Actually, a frequent quotation from the 19th-century drama, Axel, by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (who had five first names, at last count). I was going to be a little snide about this, but I started looking for a weblink, found nothing yet at Project Gutenberg, then found a site from somebody who would like to make the play into a movie. The site includes a link to a bit from Arthur Symons about Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.
The 2nd section discusses the play, and its descriptions of the hero's disdain for capital-L Life and capital-N Nature seemed mighty appropriate for a discussion of robots and those who employ them.
The situation took an unexpected twist when Darl McBride claimed to be the true owner of said intellectual property, and demanded $699 from God for its continued use...
Do you know many Australians? It would probably be like someone from Baltimore going to 1988 East Berlin--they would feel curiously at home.
NV, hick & loud of it.
Bill Bates? I hope, I hope, that's a pun between 'Bill Gates' and the Czech word for idiot, 'blbec,' which is pronounced, with the Prague drawl, as 'Bill Bates.'
What do you mean by "tree weird characters"? Don't get me wrong, I'm not making fun, I'm genuinely curious what the phrase means. One of my favorite games is to try to reverse-engineer translations that missed, thanks to the ambiguities in English.
"We feel we have to keep everything that comes to us even if they want to be a message therapist," [Griesmar, the bank's recruiter] said. "I'd rather spend my time doing productive things than fighting a regulator... having to explain what happened to a year's worth of resumes."
Hey! Message therapist! I could well be qualified and not know it!
Funny about that speed of light dogma--have you ever measured it yourself? I have.
It was part of the required coursework in college, and I admit that I was better at the other parts. Still, this one caught my interest when I measured the speed of light, and then, to be on the safe side, I measured it again. Different figures. Wait a minute, Albert.
I ended up measuring it many times through the late afternoon, then many more times in the early morning, and a very clear trend emerged--light is slower in the morning. I pondered the consequences of my discovery.
E=mc^2 is predicated upon the speed of light being a constant--what if it isn't? Well, the equation is dandy, and the work that Einstein and others developed from it is so elegant, I figured that the equality must be preserved. So:
Light slower in the morning means that c decreases. Two possible cases:
a. E decreases proportionally, to preserve the ratio--I have less energy in the morning, I can't get out of bed.
b. m increases proportionally to c's decrease--I'm heavier, I can't get out of bed.
When I finally made it to class the next day, late, as usual, and presented my findings, the tutor was not grateful for my perseverance and contribution to the enlargement of learning. Rather, she suggested sloppy lab work was responsible.
I have read the recent stories as corroboration and vindication. I doubt she remembers me.
Most all my life, I've heard Yankees say that folks from the South are stupid, bigoted, and prone to violence. This puzzles me--they say it as if this were a bad thing.
Maybe because I track the XML stories, there don't seem to be that many of them--that many, compared to which other topics, I guess would be the question.
I agree with you about the passions raised by the topic, & that there does seem a pretty sharp divide. What I've noticed, however, is an interesting change over the past couple of years--where the earlier arguments seemed to split between the enthusiasts, who were using XML, & the skeptics, who wouldn't deign to (oh, yeah, & a third group, but you can chose your own name for them), the anti- camp now seems largely to be those who are compelled to use XML at work.
The occasional conversion experience is posted, but much less frequently. Anybody have any insight on why that might be? Simply being compelled to use it? Or being compelled without having adequate preparation, say, in contrast to whatever programming languages one might be required to use at work?
I agree, except that I wouldn't restrict the claim to BBEdit Lite. Just started using a Mac in November, had heard that BBEdit was the text editor, & I love me some text editors. Downloaded the trial, it was fine, but I do as much XML as anything these days. I'm _real_ hooked on being able to reference a DTD & get a pull-down menu of valid/required elements.
JEdit for me, so that I can have the same editor on the 3 platforms I use.
Well, that, and SciTE, especially since I've had some memory problems with the last couple of pre-s with JEdit.
Love me some SciTE, too.
For the sake of comparison, I ran vidarh's Google search "site:name -dfgdfgadfgaagdfg" on the other TLDs, and got these results:
Google results for TLDs:
site:pro
Results 1 - 5 of 5
site:aero
about 28,900
site:name
about 36,500
site:coop
about 44,500
site:museum
about 68,400
site:int
about 723,000
site:biz
about 1,040,000
site:info
about 2,000,000
site:mil
about 2,620,000
site:gov
about 5,300,000
site:edu
about 18,200,000
site:net
about 31,800,000
site:org
about 32,200,000
site:com
about 110,000,000
Once there's SVG support in Phoenix, I'm done w/ IE. Or, can that be managed, & I'm too slow-witted to figure it out?
Haven't been able to get the Adobe plug-in to work w/ Opera, & felt a genuine pang of grief when I read that "For various reasons, official Mozilla builds will not include SVG support for the near future."
I track changes, etc., in the machines where I work in a map I wrote of the room in SVG. Gosh, it's useful, & my boss thinks it's pretty.
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Actually, a frequent quotation from the 19th-century drama, Axel, by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (who had five first names, at last count). I was going to be a little snide about this, but I started looking for a weblink, found nothing yet at Project Gutenberg, then found a site from somebody who would like to make the play into a movie. The site includes a link to a bit from Arthur Symons about Villiers de l'Isle-Adam .
The 2nd section discusses the play, and its descriptions of the hero's disdain for capital-L Life and capital-N Nature seemed mighty appropriate for a discussion of robots and those who employ them.
Thanks for a connection I wouldn't have made!
Isn't the license priced $666?
Do you know many Australians? It would probably be like someone from Baltimore going to 1988 East Berlin--they would feel curiously at home.
NV, hick & loud of it.
Bill Bates? I hope, I hope, that's a pun between 'Bill Gates' and the Czech word for idiot, 'blbec,' which is pronounced, with the Prague drawl, as 'Bill Bates.'
What do you mean by "tree weird characters"? Don't get me wrong, I'm not making fun, I'm genuinely curious what the phrase means. One of my favorite games is to try to reverse-engineer translations that missed, thanks to the ambiguities in English.
Hey! Message therapist! I could well be qualified and not know it!
Funny about that speed of light dogma--have you ever measured it yourself? I have.
It was part of the required coursework in college, and I admit that I was better at the other parts. Still, this one caught my interest when I measured the speed of light, and then, to be on the safe side, I measured it again. Different figures. Wait a minute, Albert.
I ended up measuring it many times through the late afternoon, then many more times in the early morning, and a very clear trend emerged--light is slower in the morning. I pondered the consequences of my discovery.
E=mc^2 is predicated upon the speed of light being a constant--what if it isn't? Well, the equation is dandy, and the work that Einstein and others developed from it is so elegant, I figured that the equality must be preserved. So:
Light slower in the morning means that c decreases. Two possible cases:
a. E decreases proportionally, to preserve the ratio--I have less energy in the morning, I can't get out of bed.
b. m increases proportionally to c's decrease--I'm heavier, I can't get out of bed.
When I finally made it to class the next day, late, as usual, and presented my findings, the tutor was not grateful for my perseverance and contribution to the enlargement of learning. Rather, she suggested sloppy lab work was responsible.
I have read the recent stories as corroboration and vindication. I doubt she remembers me.
Most all my life, I've heard Yankees say that folks from the South are stupid, bigoted, and prone to violence. This puzzles me--they say it as if this were a bad thing.
<I>
<have fallen="true">
<can>
<get up="false">
</can>
</I>
I saw Episode Two at home, on DVD. The worst part was the dialogue.
How about:
Firebird Isn't Really Excellent Browser, It's Really Database.
I agree with you about the passions raised by the topic, & that there does seem a pretty sharp divide. What I've noticed, however, is an interesting change over the past couple of years--where the earlier arguments seemed to split between the enthusiasts, who were using XML, & the skeptics, who wouldn't deign to (oh, yeah, & a third group, but you can chose your own name for them), the anti- camp now seems largely to be those who are compelled to use XML at work.
The occasional conversion experience is posted, but much less frequently. Anybody have any insight on why that might be? Simply being compelled to use it? Or being compelled without having adequate preparation, say, in contrast to whatever programming languages one might be required to use at work?
I agree, except that I wouldn't restrict the claim to BBEdit Lite. Just started using a Mac in November, had heard that BBEdit was the text editor, & I love me some text editors. Downloaded the trial, it was fine, but I do as much XML as anything these days. I'm _real_ hooked on being able to reference a DTD & get a pull-down menu of valid/required elements. JEdit for me, so that I can have the same editor on the 3 platforms I use. Well, that, and SciTE, especially since I've had some memory problems with the last couple of pre-s with JEdit. Love me some SciTE, too.
For the sake of comparison, I ran vidarh's Google search "site:name -dfgdfgadfgaagdfg" on the other TLDs, and got these results:
Google results for TLDs:
site:pro
Results 1 - 5 of 5
site:aero
about 28,900
site:name
about 36,500
site:coop
about 44,500
site:museum
about 68,400
site:int
about 723,000
site:biz
about 1,040,000
site:info
about 2,000,000
site:mil
about 2,620,000
site:gov
about 5,300,000
site:edu
about 18,200,000
site:net
about 31,800,000
site:org
about 32,200,000
site:com
about 110,000,000
Once there's SVG support in Phoenix, I'm done w/ IE. Or, can that be managed, & I'm too slow-witted to figure it out? Haven't been able to get the Adobe plug-in to work w/ Opera, & felt a genuine pang of grief when I read that "For various reasons, official Mozilla builds will not include SVG support for the near future." I track changes, etc., in the machines where I work in a map I wrote of the room in SVG. Gosh, it's useful, & my boss thinks it's pretty.
Y'all, don't disrespect the President that way.