For the love of Christ, people, what the hell is so difficult to spell about Aperture?!? Every time I see someone write Aperature, a little piece of me dies inside. So what is it? Do you not know how to pronounce the word? There's no extra syllable to confuse you, so what could it be?
If you don't know how to spell a word, how about looking it up?
I'm losing my mind. And don't even start me on lose/loose.
Sweet. I've already got a titanium bolt in my jaw. I wish they'd hurry up and start using the RFID tags in the crowns themselves. I don't care if it gets burned in the kiln before it gets to me -- I'm getting one in a few months, and I'd love to have more weirdo things show up in my head in an x-ray.
I've got a wide-format x-ray of my entire skull, and display it proudly. My titanium bolt is the best part.:-)
given that i can't read the survey itself, i can't be sure about this one, but in my experience salary surveys are produced chiefly for businesses, which then base remuneration policies accordingly.
they're usually expensive, and the ones i've seen have been expensive enough ($thousands) that no sensible person is going to buy one to see how they stack up.
i'd like to be able to read the article in case this one is 1. targetted at employees, or 2. $11.95 including sales tax, but it's slashdotted, so meh.
Oh, and you might want to download some of those OGG files and pop them into your favorite player of choice. There's some good music waiting to be discovered there. Just because you haven't heard of it before doesn't mean it's not good.
You're not seriously drawing some sort of conclusion regarding the quality of the music based on the codec used to compress it, are you? Tell me you're not. Lie if you have to, because that would have to be the dumbest thing I've read all day.
I work for a web development firm, and one of the guys here can write HTML and ColdFusion, complete with tags and special characters, as quickly as I've ever seen anyone type plain English...
It's damned impressive, but I can't guarantee that half the characters he's typing aren't backspaces. He claims 130wpm.
Apparently he taught himself to type without any specific software.
Isn't this the same give-away-the-razor-sell-the-blades marketing technique that makes us hate the printer manufacturers?
that's a hell of a mixed metaphor, chuckles. nicely done.
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Allow me to present to you the opposite of just about every complaint you have, and the finest radio station on the face of the planet: Triple J.
It's an Australian government funded station. It has good hosts, no ads, and no set playlists. They pimp local music constantly, and hold competitions in cities and towns around Australia to get airplay and studio time. Silverchair is the first example off the top of my head of a band that came from these competitions.
There is no finer radio station anywhere I've ever been. Check it out online and get more info at http://triplej.abc.net.au -- if you're a music lover, you won't regret it.
In 11th grade chemistry (1994/5), my teacher let us play with mercury in our hands if we wanted to.
He used to tell us all the time that the bureaucrats were just trying to sissy up the rules because they were afraid of lawsuits. So we got to play in the lab like it was 1950, and nobody's parents had lawyers.
As I recall, the school had stopped giving him mercury, so we used to just break a whole bunch of the old thermometers, collect it all in a jar, and pass it around the class.
It was great fun, and mercury feels nifty. But don't drop it, or terminator 2 pieces go everywhere, and it's hard to get it all back together.
He was a funny old man. Somehow he collected Bentleys on a teacher's salary, and used to pontificate to nobody in particular about the standard of vehicle engineering these days, and god knows what else.
Now if only John Cleese, Eric Idle and Co. would perform them. Apparently a comedy group called Sketch Club will have such honor
you know, i would've thought that monty python, as a group, would get more respect form the people of slashdot than to reference them as cleese, idle, and co.
You asked: As a matter of interest, do non-US-citizens who attend US public schools have to recite the pledge?
As an Australian citizen (and agnosto-atheist or whatever the hell you want to call me) who grew up in the US, let me say YES. And I hated doing it. It didn't make me feel 'icky' or left out. It made me angry that I was expected to be loyal to the US rather than to my own country.
But frankly, in the end it didn't make any difference. The only impact it has had on me is that I remember it. But I also remember the 'nominative - accusative - dative - genative - ablative - vocative' recitation from Latin class.
I'm glad to see that a decision has been made that actually seems to be in keeping with the spirit of the Constitution though. It seems like more and more laws get passed these days trying to legislate morals and prop up corporate interests, rather than protect the interests of the citizens.
most of australia NEVER got decent broadband. the poor fools on the west coast (your truly included) never had the chance to taste what broadband is like. every provider i ever found had severely limited coverage, no alternative OS support, ultra-low bandwidth caps, and wanted to lock you into a 12 month contract.
it's so frustrating to me that in perth, a city of over a million people, it's essentially impossible to get broadband for less than $100 a month. even that figure doesn't take into account excess traffic fees, or the huge up-front costs. nor do they advertise when they start harping on about the wonders of fast connections that those rates are for 256kbps downstream / 64 kbps upstream links.
the australian telco industry is indescribably fucked, and i can't see a way to dig it out of the almighty hole it's in now.
telstra is still part-government owned, and yet this doesn't stop them screwing the little guy. i ask you this: what the hell is the point of maintaining public ownership if it doesn't mean decent and affordable service for all??
it's so bad i'm forced to research community wireless broadband initiatives. they sound pretty cool, except i don't have line of sight to anyone, and i live in an apartment, so i can't install anything on the roof.
you forgot to mention the most important part of what's wrong with the rendering in FF... they're not actors.
until there are graphic artists who have the skill of a (good) actor, something will always seem wrong, no matter how advanced the technology. as the tech gets more complex, the jobs involved in creating the films get more specialized.
we don't expect kevin spacey to write code, so how can we expect the tech-heads to act?
i think it's unreasonable to think that artistic expression can continue, if one expects the artists to cater to the whims of others.
if scientologists or salespeople are offended because i make my differing opinions public, how is that my problem?
when people believe they have the right to be protected from alternate opinions and lifestyles, from a reality where not everyone likes to live by the 'family values' set out by any given group, is ridiculous, and leads to lawsuits every time someone's nose gets out of joint.
far from being amazed at lucas, i have to say that i'm pretty amazed at how hyper-sensitive you guys (and most of america) seem to be. this is kind of OT, since i'm not referring specifically to SW or JarJar, but these comments on the page.
when you have a specific agenda, you can generally find something to be angry about.
going out of your way to create something that couldn't possibly be offensive to anyone leads to boring characters, and more importantly, a total void in the area of social commentary.
i'm not saying that a targeted assault can necessarily be explained away as social commentary, but i do think there is merit in reflecting reality rather than some sort of peaceful place where nobody's feelings are ever hurt.
how far would art in all its forms progress if we stopped anything offensive? and who gets to decide whether it's offensive -- you, me, or my reactionary catholic grandmother? or perhaps jerry falwell? where do you draw the line?
it seems to me that american culture is increasingly defined by what cannot be done, rather than what can.
Congratulations, you fit the profile for almost every negative Australian stereotype out there. Get violently drunk off your ass and you'll be the perfect poster boy for everything the world thinks is wrong with your country.
what a fucking jerk. people like you perpetuate stereotypes.
as an australian who lived more than half his life in the US, i feel qualified to comment on this one... in my experience, americans know little or nothing of australia. maybe that's changed since the olympics, but i don't expect so.
americans tend to either categorise australians as sheep-fuckers, because they can't tell the difference between an australian and a new zealander:) , or they marvel at our ability to speak as adults at work without fear of litigation. they might even mention something about the fact that we tend to swear more, but i'm not sure i agree with that.
umm, i'll just add my two cents and say that minidisc is one of the coolest formats out there. if the cd jockeys would stop crapping on about lossy compression and listen to it, and the mp3 goons would stop screaming about transfer time and just buy a few discs, then i think you'd find quite a lot of people really getting on the minidisc bandwagon.
i have an mzr900, and couldn't be happier with it. not because i'm some sort of md zealout, but because it does what it is supposed to extremely well. it replaces tapes. it's very portable. you can carry several very cheap discs around with you. you can record live. and the list goes on.
how it compares with cd is irrelevant. cds skip, they are too large, and you can't record to them with a little portable device. they are not competitors. i have hundreds of cds, and it doesn't matter. every once in a while i refresh which albums i have copied to md, onto about 15 or 20 mds, and i've got a new collection to cart around portably.
hmmm... i'm tempted to ride over to floreat this afternoon and have look around for that manhole. maybe i'll find an off switch or a large 'please do not not press this button' button.
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If you don't know how to spell a word, how about looking it up?
I'm losing my mind. And don't even start me on lose/loose.
You and I evidently don't share the same definition of "underdog"
So call it the PATRIOT Rocket. It worked for the legislation.
You're with us or you're against us.
Sweet. I've already got a titanium bolt in my jaw. I wish they'd hurry up and start using the RFID tags in the crowns themselves. I don't care if it gets burned in the kiln before it gets to me -- I'm getting one in a few months, and I'd love to have more weirdo things show up in my head in an x-ray.
:-)
I've got a wide-format x-ray of my entire skull, and display it proudly. My titanium bolt is the best part.
given that i can't read the survey itself, i can't be sure about this one, but in my experience salary surveys are produced chiefly for businesses, which then base remuneration policies accordingly.
they're usually expensive, and the ones i've seen have been expensive enough ($thousands) that no sensible person is going to buy one to see how they stack up.
i'd like to be able to read the article in case this one is 1. targetted at employees, or 2. $11.95 including sales tax, but it's slashdotted, so meh.
You're not seriously drawing some sort of conclusion regarding the quality of the music based on the codec used to compress it, are you? Tell me you're not. Lie if you have to, because that would have to be the dumbest thing I've read all day.
ah.... only looked at one of them, and decided they must have all been product links.
hrmmm. the danger of stock photos...
am i missing something?
I work for a web development firm, and one of the guys here can write HTML and ColdFusion, complete with tags and special characters, as quickly as I've ever seen anyone type plain English...
It's damned impressive, but I can't guarantee that half the characters he's typing aren't backspaces. He claims 130wpm.
Apparently he taught himself to type without any specific software.
Allow me to present to you the opposite of just about every complaint you have, and the finest radio station on the face of the planet: Triple J.
It's an Australian government funded station. It has good hosts, no ads, and no set playlists. They pimp local music constantly, and hold competitions in cities and towns around Australia to get airplay and studio time. Silverchair is the first example off the top of my head of a band that came from these competitions.
There is no finer radio station anywhere I've ever been. Check it out online and get more info at http://triplej.abc.net.au -- if you're a music lover, you won't regret it.
In 11th grade chemistry (1994/5), my teacher let us play with mercury in our hands if we wanted to.
:)
He used to tell us all the time that the bureaucrats were just trying to sissy up the rules because they were afraid of lawsuits. So we got to play in the lab like it was 1950, and nobody's parents had lawyers.
As I recall, the school had stopped giving him mercury, so we used to just break a whole bunch of the old thermometers, collect it all in a jar, and pass it around the class.
It was great fun, and mercury feels nifty. But don't drop it, or terminator 2 pieces go everywhere, and it's hard to get it all back together.
He was a funny old man. Somehow he collected Bentleys on a teacher's salary, and used to pontificate to nobody in particular about the standard of vehicle engineering these days, and god knows what else.
Ah, chemistry. That was a fun class.
you know, i would've thought that monty python, as a group, would get more respect form the people of slashdot than to reference them as cleese, idle, and co.
terry gilliam, anybody? terry jones?
bah...
You asked:
As a matter of interest, do non-US-citizens who attend US public schools have to recite the pledge?
As an Australian citizen (and agnosto-atheist or whatever the hell you want to call me) who grew up in the US, let me say YES. And I hated doing it. It didn't make me feel 'icky' or left out. It made me angry that I was expected to be loyal to the US rather than to my own country.
But frankly, in the end it didn't make any difference. The only impact it has had on me is that I remember it. But I also remember the 'nominative - accusative - dative - genative - ablative - vocative' recitation from Latin class.
I'm glad to see that a decision has been made that actually seems to be in keeping with the spirit of the Constitution though. It seems like more and more laws get passed these days trying to legislate morals and prop up corporate interests, rather than protect the interests of the citizens.
hmmm. hadn't thought of that.
i'll keep that in mind. broadband will worry me no more. it's off to the beach for me.
death?? you have to live before you die.
most of australia NEVER got decent broadband. the poor fools on the west coast (your truly included) never had the chance to taste what broadband is like. every provider i ever found had severely limited coverage, no alternative OS support, ultra-low bandwidth caps, and wanted to lock you into a 12 month contract.
it's so frustrating to me that in perth, a city of over a million people, it's essentially impossible to get broadband for less than $100 a month. even that figure doesn't take into account excess traffic fees, or the huge up-front costs. nor do they advertise when they start harping on about the wonders of fast connections that those rates are for 256kbps downstream / 64 kbps upstream links.
the australian telco industry is indescribably fucked, and i can't see a way to dig it out of the almighty hole it's in now.
telstra is still part-government owned, and yet this doesn't stop them screwing the little guy. i ask you this: what the hell is the point of maintaining public ownership if it doesn't mean decent and affordable service for all??
it's so bad i'm forced to research community wireless broadband initiatives. they sound pretty cool, except i don't have line of sight to anyone, and i live in an apartment, so i can't install anything on the roof.
things are getting desperate.
until there are graphic artists who have the skill of a (good) actor, something will always seem wrong, no matter how advanced the technology. as the tech gets more complex, the jobs involved in creating the films get more specialized.
we don't expect kevin spacey to write code, so how can we expect the tech-heads to act?
i think it's unreasonable to think that artistic expression can continue, if one expects the artists to cater to the whims of others.
if scientologists or salespeople are offended because i make my differing opinions public, how is that my problem?
when people believe they have the right to be protected from alternate opinions and lifestyles, from a reality where not everyone likes to live by the 'family values' set out by any given group, is ridiculous, and leads to lawsuits every time someone's nose gets out of joint.
far from being amazed at lucas, i have to say that i'm pretty amazed at how hyper-sensitive you guys (and most of america) seem to be. this is kind of OT, since i'm not referring specifically to SW or JarJar, but these comments on the page.
when you have a specific agenda, you can generally find something to be angry about. going out of your way to create something that couldn't possibly be offensive to anyone leads to boring characters, and more importantly, a total void in the area of social commentary.
i'm not saying that a targeted assault can necessarily be explained away as social commentary, but i do think there is merit in reflecting reality rather than some sort of peaceful place where nobody's feelings are ever hurt.
how far would art in all its forms progress if we stopped anything offensive? and who gets to decide whether it's offensive -- you, me, or my reactionary catholic grandmother? or perhaps jerry falwell? where do you draw the line?
it seems to me that american culture is increasingly defined by what cannot be done, rather than what can.
what a fucking jerk. people like you perpetuate stereotypes.
as an australian who lived more than half his life in the US, i feel qualified to comment on this one... in my experience, americans know little or nothing of australia. maybe that's changed since the olympics, but i don't expect so.
americans tend to either categorise australians as sheep-fuckers, because they can't tell the difference between an australian and a new zealander
cunt.
umm, i'll just add my two cents and say that minidisc is one of the coolest formats out there. if the cd jockeys would stop crapping on about lossy compression and listen to it, and the mp3 goons would stop screaming about transfer time and just buy a few discs, then i think you'd find quite a lot of people really getting on the minidisc bandwagon.
i have an mzr900, and couldn't be happier with it. not because i'm some sort of md zealout, but because it does what it is supposed to extremely well. it replaces tapes. it's very portable. you can carry several very cheap discs around with you. you can record live. and the list goes on.
how it compares with cd is irrelevant. cds skip, they are too large, and you can't record to them with a little portable device. they are not competitors. i have hundreds of cds, and it doesn't matter. every once in a while i refresh which albums i have copied to md, onto about 15 or 20 mds, and i've got a new collection to cart around portably.
brilliant.
hmmm... i'm tempted to ride over to floreat this afternoon and have look around for that manhole. maybe i'll find an off switch or a large 'please do not not press this button' button.