Well, to be fair, it *is* a set rule when writing in Japanese. It's just when we come to English, do we stick to the literal syllabic count or to the meme length? As most sane members of our generation have already learned, the way we were taught in school is not gospel.
Since you're also a fan and a writer, I encourage you to try to adopt the stylistic rules as well as the syntactic ones. It's actually suprisingly easy to work in a seasonal notion. Pay attention to where a "break" occurs in your writing. If you consciously attempt to follow these dicta, it really takes the poem and the experience of writing the poem to a new level.
If you read the links on the definition and history of haiku, you see that a "parlor game" of sorts in that more literate time would be that one poet would challenge with what we now call a "haiku" (575) and another would complete a "tanku" with what translates into english as two lines, seven syllables each. they could go on doing this for thousands of stanzas, 57577-57577...
So here you go (off the cuff):
exchanging ideas
water rolling stones downstream
thawing rigid minds
I just put you on my list of friends for responding to a sorta-flame (even though he's right, the 575 we learned in skool is a western thing). Here's a site with some really good links about why haiku do not neccesarily have to be 575.
http://home.pacific.net.sg/~loudon/poetry.htm
jaz
>That being said, I disagree with the original point that the site is pointless. Any art is a contribution to the whole -- even this site, which doesn't even use real haikus (5-7-5) in the first place.
GAAAAH, I'm glad you appreciated the site on its artistic merit, but if there's anyone less qualified to speak on poetry, it's your average/.er. Haiku, despite what your ninth grade english teacher told you, does not require seventeen syllables. Japanese syllables convey less information than English syllables, and Japanese grammar is much more flexible than English. So two routes emerge: one that keeps the 17 syllable form from japanese, using the extra memespace to make up for English's reletive inflexibility, and the other that holds to the approximate conceptual size (about 11 English syllables). Both are generally considered haiku. One sage, when asked how long a haiku should be, replied that it should be only long enough to be said in one breath. Most western 17 syllable haiku fail this benchmark.
The "rules" of haiku are that the poem convey a single simple thought or concept, contain some sort of concrete (preferably natural/seasonal) image, and contain a "Kireji", or "break", usually at the end of a line (in English). You can write a two-line haiku if you like.
Now, I write haiku, it's my preferred form of poetry. When I do, I stick to the 5-7-5 form. I like it, I'm an engineer, I enjoy the challenge. Get the idea captured first, then try to work within the meter. Following this form doesn't make it any "realer", just more entertaining for the author.
If you want more information about haiku, here's one of the best collections of links I've found:
http://home.pacific.net.sg/~loudon/poetry.htm
I would wager that less than 2% of us here are allowing XP to install patches willy-nilly. The only things it downloads automatically are the critical updates, and you're pretty foolish not to run those patches. I still review them before I allow it to install.
Auto-update is for mom & pop and yes -- Microsoft, as thick as they are, know more than M&P.
I personally sent an email out to all my less-literate friends with the info here explaining what the problem is & how to right it. They are now as wary as I am about implicitly trusting Microsoft code, and that's a good thing.
There's a dearth of funny posts in this discussion. Of course, the discussion (up to this point) is about a ninety-minute domino demonstration. The next record attempt has GOT to throw in an explosion or two if they have any hope of capturing the American market. Allowing space for commercials is of course manditory.
Actually, in my undergrad days, my favorite class in my mathmatics major was called "modern geometry". The entire thesis of the class was looking at why Euclid developed five postulates instead of four. The first four are obvious:
A straight line segment can be drawn joining any two points.
Any straight line segment can be extended indefinitely in a straight line.
Given any straight line segment, a circle can be drawn having the segment as radius and one endpoint as center.
All right angles are congruent.
But number five, oh the chaos number five brings:
If two lines are drawn which intersect a third in such a way that the sum of the inner angles on one side is less than two right angles, then the two lines inevitably must intersect each other on that side if extended far enough. The converse is also assumed, although not stated directly. If the inner angles are 180 or more the lines do not meet on that side. Parallel lines never meet, hence the angles on either side sum to 180.
That beauty (which you may know more succinctly as "Given a line and a point not on that line, there is one and only one line through that point parallel to the first line.") caused a collective, 2000-year "Whaaaa?" in the mathematics world. The solution was that there are three consistent geometries; the euclidean that you were taught in high school, hyperbolic geometry, which models the reality of subatomic particles much more closely than Euclidean geometry does, and spherical. Here is a quick link that dicusses this topic in greater detail.
So yes, postmodernism alive and well in the sciences; I'm actually suprised that the majority of/.ers live in such a binary universe. jaz
Augh, this is why the "modern" notation should always be used. It's much more readable to denote the files (columns) a-h, and the ranks (rows) 1-8) instead of naming squares by the pieces that originally resided there. Those P-KR4 (Pawn to h4 or P-h4 in modern) and/or P-QR4 (P-a4) mean moving the pawns in front of the rooks out two spaces. (often pawn moves are written simply as the position they move to, but I added P for clarity)
The duffer is trying to activate his rooks immediately. This is an awful move because the rooks will be quickly destroyed by the far more agile enemy knights. Rooks should not (as a rule of thumb) be activated until the middle game once the board has been cleared up a little. Being up a rook in the endgame (typically defined as the game after the queens have left the board) is a HUGE advantage.
In fact, if you're prepared to support them (and your opponent allows it), pushing the d and e pawns two spaces each can be a large advantage for white; you control the center, and have lots of space behind them to develop your minor pieces.
Now, Mr. Modernist Moderator, go ahead and mod me -1, offtopic. I will simply PostModerate you Unfair!
like it or not, (and reading the discussion above, I see a lot of not-liking, not-understanding in the discussion) slashdot is intensely postmodern in its character.
heh, here's a simple example from my own post. [B][/B] is modern HTML, [STRONG][/STRONG] is postmodern.
OK it's *really* late, that seemed too funny...
jaz
hey thanks. I'll do that. I kind of figured that was a sig, but wasn't sure.
I certainly appreciate the polite and helpful correction in response to an honest mistake instead of flaming me as a monkey faced, morris dancing waste of DNA.
cheers to ya,
jaz
Guy who didn't read the article makes an uninformed M$ bash and gets modded to four... (they're running linux, and there must have been some other problem because it's usable now)
It's a shame I'm banned from moderation for my failure to jump on the Linux bandwagon; vast numbers of readers of this site are using IE6.0, and that doesn't come in any linux distro I know of. I'm just honest about my use of software from the beast of Redmond.
Basic econ; at a certain point, the price stops falling. LCDs have been stuck at $300ish for a while now. Go to pricewatch and click "Monitors". You'll notice that the price for CRTs 17" and below are the same (17" have a higher volume, and so end up marginally cheaper). Notice too, that 15" and 13" LCDs are about the same. A new hard drive cannot be had for much under $50, and so on.
These are limitations of the manufacturing process; given a certain type of widget costs $y to make, everyone sells their widgets for at least $Y, regardless of their size. Unless the manufacturing process changes there will be a baseline price that the component will not go below.
However, I believe I remember seeing something about a manufafcturing change to LCD screens, so they may drop below their current $300 baseline, but they will hit a cost bottom; they won't continue down forever.
Put the X-files fanzine down and step away from the paranoid dementia. They are checking the files they know to exist. Most likely some sort of secure hash before-n-after comparison like MD5 is a part of that process.
Yes, scanning only for the files you know are there is pretty boneheaded. You're hyperventilating because Microsoft is the culprit.
Do you know why Microsoft makes so many mistakes? Because they have a lot of products. More risks, more chances to make a mistake. Take a look at the number of strikeouts homerun hitters get compared to leadoff hitters.
Excellent suggestion. My faith is restored that if we all just slack off at work and put our minds to it, we can solve all the worlds problems; hunger, thermonuclear war, cancellation of quality shows, you name it.
1. XP is for eXPensive
Never in the history of the PC has the part of the operating system been so pricey.
I'll give ya that one and not even haggle about ROI or TCO, a major reason why *FOR ME* linux is not preferred. OUt of pocket, it's a lot more expensive to have a legal Windows XP system than to have a legal, even storebought, Linux system. I think that you get a good deal of quality for your money. You think that's bloat. We aren't going to see eye to eye on it, so I concede. WinXP is packaged in a more expensive box on the store shelf.
2. XP is for eXPires
Microsoft has invented the software that eXPires as the customer can only install the software a certain number of times. If you have a virus, need to upgrade your hard drive, want to clean up your HD, add another component, change PC or any other reason to install, your software gets closed to death.
That's just bogus and you probably know it yourself. You have to activate, sure. In practice, changing one or two items isn't enough to upset the hash that matches the activation code recieved from Microsoft. I'm not saying this isn't a pain in the ass; it's a huge pain in the ass. But it's neither as troublesome nor permanent as you paint it. At least you didn't get into the Xcessive Paranoia that Microsoft is compiling a hardware database. It's a HASH people. One way trip. Details go in, but they don't come out.
3. XP is for eXPloit
Knowing the care microsoft gives to security, this meaning is close to become reality.
It's also very easy to root a lot of linux boxes that are still out there, exactly the same as the were from their stock install. Security is one of the user's responsibilities, and can't be laid solely at the feet of the provider. Anyother user responsbility is back up & maintainence, but you wouldn't blame the operating system when they lose work due to hardware catastrophe which they should have backed up. Not to say that this isn't a major part of designing an operating system, but security issues are prevalent in the Linux world as well, except that the arcane rituals required to secure a linux workstation are, to say the least, not user-friendly.
Linux has in fact had security holes go unnoticed for months and even years before. What's good about linux is the fact that patches are issued quite quickly, and due to the competition from linux in this regard, Microsoft has gotten a lot more agile in this regard.
4. XP is for eXPlosion
eXPlosion of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks as windows XP gives raw socket acces to the mass of home users. (read >http://grc.com/dos/winxp.htm and http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19332.html
See, this is one of the hallmarks of FUD. You get one guy making a lot of noise about Feature Q. He puts up his own site and then he issues a bunch of press releases about how Feature Q is responsible for homelessness, teenage pregnancy and a staggering 34% increase in segfault behavior. Then the FUDmeister cites this guy's blathering and a couple sites that actually published his press release as independent sources that Feature Q must be stopped. I don't know what the adoption of Raw Sockets means to the world. I can see Steve's point that there's not a whole lot of use for it to the everyday user. I also don't see any other "security experts" stepping forward to back up his claims. As far as I can tell, and I may be wrong, Steve Gibson's been hit by an acorn and is running around saying the sky is falling.
5. XP is for eXPected
It took 10 years to microsoft to deliver a operating system that doesn't crash or need a reboot multiple times a day. At last!
Uh...I've been using NT for quite a while now, since 4.0 service pack 1, and that gets back to early 98 I think. NT's been around a lot longer than that; it hasn't been a peak experience all the time. Heck it hasn't even been a desirable platform all the time, but a stable Win32 platform has been around a long time. Pretty close to as long as GNU/Linux has been popular, as it came out of the CLI-shackled darkness of a university project to the GUI-driven juggernaut you love.
6. XP is for linuXPreferred
For all the above reasons.
Eh, here's my experience. Linux is needy. You can get it running, stable, and optimized only if you take the enormous amount of time it takes to figure out the drivers you need to compile into your kernel, the parameters you need to set, get you boot sequence all in the right order, write (and debug) scripts and even then it never really worked for me. Maybe I'm not a genius like EEEEVERYONE else here at slashdot. But I spent hours over months reading HOWTOs and FAQs and documentation and even the GD source code, and I couldn't get a simple 486/66 linux firewall and router to get up, start masquerading, and STAY UP consistently, even with 64MB of RAM. Sure the OS didn't crash, but I had to reset the network every couple hours to get peak performance. It was just not my cup of tea. I prefer things to work, so I can get on with the important things in life. Like it's easy for the girlfriend set up her laptop and check email, like I spend my time developing a presentation to make to a prospective client, and like I can chat online with family overseas. If banging around trying to make what may well be a superior system simply run is your cup of tea, by all means be my guest. It's like getting all greasy working on your muscle car all day; and yes, I did that in my stint as a linux-counter stat. I agree that it's a lot of fun to actually replace that part with a custom-tuned model and have it start up and watch it purr. But at some juncture the point of the exercise is to get in and go for a spin through the countryside, and a lot of the linux zealots act like that never comes up. So the booth babe of your dreams sidles up and asks you to use your computer to check her email, and there you are, dirty jeans, greasy mitts, and the interior of the car is for shit; metal springs poking up out of the seats, and only one speaker on the AM Stereo works. Well, I'm not saying I'm gonna roll up in the shiny new Microsoft Luna and sweep her away but I do know my shit works, and my less-than-130 IQ friends are impressed when I let them drive it.
Either you need to check your facts before posting or clear out your browser cache. That link points to two systems: 1.7 and 1.8 vintage P4s. A google search of www.gateway.com only turns up support pages.
I am astonished that AMD has put out a product with such a questionable durability.
Druability, Shmurability. Who cares if a processor only lasts a few years? You're going to (or at least should) upgrade. And at $50 a pop, I can do that several times a decade!!!!
jaz
According to NPR, a much more reliable source of political information, this bill merely changes the regulatory jurisdiction of obtaining an electronic "wiretap". Previously, to "tap" an email, the prosecutors had to present the case for the warrant to every judge whose jurisdiction in which the the email passes. Meaning if I send an email from NC to NY judges in both my federal district and the federal district of the recient have to sign off on the warrant, as well as all those servers that pass the message on.
It is still very difficult to get a wiretap warrant, both for email and telephones; the burden of proof is extremely high. Now, I'm not saying illegal wiretaps are not done, but it's still just as difficult to get one legally. I'm not in law enforcement, but I'm also not a paranoiac. Mod me down for both acts of reason.:P
Slashdot Mirror
Western Digital special edition dives have a three year warranty. You might try researching an analogy first...
Since you're also a fan and a writer, I encourage you to try to adopt the stylistic rules as well as the syntactic ones. It's actually suprisingly easy to work in a seasonal notion. Pay attention to where a "break" occurs in your writing. If you consciously attempt to follow these dicta, it really takes the poem and the experience of writing the poem to a new level.
If you read the links on the definition and history of haiku, you see that a "parlor game" of sorts in that more literate time would be that one poet would challenge with what we now call a "haiku" (575) and another would complete a "tanku" with what translates into english as two lines, seven syllables each. they could go on doing this for thousands of stanzas, 57577-57577...
So here you go (off the cuff):
exchanging ideas
water rolling stones downstream
thawing rigid minds
jaz
I just put you on my list of friends for responding to a sorta-flame (even though he's right, the 575 we learned in skool is a western thing). Here's a site with some really good links about why haiku do not neccesarily have to be 575. http://home.pacific.net.sg/~loudon/poetry.htm jaz
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=57260& cid=5526681
GAAAAH, I'm glad you appreciated the site on its artistic merit, but if there's anyone less qualified to speak on poetry, it's your average /.er. Haiku, despite what your ninth grade english teacher told you, does not require seventeen syllables. Japanese syllables convey less information than English syllables, and Japanese grammar is much more flexible than English. So two routes emerge: one that keeps the 17 syllable form from japanese, using the extra memespace to make up for English's reletive inflexibility, and the other that holds to the approximate conceptual size (about 11 English syllables). Both are generally considered haiku. One sage, when asked how long a haiku should be, replied that it should be only long enough to be said in one breath. Most western 17 syllable haiku fail this benchmark.
The "rules" of haiku are that the poem convey a single simple thought or concept, contain some sort of concrete (preferably natural/seasonal) image, and contain a "Kireji", or "break", usually at the end of a line (in English). You can write a two-line haiku if you like.
Now, I write haiku, it's my preferred form of poetry. When I do, I stick to the 5-7-5 form. I like it, I'm an engineer, I enjoy the challenge. Get the idea captured first, then try to work within the meter. Following this form doesn't make it any "realer", just more entertaining for the author.
If you want more information about haiku, here's one of the best collections of links I've found:
http://home.pacific.net.sg/~loudon/poetry.htm
Philistines. Reentering lurk mode.
jaz
Wow, am I the only one who reads the article AND the discussion?
Auto-update is for mom & pop and yes -- Microsoft, as thick as they are, know more than M&P.
I personally sent an email out to all my less-literate friends with the info here explaining what the problem is & how to right it. They are now as wary as I am about implicitly trusting Microsoft code, and that's a good thing.
jaz
Aaanyway.
jaz
- A straight line segment can be drawn joining any two points.
- Any straight line segment can be extended indefinitely in a straight line.
- Given any straight line segment, a circle can be drawn having the segment as radius and one endpoint as center.
- All right angles are congruent.
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If two lines are drawn which intersect a third in such a way that the sum of the inner angles on one side is less than two right angles, then the two lines inevitably must intersect each other on that side if extended far enough. The converse is also assumed, although not stated directly. If the inner angles are 180 or more the lines do not meet on that side. Parallel lines never meet, hence the angles on either side sum to 180.
(source)But number five, oh the chaos number five brings:
That beauty (which you may know more succinctly as "Given a line and a point not on that line, there is one and only one line through that point parallel to the first line.") caused a collective, 2000-year "Whaaaa?" in the mathematics world. The solution was that there are three consistent geometries; the euclidean that you were taught in high school, hyperbolic geometry, which models the reality of subatomic particles much more closely than Euclidean geometry does, and spherical. Here is a quick link that dicusses this topic in greater detail.
So yes, postmodernism alive and well in the sciences; I'm actually suprised that the majority of /.ers live in such a binary universe.
jaz
The duffer is trying to activate his rooks immediately. This is an awful move because the rooks will be quickly destroyed by the far more agile enemy knights. Rooks should not (as a rule of thumb) be activated until the middle game once the board has been cleared up a little. Being up a rook in the endgame (typically defined as the game after the queens have left the board) is a HUGE advantage.
In fact, if you're prepared to support them (and your opponent allows it), pushing the d and e pawns two spaces each can be a large advantage for white; you control the center, and have lots of space behind them to develop your minor pieces.
Now, Mr. Modernist Moderator, go ahead and mod me -1, offtopic. I will simply PostModerate you Unfair!
like it or not, (and reading the discussion above, I see a lot of not-liking, not-understanding in the discussion) slashdot is intensely postmodern in its character.
heh, here's a simple example from my own post. [B][/B] is modern HTML, [STRONG][/STRONG] is postmodern.
OK it's *really* late, that seemed too funny...
jaz
I certainly appreciate the polite and helpful correction in response to an honest mistake instead of flaming me as a monkey faced, morris dancing waste of DNA.
cheers to ya,
jaz
went back down apparantly as I was posting this...
Guy who didn't read the article makes an uninformed M$ bash and gets modded to four...
(they're running linux, and there must have been some other problem because it's usable now)
It's a shame I'm banned from moderation for my failure to jump on the Linux bandwagon; vast numbers of readers of this site are using IE6.0, and that doesn't come in any linux distro I know of. I'm just honest about my use of software from the beast of Redmond.
ROFL
Hail Eris!
These are limitations of the manufacturing process; given a certain type of widget costs $y to make, everyone sells their widgets for at least $Y, regardless of their size. Unless the manufacturing process changes there will be a baseline price that the component will not go below.
However, I believe I remember seeing something about a manufafcturing change to LCD screens, so they may drop below their current $300 baseline, but they will hit a cost bottom; they won't continue down forever.
Or better yet, flame someone as an AC, even though they've been around /. since '98.
You will respect my 20kUID!
jaz
The file in question never gets copied to the hard drive. I'm sure it would show up if you scanned the CD-ROM for virii.
Put the X-files fanzine down and step away from the paranoid dementia.
They are checking the files they know to exist. Most likely some sort of secure hash before-n-after comparison like MD5 is a part of that process.
Yes, scanning only for the files you know are there is pretty boneheaded. You're hyperventilating because Microsoft is the culprit.
Do you know why Microsoft makes so many mistakes? Because they have a lot of products. More risks, more chances to make a mistake. Take a look at the number of strikeouts homerun hitters get compared to leadoff hitters.
feh.
Am I the only one browsing at a low enough level to read these things?
Definately. But what your parent is saying that Quantum encryption techniques will be available sooner than quantum cryptanalysis tools will be.
Excellent suggestion. My faith is restored that if we all just slack off at work and put our minds to it, we can solve all the worlds problems; hunger, thermonuclear war, cancellation of quality shows, you name it.
jaz
Linux has in fact had security holes go unnoticed for months and even years before. What's good about linux is the fact that patches are issued quite quickly, and due to the competition from linux in this regard, Microsoft has gotten a lot more agile in this regard.
See, this is one of the hallmarks of FUD. You get one guy making a lot of noise about Feature Q. He puts up his own site and then he issues a bunch of press releases about how Feature Q is responsible for homelessness, teenage pregnancy and a staggering 34% increase in segfault behavior. Then the FUDmeister cites this guy's blathering and a couple sites that actually published his press release as independent sources that Feature Q must be stopped. I don't know what the adoption of Raw Sockets means to the world. I can see Steve's point that there's not a whole lot of use for it to the everyday user. I also don't see any other "security experts" stepping forward to back up his claims. As far as I can tell, and I may be wrong, Steve Gibson's been hit by an acorn and is running around saying the sky is falling. Uh...I've been using NT for quite a while now, since 4.0 service pack 1, and that gets back to early 98 I think. NT's been around a lot longer than that; it hasn't been a peak experience all the time. Heck it hasn't even been a desirable platform all the time, but a stable Win32 platform has been around a long time. Pretty close to as long as GNU/Linux has been popular, as it came out of the CLI-shackled darkness of a university project to the GUI-driven juggernaut you love. Eh, here's my experience. Linux is needy. You can get it running, stable, and optimized only if you take the enormous amount of time it takes to figure out the drivers you need to compile into your kernel, the parameters you need to set, get you boot sequence all in the right order, write (and debug) scripts and even then it never really worked for me. Maybe I'm not a genius like EEEEVERYONE else here at slashdot. But I spent hours over months reading HOWTOs and FAQs and documentation and even the GD source code, and I couldn't get a simple 486/66 linux firewall and router to get up, start masquerading, and STAY UP consistently, even with 64MB of RAM. Sure the OS didn't crash, but I had to reset the network every couple hours to get peak performance. It was just not my cup of tea. I prefer things to work, so I can get on with the important things in life. Like it's easy for the girlfriend set up her laptop and check email, like I spend my time developing a presentation to make to a prospective client, and like I can chat online with family overseas. If banging around trying to make what may well be a superior system simply run is your cup of tea, by all means be my guest. It's like getting all greasy working on your muscle car all day; and yes, I did that in my stint as a linux-counter stat. I agree that it's a lot of fun to actually replace that part with a custom-tuned model and have it start up and watch it purr. But at some juncture the point of the exercise is to get in and go for a spin through the countryside, and a lot of the linux zealots act like that never comes up. So the booth babe of your dreams sidles up and asks you to use your computer to check her email, and there you are, dirty jeans, greasy mitts, and the interior of the car is for shit; metal springs poking up out of the seats, and only one speaker on the AM Stereo works. Well, I'm not saying I'm gonna roll up in the shiny new Microsoft Luna and sweep her away but I do know my shit works, and my less-than-130 IQ friends are impressed when I let them drive it.jaz
jaz
Druability, Shmurability. Who cares if a processor only lasts a few years? You're going to (or at least should) upgrade. And at $50 a pop, I can do that several times a decade!!!!
jaz
It is still very difficult to get a wiretap warrant, both for email and telephones; the burden of proof is extremely high. Now, I'm not saying illegal wiretaps are not done, but it's still just as difficult to get one legally. I'm not in law enforcement, but I'm also not a paranoiac. Mod me down for both acts of reason.:P
jaz