Feh. n00b. You've never seen real action until you've gone up against the ghost of the network administrator's level 27 Tourist and her pet gray dragon.
Actually, the virus that kills the HIV virus also kills the virus that kills the HIV virus, if it starts to get too prominent. Near the end of the article.
It's all in the presentation. Try translating it into Japanese first, then work it into a large, macho dragon or something similarly tacky. Or cover both arms, and call yourself the Hillbilly Yakuza.
Much later and after asking around: aha! It's Greg Kihn, "Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'em like that any more)". The grunge thing was me getting that confused with "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World."
And when you want to identify the Allman Brothers song Jessica? Or can't think of the name Classical Gas? Or--imagine you'd never heard Louie, Louie before. How do you get the lyrics? Google is great, but it ain't everything.
"Hey, doesn't anybody know that song with the guy in it? It goes kinda like Ba Baa Ba B' Baa Ba Baaaa. and its, like, way cool. Anybody?"
Oh...oh, ummm...dammit, I know that one! It's stuck in my head now, damn you! It's the one with the singer who sounds like he's kind of stoned and doesn't care. I think it's grunge. Aaaaargh, where's my cell phone?
Check the origin of the article. BBC. "In future" is perfectly standard in the Queen's English. So, for some reason, is "in hospital." And elevators are called lifts, a mile is called a kilometer, and botulism is called steak and kidney pie.
The Cheese worm did this on compromised Linux systems a few years back. The antivirus industry, in accordance with Linux sysadmins everywhere, added detection for the worm. A virus is a virus, and any unauthorized access to a computer is a Bad Thing.
It amazes me how many people in that thread regarded this as a clever, useful thing to do, while in this one it is universally declared an obvious problem.
The Cheese worm did this on compromised Linux systems a few years back. The antivirus industry, in accordance with Linux sysadmins everywhere, added detection for the worm. A virus is a virus, and any unauthorized access to a computer is a Bad Thing.
Speaking as a stuck-up elitist prig, I wholeheartedly agree with those who rage against overly rapid change to language. (I don't limit this to the English language; I'm certain that this is a worldwide phenomenon, a language virus as it were.) I must admit, however, that I get a perverse joy from watching the defenders of the tongue trip over it:
"I trained myself to type quickly and reasonably accuratly so I could sound like an intelligent person online."
"Personally, I find that l33t sp33k annoys the crap out of me. It's marginally acceptable in SMS messages, but really doesn't belong anywhere else imo."
"I'm an American, and I'm studying linguistics (amongst other things) in New Zealand. It's an interesting place to study linguistics, because New Zealand is one of the very few places (if not the only place) where there is a fairly complete aural record of the evolution from it's roots in the United Kingdom to it's modern form."
"That teachers are taking a stand and slapping kids down for getting lazy (or stupid!) is a good sign. That most of the comments on/. I've read are supportive of the teachers is an even better sign."
"This means leaving out slang that specific to an activity, ethnic group or region. (IE: Netspeak, ebonics, or southern "American"). It also includes spelling, grammer and basic editing for clarity of thought."
"The other thing that comes hand in hand with the abbreviations are the lack of punctuation, capitals, or grammer."
And, out of curiosity:
"Pie Jesu! You cannot render your thoughts into simple Latin?"
I suspect that this will work better than you'd think. An intelligent entry will assume that nobody is stupid enough to play the same thing every single time, and will assume at some point that you're faking it out and try to outsmart you by playing scissors. A simpler program that plays the averages will win at least 999 times, but more complicated programs may handle it less effectively.
In about 1997, Symantec released pcANYWHERE 8.0, the first Symantec software product to be realeased with all documentation in PDF format on the CD. pcANYWHERE has two main sets of users, telecommuters and IT professionals. Symantec figured that the clientele were, on average, more computer savvy than the average user, and could handle online documentation. The manuals were searchable, easy to read, and there was a big friendly "Read the manual" button on the autorun screen as soon as you inserted the CD.
Dumb idea.
I supported pcAnywhere on the phone for part of that time, and a day didn't go by during which I didn't get my ear chewed off at least once for not shipping a manual. What really infuriated customers is when I would offer them the option of having a printed copy of the manual shipped to them for the cost of postage--PAY to have what is theirs by divine right? And most astonishingly, 90% of the complaints were from the system administrators and other IT professionals who just couldn't be bothered to read--or even notice--the documentation on the CD. And this was after pcANYWHERE 8.0 had been out already for two years.
Maybe it's different in the unix world. If you use *n?x, you're accustomed to reading man pages and whatnot as a way of life. But I don't see O'Reilly going out of business, do you?
The upshot of all this: online documentation is great. Searchable documentation, wonderful. Include it on the CD, please! But if you're considering putting out software without printed manuals, and you don't want to double or triple the size of your Customer Service and Technical Support departments--think again!
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Feh. n00b. You've never seen real action until you've gone up against the ghost of the network administrator's level 27 Tourist and her pet gray dragon.
Or, alternatively, try to get Firefox banned for violating obscenity laws. That is usually excellent for publicity.
I knew these girls would come in handy one day. (sfw)
Actually, the virus that kills the HIV virus also kills the virus that kills the HIV virus, if it starts to get too prominent. Near the end of the article.
It's all in the presentation. Try translating it into Japanese first, then work it into a large, macho dragon or something similarly tacky. Or cover both arms, and call yourself the Hillbilly Yakuza.
Much later and after asking around: aha! It's Greg Kihn, "Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'em like that any more)". The grunge thing was me getting that confused with "Keep on Rockin' in the Free World."
And you thought I was being facetious.
And when you want to identify the Allman Brothers song Jessica? Or can't think of the name Classical Gas? Or--imagine you'd never heard Louie, Louie before. How do you get the lyrics? Google is great, but it ain't everything.
Guess I'll have to stick to the guy in the next cube, then.
Oh, and this for classical pieces.
"Hey, doesn't anybody know that song with the guy in it?
It goes kinda like Ba Baa Ba B' Baa Ba Baaaa.
and its, like, way cool. Anybody?"
Oh...oh, ummm...dammit, I know that one! It's stuck in my head now, damn you! It's the one with the singer who sounds like he's kind of stoned and doesn't care. I think it's grunge. Aaaaargh, where's my cell phone?
Considering that there have been plenty of times when I would kill for this information, $.99 is peanuts.
The question, however, is this: is it good enough to correctly identify the song if I hum a few bars?
The site is slashdotted, so I figured someone would have posted a duplicate link.
I really should have known not to search the comments of this story for "mirror".
It's not just something like this! Magic Pengel uses Teddy, the precursor to Smooth Teddy.
So that's why it's called a patch cable!
Don't think they haven't thought about it.
Check the origin of the article. BBC. "In future" is perfectly standard in the Queen's English. So, for some reason, is "in hospital." And elevators are called lifts, a mile is called a kilometer, and botulism is called steak and kidney pie.
It amazes me how many people in that thread regarded this as a clever, useful thing to do, while in this one it is universally declared an obvious problem.
The Cheese worm did this on compromised Linux systems a few years back. The antivirus industry, in accordance with Linux sysadmins everywhere, added detection for the worm. A virus is a virus, and any unauthorized access to a computer is a Bad Thing.
That's good. I read it as "I Am Not a Parenthesis."
You know, I never have. I wonder if it's worth trying? Printing out all of Slashdot three times a day is getting to be expensive.
I suspect that this will work better than you'd think. An intelligent entry will assume that nobody is stupid enough to play the same thing every single time, and will assume at some point that you're faking it out and try to outsmart you by playing scissors. A simpler program that plays the averages will win at least 999 times, but more complicated programs may handle it less effectively.
In about 1997, Symantec released pcANYWHERE 8.0, the first Symantec software product to be realeased with all documentation in PDF format on the CD. pcANYWHERE has two main sets of users, telecommuters and IT professionals. Symantec figured that the clientele were, on average, more computer savvy than the average user, and could handle online documentation. The manuals were searchable, easy to read, and there was a big friendly "Read the manual" button on the autorun screen as soon as you inserted the CD.
Dumb idea.
I supported pcAnywhere on the phone for part of that time, and a day didn't go by during which I didn't get my ear chewed off at least once for not shipping a manual. What really infuriated customers is when I would offer them the option of having a printed copy of the manual shipped to them for the cost of postage--PAY to have what is theirs by divine right? And most astonishingly, 90% of the complaints were from the system administrators and other IT professionals who just couldn't be bothered to read--or even notice--the documentation on the CD. And this was after pcANYWHERE 8.0 had been out already for two years.
Maybe it's different in the unix world. If you use *n?x, you're accustomed to reading man pages and whatnot as a way of life. But I don't see O'Reilly going out of business, do you?
The upshot of all this: online documentation is great. Searchable documentation, wonderful. Include it on the CD, please! But if you're considering putting out software without printed manuals, and you don't want to double or triple the size of your Customer Service and Technical Support departments--think again!