This reminds me of another language-barrier story. A hippieish American guy goes to live with a French host family as part of a foreign exchange program. At breakfast, he asks in his not-so-great French about the ingredients of the breakfast cereal, for he wishes to avoid certain 'chemicals': "Est-ce qu'il y a des préservatifs là-dedans?"
Being solely dependent on the government for your own protection is not a path to freedom.
Perhaps not, but what does that have to do with owning assault rifles again? If you seriously think private citizens can outgun the U.S. gov't, think again. The days when that was a real possibility are long past.
The only widespread violation of HTTP I can think of off the top of my head is when Internet Explorer ignores the MIME-type provided by a server. The big problems on the web are the bad HTML and CSS implementations.
I wonder if there comes a point in bad markup when "Content-type: text/html;" should be considered a MIME-type error.:)
What type of crap question is that? You might as well as him what type of tree he would be.
I think you misunderstand the intent of the question. The point is that someone who actually works in a given field has an expertise that might afford them special insight into situations within the realm of their expertise.
Kind of like the way that computer enthusiasts might be able to tell Windows users that their operating system is insecure, or more insecure than other systems, or more insecure than is strictly necessary, etc.; something that most people might not know unless those with the expertise shared that with them.
There's nothing touchy-feely about citizens informing and teaching one another. I thought that was the whole point of living in a learned civilization.
Why should all the songs that I personally rip and use LEGALLY be changed to some other format?
Because, through patient repetition, the RIAA has won the propaganda war: mp3s are routinely called "illegal files," even by people who should know better.
The credulity with which people accept translations done by Babelfish & Co. at face value never ceases to fill me with a mixture of ennui and schadenfreude.
Ennui? Schadenfreude? You're lucky. I feel a mixture of malaise and Weltschmerz.
Honestly, are any of us geeks ever willing to admit that we don't inherently recognize and grok every single term that is thrown our way? Isn't that part of being a geek?
Are you asking whether admitting ignorance is part of being a geek?:-)
Not that I can see, given that a vocal portion of the readership here seems to think that "laziness" or "stupidity" are what makes people unfamiliar with technical terms.
Business jargoneers have a nasty tendency to rename common ideas, wrap them in market speak to create buzzwords, and resell them to the helpless souls who seem to collect in middle managment.
From my days in the bookstore trenches, where I was in charge of the "management" and "business" sections in addition to others, I give you:
Soon, a SCO will discover that some idiot has copied code from their sources, sue you for copyright infringement, and run your BTG operations into the ground. And then. RMS will gaze fondly at his beloved GNU, and laugh at your misfortune.
Wow, a self-exiled isolate with grandiose revenge fantasies. How novel.
The thing that bugs me is the term "illegal files". There are no illegal files, even if there are (currently) illegal uses of those files. The benefit of p2p as I see it is that I can download songs from a CD that I own if I happen not to want to spend the hour it takes to rip them myself.
and go round there one night and kill his kids and cut their heads off and sew the heads back onto the wrong bodies and leave the bodies in the living room propped up in lifelike positions.
Whoa there, little fella. Try massaging your anus with some lubricant: it's fun and free!
P.S. - in other words, relax, dude: don't blow a gasket. He's just asking for money.
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Translation: "Are there any condoms in it?"
Um ... why is the Mac OS X version stuck at 1.0.3? There's not even been a 1.1 beta.
Perhaps not, but what does that have to do with owning assault rifles again? If you seriously think private citizens can outgun the U.S. gov't, think again. The days when that was a real possibility are long past.
I wonder if there comes a point in bad markup when "Content-type: text/html;" should be considered a MIME-type error. :)
-- It's a floor wax.
-- It's a dessert topping.
-- It's a floor wax!
-- It's a dessert topping!
(third voice)
-- It's a floor wax, a dessert topping, a web browser, and an application platform!
Who aksed you? :)
I've read this about three times, and I still don't understand how what it says is supposed to connect with what it's trying to say.
Add 'illegal files' to that list.
Quibble: these terms are not being used in a 'jingoistic' way.
Remind me, what's the legitimate legal use of an assault rifle for the average citizen?
I think you misunderstand the intent of the question. The point is that someone who actually works in a given field has an expertise that might afford them special insight into situations within the realm of their expertise.
Kind of like the way that computer enthusiasts might be able to tell Windows users that their operating system is insecure, or more insecure than other systems, or more insecure than is strictly necessary, etc.; something that most people might not know unless those with the expertise shared that with them.
There's nothing touchy-feely about citizens informing and teaching one another. I thought that was the whole point of living in a learned civilization.
That's going straight into the Mixed Metaphor file. A triple!
Because, through patient repetition, the RIAA has won the propaganda war: mp3s are routinely called "illegal files," even by people who should know better.
You mispelled "trickled on" ...
Then, af thou haft shewn, I muft fue hif Aff off for Violation of Copieright. And thou art correct, fir, it if indeed my beft Novell.
Ennui? Schadenfreude? You're lucky. I feel a mixture of malaise and Weltschmerz.
Are you asking whether admitting ignorance is part of being a geek? :-)
Not that I can see, given that a vocal portion of the readership here seems to think that "laziness" or "stupidity" are what makes people unfamiliar with technical terms.
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and my fave title of all timeI meant a whole CD. But in any case, the drive's a wonky old 4x in a PowerMac 8500. :-/
Man, I'm looking forward to having a paying job.
Wow, a self-exiled isolate with grandiose revenge fantasies. How novel.
The thing that bugs me is the term "illegal files". There are no illegal files, even if there are (currently) illegal uses of those files. The benefit of p2p as I see it is that I can download songs from a CD that I own if I happen not to want to spend the hour it takes to rip them myself.
Whoa there, little fella. Try massaging your anus with some lubricant: it's fun and free!
P.S. - in other words, relax, dude: don't blow a gasket. He's just asking for money.
You seem to assume that the person writing the article also writes the headline. That's not commonplace.