Man, automatically translated ungrammatical blog-y Russian, makes for some nigh-incomprehensible English. It actually does get some extremely colloquial phrases correctly, but also completely messes up some trivial ones.
Some things are just baffling:
"It is my understanding that among readers of the magazine legally Kisbér people."
The word in the original is "shod" (as in past participle of "shoe", as in what you do to a horse), an idiom meaning "skilled/versed in". It's curious how that becomes a town in Hungary.
Of course some things computer translation is useless at: "Again devils went about treacherous Daniel", the literal translation is something along the lines of "And again the aggravation started about the cunning copyright" - it's a reference to a line from a well known song, and doesn't make much sense out of context.
In my experience, they are fairly forthcoming in reporting malware infestations (usually "computer runs slow" is what they come to me with), and then lying through their teeth about what they've been doing to get there.
but sometimes, if you want your gift of software to be really useful, you need to stop attaching quite so many strings to it.
Exactly, and that's what other licenses are for. The GPL is definitely positioned as the Free as in "Stays Free" license; less restrictive licenses are necessary for many situations, but that doesn't mean that something as strong as the GPL isn't needed (especially for a lot of end-user software).
"it can go through 20,000 - 30,000 generations in just a few seconds. That same number of generations took humans 800,000 - 900,000 years."
That just destroyed the previous record for "ridiculous and astoundingly pointless comparison".
I mean really, an iteration of your little hardware GA is equivalent to a generation of a real-world species? So leaving it on for 5 seconds will result in development similar in scope to the difference between mice and humans?
I hope they don't accidentally leave it on overnight - it will enslave the galaxy by morning.
So, pretty soon I'll be able to add "releases full albums" to my list of quick differentiators between bands I may be interested in and those I am not? How nice of them to keep making the decision process easier.
Well, maybe this will be a good excuse to switch to a cheaper service - I've been paying through the nose for huge up speeds, mostly because "any day now" I'll get back into EVE or work from home more (turns out you have to leave work and go home before you can work from home).
I wonder what the TOS for the FiOS service is... given that it's Verizon, can't be too encouraging.
Nice list, Agalloch freakin' own, and Gothic Kabbalah is my favorite release this year so far. Not sure if you can call Opeth and Nightwish "lesser known" (not that they aren't good).
Gotta get some more MDM in there, though: Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Kalmah, At the Gates, Dark Tranquility, Children of Bodom, etc.
Of course, as we all know, the best metal genre, by far, is Viking/Troll Metal: Finntroll, Korpiklaani, In Extremo, Ensiferum, Lumsk, and so forth.
And for some old-fashioned plain "black", you just can't beat Bathory. Oh, and whatever the hell Ulver is classified as - that's awesome too.
in correcting this, would be to stop giving current weather as evidence of global warming - differences in temperature between now and some number of decades ago have nothing to do with the complex subject of systematic "global climate change".
It's usually not advisable to construct your opponents' straw-men for them.
My suspicion is that the only way to deal with this is to completely disallow mixing of languages in the same URL (or at least in the domain name, which should be enforced by the registrars). Anything less leaves far too much room for abuse. Imagine the field-day phishers would have with this: register www.bankofamerica.com with an omicron and a digamma (ok, the lower case wouldn't look right - you know what I mean), and you control a domain visually indistinguishable from your target.
Rephrasing the same statement three times is actually not the same thing as elaborating on it. Repeating something three times dos not provide more information. It's wrong to think that stating something three times over will make for a better summary.
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Man, automatically translated ungrammatical blog-y Russian, makes for some nigh-incomprehensible English. It actually does get some extremely colloquial phrases correctly, but also completely messes up some trivial ones.
Some things are just baffling:
"It is my understanding that among readers of the magazine legally Kisbér people."
The word in the original is "shod" (as in past participle of "shoe", as in what you do to a horse), an idiom meaning "skilled/versed in". It's curious how that becomes a town in Hungary.
Of course some things computer translation is useless at: "Again devils went about treacherous Daniel", the literal translation is something along the lines of "And again the aggravation started about the cunning copyright" - it's a reference to a line from a well known song, and doesn't make much sense out of context.
The reason has always been there, it's opportunity that's been sadly lacking.
In my experience, they are fairly forthcoming in reporting malware infestations (usually "computer runs slow" is what they come to me with), and then lying through their teeth about what they've been doing to get there.
So you buy, but your neighbor, he no can afford? Big win!
but sometimes, if you want your gift of software to be really useful, you need to stop attaching quite so many strings to it.
Exactly, and that's what other licenses are for. The GPL is definitely positioned as the Free as in "Stays Free" license; less restrictive licenses are necessary for many situations, but that doesn't mean that something as strong as the GPL isn't needed (especially for a lot of end-user software).
Isn't that whole mantra of Free software: choice?
"it can go through 20,000 - 30,000 generations in just a few seconds. That same number of generations took humans 800,000 - 900,000 years."
That just destroyed the previous record for "ridiculous and astoundingly pointless comparison".
I mean really, an iteration of your little hardware GA is equivalent to a generation of a real-world species? So leaving it on for 5 seconds will result in development similar in scope to the difference between mice and humans?
I hope they don't accidentally leave it on overnight - it will enslave the galaxy by morning.
GNU didn't create GNOME or X or KDE or Amarok or Gaim or OpenOffice.
And yet they created GCC and glibc, which those applications rely on... I guess that's why they call it the OS?
And of course, they did create GNOME.
Did they happen to catch any blue police boxes appearing out of nowhere?
(Cardiff just doesn't come up in conversation too often, gotta go with what I know)
So, pretty soon I'll be able to add "releases full albums" to my list of quick differentiators between bands I may be interested in and those I am not? How nice of them to keep making the decision process easier.
Wait, what? Where on earth are The Smiths obscure??? (anyway, the obnoxious punctuation shows that the reference is to a band far less compelling)
Or did I miss the cleverness entirely?
Well, maybe this will be a good excuse to switch to a cheaper service - I've been paying through the nose for huge up speeds, mostly because "any day now" I'll get back into EVE or work from home more (turns out you have to leave work and go home before you can work from home).
I wonder what the TOS for the FiOS service is... given that it's Verizon, can't be too encouraging.
Ok, if I ate a sheep that was 15% human would that make me 15% cannibal?
Even better - it's now possible to only be 85% pervert!
I don't really care about any Second Life news that don't feature flying penises.
Sure, when most people hear "heavy metal" they think Slipknot, Korn, Marilyn Manson and the ilk
That's gotta be the saddest thing I've read today, not the least because it's probably true. No other word for it, nu-metal is just sad.
Nice list, Agalloch freakin' own, and Gothic Kabbalah is my favorite release this year so far. Not sure if you can call Opeth and Nightwish "lesser known" (not that they aren't good).
Gotta get some more MDM in there, though: Arch Enemy, Amon Amarth, Kalmah, At the Gates, Dark Tranquility, Children of Bodom, etc.
Of course, as we all know, the best metal genre, by far, is Viking/Troll Metal: Finntroll, Korpiklaani, In Extremo, Ensiferum, Lumsk, and so forth.
And for some old-fashioned plain "black", you just can't beat Bathory. Oh, and whatever the hell Ulver is classified as - that's awesome too.
(yes, I do enjoy metal)
But, I'm now going to assume that liking Finntroll makes me a freaking genius.
Yeah, and who writes American software?
will be the first true "packet sniffer"? Can't wait!
in correcting this, would be to stop giving current weather as evidence of global warming - differences in temperature between now and some number of decades ago have nothing to do with the complex subject of systematic "global climate change".
It's usually not advisable to construct your opponents' straw-men for them.
Personally I thought the article summary did a pretty good job, but thanks for restating it from a first-person perspective.
The only thing left to add is: ... and I'm a dick about it.
You are saying that exercising, bad enough in itself, also increases my chances of remembering the ordeal later? No thanks!
Good point; never thought of this.
My suspicion is that the only way to deal with this is to completely disallow mixing of languages in the same URL (or at least in the domain name, which should be enforced by the registrars). Anything less leaves far too much room for abuse. Imagine the field-day phishers would have with this: register www.bankofamerica.com with an omicron and a digamma (ok, the lower case wouldn't look right - you know what I mean), and you control a domain visually indistinguishable from your target.
That's what you get when artists make a game on their own.
dang, kinda makes you wish more artists made games.
Rephrasing the same statement three times is actually not the same thing as elaborating on it. Repeating something three times dos not provide more information. It's wrong to think that stating something three times over will make for a better summary.