gosh, and here I thought I was just making a post. I didn't realize that I was to be held to anything other than informal rules of writing.
What part of "I, and many other folks, recently got set to having 50 invites left. While before it was already close to true..." did you think was not "understood by [my] audience?"
Lets see...noun, verb, object? Like, "Run Spot, run" (sarcasm...) or the like? Or how about "I [noun] recently [adverb, modifying the following verb] got [a terrible word I would only use when I don't know that 1,000 english teacher's lives are in the balance....but an intransitive verb none the less, whose existence is justified by the lack of there being a proper way to say something was altered in the past...at least in informal writing] set [a verb] to [preposition]..."
There is after all more than just subject-verb-object. There are all sorts of things that are then taught the second week of kindergarten...
Would you actually prefer that all informal dialogue be as you described?
I dislike post.
Post run home.
They gave invites.
I have invites.
Microsoft blows goats.
There, that better? OOPS!! I mean, "There, IS that better?"
BTW - next time you try to be a grammar nazi, try not using 1,611,512,781,332 too many commas. That, and don't say things like "noun-verb-object," since the object *just might be* a noun too, ya know. Not a very descriptive thing to say. "You take you" is noun-verb-object, yes? Perhaps "subject" might be a better word to use there, so that you are actually understood by your target audience. The rest of us are, after all, pale in comparison to your blazing intellect. We might miss things that you consider to be obvious.
A piece of advice, particularly for those who don't speak English as their native language: Stick to simple sentences. Noun-verb-object.
How about "A piece of advice, particularly for those for whom English is not [we're not "speaking" here, after all] their native language; [that's *semicolon*, not colon] stick [keeping the "s" an "s" instead of "S" since "stick" is not starting a new sentence, nor is it a proper noun] to simple sentences with a subject, verb, and object. Much better - would you disagree?
"...but you're way more likely..." Way? No way! Rock on, dude! Righteous!
You'll need to stoop down a little so that we can pick up some of those rays of sunshine your happiness exudes.
Not to be a jerk, but grammar nazism has no place in informal writing...esp a forums-type place like/. ; )
people step on each other's toes. If you have Thing X that someone needs to hack on, having 5 other people trying to create the same Thing X accomplishes nothing other than making 4 people have no sense of ownership. Sure, it instills competition between them, but...
In reality, some of the brightest, most talented folk in OSS have personalities that don't quite...umm...lend well to working well with others in certain ways. I can't imagine RMS working on the exact same widget as...well..anyone, for example.
So you end up having the makings for several different teams, since each team can then let folk have their own widgets to work on. Those teams then come up with things like Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Hurd, KDE, Gnome...etc...
there's another google beta product called "gmail."
I, and many other folks, recently got set to having 50 invites left. While before it was already close to true that anyone that wanted one could find one, it is now REALLY true.
Seems their "beta" stuff works better than the first, or even second revision of released code from some other company...
"expect this will never change" is where you lose reason. With chess, this is a reasonable expectation. With almost all of the 211 entries above it...
Seriously. Picture the world in 50 years. Do you really "expect this will never change" when you really take the "never" into consideration? If that site is somehow still up in some fashion or another in even 10 years...explain to me why over 90% of those 211 above chess will be replaced with completely different games.
My issue, really, is that people aren't taking into consideration that they are not going to be kids forever. Eventually, their tastes will change. Its not a question about whether young people like XYZ games, or whether *I* would (being young still myself), its a question of why they'd expect this to be the case for any length of time. Not even "never," just...within 50 years perhaps. Do they really expect the rankings to not change in the next 50 years?
People don't vote honestly. They're just that way.
I might go check out a new game sometime soon though. I might even use that site to help pick one out. We'll see;)
you're right - chess is just a passing fancy. The board game version of Doom3 is here to stay, and definately deserves a higher rating.
50 years from now, no one will even remember that silly "chess" thing anyway...and every man, woman, and child will have seen someone play Doom3 (computer or board). 100 years from now, "chess" will even be removed from history books, dictionaries, and encyclopedias due to its complete irrelevence.
issue: folks that have legit copies, but somehow get tagged as "pirated" for whatever reason. This will occur, and probably on a few thousand systems.
Let 1% of those folks be lawyers, or systems for a government official, etc...and MS is screwed.
No, MS knows they can't do anything maliscious to the flagged copies. Pop up a window every time someone logs in that says its been flagged as an illegal copy, and to contact microsoft? Sure...but nothing else.
user ownership: a tool group ownership: a tool "other" access: a tool
sudo: a tool ACL's: a tool AFS or related: a tool
Tell me where ya got lost.
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there are plenty of those, too.
Like, here. Enter in your zip code, and boom - a list. In my list, there are 3 phones under $20 that only do phone and text messages.
Its so much more fun to complain though. I mean, after all, you have to pay $9 for a phone, whereas everyone else is paying $200 or whatever. Sucks to be you! That's terrible! How do you sleep at night suffering under such injustices? You should demand to pay just as much for your phone as everyone else. And when a salesman tries to pitch a high-priced phone to you, you should refuse to look in the display case and notice that what you want is right there.
because the test results are designed to be a bell curve centering on 100.
What Is "IQ"?
It was also observed that the gaps between children's mental ages and their chronological ages widened as the children got older. The 6-year-old with the mental age of 8 had a mental age of 12 by the time he was 9 and a mental age of 16 by the time he was12. Similarly, the 6-year-old with a mental age of 4 had a mental age of 6 when he was 9 and a mental age of 8 when he was 12. In 1912, the German psychologist, William Stern, noticed that even though the gap between mental age and chronological age widens as a child matures, the ratio of mental age to chronological age remains constant (and, as we will see, remains essentially constant throughout life). This constant ratio of mental age divided by chronological age was given the name "Intelligence Quotient". Actually, the intelligence quotient is defined as 100 times the Mental Age (MA) divided by the Chronological Age (CA).
"IQ" is a very flawed standard, only in part for how it deals with non-children. However, an IQ of 100 on a 10 year old means they have the normal mental capacity of a 10 year old. The bell curve rests there. A 10 year old that has the mental capacity of a 9 year old has a a 90 IQ. It you had a 170 IQ at 17, that merely meant you had the Mental Age of a 28.9 year old. In theory.
So yes - half the population has an MA that is higher than their CA, and half the population has an MA that is lower than their CA. That's the way the system was devised (a system which quickly breaks down and becomes irrelevant once someone isn't a child).
Tada! As Paul Harvey says..."and now you know, the rest of the story."
Absolutely - thus the last line of my post - Soon, hopefully, Linux won't be at MS's whim that much. But for now...they're letting us get any gains we have.
I'll repeat what someone else above said: MS Linux. MS Linux that works with MS Office, but gives allllll the shiny benefits of Linux (with the backing of MS!). Kill all the Linux distros immediately.
Or, they could actually put a decent amount of effort into stopping *local* adoption of Linux. Yes, they fight foreign adoption...but they temper even that. Why? How about that fine they just got in the EU? A bit of an indication they needed to be less agressive...
they are not fighting as hard as they can. They could do so, so much more than they are. They are doing some, yes...
But note something: what they've done with the SCO crap is caused just enough doubt in the big corp's minds...just enough of a credibility hit on Linux due to litigation concerns...to keep the folk with money (ie: the folks that get sued) using MS. Linux, on the other hand, gets what I said - the folks that weren't going to be spending much/any money anyway.
they do fight it in foreign markets, yes, because US courts don't regulate foreign markets. If MS was a monolopy everywhere else in the world, that would be great as far as the US government is concerned.
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ha. They are very capable of squashing serious deployment of Linux out there, and putting it back to the realm of hobbiest-only.
The only reason they're not doing that is the simple fact that they are effectively a monopoly. If they let Linux get a small share, then all that Linux will do is take up some of the slack from people who would have a higher chance of not paying for MS products anyway. What it also does though is give them something to point to. "See! They have some of the market...we're not a monopoly" can be their response to a judge.
Soon, hopefully, Linux won't be at MS's whim that much. But for now...they're letting us get any gains we have.
radio will survive if for 1 reason alone: commutes.
"What about cd's? Couldn't someone just listen to those" you ask.
Sure. But if that was going to kill radio, it would have died with 8tracks, tapes, or...well...cd's. But it hasn't. People want to know what's going on, and nothing visual is appropriate while driving (other than the road, of course). Radio is all it ever needs to be for someone driving an hour commute every morning and evening, 5 days a week.
What about the rest of the time? Who knows. But it will survive, if for no reason other than that. Oh, and the workforce (esp heavy labor) will always want something to listen to as well.
TV, esp broadcast tv? Hard to say. Newspapers? Ouch.
my wife is a gorgeous woman with very little computer expertise. She and I have been very competitive in tuxracer, and it has given us both hours and hours of entertainment.
we (human kind) have a probe on Titan that just landed. We're waiting on the info back from it. This could be one of the most important events in the history of our race.
Yet in 64 minutes, an article on that gets 171 posts ( at >0 ) but this one about spam gets 172 in 32 minutes ( at >0 )?
Half the time, essentially the same # of posts? Where's our "news for nerds" priorities?
Here's the log from the ESA's site. Its in UTC - so we're talkin 23 minutes ago....such a wonderful thing to look forward to
16:20 First data received from Huygens probe
15:26 Confirmation received that Huygens probe data was successfully communicated to the Cassini spacecraft
15:00 First Huygens probe data expected at around 16:00 Probe life has now been over 5 hours
14:10 Playback of probe data begins Ground control confirms that a signal is still being received on Earth from the Huygens probe, suggesting its batteries lasted well beyond the minimum design limit of 2 hours 15 minutes
13:47 Cassini Orbiter has been turned in its orbit to poin the high gain antenna towards Earth
12:30 Confirmation given of signal tracking for at least 2 hours
11:24 Estimated time of surface impact and end of the descent phase
11:23 Descent lamp activated to provide ground reflectivity measurements
11:12 Cassini spacecraft undergoes closest approach to Titan passing at an altitude of 60 000 km at a speed of 5.4 km per second
10:30 Green Bank 110 m telescope confirms a carrier signal from the Huygens probe. Signal indicates that the probe has survived the entry phase and that the instrument payload is active.
perhaps, but I think grandpa and grandma will be just fine on win2000 or xp, then they won't have to worry about buying a new graphics card.
If their system can't handle xp, then they have a bigger problem than just needing to replace a graphics card - which is what the poster was protesting.
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What part of "I, and many other folks, recently got set to having 50 invites left. While before it was already close to true..." did you think was not "understood by [my] audience?"
Lets see...noun, verb, object? Like, "Run Spot, run" (sarcasm...) or the like? Or how about "I [noun] recently [adverb, modifying the following verb] got [a terrible word I would only use when I don't know that 1,000 english teacher's lives are in the balance....but an intransitive verb none the less, whose existence is justified by the lack of there being a proper way to say something was altered in the past...at least in informal writing] set [a verb] to [preposition]..."
There is after all more than just subject-verb-object. There are all sorts of things that are then taught the second week of kindergarten...
Would you actually prefer that all informal dialogue be as you described?
I dislike post.
Post run home.
They gave invites.
I have invites.
Microsoft blows goats.
There, that better? OOPS!! I mean, "There, IS that better?"
BTW - next time you try to be a grammar nazi, try not using 1,611,512,781,332 too many commas. That, and don't say things like "noun-verb-object," since the object *just might be* a noun too, ya know. Not a very descriptive thing to say. "You take you" is noun-verb-object, yes? Perhaps "subject" might be a better word to use there, so that you are actually understood by your target audience. The rest of us are, after all, pale in comparison to your blazing intellect. We might miss things that you consider to be obvious.
A piece of advice, particularly for those who don't speak English as their native language: Stick to simple sentences. Noun-verb-object.
How about "A piece of advice, particularly for those for whom English is not [we're not "speaking" here, after all] their native language; [that's *semicolon*, not colon] stick [keeping the "s" an "s" instead of "S" since "stick" is not starting a new sentence, nor is it a proper noun] to simple sentences with a subject, verb, and object. Much better - would you disagree?
"...but you're way more likely..." Way? No way! Rock on, dude! Righteous!
You'll need to stoop down a little so that we can pick up some of those rays of sunshine your happiness exudes.
Not to be a jerk, but grammar nazism has no place in informal writing...esp a forums-type place like /. ; )
In reality, some of the brightest, most talented folk in OSS have personalities that don't quite...umm...lend well to working well with others in certain ways. I can't imagine RMS working on the exact same widget as...well..anyone, for example.
So you end up having the makings for several different teams, since each team can then let folk have their own widgets to work on. Those teams then come up with things like Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Hurd, KDE, Gnome...etc...
I, and many other folks, recently got set to having 50 invites left. While before it was already close to true that anyone that wanted one could find one, it is now REALLY true.
Seems their "beta" stuff works better than the first, or even second revision of released code from some other company...
even the passionate need to eat.
Seriously. Picture the world in 50 years. Do you really "expect this will never change" when you really take the "never" into consideration? If that site is somehow still up in some fashion or another in even 10 years...explain to me why over 90% of those 211 above chess will be replaced with completely different games.
My issue, really, is that people aren't taking into consideration that they are not going to be kids forever. Eventually, their tastes will change. Its not a question about whether young people like XYZ games, or whether *I* would (being young still myself), its a question of why they'd expect this to be the case for any length of time. Not even "never," just...within 50 years perhaps. Do they really expect the rankings to not change in the next 50 years?
People don't vote honestly. They're just that way.
I might go check out a new game sometime soon though. I might even use that site to help pick one out. We'll see ;)
50 years from now, no one will even remember that silly "chess" thing anyway...and every man, woman, and child will have seen someone play Doom3 (computer or board). 100 years from now, "chess" will even be removed from history books, dictionaries, and encyclopedias due to its complete irrelevence.
:P
it can blur the images that are "leaked" anyway...using photoshop.
Let 1% of those folks be lawyers, or systems for a government official, etc...and MS is screwed.
No, MS knows they can't do anything maliscious to the flagged copies. Pop up a window every time someone logs in that says its been flagged as an illegal copy, and to contact microsoft? Sure...but nothing else.
group ownership: a tool
"other" access: a tool
sudo: a tool
ACL's: a tool
AFS or related: a tool
Tell me where ya got lost.
Like, here. Enter in your zip code, and boom - a list. In my list, there are 3 phones under $20 that only do phone and text messages.
Its so much more fun to complain though. I mean, after all, you have to pay $9 for a phone, whereas everyone else is paying $200 or whatever. Sucks to be you! That's terrible! How do you sleep at night suffering under such injustices? You should demand to pay just as much for your phone as everyone else. And when a salesman tries to pitch a high-priced phone to you, you should refuse to look in the display case and notice that what you want is right there.
why would roadrunner care? They're just handing out an IP...
apparently you've never heard of groups, ACL's, or sudo.
What Is "IQ"?
It was also observed that the gaps between children's mental ages and their chronological ages widened as the children got older. The 6-year-old with the mental age of 8 had a mental age of 12 by the time he was 9 and a mental age of 16 by the time he was12. Similarly, the 6-year-old with a mental age of 4 had a mental age of 6 when he was 9 and a mental age of 8 when he was 12. In 1912, the German psychologist, William Stern, noticed that even though the gap between mental age and chronological age widens as a child matures, the ratio of mental age to chronological age remains constant (and, as we will see, remains essentially constant throughout life). This constant ratio of mental age divided by chronological age was given the name "Intelligence Quotient". Actually, the intelligence quotient is defined as 100 times the Mental Age (MA) divided by the Chronological Age (CA).
"IQ" is a very flawed standard, only in part for how it deals with non-children. However, an IQ of 100 on a 10 year old means they have the normal mental capacity of a 10 year old. The bell curve rests there. A 10 year old that has the mental capacity of a 9 year old has a a 90 IQ. It you had a 170 IQ at 17, that merely meant you had the Mental Age of a 28.9 year old. In theory.
So yes - half the population has an MA that is higher than their CA, and half the population has an MA that is lower than their CA. That's the way the system was devised (a system which quickly breaks down and becomes irrelevant once someone isn't a child).
Tada! As Paul Harvey says..."and now you know, the rest of the story."
Absolutely - thus the last line of my post - Soon, hopefully, Linux won't be at MS's whim that much. But for now...they're letting us get any gains we have.
Or, they could actually put a decent amount of effort into stopping *local* adoption of Linux. Yes, they fight foreign adoption...but they temper even that. Why? How about that fine they just got in the EU? A bit of an indication they needed to be less agressive...
Brazil though...that's another matter.
But note something: what they've done with the SCO crap is caused just enough doubt in the big corp's minds...just enough of a credibility hit on Linux due to litigation concerns...to keep the folk with money (ie: the folks that get sued) using MS. Linux, on the other hand, gets what I said - the folks that weren't going to be spending much/any money anyway.
they do fight it in foreign markets, yes, because US courts don't regulate foreign markets. If MS was a monolopy everywhere else in the world, that would be great as far as the US government is concerned.
The only reason they're not doing that is the simple fact that they are effectively a monopoly. If they let Linux get a small share, then all that Linux will do is take up some of the slack from people who would have a higher chance of not paying for MS products anyway. What it also does though is give them something to point to. "See! They have some of the market...we're not a monopoly" can be their response to a judge.
Soon, hopefully, Linux won't be at MS's whim that much. But for now...they're letting us get any gains we have.
"What about cd's? Couldn't someone just listen to those" you ask.
Sure. But if that was going to kill radio, it would have died with 8tracks, tapes, or...well...cd's. But it hasn't. People want to know what's going on, and nothing visual is appropriate while driving (other than the road, of course). Radio is all it ever needs to be for someone driving an hour commute every morning and evening, 5 days a week.
What about the rest of the time? Who knows. But it will survive, if for no reason other than that. Oh, and the workforce (esp heavy labor) will always want something to listen to as well.
TV, esp broadcast tv? Hard to say. Newspapers? Ouch.
my wife is a gorgeous woman with very little computer expertise. She and I have been very competitive in tuxracer, and it has given us both hours and hours of entertainment.
Yet in 64 minutes, an article on that gets 171 posts ( at >0 ) but this one about spam gets 172 in 32 minutes ( at >0 )?
Half the time, essentially the same # of posts? Where's our "news for nerds" priorities?
16:20 First data received from Huygens probe
15:26 Confirmation received that Huygens probe data was successfully communicated to the Cassini spacecraft
15:00 First Huygens probe data expected at around 16:00
Probe life has now been over 5 hours
14:10 Playback of probe data begins
Ground control confirms that a signal is still being received on Earth from the Huygens probe, suggesting its batteries lasted well beyond the minimum design limit of 2 hours 15 minutes
13:47 Cassini Orbiter has been turned in its orbit to poin the high gain antenna towards Earth
12:30 Confirmation given of signal tracking for at least 2 hours
11:24 Estimated time of surface impact and end of the descent phase
11:23 Descent lamp activated to provide ground reflectivity measurements
11:12 Cassini spacecraft undergoes closest approach to Titan passing at an altitude of 60 000 km at a speed of 5.4 km per second
10:30 Green Bank 110 m telescope confirms a carrier signal from the Huygens probe.
Signal indicates that the probe has survived the entry phase and that the instrument payload is active.
distant moon, not planet, but...yeah...looking forward to it myself ;)
If their system can't handle xp, then they have a bigger problem than just needing to replace a graphics card - which is what the poster was protesting.