I'm a moderator on a decently active forum. At the time I got the gig, there were dozens of spambot-created threads a *day*. We talked about adding a captcha to the signup, but we couldn't really find any that weren't easy to crack, without also being painful for *humans*. Then someone suggested we could just ask a trivial question about the associated game (for instance, "What do accordion thieves steal?" (answer: "accordions")), and if spambots started getting through, we could just change the question. It's been two years. We've gotten *maybe* one spambot a month, if that. I don't know why every site doesn't just do this.
Heck, I also know one pretty big blog I read, to submit a comment, he has a box that looks like a captcha, that always has the same text, "2+2". To comment, you enter "4". He never gets spam, either.
Not in Long Beach... out here, there are oil wells all the frack over the city, not terribly well hidden. There's one right out behind our office, and some nice-looking houses right on the other side of a small fence from it. They just installed one up the hill from my apartment, too.
If you consider LA an hour or two south of the bay area down I5... you chose a good time to post as AC, since you'd have to do about 200 MPH, and I think the cops would want to hear about that.
At Harvey Mudd College, prefixing the name of a game with "death" implies that it's been turned into a drinking game: "death chess", "death checkers", etc. The meaning of prefixing the name of a game with "strip", of course, should be fairly obvious. Combining these two concepts has been done in the past; I know of at least one instance of "death strip Worms", for instance.
So, when I saw this headline, I was momentarily quite confused.
"Also a lot of people who browse slash from work have to use IE"
I'm pretty sure slash is by definition NSFW. So *why* would people be browsing it from work, and why would it matter whether they were doing it with IE?
Anyway, yeah, I was fairly amused that of the several random links claiming to be interesting in this thread, the *vast* majority of them were actually goatse. Thankfully, my work's web filter did something useful for once and blocked them all.
Indeed. California would definitely benefit from a high-speed rail just by itself. Which is why a couple years ago, we voted to build one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
(Whether it'll actually get built before the project runs out of money is another question. But I know I, at least, look forward to hopefully seeing this link happen.)
There might only be three films, but there are also a good handful of books. In fact, I'm about *this* close to forgetting about Lucas entirely, and pretending the Star Wars universe was dreamed up entirely by Timothy Zahn.
"Media" is a plural in Latin. Do we speak Latin? No, we speak English. In English, "media", in the sense of "the media", is a singular mass noun, because there's no such concept of just one of them - to me, saying "the media are" sounds awkward, or at the least, very British. (Yes, it's also the plural of the singular "medium", "a thing by which information is transmitted or stored", though even there, "mediums" is neither ungrammatical nor even particularly awkward.)
But I love (this is sarcasm) how nitpickers complain about "media" and "data", yet English has *borrowed* hundreds of Latin nouns and torn the irregularity off of them, turning them into regular English nouns, that not even the sticklers complain about. (Would you bicker about the fact that the singular form of "agenda" should be "agendum"? No, because that sounds stupid.)
Yeah, I'm going to have to agree. Their end-user hardware type offerings have all been huge flops, but out in the government/business/etc. world, their boring technology stuff not only still wins, but wins for good reason. OpenOffice is crap. Oracle is godawful; MySql is entirely decent but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call it "better". C# is freaking amazing (as long as you don't mind being tied to Windows - which, surprisingly, the majority of people don't.)
I'm a bit late to the party, but many people actually *like* paying for music. After all, even if information might be free, time is still money, and good music takes time to make, so those responsible for its creation should really be rewarded for it, if we want them to keep making it. Why I always make sure to legitimately buy cds I like from independent musicians. What I'm paying for is a combination of convenience, and "this person deserves my money".
Once they've been signed to a major label, though, screw it, they wouldn't get my money anyway, even if I did buy their cd. I'd say what's starting to show signs of being obsolete is *not* the concept of paying for music, merely the concept of giant mega-labels owning the souls of thousands of musicians.
I read thedailywtf.com enough to know that this post should really be marked +1 (sarcastic), rather than +1 (interesting). Maybe there exist "security" "consultants" who don't deserve to have their "titles" in scare quotes, but I haven't heard of many.
But yeah. Wasn't there already just a/. article on this release, and how (*gasp*) pre-alpha releases generally have bugs in them? Who knew!
Yes. You can verb any noun, and you can noun any verb, English is great like that. But generally speaking, when you chain them together, the newly-minted noun-from-verb-from-noun shouldn't mean exactly the same thing. Case in point, "administer" and "administrate" aren't *really* synonyms. "Administrate" makes me think of bureaucracy; "administer" makes me think of being given shots. And "trial", the verb-from-noun only covers the "see whether you like something by trying it" sense. Your third example, I would be willing to accept, though it's somewhat awkwardly constructed. And the first example sounds you're trying out something unspecified, but the new hat is the platform. (I'd accept "I'm trialing a new hat", though again, awkward - it tends to imply a much longer trial period than would generally be run for the sake of a hat, unless it was the new $10,000 mega-techno-hat.)
They do now:).
I have one myself, and for a while you could hack your way into having the Market available (it wasn't that hard a hack, either). A few months ago, though, they signed off on officially supporting it. I can't remember whether I actually ever updated to the new version, or if I'm still using the old version with the hacked Market. But either way, I have an Archos 5, and it connects to the Market and downloads stuff just fine.
In any case, though, it's clear your parent meant "by definition, a phone that is not smart, isn't". So sort of off-topic.
Seriously? I don't even make 75k, I live in southern California (not even in the boonies!), I rent an apartment, pay utilities, I'm still paying off a (new) car, a couple student loans, and I can still take trips places as much as I have vacation time for, eat out when I have friends over, buy books and cds and games and etc.
Would I enjoy having more money? Yeah I would, I'd love to eat out at expensive places whenever I felt like it, take weeklong vacations to Europe or Asia, buy expensive electronics all the time, do all the other things rich people do. But claiming 75k salary isn't enough to live on is kind of ridiculous.
My favorite Michael Westen quote: "I'll take a hardware store over a gun any day. Guns make you stupid. Better to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart."
I should really get that t-shirt.
I'd mod you up, but I decided I'd rather comment that I agree with you - "Programming things I wish I knew earlier" sounded like it would probably be an interesting article. Except, why was it filed under "Linux"? Oh, that would be because it should really have been, "Linux programming things I wish I knew earlier". As a Windows programmer... I admit "don't reinvent the wheel" is excellent advice, and I'd been guilty of that myself a time or two, just out of college, but this article uglifies that advice into "don't reinvent [specific programs x, y and z]". Too bad.
Just as long as they don't start working on developing the technologies for car engines... if they do, someone might want to check to make sure their lead engineer didn't start a school for geniuses, and that there aren't any Sontarans involved.
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I'm a moderator on a decently active forum. At the time I got the gig, there were dozens of spambot-created threads a *day*. We talked about adding a captcha to the signup, but we couldn't really find any that weren't easy to crack, without also being painful for *humans*. Then someone suggested we could just ask a trivial question about the associated game (for instance, "What do accordion thieves steal?" (answer: "accordions")), and if spambots started getting through, we could just change the question. It's been two years. We've gotten *maybe* one spambot a month, if that. I don't know why every site doesn't just do this.
Heck, I also know one pretty big blog I read, to submit a comment, he has a box that looks like a captcha, that always has the same text, "2+2". To comment, you enter "4". He never gets spam, either.
Not in Long Beach... out here, there are oil wells all the frack over the city, not terribly well hidden. There's one right out behind our office, and some nice-looking houses right on the other side of a small fence from it. They just installed one up the hill from my apartment, too.
If you consider LA an hour or two south of the bay area down I5... you chose a good time to post as AC, since you'd have to do about 200 MPH, and I think the cops would want to hear about that.
At Harvey Mudd College, prefixing the name of a game with "death" implies that it's been turned into a drinking game: "death chess", "death checkers", etc. The meaning of prefixing the name of a game with "strip", of course, should be fairly obvious. Combining these two concepts has been done in the past; I know of at least one instance of "death strip Worms", for instance.
So, when I saw this headline, I was momentarily quite confused.
Things like the Star Wars prequels, you mean?
(I also haven't ever seen Second Life, but I do know somebody who works for Linden. Though I suppose he could be in on the conspiracy, too.)
"Also a lot of people who browse slash from work have to use IE" I'm pretty sure slash is by definition NSFW. So *why* would people be browsing it from work, and why would it matter whether they were doing it with IE? Anyway, yeah, I was fairly amused that of the several random links claiming to be interesting in this thread, the *vast* majority of them were actually goatse. Thankfully, my work's web filter did something useful for once and blocked them all.
Indeed. California would definitely benefit from a high-speed rail just by itself. Which is why a couple years ago, we voted to build one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail
(Whether it'll actually get built before the project runs out of money is another question. But I know I, at least, look forward to hopefully seeing this link happen.)
Why would you want to put beer in your underpants? Let alone *drink* it afterwards?
Maybe if she's five three...
(Why do I *know* these things?)
There might only be three films, but there are also a good handful of books. In fact, I'm about *this* close to forgetting about Lucas entirely, and pretending the Star Wars universe was dreamed up entirely by Timothy Zahn.
"Media" is a plural in Latin. Do we speak Latin? No, we speak English. In English, "media", in the sense of "the media", is a singular mass noun, because there's no such concept of just one of them - to me, saying "the media are" sounds awkward, or at the least, very British. (Yes, it's also the plural of the singular "medium", "a thing by which information is transmitted or stored", though even there, "mediums" is neither ungrammatical nor even particularly awkward.) But I love (this is sarcasm) how nitpickers complain about "media" and "data", yet English has *borrowed* hundreds of Latin nouns and torn the irregularity off of them, turning them into regular English nouns, that not even the sticklers complain about. (Would you bicker about the fact that the singular form of "agenda" should be "agendum"? No, because that sounds stupid.)
Yeah, I'm going to have to agree. Their end-user hardware type offerings have all been huge flops, but out in the government/business/etc. world, their boring technology stuff not only still wins, but wins for good reason. OpenOffice is crap. Oracle is godawful; MySql is entirely decent but I'm not sure I'd go so far as to call it "better". C# is freaking amazing (as long as you don't mind being tied to Windows - which, surprisingly, the majority of people don't.)
> they bring out a new machine to cut hair, it's a box with a hole in it
1. Cut a hole in the box
2. ???
3. Profit?
I'm a bit late to the party, but many people actually *like* paying for music. After all, even if information might be free, time is still money, and good music takes time to make, so those responsible for its creation should really be rewarded for it, if we want them to keep making it. Why I always make sure to legitimately buy cds I like from independent musicians. What I'm paying for is a combination of convenience, and "this person deserves my money". Once they've been signed to a major label, though, screw it, they wouldn't get my money anyway, even if I did buy their cd. I'd say what's starting to show signs of being obsolete is *not* the concept of paying for music, merely the concept of giant mega-labels owning the souls of thousands of musicians.
I read thedailywtf.com enough to know that this post should really be marked +1 (sarcastic), rather than +1 (interesting). Maybe there exist "security" "consultants" who don't deserve to have their "titles" in scare quotes, but I haven't heard of many. But yeah. Wasn't there already just a /. article on this release, and how (*gasp*) pre-alpha releases generally have bugs in them? Who knew!
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Yes. You can verb any noun, and you can noun any verb, English is great like that. But generally speaking, when you chain them together, the newly-minted noun-from-verb-from-noun shouldn't mean exactly the same thing. Case in point, "administer" and "administrate" aren't *really* synonyms. "Administrate" makes me think of bureaucracy; "administer" makes me think of being given shots. And "trial", the verb-from-noun only covers the "see whether you like something by trying it" sense. Your third example, I would be willing to accept, though it's somewhat awkwardly constructed. And the first example sounds you're trying out something unspecified, but the new hat is the platform. (I'd accept "I'm trialing a new hat", though again, awkward - it tends to imply a much longer trial period than would generally be run for the sake of a hat, unless it was the new $10,000 mega-techno-hat.)
Hi, I overthink things.
I prefer Dyspepsi: http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Dyspepsi-Cola
I'm pretty sure "pst" means "please send tell".
They do now :).
I have one myself, and for a while you could hack your way into having the Market available (it wasn't that hard a hack, either). A few months ago, though, they signed off on officially supporting it. I can't remember whether I actually ever updated to the new version, or if I'm still using the old version with the hacked Market. But either way, I have an Archos 5, and it connects to the Market and downloads stuff just fine.
In any case, though, it's clear your parent meant "by definition, a phone that is not smart, isn't". So sort of off-topic.
Seriously? I don't even make 75k, I live in southern California (not even in the boonies!), I rent an apartment, pay utilities, I'm still paying off a (new) car, a couple student loans, and I can still take trips places as much as I have vacation time for, eat out when I have friends over, buy books and cds and games and etc.
Would I enjoy having more money? Yeah I would, I'd love to eat out at expensive places whenever I felt like it, take weeklong vacations to Europe or Asia, buy expensive electronics all the time, do all the other things rich people do. But claiming 75k salary isn't enough to live on is kind of ridiculous.
But you can pay 25$ for more points, right?
My favorite Michael Westen quote: "I'll take a hardware store over a gun any day. Guns make you stupid. Better to fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart." I should really get that t-shirt.
I'd mod you up, but I decided I'd rather comment that I agree with you - "Programming things I wish I knew earlier" sounded like it would probably be an interesting article. Except, why was it filed under "Linux"? Oh, that would be because it should really have been, "Linux programming things I wish I knew earlier". As a Windows programmer... I admit "don't reinvent the wheel" is excellent advice, and I'd been guilty of that myself a time or two, just out of college, but this article uglifies that advice into "don't reinvent [specific programs x, y and z]". Too bad.
Just as long as they don't start working on developing the technologies for car engines... if they do, someone might want to check to make sure their lead engineer didn't start a school for geniuses, and that there aren't any Sontarans involved.