Likewise, anti-Semite has come to mean "prejudiced against Jews", even though Arabs and some north Africans are descended from Semitic groups and speak Semitic language.
Oh great, we'll just let special interest groups manipulate language to further their own twisted ends, won't we? It did not "come to mean", it was perverted into that special usage.
Palestinians, being semites themselves, can hardly be anti-semitics...
Main Entry: Semite Pronunciation: 'se-"mIt, esp British 'sE-"mIt Function: noun Etymology: French semite, from Semitic Shem, from Late Latin, from Greek SEm, from Hebrew ShEm Date: 1848 1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs b : a descendant of these peoples 2 : a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language
the Hulk (which wasn't terrible), Terminator 3 (again, not terrible)
Well, the Hulk wasn't completely terrible, but T3 was so horrible it would take too long for me to explain how. Lets just say that it was a non-stop crap fest. Stupidity was coming at me too fast for me to make sarcastic remarks at 'em. I'll give you one example: When the T101 rams the Tx, what exploded and why? Because something 10 feet away from the crash blew up for no reason.
Hell, here's another: When the Tx makes its boobs bigger...why does it do that? Presumably to seduce the cop into ignoring it, but it just up and kills him instead, so why??? WHY??????
Stupid, stupid, stupid!
Argh!
And that's just 2 of the many, many idiotic bits that were in the first 10 minutes. It was seriourly non-stop braindead. I was actually insulted by its stupidity.
If someone comes along and pours sugar into your gas tank your car won't keep running right. Is that a recallable defect?
Yes. MY car has a locked gas tank. If its lock was so ineffective that anyone could put anything they damn well pleased in it, it would be a defect.
If someone sends a particularly malformed request to a process on your machine it won't run right. Is that a recallable defect? I'd say no in both cases.
I guess the equivalent of a lock here would be some way for the machine to not run broken code...er...
The slow restart is inexcusable. If this happened in winter, there'd be thousands of dead people.
Lets not be too alarmist, in canada there was a power outage in 98 that lasted weeks, there was no mass death. And that was CANADA, in WINTER. Think about it.
Actually, while Hydro Quebec claims its post 98' Ice Storm countermeasures saved the day with this one, it is not the primary reason why it was not affected.
Quebec's grid's power is out of phase with the rest of the continent because, IIRC, of the great distance it has to travel from the giant dams up north down to the metropolitan areas of the "south". So, at the borders are stations wich synchronise the power (alternative current, 60hz on both side of the border, but not in synch) before sending down south (quebec exports lots of electricity, its produced cheaply with a clean renewable source: hydro power).
His stuff isn't that good [...] and more than that he's intolerant of homosexuality
Er, mind telling me why the fuck that would be relevant?
I guess the part about the quality of his work is, but the tangeant with mormon-like homophobia...not really.
PS I do agree, he's overrated. Ender's game and Ender's Shadow were good reads, and that's the end of that. The rest of his stuff (that I have read) was rather lame.
Is it just me, or does everything sound like a rehash of the Matrix/Terminator concept? Humans build robots, robots take over...
Isaac Asimov (the guy who coined the term "robotics") gave that theme a name dozens of years ago, he called it the Frankenstein complex. That is why he wrote the 3 laws of robotics, to move away from that theme.
BTW, the polish play in wich the name "robot" was coined (to mean mechanical anthropomorphic labourers) was also about "men make robots, men abuse robots, robots go awry and take over". Way, WAY before matrix/terminator (in the 20's IIRC).
...humans form a rebel team to fight the robots
Battlestar Galactica! Again, before terminator/matrix.
Easily fixed...choose tools, options, edit tab, bottom button in right column. I'm not trying to sound condescending, but your problem is easily fixed.
I'm looking for it in explorer...I can't find it. I do have a headache...maybe it'll be there if I look later.
Just as people get frustrated and upset with these heuristics that are supposed to "help" people (the text selection pisses me off also, as well as auto-correcting some words), people would feel similarly with a system such as this.
I should have said "on top" of the current 15 thing, rather than "instead".
I don't mind that the features exists, I mind that they are shoved down my throat and that I have to jump through fiery hoops to shut them off. The "leave me the fuck alone" philosophy:
One button, obvious and easy to find (no sub menus! Right smack in a main menu.)that can turn on or off all the auto-helper features (auto text selecting, clippy, etc).
A sub menu linked to that option wich lists all the different helper features, in wich you can configure and customize those features to your liking.
The different options still present in their respective menus and sub-menus, linked to the previously mentioned option so that when you turn it on or off in one location, it sets itself to the correct value in the mirror location.
A little more work for the developpers and testers, a better world for the users.
Spread the gospel brother, we can make the world a better place!
Just because some secretery needs an autoselect feature doesn't mean the rest of us should suffer from it. Tell the programmers you know about the "leave me the fuck alone" (or "toggle idiot mode", as you put it) concept, we need to get the ball rolling on this one!
I don't mind that there exists the ability to have a stupid text selecting helper that insists on catching the punctuation along with the word you're trying to select, IF I can turn it off.
You say it could turn off automatically, I want an option to shut it all off manually in one go.
I would yell "leave me the fuck alone!" to clippy, and if it awnsers "You'll never hear from me again.", I would retort "that is insuficient, I want to see you DIE!"...
Oh yeah? You mean like that annoying microsoft text selection that prevents you from selecting what you actually selected by deciding for you that you wanted to select the entire word/sentence/paragraph/page (depending on its mood?
I have cursed so much because of that "feature"!
I am the apostle of the "leave me the fuck alone" tao of programming: Every application should have one button, in one simple easy to find menu, that would turn off all automatic thingamajigs. Instead of the current system in wich the are 1.5 times as many places in wich you need to select "no/off" as there are annoying automatic features.
When I place my cursor in the middle of a word, its because thats where I want the selection to end!
Just think of how many Gamecubes Nintendo would have sold if they added a shitty DVD player that barely worked, needed a "sold separately" remote, and several driver updates to function reasonably well. I hope Sony and MS are proud of themselves.
First of all, only MS has the "needs a sold separatly remote" issue, the PS2 plays DVDs out of the box.
Second, as I stated above, I have not experienced any significant DVD issues, and I use my PS2 has my main DVD player.
Third, Nintendo has suspended production on the Gamecube, while Sony has sold 5 times more untis then either MS or Nintendo. So Sony was on to something, the other 2 obviously weren't.
How many more units could nintendo have sold? 40 million.
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Bunch o' freaks! The most important things to me are my computer, my iPod, and my broadband connection.
Those crazy palestinians
Likewise, anti-Semite has come to mean "prejudiced against Jews", even though Arabs and some north Africans are descended from Semitic groups and speak Semitic language.
Oh great, we'll just let special interest groups manipulate language to further their own twisted ends, won't we?
It did not "come to mean", it was perverted into that special usage.
Go eat some freedom fries...
Palestinians, being semites themselves, can hardly be anti-semitics...
Main Entry: Semite
Pronunciation: 'se-"mIt, esp British 'sE-"mIt
Function: noun
Etymology: French semite, from Semitic Shem, from Late Latin, from Greek SEm, from Hebrew ShEm
Date: 1848
1 a : a member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs b : a descendant of these peoples
2 : a member of a modern people speaking a Semitic language
Even though I'm not in the IS department on this project, I do get drafted because I know something...
"This man knows too much..." -SCO
I was replying to the reply, not to you.
And yet, somehow, your reply ended in MY messages.
Stop posting drunk, its bad for karma.
Oh my god, do you ever suck
No, and stop coming on to me you fag
Twister.
the Hulk (which wasn't terrible), Terminator 3 (again, not terrible)
Well, the Hulk wasn't completely terrible, but T3 was so horrible it would take too long for me to explain how. Lets just say that it was a non-stop crap fest. Stupidity was coming at me too fast for me to make sarcastic remarks at 'em.
I'll give you one example: When the T101 rams the Tx, what exploded and why? Because something 10 feet away from the crash blew up for no reason.
Hell, here's another: When the Tx makes its boobs bigger...why does it do that? Presumably to seduce the cop into ignoring it, but it just up and kills him instead, so why??? WHY??????
Stupid, stupid, stupid!
Argh!
And that's just 2 of the many, many idiotic bits that were in the first 10 minutes. It was seriourly non-stop braindead. I was actually insulted by its stupidity.
If someone comes along and pours sugar into your gas tank your car won't keep running right. Is that a recallable defect?
Yes. MY car has a locked gas tank. If its lock was so ineffective that anyone could put anything they damn well pleased in it, it would be a defect.
If someone sends a particularly malformed request to a process on your machine it won't run right. Is that a recallable defect?
I'd say no in both cases.
I guess the equivalent of a lock here would be some way for the machine to not run broken code...er...
Aggressive anti-spam activists should be locked up. They do more harm than good. I worked briefly as a spammer
Please post your name, adress, phone number, fax number, and picture here, on slashdot.
I promise you, we WILL do you more harm than good...
"BTW, the polish play in wich the name "robot" was coined..."
I believe you are referring to the Czech play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek.
My mistake.
Thanks for the link, btw.
The slow restart is inexcusable. If this happened in winter, there'd be thousands of dead people.
Lets not be too alarmist, in canada there was a power outage in 98 that lasted weeks , there was no mass death. And that was CANADA, in WINTER. Think about it.
Actually, while Hydro Quebec claims its post 98' Ice Storm countermeasures saved the day with this one, it is not the primary reason why it was not affected.
Quebec's grid's power is out of phase with the rest of the continent because, IIRC, of the great distance it has to travel from the giant dams up north down to the metropolitan areas of the "south". So, at the borders are stations wich synchronise the power (alternative current, 60hz on both side of the border, but not in synch) before sending down south (quebec exports lots of electricity, its produced cheaply with a clean renewable source: hydro power).
Isolation was the hero here.
I would put it to you that no news source can honestly claim to report news from a perspective too far removed from that of the reporters.
The simple fact that you think Canada is "too far removed" for U.S. reporters speaks volume.
His stuff isn't that good [...] and more than that he's intolerant of homosexuality
Er, mind telling me why the fuck that would be relevant?
I guess the part about the quality of his work is, but the tangeant with mormon-like homophobia...not really.
PS I do agree, he's overrated. Ender's game and Ender's Shadow were good reads, and that's the end of that. The rest of his stuff (that I have read) was rather lame.
PPS Yeah, his mormon views kinda bug me too...
Isaac Asimov (the guy who coined the term "robotics") gave that theme a name dozens of years ago, he called it the Frankenstein complex. That is why he wrote the 3 laws of robotics, to move away from that theme.
BTW, the polish play in wich the name "robot" was coined (to mean mechanical anthropomorphic labourers) was also about "men make robots, men abuse robots, robots go awry and take over".
Way, WAY before matrix/terminator (in the 20's IIRC).
Battlestar Galactica! Again, before terminator/matrix.
Man, I know what I do first thing when I get home tonight!
I wonder what Sony will do, besides send their SonyTroopers to his house...
Klatuu... berata... NIKTU!
There, we're safe now : )
Easily fixed...choose tools, options, edit tab, bottom button in right column. I'm not trying to sound condescending, but your problem is easily fixed.
I'm looking for it in explorer...I can't find it.
I do have a headache...maybe it'll be there if I look later.
I should have said "on top" of the current 15 thing, rather than "instead".
I don't mind that the features exists, I mind that they are shoved down my throat and that I have to jump through fiery hoops to shut them off.
The "leave me the fuck alone" philosophy:
A little more work for the developpers and testers, a better world for the users.
Spread the gospel brother, we can make the world a better place!
Just because some secretery needs an autoselect feature doesn't mean the rest of us should suffer from it. Tell the programmers you know about the "leave me the fuck alone" (or "toggle idiot mode", as you put it) concept, we need to get the ball rolling on this one!
Well, that's what I'm saying.
I don't mind that there exists the ability to have a stupid text selecting helper that insists on catching the punctuation along with the word you're trying to select, IF I can turn it off.
You say it could turn off automatically, I want an option to shut it all off manually in one go.
I would yell "leave me the fuck alone!" to clippy, and if it awnsers "You'll never hear from me again.", I would retort "that is insuficient, I want to see you DIE!"...
Oh yeah? You mean like that annoying microsoft text selection that prevents you from selecting what you actually selected by deciding for you that you wanted to select the entire word/sentence/paragraph/page (depending on its mood?
I have cursed so much because of that "feature"!
I am the apostle of the "leave me the fuck alone" tao of programming: Every application should have one button, in one simple easy to find menu, that would turn off all automatic thingamajigs. Instead of the current system in wich the are 1.5 times as many places in wich you need to select "no/off" as there are annoying automatic features.
When I place my cursor in the middle of a word, its because thats where I want the selection to end!
I, for one, wellcome our new Amish overlords!
Just think of how many Gamecubes Nintendo would have sold if they added a shitty DVD player that barely worked, needed a "sold separately" remote, and several driver updates to function reasonably well. I hope Sony and MS are proud of themselves.
First of all, only MS has the "needs a sold separatly remote" issue, the PS2 plays DVDs out of the box.
Second, as I stated above, I have not experienced any significant DVD issues, and I use my PS2 has my main DVD player.
Third, Nintendo has suspended production on the Gamecube, while Sony has sold 5 times more untis then either MS or Nintendo. So Sony was on to something, the other 2 obviously weren't.
How many more units could nintendo have sold? 40 million.