Although there are plenty of Web-Two-Point-Oh words that I hate (I clench at the sound of any permutation of podcast, inclusively!), one that I find specially annoying is "log". Even TV commercials use it to mean "visit" or "view", as in "Log on to www.whatever.com", when in fact no authentication credentials (i.e. log-on) is required.
Also, for some stupid reason, when I play WoW, people use it to mean "log-off", as in "my mom's calling, I gotta log, sorry." At first I thought the kids were just keeping track of their quests or something, but it just turned out to mean "log-off" or "log-out". Bleh.
As for TFA, I find specially disturbing the term "godcast". Not because it offends me in any way, but because of what it represents: I would imagine those who would actually be interested in producing or downloading such things would naturally have more respect for their deity than to use the name so loosely. Such insistence on making up words just to sound "cool" at the expense of your own values or any rational meaning, is just plain wrong.
I wonder how much time and tax-payers' dollars were spent on coming up with the cute acronym. I'd bet that was the first order of business during the first few meetings.
Any music file that ran on XP will run on Vista. Any video file that ran on XP will run on Vista.
That's not surprising, considering that the only music and video files that I know that "run" on XP are those infected with some malicious executable code. The clean ones depend on some sort of media player to read and decode them. Tsk. Tsk.
These new exploits would not be found if they hadn't fixed and published the first one.
Said the naive vendor. In essence, this is the "Security through obscurity" defense: Since we didn't publish it, *nobody* knows about it, much less the bad guys. Right-o.
You got that right! I once saw an episode where they discovered empirically the best method to cool beer: It was putting salt in iced water, which cooled room-temperature beer cans/bottles in a few seconds. How's that for useful knowledge!
I do not care much for DVORAK keyboards. While using Windows, for years, I preferred using the THURROTT keyboard better; I found its gratuituous endorsement of Microsoft's technologies and strawman arguments against competitors much more productive while coding, than DVORAK ever was. Plus, every once in a while, my DVORAK keyboard would just burst into flames whenever I use any GPL'd source.
Now that I'm a Mac user, I dumped the THURROTT *and* DVORAK keyboards altogether. I feel so much more at home using my newly discovered ERAN keyboard. Coding is such a cinch, and I am so fast, efficient, and productive without all the annoying and pointless distractions.
It's important to note that the Court of Appeals based the polical speech portion of its opinion on the Indiana Constitution and not the Federal Constitution. State Constitutions can allow greater freedom to the people that the Federal Constitution, but not less. In other words, it's possible this would have come out differently in another state. Of course, I'm from Indiana, so it applies around here.
You have a point. However, on this particular subject, any State could potentially limit (or expand) the freedom as they see fit, as the only Federal Constitutional protection is "Congress shall make no law...". And as long as the State's mandate does not imply an act of Congress (how could it?!), its within its bounds.
Minors cannot be held to a contract. Minors can not own property. Minors are fucking non-people under the laws of the United States, and AFAIK pretty much all of the states themselves as well.
Those are some freaky minors, going around fucking non-people? Ewww!
And by the way, do they really have a law for allowing them to fuck non-people?
make cast? I've done make, make install, make clean, make menuconfig, make xconfig, make modules make modules install, but I've never done make cast...
I don't think the flaw in Apollo 13 was _fatal_. If I recall correctly, some geeks saved the day with a sock and some duck tape, and Tom Hanks made it back alive. I also believe the queen alien was killed at the end.
I find it quite charming when I read an article by a game developer, such as this one, where they apparently seem to have uncover some secret or special technique that gives them a newly found insight into how to make games more fun or enjoyable. More often than not, these wonderful, brand-new pieces of knowledge are actually commonplace in other art or creative media, specially the age-old, well seasoned, creative outlets, such as literature and storytelling, where most techniques have been honed to perfection for centuries.
But even those bits of insight that appear to be unique to gaming or gameplay still seem obvious and primitive, as humans have been devicing ways to amuse themselves for ages. I recall when I read the article on the game "fl0w", and could not help but think in a very condescending and sarcastic way "you mean games should try to match the players skills and offer a winnable objective, and try to avoid frustrating them? Amazing!"
So, the same as when a Hollywood screen writer "comes up" with something like "Hey, you know what? perhaps we should let the good guy win; I think people will like that.", whenever a developer of games talks about how video games should use dramatic twists to advance the story in an emotionally involving way, my first thought is: Well, DUH! And my reply to such person is as follows: Perhaps those games you cite, along with the many others which have succesfully used such techniques, did not stumble on it by accident, but were a conscious decision of a good creative writer or designer. Perhaps that's why those games are classics and memorable, *because* they did things right. Perhaps you should go out and see the world more, read more books, watch more movies, play more games, and more importantly, talk to gamers more, to find out how other fellow humans interact or integrate with creative works, including games.
-dZ.
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One fish, two fish, red fish, blow fish. [KABOOM!]
>> I believe the Viral Marketing and Stealth Marketing trends will eventually lead us down the road to Informed Marketing. We'll reach a point where we no longer wish to be entertained or distracted by commercials, but rather, the commercials which give us the most accurate and detailed information about a product will be the most successful.
And everybody will love each other, and World Peace will be achieved, and starving children will be fed. Oh, and everyone will get a pony too! Yay! Hurrah for marketing!
You're not very familiar with newspaper comics and Internet culture, are you? Its an old saying that's been doing the rounds for years. When someone says something like "and a pony for everyone", it usually means, in a light-hearted way, they wish everyone gets what they want, but know that its purely wishful thinking, just as some may tack on "and world peace" to the end of their wishes.
It comes from a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, where Susie is wishing some bad things would happen to Calvin for teasing her. After making a number of such wishes, she thought something along the lines of "well, as long as I'm wishing, I also want a pony", recognizing the odds of getting any of it.
I remember reading somewhere about some teenage kid, a long time ago, that found current mathematical frameworks to be insufficient for some new planetary motion computations he wanted to perform. He then, against all accepted scientific and mathematical norms, created his very own bizarre framework, one that did just what he wanted it to. He then called it some weird latin name, and thought it was so bizarre, he didn't even attempt to publish it until much later, when he was older. Perhaps you've heard of him?
Seriously, I'm not agreeing with this Nullity thing, but all I'm saying is that to "restructure math as we know it", sometimes happens with splendid results, and its quite more than "just being clever".
>> Even if MS got everything else right with this player, it would be something for parents to avoid purchasing if they're going to have to manually create and install.dll files on X-mas morning.
Oh gawd, that's insane! I hate it when I have to manually create and install a.dll! Reading all those hex digits from the FAQ page, in li'l tiny print; but I especially dislike the inconvenience of having to print the entire bitstream out just so I can type it back into notepad. I mean, couldn't they at least let me copy-n-paste the code? That's just rude.
I agree that you lose quality when re-encoding a song bought from iTunes, and I won't even touch anything with DRM. But you are missing the point: Most people don't care about such quality loss, and burn their downloaded songs to CDs anyway; and they will choose the ITMS because other online music stores won't even allow them to do that.
Last night Ogi Ogas, a cognitive neuroscientist and Homeland Security Fellow, became the first person to face the million-dollar question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in three years by using a special technique known in cognitive science as REMEMBERING.
>> The findings demonstrate that some plants and animals have evolved the same molecular strategy to deter predators -- triggering pain by activating a specific receptor on sensory nerves.
This doesn't sound right. If this assertion is correct, it implies that as an organism is developing, its evolution is not only based on its perception of the environment, but on the exact biological constitution of it. How can a tarantula, for example, "know" of the existence of such receptors in its predators?
I would imagine it works the other way around: predators developed a common sensory receptor to detect specific chemical threats, and trigger an immediate physical response in order to prevent further consumption.
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Although there are plenty of Web-Two-Point-Oh words that I hate (I clench at the sound of any permutation of podcast, inclusively!), one that I find specially annoying is "log". Even TV commercials use it to mean "visit" or "view", as in "Log on to www.whatever.com", when in fact no authentication credentials (i.e. log-on) is required.
Also, for some stupid reason, when I play WoW, people use it to mean "log-off", as in "my mom's calling, I gotta log, sorry." At first I thought the kids were just keeping track of their quests or something, but it just turned out to mean "log-off" or "log-out". Bleh.
As for TFA, I find specially disturbing the term "godcast". Not because it offends me in any way, but because of what it represents: I would imagine those who would actually be interested in producing or downloading such things would naturally have more respect for their deity than to use the name so loosely. Such insistence on making up words just to sound "cool" at the expense of your own values or any rational meaning, is just plain wrong.
-dZ.
I wonder how much time and tax-payers' dollars were spent on coming up with the cute acronym. I'd bet that was the first order of business during the first few meetings.
-dZ.
That's not surprising, considering that the only music and video files that I know that "run" on XP are those infected with some malicious executable code. The clean ones depend on some sort of media player to read and decode them. Tsk. Tsk.
-dZ.
Except for the simple fact that It Worked.
-dZ.
Said the naive vendor. In essence, this is the "Security through obscurity" defense: Since we didn't publish it, *nobody* knows about it, much less the bad guys. Right-o.
-dZ.
You got that right! I once saw an episode where they discovered empirically the best method to cool beer: It was putting salt in iced water, which cooled room-temperature beer cans/bottles in a few seconds. How's that for useful knowledge!
-dZ.
OMG!!! Do not delete those cookies!!!1one
Every time you delete a cookie god kills a kitten.
-dZ.
I do not care much for DVORAK keyboards. While using Windows, for years, I preferred using the THURROTT keyboard better; I found its gratuituous endorsement of Microsoft's technologies and strawman arguments against competitors much more productive while coding, than DVORAK ever was. Plus, every once in a while, my DVORAK keyboard would just burst into flames whenever I use any GPL'd source.
Now that I'm a Mac user, I dumped the THURROTT *and* DVORAK keyboards altogether. I feel so much more at home using my newly discovered ERAN keyboard. Coding is such a cinch, and I am so fast, efficient, and productive without all the annoying and pointless distractions.
-dZ.
You have a point. However, on this particular subject, any State could potentially limit (or expand) the freedom as they see fit, as the only Federal Constitutional protection is "Congress shall make no law...". And as long as the State's mandate does not imply an act of Congress (how could it?!), its within its bounds.
-dZ.
Those are some freaky minors, going around fucking non-people? Ewww!
And by the way, do they really have a law for allowing them to fuck non-people?
-dZ.
int make;
foo = make(bronze);
duh!
Oh, I see you are effecting the Think Of The Children (tm) argument. You may as well invoke the Nazis too, to guarantee this thread is ended.
-dZ.
I don't think the flaw in Apollo 13 was _fatal_. If I recall correctly, some geeks saved the day with a sock and some duck tape, and Tom Hanks made it back alive. I also believe the queen alien was killed at the end.
-dZ.
If I had mod-points, I'd mod you up! Thanks for the laugh! :)
-dZ.
I find it quite charming when I read an article by a game developer, such as this one, where they apparently seem to have uncover some secret or special technique that gives them a newly found insight into how to make games more fun or enjoyable. More often than not, these wonderful, brand-new pieces of knowledge are actually commonplace in other art or creative media, specially the age-old, well seasoned, creative outlets, such as literature and storytelling, where most techniques have been honed to perfection for centuries.
But even those bits of insight that appear to be unique to gaming or gameplay still seem obvious and primitive, as humans have been devicing ways to amuse themselves for ages. I recall when I read the article on the game "fl0w", and could not help but think in a very condescending and sarcastic way "you mean games should try to match the players skills and offer a winnable objective, and try to avoid frustrating them? Amazing!"
So, the same as when a Hollywood screen writer "comes up" with something like "Hey, you know what? perhaps we should let the good guy win; I think people will like that.", whenever a developer of games talks about how video games should use dramatic twists to advance the story in an emotionally involving way, my first thought is: Well, DUH! And my reply to such person is as follows: Perhaps those games you cite, along with the many others which have succesfully used such techniques, did not stumble on it by accident, but were a conscious decision of a good creative writer or designer. Perhaps that's why those games are classics and memorable, *because* they did things right. Perhaps you should go out and see the world more, read more books, watch more movies, play more games, and more importantly, talk to gamers more, to find out how other fellow humans interact or integrate with creative works, including games.
-dZ.
--
One fish, two fish, red fish, blow fish. [KABOOM!]
>> I believe the Viral Marketing and Stealth Marketing trends will eventually lead us down the road to Informed Marketing. We'll reach a point where we no longer wish to be entertained or distracted by commercials, but rather, the commercials which give us the most accurate and detailed information about a product will be the most successful.
And everybody will love each other, and World Peace will be achieved, and starving children will be fed. Oh, and everyone will get a pony too! Yay! Hurrah for marketing!
-dZ.
I think you meant purgery. Those damn bulimiacs, they must be stopped!
-dZ.
I think he meant "released by Microsoft", not in general.
-dZ.
You're not very familiar with newspaper comics and Internet culture, are you? Its an old saying that's been doing the rounds for years. When someone says something like "and a pony for everyone", it usually means, in a light-hearted way, they wish everyone gets what they want, but know that its purely wishful thinking, just as some may tack on "and world peace" to the end of their wishes.
It comes from a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, where Susie is wishing some bad things would happen to Calvin for teasing her. After making a number of such wishes, she thought something along the lines of "well, as long as I'm wishing, I also want a pony", recognizing the odds of getting any of it.
-dZ.
I remember reading somewhere about some teenage kid, a long time ago, that found current mathematical frameworks to be insufficient for some new planetary motion computations he wanted to perform. He then, against all accepted scientific and mathematical norms, created his very own bizarre framework, one that did just what he wanted it to. He then called it some weird latin name, and thought it was so bizarre, he didn't even attempt to publish it until much later, when he was older. Perhaps you've heard of him?
Seriously, I'm not agreeing with this Nullity thing, but all I'm saying is that to "restructure math as we know it", sometimes happens with splendid results, and its quite more than "just being clever".
-dZ.
>> Even if MS got everything else right with this player, it would be something for parents to avoid purchasing if they're going to have to manually create and install .dll files on X-mas morning.
.dll! Reading all those hex digits from the FAQ page, in li'l tiny print; but I especially dislike the inconvenience of having to print the entire bitstream out just so I can type it back into notepad. I mean, couldn't they at least let me copy-n-paste the code? That's just rude.
Oh gawd, that's insane! I hate it when I have to manually create and install a
-dZ.
I agree that you lose quality when re-encoding a song bought from iTunes, and I won't even touch anything with DRM. But you are missing the point: Most people don't care about such quality loss, and burn their downloaded songs to CDs anyway; and they will choose the ITMS because other online music stores won't even allow them to do that.
-dZ.
Last night Ogi Ogas, a cognitive neuroscientist and Homeland Security Fellow, became the first person to face the million-dollar question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in three years by using a special technique known in cognitive science as REMEMBERING.
-dZ.
>> The findings demonstrate that some plants and animals have evolved the same molecular strategy to deter predators -- triggering pain by activating a specific receptor on sensory nerves.
This doesn't sound right. If this assertion is correct, it implies that as an organism is developing, its evolution is not only based on its perception of the environment, but on the exact biological constitution of it. How can a tarantula, for example, "know" of the existence of such receptors in its predators?
I would imagine it works the other way around: predators developed a common sensory receptor to detect specific chemical threats, and trigger an immediate physical response in order to prevent further consumption.
-dZ.