General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned? Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature. Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor. (via imdb, what else)
It pretty much doesn't do anything at all in vanilla Windows XP. But since the support is there, many tools make use of it, so if I wanted to I could have a semi-transparent IM contact list, etc. And of course there are tools that can set any given window to be semi-transparent. I just don't see why I would want to do that. It's nice in a highly graphic user interface, such as many games, but in a predominantly text based world like a browser, email app, development environment, P2P client, not so much. Of course you're quite welcome to have a different take on it!
Doesn't your browser cache the thumbnails? Personally, I find those screenshot galleries tedious because they're just a bit dull. I guess I'm spoiled by the cool Gnome release notes featuring heavily annotated screenshots.
While I have to agree with the AC to some degree -- most of the stuff is fairly underwhelming, I don't really need the windows to distort on moving, and I don't ever use alpha transparency in Windows XP -- what makes it all worth is that it apparently offers Exposé functionality. That not only looks cool, it's also extremely useful and something I wish I had in Windows. (BTW does anybody know of a good, modern tiling window manager for Win XP?)
I wouldn't assume they aren't affected, either, but the guy did test Ultra and Tight, and both weren't affected. So there. It's not in TFA, but one link away.
That doesn't always work. Sometimes your moving closer to work increases the commute time of your SO. And your kids', which isn't an option in many cases.
It really is fairly simple. The user would only do the \\servername\printername thing, I know, because I've been on the user side in the past. Don't get me wrong, there was also a list, but opening that up and selecting the right one from the 40 available printers was slower than just entering the name I had memorised. (The servername is the same for all printers, incidently, I essentially had to remember a number that was also on a label on the printer...)
I wrote this because I was pleasently surprised how straightforward it is. The driver is silently installed on first access, you never have to screw around with it - it just works!
Are you implying you don't "buy into" the Greenhouse climate model? Not "believing" in global warming it one thing, but that's just hilarious. What's next, you don't "buy into" gravity?
Every now and again, the myth that "we shouldn't believe global warming predictions now, because in the 1970's they were predicting an ice age and/or cooling" surfaces. Recently, George Will mentioned it in his column (see Will-full ignorance) and the egregious Crichton manages to say "in the 1970's all the climate scientists believed an ice age was coming" (see Michael Crichtons State of Confusion ). You can find it in various other places too [here, mildly here, etc]. But its not an argument used by respectable and knowledgeable skeptics, because it crumbles under analysis. That doesn't stop it repeatedly cropping up in newsgroups though.
Yes, that's correct as far as I know. But you know how this will turn out: a couple of people will post the numbers, another few will bash them for those numbers, saying they're either incorrect or irrelevant. And around and around. In the end, no one will be any smarter and the side with more time on their hands will win the debate by having the last word.
This isn't a new thing, as the article (summary) implies. Moore has had this stance for a while now. Here's a 2004 Wired article on this "Eco-Traitor."
It's not just an interesting suggestion, it's the standard mode of referencing Wikipedia, as detailed on Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia. Has been for a long time, too. In fact, there's a "Cite this article" link on every article page which generates convenient reference texts in many styles - it can even do BibTeX.
I.e. if it was a male character, dead in some museum in front of some spectacular work of art and they used "Beautifully Executed," there would have been no controversy for this effective AD campaign.
You say that and then somehow conclude that thus the ad (why the capital letters?) isn't sexist? That's so strange. Of course the scantily clad woman is the reason why the ad may be perceived to be sexist. If you remove the woman, then no, it's not sexist anymore. The ad campaign was insufficiently sexist - what? Do we speak the same language? Now, I'm not saying it's such a horrible thing to be sexist.
In fact, that's really the least controversial aspect of the Hitman games, and I do find the ads to be in somewhat bad taste. You really need to look more closely at games if you think that because Hitman rewards "surgical strikes", it's more moral (for the lack of a better term) than other games. I think it's a much more harsh game than the non-thinking arcade violence that's present in Doom, for instance. I'm sure there are some people who can play Doom but couldn't stomach Hitman. Of course, Hitman isn't even in the same league as Manhunt...
Just a few things - and this time around, I mean it.;)
I do live in Germany, and I'm sure the attitudes towards homosexuality are a bit different over here. Though like I said, chances are I'm overestimating it -- I'd be very surprised if any of my acquaintances had a backwards attitude, but most of my acquaintances are university students; I'd expect people at US universities to be more relaxed about it than average. I'm very happy to see Germany scores well according to that Wikipedia page -- finally something that's going right. Although I'm sure it won't make the evening news alongside demographic trends and unemployment.;)
With respects to stopping the trend of gay's third and most recent meaning, I wish you well. You'll have to count me as a loss, though, at least for the moment. Of course it's not me you have to convince - I'll promise I'll stop using the word if you native speakers do.:) But influencing language change is really hard -- ask the French, though your best bet is to hire somebody in the PR industry, but really those energies would be better spend convincing people that homosexuality isn't a dangerous disease. I think you'll see that even in a world where someone being gay is perfectly fine, something being gay can still be lame.
Yeah, you can do that here, too. It's a good compromise between the ease of paying from home and getting a authenticated ticket. I never do it because it's 1 EUR extra at my usual cinema, though. And unless you need to reserve a seat, you might as well do it at the cinema.
Just a few things - first of all, thanks for the insightful reply!
When I referred to my social circle, I probably didn't use a good term. I didn't mean my close friends, I actually meant people I talk to in general, including, for instance, people on Slashdot and even people who just talk to me like via televsion or radio. If they consistently adapt a style of language, chances are I will pick it up, unless I'm violently opposed to it. That's just how language and language change work. (In fact, close social circles are not very open to change, weak social ties are much more innovative; that is a small village will often preserve "archaic" parts of language, with innovation coming in through relatively loose ties such as TV - at least that's one theory.)
You are of course correct in your assessment that I am more likely to use problematic terms such as gay in its pejorative meaning within my close social circle, simply as a part of less formal speech. Actually, that's not even limited to the negative meaning, since I'm not very likely to discuss matters of sexuality with any of my professors...
I disagree with your final paragraph. First of all, nigger currently is not analogous to gay. Nigger in nearly all cases refers to somebody of African descent, and in the vast majority of cases in a negative way. There is just no way for me to use the word in a meaningful fashion without explicitly intending to be offensive towards black people. Gay, on the other hand, I can, and do (unfortunately) use without intending offense towards gay people. They are of course free to take offense, but rest assured none is intended. Now my point was that to be analogous, the word nigger would need to have a seperate meaning - but it doesn't, and I don't see it having one in my lifetime.
The etymology of gay or nigger really doesn't play into the argument, although you're right with some things you say. I don't think that the usage of gay is considered more legitimate because homosexuality is still considered taboo or wrong, simply because I haven't met anyone who thinks so in a very long time, certainly nobody I know in my age. Of course I don't know the whole language community (and of course my real language community isn't even the relevant here, because I primarily speak German), and prejudice against gays might still be present in it and vaguely present in many people without them even realising it. But I really don't want to get into that, because, like I said, it's not that relevant to my argument that the two words aren't analogous in a meaningful sense in this discussion. A perhaps more appropriate and amusing example is the one others have brought up, lame, which is of course used in a pejorative sense without anybody taking offsense -- and why would they, none is intended.
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The word "moron" fell out of medical use, as did imbecile and idiot because the term started getting abused by lay people.
Hah. How odd. Wire transfers are usually free within the country, and, since a while ago, within most of the EU countries. Of course the banks take a day or two to "transfer" the money during which it also happens to generate interest for the banks...
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True enough, as long as you keep in mind that the niche isn't any smaller than the PC niche.
Yes, it's quite apparent that you don't think very much overall.
Exactly what I was thinking.
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor. (via imdb, what else)
Oh, we do understand. Hell, we don't even mind!
It pretty much doesn't do anything at all in vanilla Windows XP. But since the support is there, many tools make use of it, so if I wanted to I could have a semi-transparent IM contact list, etc. And of course there are tools that can set any given window to be semi-transparent. I just don't see why I would want to do that. It's nice in a highly graphic user interface, such as many games, but in a predominantly text based world like a browser, email app, development environment, P2P client, not so much. Of course you're quite welcome to have a different take on it!
Doesn't your browser cache the thumbnails? Personally, I find those screenshot galleries tedious because they're just a bit dull. I guess I'm spoiled by the cool Gnome release notes featuring heavily annotated screenshots.
While I have to agree with the AC to some degree -- most of the stuff is fairly underwhelming, I don't really need the windows to distort on moving, and I don't ever use alpha transparency in Windows XP -- what makes it all worth is that it apparently offers Exposé functionality. That not only looks cool, it's also extremely useful and something I wish I had in Windows. (BTW does anybody know of a good, modern tiling window manager for Win XP?)
I wouldn't assume they aren't affected, either, but the guy did test Ultra and Tight, and both weren't affected. So there. It's not in TFA, but one link away.
Yes, but it is still the same dumb width and you don't get font coloring nor do you get any kind of in file font coloring.
You can adjust the width and there is support for font coloring. The internal commands just don't color anything, cygwin's ls --color works fine.
The overall standard of living has increased.
The overall standard of living increased for black people under slavery, too. It's not a very powerful argument to make.
That doesn't always work. Sometimes your moving closer to work increases the commute time of your SO. And your kids', which isn't an option in many cases.
Well, nearly all PCs in that office were still running 2000, I guess now I know why. ;)
It really is fairly simple. The user would only do the \\servername\printername thing, I know, because I've been on the user side in the past. Don't get me wrong, there was also a list, but opening that up and selecting the right one from the 40 available printers was slower than just entering the name I had memorised. (The servername is the same for all printers, incidently, I essentially had to remember a number that was also on a label on the printer...)
I wrote this because I was pleasently surprised how straightforward it is. The driver is silently installed on first access, you never have to screw around with it - it just works!
Are you implying you don't "buy into" the Greenhouse climate model? Not "believing" in global warming it one thing, but that's just hilarious. What's next, you don't "buy into" gravity?
Congratulations for buying into the global cooling myth!
Every now and again, the myth that "we shouldn't believe global warming predictions now, because in the 1970's they were predicting an ice age and/or cooling" surfaces. Recently, George Will mentioned it in his column (see Will-full ignorance) and the egregious Crichton manages to say "in the 1970's all the climate scientists believed an ice age was coming" (see Michael Crichtons State of Confusion ). You can find it in various other places too [here, mildly here, etc]. But its not an argument used by respectable and knowledgeable skeptics, because it crumbles under analysis. That doesn't stop it repeatedly cropping up in newsgroups though.
Yes, that's correct as far as I know. But you know how this will turn out: a couple of people will post the numbers, another few will bash them for those numbers, saying they're either incorrect or irrelevant. And around and around. In the end, no one will be any smarter and the side with more time on their hands will win the debate by having the last word.
This isn't a new thing, as the article (summary) implies. Moore has had this stance for a while now. Here's a 2004 Wired article on this "Eco-Traitor."
It's not just an interesting suggestion, it's the standard mode of referencing Wikipedia, as detailed on Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia. Has been for a long time, too. In fact, there's a "Cite this article" link on every article page which generates convenient reference texts in many styles - it can even do BibTeX.
I.e. if it was a male character, dead in some museum in front of some spectacular work of art and they used "Beautifully Executed," there would have been no controversy for this effective AD campaign.
You say that and then somehow conclude that thus the ad (why the capital letters?) isn't sexist? That's so strange. Of course the scantily clad woman is the reason why the ad may be perceived to be sexist. If you remove the woman, then no, it's not sexist anymore. The ad campaign was insufficiently sexist - what? Do we speak the same language? Now, I'm not saying it's such a horrible thing to be sexist.
In fact, that's really the least controversial aspect of the Hitman games, and I do find the ads to be in somewhat bad taste. You really need to look more closely at games if you think that because Hitman rewards "surgical strikes", it's more moral (for the lack of a better term) than other games. I think it's a much more harsh game than the non-thinking arcade violence that's present in Doom, for instance. I'm sure there are some people who can play Doom but couldn't stomach Hitman. Of course, Hitman isn't even in the same league as Manhunt...
Instead, starve them to death and act all huffy and puffy if they're pissed off at you and start flying airplanes into iconic buildings!
Just a few things - and this time around, I mean it. ;)
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:) But influencing language change is really hard -- ask the French, though your best bet is to hire somebody in the PR industry, but really those energies would be better spend convincing people that homosexuality isn't a dangerous disease. I think you'll see that even in a world where someone being gay is perfectly fine, something being gay can still be lame.
I do live in Germany, and I'm sure the attitudes towards homosexuality are a bit different over here. Though like I said, chances are I'm overestimating it -- I'd be very surprised if any of my acquaintances had a backwards attitude, but most of my acquaintances are university students; I'd expect people at US universities to be more relaxed about it than average. I'm very happy to see Germany scores well according to that Wikipedia page -- finally something that's going right. Although I'm sure it won't make the evening news alongside demographic trends and unemployment.
With respects to stopping the trend of gay's third and most recent meaning, I wish you well. You'll have to count me as a loss, though, at least for the moment. Of course it's not me you have to convince - I'll promise I'll stop using the word if you native speakers do.
Yeah, you can do that here, too. It's a good compromise between the ease of paying from home and getting a authenticated ticket. I never do it because it's 1 EUR extra at my usual cinema, though. And unless you need to reserve a seat, you might as well do it at the cinema.
Just a few things - first of all, thanks for the insightful reply!
When I referred to my social circle, I probably didn't use a good term. I didn't mean my close friends, I actually meant people I talk to in general, including, for instance, people on Slashdot and even people who just talk to me like via televsion or radio. If they consistently adapt a style of language, chances are I will pick it up, unless I'm violently opposed to it. That's just how language and language change work. (In fact, close social circles are not very open to change, weak social ties are much more innovative; that is a small village will often preserve "archaic" parts of language, with innovation coming in through relatively loose ties such as TV - at least that's one theory.)
You are of course correct in your assessment that I am more likely to use problematic terms such as gay in its pejorative meaning within my close social circle, simply as a part of less formal speech. Actually, that's not even limited to the negative meaning, since I'm not very likely to discuss matters of sexuality with any of my professors...
I disagree with your final paragraph. First of all, nigger currently is not analogous to gay. Nigger in nearly all cases refers to somebody of African descent, and in the vast majority of cases in a negative way. There is just no way for me to use the word in a meaningful fashion without explicitly intending to be offensive towards black people. Gay, on the other hand, I can, and do (unfortunately) use without intending offense towards gay people. They are of course free to take offense, but rest assured none is intended. Now my point was that to be analogous, the word nigger would need to have a seperate meaning - but it doesn't, and I don't see it having one in my lifetime.
The etymology of gay or nigger really doesn't play into the argument, although you're right with some things you say. I don't think that the usage of gay is considered more legitimate because homosexuality is still considered taboo or wrong, simply because I haven't met anyone who thinks so in a very long time, certainly nobody I know in my age. Of course I don't know the whole language community (and of course my real language community isn't even the relevant here, because I primarily speak German), and prejudice against gays might still be present in it and vaguely present in many people without them even realising it. But I really don't want to get into that, because, like I said, it's not that relevant to my argument that the two words aren't analogous in a meaningful sense in this discussion. A perhaps more appropriate and amusing example is the one others have brought up, lame, which is of course used in a pejorative sense without anybody taking offsense -- and why would they, none is intended.
The word "moron" fell out of medical use, as did imbecile and idiot because the term started getting abused by lay people.
And, apparently, law people.
Hah. How odd. Wire transfers are usually free within the country, and, since a while ago, within most of the EU countries. Of course the banks take a day or two to "transfer" the money during which it also happens to generate interest for the banks...