But you are wrong. There are different definitions for different context.
Alien or Aliens may refer to: Alien (law), a non-citizen inhabitant of a country Extraterrestrial life, defined as life that does not originate from Earth List of alleged alien beings (ufology) Any introduced species, a species living outside its native distributional range
Also you can have alien objects, like meteorites and..say.. planets.
I think it's on the last item that you go wrong. I'm curious which of the definitions you cited you have in mind for those two examples.
First, "alien meteorite": if we accept that "alien" meant "not from Earth" (which it doesn't), what would the distinction be between a "foreign meteorite", an "alien meteorite", or just a "meteorite"? I would say all would be objects disintegrating while deorbiting--meteorites--but a "foreign meteorite" would be an object not from Earth, an "alien meteorite" would be an artifact of extraterrestrial life, and a "meteorite" would be any object, including one that originated on Earth, e.g. a fragment of an artificial satellite.
Second, "alien planet": usage (in which the attribute of being alien is always conferred to a living thing, or an instrument or artifact of a living thing) aside, the essential concept of alienness is that something is colocated within a domain in which it did not originate. It is similar to the concept of xenos in Greek, and is why the title of the film "Alien" is a pun--it refers both to the life form and to its way of inhabiting another during gestation. A planet could only be "alien" in that sense if it were colocated outside its native range. This loose sense could work if applied to a planet that orbits a star around which it was not formed, or orbits another planet from which it was once independent. One could then distinguish between a "native planet" and an "alien planet".
But in the usage here, attempting to mean "extrasolar", it's just plain wrong, and it implies something that the author does not intend.
By definition, it would be correct to call it an "alien signal." Heck, even people from other countries are referred to as "aliens."
By what precise definition of "alien" do you think it would be correct? Yes, people from other countries are called "aliens"--that's exactly my point--it's because they are living beings that they are "aliens". Nonliving things from other countries are not "alien", but "foreign".
I would argue that calling them "alien worlds" actually implies that they are inhabited by alien life forms, if you consider what "alien" actually means, and the other ways it may be used. For example, if you pick up a radio signal from a pulsar, would you be comfortable calling it an "alien signal"?
Actually you are in North America. There is no continent called simply "America". You are a North American, as am I. There is no ambiguity when U.S. citizens identify themselves as "Americans", especially since that sort of identification is almost always unambiguously an identification of citizenship rather than continent of origin.
That said, I usually refrain from using the term "American" in this context, and prefer "U.S. citizen". This is, however, equally ambiguous, since Mexico also is the "United States", i.e. the "Estados Unidos Mexicanos". And I suppose Botswanans might resent South Africans for calling themselves that...?
As far as geographic knowledge goes, as a U.S. citizen, I can name all of the Canadian provinces from memory. I wonder if you can do the same for the states of the U.S. How about Mexico?:^)
How about building a package for each policy item that uses install/uninstall scripts to make whatever changes are needed, and includes policy-specific config files and putting them into your own repository, then making a package for each policy group that is dependent on the appropriate policy packages. Install the policy group package during your install process and policy updates can be tracked in the regular patch process.
That's funny, every government employee I know (around 10) regularly sends personal mail from their work accounts
The Federal government certainly allows use of government email accounts for personal matters, as long as certain limits are adhered to. It's the converse which is a problem. Any official communication by Federal management is a public record, and preservation of these records must follow the standards set by the National Archives and Records Administration. Even instant messages are subject to these requirements if they are used for official purposes.
Presumably the state of Alaska has similar requirements.
And I would say that most people have so few tabs open because they can't navigate more, because of the horizontal tab bar. I think your argument is begging the question.
Someone else pointed this out too, thanks. Seems to me it would be reasonable for Slashcode not to allow those moderations on otherwise unmoderated comments. No biggie.
As I indicated elsewhere, I use a 20" monitor. I have easily 100 tabs open. This does not mean I don't have much work to do; in fact, it is a great deal of my work context since I work on many things. I would argue that someone who gets by with 5 or 6 tabs is a very linear person and spends a lot of time hunting through bookmarks to get back to places. With proper vertical tab management, users don't have to close tabs just to keep their tab bar navigable so context switching is very fast.
Tree Style Tab allows you to place the tab bar on the top or the bottom, if you really are so inclined. A floating window might be useful, as you suggest; of course, as for all hierarchical browsers for languages that are written horizontally, it should be arranged vertically (this is the same reason tab bars belong on the side of the window).
You're abusing the system. Here is the FAQ you apparently didn't read:
Overrated -- Sometimes you'll run into a comment which for whatever reason has been moderated out of proportion -- this probably means several moderators saw it at nearly the same time, thought it was Funny, Insightful etc, and their scores added together exaggerate its relative merit. (A knock-knock joke at +5, Funny) Such a comment is Overrated. It's not knocking the original poster to say so, but it's probably better to spend your mod points on comments which are deserving of being moderated up.
If you want to mod down a comment that no one else has moderated, you should use one of the appropriate ratings: Offtopic, Flamebait, Troll, or Redundant—Overrated doesn't make sense.
LOL. Ya gotta love it when someone mods -1 Overrated an otherwise unmoderated comment. May the metamods strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger.:^)
I use a 20" monitor at 1600x1200. I have my browser window about 1200 pixels wide. It is no problem, and would work fine on 1280x1024 even on a 17" or 19" monitor.
I'm almost always switching between nearby tabs, and the tab I want to switch to is generally visible in the tab bar.
But you're arguing for a pattern of use here based on your familiarity with that pattern. The tab you're looking for will likely be visible on the horizontal tab bar in part because you refrain from opening additional tabs lest you end up with too many to navigate in that way. When instead you can readily view 40 tab titles simultaneously, the way you use tabs changes. When tabs are grouped hierarchically by relationship and topic, it changes even more. When you can collapse those hierarchies and close an entire hierarchy of related tabs in one action, it changes again. The linear, space-constrained, horizontal tab bar becomes extremely limiting once you experience something richer.
I'm not ignoring anything. Having to pull down a drop down menu every time you want to switch tabs pretty much nullifies the use of a tab bar in the first place; you might as well just have a button, and if you're going to activate something to show your tab list, you might as well use auto-hide. You're ignoring the other benefits of vertical tab bars, such as visible hierarchical tab relationships as implemented in Tree Style Tab.
Sure, if you spend all your time in fewer than six tabs, you win with a horizontal tab bar. Once you go beyond that, either the tab bar becomes useless or you end up opening a whole new window. Assuming you do the latter because you want to be able to continue using the tab bar, now how much space are you wasting? And how much time do you waste hunting through all your various browser windows because you can't remember which window the tab you're looking for is in?
Actually, for most people, tabs at the side take up less space than tabs at the top or bottom, because you only need one or two windows for all your tabs, no matter how many you open. Also note that with the vertical tab bar in Tree Style Tab, indentation is used to show hierarchical tab relationships; this isn't possible with a horizontal tab bar. And you can always hide the tab bar while you browse your... Internet.;^)
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But you are wrong. There are different definitions for different context.
Alien or Aliens may refer to:
Alien (law), a non-citizen inhabitant of a country
Extraterrestrial life, defined as life that does not originate from Earth
List of alleged alien beings (ufology)
Any introduced species, a species living outside its native distributional range
Also you can have alien objects, like meteorites and..say.. planets.
I think it's on the last item that you go wrong. I'm curious which of the definitions you cited you have in mind for those two examples.
First, "alien meteorite": if we accept that "alien" meant "not from Earth" (which it doesn't), what would the distinction be between a "foreign meteorite", an "alien meteorite", or just a "meteorite"? I would say all would be objects disintegrating while deorbiting--meteorites--but a "foreign meteorite" would be an object not from Earth, an "alien meteorite" would be an artifact of extraterrestrial life, and a "meteorite" would be any object, including one that originated on Earth, e.g. a fragment of an artificial satellite.
Second, "alien planet": usage (in which the attribute of being alien is always conferred to a living thing, or an instrument or artifact of a living thing) aside, the essential concept of alienness is that something is colocated within a domain in which it did not originate. It is similar to the concept of xenos in Greek, and is why the title of the film "Alien" is a pun--it refers both to the life form and to its way of inhabiting another during gestation. A planet could only be "alien" in that sense if it were colocated outside its native range. This loose sense could work if applied to a planet that orbits a star around which it was not formed, or orbits another planet from which it was once independent. One could then distinguish between a "native planet" and an "alien planet".
But in the usage here, attempting to mean "extrasolar", it's just plain wrong, and it implies something that the author does not intend.
By definition, it would be correct to call it an "alien signal." Heck, even people from other countries are referred to as "aliens."
By what precise definition of "alien" do you think it would be correct? Yes, people from other countries are called "aliens"--that's exactly my point--it's because they are living beings that they are "aliens". Nonliving things from other countries are not "alien", but "foreign".
aren't all worlds, not our own, alien?
Yes, that's why we call them alien worlds....
I would argue that calling them "alien worlds" actually implies that they are inhabited by alien life forms, if you consider what "alien" actually means, and the other ways it may be used. For example, if you pick up a radio signal from a pulsar, would you be comfortable calling it an "alien signal"?
"Estadounidense" fails to distinguish U.S. citizens from Mexicans. And it's ugly, verbose, and badly formulated.
Actually you are in North America. There is no continent called simply "America". You are a North American, as am I. There is no ambiguity when U.S. citizens identify themselves as "Americans", especially since that sort of identification is almost always unambiguously an identification of citizenship rather than continent of origin.
That said, I usually refrain from using the term "American" in this context, and prefer "U.S. citizen". This is, however, equally ambiguous, since Mexico also is the "United States", i.e. the "Estados Unidos Mexicanos". And I suppose Botswanans might resent South Africans for calling themselves that...?
As far as geographic knowledge goes, as a U.S. citizen, I can name all of the Canadian provinces from memory. I wonder if you can do the same for the states of the U.S. How about Mexico? :^)
Danger is my middle name! I hope they invent the Cone of Silence next. Always wanted one of those.
1. Contact the NOAA library staff at http://www.lib.noaa.gov/ for suggestions.
2. Contact National Archives staff for suggestions.
That is the idea, but once you have that, it's fairly easy to replace x.509 certificates with DNS.
How about building a package for each policy item that uses install/uninstall scripts to make whatever changes are needed, and includes policy-specific config files and putting them into your own repository, then making a package for each policy group that is dependent on the appropriate policy packages. Install the policy group package during your install process and policy updates can be tracked in the regular patch process.
The Federal government follows standards set by the National Archives and Records Administration. Regulations governing email preservation in particular may be found here.
The Federal government certainly allows use of government email accounts for personal matters, as long as certain limits are adhered to. It's the converse which is a problem. Any official communication by Federal management is a public record, and preservation of these records must follow the standards set by the National Archives and Records Administration. Even instant messages are subject to these requirements if they are used for official purposes.
Presumably the state of Alaska has similar requirements.
Did the whole business of Rove &c using non-.gov email for official business last year pass you by?
And I would say that most people have so few tabs open because they can't navigate more, because of the horizontal tab bar. I think your argument is begging the question.
Someone else pointed this out too, thanks. Seems to me it would be reasonable for Slashcode not to allow those moderations on otherwise unmoderated comments. No biggie.
Never twigged to that before, but, now that you mention it, yeah. Thanks for the tip.
As I indicated elsewhere, I use a 20" monitor. I have easily 100 tabs open. This does not mean I don't have much work to do; in fact, it is a great deal of my work context since I work on many things. I would argue that someone who gets by with 5 or 6 tabs is a very linear person and spends a lot of time hunting through bookmarks to get back to places. With proper vertical tab management, users don't have to close tabs just to keep their tab bar navigable so context switching is very fast.
As I've said several times, try it.
Tree Style Tab allows you to place the tab bar on the top or the bottom, if you really are so inclined. A floating window might be useful, as you suggest; of course, as for all hierarchical browsers for languages that are written horizontally, it should be arranged vertically (this is the same reason tab bars belong on the side of the window).
I can see how that would happen.
You're abusing the system. Here is the FAQ you apparently didn't read:
Overrated -- Sometimes you'll run into a comment which for whatever reason has been moderated out of proportion -- this probably means several moderators saw it at nearly the same time, thought it was Funny, Insightful etc, and their scores added together exaggerate its relative merit. (A knock-knock joke at +5, Funny) Such a comment is Overrated. It's not knocking the original poster to say so, but it's probably better to spend your mod points on comments which are deserving of being moderated up.
If you want to mod down a comment that no one else has moderated, you should use one of the appropriate ratings: Offtopic, Flamebait, Troll, or Redundant—Overrated doesn't make sense.
But, then, you knew that already.
LOL. Ya gotta love it when someone mods -1 Overrated an otherwise unmoderated comment. May the metamods strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger. :^)
I use a 20" monitor at 1600x1200. I have my browser window about 1200 pixels wide. It is no problem, and would work fine on 1280x1024 even on a 17" or 19" monitor.
But you're arguing for a pattern of use here based on your familiarity with that pattern. The tab you're looking for will likely be visible on the horizontal tab bar in part because you refrain from opening additional tabs lest you end up with too many to navigate in that way. When instead you can readily view 40 tab titles simultaneously, the way you use tabs changes. When tabs are grouped hierarchically by relationship and topic, it changes even more. When you can collapse those hierarchies and close an entire hierarchy of related tabs in one action, it changes again. The linear, space-constrained, horizontal tab bar becomes extremely limiting once you experience something richer.
I also use at least two windows typically, but each with 40–60 tabs, depending on context.
In that case you should definitely try Tree Style Tab (if you're a Firefox user, anyway). You'll quickly see why.
I'm not ignoring anything. Having to pull down a drop down menu every time you want to switch tabs pretty much nullifies the use of a tab bar in the first place; you might as well just have a button, and if you're going to activate something to show your tab list, you might as well use auto-hide. You're ignoring the other benefits of vertical tab bars, such as visible hierarchical tab relationships as implemented in Tree Style Tab.
Again, try it.
Sure, if you spend all your time in fewer than six tabs, you win with a horizontal tab bar. Once you go beyond that, either the tab bar becomes useless or you end up opening a whole new window. Assuming you do the latter because you want to be able to continue using the tab bar, now how much space are you wasting? And how much time do you waste hunting through all your various browser windows because you can't remember which window the tab you're looking for is in?
As I keep telling people, try it.
Actually, for most people, tabs at the side take up less space than tabs at the top or bottom, because you only need one or two windows for all your tabs, no matter how many you open. Also note that with the vertical tab bar in Tree Style Tab, indentation is used to show hierarchical tab relationships; this isn't possible with a horizontal tab bar. And you can always hide the tab bar while you browse your... Internet. ;^)
Try it for a day. Then comment.