Too bad Quake didn't have the features he was talking about in UT - he didn't say UT was his first FPS (Wolfenstein 3D [when it was brand new], here, so yeah, my lawn only wants to see your feet if they are following a mower, TYVM) just that he could do things that consoles even today could only dream of doing without 'assists'. I didn't play multiplayer until Doom... those were the days.
On a serious note, yes, of course you're right about the silly app nonsense, but if you take things this petty that seriously, you're going to be very, very unhappy.
I think the point was that it is popular primarily with the 'non-nerd crowd' (especially these days) and Slashdot used to be for nerds. Just guessing, I am not the above AC.
What annoys me about Google is that whatever you're using today may be gone tomorrow.
I checked Google Answer's and here's the GOOG-411 - you're completely wrong. A friend of mine just Google Wave's me that he was thinking about moving his pictures from Picnik to Picasa, because as he likes both, he heard on Orkut that the former might get Panoramio integration & he likes that better than Picasa Web Albums. Me? Nah, I don't do much with photos myself, I just keep up with Slashdot via Google Reader and sometimes my iGoogle page - the few photos I sort I can use Google Desktop to manage. now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to help someone via Aardvark. I get good money via BebaPay that way.
Various behaviors are fine for various circumstances.
Indeed, especially on/. where quite a few people know more languages than I do and oft use better English than my (mono-lingual) co-workers (the primary source of my pet-peeve triggers - actually, the worst quit a little while back; while he was a fine person, I do not miss his constant errors [not homonyms in this case, but verbal issues such as 'I and so-and-so' rather than 'so-and-so and I' and no amount of gentle or otherwise prodding had any affect - people for whom English is a second language should only receive encouragement, but people that claim written proficiency but are 'just lazy when speaking' should be taken out back and... but I digress]:)).
BTW: Run-on, multi-nested sentences like the above are perfectly fine for/.;)
I wonder about homonyms. People using the wrong one is a pretty big pet-peeve of mine (though mostly when that person already annoys me in some other way, people I don't know don't bother me when they do it wrong & if I suspect they're doing it on purpose, it doesn't bother me). If I mean "your" but I type "you're" didn't I still misspell "your"?* Yes, no (current) spell-checker (that I am aware of) can catch that, as the misspelling happens to be another word (and a grammar-checker likely would), but does that make it not a misspelling?
If my child in grammar school was being given a spelling test and the word was your, the teacher would give the word in a sentence. If she wrote "you're," the teacher would rightfully mark it wrong. I duhno, I suspect I am being overly pedantic (especially given what you were replying to was a reference to using a spell-checker and no spell-checker could do what they asserted it could) and maybe this is more of a philosophical question, but I figured you wouldn't mind wasting a few moments pondering it with me (or demonstrating why I was wrong, if I was).
*I had to look up my punctuation for this sentence; periods and commas go inside quotation marks at the end of a sentence but apparently exclamation marks and question marks only do when the punctuation goes with the quoted item. English is a weird language, but since it's the only (written) language I know (no written form of ASL), I figure I aught to use it as accurately as my brain allows (and I welcome corrections, save obvious typos).
I'll admit, I don't always like your comments, but this - this is my favourite one by far.
I like solar power. I like wind power (my power company is 100% wind - and before anyone says anything, yes, I know not 100% of my electrons came from wind, some of mine came from coal and some coal people got my wind, who cares). I'm not sure about hydro and I hate coal. I love nuclear. Nuclear has the ability to be really clean (compared to coal) and while not being worse than solar (especial solar+battery), works 24x7. I like the idea of people having solar panels (and am looking into doing this on my next home) to supplement the utility companies because the time of day they are generating the most, we are typically using the most (A/C).
What I don't like is fear mongering (real fear mongering like mdsolar's). I come to/. for intelligent conversation (mixed with some really good trolls and some trolls-in-training), but when the "story" being discussed is FUD... it's disappointing. Yeah, I'm not new here, I'm used to regular disappointment.
Anyway, thank you for your comment, it with Randal's chart were a nice counter-balance showing proper perspective.
One of many reasons to file by the first week of February (companies have until 1/31 to mail W2s & Mortgage paperwork, Wells Fargo always waits until the end to mail my mortgage papers or I'd be filed by mid Jan - maybe I can get this online, I haven't looked).
I wish you had logged in so that this post would have been more visible, because it is quite insightful (no mod points today, sorry). There are some significant differences (VW's was on purpose, but they also weren't double, so less 'extra' pollution than this), but the context is quite valuable and the cynical reply before mine is likely spot on.
I attended & worked at a Catholic college; the head of the Philosophy department (of all departments!) was not Catholic (something Protestant, I do not recall specifically - well after the fact, he told me of being approached for the position - he was floored to be considered not being Catholic, but they told him they would rather have a better qualified non-Catholic than a less-qualified Catholic). A friend of mine in the nursing department was Mormon & I new various other people of various other faiths (I was Catholic at the time).
That said, Catholics may be more open-minded than some deep-south Baptists (please don't flame me if you are Baptist in the deep-south - I have many friends that are as well, but institutionally IME they tend to think Catholics, Mormons and others are basically 'the devil'). YMMV, etc
Doesn't matter, dead format. Seriously, the first time grandmas blue-ray chose not to play a new disk because it needed firmware update, it was pushed aside and the old format DVD's were the ones getting purchased.
There is a miniscule difference between DVD and blue ray
For Grandma, sure, but for those of us with great vision and nice TVs, there is a huge difference.
only 130 million pounds of tax, a $181.18 million settlement
Yaay go France. I wish the UK had more balls.
Alternatively maybe I can now "agree to pay" about 100th of my UK tax bill. and If not, why not?
$181.18M settlement tells me they wanted $311.18M and got $130M... I'n no economist, but it looks like they got 42% of the ask, not 1%... did I miss something or are you more valuable to the UK than Google?
I view the merits of the posts individually. In theory, receiving +1's when appropriate could encourage good behaviour. In practice... maybe not, but even chronic trolls like Sexconker say something good every now and then & I don't think it's fair to judge the message by the messenger (and he has been down-modded to -1 - I'm not saying he deserves a +5, but a +1 would not be inappropriate).
I only see ads in two aps on my phone (Waze and Pandora - if I used it more, I would pay for Pandora to eliminate them). Never in my OS. Never on my lockscreen.
If I had mod points, APK, I'd toss you a +1 this time - unfortunately, it is trivial for MS to get around your Hosts (as well as all adblocks) as they can hardcode IPs at a more base level. Only proper way to do this is at the router level now*.
* Ok, maybe always, but before now** it still worked the other way. **now ==current version of Windows, my Win7 still behaving itself (though I have a very modified hostfile and adblocks).
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Too bad Quake didn't have the features he was talking about in UT - he didn't say UT was his first FPS (Wolfenstein 3D [when it was brand new], here, so yeah, my lawn only wants to see your feet if they are following a mower, TYVM) just that he could do things that consoles even today could only dream of doing without 'assists'. I didn't play multiplayer until Doom ... those were the days.
Give mod points
Looks like you got one ... ;)
On a serious note, yes, of course you're right about the silly app nonsense, but if you take things this petty that seriously, you're going to be very, very unhappy.
I think the point was that it is popular primarily with the 'non-nerd crowd' (especially these days) and Slashdot used to be for nerds. Just guessing, I am not the above AC.
What annoys me about Google is that whatever you're using today may be gone tomorrow.
I checked Google Answer's and here's the GOOG-411 - you're completely wrong. A friend of mine just Google Wave's me that he was thinking about moving his pictures from Picnik to Picasa, because as he likes both, he heard on Orkut that the former might get Panoramio integration & he likes that better than Picasa Web Albums. Me? Nah, I don't do much with photos myself, I just keep up with Slashdot via Google Reader and sometimes my iGoogle page - the few photos I sort I can use Google Desktop to manage. now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to help someone via Aardvark. I get good money via BebaPay that way.
(confusing, huh?)
According to the U.S. Geological Survey there are currently 34 populated places in 25 states named Springfield throughout the United States, including five in Wisconsin; additionally, there are at least 36 Springfield Townships, including 11 in Ohio. ;)
Ahh, printing is saving things as a PDF. Thanks, that cleared that up! ~
Various behaviors are fine for various circumstances.
Indeed, especially on /. where quite a few people know more languages than I do and oft use better English than my (mono-lingual) co-workers (the primary source of my pet-peeve triggers - actually, the worst quit a little while back; while he was a fine person, I do not miss his constant errors [not homonyms in this case, but verbal issues such as 'I and so-and-so' rather than 'so-and-so and I' and no amount of gentle or otherwise prodding had any affect - people for whom English is a second language should only receive encouragement, but people that claim written proficiency but are 'just lazy when speaking' should be taken out back and ... but I digress] :)).
/. ;)
BTW: Run-on, multi-nested sentences like the above are perfectly fine for
I wonder about homonyms. People using the wrong one is a pretty big pet-peeve of mine (though mostly when that person already annoys me in some other way, people I don't know don't bother me when they do it wrong & if I suspect they're doing it on purpose, it doesn't bother me). If I mean "your" but I type "you're" didn't I still misspell "your"?* Yes, no (current) spell-checker (that I am aware of) can catch that, as the misspelling happens to be another word (and a grammar-checker likely would), but does that make it not a misspelling?
If my child in grammar school was being given a spelling test and the word was your, the teacher would give the word in a sentence. If she wrote "you're," the teacher would rightfully mark it wrong. I duhno, I suspect I am being overly pedantic (especially given what you were replying to was a reference to using a spell-checker and no spell-checker could do what they asserted it could) and maybe this is more of a philosophical question, but I figured you wouldn't mind wasting a few moments pondering it with me (or demonstrating why I was wrong, if I was).
*I had to look up my punctuation for this sentence; periods and commas go inside quotation marks at the end of a sentence but apparently exclamation marks and question marks only do when the punctuation goes with the quoted item. English is a weird language, but since it's the only (written) language I know (no written form of ASL), I figure I aught to use it as accurately as my brain allows (and I welcome corrections, save obvious typos).
I'll admit, I don't always like your comments, but this - this is my favourite one by far.
/. for intelligent conversation (mixed with some really good trolls and some trolls-in-training), but when the "story" being discussed is FUD ... it's disappointing. Yeah, I'm not new here, I'm used to regular disappointment.
I like solar power. I like wind power (my power company is 100% wind - and before anyone says anything, yes, I know not 100% of my electrons came from wind, some of mine came from coal and some coal people got my wind, who cares). I'm not sure about hydro and I hate coal. I love nuclear. Nuclear has the ability to be really clean (compared to coal) and while not being worse than solar (especial solar+battery), works 24x7. I like the idea of people having solar panels (and am looking into doing this on my next home) to supplement the utility companies because the time of day they are generating the most, we are typically using the most (A/C).
What I don't like is fear mongering (real fear mongering like mdsolar's). I come to
Anyway, thank you for your comment, it with Randal's chart were a nice counter-balance showing proper perspective.
One of many reasons to file by the first week of February (companies have until 1/31 to mail W2s & Mortgage paperwork, Wells Fargo always waits until the end to mail my mortgage papers or I'd be filed by mid Jan - maybe I can get this online, I haven't looked).
near their genitals instead.
Doctor, is that you?
There are about 250,000,000 people in the USA. Your friend dying is no tragedy.
Not true (yes, I just quoted Stalin :) )
I wish you had logged in so that this post would have been more visible, because it is quite insightful (no mod points today, sorry). There are some significant differences (VW's was on purpose, but they also weren't double, so less 'extra' pollution than this), but the context is quite valuable and the cynical reply before mine is likely spot on.
I attended & worked at a Catholic college; the head of the Philosophy department (of all departments!) was not Catholic (something Protestant, I do not recall specifically - well after the fact, he told me of being approached for the position - he was floored to be considered not being Catholic, but they told him they would rather have a better qualified non-Catholic than a less-qualified Catholic). A friend of mine in the nursing department was Mormon & I new various other people of various other faiths (I was Catholic at the time).
That said, Catholics may be more open-minded than some deep-south Baptists (please don't flame me if you are Baptist in the deep-south - I have many friends that are as well, but institutionally IME they tend to think Catholics, Mormons and others are basically 'the devil'). YMMV, etc
Possibly better than theirs? /ducks
Heck, are there any monotheist religions with an anthropomorphic god?
At least one.
Latter-day Saints perceive the Father as an exalted Man in the most literal, anthropomorphic terms.
If only 1% punch me in the nose for being an ass, does it still hurt?
Doesn't matter, dead format. Seriously, the first time grandmas blue-ray chose not to play a new disk because it needed firmware update, it was pushed aside and the old format DVD's were the ones getting purchased.
There is a miniscule difference between DVD and blue ray
For Grandma, sure, but for those of us with great vision and nice TVs, there is a huge difference.
And 3D is just dumb.
Yup, this we can agree on.
only 130 million pounds of tax, a $181.18 million settlement
Yaay go France. I wish the UK had more balls. Alternatively maybe I can now "agree to pay" about 100th of my UK tax bill. and If not, why not?
$181.18M settlement tells me they wanted $311.18M and got $130M ... I'n no economist, but it looks like they got 42% of the ask, not 1% ... did I miss something or are you more valuable to the UK than Google?
I view the merits of the posts individually. In theory, receiving +1's when appropriate could encourage good behaviour. In practice ... maybe not, but even chronic trolls like Sexconker say something good every now and then & I don't think it's fair to judge the message by the messenger (and he has been down-modded to -1 - I'm not saying he deserves a +5, but a +1 would not be inappropriate).
^ THIS.
I only see ads in two aps on my phone (Waze and Pandora - if I used it more, I would pay for Pandora to eliminate them). Never in my OS. Never on my lockscreen.
I will sell you as many Snickers bars as you want for 1oz of gold buillon (each).
If I had mod points, APK, I'd toss you a +1 this time - unfortunately, it is trivial for MS to get around your Hosts (as well as all adblocks) as they can hardcode IPs at a more base level. Only proper way to do this is at the router level now*.
* Ok, maybe always, but before now** it still worked the other way.
**now ==current version of Windows, my Win7 still behaving itself (though I have a very modified hostfile and adblocks).
Oh, sure it it, I regularly have to unplug my computer mouse and blow on the plug to get it to work. /s