to me it seems that "begging the question" can just have another interpretation, which is now used as an alternative to raising the question. you're right that it's (currently) not correct, but if enough people think it's logical, and keep on using it, it can very well become a new meaning of "begging the question" So i'm not so sure on this one, i'm not a native english speaker, so it's hard for me too judge, and while it is a wrong usage, it seems logical from where i stand:p. wrong or not, i could very well see it become mainstream:).
The main problem is that they only let you buy points in certain quantities, and then make sure that you always end up with leftovers
If something costs 190 points, you can bet on it that you won't be able to buy exactly 190 points, you'll always have some leftovers.
I think people wouldn't mind the system if you could just buy the exact number of points they want to make their purchases, but you'll never be able to.
It's a small detail that the summary left out, that makes the system work, and that it annoys people:).
doesn't sound like the standard version to me on my android, skype didn't come preinstalled, so i can install/remove it as i wish, and i can certainly make voip calls over my wifi. sounds like you're talking about some cut down version your provider gave you, go complain with them, not skype.
peformant can be used as a dutch word. and for performance we can use "performantie". Maybe it's not the most common word, but it is used. Can be dependent on whether you're from belgium/the netherlands, and maybe even the region you're from:)
hd's have a safety for that, they shut themselves down i think in such cases i've gotten to know about that since on my laptop there was some issue with that feature that caused my windows to BSOD when i moved my laptop around:D
Just as Italians would use the word "Londra" for London, using "Firenze" instead of "Florence" when writing English is both incorrect and pretentious.
so i assume it's very pretentious to not be a native english speaker? I'm sorry that we don't know every single english name of towns around the world, i would have also used Firenze while writing english, since that's the only name i know for that town.
I wish i had modpoints, that's an incredible text:). I sadly enough have the same feeling about computer science in school. I'm a master in computational CS, and if it had been from my experiences in high school, i wouldn't have touched either with a mile long pole >_... Math was too often just learning stuff by heart, and i've had teachers give me bad grades because i didn't exactly copy their method, but just figured it out as i went along (luckily some other thought that was brilliant, but not all of them...). But just the fact that i "got" it, and even with all the crap around it it costed me the least effort to get what i hoped was a good education, and have passing grades. computers was even worse at my high school... the computer teachers knew next to nothing about pc's, and except learning never used words for parts of the computer (i'm a fuckin CS master now and still haven't used some of the words they made up in our high school textbooks -_-), and our curriculum was of course word and excel, with the same emphasis on just learning certain operations (and excel functions) by heart for no good reason what so ever... We also had isolab as a method of learning programming and reasoning. While i support that it is a useful program, it gets the same treatment as everything else, which made it yet another excruciating experience (that and the fact that i figured out the entire thing after looking at it for 5 minutes, since i already had learned some programming on my own).
That text you just posted really reminded me of how i feel about the things i've chosen to do:). I know i like math and CS because i'm good at them, and indeed, they are a form of art:). They're a way of creating something, and in IT it's something far more real than in math, but still the exact same problems apply i think:).
Also something i think about when reading that text, is that i feel lucky that i'm rather smart, and that where i live high or low grades hardly make any difference at all. So while i was subject to the same poor education system, by just choosing what i was best at, and learning it enough to get passing grades, gave me a chance to keep my real interests in it alive and continue doing it now, without having been discouraged by the massive amounts of crap i would have had to go through otherwise...
you mean like newspapers who add pictures of whatever they report on to their articles? (their revenue is also advert driven, the pictures are in the same realm as google streetview) i agree with grandparent, it's just an issue because it's new and unfamiliar...
and it's normal not to have any money on your accounts and live from payday to payday? okay, the banks made an error and should compensate... but do people really find it normal not to save any money and be screwed when the tinyest thing goes wrong?
putting them together ofcourse? isn't that the entire purpose of software patents? just find a new, useful combination of existing things, and you've got yourself a brand new patent!
maybe we should make a random patent generator
perform [existing action A] on [new technology B] with [fancy eycandy/plain obvious extras C]
how about reading the article? i mean... so you know what you're talking about?
to answer your questions: -the numbers are on a do not call list, so the companies haven't got the slightest right to call them, it's illegal in fact -it would be an opt-in for clients, but currently only active for unused numbers of the company (the ton of numbers they haven't assigned to a customer yet), and for the numbers of their own offices.
i mean seriously... are you just trolling? cause your entire comment is just so wrong -_- if you don't RTFA, don't make dumb assumptions?
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Because they are just people too. Who also want to stay in touch with friends & family?
to me it seems that "begging the question" can just have another interpretation, which is now used as an alternative to raising the question. :p. wrong or not, i could very well see it become mainstream :).
you're right that it's (currently) not correct, but if enough people think it's logical, and keep on using it, it can very well become a new meaning of "begging the question"
So i'm not so sure on this one, i'm not a native english speaker, so it's hard for me too judge, and while it is a wrong usage, it seems logical from where i stand
i'd say welcome to the fact that languages evolve...
So then don't call it unlimited? it's not that hard -_-
If it takes this long to get the article on slashdot, can't you at least edit it so it's correct?
Since when do you have to enter the US to get arrested by it? look at the megaupload guys...
Mod parent recursive :)
nice argument
and what does that say about religion?
And all jokes have to be analyzed and have all their flaws explained
keep a cellphone nearby, and if they see you sing, pretend you're making a call. You'll get off cheaper i think :)
The main problem is that they only let you buy points in certain quantities, and then make sure that you always end up with leftovers
If something costs 190 points, you can bet on it that you won't be able to buy exactly 190 points, you'll always have some leftovers.
I think people wouldn't mind the system if you could just buy the exact number of points they want to make their purchases, but you'll never be able to.
It's a small detail that the summary left out, that makes the system work, and that it annoys people :).
doesn't sound like the standard version to me
on my android, skype didn't come preinstalled, so i can install/remove it as i wish, and i can certainly make voip calls over my wifi.
sounds like you're talking about some cut down version your provider gave you, go complain with them, not skype.
peformant can be used as a dutch word. and for performance we can use "performantie". Maybe it's not the most common word, but it is used. Can be dependent on whether you're from belgium/the netherlands, and maybe even the region you're from :)
hd's have a safety for that, they shut themselves down i think in such cases :D
i've gotten to know about that since on my laptop there was some issue with that feature that caused my windows to BSOD when i moved my laptop around
by buying the two boxes separately?
Just as Italians would use the word "Londra" for London, using "Firenze" instead of "Florence" when writing English is both incorrect and pretentious.
so i assume it's very pretentious to not be a native english speaker?
I'm sorry that we don't know every single english name of towns around the world, i would have also used Firenze while writing english, since that's the only name i know for that town.
I wish i had modpoints, that's an incredible text :). I sadly enough have the same feeling about computer science in school. I'm a master in computational CS, and if it had been from my experiences in high school, i wouldn't have touched either with a mile long pole >_...
Math was too often just learning stuff by heart, and i've had teachers give me bad grades because i didn't exactly copy their method, but just figured it out as i went along (luckily some other thought that was brilliant, but not all of them...). But just the fact that i "got" it, and even with all the crap around it it costed me the least effort to get what i hoped was a good education, and have passing grades.
computers was even worse at my high school... the computer teachers knew next to nothing about pc's, and except learning never used words for parts of the computer (i'm a fuckin CS master now and still haven't used some of the words they made up in our high school textbooks -_-), and our curriculum was of course word and excel, with the same emphasis on just learning certain operations (and excel functions) by heart for no good reason what so ever... We also had isolab as a method of learning programming and reasoning. While i support that it is a useful program, it gets the same treatment as everything else, which made it yet another excruciating experience (that and the fact that i figured out the entire thing after looking at it for 5 minutes, since i already had learned some programming on my own).
That text you just posted really reminded me of how i feel about the things i've chosen to do :). I know i like math and CS because i'm good at them, and indeed, they are a form of art :). They're a way of creating something, and in IT it's something far more real than in math, but still the exact same problems apply i think :).
Also something i think about when reading that text, is that i feel lucky that i'm rather smart, and that where i live high or low grades hardly make any difference at all. So while i was subject to the same poor education system, by just choosing what i was best at, and learning it enough to get passing grades, gave me a chance to keep my real interests in it alive and continue doing it now, without having been discouraged by the massive amounts of crap i would have had to go through otherwise...
you mean like newspapers who add pictures of whatever they report on to their articles? (their revenue is also advert driven, the pictures are in the same realm as google streetview)
i agree with grandparent, it's just an issue because it's new and unfamiliar...
the consequences...
and it's normal not to have any money on your accounts and live from payday to payday?
okay, the banks made an error and should compensate... but do people really find it normal not to save any money and be screwed when the tinyest thing goes wrong?
then i hope asking him again is not "new evidence" :p
as someone else nicely said. you can name any configuration "solved", so any configuration can then in 20 moves be reconfigured to your solved state
or in your nice notation, say that A = S (or B = S) and you've got your proof?
Isn't it amazing that this nuclear revival is happening in the year of the Linux desktop!
putting them together ofcourse?
isn't that the entire purpose of software patents?
just find a new, useful combination of existing things, and you've got yourself a brand new patent!
maybe we should make a random patent generator
perform
[existing action A]
on
[new technology B]
with
[fancy eycandy/plain obvious extras C]
and you've got yourself a software patent :)
how about reading the article?
i mean... so you know what you're talking about?
to answer your questions:
-the numbers are on a do not call list, so the companies haven't got the slightest right to call them, it's illegal in fact
-it would be an opt-in for clients, but currently only active for unused numbers of the company (the ton of numbers they haven't assigned to a customer yet), and for the numbers of their own offices.
i mean seriously... are you just trolling? cause your entire comment is just so wrong -_- if you don't RTFA, don't make dumb assumptions?