I guess that's in the eyes of the beholders. I suspect that a lot more people would agree that this is "political speech" than just some innocent bantering akin to "hey u tard, lol."
And there are folks that find that offensive. If somebody started a guild called the "Language Prudes" where all the members were supposed to speak polite English with no hax0risms, would you consider that "intruding a message"? Why is a guild for gays more "activist" than a guild for language prudes, or a guild for heavy metal fans?
...my point--which was "sometimes people just want to get away from all the political bullshit and unwind." I suspect the reaction would be the same--if not more strident--if someone was in there trying to preach Christianity.
And my point was that forming a guild isn't preaching. And I'll bet there are Christian mmog guilds too ("No evil alignment avatars please").
You don't always have the right to intrude your
"message" into everyone else's consciousness.
Did you
read TFA? Nobody's trying to "intrude" any "message", unless it's the
person who tried to get the GLBT Guild banned. The only purpose of the
guild was for people with similar interests to play together. I've never played this MMOG, but I assume that's the main reason people join guilds.
People love to accuse gays of "activism" and "recruiting", when what
they really mean is, "STFU, so I can pretend you don't exist."
You're right of course — but it's worth remembering that the same is true of fossil fuels. These difference is that fossil fuels store energy that fell on the earth in the form of sunlight millions of years ago. So it's solar power. Very green....
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being forced by government to make purchasing decisions doesn't make much sense. If a car pollutes, and if the pollution affects the environment, then people who love the environment should make a choice to not buy polluting cars...
That makes no sense. Preventing people from harming each other is a well-established reason for government intervention. If I start a chemical factory in my back yard, and it leaks and poisons my neighbors, people will probably say, "Gee, the government should have done something to stop him." But if I buy a car that poisons the whole planet, it's nobody business?
You're right to criticize the parent post -- his logic leaves something to be desired. However, he's right, just for the wrong reasons.
The articles you point to make a valid point: small cars do fare badly in collisions. But they all miss an important point: collisions aren't the only kind of accident that kills people. People die in single-vehicle accidents too — and SUVs account for more than their share of those, because they're harder to control. From what I know, the death rate for people in SUVs and in compacts is about the same, considering all kinds of accidents.
Where's the humor? "Red" appears in all kinds of Chinese product names, including Red Flag Linux. China may have become a capitalistic superpower, but officially, they're still a Marxist state.
Sure, big companies do a lot of different things. But the decision to
do something new usually comes from the top. Individual contributors
can suggest new stuff, but it's up to management whether the
company goes forward with a new idea, and how the idea is implemented.
At Google, most new ideas are dreamed up and implemented by individual
contributors. That's why the search engine keeps getting cool new
features without any prior notice. That's a good way to drive
innovation. Problem is, that leaves everybody doing what they feel
like doing, and nobody doing the boring stuff like adding the
uninteresting things that make a mature product, or making sure that
every obscure syntax feature is properly documented.
The result is a company that seems to announce some really cool
product or feature every week — but hardly ever produces a
mature version of anything. Gmail, Google maps, all the little tools
built into the search engine... These are all really power,
innovative, useful, widely imitated products and features. But they're
all badly documented, or very much a beta product (I don't just mean
they have a "beta" label, I mean lacking in basic features) or both.
Excusable when these things were pushed out the door — but some
of them have been in "beta" mode for years.
So the stem cell comparison is actually pretty apt — in both a
positive and negative sense. The positive sense is that you have a lot
of people creating stuff on their own initiative. The negative sense
is that these are not healthy stem cells.
Healthy stem cells work because they each have a complete plan of the
human body, and can fill in wherever they're needed. Google stem cells
just go and do what they think is important, and have no sense of the
needs of the company as a whole.
I'm usually the first to bitch when I see a Slashdot screwup, but I have to sort of defend them here. I write technical prose for a living, and avoiding this kind of amiguity is a big part of my job. And when you're churning out a lot of documents, it's damned easy to get careless with the subordinate clauses. I usually manage to avoid it, but only because I've been doing this stuff for a long time, and I've developed an ear for this kind of mistake.
The "editors" at Slashdot aren't really editors, they're a bunch of Perl hackers who happen to run a leading news and discussion site. They're never going to develop the skills to avoid silly mistakes like "[as I was] going through the door, the computer beeped", because writing and editing aren't among their career priorities. Lots of people think this is just a matter of memorizing a bunch of grammar and style rules, but it's really more a matter of developing an ear for good language, so that whenever you hear/read a problematic phrase, it jumps out at you.
What they really need is an in-house language nazi. Hey Rob, my current contract expires later this year!
Actually, I happen to think that whoever writes those KB articles is pretty good at their job. I've done that kind of work myself, and the point is to educate people about problems, solutions, and workaround, and do so clearly, precisely, and concisely. All of which these guys are quite good at. Which is, alas, more than can be said of most tech writing, at Microsoft and elsewhere.
Of course, when you work for Microsoft, the problems are often lame, the solutions often don't exist, and the workarounds often amount to "turn off your computer". But that's hardly the writer's fault!
If you're going to nit pick language, you should at least use the standard form of the word: "asynchronous". But this bit of language nazism is particularly lame: "asynchronous" and "clockless", in this context, mean exactly the same thing. "Asynchronous" simply means, "not synchronized". How do you synchronize something? With a clock.
Oh bullshit. If you really believed that, you wouldn't waste your time debating the issues. Like all conspiracy freaks, you're in love with your own victimhood.
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Not only that, the X10 spycam really sucks....
Who modded me up for admiting a mistake? Kind of a waste of mod points.
People love to accuse gays of "activism" and "recruiting", when what they really mean is, "STFU, so I can pretend you don't exist."
You're right of course — but it's worth remembering that the same is true of fossil fuels. These difference is that fossil fuels store energy that fell on the earth in the form of sunlight millions of years ago. So it's solar power. Very green....
All part of my evil scheme, mwa ha ha!
The articles you point to make a valid point: small cars do fare badly in collisions. But they all miss an important point: collisions aren't the only kind of accident that kills people. People die in single-vehicle accidents too — and SUVs account for more than their share of those, because they're harder to control. From what I know, the death rate for people in SUVs and in compacts is about the same, considering all kinds of accidents.
The author of TFA obviously has no idea what a force field is. ScuttleMonkey should have known better, though.
OK, you're right. I was too quick off the mark.
Where's the humor? "Red" appears in all kinds of Chinese product names, including Red Flag Linux. China may have become a capitalistic superpower, but officially, they're still a Marxist state.
At Google, most new ideas are dreamed up and implemented by individual contributors. That's why the search engine keeps getting cool new features without any prior notice. That's a good way to drive innovation. Problem is, that leaves everybody doing what they feel like doing, and nobody doing the boring stuff like adding the uninteresting things that make a mature product, or making sure that every obscure syntax feature is properly documented.
The result is a company that seems to announce some really cool product or feature every week — but hardly ever produces a mature version of anything. Gmail, Google maps, all the little tools built into the search engine... These are all really power, innovative, useful, widely imitated products and features. But they're all badly documented, or very much a beta product (I don't just mean they have a "beta" label, I mean lacking in basic features) or both. Excusable when these things were pushed out the door — but some of them have been in "beta" mode for years.
So the stem cell comparison is actually pretty apt — in both a positive and negative sense. The positive sense is that you have a lot of people creating stuff on their own initiative. The negative sense is that these are not healthy stem cells.
Healthy stem cells work because they each have a complete plan of the human body, and can fill in wherever they're needed. Google stem cells just go and do what they think is important, and have no sense of the needs of the company as a whole.
I don't think a Google search can answer any question. But the ones it can answer don't belong in Ask Slashdot.
I can say that 'cause I wrote it. I was just pointing out something that should have been obvious. Save your mod points for posts that matter.
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The "editors" at Slashdot aren't really editors, they're a bunch of Perl hackers who happen to run a leading news and discussion site. They're never going to develop the skills to avoid silly mistakes like "[as I was] going through the door, the computer beeped", because writing and editing aren't among their career priorities. Lots of people think this is just a matter of memorizing a bunch of grammar and style rules, but it's really more a matter of developing an ear for good language, so that whenever you hear/read a problematic phrase, it jumps out at you.
What they really need is an in-house language nazi. Hey Rob, my current contract expires later this year!
Of course, when you work for Microsoft, the problems are often lame, the solutions often don't exist, and the workarounds often amount to "turn off your computer". But that's hardly the writer's fault!
If you're going to nit pick language, you should at least use the standard form of the word: "asynchronous". But this bit of language nazism is particularly lame: "asynchronous" and "clockless", in this context, mean exactly the same thing. "Asynchronous" simply means, "not synchronized". How do you synchronize something? With a clock.
To really solve the problem once and for all, poke out your eardrums!
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Oh bullshit. If you really believed that, you wouldn't waste your time debating the issues. Like all conspiracy freaks, you're in love with your own victimhood.
I'll give you $20 if you can draw a syntax diagram of that sentence!
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