American Independence and the fight against Proprietary Software are instances of ideology.
I think that I very clearly compared the people and their actions, not the ends they were trying to meet.
Not to mention that neither Michael Moore NOR George Washington have ever fought against Proprietary Software, so I would have to say that your comment is moot.
Like Michael Moore, or -- for a better example -- like the Founding Fathers! Didn't they realize that claiming independence instead of rationally, slowly, carefully, and diplomatically working for reform as a colony would cause the deaths of so many people? How immature of George Washington!
This sounds like a regurgitation of Jean Piaget. There are a few things wrong with this. First of all, these scientists don't know anything about linguistics or they wouldn't confuse phonotactics and phonology. Phonotactics is the academic study of phonological combinatory rules.
A more in-vogue theory was expressed by Noam Chomsky in the 1970s asserting the existence of a LAD (language acquisition device), a certain type of biological programming that causes children to acquire a language. Notice the word 'acquire,' in opposition to the word 'learn'. Language learning is what you do in middle school, and it's a lot harder; at that point, according to the theory, the language acquisition device has been for the most part deactivated.
This explains quite a few things, such as why certain feral children are absolutely unable to acquire a language and use it the way other neurologically normal human beings do, and why learning a second language is so much more difficult than 'learning' a first (you'll not this is not the same with things like operating systems or other topics of study) -- because the first was not learned. This also explains why, after the first non-native language is learned, language learning becomes progressively easier, as one would expect.
I suggest, for those interested, the following books, in order of preference:
Since when are law and politics not geek subjects? The Geek code includes a code for Jurisprudence. In addition, many political things have a lot to do with technology, par exemple, DMCA and Check 21, not to mention export laws that would basically outlaw Pentium 4s outside the U.S. without a specific munitions export license.
Interestingly enough, I think Michigan (where I live) will go to Kerry. You can basically split our state into three to four sections, politically: Southeast Michigan (Detroit Metro Area), with many minorities, usually votes Democrat; Southwest Michigan with its huge Dutch Reformed Christian population usually votes Republican; and Northern Lower Michigan and the Upper Penninsula usually votes Republican out of spite to the naive Detroitian urbanites who try to develop our land into hugeass ugly condos.
However, Bush has been really bad about conservation, so northern Michigan is leaning more Democrat this election year. So Bush paid a visit to Traverse City (near Interlochen, if any of you are aware of the Arts Academy where a good chunk of musicians, including Jewel and seventeen members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, attended), trying to shore up votes. However, a few teachers were arrested for protesting, and we are very respectful of teachers here. Some of the most adamant Bush-supporters in 2000 (because of Gore's gun laws) were trash talking him last time I was visiting home, up north (I go to school in Kalamazoo). So I think that we will probably vote Democrat as a whole this year.
You know, I'm really sick of this attitude on Slashdot and in the world at large about Unix-like operating systems.
There seems to be this asenine conformity to the "You guys are so elitist, it should be easy for me" idea. This is genuinely stupid. Elitism doesn't come from being knowledgeable in a field, elitism is when you claim superiority to others. Elitism is when you insult others for being who they are. The users of Unix and Unix-like operating systems ARE computer experts and enthusiasts. Deal with it. You can join their ranks, or you can shut the fuck up. Nobody likes a whiny little Republican complaining to his skydiving instructor that he doesn't think he can do it by himself because the caviar is giving him a stomach ache, and begging for yet another tandem jump. Dive in and get messy, or go back to your silver-spoon-fed Windows world.
The Allies would have won without them? The Allies consisted of the Brits and the Americans. The French were the only people on the Continent to have any sort of organized Resistance movement. It was because of the French counterintelligence that the Allies were able to land at Normandy which is (gasp) in France.
You really should check your facts before commenting.
I struggled really hard with the choice to reply to your post or to use my mod points on this article.
If your company refuses to hire people who refer to C/C++, then your company must not know what C++ is. If it did, it would a) Know that C++ is essentially a superset of C and therefore it is intelligent to make statements that apply to the dual entity referred to generally as "C/C++"; and b) You would have some kind of concept of class inclusion, and be able to understand that C and C++ are part of the same 'language family' -- it is therefore just as allowable to talk about C/C++ as it is to talk about 'Germanic' or 'Slavic' or 'Romance' or even 'Indo-European'.
Such an overgeneralizing, bigoted, and asenine criterion is beyond all stupidity.
It's not a double-standard. It's applying copyright law the way it was meant to. Britney doesn't write her own songs. She's just a performer. The RIAA doesn't write them either. Last I knew, natural talent (let's not go off on this tangent, ok?) isn't an intellectual exercise. There are some pretty damn smart people who can't sing, and some fscking stupid ones who can. Music isn't intellectual property unless you're the musical genius who knows how to compose and score complicated works.
Programming on the other hand definitely requires a certain amount of cognitive exercise.
If the dictionary defines it as 'x' and his statement runs contrary to that, then wouldn't he technically be incorrect...
Often a general name -- which refers to members of both sexes -- is the same as the name of one sex. For example, the race of man also includes women. This includes things other than animal species as well. We certainly would have no problem referring to "a group of 20 actors, 5 of whom were female" -- English doesn't necessitate that you specify "15 actors and 5 actresses".
The original response was funny, and used word play -- a specific definition of the word renders the phrase oxymoronic. But it certainly doesn't warrant this discussion, in particular the asenine assertion that cows are only female.
Standards are agreements on best practices. They are not there to dictate what happens. Sometimes they are innovative, but seriously. Why do you think C89 was wildly popular but C99 is only sort of supported on some compilers?
First, I object to your negative connotation of "lawbreaker" as though all lawbreakers need punishment. This is equivalent to saying all laws are good, which is self-contradictory. There is a law in Massachusetts that says no one may DENY marriage to same sex couples, while there is a law in Wyoming that no one may ALLOW marriage to same sex couples. Obviously not all laws can be good.
Second, laws are attempts to specify unequivocably certain parts of morality, which -- by its nature -- is relative. This is a flawed design from the very beginning. Everyone knows that "eye for an eye" and "tooth for a tooth" don't work. The Law (meaning the enforcers thereof) know this, know that what they do has no benefit to society, know that punished criminals are more likely to commit crimes again. You know this too, whether you like to admit it or not. Otherwise, a previous criminal record wouldn't count as circumstantial evidence against a suspect (not officially but if an accused person has a criminal record you know goddamn well the jury's going to be more inclined to convict him).
I must admit I've bought quite a bit of FUD about how 5.x sucks and so on, but that fear has been somewhat mitigated by learning that the early 4.x series sucked pretty bad too, and 4.x now has a reputation for being one of the best FreeBSD series ever. I'm interested to see where this will go.
I've done a few searches on the USPTO website but their search engine is throwing fits and I can't find it.
Prevented from independent research into the topic, we the people must trust the news (this scares me to no end).
The news, apparently, only knows that the patent applies to "asking for help".
The Java runtime is just virtual machine and some base classes. So which is it, the virtual machine or the base classes? Either way a HUGE segment of the industry is affected. C++ has base classes. Everything has base classes or base libraries. And virtual machines have been around forever. Do you think they'll sue Intel too for emulating ia32 on ia64? Maybe IBM for its multiple-machines-on-a-server thing (is that the eServer?).
I hereby condemn the judge, if not for making a piss-poor decision, then for not giving any information to the press. The People have a right to know.
Yahoo's search results aren't that much different than Google's in the top ten.
No company can create something and just sit on it and remain in a market position. If MS couldn't parlay its success with MS-DOS into its success with Windows 95 into its success with IE and 98 and XP...
Yeah. Nobody would still be using MS-DOS today. They'd all be using Linux or BSD or something.
I live in Michigan. We're basically two states tied together. I'm not talking about the two penninsulas, I'm talking about the Detroit Metro Area vs. everyone else.
If a candidate wins Detroit, they win all of Michigan.
And uh. By the way. That's not a noun phrase. You cannot apply an adjective (like "rebellious") to it. Not to mention that the RIAA is hardly an anti-fascist resistence movement. It is in itself a tyrant.
We're not talking about moments of silence for every death. That's not possible. It just isn't.
What we're talking about is NOT joking about deaths of others.
There's a difference between the deaths in Iraq not being the focus of every waking moment and our Dear President joking about WMDs not being found and making light of the whole situation.
Shameless plug: Vote for a man with a conscience. Vote for Kerry.
Kenneth Cole Reaction wallet, bi-fold. Flap on the left with three card slots on front, slot w/ window on the back (so I can do that cool flip-open-ID-showing thing), attached to one the left side of the inner part of the actual billfold itself. Also attached to the inner part are two sets of four horizontal slots for cards, one on the left and one on the right. There are two slots behind these, one behind each set of four.
Except the thread is black (what the hell is up with that white? gross).
The actual billfold holds mostly receipts and bankslips, as I rarely carry cash. Other contents: Mini-diploma from HS, drivers license, two bank/debit cards, student advantage card, library card, Democratic National Committee card, and another membership card I'd rather not name. Also, a business card for a member of my honors thesis committee. Also, on occasion, the phone number of a prospective date.
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What do you define as Communism?
Certainly it has nothing to do with the desire to "provide for the common welfare."
</sarcasm>
American Independence and the fight against Proprietary Software are instances of ideology.
I think that I very clearly compared the people and their actions, not the ends they were trying to meet.
Not to mention that neither Michael Moore NOR George Washington have ever fought against Proprietary Software, so I would have to say that your comment is moot.
Like Michael Moore, or -- for a better example -- like the Founding Fathers! Didn't they realize that claiming independence instead of rationally, slowly, carefully, and diplomatically working for reform as a colony would cause the deaths of so many people? How immature of George Washington!
</sarcasm>
A more in-vogue theory was expressed by Noam Chomsky in the 1970s asserting the existence of a LAD (language acquisition device), a certain type of biological programming that causes children to acquire a language. Notice the word 'acquire,' in opposition to the word 'learn'. Language learning is what you do in middle school, and it's a lot harder; at that point, according to the theory, the language acquisition device has been for the most part deactivated.
This explains quite a few things, such as why certain feral children are absolutely unable to acquire a language and use it the way other neurologically normal human beings do, and why learning a second language is so much more difficult than 'learning' a first (you'll not this is not the same with things like operating systems or other topics of study) -- because the first was not learned. This also explains why, after the first non-native language is learned, language learning becomes progressively easier, as one would expect.
I suggest, for those interested, the following books, in order of preference:
Or, for a more broad view of linguistics as a whole (again in order of preference):
Since when are law and politics not geek subjects? The Geek code includes a code for Jurisprudence. In addition, many political things have a lot to do with technology, par exemple, DMCA and Check 21, not to mention export laws that would basically outlaw Pentium 4s outside the U.S. without a specific munitions export license.
Interestingly enough, I think Michigan (where I live) will go to Kerry. You can basically split our state into three to four sections, politically: Southeast Michigan (Detroit Metro Area), with many minorities, usually votes Democrat; Southwest Michigan with its huge Dutch Reformed Christian population usually votes Republican; and Northern Lower Michigan and the Upper Penninsula usually votes Republican out of spite to the naive Detroitian urbanites who try to develop our land into hugeass ugly condos.
However, Bush has been really bad about conservation, so northern Michigan is leaning more Democrat this election year. So Bush paid a visit to Traverse City (near Interlochen, if any of you are aware of the Arts Academy where a good chunk of musicians, including Jewel and seventeen members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, attended), trying to shore up votes. However, a few teachers were arrested for protesting, and we are very respectful of teachers here. Some of the most adamant Bush-supporters in 2000 (because of Gore's gun laws) were trash talking him last time I was visiting home, up north (I go to school in Kalamazoo). So I think that we will probably vote Democrat as a whole this year.
Note though that this is all anecdotal.
You know, I'm really sick of this attitude on Slashdot and in the world at large about Unix-like operating systems.
There seems to be this asenine conformity to the "You guys are so elitist, it should be easy for me" idea. This is genuinely stupid. Elitism doesn't come from being knowledgeable in a field, elitism is when you claim superiority to others. Elitism is when you insult others for being who they are. The users of Unix and Unix-like operating systems ARE computer experts and enthusiasts. Deal with it. You can join their ranks, or you can shut the fuck up. Nobody likes a whiny little Republican complaining to his skydiving instructor that he doesn't think he can do it by himself because the caviar is giving him a stomach ache, and begging for yet another tandem jump. Dive in and get messy, or go back to your silver-spoon-fed Windows world.
Suck my fscking c**k, pussy boy.
The Allies would have won without them? The Allies consisted of the Brits and the Americans. The French were the only people on the Continent to have any sort of organized Resistance movement. It was because of the French counterintelligence that the Allies were able to land at Normandy which is (gasp) in France.
You really should check your facts before commenting.
I struggled really hard with the choice to reply to your post or to use my mod points on this article.
If your company refuses to hire people who refer to C/C++, then your company must not know what C++ is. If it did, it would a) Know that C++ is essentially a superset of C and therefore it is intelligent to make statements that apply to the dual entity referred to generally as "C/C++"; and b) You would have some kind of concept of class inclusion, and be able to understand that C and C++ are part of the same 'language family' -- it is therefore just as allowable to talk about C/C++ as it is to talk about 'Germanic' or 'Slavic' or 'Romance' or even 'Indo-European'.
Such an overgeneralizing, bigoted, and asenine criterion is beyond all stupidity.
FreeBSD 5.x offers you wonderful tools such as the following: ls, cat, man, make, gcc, sed, vi, and many many more.
In Soviet Russia, you are served to hot grits for free with their scrambled eggs and mjasa.
It's not a double-standard. It's applying copyright law the way it was meant to. Britney doesn't write her own songs. She's just a performer. The RIAA doesn't write them either. Last I knew, natural talent (let's not go off on this tangent, ok?) isn't an intellectual exercise. There are some pretty damn smart people who can't sing, and some fscking stupid ones who can. Music isn't intellectual property unless you're the musical genius who knows how to compose and score complicated works.
Programming on the other hand definitely requires a certain amount of cognitive exercise.
If the dictionary defines it as 'x' and his statement runs contrary to that, then wouldn't he technically be incorrect...
Often a general name -- which refers to members of both sexes -- is the same as the name of one sex. For example, the race of man also includes women. This includes things other than animal species as well. We certainly would have no problem referring to "a group of 20 actors, 5 of whom were female" -- English doesn't necessitate that you specify "15 actors and 5 actresses".
The original response was funny, and used word play -- a specific definition of the word renders the phrase oxymoronic. But it certainly doesn't warrant this discussion, in particular the asenine assertion that cows are only female.
That's not how standards work.
Standards are agreements on best practices. They are not there to dictate what happens. Sometimes they are innovative, but seriously. Why do you think C89 was wildly popular but C99 is only sort of supported on some compilers?
"a reason not to punish another lawbreaker..."
First, I object to your negative connotation of "lawbreaker" as though all lawbreakers need punishment. This is equivalent to saying all laws are good, which is self-contradictory. There is a law in Massachusetts that says no one may DENY marriage to same sex couples, while there is a law in Wyoming that no one may ALLOW marriage to same sex couples. Obviously not all laws can be good.
Second, laws are attempts to specify unequivocably certain parts of morality, which -- by its nature -- is relative. This is a flawed design from the very beginning. Everyone knows that "eye for an eye" and "tooth for a tooth" don't work. The Law (meaning the enforcers thereof) know this, know that what they do has no benefit to society, know that punished criminals are more likely to commit crimes again. You know this too, whether you like to admit it or not. Otherwise, a previous criminal record wouldn't count as circumstantial evidence against a suspect (not officially but if an accused person has a criminal record you know goddamn well the jury's going to be more inclined to convict him).
I must admit I've bought quite a bit of FUD about how 5.x sucks and so on, but that fear has been somewhat mitigated by learning that the early 4.x series sucked pretty bad too, and 4.x now has a reputation for being one of the best FreeBSD series ever. I'm interested to see where this will go.
I've done a few searches on the USPTO website but their search engine is throwing fits and I can't find it.
Prevented from independent research into the topic, we the people must trust the news (this scares me to no end).
The news, apparently, only knows that the patent applies to "asking for help".
The Java runtime is just virtual machine and some base classes. So which is it, the virtual machine or the base classes? Either way a HUGE segment of the industry is affected. C++ has base classes. Everything has base classes or base libraries. And virtual machines have been around forever. Do you think they'll sue Intel too for emulating ia32 on ia64? Maybe IBM for its multiple-machines-on-a-server thing (is that the eServer?).
I hereby condemn the judge, if not for making a piss-poor decision, then for not giving any information to the press. The People have a right to know.
Hail the Philosopher King!
Yahoo's search results aren't that much different than Google's in the top ten.
No company can create something and just sit on it and remain in a market position. If MS couldn't parlay its success with MS-DOS into its success with Windows 95 into its success with IE and 98 and XP...
Yeah. Nobody would still be using MS-DOS today. They'd all be using Linux or BSD or something.
So Google does need talent to stay competitive.
Actually, this is the case already.
I live in Michigan. We're basically two states tied together. I'm not talking about the two penninsulas, I'm talking about the Detroit Metro Area vs. everyone else.
If a candidate wins Detroit, they win all of Michigan.
Woah woah woah.
I seem to be a grammar nazi?
I was responding to SOMEONE ELSE'S criticism of the grammar of the original poster. I didn't say anything about anyone's grammar being wrong.
Don't be a troll.
Pardon me, 1790. I apologize.
Vive la Résistance.
And uh. By the way. That's not a noun phrase. You cannot apply an adjective (like "rebellious") to it. Not to mention that the RIAA is hardly an anti-fascist resistence movement. It is in itself a tyrant.
If I had mod points you would get an "overrated"
We're not talking about moments of silence for every death. That's not possible. It just isn't.
What we're talking about is NOT joking about deaths of others.
There's a difference between the deaths in Iraq not being the focus of every waking moment and our Dear President joking about WMDs not being found and making light of the whole situation.
Shameless plug: Vote for a man with a conscience. Vote for Kerry.
Kenneth Cole Reaction wallet, bi-fold. Flap on the left with three card slots on front, slot w/ window on the back (so I can do that cool flip-open-ID-showing thing), attached to one the left side of the inner part of the actual billfold itself. Also attached to the inner part are two sets of four horizontal slots for cards, one on the left and one on the right. There are two slots behind these, one behind each set of four.
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Except the thread is black (what the hell is up with that white? gross).
The actual billfold holds mostly receipts and bankslips, as I rarely carry cash. Other contents: Mini-diploma from HS, drivers license, two bank/debit cards, student advantage card, library card, Democratic National Committee card, and another membership card I'd rather not name. Also, a business card for a member of my honors thesis committee. Also, on occasion, the phone number of a prospective date.
Ugh. Gentoo zealots.
Tell me, have they fixed the whole no-comments-in-the-Apache-configuration-files annoyance yet, after several years of people filing it as a bug?