However, I will grant that the same argument for insisting that "begging the question" means raising the question can be used to dismiss the difference between acronyms and initialisms. Does that make it right? Well I guess that depends on if you are one of those proscriptivists (who insist that supposably is a word as long as enough people use it) or a descriptivist (who insist that words mean something, and ivory tower dictionaries contain those absolute meanings).
Why, no. That depends on whether you [sic: real pedants use "one"] are one of those proscriptivists...
Look, dumbass: Because we live in a capitalist society, we are constantly "taking" the fruits of other people's labor without justly compensating them. Usually, it's something quite tangible, like the Nikes on one's feet that someone in Indonesia got paid basically nothing to make (under conditions that are killing that someone, so they're actually making negative money). In the case of music, we're stealing the ever-so-precious ideas of people who don't usually have a day job. The guilt is killing me.
Indeed. I'm stunned that so many of the posts on this page fail to see the utility of this project. There's nothing technologically stunning going on here, but this is what Linux NEEDS to get some actual desktop usability.
Gnome can now be managed as a more cohesive whole, and people can start to see a more consistent desktop identity -- assuming that people do the smart thing and use Helix Code or some equivalent packaging/improvement scheme.
I shredded up the ulnar sides of my wrists a while back, and got a Kinesis on the company tab (my brother, who had a wrist problem of his own, suggested it to me). Yeah, it takes a couple of weeks to adjust, but once adjusted, your speed will go up, and the stress on your fingers, wrists, and forearms will go down. That's not to say you can't still hurt yourself (I have been typing way too much recently, and am starting to feel it), but the Kinesis can really help quite a bit.
Oh, boy! I expected to get a rise out of the easily-baited/. community, but I got a rise out of the master himself.
Sure, Philip, YOUR software is GPL, but AOLServer's isn't -- yet. I actually plan to put the ACS architecture to work as is, but once the source code is out there, I hope a lot of C hackers provide modularity that opens things up even more.
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Dear Mr. Comma, your own commacentric biases may have blinded you to the fact that a semicolon is called for here:
You may remember me[;] I am [an] old friend.
Though the Comma family may be a fan of the Comma Splice, most consider it poor form.
However, I will grant that the same argument for insisting that "begging the question" means raising the question can be used to dismiss the difference between acronyms and initialisms. Does that make it right? Well I guess that depends on if you are one of those proscriptivists (who insist that supposably is a word as long as enough people use it) or a descriptivist (who insist that words mean something, and ivory tower dictionaries contain those absolute meanings).
Why, no. That depends on whether you [sic: real pedants use "one"] are one of those proscriptivists...
Jeez. Half-assed pedantry is so unsatisfying.
Since it obviously gets you that long-awaited 64-bit OS from MS.
Look, dumbass: Because we live in a capitalist society, we are constantly "taking" the fruits of other people's labor without justly compensating them. Usually, it's something quite tangible, like the Nikes on one's feet that someone in Indonesia got paid basically nothing to make (under conditions that are killing that someone, so they're actually making negative money). In the case of music, we're stealing the ever-so-precious ideas of people who don't usually have a day job. The guilt is killing me.
Indeed. I'm stunned that so many of the posts on this page fail to see the utility of this project. There's nothing technologically stunning going on here, but this is what Linux NEEDS to get some actual desktop usability.
Gnome can now be managed as a more cohesive whole, and people can start to see a more consistent desktop identity -- assuming that people do the smart thing and use Helix Code or some equivalent packaging/improvement scheme.
I shredded up the ulnar sides of my wrists a while back, and got a Kinesis on the company tab (my brother, who had a wrist problem of his own, suggested it to me). Yeah, it takes a couple of weeks to adjust, but once adjusted, your speed will go up, and the stress on your fingers, wrists, and forearms will go down. That's not to say you can't still hurt yourself (I have been typing way too much recently, and am starting to feel it), but the Kinesis can really help quite a bit.
Oh, boy! I expected to get a rise out of the easily-baited /. community, but I got a rise out of the master himself.
Sure, Philip, YOUR software is GPL, but AOLServer's isn't -- yet. I actually plan to put the ACS architecture to work as is, but once the source code is out there, I hope a lot of C hackers provide modularity that opens things up even more.
I've been waiting for someone to bring this gem of a book to light on /. because Greenspun dares to insist that
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a. Perl isn't very good for anything on the web but grinding over
b. The best web server out there, while free as in beer, is not free as in speech.
I know this bunch of readers must have had at least *some* conditioned negative response to anyone who discounts the value of the Perl/Apache complex.