Sure there are - try changing the order of the words in a sentence or not using plural endings. It'll soon be more ambiguous or utter nonsense.
A lot of the grammar rules are derived (or evolved) from the root languages. English isn't as ad hoc (no need to capitalise Latin expressions either) as you suggest.
Features implemented or bugs fixed is probably a better measure.
Absolutely not. I want the best developers on the hardest problems, which often take longer to implement, no matter how good or fast they are. Some features are bigger than others anyway, and so naturally take longer (i.e. you implement fewer features or bug fixes in the same length of time). Surely it's all relative: how does one developer compare with another, in terms of speed, code reliability, ideas, quality/robustness of designs, how quickly they can dive in to unknown code, how well they see the bigger picture, etc.
I don't know why you were modded down - too many Mozilla apologists around here presumably. I'm pretty sick of Firefox eating up 1.5GB of memory on my work XP computer, with a restart returning the session at 230MB. It's also out of control on my MacBook, and additionally, if I have more than 5 tabs open, it starts making enough CPU activity just sitting there to put the temperature up.
The whole architecture is getting pretty long in the the tooth - why is it when a Code Collaborator web page is spending several meetings being rendered that I can't use the browser for anything else? Oh yes, that's right: it's a monolithic process. But then getting rid of the monolithic process concept has been a battle since the Netscape days back in the late 90s. Some people are still absurdly sticking with it with Seamonkey. IE8 is beginning to look more appealing, but honestly, I'm just waiting until all of my extensions are available for Chrome, then I'm gone. I installed Thunderbird the other day and downloaded 2 years worth of webmail (since I last used Thunderbird as my main email client). Again, long in the tooth - I'm back on webmail and I'm just waiting for a day when I've got enough time to transfer it all over Apple Mail.
So can I get a Display Port to HDMI adapter? That would make it usefully interoperable.
It's annoying at the moment having to run a separate cable when connecting DVI ouput to HDMI, and typically on a laptop, running audio from a badly amplified analogue headphone socket rather than spitting out a multi-channel bitstream.
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Woe betide a pedestrian who gets in the way of a cyclist though! For some reason respect stops at two wheels.
I should also add that although Microsoft tried to push VC-1 as their next generation codec, few people are using it these days. For Blu-ray, all the high-end people are using AVC. For those who want a cheaper encoder, MPEG-2 is still popular. In other areas, AVC is king too or getting there. It's a million times better than DivX, although probably requires more processor for encoding.
AVC is far less weird and far more standard than DivX ever was. I remember installing the DivX codecs years ago when it first became popular, but found them to be buggy and made Windows crash. I uninstalled them and haven't had to touch them since. I don't download pirated material, and everywhere else AVC has become one of the main codecs if not the most important one. Ditching DivX is no loss.
I hope you quickly progress from $4K/month in Canada. There are a lot of people who earn less, but as a programmer, you should be earning 50-100% more. Presumably you mean gross: i.e. the first $8K-9K is tax free, but above $50K/year you can expect the government to take 20-30%. In Toronto, a one person apartment is shit for $1,000/month or less, unless you're out in the soul-sucking suburbs, but then you'll be paying for a car too. Canada is awesome though...
You could search and replace all instances of "India" with "US" in your comment. The same things apply in both countries. Back during the dotcom boom it was particularly bad in the US with all the incapable morons trying to be programmers because they'd heard they could make a lot of money.
Surely population growth must be good for the economy overall. I imagine it increases demand for resources, partially counteracting some of the decrease in demand due to the recession. I.e. less might be spent per capita, but more is spent overall.
Why would you make an assumption and assertion like that? Most people use their iPods to create their own little bubble on the Tube (e.g. going to the Church) and elsewhere in this crowded city and island.
If you haven't read it yet, then you might like read Peter Hessler's "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze". It makes particular sense to those of us who've had the privilege to live in China, and for you, having taught there, will probably really resonate.
DVD authors have always had the ability to set User Ops that denied this. Some players ignored these settings. I guess you played it on the wrong player.
I find them highly irritating because they do hide the real URL. I'd much rather have multiple copy and pastes with a long URL that has been broken across multiple lines. Since moving from text only email and giving up on the spamfest Usenet though, I can't say long URLs have really been much of a problem for me.
Google has been pissing me off recently with their toolbar updates that change the behaviour of the browser. If I wanted the new window/tab functionality of Firefox to behave like Safari, I'd be using Safari. Why do I want the sidewiki thing, or whatever it's called? Etc, etc. Piss off: I got the google toolbar as better way of searching for things, along with find in page option when I have the results. So it gets uninstalled.
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Sure there are - try changing the order of the words in a sentence or not using plural endings. It'll soon be more ambiguous or utter nonsense.
A lot of the grammar rules are derived (or evolved) from the root languages. English isn't as ad hoc (no need to capitalise Latin expressions either) as you suggest.
Because they might show up your grammar and spelling skills?
So long as they don't release too frequently. It's f**king annoying having things constantly updating.
BTW - we use Palbee for video + Skype for audio. But then we're just individuals spread around the world, and not a rooms full of people.
It only video conferences between two parties. The video turns off for group calls.
You've got to wonder though if Google is using this to deflect attention from a problem at their end.
Absolutely not. I want the best developers on the hardest problems, which often take longer to implement, no matter how good or fast they are. Some features are bigger than others anyway, and so naturally take longer (i.e. you implement fewer features or bug fixes in the same length of time). Surely it's all relative: how does one developer compare with another, in terms of speed, code reliability, ideas, quality/robustness of designs, how quickly they can dive in to unknown code, how well they see the bigger picture, etc.
Re-encoding assumes they have the original source material. If they don't, they'd have to transcode, which is even worse.
I'm taxed in Pounds you insensitive clod. Not that EU taxes probably account for much compared with just the interest on Gordon Brown's debts.
Mine restarted with a restored session yesterday at about 230MB. By early afternoon it had grown to 750MB. It makes a sieve look watertight.
Is basic maths not your strong point?
What I haven't been able to tell from these is whether there is audio coming out of the display port too. Any idea?
I don't know why you were modded down - too many Mozilla apologists around here presumably. I'm pretty sick of Firefox eating up 1.5GB of memory on my work XP computer, with a restart returning the session at 230MB. It's also out of control on my MacBook, and additionally, if I have more than 5 tabs open, it starts making enough CPU activity just sitting there to put the temperature up.
The whole architecture is getting pretty long in the the tooth - why is it when a Code Collaborator web page is spending several meetings being rendered that I can't use the browser for anything else? Oh yes, that's right: it's a monolithic process. But then getting rid of the monolithic process concept has been a battle since the Netscape days back in the late 90s. Some people are still absurdly sticking with it with Seamonkey. IE8 is beginning to look more appealing, but honestly, I'm just waiting until all of my extensions are available for Chrome, then I'm gone. I installed Thunderbird the other day and downloaded 2 years worth of webmail (since I last used Thunderbird as my main email client). Again, long in the tooth - I'm back on webmail and I'm just waiting for a day when I've got enough time to transfer it all over Apple Mail.
Mozilla Foundation: you've got some work to do.
So can I get a Display Port to HDMI adapter? That would make it usefully interoperable.
It's annoying at the moment having to run a separate cable when connecting DVI ouput to HDMI, and typically on a laptop, running audio from a badly amplified analogue headphone socket rather than spitting out a multi-channel bitstream.
Woe betide a pedestrian who gets in the way of a cyclist though! For some reason respect stops at two wheels.
I should also add that although Microsoft tried to push VC-1 as their next generation codec, few people are using it these days. For Blu-ray, all the high-end people are using AVC. For those who want a cheaper encoder, MPEG-2 is still popular. In other areas, AVC is king too or getting there. It's a million times better than DivX, although probably requires more processor for encoding.
AVC is far less weird and far more standard than DivX ever was. I remember installing the DivX codecs years ago when it first became popular, but found them to be buggy and made Windows crash. I uninstalled them and haven't had to touch them since. I don't download pirated material, and everywhere else AVC has become one of the main codecs if not the most important one. Ditching DivX is no loss.
I hope you quickly progress from $4K/month in Canada. There are a lot of people who earn less, but as a programmer, you should be earning 50-100% more. Presumably you mean gross: i.e. the first $8K-9K is tax free, but above $50K/year you can expect the government to take 20-30%. In Toronto, a one person apartment is shit for $1,000/month or less, unless you're out in the soul-sucking suburbs, but then you'll be paying for a car too. Canada is awesome though...
You could search and replace all instances of "India" with "US" in your comment. The same things apply in both countries. Back during the dotcom boom it was particularly bad in the US with all the incapable morons trying to be programmers because they'd heard they could make a lot of money.
Surely population growth must be good for the economy overall. I imagine it increases demand for resources, partially counteracting some of the decrease in demand due to the recession. I.e. less might be spent per capita, but more is spent overall.
Why would you make an assumption and assertion like that? Most people use their iPods to create their own little bubble on the Tube (e.g. going to the Church) and elsewhere in this crowded city and island.
If you haven't read it yet, then you might like read Peter Hessler's "River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze". It makes particular sense to those of us who've had the privilege to live in China, and for you, having taught there, will probably really resonate.
DVD authors have always had the ability to set User Ops that denied this. Some players ignored these settings. I guess you played it on the wrong player.
I find them highly irritating because they do hide the real URL. I'd much rather have multiple copy and pastes with a long URL that has been broken across multiple lines. Since moving from text only email and giving up on the spamfest Usenet though, I can't say long URLs have really been much of a problem for me.
Google has been pissing me off recently with their toolbar updates that change the behaviour of the browser. If I wanted the new window/tab functionality of Firefox to behave like Safari, I'd be using Safari. Why do I want the sidewiki thing, or whatever it's called? Etc, etc. Piss off: I got the google toolbar as better way of searching for things, along with find in page option when I have the results. So it gets uninstalled.