You can edit the comment, but you can't edit the text it captures. And that is what the interactive environment insists on oh-so-helpfully botching.
It would also be nice to have a leading comment are as well as a final comment area. Some things are best said up front.
Windows and its tools (like browsers) have the horrible habit of doing things other than what you tell them. In particular, when trying to highlight something, they can capture extra characters, spaces, or words. When using ordinary editing facilities, you can manage this by using the arrow keys to adjust one end of the capture. But the way the inline-comment system works, the comment is started as soon as the capture occurs, and there is no chance to correct it. Add the limit that you cannot overlap comment captures and this becomes a major obstacle to saying what you are trying to say about what you're trying to say it about.
I'm not sure what the answer is, apart from abolishing Microsoft and taking the necessary humane measures to ensure that people who have designed and implemented its software never do so again, but until that becomes possible, any help that tNBW's developers can give us would be most welcome.
William Safire was known to write "Meet my pet, Peeve." I guess it was rubbing his ankles, too.
The blanket prohibition on '-ing' verbs does not recognize the difference between passive, gerund, participle, and present continuing tense. If you don't recognize each of those and the role it plays, you can't validly criticize, unles you can assert that one rule will cover all. No one rule will.
This has been rubbing about my ankles for so long that I'm going to name it 'Peeve'.
njc wrote:There's an alternative to the Copenhagen Interpretation called the Pilot Wave Theory.
Indeed, there is. It is, however, pretty much just hanging on by a thread... Basically, its only holding on by a thread and uses only a small potential for err as reason to dispute it entirely.
The longer something hangs on by a thread, the stronger that thread appears.
If I understand correctly, if the Pilot Wave theory is true we are back to extreme sensitivity to initial conditions and chaos rules at the quantum level as well as the macro level. The (severly stunted) poet in me likes that.
But poetry is not physics.
I think that was for the Double Drouble back at Christmas.
There's an alternative to the Copenhagen Interpretation called the Pilot Wave Theory. It is said to explain the observed events at least as well, and an article that showed up in, I tnink, phys.org, says that it might better explain the wave function collapse.
Agreed, but it is also important to understand the limits of our knowledge. Questions of time and eternity reach beyond what Physics can address. Just the distinction between perpetuity and eternity is enough to tangle the discussion badly.
In The Great Divorce, C.S.Lewis had George MacDonald say, "They are both right, maybe. Do not fash yourself over it." And another gent has a dog tell us, "And Goodness only knowses/The noselessness of man."
I like that last line more and more as time goes by.
NJC, could we get a bit of elaboration on that ? I am unfamiliar with that work and find it quite perplexing. Going off of what I see there, I would think that the man has created a paradox in which free will was forced, thereby keeping free will from truly being a choice, which therefore isnt free will, etc..... Or, perhaps it is implying that free will isnt really free will, since our actions are guided by chronocommunication, and that we only perceive it to be free will. Either way, I could be wrong and would like to hear other's thoughts on it.
I don't want to give Blish's story away, but imagine you could eavesdrop on every radio message ever sent, and you set about making sure that history unfolded the way it was "supposed to."
Damn, I gave Blish's story away
Some of you know that I have been on a deathbed vigil for my mother. The vigil is over.
I will be active here, in the spirit of throwing myself into my work. But it won't be steady over the next few days.
How does Blish's Quincunx of Time fit in this?
Quuaxity Quuxity
Blish used philosophy
When he was writing The Quincunx of Time.
Beeps of Dirac used to
Chronocommunicate
Fostered determinate
Free will sublime.
Martin went three quarters of the way around the block to turn an encounter into an unnecessary confrontation. He smashed a man's head repeatedly against the pavement without justification, for which he could have been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, had he lived. These facts were presented to the jury.
George Zimmerman had a history of tutoring youths, white and black alike. He ran a public campaign to prosecute a boy--the son of a white cop--who had attacked a black neighbor youth, and who was apparently being protected by the blue shield. (The campaign was successful.) He left his truck to carry out the directions of the police dispatcher, and he was returning to his truck, also under instructions of the dispatcher, when he was attacked.
Bill Whittle presents the case here:
http://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DEbu6Yv … Y8_gCxLnlg . You can say that the liver damage does not prove drug abuse, and you'd be right. But it's consistant with it, and Martin's own web posts strongly indicate that he was a user.
Reports of Martin's character indicate that it changed greatly in the previous few years. The changes are consistant with (again, not proving) the drug cocktail which he himself said he (mis)used. The personality changes that are reported to follow from abuse of that drug are also consistant with his behavior on the night he attempted to kill a witness, and lost his life in the attempt.
Blame his environment if you must; there's no doubt he was failed by a school system more concerned with hiding its failures than protecting its charges. But he attempted to kill a witness to his presence, and lost his life in the attempt.
..., and another who died after exhibiting actions and demeanor that are counter-intuitive to the effects caused by the substance we are speaking of, were entirely different in all aspect.
It is a matter of public record that Treyvon Martin had liver damage consistent with the long-term abuse of dextromethorphan. There exist screencaps that show that he used it recreationally, in massive doses in a cocktail with Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea product (Watermelon Fruit Punch ... yes, I know the implications.) It is a medical fact that such abuse, over months or years, can cause paranoia and loss of impulse control. (The jury was not told these things, by the way. It was too prejudicial under our current rules.)
I could go on. Mr. Martin was not the good young man he had been years before. Further info on request.
There's already one deadline, but another, by which Alina is sure to find out, might not hurt. If Alina is away ... and Kat responds anyway to the thought that Alina might know it might make her a greater specter.
And that would eliminate the need for the suicide, and put the fear of the carpet back in Kat.
If it was generally know that Alina was away, the blackmailers might not fear her ... and they might be terrorized by her apparent return.
Not sure about the concept. It seems to go by too fast, and you have continuity errors: Eliie is already lying down, so how could she fall again?
It would also be very, very good to remember what each member has read and use that info in deciding what to present as a 'new' item on each forum thread.
Decoupling the presentation of threads from forums (soft or hard links, in file system parlance) would be a help, along with a 'forum' that gathers the new threads from all forums. Giving the thread creator a list of topical 'forums' in which the thread might also appear would help. And giving users the ability to create their own 'forums' that gather threads of interest would also be nice.
Of course, allowing groups and forums to be hierarchical would be nice, too, as long as we are hanging out wishlists.
The difficulty of all of this depends on the clarity and form of the 'data model' on which all of this is based. Refactoring is always easiest when it's done as the code is designed.
Even in =A song of Ice and Fire=, you can say of an event or an act "This is good," or "Tnis is bad." Often it doesn't work out that way, but ylu can see it should have.
Moral indeterminacy: I guess it comes down to the reader's ability to decide, rightly or wrongly, whether s/he is with or against the protagonist. I'm not saying that can't change in the course of the story (it can) but you--or at least I--need to make that decision.
We have a person making a vicious attack as a snake--but in the course of a rescue. Only--it's not a rescue. It's a kidnapping. I should change my mind twice, or at least have the sense that I need to learn more. I don't get that, for whatever reason.
Postscript: Maybe my sense of being morally adrift would be answered by making Eliasara's reactions stronger and more prominent: Rescue? No, this is not what I want! Add a tinge of moral horror to her distrust.
YMMV and IMO, fershure.
The nails were the right diameter.
The inspection axe fell promptly and I wasn't ready. All of management's worries were unfounded. The inspector did chat about the electronics, maybe to satisfy himself that I do know what I'm doing. I have to finish cleaning up before I leave tomorrow.
And I have to change my no-inline-review request. The X-line format is usable.
Review done. Warning: when I review you I beat you up pretty hard. I hope some of it helps.
Mobile doesn't have those links. "READ" is under the menu button, and brings you to a tabbed page. None of the tabs is for contests.
The problem with mobile interfaces is that they often seem to use a different code base entirely, so you can't make any assumptions about how one side works based on the other.
On the Home Depot web sit, if you want the aisle and bay for an item, you need the not-for-mobile website. At Lowes, to get the same info, you need the mobile site.
Vicious! Acts is very, very good now and you're going to have to work hard to avoid marring it as you seek to improve.
Oh, and if you're thinking about more side-stuff for Kat, I'd suggest instead finishing out Mantle and adding prequels for Anver (what happened to his eyebrows!) and Katerin.
If you can find used copies, you might look at Elizabeth Willey's neglected trio: The Well-Favored Man, A Sorcerer and a Gentleman, and The Price of Blood and Honor. The titles of the second and third books are wonderful.
