The lojban language is working on being usable for a spoken programming language, from what I've heard. In lojban, that would be:
.i go to ge to ga.abu zmadu by. gi cy. zmadu by. toi gi dy. dunli li no toi gi to ko dunse'a.abu to by. pi'i li mupinomuvo fe'i pai toi.ije ko dunse'a lypy'abu.abu toi
Or something like that. It might even be shorter if I was better at lojban.
I said that rather slowly and distinctly in 18 seconds. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
My moderation results said that I moderated this as +1 (Normal). And sure enough, it gained the point. How bizarre. Anyway, I'm posting this to undo that random act of moderation. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Similarly, I get the impression that many of the KDE people here haven't used GNOME 1.2, which acts very little like GNOME 1.0. This isn't targeted toward you specifically, I'm just pointing out that both sides can make a skewed argument by referring to old versions of the software. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I'm fairly sure I once heard of the idea of making a lojbanic syntax for Perl. This seems like quite a good idea, considering that lojban is designed to be unambiguous, and basically contains all the words that would be necessary for a programming language already. The result of this would be pronounceable Perl. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Interesting, then, that the name came from two characters in Discworld (Nanny Ogg and Vorbis). -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
You know, converting back and forth between two lossy formats can't be too good for the quality of the music.
I don't think ogg-to-MP3 will really be necessary, assuming that WinAmp (and XMMS of course) will have plugins for Ogg.
When I start using Ogg, I'm going to leave my Napster MP3s alone, and just work on re-burning my legal MP3s (surprisingly, about half of my collection) as Oggs from the CDs. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
-1 comments don't get archived. And most people who run spambots don't have a clue about what site they're going to, so it'd just be the normal Anonymous Coward. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
It all depends on the software. It seems that in GTK+ programs, the mouse wheel does accelerate. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Yeah, amazing how much money you could get from putting your company's brand name on... an upside-down stick of multi-colored deodorant? -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
That'd be the key of G# major. There's probably no way that many people are going to write music in it either, because (a) they could just stop tormenting the musician and write it in A flat, and (b) the key signature would have F## in it, and that's just icky.
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Insightful?! Who the hell did that? <p> I'm sorry, should he have listed every single package that was in the system? You're the one being political, or else you wouldn't have cared which packages he listed. <p> Anyway, I'm sure that KDE will get talked about on Slashdot when it comes up with a new stable version. 1.91 isn't. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
I tried Linux From Scratch. It was a fun learning experience - I got it to the point where I could run TinyFugue. But after a while of trying to actually USE that system, and failed attempts to set up sendmail and X, I gave up and installed debian on that partition. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Even if they weren't weaseling out of it, the ruling would theoretically go into effect in September. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
If you'd actually used xf86config, you wouldn't be considering it a setup program.:P
The XF86Config file that it spat out for me had to undergo lots of manual editing before it was usable.
But now I'm back on 3.3.6 (or is it 3.3.7?) anyway, because Mandrake mangled the Voodoo3 driver in their release of XFree86 4.0. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Transparent windows? Buggy, unstable themes? You must be thinking of Enlightenment. I've never seen a GTK+ theme be unstable. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Last I heard, the movie was being made by Miramax, which is a division of Disney, but it's also the same division that made Pulp Fiction. That might put things in perspective. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Doug has expressed in the past how much he hates that green guy, which was invented by his American publishers. A fitting end for the green guy, I guess. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Lighten up. Do you even know what "Flowers for Algernon" is? Without looking at the other responses? -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
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The catch is that they put in some deliberately dumb robots, so that if you just use the optimal mixed strategy (randomness), you've got a 50% chance of beating them, but you can clobber them if you've got an actual plan.
In their FAQ, they tell you not to submit the random strategy, because it'll be guaranteed to finish in the middle of the pack. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
... and for the sequel, a Tic-Tac-Toe robot competition!
Actually, I never realized there were so many levels of depth to Rock-Paper-Scissors. Neat. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
That "less than 4.5" thing doesn't quite work, because Netscape's releases for Windows didn't go in numerical order at one point. I forget what the numbers were, but it was something like 4.16 being the browser-only (no mail/news/etc.) counterpart of 4.6... -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
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The lojban language is working on being usable for a spoken programming language, from what I've heard. In lojban, that would be:
.abu zmadu by. gi cy. zmadu by. toi gi dy. dunli li no toi gi to ko dunse'a .abu to by. pi'i li mupinomuvo fe'i pai toi .ije ko dunse'a lypy'abu .abu toi
.i go to ge to ga
Or something like that. It might even be shorter if I was better at lojban.
I said that rather slowly and distinctly in 18 seconds.
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My moderation results said that I moderated this as +1 (Normal). And sure enough, it gained the point. How bizarre. Anyway, I'm posting this to undo that random act of moderation.
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Similarly, I get the impression that many of the KDE people here haven't used GNOME 1.2, which acts very little like GNOME 1.0. This isn't targeted toward you specifically, I'm just pointing out that both sides can make a skewed argument by referring to old versions of the software.
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I'm fairly sure I once heard of the idea of making a lojbanic syntax for Perl. This seems like quite a good idea, considering that lojban is designed to be unambiguous, and basically contains all the words that would be necessary for a programming language already. The result of this would be pronounceable Perl.
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Interesting, then, that the name came from two characters in Discworld (Nanny Ogg and Vorbis).
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You know, converting back and forth between two lossy formats can't be too good for the quality of the music.
I don't think ogg-to-MP3 will really be necessary, assuming that WinAmp (and XMMS of course) will have plugins for Ogg.
When I start using Ogg, I'm going to leave my Napster MP3s alone, and just work on re-burning my legal MP3s (surprisingly, about half of my collection) as Oggs from the CDs.
--
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You have been trolled. You have lost. HAND.
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-1 comments don't get archived. And most people who run spambots don't have a clue about what site they're going to, so it'd just be the normal Anonymous Coward.
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It all depends on the software. It seems that in GTK+ programs, the mouse wheel does accelerate.
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You are missing something. That is, the joke.
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There is no friend anywhere. Fnord.
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Yeah, amazing how much money you could get from putting your company's brand name on... an upside-down stick of multi-colored deodorant?
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That'd be the key of G# major. There's probably no way that many people are going to write music in it either, because (a) they could just stop tormenting the musician and write it in A flat, and (b) the key signature would have F## in it, and that's just icky.
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Insightful?! Who the hell did that?
<p>
I'm sorry, should he have listed every single package that was in the system? You're the one being political, or else you wouldn't have cared which packages he listed.
<p>
Anyway, I'm sure that KDE will get talked about on Slashdot when it comes up with a new stable version. 1.91 isn't.
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I tried Linux From Scratch. It was a fun learning experience - I got it to the point where I could run TinyFugue. But after a while of trying to actually USE that system, and failed attempts to set up sendmail and X, I gave up and installed debian on that partition.
--
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Even if they weren't weaseling out of it, the ruling would theoretically go into effect in September.
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If you'd actually used xf86config, you wouldn't be considering it a setup program. :P
The XF86Config file that it spat out for me had to undergo lots of manual editing before it was usable.
But now I'm back on 3.3.6 (or is it 3.3.7?) anyway, because Mandrake mangled the Voodoo3 driver in their release of XFree86 4.0.
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Transparent windows? Buggy, unstable themes? You must be thinking of Enlightenment. I've never seen a GTK+ theme be unstable.
--
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Last I heard, the movie was being made by Miramax, which is a division of Disney, but it's also the same division that made Pulp Fiction. That might put things in perspective.
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Doug has expressed in the past how much he hates that green guy, which was invented by his American publishers. A fitting end for the green guy, I guess.
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Or, maybe, the fans of Douglas Adams realize that we might as well not waste points on that question, because he'll NEVER answer it.
I think the system worked perfectly here.
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Lighten up. Do you even know what "Flowers for Algernon" is? Without looking at the other responses?
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The catch is that they put in some deliberately dumb robots, so that if you just use the optimal mixed strategy (randomness), you've got a 50% chance of beating them, but you can clobber them if you've got an actual plan.
In their FAQ, they tell you not to submit the random strategy, because it'll be guaranteed to finish in the middle of the pack.
--
No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
... and for the sequel, a Tic-Tac-Toe robot competition!
Actually, I never realized there were so many levels of depth to Rock-Paper-Scissors. Neat.
--
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That "less than 4.5" thing doesn't quite work, because Netscape's releases for Windows didn't go in numerical order at one point. I forget what the numbers were, but it was something like 4.16 being the browser-only (no mail/news/etc.) counterpart of 4.6...
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