You lose that bet. It's (probably hand-encoded) HTML3.2, but with empty alt attributes, and a number of other validity problems (a lot of them merely typos). Not well formed, either. Looks to me like it's a placeholder written by someone who has the skills but lacks the time. Expect something better to pop up eventually.
See for yourself: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.tungs tengraphics.com/
The Chinese have neary 3 billion people to rival our puny half a billion. If this story is right, and we're ready to move into space, it's pretty obvious what the outcome will be: the Chinese will leap ahead of us due to their superior population growth and colonize the Galaxy first.
Please god, tell me this is a troll! There are 1 billion+ people in China, 1 billion in India, and a little more than a quarter billion in the US.
Astrophysicists and cosmologists don't study anything smaller than a star (and some won't study anything smaller than a galaxy). You're looking for planetary scientists.
Otherwise, I think you're right on the details.
Despite all the linux hype, it is still harder to install, maintain, and use than windows is.
Maintain, use, sure. But with the new distribs it's only harder to install if you have a brand new box or some out of the way hardware. Until I changed monitors to an Envision 15 in LCD, RH7 installed on my machine as easily as Windows 2000 did.
It is supposedly more reliable, but I've had applications fail in linux time after time because of faulty support
You've had applications fail, sure. When was the last time the OS failed? When was the last time you got the blue screen of death on Linux, or a GPF, or a freeze? Windows is indeed more prone to failure than Linux, though it might be worth arguing that the applications available for Linux (which are mostly alpha quality) are more prone to failure than the applications available for Windows.
I can't remember the last time windows crashed independant of my tinkering. (i.e., not Windows' fault.
Then you're in the tiny minority. I've had explorer.exe fail twice already today, and it's just lunchtime.
Even macs crash more frequently when I do think I know I shouldn't
My Mac almost never crashes. OS X: gotta love that Unix.
For the most part though, nearly ever driver and application has a windows version.
What was the last distro you tried? Sure, there are gaps in driver support, but the same is true of XP : it still doesn't support my ATI card properly.
In case anyone misses the irony, this is a site where people go looking for ads -- you'd think it's the perfect market for any advertisements. If banner ads can't succeed even here, then the future of free websites isn't looking too bright.
You know what they say - why buy the cow when you can have the milk for free? Seriously - why pay to put ads on a website that puts them up for nothing?
During interrogation, Afroze, 25, also claimed that a member or members of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, posing as computer programmers, were able to gain employment at Microsoft and attempted to plant "trojans, trapdoors, and bugs in Windows XP," according to Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, a New Delhi information systems and telecommunication consultant.
How does one pose as a computer programmer and attempt to plant trapdoors in software? I mean, if you can plant a trapdoor in a piece of software, you are ipso facto a programmer.
Unfortunately, phenomenon like Napster and the ease of `ripping and burning' are causing artists and record companies real harm,'' said Hilary Rosen, head of the Recording Industry Association of America. ``The unprecedented amount of music being copied is hurting the industry.
Leaving aside the obvious argumentation flaws here (can they prove it's hurting the industry? Was there a sudden upswing in record sales when Napster shut down?), you'd think the RIAA would choose as a spokesbeing someone who knew the plural of "phenomenon" is "phenomena."
"Real harm?" No, possibly causing increased minor economic headaches in a time of recession to an industry which has serious anti-trust issues and a wholly unrealistic pricing model.
By the way, has it occurred to any of them that one can just rip the CD as audio - through RCA plugs! - master it on computer, and then have a totally copy-protection-free image? After all, the kids who chip in to buy one CD and a bunch of blanks and sell them at school aren't audiophiles who can tell the difference between DDD and DAD anyway.
They got rid of the CLI, the next logical step is to remove the filesystem.
Actually, the next logical step was to bring back the CLI, as Terminal, a tsch command line, in OS X. As for the file system, the finder has a very useful little columns feature that provides an easier-to-navigate tree metaphor (rather better than the old version). So when you talk about Apple's OS, you're talking about a dead dog: OS X (aka NeXTStep 10.1) has supplanted it.
Been done. It sucks. Seriously, I've seen such navigation environments, and I've seen new users try to work with them, and the problem is that the user overextends the metaphor: tries to figure out where the linen closet is and what it's for.
Given how high a percentage of overhead rent is, I think it's still worthwhile to consider a rural location. BTW, gas and auto insurance are both usually cheaper in rural areas than in cities.
The earlier presocratics wrote in verse: e.g., Xenophanes, Solon, etc. Plato studied literature and wrote drama for a short time before he became a Socratic (note that the fragmentary plays which are assigned to a fellow named Plato are not his: Plato is a nickname you could vaguely translate as "Tank," it means "broad" as in shouldered), and he wrote some (limited) poetry, though the poems which survive under his name (and are intended to be taken as his work) probably aren't by him. Aristotle wrote at least one poem which got him into trouble.
That said, the Greek philosophers did not primarily see themselves as providing entertainment. If you want to compare the Simpsons to Greek literature, you'd be best off comparing it to Old Comedy, e.g., Aristophanes. The "we're just like the Waltons - we're hanging around the living room waiting for the depression to end" joke at Pres. Bush (41)'s expense is pure Aristophanes.
1. Devout Catholics identify themselves as devout Christians.
2. C.S. Lewis is best known outside of the Narnia and Perelandra books as a Christian apologist, and his religious identity in writing those books was as an Anglican. Anglicans sometimes identify themselves as "High Anglican" or "Anglo-Catholic," meaning Anglicans whose doctrinal beliefs were closer to those of Catholics than were those of other Anglicans; C.S. Lewis did not identify himself as such (while e.g. T.S. Eliot did, explicitly describing his conversion from Unitarianism to Anglo-Catholicism as becoming "Christian").
Thus the doctrinal differences between Tolkien and Lewis were rather minor: similar to those between an American Catholic and an American Episcopalian.
3. That Tolkien was a Christian, and that his Christianity consciously informed his writing, is undeniable. But he was also an Anglo-Saxonist and Medievalist, and some of his Christian imagery is probably unconscious, in reflection of the medieval influences on his work. Also, that professional interest exposed him to a lot of non-Christian imagery. In other words, many of the influences identified in this thread are probably validly identified. But allegorical interpretations, on the other hand, were explicitly denounced by Tolkien, and one should speak not of Tolkien deliberately identifying e.g. Gandalf as an angel, but using a different name (which would be a kind of allegory, though a transparent one), but rather as Tolkien using the concept of angels (a concept in he which might well have believed) to help him create Gandalf.
It is worth noting that the Christian element in LOTR isn't as remarkable as that in the Perelandra books.
Heaney's translation is a literary paraphrase, in the sense in which that term is used by Dryden: a translation which opts to convey the effective meaning of each phrase of the work translated, while making some concessions to allow the work to be experienced as art. Chickering's translation is closer, but less artistic, but is still a paraphrase, rather than a metaphrase, a translation which attempts to reflect the grammatical construction of a translation.
Heaney's Irishness: Heaney said in Station Island, "the English language belongs to us," speaking as Joyce. Still, it is Heaney's long-standing interest in Anglo-Saxon and in Northern (i.e., Scandinavian) influences on Irish and British culture, and especially Irish and British language (see, for instance, his poem "Belderg," which I believe is in North) that is of most value in his making of this translation. There has always been a little of the Viking in Heaney's poetry, especially the bog poems. Heaney's Irish colorings in this Beowulf are rarer than e.g. Tony Harrison's Northern (here I mean Northern English, rather than Scandinavian as above) colorings in e.g. his translation of Oresteia.
Rebsamen I don't know.
One slashdotter wrote: Scholars may cavil at Heaney's liberties ("an interpretation and not a translation") and there are certainly better translations for scholarly purposes.
Actually, no: there is no excuse to use a translation for scholarly purposes. If you can't handle the Anglo-Saxon, you aren't equipped to provide a scholarly opinion on the work.
However, he is right here: Translation is always a balance between competing concerns . . . and a verse translation that attempts to convey something of the power of the original as a poem must inevitably deviate from the literal.
M$ web sites and services sometimes are pretty, but they lack in content.
M$ thinks of content as a commodity they can buy and sell by the bushel. That's why M$ content is so often so lacking: think of it as paying content authors by the kLOC. Content requires a very different mindset from the one that makes M$ such a successful software company.
The best job they've done at content is MSNBC, and that's because they've got NBC to provide all the leg work. (I can't judge the Zone; I stopped using it about a month after it started up, and at the time most of the stuff available was boring.)
Why would parents want to dig
through their children's spending?
I take it you don't have kids?
IANAL, but from what I understand, in the US, if you're under 18, you're not responsible for your debts: your parents are. So obviously it is in parents' best economic interest to keep track of their kids' spending. I can think of a lot of other reasons: to find out if their kids illegally purchased guns (something which could probably be done at some gun shows using such cards), to track runaways, etc. Maybe there's a distinct difference in the level of responsibility one can expect from US kids vis a vis UK kids, but I doubt it.
Do you feel that the current taxonomy of IP (copyrighted expression, patentable ideas) is sufficient? Do you think that new categories of IP should be recognized and regulated with different laws (e.g., an IP category for software that would provide copyright-style protection for only a short term, something similar to the terms provided for patents)?
Maybe, maybe not. Here's one question: what is the value of a copyright on a work that was written at least 50 years ago, and probably longer? Here's another: since the government extended the terms by twenty years, should the government tax all holders of copyright for the capital gains they've realized by the increase in the value of their IP thanks to the extended terms they've just been granted? If the logic of that second question differs from the logic of your question, why or why not?
Let's remember, too, that the term of copyrights extends beyond the death of the author/creator, so the "taking" is from the estate of the author/creator, not the author/creator himself.
The work "taken" will have to be a minimum of 50 years old.
The whole point to the Bono act was to enrich publishers, including especially publishers of motion pictures, music, and other non-text works, who historically retain copyright on their works. (Thus the handle "Mickey Mouse" act, and I suppose Sonny Bono's interest in the legislation.) The +50 to +70 extension doesn't really affect software that much - who is likely to use 50 year old software? Texts are a whole other animal, as the useful life of a text can be anything from 1 month (for the CBD) to thousands of years (e.g., 2800 years for the Iliad, and still going strong!), though there is almost a perfect inverse proportionality between the useful life of a text and the amount of money each copy of the text can earn for its author.
On the other hand, going back to Homer, there's a long history of the rights to a work of expression being held exclusively by the heirs of the creator/author for their own enrichment: the Homeridae, either the figurative or literal descendants of Homer, may have held onto the only copies of the Homeric texts for some 200+ years after Homer's death (though some of those "Homeric" works clearly weren't really written by Homer, and have since been lost). One possible reason for this was to protect their IP.
Should we extend the term to life + 200 years? Should the Homeridae join the RIAA and the MPAA?
[BTW, the fellow who published the first publicly available copies of the Homeric works, Peisistratos, was the first tyrannos (i.e., dictator) of Athens.]
As a followup: is it even possible, legally, to turn back copyright extensions on existing works? For instance, could some future act which would eliminate the 20 additional years the Sonny Bono act tacked onto copyrights be applied to existing works, or would it necessarily be grandfathered?
The real problem here is that we haven't figured out a third legal category for software, which is really neither an invention (patentable) nor a work of art (copyrightable), and yet is in a way both. That's what license agreements are intended to do: create a third legal category.
Here's one that most folks won't know: the music video is quite convincingly portrayed (as are random cases of people going amok in public, and media portals - well, television commercials - that provide the viewer with a generic personality tailored to their own specifications - Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere - also biological terrorism attacks, and jails that look better than apartment buildings, etc.) in Brunner's Stand On Zanzibar.
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You lose that bet. It's (probably hand-encoded) HTML3.2, but with empty alt attributes, and a number of other validity problems (a lot of them merely typos). Not well formed, either. Looks to me like it's a placeholder written by someone who has the skills but lacks the time. Expect something better to pop up eventually. See for yourself: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.tungs tengraphics.com/
The Chinese have neary 3 billion people to rival our puny half a billion. If this story is right, and we're ready to move into space, it's pretty obvious what the outcome will be: the Chinese will leap ahead of us due to their superior population growth and colonize the Galaxy first.
Please god, tell me this is a troll! There are 1 billion+ people in China, 1 billion in India, and a little more than a quarter billion in the US.
Astrophysicists and cosmologists don't study anything smaller than a star (and some won't study anything smaller than a galaxy). You're looking for planetary scientists. Otherwise, I think you're right on the details.
Despite all the linux hype, it is still harder to install, maintain, and use than windows is.
Maintain, use, sure. But with the new distribs it's only harder to install if you have a brand new box or some out of the way hardware. Until I changed monitors to an Envision 15 in LCD, RH7 installed on my machine as easily as Windows 2000 did.
It is supposedly more reliable, but I've had applications fail in linux time after time because of faulty support
You've had applications fail, sure. When was the last time the OS failed? When was the last time you got the blue screen of death on Linux, or a GPF, or a freeze? Windows is indeed more prone to failure than Linux, though it might be worth arguing that the applications available for Linux (which are mostly alpha quality) are more prone to failure than the applications available for Windows.
I can't remember the last time windows crashed independant of my tinkering. (i.e., not Windows' fault.
Then you're in the tiny minority. I've had explorer.exe fail twice already today, and it's just lunchtime.
Even macs crash more frequently when I do think I know I shouldn't
My Mac almost never crashes. OS X: gotta love that Unix.
For the most part though, nearly ever driver and application has a windows version.
What was the last distro you tried? Sure, there are gaps in driver support, but the same is true of XP : it still doesn't support my ATI card properly.
In case anyone misses the irony, this is a site where people go looking for ads -- you'd think it's the perfect market for any advertisements. If banner ads can't succeed even here, then the future of free websites isn't looking too bright.
You know what they say - why buy the cow when you can have the milk for free? Seriously - why pay to put ads on a website that puts them up for nothing?
During interrogation, Afroze, 25, also claimed that a member or members of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, posing as computer programmers, were able to gain employment at Microsoft and attempted to plant "trojans, trapdoors, and bugs in Windows XP," according to Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, a New Delhi information systems and telecommunication consultant.
How does one pose as a computer programmer and attempt to plant trapdoors in software? I mean, if you can plant a trapdoor in a piece of software, you are ipso facto a programmer.
Well, to be fair, there aren't many Al Qaeda members with red hair and freckles who speak in an Irish brogue.
Maybe not, but there are plenty of IRA members who have red hair and freckles . .
Puuuhlease, I'm Canadian. I could care less that I cannot spell some states' names properly. I've got more important beer to drink ...
Whereabouts? Manetoba? Ontorio? Or Nova Scosha?
(turnabout is fair play)
Unfortunately, phenomenon like Napster and the ease of `ripping and burning' are causing artists and record companies real harm,'' said Hilary Rosen, head of the Recording Industry Association of America. ``The unprecedented amount of music being copied is hurting the industry.
Leaving aside the obvious argumentation flaws here (can they prove it's hurting the industry? Was there a sudden upswing in record sales when Napster shut down?), you'd think the RIAA would choose as a spokesbeing someone who knew the plural of "phenomenon" is "phenomena."
"Real harm?" No, possibly causing increased minor economic headaches in a time of recession to an industry which has serious anti-trust issues and a wholly unrealistic pricing model.
By the way, has it occurred to any of them that one can just rip the CD as audio - through RCA plugs! - master it on computer, and then have a totally copy-protection-free image? After all, the kids who chip in to buy one CD and a bunch of blanks and sell them at school aren't audiophiles who can tell the difference between DDD and DAD anyway.
They got rid of the CLI, the next logical step is to remove the filesystem.
Actually, the next logical step was to bring back the CLI, as Terminal, a tsch command line, in OS X. As for the file system, the finder has a very useful little columns feature that provides an easier-to-navigate tree metaphor (rather better than the old version). So when you talk about Apple's OS, you're talking about a dead dog: OS X (aka NeXTStep 10.1) has supplanted it.
Been done. It sucks. Seriously, I've seen such navigation environments, and I've seen new users try to work with them, and the problem is that the user overextends the metaphor: tries to figure out where the linen closet is and what it's for.
Given how high a percentage of overhead rent is, I think it's still worthwhile to consider a rural location. BTW, gas and auto insurance are both usually cheaper in rural areas than in cities.
It's a federal crime, true. But it's not enforced properly. See Columbine.
That said, the Greek philosophers did not primarily see themselves as providing entertainment. If you want to compare the Simpsons to Greek literature, you'd be best off comparing it to Old Comedy, e.g., Aristophanes. The "we're just like the Waltons - we're hanging around the living room waiting for the depression to end" joke at Pres. Bush (41)'s expense is pure Aristophanes.
2. C.S. Lewis is best known outside of the Narnia and Perelandra books as a Christian apologist, and his religious identity in writing those books was as an Anglican. Anglicans sometimes identify themselves as "High Anglican" or "Anglo-Catholic," meaning Anglicans whose doctrinal beliefs were closer to those of Catholics than were those of other Anglicans; C.S. Lewis did not identify himself as such (while e.g. T.S. Eliot did, explicitly describing his conversion from Unitarianism to Anglo-Catholicism as becoming "Christian").
Thus the doctrinal differences between Tolkien and Lewis were rather minor: similar to those between an American Catholic and an American Episcopalian.
3. That Tolkien was a Christian, and that his Christianity consciously informed his writing, is undeniable. But he was also an Anglo-Saxonist and Medievalist, and some of his Christian imagery is probably unconscious, in reflection of the medieval influences on his work. Also, that professional interest exposed him to a lot of non-Christian imagery. In other words, many of the influences identified in this thread are probably validly identified. But allegorical interpretations, on the other hand, were explicitly denounced by Tolkien, and one should speak not of Tolkien deliberately identifying e.g. Gandalf as an angel, but using a different name (which would be a kind of allegory, though a transparent one), but rather as Tolkien using the concept of angels (a concept in he which might well have believed) to help him create Gandalf.
It is worth noting that the Christian element in LOTR isn't as remarkable as that in the Perelandra books.
Heaney's translation is a literary paraphrase, in the sense in which that term is used by Dryden: a translation which opts to convey the effective meaning of each phrase of the work translated, while making some concessions to allow the work to be experienced as art. Chickering's translation is closer, but less artistic, but is still a paraphrase, rather than a metaphrase, a translation which attempts to reflect the grammatical construction of a translation.
Heaney's Irishness: Heaney said in Station Island, "the English language belongs to us," speaking as Joyce. Still, it is Heaney's long-standing interest in Anglo-Saxon and in Northern (i.e., Scandinavian) influences on Irish and British culture, and especially Irish and British language (see, for instance, his poem "Belderg," which I believe is in North) that is of most value in his making of this translation. There has always been a little of the Viking in Heaney's poetry, especially the bog poems. Heaney's Irish colorings in this Beowulf are rarer than e.g. Tony Harrison's Northern (here I mean Northern English, rather than Scandinavian as above) colorings in e.g. his translation of Oresteia.
Rebsamen I don't know.
One slashdotter wrote: Scholars may cavil at Heaney's liberties ("an interpretation and not a translation") and there are certainly better translations for scholarly purposes.
Actually, no: there is no excuse to use a translation for scholarly purposes. If you can't handle the Anglo-Saxon, you aren't equipped to provide a scholarly opinion on the work.
However, he is right here: Translation is always a balance between competing concerns . . . and a verse translation that attempts to convey something of the power of the original as a poem must inevitably deviate from the literal.
The copyright law was first changed to not require a copyright statement in 1978.
M$ thinks of content as a commodity they can buy and sell by the bushel. That's why M$ content is so often so lacking: think of it as paying content authors by the kLOC. Content requires a very different mindset from the one that makes M$ such a successful software company.
The best job they've done at content is MSNBC, and that's because they've got NBC to provide all the leg work. (I can't judge the Zone; I stopped using it about a month after it started up, and at the time most of the stuff available was boring.)
I take it you don't have kids?
IANAL, but from what I understand, in the US, if you're under 18, you're not responsible for your debts: your parents are. So obviously it is in parents' best economic interest to keep track of their kids' spending. I can think of a lot of other reasons: to find out if their kids illegally purchased guns (something which could probably be done at some gun shows using such cards), to track runaways, etc. Maybe there's a distinct difference in the level of responsibility one can expect from US kids vis a vis UK kids, but I doubt it.
Do you feel that the current taxonomy of IP (copyrighted expression, patentable ideas) is sufficient? Do you think that new categories of IP should be recognized and regulated with different laws (e.g., an IP category for software that would provide copyright-style protection for only a short term, something similar to the terms provided for patents)?
Maybe, maybe not. Here's one question: what is the value of a copyright on a work that was written at least 50 years ago, and probably longer? Here's another: since the government extended the terms by twenty years, should the government tax all holders of copyright for the capital gains they've realized by the increase in the value of their IP thanks to the extended terms they've just been granted? If the logic of that second question differs from the logic of your question, why or why not?
Let's remember, too, that the term of copyrights extends beyond the death of the author/creator, so the "taking" is from the estate of the author/creator, not the author/creator himself.
The work "taken" will have to be a minimum of 50 years old.
The whole point to the Bono act was to enrich publishers, including especially publishers of motion pictures, music, and other non-text works, who historically retain copyright on their works. (Thus the handle "Mickey Mouse" act, and I suppose Sonny Bono's interest in the legislation.) The +50 to +70 extension doesn't really affect software that much - who is likely to use 50 year old software? Texts are a whole other animal, as the useful life of a text can be anything from 1 month (for the CBD) to thousands of years (e.g., 2800 years for the Iliad, and still going strong!), though there is almost a perfect inverse proportionality between the useful life of a text and the amount of money each copy of the text can earn for its author.
On the other hand, going back to Homer, there's a long history of the rights to a work of expression being held exclusively by the heirs of the creator/author for their own enrichment: the Homeridae, either the figurative or literal descendants of Homer, may have held onto the only copies of the Homeric texts for some 200+ years after Homer's death (though some of those "Homeric" works clearly weren't really written by Homer, and have since been lost). One possible reason for this was to protect their IP.
Should we extend the term to life + 200 years? Should the Homeridae join the RIAA and the MPAA?
[BTW, the fellow who published the first publicly available copies of the Homeric works, Peisistratos, was the first tyrannos (i.e., dictator) of Athens.]
As a followup: is it even possible, legally, to turn back copyright extensions on existing works? For instance, could some future act which would eliminate the 20 additional years the Sonny Bono act tacked onto copyrights be applied to existing works, or would it necessarily be grandfathered?
The real problem here is that we haven't figured out a third legal category for software, which is really neither an invention (patentable) nor a work of art (copyrightable), and yet is in a way both. That's what license agreements are intended to do: create a third legal category.
Here's one that most folks won't know: the music video is quite convincingly portrayed (as are random cases of people going amok in public, and media portals - well, television commercials - that provide the viewer with a generic personality tailored to their own specifications - Mr. and Mrs. Everywhere - also biological terrorism attacks, and jails that look better than apartment buildings, etc.) in Brunner's Stand On Zanzibar.
His Sheep Look Up also has a few gotchas in it.
More a combination of soap opera and online chat.