IANAx is an acronym for "I am not a x". They may also use "I'm not a x" as a contraction of "I am not a x", but that doesn't mean that suddenly mean that IANAx is no longer an acronym of the base phrase.
There's *nothing* noticably different about the poles in the images - I did some some before/after differences of those photos (and cranked up the gamma).
Make your bleedin' mind up. You were right second time round. It's free, therefore it's "free". Stop thinking that RMS or ERS or anyone can hijack the English language.
Sorry, motherfucking Shit, I'll biggyback your post if I may. """ How does one offer 500 times more space than their closest competitor, and still manage to suck? """
Because it doesn't offer 500 times more space than their closest competitor. I've seen claims that some providers have _twice_ google's quota, but the one I use is a paultry 1/4 of google's size.
So you (whoever Mf S's parent was) are out by _at least two orders of magnitude_. Heck, if it's worth being wrong, it's worth being totally, absolutely, not-even-on-the-same-planet wrong.
After a few months of TOE feedback, my CRM114 gives a far lower error rate than SpamAssassin claims to achieve. Not as high as CRM114 claims is attainable though.
FOSS, and on sourceforge.
And it can work within an enterprise environment, it's not just a desktop product.
Woh! Looks like slashdot was just plain broken - your post was orphaned, and I didn't see the original. Ooops. My bad. (But great-grandparent's right - there was no need to take a working search query and make it no longer work.)
What's that magic number in the URL? Is it part of the message id? Is it an internal google key? I can't tell, because I can't view the headers of the message to check myself.
That's just plain broken.
Of course, they've broken all the old "selm=[message-id]"-style URLs that people have been using over the last few years.
Google Groups Beta 2 at its best is way more broken than Google Groups and DejaNews were at their worst.
News-by-mail was never considered to be "outside" usenet. Just because the transport protocol is different doesn't mean that the corpus of data has fundamentally changed.
(But I get your point, it's exactly what went through my mind too.)
Which is why those of us who know he didn't "invent" the internet still criticise his actual wording.
"... but true."
Not far from the truth, but not actually true. He was important in promoting the early development of the internet. No-one (sane) disputes that. That's still not actaully being the one doing the creating.
In that case, I wouldn't usually have a problem with them.
However, the apple URL provided by the person I initially responded to was peppered with example dialog boxes that did have yes/no questions prominantly in them.
That's fine - but remove the yes/no-answerable question from the dialog. That's what I've been complaining about - the fact that the responses offered don't match the question asked.
"Necessity" is a complete irrelevance anyway, almost nothing is necessary.
FP.
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""" The "it"... """
Oh dear, poor little Apple advocate can't count up to two, the number of "it"s in that sentence. Must be something to do with the mouse buttons.
Shit, I hate having to explain the nuances in insults, but you really are that thick.
And I went out of my way to try to guess what the hell your question was supposed to be and to educate you, basically by repeating my original point, slightly more s_l_o_w_l_y this time in the hope that something would sink in, but alas to no avail.
Glad to have you as a freak, I will be less likely to see your dross in the future.
What the fuck do your various "it"s refer to in your question? How fitting that in a sub-thread about how to most efficiently elicit a response you provide a question that's hideously garbled.
I think it's better to match the response to the request. If the request from the system is an a question most simply answered with a yes/no answer then the responses available should be yes and no.
How would you answer "Do you want a cup of tea?" 1) The verb [Drink] 2) The noun [Tea] 3) The answer [Yes] If you do anything apart from (3), then i pity those who share a domicile with you, and doubt you ever get asked if you want a cup of tea.
Great post, but I say that as I believe that with a broad brush you're pretty much right. (I didn't originally read the thread, I say it in metamod, and glad that I was offered the chance.)
Weird. In response to "Do you want to replace it?", "Do you want to review the changes before quitting?", and "Do you want to save the changes before quitting?" I think that "Yes" and "No" are perfectly good answers. They aren't verbs, they're _answers_. To the _question_ the dialog box just asked. The clue is in that little squiggly symbol "?" at the end of the sentence.
What's _broken_ is when the question gives you two options, and the choices provided by the buttons don't 100% correspond to the options in the questions. Seen on lame Windows software many a time.
Slashdot Mirror
YAACL.
IANAx is an acronym for "I am not a x".
They may also use "I'm not a x" as a contraction of "I am not a x", but that doesn't mean that suddenly mean that IANAx is no longer an acronym of the base phrase.
FP.
"Spanish ... English has stomped them all into oblivion"
Then why is Spanish a faster-growing language in the US than English is?
FP.
"""
People from sci.lang google group have already discovered possible problems of this concept.
"""
google group? for fuck's sake.
FP.
There's *nothing* noticably different about the poles in the images - I did some some before/after differences of those photos (and cranked up the gamma).
t tp://62.236.152.54/images/before-after-sm.jpgt p://62.235.152.54/images/at-after-sm.jpg
PLEASE MIRROR, don't hose me too!
http://62.236.152.54/images/before-at-sm.jpg
h
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Phil
I see yet another weakminded moderator unable to argue against uncontrovertble facts has resort to trying to bury them instead.
Sad, really.
FP.
"""
It is not "free"
"""
"""
the spyware is free
"""
Make your bleedin' mind up. You were right second time
round. It's free, therefore it's "free". Stop thinking
that RMS or ERS or anyone can hijack the English language.
FP.
Sorry, motherfucking Shit, I'll biggyback your post if I may.
"""
How does one offer 500 times more space than their closest competitor, and still manage to suck?
"""
Because it doesn't offer 500 times more space than their closest competitor. I've seen claims that some providers have _twice_ google's quota, but the one I use is a paultry 1/4 of google's size.
So you (whoever Mf S's parent was) are out by _at least two orders of magnitude_. Heck, if it's worth being wrong, it's worth being totally, absolutely, not-even-on-the-same-planet wrong.
(And Mf S makes some good points too.)
FP.
With you, mate, on the troll thing - I'll see if I can get -3. Hmmm, I like to think I'm more flamebait personally:
Google Toolbar - sucks
Google Mail - sucks
Google Groups **New** - sucks
WAKE UP PEOPLE (yes, I am shouting) - Google ain't the internet's saviour any more.
FP.
(Unusually posting with Karma bonus, just to see if I can collect all 3 -ve moderations).
After a few months of TOE feedback, my CRM114 gives a far lower error rate than SpamAssassin claims to achieve. Not as high as CRM114 claims is attainable though.
FOSS, and on sourceforge.
And it can work within an enterprise environment, it's not just a desktop product.
Phil
Woh!
Looks like slashdot was just plain broken - your post was orphaned, and I didn't see the original. Ooops. My bad.
(But great-grandparent's right - there was no need to take a working search query and make it no longer work.)
FP.
Change the .ca to .com:
& selm=an_638071147">u ps?oi=djq&ic=1&selm=a n_638071147</a>
<a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djq&ic=1
http://groups.google.com/gro
And if you're like me you'll get something in Italian!
i.e. Google Groups 2 Beta is just plain broken.
FP.
I tried a search by date just a few minutes ago, and it refused to order the results by date. There was a link, but it didn't work.
They might as well have a link that says "don't be broken", that likewise does nothing, and that would be equally useful.
FP.
What's that magic number in the URL?
Is it part of the message id? Is it an internal google key?
I can't tell, because I can't view the headers of the message to check myself.
That's just plain broken.
Of course, they've broken all the old "selm=[message-id]"-style URLs that people have been using over the last few years.
Google Groups Beta 2 at its best is way more broken than Google Groups and DejaNews were at their worst.
FP.
"... are both news servers"
Yes, but they are not _just_ news servers. This muddies the waters somewhat.
"...there's no actual legal obligation to discard posts with an X-No-Archive header..."
Yes. It is explicitly merely a suggestion to the server, and was invented by DejaNews themselves - so was never even standardised formally.
For a laugh, I once set up a drone that archived _only_ "X-No-Archive: yes" posts on one of the scientific groups that I read, "just in case".
FP.
News-by-mail was never considered to be "outside" usenet.
Just because the transport protocol is different doesn't mean that the corpus of data has fundamentally changed.
(But I get your point, it's exactly what went through my mind too.)
FP.
"""
# The flights carrying bin Laden family members out of the U.S took place over the objections of the FBI: False.
"""
So let's postulate:
# The FBI made no objection to the bin Laden family members flying out of the U.S.
To which snopes would have to say:
Status: True.
But doesn't that make it _worse_?
Thanks for the link, I'd not seen that page before.
FP.
"What Gore said was poorly worded,..."
Which is why those of us who know he didn't "invent" the internet still criticise his actual wording.
"... but true."
Not far from the truth, but not actually true. He was important in promoting the early development of the internet. No-one (sane) disputes that. That's still not actaully being the one doing the creating.
FP.
Yes, he claimed to have /created/ the internet instead.
FP.
In that case, I wouldn't usually have a problem with them.
However, the apple URL provided by the person I initially responded to was peppered with example dialog boxes that did have yes/no questions prominantly in them.
FP.
That's fine - but remove the yes/no-answerable question from the dialog. That's what I've been complaining about - the fact that the responses offered don't match the question asked.
"Necessity" is a complete irrelevance anyway, almost nothing is necessary.
FP.
""" ...
The "it"
"""
Oh dear, poor little Apple advocate can't count up to two, the number of "it"s in that sentence. Must be something to do with the mouse buttons.
Shit, I hate having to explain the nuances in insults, but you really are that thick.
And I went out of my way to try to guess what the hell your question was supposed to be and to educate you, basically by repeating my original point, slightly more s_l_o_w_l_y this time in the hope that something would sink in, but alas to no avail.
Glad to have you as a freak, I will be less likely to see your dross in the future.
FP.
What the fuck do your various "it"s refer to in your question? How fitting that in a sub-thread about how to most efficiently elicit a response you provide a question that's hideously garbled.
I think it's better to match the response to the request.
If the request from the system is an a question most simply
answered with a yes/no answer then the responses available should be yes and no.
How would you answer "Do you want a cup of tea?"
1) The verb [Drink]
2) The noun [Tea]
3) The answer [Yes]
If you do anything apart from (3), then i pity those who share a domicile with you, and doubt you ever get asked if you want a cup of tea.
FP.
Great post, but I say that as I believe that with a broad brush you're pretty much right. (I didn't originally read the thread, I say it in metamod, and glad that I was offered the chance.)
FP.
Weird.
In response to "Do you want to replace it?", "Do you want to review the changes before quitting?", and "Do you want to save the changes before quitting?" I think that "Yes" and "No" are perfectly good answers. They aren't verbs, they're _answers_. To the _question_ the dialog box just asked. The clue is in that little squiggly symbol "?" at the end of the sentence.
What's _broken_ is when the question gives you two options, and the choices provided by the buttons don't 100% correspond to the options in the questions. Seen on lame Windows software many a time.
FP.
"""
So I guess that means that my experience of having Windows bluescreen when I removed a CD doesn't count, right?
"""
Correct, because your previous argument said "at best", which is demonstrably false. At best it pops up a dialog box to let you know what's going on.
FP.