Comment check your lexicon (Score 1) 473
"Our negative correlation list is a fool's lexicon: ur, u, wat, wont, and so on."
I do use 'wont' occasionally, but with its correct meaning. *ahem* It is my wont to use the word when I want.
Comment Inattentive (Score 1) 478
You know, pretty much all places already have rules against inattentive driving. Why make a lot of additional rules banning "this one thing that people sometimes distract themselves with to become inattentive while driving"? Just put in heavier penalties against inattentive driving, since that's what people are really worried about.
All these creations of additional bans benefit no one but the lawyers.
Comment Prudent charities use condoms. (Score 1) 360
For legal, technical support, and a host of other reasons, if the charity knows what it's doing, it'll be wiping all computers that get donated and installing something fresh, along with a limited suite of applications/games for the kids.
For all they know, you could be a member of a pedophile ring and carelessly leave a folder full of child porn hidden somewhere on the hard drive.
Or you could be a cracker who left a bunch of malware ready to crawl into their network the instant they hook the computer up to it.
Comment apple and orange. (Score 1) 456
So the article is basically saying that Twitter is not a social network, and because it's not a social network, it can't possibly survive.
Ok. I hope the authors are having fun in their happy place.
Comment Separating game and service (Score 1) 291
In contrast to a deliberate attack on game buyers, it sounds more like Sony's trying to separate the game itself (which can be played offline in most cases) from the service it connects to in order to use online capabilities. The first buyer gets a free pass to use the online service (bundled into the money Sony gets off it). Any subsequent buyers have to buy online access (since Sony doesn't get money off that sale).
The long-term practicality, business-wise, for Sony is questionable in my opinion, but I can't really see moral issues with it.
Comment Why is this an English course? (Score 2, Insightful) 118
Does anyone else find it odd that this is a Junior-level college course in English, and the course is limited to zombie movies and comic books? If you want to study zombie movies, go to film studies. I can accept using zombie comic books, but few, if any, zombie comic books I've seen would qualify as quality literature. (Yes, some comic books do qualify as quality literature, just not those.)
The real travesty for these students is that this course could actually be leveraging an interest in zombies to actually study good literature, like World War Z, the Zombie Survival Guide, the zombie Jane Austen books, and various fiction books from different eras in the evolution of the modern zombie. (The history of the zombie concept is quite the story.) Instead, they get to watch movies and read comic books.
Comment Re:I didn't know (Score 1) 634
Wait. Italians are sober?
Comment Re:Mathematicians are gathering to vet this paper (Score 1) 147
Au contraire. I don't refer to the things those sciences are used to manipulate, but the sciences themselves. Those ways of looking at the world are fundamentally built upon mathematics.
Comment Re:Mathematicians are gathering to vet this paper (Score 1) 147
Really, can't a very similar argument be applied to nearly every field of applied knowledge? Mathematics is a model for how the universe works; all practical science is just applied mathematics in some form or another. Music, anthropology, biology, conspiracy theories--they can all be described as applications of mathematics.
Comment Re:iSlate name (Score 1) 195
Regardless of any functionality this phone will have, it only takes a very short time to come up with the "if-one" pronunciation of iPhone. I can't imagine that Jobs would let anything that could be turned into a such an obvious mockery of Apple be released. I have no idea what the phone will be called, but I am betting heavily against "iPhone" - and yes I have been following all the reports on companies being purchased etc.
There, fixed it for you. We are as dedicated to exploring ways in which product names can be twisted as we were about making fun of our classmates' names back in kindergarten.
Comment Re:I can feel the kindness (Score 1) 357
Have you considered that the reason they make such high profits is because they need to plow so much money into research and development? Profits don't just sit there; they get spent.
Journal Journal: Lonely 1
A week without a fiance, or anyone else for that matter. Life isn't all it's cracked up to be, you know.
As a matter of fact, life sucks. Maybe someday Sarah will decide that it's worth the trouble to reconcile with me, but, personally, I doubt it.
Journal Journal: VOA meeting tonight
There's a Vision of Anime meeting again in the Milwaukee area. This time we're trying out a new meeting location in Mequon. So, if anyone's reading this from the north side of the Milwaukee metro area, check out http://www.visionofanime.org/ and show up at the meeting.
Journal Journal: Anime in Milwaukee
If anyone's reading this journal . . .
Vision of Anime, an anime club based in Milwaukee (Wisconsin, USA) has a meeting tonight at the South Milwaukee Community Center. If anyone's interested in anime and in Milwaukee, come along. I'm one of the officers, so I'm obviously biased, but I wouldn't be helping out for free if I didn't like it.
Journal Journal: Frustration
I'd like to share this with all the ladies out there:
If your boyfriend/fiance/husband asks you today if you can do something a week from now, let him know before the day of. Hell, let him know even if you can't do it. Not only is it endearingly polite, it is common courtesy. Hell, I would expect any stranger on the street to do it.
