Ah. As others have pointed out, the PC Pro article says:
However, as our report from the 13 May states:
“The bottom line might make it look like Cabinet Office workers are all sitting in front of the most ridiculously expensive machines in Britain, but officials played down the figures, saying they covered more than just the hardware.
According to a Cabinet Office spokesperson, the “costs cover the core infrastructure and applications – basically anything supplied by a third party’.”
the technology section of The Economist. The Economist additionally has a Technology Quarterly issue once every 3 months (duh) that should definitely not be missed.
Agree with this; Economist does a good review (possibly with a free-market slant, but hey:) and can be balanced with the New Scientist. I don't really like the american one ("Science"?) but that might be a cultural thing.
A minor point, but aren't "affect" and "effect" the same in Am. Eng. ? If so, it is weird to see it being misused - although, admittedly, I hadn't realised that this particular linguistic error is also a sign of political bias...
No, they are not. To use "affect" as a noun (as the original illiterate attempted) you would only be talking about a disposition, feeling, or tendency. He was trying to convey the meaning of the word "effect" as a noun and failed. If he had said "It will not affect seniors" and used it as a verb, he would have been right.
Thanks, I know the difference; I'm British. Anyway, I guess I was thinking of some other pair of words that are not separated in American, sorry.
"And btw I expect "them" to rate my post down into oblivion. Expect to see it rated as flamebait, overrated or something else."
This is slashdot, unless you insult Tolkien, Apple, MS or Linux they'll read the summary and give you an unbiased opinion, uninformed maybe, but unbiased.
But "They" are everywhere, aren't they? I mean "aren't 'They'?".
So this means that someone, somewhere is employed to browse Slashdot, vote on the firehose items, and bide their time. All for that one ever important moment...
When you are talking about costing people their jobs and cutting their monthly checks yes that is threatening their lives.
You can't really get much more direct than this. How would you feel if Obama's Admin personally threatened your job because of politics?
Well I think most people would feel a bit strange if they got a call at their desk to say "Hold for the President, please" and then had a chat with Obama about how their company really needs to cut costs, and well you've been a valuable employee, and obviously he will write you a reference and so on. I've certainly never been fired by a head of government.
In other words, the debt ceiling being reached will have little affect on seniors, poor people, veterans, military + their families.
Also, for god's sake, learn the difference between "effect" and "affect" please. I swear, you Republicans should learn to get beyond your 2nd-grade-equivalent "high school diplomas" with the school administrator's name scrawled in crayon.
A minor point, but aren't "affect" and "effect" the same in Am. Eng. ? If so, it is weird to see it being misused - although, admittedly, I hadn't realised that this particular linguistic error is also a sign of political bias...
and europeans are weak willed socialist groupies! yay we can all come up with fun adhominems!
It's not an ad hominem, it's an insult you moron. Oh, and "you moron" was also an insult. I'm not saying your argument is invalid because you are a moron, I'm saying you are a moron because your argument is invalid.
You know, in many other forums, nobody would see any problem with asking the group "What is your favorite breed of dog?"
Yes, but those same people react oddly when you ask them obvious questions like "What is your favourite integrated development environment?" or "What processor do you think is best?". Those people are weird.
If there's one thing we can count on foreigners for, it's leaving out context. I am going to just go ahead and assume that the "Carla" you refer to is "Carla's Salon, Boutique and Meeting Place for the Transgender Community" and leave it at that. I am sure they thank you for your support.
...and if there's one thing that Slashdot 'readers' can be relied on is not to read things. Not even, in this case, the first two words of the summary.
Well, there is some vague similarity between the two mentioned (OpenTox and AMEE) in that both are 'distributed' projects. In the sense of 'using various other projects' I think. Not quite what is usually meant by distributed, really
I know a little bit about OpenTox, as I am a developer in the CDK, which is one of the projects it uses. I;m not sure which others it does...
my first documented use of the word dollar being today when I said enthusiastically, "oh a dollar sign... how cool would that be if every one paid me a dollar every time they used the word dollar";)
Even better, every time they pay you, ask them "How much was that again?..." and they would reply "Oh, just a dollar..dammit!". You would be raking it in, so much so that you would have to construct some sort of special multi-rake machine to get it all.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry Sir, I'll get back to polishing the silver in a minute, but in case the references were missed...
Moats Ducks
However, as our report from the 13 May states: “The bottom line might make it look like Cabinet Office workers are all sitting in front of the most ridiculously expensive machines in Britain, but officials played down the figures, saying they covered more than just the hardware. According to a Cabinet Office spokesperson, the “costs cover the core infrastructure and applications – basically anything supplied by a third party’.”
(Read more: “Obscene” Whitehall IT spending or sloppy journalism? | PC Pro blog http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/07/28/obscene-whitehall-it-spending-or-sloppy-journalism/#ixzz1TUbtZD9C)
It probably was only 8 pounds for the paper - the other 65 pounds was re-directed to the MP's pocket (either directly or indirectly.)
Well moat cleaning and duck houses are not cheap, you know!
Sounds like someone is buying too many 'shiny' Apple products.
Although I like a mac as a computer, they are ridiculously expensive...
...but £3,000 plus for a desktop is madness, even if it was apple!
My understanding is that the algorithms themselves were based on the data in this case.
What? How do you base an algorithm on some data? Do you have a different meaning for 'base' here?
the technology section of The Economist. The Economist additionally has a Technology Quarterly issue once every 3 months (duh) that should definitely not be missed.
Agree with this; Economist does a good review (possibly with a free-market slant, but hey :) and can be balanced with the New Scientist. I don't really like the american one ("Science"?) but that might be a cultural thing.
Actually, not pharyngula. If you want atheist polemic (and I say that as a non-believer) then fine. If you want actual science, maybe not.
Or science blog-aggregators:
http://cb.openmolecules.net/blogs.php
(for chemistry). I suppose that there are notable individuals as well, like http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ (PZ Myers).
A minor point, but aren't "affect" and "effect" the same in Am. Eng. ? If so, it is weird to see it being misused - although, admittedly, I hadn't realised that this particular linguistic error is also a sign of political bias...
No, they are not. To use "affect" as a noun (as the original illiterate attempted) you would only be talking about a disposition, feeling, or tendency. He was trying to convey the meaning of the word "effect" as a noun and failed. If he had said "It will not affect seniors" and used it as a verb, he would have been right.
Thanks, I know the difference; I'm British. Anyway, I guess I was thinking of some other pair of words that are not separated in American, sorry.
For some reason this whole thread reminds me of a video I've watched a couple of times today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY3QmYqfgRI
I'M....NOT....YOUR....GUY.......BUDDY!
I don't know why, really.
"And btw I expect "them" to rate my post down into oblivion. Expect to see it rated as flamebait, overrated or something else."
This is slashdot, unless you insult Tolkien, Apple, MS or Linux they'll read the summary and give you an unbiased opinion, uninformed maybe, but unbiased.
But "They" are everywhere, aren't they? I mean "aren't 'They'?".
So this means that someone, somewhere is employed to browse Slashdot, vote on the firehose items, and bide their time. All for that one ever important moment...
MODERATING SOME GUY'S POST DOWN!!
Sinister - and ingenious!
When you are talking about costing people their jobs and cutting their monthly checks yes that is threatening their lives.
You can't really get much more direct than this. How would you feel if Obama's Admin personally threatened your job because of politics?
Well I think most people would feel a bit strange if they got a call at their desk to say "Hold for the President, please" and then had a chat with Obama about how their company really needs to cut costs, and well you've been a valuable employee, and obviously he will write you a reference and so on. I've certainly never been fired by a head of government.
In other words, the debt ceiling being reached will have little affect on seniors, poor people, veterans, military + their families.
Also, for god's sake, learn the difference between "effect" and "affect" please. I swear, you Republicans should learn to get beyond your 2nd-grade-equivalent "high school diplomas" with the school administrator's name scrawled in crayon.
A minor point, but aren't "affect" and "effect" the same in Am. Eng. ? If so, it is weird to see it being misused - although, admittedly, I hadn't realised that this particular linguistic error is also a sign of political bias...
Blame the 20p nasty tea dispenser machine : it wasn't not un-accepting my money, so I didn't not get none.
Oh, yeah. I even had google maps open. Oh well mod me -1 idiot..
To be fair, the question included "where to go"...Also:
in fact, it's a rare country in Africa that doesn't have some kind of terrible problem that computer skills probably won't solve.
and europeans are weak willed socialist groupies! yay we can all come up with fun adhominems!
It's not an ad hominem, it's an insult you moron. Oh, and "you moron" was also an insult. I'm not saying your argument is invalid because you are a moron, I'm saying you are a moron because your argument is invalid.
What is your favorite breed of dog?
You know, in many other forums, nobody would see any problem with asking the group "What is your favorite breed of dog?"
Yes, but those same people react oddly when you ask them obvious questions like "What is your favourite integrated development environment?" or "What processor do you think is best?". Those people are weird.
If there's one thing we can count on foreigners for, it's leaving out context. I am going to just go ahead and assume that the "Carla" you refer to is "Carla's Salon, Boutique and Meeting Place for the Transgender Community" and leave it at that. I am sure they thank you for your support.
...and if there's one thing that Slashdot 'readers' can be relied on is not to read things. Not even, in this case, the first two words of the summary.
Well, there is some vague similarity between the two mentioned (OpenTox and AMEE) in that both are 'distributed' projects. In the sense of 'using various other projects' I think. Not quite what is usually meant by distributed, really
I know a little bit about OpenTox, as I am a developer in the CDK, which is one of the projects it uses. I;m not sure which others it does...
Possibly he wants to use his hacker name : "ShadowHawk". It's what his (online) friends call him, after all!
my first documented use of the word dollar being today when I said enthusiastically, "oh a dollar sign... how cool would that be if every one paid me a dollar every time they used the word dollar" ;)
Even better, every time they pay you, ask them "How much was that again?..." and they would reply "Oh, just a dollar..dammit!". You would be raking it in, so much so that you would have to construct some sort of special multi-rake machine to get it all.
" I have combined the DNA of the world's most evil animals to make the most evil creature of them all."
"It turns out it's man!"
Indeed, more like shopping bag soup than the vast unconquered plastic continent that I imagined when I first heard about it.
Hah. Perhaps AGW itself is a cunning long-term plan to breed especially heat-resistant humans?
(Also : fantastic sig. Just finished "I Shall Wear Midnight". I think Blair could do wi' a gud kicking from the Wee Free Men...)