"The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents, publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the French lexicon. "
Or perhaps, in French, 'le ban' is translated as, "it would be nice if you didn't do this"...
This is simply another example of French arrogance, believing their language to be superior to other languages to the point that they fear its adultering by using (gasp) an English word!
This is horrible!! This will send the economy even further downward! How will the cities survive?? How will Washington survive? I certainly hope that the adult industry protests these actions!
I got one! Valarray should be called vector and vector, valarray.
After all, valarray is the one with the vector operations built into it! Hell, even Stroustrup commented about this in "The C++ Programming Language", and he created the damn language!
These days, with very few exceptions, the biggest stars are all manufactured by the record labels anyway. The labels engineered many of these pop , or perhaps 'puppet', sensations that so many people go 'ga-ga' over.
Perhaps the better question is: why have some of these engineered musical groups earned so much, when their popularity and following is almost entirely due to the label's efforts?
"But, why me?" "Because you fit the suit."
-The Brady Bunch, "Johnny Bravo"
If you are correct, then this guy is building a house but wants to be mega-cheap on the home audio installation effort. ick.
I agree with the other guy. Get it done professionally. It will save you time, effort and frustration. Best part is, if the pro's screw up, you can sue em!:)
Ken MacLeod, famous fiction writer, was found dead at in his home this morning. He had been decapitated whilst sitting at his computer, working on his latest sci-fi novel.
Witnesses state seeing unusual electrical activity in the vicinity of his home the morning of the incident.
Police are currently looking for a "long-haired, sword-wielding hottie" in a trenchcoat.
uhh that is truly stupid i feel silly replying to you, let me guess you are 14 years old?
Prove to me that the Egyptians built the pyramids, instead of making ageist remarks.
ok !...so you're not jewish...
You state that I give humanity a bad name, while you blatantly make such anti-Semitic remarks. I happen to be half-Jewish, you ignorant bigot, and I resent those remarks!
May Allah do your people a favor and cleanse the earth of your unwelcomed presence. May a cobra find a hole in your tamad and bite your testicles off.
can you prove to me that jewish labour were used to build the pyramids?
No one can conclusively prove who built the pyramids at all. For that matter, no one can conclusively prove that the Egyptians designed them, either. If you wish, I will retract my claim that the Egyptians used the Jews as slave labor to build the pyramids. I will subsitute it with the claim that the ancient Egyptians were bumbling idiots who had nothing to do with the pyramids, except steal them and claim they 'built' them.
and there is a difference between insulting one person and insulting a whole religion
You fail understand, Queen Ass-Ram-sis, I was insulting only you. I told you to go cocksuck Mohammed, not all the people of Islam. I will qualify: Queen Ram-me, I wish for you, and only you and no one else of the nation of Islam, to go cocksuck Mohammed. There, that better? hahaha
it is people like you who give the jewish people a bad name.
No, it's people like YOU who give the Jews a bad name. The Jewish people have a wonderful name and a proud and expansive culture. They are dilligent, industrious, intelligent and both humble and proud. They flourish irrespective of the oppression of people like your ancestors.
Oh of course! How could I have breched that line of netiquette. Telling someone to go fuck themselves is one thing, but insulting their religion - that's just wrong!
That is too funny!
I will leave the readers to conclude who is racist and how cant co-exist with the other.
Wha? If I must decide, I conclude you are the racist.
one final note even I have an army of slaves (assuming your lies are true for 10 seconds) they cant do anything without the insight and genius planning of my great^10 grandfathers.
Even the smallest of men can stand high and mighty when riding on the shoulders of giants.
Sounds like a great deal. I'm sure all the Jewish slaves were happy to trade in their freedom for the beatings, grueling long hours, torture and unbearable workload. Ahh, to be a slave! It must be so invigorating
A sadly misguided and futile attempt to refute the logic in my prior statement.
Firstly, this is simply incorrect. Secondly, this is arrogant. This means that in one statement you simultaneously come off as arrogant AND ignorant.
I happen to be a extremely skilled guitarist, but I didn't build my guitar, amps, or any of my digital recording equipment.
Congratulations on your mastery of the guitar.
You are stating that understanding map building tools is analagous to knowing how to construct a guitar in order to play it well. Now this is truly misguided, and shows a clear lack of understanding of both the subject matter, and how to draw a clear analogy.
Knowing how to write software and being able to construct a computer from raw silicon would be the software analog to your 'guitar' analogy.
What you're not understanding is that there are many levels of tools within tools when it comes to software. You might as well complain that people don't code in assembly language.
I don't complain about people who do not code in assembly. I would complain about people who would say, "Cant I just tell the computer what to do, and have it write itself in assembly?". These people, yourself included, simply lack the understanding of the subject matter.
What you fail to understand is that programming languages are not 'tools of tools'. C is not a tool of 'assembly'. JAVA is not a 'tool' of C. They are programming languages, ways of expressing logic. Some languages contain more syntactic sugar than others. Some lend themselves well to particular applications. Some come with larger amounts of built-in functionality.
One of the most advanced IDE's is MS Visual Studio. It allows you to construct an entire application framework with the click of a button. But guess what? It doesn't do a damn thing of value until you put code in it.
By your logic, people who only use C as tool don't really get into coding enough to develop a quality product. Again, irrelevent and simply unintelligent.
No, that's not my logic. That is you, making an irrelevant and unintelligent statement, then pathetically attempting to label it as my logic.
You fail to understand my post. Perhaps you require a remedial English course, or, at the very least, a remedial course in logic.
By my logic, people who sit on the sidelines and complain that something is "too complex" or "time consuming" to learn lack the desire and mental acuity to contribute anything of value in the first place.
I've made both music and video on home computers (I created one of the more popular Star Wars fan films several years ago).
Good for you.
I didn't have to write the code for Adobe Premier to learn to use it well, and I certainly didn't have to put a few lines into the code myself to achieve the results I wanted - all the necessary tools were already there in Adobe's superbly designed GUI toolset.
That's a wonderful story. I'm so glad you enjoyed your home movie production experience. What you fail to comprehend is that creating game modifications goes far beyond video editing. Editing audio and video is fun, but it lacks dimensionality. A song/movie has a fixed length, starts at a particular time, runs for a particular time, and is exactly the same regardless of whether you play it in slow-mo, fast-forward or underwater. Creating modifications involves introducing (brace yourself, new word for you here) logic into the game. "if(x) then do y"... that sort of thing.
What you also fail to comprehend is for what you are asking. You basically want a level editor that can create models, build maps, integrate sounds and sound effects, create textures and introduce fully functional game LOGIC, all without writing a single line of code.
Tell me, can your Adobe movie software allow you to express 'event logic' in your movies? If you so desired, could you make
Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. The Egyptians never enslaved anyone. They never tortured, beat, maimed and slaughtered thousands of innocent Jews who were guilty of nothing more than being Hebrew.
exactly where did I mention that Egypt enslaved jews?
Probably when you said the 'greatness' of the pyramids was about the method of building it. I'll explain this one to you, since you are clearly incapable of comprehending the scope of your own statement. I will also use small words so that I do not overburden your impotent mind. The method of building would include the actual construction effort, which was performed by a populace of slaves.
You think that ancient Egypt was so different than the Third Reich? Let's see...
The Egyptians desired total global domination. The Third Reich desired total global domination. The Egyptians viewed themselves as the superior race. The Third Reich viewed themselves as the superior race. The Egyptians murdered the Jews. The Third Reich murdered the Jews. The Egyptians used the Jews as slave labor to construct large buildings for reasons of self-serving opulance, gratification and narcissism. The Third Reich used the Jews as slave labor to refine raw materials and manufacture more weapons.
After looking at things, I guess you are right. The Third Reich was different than the Egyptians. They weren't as arrogant. I aopologize to all the Nazis out there who are still alive and in exile. I did not realize I was being so insulting to them.
Now, Queen-Ram-sis, you may go cocksuck Mohammed now. May Allah have mercy on you for your narrowness of mind, but shower vengeful hatred upon you for the grandeur of your stupidity.
Typically, housing/real estate is the last thing to recover from a recession. The housing market typically lags 6-10 months behind the economy.
This time around, however, it seems as though it is actually leading the market. I've never seen this before. Then again, I've never seen an economic growth period like the one we recently had.
Troll? I get a troll mod because I comment that the article lacks any real value. Nice!
Fine! Well, in true Mick Dundee form:
"That's not a troll, this is a troll:"
Rob Malda sucks fat GOAT-SEX cock, and the moderators can go cornhole Stephen King's dead (age 55) corpse. While we're at it, someone should take that CS knife and chop off this perch.
Oh yeah, Fr0st P1st for all you punch-hole monkeys! Yeah boyeeez!!%#! YoU Guzy sux0R!!! I AM So QUick WIth MAH POstar SKilLZ!
If you are still reading, then let me tell you about a little hobby of mine...
Sex Guide -- How to Geese
WARNING DO NOT attempt to penetrate a goose! You WILL kill it! The tissue inside is very delicate and can rupture easily without you even noticing!
ACCESS Geese are very cheap and can be bought for 20 dollars full grown. You will want the biggest and most aggressive geese you can buy. Sex is determined by a process called "vent sexing". IE, you grab the base of the tail and squeeze. If it is a male, you will cause the penis to pop out. If it is a female, you will get her to expose the egg laying vent. Geese can be obtained anywhere. The local newspapers are an...
So there! Pppbblllblbbbllllltttt! Mod away, ass-fuckers!
Colecovision Expansion Pack - allowed owners to play Atari games on the Colecovision. Atari sued Coleco. Coleco sued Atari. Ended up in a massive lawsuit totalling somewhere close to $1 billion dollars. (This was a LOT of money circa 1983!) BTW, Colecovision expansion packs are now illegal due to the DMCA.:)
Daiktana - a gimmie.
R.O.B. - Nintendo's Robotic Operating Buddy, the little piece of plastic crap that 'helped' you play Gyromite.
NES Power Pad - Basically Nintendo believed gamers wanted to exercise
Hint: Don't talk about things you know nothing about.
He had two choices:
1) lose his life savings. 2) find a pro bono attorney and hope he doesn't lose his life savings and more.
1) The RIAA has deep pockets. He would have blown through $12k in attorney's fees in no time, had he decided to fight. I have a good attorney, and he charges $300/hr. $12k is one week of his time.
2) How many 'good' attorneys would work on a case such as this pro bono? Almost none. If the case were very high visibility (i.e. constantly in the pulbic's eye of short-sight), then he may have stood a chance of finding a good attorney who would represent him pro bono.
And someone modded the parent down as Offtopic. How can this be? It's ON-TOPIC. It's ABOUT THE TOPIC. What he is saying is that the article is crap. Take a look at it. It is crap! The parent should be modded up as Insightful!
Slashdot Mirror
Apparently you did not read the article:
"The Culture Ministry has announced a ban on the use of "e-mail" in all government ministries, documents, publications or Web sites, the latest step to stem an incursion of English words into the French lexicon. "
Or perhaps, in French, 'le ban' is translated as, "it would be nice if you didn't do this"...
This is simply another example of French arrogance, believing their language to be superior to other languages to the point that they fear its adultering by using (gasp) an English word!
This is horrible!! This will send the economy even further downward! How will the cities survive?? How will Washington survive?
...
..... .. oh , wait, T I A ?
I certainly hope that the adult industry protests these actions!
nevermind..
" Additionally, just because they make more than, me or you or God for that matter, it doesn't mean they don't deserve every penny coming to them."
They don't deserve the money. Period.
I got one! Valarray should be called vector and vector, valarray.
After all, valarray is the one with the vector operations built into it! Hell, even Stroustrup commented about this in "The C++ Programming Language", and he created the damn language!
Oh God! How will they survive?
The poor artists may have to work hard all year long making an album and touring, all for... *gasp* a paltry $5 million dollars earnings.
Oh the humanity!
Fuck the La-bels
Fuck, fuck fuck
Fuck the La-bels
for all you Jay & Silent Bob fans.
These days, with very few exceptions, the biggest stars are all manufactured by the record labels anyway. The labels engineered many of these pop , or perhaps 'puppet', sensations that so many people go 'ga-ga' over.
Perhaps the better question is: why have some of these engineered musical groups earned so much, when their popularity and following is almost entirely due to the label's efforts?
"But, why me?"
"Because you fit the suit."
-The Brady Bunch, "Johnny Bravo"
If you are correct, then this guy is building a house but wants to be mega-cheap on the home audio installation effort.
:)
ick.
I agree with the other guy. Get it done professionally. It will save you time, effort and frustration. Best part is, if the pro's screw up, you can sue em!
The paren't wasn't moddeup up +5, Funny???!?
INCONCEIVABLE!
Ken MacLeod, famous fiction writer, was found dead at in his home this morning.
He had been decapitated whilst sitting at his computer, working on his latest sci-fi novel.
Witnesses state seeing unusual electrical activity in the vicinity of his home the morning of the incident.
Police are currently looking for a "long-haired, sword-wielding hottie" in a trenchcoat.
any idiot with a little spare time can write a reasonably effective worm.
OK, I'll nibble. Write a reasonably effective worm!
Otherwise, you're not even smart enough to be considered an idiot...
I dare ya!
uhh that is truly stupid i feel silly replying to you, let me guess you are 14 years old?
...so you're not jewish ...
Prove to me that the Egyptians built the pyramids, instead of making ageist remarks.
ok !
You state that I give humanity a bad name, while you blatantly make such anti-Semitic remarks. I happen to be half-Jewish, you ignorant bigot, and I resent those remarks!
May Allah do your people a favor and cleanse the earth of your unwelcomed presence.
May a cobra find a hole in your tamad and bite your testicles off.
you may go fuckyourself now.
have a nice day.
can you prove to me that jewish labour were used to build the pyramids?
No one can conclusively prove who built the pyramids at all. For that matter, no one can conclusively prove that the Egyptians designed them, either.
If you wish, I will retract my claim that the Egyptians used the Jews as slave labor to build the pyramids. I will subsitute it with the claim that the ancient Egyptians were bumbling idiots who had nothing to do with the pyramids, except steal them and claim they 'built' them.
and there is a difference between insulting one person and insulting a whole religion
You fail understand, Queen Ass-Ram-sis, I was insulting only you. I told you to go cocksuck Mohammed, not all the people of Islam.
I will qualify: Queen Ram-me, I wish for you, and only you and no one else of the nation of Islam, to go cocksuck Mohammed.
There, that better? hahaha
it is people like you who give the jewish people a bad name.
No, it's people like YOU who give the Jews a bad name. The Jewish people have a wonderful name and a proud and expansive culture. They are dilligent, industrious, intelligent and both humble and proud. They flourish irrespective of the oppression of people like your ancestors.
at least I didnt insult your religion
Oh of course! How could I have breched that line of netiquette. Telling someone to go fuck themselves is one thing, but insulting their religion - that's just wrong!
That is too funny!
I will leave the readers to conclude who is racist and how cant co-exist with the other.
Wha? If I must decide, I conclude you are the racist.
one final note even I have an army of slaves (assuming your lies are true for 10 seconds) they cant do anything without the insight and genius planning of my great^10 grandfathers.
Even the smallest of men can stand high and mighty when riding on the shoulders of giants.
Sounds like a great deal. I'm sure all the Jewish slaves were happy to trade in their freedom for the beatings, grueling long hours, torture and unbearable workload. Ahh, to be a slave! It must be so invigorating
I will pray for you.
Save it.
Shove it.
You may go fuck yourself now.
have a nice day.
A sadly misguided and futile attempt to refute the logic in my prior statement.
Firstly, this is simply incorrect. Secondly, this is arrogant. This means that in one statement you simultaneously come off as arrogant AND ignorant.
I happen to be a extremely skilled guitarist, but I didn't build my guitar, amps, or any of my digital recording equipment.
Congratulations on your mastery of the guitar.
You are stating that understanding map building tools is analagous to knowing how to construct a guitar in order to play it well.
Now this is truly misguided, and shows a clear lack of understanding of both the subject matter, and how to draw a clear analogy.
Knowing how to write software and being able to construct a computer from raw silicon would be the software analog to your 'guitar' analogy.
What you're not understanding is that there are many levels of tools within tools when it comes to software. You might as well complain that people don't code in assembly language.
I don't complain about people who do not code in assembly. I would complain about people who would say, "Cant I just tell the computer what to do, and have it write itself in assembly?". These people, yourself included, simply lack the understanding of the subject matter.
What you fail to understand is that programming languages are not 'tools of tools'. C is not a tool of 'assembly'. JAVA is not a 'tool' of C.
They are programming languages, ways of expressing logic. Some languages contain more syntactic sugar than others. Some lend themselves well to particular applications. Some come with larger amounts of built-in functionality.
One of the most advanced IDE's is MS Visual Studio. It allows you to construct an entire application framework with the click of a button. But guess what? It doesn't do a damn thing of value until you put code in it.
By your logic, people who only use C as tool don't really get into coding enough to develop a quality product. Again, irrelevent and simply unintelligent.
No, that's not my logic. That is you, making an irrelevant and unintelligent statement, then pathetically attempting to label it as my logic.
You fail to understand my post. Perhaps you require a remedial English course, or, at the very least, a remedial course in logic.
By my logic, people who sit on the sidelines and complain that something is "too complex" or "time consuming" to learn lack the desire and mental acuity to contribute anything of value in the first place.
I've made both music and video on home computers (I created one of the more popular Star Wars fan films several years ago).
Good for you.
I didn't have to write the code for Adobe Premier to learn to use it well, and I certainly didn't have to put a few lines into the code myself to achieve the results I wanted - all the necessary tools were already there in Adobe's superbly designed GUI toolset.
That's a wonderful story. I'm so glad you enjoyed your home movie production experience. What you fail to comprehend is that creating game modifications goes far beyond video editing. Editing audio and video is fun, but it lacks dimensionality. A song/movie has a fixed length, starts at a particular time, runs for a particular time, and is exactly the same regardless of whether you play it in slow-mo, fast-forward or underwater.
Creating modifications involves introducing (brace yourself, new word for you here) logic into the game. "if(x) then do y"... that sort of thing.
What you also fail to comprehend is for what you are asking. You basically want a level editor that can create models, build maps, integrate sounds and sound effects, create textures and introduce fully functional game LOGIC, all without writing a single line of code.
Tell me, can your Adobe movie software allow you to express 'event logic' in your movies? If you so desired, could you make
Finally, a good article on games.slashdot.org!
This is a Solid (pardon the pun) step up from the "Knife Skin" articles we have seen.
good show!
Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. The Egyptians never enslaved anyone. They never tortured, beat, maimed and slaughtered thousands of innocent Jews who were guilty of nothing more than being Hebrew.
exactly where did I mention that Egypt enslaved jews?
Probably when you said the 'greatness' of the pyramids was about the method of building it. I'll explain this one to you, since you are clearly incapable of comprehending the scope of your own statement. I will also use small words so that I do not overburden your impotent mind.
The method of building would include the actual construction effort, which was performed by a populace of slaves.
You think that ancient Egypt was so different than the Third Reich? Let's see...
The Egyptians desired total global domination.
The Third Reich desired total global domination.
The Egyptians viewed themselves as the superior race.
The Third Reich viewed themselves as the superior race.
The Egyptians murdered the Jews.
The Third Reich murdered the Jews.
The Egyptians used the Jews as slave labor to construct large buildings for reasons of self-serving opulance, gratification and narcissism.
The Third Reich used the Jews as slave labor to refine raw materials and manufacture more weapons.
After looking at things, I guess you are right. The Third Reich was different than the Egyptians. They weren't as arrogant. I aopologize to all the Nazis out there who are still alive and in exile. I did not realize I was being so insulting to them.
Now, Queen-Ram-sis, you may go cocksuck Mohammed now.
May Allah have mercy on you for your narrowness of mind, but shower vengeful hatred upon you for the grandeur of your stupidity.
prick.
I think you mean "Whoa", not "Wow".
Typically, housing/real estate is the last thing to recover from a recession. The housing market typically lags 6-10 months behind the economy.
This time around, however, it seems as though it is actually leading the market. I've never seen this before. Then again, I've never seen an economic growth period like the one we recently had.
so what ?
.
it is about the method of building it, not about the size...
So you're saying that Egypt is great because EGYPT Enslaved The Jews ?
Yeah, that's great. Egypt's right up there with The 3rd Reich
Troll? I get a troll mod because I comment that the article lacks any real value. Nice!
.
Fine! Well, in true Mick Dundee form:
"That's not a troll, this is a troll:"
Rob Malda sucks fat GOAT-SEX cock, and the moderators can go cornhole Stephen King's dead (age 55) corpse.
While we're at it, someone should take that CS knife and chop off this perch
Oh yeah, Fr0st P1st for all you punch-hole monkeys!
Yeah boyeeez!!%#! YoU Guzy sux0R!!! I AM So QUick WIth MAH POstar SKilLZ!
If you are still reading, then let me tell you about a little hobby of mine...
Sex Guide -- How to Geese
WARNING
DO NOT attempt to penetrate a goose! You WILL kill it! The tissue inside is very delicate and can rupture easily without you even noticing!
ACCESS
Geese are very cheap and can be bought for 20 dollars full grown. You will want the biggest and most aggressive geese you can buy. Sex is determined by a process called "vent sexing". IE, you grab the base of the tail and squeeze. If it is a male, you will cause the penis to pop out. If it is a female, you will get her to expose the egg laying vent. Geese can be obtained anywhere. The local newspapers are an...
So there! Pppbblllblbbbllllltttt!
Mod away, ass-fuckers!
"I'm not sure I like this artoicle."
I agree!
Sega-CD - need I say more?
:)
Colecovision Expansion Pack - allowed owners to play Atari games on the Colecovision. Atari sued Coleco. Coleco sued Atari. Ended up in a massive lawsuit totalling somewhere close to $1 billion dollars. (This was a LOT of money circa 1983!) BTW, Colecovision expansion packs are now illegal due to the DMCA.
Daiktana - a gimmie.
R.O.B. - Nintendo's Robotic Operating Buddy, the little piece of plastic crap that 'helped' you play Gyromite.
NES Power Pad - Basically Nintendo believed gamers wanted to exercise
3 D O - failed system
Total Recall for NES - worst...game...ever.
Hint: Don't talk about things you know nothing about.
He had two choices:
1) lose his life savings.
2) find a pro bono attorney and hope he doesn't lose his life savings and more.
1) The RIAA has deep pockets. He would have blown through $12k in attorney's fees in no time, had he decided to fight. I have a good attorney, and he charges $300/hr. $12k is one week of his time.
2) How many 'good' attorneys would work on a case such as this pro bono? Almost none. If the case were very high visibility (i.e. constantly in the pulbic's eye of short-sight), then he may have stood a chance of finding a good attorney who would represent him pro bono.
And someone modded the parent down as Offtopic. How can this be? It's ON-TOPIC. It's ABOUT THE TOPIC. What he is saying is that the article is crap. Take a look at it. It is crap! The parent should be modded up as Insightful!