Lost Hopes and Mixed Quotes

Lost Hopes and Mixed Quotes

The analysis of mixed quotation proposed in Cappelen & Lepore (1997a), purportedly as a development of Davidson’s accounts of direct and of indirect quotation, is critically examined. It is argued that the analysis fails to specify either necessary or sufficient conditions on mixed quotation, and that the way it has been defended by its proponents makes its alleged Davidsonian parentage questio...

Statements in Quotes

TECHNOLOGY has rendered accounting obsolete. Recognition and acceptance of this fact are necessary if accountants are to make meaningful change, rather than fritter away their limited resources trying to repair the creaking, sagging, old machine. Presumably, if accountants had been assigned the job of landing man on the moon, we would still be earthbound while they continued to tinker with an o...

Referees' quotes – 2010

Our referees, the Editorial Board Members and ad hoc reviewers, are busy, serious individuals who give selflessly of their precious time to improve manuscripts submitted to Microbial Biotechnology. But, once in a while, their humour (or admiration) gets the better of them. Here are some quotes from reviews provided during 2010, to induce a light-hearted start to 2011. • During the holidays I wa...

Referees' quotes – 2009

Displaying Updated Stock Quotes

This paper describes how to extract stock quote data and display it with a dynamic update (using free, but delayed data streams). As a part of the architecture of the program, we make use of the observer, mediator and command design patterns. We also make use of the JTable and JTableModel. Finally we show how a multi-threaded update can be performed, using the web as a data source. The methodol...