Your point is well raised as to the difference between chat and literature, but I would question whether what is learnt as literature is of the living language or a construct supported by consensus and peer review, but then maybe language in any form can be said to be no more than convention. For example I consider G. Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary one of the finest works of literature I have ever read. I came to know it in one of the english translations but, as I'm Canadian and have been taught french since grade school, I took a shot at the original. The verbs stopped me cold, and, when I asked some of my french friends about the verbs and strange implementations they threw their hands up in surrender. I'm not sure that, other than the patois of a living tounge, language is a circumscribed, dead model.
The Workman's Compensation Board of British Columbia (where this is scheduled to take place) regulations state safety gear must be in place to "... ensure that a fall protection system is in place when employees or students work at elevations greater than 3 m (10ft) or where a fall from a lesser height involves an unusual risk of injury."
Only in America? It's interesting to view the article from the viewpoint of Noam Chomsky's classic work on the consolidation of American media,
"Manufacturing Consent". Approached from either perspective, the future of independent news media in America looks to be in poor health. Turner's quote from Justice Hugo Black seemed to bridge the approach Turner has taken to that of Chomsky: "The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public."
"...the availability of competitive products or services such as the Linux operating system at prices below our prices or for no charge;..."
This basically says the future looks bright ahead. MS is paying out much of their warchest. Any threat Linux may pose has been discounted. MS believes they'll hang onto their 96% of the market and do so while growing new products.
Why don't they spec the cooling system or the time it will take to turn your system into a smoldering slag heap. I run a 2.8 w/ 512 and a radeon 9200 se w/128 and can't play Halo for more than an hour without my system running up against the lower end of over heating.
If being 'snipped' or gunned down is not enough to separate you from your money then maybe the killer call of death will put the fear of Nigerian superstition into you. "A rumour has spread rapidly in the commercial capital, Lagos, that if one answers calls from certain "killer numbers" then one will die immediately."
Then there's the handshake..."a rumour that spread a few years ago that a handshake could cause sexual organs to disappear."
This is a death threat. The State Dept. of the countries involved have a responsibility to protect its citizens. No matter how inept the method might be the threat stands and needs to be addressed.
Knowing nothing about Ka-band I ran a search. According to a Jan 03 article this year will see the first implementations of ka-band with North America leading the way. from the article: "Nour said it is expected that first implementations will be seen in 2004. For example, SpaceWay, owned by Hughes Networks Systems, based in Germantown, Md., a division of Hughes Electronics Corp, plans to launch Ka-band that year. And WildBlue, based in Greenwood Village, Co., plans to jump into the industry at the same time."
It might serve to look at the release of the material into a market as a contract. If the copyright holders choose to release the material into a market then they also choose, tacitly, to accept the conditions imposed by the copyright laws of the market, in this case a 50 year limit. If, as in this case, the Americans don't want to play by the British rules they should keep their product at home.
wikipedia: Sport is a major area of human interest and activity. A large part of our leisure, and newspaper and TV time is given over to it.
A pragmatic approach to defining "sport" is to look at the common usage of the term.
A sport can be operationally defined as an activity characteristically involving:
* The exercise of a useful physical skill recreationally, i.e. for a purpose other than its practical application in daily life.
* Conforming to a set of rules for the activity while aiming to attain excellence.
The excellence referred to above may be measured against previous benchmarks, time measurements, performance of the other team or participants, world records, etc..
Examples of skills which have become sports:
* Gladiators in Rome fought and killed for the delectation of the audience, rather than to protect the Empire:
* Yachting is the travel across water for enjoyment or competition rather than e.g. for transport or commerce:
* Running is done on a course for a fixed length of time or distance, rather than simply to catch a bus.
Physical sports use characteristics such as strength, stamina, speed, dexterity and other skills, other sports use more cerebral skills (see mind sport), such as strategic thinking in chess. This article, however, will concentrate on physical aspects of sport.
The line between sports, games, exercise and play is certainly not clear; games are often redefined as sports when they involve particularly skilled participants, which gives them appeal to non-participants. This is especially true in the modern age, which gives much weight to the spectator aspect of sports. Similarly, play is usually understood as less purposeful activity, but can become more like a game or sport as it conforms more to external rules or patterns of behaviour. Exercise is action to develop skill or ability, and may be a forerunner of both sport and games.
from the CIA factbook: "...for years from the 1970's into the 1990's, citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea (DPRK), many of them diplomatic employees of the government, were apprehended abroad while trafficking in narcotics. In recent years, police investigations in Taiwan and Japan have linked North Korea to large illicit shipments of heroin and methamphetamine, with the attempt by the North Korean merchant ship Pong Su to deliver 125 kg of heroin to Australia in April 2003 the most recent example of Pyongyang's involvement in the drug trade. All indications point to North Korea emerging as an important regional source of illicit drugs targeting markets in Japan, Taiwan, the Russian Far East, and China."
At one time the passes through the Alps were controlled by "robber barons" who taxed trade from the Mediterranean to the developing nations of Western Europe. In another era cartographers were secreted away as were their maps that held the trade routes to the spice trade and the new world. As world trade develops, trade pacts like NAFTA and the European Union have slowly opened markets while trying to protect the home markets of the various participants. Patents are the means to ensure profit in markets open to trade pacts. The intellectual property rights are the controlled mountain passes of today. Patents enforce a tax on trade. Patents ensure profits at "home" while permitting free trade and the development of new markets in the third world.
Anyone else see the movie as a precursor to a game edition? The music on the site reminds me more of a sound track to a FPS. Movies made into games and games into movies may be a new trend.
"... according to MacNewsWorld they are better at expressing themselves than the average Slashdotter and certainly are better at handling the king's English..."
That would be the Queen's english. Perhaps it's merely a matter of temporal distortion.
Slashdot Mirror
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Your point is well raised as to the difference between chat and literature, but I would question whether what is learnt as literature is of the living language or a construct supported by consensus and peer review, but then maybe language in any form can be said to be no more than convention. For example I consider G. Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary one of the finest works of literature I have ever read. I came to know it in one of the english translations but, as I'm Canadian and have been taught french since grade school, I took a shot at the original. The verbs stopped me cold, and, when I asked some of my french friends about the verbs and strange implementations they threw their hands up in surrender. I'm not sure that, other than the patois of a living tounge, language is a circumscribed, dead model.
immersion
Doesn't MS own the patent for CSS, and if so, how does its patent factor in?
Fud, fud, glorious fud, Nothing quite like it for boiling the blood. So follow me, follow, down to the hollow And there let us wallow in glorious fud. http://members.aol.com/HippoPage/hippsong.htm#hipp osong/Hippo Song
The Workman's Compensation Board of British Columbia (where this is scheduled to take place) regulations state safety gear must be in place to "... ensure that a fall protection system is in place when employees or students work at elevations greater than 3 m (10ft) or where a fall from a lesser height involves an unusual risk of injury."
Only in America? It's interesting to view the article from the viewpoint of Noam Chomsky's classic work on the consolidation of American media, "Manufacturing Consent". Approached from either perspective, the future of independent news media in America looks to be in poor health. Turner's quote from Justice Hugo Black seemed to bridge the approach Turner has taken to that of Chomsky: "The First Amendment rests on the assumption that the widest possible dissemination of information from diverse and antagonistic sources is essential to the welfare of the public."
This basically says the future looks bright ahead. MS is paying out much of their warchest. Any threat Linux may pose has been discounted. MS believes they'll hang onto their 96% of the market and do so while growing new products.
Why don't they spec the cooling system or the time it will take to turn your system into a smoldering slag heap. I run a 2.8 w/ 512 and a radeon 9200 se w/128 and can't play Halo for more than an hour without my system running up against the lower end of over heating.
I've been getting 500 / 503 since the maintenance was done a day or two ago. Maybe they're running with les bandwidth?
"A rumour has spread rapidly in the commercial capital, Lagos, that if one answers calls from certain "killer numbers" then one will die immediately."
Then there's the handshake..."a rumour that spread a few years ago that a handshake could cause sexual organs to disappear."
Maybe they offer the victim the choice of being emasculated or gunned down.
This is a death threat. The State Dept. of the countries involved have a responsibility to protect its citizens. No matter how inept the method might be the threat stands and needs to be addressed.
"In the future everybody will be famous for fifteen minutes."
Knowing nothing about Ka-band I ran a search. According to a Jan 03 article this year will see the first implementations of ka-band with North America leading the way. from the article: "Nour said it is expected that first implementations will be seen in 2004. For example, SpaceWay, owned by Hughes Networks Systems, based in Germantown, Md., a division of Hughes Electronics Corp, plans to launch Ka-band that year. And WildBlue, based in Greenwood Village, Co., plans to jump into the industry at the same time."
Cable in Canada runs about $45.00/mo. The modem can be bought for about $60.00 bundled with the service.
First Doom 3 now this... coincidence? I don't think so.
It might serve to look at the release of the material into a market as a contract. If the copyright holders choose to release the material into a market then they also choose, tacitly, to accept the conditions imposed by the copyright laws of the market, in this case a 50 year limit. If, as in this case, the Americans don't want to play by the British rules they should keep their product at home.
wikipedia:
:
Sport is a major area of human interest and activity. A large part of our leisure, and newspaper and TV time is given over to it.
A pragmatic approach to defining "sport" is to look at the common usage of the term.
A sport can be operationally defined as an activity characteristically involving
* The exercise of a useful physical skill recreationally, i.e. for a purpose other than its practical application in daily life.
* Conforming to a set of rules for the activity while aiming to attain excellence.
The excellence referred to above may be measured against previous benchmarks, time measurements, performance of the other team or participants, world records, etc..
Examples of skills which have become sports:
* Gladiators in Rome fought and killed for the delectation of the audience, rather than to protect the Empire:
* Yachting is the travel across water for enjoyment or competition rather than e.g. for transport or commerce:
* Running is done on a course for a fixed length of time or distance, rather than simply to catch a bus.
Physical sports use characteristics such as strength, stamina, speed, dexterity and other skills, other sports use more cerebral skills (see mind sport), such as strategic thinking in chess. This article, however, will concentrate on physical aspects of sport.
The line between sports, games, exercise and play is certainly not clear; games are often redefined as sports when they involve particularly skilled participants, which gives them appeal to non-participants. This is especially true in the modern age, which gives much weight to the spectator aspect of sports. Similarly, play is usually understood as less purposeful activity, but can become more like a game or sport as it conforms more to external rules or patterns of behaviour. Exercise is action to develop skill or ability, and may be a forerunner of both sport and games.
what does generationally nostalgic mean?
At one time the passes through the Alps were controlled by "robber barons" who taxed trade from the Mediterranean to the developing nations of Western Europe. In another era cartographers were secreted away as were their maps that held the trade routes to the spice trade and the new world. As world trade develops, trade pacts like NAFTA and the European Union have slowly opened markets while trying to protect the home markets of the various participants. Patents are the means to ensure profit in markets open to trade pacts. The intellectual property rights are the controlled mountain passes of today. Patents enforce a tax on trade. Patents ensure profits at "home" while permitting free trade and the development of new markets in the third world.
Anyone else see the movie as a precursor to a game edition? The music on the site reminds me more of a sound track to a FPS. Movies made into games and games into movies may be a new trend.
That would be the Queen's english. Perhaps it's merely a matter of temporal distortion.
A Phd in Psychology who worked with Fischer suggested Fischer was a paranoid schizophrenic.