It's his amazing mutant healing powers. No regular human could have undergone a complete skeletal reinforcement like that. Also, the slits heal up when his adamantium claws retract.
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Exactly! The "GNU/" is always silent.
A little-known fact is that Richard Stallman's real name is actually "Richard GNU/Stallman," but we only pronounce it "Richard Stallman" because the "GNU/" is always silent.
Oh, please. +5, Insightful? Have we got a bunch of jealous anti-Americans as moderators today?
I can tell you where the America-is-the-world attitude comes from, though, if you care to understand it. First off, for the people who don't already: have you ever BEEN there?
The United States is HUMUNGOUS! I've lived outside of it for a while, and one thing that strikes me is how small it seems almost every other country is. You can drive across the UK in a matter of hours. The same amount of time would get you across just half of Colorado.
How often does the average U.S. citizen actually have to communicate from somebody outside of the U.S.? Not bloody often. If you ask a French person who their neighbors are when talking about politics, chances are they'll name the British and the Spanish. Somebody from Nevada will name Californians and Utahns.
How much is the average U.S. citizen directly affected by the policies of the U.S.'s neighboring countries? Compare that to the direct effect of a neighboring state's policies, and the answer is: not much at all.
So before you shoot off your crapper about how isolationist the U.S. population is as a whole, consider the environment. The people live in a very large superpower country. Contact with foreigners is minimal. It's going to be that way. Deal.
The answer? AOL should switch to CD-RWs, or even multi-session CD-Rs.
I'm sure the marketing departments at AOL/TW would LOVE that. "The Bestest and Fastest ever AOL 12.0! And even if you think the service is trash, the reusable media isn't!"
HIPAA? ARGH! Don't say that word! I have to translate those evil 1000-page X12 specifications into code...
I'm melting, melting...
The privacy protections are pretty well done, though. It'll make us change our network infrastructure and protocols a little, but that will make them what they should have been in the first place.
It's not really that the code is a small part of the effort (even if it is only 1/50 or less of the actual bytes on the CD), but that, in general, it can be made to be pretty portable. Take the Quake 3 TA engine, for instance. It can be run on Linux, Windows, or Mac.
But yes, you're right: it won't take four times the effort. What you need is a few good layers of abstraction. I'll go back to the Quake 3 engine again. The game code actually runs in a VM - with hooks and callbacks for communication with the engine - which means the game code is completely platform-independent. And Carmack and crew are used to writing cross-platform stuff, so the engine was probably nearly portable before they tried to port it. On top of that, the engine has got its own abstract layer for all of the rendering: OpenGL.
With multiple platforms, layers of abstraction like that would naturally emerge, and everybody would be happy.
When vaccination was discovered, the religious community spoke out against vaccination on the same grounds...
A nitpick, but an important one: saying "the religious community" is like saying "the Slashdot community."
My religion did nothing of the sort that you describe. I'm sure the majority of the rest of them didn't either. Unfortunately, as with any perceived demographic, it's the most extreme kind that appoint themselves to speak and act for the rest of us.
Sad, because as a general rule, despite all of our graphics and sound advances, todays games just don't have the greatness that could be found a decade ago in EGA.
Mind if I throw in an alteration for discussion?
Sad, because as a general rule, because of all of our graphics and sound advances, todays games just don't have the greatness that could be found a decade ago in EGA.
It used to be used as part of a sarcastic, offhand remark, with emphasis on the "could": "I could care less about you." It lost its sarcasm through overuse. Funny how we stop thinking about meaning when we get used to phrases.
If it makes you feel any better, the Grammar Fascist always says "couldn't care less."
I saw TORN in the theaters when it came out in '82, and I still recall how for weeks afterward my geeky friends and I would say "Greetings, program!" when we saw each other on the street.
My wife and I still greet each other that way sometimes.
My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000, with 2k of memory. BASIC was built in, and the first time you pressed a key on the keyboard, it would expand to a BASIC keyword.
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Or you'll do what? And when?
But you probably never will.
It's his amazing mutant healing powers. No regular human could have undergone a complete skeletal reinforcement like that. Also, the slits heal up when his adamantium claws retract.
Exactly! The "GNU/" is always silent.
A little-known fact is that Richard Stallman's real name is actually "Richard GNU/Stallman," but we only pronounce it "Richard Stallman" because the "GNU/" is always silent.
You know, OpenOffice is actually pretty small. So is KOffice.
But AbiWord is smaller than both of them put together.
Status quo is what it's all about, in many things.
The RIAA is afraid of things they don't think they can control. They don't want to lose the control, or even think about losing just a little of it.
A lot of the Big Bands, the RIAA's best little moneymakers, are afraid of someone better than them but less known stepping up and getting popular.
When authors objected to the idea of giving away books, who had the most objections? The guys with lots of books already sold and lots of money did.
Somebody alert SatireWire! We have a new headline!
BSA Reports Rise In Finger-crossing While Clicking "I Agree"
Oh, please. +5, Insightful? Have we got a bunch of jealous anti-Americans as moderators today?
I can tell you where the America-is-the-world attitude comes from, though, if you care to understand it. First off, for the people who don't already: have you ever BEEN there?
The United States is HUMUNGOUS! I've lived outside of it for a while, and one thing that strikes me is how small it seems almost every other country is. You can drive across the UK in a matter of hours. The same amount of time would get you across just half of Colorado.
How often does the average U.S. citizen actually have to communicate from somebody outside of the U.S.? Not bloody often. If you ask a French person who their neighbors are when talking about politics, chances are they'll name the British and the Spanish. Somebody from Nevada will name Californians and Utahns.
How much is the average U.S. citizen directly affected by the policies of the U.S.'s neighboring countries? Compare that to the direct effect of a neighboring state's policies, and the answer is: not much at all.
So before you shoot off your crapper about how isolationist the U.S. population is as a whole, consider the environment. The people live in a very large superpower country. Contact with foreigners is minimal. It's going to be that way. Deal.
The answer? AOL should switch to CD-RWs, or even multi-session CD-Rs.
I'm sure the marketing departments at AOL/TW would LOVE that. "The Bestest and Fastest ever AOL 12.0! And even if you think the service is trash, the reusable media isn't!"
Two days on the stand will cost Bill Gates more money than I will make in a decade if I continue with my current line of work.
Something about that disparity upsets me.
My father-in-law told me once that he used to have liberal leanings, citing that very mindset as the reason.
He's not rich now, but well-off enough that he doesn't have to worry much about his finances. He's also become quite conservative.
He also says he used to be quite stupid about some things.
HIPAA? ARGH! Don't say that word! I have to translate those evil 1000-page X12 specifications into code...
I'm melting, melting...
The privacy protections are pretty well done, though. It'll make us change our network infrastructure and protocols a little, but that will make them what they should have been in the first place.
It's not really that the code is a small part of the effort (even if it is only 1/50 or less of the actual bytes on the CD), but that, in general, it can be made to be pretty portable. Take the Quake 3 TA engine, for instance. It can be run on Linux, Windows, or Mac.
But yes, you're right: it won't take four times the effort. What you need is a few good layers of abstraction. I'll go back to the Quake 3 engine again. The game code actually runs in a VM - with hooks and callbacks for communication with the engine - which means the game code is completely platform-independent. And Carmack and crew are used to writing cross-platform stuff, so the engine was probably nearly portable before they tried to port it. On top of that, the engine has got its own abstract layer for all of the rendering: OpenGL.
With multiple platforms, layers of abstraction like that would naturally emerge, and everybody would be happy.
When vaccination was discovered, the religious community spoke out against vaccination on the same grounds...
A nitpick, but an important one: saying "the religious community" is like saying "the Slashdot community."
My religion did nothing of the sort that you describe. I'm sure the majority of the rest of them didn't either. Unfortunately, as with any perceived demographic, it's the most extreme kind that appoint themselves to speak and act for the rest of us.
Is it just me or are there less comments on the stories following April Fool's Day this year?
I'm inclined to call it burnout.
Actually I was kind of wondering how an hour of Tom Bombadil would make it rated R.
Sad, because as a general rule, despite all of our graphics and sound advances, todays games just don't have the greatness that could be found a decade ago in EGA.
Mind if I throw in an alteration for discussion?
Sad, because as a general rule, because of all of our graphics and sound advances, todays games just don't have the greatness that could be found a decade ago in EGA.
It used to be used as part of a sarcastic, offhand remark, with emphasis on the "could": "I could care less about you." It lost its sarcasm through overuse. Funny how we stop thinking about meaning when we get used to phrases.
If it makes you feel any better, the Grammar Fascist always says "couldn't care less."
So I can't even have friends anymore, I have to have GNU/Friends? Damn you RMS!
That's right, and GNU/Joey, GNU/Chandler, GNU/Rachel...
Admit it. Without the GNU tools, those people would be nothing at all.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a van full of VHS tapes.........er...
I use capital cities.
Like NEWYORK, SALTLAKECITY, and SPRINGVILLE?
But the theme of the gods, who created the world, incarnating and acting in it, performing miracles etc., is certainly a deliberate religious theme.
IIRC, Sark actually calls belief in the Users a religion.
I need to watch it again.
I saw TORN in the theaters when it came out in '82, and I still recall how for weeks afterward my geeky friends and I would say "Greetings, program!" when we saw each other on the street.
My wife and I still greet each other that way sometimes.
Our poor children...
(ohmygod - I have turned into Mr Atkins - my old music teacher :-p)
If it helps you feel any better: when I read your post, I threw up.
Luxury!
My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000, with 2k of memory. BASIC was built in, and the first time you pressed a key on the keyboard, it would expand to a BASIC keyword.
And we LIKED it!
Or am I getting my Star Trek and Reality confused again? :D
I still can't figure out why it's so easy for us to do that...
The Canadian Copyright Board has announced the details of the public hearings on Canadian Digital Copyrights...
What? Aren't the DMCA, UCITA, and SSSCA good enough for them?
Why some backwater state in the USA would need their own special laws on this is totally beyond me...
(Before you flame, yes, I know.)