While you have a point, I happen to believe that you're wrong. Article 29, section 3, which your argument rests on, says no more than that the right to free speech is not guaranteed to those using it against the purposes of the UN. And the self-described purpose of the UN is to promote peace and justice, not to perpetuate the UN.
It seems to me, therefore, that Article 29, section 3, is intended to remove the free-speech protection from things like incitement to racial hatred - not from legitimate dissent. I fail to see why your expression of an opinion that the UN is failing should be considered contrary to the UN's intention to provide a forum for nations to discuss their differences, which is what your post seems to be claiming.
In short, I am completely unable to comprehend, based on the passages you have quoted, why it is you are convinced that the UN would censor anti-UN websites. Unless you've been playing too much Deus Ex...?;)
Inappropriately dialectal, I'm afraid. You're slipping into "yaharr me hearties" pirate English. "I am using the" is fine. "As thou canst see" is what needs correcting, as it's too modern an idiom.
Something like "Behold, how I use this ancient forme, of our vulgar Tung; the which hath, by custom and usage, been since Time immemorial held, by all Aucthorities, the Publick Domain, or Commune Propertie, of alle men."
Yeah, but that's ambiguous, as convention dictates that an unmarked string of decimal digits is interpreted as a decimal number. So you have to write 64h, or $64, or 0x64, or even 16#64 - that is, 3 to 5 digits, depending on your choice of programming language.
Hold on, get this right. What he'd need to be selling, in order to eliminate your annoyance at his spelling mistakes, would be a program which scanned other peoples' posts and corrected them when you read them. Some sort of real-time autocorrecting filter.
I find it hard to trust any article about RTS games that claims that Dune 2 was the first game in the genre.... Take for example, Hertzog Zwei, a Megadrive (Genesis) RTS that far predates Dune 2.
But that wasn't an RTS, it was just a strategy game that took place in real time.;)
Dune 2 can be described as the first RTS, even by someone who admits that there were a number of similar games preceding it, on the basis that it was the game which created the genre: when other companies began to jump on the bandwagon, the game they were imitating was Dune 2, not Hertzog Zwei.
Next you'll be telling me Wolfenstein 3D wasn't the first FPS...:p
Wow. Someone else remembers the Second Worst Book-To-Game Conversion Ever. Sudden death awaiting round every corner. Quite a nice parser, though.
(The worst? Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That one always killed me with a flying brick before I could even get away from the house. And to think it was meant to be fun...)
s/correct/etymological/, and if the other guy who's correcting you is right then it isn't even that. The "correct" plural of octopus, in modern English (in OUP usage), is octopuses.
And so what if that isn't what the article's about, anyway? This is Slashdot, we come here to bicker about stuff that doesn't matter, not to read articles!
Your observations do not tally with mine. I carry as little cash as possible. Because the greedy banks charge shops so much for card use, I still need cash for transactions under 5 GBP, and I resent this, because it's damn inconvenient.
I still probably wouldn't be at the front of the queue for an implant, because that just feels too invasive, and I simply don't see what advantage it brings over a normal card. But electronic money is definitely the way forward.
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In any case, what he probably meant was "reality == (C|Net)". "==" has higher precedence than "|".
Or what about Metal Gear Solid, a pure single-player game where the second controller port is used in a rather innovative way?
Hang on a second - half your post is complaining that the graphics aren't very good, then you announce that you're going back to Nethack?!
While you have a point, I happen to believe that you're wrong. Article 29, section 3, which your argument rests on, says no more than that the right to free speech is not guaranteed to those using it against the purposes of the UN. And the self-described purpose of the UN is to promote peace and justice, not to perpetuate the UN.
;)
It seems to me, therefore, that Article 29, section 3, is intended to remove the free-speech protection from things like incitement to racial hatred - not from legitimate dissent. I fail to see why your expression of an opinion that the UN is failing should be considered contrary to the UN's intention to provide a forum for nations to discuss their differences, which is what your post seems to be claiming.
In short, I am completely unable to comprehend, based on the passages you have quoted, why it is you are convinced that the UN would censor anti-UN websites. Unless you've been playing too much Deus Ex...?
Pity he wouldn't get any karma for it.
That's all you know. He was going to mod it "informative".
'I am using ye' => 'I be using the'
Inappropriately dialectal, I'm afraid. You're slipping into "yaharr me hearties" pirate English. "I am using the" is fine. "As thou canst see" is what needs correcting, as it's too modern an idiom.
Something like "Behold, how I use this ancient forme, of our vulgar Tung; the which hath, by custom and usage, been since Time immemorial held, by all Aucthorities, the Publick Domain, or Commune Propertie, of alle men."
It's only 2 digits if you write it as "64"
Yeah, but that's ambiguous, as convention dictates that an unmarked string of decimal digits is interpreted as a decimal number. So you have to write 64h, or $64, or 0x64, or even 16#64 - that is, 3 to 5 digits, depending on your choice of programming language.
I find it a glaring oversight to see an article on PC game mods not even mention Half-Life...
Eh? You can't have read it very carefully. If I may quote the second page...
Mr. Rein said the makers of such high-profile games as Half-Life and Splinter Cell pay as much as $400,000 for the license.
Okay, so it's a throwaway reference to Half-Life as a game made using a licensed engine, rather than as a modder's paradise, but even so...
And Shakespeare "stole" all his plots from the medievals, who "stole" them from the Romans, who "stole" them from the Greeks, who...
Hold on, get this right. What he'd need to be selling, in order to eliminate your annoyance at his spelling mistakes, would be a program which scanned other peoples' posts and corrected them when you read them. Some sort of real-time autocorrecting filter.
Hmm... maybe I should patent the idea...
Yeah, he must be crazy. It's obvious that the tool for the job is a sledgehammer.
Better yet, burn it.
Er... as in "on a bonfire", I take it. Not "onto CDRs, and give copies to all your enemi^Wfriends".
I find it hard to trust any article about RTS games that claims that Dune 2 was the first game in the genre. ... Take for example, Hertzog Zwei, a Megadrive (Genesis) RTS that far predates Dune 2.
;)
:p
But that wasn't an RTS, it was just a strategy game that took place in real time.
Dune 2 can be described as the first RTS, even by someone who admits that there were a number of similar games preceding it, on the basis that it was the game which created the genre: when other companies began to jump on the bandwagon, the game they were imitating was Dune 2, not Hertzog Zwei.
Next you'll be telling me Wolfenstein 3D wasn't the first FPS...
Wow. Someone else remembers the Second Worst Book-To-Game Conversion Ever. Sudden death awaiting round every corner. Quite a nice parser, though.
(The worst? Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. That one always killed me with a flying brick before I could even get away from the house. And to think it was meant to be fun...)
Why does everyone always make fun of Windows' uptime records? I'm proud of what my GNU/Windows box can achieve. Look...That's nearly a whole day!
This is probably what you're referring to - an attempt to port the GPL version of Qt 3 to Win32.
The 7 +/- 2 rule doesn't apply on this site. On any given page, there can be what seems like 50-100 links!
;)
It's 7 +/- 2 choices, not links. Filter out all the dupes and goatse.cx, and you're probably back down to an acceptable figure.
Okay: it's Javascript compatible now. Hey, that didn't take long, did it?
You may have been thinking of VBScript, which AFAIK is still IE only. But I've never actually seen a site that depends on it in the wild.
s/correct/etymological/, and if the other guy who's correcting you is right then it isn't even that. The "correct" plural of octopus, in modern English (in OUP usage), is octopuses.
And so what if that isn't what the article's about, anyway? This is Slashdot, we come here to bicker about stuff that doesn't matter, not to read articles!
Spell it correctly and it works.
http://www.sco.com/scosource/
Quote from the linked site: "Slashdot discussions are lively and filled with smart, thought-provoking comments."
Quote from your post: "Hey SCO, if you're reading this, you are a moronic bunch of jackasses."
Erm...
Now the USA can recruit an army of Linux users along with a massive army of Linux Penguins to go in and clean them out.
Isn't that the wrong way round? The US army would need the Linux users to muck out the attack penguins, not vice versa.
It surprises me that a Lisp advocate would refer to what he does as making "beautiful" software.
:p
Or should that be "(surprises (would (a Lisp advocate) (refer-to (does what he) (making beautiful software))) me)"?
Your observations do not tally with mine. I carry as little cash as possible. Because the greedy banks charge shops so much for card use, I still need cash for transactions under 5 GBP, and I resent this, because it's damn inconvenient.
I still probably wouldn't be at the front of the queue for an implant, because that just feels too invasive, and I simply don't see what advantage it brings over a normal card. But electronic money is definitely the way forward.
Next you're going to hear about programming languages being developed in other languages.
I deduce you haven't heard of APL?