This only has relevance because it agrees with existing opinions that have no way to be expressed. Think of "The Emperor's New Clothes", in which everyone has a thought, but anyone who expresses that thought will be ostracized (executed in the orignial story, but ostracism is the nonlethal modern alternative). Just think of a New York Times journalist who came out and said twitter was crap and people who use twitter are self-absorbed idiots who shouldn't be trusted with the fourth estate's reponsibility to safeguard democracy. His opinions would be attacked and discarded faster the Joe the Plumber.
Question: how many of Iran's population speaks English? Out of this tiny population, how many use Twitter? And out of *this* subset, how many could afford iPhones?
Yeah. That miniscule population was what the Western media took for the majority's opinion in Iran. If it didn't have such tragic consequences for our own democracy, I'd be laughing. Imagine what a major U.S. protest would look like if the only information the foreign press got was iPhone-using Twitterbots?
A 4.0 isn't exactly the same as a 1.00. To me, 4.0 says that we've been around for a long while and this is our latest greatest release that's stable as hell. Oh, there might be a few issues with the new features but the underlying technology is good.
Oh, yeah...the New York Times, the poster child for Old Media, does a story and finds that they are better than the competition. Sorry, but I'd sooner believe an online pharmacy that did a survey and found that it was better than the competition. But, since it has the NYT name on it, the people in the know nod sagely and agree. Anyone shouting "the emperor has no clothes" is deemed as not part of the in-group and escorted to the door, never to be invited to the best parties again.
I live in China, and it's always wonderful when some brain-dead web page decides to serve its content to me in Chinese, despite the fact that my web browser and operating system are en-US. It is especially nice when there is no option to change back into English (looking at you here, Bing.com).
Just because someone toils in the fields doesn't mean they are unintelligent or any less astute than someone who works in an office in a developed nation
Don't worry - after you have a child, it will become the focus of your life. Love from your husband will become a distant second, and sex will be an unwanted chore. After childbearing, women go through changes and find sex rather uninteresting...think about how a young boy likes toys and candy, and then loses interest when he gets hair on his balls and starts noticing girls. Same thing with women and kids.
Yeah well if you're claiming losses due to fraud, the court has to know how much you're losing. Otherwise you can just pull numbers out of your ass (like they're doing here).
What do you mean? COBOL is such an easy language, it uses natural sentence construction. Why do you need specialized programmers, anyway? It can be easily used by managers to generate reports and suchlike.
There's this new language on the horizon, though - it "basically" makes programming a snap for non-programmers, and is likely to eliminate the job of programmers entirely except for a few high-level system engineering projects.
Well, thrill-seeking is just that, but this guy was going on the equivalent of a Sunday drive. I doubt that "fly around and smash into a mountain" was on his list of activities that provide excitement.
PS am I the only one who finds something terribly wrong with a rich guy polluting the world just so he can provide for his own selfish pleasure? (please pass cap-and-trade soon...)
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
-- James D. Nicoll
Nah, it's a typical lifecycle for expensive products that become commodities. When that PC was new, it probably cost upwards of $5,000 in 1984 dollars. Many parts were Made In USA instead of by some faceless penny-scraping OEM in Taiwan. Heck, people used to actually send hard drives in for repair instead of just RMA'ing them and getting a new one. You'll see this in other products too...automobiles, washing machines, sewing machines, etc.
No, actually, we call this "intellectual illumination". It is the ability to see both sides of an argument, even if you disagree with one of them. Sadly, this ability has become reviled - if you don't understand it, then it's OK to hate it. Ignorance and bigotry go together like peanut butter and jelly.
The question is, would it violate federal law. Does the law protect everyone equally, or do people get special privileges for belonging to different groups? And why would anyone assume that gays are intolerant and bigoted?
Religious bigot? Violent prick? WTF? Where did I make threats? How is this bigoted?
Have you never encountered these ideas before? They're out there. I'm not even a Muslim, I'm just explaining this as I see it, from a point of view that's not usually found on Slashdot. You're the one projecting your unacceptable thoughts on others.
It's one thing to reject an idea, it's another thing to not even understand what you're rejecting. Muslims are quite proud that their holy book has survived unscathed through the centuries. And the scholarly debates about which parts got included are just that, left to scholars...they don't affect the faith of the rank and file. It's like how Confucious isn't really understandable by regular Chinese folk, and yet his thoughts rule their daily lives.
Yeah. I've got a contract in the filing cabinet across from me that says a customer has to pay. He hasn't paid, and I rather doubt he ever will. But it's legally binding, sure. I can sue him all I want. And this is some local yokel, not a company whose legal department generates more income in a day than I do in 10 years.
Who wrote it!? It was dictated by God and written down by the Prophet Mohammed. Is education really that bad where you are? Again, mock all you want, but this is deadly serious to millions of real people. Try walking down the streets of Malmo or Rotterdam wearing a T-shirt saying that the Koran was not written by Mohammed, and see how far you get.
Learn and understand. Memorizing the entirety of the Holy Koran in its original is common among clergy. Think about Classical Arabic like reading Chaucer or maybe Beowulf. And your reward isn't some moldy old piece of literature written by dead European white men, your reward is knowing exactly what God meant for you, and how He meant you to live your life. It's all there, right down to which hand to wipe with, and it is all 100% true and undistorted by the centuries.
And I'm pointing out that promises are pretty worthless. It's astounding that in this day and age, people are willing to trust a company like Microsoft when it makes a promise. Would you trust Goldman-Sachs or Bernie Madoff? Both of them had much, much better reputations.
Sadly, though, gay and lesbian causes may turn off a born-again HR screener.
What about the reverse, would that be true as well? Or does it only work one way?
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"We've come to appreciate that the beta tag just doesn't fit for large enterprises that aren't keen to run their business on software that sounds like it's still in the trial phase."
That's what beta means, you idiot! It means it's in the trial phase! You mean I've been right all along, and the beta tag was just an excuse to eliminate complaints? Well color me shocked. The attitude has got a whiff of evil about it.
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This only has relevance because it agrees with existing opinions that have no way to be expressed. Think of "The Emperor's New Clothes", in which everyone has a thought, but anyone who expresses that thought will be ostracized (executed in the orignial story, but ostracism is the nonlethal modern alternative). Just think of a New York Times journalist who came out and said twitter was crap and people who use twitter are self-absorbed idiots who shouldn't be trusted with the fourth estate's reponsibility to safeguard democracy. His opinions would be attacked and discarded faster the Joe the Plumber.
Yeah. That miniscule population was what the Western media took for the majority's opinion in Iran. If it didn't have such tragic consequences for our own democracy, I'd be laughing. Imagine what a major U.S. protest would look like if the only information the foreign press got was iPhone-using Twitterbots?
Evidently, my problem is trusting a release.
Oh, yeah...the New York Times, the poster child for Old Media, does a story and finds that they are better than the competition. Sorry, but I'd sooner believe an online pharmacy that did a survey and found that it was better than the competition. But, since it has the NYT name on it, the people in the know nod sagely and agree. Anyone shouting "the emperor has no clothes" is deemed as not part of the in-group and escorted to the door, never to be invited to the best parties again.
I live in China, and it's always wonderful when some brain-dead web page decides to serve its content to me in Chinese, despite the fact that my web browser and operating system are en-US. It is especially nice when there is no option to change back into English (looking at you here, Bing.com).
*ahem* Sarah Palin.
Don't worry - after you have a child, it will become the focus of your life. Love from your husband will become a distant second, and sex will be an unwanted chore. After childbearing, women go through changes and find sex rather uninteresting...think about how a young boy likes toys and candy, and then loses interest when he gets hair on his balls and starts noticing girls. Same thing with women and kids.
Yeah well if you're claiming losses due to fraud, the court has to know how much you're losing. Otherwise you can just pull numbers out of your ass (like they're doing here).
There's this new language on the horizon, though - it "basically" makes programming a snap for non-programmers, and is likely to eliminate the job of programmers entirely except for a few high-level system engineering projects.
PS am I the only one who finds something terribly wrong with a rich guy polluting the world just so he can provide for his own selfish pleasure? (please pass cap-and-trade soon...)
Please put your signature in your signature file. It's in your user preferences.
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
-- James D. Nicoll
Nah, it's a typical lifecycle for expensive products that become commodities. When that PC was new, it probably cost upwards of $5,000 in 1984 dollars. Many parts were Made In USA instead of by some faceless penny-scraping OEM in Taiwan. Heck, people used to actually send hard drives in for repair instead of just RMA'ing them and getting a new one. You'll see this in other products too...automobiles, washing machines, sewing machines, etc.
Hundreds of millions of high-footprint humans dying would be bad in which way, exactly?
No, actually, we call this "intellectual illumination". It is the ability to see both sides of an argument, even if you disagree with one of them. Sadly, this ability has become reviled - if you don't understand it, then it's OK to hate it. Ignorance and bigotry go together like peanut butter and jelly.
The question is, would it violate federal law. Does the law protect everyone equally, or do people get special privileges for belonging to different groups? And why would anyone assume that gays are intolerant and bigoted?
Have you never encountered these ideas before? They're out there. I'm not even a Muslim, I'm just explaining this as I see it, from a point of view that's not usually found on Slashdot. You're the one projecting your unacceptable thoughts on others.
It's one thing to reject an idea, it's another thing to not even understand what you're rejecting. Muslims are quite proud that their holy book has survived unscathed through the centuries. And the scholarly debates about which parts got included are just that, left to scholars...they don't affect the faith of the rank and file. It's like how Confucious isn't really understandable by regular Chinese folk, and yet his thoughts rule their daily lives.
Do millions of people use that story as a template for their daily lives? No. Bad example, try again.
Missing references? Here's your reference, straight from the Codex Sinaiticus itself.
Yeah. I've got a contract in the filing cabinet across from me that says a customer has to pay. He hasn't paid, and I rather doubt he ever will. But it's legally binding, sure. I can sue him all I want. And this is some local yokel, not a company whose legal department generates more income in a day than I do in 10 years.
Who wrote it!? It was dictated by God and written down by the Prophet Mohammed. Is education really that bad where you are? Again, mock all you want, but this is deadly serious to millions of real people. Try walking down the streets of Malmo or Rotterdam wearing a T-shirt saying that the Koran was not written by Mohammed, and see how far you get.
Learn and understand. Memorizing the entirety of the Holy Koran in its original is common among clergy. Think about Classical Arabic like reading Chaucer or maybe Beowulf. And your reward isn't some moldy old piece of literature written by dead European white men, your reward is knowing exactly what God meant for you, and how He meant you to live your life. It's all there, right down to which hand to wipe with, and it is all 100% true and undistorted by the centuries.
And I'm pointing out that promises are pretty worthless. It's astounding that in this day and age, people are willing to trust a company like Microsoft when it makes a promise. Would you trust Goldman-Sachs or Bernie Madoff? Both of them had much, much better reputations.
What about the reverse, would that be true as well? Or does it only work one way?
That's what beta means, you idiot! It means it's in the trial phase! You mean I've been right all along, and the beta tag was just an excuse to eliminate complaints? Well color me shocked. The attitude has got a whiff of evil about it.