and I only bring them up because I noticed you'd done likewise, you say, in order to feed a "troll" (i.e., me). Fuck you very much.
You made personal attacks (which I have refrained from doing, besides rightfully calling you a troll), by suggesting that I failed grammar school. That is why I brought up test scores. You are most definitely a troll, just look at your nick! I can't believe someone who has graduated from college resorts to saying "what the fuck" and "fuck you" as much as you do. The way you contrue my posts as personal attacks against you makes me wonder about your psychological well being. Please get some help and stop trolling slashdot.
Well that's an obvious exageration but its true to an extent. Then again, that's the problem with any test.
I don't claim to be a master language-user because I did well on the verbal SAT. It just means I was good at that particular test format. I mean there is at least some correlation to "actual language skill" (whatever that means) but I don't like to flaunt my score or anything like that. I just couldn't resist bringing it up to feed the troll.
Typos happen. Leaving out a character or transposing characters accidentally is different than crafting a convoluted sentence (I'm not claiming that my sentences are a model of clarity). Also, someone writing a/. story should be a little more careful than someone writing a comment.
Strange, I didn't have any problems to parse it. And I'm not even a native English speaker.
While we are nit-picking grammar, "problems to parse it" should be "problems parsing it." Not being a native speaker makes you less qualified to speak on matters of grammatical style, not more qualified.
Not that this really hurts your argument (as setting up wine is not a newb-friendly task), but windows solitaire and oregon trail both run on linux under wine. I play lots of classic games with wine, check it out.
I think the problem is a defective parser, not the sentence itself.
So when someone writes hard-to-follow, yet syntactically correct, spaghetti code its not their fault others can't read it? I'm sorry but a writer has a responsibility to make thier sentences easy to parse.
Yahoo had a non-ambiguos clause in the user agreement.
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agree that your Yahoo! account is non-transferable and any rights to
your Yahoo! I.D. or contents within your account terminate upon your
death. Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate, your account may
be terminated and all contents therein permanently deleted.
Yahoo, and the judge simply caved in to the current climate of flag waving.
Why not just turn refuse to obey the cockroach's commands if you are going "the wrong way"
The concept of "the wrong way" is a high level one right up there with "is it scary". The point of this project (as you pretty much described) is to harness the roaches intelligence so a computer program doesn't have to tackle such difficult concepts. I'd imagine the lights are just a quick way to send information to the roach, allowing it to run around in a virtual environment, or connect it to some remotely operated robot.
Im not sure if "throw rock" should come before "hit other guy with stick". I'd speculate that we were hitting the other guy with sticks first. I bet projectile weapons came after bludgeoning weapons, that seems like a more natural extension of "hit other guy with fist". then "hit other guy with stick with rock on the end of it."
So we are left with evolution base on Infertility not being passed on
well its still natural selection, no matter how slow.
the ideel of beauty is dictated by central instansens or completely random
I think the point is that isolated groups will be free to develop different social ideals because they are... isolated. They will also have different environmental factors to contend with.
Maybe spelling ability will become a social selection factor, as humans will need to be able to communicate clearly between spaceships.
The key to evolution is breeding, and humans breed based on looks and personality(And to a much higher extent availability), aspects that don't really help you live in space.
well maybe one isolated group will have a different ideal of beauty than another, lets just say that it is small pysical stature. The shorties will breed more in that group, outnumbering the tall individuals, maybe it also happens that their shortness also makes them good at fixing space engines and conserving food resources. The isolated groups who favor a tall ideal of beauty won't do so well, there's your natural selection.
Also it's hard to breed when a physical trait, like susceptability to radiation posioning, (or any other environment-related malady you can dream of) kills you or leaves you infertile, no matter how good your looks may be. Theres your natural selection.
natural selection doesn't require any kind of forced eugenics program, for example only letting truly "fit" individuals reproduce. The unfit just need to reproduce slightly less, and evolution will plod steadily onwards.
there are a ton of audio gems like that out there.
But seriously, misterhouse can use a voice synthesizer (along with speech recognition) to do some really cool stuff. If I could find an approximation of the star trek computer I'd be one happy geek.
Anyone know of a linux voice synthesizer that can come close to sounding like the voice of the star trek computer?
I used to run misterhouse at my old dwelling, I had it set up to do basic alarm functions based on a door switch, and an ibutton for authentication. I had it play clips in the ST computer voice as prompts. "Please enter security authorization", "authorization accepted" etc. I always wanted to find a voice synth that I could just plug in to misterhouse. A man can dream.
As a fan of both works. I'd say they are definitely similar, but also the idea of the eccentric detective has been done all over the place. The theme is practically a part of the collective unconcious.
I'm a bit puzzled why you list the Campus Christian Fellowship as a "keyword" on your webpage. Maybe theres an interesting story about this that you could share? I only ask because I enjoyed reading (and mostly agree with) your other posts. Usually I adopt a live-and-let-live attitude toward christianity, but it is enlightening to hear from someone who feels directly threatened by it.
Whatever expecations he might or might not have had, the terms of service of his acccount stated that the account would not be transferable in the event of death. The fact that yahoo didn't fight the order only shows that they were afraid that it would turn out the be bad PR. I say shame on them for violating their own service agreement and the privacy of their users.
Are you really going to spend lots of time going through every email and sending it to family - just in case you die?
no, because you probably don't want the family to have every email. Is there an expectation that upon someones death all letters they have sent to another party should become available to next of kin?
This case will set a precedent which will make my own privacy more likely to be violated.
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and I only bring them up because I noticed you'd done likewise, you say, in order to feed a "troll" (i.e., me). Fuck you very much.
You made personal attacks (which I have refrained from doing, besides rightfully calling you a troll), by suggesting that I failed grammar school. That is why I brought up test scores. You are most definitely a troll, just look at your nick! I can't believe someone who has graduated from college resorts to saying "what the fuck" and "fuck you" as much as you do. The way you contrue my posts as personal attacks against you makes me wonder about your psychological well being. Please get some help and stop trolling slashdot.
Consult any journalistic style guide and see what it has to say.
Slashdot is supposed to be a news site. It should use a journalistic style. The S-V-O sentence construction is the bedrock of the journalistic style.
If you prefer to entertain yourself with crazy grammar, I suggest you read a personal blog. They love that kind of stuff.
I don't claim to be a master language-user because I did well on the verbal SAT. It just means I was good at that particular test format. I mean there is at least some correlation to "actual language skill" (whatever that means) but I don't like to flaunt my score or anything like that. I just couldn't resist bringing it up to feed the troll.
Strange, I didn't have any problems to parse it. And I'm not even a native English speaker.
While we are nit-picking grammar, "problems to parse it" should be "problems parsing it." Not being a native speaker makes you less qualified to speak on matters of grammatical style, not more qualified.
BTW, I got a perfect score on the verbal section of the SAT. That's not very piss-poor.
Not that this really hurts your argument (as setting up wine is not a newb-friendly task), but windows solitaire and oregon trail both run on linux under wine. I play lots of classic games with wine, check it out.
So when someone writes hard-to-follow, yet syntactically correct, spaghetti code its not their fault others can't read it? I'm sorry but a writer has a responsibility to make thier sentences easy to parse.
No Right of Survivorship and Non-Transferability. You agree that your Yahoo! account is non-transferable and any rights to your Yahoo! I.D. or contents within your account terminate upon your death. Upon receipt of a copy of a death certificate, your account may be terminated and all contents therein permanently deleted.
Yahoo, and the judge simply caved in to the current climate of flag waving.
piloted, perhaps, by kittens. reminds me of the Rat Things in Snow Crash.
The concept of "the wrong way" is a high level one right up there with "is it scary". The point of this project (as you pretty much described) is to harness the roaches intelligence so a computer program doesn't have to tackle such difficult concepts. I'd imagine the lights are just a quick way to send information to the roach, allowing it to run around in a virtual environment, or connect it to some remotely operated robot.
Sorry, analogies like that don't work with software.
Unless the software is a tire simulation, or sim-zimbabwe.
Im not sure if "throw rock" should come before "hit other guy with stick". I'd speculate that we were hitting the other guy with sticks first. I bet projectile weapons came after bludgeoning weapons, that seems like a more natural extension of "hit other guy with fist". then "hit other guy with stick with rock on the end of it."
well its still natural selection, no matter how slow.
the ideel of beauty is dictated by central instansens or completely random
I think the point is that isolated groups will be free to develop different social ideals because they are ... isolated. They will also have different environmental factors to contend with.
Maybe spelling ability will become a social selection factor, as humans will need to be able to communicate clearly between spaceships.
well maybe one isolated group will have a different ideal of beauty than another, lets just say that it is small pysical stature. The shorties will breed more in that group, outnumbering the tall individuals, maybe it also happens that their shortness also makes them good at fixing space engines and conserving food resources. The isolated groups who favor a tall ideal of beauty won't do so well, there's your natural selection.
Also it's hard to breed when a physical trait, like susceptability to radiation posioning, (or any other environment-related malady you can dream of) kills you or leaves you infertile, no matter how good your looks may be. Theres your natural selection.
natural selection doesn't require any kind of forced eugenics program, for example only letting truly "fit" individuals reproduce. The unfit just need to reproduce slightly less, and evolution will plod steadily onwards.
there are a ton of audio gems like that out there.
But seriously, misterhouse can use a voice synthesizer (along with speech recognition) to do some really cool stuff. If I could find an approximation of the star trek computer I'd be one happy geek.
I used to run misterhouse at my old dwelling, I had it set up to do basic alarm functions based on a door switch, and an ibutton for authentication. I had it play clips in the ST computer voice as prompts. "Please enter security authorization", "authorization accepted" etc. I always wanted to find a voice synth that I could just plug in to misterhouse. A man can dream.
First the apple commercial and now this? I think microsoft really is big brother. Unbelievable.
As a fan of both works. I'd say they are definitely similar, but also the idea of the eccentric detective has been done all over the place. The theme is practically a part of the collective unconcious.
"We apologize for any inconvience"
so flippant, yet so profound...
Thats OK, most bible thumpers haven't read the bible either.
But here's a link http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/t he-origin-of-species/
I'm a bit puzzled why you list the Campus Christian Fellowship as a "keyword" on your webpage. Maybe theres an interesting story about this that you could share? I only ask because I enjoyed reading (and mostly agree with) your other posts. Usually I adopt a live-and-let-live attitude toward christianity, but it is enlightening to hear from someone who feels directly threatened by it.
what a gem of a saying.
I've invited evangelical missionaries in to my home to argue before and I sure did feel dirty. It's a totally futile pursuit.
I like LDTTOTS better than DGHDA. The standoff between dirk and his housekeeper over the refrigerator is great stuff.
A spokeswoman for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo said the CD should have contained the Marine's outgoing as well as his incoming e-mail messages.
Are you really going to spend lots of time going through every email and sending it to family - just in case you die?
no, because you probably don't want the family to have every email. Is there an expectation that upon someones death all letters they have sent to another party should become available to next of kin?
This case will set a precedent which will make my own privacy more likely to be violated.