about 90 percent of the world has no idea how much a gallon is. Hell, a UK gallon is probably even different from an US one. And UK at least made the decision to switch to the more civilized litre (yes, it's written litre.)
About 90 percent of the world has no idea how much a mile is. Hell, a UK mile is probably even different from an US one. And UK at least made the decision to switch to the more civilized kilometre (yes, it's written kilometre.)
Even more annoying : about 90 percent of the world doesn't count in distance, but in distance for volume.
Therefore 90 percent of the world doesn't understand your bullshit US centric measurements. I don't know, but if even the most tech savvy persons I am supposed to be meeting here can't make the switch to modern (as in post XVIIIth century modern) units, I fear America (read the US) will never see the light (hey, c is measured in "km/s", not in "weeks/length of the right foot of Henry VIII" !).
1.) Do you think you would have still been cought had the warez scene been like it was back in the early 90's before all the "kiddies" and "leeches" came on the scene and started making it "popular" and raising the red flag to much unwanted attention? 2.) How do you feel about the scene now as opposed to back in the early 90's? I'm not going to ask "better or worse" because I know it's worse (maybe with the exception of broadband), but what do you feel is wrong with it now that wasn't back then? 3.) How do you feel about the quality of material and music and movies that are circulated on the scene? Personally I was sick back when Napster started getting popular, when someone in school walked up to me and asked me if I'd ever heard of an MP3 before, when they'd been around for 4 of 5 years before Napster was even someone's wet dream. I knew then that the quality of the music we were able to get was going to degrade QUICKLY, and now it's to the point where I'll sooner go out and get the CD to avoid something that someone's "MP3'ed" off TRL with microphone. Have you ever had any experiences like this?
4. Do you know the difference between "HTML Formatted" and "Plain Old Text" ?
For one half of the world, 'chips' are 'crisps', in other words sliced potatoes fried till they get hard and seasoned with spices, salt, peper, onions, or whatever. (I mean this)
For another half of the world (not necessarily mutually exclusive), chips are 'frenched fried potatoes', in other words 'fritten met frikandel en pikkels', in yet other words you cut them in prisms about 6mm x 6mm x the length of the potato, then you bake them twice in 180 C animal fat and serve them with mayo.
Call them ASICs or ICs or whatever the correct term is for what you vaguely meant, for heaven's sake ! We're nerds, we're not Joe Mainstream.
G is the gravitational constant. As used if F=G{{ m_1 m_2}\over{r^2}};G=(6.673 +- 0.010)e-11 m3/kg s2
g is the acceleration due to earth's gravity, not actually a constant, it's less on the poles and more on the equator, due to the ovoidal shape of the earth. g=9.80665 m/s2
g-force is a stupid buzzword for Joe Mainstream. We are nerds, we all took Physics 101. For us, GeForce is a line of graphic accelerators.
Call them gravitational force (might be considered stupid -NJ to limit earth's gravitation ? Uh ?- as they are generally vertical, but Einstein doesn't make a distinction.) or call them acceleration, or call them whatever you actually meant, but stop thinking you're talking to three years olds.
For one half of the world, 'chips' are 'crisps', in other words sliced potatoes fried till they get hard and seasoned with spices, salt, peper, onions, or whatever. (I mean this)
For another half of the world (not necessarily mutually exclusive), chips are 'frenched fried potatoes', in other words 'fritten met frikandel en pikkels', in yet other words you cut them in prisms about 6mm x 6mm x the length of the potato, then you bake them twice in 180 C animal fat and serve them with mayo.
Call them ASICs or ICs or whatever the correct term is for what you vaguely meant, for heaven's sake ! We're nerds, we're not Joe Mainstream.
And tell me how often you link your pages to Chinese pages (which make THEM appear on top of search results)? And tell me how often they link to your english speaking pages ?
I really don't see how the relevancy of a page would rise / fall if the Chinese link/don't link to it.
So when they look up 'civilized' language words, they will reach 'civilized' pages, when they look up 'chink' words, they will get on 'chink' pages. If the japanese make a billion (macroscopic number) different pages saying:"Slashdot yatta ! Ashgala woundefou ! Hyakugoyjuichi Pokemon !", it will just make slashdot's rank higher. So when you lookup 'slashdot', it will just make a high hit on slashdot, but this will NOT 'polute' the results. You would only find the 'poluted' results if you explicitly search for them, ie make a search on 'Slashdot yatta ! Ashgala woundefou ! Hyakugoyjuichi Pokemon !'.
What I mean is that you get a higher rating when many people link to you, but to see the 'link pollution' you have to ask explicitly for it.
It has come to my attention that "slashdot", subsidiary of VA Software, is a refuge for people with a terrible sense for grammar and spelling. As a remediation, please accept the following recommendations about the use of some frequent linguistic expressions:
"Alot" vs. "A lot": There is no such word as alot. In fact, when confronted with the word alot, ispell tells us the following : "how about : allot,aloe,aloft, alto, blot, clot, lot, plot, slot"
Just because moronic Americans pronounce Berstein, neither, Einstein and other as "Burnstean", "neather", "Ainstean", etc... doesn't mean they have to write those words "Bernstien", "niether" or "Einstien". Special mention to "thier", "becuase" and "amatuer".
"Than" vs. "Then": Just the fact that in some inferior dialects of the English language, "than" and "then" are pronounced about the same way doesn't mean that the comparative "than" has any reason to be written as the conjunctive/logical "then".
Your vs. You're: The former means "not my, not his, not our", in other words it is a possessive. The latter is a shortcut for "You are". Similar point for There vs Their vs They're.
Hobbyist and lobbyist are not superlatives. Hence they musn't be written as hobbiest and lobbiest.
Thi fuct thit ya ridnucks prunince any avelible vowal as "uh" doesn't forbid you to open a book from time to time to actually build up some vocabulary. It's "ludicrous" and "compatible", not "ludacris" and "compatable".
...many more to come. Reply to this comment to suggest some.
Slashdot, subdivision of VA Software, no longer content to "slashdot" cheap html+jpg websites, changed their business model. Now they crash heavily loaded flash sites.
CEO Rob Malda commented : "yes, with the diminishing eployment, less techies have less occasions to waist [sic] corporate time on websurfing so banner income stagnated. So we had to cut costs and involve much simpler slashdottings"
I realise you can't download a Porsche. So don't make a stupid remark about it. The point remains the same
Congratulations. You just used a trick you found in your rethorics 101 manual : using the other party's arguments and telling that's a stupid argument period.
Well yes, you can't indeed download a Porsche. The only resources you cost for downloading a file on the internet is some bandwidth from one of your warez peers (and granted, this bandwidth taken is also taken from other, legal users, but that's what Terms of Service exist for).
In the case of the Porsche however it cost resources paying the factory workers and the raw material entering the factory. The point is NOT the same.
Personally I only pay software that is reasonably priced - generally second hand games. Most of the software nowadays is 90 percent bloat, and after spending the most important part of my paycheck buying the hardware John Carmack and Bill Gates decided I had to have to run their software, I just can't afford their software anymore. Their fault. If they were to keep their software unbloated, I would have enough with a 486. Then I would be able to buy their software. Some time long gone, programming was an art, with limited resources so you really had to do your best to use the hardware properly. Now the software developers just write shitty code and waits for Intel to release the next stepping of their CPUs, leaving the low end users in the shit.
So the problem IMNSHO is between the hardware capitalists and the software capitalists. Either software is good, gets bought and hardware doesn't get upgraded, either hardware is good and software bloats.
Slashdot Mirror
Because Bill Gates's pockets are deep.
Actually, I am not really sure there's much more shame in being caught on goatse.cx than in being caught on www.aol.com
about 90 percent of the world has no idea how much a gallon is. Hell, a UK gallon is probably even different from an US one. And UK at least made the decision to switch to the more civilized litre (yes, it's written litre.)
About 90 percent of the world has no idea how much a mile is. Hell, a UK mile is probably even different from an US one. And UK at least made the decision to switch to the more civilized kilometre (yes, it's written kilometre.)
Even more annoying : about 90 percent of the world doesn't count in distance, but in distance for volume.
Therefore 90 percent of the world doesn't understand your bullshit US centric measurements. I don't know, but if even the most tech savvy persons I am supposed to be meeting here can't make the switch to modern (as in post XVIIIth century modern) units, I fear America (read the US) will never see the light (hey, c is measured in "km/s", not in "weeks/length of the right foot of Henry VIII" !).
LOGO gives a whole new dimension to the keyword "GOTO"
UN inspectors finally caught Saddam with a Massive Destruction Device : a Pioneer DVD/RW
Not to speak about "The Harem in New York" (Who can afford a harem nowadays ?) and a low budget sattelite from India.
Do they have some news for the simple mortal hardworking middle class man today ?
What was your most popular release ?
For one half of the world, 'chips' are 'crisps', in other words sliced potatoes fried till they get hard and seasoned with spices, salt, peper, onions, or whatever. (I mean this) For another half of the world (not necessarily mutually exclusive), chips are 'frenched fried potatoes', in other words 'fritten met frikandel en pikkels', in yet other words you cut them in prisms about 6mm x 6mm x the length of the potato, then you bake them twice in 180 C animal fat and serve them with mayo. Call them ASICs or ICs or whatever the correct term is for what you vaguely meant, for heaven's sake ! We're nerds, we're not Joe Mainstream.
and it's 'g', not 'G' !
G is the gravitational constant. As used if F=G{{ m_1 m_2}\over{r^2}};G=(6.673 +- 0.010)e-11 m3/kg s2
g is the acceleration due to earth's gravity, not actually a constant, it's less on the poles and more on the equator, due to the ovoidal shape of the earth. g=9.80665 m/s2
g-force is a stupid buzzword for Joe Mainstream. We are nerds, we all took Physics 101. For us, GeForce is a line of graphic accelerators.
Call them gravitational force (might be considered stupid -NJ to limit earth's gravitation ? Uh ?- as they are generally vertical, but Einstein doesn't make a distinction.) or call them acceleration, or call them whatever you actually meant, but stop thinking you're talking to three years olds.
For one half of the world, 'chips' are 'crisps', in other words sliced potatoes fried till they get hard and seasoned with spices, salt, peper, onions, or whatever. (I mean this)
For another half of the world (not necessarily mutually exclusive), chips are 'frenched fried potatoes', in other words 'fritten met frikandel en pikkels', in yet other words you cut them in prisms about 6mm x 6mm x the length of the potato, then you bake them twice in 180 C animal fat and serve them with mayo.
Call them ASICs or ICs or whatever the correct term is for what you vaguely meant, for heaven's sake ! We're nerds, we're not Joe Mainstream.
There were *3* home alones
This is an invitation for the taco snotting guide troll, isn't it ?
And tell me how often you link your pages to Chinese pages (which make THEM appear on top of search results)? And tell me how often they link to your english speaking pages ?
:"Slashdot yatta ! Ashgala woundefou ! Hyakugoyjuichi Pokemon !", it will just make slashdot's rank higher. So when you lookup 'slashdot', it will just make a high hit on slashdot, but this will NOT 'polute' the results. You would only find the 'poluted' results if you explicitly search for them, ie make a search on 'Slashdot yatta ! Ashgala woundefou ! Hyakugoyjuichi Pokemon !'.
I really don't see how the relevancy of a page would rise / fall if the Chinese link/don't link to it.
So when they look up 'civilized' language words, they will reach 'civilized' pages, when they look up 'chink' words, they will get on 'chink' pages. If the japanese make a billion (macroscopic number) different pages saying
What I mean is that you get a higher rating when many people link to you, but to see the 'link pollution' you have to ask explicitly for it.
more on the subject at http://www.majoros.net/zealot/
You've misspelled the word "accent" in your sig, unless my font is rendering it wrong.
You've used an excessive 'e'.
Or is this some sort of subtle French joke ?
RUG (RijksUniversiteit Gent) is on Belnet, the Belgian university backbone. You just ruined my bandwidth for the day !
Slashdot, subdivision of VA Software, no longer content to "slashdot" cheap html+jpg websites, changed their business model. Now they crash heavily loaded flash sites.
CEO Rob Malda commented : "yes, with the diminishing eployment, less techies have less occasions to waist [sic] corporate time on websurfing so banner income stagnated. So we had to cut costs and involve much simpler slashdottings"
Well yes, you can't indeed download a Porsche. The only resources you cost for downloading a file on the internet is some bandwidth from one of your warez peers (and granted, this bandwidth taken is also taken from other, legal users, but that's what Terms of Service exist for).
In the case of the Porsche however it cost resources paying the factory workers and the raw material entering the factory. The point is NOT the same.
Personally I only pay software that is reasonably priced - generally second hand games. Most of the software nowadays is 90 percent bloat, and after spending the most important part of my paycheck buying the hardware John Carmack and Bill Gates decided I had to have to run their software, I just can't afford their software anymore. Their fault. If they were to keep their software unbloated, I would have enough with a 486. Then I would be able to buy their software. Some time long gone, programming was an art, with limited resources so you really had to do your best to use the hardware properly. Now the software developers just write shitty code and waits for Intel to release the next stepping of their CPUs, leaving the low end users in the shit.
So the problem IMNSHO is between the hardware capitalists and the software capitalists. Either software is good, gets bought and hardware doesn't get upgraded, either hardware is good and software bloats.
And I can't afford both !