One... we know of the practice of scraping and reusing parchment cause it tends to be visible, often with naked eye.
Two... Traces of scraping tend to be noticeable. And there are some. Well... One. And it kinda points in the scam direction, rather than in the direction of Aztecs writing on scrapped parchment given to them by monks who taught them to read and write and draw in European style and fashion but not in European alphabet or language.
As for the UID and Schiller... It's not that low a number, not even a 5-digit. But I kinda like the sequence. And I've put Schiller there to remind me not to get upset with perceived stupidity, my own and otherwise. Which is something I keep forgetting.:)
Except carbon dating puts the book at the beginning of 15th century.
Which would mean, that for it to fit into those New World stories it would have to have been made a century BEFORE it was filled out, AND then someone gave the empty book to the natives to fill it out with drawings and text.
On the other hand... someone finding couple of piles of old unwritten material, binding it together, filling it out with plausible nonsense and selling it to some rich amateur alchemist... that sounds a lot more plausible.
It's too bad so much iconic dystopic science fiction was written or cinematized in the 80s (Nineteen Eighty-Four and Bladerunner, to name but two film examples), since it means that all you need to trick people into thinking it's impossible is a bright and cheery computer interface.
Nah... it isn't that. It's the awareness on some level that both -topias are broken and based on faulty logic.
Only it is more obvious in utopias - which is why few writers dare to wax poetic about utopias. With two exceptions - a flawed or in some way threatened utopia (so not really an utopia) and short fairy tales for small children.
It's easier to hide the fallacy the whole that thing hinges on when describing a dystopia - as much of the story is usually anchored in reality. Just keep piling on examples of human monstrosity from known history and you're set.
And yet... the fallacy is quite glaring once seen. Ah! Here it is. Heh... no wonder it was memorable. Neil Gaiman wrote it. Completely missed that all these years.
It's a Matrix story. And without spoiling too much if you haven't read it, it kicks the -topia concept in the balls and leaves it lying quivering on the floor as soon as you give it any thought.
See... both -topias rely on two basic concepts. One - the present -topia will last FOREVER. Boot stamping on a human face... blah-blah. They lived happily... blah-blah. Clearly, those are out the window before the line is even said. "Really guys? You got a boot that lasts FOREVER? Fuck me! You just killed off entropy. And a bunch of other things."
The other being that the U or Dys -topia exists ONLY from the human perspective. And often not even every human's but only from the main protagonist's perspective. Most characters in Brazil don't live in a dystopia from their point of view. And even the ending has Sam "escaping" into a "happily ever after" - from his perspective.
In other words, for a -topia to work one must ignore and wall off the entirety of the Universe forever and concentrate on as few humans as possible. And that's a pretty big elephant to ignore.
On some level, we know that instinctively. That's why when presented with a U or Dys-topia we go "Naaah... this can't really happen this way." The fault is not in the cheery interface OR us, it's in the concept of the -topias.
Their magical thinking revolves around the idea that all they need to do is have everyone switch to the new interface and... profit! Most people foregoing on the switch is clearly not a part of their equation.
we want you to know that Classic Slashdot isn't going away until we're confident that the new site is ready.
Nobody gives a flying fuck about if it is 5%, 50%, 95% or 100% ready when they kill off the classic interface.
WE WANT THE CLASSIC SLASHDOT TO REMAIN AS AN OPTION!!!
They can go and fuck themselves with their beta thing. 3+ million accounts were opened on the classic interface. We like it. It's fine. Leave it THE FUCK ALONE!
Some of you have suggested we're not listening; on the contrary, some of us are 'listening' pretty much full-time.
Nobody gives a fuck if any of you are "listening" timothy (emphasis on quotation marks there), as it is obvious that you are NOT HEARING US! There, in that quote above. Clear as day. Or you would not talk about Classic Slashdot going away.
It does not fix anything, it only breaks things that didn't need fixing.
It robs us of our hard earned (we all paid good money for our monitors) screen real estate, dumping a worse comment system on us which by its very architecture will drown out discussions instead of promoting them.
It is a forced replacement of the classic interface which has proven that though not perfect - it works quite well and has been working for years now.
And that's just the comments. Unnecessary graphics bring nothing to the experience except that they clog up the bandwidth AND further slow down already slow "news" delivery.
It brings no useful function, it takes away the simplicity and elegance. It sucks. So... Fuck beta.
There would be a lot or more creative ways to improve Slashdot, like finding a way to sort and assemble a graph of the expressed view across all comments of a story. This is hard, yes. But something like this can be a way to compile the comments of a story into something that look like a draft of a article on the story, making the whole thing simpler to read and to contribute.
That sound interesting. Sadly, this is not the time for talk about such things. This is fuck beta time.
"NASA today said it was looking into fucking beta that would let the public fuck, bugger and dickplow beta known as "fucking beta" capable of sucking and being fucked near the moon and beyond. The first challenge will focus on finding innovative ways to allow deep fucking beta with small spacecraft, while the second focuses on fucking beta for small spacecraft."
English: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Jamaican: Chruu, a kwik di kwik brong fox a jomp huova di liezi daag de, yu no siit?
Irish: "An fuil do roí ag buala ó aitíos an rá a eall lena óg éada ó lí do leasa ú?" "D'uascail Íosa Úrac na hÓie Beannaie pór Éava agus Áai."
Dutch: Pa's wze lynx bezag vroom het fikse aquaduct.
German: Falsches Üben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren Zwerg. (1)
German: Im finteren Jagdchloß am offenen Felsquellwaer patzte der affig-flatterhafte kauzig-höfliche Bäcker über einem verifften kniffligen C-Xylophon. (2)
Norwegian: Blåbærsyltetøy ("blueberry jam", includes every extra letter used in Norwegian).
Danish: Høj bly gom vandt fræk sexquiz på wc.
Swedish: Flygande bäckasiner söka strax hwila på mjuka tuvor.
Icelandic: Sævör grét áðan ví úlpan var ónýt.
Finnish: (5) Törkylempijävongahdus (This is a perfect pangram, every letter appears only once. Translating it is an art on its own, but I'll say "rude lover's yelp".:-D)
Finnish: (5) Albert osti fagotin ja töräytti puhkuvan melodian. (Albert bought a bassoon and hooted an impressive melody.)
Finnish: (5) On sangen hauskaa, että polkupyörä on maanteiden jokapäiväinen ilmiö. (It's pleasantly amusing, that the bicycle is an everyday sight on the roads.)
Polish: Pchn w t ód jea lub osiem skrzy fig.
Czech: Píli luouký k úpl ábelské kódy.
Slovak: Starý kô na hbe kníh uje tíko povädnuté rue, na stpe sa ate uí kváka novú ódu o ivote.
Greek (monotonic):
Greek (polytonic):
Russian: .
Russian: - ? , ! .
Bulgarian: , , , .
Sami (Northern): Vuol Ruoa geggiid leat mága luosa ja uova.
Hungarian: Árvíztr tükörfúrógép.
Spanish: El pingüino Wenceslao hizo kilómetros bajo exhaustiva lluvia y frío, añoraba a su querido cachorro.
Portuguese: O próximo vôo à noite sobre o Atlântico, põe freqüentemente o único médico. (3)
French: Les naïfs ægithales hâtifs pondant à Noël où il gèle sont sûrs d'être déçus en voyant leurs drôles d'ufs abîmés.
Esperanto: Eoano iuade.
Hebrew: .
Japanese (Hiragana):
Comments about how beta sucks, repeating "FUCK BETA" and... Fuck Beta. I see no point discussing about anything else until they kill that abomination or just let us to continue using the classic interface.
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Two things don't fit into that.
One... we know of the practice of scraping and reusing parchment cause it tends to be visible, often with naked eye.
Two... Traces of scraping tend to be noticeable. And there are some. Well... One.
And it kinda points in the scam direction, rather than in the direction of Aztecs writing on scrapped parchment given to them by monks who taught them to read and write and draw in European style and fashion but not in European alphabet or language.
As for the UID and Schiller... It's not that low a number, not even a 5-digit. But I kinda like the sequence. :)
And I've put Schiller there to remind me not to get upset with perceived stupidity, my own and otherwise.
Which is something I keep forgetting.
Except carbon dating puts the book at the beginning of 15th century.
Which would mean, that for it to fit into those New World stories it would have to have been made a century BEFORE it was filled out, AND then someone gave the empty book to the natives to fill it out with drawings and text.
On the other hand... someone finding couple of piles of old unwritten material, binding it together, filling it out with plausible nonsense and selling it to some rich amateur alchemist... that sounds a lot more plausible.
It's too bad so much iconic dystopic science fiction was written or cinematized in the 80s (Nineteen Eighty-Four and Bladerunner, to name but two film examples), since it means that all you need to trick people into thinking it's impossible is a bright and cheery computer interface.
Nah... it isn't that.
It's the awareness on some level that both -topias are broken and based on faulty logic.
Only it is more obvious in utopias - which is why few writers dare to wax poetic about utopias.
With two exceptions - a flawed or in some way threatened utopia (so not really an utopia) and short fairy tales for small children.
It's easier to hide the fallacy the whole that thing hinges on when describing a dystopia - as much of the story is usually anchored in reality.
Just keep piling on examples of human monstrosity from known history and you're set.
And yet... the fallacy is quite glaring once seen.
Ah! Here it is. Heh... no wonder it was memorable. Neil Gaiman wrote it. Completely missed that all these years.
It's a Matrix story.
And without spoiling too much if you haven't read it, it kicks the -topia concept in the balls and leaves it lying quivering on the floor as soon as you give it any thought.
See... both -topias rely on two basic concepts.
One - the present -topia will last FOREVER. Boot stamping on a human face... blah-blah. They lived happily... blah-blah.
Clearly, those are out the window before the line is even said.
"Really guys? You got a boot that lasts FOREVER? Fuck me! You just killed off entropy. And a bunch of other things."
The other being that the U or Dys -topia exists ONLY from the human perspective. And often not even every human's but only from the main protagonist's perspective.
Most characters in Brazil don't live in a dystopia from their point of view. And even the ending has Sam "escaping" into a "happily ever after" - from his perspective.
In other words, for a -topia to work one must ignore and wall off the entirety of the Universe forever and concentrate on as few humans as possible.
And that's a pretty big elephant to ignore.
On some level, we know that instinctively.
That's why when presented with a U or Dys-topia we go "Naaah... this can't really happen this way."
The fault is not in the cheery interface OR us, it's in the concept of the -topias.
For Slashdot's corporate overlords... not really.
Their magical thinking revolves around the idea that all they need to do is have everyone switch to the new interface and... profit!
Most people foregoing on the switch is clearly not a part of their equation.
So... Fuck Beta.
Apple cart? Bah!
That's for hipsters with more money than sense.
Real men use potato sacks.
Also, fuck beta to you.
we want you to know that Classic Slashdot isn't going away until we're confident that the new site is ready.
Nobody gives a flying fuck about if it is 5%, 50%, 95% or 100% ready when they kill off the classic interface.
WE WANT THE CLASSIC SLASHDOT TO REMAIN AS AN OPTION!!!
They can go and fuck themselves with their beta thing. 3+ million accounts were opened on the classic interface.
We like it. It's fine. Leave it THE FUCK ALONE!
Some of you have suggested we're not listening; on the contrary, some of us are 'listening' pretty much full-time.
Nobody gives a fuck if any of you are " listening " timothy (emphasis on quotation marks there), as it is obvious that you are NOT HEARING US!
There, in that quote above. Clear as day.
Or you would not talk about Classic Slashdot going away.
So... in conclusion... Fuck Beta!
Indeed... Fuck Beta.
That's like saying "I don't mind the crime in my neighborhood. If only just everyone else could complain less about it all would be fine."
Ergo, Fuck Beta.
They should have been fucking beta instead of fracking for gas.
That would not have happened had those Dice assholes not try to push Beta on everyone.
Fuck Beta. It killed vaio.
Also, those dolphins washing up dead on the beaches? Beta killed them too.
Fuck beta. Fuck it to infinity and beyond.
Certainly they are not masochistic enough to have tried using it.
I mean... come on. They're FBI. Not retards.
Fuck beta.
It's everything you don't want in a discussion OR news delivery system and more.
Fuck 'em. That just makes this whole thing even more fun.
In the "Yes, I like that tree you're cutting down but it sure is funny watching you cut do that while sitting on it's branches." way.
So... Fuck Beta.
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to mine Bitcoin is insignificant next to the power of the Fuck Beta.
I'd prefer to have it changed to "Fuck Beta".
It does not fix anything, it only breaks things that didn't need fixing.
It robs us of our hard earned (we all paid good money for our monitors) screen real estate, dumping a worse comment system on us which by its very architecture will drown out discussions instead of promoting them.
It is a forced replacement of the classic interface which has proven that though not perfect - it works quite well and has been working for years now.
And that's just the comments.
Unnecessary graphics bring nothing to the experience except that they clog up the bandwidth AND further slow down already slow "news" delivery.
It brings no useful function, it takes away the simplicity and elegance. It sucks.
So... Fuck beta.
There would be a lot or more creative ways to improve Slashdot, like finding a way to sort and assemble a graph of the expressed view across all comments of a story. This is hard, yes. But something like this can be a way to compile the comments of a story into something that look like a draft of a article on the story, making the whole thing simpler to read and to contribute.
That sound interesting.
Sadly, this is not the time for talk about such things. This is fuck beta time.
"NASA today said it was looking into fucking beta that would let the public fuck, bugger and dickplow beta known as "fucking beta" capable of sucking and being fucked near the moon and beyond. The first challenge will focus on finding innovative ways to allow deep fucking beta with small spacecraft, while the second focuses on fucking beta for small spacecraft."
Back then we THOUGHT we knew.
Now we KNOW we know.
It's a Zen thing. Like FUCK BETA.
http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/u...
English: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. :-D)
Jamaican: Chruu, a kwik di kwik brong fox a jomp huova di liezi daag de, yu no siit?
Irish: "An fuil do roí ag buala ó aitíos an rá a eall lena óg éada ó lí do leasa ú?" "D'uascail Íosa Úrac na hÓie Beannaie pór Éava agus Áai."
Dutch: Pa's wze lynx bezag vroom het fikse aquaduct.
German: Falsches Üben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren Zwerg. (1)
German: Im finteren Jagdchloß am offenen Felsquellwaer patzte der affig-flatterhafte kauzig-höfliche Bäcker über einem verifften kniffligen C-Xylophon. (2)
Norwegian: Blåbærsyltetøy ("blueberry jam", includes every extra letter used in Norwegian).
Danish: Høj bly gom vandt fræk sexquiz på wc.
Swedish: Flygande bäckasiner söka strax hwila på mjuka tuvor.
Icelandic: Sævör grét áðan ví úlpan var ónýt.
Finnish: (5) Törkylempijävongahdus (This is a perfect pangram, every letter appears only once. Translating it is an art on its own, but I'll say "rude lover's yelp".
Finnish: (5) Albert osti fagotin ja töräytti puhkuvan melodian. (Albert bought a bassoon and hooted an impressive melody.)
Finnish: (5) On sangen hauskaa, että polkupyörä on maanteiden jokapäiväinen ilmiö. (It's pleasantly amusing, that the bicycle is an everyday sight on the roads.)
Polish: Pchn w t ód jea lub osiem skrzy fig.
Czech: Píli luouký k úpl ábelské kódy.
Slovak: Starý kô na hbe kníh uje tíko povädnuté rue, na stpe sa ate uí kváka novú ódu o ivote.
Greek (monotonic):
Greek (polytonic):
Russian: .
Russian: - ? , ! .
Bulgarian: , , , .
Sami (Northern): Vuol Ruoa geggiid leat mága luosa ja uova.
Hungarian: Árvíztr tükörfúrógép.
Spanish: El pingüino Wenceslao hizo kilómetros bajo exhaustiva lluvia y frío, añoraba a su querido cachorro.
Portuguese: O próximo vôo à noite sobre o Atlântico, põe freqüentemente o único médico. (3)
French: Les naïfs ægithales hâtifs pondant à Noël où il gèle sont sûrs d'être déçus en voyant leurs drôles d'ufs abîmés.
Esperanto: Eoano iuade.
Hebrew: .
Japanese (Hiragana):
(4)
That's what Slashdot is for now.
Comments about how beta sucks, repeating "FUCK BETA" and... Fuck Beta.
I see no point discussing about anything else until they kill that abomination or just let us to continue using the classic interface.
Also, fuck beta.
The main thing we all learned today is that Slashdot Beta sucks.
And don't forget to use a condom! Nobody wants to see the unholy offspring of that union.
Well, nobody in their right mind.
I see it more akin to Microsoft Bob.