Suggesting he change his name to better comply with the whims of their computer is offensive, bordering on racist.
Well, if you're just going to throw a word out there, you might as well have said, "bordering on terrorism." Do you know what racism even means? Certainly it can be said that they are discriminating against those who have expletives in their last name, but last time I checked, there was no expletive-in-last-name race. Perhaps you know something I don't?
My comments were not against the regulation of driving. What irritated me was the poster that essentially said that since the US Constitution does not enumerate a right to drive, you do not have that right, which is contradictory to the 9th amendment. He should read his constitution again. You have the right to do anything (regardless of whether it's enumerated in the Constitution) not prohibited by the laws governing people in your state and/or federal district.
Certainly, but what is more efficient, investing $25k on a device, plus man hours, to catch people with minor infractions and go through all the paperwork involved in forcing compliance, or managing those cases in the traditional manner (probably a letter to the residence of the owner), and focusing on other, perhaps more pertinent issues?
I would argue that the OP is not saying that improved efficiency is bad, but rather that "Mindless" attempts that involve the assumption that the more technological solution is the more efficient one are counterproductive.
Driving is not a right (read your constitution again; you have the right to assembly, but not the right to drive)
Just because its not specifically mentioned in the constitution does NOT mean it is not a right:
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
I also have the right to not have the federal government making a bunch of stupid laws that infringe upon the states:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
And what has that gotten me?
Some federal crimes include kidnapping, tax evasion, counterfeiting, as well as damaging or destoying mailboxes, art theft, arson, assault, immigration offences and more recently, assassinating the President, though it wasn't deemed a federal crime until after President John F. Kennedy's death.
I'm sure it won't work on every YDL or shady distros out there.
What, then, makes you think that these distros would even bother conforming to the LSB anyway? As far as I'm concerned the smaller distros can do what they want with linux. Its the ability of these smaller distros to deviate from the norm that has created truly innovative solutions. Anyone remember when Knoppix released the live CD distributions?
Well, considering that Adobe claims to reach 99% of Internet viewers with Flash, I would say that flash video is a pretty sure bet when it comes to covering all browsers. It doesn't make sense to have three optional source types for the video tag. There should be at least one mandatory type and however many optional ones as it takes to make all the big browser/web players happy.
Technically any time you watch a video online, it is "downloaded" it just gets erased after you are done with it.
Technically it gets erased after you either clear your browser's cache, the cache files get overwritten by new downloaded material, you manually delete the files in the cache directory, or possibly if you reduce the size of your cache, not after you are done with it.
Isn't that what alpha and beta releases are for? If the developers behind KDE really intended 4.0 to be fore developers, then I'd say that they aren't very smart and intended to turn users away from their software.
It seems that they have a default accept policy on patents, and that is more a problem in my mind than the whole 'underpaid and overworked' explanation. If patents are to exist, the first rule should be 'If the idea seems obvious, it probably is. If you can think of something that already does what this patent claims to define, deny. If not, push to the back of your pile for further examination and move on the the ideas that actually seems to be innovative off the bat.'
Fundemental public services should not be privatized they should be public and operating in a fully transparent manner. Roads, Schools, Libraries, Utilities, and Health Care.
Yeah. Thats in the Constitution! Hooray for government overhead! The same mismanagement that brought you the Department of Homeland Security now presents to you the most bureaucratic utilities company known to man.
The largest operating system security problem is lack of separation between the ordinary user and administrator account. Linux has had that for a considerable time, which explains the low quantity of malware attacks. "Meager market share" does not explain this phenomenon because Linux is strong in the server market, making it more lucrative to exploit because of increased computing power, bandwidth and sensitive client/business information.
Though the iPod and iPhone are popular, there is no way Apple could survive on those products alone. Mac is their core business. If they lose their supremacy to cloners, they're sunk.
On what do you base this assumption? This article is old, but it shows an opposing point of view:
Leading the charge for Apple was its line of iPods, with the company shipping 21 million of the market-leading devices during the quarter, a 50% jump from a year ago. Sales of the device accounted for $3.43 billion of the company's revenue, or nearly half the total.
Apple's total number of iPod sales now stands at about 90 million units since the device first went on sale in October 2001.
"After five years, the iPod is still going strong," said Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research. "It's still a very popular product." Wu holds a buy rating on Apple's stock.
The results show that demand for Apple's products remains strong despite stepped-up competition from rivals such as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT:
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Macintosh computer sales also surged, rising 40% to $2.4 billion, while Mac shipments rose 28% to 1.61 million units, more than double the growth of the overall PC market. The Mac results were a slightly below many analysts forecasts, as several had expected Apple to sell between 1.75 million and 1.8 million Macs during the quarter.
However, Munster, of Piper Jaffray, said the holiday-quarter Mac sales needed to be taken into context, and were actually solid because they remained almost in line with Apple's September quarter results, which is when Apple sees strong back-to-school PC sales.
"People give iPods for Christmas, not computers," Munster said.
"Pedantic" (as used in this sentence) is a substantive adjective, which is a noun.
Firstly, a substantive adjective is not a noun, it is an adjective that takes the place of a noun. Additionally, as far as I can tell this does not qualify as a substantive adjective, because the adjective would have to replace a mass noun or a plural count noun. If anything, the OP intended to say "... you were being a semantic pedantic person." A mass noun like "people" does not fit into the sentence in question because he was referring specifically to one person.
I guess it just depends on who you talk to. I'm pretty sure NASCAR is pretty low on the rank of international sports, but its #1 spectator sport in the USA... Lets not equate NASCAR to racing. That would be like saying that gymnastics is defined by baton twirling.
Yours is probably one of the most valuable posts in this discussion. I am amazed at how many people have dismissed learning a foreign language because in their limited experience it has not been necessary. It's so telling of the typical American that does not have his eyes open to global opportunities.
It's also easier because the word itself reveals its gender and there are only two to keep in mind...
Where did you hear this?
French gender is a constant headache for many students of French. Why is manteau masculine and montre feminine, when both men and women wear both of them? What's the logic behind gender in French? There's no simple answer to this question, and no simple way to know the gender of every noun other than just learning the gender with each word. There are, however, some patterns in suffixes and word endings - certain endings tend to indicate masculine nouns, while other endings favor feminine nouns. As you can see by the lists of exceptions, these gender patterns are not fool-proof, but they can help you to figure out the gender of many French nouns.
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Suggesting he change his name to better comply with the whims of their computer is offensive, bordering on racist.
Well, if you're just going to throw a word out there, you might as well have said, "bordering on terrorism." Do you know what racism even means? Certainly it can be said that they are discriminating against those who have expletives in their last name, but last time I checked, there was no expletive-in-last-name race. Perhaps you know something I don't?
Except in bed
My comments were not against the regulation of driving. What irritated me was the poster that essentially said that since the US Constitution does not enumerate a right to drive, you do not have that right, which is contradictory to the 9th amendment. He should read his constitution again. You have the right to do anything (regardless of whether it's enumerated in the Constitution) not prohibited by the laws governing people in your state and/or federal district.
Certainly, but what is more efficient, investing $25k on a device, plus man hours, to catch people with minor infractions and go through all the paperwork involved in forcing compliance, or managing those cases in the traditional manner (probably a letter to the residence of the owner), and focusing on other, perhaps more pertinent issues? I would argue that the OP is not saying that improved efficiency is bad, but rather that "Mindless" attempts that involve the assumption that the more technological solution is the more efficient one are counterproductive.
Driving is not a right (read your constitution again; you have the right to assembly, but not the right to drive)
Just because its not specifically mentioned in the constitution does NOT mean it is not a right:
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
I also have the right to not have the federal government making a bunch of stupid laws that infringe upon the states:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
And what has that gotten me?
Some federal crimes include kidnapping, tax evasion, counterfeiting, as well as damaging or destoying mailboxes, art theft, arson, assault, immigration offences and more recently, assassinating the President, though it wasn't deemed a federal crime until after President John F. Kennedy's death.
And I thought windows were holes in walls.
I'm sure it won't work on every YDL or shady distros out there.
What, then, makes you think that these distros would even bother conforming to the LSB anyway? As far as I'm concerned the smaller distros can do what they want with linux. Its the ability of these smaller distros to deviate from the norm that has created truly innovative solutions. Anyone remember when Knoppix released the live CD distributions?
Well, considering that Adobe claims to reach 99% of Internet viewers with Flash, I would say that flash video is a pretty sure bet when it comes to covering all browsers. It doesn't make sense to have three optional source types for the video tag. There should be at least one mandatory type and however many optional ones as it takes to make all the big browser/web players happy.
not to even mention your ability to just record the stream of bits using a little php, java or even c.
I can't tell if you're joking or trying to be serious.
Technically any time you watch a video online, it is "downloaded" it just gets erased after you are done with it.
Technically it gets erased after you either clear your browser's cache, the cache files get overwritten by new downloaded material, you manually delete the files in the cache directory, or possibly if you reduce the size of your cache, not after you are done with it.
Isn't that what alpha and beta releases are for? If the developers behind KDE really intended 4.0 to be fore developers, then I'd say that they aren't very smart and intended to turn users away from their software.
It seems that they have a default accept policy on patents, and that is more a problem in my mind than the whole 'underpaid and overworked' explanation. If patents are to exist, the first rule should be 'If the idea seems obvious, it probably is. If you can think of something that already does what this patent claims to define, deny. If not, push to the back of your pile for further examination and move on the the ideas that actually seems to be innovative off the bat.'
Fundemental public services should not be privatized they should be public and operating in a fully transparent manner. Roads, Schools, Libraries, Utilities, and Health Care.
Yeah. Thats in the Constitution! Hooray for government overhead! The same mismanagement that brought you the Department of Homeland Security now presents to you the most bureaucratic utilities company known to man.
The largest operating system security problem is lack of separation between the ordinary user and administrator account. Linux has had that for a considerable time, which explains the low quantity of malware attacks. "Meager market share" does not explain this phenomenon because Linux is strong in the server market, making it more lucrative to exploit because of increased computing power, bandwidth and sensitive client/business information.
If Ubuntu isn't suitable for my grandmother, then nothing is. Its 100x easier to install and maintain and 100x harder to screw up.
God damn it. How did I post that to the wrong article?
Tabbed browsing strikes again!
Though the iPod and iPhone are popular, there is no way Apple could survive on those products alone. Mac is their core business. If they lose their supremacy to cloners, they're sunk.
On what do you base this assumption? This article is old, but it shows an opposing point of view:
Leading the charge for Apple was its line of iPods, with the company shipping 21 million of the market-leading devices during the quarter, a 50% jump from a year ago. Sales of the device accounted for $3.43 billion of the company's revenue, or nearly half the total.
Apple's total number of iPod sales now stands at about 90 million units since the device first went on sale in October 2001.
"After five years, the iPod is still going strong," said Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research. "It's still a very popular product." Wu holds a buy rating on Apple's stock. The results show that demand for Apple's products remains strong despite stepped-up competition from rivals such as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT: Microsoft Corporation News, chart, profile, more Last: 27.26+1.10+4.20% 4:12pm 07/16/2008 Delayed quote data Add to portfolio Analyst Create alert Insider Discuss Financials Sponsored by: MSFT 27.26, +1.10, +4.2%) , which is pushing hard to boost its share of the digital entertainment market with a new handheld media player and other consumer products.
"The iPod sales were shocking," said Gene Munster, of Piper Jaffray. "And the earnings power of this company is reaching record levels."
Macintosh computer sales also surged, rising 40% to $2.4 billion, while Mac shipments rose 28% to 1.61 million units, more than double the growth of the overall PC market. The Mac results were a slightly below many analysts forecasts, as several had expected Apple to sell between 1.75 million and 1.8 million Macs during the quarter.
However, Munster, of Piper Jaffray, said the holiday-quarter Mac sales needed to be taken into context, and were actually solid because they remained almost in line with Apple's September quarter results, which is when Apple sees strong back-to-school PC sales.
"People give iPods for Christmas, not computers," Munster said.
"Pedantic" (as used in this sentence) is a substantive adjective, which is a noun.
Firstly, a substantive adjective is not a noun, it is an adjective that takes the place of a noun. Additionally, as far as I can tell this does not qualify as a substantive adjective, because the adjective would have to replace a mass noun or a plural count noun. If anything, the OP intended to say "... you were being a semantic pedantic person." A mass noun like "people" does not fit into the sentence in question because he was referring specifically to one person.
So get a motorcycle or scooter. Just because you it's too far to walk does not mean that you have to drive a 4-6 passenger vehicle everywhere you go.
Not that it really matters, but since you were being a semantic pedantic, I might as well be too.
You can't be a pedantic, because pedantic is an adjective. The noun form is pedant.
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I guess it just depends on who you talk to. I'm pretty sure NASCAR is pretty low on the rank of international sports, but its #1 spectator sport in the USA... Lets not equate NASCAR to racing. That would be like saying that gymnastics is defined by baton twirling.
Yours is probably one of the most valuable posts in this discussion. I am amazed at how many people have dismissed learning a foreign language because in their limited experience it has not been necessary. It's so telling of the typical American that does not have his eyes open to global opportunities.
The problem is ... you're punished if you're not.
That means that you benefit from being bilingual.
It's also easier because the word itself reveals its gender and there are only two to keep in mind...
Where did you hear this?
French gender is a constant headache for many students of French. Why is manteau masculine and montre feminine, when both men and women wear both of them? What's the logic behind gender in French? There's no simple answer to this question, and no simple way to know the gender of every noun other than just learning the gender with each word. There are, however, some patterns in suffixes and word endings - certain endings tend to indicate masculine nouns, while other endings favor feminine nouns. As you can see by the lists of exceptions, these gender patterns are not fool-proof, but they can help you to figure out the gender of many French nouns.
http://french.about.com/library/weekly/bl-gender-m.htm