Okay, I've checked Fowler's, and you're right. Usage of spaces in double dashes as punctuation is arbitrary.:)
I will say that it does seem somewhat archaic, for the very reason that it confuses more word processors than just StarOffice:), so I'm not used to seeing it done like that much recently. Besides, it's easier to parse when reading if it's not all run together -- depending on the font it can look like hyphenation.
Aplogies for the blanket statement, though. Can I change a 'must' to a 'should'?:)
Shhhh... you'll be giving advertising company executives ideas.:/
I've always maintained that life is a lot like one of Philip K. Dick's lesser works, and something like ad space on the retinae would lead to the sort of dissociative experience he was so good at portraying...
Last time I tried it (I'm not in the habit of installing random pieces of software) it marked all my punctuated works--words with dashes touching them, like this--as misspellings.
That's because they are. You're supposed to have spaces in there. (works -- words)
Hyphenation, on the other hand, should be handled differently.
After 20 years of promises of the multiple future uses of AI, and the way the market for AI will jst explode, AI is finally usefull... for add placement and impersonating horny teenage girls on paysites.
This is more like Artificial Stupidity -- but then stupidity is all people expect from advertisements and 'horny teenage girls who want to show you their big tits'.
ISTR that at the time Prince had signed the second highest earning contract in the history of recorded music, with only Madonna doing better -- so don't cry poor on his behalf to me.
Yes, the record industry executives are a greedy, gouging bunch, but the musicians at the top of the pile aren't much better. Prince was happy to take the money *and* seek ways to get around or out of his contract -- he would have been more worthy of respect if he'd simply bought his way out of it.
and he had an X number of years contract with them. He got sick of it...
Well, maybe he shouldn't have signed that contract in the first place. Being "sick of it" doesn't give him any right to break it in the way he did -- unless I can stand up in court and claim that I didn't fulfil my side of a contract because "I didn't feel like it."
Even if you think that what OLE was trying to do is actually useful, OLE and its successors are about the worst way of implementing it: unportable, low-level hacks that are difficult to version and don't protect programs from one another.
Sounds a bit like the WWW when compared to Ted Nelson's Xanadu. And look which one ended up winning.:/
It's often the quick hacks that sneak in (or are forced upon people:); there was a recent Slashdot story about yEnc, which people perceived to be a similar (bad) solution to 8-bit binary encoding for Usenet.
It's a toss-up as to who writes better dialogue when they're really firing. Clerks and Jackie Brown both worked almost as well with the eyes closed, because the conversations are the meat of the films.... But anyways.
If you bought my sig space, you'd have to run the risk of people changing it into textads for Sony or something -- just like those people in Times Square:) All I can do is indicate what I want to present... of course, if we can get a pair of sunglasses confirmed as a DMCA circumvention device for making my advertisements ineffective, we should be able to ban web filters and Slashdot's dastardly Friend/Foe system easily enough.:}
Hmmm, there's something about middle-aged, overweight Venezualan women that just doesn't do it for me....
Come on, man! Live a little.:)
Besides, this is Slashdot, right? Probably better than many here can hope for...;)
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If I'm factoring a pseudoprime, then it's not prime, is it?:)
OK, so with a little more mathematical knowledge I would have accepted the shorthand usage, but with my limited level (first-year university) I had to take the meaning that the man-on-the-street would have used.
To portray one aspect and not another is changing the reality.
Changing the reality? This is Spider-Man, not some deadly serious documentary.
In my reality, people don't develop the ability to spin webs after being caught inside a nuclear experiment with a spider (or whatever the original reason was).
I don't think the suit has any merit either way -- the subject matter of the film is fiction.
However, if someone were making a claim that the owners of these buildings did business with, e.g. heroin dealers (or something equally dubious), by virtue of digitally superimposing such advertisements over the current ones, then I'd imagine a lawsuit would be pretty quick in coming. This would presuppose a purported presentation of fact, though, which Spider-Man definitely is not:)
That's completely changed with this software; it's free
Oh great! That means I won't have to pay $50 or more to do FAST's job for them!
Seriously, why do they keep emphasising that it's "free"? Do they seriously expect people to pay for a plugin like this, just like they expect to be able to shut down every Spectrum game archive on the Web on the grounds that they affect sales of XBox games?
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It's about as hard as factoring 1024 bit prime numbers
I can factor 1024-bit primes easily.
Each has two factors -- itself and 1.
Products of 1024-bit primes, on the other hand, could be a bit more difficult...
Open their eyes? They're stuck in the 1950s, the only thing John Howard wants to see are nice happy *white* families.
Besides, as 51% majority owner of Telstra, and having sold the other 49% to shareholders, what incentive does the government have to rein in that monopolistic bastard? Yes, that's right, SFA. If they let the Telstra share price drop, then they'll find themselves out of power.
AFAIR, it's illegal to onsell, not illegal to access. You can set it up for your employees, maybe even as a bonus for customers, but you can't sell wireless access as a service (probably due to spectrum licensing laws).
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Haven't some movie theaters started introducing 'larger model' seats, and charging for the privilege? :)
Okay, I've checked Fowler's, and you're right. Usage of spaces in double dashes as punctuation is arbitrary. :)
:), so I'm not used to seeing it done like that much recently. Besides, it's easier to parse when reading if it's not all run together -- depending on the font it can look like hyphenation.
:)
I will say that it does seem somewhat archaic, for the very reason that it confuses more word processors than just StarOffice
Aplogies for the blanket statement, though. Can I change a 'must' to a 'should'?
Yeah, but that average was brought way down by the high infant mortality.
I think 50 or 55 was not an unreasonable assumption if you made it to 10 years old or so.
For the same reason that international plane flights charge adult fees at something like 10 years and over.
:)
You're taking up the same amount of space as an adult would, so you'll damn well pay through the nose for it
Shhhh... you'll be giving advertising company executives ideas. :/
I've always maintained that life is a lot like one of Philip K. Dick's lesser works, and something like ad space on the retinae would lead to the sort of dissociative experience he was so good at portraying...
Last time I tried it (I'm not in the habit of installing random pieces of software) it marked all my punctuated works--words with dashes touching them, like this--as misspellings.
That's because they are. You're supposed to have spaces in there. (works -- words)
Hyphenation, on the other hand, should be handled differently.
Can we hook them both into CYC? :)
After 20 years of promises of the multiple future uses of AI, and the way the market for AI will jst explode, AI is finally usefull ... for add placement and impersonating horny teenage girls on paysites.
This is more like Artificial Stupidity -- but then stupidity is all people expect from advertisements and 'horny teenage girls who want to show you their big tits'.
Given some of the stuff that gets posted to the front page, I'd have to change that to:
...targeting the most naive and vulnerable demographic there is: the average Slashdot editor.
ISTR that at the time Prince had signed the second highest earning contract in the history of recorded music, with only Madonna doing better -- so don't cry poor on his behalf to me.
Yes, the record industry executives are a greedy, gouging bunch, but the musicians at the top of the pile aren't much better. Prince was happy to take the money *and* seek ways to get around or out of his contract -- he would have been more worthy of respect if he'd simply bought his way out of it.
and he had an X number of years contract with them. He got sick of it...
Well, maybe he shouldn't have signed that contract in the first place. Being "sick of it" doesn't give him any right to break it in the way he did -- unless I can stand up in court and claim that I didn't fulfil my side of a contract because "I didn't feel like it."
All space is virtual space.
:)
Now you've done it -- I'm getting all metaphysical and Berkelian, and I'm not sure that I am seeing the same things that other people are.
Even if you think that what OLE was trying to do is actually useful, OLE and its successors are about the worst way of implementing it: unportable, low-level hacks that are difficult to version and don't protect programs from one another.
:/
:); there was a recent Slashdot story about yEnc, which people perceived to be a similar (bad) solution to 8-bit binary encoding for Usenet.
Sounds a bit like the WWW when compared to Ted Nelson's Xanadu. And look which one ended up winning.
It's often the quick hacks that sneak in (or are forced upon people
It's a toss-up as to who writes better dialogue when they're really firing. Clerks and Jackie Brown both worked almost as well with the eyes closed, because the conversations are the meat of the films.... But anyways.
:) All I can do is indicate what I want to present... of course, if we can get a pair of sunglasses confirmed as a DMCA circumvention device for making my advertisements ineffective, we should be able to ban web filters and Slashdot's dastardly Friend/Foe system easily enough. :}
If you bought my sig space, you'd have to run the risk of people changing it into textads for Sony or something -- just like those people in Times Square
Hmmm, there's something about middle-aged, overweight Venezualan women that just doesn't do it for me....
:)
;)
Come on, man! Live a little.
Besides, this is Slashdot, right? Probably better than many here can hope for...
If I'm factoring a pseudoprime, then it's not prime, is it? :)
OK, so with a little more mathematical knowledge I would have accepted the shorthand usage, but with my limited level (first-year university) I had to take the meaning that the man-on-the-street would have used.
It is getting really annoying when movies do their own add placement. If i pay $10.00 for a movie i do not want to see adds.
If you don't want to see advertisements in movies, then don't see the sorts of movies that have ads scattered through them like this.
There are a number of directors and creative teams who make movies where commercial decisions do not totally dominate the content of the film...
e.g. in Pulp Fiction Tarantino invented 'Red Apple' cigarettes, not wanting to give screen time to any pre-existing brand.
To portray one aspect and not another is changing the reality.
Changing the reality? This is Spider-Man, not some deadly serious documentary.
In my reality, people don't develop the ability to spin webs after being caught inside a nuclear experiment with a spider (or whatever the original reason was).
I don't think the suit has any merit either way -- the subject matter of the film is fiction.
:)
However, if someone were making a claim that the owners of these buildings did business with, e.g. heroin dealers (or something equally dubious), by virtue of digitally superimposing such advertisements over the current ones, then I'd imagine a lawsuit would be pretty quick in coming. This would presuppose a purported presentation of fact, though, which Spider-Man definitely is not
The software will be free
That's completely changed with this software; it's free
Oh great! That means I won't have to pay $50 or more to do FAST's job for them!
Seriously, why do they keep emphasising that it's "free"? Do they seriously expect people to pay for a plugin like this, just like they expect to be able to shut down every Spectrum game archive on the Web on the grounds that they affect sales of XBox games?
It's about as hard as factoring 1024 bit prime numbers
I can factor 1024-bit primes easily.
Each has two factors -- itself and 1.
Products of 1024-bit primes, on the other hand, could be a bit more difficult...
Open their eyes? They're stuck in the 1950s, the only thing John Howard wants to see are nice happy *white* families.
Besides, as 51% majority owner of Telstra, and having sold the other 49% to shareholders, what incentive does the government have to rein in that monopolistic bastard? Yes, that's right, SFA. If they let the Telstra share price drop, then they'll find themselves out of power.
Speed the freaking day, I say.
AFAIR, it's illegal to onsell, not illegal to access. You can set it up for your employees, maybe even as a bonus for customers, but you can't sell wireless access as a service (probably due to spectrum licensing laws).
Mr. Ballmer ... boomed "The Xbox is the greatest fucking thing in the world! It's going to make billions! It's the greatest thing ever!"
Yet more evidence of the deep business intuition and remarkable insight into the human condition that has made Steve Ballmer the CEO of Microsoft.
Repeat after me: Developers, developers, develepors, developers....
Once you know Netscape's quirks, you can avoid using CSS features that confuse it.
... which is almost all of them. Trust me, NS4 and CSS is *not* worth the time and effort.
I still advise supporting NS4, due to the number of people still using it, but you're best off avoiding anything other than the most basic CSS.