American English Also significant beginning around 1600 AD was the English colonization of North America and the subsequent creation of a distinct American dialect. Some pronunciations and usages "froze" when they reached the American shore. In certain respects, American English is closer to the English of Shakespeare than modern British English is. Some "Americanisms" that the British decry are actually originally British expressions that were preserved in the colonies while lost at home (e.g., fall as a synonym for autumn, trash for rubbish, frame-up which was reintroduced to Britain through Hollywood gangster movies, and loan as a verb instead of lend).
The American dialect also served as the route of introduction for many native American words into the English language. Most often, these were place names like Mississippi, Roanoke, and Iowa. Indian-sounding names like Idaho were sometimes created that had no native-American roots. But, names for other things besides places were also common. Raccoon, tomato, canoe, barbecue, savanna, and hickory have native American roots, although in many cases the original Indian words were mangled almost beyond recognition.
Spanish has also been great influence on American English. Armadillo, mustang, canyon, ranch, stampede, and vigilante are all examples of Spanish words that made their way into English through the settlement of the American West.
To a lesser extent French, mainly via Louisiana, and West African, through the importation of slaves, words have influenced American English. Armoire, bayou, and jambalaya came into the language via New Orleans. Goober, gumbo, and tote are West African borrowings first used in America by slaves.
Actually it is commonly beleived that the English language changed since 1776 and the US didn't.
That is not to say they have not bastardised it in other ways though!
Many people ask this question "Java is platform independant, what about.NET ?".
The answer is "Yes" and "No" !
The code you write is platform independant, because whatever you write is getting compiled into MSIL. There is no native code, which depends on your operating system or CPU. But when you execute the MSIL, the.NET framework in the target system will convert the MSIL into native platform code.
So, if you run your.NET exe in a WIndows machine, the.NET framework for Windows will convert it into Windows native code and execute. If you run your.NET application in Unix or Linux, the.NET framework for Unix/Linux will convert your code into Unix/Linux native code and execute. So, your code is purely platform independant and runs anywhere!
But wait, we said it wrong... there is no.NET framework for Unix or Linux available now. Microsoft has written the.NET framework only for Windows. If you or some one else write a.NET framework for other platforms in future, your code will run there too. So, let us wait until someone write.NET framework for Linux before you run your.NET code in Linux.
Tell that to the Natives of the island now called CUBA!
Funny how nobody expects Spain to apologies for their treatment of the Natives of North and South America.
As an earlier post pointed out; mankind has been invading each other since the dawn of time. It is only recent history that seems to get most people riled up.
The fact is the invention WAS made outside the US, by an organisation sponsored by a Government.
It is therefore OWNED by that organisation.
As an American living in Australia it saddens me to think that Americans really beleive that only America has a right to protect innovators.
There you have a fine example of a Delphi Developer's craft. I have long been a fan of Fractals, and this is one of the nicest user interfaces I have seen for such an application.
It sounds like you want companies to switch to FF just so they can have a justification to write cross-platform applications, so they can justify using FF.
Then go to jail.
Particularly for selling the spare keys, cause as the IT manager you don't actually own the keys. Lose Job.
Particularly when all the software that the teachers depended on are no longer available, so the teachers can't do their job.
It's about the students and teachers. The IT manager is a dime a dozen.
So, if I invite 10 friends and family over, buy McDonalds for everyone and they eat it cause they are hungry, that that counts towards 1,000,000,000 burgers.
Well it does, but that doesn't mean they all consider themselves McDonald's "users".
This seems an odd comparision, you clearly state that the server dies, vs a bug in the old operating system. If the server dies, it does not matter what OS it is running, really does it? Besides, you would hope that folks are running backups regularly - right?
In my 18 years in programming systems, mainly for retail bank tellers and lenders, I have never seen such a user interface in my life. I too, have been investigating an accounting/pos system for a student run book shop, and frankly I would be embarrassed to offer SQL-Ledger as a low cost solution. I will freely admit to only looking at a couple of screens in the demo. But from what I saw it looks and behaves in a amateurish manner. For example: I tried adding an, pressed enter, no feed back; Most records that require a Number (ID?) can be entered manually, allowing duplication; Generally no validation; I guess systems can be created for $2000 when there is only input fields and data storage, a few business calculations - sure, but I don't know of many clients that would choose to use such a system. Even at $40/hr you are saying that you developed all the touted features in 50hours - 1 week? How many hours went in to Design, QA, user acceptance?
Thanks for mentioning that, cause when I started FF I had no idea there was a problem, much less that I had to download a 'critical' fix. However, it would be kind of nice if there was more then just some tiny red icon in the top right hand corner (UI design experts?) of the browser?
To put it in to further perspective, Red Hat - a competitor(?) to Microsoft's Operating system division.
RH is trading at 10.57/Share down from their 52-week high of....29.06. Whoa
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Finally got it working and said....
"Mr. Watson come here"
or perhaps c) the person posted as an Anonymous Coward!
Ok forget you have proved to be less then able to spell.
Here is but one source to establish my point:
American English
American English
Also significant beginning around 1600 AD was the English colonization of North America and the subsequent creation of a distinct American dialect. Some pronunciations and usages "froze" when they reached the American shore. In certain respects, American English is closer to the English of Shakespeare than modern British English is. Some "Americanisms" that the British decry are actually originally British expressions that were preserved in the colonies while lost at home (e.g., fall as a synonym for autumn, trash for rubbish, frame-up which was reintroduced to Britain through Hollywood gangster movies, and loan as a verb instead of lend).
The American dialect also served as the route of introduction for many native American words into the English language. Most often, these were place names like Mississippi, Roanoke, and Iowa. Indian-sounding names like Idaho were sometimes created that had no native-American roots. But, names for other things besides places were also common. Raccoon, tomato, canoe, barbecue, savanna, and hickory have native American roots, although in many cases the original Indian words were mangled almost beyond recognition.
Spanish has also been great influence on American English. Armadillo, mustang, canyon, ranch, stampede, and vigilante are all examples of Spanish words that made their way into English through the settlement of the American West.
To a lesser extent French, mainly via Louisiana, and West African, through the importation of slaves, words have influenced American English. Armoire, bayou, and jambalaya came into the language via New Orleans. Goober, gumbo, and tote are West African borrowings first used in America by slaves.
Now go away.
Actually it is commonly beleived that the English language changed since 1776 and the US didn't.
That is not to say they have not bastardised it in other ways though!
I downloaded it, it works, I don't use it much, nor do I use Gimp much or anyother painting tool.
Apparently written with C#. Here it's a "free replacement for MS-Paint software"
specifically this quote:
Many people ask this question "Java is platform independant, what about .NET ?".
The answer is "Yes" and "No" ! The code you write is platform independant, because whatever you write is getting compiled into MSIL. There is no native code, which depends on your operating system or CPU. But when you execute the MSIL, the .NET framework in the target system will convert the MSIL into native platform code.
So, if you run your .NET exe in a WIndows machine, the .NET framework for Windows will convert it into Windows native code and execute. If you run your .NET application in Unix or Linux, the .NET framework for Unix/Linux will convert your code into Unix/Linux native code and execute. So, your code is purely platform independant and runs anywhere!
But wait, we said it wrong... there is no .NET framework for Unix or Linux available now. Microsoft has written the .NET framework only for Windows. If you or some one else write a .NET framework for other platforms in future, your code will run there too. So, let us wait until someone write .NET framework for Linux before you run your .NET code in Linux.
Spins around the sun, I think not!
It spins around it's own axis.
It orbits around the sun.
Tell that to the Natives of the island now called CUBA!
Funny how nobody expects Spain to apologies for their treatment of the Natives of North and South America.
As an earlier post pointed out; mankind has been invading each other since the dawn of time. It is only recent history that seems to get most people riled up.
Simple, the peddling only activates the circuit needed to open the Main power circuit!
Have you ever tried to write a business application using databases on a PALM? Guess not.
The fact is the invention WAS made outside the US, by an organisation sponsored by a Government.
It is therefore OWNED by that organisation.
As an American living in Australia it saddens me to think that Americans really beleive that only America has a right to protect innovators.
Dare I suggest? It is not the language but the libraries that give "today's" languages the edge.
There you have a fine example of a Delphi Developer's craft.
I have long been a fan of Fractals, and this is one of the nicest user interfaces I have seen for such an application.
OOPS, Delphi Super Page
Forgot the http part.
Try Delphi Super Page DSP it contains hundreds of components, applications and stuff mostly freeware/shareware lot's of source code.
Then it sounds like your only problem with IE is idealogical.
It sounds like you want companies to switch to FF just so they can have a justification to write cross-platform applications, so they can justify using FF.
Then go to jail. Particularly for selling the spare keys, cause as the IT manager you don't actually own the keys.
Lose Job. Particularly when all the software that the teachers depended on are no longer available, so the teachers can't do their job.
It's about the students and teachers. The IT manager is a dime a dozen.
So, if I invite 10 friends and family over, buy McDonalds for everyone and they eat it cause they are hungry, that that counts towards 1,000,000,000 burgers.
Well it does, but that doesn't mean they all consider themselves McDonald's "users".
Not really scientific is it.
Kind of like going down to a first round football game and asking: Which team will win the FA cup?
This seems an odd comparision, you clearly state that the server dies, vs a bug in the old operating system. If the server dies, it does not matter what OS it is running, really does it?
Besides, you would hope that folks are running backups regularly - right?
In my 18 years in programming systems, mainly for retail bank tellers and lenders, I have never seen such a user interface in my life. I too, have been investigating an accounting/pos system for a student run book shop, and frankly I would be embarrassed to offer SQL-Ledger as a low cost solution. I will freely admit to only looking at a couple of screens in the demo. But from what I saw it looks and behaves in a amateurish manner. For example:
I tried adding an, pressed enter, no feed back;
Most records that require a Number (ID?) can be entered manually, allowing duplication;
Generally no validation;
I guess systems can be created for $2000 when there is only input fields and data storage, a few business calculations - sure, but I don't know of many clients that would choose to use such a system.
Even at $40/hr you are saying that you developed all the touted features in 50hours - 1 week?
How many hours went in to Design, QA, user acceptance?
Thanks for mentioning that, cause when I started FF I had no idea there was a problem, much less that I had to download a 'critical' fix.
However, it would be kind of nice if there was more then just some tiny red icon in the top right hand corner (UI design experts?) of the browser?
hmmmm, not as new as you obviously are (830015 vs 567984), but what right have I to make such remarks?
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To put it in to further perspective, Red Hat - a competitor(?) to Microsoft's Operating system division. ....29.06. Whoa
RH is trading at 10.57/Share down from their 52-week high of