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But some of us prefer the more traditional spelling...

[from the Latin, medius middle + aevum age]

dalamcd

My point is, is that society has created a backlash against this natural tendency - a backlash called "the feminist movement..."

It's one thing to say live and let live. I can agree with that. It's another to say that feminism is anti-natural or anti-biological. For many people, feminism is simply about making sure that women don't get beaten, raped, harrassed, have their rights taken away, etc. It's really that simple.

It's biology. You can fight it. But in the end, biology pumps your blood, regulates your hormones, and fires your neurons. You have free will, but there are certain things that are biologically engineered by nature to make you happy and content. It's often wise to listen to them.

Does biology dictate, like the Taliban, that we can beat and rape women? Please choose your words more carefully, and do some reading on feminism.

Heh. Wonton act of goodwill. I like that... Does that mean they gave them all the noodle-dough dumplings they could eat? :)

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=wanton

If you're hungry and in a country where many people are dying of preventable illnesses, education is the greatest key to upliftment.

If you're hungry and in a country where many people are dying of preventable illnesses, education is the greatest key to upliftment.

you would say to Vanna, "Is there an L?". Not "Is there a L?"
As anyone who plays scrabble knows, that's because L is actually spelled 'el' or 'ell'.

See here.

for you. get used to it.

I think from a low-level standpoint though, each one could be considered a server to the other. Your client has to connect to another computer, and any computer that accepts incoming connections can be said to be hosting a server. From dictionary.com, a server is "a kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester". Kazaa sitting on your computer waiting for another Kazaa client to call up and say "do you have this file?" is fulfilling that definition.

Please consult dictionary.com before making posts like these...Reproduce and breed have much the same meaning, unless you mean the Chinese don't have photocopiers.

Please consult dictionary.com before making posts like these...Reproduce and breed have much the same meaning, unless you mean the Chinese don't have photocopiers.

Mittler zwischen Hirn und Hand muss das Herz sein.

Intermediary between brain and hand must be the heart.

From Dictionary.com's translation service.

But Slashdot is targeted at the digiterati, and if you don't know what I just posted, then you're just another "user who just knows enough to be dangerous".

Just the same, here's why I posted:

• the TiBook aka Powerbook has a 15.2 inch mega-wide display that was introduced last year!
• VAIO and the Powerbook are in the same market segment, i.e. high-end consumer laptops
• with Macworld around the corner, a new round of hardware announcements is widely anticipated from Apple, including rumors of bigger screens on both the Apple laptops and the iMac
• CmrTaco is a Linux user and you can be sure he'll be loading up Linux on that VAIO (right Cmr?)
• Fink is a project to port Unix tools to Mac OS X.
• OS X is a *Nix (for your benefit, that's shorthand for a Unix-like system like Linux, Solaris and the ilk)
• and lastly, Slashdot is a FORUM so everybody (including you, sad to say), can post what they think

And BTW, I was the editor of our paper, and have been feted with numerous literary awards.

Its just that when you're talking amongst peers, you tend to conduct the conversation in shorthand.

See you around, anonymous coward.

tautology
1.
1. Needless repetition of the same sense in different words; redundancy.
2. An instance of such repetition.
2. Logic. An empty or vacuous statement composed of simpler statements in a fashion that makes it logically true whether the simpler statements are factually true or false; for example, the statement Either it will rain tomorrow or it will not rain tomorrow.
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pay no attention to this gaj. Obviously he belives only Native Born Americans(TM) have equal rights to other Native Born Americans(TM).

all you smelly immigrants should be HAPPY to come to America(TM) and enjoy living the high-life -- again, even if you dont deserve it, but Gaj is giving enough to share a little with you -- just dont get to 'up-pidy'.

Jingoism, xenophobia, ethnocetnrism.

pay no attention to this gaj. Obviously he belives only Native Born Americans(TM) have equal rights to other Native Born Americans(TM).

all you smelly immigrants should be HAPPY to come to America(TM) and enjoy living the high-life -- again, even if you dont deserve it, but Gaj is giving enough to share a little with you -- just dont get to 'up-pidy'.

Jingoism, xenophobia, ethnocetnrism.

pay no attention to this gaj. Obviously he belives only Native Born Americans(TM) have equal rights to other Native Born Americans(TM).

all you smelly immigrants should be HAPPY to come to America(TM) and enjoy living the high-life -- again, even if you dont deserve it, but Gaj is giving enough to share a little with you -- just dont get to 'up-pidy'.

Jingoism, xenophobia, ethnocetnrism.

You really should translate that here and see what happens.

My computer produces software that is dongle protected. Our software can be imported easily to Brazil, but the dongles have to be made and distributed from within Brazil.

Subtlety

Are you sure it wasn't a few errant trojii? Maybe it was gaggle of wormii. They're the worst -- they get into your system with tentacles like octopii and barbs as sharp as cactii. You need to step way back and get statii on all your system when you get infected with those. Or you could take a one or more hiatii from online computing altogether and minimize your chances of getting infected.

I hate viruses.

-B

fascicle Pronunciation Key (fs-kl) n.

1. A small bundle.
2. One of the parts of a book published in separate sections. Also called fascicule.
3. Botany. A bundle or cluster of stems, flowers, or leaves.
4. See fasciculus.

I believe the definition used here is #2.

Second, a quick definition of what this is all about: it appears to be a collection of great scientific and programming works to be used as a primer for new programmers.

Hopefully, that allays some of the confusion I was having among others out there.

In order to complete this, a set of regression tests were written. For example, if the amount of money collected doesn't match up to our order table, we get notified via our cellphone's text messaging as soon as the cronjob picks it up.

What you describe isn't regression testing. Regression testing "is a quality control measure to ensure that the newly-modified code still complies with its specified requirements and that unmodified code has not been affected by the maintenance activity." More accurately what you've done is paranoid programming. Really, these two things are orthogonal.

My question is, how common is this for the software industry? My company had never heard of this before I came along. Is it the norm? (When you answer, also say whether or not your company does risk management.)

This depends. Every company I've worked for has claimed to be concerned with mitigating risks both in the testing phases and post-release phases of the software development lifecycle. However, the amount and kind of testing and programming actually done have varied wildly and always ends up being determined by the industry for which the software is being built. In your case, money is the biggest factor. Organizations such as banks and other financial institutions are highly risk-averse due to the responsibilities and legal concerns related to handling others' money. It follows that these organizations regularly conduct formal testing of their code as well as "program paranoid" to mitigate screw-ups. In start-up's I've worked at in the past, this wasn't nearly the case since it was more important to get a product out the door and this sort of testing/coding always went out the window with looming deadlines.

So to answer your question, yes, regression testing (and paranoid programming) are highly common in the IT industry and their respective importance is a function of the risk aversion of the intended users/customers. My advice is to always practice good, paranoid, professional programming augmented by formal testing procedures. Vary the time spent on each to achieve the appropriate balance.

Frankly, the best way to enlighten yourself on this matter is to educate yourself in the ways of Extreme Programming. The horribly trendy name aside, this is the truly the only management fad I've seen in 10+ years that holds any merit.

Not only did you use the wrong word, you spelt it wrong:

tennant
tenet
loser

Not only did you use the wrong word, you spelt it wrong:

tennant
tenet
loser

Not intuitive. Imaginative, maybe.

Not intuitive. Imaginative, maybe.

apocalypse
n.
1.
a. Apocalypse Abbr. Apoc. Bible. The Book of Revelation. b. Any of a number of anonymous Jewish or Christian texts from around the second century B.C. to the second century A.D. containing prophetic or symbolic visions, especially of the imminent destruction of the world and the salvation of the righteous.

2. Great or total devastation; doom: the apocalypse of nuclear war.

3. A prophetic disclosure; a revelation.

that's not to say that I have a preference towards either. I just don't dig parent poster.

Actually, the original poster is right. Taken from this dictionary.com definition, to hedge one's bet means: "to bet upon both sides; that is, after having bet on one side, to bet also on the other, thus guarding against loss." Thus (at least in the original poster's opinion), Sony is betting both for and against the RIAA. If the RIAA wins, then Sony's bet on this car CD player loses, bu the DRM plan wins. If the RIAA loses, then so does Sony's DRM plan, but the in-car CD ripper wins. Therefore Sony has hedged its bets with regards to the RIAA.

Nick

Why do you have this burning need to feel validated? In general, third world countries have less economic and political influence. They have less bathrooms and telephones per capita. Whatever. Sure, you may have one telephone in whatever backwater asspimple country you're in, but a defining factor of the 3rd world is having less... they are developing, not developed. Nobody's saying third world countries don't have televisions, they just don't have one in every hut.

The chip on your shoulder is some sort of need to prove that third world as just as important as the first world... and your blindness to seeing past that "point". Its a ludicrous position, probably based on personal feelings of inadequacy, but it doesn't matter. You can change this. Political and economic influence moves primarily based on how nations act. What truly matters is what you do with what you have.

What you're doing right now, on the international stage of Slashdot, is showing all of us just how smart South Africans are. I may be showing everyone how pompous Americans are, but they already knew that. :)

Why do you have this burning need to feel validated? In general, third world countries have less economic and political influence. They have less bathrooms and telephones per capita. Whatever. Sure, you may have one telephone in whatever backwater asspimple country you're in, but a defining factor of the 3rd world is having less... they are developing, not developed. Nobody's saying third world countries don't have televisions, they just don't have one in every hut.

The chip on your shoulder is some sort of need to prove that third world as just as important as the first world... and your blindness to seeing past that "point". Its a ludicrous position, probably based on personal feelings of inadequacy, but it doesn't matter. You can change this. Political and economic influence moves primarily based on how nations act. What truly matters is what you do with what you have.

What you're doing right now, on the international stage of Slashdot, is showing all of us just how smart South Africans are. I may be showing everyone how pompous Americans are, but they already knew that. :)

Theocracy, look it up. It has no bearing on the pledge issue at all.

There is no Palestinian army. Please stick to facts.

Peaceful demonstrations?

Yes, students gathering in a street carrying signs and chanting slogans are peaceful. That some demonstrations -- on both sides -- have turned violent doesn't negate the existence of peaceful ones.

Land confiscation? Most of the time, this is the land of terrorists.

No, that is incorrect. The land is chosen based on its location and perceived value, not on whether or not Hamas members live there. If that were the case, that would imply they knew where the terrorists lived and could easily arrest them. Illegal Israeli settlements (the Geneva Conventions make settlements in occupied land illegal) are created in such a way as to break up the West Bank into small cantons so Arab areas are discontinuous. Then bypass roads are built that only service the settlements, further breaking up Arab areas.

Arrest without charge? Not an outrage if the arrested are guilty.

Do you think that would fly here in the U.S.? Are you advocating that we ditch due process? You sound more and more like a fascist with each post.

It is never "propaganda". It is information.

You might want to look up propaganda in a dictionary because you keep claiming it has no meaning. It certainly does, and it's not just simple information. Telling you that "two plus two makes four" does not seek to change your opinion or promote my cause.

Yes certainly. Because you and similar anti-semites dwell on much lesser "crimes" of Israel while ignoring the much greater crimes of Israel's enemies.

The crimes I laid out above and attributed to each state to me make Israel the "more criminal," especially when it's an established state with U.S. funding that is committing the crimes whereas in Palestine's case it is mostly small organized resistence and not state-wide. Why don't you lay out the crimes as you see them for each state so we can compare.

Yet you are still missing the main point: I don't believe that Israel's crimes are terrorism based on a belief that Jews are inferior. Rather, I call it terrorism because it fits the definition. If Israel had nothing to do with Jews I would still condemn the state's actions as terrorism. Thus anti-Semitism has nothing to do with my views, just as my criticism of suicide bombing is not based on racial hatred of Arabs.

It is not unreasonable that anti-semitism is the reason.

It's not unreasonable that I hold the views I do simply because I hate anything having to do with the Asian continent, but that doesn't make it true or even likely. Reasonableness doesn't make it true. I would also argue that it is unreasonable because it's not based on any evidence but instead on your personal belief.

[Me:] " Facts are ignored in favor of doctrine."
That is your way, not mine.

You haven't provided any facts yet. All I've read is many variations of "No, you're wrong" without anything to back it up.

joke Pronunciation Key (jk)
n.

1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal.
5. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
6. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.

your sig has a spelling mistake. It's "Deity"

otherwise, it's cool :)

Right on! Games are for the consoles, not the consolable!.

futurology:
The study or forecasting of potential developments, as in science, technology, and society, using current conditions and trends as a point of departure.

This is unnecessary? Uh, somebody fill me in...

Please, learn the proper English plural of the word 'virus.'

There's no need to be making up words in hopes of sounding smarter. You only end up looking silly.

Historical Footnote #1: There are no Indian Reservations on the East Coast of USA.

Tell that to the Mashantucket Pequots who in Connecticut have set up one of the largest and most profitable casinos outside of Atlantic City NJ on the East Coast - all on reservation land.

Tell that to the Iroquois Nation, composed of several tribes who have been selling cigarettes in Upstate New York for decades.

Me, too! (There, did you get it now?)

1. Something, such as an intermediate course of action, that occupies a position or represents a condition midway between extremes.
2. An intervening substance through which something else is transmitted or carried on.
3. An agency by which something is accomplished, conveyed, or transferred:
   
   etc etc etc...

VIRUSES

FUNNER

I AM THEY'RE FRIEND.

I AM TO!

Fellatio, not fellacio. Hope this helps.

Fellatio, not fellacio. Hope this helps.

It's good to see that the positive economic ripple effect of open source is and is going to continue to happen, despite the resistance of closed source companies like MS claiming they are bringing the new economy in and FUD against open source.

I have no doubt that future research in this area will produce such information that weighs heavy against closed source.

dude it was a joke

Yah, we know you know how to link. How about a single link about the news you want to share?

But illiterate sociologists is just a bad caricature , isn't it?

"You're so incredibly anal it's funny."

Thanks. I try.

"It's fun to use 'anal' when speaking of homonyms...asshole"

It's also fun to use your brain. If you somehow learned to enjoy that experience, you would know that 'anus' and 'asshole' are synonyms, not homonyms . This is particularly disappointing, since I linked to the definition of "homonym" in my previous post.

I'll gloss over your confusion of "anal" ("of or related to the anus") and "anus" for now. In fact, I'll just cut this comment short. I'm sure that my frequent usage of the word "anus" has gotten you pretty hot and bothered by now. Even if you don't understand what "homonym" means, you certainly seem to be familiar with the meaning of "homo." At least you're halfway there.

"You're so incredibly anal it's funny."

Thanks. I try.

"It's fun to use 'anal' when speaking of homonyms...asshole"

It's also fun to use your brain. If you somehow learned to enjoy that experience, you would know that 'anus' and 'asshole' are synonyms, not homonyms . This is particularly disappointing, since I linked to the definition of "homonym" in my previous post.

I'll gloss over your confusion of "anal" ("of or related to the anus") and "anus" for now. In fact, I'll just cut this comment short. I'm sure that my frequent usage of the word "anus" has gotten you pretty hot and bothered by now. Even if you don't understand what "homonym" means, you certainly seem to be familiar with the meaning of "homo." At least you're halfway there.