I'm not as bothered by the dialect as I am by the lack of coherent organization. The latter is the worse problem.
For example, let's say you had written this instead of your actual post:
Maybe the writers of this broken English write more efficiently, and over time it will be a recognized dialect of English. You should get over it: they will develop a sense of what sounds right and what doesn't, becoming closer to total information entropy.
I think it is safe to say that this rewriting, (while still correctly spelt and roughly grammatical), obscures or even alters your intended meaning. This is exactly what many people are doing to themselves.
The dialect issue just makes things worse. If your hypothesis regarding the entropy of the new dialect is correct, please remember that increased entropy makes reliable communication more difficult.
My feeling is that the new dialect is optimized for bandwidth, at the expense of precision and comprehensibility. I can accept that tradeoff for IM and similar bandwidth-constrained environments.
However, it's frustrating to deal with a high-entropy dialect when more bandwidth is available, particularly where (as in business) clarity and precision are more important.
Think of it as a die. Having an accident is rolling a 1. Keep rolling. How long can you go without rolling a 1? Your chance each time is 1/6. But the odds of rolling no ones in 1000 rolls is very low. It can be done, but its low. Realistically, you are going to roll a one, and it is equally likely to happen at any given time.
A better analogy with death and 1/6 odds might be a traditional game of "russian roulette".
The horror is set up through the plot device of putting a lone woman deep in the bowels of an alien world battling Lovecraftian horrors, using a battle suit constructed by a dead alien race.
It was only vaguely hinted at in the earliest games, but recent Metroid games have increased the Lovecraftian feel. Modern Metroid properties tend toward a feel somewhere between Lovecraft lite and the movie Alien (the latter is an admitted influence).
Admittedly, Elder Races like the Chozo and Luminoth are probably a bit cuddly by Lovecraft standards, at least until their bodies are posessed or they slowly descend into madness under the influence of primeval darkness.
Somehow I have a feeling the ultrafine fiber fragments shed by these yarns or fabrics made from them with age and wear won't be so happy biologically.
Generally small particles or fillaments of any material smaller than a certain size are bad for you if inhaled (i.e. Pneumoconiosis), regardless of their composition.
Additionally, if fiber fragments are short and fine enough, you essentially have little needle-like objects that can do a lot of damage directly at the cellular level.
So, not that I'm being pessimistic or anything, but in the long term I don't think it'll remain an everyday item. It might hit the open market for a while, but a few decades of cancer studies, toxicoligical studies and lawsuits would likely bring an end to that.
While my guesses are just that, there are a few discouraging signs in research to date. Watch this area; we'll see whether further results warrant concern or not.
To be clear, I think this technology should certainly be pursued, but we need to be guarded in our optimisim regarding its widespread applicability.
I strongly suspect neither the conservatives nor the liberals would like him very much.
That's certainly what happened 2000 years ago; both the ultra-religious conservatives (e.g. Pharisees) and hellenized liberals (e.g. Sadducces) hated him to the point where (even though they hated each others' guts too) they were willing to ally against him.
There are other EVM vendors as well which don't exactly appear to be on the up-and-up either. As I recall, the biggest one (besides Diebold) has the Diebold president's brother as its vice-president.
Many Christians should remember that many of the Biblical characters were poligimists (Jacob, Leah, and Rachel, anyone?) and had less than perfect lives (Noah exposing himself in a drunken stupor). But today's moral values don't permit any of this behavior.
Or corrupt prophets trying to put words in the mouth of God, or Lot's daughters getting him stone drunk and sleeping with him, or Moses murdering the Egyptian man, or David abusing his position as King to get a woman to sleep with him when her husband was away (and then getting her husband killed when he was in danger of being found out).
I'm not sure it's the best comparison to make the point you're making, though. The thing to realize is that an awful lot of these things weren't even acceptable in the culture of the day, either. Someone being mentioned in the Bible doesn't automatically constitute an endorsement of their behavior; very often these Old Testament things are in part cautionary tales, going on to show that the same people invariably suffered the consequences of their actions. Even when occasionally the original author of a section does appear to have approved, the consequences are still plain for later readers to see.
Even the polygamy of some Old Testament figures (which was quite acceptable in the culture of their own times) were shown to have adverse consequences for them, their wives, and their descendants. Abraham's experiment in polygamy established two rival claims to the middle east by descendants of his two children; Ishmael (ancestor of the Arab people) and Isaac (ancestor of the Jewish people). With Jacob, in turn, his wives and family suffered as he invariably played favorites and bitter rivalries developed. With that and other examples it's little wonder the Jewish tradition gradually realized polygamy might be a bad idea. The culture permitted David a lot more leeway as King in that regard, but reading the whole store you're left with the sense that perhaps it shouldn't have.
As for Noah.. I guess that mostly just comes down to a rather embarassing family memory and a lesson in responsible drinking. Just imagine coming home from a night out with your brothers to find your centenarian father passed out drunk and naked in the middle of the tent. Or don't. Not the best mental image.:P Probably everybody laid off the alcohol for a while after that one.
These were the stories of the people and situations from which "today's moral values," to the extent that they have "Judeo-Christian" roots, ultimately emerged. "Today's moral values" in that sense are probably closer to "lessons learned".
I think it is an attempt to suggest a notion of morality that doesn't depend on a single culture's ideals. These folks did screw up, whether or not their actions were culturally acceptable to their contemporaries. They hurt themselves, and they hurt other people. But there is another point also; the God described is one that was still willing to deal with them, if they were willing repent and deal with Him. More than caution, it does try to offer some hope, too.
We used to use scantron-type ballots here in Maryland (using a black marker instead of pencil).
Very simple, and even clearer than most "real" scantrons -- each choice was printed directly on the card beside its corresponding "bubble" (actually more of a "complete the arrow" deal).
This year, however, over the protests of many experts we switched to the new touchscreen Diebold devices. Subsequent challenges were also shot down.
As someone who had been following the Diebold fiasco for a while, I felt like crying.
Perl 6 grammars are a full citizen of the language on a level with subroutines and classes (loosely speaking, in Perl 6, rule:grammar::method:class, actually). They're effectively Turing-complete as a result, since Perl 6 is obviously Turing-complete.
Perl 5 "regexps", by contrast, are more of a specialized second language bolted onto the side (I use quotes since Perl 5 regexps are already marginally more powerful than "pure" regexps).
Just be sure your ISP keeps their installation of pine up-to-date. I've seen all too many installations of pine that haven't been updated since sometime in the 90s.
Granted, I doubt pine is a big target for phishing scams, but nonetheless...
One, at least some of the attackers WOULD have been caught long before the attacks of the agents investigating them had been given the authorization to proceed. It was clear at that point what they were up to, and at that point it would have been relatively easy to clean up the rest of that particular plot, or at least prevent it from proceeding.
Two, realistically, the only reason the hijackings worked was that people expected the old "be quiet and we'll all land safely" arrangement that had been the case in past hijackings. Once people realize that's not the case they'll jump the attackers, weapons or no. That's what happened on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania.
Not that letting people arm themselves for protection is necessarily a bad idea.
I also think the Israeli solution of sealing the cockpit off from the passenger compartment entirely would be good and simple.
Sad, and either naive or cynical of them. It's much harder to repeal or limit legislation which has already been passed. Freedom is very easy to lose and much harder to reclaim.
There was little need for the Patriot Act besides; had our normal law-enforcement apparatus been functioning as designed, the 9/11 hijackers would have been caught.
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I'm not as bothered by the dialect as I am by the lack of coherent organization. The latter is the worse problem.
For example, let's say you had written this instead of your actual post:
I think it is safe to say that this rewriting, (while still correctly spelt and roughly grammatical), obscures or even alters your intended meaning. This is exactly what many people are doing to themselves.
The dialect issue just makes things worse. If your hypothesis regarding the entropy of the new dialect is correct, please remember that increased entropy makes reliable communication more difficult.
My feeling is that the new dialect is optimized for bandwidth, at the expense of precision and comprehensibility. I can accept that tradeoff for IM and similar bandwidth-constrained environments.
However, it's frustrating to deal with a high-entropy dialect when more bandwidth is available, particularly where (as in business) clarity and precision are more important.
No, they'd all be identical, and each one would be 1/4 as sharp than the original (since only 1/4 of the information would be available).
So, (true) holograms are even neater than you think.
Aren't you supposed to spin the cylinder between attempts?
No, the stereogram on the page is just a stereogram reproduction of the actual "hologram" inscribed in the black plastic.
With the original plastic object you can move relative to it and the viewpoint will appear to change smoothly.
Your clone might not be too happy about it though.
A better analogy with death and 1/6 odds might be a traditional game of "russian roulette".
Probably. The Chozo are bird-creatures; with a bird theme like that of course he'd have doves.
It might even make sense in context this time.
...of course, when the movie is made, John Woo will most likely make a fluffy sexy action flick and entirely miss the point. :/
The horror is set up through the plot device of putting a lone woman deep in the bowels of an alien world battling Lovecraftian horrors, using a battle suit constructed by a dead alien race.
It was only vaguely hinted at in the earliest games, but recent Metroid games have increased the Lovecraftian feel. Modern Metroid properties tend toward a feel somewhere between Lovecraft lite and the movie Alien (the latter is an admitted influence).
Admittedly, Elder Races like the Chozo and Luminoth are probably a bit cuddly by Lovecraft standards, at least until their bodies are posessed or they slowly descend into madness under the influence of primeval darkness.
The first rule of Six Sigma: you don't talk about Six Sigma.
The first airplanes, in particular, were often made with cloth stretched over a wooden or metal frame.
Somehow I have a feeling the ultrafine fiber fragments shed by these yarns or fabrics made from them with age and wear won't be so happy biologically.
Generally small particles or fillaments of any material smaller than a certain size are bad for you if inhaled (i.e. Pneumoconiosis), regardless of their composition.
Additionally, if fiber fragments are short and fine enough, you essentially have little needle-like objects that can do a lot of damage directly at the cellular level.
So, not that I'm being pessimistic or anything, but in the long term I don't think it'll remain an everyday item. It might hit the open market for a while, but a few decades of cancer studies, toxicoligical studies and lawsuits would likely bring an end to that.
While my guesses are just that, there are a few discouraging signs in research to date. Watch this area; we'll see whether further results warrant concern or not.
To be clear, I think this technology should certainly be pursued, but we need to be guarded in our optimisim regarding its widespread applicability.
I strongly suspect neither the conservatives nor the liberals would like him very much.
That's certainly what happened 2000 years ago; both the ultra-religious conservatives (e.g. Pharisees) and hellenized liberals (e.g. Sadducces) hated him to the point where (even though they hated each others' guts too) they were willing to ally against him.
So what happens if someone exceeds the MTU? ^_-
Atlantis is spelt "Numenor" in LOTR. Therein Aragorn is named as a descendant of the Numenorean (Atlantean) kings.
There are other EVM vendors as well which don't exactly appear to be on the up-and-up either. As I recall, the biggest one (besides Diebold) has the Diebold president's brother as its vice-president.
HMMM...
So are the radioactive materials from coal burning emissions.
Or corrupt prophets trying to put words in the mouth of God, or Lot's daughters getting him stone drunk and sleeping with him, or Moses murdering the Egyptian man, or David abusing his position as King to get a woman to sleep with him when her husband was away (and then getting her husband killed when he was in danger of being found out).
I'm not sure it's the best comparison to make the point you're making, though. The thing to realize is that an awful lot of these things weren't even acceptable in the culture of the day, either. Someone being mentioned in the Bible doesn't automatically constitute an endorsement of their behavior; very often these Old Testament things are in part cautionary tales, going on to show that the same people invariably suffered the consequences of their actions. Even when occasionally the original author of a section does appear to have approved, the consequences are still plain for later readers to see.
Even the polygamy of some Old Testament figures (which was quite acceptable in the culture of their own times) were shown to have adverse consequences for them, their wives, and their descendants. Abraham's experiment in polygamy established two rival claims to the middle east by descendants of his two children; Ishmael (ancestor of the Arab people) and Isaac (ancestor of the Jewish people). With Jacob, in turn, his wives and family suffered as he invariably played favorites and bitter rivalries developed. With that and other examples it's little wonder the Jewish tradition gradually realized polygamy might be a bad idea. The culture permitted David a lot more leeway as King in that regard, but reading the whole store you're left with the sense that perhaps it shouldn't have.
As for Noah.. I guess that mostly just comes down to a rather embarassing family memory and a lesson in responsible drinking. Just imagine coming home from a night out with your brothers to find your centenarian father passed out drunk and naked in the middle of the tent. Or don't. Not the best mental image. :P Probably everybody laid off the alcohol for a while after that one.
These were the stories of the people and situations from which "today's moral values," to the extent that they have "Judeo-Christian" roots, ultimately emerged. "Today's moral values" in that sense are probably closer to "lessons learned".
I think it is an attempt to suggest a notion of morality that doesn't depend on a single culture's ideals. These folks did screw up, whether or not their actions were culturally acceptable to their contemporaries. They hurt themselves, and they hurt other people. But there is another point also; the God described is one that was still willing to deal with them, if they were willing repent and deal with Him. More than caution, it does try to offer some hope, too.
We used to use scantron-type ballots here in Maryland (using a black marker instead of pencil).
Very simple, and even clearer than most "real" scantrons -- each choice was printed directly on the card beside its corresponding "bubble" (actually more of a "complete the arrow" deal).
This year, however, over the protests of many experts we switched to the new touchscreen Diebold devices. Subsequent challenges were also shot down.
As someone who had been following the Diebold fiasco for a while, I felt like crying.
Perl 6 grammars are a full citizen of the language on a level with subroutines and classes (loosely speaking, in Perl 6, rule:grammar::method:class, actually). They're effectively Turing-complete as a result, since Perl 6 is obviously Turing-complete.
Perl 5 "regexps", by contrast, are more of a specialized second language bolted onto the side (I use quotes since Perl 5 regexps are already marginally more powerful than "pure" regexps).
Just be sure your ISP keeps their installation of pine up-to-date. I've seen all too many installations of pine that haven't been updated since sometime in the 90s.
Granted, I doubt pine is a big target for phishing scams, but nonetheless...
I know you're joking, but I've SEEN that happen. All of the above simultaneously, plus rowdy passengers.
Two things:
One, at least some of the attackers WOULD have been caught long before the attacks of the agents investigating them had been given the authorization to proceed. It was clear at that point what they were up to, and at that point it would have been relatively easy to clean up the rest of that particular plot, or at least prevent it from proceeding.
Two, realistically, the only reason the hijackings worked was that people expected the old "be quiet and we'll all land safely" arrangement that had been the case in past hijackings. Once people realize that's not the case they'll jump the attackers, weapons or no. That's what happened on the plane that went down in Pennsylvania.
Not that letting people arm themselves for protection is necessarily a bad idea.
I also think the Israeli solution of sealing the cockpit off from the passenger compartment entirely would be good and simple.
Granted. It's easier to renew an existing piece of legislation than would be to pass it anew, but still harder than letting it lapse.
Perhaps nothing will come of the current on-again-off-again talk of renewing the act and disposing of the pesky sunset clause this time around.
Sad, and either naive or cynical of them. It's much harder to repeal or limit legislation which has already been passed. Freedom is very easy to lose and much harder to reclaim.
There was little need for the Patriot Act besides; had our normal law-enforcement apparatus been functioning as designed, the 9/11 hijackers would have been caught.