In fact, I listen to XM Radio, so I always have the band name right in front of me, and I've never heard a single White Lion song; I didn't even know White Lion was a thing until 5 minutes ago when I read the song list in the summary.
So unless the GP lives someplace where White Lion's frontman is the classic rock station DJ... I hesitate to believe him.
Even worse, I could have written the entire article summary (minus the "2 years ago" part, obviously) near the end of Fall 2004, when I wrote a paper (for maybe the lamest class ever) about implants like this.
And yes, the article date just makes this even more pathetic. Superlame.
Not exactly, but you probably should. I'm just going to point out the senselessness of your proposed questions, instead.
In order,
- Why in the blue fuck would you even ask that question? You can't buy a wii without a wii remote. It's a package deal. The question isn't even academic, it's just misguided.
I guess the answer, if one were to dignify the question with one, would have to be: the wii without the wii remote would be like a Gamecube and a half. Or like 1/5th of an Xbox 360 (1/10th, whatever). It would be exactly what the PS3 and Xbox 360 are - uncreative, mindless iterations of a product that has been made at least twice already. (Oh, plus Nintendo franchises.)
- If Microsoft and Sony did that, it'd be a great idea, judging from the excitement the wii version has created. It might not be enough, though, since
a) as someone has already pointed out, the wiimote is the standard controller for the console, not a Super Scope-style gimmick that will discourage developers from making games geared towards it; and
b) the wii is already out there, seems to have a fair market share (of the market composed of people who want a wiimote experience), and has a growing catalogue of wiimote games already; and
c) a wii, with a wiimote, costs something like $250. A different system, with a wiimote, would have to cost one to four hundred dollars more.
For a large portion of the crowd that is snatching up wiis, assuming the wiimote is the selling point, the cheapest and best wiimote-using console to buy would STILL be the wii. Easily.
- Yes, arse, graphics really matter, with "all else being equal." Which is why everyone flocks to the Xbox 360 and PS3 when all else is equal amongst all the consoles. Remember, "all else" is anything I can come up with (and more!), so that includes
- price
- gameplay
- creatively conceived controllers
- perceived enjoyment
So, when those things are all equal, the wii will be in a lot of trouble.
-...Huh? Does the canonical "avid gamer" have unlimited cash at his or (ha!) her disposal? Of course price matters. To everyone. Ever. Except accomplished thieves. Many would tell you that price is often the only thing that matters, given that price == money and money drives almost everything that happens in the world (money and the Sun, I guess).
Your question smacks more of adolescent snarkiness than of honest reflection or intellectual curiosity. In fact, it brings to mind a segment from some kind of TV show I saw, where ten 11-year-olds were offered either a wii or a PS3 to play with, and the one kid who considered himself a "gamer" was disgusted by the other nine kids, who all gravitated towards the wii (because it was FUN).
No matter how much you make fun of us for being "fanboys," or for failing to meet the standards for "avid gamers," the rest of the world - those of us who think with our brains, not with our prejudices and our parents' wallets, are going to stick with this wii, which entertains us and even allows us to enjoy games with old people and girls (none of whom have ever really wanted to play Halo with us).
You forgot the rule that says, "It's never ok to post a story about any new product or technology on Slashdot."
If the article is forecasting a future product, it is obviously "vaporware," but anything that actually exists has been in the works for at least long enough to build it, making it "oldnews."
Actually, it reads like TFSummary was much ado about something wrong. I went to a lot of trouble and such and RTFA'ed, but I don't see anything from the summary in the article.
I see a mention of "inflation," and a poke at the God Team, but I don't see any mention of "nothing." (If somebody has a transcript, I might be bothered to look for the promised proclamation, but I certainly couldn't find it in the article.) Mr. Hawking has apparently just pretended to have an understanding of the un-understandable problem that sits at the beginning of anyone's understanding of everything: something exists, where nothing used to.
Sure, the idea of an abrupt Creation, or "Design," of the universe lets us joke about what God was doing before he got around to Creation, but the metaphor of water (or, let's suppose, some kind of cosmic stew) boiling into steam/universes leaves us with the same problem that we had in the first place: where in the [space larger than a universe] did the water/stew come from?
As I read it, the exact same problem has been reached again - and Religion and Science both require a leap of perfect faith over the gap that is The Beginning of It All.
I don't think most of us are that worked up about the IRS's desire to get income taxes out of the real eBay stores and super duper Power Sellers who really are making a substantial percentage of their income through eBay sales. It sounds like this community is concerned, and legitimately so, because of the recommended minimums the IRS is considering (according to the summary).
To repeat someone else's point - don't people sell up to 100 items at garage sales?
If somebody is cleaning out his garage, and comes up with 150 things to sell, does it make sense that he should be hounded for the taxes on the "income" generated?
And then again, we are Slashdotters. A number of us probably own some expensive electronic shit. If somebody sells 15 or 20 thousand dollars worth of electronics for a little over $5000 because he upgraded, should he pay taxes on that? Only because he threw away the receipt 2 years after he bought the stuff, you say? Silly.
The general idea is fair, but they're gonna need to tweak those numbers. People who run eBay businesses are all gonna clock in with thousands of sales, with their $5 margins on bluetooth headsets and shit. Anyone whose income is really coming from eBay is going to make, one would assume, way more than $5000; let's make it, say, $20,000 before the IRS hassles you, and even at numbers that high, you get a chance to prove that you were just selling your shit (say, used cars that you paid more for), not running a business.
So if you made the numbers 1500 sales, and $20,000, I think it'd be a lot harder to argue with.
The point of sniping is to stay above the fray of bidding wars. Snipers are the smartest bidders in any given auction, and sniping actually results in a lower final price than days of proxy bidding. The art of sniping is to decide on a maximum acceptable price, and take a single shot at getting the item for that price.
The price-jacking fools on eBay are the early bidders who jump the gun and start entering their max bids days early, so the shills have plenty of time to raise the price in increments. These bidders never decide on a maximum price, so the final price of an item ends up being higher.
An example: I decide, 2 days before the end of an auction, that I am willing to spend $25, including shipping, for WarioWare: Touched!. My options: (1) bookmark the auction and ignore it for nigh on 2 days; (2) bid such an amount that my cost including shipping would be $25 right away and check the auction every half hour to make sure I am still "winning."
If I did (1), I will never bid any more than $25 minus S&H. Thus, my bid cannot raise the final purchase price over $26 (given a $1 bid increment). It can't. I might not win, but I will not pay more than I am willing, and I will not raise the price for anyone else.
If I did (2), I might find, with 13 hours remaining in the auction, that the price sits at $26. I've been outbid. I've got plenty of time to wait until the next auction for the same item ends in a few days; my roommate has a Wii, so I can play "Smooth Moves" instead. However, I've been feverishly following this auction (for whatever reason), and thus have made the determination that I would win this item and not wait for another one. I quickly submit a bid for $30.
At this point, even without any shill bidding, I have "jacked up" the price by at least $4, which I would not have done by sniping.
The problem here is that only a real dumbass would make it so very easy for eBay to catch him. As you asserted, there are easy ways around it - if you have a different ID (with different contact information) and an IP address that appears different, eBay can't really deduce that you are your own shill.
This is why I wonder what all the angry people expect eBay to do about standard shills - if my old roommates live across the country now, and we put in a few value-adding shill bids for each other every once in a while (we don't.), how is eBay supposed to figure that out?
Now, if the hundreds of comments above are all based on the bid-withdrawal method of shilling, I understand the problem. I haven't really used eBay in a while, so I don't know how prevalent it is, but this seems quite pernicious. Unfortunately, eBay has the Final-Value-Fee-Conflict-of-Interest built in, so they're unlikely to do this, but they really should respond to user-detected instances of fraudulent bidding patterns like this.
Until that happens, the only thing that one can really do is snipe. Always. It seems like a jerk move, if you're a moron, but it's the way to do things. Decide exactly what you are willing to pay, and make a bid in that amount with 15 seconds or less remaining in the auction. It should be real tough for a shill to make dozens of incremental bids in order to get the bid-withdrawal scam to work. Since you decided what you were willing to pay, you get your item for that amount or less, or you don't get it, and somebody else pays more. If a shill had an excessively high bid and you get a second-chance offer, don't take it. Save the user's ID until we get a vigilante eBay-identity-ruining Task Force together. Er, I mean, until eBay does something about this nonsense.
For my part, I plan to continue to use eBay only for USB and Cat5 cables and the like, since the "99 cent Buy-It-Now with 6 dollars S&H" scam is a lot less terrible than the "25 dollars for 15 feet of Cat5 at Best Buy" scam.
For the most part, I agree. I almost always give myself enough space to stop, regardless of what the driver in front of me chooses to do, even as I cruise at around 78. (I say 'almost' because you just wouldn't believe me otherwise.) The few people who don't understand that I'm not going any slower than the car in front of me will try to get around me in foolish and dangerous ways, and it happens. My reaction is just slightly different from my parent's; I back off, add a friendly gesture (normally a sarcastic thumbs-up, but occasionally a different digit), and let them in. This doesn't really lead to road rage, since I then back off to a safe following distance, and the jackasses I flip off know they deserve it.
I drive plenty, and this keeps me clear of stupid drivers all over Michigan.
There are only 9 words to misinterpret in the parent post. That's not really too many, but if you're in a hurry, I can see how you might need to post a critical response to the comment without taking time to understand it. I managed to figure it out, but I guess I'm just careful.
I'll translate, slightly more verbosely: "But, is it open source? I don't suggest that Sourceforge is, I'm just asking whether Google's version is."
Right, parent?
Ah, well, at least you got that random Funny mod. So you got that goin' for you. Which is nice.
As I say this, I have to admit that I am primarily a Windows user and find XP to be the first version of Windows that is entirely usable and not entirely frustrating; I have been a big fan since I first used it.
But even so, I find that Windows Networking never works. I have a file/print server runner Server 2003 which does work very well, but XP is a different story. I am a perfectly capable advanced user, and I can never get two different computers running XP on the same router to share printers or files, with less than an hour of work/directionless mucking about/rebooting. Same shit always used to happen with Win98, but XP does other things so much better that I had great hopes for networking. No luck.
It's tried and tested, and lousy. So I'm excited to hear that it will be replaced with something completely new, because for the first time in years, I have hopes that it might work.
I guess your verbs actually do have... alternate conjugations.
I'm gonna go ahead and translate to English, and then posit an answer to the question I think you've asked.
- Do they make the critters chase PacMan? Or do they just let them wander around in the maze? If so, what motivation do they give the crickets to chase PacMan?
- I'm thinking he just lets the insects loose and bases the ghost movement on the rather random (unless we assume insects have a plan when placed inside a maze) insect movement/lack thereof.
There are lots of current students at my school to whose profiles I am denied access. They all annoy me, but they're certainly there. I believe that's what TFA meant by
The son was beginning a search for an internship, so [his mother] asked him to consider limiting access to his profile to just his friends. Understanding the gravity of the situation, he heeded his mother's advice and did so.
The default may be school-wide access, but it sounds like he had restricted access to a relatively small group of people. Different story.
'...[W]e lose a lot of business in Europe, cuz German people phone up,
- "Wir haben fünf Millionen Deutschmark..."
- "Just fuck off, will you, mate? Ah, he was speaking German. I told him to go away. Fuck off. I dunno, something about fünf million in Deutschmarks. I told him to get knotted. We don't want his deustchy markys. We do? We do want that? I'm terribly sorry. Oh, fuck. Redial..."'
Just to back you up - I once read an interview with one of Letterman's writers, who said exactly what you have suggested about the Top Ten Lists. The best of the 10 is almost always between 2 and 5. IIRC, he talked about the drumroll and the whole hoopla about #1; it would be a waste to save the best laugh for last. Makes sense, there's a whole lot of noise going on after the countdown ends, when they're showing the graphics and everything. You can actually hear the audience laugh after Dave reads #3.
I have no point to make about the website in question. I am sorta annoyed at this guy's self-importance in deciding to run a social experiment with no method at all. But anyway, you're right, it would've been hard for Chris/Mike to live up to most expectations after a successful interest-raising marketing campaign.
What should they do? Cave to the normal customs of politics and call themselves the "People's Party for Free and Democratic Property Rights"? We've lived with euphemisms long enough that it's a banality that "the longer a country's name is (the more words like 'free' and 'democratic' it contains), the worse the country is."
This is not a normal political party. They do not want to act within the established sphere of law and government, they want to change them. Maybe calling themselves Pirates will make people (especially the millions and millions of people who want the same things) realize that the *AA's of the world are villainizing intelligent people who contribute to society. If someone identifies with the Pirate Party, maybe they'll say, hey, I don't feel good about being called evil all the time.
Note: obviously, I see your point, I could have made it myself and I don't think you're dumb, nor do I disagree with you all that much. But c'mon. Would a party by any other name be able to get attention, respect, and votes if they had the same agenda? I think if anything, somebody else would give them the nickname "the Pirate Party," and then they'd be guilty of dressing that up, but the public would still see the name "Pirate Party" being thrown around. Have you seen '8 Mile'? In the battle at the end, where Em/B. Rabbit throws out all the obvious ammo his opponent would have? I see this as pretty similar. It's an uphill, probably impossible battle in either case; it's just a bold stroke to come out with it and call themselves "the Pirate Party," and I'm interested to see where they go with it and how much we'll hear about it from other outlets.
This extremely detailed and thorough (~3 paragraphs long) article does sound like PayPal has a problem to take care of, but the flaw described doesn't remove the burden of stupidity from the phishing equation.
Anybody can make a website look like another website, so it's up to a user to think. Get an email that doesn't make any sense? Think very hard about everything that it leads you to. PayPal asks for your ATM PIN? Who the fuck does that? Nobody. My bank doesn't even know what my PIN is.... sorry, I just live in a college town where the newspapers report bank fraud once a month because some stupid student fell for the 23 emails they received about suspicious activity concerning their bank account. Annoying.
Bad show, mods. This post expresses an honest, important, responsive opinion, and you slap Flamebait on it because your own political correctness alert went off. For shame.
I agree with the parent in completely disagreeing with the grandparent - it is easy for anyone, even a person who realizes that people are created equal, to consider the practice of accepting applicants based on something other than merit and be suspect of the merits of anyone accepted.
Also, I'm not sure if I understand how the standard AA dialogue got brought up, it doesn't seem entirely relevant to the matter at hand. It's not saying 3 shitty applications were accepted because they were the only ones from women, it's saying there were no applications from women, which either indicates a problem in outreach or a complete lack of interest on the part of 51% of the population. These guys are trying to fix the possible outreach problem; if the female interest is not increased for this reason, at least they tried to fix what they could.
By the time I got here (with exactly 2 comments existing), pages 2 and later didn't even exist (the page wouldn't load that far). So, good call. I guess I can deal with weirdo currencies in the Coral Cache version for the sake of being able to see more than 10% of the article.
The site doesn't really seem to be down right now, 25 minutes after you posted, but it does still suck.
For anyone who goes looking for TFA later, if/when it gets slashdotted, don't worry, you're missing nothing - the quote provided by the parent post is one of the best and most telling sections of this "review." That is a description of the product from "the official Homestar website, (translated through Babelfish)."
Another important fact the reviewer shares is: "Shaking the sphere doesn't cause any rattling."
That's what we need. A monkey reviewing a shiny ball with "soothing curves." WTF?
I believe the post-storm you have generated is a dupe from the "Soccer" vs. "Football" terminology argument started in recent days regarding the article suggesting a World Cup-related internet meltdown.
Get over it, kids, you understand shit when you hear people talk about it.
For the record, I played Soccer as a kid here in Detroit, but I tend to think the countries that actually play and watch a sport get to name it. Either that, or the countries that have been around longer. So, I played Soccer, but I love to watch World Cup Football action.
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Five digits, huh? You've obviously been planning this gag for a long time.
Seriously though, good one!
Yeah Golden Earring for me too.
In fact, I listen to XM Radio, so I always have the band name right in front of me, and I've never heard a single White Lion song; I didn't even know White Lion was a thing until 5 minutes ago when I read the song list in the summary.
So unless the GP lives someplace where White Lion's frontman is the classic rock station DJ... I hesitate to believe him.
Even worse, I could have written the entire article summary (minus the "2 years ago" part, obviously) near the end of Fall 2004, when I wrote a paper (for maybe the lamest class ever) about implants like this.
And yes, the article date just makes this even more pathetic. Superlame.
Not exactly, but you probably should. I'm just going to point out the senselessness of your proposed questions, instead.
...Huh? Does the canonical "avid gamer" have unlimited cash at his or (ha!) her disposal? Of course price matters. To everyone. Ever. Except accomplished thieves. Many would tell you that price is often the only thing that matters, given that price == money and money drives almost everything that happens in the world (money and the Sun, I guess).
In order,
- Why in the blue fuck would you even ask that question? You can't buy a wii without a wii remote. It's a package deal. The question isn't even academic, it's just misguided.
I guess the answer, if one were to dignify the question with one, would have to be: the wii without the wii remote would be like a Gamecube and a half. Or like 1/5th of an Xbox 360 (1/10th, whatever). It would be exactly what the PS3 and Xbox 360 are - uncreative, mindless iterations of a product that has been made at least twice already. (Oh, plus Nintendo franchises.)
- If Microsoft and Sony did that, it'd be a great idea, judging from the excitement the wii version has created. It might not be enough, though, since
a) as someone has already pointed out, the wiimote is the standard controller for the console, not a Super Scope-style gimmick that will discourage developers from making games geared towards it; and
b) the wii is already out there, seems to have a fair market share (of the market composed of people who want a wiimote experience), and has a growing catalogue of wiimote games already; and
c) a wii, with a wiimote, costs something like $250. A different system, with a wiimote, would have to cost one to four hundred dollars more.
For a large portion of the crowd that is snatching up wiis, assuming the wiimote is the selling point, the cheapest and best wiimote-using console to buy would STILL be the wii. Easily.
- Yes, arse, graphics really matter, with "all else being equal." Which is why everyone flocks to the Xbox 360 and PS3 when all else is equal amongst all the consoles. Remember, "all else" is anything I can come up with (and more!), so that includes
- price
- gameplay
- creatively conceived controllers
- perceived enjoyment
So, when those things are all equal, the wii will be in a lot of trouble.
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Your question smacks more of adolescent snarkiness than of honest reflection or intellectual curiosity. In fact, it brings to mind a segment from some kind of TV show I saw, where ten 11-year-olds were offered either a wii or a PS3 to play with, and the one kid who considered himself a "gamer" was disgusted by the other nine kids, who all gravitated towards the wii (because it was FUN).
No matter how much you make fun of us for being "fanboys," or for failing to meet the standards for "avid gamers," the rest of the world - those of us who think with our brains, not with our prejudices and our parents' wallets, are going to stick with this wii, which entertains us and even allows us to enjoy games with old people and girls (none of whom have ever really wanted to play Halo with us).
You forgot the rule that says, "It's never ok to post a story about any new product or technology on Slashdot."
If the article is forecasting a future product, it is obviously "vaporware," but anything that actually exists has been in the works for at least long enough to build it, making it "oldnews."
Whatevs.
Actually, it reads like TFSummary was much ado about something wrong. I went to a lot of trouble and such and RTFA'ed, but I don't see anything from the summary in the article.
I see a mention of "inflation," and a poke at the God Team, but I don't see any mention of "nothing." (If somebody has a transcript, I might be bothered to look for the promised proclamation, but I certainly couldn't find it in the article.) Mr. Hawking has apparently just pretended to have an understanding of the un-understandable problem that sits at the beginning of anyone's understanding of everything: something exists, where nothing used to.
Sure, the idea of an abrupt Creation, or "Design," of the universe lets us joke about what God was doing before he got around to Creation, but the metaphor of water (or, let's suppose, some kind of cosmic stew) boiling into steam/universes leaves us with the same problem that we had in the first place: where in the [space larger than a universe] did the water/stew come from?
As I read it, the exact same problem has been reached again - and Religion and Science both require a leap of perfect faith over the gap that is The Beginning of It All.
I don't think most of us are that worked up about the IRS's desire to get income taxes out of the real eBay stores and super duper Power Sellers who really are making a substantial percentage of their income through eBay sales. It sounds like this community is concerned, and legitimately so, because of the recommended minimums the IRS is considering (according to the summary).
To repeat someone else's point - don't people sell up to 100 items at garage sales?
If somebody is cleaning out his garage, and comes up with 150 things to sell, does it make sense that he should be hounded for the taxes on the "income" generated?
And then again, we are Slashdotters. A number of us probably own some expensive electronic shit. If somebody sells 15 or 20 thousand dollars worth of electronics for a little over $5000 because he upgraded, should he pay taxes on that? Only because he threw away the receipt 2 years after he bought the stuff, you say? Silly.
The general idea is fair, but they're gonna need to tweak those numbers. People who run eBay businesses are all gonna clock in with thousands of sales, with their $5 margins on bluetooth headsets and shit. Anyone whose income is really coming from eBay is going to make, one would assume, way more than $5000; let's make it, say, $20,000 before the IRS hassles you, and even at numbers that high, you get a chance to prove that you were just selling your shit (say, used cars that you paid more for), not running a business.
So if you made the numbers 1500 sales, and $20,000, I think it'd be a lot harder to argue with.
Exactly.
The point of sniping is to stay above the fray of bidding wars. Snipers are the smartest bidders in any given auction, and sniping actually results in a lower final price than days of proxy bidding. The art of sniping is to decide on a maximum acceptable price, and take a single shot at getting the item for that price.
The price-jacking fools on eBay are the early bidders who jump the gun and start entering their max bids days early, so the shills have plenty of time to raise the price in increments. These bidders never decide on a maximum price, so the final price of an item ends up being higher.
An example: I decide, 2 days before the end of an auction, that I am willing to spend $25, including shipping, for WarioWare: Touched!. My options: (1) bookmark the auction and ignore it for nigh on 2 days; (2) bid such an amount that my cost including shipping would be $25 right away and check the auction every half hour to make sure I am still "winning."
If I did (1), I will never bid any more than $25 minus S&H. Thus, my bid cannot raise the final purchase price over $26 (given a $1 bid increment). It can't. I might not win, but I will not pay more than I am willing, and I will not raise the price for anyone else.
If I did (2), I might find, with 13 hours remaining in the auction, that the price sits at $26. I've been outbid. I've got plenty of time to wait until the next auction for the same item ends in a few days; my roommate has a Wii, so I can play "Smooth Moves" instead. However, I've been feverishly following this auction (for whatever reason), and thus have made the determination that I would win this item and not wait for another one. I quickly submit a bid for $30.
At this point, even without any shill bidding, I have "jacked up" the price by at least $4, which I would not have done by sniping.
It makes fricking sense.
The problem here is that only a real dumbass would make it so very easy for eBay to catch him. As you asserted, there are easy ways around it - if you have a different ID (with different contact information) and an IP address that appears different, eBay can't really deduce that you are your own shill.
This is why I wonder what all the angry people expect eBay to do about standard shills - if my old roommates live across the country now, and we put in a few value-adding shill bids for each other every once in a while (we don't.), how is eBay supposed to figure that out?
Now, if the hundreds of comments above are all based on the bid-withdrawal method of shilling, I understand the problem. I haven't really used eBay in a while, so I don't know how prevalent it is, but this seems quite pernicious. Unfortunately, eBay has the Final-Value-Fee-Conflict-of-Interest built in, so they're unlikely to do this, but they really should respond to user-detected instances of fraudulent bidding patterns like this.
Until that happens, the only thing that one can really do is snipe. Always. It seems like a jerk move, if you're a moron, but it's the way to do things. Decide exactly what you are willing to pay, and make a bid in that amount with 15 seconds or less remaining in the auction. It should be real tough for a shill to make dozens of incremental bids in order to get the bid-withdrawal scam to work. Since you decided what you were willing to pay, you get your item for that amount or less, or you don't get it, and somebody else pays more. If a shill had an excessively high bid and you get a second-chance offer, don't take it. Save the user's ID until we get a vigilante eBay-identity-ruining Task Force together. Er, I mean, until eBay does something about this nonsense.
For my part, I plan to continue to use eBay only for USB and Cat5 cables and the like, since the "99 cent Buy-It-Now with 6 dollars S&H" scam is a lot less terrible than the "25 dollars for 15 feet of Cat5 at Best Buy" scam.
You've just been waiting, haven't you?
You know you do, or you don't belong here.
Go swear at people on Xbox Live, or something.
For the most part, I agree. I almost always give myself enough space to stop, regardless of what the driver in front of me chooses to do, even as I cruise at around 78. (I say 'almost' because you just wouldn't believe me otherwise.) The few people who don't understand that I'm not going any slower than the car in front of me will try to get around me in foolish and dangerous ways, and it happens. My reaction is just slightly different from my parent's; I back off, add a friendly gesture (normally a sarcastic thumbs-up, but occasionally a different digit), and let them in. This doesn't really lead to road rage, since I then back off to a safe following distance, and the jackasses I flip off know they deserve it.
I drive plenty, and this keeps me clear of stupid drivers all over Michigan.
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There are only 9 words to misinterpret in the parent post. That's not really too many, but if you're in a hurry, I can see how you might need to post a critical response to the comment without taking time to understand it. I managed to figure it out, but I guess I'm just careful.
I'll translate, slightly more verbosely: "But, is it open source? I don't suggest that Sourceforge is, I'm just asking whether Google's version is."
Right, parent?
Ah, well, at least you got that random Funny mod. So you got that goin' for you. Which is nice.
As I say this, I have to admit that I am primarily a Windows user and find XP to be the first version of Windows that is entirely usable and not entirely frustrating; I have been a big fan since I first used it.
But even so, I find that Windows Networking never works. I have a file/print server runner Server 2003 which does work very well, but XP is a different story. I am a perfectly capable advanced user, and I can never get two different computers running XP on the same router to share printers or files, with less than an hour of work/directionless mucking about/rebooting. Same shit always used to happen with Win98, but XP does other things so much better that I had great hopes for networking. No luck.
It's tried and tested, and lousy. So I'm excited to hear that it will be replaced with something completely new, because for the first time in years, I have hopes that it might work.
I guess your verbs actually do have... alternate conjugations.
I'm gonna go ahead and translate to English, and then posit an answer to the question I think you've asked.
- Do they make the critters chase PacMan? Or do they just let them wander around in the maze? If so, what motivation do they give the crickets to chase PacMan?
- I'm thinking he just lets the insects loose and bases the ghost movement on the rather random (unless we assume insects have a plan when placed inside a maze) insect movement/lack thereof.
The default may be school-wide access, but it sounds like he had restricted access to a relatively small group of people. Different story.
'...[W]e lose a lot of business in Europe, cuz German people phone up,
- "Wir haben fünf Millionen Deutschmark..."
- "Just fuck off, will you, mate?
Ah, he was speaking German.
I told him to go away. Fuck off.
I dunno, something about
fünf million in Deutschmarks.
I told him to get knotted.
We don't want his deustchy markys.
We do? We do want that?
I'm terribly sorry.
Oh, fuck. Redial..."'
- Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
Just to back you up - I once read an interview with one of Letterman's writers, who said exactly what you have suggested about the Top Ten Lists. The best of the 10 is almost always between 2 and 5. IIRC, he talked about the drumroll and the whole hoopla about #1; it would be a waste to save the best laugh for last. Makes sense, there's a whole lot of noise going on after the countdown ends, when they're showing the graphics and everything. You can actually hear the audience laugh after Dave reads #3.
I have no point to make about the website in question. I am sorta annoyed at this guy's self-importance in deciding to run a social experiment with no method at all. But anyway, you're right, it would've been hard for Chris/Mike to live up to most expectations after a successful interest-raising marketing campaign.
What should they do? Cave to the normal customs of politics and call themselves the "People's Party for Free and Democratic Property Rights"? We've lived with euphemisms long enough that it's a banality that "the longer a country's name is (the more words like 'free' and 'democratic' it contains), the worse the country is."
This is not a normal political party. They do not want to act within the established sphere of law and government, they want to change them. Maybe calling themselves Pirates will make people (especially the millions and millions of people who want the same things) realize that the *AA's of the world are villainizing intelligent people who contribute to society. If someone identifies with the Pirate Party, maybe they'll say, hey, I don't feel good about being called evil all the time.
Note: obviously, I see your point, I could have made it myself and I don't think you're dumb, nor do I disagree with you all that much. But c'mon. Would a party by any other name be able to get attention, respect, and votes if they had the same agenda? I think if anything, somebody else would give them the nickname "the Pirate Party," and then they'd be guilty of dressing that up, but the public would still see the name "Pirate Party" being thrown around.
Have you seen '8 Mile'? In the battle at the end, where Em/B. Rabbit throws out all the obvious ammo his opponent would have? I see this as pretty similar.
It's an uphill, probably impossible battle in either case; it's just a bold stroke to come out with it and call themselves "the Pirate Party," and I'm interested to see where they go with it and how much we'll hear about it from other outlets.
This extremely detailed and thorough (~3 paragraphs long) article does sound like PayPal has a problem to take care of, but the flaw described doesn't remove the burden of stupidity from the phishing equation.
... sorry, I just live in a college town where the newspapers report bank fraud once a month because some stupid student fell for the 23 emails they received about suspicious activity concerning their bank account. Annoying.
Anybody can make a website look like another website, so it's up to a user to think. Get an email that doesn't make any sense? Think very hard about everything that it leads you to. PayPal asks for your ATM PIN? Who the fuck does that? Nobody. My bank doesn't even know what my PIN is.
Bad show, mods. This post expresses an honest, important, responsive opinion, and you slap Flamebait on it because your own political correctness alert went off. For shame.
I agree with the parent in completely disagreeing with the grandparent - it is easy for anyone, even a person who realizes that people are created equal, to consider the practice of accepting applicants based on something other than merit and be suspect of the merits of anyone accepted.
Also, I'm not sure if I understand how the standard AA dialogue got brought up, it doesn't seem entirely relevant to the matter at hand. It's not saying 3 shitty applications were accepted because they were the only ones from women, it's saying there were no applications from women, which either indicates a problem in outreach or a complete lack of interest on the part of 51% of the population. These guys are trying to fix the possible outreach problem; if the female interest is not increased for this reason, at least they tried to fix what they could.
By the time I got here (with exactly 2 comments existing), pages 2 and later didn't even exist (the page wouldn't load that far). So, good call. I guess I can deal with weirdo currencies in the Coral Cache version for the sake of being able to see more than 10% of the article.
The site doesn't really seem to be down right now, 25 minutes after you posted, but it does still suck.
For anyone who goes looking for TFA later, if/when it gets slashdotted, don't worry, you're missing nothing - the quote provided by the parent post is one of the best and most telling sections of this "review." That is a description of the product from "the official Homestar website, (translated through Babelfish)."
Another important fact the reviewer shares is: "Shaking the sphere doesn't cause any rattling."
That's what we need. A monkey reviewing a shiny ball with "soothing curves." WTF?
I believe the post-storm you have generated is a dupe from the "Soccer" vs. "Football" terminology argument started in recent days regarding the article suggesting a World Cup-related internet meltdown.
Get over it, kids, you understand shit when you hear people talk about it.
For the record, I played Soccer as a kid here in Detroit, but I tend to think the countries that actually play and watch a sport get to name it. Either that, or the countries that have been around longer. So, I played Soccer, but I love to watch World Cup Football action.