The difference is that they intended for you to pronounce NASA as NahSah. For those canonical abbreviations where they didn't expect people to pronounce them it's certainly more fuzzy.
Another reason the distinction has disappeared (note the past tense) is that it simply isn't taught that way. It hasn't been for a couple generations either. In fact, only about half of the dictionaries out there actually put it this way:
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
acronym
n : a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name
... and few of the readers consider a word formed to mean one that you can pronounce (and was intended to be pronounced).
In one of the various debunkings of What the *bleep* do we know they cover that the neuronal activity in your brain is way too big to be affected by the very small quantum strangenesses that come up. On average they have no effect on your thinking.
Canonical abbreviation. NASA is an acronym because you pronounce it. FDA is a canonical abbreviation because you don't. Sadly, the distinction is nearly gone, but there used to be a difference, and it wasn't all that long ago.
doesn't sound right. you shouldn't be using your mirrors for backing up unless you're driving something 25ft long and have a CDL and so forth. Turn your head instead.
Just an fyi... Perl isn't an acronym and that capitalization is used to recognize inexperienced Perl programmers. My guess is you don't like Perl becuase you never really got into it. Perl vs Python vs Ruby vs Pike is a pretty silly thing to argue. It's largely a matter of preference like vim vs emacs. So the whole argument is ridiculous...
It's not tricky to get that server running in windows or lunix. I don't think running it under wine is going to be more stable than just running it under windows...... but the thing that sucks with the windows "stand alone" server is that you can't load your game!
In the linux server you could type "load gamename" and violla, everyone picks their character from the save game and you're off. In the windows server you have to completely shut it down to load a save game. wtf? That's really weak. You may as well just use the server built into the client (er... the game), since then you can actually load savegames.
I don't think that's true at all. The linux client they have now isn't supported except in the forums (self service).
The thing about GL code is that you can compile it as-is on many platforms, usually requiring only superficial changes to certain menus and things. The group they teamed up with to ruin the nwn1 engine on the way to directx hell are (not un-coincidentally) the people that ruined kotor2. I think they went directx cuz not one of them knows any GL code. So they started talking about the xbox 360 to get the linux nerds to go directx....
He wants them to remove restart and log off as he feels they're overkill?
Idiot. Seriously. What a moron. Turning the power off and back on is not the same thing.
You could maybe argue that shutdown menu isn't arranged well, but I really do think they're all necessary options. Perhaps they could be arranged into shutdown, logoff, and hibernate and then give sub options under each one, but don't remove them. That'd be really silly -- resulting in yet another "powertoy" I'd have to download to turn them back on.
I bought three copies of nwn1 and two of nwn2... I'm kinda miffed that you can't run the nwn stand alone server under linux for nwn2. However, I'm also a supporter of cedega and have been sending them my $5/mo for like 3 years now. My guess would be that your games would work under cedega. It's sometimes kinda trickey, but if you actually buy the games it works pretty well -- the cracks and things for illegal copies don't work very well apparently.
If they later release a native linux port of nwn2, I'd definitely buy it, but they won't. They got tricked into porting the engine from GL to DirectX... The GL flavor was easy to port between the different platforms.
I kinda mixed and matched my thoughts here, but if it matters I'm playing both copies of nwn2 under winblows... The game is a terrible resource pig and the visuals do not account for the resources they eat, so whatever I can do to reduce the overhead is worth doing.
Public key encryption, duh. Then, even if your admins had this access, which they must in some cases, they couldn't read the message anyway. The sooner CEOs catch on, the sooner everyone else will also.
It is exactly this type of argument that shows congress didn't outlaw it because they can't tax it (because they could); they outlawed it because of God.
Is jockeying for control of the north pole ocean really the dominant concern here? I find this news pretty disturbing. Personally, I think there should be an international law that no ships may use the north pole ocean for shipping until all current world leaders are hung from lamp posts like Mussolini.
I'm all set to pay for things via checkout, but despite clicking on the help for like 10 minutes, I couldn't figure out how to become a checkout seller... Clearly I'm missing the most important link.
Just a reminder, it doesn't do any good to write your congressman about anything. Congress shows pure contempt for it's constituencies. If you're not generating campaign contributions, then you're not worth anything. Our government is for sale to the highest bidder.
If you really want to make a difference -- and it's way too late here -- you'll need a lobby. Give money to the lobbyist, pay for access, get the ear of the senator, and then you can make a difference.
determined their own opening stock price, which the SEC wasn't too happy about.
I don't think it was the sec that had the problem. It was the investment bankers that couldn't make the billion dollars with their investment banker cronies in the usual fasion. The sec is there to protect us not them -- though it usually doesn't really bother...
end up buying things without realising thinking that you would actaully get to confirm and review the purchase
that actually happened to me, on amazon.com. I was fantasy shopping -- filling the cart to see how much I had to save up and that sort of thing -- and bought a book by mistake! It turns out, that I wanted the book. If I didn't, I could have just cancled it I suppose. But it was a fine excuse to get the book early without waiting for my allowance to recharge.
This is the kind of thing you'd like to reward a company for. All companies should have a comment submission box where you can click, "I totally dig what you just did, here's my dollar that says I really mean it."... is that a crazy idea?
I mean, in all seriousness. The dollar is the only vote an american really has.
it's called "overselling" and it's a common practice
Here at this little ISP, we call it concentrating. The upstream we buy is concentrated, our DSLs are further concentrated, and this is pretty normal. You can purchase unconcentrated bandwidth, but it costs slightly more than $24.95/mo.
So far we haven't had to install or mention any kind of transfer limit because there's so few people that use their connection 24x7. Even if it were 10% of our users, we probably still wouldn't mention it. However, if it were affecting others we probably would. We call this the pee in the pond approach to rate limiting; but, we don't mention to customers that we call it that.
They should make me a CEO of Sony. I could solve all their problems overnight.
STOP WITH THE STUPID DRM and just use mp3/ogg. Done.
I actually bought one of those minidisc players... It would have been so awesome if was a hdd that took mp3s and played them. Instead, it came with some incredibly worthless software that was impossible to use (and buggy) that allowed you to make 3 copies of your songs in a format that no sane person would use.
So that's it. I win. Sony could easily make a comeback and take down apple with some kind of portable memory stick player. All they have to do is quit with the DRM.
We purchased five brand new Dell rackmountable servers last month. When we got them, we burned in some linux and threw the windows disks in the trash...
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A very small percentage of your tax dollars anyway. Compare the cost of that spacecraft to a day of operations in iraq.
The difference is that they intended for you to pronounce NASA as NahSah. For those canonical abbreviations where they didn't expect people to pronounce them it's certainly more fuzzy.
Another reason the distinction has disappeared (note the past tense) is that it simply isn't taught that way. It hasn't been for a couple generations either. In fact, only about half of the dictionaries out there actually put it this way:
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: acronym n : a word formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name... and few of the readers consider a word formed to mean one that you can pronounce (and was intended to be pronounced).
In one of the various debunkings of What the *bleep* do we know they cover that the neuronal activity in your brain is way too big to be affected by the very small quantum strangenesses that come up. On average they have no effect on your thinking.
Canonical abbreviation. NASA is an acronym because you pronounce it. FDA is a canonical abbreviation because you don't. Sadly, the distinction is nearly gone, but there used to be a difference, and it wasn't all that long ago.
Why do we so often see a judge's orders ignored, challenged, appealed, ad nauseum?
Kinda reminds me of those lawyer units in civ that can tie up a city in meaningless bureaucratic nonsense or whatever.
doesn't sound right. you shouldn't be using your mirrors for backing up unless you're driving something 25ft long and have a CDL and so forth. Turn your head instead.
> PERL
Just an fyi ... Perl isn't an acronym and that capitalization is used to recognize inexperienced Perl programmers. My guess is you don't like Perl becuase you never really got into it. Perl vs Python vs Ruby vs Pike is a pretty silly thing to argue. It's largely a matter of preference like vim vs emacs. So the whole argument is ridiculous...
But Perl isn't an acronym.
Do no evil!!!! Unless you're in china or in politics, cuz then you're just trying to fit in. Right? Right?
That's not a bad idea. It is said that the solution to spam is paramilitary. Someone clever should make a website and start taking donations.
I totally meant SDL, obviously. I'm not aware of anyone that writes GL stuff without using SDL also (or instead).
When people compare directx to gl, they're always comparing directx to SDL. There, now I have educated you.
It's not tricky to get that server running in windows or lunix. I don't think running it under wine is going to be more stable than just running it under windows... ... but the thing that sucks with the windows "stand alone" server is that you can't load your game!
In the linux server you could type "load gamename" and violla, everyone picks their character from the save game and you're off. In the windows server you have to completely shut it down to load a save game. wtf? That's really weak. You may as well just use the server built into the client (er... the game), since then you can actually load savegames.
I don't think that's true at all. The linux client they have now isn't supported except in the forums (self service).
The thing about GL code is that you can compile it as-is on many platforms, usually requiring only superficial changes to certain menus and things. The group they teamed up with to ruin the nwn1 engine on the way to directx hell are (not un-coincidentally) the people that ruined kotor2. I think they went directx cuz not one of them knows any GL code. So they started talking about the xbox 360 to get the linux nerds to go directx....
He wants them to remove restart and log off as he feels they're overkill?
Idiot. Seriously. What a moron. Turning the power off and back on is not the same thing.
You could maybe argue that shutdown menu isn't arranged well, but I really do think they're all necessary options. Perhaps they could be arranged into shutdown, logoff, and hibernate and then give sub options under each one, but don't remove them. That'd be really silly -- resulting in yet another "powertoy" I'd have to download to turn them back on.
I bought three copies of nwn1 and two of nwn2 ... I'm kinda miffed that you can't run the nwn stand alone server under linux for nwn2. However, I'm also a supporter of cedega and have been sending them my $5/mo for like 3 years now. My guess would be that your games would work under cedega. It's sometimes kinda trickey, but if you actually buy the games it works pretty well -- the cracks and things for illegal copies don't work very well apparently.
... The GL flavor was easy to port between the different platforms.
If they later release a native linux port of nwn2, I'd definitely buy it, but they won't. They got tricked into porting the engine from GL to DirectX
I kinda mixed and matched my thoughts here, but if it matters I'm playing both copies of nwn2 under winblows... The game is a terrible resource pig and the visuals do not account for the resources they eat, so whatever I can do to reduce the overhead is worth doing.
Public key encryption, duh. Then, even if your admins had this access, which they must in some cases, they couldn't read the message anyway. The sooner CEOs catch on, the sooner everyone else will also.
It is exactly this type of argument that shows congress didn't outlaw it because they can't tax it (because they could); they outlawed it because of God.
Is jockeying for control of the north pole ocean really the dominant concern here? I find this news pretty disturbing. Personally, I think there should be an international law that no ships may use the north pole ocean for shipping until all current world leaders are hung from lamp posts like Mussolini.
I'm all set to pay for things via checkout, but despite clicking on the help for like 10 minutes, I couldn't figure out how to become a checkout seller... Clearly I'm missing the most important link.
Just a reminder, it doesn't do any good to write your congressman about anything. Congress shows pure contempt for it's constituencies. If you're not generating campaign contributions, then you're not worth anything. Our government is for sale to the highest bidder.
If you really want to make a difference -- and it's way too late here -- you'll need a lobby. Give money to the lobbyist, pay for access, get the ear of the senator, and then you can make a difference.
I don't think it was the sec that had the problem. It was the investment bankers that couldn't make the billion dollars with their investment banker cronies in the usual fasion. The sec is there to protect us not them -- though it usually doesn't really bother...
that actually happened to me, on amazon.com. I was fantasy shopping -- filling the cart to see how much I had to save up and that sort of thing -- and bought a book by mistake! It turns out, that I wanted the book. If I didn't, I could have just cancled it I suppose. But it was a fine excuse to get the book early without waiting for my allowance to recharge.
This is the kind of thing you'd like to reward a company for. All companies should have a comment submission box where you can click, "I totally dig what you just did, here's my dollar that says I really mean it." ... is that a crazy idea?
I mean, in all seriousness. The dollar is the only vote an american really has.
it's called "overselling" and it's a common practice
Here at this little ISP, we call it concentrating. The upstream we buy is concentrated, our DSLs are further concentrated, and this is pretty normal. You can purchase unconcentrated bandwidth, but it costs slightly more than $24.95/mo.
So far we haven't had to install or mention any kind of transfer limit because there's so few people that use their connection 24x7. Even if it were 10% of our users, we probably still wouldn't mention it. However, if it were affecting others we probably would. We call this the pee in the pond approach to rate limiting; but, we don't mention to customers that we call it that.
They should make me a CEO of Sony. I could solve all their problems overnight.
STOP WITH THE STUPID DRM and just use mp3/ogg. Done.
I actually bought one of those minidisc players... It would have been so awesome if was a hdd that took mp3s and played them. Instead, it came with some incredibly worthless software that was impossible to use (and buggy) that allowed you to make 3 copies of your songs in a format that no sane person would use.
So that's it. I win. Sony could easily make a comeback and take down apple with some kind of portable memory stick player. All they have to do is quit with the DRM.
We purchased five brand new Dell rackmountable servers last month. When we got them, we burned in some linux and threw the windows disks in the trash...