This is something I was hoping to do. Certainly better pay and more fun than my current job! Unfortunately, I fall short on a _single_ eligibility requirement: age.
You've got the first point, but you're off on the second point.
Didn't the context of the original post seem a little odd for DSL to mean Digital Subscriber Line? First time I saw DSL in a similarly confusing context, I hit Acronym Finder to figure out what the hell was going on. If Digital Subscriber Line made sense in that context, one couldn't blame your ignorance in any way. However, when basic logic skills can get you the correct acronym in a matter of minutes, there's a problem.
For one, I never encouraged anyone to install them, I merely called them an advantage over Opera. (And, whether you think they are unstable or not, surely it can be agreed that the ability to easily install extensions is an advantage.)
Secondly, I have never heard anybody state that all extensions are unstable. I've seen lists of unstable extensions, but by no means is every extension listed on any of them.
Well, excluding extensions (which Opera has support for, too, though extending is more difficult), the only other advantages don't matter to most users: it's open source and it's a much smaller download. It blocks ads, too, so that's not an Opera advantage. It just comes down to a matter of preference after that: lower ram usage compared to better extendibility.
But the question is: were they on/.? Because the/. community is not your average comp sci students/grads. Even those who aren't comp sci students and grads are more informed about this sort of thing than most people around them. I didn't say that I would be surprised if comp sci students and grads didn't know of the Turing Test, I said I'd be surprised if anybody on/. didn't know of it. And if there are, it is low enough a number so as to be negligible.
The reason this isn't a Turing Test is because a Turing Test has a judge talking to both a human and a bot. The bot "wins" if the judge can't tell the difference. This is only talking to the bot and it's obvious that it is a bot, so it can't be a Turing Test. However, the competition is looking for a bot that could pass the test, so it is somewhat relevant.
As I've said,/. readers are more informed to these matters than your average person. The number of people who actually read the comments and don't know about the test are, as I've previously stated, negligible.
Here's something I've been toying with: If you're not karma whoring and your post won't be negatively viewed by posting AC, I suggest posting AC. Obviously if it might be viewed a troll if it were AC (like mine would have been), then posting under your name would be fine. However, if it's likely to be modded up even as AC, go ahead and post it AC.
There are a few reasons why your post fits that description. For one, I'll eat my hat if there's even a single person on/. who doesn't know what a Turing test is. Secondly, Chatterbox is not a Turing test. It is a contest to find a Turing-capable chatterbot. That is an entirely different concept. The information you gave is entirely unnecessary.
And my post was merely calling you out on being a karma whore. The format was purely in parody of your own. I want no moderation for it, nor is moderation typically given to one who calls out karma whores. And, finally, if you bothered to check, you would see that my citing was spot-on. If you point your browser to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_whore you will see it redirects to the relevent page. Sure, it would have been better to cite the actual page (which I did link to correctly), but it wouldn't have been as good a parody of your post.
Karma is a scoring system on Slashdot meant to reward "good" posting and punish "bad" posting. The goal is that people who repeatedly post offensive, offtopic, or otherwise unwanted messages will be punished with a lower visibility of their messages, and those who post informative, insightful, or otherwise desirable messages are rewarded with a higher visibility. Karma whores are individuals, or messages themselves, that attempt to receive feedback in the form of karma points. Often these will be needless information (such as a link to a Wikipedia article relevant to the subject being discussed), or a message of a political nature that is in alignment with the groupthink so that it will be moderated upwards by people who agree with the stance expressed in the message.
Yes you can. It's generally accepted that IHTFP was first I Hate This F* Place and that Interesting Hacks to Fascinate People and most other expansions were mainly ways to sneak in IHTFP.
This, of course, isn't necessarily absolute truth, but it *is* generally accepted as far as I have ever seen.
Correction... Nintendo's thing isn't entirely FPS. Their top selling games span pretty much every genre I can think of, including FPS (Metroid Prime, anyone?).
That said, Revolution will not have any impact on Halo 3's success.
Not necessarily true, though it's becoming more and more so these days.
What if, once a day or even week, I securely gave you a pad with maybe, 50000 randomly generated letters. That's the one time pad. Now I am free to send a multitude of messages between the time you are given the pad and the time you are given the new pad so long as the total character length is not in excess of 50000 (or however many you wish). The only thing is that we would have to be certain that you received all of them in perfect order and kept accurate count of which letters had been used. However, if some transmission is screwed up in such a way that affects the running counter of used letters, the pad is rendered effectively useless. Worse than useless, even, in that I might believe you are interpreting them correctly.
One of my good friends is one of those "at the range daily" sorts. He shoots all sorts of guns and is a good shot with pretty much all of them because he's been doing archery and hunting and range shooting for God-knows-how-long. And, you know what? I would trust him more if he had a sniper rifle aimed directly at my head whilst I was immobile than I would trust anybody else who was merely standing by a disassembled M16.
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Certainly it takes more work to get the full value of many (though not all) of the classics, but I think many can agree that it is often worth it (not that you said it wasn't or anything like that). The story of Romeo and Juliet may be old news to everybody today, but that play is many times better than many of today's attempts to put a new spin or twist on it.
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Firstly, I want to say that, although I disagree with you, your -1 Flamebait is undeserved.
That said, I would like to have you know that I run my computer perfectly: I'm running Windows XP, SP 2, with all relevant updates. I have automatic update and check Windows Update periodically just to be sure. I run Firefox or Opera and never touch IE. I have a firewall running, virus protection, multiple anti-spyware programs. I don't open attachments that I'm not expecting or download suspicious files. And somehow my computer still gets viruses. In my opinion, that reveals *something* about the OS.
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And I agree. However, most people today have a different idea of entertainment so they don't see the entertainment value of the classics, which is truly a pity.
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Oh well, there's always next year.
HTML/CSS that validates with w3c and looks perfectly fine in both Firefox and IE.
I hope you were trying to prove the GP's point, since that is what you did.
Zing.
Except that Negroponte can do it and their governments can't. At least he's doing his part to help.
Didn't the context of the original post seem a little odd for DSL to mean Digital Subscriber Line? First time I saw DSL in a similarly confusing context, I hit Acronym Finder to figure out what the hell was going on. If Digital Subscriber Line made sense in that context, one couldn't blame your ignorance in any way. However, when basic logic skills can get you the correct acronym in a matter of minutes, there's a problem.
Secondly, I have never heard anybody state that all extensions are unstable. I've seen lists of unstable extensions, but by no means is every extension listed on any of them.
Well, excluding extensions (which Opera has support for, too, though extending is more difficult), the only other advantages don't matter to most users: it's open source and it's a much smaller download. It blocks ads, too, so that's not an Opera advantage. It just comes down to a matter of preference after that: lower ram usage compared to better extendibility.
What? You don't think he wants you to post like a Middle Eastern food?
The reason this isn't a Turing Test is because a Turing Test has a judge talking to both a human and a bot. The bot "wins" if the judge can't tell the difference. This is only talking to the bot and it's obvious that it is a bot, so it can't be a Turing Test. However, the competition is looking for a bot that could pass the test, so it is somewhat relevant.
As I've said, /. readers are more informed to these matters than your average person. The number of people who actually read the comments and don't know about the test are, as I've previously stated, negligible.
Here's something I've been toying with: If you're not karma whoring and your post won't be negatively viewed by posting AC, I suggest posting AC. Obviously if it might be viewed a troll if it were AC (like mine would have been), then posting under your name would be fine. However, if it's likely to be modded up even as AC, go ahead and post it AC.
And my post was merely calling you out on being a karma whore. The format was purely in parody of your own. I want no moderation for it, nor is moderation typically given to one who calls out karma whores. And, finally, if you bothered to check, you would see that my citing was spot-on. If you point your browser to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_whore you will see it redirects to the relevent page. Sure, it would have been better to cite the actual page (which I did link to correctly), but it wouldn't have been as good a parody of your post.
This, of course, isn't necessarily absolute truth, but it *is* generally accepted as far as I have ever seen.
That's because they know that MIT students have referred to the ring as the Brass Rat for a long time.
I think that was intentional as that is the only thing in that code that fits the description of not doing what it looks like it will do.
Hence why I didn't say goatse.cx. Without the .cx, I'm just referring to the image (which is in existence on several mirrors across the internet).
So how many people were expecting the "cutest site ever" link to be goatse?
Oh, wait...
That said, Revolution will not have any impact on Halo 3's success.
What if, once a day or even week, I securely gave you a pad with maybe, 50000 randomly generated letters. That's the one time pad. Now I am free to send a multitude of messages between the time you are given the pad and the time you are given the new pad so long as the total character length is not in excess of 50000 (or however many you wish). The only thing is that we would have to be certain that you received all of them in perfect order and kept accurate count of which letters had been used. However, if some transmission is screwed up in such a way that affects the running counter of used letters, the pad is rendered effectively useless. Worse than useless, even, in that I might believe you are interpreting them correctly.
One of my good friends is one of those "at the range daily" sorts. He shoots all sorts of guns and is a good shot with pretty much all of them because he's been doing archery and hunting and range shooting for God-knows-how-long. And, you know what? I would trust him more if he had a sniper rifle aimed directly at my head whilst I was immobile than I would trust anybody else who was merely standing by a disassembled M16.
Certainly it takes more work to get the full value of many (though not all) of the classics, but I think many can agree that it is often worth it (not that you said it wasn't or anything like that). The story of Romeo and Juliet may be old news to everybody today, but that play is many times better than many of today's attempts to put a new spin or twist on it.
That said, I would like to have you know that I run my computer perfectly: I'm running Windows XP, SP 2, with all relevant updates. I have automatic update and check Windows Update periodically just to be sure. I run Firefox or Opera and never touch IE. I have a firewall running, virus protection, multiple anti-spyware programs. I don't open attachments that I'm not expecting or download suspicious files. And somehow my computer still gets viruses. In my opinion, that reveals *something* about the OS.
And I agree. However, most people today have a different idea of entertainment so they don't see the entertainment value of the classics, which is truly a pity.
I'm spinning and I'm neither a teacher nor dead.