Instead of a wiring harness on new Ford automobiles, they have a little Token Ring Network.
When you turn on your headlights, the switch doesn't complete a circuit between your battery, the switch, and the bulb. Instead, your console sends out packets telling the lights to turn on and the lights will recieve the packets and then turn themselves on.
Gauges don't measure a voltage to display fuel/oil/foo. Instead, they have little servo-controllers in them that automatically matches up with the levels that the various sensors send out.
I am very interested in your:Cue:Cat bar code scanner and immediately went to Radio Shack to purchase one. They gave me one and I went home and starting using it. I tried to install your software but it asked for too much of my personal information, so I canceled the installation. At no time did I ever agree to any End User License Agreement.
Now, it seems that there is some agreement that I must comply with on your website. I never saw this before I started useing my scanner, does it still apply to me?
My primary operating system, Linux, has some very basic:Cue:Cat support that just recently recieved a Cease and Desist letter from your company. I've already downloaded and currently use this support. Again, does this apply to me?
I am very happy with the:Cue:Cat barcode scanner, but to deny me Linux support seems very detrimental to the wide spread acceptance of this device. You could easily design a Java (or even JavaScript) program that scans barcodes and points people to the proper website. These programs would run on any computer operating system and increase the popularity of the:Cue:Cat.
There is a large market of Linux, and other non-Windows consumers out there. Please try not to offend them or deny them from using this wonderful barcode scanner.
THank you,
***(grammar nazi's identity withheld to protect the innocent)
You need to read the article more closely. I am a grammar nazi, not a lawyer, so the following may not be correct. It seems that the subsidiary of AOL that originally created Gnutella is suing AOL and Time Warner in order to protect itself, in the event that it is sued.
In other words, that company is covering their ass.
All three companies have disowned the project as soon as they realized the consequences of it. I think this is a liability lawsuit.
Alien accents that create racial prejudice (Jar Jar now sounds like a good old midwestern Starbucks coffee drinking and Barns & Noble reading US citizen).
Although Nautilus seems like an impressive file browser/opener/whatever, it reinforced the fact that I prefer the command line to a browser any day.
Some of the features that I didn't care for in Nautilus include:
It quits playing MP3s if you leave the directory while they are playing.
It displays all my pr0n pix that I try to hide by giving unrelated names (e.g. tmp_proc_img.jpg shows a thumbnail of Silvia Saint).
It doesn't provide a 'killer-ap' reason for me to use it instead of a command line. It's Mozilla inclusion may eventually change my mind, but for now, Galeon or Netscape work fine.
It doesn't view any of the 'files' in my/proc directory. Viewing the proc 'files' would be a nice feature.
There are some good points to Nautilus:
Contrary to what many people said on Slashdot today, it wasn't slow at all. It was rather large (20+ MB) but I thought that it was just as fast as any other file browser.
Since it uses the GTK widgets, it fits in nicely with all of my other Gnome apps.
It installed easily and ran immediately (more of a necessity than a feature). I'm not sure why all of the files need to be located or linked to the root directory, but that's hopefully only for the preview release.
"Fuck" does NOT stand for "for unlawful carnal knowledge" or "fornication under consent of the king". It is not an acronym for anything at all.
It is a very old word, recorded in English since the 15th century (few acronyms predate the 20th century), with cognates in other Germanic languages. The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-394-54427-7) cites Middle Dutch fokken = "to thrust, copulate with"; Norwegian dialect fukka = "to copulate"; and Swedish dialect focka = "to strike, push, copulate" and fock = "penis". Although German ficken may enter the picture somehow, it is problematic in having e-grade, or umlaut, where all the others have o-grade or zero-grade of the vowel.
AHD1, following Pokorny, derived "feud", "fey", "fickle", "foe", and "fuck" from an Indo-European root *peig2 = "hostile"; but AHD2 and AHD3 have dropped this connection for "fuck" and give no pre-Germanic etymon for it. Eric Partridge, in the 7th edition of Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Macmillan, 1970), said that "fuck" "almost certainly" comes from the Indo-European root *peuk- = "to prick" (which is the source of the English words "compunction", "expunge", "impugn", "poignant", "point", "pounce", "pugilist", "punctuate", "puncture", "pungent", and "pygmy"). Robert Claiborne, in The Roots of English: A Reader's Handbook of Word Origin (Times, 1989) agrees that this is "probably" the etymon. Problems with such theories include a distribution that suggests a North-Sea Germanic areal form rather than an inherited one; the murkiness of the phonetic relations; and the fact that no alleged cognate outside Germanic has sexual connotations.
"One should never embed double quotes within double quotes as the following Slashdot article does.
"Inforum writes: "From the Ericsson Web site: "Ericsson and Red Hat announced a strategic initiative to develop a new range of consumer products and services for home communications. They will develop consumer products combining existing industry standards, such as Java, and the latest open source technologies, such as Embedded Red Hat Linux. The products will also support existing and evolving standards such as broadband networking and Bluetooth..." Then I wonder: what will happen to Symbian?""
One method to avoid this is to use single quotes for the inner comments. For multiply nested quotations, one should alternate double and single quotes (the Javascript method) or rewrite the article altogether."
Please be more careful in the future. Thank you for improving the quality of Slashdot
sploits (from the story title) = Yet Another Slashdot Nonword! Please, readers of slashdot, don't make up words when you write. I know that sometimes it takes too much effort to speak a whole extra syllable, hence we abbreviate words when speaking. In the case of 'exploit' you are only dropping one letter to make it into 'sploit'. Dropping the extra syllable is not important in reading. Dropping the letter doesn't justify the consequent grammar problems. It's one letter 'e' that is already close to 'x' on the keyboard. Since 'x' is below 's' on the keyboard, it takes no more effort to keep it as an 'ex'.
Tytso writes:
The problem is that it seems pretty clear that given a buffer overrun attack which can be exploitable without the stack-exec patch, it's possible to transform that attack into an exploit which will work with the stack-exec patch present.
The grammar nazi is not quite sure what to make of this sentence. Why wouldn't the stack-exec patch do what it was supposed to do and prevent any buffer overrun attack? If you are arguing the age old "build a thicker door and the enemy will build a bigger ram to knock it down with" debate, then dugh. Thanks for stating the obvious. The only fact that this sentence efficiently points out is that tytso likes unclear run-on sentences.
Please allow the grammar nazi to shed some light on the subject in his time honored tradition: mir Etymology: Russian Date: 1877 : a village community in czarist Russia in which land was owned jointly but cultivated by individual families
Zarya A city of north-central Nigeria south-southwest of Kano. It is a processing center in a cotton-growing region. Population, 267,300. This is not dawn as implied by our friend DigitalDragon.
Grammar nazi's conclusions: If you search for zvezda at dictionary.com, then you will get over 2 MB of zip codes. That is not nice. DigitalDragon is also not nice for supplying false information.
Ugh? The double period interupt gave me problems for.. Whenever I would change thoughts and didn't..
Sometimes I would even begin the next thought with.. ..if the interupt was related to the first sentence.
Don't think of it as good grammar, think of it as creativity! Go with the triple-puncuations.. .. and don't forget to use apostrophes for the word don't..
From my first google search, I found this. From that page I found out that HPA stands for and googled for it: High.Performance.Addressing
Why the dots between the words? Because this way google knows to only find pages where the words are connected. Anyway this search lead to a very nice definition at our friendly Webopedia site:
Short for High-Performance Addressing, an passive-matrix display technology the provides better response rates and contrast than conventional LCD displays. Although HPA displays aren't quite as crisp or fast as active-matrix (TFT) displays, they're considerably less expensive to produce. Consequently, HPA is being used by a number of computer manufacturers for their low-end notebook computers.
This was nice, but other pages even compared HPA with other other types of LCDs.
Like your computer, google is a tool. Use it wisely.
That 'large suburb of Detroit' comment deserves a big (-1, Flamebait).
The grammar nazi originally grew up in the Detroit area. Between the ages of 19 and 21, I've frequented Canadian bars where the drinking age is a very convenient 19+ years.
During some shopping trips to Canada to buy music CDs I've noticed that they seem to worry a lot more about cassette tape reproduction. Every tape I've seen has a sticker on it reminding people that illegal reproduction of music is akin to murder, rape, and treason. Perhaps this strong approach that Canadians took with cassette tapes carries over to online media.
PowerPC with a PCI bus? Go with Yellow Dog Linux or LinuxPPC.
PowerPC with a NuBus bus? Go with MkLinux. That's what I use.
Old mac like the one that you mention? Try out Linux m68k.
The m68k is the processor of pre-PowerPCs. Supposedly, Red Hat, Debian, and Whiteline have distributions with the Linux m68k processor. I'm anxious to try these out because I have a old Mac beast that has three 68k processors. This thing will fly!!!! I doubt that you'll get any window manager to run. It may only be useful as a terminal. My triprocessor will be useful as three terminals;-)
I agree that Slashcode is a good idea. I've set up Slashcode as a family website. The only problem is getting people to consistantly read it. As more and more important news appears one my Slashsite my relatives are reading it more and more often.
One thing which I've learned from usnig Slashcode with my relatives is that a Slashsite can be a complicated beast for the average net user. I've had to do things such as removing certain buttons and preferences and rewording things different ways. These changes were all in attempt to make the sight easier to use.
I'm sure that my karma will plummit for pointing this out, but come on HeUnique, where is your sense of grammar?
For starters, I'm a little confused about the past-present tense in the first sentence. Your sentence makes sense, but you might have said it better like this:
Infoworld has an article about Borland's announcement at the Borland Developers' conference - JBuilder will be available next year for Mac OS X with support for the Apple's upcoming Aqua GUI.
Why does Developers' conference get an apostrophe but developers community doesn't? The last complete sentence is utter persiflage and should have been left out.
Would a Slashdot author please make these corrections and then moderate my post down?
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When you turn on your headlights, the switch doesn't complete a circuit between your battery, the switch, and the bulb. Instead, your console sends out packets telling the lights to turn on and the lights will recieve the packets and then turn themselves on.
Gauges don't measure a voltage to display fuel/oil/foo. Instead, they have little servo-controllers in them that automatically matches up with the levels that the various sensors send out.
I am very interested in your :Cue:Cat bar code scanner and immediately went to Radio Shack to purchase one. They gave me one and I went home and starting using it. I tried to install your software but it asked for too much of my personal information, so I canceled the installation. At no time did I ever agree to any End User License Agreement.
Now, it seems that there is some agreement that I must comply with on your website. I never saw this before I started useing my scanner, does it still apply to me?
My primary operating system, Linux, has some very basic :Cue:Cat support that just recently recieved a Cease and Desist letter from your company. I've already downloaded and currently use this support. Again, does this apply to me?
I am very happy with the :Cue:Cat barcode scanner, but to deny me Linux support seems very detrimental to the wide spread acceptance of this device. You could easily design a Java (or even JavaScript) program that scans barcodes and points people to the proper website. These programs would run on any computer operating system and increase the popularity of the :Cue:Cat.
There is a large market of Linux, and other non-Windows consumers out there. Please try not to offend them or deny them from using this wonderful barcode scanner.
THank you,
***(grammar nazi's identity withheld to protect the innocent)
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What about software glitches? There are many more software glitches than hardware glitches
In other words, that company is covering their ass.
All three companies have disowned the project as soon as they realized the consequences of it. I think this is a liability lawsuit.
You said that better than the grammar nazi, himself! Well done, friend.
Jar Jar Binks dead.
Alien accents that create racial prejudice (Jar Jar now sounds like a good old midwestern Starbucks coffee drinking and Barns & Noble reading US citizen).
Excellent acting.
Darth Maul (died before his time IMHO).
Natalie Portman naked (sorry Slashdotters).
Although Nautilus seems like an impressive file browser/opener/whatever, it reinforced the fact that I prefer the command line to a browser any day.
Some of the features that I didn't care for in Nautilus include:
It quits playing MP3s if you leave the directory while they are playing.
It displays all my pr0n pix that I try to hide by giving unrelated names (e.g. tmp_proc_img.jpg shows a thumbnail of Silvia Saint).
It doesn't provide a 'killer-ap' reason for me to use it instead of a command line. It's Mozilla inclusion may eventually change my mind, but for now, Galeon or Netscape work fine.
It doesn't view any of the 'files' in my /proc directory. Viewing the proc 'files' would be a nice feature.
There are some good points to Nautilus:
Contrary to what many people said on Slashdot today, it wasn't slow at all. It was rather large (20+ MB) but I thought that it was just as fast as any other file browser.
Since it uses the GTK widgets, it fits in nicely with all of my other Gnome apps.
It installed easily and ran immediately (more of a necessity than a feature). I'm not sure why all of the files need to be located or linked to the root directory, but that's hopefully only for the preview release.
"Fuck"
"Fuck" does NOT stand for "for unlawful carnal knowledge" or "fornication under consent of the king". It is not an acronym for anything at all.
It is a very old word, recorded in English since the 15th century (few acronyms predate the 20th century), with cognates in other Germanic languages. The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang (Random House, 1994, ISBN 0-394-54427-7) cites Middle Dutch fokken = "to thrust, copulate with"; Norwegian dialect fukka = "to copulate"; and Swedish dialect focka = "to strike, push, copulate" and fock = "penis". Although German ficken may enter the picture somehow, it is problematic in having e-grade, or umlaut, where all the others have o-grade or zero-grade of the vowel.
AHD1, following Pokorny, derived "feud", "fey", "fickle", "foe", and "fuck" from an Indo-European root *peig2 = "hostile"; but AHD2 and AHD3 have dropped this connection for "fuck" and give no pre-Germanic etymon for it. Eric Partridge, in the 7th edition of Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Macmillan, 1970), said that "fuck" "almost certainly" comes from the Indo-European root *peuk- = "to prick" (which is the source of the English words "compunction", "expunge", "impugn", "poignant", "point", "pounce", "pugilist", "punctuate", "puncture", "pungent", and "pygmy"). Robert Claiborne, in The Roots of English: A Reader's Handbook of Word Origin (Times, 1989) agrees that this is "probably" the etymon. Problems with such theories include a distribution that suggests a North-Sea Germanic areal form rather than an inherited one; the murkiness of the phonetic relations; and the fact that no alleged cognate outside Germanic has sexual connotations.
AHD = American Heritage Dictionary
What about starting and administering a school Slashsite? Code available HERE!
Please, readers of slashdot, don't make up words when you write. I know that sometimes it takes too much effort to speak a whole extra syllable, hence we abbreviate words when speaking. In the case of 'exploit' you are only dropping one letter to make it into 'sploit'. Dropping the extra syllable is not important in reading. Dropping the letter doesn't justify the consequent grammar problems. It's one letter 'e' that is already close to 'x' on the keyboard. Since 'x' is below 's' on the keyboard, it takes no more effort to keep it as an 'ex'.
Tytso writes:
The grammar nazi is not quite sure what to make of this sentence. Why wouldn't the stack-exec patch do what it was supposed to do and prevent any buffer overrun attack? If you are arguing the age old "build a thicker door and the enemy will build a bigger ram to knock it down with" debate, then dugh. Thanks for stating the obvious. The only fact that this sentence efficiently points out is that tytso likes unclear run-on sentences.oligopoly:
a market situation in which each of a few producers affects but does not control the market
Now I will use this new word in a sentence:
mir
Etymology: Russian
Date: 1877
: a village community in czarist Russia in which land was owned jointly but cultivated by individual families
zvezda
Translates directly to star.
Zarya
A city of north-central Nigeria south-southwest of Kano. It is a processing center in a cotton-growing region. Population, 267,300. This is not dawn as implied by our friend DigitalDragon.
Grammar nazi's conclusions:
If you search for zvezda at dictionary.com, then you will get over 2 MB of zip codes. That is not nice. DigitalDragon is also not nice for supplying false information.
Sometimes I would even begin the next thought with..
..if the interupt was related to the first sentence.
Don't think of it as good grammar, think of it as creativity! Go with the triple-puncuations..
.. and don't forget to use apostrophes for the word don't..
You DrEldarion, suck. I will be '-1 redundant' because of you.
Who's Donna and why should she hold her breath?
From my first google search, I found this. From that page I found out that HPA stands for and googled for it: High.Performance.Addressing
Why the dots between the words? Because this way google knows to only find pages where the words are connected. Anyway this search lead to a very nice definition at our friendly Webopedia site:
This was nice, but other pages even compared HPA with other other types of LCDs.Like your computer, google is a tool. Use it wisely.
The grammar nazi originally grew up in the Detroit area. Between the ages of 19 and 21, I've frequented Canadian bars where the drinking age is a very convenient 19+ years.
During some shopping trips to Canada to buy music CDs I've noticed that they seem to worry a lot more about cassette tape reproduction. Every tape I've seen has a sticker on it reminding people that illegal reproduction of music is akin to murder, rape, and treason. Perhaps this strong approach that Canadians took with cassette tapes carries over to online media.
PowerPC with a PCI bus? Go with Yellow Dog Linux or LinuxPPC.
PowerPC with a NuBus bus? Go with MkLinux. That's what I use.
Old mac like the one that you mention? Try out Linux m68k.
The m68k is the processor of pre-PowerPCs. Supposedly, Red Hat, Debian, and Whiteline have distributions with the Linux m68k processor. I'm anxious to try these out because I have a old Mac beast that has three 68k processors. This thing will fly!!!! I doubt that you'll get any window manager to run. It may only be useful as a terminal. My triprocessor will be useful as three terminals ;-)
Start watching Robot Wars on PBS and then you are on you way to becoming a robotics guru (just remember to put heat shielding around everything)!
One thing which I've learned from usnig Slashcode with my relatives is that a Slashsite can be a complicated beast for the average net user. I've had to do things such as removing certain buttons and preferences and rewording things different ways. These changes were all in attempt to make the sight easier to use.
Just released: Update patch 1 for IE 5.5 to fix a gaping security hole!
For starters, I'm a little confused about the past-present tense in the first sentence. Your sentence makes sense, but you might have said it better like this:
Why does Developers' conference get an apostrophe but developers community doesn't? The last complete sentence is utter persiflage and should have been left out.Would a Slashdot author please make these corrections and then moderate my post down?