I think he was talking about the file manager. You know, that nifty thing ingeniously called "Explore" so as not to confuse it with the "Internet Explorer"
I'm sure the thing is programmed to add a pronoun if it encounters any non=proper noun in isolation. I've seen it before in all kinds of automatic translation software. Along with "mother" you should remove "the" and it will make a *little* more sense. The rest of the sentence remains a mystery though.
It's all right, it was just a joke. I know you have your reasons, I was just poking fun at your statement about buying Mac OS' updates. Just like you have your reasons for buying MS OSes which many of us Linux-only users find alien, Mac OS users have reasons to buy updates that Windows users might find alien, too.
3)Password? Are you serious? What password, and for what? Unless you keep your PC in a public place where any shmuck can walk up and use it, an OS password won't make much difference at all. Especially not on Windows. If you don't understand the need for a password for the root user and the regular users, you don't understand why security in Windows is so fucked up. You should inform yourself a little better before making such assertions;)
most FOSS software is not Linux specific and targets Mac OS X as well. Except the fact that OS X is not FOSS. At any rate, until they get something like the Debian repositories, forget about me going for something else than a Linux system. Seriously, the magic of apt (and, on a lesser extent, of yum/yast/pacman/etc) and the repositories is something almost impossible to duplicate in a closed OS.
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The people involved in those protests are neither poor nor uneducated. They seem to be clever and articulated upper middle-class. I suppose you don't know much about Argentine demographics. It's the masses the ones that are rallied. Like I said, the upper middle-class is politically mercenary and don't care much about anything else but saving their asses.
Of course, this is generalizing, but that's a basic overview of the situation.
Umm, until there's scientific backing to the claim, any "popular knowledge" is and remains a myth. That's the whole point of the word. From dictionary.com:
5.an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution. Seems mythic enough to me.
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I live in Argentina.
The main problem with democracy in these kinds of poor countries is that a vast amount of people have poor education, so they're just told who they should vote for (sometimes in exchange for something, whether it's food, a TV set, shoes... which is actually "buying" their votes) in local rallies carried away by small-time dudes who just want a part of the government in some district in the middle of nowhere, in exchange for their services to the candidate. Picture the rallies escalating through the different district layers and you'll have a nice idea of how democracy works in Argentina (and, I'm willing to bet, in most South American countries). The middle class is mostly comprised by political mercenaries, and the higher class obviously wants the status quo to remain untouched.
That's why democracy doesn't work here, and will probably not work for the foreseeable future.
Well, yeah, I was actually thinking in terms of the 14th century onwards. I wasn't actually talking about the Dark Age, more like the ending of the Middle Ages. Still, it's a heck of a long time for a language to remain unchanged in writing while changing the pronunciation so much.
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Nice attempt at gaining pagehits for ANN, you idiot. Those were 3 lines in a 50-page statement touching a myriad of different issues.
Ugh... my mistake, it should be "BOHN tsu bii wairudo!"
Boruno tsu bii wairudo!
I think he was talking about the file manager. You know, that nifty thing ingeniously called "Explore" so as not to confuse it with the "Internet Explorer"
I'm sure the thing is programmed to add a pronoun if it encounters any non=proper noun in isolation. I've seen it before in all kinds of automatic translation software. Along with "mother" you should remove "the" and it will make a *little* more sense. The rest of the sentence remains a mystery though.
Agreed. "You are about to think. Cancel or allow?" would be a really unpleasant situation.
You only need to hover your mouse over the image to read the URL it links to (and thus the file extension) :P
What?! Who the hell would want Aero on a fucking SERVER!? Whoever that is, sure as hell can stay away from MY internets.
It's all right, it was just a joke. I know you have your reasons, I was just poking fun at your statement about buying Mac OS' updates. Just like you have your reasons for buying MS OSes which many of us Linux-only users find alien, Mac OS users have reasons to buy updates that Windows users might find alien, too.
Windows users: Why do you even have to buy your OS?
--Linux user.
Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow to get to the next workspace ;)
I live in Argentina.
The main problem with democracy in these kinds of poor countries is that a vast amount of people have poor education, so they're just told who they should vote for (sometimes in exchange for something, whether it's food, a TV set, shoes... which is actually "buying" their votes) in local rallies carried away by small-time dudes who just want a part of the government in some district in the middle of nowhere, in exchange for their services to the candidate. Picture the rallies escalating through the different district layers and you'll have a nice idea of how democracy works in Argentina (and, I'm willing to bet, in most South American countries). The middle class is mostly comprised by political mercenaries, and the higher class obviously wants the status quo to remain untouched.
That's why democracy doesn't work here, and will probably not work for the foreseeable future.
I agree, Times New Roman is absolutely hideous and I'll never understand why it's the default font in so many places.
How can this be flamebait considering the fucking topic?
Perhaps you government should worry about not supporting Latin American dictatorships first: http://wais.stanford.edu/USA/us_supportforladictators8303.html http://www.zompist.com/latam.html
Don't worry--hard drive manufacturers are next.
"Niggesrs"?
...is if he plans to give away Vista CDs.
Well, yeah, I was actually thinking in terms of the 14th century onwards. I wasn't actually talking about the Dark Age, more like the ending of the Middle Ages. Still, it's a heck of a long time for a language to remain unchanged in writing while changing the pronunciation so much.