Our Man in Redmond and Sloppy are using 'support' in 2 different senses.
Our Man in Redmond is thinking "provide technical support for," while Sloppy is thinking "provide functionality."
An ISP _should_ support communications standards (provide functionality.) And commercial ISP's do need to support common desktop operating systems (provide technical support for.)
It's not actually the author of the article who misuses "hacker." The word is present in a quotation. The author of the quotation is the clueless one:]
This brings to mind concerns I've had about the overloading of the word "support". Does "we don't support that" mean "you can't do that on our product/system/service" or "we don't provide technical support for that"?
In my job as an internet tech. support rep. I've learned to be very careful about my language when using the word "support".
For instance, my company does support the use.htaccess files to restrict access to web content served by our web server. (You can use.htaccess files on our service.) But we don't support the use of.htaccess files. (We don't provide technical support on the use of.htaccess files.)
We need to pay more attention to what exactly is meant by "support" in corporate press releases, and maybe begin to expect corporate ppl to be more careful with their language.
Pretty much. Comments are areas of the code that aren't executed - so english text, author comments, questions and letters to the editor will all live happily in a comment, yes. But comments are also used as a programming tool to prevent sections of code from being executed as well. The advantage is that if you need or want the code later you can just un-comment it - it's still all there.
Too bad, though it does look cool, I can't help but hope it doesn't catch on. Stick the optical technology in an ambidexterous mouse and I'm sold.
Lefty rant:
The curvy mice are bad enough, and then you make the left button bigger, and now the buttons on the side! Too much.
And don't tell me I can get lefty version. I and many others work in a shared environment. And I'm not going to start carrying around my own personal mouse.
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"hork" is slang for "to steal"
I learned it in high school in Vermont. Dunno where it comes from.
Our Man in Redmond and Sloppy are using 'support' in 2 different senses.
Our Man in Redmond is thinking "provide technical support for," while Sloppy is thinking "provide functionality."
An ISP _should_ support communications standards (provide functionality.) And commercial ISP's do need to support common desktop operating systems (provide technical support for.)
It's not actually the author of the article who misuses "hacker." The word is present in a quotation. The author of the quotation is the clueless one :]
Is in this "internet world" article. http://www.in ternetworld.com/print/current/news/19990628-critic s.html
The author basically calls people who lie on web-forms "hackers." Truly astonishing. :]
This brings to mind concerns I've had about the overloading of the word "support". Does "we don't support that" mean "you can't do that on our product/system/service" or "we don't provide technical support for that"?
.htaccess files to restrict access to web content served by our web server. (You can use .htaccess files on our service.) But we don't support the use of .htaccess files. (We don't provide technical support on the use of .htaccess files.)
In my job as an internet tech. support rep. I've learned to be very careful about my language when using the word "support".
For instance, my company does support the use
We need to pay more attention to what exactly is meant by "support" in corporate press releases, and maybe begin to expect corporate ppl to be more careful with their language.
Two of the top 5 enlightenment themes (measured by # of downloads) are Mac OS GUI look-alikes. Take a look: http://e.themes.org/
Pretty much. Comments are areas of the code that aren't executed - so english text, author comments, questions and letters to the editor will all live happily in a comment, yes. But comments are also used as a programming tool to prevent sections of code from being executed as well. The advantage is that if you need or want the code later you can just un-comment it - it's still all there.
Too bad, though it does look cool, I can't help but hope it doesn't catch on. Stick the optical technology in an ambidexterous mouse and I'm sold.
Lefty rant:
The curvy mice are bad enough, and then you make the left button bigger, and now the buttons on the side! Too much.
And don't tell me I can get lefty version. I and many others work in a shared environment. And I'm not going to start carrying around my own personal mouse.
Blah.