The real definition for "begs the question" is bad because it has nothing to do with either begging or questions.
Beg, v. 2.transf. To ask as a favour or act of grace.
Question, n. I. That which is inquired about, discussed, or debated.
Hence, to "beg" a "question" is to "ask, as a favour, the matter being discussed". (That's not even a secondary meaning of "question"; it's the core meaning of the word.) The phrase does exactly what it says on the tin.
Conversely, the misinterpretation of the phrase, as "to imply a question that should be asked", requires a bizarre interpretation of "beg" which I invariably find confusing. Since when does "beg" mean "imply"? or "imply that something be asked"? Are beggars people who go around implying things? (Well, maybe in some places...)
It was so awesome it pegged a whole core on my E8400.
I'm sorry for you, but I don't think HTML5 is your problem. Personally I'm getting CPU usage consistently between 0% and 4% on my Athlon X2 6000 (roughly similar performance to an E8400, I think?), briefly spiking to 12-15% every ten seconds or so. That's Firefox 3.5.0; I can't answer for other browsers.
In comparison, their traditional interface has more buttons taking up less screen real estate.
I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic about the old interface, or comparing it favourably with the new one, or both at once. The screenshot you link to horrified me. Of course it's only 765x535, which is not a sane screen resolution, so just for exercise I worked out how much screen space would be occupied by the same interface in the same layout on a 1024x600 screen. The answer is, the document pane would occupy 789x412 pixels, meaning that more than 47% of the screen would be devoted to the interface.
But a full menu bar PLUS ribbon PLUS fixed buttons underneath the ribbon PLUS zoom bar filling the whole of the bottom 41 pixels of the screen is certainly not *better*. *Before* adding in the stylist and navigator, the new interface would take up more than 42% of a 1024x600 screen; *with* the stylist and navigator (using the layout in the screenshot you linked to), it works out at about 53%.
Sigh. At least with the "classic" interface you can turn off toolbars and rearrange the buttons that you actually need (that aren't assigned to keyboard shortcuts) into just one toolbar... and on a netbook, I doubt most people actually use the navigator and stylist. (Well, not more than they have to.)
On the other hand, maybe ANY change to the Impress interface is a step up -- that is, any new interface can't be *much* worse than the present situation in Impress...
Is there a reason, other than complexity of interface, that one might choose it over gimp.
"complexity of interface" is a pretty damn good thing to base a decision on.
That. I have moved in the last couple of months to using Ubuntu at work and am loving it, except that I really, really miss Paint.NET. Using the GIMP is like using Lotus Notes. But Ubuntu is so good in other respects that I'm sticking with it. Some people dual-boot for games; I'm dual-booting for image editing.
When you have to look up documentation to figure out how to draw a straight line in the Gimp, and that documentation is somewhat condescending, you might start to think that the Gimp isn't actually that good for simple tasks.
Oh my gods. I see what you mean. I'm a bit puzzled, though by:
"After you have a starting point, and have held down the Shift Key, you'll see a line like above if you're running GIMP version 1.2.x or later. This feature was not present in GIMP version 1.0.4. However, the next step works the same way."
What a tosser "Seth" is. But... could you really not draw straight lines in the GIMP in v.1.0.4?!
Nope. Simply have someone in a progressive country without a DMCA-equivalent strip it off
Inducing a foreigner to do it for you still sounds pretty much exactly like circumvention. I think you need a stronger defence! Of course, if you could prove that they did it without your inducement... but even then it would depend on where the burden of proof lies...
Playing these games has taught me to decompose music in various ways. For one thing, the game forces me to separate out what the guitar is doing from what the drums are doing from what the bass is doing, and now that has become a part of my normal listening habits. For another thing, I'm more aware of the linear structure of a song, the chorus, the bridging pieces, the solos, et cetera.
I agree: anything that gets you interacting with music is going to open your eyes to different aspects of it -- even if it doesn't mean becoming an actual musician: the GP is absolutely correct in that respect.
If you want to try opening your eyes (ears?) even more, I suggest a course in harmony and counterpoint theory. I can't even imagine, now, what it was once like to listen to music before I learnt some of the theory. (There are downsides, mind. You will find yourself tearing your hair out whenever you hear parallel octaves between a melody line and the bass line. That's OK, though. You only need to start worrying if you're also tearing your hair out over parallel fifths!)
so what do you think they'll say when I say I do it deliberately ?
Vanishingly few people in Australia would do that, as plans in Oz normally have a monthly cap. Take a look here, for example: the cheapest plan allows you 200 MB (yes, megabytes) of data transfer per month.
X-COM still has the distinction of being the only game that has ever caused me to jump out of my chair. If you don't think you can get scared by 640x480 graphics or whatever that was...try it.
For me, still the only game to have achieved that was Rescue on Fractalus -- the shock you get when you refuse to pick up a pilot who turns out to be an alien agent. And IIRC on an Atari 800XL that was only 160x192!
It's not clear what they mean by Easter Period, but I'd guess either Lent or Easter weekend. Especially if it's Easter weekend, a drop from 14 to 0 deaths over 3 days in an area the size of about 1.5 Massachusetts towns
They mean the Easter weekend, which is traditionally the most lethal time of the year on NZ roads. The Easter road toll is counted from 4 pm on the Thursday to 6 am on the Tuesday (the Monday after Easter is a public holiday).
However, as I've also pointed out in another post on this page, there is no way in hell that that or any other district in NZ had a road toll of 14 in the Easter weekend of 2008, as the road toll for the entire country that year was 8 (or 9; I've now found one report that gives 9, but I can't find anything to corroborate it. In 2009, according to the same report, the nation-wide Easter road toll was 6).
Except during the same time frame last year that area had 14 deaths from car accidents.
I sure hope you have a source for this, given that the time frame stated at the end of the clip is the Easter weekend, and in the 2008 Easter weekend there were in fact eight deaths from car accidents in the whole of New Zealand.
He was already polluted with Hellenised Judeo/Roman Levantine religion: he was an enforcer of the Orthodoxy before his conversion. Christianity had no orthodoxy at his arrival on the scene - so he constructed it for his unresolved needs and the social/psychological needs of intended mission.
Absolutely right, it seems to me. However, to someone (i.e. me) who specialises not in early Christianity but in Greek culture, it looks like there's basically no way of reconstructing pre-Pauline Christianity (assuming there were any point in doing so), as the gospels seem to me to be almost as infected with Hellenised philosophical and religious thought as Paul's writings. The ideas of the divinity as a saviour with a personal relationship to the saved, redemption after death, the roles of revelation and gnosis in salvation, and the Eucharist, are pretty well inseparable from the gospel accounts of Jesus, and they're all pretty much straight adaptations of aspects of Orphic/Dionysiac religion. There are various other lesser resemblances (the accounts of the nativity have some passing resemblances to an early poetic account of the birth of Apollo, for example).
So I'd venture the hypothesis that these are all thoroughly and pervasively informed by Paul's theology too. So I'm curious: what is left once you remove the Pauline shell?
We'll make sure to switch over when they finally build the bridge to... wherever the nearest country is that drives on the other side of the road.
Hmm... I guess that would be New Caledonia.... about 1400 km away.
(But to switch sides there they'll have to switch sides in mainland France as well. That will be our foothold in Europe. Hahahahaha! Soon all of continental Europe will be driving on the left! With blackjack! and hookers!)
It was originally called Acedia.... This was subdivided into Despair (Latin, Tristitia) and Sloth (Latin, Socordia)
I found this bizarre, since the word literally means "without kedos", i.e. "carefree" both in the sense of "without heed", "indifferent" and also in the sense of "without sorrow", "happy". In Greek the adjectival form akedes regularly has both meanings (the noun is rarer).
So I went and read the WP article on Akedeia, which asserts that the term is used to refer to "depression" solely in a spiritual sense.
That's quite a difference in usage. It strikes me as a nice illustration of the relationship between spirituality and everyday reality.
Is there a reason why professors haven't led the way in switching to textbooks published as freeculturalworks?
Because only profs who already have tenure can afford the luxury of non-traditional publishing mechanisms.
The others have to go with the traditional publishers because that way they get at least a little bit of "research output" credit. Not much, but at least the dean of the faculty won't be immediately firing them for wasting valuable research time.
This isn't likely to change much within the next decade or two, because the people who get to decide which kinds of publication "count" as research output and which ones don't are never academics themselves. Textbooks as free cultural works can't become the norm unless both academics, and the bureaucrats who conduct research output evaluations, are persuaded simultaneously.
Games like Diablo and Dungeon Siege aren't RPGs either, but that's not going to stop many people using the term. (Though my own game library sharply distinguishes "RPG" and "hack-n-slash".) I think you're fighting a losing battle there.
I have a sneaking suspicion that when the OP is saying things like "no CSS" and doesn't mention LaTeX, s/he is actually giving specifications in a very obfuscated way -- specifications that need to be deduced. What I take from the post is that the OP wants
Portability. Anyone can open an HTML file without having to install new software; the same doesn't go for ODF, LaTeX, or MSWord. I suspect this is the main thing the OP wants. But this shouldn't rule out CSS.
Everything in one file: I'm guessing this may be why the OP doesn't want CSS. But that's not a good reason to avoid CSS either, since CSS can perfectly easily go in the same file. (I think it does rule out editing the XML in ODF documents, though, since as far as I'm aware they're always a composite of several files.)
Read/edit in the same document. This could be another reason why the OP doesn't mention LaTeX. LaTeX is perfect for editing, not so great for reading: for that you have PDF. Maybe the OP doesn't want to have two separate files like that.
I'm guessing the OP has been inspired by the use of HTML for slide presentations, in the form of S5. I can see that. But the specifications, if I've deduced them correctly, are not hugely well-thought-out ones. I can kind of see someone not wanting to use LaTeX for the reasons given above, but insisting on no CSS is crazy.
In any case, the OP should certainly give slightly clearer specifications if s/he doesn't want to have people yelling "LaTeX!!!" all day.
There are one or two uses for QuickTime -- e.g. my wife likes the Myst games, and it's tricky to get the first two working without "real" QuickTime (and the second game seems to require a very specific version of QuickTime). That said, you are right for all normal situations.
Now they have to wait until the moon is in the Eighth House of Aquarius again to attempt the resurrection
Law: cartoon villains run at exactly the same velocity as the lethal object pursuing them
Corollary: during daylight hours, cartoon vampires move at the speed of light
Actually Microsoft's (and WinXP's) longevity starts to make a lot of sense if you think of it as Wile E Coyote trying to escape an oncoming missile.
Plato was unquestionably brilliant, but even he thought the sun revolved around the earth.
Psst -- moment of pedantry: it's conceivable Plato may have thought that, but even if he did it's very unlikely that he ever actually argued for it. Plato's written works display almost no interest in astronomy, and the references that are there seem to indicate second-hand knowledge at best. The only source for the notion that Plato was a geocentrist is a millennium later and, while not incredible, doesn't have an unusual degree of credibility; it's at least as likely that the source got muddled with Eudoxos, a contemporary of Plato. (Aristotle certainly did believe it, though.)
I can see how that might be a sane response -- if and only if it were a British- or Irish-themed pub. I guess your position means that you don't go to bars in Europe very often!
(The situation's a bit more complex where I live, in NZ... if you order a pint at a pub you'll get an American-sized pint, unless you're at an Irish/UK pub and ordering an Irish/UK beer, in which case it'll be a UK pint, though sometimes even then they'll ask you which size you want, and some places will let you have a UK pint if you specifically ask for it, only the bar-staff don't know it's a "UK" pint, they just think of it as a "big glass". Generally it's easier to order by the jug...)
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You could always try sending Lilypond notation. aes8 g | aes2 ees8 d | ees2 c8 b! | c2 aes8 g | aes2 aes'8 g | aes4 c bes | aes g f | ees2, etc.
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The real definition for "begs the question" is bad because it has nothing to do with either begging or questions.
Hence, to "beg" a "question" is to "ask, as a favour, the matter being discussed". (That's not even a secondary meaning of "question"; it's the core meaning of the word.) The phrase does exactly what it says on the tin.
Conversely, the misinterpretation of the phrase, as "to imply a question that should be asked", requires a bizarre interpretation of "beg" which I invariably find confusing. Since when does "beg" mean "imply"? or "imply that something be asked"? Are beggars people who go around implying things? (Well, maybe in some places ...)
Does Photoshop CS4 run on Chrome OS?
Nothing runs on Chrome OS, since it doesn't exist yet, but I wouldn't give long odds on a bet that Photoshop CS5 will run on Chrome OS.
It was so awesome it pegged a whole core on my E8400.
I'm sorry for you, but I don't think HTML5 is your problem. Personally I'm getting CPU usage consistently between 0% and 4% on my Athlon X2 6000 (roughly similar performance to an E8400, I think?), briefly spiking to 12-15% every ten seconds or so. That's Firefox 3.5.0; I can't answer for other browsers.
In comparison, their traditional interface has more buttons taking up less screen real estate.
I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic about the old interface, or comparing it favourably with the new one, or both at once. The screenshot you link to horrified me. Of course it's only 765x535, which is not a sane screen resolution, so just for exercise I worked out how much screen space would be occupied by the same interface in the same layout on a 1024x600 screen. The answer is, the document pane would occupy 789x412 pixels, meaning that more than 47% of the screen would be devoted to the interface.
But a full menu bar PLUS ribbon PLUS fixed buttons underneath the ribbon PLUS zoom bar filling the whole of the bottom 41 pixels of the screen is certainly not *better*. *Before* adding in the stylist and navigator, the new interface would take up more than 42% of a 1024x600 screen; *with* the stylist and navigator (using the layout in the screenshot you linked to), it works out at about 53%.
Sigh. At least with the "classic" interface you can turn off toolbars and rearrange the buttons that you actually need (that aren't assigned to keyboard shortcuts) into just one toolbar ... and on a netbook, I doubt most people actually use the navigator and stylist. (Well, not more than they have to.)
On the other hand, maybe ANY change to the Impress interface is a step up -- that is, any new interface can't be *much* worse than the present situation in Impress ...
Is there a reason, other than complexity of interface, that one might choose it over gimp.
"complexity of interface" is a pretty damn good thing to base a decision on.
That. I have moved in the last couple of months to using Ubuntu at work and am loving it, except that I really, really miss Paint.NET. Using the GIMP is like using Lotus Notes. But Ubuntu is so good in other respects that I'm sticking with it. Some people dual-boot for games; I'm dual-booting for image editing.
When you have to look up documentation to figure out how to draw a straight line in the Gimp, and that documentation is somewhat condescending, you might start to think that the Gimp isn't actually that good for simple tasks.
Oh my gods. I see what you mean. I'm a bit puzzled, though by:
"After you have a starting point, and have held down the Shift Key, you'll see a line like above if you're running GIMP version 1.2.x or later. This feature was not present in GIMP version 1.0.4. However, the next step works the same way."
What a tosser "Seth" is. But ... could you really not draw straight lines in the GIMP in v.1.0.4?!
Please tell me they're only thinking of putting it in as an opt-in option, not as the default or only option...
I think you're outta luck. Take a look at the screenshot: a humongous ribbon with humongous buttons, AND the usual menu bar, both at the same time.
Netbook users will never see their documents again ...
Nope. Simply have someone in a progressive country without a DMCA-equivalent strip it off
Inducing a foreigner to do it for you still sounds pretty much exactly like circumvention. I think you need a stronger defence! Of course, if you could prove that they did it without your inducement ... but even then it would depend on where the burden of proof lies ...
Playing these games has taught me to decompose music in various ways. For one thing, the game forces me to separate out what the guitar is doing from what the drums are doing from what the bass is doing, and now that has become a part of my normal listening habits. For another thing, I'm more aware of the linear structure of a song, the chorus, the bridging pieces, the solos, et cetera.
I agree: anything that gets you interacting with music is going to open your eyes to different aspects of it -- even if it doesn't mean becoming an actual musician: the GP is absolutely correct in that respect.
If you want to try opening your eyes (ears?) even more, I suggest a course in harmony and counterpoint theory. I can't even imagine, now, what it was once like to listen to music before I learnt some of the theory. (There are downsides, mind. You will find yourself tearing your hair out whenever you hear parallel octaves between a melody line and the bass line. That's OK, though. You only need to start worrying if you're also tearing your hair out over parallel fifths!)
so what do you think they'll say when I say I do it deliberately ?
Vanishingly few people in Australia would do that, as plans in Oz normally have a monthly cap. Take a look here, for example: the cheapest plan allows you 200 MB (yes, megabytes) of data transfer per month.
X-COM still has the distinction of being the only game that has ever caused me to jump out of my chair. If you don't think you can get scared by 640x480 graphics or whatever that was...try it.
For me, still the only game to have achieved that was Rescue on Fractalus -- the shock you get when you refuse to pick up a pilot who turns out to be an alien agent. And IIRC on an Atari 800XL that was only 160x192!
It's not clear what they mean by Easter Period, but I'd guess either Lent or Easter weekend. Especially if it's Easter weekend, a drop from 14 to 0 deaths over 3 days in an area the size of about 1.5 Massachusetts towns
They mean the Easter weekend, which is traditionally the most lethal time of the year on NZ roads. The Easter road toll is counted from 4 pm on the Thursday to 6 am on the Tuesday (the Monday after Easter is a public holiday).
However, as I've also pointed out in another post on this page, there is no way in hell that that or any other district in NZ had a road toll of 14 in the Easter weekend of 2008, as the road toll for the entire country that year was 8 (or 9; I've now found one report that gives 9, but I can't find anything to corroborate it. In 2009, according to the same report, the nation-wide Easter road toll was 6).
Except during the same time frame last year that area had 14 deaths from car accidents.
I sure hope you have a source for this, given that the time frame stated at the end of the clip is the Easter weekend, and in the 2008 Easter weekend there were in fact eight deaths from car accidents in the whole of New Zealand.
He was already polluted with Hellenised Judeo/Roman Levantine religion: he was an enforcer of the Orthodoxy before his conversion. Christianity had no orthodoxy at his arrival on the scene - so he constructed it for his unresolved needs and the social/psychological needs of intended mission.
Absolutely right, it seems to me. However, to someone (i.e. me) who specialises not in early Christianity but in Greek culture, it looks like there's basically no way of reconstructing pre-Pauline Christianity (assuming there were any point in doing so), as the gospels seem to me to be almost as infected with Hellenised philosophical and religious thought as Paul's writings. The ideas of the divinity as a saviour with a personal relationship to the saved, redemption after death, the roles of revelation and gnosis in salvation, and the Eucharist, are pretty well inseparable from the gospel accounts of Jesus, and they're all pretty much straight adaptations of aspects of Orphic/Dionysiac religion. There are various other lesser resemblances (the accounts of the nativity have some passing resemblances to an early poetic account of the birth of Apollo, for example).
So I'd venture the hypothesis that these are all thoroughly and pervasively informed by Paul's theology too. So I'm curious: what is left once you remove the Pauline shell?
We'll make sure to switch over when they finally build the bridge to ... wherever the nearest country is that drives on the other side of the road.
Hmm ... I guess that would be New Caledonia. ... about 1400 km away.
(But to switch sides there they'll have to switch sides in mainland France as well. That will be our foothold in Europe. Hahahahaha! Soon all of continental Europe will be driving on the left! With blackjack! and hookers!)
It was originally called Acedia. ... This was subdivided into Despair (Latin, Tristitia) and Sloth (Latin, Socordia)
I found this bizarre, since the word literally means "without kedos", i.e. "carefree" both in the sense of "without heed", "indifferent" and also in the sense of "without sorrow", "happy". In Greek the adjectival form akedes regularly has both meanings (the noun is rarer).
So I went and read the WP article on Akedeia, which asserts that the term is used to refer to "depression" solely in a spiritual sense.
That's quite a difference in usage. It strikes me as a nice illustration of the relationship between spirituality and everyday reality.
Is there a reason why professors haven't led the way in switching to textbooks published as free cultural works?
Because only profs who already have tenure can afford the luxury of non-traditional publishing mechanisms.
The others have to go with the traditional publishers because that way they get at least a little bit of "research output" credit. Not much, but at least the dean of the faculty won't be immediately firing them for wasting valuable research time.
This isn't likely to change much within the next decade or two, because the people who get to decide which kinds of publication "count" as research output and which ones don't are never academics themselves. Textbooks as free cultural works can't become the norm unless both academics, and the bureaucrats who conduct research output evaluations, are persuaded simultaneously.
Games like Diablo and Dungeon Siege aren't RPGs either, but that's not going to stop many people using the term. (Though my own game library sharply distinguishes "RPG" and "hack-n-slash".) I think you're fighting a losing battle there.
I have a sneaking suspicion that when the OP is saying things like "no CSS" and doesn't mention LaTeX, s/he is actually giving specifications in a very obfuscated way -- specifications that need to be deduced. What I take from the post is that the OP wants
I'm guessing the OP has been inspired by the use of HTML for slide presentations, in the form of S5. I can see that. But the specifications, if I've deduced them correctly, are not hugely well-thought-out ones. I can kind of see someone not wanting to use LaTeX for the reasons given above, but insisting on no CSS is crazy.
In any case, the OP should certainly give slightly clearer specifications if s/he doesn't want to have people yelling "LaTeX!!!" all day.
There are one or two uses for QuickTime -- e.g. my wife likes the Myst games, and it's tricky to get the first two working without "real" QuickTime (and the second game seems to require a very specific version of QuickTime). That said, you are right for all normal situations.
Now they have to wait until the moon is in the Eighth House of Aquarius again to attempt the resurrection
Law: cartoon villains run at exactly the same velocity as the lethal object pursuing them
Corollary: during daylight hours, cartoon vampires move at the speed of light
Actually Microsoft's (and WinXP's) longevity starts to make a lot of sense if you think of it as Wile E Coyote trying to escape an oncoming missile.
Plato was unquestionably brilliant, but even he thought the sun revolved around the earth.
Psst -- moment of pedantry: it's conceivable Plato may have thought that, but even if he did it's very unlikely that he ever actually argued for it. Plato's written works display almost no interest in astronomy, and the references that are there seem to indicate second-hand knowledge at best. The only source for the notion that Plato was a geocentrist is a millennium later and, while not incredible, doesn't have an unusual degree of credibility; it's at least as likely that the source got muddled with Eudoxos, a contemporary of Plato. (Aristotle certainly did believe it, though.)
You have a "useful" Celsius range of about -15 to 40.
You never cook or bathe? Ew!
I can see how that might be a sane response -- if and only if it were a British- or Irish-themed pub. I guess your position means that you don't go to bars in Europe very often!
(The situation's a bit more complex where I live, in NZ ... if you order a pint at a pub you'll get an American-sized pint, unless you're at an Irish/UK pub and ordering an Irish/UK beer, in which case it'll be a UK pint, though sometimes even then they'll ask you which size you want, and some places will let you have a UK pint if you specifically ask for it, only the bar-staff don't know it's a "UK" pint, they just think of it as a "big glass". Generally it's easier to order by the jug ...)
Just out of curiosity, how would you feel if you walked into an Austrian-themed pub in the UK, asked for a litre of beer, and they told you they were prohibited from serving it by UK (not European) law?