Clearly you're not a scholar. When you glean concepts from another person's work, you are ethically entirely obligated to indicate as much. Not doing so is considered a serious breach of academic honor, and most institutions would treat it that way.
While you're very wrong about the withdrawal symptoms (at least from what I've witnessed; I've never experienced them myself, but I've never seen a flu victim scream like that), you're quite right that heroin is physically barely addictive at all. It takes a while to get hooked. Moreover, it does no damage to your body at all (except at the point of entry).
What confuses me most about this sort of initiative is that from what I can tell, P2P programs are only valuable if you have a broadband connection. It's hardly worth my time and bandwidth to sit around for hours waiting for an album to download, or even to wait 20 minutes or so for a song to download. My girlfriend still has dialup, and she can barely even sustain a viable connection to a P2P network, and so she wants a particular song, she asks me to get it for her and send it directly to her.
Not even addressing the fact that it's debatable that large scale mp3 downloading hurts sales, I think the numbers cited for the amount of people on a given P2P network are misleading, bloated by dialup connections that are barely downloading anything (as compared to the broadband connections). A CD has much better bandwidth than a dialup connection in almost all cases.
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The study of subatomic particles enables us to manipulate matter more intelligently. This has the eventual possibilities of:
a) allowing us to harness the storied "zero-point energy," which, if possible, would make fusion seem like a stale fart.
b) cool ass shit like time travel.
c) stuff you and I both haven't thought of, because it's inconceivably cool.
While I think going to Mars would be pretty neat, what exactly would it accomplish? We already know there isn't any life there anymore. Going to Mars would be more of a "look what we can do, mom" than anything else.
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Well, there are more than just up and down quarks, you know. There are also strange, charmed, top, and bottom quarks.
I'm no string theory expert, but the impression I've gotten is that quark characteristics are prescribed by precise string oscillations, so until you can show otherwise, you should assume that all similarly flavored quarks are in fact the same.
Why in the world was this article posted? Did I miss something?
This "31337 m0d" runs for approximately 10 minutes before the pump overheats. That's really useful if you're only interested in watching your boot sequence.
And anyway, all watercooling systems are DIY mods. That's the whole fucking point. This was truly a waste of time and bandwidth.
Some people have commented that the SMB games were more fun even though they were less real, or even because the added R&D that goes into making a more "real" game shortchanges the effort put into making the game actually fun.
I would go even further. The games of the SMB era worked with their limitations rather than trying to exceed them. I'm thinking of the mushroom princess storylines with huge surreal hills with eyes in the backgrounds--this was the stuff they could do, so they did it. Moreover, since they knew they wouldn't be able to make an awe-inspiringly verisimilitudinous world, they opted to make it awe-inspiringly weird. And the games were better off for it.
That's why you should have read the article. While there will be some instances of direct single word transliterations, there will also be phrases for context and likely even idioms.
Your run-of-the-mill gripe is exactly what this project is trying to address. Don't you think these guys already know about Babelfish?
Wouldn't it be standard to include a link to the site where you can sign up or at least find out more information about this thing? I find the lack of ligature vexatious, to say the least.
I'm sure the senators and congressmen of our republic would be very interested to hear about this democracy thing; they probably welcome all distractions from relevant work.
Of course, it's hardly surprising that his argument would be so inane and backward, given that his sig clearly demonstrates his inability to grasp the meat of even simple issues.
i just heard some disturbing news. your mother died from cock exposure. truly an american icon; she will be missed.
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Do remember that this is Slashdot, where the PS2 (and its vaunted linux add-on) is quite popular, so your background checks on Sony are all but meaningless.
It's sad commentary on the state of the internet (or the world?) that if somebody posts an article that contains no glaring grammatical or orthographical errors he is lauded as a likely english major.
It should have been obvious from his scattered style and his petulance that he is no older than 15. Just because he's coherent doesn't mean he's a genius.
So far as I can glean from the article, the only really worthwhile thing he did (tracking down the PPP bug) didn't involve any actual code authoring at all.
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Clearly you're not a scholar. When you glean concepts from another person's work, you are ethically entirely obligated to indicate as much. Not doing so is considered a serious breach of academic honor, and most institutions would treat it that way.
Where's the spelling error? Are you just stupid, as your sig suggests?
In other words, the choicest morsel.
While you're very wrong about the withdrawal symptoms (at least from what I've witnessed; I've never experienced them myself, but I've never seen a flu victim scream like that), you're quite right that heroin is physically barely addictive at all. It takes a while to get hooked. Moreover, it does no damage to your body at all (except at the point of entry).
What confuses me most about this sort of initiative is that from what I can tell, P2P programs are only valuable if you have a broadband connection. It's hardly worth my time and bandwidth to sit around for hours waiting for an album to download, or even to wait 20 minutes or so for a song to download. My girlfriend still has dialup, and she can barely even sustain a viable connection to a P2P network, and so she wants a particular song, she asks me to get it for her and send it directly to her.
Not even addressing the fact that it's debatable that large scale mp3 downloading hurts sales, I think the numbers cited for the amount of people on a given P2P network are misleading, bloated by dialup connections that are barely downloading anything (as compared to the broadband connections). A CD has much better bandwidth than a dialup connection in almost all cases.
The study of subatomic particles enables us to manipulate matter more intelligently. This has the eventual possibilities of:
a) allowing us to harness the storied "zero-point energy," which, if possible, would make fusion seem like a stale fart.
b) cool ass shit like time travel.
c) stuff you and I both haven't thought of, because it's inconceivably cool.
While I think going to Mars would be pretty neat, what exactly would it accomplish? We already know there isn't any life there anymore. Going to Mars would be more of a "look what we can do, mom" than anything else.
Well, there are more than just up and down quarks, you know. There are also strange, charmed, top, and bottom quarks.
I'm no string theory expert, but the impression I've gotten is that quark characteristics are prescribed by precise string oscillations, so until you can show otherwise, you should assume that all similarly flavored quarks are in fact the same.
I have a feeling it only became a joke once it was pointed out.
Why in the world was this article posted? Did I miss something?
This "31337 m0d" runs for approximately 10 minutes before the pump overheats. That's really useful if you're only interested in watching your boot sequence.
And anyway, all watercooling systems are DIY mods. That's the whole fucking point. This was truly a waste of time and bandwidth.
But who needs a simulation? If you have an Athlon, just jiggle the fan off and watch the thing in real life!
Some people have commented that the SMB games were more fun even though they were less real, or even because the added R&D that goes into making a more "real" game shortchanges the effort put into making the game actually fun.
I would go even further. The games of the SMB era worked with their limitations rather than trying to exceed them. I'm thinking of the mushroom princess storylines with huge surreal hills with eyes in the backgrounds--this was the stuff they could do, so they did it. Moreover, since they knew they wouldn't be able to make an awe-inspiringly verisimilitudinous world, they opted to make it awe-inspiringly weird. And the games were better off for it.
Just because we're talking about computer stuff doesn't mean we can't be poetic.
That's why you should have read the article. While there will be some instances of direct single word transliterations, there will also be phrases for context and likely even idioms.
Your run-of-the-mill gripe is exactly what this project is trying to address. Don't you think these guys already know about Babelfish?
then you should go to their site, which was completely unmentioned in the article: wwl page
Wouldn't it be standard to include a link to the site where you can sign up or at least find out more information about this thing? I find the lack of ligature vexatious, to say the least.
I'm sure the senators and congressmen of our republic would be very interested to hear about this democracy thing; they probably welcome all distractions from relevant work.
Of course, it's hardly surprising that his argument would be so inane and backward, given that his sig clearly demonstrates his inability to grasp the meat of even simple issues.
This first post is brought to you by the letters F and P, and the number 31337.
Maybe you should rig up a treadmill to power your house and kill two birds with one stone, if you smell what I'm cooking.
i just heard some disturbing news. your mother died from cock exposure. truly an american icon; she will be missed.
Do remember that this is Slashdot, where the PS2 (and its vaunted linux add-on) is quite popular, so your background checks on Sony are all but meaningless.
.. I know it sounds trollish, but I must inquire: why would you ever want to run 10 mp3s at once? Particularly while watching movies?
How did this get modded troll?
It's sad commentary on the state of the internet (or the world?) that if somebody posts an article that contains no glaring grammatical or orthographical errors he is lauded as a likely english major.
It should have been obvious from his scattered style and his petulance that he is no older than 15. Just because he's coherent doesn't mean he's a genius.
So far as I can glean from the article, the only really worthwhile thing he did (tracking down the PPP bug) didn't involve any actual code authoring at all.