poor grammar in c|net article
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Here's an email I sent to the author regarding the use of poor grammar in his article:
Hi David,
I noticed many instances of the use of "revolve around" in your story "Gamers fight for right to LAN party" at http://news.com.com/2100-1040-950054.html. This is a redundant grammar error (along the lines of "Easter Sunday") and should be corrected to "revolve on." Thank you.
Seems to me that Network Associates, with their backs to the wall, are playing the part of a losing hockey team facing elimination in Game 4 of a best-of-seven series.
From what I understand, it does not work as nicely with SVGA monitors (especially 800x600+) because of the resolution. Perhaps back in the day with 80 x 24 straight text, it could be considered within close physical range of the monitor; but not today.
We are pleased to bring you this early release of One of the most anticipated movies
of the summer. We enjoy helping the scene out
wherever we can. Haters don't bother us, fans
we appreciate.
Why oh why is Dreamworks settling for RedHat on its workstations and front-end servers (and renderers?) when all of those platforms require speed?
I really hope that they were able to obtain non-i386 binaries (not generic RedHat RPMs) for their platforms (ie, optimal gcc compiler flags). If the programs they use are not open source, hopefully the authors will provide extremely specific binaries for every platform on which they intend their programs to run.
If this is not the case, they are losing major performance to what could have been.
Re:doesnt seem economical
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Speaking on the economical front, can you believe the terrorist threat from this if it were successfully implemented? Every first world country (AP/AU/EU/NA), given a few years, would adopt this technology for a complete energy solution. Since we currently receive much of our power from Middle Eastern countries who harvest the majority of the world's oil (and who, generally, aren't considered "first world"), this will only piss off the extremists (unfortunately, terrorist cells) loyal to those country's interests.
If the lunar plan were to be adopted, I wonder what security measures would be implemented to protect this superior technology from those seeking to destroy it?
Off topic, here's a direct link to the latest Star Wars trailer (QuickTime Pro required):
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/media/gate / p2_clone_war_p640.mov. The first half of the trailer is made up of scenes from earlier trailers, but the second half is EXCELLENT. I won't spoil it for everybody, but a Jagger (can't make out his first name) Fett is mentioned and shown, as well as the predacessors to the storm troopers (the republic army).
Reading the two links from slashdot, I couldn't help but notice the poor journalism and grammatical errors committed by the authors of the aformentioned articles. Identically, this has occurred multiple times on cnn.com's international correspondence pages, especially when reporting the violence in the Middle East. Is this where all of our beloved undergraduate English majors surface?
I have 50 karma, so I could give two shits and a fuck if you moderate me down. I'm just noticing poor grammar everywhere, so screw you.
Since Sony admits that their product is designed to cause damage to your computer system, almost anyone would likely have a good lawsuit against them.
How would that make a good lawsuit? Seems to me that Sony is covering its ass by letting the consumer know up front, which would make the lawsuit more difficult.
This is almost as bad as the isonews.com story about warez being declared as legal. A little tact, ala The Onion circa 1998, would help immensely with these posts, guys.
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Is it just me, or do these all-in-one gadgets fly in the face of the UNIX idea of compartmentalized utilities that do one specific function, and that's it? If you want something more powerful, just chain them together.
Yes, these toys are neat at times, but it's just more features that can break.
One thing this article fails to mention is the "80 20" rule. Keeping 20% of the camera's view on the ground and 80% above the horizon yields the best results for filming any type of weather.
If you film too much ground, you lose out on the actual weather; and if you film too much sky, you lose perspective.
You raise a good point. I have an Abit KG7 motherboard, which also has ACPI enabled with no option to turn it off in the BIOS (because "they needed it that way to get Microsoft certified").
I dual boot Gentoo Linux and Windows 2000, and I just happened to be in Windows one day when I got a BSOD for an ACPI error. I thought my motherboard was bad, so I sent it back. When I got the replacement and tried to re-install Windows, I got the same BSOD. It turns out that it was a faulty DDR memory stick.
To the submitter of this story: Swap out ALL hardware before deciding something is bad. Had I done this, it would have saved me 3 weeks of grief.
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Here's an email I sent to the author regarding the use of poor grammar in his article:
Hi David,
I noticed many instances of the use of "revolve around" in your story "Gamers fight for right to LAN
party" at http://news.com.com/2100-1040-950054.html. This is a redundant grammar error (along the lines of "Easter Sunday") and should be corrected to "revolve on." Thank you.
Seems to me that Network Associates, with their backs to the wall, are playing the part of a losing hockey team facing elimination in Game 4 of a best-of-seven series.
Play dirty to survive.
From what I understand, it does not work as nicely with SVGA monitors (especially 800x600+) because of the resolution. Perhaps back in the day with 80 x 24 straight text, it could be considered within close physical range of the monitor; but not today.
Actually it's COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, not COPA.
He could have tickets for "Theater One" at Studio 28 in Grand Rapids, which would be worth it.
Here's a link to the group's NFO file that released it. The only thing of value in it, aside from the usual cast, plot, etc:
SUPPLiER....:[TEAM FTFVCD] SiZE:Cd1:xx/50 CD2:xx/45]
RUNTiME.....:[132 min] FORMAT....:[NTSC VCDTS ]
We are pleased to bring you this early release of One of the most anticipated movies of the summer. We enjoy helping the scene out wherever we can. Haters don't bother us, fans we appreciate.
You should upgrade to Gentoo. RPM-based (in fact, all binary-based) distros should go the way of the dodo bird.
Why oh why is Dreamworks settling for RedHat on its workstations and front-end servers (and renderers?) when all of those platforms require speed?
I really hope that they were able to obtain non-i386 binaries (not generic RedHat RPMs) for their platforms (ie, optimal gcc compiler flags). If the programs they use are not open source, hopefully the authors will provide extremely specific binaries for every platform on which they intend their programs to run.
If this is not the case, they are losing major performance to what could have been.
Speaking on the economical front, can you believe the terrorist threat from this if it were successfully implemented? Every first world country (AP/AU/EU/NA), given a few years, would adopt this technology for a complete energy solution. Since we currently receive much of our power from Middle Eastern countries who harvest the majority of the world's oil (and who, generally, aren't considered "first world"), this will only piss off the extremists (unfortunately, terrorist cells) loyal to those country's interests.
If the lunar plan were to be adopted, I wonder what security measures would be implemented to protect this superior technology from those seeking to destroy it?
Off topic, here's a direct link to the latest Star Wars trailer (QuickTime Pro required):
e / p2_clone_war_p640.mov. The first half of the trailer is made up of scenes from earlier trailers, but the second half is EXCELLENT. I won't spoil it for everybody, but a Jagger (can't make out his first name) Fett is mentioned and shown, as well as the predacessors to the storm troopers (the republic army).
http://starwars.apple.com/ep2/clone_war/media/gat
Reading the two links from slashdot, I couldn't help but notice the poor journalism and grammatical errors committed by the authors of the aformentioned articles. Identically, this has occurred multiple times on cnn.com's international correspondence pages, especially when reporting the violence in the Middle East. Is this where all of our beloved undergraduate English majors surface?
I have 50 karma, so I could give two shits and a fuck if you moderate me down. I'm just noticing poor grammar everywhere, so screw you.
Carnegie Mellon University has been working on the ulib project for a number of years now.
This is also a shameless plug for one of my IRC friends responsible for this. Hi Latinum.
Since Sony admits that their product is designed to cause damage to your computer system, almost anyone would likely have a good lawsuit against them.
How would that make a good lawsuit? Seems to me that Sony is covering its ass by letting the consumer know up front, which would make the lawsuit more difficult.
This is almost as bad as the isonews.com story about warez being declared as legal. A little tact, ala The Onion circa 1998, would help immensely with these posts, guys.
Although obviously a generic press release, but cute that they don't mention security concerns.
http://www.xfree86.org. Free, open source, cross-platform. Everybody wins.
This new tool used at Atlanta's airport could have helped him.
We slashdotted it.
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This is a cute hack, but I wonder if we'll see him up for a Darwin award in a few months?
Is it just me, or do these all-in-one gadgets fly in the face of the UNIX idea of compartmentalized utilities that do one specific function, and that's it? If you want something more powerful, just chain them together.
Yes, these toys are neat at times, but it's just more features that can break.
One thing this article fails to mention is the "80 20" rule. Keeping 20% of the camera's view on the ground and 80% above the horizon yields the best results for filming any type of weather.
If you film too much ground, you lose out on the actual weather; and if you film too much sky, you lose perspective.
You raise a good point. I have an Abit KG7 motherboard, which also has ACPI enabled with no option to turn it off in the BIOS (because "they needed it that way to get Microsoft certified").
I dual boot Gentoo Linux and Windows 2000, and I just happened to be in Windows one day when I got a BSOD for an ACPI error. I thought my motherboard was bad, so I sent it back. When I got the replacement and tried to re-install Windows, I got the same BSOD. It turns out that it was a faulty DDR memory stick.
To the submitter of this story: Swap out ALL hardware before deciding something is bad. Had I done this, it would have saved me 3 weeks of grief.
Last I checked, Chicago is tied to the coast of Lake Michigan.
The first people to make use of this would be al Qaeda.
Additionally, this link from a previous Ask Slashdot could help, too.