It's someone who is athier than everyone else within the reference frame. Given that most people aren't very athy at all it's not really difficult to be the athiest for moderately sized reference frames.
Yes, I have. Thats exactly what I meant with "subtle bugs". However, you still have to get your bug through the maintainer and the testing phase without anyone noticing. Of course the protection is not 100% perfect but that also applies to CSS projects. I think it's not really easy to sabotage an OSS project through malicious patches.
Not everyone gets write access to the repository. If you want your changes to go in you have to write a patch and an explanation of what that patch does and submit that to the appropriate maintainer. The maintainer then reviews the patch and is free to accept pr reject it. Obfuscated code will not make the cut as maintainers want the codebase to be readable so it can be better maintained (unless cryptic code is required for speed purposes, in which case you better explain it in detail). You might try to sneak in a subtle bug and that might work or not, depending on how many people review the patch, how thorough they are and how much testing the new release gets before it hits the web.
That's really the only way to accept outside patches bcause without this system the code would soon become a convoluted mess full of incompatible code and patches against ancient versions of modules that no longer exist.
Meh. I think Anonymous would be much more of a destructive force on the internet than the US military. A coordinated hacking effort and couple thousand posts like "OPERATION: BLOW THE PRESIDENT BEGINS NOW" should be enough to kill a terrorist site.
Katz used a GameShark to change which comics to draw. The fourth comic originally was supposed to be on animals and the early years of Bauhaus. Matz waited until Munroe had drawn his thing and than manipulated the address so the topic now was favourite foods. Clearly cheating.
Actually, the one single best joke Katz has made was the internet one - and that one happened to be a Venn diagram, a kind of joke I'd rather expect from Munroe.
xkcd appeals to geeks because it's geeky. For the same reason hardcore gamers will probably find Penny Arcade more interesting than Dilbert - they have never worked in cubicle space but they do know that Megaman 9 is immensely nostalgic or that some Diablo fans are apparently color-allergic. It's all about the target demographics - and if your intended demograpic is "everyone" you can't really do better than "somewhat mildly amusing to most readers most of the time".
Where? Israel? The conflict there is not of a religious but a territorial nature; the fact that one of the sides is predominantly Jewish doesn't change the fact that the bombings happen because two factions claim the same area. And it's not like the Israelis were much less violent. Iraq? The country is currently being occupied by the USA and I'd think that would affect how many IEDs you see there.
Fact is that most of the bombings we keep hearing about have more to do with regional conflicts than with religious ones. You can, of course, demonize the enemy to justify whatever you do in that country you're currently occupying. It's much more comforting to shoot inherently violent evil Muslims instead of people fighting against what they perceive as brutal oppressors.
As am I by USB's transfer speeds. For me, Firewire is constantly useful because it keeps me from forcing bulk data transfers through a better PS/2 port. (Again, the difference is much more pronounced once you get to play with FireWire 800. Still, FW 400 is a bit snappier tha USB and you can use the external hard drive as a two-way network hub.)
To paraphrase GI Joe: Knowing is half the purchase. There are enough people who double the price of their new Mac by ordering it pre-upgraded because they never heard of the third-party suppliers.
That's something Macvengelizers have to pay attention to: After you tell people of the BTO offers at the online Apple Store, immediately follow up with "but you can get the memory a lot cheaper by buying it from $REPUTABLE_SUPPLIER".
The church doesn't. Certain members of the faith do. Do you really expect every Muslim in the world to travel to the Near East and search the entire region until they have found every single extremist? What exactly can they do, apart from trying to ignore the extremists and live their own life?
Pointing out that Muslims are in fact bound by their book to kill is not defending some other religion, or trying to show a better religion, it's simple pointing out written facts.
And we're supposed to kill gay people, not allow women to work and stone disobedient sons to death. Also, we're not allowed to eat shrimps. What, except for assuming that all members of that religion are exactly like its most extremistic members, is your point?
There haven't been many killing sprees around the mosques in my area, either. I might want to go over and tell them they're doing it wrong. Or maybe they're not actually doing it wrong and the killing guys are actually crazy extremists and about as representative of their own faith as the Westboro Baptist Church is of Christianity.
Nah, must be the guys in the mosques doing it wrong.
Yeah, that's the one instance where the Target Disk Mode (which I forgot to actually mention, the infallible genius I am) can be emulated. Of course there's stil other things (debugging/emergency backups etc.) there it can't be.
Great, let's just use the eSATA port on the MacBook-- oh. Well, then let's just use an eSATA ExpressCard-- oh my. It appears the MacBook doesn't have a port for this, either.
Yeah, it depends. But when Fox News cries about GTA is so bad Fox News doesn't represent the intended audience. When [insert appropriste news source here] complains about how LittleBigPlanet fails to pay the Qur'an proper respect there might be potential customers affected.
To paraphrase a post I made elsewhere: Being controversial because you want to is good. Being controversial without wanting is might end up bad.
That's software. It is true that Apple charges ridiculous money for BTO upgrades. If you go with a third-party memory retailer instead of Apple you can easily spend the money Apple wants for a RAM upgrade on the same RAM and a small external hard drive.
Never buy upgrades directly from Apple if avoidable. They do overcharge.
Finally someone who shows a bit more insight than the usual "Izlams are gunna behead Sony haw haw haw" dumbfucks. Not every Muslim is Osama bin Laden and globalization is changing things for them as well.
Anyway, I think Sony did this because they thought they'd sell more copies of the game this way. Any complaints should go to Sony for thinking such a thing, not to Islam for... well, I don't know. It's not even a free speech issue because the song wasn't supposed to carry a message in the game. They just accidentally used those Qur'an bits and then removed the songs when someone told them. Nothing more, nothing less.
More people will be offended by the delay of the game!
Oh, $DEITY! A video game has been delayed! Our trust in the video game industry to always deliver quality games on time has been violated! Stop the presses, this is a tragedy without precedent!
Some people don't like their religious works used in nonreligious contexts. Since religion tends to be a sensitive topic it might be a good idea to appease them (especially in this case, as the lyrics didn't even have any relevance to the game) as people you accidentally piss off might be people who would've otherwise bought the game.
Pissing off people on purpose might work but you just should avoid accidentally pissing them off. That just hurts your sales and you don't even get anything out of it.
Most Christians don't believe it's okay to kill other people based on religion. Thus Christianity must be peaceful.
Some Muslims believe it's okay to kill other people based on religion. Thus Islam must be blodthirsty.
It's all a matter of perspective. You can easily use the same logic to "prove" that Windows is mostly stable while Linux tends to crash a lot.
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It's someone who is athier than everyone else within the reference frame. Given that most people aren't very athy at all it's not really difficult to be the athiest for moderately sized reference frames.
Yes, I have. Thats exactly what I meant with "subtle bugs". However, you still have to get your bug through the maintainer and the testing phase without anyone noticing. Of course the protection is not 100% perfect but that also applies to CSS projects. I think it's not really easy to sabotage an OSS project through malicious patches.
Not everyone gets write access to the repository. If you want your changes to go in you have to write a patch and an explanation of what that patch does and submit that to the appropriate maintainer. The maintainer then reviews the patch and is free to accept pr reject it. Obfuscated code will not make the cut as maintainers want the codebase to be readable so it can be better maintained (unless cryptic code is required for speed purposes, in which case you better explain it in detail). You might try to sneak in a subtle bug and that might work or not, depending on how many people review the patch, how thorough they are and how much testing the new release gets before it hits the web.
That's really the only way to accept outside patches bcause without this system the code would soon become a convoluted mess full of incompatible code and patches against ancient versions of modules that no longer exist.
Meh. I think Anonymous would be much more of a destructive force on the internet than the US military. A coordinated hacking effort and couple thousand posts like "OPERATION: BLOW THE PRESIDENT BEGINS NOW" should be enough to kill a terrorist site.
Katz used a GameShark to change which comics to draw. The fourth comic originally was supposed to be on animals and the early years of Bauhaus. Matz waited until Munroe had drawn his thing and than manipulated the address so the topic now was favourite foods. Clearly cheating.
Actually, the one single best joke Katz has made was the internet one - and that one happened to be a Venn diagram, a kind of joke I'd rather expect from Munroe.
xkcd appeals to geeks because it's geeky. For the same reason hardcore gamers will probably find Penny Arcade more interesting than Dilbert - they have never worked in cubicle space but they do know that Megaman 9 is immensely nostalgic or that some Diablo fans are apparently color-allergic. It's all about the target demographics - and if your intended demograpic is "everyone" you can't really do better than "somewhat mildly amusing to most readers most of the time".
I don't know this "Republican" guy. Does he run for some minor party?
I'm from Europe, I don't really know that much about the finer points of American politics.
No, they're always annoying regardless of their user base.
The MBP still has the FireWire 800 port. Apple just axed all FireWire 400 ports.
Of course that now means that the new MBP has fewer FireWire ports than most FireWire devices.
Where? Israel? The conflict there is not of a religious but a territorial nature; the fact that one of the sides is predominantly Jewish doesn't change the fact that the bombings happen because two factions claim the same area. And it's not like the Israelis were much less violent. Iraq? The country is currently being occupied by the USA and I'd think that would affect how many IEDs you see there.
Fact is that most of the bombings we keep hearing about have more to do with regional conflicts than with religious ones. You can, of course, demonize the enemy to justify whatever you do in that country you're currently occupying. It's much more comforting to shoot inherently violent evil Muslims instead of people fighting against what they perceive as brutal oppressors.
As am I by USB's transfer speeds. For me, Firewire is constantly useful because it keeps me from forcing bulk data transfers through a better PS/2 port. (Again, the difference is much more pronounced once you get to play with FireWire 800. Still, FW 400 is a bit snappier tha USB and you can use the external hard drive as a two-way network hub.)
To paraphrase GI Joe: Knowing is half the purchase. There are enough people who double the price of their new Mac by ordering it pre-upgraded because they never heard of the third-party suppliers.
That's something Macvengelizers have to pay attention to: After you tell people of the BTO offers at the online Apple Store, immediately follow up with "but you can get the memory a lot cheaper by buying it from $REPUTABLE_SUPPLIER".
The church doesn't. Certain members of the faith do. Do you really expect every Muslim in the world to travel to the Near East and search the entire region until they have found every single extremist? What exactly can they do, apart from trying to ignore the extremists and live their own life?
And we're supposed to kill gay people, not allow women to work and stone disobedient sons to death. Also, we're not allowed to eat shrimps. What, except for assuming that all members of that religion are exactly like its most extremistic members, is your point?
There haven't been many killing sprees around the mosques in my area, either. I might want to go over and tell them they're doing it wrong. Or maybe they're not actually doing it wrong and the killing guys are actually crazy extremists and about as representative of their own faith as the Westboro Baptist Church is of Christianity.
Nah, must be the guys in the mosques doing it wrong.
Yeah, that's the one instance where the Target Disk Mode (which I forgot to actually mention, the infallible genius I am) can be emulated. Of course there's stil other things (debugging/emergency backups etc.) there it can't be.
Great, let's just use the eSATA port on the MacBook-- oh. Well, then let's just use an eSATA ExpressCard-- oh my. It appears the MacBook doesn't have a port for this, either.
Yeah, it depends. But when Fox News cries about GTA is so bad Fox News doesn't represent the intended audience. When [insert appropriste news source here] complains about how LittleBigPlanet fails to pay the Qur'an proper respect there might be potential customers affected.
To paraphrase a post I made elsewhere: Being controversial because you want to is good. Being controversial without wanting is might end up bad.
Hmm, you're right. Firewire already does all of that.
That's software. It is true that Apple charges ridiculous money for BTO upgrades. If you go with a third-party memory retailer instead of Apple you can easily spend the money Apple wants for a RAM upgrade on the same RAM and a small external hard drive.
Never buy upgrades directly from Apple if avoidable. They do overcharge.
Finally someone who shows a bit more insight than the usual "Izlams are gunna behead Sony haw haw haw" dumbfucks. Not every Muslim is Osama bin Laden and globalization is changing things for them as well.
Anyway, I think Sony did this because they thought they'd sell more copies of the game this way. Any complaints should go to Sony for thinking such a thing, not to Islam for... well, I don't know. It's not even a free speech issue because the song wasn't supposed to carry a message in the game. They just accidentally used those Qur'an bits and then removed the songs when someone told them. Nothing more, nothing less.
Same applies to Christians. Nothing says "I love JHWH" more than a nailbomb in a downtown restaurant.
Oh, $DEITY! A video game has been delayed! Our trust in the video game industry to always deliver quality games on time has been violated! Stop the presses, this is a tragedy without precedent!
Some people don't like their religious works used in nonreligious contexts. Since religion tends to be a sensitive topic it might be a good idea to appease them (especially in this case, as the lyrics didn't even have any relevance to the game) as people you accidentally piss off might be people who would've otherwise bought the game.
Pissing off people on purpose might work but you just should avoid accidentally pissing them off. That just hurts your sales and you don't even get anything out of it.
The "difference" is as follows:
Most Christians don't believe it's okay to kill other people based on religion. Thus Christianity must be peaceful.
Some Muslims believe it's okay to kill other people based on religion. Thus Islam must be blodthirsty.
It's all a matter of perspective. You can easily use the same logic to "prove" that Windows is mostly stable while Linux tends to crash a lot.