If you can sympathize with someone who can't be bothered to properly learn his own damned language
Well, I didn't really sympathize with him. I did say he should know better, and he should. I then left him behind and went on to rant about English itself. For many other languages it's just not an issue. In Spanish, for instance, spelling is simple and consistent. It's trivial to read and properly pronounce words you've never seen.
then you can just as easily sympathize with someone who isn't familiar enough with managing his own computer to recognize the difference between a valid system error message popup and one of these ads!
I didn't say anything at all about it. And in fact I'd be much more inclined to excuse the latter. Lanugage is taught from childhood, but most people have no formal training at all in computers.
The added "O" changes the s sound, therefore there is only one "O" to make is "lose", and two to make is "loose" - really, it's not that hard to remember.
You're right! I don't know why I couldn't see it before. Another good example of what you're saying is the word "hose"... oh wait, maybe not.
Yeah, he should know better, but English is so fucked up you have to memorize spellings. lose ought to have a double o in it. Why would "lose" be pronounced with an ooo sound? It ought to be spelled looz. And why don't food and good rhyme? English is so filled with "proprietary" spellings you'd think Microsoft invented it.
yeah, and only 500 bucks. 600 if you want to stand up. I'm stunned. How in the hell can it possibly be worth anything even close to that?
They ship it in a flat box. So when you open it you're confronted with some steel tubing, a platform, a light, and some wheels. For which you've paid $500. At that point how could you not feel like an idiot?
Originally you could gain access to a secret OS X middle layer API which the general developing community wasn't privy to by subscribing to the OS X developers network.
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I don't mean to belit achievement, but that's not exactly the trouncing that "crushed" brings to mind.
If you don't mind my asking, what made you give it up?
It stopped being fun. When you have to win to pay the bills, you've got to park your butt in that chair whether you want to be there or not. And it's not a particularly interesting job, either. Also, the smoke began to get to me (although in California that's no longer an issue.)
I made a good living, but I wasn't getting rich, and I knew I didn't have the "extra something" that turns a good player into a great one.
So now I play when I want to, pick up some nice extra cash on the side, and for work I get to do something that's more interesting and stimulating.
If you only play "the nuts," then you'll never get anywhere.
You're right. That is the other 2%. And yes, the higher you go the more you have to mix it up. For what it's worth, I played full time for several years before returning to programming.
However, as I explained in my previous post, this isn't necessary as modern compilers will optimize the temporary variable away.
Sure, but there still could be substantial work avoided with direct access to the assignee. It may turn out that a few simple changes are all that's required, but without access an entire object has to be constructed anyway.
The chances of getting two specific cards is something like 1/52 * 1/52
Only if the order matters. If you can get them in either order, the chances are 2/52 * 1/51.
On your page there are some (rather large) errors.
Keeping a kicker when drawing to a pair is, well, crazy. Your chances of making two pair are slightly higher, but your chances of making trips and especially quads is greatly reduced.
Also, on a "normal" draw poker machine, it's not correct to go for an inside straight rather than keep a high card. In fact, it's so wrong that it's better to throw away your whole hand rather than draw to the inside straight.
I haven't closely looked at the rest of it, but you close with the statement "You will lose." On a "9-6" machine (full house pays 9, flush 6) with perfect play you'll lose less than half a percent. If you figure in casino incentives (cash back, comped meals and rooms) it's a pretty good deal. There are even some wild-card video poker machines that with perfect play yield slightly greater than a 100% return.
Again with the inane bickering over the words "stealing" and "theft". The word "theft" is more identifiable, more accurate in many people's minds*, and sounds worse.
Words have meanings. And words carry connotations. You are using the incorrect word simply because you like the connotation it carries. And then once you've "established" your use of the word, you sling it about, splashing mud everywhere.
Yeah, and that big fucking ESPN logo blocking the action. In Latin America they even stick a "vivo" below it. Makes watching tennis damn near impossible. The guy on the far end is actually covered up by the logo about a third of the time.
if you think that for one minute that their goal with Mac OS X was *anything* except to capitalize on and commercialize the success of open source development and take financial advantage of the Linux movement, then *you* are the one living in your own reality distortion field.
I'm not so sure. Jobs is obsessed with making great things. If he chose to use open source software it was because he believed that with it could produce a great product. If he didn't think he could then no amount of money would have changed his decision.
The fast user switching can be used like that. And you get the added benefit that each desktop is under a different user name, with its own file permissions, making it easier to hide your porn.
Copyright violation, particularly this kind of intentional *piracy*, is theft, legally and ethically.
No it's not. And now you even change your words. Originally you said people were "stealing their music." That's obviously wrong, because they still have their music. Stealing involves taking the item away from the owner. Now you just say it's theft, without specifying theft of what. I presume you're now ready to weasel into saying something like "theft of potential income." That's still not stealing. Stealing is a specific term from which it is handy for you to borrow the connotation, but it's disingenuous as you do so without sitcking to the actual definition.
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Well, I didn't really sympathize with him. I did say he should know better, and he should. I then left him behind and went on to rant about English itself. For many other languages it's just not an issue. In Spanish, for instance, spelling is simple and consistent. It's trivial to read and properly pronounce words you've never seen.
then you can just as easily sympathize with someone who isn't familiar enough with managing his own computer to recognize the difference between a valid system error message popup and one of these ads!
I didn't say anything at all about it. And in fact I'd be much more inclined to excuse the latter. Lanugage is taught from childhood, but most people have no formal training at all in computers.
You're right! I don't know why I couldn't see it before. Another good example of what you're saying is the word "hose" ... oh wait, maybe not.
Yeah, he should know better, but English is so fucked up you have to memorize spellings. lose ought to have a double o in it. Why would "lose" be pronounced with an ooo sound? It ought to be spelled looz.
And why don't food and good rhyme? English is so filled with "proprietary" spellings you'd think Microsoft invented it.
They ship it in a flat box. So when you open it you're confronted with some steel tubing, a platform, a light, and some wheels. For which you've paid $500. At that point how could you not feel like an idiot?
You're full of shit.
There is one. It's called "Reply to This."
You're right.
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I don't mean to belit achievement, but that's not exactly the trouncing that "crushed" brings to mind.
It stopped being fun. When you have to win to pay the bills, you've got to park your butt in that chair whether you want to be there or not. And it's not a particularly interesting job, either. Also, the smoke began to get to me (although in California that's no longer an issue.)
I made a good living, but I wasn't getting rich, and I knew I didn't have the "extra something" that turns a good player into a great one.
So now I play when I want to, pick up some nice extra cash on the side, and for work I get to do something that's more interesting and stimulating.
You're right. That is the other 2%. And yes, the higher you go the more you have to mix it up. For what it's worth, I played full time for several years before returning to programming.
The first post made me laugh, then you topped him. Yet neither one has been modded Funny. Maybe you needed to mention Soviet Russia or something.
Sure, but there still could be substantial work avoided with direct access to the assignee. It may turn out that a few simple changes are all that's required, but without access an entire object has to be constructed anyway.
Only if the order matters. If you can get them in either order, the chances are 2/52 * 1/51.
On your page there are some (rather large) errors.
Keeping a kicker when drawing to a pair is, well, crazy. Your chances of making two pair are slightly higher, but your chances of making trips and especially quads is greatly reduced.
Also, on a "normal" draw poker machine, it's not correct to go for an inside straight rather than keep a high card. In fact, it's so wrong that it's better to throw away your whole hand rather than draw to the inside straight.
I haven't closely looked at the rest of it, but you close with the statement "You will lose." On a "9-6" machine (full house pays 9, flush 6) with perfect play you'll lose less than half a percent. If you figure in casino incentives (cash back, comped meals and rooms) it's a pretty good deal. There are even some wild-card video poker machines that with perfect play yield slightly greater than a 100% return.
You watch too many movies. Limit poker is 98% just playing your hand. Throw away the bad ones, play agressively with the good ones. The end.
That's "Try to be a correct one." I do think you're right about the original point, though.
Words have meanings. And words carry connotations. You are using the incorrect word simply because you like the connotation it carries. And then once you've "established" your use of the word, you sling it about, splashing mud everywhere.
Precision matters.
I see four. Given the quality of the post to which it's attached, I'd say that's below expectation.
Yeah, and that big fucking ESPN logo blocking the action. In Latin America they even stick a "vivo" below it. Makes watching tennis damn near impossible. The guy on the far end is actually covered up by the logo about a third of the time.
Can you think of any situation where it would be better to be sorry than safe?
Right. Which is why when some text reads "three times faster" it's almost always actually three times as fast, or two times "faster."
Here ya go.
Muslim is not a race. However, his predjudice does speak for itself.
I'm not so sure. Jobs is obsessed with making great things. If he chose to use open source software it was because he believed that with it could produce a great product. If he didn't think he could then no amount of money would have changed his decision.
The fast user switching can be used like that. And you get the added benefit that each desktop is under a different user name, with its own file permissions, making it easier to hide your porn.
No it's not. And now you even change your words. Originally you said people were "stealing their music." That's obviously wrong, because they still have their music. Stealing involves taking the item away from the owner.
Now you just say it's theft, without specifying theft of what. I presume you're now ready to weasel into saying something like "theft of potential income." That's still not stealing. Stealing is a specific term from which it is handy for you to borrow the connotation, but it's disingenuous as you do so without sitcking to the actual definition.