No, it's not because 90% of the country says he has no chance, it's because 10% of the country says he has no chance and the other 80% say, "Who's Ron Paul?"
Online communication is a specific genre of general human language use. Not all speakers are competent in this genre, and the genre is constantly expanding and changing. In this genre, the word "pwn" is acceptable. Outside this genre, it is not recognized as a word. You are latching onto his use of the word "speech" to describe "communciation via human language over an electronic channel" which, although incorrect, was not the crux of his argument.
Also, I believe improvement is definitely a subjective interpretation of language change, because while obviously many have seen the utility and excellence of the word "pwn", there are holdouts like yourself who reject the word based on their own criteria. "Pwn" allows me to express the action of utterly dominating someone in one single word, and therefore it is a good word.
You had a pretty good point until:
This is another reason to hope that we have a creative *nix laptop in the next few years, a fully intergrated solution, not just hacked together like most of the MS and x86 stuff is. Perhaps Sun will become the new boutique of useful computing.
The Macbook IS that laptop... what else do you want?
Yes, I know it is essential that everyone in this country devote every single second of their lives to curing famine and realizing world peace.
It's called entertainment, and people appreciate it.
Slashdot Mirror
44 years of minds mutilated by BASIC : )
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_Dijkstra
No, it's not because 90% of the country says he has no chance, it's because 10% of the country says he has no chance and the other 80% say, "Who's Ron Paul?"
It's cropped.
The worst problem with TextMate is that undo is ONE CHARACTER AT A TIME!
No other serious editor that I have ever used does this - they all use chunked edits. It drives me insane.
Here's that program... you piqued my interest. http://osxdaily.com/2007/01/24/capture-isight-imag es-using-the-command-line/
Except for the slight fact that gun rights is not a liberal issue. You really might have had something going there...
I mean, I like broadband as much as the next guy, but who said one has a "right" to broadband?
Online communication is a specific genre of general human language use. Not all speakers are competent in this genre, and the genre is constantly expanding and changing. In this genre, the word "pwn" is acceptable. Outside this genre, it is not recognized as a word. You are latching onto his use of the word "speech" to describe "communciation via human language over an electronic channel" which, although incorrect, was not the crux of his argument. Also, I believe improvement is definitely a subjective interpretation of language change, because while obviously many have seen the utility and excellence of the word "pwn", there are holdouts like yourself who reject the word based on their own criteria. "Pwn" allows me to express the action of utterly dominating someone in one single word, and therefore it is a good word.
A little ad-hominem there? Flash and JavaScript are by and large used to push ads. I agree with his sentiment.
Slashdot: News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.
You had a pretty good point until: This is another reason to hope that we have a creative *nix laptop in the next few years, a fully intergrated solution, not just hacked together like most of the MS and x86 stuff is. Perhaps Sun will become the new boutique of useful computing. The Macbook IS that laptop... what else do you want?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
By forgiving those who hurt you in the past, you show that you are the greater person.
Yes, I know it is essential that everyone in this country devote every single second of their lives to curing famine and realizing world peace. It's called entertainment, and people appreciate it.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/08/turn-your-optic al-mouse-into-a-crappy-scanner/