It's plenty digital, but not in that way. I think all it is that they compress the video using MPEG or something to get more channels in. (I'm guessing, but, when I watch Digital Cable on my grandparent's TV, (I'm 16, sure, but you're an anonymous coward. So nyeh.) it always acts really artifacty for about a second while changing channels. So it's a reasonable guess.)
The problem that it isn't _HDTV_ in any sense, except for maybe one or two channels.
And yes, Comcast is a monopoly. Cable and Phone companies have a tendency towards that. There's only so many wires.
Or maybe hypocritcal. But at any rate, it's a surefire sign of the Grammer Syndrome.
Correct someone's grammar, and you have a very large chance of spelling it grammer. By extension, when you correct a typo, you yourself are likely to make a typo.
TMRC:/tmerk'/ n. The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of hacker culture. The 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC Language" compiled by Peter Samson included several terms that became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see esp. foo, mung, and frob).
By 1962, TMRC's legendary layout was already a marvel of complexity and has grown in the years since. All the features described here were still present when the old layout was decomissioned in 1998 just before the demolition of MIT Building 20, and will almost certainly be retained when the old layout is rebuilt (expected in 2003). The control system alone featured about 1200 relays. There were scram switches located at numerous places around the room that could be thwacked if something undesirable was about to occur, such as a train going full-bore at an obstruction. Another feature of the system was a digital clock on the dispatch board, which was itself something of a wonder in those bygone days before cheap LEDs and seven-segment displays. When someone hit a scram switch the clock stopped and the display was replaced with the word `FOO'; at TMRC the scram switches are therefore called `foo switches'.
Steven Levy, in his book "Hackers" (see the Bibliography in Appendix C), gives a stimulating account of those early years. TMRC's Signals and Power Committee included many of the early PDP-1 hackers and the people who later became the core of the MIT AI Lab staff. Thirty years later that connection is still very much alive, and this lexicon accordingly includes a number of entries from a recent revision of the TMRC dictionary.
TMRC has a web page at http://web.mit.edu/tmrc/www/.
Dennis Ritchie and that other guy probably have some rights to printf("Hello, World\n"); But noone yet has the rights to printf("Hello World\n"): Now all he has to do is argue that those guys clearly were copying printf...: when they wrote the C Programming Language.
Actually, I think one of the philosophies of advertising is that you can make someone want something. That's almost certianly why Pepsi and Coke advertise so much. At any rate, given unlimited resources, it is possible to brainwash someone into believing almost anything. The trick of advertising is trying to do it profitably and subtly.
1) Butterfly flaps wings leads to a very bad rainstorm three years later where there would have been nicer weather. 2) Rainstorm keeps scientist indoors. (His office is on a marshy area which floods easily.) 3) Scientist, frustrated with not being able to get to his lab, decides to try and work on a form of controlling his lab remotely. 4) After he decides to stick with it, the idea, once implemented, becomes a key idea and is used heavily in gravity technology. 5) The gravity technology is used to create a form of "gravitational tidal wave bomb" which is used to destroy the solar system by a fanatic nut who was born when his newlywed parents decided to make the best of the afforementioned rainstorm.
The odds are absurd, of course, but it is possible. QED.
You misunderstood him. You must never have seen those magnificent "Collages of Learning." Covered with tiny bits of knowledge on a given topic, they are incredibly amusing ways to learn.
You get some pictures from the subject and scatter them freely. Then you take some various articles on the subject and quote as wildly as possible as you can without losing the content of the original articles. (Down to sentence level mainly.)
So you go:
[Linux is a very powerful operating system.][Many explain Linux's strengths by its Open Source nature.] instead of [Linux is][powerful][,][natur][a][l][and][good].
Of course, many colleges sponsor these Learning Collages, so you might have been confused by that point. MIT, for instance, has one of the neater ones.
Lets pretend Hyperglobalmeganet made two products. Beer and Barney. Now, lets say a popular website uses Barney in an parody which Hyperglobalmeganet thought broke their copyright. Adults could easily boycott the beer and harm Hyperglobalmeganet.
That, and 6 year old girls typically don't carry a lot of cash on them.
it'll allow you to search proximity (x within 5 words of y)
You can do this in Google. Its not implemented naturally, so you have to write a front end of some kind (if you include "doing it in your head" as a front end, which is stupid, really)
"A B" OR "A * B" OR "A * * B" OR "A * * * B" OR "A * * * * B" OR "A * * * * * B"
Because in quotation marks, you can just type * for "some word." Write a little Javascript or maybe PHP script to automate this, and you've just enhanced your googling.
Alas, you have just become a victim of the "Grammer" syndrome. It's spelt humorous.:)
(Oddly enough, I was about to send this out leaving the ' in "it's" removed. The Grammer Syndrome is strong, and it gets even stronger if you point out the typo of one its previous victims.)
(This is of course named after the tendency to correct someone's horrendous "grammer" and then have your spelling immediately corrected. "175 GRAMMAR!!!!!11 f001!")
Forget it, stevew. While it has been established that eggs contain cholesterol, it has not yet been proven conclusively that they actually raise the level of serum cholesterol in the human blood stream.
~User "So one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too, huh?" Googol~
Noone says "I spammed at the restaurant the other Day," unless they have a laptop. However, plenty of people say: (I guess) "I googled 'spam' and found a very nice little Monty Python website."
That doesn't teach math, it merely expresses that math exists. This, however...
Creepy Psychologist: You are under my control. You will play well in tommorows game.
Baseball Players: (Monotonous) Yes.
Creepy Pyschology: You will play 110% of your potential.
Baseball Players: (Monotonous) That is a mathematical possibility. 100% is the maximum amount of something someone can use.
Also, while we're on that episode, who can forget all those amusing reasons why all the proffesional baseball players couldn't play? Deformities due to Nerve Tonic... Being Hypnotised into thinking he is a chicken... (Burns: You charalatan! This is all your fault. Creepy Psychologist: (Hypnotic) No, Mr. Burns, this is not my fault. Burns: Well I guess it isn't all your fault.) Saving people in a burning building, their pets, furniture, etc... Going to see a bottomless pit, and never coming out...
~User "Auto-sigs are for the lazy. Big sigs are for the stupid" Googol~
"We've been watching your planet since it was created-- Five thousand years ago-- BY GOD." -- Kang and Kudos. It amused me.
"How 'bout a crazy wedding? Where something happens and do do da do do, Sorry for the clip show, Have no fears we've got stories for years." -- With a picture of Homer jumping a shark on a jetski, based on you-know-what.
The "buy an x-box, screw linux" theory holds that if you want to screw Microsoft, you should buy an Xbox, a mod chip, and then run Linux or something on it.
The reasoning behind this is that Microsoft loses a certian amount of money on each Xbox sold. They traditionally make the money back by selling games to the consumer, but if you just make your x-box into a computer, Microsoft doesn't make any money off it!
Now, there is an argument against this is that if you don't buy an xbox Microsoft can't sell money off the system, and thusly makes no money off the xbox at all. But its easily countered. If you don't buy it, someone else probably will. Stores are unlikely to sit around with tons of Xboxes in their warehouse. Someone will, in time, probably buy every Xbox Microsoft makes. But if a "screw Microsoft" geek does it, Microsoft will make less money off it.
However, there are other problems inherent in this theory which I haven't yet managed to counter. That is, that Microsoft might not be the one who gets screwed. Microsoft might have maneuvered it so that money only gets passed to Microsoft when the xbox is purchased by the store. I am not really sure how the Xbox Trade works, so I might be wrong on both counts, but it might be more complicated than the theory models it.
I've had my dreams go lucid a few times. Most of the time, when I'm lucid dreaming, I'm very close to being awake. If I get too excited I might accidentally blink into awakeness, which leads me to act very carefully when I'm lucid.
I'm told I used to sleepwalk, but I was a kid then, and thats perfectly normal.
Slashdot Mirror
It's plenty digital, but not in that way. I think all it is that they compress the video using MPEG or something to get more channels in. (I'm guessing, but, when I watch Digital Cable on my grandparent's TV, (I'm 16, sure, but you're an anonymous coward. So nyeh.) it always acts really artifacty for about a second while changing channels. So it's a reasonable guess.)
The problem that it isn't _HDTV_ in any sense, except for maybe one or two channels.
And yes, Comcast is a monopoly. Cable and Phone companies have a tendency towards that. There's only so many wires.
In conclusion, Windows Longhorn seems to be an interesting specimen. But 2005 is a long ways away.
Or maybe hypocritcal. But at any rate, it's a surefire sign of the Grammer Syndrome.
Correct someone's grammar, and you have a very large chance of spelling it grammer. By extension, when you correct a typo, you yourself are likely to make a typo.
He will go down in history as a great actor, but for Bill and Ted's Awesome Adventure, not for this little Matrix thing. :)
Because Plain Old Text mode is phenomenally stupid for some reason. You want Extrans (html tags to text) mode.
Observe the Jargon File's view of it:
Piece of cake. Sure, it might not be a shell script per se, but it is a script. And very small.
<?php
function control_me($command)
{
return control_pda($command);
}
function control_pda($Command)
{
return control_me($Command);
}
control_pda("post slashdot");
?>
Dennis Ritchie and that other guy probably have some rights to printf("Hello, World\n"); But noone yet has the rights to printf("Hello World\n"): Now all he has to do is argue that those guys clearly were copying printf...: when they wrote the C Programming Language.
Closed Captions aren't automatic, so they can transcribe anything the network wants it to.
Actually, I think one of the philosophies of advertising is that you can make someone want something. That's almost certianly why Pepsi and Coke advertise so much. At any rate, given unlimited resources, it is possible to brainwash someone into believing almost anything. The trick of advertising is trying to do it profitably and subtly.
atheos.cx An OS of some sort.
analog.cx A logfile analyzer
Sure it can.
1) Butterfly flaps wings leads to a very bad rainstorm three years later where there would have been nicer weather.
2) Rainstorm keeps scientist indoors. (His office is on a marshy area which floods easily.)
3) Scientist, frustrated with not being able to get to his lab, decides to try and work on a form of controlling his lab remotely.
4) After he decides to stick with it, the idea, once implemented, becomes a key idea and is used heavily in gravity technology.
5) The gravity technology is used to create a form of "gravitational tidal wave bomb" which is used to destroy the solar system by a fanatic nut who was born when his newlywed parents decided to make the best of the afforementioned rainstorm.
The odds are absurd, of course, but it is possible. QED.
You misunderstood him. You must never have seen those magnificent "Collages of Learning." Covered with tiny bits of knowledge on a given topic, they are incredibly amusing ways to learn.
You get some pictures from the subject and scatter them freely. Then you take some various articles on the subject and quote as wildly as possible as you can without losing the content of the original articles. (Down to sentence level mainly.)
So you go:
[Linux is a very powerful operating system.][Many explain Linux's strengths by its Open Source nature.] instead of [Linux is][powerful][,][natur][a][l][and][good].
Of course, many colleges sponsor these Learning Collages, so you might have been confused by that point. MIT, for instance, has one of the neater ones.
Lets pretend Hyperglobalmeganet made two products. Beer and Barney. Now, lets say a popular website uses Barney in an parody which Hyperglobalmeganet thought broke their copyright. Adults could easily boycott the beer and harm Hyperglobalmeganet.
That, and 6 year old girls typically don't carry a lot of cash on them.
You can do this in Google. Its not implemented naturally, so you have to write a front end of some kind (if you include "doing it in your head" as a front end, which is stupid, really)
"A B" OR "A * B" OR "A * * B" OR "A * * * B" OR "A * * * * B" OR "A * * * * * B"
Because in quotation marks, you can just type * for "some word." Write a little Javascript or maybe PHP script to automate this, and you've just enhanced your googling.
Well, :> doesn't look very good, especially in Times New Roman, so it isn't immediately understood as sarcasm. In the future try :)
"We can export to an XML based format" might be more accurate, though.
Alas, you have just become a victim of the "Grammer" syndrome. It's spelt humorous. :)
(Oddly enough, I was about to send this out leaving the ' in "it's" removed. The Grammer Syndrome is strong, and it gets even stronger if you point out the typo of one its previous victims.)
(This is of course named after the tendency to correct someone's horrendous "grammer" and then have your spelling immediately corrected. "175 GRAMMAR!!!!!11 f001!")
Forget it, stevew. While it has been established that eggs contain cholesterol, it has not yet been proven conclusively that they actually raise the level of serum cholesterol in the human blood stream.
~User "So one of those Egg Council creeps got to you too, huh?" Googol~
Perhaps, but neither is yours.
Noone says "I spammed at the restaurant the other Day," unless they have a laptop. However, plenty of people say: (I guess) "I googled 'spam' and found a very nice little Monty Python website."
Simple. All they have to do is type: "man gnuvote".
Also, while we're on that episode, who can forget all those amusing reasons why all the proffesional baseball players couldn't play? Deformities due to Nerve Tonic... Being Hypnotised into thinking he is a chicken... (Burns: You charalatan! This is all your fault. Creepy Psychologist: (Hypnotic) No, Mr. Burns, this is not my fault. Burns: Well I guess it isn't all your fault.) Saving people in a burning building, their pets, furniture, etc... Going to see a bottomless pit, and never coming out...
~User "Auto-sigs are for the lazy. Big sigs are for the stupid" Googol~
Gump Roast was a good episode, as clip shows go.
"We've been watching your planet since it was created-- Five thousand years ago-- BY GOD." -- Kang and Kudos. It amused me.
"How 'bout a crazy wedding? Where something happens and do do da do do,
Sorry for the clip show,
Have no fears we've got stories for years." -- With a picture of Homer jumping a shark on a jetski, based on you-know-what.
The "buy an x-box, screw linux" theory holds that if you want to screw Microsoft, you should buy an Xbox, a mod chip, and then run Linux or something on it.
The reasoning behind this is that Microsoft loses a certian amount of money on each Xbox sold. They traditionally make the money back by selling games to the consumer, but if you just make your x-box into a computer, Microsoft doesn't make any money off it!
Now, there is an argument against this is that if you don't buy an xbox Microsoft can't sell money off the system, and thusly makes no money off the xbox at all. But its easily countered. If you don't buy it, someone else probably will. Stores are unlikely to sit around with tons of Xboxes in their warehouse. Someone will, in time, probably buy every Xbox Microsoft makes. But if a "screw Microsoft" geek does it, Microsoft will make less money off it.
However, there are other problems inherent in this theory which I haven't yet managed to counter. That is, that Microsoft might not be the one who gets screwed. Microsoft might have maneuvered it so that money only gets passed to Microsoft when the xbox is purchased by the store. I am not really sure how the Xbox Trade works, so I might be wrong on both counts, but it might be more complicated than the theory models it.
~User "Is it good or bad or not?!?!" Googol~
I've had my dreams go lucid a few times. Most of the time, when I'm lucid dreaming, I'm very close to being awake. If I get too excited I might accidentally blink into awakeness, which leads me to act very carefully when I'm lucid. I'm told I used to sleepwalk, but I was a kid then, and thats perfectly normal.