That's inferring quite a lot from what I said, and in quite the wrong direction. Please feel free to read the clarification I posted earlier (and the subsequent replies to that) if you want.
According to wikipedia, the Chinese government owns a large share of one of the companies that owns stock in Lenovo, and so it effectively owns 27.5% of the company.
If the original poster is advocating for responsible consumerism, and suggesting that we look up the shareholders of a company and only support the company if we support the shareholders, then I'm all for it. However, it sounded like the original poster was saying: "Lenovo is Chinese. China is bad. Therefore, I don't want to buy a laptop from Lenovo."
The point I was trying to make, for those who missed it, was not that America is the same as China, but that Lenovo and Dell are not responsible for governmental policy.
This summary is truly and terribly misleading--the discussion simply says that a root user can break out of a chroot jail. Is this news? chroot can still be effectively used to contain processes that do not run as root.
First off, I'd announce the planned visit on a very popular website (making sure to mention his name in the title), thus dramatically increasing the chances that he will catch wind of whatever clever plan I come up with.
Okay, sorry. In all seriousness, I think the coolest thing to do would be to invite him to a Q&A session with your class, and try to ask him questions that shed light on these issues (lobbying, legal overreaching).
You're making a good point, but it doesn't seem to apply in this situation. Perhaps that's what you meant by "off-topic?"
An article summary is not part of an informal discussion. I'm also not convinced that the comma is the best piece of punctuation to appropriate for this purpose. I usually use ellipses to indicate some sort of substantial pause. I think that commas help people quickly parse and comprehend any written text, and that they should be used correctly regardless of formality. Improper use of commas is usually jarring--I think there are only a few comma rules that can be broken without "sounding" awkward.
From this perspective, Saddler's long tentacles could be considered maternal, representing the "umbilical" (discussed further below) rather than the traditional phallic.
This article is, hands-down, the stupidest thing I've read all day.
Why spend the first few sentences talking about how unnecessary floppies are, and how happy we've all been to replace them, only to start the fourth sentence with a lament at the demise of the floppy?
It's "Who is your daddy", and "whom do you love." If the "who/whom" is the subject of a verb, it needs to be a "who." If it is the object, it needs to be a "whom."
It's easy to remember by trying to come up with a male-gendered answer to the question. If you use "he" in the answer, you should have used "who" in the question. "Him" matches up with "whom."
In your example: "Who is your daddy?" "He is your daddy." ("Who" is the subject of the verb "to be")
"Whom do you love?" "I love him." ("Whom" is the object of the verb "to love")
Heh, no, don't look for cracks on your cell phone. Your cell phone is functioning properly when it's emitting lots of electromagnetic waves--it doesn't have to be cracked in order to do so.
The issue is shielding--most likely in the wires to your speakers, but potentially in the power cord or the guts of the machine producing the signal out. If there's terrible internal shielding, dirty power or the EMI on the circuit board itself can cause this.
Google a company and its officers are legally obligated to increase shareholder value, not protect my privacy, or stand for what is right or fair.
Why would it be good for shareholder value for google not to protect your privacy, or stand for what is right or fair? I understand that it's not their primary concern, but too many people make statements like this, as if the two concepts were unrelated. Google is staking its name on standing for what is right and fair. If it rolls over, as it has done in the recent past, it gets excoriated in the media, which is bad for business. This provides a somewhat powerful profit motive for Google to live up to its image. Maybe not as powerful as the profit motive for not getting shut down by the Justice department, but...
Also, I think that your implied assumption that there's such a thing as privacy in email is pretty off-base. What happens when your ISP gets a subpoena? How many businesses are logging the 1s and 0s coming from your computer through their networks? Are you using strong encryption for everything? Are you sure your private key can't be obtained?
If I had mod points, I would mod the parent up Informative. This was my first reaction to reading the article, as well. It's not as if the problems complained about by the poster can't be written down and shown on paper.
I've owned mine for almost a year now, and I've found that while my typing speed is almost as good as it is on a normal keyboard, there are certain typos I make quite often. To some extent, I think you can't use this keyboard if your primary concern is speed. My primary concern was carpal tunnel, and it helps with that tremendously. I barely have to move my hands around at all, and I certainly never have to do any strange, hand-stretching movements in order to reach common keys like backspace. Modifiers are also easier--you just make a pattern with four fingers on one hand while typing the modified key with the other. It's surprising how quick this is to learn instinctively. Also, for what it's worth, I can go back and forth between this keyboard and a normal one without thinking about it.
It's a damn shame about the line going under though... I just hope this one I have lasts for a long long time.
What's special is that it can sense more than one point of contact at once.
That's not actually special when you're talking about some keyboards. I am typing this right now on a Fingerworks Touchstream LP, which is based on this technology. To type a single letter, you make one contact on the touchpad. To move your mouse, you put down two fingers simultaneously and move them. To click and drag, you use three fingers. To scroll, four. It also understands five-finger combinations and tracks movements, processing them as interactive "gestures" that can be mapped to functionality like opening, closing, saving, zooming, etc. This company was sadly bought out by some third party (rumored to be Apple or Wacom), who took the technology but has not kept up the line of keyboards. Apple's recent announcement makes me believe that they may have been the buyer.
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Sure, no problem. The software should work fine, as long as you find a computer powerful and irrational enough to run it.
That's inferring quite a lot from what I said, and in quite the wrong direction. Please feel free to read the clarification I posted earlier (and the subsequent replies to that) if you want.
You can read my clarification, if you want.
According to wikipedia, the Chinese government owns a large share of one of the companies that owns stock in Lenovo, and so it effectively owns 27.5% of the company.
If the original poster is advocating for responsible consumerism, and suggesting that we look up the shareholders of a company and only support the company if we support the shareholders, then I'm all for it. However, it sounded like the original poster was saying: "Lenovo is Chinese. China is bad. Therefore, I don't want to buy a laptop from Lenovo."
The point I was trying to make, for those who missed it, was not that America is the same as China, but that Lenovo and Dell are not responsible for governmental policy.
avoid Dell, too, since the American government is doing such horrible things around the world. Yes, it's flawed logic. Move on.
Then I don't see how this is different from saying that root privileges can escape from a chroot jail.
there are tricks that don't involve privilege escalation? I'd be curious to see what these are.
This summary is truly and terribly misleading--the discussion simply says that a root user can break out of a chroot jail. Is this news? chroot can still be effectively used to contain processes that do not run as root.
First off, I'd announce the planned visit on a very popular website (making sure to mention his name in the title), thus dramatically increasing the chances that he will catch wind of whatever clever plan I come up with.
Okay, sorry. In all seriousness, I think the coolest thing to do would be to invite him to a Q&A session with your class, and try to ask him questions that shed light on these issues (lobbying, legal overreaching).
GPL v3 + iPhone in one day = collective nerdgasm?
Radiation is eating Fungi? I think you might have wanted: "Radiation-eating Fungi," especially in a headline. Consider: "Insect eating plants."
Well, sure, if you're only looking at Nickelback songs.
You're making a good point, but it doesn't seem to apply in this situation. Perhaps that's what you meant by "off-topic?"
An article summary is not part of an informal discussion. I'm also not convinced that the comma is the best piece of punctuation to appropriate for this purpose. I usually use ellipses to indicate some sort of substantial pause. I think that commas help people quickly parse and comprehend any written text, and that they should be used correctly regardless of formality. Improper use of commas is usually jarring--I think there are only a few comma rules that can be broken without "sounding" awkward.
I tried emailing the editor about that before it was published. Too bad the editor didn't seem to care about copyediting.
Why spend the first few sentences talking about how unnecessary floppies are, and how happy we've all been to replace them, only to start the fourth sentence with a lament at the demise of the floppy?
Also, this is not news.
Read the blog for details. They scrapped the OLED idea in favor of LCD screens to save cost.
It's "Who is your daddy", and "whom do you love." If the "who/whom" is the subject of a verb, it needs to be a "who." If it is the object, it needs to be a "whom."
It's easy to remember by trying to come up with a male-gendered answer to the question. If you use "he" in the answer, you should have used "who" in the question. "Him" matches up with "whom."
In your example: "Who is your daddy?" "He is your daddy." ("Who" is the subject of the verb "to be")
"Whom do you love?" "I love him." ("Whom" is the object of the verb "to love")
I wish I had mod points... you're absolutely right.
Heh, no, don't look for cracks on your cell phone. Your cell phone is functioning properly when it's emitting lots of electromagnetic waves--it doesn't have to be cracked in order to do so.
The issue is shielding--most likely in the wires to your speakers, but potentially in the power cord or the guts of the machine producing the signal out. If there's terrible internal shielding, dirty power or the EMI on the circuit board itself can cause this.
Why would it be good for shareholder value for google not to protect your privacy, or stand for what is right or fair? I understand that it's not their primary concern, but too many people make statements like this, as if the two concepts were unrelated. Google is staking its name on standing for what is right and fair. If it rolls over, as it has done in the recent past, it gets excoriated in the media, which is bad for business. This provides a somewhat powerful profit motive for Google to live up to its image. Maybe not as powerful as the profit motive for not getting shut down by the Justice department, but...
Also, I think that your implied assumption that there's such a thing as privacy in email is pretty off-base. What happens when your ISP gets a subpoena? How many businesses are logging the 1s and 0s coming from your computer through their networks? Are you using strong encryption for everything? Are you sure your private key can't be obtained?
If I had mod points, I would mod the parent up Informative. This was my first reaction to reading the article, as well. It's not as if the problems complained about by the poster can't be written down and shown on paper.
I've owned mine for almost a year now, and I've found that while my typing speed is almost as good as it is on a normal keyboard, there are certain typos I make quite often. To some extent, I think you can't use this keyboard if your primary concern is speed. My primary concern was carpal tunnel, and it helps with that tremendously. I barely have to move my hands around at all, and I certainly never have to do any strange, hand-stretching movements in order to reach common keys like backspace. Modifiers are also easier--you just make a pattern with four fingers on one hand while typing the modified key with the other. It's surprising how quick this is to learn instinctively. Also, for what it's worth, I can go back and forth between this keyboard and a normal one without thinking about it.
It's a damn shame about the line going under though... I just hope this one I have lasts for a long long time.
That's not actually special when you're talking about some keyboards. I am typing this right now on a Fingerworks Touchstream LP, which is based on this technology. To type a single letter, you make one contact on the touchpad. To move your mouse, you put down two fingers simultaneously and move them. To click and drag, you use three fingers. To scroll, four. It also understands five-finger combinations and tracks movements, processing them as interactive "gestures" that can be mapped to functionality like opening, closing, saving, zooming, etc. This company was sadly bought out by some third party (rumored to be Apple or Wacom), who took the technology but has not kept up the line of keyboards. Apple's recent announcement makes me believe that they may have been the buyer.