Furthermore, the "gh" that's left over in many words, including "knight" was a voiced velar fricative, not a/g/ followed by an/I/. The sound no longer exists in English.
True. IIRC, "knight" is closely related to the German "Knecht" - which nowadays means "farm labourer".
You're just jealous because Englich doesn't allow for arbitrarily long composite words.
Kommissionsmitgliedswagenreinigungsunternehmensste uererklärungstermin. What a great word. 70 letters. And it stil makes sense (the translation would be something like "company for cleaning commission members' cars' tax declaration deadline").
You've basically agreed up front that they're always right - and yeah, maybe you can challenge that in court, but don't forget they have twenty lawyers for every click-fraud investigator.:-)
Great. Then someone hires twenty thousand click-fraud investigators and bang, Google goes bankrupt.
Remember, you've heard it here first.
Hmm, that gives me an idea for a new distro.: ArcadeLinux, which is mainly controlled with a joystick. The Contra code is equivalent to su -, you start X with down-forward-high punch...
It's also great for when the boss unexpectedly shows up: Why I'm playing Mortal Kombat during work? I'm practicing my EMACS macros, that's why!
Just wait until you've heard about the GEZ*. In Germany, you pay a fee on every TV, radio etc. you own. The money is supposed to a) keep the state-controlled channels alive and b) pay for the broadcasting infrastructure.
All fine and dandy, you usually pay for one TV and one radio that covers your entire household, includeing your car's sound system. Of course you get weird situations where people have a TV but no way of receiving broadcasts, as the TV is only there to watch DVDs - you still have to pay for that.
Now, what's really annoying is that they've recently declared all Internet capable PCs to be subject to the fee, too. IIRC it's still covered by the TV fee, but I really wonder why the fuck I should pay a fee on my Internet access so they can upkep the TV/radio broadcasting infrastructure.
The GEZ has a seriously bad reputation (justified. I mean, come on - driving around, scoping out whether people have unregistered TVs?), much more than the EMI*. The GEMA*, which collects a fee on every CD/DVD recordable and every burner sold (as well as every regular CD sold, IIRC), occasionally gets some hate, but only from minorities.
In Germany, the evil guys are the GEZ. At least until the recent job market reform - now the Federal Employment Office is considered both evil and incompetent (as opposed to merely incompetent before)...
* The names of the offending organizations, in detail:
GEZ: Gebühreneinzugszentrale, lit. "royalty collection center"; collects broadcast fees
GEMA: Gesellschaft für Musikalische Aufführungs- und Mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte, lit. "musical performance [rights] and mechanical reproduction rights association"; collects music-related fees
EMI: European Music Industry, lit. "organisation of professional customer rapists"; rapes customers
Of course. A programming language should not allow the programmer to write code that might, under any circumstances, degrade the efficiency of the system or even cause mild unpleasantness to the user. The ideal language should have no memory management, no I/O and no syntax, except for DWIM. Hell, the entire OS should be made from a long string of DWIM. DWIM is the way of the future.
True. I was amazed that NIS managed to completely block the ISDN card, become unkillable and let the systray vanish. All because we rejumpered the card's IRQ (as was standard error management procedure with that particular card).
I don't even know how we managed to get the box back into shape without reinstalling Windows, but I think it involved booting off a CD and manually cleaning up the mess.
It's kind of sad... I can still remember when Norton Antivirus was a really good virus scanner.
So far, law enforcement has mostly targeted the transmitters, but NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is threatening to hold accountable household-name advertisers that use adware networks. No longer, says Spitzer, can companies play dumb.
Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?
Yeah, but the early models will be hell on your essence. Also - while we're talking about burning essence - why bothering with bioware if you can just buy a natural-looking cyberlimb and hide, say, a shotgun in it? Versatility is what keeps you running, chummer.
I'd prefer the patent law equivalent of the GNAA - an organization that acquires as many broad patents as possible and then proceeds to sue everyone. If the Patent GNAA gets hold of some REALLY generic patent they might sue the entire software business for using, say, menu driven software. The USA are releasing some internally-developed software? Sue the agency that dared infring on your legally acquired patent.
If 90% of all software products have to be temporarily pulled from the shelves because they are involved in patent lawsuits, maybe certain people see what patents acn be used for.
Note that after the name change, "SUSE" expands to "SOFTWARE- UND SYSTEMENTWICKLUNG!!!11"
PS: AFAIK the correct expansion is "Software- und Systementwicklung". The dash means that both "Software" and "System" are supposed to be compounded with "entwicklung". So, the expanded acronym can be further expanded to "Softwareentwicklung und Systementwicklung". (Compare: "software and system development" vs. "software development and system development")
You didn't really think that we'd use a language with support for large word compounds without developing some kind of compression algorithm, right?
PPS: acronymfinder.com expands it to "Gesellschaft für Software- und Systementwicklung MBH" ("Gesellschaft mbH" is similar to a limited liability company in the US).
1. voiced alveolar fricative (IPA z)
2. long rounded close back vowel, accented (IPA u <triangle colon thingy>)
3. voiced alveolar fricative (IPA z)
4. schwa (IPA <rotated e>) (Why the hell doesn't/. support &#xxx; type character entities? Ever heard of Unicode?)
Note: IANALinguist, but I'm currently in the process of making up a (hopefully) somewhat linguistically sound language using a tutorial. You do learn a bit there.
Yes, but Apple doesn't need to use heaps of legacy code in their OS - they just run MacOS 9 in an emulator.
Linux doesn't bother with binary backwards compatibility as the stuff is usually delivered in source form anyway.
BeOS... Well, let's just say that BeOS just doesn't have as many legacy apps.
Windows, OTOH, is expected to be binary-compatible with apps from 1995 while behaving better than the Windows from 1995. I can't even begin to imagine how painful any kind of work with the Windows codebase has to be.
Maybe Microsoft should just make a stripped-down Windows XP and let virtualization software run that in order to run any pre-LH app. Binary incompatibility might ansure that stuff is neatly separated. However, given that most customers are still using legacy Windows (and can't or don't want to change), that might not be a smart move.
Apple didn't create a new OS from scratch, they bought an existing one - NeXT (although many will argue Apple bought Steve Jobs and NeXT was a nice bonus).
Actually, NeXT bought Apple for a negative amount of money.
I don't know what's funnier: The post or the fact that it got moderated as Informative.
...Everyone knows that this Mnemonic guy is unreliable. I mean, he lies to his customers about how much data he can take. No, I don't care about his dolphin friend.
The problem, of course, is that men have one primary brain and two secondary ones to which all social interaction is delegated. A simulation of the main brain alone will not only fail to produce generally useful data, it will also cause all sound output to be squeaky.
Early tests to reproduce the comparativley small secondary brains failed; the computer cases were too tight and killed off the airflow. When the cases were replaced the brains spent most of their tim trying to execute fsck over and over.
On the other hand, tests using a small network of simulated female brains produced amazing results: Not only do the brains spend much of their time discussing the distribution models of male brain software (especially comparing the length of their licenses), they also tend to dump their core simultaneously. The scientists never managed to see a simulated female brain dump core without company.
They also registered an enormous consumption of bandwith; at one point they had to set their router to drop all requests sent to worldofshoes.com and bradpitt.com.
Do you know what was probably the most fun game I've seen in the last months? Mortal Kombat: Deception, because of "Puzzle Kombat", a very good clone of the "Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo"* game, which is something of a mix between Street Fighter and Columns. It's probably the best multipleyer experience I've ever had.
* The title is a parody on the Street Fighter naming scheme, where instead of Steet Fighter 3 games with names like "Super Street Fighter II Turbo: Revival" were released. Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo is the first and (AFAIK) only Puzzle Fighter game.
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Furthermore, the "gh" that's left over in many words, including "knight" was a voiced velar fricative, not a /g/ followed by an /I/. The sound no longer exists in English.
True. IIRC, "knight" is closely related to the German "Knecht" - which nowadays means "farm labourer".
You're just jealous because Englich doesn't allow for arbitrarily long composite words.
e uererklärungstermin. What a great word. 70 letters. And it stil makes sense (the translation would be something like "company for cleaning commission members' cars' tax declaration deadline").
Kommissionsmitgliedswagenreinigungsunternehmensst
You've basically agreed up front that they're always right - and yeah, maybe you can challenge that in court, but don't forget they have twenty lawyers for every click-fraud investigator. :-)
Great. Then someone hires twenty thousand click-fraud investigators and bang, Google goes bankrupt.
Remember, you've heard it here first.
I would like to know what else is included in the DVD version that isn't in the CD variant, though.
Dolby Digital sound, more language tracks (optionally with subtitles) and more than three hours of commentary, making-ofs and other features.
Hmm, that gives me an idea for a new distro.: ArcadeLinux, which is mainly controlled with a joystick. The Contra code is equivalent to su -, you start X with down-forward-high punch...
It's also great for when the boss unexpectedly shows up: Why I'm playing Mortal Kombat during work? I'm practicing my EMACS macros, that's why!
Just wait until you've heard about the GEZ*. In Germany, you pay a fee on every TV, radio etc. you own. The money is supposed to a) keep the state-controlled channels alive and b) pay for the broadcasting infrastructure.
All fine and dandy, you usually pay for one TV and one radio that covers your entire household, includeing your car's sound system. Of course you get weird situations where people have a TV but no way of receiving broadcasts, as the TV is only there to watch DVDs - you still have to pay for that.
Now, what's really annoying is that they've recently declared all Internet capable PCs to be subject to the fee, too. IIRC it's still covered by the TV fee, but I really wonder why the fuck I should pay a fee on my Internet access so they can upkep the TV/radio broadcasting infrastructure.
The GEZ has a seriously bad reputation (justified. I mean, come on - driving around, scoping out whether people have unregistered TVs?), much more than the EMI*. The GEMA*, which collects a fee on every CD/DVD recordable and every burner sold (as well as every regular CD sold, IIRC), occasionally gets some hate, but only from minorities.
In Germany, the evil guys are the GEZ. At least until the recent job market reform - now the Federal Employment Office is considered both evil and incompetent (as opposed to merely incompetent before)...
* The names of the offending organizations, in detail:
GEZ: Gebühreneinzugszentrale, lit. "royalty collection center"; collects broadcast fees
GEMA: Gesellschaft für Musikalische Aufführungs- und Mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte, lit. "musical performance [rights] and mechanical reproduction rights association"; collects music-related fees
EMI: European Music Industry, lit. "organisation of professional customer rapists"; rapes customers
Of course. A programming language should not allow the programmer to write code that might, under any circumstances, degrade the efficiency of the system or even cause mild unpleasantness to the user. The ideal language should have no memory management, no I/O and no syntax, except for DWIM. Hell, the entire OS should be made from a long string of DWIM. DWIM is the way of the future.
True. I was amazed that NIS managed to completely block the ISDN card, become unkillable and let the systray vanish. All because we rejumpered the card's IRQ (as was standard error management procedure with that particular card).
I don't even know how we managed to get the box back into shape without reinstalling Windows, but I think it involved booting off a CD and manually cleaning up the mess.
It's kind of sad... I can still remember when Norton Antivirus was a really good virus scanner.
So far, law enforcement has mostly targeted the transmitters, but NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is threatening to hold accountable household-name advertisers that use adware networks. No longer, says Spitzer, can companies play dumb.
Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?
Yeah, but the early models will be hell on your essence. Also - while we're talking about burning essence - why bothering with bioware if you can just buy a natural-looking cyberlimb and hide, say, a shotgun in it? Versatility is what keeps you running, chummer.
I'd prefer the patent law equivalent of the GNAA - an organization that acquires as many broad patents as possible and then proceeds to sue everyone. If the Patent GNAA gets hold of some REALLY generic patent they might sue the entire software business for using, say, menu driven software. The USA are releasing some internally-developed software? Sue the agency that dared infring on your legally acquired patent.
If 90% of all software products have to be temporarily pulled from the shelves because they are involved in patent lawsuits, maybe certain people see what patents acn be used for.
Just an idea, of course.
Then again, this IS Microsoft we're talking about (not a dig at Microsoft's coding abilities, but they're PR department).
Indeed, you are right: Microsoft is PR department and nothing else.
Note that after the name change, "SUSE" expands to "SOFTWARE- UND SYSTEMENTWICKLUNG!!!11"
PS: AFAIK the correct expansion is "Software- und Systementwicklung". The dash means that both "Software" and "System" are supposed to be compounded with "entwicklung". So, the expanded acronym can be further expanded to "Softwareentwicklung und Systementwicklung". (Compare: "software and system development" vs. "software development and system development")
You didn't really think that we'd use a language with support for large word compounds without developing some kind of compression algorithm, right?
PPS: acronymfinder.com expands it to "Gesellschaft für Software- und Systementwicklung MBH" ("Gesellschaft mbH" is similar to a limited liability company in the US).
Note that common usage in Germany is as follows:
/. support &#xxx; type character entities? Ever heard of Unicode?)
1. voiced alveolar fricative (IPA z)
2. long rounded close back vowel, accented (IPA u <triangle colon thingy>)
3. voiced alveolar fricative (IPA z)
4. schwa (IPA <rotated e>) (Why the hell doesn't
Note: IANALinguist, but I'm currently in the process of making up a (hopefully) somewhat linguistically sound language using a tutorial. You do learn a bit there.
Ah, that probably explains the smell.
And according to 8-bit Theater, Red Mages are complete ubernerds, which also fits reality quite well. ;)
Yes, but Apple doesn't need to use heaps of legacy code in their OS - they just run MacOS 9 in an emulator.
Linux doesn't bother with binary backwards compatibility as the stuff is usually delivered in source form anyway.
BeOS... Well, let's just say that BeOS just doesn't have as many legacy apps.
Windows, OTOH, is expected to be binary-compatible with apps from 1995 while behaving better than the Windows from 1995. I can't even begin to imagine how painful any kind of work with the Windows codebase has to be.
Maybe Microsoft should just make a stripped-down Windows XP and let virtualization software run that in order to run any pre-LH app. Binary incompatibility might ansure that stuff is neatly separated. However, given that most customers are still using legacy Windows (and can't or don't want to change), that might not be a smart move.
Apple didn't create a new OS from scratch, they bought an existing one - NeXT (although many will argue Apple bought Steve Jobs and NeXT was a nice bonus).
Actually, NeXT bought Apple for a negative amount of money.
Not to mention that it'll come with an addon chip implementing 100% reliable DWIM and will have Duke Nukem Forever preinstalled.
This time they're showing a "realtime" video of a Gentoo box compiling KDE.
I don't know what's funnier: The post or the fact that it got moderated as Informative.
...Everyone knows that this Mnemonic guy is unreliable. I mean, he lies to his customers about how much data he can take. No, I don't care about his dolphin friend.
No, it'd install Windows. Thank you, I'm here all week.
The problem, of course, is that men have one primary brain and two secondary ones to which all social interaction is delegated. A simulation of the main brain alone will not only fail to produce generally useful data, it will also cause all sound output to be squeaky.
Early tests to reproduce the comparativley small secondary brains failed; the computer cases were too tight and killed off the airflow. When the cases were replaced the brains spent most of their tim trying to execute fsck over and over.
On the other hand, tests using a small network of simulated female brains produced amazing results: Not only do the brains spend much of their time discussing the distribution models of male brain software (especially comparing the length of their licenses), they also tend to dump their core simultaneously. The scientists never managed to see a simulated female brain dump core without company.
They also registered an enormous consumption of bandwith; at one point they had to set their router to drop all requests sent to worldofshoes.com and bradpitt.com.
So ten years from now computers still won't go "I'm sorry Dave, but I cannot allow that"? I'm very disappointed.
Do you know what was probably the most fun game I've seen in the last months? Mortal Kombat: Deception, because of "Puzzle Kombat", a very good clone of the "Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo"* game, which is something of a mix between Street Fighter and Columns. It's probably the best multipleyer experience I've ever had.
* The title is a parody on the Street Fighter naming scheme, where instead of Steet Fighter 3 games with names like "Super Street Fighter II Turbo: Revival" were released. Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo is the first and (AFAIK) only Puzzle Fighter game.