I write email because I prefer how it looks to e-mail.
The E is capitalised at the start of a sentance regardless of what somebody else said in reply to you:)
The one I like is whether to use full stops after typing in urls and email addresses. Go here http://this.is/a_real_site. - that wouldn't work properly in plenty of email clients. It's the same with smileys. If you add a smiley, it can be a full stop replacement:)
there are more Americans turning 18 than ever before
I thought that the older age group was getting bigger. Longer life expectancy means more old people. Maybe this is his intended audience; the one that he thinks is more important.
What percentage of 18 year olds vote? What percentage of "older" people vote? Think he might have considered this?
I was studying in Braunschweig, Germany last year and one of the research professors there that works on oleds told me we should probably expect them to be in general circulation in around 5 years.
I was having the same kind of discussion about England a few days ago. England also doesn't have very much of a unified culture and that much of it that is specifically English is ridiculed - Morris Dancing for example.
Somebody hypothesised thus: "Partially, it's because England hasn't been seriously threatened in a good while. There's no need to stress what makes us a society if that society isn't at risk of takeover. Which we aren't really."
As I'm quoting someone, I'd better tell the truth and just say that I sat back and listened to the discussion, but never mind.
The scary thing is that "American culture" is taking over.
oojah
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Sure it does. If you call the interviews with people news.
Interesting suggestion. But what then if I have somedomain.org, and then a company called somedomain registers somedomain as a trademark and wants somedomain.com? Do I automatically lose the right to my domain?
Why use petrol powered shoes? Take a look at this page to see something that probably won't get you to 25mph, but will certainly let you jump a fair bit. You won't run out of petrol either;)
http://www.kangoo-worldsite.com/home.htm
On TV once, I saw some *immense* boots somebody made - they were based on a "dead big achilles tendon" princple. Lots of springs, lots and lots of jumping. I can't find any links about that mind.
Pterol might be cool, but I reckon the Kangaroo boots are better;)
Never mind perfect babies. What about the decidedly strange people who choose to call their children things like "Urine" (supposedly pronounced "Ureeny"). What kind of things would they do to their kids genes if they could do?;) I can't think of anything suitably imaginative, so make up some of your own. Orange eyes maybe.
Is part of the worry with this kind of thing that people think that they wouldn't be around if all of the getting rid of genetic wierdness had been possible when they were concieved?
I'm scared, I'm not sure that I would have made it. I like me, some other people do too. Why shouldn't I be?
I read a short story once. It was called something on the lines of "The Ugly Child". Everybody on the planet was beautiful. All was wonderful and everyone was happy. All with the exception of one child, who was ugly. Thus, the others were beautiful; without him, they weren't.
And if they do do this, they'll be changing the Office file formats quite a lot most probably!
If a competing product existed that had a satisfactory amount of features and compatibility with the MSOffice file formats but *wasn't* leased in this way then this would be a Bad Thing for MS.
Adding ".NET" is still a damned silly idea though imho.
OK, so you probably need some way of distinguishing MSOffice.NET from MSOffice but it just isn't quite somehow. Like people will use the ".NET" when talking - unless it specifically needs emphasising that you're talking about the.NET version.
The thing is, if *all* of their products end in.NET (as it seems to be suggested) then there'll be no other products to compare them with.
Mark down for pointless redundancy and because it looks silly, especially as the.NET is all capital letters.
This is great news for hard-core Amiga fans, who will finally get to play with their favorite OS on new hardware. The rest of us are happy for you. This will not change our lives much.
It'll give them a chance to play on a new OS on new hardware. Just because this one will have the same name doesn't mean that it'll be their favourite OS.
> While I'm a long time Amiga-user and love(d) the > system, I can't really get excited about the > resurrection of the platform.
I think the point that some people seem to skirt around is that Amiga are trying to resurrect the old Amiga in as much as Linus tried to resurrect Unix by writing Linux.
I'm sure that if Amiga had called themselves [insert cool name here] instead then they'd have an easier time of it (especially on slashdot) because people wouldn't be saying "Well it used to be good, but..."
Yeah, but now we all want to store more. It makes no difference that 64Mb of RAM used to be mass storage. It isn't now. Mass storage today is still expensive.
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks, I thought it wasn't bad as my first ever FP.
It could maybe have done with a bit more embellishment to make it more relevant, but I was in a hurry.
Cheers,
oojah
My favourite would have to be "Yawn a more Roman way".
It almost makes sense, which palindromes tend not to.
oojah
I write email because I prefer how it looks to e-mail.
:)
:)
The E is capitalised at the start of a sentance regardless of what somebody else said in reply to you
The one I like is whether to use full stops after typing in urls and email addresses. Go here http://this.is/a_real_site. - that wouldn't work properly in plenty of email clients. It's the same with smileys. If you add a smiley, it can be a full stop replacement
oojah
there are more Americans turning 18 than ever before
I thought that the older age group was getting bigger. Longer life expectancy means more old people. Maybe this is his intended audience; the one that he thinks is more important.
What percentage of 18 year olds vote? What percentage of "older" people vote? Think he might have considered this?
oojah
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Love it, especially the music bit! Very funny.
oojah
I was studying in Braunschweig, Germany last year and one of the research professors there that works on oleds told me we should probably expect them to be in general circulation in around 5 years.
Roger
.co.uk sounds nicer than .com.uk anyway...
Use both to your advantage. You'll love the system speed of SCSI for what really counts, and the savings of IDE for what's a little less important.
Thank you! I was getting worried that nobody else had noticed this incredibly sensible idea.
I was having the same kind of discussion about England a few days ago. England also doesn't have very much of a unified culture and that much of it that is specifically English is ridiculed - Morris Dancing for example.
Somebody hypothesised thus: "Partially, it's because England hasn't been seriously threatened in a good while. There's no need to stress what makes us a society if that society isn't at risk of takeover. Which we aren't really."
As I'm quoting someone, I'd better tell the truth and just say that I sat back and listened to the discussion, but never mind.
The scary thing is that "American culture" is taking over.
oojah
Sure it does. If you call the interviews with people news.
oojah
Interesting suggestion. But what then if I have somedomain.org, and then a company called somedomain registers somedomain as a trademark and wants somedomain.com? Do I automatically lose the right to my domain?
Just a thought.
oojah
Why use petrol powered shoes? Take a look at this page to see something that probably won't get you to 25mph, but will certainly let you jump a fair bit. You won't run out of petrol either ;)
;)
http://www.kangoo-worldsite.com/home.htm
On TV once, I saw some *immense* boots somebody made - they were based on a "dead big achilles tendon" princple. Lots of springs, lots and lots of jumping. I can't find any links about that mind.
Pterol might be cool, but I reckon the Kangaroo boots are better
Never mind perfect babies. What about the decidedly strange people who choose to call their children things like "Urine" (supposedly pronounced "Ureeny"). What kind of things would they do to their kids genes if they could do? ;) I can't think of anything suitably imaginative, so make up some of your own. Orange eyes maybe.
Is part of the worry with this kind of thing that people think that they wouldn't be around if all of the getting rid of genetic wierdness had been possible when they were concieved?
I'm scared, I'm not sure that I would have made it. I like me, some other people do too. Why shouldn't I be?
I read a short story once. It was called something on the lines of "The Ugly Child". Everybody on the planet was beautiful. All was wonderful and everyone was happy. All with the exception of one child, who was ugly. Thus, the others were beautiful; without him, they weren't.
I thought this article at EE Times might be relevant:
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000 623S0045
And if they do do this, they'll be changing the Office file formats quite a lot most probably!
If a competing product existed that had a satisfactory amount of features and compatibility with the MSOffice file formats but *wasn't* leased in this way then this would be a Bad Thing for MS.
Adding ".NET" is still a damned silly idea though imho.
.NET version.
.NET (as it seems to be suggested) then there'll be no other products to compare them with.
.NET is all capital letters.
OK, so you probably need some way of distinguishing MSOffice.NET from MSOffice but it just isn't quite somehow. Like people will use the ".NET" when talking - unless it specifically needs emphasising that you're talking about the
The thing is, if *all* of their products end in
Mark down for pointless redundancy and because it looks silly, especially as the
This is great news for hard-core Amiga fans, who will finally get to play with their favorite OS on new hardware. The rest of us are happy for you. This will not change our lives much.
It'll give them a chance to play on a new OS on new hardware. Just because this one will have the same name doesn't mean that it'll be their favourite OS.
I'm not Money__, but that was my comment.
I replied as Anonymous Coward so that people browsing at +1 wouldn't be bothered.
Regards,
oojah
> While I'm a long time Amiga-user and love(d) the
> system, I can't really get excited about the
> resurrection of the platform.
I think the point that some people seem to skirt around is that Amiga are trying to resurrect the old Amiga in as much as Linus tried to resurrect Unix by writing Linux.
I'm sure that if Amiga had called themselves [insert cool name here] instead then they'd have an easier time of it (especially on slashdot) because people wouldn't be saying "Well it used to be good, but..."
Cheers,
oojah
But Aminet != Amiga NG
Some from that page you linked to:
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Does Nintendo Think Emulation Companies Promote Piracy? Why?
Yes. The only purpose of video game emulators are to play illegal copied games from the Internet.
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Ho hum.
Praise the man who can see beyond his nose, unlike most people on here.
OK, so it'll probably be mostly hardware based but I thought it was a [not so very] amusing thought.
Yeah, but now we all want to store more. It makes no difference that 64Mb of RAM used to be mass storage. It isn't now.
Mass storage today is still expensive.