Will this now-hip medium be so co-opted that it will lose it's appeal?
Maybe for those people who at the moment do it only to "be different". Those people who have an enormous ego and need to boost it in any way they can, won't be bothered, as long as they have readers. Those who blog just for the sake of blogging, won't be bothered. As always, I may be wrong.
The article mentioned an incident with Mississipi flood gate control system as 'digital Pearl Harbor'.
I think the stress of this metaphor is not so much on devastation, but rather on surprise attack, so it has at least some point - the real Japanese attack wasn't as devastaing as they wanted it to be, but it was rather the surprise of the attack on USA that had a bigger effect. Just as the attacks of Sept. 11 2001 did relatively little direct material damage, but the psychological effect was enormous. A digital Pearl Harbor would also cause relatively little direct damage, but cause a deep feeling of insecurity.
I wouldn't say that if AOL starts a blogging service, blogging is suddenly "out". It has definately passed the first, "underground" (do you have a better word?) stage and will cease to be "in" or trendy pretty soon, but this only means it will become mainstream. Still a long way to "out".
According to www.costofwar.com, the estimated cost so far is at the moment almost $68 billion, though quite a big part of it is the future interest payments. The cost of the occupation is $4 billion a month ($6 billion with all the interests included), as Rumsfeld stated in a reply to the Congress. The $100 billion line will be reached quite soon...
Yes they do play. I know because I just tested one (with the intent to prove that you're wrong, of course) and it's lucky the volume was down, my ears are still ringing. But I guess that's exactly what you were aiming for, my dear AC, so I still am a bloody idiot...
By the way, being modded funny doesn't help your karma anymore - RTFAQ.
I only skimmed through the real article, but I had the impression that these things were only meant for training or for use in unfamiliar situation (that bit about the mechanic and the car). They're supposed to be a replacement for manuals, and you don't use a manual all the time, do you?
'Obviously, I'd have been thrilled if I'd got an "O" -'
'Hermione,' said Ron sharply 'if you want to know what grades we got, ask.' : -'
'I don't - I didn't mean - well, if you want to tell me -' -
'I got a "P",' said Ron, ladling soup into his bowl. 'Happy?'
'Well, that's nothing to be ashamed of,' said Fred, who had just arrived at the table with George and Lee Jordan and was sitting down on Harry's right. 'Nothing wrong with a good healthy "P".'
'But,' said Hermione, 'doesn't "P" stand for..."
'"Poor", yeah,' said Lee Jordan. 'Still, better than "D", isn't it? "Dreadful"?'
Harry felt his face grow warm and faked a small coughing fit over his roll. When he emerged from this he was sorry to find that Hermione was still in full flow about OWL grades.
'So top grade's "O" for "Outstanding",' she was saying, 'and then there's "A" -'
'No, "E",' George corrected her, '"E" for "Exceeds Expectations". And I've always thought Fred and I should've got "E" in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.'
They all laughed except Hermione, who ploughed on, 'So, after "E" it's "A" for "Acceptable", and that's the last pass grade, isn't it?'
'Yep,' said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup, transferring it to his mouth and swallowing it whole.
Then you get "P" for "Poor"-' Ron raised both his arms in mock celebration - 'and "D" for "Dreadful".'
'And then "T",' George reminded him.
'T"?' asked Hermione, looking appalled. 'Even lower than a "D"? What on earth does "T" stand for?'
If you stick one of these cd's they send you into a cd-player, you'll find that there's some very avant-garde noise on it. Whether it counts as music is up to you to decide.
I even read about apartment buildings over there being constructed with microphones built right in, so the evil commie government could listen for subversive activities.
I don't think they built microphones in every wall - they didn't need to, usually neighbours did the trick. The Russians did build microphones in the walls of the US embassy - maybe that's where this legend comes from.
By the way, the older people say that in Soviet Russia, if the KGB were listening in on your phone you could always tell it - the sound quality was better than usual...
The sad thing is, that you're most probably (I don't know, cause I haven't been here for too long) right. Tell me I shouldn't do something, and I will do it just to annoy you and show that I still can (no, I have never crapflooded myself). I wonder if people would stop fp'ing and stuff, if it was made 'legal'?
They did use scare tactics. A friend of mine was one of those who organized this demonstration. Kapo (the secret police) called him in for an audience and told him in a very polite manner that he can do whatever he wants, but they won't be there to help him if anything bad should happen. They still held the demonstration, though unoficially and in a smaller scale.
Most of the Soviet republics were Russia, or more specificly, the former Russian empire, until 1922, when they divided the country into different "republics" and autonomous regions.
Yes, most people indeed had hot water taps, but usually you only got cold water from there - in the summer, the central heating system (which also heated water) was mostly turned off, in the winter the plumbing was often broken. And the water was rusty. There are many people who still don't have hot water. Mind you, there still are people without electricity...
I get all the information I need (and more) from "reading" lamb livers (all the Universe is reflected in even its tiniest fragment, you only have to look hard enough). On most days though, I have to resort to using tea leaves (as there aren't too many sheep left in 20 mile radius) but tea leaves have lower bandwidth and they generate more errors (mostly typos, but when reading Slashdot, I occasionally experience a kind of deja vu). I post to Slashdot by using complicated black magic (it includes drawing several pentagrams and calling several names I dare not mention in the fear of accidentally calling their wrath upon me) to directly alter the state of the Universe.
You don't pay for incoming calls, do you? Why should you pay for incoming SMS?
I personally like the system I use - it gives me more freedom. Prepaid credit, no contract, no monthly fee. Costs a bit more (about $0.40 or $0.20/min on every call, depending on whether it's day or night), but as I don't use the phone too much, I haven't yet managed to deplete my credit before the six months time to use it is up and I have to recharge the card (adding to whatever credit was unused). And I even have roaming abroad;7
Sometime in the winter, an ethnology professor from Germany gave a lecture about Harry Potter in my university. She was so into Potter books, and she explained that it's because of all the mythology in there. And how Rowling has done an awful lot of research etc. Maybe it's the reason why adults read it. But I doubt if the children get even a quarter of the stuff she talked about (the phoenix is a symbol of rebirth and Jesus Christ and so on, it's named Fawkes after Guy Fawkes etc.). Made me even want to re-read these books - though I hate all those black and white characters and how good guys always beat the bad guys (but I can't stand most sci-fi either, for the same reason).
Other kind of undergraduates might even remeber Zenon from Elea and his aporias, where he proved that movement is impossible... Please, somebody, mod me down or something, I don't deserve that "Insightful"!!!
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Maybe for those people who at the moment do it only to "be different". Those people who have an enormous ego and need to boost it in any way they can, won't be bothered, as long as they have readers. Those who blog just for the sake of blogging, won't be bothered. As always, I may be wrong.
I think the stress of this metaphor is not so much on devastation, but rather on surprise attack, so it has at least some point - the real Japanese attack wasn't as devastaing as they wanted it to be, but it was rather the surprise of the attack on USA that had a bigger effect. Just as the attacks of Sept. 11 2001 did relatively little direct material damage, but the psychological effect was enormous. A digital Pearl Harbor would also cause relatively little direct damage, but cause a deep feeling of insecurity.
(Or maybe I just completely missed your point...)
Software | Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 13, @07:17PM
from the stuff-to-read dept.
Disk Drives Explained
Data Storage | Posted by CowboyNeal on Sunday July 13, @03:07PM
from the stuff-to-read dept.
Never seen that kind of thing happen before, though. Must have been a wild party last night or something :7
According to www.costofwar.com, the estimated cost so far is at the moment almost $68 billion, though quite a big part of it is the future interest payments. The cost of the occupation is $4 billion a month ($6 billion with all the interests included), as Rumsfeld stated in a reply to the Congress. The $100 billion line will be reached quite soon...
It's the "funniest joke in the world" from a Monty Python sketch. Don't try to translate it to English, it will kill you :7
By the way, being modded funny doesn't help your karma anymore - RTFAQ.
The winner will most likely be "Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"
I only skimmed through the real article, but I had the impression that these things were only meant for training or for use in unfamiliar situation (that bit about the mechanic and the car). They're supposed to be a replacement for manuals, and you don't use a manual all the time, do you?
They sat down together at the Gryffmdor table.
'Obviously, I'd have been thrilled if I'd got an "O" -'
'Hermione,' said Ron sharply 'if you want to know what grades we got, ask.' : -'
'I don't - I didn't mean - well, if you want to tell me -' -
'I got a "P",' said Ron, ladling soup into his bowl. 'Happy?'
'Well, that's nothing to be ashamed of,' said Fred, who had just arrived at the table with George and Lee Jordan and was sitting down on Harry's right. 'Nothing wrong with a good healthy "P".'
'But,' said Hermione, 'doesn't "P" stand for..."
'"Poor", yeah,' said Lee Jordan. 'Still, better than "D", isn't it? "Dreadful"?'
Harry felt his face grow warm and faked a small coughing fit over his roll. When he emerged from this he was sorry to find that Hermione was still in full flow about OWL grades.
'So top grade's "O" for "Outstanding",' she was saying, 'and then there's "A" -'
'No, "E",' George corrected her, '"E" for "Exceeds Expectations". And I've always thought Fred and I should've got "E" in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.'
They all laughed except Hermione, who ploughed on, 'So, after "E" it's "A" for "Acceptable", and that's the last pass grade, isn't it?'
'Yep,' said Fred, dunking an entire roll in his soup, transferring it to his mouth and swallowing it whole.
Then you get "P" for "Poor"-' Ron raised both his arms in mock celebration - 'and "D" for "Dreadful".'
'And then "T",' George reminded him.
'T"?' asked Hermione, looking appalled. 'Even lower than a "D"? What on earth does "T" stand for?'
'Troll",' said George promptly.
Mu.
If you stick one of these cd's they send you into a cd-player, you'll find that there's some very avant-garde noise on it. Whether it counts as music is up to you to decide.
This is language evolving right under your nose, and you make fun of it!?! It was people like you who killed Latin! Michael is a language pioneer!
I don't think they built microphones in every wall - they didn't need to, usually neighbours did the trick. The Russians did build microphones in the walls of the US embassy - maybe that's where this legend comes from.
By the way, the older people say that in Soviet Russia, if the KGB were listening in on your phone you could always tell it - the sound quality was better than usual...
The sad thing is, that you're most probably (I don't know, cause I haven't been here for too long) right. Tell me I shouldn't do something, and I will do it just to annoy you and show that I still can (no, I have never crapflooded myself). I wonder if people would stop fp'ing and stuff, if it was made 'legal'?
They did use scare tactics. A friend of mine was one of those who organized this demonstration. Kapo (the secret police) called him in for an audience and told him in a very polite manner that he can do whatever he wants, but they won't be there to help him if anything bad should happen. They still held the demonstration, though unoficially and in a smaller scale.
Most of the Soviet republics were Russia, or more specificly, the former Russian empire, until 1922, when they divided the country into different "republics" and autonomous regions.
Yes, most people indeed had hot water taps, but usually you only got cold water from there - in the summer, the central heating system (which also heated water) was mostly turned off, in the winter the plumbing was often broken. And the water was rusty. There are many people who still don't have hot water. Mind you, there still are people without electricity...
I get all the information I need (and more) from "reading" lamb livers (all the Universe is reflected in even its tiniest fragment, you only have to look hard enough). On most days though, I have to resort to using tea leaves (as there aren't too many sheep left in 20 mile radius) but tea leaves have lower bandwidth and they generate more errors (mostly typos, but when reading Slashdot, I occasionally experience a kind of deja vu). I post to Slashdot by using complicated black magic (it includes drawing several pentagrams and calling several names I dare not mention in the fear of accidentally calling their wrath upon me) to directly alter the state of the Universe.
But it does have a tendency to find application in all sorts of fields and become "dirty". Does it make the article wrong?
I personally like the system I use - it gives me more freedom. Prepaid credit, no contract, no monthly fee. Costs a bit more (about $0.40 or $0.20/min on every call, depending on whether it's day or night), but as I don't use the phone too much, I haven't yet managed to deplete my credit before the six months time to use it is up and I have to recharge the card (adding to whatever credit was unused). And I even have roaming abroad ;7
Sounds good. Yet another book on my ever-growing "to be read" list, I guess.
I gather it must be a pun, but I'm a moron, please explain.
Sometime in the winter, an ethnology professor from Germany gave a lecture about Harry Potter in my university. She was so into Potter books, and she explained that it's because of all the mythology in there. And how Rowling has done an awful lot of research etc. Maybe it's the reason why adults read it. But I doubt if the children get even a quarter of the stuff she talked about (the phoenix is a symbol of rebirth and Jesus Christ and so on, it's named Fawkes after Guy Fawkes etc.). Made me even want to re-read these books - though I hate all those black and white characters and how good guys always beat the bad guys (but I can't stand most sci-fi either, for the same reason).
Other kind of undergraduates might even remeber Zenon from Elea and his aporias, where he proved that movement is impossible... Please, somebody, mod me down or something, I don't deserve that "Insightful"!!!