Compiler Error: Statement "make 'em suffer" is unreachable
Not necessarily. For example, the parent poster may be among those who believe that the wicked are doomed to spend all eternity burning in the fires of hell. Even an all-merciful god might be prepared to make an exception for spammers.
I fail to see how "human" and "person" are preferable to "man" in any case, since they still contain gendered elements. Ignoring silly suggestions like "perchild" (which is ageist in any case), and speciesist terms like "entity" (Tolkien fans will understand that one), the only real option is "being". And I'm sure a suitably trained feminist could find something objecionable in that too.
You're right that "boxen" is an innovation, but it's limited to geeky circles. Most non-standard nominal inflections (foot/feet, sheep/sheep, ox/oxen, child/children, etc.) are fossils, and the general tendency is to normalisation (cf. modern cow/cows, archaic cow/kine).
You mean the Japanese version where you piloted a Zero and tried to take out the US Navy?
Never heard of that one. I think he was talking about the real Japanese version, where you piloted some American plane or other and tried to take out the Japanese navy, just like in the American version.
I only download... stuff I Can't buy because it hasn't had a UK release.
Even if for some reason you are completely unable to find any of the many UK-based importers, you do realise that many online vendors ship overseas, right? If you want American stuff, amazon.com would love to help you (as would dozens of smaller online shops). Want Japanese goodies? Well, for example, there's this place called amazon.co.jp...
Slaves? Is there someone rounding up innocent developers, nailing them to seats in front of computers, and giving them sound beatings if they don't work on these projects? I don't see any mention of that.
If you want an analogy, think of it as like a lottery. You can't enter expecting the money. If you don't like the idea of your work being wasted, then don't enter.
can someone please tell me what the FDA has to do with it? It's just more anti-GM paranoia.
The antis are worried about what might happen when these fish are released into the wild, as inevitably happens to a fair proportion of any pet species. You may not be going to eat the things, but predators are. And you might end up eating one of the predators. Hence the FDA connection.
It's paranoia, perhaps, but it's a question that's worth asking nonetheless. If the sellers can convince the authorities that the fish are safe, then the paranoid are left without a leg to stand on. Why don't you want this to happen? I don't for a moment believe that you're secretly worried that they'll turn out not to be safe, so what is your reason for not wanting anyone to certify that they are?
English is taught in Japanese schools from a fairly young age.
True. But French is taught in British schools from a fairly young age, and I'd still have a lot of trouble if I were dumped in rural France. Just because a language is taught doesn't mean the people who are taught it reach any great level of competence...
Don't be insulting. Modern world or not, most normal users select a default font by (guess what!) using the "default font" option provided by their browser. Most people wouldn't know what a user stylesheet was if it bit them. Just because you think you're a l337 C55 h4x0r doesn't mean you have any right to put people down for expecting a page which claims to reproduce another page to use the same font.
So why on earth is Slashdot _not_ specifying a character code?
It's not as if it accepts anything outside 7-bit US ASCII, after all (which is quite annoying for those of us who, as a consequence, can't even post our currency symbols).
How about a rewrite which specifies "charset=UTF-8" and, as an aside, actually permits posters to use it? Now that would be worth doing.
There are fundamental differences between the Darwin and Linux kernels that makes Darwin, in my opinion, a more interesting, and "better" design.
This sounds interesting, but I can't find any direct comparisons of Linux and Darwin on Google, so I'm not certain what you're talking about. Are you referring to the usual monolithic kernel vs microkernel flamew^H^H^H^H^Hdebate? (Darwin is based on Mach, right?) Or do you have other features in mind? Elaboration would be appreciated...
The oldest documented human lifespan is slightly over 120 years.
I take it you mean the largest figure for a human lifespan accepted by modern medical science, right? I can think of some pretty old documents about human lifespans that beat 120 years hands down... most of the book of Genesis, for example.;)
So, let me get this straight, in Japan, an urchin's pussy is considered a delicacy?
Your point being? I believe some Americans enjoy eating bulls' testicles, and they don't even have the excuse of belonging to an inscrutable oriental culture.
Regarding 2, you are misrepresenting what he says. You read it as, "So, if you pay a fee (admittedly discounted) for Enterprise, you can continue using your existing RHN entitlements (which you've already fully paid)."
But what it says is:
For those in this position, entitlements to both Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and WS will be made available for the remainder of the subscriptions. in addition , discounts are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to any RHN customer. (emphasis mine)
You edited that "in addition" out when you quoted it, but that's the crucial thing. He is separating the two issues. For those whose entitlements exceed the life of the product, they will let you have the enterprise version for the rest of your entitlement. In addition, you can upgrade to the enterprise version at a discount - that is, if you want to continue with Red Hat after that.
If you had to pay extra to use what you'd already paid for, he would have said that. He does not say that. I do not know what your beef with Red Hat is, but please do not twist his words to try to make them sound worse than they are.
As to what I think of Mozilla for claim jumping the Firebird name... I think it a was gross, disreputable, and dishonorable act, and that any group that intentionally committed it is laying claim to those characteristics.
Er, I think you're mistaken. The web browser is called "Mozilla Firebird", not just Firebird. I have been unable to find a single reference in any publication by the Mozilla group to any product called "Firebird". How can Mozilla have "claim jumped" the name "Firebird", when that is not what their product is called?
This allows Microsoft to have the option of one day changing, subtly messing up or adding undocumented calls to their API, slowly leaving Linux people in the cold as all card vendors transition.
This conspiracy theory comes up every time, but it is simply not going to happen.
Look, there are only two ways Microsoft could do this: they could change the APIs in Longhorn, or they could change them in a service pack. In the latter case, Microsoft themselves would be "subtly messing up" customers' machines. Not even Microsoft can afford to do that. In the former case, Windows 2000/XP will remain in use by numerous major businesses. The card vendors will have to continue to provide drivers for those operating systems, or they will lose a lot of important customers. By the time they dare to stop providing those drivers, a new compatiblity layer will have been written for Longhorn drivers.
So Longhorn is the only plausible point at which Microsoft could change their driver API, and even if they do, that is highly unlikely to cause any problem for Linux users.
Besides, Longhorn is still two or three years away. A lot of things could happen in those two or three years. Who's to say Linux won't finally make it to the corporate desktop, giving companies a clear incentive to write native drivers for it? They will only use the existence of the wrapper as an excuse for only supporting Windows until the people demanding native Linux drivers become a large enough part of their market.
In the meantime, a compatibility wrapper like this is a welcome stopgap measure.
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What about those scripts that are entered right-to-left instead of left-to-right? Do you have the ability to type in Sanskrit URLs?
Sanskrit, like most Indic languages, runs left to right. You're probably thinking of Hebrew and Arabic.
(I understand that most chineese words are 2-3 characters of 2-3 bytes (unified is U-430 to U-9fa and upto U-7ff is 2 characters)
Try U+4300 to U+9fa0. All CJK characters are three octets in UTF-8.
"Kill 'em all, and make 'em suffer."
Compiler Error: Statement "make 'em suffer" is unreachable
Not necessarily. For example, the parent poster may be among those who believe that the wicked are doomed to spend all eternity burning in the fires of hell. Even an all-merciful god might be prepared to make an exception for spammers.
I fail to see how "human" and "person" are preferable to "man" in any case, since they still contain gendered elements. Ignoring silly suggestions like "perchild" (which is ageist in any case), and speciesist terms like "entity" (Tolkien fans will understand that one), the only real option is "being". And I'm sure a suitably trained feminist could find something objecionable in that too.
You're right that "boxen" is an innovation, but it's limited to geeky circles. Most non-standard nominal inflections (foot/feet, sheep/sheep, ox/oxen, child/children, etc.) are fossils, and the general tendency is to normalisation (cf. modern cow/cows, archaic cow/kine).
Ingsoc.
Would you call an unbounded line "infinate"?
No, that would be rediculous.
You mean the Japanese version where you piloted a Zero and tried to take out the US Navy?
Never heard of that one. I think he was talking about the real Japanese version, where you piloted some American plane or other and tried to take out the Japanese navy, just like in the American version.
I only download ... stuff I Can't buy because it hasn't had a UK release.
Even if for some reason you are completely unable to find any of the many UK-based importers, you do realise that many online vendors ship overseas, right? If you want American stuff, amazon.com would love to help you (as would dozens of smaller online shops). Want Japanese goodies? Well, for example, there's this place called amazon.co.jp...
Slaves? Is there someone rounding up innocent developers, nailing them to seats in front of computers, and giving them sound beatings if they don't work on these projects? I don't see any mention of that.
If you want an analogy, think of it as like a lottery. You can't enter expecting the money. If you don't like the idea of your work being wasted, then don't enter.
can someone please tell me what the FDA has to do with it? It's just more anti-GM paranoia.
The antis are worried about what might happen when these fish are released into the wild, as inevitably happens to a fair proportion of any pet species. You may not be going to eat the things, but predators are. And you might end up eating one of the predators. Hence the FDA connection.
It's paranoia, perhaps, but it's a question that's worth asking nonetheless. If the sellers can convince the authorities that the fish are safe, then the paranoid are left without a leg to stand on. Why don't you want this to happen? I don't for a moment believe that you're secretly worried that they'll turn out not to be safe, so what is your reason for not wanting anyone to certify that they are?
English is taught in Japanese schools from a fairly young age.
True. But French is taught in British schools from a fairly young age, and I'd still have a lot of trouble if I were dumped in rural France. Just because a language is taught doesn't mean the people who are taught it reach any great level of competence...
Don't be insulting. Modern world or not, most normal users select a default font by (guess what!) using the "default font" option provided by their browser. Most people wouldn't know what a user stylesheet was if it bit them. Just because you think you're a l337 C55 h4x0r doesn't mean you have any right to put people down for expecting a page which claims to reproduce another page to use the same font.
So why on earth is Slashdot _not_ specifying a character code?
It's not as if it accepts anything outside 7-bit US ASCII, after all (which is quite annoying for those of us who, as a consequence, can't even post our currency symbols).
How about a rewrite which specifies "charset=UTF-8" and, as an aside, actually permits posters to use it? Now that would be worth doing.
I, for one, would welcome an "In Joke" moderation in addition to the current "Funny" one.
Tricky... you'd never get people to agree whether it should be +1 or -1.
There are fundamental differences between the Darwin and Linux kernels that makes Darwin, in my opinion, a more interesting, and "better" design.
This sounds interesting, but I can't find any direct comparisons of Linux and Darwin on Google, so I'm not certain what you're talking about. Are you referring to the usual monolithic kernel vs microkernel flamew^H^H^H^H^Hdebate? (Darwin is based on Mach, right?) Or do you have other features in mind? Elaboration would be appreciated...
You must be rich if you can afford to waste words like that.
Try: "regret telegraph jokes impossible stop lameness filter thinks caps yelling stop".
Who says lossy compression is a modern idea?
The oldest documented human lifespan is slightly over 120 years.
;)
I take it you mean the largest figure for a human lifespan accepted by modern medical science, right? I can think of some pretty old documents about human lifespans that beat 120 years hands down... most of the book of Genesis, for example.
So, let me get this straight, in Japan, an urchin's pussy is considered a delicacy?
Your point being? I believe some Americans enjoy eating bulls' testicles, and they don't even have the excuse of belonging to an inscrutable oriental culture.
Regarding 2, you are misrepresenting what he says. You read it as, "So, if you pay a fee (admittedly discounted) for Enterprise, you can continue using your existing RHN entitlements (which you've already fully paid)."
But what it says is:
For those in this position, entitlements to both Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES and WS will be made available for the remainder of the subscriptions. in addition , discounts are available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to any RHN customer. (emphasis mine)
You edited that "in addition" out when you quoted it, but that's the crucial thing. He is separating the two issues. For those whose entitlements exceed the life of the product, they will let you have the enterprise version for the rest of your entitlement. In addition, you can upgrade to the enterprise version at a discount - that is, if you want to continue with Red Hat after that.
If you had to pay extra to use what you'd already paid for, he would have said that. He does not say that. I do not know what your beef with Red Hat is, but please do not twist his words to try to make them sound worse than they are.
I like the fact that they look like real, normal people. It makes them fit the role a lot better.
Er, do "real, normal people" dress like that where you come from?
As to what I think of Mozilla for claim jumping the Firebird name... I think it a was gross, disreputable, and dishonorable act, and that any group that intentionally committed it is laying claim to those characteristics.
Er, I think you're mistaken. The web browser is called "Mozilla Firebird", not just Firebird. I have been unable to find a single reference in any publication by the Mozilla group to any product called "Firebird". How can Mozilla have "claim jumped" the name "Firebird", when that is not what their product is called?
Why do they invest more money in such technologies. They have the Sah[a]ra desert.
Er, Eskom is based in South Africa, which is a country at the southern tip of a huge continent. The Sahara runs along the north of the said continent.
You might as well ask why Mexico doesn't make full use of Canadian resources.
...this comment looks strangely familiar. And the story wasn't even a dupe...
This allows Microsoft to have the option of one day changing, subtly messing up or adding undocumented calls to their API, slowly leaving Linux people in the cold as all card vendors transition.
This conspiracy theory comes up every time, but it is simply not going to happen.
Look, there are only two ways Microsoft could do this: they could change the APIs in Longhorn, or they could change them in a service pack. In the latter case, Microsoft themselves would be "subtly messing up" customers' machines. Not even Microsoft can afford to do that. In the former case, Windows 2000/XP will remain in use by numerous major businesses. The card vendors will have to continue to provide drivers for those operating systems, or they will lose a lot of important customers. By the time they dare to stop providing those drivers, a new compatiblity layer will have been written for Longhorn drivers.
So Longhorn is the only plausible point at which Microsoft could change their driver API, and even if they do, that is highly unlikely to cause any problem for Linux users.
Besides, Longhorn is still two or three years away. A lot of things could happen in those two or three years. Who's to say Linux won't finally make it to the corporate desktop, giving companies a clear incentive to write native drivers for it? They will only use the existence of the wrapper as an excuse for only supporting Windows until the people demanding native Linux drivers become a large enough part of their market.
In the meantime, a compatibility wrapper like this is a welcome stopgap measure.