For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares?" I enjoy your sig, because I can't tell how much deliberate wit is in it.
(At the risk of stating the obvious, "intensive purposes" makes no sense and is probably intended to read "intents and purposes", and "begging the question" is a logical fallacy not employed in your paragraph.)
For some reason, my browser/slashdot would not let me alter the subject line of my reply to say "[OT]" or anything. hm.
I'd never use such an array for critical data storage, but it certainly would be useful as a massive backup array to our existing SAN that does store critical data So in other words, you would use such an array for storage of critical data?
I couldn't figure out how to leave a comment to the article on your site, nor could I even figure out where to send mail to "Ryan MacLaughlin" or webmaster. Anyway...
I wanted to point out that the reviewer blows his credibility somewhat in the comparison between the Apple display and the HP, where he claims that the Apple display looks blue and oversaturated. While it is interesting to a layperson, the conclusion that the HP display is more accurate is meaningless unless it's substantiated with other data (e.g. a profiling tool, or a calibrated camera feeding it an image of some adjacent object, or whatever).
Connected up to my factory Mac, my Apple Cinema 20" looks hazy and blue, too. Once profiled with a Spyder 2, it looks pretty decent.
Having said this, of course I would love to own this HP monitor.
That's one of the worst demo videos I've ever watched! They ought to enlist the help of a broadcast or film student to re-shoot the thing with proper audio someday. Unless it was a deliberate choice to bury the guys' voices underneath cacophonic street noise and obnoxious looping soundtrack...
And apparently the cafe that the guy was sitting at was actually a zoo? (every time his level was brought up, there were shreiking sounds that carried above his voice or the ambient street noise)
It seems to me there's a non-trivial effort required to make a lot of OSS work on a Mac, as witnessed by the need for some Mac developer to custom-build every OSS project under the sun and post the MacThis, MacThat, MacTheOther installers on obscure web pages. I think that phenomenon is often attributable to simpleton developers' desire to repackage OSS programs in a shiny shell that they can re-sell to point-and-click Mac noobs for a few bucks.
I have had a number of domain names for many years, and much to my surprise, I've only rarely been spammed on their contact addresses (so far as I can tell). I have all the whois-published contact addresses contain identifying strings for this purpose (e.g. the admin contact for zygoat.com is "ben-zygoatcomwhois@").
On my Siemens C-56, airplane mode is completely broken: choosing it promptly powers the phone off, completely. On subsequent restart, the radio is on, as usual. Tsk.
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is laying a new cable under the Caribbean Mr. Chavez is doing this himself, personally? Wow. That's worthy of international applause. I can't see either of our North American heads of state dirtying their hands to dig cable trench across a local field, let alone beneath an entire sea!
Try using the OSK (on screen keyboard), its worked well for me. Why would that be any less prone to logging than a physical keyboard (after all, it's a piece of software provided by the machine you're walking up to)?
So in the near future, fingers are going to be leading the hands, or something?
(Hey, let me prove that I'm more clever than the original writer: how about it should have said "CyberPresidency"? or "ePresidency"? or "iPresidency"? or as the kool illit3rate kids might like, "iPrez"? Yeah! I'm clever!)
[sarcasm] You're right, I don't remember; I have NO IDEA what you're talking about. [/sarcasm]
Meanwhile, it's almost thirty years later, and "PC" still stands for the generic concept it did back then: "personal computer". It entered parlance to mean "Intel-based personal computer running MS DOS" when IBM started marketing a machine by that name, didn't it?
Fast forward a few decades, and "Windows" has held an obvious, clear, and well-understood meaning for many years.
so American women also have the right to walk around topless anywhere in public?
I don't know; probably not. But what I re-quoted from the original poster was that American women enjoy the right to have breasts. That's what "bear" means. You (and the OP) are probably thinking of the word "bare".
That's why I thought it was funny, and made a joke, which you didn't get.:/
Americans have the right to bear arms. Canadian women have the right to bear breasts. Unless mandatory breast removal became rule of law in the States, I don't think there's any difference on the latter point.:P
Public URLs do, in fact, imply consent because they are published (by the domain registry people) when they are created, whether you want them to be or not.
It sounds like you are confusing "URL" with "domain name".
The problem is that people often use big words without knowing what they really mean. In this case, the GP was correct in his use of "utilization", but the AC reply made the erroneous conclusion that the use was spurious (there's another great word). I agree with the spirit of the AC's reply (if not the particulars of this instance).
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(At the risk of stating the obvious, "intensive purposes" makes no sense and is probably intended to read "intents and purposes", and "begging the question" is a logical fallacy not employed in your paragraph.)
For some reason, my browser/slashdot would not let me alter the subject line of my reply to say "[OT]" or anything. hm.
Great example; I've never heard of a "refridgerator", for instance.
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Hey dude,
I couldn't figure out how to leave a comment to the article on your site, nor could I even figure out where to send mail to "Ryan MacLaughlin" or webmaster. Anyway...
I wanted to point out that the reviewer blows his credibility somewhat in the comparison between the Apple display and the HP, where he claims that the Apple display looks blue and oversaturated. While it is interesting to a layperson, the conclusion that the HP display is more accurate is meaningless unless it's substantiated with other data (e.g. a profiling tool, or a calibrated camera feeding it an image of some adjacent object, or whatever).
Connected up to my factory Mac, my Apple Cinema 20" looks hazy and blue, too. Once profiled with a Spyder 2, it looks pretty decent.
Having said this, of course I would love to own this HP monitor.
-b
That's one of the worst demo videos I've ever watched! They ought to enlist the help of a broadcast or film student to re-shoot the thing with proper audio someday. Unless it was a deliberate choice to bury the guys' voices underneath cacophonic street noise and obnoxious looping soundtrack...
And apparently the cafe that the guy was sitting at was actually a zoo? (every time his level was brought up, there were shreiking sounds that carried above his voice or the ambient street noise)
Wow.
-b
I have had a number of domain names for many years, and much to my surprise, I've only rarely been spammed on their contact addresses (so far as I can tell). I have all the whois-published contact addresses contain identifying strings for this purpose (e.g. the admin contact for zygoat.com is "ben-zygoatcomwhois@").
On my Siemens C-56, airplane mode is completely broken: choosing it promptly powers the phone off, completely. On subsequent restart, the radio is on, as usual. Tsk.
Oops, you're right... I read it as "James Watts panteted key aspects..."
James Watt -- singular.
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Why not simply type the alphabet into the file, and save yourself ten minutes at the outset?
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http://webkit.org/blog/173/webkit-achieves-acid3-100100-in-public-build/
So in the near future, fingers are going to be leading the hands, or something?
(Hey, let me prove that I'm more clever than the original writer: how about it should have said "CyberPresidency"? or "ePresidency"? or "iPresidency"? or as the kool illit3rate kids might like, "iPrez"? Yeah! I'm clever!)
[sarcasm] You're right, I don't remember; I have NO IDEA what you're talking about. [/sarcasm]
Meanwhile, it's almost thirty years later, and "PC" still stands for the generic concept it did back then: "personal computer". It entered parlance to mean "Intel-based personal computer running MS DOS" when IBM started marketing a machine by that name, didn't it?
Fast forward a few decades, and "Windows" has held an obvious, clear, and well-understood meaning for many years.
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Why do people pervasively use the abbreviation "PC" to mean "Windows"? It drives me fucking batty.
Even huge software companies like Steinberg do this. There's Nuendo for "Mac" and for "PC". Weird.
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so American women also have the right to walk around topless anywhere in public?
:/
I don't know; probably not. But what I re-quoted from the original poster was that American women enjoy the right to have breasts. That's what "bear" means. You (and the OP) are probably thinking of the word "bare".
That's why I thought it was funny, and made a joke, which you didn't get.
Canadian women have the right to bear breasts. Unless mandatory breast removal became rule of law in the States, I don't think there's any difference on the latter point.
Public URLs do, in fact, imply consent because they are published (by the domain registry people) when they are created, whether you want them to be or not.
It sounds like you are confusing "URL" with "domain name".
-ben
Amen, brotha!
:p
Now, why the heck did you post as AC? You know, the uh, cool kids judge you by your cojones revealed by posting under a username.
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The problem is that people often use big words without knowing what they really mean. In this case, the GP was correct in his use of "utilization", but the AC reply made the erroneous conclusion that the use was spurious (there's another great word). I agree with the spirit of the AC's reply (if not the particulars of this instance).
-ben
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda2 /mnt/drive
;)
I'd say that the iPod is definitely functioning as a hard drive would; it's a mountable device that stores data.
Fair point. (Although it's news to me that the iPod will play music off an ext2 filesystem!)
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