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It's wrong to strike a lady, and I hope she twatted you back.

I see lots of people get that one word in the quote wrong, so I figured I'd contribute to our collective knowledge of Latin. It's tutemet.

Don't ban manimals!

Spelt "capisci", as the second-person conjugation, "you understand" = capisci. The missing "i" on the end when spoken appears to be an American slangy corruption, but then again I'm not that intimate with Italian, so perhaps someone else can chime in. More here.

Cheers,

neutrino osculations

You learn something new every day

I don't care. It's not apathy. It's a lack of concern.

That is apathy last time I checked. ;) But no, more seriously, I agree with you but you're making a flippant suggestion as though it is a decision that people could make freely and easily. That just may not be the case! It's like suggesting that you don't have to be recorded on surveillance cameras if you simply avoid places where the cameras are installed. It makes sense, but only on the surface. When you dig deeper you quickly realize that you don't know where the cameras are to avoid them, and can't easily discover them without exposing yourself.

Long ago "data" was just the plural of "datum" (single fact or piece of information), and in that sense "many" would be adequate. But when using it as a mass noun (as is the case here) it would be a mass noun (measureable and singular like "water"), and you'd talk about "much data".

It (re-)implements a platform API
it seeks to equal (and / or surpass) the canonical implementation
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emulate

anyway, I've lost this
Hackers are nasty people who break into systems
English = en/us
Wine is not an emulator

No, I am disputing the poster's point. I think that someone who owns a gun and attempts suicide is more likely to die in the attempt than someone who doesn't own a gun and attempts suicide.

I am not an expert, and I don't have numbers to back this up. I'm just speculating.

I'm not sure why you're objecting to my usage of "suicidal." I think it's a pretty standard usage. My point was that people don't know in advance they're going to become suicidal -- and in that case, I'm basing that on personal experiences.

It is hardly doublespeak to use the word "gaming" to refer to the practice of gambling. Indeed, the first definition of the word "gaming" in every dictionary I check refers specifically to gambling.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gaming

1. (gambling) The business of offering games of chance for money.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gaming

Main Entry: gaming
Function: noun
Date: 1501
1 : the practice of gambling

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gaming

gaming [gey-ming] Show IPA
–noun
1.
gambling.

http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=gaming

Noun

S: (n) gambling, gaming, play (the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)) "his gambling cost him a fortune"; "there was heavy play at the blackjack table"

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noone

Stop trolling. We don't care.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noone Pronoun noone 1. Common misspelling of no one. 2. Common misspelling of no-one. 3. Common misspelling of noöne.

Android is a linux derivative.

Just so you know.

Tower - /squelch/ Jester this is tower.
Jester - Go ahead over.
Tower - Yeah, Jester we're going to need a second flyby over.
Jester - Roger.

WHOOSH

Anyone got a wikipedia login they can use to expand the definition? It seems to be missing a reference to the fact that "whoosh" has long been used to indicate someone missed something.

perfectly cromulent wictionary.orgword.

Kind of like when I tried making a space at Wiktionary for entirely newly coined terms, in the event that proposals could be made, categorized, and discussed (an actual interesting use of a wiki-based dictionary, imo), and then someone (apparently Mikhail Epstein) came up with the word "protologism" to define this concept of a just-coined neologism (which I had earlier called, far less attractively, a "nowism" or "neo-neologism"). The word then at that time was self-describing (and maybe still is given that, while it kind of gained a little life of its own, it has to date not been used all that much outside of Wikipedia).

Likewise, they should not be automatically afforded the label as "skeptic" as a genuine skeptic is actually interested both information that confirms or denies (or perhaps something completely different) what they think may be true, in short a neutral position.

"But just keep answering the questions or pointing to places where they can get the answers."

How do you keep an idiot occupied?
I dunno, how?
How do you keep an idiot occupied?
I dunno, how?
How do you keep an idiot occupied?
I dunno, how? ... I'll pass thanks.

"I have no data, but my intuition indicates that many skeptics are being reinforced in their viewpoints simply because they are being ridiculed for their beliefs by well meaning people."

Skeptics? More like people in general. People have an amazing ability rationalize any belief. Seriously, get a hold on a social psych text book. The more pressure the person feels to justify the belief, the stronger the urge to reinforce that belief. For some real-world examples: 419 scams, cult worship, fraternity indoctrination, battered wives, etc...

As for progress: The circular arguments have more nodes now. But, it's still basically the same style of argument. And, quite frankly, I myself need to go through the numbers to weed out the political happy crap I've been fed over the years.

From http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/flashlight.htm

Late in the 19th century, many attempts to devise a portable electric lamp had been made, but the early ones were unsuccessful. Now a common household item, the lowly flashlight was once considered a novel toy. The first flashlight, or electric hand torch, was invented about 1896. Early portable electric lights were called "flash lights" since they would not give a long steady stream of light. The flashlights introduced in 1898 by Conrad Hubert's company, that would later become Eveready, were more trustworthy making Eveready the leading name in flashlights.

Note that in most other languages, it's called a varation of "lamp" or "lantern".

Basically, it's made up of two separate words -

"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean ? It's a mystery...

Well, I don't know about "ind", but for mank:

mank

      1. (British, slang) disgusting, repulsive
       

When he eats, he never closes his mouth. It's so mank

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voil%C3%A0

it is supposed to be voila. The AC just doesn't know how to spell it, and I don't know how to make the accent work in slashcode.

Plural might be "scenarios" or "scenarii", but certainly not scenari. Italian plural, "o" -> "i", thus "io" -> "ii".

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:scenarii

"English must have borrowed scenario and scenarii before Italian dropped the second ‘i’ in the terminal ‘-ii’ (see this). As it stands, scenarii is formed identically unto concerti and virtuosi; this isn’t an example of “‘-o’ ‘-ii’”, but rather of the somewhat more familiar “‘-o’ ‘-i’” (showing itself as “‘-io’ ‘-ii’”). English is fairly open to absorbing little bits of grammar (such as how to form plurals) from other languages; I imagine that if it still had a case system, it would indeed take unto absorbing foreign inflexions for marking grammatical case. Raifhr Doremítzwr 23:56, 11 January 2007 (UTC
English absorbs lots of things, this is partly what makes it colourful in, which is a good thing of course. The problem comes when there is a clash in how to treat absorbed words i.e. how to inflect them. Early on in the borrowing phase all sorts of things can happen, later on most people come to a consensus by various means. That is in the case of scenario and other borrowed words we can have multiple plurals, the consensus would be scenarios and is formed regularly by adding -s and the alternative scenarii is not the consensus use (this can by assumed when teachers may take aversion to it in comprehension for example) and it would follow that it is formed irregularly due to the use of a foreign infelction system that is obvioulsy alien to most English speakers.--Williamsayers79 10:31, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
I see absolutely no evidence that English borrowed scenario and scenarii before Italian changed the spelling. It’s not even clear that Italian did shift from -ii to -i. As I understand it, -ii only occurs today, as one of the posters on the link you reference says, in the presence of a stressed i in the singluar (lo zio/gli zii) and particularly not in the case of -io (il gregario/i gregari). I just did a quick search through the Inferno. Several words ended in -ii, but most appeared to be verb forms. The exception was rii. On the other hand, Dante has avversari (adversaries), Tartari (Tartars). I’m pretty sure I’m looking at Dante’s actual spellings, but perhaps I’ve missed something?
Searching Project Gutenburg doesn’t turn up scenarii at all, while scenario appears in 231 books, scenarios in 69, and scenari in one (in Italian, written in 1885).

So, given that
scenarii doesn’t appear to be a valid Italian plural form in either modern Italian or Dante’s Italian.
Latin doesn’t work.
The English scenarii seems to be recent.
The Engiish scenarii only seems to appear in a limited, technical context, not in general use.
The meaning English scenarii is fairly far removed from the Italian meaning scenari (which has more to do with theater than operations research and formal logic)"

Criminal Law: "Beyond a reasonable doubt."
Civil Law: "A preponderance of the evidence."

If the only evidence is a binary matching tool that shows a lot of matches, then the bulk (ie: all) of the evidence shows they're guilty. Thus after having shown a match, the targeted company is on the hook to prove they're innocent.

Where to begin, you're not kidding, you're misinformed or openly lying/ flaming.
1940es where exactly?
the isolation from Europe... since the volcano?
The teeenage mothers are either protesting the dominance of the catholic church, or simply can't find the special ferries.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/literally/
You're a tool

It all depends on which type of alien you're talking about.

Thanks for sneaking in your Amazon referer ID in the URL, asshole!

1. Go to the Star Trek 2009 page on Amazon.
2. Hover over "Video On Demand" option.
3. Note internal site auditing URL.
4. Apologize.
5. Look up how to spell referrer.
6. Have a nice day.

Actually, no, playing SC for a living would not be sport. The etymology of "sport" comes from the old French desport meaning "leisure," so anything that you do for leisure, or fun could be considered sport, but not something you do for a living. But then, as we all know, things change, Mox, words change.
Currently, sport is defined as "any athletic activity that uses physical skills," and one could argue that pushing buttons is still a physical activity, only now you're not meeting the requirements of "athlete" (from the original Greek, to "compete for a prize," which fits, or "[US] A person who actively participates in physical sports, possibly highly skilled in sports," which does not).
Therefore, I hereby move that we re-classify the StarCraft tournaments under a new heading: "eSports" (trademark, patent, and copyrights pending) or "Chair Sports," the latter of which would include all competition-level computer games, table-top games, and other activities.*


* I currently hold the record for most consecutive UNO games won in our household. My prize? I get to sleep on the couch.

Actually, no, playing SC for a living would not be sport. The etymology of "sport" comes from the old French desport meaning "leisure," so anything that you do for leisure, or fun could be considered sport, but not something you do for a living. But then, as we all know, things change, Mox, words change.
Currently, sport is defined as "any athletic activity that uses physical skills," and one could argue that pushing buttons is still a physical activity, only now you're not meeting the requirements of "athlete" (from the original Greek, to "compete for a prize," which fits, or "[US] A person who actively participates in physical sports, possibly highly skilled in sports," which does not).
Therefore, I hereby move that we re-classify the StarCraft tournaments under a new heading: "eSports" (trademark, patent, and copyrights pending) or "Chair Sports," the latter of which would include all competition-level computer games, table-top games, and other activities.*


* I currently hold the record for most consecutive UNO games won in our household. My prize? I get to sleep on the couch.

You should have checked Wiktionary, not Wikipedia, duh!

It's a German given name.


Wait, what?

Isn't that a tautology itself?

Apparently the side effects of this experiment is time travel forward several minutes. Oh, and the emitting of large amounts of bogons.

every single story on slashdot can be qualified as advertisement. Every. Single. One.

So by that logic, a story about a congressional hearing is an advertisement for that hearing? A story about someone's rights being violated or a major patent lawsuit is an advertisement? Wiktionary says that an advertisement is "A commercial solicitation designed to sell some commodity, service or similar." That sounds a lot like this story, but nothing at all like a quote from Torvalds or a move by the FCC, which is the kind of info /. made it's name on.

That said, you are actually more and more right every day, in the sense that slashdot has become a big target for viral marketing, which is probably how this story got posted. If one thinks of slashdot as a bulletin board, one forgets that there are editors. If one looks at it as a news aggregator, one gets a little closer to the truth, but since news in general becomes more and more viral every day, it's even hard to say that much. Basically its a sounding board for whatever the editors think is cool. Apparently they think this phone is cool. I think they are spending too much time on this kind of crap and ignoring other, more important stories. But that's just my opinion...

half the time the units do not work as advertised...The sound is mediocre

i have used a m-audio 1010lt for years and i have no idea what you could mean by that. the sound is not mediocre and the features of the sound card work. if you are going to bash a company like that, wouldn't it be more fair to be specific about which products you have a problem with and what the problem was.

there are pro studios that dump a final mix onto a PC through that card's XLR ins. seen it with my own eyes. i suspect that your issue is that you think that you need to spend more to get a "better" audio interface. best blues i ever heard was on a pawnshop guitar, man.

...is tat amount to...

oh an not to be a jerk, but i think that you were looking for tantamount the more you know, etc.

According to a quick bit of research, the latin "virus" that is the root is declined in singular only, so you would presumably use the singular always. There IS a "vir" which is declined to "viri" (long i) in the plural, however that refers to "man", so is totally unrelated. Regardless, the word we use today is an english word with a different meaning, so regardless of how the base word was originally declined, it is not done that way in english. We do not tack on endings to "faithful" as we would to "fide", why would you do it with any other word with a latin root?

What makes software patents so special is that computer science moves so fast that a 20-year term is excessive to balance the benefit of disclosure (the original meaning of "patent" was "disclosed") with the deterrence of independent reinvention.

No, I'm saying like many marketing parasites he's misusing language to exaggerate and mislead. "Stunning" has specific meanings that both he and you are misusing.

From your link: 2. Beautiful, pretty. That woman is stunning!
3. Amazing That was amazing but stunning.

Both GP and I are choosing meaning 2: "That movie is stunning!". You disagree, which is fine, but then you try to dismiss dissenting opinions with value judgments, which isn't.

and no amount of shouting down and arm waving is going to make either of us correct.

Give it a rest. You're bullshitting and you know it.

That rebuttal does not really contribute anything to the discussion. You of course are within your right to believe we are wrong (after all, I believe you are). But in turning around and going "not true!" you seem to be saying we are wrong because you dislike the point rather than because you believe it to be inaccurate.

Marketing talk is not just cheap, it can have negative value. Free speech can be compromised just as much by too much noise as too little signal.

OTHO I agree with your sig completely, for whatever little it seems to be worth :)
Sorry for the slow reply rate, my internet access has been patchy.

If Alice sends Bob a message:

Alice is the first party.
Bob is the second party.
Anyone else can be seen as a third party.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/third_party

What you are saying, basically, is that your opinion is more valid/correct than GP's.

No, I'm saying like many marketing parasites he's misusing language to exaggerate and mislead. "Stunning" has specific meanings that both he and you are misusing.

More so since you admit it does look better, if even a little. I too would use the words "stunning" to describe more current 3D animation in BD as compared to DVD. But its a question of taste and appreciation, and no amount of shouting down and arm waving is going to make either of us correct.

Give it a rest. You're bullshitting and you know it.

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Marketing talk is not just cheap, it can have negative value. Free speech can be compromised just as much by too much noise as too little signal.

That saying isn't "witty" at all. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/witty

The weirdness of logic and maths certainly is a large part of Alice, though I doubt it's all of it. But it's fairly obvious to me, just as a geek with a bit of general knowledge, that the Alice books parody a number of things from late-Victorian era politics and education. It's also about puns, wordplay, and the strict application of logic beyond the domains where it applies; and just general nerdy amusement.

* The organising principle of 'Wonderland' is the card game
* The 'Caucus-race' obviously a satire on politics: the members run in a circle, accomplishing nothing except a lot of hot air. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/caucus_race

I couldn't speak for certain about whether the Mad Hatter's party and the stuckness of Time really is a reference to Hamilton's quaternions, but quaternions are fascinating and they did introduce the idea of a 4D space-time continuum (and therefore time travel) half a century before Einstein/Minkowski, and scandalised and baffled the maths world, so it wouldn't surprise me if that was in the background.

* The organising principle of 'Looking Glass' is the chess game
* Anglo-Saxon literature (possibly Beowulf?) appears in Looking Glass - 'Jabberwocky' is a parody of the Beowulfian sort of epic, with the hero slaying the monster and lots of untranslated words
* The March Hare and Mad Hatter reappear as 'Anglo-Saxons' Haigha and Hatta. Again, this is the sort of stuff that educated children would have been expected to know as a matter of course, along with Latin and Greek and art ('Laughing and Grief; reeling, writhing and fainting in coils')

* The White Knight's speech ('the name of the song is called...') parses out the fine but very important distinction between objects and names, which becomes a major issue in logic (and more so in computer programming):

The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes.'"

"Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?" Alice said, trying to feel interested.

"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little vexed. "That's what the name
is called. The name really is 'The Aged, Aged Man.'"

"Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song is called'?" Alice corrected herself.

"No you oughtn't: that's another thing. The song is called 'Ways and Means' but that's only
what it's called, you know!"

"Well, what is the song then?" said Alice, who was by this time completely bewildered.

"I was coming to that," the Knight said. "The song really is 'A-sitting On a Gate': and the
tune's my own invention."

Like Terry Pratchett (and Bram Stoker - see Dracula Blogged), Alice really needs a decent annotated edition to explain the obvious cultural and scientific references, since it is densely packed with references which might now be misunderstood, and so many weird conspiracy theories have arisen around the books.

The classic example of Dodgson's geeky humour is from 'Four Riddles':

http://www.online-literature.com/carroll/2826/

Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?

x*x + 7x + 53 = 11/3

It doesn't just rhyme and form part of an overall story - it's an equation to be solved, which gives you a word, from which you can take the first and last letters and which give you a crossword/acrostic clue. Beat THAT for geek cred.

That doesn't make it not censorship, poindexter

I know that /. is US-centric and all that, but it still a pain to constantly miss the obscure cultural references.

I had to look it up:
Poindexter is an American surname descended from the Poingdestre family of Jersey. In its original form, the name means 'right fist'.

Right fist, eh?
Was that a politically correct way of calling him a wanker?

Perhaps you should read this one?

TL;DRPTFBP

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TLDR

Not to mention that writing that H.264 is proprietary is wrong.

No, it's right actually. Proprietary means of property, in particular patents. The fact that a group of companies own it collectively rather than an individual company, and that documentation is available, is irrelevant. People can only use it by paying a non-nominal fee and that makes it proprietary.

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Who owns the copy?

Uh, where does it say something being "technology" has to be something really really new like when electricity was invented? Have you played too much Civilization? :)

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/technology

(uncountable) the study of or a collection of techniques.
(countable) a particular technological concept
the body of tools and other implements produced by a given society.

I think it fits quite good, and it's not like what they're doing even exists currently.

spreading out and being racist (ok, species-ist)

Actually, that's a real word.

morality

Etymology

From Old French moralite

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morality

Let me be more clear. I don't want some housewife's personal code of conduct (drinking is wrong, kids shouldn't be out past 7:00PM, whatever) enforced on the rest of us because she believes it's right. I only want the rights afforded to us in the constitution as well as anything designed to protect us from harm caused by negligence of a person or entity enshrined in law.

To give a title to a book, film, play, etc.

Sorry to nitpick but the first (and main) meaning of "chauvinism" is an excessive patriotism (see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chauvinism for details) I think you're more like a "macho" ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/machismo ) You're welcome! :-)

Sorry to nitpick but the first (and main) meaning of "chauvinism" is an excessive patriotism (see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chauvinism for details) I think you're more like a "macho" ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/machismo ) You're welcome! :-)

oh sure, most successful theory in physics, but it just takes one counter example to falsify.

True! And the lack of any such example is why it's still considered the most successful theory in physics. :P

If there was such an example, the person who discovered it would become a famous name in the history of physics. The notion that there's an obvious example that physicists just ignore because it's inconvenient is ridiculous.

i think it fair to treat both all the data on where it works and the one putative counter example as being of the methodology "emperical".

No, actual data counts as "empirical", and a putative -- meaning "accepted by supposition rather than as a result of proof" (by people who don't understand what they're talking about) -- example does not count as "empirical".

Come on, guys, it's not "in lieu of". "In lieu of" means "instead; in place of; as a substitute for". So that description makes absolutely no sense. The submitter probably means "in light of".

I know this is just slashdot, but we we have computers and the internet where all the grammar nazis have left us neat hints how to use language correctly, if not effectively. Articles like this make us all look like gibbering chimps.