Perhaps it took a similar path to that of Latin "sinister" ("left")? And the English homonym "right" took the other path? People back then didn't seem to like the left, apparently.
Reminds me of the scene in Knights of the Old Republic, in the Taris Undercity, where you kill a group of Sith troopers, steal the Sith-deveoped rakghoul antidote from their corpses, bring it to an independent doctor - and receive light-side points because he'll make more of the antidote and give it away freely.
Of course you feel like it's the light-side choice when you're playing the game, but think of the Sith researchers who probably have nothing to do with the empire's evil policies. They aren't getting compensated at all for their efforts (which were intended to save people's lives), and probably don't survive the destruction of Taris. Or are they also in the same category as building contractors on the second Death Star?
Is it reasonable to claim that the Sith researchers as well as the Tamiflu scientists are in a category of people who don't do enough good? (That is, good job for joining a field where your work saves people's lives, but you should be a lot more altruistic when people's lives are, after all, at stake.)
I'd like to see a KOTOR-like game where the game gave light/dark-side points for everything, including what battle styles you use, but doesn't actually display this to the player. At least not until the end of the game, where the choices you've made affect where you end up before the final decision, and you can only make the decision that fits your choices.
At least the first time you play it, I think a lot of people wouldn't end up on the side they thought they would (in both directions).
Reminds me of the Dilbert comic when the PHB mentions that their blueprint or flowchart or something looks like Egyptian hieroglyphs, forces Dilbert to investigate possible copyright threats from ancient Egyptians, and then asks why all their projects take so long.
OK, I've seen a bunch of references to IBM mainframes recently. Why mainframes? Why not regular rack-mounted servers - or even normal-computer-shaped servers? Are these mainframes really, you know, mainframes - do they take up half a room, emit hellish amounts of heat, and walk across the room when you access the disk?..In all seriousness, are these somehow related to the mainframes of yore?
And what's up with the OS? Not Linux nor BSD nor Windows NT?
how about a browser that works with google maps, and GPS capability?
If you have the patience, it's rather easy to write this yourself via JavaScript injection. GPS data from a receiver usually comes in a reasonable ASCII format called NMEA - you won't find the official spec, but you'll easily find an unofficial one. Or just grep for the lines with "GPRMC" (GPS recommended minimum coordinate data) - it's in degrees/minutes and knots. And Google Maps has an open API now.
I've actually gotten this to work using the COM-port emulation drivers of DeLorme's USB receiver and Google Maps in Internet Explorer (and I think it'll work in Mozilla with a slight tweak). I have a C++ app that reads the data from the port and writes it to a file, and a JS function that loads that file every second or so and recenters the map. If you want to help me turn this into production quality code, let me know. (You mentioned a wireless gadget, but on highways there tends to be very little WiFi, so I just cache all the relevant map data beforehand.)
1. to break the CSS encryption on DVD Video titles except in the way prescribed by the copyright owner, or 2. to sell devices capable of doing so.
Wait. How is ripping a DVD - from a licenced DVD player - equivalent to breaking the encryption?
You're confusing the DMCA and copyright law again. The DMCA is not a copyright law, it is a chilling-effect law. Just because you can't crack the encryption doesn't mean you lose your fair use rights if you have a legal way to decrypt it.
The fact that you posted it more than once makes one wonder. One time it's funny, twice it's stupid, etc.
He referred in the joke to the fact that he'd made it more than once. And what's the "etc."? I haven't heard that phrase, but I have heard, "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." And you were apparently fooled on the second point.
Also, jokes are supposed to be funny, and yours wasn't.
Well, they both got +5 Funny, and humor is often subjective. Since enough moderators modded both of them up, we presume that many people thought it was funny (since the mods are a random sample). I for one thought it was great.
If you're disputing humor it's often useful to wait an hour and see how it gets modded. (I made this mistake once, and I made an angry and embarrasing response to someone who made what I later realized was a joke against me, not a criticism.)
Then again, you could say that since it got +5 Funny, not anything else, the mods didn't consider it that great because they didn't give him the karma.
I have no clue what it'll take to fix Windows timezones.
Look in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInfo rmation.
But a bunch of it appears to be binary. I didn't install the resource kit on here, so I don't have the tzedit applet, which is the proper way to mess with timezones...if someone does, could they please post the correct changes?
Um, guys, I think this was a joke. There's nothing relevant on a google for [guadalajara norwegian], and the misspelling of "their" kinda tips it off.
I think he was joking that Jon would run to Mexico, and making a joke on his own joke that their are Norwegians in Mexico. And somehow the two jokes cancelled and we missed it.
My windows box keeps failing to get an IP number, I think I may have to move it again.
Um...It looks like it worked. You know you just posted a question to the Internet about not being able to connect to the Internet, right?
Oh, the other type of IP number? Here, you're 753 in our list. Please hold while we finish suing the other 752 people in line before you for infringing our IP.
America, where you can patent a method of doing something obvious, and then prevent someone else from picking that method out of the many ways to do that obvious thing.
Three cheers for forced innovation.
Now if only the patent office knew how to figure out what could be innovated upon - indeed, what patents would encourage innovation, by protecting the innovators and forcing other people to develop alternate methods with useful side results - and what is actually obvious and can't be done differently.
But I'm inclined to think that there isn't just one way to run pay-as-you-go. For example, you could transfer the whole balance to the phone in some encrypted manner, or you could have the phone check every minute whether the balance expired. You could keep its own true account, or you can model it as a phone with infinite airtime and a forced calling card. And so forth. There's more than one way to skin a prepaid cat.
There is no other country with which Britain has been so much at war with, and distrusts so much at times of peace as France.
IIRC, ever since the Crimean War in the late 1800s, there wasn't a war that Britain and France haven't been on the same side of. And if you want to get picky, Britain was on the same side as the French Loyalists during the Napoleonic Wars.
Roulette has nothing to do with anything. You might as well say that French is the language of tennis or of Mardi Gras.
Knowing French is thus the sine qua non of British intelligence.
Wow. That's amazing. Knowing French is, for English speakers, some random Latin phrase. Nice. I'm going to riposte and claim that French isn't a lingua franca anymore.
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Perhaps it took a similar path to that of Latin "sinister" ("left")? And the English homonym "right" took the other path? People back then didn't seem to like the left, apparently.
goesh
Gauche? Not exactly sure what you were trying to say nor what "gauche" means (in English), but I've seen the word used in a similar sense.
I sat there for half a minute trying to figure out what the two-syllable word "go-ESH" meant.
a bit of a bastard
What, was he born halfway through the wedding?
Curses. </i>
Reminds me of the scene in Knights of the Old Republic, in the Taris Undercity, where you kill a group of Sith troopers, steal the Sith-deveoped rakghoul antidote from their corpses, bring it to an independent doctor - and receive light-side points because he'll make more of the antidote and give it away freely.
Of course you feel like it's the light-side choice when you're playing the game, but think of the Sith researchers who probably have nothing to do with the empire's evil policies. They aren't getting compensated at all for their efforts (which were intended to save people's lives), and probably don't survive the destruction of Taris. Or are they also in the same category as building contractors on the second Death Star?
Is it reasonable to claim that the Sith researchers as well as the Tamiflu scientists are in a category of people who don't do enough good? (That is, good job for joining a field where your work saves people's lives, but you should be a lot more altruistic when people's lives are, after all, at stake.)
The WINE project is 12 years old, so it's just about time.
In other words...it aged for 12 years?
Two, and you don't know which one will actually change the dot until the light turns back on.
I'd like to see a KOTOR-like game where the game gave light/dark-side points for everything, including what battle styles you use, but doesn't actually display this to the player. At least not until the end of the game, where the choices you've made affect where you end up before the final decision, and you can only make the decision that fits your choices.
At least the first time you play it, I think a lot of people wouldn't end up on the side they thought they would (in both directions).
Reminds me of the Dilbert comic when the PHB mentions that their blueprint or flowchart or something looks like Egyptian hieroglyphs, forces Dilbert to investigate possible copyright threats from ancient Egyptians, and then asks why all their projects take so long.
an IBM OS390 mainframe
..In all seriousness, are these somehow related to the mainframes of yore?
OK, I've seen a bunch of references to IBM mainframes recently. Why mainframes? Why not regular rack-mounted servers - or even normal-computer-shaped servers? Are these mainframes really, you know, mainframes - do they take up half a room, emit hellish amounts of heat, and walk across the room when you access the disk?
And what's up with the OS? Not Linux nor BSD nor Windows NT?
how about a browser that works with google maps, and GPS capability?
If you have the patience, it's rather easy to write this yourself via JavaScript injection. GPS data from a receiver usually comes in a reasonable ASCII format called NMEA - you won't find the official spec, but you'll easily find an unofficial one. Or just grep for the lines with "GPRMC" (GPS recommended minimum coordinate data) - it's in degrees/minutes and knots. And Google Maps has an open API now.
I've actually gotten this to work using the COM-port emulation drivers of DeLorme's USB receiver and Google Maps in Internet Explorer (and I think it'll work in Mozilla with a slight tweak). I have a C++ app that reads the data from the port and writes it to a file, and a JS function that loads that file every second or so and recenters the map. If you want to help me turn this into production quality code, let me know. (You mentioned a wireless gadget, but on highways there tends to be very little WiFi, so I just cache all the relevant map data beforehand.)
1. to break the CSS encryption on DVD Video titles except in the way prescribed by the copyright owner, or 2. to sell devices capable of doing so.
Wait. How is ripping a DVD - from a licenced DVD player - equivalent to breaking the encryption?
You're confusing the DMCA and copyright law again. The DMCA is not a copyright law, it is a chilling-effect law. Just because you can't crack the encryption doesn't mean you lose your fair use rights if you have a legal way to decrypt it.
Yes, but it does support LAME.
The fact that you posted it more than once makes one wonder. One time it's funny, twice it's stupid, etc.
He referred in the joke to the fact that he'd made it more than once. And what's the "etc."? I haven't heard that phrase, but I have heard, "fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." And you were apparently fooled on the second point.
Also, jokes are supposed to be funny, and yours wasn't.
Well, they both got +5 Funny, and humor is often subjective. Since enough moderators modded both of them up, we presume that many people thought it was funny (since the mods are a random sample). I for one thought it was great.
If you're disputing humor it's often useful to wait an hour and see how it gets modded. (I made this mistake once, and I made an angry and embarrasing response to someone who made what I later realized was a joke against me, not a criticism.)
Then again, you could say that since it got +5 Funny, not anything else, the mods didn't consider it that great because they didn't give him the karma.
In Soviet Saskatchewan, daylight time saves Wookies!
Or something like that. Was that the Saskatchewan joke you were referring to?
I have no clue what it'll take to fix Windows timezones.
o rmation.
Look in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInf
But a bunch of it appears to be binary. I didn't install the resource kit on here, so I don't have the tzedit applet, which is the proper way to mess with timezones...if someone does, could they please post the correct changes?
So what happens to Apu? Does he become a Latino convenience store clerk now?
No, he becomes an American soldier. That's the closest translation.
Al-Flanders: Salam A liddly diddly leikum neighbor !
Omar: lâ ilâha illâ allâh !
Durka-durka, Mohammed jihad!
Yes, I know. I thought I had made sure the text was dripping with sarcasm when I posted it, but perhaps the lameness filter absorbed some of it.
Um, guys, I think this was a joke. There's nothing relevant on a google for [guadalajara norwegian], and the misspelling of "their" kinda tips it off.
I think he was joking that Jon would run to Mexico, and making a joke on his own joke that their are Norwegians in Mexico. And somehow the two jokes cancelled and we missed it.
That was the joke. (Otherwise there would be no meaning in the GP's comment.)
You lose.
My windows box keeps failing to get an IP number, I think I
may have to move it again.
Um...It looks like it worked. You know you just posted a question to the Internet about not being able to connect to the Internet, right?
Oh, the other type of IP number? Here, you're 753 in our list. Please hold while we finish suing the other 752 people in line before you for infringing our IP.
Sorry, but you forgot the word "method".
America, where you can patent a method of doing something obvious, and then prevent someone else from picking that method out of the many ways to do that obvious thing.
Three cheers for forced innovation.
Now if only the patent office knew how to figure out what could be innovated upon - indeed, what patents would encourage innovation, by protecting the innovators and forcing other people to develop alternate methods with useful side results - and what is actually obvious and can't be done differently.
But I'm inclined to think that there isn't just one way to run pay-as-you-go. For example, you could transfer the whole balance to the phone in some encrypted manner, or you could have the phone check every minute whether the balance expired. You could keep its own true account, or you can model it as a phone with infinite airtime and a forced calling card. And so forth. There's more than one way to skin a prepaid cat.
Isn't that libel?
Or at least harassment?
There is no other country with which Britain has been so much at war with, and distrusts so much at times of peace as France.
IIRC, ever since the Crimean War in the late 1800s, there wasn't a war that Britain and France haven't been on the same side of. And if you want to get picky, Britain was on the same side as the French Loyalists during the Napoleonic Wars.
Roulette has nothing to do with anything. You might as well say that French is the language of tennis or of Mardi Gras.
Knowing French is thus the sine qua non of British intelligence.
Wow. That's amazing. Knowing French is, for English speakers, some random Latin phrase. Nice. I'm going to riposte and claim that French isn't a lingua franca anymore.