Title: The Day Before The Big News Tomorrow, Konfabulator will enter its next phase of life. It's not a major new version, or a fancy new set of widgets. It's the beginning of something big. When you'll hear us say... "Excellent!" "Woot!" "Hooray!" "YAHOO!"
Email: 'The word 'email' or its variants such as 'e-mail' properly describes a system of communication electronically. It does not denote a message. So "I sent you an email" should more properly be "I sent you an email message." One sees this misuse very frequently in business correspondence and informal discussions. Its use reveals lazy thinking on the part of its users.
What, I'm suposed to call it an email message? An electronic mail message? say "I sent you a message using electronic mail? ".
Sounds like something he would complain about. The word email as a verb and a noun is quite acceptable, and has no correlation to what the speaker is thinking, but because he says so we are supposed to stop using it? Please. This guy needs a reality check, or at least stop being such a hippocrite. He is a nitpicker and nothing more. What makes the word Currently more valid than Presently? English is a language with many synonyms that have very subtle differences, but most of the time can be substituted, if for no other reason to make the language more interesting, and I see nothing overtly wrong with that.
Sorry, but this guy just pisses me off.
The company i work for recently banned a customer from getting a refund on anything. The directive came from head office. However, this customer was refunding everything he was purchasing, and would usally purchase a particular item once a week before returning it within a few days.
I was actually thinking about something like this a while ago, but with a car oil cooler instead. You could probably put that into your case.
Might even be useable, but im not sure if it would be effective enough.
site won't let you past a 'best viewed with IE' screen.
If a site does this to me, (i've only encountered one or two in the past) I dont bother to switch browsers, I simply leave the site. If a webmaster is too ignorant/lazy to at least make an attempt at a site viewable in all browsers, then odds are the content of the site is not worth seeing.
Not only can the company cease to exist, but the target address of the email itself may do so as well. People can often go through many email addresses in the time it takes a company to collapse.
I wonder if the mpaa will give these drives an 'equivalent' rating, like the article i read a while back on/.. Some authority did a raid on a piracy shop, and said there was equivalent to X burners found, when in reality they only found X/2 burners (or something), claiming 'some of them were fast'. Headline: MPAA raids piracy shop. equivalent of 20 dvd burners found.
"We only found 3 dvd burners, but they were blu-ray."
That is a possiblity, but to me this sounds like a good technology to put in a set top box, so that it can discard any (so-called) "witty banter", thus saving space.
This kind of thing is getting way out of hand.
I can see the advertisements for Law firms now....
Litigation: Your business model for the New Millenium!
I was hoping we finally had vacuum tubes grown on a chip. Besides building Eniac on a chip (but without the power bill and air conditioning problems) we could have every vacuum tube guitar amp ever made on a chip - just need a clean power amp after it.
As far as i know, the only advantage of vacuum tube audio amplifiers are that they create a smoother sound than a transistor based amp. What would be the point of this if you are simply going to run it through a transistor amp anyway?
And as for the ENIAC on a chip idea, I believe that this has already been done, in silicon.
For email, why don't we just use digital signatures. This way, you can veriy the sender. The signature need not be attached to an ip address, which means you preserve your anonymity.
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Actually, an even faster way specifically for terminal (The built in one) is cmd+left and cmd+right arrows.
So basically its 'Am I Hot or Not' for OSS.
Title: The Day Before The Big News
Tomorrow, Konfabulator will enter its next phase of life.
It's not a major new version, or a fancy new set of widgets.
It's the beginning of something big.
When you'll hear us say...
"Excellent!"
"Woot!"
"Hooray!"
"YAHOO!"
Website
Email: 'The word 'email' or its variants such as 'e-mail' properly describes a system of communication electronically. It does not denote a message. So "I sent you an email" should more properly be "I sent you an email message." One sees this misuse very frequently in business correspondence and informal discussions. Its use reveals lazy thinking on the part of its users.
What, I'm suposed to call it an email message? An electronic mail message? say "I sent you a message using electronic mail? ".
Sounds like something he would complain about. The word email as a verb and a noun is quite acceptable, and has no correlation to what the speaker is thinking, but because he says so we are supposed to stop using it? Please. This guy needs a reality check, or at least stop being such a hippocrite. He is a nitpicker and nothing more. What makes the word Currently more valid than Presently? English is a language with many synonyms that have very subtle differences, but most of the time can be substituted, if for no other reason to make the language more interesting, and I see nothing overtly wrong with that.
Sorry, but this guy just pisses me off.
trojans, worms, clippy...
Oh my!
The company i work for recently banned a customer from getting a refund on anything. The directive came from head office.
However, this customer was refunding everything he was purchasing, and would usally purchase a particular item once a week before returning it within a few days.
I was actually thinking about something like this a while ago, but with a car oil cooler instead. You could probably put that into your case.
Might even be useable, but im not sure if it would be effective enough.
site won't let you past a 'best viewed with IE' screen.
If a site does this to me, (i've only encountered one or two in the past) I dont bother to switch browsers, I simply leave the site. If a webmaster is too ignorant/lazy to at least make an attempt at a site viewable in all browsers, then odds are the content of the site is not worth seeing.
Not only can the company cease to exist, but the target address of the email itself may do so as well.
People can often go through many email addresses in the time it takes a company to collapse.
I wonder if the mpaa will give these drives an 'equivalent' rating, like the article i read a while back on /.. Some authority did a raid on a piracy shop, and said there was equivalent to X burners found, when in reality they only found X/2 burners (or something), claiming 'some of them were fast'.
Headline: MPAA raids piracy shop. equivalent of 20 dvd burners found.
"We only found 3 dvd burners, but they were blu-ray."
That is a possiblity, but to me this sounds like a good technology to put in a set top box, so that it can discard any (so-called) "witty banter", thus saving space.
What do you think they'll call Pen-pen?
Perhaps they can call it Tux....
This kind of thing is getting way out of hand.
I can see the advertisements for Law firms now....
Litigation: Your business model for the New Millenium!
I was hoping we finally had vacuum tubes grown on a chip. Besides building Eniac on a chip (but without the power bill and air conditioning problems) we could have every vacuum tube guitar amp ever made on a chip - just need a clean power amp after it.
As far as i know, the only advantage of vacuum tube audio amplifiers are that they create a smoother sound than a transistor based amp. What would be the point of this if you are simply going to run it through a transistor amp anyway?
And as for the ENIAC on a chip idea, I believe that this has already been done, in silicon.
Perhaps the Architect (played by Helmut Bakaitis) from the matrix 2 & 3 was inspired by Vinton Cerf
Or perhaps it is just a coincidence.
For email, why don't we just use digital signatures. This way, you can veriy the sender. The signature need not be attached to an ip address, which means you preserve your anonymity.
Yes, but sometimes we need facts, like roman numerals!
How else would we know when a movie was made?