The ahhhs and ummms are used by authors writing literature to convey stupidity, and transcribed by journalists verbatim for the same reason. It's called "spin".
You can add lots of h's to an ahhh to make them look even stupider, its completely up to the author of the piece.
Zonk simply wants the guy to come off unintelligent, to vent his nerd rage.
See, I'll show you:
Today George Bush said: "Our resolve is strong in Iraq, and we will stay until the fight is finished."
vs
Today George Bush said: "uhhhh durrrrr Our resolve uhhh aahhhh eehhh is ummmm we... uhh strong in ummm whatsit uhhh Iraq until all the fight is uhhhh finished."
Which quote is likely to run in the NY Times, and which is likely to run on foxnews?
Generally, first is with intent to kill - premeditation. That can be hard to prove, depending where you're tried. Just because someone heard you mutter "i'd love to pound that guys head in" a year earlier, may not be enough.
I can see here, researching on the internet, shows intent, and a really cold character.
Commission of a murder, during the comission of another felony is first degree by default. I think the logic goes: by robbing that liquor store, you showed a disregard for the clerks life, and therefore a certain willingness to take it, or by fleeing the police in the car, you show a willingness to run over the 6 year old crossing the road, etc.
Second degree would be maybe shaking a baby to death, beating someone to death. It gets hairy here, splitting between 2nd degree murder and manslaughter. Manslaughter I understand as accidental, but due to some negligence on your part. 2nd degree murder is accidental, but due to actions taken on your part.
It is confusing. It's easier just not to kill people.
OpenGL ultimately means an inferior product. It's been true for a long while. The Windows customers you lose are hardly replaced by the white elephants of "people who only game on linux or mac osx, and dont have a windows partition for games".
As the parent said, PS2, Wii, and so ons implementations of OpenGL are, for all intents and purposes, proprietary languages of your own.
Direct X = Microsoft lock-in.
Writing a game for any console = lock-in, but like the parent said - developing for DX on windows, you pretty much get XBox for free. The same isn't true trying to get a PS3 or Wii game on windows.
Maybe Sony and Nintendo should play the same game, release implementations of their console software APIs for windows, to facilitate ports.
Given their stances on emulation, however, it's pretty clear that Sony and Nintendo absolutely loathe the PC as a gaming platform. Has Nintendo ever released a PC title? I can only think of those twinky little pokemon cds, which I would hardly call games, just more pokemon merch.
Sony or Nintendo could also design their APIs to be more in line with DirectX, or even license DX from Microsoft. The fact that they are so different is by their choice. They want their kingdoms, and full control over them.
Nintendo has no desire for you to play metroid on anything but Nintendo hardware.
Every complaint lodged about vista was lodged against XP, 2000, and 95 but people bought those. "Oooh, those rounded window edges are destroying all my CPU cycles. What, I need a pentium 3 just to run windows? F U microsoft! There arent any 32 bit apps, this 95 stuff is bullcrap!"
There's no reason to upgrade existing hardware to vista, but new machines will ship with it, or it will be installed by the gamer building his own rig.
It's like thinking Nintendo would release a wii-mote for the N64 or Gamecube.
You dont have to buy a new graphics card to run vista. You have to buy vista to get the most out of your new graphics card. Just like you had to get 98SE to get the most out of your new USB ports.
Driver and app support will trickle in like always, and eventually the "annoying security feature" will go away. We all know it's the apps fault, and we've all been squawking about fixing those problems for years. Now, they have to.
The story of the college IT worker canned for installing it in the labs could maybe be dubbed "infamous".
We both know they mean famous, but nobody really cares about the difference anymore. Serial killers are hugely popular, because people not only dont know - but dont recognize the difference between fame and infamy.
I can try to summarize for the sake of education though:
William Shakespeare: Famous, Adolf Hitler: Infamous.
The logs were on her computer, from what I understand, and not subpoena from google.
It could be established through other witnesses and testimony that the computer is hers, and that others dont use it.
The fact that theres a password on it (and its to be assumed the password is known to her), goes a long way to show that fact.
By your logic, nobody would ever be convicted of child porn, because they could say "waht if someone came in in the middle of the night and downloaded all of that... " Fortunately, the standard is "reasonable doubt", and not "remotely possible under the current understanding of quantum physics".
It obviously doesn't prove she comitted the murder - but if you establish that she did indeed commit the murder, this goes a long way to show that it was premeditated (murder in the first degree), rather than an emotional act commited in the heat of passion (manslaughter).
If you want to kill somebody, or hate somebody so intensely, never let anyone know. Never say "I'd love to strangle that sunmabitch", even if its blowing off steam. Say you did kill that guy, in self defense, or by accident... You've already showed evidence of premeditation.
A great deal of modern health care and banking is completely conducted using paper transactions. Why do you think the whole of the state, country, or world operates exactly like the little part of it that you see?
Why does it take a check 7-10 days to be cleared? Is that the ping time between Bank of America and the issuing bank? No, but this system still works largely the same way it has for 1000 years. People, actual humans with eyes, check the numbers. I doubt this will change for a long time. Bank brass doesn't like the idea of removing that human "safeguard".
Health care is a fucking mess. Doctors aren't into computers, they have better things to do. Receptionists and clerical workers cobble around a mess of access databases and flat text files. Plenty of room to improve and streamline. This will change, but will have more to do with education. I have a friend who just completed a vocational cert in medical billing, and there was very little IT training involved. Some introductory word processing, and basic spreadsheet usage, and that was about it.
Transportation? All over the place again. For every company using high tech dispatching and tracking trucks with GPS and monitoring the engine wear in real time, there's a driver-owned rig tooling down the interstate with a big fucking paper map unfolded on the windshield.
Apple Computer signed an agreement with Apple Records in the 1970s not to ever produce, publish, distribute or sell music, in order to keep the trademark.
Apple Records doesn't have the resources to follow through on the iTunes suit, although they did file one, and are 100% in the right.
Read the parents link. Her doctor testified that marijuana is the only drug that allows her to eat. He has tried all other treatments, with no response.
Eating is a biological necessity. Marijuana IS keeping her (and many other similar patients) alive.
Suspending a sentence isnt the same as reducing it.
On paper she was still sentenced to community service, and if she's before a judge again one day, that's what he'll see. That's what's on her record, that the crime she was convicted of was serious enough to warrant that penalty. That's what hurts. Spending a half day picking up cans, and then having your supervisor sign "96 hours" (thats how community service works in my experience) doesn't mean anything.
She didn't "gack a nigga fo his nikes", she listened in on some phone conversations. She was prosecuted and convicted. Judges suspend sentences all the time.
So, that's the end of that. She was punished, severely. Look at HP's stock price, and realize she'll be unemployed by the end of the year.
Why do you think someone would get jail time for snoopin' around?
I bought a belkin pre-n router and card on sale for 30 bucks. I knew going in that, essentialy, I was buying G gear, with a bit more range and speed if I happen to use the pre-N card.
There's no reason a software upgrade shouldn't be able to take it to N, but I doubt I'll be offered one - why, when they can sell me a whole new kit?
But, 30 bucks for a G router and pcmcia card wasn't too shabby, so I'm not upset about it.
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The ahhhs and ummms are used by authors writing literature to convey stupidity, and transcribed by journalists verbatim for the same reason. It's called "spin".
You can add lots of h's to an ahhh to make them look even stupider, its completely up to the author of the piece.
Zonk simply wants the guy to come off unintelligent, to vent his nerd rage.
See, I'll show you:
Today George Bush said: "Our resolve is strong in Iraq, and we will stay until the fight is finished."
vs
Today George Bush said: "uhhhh durrrrr Our resolve uhhh aahhhh eehhh is ummmm we... uhh strong in ummm whatsit uhhh Iraq until all the fight is uhhhh finished."
Which quote is likely to run in the NY Times, and which is likely to run on foxnews?
Generally, first is with intent to kill - premeditation. That can be hard to prove, depending where you're tried. Just because someone heard you mutter "i'd love to pound that guys head in" a year earlier, may not be enough.
I can see here, researching on the internet, shows intent, and a really cold character.
Commission of a murder, during the comission of another felony is first degree by default. I think the logic goes: by robbing that liquor store, you showed a disregard for the clerks life, and therefore a certain willingness to take it, or by fleeing the police in the car, you show a willingness to run over the 6 year old crossing the road, etc.
Second degree would be maybe shaking a baby to death, beating someone to death. It gets hairy here, splitting between 2nd degree murder and manslaughter. Manslaughter I understand as accidental, but due to some negligence on your part. 2nd degree murder is accidental, but due to actions taken on your part.
It is confusing. It's easier just not to kill people.
It's not what I thought it would be.
OpenGL ultimately means an inferior product. It's been true for a long while. The Windows customers you lose are hardly replaced by the white elephants of "people who only game on linux or mac osx, and dont have a windows partition for games".
As the parent said, PS2, Wii, and so ons implementations of OpenGL are, for all intents and purposes, proprietary languages of your own.
Direct X = Microsoft lock-in.
Writing a game for any console = lock-in, but like the parent said - developing for DX on windows, you pretty much get XBox for free. The same isn't true trying to get a PS3 or Wii game on windows.
Maybe Sony and Nintendo should play the same game, release implementations of their console software APIs for windows, to facilitate ports.
Given their stances on emulation, however, it's pretty clear that Sony and Nintendo absolutely loathe the PC as a gaming platform. Has Nintendo ever released a PC title? I can only think of those twinky little pokemon cds, which I would hardly call games, just more pokemon merch.
Sony or Nintendo could also design their APIs to be more in line with DirectX, or even license DX from Microsoft. The fact that they are so different is by their choice. They want their kingdoms, and full control over them.
Nintendo has no desire for you to play metroid on anything but Nintendo hardware.
Every complaint lodged about vista was lodged against XP, 2000, and 95 but people bought those. "Oooh, those rounded window edges are destroying all my CPU cycles. What, I need a pentium 3 just to run windows? F U microsoft! There arent any 32 bit apps, this 95 stuff is bullcrap!"
There's no reason to upgrade existing hardware to vista, but new machines will ship with it, or it will be installed by the gamer building his own rig.
It's like thinking Nintendo would release a wii-mote for the N64 or Gamecube.
You dont have to buy a new graphics card to run vista. You have to buy vista to get the most out of your new graphics card. Just like you had to get 98SE to get the most out of your new USB ports.
Driver and app support will trickle in like always, and eventually the "annoying security feature" will go away. We all know it's the apps fault, and we've all been squawking about fixing those problems for years. Now, they have to.
The story of the college IT worker canned for installing it in the labs could maybe be dubbed "infamous".
We both know they mean famous, but nobody really cares about the difference anymore. Serial killers are hugely popular, because people not only dont know - but dont recognize the difference between fame and infamy.
I can try to summarize for the sake of education though:
William Shakespeare: Famous, Adolf Hitler: Infamous.
The logs were on her computer, from what I understand, and not subpoena from google.
It could be established through other witnesses and testimony that the computer is hers, and that others dont use it.
The fact that theres a password on it (and its to be assumed the password is known to her), goes a long way to show that fact.
By your logic, nobody would ever be convicted of child porn, because they could say "waht if someone came in in the middle of the night and downloaded all of that... " Fortunately, the standard is "reasonable doubt", and not "remotely possible under the current understanding of quantum physics".
It obviously doesn't prove she comitted the murder - but if you establish that she did indeed commit the murder, this goes a long way to show that it was premeditated (murder in the first degree), rather than an emotional act commited in the heat of passion (manslaughter).
If you want to kill somebody, or hate somebody so intensely, never let anyone know. Never say "I'd love to strangle that sunmabitch", even if its blowing off steam. Say you did kill that guy, in self defense, or by accident... You've already showed evidence of premeditation.
Peanuts are highly toxic to some people. Yet, we eat them.
This corn may be toxic to some people - ban it outright?
I want to see some independant scientific analysis and testing before I make up my mind. Both Greenpeace and Monsanto have an agenda and a POV.
If this is a "one person in 100 million will get the shits real bad", then its no big deal.
Is high fructose corn syrup made from this corn toxic?
At any rate, kiss corn goodbye - we're going to use it for ethanol now, not food. Feeding our cars is more important now than feeding the hungry.
You could argue that FAT is mechanism to allocate physical space on a storage device, and thus not "software" at all.
Yes, you hate MSFT for all the business practices you love from Apple or Google.
I know slashdot is a bunch of young'uns who personify corporations as either friend or foe.
I'm just pointing out that corporations are things, not beings, and they are a part of a system, and behave as they are supposed to within the system.
It's the system that was set up to allow robber barons to swindle stockholders, stifle innovation with patents, and clog our legal system with crap.
I don't fault MSFT for patenting everything they can. Apple does it, Google does it, everyone does it. Eolas does it.
The system is broken. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
A great deal of modern health care and banking is completely conducted using paper transactions. Why do you think the whole of the state, country, or world operates exactly like the little part of it that you see?
Why does it take a check 7-10 days to be cleared? Is that the ping time between Bank of America and the issuing bank? No, but this system still works largely the same way it has for 1000 years. People, actual humans with eyes, check the numbers. I doubt this will change for a long time. Bank brass doesn't like the idea of removing that human "safeguard".
Health care is a fucking mess. Doctors aren't into computers, they have better things to do. Receptionists and clerical workers cobble around a mess of access databases and flat text files. Plenty of room to improve and streamline. This will change, but will have more to do with education. I have a friend who just completed a vocational cert in medical billing, and there was very little IT training involved. Some introductory word processing, and basic spreadsheet usage, and that was about it.
Transportation? All over the place again. For every company using high tech dispatching and tracking trucks with GPS and monitoring the engine wear in real time, there's a driver-owned rig tooling down the interstate with a big fucking paper map unfolded on the windshield.
Haha, nice saracasm. Slashdot news pieces are three day old press releases and thinly veiled "what are your favorite Apple products?" "ask-slashdots".
This is just another blog, full of loudmouths and yappin'.
Apple Computer signed an agreement with Apple Records in the 1970s not to ever produce, publish, distribute or sell music, in order to keep the trademark.
Apple Records doesn't have the resources to follow through on the iTunes suit, although they did file one, and are 100% in the right.
Read the parents link. Her doctor testified that marijuana is the only drug that allows her to eat. He has tried all other treatments, with no response.
Eating is a biological necessity. Marijuana IS keeping her (and many other similar patients) alive.
Suspending a sentence isnt the same as reducing it.
On paper she was still sentenced to community service, and if she's before a judge again one day, that's what he'll see. That's what's on her record, that the crime she was convicted of was serious enough to warrant that penalty. That's what hurts. Spending a half day picking up cans, and then having your supervisor sign "96 hours" (thats how community service works in my experience) doesn't mean anything.
What do you think is an appropriate punishment?
The fact that she was convicted at all is enough for me. HPs stock has taken it up the ass, and they won't keep her around.
She's getting her come-uppance, and I'm fine with that.
She didn't "gack a nigga fo his nikes", she listened in on some phone conversations. She was prosecuted and convicted. Judges suspend sentences all the time.
So, that's the end of that. She was punished, severely. Look at HP's stock price, and realize she'll be unemployed by the end of the year.
Why do you think someone would get jail time for snoopin' around?
Is that hundred million dollars really worth it?
96 hours, thats a stratjakt-sized work week!
Or 96 Patricia Dunn work weeks.
I bought a belkin pre-n router and card on sale for 30 bucks. I knew going in that, essentialy, I was buying G gear, with a bit more range and speed if I happen to use the pre-N card.
There's no reason a software upgrade shouldn't be able to take it to N, but I doubt I'll be offered one - why, when they can sell me a whole new kit?
But, 30 bucks for a G router and pcmcia card wasn't too shabby, so I'm not upset about it.
n/t
That's a pretty obscure command. There's no simpler way to not boot X11? I've never run RH.
Yay for linux' ease of use.
For all your clever wittiness, you're a complete fucking moron, aren't you?
It is Free. You need a capital F there, bub. Doesn't that make you feel better?
You get to test and develop it for free, and they get to sell it to you for Free.