I've worked as a referee (amateur soccer/football/whatever you want to call it). I got a hell of a lot more out of doing it than $20 for 90 minutes of my time. It's fun. You're basically in charge of a small team whose goal is to organize 22 other people's fun. Technology can help, but cutting human refs out of the game wouldn't be fair to the refs.
Sorry, this is dumb. Plea bargains are made informally between the defense and prosecuting attorneys. Once they've agreed, they present the agreement to a judge for approval. This takes minutes of court time instead of hours.
You can say this about all internet traffic. I'm sure ISPs would love to take in their monthly fee and not have to transfer any bits, but we paying customers want our bits moved, be they spam, illegal movies, or just HTML.
You can be sure spammers pay a bundle for bandwidth.
And since no one else really understands what you're doing anyways, and your usage of the words won't be effected by what us peons do with them, why do you care?
Because I don't think of non-mathematicians as peons. I'm in fact much more of an egalitarian than you might be lead to believe through our interactions. I've already had to go into several long diatribes about the word with my peers because they accused me of flakiness when the word was exactly what I meant. Same with "paradigm" and "abstraction." And, unfortunately, none of these words have synonyms without connotations I don't mean. So I've literally lost the way to say what I mean.
I suggest you take a look in a dictionary for the definition of the prefix 'meta-'. It means:
later in time
situated behind
beyond, transcending
having undergone metamorphosis
one of the possible isomers... blah blah blah, it's chemistry related
The "about" definition is an abuse from the use of 'meta-' in 'metalanguage' in Mathematics and Philosophy by intellectually soft post modernists. In particular, a metalanguage is a language used to analyze another. It is transcendent over the other on that basis, for often the metalanguage can express things the other cannot. Metaphysics is not "about physics." The field takes its name from a series of books that were placed after the "Physics". First century scholars of Aristotle called these books the "ta meta ta physica biblia," which means "the books that come after the books about physics." Aristotle himself called what we call metaphysics "First Philosophy."
Call me a snob if you must. I understand the relativity of language, and that I cannot expect it to remain static. Indeed, a linguist would look at both of our gramatical mistakes a simple data points for the current evolution of language. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't resist the watering down of perfectly good technical words by people who fundamentally don't understand them. We've already lost "abstraction" and "paradigm" to marketers. It's embarassing to everyone involved when people are accused of intellectual laziness.
No, it's just a word. They're all on an even playing field. There's nothing transcendent about it. Feel free to play your word games. I've already learned to ignore the pomo meta-tards.
Those aren't going to be oozing facial oils, sweat, or dead skin though. If it weren't for our direct contact with our bedding, it wouldn't be nearly as hospitable for fungi.
Awww, did calling you a code monkey hurt your feelings? This was just some "meta-satire" for you. Since, you know, you code monkies don't have very good senses of humor.
They seem comprable, but I like LaTeX's "functional" markup better. It might seem less intuitive at first glance, but it tends to make building nested structures, like
x = \sqrt[n]{\frac{1}{x + \sqrt[n]{\frac{1}{x + \sqrt{x}}}
(Solve for x.)
really easy since it parallels the way functions are built in real life.
[Abiword] is the first Free Word Processor to offer an integrated Grammar Checker. We can can[sic] do this because we're a pure GPL'd application and so can easily collaborate with other Freely licensed applications like link-grammar, gtkmathview and itex2mml which provide AbiWord-2.4 with a superb Latex-based Math feature.
The Grand Jury decides if there is enough evidence to indict a person. In possible obscenity cases, a major necessary component is whether or not the act or work a person is charged for is in fact obscene. That's it.
You were wrong, and no amount of wriggling wormy arguments about jury nullification or the legislature will change that.
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I've worked as a referee (amateur soccer/football/whatever you want to call it). I got a hell of a lot more out of doing it than $20 for 90 minutes of my time. It's fun. You're basically in charge of a small team whose goal is to organize 22 other people's fun. Technology can help, but cutting human refs out of the game wouldn't be fair to the refs.
Yes. At least two.
Don't waste your time implementing this in software. You're not going to be able to get low enough latency to make it work.
You conjugate verbs and decline nouns and pronouns.
Sorry, this is dumb. Plea bargains are made informally between the defense and prosecuting attorneys. Once they've agreed, they present the agreement to a judge for approval. This takes minutes of court time instead of hours.
I'm sorry.
You can be sure spammers pay a bundle for bandwidth.
Spam is awful, but 20 years in prison for it is just absurd.
Is your ISP Canadian? I'd guess they identify countries by IP address.
Dude, Goatse Man's cherry was popped long ago.
Because I don't think of non-mathematicians as peons. I'm in fact much more of an egalitarian than you might be lead to believe through our interactions. I've already had to go into several long diatribes about the word with my peers because they accused me of flakiness when the word was exactly what I meant. Same with "paradigm" and "abstraction." And, unfortunately, none of these words have synonyms without connotations I don't mean. So I've literally lost the way to say what I mean.
Sorry I came on so strong.
I suggest you take a look in a dictionary for the definition of the prefix 'meta-'. It means:
The "about" definition is an abuse from the use of 'meta-' in 'metalanguage' in Mathematics and Philosophy by intellectually soft post modernists. In particular, a metalanguage is a language used to analyze another. It is transcendent over the other on that basis, for often the metalanguage can express things the other cannot. Metaphysics is not "about physics." The field takes its name from a series of books that were placed after the "Physics". First century scholars of Aristotle called these books the "ta meta ta physica biblia," which means "the books that come after the books about physics." Aristotle himself called what we call metaphysics "First Philosophy."
Call me a snob if you must. I understand the relativity of language, and that I cannot expect it to remain static. Indeed, a linguist would look at both of our gramatical mistakes a simple data points for the current evolution of language. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't resist the watering down of perfectly good technical words by people who fundamentally don't understand them. We've already lost "abstraction" and "paradigm" to marketers. It's embarassing to everyone involved when people are accused of intellectual laziness.
No, it's just a word. They're all on an even playing field. There's nothing transcendent about it. Feel free to play your word games. I've already learned to ignore the pomo meta-tards.
Those aren't going to be oozing facial oils, sweat, or dead skin though. If it weren't for our direct contact with our bedding, it wouldn't be nearly as hospitable for fungi.
The 'meta-' prefix is a huge red flag of 'paradigm'-like buzzwording.
Awww, did calling you a code monkey hurt your feelings? This was just some "meta-satire" for you. Since, you know, you code monkies don't have very good senses of humor.
Speak for yourself, code monkey. Math geeks are some of the funniest people ever.
They seem comprable, but I like LaTeX's "functional" markup better. It might seem less intuitive at first glance, but it tends to make building nested structures, like
(Solve for x.) really easy since it parallels the way functions are built in real life.[Abiword] is the first Free Word Processor to offer an integrated Grammar Checker. We can can[sic] do this because we're a pure GPL'd application and so can easily collaborate with other Freely licensed applications like link-grammar, gtkmathview and itex2mml which provide AbiWord-2.4 with a superb Latex-based Math feature.
They say that as if LaTeX were relevant.
What does LaTeX have to do with checking English grammar?
Speak for yourself, code monkey.
Or instead, you could buy a couple of gallons of a nice spiced Winter Ale and do something meaningful with your family.
We're less than seven years away now. I'm getting kind of excited.
Very nice. I would mod you up, but I've been blacklisted from moderation.
You were wrong, and no amount of wriggling wormy arguments about jury nullification or the legislature will change that.