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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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16:17 / 13.09.07

YES! It has worked. Unfortunately, some of the data was destroyed, but most of the article is still coherent. I can fix it. I can. Thank you so much, Haus.

I have done a sigil to preserve the data, by imagining a thoughtform of Morpheus from The Matrix embracing the data, which I imagine in the form of a glowing blue kitten made of energy, and carrying it to safety.

Some sacrifices were made for the benefit of the whole. Hail to Niobe!

Medulla, I just got a 2GB pen drive from amazon, for £15 or so - US$30. If you can squeeze the files you need to transfer onto a floppy, you only _need_ 1.5MB of space. The smallest pen drive you are likely to find is 32MB - the challenge might be to find someone who is still selling them, but eBay.ca or similar may work for you - they are going for US$5 on ebay.com...

I have seen people with these storage units before. It just never really occured to me how they could be useful to me.(I mean, like duh!)

Thanks for the fabulous suggestion.

Now, I must return to class before the agents show up!

15:30 / 14.09.07

During the festival of Ramadan Muslims cannot eat or drink during the daylight hours. What happens if you live in a part of the world that has little or no nighttime when the festival occurs?

Happy Dave Has Left

15:37 / 14.09.07

Wot, like Scandinavia?

Here be answers.

Basically it boils down to the local Muslim bossman saying - 'Dudes, don't be silly, you can eat after 8pm'.

Closed for Business Time

15:39 / 14.09.07

As far as I can remember the community - no doubt guided by mullahs or other scholars - stipulates a certain time of the day/night that for the purposes of the celebration counts as dawn/dusk. This varies from place to place - I've only seen it in action in Norway and the times they set there might vary from those in say Canada or Argentina.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

20:02 / 14.09.07

I need to make a table that shows all possible combinations of
A B C D E

without repeating a letter within a combination.

Like:

A B C D E
A B C E D
A B E D C
A B E C D
A B D E C
A B D C E

... and so on. There MUST be some doohicky that lets me do this automatically yes?

20:07 / 14.09.07

You could use one of the anagram things on the internet.
It wouldn't put it into a table, but it wouldn't be that hard to type up it's multiple results.

21:31 / 14.09.07

I am intrigued as to why you have to do this.

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:22 / 14.09.07

Facebook: Is there a way to view somebody's group memberships?

23:27 / 14.09.07

Yeah.

23:30 / 14.09.07

If you have access to their profile, yes. It's written right on there.

You get access if you are their "friend", they have poked you or have sent you a message.

I don't know what other ways there are.

23:32 / 14.09.07

I'm not sure, but if someone replies to a message you have sent then I think that gives you temporary access too.

So if it is someone who is unlikely to befriend you, you could probably sneak onto their profile by baiting them to respond by message.

23:35 / 14.09.07

MattS: Actually, there'd be 120 possible variations. So typing out each of the 600 letters would probably be incredibly tedious.

What do you want to do with this stuff? Does it need to be in any particular format for a program or something?

14:31 / 15.09.07

You need a permutations & combinations calculator.

I don't want to clog the thread, so here's the calculator and I'll PM you the results.

15:40 / 15.09.07

So I wandered on the beach the other day looking for a stone with a hole in to throw in the sea, and found two rocks with writing on them- one flat one with SKIM ME on it, and one with a Spanish inscription that said;

FOLLAR ES LO MEJOR
"FOLLA MUCHO"
Tristan

So, although I've a fair inkling what it means, can anyone translate? (also, what are the chances of finding two stones on the beach with writing on within two minutes of each other?)

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

17:28 / 15.09.07

Thanks, Gourami. The reason is that I'm creating a supplementary deck of combat cards for the board game I'm designing, and one option is to have each card have a variable bonus for all five factions in the game, ranging from 3 to -1. Trying to work out how many cards I would need, plus something to generate the cards values for me instead of trying to figure it all out by hand would be nice.

Not sure if I'm going to go with the idea or not, but it's interesting -- it would be a sort of a blind draw concept as a last-ditch battle effect.

I'm geeking out a bit here, aren't I?

17:36 / 15.09.07

Quantum, you live in Brighton. Therefore I imagine the chances are quite high.

17:40 / 15.09.07

I think follar is "to fuck". Dirty rock writers. SKIM ME probably has some perverse meaning as well, I can only imagine...
mmmmmm.
skimming.

20:46 / 15.09.07

"FUCKING IS THE BEST
FUCK LOTS"

Whisky Priestess

10:19 / 17.09.07

All right, how the bloody bugger do I get to see more than 50 emails per page in Windows Live Hotmail?

Happy Dave Has Left

10:39 / 17.09.07

There's no way to I'm afraid WP. One of the features they eliminated when they switched it from the old Hotmail layout.

Can I recommend Gmail? It's fast, threaded and essentially unlimited storage.

You can use a thing called GetMail to move your mail to Gmail.

My Mom Thinks I'm Cool

10:40 / 17.09.07

isn't livemail great? it seems to be almost exactly the same as hotmail, only with more bugs. and it looks goofy so I'm not used to it and have trouble finding things.

ugh, late for work. I'll look again later if no one else has answered, but I don't see anything in the obvious places I just looked.

All Acting Regiment

13:35 / 18.09.07

That's it, I'm ditching Lynx. Ubiquitious but not very nice. What other kinds of nice smelling things can men put on themselves, folks?

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:39 / 18.09.07

Is there a Lush near where you live?

All Acting Regiment

13:51 / 18.09.07

There is! Is that a good place?

(I should make it clear that I'm changing brands of, not disregarding, beauty chemicals).

Mysterious Transfer Student

14:06 / 18.09.07

Pardon my asking, but what have Lynx done now, as opposed to at every previous point in their existence, to make you give up their products?

Also: Lush products for (or at least on) men. Hmmm... may be worth investigating.

14:11 / 18.09.07

I was about to say Lush as well. Also, for anybody, I'm a big fan of scented products (shampoos, etc.) rather than scents (colgone). You can smell nice without leaving a thick vapor trail.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

16:50 / 18.09.07

Did Australia ever like Yahoo Serious, or did he just kind of trick the world into thinking Australia liked him?

All Acting Regiment

17:25 / 18.09.07

It's more that I've smelt like Lynx for so long now I associate it with school dinners.

I am scared of Yahoo Serious.

22:07 / 18.09.07

Is there a reason for (or a way around) a MySpace page/blog not being google-searchable or detectable? I don't do the MySpace thing, really, so I was at a bit of a loss on how to advise about that.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

09:20 / 19.09.07

No help with MySpace searches. Have you tried the Google function "site:" yet?

Question: how long has the term "irony" been recognized in its modern sense? Working on a script set in the 1640s where something ironic happens, but I don't know if "irony" was a term that would have been used to describe, well, irony at the time.

10:57 / 19.09.07

The concept of irony has been around at least since classical Greece—indeed, AFAIK the word comes from the Greek, literally meaning "feigned ignorance," and initially referred to what we would today call Socratic irony. It was frequently used as a rhetorical device in classical Latin literature, and the word is first recorded in English in 1500 or thereabouts.

I don't know how general the usage would have been by 1640, though; I'm guessing that at that point it might have still been the exclusive province of those schooled in literary theory. If your characters are aristocrats or scholars, that's one thing; but the peasant in the croft was likely as unaware of the term "irony" as your average Pittsburgh steelworker is of the finer points of poststructuralism. Then, as now, the response of the man-in-the-street to irony of situation would probably be a shrug and a murmur of "Funny old world, eh?"

20:13 / 19.09.07

www.etymonline.com has 'irony' dated to 1502, for English, and back to socratic irony and its predecessors otherwise. For the theatrical, modern sense, of everyone in the production being read as ignorant (of a specific thing, the audience can see), I'd presume... mid-19th Century? Not that there's a big difference, for my money, unless you're a theatre major. And even then, it's just 'legit theatre' versus, y'know, the poor people's stuff, which would have relied on it, in Europe, at least as long as there's been Harlequin/Columbine goings on. The only difference being 'everyone in the production' instead of a single character.

20:45 / 19.09.07

Oh, people of all social classes and educational levels have been employing irony for ages. I mean, Shakespeare's plays are full of it, and he was writing squarely for the groundlings. They knew irony when they heard it, but they didn't necessarily know what it was called.

Analogous situation: When you hear the stabbing violins of the Psycho theme, you know it's disturbing and discordant; but unless you've got some musical training, you don't know the technical term for those discordant intervals.

Similarly, when you say of a rapper "He's a monster on the mic," you're using a part of the big picture (the microphone) to stand for something more general (the MC's flow, lyrical ability, charisma as a performer, et cetera). It's a rhetorical device that you can use without thinking: but you may or may not know what it's called.

(Synecdoche, by the way.)

20:48 / 19.09.07

Oh, wait—I get what you're saying. I think we're reading the question differently: I assumed that Matt was asking, "If my play is set in 1640, would it be a blatant anachronism for one character to turn to another and say, 'Egad, that's ironic'?"

20:59 / 19.09.07

If i were to aquire a device for the recording of lectures and concerts i attend, what would be a good choice? Are there any good (relatively cheap) mp3 players suitable for this? Are minidisc recorders still a viable option? What would be a good choice in microphone?

Lectures would need to be recorded to that all the speech of the lecturer, as well as any of the students, could be heard. For gigs, i would like good enough quality that i could put them up on mp3 sites and people would say 'that sounds like a good gig!'.

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