The fact that you don't realize that expletives are an important part of any language, and communicate certain meanings that cannot be conveyed any other way, shows that you perhaps don't appreciate language as much as you think you do. There is a world of connotative difference between the immediacy of "Get THE FUCK down!" and "Get down!" Nothing grabs someone's attention as quickly, or communicates as much importance in a short burst, as a well-placed expletive in a serious situation.
I certainly don't won't my aircraft pilot saying "Oh, shoot!" through the radio (implying a minor problem) when he should be saying "Oh SHIT!" (implying a MAJOR, wake-up-in-the-control-tower problem).
Granted, abuse of the words strip them of much of their power. But dismissing them as utterly useless in the English language (or any other language) is unfair.
People hate nitpickers like you for a very good reason. You divert the discussion away from the significant (the meat and substance of the argument) to the trivial (the incidentals of language use, spelling, trivial and often debatable grammatical points, etc.). People like you waste time and effort MUCH better spent on debating the actual content of a post. You're an annoying distraction, with little if anything to contribute to the actual discussion.
Yeah, but the even bigger question is "Are people buying it as a game machine or just as a blu-ray player?" I own both a 360 and PS3, and I use my PS3 almost exclusively for blu-ray movies. Good news for blu-ray, bad news for game developers doing PS3 exclusives.
The PS3 has to do more than just sell hardware. It has to start selling games. And, right now, the 360 is absolutely crushing it on game sales (Guitar Hero 3, for example sold almost 8 times as many 360 copies as PS3 copies).
I used to be a misanthrope myself. Then I worked briefly in college at a convenience store in a shitty part of town. Contrary to what you would expect, you know what it taught me? It taught me that people, by and large, are decent. I expected to have a shitty "Clerks" type experience, but what I got was a more positive view of humanity.
When I overpaid in change, most people would tell me. Most people would help me out when I made a mistake. When someone was looking for directions, people would help them out (even if I couldn't). Shoplifters were very rare. Most people were honest and decent--even in this shitty neighborhood.
In a way we are "democratizing the news." But it's mostly in a very limited way. The net and its denizens are MUCH better at following and disseminating tech-related stories for example (like right here on/.). You'll find coverage of stuff like net neutrality, domestic spying tech, etc. that's much better than any conventional news source. Unfortunately, the net is not nearly as good at following more conventional news stories (standard political fare, sports, local news, etc.). Those areas are still best served by conventional media.
Actually, I've been on SL for several years now. And, unfortunately, you can indeed see some pretty screwed up stuff just wandering around (though I was, of course, exaggerating for comic effect). I will say that at least the Goreans keep pretty much to themselves, unlike the furries and "child play" types, who are all over.
I've published to professional journals (as a academic historian) before, and I've never had to surrender copyright to the journal (agreement was strictly for publishing rights). And I don't know any academics who would tolerate that (especially since the vast majority of academic journals don't pay you to publish your article and many articles lead on to books). Is academic physics THAT different?
Do you think Hollywood is going to turn over the rights to let you copy whatever you want of their stuff for a few paltry million $ that this would bring in?!?! Even if every single internet user in the United States paid $5 (much less the pathetic $1 you're suggesting), that would only be about $775 million. By the time you divide that up among every studio, it wouldn't be enough to pay the catering bill on the latest blockbuster movie. You think they're going to turn over the right for you to copy their movies at will (virtually destroying their DVD sales) for such a pathetic sum?!?!?
Are you fucking kidding me? WTF are you guys even thinking?
A fake four-year-old boy running around with a bunch of sadomasochists, furries, "child play" *ahem* "enthusiasts." The making of a brilliant sitcom if I've ever seen one.
In this episode, Eddie's AI gets put to the ultimate Turing Test when he's approached by a Gorean pedophile! Tune in for the laughs as Eddie responds with "I'm sorry, I don't understand the phrase 'touch my weewee, slave!'"
Unfortunately my father was just a non-famous loser--making it impossible for me to write my own stories, claim he wrote them to get them published, and make lots of money.
Since being an interstellar delivery boy would basically mean leaving behind all your friends and loved ones (as they aged and died and you didn't) only the worst losers would be willing to take the job (unless you were going to pay them and their families a king's ransom). Your recruitment pool would basically consist of orphaned slackers, lazy out-of-work robots, one-eyed mutants, alien doctors with no discernible human skills, and grad students. How on earth could you build a delivery service with just that to choose from?
The assertion that Asus "flipped the laptop world on its head with a stupidly low price point" made in this article simply isn't true. Sub-$500 laptops have been around for some time now. And, for the money, the Asus really isn't even a particularly good deal. For $100 more, you can buy a laptop with an actual 60GB hard drive and much more muscular processor. The main advantage to the Eee isn't its price point, but the fact that it is very small (and the screen is perhaps too small as the parent points out), light, and durable (since it has a solid-state hard drive).
No, of course not. But it can certainly be done. I know that because we can actually pick up the wifi network of the company below us (which they use for THEIR meeting rooms and to provide visiting clients with internet access). I even considered going to them at one time and asking if our department could just pay them to "piggyback" on their network, but was too ashamed to admit to them that our own IT department was incapable or unwilling to help us.
Anyone else noticed that this version throws off some sites that use table layouts (pieces are misaligned)? I've got a couple of sites that I designed that use table layout on their front page (don't give me a lot of CSS crap, folks, absolute positioning is still no match for a well-done table). On some of them it seems to introduce random gaps in the slices (they look just fine in IE and Firefox 2.0).
No I'm the type of user who knows exactly what the Hell he's doing, and have never had a virus or installed a piece of malware in my life because I'm not stupid enough to open a executable attachment or install a unknown piece of software and I because I take precautions like running Firefox with NoScript (not at work, because the genius IT department that you're defending has identified Firefox as a "security risk" and won't install it). The licensing fees aren't an issue, since my department has the money for the software (we just can't get them to approve installing it).
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I certainly don't won't my aircraft pilot saying "Oh, shoot!" through the radio (implying a minor problem) when he should be saying "Oh SHIT!" (implying a MAJOR, wake-up-in-the-control-tower problem).
Granted, abuse of the words strip them of much of their power. But dismissing them as utterly useless in the English language (or any other language) is unfair.
People hate nitpickers like you for a very good reason. You divert the discussion away from the significant (the meat and substance of the argument) to the trivial (the incidentals of language use, spelling, trivial and often debatable grammatical points, etc.). People like you waste time and effort MUCH better spent on debating the actual content of a post. You're an annoying distraction, with little if anything to contribute to the actual discussion.
The PS3 has to do more than just sell hardware. It has to start selling games. And, right now, the 360 is absolutely crushing it on game sales (Guitar Hero 3, for example sold almost 8 times as many 360 copies as PS3 copies).
Get back to your hackeysack, hippie!
No, that's too obvious. The real evil is the evil that can masquerade as good. And in that regard, Apple wins hands-down.
When I overpaid in change, most people would tell me. Most people would help me out when I made a mistake. When someone was looking for directions, people would help them out (even if I couldn't). Shoplifters were very rare. Most people were honest and decent--even in this shitty neighborhood.
In a way we are "democratizing the news." But it's mostly in a very limited way. The net and its denizens are MUCH better at following and disseminating tech-related stories for example (like right here on /.). You'll find coverage of stuff like net neutrality, domestic spying tech, etc. that's much better than any conventional news source. Unfortunately, the net is not nearly as good at following more conventional news stories (standard political fare, sports, local news, etc.). Those areas are still best served by conventional media.
Bet I could connect any one of these bots to Kevin Bacon in 3 or less.
Actually, I've been on SL for several years now. And, unfortunately, you can indeed see some pretty screwed up stuff just wandering around (though I was, of course, exaggerating for comic effect). I will say that at least the Goreans keep pretty much to themselves, unlike the furries and "child play" types, who are all over.
I've published to professional journals (as a academic historian) before, and I've never had to surrender copyright to the journal (agreement was strictly for publishing rights). And I don't know any academics who would tolerate that (especially since the vast majority of academic journals don't pay you to publish your article and many articles lead on to books). Is academic physics THAT different?
Are you fucking kidding me? WTF are you guys even thinking?
The perfect weapon for the Samurai who doesn't want kids.
[dialing the NSA now]
In this episode, Eddie's AI gets put to the ultimate Turing Test when he's approached by a Gorean pedophile! Tune in for the laughs as Eddie responds with "I'm sorry, I don't understand the phrase 'touch my weewee, slave!'"
Unfortunately my father was just a non-famous loser--making it impossible for me to write my own stories, claim he wrote them to get them published, and make lots of money.
Every time I see someone pulled over, I just thank God I'm white.
Ah, the all-too-rare "Soap" reference. Nice to know there are still some people who remember how funny that show was in its heyday.
Every one of those criteria could be used to describe virtually any religion. Almost all modern relgions, after all, started out as cults themselves.
Since being an interstellar delivery boy would basically mean leaving behind all your friends and loved ones (as they aged and died and you didn't) only the worst losers would be willing to take the job (unless you were going to pay them and their families a king's ransom). Your recruitment pool would basically consist of orphaned slackers, lazy out-of-work robots, one-eyed mutants, alien doctors with no discernible human skills, and grad students. How on earth could you build a delivery service with just that to choose from?
The assertion that Asus "flipped the laptop world on its head with a stupidly low price point" made in this article simply isn't true. Sub-$500 laptops have been around for some time now. And, for the money, the Asus really isn't even a particularly good deal. For $100 more, you can buy a laptop with an actual 60GB hard drive and much more muscular processor. The main advantage to the Eee isn't its price point, but the fact that it is very small (and the screen is perhaps too small as the parent points out), light, and durable (since it has a solid-state hard drive).
Dick Cheney is preparing to leave office and NOW you tell us?!?!
No, of course not. But it can certainly be done. I know that because we can actually pick up the wifi network of the company below us (which they use for THEIR meeting rooms and to provide visiting clients with internet access). I even considered going to them at one time and asking if our department could just pay them to "piggyback" on their network, but was too ashamed to admit to them that our own IT department was incapable or unwilling to help us.
Anyone else noticed that this version throws off some sites that use table layouts (pieces are misaligned)? I've got a couple of sites that I designed that use table layout on their front page (don't give me a lot of CSS crap, folks, absolute positioning is still no match for a well-done table). On some of them it seems to introduce random gaps in the slices (they look just fine in IE and Firefox 2.0).
No I'm the type of user who knows exactly what the Hell he's doing, and have never had a virus or installed a piece of malware in my life because I'm not stupid enough to open a executable attachment or install a unknown piece of software and I because I take precautions like running Firefox with NoScript (not at work, because the genius IT department that you're defending has identified Firefox as a "security risk" and won't install it). The licensing fees aren't an issue, since my department has the money for the software (we just can't get them to approve installing it).