... tout how "open source is great because problems get fixed right away!", but when MS catches up to that, all you can focus on is Bill Gates making a comment about Linux that isn't favorable. Geez, you guys find fault in every attempt Microsoft makes to address the issues you all have been noisy about.
Funny thing is, this story was posted as an Anti-MS troll, and a lot of people fell for it.
"I've never understood why all of the normal foreign films, like all the french ones, are sub-titled, and people here love it, yet for some reason they always insist on dubbing the anime."
There's a very simple reason: English and French are similar languages, at least in comparison to English and Japanese. Sentences are roughly the same length bewteen English and French, but in Japanese, the difference is pretty wild. Simply put, there are situations where subtitling a Japenese movie in English isn't ideal. You can't even really get the pacing of the sentence.
Don't assume it's about anime itself. It's a langauge barrier problem.
Seeing as how Nasa's findings were disputed after a second image of the 'fireball' was taken at a different angle, no, I'd say Nasa's credibility is just fine.
Ah, wish I had caught on to that, woulda been a little more polite to ya.;)
"but what was there about the SLASHDOT in Wingdings that made it so "startingly appropriate"
Well, understanding I'm not being terribly literal here, when I saw that it looked like people crying and booing over just about everything. Snowflakes, peace, countries, etc.
"And, from that background, it just "happens" that the NY abbreviation in Wingdings gives a symbol of death and a Jewish symbol? Gimme a break."
Yes, that's exactly what it is. Go type in some other names in Wingdings and tell me you don't find coincidental messages there. I mean seriously, what's the likelyhood that some programmer would think to put those symbols together when one spells NYC? What would possibly make him think "I know, I can put an anti-Jewish hate message in here. That'll express my hatred of jews!" Yeah right. The odds are extremely favorable for finding offensive messages in there. The NYC one there just happens to be it. NYC could just as easily have been a picture of an airplane, a skull/crossbones, and a thumbs up.
"I have wondered before if some developers at Microsoft might have a hidden anti-semitic agenda. Before you brush me off as a tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist, try the following exercise:"
Too late, already brushed you off as a tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist.
So tell me, why is NYC the factor that makes that message meaningful? Okay, so NYC is a well known city. Also, NYC was attacked by religious extremists. So it must mean that it's too much of a coincidence that those 3 letters happen to put up those symbols, right?
Wrong.
Never mind that 9-11 burned NYC into our minds, thus making "NYC" significant in relation to the symbols, the fact of the matter is just about any letter combination could have been made to have found meaning. ABC -- There's probably some skeleton in ABC's closet that could tie those symbols to an anti-semitic agenda. GWB -- That one's obvious. XYZ -- Somebody'd come up with a fake story about how one of the planes in 9-11 had 'XYZ' in the flight # or something.
The odds that NYC would land on those symbols are pretty damn high. That's why Microsoft was sued over this. However, that is the extremist perception of what happened. Instead of thinking about the odds of that particular combination, think about the odds of those 3 symbols being tied to letters that couldn't be twisted in some fashion to make the 'message' seem intentional. Suddenly, it's not so obvious that somebody at Microsoft intentionally put an anti-jewish message in there. Don't believe me? Use your same trick, only type in MSNBC. Still don't believe me? Type SLASHDOT and tell me that 'message' isn't startlingly appropriate.
"The important argument that you've made is that it's wrong to objectify people, and that pornography always objectifies people, so it's wrong."
It's not people being objectified, it's an image, which is an object. You can use porn without objectifying anybody, even the person in the image. Simply put, you can not oversimplify the situation.
There's a difference between looking at an image and getting tingly in the pants feelings and looking at an image and thinking that all women are here for our sexual enjoyment.
"I truly believe all of the anti-sex in religion is due to the ugly men (and often enough women) who weren't getting any and decided it was wrong. Even now I see the old fat women at church socials (not that I've gone latley), a much higher percentage of ugly than the general population, and it strikes me that I must be right."
Heh. Recently here in Portland we had a porn shop go up fairly close to a high school. The mothers were out in full force trying to get it shut down. They even sat around in the parking lot taking down peoples' license plate #s. They were trying to embarrass them or something.
This made the news, and I had to say, all the women there were fat and ugly, not unlike Kile's mom. I'm not kidding here, I took an ugly headcount, they were all Y2k3 ugly compliant.
"If Opera were freeware, I fully believe it would have conquered the web by now."
I don't think it's the small ads that are preventing people from using it, I just don't think it's that well known. A lot of IE users can't fathom how a browser could be better. That's not because they're dumb, but because IE is pretty darn decent. I am amazed, though, at how quickly people adopt Opera after I show it to them.
And, I agree with you, Opera is very quick compared to Mozilla. Sadly, I think zealousy will prevent the two browsers from mingling.
"As a UI Designer, I always tell my developers that they need to use color + something else (shape, line weight, pattern, style) rather than color alone to distinguish things."
Luminosity and 'blinkies' are always good, too. We're dealing with that where I work. We're making a surveillance system. We've resisted relying on color because we need to be sure that the customers can use the system if they're color blind.
"In a similar article, Microsoft released a statement saying they are pushing back the release date of "Longhorn" until the CS301 is ready for home desktop use."
And, in yet another article, the Mozilla team announced that version 2 of...
I'm not saying you can't do it, I'm saying that's not the goal of the game. That's not how you win. The game is pretty dull if you just run around and shoot people.
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... tout how "open source is great because problems get fixed right away!", but when MS catches up to that, all you can focus on is Bill Gates making a comment about Linux that isn't favorable. Geez, you guys find fault in every attempt Microsoft makes to address the issues you all have been noisy about.
Funny thing is, this story was posted as an Anti-MS troll, and a lot of people fell for it.
"MS has a track record of lies and FUD?"
I've got news for ya, Slashdot has a track record for FUD raised about most MS stories.
"now where am i going to get my penis enlargement pills from?"
Worse, where are you going to find a girl to impress with it once it's reached normal levels?
In a case like that, you don't have to try as hard to figure out who's saying what and when.
"I've never understood why all of the normal foreign films, like all the french ones, are sub-titled, and people here love it, yet for some reason they always insist on dubbing the anime."
There's a very simple reason: English and French are similar languages, at least in comparison to English and Japanese. Sentences are roughly the same length bewteen English and French, but in Japanese, the difference is pretty wild. Simply put, there are situations where subtitling a Japenese movie in English isn't ideal. You can't even really get the pacing of the sentence.
Don't assume it's about anime itself. It's a langauge barrier problem.
Seeing as how Nasa's findings were disputed after a second image of the 'fireball' was taken at a different angle, no, I'd say Nasa's credibility is just fine.
"Note to marketing department: New "K9" chip promises to be "a real dog".
It amazes me that at least 5 or 6 of you thought you'd be the first to say it.
"I don't actually believe it either..."
;)
Ah, wish I had caught on to that, woulda been a little more polite to ya.
"but what was there about the SLASHDOT in Wingdings that made it so "startingly appropriate"
Well, understanding I'm not being terribly literal here, when I saw that it looked like people crying and booing over just about everything. Snowflakes, peace, countries, etc.
" It's like comparing apples to dog crap."
Apples can eventually become dog crap. Granted, it's not all that likely.
"And, from that background, it just "happens" that the NY abbreviation in Wingdings gives a symbol of death and a Jewish symbol? Gimme a break."
Yes, that's exactly what it is. Go type in some other names in Wingdings and tell me you don't find coincidental messages there. I mean seriously, what's the likelyhood that some programmer would think to put those symbols together when one spells NYC? What would possibly make him think "I know, I can put an anti-Jewish hate message in here. That'll express my hatred of jews!" Yeah right. The odds are extremely favorable for finding offensive messages in there. The NYC one there just happens to be it. NYC could just as easily have been a picture of an airplane, a skull/crossbones, and a thumbs up.
"I have wondered before if some developers at Microsoft might have a hidden anti-semitic agenda. Before you brush me off as a tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist, try the following exercise:"
Too late, already brushed you off as a tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist.
So tell me, why is NYC the factor that makes that message meaningful? Okay, so NYC is a well known city. Also, NYC was attacked by religious extremists. So it must mean that it's too much of a coincidence that those 3 letters happen to put up those symbols, right?
Wrong.
Never mind that 9-11 burned NYC into our minds, thus making "NYC" significant in relation to the symbols, the fact of the matter is just about any letter combination could have been made to have found meaning. ABC -- There's probably some skeleton in ABC's closet that could tie those symbols to an anti-semitic agenda. GWB -- That one's obvious. XYZ -- Somebody'd come up with a fake story about how one of the planes in 9-11 had 'XYZ' in the flight # or something.
The odds that NYC would land on those symbols are pretty damn high. That's why Microsoft was sued over this. However, that is the extremist perception of what happened. Instead of thinking about the odds of that particular combination, think about the odds of those 3 symbols being tied to letters that couldn't be twisted in some fashion to make the 'message' seem intentional. Suddenly, it's not so obvious that somebody at Microsoft intentionally put an anti-jewish message in there. Don't believe me? Use your same trick, only type in MSNBC. Still don't believe me? Type SLASHDOT and tell me that 'message' isn't startlingly appropriate.
Gentleman, set your faces to stun.
"The important argument that you've made is that it's wrong to objectify people, and that pornography always objectifies people, so it's wrong."
It's not people being objectified, it's an image, which is an object. You can use porn without objectifying anybody, even the person in the image. Simply put, you can not oversimplify the situation.
There's a difference between looking at an image and getting tingly in the pants feelings and looking at an image and thinking that all women are here for our sexual enjoyment.
"I truly believe all of the anti-sex in religion is due to the ugly men (and often enough women) who weren't getting any and decided it was wrong. Even now I see the old fat women at church socials (not that I've gone latley), a much higher percentage of ugly than the general population, and it strikes me that I must be right."
Heh. Recently here in Portland we had a porn shop go up fairly close to a high school. The mothers were out in full force trying to get it shut down. They even sat around in the parking lot taking down peoples' license plate #s. They were trying to embarrass them or something.
This made the news, and I had to say, all the women there were fat and ugly, not unlike Kile's mom. I'm not kidding here, I took an ugly headcount, they were all Y2k3 ugly compliant.
The porn shop's still there. >:)
"If Opera were freeware, I fully believe it would have conquered the web by now."
I don't think it's the small ads that are preventing people from using it, I just don't think it's that well known. A lot of IE users can't fathom how a browser could be better. That's not because they're dumb, but because IE is pretty darn decent. I am amazed, though, at how quickly people adopt Opera after I show it to them.
And, I agree with you, Opera is very quick compared to Mozilla. Sadly, I think zealousy will prevent the two browsers from mingling.
"As a UI Designer, I always tell my developers that they need to use color + something else (shape, line weight, pattern, style) rather than color alone to distinguish things."
Luminosity and 'blinkies' are always good, too. We're dealing with that where I work. We're making a surveillance system. We've resisted relying on color because we need to be sure that the customers can use the system if they're color blind.
Cowboy Neal!
Agreed. Cheers man.
"Seriously, when was the last time you saw something funny on the intrenet? Take off your tin foil hats people!"
I just now read something funny, but I doubt it's because you're trying to be a comedian.
So you can merge two videos together from different sources without having to recompress them.
"In a similar article, Microsoft released a statement saying they are pushing back the release date of "Longhorn" until the CS301 is ready for home desktop use."
And, in yet another article, the Mozilla team announced that version 2 of...
"I've only got one eye!"
Don't blame us, Ralphie. We all told you what would happen if you got that BB gun for Christmas.
"What does a psychosomatic disorder have to do with Apple's one button? "
Moron.
I'm not saying you can't do it, I'm saying that's not the goal of the game. That's not how you win. The game is pretty dull if you just run around and shoot people.
"The GameCube doesn't have support for hardware bumpmapping."
Wrong. Wrong. WRONG!
You're thinking of the PS2. It doesn't have hardware bump-mapping. Fortunately the processor in it is slick enough to pull it off anyway.
They may not use it in every game, but the machine can certainly do it. It also does hair and shadow rendering.