I did something similar for my many hard disks. I've got:
nene : boot disk skuld : application disk washu : data disk yuri : burn disk
And I've had several others (nabiki, ukyo, kei...) over the years. Tricky part was that I could only use half of the alphabet, since I wanted the disks to come up in the order listed above. And of course, I'm only naming them after cute techphile girls;)
Oh that's easy. The university I went to (Brandeis, in sunny Waltham, MA) made quite a bit off of bottled water. This was because the local water quality was really really awful. If you're afraid to drink it from the tap, bottled water (also probably from the tap) gets to be more appealing.
Of course not. That would be stupid. You're a casist, unable to see that AIBOs are all equal underneath their plastic exteriors. (perhaps translucent plastics would help)
huh? Tempest refers to getting sensitive data, not protecting it. In most cases, the getting would probably be illegal as all hell, and at the very least exceptionally immoral. And how is it bad to protect yourself from being spied on?
Perhaps, but I wouldn't equate Hebrew with Jew. A Hebrew would be a descendant of Abraham, but that would include a good number of Jews, Muslims and Christians (and probably more besides) but not all of them. I'm not a Cohen or a Levi, so I don't have any real reason to think that I had ancestors from the Middle East. My ancestors were just as likely pagan converts in what's now Russia. Even odds.
The same goes for the Semite ethnicity. That's a catch-all for pretty much anyone from the Middle East, or nearby. It includes the Jews that never left in the first place, but not most of the ones that did. Does include a hell of a lot of Muslims though.
Tacking in a few responses to GregWebb in post #392: Having a Jewish mother doesn't make you Jewish. What if a boy wasn't circumcised? Big stumbling block right there. And there are various other ways in which a kid with Jewish parents isn't necessarily Jewish. Usually depends on how closely you adhere to the Talmud. (which is not really something I'm a big fan of)
What you're seeing here is just that most children inherit the religion of their parents. But your argument is pretty weird. "All Jews are descended from Abraham, except the ones that aren't." Well, yes. That's a pretty safe assumption, but doesn't prove much. I for one, don't claim to be descended from Abraham, and conversions to Judiasm used to be a lot more common back before the advent of Christianity and Islam, which held more appeal for J Random Pagan.
But as for Hitler, yeah I'll agree that he was trying to eradicate the Jewish race. But then, he was also trying to fight on two fronts, and one of those was on land, against Russia. Clearly the man was not running on all cylinders.
Ultimately, my feeling on referring to someone as a Jew, is that that's appropriate in a religious context, and then usually with the particular sect, as we don't all get along that well. For general ethnicity, it's probably safer to guess, ask, or just refer to them by their nationality (or something) like you would for people who are also whatever your default religion is. Names are also good.
Sorry, but Judaism is a religion, not an ethnicity. Although it's not particularly common, people can convert and become Jews, and people who are already Jews can change their religion (depending on what they're changing it to, of course...)
Now there are several ethnic groups that have come about b/c of Judiasm, but that's not the same thing. The two big groups, Ashkenazi and Sephardi are mostly the result of a lack of interfaith marriages and conversions. But the two groups aren't anything all that special really, and I doubt that you could tell them apart from people of any religion who's ancestry is from the same parts of the world.
Remember, there are semitic Jews, black Jews from Ethiopia, some from India, all over really. Because it's a religion, and pretty much anyone's allowed in if they want.
Woah there Tex! I think that your list of geeks and suits is a little out of whack.
Bill Gates has never been known as a programmer, really. He didn't invent BASIC, he didn't even have all that much to do with the half-assed version of it that MS made for the Altair. Paul Allen was doing most of the work, Bill was losing at poker with his Harvard buddies. Bill is a suit, who happens to be suprisingly good at fooling people into thinking he's a geek. Steve Jobs has done the same thing at times, so it's not unique, but it is rare.
Well, when they say that Boston is the Hub, what they mean by this is that it's the Hub of the Universe. Because, see, all things revolve around Boston. Admittedly, the universe only extends as far as, maybe, Worchester. Maybe. To a true Bostonian, there's just nothing interesting any further away than that.
And, if you're ever in Downtown Crossing, look around for a plaque set into the ground. It marks the precise spot at which the hub is located.
Well, it's pretty new, and kind of obscure but I can't stop raving about the comic book "Thieves and Kings". I suggest it to people as strongly as I do Snow Crash, if that helps you judge how good it is (or I think it is).
Amazon sells the three tpbs that have currently been released.
(and there's also the anime series "Escaflowne" but for now let's stick with books)
If it's a tax on you to your ISP, then no. If it's the ISP to the net, then yes. Cable modems only use cable between a user's house and the ISP (or some switch in between). They obviusly don't lay a cable down all the way to everyone else's computer.
And I hear you on the patchy cable modem availability. Testify, brother!
I think that the article is a little vague on which lines they're talking about. However, my impression is that the tax would apply to local calls from a user to an ISP. This is nuts. Local calls are either universally flat, or metered but at a very low rate (which was my experience with Bell Atlantic). Either way, the RBOCs can expect people to generally tie up lines for long periods of time and don't consider it a problem.
I am a bit more sympathetic when discussing the connection between the net as a whole and the ISP, but not this sympathetic. While the current pricing model is being taken advantage of, this strikes me as just another example of telcos not wanting to adapt to new technologies. Way back when, they were practically handed the Internet, packet-switching, the whole nine yards, and dismissed it as worthless. Seems to me they're still thinking in terms of circuit-switched voice networks and not as telecommunications as a whole. (a charge for overall transmission - both send and recieve - would be more logical)
Of course, tolls would kill internet usage, which has been prospering largely because people don't mind wasting time on it. If the phone company charges you when you browse through amazon most people are going to stop using it. (/. is an exception. It's so addictive it could be a Controlled Web Site;) AOL, Virginia's premier pyramid scam, probably used to have this problem. People would sign up, see the first bill and run away. Flat fees may increase the load on the networks and computers, but in the current growing environment that would be best, IMHO.
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Nerds play quake.
I don't. I hate Quake. It's ugly as hell. It's relatively boring. It's never impressed me all that much. I like first person games, but I was a much bigger fan of Marathon and Marathon2. They scared the shit out of me. Quake, like Doom, is just a bunch of brown shapes on a brown background. If that's what floats your boat, good for you. But please don't think everyone cares. Geeks, imho, play corewar.;)
The third issue is time. The director needs to have some things quick, so they don't get in the way, and some things slowly, to build suspense. This may contradict how long things really should take. For example, in the X-Files, they often will bring a photo to the FBI Imaging Lab; the viewer doesn't want to spend 45 minutes watching the technician line up the right region of the image and trying a few hundred filters on it to extract a good image; they bring in the photo, give the guy a few directions on where to look, and bingo, a clear zoom of a poorly developed area of the photo.
heh. Did you ever see "The Replacement Killers"? It had a fun part in it where they've got an insanely blurry picture of Chow Yun Fat. They click *one* button on the computer, and a perfectly clean photo emerges. Obviously it was just Photoshop's Chow Yun Fat Filter;)
The fourth is capability. Look at Max Headroom; they managed to encode an entire human personality, including emotions, into a (presumably digital) computer. If they have that level of computing power, they surely would be able to do other magnificent things with computers, but they generally can't.
Well, in defense of Max Headroom, they couldn't really get him working well in the first damn place to begin with. Besides, the kid who did it was too unfocused to seriously persue it. He made a parrot, tried to adapt the same thing to Carter (and got Max) and gave up.
And what about _Sneakers_? They used a minimum of macs and flashy graphics and made cracking look cool!
Well, they also had Dan Ackroyd, and Dan Ackroyd's little technical speeches that he does so well. Those are just always the best part of his films....
I'm a Jew and I love a good Jewish joke. My dad's a lawyer and he not only loves lawyer jokes, but tells them to everyone else.
If Bill Gates hasn't heard a Bill Gates joke, he's out of touch with reality. Primitive tribesmen in darkest Africa who have never had any contact with modern civilization know Bill Gates jokes (although probably not very good ones, I'll grant)
Anyway, here's a good one I saw on/. a couple months ago: Richard M. Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Donald E. Knuth engage in a discussion on who was the best programmer.
Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!"
Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best kernel in the world!"
I think that Apple knew what they were doing when they used "Think Different." Apple doesn't want people to think differently. That wouldn't make much sense at all.... Rather, I suspect that they'd like to be identified as the 'Different' Company. Ergo, "Think Different" means "Think Apple" not "Think Differently"
Ever see the (abominable) movie Oh God, 2? They've got a similar catchphrase in it, IIRC, "Think God". The point being to think about God, not to think like God.
Adobe owns PDF. Evidently though, they're not charging as much (if anything) to use it as a display model as they did for Display PostScript. As a graphic designer, I LOVE the idea of DPS. Everything that gets output is output in PS format, so it's really handy to have it onscreen as well.
However, Adobe is moving towards replacing PS with PDF for final output anyway, and so it's probably best for my field anyway if PDF is used, no matter who owns the damn thing. Presumably Apple and Adobe have gotten into some kind of arrangement here.
It is a bit slower, I'll admit, but Apple really does need to address their loyal DTP market first, and work on expanding into games (where you have to perform 3d and blits really quickly) than to drop a known market and try to attract a fresh one. A useful method might be to develop a 2nd video model under the game sprockets banner, and when a game wants to use it, it switches the system to the other mode. Singletasking, I know, but what're gonna do? Other than bosskey situations, who plays Marathon2 while simulatneously fscking with excel?
The problem with adoption of this stuff here in God's Country is that the various broadcasters and media companies are the FCC's puppetmasters.
The current plan is for NTSC broadcasts to end in 2006, and for HDTV to completely replace it. Consumer electronics companies like this because then everyone will have to buy new TVs, VCRs (or better yet, DVDs - read only as a plus) etc.
However, HDTV only really seems to be working when broadcast from towers. Not over cable, and not over satellites. Broadcast ground transmissions frequently get messed up, and in the digital world, if it's not a 1, it's a 0; You either get a perfect picture or you don't get the time of day.
Additionally, a large investment will have to be made to install the HDTV transmitting equipment, and more power is required for the signal.
So far it sounds like it would all work out cool in the end if only the cable and sat companies would get on with transmitting HDTV.
Bzzt, wrong. The current scheme allows broadcasters to send either a really ultra-high quality channel or several low quality channels. Now given that ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC (and even UPN and WB) have been bought by big conglomerates who have additional channels providing a not-inconsiderable revenue stream, who really thinks that we can expect to see a single good channel instead of loads of crap.
So the outlook for HDTV is pretty dismal, and it's really a necessity for getting those widescreen sets out into the market, cheaply. (heck, it even requires people to get new TABLES! the electronics companies must love this)
Personally, I'm waiting for HDVT, so I can buy a 160 character wide vterm, with ultra-high-resolution characters in a single technicolor;)
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nene : boot disk
skuld : application disk
washu : data disk
yuri : burn disk
And I've had several others (nabiki, ukyo, kei...) over the years. Tricky part was that I could only use half of the alphabet, since I wanted the disks to come up in the order listed above. And of course, I'm only naming them after cute techphile girls
Yeah but $25 Canadian dollars won't buy you a Coke ;)
Oh that's easy. The university I went to (Brandeis, in sunny Waltham, MA) made quite a bit off of bottled water. This was because the local water quality was really really awful. If you're afraid to drink it from the tap, bottled water (also probably from the tap) gets to be more appealing.
Smithers! Release the robot hounds!
(now we need robot bees)
Of course not. That would be stupid. You're a casist, unable to see that AIBOs are all equal underneath their plastic exteriors. (perhaps translucent plastics would help)
;)
Also, you're worse than Hitler
huh? Tempest refers to getting sensitive data, not protecting it. In most cases, the getting would probably be illegal as all hell, and at the very least exceptionally immoral. And how is it bad to protect yourself from being spied on?
Anyway, I don't see the problem here.
Lisa! In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
The same goes for the Semite ethnicity. That's a catch-all for pretty much anyone from the Middle East, or nearby. It includes the Jews that never left in the first place, but not most of the ones that did. Does include a hell of a lot of Muslims though.
Tacking in a few responses to GregWebb in post #392:
Having a Jewish mother doesn't make you Jewish. What if a boy wasn't circumcised? Big stumbling block right there. And there are various other ways in which a kid with Jewish parents isn't necessarily Jewish. Usually depends on how closely you adhere to the Talmud. (which is not really something I'm a big fan of)
What you're seeing here is just that most children inherit the religion of their parents. But your argument is pretty weird. "All Jews are descended from Abraham, except the ones that aren't." Well, yes. That's a pretty safe assumption, but doesn't prove much. I for one, don't claim to be descended from Abraham, and conversions to Judiasm used to be a lot more common back before the advent of Christianity and Islam, which held more appeal for J Random Pagan.
But as for Hitler, yeah I'll agree that he was trying to eradicate the Jewish race. But then, he was also trying to fight on two fronts, and one of those was on land, against Russia. Clearly the man was not running on all cylinders.
Ultimately, my feeling on referring to someone as a Jew, is that that's appropriate in a religious context, and then usually with the particular sect, as we don't all get along that well. For general ethnicity, it's probably safer to guess, ask, or just refer to them by their nationality (or something) like you would for people who are also whatever your default religion is. Names are also good.
Sorry, but Judaism is a religion, not an ethnicity. Although it's not particularly common, people can convert and become Jews, and people who are already Jews can change their religion (depending on what they're changing it to, of course...)
;)
Now there are several ethnic groups that have come about b/c of Judiasm, but that's not the same thing. The two big groups, Ashkenazi and Sephardi are mostly the result of a lack of interfaith marriages and conversions. But the two groups aren't anything all that special really, and I doubt that you could tell them apart from people of any religion who's ancestry is from the same parts of the world.
Remember, there are semitic Jews, black Jews from Ethiopia, some from India, all over really. Because it's a religion, and pretty much anyone's allowed in if they want.
(why, next you'll be dissing Sammy Davis Jr
Woah there Tex! I think that your list of geeks and suits is a little out of whack.
Bill Gates has never been known as a programmer, really. He didn't invent BASIC, he didn't even have all that much to do with the half-assed version of it that MS made for the Altair. Paul Allen was doing most of the work, Bill was losing at poker with his Harvard buddies. Bill is a suit, who happens to be suprisingly good at fooling people into thinking he's a geek. Steve Jobs has done the same thing at times, so it's not unique, but it is rare.
Much as I enjoy Michener, I think that his endings suck. They just trail off, much like Stephensons, now that I think about it.
Well, when they say that Boston is the Hub, what they mean by this is that it's the Hub of the Universe. Because, see, all things revolve around Boston. Admittedly, the universe only extends as far as, maybe, Worchester. Maybe. To a true Bostonian, there's just nothing interesting any further away than that.
And, if you're ever in Downtown Crossing, look around for a plaque set into the ground. It marks the precise spot at which the hub is located.
What! How could anyone possibly steal and lock away the Mosaic code? Boy, the Jews are gonna be pissed off when they hear about this.
;)
Well, it's pretty new, and kind of obscure but I can't stop raving about the comic book "Thieves and Kings". I suggest it to people as strongly as I do Snow Crash, if that helps you judge how good it is (or I think it is).
Amazon sells the three tpbs that have currently been released.
(and there's also the anime series "Escaflowne" but for now let's stick with books)
Actually from what I've heard was that he was the inspiration for the character of Flynn. Not too hard, IIRC, his wife wrote the screenplay.
Not the worst retelling of the Jesus story I've seen. And on that note, has anyone here seen Tron?
If it's a tax on you to your ISP, then no. If it's the ISP to the net, then yes. Cable modems only use cable between a user's house and the ISP (or some switch in between). They obviusly don't lay a cable down all the way to everyone else's computer.
And I hear you on the patchy cable modem availability. Testify, brother!
I think that the article is a little vague on which lines they're talking about. However, my impression is that the tax would apply to local calls from a user to an ISP. This is nuts. Local calls are either universally flat, or metered but at a very low rate (which was my experience with Bell Atlantic). Either way, the RBOCs can expect people to generally tie up lines for long periods of time and don't consider it a problem.
;) AOL, Virginia's premier pyramid scam, probably used to have this problem. People would sign up, see the first bill and run away. Flat fees may increase the load on the networks and computers, but in the current growing environment that would be best, IMHO.
I am a bit more sympathetic when discussing the connection between the net as a whole and the ISP, but not this sympathetic. While the current pricing model is being taken advantage of, this strikes me as just another example of telcos not wanting to adapt to new technologies. Way back when, they were practically handed the Internet, packet-switching, the whole nine yards, and dismissed it as worthless. Seems to me they're still thinking in terms of circuit-switched voice networks and not as telecommunications as a whole. (a charge for overall transmission - both send and recieve - would be more logical)
Of course, tolls would kill internet usage, which has been prospering largely because people don't mind wasting time on it. If the phone company charges you when you browse through amazon most people are going to stop using it. (/. is an exception. It's so addictive it could be a Controlled Web Site
I don't. I hate Quake. It's ugly as hell. It's relatively boring. It's never impressed me all that much. I like first person games, but I was a much bigger fan of Marathon and Marathon2. They scared the shit out of me. Quake, like Doom, is just a bunch of brown shapes on a brown background. If that's what floats your boat, good for you. But please don't think everyone cares. Geeks, imho, play corewar. ;)
heh. Did you ever see "The Replacement Killers"? It had a fun part in it where they've got an insanely blurry picture of Chow Yun Fat. They click *one* button on the computer, and a perfectly clean photo emerges. Obviously it was just Photoshop's Chow Yun Fat Filter ;)
The fourth is capability. Look at Max Headroom; they managed to encode an entire human personality, including emotions, into a (presumably digital) computer. If they have that level of computing power, they surely would be able to do other magnificent things with computers, but they generally can't.
Well, in defense of Max Headroom, they couldn't really get him working well in the first damn place to begin with. Besides, the kid who did it was too unfocused to seriously persue it. He made a parrot, tried to adapt the same thing to Carter (and got Max) and gave up.
Now, has anyone here seen Tron?
Well, they also had Dan Ackroyd, and Dan Ackroyd's little technical speeches that he does so well. Those are just always the best part of his films....
I'm a Jew and I love a good Jewish joke. My dad's a lawyer and he not only loves lawyer jokes, but tells them to everyone else.
/. a couple months ago:
If Bill Gates hasn't heard a Bill Gates joke, he's out of touch with reality. Primitive tribesmen in darkest Africa who have never had any contact with modern civilization know Bill Gates jokes (although probably not very good ones, I'll grant)
Anyway, here's a good one I saw on
Richard M. Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Donald E. Knuth engage in a discussion on who was the best programmer.
Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the world!"
Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best kernel in the world!"
Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."
What are you gonna do? Release the dogs? Or the bees? Or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you?
*sigh*
I think that Apple knew what they were doing when they used "Think Different." Apple doesn't want people to think differently. That wouldn't make much sense at all.... Rather, I suspect that they'd like to be identified as the 'Different' Company. Ergo, "Think Different" means "Think Apple" not "Think Differently"
Ever see the (abominable) movie Oh God, 2? They've got a similar catchphrase in it, IIRC, "Think God". The point being to think about God, not to think like God.
Adobe owns PDF. Evidently though, they're not charging as much (if anything) to use it as a display model as they did for Display PostScript. As a graphic designer, I LOVE the idea of DPS. Everything that gets output is output in PS format, so it's really handy to have it onscreen as well.
However, Adobe is moving towards replacing PS with PDF for final output anyway, and so it's probably best for my field anyway if PDF is used, no matter who owns the damn thing. Presumably Apple and Adobe have gotten into some kind of arrangement here.
It is a bit slower, I'll admit, but Apple really does need to address their loyal DTP market first, and work on expanding into games (where you have to perform 3d and blits really quickly) than to drop a known market and try to attract a fresh one. A useful method might be to develop a 2nd video model under the game sprockets banner, and when a game wants to use it, it switches the system to the other mode. Singletasking, I know, but what're gonna do? Other than bosskey situations, who plays Marathon2 while simulatneously fscking with excel?
The problem with adoption of this stuff here in God's Country is that the various broadcasters and media companies are the FCC's puppetmasters.
;)
The current plan is for NTSC broadcasts to end in 2006, and for HDTV to completely replace it. Consumer electronics companies like this because then everyone will have to buy new TVs, VCRs (or better yet, DVDs - read only as a plus) etc.
However, HDTV only really seems to be working when broadcast from towers. Not over cable, and not over satellites. Broadcast ground transmissions frequently get messed up, and in the digital world, if it's not a 1, it's a 0; You either get a perfect picture or you don't get the time of day.
Additionally, a large investment will have to be made to install the HDTV transmitting equipment, and more power is required for the signal.
So far it sounds like it would all work out cool in the end if only the cable and sat companies would get on with transmitting HDTV.
Bzzt, wrong. The current scheme allows broadcasters to send either a really ultra-high quality channel or several low quality channels. Now given that ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC (and even UPN and WB) have been bought by big conglomerates who have additional channels providing a not-inconsiderable revenue stream, who really thinks that we can expect to see a single good channel instead of loads of crap.
So the outlook for HDTV is pretty dismal, and it's really a necessity for getting those widescreen sets out into the market, cheaply. (heck, it even requires people to get new TABLES! the electronics companies must love this)
Personally, I'm waiting for HDVT, so I can buy a 160 character wide vterm, with ultra-high-resolution characters in a single technicolor