The sig above is, in my opinion only, a good example of the problems of translating haiku.
The original (word for word) is like
Summer grass Warriors are... Remnant of dream
In other words, the poet falls asleep in the grass on an ancient battlefield, and dreams of warriors, but when he awakes he immediately forgets the dream except that it was about warriors in some way.
When you wad it all into a big English sentence, that little story is lost and it becomes just a flat statement, like 'life is transient, dude', and everything that makes that haiku famous is lost.
Eh, there's a huge market for securities and mortgage plans that do exactly what Christian-style contracts do, but without technically paying any interest... it's a solved problem (in sufficiently advanced milieus).
They did show them, actually, in a couple of places (like that one on the south edge of Leicester Square), and yeah, it is much better, especially 'fellowship' (two towers has a bit too much comedy dwarf stupidity for my taste).
But the fight down there was breathtaking. It was expertly conceived and executed. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen if I wanted to.
Yes, it was good the way the squids all poured in through this one hole, and the humans all stood stock still and shot at them... and more squids came... and the humans kept shooting... and more squids came and the humans shifted position veeeery slightly, and kept on shooting, just shooting and shooting and shooting until you wonder whether the budget simply didn't stretch to any other sound effect, and then they shoot some more...
Look... an endless stream of near-identical/. comments about how bad the sequels were!
The only way to defeat them is to stand still and wave a rubber pole at them for something like twenty minutes.
I only hope I can manage that before they morph into a more powerful strain of/. comments about how unbelievably dreadful Trinity's death scene was (the last 15 minutes were the worst).
Hrm, so because I may have spyware I should download and run a random 200k program off the web:)
I tried it on a sandbox machine (fresh install) and it said the machine had some spyware that was only named with random hex numbers -- perhaps Earthlink are being less than direct with us in some way.
Ah, c'mon, it's still better than the UK. But in fact, service doesn't vary by nation(*) so much as by area -- London and NY are about the worst places yet an English county town or a small midwestern (usa) city can be about the best.
airline stewardess being a bit careless about which passengers they make fun of about on a flight
You mean there are some passengers it's okay to make fun of, but others that are special and have to be left alone?
(*)Except that Japan and Italy are absolutely great.
So now I can walk around and as well as being bombarded by ads, aggressive beggars (this is London, right), and suchlike traditional annoyances, I can ALSO read all the pathetic, repetitive thoughts of the erstwhile world capital's smug Nathan Barleys. I wonder how long before I get to the first "I am soooo stoned... hehehe" message. Probably about 20 seconds.
Luckily, it'll only take about 20 more seconds before the whole system is taken over by drug dealers and prostitutes!
Silver lining!
PS I am not a bitter, misanthropic loner. I just really think it'll be that annoying.
PPS Ok, I _am_ a bitter, misanthropic loner. You got me:)
Well, I don't see myself as a 'Windows Defender' but I've never gotten a virus/worm/trojan on windows, and I _do_ use IE, for many years, on many machines, on many kinds of network.
There is some sort of parallel 'windows world' in which all windows machines are worm-riddled and uptimes are measured in days if not hours and commercial software randomly crashes and free software is not available, and clearly a number of slashdotters live there. But there's also the rest of the world in which windows stuff mostly is available and works.
Disclaimer: The firewall remains the most important part of a network:)
You corrected him... but did you correct him enough?
># compilers! you can't program sh*t on a windows install without buying separate software.
>Unless you download mingw
Or the free MS development tools... it's just the VS IDE that costs money. Or use ruby, perl, python.
># your choice of how your desktop environment looks
>themes?
Skins? Using a desktop OTHER THAN EXPLORER even?
># games, not just freecell and solitaire
>like gnubg, tux racer in cygwin?
Like GunBound!
># real networking tools, such as nmap, a variety >of firewalls, heck the list is too long to begin >here
>Which almost without exception available for >windows?
That they are.
># a powerful command prompt for expert users
>cygwin?
zsh?
I don't understand where people get these superstitions about Windows. It's like talking to a medieval peasant:
"Hey, over that hill, that's Austria." "NO IT ISN'T, IT'S THE FOREST OF TREES THAT EAT PEOPLE." "I'm pretty sure it's Austria. I've been there." "NO YOU CAN'T HAVE BECAUSE THE TREES WOULD HAVE EATEN YOU." "Actually, there wasn't all that much vegetation in general." "YOU ARE LYING. YOU MUST BE A MAN-EATING TREE IN DISGUISE, COME TO TRICK US INTO GETTING EATEN."
Hmm, well, being obsessive I did actually draw such a keyboard, and I guess it would work, although 3-4mm might be a better button diameter than 1mm. In fact, I guess I could type on it with 2 fingers per side -- couldn't use my thumbs, though, without clawing my hand up (I have huuuuge hands).
Okay, you sold it to me (provided it is fully programmable to a custom layout)... I await reciept of my demonstration model:)
Well, no. With the brackets one, by using my fingernail I can just barely hit one 'button' and not the adjacent ones, so I could in theory type; but with the dots I can't hit one with my fingernail and with a fingertip there is no way I can hit less that 3 buttons at once (I have big hands).
Which is why I couldn't use a credit card 'nipple' keyboard. Using one with SIX digits at once, as you suggested, would require me more effort than to build a new keyboard out of roots and berries.
Which is just one reason why there aren't many such keyboards.
Those without the time to understand the various quirks of the various new forms of VS may be glad of this update: at time of writing, vim is still free.
I do approve of C# and.NET though. One interesting thing is that the _more_ someone likes/needs Visual Studio, the _less_ they tend to actually know about CLI and COM...
Look, the church had ALREADY GIVEN HIM PERMISSION to write a book explaining the heliocentric theory, right? I mean the theory wasn't even new at the time. The reason the church menaced him afterward is that Galileo put in as much abuse of the Pope and his faction as he possibly could! It was about Galileo's decision to use the book to heap abuse on people, not about the earth going round the sun.
Oh really? I bet they only tried 'reasonable' amounts of juice. They can't be sure unless they try an infinite amount of juice -- or rather, an amount of juice so unfeasibly preposterously gigantic that the monkey is simply nable to comprehend it, so that changes in the juice quantity no longer have any effect. When they use that much juice, I'll take remarks like the above seriously
Disclaimer: I am only writing this because I am thirsty and like thinking about juice.
I think -- and I could be wrong, but I have probably given it a fair bit of thought over the course of my whole life -- that Avalon is the worst movie I have ever seen. As a point of reference, let me point out that I _have_ seen Matrix Revolutions and the second Ace Ventura movie.
Also, 'shot in bright orange throughout' != beautiful and != sepia. However, I respect your opinion even though I can't understand it:)
What I really really want to know is -- when I saw it, there was a constant infuriating buzzing sound, like a modem under a blanket, coming from the left speaker throughout about 2/3 of the movie. Is this part of the movie, or was the theatre's sound system broken? If it wasn't part of the movie, then I might upgrade Avalon to 'just as bad as Princess Blade'.
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The sig above is, in my opinion only, a good example of the problems of translating haiku.
The original (word for word) is like
Summer grass
Warriors are...
Remnant of dream
In other words, the poet falls asleep in the grass on an ancient battlefield, and dreams of warriors, but when he awakes he immediately forgets the dream except that it was about warriors in some way.
When you wad it all into a big English sentence, that little story is lost and it becomes just a flat statement, like 'life is transient, dude', and everything that makes that haiku famous is lost.
No they don't. Maybe I do, but I'm a computer expert.
:)
My mom certainly has no clue that there even IS anything other than IE to use.
You do understand that she can still choose? She may of course wish to inform herself about the options first. That's normal.
I find Microsoft guility of contempt -- contempt of not upgrading their browser.
This sweeping change to legal procedure must have passed me by
Eh, there's a huge market for securities and mortgage plans that do exactly what Christian-style contracts do, but without technically paying any interest... it's a solved problem (in sufficiently advanced milieus).
The real problem is political.
The first sentence of that post is one of the sexiest things I have ever read.
They did show them, actually, in a couple of places (like that one on the south edge of Leicester Square), and yeah, it is much better, especially 'fellowship' (two towers has a bit too much comedy dwarf stupidity for my taste).
Visual Studio is the best development suite I've used
vim.
PS I know vim is not a 'suite' per se. Obviously you would need nant, grep, and ctags to have a 'suite'. Sun fans may substitute ant for nant.
PS I am not a crackpot.
Artificial scarcity enforcement will always fail.
The DeBeers cartel are telling me different. They've done okay for quite a while.
But the fight down there was breathtaking. It was expertly conceived and executed. I couldn't take my eyes off the screen if I wanted to.
Yes, it was good the way the squids all poured in through this one hole, and the humans all stood stock still and shot at them... and more squids came... and the humans kept shooting... and more squids came and the humans shifted position veeeery slightly, and kept on shooting, just shooting and shooting and shooting until you wonder whether the budget simply didn't stretch to any other sound effect, and then they shoot some more...
Gripping stuff!
Look... an endless stream of near-identical
The only way to defeat them is to stand still and wave a rubber pole at them for something like twenty minutes.
I only hope I can manage that before they morph into a more powerful strain of
W00t, I've raised some English hackles here
Hrm, so because I may have spyware I should download and run a random 200k program off the web
I tried it on a sandbox machine (fresh install) and it said the machine had some spyware that was only named with random hex numbers -- perhaps Earthlink are being less than direct with us in some way.
Ah, c'mon, it's still better than the UK. But in fact, service doesn't vary by nation(*) so much as by area -- London and NY are about the worst places yet an English county town or a small midwestern (usa) city can be about the best.
airline stewardess being a bit careless about which passengers they make fun of about on a flight
You mean there are some passengers it's okay to make fun of, but others that are special and have to be left alone?
(*)Except that Japan and Italy are absolutely great.
So now I can walk around and as well as being bombarded by ads, aggressive beggars (this is London, right), and suchlike traditional annoyances, I can ALSO read all the pathetic, repetitive thoughts of the erstwhile world capital's smug Nathan Barleys. I wonder how long before I get to the first "I am soooo stoned... hehehe" message. Probably about 20 seconds.
Luckily, it'll only take about 20 more seconds before the whole system is taken over by drug dealers and prostitutes!
Silver lining!
PS I am not a bitter, misanthropic loner. I just really think it'll be that annoying.
PPS Ok, I _am_ a bitter, misanthropic loner. You got me
Well, I don't see myself as a 'Windows Defender' but I've never gotten a virus/worm/trojan on windows, and I _do_ use IE, for many years, on many machines, on many kinds of network.
There is some sort of parallel 'windows world' in which all windows machines are worm-riddled and uptimes are measured in days if not hours and commercial software randomly crashes and free software is not available, and clearly a number of slashdotters live there. But there's also the rest of the world in which windows stuff mostly is available and works.
Disclaimer: The firewall remains the most important part of a network
First, pretty much everything you mentioned involves a third-party "strap-on" items.
Or 'software', as we call it. Typically, you get it and then you run it on your OS. I think you'll find both Windows and Linux support this concept.
You corrected him... but did you correct him enough?
># compilers! you can't program sh*t on a windows install without buying separate software.
>Unless you download mingw
Or the free MS development tools... it's just the VS IDE that costs money. Or use ruby, perl, python.
># your choice of how your desktop environment looks
>themes?
Skins? Using a desktop OTHER THAN EXPLORER even?
># games, not just freecell and solitaire
>like gnubg, tux racer in cygwin?
Like GunBound!
># real networking tools, such as nmap, a variety >of firewalls, heck the list is too long to begin >here
>Which almost without exception available for >windows?
That they are.
># a powerful command prompt for expert users
>cygwin?
zsh?
I don't understand where people get these superstitions about Windows. It's like talking to a medieval peasant:
"Hey, over that hill, that's Austria."
"NO IT ISN'T, IT'S THE FOREST OF TREES THAT EAT PEOPLE."
"I'm pretty sure it's Austria. I've been there."
"NO YOU CAN'T HAVE BECAUSE THE TREES WOULD HAVE EATEN YOU."
"Actually, there wasn't all that much vegetation in general."
"YOU ARE LYING. YOU MUST BE A MAN-EATING TREE IN DISGUISE, COME TO TRICK US INTO GETTING EATEN."
They do -- you just have to be given a 'weak' version of the bomb, and you build up immunity.
At least, nobody has ever complained of _not_ building up immunity.
Hmm, well, being obsessive I did actually draw such a keyboard, and I guess it would work, although 3-4mm might be a better button diameter than 1mm. In fact, I guess I could type on it with 2 fingers per side -- couldn't use my thumbs, though, without clawing my hand up (I have huuuuge hands).
Okay, you sold it to me (provided it is fully programmable to a custom layout)... I await reciept of my demonstration model
The bad tempered girl has no memory? I never knew that. I thought she was just bad tempered. And annoying.
I also never knew Edo was female.
So that was 50c per gopher?
Now press the following smaller dots.
. . . . .
Easier huh?
Well, no. With the brackets one, by using my fingernail I can just barely hit one 'button' and not the adjacent ones, so I could in theory type; but with the dots I can't hit one with my fingernail and with a fingertip there is no way I can hit less that 3 buttons at once (I have big hands).
Which is why I couldn't use a credit card 'nipple' keyboard. Using one with SIX digits at once, as you suggested, would require me more effort than to build a new keyboard out of roots and berries.
Which is just one reason why there aren't many such keyboards.
I do agree with the basic idea, though.
Those without the time to understand the various quirks of the various new forms of VS may be glad of this update: at time of writing, vim is still free.
I do approve of C# and
Look, the church had ALREADY GIVEN HIM PERMISSION to write a book explaining the heliocentric theory, right? I mean the theory wasn't even new at the time. The reason the church menaced him afterward is that Galileo put in as much abuse of the Pope and his faction as he possibly could! It was about Galileo's decision to use the book to heap abuse on people, not about the earth going round the sun.
I feel better now.
there is no quantity of juice sufficient
Oh really? I bet they only tried 'reasonable' amounts of juice. They can't be sure unless they try an infinite amount of juice -- or rather, an amount of juice so unfeasibly preposterously gigantic that the monkey is simply nable to comprehend it, so that changes in the juice quantity no longer have any effect. When they use that much juice, I'll take remarks like the above seriously
Disclaimer: I am only writing this because I am thirsty and like thinking about juice.
I think -- and I could be wrong, but I have probably given it a fair bit of thought over the course of my whole life -- that Avalon is the worst movie I have ever seen. As a point of reference, let me point out that I _have_ seen Matrix Revolutions and the second Ace Ventura movie.
Also, 'shot in bright orange throughout' != beautiful and != sepia. However, I respect your opinion even though I can't understand it
What I really really want to know is -- when I saw it, there was a constant infuriating buzzing sound, like a modem under a blanket, coming from the left speaker throughout about 2/3 of the movie. Is this part of the movie, or was the theatre's sound system broken? If it wasn't part of the movie, then I might upgrade Avalon to 'just as bad as Princess Blade'.