The root word is the Latin "fasces" -- a bundle of sticks -- which was used as a symbol of authority in Ancient Rome, by people empowered to beat those acting illegally. This is where the notion of "fascism" comes from -- order through the strength of the dominant group.
I really should do more study of etymology, it can be fascinating...
Ep. 2 made progress. But from the percieved failure of Ep. 1, no one was willing to give the movie any kind of a shake. When 1 was released, there was a devoted throng of geeks who thought they'd be "smarts" and spend weeks on end spouting off about just how bad the film was. That same contingent multiplied and said 2 marked the death of a franchiese, lucas has lost his touch, and it's all a huge mistake.
Sorry, but nothing will please the die hard of vocal Star Wars "fans" who want nothing more than to make a name by voicing their opinions.
I was never a diehard fan.
However, I saw Episode 1, and vowed that I wouldn't make the mistake of giving George Lucas any more of my money. As simple as that.
(And given that I also chose a long while ago never to see anything by Stephen Spielberg again -- overly sentimental, commercial crap -- even getting him to direct wouldn't have drawn me back to the franchise.)
Obviously you're not developing for it on a daily basis.
More grief than it's worth. Much more. (It is requiring all my strength of character not to break out into a long, heated string of invective against the people responsible for NS4's CSS "support"... suffice to say that they deserve it.)
I long for the day when user numbers drop to the point that I can safely discard support for browsers which so grossly violate the standards.
Ah, great:) Sounds like the ideal solution. (I tend to keep my Perl to 5.004 level or below (i.e. 5.4 in the new naming scheme) as it may have to run on machines where I can't dictate that they have the latest version, so I hadn't seen this yet. And I only got halfway through the perldelta for the latest version before something more important came up.:)
The other answer, even if you can't "use English;", is to comment your code properly, especially complex regexes. Of course no-one should need to be reminded of this, the same way no-one should need to be reminded to keep backups... right?:)
Due to an unfortunate accident of Perl's implementation, "use English" imposes a considerable performance penalty on all regular expression matches in a program, regardless of whether they occur in the scope of "use English". For that reason, saying "use English" in libraries is strongly discouraged. See the Devel::SawAmpersand module documentation from CPAN (http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-module/Devel/ ) for more information.
So that might be a good idea for Perl 6, but not for Perl 5.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Falun Gong may well be a dangerous cult -- some of their propaganda seems pretty outlandish, and their leader is a bit of an odd fish. However, the people who are a part of this group should be allowed to go about their activities in peace, as long as they are not breaking the law in China -- and laws which go against the Declaration are hardly just laws.
You mean a Freudian slip *isn't* an item of women's clothing?
Soft, silky nightwear.... mmmmm...
[gulp]
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I don't have a problem with that at all -- I'm not religious, but I'm happy for people to do anything as long as they don't try and hurt others.
The people pulling the financial strings of the game, though -- Nike, for example, and the Brazilian FA, which I have read is quite corrupt -- may not be pleased by the players' behaviour, and their disapproval has a lot more power than anything positive I could bring to the situation.:/
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Sure, but it probably annoys all the people who paid $$$ for the replica shirts to see these "heroes" then taking them off as soon as the press attention hits.:)
The best book movies are either based off of crappy books... Phil Dick...
Have you *read* any of PKD's work?
All of the movies based on his books are nothing like the original works, taking only plot outlines and character names. Saying that Dick "may as well have been a screenwriter" is a massive slight on the great work that he did produce, especially during the last ten years or so of his life.
It'd be good to see a decent film version of something like A Scanner Darkly, a book without much action and which it would be difficult to convert to film without staying relatively faithful to the plot and the tone of the original novel.
The moby of the computer demoscene and free music, is not the moby of this article.
Yeah, but most of my friends weren't into computers, and they were into dance music etc.:)
I did some checking and apparently the timelines do fit -- his first album came out in 1992 or so. So he has been around, and selling quite a lot of music, for quite a while, after all people here in Australia were buying his music even back then.
In addition, he's admitted he's trying to make commercial music, claiming it's more challenging. . . Moby - you left the techie crowd when you sold out. Get your head back on, eat some tofu and wreak some havoc.
Making successful commercial music is challenging, but it's a very different challenge from making music that's artistically good. Doing both at once is an even bigger challenge.:)
Seriously, I don't have a problem with people tiring of the 'quest' to make good stuff in order to make stuff that sells more -- I just choose not to listen to it if it has moved outside my 'parameters', so to speak. Many people do it at some point or another...
(BTW, I've never liked Moby's music, before or after "selling out": I'm speaking in the more general case here.:)
Moby's music would be considered by many "alternative"
Fuck, that scares me.
Moby makes some of the more homogenous, uninteresting shit on the market (IMHO:) -- he pre-sold all of the tracks on Play to be used in TV commercials, for example. What does that say (a) about his music, and (b) about his audience?
I'm not that old, and I'm pretty sure I remember friends listening to Moby in 1993 or 1994. And I thought it sounded pretty bland and commercial back then, too.
(This is assuming it's the same guy... but then, Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) was in the bloody Housemartins, and Boy George from Culture Club is now a DJ. Underworld used to be a guitar band. There's a lot of longevity in this newfangled 'pop music' thing...:)
And why isn't it upgradeable with backward compability?
Politics and cost -- because enough mail-handling programs out there were written to a spec that doesn't really allow it.
There's no 'wrong' or 'right', but there is 'way too much money spent re-engineering for a feature of dubious value'. Why not start a new mail format, add features up the wazoo, call it something else and stay off port 25 and out of the territory of RFC 821/822?
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Try and find a food product in the grocery store today without corn oil/corn meal/corn starch/corn syrup/corn syrup solids/corn/corn/corn.
...
Try an experiment: weigh yourself. Then, for one month, read the labels on everything you buy; and if it has corn products in it... don't buy it.
So the only things you can eat for a month are non-food products? Or items you grow yourself? Could be difficult.
1. A small bundle.
The root word is the Latin "fasces" -- a bundle of sticks -- which was used as a symbol of authority in Ancient Rome, by people empowered to beat those acting illegally. This is where the notion of "fascism" comes from -- order through the strength of the dominant group.
I really should do more study of etymology, it can be fascinating...
I signed up for the 3D Realms class, but they still haven't turned up! ... [cymbal crash]
Ep. 2 made progress. But from the percieved failure of Ep. 1, no one was willing to give the movie any kind of a shake. When 1 was released, there was a devoted throng of geeks who thought they'd be "smarts" and spend weeks on end spouting off about just how bad the film was. That same contingent multiplied and said 2 marked the death of a franchiese, lucas has lost his touch, and it's all a huge mistake.
Sorry, but nothing will please the die hard of vocal Star Wars "fans" who want nothing more than to make a name by voicing their opinions.
I was never a diehard fan.
However, I saw Episode 1, and vowed that I wouldn't make the mistake of giving George Lucas any more of my money. As simple as that.
(And given that I also chose a long while ago never to see anything by Stephen Spielberg again -- overly sentimental, commercial crap -- even getting him to direct wouldn't have drawn me back to the franchise.)
I'm using NS4 myself on a daily basis
Obviously you're not developing for it on a daily basis.
More grief than it's worth. Much more. (It is requiring all my strength of character not to break out into a long, heated string of invective against the people responsible for NS4's CSS "support"... suffice to say that they deserve it.)
I long for the day when user numbers drop to the point that I can safely discard support for browsers which so grossly violate the standards.
they were effectively extending the DMCA's censorship beyond our borders to places like Autralia
t ml
They don't need to do that anyway -- we're perfectly able to do that all by ourselves.
Australia Is Getting Its Own DMCA
http://slashdot.org/yro/01/02/28/0243227.sh
Ah, great :) Sounds like the ideal solution. (I tend to keep my Perl to 5.004 level or below (i.e. 5.4 in the new naming scheme) as it may have to run on machines where I can't dictate that they have the latest version, so I hadn't seen this yet. And I only got halfway through the perldelta for the latest version before something more important came up. :)
:)
The other answer, even if you can't "use English;", is to comment your code properly, especially complex regexes. Of course no-one should need to be reminded of this, the same way no-one should need to be reminded to keep backups... right?
from the perlvar POD: So that might be a good idea for Perl 6, but not for Perl 5.
That's OK, I'm sure there are some drug lords in DC as well. :)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights contains this text: Falun Gong may well be a dangerous cult -- some of their propaganda seems pretty outlandish, and their leader is a bit of an odd fish. However, the people who are a part of this group should be allowed to go about their activities in peace, as long as they are not breaking the law in China -- and laws which go against the Declaration are hardly just laws.
Typo?
You misspelled latitudes, aloft and balloon. Not bad for a two sentence reply.
Next!
You mean a Freudian slip *isn't* an item of women's clothing?
Soft, silky nightwear.... mmmmm...
[gulp]
I don't have a problem with that at all -- I'm not religious, but I'm happy for people to do anything as long as they don't try and hurt others.
:/
The people pulling the financial strings of the game, though -- Nike, for example, and the Brazilian FA, which I have read is quite corrupt -- may not be pleased by the players' behaviour, and their disapproval has a lot more power than anything positive I could bring to the situation.
Sure, but it probably annoys all the people who paid $$$ for the replica shirts to see these "heroes" then taking them off as soon as the press attention hits. :)
Hope That I Get Old Before I Die was a song on TMBG's first album.... very C&W sound to it, I seem to remember. :)
(I'm having this horrible image of a "charity" event to get enough money for a "cure poison" spell or something....)
I'm having even more horrible images of hundreds of (lit, wooden) torches being waved from side to side in the air during the lute solo.
Damn you!
The best book movies are either based off of crappy books... Phil Dick...
Have you *read* any of PKD's work?
All of the movies based on his books are nothing like the original works, taking only plot outlines and character names. Saying that Dick "may as well have been a screenwriter" is a massive slight on the great work that he did produce, especially during the last ten years or so of his life.
It'd be good to see a decent film version of something like A Scanner Darkly, a book without much action and which it would be difficult to convert to film without staying relatively faithful to the plot and the tone of the original novel.
So, is like Ask Slashdot now the Free Legal Advice Center or what?
:)
IaNaL, but...
Yes.
Yeah, what the hell was that supposed to be about? Wild sex with someone picked up off the street? Shooting up with unclean needles? :/
all it means is that the artist has business sense.
Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons would be proud, eh?
<spit>
The moby of the computer demoscene and free music, is not the moby of this article.
:)
Yeah, but most of my friends weren't into computers, and they were into dance music etc.
I did some checking and apparently the timelines do fit -- his first album came out in 1992 or so. So he has been around, and selling quite a lot of music, for quite a while, after all people here in Australia were buying his music even back then.
In addition, he's admitted he's trying to make commercial music, claiming it's more challenging. . . Moby - you left the techie crowd when you sold out. Get your head back on, eat some tofu and wreak some havoc.
:)
:)
Making successful commercial music is challenging, but it's a very different challenge from making music that's artistically good. Doing both at once is an even bigger challenge.
Seriously, I don't have a problem with people tiring of the 'quest' to make good stuff in order to make stuff that sells more -- I just choose not to listen to it if it has moved outside my 'parameters', so to speak. Many people do it at some point or another...
(BTW, I've never liked Moby's music, before or after "selling out": I'm speaking in the more general case here.
Moby's music would be considered by many "alternative"
:) -- he pre-sold all of the tracks on Play to be used in TV commercials, for example. What does that say (a) about his music, and (b) about his audience?
Fuck, that scares me.
Moby makes some of the more homogenous, uninteresting shit on the market (IMHO
I'm not that old, and I'm pretty sure I remember friends listening to Moby in 1993 or 1994. And I thought it sounded pretty bland and commercial back then, too.
:)
(This is assuming it's the same guy... but then, Fatboy Slim (Norman Cook) was in the bloody Housemartins, and Boy George from Culture Club is now a DJ. Underworld used to be a guitar band. There's a lot of longevity in this newfangled 'pop music' thing...
And why isn't it upgradeable with backward compability?
Politics and cost -- because enough mail-handling programs out there were written to a spec that doesn't really allow it.
There's no 'wrong' or 'right', but there is 'way too much money spent re-engineering for a feature of dubious value'. Why not start a new mail format, add features up the wazoo, call it something else and stay off port 25 and out of the territory of RFC 821/822?