Yes, but these nonstandard plurals generally come from applying an existing rule in an unexpected place.
You'd sound fairly silly (or like you couldn't type right) if you pluralized "Unix" as "Uniices", with two i's. So why stick a superfluous "i" on "viri", which is what you get from applying the us-i rule? That's how you pronounce it anyway - people talk about "vie-rye", not "vie-ree-eye".
-- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
a slashdot reader posted this in one of the comments of an article and got moderated down for some reason.
Perhaps because the article didn't have anything to do with Gnutella? Just a guess. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
How the heck many times does this have to be pointed out? Every time someone rants about hypocrisy on Slashdot, it's about "well, I saw one guy on one article saying (X) is bad, and now on this article someone's saying (X) is good, so why aren't they agreeing?" There's a bunch of different opinions here on Slashdot, and articles on different topics are commented on by different sets of people, who may very likely be weighted toward a certain opinion.
For example, someone who thinks the GPL is the One True License, and thus refuses to touch BeOS, wouldn't post here unless he wanted to be a troll. Someone who reads an article about closed-source games is probably a gamer, and will accept closed-source so they can get their gaming fix. Meanwhile, an article on a closed-source version of some Linux program, which people were pushing for an OPEN-source version of, could very well cause open-source supporters to post.
Finally, you say, "I'm tired of Unix getting beat up on by you people..." Which people? There are people here who like proprietary Unices and people who hate them. Lumping all of Slashdot into some generalization involving "you people" is where you get the impression that there's hypocrisy. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Oddly enough, I haven't heard the word "gay" used that way much since, uh, middle school. -- No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Oh, okay, so he might as well remove any differences between factions in Alpha Centauri. In the next Civ game, he should make Tanks just as strong as Musketeers, so he doesn't give the impression that he'd like to crush some underdeveloped country. And delete the World War II scenario, because the Germans don't like being portrayed as the bad guys.
Wait a minute. Scratch that, he should just disable combat completely, because war is bad.
(end sarcasm)
Give me a break. To make a decent strategy game, you have to reduce things to simple rules. Yes, that means that certain groups of people are reduced to simple rules. But Sid makes GAMES, not political speeches.
And meanwhile, let me correct a couple of things. Unless you hacked the configuration files, there were no Arabs in Civ II. ANY country could have fanatics. In Alpha Centauri, white Christian Americans were portrayed in an unflattering way, and I'd hardly call them a "minority". And the time portrayed in Colonization was a racist time in history - I'm fairly certain that Indians were not given "equal opportunity" jobs - and to deny that would be revising history.
You were just looking for some pseudo-insightful reason to spout off on Slashdot. --
You asked about XFree86 4.0 - I've been running it since the day after it was posted on Slashdot. The installation - well, all I can say is that it worked. X takes longer to compile than any program I've ever seen, so if the compile had failed I might have put a dent in my monitor, but lo and behold, it worked.
Configuration was kind of messy. The only available program to make a config file so far is 'xf86config' (yes, without capitalization) - a text interface with no way to back up when you make the wrong choice except to start over. By the time I finally got things right, I had the keystrokes for the first 10 or so screens memorized.
One of my configuration choices was wrong in the end - I thought an Intellimouse was a Microsoft mouse with a wheel, which is what I have. It's actually just classifed as a PS/2 mouse.
I skipped the accelerated server configuration and went with XF86_SVGA instead, because the documentation about it was horribly inconsistent.
When it was done, I had to manually edit the XF86Config file to add stuff like setting up my mouse wheel, and taking out all the superfluous screen mode information so it wouldn't start in 640x480. (XFree86 3.3.5 did that too - if you had more than one possible mode, it would start up in the worst one. Why?)
Anyway. After all that was said and done, I only had a few problems. The Alt keys didn't work in Sawmill, because they're now apparently really called "Alt" instead of "Meta". I redefined all the hotkeys involving Meta and it worked.
There are minor improvements - It runs at 1152x864 at a decent refresh rate, though I assume that's from having to put in the video card and monitor settings myself instead of letting Xconfigurator do it. The mouse no longer goes nuts when I switch virtual consoles. The mouse pointer moves smoothly even when the CPU is being heavily used.
But I don't see any huge improvements. Maybe that's what I get for not using an accelerated server. Anyway, I hear fonts are supposed to work better, but I've had enough negative reinforcement against it (if you use an X login manager, like gdm, and X can't find every single one of its fonts, the computer crashes hard) that I can't even conceive of touching another fonts.dir file in my life. I don't care how it's done, but if I can put fonts in a directory and have them work automatically, and maybe skip the ones that don't work, THEN I'll say that X has good font support. --
Now that's the spirit! Imply that most of Slashdot are hopeless drug addicts, and tell everyone that since you don't find South Park and Robin Williams funny, nobody else should either. Oh, and that first sentence was pure brilliance - I am absolutely convinced now that termite666 is superior to any lousy Oscars-watching Slashdotter.
(sarcasm off)
So, enlighten me - if you care so little about all this, why'd you read this article? --
At the risk of sounding cynical, I believe that this article is just one more that fits into my theory that any Slashdot headline that asks a yes/no question can be made more accurate by adding "No, of course not" to it.
Examples: The End of Unix? No, Of Course Not Linux Approaching A Fork In The Road? No, Of Course Not Do Geeks Have A Political Voice? No, Of Course Not (okay, so I'm pessimistic.) Gnutella 0.5c Still Going? No, Of Course Not Amiga - Back From the Dead? No, Of Course Not
Yeah, you should have seen Segfault before they turned off comments and write-in poll options. If you searched for "Mae Ling Mak" on Google, Segfault showed up first (because of the Mae Ling Mak Naked & Petrified trolls), with Mae Ling Mak's own site in second.
Then, upon their arrival to Slashdot, the Mae Ling Mak Naked & Petrified faction merged with the Natalie Portman's Clit faction to get... well, the pointless drivel you're familiar with. You've got to give the Anonymous Coward who said "Hi people. I've just poured a bowl of hot grits down my pants!" some credit - sure, it started yet another chain of copycat trolls, but at least he was original. --
From now on, I think we should simply assume that, whenever any Slashdot article's headline ends with a ?, it should be assumed that "No, of course not!" is implied after it.
Examples: The End of Unix? (No, of course not!) Linux Approaching A Fork In The Road? (No, of course not!) Do Geeks Have A Political Voice? (No, of course not!) Hmm, maybe that wasn't such a good idea...
Ah, I had to go back and reread that. I thought at first that you were talking about X (the window system) crashing for no apparent reason. Which, unfortunately, happens. Then you mentioned.dlls being responsible, and I did a double-take. --
I have to concur on the menus. I hate most things about Macs, but damn, their menus are nice and easy to hit.
In fact, this was the feature I was hoping to see most when I downloaded Helix Gnome. I was quite let down to see that the menus at the top are just 4 menus that never change, not the menus of the program you're using.
And of course the pictures don't matter. Obviously someone should make a web site where you just write the jokes, and they are all attached as captions to the same picture of a potato, so they don't have to mess around with the pictures at all. --
I've never programmed in JavaScript, so I wouldn't know, but... would it be possible to have JavaScript generate the content too? Like those sites that generate nonsense words or rock band names or something... --
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Yes, but these nonstandard plurals generally come from applying an existing rule in an unexpected place.
You'd sound fairly silly (or like you couldn't type right) if you pluralized "Unix" as "Uniices", with two i's. So why stick a superfluous "i" on "viri", which is what you get from applying the us-i rule? That's how you pronounce it anyway - people talk about "vie-rye", not "vie-ree-eye".
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No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Perhaps because the article didn't have anything to do with Gnutella? Just a guess.
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No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
How the heck many times does this have to be pointed out? Every time someone rants about hypocrisy on Slashdot, it's about "well, I saw one guy on one article saying (X) is bad, and now on this article someone's saying (X) is good, so why aren't they agreeing?" There's a bunch of different opinions here on Slashdot, and articles on different topics are commented on by different sets of people, who may very likely be weighted toward a certain opinion.
For example, someone who thinks the GPL is the One True License, and thus refuses to touch BeOS, wouldn't post here unless he wanted to be a troll.
Someone who reads an article about closed-source games is probably a gamer, and will accept closed-source so they can get their gaming fix.
Meanwhile, an article on a closed-source version of some Linux program, which people were pushing for an OPEN-source version of, could very well cause open-source supporters to post.
Finally, you say, "I'm tired of Unix getting beat up on by you people..." Which people? There are people here who like proprietary Unices and people who hate them. Lumping all of Slashdot into some generalization involving "you people" is where you get the impression that there's hypocrisy.
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No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
Oddly enough, I haven't heard the word "gay" used that way much since, uh, middle school.
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No more e-mail address game - see my user info. Time for revenge.
So, what do you do if you've put it in /beos/image.be like they said, and it can't find it?
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He didn't say anything about Linux. You know, even AOLers have a right to privacy.
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Damn it, don't feed the trolls.
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Peta. Ignore the person who says it's pica.
Starting from 10^3 and going up: kilo mega giga tera peta exa zetta yotta (then grouchi and harpi, if you believe the Jargon File)
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Oh, okay, so he might as well remove any differences between factions in Alpha Centauri. In the next Civ game, he should make Tanks just as strong as Musketeers, so he doesn't give the impression that he'd like to crush some underdeveloped country. And delete the World War II scenario, because the Germans don't like being portrayed as the bad guys.
Wait a minute. Scratch that, he should just disable combat completely, because war is bad.
(end sarcasm)
Give me a break. To make a decent strategy game, you have to reduce things to simple rules. Yes, that means that certain groups of people are reduced to simple rules. But Sid makes GAMES, not political speeches.
And meanwhile, let me correct a couple of things. Unless you hacked the configuration files, there were no Arabs in Civ II. ANY country could have fanatics. In Alpha Centauri, white Christian Americans were portrayed in an unflattering way, and I'd hardly call them a "minority". And the time portrayed in Colonization was a racist time in history - I'm fairly certain that Indians were not given "equal opportunity" jobs - and to deny that would be revising history.
You were just looking for some pseudo-insightful reason to spout off on Slashdot.
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It was, which is why mikewood was talking about the _original_ Civ.
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You asked about XFree86 4.0 - I've been running it since the day after it was posted on Slashdot.
The installation - well, all I can say is that it worked. X takes longer to compile than any program I've ever seen, so if the compile had failed I might have put a dent in my monitor, but lo and behold, it worked.
Configuration was kind of messy. The only available program to make a config file so far is 'xf86config' (yes, without capitalization) - a text interface with no way to back up when you make the wrong choice except to start over. By the time I finally got things right, I had the keystrokes for the first 10 or so screens memorized.
One of my configuration choices was wrong in the end - I thought an Intellimouse was a Microsoft mouse with a wheel, which is what I have. It's actually just classifed as a PS/2 mouse.
I skipped the accelerated server configuration and went with XF86_SVGA instead, because the documentation about it was horribly inconsistent.
When it was done, I had to manually edit the XF86Config file to add stuff like setting up my mouse wheel, and taking out all the superfluous screen mode information so it wouldn't start in 640x480. (XFree86 3.3.5 did that too - if you had more than one possible mode, it would start up in the worst one. Why?)
Anyway. After all that was said and done, I only had a few problems. The Alt keys didn't work in Sawmill, because they're now apparently really called "Alt" instead of "Meta". I redefined all the hotkeys involving Meta and it worked.
There are minor improvements - It runs at 1152x864 at a decent refresh rate, though I assume that's from having to put in the video card and monitor settings myself instead of letting Xconfigurator do it. The mouse no longer goes nuts when I switch virtual consoles. The mouse pointer moves smoothly even when the CPU is being heavily used.
But I don't see any huge improvements. Maybe that's what I get for not using an accelerated server. Anyway, I hear fonts are supposed to work better, but I've had enough negative reinforcement against it (if you use an X login manager, like gdm, and X can't find every single one of its fonts, the computer crashes hard) that I can't even conceive of touching another fonts.dir file in my life. I don't care how it's done, but if I can put fonts in a directory and have them work automatically, and maybe skip the ones that don't work, THEN I'll say that X has good font support.
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Now that's the spirit! Imply that most of Slashdot are hopeless drug addicts, and tell everyone that since you don't find South Park and Robin Williams funny, nobody else should either. Oh, and that first sentence was pure brilliance - I am absolutely convinced now that termite666 is superior to any lousy Oscars-watching Slashdotter.
(sarcasm off)
So, enlighten me - if you care so little about all this, why'd you read this article?
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Ooh, you got to correct Steven Wright and use the word "pole" in a cool way. At the same time. I bet you feel l33t, don't you?
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At the risk of sounding cynical, I believe that this article is just one more that fits into my theory that any Slashdot headline that asks a yes/no question can be made more accurate by adding "No, of course not" to it.
Examples:
The End of Unix? No, Of Course Not
Linux Approaching A Fork In The Road? No, Of Course Not
Do Geeks Have A Political Voice? No, Of Course Not (okay, so I'm pessimistic.)
Gnutella 0.5c Still Going? No, Of Course Not
Amiga - Back From the Dead? No, Of Course Not
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Yeah, you should have seen Segfault before they turned off comments and write-in poll options. If you searched for "Mae Ling Mak" on Google, Segfault showed up first (because of the Mae Ling Mak Naked & Petrified trolls), with Mae Ling Mak's own site in second.
Then, upon their arrival to Slashdot, the Mae Ling Mak Naked & Petrified faction merged with the Natalie Portman's Clit faction to get... well, the pointless drivel you're familiar with. You've got to give the Anonymous Coward who said "Hi people. I've just poured a bowl of hot grits down my pants!" some credit - sure, it started yet another chain of copycat trolls, but at least he was original.
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From now on, I think we should simply assume that, whenever any Slashdot article's headline ends with a ?, it should be assumed that "No, of course not!" is implied after it.
Examples:
The End of Unix? (No, of course not!)
Linux Approaching A Fork In The Road? (No, of course not!)
Do Geeks Have A Political Voice? (No, of course not!)
Hmm, maybe that wasn't such a good idea...
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You have to use KDE in Mandrake? Since when? And what's that huge drop-down list of desktops for on the KDM login screen?
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In other words, someone had a talent for constrained writing and way too much time on his hands, and this is the result...
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No, that would be "Pi Approximation Day".
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Perhaps it would make the metaphor better if this hypothetical Star Trek computer only understood the Klingon language.
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Ah, I had to go back and reread that. I thought at first that you were talking about X (the window system) crashing for no apparent reason. Which, unfortunately, happens. Then you mentioned .dlls being responsible, and I did a double-take.
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I have to concur on the menus. I hate most things about Macs, but damn, their menus are nice and easy to hit.
In fact, this was the feature I was hoping to see most when I downloaded Helix Gnome. I was quite let down to see that the menus at the top are just 4 menus that never change, not the menus of the program you're using.
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The Japanese FF3 was for the NES (well, Famicom). Are you trolling, or are all your punctuation keys sticking?
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And of course the pictures don't matter. Obviously someone should make a web site where you just write the jokes, and they are all attached as captions to the same picture of a potato, so they don't have to mess around with the pictures at all.
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I've never programmed in JavaScript, so I wouldn't know, but... would it be possible to have JavaScript generate the content too? Like those sites that generate nonsense words or rock band names or something...
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