By "machine", I presume you mean the hub/adapter? I suppose you could have an adapter that encrypts the data - but then how would it be decrypted on the other end if the person either doesn't use VoIP or uses a different service/adapater/encryption?
Good news, at least.
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At least we can all rest safely knowing that there's no way "bad guys" could utilize the same provisions to listen in on personal conversations over IP!
I have always had the impression that, when in France, French people are typically rude and snotty toward Americans.
However, all of the French people I've dealt with at work and otherwise (in person) have been extremely nice people. Then again, I've never found any group of people from any place in the world that, in general, struck me as stupid, stubborn, snobbish or anything else. There may have been an individual or two that did - but no more so than any general population.
I think most people adhere to this stereotype of French people simply because it's what they hear on Fox News, talk radio and other random people - with no experience of their own.
I would probably feel uncomfortable and out of place in France - but I have no doubt that I'd find the people themselves easy to deal with - just as I've found them easy to deal with when they visit my country.
And some people play a game so much that they'd name their child after an in-game character. Such a person would probably make a pretty pre-occupied, inadequate parent.
As bad as naming your kid after a nearly unpronouncible elf-name from a stupid MMORPG is - the real tragedy here is, what kind of neglect is this poor child going to suffer since her parents are clearly so addicted to a stupid virtual reality world?
This kid better learn to change her own diaper and prepare her own baby bottles quickly.
In America, they'd laugh at you reported it and expected anything more than them simply filing it away on record. It's a lot like if your car is stolen. Just tough shit, as far as they're concerned.
E.T, Jurassic Park Series, Back to the Future Series, Batteries Not Included, Men In Black
Surely you don't consider Batteries Not Included, Men In Black, Back to the Future and E.T. as science fiction?! And Jurassic Park really doesn't count either. There's no science to it. I mean, you have to have a tiny bit of science to it to make it science fiction (otherwise it would just be fantasy). And the only science to that movie is "we found some DNA, made some dinosaurs" and then the characters run away from them for two hours (and then two more movies).
And what, if any, of those did he actually write? I really don't see the point in a directory getting a Science Fiction award unless he has truly contributed in some remarkable way (Kubrick, for example).
I agree. Maybe I'm suffering a brain-freeze here, but I can't think of any real Sci-Fi he's done. I certainly wouldn't consider Close Encounters, ET or AI (which was Kubrick's anyway) as "science fiction". Anyway, I don't believe a director should be given a sci-fi award. Maybe the person who WROTE THE STORY...
Seems like Neal Stephenson would be deserving of the ward about now, if he hasn't already been considered...
Here are some other typical things Slashdot users will say:
* I already saw this on Fark yesterday. * I even heard it on a local talk radio show yesterday. * I also heard it on George Noorey (CoastToCoastAM/Art Bell) lastnight.
Except that AIM isn't netspeak - It's the NAME OF A PRODUCT. There is a world of difference between netspeak and proper use of abbreviations, product names and acronyms.
It would be unfortunate if people are coming out of highschool these days without understanding that abbreviations are legitimate tools of the language. Using 'U' instead of "you" is not an abbreviation. Neither is "l8r".
When it comes to communication, there's a point that the listener and the speaker/writer meet at. It's one of convenience for the writer and the reader. For example, both understand the contraction in "you're". But these people lack any consideration, reaching for the laziest, easiest way to communicate for themselves, and the reader be damned.
I'd say it applies to people who write like the following, too:
I'd Say It Applies To People Who Write Like The Following, Too.
Or worse:
I'd sAY IT aPPliES tO PEoPLE WhO WrITE lIKE thE foLLowiNG, tOO
It really seems like people go out of their way to be unreadable. When I play an online game, I ignore conversations entirely, because it takes forever to comprehend what they're saying.
I can only imagine how this will screw up communication in the next couple of decades as today's teenagers find themselves incapable of writing properly in the future. They're going to rely desperately on spell-check every time they send out an office memo or communicate with a customer.
And I love when people try to use the explanation that they don't normally type that way. Only online, where it doesn't matter. It's like people who say that they know their spelling sucks and they don't care because it's not for school".
As if, as long as you're not being graded, you should feel free to be Schaivo it.
The article was talking about English and netspeak. It was not talking about Spanish or Russian or French or Gaelic or Italian or Chinese.
And no, I don't have time to learn every language under the sun just to talk with people. Professionally, English is used the world-over (yes, I deal with people from every country you can imagine).
However, even if we weren't talking about English specifically (since this article was, in fact, about English) - the comment still applies. Just because you speak a different language doesn't justify your brutalizing the language by sucking out every third letter and replacing it with numerals.
Isn't AIM an abbreviation for AOL Instant Messenger? (or America OnLine Instant Messenger, in its full form)
Are you seriously stupid enough to confuse using acronyms and product names with the painfully abbreviated nature of texting messages? Or did I misread the tone of your message?
Also, there's a world of difference between using txt-style messaging on a small device like a blackberry or a pager and a full-sized keyboard. On a keyboard, there is no excuse for not writing remotely properly. It's more difficult to re-align your brain with quickly typing out improper (and stupid) "english" than it is to do so properly. On a small device, however, it's more difficult and time consuming to hit all the keys with your thumb - and your message length is often the subject of forced truncation - so being brief and using "license plate" style english is understandable.
Whether gaming or chatting on AIM (or even email), I refuse to converse with people who can't make an effort to speak properly. I read english. I don't read txt-msg. I should not have to read your sentences three or four times to figure out what you're saying, just because you're too lazy to write propertly. And hell, it's more difficult to write like that than it is to write properly. Takes more time, too.
It's not an elitist thing, either. It's just a matter of time and energy. I don't have any more time to sit and puzzle together someone's stupid "netspeak" comments than I have to figure out what the fuck something like "skeet" means.
Worse is when someone can't be bothered to type "you are" instead of "u r" - but they can be bothered to put 50 exclamation points in the same fucking sentence.
While that's one strong example - it's still just one fish in a huge ocean.
It just seems a big egotistical to stick your crappy blog under CreativeCommons. There should be a blog-specific subcategory or something.
I think CreativeCommons also has kind of a fuzzy image in some people's heads, too. I'm all for alternative, more open copyright methods - but even I envision some trendy apple guy with his powerbook and black rimmed emo glasses sipping a $5 latte in the corner of a StarBucks with wifi.
In my experience, I've hardly ever seen anything with a "Creative Commons" logo that wasn't a blog. As if anyone would care to use a sample of the countless bundles of crap that are blogs. *yawn*
Exactly. I don't think that Mrs. Clinton should be given ANY priority to the ownership of the domain over anyone else with that name. However, anyone with that name should be given priority over someone who doesn't have that name and is not acting in good faith with the domain.
In other words, if another Hilary Clinton wanted the domain, they should have just as much right to it as the Senator (after all, she already has a.gov or.us domain in her state by nature of her office). But some guy using it to redirect to porn or host whatever else (unless it is specifically related to Mrs. Clinton) should should not have priority over any of the Hilary Clintons.
I don't like her either. I'm just saying, as someone with a domain name of his own name (and I know other people want it as they've emailed me asking for it over the last decade), I feel that I have a right to it more than someone just grabbing domains - but as far as anyone else with the same name as myself - I'd consider "First come first serve" very acceptable.
That's why I like games like Rubies of Eventide, A Tale in the Desert and EVE-Online. You can get the game immediately and it costs less (for all involved, including the customer). I'm a big fan of games that are distributed online. Even to the point where I rarely consider buying physical games - unless it's something like Unreal. Hell, even CounterStrike/Half Life comes this way, now.
If you'd read his interview, you'd realize that he doesn't know how to play any instruments and that he just "raps". In some monotone little-kid voice (see also: "Buttermilk Biscuits").
I tend to have a hard time calling anything music if it's just a bunch of cutting and pasting mp3/wav files in protools and then talking over it. That isn't a dig at his talent or whatever. But he isn't a musician - as he himself says in response to one of the questions in this very article. So quoting "music" was intended to indicate that I was using "music" mostly because that's how everyone else was referring to it.
Well, the torrent I downloaded contained four seasons worth of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I watched as much as I could stomach (while working - just kept it on top in the corner of the monitor). I laughed once during the whole robot episode, but that was it. After about thirty episodes, I gave up and deleted all of it.
As to why I would bother? Well, a much younger girl (about 10 years my junior - that might explain the difference in taste) told me it was the best thing ever. I said I'd never heard of it. She insisted I give it a shot. I did. I couldn't stand it.
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By "machine", I presume you mean the hub/adapter? I suppose you could have an adapter that encrypts the data - but then how would it be decrypted on the other end if the person either doesn't use VoIP or uses a different service/adapater/encryption?
At least we can all rest safely knowing that there's no way "bad guys" could utilize the same provisions to listen in on personal conversations over IP!
I have always had the impression that, when in France, French people are typically rude and snotty toward Americans.
However, all of the French people I've dealt with at work and otherwise (in person) have been extremely nice people. Then again, I've never found any group of people from any place in the world that, in general, struck me as stupid, stubborn, snobbish or anything else. There may have been an individual or two that did - but no more so than any general population.
I think most people adhere to this stereotype of French people simply because it's what they hear on Fox News, talk radio and other random people - with no experience of their own.
I would probably feel uncomfortable and out of place in France - but I have no doubt that I'd find the people themselves easy to deal with - just as I've found them easy to deal with when they visit my country.
And some people play a game so much that they'd name their child after an in-game character. Such a person would probably make a pretty pre-occupied, inadequate parent.
As bad as naming your kid after a nearly unpronouncible elf-name from a stupid MMORPG is - the real tragedy here is, what kind of neglect is this poor child going to suffer since her parents are clearly so addicted to a stupid virtual reality world?
This kid better learn to change her own diaper and prepare her own baby bottles quickly.
Robert Rodriguez has come a long way since his days of stand-up comedy and his roles as the spanish immigrant in Cheech and Chong.
In America, they'd laugh at you reported it and expected anything more than them simply filing it away on record. It's a lot like if your car is stolen. Just tough shit, as far as they're concerned.
I would not classify Dune as science fiction. Fantasy, yes.
E.T, Jurassic Park Series, Back to the Future Series, Batteries Not Included, Men In Black
Surely you don't consider Batteries Not Included, Men In Black, Back to the Future and E.T. as science fiction?! And Jurassic Park really doesn't count either. There's no science to it. I mean, you have to have a tiny bit of science to it to make it science fiction (otherwise it would just be fantasy). And the only science to that movie is "we found some DNA, made some dinosaurs" and then the characters run away from them for two hours (and then two more movies).
And what, if any, of those did he actually write? I really don't see the point in a directory getting a Science Fiction award unless he has truly contributed in some remarkable way (Kubrick, for example).
I agree. Maybe I'm suffering a brain-freeze here, but I can't think of any real Sci-Fi he's done. I certainly wouldn't consider Close Encounters, ET or AI (which was Kubrick's anyway) as "science fiction". Anyway, I don't believe a director should be given a sci-fi award. Maybe the person who WROTE THE STORY...
Seems like Neal Stephenson would be deserving of the ward about now, if he hasn't already been considered...
In Soviet Russia, SNOOZE button hits YOU!
(was that already done? I hope not...)
Here are some other typical things Slashdot users will say:
* I already saw this on Fark yesterday.
* I even heard it on a local talk radio show yesterday.
* I also heard it on George Noorey (CoastToCoastAM/Art Bell) lastnight.
Except that AIM isn't netspeak - It's the NAME OF A PRODUCT. There is a world of difference between netspeak and proper use of abbreviations, product names and acronyms.
It would be unfortunate if people are coming out of highschool these days without understanding that abbreviations are legitimate tools of the language. Using 'U' instead of "you" is not an abbreviation. Neither is "l8r".
When it comes to communication, there's a point that the listener and the speaker/writer meet at. It's one of convenience for the writer and the reader. For example, both understand the contraction in "you're". But these people lack any consideration, reaching for the laziest, easiest way to communicate for themselves, and the reader be damned.
I'd say it applies to people who write like the following, too:
I'd Say It Applies To People Who Write Like The Following, Too.
Or worse:
I'd sAY IT aPPliES tO PEoPLE WhO WrITE lIKE thE foLLowiNG, tOO
It really seems like people go out of their way to be unreadable. When I play an online game, I ignore conversations entirely, because it takes forever to comprehend what they're saying.
I can only imagine how this will screw up communication in the next couple of decades as today's teenagers find themselves incapable of writing properly in the future. They're going to rely desperately on spell-check every time they send out an office memo or communicate with a customer.
And I love when people try to use the explanation that they don't normally type that way. Only online, where it doesn't matter. It's like people who say that they know their spelling sucks and they don't care because it's not for school".
As if, as long as you're not being graded, you should feel free to be Schaivo it.
You really are an idiotic git, aren't you?
The article was talking about English and netspeak. It was not talking about Spanish or Russian or French or Gaelic or Italian or Chinese.
And no, I don't have time to learn every language under the sun just to talk with people. Professionally, English is used the world-over (yes, I deal with people from every country you can imagine).
However, even if we weren't talking about English specifically (since this article was, in fact, about English) - the comment still applies. Just because you speak a different language doesn't justify your brutalizing the language by sucking out every third letter and replacing it with numerals.
Isn't AIM an abbreviation for AOL Instant Messenger? (or America OnLine Instant Messenger, in its full form)
Are you seriously stupid enough to confuse using acronyms and product names with the painfully abbreviated nature of texting messages? Or did I misread the tone of your message?
Also, there's a world of difference between using txt-style messaging on a small device like a blackberry or a pager and a full-sized keyboard. On a keyboard, there is no excuse for not writing remotely properly. It's more difficult to re-align your brain with quickly typing out improper (and stupid) "english" than it is to do so properly. On a small device, however, it's more difficult and time consuming to hit all the keys with your thumb - and your message length is often the subject of forced truncation - so being brief and using "license plate" style english is understandable.
You do realize that people refer to using their blackberry/two-way pager/etc as "texting", yes? Or - rather txting?
No wonder you posted as anonymous . . .
Whether gaming or chatting on AIM (or even email), I refuse to converse with people who can't make an effort to speak properly. I read english. I don't read txt-msg. I should not have to read your sentences three or four times to figure out what you're saying, just because you're too lazy to write propertly. And hell, it's more difficult to write like that than it is to write properly. Takes more time, too.
It's not an elitist thing, either. It's just a matter of time and energy. I don't have any more time to sit and puzzle together someone's stupid "netspeak" comments than I have to figure out what the fuck something like "skeet" means.
Worse is when someone can't be bothered to type "you are" instead of "u r" - but they can be bothered to put 50 exclamation points in the same fucking sentence.
While that's one strong example - it's still just one fish in a huge ocean.
It just seems a big egotistical to stick your crappy blog under CreativeCommons. There should be a blog-specific subcategory or something.
I think CreativeCommons also has kind of a fuzzy image in some people's heads, too. I'm all for alternative, more open copyright methods - but even I envision some trendy apple guy with his powerbook and black rimmed emo glasses sipping a $5 latte in the corner of a StarBucks with wifi.
In my experience, I've hardly ever seen anything with a "Creative Commons" logo that wasn't a blog. As if anyone would care to use a sample of the countless bundles of crap that are blogs. *yawn*
Exactly. I don't think that Mrs. Clinton should be given ANY priority to the ownership of the domain over anyone else with that name. However, anyone with that name should be given priority over someone who doesn't have that name and is not acting in good faith with the domain.
.gov or .us domain in her state by nature of her office). But some guy using it to redirect to porn or host whatever else (unless it is specifically related to Mrs. Clinton) should should not have priority over any of the Hilary Clintons.
In other words, if another Hilary Clinton wanted the domain, they should have just as much right to it as the Senator (after all, she already has a
I don't like her either. I'm just saying, as someone with a domain name of his own name (and I know other people want it as they've emailed me asking for it over the last decade), I feel that I have a right to it more than someone just grabbing domains - but as far as anyone else with the same name as myself - I'd consider "First come first serve" very acceptable.
That's why I like games like Rubies of Eventide, A Tale in the Desert and EVE-Online. You can get the game immediately and it costs less (for all involved, including the customer). I'm a big fan of games that are distributed online. Even to the point where I rarely consider buying physical games - unless it's something like Unreal. Hell, even CounterStrike/Half Life comes this way, now.
If you'd read his interview, you'd realize that he doesn't know how to play any instruments and that he just "raps". In some monotone little-kid voice (see also: "Buttermilk Biscuits").
I tend to have a hard time calling anything music if it's just a bunch of cutting and pasting mp3/wav files in protools and then talking over it. That isn't a dig at his talent or whatever. But he isn't a musician - as he himself says in response to one of the questions in this very article. So quoting "music" was intended to indicate that I was using "music" mostly because that's how everyone else was referring to it.
By "mainstream", I mean that it's becoming the "geek" equivalent of Family Circle or RedBook or Vanity Fair.
Well, the torrent I downloaded contained four seasons worth of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I watched as much as I could stomach (while working - just kept it on top in the corner of the monitor). I laughed once during the whole robot episode, but that was it. After about thirty episodes, I gave up and deleted all of it.
As to why I would bother? Well, a much younger girl (about 10 years my junior - that might explain the difference in taste) told me it was the best thing ever. I said I'd never heard of it. She insisted I give it a shot. I did. I couldn't stand it.
*shrug*