Since when is it not?
Are we talking about the same language here?...what language do you think it's from?
Scenario is listed right along side scene, scenic, and scenery in my dictionary. It has no colloq identifier, so it's a real word, and they even provide the pluralisation - scenarios.
This isn't some abiguity or point of preference, it's just plain wrong.
The stupidest thing about it is that English hardly ever uses latin endings.
English is a Germanic language that has adopted a lot of French words in to its language. Around Shakespeare's time a bunch of people who thought they were smarter than everyone else started making up words by importing Latin and Greek words. Those people were usualy ridiculed to a certain extent, and the words were called "Inkpot words". However, I believe quite a few of them remain. (Shakespeare himself made up thousands of words, but mostly by combining existing words in a logical or lyrical way) In any case, most of the time when a Latin word has made its way into English, either directly or most commonly - via French, it ends up getting English (Germanic) endings. Particularly pluralisations - es being an evolution of the Old English - en
Whether or not you think that the plural of a computer virus is virii, there are thousands of doctors and chemists who will tell you in no uncertain terms that the plural of a biological virus is viruses.
The technical specs for the maximum operating temperature of the Athlon say 90 degrees. I looked it up when I was concerned about a Thunderbird Athlon running at a constant 60 - 70 degrees. Of course having a CPU running at that sort of temperature for any length of time starts to have a negative effect on the nearby components...
The XPs seem to be much cooler though...my 1700+ hardly ever reaches 40 even in the middle of an Australian summer. Of course the 1700+ is at the low end of the XP range, so it's possible that the faster XPs are quite a bit hotter...
None of those things are unique to NT and this has nothing to do with Microsoft at all.
Microsoft is just another OS vendor, they're not the first, they won't be the last. They're not the best, they're not the worst. But there's very few ideas introduced to any commonly used production operating system by any vendor in the last 20 years which was "innovative" when that vendor implemented it. Most concepts in OS design are pretty much understood, and it's just up to the vendor to choose which well known approach they take, and how they implement it.
Javascript is NOT java, so saying "Javascript is vulnerable, so Java must be" is pointless.
I'm not necesarily saying that java isn't a security hole, I'm just asking that if you're making the claim, then make sure the evidence you provide is relevant.
as for 2, what you said there applies to all media players. WMP, Quick Time, Real One, they all eat memory and processor cycles. Have you actually tried it? I don't think that you can claim that it will bog down the machine and be worthless until you try it yourself. I haven't tried it either, so I can't say that you're wrong, but there is nothing in your post that gives any real evidence as to why this codec is worthless. Speculation is not evidence.
Actually, all sensible people ignore charts completely except as a point of amusement, and listen to music based on what it sounds like, rather than how popular it is.
you know there were two types of responses I could have got to that.
There was the type in which someone provided the evidence I was asking for, and then there was the type that demonstrated the poster to be an angry 15 year old that needs to get out of their mother's house more often.
I received two replies, one of each type. Yours was not the former type.
I've seen a lot of people say that as if it were accepted fact, but I don't recall ever seeing any proof.
SCO license purchases don't count.
I realise that Microsoft can't be unhappy about SCO's actions, but surely they have more productive things they could spend money on than funding a competitor's doomed legal adventures...
Ok, read that. Didn't see where it said they were dropping Avalon.
I saw how they would be providing a cut down version for XP, and more _speculation_ that this might mean that the parts of Avalon not ported to XP might be dropped from Longhorn, but I saw no basis for that speculation.
I'll wait till I hear a microsoft announcement before I believe it. The Register has been right before, but that doesn't mean that I give them any more credence as a reliable source when all they have is speculation.
So where have microsoft said that they're dropping Avalon?
The Register speculates (as always), but Microsoft say Avalon is still in, but will also be available for XP. That's not dropping - however, it _is_ decoupling.
It's not compulsory voting..it's compulsory attendance - once you've turned up and got your name crossed off there's no requirement for you to actually fill out the ballot. And if you're that put out by going...it's only a $50 fine, it's not like it's a criminal offence or anything..
I believe compulsory attendance is intended as a natural progression of anonymous voting. Not only can people not bribe or intimidate you in to voting for a particular party, they also can't bribe or intimidate you in to not voting. (or at least not as easily)
All crime is artificial, and most of the implementations of the laws are flawed. That doesn't mean they're _not_ laws. Go ahead and practice civil disobediance if you wish, that's up to you, but don't pretend that copyright infringement is any less against the law than any other type of theft.
If obtaining something that is not rightfully yours (and no, it's NOT - a musicians music isn't yours to take any more than a sculptur's sculpture would be) is not stealing just because there isn't a tangible decrease in a inventory somewhere, then what is it? The only English word that comes close to fitting is Steal. Which, being a word that comes from Old English originated in a time when the only method of stealing involved physically removing. The world has moved on now, and there are ways of illegally obtaining something from someone without physically removing it.
Also, it is quite acceptable to use steal in the sense where the owner is deprived of something, but you don't actually gain it yourself (stealing someone's life for example) so why not the other way round?
The "it's not stealing/piracy it's copyright infringement", is a straw man argument that misses the point that no matter what you call it it _is_ illegal whether you think it should be or not.
Yup, and exactly the same thing with the previous generation.
A friend has a 1.2Ghz thunderbird Athlon that runs pretty much consistently at 60 degrees, no matter what you do, wheras my Athlon XP1700+ with stock heatsink barely ever crosses 40. We have the same case, and I've never bothered with case fans or hard drive fans...there's just the CPU fan....
But word's grammar checking is absolutely horrible. It's flat out wrong sometimes.
take "Its" vs "It's" for instance - I've had it tell me many times that my use of "it's" in the sense of a contraction of "It is" was wrong, and that I should use "its" instead.
> free() doesn't need that guard; it has one internally, specified by the ANSI89
Well, you learn something new every day:)
The other points were of course personal preference. Adding the {} works for me, leaving them out works for you, they're both valid so we're all happy:)
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Since when is it not?
Are we talking about the same language here?...what language do you think it's from?
Scenario is listed right along side scene, scenic, and scenery in my dictionary. It has no colloq identifier, so it's a real word, and they even provide the pluralisation - scenarios.
This isn't some abiguity or point of preference, it's just plain wrong.
The stupidest thing about it is that English hardly ever uses latin endings.
English is a Germanic language that has adopted a lot of French words in to its language.
Around Shakespeare's time a bunch of people who thought they were smarter than everyone else started making up words by importing Latin and Greek words. Those people were usualy ridiculed to a certain extent, and the words were called "Inkpot words". However, I believe quite a few of them remain. (Shakespeare himself made up thousands of words, but mostly by combining existing words in a logical or lyrical way)
In any case, most of the time when a Latin word has made its way into English, either directly or most commonly - via French, it ends up getting English (Germanic) endings. Particularly pluralisations - es being an evolution of the Old English - en
Viruses.
Whether or not you think that the plural of a computer virus is virii, there are thousands of doctors and chemists who will tell you in no uncertain terms that the plural of a biological virus is viruses.
hmmm....you haven't just read Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series have you?
The technical specs for the maximum operating temperature of the Athlon say 90 degrees. I looked it up when I was concerned about a Thunderbird Athlon running at a constant 60 - 70 degrees.
Of course having a CPU running at that sort of temperature for any length of time starts to have a negative effect on the nearby components...
The XPs seem to be much cooler though...my 1700+ hardly ever reaches 40 even in the middle of an Australian summer.
Of course the 1700+ is at the low end of the XP range, so it's possible that the faster XPs are quite a bit hotter...
what the hell is your point?
None of those things are unique to NT and this has nothing to do with Microsoft at all.
Microsoft is just another OS vendor, they're not the first, they won't be the last. They're not the best, they're not the worst.
But there's very few ideas introduced to any commonly used production operating system by any vendor in the last 20 years which was "innovative" when that vendor implemented it.
Most concepts in OS design are pretty much understood, and it's just up to the vendor to choose which well known approach they take, and how they implement it.
Ok, so where are the JVM exploits?
Javascript is NOT java, so saying "Javascript is vulnerable, so Java must be" is pointless.
I'm not necesarily saying that java isn't a security hole, I'm just asking that if you're making the claim, then make sure the evidence you provide is relevant.
as for 2, what you said there applies to all media players.
WMP, Quick Time, Real One, they all eat memory and processor cycles.
Have you actually tried it? I don't think that you can claim that it will bog down the machine and be worthless until you try it yourself.
I haven't tried it either, so I can't say that you're wrong, but there is nothing in your post that gives any real evidence as to why this codec is worthless. Speculation is not evidence.
then why didn't he go for Gentoo? surely that has an even greater bonus!
It died...that's what happened to it.
And then they fucked the corpse.
Actually, all sensible people ignore charts completely except as a point of amusement, and listen to music based on what it sounds like, rather than how popular it is.
you know there were two types of responses I could have got to that.
There was the type in which someone provided the evidence I was asking for, and then there was the type that demonstrated the poster to be an angry 15 year old that needs to get out of their mother's house more often.
I received two replies, one of each type. Yours was not the former type.
Evidence? Proof?
I've seen a lot of people say that as if it were accepted fact, but I don't recall ever seeing any proof.
SCO license purchases don't count.
I realise that Microsoft can't be unhappy about SCO's actions, but surely they have more productive things they could spend money on than funding a competitor's doomed legal adventures...
Ok, read that. Didn't see where it said they were dropping Avalon.
I saw how they would be providing a cut down version for XP, and more _speculation_ that this might mean that the parts of Avalon not ported to XP might be dropped from Longhorn, but I saw no basis for that speculation.
I'll wait till I hear a microsoft announcement before I believe it.
The Register has been right before, but that doesn't mean that I give them any more credence as a reliable source when all they have is speculation.
So where have microsoft said that they're dropping Avalon?
The Register speculates (as always), but Microsoft say Avalon is still in, but will also be available for XP. That's not dropping - however, it _is_ decoupling.
You mean like - "reports Technology Research News in 'Five photons linked.'"
and "adds PhysicsWeb in 'Entanglement breaks new record '."
How much credit do you want them to give?
And as a Kiwi I can say I have never heard it either so it's not our fault either!
Maybe it's a pommie saying?
It's not compulsory voting..it's compulsory attendance - once you've turned up and got your name crossed off there's no requirement for you to actually fill out the ballot. And if you're that put out by going...it's only a $50 fine, it's not like it's a criminal offence or anything..
I believe compulsory attendance is intended as a natural progression of anonymous voting.
Not only can people not bribe or intimidate you in to voting for a particular party, they also can't bribe or intimidate you in to not voting. (or at least not as easily)
All crime is artificial, and most of the implementations of the laws are flawed.
That doesn't mean they're _not_ laws.
Go ahead and practice civil disobediance if you wish, that's up to you, but don't pretend that copyright infringement is any less against the law than any other type of theft.
If obtaining something that is not rightfully yours (and no, it's NOT - a musicians music isn't yours to take any more than a sculptur's sculpture would be) is not stealing just because there isn't a tangible decrease in a inventory somewhere, then what is it?
The only English word that comes close to fitting is Steal. Which, being a word that comes from Old English originated in a time when the only method of stealing involved physically removing. The world has moved on now, and there are ways of illegally obtaining something from someone without physically removing it.
Also, it is quite acceptable to use steal in the sense where the owner is deprived of something, but you don't actually gain it yourself (stealing someone's life for example) so why not the other way round?
The "it's not stealing/piracy it's copyright infringement", is a straw man argument that misses the point that no matter what you call it it _is_ illegal whether you think it should be or not.
What about us 999, 111 and 000 people?
Yup, and exactly the same thing with the previous generation.
A friend has a 1.2Ghz thunderbird Athlon that runs pretty much consistently at 60 degrees, no matter what you do, wheras my Athlon XP1700+ with stock heatsink barely ever crosses 40. We have the same case, and I've never bothered with case fans or hard drive fans...there's just the CPU fan....
Actually, by saying 12cm == 5 inches, he's saying 12cm is equal to 5 inches.
If he had said 12cm = 5 inches, THEN he would have been saying 12cm is defined as 5 inches.
All the audio in Doom 3 sounds like it was recorded in a tin can with a $5 microphone and then encoded at about 8kbps.
It's the single most disapointing part of the game.
But word's grammar checking is absolutely horrible.
It's flat out wrong sometimes.
take "Its" vs "It's" for instance - I've had it tell me many times that my use of "it's" in the sense of a contraction of "It is" was wrong, and that I should use "its" instead.
> free() doesn't need that guard; it has one internally, specified by the ANSI89
:)
:)
Well, you learn something new every day
The other points were of course personal preference. Adding the {} works for me, leaving them out works for you, they're both valid so we're all happy
> Um - no. PIXAR killed ExLuna. They sued them into the ground.
what's your point here?, that's exactly what the article says....