> Yes, history does tell us otherwise. The UK was not "all dominant" in 1910. You're reasoning from a false premise.
And so, my dear sir, are you.
You see, in 1910 the UK *thought* they were all-dominant, just as the USA does in 2003. History now tells us that the British were wrong in 1910. Are you so certain that the USA is right in 2003?
IANAH*, but my understanding was that the second one was destined for a military target, with Nagasaki as a fallback which ended up being fallen back on due to bad weather of some sort.
> That's the first time I've ever done a double-take for want of an accent mark.
Now, was that a subtle prod to the Slashcode maintainers to upgrade (from the 7-bit ASCII technology we all abandoned thirty years ago to, if not the Unicode that we should be using, at least the Latin-1 encoding that was all the rage in the early 90s) - or a joke?
> And, of course, H stands for "hentai."...or rather, probably did originally.
Unfortunately "H" is now a word in its own right, translated simply "sex", or as an adjective "sexy" - in the purely mainstream sense. It's therefore associated more with actual men and women actually having sex than with kinky cartoon porn. Unfortunately that means it's not quite so appropriate for hackers...
In a majority of the open source projects you get one of the following as a response to your bug reports:
1. Developers begin to whine about how they lack funding. 2. Developers whine about how they're doing this in their free time. 3. The bug goes completely ignored for one or two years, then it's "magically" fixed in HEAD, which won't be available for packaging for another 3 to 4 months. 4. Someone says, "It works in HEAD." Then the next minor release, it's still broken.
Somehow, "Today Newham, tommorow the world" doesn't haver the same ring to it.
It doesn't need to.
The correct quote, for the situation, would be "Today the world, tomorrow Newham". Which has a certain je ne sais quois, even if it turns out to be a j'espois que je ne savrai jamais...
Oh, you are so right - we need to have RPGs with sensibly dressed women.
I mean, I was replaying Neverwinter Nights the other day, and I cringed every time I saw Aribeth. Doesn't the poor woman have enough problems without having to wear what appears to be a carefully designed nipple-chafer?
...people who IGNORE the "canon". Outsiders, in other words, people who aren't involved with literary academia.
Er, you are aware that pretty much all the opposition to the idea of a literary canon ever has come from within literary academia?
You ask the man on the street who the greatest author of the 19th century was, for example. I'll give you ten to one they say "Dickens". Try the greatest writer in the English language. What, you mean you think it's Shakespeare too?
And yet if you look into literary academia, you'll find people who actually read works by Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Inverse snobbery is no more becoming than the normal sort. I suggest you can it.
> Actually, since Windows 95 is a literary work...
Hang on a second, what do you mean, a literary work? I was under the impression that literary works were, like, collections of words? Dunno about you, but I don't find "explorer.exe" very stimulating reading.
Before you start trimming off huge chunks of X11 because one out of four people are not worthy, start with the Linux kernel. I would be willing to wager that 75% of Linux users don't need the advanced features of the kernel.
That's why there's this thing, what you do is you type "make xconfig" (or "oldconfig", or "menuconfig", or "gconfig"), and the kernel you then compile only contains the 25% of the features you use. Clever, huh? Now show me the GUI app that lets me cut the features I don't use out of X.
> Do you need a full-blown instance of Windows Explorer in your file dialog?
I don't know whether I need one, but I certainly use most of the Windows Explorer functionality in my file dialogs on a daily basis. I don't know about you, but being able to copy the old version of a file to a backup directory before saving over it is quite useful, and I appreciate not having to fire up a file manager and navigate to that file separately when selecting File/Save As will open a window in the right directory straight away.
I seem to remember being bitten a while back by the way IE's JavaScript implementation allowed array access with (), while Netscape required the standard []. Combine this with a programmer who thought that he was improving interoperability by moving away from VBScript (guess what that uses for array access?), and chaos ensues.
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> Yes, history does tell us otherwise. The UK was not "all dominant" in 1910. You're reasoning from a false premise.
And so, my dear sir, are you.
You see, in 1910 the UK *thought* they were all-dominant, just as the USA does in 2003. History now tells us that the British were wrong in 1910. Are you so certain that the USA is right in 2003?
IANAH*, but my understanding was that the second one was destined for a military target, with Nagasaki as a fallback which ended up being fallen back on due to bad weather of some sort.
* Historian.
> That's the first time I've ever done a double-take for want of an accent mark.
Now, was that a subtle prod to the Slashcode maintainers to upgrade (from the 7-bit ASCII technology we all abandoned thirty years ago to, if not the Unicode that we should be using, at least the Latin-1 encoding that was all the rage in the early 90s) - or a joke?
> ...before the flames fly, like they always do, I do not use and cannot stand MScrap.
But what about Microsoft software? Do you use that?
> So what does a reprogrammed version of Pacman have to do with the SNES?
I suspect the idea is that the same technique could be used to produce graphics for VBA emulators for these systems.
Which it probably could, but you'd have to be mad to try.
What about Pattern 158?
> And, of course, H stands for "hentai." ...or rather, probably did originally.
Unfortunately "H" is now a word in its own right, translated simply "sex", or as an adjective "sexy" - in the purely mainstream sense. It's therefore associated more with actual men and women actually having sex than with kinky cartoon porn. Unfortunately that means it's not quite so appropriate for hackers...
s/shows/asserts/
6. Prof... no, maybe not.
> If they get Word documents they can't open or something, they can just tell people to use RTF.
Which leads us naturally to my current favourite not-joke...
Windows user: "How do I save a document as RTF?"
Linux user: "RTFM."
The correct quote, for the situation, would be "Today the world, tomorrow Newham". Which has a certain je ne sais quois, even if it turns out to be a j'espois que je ne savrai jamais...
Oh, you are so right - we need to have RPGs with sensibly dressed women.
I mean, I was replaying Neverwinter Nights the other day, and I cringed every time I saw Aribeth. Doesn't the poor woman have enough problems without having to wear what appears to be a carefully designed nipple-chafer?
You ask the man on the street who the greatest author of the 19th century was, for example. I'll give you ten to one they say "Dickens". Try the greatest writer in the English language. What, you mean you think it's Shakespeare too?
And yet if you look into literary academia, you'll find people who actually read works by Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Inverse snobbery is no more becoming than the normal sort. I suggest you can it.
As others here have pointed out - no, it doesn't. It provides exemptions from DMCA protections; COPYRIGHT PROTECTIONS REMAIN IN FORCE.
> Actually, since Windows 95 is a literary work...
Hang on a second, what do you mean, a literary work? I was under the impression that literary works were, like, collections of words? Dunno about you, but I don't find "explorer.exe" very stimulating reading.
Not the Chingiz Aitmatov Gold Medal of the Kyrgyz Republic! How can we hope to emulate so exalted a personage!
> Though, not having access support is still a major thorn...
Eh? I looked at their page not ten minutes ago and it said Access 2000 was supported.
> I've come to my senses and use VIM.
I've converted to Catholicism and worship Buddha.
XML doesn't suck.
People who use XML for configuration files suck.
> Do you need a full-blown instance of Windows Explorer in your file dialog?
I don't know whether I need one, but I certainly use most of the Windows Explorer functionality in my file dialogs on a daily basis. I don't know about you, but being able to copy the old version of a file to a backup directory before saving over it is quite useful, and I appreciate not having to fire up a file manager and navigate to that file separately when selecting File/Save As will open a window in the right directory straight away.
> In fact, it would be hard to design a language that can not do anything C can.
BASIC?
COBOL?
No, that would be... oh damn, I forgot, /. uses 7-bit ASCII so I can't post a real pound sign. C£, anyway.
Or "Clb", perhaps?
I seem to remember being bitten a while back by the way IE's JavaScript implementation allowed array access with (), while Netscape required the standard []. Combine this with a programmer who thought that he was improving interoperability by moving away from VBScript (guess what that uses for array access?), and chaos ensues.
Of course, that was a while back, like I said.