There is essentially no reason to leave a network open if you do no want to grant free access to anyone around, which is another reason all these analogies are ridiculous.
I found that to be a pretty stupid summary, myself. It's a criticism of the method of Wikipedia that totally ignores the actual results. Frankly I don't care if it inspires confidence in Tycho when the fact is that Wikipdia is only less accurate than Brittanica by a small margin.
You did notice that you pasted in two definitions, the second one being "to put into effect..." right? The second one makes perfect sense in the context in which he used it.
Also you misspelled several things. I judge you to be an idiot.
Or if you hear the word "base" being pronounced without any context, how do you know if it is "bass" or "base"?.
Spelling is irrelevant if you hear a word without context. Even if you knew the word was spelled "base," the lack of context means you don't even know if it's a noun or a verb, let alone the different meanings of the noun "base."
I'm a little way into RE4 because a friend lent it to me and everyone says it's really good. But frankly, the game makes me uncomfortable when I play it. This is quite obviously intended, but I'm pretty sure I don't play games in order to be made uncomfortable. I have plenty of that in real life.
Really though, the best DRM can ever do is deter casual infringers. The more savvy people will always find a way around DRM in the same way that a lock on your door can't prevent a determined criminal from getting into your house.
Well, that's all true, but it fails to address what I think is the real cause for confusion between these two verbs. The past tense of the verb to "lie" is "lay." Thus, "I lay in bed all night tossing and turning" would be correct and in the past tense, while "let's go lay in bed" would of course be incorrect.
That might be a reasonable criticism if it weren't for the fact that having the same names on the games has nothing to do with whether the gameplay is innovative. Of course, anyone saying that Nintendo doesn't innovate after the DS and the Wii is not being reasonable anyway.
Most Windows users actually like their OS and would not want to switch.
Congratulations! You've just won the Made Up Fact of the Hour Award!
There's no way whatsoever to prove that. You completely just made it up, probably from your own experience. Which is exactly what you're decrying (though the post you quoted doesn't really seem to have anything to do with that).
That's pretty similar to my situation. I have had an iMac for about a year and I have an older PC that I was thinking of upgrading. Now that I've heard about this, I'll probably just wait for an Intel-based tower from Apple and dual-boot.
The new forms of innovative software that can be created by any size developer will be made available for download via Revolution's Virtual Console service.
(emphasis mine)
Does that sound like homebrew to anyone else?
It sounds to me like they are finally going to lift their ban on midgets developing Nintendo games.
You might be interested in some FARMS papers about the native american DNA testing. There are quite a few of them. As you may or may not know, many of these articles are written by pretty credible scientists -- the article entitled "Addressing Questions Surrounding The Book of Mormon and DNA Research," for instance, is by a Mormon named John Butler, who has a doctorate in chemistry and has written lots of research papers on human DNA.
3.) The name is stupid and personifies what I hate about this machine and its community. Microsoft's marketing drones, in trying to decide how they'd market to drooling middle school gamers, thought "Well, gee, they'll see the '3' after Playstation 3 and think it's better than the '2' after X-Box 2. But we can't call it X-Box 3." Then they turn to their young, "dynamic" new guy they hired from an MTV marketing firm. "What would sound hardcore and hip to the kiddies?" "I've got it! It's better than 3, because it's 360!!!" And thus, a stupid market-drone name, X-Box 360, was born.
Oh, I don't know. I think it's pretty aptly named. It's basically the old XBox with a bit of spin.
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Hooked on Phonics would not teach you the difference between "useful" and "usefull".
Maybe you should look at the definition again. "Useful" and "Usefull" are phonetically identical (to English speakers). Hooked on Phonics would not teach any difference between the two spellings.
When you're trying to insult people through ridiculous pedantry, at least be right.
Beta software has nothing to do with trademark issues! It has to do with whether the program is complete (or relatively complete) feature-wise and is bug-free (ideally). Taking something out of beta doesn't mean that no trademark issues can arise, nor does having something in beta mean that trademark issues will arise.
And that's why Gmail still says "BETA" at the top.
How on Earth did this get modded insightful? Not only is this just regurgitating the same thing people say every time we talk about Google products on Slashdot, but it doesn't even make sense on this one! Gmail is still in Beta because of trademark disputes? Huh?
Sure, everybody reads books and newspapers in a computer screen.
The internet is MOSTLY text-based. People are reading tons and tons of stuff on computer screens, even if most people don't read books on them (I have read a few, and the reason I haven't read more on my computer screen is not a readibility issue, but an issue of wanting to lie down while I read). People sure read a lot of Slashdot comments!
Or you save paint, or ink, or writing materials we couldn't dream of in the physical world. Not to mention that digital ink, paint, etc. can all be easily erased or transformed, unlike their real-world counterparts.
I think even more important than saving materials is the fact that you could annotate webistes, documents, whatever, making this (what the GP mentioned, not what the article speaks of) much more than really expensive pencil and paper.
It's a nice rant and all, but I think the thing he was criticising really was incorrect, in any way you want to look at it. I assumed there was a missing word or some other typo in the clause mentioned, because I was unable to parse it into anything that makes sense.
While there ARE many rules stupidly imposed on English grammar, many other rules are more like descriptions of how to make a readible sentence in English. A transitive verb DOES need an object, or it gets parsed as an intransitive verb.
He still saw it, but he does not enjoy the rights of ownership -- i.e. he cannot watch it whenver he wants. If you lend it to him, then you are perhaps passing on the rights of ownership for a temporary period (or so you hope!), wherein you do not enjoy the ability to watch it at any time, etc.
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There is essentially no reason to leave a network open if you do no want to grant free access to anyone around, which is another reason all these analogies are ridiculous.
I found that to be a pretty stupid summary, myself. It's a criticism of the method of Wikipedia that totally ignores the actual results. Frankly I don't care if it inspires confidence in Tycho when the fact is that Wikipdia is only less accurate than Brittanica by a small margin.
You did notice that you pasted in two definitions, the second one being "to put into effect..." right? The second one makes perfect sense in the context in which he used it.
Also you misspelled several things. I judge you to be an idiot.
Or if you hear the word "base" being pronounced without any context, how do you know if it is "bass" or "base"?.
Spelling is irrelevant if you hear a word without context. Even if you knew the word was spelled "base," the lack of context means you don't even know if it's a noun or a verb, let alone the different meanings of the noun "base."
I'm a little way into RE4 because a friend lent it to me and everyone says it's really good. But frankly, the game makes me uncomfortable when I play it. This is quite obviously intended, but I'm pretty sure I don't play games in order to be made uncomfortable. I have plenty of that in real life.
Really though, the best DRM can ever do is deter casual infringers. The more savvy people will always find a way around DRM in the same way that a lock on your door can't prevent a determined criminal from getting into your house.
Well, that's all true, but it fails to address what I think is the real cause for confusion between these two verbs. The past tense of the verb to "lie" is "lay." Thus, "I lay in bed all night tossing and turning" would be correct and in the past tense, while "let's go lay in bed" would of course be incorrect.
That might be a reasonable criticism if it weren't for the fact that having the same names on the games has nothing to do with whether the gameplay is innovative. Of course, anyone saying that Nintendo doesn't innovate after the DS and the Wii is not being reasonable anyway.
Yeah, if you use javascript to simply change hidden or display:none content to visible or display:block, then search engines can see that just fine.
Most Windows users actually like their OS and would not want to switch.
Congratulations! You've just won the Made Up Fact of the Hour Award!
There's no way whatsoever to prove that. You completely just made it up, probably from your own experience. Which is exactly what you're decrying (though the post you quoted doesn't really seem to have anything to do with that).
That's pretty similar to my situation. I have had an iMac for about a year and I have an older PC that I was thinking of upgrading. Now that I've heard about this, I'll probably just wait for an Intel-based tower from Apple and dual-boot.
The new forms of innovative software that can be created by any size developer will be made available for download via Revolution's Virtual Console service.
(emphasis mine)
Does that sound like homebrew to anyone else?
It sounds to me like they are finally going to lift their ban on midgets developing Nintendo games.
I totally dig on chicks with squished heads.
You might be interested in some FARMS papers about the native american DNA testing. There are quite a few of them. As you may or may not know, many of these articles are written by pretty credible scientists -- the article entitled "Addressing Questions Surrounding The Book of Mormon and DNA Research," for instance, is by a Mormon named John Butler, who has a doctorate in chemistry and has written lots of research papers on human DNA.
Open-apple + i (for get info) eliminates having to right or control click at all. :)
3.) The name is stupid and personifies what I hate about this machine and its community. Microsoft's marketing drones, in trying to decide how they'd market to drooling middle school gamers, thought "Well, gee, they'll see the '3' after Playstation 3 and think it's better than the '2' after X-Box 2. But we can't call it X-Box 3." Then they turn to their young, "dynamic" new guy they hired from an MTV marketing firm. "What would sound hardcore and hip to the kiddies?" "I've got it! It's better than 3, because it's 360!!!" And thus, a stupid market-drone name, X-Box 360, was born.
Oh, I don't know. I think it's pretty aptly named. It's basically the old XBox with a bit of spin.
Hooked on Phonics would not teach you the difference between "useful" and "usefull".
Maybe you should look at the definition again. "Useful" and "Usefull" are phonetically identical (to English speakers). Hooked on Phonics would not teach any difference between the two spellings.
When you're trying to insult people through ridiculous pedantry, at least be right.
I'm not sure if you're allowed to criticize punctuation if you don't even know how many dots go in an ellipsis.
Beta software has nothing to do with trademark issues! It has to do with whether the program is complete (or relatively complete) feature-wise and is bug-free (ideally). Taking something out of beta doesn't mean that no trademark issues can arise, nor does having something in beta mean that trademark issues will arise.
And that's why Gmail still says "BETA" at the top.
How on Earth did this get modded insightful? Not only is this just regurgitating the same thing people say every time we talk about Google products on Slashdot, but it doesn't even make sense on this one! Gmail is still in Beta because of trademark disputes? Huh?
Sure, everybody reads books and newspapers in a computer screen.
The internet is MOSTLY text-based. People are reading tons and tons of stuff on computer screens, even if most people don't read books on them (I have read a few, and the reason I haven't read more on my computer screen is not a readibility issue, but an issue of wanting to lie down while I read). People sure read a lot of Slashdot comments!
All you save is eraser rubbings.
Or you save paint, or ink, or writing materials we couldn't dream of in the physical world. Not to mention that digital ink, paint, etc. can all be easily erased or transformed, unlike their real-world counterparts.
I think even more important than saving materials is the fact that you could annotate webistes, documents, whatever, making this (what the GP mentioned, not what the article speaks of) much more than really expensive pencil and paper.
It's a nice rant and all, but I think the thing he was criticising really was incorrect, in any way you want to look at it. I assumed there was a missing word or some other typo in the clause mentioned, because I was unable to parse it into anything that makes sense.
While there ARE many rules stupidly imposed on English grammar, many other rules are more like descriptions of how to make a readible sentence in English. A transitive verb DOES need an object, or it gets parsed as an intransitive verb.
He still saw it, but he does not enjoy the rights of ownership -- i.e. he cannot watch it whenver he wants. If you lend it to him, then you are perhaps passing on the rights of ownership for a temporary period (or so you hope!), wherein you do not enjoy the ability to watch it at any time, etc.
...when someone would steal Slashdot's ugly design.