Former and Latter--Quit It.
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What is with people writing articles using the "former vs latter" phraseology (had to look that one up). It stinks. It's old. It's annoying.
People seem to love it so much they purposely set up arrangements of arguments, just waiting for the splendid chance to use a "former vs latter"
I'm not saying Jon K. uses it all the time, this is the first time I've noticed it in one of his articles. I generally like his artciles, though I usually don't read all the way through...I just saw it this time and it bothered me. The fact that he reverses the order of "New and Old" from their counterparts in the first half of the sentence doesn't help.
It's been years since I have taken an economics course...but I think that the fact that the number of cd sales increased so much implies that the price of a cd is below the market equilibrium and they aren't making the most total amount of money based on market conditions.
I could be way off based here... if I am I apologize. I'm an engineer, not an economist:)
Does anyone besides me look at that photo (of robo-cat) and cringe at how sad and pitiful that thing is. I mean, at least Aibo doesn't pretend to be anything but a robot.
I think Aibo is pretty neat, not just because of what it does, but because of the way it looks and the way it is presented.
But this thing is looks ridiculous (sp?). Maybe I feel this way because I just saw Blade Runner again (or half of it before I was too bored to go further), and I think BR relates a lot to what Sony and whoever these robo-cat people are trying to do.
Putting fur on this thing, or at least that face, has to be the worst thing they could do to the robo-cat. Just plain silly. It doesn't look like a cat, it looks like a cat with leprosy and an inflated head.
I am not saying they should make the thing look just like Aibo, not by any means, but don't put that hidious get-up on it. --cheese
The ISP's could be thought of as members of the UN (maybe Usenet Nations?)... they do occasionally agree to do things, such as economic sanctions and what not. That doesn't seem like anarchism to me. There is a semblence of organization.
cross platform compilation, if not exactly common place, can be done. I think doom or quake or both was/were developed on a NeXT, not too sure on that though.
I enjoyed snow crash. I have noticed that how much I enjoy a particular book depends heavily on what is going on in my life. The happier I am, the less I tend to read. When I am less pleased with life, I tend to read a lot more--escapism I guess.
So maybe life wasn't looking its best when I read snow crash, and that is why I liked it.
On the otherhand my life is going pretty well right now, and I tried to read cryptonomicon. I got about halfway through, and still felt like I was reading an introduction. When the hell is the story going to start, I kept thinking. The story went nowhere. I skipped to the end to see if it was worthwhile to keep reading... and saw more of the same mundane-go-nowhere-let's-see-how-much-I-can-write- about-nothing. So I stopped. I really didn't like the book at all.
I tried reading otherland, and things were going fine up until the "jack and the beanstalk" crap in the prologue. The words were great, the story was great, and then this damned beanstalk crap pops up. It totally ruined the moment for me and I quit reading it, and was quite pissed off.
Now I haven't given up on otherland just yet, after all I had only read something like 20 or 30 pages... I am just waiting for the right time to read it I guess.
It's always a gamble buying a book that you really don't know anything about, but sometimes that book is the greatest book in the world. I picked up Robert Jordan's "The Eye of the World" on a whim. It was a pretty good book... the strange thing about the wheel of time series is that I really didn't "get into" the story until about halfway through the third book. And that is pretty amazing and strange I think...but it was escapism at the time. Even though I didn't fully get into the story right away, it was something different from day to day life and I kept going.
The wheel of time books got better and better, but I felt they kind of faltered in the last two. Not enough goals were resolved, not enough happened. I blazed through his last book, and it was good, but I was amazed at the end of how little progress in the story had actually taken place.
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What is with people writing articles using the "former vs latter" phraseology (had to look that one up). It stinks. It's old. It's annoying.
People seem to love it so much they purposely set up arrangements of arguments, just waiting for the splendid chance to use a "former vs latter"
I'm not saying Jon K. uses it all the time, this is the first time I've noticed it in one of his articles. I generally like his artciles, though I usually don't read all the way through...I just saw it this time and it bothered me. The fact that he reverses the order of "New and Old" from their counterparts in the first half of the sentence doesn't help.
Anyway, I feel better now.
cheese
It's been years since I have taken an economics course...but I think that the fact that the number of cd sales increased so much implies that the price of a cd is below the market equilibrium and they aren't making the most total amount of money based on market conditions.
:)
I could be way off based here... if I am I apologize. I'm an engineer, not an economist
cheese
Does anyone besides me look at that photo (of robo-cat) and cringe at how sad and pitiful that thing is. I mean, at least Aibo doesn't pretend to be anything but a robot.
I think Aibo is pretty neat, not just because of what it does, but because of the way it looks and the way it is presented.
But this thing is looks ridiculous (sp?). Maybe I feel this way because I just saw Blade Runner again (or half of it before I was too bored to go further), and I think BR relates a lot to what Sony and whoever these robo-cat people are trying to do.
Putting fur on this thing, or at least that face, has to be the worst thing they could do to the robo-cat. Just plain silly. It doesn't look like a cat, it looks like a cat with leprosy and an inflated head.
I am not saying they should make the thing look just like Aibo, not by any means, but don't put that hidious get-up on it. --cheese
Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth. - George Washington
This, coming from a guy with no teeth.
Not a flame: If a problem can't be proven unsolvable, how do you know it is unsolvable?
certainly, those specs are potent radioactive carcinogens of the mind.
yes
The ISP's could be thought of as members of the UN (maybe Usenet Nations?)... they do occasionally agree to do things, such as economic sanctions and what not. That doesn't seem like anarchism to me. There is a semblence of organization.
cheese_wallet
cross platform compilation, if not exactly common place, can be done. I think doom or quake or both was/were developed on a NeXT, not too sure on that though.
They didn't ask if it would *work* on a c64, smartboy.
If people's heads were as smart as their asses, well, uh, the cummulative IQ of the world would increase dramatically.
Scary isn't it. All of these people above, although helpful, are rather retentive in a non oral region.
I realize, of course, that it is tuesday.
Perhaps Slashdot should have a spelling checker/suggestor in addition to the preview button? I know I would like to see that.
--Cheese
I enjoyed snow crash. I have noticed that how much I enjoy a particular book depends heavily on what is going on in my life. The happier I am, the less I tend to read. When I am less pleased with life, I tend to read a lot more--escapism I guess.
- about-nothing. So I stopped. I really didn't like the book at all.
So maybe life wasn't looking its best when I read snow crash, and that is why I liked it.
On the otherhand my life is going pretty well right now, and I tried to read cryptonomicon. I got about halfway through, and still felt like I was reading an introduction. When the hell is the story going to start, I kept thinking. The story went nowhere. I skipped to the end to see if it was worthwhile to keep reading... and saw more of the same mundane-go-nowhere-let's-see-how-much-I-can-write
I tried reading otherland, and things were going fine up until the "jack and the beanstalk" crap in the prologue. The words were great, the story was great, and then this damned beanstalk crap pops up. It totally ruined the moment for me and I quit reading it, and was quite pissed off.
Now I haven't given up on otherland just yet, after all I had only read something like 20 or 30 pages... I am just waiting for the right time to read it I guess.
It's always a gamble buying a book that you really don't know anything about, but sometimes that book is the greatest book in the world. I picked up Robert Jordan's "The Eye of the World" on a whim. It was a pretty good book... the strange thing about the wheel of time series is that I really didn't "get into" the story until about halfway through the third book. And that is pretty amazing and strange I think...but it was escapism at the time. Even though I didn't fully get into the story right away, it was something different from day to day life and I kept going.
The wheel of time books got better and better, but I felt they kind of faltered in the last two. Not enough goals were resolved, not enough happened. I blazed through his last book, and it was good, but I was amazed at the end of how little progress in the story had actually taken place.
Anyway,
cheese_wallet
because ATI wrote it?