they have the communication problem, NOT the kid who spells definitely "definately"
I disagree with you. The problem doesn't stem either from grammatical correctness, or language adaptation, but rather some of the places where poor grammar and punctuation end up landing.
I work for a newspaper software company. Our division was about to get flyers printed out promoting our latest and greatest online product. It turns out that the flyer was in need of drastic grammatical and spelling correction.
The main problem with poor spelling in some cases is that your target audience might not take you seriously. In the case of Slashdot, people may or may not take you seriously. In the case of a series of grammar-nazi newspaper editors, it certainly counts.
Given a choice between spelling properly when it's unnecessary and spelling poorly when correctness is essential, I choose the latter.
P.S: On a humorous note, one of the emails that was floating around the company was titled, "Online Classifieds Flyer has Bad Grammer." I teased the guy who sent that one out for a good week or so. It was a great laugh:)
Or for that matter, just exclusively use the RSS feed to view slashdot.
I'm sure they keep track of popularity of stories. Using the RSS feed to go to stories of interest will eventually give them an idea of what stories people will read / visit, and which they won't.
Or, someone could make an RSS feed that posts direct links from slashdot, so that we don't have to visit this place at all. Then again, the editors might not like that:)
WW:Well, I went out and conducted a very serious scientific poll, and I discovered that strippers and pornstars are turned on by guys in Think Geek T-shirts with Slashdot IDs between 129188 and 129190. Hope this helps.
Hey Wil,
I have the ThinkGeek wear and all, but I still get bitched at by women for my apparel.
I realized what's been missing from my life, and what will get me the ladies... so...
A program like this with the database stored on a keydrive is ideal: your passwords can be as long as you like, cryptographically secure, and be different for all sites.
the library refused to release the information without a subpoena, citing the Illinois Library Records Confidentiality Act.
And why is this bad? Shouldn't the police and whatnot go through the proper route of acquiring information regardless of what the fellow has done or has been accused of?
If there's proper warranting of this information, a judge will grant it, yes?
Shouldn't some things like this require a court order?
The article says, ' Library officials say the added security is necessary to ensure people who are using the computers are who they say they are. Officials promise to protect the confidentiality of the fingerprint records.'"
This really begs the question: Why do they need to know who that the person in front of the computer is who they say they are? What purpose does this serve?
"We take people's fingerprints because we think they might be guilty of something, not because they want to use the library," said Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.
A very apt response from the ACLU. The problem is that we're now into the notion that "everyone is suspect" and due to that, we're going in this direction. It seems like
I could very well imagine this being linked into god-knows-what. Imagine, for instance, having $100 in parking tickets due, and the library terminal refusing you connection to their services before this due is paid.
Finally, anyone who is really interested in doing something criminal will just subvert the system. It's not like it's particularly difficult to spoof a fingerprint scanner. Remember the stories about doing it with Jello? Also, remember the fingerprint scanner that could be defeated by blowing on it?
Just like limitations on guns, just like airport security, just like locks on our doors and car alarms, and just like so many other things, this is used to punish the law abiding citizen, and does nothing to deter the hardened criminal or terrorist.
For instance, if there was an article on slashdot debating whether Windows or MacOS-X was better, a poster talking about the advancement of Linux, Gnome and KDE would be marked insightful.
Yes, the parent post is a little bit sarcastic, but just because it doesn't jive with the slashdot "groupthink" mentality of Microsoft being evil doesn't mean it should be flagged offtopic.
And yes, IE is cross-platform too, just on a much more limited scale.
Plus, the choice of websites one can visit SHOULD be a factor in browser use. IE can visit some sites that require ActiveX, and Firefox / Opera can render properly sites that require better CSS2 support. Simple as that.
The point of responses to news posts is to evoke discussion. If this post inspires a +5 insightful response, then is it really that bad, or offtopic?
You see all these amazing movies [moves?] that the human Vader has that the mechanical Vader never uses in the later movies. It would just be nice to see mechanical Vader utilize all these swift "magical" moves that apparently have deteriorated over time.
So let me get this straight... After being operated on, burned horribly, requiring a suit to breathe, and transformed into mostly machine, Vader is supposed to be as mobile as Anikin Skywalker?
Part of what doesn't jive with me in Episodes 2 and 3, is that the most powerful of the Jedi aren't supposed to be so mobile. They use the force to do their bidding. Take for instance, Yoda lifting the ship, and the Emperor frying Luke Skywalker at the end of episode 6.
In Episodes 4 and 5, Vader uses the force to do his bidding. He chokes admirals, rather than doing 20 backflips and chopping the fellow's head off.
Just because it's a subdomain off of stanford.edu doesn't mean that they're automatically running a cluster of machines for the purpose of serving content.
The problem with the slashdot effect is that people typically buy hardware based on anticipated traffic. It's kind of hard to anticipate getting posted here.
FreeBSD:
I'm not dead!
CART MASTER:
What?
CUSTOMER:
Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
FreeBSD:
I'm not dead!
CART MASTER:
'Ere. He says he's not dead!
CUSTOMER:
Yes, he is.
FreeBSD:
I'm not!
CART MASTER:
He isn't?
CUSTOMER:
Well, he will be soon. Netcraft confirms it.
FreeBSD:
I'm getting better!
See, the RIAA only wants DRM that is to their benefit. If a person is going to be encouraged to download an mp3 off the Internet in order to listen to their music unincumbered, it points the person in the direction of piracy (even if they do own the song under fair use).
I'm absolutely sure that the RIAA would love people paying for 5 copies of the same song, but at least Rosen is coming to realize that people just won't do that. If a person downloads Kazaa in order to get an unlocked version of a song that they own and in turn finds 50 songs that they don't own, then it's flagged as a loss.
Every spokesperson acts and rallies in their own company's best interest. It's a fact of business, and a fact of life.
Obviously, threatening to withhold your final paycheck for something like this is against the law. Report him to the labor board if he does actually withhold it.
Otherwise, just be polite, but firm. If he burns bridges, it's his choice. You did your best.
Slashdot Mirror
It would be nice if they made that one of the priorities.
There is a link to the flash game.
And from personal experience, the musician behind the flash music is, and always will be, an asshole.
With lines like that, no wonder it's so hard for nerds to procreate.
I mean, the MPAA and RIAA are nuts, right? If only he were alive, he'd make a great spokesman.
Be proud!
I disagree with you. The problem doesn't stem either from grammatical correctness, or language adaptation, but rather some of the places where poor grammar and punctuation end up landing.
I work for a newspaper software company. Our division was about to get flyers printed out promoting our latest and greatest online product. It turns out that the flyer was in need of drastic grammatical and spelling correction.
The main problem with poor spelling in some cases is that your target audience might not take you seriously. In the case of Slashdot, people may or may not take you seriously. In the case of a series of grammar-nazi newspaper editors, it certainly counts.
Given a choice between spelling properly when it's unnecessary and spelling poorly when correctness is essential, I choose the latter.
P.S: On a humorous note, one of the emails that was floating around the company was titled, "Online Classifieds Flyer has Bad Grammer." I teased the guy who sent that one out for a good week or so. It was a great laugh :)
I'm sure they keep track of popularity of stories. Using the RSS feed to go to stories of interest will eventually give them an idea of what stories people will read / visit, and which they won't.
Or, someone could make an RSS feed that posts direct links from slashdot, so that we don't have to visit this place at all. Then again, the editors might not like that :)
Oh the humanity!
Hey Wil,
I have the ThinkGeek wear and all, but I still get bitched at by women for my apparel.
I realized what's been missing from my life, and what will get me the ladies... so...
Is your slashdot userid for sale? I must have it!
Outside of our solar system, that picture is commonly referred to as the "Gaping Red Giant"
Homer Simpson? I love you man!
Anarchy in the UK would work just as well, I think.
I can't re-iterate this enough.
A program like this with the database stored on a keydrive is ideal: your passwords can be as long as you like, cryptographically secure, and be different for all sites.
And why is this bad? Shouldn't the police and whatnot go through the proper route of acquiring information regardless of what the fellow has done or has been accused of?
If there's proper warranting of this information, a judge will grant it, yes?
Shouldn't some things like this require a court order?
Wait a minute... Guess I'm confusing names in an otherwise similar reality.
This really begs the question: Why do they need to know who that the person in front of the computer is who they say they are? What purpose does this serve?
"We take people's fingerprints because we think they might be guilty of something, not because they want to use the library," said Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois.
A very apt response from the ACLU. The problem is that we're now into the notion that "everyone is suspect" and due to that, we're going in this direction. It seems like
I could very well imagine this being linked into god-knows-what. Imagine, for instance, having $100 in parking tickets due, and the library terminal refusing you connection to their services before this due is paid.
Finally, anyone who is really interested in doing something criminal will just subvert the system. It's not like it's particularly difficult to spoof a fingerprint scanner. Remember the stories about doing it with Jello? Also, remember the fingerprint scanner that could be defeated by blowing on it?
Just like limitations on guns, just like airport security, just like locks on our doors and car alarms, and just like so many other things, this is used to punish the law abiding citizen, and does nothing to deter the hardened criminal or terrorist.
Moderators:
This is not an offtopic post.
For instance, if there was an article on slashdot debating whether Windows or MacOS-X was better, a poster talking about the advancement of Linux, Gnome and KDE would be marked insightful.
Yes, the parent post is a little bit sarcastic, but just because it doesn't jive with the slashdot "groupthink" mentality of Microsoft being evil doesn't mean it should be flagged offtopic.
And yes, IE is cross-platform too, just on a much more limited scale.
Plus, the choice of websites one can visit SHOULD be a factor in browser use. IE can visit some sites that require ActiveX, and Firefox / Opera can render properly sites that require better CSS2 support. Simple as that.
The point of responses to news posts is to evoke discussion. If this post inspires a +5 insightful response, then is it really that bad, or offtopic?
http://www.virtualrecordings.com/communism.jpg
So let me get this straight... After being operated on, burned horribly, requiring a suit to breathe, and transformed into mostly machine, Vader is supposed to be as mobile as Anikin Skywalker?
Part of what doesn't jive with me in Episodes 2 and 3, is that the most powerful of the Jedi aren't supposed to be so mobile. They use the force to do their bidding. Take for instance, Yoda lifting the ship, and the Emperor frying Luke Skywalker at the end of episode 6.
In Episodes 4 and 5, Vader uses the force to do his bidding. He chokes admirals, rather than doing 20 backflips and chopping the fellow's head off.
Just because it's a subdomain off of stanford.edu doesn't mean that they're automatically running a cluster of machines for the purpose of serving content.
The problem with the slashdot effect is that people typically buy hardware based on anticipated traffic. It's kind of hard to anticipate getting posted here.
I'm really sorry everyone, but a story like this is just begging for it.
http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/grail-02.htm
FreeBSD:
I'm not dead!
CART MASTER:
What?
CUSTOMER:
Nothing. Here's your ninepence.
FreeBSD:
I'm not dead!
CART MASTER:
'Ere. He says he's not dead!
CUSTOMER:
Yes, he is.
FreeBSD:
I'm not!
CART MASTER:
He isn't?
CUSTOMER:
Well, he will be soon. Netcraft confirms it.
FreeBSD:
I'm getting better!
I'm absolutely sure that the RIAA would love people paying for 5 copies of the same song, but at least Rosen is coming to realize that people just won't do that. If a person downloads Kazaa in order to get an unlocked version of a song that they own and in turn finds 50 songs that they don't own, then it's flagged as a loss.
Every spokesperson acts and rallies in their own company's best interest. It's a fact of business, and a fact of life.
Big difference between a plugin notifying us of a security vulnerability, and the update button telling us there's a fix.
Otherwise, just be polite, but firm. If he burns bridges, it's his choice. You did your best.
Does Mozilla have any sort of timeframe on which version will render this test properly?
Anyone?