Well, yes, the Unification Church founded and still owns the paper. Actually, see, that's why I mentioned them in particular...*sigh*
Of course, I live in Baltimore, just up the road from DC, so I'm more familiar with the local papers than other/. readers might be.
As it happens, I buy it sometimes, because even here in Baltimore I can get it for.25, while the Baltimore Sun is.50. I don't read either one, mind you, but I have a puppy.
Well, mostly it's a line I use in restaurants (the question arises because my wife is a vegetarian). I mean, I thought it was pretty clever the first time I tossed it at a waitress, and she laughed politely, anyway.:)
As for predators, I've come at it more from the other direction: the description given of predator's meat generally involves words like "tough" and "stringy". I'm hoping that if I ever fall in with a hungry wolf that I'll be able to reason with him and explain that, as a fellow carnivore (OK, omnivore, but I'll be talking to a glorified dog and he's not likely to have a dictionary on hand), I too would be tough and stringy, while that deer over there...
OK, so I'm a mostly-vegetarian-once-removed, but that screws up the whole delivery.
Besides, I generally avoid seafood. Anything with that many bones clearly wasn't meant to be eaten, and crabs and whatnot just revolt me (and I live in Baltimore, where crabs are held slightly above God and country, loved almost as much as beer).
Ah, but a nice piece of dolphin, with maybe some baby Harp Seal on the side...
You know, I was reading the linked "report", and I was struck by some things:
I wouldn't lean too heavily on the arithmetic. Numerology is clearly a Big Thing in the Unification Church, and they probably, shall we say, "round their figures" a good deal.
Moon was, in essence, driven out the US because questions were raised as to the Church's status as a genuine religious organization. Reading that document, it seems to me to be at least as crazy as most mainstream faiths, although perhaps not quite as psychedelic as, say, the Book of Revelations. I think that decision should be reconsidered.
Next time you read the Washington Times, be sure to check their math. (Mind you, this is a good idea with any newspaper)
"Intellectual property has been overrun by technology -- get used to it! Information wants to be free, and any legal system that doesn't recognize the impact of cheap, pervasive digital storage is just pissing into the wind -- the world has changed."
"The standards that apply to paper should apply to files -- it shouldn't make a difference just because they're digital."
Exercise for the reader: reconcile the above two positions. Blush if appropriate.
(Mind you, if you have an old, incriminating email from somebody in the RIAA, it could get interesting.)
Not only do we have the entirely-predictable spectacle of Napster trying to charge (All of you who thought that they started the company for "freedom" take two steps back. Anybody who thought they were doing it for the artists, go home), but now a bunch of those people who said, "I wouldn't mind paying if it were reasonable -- CD's cost too much!" now stand outraged at the idea of a lousy $5 / month.
It's hard to go back to paying for stuff after you've looted, and here's my bet: if a system were created that reliably paid the artist a small sum directly, most Napster users still wouldn't do it.
A lot of projects that we view as tech have a human component as well -- like the Pole who stole an Enigma machine for the British to examine. Lengthy declassification periods often reflect the lifespans of those involved, whose governments might not recognize a statute of limitations. Certainly the Soviet government, in that particular example, would have been quite capable of deciding that a Pole who gave information to the British once might do it again, and shoot him.
Shakespeare wrote his novels to be compensated. So did famous English author Henry Longfellow. And so did even your favorite 20th Century sci-fi drivel writing heroes such as Jules Verne and Robin Heinlein.
See, if you'd read your English Lit text before returning it, you'd have known that Shakespeare was a playwright and poet, not a novelist, and that Longfellow was an American poet (Gitche Gumee was not in the Lake District).
And, of course, if you'd read any sci-fi you'd probably have known Heinlein's first name was "Robert" and that Verne lived in the 19th century. (See, that's why it's considered remarkable that he wrote about things like submarines, because he was "anticipating". Can you say "anticipating"? Try it now. I knew you could).
Maybe you need to exercise those intellectual muscles a bit before attempting the heavy thought bits, eh?
Or maybe you knew all this, because your post is starting to seem like one of those, "Find everything wrong in this picture" puzzles, like an IHOP placemat.
I wasn't completely sure until I looked it up, although I have a dim visual memory of the Programmer's Ref card on the 6510, and the MOS Tech logo was co-prominent w/ the Commodore logo.
I'm not even sure that the on-chip serial port was used for much of anything. My feeling is that the 6510 was built to be a more comprehensive controller chip, and was used in the C64 mostly because why not? when you own the chip company, you might as well use the latest and greatest. That, or maybe as the later design it could be more cheaply manufactured. As I recall, that extra port took a lot of hand-holding, whereas a RIOT or something would do most of that for you (but it's been almost a Slashdot reader ago that I did this stuff).
Yes, a converter to bump up to RS-232 rings a bell. Then again, you needed some sort of converter to plug almost anything into a Commie. I was sort of surprised they didn't make us wear special gloves to type on them.
You know, that sounded right when I read it, but IMDB says it was Jim Cummings, who seems to have mostly voice credits. Since he's also done a number of recent Winnie the Pooh's, I can't say how his normal speaking voice would sound (certainly Ed the Laughing Hyena doesn't sound like Pooh). I wonder if he patterned the voice after Cheech?
My daughter, who despised Miami Vice, watches Nash Bridges for Cheech, although I don't think she's ever heard a Cheech & Chong routine (except for my bad impression of an excerpt from the "looks like dog shit" routine). Now that she's in Catholic school, I really should get her some Sr. Mary Elephant stuff.
But in this case the radio station went off the air. The radio itself, the patches, are unaltered. Can they truly and literally be said to be "broken"?
If and when digital TV comes along, it may well be the case that my analog set will be unable to display the new signal. Will my TV be "broken", or will the system have changed in such a way as to render my TV obsolete?
The patches are just that, obsolete. "Broken" is a convenient metaphor and a useful shorthand.
Well, you may be right about the Trade Federationists. They weren't on the screen all that much.
Jar Jar, however, produces an interesting and perhaps revealing reaction.
The crows in Dumbo were later castigated for being racist stereotypes. OK, they were, in fact, black, and they did jive a bit.
The hyenas in Lion King got the same reaction. Well, Whoopi Goldberg did one of the voices, but then again, so did Bobcat Goldthwaite (sp?). I don't recall who played the third. Just why did anybody assume that they were meant to be caricatures of black people?
Jar Jar had a vaguely Jamaican lilt, and his ears or whatever they were kind of echoed dreds. His people lived in a pretty high-tech society, fought bravely, and had not been conquered by the "humans" (for lack of a better term to describe these folks -- either they weren't human, it wasn't a long time ago, or G. Lucas doesn't believe Darwin). "Slave" hardly seems apt, and yet many people seem to see either a slave everytime a character might be black, or a black everytime a character is a criminal.
Perhaps the fault lies in your lens and not Mr Lucas'.
They all speak English for the same reason that most war movies have the Germans speaking English -- I don't speak German. Even with subtitles, there are no nuances.
I do recall one production that actually ran with this. It was mini-series about a German army unit, and all the actors spoke with British accents. The accents, however, were chosen to correspond with the characters social standing, so that Colonel von Whatever sounded like an English aristocrat and Corporal Shutlz was Cockney.
And Christ, give the actors a break. You're effectively asking them to give a compelling performance in two hours of mime, only worse because they'll have to speak gibberish all the time.
I respect K&R's usage, yes -- "break" in this context is a useful metaphor, but it's still a metaphor. If I had unplugged Dennis Ritchie's PDP8 I would have "prevented it from working", but I would not have broken it. On the other hand, a broken cookie still tastes good -- it still works.
Alright, I suspect I'm older than most of you, so I'm going to use up my middle-aged curmudgeon points here.
It doesn't LITERALLY break the mods. "Break" is, in this case, a metaphor, and is even placed in quotes in the sentence (the patch literally "breaks" all mods).
"Literally" not does not mean "especially", it means "actually".
If I literally slap you in the face, it doesn't mean that I really pissed you off, it means that I actually struck you. If I literally break your game, there should be real bits on the actual floor.
Sorry, I know we have a Grammer Nazi, but this is more of an issue of meaning rather than syntax, and it just grates on me. It's like signs that use quotes for emphasis: 'Check out our "sale" prices' (apparently they're not really sale prices at all).
So why did so many characters in Episode One speak this pidgen english?
Because no movie with subtitles has done well in the US market since sound?
Come on, Star Wars is space opera. Its antecedents are more like Flash Gordon than Louis Wu.Yoda just sounded like a drunk Menonite.
Personally, I was offended by R2D2. Would you have me believe they couldn't find a real shop vac to play the part?
Well, the 64 was bankswitched more or less manually, in that the program had to reach out and change its own world. Wire it up like that and a 4004 could address megabytes.
The 6510 did, however, have a serial port on board, although I don't recall it being used for much of anything in the 64. (Unless that was the bank switch...anybody remember?)
Oh, and as long as we're going after nits , it was MOS Technology, not Mostek. Easily confused.
Oh, Sears didn't clone anything. The Telegames was just a private label release of the 2600. Sears was so big that they could, in effect, commission Atari to customize the case, just as Black and Decker (among many others) have customized tools for them as Craftsman. Sears has never, to my knowledge, actually owned a factory, but instead carefully subbed it out. (They financed Schwinn Way Back When so as to have a reliable source of bicycles).
OTOH, I'm sure Atari went through several iterations of the Stella, and one of the things that kept the VCS cheap was broad tolerances (and forgiving gamers).
Remember, too, that home television has always driven color purists mad. NTSC, it has been said, stands for Never The Same Color, and that's about right. Walk into your local Sears (I used to work there) (well, probably not in yours) and go to the Wall of Eyes in 57 and watch the different renditions on each set. Twenty years ago it was worse, so the chip didn't have to be terribly consistent.
In fact, when my game was tested for Europe, we just dropped the cart into a PAL 2600 plugged into a PAL set (special wiring for that, of course, 220 single phase and maybe 50 HZ, or it may have been a cleverly designed frequency-tolerant set), said, "Well, those are colors, anyway. Not the same colors, but... Hell with it - ship it!"
I coded for the 2600, and it wasn't that hard (I know, 'cause I'm not that hot snot). Not much room to work, but that's why God made assemblers. Mostly it was counting cycles and counting bytes.
I do remember chasing my tail for a day and a half after I changed something in the attract mode and the whole damned game fell apart. Turned out that the byte (honest to God, one stinking BYTE) had pushed a loop over a page boundry, causing the conditional branch to take that extra cycle (or maybe two -- it's been a long time), which blew the scan timing which blew the screen timing, which just plain blew...
Stuff like that made it interesting, but not really hard.
They didn't send them unsolicited, there were articles about this at least a month before the giveaway in both magazines.
Look , I agree that this is mostly fuss about very little, but as a point of language -- notice is not solicitation. If you tell me ahead of time that you plan to hit me in the face, that is NOT the same thing as if I asked you to hit me in the face (Although the wife always tells me, "Well, you asked for that!")
You know, I was thinking that they were down the road a piece (I'm in Baltimore), but I didn't want to confuse the poor foreigner.
They're so brave, these Britons, leaving their little villages and their beloved sheep and venturing forth into the hustle and bustle of modern life. Automobiles. airplanes, electric light -- there's so much for them to learn. I didn't want to make it harder with geographic details.
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Of course, I live in Baltimore, just up the road from DC, so I'm more familiar with the local papers than other /. readers might be.
As it happens, I buy it sometimes, because even here in Baltimore I can get it for .25, while the Baltimore Sun is .50. I don't read either one, mind you, but I have a puppy.
As for predators, I've come at it more from the other direction: the description given of predator's meat generally involves words like "tough" and "stringy". I'm hoping that if I ever fall in with a hungry wolf that I'll be able to reason with him and explain that, as a fellow carnivore (OK, omnivore, but I'll be talking to a glorified dog and he's not likely to have a dictionary on hand), I too would be tough and stringy, while that deer over there...
Besides, I generally avoid seafood. Anything with that many bones clearly wasn't meant to be eaten, and crabs and whatnot just revolt me (and I live in Baltimore, where crabs are held slightly above God and country, loved almost as much as beer).
Ah, but a nice piece of dolphin, with maybe some baby Harp Seal on the side...
You know, I was reading the linked "report", and I was struck by some things:
Haven't had cats for long, have you? Of course she knows -- she just doesn't care.:)
Hey, I'm a vegetarian-once-removed -- all the animals I eat are vegetarians.
"Intellectual property has been overrun by technology -- get used to it! Information wants to be free, and any legal system that doesn't recognize the impact of cheap, pervasive digital storage is just pissing into the wind -- the world has changed."
"The standards that apply to paper should apply to files -- it shouldn't make a difference just because they're digital."
Exercise for the reader: reconcile the above two positions. Blush if appropriate.
(Mind you, if you have an old, incriminating email from somebody in the RIAA, it could get interesting.)
Not only do we have the entirely-predictable spectacle of Napster trying to charge (All of you who thought that they started the company for "freedom" take two steps back. Anybody who thought they were doing it for the artists, go home), but now a bunch of those people who said, "I wouldn't mind paying if it were reasonable -- CD's cost too much!" now stand outraged at the idea of a lousy $5 / month.
It's hard to go back to paying for stuff after you've looted, and here's my bet: if a system were created that reliably paid the artist a small sum directly, most Napster users still wouldn't do it.
A lot of projects that we view as tech have a human component as well -- like the Pole who stole an Enigma machine for the British to examine. Lengthy declassification periods often reflect the lifespans of those involved, whose governments might not recognize a statute of limitations. Certainly the Soviet government, in that particular example, would have been quite capable of deciding that a Pole who gave information to the British once might do it again, and shoot him.
See, if you'd read your English Lit text before returning it, you'd have known that Shakespeare was a playwright and poet, not a novelist, and that Longfellow was an American poet (Gitche Gumee was not in the Lake District).
And, of course, if you'd read any sci-fi you'd probably have known Heinlein's first name was "Robert" and that Verne lived in the 19th century. (See, that's why it's considered remarkable that he wrote about things like submarines, because he was "anticipating". Can you say "anticipating"? Try it now. I knew you could).
Maybe you need to exercise those intellectual muscles a bit before attempting the heavy thought bits, eh?
Or maybe you knew all this, because your post is starting to seem like one of those, "Find everything wrong in this picture" puzzles, like an IHOP placemat.
I'm not even sure that the on-chip serial port was used for much of anything. My feeling is that the 6510 was built to be a more comprehensive controller chip, and was used in the C64 mostly because why not? when you own the chip company, you might as well use the latest and greatest. That, or maybe as the later design it could be more cheaply manufactured. As I recall, that extra port took a lot of hand-holding, whereas a RIOT or something would do most of that for you (but it's been almost a Slashdot reader ago that I did this stuff).
Yes, a converter to bump up to RS-232 rings a bell. Then again, you needed some sort of converter to plug almost anything into a Commie. I was sort of surprised they didn't make us wear special gloves to type on them.
My daughter, who despised Miami Vice, watches Nash Bridges for Cheech, although I don't think she's ever heard a Cheech & Chong routine (except for my bad impression of an excerpt from the "looks like dog shit" routine). Now that she's in Catholic school, I really should get her some Sr. Mary Elephant stuff.
If and when digital TV comes along, it may well be the case that my analog set will be unable to display the new signal. Will my TV be "broken", or will the system have changed in such a way as to render my TV obsolete?
The patches are just that, obsolete. "Broken" is a convenient metaphor and a useful shorthand.
Jar Jar, however, produces an interesting and perhaps revealing reaction.
The crows in Dumbo were later castigated for being racist stereotypes. OK, they were, in fact, black, and they did jive a bit.
The hyenas in Lion King got the same reaction. Well, Whoopi Goldberg did one of the voices, but then again, so did Bobcat Goldthwaite (sp?). I don't recall who played the third. Just why did anybody assume that they were meant to be caricatures of black people?
Jar Jar had a vaguely Jamaican lilt, and his ears or whatever they were kind of echoed dreds. His people lived in a pretty high-tech society, fought bravely, and had not been conquered by the "humans" (for lack of a better term to describe these folks -- either they weren't human, it wasn't a long time ago, or G. Lucas doesn't believe Darwin). "Slave" hardly seems apt, and yet many people seem to see either a slave everytime a character might be black, or a black everytime a character is a criminal.
Perhaps the fault lies in your lens and not Mr Lucas'.
Besides, I am a stupid fuck. Everybody tells me so.
They all speak English for the same reason that most war movies have the Germans speaking English -- I don't speak German. Even with subtitles, there are no nuances.
I do recall one production that actually ran with this. It was mini-series about a German army unit, and all the actors spoke with British accents. The accents, however, were chosen to correspond with the characters social standing, so that Colonel von Whatever sounded like an English aristocrat and Corporal Shutlz was Cockney.
And Christ, give the actors a break. You're effectively asking them to give a compelling performance in two hours of mime, only worse because they'll have to speak gibberish all the time.
"Break" is fine, but drop the "literally".
It doesn't LITERALLY break the mods. "Break" is, in this case, a metaphor, and is even placed in quotes in the sentence (the patch literally "breaks" all mods).
"Literally" not does not mean "especially", it means "actually".
If I literally slap you in the face, it doesn't mean that I really pissed you off, it means that I actually struck you. If I literally break your game, there should be real bits on the actual floor.
Sorry, I know we have a Grammer Nazi, but this is more of an issue of meaning rather than syntax, and it just grates on me. It's like signs that use quotes for emphasis: 'Check out our "sale" prices' (apparently they're not really sale prices at all).
Thank you. I feel better now.
Because no movie with subtitles has done well in the US market since sound? Come on, Star Wars is space opera. Its antecedents are more like Flash Gordon than Louis Wu.Yoda just sounded like a drunk Menonite.
Personally, I was offended by R2D2. Would you have me believe they couldn't find a real shop vac to play the part?
The 6510 did, however, have a serial port on board, although I don't recall it being used for much of anything in the 64. (Unless that was the bank switch...anybody remember?)
Oh, and as long as we're going after nits , it was MOS Technology, not Mostek. Easily confused.
OTOH, I'm sure Atari went through several iterations of the Stella, and one of the things that kept the VCS cheap was broad tolerances (and forgiving gamers).
Remember, too, that home television has always driven color purists mad. NTSC, it has been said, stands for Never The Same Color, and that's about right. Walk into your local Sears (I used to work there) (well, probably not in yours) and go to the Wall of Eyes in 57 and watch the different renditions on each set. Twenty years ago it was worse, so the chip didn't have to be terribly consistent.
In fact, when my game was tested for Europe, we just dropped the cart into a PAL 2600 plugged into a PAL set (special wiring for that, of course, 220 single phase and maybe 50 HZ, or it may have been a cleverly designed frequency-tolerant set), said, "Well, those are colors, anyway. Not the same colors, but... Hell with it - ship it!"
No they weren't. The 6507 and the RIOT, yeah, but not the Stella, and w/out the Stella you haven't got much of an Atari.
I do remember chasing my tail for a day and a half after I changed something in the attract mode and the whole damned game fell apart. Turned out that the byte (honest to God, one stinking BYTE) had pushed a loop over a page boundry, causing the conditional branch to take that extra cycle (or maybe two -- it's been a long time), which blew the scan timing which blew the screen timing, which just plain blew...
Stuff like that made it interesting, but not really hard.
Look , I agree that this is mostly fuss about very little, but as a point of language -- notice is not solicitation. If you tell me ahead of time that you plan to hit me in the face, that is NOT the same thing as if I asked you to hit me in the face (Although the wife always tells me, "Well, you asked for that!")
They're so brave, these Britons, leaving their little villages and their beloved sheep and venturing forth into the hustle and bustle of modern life. Automobiles. airplanes, electric light -- there's so much for them to learn. I didn't want to make it harder with geographic details.