Good comeback. First time anybody's ever responded with that.
FWIW, I'm Canadian and I wouldn't be unhappy if you did it again to the modern incarnation of York that is now know as Toronto. It would be an improvement.
It's an earnest effort, but an Ameri-centric view.
The argument for more phonetic spelling ignores the question of "Which phonetic version is our model?"
American's pronounce words quite differently than the British do and even -- in some situations -- Canadians.
Try this one: Pasta.
In the U.S. it's predominantly pronounced P-aw-sta (This is not the case in, say, Alabama where it's pronounced "Macaroni" in my experience.)
In Canada it's a hard "a" sound. P-a-sta.
You say "Lou-ten-ent" and Canadians say "Lef-ten-ent"
I say since we set fire to your White House we get to choose the spelling. In honour of the colour, I pleaded at the theatre for a more concise judgement.
(Ok. Pleaded is a linguistic pet peeve of mine whereas the others are words that are spelt differently.)
So this means there's a grand conspiracy at the Royal Bank? I doubt it.
The Royal is the largest bank in Canada, tens of thousands of employees (direct and indirect.) The investment division alone has thousands -- if you think there was a memo from upper management to investment managers saying "Screw Linux -- let's help SCO!" you're sadly mistaken.
Investment guys do what investment guys do. They invest in what they think will make money.
If this crackdown is accompanied by a corresponding drop in the cost of licences for some of these overpriced apps (Hello...Photoshop?) I'm all for this.
I application companies can defray the costs across more copies sold, prices should drop. Unless you believe Adobe is LOSING money on those educational copies of Photoshop (which don't come with support or upgrade options, of course) software should and could cost much less than it currently does.
There's a pretty basic rule: if you're using an application every day, and you're making money with it you should pay for it.
I'm especially disgusted by people who DEVELOP and SELL software who use...um...liberated copies of applications. I worked at a place that charged substantial licensing fees for their apps, but had not a single licenced copy of Word around. Stolen text editors, stolen backup software, stolen operating systems.
The cell phone company is not providing the service.
The concept of a "convenience fee" for a solution which is: 1) Technologically more advanced 2) Cheaper for the solution provider to operate (no meters to empty etc.) 3) Not, frankly, all that convenient given that I have to make a call, have a credit card etc.
is a bit of a misnomer.
I love paying those "convenience fees" at banks, while they fire staff and save more money. It's great!
"At home" is bit of a facetious argument. Obviously daily use is the best thing, but it doesn't do you any good if you can't get your system up and running.
In this sense, the answer is as valid as "from Red Hat" who might be able to get you up and running, but is essentially useless for learning anything after that.
Back in the day when I had an employer who respected what I did, came into the web world with an open mind and interested in success, and didn't second guess everything I did it was great.
There are two phrases any client should never use: 1) "Make it look exactly like this." 2) "My friend has an 8 year old kid he says built him a web site."
A bad client can be a real problem. It takes a lot of work to find a good one.
If this is true, you think Carly Fiorina will feel vindicated?
She was certainly vilified when they ran her out of the corner office. If it turns out that her years were the ones that built the foundation on which a renewed greatness was built, will anybody remember?
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'nuff said.
and is it related to Wiccan practitioners?
Hahahahahahah
Good comeback. First time anybody's ever responded with that.
FWIW, I'm Canadian and I wouldn't be unhappy if you did it again to the modern incarnation of York that is now know as Toronto. It would be an improvement.
> It might also be relevant to know that mom hasn't cooked me a
> meal in a quarter century.
A great example of why stereotyping is bad.
Some people on slashdot don't live in their parent's basements (you and I among them.)
Some people pronounce words differently.
Here's another one.
Willamette.
They pronounce it very differently in the Oregon valley by that name than my born in central Canada accent rolled it off my tongue.
There are places other than your mother's hot-plate equipped kitchen!
It's an earnest effort, but an Ameri-centric view.
The argument for more phonetic spelling ignores the question of "Which phonetic version is our model?"
American's pronounce words quite differently than the British do and even -- in some situations -- Canadians.
Try this one: Pasta.
In the U.S. it's predominantly pronounced P-aw-sta
(This is not the case in, say, Alabama where it's pronounced "Macaroni" in my experience.)
In Canada it's a hard "a" sound. P-a-sta.
You say "Lou-ten-ent" and Canadians say "Lef-ten-ent"
I say since we set fire to your White House we get to choose the spelling. In honour of the colour, I pleaded at the theatre for a more concise judgement.
(Ok. Pleaded is a linguistic pet peeve of mine whereas the others are words that are spelt differently.)
So this means there's a grand conspiracy at the Royal Bank? I doubt it.
The Royal is the largest bank in Canada, tens of thousands of employees (direct and indirect.) The investment division alone has thousands -- if you think there was a memo from upper management to investment managers saying "Screw Linux -- let's help SCO!" you're sadly mistaken.
Investment guys do what investment guys do. They invest in what they think will make money.
It's all about the capital.
If it's right out of Futurama, why does the headline mention Dick Tracy?
I, for one, welcome our new American overlords.
Fines should scale, and it should be possible to refine.
Overstaying a meter by an hour should have less of an impact than overstaying a meter by, say, a whole day.
If a ticket's issued at 1300hrs, hit it with a double fine ticket at 1500hrs and then tow the friggin' car at 1700hrs.
If this crackdown is accompanied by a corresponding drop in the cost of licences for some of these overpriced apps (Hello...Photoshop?) I'm all for this.
I application companies can defray the costs across more copies sold, prices should drop. Unless you believe Adobe is LOSING money on those educational copies of Photoshop (which don't come with support or upgrade options, of course) software should and could cost much less than it currently does.
There's a pretty basic rule: if you're using an application every day, and you're making money with it you should pay for it.
I'm especially disgusted by people who DEVELOP and SELL software who use...um...liberated copies of applications. I worked at a place that charged substantial licensing fees for their apps, but had not a single licenced copy of Word around. Stolen text editors, stolen backup software, stolen operating systems.
Unfortunately, all too typical.
The cell phone company is not providing the service.
The concept of a "convenience fee" for a solution which is:
1) Technologically more advanced
2) Cheaper for the solution provider to operate (no meters to empty etc.)
3) Not, frankly, all that convenient given that I have to make a call, have a credit card etc.
is a bit of a misnomer.
I love paying those "convenience fees" at banks, while they fire staff and save more money. It's great!
1) It bills to your credit card
2) I don't have a credit card
3) I don't like The Man tracking my activities, right down to where and when I park
Just a thought.
Ditto. Especially the cross legged thing.
This is true. There's always Slashdot to post them on anyway.
Just you wait mister. My bionic eyeballs are already growing in a petri dish at the back of a noodle house.
Hmm....I dunno man....getting an X window server going on FreeBSD required inputting some pretty funky mumbo jumbo about refresh rates.
Sure it was available online, but unless I can surf with Lynx it doesn't do me much good if I just wiped my own system and didn't get the info first.
Man, I loved surfing with Lynx too.
Geek wannabe maybe. Not everybody wants to be a geek though.
"At home" is bit of a facetious argument. Obviously daily use is the best thing, but it doesn't do you any good if you can't get your system up and running.
In this sense, the answer is as valid as "from Red Hat" who might be able to get you up and running, but is essentially useless for learning anything after that.
Back in the day when I had an employer who respected what I did, came into the web world with an open mind and interested in success, and didn't second guess everything I did it was great.
There are two phrases any client should never use:
1) "Make it look exactly like this."
2) "My friend has an 8 year old kid he says built him a web site."
A bad client can be a real problem. It takes a lot of work to find a good one.
If this is true, you think Carly Fiorina will feel vindicated?
She was certainly vilified when they ran her out of the corner office. If it turns out that her years were the ones that built the foundation on which a renewed greatness was built, will anybody remember?
Given Nintendo's history of making card games, I look forward to the newly minted member of iLife '07 --- iShanghai and iTexas Hold'Em
I, for one, welcome our new Japanese overlords.
I'm not sure I'd count the Superbowl as adult content. I was quite young when I caught sight of my first bare breats.
Damn tasty too.
Out of curiousity, is there any article that you could see getting posted to Slashdot that *wouldn't* get tagged with "stupid"?
I'm hoping the Canadian Forces will teach me how to fly one of these things.
At least once they're obsolete enough technically that we can afford to buy them from the US Army. On that night, I'm going to party like it's 20-06.
>> GUI that it was "like a video game". "Serious users" used command line. There were even lots of people
>> that said the Mac was "only for games"
Damn straight. I was a pretty mean Choplifter guy with the command line interface. Only way to play.