Journalism is good at reporting breaking news; facts, and it's in the interest of a journalist to do this as quickly as possible.
Wrong. It is in the interest of a corporate journalist, perhaps, but the true aim of journalism is not to report first, it's to report accurately.
The problem is that just about every journalist is a corporate journalist now, and the news corporations have fooled many people into thinking that speed is the only thing we should be using to measure journalists.
That might be useful for some people (although I sometimes find it kind of annoying that a search returns MS-Word documents).
This isn't Google's fault. I'd rather that people didn't put documents on the web in Word format, but people do it. I still need the information that's in the document, though, and I would like Google to index it. Same with PDFs, or any other format that contains text. An option would be nice for those who are looking for HTML only (or similar).
Is it just me or is there something about journalists where, in technical articles, they have to put in gratuitous meaningless figures for no reason?
It's called writing for your audience. Most people cannot quantify angular velocities. I can't even remember what the right units are.. radians/sec? And, given an angular velocity, doesn't it mean nothing without knowing the radius of what's being rotated?
I'm a technical person. I have a degree in CS and I currently work in environmental engineering. I don't have a clue about angular velocities. The author was 100% correct in putting in a linear velocity approximation. This article was not in a scientific journal.
Ken's real mastery is the timing, not his knowledge. On most Jeopardy questions, all three contestants know the answer. It is simply a matter of who buzzes in first. On Jeopardy, you get penalized for buzzing in early: your buzzer will be locked out for a moment or two. Ken has mastered the timing and is able to buzz in at the perfect moment on almost every question. Check out his opponents. Some of them will get visibly pissed off at the buzzer.
Ken does have a vast knowledge and in many cases is able to answer the $2000 questions when the other 2 contestants cannot, but he generally has the game wrapped up by the end of the Jeopardy Round due to his timing, imo.
Depending on your options, you may not have to hit "/" to invoke search. I think its the default that just typing will find in link text only. Hitting "/" will search all text. In either case, hitting escape should end search mode.
This kind of thinking amazes me. I wonder if DeSoto, Columbus, Magellan or Marco Polo had to worry about such ramifications.
I would think, in a sense, that they did. Columbus and others didn't get the money to go around the world from their ass. Most of it came from the European monarchs. Had Columbus not been successful, do you think there would have been many more expeditions to the West? I don't know enough of the history to say.
Now, if you are shooting for failure try putting in Kerry, Edwards, Gore, Nader and Sharpton.
If you think that list of names are "failures" then you have rather high expectations. Let's see:
Kerry: Soldier, War activist, Prosecutor, Senator, Presidential candidate. Edwards: Lawyer, Senator, Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate. Gore: Senator, Vice President, according to some people, President. Nader: Consumer advocate, Presidential candidate. Sharpton: Reverend, Community leader, Presidential candidate.
One more thing about the article: his "darwinian" approach, by which the most popular program get the most vulnerabilites because they attract the most attacks, has two fallacies:
Slow down, buddy. No one said that it was a black and white divide where programs above a certain circulation are targetted and those below are not. One counter-example does not mean that it's "wrong". It's merely a generalization.
Those had better not be my tax dollars you're wasting.
Oh, shut up.
Everyone whines about "my tax dollars", as if 100% of your taxes were directed to [project you hate].
Guess what, they're not. It's everyone's tax dollars that are being wasted on pork projects. Quit taking it so personally.
So let's say a half cent of your taxes go to some pork project. Killing that project won't save you anything in taxes. What needs to change is the whole culture. Targetting individual pork projects won't fix the problem, the money will just get spent on different pork.
Your analysis forgets one very important factor: population density. You also, imo, incorrectly emphasize geographics. If Bush wins large, uninhabited, states, why does that give him more of a 'widespread base'?
A more accurate map would be congressional districts, as they all have (more or less) the same population.
Assuming your tale is accurate, I would like to inform you that you based your vote based upon the opinions of others. Next time, why don't you analyse the candidates and issues, instead of listening to what everyone else is saying.
My main reason: I believe Bush will do more to protect this country than Kerry
On what do you base this belief? Bush said 3 years ago he would get Osama wherever he was. He couldn't handle that task, so he undertook something he thought he could do, invading Iraq. He failed at that, too.
Bush has had 3 years to catch Bin Laden. Bush never talks about Bin Laden, and in fact has said he doesn't think about him.
Kerry says he will catch Bin Laden.
Bin Laden wants Kerry to win because he's 'less of a threat'? So the guy that says "I will get you" is less of a threat than the guy that said the same thing 3 years ago and has failed? Welcome to bizzaro world.
The rest of the world takes a calculated blind eye on terrorism, knowing that America will probably be the target and/or come to the defense of anyone hit hard.
This is total bullshit. The rest of the world gets hit much more often than we do, and yet they've managed to survive without sacrificing their core beliefs.
Worldwide terror was up in 2003. How many of those attacks were against the USA? 0. Terrorism is a red herring.
Your post explained how Linux accepts wildcards as filenames, but you didn't really explain why.
why should the kernel discriminate against weird shells by only recognising the wildcards used by the bourne and C shells?
Because there should be a standard to prevent stupid things like the situation in the GP post. It's cute to be able to make a file called '*' but in the end it's completely counterintuitive and pointless.
1. You can still vote Petrouka. It's called write-in.
2. You're a troll or horribly uninformed. Petrouka is a nut who would completely limit our rights if he managed to get elected. He is more religious than Bush and has no qualms about applying his morals to others. I did not know this until a report on today's Morning Edition, from NPR. This guy is running for the party who tried to get Roy Moore as their candidate. Roy Moore is the former Alabama Chief Justice who refused an order from a Federal court to remove the 10 commandments from his courthouse.
Wow what a typical "know-it-all" slashdot attitude. He gets 2 ridiculously minor details wrong so of course he doesn't know what he's talking about..
In other sports, such as baseball, the officiating crew are called "the umpires". This nomenclature does carry over sometimes to football, although the more correct term would be "the officials".
Yes, technically after the QB says "hike", or otherwise indicates to the center, the ball is "snapped". However, to say that the ball is "hiked" is not incorrect. The usage is common.
What's next, are you going to start running around posting how "ain't" isn't a word so any poster who uses it must be wrong? Hold on, gotta check my grammar.. wouldn't want you to think I have "no clue" because I have a misplaced comma..
Interesting example.. tell me, do you eat the plates when you go to a restaurant?
This is a product designed for consumption being sold in a condition unfit for consumption. McDonalds was very well aware of this fact for some time and did nothing about it. In our society, that means they are at fault. What other societies do is irrelevent. All the other examples don't matter, and I shouldn't have deflected the attention by including my last line, since it allowed you to conveniently ignore the substance of my post.
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Journalism is good at reporting breaking news; facts, and it's in the interest of a journalist to do this as quickly as possible.
Wrong. It is in the interest of a corporate journalist, perhaps, but the true aim of journalism is not to report first, it's to report accurately.
The problem is that just about every journalist is a corporate journalist now, and the news corporations have fooled many people into thinking that speed is the only thing we should be using to measure journalists.
That might be useful for some people (although I sometimes find it kind of annoying that a search returns MS-Word documents).
This isn't Google's fault. I'd rather that people didn't put documents on the web in Word format, but people do it. I still need the information that's in the document, though, and I would like Google to index it. Same with PDFs, or any other format that contains text. An option would be nice for those who are looking for HTML only (or similar).
Is it just me or is there something about journalists where, in technical articles, they have to put in gratuitous meaningless figures for no reason?
It's called writing for your audience. Most people cannot quantify angular velocities. I can't even remember what the right units are.. radians/sec? And, given an angular velocity, doesn't it mean nothing without knowing the radius of what's being rotated?
I'm a technical person. I have a degree in CS and I currently work in environmental engineering. I don't have a clue about angular velocities. The author was 100% correct in putting in a linear velocity approximation. This article was not in a scientific journal.
Ken's real mastery is the timing, not his knowledge. On most Jeopardy questions, all three contestants know the answer. It is simply a matter of who buzzes in first. On Jeopardy, you get penalized for buzzing in early: your buzzer will be locked out for a moment or two. Ken has mastered the timing and is able to buzz in at the perfect moment on almost every question. Check out his opponents. Some of them will get visibly pissed off at the buzzer.
Ken does have a vast knowledge and in many cases is able to answer the $2000 questions when the other 2 contestants cannot, but he generally has the game wrapped up by the end of the Jeopardy Round due to his timing, imo.
What exactly is your point? You seem to be saying 'MS doesn't have a nice dialog box, why should Firefox?'
Depending on your options, you may not have to hit "/" to invoke search. I think its the default that just typing will find in link text only. Hitting "/" will search all text. In either case, hitting escape should end search mode.
You've indicated 2 different things. Do you actively lie to the pollsters and say "I voted for $X" when you voted for $Y? Or do you simply not answer?
This kind of thinking amazes me. I wonder if DeSoto, Columbus, Magellan or Marco Polo had to worry about such ramifications.
I would think, in a sense, that they did. Columbus and others didn't get the money to go around the world from their ass. Most of it came from the European monarchs. Had Columbus not been successful, do you think there would have been many more expeditions to the West? I don't know enough of the history to say.
Now, if you are shooting for failure try putting in Kerry, Edwards, Gore, Nader and Sharpton.
If you think that list of names are "failures" then you have rather high expectations. Let's see:
Kerry: Soldier, War activist, Prosecutor, Senator, Presidential candidate.
Edwards: Lawyer, Senator, Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidate.
Gore: Senator, Vice President, according to some people, President.
Nader: Consumer advocate, Presidential candidate.
Sharpton: Reverend, Community leader, Presidential candidate.
What have you done?
One more thing about the article: his "darwinian" approach, by which the most popular program get the most vulnerabilites because they attract the most attacks, has two fallacies:
Slow down, buddy. No one said that it was a black and white divide where programs above a certain circulation are targetted and those below are not. One counter-example does not mean that it's "wrong". It's merely a generalization.
Sometimes I have to ask myself, what do I get out of copyright as it stands today?
As a consumer, nothing. Copyright isn't for consumers, though. It's for content creators. If you're a content creator, you get a lot out of copyright.
Those had better not be my tax dollars you're wasting.
Oh, shut up.
Everyone whines about "my tax dollars", as if 100% of your taxes were directed to [project you hate].
Guess what, they're not. It's everyone's tax dollars that are being wasted on pork projects. Quit taking it so personally.
So let's say a half cent of your taxes go to some pork project. Killing that project won't save you anything in taxes. What needs to change is the whole culture. Targetting individual pork projects won't fix the problem, the money will just get spent on different pork.
How exactly did Gore 'go nuts' in 2000?
Your analysis forgets one very important factor: population density. You also, imo, incorrectly emphasize geographics. If Bush wins large, uninhabited, states, why does that give him more of a 'widespread base'?
A more accurate map would be congressional districts, as they all have (more or less) the same population.
Assuming your tale is accurate, I would like to inform you that you based your vote based upon the opinions of others. Next time, why don't you analyse the candidates and issues, instead of listening to what everyone else is saying.
I also forgot: Kerry has already personally fought and bled for this country. Bush has not.
My main reason: I believe Bush will do more to protect this country than Kerry
On what do you base this belief? Bush said 3 years ago he would get Osama wherever he was. He couldn't handle that task, so he undertook something he thought he could do, invading Iraq. He failed at that, too.
Let's just use some logic.
Bush has had 3 years to catch Bin Laden. Bush never talks about Bin Laden, and in fact has said he doesn't think about him.
Kerry says he will catch Bin Laden.
Bin Laden wants Kerry to win because he's 'less of a threat'? So the guy that says "I will get you" is less of a threat than the guy that said the same thing 3 years ago and has failed? Welcome to bizzaro world.
The rest of the world takes a calculated blind eye on terrorism, knowing that America will probably be the target and/or come to the defense of anyone hit hard.
This is total bullshit. The rest of the world gets hit much more often than we do, and yet they've managed to survive without sacrificing their core beliefs.
Worldwide terror was up in 2003. How many of those attacks were against the USA? 0. Terrorism is a red herring.
Your post explained how Linux accepts wildcards as filenames, but you didn't really explain why.
why should the kernel discriminate against weird shells by only recognising the wildcards used by the bourne and C shells?
Because there should be a standard to prevent stupid things like the situation in the GP post. It's cute to be able to make a file called '*' but in the end it's completely counterintuitive and pointless.
Disclaimer: I'm sure somebody could come up with an equally invalid fault in the oilmen argument.
To do that, you'd have to dispute one of the two facts presented:
Bush and Cheney are oilmen. This is a fact.
US energy policy is dependent on foreign, specifically mideast, oil. This is a fact.
1. You can still vote Petrouka. It's called write-in.
2. You're a troll or horribly uninformed. Petrouka is a nut who would completely limit our rights if he managed to get elected. He is more religious than Bush and has no qualms about applying his morals to others. I did not know this until a report on today's Morning Edition, from NPR. This guy is running for the party who tried to get Roy Moore as their candidate. Roy Moore is the former Alabama Chief Justice who refused an order from a Federal court to remove the 10 commandments from his courthouse.
Do you see a pattern here?
Not really. Aside from your meaningless anecdotes, did you have a point?
Wow what a typical "know-it-all" slashdot attitude. He gets 2 ridiculously minor details wrong so of course he doesn't know what he's talking about..
In other sports, such as baseball, the officiating crew are called "the umpires". This nomenclature does carry over sometimes to football, although the more correct term would be "the officials".
Yes, technically after the QB says "hike", or otherwise indicates to the center, the ball is "snapped". However, to say that the ball is "hiked" is not incorrect. The usage is common.
What's next, are you going to start running around posting how "ain't" isn't a word so any poster who uses it must be wrong? Hold on, gotta check my grammar.. wouldn't want you to think I have "no clue" because I have a misplaced comma..
Interesting example.. tell me, do you eat the plates when you go to a restaurant?
This is a product designed for consumption being sold in a condition unfit for consumption. McDonalds was very well aware of this fact for some time and did nothing about it. In our society, that means they are at fault. What other societies do is irrelevent. All the other examples don't matter, and I shouldn't have deflected the attention by including my last line, since it allowed you to conveniently ignore the substance of my post.