FWIW "codex" refers to an old style of manuscript with multiple pages bound together, an old style of book from the middle ages. The word you are looking for is "codec".
"Black males comprise 6% of the population in the US, but perpetrate 40% of the murders"
"the high rate is due to 200+ years of oppression"
Which one of these sounds more like emperical evidence and which one of these can only ever unqualified speculation?
I have no knowledge on this topic, never having actually met an African American, so I cannot make guesses as to whether either of those statements are true, only whether they can be backed up by fact.
The speed of light is measured in metres per second (~3*10^8 m.s^-1), not bits per second. Thus there is no correlation. This reminds me of taking a cirtain amount of parsecs to do the kessel run (yes, I've heard the dumb shortest path explainations), cirtain amount of lightyears between events and a reference to travelling back in time at the speed of light I saw in an old Hanna-Barbara cartoon. Can't people get their units right?
When a tropical cyclone (like a hurricane but spins clockwise) hit and distroyed Darwin, NT on Christmas day 1974, all of the copper was ripped up, but the microwave telephone link remained operational. I'm not sure if this is really the same thing, since those microwave stations are a hell of a lot bigger than anything to do with wimax, but wireless does tend to survive huge natural disasters fairly well.
Woops, that really didn't come out right because of the greater and less than signs I used, I probably should have previewed.
It is written like:
$GIVENNAME $SIRNAME1 $SIRNAME2-$SIRNAME3
By the way. The standard policy is to concatinate the name with the mother's name first and the fathers name second. Thus, the standard sirname is always last nomatter how much crazyness has happened in the family tree.
I have a friend that I went to school with that has three sirnames. I beleive he has it this way because his father was adopted by a family with a hyphenated name but regained his biological sirname in adulthood and passed it to his son. At least that's how I understand it.
It's written (with names removed because I don't have his permission to bandy his name about on slashdot for karma points):
-
If he doesn't thank his parents daily that he was not given a middle name then he probably should thanking them.
The fact that the FSF is now insane is well known. Nonetheless when the LGPL was created, it was created with the intention of making a platform that was able to be linked to by everyone.
The FSF has however changed their strategy to releasing libraries under the GPL in an effort to provide advantage to free software over commercial software. This is not encouraged for platform libraries like QT or to a lesser extent MySQL, it is only done for utility libraries that provide additional functionality and ease of development such as Gnu Readline. Whether this is a good idea or a bad one, what is obvious is the FSF did not have the intentions of milking royalties through a proprietary license in mind (that is right, MySQL and QT are also proprietary software).
The FSF advocates the GPL to boost free software but instead Trolltech and MySQL AB have services to encourage the usage of their software for the advantage of proprietary clients. Trolltech in particular does not actually release most of their software for free so they hardly have the movement's interests at heart when choosing their license. GPL QT for linux was just a bone it threw to the KDE people for PR.
This duel licensing situation does not have the same intention or effect as the FSF was thinking about when they wrote that document. You see the difference don't you?
The GPL was not designed for libraries. That's what the LGPL was designed for. These people are deliberately using the GPL for something it was not intended for to restrict usage of the software. It's like lynching someone with a helicopter rescue harness or stopping someone's heart with a defribulator.
This whole debate is stupid because it wasn't her that was using kazaa, it was her kids. Whether she knows about kazaa or not, her kids were using the internet to do something naughty. Lots of parents might not know what crystal meth is, however if their kids start using it it still reflects badly on their parenting abilities. If the child is not an adult yet then the parent also bares some legal responsibility for what their child does even though the parent might not know the name for it. Everyone, technically competant or not knows that the internet can be used for naughty things, this woman was lucky that her kids were just using Kazaa and not doing DOS attacks or talking to pedophiles.
So that's what I want to see, more games that blend strategy and first person combat in large persistent environments. What do you want to see?
Ah, so in fact you actually do want Battlefield 2 (which blends strategy with first person combat in a large environment with persistant rank) but have been prejudiced against it because it has the number 2 after it. Battlefield 2 has a squad and commander system that makes it easy, intuitive and fun to play as part of a team. It also has been designed to make teamwork florish over individual work by its balancing of outfit kits and making vehicals heavily enhanced by additional passangers. Battlefield 2 may not be a revolutionary step, but it is a clear evolutionary step in the field of group tactics and team strategy. I picked up a copy three days ago and I am very glad I did.
As for the other game you mention, Half Life 2. I found that game increadibly innovative in that firstly, it is the only game I have ever played that has physics simulation as an integral part of the gameplay and not just an afterthought. In HL2 there are puzzles (albeit not overly challenging ones) based on clever usage of physical objects with really great effect. It is the only game I have played where one's most powerful weapon is picking up part of the scenery with a special weapon and flinging it at enemies at high speed with accurate effects on impact. Later on it becomes the first game I have played to allow a players to hurl enemies at other enemies. Half Life 2 is also the first game to have a large section of it played in an unarmed semi-amphibious watercraft where one needs to both navigate an artificial canal and clear obstructions on foot in some fairly cool senarios at dams, locks and sluices. To my knowledge, none of these things have been done before, making HL2 far more innovative than it's predecessor.
It occurs to me that much of the whining about lack of creativity in games at the moment is done by people who rather than judging it by its content, judge it by its enumeration. Get over the numbers and give the damn game a try; games need something to build on and a game is basically a sequence of numbers anyway.
At which point the US starts considering it a national priority to start blocking China from their networks, some other developed countries do the same and the Chineese tech sector takes a huge hit because of it.
Don't get me wrong about this, I've only ever actually watched a quater of a game of American Football before at it didn't really interest me in the slightest. I won't suffer from this personally, but there are three things about it that make me feel kinda sad:
* If this resulted in lower interest in the sport itself and the NFL was really harmed as a result, it would probably just be attributed to some other factor and nobody would come close to learning their lesson. Any amount they suffer will be needless.
* The demographic this game appeals to doesn't tend to care if a game is good or not, only if it is "cool". How could this not be cool if it is the only option available? Chances are EA won't be burned by this at all.
* Sports Legues are systems that work best as a monopoly. At various times competing legues have rose up in some sports and it very rarely has created any good results. This monopoly is there to be in the best interest of cooperation between players, clubs and supporters. Clearly the NFL has abused this privalage.
It's unfortunate that the NFL doesn't seem to be embodying the ideals of sportsmanship and fair play that I would personally expect from a institution built around a game.
Well, technically speaking, if the world population is growing exponentially (which it is) and if oil consumption per person is remaining constant (which it aproximately is), then, by asymptotic analysis, one could certainly say that oil usage is growing exponentially. Q.E.D.
If you think reducing the greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2% compared to the year 1990 is going to cause "massive unemployment in the oil industry" then I am afraid that I am not the one here lacking perspective.
You think the Kyoto protocol is going to kill the oil industry? Here's some "basic economics" for you: Supply and demand. Global demand is growing exponentially but supply is more or less following the logistic curve predicted by M. King Hubbert in the fifties. Divide one by the other and you don't exactly have to limit them to infinity to see your personal alotment shrinking faster than a swede's johnson when he jumps from the a sauna to the fjord.
Have you been paying a little more for petrol lately? I know I have and that's not going to stop. Oil production will grow for a few more years still, but that's never going to save oil prices because every day another thousand Chineese people offer to buy the same barrel you want at a slightly higher price.
If you want affordable oil for your precious shipping of goods, you have to lower demand. Oh, how can you lower demand? If I didn't know any better I'd say that possibly some international agreement where countries legeslate to set targets on their greenhouse emmissions might have that effect.
It sounds to me that you have the belief that the world will continue to produce oil for as long as we want. Like drilling bits somehow tickle the earth in a nice way and it happly giggles out oil. Or that the nice kind magical oil faries fill up the reserves every night from the West Texas Intermediate fountain in happy candicane love land. You can keep on believing that crap for as long as you want but it aint going to mean that somehow artificially reducing oil demand is going to be a bad thing for longterm ecconomics.
And for your information, I am not a "typical narrow sighted eco-hippie", I'm a redneck hick that spent his childhood growing up in a rural town with less than 2k people and got into a verbal fight with a teacher because she was teaching evolution. I'm about as much of a good ol' boy as they come, yet I'm not stupid enough to believe that fighting the Kyoto proticol is a bad thing. So what does that make you?
You're darn well right. Imagine if we got it all wrong. What if we thought that the world was getting warmer from greenhouse gasses so we reduced carbon emissions when that wasn't even needed. God help us then. Our descendants would all look up at our clear, pristine skies, free from pollution and shake their fists, cursing those maniacs in the early 21st century responsible for cleaning it up and weep for the days where we couldn't see the stars around large cities. Imagine if the hysteria that global warming caused spilled over and caused people to clean up waterways, or reduce other emissions like sulfur dioxide. Imagine a world with clear rivers and no acid rain as well. That's what those crazy eco-nuts would have us reduced to.
The worst thing about the Kyoto protocol is the harm it could cause if it all went wrong. We have so much to loose because of it.
That's not the job of the programmers. That's all done by the artists and level designers. Those guys are allready pretty messed up, I don't think it could get any worse.
Ah yes, the war of 1812. What I don't get is that Americans seem to be pretty pissed off about it still, but if a bunch of English and Canadians went and burned down the White House right now, most Americans I know would buy them a round of beer. This would be especially true if they blocked the exits first. Oh well, It's just that time is meant to heal all wounds but it seems to be making things worse.
Why would you want cool undies? I think most men would go for warm undies that maintain a constant high temperature so that their contents are always at their most impressive whenever the pants are removed.
Plus, if they maintain a constant temperature of 40 degrees celsius, they would provide decent contraceptive abilities as well.
I'm pretty sure what you are referring to are called "comparatives", if it was real, the word "betterness" itself would be a noun based on a comparative adjective ("better"). Superlatives are adjectives used to describe "mostness".
Slashdot Mirror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex.
I can't spell either, but I figured that straightening out the meanings might be interesting to some people.
"Black males comprise 6% of the population in the US, but perpetrate 40% of the murders"
"the high rate is due to 200+ years of oppression"
Which one of these sounds more like emperical evidence and which one of these can only ever unqualified speculation?
I have no knowledge on this topic, never having actually met an African American, so I cannot make guesses as to whether either of those statements are true, only whether they can be backed up by fact.
When a tropical cyclone (like a hurricane but spins clockwise) hit and distroyed Darwin, NT on Christmas day 1974, all of the copper was ripped up, but the microwave telephone link remained operational. I'm not sure if this is really the same thing, since those microwave stations are a hell of a lot bigger than anything to do with wimax, but wireless does tend to survive huge natural disasters fairly well.
It is written like:
$GIVENNAME $SIRNAME1 $SIRNAME2-$SIRNAME3
By the way. The standard policy is to concatinate the name with the mother's name first and the fathers name second. Thus, the standard sirname is always last nomatter how much crazyness has happened in the family tree.
It's written (with names removed because I don't have his permission to bandy his name about on slashdot for karma points):
-
If he doesn't thank his parents daily that he was not given a middle name then he probably should thanking them.
The FSF has however changed their strategy to releasing libraries under the GPL in an effort to provide advantage to free software over commercial software. This is not encouraged for platform libraries like QT or to a lesser extent MySQL, it is only done for utility libraries that provide additional functionality and ease of development such as Gnu Readline. Whether this is a good idea or a bad one, what is obvious is the FSF did not have the intentions of milking royalties through a proprietary license in mind (that is right, MySQL and QT are also proprietary software).
The FSF advocates the GPL to boost free software but instead Trolltech and MySQL AB have services to encourage the usage of their software for the advantage of proprietary clients. Trolltech in particular does not actually release most of their software for free so they hardly have the movement's interests at heart when choosing their license. GPL QT for linux was just a bone it threw to the KDE people for PR.
This duel licensing situation does not have the same intention or effect as the FSF was thinking about when they wrote that document. You see the difference don't you?
The GPL was not designed for libraries. That's what the LGPL was designed for. These people are deliberately using the GPL for something it was not intended for to restrict usage of the software. It's like lynching someone with a helicopter rescue harness or stopping someone's heart with a defribulator.
This whole debate is stupid because it wasn't her that was using kazaa, it was her kids. Whether she knows about kazaa or not, her kids were using the internet to do something naughty. Lots of parents might not know what crystal meth is, however if their kids start using it it still reflects badly on their parenting abilities. If the child is not an adult yet then the parent also bares some legal responsibility for what their child does even though the parent might not know the name for it. Everyone, technically competant or not knows that the internet can be used for naughty things, this woman was lucky that her kids were just using Kazaa and not doing DOS attacks or talking to pedophiles.
You should probably sue your landlady and use the legal system for persecuting people who really do deserve it.
Ah, so in fact you actually do want Battlefield 2 (which blends strategy with first person combat in a large environment with persistant rank) but have been prejudiced against it because it has the number 2 after it. Battlefield 2 has a squad and commander system that makes it easy, intuitive and fun to play as part of a team. It also has been designed to make teamwork florish over individual work by its balancing of outfit kits and making vehicals heavily enhanced by additional passangers. Battlefield 2 may not be a revolutionary step, but it is a clear evolutionary step in the field of group tactics and team strategy. I picked up a copy three days ago and I am very glad I did.
As for the other game you mention, Half Life 2. I found that game increadibly innovative in that firstly, it is the only game I have ever played that has physics simulation as an integral part of the gameplay and not just an afterthought. In HL2 there are puzzles (albeit not overly challenging ones) based on clever usage of physical objects with really great effect. It is the only game I have played where one's most powerful weapon is picking up part of the scenery with a special weapon and flinging it at enemies at high speed with accurate effects on impact. Later on it becomes the first game I have played to allow a players to hurl enemies at other enemies. Half Life 2 is also the first game to have a large section of it played in an unarmed semi-amphibious watercraft where one needs to both navigate an artificial canal and clear obstructions on foot in some fairly cool senarios at dams, locks and sluices. To my knowledge, none of these things have been done before, making HL2 far more innovative than it's predecessor.
It occurs to me that much of the whining about lack of creativity in games at the moment is done by people who rather than judging it by its content, judge it by its enumeration. Get over the numbers and give the damn game a try; games need something to build on and a game is basically a sequence of numbers anyway.
At which point the US starts considering it a national priority to start blocking China from their networks, some other developed countries do the same and the Chineese tech sector takes a huge hit because of it.
If you think they should be suing someone better, be careful what you wish for.
The trick is to liberally mix some hashish into the sandwich so the more of the twinkie sandwich one eats, the more like a good idea it seems.
* If this resulted in lower interest in the sport itself and the NFL was really harmed as a result, it would probably just be attributed to some other factor and nobody would come close to learning their lesson. Any amount they suffer will be needless.
* The demographic this game appeals to doesn't tend to care if a game is good or not, only if it is "cool". How could this not be cool if it is the only option available? Chances are EA won't be burned by this at all.
* Sports Legues are systems that work best as a monopoly. At various times competing legues have rose up in some sports and it very rarely has created any good results. This monopoly is there to be in the best interest of cooperation between players, clubs and supporters. Clearly the NFL has abused this privalage.
It's unfortunate that the NFL doesn't seem to be embodying the ideals of sportsmanship and fair play that I would personally expect from a institution built around a game.
Well, technically speaking, if the world population is growing exponentially (which it is) and if oil consumption per person is remaining constant (which it aproximately is), then, by asymptotic analysis, one could certainly say that oil usage is growing exponentially. Q.E.D.
You think the Kyoto protocol is going to kill the oil industry? Here's some "basic economics" for you: Supply and demand. Global demand is growing exponentially but supply is more or less following the logistic curve predicted by M. King Hubbert in the fifties. Divide one by the other and you don't exactly have to limit them to infinity to see your personal alotment shrinking faster than a swede's johnson when he jumps from the a sauna to the fjord.
Have you been paying a little more for petrol lately? I know I have and that's not going to stop. Oil production will grow for a few more years still, but that's never going to save oil prices because every day another thousand Chineese people offer to buy the same barrel you want at a slightly higher price.
If you want affordable oil for your precious shipping of goods, you have to lower demand. Oh, how can you lower demand? If I didn't know any better I'd say that possibly some international agreement where countries legeslate to set targets on their greenhouse emmissions might have that effect.
It sounds to me that you have the belief that the world will continue to produce oil for as long as we want. Like drilling bits somehow tickle the earth in a nice way and it happly giggles out oil. Or that the nice kind magical oil faries fill up the reserves every night from the West Texas Intermediate fountain in happy candicane love land. You can keep on believing that crap for as long as you want but it aint going to mean that somehow artificially reducing oil demand is going to be a bad thing for longterm ecconomics.
And for your information, I am not a "typical narrow sighted eco-hippie", I'm a redneck hick that spent his childhood growing up in a rural town with less than 2k people and got into a verbal fight with a teacher because she was teaching evolution. I'm about as much of a good ol' boy as they come, yet I'm not stupid enough to believe that fighting the Kyoto proticol is a bad thing. So what does that make you?
mass unemployment? And here I was thinking that it took more work to make something cleanly than doing a slap-dash job at it.
The worst thing about the Kyoto protocol is the harm it could cause if it all went wrong. We have so much to loose because of it.
That's not the job of the programmers. That's all done by the artists and level designers. Those guys are allready pretty messed up, I don't think it could get any worse.
Oh, wait, were you making a joke about the name?
Ah yes, the war of 1812. What I don't get is that Americans seem to be pretty pissed off about it still, but if a bunch of English and Canadians went and burned down the White House right now, most Americans I know would buy them a round of beer. This would be especially true if they blocked the exits first. Oh well, It's just that time is meant to heal all wounds but it seems to be making things worse.
Plus, if they maintain a constant temperature of 40 degrees celsius, they would provide decent contraceptive abilities as well.
I.e. we don't have to chew before we swallow unlike the Irish parent.
I'm pretty sure what you are referring to are called "comparatives", if it was real, the word "betterness" itself would be a noun based on a comparative adjective ("better"). Superlatives are adjectives used to describe "mostness".