However, there are those of us who would like to keep legal terms unambiguous. What's next? Should we allow "arson" to be co-opted to also mean "burning backup copies of your CDs"? Then, can't you imagine a world where people are accused of "arson", and even the psychological effects it would have? Little kids would learn that arson was bad, and then think burning backup CDs was bad. That is why we think the co-opting of "piracy" and "stealing" is bad.
My point was that if the new GPL requires you to share things you aren't selling, when will it require that you share things you aren't allowing to contact the public at all. And then what's next? You having to share things you make with GPL'd software, such as documents (sensitive documents about company decisions that should be secret), and books (is LaTeX GPL'd?), etc.
If you take some GPL'd code, modify it, and use it to sell stuff over the web, why shouldn't you be obligated to give back to the community whose work you are using to make money?
How about, "if you take some GPL'd code, modify it, and use it to write documents that you sell, why shouldn't you be obligated to give back to the..."
Or how about, "if you take some GPL'd code, modify it, and use it to compile programs, why shouldn't you..."
Are you kidding? M2 (Opera's mail client) is the only reason I won't switch to Firefox/Thunderbird -- it's just that good.
For those of you not in the know -- it's like having GMail on your hard drive -- instantaneous searching of message bodies and headers, filters, etc.
I urge you all to try it out -- it takes some getting used to, but WOW. I hated M2 for about 2 months, until I learned all the features, and now I won't use anything else unless Opera just up and disappears. And then I will be sad.
Just to satisfy your curiosity, the reason I now show up in your "freaks" list is because what you said is the single stupidest thing I have ever read -- and that includes the spam in my mailbox. I echo the sentiments of Justins -- please die.
First of all, I just want to state that I have no idea where the Canadian references in the GP came from. We use "out and about" here in the US as well.
Second of all, I'm a bit concerned -- I have been taught, even in my university courses in the States -- that the Canadian health care system is failing because it is socialized (this coming from a professor who is pro-socialized health care). I've heard that the waits for even a simple checkup are hours, if not days. I've also heard that if you have an emergency, you cannot get in quickly because of the backlog of people who are in for various minor maladies because the health care is so cheap, why not go every time you have a headache? That was the problem when I was in Japan (which also has socialized health care) -- I'd have a headache and my hostmother would suggest I go to the doctor. What the hell? It's a freaking headache! I just need to take some ibuprofen and lie down.
So, if the health care system doesn't suck in Canada...wow. There's some serious propaganda going on in the states down to the university level, where most professors are for socialized medicine, for us to be that uninformed.
Also, I always thought that Canadians liked their country because of the burly Newfies, not the girls;)
Is a clicker something you only have to buy once? Or do you have to get one for each class? If it is something you only buy once, and can reuse for all your courses over four years, $60 is quite the deal.
I just keep coming back to one question -- why don't they just store hashes of the SSNs on all networked computers? Have the computers with the SSNs stored (for use with FAFSA and other financial aid purposes) on computers which require physical access, and place them in the financial aid office. They're the only ones who need access to SSNs anyway.
I don't really have a problem with English that breaks grammar or spelling rules, either. I just think that if a rule was broken accidentally, it should be correct. Purposeful breaking of rules is acceptable, and I even encourage it.
It's kind of like art in a way. You need to learn the theories of various painting schools before you create your own. Otherwise, you are just a chimp throwing paint on a canvas.
There should be intention behind any work of art, and speaking is art that most people don't treat as such. Most people treat it as a task like barn-painting, instead of as a chance to create a masterpiece.
Of course, using language as a tool is fine. Just don't be surprised when people like me complain that you're misusing the tool -- misusing tools is a problem, creating new art is a noble endeavor.
Aaaaaand my whole post was pretty much a non sequitur.
Since this is a discussion about parsing English, I found it a bit ironic -- I'd be willing to bet that "fruit" can never be an adjective. I've looked it up in many different places and find that it can only be a noun or a verb. In this case, it is two adjacent, linked nouns, if you parse "fruit flies" as "insects".
I think that if humans cannot get a grasp of the intricacies of something we are hard-wired for, how can we expect a computer to?
I can just see William Hung singing/lecturing about French:
Oh T-BANGS, T-BANGS Oh baby The Louvre, the Louvre I go crazy 'Cause she looks la fleur but she stings like abeille Like every girl in historie T-BANGS, T-BANGS!
But if I wanted to read about Danger Mouse, My Pet Monster, Denver the Last Dinosaur, or many other TV shows from my youth, TV Tome was a great, centrally located database for pretty much all the non-graphic data you could want about the show, and typically more than the fan sites would have.
At one point, I was working on a Python program that would act as a proxy, and would parse TV.com pages and make them look like TV Tome pages (I was using the Wayback Machine as reference). It was going to cache the pages from TV.com as I went to different shows' areas, and present them as one page if that was the way it looked at TV Tome. It would also remove all the flash ads that slow my browser down.
However, I realized I was wasting my time and that it would not be a good idea, as I'd basically have to be running a proxy all the time to notice a benefit. I gave up writing it, and have since moved on to http://www.epguides.com/.
University and College (Canadian terms. US equiv is, I believe, College and Community College?)
I would tend to say University and Community College. In the US, a college can be one of two things when dealing with higher education -- a division within a university (for example, at the University of Texas we have the College of Natural Sciences and College of Liberal Arts, among others), or as a generic term for higher education ("I went to college!" -- no one says, "I went to university"), or the same way as in Canada (for example, in my hometown in south Texas, the community college is called Victoria College).
Residents of other regions of the US are welcome to chime in or present differing usages here -- I think it would be interesting to see if the words are used differently in the Northeast and such.
Note: I actually do say, "I went to university," and, "When I was in/at university," but that is because I heard Russian immigrants say that a lot when I was a child, and now I find that it sounds interesting to use the word "university" in such a way.
I pay tips in cash so that way, in case there is a tipping pool, my money potentially could sneakily stay in MY waiter's pocket, and not go partially to some shitty waiter that didn't get tipped at all just because he's employed there.
If your complaints against the grammar come from the second link in the blurb, it is machine translation from Japanese to English via Babelfish. On the contrary, the original Japanese was written well enough.
For any Japanophiles in the house, for the translation It regards the problem of the Creative Zen Neeon digital audio player, the original was Creative Zen Neeon Digital Audio Player [dejitaru o-d'io pure-ya-] no mondai ni kan suru, which is better translated as regarding the problem with the Creative Zen Neoon DAP.
Slashdot Mirror
That's not copyright infringement -- that's patent infringement.
I for one welcome our cloned prehistoric arachnid overlords!
Why would you want to block a peer? Having 2 peers, one of which is on a dial-up connection, is still faster than having just the one other peer.
Actually, Universal owns the rights to Firefly. Universal also owns SciFi Channel. So, to sum up:
1)Own SciFi Channel
2)Buy the rights to Firefly
3)???
4)Fans PROFIT!!
However, also in the link, it seems that Joss Whedon doesn't feel like he needs to continue the TV series (which is a giant shame, isn't it?).
However, there are those of us who would like to keep legal terms unambiguous. What's next? Should we allow "arson" to be co-opted to also mean "burning backup copies of your CDs"? Then, can't you imagine a world where people are accused of "arson", and even the psychological effects it would have? Little kids would learn that arson was bad, and then think burning backup CDs was bad. That is why we think the co-opting of "piracy" and "stealing" is bad.
And in impression of an AOL subscriber:
ME TOO!
I got an iPod Photo a month ago and if I can't buy music off iTunes anymore, I'll start downloading songs again.
Whops -- completely forgot to finish my post.
My point was that if the new GPL requires you to share things you aren't selling, when will it require that you share things you aren't allowing to contact the public at all. And then what's next? You having to share things you make with GPL'd software, such as documents (sensitive documents about company decisions that should be secret), and books (is LaTeX GPL'd?), etc.
If you take some GPL'd code, modify it, and use it to sell stuff over the web, why shouldn't you be obligated to give back to the community whose work you are using to make money?
..."
..."
How about, "if you take some GPL'd code, modify it, and use it to write documents that you sell, why shouldn't you be obligated to give back to the
Or how about, "if you take some GPL'd code, modify it, and use it to compile programs, why shouldn't you
Are you kidding? M2 (Opera's mail client) is the only reason I won't switch to Firefox/Thunderbird -- it's just that good.
For those of you not in the know -- it's like having GMail on your hard drive -- instantaneous searching of message bodies and headers, filters, etc.
I urge you all to try it out -- it takes some getting used to, but WOW. I hated M2 for about 2 months, until I learned all the features, and now I won't use anything else unless Opera just up and disappears. And then I will be sad.
Just to satisfy your curiosity, the reason I now show up in your "freaks" list is because what you said is the single stupidest thing I have ever read -- and that includes the spam in my mailbox. I echo the sentiments of Justins -- please die.
ever since the IRA started blowing things up in the 70's (thank you Irish-Americans of New York)
Wow. Enlighten me, please. I always thought the IRA was a bunch of Irishmen in Ireland.
First of all, I just want to state that I have no idea where the Canadian references in the GP came from. We use "out and about" here in the US as well.
;)
Second of all, I'm a bit concerned -- I have been taught, even in my university courses in the States -- that the Canadian health care system is failing because it is socialized (this coming from a professor who is pro-socialized health care). I've heard that the waits for even a simple checkup are hours, if not days. I've also heard that if you have an emergency, you cannot get in quickly because of the backlog of people who are in for various minor maladies because the health care is so cheap, why not go every time you have a headache? That was the problem when I was in Japan (which also has socialized health care) -- I'd have a headache and my hostmother would suggest I go to the doctor. What the hell? It's a freaking headache! I just need to take some ibuprofen and lie down.
So, if the health care system doesn't suck in Canada...wow. There's some serious propaganda going on in the states down to the university level, where most professors are for socialized medicine, for us to be that uninformed.
Also, I always thought that Canadians liked their country because of the burly Newfies, not the girls
Is a clicker something you only have to buy once? Or do you have to get one for each class? If it is something you only buy once, and can reuse for all your courses over four years, $60 is quite the deal.
Most of those 100 developers (80!) are pain Sun employees
"Pain" is right.
I just keep coming back to one question -- why don't they just store hashes of the SSNs on all networked computers? Have the computers with the SSNs stored (for use with FAFSA and other financial aid purposes) on computers which require physical access, and place them in the financial aid office. They're the only ones who need access to SSNs anyway.
Point well taken.
I don't really have a problem with English that breaks grammar or spelling rules, either. I just think that if a rule was broken accidentally, it should be correct. Purposeful breaking of rules is acceptable, and I even encourage it.
It's kind of like art in a way. You need to learn the theories of various painting schools before you create your own. Otherwise, you are just a chimp throwing paint on a canvas.
There should be intention behind any work of art, and speaking is art that most people don't treat as such. Most people treat it as a task like barn-painting, instead of as a chance to create a masterpiece.
Of course, using language as a tool is fine. Just don't be surprised when people like me complain that you're misusing the tool -- misusing tools is a problem, creating new art is a noble endeavor.
Aaaaaand my whole post was pretty much a non sequitur.
Since this is a discussion about parsing English, I found it a bit ironic -- I'd be willing to bet that "fruit" can never be an adjective. I've looked it up in many different places and find that it can only be a noun or a verb. In this case, it is two adjacent, linked nouns, if you parse "fruit flies" as "insects".
I think that if humans cannot get a grasp of the intricacies of something we are hard-wired for, how can we expect a computer to?
I can just see William Hung singing/lecturing about French:
Oh T-BANGS, T-BANGS
Oh baby
The Louvre, the Louvre
I go crazy
'Cause she looks la fleur but she stings
like abeille
Like every girl in historie
T-BANGS, T-BANGS!
But if I wanted to read about Danger Mouse, My Pet Monster, Denver the Last Dinosaur, or many other TV shows from my youth, TV Tome was a great, centrally located database for pretty much all the non-graphic data you could want about the show, and typically more than the fan sites would have.
At one point, I was working on a Python program that would act as a proxy, and would parse TV.com pages and make them look like TV Tome pages (I was using the Wayback Machine as reference). It was going to cache the pages from TV.com as I went to different shows' areas, and present them as one page if that was the way it looked at TV Tome. It would also remove all the flash ads that slow my browser down.
However, I realized I was wasting my time and that it would not be a good idea, as I'd basically have to be running a proxy all the time to notice a benefit. I gave up writing it, and have since moved on to http://www.epguides.com/.
University and College (Canadian terms. US equiv is, I believe, College and Community College?)
I would tend to say University and Community College. In the US, a college can be one of two things when dealing with higher education -- a division within a university (for example, at the University of Texas we have the College of Natural Sciences and College of Liberal Arts, among others), or as a generic term for higher education ("I went to college!" -- no one says, "I went to university"), or the same way as in Canada (for example, in my hometown in south Texas, the community college is called Victoria College).
Residents of other regions of the US are welcome to chime in or present differing usages here -- I think it would be interesting to see if the words are used differently in the Northeast and such.
Note: I actually do say, "I went to university," and, "When I was in/at university," but that is because I heard Russian immigrants say that a lot when I was a child, and now I find that it sounds interesting to use the word "university" in such a way.
since I was Canadian AND good looking the drinking+sex parts were the easiest!
Oh, come on. You know that being Canadian cancels out "good-looking".
I pay tips in cash so that way, in case there is a tipping pool, my money potentially could sneakily stay in MY waiter's pocket, and not go partially to some shitty waiter that didn't get tipped at all just because he's employed there.
If your complaints against the grammar come from the second link in the blurb, it is machine translation from Japanese to English via Babelfish. On the contrary, the original Japanese was written well enough.
For any Japanophiles in the house, for the translation It regards the problem of the Creative Zen Neeon digital audio player, the original was Creative Zen Neeon Digital Audio Player [dejitaru o-d'io pure-ya-] no mondai ni kan suru, which is better translated as regarding the problem with the Creative Zen Neoon DAP.
Well, apparently /. doesn't like the character in forms. It looks like .-
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