But your example as well as your point refer to minor flaws in the writer or speaker and severe flaws in the reader and/or listener.
Surely you can see that a scientist dressing inappropriately and belching before his speech is a minor cosmetic error. While someone judging content of material presented based upon the cosmetic characteristics of the speaker is a severe error. Especially someone who claims to be a scientist!
The slow wit that requires you to conciously think about these mistakes rather than subconciously correcting them without concious thought is hardly the problem of the poster.
"There is no specific 'correct' forum for corrections and suggestions,"
There certainly is, an English class. Outside of a classroom or perhaps a copyedit room there is no place where it is appropriate to anally correct the spelling and grammar of others.
Only an idiot judges intelligence by grammar and spelling. You can get a partial gauge from the reader however.
You see a keen intellect will read a message with mistakes and will immediately interpret the correct intention without concious thought. It is only the slow witted that have to pause and think when they encounter a minor error.
No, yours is the first reference I have seen to an F sound in years and the first such reference to explain why the Leftenant thing made any sense at all. I have NEVER heard the word pronounced with an F sound by: anyone, anywhere, ever.
If a product has a $50 manufacturer rebate, the manufacturer would have charged the vendor $50 less if rebates did not exist. This would result in a $50 price cut on the shelf.
It isn't the retailer who reports the loss. For many products large retailers only pay if they sell the product. Norton does this on software for instance. Norton might ship Walmart 20,000 copies of NAV, if Walmart sells 10,000 then Walmart pays for 10,000 copies and reports the other 10,000 destroyed. Norton then claims a loss 10,000 copies worth of merchandise.
This is another tax hole since norton will claim the loss at the price they sell to walmart for and not the price to manufacture (which is a subjective number they can manipulate anyway).
The article mentions Intel withholding rebate checks.
Is there anyone who feels rebates are legit anyway? The things should be outlawed for a number of reasons.
* Interest - money bears interest, delays in recieving it means the manufacturer keeps the potential interest.
* Honoring - Many companies 'lose' 30-50% of rebates submitted.
* Tax evasion - Companies claim loses on unsold and destroyed merchandise at the before rebate price. Since rebates only allow companies to bring the price to what is competative in the market this means unfair greater values claimed at tax time.
Your record is NEVER really expunged. If you ever find yourself in court again they will know about your previous record. The military also requires access to your minor record.
Right, but I have a responsibility to myself for securing my data and money. That is why I hire a bank, an organization that exists only to secure my money and insure nobody gets it without my permission.
A hacker has no responsibility for ensuring my data and funds are secure.
Between hackers and "check by phone" that allows anyone to spend your money without authorization if you ever wrote them a check. This means the big vault they show you when you walk in a shame to convince you to let them borrow your money.
The other manufacturers will jump on the bandwagon to compete, replacing on-device controllers with software based controllers.
This has nothing to do with a platform getting the latest features first, that is beside the point. This is about replacing hardware with software that emulates the functionality. The result is a crippled device that is useless without platform dependent software. Exactly how is this different from winmodems and other windevices that do the same thing?
Just a note, a glance shows you have a dual boot for WoW. WoW runs flawlessly under Point2Play http://www.transgaming.com/
Be sure to read the forums. The game will run fine using DirectX emulation, but OpenGL mode is much faster. Using OpenGL mode I get faster framerates than I do on a XP pro system using the same settings and hardware. YMMV.
This creates another class of hardware akin to the winmodem. The result is that this model becomes popular and controller emulation software is only made for the most popular desktop platform... MICROSOFT windows. This is just another way of exploiting a monopoly.
"No, that's not what "science says". Science is always about making tradeoffs under budgetary constraints."
No, practicing science is about making tradeoffs under budgetary constraints. If you review the scientific process again you will find that it does not allow for tradeoffs.
"Who said anything about "willfully refusing"? In cases where manned exploration yields the same bang-for-the-buck as unmanned probes, I'm all for manned exploration. Until then, we should stick with unmanned probes."
You did, just now. Your suggesting we refuse manned exploration unless it makes economic sense. Science says we send manned probes so long as there is data that can be gathered by a human being that can not be gathered by unmanned probes.
Considering that the most valuable potential results of space exploration involve humans leaving Earth it makes good sense to continue gathering data and researching how to get us farther away.
After all, who cares about the conditions on foreign bodies if we have intention of finding opportunities to exploit.
There is nothing scientific about an unmanned space program. Unmanned probes can do a number of things and gather lots of useful data without a doubt.
However, there are numerous things that they can not do and there is nothing that can do that can not be done by a human supplied with life essentials.
Willfully refusing to conduct experiments that would yield valuable data because of the budget concerns is NOT scientific at all. Willfully refusing to conduct experiments that would yield valuable data for ANY reason is an opposition to science. There are times when it is the right choice (for instance an experiment might destroy a rare specimen and prevent future testing) but that does not make it science.
If you feel the money could be better spent on unmanned probes so be it, but quit trying to pretend that budget related decisions are scientific or not scientific.
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I realize you are fishing for it, so I will bite. Grammar on a slashdot post has no relation to public safety.
These comments and corrections are not at all like traffic tickets. Rather, these are the grammar equivelents of backseat or passenger driving.
But your example as well as your point refer to minor flaws in the writer or speaker and severe flaws in the reader and/or listener.
Surely you can see that a scientist dressing inappropriately and belching before his speech is a minor cosmetic error. While someone judging content of material presented based upon the cosmetic characteristics of the speaker is a severe error. Especially someone who claims to be a scientist!
The slow wit that requires you to conciously think about these mistakes rather than subconciously correcting them without concious thought is hardly the problem of the poster.
"There is no specific 'correct' forum for corrections and suggestions,"
There certainly is, an English class. Outside of a classroom or perhaps a copyedit room there is no place where it is appropriate to anally correct the spelling and grammar of others.
Only an idiot judges intelligence by grammar and spelling. You can get a partial gauge from the reader however.
You see a keen intellect will read a message with mistakes and will immediately interpret the correct intention without concious thought. It is only the slow witted that have to pause and think when they encounter a minor error.
No, yours is the first reference I have seen to an F sound in years and the first such reference to explain why the Leftenant thing made any sense at all. I have NEVER heard the word pronounced with an F sound by: anyone, anywhere, ever.
Watch your dangling modifiers there.
If a product has a $50 manufacturer rebate, the manufacturer would have charged the vendor $50 less if rebates did not exist. This would result in a $50 price cut on the shelf.
It isn't the retailer who reports the loss. For many products large retailers only pay if they sell the product. Norton does this on software for instance. Norton might ship Walmart 20,000 copies of NAV, if Walmart sells 10,000 then Walmart pays for 10,000 copies and reports the other 10,000 destroyed. Norton then claims a loss 10,000 copies worth of merchandise.
This is another tax hole since norton will claim the loss at the price they sell to walmart for and not the price to manufacture (which is a subjective number they can manipulate anyway).
The article mentions Intel withholding rebate checks.
Is there anyone who feels rebates are legit anyway? The things should be outlawed for a number of reasons.
* Interest - money bears interest, delays in recieving it means the manufacturer keeps the potential interest.
* Honoring - Many companies 'lose' 30-50% of rebates submitted.
* Tax evasion - Companies claim loses on unsold and destroyed merchandise at the before rebate price. Since rebates only allow companies to bring the price to what is competative in the market this means unfair greater values claimed at tax time.
I'll tell you a secret. What they are doing in porn videos, does not hurt a bit.
Your record is NEVER really expunged. If you ever find yourself in court again they will know about your previous record. The military also requires access to your minor record.
considering that legal online music purchases have met or exceeded ESTIMATED online piracy.
Healing is not nearly so nice a feature as complete repair.
Right, but I have a responsibility to myself for securing my data and money. That is why I hire a bank, an organization that exists only to secure my money and insure nobody gets it without my permission.
A hacker has no responsibility for ensuring my data and funds are secure.
Between hackers and "check by phone" that allows anyone to spend your money without authorization if you ever wrote them a check. This means the big vault they show you when you walk in a shame to convince you to let them borrow your money.
There is a difference between visiting a stripbar and living in one.
Also, what does anime have to do with geeks and nerds?
Do you have any idea how huge the market actually is? 10% of the market dwarfs the population of the United States...
Refer to the post you responded to for the answer to that question. Warez was not the only thing I said.
You can get Cedegra from a number of warez sites, cvs, or other.
But someone coming from windows is going to want Point2Play and Point2Play will only download cedegra if you have an account.
I would recommend signing up for at least the minimum 3 months, you get a vote in what they work on next.
The other manufacturers will jump on the bandwagon to compete, replacing on-device controllers with software based controllers.
This has nothing to do with a platform getting the latest features first, that is beside the point. This is about replacing hardware with software that emulates the functionality. The result is a crippled device that is useless without platform dependent software. Exactly how is this different from winmodems and other windevices that do the same thing?
Just a note, a glance shows you have a dual boot for WoW. WoW runs flawlessly under Point2Play http://www.transgaming.com/
Be sure to read the forums. The game will run fine using DirectX emulation, but OpenGL mode is much faster. Using OpenGL mode I get faster framerates than I do on a XP pro system using the same settings and hardware. YMMV.
This creates another class of hardware akin to the winmodem. The result is that this model becomes popular and controller emulation software is only made for the most popular desktop platform... MICROSOFT windows. This is just another way of exploiting a monopoly.
"No, that's not what "science says". Science is always about making tradeoffs under budgetary constraints."
No, practicing science is about making tradeoffs under budgetary constraints. If you review the scientific process again you will find that it does not allow for tradeoffs.
"Who said anything about "willfully refusing"? In cases where manned exploration yields the same bang-for-the-buck as unmanned probes, I'm all for manned exploration. Until then, we should stick with unmanned probes."
You did, just now. Your suggesting we refuse manned exploration unless it makes economic sense. Science says we send manned probes so long as there is data that can be gathered by a human being that can not be gathered by unmanned probes.
Considering that the most valuable potential results of space exploration involve humans leaving Earth it makes good sense to continue gathering data and researching how to get us farther away.
After all, who cares about the conditions on foreign bodies if we have intention of finding opportunities to exploit.
There is nothing scientific about an unmanned space program. Unmanned probes can do a number of things and gather lots of useful data without a doubt.
However, there are numerous things that they can not do and there is nothing that can do that can not be done by a human supplied with life essentials.
Willfully refusing to conduct experiments that would yield valuable data because of the budget concerns is NOT scientific at all. Willfully refusing to conduct experiments that would yield valuable data for ANY reason is an opposition to science. There are times when it is the right choice (for instance an experiment might destroy a rare specimen and prevent future testing) but that does not make it science.
If you feel the money could be better spent on unmanned probes so be it, but quit trying to pretend that budget related decisions are scientific or not scientific.