Philosophers have been pondering this nonsense for centuries, and have gotten nowhere. Each philosopher is still trying to get his fork back from the guy beside him so he can finish his meal and go home.
The fact that you can download mp3s from amazon.com is probably due to the fact that computer speakers have become such a low-end commodity that vendors can't convince anyone to "upgrade" to DRM-enabled models.
I think interesting development jobs still exist but your chances of finding them in a large firm is diminishing. Better to join a startup or found one of your own in order to tackle the interesting and difficult problems. Of course, this choice presents a lot less job security (for what that's worth nowadays) so if your have family obligations you'll have to determine if the risk is worth the satisfaction.
Most of the video is Duke lifting weights in a really dark room. That would be the weight lifting mini game they've included. Just keep tapping A,B,X,Y and pretend you're having fun.
You can judge a book without being able to write one. You can judge a building without being an architect. You can judge a meal without being able to cook it. But is judging all you do? You don't have to excel in every field of endeavor in order to criticize. However, nothing tempers judgment like putting your own ego on the line in order to create something of merit. And it's been my experience that the bigger the blow hard critic, the less they've attempted (much less accomplished) in their own lives.
It's really sad that even when reading a fantasy series, people are so obsessed with getting to the point that they can't tolerate a single word not expressly intended for plot advancement.
Even when reading a fantasy series? Perhaps this is why genre fiction has such a poor reputation. Its readership doesn't just tolerate substandard prose, it expects it and defends it as such. What would happen if these same readers were to raise their expectations and demand better books? The countless authors out there who go digging up Tolkien's corpse for one more turn around the block might have to come up with something compelling and original.
And I don't think the original poster your responded to was complaining that Jordan's prose didn't advance the plot. Rather that it didn't advance anything in the book. I made it through The Dragon Reborn before giving up on the series as so many pages went on like some bland tourist's travelogue. I didn't really care for the characters and I'd gotten to the point where I'd have to refer back to previous sections of the story to figure out why everyone was roving around the country in the first place.
s/([^c])ei/$1ie/g;... PGN My weird neighbor, Keith, would often deign to weigh-in in a similar vein. But when humans forfeit their reign on matters grammatical, will their feisty reinventions, their foreign automations, seize the veiled aspects of spelling?
Well, let's see. If Yoda ran IBM of the 1980's like he ran the Jedi Counsel, he'd probably remain fixed in his devotion to the old ways, overlook some growing threat and then watch helplessly as the order he watched over was overcome and twisted into an empire of unimaginable might.
Could you *ever* edit posts???? Of course you could -- before you submitted the comment. Nowadays, though, Slashdot just randomly generates comments, bypassing the user entirely. Whether that has raised or lowered the quality of the posting is left as an exercise for the reader.
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The fact that you can download mp3s from amazon.com is probably due to the fact that computer speakers have become such a low-end commodity that vendors can't convince anyone to "upgrade" to DRM-enabled models.
I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you're going to have to restart that download from scratch for the new IPv6 addresses.
Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us
I think interesting development jobs still exist but your chances of finding them in a large firm is diminishing. Better to join a startup or found one of your own in order to tackle the interesting and difficult problems. Of course, this choice presents a lot less job security (for what that's worth nowadays) so if your have family obligations you'll have to determine if the risk is worth the satisfaction.
Well done.
Even when reading a fantasy series? Perhaps this is why genre fiction has such a poor reputation. Its readership doesn't just tolerate substandard prose, it expects it and defends it as such. What would happen if these same readers were to raise their expectations and demand better books? The countless authors out there who go digging up Tolkien's corpse for one more turn around the block might have to come up with something compelling and original.
And I don't think the original poster your responded to was complaining that Jordan's prose didn't advance the plot. Rather that it didn't advance anything in the book. I made it through The Dragon Reborn before giving up on the series as so many pages went on like some bland tourist's travelogue. I didn't really care for the characters and I'd gotten to the point where I'd have to refer back to previous sections of the story to figure out why everyone was roving around the country in the first place.
More text != better text.
Well, let's see. If Yoda ran IBM of the 1980's like he ran the Jedi Counsel, he'd probably remain fixed in his devotion to the old ways, overlook some growing threat and then watch helplessly as the order he watched over was overcome and twisted into an empire of unimaginable might.
Wow. Thank goodness that didn't happen.
I have had it with these motherfuckin' snakes on this motherfuckin' space station!
You should try not thinking about work to ensure you have all the bases covered.
You didn't read his post past the first paragraph, did you?
Oh, I see. Thanks for taking the time to explain the humor behind three letter acronym acronyms.
What's so funny about all the TLA acronyms?
Makes a compelling case for OpenAL.
Hey, man, I'm just waitin' for the Linux version to be released. Any day now...
So does that line work for you at bars?
Don't get bitten by any of those radioactive cockroaches. Lord knows the superpowers you'd acquire.
I can't wait for "Slashdot's Setup, Part 8 - Root Passwords".
I prefer something a little more classy:
"Duhnananananuh duhnananananuh, Blade Runner!"
Come on, everyone sing along.
Hey, don't make him go Batman on you.