For example, throughout the language the question mark is used for boolean operations, plus for numeric ops, and tilde for string ops. (The tilde is supposed to remind you of a little piece of string.)
Don't get too attached to that. It looks like one of the changes for Perl 6 is tilde being redefined as the xor operator.
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You know, it really doesn't make sense to give the recording industry so much power over making music and stuff. They really abuse it. The MPAA too. Reply and tell me what you think.
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Shouting "millions of dollars" doesn't change the fact that a few million here or there means very, very little to a big Hollywood studio.
I'm sorry, but no, millions of dollars mean everything to major studios. Yes, they'll spend lots of money to make movies, but that's because they expect to make it back plus profits. Hollywood producers may be philistines but they're not stupid.
A more reasonable conclusion would be that Disney and Miramax really didn't know how to market these movies. They're not used to selling animated features to non-family audiences. It's not like they didn't put any effort into it either--I distinctly remember full-page ads in the New York Times and my local daily paper for both. I'd be willing to bet that Disney was looking more at the video market for both (most films, after all, do most of their business on video). I think that Disney acquired the Miyazaki catalog for two reasons: to get into the burgeoning anime market, and to build back some credibility for themselves after getting (rightly) criticised for parallels between Jungle Emperor and The Lion King (and less rightly for vague similarities between Atlants and either Secret of Blue Water or Castle in the Sky: Laputa depending on the preferences of the fan). They haven't really gotten very far on the second count (many anime fans won't be satisfied until Disney releases anime product with fanfare that dwarfs that of their other movies) but that's the idea.
Milennium Actress on the other hand, got buried, but not because Dreamworks wanted it to not make money. That they gave it such a limited release, and for such an absurdly short run (the video release was scheduled for about a month after the opening date), suggests that they were much more interested in getting it into video stores and only gave it a token theatrical run so they could put it up for awards like Best Animated Feature.
I don't understand collectors. Why would you want to own something that you never look at, never even touch?
Comics collecting started when some people realized that comics readers would get nostalgic for old issues they once read, and would be willing to pay decent (or, in the case of really ancient comics like Action Comics #1, indecent) sums of money to read them again. Then it became a game of speculation, where one collector (thinking that the price has plateaued) would sell to another (betting that the price will rise). At some point, it ceased to be about betting that some comics lover will want to reread a back issue, and became about betting that some other guy will want to resell it. It became just a big pyramid scheme.
Meanwhile, the major studios catered to the speculators (who would actually buy ten copies of a single issue if they all had different covers) and stopped writing and drawing stories that were fun to read. Hell, at the height of the collecting bubble, Marvel and DC could have printed comics filled with blank pages (after all, once somebody has picked it up without sterile gloves and opened it, it isn't "mint condition" anymore), and idiot "collectors" would have snatched them up as long as there was a woman with breasts the size of Volkswagon beetles in spandex holding an AK-47 on the cover. Fortunately, they still had enough self-respect left to actually print stuff on the inside pages, although it was rarely readable. Then, when some collectors realized that all they were doing was selling these things to each other in circles, the market collapsed, and the studios are now stuck trying to appeal to comic readers, a group they nearly destroyed through neglect.
In short, collectors do nothing but damage to the comics industry, subsidizing talentless hacks like Rob Liefeld, driving off readers, and generally making life miserable for the rest of us.
Exploitation Now! [exploitationnow.com] is a great one hosted by keenspace.
Exploitation Now isn't hosted by Keenspace. It was when it started out, but it got accepted into Keenspot (spot, not space) a while back and has been on the Keenspot servers ever since.
2) Blame deregulation for the energy shortage! Can't have liberals blaming their eco legislation or (gasp!) call for repealing some of it.
I'd like to point out that these problems didn't appear when ecological protections were passed, only after deregulation. Can't have conservatives blaming their economic policies or (gasp!) admitting that they screwed up.
The only areas in California that weren't threatened with rolling blackouts or large rate increases were cities with municipal utilities. Strange how they came through unscathed, isn't it...
Thoroughly, California made its own mess and ought to be forced to wallow in it. You're all screwed and it's your own fault.
Aw, we love you too.
Just because our state has all of the hot girls in bikinis (we loan 'em to Hawaii occasionally) is no reason to get snippy.
Seriously, the energy commission that engineered deregulation was bought and paid for by the power companies, so they could sell off their old and decrepit power plants to new companies for cash. However, during all of the buying and selling, none of them really thought about having to provide power. Not that it really hurts them: they get to raise rates without having to generate any more electricity. All income, no expenses--now that's a business model!
The point is kind of moot however, because the rolling blackouts never happened (a massive rate hike is underway however).
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They've got spy satellites in orbit that can identify somebody peeing in a corner of a training camp. I think they probably have some people who can grasp basic network security.:)
Actual agents of foriegn powers are probably trying to gain access to secret information... Though traditional methods of gaining access are probably still effective.
I'd be willing to bet this is true. Most intelligence-gathering is done through technological means now--spy satellites, analyses of trends in economic releases, monitoring network traffic, etc. Human operations make up about 10% of intelligence gathering now. It's mainly kept around to keep up an aura of cloak and dagger--in the CIA's case, it makes the pencilnecks in Congress feel like they're in charge of James Bond, so they'll give the CIA more money in the budget.
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I've read the book, and I loved it. It really goes into detail, and manages to make all of it interesting even if you don't have any particular interest in seafaring. Haven't seen the TV show though.
I also found out something else about Harrison: he was a music buff. In fact, he invented his own tuning system (a variation on meantone) based on pi, which apparently approximates just-intonation (small whole number ratios between frequencies) much better than contemporary equal temperament, but never caught on because it required a few more than 12 tones per octave (and hence could not be played on a standard 7-white 5-black clavier keyboard).
A man named Charles Lucy rediscovered it when trying to find an ideal tuning for his guitar, and has developed it into a comprehensive system. Information on it can be found here.
That site also has links to a lot of resources on alternative tuning systems, a field I happen to be interested in.
Im sure if you looked closely enough, most of us have some sort of genetic mutation in our DNA, but they just arent significant enough to manifest themselves in any noticeable way.
Same thing is true in the newspaper (the web versions of most newspapers make this very clear). Even most of the editorial pages are just national columns.
As someone who works for a large metropolitan newspaper, I can tell you that this is true to a certain extent, but not because the papers are owned by large corporations. Those columns are usually syndicated, by the same companies that syndicate the comics (Universal Feature Syndicate, Tribune Media, etc.).
Our editorial page is strictly done in-house (although it's not very good anyway IMHO). But it has to share a page with the Letters to the Editor. The op-ed (opposite the editorials) page is a combination of in-house columns, freelance opinion pieces, and syndicated columns (Molly Ivins and George Will, among others).
I also wouldn't blame the journalists for the poor state of newspapers. The assigning editors make all of the decisions about what gets run.
On the Unix network at Michigan State University's computer science department, you can't rid the preformatted bookmarks from Netscape. Every time you delete them, the folder gets tagged back onto the end of your bookmarks next time you start the program.
Not that I'm not sure if all Unix versions have this 'feature' or even if there are multiple Unix versions.:)
This never happened to me when I was using Netscape on the school SPARCStations back at USC. It must be something about your school's setup.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.
Is that another one of those obscure japanese cartoons that.5% of people actually see in the states? Could someone explain to me what this is supposed to mean?
It's not Japanese. It's a talk show (with skits) that shows on Cartoon Network, using clips from a cheesy old Hanna-Barbera (Scooby Doo, The Flintstones) adventure cartoon from the 60s (IIRC) with new voices dubbed over. "Coast to Coast" was developed by Joel Hodgson, the genius who also created Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Space Ghost is the superhero who hosts the show, and Zorak is the evil alien bug who acts as the show's band leader.
I have to say that that maze was extremely easy. I solved it in a couple of seconds. The path is very short, and not very twisty.
You don't even have to try to visualize it in four dimensions or anything like that. Just remember that you can jump from your current position to the same position in an adjecent slice.
Might the main CPython branch adopt these innovations? Vyper's scoping and functional features, and Stackless' continuations? The article says that Stackless isn't a huge fork--could it get brought back into the trunk?
You must not have picked up on the sarcasm. Read through to the end of the post before replying next time. If it's not evident enough at the beginning, it's pretty obvious when he starts proposing.islamicfundamentalistporn and.notrepublicanordemocrat TLDs.
I figure the oft-mentioned "Pokey Gene" is in fact the gene that allows one to enjoy outsider art. The ability to appreciate the music of Wesley Willis or Jandek as art rather a freakshow, for example. Pokeyphiles who are also music lovers might want to check out Songs in the Key of Z by Irwin Chusid. --- Zardoz has spoken!
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I have mine set up to be my "Compose" key.
Don't get too attached to that. It looks like one of the changes for Perl 6 is tilde being redefined as the xor operator.
Joe User doesn't dual-boot. Joe User wouldn't even think of having more than one OS on his system. This is a problem for techies.
I'm sorry, but no, millions of dollars mean everything to major studios. Yes, they'll spend lots of money to make movies, but that's because they expect to make it back plus profits. Hollywood producers may be philistines but they're not stupid.
A more reasonable conclusion would be that Disney and Miramax really didn't know how to market these movies. They're not used to selling animated features to non-family audiences. It's not like they didn't put any effort into it either--I distinctly remember full-page ads in the New York Times and my local daily paper for both. I'd be willing to bet that Disney was looking more at the video market for both (most films, after all, do most of their business on video). I think that Disney acquired the Miyazaki catalog for two reasons: to get into the burgeoning anime market, and to build back some credibility for themselves after getting (rightly) criticised for parallels between Jungle Emperor and The Lion King (and less rightly for vague similarities between Atlants and either Secret of Blue Water or Castle in the Sky: Laputa depending on the preferences of the fan). They haven't really gotten very far on the second count (many anime fans won't be satisfied until Disney releases anime product with fanfare that dwarfs that of their other movies) but that's the idea.
Milennium Actress on the other hand, got buried, but not because Dreamworks wanted it to not make money. That they gave it such a limited release, and for such an absurdly short run (the video release was scheduled for about a month after the opening date), suggests that they were much more interested in getting it into video stores and only gave it a token theatrical run so they could put it up for awards like Best Animated Feature.
Wow...that sounds pretty racist.
Quantum isn't German for chunk, it's Latin for amount.
Harlan? Harlan, is that you?
Comics collecting started when some people realized that comics readers would get nostalgic for old issues they once read, and would be willing to pay decent (or, in the case of really ancient comics like Action Comics #1, indecent) sums of money to read them again. Then it became a game of speculation, where one collector (thinking that the price has plateaued) would sell to another (betting that the price will rise). At some point, it ceased to be about betting that some comics lover will want to reread a back issue, and became about betting that some other guy will want to resell it. It became just a big pyramid scheme.
Meanwhile, the major studios catered to the speculators (who would actually buy ten copies of a single issue if they all had different covers) and stopped writing and drawing stories that were fun to read. Hell, at the height of the collecting bubble, Marvel and DC could have printed comics filled with blank pages (after all, once somebody has picked it up without sterile gloves and opened it, it isn't "mint condition" anymore), and idiot "collectors" would have snatched them up as long as there was a woman with breasts the size of Volkswagon beetles in spandex holding an AK-47 on the cover. Fortunately, they still had enough self-respect left to actually print stuff on the inside pages, although it was rarely readable. Then, when some collectors realized that all they were doing was selling these things to each other in circles, the market collapsed, and the studios are now stuck trying to appeal to comic readers, a group they nearly destroyed through neglect.
In short, collectors do nothing but damage to the comics industry, subsidizing talentless hacks like Rob Liefeld, driving off readers, and generally making life miserable for the rest of us.
Exploitation Now isn't hosted by Keenspace. It was when it started out, but it got accepted into Keenspot (spot, not space) a while back and has been on the Keenspot servers ever since.
It's insulting to call a woman a lady? I thought it was an honorific.
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I'd like to point out that these problems didn't appear when ecological protections were passed, only after deregulation. Can't have conservatives blaming their economic policies or (gasp!) admitting that they screwed up.
The only areas in California that weren't threatened with rolling blackouts or large rate increases were cities with municipal utilities. Strange how they came through unscathed, isn't it...
Aw, we love you too.
Just because our state has all of the hot girls in bikinis (we loan 'em to Hawaii occasionally) is no reason to get snippy.
Seriously, the energy commission that engineered deregulation was bought and paid for by the power companies, so they could sell off their old and decrepit power plants to new companies for cash. However, during all of the buying and selling, none of them really thought about having to provide power. Not that it really hurts them: they get to raise rates without having to generate any more electricity. All income, no expenses--now that's a business model!
The point is kind of moot however, because the rolling blackouts never happened (a massive rate hike is underway however).
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They've got spy satellites in orbit that can identify somebody peeing in a corner of a training camp. I think they probably have some people who can grasp basic network security. :)
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I'd be willing to bet this is true. Most intelligence-gathering is done through technological means now--spy satellites, analyses of trends in economic releases, monitoring network traffic, etc. Human operations make up about 10% of intelligence gathering now. It's mainly kept around to keep up an aura of cloak and dagger--in the CIA's case, it makes the pencilnecks in Congress feel like they're in charge of James Bond, so they'll give the CIA more money in the budget.
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I've read the book, and I loved it. It really goes into detail, and manages to make all of it interesting even if you don't have any particular interest in seafaring. Haven't seen the TV show though.
I also found out something else about Harrison: he was a music buff. In fact, he invented his own tuning system (a variation on meantone) based on pi, which apparently approximates just-intonation (small whole number ratios between frequencies) much better than contemporary equal temperament, but never caught on because it required a few more than 12 tones per octave (and hence could not be played on a standard 7-white 5-black clavier keyboard).
A man named Charles Lucy rediscovered it when trying to find an ideal tuning for his guitar, and has developed it into a comprehensive system. Information on it can be found here.
That site also has links to a lot of resources on alternative tuning systems, a field I happen to be interested in.
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Zardoz has spoken!
Actually, we're all just mutant protozoa.
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Zardoz has spoken!
As someone who works for a large metropolitan newspaper, I can tell you that this is true to a certain extent, but not because the papers are owned by large corporations. Those columns are usually syndicated, by the same companies that syndicate the comics (Universal Feature Syndicate, Tribune Media, etc.).
Our editorial page is strictly done in-house (although it's not very good anyway IMHO). But it has to share a page with the Letters to the Editor. The op-ed (opposite the editorials) page is a combination of in-house columns, freelance opinion pieces, and syndicated columns (Molly Ivins and George Will, among others).
I also wouldn't blame the journalists for the poor state of newspapers. The assigning editors make all of the decisions about what gets run.
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This never happened to me when I was using Netscape on the school SPARCStations back at USC. It must be something about your school's setup.
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I love that song! The Sex Pistols rule! ;)
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It's not Japanese. It's a talk show (with skits) that shows on Cartoon Network, using clips from a cheesy old Hanna-Barbera (Scooby Doo, The Flintstones) adventure cartoon from the 60s (IIRC) with new voices dubbed over. "Coast to Coast" was developed by Joel Hodgson, the genius who also created Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Space Ghost is the superhero who hosts the show, and Zorak is the evil alien bug who acts as the show's band leader.
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Actually, it's a reference to "Space Ghost: Coast to Coast" (which is why the subtitle is "from the then-why-are-you-singing-it-zorak dept.")
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I have to say that that maze was extremely easy. I solved it in a couple of seconds. The path is very short, and not very twisty.
You don't even have to try to visualize it in four dimensions or anything like that. Just remember that you can jump from your current position to the same position in an adjecent slice.
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Zardoz has spoken!
Might the main CPython branch adopt these innovations? Vyper's scoping and functional features, and Stackless' continuations? The article says that Stackless isn't a huge fork--could it get brought back into the trunk?
Just something to ponder.
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You must not have picked up on the sarcasm. Read through to the end of the post before replying next time. If it's not evident enough at the beginning, it's pretty obvious when he starts proposing .islamicfundamentalistporn and .notrepublicanordemocrat TLDs.
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I figure the oft-mentioned "Pokey Gene" is in fact the gene that allows one to enjoy outsider art. The ability to appreciate the music of Wesley Willis or Jandek as art rather a freakshow, for example. Pokeyphiles who are also music lovers might want to check out Songs in the Key of Z by Irwin Chusid.
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Zardoz has spoken!