Funny, I've never had to compile Thunderbird in Ubuntu - it's in the repository already.
I'm sure if you added up all the individual updates for each application in Windows you'd end up with a figure not too far from a typical distro update, which of couse includes updates for apps as well as the OS.
Thanks for saving me the effort of typing this post. As a lefty, and I'm not sure if that makes a difference, printing is bloody hard work compared to cursive, and slow to boot. At school in the US/UK and uni in the UK, I wrote tons of essays, exams and notes FAST and in cursive. I would never dream of trying to print them, or type them during lectures.
If I saw hand-printed work I would also assume it had been written by a young child (aged 8ish) and treat it appropriately.
I, too, wonder why handwriting isn't considered important, particularly in the USA. Assuming coursework/homework is now largely typed/printed, how do the teachers know that it's all your own work? What about written exams (or are they all "fill in the dots" machine-readable ones now)?
I was taught both printing and cursive at school in the US in the early-mid seventies, and although learning both is probably not useful for most people, I found printing to be very laborious (if it's to be done well) but it came in handy when I later did Technical Drawing (O-level FTW!) in the UK.
I still use cursive for note-taking and cover-letter writing (if applying by mail), and it's still pretty readable, although a bit "spikier" than standard cursive. I did get a funny look from my boss recently when I signed my annual review, although I'm not sure if it was because it was actually legible or just that he'd never seen anyone make an effort to do more than a squiggle before...
"When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well - you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference."
AIUI, English at least *used* to have distinct singular and plural second person pronouns, namely "thou" (singular) and "you" (plural). "Thou", "thee" and "thine" survive in certain linguistic backwaters such as Yorkshire, for example.
It's not as simple as left/right - the division into authoritarian/libertarian is independent of "wingedness". You need something like the Political Compass to see the full picture:
My uncle (who enjoys making a scene in any case) used to travel around Europe with nothing more than a copy of the Treaty of Rome - though I imagine he'd get more hassle these days, at the UK end of things, at least.
"Status of the NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP) Project All NASA support to sustain cognizance on these possibilities has been withdrawn as of October 1, 2008. The final NASA contribution was to assist in the compilation of a graduate-level technical book, Frontiers of Propulsion Science, which is due out in early 2009."
I'm a bit of a g77 fan myself, though I've not had cause to use it under Ubuntu. A quick Google turned up a solution for 8.10 - it might work for 9.04 too:
AIUI the -ise ending was introduced as a replacement for -ize during the 18th century, when it became trendy to spell things in a French style, hence -er endings became -re (centre, theatre) and -ise replaced -ize. Because American English was essentially divorced from the mother tongue by that time (politically if not culturally), the changes didn't propagate over the pond.
As someone else noted, American English resembles British rural dialects (particularly Oxfordshire and Bristolian, so I'm told), which leads to the amusing conclusion that when one hears, for example, one of Shakespeare's plays performed by Americans, it's pretty close to how the original would have sounded.
When US TV does come up with something innovative and quirky, they usually kill it off rapidly (maybe because they don't know what else to do with it) - see for example Quark, Eerie Indiana, Bakersfield PD, Do Over...
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Funny, I've never had to compile Thunderbird in Ubuntu - it's in the repository already.
I'm sure if you added up all the individual updates for each application in Windows you'd end up with a figure not too far from a typical distro update, which of couse includes updates for apps as well as the OS.
The correct question (for a supercomputer) is of course "Does it run Fortran?".
Thanks for saving me the effort of typing this post. As a lefty, and I'm not sure if that makes a difference, printing is bloody hard work compared to cursive, and slow to boot. At school in the US/UK and uni in the UK, I wrote tons of essays, exams and notes FAST and in cursive. I would never dream of trying to print them, or type them during lectures.
If I saw hand-printed work I would also assume it had been written by a young child (aged 8ish) and treat it appropriately.
I, too, wonder why handwriting isn't considered important, particularly in the USA. Assuming coursework/homework is now largely typed/printed, how do the teachers know that it's all your own work? What about written exams (or are they all "fill in the dots" machine-readable ones now)?
I was taught both printing and cursive at school in the US in the early-mid seventies, and although learning both is probably not useful for most people, I found printing to be very laborious (if it's to be done well) but it came in handy when I later did Technical Drawing (O-level FTW!) in the UK.
I still use cursive for note-taking and cover-letter writing (if applying by mail), and it's still pretty readable, although a bit "spikier" than standard cursive. I did get a funny look from my boss recently when I signed my annual review, although I'm not sure if it was because it was actually legible or just that he'd never seen anyone make an effort to do more than a squiggle before...
As Bill Hicks (pbuh) said:
"When you're high, you can do everything you normally do just as well - you just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort. There is a difference."
Number 5 needs input! Must have input!
I'm impressed by the age of your Gmail account, seeing as it was launched in 2004...
AIUI, English at least *used* to have distinct singular and plural second person pronouns, namely "thou" (singular) and "you" (plural). "Thou", "thee" and "thine" survive in certain linguistic backwaters such as Yorkshire, for example.
ITYM "The War of Northern Aggression"...
You mean
"No, no no no no no no, yes."
shurely?
First assume a spherical horse...
It's not as simple as left/right - the division into authoritarian/libertarian is independent of "wingedness". You need something like the Political Compass to see the full picture:
http://www.politicalcompass.org/
Generic Ubuntu has issues on EEE PCs - try EEEbuntu instead:
http://eeebuntu.org/
That's never stopped them before...
No, *physics* kills people.
My uncle (who enjoys making a scene in any case) used to travel around Europe with nothing more than a copy of the Treaty of Rome - though I imagine he'd get more hassle these days, at the UK end of things, at least.
He's the *former* head because there's no *current* head - the project was officially closed down last year.
From http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/bpp/
"Status of the NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics (BPP) Project
All NASA support to sustain cognizance on these possibilities has been withdrawn as of October 1, 2008. The final NASA contribution was to assist in the compilation of a graduate-level technical book, Frontiers of Propulsion Science, which is due out in early 2009."
I suspect TFA is connected with the publication of "Frontiers in Propulsion Science", a sort-of summary of the work of the NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics project:
http://www.amazon.com/Frontiers-Propulsion-Progress-Astronautics-Aeronautics/dp/1563479567
See also
http://tauzero.aero/
The other.
I'm a bit of a g77 fan myself, though I've not had cause to use it under Ubuntu. A quick Google turned up a solution for 8.10 - it might work for 9.04 too:
http://www.fluka.org/FLUKA/web_archive/earchive/new-fluka-discuss/2091.html
Use eeebuntu instead - no problems at all with wifi (unlike with the stock Xandros POS).
Apparently they're working on a new version based on 9.04.
http://www.eeebuntu.com/
AIUI the -ise ending was introduced as a replacement for -ize during the 18th century, when it became trendy to spell things in a French style, hence -er endings became -re (centre, theatre) and -ise replaced -ize. Because American English was essentially divorced from the mother tongue by that time (politically if not culturally), the changes didn't propagate over the pond.
As someone else noted, American English resembles British rural dialects (particularly Oxfordshire and Bristolian, so I'm told), which leads to the amusing conclusion that when one hears, for example, one of Shakespeare's plays performed by Americans, it's pretty close to how the original would have sounded.
When US TV does come up with something innovative and quirky, they usually kill it off rapidly (maybe because they don't know what else to do with it) - see for example Quark, Eerie Indiana, Bakersfield PD, Do Over...
3All in the Family", being, of course, a remake of the British "Till Death Us Do Part".
I joined on April 12, 2004 (invited by a Google employee).
Can anyone who didn't work for Google at the time beat that?