And here I prefer to just call them "certified loonies".
Re:"e" Day == Feb. 71??
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Happy Pi Day!
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The value of e is approximately 2.71828182846. The problem is that the first two digits after the decimal point are "7" and "1". February 71??
Use the European standard -- 27.1, i.e., 27 January.
Remember how the Commodore 8-bit computers (PET, VIC 20, C-64, etc.) had the pi symbol right on their keyboard (shift + up arrow)
Did? They're still there, even if the company isn't. Along with the monetary pound sign, which had an acquaintance of mine swearing up and down that clearly Commodore was a British company, and using rather charming circular logic (which I can't remember) to try to prove it. Oy.
Funny... their distribution system is
so overloaded yet it can still spit back that "Try again later" page darn quickly...
Well, yes. If you want to be picky, it's a 403 permission denied message (watch your browser's status line). That doesn't necessarily preclude that they panicked from a heavy load and chmod'd it.
It's been a while since I took a psychology class, but I recall that dreams are 'plotted', so to speak, by at least the following factors:
Random signals in the brain
What little sensory input you're getting in real life
Thoughts, memories, and so forth, i.e., what's on your mind
So, what you describe could very well be true. I know there've been a few times when I was listening to a radio in a dream, and it turned out to be the sound of my clock-radio's alarm.
I totally agree with you except that I think that your views on Capitalists is a bit twisted. Capitalists have a great respect for private ownership. As a person with no party affiliation (capitalism is an economic, not political, philosophy; communism is both) I have no problems to abide by GPL and I totally respect the equal opportunity for examination and learning from source code which the GPL permits and even requires. Some, if not all, Capitalists I know are nice Intelligent people.
I would say this Slade character is more of a shithead, a bollock, an arsehole, a shit-for-brains, an egocentrist, an ozone bozo, and a self-serving little prick, seizing private property and not giving anything back.
Angry female gorilla to embarrassed male gorilla: "Well, well -- another blond hair... Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"
A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.... There was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified... because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to primatology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way....
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why....
[The National Geographic Society] told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves... Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on.... The cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
-- from The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit, p. 167.
I wonder how many sites with the title "Cookie Recipies" actually contain nasty hardcore porn.
In my experience, deceiving site titles are actually less problematic than they used to be.
A year or two ago it seemed like no matter what query I entered into Alta Vista, one or more pages with innocent titles would pop up which, when selected, would display a message to the effect of "Site moved, redirecting..." or "Site moved, click here", the 'moved' site being porn. Blecchh. Typically a server would have simply hundreds of these bogus-forward pages.
I haven't seen one like that in a while. I suppose upstream providers started putting the smack down on deceptive sites, or perhaps Alta Vista started filtering those sorts of pages out. If the latter, that's a sort of filtering that, while I don't support, I also don't mind, since there are oodles and oodles and oodles and oodles of other search engines out there and you aren't limited to using one search engine like you're limited to using the connection you've got.
Typically, 'related links' appear in the list exactly as they do in the main article, even if they make no sense out of the article's context. I believe 1, 2, 3, etc are links to example sites that were/weren't blocked by the software being demonstrated.
I dislike it too, but mostly because I find the 'just like the real thing' interface to be so awkward to manipulate with a mouse. Same aggravation as with the newer versions of Quicktime Player and assorted IBM products with 'Real' in the title. Oh well, back to Impulse Tracker...
Re:What kind of jackass...
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A New DeCSS
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You expect any less from someone who calls MS-Windows users "mouth-breathing"?
He's the most one-note MS-boosting OSS-attacking zombie on the entire Internet. And I'm sure he's getting ready to respond that someone has to balance out all the one-note OSS-boosting MS-attacking zombies on Slashdot. Bullshit. Go play with the Office paperclip and let the rest of us use the software we want to use, Tim.
Acronym Finder suggests the following: BOF Back Order File BOF Basic Oxygen Furnace BOF Beginning Of File BOF Billing and Ordering Forum (ATIS) BOF Birds Of a Feather BOF Board Of Fisheries BOF Bottom Of Form BOF British Orienteering Federation BOF Business Object Framework
So what's the *real* answer? Egh, search me. I kind of like "Board of Fisheries", though.
Slashdot Mirror
That's true -- we can't forget the BSD's, can we?
"The only thing red about Lucy is her hair, and that's not even real." Desi Arnaz
And here I prefer to just call them "certified loonies".
Use the European standard -- 27.1, i.e., 27 January.
Did? They're still there, even if the company isn't. Along with the monetary pound sign, which had an acquaintance of mine swearing up and down that clearly Commodore was a British company, and using rather charming circular logic (which I can't remember) to try to prove it. Oy.
Well, yes. If you want to be picky, it's a 403 permission denied message (watch your browser's status line). That doesn't necessarily preclude that they panicked from a heavy load and chmod'd it.
Lovely article
Posted twenty times before
Burn the heretic!
Thank you.
Filling in for Signal 11?
It's been a while since I took a psychology class, but I recall that dreams are 'plotted', so to speak, by at least the following factors:
So, what you describe could very well be true. I know there've been a few times when I was listening to a radio in a dream, and it turned out to be the sound of my clock-radio's alarm.
I totally agree with you except that I think that your views on Capitalists is a bit twisted. Capitalists have a great respect for private ownership. As a person with no party affiliation (capitalism is an economic, not political, philosophy; communism is both) I have no problems to abide by GPL and I totally respect the equal opportunity for examination and learning from source code which the GPL permits and even requires. Some, if not all, Capitalists I know are nice Intelligent people.
I would say this Slade character is more of a shithead, a bollock, an arsehole, a shit-for-brains, an egocentrist, an ozone bozo, and a self-serving little prick, seizing private property and not giving anything back.
Know your History.
Angry female gorilla to embarrassed male gorilla: "Well, well -- another blond hair ... Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"
-- from The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit, p. 167.
Getting tired of your inflated karma so you're trying to drag it back down, eh?
In my experience, deceiving site titles are actually less problematic than they used to be.
A year or two ago it seemed like no matter what query I entered into Alta Vista, one or more pages with innocent titles would pop up which, when selected, would display a message to the effect of "Site moved, redirecting..." or "Site moved, click here", the 'moved' site being porn. Blecchh. Typically a server would have simply hundreds of these bogus-forward pages.
I haven't seen one like that in a while. I suppose upstream providers started putting the smack down on deceptive sites, or perhaps Alta Vista started filtering those sorts of pages out. If the latter, that's a sort of filtering that, while I don't support, I also don't mind, since there are oodles and oodles and oodles and oodles of other search engines out there and you aren't limited to using one search engine like you're limited to using the connection you've got.
Typically, 'related links' appear in the list exactly as they do in the main article, even if they make no sense out of the article's context. I believe 1, 2, 3, etc are links to example sites that were/weren't blocked by the software being demonstrated.
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'8' doesn't rhyme with 'pay'! Stop wasting bandwidth with your junk!
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Quite right -- after all, there's already gcc, which has had its own sexy offshoots like pgcc.
I dislike it too, but mostly because I find the 'just like the real thing' interface to be so awkward to manipulate with a mouse. Same aggravation as with the newer versions of Quicktime Player and assorted IBM products with 'Real' in the title. Oh well, back to Impulse Tracker...
You expect any less from someone who calls MS-Windows users "mouth-breathing"?
It's a change from all the commercial and/or privacy-intruding 'services' with "My" in the title, eh?
He's the most one-note MS-boosting OSS-attacking zombie on the entire Internet. And I'm sure he's getting ready to respond that someone has to balance out all the one-note OSS-boosting MS-attacking zombies on Slashdot. Bullshit. Go play with the Office paperclip and let the rest of us use the software we want to use, Tim.
Look closer at the "video games" stamp. It's an Atari 2600 VCS! Playing Defender, I believe.
Why? It already runs swell under snes9x under X11.
So, I suppose I am the only person on Earth who thinks 90% of Dave Barry's writing is random hit-or-miss blather in search of a punch-line.
I presume he/she/it means the two pepperpots watching the television. "Well, what's on the television then?" "Looks like a penguin."
Acronym Finder suggests the following:
BOF Back Order File BOF Basic Oxygen Furnace
BOF Beginning Of File
BOF Billing and Ordering Forum (ATIS)
BOF Birds Of a Feather
BOF Board Of Fisheries
BOF Bottom Of Form
BOF British Orienteering Federation
BOF Business Object Framework
So what's the *real* answer? Egh, search me. I kind of like "Board of Fisheries", though.