I agree with Shoeboy, Perl isn't that hard to read. I'm not even a Perl-Master or anything. Perl is one of the easiest languages I've ever had the pleasure of learning, you can start writing useful programs in about a day. Sometimes it's hard to read the regular expressions, and most of the time, when I'm reading code, looking for bugs, I glance past the regular expressions, keeping note that there was one, if I don't find a bug, I then go back and examine them. They're easy to pick out, once you spend a week or so on them, they aren't so hard to decipher.. that's actually how I learned regexps, by looking at an parser which I knew worked and I had the original data file handy. An O'Reilly book or the Perl Documentation page at your side helps too.
I'll post! I wonder if André Braugher (correct spelling courtesy of IMDB) would be into doing X-Files. I can't think of a better choice. I don't picture him as paranoid or quick to believe as Mulder is, but we don't want a copy of Mulder, do we? I wonder if Bruce Campbell and André Braugher have appeared in anything together. They'd make a strange duo.
Hey, you're on to something, Andre Brauer would make a cool replacement for Mulder. I forget which season it was Campbell appeared on H:LOTS, but I've seen it 2 or 3 times. Ah, almost forgot IMDB is full of this information.. and here you are
I've seen that episode a few times, Homocide was my favorite show for awhile. He's good in it, don't get me wrong, but spagthorpe is right, it I was still expecting a funny line. Part of the reason is, often in Campbell's comedic movies, he puts on a serious face for a few seconds, while saying something really funny. So when he sheds his serious side, you're still waiting for the funny lines or analyzing his actual lines to see if there's some humor behind it.
Dispite this, I still think he's a good candidate to replace Mulder.
I don't know what the general trend is, but I usually hunt around posts at 1 to raise them to 2. Good advice though, that's what I mean about intelligent moderation. Then again, I haven't had modereation ability in about a month and a half.
Some good advice, but I don't think you should be telling people how they should view posts. Some of us can keep in mind that a post may not really be redundant, by taking the time to look at the posting number. I don't really care how people view posts when they moderate. I'm more concerned that they moderate intelligently.
If you really wanted to insure your survival in a vehicular accident, you would have gotten a 2nd hand short yellow school bus. Now those things can take a beating. I've seen half a dozen direct impacts involving these things, 1 of which I was a passanger, and 1 of which my car was impacted by while I was stopped at a red light. Barely a scratch.
The accident I was involved with, The bus was coming towards me in the opposite lane, and the driver had already started before the light changed. I saw the green, and then saw a little blue toyota not stopping coming down the inclined road into our intersection. The toyota didn't stop at all, smacked right into the bus, got crushed. What did the bus do? It veered into my lane (the opposite traffic), destroyed 80% of the front of my car (8,000 bucks of damage on a 12K saturn), then glanced off, and ran over a fire alarm box. A slight dent in it's side where the toyota impacted it at 35+ mph, and hardly a scratch on the other side where it creamed my car, and hardly a scrach in it's front where it ran over the fire alarm box. Oh yeah, and I wasn't harmed at all. I can't say the same for the folks in the toyota, they didn't look too good picking themselves up off the asphalt of the intersection with blood pouring out of their scalps. They weren't wearing seat belts.
I've seen many a SUV wrapped around a utility or light pole. They don't seem to withstand quite a beating. But boy do they make you look cool. Good luck.
One of the worst things about SUVs are their powerful lights. Real annoying, which is why I keep my rear view mirror at an angle which I can't really see anything behind me unless I really want to. The bright lights are good for less populated areas, but in the city, it's just obnoxious.
I used to read X-Men for about 8 years. I was really expecting the movie to blow. I thought the plot would be all but nonexistent and the lines to be incredibly cheesy or make little sense. In fact, offhand, the only line I can remember that didn't exactly sound like it made much sense was Storm's line to Toad as she was getting ready to fry him, "What happens when a Toad gets hit by lighting? The same thing that happens to everything else."
The plot wasn't as good as the Usual Suspects, but it was decent. I was also happy with the acting. I didn't feel that great span of talent between Stewart/McKellen and the rest of the cast. If you want to see what a real difference of talent is like, go see the last Highlander movie that Sean Connery did, I swear you can catch him laughing at the difference sometimes. Anyway, I know Stewart/McKellen are great actors, but I think the director did a good job smoothing out the difference between them and the other actors. If there was any difference, I interpreted it as their character's relative experience and intellect. Xavier/Magneto are supposed to be more wise, intelligent and should have more presence when speaking.
As for the details. I wasn't expecting them all to be there. I was happy to find that they tried to work in many aspects found in the comics. Little things like Wolverine's claws hurting him whenever they come out. These small details make all the difference to a die hard fan, which I almost am. There is so much content to pull from the comic, that if they didn't use as much as they could, we might have felt alienated. I'm glad they used many real Marvel Universe characters for the background characters, like Iceman, instead of coming up with some new characters that might be more 'hip' or generally pleasing to a general audience. Say what you will about consistency with the comic books, but this is probably the most accurate adaptation, given the complexity of the original story. Sure, Batman may have been more like the comic... but (IMHO) compared to a lot less complex and interesting.
I am tremendously pleased they kept the characters alive. I'd be hard pressed to find another action/sci-fi film other than Star Wars/Star Trek that, first of all has many characters, and second of all keeps them alive. I never really pay attention to who directs a film, but I will remember Bryan Singer, who I think deserves the credit for many of the positive features I've mentioned above. I assume one of the main reasons movies don't have many main characters, is because it's hard to direct them in a way that doesn't do one of two things, leave some of them looking like extras with a few lines, or makes all the characters less detailed. Whoever wrote the script deserves credit as well, for nicely integrating the tidbits of information that fleshes out the characters and links them to the comic that much more.
I can't wait for the sequel. Though not really my favorite character, I'm hoping Colosus is in the next one, just because he would look so cool. The array X-Men characters is a playground for special effects; I never imagined there would be a movie that would depict the characters with their powers so well back when I was an avid reader 10 years ago.
One last thing, I'll have to check if/when I get this movie on DVD, but I think we catch some of the New Mutants in the film. At one point, a bunch of kids run down some stairs past one or more X-Men walking around the mansion. It looked to be about 5-7 kids, one of them with tall, blond hair (Cannonball), and one shorter, with darker skin (Sunspot, he was the last one I think). I couldn't pick out anyone else. I started reading comics with the New Mutants. They were relatively new when I first started so I could read the story from the begining, and they we really cheap, back issues were like 25 cents at this store near me.
I think I missed the Darth Maul bit, when was it? Also, what does a Darth Maul bit consist of? Darth Maul mostly just stood there when he wasn't fighting.
Do most ISPs do this? I'm a Mindspring user, and now that they've merged, I wonder if this includes the entire Mindspring-Earthlink group. I believe Mindspring and Earthlink both aquired some smaller ISPs in the last few years. I'd rather have Earthlink scan my mail than the FBI though. I'm a little suspicious that Earthlink could reach an agreement like this with the FBI. I wonder what kind of quality control the FBI performs to ensure Earthlink is really gathering all the information they 'need'. My experience with Mindspring is that they're a good company, and I've never had reason to believe they were doing things with my information that I would not approve of. When handing over info to law enforcement through a court order, could Earthlink notify their customers first?
I'll gladly pay $5 a gallon of gas just so I can laugh at the gas guzzeling SUV owners of the city, most who don't even use the thing for anything you might really need an SUV for, as they'll pay $200 to fill up their tank.. while my 40 miles per gallon car takes a fraction of that.
And $4 bucks going to public transportation isn't a bad idea either.
Cars are monkey machines. If owning one contributes to your sense of identity, you have some screwed up sense of self.
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I wonder how hard it is to prove you've scanned in a font of paper materials and distributed it under a different name. You could even do something such as modify the vector paths of each letter just slightly to prevent some kind of pattern matching to determine if they are identical, perhaps.
Incidently, that's why it helps sometimes to search for related words of the font you're looking for. For instance, someone made a font looking very much like that used in Star Trek, but they called it 'FinalFrontier'.
This is hillarious, but his last article wasn't too bad. I didn't notice it was a Jon Katz article, until I hit 'Read More' and my browser took a few more seconds than usual to load the page.
That karma betting idea would rock. Another thing to bet on, how many new terms he tries to coin. Am I only one who has been desparately trying to work the word 'sensemaking' into casual conversation?
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I agree with Shoeboy, Perl isn't that hard to read. I'm not even a Perl-Master or anything. Perl is one of the easiest languages I've ever had the pleasure of learning, you can start writing useful programs in about a day. Sometimes it's hard to read the regular expressions, and most of the time, when I'm reading code, looking for bugs, I glance past the regular expressions, keeping note that there was one, if I don't find a bug, I then go back and examine them. They're easy to pick out, once you spend a week or so on them, they aren't so hard to decipher.. that's actually how I learned regexps, by looking at an parser which I knew worked and I had the original data file handy. An O'Reilly book or the Perl Documentation page at your side helps too.
I don't have the answer to your question, but maybe this will help: They say if you travel far enough you will eventually meet yourself.
I'll post! I wonder if André Braugher (correct spelling courtesy of IMDB) would be into doing X-Files. I can't think of a better choice. I don't picture him as paranoid or quick to believe as Mulder is, but we don't want a copy of Mulder, do we? I wonder if Bruce Campbell and André Braugher have appeared in anything together. They'd make a strange duo.
Hey, you're on to something, Andre Brauer would make a cool replacement for Mulder. I forget which season it was Campbell appeared on H:LOTS, but I've seen it 2 or 3 times. Ah, almost forgot IMDB is full of this information.. and here you are
I've seen that episode a few times, Homocide was my favorite show for awhile. He's good in it, don't get me wrong, but spagthorpe is right, it I was still expecting a funny line. Part of the reason is, often in Campbell's comedic movies, he puts on a serious face for a few seconds, while saying something really funny. So when he sheds his serious side, you're still waiting for the funny lines or analyzing his actual lines to see if there's some humor behind it.
Dispite this, I still think he's a good candidate to replace Mulder.
Ahhhh, so that's what that's for! J/K, I use that sometimes too.
I don't know what the general trend is, but I usually hunt around posts at 1 to raise them to 2. Good advice though, that's what I mean about intelligent moderation. Then again, I haven't had modereation ability in about a month and a half.
Some good advice, but I don't think you should be telling people how they should view posts. Some of us can keep in mind that a post may not really be redundant, by taking the time to look at the posting number. I don't really care how people view posts when they moderate. I'm more concerned that they moderate intelligently.
If you really wanted to insure your survival in a vehicular accident, you would have gotten a 2nd hand short yellow school bus. Now those things can take a beating. I've seen half a dozen direct impacts involving these things, 1 of which I was a passanger, and 1 of which my car was impacted by while I was stopped at a red light. Barely a scratch.
The accident I was involved with, The bus was coming towards me in the opposite lane, and the driver had already started before the light changed. I saw the green, and then saw a little blue toyota not stopping coming down the inclined road into our intersection. The toyota didn't stop at all, smacked right into the bus, got crushed. What did the bus do? It veered into my lane (the opposite traffic), destroyed 80% of the front of my car (8,000 bucks of damage on a 12K saturn), then glanced off, and ran over a fire alarm box. A slight dent in it's side where the toyota impacted it at 35+ mph, and hardly a scratch on the other side where it creamed my car, and hardly a scrach in it's front where it ran over the fire alarm box. Oh yeah, and I wasn't harmed at all. I can't say the same for the folks in the toyota, they didn't look too good picking themselves up off the asphalt of the intersection with blood pouring out of their scalps. They weren't wearing seat belts.
I've seen many a SUV wrapped around a utility or light pole. They don't seem to withstand quite a beating. But boy do they make you look cool. Good luck.
One of the worst things about SUVs are their powerful lights. Real annoying, which is why I keep my rear view mirror at an angle which I can't really see anything behind me unless I really want to. The bright lights are good for less populated areas, but in the city, it's just obnoxious.
Many thanks, I'll be looking for this when I see it again... I vaguely remember it, but I must have been too caught up with the movie to notice!
I used to read X-Men for about 8 years. I was really expecting the movie to blow. I thought the plot would be all but nonexistent and the lines to be incredibly cheesy or make little sense. In fact, offhand, the only line I can remember that didn't exactly sound like it made much sense was Storm's line to Toad as she was getting ready to fry him, "What happens when a Toad gets hit by lighting? The same thing that happens to everything else."
The plot wasn't as good as the Usual Suspects, but it was decent. I was also happy with the acting. I didn't feel that great span of talent between Stewart/McKellen and the rest of the cast. If you want to see what a real difference of talent is like, go see the last Highlander movie that Sean Connery did, I swear you can catch him laughing at the difference sometimes. Anyway, I know Stewart/McKellen are great actors, but I think the director did a good job smoothing out the difference between them and the other actors. If there was any difference, I interpreted it as their character's relative experience and intellect. Xavier/Magneto are supposed to be more wise, intelligent and should have more presence when speaking.
As for the details. I wasn't expecting them all to be there. I was happy to find that they tried to work in many aspects found in the comics. Little things like Wolverine's claws hurting him whenever they come out. These small details make all the difference to a die hard fan, which I almost am. There is so much content to pull from the comic, that if they didn't use as much as they could, we might have felt alienated. I'm glad they used many real Marvel Universe characters for the background characters, like Iceman, instead of coming up with some new characters that might be more 'hip' or generally pleasing to a general audience. Say what you will about consistency with the comic books, but this is probably the most accurate adaptation, given the complexity of the original story. Sure, Batman may have been more like the comic... but (IMHO) compared to a lot less complex and interesting.
I am tremendously pleased they kept the characters alive. I'd be hard pressed to find another action/sci-fi film other than Star Wars/Star Trek that, first of all has many characters, and second of all keeps them alive. I never really pay attention to who directs a film, but I will remember Bryan Singer, who I think deserves the credit for many of the positive features I've mentioned above. I assume one of the main reasons movies don't have many main characters, is because it's hard to direct them in a way that doesn't do one of two things, leave some of them looking like extras with a few lines, or makes all the characters less detailed. Whoever wrote the script deserves credit as well, for nicely integrating the tidbits of information that fleshes out the characters and links them to the comic that much more.
I can't wait for the sequel. Though not really my favorite character, I'm hoping Colosus is in the next one, just because he would look so cool. The array X-Men characters is a playground for special effects; I never imagined there would be a movie that would depict the characters with their powers so well back when I was an avid reader 10 years ago.
One last thing, I'll have to check if/when I get this movie on DVD, but I think we catch some of the New Mutants in the film. At one point, a bunch of kids run down some stairs past one or more X-Men walking around the mansion. It looked to be about 5-7 kids, one of them with tall, blond hair (Cannonball), and one shorter, with darker skin (Sunspot, he was the last one I think). I couldn't pick out anyone else. I started reading comics with the New Mutants. They were relatively new when I first started so I could read the story from the begining, and they we really cheap, back issues were like 25 cents at this store near me.
I think I missed the Darth Maul bit, when was it? Also, what does a Darth Maul bit consist of? Darth Maul mostly just stood there when he wasn't fighting.
Do most ISPs do this? I'm a Mindspring user, and now that they've merged, I wonder if this includes the entire Mindspring-Earthlink group. I believe Mindspring and Earthlink both aquired some smaller ISPs in the last few years. I'd rather have Earthlink scan my mail than the FBI though. I'm a little suspicious that Earthlink could reach an agreement like this with the FBI. I wonder what kind of quality control the FBI performs to ensure Earthlink is really gathering all the information they 'need'. My experience with Mindspring is that they're a good company, and I've never had reason to believe they were doing things with my information that I would not approve of. When handing over info to law enforcement through a court order, could Earthlink notify their customers first?
I'll gladly pay $5 a gallon of gas just so I can laugh at the gas guzzeling SUV owners of the city, most who don't even use the thing for anything you might really need an SUV for, as they'll pay $200 to fill up their tank.. while my 40 miles per gallon car takes a fraction of that.
And $4 bucks going to public transportation isn't a bad idea either.
Cars are monkey machines. If owning one contributes to your sense of identity, you have some screwed up sense of self.
7) Can operate a telephone Call you? Are you one of these rare organisms??
Just kidding, you make good points.
If a program is like a recipe, then what happens when a robot starts cooking?
Looking foward to the day an Iron Chef is really made out of iron. A good candidate? Bender from Futurama.
I agree with that, I think kitchens are more like computer hardware. An operating system is more like a chicken base.
which boil down to Ammonia, Methane, and Water
What a confusing way to talk about liquids!
I wonder how hard it is to prove you've scanned in a font of paper materials and distributed it under a different name. You could even do something such as modify the vector paths of each letter just slightly to prevent some kind of pattern matching to determine if they are identical, perhaps.
Incidently, that's why it helps sometimes to search for related words of the font you're looking for. For instance, someone made a font looking very much like that used in Star Trek, but they called it 'FinalFrontier'.
How about quit while your way behind time?
Sensemaking in your Open Media? Say wha?
What's wrong with FascDot Killed My Pr? I've run into a few of his other posts, don't see much wrong with them.
He must not realize, on Slashdot, he doesn't have to help fill 130 pages by writing long articles for that piece of crap magazine, 'Wired'
This is hillarious, but his last article wasn't too bad. I didn't notice it was a Jon Katz article, until I hit 'Read More' and my browser took a few more seconds than usual to load the page.
That karma betting idea would rock. Another thing to bet on, how many new terms he tries to coin. Am I only one who has been desparately trying to work the word 'sensemaking' into casual conversation?