NASA isn't entertainment, it's science. If you're doing an experiment on the effect of Space on humans (which is a great kind of experiment which should indeed be done as often as possible), by all means, use humans. But otherwise, don't.
There is no sane reason to waste money on making heroes. Science should be popular, that's a given, but heroes in-of-them-selves are not worth making for their own sakes.
We should, of course, try to figure out how to get people to get out into space, and putting actual people in space could be useful for that. People are useful for doing experiments... on people. And they'll still stir the imagination, I guess.
(Actually, I think sending robots into space is pretty damned imagination-stirring right there, but that's just me.)
But if you're going to experiment whether ants can sort tiny screws in space, or things like that, you really really don't need to have a human up there for that, unless they're already there for other reasons. It's a waste of their time.
If you're going to do ant experiments, you don't need humans. But if you want to do experiments ON the effect of humans in space, they you do need them. And those experiments could be very very beneficial to humanity.
A healthy dose of the TI-8x's have a built in interpreter. Its graphics are very very slow, but it's not horrible.
I programed a little "move the dot, get chased by another dot" game for it. I could do better, probably, (except it's a pain programming in that little editor) but the calculator broke when I was running one of those fancier games in TI-8x assembler. (Tetris.)
Anarchy's a nice enough idea, but it needs some sort of body to govern it so that it doesn't descend into chaos.
The power to gain power is a positive feedback thing, (get more of that kind of power and you'll get even more of that kind of power) and thusly without proper maintenance you'll end up with power accumulated among a few. And then you have something bad.
That's why you need a Democracy, (Or as close to that as is sanely possible.) not raw Anarchy.
There's nothing inherently impolite with chatting on a cel phone in a restaurant, just like there's nothing inherently impolite with chatting with another person in a restaurant. The only difference is that with a cel phone you can only eavesdrop on half the conversation. Of course, people do stupid things with their cel phones, but that's not an inherent problem.
Likewise, there is no inherent difference in politeness with using a laptop in a restaurant and using a book/notebook in a restaurant, besides the fact that laptops are clickier.
I do see the charm in having restaurants be places well people eat, period, but that's not how the universe works.
Technichally you're classified as a continent. It's a minor difference, but if you're going to consider yourself an island, you might as well consider Antarctica, America, and Afro-Eurasia islands too.
Perhaps, but Niue has a slightly weaker army than the United States, and thusly is probably going to be a little less likely to use the afforementioned logic.
Of course, I'm sure they can get the entire world bombing the US to try and take down Slashdot, if only for our spreading of the goatse rubbish.
For reference, Open Source was the creation of Xenu. You see, there were two many software owners in the universe, so Xenu dropped all the software into a volcano for some reason, and they became Open Source.
SCO is clearly a Microsoft front organization. [1] Well, same thing.
[1] Of course it probably isn't. SCO as we know it used to be Caldera, which released a Linux distro, and... gee, I don't think Microsoft would do that.
Theft does not mean depriving the owner of value. If I invent a new kind of car which runs on air, then I would deprive the oil company of value. But it's perfectly legal, and, in fact, a Good Thing.
Theft is essentially taking the property of another without permission. This stuff is duplication of the copyrighted material without permission. A subtle difference, but enough to consider them different things.
Fatness is a minor issue. The key thing which effects leg space is the length of the upper part of your leg, which is pretty much uneffected by losing weight.
Fatness matters more for seat space, then leg space.
Well not everyone knows that IRC has such a simple protcol. I thought it had some sort of binary rubbish or something. Of course it is somewhat amusing to actually do this, but I'm sure there are people who use WWW using Telnet, so it might really happen.
It's a good description of the IRC protocol, anyway, and would be very very informative if someone, say, wanted to write a IRC client. Or if someone just wants to be leet.
This is a news message board with a heavily moderated way of submitting new topics. Editors, therefore, are just moderators. (A higher class than the "you get mod points now" variety.) I don't think Slashdot has any sort of a NPOV standard.
(What Slashdot should do is make the article format the same as the posting format. It'd make things more consistent.)
Except cursive is ugly, and printing is much more attractive.
I mean, Cursive is a comparatively strict form. You have those loops, and everything has to be connected? Pathetic. With printing, there are no limits. Want to make every letter have a little squiggly thing? Still printing. Want to make to write T as two seperate lines or one? Bingo. There's a reason why there's about a bazillion fonts which are printing-esque, and about three which are cursive-esque, and the fact that cursive is harder for computers to do is only half the answer.
Cursive has one purpose. A mildly attractive way of writing without lifting the pencil off the paper all that often. And it fails, because it's ugly.
Wiki can often have flaws, but there's all some very good ones.
Wikipedia is a good example of what a Wiki should be, and remedies some of those flaws.
Firstly, It has a search engine. Secondly, when a Wiki is used as a dictionary/encyclopedia, having an article be addressed by a word or two is ideal. What does "foobar" mean? Go to [[Foobar]]. In things like this, you don't need structure. Everything is about a word, so you don't need to worry about structuring things. You can have index pages or something for catagories, (Wikipedia does this) but the Jargon File is just a collection of "definitions" and the occasional short essay, so it's perfect.
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NASA isn't entertainment, it's science. If you're doing an experiment on the effect of Space on humans (which is a great kind of experiment which should indeed be done as often as possible), by all means, use humans. But otherwise, don't.
There is no sane reason to waste money on making heroes. Science should be popular, that's a given, but heroes in-of-them-selves are not worth making for their own sakes.
We should, of course, try to figure out how to get people to get out into space, and putting actual people in space could be useful for that. People are useful for doing experiments... on people. And they'll still stir the imagination, I guess.
(Actually, I think sending robots into space is pretty damned imagination-stirring right there, but that's just me.)
But if you're going to experiment whether ants can sort tiny screws in space, or things like that, you really really don't need to have a human up there for that, unless they're already there for other reasons. It's a waste of their time.
If you're going to do ant experiments, you don't need humans. But if you want to do experiments ON the effect of humans in space, they you do need them. And those experiments could be very very beneficial to humanity.
Because it's pronounced in more seriously minded circles as your-uh-nus, not your-AYE-nus.
dir /s /a \
If anyone cares but doesn't already know.
Because the Xbox is harder.
A healthy dose of the TI-8x's have a built in interpreter. Its graphics are very very slow, but it's not horrible.
I programed a little "move the dot, get chased by another dot" game for it. I could do better, probably, (except it's a pain programming in that little editor) but the calculator broke when I was running one of those fancier games in TI-8x assembler. (Tetris.)
No, that would imply that in the rest of the world you cool your coolant system. Which is phenomenally stupid.
Rather, you'd want something along the lines of "In Soviet Russia, CPU cools coolant system!"
Anarchy's a nice enough idea, but it needs some sort of body to govern it so that it doesn't descend into chaos.
The power to gain power is a positive feedback thing, (get more of that kind of power and you'll get even more of that kind of power) and thusly without proper maintenance you'll end up with power accumulated among a few. And then you have something bad.
That's why you need a Democracy, (Or as close to that as is sanely possible.) not raw Anarchy.
There's nothing inherently impolite with chatting on a cel phone in a restaurant, just like there's nothing inherently impolite with chatting with another person in a restaurant. The only difference is that with a cel phone you can only eavesdrop on half the conversation. Of course, people do stupid things with their cel phones, but that's not an inherent problem.
Likewise, there is no inherent difference in politeness with using a laptop in a restaurant and using a book/notebook in a restaurant, besides the fact that laptops are clickier.
I do see the charm in having restaurants be places well people eat, period, but that's not how the universe works.
Technichally you're classified as a continent. It's a minor difference, but if you're going to consider yourself an island, you might as well consider Antarctica, America, and Afro-Eurasia islands too.
Perhaps, but Niue has a slightly weaker army than the United States, and thusly is probably going to be a little less likely to use the afforementioned logic.
Of course, I'm sure they can get the entire world bombing the US to try and take down Slashdot, if only for our spreading of the goatse rubbish.
For reference, Open Source was the creation of Xenu. You see, there were two many software owners in the universe, so Xenu dropped all the software into a volcano for some reason, and they became Open Source.
You can run NES/SNES emulators. It's not entirely legal in any way, but they're the only games which really matter.
SCO is clearly a Microsoft front organization. [1] Well, same thing.
[1] Of course it probably isn't. SCO as we know it used to be Caldera, which released a Linux distro, and... gee, I don't think Microsoft would do that.
Shuffle mode. If they want something to be played in a single order at once, then they should make it all one track.
Of course, then it would really be bad to sell as "one song."
It works for Public Broadcasting.
That's not 1337, but it's in the AOL-L33T family of dialects.
Ah. Didn't close the italic tag. That's odd. Oh well. Not a bad post, though.
Theft is essentially taking the property of another without permission. This stuff is duplication of the copyrighted material without permission. A subtle difference, but enough to consider them different things.
You're all the same Anonymous Coward, aren't you?
Fatness is a minor issue. The key thing which effects leg space is the length of the upper part of your leg, which is pretty much uneffected by losing weight.
Fatness matters more for seat space, then leg space.
Well not everyone knows that IRC has such a simple protcol. I thought it had some sort of binary rubbish or something. Of course it is somewhat amusing to actually do this, but I'm sure there are people who use WWW using Telnet, so it might really happen.
It's a good description of the IRC protocol, anyway, and would be very very informative if someone, say, wanted to write a IRC client. Or if someone just wants to be leet.
This is a news message board with a heavily moderated way of submitting new topics. Editors, therefore, are just moderators. (A higher class than the "you get mod points now" variety.) I don't think Slashdot has any sort of a NPOV standard.
(What Slashdot should do is make the article format the same as the posting format. It'd make things more consistent.)
Except cursive is ugly, and printing is much more attractive.
I mean, Cursive is a comparatively strict form. You have those loops, and everything has to be connected? Pathetic. With printing, there are no limits. Want to make every letter have a little squiggly thing? Still printing. Want to make to write T as two seperate lines or one? Bingo. There's a reason why there's about a bazillion fonts which are printing-esque, and about three which are cursive-esque, and the fact that cursive is harder for computers to do is only half the answer.
Cursive has one purpose. A mildly attractive way of writing without lifting the pencil off the paper all that often. And it fails, because it's ugly.
Wiki can often have flaws, but there's all some very good ones. Wikipedia is a good example of what a Wiki should be, and remedies some of those flaws. Firstly, It has a search engine. Secondly, when a Wiki is used as a dictionary/encyclopedia, having an article be addressed by a word or two is ideal. What does "foobar" mean? Go to [[Foobar]]. In things like this, you don't need structure. Everything is about a word, so you don't need to worry about structuring things. You can have index pages or something for catagories, (Wikipedia does this) but the Jargon File is just a collection of "definitions" and the occasional short essay, so it's perfect.