What's preventing Microsoft and open source world from understanding these "sophisticated" attacks and hardening their respective operating systems against them?
Mmm...the will at Microsoft to actually improve their products on anything other than the most superficial level?
And maybe that's why Europe and Asia has a long history of despotic strongmen. Order over freedom tends to get that for you.
As opposed to our *recent* history of them, of course. Fortunately, those of us in the U.S. are about to get rid of our despotic strongmen, along about January 20 of next year. No more of the "You better watch what you say," or "Anyone against us is unpatriotic" type of people. Mindless jingoism doesn't look good no matter what country you're from.
I would dare say that the Queens English would be the standard, seeming as it was England where English originally came from.
You can kiss Pedantic-Man's American arse.:)
I have no intention of sounding like a queen, much less The Queen. There is debate even in England over the rules of English. As I said, there is no central linguistic authority for English, unlike French or German.
It still perplexes me why the United States intentionally misspelled words and then decided that the misspelling was the new way to spell it.
It hardly matters - the English can't even pronounce words like Lieutenant correctly, so they're hardly an authority on the matter. And when you consider some English people have an accent so thick their movies come with subtitles, I can't consider them an authority on modern English, anyway.
The most interesting deviation, to me, is 'aluminum.' If I recall correctly, the British term 'aluminium' IS actually correct, and 'Aluminum' used to be a brand OF aluminium, and won out in America due to popular usage. Kinda like 'Kleenex' and 'Xerox' have mostly done. Let's hope 'nukyular' doesn't do the same thing. Pedantic-Man would hate to have to move to another country.
it doesn't change the fact that the language that most big projects rely on now is one of the old guard. C is, despite it's incarnations (or deformations, depending on who you believe) still king, and it was designed in 1972.
That's why I like D. It's basically C with modern concepts built (elegantly) into the core language. No need to get all crazy with things like Ruby, etc. Plus it's compiled.:)
Most excellent. Pedantry is becoming a lost art. You can almost never find a grammar nazi when you need one.
Let's not confuse pedantry with grammar nazism; they are not the same, though they often appear so to the layman.
A pedant is concerned with picayune details of correctness. Such a person has problems with bad science in science fiction movies, for instance.
A grammar nazi is often a very confused person who believes that is 'one true grammar.' Such a person is especially confused when we're talking about corrections to the use of the English language, as there IS no central authority for the language, and what some people assume to be hard and fast 'rules' are actually specific styles that vary from region to region, and publication to publication. The 'AP Style Guide' (AP is for Associated Press), and the Chicago Manual of Style are great examples of the latter. Neither of these are more correct than the other, unless you're writing for a publication that mandates that particular style. A grammar nazi will latch onto one of these things and never let go, not realizing that 'rules' like 'no dangling participles' and whatnot, are no more 'rules' in English than whether you put a comma or not before the last item in a list in a sentence. Many of the AP 'rules' are what they are to save space and/or ink in printed publications, and have little to no bearing (at best) in the modern world, or are unnecessary or deleterious with regard to electronic publishing. You can always tell the English majors and print geeks are involved when you see paragraphs with no blank lines between them, and a 'half-inch' indentation starting each paragraph. The Web is not the same as print (nor is it the same as TV). You'll also notice these people tend to put two spaces after a period, etc., and insist on curly apostrophes and quotation marks. They also love the phrase, 'below the fold,' as if that was a specific measurement on the Web. These people believe that all computer screens use 72 'dpi', and don't understand that CRTs, at least, can vary their 'dpi,' simply by changing resolution. I belive I've strayed from my point here - sorry.
I prefer clarity and ease of understanding before any perceived 'rules' of English grammar, which certainly proves, at least in my case, that pedantry and Grammar Nazism are not the same.
Though I really hate it when people put in unnecessary apostrophes. "CD's" for instance. Gack.
both em-dash and hyphen are available on your keyboard btw
What you linked to does not prove what you said. Putting in codes to output the characters you want is not, in my mind, the same as 'available on your keyboard,' and Pedantic-Man isn't especially interested in such nonsense as outputting different types of dashes/hyphens when the 'minus key' on the keyboard will do for the sake of clarity. Pedantic-Man is also pretty lazy.:)
You mean a hyphen, something that shouldn't be there either. Nice try, so-called "Pedantic Man."
Sadly, I have no hyphen on my keyboard, and no desire to go poking through a character map to find one, so I had to use a dash. Check the ASCII character.:)
Combine "No Consequences" with human nature, and you'd be an idiot to expect anything different. Just wait until someone invents PFP/IP (poo flinging protocol/internet protocol), and you'll REALLY see what humans are capable of.
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What's preventing Microsoft and open source world from understanding these "sophisticated" attacks and hardening their respective operating systems against them?
Mmm...the will at Microsoft to actually improve their products on anything other than the most superficial level?
How many Sparc and Itanic users need a 64-bit Flash for web browsing needs?
Mmmm...both of them?
And maybe that's why Europe and Asia has a long history of despotic strongmen. Order over freedom tends to get that for you.
As opposed to our *recent* history of them, of course. Fortunately, those of us in the U.S. are about to get rid of our despotic strongmen, along about January 20 of next year. No more of the "You better watch what you say," or "Anyone against us is unpatriotic" type of people. Mindless jingoism doesn't look good no matter what country you're from.
The should rename "Ask Slashdot" to "I'm a freakin idiot, and can't RTFM".
That's actually just the same as 'Slashdot,' really. Not that that's a bad thing. I'm not making a value judgment here. I'm just sayin'.
And if Chuck Norris is behind you, it is too late, cause he is paging you with a roundhouse kick to the head!
"Full Point!"
Look out - they're right behind you!
This usage makes me want to scream and I could imagine makes you nauseous.
In fact, Pedantic-Man is having some trouble seeing right now. Thanks a lot.
eventually some pedantic grammar nazi would come by and fix all my mistakes for me.
Ahh, you're really living the open source dream. Well done!
It is whatever people call it. Google for each shows twice as many instances of savings.
That's very Republican of you. You must be some kind of nukyular scientist or something.
I would dare say that the Queens English would be the standard, seeming as it was England where English originally came from.
You can kiss Pedantic-Man's American arse. :)
I have no intention of sounding like a queen, much less The Queen. There is debate even in England over the rules of English. As I said, there is no central linguistic authority for English, unlike French or German.
It still perplexes me why the United States intentionally misspelled words and then decided that the misspelling was the new way to spell it.
It hardly matters - the English can't even pronounce words like Lieutenant correctly, so they're hardly an authority on the matter. And when you consider some English people have an accent so thick their movies come with subtitles, I can't consider them an authority on modern English, anyway.
The most interesting deviation, to me, is 'aluminum.' If I recall correctly, the British term 'aluminium' IS actually correct, and 'Aluminum' used to be a brand OF aluminium, and won out in America due to popular usage. Kinda like 'Kleenex' and 'Xerox' have mostly done. Let's hope 'nukyular' doesn't do the same thing. Pedantic-Man would hate to have to move to another country.
A grammar nazi is often a very confused person who believes that there is 'one true grammar.'
There, fixed that for you.
Much thanks, Herr Jonnyt. Pedantic-Man caught several other mistakes like that after posting. Bonus points for finding them all!
it doesn't change the fact that the language that most big projects rely on now is one of the old guard. C is, despite it's incarnations (or deformations, depending on who you believe) still king, and it was designed in 1972.
That's why I like D. It's basically C with modern concepts built (elegantly) into the core language. No need to get all crazy with things like Ruby, etc. Plus it's compiled. :)
it can be two words as in Spider Man
Ouch.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it's Spider-Man.
Most excellent. Pedantry is becoming a lost art. You can almost never find a grammar nazi when you need one.
Let's not confuse pedantry with grammar nazism; they are not the same, though they often appear so to the layman.
A pedant is concerned with picayune details of correctness. Such a person has problems with bad science in science fiction movies, for instance.
A grammar nazi is often a very confused person who believes that is 'one true grammar.' Such a person is especially confused when we're talking about corrections to the use of the English language, as there IS no central authority for the language, and what some people assume to be hard and fast 'rules' are actually specific styles that vary from region to region, and publication to publication. The 'AP Style Guide' (AP is for Associated Press), and the Chicago Manual of Style are great examples of the latter. Neither of these are more correct than the other, unless you're writing for a publication that mandates that particular style. A grammar nazi will latch onto one of these things and never let go, not realizing that 'rules' like 'no dangling participles' and whatnot, are no more 'rules' in English than whether you put a comma or not before the last item in a list in a sentence. Many of the AP 'rules' are what they are to save space and/or ink in printed publications, and have little to no bearing (at best) in the modern world, or are unnecessary or deleterious with regard to electronic publishing. You can always tell the English majors and print geeks are involved when you see paragraphs with no blank lines between them, and a 'half-inch' indentation starting each paragraph. The Web is not the same as print (nor is it the same as TV). You'll also notice these people tend to put two spaces after a period, etc., and insist on curly apostrophes and quotation marks. They also love the phrase, 'below the fold,' as if that was a specific measurement on the Web. These people believe that all computer screens use 72 'dpi', and don't understand that CRTs, at least, can vary their 'dpi,' simply by changing resolution. I belive I've strayed from my point here - sorry.
I prefer clarity and ease of understanding before any perceived 'rules' of English grammar, which certainly proves, at least in my case, that pedantry and Grammar Nazism are not the same.
Though I really hate it when people put in unnecessary apostrophes. "CD's" for instance. Gack.
both em-dash and hyphen are available on your keyboard btw
What you linked to does not prove what you said. Putting in codes to output the characters you want is not, in my mind, the same as 'available on your keyboard,' and Pedantic-Man isn't especially interested in such nonsense as outputting different types of dashes/hyphens when the 'minus key' on the keyboard will do for the sake of clarity. Pedantic-Man is also pretty lazy. :)
Pedantic-Man says, "Stay out of trouble!"
You mean a hyphen, something that shouldn't be there either. Nice try, so-called "Pedantic Man."
Sadly, I have no hyphen on my keyboard, and no desire to go poking through a character map to find one, so I had to use a dash. Check the ASCII character. :)
Don't feel bad - I *am* a professional!
Whoops, sorry, that was supposed to be 'Pedantic-Man', with a dash. How embarrassing.
Daylight Saving Time. Saving, singular, not Savings, plural.
As you were.
To test these they want to use them into a massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft or Eve online.
Does this remind anyone else of Ender's Game? Hmmm...
How can a virtual photorealistic soldier also be self-aware?
Virtually, of course!
I'll have to try that out. Thanks.
I like aliases. I see people typing out things over and over again for now reason. I use these:
lla (ls -la) /usr/local/html/projectname or somesuch)
lart (ls -lart)
projectname (cd
And if you want the fastest possible safe shutdown/restart:
shutdown -rn 0
shutdown -hn 0
for restart and halt respectively. I call this the 'Express Elevator to Hell - System Going DOWN!' command.
I don't do those often enough to bother with aliases. :)
> D-Link is Shit. Buy Linksys.
> > Linksys is even worse shit.
Buy the router/AP that has the features you want AND is supported by Tomato, DD-WRT, et al, and don't look back.
What do you think they make Peeps out of?!
Combine "No Consequences" with human nature, and you'd be an idiot to expect anything different. Just wait until someone invents PFP/IP (poo flinging protocol/internet protocol), and you'll REALLY see what humans are capable of.
Send some of our remaining frogs to Australia, say, in exchange for some Koalas, maybe. I'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong.