'plogging'?? This is the sort of gratuseless neologism that's making modern webontent so incomprusing. Why can't they use ordular, regdinary words that we've all heard of? Why must they inventorate these mad brandologues, taking the initialet of a well-known verbagos and sticking it haprandom onto a pointuculous wundragubbin?
This frumblotionary addlepoopery is threatening to grurmstipth crumbobblious fremd eebree zorn frell completely and utterly INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
It's a matter of operator precedence being poorly defined in English, leading to the ambiguity known as a 'dangling modifier'.
Parentheses could have solved the problem:
The police foiled (hackers using keyloggers).
But parentheses aren't used like that in natural language. In English the right way to do it would be more like this:
The police foiled hackers who were using keyloggers.
The 'who' strongly binds the entity before it to the entity after it, indicating that 'using keyloggers' is a predicate of 'hackers'. Thus the modifier, now tightly bound, dangles no more.
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There's been one of these attached to the Ark Mori building in Tokyo since way back when. It's got a big array of hexagonal collectors (that track the sun) on the outside, and it pipes the light inside to where it shines on some rather mangy bamboo.
I heard it was the pet project of the son of someone important.
1. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry....
And we "socialist" fit #1 fairly well if I do say so myself.
In the US maybe. In the UK, socialism is the prevailing dogma and the traditional, orthodox attitude.
Does that mean that the set of beliefs that is liberal in the US is not liberal in the UK?
Or does it rather suggest that defining your beliefs in terms of what kinds of people you oppose ("established, traditional, orthodox" etc in your case) is not as useful as defining them in terms of what you actually believe?
He is responsible for the creation of Lotus Notes,
You said that like it was a good thing. Have you noticed the split between people who have _not_ used it, who assume it's good because it's not M$, and the people who _have_ used it and hate it?
I can't easily and briefly sum up what's unpleasant about using Notes, but that's not because it's hard to express per se -- it's just impossible to know where to begin.
BRING IT BACK, damn you! I want to hear about how Fry and Leela fall in love! I want to see Amy and Kif raise a family of tadpoles! I want to witness Zoidberg's later career as a famous radio psychiatrist! I -- I want to hear how it ends!
HOW COULD YOU CANCEL IT, YOU BASTARDS? How _could_ you? I mean, how was any one individual physically able to say the words 'Let's axe Futurama' without their tongue turning black and their eyes bursting into flame and their skin blistering and peeling and bursting and their vile TV-exec brain crawling away across the floor? I don't understand how it's physically possible.
This, THIS is the proof that evil is built into mankind. This is the physical manifestation of original sin. This is the archetypal ur-mistake of which all other mistakes are just shadows, the womb of chaos from which springs a monstrous child, the black goat of the woods with a thousand young... *mumble mumble*
But! the people who watch Futurama aren't the kind of people who have nothing better to do than work with ratings agencies.
This is how British politics works. In the UK, there is a knee-jerk reaction to like more taxes, however unfair and unwise, just as in the US there is an automatic tendency to like tax cuts, however unfair and unwise.
This is because UK people are brought up to feel warm and fuzzy when they think they are paying for 'public services', a 'social safety net', 'community infrastructure' and so on. Similarly, in the US people tend to feel warm and fuzzy when they think they are 'protecting their property', 'competing in a free market', etc.
The net result is that when a government needs to generate some positive buzz in the UK it talks about _extra_ taxes. I initially had a hard time believing this, but then a couple of years ago the UK govt imposed this absolutely HUGE tax hike for the benefit of 'health'. Everyone I knew who was not English reacted normally, ie they were horrified that yet more of their money would be stolen without them getting anything in return. But everyone I know who was English was actively happy, they felt reassured that it was a return to socialism and all for the public good and everything would be just fine. It was utterly weird.
A few years on, the health service here is still... well, you need private health insurance if you don't want to wind up with teeth like the English. And paying for health twice is not a small thing. But the warm fuzzy 'I am contributing to the greater good!' feeling among the English people remains.
And that, patient reader, is why we see this white paper being released playfully suggesting a tax on PCs. It has nothing to do with actual plans -- it's just to create a socialist sort of atmosphere and thus a warm fuzzy feeling.
Honesty compels me to point out that most societies have something like this effect.
I am so sick of hearing this one. Kildall got a ton of money -- he could have turned it into fame by going on to found a major company or whatever, but he happened not to.
In other news, later he became an alcoholic. And slipped in a bar and died. Wooee. Just becoming an alcoholic does not make a guy a hero. Neither does slipping.
The tragedy here, if any, is that you are so bitter you're willing to attach your life story to this guy's.
Ah, right. Well, these high strung artist types can be like that I expect. It's hard to believe he really deserved front page abuse on PA... good luck to him say I.
Yeah, I think Squidi's achievement in sheer quality and production values over a period of years has been quite amazing. I can't say I'm wild about the new style backgrounds (or the dangerous tendency to start making Art with a capital A), but I have to take my hat off to the guy for the sheer amount of quality images, text and plot he has produced. As a comic, it's funnyish; as an exercise in continuity and development, it's outstanding.
I'm not quite sure what all the troubles surrounding the artist actually are. His editorials (except maybe when he gets political) strike me as remarkably organized and sensible, not the work of a net.kook at all... but it sure looks like he annoyed a lot of people somehow.
Actually, the design of St Paul's and the surrounding area was the result of a complex interplay between Wren, the king, the church and the people:
Wren -- wanted to create baroque-style city center King -- wanted to save money Church -- gothic all the way, baybee People -- wanted convenience and dense business development
In the end, the group that came closest to getting what they wanted was the people; that's why London has no great big boulevards like those of Paris (the people valued lots of living space above ease of riot control). Wren, the man with the 'brilliant but different idea' used the King's negotiating weight to slip change after change past the Church, but he couldn't change the design completely which is why it's a hybrid gothic/baroque.
Thus the design evolved by consensus, negotiation, and balancing bright ideas against established needs. Incidentally, I never used to like St. Paul's, but now that they have cleaned it all up and redeveloped the area north of it with some excellent postmodern work, it's looking really good. Weather still bad though.
Going back to the subject of software, I really don't think this whole Cathedral/Bazaar analogy was well chosen in the first place (especially as gothic cathedrals were striking examples of community efforts, as has been pointed out elsewhere). Major projects and projects that depend on a central authority can be developed in just as fluid a way as small, distributed ones -- if you have the right people. If you don't have people like Wren and the King, if you don't have people who change their minds when they find a brilliant idea, there can be problems.
The UN 'don't lift a gosh dang finger to help' tactic in the former Yugoslavia was 'prudent' only in the sense that when all non-Serbs had been annihilated or subjugated the conflict would presumably have stopped.
If, however, you take the view that the non-Serb inhabitants of Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia had some sort of right to remain alive, free and in their homes, the NATO strategy of _stopping_ the attacks looks a lot better.
I'm not a libertarian and I don't believe those bizarre UN conspiracy theories that seem so important to the far-right wing at the moment; but in this particular case it's hard to intepret the UN's inaction as anything other than tacit approval for a war of conquest.
Actually, reading that statistic I was impressed by how well C# is doing -- 1/7th as many projects as Java, and really all in about 2 years, and in the OSS community which isn't exactly MS's core area.
I think MS have recaptured a bit of their old magic here, in lowering the 'energy threshold' required to get a project going. That's what made VB and Excel so ubiquitous -- I'm not saying that that was a good thing, but it sure worked. The work you have to do to create, package and distribute a.net app is just significantly less than for a java app. If I never see another classpath or another teeny little xml file that has to just match the Java code in some other file, I will be sooooo happy.
Of course, I'm far from declaring victory for.net. But 2000 on sourceforge is a good sign, not a bad one.
Seriously, though, nobody should still _need_ to have SP2 blocked; there's been plenty of time to make sure everything works with it. Turning off the block should be just a formality. I am of course describing what _should_ be rather than what _is_...
Hmm, so in this system, there are documents that are annotated with meta-data... and then, you can run a query on that metadata to find documents matching certain criteria. You can narrow down a query, too. So far so ordinary.
The big problem, though, is that it's hard to be sarcastic enough. Business has already provided various document annotating and indexing systems, and various databases in which to store the results, and various query systems with which to retrieve them / report on them. Now, a bunch of students have done the same thing in miniature and to them it's all terribly much more interesting than those grubby real world systems. Great for them -- problem for me.
I mean, power to them and all, but after the first n Big Honkin' Advances In The Semantic Web, the ordinary Joe like me is left really scraping the barrel for ways to be sarcastic about it. It's all been done -- nothing I can offer that hasn't been modded +5 (70% Funny 30% Troll) in a dozen Semantic Web articles in the past. So I give up, okay? I can't keep up. There, I said it.
Thing you have to bear in mind is, Americans, unlike Londoners, are used to having actual access to dental care. To them, it goes something like:
--teeth going wonky --go to dentist to get teeth sorted out --teeth now not wonky
See, there's this expectation that a problem will lead to a solution -- that a service will actually be provided, in exchange for your money.
The longer you spend in the UK system (ie, pay the taxes, hope you get on some kind of waiting list for dental treatment, and shut the fuck up) the harder it gets to imagine this other way of doing things. You actually stop expecting any problem to be solved (dental or otherwise) and then when you encounter people from other cultures, who have higher expectations, they seem finnicky and selfish.
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'plogging'?? This is the sort of gratuseless neologism that's making modern webontent so incomprusing. Why can't they use ordular, regdinary words that we've all heard of? Why must they inventorate these mad brandologues, taking the initialet of a well-known verbagos and sticking it haprandom onto a pointuculous wundragubbin?
This frumblotionary addlepoopery is threatening to grurmstipth crumbobblious fremd eebree zorn frell completely and utterly INCOMPREHENSIBLE.
Oh, you old ISO4217 purist you. The country isn't called 'Great Britain', you know.
It's the 'United Kingdom'. Presumably this is meant sarcastically.
It's a matter of operator precedence being poorly defined in English, leading to the ambiguity known as a 'dangling modifier'.
Parentheses could have solved the problem:But parentheses aren't used like that in natural language. In English the right way to do it would be more like this:The 'who' strongly binds the entity before it to the entity after it, indicating that 'using keyloggers' is a predicate of 'hackers'. Thus the modifier, now tightly bound, dangles no more.
There's been one of these attached to the Ark Mori building in Tokyo since way back when. It's got a big array of hexagonal collectors (that track the sun) on the outside, and it pipes the light inside to where it shines on some rather mangy bamboo.
I heard it was the pet project of the son of someone important.
Sure gives that impression.
Yeah, we'd like to see the editors do that, too!
Yuk yuk! Ah, the obvious ones are the funniest ones.
I agree, those are the themes, ep1 is a prologue.
In other news, though, the movies sucked. This theme has been explored thoroughly elsewhere so I won't elaborate on it.
1. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. ...
And we "socialist" fit #1 fairly well if I do say so myself.
In the US maybe. In the UK, socialism is the prevailing dogma and the traditional, orthodox attitude.
Does that mean that the set of beliefs that is liberal in the US is not liberal in the UK?
Or does it rather suggest that defining your beliefs in terms of what kinds of people you oppose ("established, traditional, orthodox" etc in your case) is not as useful as defining them in terms of what you actually believe?
He is responsible for the creation of Lotus Notes,
You said that like it was a good thing. Have you noticed the split between people who have _not_ used it, who assume it's good because it's not M$, and the people who _have_ used it and hate it?
I can't easily and briefly sum up what's unpleasant about using Notes, but that's not because it's hard to express per se -- it's just impossible to know where to begin.
The notion that we would portray ourselves as knowing an absolute ethical standard goes against much of what we teach and learn here.
Pity.
JUST KIDDING! Harvard MBAs are moral beacons for the world. Please don't hurt me.
Hmmm.... yep, still bored. Better go to fark.
Back under your bridge... g'wan, shoo, shoo...
Dang trolls, more of 'em each year... I blame them suits in Washington.
BRING IT BACK, damn you! I want to hear about how Fry and Leela fall in love! I want to see Amy and Kif raise a family of tadpoles! I want to witness Zoidberg's later career as a famous radio psychiatrist! I -- I want to hear how it ends!
HOW COULD YOU CANCEL IT, YOU BASTARDS? How _could_ you? I mean, how was any one individual physically able to say the words 'Let's axe Futurama' without their tongue turning black and their eyes bursting into flame and their skin blistering and peeling and bursting and their vile TV-exec brain crawling away across the floor? I don't understand how it's physically possible.
This, THIS is the proof that evil is built into mankind. This is the physical manifestation of original sin. This is the archetypal ur-mistake of which all other mistakes are just shadows, the womb of chaos from which springs a monstrous child, the black goat of the woods with a thousand young... *mumble mumble*
But! the people who watch Futurama aren't the kind of people who have nothing better to do than work with ratings agencies.
So, it has to go.
Why must everything beautiful be so brief?
This is how British politics works. In the UK, there is a knee-jerk reaction to like more taxes, however unfair and unwise, just as in the US there is an automatic tendency to like tax cuts, however unfair and unwise.
This is because UK people are brought up to feel warm and fuzzy when they think they are paying for 'public services', a 'social safety net', 'community infrastructure' and so on. Similarly, in the US people tend to feel warm and fuzzy when they think they are 'protecting their property', 'competing in a free market', etc.
The net result is that when a government needs to generate some positive buzz in the UK it talks about _extra_ taxes. I initially had a hard time believing this, but then a couple of years ago the UK govt imposed this absolutely HUGE tax hike for the benefit of 'health'. Everyone I knew who was not English reacted normally, ie they were horrified that yet more of their money would be stolen without them getting anything in return. But everyone I know who was English was actively happy, they felt reassured that it was a return to socialism and all for the public good and everything would be just fine. It was utterly weird.
A few years on, the health service here is still... well, you need private health insurance if you don't want to wind up with teeth like the English. And paying for health twice is not a small thing. But the warm fuzzy 'I am contributing to the greater good!' feeling among the English people remains.
And that, patient reader, is why we see this white paper being released playfully suggesting a tax on PCs. It has nothing to do with actual plans -- it's just to create a socialist sort of atmosphere and thus a warm fuzzy feeling.
Honesty compels me to point out that most societies have something like this effect.
I am so sick of hearing this one. Kildall got a ton of money -- he could have turned it into fame by going on to found a major company or whatever, but he happened not to.
In other news, later he became an alcoholic. And slipped in a bar and died. Wooee. Just becoming an alcoholic does not make a guy a hero. Neither does slipping.
The tragedy here, if any, is that you are so bitter you're willing to attach your life story to this guy's.
Ah, right. Well, these high strung artist types can be like that I expect. It's hard to believe he really deserved front page abuse on PA... good luck to him say I.
Yeah, I think Squidi's achievement in sheer quality and production values over a period of years has been quite amazing. I can't say I'm wild about the new style backgrounds (or the dangerous tendency to start making Art with a capital A), but I have to take my hat off to the guy for the sheer amount of quality images, text and plot he has produced. As a comic, it's funnyish; as an exercise in continuity and development, it's outstanding.
I'm not quite sure what all the troubles surrounding the artist actually are. His editorials (except maybe when he gets political) strike me as remarkably organized and sensible, not the work of a net.kook at all... but it sure looks like he annoyed a lot of people somehow.
Actually, the design of St Paul's and the surrounding area was the result of a complex interplay between Wren, the king, the church and the people:
Wren -- wanted to create baroque-style city center
King -- wanted to save money
Church -- gothic all the way, baybee
People -- wanted convenience and dense business development
In the end, the group that came closest to getting what they wanted was the people; that's why London has no great big boulevards like those of Paris (the people valued lots of living space above ease of riot control). Wren, the man with the 'brilliant but different idea' used the King's negotiating weight to slip change after change past the Church, but he couldn't change the design completely which is why it's a hybrid gothic/baroque.
Thus the design evolved by consensus, negotiation, and balancing bright ideas against established needs. Incidentally, I never used to like St. Paul's, but now that they have cleaned it all up and redeveloped the area north of it with some excellent postmodern work, it's looking really good. Weather still bad though.
Going back to the subject of software, I really don't think this whole Cathedral/Bazaar analogy was well chosen in the first place (especially as gothic cathedrals were striking examples of community efforts, as has been pointed out elsewhere). Major projects and projects that depend on a central authority can be developed in just as fluid a way as small, distributed ones -- if you have the right people. If you don't have people like Wren and the King, if you don't have people who change their minds when they find a brilliant idea, there can be problems.
It must be a hoax -- a user trying to quit vi actually types this:
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That's so cute! I wish I had a camera.
The UN 'don't lift a gosh dang finger to help' tactic in the former Yugoslavia was 'prudent' only in the sense that when all non-Serbs had been annihilated or subjugated the conflict would presumably have stopped.
If, however, you take the view that the non-Serb inhabitants of Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia had some sort of right to remain alive, free and in their homes, the NATO strategy of _stopping_ the attacks looks a lot better.
I'm not a libertarian and I don't believe those bizarre UN conspiracy theories that seem so important to the far-right wing at the moment; but in this particular case it's hard to intepret the UN's inaction as anything other than tacit approval for a war of conquest.
Well, okay, maybe that's going a bit far.
But it's lucky NATO were there.
Actually, reading that statistic I was impressed by how well C# is doing -- 1/7th as many projects as Java, and really all in about 2 years, and in the OSS community which isn't exactly MS's core area.
I think MS have recaptured a bit of their old magic here, in lowering the 'energy threshold' required to get a project going. That's what made VB and Excel so ubiquitous -- I'm not saying that that was a good thing, but it sure worked. The work you have to do to create, package and distribute a
Of course, I'm far from declaring victory for
Is that like 'L.A. Confidential'?
Seriously, though, nobody should still _need_ to have SP2 blocked; there's been plenty of time to make sure everything works with it. Turning off the block should be just a formality. I am of course describing what _should_ be rather than what _is_...
A man with this amazing ability to remember and combine data does not need a powerful text editor!
*duck*
Hmm, so in this system, there are documents that are annotated with meta-data... and then, you can run a query on that metadata to find documents matching certain criteria. You can narrow down a query, too. So far so ordinary.
The big problem, though, is that it's hard to be sarcastic enough. Business has already provided various document annotating and indexing systems, and various databases in which to store the results, and various query systems with which to retrieve them / report on them. Now, a bunch of students have done the same thing in miniature and to them it's all terribly much more interesting than those grubby real world systems. Great for them -- problem for me.
I mean, power to them and all, but after the first n Big Honkin' Advances In The Semantic Web, the ordinary Joe like me is left really scraping the barrel for ways to be sarcastic about it. It's all been done -- nothing I can offer that hasn't been modded +5 (70% Funny 30% Troll) in a dozen Semantic Web articles in the past. So I give up, okay? I can't keep up. There, I said it.
I hope you're happy now.
Thing you have to bear in mind is, Americans, unlike Londoners, are used to having actual access to dental care. To them, it goes something like:
--teeth going wonky
--go to dentist to get teeth sorted out
--teeth now not wonky
See, there's this expectation that a problem will lead to a solution -- that a service will actually be provided, in exchange for your money.
The longer you spend in the UK system (ie, pay the taxes, hope you get on some kind of waiting list for dental treatment, and shut the fuck up) the harder it gets to imagine this other way of doing things. You actually stop expecting any problem to be solved (dental or otherwise) and then when you encounter people from other cultures, who have higher expectations, they seem finnicky and selfish.