Notice how the directory says "peanut". This is evidence of a massive sun conspiracy.
Multiple choice time: (a) The developers of the linux port are working for peanuts (b) They give it away for free now, but once it gains popularity they will revoke this right (their license allows them to), earning many peanuts (cash) in the process. (C HINT HINT RIGHT ANSWER) The only thing their product is good for is you can use the CD to squash peanuts (HINT HINT CHOOSE C)
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At my local library (Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County), you can check out software in the same way you would with books.
Of course, they don't have quake or anything, but they have a lot of good (and stupid) educational titles and even some non-violent games like Myst or AEGIS cruiser (off the top of my head).
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Of course they wouldn't, and I doubt they could prove that.doc is copy protected. It's just that it's early in the morning, I have a stomach ache, and the cynicsm is really starting to get me.
But that brings up a question that is perhaps a little more serious. What about unintential obfuscation? If XOR encryption is considered valid, what about a file format that's so obfucsated that it is nearly impossible to reverse-engineer it? Would that be considered copy protection, even if the intent was not to obfuscate?
It makes you think.
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Wouldn't this be made illegal under the DMCA? After all, we can only hack the.doc format by circumventing its encryption scheme.
OK, OK, you are going to say that.doc's aren't encrypted. But even their encoding scheme could be regarded as a form of data hiding.
Oh, I forgot one minor detail. The government is in bed with the movie industry, not the software industry. So it's ok to bypass the encryption on anything except mp3s and dvd.
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FYI, IE loads quickly because much of it is loaded upon the startup of windows. Microsoft cheated. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
They fail to realize that two posters can have constrasting viewpoints; at the same time they blast "linux supporters" for having splits in the community
They think that because one person says something it is representative of the whole community; at the same time they just do not understand that it is possible for two people out of the thousands to see things a different way.
SATIRE=OFF
Seriously, some people think that MS _does_ need to be punished, while others think that free market forces will destroy it anyway.
Don't you get the fact that two people can have opposing viewpoints? By labeling a whole mass of unique people as "linux supporters", one overlooks the wide range of opinions contained therein. It is easy to mock a community by pointing out contradictions, ignoring the fact that there are always differences in the opinions of the community. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
This was a great article except for one detail at the end, in which a person was quoted in saying that Linux will fragment like all other UNIXes.
The problem was that other UNIXes fragmented the market by adding proprietary add-ons, making it impossible for them to work together. However, this can only happen in a proprietary environment. This can never happen when users understand that proprietary software inevitably leads to market fragmentations, hijacking of standards, etc. etc. etc.
This is one thing that the open source movement is wrong about. They succeed in spreading the business model to the rest of the world, and that is a Good Thing(tm), but they fail to spread word about the evils of proprietary software. With licenses such as X or BSD, anyone can make exploit loopholes in the software to create an incompatible version, thus leading back to the old fragmentation problems that Linux rose from the ashes thereof. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
Not quite. ReiserFS is a journaling filesystem, which means that it tracks any changes you make so that no data are lost in a crash. In addition, fsck times are tiny because it merely has to restore any lost changes instead of checking the entire drive. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
Well, I asked someone, and I was wrong about the tires. Again, that was just a guess.
Fact is, it is not that hard to keep Shabbat. Just put the important lights on timers, don't use electricity (again, except with timers), and don't drive[*] or shop.
The Talmud is in no way anachronistic. The purpose of the Sabbath is to be a day of rest and study; a good idea for the gentile world as well. The French one time tried to move to one free day in 10 instead of 1 in 7 and it was a miserable failure. To cease from work one day a week is a Good Thing(tm). And the things that have a definite positive correlation between them and low conversion rates are intermarriage and the keeping of the Sabbath.
All of the prohibitions in the Talmud were derived logically or from common sense. For example, the Bible begins the sentence about doing no work on Shabbat the same way it begins the sentence about construction of the Mishkan. Therefore, the 39 prohibited forms of labor are the same as the kinds of labor that were used in building the Mishkan. It sounds stupid the way I said it, but it makes very much sense if you look at it logically from a better explanation than mine.
[*] The conservative movement has ruled that it is acceptable to drive on Shabbat, but only to synagogue. This is because many people would otherwise not be able to go to synagogue at all due to the spreading out of the Jewish population. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
Sorry. I'm 14. And I do C++ and Python (among other languages), including inheritance, polymorphism, operator overloading (albeit not in python), and dada hiding. I learned C when I was about 12, moving on to C++ a year or so later.
But now, to agree: I started wtih BASIC in fourth grade and didn't move on to C until two years later, in sixth grade. Once one is trying to read the mouse port or get in-line assembler to work from BASIC, it's time to move on. I probably should have done C a year earlier; however, BASIC _was_ a great starting point.
My point being, start with "Hello World" on BASIC or Python, but move them on to C/C++ or the OOP stuff in Python as soon as they're ready. Don't waste time fooling around with BASIC past its useful lifetime, which could be anywhere from 2 to 6 months after you start learning it. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
That's a very complex question. Whenever electricity arcs, that's considered fire. Rubber tires might violate the prohibition against tearing (when they rub off onto the road -- I'm not sure about this one). And there are many other good reasons why cars of any form violate the laws of the Sabbath, one of them being the prohibition against carrying on Shabbat.
What if you drive an electric car with arc-free switches, with your whole town inside an eruv? Even then, there might be some other reasons -- again, IANAR. And even if you managed to get everything halakhically acceptable, even the appearance of violating shabbat is not good.
For example, one is forbidden to eat milk products with chicken, even chicken technically is not considered fleishic (because it does not give milk, eating chicken with milk products could not possibly violate the prohibition against boiling a kid in its mothers milk). However, when one eats chicken, it appears that one is mixing milk with meat, and thus it is forbidden. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
FYI, the reason some Jewish families prepare food the night before is not because anything that might possibly be considered work is forbidden. Rather, it is because we interpret that specific clause of the Bible to mean a prohibition against specific types of _labor_. This interpretation comes from a text called the Talmud, recorded about 130 c.e., that mostly contains interpretations of the Bible. The interpretation lists 39 specific types of labor, two of which are using fire and finishing works, both of which are done by the cooking of food.
Herein lies the main difference between Judaism and Christianity. It is not the belief in Jesus as the son of G-d. It is that we believe that it is not up to the individual to interpret the Bible according to his own beliefs. We allow the great rabbis of thousands of years ago to act as our proxy, trusting their hundreds of years of logic and analysis. So when you say that Judaism says that any thing that could be construed as work is forbidden, that is not quite accurate. Truth is, we have a few ways to do things that _would_ be considered work, such as using a timer to turn lights on and off. Point is, we focus on specific, technical, logical interpretations of the Bible, instead of allowing individuals to interpret for themselves. So bringing up the original poster's question again, we don't argue about whether doing open-source programming is really considered work. Instead, we focus on the Rabbis' interpretations, asking ourselves if doing these actions would be a certain type of _labor_, instead of having individuals evaluate if it is work according to them.
Sorry if this rambled a little bit:-)
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IANAC (I am not a Christian), so I wouldn't know much about the official Chrisitan stance on this. However...
In Judaism, we have a text called the Talmud written by the great rabbis sometime b.c.e., taught orally until it was recorded circa 130 c.e. It is mainly a commentary and explanation of the Bible (old testament, of course:-) ), created so that Jews would know what verses in the Bible mean exactly, since they can be interpreted in many different ways. The Talmud explains the fragment "you shall not do labor" into 39 specific types of labor that are forbidden. The concern is more with specific types of _labor_, not just work per se. For example, it is a lot easier to drive to synagogue than it is to walk, especially if one lives far away. However, driving is prohibited[*] because the engine creates fire, and creating fire is one type of labor specifically prohibited on the Sabbath.
Using a computer is also prohibited for very technical reasons that would be very hard to explain to a layman. So for us, the importance is not on how hard it is to do something; rather, the importance is on whether or not this type of labor is of a type that specifically violates the rules of the Sabbath.
So from this small fragment commanding us to rest on the Sabbath, you get this whole technical issue.
Chrisianity, OTOH, has no such text. It is, rather, up to the individual to determine what would be considered work or not.
If you enjoy writing free software, go ahead and do this! It is for the good of the community. Don't stress yourself with it, though; if it gets too tiring to stare in front of the screen, take a nap. Enjoy your sabbath.
If you are looking for a specific, logical ruling on whether or not this is permissable according to the Bible, Chrisianity will not tell you this.
I don't want to insult Chrisitanity; I have reasons why I think my religion is superior, but I respect everyone else's beliefs. Just don't look for an official answer about whether or not it is permissable, because such is not possible without logical studies of the Bible, recording conclusions on conclusions. So in the end, do what you feel is right. Enjoy your sabbath your way, and if writing code is relaxing, by all means, do that. In the absence of specific rulings on what is forbidden and what is not, do whatever your heart feels is right.
[*] Branches of Judaism differ on this issue. Conservative Judaism, for example, says that it is permissable to drive a car only to synagogue, because otherwise many people will not be able to attend at all. Reform Judaism says that if driving a car will allow you to have an enjoyable Sabbath, do so. They reject much of the Talmud, arguing that it is not relevant for modern times. But this starts getting into flamewar territory.
Disclaimer #2: IANAR (I am not a Rabbi). I may have gotten some Halakhic issues off a little, but I hope that my post's meaning still goes across. And if I got something wrong, tell me! I want to know.
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I was expected a slightly wimpy reply that only said that slashdot could/would not remove the posts. Instead, you question them about the very issue, arguing for open kerberos instead of just trying to cover your behinds!
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How are the b&w team going to handle the modification of multiplayer code to give people things they shouldn't have? The only way to do this is (AFAIK) to make the whole game (not just mp) client-server and have the server store everything, only letting the client see what it should see. One must not count on the client to hide things from the user, because a patched client could easily do things like that. Or do they have a better method? nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
Why haven't they been heard of until now? Publicity directly leads to venture capital; there is no reason why a company would try to stay as secret as that. This whole thing even smells kind of a like a hoax; they had nothing to gain and money to lose by keeping it secret. nuclear cia fbi spy password code encrypt president bomb
First, you speak your words into a speech program that's inaccurate when it's at its best.
Then, you take that already slightly garbled quote and then subject to another punishing round of mistakes with the translator.
Each one boasts 90% accuracy;.9^2 =.81 or 1/5, which means you will have to fix one out of five words already. And then add to this the fact that the translator does even worse with text that's garbled to begin with.
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I main gripe of translate are the accurate of information it give. I first one bad translate did but now I having much betterer one. It had translate this one and it do good!
Serious, some person complaining too much about translate but I am seeing none problems. It look goodly to I.
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no, six times nine equals 42! The exact quote is "what do you get when you multiply six by nine?" And the answer was drawn out of a scrabble bag on Earth with all of the hairdressers and marketing people.
The "we apolologize for the inconvenience" was G-d's final message to creation.
btw, in binary: 6 = 0110 9 = 1001 42= 010101
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Slashdot Mirror
If Star Office is SO, then is Star Office for Linux SOL? :-)
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Notice how the directory says "peanut". This is evidence of a massive sun conspiracy.
Multiple choice time:
(a) The developers of the linux port are working for peanuts
(b) They give it away for free now, but once it gains popularity they will revoke this right (their license allows them to), earning many peanuts (cash) in the process.
(C HINT HINT RIGHT ANSWER) The only thing their product is good for is you can use the CD to squash peanuts (HINT HINT CHOOSE C)
:-P
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At my local library (Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County), you can check out software in the same way you would with books.
Of course, they don't have quake or anything, but they have a lot of good (and stupid) educational titles and even some non-violent games like Myst or AEGIS cruiser (off the top of my head).
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... when some teenager starts working on this and accidentally turns the Earth into a giant slab of gorganzola cheese :-)
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Of course they wouldn't, and I doubt they could prove that .doc is copy protected. It's just that it's early in the morning, I have a stomach ache, and the cynicsm is really starting to get me.
But that brings up a question that is perhaps a little more serious. What about unintential obfuscation? If XOR encryption is considered valid, what about a file format that's so obfucsated that it is nearly impossible to reverse-engineer it? Would that be considered copy protection, even if the intent was not to obfuscate?
It makes you think.
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Wouldn't this be made illegal under the DMCA? After all, we can only hack the .doc format by circumventing its encryption scheme.
.doc's aren't encrypted. But even their encoding scheme could be regarded as a form of data hiding.
OK, OK, you are going to say that
Oh, I forgot one minor detail. The government is in bed with the movie industry, not the software industry. So it's ok to bypass the encryption on anything except mp3s and dvd.
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FYI, IE loads quickly because much of it is loaded upon the startup of windows. Microsoft cheated.
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"Great algorithms are the poetry of computation"
:-)
Funny, I thought Perl was
(note to moderators: it's a joke, ok?)
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They fail to realize that two posters can have constrasting viewpoints; at the same time they blast "linux supporters" for having splits in the community
They think that because one person says something it is representative of the whole community; at the same time they just do not understand that it is possible for two people out of the thousands to see things a different way.
SATIRE=OFF
Seriously, some people think that MS _does_ need to be punished, while others think that free market forces will destroy it anyway.
Don't you get the fact that two people can have opposing viewpoints? By labeling a whole mass of unique people as "linux supporters", one overlooks the wide range of opinions contained therein. It is easy to mock a community by pointing out contradictions, ignoring the fact that there are always differences in the opinions of the community.
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This was a great article except for one detail at the end, in which a person was quoted in saying that Linux will fragment like all other UNIXes.
The problem was that other UNIXes fragmented the market by adding proprietary add-ons, making it impossible for them to work together. However, this can only happen in a proprietary environment. This can never happen when users understand that proprietary software inevitably leads to market fragmentations, hijacking of standards, etc. etc. etc.
This is one thing that the open source movement is wrong about. They succeed in spreading the business model to the rest of the world, and that is a Good Thing(tm), but they fail to spread word about the evils of proprietary software. With licenses such as X or BSD, anyone can make exploit loopholes in the software to create an incompatible version, thus leading back to the old fragmentation problems that Linux rose from the ashes thereof.
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Not quite. ReiserFS is a journaling filesystem, which means that it tracks any changes you make so that no data are lost in a crash. In addition, fsck times are tiny because it merely has to restore any lost changes instead of checking the entire drive.
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Of course. They need to fire people to get a power source for the engine.
:-P
Get it?
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Well, I asked someone, and I was wrong about the tires. Again, that was just a guess.
Fact is, it is not that hard to keep Shabbat. Just put the important lights on timers, don't use electricity (again, except with timers), and don't drive[*] or shop.
The Talmud is in no way anachronistic. The purpose of the Sabbath is to be a day of rest and study; a good idea for the gentile world as well. The French one time tried to move to one free day in 10 instead of 1 in 7 and it was a miserable failure. To cease from work one day a week is a Good Thing(tm). And the things that have a definite positive correlation between them and low conversion rates are intermarriage and the keeping of the Sabbath.
All of the prohibitions in the Talmud were derived logically or from common sense. For example, the Bible begins the sentence about doing no work on Shabbat the same way it begins the sentence about construction of the Mishkan. Therefore, the 39 prohibited forms of labor are the same as the kinds of labor that were used in building the Mishkan. It sounds stupid the way I said it, but it makes very much sense if you look at it logically from a better explanation than mine.
[*] The conservative movement has ruled that it is acceptable to drive on Shabbat, but only to synagogue. This is because many people would otherwise not be able to go to synagogue at all due to the spreading out of the Jewish population.
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First, to disagree with you:
Sorry. I'm 14. And I do C++ and Python (among other languages), including inheritance, polymorphism, operator overloading (albeit not in python), and dada hiding. I learned C when I was about 12, moving on to C++ a year or so later.
But now, to agree: I started wtih BASIC in fourth grade and didn't move on to C until two years later, in sixth grade. Once one is trying to read the mouse port or get in-line assembler to work from BASIC, it's time to move on. I probably should have done C a year earlier; however, BASIC _was_ a great starting point.
My point being, start with "Hello World" on BASIC or Python, but move them on to C/C++ or the OOP stuff in Python as soon as they're ready. Don't waste time fooling around with BASIC past its useful lifetime, which could be anywhere from 2 to 6 months after you start learning it.
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If MS decided to write their own antivirus software (which would send me into gales of laughter)...
You mean like MSAV (MicroSoft AntiVirus), which was bundled with later versions of DOS?
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That's a very complex question. Whenever electricity arcs, that's considered fire. Rubber tires might violate the prohibition against tearing (when they rub off onto the road -- I'm not sure about this one). And there are many other good reasons why cars of any form violate the laws of the Sabbath, one of them being the prohibition against carrying on Shabbat.
What if you drive an electric car with arc-free switches, with your whole town inside an eruv? Even then, there might be some other reasons -- again, IANAR. And even if you managed to get everything halakhically acceptable, even the appearance of violating shabbat is not good.
For example, one is forbidden to eat milk products with chicken, even chicken technically is not considered fleishic (because it does not give milk, eating chicken with milk products could not possibly violate the prohibition against boiling a kid in its mothers milk). However, when one eats chicken, it appears that one is mixing milk with meat, and thus it is forbidden.
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FYI, the reason some Jewish families prepare food the night before is not because anything that might possibly be considered work is forbidden. Rather, it is because we interpret that specific clause of the Bible to mean a prohibition against specific types of _labor_. This interpretation comes from a text called the Talmud, recorded about 130 c.e., that mostly contains interpretations of the Bible. The interpretation lists 39 specific types of labor, two of which are using fire and finishing works, both of which are done by the cooking of food.
:-)
Herein lies the main difference between Judaism and Christianity. It is not the belief in Jesus as the son of G-d. It is that we believe that it is not up to the individual to interpret the Bible according to his own beliefs. We allow the great rabbis of thousands of years ago to act as our proxy, trusting their hundreds of years of logic and analysis. So when you say that Judaism says that any thing that could be construed as work is forbidden, that is not quite accurate. Truth is, we have a few ways to do things that _would_ be considered work, such as using a timer to turn lights on and off. Point is, we focus on specific, technical, logical interpretations of the Bible, instead of allowing individuals to interpret for themselves. So bringing up the original poster's question again, we don't argue about whether doing open-source programming is really considered work. Instead, we focus on the Rabbis' interpretations, asking ourselves if doing these actions would be a certain type of _labor_, instead of having individuals evaluate if it is work according to them.
Sorry if this rambled a little bit
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IANAC (I am not a Christian), so I wouldn't know much about the official Chrisitan stance on this. However...
:-) ), created so that Jews would know what verses in the Bible mean exactly, since they can be interpreted in many different ways. The Talmud explains the fragment "you shall not do labor" into 39 specific types of labor that are forbidden. The concern is more with specific types of _labor_, not just work per se. For example, it is a lot easier to drive to synagogue than it is to walk, especially if one lives far away. However, driving is prohibited[*] because the engine creates fire, and creating fire is one type of labor specifically prohibited on the Sabbath.
In Judaism, we have a text called the Talmud written by the great rabbis sometime b.c.e., taught orally until it was recorded circa 130 c.e. It is mainly a commentary and explanation of the Bible (old testament, of course
Using a computer is also prohibited for very technical reasons that would be very hard to explain to a layman. So for us, the importance is not on how hard it is to do something; rather, the importance is on whether or not this type of labor is of a type that specifically violates the rules of the Sabbath.
So from this small fragment commanding us to rest on the Sabbath, you get this whole technical issue.
Chrisianity, OTOH, has no such text. It is, rather, up to the individual to determine what would be considered work or not.
If you enjoy writing free software, go ahead and do this! It is for the good of the community. Don't stress yourself with it, though; if it gets too tiring to stare in front of the screen, take a nap. Enjoy your sabbath.
If you are looking for a specific, logical ruling on whether or not this is permissable according to the Bible, Chrisianity will not tell you this.
I don't want to insult Chrisitanity; I have reasons why I think my religion is superior, but I respect everyone else's beliefs. Just don't look for an official answer about whether or not it is permissable, because such is not possible without logical studies of the Bible, recording conclusions on conclusions. So in the end, do what you feel is right. Enjoy your sabbath your way, and if writing code is relaxing, by all means, do that. In the absence of specific rulings on what is forbidden and what is not, do whatever your heart feels is right.
[*] Branches of Judaism differ on this issue. Conservative Judaism, for example, says that it is permissable to drive a car only to synagogue, because otherwise many people will not be able to attend at all. Reform Judaism says that if driving a car will allow you to have an enjoyable Sabbath, do so. They reject much of the Talmud, arguing that it is not relevant for modern times. But this starts getting into flamewar territory.
Disclaimer #2: IANAR (I am not a Rabbi). I may have gotten some Halakhic issues off a little, but I hope that my post's meaning still goes across. And if I got something wrong, tell me! I want to know.
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I was expected a slightly wimpy reply that only said that slashdot could/would not remove the posts. Instead, you question them about the very issue, arguing for open kerberos instead of just trying to cover your behinds!
Good job!
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How are the b&w team going to handle the modification of multiplayer code to give people things they shouldn't have? The only way to do this is (AFAIK) to make the whole game (not just mp) client-server and have the server store everything, only letting the client see what it should see. One must not count on the client to hide things from the user, because a patched client could easily do things like that. Or do they have a better method?
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Why haven't they been heard of until now? Publicity directly leads to venture capital; there is no reason why a company would try to stay as secret as that. This whole thing even smells kind of a like a hoax; they had nothing to gain and money to lose by keeping it secret.
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Great.
.9^2 = .81 or 1/5, which means you will have to fix one out of five words already. And then add to this the fact that the translator does even worse with text that's garbled to begin with.
First, you speak your words into a speech program that's inaccurate when it's at its best.
Then, you take that already slightly garbled quote and then subject to another punishing round of mistakes with the translator.
Each one boasts 90% accuracy;
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I main gripe of translate are the accurate of information it give. I first one bad translate did but now I having much betterer one. It had translate this one and it do good!
Serious, some person complaining too much about translate but I am seeing none problems. It look goodly to I.
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no, six times nine equals 42! The exact quote is "what do you get when you multiply six by nine?" And the answer was drawn out of a scrabble bag on Earth with all of the hairdressers and marketing people.
The "we apolologize for the inconvenience" was G-d's final message to creation.
btw, in binary:
6 = 0110
9 = 1001
42= 010101
weird, huh?
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...glad we never got caught!
:-)
You did now.
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