That web site does mainly include cases like "everyone" -- but they may just be easier to search for. I would love to do a more detailed search, but I haven't the time right now. If you're interseted. WordNet, your favorite programming language, and Project Gutenberg ought to do it with a search like "they [should|could|would|will] [singular verb]".
I disagree with your analysis of these cases. Consider the example from Shakespeare:
God send every one their heart's desire!
Surely, the traditional prescriptivist phrasing of this is:
God send everyone his heart's desire!
Isn't "his" a singular in that case? Would you say that sounds awkward outside of the gender issue? Do you suggest:
*God send everyone their hearts' desire!
Since you argue that "their" in this case is plural, shouldn't hearts also be plural?
Or perhaps:
*For each person P, God send P P's heart's desire!;)
Also, what's your proposed replacement for "He or Samantha went shopping"? I suspect it's "Either he or Samantha went shopping", where "either" introduces a list of alternatives separated by "or". But I don't like *"When the last person leaves, either he or she should close the window." What do you propose for this case? "they" seems quite natural to me here, and "he or she" seems not bad.
I must admit I can't think of an actual sentence or set of sentences where I have read "he or she", and thought it referred to two people when it in fact referred to one of indeterminate gender.
"They" has been singular since before Shakespeare. It works fine.
Precedence depends in large part upon emphasis. If you say "he or she" a lot, you tend to do so quickly, which leads to a tighter binding.
"It looks like he or she went shopping" is far from a garden path sentence. You don't hit "he" and stop parsing, because you can't end the sentence there. Do you also object to "It looks like he or Samantha went shopping"?
There are cases where you can stop parsing earlier (example: "Someone gave it to him or her.") But again, this doesn't seem to represent a real problem, since the ambiguity is resolved in two words, and since there are many analagous cases where there's a similar parsing issue which you're not complaining about ("Someone gave it to Bob or Alice").
"He or she" only sounds awkward because you're not used to saying it. It's like using any phrase you're not comfortable with -- it feels funny on the tongue at first. But quickly, it becomes familiar and comfortable.
There are lossless transforms which (a) increase entropy and (b) use no less space (or even more space).
As a trivial example, replace each bit with two bits. The first new bit is random; the second is the original bit xor the first new bit. It's clear that this is lossless (xor the two new bits to get the old bit back). It also doubles file size, and increases entropy.
"They" is the singular indefinite pronoun in my dialect of English ("If a person drinks too much, they will likely experience a hangover"). "They" also happens to be the indefinite plural pronoun.
You propose to consign handicapped people to a life of dependence. How would another person help if hot coffee fell on the handicapped person? They couldn't do anything flight attendants couldn't already do. Anyway, the airline coffee system is designed so that coffee doesn't fall on people because, able or not, that's a lawsuit.
This woman knew the risks of flying alone, and decided that she was capable of doing so independently. Will you tell her otherwise? Her brain works just fine, and she's able to make choices for herself. In the US, we used to have a system in which physically handicapped people were virtually prisoners of institutions designed by able people. Handicapped people have rejected that system, and instead prefer to get the help needed to live as independently as their bodies allow. This comes at no higher financial cost to society.
Don't worry, US copyright law is pro-choice too. Copyright occurs at birth -- that is, not when you think up an idea, but when a work is "fixed in a tangible medium."
The Battle For Wesnoth, although not yet complete, is quite addictive. It's a turn-based 2d strategy game with some crpg elements. And it's Free Software!
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I also just finished burning a CD with the last dev version that has all sorts of GPL-infringing code.
Now, if the company hasn't distributed the code yet (or stripped various copyright notices), it's not GPL-violating yet. But if they have distributed the code, please let me know. I work at the Free Software Foundation, and you can reach me at license-violation@fsf.org.
Hi. I handle license violations for the Free Software Foundation.
Please email me at license-violation@fsf.org, so that we can work together to confirm the Phototainer violation, and to confirm compliance once we do get source code released.
Thanks.
If you don't email me, I have enough evidence to go ahead and write to the Phototainer people -- but if they give me bogus source code, it will be hard for me to detect this.
But if you do find a product like this running GNU/Linux, and not distributing the source code, please let FSF know at license-violation@fsf.org. We've seen it before on products just like this one, and we'll get you source code.
We do have archival backups. But many packages were uploaded between when the machines were cracked and when we noticed the crack. That's mainly what we need.
Our backup process is flawed, but that's because we can't afford good backup hardware.
Actually, it does solve some of the privacy problems -- it means that, when the local machine is offline, nobody can gain access to anyone's vote. The only thing they can learn is that the person voted. Of course, the central server still knows who voted how. But the central server is run by the same people who run the local servers: the government. If the government wants to know how you voted, they'll just rig the local servers to store that data.
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That web site does mainly include cases like "everyone" -- but they may just be easier to search for. I would love to do a more detailed search, but I haven't the time right now. If you're interseted. WordNet, your favorite programming language, and Project Gutenberg ought to do it with a search like "they [should|could|would|will] [singular verb]".
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I disagree with your analysis of these cases. Consider the example from Shakespeare:
God send every one their heart's desire!
Surely, the traditional prescriptivist phrasing of this is:
God send everyone his heart's desire!
Isn't "his" a singular in that case? Would you say that sounds awkward outside of the gender issue? Do you suggest:
*God send everyone their hearts' desire!
Since you argue that "their" in this case is plural, shouldn't hearts also be plural?
Or perhaps:
*For each person P, God send P P's heart's desire!
Also, what's your proposed replacement for "He or Samantha went shopping"? I suspect it's "Either he or Samantha went shopping", where "either" introduces a list of alternatives separated by "or". But I don't like *"When the last person leaves, either he or she should close the window."
What do you propose for this case? "they" seems quite natural to me here, and "he or she" seems not bad.
I must admit I can't think of an actual sentence or set of sentences where I have read "he or she", and thought it referred to two people when it in fact referred to one of indeterminate gender.
"They" has been singular since before Shakespeare. It works fine.
Precedence depends in large part upon emphasis. If you say "he or she" a lot, you tend to do so quickly, which leads to a tighter binding.
"It looks like he or she went shopping" is far from a garden path sentence. You don't hit "he" and stop parsing, because you can't end the sentence there. Do you also object to "It looks like he or Samantha went shopping"?
There are cases where you can stop parsing earlier (example: "Someone gave it to him or her.") But again, this doesn't seem to represent a real problem, since the ambiguity is resolved in two words, and since there are many analagous cases where there's a similar parsing issue which you're not complaining about ("Someone gave it to Bob or Alice").
"they" works fine.
"He or she" only sounds awkward because you're not used to saying it. It's like using any phrase you're not comfortable with -- it feels funny on the tongue at first. But quickly, it becomes familiar and comfortable.
If it looks like this, don't push it!
JPEG does a DCT followed by huffman coding.
There are lossless transforms which (a) increase entropy and (b) use no less space (or even more space).
As a trivial example, replace each bit with two bits. The first new bit is random; the second is the original bit xor the first new bit. It's clear that this is lossless (xor the two new bits to get the old bit back). It also doubles file size, and increases entropy.
"They" is the singular indefinite pronoun in my dialect of English ("If a person drinks too much, they will likely experience a hangover"). "They" also happens to be the indefinite plural pronoun.
Shakespeare's, too.
I guess I should comment, since that's my slide. The AGPL is a "tech demo" of one feature (section 2(d)). That's the patch for the network-user issue.
It's not a final draft by any means. The current drafts include many more improvements.
You propose to consign handicapped people to a life of dependence. How would another person help if hot coffee fell on the handicapped person? They couldn't do anything flight attendants couldn't already do. Anyway, the airline coffee system is designed so that coffee doesn't fall on people because, able or not, that's a lawsuit.
This woman knew the risks of flying alone, and decided that she was capable of doing so independently. Will you tell her otherwise? Her brain works just fine, and she's able to make choices for herself. In the US, we used to have a system in which physically handicapped people were virtually prisoners of institutions designed by able people. Handicapped people have rejected that system, and instead prefer to get the help needed to live as independently as their bodies allow. This comes at no higher financial cost to society.
The Disability Gulag, by Harriet McBryde Johnson is one of the articles that made me start to think seriously about these issues. I hope it will open your eyes too.
The UK ISP is almost certainly Wanadoo (note the poorly redacted URL in the UK ISP's letter).
The US ISP is Lycos (they forgot to blank one instance out in the PDF).
Oops.
So why don't we have an EC within states as well? Let's do it by county...
I'll tell you why: because it would be un-constitutional under the 14th amendment. Alabama tried it.
For the same reason -- that is, equality -- the EC ought to be abolished nationally.
Do you know what medical malpractice costs you (as an average American) a year? About fifteen bucks.
Why is this such a big issue?
Don't worry, US copyright law is pro-choice too. Copyright occurs at birth -- that is, not when you think up an idea, but when a work is "fixed in a tangible medium."
The Battle For Wesnoth, although not yet complete, is quite addictive. It's a turn-based 2d strategy game with some crpg elements. And it's Free Software!
Oh yeah.. know any formula which will tell me if a number is prime or not?
Yes: probablistically (Rabin-Miller), and definitely (AKS). Search for "Primality Testing"
Copyright registration must be done through the Library of Congress, because of US copyright law.
Sorry.
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Some ATMs have headphone jacks.
I also just finished burning a CD with the last dev version that has all sorts of GPL-infringing code.
Now, if the company hasn't distributed the code yet (or stripped various copyright notices), it's not GPL-violating yet. But if they have distributed the code, please let me know. I work at the Free Software Foundation, and you can reach me at license-violation@fsf.org.
Hi. I handle license violations for the Free Software Foundation.
Please email me at license-violation@fsf.org, so that we can work together to confirm the Phototainer violation, and to confirm compliance once we do get source code released.
Thanks.
If you don't email me, I have enough evidence to go ahead and write to the Phototainer people -- but if they give me bogus source code, it will be hard for me to detect this.
FreeBSD isn't licensed under the GPL.
But if you do find a product like this running GNU/Linux, and not distributing the source code, please let FSF know at license-violation@fsf.org. We've seen it before on products just like this one, and we'll get you source code.
We do have archival backups. But many packages were uploaded between when the machines were cracked and when we noticed the crack. That's mainly what we need.
Our backup process is flawed, but that's because we can't afford good backup hardware.
RTFA. We did backups. The backups were of potentially compromised code.
As I understand it (and I'm not the sysadmin), there were many files uploaded after the crack. Backups of those files are worthless.
There are backups from before the crack.
If you want to give FSF $64,000, we could hire someone to implement a better plan. But we're not made of money.
Actually, it does solve some of the privacy problems -- it means that, when the local machine is offline, nobody can gain access to anyone's vote. The only thing they can learn is that the person voted. Of course, the central server still knows who voted how. But the central server is run by the same people who run the local servers: the government. If the government wants to know how you voted, they'll just rig the local servers to store that data.