Most people don't filter what they're viewing through their auditory facilities. Some do. Most of those people are very slow readers. Ever seen someone mouth out the words they're reading? It's more than likely because of that. Those errors cause problems because they are visual errors, not audible ones. People who use their vision centers to process language are tripped up by things like that.
Even as a non-native speaker, your skills are still light years ahead of the vast majority of people in the United States. I salute you!
As an aside, it would be "literacy levels", not "alphabetization levels" in english. But we still knew what you meant;)
Also..."parsing" and "double parsing"? You're not a freakin' compiler or an interpreter, you're a human being.
If you could read what he said without problem, then you read very slowly. Most people can glean information from sentences without directly reading every single letter. They recognize words and adjacent concepts as being related. When a word is misspelled, or even worse, misused, it causes a cognitive dissonance in those of us that do comprehend things at a higher level, and force us to go back and figure out what the hell they were talking about. Effective communication is one thing. By-the-books linguistic fascism, however, is the mark of a mental midget.
Which, of course, is why Einstein, Churchill, Tesla, and many others had impeccable linguistic style.
Please note that this isn't an argument for perfect spelling and grammar. It's just an argument as to why you should care about bettering yourself, so that communication flows more easily among a group.
Then I don't want to hear about you ever complaining about something like IE not following the standards. It's the same thing. Having a standard makes communication more clear, succinct and useful. When I read "looser", I parse it as something coming undone. But when it's "the looser of the game went home", I (and many others) reach a cognitive stop, and have to re-parse the sentence and try to find the word that the typist meant to use, rather than the on they did use.
Mostly, it just makes people look lazy and stupid. Kinda like being homeless because that's what takes the least work. Ever read anything that Einstein wrote? Churchill? They all have impeccable spelling and grammar, as well as gigantic vocabularies.
*before anyone bitches about the homeless comment, I never said it wasn't a hard life. I simply implied that it's what happens when you stop working.
High school? Doesn't this happen in like, every high school, not just NZ? The secondary school IT administration all over is far from top-notch. They're the guys with diplomas but no degrees who just happened to know someone with pull in the school system who knew they liked computers.
Sorry if this offends anyone. It's just from my experiences, and by no means is it a hard and fast rule.
The electromagnetic spectrum from his AP is being broadcast into my house. If he doesn't want me using it, he shouldn't be sending it to me, especially unprotected. /devil's advocate
How much money do you have? Because you're gonna have to buy the IP of a LOT of companies in order to open source their stuff. Lots of proprietary stuff in the chips and the drivers, from what I hear.
And FYI, the older Radeons (up to 8500 I believe?) have a decent open source driver.
Or perhaps you're simply stupid yourself, and unable to understand the brief verbage on their site.
That screensot? That just shows that they work with Gaim. It's an IM security/encryption program that runs transparently basically as a proxy from what I can tell. They don't have an IM client themselves.
Oh, wait... write first, comprehend later. I'm the first to get on someone ripping off open source, but this ain't one of those times, and all it would have taken was using your brain before you typed to figure that out.
Water conducts heat approximately 35x better than air. Just to be the drag on your funny comment. They're using water cooling for a very good reason, because it's just more efficient. They aren't about to make the cab airtight.
Think of it this way: Engineering is just Design, except that you have to color within certain lines. As the GPP said, many bad situations are caused by beaurocratic, and even design, limitations imposed on engineers. Other times, it's sometimes budget, etc. But design and Engineering will always be very much intertwined. Design without an engineer and what you have is called a "decorator"
And if the rest of the population forms sentences like you do, then you can keep not using Linux. We don't need *nix users' reputations being tarnished by horribly structured writing such as yours.
It's not a theory in the scientific sense, as in it can't be tested or experimented on. It comes down to pure faith.
Believe it if you want, but it has no place in a science classroom.
Hmm. Betcha can't do it on my laptop here. Ctrl is only available on the lower left corner, and del is the upper rightmost key. But my printscreen is just a standard key. But it can also be solved by using specialized hardware that's designed for one handed typing and such.
Man, that sounds like a lot of work. I just install ubuntu, run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade, reboot if the kernel was changed, and life is good. What's with Windows being so difficult and user-unfriendly?
(Yes, I know it's a troll. Mod accordingly. I just need to get it out of my system every now and then)
How is a bogus patent existing and screwing anyone a "good thing"?
If you haven't infringed this one, you'll infringe another further down the line. Or not be in software. Either way, it leads to a stagnation of the industry.
I used to use the included FTP client and a local ISP myself. My ISP actually sent printed instructions with how to download Netscape from their server with FTP once connected.
Dear sarcasically oblivious AC, please try to keep up with the wit. Or at least get out of the way.
How is it... the wise man keeps his mouth shut and lets everyone think him a fool. The fool opens his mouth and removes all doubt?
Ahhh. But there is clarity in those. ppl and ur cause a cognitive disconnect for most of the audience here, whereas/. and IANAL, RTFA, SNAFU, etc. are all parts of the "lingo". TCP/IP? NAT? MAC? WLAN? CPU? RAM?
It's also partially, like you said, an attachment to someone that's immature, or unlearned. You can type the whole word out most of the time. IANAL is a significant (and important) acronym versus typing out "I am not a lawyer". Hell, that's even hard to type in the first place on a QWERTY layout. "people" to "ppl" is a different kind of abbreviation, and that's what the issue is. It's not that it's short, it's that it's an asinine abbreviation rather than an acronym or something truly functional that retains the meaning.
And this post is an example of why you should get regular sleep kids. Caffeine is no substitute (even if it is fun)
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Most people don't filter what they're viewing through their auditory facilities. Some do. Most of those people are very slow readers. Ever seen someone mouth out the words they're reading? It's more than likely because of that. Those errors cause problems because they are visual errors, not audible ones. People who use their vision centers to process language are tripped up by things like that.
Even as a non-native speaker, your skills are still light years ahead of the vast majority of people in the United States. I salute you! ;)
As an aside, it would be "literacy levels", not "alphabetization levels" in english. But we still knew what you meant
Also..."parsing" and "double parsing"? You're not a freakin' compiler or an interpreter, you're a human being.
If you could read what he said without problem, then you read very slowly. Most people can glean information from sentences without directly reading every single letter. They recognize words and adjacent concepts as being related. When a word is misspelled, or even worse, misused, it causes a cognitive dissonance in those of us that do comprehend things at a higher level, and force us to go back and figure out what the hell they were talking about.
Effective communication is one thing. By-the-books linguistic fascism, however, is the mark of a mental midget.
Which, of course, is why Einstein, Churchill, Tesla, and many others had impeccable linguistic style.
Please note that this isn't an argument for perfect spelling and grammar. It's just an argument as to why you should care about bettering yourself, so that communication flows more easily among a group.
Then I don't want to hear about you ever complaining about something like IE not following the standards. It's the same thing. Having a standard makes communication more clear, succinct and useful. When I read "looser", I parse it as something coming undone. But when it's "the looser of the game went home", I (and many others) reach a cognitive stop, and have to re-parse the sentence and try to find the word that the typist meant to use, rather than the on they did use.
Mostly, it just makes people look lazy and stupid. Kinda like being homeless because that's what takes the least work. Ever read anything that Einstein wrote? Churchill? They all have impeccable spelling and grammar, as well as gigantic vocabularies.
*before anyone bitches about the homeless comment, I never said it wasn't a hard life. I simply implied that it's what happens when you stop working.
High school? Doesn't this happen in like, every high school, not just NZ? The secondary school IT administration all over is far from top-notch. They're the guys with diplomas but no degrees who just happened to know someone with pull in the school system who knew they liked computers.
Sorry if this offends anyone. It's just from my experiences, and by no means is it a hard and fast rule.
For that matter, the previous one didn't do it any help, either.
The electromagnetic spectrum from his AP is being broadcast into my house. If he doesn't want me using it, he shouldn't be sending it to me, especially unprotected.
/devil's advocate
The word you were searching for is "codec". The plural form is "codecs". A codex is something completely different.
BRAKING! Jeebus. Use a dictionary. Or read the article. Or the parent post.
If getting a tattoo is any indication, there are some Windows cultists out there. Not as many as the mac heads, but still, they exist.
How much money do you have? Because you're gonna have to buy the IP of a LOT of companies in order to open source their stuff. Lots of proprietary stuff in the chips and the drivers, from what I hear.
And FYI, the older Radeons (up to 8500 I believe?) have a decent open source driver.
Or perhaps you're simply stupid yourself, and unable to understand the brief verbage on their site.
That screensot? That just shows that they work with Gaim. It's an IM security/encryption program that runs transparently basically as a proxy from what I can tell. They don't have an IM client themselves.
Oh, wait... write first, comprehend later. I'm the first to get on someone ripping off open source, but this ain't one of those times, and all it would have taken was using your brain before you typed to figure that out.
Water conducts heat approximately 35x better than air. Just to be the drag on your funny comment. They're using water cooling for a very good reason, because it's just more efficient. They aren't about to make the cab airtight.
Think of it this way: Engineering is just Design, except that you have to color within certain lines. As the GPP said, many bad situations are caused by beaurocratic, and even design, limitations imposed on engineers. Other times, it's sometimes budget, etc. But design and Engineering will always be very much intertwined. Design without an engineer and what you have is called a "decorator"
And if the rest of the population forms sentences like you do, then you can keep not using Linux. We don't need *nix users' reputations being tarnished by horribly structured writing such as yours.
The difference is that the scientific theory is ALLOWED, and even EXPECTED to change. That won't happen with "Intelligent" design as a theory.
It's not a theory in the scientific sense, as in it can't be tested or experimented on. It comes down to pure faith.
Believe it if you want, but it has no place in a science classroom.
Wine in a box is actually damn good. And it stores MUCH better than the bottled stuff. Sometimes progress is good, kids ;)
Hmm. Betcha can't do it on my laptop here. Ctrl is only available on the lower left corner, and del is the upper rightmost key. But my printscreen is just a standard key. But it can also be solved by using specialized hardware that's designed for one handed typing and such.
Man, that sounds like a lot of work. I just install ubuntu, run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade, reboot if the kernel was changed, and life is good. What's with Windows being so difficult and user-unfriendly?
(Yes, I know it's a troll. Mod accordingly. I just need to get it out of my system every now and then)
How is a bogus patent existing and screwing anyone a "good thing"?
If you haven't infringed this one, you'll infringe another further down the line. Or not be in software. Either way, it leads to a stagnation of the industry.
I used to use the included FTP client and a local ISP myself. My ISP actually sent printed instructions with how to download Netscape from their server with FTP once connected.
I'll pay a little more in gas for a car that'll go faster than I can walk somewhere.
Dear sarcasically oblivious AC, please try to keep up with the wit. Or at least get out of the way.
How is it... the wise man keeps his mouth shut and lets everyone think him a fool. The fool opens his mouth and removes all doubt?
Ahhh. But there is clarity in those. ppl and ur cause a cognitive disconnect for most of the audience here, whereas /. and IANAL, RTFA, SNAFU, etc. are all parts of the "lingo". TCP/IP? NAT? MAC? WLAN? CPU? RAM?
It's also partially, like you said, an attachment to someone that's immature, or unlearned. You can type the whole word out most of the time. IANAL is a significant (and important) acronym versus typing out "I am not a lawyer". Hell, that's even hard to type in the first place on a QWERTY layout. "people" to "ppl" is a different kind of abbreviation, and that's what the issue is. It's not that it's short, it's that it's an asinine abbreviation rather than an acronym or something truly functional that retains the meaning.
And this post is an example of why you should get regular sleep kids. Caffeine is no substitute (even if it is fun)