It seems I have fallen prey to your fiendishly clever trap. I am now required to defy your power and challenge you to a battle to the death. As soon as I find my copy of the script we can begin.
I'd say it's pretty bad when you hear a techno tune, close your eyes and you can just see the arrows...
As long as you need to close your eyes to see the arrows, you're probably ok. If you can see them, even if your eyes are open then you're either playing DDR (or a similar game), or you have a minor problem.
Why should the 9 Sol-System planets be the only ones defined as planets?
Also, if we did define the 9 local planets as the only planets, what would we call other planet-sized bodies of similar/identical composition that we find orbiting other stars? In addition to this, what would the legions of star trek fans do if they had to stop calling non-Sol worlds someting other than planets?
Ex: Say you help an old lady across the street... good act, right? Ok, if your intention was to impress some girl by doing it, get to heaven, blah blah blah... your good act doesn't look so good anymore... ulterior motives aren't always seen through acts... intentions are what matters
How does a lack of altruism make a "good" act seem any less good? Every action that any individual persues has some percieved benefit to them, it may be tangible or intangible but they still feel that they will recieve some benefit.
Your actual intentions, your ulterior motives, don't come into play. They are unknowable to an outside observer and so they have to assume that your intentions are whatever they appear to be based on your actions. If you help an old lady acrss the street to impress a girl, how is the observer to know that? All they can be certain of is that you assisted the old lady then tried to talk to the girl, and the two events may not even be related. To the observer, you may appear to simply be a polite individual who noticed a pretty girl and wanted to say hello. Or you may appear to be an arrogant prick who will use any form of manipulation to influence people.
Intentions only matter in how well they allow us to justify our actions to ourselves. They are a way to possibly escape self-inflicted negative consequences to our actions.
Hmmm, me and my rambling. How incoherent I sound at times.
assuming all R2 droids are designated in a letter + number combination and only 2 digits allowed, then you would have a maximum of 10*26 or 260 designations. if you allow the number to be up to 2 digits then you have 2600 designations. if you decide that it's not really a letter+number combination, but actually a 2-digit base-36 (0-9a-z) code then you have 36^2 or 1296 designations.
Certainly not enough for a long-running product line (like the R2 series of droids are supposed to be). in all likelyhood, the second part of the name is more than just 2 digits long but only the last 2 digits are used in most cases (if it's 5 digints then there are 60,466,176 possible names, and if you only use the last 2 when referring to the droid in most cases then there could be 46,656 different droids with the same name. However, the likelihood of them all being in the same place (or even of any 2 being in the same place) at the same time and thus causing confusion would be rather slim (approximately 7 hundredths of a percent)
In the X-wing books, one of the pilot's astromech droids was refitted with something like that. The same type of mechanism that Luke used for launching the light saber into the air so he could grab it had a cooling system and a small storage pod aded to the inside of the droid. On command the droid would project a chilled beer into the air for the pilot to grab.
I'm pretty sure it was in one of the Rogue Squadron books and not the Wraith Squadron one(s?).
R2-D2 is just one specific member of the R2 series of Astromech droids. The other major line of astromechs is the R5 line (I can't recall any R1, R3, or R4 lines actually mentioned in the movies or the books that I've read). I am uncertain why a droid designed to repair ships in flight, provide navigation information, and generally function as ship's computer would have a holographic projector though.
Great, now I've started trying to explain the inconsistancies in droids in the fictional Star Wars universe. What next, correcting grammar/spelling errors?
Two things: 1> Not all the posts are supporting Apple in this (most that I've seen so far are neutral or negative in their reaction) though Apple is getting bashed much less severely than any other comapny would for this
2> Apple is something of a darling of Slashdot, no matter how often everyone says they're not a mac fan (not coutning the mac fans of course) we don't really attack Apple that much. This is probably because Apple provokes our protective urges for being so cute and cuddly looking.
a third thing that you may want to consider: I'm most likely making this post up as I go along and probably insane in some fashion. Ignore me as always.
If you didn't play any of the Fallout series, then you missed a treat (apart from 'Tactics', which was very disappointing). I was also very pleased with Planescape:Torment and the Baldur's/Icewind Dale games, even though the latter got extremely formulaic.
Oddly enough, I never enjoyed the Fallout series; though Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 were most entertaining and even Icewind Dale held my interest for a few weeks. Fallout just never really caught my attention even though I tried to like it. I never came around to trying Planescape:Torment even though a few of my friends have it and enjoy it.
Maybe because not all browsers have such a feature rich API as IE. Mainly because MS is way ahead on the broweser capabilities than any prissy standards committee.
Assuming IE is so far ahead of everything else, explain why it doesn't have full CSS2 support.
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It seems I have fallen prey to your fiendishly clever trap. I am now required to defy your power and challenge you to a battle to the death. As soon as I find my copy of the script we can begin.
It's a story because we can all talk about how our favorite operating system could handle infinite load as if we had any experience in the
I wasn't aware Linux was involved in this discussion at all.
I'd say it's pretty bad when you hear a techno tune, close your eyes and you can just see the arrows...
As long as you need to close your eyes to see the arrows, you're probably ok. If you can see them, even if your eyes are open then you're either playing DDR (or a similar game), or you have a minor problem.
Why should the 9 Sol-System planets be the only ones defined as planets?
Also, if we did define the 9 local planets as the only planets, what would we call other planet-sized bodies of similar/identical composition that we find orbiting other stars? In addition to this, what would the legions of star trek fans do if they had to stop calling non-Sol worlds someting other than planets?
Replying to self, I know.
Bad form, yes I know.
just read through some of the other replies. mine is rather redundant.
Ex: Say you help an old lady across the street... good act, right? Ok, if your intention was to impress some girl by doing it, get to heaven, blah blah blah... your good act doesn't look so good anymore... ulterior motives aren't always seen through acts... intentions are what matters
How does a lack of altruism make a "good" act seem any less good? Every action that any individual persues has some percieved benefit to them, it may be tangible or intangible but they still feel that they will recieve some benefit.
Your actual intentions, your ulterior motives, don't come into play. They are unknowable to an outside observer and so they have to assume that your intentions are whatever they appear to be based on your actions. If you help an old lady acrss the street to impress a girl, how is the observer to know that? All they can be certain of is that you assisted the old lady then tried to talk to the girl, and the two events may not even be related. To the observer, you may appear to simply be a polite individual who noticed a pretty girl and wanted to say hello. Or you may appear to be an arrogant prick who will use any form of manipulation to influence people.
Intentions only matter in how well they allow us to justify our actions to ourselves. They are a way to possibly escape self-inflicted negative consequences to our actions.
Hmmm, me and my rambling. How incoherent I sound at times.
So what do we do when writing about a British corporation on an American web site read internationally?
We accidently call it Canadian.
Iapetus is American?
If not, then we should most certainly naturalize Iapetus as an american citizen, and thus establish our first extraterestrial territory.
You think that's going to stop the FCC?
assuming all R2 droids are designated in a letter + number combination and only 2 digits allowed, then you would have a maximum of 10*26 or 260 designations. if you allow the number to be up to 2 digits then you have 2600 designations. if you decide that it's not really a letter+number combination, but actually a 2-digit base-36 (0-9a-z) code then you have 36^2 or 1296 designations.
Certainly not enough for a long-running product line (like the R2 series of droids are supposed to be). in all likelyhood, the second part of the name is more than just 2 digits long but only the last 2 digits are used in most cases (if it's 5 digints then there are 60,466,176 possible names, and if you only use the last 2 when referring to the droid in most cases then there could be 46,656 different droids with the same name. However, the likelihood of them all being in the same place (or even of any 2 being in the same place) at the same time and thus causing confusion would be rather slim (approximately 7 hundredths of a percent)
In the X-wing books, one of the pilot's astromech droids was refitted with something like that. The same type of mechanism that Luke used for launching the light saber into the air so he could grab it had a cooling system and a small storage pod aded to the inside of the droid. On command the droid would project a chilled beer into the air for the pilot to grab.
I'm pretty sure it was in one of the Rogue Squadron books and not the Wraith Squadron one(s?).
R2-D2 is just one specific member of the R2 series of Astromech droids. The other major line of astromechs is the R5 line (I can't recall any R1, R3, or R4 lines actually mentioned in the movies or the books that I've read).
I am uncertain why a droid designed to repair ships in flight, provide navigation information, and generally function as ship's computer would have a holographic projector though.
Great, now I've started trying to explain the inconsistancies in droids in the fictional Star Wars universe. What next, correcting grammar/spelling errors?
Well, Let's start an Anarchy club. We can elect/appoint leaders and make rules!
Two things:
1> Not all the posts are supporting Apple in this (most that I've seen so far are neutral or negative in their reaction) though Apple is getting bashed much less severely than any other comapny would for this
2> Apple is something of a darling of Slashdot, no matter how often everyone says they're not a mac fan (not coutning the mac fans of course) we don't really attack Apple that much. This is probably because Apple provokes our protective urges for being so cute and cuddly looking.
a third thing that you may want to consider: I'm most likely making this post up as I go along and probably insane in some fashion. Ignore me as always.
/me tosses breadcrumbs to the trolls
If you didn't play any of the Fallout series, then you missed a treat (apart from 'Tactics', which was very disappointing). I was also very pleased with Planescape:Torment and the Baldur's/Icewind Dale games, even though the latter got extremely formulaic.
Oddly enough, I never enjoyed the Fallout series; though Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 were most entertaining and even Icewind Dale held my interest for a few weeks. Fallout just never really caught my attention even though I tried to like it. I never came around to trying Planescape:Torment even though a few of my friends have it and enjoy it.
They should have a Crusoe motherboard with a chipset named Friday. Just to make sure the point is clear.
Maybe because not all browsers have such a feature rich API as IE. Mainly because MS is way ahead on the broweser capabilities than any prissy standards committee.
Assuming IE is so far ahead of everything else, explain why it doesn't have full CSS2 support.
I always wondered what happened to my old doorstop. It just vanished one day, and now I know.
"Interview Richard Stallman!"
Who's going to make me? You? and what army?
oh. that one. right I'll go interview him then.
My guess is you'd see NetBSD for NintendoDS before a linux variant.
Wouldn't doing something like that just kill the DS in netcraft's eyes?
Perhaps Sony will port NetBSD to the DS to help promote sales of the PSP.
ouch. you need better cow-workers ...for better milk!
With all this better milk, we will need some cookies.
See the what? And why does your post make me feel so uneasy? fnord.
probably a better headline would be:
"Entire State of Rhode Island Destroyed in Explosion Visible from Conneticut."
this of course assumes that the observer is standing just across the border and is watching carefully.
Intel. Shark.
There may have been jumping.
Then again, what if it was a mock shark and not the real thing?