For example, would they use the PRC Body count (23) or the Student Association's and the Chinese Red Cross body count? (2000 - 3000, as many as 10,000 injured).
It'd go something like this...
- Original article would cite the 2000-3000 number. - Another visitor would edit this to say 23. - Authors would re-edit back to 2000-3000. - Another edit changes it back to 23. - Irate users re-edit again back to 2000-3000. - Talk page would get filled up with debate over the issue. Number would be tagged with "citation needed" and the language would be softened to make the figure seem less reliable and acknowledge the 23 figure. - Vandal would replace the whole article with various rude comments about foreigners. - Sneaky bastard would claim to be reverting the article to undo the vandalism - but sneak in a change that makes the 2000-3000 figure sound completely unbelievable. - New vandalism would go unnoticed for some time - even in future vandalism/revert cycles by other editors.
I don't think it's a layer transition thing, there are too many places in a given DVD where it'll happen. (A dual layer DVD will have just one layer transition, right?)
But they're not grading their own work, they're grading the work of their students. The problem is that this grading, the evaluation of the students, has been perverted into an evaluation of the teacher.
Here's a quick example: I hated studying English Lit. I was constantly avoiding my reading assignments or delaying and cramming it into a last-minute session. As a result, my understanding of the stories tended to suffer. But I had a bit of a knack for writing and so could usually squeeze by.
Now, this is my High School English teacher's fault... how, exactly? Naturally I must accept responsibility for my own choices - but if I were to contrive some means of blaming my teachers, if anything I'd say that their leniance simply didn't motivate me to do better. I got A's and B's in everything. I got extensions when things were late, and while I did want to get straight-A's, I felt it was something that I deserved, not something I had to earn.
george:/usr/src/altra/test/monte_carlo/12:37:03 > bash, what do you think about Steve Ballmer? c:\bin\bash: bash,: command not found
Python 2.3.4 (#1, Jun 13 2004, 11:21:03) [GCC 3.3.1 (cygming special)] on cygwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> Any thoughts on Steve Ballmer?
File "", line 1
Any thoughts on Steve Ballmer?
^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax
george:/usr/src/altra/test/monte_carlo/12:38:22 > perl Would you like to make a comment on Steve Ballmer? Search pattern not terminated at - line 1.
I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice. > I'd like to know how Free Software feels about Steve Ballmer. Why do you say you might want to know how? > Because someone on Slashdot raised the question and I think it deserves an answer. Is it because someone on slashdot raised the question and you think it deserves an answer that you came to me? > Not exactly. I couldn't get a good answer from bash, xemacs, python, or perl. What makes you believe that? > I asked them and they didn't provide me with a good answer. Earlier you said you would like to know how? > how Free Software feels about Steve Ballmer, yes. Does it bother you that free software feels about steve ballmer yes? > What? Can you elaborate on that? > On what? Maybe your plans have something to do with this. > What plans? What are you talking about? Are you sure that what are I talking about? > Am I... huh? I would appreciate it if you would continue. > Look, can you just tell me what you think of Steve Ballmer? You mentioned that someone on slashdot raised the question and you think it deserves an answer? > Yes, that's why I'm asking. When did you first know that you are asking? > Just now. When I asked. What happened when you asked? > You dodged the question. Is it because of your life that you are going through all this? > In a very, very indirect way, you could make that attribution. You could also say that I'm doing this because life developed on Earth. Is the fact that you are doing this because life developed on earth the real reason? > Not from my perspective, no. Is it because of the people you hang around with that you say not from your perspective no? > It's because that's not the direct reason, from my perspective. Does the fact that that's not the direct reason from your perspective explain anything else? > I'm sick of this. Please answer my question. Do you really think you would like to know how? > How you feel about Steve Ballmer, yes. Are you sure I feel about steve ballmer yes? > No. Why not? > Because you haven't made your feelings clear. Is it because I have not made my feelings clear that you came to me? > That doesn't make any sense at all. Are you annoyed that does not make any sense at all? > Yes.
As you can see, Free Software seems committed to avoiding the question - always changing the subject or feigning ignorance of the grammar being used. To be fair, I don't think we can consider this a reasonable position, any more so than Ballmer's at least.
"You have an incoming phone call that is being brought to you by Cruex. Do you have painful, burning jock itch? Try Cruex! This targetted ad brought to you by Google AdSense."
And speaking of Sci-Fi Channel - I'd take a slew of Geico ads over the deluge of Cruex ads that were hammered into us when the network was new...
Only because you either never owned a PS2, or waited to buy one....PS2 had even worse DVD readers, the problem was so bad they ended up on the receiving end of a class action suit. Even some of the replacement drives have problems reading dual-layer DVDs (God of War, anyone?).
In my case, my PS2 is a V3 model that I bought in March, 2001. I've never had any problems with games on the system, but the thing is way too unreliable as a DVD video player. Various DVDs, when played in the machine, will freeze up and eventually go to a black screen. (I don't remember if it says "disc read error" or something else - seems like kind of a useless distinction) This seems to happen particularly at certain points of the playback of certain DVDs. The only way to combat the problem is to fast-forward through affected sections of the video before the thing crashes out.
By contrast, my Sony DVD player can play perfectly well all these DVD videos that the PS2 can't.
It's possible the later PS2's got significantly better at playing DVD video - whatever, doesn't do me any good. To me, the PS2 will always be completely unreliable as a DVD player.
Well, things could go either way and still history would repeat itself. Consider:
XBox: Hardware superior to the PS2, but came out later and spent much of its life trying to catch up and find its niche
PS3: Hardware superior to the X-Box 360, but coming out later and at a higher price point... So will it lag behind the now-established X-Box 360, and gradually settle into runner-up position?
Or will it be a come-from-behind victory for the Phantom console? You be the judge!
Scientology has a long history of suing people who talk about Scientology for copyright infringement.
Why would someone talk about Scientology for copyright infringement? Is Scientology really the best means for infringing on someone's copyright? Do people perform Scientology versions of Beatles songs for patrons in their bars?
I mean, I've got a freaking bass & a computer with Linux & audacity in my living room... why play guitar hero?...'cause it's fun?
It's a guitar themed game. Like Tony Hawk (the game) is a skateboarding-themed game, or Madden (the game) is a football-themed game, or DDR is a dancing-themed game. The games themselves are not equivalent to skateboarding, football, or dancing, they're games, and they're fun. Or that's the idea, anyway.
But, yeah, you gotta be pretty dense to buy Guitar Hero as a way to learn guitar...
I didn't say that the computer was an appliance; I said that's what people want it to be. Turn it on; compute; turn it off. Turn it on; play a game; turn it off. Why do you think game consoles are so popular? None of the hassles of maintaining a computer. Turn it on; play a game; turn it off. The console may be a computer internally but it doesn't expose any of its internals unless you work really hard at cracking it.
"people" want it to be... Which people? Not everyone, not me. Personally I hope to see Linux evolve into a system that's really good for people like me - people who want an environment especially well-suited to tinkering. I think it has the potential and the flexibility - but one of the problems is that even people who want to tinker also want their computer to assist them in various ways. I think the need for a -print0 option is an inherent flaw in the way "find" works, for instance - and I'd like a certain degree of consistency across the various tools that's hard to accomplish without an organized leadership. There's lots of great ideas - for instance, I think the Emacs command interface is brilliant (hotkey sequences combined with a decent help system and the ability to specify commands by name if you've forgotten the hotkey sequence) but things like that are sort of little citadels surrounded by wilderness. If you step outside Emacs, you lose the benefit of the Emacs command interface - and other apps have great stuff to offer, too, but none of it really meshes from one app to another.
But the appliance thing? It's been tried, and computers just aren't ready to be appliances yet. Or rather, people still need the "general purpose" computer, in part because everything they do on the computer is still evolving. Web standards change, hardware standards change, new software comes out all the time, and so on. People keep thinking of new things to do with computers. Things haven't settled enough for computers to be commodity "appliances" - or at least, if you treat the computer like that you're missing out on the full potential of the thing. (The botnet problem, for instance, could be solved by thoroughly debugging the e-mail, web, etc. apps, burning them to ROM, and allowing nothing else on the system to execute - but that doesn't work now, 'cause there'd be some new version of Flash, some new video codec, a new CSS or HTML spec, etc. and users would want that stuff to work.)
Now, that doesn't mean that a system that attempts to fill the needs of people who want a certain set of functionality, with no headaches, is a bad thing. I just don't believe that a system like that should be expected to serve everyone. I think it's good that projects like KDE are trying to serve that niche, but at the same time I think that treating that kind of thing as if it's the whole point of Linux is a little shortsighted. I think there's a popular notion that's evolved out this desire to turn Linux into an "appliance-wannabe" system like Windows or Mac OS, the notion that it's inherently poor design to create an application based on the needs and expectations of hackers or power users as opposed to the vast majority of users... Or, conversely, that, with few exceptions, the ideal for a UI design is always the design that works reasonably well for the largest number of people. There is some merit to this idea - different people handle ideas in different ways, and so it's good to use a style that fits these different ways of thinking - but I believe that it's worthwhile to create systems that are specifically well-suited to power users. Some people just want to operate at a "higher" level of sorts, have more extensive control over more minute details, and so on. The key is to not be lazy about it: make the app complicated but aim to make it fit well with its neighbors' styles and in addition to providing all the power user functionality, be sure to include ways to manage that complexity intelligently. And also, it help
What if Slashdot, Digg, Furl, Reddit, Clipmarks, and a few others decided between themselves that they would always refer to your site every other day such that you never get it back online?
Don't be silly. I mean, Slashdot, posting the same thing day after day? That's nonsense.
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Except it costs you more money, too - you need a bigger pipe
Wait a minute... don't these people make pipes? If they strung together a series of their tubes, I bet it just might work...
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Oh, getting a small microwave oven is easy. The only question is, what do you put in it?
Maybe if you took a German language immersion course?
There's a moderation switch for Original Trilogy? That's pretty cool! But I don't think it applies to your post... IMO That's more EU than OT.
It'd go something like this...
- Original article would cite the 2000-3000 number.
- Another visitor would edit this to say 23.
- Authors would re-edit back to 2000-3000.
- Another edit changes it back to 23.
- Irate users re-edit again back to 2000-3000.
- Talk page would get filled up with debate over the issue. Number would be tagged with "citation needed" and the language would be softened to make the figure seem less reliable and acknowledge the 23 figure.
- Vandal would replace the whole article with various rude comments about foreigners.
- Sneaky bastard would claim to be reverting the article to undo the vandalism - but sneak in a change that makes the 2000-3000 figure sound completely unbelievable.
- New vandalism would go unnoticed for some time - even in future vandalism/revert cycles by other editors.
I don't think it's a layer transition thing, there are too many places in a given DVD where it'll happen. (A dual layer DVD will have just one layer transition, right?)
You've just summarized a whole bunch of movies...
It's possible that the Doctor was unhappy because I refused to end each line with "RET RET". I don't know why that would be so important...
But they're not grading their own work, they're grading the work of their students. The problem is that this grading, the evaluation of the students, has been perverted into an evaluation of the teacher.
Here's a quick example: I hated studying English Lit. I was constantly avoiding my reading assignments or delaying and cramming it into a last-minute session. As a result, my understanding of the stories tended to suffer. But I had a bit of a knack for writing and so could usually squeeze by.
Now, this is my High School English teacher's fault... how, exactly? Naturally I must accept responsibility for my own choices - but if I were to contrive some means of blaming my teachers, if anything I'd say that their leniance simply didn't motivate me to do better. I got A's and B's in everything. I got extensions when things were late, and while I did want to get straight-A's, I felt it was something that I deserved, not something I had to earn.
As you can see, Free Software seems committed to avoiding the question - always changing the subject or feigning ignorance of the grammar being used. To be fair, I don't think we can consider this a reasonable position, any more so than Ballmer's at least.
"You have an incoming phone call that is being brought to you by Cruex. Do you have painful, burning jock itch? Try Cruex! This targetted ad brought to you by Google AdSense."
And speaking of Sci-Fi Channel - I'd take a slew of Geico ads over the deluge of Cruex ads that were hammered into us when the network was new...
In my case, my PS2 is a V3 model that I bought in March, 2001. I've never had any problems with games on the system, but the thing is way too unreliable as a DVD video player. Various DVDs, when played in the machine, will freeze up and eventually go to a black screen. (I don't remember if it says "disc read error" or something else - seems like kind of a useless distinction) This seems to happen particularly at certain points of the playback of certain DVDs. The only way to combat the problem is to fast-forward through affected sections of the video before the thing crashes out.
By contrast, my Sony DVD player can play perfectly well all these DVD videos that the PS2 can't.
It's possible the later PS2's got significantly better at playing DVD video - whatever, doesn't do me any good. To me, the PS2 will always be completely unreliable as a DVD player.
You don't need to be a scientist to create a T-shirt, you can just place an order at Cafe Press...
Well, things could go either way and still history would repeat itself. Consider:
XBox: Hardware superior to the PS2, but came out later and spent much of its life trying to catch up and find its niche
PS3: Hardware superior to the X-Box 360, but coming out later and at a higher price point... So will it lag behind the now-established X-Box 360, and gradually settle into runner-up position?
Or will it be a come-from-behind victory for the Phantom console? You be the judge!
I agree! It's very convenient to be able to use my PS2 to play my DVDs, I don't need to have another machine hooked up or worry about video swit-
DISC READ ERROR
Why would someone talk about Scientology for copyright infringement? Is Scientology really the best means for infringing on someone's copyright? Do people perform Scientology versions of Beatles songs for patrons in their bars?
I don't want to be an uninformed voter, so if someone could please tell me who to vote for and why, it'd save me a lot of hassle...
I mean, I've got a freaking bass & a computer with Linux & audacity in my living room ... why play guitar hero? ...'cause it's fun?
It's a guitar themed game. Like Tony Hawk (the game) is a skateboarding-themed game, or Madden (the game) is a football-themed game, or DDR is a dancing-themed game. The games themselves are not equivalent to skateboarding, football, or dancing, they're games, and they're fun. Or that's the idea, anyway.
But, yeah, you gotta be pretty dense to buy Guitar Hero as a way to learn guitar...
It's not "it's", its proper spelling is "its".
"people" want it to be... Which people? Not everyone, not me. Personally I hope to see Linux evolve into a system that's really good for people like me - people who want an environment especially well-suited to tinkering. I think it has the potential and the flexibility - but one of the problems is that even people who want to tinker also want their computer to assist them in various ways. I think the need for a -print0 option is an inherent flaw in the way "find" works, for instance - and I'd like a certain degree of consistency across the various tools that's hard to accomplish without an organized leadership. There's lots of great ideas - for instance, I think the Emacs command interface is brilliant (hotkey sequences combined with a decent help system and the ability to specify commands by name if you've forgotten the hotkey sequence) but things like that are sort of little citadels surrounded by wilderness. If you step outside Emacs, you lose the benefit of the Emacs command interface - and other apps have great stuff to offer, too, but none of it really meshes from one app to another.
But the appliance thing? It's been tried, and computers just aren't ready to be appliances yet. Or rather, people still need the "general purpose" computer, in part because everything they do on the computer is still evolving. Web standards change, hardware standards change, new software comes out all the time, and so on. People keep thinking of new things to do with computers. Things haven't settled enough for computers to be commodity "appliances" - or at least, if you treat the computer like that you're missing out on the full potential of the thing. (The botnet problem, for instance, could be solved by thoroughly debugging the e-mail, web, etc. apps, burning them to ROM, and allowing nothing else on the system to execute - but that doesn't work now, 'cause there'd be some new version of Flash, some new video codec, a new CSS or HTML spec, etc. and users would want that stuff to work.)
Now, that doesn't mean that a system that attempts to fill the needs of people who want a certain set of functionality, with no headaches, is a bad thing. I just don't believe that a system like that should be expected to serve everyone. I think it's good that projects like KDE are trying to serve that niche, but at the same time I think that treating that kind of thing as if it's the whole point of Linux is a little shortsighted. I think there's a popular notion that's evolved out this desire to turn Linux into an "appliance-wannabe" system like Windows or Mac OS, the notion that it's inherently poor design to create an application based on the needs and expectations of hackers or power users as opposed to the vast majority of users... Or, conversely, that, with few exceptions, the ideal for a UI design is always the design that works reasonably well for the largest number of people. There is some merit to this idea - different people handle ideas in different ways, and so it's good to use a style that fits these different ways of thinking - but I believe that it's worthwhile to create systems that are specifically well-suited to power users. Some people just want to operate at a "higher" level of sorts, have more extensive control over more minute details, and so on. The key is to not be lazy about it: make the app complicated but aim to make it fit well with its neighbors' styles and in addition to providing all the power user functionality, be sure to include ways to manage that complexity intelligently. And also, it help
I'm not digging the voices, especially Max's... They did better w/ the TV show in that regard, I think.
Mine is the same, except without the computer.
When the musical artists of Spain cry out in anguish, suffering their poor fates, who will hear them?
Who will aid these poor souls, the noble artists who wish only to create beautiful works of musical art?
Who will avenge them upon the uncaring souls who insist on simply taking what they want?
El Kabong, that's who! <ka-bong!>
Don't be silly. I mean, Slashdot, posting the same thing day after day? That's nonsense.
Wait a minute... don't these people make pipes? If they strung together a series of their tubes, I bet it just might work...