Mixtures of cornstarch, water, and other suspensions have been known as "shear-thickening" materials.
That's quite the parallel construction! Cornstarch is a suspension, and so is water! I'm afraid this 'science writer' is either not much of a scientist, or not much of a writer.
This is really no different from the perceived responsibility of ISPs to police their users for copyright violations. The owner of the wifi hotspot is treated as the 'ISP' for anyone using it. It's a dumb argument at both levels.
I also think there's some deep normative analysis to be done on your use of the phrase 'coming across'. Semiotics is a subtle business.
The 'courtesies' expected of a reader, or of a writer, are inextricable from the the actual messages being explained as well as the pre-existing relationships (or lack thereof) between parties and so nearly every generalization which can be made about them is likely to be wrong.
Art always breaks the rules, but the artist has to know the rules and have a damned good artistic reason to break them.
This is a nice, satisfyingly right-sounding generalization of exactly the aforementioned sort. In practice, many artists jump straight to breaking rules without learning to follow them first, and have good success doing so. Furthermore I doubt you'd be able to find the "damned good artistic reason" for the lack of capitalization in Cummings' work on a poem-by-poem basis. Some of them are certainly enhanced by the tone and register that this idiosyncrasy creates, and others are arguably no better or worse than they would be if "correctly" typeset, and may break the rules for no reason more pressing than consistency with his other poems.
For many trolls right here on Slashdot, irking the reader's delicate typographical sensibilities is an end in itself - which constitutes a "damned good artistic reason" for their purposes.
The GP obviously had to use the shift key to produce all three characters in that frownyface emoticon.
honestly if reading an uncapitalized and unpunctuated sentence causes you physical or mental pain then i think for your own welfare you should get off the internet and stick to print media you're entitled to your own norms about what people's communication says about their education but perhaps it will cause you further discomfort to know that i went to university and did quite well
ps, i weep that you will never know the beauty of an e e cummings poem
Zaphod Beeblebrox the Nothingth (so named by his retrospective relatives) was the most important person in his reality too. I wonder if Loughla has been through a Total Perspective Vortex and survived.
If you want to congratulate someone, congratulate those who teach the public to vote that "two week rule" with their money. Congratulate those who teach because they believe knowledge gives freedom.
Why would you congratulate people for "voting with their money" for whatever option gives them the most desirable package for the money spent? They're just as much deterministic optimum-seeking machines as any CEO. Why would you expect people to use their financial transactions as a means of activism rather than a means of meeting their own needs? This is a huge double standard.
"Voting with your money" is not very similar to actual voting, because it is invariably made under some measure of duress or individual incentive. This is why, in a market full of consumers who actually do care about fair labour and manufacturing practices, companies like Wal-Mart can nonetheless thrive. Why should consumers have to put their money where their mouth is, but not producers?
I'm afraid "four" is not a complex or original enough concept to warrant intellectual property protection.
three would yield a total of 2 possible shapes, and five yields 24 shapes, which quickly makes things unwieldy and complex. Using tetrominoes rather than pentominoes or triominoes is an obvious decision for anyone skilled in the field of game design.
Tetris (Russian: ) is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union. It was released on June 6, 1984,[2] while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow.
If you're asking why -artifical scarcity- needs to be implimented in this scenario, I would guess that you already know the answer to that, but just for the sake of arguement, it is because of the tragedy of the commons. None of us wants to pay for music when it is freely available. I know I don't. But all of us not paying for music has long term devastating impact on the production of music as it currently exists.
Well now, there's a problem with many potential solutions! So here's one thought: who pays to maintain public roads and how are they compelled to pay for it?
And, no, she wasn't asleep. Or were you there observing?
a factual claim about events you didn't witness, followed immediately by a chastisement against making factual claims about events you didn't witness. lol.
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"The Partridge Family were neither partridges, nor a family."
Man, that James Cameron guy is one heck of a movie inventor, eh?
Mixtures of cornstarch, water, and other suspensions have been known as "shear-thickening" materials.
That's quite the parallel construction! Cornstarch is a suspension, and so is water!
I'm afraid this 'science writer' is either not much of a scientist, or not much of a writer.
This is really no different from the perceived responsibility of ISPs to police their users for copyright violations. The owner of the wifi hotspot is treated as the 'ISP' for anyone using it. It's a dumb argument at both levels.
Let's all pile into this thread so it takes longer to scroll past, everyone!
1) Developers
2) Developers
3) Developers
4) Developers
I think you meant 'cause', not 'case'.
I also think there's some deep normative analysis to be done on your use of the phrase 'coming across'. Semiotics is a subtle business.
The 'courtesies' expected of a reader, or of a writer, are inextricable from the the actual messages being explained as well as the pre-existing relationships (or lack thereof) between parties and so nearly every generalization which can be made about them is likely to be wrong.
Art always breaks the rules, but the artist has to know the rules and have a damned good artistic reason to break them.
This is a nice, satisfyingly right-sounding generalization of exactly the aforementioned sort. In practice, many artists jump straight to breaking rules without learning to follow them first, and have good success doing so. Furthermore I doubt you'd be able to find the "damned good artistic reason" for the lack of capitalization in Cummings' work on a poem-by-poem basis. Some of them are certainly enhanced by the tone and register that this idiosyncrasy creates, and others are arguably no better or worse than they would be if "correctly" typeset, and may break the rules for no reason more pressing than consistency with his other poems.
For many trolls right here on Slashdot, irking the reader's delicate typographical sensibilities is an end in itself - which constitutes a "damned good artistic reason" for their purposes.
The customers will make that decision on their own. If the real world only cared about cool, Newegg and Fry's would not be in business.
Or they can proudly declare that their product is for people who care about functionality and features rather than 'cool'.
The GP obviously had to use the shift key to produce all three characters in that frownyface emoticon.
honestly if reading an uncapitalized and unpunctuated sentence causes you physical or mental pain then i think for your own welfare you should get off the internet and stick to print media
you're entitled to your own norms about what people's communication says about their education but perhaps it will cause you further discomfort to know that i went to university and did quite well
ps, i weep that you will never know the beauty of an e e cummings poem
But announcing it in public allows them to cast doubt on the credibility of real leaks too.
Zaphod Beeblebrox the Nothingth (so named by his retrospective relatives) was the most important person in his reality too.
I wonder if Loughla has been through a Total Perspective Vortex and survived.
What is a fiduciary duty?
This kind of information-gathering is standard before executing any Sting operation.
If you want to congratulate someone, congratulate those who teach the public to vote that "two week rule" with their money. Congratulate those who teach because they believe knowledge gives freedom.
Why would you congratulate people for "voting with their money" for whatever option gives them the most desirable package for the money spent? They're just as much deterministic optimum-seeking machines as any CEO. Why would you expect people to use their financial transactions as a means of activism rather than a means of meeting their own needs? This is a huge double standard.
"Voting with your money" is not very similar to actual voting, because it is invariably made under some measure of duress or individual incentive. This is why, in a market full of consumers who actually do care about fair labour and manufacturing practices, companies like Wal-Mart can nonetheless thrive. Why should consumers have to put their money where their mouth is, but not producers?
You're right, that will definitely convince them to reconsider their overly strict policy not to mention help to cement your job security.
related: http://xkcd.com/651/
I'm afraid "four" is not a complex or original enough concept to warrant intellectual property protection.
three would yield a total of 2 possible shapes, and five yields 24 shapes, which quickly makes things unwieldy and complex. Using tetrominoes rather than pentominoes or triominoes is an obvious decision for anyone skilled in the field of game design.
Good thing there are more possible tetrominoes than the ones used in Tetris.
wait, hang on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
Come on, it's in the very first line.
Well now, there's a problem with many potential solutions! So here's one thought: who pays to maintain public roads and how are they compelled to pay for it?
Seconded. This is almost all the security news you'll ever need to stay on top of as a UNIX adminustrator.
*EXPERMINATE*
*EXPERMINATE*
I have often heard RF geeks and hams say "wideband" when talking about actual over-the-air transmissions.
And, no, she wasn't asleep. Or were you there observing?
a factual claim about events you didn't witness, followed immediately by a chastisement against making factual claims about events you didn't witness. lol.
I WILL PIE ALL OF YOUR EATS, GOOD SIR.
And my beep was a beep of delight. Ain't no profanity up in here.
Feel up instead! You're clever and you deserve it. :D