pac-man trivia: believe it or not, they aren't actually ghosts. at least they weren't meant to be: they were called "monsters" in the first few versions of pac-man, but on the horrible 2600 port they were flickering so badly (due to technical limitations) that atari started calling them "ghosts"! of course they always were kind of ghost-shaped (whatever that means).
Well... no, not really. I'm an American, but I lived in northern England for a couple of years and I discovered that almost every town out there has its own spelling, grammar, and vocabulary. Granted, it's becoming more and more homogenized over time, but it's still pretty bizarre. Check out this Wigan dictionary for some examples. Wikipedia has a pretty good overview of all the British dialects, and it does a good job documenting all the differences between American and British English.
That's almost as bad as episode 2F09 of Itchy and Scratchy, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a "magic xylophone" or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
for those who didn't catch the reference, that's what Doug says in episode 4F12 ("The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show") in the Android's Dungeon. Here's the link for more details.
I remember finding this textfile when I was a teenager back in the 80's. Never got a chance to try it out, but obviously North Korea has been trolling my old BBS...
probably the best street performer I ever saw pulled 10 or 15 people out of the audience, asking each one for their home zip code. Then he took each of them in turn, told them exactly where they live, and even mentioned restaurants and bars that they probably frequent. I was living in Manchester, England at the time (and we were in Nevada) so I thought I could stump him, but he nailed it. He got people from all over the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He produced the specific city or town, not just the country. Now that's a good memory!
haha... your funny.
The numbers they cite where pointless.
Another case where someone who does something different has to experience bigitory.
The few that where done(that I know of) never found in results worth reporting.
I say this as someone who has play role-playing games since '76*.
Wow! That post must set a record. What's the deal, You get modded up for each typo? Sorry if I'm being bigitory, perhaps English is not your first language.
Did marksilverman, a slashdot poster, kill a puppy to get an erection?
Not sure if you saw this but I wrote a song about killing puppy dogs which was popular on the Dr. Demento show. It's second from the top.
Is Apple receiving kickbacks to promote certain artists? Apple denies it, of course.
I know you were making a joke, but you blatantly misquoted me. You changed my comma to a period and you left out the second half of the sentence:
...and Levy had the good sense to ask a mathmatician and a cryptographer who explained that it's probably just humans finding patterns where there are none.
I think the point of the story is not just to report "news" but open up the topic for discussion. I am sure making the front page will cause at least a few more people to investigate the claim, or at the least monitor the behavior more closely of their shuffle.
Thank you, someone mod this guy up! Everyone's getting pissed off about this story, but remember that not all submissions have to be hard news. Sometimes irreverent, silly conspiracy theories can be fun to discuss. So far it's generated 221 comments, as opposed to 113 for the previous story, which is definitely hard news about quantum computing. People are engaged (for better or for worse).
Now you're the one being inflammatory, and you're taking stuff out of context to make your point. The Newsweek article was headlined "Does Your iPod Play Favorites?". Mine was pretty similar: "Is the iPod Shuffle Playing Favorites?". I make it clear in my submission that the answer seems to be "no", but you removed that part when you quoted me.
Here's the original sentence with some emphasis on the missing part: "Apple denies it, of course, and Levy had the good sense to ask a mathmatician and a cryptographer who explained that it's probably just humans finding patterns where there are none."
I'd like to publicly apologize for misspelling mathmetician. That said, I demand an apology for your excessive use of whitespace.
Just for reference, here's the original kingpin and here's the hollywood version. They look completely different to me (ignoring the change in race). He did a decent job (even though it's one of the worst movies ever), I just thought he didn't look right for the part.
On a related note, I'd like to nominate Scrameustache for the most shrill and long-winded fanboy of the year award!
But I seem to remember a mention of his skin turning black when he becomes a penguin while onboard the Heart Of Gold
forgive me for stating the obvious, but black people don't actually have black skin. They're brown. Penguins are literally black (and white) so it's perfectly consistent that his skin would change color. Not that it matters, of course, there will be lots of changes from the book (as everyone keeps pointing out).
the definening visual characteristics for Kingpin are size and baldness
Regarding Kingpin, I always thought they should have picked a fatter guy. Duncan is gigantic, but not so round. I always picture him the way he was drawn in the Miller/Mazzucchelli books. Also, he's a mafia boss. Mafias usually seem to be organized by race and/or ethniticity, so it seemed like an overtly political decision to make him black. But whatever, the movie sucked on it's own merits, despite the casting.
funny, I was thinking there should be a little light on the gun which indicates that it's ready to fire. First I thought the light should been green for "go" but then I thought it should be red for "danger". Could cause confusion. They should probably just use a popup window.
so what's everyone's favorite extensions? I like adblock, which provides a really effective way to block those annoying flash banners you see everywhere nowadays.
This is why I always print my ransom letters using an old daisy wheel printer.
Don't forget, each typewriter has a unique fingerprint of it's own based on the make and model plus the wear on each key and the horizontal and vertical alignment (this was a lot more pronounced with manual typewriters). Back in the day, forensic scientists used to spend a lot of time matching ransom letters to particular typewriters. So if they raid your house and they can match your typewriter, they have an easy conviction.
Don't forget about that ribbon either, it's got a trail of every key you pressed!
I don't think 60GB is a lot. I keep my entire music collection on my ipod, and I filled up the 40GB version about a month ago. That's less than 1,000 cds (a big collection, but I've seen much bigger).
I found the Turing statue in Manchester a while back, and I have to say it's ugly as hell! Really, the guy deserves a better memorial. And that apple is downright creepy.
The article refers to 1729 being "a historically significant integer to mathematicians everywhere". If you're not a mathematician, 1729 is Ramanujan's number -- the smallest natural number that can be written as a sum of cubes in two different ways:
If you want the whole story of GO, read Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan. It's a great book. And it shows just how evil Microsoft really is!
Slashdot Mirror
> Jarosaw "sztywny" Rzeszótko
Wow, I bet he's from Qwghlm.
pac-man trivia: believe it or not, they aren't actually ghosts. at least they weren't meant to be: they were called "monsters" in the first few versions of pac-man, but on the horrible 2600 port they were flickering so badly (due to technical limitations) that atari started calling them "ghosts"! of course they always were kind of ghost-shaped (whatever that means).
more details on wikipedia
Well... no, not really. I'm an American, but I lived in northern England for a couple of years and I discovered that almost every town out there has its own spelling, grammar, and vocabulary. Granted, it's becoming more and more homogenized over time, but it's still pretty bizarre. Check out this Wigan dictionary for some examples. Wikipedia has a pretty good overview of all the British dialects, and it does a good job documenting all the differences between American and British English.
they've got slashdot junk! there's a whole bunch, search for "slashdot".
I remember finding this textfile when I was a teenager back in the 80's. Never got a chance to try it out, but obviously North Korea has been trolling my old BBS...
probably the best street performer I ever saw pulled 10 or 15 people out of the audience, asking each one for their home zip code. Then he took each of them in turn, told them exactly where they live, and even mentioned restaurants and bars that they probably frequent. I was living in Manchester, England at the time (and we were in Nevada) so I thought I could stump him, but he nailed it. He got people from all over the US, Canada, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He produced the specific city or town, not just the country. Now that's a good memory!
As I recall, he calls himself "the zip code guy".
Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter supply lead vocals.
I thought for a mo that they were taking over for the venerable Peter Sallis, the familiar voice of Wallace.
Yes, Helena Bonham Carter would make an awful Wallace.
haha... your funny.
The numbers they cite where pointless.
Another case where someone who does something different has to experience bigitory.
The few that where done(that I know of) never found in results worth reporting.
I say this as someone who has play role-playing games since '76*.
Wow! That post must set a record. What's the deal, You get modded up for each typo? Sorry if I'm being bigitory, perhaps English is not your first language.
Did marksilverman, a slashdot poster, kill a puppy to get an erection?
...and Levy had the good sense to ask a mathmatician and a cryptographer who explained that it's probably just humans finding patterns where there are none.
Not sure if you saw this but I wrote a song about killing puppy dogs which was popular on the Dr. Demento show. It's second from the top.
Is Apple receiving kickbacks to promote certain artists? Apple denies it, of course.
I know you were making a joke, but you blatantly misquoted me. You changed my comma to a period and you left out the second half of the sentence:
marksilverman
I think the point of the story is not just to report "news" but open up the topic for discussion. I am sure making the front page will cause at least a few more people to investigate the claim, or at the least monitor the behavior more closely of their shuffle.
Thank you, someone mod this guy up! Everyone's getting pissed off about this story, but remember that not all submissions have to be hard news. Sometimes irreverent, silly conspiracy theories can be fun to discuss. So far it's generated 221 comments, as opposed to 113 for the previous story, which is definitely hard news about quantum computing. People are engaged (for better or for worse).
Now you're the one being inflammatory, and you're taking stuff out of context to make your point. The Newsweek article was headlined "Does Your iPod Play Favorites?". Mine was pretty similar: "Is the iPod Shuffle Playing Favorites?". I make it clear in my submission that the answer seems to be "no", but you removed that part when you quoted me.
Here's the original sentence with some emphasis on the missing part: "Apple denies it, of course, and Levy had the good sense to ask a mathmatician and a cryptographer who explained that it's probably just humans finding patterns where there are none."
I'd like to publicly apologize for misspelling mathmetician. That said, I demand an apology for your excessive use of whitespace.
Just for reference, here's the original kingpin and here's the hollywood version. They look completely different to me (ignoring the change in race). He did a decent job (even though it's one of the worst movies ever), I just thought he didn't look right for the part.
On a related note, I'd like to nominate Scrameustache for the most shrill and long-winded fanboy of the year award!
But I seem to remember a mention of his skin turning black when he becomes a penguin while onboard the Heart Of Gold
forgive me for stating the obvious, but black people don't actually have black skin. They're brown. Penguins are literally black (and white) so it's perfectly consistent that his skin would change color. Not that it matters, of course, there will be lots of changes from the book (as everyone keeps pointing out).
the definening visual characteristics for Kingpin are size and baldness
Regarding Kingpin, I always thought they should have picked a fatter guy. Duncan is gigantic, but not so round. I always picture him the way he was drawn in the Miller/Mazzucchelli books. Also, he's a mafia boss. Mafias usually seem to be organized by race and/or ethniticity, so it seemed like an overtly political decision to make him black. But whatever, the movie sucked on it's own merits, despite the casting.
funny, I was thinking there should be a little light on the gun which indicates that it's ready to fire. First I thought the light should been green for "go" but then I thought it should be red for "danger". Could cause confusion. They should probably just use a popup window.
so what's everyone's favorite extensions? I like adblock, which provides a really effective way to block those annoying flash banners you see everywhere nowadays.
This is why I always print my ransom letters using an old daisy wheel printer.
Don't forget, each typewriter has a unique fingerprint of it's own based on the make and model plus the wear on each key and the horizontal and vertical alignment (this was a lot more pronounced with manual typewriters). Back in the day, forensic scientists used to spend a lot of time matching ransom letters to particular typewriters. So if they raid your house and they can match your typewriter, they have an easy conviction.
Don't forget about that ribbon either, it's got a trail of every key you pressed!
I don't think 60GB is a lot. I keep my entire music collection on my ipod, and I filled up the 40GB version about a month ago. That's less than 1,000 cds (a big collection, but I've seen much bigger).
1984 came to boston like twenty years ago...
I found the Turing statue in Manchester a while back, and I have to say it's ugly as hell! Really, the guy deserves a better memorial. And that apple is downright creepy.
The article refers to 1729 being "a historically significant integer to mathematicians everywhere". If you're not a mathematician, 1729 is Ramanujan's number -- the smallest natural number that can be written as a sum of cubes in two different ways:
1^3 + 12^3 9^3 + 10^3
starting with the commonly-observed phenomenon that things look bigger under water...
Clearly incorrect!
Episode 85
The Hamptons
George: Well I just got back from swimming in the pool. And the water was cold...
Jerry: Oh... You mean... shrinkage.
George: Yes. Significant shrinkage!
Jerry: So you feel you were short changed.
George: Yes! I mean, if she thinks that's me she's under a complete misapprehension. That was not me, Jerry. That was not me.
Jerry: Well, so what's the difference?
George: What if she discusses it with Jane?
Jerry: Oh, she's not gonna tell Jane.
George: How do you know?
Jerry: Women aren't like us.
George: They're worse! They're much worse than us, they talk about everything! Couldn't you at least tell her about the shrinkage factor?
Jerry: No, I'm not gonna tell her about your shrinkage. Besides, I think women know about shrinkage.
George: How do women know about shrinkage? (They see Elaine walking down the hall) Elaine! Get! (She enters) Do women know about shrinkage?
Elaine: What do you mean, like laundry?
George: No.
Jerry: Like when a man goes swimming... afterwards...
Elaine: It shrinks?
Jerry: Like a frightened turtle!
Elaine: Why does it shrink?
George: It just does.
Elaine: I don't know how you guys walk around with those things.
It's nowhere near as cool as the drilling machines from The Matrix Revolutions.
If you want the whole story of GO, read Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure by Jerry Kaplan. It's a great book. And it shows just how evil Microsoft really is!
Unfortunately, there's a radio connected to my brain.