In that case, they should reject submissions with such glaring grammatical errors: "sorry your submission has been rejected, because of your sub standard use of the english language".
But I guess that's too much to ask from editors, who do not even check the content (dead links, substance), and continue to post duplicates.
When you're reading./, try not to get too annoyed by bad grammar. Virtually all past and present editors are terrible at spotting even the most obvious language deformations. Let's face it, bad grammar is here to stay. Let's just hope it's not contagious.
I once had the same problem when I was in vacation in spain (I'm fromthe netherlands). The spanish keypad is arranged differently than the dutch one. After typing my pin-code at the ATM twice and getting an error back, I got spooked, because after three times your card gets confiscated. Only then I noticed the difference in layout! I figured out my pin-code, the machine accepted it and gave me my money.
There is a difference between the average performance of a group and the performance of a single individual. So your 760 doesn't need an explanation, you are simply apparently good at math, that's it. (I have no idea how good '760' is, since I don't live in the usa).
First thing I thought when you wrote this guy was describing how to pronounce Huygens was that it was impossible. Mp3's do come in handy from time to time....
They were actively moderating these forums. Failing to delete any of the links to illegally shared files -> accessory.
The Ford Motor company does make escape vehicles, but they do not come with instructions on how to rob BP as efficiently as possible.
Here in the netherlands, file sharing programs like Kazaa and Bittorrent are legal. When you use them to share files that you are allowed to share (let say the latest Red Hat distribution), you are not doing anything illegal. Good for you.
But when you use those programs to share files that you are not allowed to share (let say the latest Britney Spears album), you are doing something illegal, and you can be held accountable.
When you moderate a site which purpose it is to find files that are not supposed to be shared freely, you help others brake the law, and therefore you are an accessory to a crime. It's that simple.
English is not my first language, but I'll have a go at this:
"Tomorrows meeting we will go over the action items that are complete, make sure it was what we had envisioned, and give status of the actions that are in process. We will aslo assign someone to do the test coverage collection for the top-level functional and environmental testing."
"Tomorrows meeting" : Should be something like "During tomorrows meeting," "make sure it was what we had envisioned" : this is so messed up that I'm not sure what it's supposed to say. A possible translation could be: "let's hope and pray that we've met the goals we envisioned, and if not, fudge the results." "give status" : seems strange, but that could be my lack of the english language "in process" : "in progress" "aslo" : "also" "for" : "of" "testing" : "tests"
> DD/MM/(YY)YY makes sense because it's listed in ascending > order of unit times. Also many people write dates like 11 > October 2004.
Except when you start adding a time: 25-12-2004 20:15
> YYYY-MM-DD makes sense because it's listed in descending > order of unit times. It's like a numbering system, with > most significant digits first.
Hmm, that works: 2004-12-25 20:15, but hardly ever used.
> MM/DD/(YY)YY makes sense because many people write their > dates like October 11, 2004.
Hmm, doesn't work over here, we write 11 oktober, 2004
> If you have to communicate with people, don't be a lazy > ass and write out the name of the month, to remove > ambiguity. If you have to communicate with machines (or > if you like to think this way, like me) then use the > YYYY-MM-DD form.
Hmm, doesn't work, name of the month is language specific.
Back in the 70's chrysler stated that they would 'never' make small cars. Ofcourse all modern chryslers are small compared to the 60's and 70's land yachts (newport, newyorker, imperial), but calling a smart a Chrysler is a couple of steps too far.
"Of course, all this is kind of pedantic. Language rules like these were semi-arbitrarily decided upon two or three hundred years ago. We all know from context what the author of the submission meant. It's a rare circumstance when there's actually any ambiguity in context. Consider that "there," "their," and "they're" are pronounced exactly the same as each other, but we almost never need disambiguation when we speak."
Ahum, "their", "there" and "they're" are NOT pronounced exactly the same, look it up in an englisch dictionary if you do not believe me.
"It's" and "They're" are used far too often in written language, proper usage under normal circumstances is "It is" and "They are", ask your englisch teacher if you do not believe me.
When englisch is not your first language, it is very annoying when they are mixed up. When translated to another language (for example dutch: its - zijn, it's - het is, their - hun, there - daar, they're - zij zijn), the words are very different, and their meaning certainly is. Euh, ask me if you don't believe me.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
But soon enough there was a counter example:
Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd, utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr.
In the counter example, the letters are not randomly scrabled, the letters are in reverse order, except the first and last letters.
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At least there was nothing wrong with my english :) ./ is just so much more nutural to type. I use it a lot more often: ./my_program params
In that case, they should reject submissions with such glaring grammatical errors: "sorry your submission has been rejected, because of your sub standard use of the english language".
But I guess that's too much to ask from editors, who do not even check the content (dead links, substance), and continue to post duplicates.
When you're reading ./, try not to get too annoyed by bad grammar. Virtually all past and present editors are terrible at spotting even the most obvious language deformations. Let's face it, bad grammar is here to stay. Let's just hope it's not contagious.
I once had the same problem when I was in vacation in spain (I'm fromthe netherlands). The spanish keypad is arranged differently than the dutch one. After typing my pin-code at the ATM twice and getting an error back, I got spooked, because after three times your card gets confiscated. Only then I noticed the difference in layout! I figured out my pin-code, the machine accepted it and gave me my money.
You're kidding right?
There is a difference between the average performance of a group and the performance of a single individual. So your 760 doesn't need an explanation, you are simply apparently good at math, that's it. (I have no idea how good '760' is, since I don't live in the usa).
First thing I thought when you wrote this guy was describing how to pronounce Huygens was that it was impossible. Mp3's do come in handy from time to time ....
Unfortunately for you, the spelling on slashdot is so poor, that your patent does not apply to slashdot.
To me, the excellent web-interface is the reason I use google. I really like the fact that I have access to all my e-mail from everywhere.
You can download the pdf version from:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
There also a link there to the mozillastore where you can order posters.
They were actively moderating these forums. Failing to delete any of the links to illegally shared files -> accessory.
The Ford Motor company does make escape vehicles, but they do not come with instructions on how to rob BP as efficiently as possible.
Here in the netherlands, file sharing programs like Kazaa and Bittorrent are legal. When you use them to share files that you are allowed to share (let say the latest Red Hat distribution), you are not doing anything illegal. Good for you.
But when you use those programs to share files that you are not allowed to share (let say the latest Britney Spears album), you are doing something illegal, and you can be held accountable.
When you moderate a site which purpose it is to find files that are not supposed to be shared freely, you help others brake the law, and therefore you are an accessory to a crime. It's that simple.
English is not my first language, but I'll have a go at this:
"Tomorrows meeting we will go over the action items that are complete, make sure it was what we had envisioned, and give status of the actions that are in process.
We will aslo assign someone to do the test coverage collection for the top-level functional and environmental testing."
"Tomorrows meeting" : Should be something like "During tomorrows meeting,"
"make sure it was what we had envisioned" : this is so messed up that I'm not sure what it's supposed to say. A possible translation could be: "let's hope and pray that we've met the goals we envisioned, and if not, fudge the results."
"give status" : seems strange, but that could be my lack of the english language
"in process" : "in progress"
"aslo" : "also"
"for" : "of"
"testing" : "tests"
> Insurance companies ARE very similar to socialism.
The job of an insurance company is try as hard as they can, NOT to give you any money.
> DD/MM/(YY)YY makes sense because it's listed in ascending
> order of unit times. Also many people write dates like 11
> October 2004.
Except when you start adding a time: 25-12-2004 20:15
> YYYY-MM-DD makes sense because it's listed in descending
> order of unit times. It's like a numbering system, with
> most significant digits first.
Hmm, that works: 2004-12-25 20:15, but hardly ever used.
> MM/DD/(YY)YY makes sense because many people write their
> dates like October 11, 2004.
Hmm, doesn't work over here, we write 11 oktober, 2004
> If you have to communicate with people, don't be a lazy
> ass and write out the name of the month, to remove
> ambiguity. If you have to communicate with machines (or
> if you like to think this way, like me) then use the
> YYYY-MM-DD form.
Hmm, doesn't work, name of the month is language specific.
is that 67 miles per US gallon (3.785412 liter) or 67 miles per imperial gallon (4.54609 liters) ?
Back in the 70's chrysler stated that they would 'never' make small cars. Ofcourse all modern chryslers are small compared to the 60's and 70's land yachts (newport, newyorker, imperial), but calling a smart a Chrysler is a couple of steps too far.
You do know what Guiness is, right?
Driving a car that weights 2.4 tons is not environmentally friendly, or cheap, no matter how you 'fuel' it.
> This should never happen, as it is totally against
> the concept of a modern constitutional state.
Get a grip to reality, we're talking about the US here.
Or download the iso images. Burn the rescue CD to CD-rom. Boot and point the installer to the downloaded iso images.
Same with Konquerer 3.2.2-4 RedHat
"Of course, all this is kind of pedantic. Language rules like these were semi-arbitrarily decided upon two or three hundred years ago. We all know from context what the author of the submission meant. It's a rare circumstance when there's actually any ambiguity in context. Consider that "there," "their," and "they're" are pronounced exactly the same as each other, but we almost never need disambiguation when we speak."
Ahum, "their", "there" and "they're" are NOT pronounced exactly the same, look it up in an englisch dictionary if you do not believe me.
"It's" and "They're" are used far too often in written language, proper usage under normal circumstances is "It is" and "They are", ask your englisch teacher if you do not believe me.
When englisch is not your first language, it is very annoying when they are mixed up. When translated to another language (for example dutch: its - zijn, it's - het is, their - hun, there - daar, they're - zij zijn), the words are very different, and their meaning certainly is. Euh, ask me if you don't believe me.
The example:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
But soon enough there was a counter example:
Anidroccg to crad cniyrrag lcitsiugnis planoissefors at an uemannd, utisreviny in Bsitirh Cibmuloa, and crartnoy to the duoibus cmials of the ueticnd rcraeseh, a slpmie, macinahcel ioisrevnn of ianretnl cretcarahs araepps sneiciffut to csufnoe the eadyrevy oekoolnr.
In the counter example, the letters are not randomly scrabled, the letters are in reverse order, except the first and last letters.
What died in the Rio? The Harddisk?
It's not about finding files by filename, but about finding files by content.