What would you have him do? Using him/her all the time is incredibly awkward and is in itself considered bad English. The established "solution" is make it all plural--but he's talking about a single person. The only other rule that exists is use masculine. But guess what? That's considered sexist. Yes, we need a new pronoun, but what could we use? How likely is it that a word can be invented out of a vacuum and gain widespread use when it is as central to the language as a pronoun? Give the poster a break--English isn't French and he's doing the best he can with what he has.
Note: I assume that cr0sh is male. Is it sexist? Well, see above. cr0sh's user profile didn't give me any clues (and that's fine) so cr0sh: if you are a she, sorry, I meant no offense.
Interesting thought. I'd like to think it wouldn't happen, but who knows? Ok, in that case, make sorting by score default. Then people would (*gasp!*) have to try their darnedest to write awesome posts in an effort to have the highest score!:-)
Well, I'm bored too and could've had the first post, but I didn't really have anything to say about BeOS, so I restrained myself. Heck, I don't even know why anybody bothers! People can sort by score or reverse order, after all. I sort so the newest is first, so I'm more likely to see your post if you are the last person--not the first. Maybe that should be set as default, perhaps this sort of thing would be less likely.
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Right, but Slack 4.0 is out now.:-) What all is involved in upgrading a linux OS anyway? just install over or what? and what if you are switching distributions? (hypothetical questions, but I'd like to know)
What's the point of buying a driver? As far as I'm concerned, it's a part of the hardware. I can't copy hardware, so if I don't have the hardware, the driver is worthless. Without the driver, the hardware is worthless. Why didn't they license it to the hardware company? Surely the hardware company would have bought the driver--they would suddenly have a larger market share!
To an extent, I'll agree that this was copyright violation because the driver writers were not the hardware makers. However, Micro didn't really think too hard about their strategy either.
Yes it is. What of it? Linguistics is certainly a respectable field--one that has told us a lot about how language develops and works. I for one consider it quite interesting! If that offends, then I respectfully point out that you chose to read about it--and then comment about it. However, I won't apologize for my interests. I'll also point out that there are a lot of hacker types who are also interested in linguistics, as evidenced by the mere existance of the Jargon File.
The statement that 'kludge' is a 'bad thing' or an 'ineligant(sic) hack' is yet another example. Kludge is a derivative of the German word "kluge", which means clever - ie. the original meaning is a clever hack.
According to the Jargon File, what you say is true--but the connotation agrees with my assessment. Maybe that's irrelevant to you, but it's good to know so as to avoid offense. And if you consider that irrelevant, then don't get too upset the next time somebody tells you that your mother wore army boots [stronger language implied]--they are simply words, after all;-)
What evidence do you have to support that claim? I for one think it's inevitable that alien life must exist--somewhere. And finding it would pose incredible questions for us as a species, since it would finally be proven.
If you contest that their client is poorly coded, then say so and why. Otherwise, you are wasting just as much bandwidth;-)
Actually, the issue is more that ordinary people mix this up. If everyone knew that a hacker isn't always the guy that does illegal stuff, breaks into computers, etc; then this wouldn't be an issue. But they don't! If I were to tell someone I was a hacker, unless they were someone deep into computers, they'd think I was admitting to criminal activity. You can argue that the context shows the correct interpretation, and you'd be right too.
But that is all made irrelevant by the fact that the difference is known by too few and the media makes no effort to make a distinction. But after reading all this discussion, I also realize why they don't: "cracker" is too silly (a food???) or unPC a term. I have to agree--we need to change our word for crackers, not hackers.
if the noun is second declension then: wankius -> wankii wankus -> wanki
but: wankes can be the plural if "wanker" were a 3rd declension latin noun of the form wanker, wankis. Then wanker -> wankes. If you prefer wankus as the singular nominative form, go ahead, but it isn't necessary.
This is true, but there is distinction between "programmer" and "hacker."
A hacker is more than just a programmer. A hacker is a person that enjoys making things work that supposedly shouldn't. An example: the dressing of the MIT dome this year to look like R2D2 was called a "hack" but there was no programming involved. It was just a really cool trick that took a lot of thought and planning and was something that a lot of people would probably scoff at--until it happened. A hacker (in programming) not only programs, but takes the additional effort to know all he/she can about the system so as to write the best code possible for the platform. To a certain extent, an average programmer is just another user. But a hacker actually controls the system by comparison.
Wanking??? I don't know exactly what that is, but it's not complimentary if I understand correctly
Managing would be a slap in the face to most hackers.
Kludging is considered a bad thing, an ineligant hack.
Cracker would never sound good...just think about it! It's either a type of food or a person who breaks into stuff. I can't imagine any other interpretation.
Good Idea:
McGyvering. This actually sounds pretty good IMHO.
Who besides me thinks it's rather obvious that Darth Sidious is Senator/Chancellor Palpatine? Or is it just an amazing similarity? I will add as evidence that so far as I saw, no one was credited for Darth Sidious or his voice. Furthermore, their appearance is astonishingly alike, and Emperor Palpatine is a Sith Master in ANH. (Or am I just stating the bleeding obvious?)
You can?? News to me! (of course, I don't use IE either)
Personally, I've never really understood why the W3C has never revised the URLs to handle framesets....especially since HTML 4.0 doesn't allow for tags.
*nix not *nic. Catchall term for Unix, Linux, etc used because at one point there was some big deal over Unix being a trademark, and people wrote it *nix to get around that.
I don't use notepad, but I do use EditPlus for its syntax coloring, auto-indenting, etc. Even nicer is that you can syntax color anything you can give an extension to: C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, batch files, even basic.
Every GUI client I've ever tried generates miles of unused HTML or non-compliant HTML. If there were a GUI client out there that created HTML that is:
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Note: I assume that cr0sh is male. Is it sexist? Well, see above. cr0sh's user profile didn't give me any clues (and that's fine) so cr0sh: if you are a she, sorry, I meant no offense.
Interesting thought. I'd like to think it wouldn't happen, but who knows? Ok, in that case, make sorting by score default. Then people would (*gasp!*) have to try their darnedest to write awesome posts in an effort to have the highest score! :-)
Well, I'm bored too and could've had the first post, but I didn't really have anything to say about BeOS, so I restrained myself. Heck, I don't even know why anybody bothers! People can sort by score or reverse order, after all. I sort so the newest is first, so I'm more likely to see your post if you are the last person--not the first. Maybe that should be set as default, perhaps this sort of thing would be less likely.
Right, but Slack 4.0 is out now. :-) What all is involved in upgrading a linux OS anyway? just install over or what? and what if you are switching distributions? (hypothetical questions, but I'd like to know)
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Interesting...so you have never ever copied a tape that was copyrighted? wow
To an extent, I'll agree that this was copyright violation because the driver writers were not the hardware makers. However, Micro didn't really think too hard about their strategy either.
Yes it is. What of it? Linguistics is certainly a respectable field--one that has told us a lot about how language develops and works. I for one consider it quite interesting! If that offends, then I respectfully point out that you chose to read about it--and then comment about it. However, I won't apologize for my interests. I'll also point out that there are a lot of hacker types who are also interested in linguistics, as evidenced by the mere existance of the Jargon File.
According to the Jargon File, what you say is true--but the connotation agrees with my assessment. Maybe that's irrelevant to you, but it's good to know so as to avoid offense. And if you consider that irrelevant, then don't get too upset the next time somebody tells you that your mother wore army boots [stronger language implied]--they are simply words, after allIf you contest that their client is poorly coded, then say so and why. Otherwise, you are wasting just as much bandwidth ;-)
But that is all made irrelevant by the fact that the difference is known by too few and the media makes no effort to make a distinction. But after reading all this discussion, I also realize why they don't: "cracker" is too silly (a food???) or unPC a term. I have to agree--we need to change our word for crackers, not hackers.
wankius -> wankii
wankus -> wanki
but:
wankes can be the plural if "wanker" were a 3rd declension latin noun of the form wanker, wankis. Then wanker -> wankes. If you prefer wankus as the singular nominative form, go ahead, but it isn't necessary.
I am cursed by 4 years of HS latin 8-)
Too true. For the record: I was only thinking of phat and so on... /me shudders and recants!!
This is true, but there is distinction between "programmer" and "hacker."
A hacker is more than just a programmer. A hacker is a person that enjoys making things work that supposedly shouldn't. An example: the dressing of the MIT dome this year to look like R2D2 was called a "hack" but there was no programming involved. It was just a really cool trick that took a lot of thought and planning and was something that a lot of people would probably scoff at--until it happened. A hacker (in programming) not only programs, but takes the additional effort to know all he/she can about the system so as to write the best code possible for the platform. To a certain extent, an average programmer is just another user. But a hacker actually controls the system by comparison.
At least, that's how I understand it.
- Wanking??? I don't know exactly what that is, but it's not complimentary if I understand correctly
- Managing would be a slap in the face to most hackers.
- Kludging is considered a bad thing, an ineligant hack.
- Cracker would never sound good...just think about it! It's either a type of food or a person who breaks into stuff. I can't imagine any other interpretation.
Good Idea:That's a really good question, and I admit I too have a hard time thinking of something because "hacker" seems quite positive to me as well.
How about:
Who besides me thinks it's rather obvious that Darth Sidious is Senator/Chancellor Palpatine? Or is it just an amazing similarity? I will add as evidence that so far as I saw, no one was credited for Darth Sidious or his voice. Furthermore, their appearance is astonishingly alike, and Emperor Palpatine is a Sith Master in ANH. (Or am I just stating the bleeding obvious?)
Boy do I feel misled ;-)
that should say "... allow for noframes tags." Urgh...I even used preview but missed that
Personally, I've never really understood why the W3C has never revised the URLs to handle framesets....especially since HTML 4.0 doesn't allow for tags.
Conveniently * is a wildcard as well.
Every GUI client I've ever tried generates miles of unused HTML or non-compliant HTML. If there were a GUI client out there that created HTML that is:
- Compliant with the standard
- Minimalist
- Able to generate complex pages
- Use advanced features like CSS or JavaScript
- As easy to use as the good ole text editor
Then I'd go for it. Until then, I'm hand-coding.