Technically, the holiday is called (chet) (nun) (vav) (kaf) (hay) in Hebrew (see the Hebrew alphabet for info on how to write the letters). Hannukah, Hanukkah, Chanukah, Chanuka, etc., are all transliterations. The first letter is pronounced like a guttural H that is usually written "ch" in German and Welsh.
Any Middle Eastern or Asian language (or any language not written in ASCII-friendly letters, for that matter) has a whole bunch of transliteration methods. It's up to each writer/editor to pick one and stay with it.
We do that to avoid offending Jews, Muslims, atheists, and other non-Christians.
Inspired by an episode of the TV show "The OC," you can even buy Chrismukkah cards to celebrate a more interfaith holiday than plain old Christmas or Chanukah.
I voted for Ralph Nader in the last election because I am committed to making a difference in the world today.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth paid for their advertising time, just as radical left-wing groups such as MoveOn.NET did. Don't blame a company for selling advertising time; after all, you don't even need to watch advertisements thanks to Microsoft UltimateTV.
I hate reading news coverage. I'd rather just read what high-school and college-age libertarian computer programmers think about politics and world policy. It'd be great if everybody linked to each other relentlessly, so I wouldn't have to think about who believes what.
I'd rather watch Fox News than watch the blogosphere or WikiNews. Fox News picks a viewpoint and stays with it; all these Internet losers just sit around shouting "Bzzt! Wrong!" at each other all the time. How sad.
That happens all the time in other news, so I don't really see the diffrence.
Go to Fox News's web site and show me one news article (not an editorial or opinion piece) that is biased. Explain why it is biased.
With a wiki, news that's not proven can atleast be edited/removed....and so can news with which people disagree for any reason, without any sort of review other than a simple "undo" feature if people disagree with the disagreement.
No, not at all. GE, Disney, Viacom, Newscorp, and Time Warner own television networks that employ actual editors that can be held accountable for their actions when they screw up. Wikinews is a bunch of anonymous people editing each other's articles, and as such it has no credibility.
Americans aren't the only ignorant mass in the world -- we're just the loudest and most hated. Forty-five percent of Britons have never heard of Auschwitz, for example.
But hey, you believe that the BBC is unbiased and not influenced by capitalism. Good for you.
(See, if you can blindly accuse CNN of being biased and petty, I can do the same to the BBC or anyone else.)
When spammers claim you've "opted in" to receive mail by posting your email address publicly, people get really mad.
When Google claims that you've "opted in" to its Usenet archive by failing to opt out of its index, people are getting really mad.
I wonder why the same rules don't apply for Google Cache and the Internet Archive, both products that collect and serve others' copyrighted materials unless the owners specifically opt out.
Google has set its sights squarely on Yahoo! Groups, a free service where people can create their own groups.
Their goal, like any portal, is stickiness: you have to create a Google login to join Google's proprietary groups, and you can't find this content anywhere but Google.
Wow, how presumptuous. I went to CMU, and played on the quiz bowl team, so I can point out two things:
1. I have met Kermin and know him to be a very smart and nice guy. He's no more arrogant than your average quiz bowl player (and I've met some, at CMU and away, that are very full of themselves).
2. The man won a trivia tournament. People are proud of him because of that. Not everyone in Kentucky (or, as you further generalized, "red states") fits into your mold.
Grow up and come up with better ways to begin an argument than "Some people I know are familiar with some..."
Try using Quicken sometime. Several of the menu items go to a dialog box stating "You have (some cheap version of Quicken). Would you like to unlock this feature for only $39.95?" None of these are greyed out.
If you click yes and pay, you can unlock Quicken using your very own install disc. All the boxes of Quicken contain the same software on the CD; the only difference is that the installer is configured to install and activate a particular edition.
I can't wait to play some of the Top 9 games that they recommend as "non-violent" at the very bottom. Either "Antigrav" (which as of this morning was spelled "Antigrave") or "EyeToy: Antigrav" (which was simply called "Eye Toy" earlier today) should be good. They're listed separately, by the way.
Have you seen the iRiver's remote? It has a separate backlit LCD that shows you the track that's playing, time, etc. You can even navigate the menus through the remote. It's very useful if you're in a confined space.
The iPod's remote, by contrast, costs $40 and has six buttons and no display. I wouldn't consider it in the same league.
Google hasn't brought anything to non-Windows platforms yet. They make vague suggestions like "we might eventually support Mac OS X" but do nothing about it.
Oh, and I use Mac OS X and Linux. I get paid $100 for every pro-Microsoft comment I post to Slashdot, but that money doesn't go back to Bill Gates like you think it does.
Please remember that Google Scholar is BETA. You are not allowed to criticise it until 2015, at which time Google will change the name to "Google Scholar Release Candidate 1."
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Most iTunes albums are $10, though I've seen some for less and some for more. It all depends on the record label.
And I still see Allofmp3.com as the virtual equivalent of going to Bangkok and buying sackloads of bootleg DVDs. Just because you paid money for it doesn't make it legitimate in my opinion. Then again, I anal.
I also own a 5040. Since I bought the unit last March, there have been maybe four times that ReplayTV has run ads when paused. The flow goes like this:
1. Hit pause, show appears in freeze frame. 2. After about five minutes on pause, ad appears. 3. After about five minutes more, the screen saver kicks in.
If I walk away for a long time, I'll never see the ad for more than about a second when I come back (press button to cancel screen saver, press PAUSE to resume playing).
It appears that there are quite a few places where ReplayTV might support ads (the Menu screen and the Zones area both feature rotating banners) but I've never seen them used.
At least ReplayTV is in the hands of Denon & Marantz, which will not live or die by ReplayTV's success. TiVo still isn't profitable and won't be until January 2006 (by its own admission) so it really needs the revenue.
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Makes looking for good reviews a little easier.
From my experience doing product research on Google, replace "good reviews" with "Amazon.com clones."
Try searching for any item and the keyword "reviews." It's sickening how little useful information you can find.
Technically, the holiday is called (chet) (nun) (vav) (kaf) (hay) in Hebrew (see the Hebrew alphabet for info on how to write the letters). Hannukah, Hanukkah, Chanukah, Chanuka, etc., are all transliterations. The first letter is pronounced like a guttural H that is usually written "ch" in German and Welsh.
Any Middle Eastern or Asian language (or any language not written in ASCII-friendly letters, for that matter) has a whole bunch of transliteration methods. It's up to each writer/editor to pick one and stay with it.
We do that to avoid offending Jews, Muslims, atheists, and other non-Christians.
Inspired by an episode of the TV show "The OC," you can even buy Chrismukkah cards to celebrate a more interfaith holiday than plain old Christmas or Chanukah.
I voted for Ralph Nader in the last election because I am committed to making a difference in the world today.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth paid for their advertising time, just as radical left-wing groups such as MoveOn.NET did. Don't blame a company for selling advertising time; after all, you don't even need to watch advertisements thanks to Microsoft UltimateTV.
I hate reading news coverage. I'd rather just read what high-school and college-age libertarian computer programmers think about politics and world policy. It'd be great if everybody linked to each other relentlessly, so I wouldn't have to think about who believes what.
Now if only I could get that wirelessly.
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Yes, that's much better than Fox News or the New York Times. All hail the new media.
It's fun to make blanket statements.
I'd rather watch Fox News than watch the blogosphere or WikiNews. Fox News picks a viewpoint and stays with it; all these Internet losers just sit around shouting "Bzzt! Wrong!" at each other all the time. How sad.
That happens all the time in other news, so I don't really see the diffrence.
...and so can news with which people disagree for any reason, without any sort of review other than a simple "undo" feature if people disagree with the disagreement.
Go to Fox News's web site and show me one news article (not an editorial or opinion piece) that is biased. Explain why it is biased.
With a wiki, news that's not proven can atleast be edited/removed.
No, not at all. GE, Disney, Viacom, Newscorp, and Time Warner own television networks that employ actual editors that can be held accountable for their actions when they screw up. Wikinews is a bunch of anonymous people editing each other's articles, and as such it has no credibility.
Americans aren't the only ignorant mass in the world -- we're just the loudest and most hated. Forty-five percent of Britons have never heard of Auschwitz, for example.
But hey, you believe that the BBC is unbiased and not influenced by capitalism. Good for you.
(See, if you can blindly accuse CNN of being biased and petty, I can do the same to the BBC or anyone else.)
When spammers claim you've "opted in" to receive mail by posting your email address publicly, people get really mad.
When Google claims that you've "opted in" to its Usenet archive by failing to opt out of its index, people are getting really mad.
I wonder why the same rules don't apply for Google Cache and the Internet Archive, both products that collect and serve others' copyrighted materials unless the owners specifically opt out.
Google has set its sights squarely on Yahoo! Groups, a free service where people can create their own groups.
Their goal, like any portal, is stickiness: you have to create a Google login to join Google's proprietary groups, and you can't find this content anywhere but Google.
Welcome to the brave new Google world.
Wow, how presumptuous. I went to CMU, and played on the quiz bowl team, so I can point out two things:
1. I have met Kermin and know him to be a very smart and nice guy. He's no more arrogant than your average quiz bowl player (and I've met some, at CMU and away, that are very full of themselves).
2. The man won a trivia tournament. People are proud of him because of that. Not everyone in Kentucky (or, as you further generalized, "red states") fits into your mold.
Grow up and come up with better ways to begin an argument than "Some people I know are familiar with some..."
Try using Quicken sometime. Several of the menu items go to a dialog box stating "You have (some cheap version of Quicken). Would you like to unlock this feature for only $39.95?" None of these are greyed out.
If you click yes and pay, you can unlock Quicken using your very own install disc. All the boxes of Quicken contain the same software on the CD; the only difference is that the installer is configured to install and activate a particular edition.
Actually, the Mac doesn't always sort files in ASCII form.
... ...
...
If you have a folder containing files named
1 Report
2 Report
3 Report
10 Report
11 Report
100 Report
then Mac OS will sort them in the way indicated above, whereas any other operating system would show them as
1 Report
10 Report
100 Report
11 Report...
2 Report
9 Report
This doesn't solve every asktog gripe about sorting, but it is nice to have.
I was thinking of spaces more confined than your car trunk, such as a New York City subway car during rush hour.
But hey, whatever's convenient for you...
"McEnroe" has twice recorded a 0.0 rating. At least the Open Source show couldn't get any worse; not even the XFL got negative ratings...
Here's the press release in question with the list at the bottom. Not only does the ICCR not play any of the games, they can't even spell them correctly! Look at GameSpot's treatment of this press release for some simple corrections.
I can't wait to play some of the Top 9 games that they recommend as "non-violent" at the very bottom. Either "Antigrav" (which as of this morning was spelled "Antigrave") or "EyeToy: Antigrav" (which was simply called "Eye Toy" earlier today) should be good. They're listed separately, by the way.
Have you seen the iRiver's remote? It has a separate backlit LCD that shows you the track that's playing, time, etc. You can even navigate the menus through the remote. It's very useful if you're in a confined space.
The iPod's remote, by contrast, costs $40 and has six buttons and no display. I wouldn't consider it in the same league.
Google hasn't brought anything to non-Windows platforms yet. They make vague suggestions like "we might eventually support Mac OS X" but do nothing about it.
Oh, and I use Mac OS X and Linux. I get paid $100 for every pro-Microsoft comment I post to Slashdot, but that money doesn't go back to Bill Gates like you think it does.
Actually, "Mah-Jongg Fight Club" is the original name of the game. I've seen it in Japanese arcades. You "fight" on-line.
Of course, I just violated the first rule of Mah-Jongg Fight Club...
Please remember that Google Scholar is BETA. You are not allowed to criticise it until 2015, at which time Google will change the name to "Google Scholar Release Candidate 1."
This has been a public service announcement from Google Advocacy Central BETA. If you have any feedback, please don't send it to us.
Don't worry. It's BETA. I'm sure Google will add support for Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, Minix, RISC OS, Amiga, and OS/2 by the time they're done.
Most iTunes albums are $10, though I've seen some for less and some for more. It all depends on the record label.
And I still see Allofmp3.com as the virtual equivalent of going to Bangkok and buying sackloads of bootleg DVDs. Just because you paid money for it doesn't make it legitimate in my opinion. Then again, I anal.
I also own a 5040. Since I bought the unit last March, there have been maybe four times that ReplayTV has run ads when paused. The flow goes like this:
1. Hit pause, show appears in freeze frame.
2. After about five minutes on pause, ad appears.
3. After about five minutes more, the screen saver kicks in.
If I walk away for a long time, I'll never see the ad for more than about a second when I come back (press button to cancel screen saver, press PAUSE to resume playing).
It appears that there are quite a few places where ReplayTV might support ads (the Menu screen and the Zones area both feature rotating banners) but I've never seen them used.
At least ReplayTV is in the hands of Denon & Marantz, which will not live or die by ReplayTV's success. TiVo still isn't profitable and won't be until January 2006 (by its own admission) so it really needs the revenue.