Actually according to Wikipedia it could come from the word fancy: "Paul Dickson, in his Dickson Baseball Dictionary, cites William Henry Nugent's work that claims it comes from fancy, a 19th century term from England that referred mainly to followers of boxing." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_(person)
"According to that unsupported explanation", yes. But most dictionaries only mention "fanatic" and very few would link it to "fancy" or "fantasy". But I agree with you that fans are more restrained than fanatics. It's just that the irony of hiding fanatism behind that snide remark cracked me up.
A Samsung fan is just a regular person who doesn't have a deeply compelling brand loyalty.
Same as a Steelers fan is just a regular person who doesn't have a deeply compelling sport loyalty. Or a Saturn fan is just a regular person who doesn't have a deeply compelling car loyalty.
It is a "hard labour camp" in the sense that you're required to work there if you want to eat, i.e. if you want to live. You won't be shot or beaten for not working - you'll just be left to die - but the outcome is the same.
Yes, yes. But it's much better than the "death camp" where unemployment benefits only cover 6 months. Same outcome, but at least the government does not force you to work. I believe around here it's 12 months before the "death camp".
If you do the math, you could GIVE everyone a plane ticket a year on Southwest and come out ahead. Someone needs to put up the reality check of what it actually costs per Resident per year to build and then operate.
Did you expand your analysis to the energy/pollution savings? And how does the cost/benefit stacks up against other ways to reduce energy consumption or pollution.
I am sorry, but the world was created 5 minutes ago. You never wrote your post but were created with memories of having done so. In fact, I never wrote this post either but my mind was filled with matching beliefs.
You were created when you started to read this post and anything previous to that is fake memory. Anyone who says they read it before you suffers from the delusions that were implanted in their minds.
I guess that might explain why some believers say there was a great flood in the fantasy of their past. If they cannot prove me wrong, they'll have to see the truth.
To play Devil's Advocate, there is a rational reason for doing so.
I think you give the "bigger-is-safer" brainwashed drivers out there too much credit. really only means being able to stare down the normal size sedan right next to you.
Oh it's worse than that. When I drive I watch through the car ahead to see how the previous car is driving. And I even have a shot at the car 3 steps ahead. This makes for a much smoother drive.
But that's only if all car are the same height and don't have excessively tinted windows. Which means that whenever I want to change lane, I will cut any SUV to be in front. And whenever I see one trying to change to my lane, I close the door and force him to get behind.
or build a cannon and shoot your plate wearing players at it (especially dwarves),
Why build a cannon when you can just punt Gnomes at the boss? Some even have the right equipment to survive months inside its stomach. Yeah, it's more fun inventing machinery to punt oversized people, but where will you find a Dwarf with enough ingenuity to create an acid-resistant diving suit?
Once again minecraft shows itself to be dwarf fortress' inferior cousin. This is not the only example.
Having played both, I'd say you are comparing SimCity to Doom. If it wasn't for DF's hellishly inconsistent interface, I could still enjoy them all. Nethack was a joy compared to this monstrosity.
That makes the Big Bang Theory, String Theory and most other forms of cosmology religion.
Until it's PROVEN it's just another form of religion.
Such a smart nugget and yet so wrong.
The Big Bang Theory and String Theory are both falsifiable, scientists are trying to prove it wrong every day. Moreover, a scientific theory can NEVER be proven right. For instance, Newton's Laws were proven wrong by Einstein's theory and the planet Mercury.
I think you are stretching your atheism in places your beliefs do not belong.
The biggest issue with refining the GUI is that it's still in alpha, and features change quickly enough that a good gui would soon become obsolete.
Fanmade programs like dwarf therapist and stonesense help significantly, of course.
That's no excuse for 2468,/*-+ and uhjm. There's no rhyme nor reason for which to use when. And some times when exploring the interface you hit a dead end and have to repeat the last 6 keys to get the next McUrist or whatever.
The inability to iterate through the interface is one of the main reason I stopped playing last year, that and the long-assed trips to get the "closest" stone on the same square 20 floors below rather than the one on the same floor 2 squares to the right. Which is a shame because it was great fun.
I once ran into a really excellent programmer, much more clever than I am. Where I would compare a pointer to NULL by writing "if (p == NULL)" he really preferred "if (! p)" because it demonstrated his superior intelligence.
I suppose he also did "++p" and "p += q". I've seen "if (! p)" everywhere, from beginners to advanced users, how does that demonstrate "superior intelligence"?
That line of code was only ever executed in a graphics device driver if the machine awoke from being put to sleep, at a time when no debugger was present yet. And due to some interesting circumstances, it only crashed the machine if another major code change that another programmer checked in a week later was present.
Why was it not the other programmer's fault?
How did "p == NULL" differ from "! p", was NULL defined to non-zero for that driver, was there some C++ operator overloading or was there something unusual about the processor?
Being like the rest of the world is a nice mantra that people keep throwing around, but most of the rest of the world simplified the system by having a "first to file" system, meaning someone could steal your invention and file first, and you'd have NO recourse.
Yes, yes. Because people never go to court over breach of NDA or any other case where fraud is involved.
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Yeah, the differences in culture are sometimes very surprising. And she's so pushy, too!
Planetes, anyone?
Lets give them more garbage to work on!
You know that "fan" comes from "fanatic", yes?
Actually according to Wikipedia it could come from the word fancy: "Paul Dickson, in his Dickson Baseball Dictionary, cites William Henry Nugent's work that claims it comes from fancy, a 19th century term from England that referred mainly to followers of boxing." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_(person)
"According to that unsupported explanation", yes. But most dictionaries only mention "fanatic" and very few would link it to "fancy" or "fantasy". But I agree with you that fans are more restrained than fanatics. It's just that the irony of hiding fanatism behind that snide remark cracked me up.
A Samsung fan is just a regular person who doesn't have a deeply compelling brand loyalty.
Same as a Steelers fan is just a regular person who doesn't have a deeply compelling sport loyalty.
Or a Saturn fan is just a regular person who doesn't have a deeply compelling car loyalty.
You know that "fan" comes from "fanatic", yes?
+1
Wherther you walk or drive, seeing the countdown tells you if you can push it or should coast to the soon-to-be red light.
Likely on the basis that you aren't supposed to have programming languages in the iOS App store (stupid of Apple, but it's their sandbox).
Gambit REPL.
In a labour camp you are required to work in poor conditions if you want to survive
Tell that to the squirrels, they'd love to have that kind of welfare.
See, I can redefine the subject too!
It is a "hard labour camp" in the sense that you're required to work there if you want to eat, i.e. if you want to live. You won't be shot or beaten for not working - you'll just be left to die - but the outcome is the same.
Yes, yes. But it's much better than the "death camp" where unemployment benefits only cover 6 months. Same outcome, but at least the government does not force you to work. I believe around here it's 12 months before the "death camp".
If you do the math, you could GIVE everyone a plane ticket a year on Southwest and come out ahead. Someone needs to put up the reality check of what it actually costs per Resident per year to build and then operate.
Did you expand your analysis to the energy/pollution savings? And how does the cost/benefit stacks up against other ways to reduce energy consumption or pollution.
Thank God you didn't play some others games, or we might have horseball and shuttlecockball.
I am sorry, but the world was created 5 minutes ago. You never wrote your post but were created with memories of having done so. In fact, I never wrote this post either but my mind was filled with matching beliefs.
You were created when you started to read this post and anything previous to that is fake memory. Anyone who says they read it before you suffers from the delusions that were implanted in their minds.
I guess that might explain why some believers say there was a great flood in the fantasy of their past. If they cannot prove me wrong, they'll have to see the truth.
To play Devil's Advocate, there is a rational reason for doing so.
I think you give the "bigger-is-safer" brainwashed drivers out there too much credit. really only means being able to stare down the normal size sedan right next to you.
Oh it's worse than that. When I drive I watch through the car ahead to see how the previous car is driving. And I even have a shot at the car 3 steps ahead. This makes for a much smoother drive.
But that's only if all car are the same height and don't have excessively tinted windows. Which means that whenever I want to change lane, I will cut any SUV to be in front. And whenever I see one trying to change to my lane, I close the door and force him to get behind.
they may just exempt themselves from having to pay to use copy-written material for political uses at all.
Well, if it's their copywriters, it's their copyright. Unless you meant Dems stealing PR material from Reps.
But you guys banned imports from us because of our foot and mouth issues!
Isn't that putting foot in mouth?
The fact that he's still talking is what really bothers me.
Well, it's a head. What did you expect?
What, you don't think artists want longer copyrights?
Depends on who you count as 'artists'.
I think he meant con-artists.
or build a cannon and shoot your plate wearing players at it (especially dwarves),
Why build a cannon when you can just punt Gnomes at the boss? Some even have the right equipment to survive months inside its stomach. Yeah, it's more fun inventing machinery to punt oversized people, but where will you find a Dwarf with enough ingenuity to create an acid-resistant diving suit?
Once again minecraft shows itself to be dwarf fortress' inferior cousin. This is not the only example.
Having played both, I'd say you are comparing SimCity to Doom. If it wasn't for DF's hellishly inconsistent interface, I could still enjoy them all. Nethack was a joy compared to this monstrosity.
Go fix your preferences
That makes the Big Bang Theory, String Theory and most other forms of cosmology religion.
Until it's PROVEN it's just another form of religion.
Such a smart nugget and yet so wrong.
The Big Bang Theory and String Theory are both falsifiable, scientists are trying to prove it wrong every day. Moreover, a scientific theory can NEVER be proven right. For instance, Newton's Laws were proven wrong by Einstein's theory and the planet Mercury.
I think you are stretching your atheism in places your beliefs do not belong.
The biggest issue with refining the GUI is that it's still in alpha, and features change quickly enough that a good gui would soon become obsolete.
Fanmade programs like dwarf therapist and stonesense help significantly, of course.
That's no excuse for 2468, /*-+ and uhjm. There's no rhyme nor reason for which to use when. And some times when exploring the interface you hit a dead end and have to repeat the last 6 keys to get the next McUrist or whatever.
The inability to iterate through the interface is one of the main reason I stopped playing last year, that and the long-assed trips to get the "closest" stone on the same square 20 floors below rather than the one on the same floor 2 squares to the right. Which is a shame because it was great fun.
I am sorry, what's the punchline?
I once ran into a really excellent programmer, much more clever than I am. Where I would compare a pointer to NULL by writing "if (p == NULL)" he really preferred "if (! p)" because it demonstrated his superior intelligence.
I suppose he also did "++p" and "p += q". I've seen "if (! p)" everywhere, from beginners to advanced users, how does that demonstrate "superior intelligence"?
That line of code was only ever executed in a graphics device driver if the machine awoke from being put to sleep, at a time when no debugger was present yet. And due to some interesting circumstances, it only crashed the machine if another major code change that another programmer checked in a week later was present.
Why was it not the other programmer's fault?
How did "p == NULL" differ from "! p", was NULL defined to non-zero for that driver, was there some C++ operator overloading or was there something unusual about the processor?
If you are too good for code reviews, you should still do it. It will teach your reviewers how to write better code. Yeah, that's why you should.
I thought it was generally accepted that App generally stands for Application.
I thought EXE stood for applications. APP is pretty recent.
Being like the rest of the world is a nice mantra that people keep throwing around, but most of the rest of the world simplified the system by having a "first to file" system, meaning someone could steal your invention and file first, and you'd have NO recourse.
Yes, yes. Because people never go to court over breach of NDA or any other case where fraud is involved.