Apart from some of the other good advice, if you want to build vocabulary and you are not living in the country that speaks the language - simply subscribe to a newspaper or magazine (or both). The first few weeks will take forever flipping back and forth between a translating dictionary for literally every second word, but in no time you'll be able to read articles fluently. Due to the scope of newspapers and magazines you'll get introduced to new words and concepts over time as they become newsworthy.
I built up a respectable technical/computing vocab in German simply by subscribing to the excellent c't magazine, for example; and within 3 months of being a complete novice could read practically cover-to-cover the daily broadsheet newspaper by reading it every second day or so.
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Yeah you did. It is talking about the new Yahoo! Mail which is about to be released and has been subject to previewing for the last few months. It is not talking about the Yahoo! Mail that has been around for years.
The best defense against spam is never to type your personal address anywhere on the internet.
You have to do more than that. You also have to not email anyone, and also not have an easy to guess username.
The problem is, you can never publish your email address anywhere - and someone else will gladly do it for you. All it takes is one person you have emailed to come down with an email virus, which then propogates your address all over the net.
Email address synthesis will also guarantee unless you have the most obtuse email address, it will end up getting spam too.
With my camera I shoot in RAW. By some process in history, today the RAW format for my specific camera is open - available not only for use in commercial products like Adobe, but in GPL'd software that will convert it for me and for while I have the source.
Unless someone arrests me and confiscates all my software, as well as removes all this purportedly legal software from the market, what is the risk of using this camera?
David Pogue should disclose that he is a popular author of Apple books. I don't disagree with what he says, and I am an Apple fan, but if you have a major interest in Apple you should probably disclose it when writing neutral articles for the NYT.
There's not enough of a market to make it worth Amazon's while setting up the distribution infrastructure for an Australian store.
Says who? There are a number of distribution centres throughout the U.S., and if you divide it into the population, I'd say one U.S. distribution centre covers the same population as Australia. Plus, there is NZ and other surrounding Asia-Pacific populations that would benefit not having goods shipped from the opposite side of the world.
Surely that's the same strategy Adobe uses. Adobe Acrobat Professional, for example? Just guessing here...
Sure, but PDF is an open format that they allow anyone to implement independently without requiring them to pay Adobe royalties. I doubt Microsot would be so permissive.
You know, CSS provides the ability to - using the same HTML - provide the fully designed page via a normal browser; and an image/tables/etc free version via a cut-down device.
I don't know if Wikipedia does this, but it is quite simple. Having a specific "text only" version is 1990s thinking. I think if someone sent a patch to Wikipedia for their CSS styles that did this they would happily adopt it.
Actually, obnoxious posing and behavior not withstanding, NetSol does in fact have the most solid infrastructure to insure solid.net and.com DNS. Yes, it's sad. But, it's true.
Yes, but that doesn't mean they aren't the only one overly qualified to do so. Running the DNS isn't rocket science, as much as people would like you believe. There are many entities with enough technical clue to do so. Some of them even bidded against VeriSign.
I was at FOSDEM, listened to Stallman's speech, and he didn't mention the BIOS once. His speech was him ranting somewhat incoherently about copyright law, and telling everyone to avoid Adobe.
It isn't even that. It is a fundamental side-effect with the the notion of internationalization, and the fact cyrillic and latin (and others) share the same letters. More specifically you may consider it can be pinned on the way Unicode enumerates characters (by giving different code points to letters rendered the same).
If you could setup a 802.11g network, or a Pre-n network that also supports 802.11g; why wouldn't you get the Pre-n gear even if it could be obsoleted in a year or two?
The cost for the Belkin versus some other products was the same when I saw them a few weeks ago (in Australia).
You don't have to be a bleeding edge geek. To a complete novice you compare both and you go for the Pre-n one at the same price. Pretty simple.
It's worse than that. If you go to Giant's website it reads:
How is the GIANT AntiSpyware product that I purchased different from the free beta version that Microsoft will be introducing?
The Microsoft anti-spyware beta product will not support Windows 98SE / ME / NT (with SP 3, 4, or 6a). Beta product users will not have access to Online Support and will receive product updates for a limited time period.
Their "re-hashed" version appears to be simply commenting out existing code to give it LESS functionality.
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At any rate - there's no such thing as bug free software. Never will be.
10 PRINK "HELLO WORLD"
Damn.
Apart from some of the other good advice, if you want to build vocabulary and you are not living in the country that speaks the language - simply subscribe to a newspaper or magazine (or both). The first few weeks will take forever flipping back and forth between a translating dictionary for literally every second word, but in no time you'll be able to read articles fluently. Due to the scope of newspapers and magazines you'll get introduced to new words and concepts over time as they become newsworthy.
I built up a respectable technical/computing vocab in German simply by subscribing to the excellent c't magazine, for example; and within 3 months of being a complete novice could read practically cover-to-cover the daily broadsheet newspaper by reading it every second day or so.
Yeah you did. It is talking about the new Yahoo! Mail which is about to be released and has been subject to previewing for the last few months. It is not talking about the Yahoo! Mail that has been around for years.
Here is a screenshot.
It must vary. In Australia I was lucky to get 1 or 2 calls a year on my fixed line.
Perhaps not: remember, Sony/BMG owns Napster.
No it doesn't. It was purchased off Sony by Roxio, which then spun it out.
The best defense against spam is never to type your personal address anywhere on the internet.
You have to do more than that. You also have to not email anyone, and also not have an easy to guess username.
The problem is, you can never publish your email address anywhere - and someone else will gladly do it for you. All it takes is one person you have emailed to come down with an email virus, which then propogates your address all over the net.
Email address synthesis will also guarantee unless you have the most obtuse email address, it will end up getting spam too.
It's a good thing then we don't trust Mozilla with protecting our security!
Oh, wait...
With my camera I shoot in RAW. By some process in history, today the RAW format for my specific camera is open - available not only for use in commercial products like Adobe, but in GPL'd software that will convert it for me and for while I have the source.
Unless someone arrests me and confiscates all my software, as well as removes all this purportedly legal software from the market, what is the risk of using this camera?
Not unless its already in the US store. You need a billing address in the country of the store you want to buy stuff in.
Worse than that, the credit card needs to be issued in the country where you want an account.
I live in Belgium, have a credit card, but the card is not issued in Belgium - therefore Apple rejects my attempts to sign up to iTMS.
So... his publisher Pogue Press is an imprint of O'Reilly. Since when is O'Reilly barred from Applestores?
David Pogue should disclose that he is a popular author of Apple books. I don't disagree with what he says, and I am an Apple fan, but if you have a major interest in Apple you should probably disclose it when writing neutral articles for the NYT.
There's not enough of a market to make it worth Amazon's while setting up the distribution infrastructure for an Australian store.
Says who? There are a number of distribution centres throughout the U.S., and if you divide it into the population, I'd say one U.S. distribution centre covers the same population as Australia. Plus, there is NZ and other surrounding Asia-Pacific populations that would benefit not having goods shipped from the opposite side of the world.
Surely that's the same strategy Adobe uses. Adobe Acrobat Professional, for example? Just guessing here...
Sure, but PDF is an open format that they allow anyone to implement independently without requiring them to pay Adobe royalties. I doubt Microsot would be so permissive.
You know, CSS provides the ability to - using the same HTML - provide the fully designed page via a normal browser; and an image/tables/etc free version via a cut-down device.
I don't know if Wikipedia does this, but it is quite simple. Having a specific "text only" version is 1990s thinking. I think if someone sent a patch to Wikipedia for their CSS styles that did this they would happily adopt it.
Actually, obnoxious posing and behavior not withstanding, NetSol does in fact have the most solid infrastructure to insure solid .net and .com DNS. Yes, it's sad. But, it's true.
Yes, but that doesn't mean they aren't the only one overly qualified to do so. Running the DNS isn't rocket science, as much as people would like you believe. There are many entities with enough technical clue to do so. Some of them even bidded against VeriSign.
this is also the homeland of Rupert Murdoch, so you wont see much differen to FOX type reporting on the commercial stations
Rupert Murdoch owns NO Australian free-to-air television stations. Stick to the facts.
Not that cheap. It takes abour 13 minutes to cross from one side of Denmark to the other by train ;-)
t's a pity that the first Linux.conf is being held here,I guess they there trying to go for the Government market.
I'd be more worried about something in the air there affecting the residents. You're that guy from Memento right?
I was at FOSDEM, listened to Stallman's speech, and he didn't mention the BIOS once. His speech was him ranting somewhat incoherently about copyright law, and telling everyone to avoid Adobe.
It isn't even that. It is a fundamental side-effect with the the notion of internationalization, and the fact cyrillic and latin (and others) share the same letters. More specifically you may consider it can be pinned on the way Unicode enumerates characters (by giving different code points to letters rendered the same).
It isn't a fault of the browser or IDNs.
More years of uncertainty. That's not good for anybody.
That's like everything. Any law can be changed, created or whatever in 5 years time.
It is the St Stephen's Day holiday in many countries.
If you could setup a 802.11g network, or a Pre-n network that also supports 802.11g; why wouldn't you get the Pre-n gear even if it could be obsoleted in a year or two?
The cost for the Belkin versus some other products was the same when I saw them a few weeks ago (in Australia).
You don't have to be a bleeding edge geek. To a complete novice you compare both and you go for the Pre-n one at the same price. Pretty simple.
The question posted is "How well do other areas of the workforce compare when it comes to hiring Doctorates?"
How the hell do you hire a doctorate?