Just so's ya know. I just like to actually have the game if I'm going to have the name. That was the whole point of that second post... that was real overrated flamebait! Note how the supposed "flamebait" post got no replies, but you replied to this one!
Hell, I don't care if anybody listens to me, and I'm not out to prove anything. I say what I mean and mean what I say (well, usually) and don't really care if I get modded up or down, I've got/. karma to burn. Sometimes, not all the time, I just like to stir the shit.
And also remember, someone's honest opinion (and frankly the truth, if you look at how long these convoluted"free trade" agreements are) is now flamebait and overrated.
You two moderators are idiot wankers. Go do us a favor and turn off that "willing to moderate" flag. Or do humanity a service and drink a Drano Daiquiri.
130 degrees is not common in AZ unless you're talking surface temperature on asphalt or something like that.
110, 115? Yeah that's pretty common. We sometimes peak at 120, but that's hardly common. 130? That's an infrequent temperature globally, and to my knowledge has never been reached in Arizona.
Ah shud thank u, cuz ah shur dident no that, wut with me and Cletus bizzy slopin thuh howgs an all. Ah shur am glad ah hav u furrin fellers lookin out for us dum Amuricans.
Seriously, if I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say this for the last 15 years, I wouldn't be posting to slashdot because I'd be too busy living my international jet-set lifestyle...
And rolling nickels to take them to the bank all the damn time.
In my experience, many OS/400 people come from the System/38 or System/36 days and actually like programming in RPG. Generally speaking, they are scary people that don't know the difference between a hash and hash browns and think a heap is what they do with their greenbar printouts. There are many exceptions (virtually everyone who uses OS/400 and reads/. is probably in that set of exceptions) and it's also generally better the younger they are, but I have found that many people in that orbit don't especially like to learn new things and will insist on things such as "OS/400 only works with IPDS printers" when in truth they only work with IPDS printers because its what they know. LPR/LPD support was part of OS/400 starting in Version 3 which was circa 10 years ago (Corrections please from/. OS/400 gurus)? That's about an eon in computer terms.
It's unfortunate because I rather liked OS/400 when I used it many many moons ago. I recall using IPDS on an AS/400 to make a high volume barcode printing application for a paper goods company about 15 years ago. It was really funny going into random stores years later and see those same barcode labels on the shelves.
Why do you think I posted what I posted? The levels of meta were too delicious to ignore. A pedantic correction of the definition of anarchism in the discussion of an article about wikipedia editing woes, using one of the most contentious wikipedia articles as backup, which in its discussion page has similar pedantry.
I tried, but frankly, I was too weak to resist it.:-D
An apologist is someone who defends a position. Therefore a "Christian apologist" is a person who defends the tenets of Christianity.
Since Lewis was in fact a defender of Christianity, the term holds.
As to the "Christian allegory angle", Lewis would've agreed with you, but only that his story was not allegorical. The Chronicles of Narnia were not intended as allegory, but a direct answer to the question "What would it be like if Jesus had to save the souls of a different world?". To deny a close relationship between the book and Christian tenets, however, would be to deny the words of the author who wrote them.
Naturally, the concepts of rebirth and sacrifice are not unique to Christianity, but the connection between The Chronicles of Narnia and Christianity is not really disputable, if only for the reason the author himself explicitly stated that the connection exists.
We are all free to see different symbols than what the author intended in any work, and we can even call into question the competence of the author's use of these symbols, but that does not give us license to say that the work is unconnected to the author's intent.
I don't think the definition of "asynchronous" has anything to do with user visibility, because then nothing is asynchronous because I still see "Transferring data from..." messages on the status bar all the time when using AJAX web apps.
But you're right, it was a hack that XMLHttpRequest made unnecessary. Unfortunately, five years ago it wasn't widely deployed in browsers I had to support.
Microsoft invented XMLHttpRequest, but you can do AJAX without it. I did some simple AJAX-like things about 5 years ago, using a hidden frame and flat text. Not nearly as slick to work with, but it did the "asynchronous" thing fairly well, only asking for data from the server when I needed it. It was ugly, but it worked.
Hadn't you heard? The Galactic Senate, in an effort to save our endangered antimatter reserves, lowered the speed of light to 1 km/s in order to conserve energy. Phhzzggzztyt Abbmmmun, the senior senator from Hierantos VIII, said "Someone needs to think of the larvae."
Of course, it wasn't unanimous. L'fhong Di Tabax, representing the Chorabax Cluster suggested that it was "The Andromeda energy cartel's fault" and added that "if they don't shape up, we should bomb them back to the information age."
Allow me to introduce you to Monetarism and Austrian School economics, that would either have some quibbles, or outright reject, your views of inflation and deflation. John Maynard Keynes is not the last word on economic theory, however much central bankers wished otherwise.
Because it's not useful enough for emergency services. My IP address says I'm in Phoenix, Arizona, which geographically is a huge city (475 square miles), so it's not terribly informative.
It's even worse because I actually live in Tempe immediately east of it. Hardly a small margin of error for a minutes count emergency.
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Just so's ya know. I just like to actually have the game if I'm going to have the name. That was the whole point of that second post... that was real overrated flamebait! Note how the supposed "flamebait" post got no replies, but you replied to this one!
Hell, I don't care if anybody listens to me, and I'm not out to prove anything. I say what I mean and mean what I say (well, usually) and don't really care if I get modded up or down, I've got /. karma to burn. Sometimes, not all the time, I just like to stir the shit.
Not surprising, really. After all, sharks are excellent swimmers.
"Computers don't make mistakes, right?"
I think the biggest mistake computers make is doing exactly what we tell them to.
And also remember, someone's honest opinion (and frankly the truth, if you look at how long these convoluted"free trade" agreements are) is now flamebait and overrated.
You two moderators are idiot wankers. Go do us a favor and turn off that "willing to moderate" flag. Or do humanity a service and drink a Drano Daiquiri.
Now *that's* overrated flamebait.
"...FidelCastro is calling the MPAA a bunch of wankers. Go Fidel Go!
That's "Mr. Catsro" to you, bub. :-)
You've never been to New Mexico, have you?
"Try Arizona, where 130F degrees is common."
130 degrees is not common in AZ unless you're talking surface temperature on asphalt or something like that.
110, 115? Yeah that's pretty common. We sometimes peak at 120, but that's hardly common. 130? That's an infrequent temperature globally, and to my knowledge has never been reached in Arizona.
Still, it's damn hot here in the summer.
When you hear politicians talk free trade, that free as in "free beer for all my buddies, courtesy the taxpayers", not free as in "free speech".
Ah shud thank u, cuz ah shur dident no that, wut with me and Cletus bizzy slopin thuh howgs an all. Ah shur am glad ah hav u furrin fellers lookin out for us dum Amuricans.
MPEGs at 11.
Seriously, if I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say this for the last 15 years, I wouldn't be posting to slashdot because I'd be too busy living my international jet-set lifestyle...
And rolling nickels to take them to the bank all the damn time.
In my experience, many OS/400 people come from the System/38 or System/36 days and actually like programming in RPG. Generally speaking, they are scary people that don't know the difference between a hash and hash browns and think a heap is what they do with their greenbar printouts. There are many exceptions (virtually everyone who uses OS/400 and reads /. is probably in that set of exceptions) and it's also generally better the younger they are, but I have found that many people in that orbit don't especially like to learn new things and will insist on things such as "OS/400 only works with IPDS printers" when in truth they only work with IPDS printers because its what they know. LPR/LPD support was part of OS/400 starting in Version 3 which was circa 10 years ago (Corrections please from /. OS/400 gurus)? That's about an eon in computer terms.
It's unfortunate because I rather liked OS/400 when I used it many many moons ago. I recall using IPDS on an AS/400 to make a high volume barcode printing application for a paper goods company about 15 years ago. It was really funny going into random stores years later and see those same barcode labels on the shelves.
They found a file with "12345" in it, which is the combination to the President' luggage. So, he's busted.
Your point is well taken... but chimps aren't monkeys. They're apes.
Maybe you could write that up in the wikipedia entry! :P
Why do you think I posted what I posted? The levels of meta were too delicious to ignore. A pedantic correction of the definition of anarchism in the discussion of an article about wikipedia editing woes, using one of the most contentious wikipedia articles as backup, which in its discussion page has similar pedantry.
I tried, but frankly, I was too weak to resist it. :-D
That's not anarchy, because there's still some kind of state enforcing the laws.
Anarchy is the complete absence of the state.
An apologist is someone who defends a position. Therefore a "Christian apologist" is a person who defends the tenets of Christianity.
Since Lewis was in fact a defender of Christianity, the term holds.
As to the "Christian allegory angle", Lewis would've agreed with you, but only that his story was not allegorical. The Chronicles of Narnia were not intended as allegory, but a direct answer to the question "What would it be like if Jesus had to save the souls of a different world?". To deny a close relationship between the book and Christian tenets, however, would be to deny the words of the author who wrote them.
Naturally, the concepts of rebirth and sacrifice are not unique to Christianity, but the connection between The Chronicles of Narnia and Christianity is not really disputable, if only for the reason the author himself explicitly stated that the connection exists.
We are all free to see different symbols than what the author intended in any work, and we can even call into question the competence of the author's use of these symbols, but that does not give us license to say that the work is unconnected to the author's intent.
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping.
Yes... once upon a time 8 megabytes was a lot of memory.
The prescriptive versus descriptive language flamewar... now!
Er...hmmm...*scratches head*
W-w.... We are?
I don't think the definition of "asynchronous" has anything to do with user visibility, because then nothing is asynchronous because I still see "Transferring data from..." messages on the status bar all the time when using AJAX web apps.
But you're right, it was a hack that XMLHttpRequest made unnecessary. Unfortunately, five years ago it wasn't widely deployed in browsers I had to support.
Microsoft invented XMLHttpRequest, but you can do AJAX without it. I did some simple AJAX-like things about 5 years ago, using a hidden frame and flat text. Not nearly as slick to work with, but it did the "asynchronous" thing fairly well, only asking for data from the server when I needed it. It was ugly, but it worked.
"I think you dropped a 300,000 km/s."
Hadn't you heard? The Galactic Senate, in an effort to save our endangered antimatter reserves, lowered the speed of light to 1 km/s in order to conserve energy. Phhzzggzztyt Abbmmmun, the senior senator from Hierantos VIII, said "Someone needs to think of the larvae."
Of course, it wasn't unanimous. L'fhong Di Tabax, representing the Chorabax Cluster suggested that it was "The Andromeda energy cartel's fault" and added that "if they don't shape up, we should bomb them back to the information age."
Allow me to introduce you to Monetarism and Austrian School economics, that would either have some quibbles, or outright reject, your views of inflation and deflation. John Maynard Keynes is not the last word on economic theory, however much central bankers wished otherwise.
Because it's not useful enough for emergency services. My IP address says I'm in Phoenix, Arizona, which geographically is a huge city (475 square miles), so it's not terribly informative.
It's even worse because I actually live in Tempe immediately east of it. Hardly a small margin of error for a minutes count emergency.