It turns out that I can roll back to FF 54 to get TabMix Plus to work... but then I don't get to use FoxClocks. I have to choose between the two. Thankfully I don't seem to need DownThemAll any more, but this is still pretty rotten:( It drives me absolutely nuts to have to fricking click on things all the time - just let me hover my mouse over a tab to choose it! And close them in the order I want! And move the stupid close tab cross from off of every. single. tab.
I love TabMix Plus. I may never upgrade FF again.
It's been years since I posted anything on/. But this had to be said.
This was what finally made my Palm Treo unusable. And wrenching the thin connection to my SGS2 about in my sleep destroyed that charger. I think wireless charging has a place in my world.
I can appreciate that this would have been very useful when learning my route to work in Sydney. Having to stop constantly and refer to my print-out of directions, then compare this with the GPS and trying to find street signs to see if anything matched up was a nightmare. I only had to navigate 14 kms, but it took about 2 weeks to learn the route cos I took so many wrong turns. Started out taking 2.5 hours, once I had the route finally worked out it was normally under an hour (depending on lights, traffic and weather). Of course, I assume the hammerhead will only be as good as the GPS behind it, and I'm not really sure that anything can make Sydney roads easily navigable.
According to that book "Bounce" which looks at excellence in many different fields, not all Africans are good runners. According to the author, the region in Africa these people come from is actually one village, which just so happened to not have a very local school, meaning that children there did a 20 km round trip every school day, under their own steam. This led to a whole lot of young people clocking up the necessary 10,000 hours of practice to become world standard. Opportunity, not genetics, generates the observed differences, just like it generates the observed school differences between the sexes.
I'm confused by all of these 'eyestrain' issues - does no-one else read white text on a black background? I read books on my phone (SGS2, and before that on my Palm Treo 650), and yes, having a light-background got unpleasant, but reversing the colours is fine. (And okay, I agree battery life is an issue.)
At primary school in the 80s we did Logo (you had to write out anything you'd worked out earlier into your notebook to be able to make advances in next week's half-hour slot, I spent forever making the turtle draw a stick-figure in a top-hat) and some word-programming thing (where the highlight was typing until you nearly reached the end of the line, then carefully and slowly pressing one character at a time so we could all hoot at the word jumping magically to the next line, it was great!).
Then I went to a selective, all-girls high-school, where we were supposed to learn Basic, and Carmen San Diego. Maybe something else too, but I think I spent my time making Basic programs that printed stupid jokes about a particular teacher we didn't like, and getting my friends to run them. Awesome stuff.
Now, 20-something years later, I'm starting to learn Python at Udacity. All of that early exposure must have triggered something in me:p
I disagree with your summary of their responses to Q4. I read them as: Obama: I will make essential medicine freely available to those who cannot otherwise afford it. Romney: I will keep the health system as is, and give more money to the pharmaceutical companies. Which I thought were fundamentally pretty different.
I'm not American, and I found Romney's waffling answers really very difficult to focus on, the gods only know what questions he thought he was answering. I really don't know much about either of them (I would recognise Obama's face at least), but I've discovered today that Obama is pleasantly literate and Romney... isn't.
Scientists very rarely do any of the amazingly awesome stuff they do because they want tons of money. The people who fund the scientists only do so because they expect to make tons of money off of them. This is a very important distinction.
Agreed, phonetic and syllabic scripts are much easier to learn and to use - far fewer things to remember. But 'better'...?:p Better for the masses, yes. Better for creating beautiful, compact writing? Not necessarily. (For a language to have a truly perfect phonetic orthography, everyone must pronounce every word the same - have you seen IPA renditions of different accents/dialects? And the moment you have two dialects with slightly different phonology, even a phonemic orthography won't be perfect.) Ah, sorry, I'm probably wandering off-topic. And I'm just being a devil's advocate here too. I'm currently learning Pashto (written in a modified Arabic script), and them not writing vowels in their writing drives me nuts - it makes it impossible to read the damn thing >:/
Can you explain why (traditional/simplified) chinese is that bad?
I see alphabetic and syllabic writing systems as vastly superior
Well, the meaning of a Chinese ideogram can often be gleaned from the combination of strokes/other ideograms used, even if you can't pronounce it (although there's often some guide to pronunciation in obscure characters too). This is kind of the reverse of English, where the pronunciation is more-or-less clear, but the meaning not.
So, should the written form represented the phonetics or semantics of what is said? English only approximates the first and doesn't come close on the second, while Chinese only sometimes approximates the first but often represents the second.
You can actually get loans that do this - allow you up to 12 months 'repayment holiday' or whatever it's called, for parental leave, illness, unemployment, whatever. You pay something extra for it, I think. At least, I was offered this option for my home loan that I got 2 weeks ago, in Australia.
Well said. My first really portable laptop had an 'external optical drive'. I had the laptop for about 5 years, and I plugged it in about 15 times. Old tech.
Although I must admit, when the wifi goes down, it has been great to just plug a cable in, to get access to the internet again to work out how to fix your wifi!
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Erm, how's about - as a society, we need doctors, just like we all benefit from everyone being educated generally. That implies (about as strongly as can be implied) that doctor's shouldn't have to pay anything to be trained. Then, they wouldn't 'have' to earn as much to pay off their student loans. Neither would teachers, accountants, engineers, journalists...
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Thanks for this response - it's much more in line with what I would expect from someone who believed in an afterlife, as opposed to someone who didn't. And you're right too, that people who want to 'keep a loved one "alive" at any cost' I don't think can really be empathising with the loved one if their quality of life is unlivable. (From someone who doesn't believe in an afterlife.)
Actually, I think the earth's orbit is elliptical, so that summer (in the southern hemisphere, ie February) really is about three days shorter than winter. The earth is closer to the sun at this time - as a kid I figured that it made sense that it was hotter then!
I think it depends on what kind of semantics you do, although I think I tend to agree with you, since the semantics I know best is Glue, and they seem to be all about meaning construction... <pedant mode>But is there really a substantive difference between the output of a meaning constructor and a 'meaning'? </mode>
Basically the error was a spelling error, and since the two words are homophonous, they'd be distinguished in speech through the plausibility of their lexical semantics.
And google has the gaul to climb on a soap box about censorship, the great wall filters of Australia etc.
(The grammar was fine (at least until the comma).
Or we could diagnose it as a ~Freudian slip, or even that AC knows something we don't... Maybe Google does use Gauls to climb soapboxes and walls, who knows the full extent of their omniscience??
Sorry, forgot to mention I'm actually a syntactician. The grammar I use (Lexical-Functional Grammar) has two syntactic structures, a semantic structure, an information structure and a discourse structure, with some people using other linguistic structures too. Semantics is definitely part of the grammar, technically at least. Unless you're a Chomskyan I guess.
Well, technically speaking, anything to do with how language works is part of the grammar. Semantics, syntax and pragmatics can be considered various aspects of grammar, even phonology (but I think that's stretching it a bit). However in lay terms 'grammar' normally means only 'syntax', although sometimes includes 'morphology' too.
The problem is that when you blow up something, it makes a huge number of new pieces, with all sorts of different velocities and orbits.
Well, yes, but putting it in a Last Starfighter perspective, those of us who played Asteroids in the 80s have loads of practice at shooting space junk into smaller and smaller pieces... although judging by my attempts just now on http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/21612/Asteroids.html I don't think that I personally am the chosen one.
Wow, my first thought was also 'you watch too much tv', but, iirc, I think the average is actually much higher than this. My God, how do people who watch tv get anything at all done?? Although maybe I'm biased at the moment - living in Iceland with the gorgeous summer we've had, I've been practically living outdoors, to bank up some sunlight before the equinox hits and I start seeing darkness again...
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It turns out that I can roll back to FF 54 to get TabMix Plus to work... but then I don't get to use FoxClocks. I have to choose between the two. Thankfully I don't seem to need DownThemAll any more, but this is still pretty rotten :( It drives me absolutely nuts to have to fricking click on things all the time - just let me hover my mouse over a tab to choose it! And close them in the order I want! And move the stupid close tab cross from off of every. single. tab.
I love TabMix Plus. I may never upgrade FF again.
It's been years since I posted anything on /. But this had to be said.
This was what finally made my Palm Treo unusable. And wrenching the thin connection to my SGS2 about in my sleep destroyed that charger. I think wireless charging has a place in my world.
I can appreciate that this would have been very useful when learning my route to work in Sydney. Having to stop constantly and refer to my print-out of directions, then compare this with the GPS and trying to find street signs to see if anything matched up was a nightmare. I only had to navigate 14 kms, but it took about 2 weeks to learn the route cos I took so many wrong turns. Started out taking 2.5 hours, once I had the route finally worked out it was normally under an hour (depending on lights, traffic and weather). Of course, I assume the hammerhead will only be as good as the GPS behind it, and I'm not really sure that anything can make Sydney roads easily navigable.
Um - I provided a reference for my comment. How does "you're insane" constitute an argument against a published work?
According to that book "Bounce" which looks at excellence in many different fields, not all Africans are good runners. According to the author, the region in Africa these people come from is actually one village, which just so happened to not have a very local school, meaning that children there did a 20 km round trip every school day, under their own steam. This led to a whole lot of young people clocking up the necessary 10,000 hours of practice to become world standard. Opportunity, not genetics, generates the observed differences, just like it generates the observed school differences between the sexes.
I'm confused by all of these 'eyestrain' issues - does no-one else read white text on a black background? I read books on my phone (SGS2, and before that on my Palm Treo 650), and yes, having a light-background got unpleasant, but reversing the colours is fine. (And okay, I agree battery life is an issue.)
At primary school in the 80s we did Logo (you had to write out anything you'd worked out earlier into your notebook to be able to make advances in next week's half-hour slot, I spent forever making the turtle draw a stick-figure in a top-hat) and some word-programming thing (where the highlight was typing until you nearly reached the end of the line, then carefully and slowly pressing one character at a time so we could all hoot at the word jumping magically to the next line, it was great!).
Then I went to a selective, all-girls high-school, where we were supposed to learn Basic, and Carmen San Diego. Maybe something else too, but I think I spent my time making Basic programs that printed stupid jokes about a particular teacher we didn't like, and getting my friends to run them. Awesome stuff.
Now, 20-something years later, I'm starting to learn Python at Udacity. All of that early exposure must have triggered something in me :p
I disagree with your summary of their responses to Q4. I read them as:
Obama: I will make essential medicine freely available to those who cannot otherwise afford it.
Romney: I will keep the health system as is, and give more money to the pharmaceutical companies.
Which I thought were fundamentally pretty different.
I'm not American, and I found Romney's waffling answers really very difficult to focus on, the gods only know what questions he thought he was answering. I really don't know much about either of them (I would recognise Obama's face at least), but I've discovered today that Obama is pleasantly literate and Romney... isn't.
Scientists very rarely do any of the amazingly awesome stuff they do because they want tons of money. The people who fund the scientists only do so because they expect to make tons of money off of them. This is a very important distinction.
Agreed. (From an ex-academic.)
Agreed, phonetic and syllabic scripts are much easier to learn and to use - far fewer things to remember. But 'better'...? :p Better for the masses, yes. Better for creating beautiful, compact writing? Not necessarily. (For a language to have a truly perfect phonetic orthography, everyone must pronounce every word the same - have you seen IPA renditions of different accents/dialects? And the moment you have two dialects with slightly different phonology, even a phonemic orthography won't be perfect.) Ah, sorry, I'm probably wandering off-topic. And I'm just being a devil's advocate here too. I'm currently learning Pashto (written in a modified Arabic script), and them not writing vowels in their writing drives me nuts - it makes it impossible to read the damn thing >:/
Can you explain why (traditional/simplified) chinese is that bad?
I see alphabetic and syllabic writing systems as vastly superior
Well, the meaning of a Chinese ideogram can often be gleaned from the combination of strokes/other ideograms used, even if you can't pronounce it (although there's often some guide to pronunciation in obscure characters too). This is kind of the reverse of English, where the pronunciation is more-or-less clear, but the meaning not.
So, should the written form represented the phonetics or semantics of what is said? English only approximates the first and doesn't come close on the second, while Chinese only sometimes approximates the first but often represents the second.
You can actually get loans that do this - allow you up to 12 months 'repayment holiday' or whatever it's called, for parental leave, illness, unemployment, whatever. You pay something extra for it, I think. At least, I was offered this option for my home loan that I got 2 weeks ago, in Australia.
Well said. My first really portable laptop had an 'external optical drive'. I had the laptop for about 5 years, and I plugged it in about 15 times. Old tech.
Although I must admit, when the wifi goes down, it has been great to just plug a cable in, to get access to the internet again to work out how to fix your wifi!
Erm, how's about - as a society, we need doctors, just like we all benefit from everyone being educated generally. That implies (about as strongly as can be implied) that doctor's shouldn't have to pay anything to be trained. Then, they wouldn't 'have' to earn as much to pay off their student loans. Neither would teachers, accountants, engineers, journalists...
Thanks for this response - it's much more in line with what I would expect from someone who believed in an afterlife, as opposed to someone who didn't. And you're right too, that people who want to 'keep a loved one "alive" at any cost' I don't think can really be empathising with the loved one if their quality of life is unlivable. (From someone who doesn't believe in an afterlife.)
Actually, I think the earth's orbit is elliptical, so that summer (in the southern hemisphere, ie February) really is about three days shorter than winter. The earth is closer to the sun at this time - as a kid I figured that it made sense that it was hotter then!
Wasn't there a William Gibson book with this exact premise?
nice!!! Wow, reading this page has totally made my day, and your post here is awesome - the world DOES have love in it :D
http://xkcd.com/828/
I think it depends on what kind of semantics you do, although I think I tend to agree with you, since the semantics I know best is Glue, and they seem to be all about meaning construction... <pedant mode>But is there really a substantive difference between the output of a meaning constructor and a 'meaning'? </mode>
Basically the error was a spelling error, and since the two words are homophonous, they'd be distinguished in speech through the plausibility of their lexical semantics.
And google has the gaul to climb on a soap box about censorship, the great wall filters of Australia etc.
(The grammar was fine (at least until the comma).
Or we could diagnose it as a ~Freudian slip, or even that AC knows something we don't... Maybe Google does use Gauls to climb soapboxes and walls, who knows the full extent of their omniscience??
Sorry, forgot to mention I'm actually a syntactician. The grammar I use (Lexical-Functional Grammar) has two syntactic structures, a semantic structure, an information structure and a discourse structure, with some people using other linguistic structures too. Semantics is definitely part of the grammar, technically at least. Unless you're a Chomskyan I guess.
Well, technically speaking, anything to do with how language works is part of the grammar. Semantics, syntax and pragmatics can be considered various aspects of grammar, even phonology (but I think that's stretching it a bit). However in lay terms 'grammar' normally means only 'syntax', although sometimes includes 'morphology' too.
The problem is that when you blow up something, it makes a huge number of new pieces, with all sorts of different velocities and orbits.
Well, yes, but putting it in a Last Starfighter perspective, those of us who played Asteroids in the 80s have loads of practice at shooting space junk into smaller and smaller pieces... although judging by my attempts just now on http://www.classicgamesarcade.com/game/21612/Asteroids.html I don't think that I personally am the chosen one.
I dread the day the rest of the world gets access to reasonably priced tv, cos *bam* there goes my justification for torrenting shows I want to watch!
Wow, my first thought was also 'you watch too much tv', but, iirc, I think the average is actually much higher than this. My God, how do people who watch tv get anything at all done?? Although maybe I'm biased at the moment - living in Iceland with the gorgeous summer we've had, I've been practically living outdoors, to bank up some sunlight before the equinox hits and I start seeing darkness again...