I believe SP stands for Special Project, which was the internal working name at Nintendo. Apparently, they decided that it was good enough for the real thing.
Similarly, I think they should stick with DS as a name for the new system. It means something (Dual Screen, in case ya didn't know), unlike "Nitro" which doesn't mean anything, sounds stupid, and conveys an impression of dangerously high velocity.
(i) Many people, like myself, don't know perl, and don't see the point in learning when shell scripts are perfectly adequate for their purposes.
(ii) Sometimes it's just easier. viz. this quote from bash.org:
<Jon^D> I had to cat 8-9 seperate quote files, compare each line in each of them to make sure there weren't any duplicates then sort <Jon^D> I wrote a nasty perl script to get it donw <Jon^D> and it didn't work very well <skank> cat quote*.txt |sort |uniq
I have vague memories of Jordan versus Bird on the Sega Megadrive (Genesis, for the Americans among you). As I recall, it was a terrible collection of basketball related minigames, and definitely not a candidate for a second rental.
The one sports personality I remember fondly (and, I must admit, solely) through his digital incarnation is Daley Thompson, the game being Daley Thompson's Supertest on the Commodore 64. It was just a decathlon type game, ten events, three lives, you know the deal. But it obviously made quite an impression on me, because I still clearly remember all of the events, from the pistol shooting (you could move the cursor down and left, but not up or right) to the incredibly frustrating giant slalom, which I never did get the hang of.
Anyway, I've rambled enough. Maybe I'll see if i can dig my c64 out of the attic, and have a few games of Wizball, and Ricochet while I'm at it. (Yes, I have an emulator, but it's just not the same, is it?)
Speaking as a Game Gear owner, the gg was never a serious competitor for the Gameboy. Sure, it had the advantage of a colour display, but this was far outweighed by its disadvantages, ie its battery life (lives slightly longer than a mayfly!) and size (slightly smaller than a camel!).
Are you referring to "The Carpet People"? If so, that wasn't simply republished, it was extensively rewritten. As the introduction (approximately) put it, "this book was co-written by Terry Pratchett, aged 17, and Terry Pratchett, aged 42".
Also, it was neither naff nor an obvious ripoff of "The Hobbit".
"Your years of toil," Said Ryle to Hoyle, "Are wasted years, believe me. The steady state Is out of date Unless my eyes deceive me, My telescope Has dashed your hope; Your tenets are refuted Let me be terse Our Universe Grows daily more diluted!" Said Hoyle, "You quote Lemaître, I note, And Gamow. Well forget them! That errant gang And their Big Bang- Why aid them and abet them? You see, my friend, It has no end And there was no beginning, As Bondi, Gold And I will hold Until our hair is thinning!"
So even though, the whole idea of the virus getting transmitted to humans was insane, I didn't care.
You find the idea of a virus being transmitted from other primates to humans insane? Maybe I'm misunderstanding you; if so, I apologise. I haven't seen the movie, but from reading the review this seems like one of its least unrealistic aspects. Cross-species viral infection is quite common, and the primate-human jump has been made by, for example, the ebola virus.
Martin is an excellent writer, and the Song of FIre and Ice series in particular is highly reccommended.
One aspect of his writing I particularly like is the moral ambiguity of his characters. There are no clear-cut "good guys" and "bad guys". What bad guys there are are sympathetic characters, and have understandable motives, and the good guys aren't your typical fantasy heroes. They're human, they have a dark side, and they don't always do the right thing.
All in all, if you're a fan of the genre, you won't be disappointed, and even if you're not he's well worth checking out.
I'm not for one moment suggesting that sites like/. that use this techniqe are discriminating deliberately against blind people. However, regardless of your intention, if you set up your service in such a way that a certain group of people are unable to use it, you are discriminating against that group. That's what the word means.
And yes, perhaps you're not financially or legally responsible. But I think you have a moral obligation to improve your authentication method to prevent this kind of discrimination.
At least this is the FIRST time a Mozilla release has actually NOT decided to make itself the default browser in spite of my always telling it not to. One bug fixed, yay!:)
Not quite, at least for me. Mozilla didn't make itself the default browser, but it did change my default from Firebird to IE, which I didn't appreciate.
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It's not for *bonus* points, it's an integral part of the quote! In fact, it's the best part! The quote is about 0.2 times as funny without it!
Marge: Thank you, Doctor. Whenever the wind whistles through the leaves, I'll think of your name: Lowenstein... Lowenstein...
Dr. Zweig: My name is Zweig.
Marge: [whispers] Lowensein...
Simpsons philistines.
It wasn't bad, as I recall:
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http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=219
I believe SP stands for Special Project, which was the internal working name at Nintendo. Apparently, they decided that it was good enough for the real thing.
Similarly, I think they should stick with DS as a name for the new system. It means something (Dual Screen, in case ya didn't know), unlike "Nitro" which doesn't mean anything, sounds stupid, and conveys an impression of dangerously high velocity.
(i) Many people, like myself, don't know perl, and don't see the point in learning when shell scripts are perfectly adequate for their purposes.
(ii) Sometimes it's just easier. viz. this quote from bash.org:
I have vague memories of Jordan versus Bird on the Sega Megadrive (Genesis, for the Americans among you). As I recall, it was a terrible collection of basketball related minigames, and definitely not a candidate for a second rental.
The one sports personality I remember fondly (and, I must admit, solely) through his digital incarnation is Daley Thompson, the game being Daley Thompson's Supertest on the Commodore 64. It was just a decathlon type game, ten events, three lives, you know the deal. But it obviously made quite an impression on me, because I still clearly remember all of the events, from the pistol shooting (you could move the cursor down and left, but not up or right) to the incredibly frustrating giant slalom, which I never did get the hang of.
Anyway, I've rambled enough. Maybe I'll see if i can dig my c64 out of the attic, and have a few games of Wizball, and Ricochet while I'm at it. (Yes, I have an emulator, but it's just not the same, is it?)
You know, it's bad luck to be superstitious.
Speaking as a Game Gear owner, the gg was never a serious competitor for the Gameboy. Sure, it had the advantage of a colour display, but this was far outweighed by its disadvantages, ie its battery life (lives slightly longer than a mayfly!) and size (slightly smaller than a camel!).
I didn't get to see all the photos before it got slashdotted, but I don't think it accepts that kind of input...
1. Obtain regular, plastic, breakey.
2. Fashion exact replica in carbon steel, thinly coated with plastic to avert suspicion.
3. Profit!!!
(Disclaimer: Profit may be in the form of broken plastic keys and crying children.)
Uh, sorry. Thought I was on fark for a second.
Seriosly though, a hot Swedish mathematician? That's so much like my dreams it's scary.
Are you referring to "The Carpet People"? If so, that wasn't simply republished, it was extensively rewritten. As the introduction (approximately) put it, "this book was co-written by Terry Pratchett, aged 17, and Terry Pratchett, aged 42".
Also, it was neither naff nor an obvious ripoff of "The Hobbit".
Is that you?
Have you ordered Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic online?
That's Pure Comedy Gold(TM).
"Your years of toil,"
Said Ryle to Hoyle,
"Are wasted years, believe me.
The steady state
Is out of date
Unless my eyes deceive me,
My telescope
Has dashed your hope;
Your tenets are refuted
Let me be terse
Our Universe
Grows daily more diluted!"
Said Hoyle, "You quote
Lemaître, I note,
And Gamow. Well forget them!
That errant gang
And their Big Bang-
Why aid them and abet them?
You see, my friend,
It has no end
And there was no beginning,
As Bondi, Gold
And I will hold
Until our hair is thinning!"
So even though, the whole idea of the virus getting transmitted to humans was insane, I didn't care.
You find the idea of a virus being transmitted from other primates to humans insane? Maybe I'm misunderstanding you; if so, I apologise. I haven't seen the movie, but from reading the review this seems like one of its least unrealistic aspects. Cross-species viral infection is quite common, and the primate-human jump has been made by, for example, the ebola virus.
Yeah yeah, "Song of Ice and Fire", not "Fire and Ice". I know. C'mon, who proofs their posts, anyway?
Martin is an excellent writer, and the Song of FIre and Ice series in particular is highly reccommended.
One aspect of his writing I particularly like is the moral ambiguity of his characters. There are no clear-cut "good guys" and "bad guys". What bad guys there are are sympathetic characters, and have understandable motives, and the good guys aren't your typical fantasy heroes. They're human, they have a dark side, and they don't always do the right thing.
All in all, if you're a fan of the genre, you won't be disappointed, and even if you're not he's well worth checking out.
He's been sent back through time on a mission: to move between different locations!
Arnold Schwarzenegger is... "The Travelator".
I'm not for one moment suggesting that sites like /. that use this techniqe are discriminating deliberately against blind people. However, regardless of your intention, if you set up your service in such a way that a certain group of people are unable to use it, you are discriminating against that group. That's what the word means.
And yes, perhaps you're not financially or legally responsible. But I think you have a moral obligation to improve your authentication method to prevent this kind of discrimination.
It's probably worth pointing out that the /. account signup employs just such a technique.
And yes, I can see how this can be viewed as discriminatory, but the problem of devising an alternative is far from trivial.
No Garret, from the Thief series? Maybe he's hiding in the shadows.
At least this is the FIRST time a Mozilla release has actually NOT decided to make itself the default browser in spite of my always telling it not to. One bug fixed, yay! :)
Not quite, at least for me. Mozilla didn't make itself the default browser, but it did change my default from Firebird to IE, which I didn't appreciate.