As a Japanese speaker, I should probobly clarify how the charachter sets work. In written Japanese, there are two phonetic alphabets and a ideogram-based script. The phonetic alphabets have(I think) 56 charachters, and there is no "case" difference in either one. There is a one-to-one correspondence between the two alphabets, so you could probobly do "alphabet insensitivity" for those. However, for the ideogram-based writing there are thousands of charachters, and their pronounciation can vary depending on context. It would be rather difficult to be "case insensitive" to these.
I used to live in Japan. Some of my earliest memories are of huddling a darkened apartment with my mother, while a typhoon raged outside breaking windows. This happens, year after year, like clockwork, and a typhoon hits a *very* large chunk of the country, causing a lot of damage. Let me tell you, a tornado is a really minor thing; very powerful, but so localized that you can have one pass within a mile and only have to deal with fallen debree.
I now live near Memphis, where we just had a tornado touch down a few days ago. I live here primarily because my mother moved here and I go to college here now. I don't like living here too much, but that has more to do with crime, local culture, and being stuck out in the middle of nowhere. Tornados rank somewhere below crazed swamp rats and cannibal school children on my list of worries. To put it another way, tornados are to bad weather what school shootings are to crime; they're spectacular, they grab the headlines, and you don't want to be caught in one, but they're insignificant in the big picture.
Seriously, if you can't handle the one-in-a-million chances of being hit by a tornade, how can you drive a car, which is *far* more likely to kill you?
I remember back in the mid-ninties or so, when the web was young and (relatively) innocent. I was surfing a bunch of Star Trek sites when I first came upon Star Trek porn. Now keep in mind that this was back before porn became a big business on the 'net. So these people(guys and gals) must have been really obsessed fans who took the time to take nude photos of themselves while 'cosplaying', and scanned and posted it on the internet back when that was a totally geek-only thing... I don't know whether to be amused or frightened by the geekyness of it all.
At least there was no Wesley Crusher porn that I can recall... Hey CleverNickName, have you had problems with fan imposter porn being done of you or your charachter?
Yeah, me too... and I was shocked and scarred when I first came upon fan-fiction lesbian x86-on-Alpha action... and I needed therapy after I found "VAX does Vermont". The horror, the horror...
I don't know if you've been in an American high school, but over here we generally make kids take a "general science" course before chemistry, biology, & physics. The one I took was complete crap, but that's more the (gym) teacher's fault... Anyways, the gernal science class should be the place where the scientific method is taught, and the other specialized classes should be for teaching the results of the method - discoveries in the respective fields in the past.
Oh, I have been looking for a version control and database system for my home directory and bookmarks; can you give me your impressions of subversion and how well it works? Thanks.
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You're talking about some seriously deranged individuals here, and it's been known for decades that serial killers do fit some rather general profiles. What's the surprise here?
I think the problem the original poster was talking about was not that serial killers were assumed to be wierd, but that wierd people were assumed to be serial killers. What if you were a person with 'odd' tastes, who got fingered by the police for murder just because you fit some 'profile' made up by some dude in a office who's never met you? Like, say, someone that pretends to be an hunchbacked cave-dweller from outer space *must* be the murderer... As for the past being worse, things have been getting better with respect to being an 'outlier' of society for some time, and this technology seems to be a step in the wrong direction.
I think the problem is that Lucas wrote the prequels years after the original, so he keeps trying too hard to 'tie them to the original'.
Remember the Babylon 5 prequel TV-movies, where we had major charachters from the series bumping into each other left and right, despite the fact that they supposedly didn't know each other when they 'first met' on the series? This despite the fact that J. Micheal Straczynski is a much better writer than Lucas. I think this sort of thing is a problem with prequels in general...
Hello, my name is Theo DeRaadt. I am a software deveolper in the frozen wastelands of Canada. Recently, I was awarded a $2 million grant from DARPA, the U.S. military research agency. However, I am unable to access my bank account in the U.S. and transfer my money out of the country. This is where you come in...
Wow, OS X with its "lickable" interface and "Cocoa" center, put in a nutshell! This is the greatest advancement of the confectionary industry in years!
What? What do you mean, "It's an operating system" ?
My god, imagine how much money Slashdot could extort out of Microsoft if they demanded that MS buy ads from them if they ever wanted Taco to shut up about MS's failings...
Oh wait. They buy ads anyways. Curse you, Microsoft, for foiling my nefarious plan!
Actually, I remember hearing from my high school civics teacher that there were some efforts by northern Californians to split off from the rest of the state and form a state called "Jefferson". I don't think that got anywhere, obviously:P Northern Cali. is really rural, and feels more like a warm(er) version of Oregon or Idaho than what most people think of California as being. I don't think there's even much agriculture in the area, it's mostly forest land.
I suspect that the urban/rural split is felt in a lot of states, and it would be interesting what would happen to the domestic political scene if the urban(more liberal) areas became separate states.
Okay, I know you're just asking an honest question, but there have been a lot of comments along those lines. Frankly, I've had it with this negative attitude that "There's no point in knowing, since we can't fix it". *SO WHAT* if we can't fix it in orbit? Since when has being ignorant of the problem ever fixed anything? If we had done this for Columbia, we might know what the problem is, and fixed it on the other shuttles. Instead, we have an investigation that is going to take months longer, and in the meantime we'll be sending up shuttles with some unknown problem that hasn't been fixed, putting others at risk.
Saying that "We couldn't have fixed Columbia, so there's no point in knowing" is like saying, "There's no point in having a video of a murder, since the victim's dead anyway" or "Why bother knowing about Windows exploits, we can't patch it anyways". Having knowledge of the problem may not help you fix it right then, but it might help you make better decisions in the future. Besides, when has ignorance ever solved anything?
I can't think of any army in history that places so much value on the lives of individual soldiers as today's US Army.
That was a lesson taught to them the hard way, through the loss of the Vietnam war. During that war, the army risked a lot of lives to get very little in return, and got a terrible reaction at home. The military learned there that: 1) Public support is invaluable in war 2) Keeping casualties low is nessecary to get that support 3) Keeping a war short gives your critics at home and your enemy on the battlefield less time to oppose you.
In every war since(especially the 1st gulf war), there has been a lot of thought given to "not making this another Vietnam", which is what causes the risk-averse nature of the army you describe.
Okay, I'm not a networking expert but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night(and am taking a class in networking). Here's my somewhat quick explanation:
IP adresses exist so that you can abstract away the hardware on the network. For example, let's say you have a Linux box with IP of 192.168.1.1 and MAC address of XXXX. You can take that box out, and replace it with a Win2k box of IP 192.168.1.1 and MAC address of YYYY. Anything that needed to talk to 192.168.1.1, can still do so without worring about the underlying hardware, or the MAC address having changed. If you rely on the MAC address only, you'd have to change network settings each time you change servers, or even network cards. Using the MAC address would make sense only if there were something that needed to be sent to one NIC, and only that NIC.
Using IP addresses makes networks far easier to organize, too. You can have a network setup where: Mail server - 192.168.2.1 DNS server - 192.168.2.2 FTP server - 192.168.2.3
...and so on. The addresses are organized, and you don't have to worry about them changing each time there's an upgrade. If you used only hardware addresses:
Mail server - 43HuI87j2H21 DNS server - 5e776uiWE25 FTP server - U089MN5dw2
...and it would change constantly, making networking a huge headache. As an analogy, think about the phone or mail system - you don't have to change your phone # or mailing address each time you change phones or put up a new building on site, as long as no two lines/buildings have the same address. I hope this helps.
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more like from the compleat-misspellings dept. ;)
Yeah, remember that one scene in MacBeth...
"KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!"
Wonderful acting, that.
Well, I know he crushed *my* heart, running off with that bastard Q... Wesley, how could you?!?! ;)
But can they pass the lameness filter?
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As a Japanese speaker, I should probobly clarify how the charachter sets work. In written Japanese, there are two phonetic alphabets and a ideogram-based script. The phonetic alphabets have(I think) 56 charachters, and there is no "case" difference in either one. There is a one-to-one correspondence between the two alphabets, so you could probobly do "alphabet insensitivity" for those. However, for the ideogram-based writing there are thousands of charachters, and their pronounciation can vary depending on context. It would be rather difficult to be "case insensitive" to these.
Someone who's sitting in a restaurant talking to their invisible friend is irritating, whether or not they're on cell phones.
I used to live in Japan. Some of my earliest memories are of huddling a darkened apartment with my mother, while a typhoon raged outside breaking windows. This happens, year after year, like clockwork, and a typhoon hits a *very* large chunk of the country, causing a lot of damage. Let me tell you, a tornado is a really minor thing; very powerful, but so localized that you can have one pass within a mile and only have to deal with fallen debree.
I now live near Memphis, where we just had a tornado touch down a few days ago. I live here primarily because my mother moved here and I go to college here now. I don't like living here too much, but that has more to do with crime, local culture, and being stuck out in the middle of nowhere. Tornados rank somewhere below crazed swamp rats and cannibal school children on my list of worries. To put it another way, tornados are to bad weather what school shootings are to crime; they're spectacular, they grab the headlines, and you don't want to be caught in one, but they're insignificant in the big picture.
Seriously, if you can't handle the one-in-a-million chances of being hit by a tornade, how can you drive a car, which is *far* more likely to kill you?
I thought the moon people landed in the middle of the atlantic
Wrong. The moon people landed in Roswell. Don't you know any history?
I remember back in the mid-ninties or so, when the web was young and (relatively) innocent. I was surfing a bunch of Star Trek sites when I first came upon Star Trek porn. Now keep in mind that this was back before porn became a big business on the 'net. So these people(guys and gals) must have been really obsessed fans who took the time to take nude photos of themselves while 'cosplaying', and scanned and posted it on the internet back when that was a totally geek-only thing... I don't know whether to be amused or frightened by the geekyness of it all.
At least there was no Wesley Crusher porn that I can recall... Hey CleverNickName, have you had problems with fan imposter porn being done of you or your charachter?
Yeah, me too... and I was shocked and scarred when I first came upon fan-fiction lesbian x86-on-Alpha action... and I needed therapy after I found "VAX does Vermont". The horror, the horror...
I don't know if you've been in an American high school, but over here we generally make kids take a "general science" course before chemistry, biology, & physics. The one I took was complete crap, but that's more the (gym) teacher's fault... Anyways, the gernal science class should be the place where the scientific method is taught, and the other specialized classes should be for teaching the results of the method - discoveries in the respective fields in the past.
..that when you lose something in your house, you can regexp for it? ;)
Oh, I have been looking for a version control and database system for my home directory and bookmarks; can you give me your impressions of subversion and how well it works? Thanks.
You're talking about some seriously deranged individuals here, and it's been known for decades that serial killers do fit some rather general profiles. What's the surprise here?
I think the problem the original poster was talking about was not that serial killers were assumed to be wierd, but that wierd people were assumed to be serial killers. What if you were a person with 'odd' tastes, who got fingered by the police for murder just because you fit some 'profile' made up by some dude in a office who's never met you? Like, say, someone that pretends to be an hunchbacked cave-dweller from outer space *must* be the murderer... As for the past being worse, things have been getting better with respect to being an 'outlier' of society for some time, and this technology seems to be a step in the wrong direction.
I think the problem is that Lucas wrote the prequels years after the original, so he keeps trying too hard to 'tie them to the original'.
Remember the Babylon 5 prequel TV-movies, where we had major charachters from the series bumping into each other left and right, despite the fact that they supposedly didn't know each other when they 'first met' on the series? This despite the fact that J. Micheal Straczynski is a much better writer than Lucas. I think this sort of thing is a problem with prequels in general...
I challenge you to come up with worse casting:
The Villain: Ben Afflack
Dr. Whasname: Matt Damon
Alita: Also Ben Afflack
Alita's wimpy boyfriend: Jar-Jar
Alita's Butch Boyfriend: Velma, from Scooby-Doo
Coming soon to an Inbox near you:
Hello, my name is Theo DeRaadt. I am a software deveolper in the frozen wastelands of Canada. Recently, I was awarded a $2 million grant from DARPA, the U.S. military research agency. However, I am unable to access my bank account in the U.S. and transfer my money out of the country. This is where you come in...
Wow, OS X with its "lickable" interface and "Cocoa" center, put in a nutshell! This is the greatest advancement of the confectionary industry in years!
What? What do you mean, "It's an operating system" ?
My god, imagine how much money Slashdot could extort out of Microsoft if they demanded that MS buy ads from them if they ever wanted Taco to shut up about MS's failings...
Oh wait. They buy ads anyways. Curse you, Microsoft, for foiling my nefarious plan!
A survival kit? For 4 months in the Pacific? Forget bootdisks, bring these:
- 1 box of condoms
- 1 case of Jack Daniels
- 1 Hawaiian shirt
- 1 Gig of porn, in case all else fails
Actually, I remember hearing from my high school civics teacher that there were some efforts by northern Californians to split off from the rest of the state and form a state called "Jefferson". I don't think that got anywhere, obviously :P Northern Cali. is really rural, and feels more like a warm(er) version of Oregon or Idaho than what most people think of California as being. I don't think there's even much agriculture in the area, it's mostly forest land.
I suspect that the urban/rural split is felt in a lot of states, and it would be interesting what would happen to the domestic political scene if the urban(more liberal) areas became separate states.
Okay, I know you're just asking an honest question, but there have been a lot of comments along those lines. Frankly, I've had it with this negative attitude that "There's no point in knowing, since we can't fix it". *SO WHAT* if we can't fix it in orbit? Since when has being ignorant of the problem ever fixed anything? If we had done this for Columbia, we might know what the problem is, and fixed it on the other shuttles. Instead, we have an investigation that is going to take months longer, and in the meantime we'll be sending up shuttles with some unknown problem that hasn't been fixed, putting others at risk.
Saying that "We couldn't have fixed Columbia, so there's no point in knowing" is like saying, "There's no point in having a video of a murder, since the victim's dead anyway" or "Why bother knowing about Windows exploits, we can't patch it anyways". Having knowledge of the problem may not help you fix it right then, but it might help you make better decisions in the future. Besides, when has ignorance ever solved anything?
I can't think of any army in history that places so much value on the lives of individual soldiers as today's US Army.
That was a lesson taught to them the hard way, through the loss of the Vietnam war. During that war, the army risked a lot of lives to get very little in return, and got a terrible reaction at home. The military learned there that:
1) Public support is invaluable in war
2) Keeping casualties low is nessecary to get that support
3) Keeping a war short gives your critics at home and your enemy on the battlefield less time to oppose you.
In every war since(especially the 1st gulf war), there has been a lot of thought given to "not making this another Vietnam", which is what causes the risk-averse nature of the army you describe.
Okay, I'm not a networking expert but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night(and am taking a class in networking). Here's my somewhat quick explanation:
IP adresses exist so that you can abstract away the hardware on the network. For example, let's say you have a Linux box with IP of 192.168.1.1 and MAC address of XXXX. You can take that box out, and replace it with a Win2k box of IP 192.168.1.1 and MAC address of YYYY. Anything that needed to talk to 192.168.1.1, can still do so without worring about the underlying hardware, or the MAC address having changed. If you rely on the MAC address only, you'd have to change network settings each time you change servers, or even network cards. Using the MAC address would make sense only if there were something that needed to be sent to one NIC, and only that NIC.
Using IP addresses makes networks far easier to organize, too. You can have a network setup where:
Mail server - 192.168.2.1
DNS server - 192.168.2.2
FTP server - 192.168.2.3
...and so on. The addresses are organized, and you don't have to worry about them changing each time there's an upgrade. If you used only hardware addresses:
Mail server - 43HuI87j2H21
DNS server - 5e776uiWE25
FTP server - U089MN5dw2
...and it would change constantly, making networking a huge headache. As an analogy, think about the phone or mail system - you don't have to change your phone # or mailing address each time you change phones or put up a new building on site, as long as no two lines/buildings have the same address. I hope this helps.