It's pretty sad that after the prequels people can still get so excited over 15 or so seconds of Luke handling his lightsabre. It's baffling and kind of sad that there's all this cheering and enthusiatic shouting over a mundane snippet like this.
I think it speaks volumes about the prequels, really.
Both sports are called "football" because they are played ON FOOT, as opposed to being played on horseback such as the more patrician sports like polo. Manipulation of the ball with your foot has nothing to do with the name.
Sir, you reasoning is the argumentative equivalent of a fart. Funny, but about as close to shit as it gets without literally being it.
That would would be a very pointless distinction, now wouldn't it. Games played horseback: polo. Games played on foot: just about every other freaking ball game besides some waterpolo and other obscurities.
If Microsoft started a patent war against Linux, wouldn't Linux-oriented companies, like say IBM, join in on the fun as well? With big companies, the patent situation is more like a cold war with all the cross-licencing going on.
But that's a cold war I just might want to go all judgement-day on us. Where as a nuclear war would make this globe uninhabitable the fallout from a licence war like-that would be... interesting?
If that wouldn't rid us of this patent bullshit I don't know what would.
Your 6 year old might only need half a seat, but that still means he's taking up the whole seat - they can't sell the other half seat to someone else. A fat guy might prefer to buy 1.5 seats, but that isn't an option: he has to buy 2 seats, and that second seat is being taken away from another paying customer.
Then why not seat the kids next to those fat bastards and get a one-to-one ratio for seat usage.
If (no of dictionary words(run 2) > no of dictionary words(run 1)) {
doc = rotated doc; }
What if the document contains a word which can be mistaken in both the upwards and downwards, such as"
wow -- mom
*woooosh*
Didn't you hear it?
Seriously though, that wouldn't change dick. The net effect of that is the same as that of a bqzYZhmpf, which is not a dictionary word in any conceivable orientation. The number of identified dictionary words in correct orientation would outweigh even typos that result in non-dictionay words in correct orientation but in fact a dictionary word upside down.
Here's a protip I've learned from watching the internets and reading your first comment: The moment anyone brings to light something most people have been ignoring, there's always someone who comes along claiming that there's nothing new to see here and that anyone who doesn't know that is clearly misinformed. I'm sorry, but I've never heard of this theory before, and I daresay I'm not the only one. So, please, stop trying to take away my sense of wonder.
Sincerely, the misinformed
Granted, but the gp was only debunking the paradigm shift.
And indeed, there _should_ be goddamn difference to "pradigm shifting work" and "here's something that will bewilder the lay-men but is already well known by scientists of the said field" in a science journalism!
I'm not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out 'Chuck Norris,' more or less.
24 is plausible, too; an arithmetic not geometric progression.
I'm so sorry, but you are utterly wrong. 24 would perhaps be plausible in carpentry or equestrian, or if the numbers were 7 and 14, but in this case, i.e. with software, powers of two and slashdot, there are simply two and only two possible successions to that and those are indeed the 0x20 and some-funky-number-with-cowboyneal-embedded. And that's final. Move along, move along.
'where another researcher concludes that only "boys" are stupid enough to go into a field that's globally-fungible, where entry-level salaries are declining, and it's common to think that staying up all night for a company-paid pizza is a good deal.'
The file format is so damn brittle, that a single byte can spell disaster.
You know what, so is ELF. Who said you should write zonefiles by hand let alone without any kind of syntax verification.
Input syntax is never really an issue. You only ever lack the necessary tools or you are unable to use them properly. It can always be hidden behind a precompiler or whatever necessary.
>> You know, I have no doubt that the end result of this will mostly suck if viewed on it's own merits, but I have to give them credit for one of the most interesting and creative ideas in fan-fiction I've seen in a long time. Hopefully the Lucas hammer of wrath won't destroy this.
> No. He'll remaster it and digitize it and release a "Special Edition" version.
>> with a mandate to inform, educate, and entertain > > I get a little leary when a pretty much government run organization has a mandate to inform, educate, and entertain.
I'd get a lot more leary when if it'd be done my the Murdochs.
> For years, people here have ridiculed Wikipedia on the notion that anyone can edit it, and edits appear instantly without any checking by another person. Yet now they implement such a system - that's wrong too!
Have ridiculed that? I thought that was by far _the_ best thing about wikipedia?!?!
I cannot understand how wikipedia doesn't see a problem with this step that they're talking. This is a clear case of a slippery slope. This new system screams "what next?".
If it's "checked" by another person the truth will there on be decided by some bunch of anxious editors, and not by the readers themselves through a resolution of citations as it should be. Such a method would require peer reviews by experts of said fields. Already I see troubled pages b0rked by editors that are experts about wikipedia but know jack about the context of said pages.
If some pages are troubled by vandals, lock/protect/whatever them, not some arbitrary class of millions of pages.
Slashdot Mirror
It's pretty sad that after the prequels people can still get so excited over 15 or so seconds of Luke handling his lightsabre. It's baffling and kind of sad that there's all this cheering and enthusiatic shouting over a mundane snippet like this.
I think it speaks volumes about the prequels, really.
Why is that marked as a troll?
Decoding ones own DVDs for watching purposes on a linux is illegal these days in many european countries and becoming illegal in the others.
Haven't bought a dvd since and will not.
Let's nuke the bastard. That'll take care of it. It worked in Armageddon.
And I suggest you do it from the orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I hate this argument.
Both sports are called "football" because they are played ON FOOT, as opposed to being played on horseback such as the more patrician sports like polo. Manipulation of the ball with your foot has nothing to do with the name.
Sir, you reasoning is the argumentative equivalent of a fart. Funny, but about as close to shit as it gets without literally being it.
Let's recap. Baseball = football. Basketball = football. Golf = football. Tennis = football. Volleyball = football. Handball = football.
That would would be a very pointless distinction, now wouldn't it. Games played horseback: polo. Games played on foot: just about every other freaking ball game besides some waterpolo and other obscurities.
The town's correct spelling is Hafnarfjörður
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnarfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur
Hafnarfjörður and Hafnarfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur look pretty much the same to me.
What possible incentive would those other companies have to collude or price fix? You have an odd view of how business works.
And you, sir, have no view at all if you have to ask what incentive would giants part of an oligopoly have for collusion...
Summary and title are misleading...
No? Don't say. Must be the first one. Ever.
If Microsoft started a patent war against Linux, wouldn't Linux-oriented companies, like say IBM, join in on the fun as well? With big companies, the patent situation is more like a cold war with all the cross-licencing going on.
But that's a cold war I just might want to go all judgement-day on us. ... interesting?
Where as a nuclear war would make this globe uninhabitable the fallout from a licence war like-that would be
If that wouldn't rid us of this patent bullshit I don't know what would.
Your 6 year old might only need half a seat, but that still means he's taking up the whole seat - they can't sell the other half seat to someone else. A fat guy might prefer to buy 1.5 seats, but that isn't an option: he has to buy 2 seats, and that second seat is being taken away from another paying customer.
Then why not seat the kids next to those fat bastards and get a one-to-one ratio for seat usage.
Medical doctors and their sience games.
Always failing to tell correlation and causality apart.
I'd be far more inclined to speculate that bored people just don't have that healthy life-style on average...
If (no of dictionary words(run 2) > no of dictionary words(run 1)) {
doc = rotated doc;
}
What if the document contains a word which can be mistaken in both the upwards and downwards, such as"
wow -- mom
*woooosh*
Didn't you hear it?
Seriously though, that wouldn't change dick. The net effect of that is the same as that of a bqzYZhmpf, which is not a dictionary word in any conceivable orientation. The number of identified dictionary words in correct orientation would outweigh even typos that result in non-dictionay words in correct orientation but in fact a dictionary word upside down.
I mean, was Jesus wrong about genes, too?
Well, I don't know quite how to put it, but yes.
Here's a protip I've learned from watching the internets and reading your first comment: The moment anyone brings to light something most people have been ignoring, there's always someone who comes along claiming that there's nothing new to see here and that anyone who doesn't know that is clearly misinformed. I'm sorry, but I've never heard of this theory before, and I daresay I'm not the only one. So, please, stop trying to take away my sense of wonder.
Sincerely, the misinformed
Granted, but the gp was only debunking the paradigm shift.
And indeed, there _should_ be goddamn difference to "pradigm shifting work" and "here's something that will bewilder the lay-men but is already well known by scientists of the said field" in a science journalism!
Elsewhere that might have been modded funny, but I guess it's ok to call it informative here.
The forementioned master password seems to work only on my account...
I'm not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out 'Chuck Norris,' more or less.
Lemme guess:
(|-|U(| |\|0RR15
"Emacs's"
Take it from someone who has an "s" at the end of their name, it's supposed to be Emacs'.
Hardly, your case is far simpler, it's simply "Anonymous Coward's"
Take that from someone who actually read's both the posts and who wrote them.
24 is plausible, too; an arithmetic not geometric progression.
I'm so sorry, but you are utterly wrong.
24 would perhaps be plausible in carpentry or equestrian, or if the numbers were 7 and 14, but in this case, i.e. with software, powers of two and slashdot, there are simply two and only two possible successions to that and those are indeed the 0x20 and some-funky-number-with-cowboyneal-embedded. And that's final. Move along, move along.
'where another researcher concludes that only "boys" are stupid enough to go into a field that's globally-fungible, where entry-level salaries are declining, and it's common to think that staying up all night for a company-paid pizza is a good deal.'
But a company-paid pizza is a good deal!
How hard is it to define open as
A) Open specs
B) An open implementation of those specs both on
C) Not patent encumbered
Apparently not trivial, since two thirds of your requirements adopt recursion.
The file format is so damn brittle, that a single byte can spell disaster.
You know what, so is ELF. Who said you should write zonefiles by hand let alone without any kind of syntax verification.
Input syntax is never really an issue. You only ever lack the necessary tools or you are unable to use them properly. It can always be hidden behind a precompiler or whatever necessary.
Hmmm... wait, termcap. I stand corrected.
>> You know, I have no doubt that the end result of this will mostly suck if viewed on it's own merits, but I have to give them credit for one of the most interesting and creative ideas in fan-fiction I've seen in a long time. Hopefully the Lucas hammer of wrath won't destroy this.
> No. He'll remaster it and digitize it and release a "Special Edition" version.
And lemme guess, Credo shoots first?
More like "any sufficiently rigged demo is indistinguishable from advanced technology"
The woooosh you just heard and are probably wondering what it was, was a clue-by-four that utterly missed you.
>> with a mandate to inform, educate, and entertain
>
> I get a little leary when a pretty much government run organization has a mandate to inform, educate, and entertain.
I'd get a lot more leary when if it'd be done my the Murdochs.
> For years, people here have ridiculed Wikipedia on the notion that anyone can edit it, and edits appear instantly without any checking by another person. Yet now they implement such a system - that's wrong too!
Have ridiculed that? I thought that was by far _the_ best thing about wikipedia?!?!
I cannot understand how wikipedia doesn't see a problem with this step that they're talking. This is a clear case of a slippery slope. This new system screams "what next?".
If it's "checked" by another person the truth will there on be decided by some bunch of anxious editors, and not by the readers themselves through a resolution of citations as it should be. Such a method would require peer reviews by experts of said fields. Already I see troubled pages b0rked by editors that are experts about wikipedia but know jack about the context of said pages.
If some pages are troubled by vandals, lock/protect/whatever them, not some arbitrary class of millions of pages.