Yeah, I see this a lot with nerds. It's pretty fucking annoying when someone launches in a long winded dissertation on some obscure subject
Given that's a link on a personal blog and not in a newspaper or scientific journal, what's the basis of your whingeing? Author's blog, his choice of a style and subject... you don't like it you don't read but wait for an official publication.
Actually, I blame the submitter. It is well known that Slashdot "editors" don't edit.
This is how some commenters get their chance to be rated informative or insightful - part of the "rules of the game", I guess. The more comments, the better/. stats to show to advertisers. Given the fact that's free and also given the fact that it does have the purpose of wasting geek time, I can't complain.
Besides, I really like the title of the linked blog entry "Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another." - I didn't know the expression (so, no THAT worse of a linking place, not for me at least).
Armani suit US - $US777 Rhodes & Bechett - Australian brand in an Australia retail store (who knows Rhodes & Bechett outside Australia?) - $AU 899
1 Australian dollar = 0.9929 U.S. dollars
Make the math, please.
It really had nothing to do with the "derogatory USE of the word nigger" it had to do with the fact that he was an unimportant black slave. You can easily tell the story without calling him a nigger.
Your right to opinion, I hope you don;t mind if I stick to the contrary.
In fact, its already been done several times.
And a dozen movies can't be wrong, now can they? (tell this to the people that took mortgages on the ground "the house market never goes down").
2. As for your attempt to reference the intentions/motives of the author... by the very words of the author in the opening of the book, you should be prosecuted, banished or shot.
The same excerpt applies to you for telling me what lesson I should set out to teach.
Except that I do not pretend this lesson is the intention of the original author. I simply agree with another opinion that this is the most appropriate lesson to teach using Huck Finn. Should I understand you don't agree with this opinion?
I'm asking the above because I'm seeing you limiting to "telling the story", I'd like to know your mind in regards with the "lesson behind the story". Because if you don't have any lesson in mind, how you dare to change the words of the story and still present the opus as the original intention of the author? How you like someone putting words into your mouth?
But please stop imposing your forced "politically correct" approximation of what the art of painting should be to other people that like paiting or, worse, cripple the kids that may like painting in the future (would they be exposed to what really painting means).
I guess all the foreign language translations and film adaptations must really piss you off then.
(you enlarged the context to include foreign languages, so let me ask you) On the general case, are you on the opinion that english-to-english translation is necessary? Otherwise, I don't know how this argument applies to the "Huck Finn" context.
And, answering to your question in the enlarged context: I somehow regret my human limitations of not being able to read/watch and understand the books/movies in their original language (even if I do understand at least 3). I'm well aware of the damage the translation can do, so I'm trying to avoid a translation every time possible and I'm keeping in mind the limits whenever forced to rely on a translation. And I do think in the case of Huck Finn no translation in the english-to-"politically correct English" is necessary. Even more, I do think that this "translation" is harmful.
I find most distrubing that in, a grown up person, a word can distract from the meaning.
It distracts from the story, because the reader sees "nigger" and it triggers a response that the author did not intend.
...
There's nothing wrong with that lesson being taught. But its a problem if that's not the lesson you set out to teach.
My opinion? That's bullshit by the tonne and I do hope you were trying to play the devil's advocate. I will assume that is your intention and ask you to consider the below as an imaginary dialog with "the devil".
1. Here's the lesson you should set out to teach. In which the contrast between the derogatory use of nigger and the acts depicted in the story has everything to do with the story. Granted, if you want to teach another lesson, Huck Finn may not serve your purpose... but if you want to teach another lesson, why choose to butcher "Huck Finn" instead of finding something else?
2. As for your attempt to reference the intentions/motives of the author... by the very words of the author in the opening of the book, you should be prosecuted, banished or shot.
I also strongly urge you to go back to your coloring book and make sure you don't color outside the lines (of course, I'm using a metaphor here) - it is your right if you chose so. But please stop imposing your forced "politically correct" approximation of what the art of painting should be to other people that like paiting or, worse, cripple the kids that may like painting in the future (would they be exposed to what really painting means).
I find most distrubing that in, a grown up person, a word can distract from the meaning. I think this line of argumentation is a good ground to prepare adults that shy away from critically thinking and assessing the implications/responsibilities of their acts, because exploring the implications would require using offensive words. This would be doubleplus un-good.
This is never a good way to start a relationship with a client.
Unless, based on the prev experience, other customers would be less inclined to ignore them. It's not like the laws allow the govt to be "pissed off for personal reasons"... or is it?
I suspect that walls are useful not only for controlling the ambient data center physical conditions, but also for keeping criminals out. Forget about MTTF. What is the Mean Time to being Stolen by High School Kids for a "data center in a tent"?
No doubt, Google is marching eargely for this. Payment + GeoPositioning info in real time?
Throw in some incentives for the NFC terminal operators to allow the terminals communicating (through the very NFC phone) the content of the docklet and have a real-time trove of info on the populace purchases.
You're playing semantics. If plans were taken without the owner's permission then it was theft.
LLLLOL. Extending the concepts fit for individuals to nations will always create hilarious images. Like in this case: I suggest US sue China over copyright vilolation and put China in prison.
I'm not sure how interested they are in drones. In the US, we put a high value on human life. In China, it's much lower and they have so many of them.
Cost saving. Training, equipment, feeding lots of people and transporting them in the battlefiled vs making use of drones may make sense. I think is naive to say US's primary motives stay in the high value on human life, I really think the cost saving is/was still the main reason US is making use of drones.
Looks like the YF23... This is the start of Cold War II..
TFA
Such weapons systems would significantly enhance China's ability to hinder U.S. intervention in a conflict over Taiwan, and challenge U.S. naval supremacy in the Asia-Pacific region.
WHAAAT? I thought US learnt something over the years... silly me.
But it's a bit disingenuous to call this "degradation". The app continues to do what it always did. You're just wanting more out of it than you did before. The app didn't change, you did.
Hmm... While theoretically you are right (the app doesn't change, the environ/data changed), it doesn't make the application run properly over time, the effort/cost to correct the application is still needed.
Examples:
a. application/system that don't function as expected anymore due to a security patch applied on the OS (damn;d if you don't apply the patch, damn'd if you do).
b. applications/system that don't scale anymore with the number of concurent users
c. applications/system with performance strongly affected by the "data bit rot" (lost/dangling references/relationship accumulation).
I am having trouble getting basic hardware replaced - I can't get a 500-750 dollars to replace some network switches let alone enough scratch to update my primary DC.
Our Budget Analyst does not see the need to plan for future needs, or periodic replacement of vital equipment as warranty cycles expire.
I have documented our needs, but my boss the CIO is afraid to push the issue.
My advice: add some risk analysis argumentation. You know? Something on the line of:
1. probability of equipment failure over time - use the "cumulative hazard function" not the "probability distribution function".
2. impact the server crash will have on the business (make sure you slip-in some "lost face" apropos - after all it would be the manager's face to be lost). If you can express the impact in $$$ and plot the "risk x impact", chances are the budget analyst will "get the picture" easier.
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There are two reasons I can think of why people write like that. One is they're poor communicators, the second is they want to appear intelligent.
That's what I call "failure of imagination". Wouldn't it be more plausible that what you read is actually a personal blog?
Yeah, I see this a lot with nerds. It's pretty fucking annoying when someone launches in a long winded dissertation on some obscure subject
Given that's a link on a personal blog and not in a newspaper or scientific journal, what's the basis of your whingeing? Author's blog, his choice of a style and subject... you don't like it you don't read but wait for an official publication.
Actually, I blame the submitter. It is well known that Slashdot "editors" don't edit.
This is how some commenters get their chance to be rated informative or insightful - part of the "rules of the game", I guess. /. stats to show to advertisers. Given the fact that's free and also given the fact that it does have the purpose of wasting geek time, I can't complain.
The more comments, the better
Besides, I really like the title of the linked blog entry "Whose house is of glasse, must not throw stones at another." - I didn't know the expression (so, no THAT worse of a linking place, not for me at least).
A sane decision concerning copyright infringement by a U.S. Court would be really seldom.
On the fringe of being an oxymoron.
Armani suit US - $US777
Rhodes & Bechett - Australian brand in an Australia retail store (who knows Rhodes & Bechett outside Australia?) - $AU 899
1 Australian dollar = 0.9929 U.S. dollars
Make the math, please.
It really had nothing to do with the "derogatory USE of the word nigger" it had to do with the fact that he was an unimportant black slave. You can easily tell the story without calling him a nigger.
Your right to opinion, I hope you don;t mind if I stick to the contrary.
In fact, its already been done several times.
And a dozen movies can't be wrong, now can they? (tell this to the people that took mortgages on the ground "the house market never goes down").
2. As for your attempt to reference the intentions/motives of the author... by the very words of the author in the opening of the book, you should be prosecuted, banished or shot.
The same excerpt applies to you for telling me what lesson I should set out to teach.
Except that I do not pretend this lesson is the intention of the original author.
I simply agree with another opinion that this is the most appropriate lesson to teach using Huck Finn.
Should I understand you don't agree with this opinion?
I'm asking the above because I'm seeing you limiting to "telling the story", I'd like to know your mind in regards with the "lesson behind the story". Because if you don't have any lesson in mind, how you dare to change the words of the story and still present the opus as the original intention of the author? How you like someone putting words into your mouth?
But please stop imposing your forced "politically correct" approximation of what the art of painting should be to other people that like paiting or, worse, cripple the kids that may like painting in the future (would they be exposed to what really painting means).
I guess all the foreign language translations and film adaptations must really piss you off then.
(you enlarged the context to include foreign languages, so let me ask you) On the general case, are you on the opinion that english-to-english translation is necessary? Otherwise, I don't know how this argument applies to the "Huck Finn" context.
And, answering to your question in the enlarged context: I somehow regret my human limitations of not being able to read/watch and understand the books/movies in their original language (even if I do understand at least 3). I'm well aware of the damage the translation can do, so I'm trying to avoid a translation every time possible and I'm keeping in mind the limits whenever forced to rely on a translation.
And I do think in the case of Huck Finn no translation in the english-to-"politically correct English" is necessary. Even more, I do think that this "translation" is harmful.
... and wait for documented evidence.
I find most distrubing that in, a grown up person, a word can distract from the meaning.
It distracts from the story, because the reader sees "nigger" and it triggers a response that the author did not intend.
There's nothing wrong with that lesson being taught. But its a problem if that's not the lesson you set out to teach.
My opinion? That's bullshit by the tonne and I do hope you were trying to play the devil's advocate. I will assume that is your intention and ask you to consider the below as an imaginary dialog with "the devil".
1. Here's the lesson you should set out to teach. In which the contrast between the derogatory use of nigger and the acts depicted in the story has everything to do with the story.
Granted, if you want to teach another lesson, Huck Finn may not serve your purpose... but if you want to teach another lesson, why choose to butcher "Huck Finn" instead of finding something else?
2. As for your attempt to reference the intentions/motives of the author... by the very words of the author in the opening of the book, you should be prosecuted, banished or shot.
I also strongly urge you to go back to your coloring book and make sure you don't color outside the lines (of course, I'm using a metaphor here) - it is your right if you chose so.
But please stop imposing your forced "politically correct" approximation of what the art of painting should be to other people that like paiting or, worse, cripple the kids that may like painting in the future (would they be exposed to what really painting means).
I work in this business, and trust me - we count nanoseconds. We would notice if "hackers" were introducing delays.
And what would you do when you detect such delays? Call the police in femptoseconds?
AGH! You'll ruin the foundation of capitalism! Down with your regulations, you dirty commie!
What??? What do I hear, "net neutrality regulations" would became suddenly capitalistic?
... by American's greatest writer ... and we can't let the kids read what he actually wrote.
If the can't handle "nigger" then they aren't ready to read the story.
Even scarier than this? They'll never be.
A very well disguized piece of sarcasm: I almost bit. Glad you threw in the last phrase.
The word itself is a constant distraction.
I find most distrubing that in, a grown up person, a word can distract from the meaning. I think this line of argumentation is a good ground to prepare adults that shy away from critically thinking and assessing the implications/responsibilities of their acts, because exploring the implications would require using offensive words. This would be doubleplus un-good.
This is never a good way to start a relationship with a client.
Unless, based on the prev experience, other customers would be less inclined to ignore them. It's not like the laws allow the govt to be "pissed off for personal reasons"... or is it?
I suspect that walls are useful not only for controlling the ambient data center physical conditions, but also for keeping criminals out. Forget about MTTF. What is the Mean Time to being Stolen by High School Kids for a "data center in a tent"?
What is the Mean Time for Bug/Rat Infestation?
...are looking forward eagerly to this.
No doubt, Google is marching eargely for this. Payment + GeoPositioning info in real time?
Throw in some incentives for the NFC terminal operators to allow the terminals communicating (through the very NFC phone) the content of the docklet and have a real-time trove of info on the populace purchases.
AFC payments
What's that?
Mostly, though, we learned never to get involved with a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Now... this is a valid lesson (I'm not so sure about the others).
Try the $1 shop around the corner.
You're playing semantics. If plans were taken without the owner's permission then it was theft.
LLLLOL. Extending the concepts fit for individuals to nations will always create hilarious images. Like in this case:
I suggest US sue China over copyright vilolation and put China in prison.
I'm not sure how interested they are in drones. In the US, we put a high value on human life. In China, it's much lower and they have so many of them.
Cost saving. Training, equipment, feeding lots of people and transporting them in the battlefiled vs making use of drones may make sense.
I think is naive to say US's primary motives stay in the high value on human life, I really think the cost saving is/was still the main reason US is making use of drones.
Looks like the YF23... This is the start of Cold War II..
TFA
Such weapons systems would significantly enhance China's ability to hinder U.S. intervention in a conflict over Taiwan, and challenge U.S. naval supremacy in the Asia-Pacific region.
WHAAAT? I thought US learnt something over the years... silly me.
But it's a bit disingenuous to call this "degradation". The app continues to do what it always did. You're just wanting more out of it than you did before. The app didn't change, you did.
Hmm... While theoretically you are right (the app doesn't change, the environ/data changed), it doesn't make the application run properly over time, the effort/cost to correct the application is still needed.
Examples:
a. application/system that don't function as expected anymore due to a security patch applied on the OS (damn;d if you don't apply the patch, damn'd if you do).
b. applications/system that don't scale anymore with the number of concurent users
c. applications/system with performance strongly affected by the "data bit rot" (lost/dangling references/relationship accumulation).
I am having trouble getting basic hardware replaced - I can't get a 500-750 dollars to replace some network switches let alone enough scratch to update my primary DC. Our Budget Analyst does not see the need to plan for future needs, or periodic replacement of vital equipment as warranty cycles expire. I have documented our needs, but my boss the CIO is afraid to push the issue.
My advice: add some risk analysis argumentation. You know? Something on the line of:
1. probability of equipment failure over time - use the "cumulative hazard function" not the "probability distribution function".
2. impact the server crash will have on the business (make sure you slip-in some "lost face" apropos - after all it would be the manager's face to be lost). If you can express the impact in $$$ and plot the "risk x impact", chances are the budget analyst will "get the picture" easier.
In other news: The sky is $500 billions-worth of blue!
FTFY