I don't remember that, but I do vaguely remember some program that would hang up if it encountered "ATH" on a line all by itself.
Re:The first 15 posts on this are things you cant
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What You Can't Say
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My favorite example is why some African-Americans can & do use the term "nigger" to describe themselves without inpunity or shame, but if a white person does so, they can/will be fired and their lives ruined.
Nice troll. In most corporate environments, nobody, white or black, can go around saying "nigger" (or "spic" "kike" "cunt" "faggot" etc.) with impunity at the workplace. And off the workplace, how many people do you personally know whose lives have been ruined for saying "nigger" in their free time, or is that fear of yours merely hypothetical?
I'd suggest that if you really feel deprived by somehow not being allowed to say "nigger," if you really want to say it so badly, then go ahead. Shout it to the heavens. The skies won't fall around you.
Or maybe the next time you're chewing the fat with a close "African-American" buddy, e.g. that retired fellow who drives the golf cart at the local course, you should just be straight with him and say, "Hey, listen Quincy, you know...I really feel that I've suffered a deprivation in life at the hands of all of you politically correct blacks. I mean, it's totally unfair and discriminatory that you bruthas get to banter around so casually and say cool words like 'nigger' but I can't. It's almost like you all are free and I'm the slave! Do you dig me, my man? So, from now on, can I call you 'nigger'? Pretty please? It'll make me feel so tingly and transgressive, so deliciously antebellum. I'll even make it worth your while, throw in an extra buck tip. So, whaddya say, Quince ol' boy - (er, can I say boy?) - is it all right? Do we have a deal? Well then, fetch me my putter, nigger!"
The no carrier joke is quickly becoming a standard one.
You're kidding, right? The "NO CARRIER" joke has been around much longer than the Natalie Portman joke. Hell, it's been around longer than Natalie Portman!
(mod parent up, someone - he made some good points)
Well, that's at least a cogent counterargument. But let me make myself clear. I am not saying I agree or disagree that we need 8 glasses of water a day. I'm saying that I'm a skeptic. I agree with Valtin's argument that proof we need such a large amount of drinking water for everyday activity is suspiciously lacking. It seems to be ubiquitously 'common knowledge' and 'doctor recommended' but for something which is so strongly preached by "the entire medical world," as you state with some accuracy, shouldn't there be volumes of studies? Where are they? At the very least, I'd expect to see something demonstrating that healthy octogenarians drank more water during their lives then their sick and deceased cohorts. As it is, the best pro-water study I could come up with turned out to be sponsored by Brita. That's not very reassuring.
It could very well be that Valtin's a crackpot. But is he wrong?
(BTW, I do drink plenty of water myself. Pascal's Wager, and all that.)
Well, Asian-American, which I already knew and so would you if you had bothered to read your own link instead of attempting to nitpick what would have been in any case an inconsequential error. But it wasn't a mistake, it was chosen deliberately to highlight my point. That what was originally so-called "Chinese" take out with minor asian influence has expanded into authentic regional cuisine.
Morning Musume is the main group in a pop music production venture called the "Hello! Project." The songs you mentioned were by smaller groups in the project. Summer Reggae Rainbow is by "7-nin Matsuri" and the other song, called Mini Moni Telephone! Ring Ring Ring is by a kids' group called "Mini Moni."
Nevertheless, Morning Musume and its various groupings do tend to appeal mostly to young people. And middle-aged salarymen. (For the reason why, see here). Which I suppose, tangientally touches upon one of the major Japanese cultural exports.
Not just the same but even more so...
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For those people who can't be bothered to read the article, one of the main points was that:
A record 3 million people around the world are now studying the Japanese language, compared with only 127,000 in 1997, according to the Japan Foundation and Tokyo's Marubeni Research Institute.
So, in other words, there is a measurable increase in the cultural cachet of Japan, it's not just a static, ongoing event. And it's not just about manga and anime, but food (sushi restaurants are now ubiquitous in any large city), and jrock/jpop, the prime examples of which are Glay, KinKi Kids, Puffy (known in the US as Puffy AmiYumi so as to avoid confusion with a certain hiphop impresario), Hamasaki Ayumi, the New York born Utada Hikaru and Morning Musume, a group of currently 15 girls that form the most well known part of a pop empire.
Furthermore, even anime seems to be taking up an ever larger bite of the US Cartoon Network's schedule and the traditional Saturday Morning/after-school children's fare. It's even made a few recent ventures into wide release cinema in the US.
However, one could argue, I think persuasively, that's Japan's cultural upswing is part of a larger trend in the Asia-fication of Western culture. What started with egg foo yung and chop suey has now branched out to shabu-shabu and kimchi. What began with Speed Racer and Godzilla has developed into Princess Mononoke, cosplay and Shaolin Soccer.
No, *you* don't have to check for anything. Your email client will check, and could easily be programmed to discard the email sight unseen if it doesn't contain the appropriate validation code.
I happen to like that song too;), but you do realize that it is exactly that cleverer-than-thou attitude which explains why Albarn and Co. remain a poor-selling cult band stateside.
Doubtless many of you are wondering right now, Should I click on the parent's link or not? Is it worth my while using up my precious computing resources to spawn a browser window? He says it's a "gem". But maybe it's just Gigli again. Why couldn't he have just said the name of the flick, dammit!? Click or don't click? What a dilemma!!
That's it, I'm fed up with this air-of-mystery shit! What say you we all band together and boycott clicking on needlessly obscure url descriptors like "this gem"? We few, we proud, we slashdotters, we can resist the lure of enigmatic links!
Okay, I couldn't resist...it was "Air Bud Spikes Back."
Sigh, what a downer. Damn you cjsnell. Damn you and your low slashdot number to hell! I'm so depressed, I'll think I'll go watch Chasing Papi (See? How hard was that?). I like my bad movies with a little eye candy.
The original BSG was a very silly series, about one step up from "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century." Despite that, it was pretty cool to 10-year olds. Consequently, some might've been nostagically hoping for a rehash of the first series with 21st century special effects. But the first series was a product of its time, and although it had a large cast, my vague recollection was that it largely adhered to the "buddy" protagonist model that ruled in the 60's through the 80's. Kirk and Spock. Gilligan and Skipper. Starsky and Hutch. DeSoto and Gage. And Starbuck and Apollo. But the buddy paradigm is dead, killed off in the 80's by complex ensemble dramas like Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, LA Law and even Star Trek, the Next Generation.
So the 2003 version of BSG was bound to be a huge disappointment to people looking for a nothing more than a buff and shine of the old series. But judged on its own merits, and not as a remake, it's a total blast. With its rather lengthy dramatis personae, it recalls more than anything SF author Peter F. Hamilton's grandiose space opera, "The Reality Dysfunction". My impression was, if you had fun reading that series, you'll have fun with this miniseries, and if not, you won't. Obviously, I enjoyed it, way more than I would've ever thought.
Some of the great parts are mostly realistic-looking space physics, a willingness to not dumb down stock military and SF tech terminology. It had a sweeping epic scope and fairly decent acting for something of this nature.
The bad parts include a too-high ratio of annoying characters to interesting ones, and that whole cancer thing which was utterly irrelevant to the plot just struck me as a stock melodramatic ploy. And there was a lingering sensation that the switch to flesh-and-blood Cylons was done for expediency...it saved money on special effects.
But in my defense, I was using as a starting point the previous poster's allegation that OpenGL is superior because of its lack of mutability. So I suppose my followup had a bit of GIGO to it. Thanks for the further info.
I have done some work with DirectX and the biggest problem I see is that new versions come out too quickly. Do you want your project to be totally tied to DirectX version N with you know N+1 will be out next year making your huge project obsolete or requiring a rewrite. For that reason SDL or OpenGL (an API that hardly changes) appeal to me. Who wants to build on shifting sands.
That's one of the most ridiculous comments I've ever read on Slashdot. You're saying it's an advantage for OpenGL to be behind the times? If so, then what's stopping developers from using it? Maybe they like to have the latest features? Using your reasoning, people ought to develop for the VIC-20 because it's a stable platform that doesn't advance, but Intel PCs are "shifting sands" that annoyingly keep getting more memory and speed and thereby threatening to render obsolete your version of Breakout.
Seriously, when you develop a game, you pick a version of DX that you want it to be developed on. If you pick DX8, you don't have to stop in the middle and change when DX9 or DX10 come out. You can stay with the same stable feature set that you originally started with. Just like you could with OpenGL. The difference is that DX gives you a choice to rewrite for the latest gee-whiz features...if you want to.
Another characteristic of emergencies is that they are defined subjectively.
The person sitting behind me in the theater might believe that her best friend's sister's neighbor dumping her boyfriend is an emergency of epic proportions.
The other person to my left might think that ordering pizzas for her office party is of such vital national importance that it can only be discussed in a darkened theater during a moment of quiet suspense.
And the guy who keeps going, "Hello? Hello? Hello? Are you there? Hello?" is still in a state of existential flux. Is this an emergency, or not? He's not sure.
Allow theaters, restaurants, etc. to jam signals, so long as they post their intention to do so prominently at the entrance.
Other establishments can decline to buy jamming equipment and open their doors to all the heart surgeons on 24 hour call.
Then people will vote with their pocketbooks. And if, for instance, "no jamming" theaters prove to be more popular, then "jamming" theaters can make up for lost business by charging a premium for the peace of mind of their cliente.
I thought most +R's don't play in most home DVD players? Is this still the case?
It was never the case. What is true is that -RW discs are significantly more compatible than +RW, particularly on older players, and also that -R seems to be infinitesimally more compatible than +R. And also, no matter what disc type you use, burners never seem to produce discs which are 100% compatible with all readers. This was true even of CDR but appears to be much more of a problem with recordable DVD. It would be nice if the next advance is a single standard and not so finicky as DVD+/-R. Personally I think they should skip the blu-ray level 20-25GB, wait a few more years, and release a 75-100GB format.
At no point in that letter does Darl present any evidence that the GPL is unconstitutional, illegal or voidable. The sole crux of his argument is that it runs contrary to the intent of the copyright system stated in the US Constitution.
Darl has a problem. Simply stated, the very profit-motivated people he would be most likely to want in his camp also tend to strongly believe that contract law trumps any other right in the Contitution. Since the GPL is merely a contract relies on copyright in order to work, he loses.
Although I generally agree with using Occam's Razor in these instances, the time for relying on the incompetence defense has long passed. By now SCO must know their error and they still aren't withdrawing the suit. So although there may not have been malice (or "conspiracy") aforethought, there is certainly malice now.
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I don't remember that, but I do vaguely remember some program that would hang up if it encountered "ATH" on a line all by itself.
My favorite example is why some African-Americans can & do use the term "nigger" to describe themselves without inpunity or shame, but if a white person does so, they can/will be fired and their lives ruined.
Nice troll. In most corporate environments, nobody, white or black, can go around saying "nigger" (or "spic" "kike" "cunt" "faggot" etc.) with impunity at the workplace. And off the workplace, how many people do you personally know whose lives have been ruined for saying "nigger" in their free time, or is that fear of yours merely hypothetical?
I'd suggest that if you really feel deprived by somehow not being allowed to say "nigger," if you really want to say it so badly, then go ahead. Shout it to the heavens. The skies won't fall around you.
Or maybe the next time you're chewing the fat with a close "African-American" buddy, e.g. that retired fellow who drives the golf cart at the local course, you should just be straight with him and say, "Hey, listen Quincy, you know...I really feel that I've suffered a deprivation in life at the hands of all of you politically correct blacks. I mean, it's totally unfair and discriminatory that you bruthas get to banter around so casually and say cool words like 'nigger' but I can't. It's almost like you all are free and I'm the slave! Do you dig me, my man? So, from now on, can I call you 'nigger'? Pretty please? It'll make me feel so tingly and transgressive, so deliciously antebellum. I'll even make it worth your while, throw in an extra buck tip. So, whaddya say, Quince ol' boy - (er, can I say boy?) - is it all right? Do we have a deal? Well then, fetch me my putter, nigger!"
The no carrier joke is quickly becoming a standard one.
You're kidding, right? The "NO CARRIER" joke has been around much longer than the Natalie Portman joke. Hell, it's been around longer than Natalie Portman!
You're mistaken, because if it wasn't a mistake, then it was a mistake. ;)
(mod parent up, someone - he made some good points)
Well, that's at least a cogent counterargument. But let me make myself clear. I am not saying I agree or disagree that we need 8 glasses of water a day. I'm saying that I'm a skeptic. I agree with Valtin's argument that proof we need such a large amount of drinking water for everyday activity is suspiciously lacking. It seems to be ubiquitously 'common knowledge' and 'doctor recommended' but for something which is so strongly preached by "the entire medical world," as you state with some accuracy, shouldn't there be volumes of studies? Where are they? At the very least, I'd expect to see something demonstrating that healthy octogenarians drank more water during their lives then their sick and deceased cohorts. As it is, the best pro-water study I could come up with turned out to be sponsored by Brita. That's not very reassuring.
It could very well be that Valtin's a crackpot. But is he wrong?
(BTW, I do drink plenty of water myself. Pascal's Wager, and all that.)
The problem with "quick web searches" is that you wind up googling up a lot of misinformation.
In fact, there is no strong medical evidence that people under normal circumstances need to drink large quantities of water.
See here.
and here.
Chop suey is American.
Well, Asian-American, which I already knew and so would you if you had bothered to read your own link instead of attempting to nitpick what would have been in any case an inconsequential error. But it wasn't a mistake, it was chosen deliberately to highlight my point. That what was originally so-called "Chinese" take out with minor asian influence has expanded into authentic regional cuisine.
Morning Musume is the main group in a pop music production venture called the "Hello! Project." The songs you mentioned were by smaller groups in the project. Summer Reggae Rainbow is by "7-nin Matsuri" and the other song, called Mini Moni Telephone! Ring Ring Ring is by a kids' group called "Mini Moni."
Nevertheless, Morning Musume and its various groupings do tend to appeal mostly to young people. And middle-aged salarymen. (For the reason why, see here). Which I suppose, tangientally touches upon one of the major Japanese cultural exports.
Porn.
For those people who can't be bothered to read the article, one of the main points was that:
A record 3 million people around the world are now studying the Japanese language, compared with only 127,000 in 1997, according to the Japan Foundation and Tokyo's Marubeni Research Institute.
So, in other words, there is a measurable increase in the cultural cachet of Japan, it's not just a static, ongoing event. And it's not just about manga and anime, but food (sushi restaurants are now ubiquitous in any large city), and jrock/jpop, the prime examples of which are Glay, KinKi Kids, Puffy (known in the US as Puffy AmiYumi so as to avoid confusion with a certain hiphop impresario), Hamasaki Ayumi, the New York born Utada Hikaru and Morning Musume, a group of currently 15 girls that form the most well known part of a pop empire.
Furthermore, even anime seems to be taking up an ever larger bite of the US Cartoon Network's schedule and the traditional Saturday Morning/after-school children's fare. It's even made a few recent ventures into wide release cinema in the US.
However, one could argue, I think persuasively, that's Japan's cultural upswing is part of a larger trend in the Asia-fication of Western culture. What started with egg foo yung and chop suey has now branched out to shabu-shabu and kimchi. What began with Speed Racer and Godzilla has developed into Princess Mononoke, cosplay and Shaolin Soccer.
Crypto Gnome, just wanted you to know that somebody appreciated your witty aside.
Or so I'd imagine.
No, *you* don't have to check for anything. Your email client will check, and could easily be programmed to discard the email sight unseen if it doesn't contain the appropriate validation code.
(wonders how many people will get it)
;), but you do realize that it is exactly that cleverer-than-thou attitude which explains why Albarn and Co. remain a poor-selling cult band stateside.
I happen to like that song too
Doubtless many of you are wondering right now, Should I click on the parent's link or not? Is it worth my while using up my precious computing resources to spawn a browser window? He says it's a "gem". But maybe it's just Gigli again. Why couldn't he have just said the name of the flick, dammit!? Click or don't click? What a dilemma!!
That's it, I'm fed up with this air-of-mystery shit! What say you we all band together and boycott clicking on needlessly obscure url descriptors like "this gem"? We few, we proud, we slashdotters, we can resist the lure of enigmatic links!
Okay, I couldn't resist...it was "Air Bud Spikes Back."
Sigh, what a downer. Damn you cjsnell. Damn you and your low slashdot number to hell! I'm so depressed, I'll think I'll go watch Chasing Papi (See? How hard was that?) . I like my bad movies with a little eye candy.
I know exactly what you mean.
A computer is a computer.
A monitor is a monitor.
A modem is a modem.
A DVD player is a DVD player.
Only large, bulky, overpriced devices come out of the attempts to breed any of the above.
Like a laptop.
Oh, wait.
The original BSG was a very silly series, about one step up from "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century." Despite that, it was pretty cool to 10-year olds. Consequently, some might've been nostagically hoping for a rehash of the first series with 21st century special effects. But the first series was a product of its time, and although it had a large cast, my vague recollection was that it largely adhered to the "buddy" protagonist model that ruled in the 60's through the 80's. Kirk and Spock. Gilligan and Skipper. Starsky and Hutch. DeSoto and Gage. And Starbuck and Apollo. But the buddy paradigm is dead, killed off in the 80's by complex ensemble dramas like Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, LA Law and even Star Trek, the Next Generation.
So the 2003 version of BSG was bound to be a huge disappointment to people looking for a nothing more than a buff and shine of the old series. But judged on its own merits, and not as a remake, it's a total blast. With its rather lengthy dramatis personae, it recalls more than anything SF author Peter F. Hamilton's grandiose space opera, "The Reality Dysfunction". My impression was, if you had fun reading that series, you'll have fun with this miniseries, and if not, you won't. Obviously, I enjoyed it, way more than I would've ever thought.
Some of the great parts are mostly realistic-looking space physics, a willingness to not dumb down stock military and SF tech terminology. It had a sweeping epic scope and fairly decent acting for something of this nature.
The bad parts include a too-high ratio of annoying characters to interesting ones, and that whole cancer thing which was utterly irrelevant to the plot just struck me as a stock melodramatic ploy. And there was a lingering sensation that the switch to flesh-and-blood Cylons was done for expediency...it saved money on special effects.
it was based on specifications set by independent election Hot Cocks
Surely you must've known someone was bound to ask about this.
I'm sorry but your misinformed, in some ways.
:)
Fair enough.
But in my defense, I was using as a starting point the previous poster's allegation that OpenGL is superior because of its lack of mutability. So I suppose my followup had a bit of GIGO to it. Thanks for the further info.
I have done some work with DirectX and the biggest problem I see is that new versions come out too quickly. Do you want your project to be totally tied to DirectX version N with you know N+1 will be out next year making your huge project obsolete or requiring a rewrite. For that reason SDL or OpenGL (an API that hardly changes) appeal to me. Who wants to build on shifting sands.
That's one of the most ridiculous comments I've ever read on Slashdot. You're saying it's an advantage for OpenGL to be behind the times? If so, then what's stopping developers from using it? Maybe they like to have the latest features? Using your reasoning, people ought to develop for the VIC-20 because it's a stable platform that doesn't advance, but Intel PCs are "shifting sands" that annoyingly keep getting more memory and speed and thereby threatening to render obsolete your version of Breakout.
Seriously, when you develop a game, you pick a version of DX that you want it to be developed on. If you pick DX8, you don't have to stop in the middle and change when DX9 or DX10 come out. You can stay with the same stable feature set that you originally started with. Just like you could with OpenGL. The difference is that DX gives you a choice to rewrite for the latest gee-whiz features...if you want to.
If she bought this ATM and had rigged it to not accept his PIN, why not just rig it to store his PIN and not eject the card?
Not ejecting the card means, person will immediately call bank, cancel the card, get a new PIN.
Ejecting the card means, person will be oblivious their PIN and account has been swiped, next day, their bank account can be cleaned out.
Rule of thumb: The best cons are when the person doesn't suspect they've been conned.
Another characteristic of emergencies is that they are defined subjectively.
The person sitting behind me in the theater might believe that her best friend's sister's neighbor dumping her boyfriend is an emergency of epic proportions.
The other person to my left might think that ordering pizzas for her office party is of such vital national importance that it can only be discussed in a darkened theater during a moment of quiet suspense.
And the guy who keeps going, "Hello? Hello? Hello? Are you there? Hello?" is still in a state of existential flux. Is this an emergency, or not? He's not sure.
Let the free market decide this.
Allow theaters, restaurants, etc. to jam signals, so long as they post their intention to do so prominently at the entrance.
Other establishments can decline to buy jamming equipment and open their doors to all the heart surgeons on 24 hour call.
Then people will vote with their pocketbooks. And if, for instance, "no jamming" theaters prove to be more popular, then "jamming" theaters can make up for lost business by charging a premium for the peace of mind of their cliente.
I thought most +R's don't play in most home DVD players? Is this still the case?
It was never the case. What is true is that -RW discs are significantly more compatible than +RW, particularly on older players, and also that -R seems to be infinitesimally more compatible than +R. And also, no matter what disc type you use, burners never seem to produce discs which are 100% compatible with all readers. This was true even of CDR but appears to be much more of a problem with recordable DVD. It would be nice if the next advance is a single standard and not so finicky as DVD+/-R. Personally I think they should skip the blu-ray level 20-25GB, wait a few more years, and release a 75-100GB format.
At no point in that letter does Darl present any evidence that the GPL is unconstitutional, illegal or voidable. The sole crux of his argument is that it runs contrary to the intent of the copyright system stated in the US Constitution.
Darl has a problem. Simply stated, the very profit-motivated people he would be most likely to want in his camp also tend to strongly believe that contract law trumps any other right in the Contitution. Since the GPL is merely a contract relies on copyright in order to work, he loses.
FAT32 supports up to a 2 TB partition.
Correct. Proof here.
Although I generally agree with using Occam's Razor in these instances, the time for relying on the incompetence defense has long passed. By now SCO must know their error and they still aren't withdrawing the suit. So although there may not have been malice (or "conspiracy") aforethought, there is certainly malice now.
And that's why SCO deserves no sympathy.