Not overturned. The correct term is "reveresed." Overturned means that a higher court reversed them. If they reverse themselves, they can't be overturned.
Clear as mud, right? I just don't want to hear the old argument, "No, they're not the most overturned, look at New Hampshire, you insensitive clod!"
I'm currently reading this book, and so far I'm not that impressed. You may as well read Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. It has just as much insight, with all of the whit. He was a nut. I hope I can be 1/4th the nut he was.
I wonder if they can take the really big waves. I can't imagine that a jet on the back would make it any safer. But them, where's the fun in a safe sport, I guess.
It's the deepest detection by interferometer. It's just a spot, though. Hubble's Deep Field images are more fun to look at. And with multiple passes, it's even pretty. These three have a lot to say about this subject.
IANATSTF (I Am Not A Total Star Trek Freak), even though I love the shows and some of the movies, I can't remember ever hearing anyone ask the ship's computer, or any other computer, that kind of question. And if they did, I'd fully expect the computer to respond with something like, "Please be more specific with your query," or perhaps, "How should I know? What do you think I am, a Soong-type Android?" Heck, it might even just say, "FP!"
From the EULA:
You acknowledge that the Software in source
code form remains a confidential trade
secret of Atari and/or its suppliers and
therefore you agree not to attempt to
decipher, decompile, disassemble or
reverse engineer the Software or allow
others to do so, except to the extent
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such restriction. You further agree not
to modify or create derivative works of
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Me no like. But for two bucks, who's going to care?
Yeah, well I still think this is the most pointless exercises in geek futility ever. But hey, what's the point in being a geek at all if you can't have fun doing it?
It's a good thing the "humor" icon was used in this article. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known what to think about this. "It's funny, laugh." Good advice.
1) Can a single word become a meme from being (re)introduced into every day vocabulary? (I think the answer is yes - consider the word "Rad" in the 80's, or more hideously the current usage of the word "tight").
I should think so. Your examples are proof positive.
2) If a single word can become a meme, does "meme" fit into this category?
In a word, yes. Just like the GNU Public License is Licensed under the GNU Public License, meme can be a meme. Then you start to get into the fun meta language. So, we need to define meme using meta-meme language.
3) Has the word "meme" been in common use for decades, and I am just vocabularily challenged?
I don't know about common, but it's been around for a few millennia at least in some form or another.
4) Can you dodge off-topic mods by starting your post with an off-topic disclaimer (disclaimer: this question is very off-topic)?
Not to my knowledge. Anyone who can, probably just lucked out.
By the way, in case you're wondering, my sources tell me that "meme" rymes with "team" not "mimi."
I have time to become intimately familiar with all of the Slashdot memes like FP!, GNAA, In Soviet Russia, and CowboyNeal. I know all of the rules for them and when they're just being faked by copy-cats. Sure, sure, I can stop any time.
...you implied that he doesn't use it because it's bloated...
My original comment simply pointed out that Gosling's advice for people is to just ignore the API you don't use. If my repeating what he said implied anything, he implied it not me.
Gosling was trying to illistrate that the API is the way it is because a large percentage of people use a particular part that a smaller percentage think is bloat. I don't believe Gosling thought that JDBC was bloat. He knows a lot of people rely on it, but he wanted those people to see that the view of API bloat depends on people's point of view.
- No, Gosling doesn't use JDBC. He says it all the time. He doesn't interact with databases, I guess. Not everyone has to. - Gosling isn't as important to Borcon goers. Most of them are Delphi coders. - I was wrong. The other keynote speaker didn't invent Pascal, he invented Turbo Pascal, then Delphi, then C#, for which he would want to use Visual Studio for, but couldn't.
I had the honor of listening to James Gosling's Keynote at Borcon 2001. He gave a stimulating talk about running Java on a gas pump, which didn't actually work.
Then he took Q/A from the audience. He fielded the usual comments about how the Java API was so bloated. His reply to that was just not to use the bloated parts. He, for instance, doesn't use JDBC for anything, but he doesn't advocate removing it.
The previous day, the inventor of Pascal, who now works at Microsoft, did his entire keynote from Notepad because he was forbidden from running Visual Studio at Borcon (too much competition with Borland's IDEs).
I felt the same way while I was watching it. It makes me wonder why ILM would hire these guys. Then it occurred to me, the reason could have been to create animatics (aka videomatics). ILM prides itself on having very detailed footage of scenes that require a lot of CG work before any animators or actors begin work. Among other things, it helps when trying to get actors in a sea of blue to understand what is expected of them.
It's obvious the Duality group can do this. Animatics have the added benefit of being released on DVD when the time comes, so there's marketing value too.
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Not overturned. The correct term is "reveresed." Overturned means that a higher court reversed them. If they reverse themselves, they can't be overturned.
Clear as mud, right? I just don't want to hear the old argument, "No, they're not the most overturned, look at New Hampshire, you insensitive clod!"
Actually, I always suspect an idea is bad when Sun Microsystems has an entire Java-One conference based on it.
That's a pretty close likeness.
This looks like an Apple, to me (doctored (in Photoshop)).
Slow news day again.
Not so bad, I've seen worse.
I'm currently reading this book, and so far I'm not that impressed. You may as well read Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. It has just as much insight, with all of the whit. He was a nut. I hope I can be 1/4th the nut he was.
I don't know what to think about this. But there are apparently a lot of "authorities" who say this.
If it's a hoax, they've pulled the wool pretty well. Not only the population, but every medical journal too.
I don't think that was covered in the "33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History: From Suffragettes
to Skirt Lengths to the E.R.A." title.
I wonder if they can take the really big waves. I can't imagine that a jet on the back would make it any safer. But them, where's the fun in a safe sport, I guess.
I'm still waiting for my flying car.
Seems like a bad rap for the university with the longest photo history. I guess the times are changing.
It's the deepest detection by interferometer. It's just a spot, though. Hubble's Deep Field images are more fun to look at. And with multiple passes, it's even pretty. These three have a lot to say about this subject.
OpenBSD: Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 7 years!
Microsoft: Where do you want to go today?
All this time, I thought Microsoft was talking to their customers when they were really talking to the hackers and script kiddies.
IANATSTF (I Am Not A Total Star Trek Freak), even though I love the shows and some of the movies, I can't remember ever hearing anyone ask the ship's computer, or any other computer, that kind of question. And if they did, I'd fully expect the computer to respond with something like, "Please be more specific with your query," or perhaps, "How should I know? What do you think I am, a Soong-type Android?" Heck, it might even just say, "FP!"
From the EULA:
You acknowledge that the Software in source
code form remains a confidential trade
secret of Atari and/or its suppliers and
therefore you agree not to attempt to
decipher, decompile, disassemble or
reverse engineer the Software or allow
others to do so, except to the extent
applicable laws specifically prohibit
such restriction. You further agree not
to modify or create derivative works of
the Software.
Me no like. But for two bucks, who's going to care?
Yeah, well I still think this is the most pointless exercises in geek futility ever. But hey, what's the point in being a geek at all if you can't have fun doing it?
It's a good thing the "humor" icon was used in this article. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known what to think about this. "It's funny, laugh." Good advice.
1) Can a single word become a meme from being (re)introduced into every day vocabulary? (I think the answer is yes - consider the word "Rad" in the 80's, or more hideously the current usage of the word "tight").
I should think so. Your examples are proof positive.
2) If a single word can become a meme, does "meme" fit into this category?
In a word, yes. Just like the GNU Public License is Licensed under the GNU Public License, meme can be a meme. Then you start to get into the fun meta language. So, we need to define meme using meta-meme language.
3) Has the word "meme" been in common use for decades, and I am just vocabularily challenged?
I don't know about common, but it's been around for a few millennia at least in some form or another.
4) Can you dodge off-topic mods by starting your post with an off-topic disclaimer (disclaimer: this question is very off-topic)?
Not to my knowledge. Anyone who can, probably just lucked out.
By the way, in case you're wondering, my sources tell me that "meme" rymes with "team" not "mimi."
I blame the French.
Becoming a Slashdot Addict
I have time to become intimately familiar with all of the Slashdot memes like FP!, GNAA, In Soviet Russia, and CowboyNeal. I know all of the rules for them and when they're just being faked by copy-cats. Sure, sure, I can stop any time.
I remember radio ads way back in 1997, 98 where they'd read out the entire URL, which was excruciating:
"H T T P colon slash slash W W W dot (pause) whatever dot (pause) com"
Are we going to have to relive that if new namespaces are added?
...you implied that he doesn't use it because it's bloated...
My original comment simply pointed out that Gosling's advice for people is to just ignore the API you don't use. If my repeating what he said implied anything, he implied it not me.
Gosling was trying to illistrate that the API is the way it is because a large percentage of people use a particular part that a smaller percentage think is bloat. I don't believe Gosling thought that JDBC was bloat. He knows a lot of people rely on it, but he wanted those people to see that the view of API bloat depends on people's point of view.
You can't make stuff like this up.
- No, Gosling doesn't use JDBC. He says it all the time. He doesn't interact with databases, I guess. Not everyone has to.
- Gosling isn't as important to Borcon goers. Most of them are Delphi coders.
- I was wrong. The other keynote speaker didn't invent Pascal, he invented Turbo Pascal, then Delphi, then C#, for which he would want to use Visual Studio for, but couldn't.
Probably just mistaken. Maybe he was the inventor of Delphi, not Pascal. If so, my mistake.
I had the honor of listening to James Gosling's Keynote at Borcon 2001. He gave a stimulating talk about running Java on a gas pump, which didn't actually work.
Then he took Q/A from the audience. He fielded the usual comments about how the Java API was so bloated. His reply to that was just not to use the bloated parts. He, for instance, doesn't use JDBC for anything, but he doesn't advocate removing it.
The previous day, the inventor of Pascal, who now works at Microsoft, did his entire keynote from Notepad because he was forbidden from running Visual Studio at Borcon (too much competition with Borland's IDEs).
Still, for a smart guy, he is easily provoked.
I felt the same way while I was watching it. It makes me wonder why ILM would hire these guys. Then it occurred to me, the reason could have been to create animatics (aka videomatics). ILM prides itself on having very detailed footage of scenes that require a lot of CG work before any animators or actors begin work. Among other things, it helps when trying to get actors in a sea of blue to understand what is expected of them.
It's obvious the Duality group can do this. Animatics have the added benefit of being released on DVD when the time comes, so there's marketing value too.
That's true, it doesn't mean that, but it sure implies it. And there doesn't seem to be any other evidence that counters it.
Then there's the phrase, "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"