I disagree. Many people have more value dead than alive. Of course, they'd have their maximum value of zero if they hadn't been conceived to begin with, but once they become people that becomes a less viable option. However, Hans Reiser's wife almost certainly wasn't one of these people. I just don't want your +5 Insightful broad generalization escaping all valid critique.;)
What is your rationale? Or, for the remedial class, please distinguish your logic from the following: "There's no way I'm going to live in a country whose declaration of independence was penned by a slave-owner!"
If you really know how to program, then languages are just interchangeable tools that you can select from for each task.
Oh, you meant human language. I'll rephrase:
If you really know how not to comment your code, then human languages are just interchangeable tools that you can select from for failing to comment each program.
And don't go into research. Research is for people who don't make it coding and can't find a better career path like medicine or underwater welding.
I disagree with numbering them like that, for this reason: You end up with gaps. Gaps are inconsistencies, which defeat the purpose of a consistent naming scheme.
Wood - all aspects, from density to shape - plays a huge role in guitar tone. I've always found this to be rather astonishing since the sound of an electric guitar comes from a vibrating piece of wire interacting with a small magnet. How is it that the thing holding the string above the magnet can play such a big part in what the magnetic field is doing? But it does, and that's pretty cool to me.
I grew up in a rural area. FidoNet was during my time but before my online life began, as we simply had no BBSes to begin with. I spent the time programming in isolation, instead. It was a simpler time, &c.:P
I don't use Jabber, because to my knowledge my problems with it when I used it extensively (it formed the backbone of my undergraduate thesis project in distributed computing) in 2002-2003 still exist. One of those (the big one for me as an end user; the other big one was for me as a programmer and it had to do with the Jabber protocol making bad assumptions about how XML and XML namespaces work) was that all of the transports failed to handle multiple logins to the Jabber account in a proper manner. Instead, I just use Adium and accept that only AIM and Jabber-based accounts will work with multiple logins. Unless that's changed.
As to AIM and ICQ being the same network, the big difference is that my 6-digit ICQ number is too easy to hit with spam, so I just disable that account in my IM program.
My recent usage, on only one machine but my main workstation for the past 2-1/2 years, gives the following reports from du for my Adium log folder:
AIM: 86MB
MSN: 37MB
Yahoo: 50MB
ICQ: 0
GTalk: 4.2MB
Note that I only used MSN and Yahoo for a long time, and added AIM just a few years ago when I moved to a state where apparently everyone is on AIM. I think that there are regional trends for one network to be more popular than others. This probably has to do with the first few people in a particular high school or college starting with one IM network and nobody in that school bothering with the others since they all told their friends "Get X!"
My ICQ number is 6 digits, in the 500,000 range. I do not know if they started off at 100,000 or below. I never really used ICQ then or now. I just got a number to fit in.:P
Apparently Gallium isn't a Rare Earth Element.
Actually, neither is Hafnium, Indium, Zinc or Copper. Does the article have any connection to the rare earth elements at all?
I have a friend whose provider (Verizon) charged per incoming message. The alternative is to have the provider disable SMS on your service altogether rather than having the pay-per-message option. Or switch to another provider, if there is one available in your area that Verizon isn't buying. In my area, there is not, and my 8 years of avoiding Verizon are coming to a close.
Mod parent up, Insightful. Very few of my textbooks have I regretted selling back. Among them, physics, calculus, probability, and Latin. I actually ended up re-buying Wheelock for posterity later on in life.
I guarantee that you are, indeed, in good and numerous company on that one, although I'm pretty confident it was +Something Funny at the time that I posted my original reply to it. =)
That's exactly the one I meant. I'm in ND, and CDMA is the technology of North America. It's just not as green as the grass on the other side of the fence. There's no such thing as an unlocked CDMA phone or an open-source CDMA phone, etc.
I think that a dictionary can be perfectly sane and prescriptive at the same time. I'm going to write one, in fact. Wait, better yet! I'm going to go through Wiktionary and add prescriptive sections to every word. That's sane, right?
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I disagree. Many people have more value dead than alive. Of course, they'd have their maximum value of zero if they hadn't been conceived to begin with, but once they become people that becomes a less viable option. However, Hans Reiser's wife almost certainly wasn't one of these people. I just don't want your +5 Insightful broad generalization escaping all valid critique. ;)
Hey, back off. In this country, you are innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt before a jury ... oh, right.
There are only two types of people in the world: Those who see gray areas and those who only see black and white.
What is your rationale? Or, for the remedial class, please distinguish your logic from the following: "There's no way I'm going to live in a country whose declaration of independence was penned by a slave-owner!"
If you really know how to program, then languages are just interchangeable tools that you can select from for each task.
Oh, you meant human language. I'll rephrase:
If you really know how not to comment your code, then human languages are just interchangeable tools that you can select from for failing to comment each program.
And don't go into research. Research is for people who don't make it coding and can't find a better career path like medicine or underwater welding.
Am I missing any?
Those would be the easy-to-remember bones and muscles I had in mind.
I disagree with numbering them like that, for this reason: You end up with gaps. Gaps are inconsistencies, which defeat the purpose of a consistent naming scheme.
The problem is that you run out, unless you name them after easy-to-remember bones or muscles.
Now try doing it with different types of wood in the dowel and holding all other things constant. That's the interesting part relevant here.
Whitespace allows other characters. They just don't have syntactic meaning. :P
Wood - all aspects, from density to shape - plays a huge role in guitar tone. I've always found this to be rather astonishing since the sound of an electric guitar comes from a vibrating piece of wire interacting with a small magnet. How is it that the thing holding the string above the magnet can play such a big part in what the magnetic field is doing? But it does, and that's pretty cool to me.
I grew up in a rural area. FidoNet was during my time but before my online life began, as we simply had no BBSes to begin with. I spent the time programming in isolation, instead. It was a simpler time, &c. :P
I don't use Jabber, because to my knowledge my problems with it when I used it extensively (it formed the backbone of my undergraduate thesis project in distributed computing) in 2002-2003 still exist. One of those (the big one for me as an end user; the other big one was for me as a programmer and it had to do with the Jabber protocol making bad assumptions about how XML and XML namespaces work) was that all of the transports failed to handle multiple logins to the Jabber account in a proper manner. Instead, I just use Adium and accept that only AIM and Jabber-based accounts will work with multiple logins. Unless that's changed.
As to AIM and ICQ being the same network, the big difference is that my 6-digit ICQ number is too easy to hit with spam, so I just disable that account in my IM program.
Oh crap. Between my Slashdot ID and my ICQ number, now even I realize how old I'm getting! I bet you kids don't even remember Napster itself!
My recent usage, on only one machine but my main workstation for the past 2-1/2 years, gives the following reports from du for my Adium log folder:
Note that I only used MSN and Yahoo for a long time, and added AIM just a few years ago when I moved to a state where apparently everyone is on AIM. I think that there are regional trends for one network to be more popular than others. This probably has to do with the first few people in a particular high school or college starting with one IM network and nobody in that school bothering with the others since they all told their friends "Get X!"
My ICQ number is 6 digits, in the 500,000 range. I do not know if they started off at 100,000 or below. I never really used ICQ then or now. I just got a number to fit in. :P
Apparently Gallium isn't a Rare Earth Element. Actually, neither is Hafnium, Indium, Zinc or Copper. Does the article have any connection to the rare earth elements at all?
You must be new here.
I have a friend whose provider (Verizon) charged per incoming message. The alternative is to have the provider disable SMS on your service altogether rather than having the pay-per-message option. Or switch to another provider, if there is one available in your area that Verizon isn't buying. In my area, there is not, and my 8 years of avoiding Verizon are coming to a close.
Mod parent up, Insightful. Very few of my textbooks have I regretted selling back. Among them, physics, calculus, probability, and Latin. I actually ended up re-buying Wheelock for posterity later on in life.
Your comment and signature bear a striking resemblance to one another.
I guarantee that you are, indeed, in good and numerous company on that one, although I'm pretty confident it was +Something Funny at the time that I posted my original reply to it. =)
The fact that I was replying to a +5 Funny comment with a link to the Illmatic album should have clued you in. :P
Anyone who takes the second half of a comment seriously when the first half is a rap lyric shouldn't be on Ask Slashdot. :P
That's exactly the one I meant. I'm in ND, and CDMA is the technology of North America. It's just not as green as the grass on the other side of the fence. There's no such thing as an unlocked CDMA phone or an open-source CDMA phone, etc.
I think that a dictionary can be perfectly sane and prescriptive at the same time. I'm going to write one, in fact. Wait, better yet! I'm going to go through Wiktionary and add prescriptive sections to every word. That's sane, right?