...maybe our schools will admit that score-norming and social promotion aren't really teaching, once their charges have to compete with the products of less 'enlightened' educational systems.
It depends on the context, but it's usually accepted that serifed fonts, like Times, are easier to read. I haven't heard anyone put it quite like this, but the serifs work almost like anti-aliasing, helping the eye recognize whole words at a time (most folks say they "guide the eye.")
Part of the reason Times NR is so readable is that it is a very well designed font. Another part is that it seems to be the de facto default serifed font. (Helvetica/Arial would be the sans serifed defaults.) Since you see it all the time, you're used to reading it.
When dealing with the sort of humor that is based on language and spelling the appreciation of a certain cleverness is part of the humo response, so if you've seen something over and over again it loses something.
I was going to mod you up, but I wanted to add to what you said. The fact is that repetition is one of the cornerstones of comedy. If something is funny once, it's usually funny more than once. In some cases, the repetition increases the humor. Plenty of the humor around here (ISR, AYBABTU, etc.) is actually funnier due to the endless repetition (to the point that they get abbreviated). (For that matter, some of the trolls around here benefit from the repetition bump as well.)
Having said that, there is a point when enough is enough (AYBABTU is probably there for most of us). Just remember that it is an individual threshold.
aren't they generally, more up on things than this?
I think they see so many 'business harassed by lawyers' stories that when the saw another story that seemed to fit the template they just ran with it. Not that it is an excuse, of course, but it is entirely human--hammers and nails and all that.
A dumb out-of-work actor gets caught letting his copy of a screener be the one that gets onto the 'net. I wouldn't call this a setback, I'd call this proof that this idea works.
I'd call it a career move. Think about it: suddenly a "dumb out-of-work actor" that most people couldn't pick out of a lineup is going to be the lead item on Entertainment Tonight. Of course, he'll get lots of sympathy since he probably doesn't even own a computer, so this is just a horrible mistake, yadda yadda yadda. I'm betting his agent did it.
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It's not like they'll be tracking you with their chips at the grocery store.
No, they'll be tracking you at the tables. "Comps" are bestowed based on how much money you wager. If the chips are associated with you when they're sold, then they can track where and when you wagered it and comp you accordingly.
Look people, if you're going to mod someone down as "Redundant" at least check the time of the previous post--if it's TWO MINUTES earlier, cut the kid some slack and find someone else to pick on.
I really hate that redundant mod--I can't believe that someone who actually reads/. would use it. Now, go mod parent back up. And leave me alone.
I must say I don't give this one much of a chance. It's like C-SPAN--except it's not.
...the challenge any new cable channel faces first is getting funding, which Bingham is working on.
I'd be interested to know where the funding is going to come from. C-SPAN works because it is funded by the cable industry, so they can be (delightfully) boring. Unless they get a similar arrangement with some group or other, they're going to go the way of The Learning Channel.
Next, he'll have to deal with cable carriers.
Where he'll be competeing with some 300 other cable networks (some of whom have similar missions.) C-SPAN gets a place on your cable dial because the company is helping pay for it. Bingham may have to pay companies to carry the network.
Finally, saying you want something to be "like C-SPAN, but more fun" is like saying you want something to be "like Slashdot, but more accessable": you've clearly missed the point.
The only fanatics I've ran accross in the MacOSX World are the AntiMac Fanatics.
There's some kind of fundamental truth there. For example: I was a vegetarian for a decade, and during that time I noticed there was a type of person who looked upon my eating habits as a personal attack. These people would try to drag me into an argument about how I wasn't enough protein, etc. I realized I couldn't win: If I shrug it off, I'm a mindless cultist. If I try to disabuse them of their notions, I'm a fanatic.
Later I started eating meat and bought a Mac, and now I run into the OS version of these people.
...people are actually not feeling enough pressure to respond quickly.
I must disagree. The problem I have with e-mail is that people don't take the time to read it. Too often I get a non-sensical response because the recipient just glanced at it. This could be due to the volum of e-mail people recieve, but it compounds the problem if I have to send another e-mail and they have to send another response (hopefully after reading it more carefully.)
Of course, it might be that I just can't write worth a damn.
I mean sheesh, the overview blurb has nothing to do with the actual book he is reviewing.
Of course it did. Plenty of reviews start off, "If you liked Count Zero you'll love Snowcrash!" It quickly establishes what kind of book we're dealing with. In this case it is the "Improbable doings of uninteresting characters. In space." genre. Heck, it got me to read the review.
I don't even worry too much about errors. When they happen, someone notices within the first hour of a story going up, and I can just correct.
This is the thing that worries me about blogs and other online information sources. Yes, it's true that corrections can (if the poster wants to) be made quickly, but there seems to be correspondingly less concern about getting it right in the first place.
It's a bit like spellcheck: it helps your spelling, but it encourages you to stop thinking about your spelling. Then, if you find yourself without spellcheck, you cant spel any thing. The difference is that we're dealing with the truth, and not spelling, here.
It is NOT a limition of DOS, it is a limitation of the original IBM PC HARDWARE. You see, in 1981, the IBM PC was built around the Intel 8088 CPU, which could address 1024k of memory. The upper 384k was reserved...
What was it about the hardware that kept them from reserving the lower 384K instead?
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Even if you don't understand it, you can always find nuggets like this:
The Newton observations are at the limits of accuracy, so a mistake could have crept in.
The next time I've got to report on something, you can bet that my estimations will be at "the limits of accuracy."
If your tool is JavaScript, then it's almost certain your task is related to building web pages,
Or controlling Acrobat. See this PDF for the object spec.
When we start seeing more of these, AV companies will have a hard time keeping up.
Er, they're keeping up now?
What, you don't build your own processors? What fun is that?
It's about corporate greed and seven-figure CEO's laying off middle-class U.S. workers.
Hmmmm... I wonder how much an Indian CEO would be willing to work for...
...maybe our schools will admit that score-norming and social promotion aren't really teaching, once their charges have to compete with the products of less 'enlightened' educational systems.
Part of the reason Times NR is so readable is that it is a very well designed font. Another part is that it seems to be the de facto default serifed font. (Helvetica/Arial would be the sans serifed defaults.) Since you see it all the time, you're used to reading it.
Agricola explained that gold grew in the ground, like the roots of trees...(snip)...Like Nicholas Copernicus he translated his name into Latin
Unlike Nicholas, he had a sense of humor: "Agricola" is latin for "farmer".
When dealing with the sort of humor that is based on language and spelling the appreciation of a certain cleverness is part of the humo response, so if you've seen something over and over again it loses something.
I was going to mod you up, but I wanted to add to what you said. The fact is that repetition is one of the cornerstones of comedy. If something is funny once, it's usually funny more than once. In some cases, the repetition increases the humor. Plenty of the humor around here (ISR, AYBABTU, etc.) is actually funnier due to the endless repetition (to the point that they get abbreviated). (For that matter, some of the trolls around here benefit from the repetition bump as well.)
Having said that, there is a point when enough is enough (AYBABTU is probably there for most of us). Just remember that it is an individual threshold.
If there were no copyrights, you can bet the NYT would not be putting content on the Internat unless it was protected with DRM.
If there were no copyrights, there wouldn't be any DR to M.
aren't they generally, more up on things than this?
I think they see so many 'business harassed by lawyers' stories that when the saw another story that seemed to fit the template they just ran with it. Not that it is an excuse, of course, but it is entirely human--hammers and nails and all that.
A dumb out-of-work actor gets caught letting his copy of a screener be the one that gets onto the 'net. I wouldn't call this a setback, I'd call this proof that this idea works.
I'd call it a career move. Think about it: suddenly a "dumb out-of-work actor" that most people couldn't pick out of a lineup is going to be the lead item on Entertainment Tonight. Of course, he'll get lots of sympathy since he probably doesn't even own a computer, so this is just a horrible mistake, yadda yadda yadda. I'm betting his agent did it.
It's not like they'll be tracking you with their chips at the grocery store.
No, they'll be tracking you at the tables. "Comps" are bestowed based on how much money you wager. If the chips are associated with you when they're sold, then they can track where and when you wagered it and comp you accordingly.
Look people, if you're going to mod someone down as "Redundant" at least check the time of the previous post--if it's TWO MINUTES earlier, cut the kid some slack and find someone else to pick on.
I really hate that redundant mod--I can't believe that someone who actually reads /. would use it. Now, go mod parent back up. And leave me alone.
On one hand, I'm breaking out the wine for a little celebration.
If true, it would certainly be time to break out the wine!
Let's call it the Linus !!
Great, then we'll have people arguing that we should call it the GNU/Linus!
The phrase "Literature Geek" makes me wonder, can you be a "Sports Geek"? Or a "Fashion Geek"?
But it raises some interesting points, such as a possible new bio-terror weapon.
Not as I post this. Did something slip down the memory hole?
I must say I don't give this one much of a chance. It's like C-SPAN--except it's not.
I'd be interested to know where the funding is going to come from. C-SPAN works because it is funded by the cable industry, so they can be (delightfully) boring. Unless they get a similar arrangement with some group or other, they're going to go the way of The Learning Channel.
Next, he'll have to deal with cable carriers.
Where he'll be competeing with some 300 other cable networks (some of whom have similar missions.) C-SPAN gets a place on your cable dial because the company is helping pay for it. Bingham may have to pay companies to carry the network.
Finally, saying you want something to be "like C-SPAN, but more fun" is like saying you want something to be "like Slashdot, but more accessable": you've clearly missed the point.
The only fanatics I've ran accross in the MacOSX World are the AntiMac Fanatics.
There's some kind of fundamental truth there. For example: I was a vegetarian for a decade, and during that time I noticed there was a type of person who looked upon my eating habits as a personal attack. These people would try to drag me into an argument about how I wasn't enough protein, etc. I realized I couldn't win: If I shrug it off, I'm a mindless cultist. If I try to disabuse them of their notions, I'm a fanatic.
Later I started eating meat and bought a Mac, and now I run into the OS version of these people.
I must disagree. The problem I have with e-mail is that people don't take the time to read it. Too often I get a non-sensical response because the recipient just glanced at it. This could be due to the volum of e-mail people recieve, but it compounds the problem if I have to send another e-mail and they have to send another response (hopefully after reading it more carefully.)
Of course, it might be that I just can't write worth a damn.
I mean sheesh, the overview blurb has nothing to do with the actual book he is reviewing.
Of course it did. Plenty of reviews start off, "If you liked Count Zero you'll love Snowcrash!" It quickly establishes what kind of book we're dealing with. In this case it is the "Improbable doings of uninteresting characters. In space." genre. Heck, it got me to read the review.
I don't even worry too much about errors. When they happen, someone notices within the first hour of a story going up, and I can just correct.
This is the thing that worries me about blogs and other online information sources. Yes, it's true that corrections can (if the poster wants to) be made quickly, but there seems to be correspondingly less concern about getting it right in the first place.
It's a bit like spellcheck: it helps your spelling, but it encourages you to stop thinking about your spelling. Then, if you find yourself without spellcheck, you cant spel any thing. The difference is that we're dealing with the truth, and not spelling, here.
It is NOT a limition of DOS, it is a limitation of the original IBM PC HARDWARE. You see, in 1981, the IBM PC was built around the Intel 8088 CPU, which could address 1024k of memory. The upper 384k was reserved...
What was it about the hardware that kept them from reserving the lower 384K instead?
The GOA? What is this? Soviet Russia?