Of course not. The App Store is for Apple-controlled censorship and increasing Apple’s revenue through developer and listing fees. Hence the issue... the Australian government wants a piece of Apple’s pie.
Whoosh. (I’m reasonably certain that “their” opinion at dictionary.com is based on more than one person’s input.)
Anyway, it means both: “their” is semantically plural, but in usage it is used to refer to an indefinite singular individual because no other English word serves the purpose.
usage They, their, them, themselves: English lacks a common-gender third person singular pronoun that can be used to refer to indefinite pronouns (as everyone, anyone, someone). Writers and speakers have supplied this lack by using the plural pronouns. The plural pronouns have also been put to use as pronouns of indefinite number to refer to singular nouns that stand for many persons. The use of they, their, them, and themselves as pronouns of indefinite gender and indefinite number is well established in speech and writing, even in literary and formal contexts. This gives you the option of using the plural pronouns where you think they sound best, and of using the singular pronouns (as he, she, he or she, and their inflected forms) where you think they sound best.
It is ambiguous in some contexts and the complaint raised by deniable is a valid complaint. In most cases where it is ambiguous whether you mean a singular or plural form, I would say that it is more appropriate to use the pronoun “his” instead (as the last bit of that quotation suggests).
I just don’t believe in a whitelist-based Javascript policy. Javascript is there to make the internet better. Generally speaking, it does. Beyond that, a good set of AdBlock Plus rules usually takes care of the unruly sites.
The only reason I finally installed YesScript is because Snopes’ anti-copying script is directly inline in the HTML source and I couldn’t block it with AdBlock Plus (I tried ##script – it still didn’t seem to work). So Snopes is now on my JavaScript blacklist. I don’t anticipate many more sites getting put onto it.
I don't want to have to help them solve it or risk them trying to type in some "cryptic" commands on their own. (Not to mention, one suggested method didn't work).
Well, it’s not a solution to every problem that’s out there. It’s pretty specific. In some cases, it does the trick.
About the only thing I’ve ever used the hosts file for, personally, is to temporarily hard-code the IP addresses of a few sites for which DNS lookups were, for some reason, taking an inordinately long time; also to break googleanalytics since it tends to slow down the load time of pages substantially, although that might be possible to remedy from an ad-block level instead of a system wide hosts entry...
Matters not that your camera/printer/etc. doesn’t register a name: if it has an IP address, you can give it a local nickname by putting a line in your hosts file.
Point being, if you find an IP hard to remember or troublesome to type, you can give it a host name to make it easier on yourself. It’s internal, so it’s ideal for personal use or testing. For a production-grade application, of course you’d get a real host name registered in the DNS.
This is clearly dishonest, inaccurate advertisement, yet it could say "Up to 10000000000000000000 Mbps" and dozens of dorkos will still chyme in with "but it says up to! Hur hur hur hur!"
The problem isn’t the “dorkos” who know that their “up to” claim means utterly nothing. The problem is the morons who thought it actually had some significance in the first place!
Up to 100% of people will disagree with this post...
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Sorry! I meant “a falling blocks game with Tetris-like gameplay,” of course.
And voting outside the Republican Party by conservatives bought Barak Obama four years.
All voting machines should be reprogrammed like this!
Can they program it to play Tetris too? at least then I wouldn’t have to pick the lesser of two evils when I go to the polling places.
Of course not. The App Store is for Apple-controlled censorship and increasing Apple’s revenue through developer and listing fees. Hence the issue... the Australian government wants a piece of Apple’s pie.
Anyone who’s built a system to impose draconian control over people is just begging to have politicians lobbying to have their say in how it’s used.
As an aside how about making it possible to sell extensions through an App Store? Firefox will attract a *lot* of new devs.
It’s trivially easy to create a fresh .xpi from an installed addon... there is no DRM whatsoever.
P.S. I like it that way.
Why would you verify an entire file structure instead of just checking that the header looks right?
Transcoding perhaps? Every video site I’ve ever uploaded to transcoded the video...
Yeah. I almost self-replied to that effect, but I figured somebody else would. Thanks...
SecondLife didn’t balk when they embedded a malformed QuickTime media file on their pink cube?
Even 4chan scans .jpeg files for embedded RAR archives... how hard is it to figure out that a QuickTime file’s structure is invalid?
Whoosh. (I’m reasonably certain that “their” opinion at dictionary.com is based on more than one person’s input.)
Anyway, it means both: “their” is semantically plural, but in usage it is used to refer to an indefinite singular individual because no other English word serves the purpose.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they
usage They, their, them, themselves: English lacks a common-gender third person singular pronoun that can be used to refer to indefinite pronouns (as everyone, anyone, someone). Writers and speakers have supplied this lack by using the plural pronouns. The plural pronouns have also been put to use as pronouns of indefinite number to refer to singular nouns that stand for many persons. The use of they, their, them, and themselves as pronouns of indefinite gender and indefinite number is well established in speech and writing, even in literary and formal contexts. This gives you the option of using the plural pronouns where you think they sound best, and of using the singular pronouns (as he, she, he or she, and their inflected forms) where you think they sound best.
It is ambiguous in some contexts and the complaint raised by deniable is a valid complaint. In most cases where it is ambiguous whether you mean a singular or plural form, I would say that it is more appropriate to use the pronoun “his” instead (as the last bit of that quotation suggests).
I finally bit the bullet and today I installed...
YesScript.
I just don’t believe in a whitelist-based Javascript policy. Javascript is there to make the internet better. Generally speaking, it does. Beyond that, a good set of AdBlock Plus rules usually takes care of the unruly sites.
The only reason I finally installed YesScript is because Snopes’ anti-copying script is directly inline in the HTML source and I couldn’t block it with AdBlock Plus (I tried ##script – it still didn’t seem to work). So Snopes is now on my JavaScript blacklist. I don’t anticipate many more sites getting put onto it.
, to adjust the Hidden threshold (-1 Raw and Uncut, thank you!)
] to adjust the Full threshold (abbreviated until I want to read it)
But I leave the shortcut keys on, because I like to read through the discussions with F.
Why is an order of magnitude always thought of as a power of 10?
I don't want to have to help them solve it or risk them trying to type in some "cryptic" commands on their own. (Not to mention, one suggested method didn't work).
Let me guess... sudo rm -rf?
Well, it’s not a solution to every problem that’s out there. It’s pretty specific. In some cases, it does the trick.
About the only thing I’ve ever used the hosts file for, personally, is to temporarily hard-code the IP addresses of a few sites for which DNS lookups were, for some reason, taking an inordinately long time; also to break googleanalytics since it tends to slow down the load time of pages substantially, although that might be possible to remedy from an ad-block level instead of a system wide hosts entry...
Matters not that your camera/printer/etc. doesn’t register a name: if it has an IP address, you can give it a local nickname by putting a line in your hosts file.
Point being, if you find an IP hard to remember or troublesome to type, you can give it a host name to make it easier on yourself. It’s internal, so it’s ideal for personal use or testing. For a production-grade application, of course you’d get a real host name registered in the DNS.
Hate to break it to ya but often in testing you don't want your host to have a name until it's ready for production.
They invented a fix for you, too
(horrors, actually using the hosts file for its intended purpose instead of using it to break DNS resolution for host names you don’t like?)
To save trees, make sure you include the “Printed with Recycled Paper” logo and submit it as a PDF.
More like the DNS name system or the DHCP configuration protocol.
loose the Homegroup
Be free, little Homegroups! Be free!!
Crackers don’t need toasting, they’re already crunchy.
I think you mean crackers.
So... if I say that “I don’t even watch YouTube”, have I become the 2010 version of “that guy”?
Then the Median would be 2, and the Mean would be 3.4
So the average of them would be... 2.7?
(whoosh)
This is clearly dishonest, inaccurate advertisement, yet it could say "Up to 10000000000000000000 Mbps" and dozens of dorkos will still chyme in with "but it says up to! Hur hur hur hur!"
The problem isn’t the “dorkos” who know that their “up to” claim means utterly nothing. The problem is the morons who thought it actually had some significance in the first place!
Up to 100% of people will disagree with this post...