Pretending the words don't mean what everyone reading them knows they mean is the wrong approach.
Social context does, in fact, matter.
Exactly, let's not fool ourselves. The invitation from the fifteen year old son wasn't an invitation for sex, but nor was it an invitation for an amicable discussion either. It was a threat, an implied (probably empty) threat, but a threat nevertheless.
And in my opinion, the Anon handled it very well.
He could have asked "Is that a threat?" No doubt, the kid would have said, "No, not at all." Just like the kid could have asked "Is that a gay innuendo?", but the answer to that question would have been a "No" as well.
And please notice how the mother is playing the same game as her son's. We all know she (and her Counsel) have no intention of attacking the Anon for defamation. I think, we all know she just wants his identity and his address for other reasons.
Once she has it, her son will probably go over there to see if he's bigger than him. Failing that, now that she is a Village trustee, and since the Anon is probably that Village's resident she's a Trustee in (otherwise, the story wouldn't make much sense), she'll probably find ways to use her office to enact revenge on the Anon (and even if she doesn't, as long as she's an official with power over him, the Anon will always have that potential threat of retaliation hanging over his head).
So make no mistake, this isn't a Defamation case, nor is it anything about keeping children safe (on the contrary), this story is about speaking truth to power. And it's about the government's right to find out the identity of an anonymous political commentator when that commentator really pissed off one of his government's leaders.
That's just silly. Oracle and MySql are not equivalent in the least. Usually both those database products are used for very different uses cases. And it's often that a company that (can afford and) uses Oracle already, will also be using MySql as well, but for very different business/technical purposes. Trying to use Oracle for everything, in my opinion, is just as counter-productive as trying to use MySql for everything. If anything, a frustrated "cowboy" as you say would probably switch to SQL Server or Postgresql, before laying down the kind of serious cash that's needed for Oracle.
Oracle is marketed as an high-end database product/set of services. MySql is a low-end one (and please, don't misinterpret this as shot against it). Now, I'm not saying that you won't find companies replacing their Oracle database with a MySql one, but those are very few and far between. Between Oracle and MySql, there are actually quite of slew of decent alternatives (both proprietary and open source).
(there is an opinion here that software patents help the USA in World Trade.... which seems very dubious to me at any rate).
Software patents are like buried land mines. They may slow us down and cripple us, but as long as they slow down and cripple our competitors even more than they do us -- that's what really counts.
The problem is, nobody is paying anyone for the news today. So there will be no "good journalists" in the future because nobody is going to waste their time doing that job for nothing.
If your current career paid you zero dollars, would you keep doing it out of loyalty? I know some teachers might. Except they need to pay the rent, buy food, etc. So no matter how dedicated they are, they are going to spend their hours doing something that pays for rent, food. etc.
The "new media" consists of reading stuff written by people that are driven to write it by their own ego. So you get terrific articles that are written by dedicated people... except they are utterly the product of one person's delusions about the world. This isn't news or journalism, it is like finding someone making a speech in a public park.
It should be frowned upon because it is unethical to go around and try to poach staff....
But they didn't. Reframeit is the one who went to Google. Reframeit is the one who asked them to look their site (thus explaining the registrations coming from google employees).
And how many employees does Reframeit even have? One or two? Shouldn't it be natural for Google to simply assume that those one or two guys who came to them and asked them to take a look at their site -- simply wanted to get a job at Google?
Like I've said before, reframeit doesn't even make the top ten of any list I've seen (if you can actually find one where reframeit does appear -- I'll eat my words of course. I can admit when I'm wrong).
This is so ridiculous. They say they founded their company in 2006. They only registered their domain in 2007. Their patent filing is so fresh, it still says "patent pending".
Personally, I've been making tools like this one since 2001 (and I know I wasn't the only one at the time). Mind you at the time, I didn't have the Twitter/Facebook share buttons (but now, everybody has those -- so it's not like they have anything unique). Besides, the guy complains about the Twitter and the Facebook buttons they both have in common, but if you look closely, you'll see that reframe has five select boxes, and Google has four buttons, and not only is Google only using buttons (instead of checkboxes) -- it has two share buttons that reframe doesn't even have (and it's missing three options that reframeit has).
And don't get me started on those screenshots, they're way too small to read fully (even if you do view image). And the first three screenshots have the same complaint duplicated (so aside from the arrows, I'm guessing that we're missing two of his complaints).
And then, look at what he ends his blog post with.
In any case, pairing a Web annotation service with the leading search engine puts Google at the head of the Web annotation long tail, of which Reframe It, Diigo, JotSpot and others are a part.
Excuse-me!? I've never heard of Reframeit.com. Does he have third party citations to back up his claims? Traffic stats? User reviews? Anything? Personally, I have, and reframeit doesn't even make it in the top ten.
And what about jotspot.com? Weren't they bought out by Google two or three years ago. Shouldn't this guy know this if he's in the space? Besides, it's not like jotspot would even qualify as a good web annotation tool, it was way too feature-rich to be in that category the last time I saw it.
No, it's only human error when several truck loads of small sardines capsize your ship. In fact, when it comes to the hierarchy of Japanese fishermen, the fishermen that get capsized by sardines tend not to want to talk about it.
Actually, another work around is that Flash in IE will start supporting HTML5.
Thought, I'm not sure how long that's going to be needed, a Microsoft employee told me that Microsoft has decided to finally support HTML5 (not supporting HTML5 was just creating too much trouble).
I don't know what saint city you live in, but here there is NO shortage of speeders such that cops would have to make things up. Plus, they make all of their "BS money" off of parking tickets so they don't need to harass drivers.
Not in my city. There is plenty of parking where I live (they couldn't make money from parking tickets, even if they wanted to). Plus, since my city also happens to be the seat of our County, it means they're allowed to keep most of the revenue from traffic violations (that normally goes to the State). No one is complaining thought, when the city gets the revenue, it means they don't take off any points from our driving record and there is not even any need for driving school.
Different cities raise revenue in different ways.
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No, not LoJack, it's more like you're buying a 2005 SUV especially because you know it has an OnStar system on board, and then a few months later, GM decides to change the format on you, and you basically have no recourse (and no one willing to buy that truck from you, because by now everybody knows about the discontinuation).
First generation Zune owners and Walmart DRM music customers should know basically what I'm talking about. You don't own the music you buy, and if you want to keep on listening to DRM music you've already purchased -- it means you may have to repurchase your same music again and again.
I'm not sure why this was modded as off-topic. I personally don't own any Apple hardware myself, but if there is one thing I understand about Apple is that, whether you like it or not, they wire all their appliances for sound and music streaming especially.
- Gays only will become normal parts of society, when the need for a "we are so special" parade goes away.
I feel the same way about the Irish. The Irish will only become normal parts of society, once we stop putting them on children's cereal boxes and once we stop having holidays/bars named after them. And don't get me started on the big scam of everyone having to wear green once a year!
Punishment is about protection, reparations, rehabilitation, and vindication, yes, but it's not just about those. It's also about deterrence -- a show of power -- a show of force for both sides involved, plus anyone else who gets to see it or hear about it.
I don't want to imagine the apocalypse of a couple hundred all going out in a well populated area; it would turn into Mad Max in a matter of hours.
Yes and no, I live in Northern California. During major outages, like an earthquake or something. People will drive like idiots at intersections initially, but after a couple of hours they'll settle into a rythm, and the lack of traffic lights stops being a problem.
The problem with the monthly subscription is that barely any of that would go to the artist directly- essentially you'd be downloading my music for a fraction of the retail cost.
On a side-note, has any Indie artist tried setting up a monthly fee of let's say $30 (or more) as a blanket subscription fee for their biggest fans?
There is no reason you can't have both, and just let the consumer decide. Believe it or not, there are cases where the consumer would rather not leave the site.
For instance, when our customers wanted a refund from us, we had to tell them to make the request through Pay Pal first (at least, at the time that was the case, I don't know if it still is the case now), and then we would issue the refund as soon as we saw the request come in. We couldn't initiate that request ourselves.
This really didn't sit well with our customers. Also the Pay Pal process for requesting a refund made the process unnecessarily adversarial and completely user-unfriendly. As a company in a very competitive area, we didn't want our customers (who for some reason were not satisfied with our services/products) to feel we were dragging our feet, or to feel that we were pawning them off to some giant faceless corporation who didn't know the first thing about what went wrong in the first place. Unsatisfied customers who feel that way are much more likely to write very negative reviews.
There is nothing to see here. There were other mitigating circumstances. The Algerian man was slightly retarded. His sentence was reduced once by the original judge for that reason. And the appeal's judge just needed a different reason to reduce it again. Anyway, it looks like the guy is probably not going to survive the remaining prison sentence either way.
I didn't mean actual swallowing, I meant swallowing your words.
And from your perspective, I wouldn't expect you to notice anything abnormal. To you, your own speech is normal. What I should have said instead was: the more a French person would supposedly slow down for you, the more their speech would seem disjointed and the more their inflection points would seem further out of place.
The next time you're speaking to someone with a French accent, I'd suggest you ask them to speed up for you (and see if you can notice an improvement, I believe that you will notice one).
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Exactly, let's not fool ourselves. The invitation from the fifteen year old son wasn't an invitation for sex, but nor was it an invitation for an amicable discussion either. It was a threat, an implied (probably empty) threat, but a threat nevertheless.
And in my opinion, the Anon handled it very well.
He could have asked "Is that a threat?" No doubt, the kid would have said, "No, not at all." Just like the kid could have asked "Is that a gay innuendo?", but the answer to that question would have been a "No" as well.
And please notice how the mother is playing the same game as her son's. We all know she (and her Counsel) have no intention of attacking the Anon for defamation. I think, we all know she just wants his identity and his address for other reasons.
Once she has it, her son will probably go over there to see if he's bigger than him. Failing that, now that she is a Village trustee, and since the Anon is probably that Village's resident she's a Trustee in (otherwise, the story wouldn't make much sense), she'll probably find ways to use her office to enact revenge on the Anon (and even if she doesn't, as long as she's an official with power over him, the Anon will always have that potential threat of retaliation hanging over his head).
So make no mistake, this isn't a Defamation case, nor is it anything about keeping children safe (on the contrary), this story is about speaking truth to power. And it's about the government's right to find out the identity of an anonymous political commentator when that commentator really pissed off one of his government's leaders.
He tried. You obviously didn't.
That's just silly. Oracle and MySql are not equivalent in the least. Usually both those database products are used for very different uses cases. And it's often that a company that (can afford and) uses Oracle already, will also be using MySql as well, but for very different business/technical purposes. Trying to use Oracle for everything, in my opinion, is just as counter-productive as trying to use MySql for everything. If anything, a frustrated "cowboy" as you say would probably switch to SQL Server or Postgresql, before laying down the kind of serious cash that's needed for Oracle.
Oracle is marketed as an high-end database product/set of services. MySql is a low-end one (and please, don't misinterpret this as shot against it). Now, I'm not saying that you won't find companies replacing their Oracle database with a MySql one, but those are very few and far between. Between Oracle and MySql, there are actually quite of slew of decent alternatives (both proprietary and open source).
Software patents are like buried land mines. They may slow us down and cripple us, but as long as they slow down and cripple our competitors even more than they do us -- that's what really counts.
Nice speech!
But they didn't. Reframeit is the one who went to Google. Reframeit is the one who asked them to look their site (thus explaining the registrations coming from google employees).
And how many employees does Reframeit even have? One or two? Shouldn't it be natural for Google to simply assume that those one or two guys who came to them and asked them to take a look at their site -- simply wanted to get a job at Google?
Like I've said before, reframeit doesn't even make the top ten of any list I've seen (if you can actually find one where reframeit does appear -- I'll eat my words of course. I can admit when I'm wrong).
This is so ridiculous. They say they founded their company in 2006. They only registered their domain in 2007. Their patent filing is so fresh, it still says "patent pending".
Personally, I've been making tools like this one since 2001 (and I know I wasn't the only one at the time). Mind you at the time, I didn't have the Twitter/Facebook share buttons (but now, everybody has those -- so it's not like they have anything unique). Besides, the guy complains about the Twitter and the Facebook buttons they both have in common, but if you look closely, you'll see that reframe has five select boxes, and Google has four buttons, and not only is Google only using buttons (instead of checkboxes) -- it has two share buttons that reframe doesn't even have (and it's missing three options that reframeit has).
And don't get me started on those screenshots, they're way too small to read fully (even if you do view image). And the first three screenshots have the same complaint duplicated (so aside from the arrows, I'm guessing that we're missing two of his complaints).
And then, look at what he ends his blog post with.
Excuse-me!? I've never heard of Reframeit.com. Does he have third party citations to back up his claims? Traffic stats? User reviews? Anything? Personally, I have, and reframeit doesn't even make it in the top ten.
And what about jotspot.com? Weren't they bought out by Google two or three years ago. Shouldn't this guy know this if he's in the space? Besides, it's not like jotspot would even qualify as a good web annotation tool, it was way too feature-rich to be in that category the last time I saw it.
No, it's only human error when several truck loads of small sardines capsize your ship. In fact, when it comes to the hierarchy of Japanese fishermen, the fishermen that get capsized by sardines tend not to want to talk about it.
Actually, another work around is that Flash in IE will start supporting HTML5. Thought, I'm not sure how long that's going to be needed, a Microsoft employee told me that Microsoft has decided to finally support HTML5 (not supporting HTML5 was just creating too much trouble).
Not in my city. There is plenty of parking where I live (they couldn't make money from parking tickets, even if they wanted to). Plus, since my city also happens to be the seat of our County, it means they're allowed to keep most of the revenue from traffic violations (that normally goes to the State). No one is complaining thought, when the city gets the revenue, it means they don't take off any points from our driving record and there is not even any need for driving school.
Different cities raise revenue in different ways.
Speaking of bad car analogies
No, not LoJack, it's more like you're buying a 2005 SUV especially because you know it has an OnStar system on board, and then a few months later, GM decides to change the format on you, and you basically have no recourse (and no one willing to buy that truck from you, because by now everybody knows about the discontinuation).
First generation Zune owners and Walmart DRM music customers should know basically what I'm talking about. You don't own the music you buy, and if you want to keep on listening to DRM music you've already purchased -- it means you may have to repurchase your same music again and again.
I'm not sure why this was modded as off-topic. I personally don't own any Apple hardware myself, but if there is one thing I understand about Apple is that, whether you like it or not, they wire all their appliances for sound and music streaming especially.
I hope so, otherwise I'm switching back to IE prompto.
Copyright infringement, combined with claiming authorship as your own, now that's theft.
I feel the same way about the Irish. The Irish will only become normal parts of society, once we stop putting them on children's cereal boxes and once we stop having holidays/bars named after them. And don't get me started on the big scam of everyone having to wear green once a year!
Punishment is about protection, reparations, rehabilitation, and vindication, yes, but it's not just about those. It's also about deterrence -- a show of power -- a show of force for both sides involved, plus anyone else who gets to see it or hear about it.
I'm guessing you've never used friendster, myspace, or slashdot.
Yes and no, I live in Northern California. During major outages, like an earthquake or something. People will drive like idiots at intersections initially, but after a couple of hours they'll settle into a rythm, and the lack of traffic lights stops being a problem.
On a side-note, has any Indie artist tried setting up a monthly fee of let's say $30 (or more) as a blanket subscription fee for their biggest fans?
There is no reason you can't have both, and just let the consumer decide. Believe it or not, there are cases where the consumer would rather not leave the site.
For instance, when our customers wanted a refund from us, we had to tell them to make the request through Pay Pal first (at least, at the time that was the case, I don't know if it still is the case now), and then we would issue the refund as soon as we saw the request come in. We couldn't initiate that request ourselves.
This really didn't sit well with our customers. Also the Pay Pal process for requesting a refund made the process unnecessarily adversarial and completely user-unfriendly. As a company in a very competitive area, we didn't want our customers (who for some reason were not satisfied with our services/products) to feel we were dragging our feet, or to feel that we were pawning them off to some giant faceless corporation who didn't know the first thing about what went wrong in the first place. Unsatisfied customers who feel that way are much more likely to write very negative reviews.
There is nothing to see here. There were other mitigating circumstances. The Algerian man was slightly retarded. His sentence was reduced once by the original judge for that reason. And the appeal's judge just needed a different reason to reduce it again. Anyway, it looks like the guy is probably not going to survive the remaining prison sentence either way.
That would explain why they drive 20 miles per hour slower than anyone else.
I know what a diff is. I even wrote my own diff algorithm (before google gave out theirs for free).
I didn't mean actual swallowing, I meant swallowing your words.
And from your perspective, I wouldn't expect you to notice anything abnormal. To you, your own speech is normal. What I should have said instead was: the more a French person would supposedly slow down for you, the more their speech would seem disjointed and the more their inflection points would seem further out of place.
The next time you're speaking to someone with a French accent, I'd suggest you ask them to speed up for you (and see if you can notice an improvement, I believe that you will notice one).