Yes, that's most likely a direct translation out of Japanese. The original would be something like "-wa Nihongo desu". ( stands for the Japanese word for "article", which I'm too lazy to look up.)
Voters put the Republican congressional majority and a multitude of new voting equipment to the test Tuesday in an election that defined the balance of power for the rest of George W. Bush's presidency. Both parties hustled to get their supporters out in high-stakes contests across the country, Democrats appealing one more time for change, and appearing confident the mood was on their side. Republicans conceded nothing as their vaunted get-out-the-vote machine swung into motion.
Does anyone else find the traditional past-tense style inherited from newspaper reporting to be really odd when used in online journalism to describe current events? These things are still going on, right now! Isn't it time the media developed a writing style that recognized that news can now be reported in "print" as it occurs, rather than well after the fact?
It's past time for/. to warn us when a link goes to a video. The last thing I want is to preload a page in a background tab and suddenly have loud music inexplicably start blaring at me. If pdfs deserve warnings, videos deserve far stronger ones.
Regarding asking users of a fresh install what browser to use:
The funny thing about your question is that in some ways, users are about two clicks from this scenario every time they run Windows XP: from the Start menu, select Set Program Access and Defaults. And it's not limited to the browsers you list, but any browser that they can download.
To answer your core question: I don't know how people would answer that question. I think we've asked users far simpler ones (like setup programs that ask "Do you want a typical or custom software installation?") that have proven frustrating to them.
Anyone who thinks Start->Set Program Access and Defaults is an intuitive way to choose a browser is nuts.
Anyone who thinks "Do you want a typical or custom software installation?" is "far simpler" than "What browser would you like to use?" is even more nuts.
No wonder Microsoft can't make decent software if this is the sort of person they have making interface decisions.
If they had any real social conscience, they'd just shut down the moment the government tried to regulate their results. Submitting to regulation only encourages more regulation.
In a very technical sense, he's right (as is Wikipedia). To a linguist, a tense is a "marked form", i.e. something produced by conjugation, not by adding auxiliary words. French, e.g., has "je parlai"/"je parlais"/"je parlerai" for "I spoke"/"I speak"/"I will speak"--"parlerai" is a true future-tense form of "parler" ("to speak"). To the average person though, the distinction is irrelevant.
Never argue semantics with a pedant; it wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
Christ, I didn't even see that. You're right though, it's truly pathetic. Unfortunately, stupid people have been calling it the Apple key ever since they put an open-Apple symbol on it back when they put Apple II compatibility cards in Mac LCs. This even extends to Apple tech support, who will happily tell you, e.g., to use "apple option o f" to enter Open Firmware. I suppose there's an argument to be made that "Apple key" is self explanatory. However, I prefer the argument that anyone who doesn't know what "command key" means is just a Mac poseur and should be cluesticked repeatedly by someone yelling "Traitorous pig!"
Ah, altruism. Charity doesn't count if it goes to someone you actually know something about and want to help--it must go to complete strangers so as to eliminate any remote possibility of your benefitting from giving it. What a way to live.
The man is completely wrong about gadgets' being on the desktop being inferior to Dashboard's widgets--given the context. If he'd ever interacted with Windows users, he'd know that they love shit on their desktops. The stupid ones have Bonsai Buddy, the smarter ones have Konfabulator Yahoo! Widgets, the power users have, I dunno, hand-crafted Yahoo! Widgets, or a rootless X layer and some K widgets running in cygwin or something. Clean desktops are a Mac thing.
Mac OS X users can now use the apple-tab key combo to move through open applications just as quickly as Windows users.
Whaddaya mean, "now"? To quote someone's sig, if I yell "Frog blast the vent core!", is Ken going to duck and cover, or will it be a whole cow-oncoming train thing? I'm strongly betting on the latter. We've had command- (and yes, it's "command", dammit, not "apple") tab since, what, System 8? The people who pass for Mac fans these days....
The real story here is that the Porkbusters group of bloggers are the people who kept this issue visible enough to get it passed over the efforts of Ted "series of tubes" Stevens and Robert "reformed Klansman" Byrd. I'd have thought/. would want to highlight the blogs' contribution to this event.
The weirdest thing is, it didn't even get hot this summer! I mean seriously, it was in the high sixties in the mornings by the end of August here in NYC! The past three weeks have been about fifteen degrees cooler than normal, and everyone still bitches and moans about t3h warming and t3h flooding and t3h hurting and t3h GLAVEN! Sorry, channelling Frink for a sec there. Anyway, it's all crap. Go read Fallen Angels and relax for a change.
But, when you constantly lie, and lie, and lie, what is the logical result of that?
What exactly is it Bush is supposed to have lied about? You are aware, I hope, that the original "Bush lie", the Nigerian uranium, turned out to be 100% true.
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Someone give you a thesaurus recently?
Yes, that's most likely a direct translation out of Japanese. The original would be something like "-wa Nihongo desu". ( stands for the Japanese word for "article", which I'm too lazy to look up.)
Does anyone else find the traditional past-tense style inherited from newspaper reporting to be really odd when used in online journalism to describe current events? These things are still going on, right now! Isn't it time the media developed a writing style that recognized that news can now be reported in "print" as it occurs, rather than well after the fact?
Baghdad Bob is alive and well and living in China!
Baghdad Bob is alive and well and living in China!
It's past time for /. to warn us when a link goes to a video. The last thing I want is to preload a page in a background tab and suddenly have loud music inexplicably start blaring at me. If pdfs deserve warnings, videos deserve far stronger ones.
Regarding asking users of a fresh install what browser to use:
Anyone who thinks Start->Set Program Access and Defaults is an intuitive way to choose a browser is nuts.
Anyone who thinks "Do you want a typical or custom software installation?" is "far simpler" than "What browser would you like to use?" is even more nuts.
No wonder Microsoft can't make decent software if this is the sort of person they have making interface decisions.
Two words: liberals cheat.
If they had any real social conscience, they'd just shut down the moment the government tried to regulate their results. Submitting to regulation only encourages more regulation.
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In a very technical sense, he's right (as is Wikipedia). To a linguist, a tense is a "marked form", i.e. something produced by conjugation, not by adding auxiliary words. French, e.g., has "je parlai"/"je parlais"/"je parlerai" for "I spoke"/"I speak"/"I will speak"--"parlerai" is a true future-tense form of "parler" ("to speak"). To the average person though, the distinction is irrelevant.
Never argue semantics with a pedant; it wastes your time and annoys the pedant.
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English has a future tense for a reason. Please learn to use it.
Christ, I didn't even see that. You're right though, it's truly pathetic. Unfortunately, stupid people have been calling it the Apple key ever since they put an open-Apple symbol on it back when they put Apple II compatibility cards in Mac LCs. This even extends to Apple tech support, who will happily tell you, e.g., to use "apple option o f" to enter Open Firmware. I suppose there's an argument to be made that "Apple key" is self explanatory. However, I prefer the argument that anyone who doesn't know what "command key" means is just a Mac poseur and should be cluesticked repeatedly by someone yelling "Traitorous pig!"
Three funnies and counting....
Are you even trying anymore?
OK, I know enough Hebrew to spot "let there be light", but I'm in the dark (so to speak) about the Chuck Norris part. Care to explain?
Ah, altruism. Charity doesn't count if it goes to someone you actually know something about and want to help--it must go to complete strangers so as to eliminate any remote possibility of your benefitting from giving it. What a way to live.
Someone explain the dept tag? Who or what is "Kari"?
I have none at all. If I want the root, I use cmd-shift-c. If I want anything else, I used Quicksilver.
The man is completely wrong about gadgets' being on the desktop being inferior to Dashboard's widgets--given the context. If he'd ever interacted with Windows users, he'd know that they love shit on their desktops. The stupid ones have Bonsai Buddy, the smarter ones have Konfabulator Yahoo! Widgets, the power users have, I dunno, hand-crafted Yahoo! Widgets, or a rootless X layer and some K widgets running in cygwin or something. Clean desktops are a Mac thing.
Whaddaya mean, "now"? To quote someone's sig, if I yell "Frog blast the vent core!", is Ken going to duck and cover, or will it be a whole cow-oncoming train thing? I'm strongly betting on the latter. We've had command- (and yes, it's "command", dammit, not "apple") tab since, what, System 8? The people who pass for Mac fans these days....
The real story here is that the Porkbusters group of bloggers are the people who kept this issue visible enough to get it passed over the efforts of Ted "series of tubes" Stevens and Robert "reformed Klansman" Byrd. I'd have thought /. would want to highlight the blogs' contribution to this event.
The weirdest thing is, it didn't even get hot this summer! I mean seriously, it was in the high sixties in the mornings by the end of August here in NYC! The past three weeks have been about fifteen degrees cooler than normal, and everyone still bitches and moans about t3h warming and t3h flooding and t3h hurting and t3h GLAVEN! Sorry, channelling Frink for a sec there. Anyway, it's all crap. Go read Fallen Angels and relax for a change.
What exactly is it Bush is supposed to have lied about? You are aware, I hope, that the original "Bush lie", the Nigerian uranium, turned out to be 100% true.