Yeah, he's British born in that first sentence, but he continues "to becoming the first US born CEO of a major Japanese firm." That's kind of an impressive feat.
Why in the world would I want to let a webpage mess up my ALT keys?
It's your browser's fault for binding the Alt key to both functions. Apple does the same thing in Safari: Ctrl + E usually moves to the end of the line (like in Emacs), but not on Wikipedia, where E is an "access key", which Safari also binds to Ctrl + E...
A hypothesis, then: There are rules for gender in German (and presumably the Latinate languages and others), but they're unclear.
There might have been rules, but as the vocabulary increased and changed, new words that didn't fit the rules were forced into the gender system. Soon, the original rules became hard to identify.
What's the saying... "Give a man a fish, and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and you have fed him for a lifetime." We're talking about getting a life back on track here.
Those examples describe sentence tonality, not word tonality. The point is that English does not have a "minimal pair" of words that differ only in word tonality. It would be as if "store" in "We're going to the store?" had two different meanings, pronounced with slightly tonality. The overall tonality of the sentence would still be rising, as in any question.
This phenomenon exists in Norwegian (and Swedish), in pairs like bønder/bønner (same pronounciation, slightly different spelling) and tømmer/tømmer. I don't know Mandarin, but supposedly it has a lot more than just two different tones.
Two months ago, I did consider all of those, while looking for a small (~12") laptop. (Those without optical drives were out of the question, though.) No model was cheaper than the iBook. Some were priced in-between the iBook and the Powerbook, but reviews revealed that the build-quality was cheap. (Apple's hardware is generally of excellent quality.) Fujitsu-Siemens and IBM have some nice ones, but they are even more expensive than the 12" Powerbook.
In the end, I bought the Powerbook, even though I couldn't really justify the extra cost compared to the iBook. Kind of proves the original poster's point:-)
The Linux compatibility issues are a drawback, but for my purposes I'm happy with Apple's Unix.
The iBook is incredibly good value if you're looking for a small laptop. Similarly-priced PCs are all heavy 15-inchers. Even the 12" Powerbook is competitively priced in the small-laptop market.
Proxies are a link in the transmission chain. As such, they have little to do with "publishing" the content. (One could probably argue that proxies do unauthorized publishing, but I'd say that's ridiculous.)
Oh please, the link is called "terms of service". I suggest you read the second paragraph of section 6: "LICENSING AND OTHER TERMS APPLYING TO CONTENT POSTED ON THE OSTG SITES"
I don't think it's obvious (or even desirable) that anyone should be allowed to distribute content long after it's been removed from the original site. That's very different from mere caching of live content.
Does that mean if I visited a website in '99, then turned off the computer and haved turned it back on, that I can be sued for having the page in cache?
No. But you're not allowed to distribute it without permission, either. It's a piece of copyrighted work.
Distributing the content is fundamentally different from just "keeping a copy". Publishing something on the web is not the same as allowing anyone to distribute it.
I believe some of the prejudice against dynamical typing is related to poor scoping (look for the Javascript example someone posted) and the possibility of accidentally introducing a new variable if you happen to misspell one. Neither of these is a problem in Lisp, though. I don't know about Rexx.
Not very successful, I'd say. Why make up false theories? It turned me off, thinking "bah, when Linux does it without vendor support, then Microsoft could have done it too. The reason is obviously something else."
Avoid copy protected CDs and DRM encumbered formats like the plague. They're not worth paying for, because you'll never know for how long you'll be able to play them.
Sometimes I wonder: What if I had to bring out my old 386 to play the music I bought 15 years ago? I'd feel cheated, but today people seem to put up with this. They buy DRM-ed files and copy restricted CDs which happens to work on most of today's equipment, but who knows with the computers and CD players of the (near) future? 15 years is not a long time, really, but computers have evolved immensely in that time.
Wow, I thought that trick stopped working like four years or so ago. I even had one of those kind of entries, but took it out when the search stopped showing them
Four years ago, I remember this worked in Debian's whois, but not in Red Hat's or SuSE's. The output from whois depends on how the searching is done. Given the large number of people "discovering" this today, it looks like Debian's whois variant is more widespread now.
Not really, but I'm still clinging to idealist hopes... If my boss were to dismiss an alternative on such stupid grounds, the decision wouldn't be rational, but foolish, arrogant, and prejudiced. I have a hard time respecting that.
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Yeah, he's British born in that first sentence, but he continues "to becoming the first US born CEO of a major Japanese firm." That's kind of an impressive feat.
Why in the world would I want to let a webpage mess up my ALT keys?
It's your browser's fault for binding the Alt key to both functions. Apple does the same thing in Safari: Ctrl + E usually moves to the end of the line (like in Emacs), but not on Wikipedia, where E is an "access key", which Safari also binds to Ctrl + E ...
A hypothesis, then: There are rules for gender in German (and presumably the Latinate languages and others), but they're unclear.
There might have been rules, but as the vocabulary increased and changed, new words that didn't fit the rules were forced into the gender system. Soon, the original rules became hard to identify.
What's the saying ... "Give a man a fish, and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and you have fed him for a lifetime." We're talking about getting a life back on track here.
Im betting slashdotters will prefer the on with solar panels?
Right ... Leaving all my gadgets in the heat of the sun doesn't sound quite cool to me.
Those examples describe sentence tonality, not word tonality. The point is that English does not have a "minimal pair" of words that differ only in word tonality. It would be as if "store" in "We're going to the store?" had two different meanings, pronounced with slightly tonality. The overall tonality of the sentence would still be rising, as in any question.
This phenomenon exists in Norwegian (and Swedish), in pairs like bønder/bønner (same pronounciation, slightly different spelling) and tømmer/tømmer. I don't know Mandarin, but supposedly it has a lot more than just two different tones.
Check out Eric Bachard's presentation over at the OOo conference media archive: "Mac OS X Port - the Start of the Art"
Two months ago, I did consider all of those, while looking for a small (~12") laptop. (Those without optical drives were out of the question, though.) No model was cheaper than the iBook. Some were priced in-between the iBook and the Powerbook, but reviews revealed that the build-quality was cheap. (Apple's hardware is generally of excellent quality.) Fujitsu-Siemens and IBM have some nice ones, but they are even more expensive than the 12" Powerbook.
:-)
In the end, I bought the Powerbook, even though I couldn't really justify the extra cost compared to the iBook. Kind of proves the original poster's point
The Linux compatibility issues are a drawback, but for my purposes I'm happy with Apple's Unix.
The iBook is incredibly good value if you're looking for a small laptop. Similarly-priced PCs are all heavy 15-inchers. Even the 12" Powerbook is competitively priced in the small-laptop market.
Proxies are a link in the transmission chain. As such, they have little to do with "publishing" the content. (One could probably argue that proxies do unauthorized publishing, but I'd say that's ridiculous.)
>However, if you RTFA'd,
I'm not commenting on the article, I'm questioning the twisted views expressed by some of the posters here.
Oh please, the link is called "terms of service". I suggest you read the second paragraph of section 6: "LICENSING AND OTHER TERMS APPLYING TO CONTENT POSTED ON THE OSTG SITES"
Through Slashdot's terms of service, I have given them permission to redistribute my comments. So have you.
I don't think it's obvious (or even desirable) that anyone should be allowed to distribute content long after it's been removed from the original site. That's very different from mere caching of live content.
The copyright holder is the only one who can give such permission, for example via a copyleft license (GPL, CC, etc.).
Does that mean if I visited a website in '99, then turned off the computer and haved turned it back on, that I can be sued for having the page in cache?
No. But you're not allowed to distribute it without permission, either. It's a piece of copyrighted work.
Why would a missing robots.txt imply that others are allowed to distribute the content?
Distributing the content is fundamentally different from just "keeping a copy". Publishing something on the web is not the same as allowing anyone to distribute it.
"I'm a bug author. Today I've written five bugs!" Sounds like a nice career choice ...
I believe some of the prejudice against dynamical typing is related to poor scoping (look for the Javascript example someone posted) and the possibility of accidentally introducing a new variable if you happen to misspell one. Neither of these is a problem in Lisp, though. I don't know about Rexx.
Not very successful, I'd say. Why make up false theories? It turned me off, thinking "bah, when Linux does it without vendor support, then Microsoft could have done it too. The reason is obviously something else."
Avoid copy protected CDs and DRM encumbered formats like the plague. They're not worth paying for, because you'll never know for how long you'll be able to play them.
Sometimes I wonder: What if I had to bring out my old 386 to play the music I bought 15 years ago? I'd feel cheated, but today people seem to put up with this. They buy DRM-ed files and copy restricted CDs which happens to work on most of today's equipment, but who knows with the computers and CD players of the (near) future? 15 years is not a long time, really, but computers have evolved immensely in that time.
Wow, I thought that trick stopped working like four years or so ago. I even had one of those kind of entries, but took it out when the search stopped showing them
Four years ago, I remember this worked in Debian's whois, but not in Red Hat's or SuSE's. The output from whois depends on how the searching is done. Given the large number of people "discovering" this today, it looks like Debian's whois variant is more widespread now.
Not really, but I'm still clinging to idealist hopes... If my boss were to dismiss an alternative on such stupid grounds, the decision wouldn't be rational, but foolish, arrogant, and prejudiced. I have a hard time respecting that.
I'd expect anyone serious about management to see past stupid first impressions and consider the real product. "You can't judge a book by its cover."