You don't understand the meaning of the words "theory" and "conjecture".
In addition, you have no evidence to suggest that God was involved in any part of the creation process, whereas we DO have mounds of evidence for evolution.
An excellent suggestion. The problem is that it would require examiners to understand Gregg as well. Perhaps the solution is to make it a required subject in school, and to require mastery in it to become a teacher.
I, an American, am currently studying as a foreign exchange student in a French high school. I can tell you right now that you are clearly an imbecile. French people have an almost religious zeal for the presentation, correctness, and organization of their schoolwork. I would be immensely surprised if anyone in France were even thinking about something like this.
Wrong. SMS speak, as I understand it, is a text compression scheme, albeit one that is so rudimentary that it can be employed quickly and effortlessly by humans. Assuming that, like most Slashdotters, you have an above-average knowledge of computer science, you most likely understand and appreciate the efficacy of compression in space- or bandwidth-limited contexts. This clearly applies to SMS, with message length limited and/or tied to the cost of sending, not to mention the significant amount of time it takes to enter the message.
New Zealand has made the right decision. Penalizing a student for non-standard English on an exam for a subject that is not English amounts to standard English mastery being counted as part of the grade for that subject. Why should the student's level of English be a factor in determining his or her grade in, for example, chemistry? This would diminish the accuracy of the grade, contradicting the very point of the test.
Others have asked how students can learn "proper" English with these newly loosened regulations. I'd like to point out that one of the main objectives of English class is to teach the use of standard English! The students' mastery of English can be tested with their English exams; doing so with those of any other subject would be ridiculous.
90% of Twitter's posts are troll posts, 5% are average, 5% are actually quite insightful. However, he trolls so zealously most of the time that the anti-Twitter-troll trolls tend to simply reply to everything he says, simply because they've grown to hate his ranting.
The mishap happened in Hong Kong. These Hong Kongese (or whatever) infected USB sticks got distributed to McDonald's Japan, who distributed them to "lucky" winners.
I attacked you, I didn't defend Microsoft. There's a difference. I think Microsoft is evil, but I also think they make some good products. Just my 2 centimes.
Are you serious? You get more ridiculous all the time.
By the way, you're probably going to claim I'm working for Redmond or something. For your information I'm actually in France, and I've never been paid two cents by any company besides McDonalds (I'm 17 years old) for any reason ever.
The issue isn't whether she possesses the illegally copied songs. The issue is whether she distributed them. If somebody broke into a record store, stole a bunch of albums, made lots of copies, and offered to distribute them to anyone who asked, her penalty would be pretty steep I imagine.
But it's copyright infringement, no more, no less, and I agree with you that calling it "theft" is inaccurate, misleading, and ridiculous.
Two of which work decently well for my needs, and three of which go beyond that, being simply excellent. I've never encountered an OSS equivalent that does better than any of those five pieces of software at their respective tasks. Care to explain what the fuck you're talking about?
What do you mean by God "used" evolution to create man? The entire point of evolution is that it happens automatically by random mutation. Where does God come in?
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Nobody was ever disputing its intuitiveness until you came along. They were talking about whether it should be done or not.
What about "leter to mom"?
Good thing that's not the definition of intelligence.
You don't understand the meaning of the words "theory" and "conjecture".
In addition, you have no evidence to suggest that God was involved in any part of the creation process, whereas we DO have mounds of evidence for evolution.
OK, you forgot the other reason. The fact that using a smaller number of characters often results in a lower cost.
An excellent suggestion. The problem is that it would require examiners to understand Gregg as well. Perhaps the solution is to make it a required subject in school, and to require mastery in it to become a teacher.
I congratulate you on your deep, well-reasoned, precision-crafted and factually correct argument.
Did you forget the meaning of the word "also", or what?
By the way, you spelled "français" wrong.
I, an American, am currently studying as a foreign exchange student in a French high school. I can tell you right now that you are clearly an imbecile. French people have an almost religious zeal for the presentation, correctness, and organization of their schoolwork. I would be immensely surprised if anyone in France were even thinking about something like this.
Wrong. SMS speak, as I understand it, is a text compression scheme, albeit one that is so rudimentary that it can be employed quickly and effortlessly by humans. Assuming that, like most Slashdotters, you have an above-average knowledge of computer science, you most likely understand and appreciate the efficacy of compression in space- or bandwidth-limited contexts. This clearly applies to SMS, with message length limited and/or tied to the cost of sending, not to mention the significant amount of time it takes to enter the message.
No.
What's your point?
New Zealand has made the right decision. Penalizing a student for non-standard English on an exam for a subject that is not English amounts to standard English mastery being counted as part of the grade for that subject. Why should the student's level of English be a factor in determining his or her grade in, for example, chemistry? This would diminish the accuracy of the grade, contradicting the very point of the test.
Others have asked how students can learn "proper" English with these newly loosened regulations. I'd like to point out that one of the main objectives of English class is to teach the use of standard English! The students' mastery of English can be tested with their English exams; doing so with those of any other subject would be ridiculous.
Note: I am an American high school student.
As for me, I have no probably with people who CAN speak English.
I think it says a lot about Slashdot that the parent post is actually more coherent than the submission.
90% of Twitter's posts are troll posts, 5% are average, 5% are actually quite insightful. However, he trolls so zealously most of the time that the anti-Twitter-troll trolls tend to simply reply to everything he says, simply because they've grown to hate his ranting.
The mishap happened in Hong Kong. These Hong Kongese (or whatever) infected USB sticks got distributed to McDonald's Japan, who distributed them to "lucky" winners.
Defend your assertion that C is an assembler.
So, why should the plaintiff get that money? God knows the rest of society needs it, to build schools etc.
You mean "courrectly".
I attacked you, I didn't defend Microsoft. There's a difference. I think Microsoft is evil, but I also think they make some good products. Just my 2 centimes.
WTF, Twitter, you've outdone yourself this time. I'm adding this post to my private collection.
Are you serious? You get more ridiculous all the time.
By the way, you're probably going to claim I'm working for Redmond or something. For your information I'm actually in France, and I've never been paid two cents by any company besides McDonalds (I'm 17 years old) for any reason ever.
The issue isn't whether she possesses the illegally copied songs. The issue is whether she distributed them. If somebody broke into a record store, stole a bunch of albums, made lots of copies, and offered to distribute them to anyone who asked, her penalty would be pretty steep I imagine.
But it's copyright infringement, no more, no less, and I agree with you that calling it "theft" is inaccurate, misleading, and ridiculous.
The failure of non-free software development?
I'm currently running:
Windows XP
Opera
iTunes
AIM Triton
Visual Studio
Two of which work decently well for my needs, and three of which go beyond that, being simply excellent. I've never encountered an OSS equivalent that does better than any of those five pieces of software at their respective tasks.
Care to explain what the fuck you're talking about?
What do you mean by God "used" evolution to create man? The entire point of evolution is that it happens automatically by random mutation. Where does God come in?