These days if a linguistic convention, such as a word, is in common enough usage it makes its way into the Oxford dictionary. I don't think it's a mistake, it's understood by too many people that it may well be regarded a convention.
He didn't misquote it. He used single quotes, which are what you would use if you slightly paraphrased a sentence. If you paraphrased it substantially then you would not quote (though you would still cite the source unless it was common knowledge). If you did not paraphrase at all, but used it verbatim, then you use double quotes.
I agree with him, I think sqlite and postgresql are an excellent combination; sqlite for small, personal databases and even more, and postgresql for the 'ambitious' stuff. Mysql is somewhat lost in between, I think sqlite effectively killed it as its excuse compared to postgresql was that it was easier and whatever, well, that's no longer the case, sqlite is now simpler, faster and easier. If you have a reason not to use sqlite now you may as well use postgresql instead of mysql. That's what I would recommend to everyone.
The difference though is that the "acknowledged experts" will usually have acknowledged biases. They'll know that they should prove themselves wrong where they can. You can point out to them where they're wrong and they'll acknolwedge it, in fact, too often will thank you for it, you did their job for them. They're educated to doubt their own opinions. Not so with the "vandals and idiots", oh no, oh wow, no way! Just try it sometime on Wikipedia, it won't matter what evidence you can summon to point out their error, it's a buttheading match. Consensus on wikipedia too often means that the "vandals and idiots" invited over their friends from some irc channel or chatroom somewhere, and the "experts", to whom the real propsect of them editing this thing for months with the result in the end being the same that someone ill-qualified will still mess it up after they leave, have been put off, put off forever. Trust me on this, any reasonable "expert" will only be willing to edit a thing once, just once, no more. Beyond that he'll know he's being unreasonable, he may persist a few times but he'll know he's wasting his time. Beyond that he'll be cursing Wikipedia and himself too for the time wasted.
"It is like calling the EU constition rejection a cheap stunt by the voters, no this is a way to tell the direct leaders of a country to get their act together."I'm sorry, but refusing a document very important to the whole of Europe without understanding it just to tell "the direct leaders of a country to get their act together" IS a cheap stunt. I think the opposition parties in the relevant countries fooled the people, and tricked them into a stupid temper tantrum of whatever-you-say-I-say-no kneejerk. Don't try to deny it, it's a fact. Most people had no idea what the constitution document entailed, and most voted, like you said, "to tell the direct leaders of a country to get their act together". I call that not just cheap, but stupid too.
"The greatest strength of wikipedia is that anyone can add to it. This encourages content generation. The greatest weakness of wikipedia is that anyone can add to it. This encourages vandals and idiots to add errors into entries."
How it works out in the real world is that the "vandals and idiots" will usually have plenty more time on their hands to make sure their errors persist than the "experts" will have patience to make sure the article remains as correct as possible. The "experts" usually have better things to do in their schedule than to butthead to perpetuity with persistent "vandals and idiots". It's easy for "vandals and idiots" to invite their friends over to a wikipedia edit and revert war, not so easy for the "experts" whose friends would not appreciate the ludicrous invitation. I think from my experience with the Arabic numerals page on wikipedia that, as things stand now, without editorial control, Wikipedia is a lost cause for any topic in which strong biases are a potential issue.
This Linux screensaver is from Nathalie Carrie and Arnaud Verhille, science teachers on Reunion Island, a French colony in the Indian Ocean. Verhille asks "Does anyone know where I can get a free Java," because he is concerned about encumbering his pupils with Sun®'s license conditions." Does it really matter? I'm of the opinion that schoolchildren on a remote Indian Ocean island are unlikely to do anything that would cause Sun to chase after them.
It always amazes me the suspension of disbelief people have towards google, and especially nerds. Google is just like any other company, they're just a little more cunning and they know how to use the eagerness of an audience. It was just a matter of time before they started milking every possible avenue of advertising and revenue generation, and I bet, I bet, it will be just a matter of time before they start making use of that personal data people so foolishly entrusted with in a screw-you-up-the-ass corporate money-milking way.
"While the plaintiff (not prosecutor) has to prove that the defendant infringed, he merely has to show that it is more likely than not that the defendant infringed"... This is *NOT* true, people are considered guilty in a legal sense when proven "beyond reasonable doubt" that they are guilty, not when they are "more likely than not"! Big, big difference!
I personally prefer GNOME as a desktop, without a doubt, but I agree with you; I have, over time, become quite suspicious of people who sound "mature" at length. You can cut and paste this "mature" talk as you please into any topic, and increasingly, it's the same cliches that people are using everywhere, and cliches are indeed the rails of the crippled mind.
No, I don't need anyone to tell me that being "mature" is good in general and regardless of the topic; most of the time when this "mature" talk is used it's an evasive manoeuvre to avoid the real serious talk. Real "mature" people don't waste the bulk of their communication in a messianic education to the "immatures" on how to be "mature". Real mature people get to the point.
Real mature people get to the point, and don't bullshit.
Why should you care if he's proficient in the use of GUIs or not, or which of them he tells others to use. It's just a friggin' GUI, not a programming language; people can try them and just use what they like.
Hey deeptrivia you liar, here's evidence of your lies on GuruBrahma's page for all to see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gurubrahma# 3RR I request that everyone interested does indeed please have a look at this.
Here, the person you're objecting to me calling a liar! He's still lying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gurubrahma# 3RR (Not Gurubrahma, but see my reply to that guy on Gurubrahma's userpage). This reminds me of Sanger's Kuroshin article where he says "I might have continued to participate, were it not for a certain poisonous social or political atmosphere in the project. There are many ways to explain this problem, and I will start with just one. Far too much credence and respect accorded to people who in other Internet contexts would be labelled "trolls." There is a certain mindset associated with unmoderated Usenet groups and mailing lists that infects the collectively-managed Wikipedia project: if you react strongly to trolling, that reflects poorly on you, not (necessarily) on the troll. If you attempt to take trolls to task or demand that something be done about constant disruption by trollish behavior, the other listmembers will cry "censorship," attack you, and even come to the defense of the troll. This drama has played out thousands of times over the years on unmoderated Internet groups, and since about the fall of 2001 on the unmoderated Wikipedia." http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25
On usenet you just filter out the trolls and ignore them. On wikipedia you can't do that because the trolls are editing and reverting the articles you're working on.
I'm sorry, don't blame *any* editor for your RSI; blame bad ergonomics and lack of exercise for that. I know this because I had the symptoms of an emerging RSI from excessive typing, and even worse I had problems with my elbow from too much longhand writing, and I improved it considerably with exercise and ergonomics. Here's an example, do more research, http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/disabilities/rsi/exerc ises.html
I agree too, I have noticed those new ads within the search results and it's been annoying me for a while. And no, I know for sure that I don't have adware/spyware. They don't always appear, but they too often do. They tend to be the top few resultsd, and they come in a somewhat emphasised font.
It's not just the rootkit, I stopped buying Sony products many years ago. The rootkit just confirms my previous experiences with Sony. They treat their consumers with in a bad way and place unreasonable constraints upon them. Anyone who bought a Sony minidisc device or any device that only uses memory stick knows what a pain Sony is. Also, the quality of their products have become quite questionable in recent years. There's been the CCD fiasco just lately, where bad glue made their CCDs practically come apart after a little while, and in my personal experience, both Sony Vaio laptops died just a little bit after their warranties expired.
A reason why you'd want an SLR-like camera without interchangeable lenses is that you know quite well what optical range you need and don't want to deal with the mess that is sensor dust. Think of it as the right tool for the job. I personally would not want an SLR, and if I did it would only be an Olympus as they have self-cleaning sensors. I have no tolerance for sensor dirt, and if you go on rec.photo.digital you'll see plenty of posts indicating clearly that it's a bitch of a problem and cleaning sensors does not always produce optimal results. Sensor dirt on pictures is a real obnoxious affair, especially a problem if you tshoot outdoors.
I would like to politely disagree with your opinion that Canon consumer cameras are the best. I may not object so much had the claim been made for Canon DSLRs, but surely not for their non-DSRL range. In my experience, and it's a long experience, Canon and Nikon use their reputation and brand name in the top-of-the-range and professional markets to sell consumer equipment that is inferior to that offered by other makers. People will buy anything Canon or Nikon, so they feel entitled to take a nice fat profit out of it. If you want a consumer line with unquistionable quality then both Fuji and Olympus stand out as great examples.
In addition, here are examples of my requests within the wikipedia system for neutral attention (look for Arabic numerals within the pages), and some other I made elsewhere had been edited out by people who are active on the page.
Slashdot Mirror
Microsoft intimidated the virtualdub author about asf support so he had to remove it.
Does anyone use Dylan?
These days if a linguistic convention, such as a word, is in common enough usage it makes its way into the Oxford dictionary. I don't think it's a mistake, it's understood by too many people that it may well be regarded a convention.
Forget 'curing disease', that's not the future of the species, what we need are perfect blondes and supermodels.
It's common enough that it's acceptable in common usage.
He didn't misquote it. He used single quotes, which are what you would use if you slightly paraphrased a sentence. If you paraphrased it substantially then you would not quote (though you would still cite the source unless it was common knowledge). If you did not paraphrase at all, but used it verbatim, then you use double quotes.
I agree with him, I think sqlite and postgresql are an excellent combination; sqlite for small, personal databases and even more, and postgresql for the 'ambitious' stuff. Mysql is somewhat lost in between, I think sqlite effectively killed it as its excuse compared to postgresql was that it was easier and whatever, well, that's no longer the case, sqlite is now simpler, faster and easier. If you have a reason not to use sqlite now you may as well use postgresql instead of mysql. That's what I would recommend to everyone.
He may be ill-educated but he's not so random; just ask the corporations that put him in office.
The difference though is that the "acknowledged experts" will usually have acknowledged biases. They'll know that they should prove themselves wrong where they can. You can point out to them where they're wrong and they'll acknolwedge it, in fact, too often will thank you for it, you did their job for them. They're educated to doubt their own opinions. Not so with the "vandals and idiots", oh no, oh wow, no way! Just try it sometime on Wikipedia, it won't matter what evidence you can summon to point out their error, it's a buttheading match. Consensus on wikipedia too often means that the "vandals and idiots" invited over their friends from some irc channel or chatroom somewhere, and the "experts", to whom the real propsect of them editing this thing for months with the result in the end being the same that someone ill-qualified will still mess it up after they leave, have been put off, put off forever. Trust me on this, any reasonable "expert" will only be willing to edit a thing once, just once, no more. Beyond that he'll know he's being unreasonable, he may persist a few times but he'll know he's wasting his time. Beyond that he'll be cursing Wikipedia and himself too for the time wasted.
"It is like calling the EU constition rejection a cheap stunt by the voters, no this is a way to tell the direct leaders of a country to get their act together."I'm sorry, but refusing a document very important to the whole of Europe without understanding it just to tell "the direct leaders of a country to get their act together" IS a cheap stunt. I think the opposition parties in the relevant countries fooled the people, and tricked them into a stupid temper tantrum of whatever-you-say-I-say-no kneejerk. Don't try to deny it, it's a fact. Most people had no idea what the constitution document entailed, and most voted, like you said, "to tell the direct leaders of a country to get their act together". I call that not just cheap, but stupid too.
"The greatest strength of wikipedia is that anyone can add to it. This encourages content generation. The greatest weakness of wikipedia is that anyone can add to it. This encourages vandals and idiots to add errors into entries." How it works out in the real world is that the "vandals and idiots" will usually have plenty more time on their hands to make sure their errors persist than the "experts" will have patience to make sure the article remains as correct as possible. The "experts" usually have better things to do in their schedule than to butthead to perpetuity with persistent "vandals and idiots". It's easy for "vandals and idiots" to invite their friends over to a wikipedia edit and revert war, not so easy for the "experts" whose friends would not appreciate the ludicrous invitation. I think from my experience with the Arabic numerals page on wikipedia that, as things stand now, without editorial control, Wikipedia is a lost cause for any topic in which strong biases are a potential issue.
This Linux screensaver is from Nathalie Carrie and Arnaud Verhille, science teachers on Reunion Island, a French colony in the Indian Ocean. Verhille asks "Does anyone know where I can get a free Java," because he is concerned about encumbering his pupils with Sun®'s license conditions." Does it really matter? I'm of the opinion that schoolchildren on a remote Indian Ocean island are unlikely to do anything that would cause Sun to chase after them.
It always amazes me the suspension of disbelief people have towards google, and especially nerds. Google is just like any other company, they're just a little more cunning and they know how to use the eagerness of an audience. It was just a matter of time before they started milking every possible avenue of advertising and revenue generation, and I bet, I bet, it will be just a matter of time before they start making use of that personal data people so foolishly entrusted with in a screw-you-up-the-ass corporate money-milking way.
I don't understand, the conclusion graph seems to suggest that mac marketshare surged in 1991 to 1993, whereas the text in the mac section says it surged with the release of the imac. http://media.arstechnica.com/articles/culture/tota l-share.media/marketshare.jpg
"While the plaintiff (not prosecutor) has to prove that the defendant infringed, he merely has to show that it is more likely than not that the defendant infringed"... This is *NOT* true, people are considered guilty in a legal sense when proven "beyond reasonable doubt" that they are guilty, not when they are "more likely than not"! Big, big difference!
I personally prefer GNOME as a desktop, without a doubt, but I agree with you; I have, over time, become quite suspicious of people who sound "mature" at length. You can cut and paste this "mature" talk as you please into any topic, and increasingly, it's the same cliches that people are using everywhere, and cliches are indeed the rails of the crippled mind. No, I don't need anyone to tell me that being "mature" is good in general and regardless of the topic; most of the time when this "mature" talk is used it's an evasive manoeuvre to avoid the real serious talk. Real "mature" people don't waste the bulk of their communication in a messianic education to the "immatures" on how to be "mature". Real mature people get to the point. Real mature people get to the point, and don't bullshit.
Why should you care if he's proficient in the use of GUIs or not, or which of them he tells others to use. It's just a friggin' GUI, not a programming language; people can try them and just use what they like.
Hey deeptrivia you liar, here's evidence of your lies on GuruBrahma's page for all to see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gurubrahma# 3RR I request that everyone interested does indeed please have a look at this.
Here, the person you're objecting to me calling a liar! He's still lying http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gurubrahma# 3RR (Not Gurubrahma, but see my reply to that guy on Gurubrahma's userpage). This reminds me of Sanger's Kuroshin article where he says "I might have continued to participate, were it not for a certain poisonous social or political atmosphere in the project. There are many ways to explain this problem, and I will start with just one. Far too much credence and respect accorded to people who in other Internet contexts would be labelled "trolls." There is a certain mindset associated with unmoderated Usenet groups and mailing lists that infects the collectively-managed Wikipedia project: if you react strongly to trolling, that reflects poorly on you, not (necessarily) on the troll. If you attempt to take trolls to task or demand that something be done about constant disruption by trollish behavior, the other listmembers will cry "censorship," attack you, and even come to the defense of the troll. This drama has played out thousands of times over the years on unmoderated Internet groups, and since about the fall of 2001 on the unmoderated Wikipedia." http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25
On usenet you just filter out the trolls and ignore them. On wikipedia you can't do that because the trolls are editing and reverting the articles you're working on.
I'm sorry, don't blame *any* editor for your RSI; blame bad ergonomics and lack of exercise for that. I know this because I had the symptoms of an emerging RSI from excessive typing, and even worse I had problems with my elbow from too much longhand writing, and I improved it considerably with exercise and ergonomics. Here's an example, do more research, http://web.mit.edu/atic/www/disabilities/rsi/exerc ises.html
I agree too, I have noticed those new ads within the search results and it's been annoying me for a while. And no, I know for sure that I don't have adware/spyware. They don't always appear, but they too often do. They tend to be the top few resultsd, and they come in a somewhat emphasised font.
It's not just the rootkit, I stopped buying Sony products many years ago. The rootkit just confirms my previous experiences with Sony. They treat their consumers with in a bad way and place unreasonable constraints upon them. Anyone who bought a Sony minidisc device or any device that only uses memory stick knows what a pain Sony is. Also, the quality of their products have become quite questionable in recent years. There's been the CCD fiasco just lately, where bad glue made their CCDs practically come apart after a little while, and in my personal experience, both Sony Vaio laptops died just a little bit after their warranties expired.
A reason why you'd want an SLR-like camera without interchangeable lenses is that you know quite well what optical range you need and don't want to deal with the mess that is sensor dust. Think of it as the right tool for the job. I personally would not want an SLR, and if I did it would only be an Olympus as they have self-cleaning sensors. I have no tolerance for sensor dirt, and if you go on rec.photo.digital you'll see plenty of posts indicating clearly that it's a bitch of a problem and cleaning sensors does not always produce optimal results. Sensor dirt on pictures is a real obnoxious affair, especially a problem if you tshoot outdoors.
I would like to politely disagree with your opinion that Canon consumer cameras are the best. I may not object so much had the claim been made for Canon DSLRs, but surely not for their non-DSRL range. In my experience, and it's a long experience, Canon and Nikon use their reputation and brand name in the top-of-the-range and professional markets to sell consumer equipment that is inferior to that offered by other makers. People will buy anything Canon or Nikon, so they feel entitled to take a nice fat profit out of it. If you want a consumer line with unquistionable quality then both Fuji and Olympus stand out as great examples.
In addition, here are examples of my requests within the wikipedia system for neutral attention (look for Arabic numerals within the pages), and some other I made elsewhere had been edited out by people who are active on the page.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Third_opin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiquette