And 3. This is not at all current academic philosophy. This is what people who still refer to things as "PC" or "un-PC" believe to be current academic philosophy.
Wait -- I'm not supposed to read the review if I'm planning to play the game?
What if I'm not sure if I'll like the game - wouldn't reading the review be a natural way to figure out whether I should try it? I guess if I'm undecided, I am not yet *planning* to play the game, so I should read the review. Shoot, what if I read the review and it sounds perfect for me? I will have at the same time ruined the game by exposing myself to all the spoilers.
This has been the most useless set of comments I've seen on Slashdot (and yes, I'm not excepting my own).
For some reason, censorship stories, Patriot Act stories, MS stories, OLPC stories, evil-video-game stories, Star Trek stories, dog vs. cat stories, Mountain Dew vs. Jolt stories, coffee/tea stories, religion stories, lawyer stories, public wifi stories, stories that refer to crackers as 'hackers', and a bunch of other story types, none of them prompts a set of comments as worthless as this sort of story.
We have lots of places to see people post their political views without reading anyone else's comments. Please don't make Slashdot another venue for that.
In the spirit of the World of Warcraft achievement addition, "karma whoring" has been renamed to the less-impugning "karma farming" or "grinding karma."
I'd wondered why Daubert hadn't come up earlier in this discussion. Parent is right on, imo. As precedent, it's kind of a double-edged sword for industry, since in practice (as far as I know, and IANAL) it's lowered the bar with respect to what materials have to be produced.
I guess it's a matter of taste, but holy moly, this story pretty much epitomizes the Slashdot Troll Story. At least it's a new* variety of Troll Story (see also, the RIAA-Bites-Man story, the Crazy-Patent story, the Pro-Microsoft story, the Spammer-Tells-his-Story story, the now-faded SCO story, and many more).
* I write this half-expecting someone to produce an old Slashdot story about a crackpot scheme involving setting up a New Internet in order to fight crime.
Q: Should you place the period inside or outside quotation marks? A: Inside.
Q: Are there any exceptions to the above rule? A: No. Exceptions exist for exclamation or question marks (depending on whether the mark applies to the quote alone or to the whole sentence), but never for commas or periods. I thought when I saw "Only in America" follow-ups, this would be addressed. It wasn't.
Whether or not it's proper for periods (or commas, etc.) to go inside or outside the quotation marks very much depends on where your editor (or puler) was trained. If you're writing for some Brits (or Anglophiles), periods (or commas, etc.) must be outside the quotation marks.
Yet people still talk shit because I listen to vinyl. Holy hipster persecution complex.
See also: Yet people still talk shit because I...
- shop at thrift stores. - watch anime you've never heard of. - prefer Sidecars and Manhattans to your quotidian *tinis. - use Linux. - didn't like the three newest Star Wars "films". - enjoy wearing cardigans. - like books. . . .
The original site is slashdotted, so none of us relative latecomers can read and(&/or) comment on the substance of the article. Are we dismayed?
No! Helpfully, there's an extended discussion of the way the OSs are characterized in the article (presumably by people who've RTFA) and speculations about thew article based on the publisher.
There are, however, versions of this which include reference to any descriptions of the game without the league's permission being illegal.
I just hope no one comes after me when I point to Barry and inappropriately say "Look at the size of that noggin!" without realizing that some addled color commentator said the same thing about him, during the same game, at roughly the same time.
When I saw the headline, I thought "Wha? Somehow they've come up with drugs that target depressed prisoners?" Then I RTF summary and, eventually, RTFA. Parent's pretty funny. Though I could have done it better.
You had a clan/team/guild with the same members and name on more than one MMORPG? This might be your lucky day: I hear there's a publisher interested in stories like yours.
Oy. I guess I can see some kind of value to the project, but the notion of species that we get/got in HS is not very closely related to the ones folks currently work with. I suspect that, at best, this will "be a vital tool for... [grade school] educators [and desperate students] across the globe."
It looks like smart folks are behind this, but it is strongly reminiscent of Gore's proposal to have NASA prioritize the project of making live satellite photos of the planet available 24/7. Sure, it'd be cool, but...
FTA: SCO, a "software maker"?
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It was suggested earlier that Forbes shills for SCO, but JFC, if the first sentence of the article doesn't settle it, I don't know what does: "Pamela Jones has led a relentless online crusade against software maker SCO Group". Er, At one point, maybe, but currently?
I have trouble believing that the RIAA/MPAA could be so dumb. I don't. I've seen how dumb large organizations can be.
I worked for one of RIAA's lawfirms, handling antipiracy stuff in the late '90s, and while I wouldn't say they're dumb, by any stretch, they weren't very subtle, and they weren't very concerned with potential negative press. At least inside the office, there was a feeling of "we're defending the artists!" The concern seemed to be that people pirating music just didn't realize what they were doing. This view is still recognizable in those pre-movie spots the moral of which seems to be "Copying or downloading is stealing."
If what you say is right, then perhaps we should all heap attention on him for this, a relatively minor and stupid stunt. Were we to ignore him, he might think he needs to do more to get the attention he craves. Who knows? Next time he might find some similarly narrow-minded politicians also looking for attention to prop up a sagging career (or ego), and something might actually happen.
If you don't pay attention to a 2-year old when he's doing something good or neutral, you're setting yourself up for a 2-year old doing bad in order to get attention. Likewise, if you don't pay attention to a lawyer when he's doing something relatively banal that makes him look worse than his targets, you're setting yourself up for the 2-year old version of a cranky ignored lawyer.
I'd say don't harass him, because that feeds his "footsoldier of God" self-image ("I'm ticking off the violent heathens, so I must be doing something right"). Just correct mistakes where they're made and do good, and he'll take care of making himself look bad. (And regardless of whether their motives were to humiliate the guy or benefit a charity, the HF guys were doing good, if they thought 10k was heading to a charity as a result of what they were doing.)
He was referring to the verdict (guilty on the relevant counts) not the sentence. He wasn't claiming that 640 years is an appropriate sentence. As the article says, the actual sentence will be much less (and the prosecutor knows this).
As an aside, these extremely long sentences (3 life terms, etc.) are frequently given because they affect when people can get out on parole.
"Our customers that are buying [UNIX] from us today, we generally don't have a problem with," McBride said. "We have some former customers that have left that are running on Linux, and they are in the crosshairs."
What about former (and current?) customers who got their linux from Caldera?
There's a new Spy Museum in D.C. that you ought to check out. I toured it earlier in the year and it was a blast: lots of history, lots of gadgets and interactive exhibits. It's not free, but it is definitely worth the admission price.
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't even know they were dating.
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3. This is not at all current academic philosophy. This is what people who still refer to things as "PC" or "un-PC" believe to be current academic philosophy.
"as is often the case, truth is less interesting than reality"
Wait -- I'm not supposed to read the review if I'm planning to play the game?
What if I'm not sure if I'll like the game - wouldn't reading the review be a natural way to figure out whether I should try it?
I guess if I'm undecided, I am not yet *planning* to play the game, so I should read the review. Shoot, what if I read the review and it sounds perfect for me? I will have at the same time ruined the game by exposing myself to all the spoilers.
This has been the most useless set of comments I've seen on Slashdot (and yes, I'm not excepting my own).
For some reason, censorship stories, Patriot Act stories, MS stories, OLPC stories, evil-video-game stories, Star Trek stories, dog vs. cat stories, Mountain Dew vs. Jolt stories, coffee/tea stories, religion stories, lawyer stories, public wifi stories, stories that refer to crackers as 'hackers', and a bunch of other story types, none of them prompts a set of comments as worthless as this sort of story.
We have lots of places to see people post their political views without reading anyone else's comments. Please don't make Slashdot another venue for that.
Holy moly - as I write, parent languishes at +4. In the name of all that is for nerds or matters: mod parent up.
In the spirit of the World of Warcraft achievement addition, "karma whoring" has been renamed to the less-impugning "karma farming" or "grinding karma."
I'd wondered why Daubert hadn't come up earlier in this discussion. Parent is right on, imo. As precedent, it's kind of a double-edged sword for industry, since in practice (as far as I know, and IANAL) it's lowered the bar with respect to what materials have to be produced.
I guess it's a matter of taste, but holy moly, this story pretty much epitomizes the Slashdot Troll Story. At least it's a new* variety of Troll Story (see also, the RIAA-Bites-Man story, the Crazy-Patent story, the Pro-Microsoft story, the Spammer-Tells-his-Story story, the now-faded SCO story, and many more).
* I write this half-expecting someone to produce an old Slashdot story about a crackpot scheme involving setting up a New Internet in order to fight crime.
Holy moly. I just realized I chimed in with a grammatical comment on a post about OLPC and Nigerian "courts.".
A: Inside.
Q: Are there any exceptions to the above rule?
A: No. Exceptions exist for exclamation or question marks (depending on whether the mark applies to the quote alone or to the whole sentence), but never for commas or periods. I thought when I saw "Only in America" follow-ups, this would be addressed. It wasn't.
Whether or not it's proper for periods (or commas, etc.) to go inside or outside the quotation marks very much depends on where your editor (or puler) was trained. If you're writing for some Brits (or Anglophiles), periods (or commas, etc.) must be outside the quotation marks.
See also: Yet people still talk shit because I...
- shop at thrift stores.
- watch anime you've never heard of.
- prefer Sidecars and Manhattans to your quotidian *tinis.
- use Linux.
- didn't like the three newest Star Wars "films".
- enjoy wearing cardigans.
- like books.
.
.
.
There's something reassuring about this:
The original site is slashdotted, so none of us relative latecomers can read and(&/or) comment on the substance of the article. Are we dismayed?
No! Helpfully, there's an extended discussion of the way the OSs are characterized in the article (presumably by people who've RTFA) and speculations about thew article based on the publisher.
Here's an article in which it's argued that Scientology is not a cult: http://www.slate.com/id/2171416/
It doesn't so much make Scientology look better, as make other religions look bad...
There are, however, versions of this which include reference to any descriptions of the game without the league's permission being illegal.
I just hope no one comes after me when I point to Barry and inappropriately say "Look at the size of that noggin!" without realizing that some addled color commentator said the same thing about him, during the same game, at roughly the same time.
When I saw the headline, I thought "Wha? Somehow they've come up with drugs that target depressed prisoners?" Then I RTF summary and, eventually, RTFA. Parent's pretty funny. Though I could have done it better.
You had a clan/team/guild with the same members and name on more than one MMORPG? This might be your lucky day: I hear there's a publisher interested in stories like yours.
Oy. I guess I can see some kind of value to the project, but the notion of species that we get/got in HS is not very closely related to the ones folks currently work with. I suspect that, at best, this will "be a vital tool for ... [grade school] educators [and desperate students] across the globe."
It looks like smart folks are behind this, but it is strongly reminiscent of Gore's proposal to have NASA prioritize the project of making live satellite photos of the planet available 24/7. Sure, it'd be cool, but...
It was suggested earlier that Forbes shills for SCO, but JFC, if the first sentence of the article doesn't settle it, I don't know what does: "Pamela Jones has led a relentless online crusade against software maker SCO Group". Er, At one point, maybe, but currently?
I worked for one of RIAA's lawfirms, handling antipiracy stuff in the late '90s, and while I wouldn't say they're dumb, by any stretch, they weren't very subtle, and they weren't very concerned with potential negative press. At least inside the office, there was a feeling of "we're defending the artists!" The concern seemed to be that people pirating music just didn't realize what they were doing. This view is still recognizable in those pre-movie spots the moral of which seems to be "Copying or downloading is stealing."
If what you say is right, then perhaps we should all heap attention on him for this, a relatively minor and stupid stunt. Were we to ignore him, he might think he needs to do more to get the attention he craves. Who knows? Next time he might find some similarly narrow-minded politicians also looking for attention to prop up a sagging career (or ego), and something might actually happen.
If you don't pay attention to a 2-year old when he's doing something good or neutral, you're setting yourself up for a 2-year old doing bad in order to get attention. Likewise, if you don't pay attention to a lawyer when he's doing something relatively banal that makes him look worse than his targets, you're setting yourself up for the 2-year old version of a cranky ignored lawyer.
I'd say don't harass him, because that feeds his "footsoldier of God" self-image ("I'm ticking off the violent heathens, so I must be doing something right"). Just correct mistakes where they're made and do good, and he'll take care of making himself look bad. (And regardless of whether their motives were to humiliate the guy or benefit a charity, the HF guys were doing good, if they thought 10k was heading to a charity as a result of what they were doing.)
He was referring to the verdict (guilty on the relevant counts) not the sentence. He wasn't claiming that 640 years is an appropriate sentence. As the article says, the actual sentence will be much less (and the prosecutor knows this).
As an aside, these extremely long sentences (3 life terms, etc.) are frequently given because they affect when people can get out on parole.
What about former (and current?) customers who got their linux from Caldera?
There's a new Spy Museum in D.C. that you ought to check out. I toured it earlier in the year and it was a blast: lots of history, lots of gadgets and interactive exhibits. It's not free, but it is definitely worth the admission price.
Visit the garage where Hewlett Packard got started:
Hewlett-Packard Garage
367 Addison Ave
Palo Alto, California