It's a bit annoying that they are interspersed with all the other stories. How about putting them all together under an "other stories" section at the bottom?
The problem identified here is not that grammar and spelling is wrong, but that what is seen on the internet is many people with different levels of and competencies in the English language. This of course is not a problem, it's a fact of life.
Why? A variety of reasons.
Only a very small subset of people are "perfect" at languages.
The rules of one language are not fixed, the are many regional variations within a single country never mind across different countries.
The incidence of low quality spelling is high among technical people. The English code breakers at Bletchley park in the 1940s were reportedly awful. This shouldn't be a surprise as Tech is a male dominated area whereas Females are generally best on languages.
Then of course are the people who are partially or completely dyslexic, this runs in my family and probably explains why my spelling is so bad, I simply cannot see many errors.
The rules of a language are not fixed, they are constantly in flux. If everyone uses "Should of" it doesn't matter if it is wrong, it will eventually become correct because that's the way the rules are made.
Q: which of these words are wrong?
Color, Colour, Analog, Analogue, y'all, youse, yonder.
A: It depends where you live as to how well you know them but they are all valid English words.
--
Now add in non-native English speakers - i.e. the majority of people on-line...
Not only slashdotted, it gave me debug output! Unfortunately the slashdot server is taking sides and not letting me post it due to the lameness filter so I had to make this line longer.
Now, feel free to figure out what's wrong with thier SQL:
I live in France but not speaking French I answer the phone in English - works almost every time! I figure that it could work in reverse in other countries, answer in French in the US and that'll totally confuse any spa^^^telemarketeer.
Of course there could be the odd person who speaks French in which case answering in Dutch will work even better.
Goed middag, hoe gaat het?
But of course if all else fails you can totally confuse them (and get extra geek points) if you speak to them in Klingon:
Quite a few years ago a friend went on holiday, when they returned a big chunk of the front of their house had burned down.
Turns out my friend had a dodgy power extension below his Hi-Fi and it had started a fire.
For some reason I managed to get his Hi-Fi to see if I could pull anything useful out of it. I had already dismantled the Amp but I wondered if the tape deck would work.
Amazingly despite being partially melted and inside and out coated with carbon it did actually work - and did so for many years there after. A bit smelly though...
They count security patches from MS as 1 when they were actually patching 14 vulnerabilities. They also didn't include the vulnerabilities in IE - which alone had nearly as many as OS X.
Their conclusion would be very different if they actually knew how to count.
It is nothing more than FUD dressed up as research.
Yes and No, yes the Cell processors are going to be shockingly fast (especially when set up for stream processing) but they are vector cores (8 per Cell), not general purpose CPUs.
You're not gong to run an OS on a Cell, it's not designed for it.
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It's a bit annoying that they are interspersed with all the other stories.
How about putting them all together under an "other stories" section at the bottom?
These are not the copyright violations you are looking for.
Don't ask me, I know nothing.
The problem identified here is not that grammar and spelling is wrong, but that what is seen on the internet is many people with different levels of and competencies in the English language. This of course is not a problem, it's a fact of life. Why? A variety of reasons. Only a very small subset of people are "perfect" at languages. The rules of one language are not fixed, the are many regional variations within a single country never mind across different countries. The incidence of low quality spelling is high among technical people. The English code breakers at Bletchley park in the 1940s were reportedly awful. This shouldn't be a surprise as Tech is a male dominated area whereas Females are generally best on languages. Then of course are the people who are partially or completely dyslexic, this runs in my family and probably explains why my spelling is so bad, I simply cannot see many errors. The rules of a language are not fixed, they are constantly in flux. If everyone uses "Should of" it doesn't matter if it is wrong, it will eventually become correct because that's the way the rules are made. Q: which of these words are wrong? Color, Colour, Analog, Analogue, y'all, youse, yonder. A: It depends where you live as to how well you know them but they are all valid English words. -- Now add in non-native English speakers - i.e. the majority of people on-line...
They spend months arguing to get one then 2 turn up at once!
They'll be putting software on CDs next!
>so i can see that authors thought this artice was soo
>important that they posted it two times..
The author did not post it to Slashdot either time.
He did however wonder WTF was happening to his web stats...
>BTW: Any idea how good the UAE port for OSX is these days?
Not as fast as the Windows version but it's under active development so it's getting there.
http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/
Funny when ET or space research in general is mentioned there's always people who appear that want the resources put elsewhere.
What is is about this subject which brings out such people?
The day ETs are detected will be the most important day in human history.
Why should we move the already scant resources which go into SETI to other much better funded research?
Protien folders got their own government funded $300 million purpose built computer, SETI didn't.
NASA may get good resources but a lot of their research goes back to industry and often brings tangible benifits to the public at large.
So, you do understand evolution of advanced extraterrestrial civilations?
Could you tell us how you got this understanding...
Guess you've never heard of Jay Miner then.
Did the Atari 2600 chip, dreamed up the Amiga and personally designed the Agnus chip.
Probably rather different today though...
Fried nuts anyone?
and we aint talking Pistachios here!
And the microphone records...
"Bloody tourists! Can't we get any peace!"
/ducks
No really, there's a volcano about to blow up...
Locusts are causing big problems in Africa right now, then there's SARS, Bird Flu...
I think the situaton can best be summed up by the following phrase: "Oh Shit!"
Not only slashdotted, it gave me debug output! Unfortunately the slashdot server is taking sides and not letting me post it due to the lameness filter so I had to make this line longer.
Now, feel free to figure out what's wrong with thier SQL:
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Halted.
Dearest Friends,
You think you could get rid of me so easily?
You think a little thing like death would put me down?
Oh no,
I'M BACK !
Mauuhahahahahaha
Get the full shimmy here.
I live in France but not speaking French I answer the phone in English - works almost every time!
I figure that it could work in reverse in other countries, answer in French in the US and that'll totally confuse any spa^^^telemarketeer.
Of course there could be the odd person who speaks French in which case answering in Dutch will work even better.
Goed middag, hoe gaat het?
But of course if all else fails you can totally confuse them (and get extra geek points) if you speak to them in Klingon:
SoH DichDaq Hegh!
Quite a few years ago a friend went on holiday, when they returned a big chunk of the front of their house had burned down.
Turns out my friend had a dodgy power extension below his Hi-Fi and it had started a fire.
For some reason I managed to get his Hi-Fi to see if I could pull anything useful out of it. I had already dismantled the Amp but I wondered if the tape deck would work.
Amazingly despite being partially melted and inside and out coated with carbon it did actually work - and did so for many years there after. A bit smelly though...
This came up on OSNews a while back.
They count security patches from MS as 1 when they were actually patching 14 vulnerabilities.
They also didn't include the vulnerabilities in IE - which alone had nearly as many as OS X.
Their conclusion would be very different if they actually knew how to count.
It is nothing more than FUD dressed up as research.
Darth Vader was in neither The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones and they were both...
Hmm, good point.
Marketing, that is what it's generally called.
Spock: It is illogical, I know of no force in nature which can be so powerful.
Bones: I'm a doctor not a computer geek dammit.
Kirk: Then there is nothing else for it. We have to ...surrender!
later...
The new beings beam abord, they look remarkably human (this is Star Trek), wear jeans and T-Shirts, smell and have long hair in ponytails.
Kirk: Oh my God.
Spock: We welcome our new Slashdot reading overlords.
Yes and No, yes the Cell processors are going to be shockingly fast (especially when set up for stream processing) but they are vector cores (8 per Cell), not general purpose CPUs. You're not gong to run an OS on a Cell, it's not designed for it.