Use an alternate browser? Sorry, alternate to what? I know this is Slashdot and so the answer to my question is common knowledge around here, but surely story headlines should be self-contained? Or at least make some sense on their own.
The name is fairly obvious for a product such as this, but not that obvious. I'm surprised Google allowed such a clash of names to occur, especially with such related products. I imagine it'll get settled out of court.
Maybe we just have different expectations from a newspaper. Here in England, it's fully expected that newspapers will push a political agenda, and are they are quite unashamed about this. Which newspapers back which political parties has a large effect on the election; for example, The Sun (traditionally conservative) swapped to the liberal Labour party in 1997, and the result was a landslide victory for Labour. It's debateable how much effect one newspaper can have, but nevertheless, English newspapers certainly do have more than a little bias.
It's interesting to see how people's perception of different media varies across the world. Are different things expected of American newspapers (assuming you are American)?
When you buy a newspaper, for example, part of what you pay for is the assumption that the stories are timely, accurate, unbiased, and fact-checked.
Hate to nitpick with a good post but the only unbiased section in most newspapers is the crossword. Personally I think part of what you pay for in a newspaper is that you trust their commentary, which some would argue is just finding someone who agrees with your own bias. We all have bias.
Subjunctive is not actually a tense, it's a mood. Other moods in English include indicative ("I jump"), infinitive ("to jump") and imperative ("Jump, bitch!").
You also have tongues, such as active ("I hit you") and passive ("You were hit by me"). Other languages have more tongues, moods, and tenses.
Each verb has a specific tense, mood, and tongue. Saying "I wish I were rich" uses the present active subjunctive.
The article doesn't really explain how this actually works. Do the cloned cells somehow stimulate the body to natural "regrow" the damaged tissue? Or is it a literal transplant?
Still, this is great news for all of us, as it is definitive proof that stem cells can be put to good use. Too late for some, though
I know Sony are the masters of generating publicity, but this could easily backfire. A handheld is not the same as a home console, in the sense that few people sit at home playing on their Game Boys (although no doubt plenty of us Slashdotters do). A key part of the way handhelds get sold is seeing someone else playing with one in public: on a train, etc. High public visibility is important.
Seeing other adults playing with a Game Boy helped make it acceptable for adults to buy them, hence their vast popularity. Sony might be making life harder for themselves here.
I don't think that the original idea of the "bazaar" development model was "everyone does whatever the hell they want". You need someone at the top of the tree to decide what stays and what goes. The fact that this is a person and not a number of people is just a coincidence of the way that Linux has emerged, and doesn't represent a large divergence from the bazaar model.
I think it's rather remarkable that we haven't seen a presidential assassination in recent years, if it's as easy as you make it sound (and I suspect it is). There's no lack of people willing to sacrifice their own life for a cause, or so we are told.
Presumably terrorists consider it more effective to kill a large number of ordinary people than to assassinate a president who would be immediately replaced by someone at least as bad. To be honest, I think they are probably right.
Dave J, the Counter-Strike mapper behind de_dust, cs_vertigo and others, received several requests to make de_wtc within days of September 11th. I remember him being rather shocked by it all, although I can't find his website any more.
I wonder if we would all be so quick to defend a September 11th "educational reconstructive game" which was intended to show, for example, how improbable an international terror network actually is? I suspect we would not. That said, this JFK game seems at least well-intentioned to me.
Just to provide a British perspective, it was our newspaper The News Of The World which ran the Name + Shame scheme for supposed paedophiles. As all Brits know, The News Of The World is a shit rag; really, the lowest of the low in journalism terms. The sort of people that read it are the sort of people who are easily riled into doing stupid shit like hunting down people who were never even prosecuted for their alleged crimes. Of course, the editors of the paper well knew this, and it generated vast publicity and hence vast sales for them.
Things came to a head when a mob trashed the house of a suspected... paediatrician. That's not +5 Funny; it's true. Eventually the government persuaded the News of the World that, while they were perfectly entitled to run a daily Name Someone Who Might Be A Paedophile Maybe feature, it would be better if they didn't. The government's involvement made even more publicity and that shitty paper News of the World made a mint.
I think my point is that not all British people are so stupid.:)
Some of the Game Boy homebrews available are really excellent, although most of us are stuck with playing them through an emulator. Anyone know where one can get hold of the hardware to make these into real GBA carts?
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Thanks, I'm here all week.
Use an alternate browser? Sorry, alternate to what? I know this is Slashdot and so the answer to my question is common knowledge around here, but surely story headlines should be self-contained? Or at least make some sense on their own.
The name is fairly obvious for a product such as this, but not that obvious. I'm surprised Google allowed such a clash of names to occur, especially with such related products. I imagine it'll get settled out of court.
It walks just fin four mee!
And don't even ask about the hot grits.
And the winner of Most Natalie Portman References In A Slashdot Article is...
Especially if that's his real name.
Just to say, PDF is actually an open format. There are other viewers than Acrobat. Small point, I know, and I agree with you otherwise.
Waa waa waa, I submitted that article and it got rejected.
Maybe we just have different expectations from a newspaper. Here in England, it's fully expected that newspapers will push a political agenda, and are they are quite unashamed about this. Which newspapers back which political parties has a large effect on the election; for example, The Sun (traditionally conservative) swapped to the liberal Labour party in 1997, and the result was a landslide victory for Labour. It's debateable how much effect one newspaper can have, but nevertheless, English newspapers certainly do have more than a little bias.
It's interesting to see how people's perception of different media varies across the world. Are different things expected of American newspapers (assuming you are American)?
Hate to nitpick with a good post but the only unbiased section in most newspapers is the crossword. Personally I think part of what you pay for in a newspaper is that you trust their commentary, which some would argue is just finding someone who agrees with your own bias. We all have bias.
Subjunctive is not actually a tense, it's a mood. Other moods in English include indicative ("I jump"), infinitive ("to jump") and imperative ("Jump, bitch!").
You also have tongues, such as active ("I hit you") and passive ("You were hit by me"). Other languages have more tongues, moods, and tenses.
Each verb has a specific tense, mood, and tongue. Saying "I wish I were rich" uses the present active subjunctive.
The article doesn't really explain how this actually works. Do the cloned cells somehow stimulate the body to natural "regrow" the damaged tissue? Or is it a literal transplant?
Still, this is great news for all of us, as it is definitive proof that stem cells can be put to good use. Too late for some, though
I know Sony are the masters of generating publicity, but this could easily backfire. A handheld is not the same as a home console, in the sense that few people sit at home playing on their Game Boys (although no doubt plenty of us Slashdotters do). A key part of the way handhelds get sold is seeing someone else playing with one in public: on a train, etc. High public visibility is important.
Seeing other adults playing with a Game Boy helped make it acceptable for adults to buy them, hence their vast popularity. Sony might be making life harder for themselves here.
Most poor people don't mind having "less". Not everyone is greedy and jealous. A lot of people would be quite happy just to have enough for survival.
Is LNUS his NASDAQ handle?
That guy is getting everywhere these days.
I don't think that the original idea of the "bazaar" development model was "everyone does whatever the hell they want". You need someone at the top of the tree to decide what stays and what goes. The fact that this is a person and not a number of people is just a coincidence of the way that Linux has emerged, and doesn't represent a large divergence from the bazaar model.
In short: Shut up Schwarz.
I think it's rather remarkable that we haven't seen a presidential assassination in recent years, if it's as easy as you make it sound (and I suspect it is). There's no lack of people willing to sacrifice their own life for a cause, or so we are told.
Presumably terrorists consider it more effective to kill a large number of ordinary people than to assassinate a president who would be immediately replaced by someone at least as bad. To be honest, I think they are probably right.
Dave J, the Counter-Strike mapper behind de_dust, cs_vertigo and others, received several requests to make de_wtc within days of September 11th. I remember him being rather shocked by it all, although I can't find his website any more.
I wonder if we would all be so quick to defend a September 11th "educational reconstructive game" which was intended to show, for example, how improbable an international terror network actually is? I suspect we would not. That said, this JFK game seems at least well-intentioned to me.
Just to provide a British perspective, it was our newspaper The News Of The World which ran the Name + Shame scheme for supposed paedophiles. As all Brits know, The News Of The World is a shit rag; really, the lowest of the low in journalism terms. The sort of people that read it are the sort of people who are easily riled into doing stupid shit like hunting down people who were never even prosecuted for their alleged crimes. Of course, the editors of the paper well knew this, and it generated vast publicity and hence vast sales for them.
Things came to a head when a mob trashed the house of a suspected... paediatrician. That's not +5 Funny; it's true. Eventually the government persuaded the News of the World that, while they were perfectly entitled to run a daily Name Someone Who Might Be A Paedophile Maybe feature, it would be better if they didn't. The government's involvement made even more publicity and that shitty paper News of the World made a mint.
I think my point is that not all British people are so stupid. :)
Some of the Game Boy homebrews available are really excellent, although most of us are stuck with playing them through an emulator. Anyone know where one can get hold of the hardware to make these into real GBA carts?
the secret phallus has you.
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