Uh, here's a clue. Lynx is great and everything, but you obviously don't use it, because it doesn't do tables. It complies with standards for the features that it supports, but checking your tables with Lynx makes about as much sense as checking your image alignment with it.:)
If you want nice layout in text, try w3m. w3m's table support is impressive, so it's too bad it crashes so much. --
I wonder what I do wrong... StarOffice eats up ALL my memory. It takes 3 minutes to start on my (admittedly obsolete) P166, under GNOME and Enlightenment. --
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It might be "true", but you know very well that the poster only intended it as flaimbait.
Isn't it nice to see a different opinion every once in a while? If I wasn't posting comments, I'd moderate him up. Someone's got to be the devil's advocate. --
From what I've heard, IE 3.0 for Win 3.1 is the last version of IE that runs under Wine. Anything later is too integrated with the OS. When I tried to run IE 4.0 under Wine, it thought I was reinstalling Windows... In these unusual circumstances, Linux sputtered and died, but everything (of course) worked fine after the reboot and fsck were done, and interestingly enough, the Network Neighborhood icon in Windows got un-broken when I did that.
There's some weird kind of trend here. Whenever I do things that I'm supposed to do with my computer (like install new software or recompile the kernel) it starts working worse, but when I do something completely moronic, things work better afterward. --
You know, that causes a similar paradox. For time travel to be invented, there had to be a time before that (since the Beginning, as you put it) when time travel hasn't been invented. Finally, someone invents time travel, and the invention leaks out into the past, so suddenly everyone can travel through time, and have been able to since the Beginning (define Beginning here as the first time that there's people worth teaching how to travel through time), so there's no reason to invent time travel...
There are two ways I can think of that this paradox would be resolved. The boring one is that time travel is impossible, and therefore time paradoxes don't happen.
The other is the "time threads" theory that other posters here have mentioned. Someone invents time travel, someone goes to the past to give time travel machines to everyone, and that causes a huge fork in the timeline. In the timeline where time travel was invented, life goes on, and it goes on forward. Meanwhile (if such a word applies), in the timeline where the past was given time travel, the people start splitting off all kinds of timelines and things get weird.
There probably wouldn't be too many splits in the "original" timeline. The fact that anyone who traveled through time never came back would be enough to put people off of time travel.
Okay. Here it is: the Moore-ish -> English translator! And it's open source!
aproch -> approach problime -> problem systome -> system difrent -> different all thoe -> although linguestes -> linguists aruge -> argue substuation -> substitution rilly -> really
This is obviously not complete, but hey, it's the first version:)
The interesting thing about Moore's spelling is that he's consistent. More consistent than, (to bring it back on topic) translating from German to English. --
Okay... consider that Windows (starting from 1.0) has been around longer than Linux (starting from 0.whatever), has been developed as a desktop OS for a MUCH longer time, and has consistently been able to stifle other OSes. Considering what it's working against, Linux as a desktop OS is progressing very quickly. Maybe it hasn't surpassed Windows for the average user yet, but it will. --
The lyrics are on his web site, so I'd assume they're open source.
But this sounds like a great idea. A CD called "Geek Sounds"... Track 1 would be Linus saying "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux." Track 2 would be RMS singing "Join Us Now And Share the Software". Track 3 would be "cat/vmlinuz >/dev/audio". Track 4 would be Bruce Perens doing a cover of Cher's "Believe". The rest of the tracks would be the first 4 tracks run through various XMMS filters.
okay. I don't know if you're just REALLY good at trolling, or clueless about what a "sig line" is. A sig line has nothing to do with the rest of the post, and is often a quote from something. In this case, it's a quote from Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts". Deep Thoughts are humor. Most of them take some completely ordinary statement and twist it to make no sense whatsoever. They are not political statements. You were obviously just looking for some trigger to start your religious rant.
BTW, your logic is great. It boils down to "My sense of morals is right because any other one is wrong according to my sense of morals, and if you don't agree it's because you're stupid." --
Not quite. If you've taken Calculus, you should know that something can expand in a way that slows asymptotically, yet still approach infinite size. Take the function ln(x), for example. --
Yep. Then you see a door marked "EXIT", God talks to you for a while, and you take a bow and leave. The credits roll, and you are horrified to see that you were played by Jim Carrey. --
I was under the impression that these milestone builds of Mozilla were, in fact, alpha. My idea of the definition of alpha was something like "it runs on my computer, and if you're lucky it'll run on yours too".
More generally, it would be a piece of software that should be a usable product, but may be lacking some features, experience crashes, or not work at all, but you knew that when you got it.
Obviously I'm wrong, since (a) Netscape feels the need to call Mozilla "pre-alpha", and (b) my definition would include all versions of Windows. --
The movie starts with a plane going down because it flew over the International Date Line. (Never mind that planes don't use local time.) A bunch of guys at a computer center in Washington (including the Handsome Hero) start plotting Y2K failures. As midnight moves west, big red X's appear at random locations on the map, including the Sahara. Various people in America gripe about things like the ATMs being shut down. A nuclear power plant in Switzerland blows up. The lights go off in France, one at a time. Jay Leno tells some awful jokes, and New York celebrates Y2K. The power failure must have been caught in traffic, because it took 30 seconds for all the lights to go off. The Eastern seabord loses power, with a lame explanation from the hero. A hax0r chick talks to her friends on AIM, picks on her little brother, and then leaves for a party. The last fact is forgotten by the little brother because he has no idea why she left later on. Something that looks like part of the movie turns out to be a Wendy's ad. The main characters obey the rules of computer cliches for a while. Some guy with weird hair points out that some nuclear power plant in Washington is going to melt down "and send jets of plutonium into the sky". The news shows actual journalistic integrity and chooses not to report anything since they don't have enough facts. Washington is evacuated, except the chick and her friends are too drunk to notice. Random violence ensues during the evacuation. They shut down the power plant, which involves pulling a scram switch which apparently has no effect because they have to send men in radiation suits to run around and look important. Alarms sound. The hero decides that he has to run through the radiation and turn some knobs, without a radiation suit. The knobs don't work either. He runs out of the plant unharmed. He concocts a brilliant plan that makes no sense whatsoever, but involves blowing a lot of things up. He saves the day. He is reunited with his wife, as well as his daughter (the hax0r chick) who happens to be walking by at the time. A feeble attempt at a cliffhanger is made. The screen fades out to the executive producer's name. --
In one issue of PC Gamer, they had an ad for some terrible game (I think it was "Space Bunnies Must Die!"), and on the next page a review bashing that game. Same deal with the Myst series - they despise it, but have lots of ads for it. So journalistic integrity is still around, at least in some cases. --
Tricky doesn't even begin to describe it... a radial treadmill would have even more problems than the omnidirectional treadmill described elsewhere. The material would have to stretch to surround the entire surface, and yet compress into a hole in the center small enough that you can't feel it under your feet, with no noticeable differences in texture or friction. I'd think this would be close to impossible with known materials. --
Wow, I never got to those last stages. I had nightmares as well, and I learned to recognize them (made easier by the fact that almost all of them were about the grandfather clock in the hallway turning into a monster). I noticed that if I lied down somewhere in the dream, it would end.
As I gained more power over my dreams, the dreams changed accordingly... I became able to confront the monster, until in one dream I tricked the grandfather clock into eating itself. I stopped having those dreams after that, and when I looked at the clock in real life it wasn't scary anymore. I've dreamed very infrequently, and remembered even less, since then.
Now I kind of wish that hadn't happened, after hearing you describe all the cool stuff you can do in your dreams. Oh well. --
That kinda reminds me of the first time I played Stunt Race FX. It was the first truly 3D game I had ever played. (As in, both you and the camera could move and tilt in 3 dimensions, which ruled out Doom, Wolfenstein, etc. which only had 2D motion, and Star Fox where the camera hypothetically could move like that, but didn't.)
Anyway, that night when I went to bed, I could still see race tracks turning, dipping, and zooming by while I had my eyes closed. The same thing happened in my dreams that night. --
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Funny. I've gotten quite a lot of mail, for an address that doesn't work.
Seriously, it works, I've recieved at least 30 messages about it so far. Someone even wrote a Perl script that would decrypt the address. So either you made a mistake somewhere, or you saw the result and didn't think it looked like an e-mail address. --
A loose-loose situation? Is that the opposite of a tight-tight situation, or have spell-checkers made your brain atrophy?
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However, all of number theory relies on the fact that 1 is not prime. The Fundamental Theory of Arithmetic (that every number has a unique prime factorization) would fall flat on its face if you could stick in as many 1's as you wanted. --
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Uh, here's a clue. Lynx is great and everything, but you obviously don't use it, because it doesn't do tables. It complies with standards for the features that it supports, but checking your tables with Lynx makes about as much sense as checking your image alignment with it. :)
If you want nice layout in text, try w3m. w3m's table support is impressive, so it's too bad it crashes so much.
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I wonder what I do wrong... StarOffice eats up ALL my memory. It takes 3 minutes to start on my (admittedly obsolete) P166, under GNOME and Enlightenment.
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It might be "true", but you know very well that the poster only intended it as flaimbait.
Isn't it nice to see a different opinion every once in a while? If I wasn't posting comments, I'd moderate him up. Someone's got to be the devil's advocate.
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Curly quotes are not in the w3c standard. And yes, they are MS inventions.
You're defining "compliance" as "compliance with IE". Going back to your original post... DUH! Of course IE is 100% compliant with IE.
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I believe that Opera started in Norwegian and was translated to English, which kinda goes against your argument.
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From what I've heard, IE 3.0 for Win 3.1 is the last version of IE that runs under Wine. Anything later is too integrated with the OS. When I tried to run IE 4.0 under Wine, it thought I was reinstalling Windows...
In these unusual circumstances, Linux sputtered and died, but everything (of course) worked fine after the reboot and fsck were done, and interestingly enough, the Network Neighborhood icon in Windows got un-broken when I did that.
There's some weird kind of trend here. Whenever I do things that I'm supposed to do with my computer (like install new software or recompile the kernel) it starts working worse, but when I do something completely moronic, things work better afterward.
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You know, that causes a similar paradox. For time travel to be invented, there had to be a time before that (since the Beginning, as you put it) when time travel hasn't been invented. Finally, someone invents time travel, and the invention leaks out into the past, so suddenly everyone can travel through time, and have been able to since the Beginning (define Beginning here as the first time that there's people worth teaching how to travel through time), so there's no reason to invent time travel...
There are two ways I can think of that this paradox would be resolved. The boring one is that time travel is impossible, and therefore time paradoxes don't happen.
The other is the "time threads" theory that other posters here have mentioned. Someone invents time travel, someone goes to the past to give time travel machines to everyone, and that causes a huge fork in the timeline. In the timeline where time travel was invented, life goes on, and it goes on forward. Meanwhile (if such a word applies), in the timeline where the past was given time travel, the people start splitting off all kinds of timelines and things get weird.
There probably wouldn't be too many splits in the "original" timeline. The fact that anyone who traveled through time never came back would be enough to put people off of time travel.
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aproch -> approach
problime -> problem
systome -> system
difrent -> different
all thoe -> although
linguestes -> linguists
aruge -> argue
substuation -> substitution
rilly -> really
This is obviously not complete, but hey, it's the first version :)
The interesting thing about Moore's spelling is that he's consistent. More consistent than, (to bring it back on topic) translating from German to English.
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Okay... consider that Windows (starting from 1.0) has been around longer than Linux (starting from 0.whatever), has been developed as a desktop OS for a MUCH longer time, and has consistently been able to stifle other OSes. Considering what it's working against, Linux as a desktop OS is progressing very quickly. Maybe it hasn't surpassed Windows for the average user yet, but it will.
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But this sounds like a great idea. A CD called "Geek Sounds"...
Track 1 would be Linus saying "Hello, this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux."
Track 2 would be RMS singing "Join Us Now And Share the Software".
Track 3 would be "cat
Track 4 would be Bruce Perens doing a cover of Cher's "Believe".
The rest of the tracks would be the first 4 tracks run through various XMMS filters.
I guarantee that someone would buy it.
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The poll is inside this article, so comments on the poll and comments on the article are in the same place.
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okay. I don't know if you're just REALLY good at trolling, or clueless about what a "sig line" is. A sig line has nothing to do with the rest of the post, and is often a quote from something.
In this case, it's a quote from Jack Handey's "Deep Thoughts".
Deep Thoughts are humor. Most of them take some completely ordinary statement and twist it to make no sense whatsoever.
They are not political statements. You were obviously just looking for some trigger to start your religious rant.
BTW, your logic is great. It boils down to "My sense of morals is right because any other one is wrong according to my sense of morals, and if you don't agree it's because you're stupid."
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Not quite. If you've taken Calculus, you should know that something can expand in a way that slows asymptotically, yet still approach infinite size. Take the function ln(x), for example.
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Yep. Then you see a door marked "EXIT", God talks to you for a while, and you take a bow and leave.
The credits roll, and you are horrified to see that you were played by Jim Carrey.
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I was under the impression that these milestone builds of Mozilla were, in fact, alpha.
My idea of the definition of alpha was something like "it runs on my computer, and if you're lucky it'll run on yours too".
More generally, it would be a piece of software that should be a usable product, but may be lacking some features, experience crashes, or not work at all, but you knew that when you got it.
Obviously I'm wrong, since (a) Netscape feels the need to call Mozilla "pre-alpha", and (b) my definition would include all versions of Windows.
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The bible says that pi is 3. I wonder if literalists ever oppose trigonometry because of that...
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The movie starts with a plane going down because it flew over the International Date Line. (Never mind that planes don't use local time.) A bunch of guys at a computer center in Washington (including the Handsome Hero) start plotting Y2K failures. As midnight moves west, big red X's appear at random locations on the map, including the Sahara. Various people in America gripe about things like the ATMs being shut down.
A nuclear power plant in Switzerland blows up. The lights go off in France, one at a time. Jay Leno tells some awful jokes, and New York celebrates Y2K. The power failure must have been caught in traffic, because it took 30 seconds for all the lights to go off.
The Eastern seabord loses power, with a lame explanation from the hero. A hax0r chick talks to her friends on AIM, picks on her little brother, and then leaves for a party. The last fact is forgotten by the little brother because he has no idea why she left later on.
Something that looks like part of the movie turns out to be a Wendy's ad. The main characters obey the rules of computer cliches for a while. Some guy with weird hair points out that some nuclear power plant in Washington is going to melt down "and send jets of plutonium into the sky".
The news shows actual journalistic integrity and chooses not to report anything since they don't have enough facts. Washington is evacuated, except the chick and her friends are too drunk to notice. Random violence ensues during the evacuation.
They shut down the power plant, which involves pulling a scram switch which apparently has no effect because they have to send men in radiation suits to run around and look important. Alarms sound. The hero decides that he has to run through the radiation and turn some knobs, without a radiation suit.
The knobs don't work either. He runs out of the plant unharmed. He concocts a brilliant plan that makes no sense whatsoever, but involves blowing a lot of things up. He saves the day. He is reunited with his wife, as well as his daughter (the hax0r chick) who happens to be walking by at the time. A feeble attempt at a cliffhanger is made. The screen fades out to the executive producer's name.
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Hey, that's right! We could call it... "Old News for Nerds. Stuff that Mattered."
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In one issue of PC Gamer, they had an ad for some terrible game (I think it was "Space Bunnies Must Die!"), and on the next page a review bashing that game. Same deal with the Myst series - they despise it, but have lots of ads for it.
So journalistic integrity is still around, at least in some cases.
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Tricky doesn't even begin to describe it... a radial treadmill would have even more problems than the omnidirectional treadmill described elsewhere. The material would have to stretch to surround the entire surface, and yet compress into a hole in the center small enough that you can't feel it under your feet, with no noticeable differences in texture or friction. I'd think this would be close to impossible with known materials.
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Wow, I never got to those last stages. I had nightmares as well, and I learned to recognize them (made easier by the fact that almost all of them were about the grandfather clock in the hallway turning into a monster). I noticed that if I lied down somewhere in the dream, it would end.
As I gained more power over my dreams, the dreams changed accordingly... I became able to confront the monster, until in one dream I tricked the grandfather clock into eating itself. I stopped having those dreams after that, and when I looked at the clock in real life it wasn't scary anymore. I've dreamed very infrequently, and remembered even less, since then.
Now I kind of wish that hadn't happened, after hearing you describe all the cool stuff you can do in your dreams. Oh well.
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That kinda reminds me of the first time I played Stunt Race FX. It was the first truly 3D game I had ever played. (As in, both you and the camera could move and tilt in 3 dimensions, which ruled out Doom, Wolfenstein, etc. which only had 2D motion, and Star Fox where the camera hypothetically could move like that, but didn't.)
Anyway, that night when I went to bed, I could still see race tracks turning, dipping, and zooming by while I had my eyes closed. The same thing happened in my dreams that night.
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Funny. I've gotten quite a lot of mail, for an address that doesn't work.
Seriously, it works, I've recieved at least 30 messages about it so far. Someone even wrote a Perl script that would decrypt the address. So either you made a mistake somewhere, or you saw the result and didn't think it looked like an e-mail address.
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A loose-loose situation? Is that the opposite of a tight-tight situation, or have spell-checkers made your brain atrophy?
(Posted at 1 for your protection. Remove paper strip before use.)
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However, all of number theory relies on the fact that 1 is not prime. The Fundamental Theory of Arithmetic (that every number has a unique prime factorization) would fall flat on its face if you could stick in as many 1's as you wanted.
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