No, I'm using pretty standard and accepted practices when it comes to metrology. No decimal point, no trailing zeroes, it's to the nearest Mm unless specifically stated otherwise. As such, 5.3 Mm is to the nearest 100 km, and 5.000 Mm is to the nearest km.
"So, a person is a hypocrite for being a wikipedia editor and not having personal views that don't coincide with Guppy06"
Screw that, he doesn't have poersonal views that coincide with the subject. If he feels so strongly that he needs to include a pseudo-sig (deliberately getting around sig filters) to voice views on a bitter, political, off-topic debate, I doubt his ability to contain himself while he does his "editing."
"effectively changing the base unit to suit their scale."
No, they're implying the accuracy of their measurment. 5000 km is measured to the nearest km, while 5 Mm is measured to the nearest Mm, less accurate by three orders of magnitude.
Just because it's easy to move around that decimal point in metric doesn't mean you should.
"Six years ago, on March 26, 1999, Melissa, the first virus that spread by mailing copies of itself to e-mail addresses it found on infected machines, swept the Internet."
Pshaw, Good Times had been doing that since 1994! Now there was a horror to behold! Back in the day, we all had to incinerate our computers whenever we got an email with the words "Good Times" in the subject! And even that wasn't enough sometimes!
"Believe it or not, many issues that are unpopular with the typical Slashdotter (including me) are widely supported among the people."
50% + 1 does not "widely supported" make. The politicans who were elected by a wide margin are the ones who have had their district lines drawn very carefully just for them.
"You don't change that by revolution, you change it by education."
And you don't see it as a conflict of interest (if not inherently dangerous) to put the elected officials in charge of that "education?"
"That only gets fixed by normal people running against career politicians who don't have the general interests of the people in mind."
Nobody runs with "the general interests of the people in mind." The person who says that they are is going for the power and the glory of the elected office, or at least trying to build the perception that his or her views have more widespread support than they really are. Everybody has their own little agenda and what the voters should be doing is making sure that a candidate's personal agenda lines up with their own, but instead they get sucked up by lines like that, complete with a waving American flag in the background.
"Normal people" don't run for office. "Normal people" barely even vote.
"Do you realize how much shit would have to go down for a revolution to occur over foreign policy?"
Have you looked at some of the root causes of the American Revolution lately? Ever hear of the "Stamp Act?"
"I know a French-Canadian girl who just *hates* the people of Paris. She just can't believe how people will talk to her when they hear her accent."
Wait a sec... they even hate Canadians? I mean, I can understand frowning upon Canadian Anglophones (if for no other reason than mistaking where they're from), but your friend speaks French fluently, natively, but in a way that pegs her as a Canadian and they don't like it?
Yes, the US hates Canada, but that's because we're your neighbors and nobody can hate somebody like a neighbor (except maybe a family member), and it's mostly because we can't think of anything specific to hate you for. But the French hating on Canadians, and the Quebecois no less? I just can't wrap my head around that one.
(It makes me wonder how the French feel about folks from, say, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon...)
"Also at work I've heard a few stories of French-Canadians going to see the "homeland" and are just left dissappointed with the reception they recieve....."
First off, considering the recent ruling to ban "overt religious symbols" such as head scarves in schools, I think French-bashing is one of the things the US and Wahabiists have in common.
Secondly, if this isn't a reason to make fun of the government in Paris, I don't know what is.
"This is totally impossible. If this is the case, we will see the end of the Microsoft monopoly with the release of Longhorn."
You're forgetting that the jump to NT 5.x from Windows 4.x represented a loss of compatibillity with win16 and DOS apps, not to mention some win32 apps. Remember the fun the users of Adaptec's Easy CD Creator had when they made the jump from Windows 4.x to NT 5.x?
Heck, at this point I maintin a FreeDOS partition to boot to for the sole reason that certain obscure DOS apps just don't like the NT 5.x command prompt.
When all is said and done, we're talking about Microsoft. And when they make yet another proprietary Office format that can only be read by a version of Office that can only be run on their latest OS, everybody will upgrade "or else."
"I'm sorry but why are people and business who have for the last 10 years been using Explorer to manage files on pc's and networks suddenly going to embrace a completely different method that is unfamiliar and will reduce productivity at all levels until the user becomes savvy enough to use it."
We all managed to let go of progman and fileman, didn't we? Heck, fileman isn't even included in XP any more, as far as I can tell.
"If you're going to scapegoat in the wake of a tragedy, who better than the entertainment industry?"
Because thinking is too hard.
We treat our student bodies like prison populations. Should be we be all that surprised when they start to act like it? If "Hell is other people," what does that say about legally mandating student attendance ("or else")?
However, public schooling is a more popular daycare/warehousing solution than television and/or video games, so it won't do to question it.
"Unfortunately, the former words convey quite a bit more richness"
No, not really. The word I'm looking for here is "sesquipedalian," or perhaps the *ahem* colloquial phrase "stuck up."
""My apologies, I was unavoidably detained." instead of "Sorry I'm late." The former conveys far more elequance of speech than the later, thus setting the stage for productive communication."
While the latter hurries through the apology process and skips ahead to whatever it was the speaker was late for. The former phrasing could suggest that the speaker was "unavoidably detained" because they were busy being anal about something.
By the way, "my apologies" is a fragment; what's happening to your apologies? "Sorry I'm late" suffers from the same problem, but at least they're not trying to put on airs.
"I cant imagine anyone wanting to play a fighter on that god awful Nintendo controller instead of the PS2 controller, or even (shudder) the Xbox controller."
Actually, people who own multiple consoles tend to buy the GCN versions of games, even if they appear on the Xbox and/or PS2. It seems they tend to get the other two consoles for exclusive games and treat the 'Cube as their default system.
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No, I'm using pretty standard and accepted practices when it comes to metrology. No decimal point, no trailing zeroes, it's to the nearest Mm unless specifically stated otherwise. As such, 5.3 Mm is to the nearest 100 km, and 5.000 Mm is to the nearest km.
"So, a person is a hypocrite for being a wikipedia editor and not having personal views that don't coincide with Guppy06"
Screw that, he doesn't have poersonal views that coincide with the subject. If he feels so strongly that he needs to include a pseudo-sig (deliberately getting around sig filters) to voice views on a bitter, political, off-topic debate, I doubt his ability to contain himself while he does his "editing."
"effectively changing the base unit to suit their scale."
No, they're implying the accuracy of their measurment. 5000 km is measured to the nearest km, while 5 Mm is measured to the nearest Mm, less accurate by three orders of magnitude.
Just because it's easy to move around that decimal point in metric doesn't mean you should.
Edsputnik is the standard satellite!
"I'm a Wikipedia editor by night..."
"Please keep Terry and those who love her in your prayers"
So much for non-POV.
"Six years ago, on March 26, 1999, Melissa, the first virus that spread by mailing copies of itself to e-mail addresses it found on infected machines, swept the Internet."
Pshaw, Good Times had been doing that since 1994! Now there was a horror to behold! Back in the day, we all had to incinerate our computers whenever we got an email with the words "Good Times" in the subject! And even that wasn't enough sometimes!
"Believe it or not, many issues that are unpopular with the typical Slashdotter (including me) are widely supported among the people."
50% + 1 does not "widely supported" make. The politicans who were elected by a wide margin are the ones who have had their district lines drawn very carefully just for them.
"You don't change that by revolution, you change it by education."
And you don't see it as a conflict of interest (if not inherently dangerous) to put the elected officials in charge of that "education?"
"That only gets fixed by normal people running against career politicians who don't have the general interests of the people in mind."
Nobody runs with "the general interests of the people in mind." The person who says that they are is going for the power and the glory of the elected office, or at least trying to build the perception that his or her views have more widespread support than they really are. Everybody has their own little agenda and what the voters should be doing is making sure that a candidate's personal agenda lines up with their own, but instead they get sucked up by lines like that, complete with a waving American flag in the background.
"Normal people" don't run for office. "Normal people" barely even vote.
"Do you realize how much shit would have to go down for a revolution to occur over foreign policy?"
Have you looked at some of the root causes of the American Revolution lately? Ever hear of the "Stamp Act?"
I think you're confusing "nerd" with "someone who reads Wired."
"I know a French-Canadian girl who just *hates* the people of Paris. She just can't believe how people will talk to her when they hear her accent."
Wait a sec... they even hate Canadians? I mean, I can understand frowning upon Canadian Anglophones (if for no other reason than mistaking where they're from), but your friend speaks French fluently, natively, but in a way that pegs her as a Canadian and they don't like it?
Yes, the US hates Canada, but that's because we're your neighbors and nobody can hate somebody like a neighbor (except maybe a family member), and it's mostly because we can't think of anything specific to hate you for. But the French hating on Canadians, and the Quebecois no less? I just can't wrap my head around that one.
(It makes me wonder how the French feel about folks from, say, Saint-Pierre and Miquelon...)
"Also at work I've heard a few stories of French-Canadians going to see the "homeland" and are just left dissappointed with the reception they recieve....."
So... up a creek without a homeland?
"That's it my wife is fired,"
Really? Would you mind forwarding her resume over?
Nintendo.
First off, considering the recent ruling to ban "overt religious symbols" such as head scarves in schools, I think French-bashing is one of the things the US and Wahabiists have in common.
Secondly, if this isn't a reason to make fun of the government in Paris, I don't know what is.
"Could someone please pass the cluestick to Chirac?"
Quick! What's a clue-by-four in SI?
"This is totally impossible. If this is the case, we will see the end of the Microsoft monopoly with the release of Longhorn."
You're forgetting that the jump to NT 5.x from Windows 4.x represented a loss of compatibillity with win16 and DOS apps, not to mention some win32 apps. Remember the fun the users of Adaptec's Easy CD Creator had when they made the jump from Windows 4.x to NT 5.x?
Heck, at this point I maintin a FreeDOS partition to boot to for the sole reason that certain obscure DOS apps just don't like the NT 5.x command prompt.
When all is said and done, we're talking about Microsoft. And when they make yet another proprietary Office format that can only be read by a version of Office that can only be run on their latest OS, everybody will upgrade "or else."
"I'm sorry but why are people and business who have for the last 10 years been using Explorer to manage files on pc's and networks suddenly going to embrace a completely different method that is unfamiliar and will reduce productivity at all levels until the user becomes savvy enough to use it."
We all managed to let go of progman and fileman, didn't we? Heck, fileman isn't even included in XP any more, as far as I can tell.
"Then, Microsoft will utilize a disclosure approach it calls "rolling thunder,""
Right, because with a name like "rolling thunder", it has to be good!
A squid once bit my sister...
"If you're going to scapegoat in the wake of a tragedy, who better than the entertainment industry?"
Because thinking is too hard.
We treat our student bodies like prison populations. Should be we be all that surprised when they start to act like it? If "Hell is other people," what does that say about legally mandating student attendance ("or else")?
However, public schooling is a more popular daycare/warehousing solution than television and/or video games, so it won't do to question it.
"English has none of this. It's "the boy" "the girl" "the dick in my ear""
I dunno, that last one sounds pretty German to me. I'm sure there's a German website with that on it somewhere...
"Unfortunately, the former words convey quite a bit more richness"
No, not really. The word I'm looking for here is "sesquipedalian," or perhaps the *ahem* colloquial phrase "stuck up."
""My apologies, I was unavoidably detained." instead of "Sorry I'm late." The former conveys far more elequance of speech than the later, thus setting the stage for productive communication."
While the latter hurries through the apology process and skips ahead to whatever it was the speaker was late for. The former phrasing could suggest that the speaker was "unavoidably detained" because they were busy being anal about something.
By the way, "my apologies" is a fragment; what's happening to your apologies? "Sorry I'm late" suffers from the same problem, but at least they're not trying to put on airs.
"after all you have minimum, maximum, and then... "
Medium.
Whoever has a reasonable caliber rifle, that's who. It may be big, but it's still ultimately soft and squishy.
"Woman inherits the earth."
Then we know who to blame for movies 2 and 3...
And this has what, exactly, with putting an MP3 player into a cell phone?
I smell a cut-and-paste troll...
"I cant imagine anyone wanting to play a fighter on that god awful Nintendo controller instead of the PS2 controller, or even (shudder) the Xbox controller."
Actually, people who own multiple consoles tend to buy the GCN versions of games, even if they appear on the Xbox and/or PS2. It seems they tend to get the other two consoles for exclusive games and treat the 'Cube as their default system.