With a side order of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves." Sure, Lynne Truss is writing about the British variety of English, but most of the cases apply over here as well, and in about half of the remaining cases the Brits do it better anyway.
Of course, in an overall emergency situation, there may actually be merits to going gently towards the bottom of the building instead of being trapped at some random height above the ground.
I'm not deconstructing anything -- at least not anything that I can't put back together again. I don't think I've really said anything against textualism; look back at the original context of the discussion. Certainly the book can have merit in and of itself even if the author is a bastard. But when the topic of discussion is whether the author is or is not a bastard, you don't go to a textual interpretation of his work; instead we look at the author and his intentions. That's all I ever said:)
No, your point is still illusory. You can't judge James Lovelock's actions by my intentions, your intentions, or anyone else's. Only by his intentions and by the results of his actions. A statement like "He's doing it on purpose just as much as he's not", in this context, is completely and utterly worthless, and denies the existence of reality itself. As such, it's not even an argument, because it denies its own existence and its own truth.
Relativist "everyone is equally right, especially when they're wrong" bullshit. Human beings have the ability to gauge other human beings' probable response to a given stimulus. Some smart human beings are able to use this faculty to sell and bring them money. "Alarmist" writing is one of those things that has a fairly predictable reaction: watercooler commentary and books flying off bookshelves. In other words, it sells. So basically the mass of Average Joes, taken as a whole, is a gigantic economic force in favor of the production of written bullshit.:)
PalmOS is just as multitasking as anything Apple made before 2001. Which is to say, not very, but basically good enough for practical use on a device that has a 4" screen, little memory, and limited input methods.
On the flipside: I've got a gmail address that's been registered for a year or so, but which I've hardly ever used or given out. During the past month, the account received 70 pieces of spam that weren't filtered by gmail, and over 1800 pieces that were. That's 62 spams a day, and a 3.7% miss rate on the filter. Sure, people with addresses that they've had for 10 years get worse, but I still think this is pretty harsh;)
I find it amazing that you actually factored the square root, rather than reaching for a calculator. You are, of course, right on; sqrt(5000) == 70.711 to five digits (which is probably about three more than are called for given a phrase like "about five thousand")
Vi is better because it irritates my wrists less. MKS is better because nobody cares about a gram of anything anyway. GSM is better because it actually works. Jack Black is cool, but Jack White is cooler.
'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb.
Except when 'effect' is used as a verb, or when 'affect' is used as a noun. Both are perfectly legitimate words; they just almost never mean what the writer intended:)
Of course, at least according to our current state of knowledge, we've only got the one universe, which does not have an infinite extent in the time direction. However, I will grant that the question isn't 100% closed, and if one manages to create one's own universe, the rules pretty much go out the window:)
Yeah, I'd certainly go for one of those. I was actually thinking the other day how much nicer my CD player would be if it did DVD media. Especially if you consider how little spinning it would take just to read compressed audio off of a DVD fast enough to play it.
Yeah, that's what I meant. And think of this: a pretty nice MP3 CD player can be had for $70. A 4GB iPod nano is $200. I can buy a whole lot more than 4GB worth of blank CDs for $130;)
I will when they get it up to 10GB. Really I don't care about the technology, I just think that all of the flash ones are still too small. An MP3 player with "fixed storage" only beats out my MP3 CD player if the fixed storage is really big. I can carry like 15GB in an average CD case.:)
My experience is that the fan on a good laptop is incredibly quiet, until it sucks up a bunch of lint and hair and starts bashing it against the heatsink. Clean under there every now and then, opening up the entire machine if necessary, and you may just find that it's a lot quieter:)
If this can be applied to photolithography, we should be getting chips with feature sizes smaller than we can even deal with -- for the moment, anyway. I, for one, welcome our new 8-core, 1nm overlords.
Or is the headline completely misleading? I understand that it's taken from the title of TFA, but out of context what it's saying is basically the opposite of reality.
1) Windows and Mac apps don't really have that much more descriptive names on the average. There's plenty of things with nonintuitive names. It's just that those unintuitive names are familiar to more people so nobody makes noise.
2) Ruby simple? What are you smoking? Ruby is as complicated and as much a mishmash of paradigms as anything.
Yeah, it's just a matter of newer (arguably more accurate) romanization. We get the name "Jesus" from greek (Iesos), by way of Latin Iesu, later Jesu and Jesus. And English is the only language that I know of where the name is actually sounded with a "J" sound. A similar process undoubtedly applies to Jonah, as well as Joel and Job; "Yonah" is simply a more accurate romanization.
As to the original name of Jesus, I'm not sure, but something I read recently ("The Light of Other Days") gives it as "Yesho".
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With a side order of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves." Sure, Lynne Truss is writing about the British variety of English, but most of the cases apply over here as well, and in about half of the remaining cases the Brits do it better anyway.
Of course, in an overall emergency situation, there may actually be merits to going gently towards the bottom of the building instead of being trapped at some random height above the ground.
I'm not deconstructing anything -- at least not anything that I can't put back together again. I don't think I've really said anything against textualism; look back at the original context of the discussion. Certainly the book can have merit in and of itself even if the author is a bastard. But when the topic of discussion is whether the author is or is not a bastard, you don't go to a textual interpretation of his work; instead we look at the author and his intentions. That's all I ever said :)
No, your point is still illusory. You can't judge James Lovelock's actions by my intentions, your intentions, or anyone else's. Only by his intentions and by the results of his actions. A statement like "He's doing it on purpose just as much as he's not", in this context, is completely and utterly worthless, and denies the existence of reality itself. As such, it's not even an argument, because it denies its own existence and its own truth.
Relativist "everyone is equally right, especially when they're wrong" bullshit. Human beings have the ability to gauge other human beings' probable response to a given stimulus. Some smart human beings are able to use this faculty to sell and bring them money. "Alarmist" writing is one of those things that has a fairly predictable reaction: watercooler commentary and books flying off bookshelves. In other words, it sells. So basically the mass of Average Joes, taken as a whole, is a gigantic economic force in favor of the production of written bullshit. :)
PalmOS is just as multitasking as anything Apple made before 2001. Which is to say, not very, but basically good enough for practical use on a device that has a 4" screen, little memory, and limited input methods.
On the flipside: I've got a gmail address that's been registered for a year or so, but which I've hardly ever used or given out. During the past month, the account received 70 pieces of spam that weren't filtered by gmail, and over 1800 pieces that were. That's 62 spams a day, and a 3.7% miss rate on the filter. Sure, people with addresses that they've had for 10 years get worse, but I still think this is pretty harsh ;)
I find it amazing that you actually factored the square root, rather than reaching for a calculator. You are, of course, right on; sqrt(5000) == 70.711 to five digits (which is probably about three more than are called for given a phrase like "about five thousand")
Vi is better because it irritates my wrists less.
MKS is better because nobody cares about a gram of anything anyway.
GSM is better because it actually works.
Jack Black is cool, but Jack White is cooler.
so why not just email them there in English?
Because it's irrelevant. The most important part of that page is "With software for which the Free Software Foundation holds the copyright".
'Effect' is used as a noun. 'Affect' is used as a verb.
:)
Except when 'effect' is used as a verb, or when 'affect' is used as a noun. Both are perfectly legitimate words; they just almost never mean what the writer intended
Of course, at least according to our current state of knowledge, we've only got the one universe, which does not have an infinite extent in the time direction. However, I will grant that the question isn't 100% closed, and if one manages to create one's own universe, the rules pretty much go out the window :)
Yeah, I'd certainly go for one of those. I was actually thinking the other day how much nicer my CD player would be if it did DVD media. Especially if you consider how little spinning it would take just to read compressed audio off of a DVD fast enough to play it.
Yeah, that's what I meant. And think of this: a pretty nice MP3 CD player can be had for $70. A 4GB iPod nano is $200. I can buy a whole lot more than 4GB worth of blank CDs for $130 ;)
I will when they get it up to 10GB. Really I don't care about the technology, I just think that all of the flash ones are still too small. An MP3 player with "fixed storage" only beats out my MP3 CD player if the fixed storage is really big. I can carry like 15GB in an average CD case. :)
If it doesn't have a hard drive, it's not an iPod. :)
My experience is that the fan on a good laptop is incredibly quiet, until it sucks up a bunch of lint and hair and starts bashing it against the heatsink. Clean under there every now and then, opening up the entire machine if necessary, and you may just find that it's a lot quieter :)
Sergey and Brin?
Have you noticed that they're never seen in the same room together?
If this can be applied to photolithography, we should be getting chips with feature sizes smaller than we can even deal with -- for the moment, anyway. I, for one, welcome our new 8-core, 1nm overlords.
Or is the headline completely misleading? I understand that it's taken from the title of TFA, but out of context what it's saying is basically the opposite of reality.
Please, no! Believe me, I've tried both. 3-4 eps per disc looks noticeably better (especially in high-action areas) than 8-9 eps per disc. :)
not Wilbur.
1) Windows and Mac apps don't really have that much more descriptive names on the average. There's plenty of things with nonintuitive names. It's just that those unintuitive names are familiar to more people so nobody makes noise.
2) Ruby simple? What are you smoking? Ruby is as complicated and as much a mishmash of paradigms as anything.
Which was a great book, but just fiction afterall. ;-p
No argument, just providing a little more info. And as far as I know it's as good a guess as any.
Yeah, it's just a matter of newer (arguably more accurate) romanization. We get the name "Jesus" from greek (Iesos), by way of Latin Iesu, later Jesu and Jesus. And English is the only language that I know of where the name is actually sounded with a "J" sound. A similar process undoubtedly applies to Jonah, as well as Joel and Job; "Yonah" is simply a more accurate romanization.
As to the original name of Jesus, I'm not sure, but something I read recently ("The Light of Other Days") gives it as "Yesho".