Then again, I'm biased against the whole genre. I tried Magic when it first came out (damn, I bought a whole box of booster packs, and now they're worth their weight in gold. Too bad I sold them in college.) It was a little fun, but not great.
Well, my son has gotten into Yu-Gi-Oh (I also hate that I'm a stickler for correctness,) so I had to buy a set and help him learn, so he wouldn't get cheated. It's also not a *BAD* game, it's just overly complex. At least Magic was fairly simple. Yu-Gi-Oh is all sorts of confusing (logical, but so complex you have to read everything three times.) Oh well, as it turns out, his friends don't even play by the official rules anyway. I just hope he doesn't get too screwed by their on-the-spot rule-making. (Or end up taking advantage of somebody less experienced in the same way.)
Apple won't dump FireWire for USB2. FireWire is too much their own to give up. And, no, mine isn't the cube. The cube didn't have a PCI slot. With mine, you can add one device, and you can put a monitor on top, just like older 'desktop' computers. Plus, mine implies less expensive. The cube was MORE than a similarly-configured PowerMac tower.
Probably cannibalize PM sales. Not more switchers, because there's not obvious reason for someone to switch to this 'low cost' machine from a low cost PC. It will still be more expensive than the low end PCs.
What I think would be nice is something the size of the Hush PC with a single G4 (or PPC970 if this rumor is true,) a Combo or Super Drive, four DIMM slots (for a current max of 2GB, going to 4GB when 1GB DIMMs are out,) a single AGP and a single PCI slot. The upgradeability is enough for MOST mid-range users (i.e. better than eMac, but not quite PowerMac,) so it would draw users who want some expandability, and would have bought an eMac, but aren't willing to pay full PowerMac prices.
Only one drive bay, only one processor. So it's a PowerMac 'lite', in that people who need the dual processors, dual optical drives, quad hard drives, or more than one PCI card, would still go for a PMac, this would just draw people who would have otherwise gone for an eMac. The processor should be faster than an eMac, though.
Finally, price. Price it $100 cheaper than an other-wise identical eMac. So a 1GHz SuperDrive model would be $1,199, and maybe release an education-only model with CD-ROM at $699. Same video card choices as the PMG4, with a Radeon 7500 default on the low models, 9000 on the high end, with 9700 build-to-order.
This would make it cheap enough to be a good low-end machine at the bottom, yet not SO cheap that it will steal sales of the PowerMac (With only one open slot, you could have SCSI, *OR* Fibre Channel, *OR* an extra Gigabit...) The high end model would be a good model for those who want a Cinema Display, but don't need the horsepower or expandability, the low end model would be a good replacement for aging G3 or ealier machines in schools and businesses (that have monitors already.)
I have to agree with the other respondent. The 970 is only partially about 64-bit. It's also about faster raw speeds, that Motorola hasn't been able to deliver. Mot's rumored.13 (or is it.09) micron G4 is only supposed to be 1.5-1.6GHz at intro, with a 'low power' 1.25GHz model that would be used in PowerBooks. As it stands, the 970 is supposed to be capable of 1.4-1.5GHz at low enough power for notebooks. And even if it's 10% slower clock-for-clock (although it should be at least even, if not faster,) that's still better, both raw performance, and marketing-wise.
Except this wasn't Apple giving it away, it was a grant that could be used to buy Macs. Probably a private Mac-promoting organization. Yes, I agree. Usually when MS gives software away, it's 'dumping'.
If MS were to give away the whole thing, it wouldn't be so big a deal. If they were to do it willingly, it wouldn't be a big deal. But when they try to give away software as 'payment' of fines, that's not okay. MS giving away '1 billion dollars worth' of software isn't the same as paying 1 billion dollars.
If MS was to get together with a hardware company, and give away a bunch of computers, loaded with MS software (especially if the software doesn't have more limited licensing than normal,) that would be okay.
I'm currently 27, and I never learned cursive. When I was going through grade school, they started promoting 'italics' instead of cursive. (Italics seems to have died out; it was basically 'cursive lite', keeping the curves, keeping the connected letters, but doing away with big loopy letters that don't look like the manuscript versions of the same letter.)
To this day, I can't write a cursive z, and have problems reading cursive, even though I can read all but the most illegible printed handwriting.
They're right. The GPL is only valid on a piece of software if the person who gave it the GPL had the authority to do so. Not only that, but the owner can change the license at any time. (There are examples of software in which one license (often the BSD license) is used for 'non-commercial' use, and a more restrictive license is used for commercial use.)
In short, if the original owner later decides that the work is no longer under the GPL, it is their right. Then, any derivatives that had been made are illegal, as the original copyright holder revoked their license. (Check the GPL, it doesn't say anything about not being revokable. Even if it did, something illegally being GPLed wouldn't be covered anyway.)
Think of it this way, some disgruntled Microsoft employee posts the complete and total source code for Windows XP on the net, and claims it is now released under the GPL. Heck, he even puts it on a Microsoft web server, with an official-looking web page. Just because it *LOOKS* official, and just because it was a Microsoft employee, doesn't mean that the employee had the right to release it under the GPL. Microsoft is fully within its rights to say (two days later) "HEY! That's not right! We did not mean to release it under the GPL, anyone who has a copy does not hold a valid licence of it."
In this case, even if the writer of the software is the head of Nullsoft, and had full intentions to release it under the GPL, his contract with AOL probably states that AOL actually owns all his written software, even if a specific piece of software isn't directly related to his job function (very common in commercial software houses,) thus, AOL really owns it, not the head of Nullsoft, therefore, AOL gets to decide the license. If AOL didn't approve this release, then they can take it back.
The comment "unless more companies start licensing..." seems to be dangerously close to extortion to me. "If you don't start giving me money, I'll beat you up." Sounds remarkably similar.
If anyone has a recording, or knows of multiple witnesses who have heard this phrase uttered, I say McBride needs to be reported to the police for his practices.
I assume this won't happen, but can anyone explain why?
Yes. Read the article before posting, that's how. <rolleyes>
Because they are creating black holes smaller than the size of a proton, that lasts a fraction of a second. Since it's created in a vacuum, it dissipates before it has time to suck anything nearby in.
No, but lookups on 'similar' domain names would infringe. Many registrars will search for a domain that is 'similar' to the one you specified. (For example, I search for widget.com, and have a name of John Doe, and it will suggest john-widget.net or widgets.org, or e-widget.biz.)
It's that simple. Each iTunes share can only serve 10 clients (and most broadband internet connections could only handle one or two anyway, at 128kbps+ per connected user.)
Then there's the fact that you can't download and keep any of the shared files, you can only listen while the share-er is online.
Any time I find that one of my favorite websites starts using pop-ups, I immediately email both the webmaster, and the company's most senior official I can find an email address for (president, CEO, etc.) stating that I will not be visiting their site for one month in protest over their use of popups. If in one month they still have popups, I send another one saying that I will not be visiting their site for two months more. (If in two months I still have a desire to visit their site, and they still have popups, I check every two months until they're gone, or I stop bothering to check.) My favorite local TV station (they have the best newscasters,) started using popups last year, and I haven't visited their website in just about a year.
I need to start keeping track of when I decided not to visit them ever again, and email them again letting them know of my decision. "Your continued use of popups made me stop visiting your site. I have since found that I don't need to visit your site at all, having found a good replacement. I do not expect to visit your site ever again.
Also, I try to keep track of advertisers who use popups, and avoid buying their merchandise. (I like the whole X-10 remote-controlled-home idea, but because of the pervasiveness of their popups, I haven't purchased one of their products in some time, and don't plan on doing so anytime soon.)
I don't think it is Intel's logic here, I think it is the writers.
Intel would LOVE to seem more PDAs and laptops. (Using Intel Centrino and X-Scale processors, of course.)
I, too, don't see how it could kill the PDA. Laptop, maybe, but not PDA. The point of a PDA is usually to have access to your information when a computer isn't around. A laptop is for moving your computer (data/settings) with you. This would partially alleviate that need, by having your data and settings with you, without hauling around the actual computer.
When combined with a powerful PDA, it could be a laptop killer. (Keep the 'large' storage device in the coat/briefcase/purse, and use the just-as-big-as-the-input/output-needs-to-be PDA to interface with it.)
Yeah, it's one of the better chains in the Portland area. (One in the Hollywood district, one in Beaverton, and one in Milwaukie, next door to the corporate headquarters for both TFAW and Dark Horse comics.)
Apparently they have a few stores in California, as well.
It's great for comics, only 'okay' for role playing games.
If you play RPGs, Bridgetown Hobbies in Northeast Portland on Sandy Boulevard is much better.
They link to a list of states, with places that artists are making appearances.
Of course, my state, Oregon, has nothing going on. Which strikes me as very odd, since Dark Horse Comics is based less than 10 miles from my house, and I have a Things From Another World (A comic/gaming store chain owned by Dark Horse Comics,) even closer!
I would have to say that I don't care what my doctor's beliefs are... As long as his/her beliefs do not affect the job. Someone can freely believe that the world was created 5000 years ago, that dinosaurs never existed, and that there is no such thing as evolution; yet still believe enough of modern biological thinking to believe in germs, virii, and assorted other medical beliefs.
But, the moment that a persons beliefs interfere with scientific thinking (such as denying the existence of germs,) then I have a problem.
That's his point, there will be no box that says DRM. DRM is outside the kernel, it isn't something built into the source. It's something that must be applied externally, hence, it can't be regulated by the GPL's hold over the kernel.
So, don't stress, there won't be a 'DRM' option when compiling the kernel anytime soon.
(Re-read the email, all Linus says is that external signing is allowed. What you do with that external signing is up to you. If you want to use it to enforce DRM, that doesn't have any effect on the kernel's license, as the signature is external in the first place. He *DOES* say that an/internal/ signature would have to be revealed because of the GPL, but an external one doesn't.)
It must be reiterated, it all depends on what your local laws are.
For example, I started a home-based business doing on-site computer consulting. When I started it, I lived in a city that required a 'home occupancy permit', which took all of 5 minutes to get at the city office, and a business license that also took about 5 minutes.
Then I moved to a different city that only requires that if your busness has more than $25,000 in income per year, you must get a business license. So now, since my business is making less than $25,000 a year (hopefully to change soon,) I don't even have to tell the city I'm running it.
Either way, you still have to register federally to pay payroll taxes if you're anything other than a sole proprietership. In my state, I also had to register with the state. But until I reach the $25,000/year mark, my city doesn't care. (Certain types of businesses, such as restaurants, are obviously subject to further regulation, but a software company shouldn't be.)
Also, if you're not going to be operating solely under your own name (such as 'John Doe's software') then you have to register your name with your state.
Well, Apple's site has all sorts of contradicting info. It has the one that says.11g 'slows', but doesn't say how much, it has one that specifically says.11g drops to 11Mbps, and it has one that.11g can have full speed.
I don't know what to trust. I figure I'll just buy an APExtreme and a.11g card for my existing computer, and see what happens when one of my other.11b computers connects.
Note that most piracy occurs in the South China Sea, and off the coast of Africa, but there is still piracy in the Caribbean, which is very close to U.S. shores.
Just because modern day pirates don't usually have eye patches, and sail in many masted schooners with a black skull-and-crossbones 'Jolly Roger' flag, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It just tends to happen more often to pleasure craft than to cargo vessels, like it did centuries ago.
And the Renaissance was well under way and piracy was still common, as the U.S. Marine Corps was formed in 1775 specifically to combat the rampant piracy on vessels travelling to and from America. (Yes, the United States Marine Corps is technically older than the United States of America as a country.)
It's fun, very child-friendly, reasonably ad-free (a few small ones in the corners, and the occasional 'sponsored game',) and free.
Oh, and it's addicting for child and adult. (My 30 year old sister got me hooked on it after students in her class told her about it, I got my wife and her son hooked.)
It's kind of a tomagotchi that won't die, combined with a game/fake auction/online-pokemon all-in-one. And you can even play the games (some good, some not so good, mostly 'generic' copies of other simple puzzle or action games) without creating an account.
Since when is 'surprise' spelled with a z? I was expecting something like a contest for the first group to completely map it, and that it was won immediately, or some such nonsense. A combination of a 'surprise' and a 'prize'.
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It's not.
Then again, I'm biased against the whole genre. I tried Magic when it first came out (damn, I bought a whole box of booster packs, and now they're worth their weight in gold. Too bad I sold them in college.) It was a little fun, but not great.
Well, my son has gotten into Yu-Gi-Oh (I also hate that I'm a stickler for correctness,) so I had to buy a set and help him learn, so he wouldn't get cheated. It's also not a *BAD* game, it's just overly complex. At least Magic was fairly simple. Yu-Gi-Oh is all sorts of confusing (logical, but so complex you have to read everything three times.) Oh well, as it turns out, his friends don't even play by the official rules anyway. I just hope he doesn't get too screwed by their on-the-spot rule-making. (Or end up taking advantage of somebody less experienced in the same way.)
Apple won't dump FireWire for USB2. FireWire is too much their own to give up. And, no, mine isn't the cube. The cube didn't have a PCI slot. With mine, you can add one device, and you can put a monitor on top, just like older 'desktop' computers. Plus, mine implies less expensive. The cube was MORE than a similarly-configured PowerMac tower.
Probably cannibalize PM sales. Not more switchers, because there's not obvious reason for someone to switch to this 'low cost' machine from a low cost PC. It will still be more expensive than the low end PCs.
What I think would be nice is something the size of the Hush PC with a single G4 (or PPC970 if this rumor is true,) a Combo or Super Drive, four DIMM slots (for a current max of 2GB, going to 4GB when 1GB DIMMs are out,) a single AGP and a single PCI slot. The upgradeability is enough for MOST mid-range users (i.e. better than eMac, but not quite PowerMac,) so it would draw users who want some expandability, and would have bought an eMac, but aren't willing to pay full PowerMac prices.
Only one drive bay, only one processor. So it's a PowerMac 'lite', in that people who need the dual processors, dual optical drives, quad hard drives, or more than one PCI card, would still go for a PMac, this would just draw people who would have otherwise gone for an eMac. The processor should be faster than an eMac, though.
Finally, price. Price it $100 cheaper than an other-wise identical eMac. So a 1GHz SuperDrive model would be $1,199, and maybe release an education-only model with CD-ROM at $699. Same video card choices as the PMG4, with a Radeon 7500 default on the low models, 9000 on the high end, with 9700 build-to-order.
This would make it cheap enough to be a good low-end machine at the bottom, yet not SO cheap that it will steal sales of the PowerMac (With only one open slot, you could have SCSI, *OR* Fibre Channel, *OR* an extra Gigabit...) The high end model would be a good model for those who want a Cinema Display, but don't need the horsepower or expandability, the low end model would be a good replacement for aging G3 or ealier machines in schools and businesses (that have monitors already.)
I have to agree with the other respondent. The 970 is only partially about 64-bit. It's also about faster raw speeds, that Motorola hasn't been able to deliver. Mot's rumored .13 (or is it .09) micron G4 is only supposed to be 1.5-1.6GHz at intro, with a 'low power' 1.25GHz model that would be used in PowerBooks. As it stands, the 970 is supposed to be capable of 1.4-1.5GHz at low enough power for notebooks. And even if it's 10% slower clock-for-clock (although it should be at least even, if not faster,) that's still better, both raw performance, and marketing-wise.
Except this wasn't Apple giving it away, it was a grant that could be used to buy Macs. Probably a private Mac-promoting organization. Yes, I agree. Usually when MS gives software away, it's 'dumping'.
If MS were to give away the whole thing, it wouldn't be so big a deal. If they were to do it willingly, it wouldn't be a big deal. But when they try to give away software as 'payment' of fines, that's not okay. MS giving away '1 billion dollars worth' of software isn't the same as paying 1 billion dollars.
If MS was to get together with a hardware company, and give away a bunch of computers, loaded with MS software (especially if the software doesn't have more limited licensing than normal,) that would be okay.
I'm currently 27, and I never learned cursive. When I was going through grade school, they started promoting 'italics' instead of cursive. (Italics seems to have died out; it was basically 'cursive lite', keeping the curves, keeping the connected letters, but doing away with big loopy letters that don't look like the manuscript versions of the same letter.)
To this day, I can't write a cursive z, and have problems reading cursive, even though I can read all but the most illegible printed handwriting.
They're right. The GPL is only valid on a piece of software if the person who gave it the GPL had the authority to do so. Not only that, but the owner can change the license at any time. (There are examples of software in which one license (often the BSD license) is used for 'non-commercial' use, and a more restrictive license is used for commercial use.)
In short, if the original owner later decides that the work is no longer under the GPL, it is their right. Then, any derivatives that had been made are illegal, as the original copyright holder revoked their license. (Check the GPL, it doesn't say anything about not being revokable. Even if it did, something illegally being GPLed wouldn't be covered anyway.)
Think of it this way, some disgruntled Microsoft employee posts the complete and total source code for Windows XP on the net, and claims it is now released under the GPL. Heck, he even puts it on a Microsoft web server, with an official-looking web page. Just because it *LOOKS* official, and just because it was a Microsoft employee, doesn't mean that the employee had the right to release it under the GPL. Microsoft is fully within its rights to say (two days later) "HEY! That's not right! We did not mean to release it under the GPL, anyone who has a copy does not hold a valid licence of it."
In this case, even if the writer of the software is the head of Nullsoft, and had full intentions to release it under the GPL, his contract with AOL probably states that AOL actually owns all his written software, even if a specific piece of software isn't directly related to his job function (very common in commercial software houses,) thus, AOL really owns it, not the head of Nullsoft, therefore, AOL gets to decide the license. If AOL didn't approve this release, then they can take it back.
(P.S. IANAL.)
The comment "unless more companies start licensing..." seems to be dangerously close to extortion to me. "If you don't start giving me money, I'll beat you up." Sounds remarkably similar.
If anyone has a recording, or knows of multiple witnesses who have heard this phrase uttered, I say McBride needs to be reported to the police for his practices.
Yes, but is that in U.K. watzen, or U.S. watzen?
Personally, I remember the good old days when computers had so little storage that we didn't need to worry about this at all.
Like Bill Gates said, "3+4/25 frush ought to be enough for everybody!"
Yes. Read the article before posting, that's how. <rolleyes>
Because they are creating black holes smaller than the size of a proton, that lasts a fraction of a second. Since it's created in a vacuum, it dissipates before it has time to suck anything nearby in.
No, but lookups on 'similar' domain names would infringe. Many registrars will search for a domain that is 'similar' to the one you specified. (For example, I search for widget.com, and have a name of John Doe, and it will suggest john-widget.net or widgets.org, or e-widget.biz.)
It's that simple. Each iTunes share can only serve 10 clients (and most broadband internet connections could only handle one or two anyway, at 128kbps+ per connected user.)
Then there's the fact that you can't download and keep any of the shared files, you can only listen while the share-er is online.
Any time I find that one of my favorite websites starts using pop-ups, I immediately email both the webmaster, and the company's most senior official I can find an email address for (president, CEO, etc.) stating that I will not be visiting their site for one month in protest over their use of popups. If in one month they still have popups, I send another one saying that I will not be visiting their site for two months more. (If in two months I still have a desire to visit their site, and they still have popups, I check every two months until they're gone, or I stop bothering to check.) My favorite local TV station (they have the best newscasters,) started using popups last year, and I haven't visited their website in just about a year.
I need to start keeping track of when I decided not to visit them ever again, and email them again letting them know of my decision. "Your continued use of popups made me stop visiting your site. I have since found that I don't need to visit your site at all, having found a good replacement. I do not expect to visit your site ever again.
Also, I try to keep track of advertisers who use popups, and avoid buying their merchandise. (I like the whole X-10 remote-controlled-home idea, but because of the pervasiveness of their popups, I haven't purchased one of their products in some time, and don't plan on doing so anytime soon.)
I don't think it is Intel's logic here, I think it is the writers.
Intel would LOVE to seem more PDAs and laptops. (Using Intel Centrino and X-Scale processors, of course.)
I, too, don't see how it could kill the PDA. Laptop, maybe, but not PDA. The point of a PDA is usually to have access to your information when a computer isn't around. A laptop is for moving your computer (data/settings) with you. This would partially alleviate that need, by having your data and settings with you, without hauling around the actual computer.
When combined with a powerful PDA, it could be a laptop killer. (Keep the 'large' storage device in the coat/briefcase/purse, and use the just-as-big-as-the-input/output-needs-to-be PDA to interface with it.)
Yeah, it's one of the better chains in the Portland area. (One in the Hollywood district, one in Beaverton, and one in Milwaukie, next door to the corporate headquarters for both TFAW and Dark Horse comics.)
Apparently they have a few stores in California, as well.
It's great for comics, only 'okay' for role playing games.
If you play RPGs, Bridgetown Hobbies in Northeast Portland on Sandy Boulevard is much better.
They link to a list of states, with places that artists are making appearances.
Of course, my state, Oregon, has nothing going on. Which strikes me as very odd, since Dark Horse Comics is based less than 10 miles from my house, and I have a Things From Another World (A comic/gaming store chain owned by Dark Horse Comics,) even closer!
Bah!
Motorola? IBM?
Linux runs on PowerPCs, you know.
(Quite well on a Dual 1.42GHz G4, or so I've been told.)
Very slippery.
I would have to say that I don't care what my doctor's beliefs are... As long as his/her beliefs do not affect the job. Someone can freely believe that the world was created 5000 years ago, that dinosaurs never existed, and that there is no such thing as evolution; yet still believe enough of modern biological thinking to believe in germs, virii, and assorted other medical beliefs.
But, the moment that a persons beliefs interfere with scientific thinking (such as denying the existence of germs,) then I have a problem.
That's his point, there will be no box that says DRM. DRM is outside the kernel, it isn't something built into the source. It's something that must be applied externally, hence, it can't be regulated by the GPL's hold over the kernel.
/internal/ signature would have to be revealed because of the GPL, but an external one doesn't.)
So, don't stress, there won't be a 'DRM' option when compiling the kernel anytime soon.
(Re-read the email, all Linus says is that external signing is allowed. What you do with that external signing is up to you. If you want to use it to enforce DRM, that doesn't have any effect on the kernel's license, as the signature is external in the first place. He *DOES* say that an
It must be reiterated, it all depends on what your local laws are.
For example, I started a home-based business doing on-site computer consulting. When I started it, I lived in a city that required a 'home occupancy permit', which took all of 5 minutes to get at the city office, and a business license that also took about 5 minutes.
Then I moved to a different city that only requires that if your busness has more than $25,000 in income per year, you must get a business license. So now, since my business is making less than $25,000 a year (hopefully to change soon,) I don't even have to tell the city I'm running it.
Either way, you still have to register federally to pay payroll taxes if you're anything other than a sole proprietership. In my state, I also had to register with the state. But until I reach the $25,000/year mark, my city doesn't care. (Certain types of businesses, such as restaurants, are obviously subject to further regulation, but a software company shouldn't be.)
Also, if you're not going to be operating solely under your own name (such as 'John Doe's software') then you have to register your name with your state.
Well, Apple's site has all sorts of contradicting info. It has the one that says .11g 'slows', but doesn't say how much, it has one that specifically says .11g drops to 11Mbps, and it has one that .11g can have full speed.
.11g card for my existing computer, and see what happens when one of my other .11b computers connects.
I don't know what to trust. I figure I'll just buy an APExtreme and a
No, actually, piracy is still alive and kicking...
Story 1 (search the page for 'piracy' to see statistics on deaths)
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Story 5
Story 6
Story 7
Note that most piracy occurs in the South China Sea, and off the coast of Africa, but there is still piracy in the Caribbean, which is very close to U.S. shores.
Just because modern day pirates don't usually have eye patches, and sail in many masted schooners with a black skull-and-crossbones 'Jolly Roger' flag, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It just tends to happen more often to pleasure craft than to cargo vessels, like it did centuries ago.
And the Renaissance was well under way and piracy was still common, as the U.S. Marine Corps was formed in 1775 specifically to combat the rampant piracy on vessels travelling to and from America. (Yes, the United States Marine Corps is technically older than the United States of America as a country.)
hehe.. My resolution must be cranked higher than yours, to me it looks like only half an inch.
It's fun, very child-friendly, reasonably ad-free (a few small ones in the corners, and the occasional 'sponsored game',) and free.
Oh, and it's addicting for child and adult. (My 30 year old sister got me hooked on it after students in her class told her about it, I got my wife and her son hooked.)
It's kind of a tomagotchi that won't die, combined with a game/fake auction/online-pokemon all-in-one. And you can even play the games (some good, some not so good, mostly 'generic' copies of other simple puzzle or action games) without creating an account.
Neopets
Since when is 'surprise' spelled with a z? I was expecting something like a contest for the first group to completely map it, and that it was won immediately, or some such nonsense. A combination of a 'surprise' and a 'prize'.
Otherwise, it's just some horrible spelling.