...is not having to sit next to that fat ugly woman stinking of Walmart perfume whose blubber has completely engulfed the armrest between your seat and hers and is threating to engulf you while she chomps away on the 'family' sized bucket of popcorn laden with the rancid fat based liquid called 'butter' by food manufacturers. Even better, you don't have to have to be smothered by her as she goes off to get her second bucket half way through the movie and then returns attempting (mostly unsuccessfully) to stuff her lipaceous undulations back into her own seat.
I do know what a Sharpie is. It's a (usually) black pen that uses a fairly permanent ink (though it is easy to remove with isopropyl alcohol). I know some people have been known to draw round the edge of CDs using a Sharpie to increase imagined audio quality. But I don't see what that has to do with it.
So I did a web search on this exact phrase and found one web site. Bizarrely the full sentence was "The secret is out, guys. You can put away your Sharpies and stop using your code names. We're on to you." So there must be some cultural association between Sharpies and secrets and conspiracies. Are Sharpies used for covert communication? It seems unlikely - Sharpies are tradtionally associated with bold black writing rather than anything covert. So really, I'm at a loss to understand the relevance of this phrase.
Searching the rest of the/. web page turned up no clues either. Maybe the reference to Sharpies was too subtle for other people too. Or maybe it's a big open secret.
Can someone explain to me what the reference to Sharpies is about?
No, they didn't know what they were talking about, that's just the propaganda you've been brought up with from a young age.
OK, I'm exaggerating to get your attention, they had a pretty good idea. But they weren't as special as American children are taught to believe. By various devices (eg. pledge of allegiance every morning, various other kinds of chants and pledges performed at US schools, propaganda laden textbooks and so on) Americans are brought up to believe that the Constitution is the one true way, never to be questioned. However, if you bother to investigate I think you'll find that in the UK, say, where there isn't even a written Constitution, people enjoy most of the same liberties as folk in the US.
Anyway, if those Founding Fathers (see, I've learned to use capital letters when saying that just like a Good American) were all that good they'd have figured out how to write their precious documents a little less ambiguously. For one thing the word "people" in the Declaration of Indepepndence didn't even include people whose skin color was a little different.
Over the decades the US media has blasted the UK for its treatment of Irish terrorists and for the UK's gradual erosion of human rights. These articles have often been accompanied with a superior "it couldn't happen here because of our Constitution" attitude. So it's been great the last few years watching the US finding creative ways to ignore its own Constitution in pursuit of the 'war' on terrorism. I was laughing when I read comments by Assistant Attorney General William Moschella in a letter to Congress:
"[Bookshops and libraries] should not be carved out as safe havens for terrorists and spies, who have, in fact, used public libraries to do research and communicate with their co-conspirators," he wrote.
I wonder when the current administration will start drawing up plans to outlaw Starbucks - I'm pretty sure I've seen people communicating with each other there.
But I really shouldn't be laughing at all. Every loss of rights for people in the US or the UK probably has the effect of justifying, at least in their own eyes, the actions of repressive governments everywhere else in the world, including each other's governments.
Microsoft put Real out of business! Wow! There really is justice in the world. No. Wait. Real look like they're still there to me. Damn! You had me all excited for a few moments.
What exactly is missing from the word 'hype' that it needs an 'over-' in front of it? Given that I haven't seen much said publicly about Google Scholar, that I've never seen grandiose claims made for it, and that most of my friends who don't need access to academic papers have never heard of it, I'm beginning to understand what 'overhype' means. It's a word you use when you want to generate hype, not about a product, but about the idea that it has been hyped. 'Overhype' is a word used to hype hype itself.
What is the lowest cost handheld device on which I could do Haskell development? Presumably the most sensible thing would be to try a Linux device as Haskell might be tricky to build for any other handheld OS. Would this device be a good option?
Damn! My new $80 Philips DVD player (that's high end these days isn't it) doesn't. Or at least I haven't found out how to switch it on. But it does play DivX and mpeg X (for various values of X) files so I'll forgive it.
VHS tapes don't force you to watch an anti-piracy message (or advertising) with the fast-forward button disabled
VHS tapes come with a 'memory' feature that tracks where you last watched them. Watch a movie half way, eject the tape, watch another movie and return to the first one and you can pick up exactly where you left off. The memory automatically follows the video tape so if your VHS player dies in the middle of a movie then when you get another you can still continue from where you left off. (Anyone who's ever accidentally jumped to the next chapter while watching Mulholland Drive on DVD will appreciate this feature.)
...I expect it will be possible to virtualize it and so have the OS run on a conventional PC. So ultimately it doesn't actually matter what the hardware is, and there'll certainly be no need for a mod chip. And of course as long as the real CPU is basically the same as the virtual CPU, ie. Intel, the performance hit from virtualization probably won't be too bad.
They're textbook examples of how how to misread the scientific literature which is pretty typical for people with a political axe to grind. I'll give you some hints on the correct readings of those paragraphs pulled out of context. In particular the word "individual" is used, not to mean a person (in the legal or philosophical sense) but as a cell, or group of cells, that is genetically distinct from its predecessors. This has nothing to do with the "beginning of life". The egg and sperm were alive and so is the resulting zygote. Antobody cells are genetically distinct too but they're not people.
There was a bug in the Watcom compiler for DOS many years ago. As a bug report I sent them a piece of code something like:
char *s = "Fortune coookie";
int *p = (char *)s;
for (i = 0; i<4; ++i) {
putchar(((char *)p)[i]);
}
Looks innocent enough. But actually it actually printed an obscenity. There was a bug in the pointer addition code generated by the compiler so that even though (char *)p was a pointer to type char it still used sizeof(int) to index into the array and so it printed every 4th character. (And that explains why I used three o's.)
science has proven that human life begins at conception
Would you like to provide a citation for that? For example a reference to a peer reviewed paper that states explicitly that "human life begins at conception". Or maybe you can just name the person who made this amazing discovery.
It may have something to do with this. (Though to be honest, it wouldn't take much stretching beyond the ideas in that web page to argue that BASIC is a functional programming language that uses monads.)
Last time I checked Catholics were still using the same book with the same unchanged creation story. And the version of evolution espoused by Catholics is hardly evolution. It's usually some half-assed grafting of evolutionary theory onto intelligent design stating that evolution was guided by God and it quite specifically treats human evolution separately from that of the animals with an insistence of the literal truth of the Fall. This is no embrace of evolution. Catholics have simply relented on a few verses of Genesis so as not too appear too foolish in public and have left everything else intact. "Trivial"? Yes.
Where has it been discredited exactly?
Er...maybe you've never read the Bible but if you take a look at it you'll see it's jam packed solid full of supernatural phenomena. I don't think I need to specifically point these out.
Absolutely, and that's why the examples of 'change' you give are completely trivial, such as a change of language, or even bogus (early Christians would not have forced someone to starve if it was understood it would have meant extreme sickness). Christians still work from books that are at least 2000 years old, are completely unchanged (besides translation) and yet have been largely discredited. Your apologetics are, frankly, rather weak.
...is that every alien species, in a bid to further their own SETI projects, outlawed EM pollution, the only means by which anyone else could see them.
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...is not having to sit next to that fat ugly woman stinking of Walmart perfume whose blubber has completely engulfed the armrest between your seat and hers and is threating to engulf you while she chomps away on the 'family' sized bucket of popcorn laden with the rancid fat based liquid called 'butter' by food manufacturers. Even better, you don't have to have to be smothered by her as she goes off to get her second bucket half way through the movie and then returns attempting (mostly unsuccessfully) to stuff her lipaceous undulations back into her own seat.
I do know what a Sharpie is. It's a (usually) black pen that uses a fairly permanent ink (though it is easy to remove with isopropyl alcohol). I know some people have been known to draw round the edge of CDs using a Sharpie to increase imagined audio quality. But I don't see what that has to do with it.
So I did a web search on this exact phrase and found one web site. Bizarrely the full sentence was "The secret is out, guys. You can put away your Sharpies and stop using your code names. We're on to you." So there must be some cultural association between Sharpies and secrets and conspiracies. Are Sharpies used for covert communication? It seems unlikely - Sharpies are tradtionally associated with bold black writing rather than anything covert. So really, I'm at a loss to understand the relevance of this phrase.
Searching the rest of the /. web page turned up no clues either. Maybe the reference to Sharpies was too subtle for other people too. Or maybe it's a big open secret.
Can someone explain to me what the reference to Sharpies is about?
OK, I'm exaggerating to get your attention, they had a pretty good idea. But they weren't as special as American children are taught to believe. By various devices (eg. pledge of allegiance every morning, various other kinds of chants and pledges performed at US schools, propaganda laden textbooks and so on) Americans are brought up to believe that the Constitution is the one true way, never to be questioned. However, if you bother to investigate I think you'll find that in the UK, say, where there isn't even a written Constitution, people enjoy most of the same liberties as folk in the US.
Anyway, if those Founding Fathers (see, I've learned to use capital letters when saying that just like a Good American) were all that good they'd have figured out how to write their precious documents a little less ambiguously. For one thing the word "people" in the Declaration of Indepepndence didn't even include people whose skin color was a little different.
...black Apple with a Dell logo on it?
But I really shouldn't be laughing at all. Every loss of rights for people in the US or the UK probably has the effect of justifying, at least in their own eyes, the actions of repressive governments everywhere else in the world, including each other's governments.
If your username wasn't techno-vampire I might even believe you.
Microsoft put Real out of business! Wow! There really is justice in the world. No. Wait. Real look like they're still there to me. Damn! You had me all excited for a few moments.
What exactly is missing from the word 'hype' that it needs an 'over-' in front of it? Given that I haven't seen much said publicly about Google Scholar, that I've never seen grandiose claims made for it, and that most of my friends who don't need access to academic papers have never heard of it, I'm beginning to understand what 'overhype' means. It's a word you use when you want to generate hype, not about a product, but about the idea that it has been hyped. 'Overhype' is a word used to hype hype itself.
What is the lowest cost handheld device on which I could do Haskell development? Presumably the most sensible thing would be to try a Linux device as Haskell might be tricky to build for any other handheld OS. Would this device be a good option?
I don't watch enough porn for A-B repeating to be useful.
Damn! My new $80 Philips DVD player (that's high end these days isn't it) doesn't. Or at least I haven't found out how to switch it on. But it does play DivX and mpeg X (for various values of X) files so I'll forgive it.
Have you tried the DVD? You have to scan through the entire movie to find your scene as it has just one chapter.
...I expect it will be possible to virtualize it and so have the OS run on a conventional PC. So ultimately it doesn't actually matter what the hardware is, and there'll certainly be no need for a mod chip. And of course as long as the real CPU is basically the same as the virtual CPU, ie. Intel, the performance hit from virtualization probably won't be too bad.
They're textbook examples of how how to misread the scientific literature which is pretty typical for people with a political axe to grind. I'll give you some hints on the correct readings of those paragraphs pulled out of context. In particular the word "individual" is used, not to mean a person (in the legal or philosophical sense) but as a cell, or group of cells, that is genetically distinct from its predecessors. This has nothing to do with the "beginning of life". The egg and sperm were alive and so is the resulting zygote. Antobody cells are genetically distinct too but they're not people.
It was for DOS4GW but I think you're being pedantic.
Try shouting at them!
I can't argue with that.
It may have something to do with this. (Though to be honest, it wouldn't take much stretching beyond the ideas in that web page to argue that BASIC is a functional programming language that uses monads.)
...is that every alien species, in a bid to further their own SETI projects, outlawed EM pollution, the only means by which anyone else could see them.