Sorry, I am being a dick. Just couldn't help but comment on it... damn homophones strike at any time and any place. And I admit I had to look up homophone vs. homonym vs. homograph so I'll climb off my high horse and bury my face in poop. Just poking fun not trying to be irritating- too late.
The political compass questions are almost a joke in my eyes. The fact also that you get four choices for the questions is again a joke due to the broad and complex nature of the questions. I mean seriously, the world's not "Black or White". Saying "I strongly agree" to blanket statements makes no real sense.
"I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong." Who defines right or wrong? I mean seriously, obviously if you believe the actions to be RIGHT you'd support your country. The question presupposes that you can tell the difference between "right" and "wrong" in the first place and again something that's "right" economically could be "wrong" socially so I guess whichever you feel outweighs the other you'd say you agree or disagree to. The test was fun and all but I wouldn't say it's a very useful compass. I read the FAQ and stuff but I guess it just doesn't strike me as exceptionally useful.
I'm glad you made this point about "freedom terrorism". First off I want to say that few people, myself included, even understand why organized states support terrorism in the first place or why terrorists even exist. The bottom line tends to be that we pissed a lot of people off by arbitrarily placing governments and geographic boundaries with no respect to the history or culture of the people. All this being said and going back to my original point and that of the parent post, wouldn't we be pretty pissed of if some other country came in and changed our political boundaries and government around? Some people point this out and again I'm not advocating violence in the first place, and I often don't support the way of life most terrorist groups are fighting for ("funny" thing being often times the "normal" people of the terrorist's home country don't support it either. Another point I've seen brought up here and there on is that basing your understanding of a people by the most radical faction would be like judging the entire character of the US by using us geeks as a metric, or extreme religious factions right here in the US... which we do get sometimes but I wouldn't say the majority of our country is well described by these groups... anyway). In the end there are lots of holes in this post but I'm not going to write pages about it because then I'd have to do some serious studying and research (read: I'm lazy) but the main point is if this crap keeps going we're looking at "civil" terrorism and then we'll see how easy profiling gets. Let's hope few people are injured or killed.
I agree with the parent. Let us not forget that AMD also uses an SOI process whereas Intel does not. So again for use geeks, it may- like another poster argued, be interesting academically but in reality it's a "fair" comparison.
I could see them doing this on purpose to say, "See Linux DOESN'T belong on the desktop. It's only good for doing SOME TYPES of behind the scenes stuff." This way I imagine they cover their asses in the markets they most care about. That's all I thought before even reading the article.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing, although there are more potential points of failure for VOIP but still. Physically speaking everything besides handheld radios (CBs etc) could be destroyed at central locations causing massive communications failure.
I agree that this is very "big brother" and a thinly veiled attempt at making it easy for the government to spy on its citizens. However, anyone that's used GPS knows that indoors it's a no go. I'm sure someone else has posted this though. I think their intentions are shit but the reality is that GPS wouldn't probably be the best solution.
This is why believing in any cause strongly is dangerous- hypocrisy. It sounds like he has the rights to the content but because of whatever technical glitch he can't access it now and unsurprisingly techinical support is not helpful. So this brings me to the question of ethics. Is it ethical of him to circumvent the protection for his covenience? I think so. That being said, I think the real threat is when applications like the one utilized to convert the documents to unprotected PDFs are no longer LEGAL to produce or distribute. That's what I think, any feedback is welcome.
The Linux on iPod project has been around for awhile and in a usable state too. I guess it's just news because MacWorld is giving it press time. Which is awesome in a way because it'll introduce more people to it and hopefully encourage further development. The MP3 player skips a lot but and isn't really usable but it's very very cool. There's a video of a much older release running on my iPod on my website if anyone's interested. More power to Linux on the iPod. Especially cool because from my understanding the iPod has no MMU. Anyway... corrections are welcome!
From the Oxford English Dictionary: whopping, ppl. a. colloq. or vulgar.
That whops; almost always fig., that is a 'whopper'; abnormally large or great; 'whacking', 'thumping'.
Rarely spec. (a) monstrously false; (b) of surpassing excellence, uncommonly good, first-rate. Also quasi-adv. = hugely, immensely.
a1625 R. G. in Stanley Papers I. (Chetham Soc.) 50 Our Chroniclers..stowed their volumes with wapping Tales of my Lord Maiors Horse. 1706 E. WARD Wooden World Diss. (1708) 98 See him in bad Weather, in his Fur-Cap and whapping large Watch-Coat. 1818 SCOTT Rob Roy xxiii, A wapping weaver he was, and wrought my first pair o' hose. 1836 HALIBURTON Clockm. Ser. I. xvii. (1839) 61 What a wappin large place that would make. 1851 Amer. Mag. Nov. 113 A couple of 'whopping' pumpkin stories. 1869 Punch 31 July 34/1 That's a wopping majority against us. 1881 FREEMAN in Stephens Life & Lett. (1895) II. 224 The Turk comes down with a whopping bit of oppression now and then, but leaves you alone between whiles.
So it appears the word appeared nearly 358 years before WarGames. And its current form predates the movie by 132 years. Of course this was modded funny but I'll totally miss the point and post some word etymology. I'll save you all also from the root word etymology. If you like the OED check out "The Professor and The Madman". A great book about one of the most prolific contributors to the OED who also happened to be insane.
Yep I get sick too if I eat breakfast. I usually just eat lunch and dinner. Maybe I'm not getting enough sleep at night? I just tend towards late meals... I don't know. Like anyone cares!
Yes, it's more accurate. Plus isn't that who they're marketing to!? I guess there's a difference between computer geeks, math geeks, literature geeks, music geeks, gaming geeks... etc. Whatever I'm just a person that likes to have things make sense and have good reasoning behind it. Or for the standard system 0.1101 lbs of force
"guaranty: Now rare, superseded by GUARANTEE v. Also 8 guarranty. [f. the n.]
1. trans. = GUARANTEE v. 1.
1753 Scots Mag. Jan. 8/2 Her allies should engage to guaranty the tranquillity of the north. 1775 JOHNSON Tax. no Tyr. 58 They talk of their pretended immunities guarrantied by the plighted faith of Government. 1779-81 {emem} Fredk. Gt. Wks. IV. 545 He was ready to guaranty all the German Dominions of the House of Austria. 1786 BURKE W. Hastings Wks. 1813 (4) VI. 693 His..request of the Company's guarantying his treaty with the Vizier. 1857 R. TOMES Amer. in Japan xiii. 301 That friendly intercourse with the Japanese which was guarantied by the compact solemnly entered into between Japan and the United States. a1861 MRS. BROWNING Bianca iii, God's Ever guaranties this Now. 1875 POSTE Gaius III. Comm. (ed. 2) 402 The fidejussor may be employed to guaranty any obligation."
So at least it's considered "rare". But I am still wrong so thanks again. Another humbling experience on my quest to not be stupid or ignorant or...
Oh yeah another thing that's kind of funny about the website is their spelling of "guarantee". I mean on slashdot and off the cuff stuff, grammar and spelling mistakes aren't too big a deal. I think in this context most people will agree that it's relatively important to not put "guaranty" at the top of a page which is trying to sell you something. Furthermore I find it ironic that, of all things, it was guarantee that's misspelled. Perhaps I could be helpful and inform them of this mistake? I don't know if these people are non-native english speakers and perhaps that lead to the error. If they aren't native english speakers I definitely think it's more acceptable but still... and now I've finished my job as being "that annoying guy".
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To be truly annoying I point out from the website, "Most keyboards use a standard 55 grams of force required to register every key...". It's not really accurate to say this seeing as grams are a unit of mass. I guess it just means if you put a 55 gram mass on the key (with Earth's gravitational acceleration around 9.8m/s^2) it'll be acutated? I'm not some physics master- actually I'm just an idiot. But this is slashdot and so I figured I'd post this annoying little prod at the company. As for the actual keyboard it's not bad but if value your money more than the time spent modifying your own keyboard you might not be interested in this.
Does Ohm's law really apply to the body? It's quite gruesome to think about it but I'd guess that it doesn't show linear current-voltage characteristics. I'm not disagreeing, in general you can assume this. That was my point as well, the current is what kills you, but if you're building something to just shock you, you DON'T want high current flowing through your body. So you'd need to keep the voltage relatively "low" (whatever that means, doing a cursory google search, electric chairs seem to be using around 2000V for 30 seconds and then usually multiple applications of varying voltage and current.) As for your last sentence I don't know why increasing the voltage and current would help keep you safe from killing yourself or at least harming yourself! Hope to get a reply!:)
Ahhh!! No not high current, that's what kills you! High voltage perhaps. Either that or this is a joke and it's totally going over my head... either way.. be careful!
Oh yeah I used the preprocessor to cheat through the redefinition of the reserved keywords and other operators basically just the
#define DIT (
#define DAH )
#define __DAH ++
#define DITDAH *
#define DAHDIT for
#define DIT_DAH malloc
#define DAH_DIT gets
#define _DAHDIT char
stuff. After that it's pretty much just reading normal-ish code... enjoy
And there you have it. As mentioned on the page the similar names are annoyingly hard to read, ternary operator usage, weird function exits (I think I am not very good with C... corrections or resources about what exactly is going on with {__DIT... }__DIT? Or perhaps some Google searching:-P . I had wasted my time making this so I figured I'd post it.
Absolutely, it's totally up to what you think is natural. I am willing to guess that the majority of US students (I am from the Northeast so I can't speak for most of the country but I figure, this is slashdot someone will try to prove me wrong which is cool enough but still anyway...) learn cartesian coordinates first thing. Your example is excellent though. Thanks!
Having been doing a lot of complex analysis lately, I enjoyed this comment! Totally off topic and all but cartesian coordinates are "overrated" granted they are the most "natural" but anyone doing any kind of math/science/engineering has no doubt seen the incredible usefulness of other coordinate systems. "Alternative" three dimensional coordinate systems prove very useful for lots of integrals becasue of the symmetry. Anyway yeah... moving on.
Wow someone used the word "control". After working on a VERY, VERY... VERY simple servo motor control project I have to agree with the skepticism. Who knows though I am stupid, other people aren't. I also haven't dedicated any "real" portion of my life to control systems. Also someone else brought up the impracticality, which seems to be a logical arguement to me. But again I don't really know that much. Overall it is pretty cool for what it's worth!
I'm just knit (nit? gnit? I am stupid.) picking here, I think we can all understand from context what is implied. Plus I couldn't resist 2nd post. I'm a loser. Too bad I really don't have much to add to this. It's interesting just how much detail they give in the press release. I think it is good to see these large retailers adopting linux and other "open source solutions". It's unfortunate though that more and more Linux seems to be played as hype. Which it's not really because of it's incredible power and flexibility. It sure seems that it beats the living hell out of Windows and proprietary solutions but one must still wonder if we really need POS (I always think of 'piece of shit') systems running linux. But I guess that's the beauty of it all- just how much you can stripe and customize it... but that's not really the case. They, if I read the press release correctly, plan on using SUSE... nothing at all against SUSE but yeah, whatever. It's all just very interesting. I always just hope that people and businesses really are examining all solutions objectively... that doesn't seem to happen too often. Of course there's so much information it can be quite difficult to survey an entire piece of technology. But I guess that's what consultants and other people are paid to know how to do. Oh well, I quit.
I see, well it's cool that you actually know they exist, I'm not like a death metal head or even too much of a metal head, but I remember in like 8th grade hearing Napalm Death and thinking that it was a bear roaring or something or dog growling. I admit that death metal and speed metal can be pretty funny and lame but a lot of band's technical talent is incredible (although you can't judge music on tehcnical merit alone... kind of like technology) Origin is an amazing speed metal band, their drummer is really very talented. Anyway I have a very crappy voice it's pretty funny if I try to "sing" any metal. Well that's that.
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Sorry, I am being a dick. Just couldn't help but comment on it... damn homophones strike at any time and any place. And I admit I had to look up homophone vs. homonym vs. homograph so I'll climb off my high horse and bury my face in poop. Just poking fun not trying to be irritating- too late.
I suppose the patients are there to cough on you the whole time?
"I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong." Who defines right or wrong? I mean seriously, obviously if you believe the actions to be RIGHT you'd support your country. The question presupposes that you can tell the difference between "right" and "wrong" in the first place and again something that's "right" economically could be "wrong" socially so I guess whichever you feel outweighs the other you'd say you agree or disagree to. The test was fun and all but I wouldn't say it's a very useful compass. I read the FAQ and stuff but I guess it just doesn't strike me as exceptionally useful.
I'm glad you made this point about "freedom terrorism". First off I want to say that few people, myself included, even understand why organized states support terrorism in the first place or why terrorists even exist. The bottom line tends to be that we pissed a lot of people off by arbitrarily placing governments and geographic boundaries with no respect to the history or culture of the people. All this being said and going back to my original point and that of the parent post, wouldn't we be pretty pissed of if some other country came in and changed our political boundaries and government around? Some people point this out and again I'm not advocating violence in the first place, and I often don't support the way of life most terrorist groups are fighting for ("funny" thing being often times the "normal" people of the terrorist's home country don't support it either. Another point I've seen brought up here and there on is that basing your understanding of a people by the most radical faction would be like judging the entire character of the US by using us geeks as a metric, or extreme religious factions right here in the US... which we do get sometimes but I wouldn't say the majority of our country is well described by these groups... anyway). In the end there are lots of holes in this post but I'm not going to write pages about it because then I'd have to do some serious studying and research (read: I'm lazy) but the main point is if this crap keeps going we're looking at "civil" terrorism and then we'll see how easy profiling gets. Let's hope few people are injured or killed.
I agree with the parent. Let us not forget that AMD also uses an SOI process whereas Intel does not. So again for use geeks, it may- like another poster argued, be interesting academically but in reality it's a "fair" comparison.
I could see them doing this on purpose to say, "See Linux DOESN'T belong on the desktop. It's only good for doing SOME TYPES of behind the scenes stuff." This way I imagine they cover their asses in the markets they most care about. That's all I thought before even reading the article.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing, although there are more potential points of failure for VOIP but still. Physically speaking everything besides handheld radios (CBs etc) could be destroyed at central locations causing massive communications failure.
I agree that this is very "big brother" and a thinly veiled attempt at making it easy for the government to spy on its citizens. However, anyone that's used GPS knows that indoors it's a no go. I'm sure someone else has posted this though. I think their intentions are shit but the reality is that GPS wouldn't probably be the best solution.
This is why believing in any cause strongly is dangerous- hypocrisy. It sounds like he has the rights to the content but because of whatever technical glitch he can't access it now and unsurprisingly techinical support is not helpful. So this brings me to the question of ethics. Is it ethical of him to circumvent the protection for his covenience? I think so. That being said, I think the real threat is when applications like the one utilized to convert the documents to unprotected PDFs are no longer LEGAL to produce or distribute. That's what I think, any feedback is welcome.
The Linux on iPod project has been around for awhile and in a usable state too. I guess it's just news because MacWorld is giving it press time. Which is awesome in a way because it'll introduce more people to it and hopefully encourage further development. The MP3 player skips a lot but and isn't really usable but it's very very cool. There's a video of a much older release running on my iPod on my website if anyone's interested. More power to Linux on the iPod. Especially cool because from my understanding the iPod has no MMU. Anyway... corrections are welcome!
whopping, ppl. a.
colloq. or vulgar.
That whops; almost always fig., that is a 'whopper'; abnormally large or great; 'whacking', 'thumping'.
Rarely spec. (a) monstrously false; (b) of surpassing excellence, uncommonly good, first-rate. Also quasi-adv. = hugely, immensely.
a1625 R. G. in Stanley Papers I. (Chetham Soc.) 50 Our Chroniclers..stowed their volumes with wapping Tales of my Lord Maiors Horse. 1706 E. WARD Wooden World Diss. (1708) 98 See him in bad Weather, in his Fur-Cap and whapping large Watch-Coat. 1818 SCOTT Rob Roy xxiii, A wapping weaver he was, and wrought my first pair o' hose. 1836 HALIBURTON Clockm. Ser. I. xvii. (1839) 61 What a wappin large place that would make. 1851 Amer. Mag. Nov. 113 A couple of 'whopping' pumpkin stories. 1869 Punch 31 July 34/1 That's a wopping majority against us. 1881 FREEMAN in Stephens Life & Lett. (1895) II. 224 The Turk comes down with a whopping bit of oppression now and then, but leaves you alone between whiles.
So it appears the word appeared nearly 358 years before WarGames. And its current form predates the movie by 132 years. Of course this was modded funny but I'll totally miss the point and post some word etymology. I'll save you all also from the root word etymology. If you like the OED check out "The Professor and The Madman". A great book about one of the most prolific contributors to the OED who also happened to be insane.
Yep I get sick too if I eat breakfast. I usually just eat lunch and dinner. Maybe I'm not getting enough sleep at night? I just tend towards late meals... I don't know. Like anyone cares!
Yes, it's more accurate. Plus isn't that who they're marketing to!? I guess there's a difference between computer geeks, math geeks, literature geeks, music geeks, gaming geeks... etc. Whatever I'm just a person that likes to have things make sense and have good reasoning behind it. Or for the standard system 0.1101 lbs of force
"guaranty: Now rare, superseded by GUARANTEE v. Also 8 guarranty. [f. the n.]
1. trans. = GUARANTEE v. 1.
1753 Scots Mag. Jan. 8/2 Her allies should engage to guaranty the tranquillity of the north. 1775 JOHNSON Tax. no Tyr. 58 They talk of their pretended immunities guarrantied by the plighted faith of Government. 1779-81 {emem} Fredk. Gt. Wks. IV. 545 He was ready to guaranty all the German Dominions of the House of Austria. 1786 BURKE W. Hastings Wks. 1813 (4) VI. 693 His..request of the Company's guarantying his treaty with the Vizier. 1857 R. TOMES Amer. in Japan xiii. 301 That friendly intercourse with the Japanese which was guarantied by the compact solemnly entered into between Japan and the United States. a1861 MRS. BROWNING Bianca iii, God's Ever guaranties this Now. 1875 POSTE Gaius III. Comm. (ed. 2) 402 The fidejussor may be employed to guaranty any obligation."
So at least it's considered "rare". But I am still wrong so thanks again. Another humbling experience on my quest to not be stupid or ignorant or...
Oh yeah another thing that's kind of funny about the website is their spelling of "guarantee". I mean on slashdot and off the cuff stuff, grammar and spelling mistakes aren't too big a deal. I think in this context most people will agree that it's relatively important to not put "guaranty" at the top of a page which is trying to sell you something. Furthermore I find it ironic that, of all things, it was guarantee that's misspelled. Perhaps I could be helpful and inform them of this mistake? I don't know if these people are non-native english speakers and perhaps that lead to the error. If they aren't native english speakers I definitely think it's more acceptable but still... and now I've finished my job as being "that annoying guy".
To be truly annoying I point out from the website, "Most keyboards use a standard 55 grams of force required to register every key...". It's not really accurate to say this seeing as grams are a unit of mass. I guess it just means if you put a 55 gram mass on the key (with Earth's gravitational acceleration around 9.8m/s^2) it'll be acutated? I'm not some physics master- actually I'm just an idiot. But this is slashdot and so I figured I'd post this annoying little prod at the company. As for the actual keyboard it's not bad but if value your money more than the time spent modifying your own keyboard you might not be interested in this.
Does Ohm's law really apply to the body? It's quite gruesome to think about it but I'd guess that it doesn't show linear current-voltage characteristics. I'm not disagreeing, in general you can assume this. That was my point as well, the current is what kills you, but if you're building something to just shock you, you DON'T want high current flowing through your body. So you'd need to keep the voltage relatively "low" (whatever that means, doing a cursory google search, electric chairs seem to be using around 2000V for 30 seconds and then usually multiple applications of varying voltage and current.) As for your last sentence I don't know why increasing the voltage and current would help keep you safe from killing yourself or at least harming yourself! Hope to get a reply! :)
Ahhh!! No not high current, that's what kills you! High voltage perhaps. Either that or this is a joke and it's totally going over my head... either way.. be careful!
Oh yeah I used the preprocessor to cheat through the redefinition of the reserved keywords and other operators basically just the #define DIT ( #define DAH ) #define __DAH ++ #define DITDAH * #define DAHDIT for #define DIT_DAH malloc #define DAH_DIT gets #define _DAHDIT char stuff. After that it's pretty much just reading normal-ish code... enjoy
After running arg.c (just a file with the original source code in it) through the preprocessor and some indentation:
c 8a90l?e'b.s;i,d:";
... }__DIT? Or perhaps some Google searching :-P . I had wasted my time making this so I figured I'd post it.
# 1 "arg.c"
# 1 ""
# 1 ""
# 1 "arg.c"
# 9 "arg.c"
char _DAH_[]="ETIANMSURWDKGOHVFaLaPJBXCYZQb54a3d2f16g7
main ( )
{
char * _DIT,* DAH_,* DIT_,* _DIT_,* malloc (),* gets ( );
for ( _DIT=malloc ( 81 ),DIT_=_DIT++;_DIT== gets ( _DIT );__DIT('\n') )
for ( DAH_=_DIT; *DAH_; __DIT ( *_DIT_?_DAH ( * DIT_ ):'?'),__DIT(' '),DAH_ ++ )
for (* DIT_=2,_DIT_=_DAH_; * _DIT_ && (* _DIT_!=( * DAH_>='a'? *DAH_&223:* DAH_ ) ); (* DIT_ ) ++,_DIT_ ++ )
* DIT_+= ( * _DIT_>='a'? * _DIT_-'a':0);
}_DAH
( DIT_ )
{__DIT
(DIT_>3?_DAH ( DIT_>>1 ):'\0');
return DIT_&1?'-':'.';
}__DIT
( DIT_ ) char DIT_;
{
( void ) write ( 1,&DIT_,1 );
}
(arg.c is just the original source file)
And there you have it. As mentioned on the page the similar names are annoyingly hard to read, ternary operator usage, weird function exits (I think I am not very good with C... corrections or resources about what exactly is going on with {__DIT
Absolutely, it's totally up to what you think is natural. I am willing to guess that the majority of US students (I am from the Northeast so I can't speak for most of the country but I figure, this is slashdot someone will try to prove me wrong which is cool enough but still anyway...) learn cartesian coordinates first thing. Your example is excellent though. Thanks!
Having been doing a lot of complex analysis lately, I enjoyed this comment! Totally off topic and all but cartesian coordinates are "overrated" granted they are the most "natural" but anyone doing any kind of math/science/engineering has no doubt seen the incredible usefulness of other coordinate systems. "Alternative" three dimensional coordinate systems prove very useful for lots of integrals becasue of the symmetry. Anyway yeah... moving on.
Wow someone used the word "control". After working on a VERY, VERY... VERY simple servo motor control project I have to agree with the skepticism. Who knows though I am stupid, other people aren't. I also haven't dedicated any "real" portion of my life to control systems. Also someone else brought up the impracticality, which seems to be a logical arguement to me. But again I don't really know that much. Overall it is pretty cool for what it's worth!
I'm just knit (nit? gnit? I am stupid.) picking here, I think we can all understand from context what is implied. Plus I couldn't resist 2nd post. I'm a loser. Too bad I really don't have much to add to this. It's interesting just how much detail they give in the press release. I think it is good to see these large retailers adopting linux and other "open source solutions". It's unfortunate though that more and more Linux seems to be played as hype. Which it's not really because of it's incredible power and flexibility. It sure seems that it beats the living hell out of Windows and proprietary solutions but one must still wonder if we really need POS (I always think of 'piece of shit') systems running linux. But I guess that's the beauty of it all- just how much you can stripe and customize it... but that's not really the case. They, if I read the press release correctly, plan on using SUSE... nothing at all against SUSE but yeah, whatever. It's all just very interesting. I always just hope that people and businesses really are examining all solutions objectively... that doesn't seem to happen too often. Of course there's so much information it can be quite difficult to survey an entire piece of technology. But I guess that's what consultants and other people are paid to know how to do. Oh well, I quit.
I see, well it's cool that you actually know they exist, I'm not like a death metal head or even too much of a metal head, but I remember in like 8th grade hearing Napalm Death and thinking that it was a bear roaring or something or dog growling. I admit that death metal and speed metal can be pretty funny and lame but a lot of band's technical talent is incredible (although you can't judge music on tehcnical merit alone... kind of like technology) Origin is an amazing speed metal band, their drummer is really very talented. Anyway I have a very crappy voice it's pretty funny if I try to "sing" any metal. Well that's that.