Ironically, I don't remember learning to read . . . I started reading at age 2. I think I have memories of learning to read, but I'm almost positive that they're displaced from watching them teach my brother (3 years younger) to read, and extrapolating how it must have been for me . .. *shrug* Go figure.
now the question is
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It seems to me (as someone who types far too much) that the reason for adapting "wuz" vs "was" is plainly obvious. "wuz"'s letter switch hands. w is a left hand letter, u a right and z a left, whereas "was" is all on the left hand. It is faster to type words alternating letters between your two hands (in fact, certain types of keyboard layouts have been built on this). Therefore, while they have the same number of letters, anybody who spends a lot of time typing can type "wuz" much faster than "was".
If I type at top speed (120-130wpm) after about 5 minutes on a normal keyboard, my wrists start to hurt. On a natural keyboard I get about 15 minutes before i start to experience any discomfort. Since I'm not normally typing so much so quickly it's not an issue all the time (ie- I can use normal keyboards for some stuff), however the natural keyboard is much nicer to my wrists in my experience. just my.02
was always that I would run out of land. Great, I can spend more time making the buildings evolve, but a lot of that involves waiting . . . I loved the expansion, planning, seeing what works, etc, but after a while there's just no more land left . .. i can only hope there's some way to buy more land in this game!:) (even if it's buying a new city to have next to your original one, if it's influenced by your other city, it's close enough for me)
i fail to see how beleiving in UFOs can keep you from knowing science. maybe from believing accepted science yes. but i know what science says yet i admit there's a possibility of UFO's. i'm a cynical bastard, not a moron . . .
> But take a closer look at the "spyware" programs. > e.g. SaveNow. SaveNow HELPS people when bying over > the internet.
Only if you're not running IE. SaveNow has been proven in my experience (as a college tech support guy) to cause IE to crash, repeatedly. I'm not sure why, but I've even tested it in isolation (a clean install of windows98 with only SaveNow installed other than windows updates) and it STILL causes IE to freeze every 5-15 minutes or so. This is ridiculous. Who cares what it's supposed to do, if it crashes your browser as well, it's simply not worth it.
Re:laws for time travellers? who cares?
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ah, i see. however, i have this belief in free will, which is incompatible with your idea. your beliefs are completely valid, then, there's just no free will . .. no offense, but i like being able to actually choose to do things on my own . . . anything else makes the universe seem kind of moot
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but in participating in something you alawys change it. you breathe in oxygen and breathe out CO2. you talk to people. you eat foot and excrete waste. all of these things build up to cause a different situation to exist. now if you're going to have an arbitrary "different enough" point, that's one thing, but that doesn't strike me as a good way of actually doing things . .. i see why you're saying what you do, but i just don't think it works . . .
location, location, location
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it occurs to me that if you'd have to travel back to exactly the same place. to say you end up in the same place on earth would really impressive, as the world both rotates around the sun and spins on its axis really fast . . .
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from the article: "If his idea pans out, won't there be a host of potential paradoxes, such as time travelers killing their parents and making it impossible for them to exist? No, he says, explaining that those travelers would continue to exist in a ''parallel universe.'' And what about the ethics of changing history? There would be government laws to control time travel, he believes. "
Now, if the fact that you go back in time doesn't affect people in this time, as we exist in a parallel universe, why should we care if someone goes back in time and screws things up? They're no longer in our world, and we continue along happily without them. Good riddance! I see no real reason to have any loyalty to versions of myself in alternate universes and alternate times . . . however, the problem is that someone could come into this universe from the future and screw things up. But then wouldn't he be governed under our laws? Also, if someone came back from the future in this world and somebody chased them, wouldn't they end up in different universes? Why would they end up in the same parallel universe? Basically, I see lots of really strange questions here . . . unfortunately we'll never really have any way to know the answers, because even if every time we send someone back they end up in the same universe as the person they were chasing, we still don't know that it's just a probability, and we've been lucky every time . .. Oh, the strangeness of time travel . . .
how much are they going to change in the translation? because in most cases (take DBZ for example) things get radically changed through translation (master roshi is actually a teen seeking lech in the japanese version . . . i love it:). anyway, it's still more anime to waste my life on . . . i can't complain:)
Now, granted, I don't keep any money in my Paypal account, but I do give them access to my bank account, which has never been overdrawn, or otherwise touched by them unless I wanted it to be. I don't make big purchases through them, mostly auctions online (i think the biggest I did was $50). Maybe they did rip off some people, I don't know. If they did they should get screwed, but they've treated me fine, so I'll continue to use them (besides, there really isn't a good alternative out there anyway)
even if they get some sort of settlement what do they plan on doing with it? Be's good and everything, but charging for an OS is never going to work again for anybody other than microsoft . . . it's not like this is going to make people start developing for Be . . . maybe it's going to give them a little money so they can bail themselves a little out of debt and close up shop? I'm confused . . . does anybody know what they really stand to gain? I'm at a loss . . .
but i'd rather hit delete a few times per day (i don't get more than 10 spam mails a day) and know the internet is still relatively free. yes, they're sleaze, but if you're going to start blocking them, it's not that hard for a few other domains to be slipped in there. the potential for censorship seems too great to me *shrug* so i'll continue deleting my 10 mails per day. Kraada
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according to a report commissioned by the world's biggest smart card maker
Remind me why I'm supposed to believe this propoganda?
nope, that wasn't slashdot . . . that was fark . . . /. reposting, or that i know it was actually fark?
now what's sadder, that you thought it was a
Ironically, I don't remember learning to read . . . I started reading at age 2. I think I have memories of learning to read, but I'm almost positive that they're displaced from watching them teach my brother (3 years younger) to read, and extrapolating how it must have been for me . . .
*shrug*
Go figure.
how long will it take to shake the rust off?
AOL will look at their "mail" and hit the "delete" key. Wouldn't you if someone sent you mail of 1 million scratched and useless cds?
I called it last week . . . and the week before that . . . and the week before that . . . and . . .
It seems to me (as someone who types far too much) that the reason for adapting "wuz" vs "was" is plainly obvious. "wuz"'s letter switch hands. w is a left hand letter, u a right and z a left, whereas "was" is all on the left hand. It is faster to type words alternating letters between your two hands (in fact, certain types of keyboard layouts have been built on this). Therefore, while they have the same number of letters, anybody who spends a lot of time typing can type "wuz" much faster than "was".
of course it was :)
before all you can find are the "improved" version! Time to go fire up gnutella and start looking for A New Hope . . .
If I type at top speed (120-130wpm) after about 5 minutes on a normal keyboard, my wrists start to hurt. On a natural keyboard I get about 15 minutes before i start to experience any discomfort. Since I'm not normally typing so much so quickly it's not an issue all the time (ie- I can use normal keyboards for some stuff), however the natural keyboard is much nicer to my wrists in my experience. .02
just my
was always that I would run out of land. Great, I can spend more time making the buildings evolve, but a lot of that involves waiting . . . I loved the expansion, planning, seeing what works, etc, but after a while there's just no more land left . . . :)
i can only hope there's some way to buy more land in this game!
(even if it's buying a new city to have next to your original one, if it's influenced by your other city, it's close enough for me)
i'll take my old 286 laptop and train it to be the best robot doorstop ever . . .
i fail to see how beleiving in UFOs can keep you from knowing science. maybe from believing accepted science yes. but i know what science says yet i admit there's a possibility of UFO's. i'm a cynical bastard, not a moron . . .
> But take a closer look at the "spyware" programs. > e.g. SaveNow. SaveNow HELPS people when bying over > the internet.
Only if you're not running IE. SaveNow has been proven in my experience (as a college tech support guy) to cause IE to crash, repeatedly. I'm not sure why, but I've even tested it in isolation (a clean install of windows98 with only SaveNow installed other than windows updates) and it STILL causes IE to freeze every 5-15 minutes or so. This is ridiculous. Who cares what it's supposed to do, if it crashes your browser as well, it's simply not worth it.
ah, i see. however, i have this belief in free will, which is incompatible with your idea. your beliefs are completely valid, then, there's just no free will . . .
no offense, but i like being able to actually choose to do things on my own . . . anything else makes the universe seem kind of moot
but in participating in something you alawys change it. you breathe in oxygen and breathe out CO2. you talk to people. you eat foot and excrete waste. all of these things build up to cause a different situation to exist. now if you're going to have an arbitrary "different enough" point, that's one thing, but that doesn't strike me as a good way of actually doing things . . .
i see why you're saying what you do, but i just don't think it works . . .
it occurs to me that if you'd have to travel back to exactly the same place. to say you end up in the same place on earth would really impressive, as the world both rotates around the sun and spins on its axis really fast . . .
from the article:
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"If his idea pans out, won't there be a host of potential paradoxes, such as time travelers killing their parents and making it impossible for them to exist? No, he says, explaining that those travelers would continue to exist in a ''parallel universe.''
And what about the ethics of changing history?
There would be government laws to control time travel, he believes. "
Now, if the fact that you go back in time doesn't affect people in this time, as we exist in a parallel universe, why should we care if someone goes back in time and screws things up? They're no longer in our world, and we continue along happily without them. Good riddance!
I see no real reason to have any loyalty to versions of myself in alternate universes and alternate times . . . however, the problem is that someone could come into this universe from the future and screw things up. But then wouldn't he be governed under our laws?
Also, if someone came back from the future in this world and somebody chased them, wouldn't they end up in different universes? Why would they end up in the same parallel universe?
Basically, I see lots of really strange questions here . . . unfortunately we'll never really have any way to know the answers, because even if every time we send someone back they end up in the same universe as the person they were chasing, we still don't know that it's just a probability, and we've been lucky every time . .
Oh, the strangeness of time travel . . .
what this means for those of us that still have geocities email accounts? i've asked them for an answer but haven't yet gotten one . . .
can't be said to cause violence . .. it clearly shows you that pain hurts and that it's bad!
now, if you'll excuse me, I've got next . . .
now my Marty McFly: 2015 outfit is nearly complete . . . someone, quick, invent the hoverboard!
how much are they going to change in the translation? because in most cases (take DBZ for example) things get radically changed through translation (master roshi is actually a teen seeking lech in the japanese version . . . i love it :). :)
anyway, it's still more anime to waste my life on . . . i can't complain
Now, granted, I don't keep any money in my Paypal account, but I do give them access to my bank account, which has never been overdrawn, or otherwise touched by them unless I wanted it to be. I don't make big purchases through them, mostly auctions online (i think the biggest I did was $50). Maybe they did rip off some people, I don't know. If they did they should get screwed, but they've treated me fine, so I'll continue to use them (besides, there really isn't a good alternative out there anyway)
even if they get some sort of settlement what do they plan on doing with it? Be's good and everything, but charging for an OS is never going to work again for anybody other than microsoft . . . it's not like this is going to make people start developing for Be . . . maybe it's going to give them a little money so they can bail themselves a little out of debt and close up shop? I'm confused . . . does anybody know what they really stand to gain? I'm at a loss . . .
but i'd rather hit delete a few times per day (i don't get more than 10 spam mails a day) and know the internet is still relatively free. yes, they're sleaze, but if you're going to start blocking them, it's not that hard for a few other domains to be slipped in there. the potential for censorship seems too great to me *shrug*
so i'll continue deleting my 10 mails per day.
Kraada