I looked at the article, and noticed the whole convention was designed to "help signal the end of a sentence." If you read that text string closely enough, you'll see another way the language has already solved that problem for you. (Hint: there's another one right there.)
The other day I took a civil service test for a clerical position (because many people don't seem to agree that the recession's over) and on the typing speed section (70 wpm means I actually did learn something useful in high school) there was a clear instruction to use two spaces at the end of a sentence. There was also references in the text I was typing to fax machines being "productivity enhancing," which (besides slowing down my wpm considerably as a good typist would hyphenate that phrase or the twenty like it in the text) led me to wonder how long ago the test was designed (so did the questions on the test about typewriters, which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania apparently still issues its employees).
, even disregarding all that, even if he was stupid and careless, they can't just access the router if he didn't explicitly give them the right in a contract somewhere.
It's a "Verizon-supplied" router, which I'm fairly certain means Verizon owns it and he's got it on a lease, in which case Verizon is completely within its rights to maintain the security of its property.
It does makes sense if you look at it from a resume-building perspective: it's much more useful to be able to say "Well, this guy's competent to do a task whereas this other guy will do it well," than it is to say "Well, this guy can't do it but that other guy can't do shit!" If either of the latter can't do the task, he's unqualified, but between the former, a differentiating ranking might prove useful or might not, but in the situations where it would, it's nice to know.
And the thing is, for the vast majority of the proletariat, a C-average will get you through life. If you can count and use a calculator, that's more than enough math to enable you to stand behind a cash register, and there's nothing wrong with a school saying you're competent to go into the world like that. But if you're getting Cs in algebra, you're probably not going to get As in calculus, and a grading scale does help discourage that C-student from trying to build airplanes. "Pass/fail" simply lends too much ambiguity to the situation.
You're right, having five grades, three of which pass plus two different failing grades makes a whole lot of sense. Almost as much, I'd hazard to say, as any instrument gauge in a Chuck Jones cartoon.
"Don't worry, Timmy, you might have failed, but not nearly as badly as Suzie did!" Next logical step from there is "grade bailouts".
If that's what you got from my argument, you must be an English major. Nowhere did I argue for more government; only did I state that there were "barriers to entry", and I may have implied that telecom regulation strengthened that situation (what Stossel calls "crony capitalism"). I may have implicitly argued in favour of treating the entrenched telecoms as public utilities, but that's only to mitigate the damage to the free market that their entrenchment (by the aid of regulation) has caused. If anything, that's a much more open solution than setting up a monopoly or duopoly situation and THEN giving them carte blanche to run roughshod over the consumer.
But it did so in a time when there were significantly fewer barriers to entry. I can remember cutting my teeth on a local, mom-and-pop ISP that was literally run out of a garage with an assload of phone lines and modems, but still more reliable and cheaper than AOL was offering at the time. Good luck starting your own DSL or cable company and competing with Verizon and Comcast and their ilk. (Then again, I'm sure if you tried the FCC would be as hell-bent on stopping you as your competitors.)
Bullshit. Have you bought a new computer with Windows pre-installed in the last decade? You don't get an actual Windows disc, you get a "system restore disc" that wipes everything to the factory-default state. All they have to do is offer to sell those "very few" upset consumers one of those for whatever the price differential was, and suddenly Dell gets its bloatware commissions, too. Win-win for everyone except technology!
On my Linux/KDE systems, I go into the Dolphin/Konqueror graphical file manager and hit Alt-. or click "View > Show Hidden Files" and files with names starting with a period show up. Does OSX seriously not have that basic functionality? I mean, it wouldn't surprise me, seeing as Apple makes phones that don't work if you hold them in your hand and their minions love the design flaws, but c'mon!
If I buy a computer that comes with Windows preinstalled, I am paying for it somewhere along the line. It's probably not itemized, but it's built into the cost. On the other hand, offering a Linux option costs nothing but ostensibly helps sales.
Analogy: Go to any restaurant and order a cheeseburger. What you get is not two halves of a bun with beef and cheese between them, but that plus lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and Jah only knows what else, and only in the ritziest establishments do the menus tell you what specifically. Now, suppose you have an allergy to one of those extra ingredients (eggs in mayo are a common allergen), and request your sandwich without it. The waiter tells you "Nobody likes a cheeseburger without mayo!" and per restaurant policy, the kitchen refuses to prepare it in a way that you can eat it. Granted, the restaurant cannot logically stock every ingredient a customer might want to eat, and has every right to refuse to prepare a recipe that requires less effort and less cost to prepare, and is less harmful to the customer -- but equally, I've every right to eat somewhere else. (The state of the market right now, it's more a political gesture than anything else, but at least before Dell had something to distinguish itself from its competitors besides its policy of knowingly selling total shit.)
I could tell that wasn't legit without even watching it. The 12th District of Pennsylvania is the one held formerly held by Jack Murtha. There hasn't been a Republican elected there since 1972.
When you plug in a camera, sit down in front of said camera, and broadcast said camera to random strangers, the very notion of a "privacy flaw" becomes moot.
The Pennsylvania lottery has a "Millionaire Raffle" game once or twice a year where only 500,000 tickets are sold, and among many smaller prizes, there are four million-dollar winners. That's 1:125,000 odds, which are even longer:-P
And as recently as Saturday, someone in Florida won a $73.8 million jackpot on the Powerball drawing at 1:195,249,054 odds.
The chances are UNLIKELY, but NOT "nobody ever" impossible.
True, but a 0.001% failure rate is also an expectable mechanical problem. If a surgeon healed 99.999% of his patients, or a baseball player had a.99999 batting average or a Congressman passed one Constitutional bill, we'd look at them as gods among men.
If your car isn't slowing down and you leave it in gear, that's operator error. It might hurt your transmission, but it's a lot better than just accelerating full-tilt into a solid object. Then again, I don't have a degree in physics, so maybe someone else on/. can explain to me how in fact accelerating full-tilt into a solid object is in fact a good thing.
Don't they generally have a printed ticket at the will call window that you still need to get in the door and to your seat? There may be no shipping but there's definitely still paper waste.
You mean the same SCOTUS who said the "limited times" provision allowed Congress to say "while(1){copyright_term++;}"? Yeah, I'm sure they'll stand up for we the people.
No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.
I know the whole "for limited times" provision was held by the Supreme Court to mean "for unlimited time", but c'mon? What part of "No" don't they understand? For that matter, where is the "just compensation" without which "nor shall private property be taken for public use" according to the Fifth Amendment?
Games like Medal of Honor with the Wii Zapper extension are actually quite playable. The only game I've ever played that was better on a Playstation controller than the Wii version was EA's FIFA series, which is not a naturally hands-intensive thing to emulate.
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I looked at the article, and noticed the whole convention was designed to "help signal the end of a sentence." If you read that text string closely enough, you'll see another way the language has already solved that problem for you. (Hint: there's another one right there.)
The other day I took a civil service test for a clerical position (because many people don't seem to agree that the recession's over) and on the typing speed section (70 wpm means I actually did learn something useful in high school) there was a clear instruction to use two spaces at the end of a sentence. There was also references in the text I was typing to fax machines being "productivity enhancing," which (besides slowing down my wpm considerably as a good typist would hyphenate that phrase or the twenty like it in the text) led me to wonder how long ago the test was designed (so did the questions on the test about typewriters, which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania apparently still issues its employees).
It's a "Verizon-supplied" router, which I'm fairly certain means Verizon owns it and he's got it on a lease, in which case Verizon is completely within its rights to maintain the security of its property.
It does makes sense if you look at it from a resume-building perspective: it's much more useful to be able to say "Well, this guy's competent to do a task whereas this other guy will do it well," than it is to say "Well, this guy can't do it but that other guy can't do shit!" If either of the latter can't do the task, he's unqualified, but between the former, a differentiating ranking might prove useful or might not, but in the situations where it would, it's nice to know.
And the thing is, for the vast majority of the proletariat, a C-average will get you through life. If you can count and use a calculator, that's more than enough math to enable you to stand behind a cash register, and there's nothing wrong with a school saying you're competent to go into the world like that. But if you're getting Cs in algebra, you're probably not going to get As in calculus, and a grading scale does help discourage that C-student from trying to build airplanes. "Pass/fail" simply lends too much ambiguity to the situation.
I think I learned that in an Itch & Scratchy cartoon once.
You're right, having five grades, three of which pass plus two different failing grades makes a whole lot of sense. Almost as much, I'd hazard to say, as any instrument gauge in a Chuck Jones cartoon.
"Don't worry, Timmy, you might have failed, but not nearly as badly as Suzie did!" Next logical step from there is "grade bailouts".
If that's what you got from my argument, you must be an English major. Nowhere did I argue for more government; only did I state that there were "barriers to entry", and I may have implied that telecom regulation strengthened that situation (what Stossel calls "crony capitalism"). I may have implicitly argued in favour of treating the entrenched telecoms as public utilities, but that's only to mitigate the damage to the free market that their entrenchment (by the aid of regulation) has caused. If anything, that's a much more open solution than setting up a monopoly or duopoly situation and THEN giving them carte blanche to run roughshod over the consumer.
But it did so in a time when there were significantly fewer barriers to entry. I can remember cutting my teeth on a local, mom-and-pop ISP that was literally run out of a garage with an assload of phone lines and modems, but still more reliable and cheaper than AOL was offering at the time. Good luck starting your own DSL or cable company and competing with Verizon and Comcast and their ilk. (Then again, I'm sure if you tried the FCC would be as hell-bent on stopping you as your competitors.)
Bullshit. Have you bought a new computer with Windows pre-installed in the last decade? You don't get an actual Windows disc, you get a "system restore disc" that wipes everything to the factory-default state. All they have to do is offer to sell those "very few" upset consumers one of those for whatever the price differential was, and suddenly Dell gets its bloatware commissions, too. Win-win for everyone except technology!
On my Linux/KDE systems, I go into the Dolphin/Konqueror graphical file manager and hit Alt-. or click "View > Show Hidden Files" and files with names starting with a period show up. Does OSX seriously not have that basic functionality? I mean, it wouldn't surprise me, seeing as Apple makes phones that don't work if you hold them in your hand and their minions love the design flaws, but c'mon!
So I should definitely choose Windows if I want this trojan, right?
If I buy a computer that comes with Windows preinstalled, I am paying for it somewhere along the line. It's probably not itemized, but it's built into the cost. On the other hand, offering a Linux option costs nothing but ostensibly helps sales.
Analogy: Go to any restaurant and order a cheeseburger. What you get is not two halves of a bun with beef and cheese between them, but that plus lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and Jah only knows what else, and only in the ritziest establishments do the menus tell you what specifically. Now, suppose you have an allergy to one of those extra ingredients (eggs in mayo are a common allergen), and request your sandwich without it. The waiter tells you "Nobody likes a cheeseburger without mayo!" and per restaurant policy, the kitchen refuses to prepare it in a way that you can eat it. Granted, the restaurant cannot logically stock every ingredient a customer might want to eat, and has every right to refuse to prepare a recipe that requires less effort and less cost to prepare, and is less harmful to the customer -- but equally, I've every right to eat somewhere else. (The state of the market right now, it's more a political gesture than anything else, but at least before Dell had something to distinguish itself from its competitors besides its policy of knowingly selling total shit.)
I'm not getting a Dell!
I could tell that wasn't legit without even watching it. The 12th District of Pennsylvania is the one held formerly held by Jack Murtha. There hasn't been a Republican elected there since 1972.
Or one of those married men whose wives dictate precisely what physiological reactions they're allowed to experience.
"Reports of my regeneration have been greatly exaggerated."
There, I fixed the headline for you.
When you plug in a camera, sit down in front of said camera, and broadcast said camera to random strangers, the very notion of a "privacy flaw" becomes moot.
The Pennsylvania lottery has a "Millionaire Raffle" game once or twice a year where only 500,000 tickets are sold, and among many smaller prizes, there are four million-dollar winners. That's 1:125,000 odds, which are even longer :-P
And as recently as Saturday, someone in Florida won a $73.8 million jackpot on the Powerball drawing at 1:195,249,054 odds.
The chances are UNLIKELY, but NOT "nobody ever" impossible.
True, but a 0.001% failure rate is also an expectable mechanical problem. If a surgeon healed 99.999% of his patients, or a baseball player had a .99999 batting average or a Congressman passed one Constitutional bill, we'd look at them as gods among men.
If your car isn't slowing down and you leave it in gear, that's operator error. It might hurt your transmission, but it's a lot better than just accelerating full-tilt into a solid object. Then again, I don't have a degree in physics, so maybe someone else on /. can explain to me how in fact accelerating full-tilt into a solid object is in fact a good thing.
The "friend zone" for life.
Don't they generally have a printed ticket at the will call window that you still need to get in the door and to your seat? There may be no shipping but there's definitely still paper waste.
You mean the same SCOTUS who said the "limited times" provision allowed Congress to say "while(1){copyright_term++;}"? Yeah, I'm sure they'll stand up for we the people.
I know the whole "for limited times" provision was held by the Supreme Court to mean "for unlimited time", but c'mon? What part of "No" don't they understand? For that matter, where is the "just compensation" without which "nor shall private property be taken for public use" according to the Fifth Amendment?
Games like Medal of Honor with the Wii Zapper extension are actually quite playable. The only game I've ever played that was better on a Playstation controller than the Wii version was EA's FIFA series, which is not a naturally hands-intensive thing to emulate.