Having seen First Folio spellings, I have to wonder how much controversy there was when Shakespeare first appeared in modern spelling. Consider the opening lines of "The Tempest":
Master. Bote-swaine.
Botes. Heere Master: What cheere?
Mast. Good: Speake to th' Mariners: fall too't, yarely, or we run our selues a ground, bestirre, bestirre.
In more modern spelling this becomes:
MASTER. Boatswain!
BOATSWAIN. Here, master; what cheer?
MASTER. Good! Speak to th' mariners; fall to't yarely, or
we run ourselves aground; bestir, bestir.
Was this considered a radical watering-down, back in the day?
I've also considered what Shakespeare's plays would look like as IRC logs; I suspect such an approach would work at least as well as the blog version of Pepys' Diaries
Boston rolls up its sidewalks fairly early, unless by "things" you mean "bars". When I first moved here, I lived in Davis Square, and the Store 24 was required by local ordinance to close at midnight and not reopen until morning (apparently the law existed in order to prevent late-night armed robbery), leading me to refer to it as "Store 16", as that was how many hours each day it was actually open. It would also be nice if the T ran later.
I get the impression that if you *really* need a city to be mostly functional 24x7 (esp. a decent transit system), that pretty much limits you to NYC.
Western Wisconsin is pretty close to the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). Of course, southern Minnesota is even closer, and last I looked, IBM had operations in Rochester, MN. Hence, there is at least one local exceptions to your "rural != good health care" point, with at least one major tech company already there.
You have a definite point about diversity, though. In much of southern Minnesota, "diversity" mostly means "Swedes and Norwegians living together in harmony". As for the rest, it varies from place to place.
I'm not entirely sure why the tech economy is so centered on SF & Boston, though, given the high cost of living there. Even moving to smaller cities elsewhere in the country could reduce costs.
Hey, it worked in 1920, right? Given enough rope: three terms of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover... followed by five terms of Roosevelt and Truman, social security, regulation of financial institutions, etc.
XD2 is based on Gnome 2.2. SUSE Linux Professional 9.1 comes with Gnome 2.6. XD2 would be a downgrade, and it won't be available for SUSE Linux 9.1.
OTOH, several XD2 patches were incorporated into the Gnome packages that shipped with SUSE Linux 9.1, so it already comes with a Ximian-enhanced Gnome, without the need to install anything further.
The BBC seems far more interested in painting a picture (with their particular slant, of course) of the situation for Palestinians than reporting on the situation for Israelis.
The BBC is developing a strong reputation for bias, slanted stories, leading word choice, and pre-formed conclusions. This/. story is one excellent example. Others have been in the news recently, though you might want to find non-BBC sources for the full story.
Much of the bias of the BBC lies in what bad things they decide to cover, whom they decide to blame, and which bad things they decide to ignore. They chiefly report on the bad things that they can blame on those they paint as melodrama villains, so that the audience can have the satisfaction of booing and hissing. If something bad happens that can't be attributed to the predefined villains (Linux "hackers", Israelis, etc.), it gets far less attention.
Granted, Fox isn't any different, but nobody claims with a straight face that Fox is unbiased.
The Jerusalem Post is the most popular paper in Israel? OK, certainly the most popular *English language* newspaper in Israel, but given that they don't publish in Hebrew (unlike Ha'aretz, Yedioth Ahronoth, Maariv), I'd be surprised if the Jerusalem Post were really the most popular paper in the country.
OTOH, I agree that it's useful to read both the Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz (both available online in English) in order to provide a broader perspective. Given that they cover a fair amount of the political spectrum in Israel (the former has something of a right-wing bias, whereas the latter has something of a left-wing bias), the two combined provide a variety of opinions while skipping the blood libel innuendo that dominates the European press.
The Ukrainian jewel mentioned above features prominently a large number of Russian jokes involving a collision between a Mercedes (typically driven by a wealthy "New Russian") and a Zaporozhets (typically driven by some poor slob who can't afford to pay for the damage) and the conversation between the two drivers. Some very amusing jokes, if you speak Russian or can find a translator.
- Carbohydrates are not stored in fat cells. - *Fat* is stored in fat cells, generally as triglycerides. - Cholesterol is not generally used for energy storage. - Glycogen is stored in the liver and in muscle tissue, not in fat cells. - The body is incapable of producing its own glucose. - I've never heard of the digestive system "discarding" fats and protein. Excess fat gets stored (pretty trivially), and excess protein gets catabolized, with some parts being diverted to energy storage and waste products getting filtered out by the kidneys. Turning protein into fat doesn't really strike me as "discarding".
My best guess as to how Atkins works is that it triggers ketosis, a pathological metabolism characteristic of advanced untreated Type I diabetes. Under conditions of carbohydrate deprivation, the body hydrolizes triglycerides, using the glycerol to fuel the brain (necessary because fatty acids can't cross the blood-brain barrier, but glycerol and carbohydrates can). The fatty acids that are left over are thrown into a metabolic scrap heap, where they are eventually broken down into ketones, e.g. acetone, nail polish remover. If your breath is sweet when you're on the Atkins diet, that's probably the reason. The "glycogenic state" description sounds like an attempt to paint a pretty face on a pathological metabolism. I'm not sure Atkins is any better than tapeworms as an approach to dieting.
Exactly. Evolution has been proposed for inclusion in the GNOME 2.6 Desktop release, and this requires periodic release of snapshots according to GNOME release schedule guidelines. This tarball is in many ways more of a milestone release than anything else. It's hardly free of bugs yet. I use it, but I'm in a testing mood.;-)
Snapshot packages of 1.5 are (and have been) available for several distributions (SuSE Linux 8.2 and 9.0; Red Hat Linux 9; Mandrake Linux 9.1 and 9.2) via either Red Carpet (for those platforms for which Red Carpet has been released, i.e. not yet for SuSE Linux 9.0 or Mandrake Linux 9.2) or at ftp.ximian.com. Note that they're in the Evolution Development Snapshot channel (in Red Carpet) or the/pub/evolution-devel-snapshot directory (on ftp).
Again, the caveat, in case anyone missed it: development, unstable, not really a good idea in a production environment yet.
Dunno how BBM is doing, but I'm married to a research chemist. There are plenty of women out there who've taken calculus; you don't need to settle for stoopid ones.
1) Israel is intended as a Jewish state, not an Ashkenazic state. Knowledge of Yiddish was never as universal among Jews as was Hebrew. Sephardim and Mizrachim typically don't know Yiddish beyond cognate Hebrew and Aramaic loan words. Hence, Israel standardized on Hebrew. Granted, most of the early Zionists were in the habit of ignoring rabbinical opinion.
2) Not all text editing is mundane. Prayer books and the like are typically printed, and someone has to write such things. Furthermore, Hebrew never completely died out as a language of biblical scholarship.
3) Aramaic, Yiddish, Ladino: the major non-Hebrew vernacular languages used by Jews throughout history have traditionally been written from right to left and would necessitate the same bidirectional support that makes Hebrew so hard to support. It's only within the last hundred years or so that most Jews learned to read from left to right before learning to read from right to left.
4) Any rejection of Hebrew as a mundane language is post-biblical, and there doesn't seem to have been an especially strong rabbinical consensus on the matter, even if some rabbis held that opinion. Even independent of biblical scholarship, there was plenty of secular Hebrew literature in the middle ages, long after Hebrew ceased to be a vernacular, and long before modern Zionism revived vernacular Hebrew.
5) Yiddish was initially popular (at least among Askhenazim) because it was comprehensible (at least the spoken version) to the local gentile population. The vocabulary is mostly from Middle High German. Ladino is similarly derived from Spanish. Aramaic isn't an exclusively Jewish language at all, being originally a gentile vernacular (Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, still survives as a gentile vernacular in some villages), though it is used in some prayers, a few later parts of the Bible, and the Talmud, and it's still used in some rabbinical contexts. So non-Hebrew languages aren't necessarily embraced because they offer less sacred alternatives to Hebrew, nor are religious writings (even liturgy!) exclusively in Hebrew.
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In more modern spelling this becomes:
Was this considered a radical watering-down, back in the day?
I've also considered what Shakespeare's plays would look like as IRC logs; I suspect such an approach would work at least as well as the blog version of Pepys' Diaries
By "meaningful text" I chiefly intend to exclude icons such as "T" and "T".
No chlorine involved; it's strictly a fluorocarbon.
Yes, it's tough on ozone. It's also a highly effective greenhouse gas. The two are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
Bear in mind that Mars has no ozone layer, making the effect of C3F8 on ozone irrelevant in a Martian context.
Raw images (plenty of them)
Boston rolls up its sidewalks fairly early, unless by "things" you mean "bars". When I first moved here, I lived in Davis Square, and the Store 24 was required by local ordinance to close at midnight and not reopen until morning (apparently the law existed in order to prevent late-night armed robbery), leading me to refer to it as "Store 16", as that was how many hours each day it was actually open. It would also be nice if the T ran later.
I get the impression that if you *really* need a city to be mostly functional 24x7 (esp. a decent transit system), that pretty much limits you to NYC.
Western Wisconsin is pretty close to the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). Of course, southern Minnesota is even closer, and last I looked, IBM had operations in Rochester, MN. Hence, there is at least one local exceptions to your "rural != good health care" point, with at least one major tech company already there.
You have a definite point about diversity, though. In much of southern Minnesota, "diversity" mostly means "Swedes and Norwegians living together in harmony". As for the rest, it varies from place to place.
I'm not entirely sure why the tech economy is so centered on SF & Boston, though, given the high cost of living there. Even moving to smaller cities elsewhere in the country could reduce costs.
It can work, but it's more likely to work if one takes active measures (cultures?) to make sure it works.
It's not immediately clear to me how to extend this metaphor to the suggested strategy, but I'm running on very little sleep today...
Hey, it worked in 1920, right? Given enough rope: three terms of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover... followed by five terms of Roosevelt and Truman, social security, regulation of financial institutions, etc.
...will be where they list job openings at Apple and Pixar?
IIRC, the dam above Johnstown wasn't a hydro dam (no t much need in 1889); it was a dam to form an artificial lake for recreational purposes.
Bear in mind that the programmer who was raided hasn't been arrested. He got his machines back a while ago.
XD2 is based on Gnome 2.2. SUSE Linux Professional 9.1 comes with Gnome 2.6. XD2 would be a downgrade, and it won't be available for SUSE Linux 9.1.
OTOH, several XD2 patches were incorporated into the Gnome packages that shipped with SUSE Linux 9.1, so it already comes with a Ximian-enhanced Gnome, without the need to install anything further.
The BBC seems far more interested in painting a picture (with their particular slant, of course) of the situation for Palestinians than reporting on the situation for Israelis.
Here's a link to some examplesThe BBC is developing a strong reputation for bias, slanted stories, leading word choice, and pre-formed conclusions. This /. story is one excellent example. Others have been in the news recently, though you might want to find non-BBC sources for the full story.
Much of the bias of the BBC lies in what bad things they decide to cover, whom they decide to blame, and which bad things they decide to ignore. They chiefly report on the bad things that they can blame on those they paint as melodrama villains, so that the audience can have the satisfaction of booing and hissing. If something bad happens that can't be attributed to the predefined villains (Linux "hackers", Israelis, etc.), it gets far less attention.
Granted, Fox isn't any different, but nobody claims with a straight face that Fox is unbiased.
The Jerusalem Post is the most popular paper in Israel? OK, certainly the most popular *English language* newspaper in Israel, but given that they don't publish in Hebrew (unlike Ha'aretz, Yedioth Ahronoth, Maariv), I'd be surprised if the Jerusalem Post were really the most popular paper in the country.
OTOH, I agree that it's useful to read both the Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz (both available online in English) in order to provide a broader perspective. Given that they cover a fair amount of the political spectrum in Israel (the former has something of a right-wing bias, whereas the latter has something of a left-wing bias), the two combined provide a variety of opinions while skipping the blood libel innuendo that dominates the European press.
The BBC does a more-than-adequate job of presenting the Palestinian side and ignoring the Israeli side.
"Beatles"? Wouldn't it be "Beatle", in that case? Or are John and George hanging out with Elvis in convenience stores?
...in Chris Toshok's apartment. :-P
Correcting a few misconceptions here:
- Carbohydrates are not stored in fat cells.
- *Fat* is stored in fat cells, generally as triglycerides.
- Cholesterol is not generally used for energy storage.
- Glycogen is stored in the liver and in muscle tissue, not in fat cells.
- The body is incapable of producing its own glucose.
- I've never heard of the digestive system "discarding" fats and protein. Excess fat gets stored (pretty trivially), and excess protein gets catabolized, with some parts being diverted to energy storage and waste products getting filtered out by the kidneys. Turning protein into fat doesn't really strike me as "discarding".
My best guess as to how Atkins works is that it triggers ketosis, a pathological metabolism characteristic of advanced untreated Type I diabetes. Under conditions of carbohydrate deprivation, the body hydrolizes triglycerides, using the glycerol to fuel the brain (necessary because fatty acids can't cross the blood-brain barrier, but glycerol and carbohydrates can). The fatty acids that are left over are thrown into a metabolic scrap heap, where they are eventually broken down into ketones, e.g. acetone, nail polish remover. If your breath is sweet when you're on the Atkins diet, that's probably the reason. The "glycogenic state" description sounds like an attempt to paint a pretty face on a pathological metabolism. I'm not sure Atkins is any better than tapeworms as an approach to dieting.
Sun has several developers actively contributing to Evolution.
Exactly. Evolution has been proposed for inclusion in the GNOME 2.6 Desktop release, and this requires periodic release of snapshots according to GNOME release schedule guidelines. This tarball is in many ways more of a milestone release than anything else. It's hardly free of bugs yet. I use it, but I'm in a testing mood. ;-)
/pub/evolution-devel-snapshot directory (on ftp).
Snapshot packages of 1.5 are (and have been) available for several distributions (SuSE Linux 8.2 and 9.0; Red Hat Linux 9; Mandrake Linux 9.1 and 9.2) via either Red Carpet (for those platforms for which Red Carpet has been released, i.e. not yet for SuSE Linux 9.0 or Mandrake Linux 9.2) or at ftp.ximian.com. Note that they're in the Evolution Development Snapshot channel (in Red Carpet) or the
Again, the caveat, in case anyone missed it: development, unstable, not really a good idea in a production environment yet.
Actually, vim has rather good Hebrew support. One of the authors of the O'Reilly tarsier book lives in Israel, IIRC.
Dunno how BBM is doing, but I'm married to a research chemist. There are plenty of women out there who've taken calculus; you don't need to settle for stoopid ones.
1) Israel is intended as a Jewish state, not an Ashkenazic state. Knowledge of Yiddish was never as universal among Jews as was Hebrew. Sephardim and Mizrachim typically don't know Yiddish beyond cognate Hebrew and Aramaic loan words. Hence, Israel standardized on Hebrew. Granted, most of the early Zionists were in the habit of ignoring rabbinical opinion.
2) Not all text editing is mundane. Prayer books and the like are typically printed, and someone has to write such things. Furthermore, Hebrew never completely died out as a language of biblical scholarship.
3) Aramaic, Yiddish, Ladino: the major non-Hebrew vernacular languages used by Jews throughout history have traditionally been written from right to left and would necessitate the same bidirectional support that makes Hebrew so hard to support. It's only within the last hundred years or so that most Jews learned to read from left to right before learning to read from right to left.
4) Any rejection of Hebrew as a mundane language is post-biblical, and there doesn't seem to have been an especially strong rabbinical consensus on the matter, even if some rabbis held that opinion. Even independent of biblical scholarship, there was plenty of secular Hebrew literature in the middle ages, long after Hebrew ceased to be a vernacular, and long before modern Zionism revived vernacular Hebrew.
5) Yiddish was initially popular (at least among Askhenazim) because it was comprehensible (at least the spoken version) to the local gentile population. The vocabulary is mostly from Middle High German. Ladino is similarly derived from Spanish. Aramaic isn't an exclusively Jewish language at all, being originally a gentile vernacular (Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, still survives as a gentile vernacular in some villages), though it is used in some prayers, a few later parts of the Bible, and the Talmud, and it's still used in some rabbinical contexts. So non-Hebrew languages aren't necessarily embraced because they offer less sacred alternatives to Hebrew, nor are religious writings (even liturgy!) exclusively in Hebrew.