Hmm... upon checking Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie, I see that the name is capitalised throughout, but in the foreword to Starting Forth, Chuck Moore, inventor of the language, refers to the origins of the name in capitals, but otherwise uses mixed case - as does Brodie for the rest of that book. So I suppose the point is moot:-)
OTOH, I seem to recall another book (possibly Forth on the BBC Microcomputer by Richard de Grandis-Harrison) being quite insistent on mixed-case spelling of the name, but I can't put my hands on it right now.
My first computer (well, my school's) not only had all capitals, you had to look at them on Teletypes - unless you could read ASCII off punched paper tape. I think that must make us both old-school:-)
Well, given that I live around 60m (~200 feet) above sea level, I'm already well aware that a drastic rise in sea level will have me looking in the attic for my water wings.
In my birthplace, Liverpool, there's a saying: "You've gorra laugh, or else you'd cry." (Yes, we do say "gorra" for "got to".) Do lighten up, or you'll be dying of a perforated ulcer long before the water is lapping at your shoes. The fact that I make a (not very good) joke about a serious matter does not mean that I am unaware of the issues.
sod (1) n.
A section of grass-covered surface soil held together by matted roots; turf.
The ground, especially when covered with grass.
tr.v. sodded, sodding, sods
To cover with sod.
[Middle English, from Middle Low German, or Middle Dutch sode.]
Source: The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
sod (2) Chiefly British Vulgar Slang n.
A sodomite.
A person regarded as obnoxious or contemptible.
A fellow; a guy: "Poor sod, he almost got lucky for once" (Jack Higgins).
tr.v. sodded, sodding, sods
To damn.
Phrasal Verb: sod off
Used in the imperative to dismiss someone angrily.
[Short for sodomite.]
Source: The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
So the usage relating to earth has a distinct derivation from the usage as a term of abuse, which is indeed short for sodomite.
"Considerably easier", I type into Safari on my Mac:-)
OTOH, sometimes you're stuck in a workplace where they require use of IE, and (as long as they haven't disabled access to Internet Options), you can at least get rid of the MSN page.
Probably because this is a feature of IE, not a change to the way the net works.
To get rid of it:
In Internet Explorer, go to the "Tools" menu and select "Internet Options..."
Click on the "Advanced" tab
Scroll down to the section "Search from the Address Bar"
Select the radio button labelled "Do not search from the Address Bar"
Click the "OK" button to dismiss the dialog
Test using a URL like http://www.dsafgwadbee.co.uk, as this will avoid the Verisign thing (which only applies to.com and.net TLDs)
You should now get a standard IE "The page cannot be displayed" notification, with "Cannot find server or DNS error" at the bottom
Depending on version, you may need to close IE and relaunch it. Oddly enough, when testing this (I turn the search page off as soon as I've installed the OS), I found that the change to re-enable the search page needed a relaunch, but turning it off didn't.
All this is on IE6 under Win2000; AFAIK, it's the same for IE4 upwards, but as always, YMMV.
The two accounts are complementary, not contradictory.
In Genesis chapter 1, the plants are created on the third day, and man and woman on the sixth day. In Genesis chapter 2, Adam is created, after that the plants, and after that Eve. Still, executive summaries never do fully capture the sense of the whole report.
And yes, not only am I aware of the peculiarities of Catholicism, I also raised the question in a CompRel tutorial once as to why a certain phrase of Hindu scripture, predating the time of Jesus Christ, was repeated almost verbatim in one of the Gospels. The explanation offered by the professor (and that's a real professor, not a postgrad researcher with a fancy job title) was that knowledge of Hinduism was available in the Middle East at the time of Christ, and was known to be incorporated in the teachings of various off-mainstream Judaic cults. So it looks like, if your Bible is the word of God, it may well be Hanuman speaking to you.
It's teatime here now, so I'm going to cook my dinner. In the words of English comedian Dave Allen: "Goodnight, and may your God go with you."
Of course not. I don't see how you could possibly draw such an inference from what I said. Still, for the record:
I am aware of this because it was pointed out to me at some time, either in a book or during my studies in Comparative Religion at university. Like so much I know, I didn't think of it first. (I did wonder, when I became aware of it, why 18 years of Catholic upbringing had failed to draw my attention to it.)
Humble apologies for using some background knowledge, blatantly culled from libraries, when posting to Slashdot. I'll stick to unreasoned diatribes, unsupported by evidence, in future.
The capitalisation of "God" and the mention of Satan hinted that we were at least talking about Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. My point is, I think, valid for all three.
I am also happy to accept that similar criticisms could be levelled against just about any religion, as they all involve some degree of acceptance of the absurd. So Christians shouldn't feel that I'm picking on them; I was citing my friends by way of example, but if the original post came from somebody of a different faith, then I'll say the same about my Moslem and even my Hindu friends. (For some reason, I don't know any Polynesian animists.)
...pathetic excuses for people with a dark soul that has been invaded by satan to replace God with primitive ideas
What, like ignoring the intellectual faculties given you by the Creator in favour of slavish devotion to some ancient collection of fairy tales?
No offence, but experiments with plasma aren't anything like as primitive as some of the things my Christian friends believe, such as the two creation myths in Genesis (although they never seem to have noticed that there are two, they just run with the cute serpent story).
Just my $0.02. You may now inform me that I am damned.
Not at all... all you need to do is use the "syntax" ftp://user@site.com and it will prompt for password
Yes of course, I should have thought of that:-) As these machines are only on my local network, I wasn't really thinking much of security when I first made the connection.
If you are using internet explorer, it offers full ftp one feature that seems to be absent in mozilla. It's not very pretty, but so long as the user can copy and paste files between folders under windows would have NO difficulity.
True. The other day I was moving files around between my Mac and Windows machines, and it was only after about ten minutes of dragging and dropping in Explorer that I realised I was using an FTP connection to the Mac rather than a network share (SAMBA). I don't find many reasons to praise MS technology, but the integration of IE's FTP component into Windows is pretty slick. That FTP connection was one I made several days previously, and Windows kept it in the "Network Places" branch, reconnecting seamlessly as needed when I visited it.
(OTOH, that means it was keeping the FTP password around somewhere, so that could be a security problem if you were using a public access machine.)
It's the usual story: they need somebody to sue when things go wrong. Even better is a corporation so rich that it can afford to pay the banks off to keep quiet.
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ATMs aren't broken into very often because it's extremely hard to do
The usual method is to steal a JCB or Bulldozer and rip the whole machine out of the wall. Shove it in the back of a stolen van, shoot off at high speed to an abandoned warehouse, and take your time getting it open.
This happened quite a few times here in the UK about 10 years ago. Don't know why people stopped doing it; maybe they use those dye bombs now?
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Mmm... you know you've been stuck at home too long when not only do you swear at inanimate objects, you also apologise to them afterwards.
Save yourself all that typing: Google recognises c as an abbreviation for the speed of light :-)
Hmm... upon checking Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie, I see that the name is capitalised throughout, but in the foreword to Starting Forth, Chuck Moore, inventor of the language, refers to the origins of the name in capitals, but otherwise uses mixed case - as does Brodie for the rest of that book. So I suppose the point is moot :-)
OTOH, I seem to recall another book (possibly Forth on the BBC Microcomputer by Richard de Grandis-Harrison) being quite insistent on mixed-case spelling of the name, but I can't put my hands on it right now.
My first computer (well, my school's) not only had all capitals, you had to look at them on Teletypes - unless you could read ASCII off punched paper tape. I think that must make us both old-school :-)
Spot on! I was a professional Forth programmer in the '80s, including implementing Forth on the Atari ST. Well spotted!
I hadn't realised the effect it seems to have had on my writing... I'll have to watch that :-)
Just to nitpick... it's "Forth" with initial capital, not "FORTH" all in caps.
Well, given that I live around 60m (~200 feet) above sea level, I'm already well aware that a drastic rise in sea level will have me looking in the attic for my water wings.
In my birthplace, Liverpool, there's a saying: "You've gorra laugh, or else you'd cry." (Yes, we do say "gorra" for "got to".) Do lighten up, or you'll be dying of a perforated ulcer long before the water is lapping at your shoes. The fact that I make a (not very good) joke about a serious matter does not mean that I am unaware of the issues.
Have a nice swim :-)
At least the Midwest will have ocean views.
Wrong. From Dictionary.com:
So the usage relating to earth has a distinct derivation from the usage as a term of abuse, which is indeed short for sodomite.
Yes, but most people use the name "Blair" for him.
"Considerably easier", I type into Safari on my Mac :-)
OTOH, sometimes you're stuck in a workplace where they require use of IE, and (as long as they haven't disabled access to Internet Options), you can at least get rid of the MSN page.
Probably because this is a feature of IE, not a change to the way the net works.
To get rid of it:
Depending on version, you may need to close IE and relaunch it. Oddly enough, when testing this (I turn the search page off as soon as I've installed the OS), I found that the change to re-enable the search page needed a relaunch, but turning it off didn't.
All this is on IE6 under Win2000; AFAIK, it's the same for IE4 upwards, but as always, YMMV.
HTH
I can't remember (this was 21 years ago...)
I'll have to dig around and see if I've still got any notes from that time.
Dave Allen is, of course, Irish. My bad :-(
In Genesis chapter 1, the plants are created on the third day, and man and woman on the sixth day. In Genesis chapter 2, Adam is created, after that the plants, and after that Eve. Still, executive summaries never do fully capture the sense of the whole report.
And yes, not only am I aware of the peculiarities of Catholicism, I also raised the question in a CompRel tutorial once as to why a certain phrase of Hindu scripture, predating the time of Jesus Christ, was repeated almost verbatim in one of the Gospels. The explanation offered by the professor (and that's a real professor, not a postgrad researcher with a fancy job title) was that knowledge of Hinduism was available in the Middle East at the time of Christ, and was known to be incorporated in the teachings of various off-mainstream Judaic cults. So it looks like, if your Bible is the word of God, it may well be Hanuman speaking to you.
It's teatime here now, so I'm going to cook my dinner. In the words of English comedian Dave Allen: "Goodnight, and may your God go with you."
Of course not. I don't see how you could possibly draw such an inference from what I said. Still, for the record:
I am aware of this because it was pointed out to me at some time, either in a book or during my studies in Comparative Religion at university. Like so much I know, I didn't think of it first. (I did wonder, when I became aware of it, why 18 years of Catholic upbringing had failed to draw my attention to it.)
Humble apologies for using some background knowledge, blatantly culled from libraries, when posting to Slashdot. I'll stick to unreasoned diatribes, unsupported by evidence, in future.
Have a good weekend :-)
The capitalisation of "God" and the mention of Satan hinted that we were at least talking about Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. My point is, I think, valid for all three.
I am also happy to accept that similar criticisms could be levelled against just about any religion, as they all involve some degree of acceptance of the absurd. So Christians shouldn't feel that I'm picking on them; I was citing my friends by way of example, but if the original post came from somebody of a different faith, then I'll say the same about my Moslem and even my Hindu friends. (For some reason, I don't know any Polynesian animists.)
What, like ignoring the intellectual faculties given you by the Creator in favour of slavish devotion to some ancient collection of fairy tales?
No offence, but experiments with plasma aren't anything like as primitive as some of the things my Christian friends believe, such as the two creation myths in Genesis (although they never seem to have noticed that there are two, they just run with the cute serpent story).
Just my $0.02. You may now inform me that I am damned.
Yes, war is hell.
Yes of course, I should have thought of that :-) As these machines are only on my local network, I wasn't really thinking much of security when I first made the connection.
True. The other day I was moving files around between my Mac and Windows machines, and it was only after about ten minutes of dragging and dropping in Explorer that I realised I was using an FTP connection to the Mac rather than a network share (SAMBA). I don't find many reasons to praise MS technology, but the integration of IE's FTP component into Windows is pretty slick. That FTP connection was one I made several days previously, and Windows kept it in the "Network Places" branch, reconnecting seamlessly as needed when I visited it.
(OTOH, that means it was keeping the FTP password around somewhere, so that could be a security problem if you were using a public access machine.)
"It looks like you're browsing porn. Can I give you a hand with that?"
It's the usual story: they need somebody to sue when things go wrong. Even better is a corporation so rich that it can afford to pay the banks off to keep quiet.
At least they used the word "effect' correctly :-)
The usual method is to steal a JCB or Bulldozer and rip the whole machine out of the wall. Shove it in the back of a stolen van, shoot off at high speed to an abandoned warehouse, and take your time getting it open.
This happened quite a few times here in the UK about 10 years ago. Don't know why people stopped doing it; maybe they use those dye bombs now?
Are you sure you want to withdraw some cash?
You must restart your computer before your money can be dispensed
And, of course
C:\WinNT\System32\dispense.dll not found
Here in the European Union, it arrived as of July 1st 2003. Purchases made online within the EU are liable to VAT (Value Added Tax, the EU version of Sales Tax), even if the supplier of the goods is based and shipping from outside the EU.
Some details here.