You are in violation of copyright law, as I have copyrighted this letter and encoded it using an advanced version of english which we have developed at SCO group.. Each sentence, as you can see, ends in two puncuation marks, however, you seem to be able to read the text just fine..
We regret to inform you that there is no possible other implementation for this english derivative, is our copyright, and therefore, you must be circumventing our extremely intelligent and work with the intent of profit..
I think they'd have a hard time in the courts with this one, since the functionality of the software is *not* to provide file sharing.
Arguably, it's no different than any other shared stream, but in this case, the program functionality has nothing to do with sharing files, so the user can't really be held culpable for copyright infringement.
Why do you want to go to the moon so badly? I mean, besides for kicks, and there are plenty of places on earth I'm sure you haven't been that are just as wonderous and magnificent, there isn't much of a reason: it's devoid of natural resources that one would need to survive.
What happens if you're up on the moon and there's another space flight halt? What's the point of going back and forth?
The point is: We have no resources on the moon, and we have no cheap way of getting them there. Come up with THAT, and we'd be there in a heartbeat.
A good first measure, especially if you are the guilty party, is to sign your boss up for lots of porn mailing lists.
Then, he/she will know it's perfectly normal to get up to 10 penis enlargement spams a day, and it has nothing to do with the way you surf the internet.
By default, Mozilla Firebird displays annoying error messages if a connection fails, instead of quitely displaying the error information in the browser window as Internet Explorer does. To turn off the error messages and use pages instead, add the following code to your user.js file:// Instead of annoying error dialog messages, display pages: user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled ", true);
You can access your user.js file by typing about:config in your search box, assuming you're running Firebird [may work for the moz, not sure].
Why don't we just do what all great lexicographers do, and name things "Gators" - software that drives you nuts and sucks, while reporting your actions to a third party.
Since it's common speech, they can't claim trademark over the name.
You might take a look at the game reviews by Something Awful.Their scoring system is intelligent and well minded, and the reviewer has exceedingly high taste.
Their website has this as a haiku written after reading various authors:
You broke my soul the juice of eternity, the spirit of my lips.
But it doesn't work out. The first line is four syllables, while the last line is 6. Haiku are 5-7-5. Silly computers, they must have taken the adding chip out of that one.
Yeah, but this is actually a great example. Who's the user of your software? The person who operates the forum, the people who post the posts, or the people who read the posts?
It *might* not be your fault, but it's certainly someone's fault if illegal actvity happens on your forums. It's just hard to tell who's fault it is.
No, these days, the organized crime goes around with "FBI" written on their back in neon-green electropigment, and they specialize in Voter Fraud instead of Alcohol Provision.
If you don't like the type of game past Final Fantasy games have been, then please don't pretend that you can say anything objective about them.
You win most ridiculous, arrogant, and ignorant statement ever posted on Slashdot. Here, let me reword that for you:
If you don't like something, you're unable to offer an objective opinion of it's faults.
In other words, you are either: Convinced that everything you do is correct. Lacking in grade-school logic. Still in grade-school.
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You've obviously never studied language, and are making crap up.
For one, how are people supposed to write in your "pictoral language"? Draw? Speak, and the computer does it for them?
Your language works similarly to hieroglyphics, in which characters can stand for either the things they physically represent (a fish), a combination of letter sounds ("swnw", [hieroglyphics has no proper vowels, we add them in to pronounce things like "Soonoo"]), a grammatical construction (this word is a noun!), or a syntax element (emphasis, idiom, etc). There are good (read: very good) reasons why this language isn't in use today.
You're right in that languages do evolve over time. I'm a classical languages student (Latin and Greek) and one can see hundreds of links (prototypical examples follow...) to Indo-European (what they call the big language precursor of languages from... India... and... Europe). For instance, the greek Pater is the Latin Pater is the English Father, or the greek Podes is the latin Pedes is the english Foot, or the greek Niphes is the latin Nix is the english Snow (same root, believe it or not).
Language, however, has been dropping complexity over time. Notice how english has no inflected case system or written accents. We have few combination characters. While we have ambiguous sounds, they are all perfectly obvious to the native speaker.
You're just plain wrong. Written language isn't being made into a more complex pictoral representation by the internet, it's becoming more simple. "I cn wrIt liek this n u get it".
I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it might be easier to mug you with that knife than to pin you down, cut off your thumb, use your thumb and bank card to get money, and head off to the liquor store or crack dealer with lots of bloody cash on hand.
Something tells me you're more likely to call the cops (via the ambulance) if you're suddenly found thumbless, whether or not you were in a shady area of town doing some things you ought not be doing.
Lots of crime goes unreported because people are stuck in the bind of being in the process of doing something illegal themselves - but somehow, I don't think that'd apply.
And what's the deal with the homeless crack, anyhow? Lots of homeless folk aren't knife toting crack addicts.
This is like asking why default passwords exist. It boggles the mind how many users have their default Win2k Administrator account password set to "Admin".
The system should at least make you do a security question, or *something*. Even "type your last name to gain Administrator access" would be more secure than "Admin".
The bottom line is, any sysAdmin who buys a software package because it's got a "security guarrentee" needs to be hit in the face with a hammer, repeatedly.
Euripides you might have a problem with, as many of the texts have gaps and holes (Bacchae has a nearly irreconcilable hole at the end, which many translators struggle to deal with).
Oh, and, if you're interested, check out Perseus at www.perseus.tufts.edu - great resources for a classical languages student.:)
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It's going to be hard to tell which was better - 2005's release of Half-Life 2, or 2050's release of Duke Nukem' Forever.
Just so you know:
DDR machines make a whole lot more than those computers, from a cash standpoint, in most arcades.
Q: How many Surrealists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to paint the Zebras, the other to fill the bathtub with balloons.
Dear Person Reading this Letter:
You are in violation of copyright law, as I have copyrighted this letter and encoded it using an advanced version of english which we have developed at SCO group.. Each sentence, as you can see, ends in two puncuation marks, however, you seem to be able to read the text just fine..
We regret to inform you that there is no possible other implementation for this english derivative, is our copyright, and therefore, you must be circumventing our extremely intelligent and work with the intent of profit..
Sincerely,
Darl McBride
I think they'd have a hard time in the courts with this one, since the functionality of the software is *not* to provide file sharing.
Arguably, it's no different than any other shared stream, but in this case, the program functionality has nothing to do with sharing files, so the user can't really be held culpable for copyright infringement.
Why do you want to go to the moon so badly? I mean, besides for kicks, and there are plenty of places on earth I'm sure you haven't been that are just as wonderous and magnificent, there isn't much of a reason: it's devoid of natural resources that one would need to survive.
What happens if you're up on the moon and there's another space flight halt? What's the point of going back and forth?
The point is: We have no resources on the moon, and we have no cheap way of getting them there. Come up with THAT, and we'd be there in a heartbeat.
A good first measure, especially if you are the guilty party, is to sign your boss up for lots of porn mailing lists.
Then, he/she will know it's perfectly normal to get up to 10 penis enlargement spams a day, and it has nothing to do with the way you surf the internet.
It's a joke, laugh.
By default, Mozilla Firebird displays annoying error messages if a connection fails, instead of quitely displaying the error information in the browser window as Internet Explorer does. To turn off the error messages and use pages instead, add the following code to your user.js file: // Instead of annoying error dialog messages, display pages:d ", true);
user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enable
You can access your user.js file by typing about:config in your search box, assuming you're running Firebird [may work for the moz, not sure].
Why don't we just do what all great lexicographers do, and name things "Gators" - software that drives you nuts and sucks, while reporting your actions to a third party.
Since it's common speech, they can't claim trademark over the name.
You might take a look at the game reviews by Something Awful.Their scoring system is intelligent and well minded, and the reviewer has exceedingly high taste.
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Nobody's doing leeches as a recreational drug. Putting marijuana into pharmacies has a huge social implication far beyond it's medical effectiveness.
Hmph. I take offense to that. I'm a Psychology and Greek & Latin major who reads slashdot daily.
:)
We're out there, you just have to look hard to find us.
Their website has this as a haiku written after reading various authors:
You broke my soul
the juice of eternity,
the spirit of my lips.
But it doesn't work out. The first line is four syllables, while the last line is 6. Haiku are 5-7-5. Silly computers, they must have taken the adding chip out of that one.
Yeah, but this is actually a great example. Who's the user of your software? The person who operates the forum, the people who post the posts, or the people who read the posts?
It *might* not be your fault, but it's certainly someone's fault if illegal actvity happens on your forums. It's just hard to tell who's fault it is.
If you're fragging your mom, you've got bigger things to worry about.
Even more interesting: Icarus is the child of Daedalus (a technological wizard) and Naucrate (a government whore)!
:)
But that's okay, since there's no technological wizardry or governmental whoring involved in this one, right?
You know what'a amazing to me? People who point out Ancient texts and then reference Jesus as if he concieved of 90% of what he said.
How could you seriously think that Jesus made up "be nice to other people", and that the idea's only been around for 2,000 years?
I'm pretty sure you could go farther back than that in the textual record.
I'm going to stab you with my large and rusty knife, free of charge!
And I better not catch you complaining, either.
No, these days, the organized crime goes around with "FBI" written on their back in neon-green electropigment, and they specialize in Voter Fraud instead of Alcohol Provision.
If you don't like the type of game past Final Fantasy games have been, then please don't pretend that you can say anything objective about them.
You win most ridiculous, arrogant, and ignorant statement ever posted on Slashdot. Here, let me reword that for you:
If you don't like something, you're unable to offer an objective opinion of it's faults.
In other words, you are either:
Convinced that everything you do is correct.
Lacking in grade-school logic.
Still in grade-school.
You've obviously never studied language, and are making crap up.
For one, how are people supposed to write in your "pictoral language"? Draw? Speak, and the computer does it for them?
Your language works similarly to hieroglyphics, in which characters can stand for either the things they physically represent (a fish), a combination of letter sounds ("swnw", [hieroglyphics has no proper vowels, we add them in to pronounce things like "Soonoo"]), a grammatical construction (this word is a noun!), or a syntax element (emphasis, idiom, etc). There are good (read: very good) reasons why this language isn't in use today.
You're right in that languages do evolve over time. I'm a classical languages student (Latin and Greek) and one can see hundreds of links (prototypical examples follow...) to Indo-European (what they call the big language precursor of languages from... India... and... Europe). For instance, the greek Pater is the Latin Pater is the English Father, or the greek Podes is the latin Pedes is the english Foot, or the greek Niphes is the latin Nix is the english Snow (same root, believe it or not).
Language, however, has been dropping complexity over time. Notice how english has no inflected case system or written accents. We have few combination characters. While we have ambiguous sounds, they are all perfectly obvious to the native speaker.
You're just plain wrong. Written language isn't being made into a more complex pictoral representation by the internet, it's becoming more simple. "I cn wrIt liek this n u get it".
Or maybe you don't.
I'm not sure, but I'm guessing it might be easier to mug you with that knife than to pin you down, cut off your thumb, use your thumb and bank card to get money, and head off to the liquor store or crack dealer with lots of bloody cash on hand.
Something tells me you're more likely to call the cops (via the ambulance) if you're suddenly found thumbless, whether or not you were in a shady area of town doing some things you ought not be doing.
Lots of crime goes unreported because people are stuck in the bind of being in the process of doing something illegal themselves - but somehow, I don't think that'd apply.
And what's the deal with the homeless crack, anyhow? Lots of homeless folk aren't knife toting crack addicts.
This is like asking why default passwords exist. It boggles the mind how many users have their default Win2k Administrator account password set to "Admin".
The system should at least make you do a security question, or *something*. Even "type your last name to gain Administrator access" would be more secure than "Admin".
The bottom line is, any sysAdmin who buys a software package because it's got a "security guarrentee" needs to be hit in the face with a hammer, repeatedly.
Euripides you might have a problem with, as many of the texts have gaps and holes (Bacchae has a nearly irreconcilable hole at the end, which many translators struggle to deal with).
:)
Oh, and, if you're interested, check out Perseus at www.perseus.tufts.edu - great resources for a classical languages student.
Contrary to popular nerd belief, the sun has been there all along.