If wishes were real, and you knew you'd have more than one, I think that the best possible first granted wish should be that no granted wish will ever have unintended consequences.
Fair enough, but in that case the colon should be removed entirely, and it should read thus:
"Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook Should Be Regulated, Disrupted, or Broken Up" (Mozilla Foundation)
Explicitly using quotation marks to highlight the quote, and using parentheses to assign attribution to the quote, since it is not considered as important as the quote itself.
A colon *PRECEDES* a list or a more detailed explanation of whatever was immediately before it. It can be used to indicate that someone said something, but then whoever said it should come before the colon, not after.
I'm pretty sure, thus, that the headline should actually read "Mozilla Foundation: Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook Should Be Regulated, Disrupted, or Broken Up".
While one could argue that this form of headline might be acceptable because one can still figure out what was probably meant, I am not convinced that is an acceptable reason to discard notions of proper grammar and punctuation usage.
What service are they going to endorse? That's the open question....
The next most popular social media platform is twitter and that's not really a plug-in replacement. Google+ could have been a suitable plug-in replacement, except, you know.... it's google, and there's about a next to no chance that they would do anything any differently than facebook did.
blargh... hit submit instead of preview... I meant that the only way for the claim about being 13 to be true is that the claim about being alive in the 90's was a lie....
I'm suggesting that the only way for the claim about being 13 to be true is that it was was a lie (which I belieeve to be the most likely explanation), or that the PopeRatzo (965947) account is used by multiple people. There is precisely zero chance that a person who has been posting on slashdot since at least 2006 is actually 13.
If Apple stepped up to the social media plate, they'd probably only do it by extending itunes, and so it would only work on the platforms that itunes is written for.
Of course.... but they are limited by the availability of people in the same geographical area with that shared interest. If the interests are not particularly mainstream or happen to be outside of normal pop culture, finding a suitable group can be an effort in futility.
Which in the real world, of course, only means that there's something wrong with a person with such interests, and that *THEY* are the ones who should have to change to be more like those around them.
Both of which require that you have already met the person to exchange contact information. You can't use email or phone to find or follow people with similar interests to your own unless you already know them.
For all of its faults, facebook has merit in being an all-in-one solution for keeping in touch with people you know and following people and groups that serve particular interests.
Of course one alternative is to go outside and meet real people, but the point of using facebook was, at least in my view, to connect with people that you wouldn't otherwise ever meet in real life. As people who I have genuine interests in are leaving facebook, I see no obvious alternative to it anywhere on the horizon.
So.... serious question. Deactivate facebook and go where, exactly?
Slashdot terms of service matters aside, that user has been around since at least '06.
For his dubious claim of being 13 to be true, the most obvious explanation would be that he either hacked or inherited the account from a previous owner.
But bear in mind that just last week, a person using the same user id was claiming to have been around since the 1990's
The most likely explanations remaining at this point are that either he's lying about his age (rather poorly at that), or that the user ID is some sort of communal one that multiple people use.
I'm suggesting that some people, myself for example, don't think in words at all. The only time I think in words is when I explicitly am thinking about what to say or to write, or I make the deliberate and conscious choice to try and do so. In general, I think in terms of wordless images, or general ideas... until I try and communicate whatever it is that I am thinking about to another person. If I'm not trying to communicate it, no words need necessarily exist... words are tools only needed for linguistic communication, not thought.
Regardless of how many drains you had in the pool, they would be bottlenecked by the pipe that all the water would eventually have to fit into.
An elevator pool floor is a good idea, however. I had never seen that before, and although it seems its intended use was for ergonomics, I can see its applications for safety as well.
True... my bad. It does use it to indicate superscript. As I was typing that, in my head I was thinking they are the same thing, but of course they are not.
And the question was since when does ** mean exponentiation?
Heck, even '^' as exponentiation has its origins in programming languages as well, but its usage as such is at least half a dozen years newer than '**'.
Actually, since Fortran to be specific... but it's been used since in Ada, Z shell, Korn shell, Bash, COBOL, CoffeeScript, FoxPro, Gnuplot, OCaml, F#, Perl, PHP, PL/I, Python, Rexx, Ruby, SAS, Seed7, Tcl, ABAP, Mercury, Haskell (for floating-point exponents), Turing, and VHDL.
Using the ^ symbol to indicate exponentation is relatively newer... I think BASIC was the first mainstream language to use it.
Also, implicitly, can the student write legibly and within the allotted time given for the test?
Which is unfortunate, IMO, because this could disqualify people who might have a legitimate physical disability that may prevent them from doing so (essential tremors comes to mind as one most obvious example) but still otherwise have an excellent grasp of any necessary concepts and can generate solutions quickly.
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If wishes were real, and you knew you'd have more than one, I think that the best possible first granted wish should be that no granted wish will ever have unintended consequences.
Actually, I'd argue that it's more clear... although technically the hyphen should be an em-dash, but slashdot can't do unicode.
That's actually a good point...
Although slashdot doesn't handle unicode.
There are other ways to do that than by using a colon. I remain unconvinced that the headline conforms to proper usage of punctuation and grammar.
Fair enough, but in that case the colon should be removed entirely, and it should read thus:
"Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook Should Be Regulated, Disrupted, or Broken Up" (Mozilla Foundation)
Explicitly using quotation marks to highlight the quote, and using parentheses to assign attribution to the quote, since it is not considered as important as the quote itself.
A colon *PRECEDES* a list or a more detailed explanation of whatever was immediately before it. It can be used to indicate that someone said something, but then whoever said it should come before the colon, not after.
I'm pretty sure, thus, that the headline should actually read "Mozilla Foundation: Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook Should Be Regulated, Disrupted, or Broken Up".
While one could argue that this form of headline might be acceptable because one can still figure out what was probably meant, I am not convinced that is an acceptable reason to discard notions of proper grammar and punctuation usage.
What service are they going to endorse? That's the open question....
The next most popular social media platform is twitter and that's not really a plug-in replacement. Google+ could have been a suitable plug-in replacement, except, you know.... it's google, and there's about a next to no chance that they would do anything any differently than facebook did.
I don't think I've heard that expression before... what's the difference between that and "tampered with"?
blargh... hit submit instead of preview... I meant that the only way for the claim about being 13 to be true is that the claim about being alive in the 90's was a lie....
I'm suggesting that the only way for the claim about being 13 to be true is that it was was a lie (which I belieeve to be the most likely explanation), or that the PopeRatzo (965947) account is used by multiple people. There is precisely zero chance that a person who has been posting on slashdot since at least 2006 is actually 13.
Take from that what you will.
If Apple stepped up to the social media plate, they'd probably only do it by extending itunes, and so it would only work on the platforms that itunes is written for.
Yes, but it's long since considered dead by everyone except those who actually work at Google.
Also.... considering the reason that people are leaving Facebook, how is Google any better?
Of course.... but they are limited by the availability of people in the same geographical area with that shared interest. If the interests are not particularly mainstream or happen to be outside of normal pop culture, finding a suitable group can be an effort in futility.
Which in the real world, of course, only means that there's something wrong with a person with such interests, and that *THEY* are the ones who should have to change to be more like those around them.
Both of which require that you have already met the person to exchange contact information. You can't use email or phone to find or follow people with similar interests to your own unless you already know them.
Yeah, because, you know.... I can just afford to go anywhere I want to in the world to meet anyone I want to talk to.
And of course, that's not considering how hard it can be to find people with similar interests when they aren't mainstream or part of pop culture.
For all of its faults, facebook has merit in being an all-in-one solution for keeping in touch with people you know and following people and groups that serve particular interests.
Of course one alternative is to go outside and meet real people, but the point of using facebook was, at least in my view, to connect with people that you wouldn't otherwise ever meet in real life. As people who I have genuine interests in are leaving facebook, I see no obvious alternative to it anywhere on the horizon.
So.... serious question. Deactivate facebook and go where, exactly?
Slashdot terms of service matters aside, that user has been around since at least '06.
For his dubious claim of being 13 to be true, the most obvious explanation would be that he either hacked or inherited the account from a previous owner.
But bear in mind that just last week, a person using the same user id was claiming to have been around since the 1990's
The most likely explanations remaining at this point are that either he's lying about his age (rather poorly at that), or that the user ID is some sort of communal one that multiple people use.
I'm suggesting that some people, myself for example, don't think in words at all. The only time I think in words is when I explicitly am thinking about what to say or to write, or I make the deliberate and conscious choice to try and do so. In general, I think in terms of wordless images, or general ideas... until I try and communicate whatever it is that I am thinking about to another person. If I'm not trying to communicate it, no words need necessarily exist... words are tools only needed for linguistic communication, not thought.
Regardless of how many drains you had in the pool, they would be bottlenecked by the pipe that all the water would eventually have to fit into.
An elevator pool floor is a good idea, however. I had never seen that before, and although it seems its intended use was for ergonomics, I can see its applications for safety as well.
And compare that number, if you will, to the shockingly brief amount of time that it takes for someone to drown.
What magic technology are you imagining that could drain the pool fast enough that it would even have the smallest chance of stopping drowning?
True... my bad. It does use it to indicate superscript. As I was typing that, in my head I was thinking they are the same thing, but of course they are not.
True... but again, LaTeX is relatively modern.
And the question was since when does ** mean exponentiation?
Heck, even '^' as exponentiation has its origins in programming languages as well, but its usage as such is at least half a dozen years newer than '**'.
Actually, since Fortran to be specific... but it's been used since in Ada, Z shell, Korn shell, Bash, COBOL, CoffeeScript, FoxPro, Gnuplot, OCaml, F#, Perl, PHP, PL/I, Python, Rexx, Ruby, SAS, Seed7, Tcl, ABAP, Mercury, Haskell (for floating-point exponents), Turing, and VHDL.
Using the ^ symbol to indicate exponentation is relatively newer... I think BASIC was the first mainstream language to use it.
Which is unfortunate, IMO, because this could disqualify people who might have a legitimate physical disability that may prevent them from doing so (essential tremors comes to mind as one most obvious example) but still otherwise have an excellent grasp of any necessary concepts and can generate solutions quickly.
Even if it works as described, it seems like it's still useless if a person thinks in terms of pictures or general concepts and not words.