Well, actually, vowel marks are applied to the writing of YHWH in at least some texts. Originally, however, you are correct: the name is written like that because Hebrew didn't write vowels, or at least, not consistently. And indeed, this is a property it likely derived from Egyptian writing either directly or at least inspirationally. In reading, the name is usually substitued for with something like Adanoi.
Some Semitic languages are written in forms that represent vowels, most notably Ethiopic, which developed a very systematic alphasyllabic representation of consonant + vowel combinations.
You might recall that the correct spelling of the word in American dictionaries is "standardizing," not "standardising." This is useful to remember when it is considered with another fact you'd do well to keep in mind: Slashdot is US centric. Not to say that there aren't users from other countries, just that the majority of its readers and all of its staff are from the US.
If you don't like the cultural imperialism, get off of the website.
Absolutely correct. The acceptability judgements for plural vs. singluar pronoun in that case are centered around semantic rather than syntactic concerns. A review of relevant sentences in common usage would reveal that the collective nouns such as "team" are used in singular context and plural form in a reasonably specific contexts.
Typical of a situation in which the plural is more likely to occur is when the team is being considered in terms of its individual members, such as when such members might be in disagreement with one another. The agreement seems to be sensitive to semantic intent rather than the purely syntactic/distributional categorization features of the word "team."
Actually, its or their is acceptable. Collective nouns are often referred to using singluar pronouns when referring to activity or properties of the group as a whole, i.e., "The team's release of its browser - Firefox."
Do you mind if I ask where in the country you're from?
Is it kind of in the West Virginia/Western PA/Maryland area? Linguistic curiosity; I haven't heard hey used at the end of a statement like that from speakers outside that region.
Moderators, mod me down. Also, get a fucking life.
I think the people who think it's a good logo are the people that know it's an abstracted beastie. An outsider will just wonder why the hell it's a red ball with spikes.
This didn't strike me so much as a replacement for the 8-in incision, as a way of remotely performing emergency surgery. Wherever possible, I think the incisions are already being (have been) replaced with laproscopic techniques.
The fact that moderators waste points on rating me down because I happen to enjoy an amusing trolls only shows that there's too many people on Earth that are too fucking stupid to deserve the opportunity to express an opinion, however obliquely.
Fuck you in the butt with a big spiked thing, whoever you are.
Well, for one, games for consoles aren't written in Java. For two, I've seen some particularly nasty bugs in Java applications (expensive, commercially available, "mission critical" applications) that involve threading problems. And that, furthermore, these issues didn't show up in nearly as severe a way on a single processor machine.
I don't fear threading. I've used it, would use it again, and understand how it works.
However, as I stated before, the problem of incorporating a completely new feature into an application is not as simple as one might think, and that some conservatism in adopting the new techniques is often warranted.
Threading well is harder than people seem to think. I've seen code written (not for video games, but for business applications) that makes extensive and very inappropriate use of threading such that the performance and scalability of the software is worse than if the programmers had just single threaded everything.
And are there any consoles that support threading now? For that matter, how common is multithreading in PC games? Most gaming machines (PC) have single chips and don't do multiprocessing, so probably people haven't got much experience in writing efficient, performant code for games that uses threading capabilities.
Not to say that threading games is impossible, or even particularly hard, just that when you bring a new technique/capability to a programming realm, it takes time to learn how to exploit it properly.
If they aren't doing whatever they're doing on school time and what they're doing is legal, then he should shut the fuck up. Because the school isn't the parents of these kids.
Unfortunately, this is the direct result of what the fuck happened in America made parents thing they bear no responsibility to keep their kids from having contact with material they deem inappropriate. Once you begin to depend on other people to parent your children for you, they start to act like it really is their job.
Being a successful programmer involves more than just applying abstract rules. In fact, the most significant factor in one's success in real world programming is not ability in solving problems (creatively or not).
A succesful programmer is one that can sucessfully characterize and identify a problem. Far too often, I've seen people jump right into solving what they think the problem is (often during a meeting with a client), without first doing the (admittedly boring) legwork of ensuring that you understand the domain of the problem and the specific things that require solutions.
Unless, of course, you're talking in the realm of 133t h4x0r programmers. But there, the concern is being the hot coding stud, not in delivering a workable, maintainable, stable software product.
Yeah. Basically, there's no particuarly good way I can think of to fix the problems in the system. It seems to be a good idea to allow people to make money off of legitimately novel creations, but on the other hand, the whole patent system has become a weapon for companies to use against each other. And then there's companies that do nothing but acquire patents and sue people that make products that might somehow infringe, which strikes me as just about the opposite of what was intended when the government was given the power to grant patents in the constitution.
Speeding up the approval process will only exacerbate the abuse, I'd think. Maybe there'd be a disincentive to get patents since they'd be short lived, or maybe there'd be companies getting tons of them for short term use against competetors.
Meh. It all sucks.
It's become clear that since the patent office is willing to let anyone patent anything with very minimal checking on validity that patents will effectively end productivity and innovation in the US (and everywhere that has an enforcement treaty with the US). So either we cripple our economy and technological advancement or we modify patents so they don't strangle innovation.
So ditch them or limit the duration to a more reasonable timeframe (given the current rate of advancement).
Like Jabber? XMPP is an open specification IM protocol with support for all kinds of neat features (encryption, for one, network bridging for another).
The problem isn't in having a protocol, but in convincing everyone to use it and support it.
(Yeah, I know, the spec was only finalized more recently than the MSN and Yahoo! networks were created. The point stands, though.)
Because nobody at Slashdot ever bothers to read the article or know anything about the various issues involved before commenting, let me point out that the system is NOT for submarines, but for surface ships.
Also, the impact of high energy sound waves is significantly greater than most people here seem to think. They carry for miles underwater, and can cause severe problems in all manner of marine life. It's something to consider.
Cause the vast majority of people who watch HBO don't give a shit if they're poisoning torrents or not. That's something that a very small community of people get their panties all in a bunch over. The ratings of their programming will be unaffected by any actions they'd take to prevent copyright infringements; rather, they'll be decided primarily on whether or not people find the programming they present to be entertaining and compelling.
Except that copyright infringement is not theft. It's using copyrighted information in an unapproved way. That's not to say that it's alright (nor, to condemn it), just to say that calling it theft is inaccurate.
They've chosen to call Taiwan a province of China. Because the most lucrative market that likely to crop up in the next 20 years says Taiwan is a province of China.
It's a political debate, right up until you consider that one side of the debate represents much more money than the other. Then it's a simple matter of economics.
When were you last involved with a POS implementation at a retailer?
Cause I did one a couple years ago, for a retailer, and the in-store systems that the client was putting in place were fairly complicated. The actual POS terminal itself is a fairly minor part of the whole in-store system. The work for things like inventory tracking and restocking (from suppliers), EOD and realtime sales numbers, even time card and other HR type functionality, is usually done on back office servers.
Sadly, the article was thin on details about the particular system that was implemented, so the argument is largely speculative at the moment, but to say that POS systems aren't "enterprise" is just not true, particularly if the business sells product for a living.
How can this post be redundant? It's in the first 3 posted for the story.
Moderators - if you don't like someone's opinion, either say so or apply an appropriate moderation. Kindly look up the meaning of the word "redundant."
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Well, actually, vowel marks are applied to the writing of YHWH in at least some texts. Originally, however, you are correct: the name is written like that because Hebrew didn't write vowels, or at least, not consistently. And indeed, this is a property it likely derived from Egyptian writing either directly or at least inspirationally. In reading, the name is usually substitued for with something like Adanoi.
Some Semitic languages are written in forms that represent vowels, most notably Ethiopic, which developed a very systematic alphasyllabic representation of consonant + vowel combinations.
You might recall that the correct spelling of the word in American dictionaries is "standardizing," not "standardising." This is useful to remember when it is considered with another fact you'd do well to keep in mind: Slashdot is US centric. Not to say that there aren't users from other countries, just that the majority of its readers and all of its staff are from the US. If you don't like the cultural imperialism, get off of the website.
Absolutely correct. The acceptability judgements for plural vs. singluar pronoun in that case are centered around semantic rather than syntactic concerns. A review of relevant sentences in common usage would reveal that the collective nouns such as "team" are used in singular context and plural form in a reasonably specific contexts.
Typical of a situation in which the plural is more likely to occur is when the team is being considered in terms of its individual members, such as when such members might be in disagreement with one another. The agreement seems to be sensitive to semantic intent rather than the purely syntactic/distributional categorization features of the word "team."
Actually, its or their is acceptable. Collective nouns are often referred to using singluar pronouns when referring to activity or properties of the group as a whole, i.e., "The team's release of its browser - Firefox."
Do you mind if I ask where in the country you're from?
Is it kind of in the West Virginia/Western PA/Maryland area? Linguistic curiosity; I haven't heard hey used at the end of a statement like that from speakers outside that region.
Moderators, mod me down. Also, get a fucking life.
I think the people who think it's a good logo are the people that know it's an abstracted beastie. An outsider will just wonder why the hell it's a red ball with spikes.
This didn't strike me so much as a replacement for the 8-in incision, as a way of remotely performing emergency surgery. Wherever possible, I think the incisions are already being (have been) replaced with laproscopic techniques.
It's one thing to read/write a document format through a filter.
It's another to utilize the format, i.e., as the underlying default storage format.
Eat a dick, whoever moderated me overrated. You're all fucking dipshits.
The fact that moderators waste points on rating me down because I happen to enjoy an amusing trolls only shows that there's too many people on Earth that are too fucking stupid to deserve the opportunity to express an opinion, however obliquely.
Fuck you in the butt with a big spiked thing, whoever you are.
Well, for one, games for consoles aren't written in Java. For two, I've seen some particularly nasty bugs in Java applications (expensive, commercially available, "mission critical" applications) that involve threading problems. And that, furthermore, these issues didn't show up in nearly as severe a way on a single processor machine.
I don't fear threading. I've used it, would use it again, and understand how it works.
However, as I stated before, the problem of incorporating a completely new feature into an application is not as simple as one might think, and that some conservatism in adopting the new techniques is often warranted.
I like the "Taco" just inside the O-ring.
That's some classy ass trolling. And the linked photo is hot too. Mmmm, ass.
Threading well is harder than people seem to think. I've seen code written (not for video games, but for business applications) that makes extensive and very inappropriate use of threading such that the performance and scalability of the software is worse than if the programmers had just single threaded everything.
And are there any consoles that support threading now? For that matter, how common is multithreading in PC games? Most gaming machines (PC) have single chips and don't do multiprocessing, so probably people haven't got much experience in writing efficient, performant code for games that uses threading capabilities.
Not to say that threading games is impossible, or even particularly hard, just that when you bring a new technique/capability to a programming realm, it takes time to learn how to exploit it properly.
If they aren't doing whatever they're doing on school time and what they're doing is legal, then he should shut the fuck up. Because the school isn't the parents of these kids. Unfortunately, this is the direct result of what the fuck happened in America made parents thing they bear no responsibility to keep their kids from having contact with material they deem inappropriate. Once you begin to depend on other people to parent your children for you, they start to act like it really is their job.
A succesful programmer is one that can sucessfully characterize and identify a problem. Far too often, I've seen people jump right into solving what they think the problem is (often during a meeting with a client), without first doing the (admittedly boring) legwork of ensuring that you understand the domain of the problem and the specific things that require solutions.
Unless, of course, you're talking in the realm of 133t h4x0r programmers. But there, the concern is being the hot coding stud, not in delivering a workable, maintainable, stable software product.
Yeah. Basically, there's no particuarly good way I can think of to fix the problems in the system. It seems to be a good idea to allow people to make money off of legitimately novel creations, but on the other hand, the whole patent system has become a weapon for companies to use against each other. And then there's companies that do nothing but acquire patents and sue people that make products that might somehow infringe, which strikes me as just about the opposite of what was intended when the government was given the power to grant patents in the constitution. Speeding up the approval process will only exacerbate the abuse, I'd think. Maybe there'd be a disincentive to get patents since they'd be short lived, or maybe there'd be companies getting tons of them for short term use against competetors. Meh. It all sucks.
It's become clear that since the patent office is willing to let anyone patent anything with very minimal checking on validity that patents will effectively end productivity and innovation in the US (and everywhere that has an enforcement treaty with the US). So either we cripple our economy and technological advancement or we modify patents so they don't strangle innovation. So ditch them or limit the duration to a more reasonable timeframe (given the current rate of advancement).
Like Jabber? XMPP is an open specification IM protocol with support for all kinds of neat features (encryption, for one, network bridging for another). The problem isn't in having a protocol, but in convincing everyone to use it and support it. (Yeah, I know, the spec was only finalized more recently than the MSN and Yahoo! networks were created. The point stands, though.)
Because nobody at Slashdot ever bothers to read the article or know anything about the various issues involved before commenting, let me point out that the system is NOT for submarines, but for surface ships.
Also, the impact of high energy sound waves is significantly greater than most people here seem to think. They carry for miles underwater, and can cause severe problems in all manner of marine life. It's something to consider.
Cause the vast majority of people who watch HBO don't give a shit if they're poisoning torrents or not. That's something that a very small community of people get their panties all in a bunch over. The ratings of their programming will be unaffected by any actions they'd take to prevent copyright infringements; rather, they'll be decided primarily on whether or not people find the programming they present to be entertaining and compelling.
Except that copyright infringement is not theft. It's using copyrighted information in an unapproved way. That's not to say that it's alright (nor, to condemn it), just to say that calling it theft is inaccurate.
They've chosen to call Taiwan a province of China. Because the most lucrative market that likely to crop up in the next 20 years says Taiwan is a province of China.
It's a political debate, right up until you consider that one side of the debate represents much more money than the other. Then it's a simple matter of economics.
When were you last involved with a POS implementation at a retailer? Cause I did one a couple years ago, for a retailer, and the in-store systems that the client was putting in place were fairly complicated. The actual POS terminal itself is a fairly minor part of the whole in-store system. The work for things like inventory tracking and restocking (from suppliers), EOD and realtime sales numbers, even time card and other HR type functionality, is usually done on back office servers. Sadly, the article was thin on details about the particular system that was implemented, so the argument is largely speculative at the moment, but to say that POS systems aren't "enterprise" is just not true, particularly if the business sells product for a living.
Then it must be true. Except for the approximately 85% of the time when it's some kind of propaganda or outright lie.
How can this post be redundant? It's in the first 3 posted for the story. Moderators - if you don't like someone's opinion, either say so or apply an appropriate moderation. Kindly look up the meaning of the word "redundant."