Plausible but false. Reputable etymological sources including the OED cite Old English man(n), Old High German and Middle Dutch man, and Old Norse mannr, among others, all derived from the Indo-European root *man-, meaning "man". The other Indo-European *man-, which means "hand", was the progenitor of Latin manus and its Romance descendents.
"Woman" comes from OE wimman, from wif + man, literally "woman-man" or "woman-person". (Holy definitional circularity, Batman!) Confusing matters further, "human" is actually from an unrelated Indo-European root *dhghem-.
Of the words you cited, only "manual" comes from the Latin manus.
Loophole. All the one-letter Big 7 domains were marked as "reserved" at some point by the controlling authority (which may at that time have been ARPA; I'm pretty sure it was pre-ICANN). The exception was for the letter X, since x.org already existed. For some reason (perhaps because they were leaving it open for the X Consortium?) they declined to take x.com out of the namespace. x.net is, in fact, reserved--I just checked. OTOH, x.int is available! Someone better jump on that.
Interesting how the people who disagree vehemently with the point of view of a Slashdot posting are the first to cry irrelevance and claim that they don't care.
Maybe because some of us are very, very unhappy with the service we've received from WSD (Current 93 vinyl arriving warped, scratched and/or badly water-damaged) and Soleilmoon (serious problems with Muslimgauze subscriptions, even before Bryn died). Sorry, but I don't think either of those are the paragon of how an independent label should behave, at least not when dealing with their retail customers.
Your opinions on punk are the obvious product of your having read a book, or maybe even several books. Most likely these books contained many thousands of words, possibly with pictures. They seem to have ensured that you missed the point entirely.
Were the Sex Pistols "more a parody of music than music"? Sure, if you want to slice it that way. Did their manager, Malcom McLaren, treat them primarily as a guerrilla marketing tool for his own commercial interests? Absolutely. Did they incidentally tap into a lot of the significant and honest rage burgeoning in the hearts and minds of teens in the UK and abroad? You bet they did.
You seem to know nothing about what happened after 1979. Plenty of bands sold out, but there are plenty more still maintaining--probably ones you've never heard of. It's not about parodying music. It's about keeping the music simple, putting on cheap shows, exemplifying the DIY ethic, and (incidentally) fostering a sense of community that Deadheads, goths, ravers and B-boys/girls would all be likely to recognize.
A-fucking-men. As if Coil records aren't hard enough to find anyway, just based on the band's perverse sense of marketing humour. I've taken a long time to build up the Coil and Current 93 collection I have, and if I didn't have a pretty good job it would have bankrupted me long ago.
At the same time I feel a sort of fanatical loyalty to these guys that usually precludes even thinking about trading their stuff in MP3 format. Maybe the secret of continued revenues is for major labels to turn all pop music fans into rabid Coil types.
I don't know if it's the law in all 50 states, but in all the ones where I've lived (NY, MA, CA) you are expressly prohibited from using a PO box as your address for voter registration--the address you give must be your "residence and domicile".
If you want more truly ugly details on how artists get fucked by big labels, read the depressing but informative essay The Problem With Music by Steve Albini.
The only truly new paradigm I've come across in a while is called lifestreams, which is based on the ideas of Yale's David Gelernter. It basically replaces the spatial metaphor, on which conventional "desktop"-type GUIs are based, with a chronological one. Interesting.
Do you remember the balkanized Unix industry of not so long ago?
...that inadvertently saved the net's collective ass when Internet Worm II was launched? As somebody (I want to say Steve Bellovin but I'm not sure) pointed out in the aftermath, the reason that damage was as easily contained as it was was mostly due to the "biodiversity" of hosts running different OSes. More kernels are not necessarily worse.
FEAL is in fact the ubiquitous whipping boy of cryptanalysis. I don't have the references in front of me, but Schneier describes a series of conferences in which people broke FEAL variants with more and more rounds in shorter and shorter times. I think FEAL is the cipher that Adi Shamir published a break of one variant of the day after it was presented.
Schneiers "Self-Study Course In Block-Cipher Cryptanalysis" mentions that any time a novel CA method is proposed, it should be tested by first trying it on FEAL.
Sure, you can laugh at the dumb saps who invented it--except that they were highly respected mathematicians with decades of total experience in cryptography. Sort of a reality check for those of us who look at cipher designs and say "Hey, I could do that."
I honestly don't know. Having read the execrable Takedown--an exciting technological drama buried beneath a steaming pile of self-aggrandizing*, luridly written shite--I'm much more prepared to believe this than I otherwise would have been.
*(on the parts of both Shimomura and Markoff; I'm not taking sides. They're both jerks.)
IF the movie folks do it smartly, they'll be able to trace the pirates back to the source theatres through something embedded in the digital streams....
...which could be circumvented with great ease by the simple insertion of a D->A->D stage somewhere in the transfer. If you can see it or hear it, you can pirate it.
Consider this a plug for Vince Cate and Offshore Information Services. For a reasonable price, he'll run your webserver and set up your anonymous Anguilla corp. You have to comply by his TOS, but that should be pretty easy if you're not planning to host pr0n or defraud people.
(Disclaimer: Vince is a friend of a friend, so I'm not entirely free of bias here. He renounced his US citizenship a few years ago to make all this easier, which was deemed sufficiently noteworthy that the New York Times ran a piece about it.)
Yep--Arthur Clarke and Gene Wolfe (notably, but there are plenty of others who did it worse*) have written at length about actual interstellar sailing ships. I love it.
*(Like Niven & Pournelle. You may flame when ready, Gridley.)
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Plausible but false. Reputable etymological sources including the OED cite Old English man(n), Old High German and Middle Dutch man, and Old Norse mannr, among others, all derived from the Indo-European root *man-, meaning "man". The other Indo-European *man-, which means "hand", was the progenitor of Latin manus and its Romance descendents.
"Woman" comes from OE wimman, from wif + man, literally "woman-man" or "woman-person". (Holy definitional circularity, Batman!) Confusing matters further, "human" is actually from an unrelated Indo-European root *dhghem-.
Of the words you cited, only "manual" comes from the Latin manus.
Loophole. All the one-letter Big 7 domains were marked as "reserved" at some point by the controlling authority (which may at that time have been ARPA; I'm pretty sure it was pre-ICANN). The exception was for the letter X, since x.org already existed. For some reason (perhaps because they were leaving it open for the X Consortium?) they declined to take x.com out of the namespace. x.net is, in fact, reserved--I just checked. OTOH, x.int is available! Someone better jump on that.
No, no. See, theirs go to *11*.
Interesting how the people who disagree vehemently with the point of view of a Slashdot posting are the first to cry irrelevance and claim that they don't care.
Maybe because some of us are very, very unhappy with the service we've received from WSD (Current 93 vinyl arriving warped, scratched and/or badly water-damaged) and Soleilmoon (serious problems with Muslimgauze subscriptions, even before Bryn died). Sorry, but I don't think either of those are the paragon of how an independent label should behave, at least not when dealing with their retail customers.
Your opinions on punk are the obvious product of your having read a book, or maybe even several books. Most likely these books contained many thousands of words, possibly with pictures. They seem to have ensured that you missed the point entirely.
Were the Sex Pistols "more a parody of music than music"? Sure, if you want to slice it that way. Did their manager, Malcom McLaren, treat them primarily as a guerrilla marketing tool for his own commercial interests? Absolutely. Did they incidentally tap into a lot of the significant and honest rage burgeoning in the hearts and minds of teens in the UK and abroad? You bet they did.
You seem to know nothing about what happened after 1979. Plenty of bands sold out, but there are plenty more still maintaining--probably ones you've never heard of. It's not about parodying music. It's about keeping the music simple, putting on cheap shows, exemplifying the DIY ethic, and (incidentally) fostering a sense of community that Deadheads, goths, ravers and B-boys/girls would all be likely to recognize.
A-fucking-men. As if Coil records aren't hard enough to find anyway, just based on the band's perverse sense of marketing humour. I've taken a long time to build up the Coil and Current 93 collection I have, and if I didn't have a pretty good job it would have bankrupted me long ago.
At the same time I feel a sort of fanatical loyalty to these guys that usually precludes even thinking about trading their stuff in MP3 format. Maybe the secret of continued revenues is for major labels to turn all pop music fans into rabid Coil types.
I don't know if it's the law in all 50 states, but in all the ones where I've lived (NY, MA, CA) you are expressly prohibited from using a PO box as your address for voter registration--the address you give must be your "residence and domicile".
If you want more truly ugly details on how artists get fucked by big labels, read the depressing but informative essay The Problem With Music by Steve Albini.
Heh. I checked the labels on the five CDs I just got:
Mojo, Ultra, Blue Lizard, Sub City, and Cleopatra.
I'm guilt-free!
No .arpa other than in-addr, but plenty of two-letter geographic TLDs, plus nato (my favorite).
And let's not forget the inimitable Atom And His Package. Geek punk, accompanied by a Yamaha QY700 sequencer no less! Great stuff.
The only truly new paradigm I've come across in a while is called lifestreams, which is based on the ideas of Yale's David Gelernter. It basically replaces the spatial metaphor, on which conventional "desktop"-type GUIs are based, with a chronological one. Interesting.
Do you remember the balkanized Unix industry of not so long ago?
...that inadvertently saved the net's collective ass when Internet Worm II was launched? As somebody (I want to say Steve Bellovin but I'm not sure) pointed out in the aftermath, the reason that damage was as easily contained as it was was mostly due to the "biodiversity" of hosts running different OSes. More kernels are not necessarily worse.
FEAL is in fact the ubiquitous whipping boy of cryptanalysis. I don't have the references in front of me, but Schneier describes a series of conferences in which people broke FEAL variants with more and more rounds in shorter and shorter times. I think FEAL is the cipher that Adi Shamir published a break of one variant of the day after it was presented.
Schneiers "Self-Study Course In Block-Cipher Cryptanalysis" mentions that any time a novel CA method is proposed, it should be tested by first trying it on FEAL.
Sure, you can laugh at the dumb saps who invented it--except that they were highly respected mathematicians with decades of total experience in cryptography. Sort of a reality check for those of us who look at cipher designs and say "Hey, I could do that."
I honestly don't know. Having read the execrable Takedown--an exciting technological drama buried beneath a steaming pile of self-aggrandizing*, luridly written shite--I'm much more prepared to believe this than I otherwise would have been.
*(on the parts of both Shimomura and Markoff; I'm not taking sides. They're both jerks.)
IF the movie folks do it smartly, they'll be able to trace the pirates back to the source theatres through something embedded in the digital streams....
...which could be circumvented with great ease by the simple insertion of a D->A->D stage somewhere in the transfer. If you can see it or hear it, you can pirate it.
"Beware of bugs in the above code: I have only proved it correct, not tried it." (Knuth)
Consider this a plug for Vince Cate and Offshore Information Services. For a reasonable price, he'll run your webserver and set up your anonymous Anguilla corp. You have to comply by his TOS, but that should be pretty easy if you're not planning to host pr0n or defraud people.
(Disclaimer: Vince is a friend of a friend, so I'm not entirely free of bias here. He renounced his US citizenship a few years ago to make all this easier, which was deemed sufficiently noteworthy that the New York Times ran a piece about it.)
Hey, this is really interesting.
Are the specs and syntax for HAL/S (or even [drool] a distribution of the compiler) publicly available?
Actually, the song is called "Stuart". Beelzebubba is the name of the album. And yeah, it totally kicks ass.
I think you meant schreibF.
Yep--Arthur Clarke and Gene Wolfe (notably, but there are plenty of others who did it worse*) have written at length about actual interstellar sailing ships. I love it.
*(Like Niven & Pournelle. You may flame when ready, Gridley.)
Yeah, but only the yellow ones.
If only identifying real fungi were so simple....
And please, let's not forget: