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innovation (n.)
1. The act of introducing something new.
2. Something newly introduced.

I'd say that the Xbox was innovative by that definition. Using PC hardware and a lot of standards to create a console that was easily the most powerful on the market was not just new for Microsoft, it was new to the industry.

And given MS's deep pockets, what they managed with the Xbox was less impressive than innovative.

Oh, I understand that some people may have a different opinion and believe in laissez-fair parenting.

Show me where I said I believed in laissez-fair parenting before you go accusing me of putting words in your mouth.

I also understand that those people are wrong. That is not being narrow-minded, that is being correct-minded.

narrow-minded:
"Lacking tolerance, breadth of view, or sympathy; petty. Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean"

That anyone disagrees with you means they can't possibly be a parent is narrow-minded. You aren't even willing to discuss it. That makes you narrow-minded. You are intolerant of any view which differs from your own. That makes you narrow-minded.

lacking any solid argument of [your] own,

You might try reading my comment before responding.

you are putting words in my mouth that I never said.

Exactly what did I claim you said that you didn't?

This makes you a liar,

If you can't attack the argument, attack the man.

in addition to someone who is clueless about parenting.

Care to make an argument or are you just going to call me names?

Why don't you answer some of the questions I asked you? Or would you rather resort to name calling and baseless accusations?

Correction, "Any solid argument of your own." Haven't had a day off in three weeks.

Maybe if you spent more time with your kids you might be able to trust them more and wouldn't have to resort to invading their privacy.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=maths

According to the dictionary, a paradigm is One that serves as a pattern or model. or A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline. Can you please explain what you meant by 5.5 million download being a 'new' paradigm?

Cheers

*sigh*

A small nearly out of the way check box that takes 2 hours to find is not intuitive.

In other words, OS X was too intuitive for them.

Replace intuitive with something like, simple, basic, un-involved, etc.

I am not trying to be a grammar nazi, but Jesus this is an easy one. Where did you people go to school?

You don't need modern technology, just the metric system. I bet lots of ancient cultures could beat them in kilometers per litter (4th sense).

well, seeing as how the 'author' of konfabulator confabulated the truth as to who originated the technology, i wouldn't waste too much time thinking about it...

You aren't using "predict" correctly in your examples. In each case what you would have to say is something like "I predict that this water sample will turn out to contain an unsafe level of arsenic". You can't predict the past or present; you can only predict our future understanding of current or past events.

A Google search reveals that you are one of approximately two people in the world who uses the word manadrones.

Perhaps it's time to stop making up your own words and join the rest of us who use words that people can understand (language is not useful when only one person in a discussion knows what it means), or maybe you were referring to continuous low dull humming sounds caused by a supernatural force, but that just seems confusing.

Is it someone's last name? "Hello, Mr. Manadrones!" for example.

A Google search reveals that you are one of approximately two people in the world who uses the word manadrones.

Perhaps it's time to stop making up your own words and join the rest of us who use words that people can understand (language is not useful when only one person in a discussion knows what it means), or maybe you were referring to continuous low dull humming sounds caused by a supernatural force, but that just seems confusing.

Is it someone's last name? "Hello, Mr. Manadrones!" for example.

A Google search reveals that you are one of approximately two people in the world who uses the word manadrones.

Perhaps it's time to stop making up your own words and join the rest of us who use words that people can understand (language is not useful when only one person in a discussion knows what it means), or maybe you were referring to continuous low dull humming sounds caused by a supernatural force, but that just seems confusing.

Is it someone's last name? "Hello, Mr. Manadrones!" for example.

It most surely has.

What is your major malfunction, son? Pull your head out of your elitist asshole and plant it in a dictionary.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=stupider

Good comment ruined by use of totally the wrong word. Again. It's not hard people.

nihilism. Yes, Martial arts has a good press agent. No doubt about it. But that doesn't detract from it's basic qualities. Particuarly those stemming from the way it is taught. Boxing may teach respect and disapline, if so good. But I'm no Jingoist, I don't need the system to be American to be effective. I grew up a small kid, youngest in the class. I got in plenty of fights. Those stoped AFTER I took karate. I wasn't worried about acting tough, or establishing myself. I didn't have to any more. Reality is that people fight. And if it does happen it may not be your sons choice. The bully will decide to start the fight for him. The bully will pick on the easiest target. Don't be that target. Confidence is like bully repelent.

ummm... it's not "Wild" it's Wile E. Coyote as in full of wiles. That one was like nails on the Super Genius chalkboard ...

I haven't heard a lot about censorship of the title. If anything, I expect it to just suffer from the translation process... SMT goes on about a lot of concepts that English either doesn't have words for, or doesn't have commonly-used words for.

(For instance, there is a term for the Buddhist death-rebirth cycle the author mentions in the article... it's "metempsychosis". However, it's very rarely used, because how often does your average American discuss cycular reincarnation?)

You are correct, its called Apathy. It is one of the most common human traits.

If one is a shareholder, then one has the right (and obligation) to complain about Micrsoft's business practices. If one is even a stakeholder, one has a right (and obligation) to complain about thier business practices.

Unfortunately, with $50-$60b in the bank, do you really think that your $50-$600 amount for any MS purchase make a big deal? I don't buy MS products, and I encourage others not to as well. I don't expect to change what MS does, but rather change the rest of the world.

There's a lot of myths about Japan near the end of WWII, and one of the most profound is that the government was all looking to fight to the death.


What on earth would lead people to think that?

You'd better look this up: Irony, and then re-read the original /. story content at the top.

I don't need to be your dictionary.com proxy here, do I?

Ok, then, read this. Specifically, entry 3.
Thanks.

(Why does his comment get modded when he's basically just pointing out a small piece of humor from my post?

About how long does it take for Earth to orbit the sun?

• The 24-hour period during which the earth completes one rotation on its axis.
• time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

$ units
1989 units, 71 prefixes, 32 nonlinear units

You have: 1 day
You want: hours
* 24
/ 0.041666667
You have:

Again YOU ARE THE PERSON "discussing" (monologuing) that - others have long since started talking about other stuff. Do keep up.

LOL. Now I get it. You are some idealistic 10 year old.

LOL. Now I get it. You're one of the selfish ones. Oh wait, I knew that already.

A description of a method is an idea, genius. The implementation is the device itself. I'm sure you will understand the difference when you take high school English.

I suggest you read a few patents. And maybe a dictionary.
Implementation n 2: the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something)

So an implementation is an act of providing a practical means for accomplishing something. Not that practical means itself, nor
the idea of accomplishing something, but the act of providing a practical means. Patents are a monopoly on implementations according to the correct reading of patent law. Patents ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO APPLY TO IDEAS. Note also that I am not arguing and did not argue that patents aren't applied to ideas. They are, regularly. But that's because the system has become broken and corrupt, instead of just its original moral bankruptcy.

In which case I would rule it irrelevant as it has never been enforced by a judge

That does not render it irrelevant: You do realise it's the mere threat of a patent lawsuit that suppresses many would-be innovators, particularly in america, where there is little loser-pays-legal-fees ruling, right? Often, the nastiest patents are ones that haven't been enforced by a judge, but have a long string of out-of-court settlements behind them that the patent holder can point to.

"stupid mouse click patent" was shorthand for the issue. You knew exactly what I was talking about, so I don't see the problem there. I know full well they didn't patent all mouse clicks, just ones that spawned different behaviour for multiple and different duration clicks on "limited" (i.e. all) computing devices. The patent WAS pointing-device related, though. Do you think if someone says "porn case file", they mean a file containing a porn case or a file related to a porn case?

I always figure that news was singular, as in the New York Times statement "All the news that's fit to print" of course being a contraction of "that is". Having written that, dictionary.com tells me that it is a plural noun used with a singular verb. That seems to me to be an overly pedantic classification since I would probably say "The news today states blah blah but it is usually biased that way." However, seeing as how you are a non-American English speaker, you would also pronounce schedule starting like shed- not sked-. That is interesting, since the more historic pronounciation would probably be the American way. Whatever. I'm neurotic tonight and invoke the case of /tomeyto/ vs. /tomato/.

You're joking, but should read this.

All life uses energy, and sustainable life doesn't create negative spirals.

The phrase I think your are looking for is cognitive dissonance

No, that is a definition for the common-use liberal term "imperialist", as in "cultural imperialist", "social imperialist", etc. It has nothing to do with true Imperialism, and if you note, I used the capital "I" to be absolutely unambiguous that I do not use newspeak claptrap like that OED entry. Certainly no political scientist would agree with that drivel. Other dictionaries have definitions that seem shockingly at odds with that one, for example check out the many dictionary.com entries, such as the American Heritage and Merriam-Webster definitions - none of them seem to agree with the secondary definition you provided from the Oxford Compact English Dictionary. Which just goes to show that even a great dictionary is still the work of humans, and can be flawed at times.

Note that "Shock and Awe" are both synonyms of Terror according to Dictionary.com/ Roget's Thesaurus.com

Here. Dictionary.com FAQ on the very subject of virii. Would you like fries with that?

not always. bandwidth can also be a measure of the width of a band. in this case, a band of frequencies. so, 10MHz bandwidth would be from f to f2, where f2 is 10MHz greater than f.

see dictionary.com deff.

I'm not a mod today, but I am disappointed in you. Burt's craft (arguably Paul's craft) solves many, many problems. Its a first step (see tier) in developing a cheap way to space. I challenge you to get to 100km on $20 million (2004 dollars). I wonder how much other teams have spent & what there chances are of reaching space at all, much less doing it twice, with a 600lb payload, in 2 weeks. Nevermind doing it *first*.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=comment

1. A statement of fact or opinion, especially a remark that expresses a personal reaction or attitude.

2. An implied conclusion or judgment: a novel that is a comment on contemporary lawlessness.

God... before you grammar whores COMMENT, atleast make sure it's accurate.

Although ensure and insure are generally interchangeable, only insure is now widely used in American English in the commercial sense of "to guarantee persons or property against risk."

ahem, Oxen.

Besides, it's in the dictionary

Octopi is actually the proper plural for octopus although octopusses is much more commonly used.

Actually, Yes. Virii still isn't a valid word YET (give it a few more years and it will be)

"This beta google groups is more like a direct competence against Yahoo Groups."

Did you really mean competence?

"Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term"

Contemporary

It doesn't mean what you think it means. Perhaps you meant "cutting edge"?

Actually Gabber is. Ghemical is pretty inexcusible as a name, and I'd never heard of it before, but then I did say most. Actually many of Gnome's major applications have non-'G' infected names, Abiword, Evolution, Nautilus, etc.

Two Greek words: "broad", mneaning "a word", and "band", meaning "that has something to do with the internet."

This is the LAMEST excuse for karma trolling I've ever seen. (Apologies to the parent if he's just trying to be funny.) From dictionary.com:

A specific range of wavelengths or frequencies of electromagnetic radiation.

"Broad"-band means that the "band" of frequencies has been broadened to provide more "in-band" data transfer. In english, the bandwidth problem was solved by simultaneously transmitting multiple bits instead of a more traditional serial transmission with a higher bit-rate.

Everyone catch that? Good.

More comedy for those keeping score:

definitely

If you're going to type it in caps (TWICE!) make sure you're spelling it properly, so you don't draw attention to the fact that you're definately a moran.

If you've never seen this film, The Corporation is a documentary covering the history of how corporations came to exist and their roles in society today.

This film begins by conducting a psychological prognosis of a corporation, where they find it's condition is of a psychopath.

It was shown on the Canadian equivalent of PBS.

So here's oddly enough a bittorrent download of the 3 part series.

http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/1983/The Corporation(3).torrent

If anyone is asking for more proof, I think this film will provide it for them. Otherwise, I still found watching this film to be very informative.

If you've never seen this film, The Corporation is a documentary covering the history of how corporations came to exist and their roles in society today.

This film begins by conducting a psychological prognosis of a corporation, where they find it's condition is of a psychopath.

It was shown on the Canadian equivalent of PBS.

So here's oddly enough a bittorrent download of the 3 part series.

http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/1983/The Corporation(3).torrent

If anyone is asking for more proof, I think this film will provide it for them. Otherwise, I still found watching this film to be very informative.

Jackass.

Trade secrets have no protection at all except by explicit contract. None.

Right. But Microsoft and most others put explicit trade-secret clauses in their employment contracts.

APIs are inherently nothing more than a logical framework. One does not reverse engineer them. One discovers them.

That wouldn't really be in tune with the more common definition of reverse-engineering. Reverse-engineering would typically entail using a decompiler/disassembler/debugger to figure out the inner workings of a program, and then writing a specification from that.

Yes, the actual implementation is the clean-room part, but that's ordinary forward-engineering from a specification, not reverse-engineering. H

owever, the person who did the reverse-engineering has seen the other guy's code, and is therefore not clean anymore.

I shouldn't have to remind you that previous commercial blimps all had/have a rigid airframe.

Not unless you want to prove that you're a moron, no. Precisely zero blimps, commercial or otherwise, had/have a rigid airframe.

So they can claim it's an airship, but when they say it's not a blimp it's an opinion

A blimp is a nonrigid airship; vent the lift gas, and a blimp loses its shape. If you put in a frame to prevent that, what you have is a rigid airship, and therefore not a blimp. The existence of such a frame is a question of fact, not opinion. Also, your belief (and that of whatever moderators called you "informative") in rigid blimps is a clear demonstration that you are too stupid to operate a dictionary.

1. cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
2. form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.
3. The use of sarcasm.

1. cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
2. form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.
3. The use of sarcasm.

To steal. It's slang, and I don't think it carries any real crime connotatiom.

Silly Brits, and their made up English words.


--LordPixie