Yes I have and so have you: right in the story of the article, which mentions the "new" email service from Yahoo, different from the old email service from Yahoo, and this new one has been "dubbed Beta", which is to say, it is called Beta to distinguish it from the old system. Hence, as per my dictionary's definition, by distinguishing the new email system from the old by nicknaming, or giving it the unofficial name of 'beta', the new system was dubbed"Beta".
dub - verb ( dubbed , dubbing ) [ trans. ] - give an unofficial name or nickname to (someone or something)
My quibble is with your comment that the grandparent didn't know what the word means. The grandparent may also have used a sense of another of the definitions of the word, which is to dub a person as a knight, used metaphorically here to give "Beta" the aura of a special high title. Normally, programmers wouldn't call "Beta" a high honor, but it has been used as marketing jargon.
Really the word derives from "double", and the sense is that you are giving a second name or title to a thing or person. I think the word was used reasonably, showing that the beta moniker is a sort of second name for the software.
Or, shit, maybe the guy doesn't know what the word means.
i disagree with you and agree with the grandparent.
"beta" has been applied to both systems as a moniker, not just to show its development status. you have made the mistake of having too narrow a definition for the use of the word "beta". the grandparent is right, they were both "dubbed" "Beta" because they are both called "beta" as a title or nickname.
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Sorry let me be more clear.
If you have a line of text, and have some text in the middle of the line selected, and it's single-line text, then on a Mac, left goes to the beginning of the selection, right goes to the end of the selection, but up goes to the front of the whole line, and down goes to the end of the whole line. On windows, it's the same except for down, which also goes to the beginning of the line. I was totally flaberghasted when I encountered it, because I know that some programmer coded a certain case to handle a certain event, so that a DOWN ARROW event in that context would explicitly put the cursor at the front of the line of text -- and to me, that's so crazy I can't imagine any reasonable programmer, or UI designer, deciding that's the right thing to do.
That's all I'm saying.
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okay, i agree with you, the UI on the DVD player might be suboptimal, but it's not exactly absurdly non-understandable.
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that seems like a good point about the DVD player buttons, but i think you missed the obvious, which is that the buttons are designed to be pushed by your right thumb, which approaches the buttons at an angle, so they put the buttons at that angle. it only stops making sense if you look down with your eyes, which are at a different angle of incidence than your thumb, and you see the little arrow icons printed there for your eyes to see. so, the icons are for your eyes, but the buttons are for your thumb. i think that's reasonable.
also, i don't use windows, but i know lots of people who do, and none of them have ever been confused about how to shut down their computer. i'm just sayin', a good test of how much sense it makes is to look at how much trouble people have with it. frankly, if you are trying to be pedantic about it, there is nothing fundamentally wrong about "Start"ing a shut-down. a shut-down operation, after all, has to "Start" somewhere. personally, i think having it in a System menu like on my mac makes more sense, but most people do just fine with XP.
i'll throw in a UI complaint while i'm at it, which is that the last time i used windows trying to change a file name, i clicked on the file name like on my Mac and saw the text selected like on my Mac. well i wanted to move the cursor, i think to the end of the filename, so i pressed the down-arrow key, which on my Mac takes you to the end of the text, but lo on windows it took me to the beginning. the thing is that the up arrow key also went to the beginning, and to me that is totally crazy. (actually, i might have this backward, it might be the up arrow key which went to the end of the name. i don't remember.)
Yeah, if gamers are a majority. If not, then democracy will continue to favor the majority point of view, just like it does with pot. Pot smokers vote, they simply get outvoted by squares, and the square majority wins. Do you think gamers are a majority?
I disagree with you. Thru raids by the Business Software Alliance and by lawsuits against end-users, these organizations are "enforcing the law", which happens to be civil law not criminal law. As such, they are law enforcement agencies. They themselves don't send you to jail because they are enforcing civil law thru torts, but they are still enforcing the law. The GP's comment about jail was just hyperbolic synecdoche.
well, yeah maybe, but to be fair it is a *Credit* Report, not a wealth report -- and certainly not a Responsibility Report, though some people (as in this example) use them that way.
it reports your historical use of credit. credit history. it's right there in the name.
so, your beef is with the use of the data, not the data itself, i think.
holy damn Tool artwork is reason enough to buy the CD. but forget CD sales, i dropped five hundred dollars to see them live, including airfare from Alaska. it's a farce to say bands can't make money if they can't control distribution.
terrorism also includes nonlethal destruction of property, such as the Boston Tea Party.
furthermore, soldiers of the American Revolution did in fact decline the prevailing standards of methods of warfare. These methods, such as lining up in rectangles and marching at your opponents, shooting eachother, or only killing infantrymen, might seem absurdly dumb today, but nonetheless that was the way they fought. Our forefathers hid behind trees and camouflaged themselves -- cowardly tactics, according to the British; and thus comparable to the cowardly tactics of today's terrorists, like shooting mortars from schoolyards and dressing up as civilians.
finally, the American revolutionists were a numerical minority.
None of that is to necessarily say that our national forefathers were cowards, or hypocrits, or terrorists; or that today's terrorists are noble, or right, or freedom-fighters; but there is a valid comparison between them.
Hannafords is the bomb. I wish we had them up here in Alaska. Here all we have is Safeway, and Carrs By Safeway. Well, Fred Meyer sells groceries, too, I guess, though it's weird to buy watermelons across the isle from brassieres.
while i agree that the arrest is, you know, 'bad' or whatever, the leagal rationale is:
1. this guy operates a business 2. the business "happens" in the USA, because the "gambling" happens at the user's computer, not at the server off-shore 3. the business violates US law 4. the guy came to the US, so he was arrested
if he didn't want to be arrested, he shouldn't have broken US law then gone to the US -- that's a bad logistical move.
you can think the law is silly, like i do, but we have a similar law for arresting US citizens who go overseas and have sex with children: when the citizens return to the US, we arrest them (if we know about it). you might think that's a silly law, too, but if you don't, then maybe you think it's reasonable to make that arrest; similarly, if you think this gambling law is reasonable, then you would have no problem with the arrest.
so my point is, the appropriate recourse to this silliness is a change to the law, which is best done via the democratic process. don't blame the cops, don't blame the politicians, blame the voters. the voters want it this way, so they get it.
You should all be sad that Fingerworks keyboards are no longer for sale. (They were essentially two large touch-pads that you could type on, and use gestures on, including full mouse controls.) I heard Apple bought the tech, but nothing seems to have come of that. For a few months after they went out of business, the keyboards were selling for a thousand dollars each (they retailed for three fifty) on eBay, but I held on to mine like it was... well, like it was worth more than a thousand dollars, which it is. It is, quite frankly, God's personal gift to power-users. Using it, my wrist pain completely (one hundred percent) subsided, and my ability to communicate commands to my computer went up by a couple orders of magnitude. It was a totally natural way of sending commands to my OS and programs, completely customizable, perfect for programmers (which I used to be) because it had all the special characters conveniently mapped under the right hand (using a left-hand modifier). The one small gripe I had was that the tiny bumps which helped keep hands in the proper position weren't quite enough, I would have opted for a little bit of texture or something.
If you can find one, buy it and guard it with your life.
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Yes I have and so have you: right in the story of the article, which mentions the "new" email service from Yahoo, different from the old email service from Yahoo, and this new one has been "dubbed Beta", which is to say, it is called Beta to distinguish it from the old system. Hence, as per my dictionary's definition, by distinguishing the new email system from the old by nicknaming, or giving it the unofficial name of 'beta', the new system was dubbed "Beta".
dub - verb ( dubbed , dubbing ) [ trans. ] - give an unofficial name or nickname to (someone or something)
My quibble is with your comment that the grandparent didn't know what the word means. The grandparent may also have used a sense of another of the definitions of the word, which is to dub a person as a knight, used metaphorically here to give "Beta" the aura of a special high title. Normally, programmers wouldn't call "Beta" a high honor, but it has been used as marketing jargon.
Really the word derives from "double", and the sense is that you are giving a second name or title to a thing or person. I think the word was used reasonably, showing that the beta moniker is a sort of second name for the software.
Or, shit, maybe the guy doesn't know what the word means.
i disagree with you and agree with the grandparent.
"beta" has been applied to both systems as a moniker, not just to show its development status. you have made the mistake of having too narrow a definition for the use of the word "beta". the grandparent is right, they were both "dubbed" "Beta" because they are both called "beta" as a title or nickname.
Sorry let me be more clear.
If you have a line of text, and have some text in the middle of the line selected, and it's single-line text, then on a Mac, left goes to the beginning of the selection, right goes to the end of the selection, but up goes to the front of the whole line, and down goes to the end of the whole line. On windows, it's the same except for down, which also goes to the beginning of the line. I was totally flaberghasted when I encountered it, because I know that some programmer coded a certain case to handle a certain event, so that a DOWN ARROW event in that context would explicitly put the cursor at the front of the line of text -- and to me, that's so crazy I can't imagine any reasonable programmer, or UI designer, deciding that's the right thing to do.
That's all I'm saying.
okay, i agree with you, the UI on the DVD player might be suboptimal, but it's not exactly absurdly non-understandable.
that seems like a good point about the DVD player buttons, but i think you missed the obvious, which is that the buttons are designed to be pushed by your right thumb, which approaches the buttons at an angle, so they put the buttons at that angle. it only stops making sense if you look down with your eyes, which are at a different angle of incidence than your thumb, and you see the little arrow icons printed there for your eyes to see. so, the icons are for your eyes, but the buttons are for your thumb. i think that's reasonable.
also, i don't use windows, but i know lots of people who do, and none of them have ever been confused about how to shut down their computer. i'm just sayin', a good test of how much sense it makes is to look at how much trouble people have with it. frankly, if you are trying to be pedantic about it, there is nothing fundamentally wrong about "Start"ing a shut-down. a shut-down operation, after all, has to "Start" somewhere. personally, i think having it in a System menu like on my mac makes more sense, but most people do just fine with XP.
i'll throw in a UI complaint while i'm at it, which is that the last time i used windows trying to change a file name, i clicked on the file name like on my Mac and saw the text selected like on my Mac. well i wanted to move the cursor, i think to the end of the filename, so i pressed the down-arrow key, which on my Mac takes you to the end of the text, but lo on windows it took me to the beginning. the thing is that the up arrow key also went to the beginning, and to me that is totally crazy. (actually, i might have this backward, it might be the up arrow key which went to the end of the name. i don't remember.)
Yeah, if gamers are a majority. If not, then democracy will continue to favor the majority point of view, just like it does with pot. Pot smokers vote, they simply get outvoted by squares, and the square majority wins. Do you think gamers are a majority?
literally? literally literally!?
the word you are looking for is figuratively
point of language: the phrase is toe the line
I disagree with you. Thru raids by the Business Software Alliance and by lawsuits against end-users, these organizations are "enforcing the law", which happens to be civil law not criminal law. As such, they are law enforcement agencies. They themselves don't send you to jail because they are enforcing civil law thru torts, but they are still enforcing the law. The GP's comment about jail was just hyperbolic synecdoche.
well, yeah maybe, but to be fair it is a *Credit* Report, not a wealth report -- and certainly not a Responsibility Report, though some people (as in this example) use them that way.
it reports your historical use of credit. credit history. it's right there in the name.
so, your beef is with the use of the data, not the data itself, i think.
you can do that. you just have to pay for the report, same as the employer.
you mean, like repealing that silly law?
/i don't know that law so i can't really say.
no matter, this is a case of employers calling the creditors, so your law wouldn't apply.
still waiting for gapless audio.
what other players feature gapless audio?
holy damn Tool artwork is reason enough to buy the CD. but forget CD sales, i dropped five hundred dollars to see them live, including airfare from Alaska. it's a farce to say bands can't make money if they can't control distribution.
and that 3D shit on 10,000 days is a real trip.
terrorism also includes nonlethal destruction of property, such as the Boston Tea Party.
furthermore, soldiers of the American Revolution did in fact decline the prevailing standards of methods of warfare. These methods, such as lining up in rectangles and marching at your opponents, shooting eachother, or only killing infantrymen, might seem absurdly dumb today, but nonetheless that was the way they fought. Our forefathers hid behind trees and camouflaged themselves -- cowardly tactics, according to the British; and thus comparable to the cowardly tactics of today's terrorists, like shooting mortars from schoolyards and dressing up as civilians.
finally, the American revolutionists were a numerical minority.
None of that is to necessarily say that our national forefathers were cowards, or hypocrits, or terrorists; or that today's terrorists are noble, or right, or freedom-fighters; but there is a valid comparison between them.
Was all of the hype about blogger power just that -- hype?
Yes.
Excel also runs on Mac OS, which is listed as good software.
Indeed! The comma was severed from the dot of the needed semicolon.
whatever, wifekiller
I see you, too, have read "1984". In it, Orwell explains that one purpose of continuous warfare was to drive the economy.
Hannafords is the bomb. I wish we had them up here in Alaska. Here all we have is Safeway, and Carrs By Safeway. Well, Fred Meyer sells groceries, too, I guess, though it's weird to buy watermelons across the isle from brassieres.
while i agree that the arrest is, you know, 'bad' or whatever, the leagal rationale is:
1. this guy operates a business
2. the business "happens" in the USA, because the "gambling" happens at the user's computer, not at the server off-shore
3. the business violates US law
4. the guy came to the US, so he was arrested
if he didn't want to be arrested, he shouldn't have broken US law then gone to the US -- that's a bad logistical move.
you can think the law is silly, like i do, but we have a similar law for arresting US citizens who go overseas and have sex with children: when the citizens return to the US, we arrest them (if we know about it). you might think that's a silly law, too, but if you don't, then maybe you think it's reasonable to make that arrest; similarly, if you think this gambling law is reasonable, then you would have no problem with the arrest.
so my point is, the appropriate recourse to this silliness is a change to the law, which is best done via the democratic process. don't blame the cops, don't blame the politicians, blame the voters. the voters want it this way, so they get it.
awesome job, misspelling "literate". that's hilarious.
no, no: it's hilareus.
You should all be sad that Fingerworks keyboards are no longer for sale. (They were essentially two large touch-pads that you could type on, and use gestures on, including full mouse controls.) I heard Apple bought the tech, but nothing seems to have come of that. For a few months after they went out of business, the keyboards were selling for a thousand dollars each (they retailed for three fifty) on eBay, but I held on to mine like it was... well, like it was worth more than a thousand dollars, which it is. It is, quite frankly, God's personal gift to power-users. Using it, my wrist pain completely (one hundred percent) subsided, and my ability to communicate commands to my computer went up by a couple orders of magnitude. It was a totally natural way of sending commands to my OS and programs, completely customizable, perfect for programmers (which I used to be) because it had all the special characters conveniently mapped under the right hand (using a left-hand modifier). The one small gripe I had was that the tiny bumps which helped keep hands in the proper position weren't quite enough, I would have opted for a little bit of texture or something.
If you can find one, buy it and guard it with your life.
Fewer pockets full of change, fewer parking tickets, seems like a step forward.