No, the paper is printed and is first displayed to the user, behind plexiglass (or such), so it is confirmed after printing but before it drops into the ballot box.
By the way, can somebody please gag Karl Rove? Thx.
Yeah, good question. I think they wouldn't take 3 of my valid AP credits when I went to UVA, too. I guess I was too stupid to care, so I went on to get a degree in four years.
The smart thing to do would have been to finish HIGH SCHOOL in one year and extend college as long as possible! I went to TJHS and UVA too, for what it's worth, and having seen the comparison, well... I could have stayed at UVA for another fifty years. I liked college so much, I went and got a three year Master's degree, and my plan is to get three or four PhDs over the next seventy years. Okay, not much of a plan, but I would sacrifice a nut or two to avoid doing exactly what he's deliberately done.
Good lord, last thing I would want on my tombstone is that I was already a lawyer at the age of 19!
Oh, the impetuous indiscretions of youth... Youth is wasted on the young.
Gentoo's installation just wiped out my whole partition table twice in a row (I had to do a complete restore-to-factory-setttings on the harddrive, after Knoppix and testdisk recovered my recovery partition). Why did I do it the second time? There's always that sliver of a chance that I did something wrong the first time. Well, Gentoo was wrong both times and I won't be wasting my time with it again. Instead I repartitioned, downloaded Slackware 10.2, and installed it the old fashioned way -- with a custom shell script to untar the base files, a quick chroot, set up a few files (fstab et al), grub, and reboot.
Let's face it though, if I hadn't been messing with computers for 28 years I would probably have given up and never looked at Linux again. (Instead I'll just never look at Gentoo again.)
Well, think of it this way: if you see Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as a satire, you'll get a real kick out of it. If you see it as an indoctrination into a life of crime, you may be wary that other people are playing it. An in-depth critique of the sort the author seems to want to apply could shed some light on the matter, and perhaps determine the creators' intent, or whether GTA:VC is "a good thing" in terms of the goals of one or another critical community (e.g. Marxists, who might take issue with the game's anarcho-capitalism). I don't know much about Katamari Damacy but I don't see why the same sense of academic study can't apply to it.
It would actually yield a lot more than that if the author stuck to one type of critique and extended it for several pages, instead of expending so much effort explaining the critique and then throwing out two superficial paragraphs, or a bunch of quotes, to apply it to the game. He writes as if nobody is familiar with these styles of critique (common in English programs, if not necessarily among the Slashdot crowd), but more troublingly, he writes as if no one has ever critiqued games before (which is false). Hopefully, the next installment will be somewhat less superficial and more involved. Good, interesting critique -- e.g. Orwell in his essays, or Roland Barthes in "Mythologies," or anything by Walter Benjamin (who is mentioned in the bibliography), can be a joy to read. They tend to go on for many interesting pages.
I'm pretty sure there has been critique of video games going back at least as far as Zork and possibly earlier. (Interactive fiction and hypertext were hotly debated topics among certain academics in the 1980s.) I get the sense that someone didn't do his homework... It's an admirable attempt to get Slashdotters interested in these discussions, but the laziness of it all will make them even more contemptuous of English majors. If you're barely going to do it, why do it at all?
Seems to me that having a canine companion premiered in Nethack....And which, I might add, flamebaitingly, happens to be better than all those other games!
One way of working against this extremely evident problem is to be a good open-source citizen. When you *succeed* in doing something that turns out to be harder than expected, assume somebody else has had the same problem. Post the solution someplace (anyplace searchable) immediately, before anyone else even asks the question. Then future troubled Googlers will find it and be saved the whole hassle, or at least they'll be able to move forward a few more steps. Plus, it reduces by one the number of opportunities for the snobs to sneer...
Of course, there are still occasionally people who manage to find discussion groups *before* they Google for an answer elsewhere. Those people deserve a very withering sneer indeed.
I have two pre-USB MD recorders. All this talk about SonicStage is a little lost on me since I am used to just dubbing my MDs from audio CDs. I eventually got an optical-out for my PC, and I don't need SonicStage.
I also have a Creative Zen Micro (it was a gift or I would have stuck with MDs). There's a lot to be said for non-iPod mp3 players -- although the iPod itself is a steaming pile of shit as far as I can tell. I'm not partial to MP3 over MD, but once you have a pile of 300 MDs laying around your house and car it's hard to fully embrace MP3.
As for the FA itself, well, sounds like Sony is behind the times for once. Too little, too late...
Exactly. What kind of idiot would take that old computer which (s)he has kept lying around, pay $ for a Windows license, then find some more pay-for-software to make it do some mundane task? When it could actually be done with Linux and it won't take an hour every time (s)he starts it up? Microsoft's point is lost on me here. I wouldn't install XWindows on a 386 10 years after the last 386 chip was made, and I certainly wouldn't install an OS that *forces* you to use a GUI.
Speaking as a trained archaeologist (and I'm not just saying that for effect), it would definitely be wrong to filter out the "unimportant" who-got-coffee when, because it makes a false judgment about what sort of information will be of interest to scholars of the future. There are all kinds of weird correlations possible, too -- "Presidential Coffee Breaks and the History of Global Commerce in the Post-Lewinsky Era," etc. One might want to study what lower-level White House bureaucrats did, too -- who knows. It's all primary source material.
If all of this sounds boring to you, that's why you're not an Archaeologist. Of course, neither am I. But I did study it.
No sweat. Kansas ain't the problem... It's the whole damn USA!
..........
...especially Kansas!
I'm just kiddin':) Hehehehe! Seriously, though, the USA's goin' to hell and I'm packin' my bags for China. The government may be cruel, but at least they ain't stupid!
Relax my friend, I was only kidding. The state I'm from, Virginia, is an embarrassment as well. Let us both drag our knuckles in harmony and furrow our brows in a vain attempt to understand the mysteries of life. Me not good know science.
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No, the paper is printed and is first displayed to the user, behind plexiglass (or such), so it is confirmed after printing but before it drops into the ballot box.
By the way, can somebody please gag Karl Rove? Thx.
Yeah, good question. I think they wouldn't take 3 of my valid AP credits when I went to UVA, too. I guess I was too stupid to care, so I went on to get a degree in four years.
...you have completely missed the point.
NO SHIT!! Jesus in a f@cking chicken basket!!!!
The smart thing to do would have been to finish HIGH SCHOOL in one year and extend college as long as possible! I went to TJHS and UVA too, for what it's worth, and having seen the comparison, well... I could have stayed at UVA for another fifty years. I liked college so much, I went and got a three year Master's degree, and my plan is to get three or four PhDs over the next seventy years. Okay, not much of a plan, but I would sacrifice a nut or two to avoid doing exactly what he's deliberately done.
Good lord, last thing I would want on my tombstone is that I was already a lawyer at the age of 19!
Oh, the impetuous indiscretions of youth... Youth is wasted on the young.
I tried the ncurses-based install and it crashed, so I tried the GTK one. Believe me, it trashed my partition table twice. Luckily, I don't panic!
Gentoo's installation just wiped out my whole partition table twice in a row (I had to do a complete restore-to-factory-setttings on the harddrive, after Knoppix and testdisk recovered my recovery partition). Why did I do it the second time? There's always that sliver of a chance that I did something wrong the first time. Well, Gentoo was wrong both times and I won't be wasting my time with it again. Instead I repartitioned, downloaded Slackware 10.2, and installed it the old fashioned way -- with a custom shell script to untar the base files, a quick chroot, set up a few files (fstab et al), grub, and reboot.
Let's face it though, if I hadn't been messing with computers for 28 years I would probably have given up and never looked at Linux again. (Instead I'll just never look at Gentoo again.)
Also consider that the gas prices are magically dropping for no apparent reason seven weeks before election day.
Yes, and most people use about 14 gallons of shampoo for every three hundred miles they walk.
Seriously, I'd rather chat with an educated fry cook than a closed-minded geek. !Viva las hamburguistas!
Well, think of it this way: if you see Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as a satire, you'll get a real kick out of it. If you see it as an indoctrination into a life of crime, you may be wary that other people are playing it. An in-depth critique of the sort the author seems to want to apply could shed some light on the matter, and perhaps determine the creators' intent, or whether GTA:VC is "a good thing" in terms of the goals of one or another critical community (e.g. Marxists, who might take issue with the game's anarcho-capitalism). I don't know much about Katamari Damacy but I don't see why the same sense of academic study can't apply to it.
Give a hoot, read a book!
It would actually yield a lot more than that if the author stuck to one type of critique and extended it for several pages, instead of expending so much effort explaining the critique and then throwing out two superficial paragraphs, or a bunch of quotes, to apply it to the game. He writes as if nobody is familiar with these styles of critique (common in English programs, if not necessarily among the Slashdot crowd), but more troublingly, he writes as if no one has ever critiqued games before (which is false). Hopefully, the next installment will be somewhat less superficial and more involved. Good, interesting critique -- e.g. Orwell in his essays, or Roland Barthes in "Mythologies," or anything by Walter Benjamin (who is mentioned in the bibliography), can be a joy to read. They tend to go on for many interesting pages.
I'm pretty sure there has been critique of video games going back at least as far as Zork and possibly earlier. (Interactive fiction and hypertext were hotly debated topics among certain academics in the 1980s.) I get the sense that someone didn't do his homework... It's an admirable attempt to get Slashdotters interested in these discussions, but the laziness of it all will make them even more contemptuous of English majors. If you're barely going to do it, why do it at all?
they need to understand the workings of boolean logic
That equals true!
Spoiler alert. You can also copy your saved games when you exit Nethack and then re-use them when you die.
Seems to me that having a canine companion premiered in Nethack. ...And which, I might add, flamebaitingly, happens to be better than all those other games!
Hey, taxi.
Pad 5 please.
I've been saying this for YEARS!
;)
And every year I keep telling you, RTFM, n00b!!!!
Now STFU already!
One way of working against this extremely evident problem is to be a good open-source citizen. When you *succeed* in doing something that turns out to be harder than expected, assume somebody else has had the same problem. Post the solution someplace (anyplace searchable) immediately, before anyone else even asks the question. Then future troubled Googlers will find it and be saved the whole hassle, or at least they'll be able to move forward a few more steps. Plus, it reduces by one the number of opportunities for the snobs to sneer...
Of course, there are still occasionally people who manage to find discussion groups *before* they Google for an answer elsewhere. Those people deserve a very withering sneer indeed.
Cheers,
Hints from Heloise
I have two pre-USB MD recorders. All this talk about SonicStage is a little lost on me since I am used to just dubbing my MDs from audio CDs. I eventually got an optical-out for my PC, and I don't need SonicStage.
I also have a Creative Zen Micro (it was a gift or I would have stuck with MDs). There's a lot to be said for non-iPod mp3 players -- although the iPod itself is a steaming pile of shit as far as I can tell. I'm not partial to MP3 over MD, but once you have a pile of 300 MDs laying around your house and car it's hard to fully embrace MP3.
As for the FA itself, well, sounds like Sony is behind the times for once. Too little, too late...
Ooh, I wanna be Marion Barry! ...Or drag up, as the perennially ignored representative voice Eleanor Holmes Norton!
Oh my god-- that's not a laptop!
But it's not like all those other electro-magnetic waves just hit the walls of the campus and stop dead in their, uh, tracks...
Japan is not the United States.
Exactly. What kind of idiot would take that old computer which (s)he has kept lying around, pay $ for a Windows license, then find some more pay-for-software to make it do some mundane task? When it could actually be done with Linux and it won't take an hour every time (s)he starts it up? Microsoft's point is lost on me here. I wouldn't install XWindows on a 386 10 years after the last 386 chip was made, and I certainly wouldn't install an OS that *forces* you to use a GUI.
Not to mention the inevitable BSOD.
Speaking as a trained archaeologist (and I'm not just saying that for effect), it would definitely be wrong to filter out the "unimportant" who-got-coffee when, because it makes a false judgment about what sort of information will be of interest to scholars of the future. There are all kinds of weird correlations possible, too -- "Presidential Coffee Breaks and the History of Global Commerce in the Post-Lewinsky Era," etc. One might want to study what lower-level White House bureaucrats did, too -- who knows. It's all primary source material.
If all of this sounds boring to you, that's why you're not an Archaeologist. Of course, neither am I. But I did study it.
No sweat. Kansas ain't the problem... It's the whole damn USA!
..........
...especially Kansas!
:) Hehehehe! Seriously, though, the USA's goin' to hell and I'm packin' my bags for China. The government may be cruel, but at least they ain't stupid!
I'm just kiddin'
Relax my friend, I was only kidding. The state I'm from, Virginia, is an embarrassment as well. Let us both drag our knuckles in harmony and furrow our brows in a vain attempt to understand the mysteries of life. Me not good know science.