From the summary: The other thing that other submitters noted was that AdSense would also be accepting graphical advertising as well; but for display on partner sites.
So you can continue using the Google search engine, no unobtrusive ads there. (More pointed text ads, yes, but that's just obtrusive/unobtrusive as before, right?).
Many of you might not like targeted ads ("privacy issues"), but face it --- Google's and Gmail's ads are far less annoying than the random irrelevant banners that, say, Yahoo puts up.
Pay attention. That's hard drive cooling the article mentions, not processor cooling.
Most of the noise on most computers is because of the noisy fan that cools the processor, it has nothing to do with hard drive cooling.
Ok, I just guess it was me being stupid. But at least, I noticed it's the same bill.
But can anyone tell me how this bill is related to punishing prerelease filesharers? I'm still too confused.
Wasn't the other news just saying the opposite in its article?
The bill's supporters in Congress won passage of the prison terms by gluing them to an unrelated proposal to legalize technologies that delete offensive content from a film. That proposal was designed to address a lawsuit that Hollywood studios and the Directors Guild of America filed against ClearPlay over a DVD player that filtered violent and nude scenes. (ClearPlay had gained influential allies among family groups such as the Parents Television Council and Focus on the Family.)
says the other one, so filtering is illegal. And this one says it's ok? Am I being stupid, or is it the law?
According to TFA, the main task of JFCCNW is to bring down websites that don't portray America in good light.
They could do it more easily, and save some money -- just post it on slashdot, and it gets slashdotted.
Well, maybe the site wasn't any News for Nerds, but you can be sure/. will accept it anyway:)
You know you are a geek when you speak of your conscience 'ping'ing you. What does it do, send you packets of guilt and see how long you take to respond?:)
But seriously, you raise an important point here. I agree with you, for all the crappy software that BillG has caused to be created, for all the good companies that MS has mercilessly killed, he's more than made up for, by donating billions to charity.
Of course 'uniqueness' is a word. We use it in Maths all the time --- "By the uniqueness of the factorisation, it follows that...", "Because of the uniqueness of the solution, we know that A=B", etc. Basically, uniqueness of something means the fact that it is unique, in this context. Translated, the latter example becomes "Because the solution is unique, we know that A=B"
Oh thanks, I get what the sentence means now, but no thanks to your bracketing. I just reread it and got it, but it might have been better as:
I like broadband but it's pretty far down on (the list of critical infrastructure projects that we have neglected, in order to instead pursue (war,enriching the upper class, and funding a global colonial regime)).
I guess this is what was intended. Sorry:)
we have neglected to pursue war, enriching the upper class, and funding a global colonial regime
No, you haven't neglected to pursue any of these, you really have pursued war, etc.;)
(Apart from what the poster above me says about touching being a macro-level thing, ) in my opinion, your parent is right:
Anytime you touch anything, you're touching molecules with your bare hands!
The article should have been titled "Interacting with molecules with your bare hands", as "touching" molecules just makes no sense.
No, even if you are. All matter is made of molecules, even that made of "pure elements". A molecule does not have to have atoms of more than one kind to be called a molecule. Molecules of hydrogen, for instance, are made of two hydrogen atoms. A molecule doesn't even have to have more than one atom -- it's a mono-atomic molecule, if it has only one atom.
Oh, and did I mention it allows the newspaper to maintain its brand and sell its own advertising based on what the user is viewing?
Seriously, can't you just look at the three sentences that you've written before this one and see that you haven't? Why ask rhetorical questions?
Yes, "repetitive" is implied by "redundancy", making "repetitive redundancy" not only redundant, but also repetitive.
Geez, glad you could see the point
Anyway, here're:
William Safire's rules for writing as seen in the New York Times
Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don't start sentences with a conjunction.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
Also, avoid awkward or affected alliteration.
Last, but not least, avoid cliche's like the plague.
You are absolutely very correct! To be repetitive redundancy it has to be said thrice. It is only redundancy if it is said twice, how foolishly stupid of me to not notice that.
But of course, "if not more and not less" is not the same thing as "at least" -- I stand by my statement that "at least x" means "x if not more". Am I not right? Why is this a troll?
I have been greatly saddened by this most unfair moderation... sigh. ;)
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From the summary:
The other thing that other submitters noted was that AdSense would also be accepting graphical advertising as well; but for display on partner sites.
So you can continue using the Google search engine, no unobtrusive ads there. (More pointed text ads, yes, but that's just obtrusive/unobtrusive as before, right?).
Many of you might not like targeted ads ("privacy issues"), but face it --- Google's and Gmail's ads are far less annoying than the random irrelevant banners that, say, Yahoo puts up.
You mean "he would never have been arrested".
Epidemics should not be prevented with the stem, they should be prevented from the ROOT! :)
Pay attention. That's hard drive cooling the article mentions, not processor cooling.
Most of the noise on most computers is because of the noisy fan that cools the processor, it has nothing to do with hard drive cooling.
Ok, I just guess it was me being stupid. But at least, I noticed it's the same bill.
But can anyone tell me how this bill is related to punishing prerelease filesharers? I'm still too confused.
But IIRC, (part of) Ireland is in the UK. Doesn't UK stand for "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"?
According to TFA, the main task of JFCCNW is to bring down websites that don't portray America in good light. /. will accept it anyway :)
They could do it more easily, and save some money -- just post it on slashdot, and it gets slashdotted.
Well, maybe the site wasn't any News for Nerds, but you can be sure
Is just that -- a review of Dell's XPS Gen 5, rather than a review of Intel's dual core, actually. Still,I guess there's a bit about dualcore.
You know you are a geek when you speak of your conscience 'ping'ing you. What does it do, send you packets of guilt and see how long you take to respond? :)
But seriously, you raise an important point here. I agree with you, for all the crappy software that BillG has caused to be created, for all the good companies that MS has mercilessly killed, he's more than made up for, by donating billions to charity.
Of course 'uniqueness' is a word. We use it in Maths all the time --- "By the uniqueness of the factorisation, it follows that...", "Because of the uniqueness of the solution, we know that A=B", etc. Basically, uniqueness of something means the fact that it is unique, in this context. Translated, the latter example becomes "Because the solution is unique, we know that A=B"
Oh thanks, I get what the sentence means now, but no thanks to your bracketing. I just reread it and got it, but it might have been better as: I like broadband but it's pretty far down on (the list of critical infrastructure projects that we have neglected, in order to instead pursue (war,enriching the upper class, and funding a global colonial regime)). :)
I guess this is what was intended. Sorry
we have neglected to pursue war, enriching the upper class, and funding a global colonial regime ;)
No, you haven't neglected to pursue any of these, you really have pursued war, etc.
(Apart from what the poster above me says about touching being a macro-level thing, ) in my opinion, your parent is right: Anytime you touch anything, you're touching molecules with your bare hands! The article should have been titled "Interacting with molecules with your bare hands", as "touching" molecules just makes no sense.
No, even if you are. All matter is made of molecules, even that made of "pure elements". A molecule does not have to have atoms of more than one kind to be called a molecule. Molecules of hydrogen, for instance, are made of two hydrogen atoms. A molecule doesn't even have to have more than one atom -- it's a mono-atomic molecule, if it has only one atom.
Oh, and did I mention it allows the newspaper to maintain its brand and sell its own advertising based on what the user is viewing?
Seriously, can't you just look at the three sentences that you've written before this one and see that you haven't? Why ask rhetorical questions?
With my dialup internet connection, it would take an average of four months to download it from Bittorent!
I have to usually do C-x C-s C-x k RET.
Have you set it up so it doesn't ask? Can you tell me how? I would like to know.
Yes, "repetitive" is implied by "redundancy", making "repetitive redundancy" not only redundant, but also repetitive.
Geez, glad you could see the point
Anyway, here're:
William Safire's rules for writing as seen in the New York Times
Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don't start sentences with a conjunction.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
Also, avoid awkward or affected alliteration.
Last, but not least, avoid cliche's like the plague.
Ok, I am "troll" again. This game is getting very exciting!
OOps, I'm "Insightful" now. Sorry about my parent post, I am not wise in the ways of the quick-changing moderation on /.
You are absolutely very correct! To be repetitive redundancy it has to be said thrice. It is only redundancy if it is said twice, how foolishly stupid of me to not notice that.
;)
But of course, "if not more and not less" is not the same thing as "at least" -- I stand by my statement that "at least x" means "x if not more". Am I not right? Why is this a troll?
I have been greatly saddened by this most unfair moderation... sigh.
you can fill the entire thing out online and save all the cash!
They estimated -at least- $175, if not more!
Er, isn't that repetitive redundancy? Doesn't "at least" mean the same as "if not more"?