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When Legos are outlawed, only outlaws will have Legos.
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Looks like there's some infighting going on in the free-MP3-distribution ranks. MP3.com is getting in on the action by suing Napster.
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Great, now we're going to be inundated with "Open Source Courtney Love" posts.
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This is too easy
You just write a haiku kludge
David Raine's trick counts
For a real challenge
The whole thing should be a poem
Code it in tanka!
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Those were 4-4-4 and 3-5-3, so they don't count.
I've got one:
Informative link
I think I'll take a look and...
Oh crap, slashdotted!
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Right. Since there are only 5 vowel sounds in Japanese (English has 5 vowel letters, but those can be pronounced many different ways, and then the diphthongs...), and syllable stress is predictable, it is absurdly easy to rhyme in Japanese.
Additionally, Japanese has a very flexible sentence structure. In English, word order determines the grammatical roles of the words, while in Japanese you can do pretty much whatever you want (only: verb at the end of the clause, particles modify the preceding word, and "no" falls between the possessor and possessed in that order)
The true strength of Japanese lies in puns, thanks to kanjii. When one character can have many different readings (one syllable or more), and one syllable can be written as several different characters, the possibilities are endless! Throw in English words and it's almost impossible not to use puns. My personal favorite is Masamune Shirow's equating the naga-dragon (of Japanese Buddhist myth) with Cthulhu: "naga" can be written as two characters that can also be read as "katuru", which is the Japanese pronunciation of Cthulhu. The entire plot of "Orion" hinges on this.
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Neither of these are haiku...
If quote is pronounced, the second line is 8 syllables: "print quote the sound of shebang quote". If not, it is only 6: "print the sound of shebang"
The second line on this one has too many syllables already:
...unless you're from the midwest and pronounce "fire" like "far".
print she-bang a fi-re-crack-er
12345 678
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Inspired AC
It's funny because it's true
Moderate this up!
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Just what we needed
A chance for trolls to show off
31337 h4!xU sk!11z
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Rot13 would work. It would obscure it enough that it wouldn't be immediately obvious in the source (unless someone rot13ed the source, but what sort of nut would do that?)
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Not really. You'd see the image from the same virtual angle no matter what angle you're viewing the screen at. Just like how, in the old Captain EO show at Disneyland, everybody in the audience would see the same thing no matter where they were sitting.
The only way to get around that would be through head-tracking (or puil-tracking at best, to tell how the user is focusing). That's a whole new can of worms, however.
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Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
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The CRT-pinball idea is sort of interesting, but IMO Revenge from Mars does it better. The only real problem with these games is that the machine isn't wide enough...there isn't any space for the ball to bounce around, and the result is that it falls down the side gutters way too often.
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Far be it from me to criticize Slashdot's poet laureate, but stick to haiku, man. Your rhyme scheme here is ABCCD, not AABBA. "Tech", "reject", and "secret" do not rhyme. It's like trying to rhyme "kiss" with "desk". Close only counts in horseshoes and rock lyrics.
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That doesn't work. The second line had at least 8 syllables. In Japanese, a long vowel is two syllables, and an "n" not followed by a vowel usually counts as its own syllable--and senryuu is a quoted Japanese word.
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So if someone is secretly being manipulated by the Gnomes of Zurich, they can't legally use WordPerfect? Well, since it's impossible to tell if anyone is being manipulated by a large multinational conspiracy, or even if you're being manipulated without your knowledge, I'd say this clause is unenforceable.
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So you're saying, if I buy "Snow Crash", then I'm Neal Stephenson? Owning a copy of copyrighted material is not the same as being the copyright holder.
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Um, the ones who vote? Unless you're planning a coup d'etat...
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NASDAQ doesn't alllow ticker symbols with more than 4 letters.
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This reminds me of the original This Modern World. Unfortunately, Tom Tomorrow hasn't put his old zines up on the web yet, just his current comics, but it has been reprinted (in "The Wrath of Sparky" IIRC).
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