I don't know why the hell you bring up socialism. I just would like museums to be cheaper. I don't really give a shit whether the additional funding comes from. No need to wave the flag of capitalism around. Save it for someone who cares.
comes with the reader for free (if you request it)
on
Clarion Sci-Fi Auction
·
· Score: 1
Excuse my ignorance, but what is in the "reader?" Is it notes by an additional author, or by the author himself? Actually for the price, it should be someone there to read it to me, but that's probably too much to ask.;-)
Darwin used contemporary knowledge of animal husbandry as a metaphor for natural selection. The same metaphor can be used for social structures. Try googling Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologists who first suggested the "meme" as a mental gene. "Gene" is actually a term for a unit of inheritance, an abstraction. DNA has genetic properties, but it is not a gene.
Re:Where "farklempt" comes from
on
Farklempt!
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Farklempt is Yiddish for "emotionally overwhelmed." Good try, though. Michael Meyers had a recurring role as a NY Jewish woman talk show host on Saturday Night Live for a while. He/she would pause and proclaim she was getting "fahklempt." I'm not sure if leaving out the "r" sound is the result of a NYC accent or the proper pronunciation. just FYI
Nine euros works out to, less than $15? For an exhibition of any artist in the States that's a bargain. I live outside of Boston, which is supposed to have a lot of culture, but the museums and music events are really expensive.
Many automobile parts are built to fall apart with time and use. (about the time the warranty expires.) I suspect certain components of a 1999 PC will fail within a couple of years, and as time goes by it will become increasing difficult and/or expensive to upgrade. Industry maximizes its profits, and frivolous consumption is really a secondary problem.
They didn't write it from scratch however, they reversed engineered the DCE RPC. MS RPC is based upon, and with a little hacking, will work with DCE RPC. They did this to avoid paying the full licence from OSF. "Stealing," may be a bit of hyperbole, but it wasn't exactly innovative, either.
"Microsoft have felt the need to use an RPC mechanism, though they didn't want to write their own from scratch so it was suggested they use the best in the industry (already chosen by the OSF) - legend has it that they approached the OSF for DCE RPC but didn't want to pay the licence fees. What Microsoft _did_ do was to take the Application Environment Specification and a network sniffer and reverse engineer the DCE RPC. MS RPC is based upon, and, with a little application (Like OEC Enterra) will work with DCE RPC."
Since the introduction of DCE, Microsoft have felt the need to use an RPC mechanism, though they didn't want to write their own from scratch so it was suggested they use the best in the industry (already chosen by the OSF) - legend has it that they approached the OSF for DCE RPC but didn't want to pay the licence fees. What Microsoft _did_ do was to take the Application Environment Specification and a network sniffer and reverse engineer the DCE RPC. MS RPC is based upon, and, with a little application (Like OEC Enterra) will work with DCE RPC.
It's been a while since I've looked at it, but wasn't DCE hijacked by Evil Empire? It was put together by OSF, now called the Open Group, and it seems bittersweet to have it released as free software now. If only they had the foresight to open it from the start.
You will find very many popular science articles that use the Beetle as a standard of measurement. Most often as a weight measurement. This may have something to do with the budgets of science teachers through the last half of the 20th century. As many of them could not afford a newer model Beetle, we can safely assume its the old one.
Let someone spoil it for you! Gimmick, or Subtlety
on
Top 50 DVDs
·
· Score: 1
Someone told me about the plot of the Sixth Sense beforehand, and I felt no need to watch it a second time.
Re:Best DVD packages, not the best DVD movies
on
Top 50 DVDs
·
· Score: 1
This is a rating of the extras, sound and picture quality, etc. It's not the Alien movies that are tied for 2nd best movies on DVD, but that the Quadrilogy is the 2nd best DVD package. The indivdually sold versions of the trilogies tend not to have the same quality. The artcle unfortunately thought this too obvious to explain.
What do you base that on? Dolby Digital Mono baby!
on
Top 50 DVDs
·
· Score: 3, Informative
Why are you spreading FUD about Citizen Kane? Available subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
# Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
# Commentary by Orson Welles biographer Peter Bogdanovich
# Commentary by Roger Ebert
# Disc 1:
# Feature Film
# 1941 Movie Premiere Newsreel
# Gallery of storyboards, rare photos, alternate ad campaign, studio and personal correspondence, call sheets and other memorabilia
# Disc 2:
# Two-Hour Documentary: The Battle Over Citizen Kane, details the power struggle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst
# Number of discs: 2
Your probably a deluded replicant!
on
Top 50 DVDs
·
· Score: 1
If you don't understand why its so good, than its doubtful anyone can explain it. This is not flamebait. You have been programmed not to be curious about what makes life precious. If you stop and consider it, you may have to be retired.
I hate latin grammer! I was taught for years that splitting an infinitive in English, as in "to boldly go," was wrong. Much later I found out its because Victorian English scholars wanted English to follow Lain as much as possible, and the Latin infinitive doesn't have an equivalent of the word "to." A split infinitive is wrong only because its trickier for the pedants to translate into latin. So explain to me how latin plurals are appropriate, but Old English plaurals are only "antiquated?"
#1 Rule of Slashdot -if using a numbered list include #.???? and #+1. Profit!!!!! but seriously: How can PCs be #3 and the internet #1? Because the internet was established, and could exist, with only mainframes and "non-personal type" computers. I think home computers would have become obsolete and replaced with more specialized devices (as many people had predicted) if they did not evolve into useful (although not the only) device for accessing the internet.
And you didn't notice I used "Sound" where I should've put "It sounds?" If I knew this would get such a response, I would've thrown in the word "virii," too!
How does your thinking apply to the term "virii?" I've often thought that although "virus" applies both to computers and biological agents, they are really two very different things. Perhaps "virii," because it applies specifically to a computer concept as opposed to a biological disease, is a legitimate plural. Or is the use of "virus" strictly metaphorical, and only the accepted plural should be used? Perhaps its obsessive, but it can also be interesting and informative. The term "hacker," and how it gets used in the news and popular culture, for example.
Cheer up, maybe they're all in heaven now:-)
Ever read Richard Dawkin's books? He explains how creatures, including humans, can exhibit altruism when natural selection would seem to favor selfishness.
Maybe I'll stick to OSNews. Slashdot is just too depressing- (sigh) a brain the size of a planet, and... know where I can score a pan-galactic gargleblaster?
Yeah, this doesn't matter for "users," but this is "News for Nerds," not news for linux advocates only(although it may seem that way at times) or news for wealthy, uncurious gadgeteers. Some of us here are in the business, and some of us hack harware for a hobby, and not just consumers. If I want to spend the time and effort, I bet I could install applications, or at least get to a command line shell.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't know why the hell you bring up socialism. I just would like museums to be cheaper. I don't really give a shit whether the additional funding comes from. No need to wave the flag of capitalism around. Save it for someone who cares.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is in the "reader?" Is it notes by an additional author, or by the author himself? Actually for the price, it should be someone there to read it to me, but that's probably too much to ask. ;-)
Darwin used contemporary knowledge of animal husbandry as a metaphor for natural selection. The same metaphor can be used for social structures. Try googling Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologists who first suggested the "meme" as a mental gene. "Gene" is actually a term for a unit of inheritance, an abstraction. DNA has genetic properties, but it is not a gene.
Farklempt is Yiddish for "emotionally overwhelmed." Good try, though. Michael Meyers had a recurring role as a NY Jewish woman talk show host on Saturday Night Live for a while. He/she would pause and proclaim she was getting "fahklempt." I'm not sure if leaving out the "r" sound is the result of a NYC accent or the proper pronunciation. just FYI
Nine euros works out to, less than $15? For an exhibition of any artist in the States that's a bargain. I live outside of Boston, which is supposed to have a lot of culture, but the museums and music events are really expensive.
Many automobile parts are built to fall apart with time and use. (about the time the warranty expires.) I suspect certain components of a 1999 PC will fail within a couple of years, and as time goes by it will become increasing difficult and/or expensive to upgrade. Industry maximizes its profits, and frivolous consumption is really a secondary problem.
They didn't write it from scratch however, they reversed engineered the DCE RPC. MS RPC is based upon, and with a little hacking, will work with DCE RPC. They did this to avoid paying the full licence from OSF. "Stealing," may be a bit of hyperbole, but it wasn't exactly innovative, either.
"Microsoft have felt the need to use an RPC mechanism, though they didn't want to write their own from scratch so it was suggested they use the best in the industry (already chosen by the OSF) - legend has it that they approached the OSF for DCE RPC but didn't want to pay the licence fees. What Microsoft _did_ do was to take the Application Environment Specification and a network sniffer and reverse engineer the DCE RPC. MS RPC is based upon, and, with a little application (Like OEC Enterra) will work with DCE RPC."
Since the introduction of DCE, Microsoft have felt the need to use an RPC mechanism, though they didn't want to write their own from scratch so it was suggested they use the best in the industry (already chosen by the OSF) - legend has it that they approached the OSF for DCE RPC but didn't want to pay the licence fees. What Microsoft _did_ do was to take the Application Environment Specification and a network sniffer and reverse engineer the DCE RPC. MS RPC is based upon, and, with a little application (Like OEC Enterra) will work with DCE RPC.
It's been a while since I've looked at it, but wasn't DCE hijacked by Evil Empire? It was put together by OSF, now called the Open Group, and it seems bittersweet to have it released as free software now. If only they had the foresight to open it from the start.
You will find very many popular science articles that use the Beetle as a standard of measurement. Most often as a weight measurement. This may have something to do with the budgets of science teachers through the last half of the 20th century. As many of them could not afford a newer model Beetle, we can safely assume its the old one.
Someone told me about the plot of the Sixth Sense beforehand, and I felt no need to watch it a second time.
This is a rating of the extras, sound and picture quality, etc. It's not the Alien movies that are tied for 2nd best movies on DVD, but that the Quadrilogy is the 2nd best DVD package. The indivdually sold versions of the trilogies tend not to have the same quality. The artcle unfortunately thought this too obvious to explain.
Why are you spreading FUD about Citizen Kane? Available subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese # Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) # Commentary by Orson Welles biographer Peter Bogdanovich # Commentary by Roger Ebert # Disc 1: # Feature Film # 1941 Movie Premiere Newsreel # Gallery of storyboards, rare photos, alternate ad campaign, studio and personal correspondence, call sheets and other memorabilia # Disc 2: # Two-Hour Documentary: The Battle Over Citizen Kane, details the power struggle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst # Number of discs: 2
If you don't understand why its so good, than its doubtful anyone can explain it. This is not flamebait. You have been programmed not to be curious about what makes life precious. If you stop and consider it, you may have to be retired.
I hate latin grammer! I was taught for years that splitting an infinitive in English, as in "to boldly go," was wrong. Much later I found out its because Victorian English scholars wanted English to follow Lain as much as possible, and the Latin infinitive doesn't have an equivalent of the word "to." A split infinitive is wrong only because its trickier for the pedants to translate into latin. So explain to me how latin plurals are appropriate, but Old English plaurals are only "antiquated?"
CowboyNeal, we can blame, er, credit! you with for doing so much for society. Thank You! sniff, sniff :...{
#1 Rule of Slashdot -if using a numbered list include #.???? and #+1. Profit!!!!! but seriously: How can PCs be #3 and the internet #1? Because the internet was established, and could exist, with only mainframes and "non-personal type" computers. I think home computers would have become obsolete and replaced with more specialized devices (as many people had predicted) if they did not evolve into useful (although not the only) device for accessing the internet.
And you didn't notice I used "Sound" where I should've put "It sounds?" If I knew this would get such a response, I would've thrown in the word "virii," too!
How does your thinking apply to the term "virii?" I've often thought that although "virus" applies both to computers and biological agents, they are really two very different things. Perhaps "virii," because it applies specifically to a computer concept as opposed to a biological disease, is a legitimate plural. Or is the use of "virus" strictly metaphorical, and only the accepted plural should be used? Perhaps its obsessive, but it can also be interesting and informative. The term "hacker," and how it gets used in the news and popular culture, for example.
Sound like its a good time to snag some bargain boxen!
Cheer up, maybe they're all in heaven now :-)
Ever read Richard Dawkin's books? He explains how creatures, including humans, can exhibit altruism when natural selection would seem to favor selfishness.
No, the tsunami is part of an alien conspiracy, just like global warming.
Maybe I'll stick to OSNews. Slashdot is just too depressing- (sigh) a brain the size of a planet, and ... know where I can score a pan-galactic gargleblaster?
Yeah, this doesn't matter for "users," but this is "News for Nerds," not news for linux advocates only(although it may seem that way at times) or news for wealthy, uncurious gadgeteers. Some of us here are in the business, and some of us hack harware for a hobby, and not just consumers. If I want to spend the time and effort, I bet I could install applications, or at least get to a command line shell.