I sincerely hope that IBM gets on the XUL train, because I would like to see more documentation come out of it. The last two times I tried to learn XUL (admittedly over a year), the language had drifted from the documentation enough that most of the example code I found to learn from produced errors when the new tag name or options didn't match the docs.
I'm just a part-timer, though, so I understand that you programming "hosses" have no problem with this.
If there was a large problem with gangs and the annoying neighbor was a man with the ears of high-ranking polititions, then maybe I would be happy. Something would likely be done about the gangs.
I was at work yesterday when someone wanted to show me something on her email and typed hotmail.com into goole search to find the site. I just stared with jaw agape.
Have you ever lived in Asia? Do you know that Buddha's disciples went out spreading their beliefs in virtually the same way that early Christians did? How did you think that the religion came to cover Asia from India to Korea?
Anyway, Free software evangelists are everywhere, and some of them are pushy, as well. I kind of like it that way.
I put together fake tests that were insanely difficult for all my students, and spent the first ten minutes of each class dogging them about finishing their exam in the (short) time allotted...
I finished the day by telling my school administrator that I had been offered significantly more money to work at another school, and would be leaving after my contracted period without renewing. After her face went totally white and she looked at me pitifully, I reminded her of the date.
Good American universities support the kind of thinking that you mention, which is why they are good universities. I suspect poor to average universities in your country have about the same proportion of wanker profs as the US does.
BTW, is there any good reason you chose to turn the discussion into a US vs. Country B affair?
Again, RTFA. The program is a tool to improve the final paper, which the prof grades himself. Students are given feedback on their papers in order to help them write a better paper, so I don't think anyone would care how many times they submitted their papers to the program.
Looks don't always matter. Even I once had a woman come to my apartment to prove to me that light skinned women are as good in bed as dark skinned. Her words, not mine...
My father used to say, when he was flying the last true fighter plane, that he had to know that the equipment was rated for 5Gs, which meant that is had been tested to 7Gs, and that he could do 8 if he was in a pinch. Carrier pilots are a different breed.
Hey, I'm not defending Locke, just saying that the writers were referencing him, so didn't feel the need to include them, much in the same way that writers do today.
If you want to know the "proof," read Locke. They did. In fact, almost every educated person of the time did, and it was the big philosophical discussion of the period. There's never really anything but a priori and derivatives in philosophy, kind of like in Euclidian geometry.
Common usage can be studied ONLY by observation. There is no such thing as an authoritive source on common usage. Your reputable sources are merely followers that attempt to catch up with common usage.
Apparently, you need reading comprehension courses in addition to grammar correction, because "reputable" does not mean "authoritative." Merely find somebody who is a scholar of English, doing research, or whatever who supports your idea. Since there are millions of academics with a million different opinions, backing up your assertion should be trivial...
I claimed my usage had fallen into common usage and that in a spoken language common usage trumps accepted standards.
Your usage is only common by those people who fail to read enough to know the difference. Homophones are not synonyms. Although spoken English is perhaps twenty years ahead of written English, similar sounds don't change English like you wish they did.
Actually I never made any comments regarding MY education.
Again, learn to read. I never mentioned your education. I said, "your bias against education."
Your ability to "correct" me, demonstrates that you were easily able to discern my meaning.
In such a simple sentence I was able to figure your meaning after a quick second reading, but if you ever want to progress past middle school level logic, you'll need to use sentences which are complicated enough to cause difficulty here.
You are correcting grammar and/or spelling outside of an English related course.
I am correcting your grammar when you claim that you have studied enough, and that an undergraduate degree is far more than you need, when you obviously could use a little more education (or perhaps care more about what you write).
Yes, this site is for geeks not grammar trolls. Begone!
Any geek willfully ignorant and deriding correction doesn't deserve the title.;)
Yeah, that's transcribed off of an audio clip where he was quoting someone else. Just trying to figure out where to put the punctuation was a pain in the butt.
Since you don't know Adler, he was decidedly anti-establishment and promoted adult self-education for most of his life. He still felt that an undergraduate degree taught virtually nothing and was almost worthless.
"Your" has not adopted an additional meaning in common usage, and I dare you to find one reputable source which says that it has. It was a logical mistake, showing a lack of clear thought. Language lives and changes, but your usage is wrong by any accepted standard, and your ignorance in claiming otherwise is indicative of your bias against education.
As for solicitation, you invitied me in when you said that (presumably) you learned everything you need to know in undergraduate studies.
Apparently English wasn't wasn't/isn't on your list of necessary knowledge to gain. Too bad mastery of a language (English or not) is a prerequisite for clear representation of your ideas. Maybe you're not interested in ideas, either... In that case, your education is sufficient.
Your topic was education. Learning to write is part of that process. I am not a grammar troll. You, however, are apparently willfully ignorant. This is a site for geeks. Begone!;)
I'm no color management expert, but this issue has been beaten to death on Slashdot repeatedly. Talks about CM systems at http://www.levien.com/gimp/gcmm.html show three patents that are slowing things down.
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I'm not arguing about LCMS, but it apparently doesn't do what really needs to be done, or Gimp would've implemented it sometime since 1998, I guess.
Again, not being an expert, I'm going to say that this subject has been covered repeatedly over the years, and Gimp developers always come back to the patent issue, so I believe them.
By the time you have a bachlors you have garnered everything worthwhile your going to get from the formal education system and then some
While you're doing your graduate studies, maybe you can learn some English, as well.
More education is not bad. In fact, if you read educators like Adler, they believe that your undergraduate degree is just preparation for how to think, and that the graduate degree is where the real growth happens.
I was an average student but I went to the engineering school. I went primarily because my mother told me I should. They needed a professional in the family and I really don't think I was that well suited but the one thing that I know: my mantra has always been that nobody's going to out work me. Nobody's going to try harder than I try. If I do my best (and I never really worried about accumulating wealth or I don't feel like I had any fear) but I feel like if I do my best, I'm very satisfied with that but I've had to struggle to work very hard to do things. I ended up being in management. I've had to hire some of these geniuses. They are not in management because they were not people orientated. I think their intellect -- The way intellect is measured is a little bit faulty. Geniuses, they don't have a feel for the work environment or they don't know how to say the right thing and you combine that with not working hard, so particularly in the engineering field I'm sure a lot of people, geniuses, just don't get it. They are very strong in that sort of narrow area. The geniuses who have worked for me know more and more about less and less. A lot of intellectuals get drawn into career in research - academia -- Things that tend not to be managerial or entrepreneurial. There are not practically for the most part.
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I don't know about that. My logs in Korea are a terrible mess. In fact, much of my web traffic can be attributed to attacks. ;)
xmms has a plugin for this, called "Alarm." It might be easier for you to set the alarm once for the whole week (different times for each day...)
I sincerely hope that IBM gets on the XUL train, because I would like to see more documentation come out of it. The last two times I tried to learn XUL (admittedly over a year), the language had drifted from the documentation enough that most of the example code I found to learn from produced errors when the new tag name or options didn't match the docs.
I'm just a part-timer, though, so I understand that you programming "hosses" have no problem with this.
s/polititions/politicians/
God that's embarrassing. Preview and some spelling lessons for me!
If there was a large problem with gangs and the annoying neighbor was a man with the ears of high-ranking polititions, then maybe I would be happy. Something would likely be done about the gangs.
I think that that's the GP's argument
What do they have to lose?
You mis-misspelled "loose." Next time be more careful.
I was at work yesterday when someone wanted to show me something on her email and typed hotmail.com into goole search to find the site. I just stared with jaw agape.
Have you ever lived in Asia? Do you know that Buddha's disciples went out spreading their beliefs in virtually the same way that early Christians did? How did you think that the religion came to cover Asia from India to Korea?
Anyway, Free software evangelists are everywhere, and some of them are pushy, as well. I kind of like it that way.
I put together fake tests that were insanely difficult for all my students, and spent the first ten minutes of each class dogging them about finishing their exam in the (short) time allotted...
I finished the day by telling my school administrator that I had been offered significantly more money to work at another school, and would be leaving after my contracted period without renewing. After her face went totally white and she looked at me pitifully, I reminded her of the date.
I assume (though it doesn't say) that the time is saved by reading fewer drafts.
Good American universities support the kind of thinking that you mention, which is why they are good universities. I suspect poor to average universities in your country have about the same proportion of wanker profs as the US does.
BTW, is there any good reason you chose to turn the discussion into a US vs. Country B affair?
Again, RTFA. The program is a tool to improve the final paper, which the prof grades himself. Students are given feedback on their papers in order to help them write a better paper, so I don't think anyone would care how many times they submitted their papers to the program.
But, it's not licensing code -- it's about supplying the full API, or am I totally off-base here?
Looks don't always matter. Even I once had a woman come to my apartment to prove to me that light skinned women are as good in bed as dark skinned. Her words, not mine...
My father used to say, when he was flying the last true fighter plane, that he had to know that the equipment was rated for 5Gs, which meant that is had been tested to 7Gs, and that he could do 8 if he was in a pinch. Carrier pilots are a different breed.
Hey, I'm not defending Locke, just saying that the writers were referencing him, so didn't feel the need to include them, much in the same way that writers do today.
If you want to know the "proof," read Locke. They did. In fact, almost every educated person of the time did, and it was the big philosophical discussion of the period. There's never really anything but a priori and derivatives in philosophy, kind of like in Euclidian geometry.
Common usage can be studied ONLY by observation. There is no such thing as an authoritive source on common usage. Your reputable sources are merely followers that attempt to catch up with common usage.
;)
Apparently, you need reading comprehension courses in addition to grammar correction, because "reputable" does not mean "authoritative." Merely find somebody who is a scholar of English, doing research, or whatever who supports your idea. Since there are millions of academics with a million different opinions, backing up your assertion should be trivial...
I claimed my usage had fallen into common usage and that in a spoken language common usage trumps accepted standards.
Your usage is only common by those people who fail to read enough to know the difference. Homophones are not synonyms. Although spoken English is perhaps twenty years ahead of written English, similar sounds don't change English like you wish they did.
Actually I never made any comments regarding MY education.
Again, learn to read. I never mentioned your education. I said, "your bias against education."
Your ability to "correct" me, demonstrates that you were easily able to discern my meaning.
In such a simple sentence I was able to figure your meaning after a quick second reading, but if you ever want to progress past middle school level logic, you'll need to use sentences which are complicated enough to cause difficulty here.
You are correcting grammar and/or spelling outside of an English related course.
I am correcting your grammar when you claim that you have studied enough, and that an undergraduate degree is far more than you need, when you obviously could use a little more education (or perhaps care more about what you write).
Yes, this site is for geeks not grammar trolls. Begone!
Any geek willfully ignorant and deriding correction doesn't deserve the title.
Yeah, that's transcribed off of an audio clip where he was quoting someone else. Just trying to figure out where to put the punctuation was a pain in the butt.
Since you don't know Adler, he was decidedly anti-establishment and promoted adult self-education for most of his life. He still felt that an undergraduate degree taught virtually nothing and was almost worthless.
;)
"Your" has not adopted an additional meaning in common usage, and I dare you to find one reputable source which says that it has. It was a logical mistake, showing a lack of clear thought. Language lives and changes, but your usage is wrong by any accepted standard, and your ignorance in claiming otherwise is indicative of your bias against education.
As for solicitation, you invitied me in when you said that (presumably) you learned everything you need to know in undergraduate studies.
Apparently English wasn't wasn't/isn't on your list of necessary knowledge to gain. Too bad mastery of a language (English or not) is a prerequisite for clear representation of your ideas. Maybe you're not interested in ideas, either... In that case, your education is sufficient.
Your topic was education. Learning to write is part of that process. I am not a grammar troll. You, however, are apparently willfully ignorant. This is a site for geeks. Begone!
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I'm not arguing about LCMS, but it apparently doesn't do what really needs to be done, or Gimp would've implemented it sometime since 1998, I guess.Again, not being an expert, I'm going to say that this subject has been covered repeatedly over the years, and Gimp developers always come back to the patent issue, so I believe them.
Well said. I'm sorry that you got labelled "Troll" for that insight.
By the time you have a bachlors you have garnered everything worthwhile your going to get from the formal education system and then some
While you're doing your graduate studies, maybe you can learn some English, as well.
More education is not bad. In fact, if you read educators like Adler, they believe that your undergraduate degree is just preparation for how to think, and that the graduate degree is where the real growth happens.
Not Willing to work hard? Is he sure about that?
When the patent expires... Maybe 10 years?