They think, plan, prepare, etc. and do everything with long term goals.
How'd that work out for the Cultural Revolution?
It produced a generation of Chinese who've lost touch with much of their cultural heritage and who don't really believe in much of anything other than looking out for themselves and to blazes with anyone else, so I'd say it was largely a success.
There is nothing elitist about learning to communicate, which is defined as "to exchange information between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behaviour".
If you're not using this common system, then you're not communicating--you're just making noises and hoping others will be able to guess at your meaning (if they can even tell that you mean anything).
However, I think there might be something elitist about people who "like to be vague", thereby insisting that I perform constant error-correction in order to understand them.
Non-native speakers have an excuse. Folks like you, who evidently couldn't be bothered to learn anything in 12+ years of school about their own native language, don't.
BTW, I'm a writer by trade. If I don't communicate, I don't get paid. Nothing elitist about that, either--unless you call my desire to continue making house payments "elitist".
BTW ever notice that no Roman or Greek music has survived til today? We have all their other literature but not their songs. Perhaps because there was no monetary incentive for musicians to share their work.
Ancient Greek musical notation was capable of representing pitch and note-duration, and to a limited extent, harmony. It was in use from at least the 6th century BC until approximately the 4th century AD; several complete compositions and fragments of compositions using this notation survive.
If she ever had any credibility to begin with (she didn't), she lost it at having used Kazaa. What is this, 2002? Who even knew Kazaa was still a *thing*?
If you'd bothered to read the fine article (and could perform simple addition and subtraction), you'd have discovered that she says she used Kazaa in the 5th grade, and she's now 20.
When she was in the 5th grade her age would have been in the 10-12 range.
Let's split the difference and say she was 11 when she used Kazaa. That would have been 9 years ago.
What do you get when you subtract 9 from 2012?
Get back to us when you've figured that out.
...the comments in the responses on that blog are fucking ludicrous. Are people really that naive and stupid?
Apparently you missed Henry Rollins being quoted as saying, "I'd rather than get heard than paid"?
Someone is on the wrong side of the credibility gap here,... but somehow I don't think it's Emily.
The problem is the complexity of the markup serves as barrier to entry.
I have never understood the *need* for wiki markup. What's wrong with plain old vanilla HTML (the basics of which can be learnt in an afternoon by any teenager of at least average intelligence)? Why all the unnecessary round trips between the two?
(Personally, I'd prefer to use a subset of DocBook XML, but that's neither here nor there.)
If you really want to bring computing to the masses...
Any teen-aged kid on the subway is likely to be carrying more computing power in his hip pocket than NASA had in toto at its disposal for the first Moon landing.
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Way to miss the point.
Square feet?
Cubic yards?
Kilowatt-hours?
Bottles of Lone Star BBQ Sauce?
Ping-pong balls?
Dollars?
douchebag apocalypse
I think you've just found a new and much better title for your current project. :)
They think, plan, prepare, etc. and do everything with long term goals.
How'd that work out for the Cultural Revolution?
It produced a generation of Chinese who've lost touch with much of their cultural heritage and who don't really believe in much of anything other than looking out for themselves and to blazes with anyone else, so I'd say it was largely a success.
No. The communist invasion and takeover of China did not last that long. In fact, it was over in 1949.
Which says absolutely nothing about how long it lasted, does it?
The Chinese Civil War lasted for nearly 25 years, having begun in 1927.
What else do you not know about history?
And on a Swedish one.
Borrow a few thousand dollars, and the bank owns you.
Borrow a billion, and you own the bank.
Mod points for the both of you, if I had 'em right now.
There is nothing elitist about learning to communicate, which is defined as "to exchange information between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behaviour".
If you're not using this common system, then you're not communicating--you're just making noises and hoping others will be able to guess at your meaning (if they can even tell that you mean anything).
However, I think there might be something elitist about people who "like to be vague", thereby insisting that I perform constant error-correction in order to understand them.
Non-native speakers have an excuse. Folks like you, who evidently couldn't be bothered to learn anything in 12+ years of school about their own native language, don't.
BTW, I'm a writer by trade. If I don't communicate, I don't get paid. Nothing elitist about that, either--unless you call my desire to continue making house payments "elitist".
BTW ever notice that no Roman or Greek music has survived til today? We have all their other literature but not their songs. Perhaps because there was no monetary incentive for musicians to share their work.
I've not noticed any such thing:
Ancient Greek musical notation was capable of representing pitch and note-duration, and to a limited extent, harmony. It was in use from at least the 6th century BC until approximately the 4th century AD; several complete compositions and fragments of compositions using this notation survive.
If she ever had any credibility to begin with (she didn't), she lost it at having used Kazaa. What is this, 2002? Who even knew Kazaa was still a *thing*?
If you'd bothered to read the fine article (and could perform simple addition and subtraction), you'd have discovered that she says she used Kazaa in the 5th grade, and she's now 20.
When she was in the 5th grade her age would have been in the 10-12 range.
Let's split the difference and say she was 11 when she used Kazaa. That would have been 9 years ago.
What do you get when you subtract 9 from 2012?
Get back to us when you've figured that out.
...the comments in the responses on that blog are fucking ludicrous. Are people really that naive and stupid?
Apparently you missed Henry Rollins being quoted as saying, "I'd rather than get heard than paid"?
Someone is on the wrong side of the credibility gap here, ... but somehow I don't think it's Emily.
And this, kids, is a prime example of projection.
You self-contradicted yourself.
Well, he obviously didn't self-contradict anyone else.
The problem is the complexity of the markup serves as barrier to entry.
I have never understood the *need* for wiki markup. What's wrong with plain old vanilla HTML (the basics of which can be learnt in an afternoon by any teenager of at least average intelligence)? Why all the unnecessary round trips between the two?
(Personally, I'd prefer to use a subset of DocBook XML, but that's neither here nor there.)
This "reasonable request" is like a request to paint a cardboard house in a prettier color.
Perhaps better known as putting lipstick on a pig.
Has 3D technology really benefited anyone but the display makers and the content industry?
For those of you playing along at home:
This is known as a rhetorical question.
Guess I missed that. Next time I'll try not to blink.
Non sequitur.
An idea is not patentable.
An implementation is.
Which of these corresponds more closely to 'algorithm'?
One nation should never respect another nation's patents. This just lets a bad patent system wage war on everybody's economy.
How would this work in the EU? I'm genuinely curious.
third world countries should focus on making sure their citizens aren't so poor as to depend on charity/piracy.
...and then the survivors will be able to afford the drugs at US prices? Brilliant!
The text of news stories is also referred to as "copy".
--Former writer of radio ad and news copy*.
(*Sometimes it was even possible to discern which was which.)
a lot of military reform (openly gay is a-ok
Using the military as lab rats for social-engineering experiments is bad defense policy.
Gee, looks like someone forgot to tell Harry Truman 'bout that...
Too bad that you missed the 70s and 80s, eh?
If you really want to bring computing to the masses...
Any teen-aged kid on the subway is likely to be carrying more computing power in his hip pocket than NASA had in toto at its disposal for the first Moon landing.
You were saying...?