You're missing the point. Wikipedia (nearly effortlessly) provides links to specific points in an article's history. You link to a non-changing page. You're linking to a page that doesn't change. The MLA handles that just fine.
In fact, since you're linking to a specific point in an article's history, it's much better at remaining static than ANY OTHER PAGE ON THE INTERNET. Who knows when the owner of any given page on the internet is going to change it? If you can trust wikipedia's policy on links to previous versions, then you have the only guaranteed static pages online outside of archive.org.
Sorry, I fail to see how Clinton's reaction to that Fox question constitutes a scandal. There was a REAL Clinton scandal once, but trying to shoehorn this in as anything more than a brief display of anger is pretty ridiculous.
The XBOX 360 was arguably underpriced on release: how many were sold on ebay for prices way above the MSRP?
The ebay prices of the XBOX 360 right after it came out didn't neccessarily reflect the "true price" of the console. As Tim Harford writes in this article:
[G]amers... are acting irrationally. Very few people resell their consoles despite the high auction prices. Having grabbed a scarce console, gamers only think about using it rather than profiting from its resale. As a result, only a few consoles are up for sale and only the most desperate buyers compete for them. If more people put their consoles up for auction, the price would drop.
Until then, I'll be playing games on my GameCube, PSP, and PS2
...and maybe your Wii and 360. At that point what's going to be the use of a PS3 at $700 soon or $400 later? It won't matter that the price comes down. Aren't we drowning in consoles as it is?
By the late 17th century, though, literally was being used as an intensifier for true statements. The Oxford English Dictionary cites Dryden and Pope for this sense; Jane Austen, in Sanditon, wrote of a stormy night that, "We had been literally rocked in our bed." In these examples, literally is used for the sake of emphasis alone.
And truly figurative usage had been exhibited by James Fenimore Cooper, Thackeray, Dickens, and Thoreau. And:
...no one seems to have objected to the [figurative] usage until the early 20th century.
It's a "Janus word". There are plenty you use all the time.
Now that online journalism is eligible for the Pulitzer Prize (still only for print newspapers' web editions), over the next few years we'll see how slippery this slope gets. If online journalism is a step away from print journalism, and blogging is a step away from online journalism, we may yet live to see someone on Blogger getting the big boys' plaque.
There's no evidence that the composition of word squares, let alone 10-squares, was a pastime in ancient Greece.
And, there's the timeliness of the article:
[I]t's unclear why the Times thought that this was at all newsworthy, considering that Clarke announced his discovery of the square back in April 1999, in an issue of his e-zine WordsWorth.
Page ii of the working draft of the Kansas Science Education Standards from August 9 (pdf) states specifically that "the curriculum standards call for students to learn about the best
evidence for modern evolutionary theory, but also to learn about areas where scientists are raising scientific criticisms of
the theory" and that "the study and discussion of the origin and
development of life may raise deep personal and philosophical questions for many people on all sides of the debate." Got that?
So what about the Big Bang? Does the ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE not raise deep questions? Are there not criticisms of the Big Bang theory? Where's the Intellegent Design contingent on that one?
Seriously, as a fully-fledged agnostic I'd be much more willing to agree that, yeah, maybe there was some higher power that had something to do with, you know, a spontaneous explosion of matter and energy, than to put God into biology.
And while you're at it, you kooks, there are LOADS of scientific theories which have some amount of criticism. Quantum physics, gravity, fluid dynamics... Where's your God on those? Or are you just gearing up now?
Actually, "I was moving with the flow of traffic" got me out of a ticket once, but only for an officer's good humor.
It was about 3am and I was doing probably 80 on the freeway. I get pulled over and the cop asks me why I was going so fast. I said, "I'm just going with the flow of traffic." He looked a little confused and said, "There aren't any other cars on the road." I said, "Exactly, I'm the flow of traffic."
He laughed and said he'd never heard that one before. Then he told me to slow down.
FTA: In April, scientists reported in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research that college students tend to drink much more alcohol than they think.
Is this really amusing and obvious? And, as opposed to the "choose your career wisely" conclusion, this has some pretty serious consequences. People engaging in potentially abusive behavior who are under-reporting it to themselves are much less likely to ever think there might be a problem brewing.
Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids!
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Let's slow down here. This isn't some nannybot (a), and (2) the thing's just like a cuddly baby monitor with more features. Are parents who have normal walkie-talkie-esque baby monitors somehow letting radio waves raise their children?
Is that it can't distinguish between news and humor on a news site. Just before the first presidential debate, one of the major stories on google news was quoted as saying that the Bush administration revealed that Bush's IQ was 65. Of course, it was a humor piece from (um...) Newsweek (I think). I took a screenshot, which is held up at work. But there was a brief moment when I thought that politics had taken a turn for the better
Some people, btw, just read the headlines and the excerpt. Something like that might just swing the election.
the article is very self-contradictory in the sense that it continues to claim that as graphics get more humanlike, they get more creepy, but the creepiness is due to the differences, not the similarities.
Funny that you RTFA but missed the point. The idea behind the Uncanny Valley is that as the differences between real life and simulated life become fewer, we notice them more and in a way that creeps us out.
The same mouth-not-matching-speech problem doesn't bother us on The Simpsons, for instance, because with so many differences we gloss over them, even though they share some of the same problems of video game "cinematic" scenes.
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You're missing the point. Wikipedia (nearly effortlessly) provides links to specific points in an article's history. You link to a non-changing page. You're linking to a page that doesn't change. The MLA handles that just fine.
In fact, since you're linking to a specific point in an article's history, it's much better at remaining static than ANY OTHER PAGE ON THE INTERNET. Who knows when the owner of any given page on the internet is going to change it? If you can trust wikipedia's policy on links to previous versions, then you have the only guaranteed static pages online outside of archive.org.
Sorry, I fail to see how Clinton's reaction to that Fox question constitutes a scandal. There was a REAL Clinton scandal once, but trying to shoehorn this in as anything more than a brief display of anger is pretty ridiculous.
Only thing that is worth mentioning was that the telephone networks ( cellular and POTS ) were jammed due to excessive calls.
The cellular network was nerfed so that the terrorists couldn't MAYBE trigger other attacks with them. It wasn't just excessive calls. Source.
The features of google are clearly described on their website
But what if the internet is down? Huh?... oh wait.
The ebay prices of the XBOX 360 right after it came out didn't neccessarily reflect the "true price" of the console. As Tim Harford writes in this article:
Until then, I'll be playing games on my GameCube, PSP, and PS2
"To be honest, I don't know much about these services..."
Then how, exactly, do you purport to tell me which is the best calendar app?
Please see this article (and a dictionary).
Now that online journalism is eligible for the Pulitzer Prize (still only for print newspapers' web editions), over the next few years we'll see how slippery this slope gets. If online journalism is a step away from print journalism, and blogging is a step away from online journalism, we may yet live to see someone on Blogger getting the big boys' plaque.
Benjamin Zimmer over at Language Log notes some problems with the story. Most notably:
There's no evidence that the composition of word squares, let alone 10-squares, was a pastime in ancient Greece.
And, there's the timeliness of the article:
[I]t's unclear why the Times thought that this was at all newsworthy, considering that Clarke announced his discovery of the square back in April 1999, in an issue of his e-zine WordsWorth.
Linguist Mark Liberman wrote about this the other day. Explains how OSM Media LLC took the Open Source name without any of the philosophy intact.
Page ii of the working draft of the Kansas Science Education Standards from August 9 (pdf) states specifically that "the curriculum standards call for students to learn about the best evidence for modern evolutionary theory, but also to learn about areas where scientists are raising scientific criticisms of the theory" and that "the study and discussion of the origin and development of life may raise deep personal and philosophical questions for many people on all sides of the debate." Got that?
So what about the Big Bang? Does the ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE not raise deep questions? Are there not criticisms of the Big Bang theory? Where's the Intellegent Design contingent on that one?
Seriously, as a fully-fledged agnostic I'd be much more willing to agree that, yeah, maybe there was some higher power that had something to do with, you know, a spontaneous explosion of matter and energy, than to put God into biology.
And while you're at it, you kooks, there are LOADS of scientific theories which have some amount of criticism. Quantum physics, gravity, fluid dynamics... Where's your God on those? Or are you just gearing up now?
Actually, "I was moving with the flow of traffic" got me out of a ticket once, but only for an officer's good humor.
It was about 3am and I was doing probably 80 on the freeway. I get pulled over and the cop asks me why I was going so fast. I said, "I'm just going with the flow of traffic." He looked a little confused and said, "There aren't any other cars on the road." I said, "Exactly, I'm the flow of traffic."
He laughed and said he'd never heard that one before. Then he told me to slow down.
Using this in my userContent.css has stopped all pop-ups, even the ones that Firefox can't take care of naturally.
Ironic, isn't it. We're laughing at different jokes.
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FTA: In April, scientists reported in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research that college students tend to drink much more alcohol than they think.
Is this really amusing and obvious? And, as opposed to the "choose your career wisely" conclusion, this has some pretty serious consequences. People engaging in potentially abusive behavior who are under-reporting it to themselves are much less likely to ever think there might be a problem brewing.
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I'm finding that with all the fetishes out there, those porno sites I'm getting redirected to are getting less and less irrelevant to my searches.
Now we are letting inanimate objects raise our kids!
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Let's slow down here. This isn't some nannybot (a), and (2) the thing's just like a cuddly baby monitor with more features. Are parents who have normal walkie-talkie-esque baby monitors somehow letting radio waves raise their children?
Come on, Archangel.
Wait a minute. All possible? Couldn't be satisfied with just actual words? This is going to take a lot longer than I first thought.
(Sorry for the reply to self. It's like my own little dupe.)
The attacker first loops through all possible words in English...
I get the idea this might take a while.
'porn' isn't there, but 'pr0n' is.
Is that it can't distinguish between news and humor on a news site. Just before the first presidential debate, one of the major stories on google news was quoted as saying that the Bush administration revealed that Bush's IQ was 65. Of course, it was a humor piece from (um...) Newsweek (I think). I took a screenshot, which is held up at work. But there was a brief moment when I thought that politics had taken a turn for the better
Some people, btw, just read the headlines and the excerpt. Something like that might just swing the election.
the article is very self-contradictory in the sense that it continues to claim that as graphics get more humanlike, they get more creepy, but the creepiness is due to the differences, not the similarities.
Funny that you RTFA but missed the point. The idea behind the Uncanny Valley is that as the differences between real life and simulated life become fewer, we notice them more and in a way that creeps us out.
The same mouth-not-matching-speech problem doesn't bother us on The Simpsons, for instance, because with so many differences we gloss over them, even though they share some of the same problems of video game "cinematic" scenes.
I believe said shark scene happened in the Phantom Menace. Remember the underwater sequence right after Jar-Jar was introduced?