פרסומים אחרונים במדור "חדשות"

I hope you're joking about having to have more than 800 in the Psychometric Exam. (It is still the maximum, right?)

Anyway, I found the Psychometric Exam very dull. Oh, some of the logic puzzles were amusing, but, honestly, I've had more fun in MI written tests.

Care to cite your source? I can verify this, you know..

Just making sure, it was not my intention to offend. There are so few things that I can truely verify, these days. I'm an Undergraduate there, myself.

No, I entered it correctly.. My point of view may be different than other people's, perhaps.. I enjoy a good, interesting exam, or an intricate homework assignment. I dislike tedious, repetitive work, which is what much of the Psychometric Exams is all about. From what I've seen of online IQ tests, they are even duller, but at least the tediousness is compressed to byte-size morsels.

It's *bite*-size, isn't it?

Bite sized, yes, I'm sorry...

Well, people seemed to be bitching about the Psychometric Exam, so I had figured that I'll pitch in. Actually, in general, I think that examinations should be fun - you should feel that you've learned something from them, even if you've flunked them severely.

So, what are your plans for the future?
*ducks*

Seriously, though, I have such a tendency, myself.

I forgive you. I'm glad to hear of someone who plans ahead. My plans go a tad further than that. The important thing to remember is that it is likely that a lot of those plans won't come to fruitation - either due to changes in the way you think, or in the environment you're in.. so don't cling to your plans that harshly.

"Fruitation" doesn't even remotely exist.

The phrase "come to fruitation" does exist. It may be somewhat archaeic, but it surely exists - you may try a web-search, and see how many websites use this same phrase.

If this was an attempt by you to put me down, in order to make yourself feel grander, then it has failed. Next time, you should research things more thoroughly.

Let's look at this logically. We have the word "fruit". We DON'T have the word "fruitate" (and that's a shame. we definitely should). So the word you're looking for is, therefore, fruition. Come to fruition. And there's nothing archaic about it.

Sorry for the disturbance.

Oh. Well, that's what happens when you get a hefty part of your vocabulary from reading books - aside from having problems pronouncing certain words, you will also misspel them according to biases from other words.

Anyway, I'm neither the first nor the last person to err thusly.

In conclusion, referring to fancy-schmancy Hezi over there, I'd tell you something, but Dubi wouldn't much approve.
So there. I won't respond to anything else on this subject.

Hey, I'm beginning to like this. Look at what the American Heritage Dictionary has to say about "thusly":

Usage Note: Thusly was introduced in the 19th century as an alternative for thus in sentences such as Hold it thus or He put it thus. The increasingly literary character of such uses of thus may have facilitated coinage of the new adverb thusly, particularly by poorly educated speakers who were straining for a stylish effect. Early citations for the word indicate clear association with rustic or illiterate speech, and though the word has subsequently gained some currency in educated usage, it is still widely regarded as incorrect. In an earlier survey the use of the word was judged unacceptable by a large majority of the Usage Panel. In formal writing thus can still be used as in the examples above; in other styles, expressions such as this way and like this are more natural.

As I had said before, my style of English has to do with my own sense of aesthetics. "Thusly" seems to me aesthetically pleasing, so I shall continue to use it, regardless of what this cockneyed American Heritage Dictionary editor/writer has to say about it.

In any case, what annoyed me in your criticism was its form, rather than its content. You were, as the phrase goes, "asking for trouble." If I judged wrongly, then I apologize.

I tried a web search, and there are indeed 531 sites where the imaginary word "fruitation" is being used. I checked them one by one - all the webmasters are indeed people less grand than me.

Pfft. If you've let high school put you off the exact sciences, you probably weren't so apt in the region anyway.

You don't have to be a computer genius in order to run a successful software company..

In any case, the software he pushes doesn't show the kind of algorithmical maturity that one hopefully gets from a formal Software Engineering, or even Computer Science education.

Forgive me for not being a tad surprised. :-)

He didn't write PC-DOS/MS-DOS. He _bought_ an operating system called QDOS, Quick and Dirty Operating System, made some improvements, and then sold it to IBM. As for "adopting the look and feel of unix," that's not new. Many of the newer Disk Operating Systems for various computers were command line. And quite a few operating systems before that. You honestly should look into some computer history.

On another note, Windows continuously suffered, until 2000 perhaps, though I've not checked that out, from operating system failures that Unix had been rid of ages ago.

By the way, the only thing in common between William Shakespear and William Gates III is their first name.

So you judge things according to your capabilities? Faux pas, my man.

No, no, no... I was not bragging.. though I may have the ability to do what you referred to, this was not my intention... I mean, you mustn't look at the difficulty of things from your perspective.. you have to compare computer people with other computer people, not yourself. Just like I don't compare philosophers with myself, they are way out of my league.

They most certainly didn't, but they were of the first companies to write software for the Mac OS. I think.