Sadly, or perhaps not, this was exactly what I did after the contest. Problem is the existing perl modules to break words into syllables aren't very robust. I've found a couple other people who've done similar things, but all of the syllable code so far is a little thin.
I'm getting a decent hit rate on mine so far, and teaching it as I go. It just takes a word list and randomizes a haiku out of it. Which can be more interesting than it sounds.
comedy selects petitioned rabbits oft ox forgetting picket
headlong resistant activist verges teachings equations never
checkup flaps guard does tolerably recursion sluice indebted calms
One of my entries won 3rd place in the 'Written In Perl' category. I flipped out when I saw I had actually won. I figured the 'brute force of brainwashing/pestering the judges' was, at best, worth a mild chuckle. And I certainly thought all of my others were better. But I'm not one to argue.
I've been going on and on about it since Monday. Mostly because for me, it it means I have now unmistakably crossed the point of no return. I can no longer deny I am a geek. I can no longer even pretend to. But It's ok, I have come to terms.
I'm surprised this even happened. I live playing Civilization, and I'm looking forward to the pirates remake, but Civilization was basically stolen from Avalon Hill. Their Advanced Civilization board game is easily one of the best table games ever made. It will probably never be printed again.
If you don't see it, you've probably not played both. I will never forgive Microprose.
Over at wrestleview.com, Google's Ad bot was serving ads for cheap Soma next to an article talking about the death of a wrestler, in which Soma was partly responsible.
I wrote an article about this, after which I filed a complaint with Google, and got a quick response from Google.
After seeing something like that, I'd be hard pressed to fight for the rights of sleezy pill pushers to advertise freely online.
It's Luke 6:31, and I know what it says. And what it says is not what I was saying in the least. I thought context would make that clear, but apparently not.
I dunno. People who voluntarily confess generally can be considered 100% guilty. And while I agree that people who have been molested before are likely to do it again, I'm not sure the medical link to an altered brain chemistry has actually been proven, though I admit it's not my field. Plenty of people get molested as children and don't turn out to do it themselves.
I think overall you make a good point - we put in that bit about 'cruel and unusual punishment' because of stuff like this. We want to believe that we are educated, evolved, informed, intellectual, etc. And as a nation, and especially as a government, we should be. We aren't always, but we should be.
The problem is, that some people are outright barbarians. And I'm a real 'do unto others' kind of guy when it comes to justice. I'd like to say that we should't ever have to kill people, but then you get people like Gary Ridgeway. I'd like to say no one deserves prison rape. Then a Luis Alfredo Gavarito comes along. Suddenly, my carefully built up moral high ground is shot to pieces.
And really, I gotta be honest here. As much as I might like to try and subscribe to set of morals that excludes the use of rape, murder and torture as punishments, I know that if I ever saw someone 'touching' my young son, I would very quickly be guilty of any combination of the three.
Show me one documented time this has _ever_ happened.
I have my own opinions on the whole three strikes thing and street life and so forth, but really. Show me where this has happened. And I don't mean 'my friend's college roommate knew this guy who had thi friend who...'
We talked about the lawsuit here and it's rather similar.
Review: Zurakov filed a class action suit against register.com because he registered a domain and, while he was building it, his domain pointed to a register.com "coming soon" page that had links to services and so on. The argument: they were using his domain to profit.
In Verisign's case, I suppose they could argue that the sites belong to no one, but haven't we seen court precedence against this sort of thing?
I wrote one along the same lines probably. I've been tasked with making it Java. It's on my "todo" list.
In any case, I have one available for demo as well.
On one hand, I'm surprised there isn't a common one. On the other, it's not surprising at all. I imagine few people who would want to set it up actually are hourly.
Ok, why haven't I seen this mentioned yet? Or am I blind?
IANAL, but if I were, this whole story would make for the most beautiful closing argument I could ever hope for. It would be worth all this negative hype when it paid off in court.
Because when it's all said and done, Joe Jury Duty can understand the phrase "It's so simple, even a 12yr old child can understand it."
Let's face it, the RIAA couldn't buy this kind of opportunity. Well, ok. Not for less than $2,000 anyway. And no, I don't think they 'arranged' for it to happen. But everyone is acting like they screwed up. If I can spin this to the benefit of the Devil's Advocate, be sure they can.
By most standards, I am doing ok. I don't live in a box. I work for a fairly large software company. I have all my limbs, healthcare, and food for me, my son, my fiancee and my pets.
We live in a midsize yuppie town. My son attends, for all intents, a poorish school. About half the students do not speak english as their first language.
Most of their parents live in considerably worse conditions, have to work long hours for little pay at unskilled jobs. In other words, they're pretty poor.
I work at the school on request to help with their computer problems. Through a small network of connections, I am beginning to work to get computers and net access into these homes, as hardware becomes available to me.
Someone mentioned PeoplePC. There was a time when PeoplePC had a companion program - PeopleGive - where computers and access were given to low income families.
So the answer to your somewhat abrasive question is, no. "We" aren't giving away computers and net access. But apparently, some of "Us" are. You can call me whatever you like, be it communist, socalist, ignorant, naive or just plain stupid. But for some reason, I have to think that opening up the net to kids who might not otherwise be able to get to it is somehow better than using old computer hardware to fill otherwise empty and usable space in my garage.
Anyone who sees why this might be a good idea and who might want to contribute, mail me. If you don't see the merit, then move on. I'd rather see some kid using hardware I hadn't powered up in months to access the net than watch it gather dust.
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*buys TedTschopp 42 metric beers* It's a bloody shame no one recognized the reference.
I'm just running some old time radio suspense shows, war of the worlds, and silence! the musical over the in-game radio station.
It's called a bookmark.
Sadly, or perhaps not, this was exactly what I did after the contest. Problem is the existing perl modules to break words into syllables aren't very robust. I've found a couple other people who've done similar things, but all of the syllable code so far is a little thin.
I'm getting a decent hit rate on mine so far, and teaching it as I go. It just takes a word list and randomizes a haiku out of it. Which can be more interesting than it sounds.
comedy selects
petitioned rabbits oft ox
forgetting picket
headlong resistant
activist verges teachings
equations never
checkup flaps guard does
tolerably recursion
sluice indebted calms
allegrettos glares
banshees blooms grievance prosper
ironical counts
persecution crew
fragrances limb corder keels
bloodbath unguarded
album unbroken
melons Iranian cools
curvature bistate
Maybe it's less interesting to people who aren't me.
You have totally made my day. Thanks! I thought this was my best one.
One of my entries won 3rd place in the 'Written In Perl' category. I flipped out when I saw I had actually won. I figured the 'brute force of brainwashing/pestering the judges' was, at best, worth a mild chuckle. And I certainly thought all of my others were better. But I'm not one to argue.
I've been going on and on about it since Monday. Mostly because for me, it it means I have now unmistakably crossed the point of no return. I can no longer deny I am a geek. I can no longer even pretend to. But It's ok, I have come to terms.
I'm surprised this even happened. I live playing Civilization, and I'm looking forward to the pirates remake, but Civilization was basically stolen from Avalon Hill. Their Advanced Civilization board game is easily one of the best table games ever made. It will probably never be printed again.
If you don't see it, you've probably not played both. I will never forgive Microprose.
You could be in serious trouble. There was such a virus - or at least it had the powers to do what you are experiencing.
I got infected with this virus once. It caused uncontrollable cachinnation.
Even the Ancient Roman's had bad taste in gaming mechanics. ... (duck) ...
Let the debates begin. Muahahahaha!
Over at wrestleview.com, Google's Ad bot was serving ads for cheap Soma next to an article talking about the death of a wrestler, in which Soma was partly responsible.
I wrote an article about this, after which I filed a complaint with Google, and got a quick response from Google.
After seeing something like that, I'd be hard pressed to fight for the rights of sleezy pill pushers to advertise freely online.
... a subatomic particle that our friend Jar Jar would have named.
That, or the new compact SUV from Nissan.
The Nissan Meson. Drive.
It's Luke 6:31, and I know what it says. And what it says is not what I was saying in the least. I thought context would make that clear, but apparently not.
I dunno. People who voluntarily confess generally can be considered 100% guilty. And while I agree that people who have been molested before are likely to do it again, I'm not sure the medical link to an altered brain chemistry has actually been proven, though I admit it's not my field. Plenty of people get molested as children and don't turn out to do it themselves.
I think overall you make a good point - we put in that bit about 'cruel and unusual punishment' because of stuff like this. We want to believe that we are educated, evolved, informed, intellectual, etc. And as a nation, and especially as a government, we should be. We aren't always, but we should be.
The problem is, that some people are outright barbarians. And I'm a real 'do unto others' kind of guy when it comes to justice. I'd like to say that we should't ever have to kill people, but then you get people like Gary Ridgeway. I'd like to say no one deserves prison rape. Then a Luis Alfredo Gavarito comes along. Suddenly, my carefully built up moral high ground is shot to pieces.
And really, I gotta be honest here. As much as I might like to try and subscribe to set of morals that excludes the use of rape, murder and torture as punishments, I know that if I ever saw someone 'touching' my young son, I would very quickly be guilty of any combination of the three.
This is why I am not a judge.
Show me one documented time this has _ever_ happened.
I have my own opinions on the whole three strikes thing and street life and so forth, but really. Show me where this has happened. And I don't mean 'my friend's college roommate knew this guy who had thi friend who...'
That may be the case now, but it wasn't always. see here for details.
I mean... They actually REALLY use them?
I thought every self-respecting geek just used text editors.
We talked about the lawsuit here and it's rather similar.
Review: Zurakov filed a class action suit against register.com because he registered a domain and, while he was building it, his domain pointed to a register.com "coming soon" page that had links to services and so on. The argument: they were using his domain to profit.
In Verisign's case, I suppose they could argue that the sites belong to no one, but haven't we seen court precedence against this sort of thing?
The two cases have interesting parallels, IMO.
IANAL. Not FDIC Insured.
I wrote one along the same lines probably. I've been tasked with making it Java. It's on my "todo" list. In any case, I have one available for demo as well. On one hand, I'm surprised there isn't a common one. On the other, it's not surprising at all. I imagine few people who would want to set it up actually are hourly.
I ran the jwz job on my bit, and it did not do it.
Did I do it ok?
Ok, why haven't I seen this mentioned yet? Or am I blind?
IANAL, but if I were, this whole story would make for the most beautiful closing argument I could ever hope for. It would be worth all this negative hype when it paid off in court.
Because when it's all said and done, Joe Jury Duty can understand the phrase "It's so simple, even a 12yr old child can understand it."
Let's face it, the RIAA couldn't buy this kind of opportunity. Well, ok. Not for less than $2,000 anyway. And no, I don't think they 'arranged' for it to happen. But everyone is acting like they screwed up. If I can spin this to the benefit of the Devil's Advocate, be sure they can.
By most standards, I am doing ok. I don't live in a box. I work for a fairly large software company. I have all my limbs, healthcare, and food for me, my son, my fiancee and my pets.
We live in a midsize yuppie town. My son attends, for all intents, a poorish school. About half the students do not speak english as their first language.
Most of their parents live in considerably worse conditions, have to work long hours for little pay at unskilled jobs. In other words, they're pretty poor.
I work at the school on request to help with their computer problems. Through a small network of connections, I am beginning to work to get computers and net access into these homes, as hardware becomes available to me.
Someone mentioned PeoplePC. There was a time when PeoplePC had a companion program - PeopleGive - where computers and access were given to low income families.
So the answer to your somewhat abrasive question is, no. "We" aren't giving away computers and net access. But apparently, some of "Us" are. You can call me whatever you like, be it communist, socalist, ignorant, naive or just plain stupid. But for some reason, I have to think that opening up the net to kids who might not otherwise be able to get to it is somehow better than using old computer hardware to fill otherwise empty and usable space in my garage.
Anyone who sees why this might be a good idea and who might want to contribute, mail me. If you don't see the merit, then move on. I'd rather see some kid using hardware I hadn't powered up in months to access the net than watch it gather dust.
The company, whose artists range from U2 to Reba McIntyre, will also cut wholesale prices on cassettes so its MSRP for top-line releases will be $8.98
Wow! You mean, you can BUY tape archives of CDs in the stores? Here I've been ripping my cds and backing them up to tape like a jerk.
This should save me LOADS of time.
I read that as "A Genie Causing Dyslexia Found." I just knew there couldn't be magic involved here.
Solidarity brothers! DYSLEXICS UNTIE!
Smithers: Shall I send out for some Chinese Sir?
Burns: No, those people are all gristle.
Believe it or not, they have a rather high ROI.