Luckily, Windows has the feature of forcing the user to turn off their computer periodically. Sadly, recent versions of Windows have removed this feature somewhat, but there are countless third party applications which will return this feature to Windows.
I doubt that. (To pick an example...) For most years of Newsradio's run on NBC, it had generic looking Wintels on the desks. The last season, they inexpliably switched to Macs.
There's no reason for that except that Apple must have contacted Newsradio during the hiatus. There was no other logical reason. In fact, you could probably argue it as a slight continuity error if you're going to nitpick.
Windows Media Player is wmplayer.exe. Media Player 6.4 is mplayer2.exe, but in my Windows Media Player folder, I have no file called mplayer.exe on my computer.
Same thing. 3x10^8 m/s is c with 1 signifigant digit, 299,792,458 m/s is the utterly true value. He had one signifigant digit, because it's a well known fact that Slashdot posts only give values with 1 siginifigant digit of accuracy. But, to be fair, kinnell's a pretty decent poster, so he probably deserves two or three siginifigant digits.
1) MIT just really likes Scheme, for various quasi-political reasons. It was invented there, for starters. (I think.) Also, I suppose the AI Lab crowd probably encouraged a strong pro-Lisp/Scheme atmosphere.
2) C is slightly low level, whereas Scheme is not. As a result, you can focus on ideas and not have to think about the exact implementation and stuff like buffer overruns.
Yes. And even if they relplace the paths of the dead with Jar-Jaromir's Magic Airship, and have Saruman die by a Nuclear Warhead launched by the Valar, the movie'll still be great because of what will remain.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheeahcr at a uinervtisy, (and MIT is a uivtnresiy.) it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Taht siad, I thnik that the sfhufnlig of the wrod caonnt be too werid, or pleope we be cesfunod. Epesclialy if a wrod can slpel mroe than one wrod.
Tihs msut hvae sieruos efeftcs on the evlotuoin of lnagguae.
Yeah. Notepad, for all its evils, is damned good if all you want to do is type, but not format, plain text in English. When you're programming, having a Vi or Emacs or Built-into-an-IDE type editor is intensely useful, but English doesn't need all that. (A simple spell check would be nice, but I'm not sure if Vi has that anyway. Emacs might. At any rate, you can always enter your text into a seperate program. Plain text is a pretty widely accepted standard.) And the having an auto word wrap is nice, although it can cause some compatability problems.
No, the Internet is not a method of delivering media. HTTP is. The Internet is (well, TCP/IP actually) a method of communication. And communication is one of the key parts of society. After all, culture exists because we can send ideas from person to person.
And this, my friends, is why software should never be popular. Use OpenBSD!
Warning. The preceeding has been detected by Slashdot to contain sarcasm. OpenBSD is, of course, wonderful. Unlike those commies using FreeBSD.
--The Management
At any rate, the Cookie header exists. A server could have to deal with that. (Or you can ignore it and spend time on more important matters, like sending out lots and lots of X-Bender headers.)
We have culture, and damn that's useful. Culture allows us to "evolve" way faster than before, and with better aim than Genetic Evolution could ever dream. Now that we have genetic engineering, we might be able to change our DNA itself at accelerated speeds.
Of course, we'd cease to be Homo sapiens by the strictest definition of the term way before 1000000000 AD, but that's not all that important. (Maybe even by 5000 AD, but that might be insanely optimistic.)
Waoh, taht is corrcet, alhtuogh I drae say that it is lmiietd seomwaht. For lnoegr wrdos trhee are too mnay pssboile cmboaintions, so you hvae to keep tnihgs sipmle. Of crosue, I cluod be wnorg. Lculiky, msot wrdos are ptrtey slmal.
I wloudn't say that trehe is NO proeblm, hwoveer. Tihs swols raendig dwon a tad. Cotnxet hepls, too.
(Argh. That's enough of that.)
I would also like to say that this is much easier to read than L33T, at least the purer forms.
I know what defame means, and the flaw that I was reffering to is that an asshole can, in theory, post good things, aquire karma, and then post bullshit with the Karma bonus.
I'm fully aware that some people are assholes. My only point was that just because a person is an asshole doesn't mean that everything they ever say is unworthy of notice and should be modded down into obscurity. Only the assholery itself should be modded down.
But now that I look at the parent closer, I concede that I really wasn't paying enough attention to the post. He WAS defaming Miguel in that post, and should thusly be modded down, or metamodded. If nothing else, he used terrible grammar and spelling which Miguel does not use. So, you're right.
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The American Heritage Dictionary, although he probably found it here.
Luckily, Windows has the feature of forcing the user to turn off their computer periodically. Sadly, recent versions of Windows have removed this feature somewhat, but there are countless third party applications which will return this feature to Windows.
Yes. But a law providing a service for you to tell telemarketers that they cannot speak to you is quite constitutional.
Perhaps, but that's not what he meant. Sierra games were pretty bug-free, I think, but they tended to make it obscenely easy to die.
Of course, I'm too young too, so I could be wrong.
The guy's sig was in Perl.
Note to self: Submit Slashdot article telling people to Google search the phrase "Subtle Joke".
I doubt that. (To pick an example...) For most years of Newsradio's run on NBC, it had generic looking Wintels on the desks. The last season, they inexpliably switched to Macs.
There's no reason for that except that Apple must have contacted Newsradio during the hiatus. There was no other logical reason. In fact, you could probably argue it as a slight continuity error if you're going to nitpick.
Windows Media Player is wmplayer.exe. Media Player 6.4 is mplayer2.exe, but in my Windows Media Player folder, I have no file called mplayer.exe on my computer.
Same thing. 3x10^8 m/s is c with 1 signifigant digit, 299,792,458 m/s is the utterly true value. He had one signifigant digit, because it's a well known fact that Slashdot posts only give values with 1 siginifigant digit of accuracy. But, to be fair, kinnell's a pretty decent poster, so he probably deserves two or three siginifigant digits.
1) MIT just really likes Scheme, for various quasi-political reasons. It was invented there, for starters. (I think.) Also, I suppose the AI Lab crowd probably encouraged a strong pro-Lisp/Scheme atmosphere.
2) C is slightly low level, whereas Scheme is not. As a result, you can focus on ideas and not have to think about the exact implementation and stuff like buffer overruns.
Yes. And even if they relplace the paths of the dead with Jar-Jaromir's Magic Airship, and have Saruman die by a Nuclear Warhead launched by the Valar, the movie'll still be great because of what will remain.
Yeah. He moved into the Soviet Union for a while.
AHH! I'M BLIND! TWICE!
Aoccdrnig to a rscheeahcr at a uinervtisy, (and MIT is a uivtnresiy.) it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer are in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Taht siad, I thnik that the sfhufnlig of the wrod caonnt be too werid, or pleope we be cesfunod. Epesclialy if a wrod can slpel mroe than one wrod.
Tihs msut hvae sieruos efeftcs on the evlotuoin of lnagguae.
Or Cheapbytes. That's a pretty good site. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck.
Yes. There's no other purpose. And CD-R are only for people to make backups of things.
Yeah. Notepad, for all its evils, is damned good if all you want to do is type, but not format, plain text in English. When you're programming, having a Vi or Emacs or Built-into-an-IDE type editor is intensely useful, but English doesn't need all that. (A simple spell check would be nice, but I'm not sure if Vi has that anyway. Emacs might. At any rate, you can always enter your text into a seperate program. Plain text is a pretty widely accepted standard.) And the having an auto word wrap is nice, although it can cause some compatability problems.
No, the Internet is not a method of delivering media. HTTP is. The Internet is (well, TCP/IP actually) a method of communication. And communication is one of the key parts of society. After all, culture exists because we can send ideas from person to person.
Warning. The preceeding has been detected by Slashdot to contain sarcasm. OpenBSD is, of course, wonderful. Unlike those commies using FreeBSD.
--The Management
No, it really wasn't. But it's a plenty hard to destroy network.
Nowt todo?
At any rate, the Cookie header exists. A server could have to deal with that. (Or you can ignore it and spend time on more important matters, like sending out lots and lots of X-Bender headers.)
Totalitarianism is what killed the people. It just happened that one of the bigger Totalitarianist governments of the 20th century were Communist.
Totalitarian Socialism = Very Very Bad.
Totalitarian Capitalism = Very Bad.
Democratic Capitalism = Pretty Good.
Democratic Socialism = Very Good?
We have culture, and damn that's useful. Culture allows us to "evolve" way faster than before, and with better aim than Genetic Evolution could ever dream. Now that we have genetic engineering, we might be able to change our DNA itself at accelerated speeds.
Of course, we'd cease to be Homo sapiens by the strictest definition of the term way before 1000000000 AD, but that's not all that important. (Maybe even by 5000 AD, but that might be insanely optimistic.)
Waoh, taht is corrcet, alhtuogh I drae say that it is lmiietd seomwaht. For lnoegr wrdos trhee are too mnay pssboile cmboaintions, so you hvae to keep tnihgs sipmle. Of crosue, I cluod be wnorg. Lculiky, msot wrdos are ptrtey slmal.
I wloudn't say that trehe is NO proeblm, hwoveer. Tihs swols raendig dwon a tad. Cotnxet hepls, too.
(Argh. That's enough of that.)
I would also like to say that this is much easier to read than L33T, at least the purer forms.
I know what defame means, and the flaw that I was reffering to is that an asshole can, in theory, post good things, aquire karma, and then post bullshit with the Karma bonus.
I'm fully aware that some people are assholes. My only point was that just because a person is an asshole doesn't mean that everything they ever say is unworthy of notice and should be modded down into obscurity. Only the assholery itself should be modded down.
But now that I look at the parent closer, I concede that I really wasn't paying enough attention to the post. He WAS defaming Miguel in that post, and should thusly be modded down, or metamodded. If nothing else, he used terrible grammar and spelling which Miguel does not use. So, you're right.