Just FYI: fire up a python interpreter (slashdot is unicode-challenged) in a unicode environment with a nice Unicode font like DejaVu Sans.
>>> print u'\u0375\u0398' This is what 9000 looks like in Ancient Greek: GREEK LOWER NUMERAL SIGN, GREEK CAPITAL LETTER THETA
>>> print u'\u03e1\u0374' And this is what 900 looks like in Ancient Greek: GREEK SMALL LETTER SAMPI, GREEK NUMERAL SIGN
Quite different. So, obviously, you mean that quite recently, somebody with knowledge of arabic digits did a faulty transcription and nobody bothered to spot the error?
I always liked to add a "security" angle to this old "joke" (cause it isn't anymore):
mkdir dummy # dummy folder
cd dummy # go play there, don't lose important stuff
touch.file1 # hidden file
mkdir.dir2 # hidden dir
# delete.file1 and.dir2 in one step
rm -rf.*
Anyway, you didn't just lose $50 - you lost $50 plus the cost of eventual replacement, which you shouldn't have needed. The only way you've only lost $50 is if you never replace your broken Zune.
Um. You seem to lack a basic grasp of economics, goods and their values. For example, do you believe that anytime you get a paycheck, say $200, these are money your employer lost? If yes, please let him know of this fact.
Think the following scenarios about the GP:
He bought a working $300 player, no Zune. Money lost: $0 (his $300 are being put into use).
He bought a $50 Zune that stopped working. Money lost: $50
Adding the above: He bought a $50 Zune; it stopped working. He buys a new $400 player. While that new player is working, money lost: $50.
And finally a way to prove you right: he bought a $50 Zune; it stopped working. He orders online for a $350 player, but the merchant is a scammer and never sends the new player. Money lost: $400
Oh, come on. Your first sentence is correct. The second sentence is false, since they bought the software, they didn't illegally copied it.
If you intended it as a joke: don't mix jokes with serious and correct stuff (i.e. your first sentence), otherwise people will think you're just uninformed, like I did.
Asimov's writing wasn't very visual and it doesn't translate well to the screen. Larry Niven on the other hand...
Alfred Bester's novels on the gripping hand should be more prosperous. They film _Destination: the Stars_ as just another adaptation of _Count Montecristo_ (instant success), and then they do _The Demolished Man_ because it has a chase sequence and mind-reading.
Between Independence Day, I Robot, and I am Legend I think he has saturated this market enough.
Don't count on that. I'm sure that some Hollywood big-guy will envision R. Daneel as a tall black guy with extrasensory and superhuman abilities, along with his trusty companion, R. Giskard, the fatter shorter black guy who says all the cracking jokes while R. Daneel saves the day.
Breasts, I mean. This is going to be heavily used to close incisions of breast augmentation surgery. We shall lose a weapon in our arsenal of 'true-fake' wars.
We are doomed.
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sigh. It's tore up dummy.
Did you seriously correct his newspeak?
The hoax tag is for irony. This Japanese trip to the moon is real, in contrast to the 1969 USian trip that was faked.
Still, the American special FX were more realistic.
Just FYI: fire up a python interpreter (slashdot is unicode-challenged) in a unicode environment with a nice Unicode font like DejaVu Sans.
>>> print u'\u0375\u0398'
This is what 9000 looks like in Ancient Greek: GREEK LOWER NUMERAL SIGN, GREEK CAPITAL LETTER THETA
>>> print u'\u03e1\u0374'
And this is what 900 looks like in Ancient Greek: GREEK SMALL LETTER SAMPI, GREEK NUMERAL SIGN
Quite different. So, obviously, you mean that quite recently, somebody with knowledge of arabic digits did a faulty transcription and nobody bothered to spot the error?
How drop-resistant are they?
Atom itself uses 1 to 4 watts. It's the chipset that sucks power.
Fixed it.
I can see a Perrier sponsored Mars exploration mission.
mkdir dummy # dummy folder .file1 # hidden file .dir2 # hidden dir .file1 and .dir2 in one step .*
cd dummy # go play there, don't lose important stuff
touch
mkdir
# delete
rm -rf
Clever, clever, clever! I can see the millions migrating to your bank account already.
You really should do it by hand, if you'd do it better ;)
He means mebibytes.
Anyway, you didn't just lose $50 - you lost $50 plus the cost of eventual replacement, which you shouldn't have needed. The only way you've only lost $50 is if you never replace your broken Zune.
Um. You seem to lack a basic grasp of economics, goods and their values. For example, do you believe that anytime you get a paycheck, say $200, these are money your employer lost? If yes, please let him know of this fact.
Think the following scenarios about the GP:
I am sorry I don't have any more mod points; I would award you an "Insightful", even if all you offer is not insight, but common logic.
Thank you for providing an example of common logic which seems to be very, very rare on slashdot.
... we can't have nukler power. You don't want there to be two moons, now do you? What would you do with two moons????
Unless you live on the ISS and you are the sole survivor(s) of the human race; you get to have two moons in the sky. Take that, George Lucas.
However, that would completely mess astrology.
He said "4x the lines", which is correct, not "400% up", which is incorrect.
If you intended it as a joke: don't mix jokes with serious and correct stuff (i.e. your first sentence), otherwise people will think you're just uninformed, like I did.
Asimov's writing wasn't very visual and it doesn't translate well to the screen. Larry Niven on the other hand...
Alfred Bester's novels on the gripping hand should be more prosperous. They film _Destination: the Stars_ as just another adaptation of _Count Montecristo_ (instant success), and then they do _The Demolished Man_ because it has a chase sequence and mind-reading.
As long as Will Smith isn't in any more of them.
Between Independence Day, I Robot, and I am Legend I think he has saturated this market enough.
Don't count on that. I'm sure that some Hollywood big-guy will envision R. Daneel as a tall black guy with extrasensory and superhuman abilities, along with his trusty companion, R. Giskard, the fatter shorter black guy who says all the cracking jokes while R. Daneel saves the day.
So why should we be looking forward to the inevitably crappy Hollywood version of Foundation
Actually, it's whoever will play R Daneel that is looking forward to the Hollywood version of Foundation. It will be a defining career move.
But if they do the Foundation n-logy they should start with Caves of Steel.
I'll be seeing that first run in theatres and buying the DVDs.
They predicted that, you know.
Actually, they didn't predict it; they count on it.
Breasts, I mean. This is going to be heavily used to close incisions of breast augmentation surgery. We shall lose a weapon in our arsenal of 'true-fake' wars.
We are doomed.
Actually, you typed your reply with your penis, or what's left of it.
I had a professor like that in college, he was a Lutheran Minister and an archeology PhD. He made the Bible hysterical.
I assume he was hard of hearing, because the Church ordered professors to "find a way to make the Bible historical".
There's humour in there, but no cracking jokes.