lol isn't actually that bad. Many people seem to use it as a form of textual laughter. (Although I myself prefer typing "Heh.") Thusly, lol is neccesary, in the same way in speech, laughter conveys a different message than saying: "Yes. That's quite amusing."
I'll agree with you that gr8 is a sickening joke, however.
He probably just put the Euro or Pound symbol on, not realizing that Slashdot stores posts in 7-bit ASCII in some sort of attempt to prevent the foreign devils from taking over Slashdot.
Sir Tim invented the World Wide Web, not the Internet. In retrospect, the submitter probably should have said "World Wide Web" instead of the intentionally inaccurate term "intarweb."
Okay, I guess I was wrong, but the Nationalists founded the current government of Taiwan, and top level domains are assigned with respect to countries, not cultures. So I was almost right.
No, it's Chinese. Taiwan (AKA The Republic of China) is a small island off the coast of China which was founded by the Nationalists after the Communist party took over the rest of China.
I don't really think there exists a country which would put their error messages in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is an Indian language, and Hindi and English are far more likely to be spoken there.
We have ads in theaters because Movie Companies charge theaters quite a bit of money to be able to show their movies. As a result, tickets alone don't make anywhere near a decent profit. To supplement their revenue, theaters sell overpriced food and ad space.
It is a bit stupid, but unless theaters are run directly by the movie companies, (which is sort of true of National Amusements, which has links with Paramount) theaters have to be manage to make their own profit. Middle-men, ya see.
Those should be unsigned ints. Otherwise, the only integers you can store in YouSuck.a are -1 and 0, not 0 and 1 as one would expect and usually prefer.
I can't speak for Tom, but it has its problems. Specifically, you cannot have a post which replies to more than one post. Flat-sorted-by-time based web forums do not have this problem, as you just use [quote]quote tags[/quote] to quote the relavent bits. The downside, of course, is that it's not particularly easy to find the replies to a specific post without using some sort of search engine, and threading is more kind to discussions which wander.
The obvious solution would be a system which allows multiple parents, but that might add unwanted complexity, and might also necessitate a new way of presenting the posts.
Periodically going to a restaurant to eat something which may-or-may-not be chicken casserole, and drinking something which may-or-may-not be beer. There's really no real way to know for sure.
Arguably, they might think they can make profit off those insane fans who will go to a movie purely to see a trailer, or those slightly less insane fans who will merely consider a good trailer the straw that breaks the camel's back in their decision.
You don't have to justify yourself, but you still should be able to if pressed.
Yes, "I get more pleasure out of it" is a valid reason, (perhaps, ultimately, the only reason for doing anything) but you should (1) make sure it's best in the long term and (2) make sure it doesn't harm others all that much, because then people might feel compelled to kick your ass, and that would lower your longterm joy.
Yeah, goth has signifigant overlap with geekdom, as most counter-cultures popular among teenagers do.
I think historically goths have more connections with punks than geeks, but since all of these are so vaguely and arbitrarily defined anyway, goth-geeks are a pretty natural outgrowth of the "artistic geek" catagory.
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All non-cash numbers were binary in his sig. Then it makes sense. A quarter is two bits, remember?
And, of course, your message is wrong in isolation too, but people have already told you that.
lol isn't actually that bad. Many people seem to use it as a form of textual laughter. (Although I myself prefer typing "Heh.") Thusly, lol is neccesary, in the same way in speech, laughter conveys a different message than saying: "Yes. That's quite amusing."
I'll agree with you that gr8 is a sickening joke, however.
He probably just put the Euro or Pound symbol on, not realizing that Slashdot stores posts in 7-bit ASCII in some sort of attempt to prevent the foreign devils from taking over Slashdot.
Sir Tim invented the World Wide Web, not the Internet. In retrospect, the submitter probably should have said "World Wide Web" instead of the intentionally inaccurate term "intarweb."
Okay, I guess I was wrong, but the Nationalists founded the current government of Taiwan, and top level domains are assigned with respect to countries, not cultures. So I was almost right.
No, it's Chinese. Taiwan (AKA The Republic of China) is a small island off the coast of China which was founded by the Nationalists after the Communist party took over the rest of China.
I don't really think there exists a country which would put their error messages in Sanskrit. Sanskrit is an Indian language, and Hindi and English are far more likely to be spoken there.
Because the plane DOESN'T use that kind of propulsion.
Yeah, what's up with that? How did David Bryne get to be the DJ Mike Llama of Windows Media Player?
We have ads in theaters because Movie Companies charge theaters quite a bit of money to be able to show their movies. As a result, tickets alone don't make anywhere near a decent profit. To supplement their revenue, theaters sell overpriced food and ad space.
It is a bit stupid, but unless theaters are run directly by the movie companies, (which is sort of true of National Amusements, which has links with Paramount) theaters have to be manage to make their own profit. Middle-men, ya see.
Those should be unsigned ints. Otherwise, the only integers you can store in YouSuck.a are -1 and 0, not 0 and 1 as one would expect and usually prefer.
Because it's not a particuarly good scream. It's very unrealistic and stupid. Sound guys put it into movies purely to amuse themselves.
Are you questioning the movie Fight Club? First rule of Slashdot: You do not talk negatively about Fight Club.
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I can't speak for Tom, but it has its problems. Specifically, you cannot have a post which replies to more than one post. Flat-sorted-by-time based web forums do not have this problem, as you just use [quote]quote tags[/quote] to quote the relavent bits. The downside, of course, is that it's not particularly easy to find the replies to a specific post without using some sort of search engine, and threading is more kind to discussions which wander.
The obvious solution would be a system which allows multiple parents, but that might add unwanted complexity, and might also necessitate a new way of presenting the posts.
You know, his dad wrote for the Golden Girls and the Electric Company. Yes, you needed to know that.
Periodically going to a restaurant to eat something which may-or-may-not be chicken casserole, and drinking something which may-or-may-not be beer. There's really no real way to know for sure.
Damn. I knew we should've taken more adventage of Issac Asimov while we had the chance!
I'm pretty sure those Cryptopunks might've been not Liberals, but Libertarians. Libertarians agree with you about guns, and their hearts do not bleed.
Yes, although only in Windows, because that's the standard tab switching key in Windows to begin with. (Go into Task Manager or something.)
But Ctrl-PgUp/Ctrl-PgDn are the environment agnostic keystrokes for tab switching in Mozilla, I think.
They'll stop inventing languages when you start using Lisp.
Yeah, Mozilla should have a "try again by file extension" feature (or plug-in) for those times when MIME types are wrong.
Arguably, they might think they can make profit off those insane fans who will go to a movie purely to see a trailer, or those slightly less insane fans who will merely consider a good trailer the straw that breaks the camel's back in their decision.
But yes, it's stupid.
You don't have to justify yourself, but you still should be able to if pressed.
Yes, "I get more pleasure out of it" is a valid reason, (perhaps, ultimately, the only reason for doing anything) but you should (1) make sure it's best in the long term and (2) make sure it doesn't harm others all that much, because then people might feel compelled to kick your ass, and that would lower your longterm joy.
I don't think a dead parrot's going to provide me with a lot of bandwidth. Still, I guess it's better than dial-up.
Yeah, goth has signifigant overlap with geekdom, as most counter-cultures popular among teenagers do.
I think historically goths have more connections with punks than geeks, but since all of these are so vaguely and arbitrarily defined anyway, goth-geeks are a pretty natural outgrowth of the "artistic geek" catagory.
I don't think there were any rabbis in Middle Earth making men out of clay.