I think pidgins a pretty obscure word. I did some linguistics in school, so I my be biased, but I do NOT agree that most people would know what a pidgin is. I would hope a creole would be more known, but even that I have my doubts about...
I saw at least one or two posts here saying that had no idea how to pronounce pidgin even.
I more or less agree with you--I use FreeBSD over linux myself, and am not a huge GPL fan, but the situation is a bit different from the cookies example.
I'd say it's more like "here you can have this cookie recipe, you can do whatever you want with it (make cookies, sell them, etc) but if you change the recipe AND distribute the cookies to anyone else, you have to be willing to share the recipe too"
Interesting, looks nice. Looks rather small (I guess, unsurprising)--wonder if I could even fit in it (I'm about 6'4 / 193cm). I find a lot of smaller sedans uncomfortable, mainly in terms of leg room and my knees hitting the steering wheel etc. I'm not even THAT tall either.. oh well.
Speaking of which, a little know but IMHO awesome keyboard shortcut in OSX is to put your cursor over a word and press Cmd+Ctrl+D -- pops up a dictionary/thesaures lookup box for that word.. very nifty. (works in Cocoa apps)
I've tried Quicksilver before... I don't know why, but for whatever reason, it's just not my cup of my tea. I've actually tried it several times because it SEEMS like something I would love, but, oh well.
It's kind of interesting, when I first switched to 10.4 I used the dashboard aLL the time, and I used spotlight ALL the time.
now, however many months later, I don't use dashboard ever, and I use spotlight for 1) typing in application names to start them 2) in File Open dialogs occasionally.
Yes, because of the tens of millions of wokers in the US, all of them get to arbitrarily decide their schedules. Likewise schools arbitrarily let students come in whenever they want.
Besides which, how does a one hour naming shift "screw up" your schedule? I don't get that either. It's over in one day...
If you don't approve of DST, do you also not approve of time zones? Both are an attempt to "standardize" day/night conditions to the hours of the day. Some countries--huge ones like China--don't have timezones, so it's obviously possible.
Are you advocating that the US gets rid of timezones too? As you say, it WOULD be easier (for programmers primarily!) to standardize on GMT/UTC.
I don't really understand--all the posts that are in a similar vein with yours--that is, "wtf is the point of DST, there's the same amount of daylight!"
Well of COURSE there's the same amount of daylight, does anyone think differently? The difference is for those people--ie, most of us--who have fixed schedules like 8-5, can experience more of the daylight in the afternoon/evening, as opposed to in the mornings when people are typically asleep.
What I don't understand is, are you missing this point--I mean, is that not something you realized? Or is it just that you don't care about the evening light?
Ok, let me get this is straight... Let's say Dell sells a computer in the US for $1,000 US. Are you telling me that if Dell were to sell that same computer anywhere else in the world they should be FORCED to sell it for the same price? So if they sell it in an poor African country...$1,000 US. Sell it in a rich country with very high taxes, transport, and sales cost--$1000 US.
What about a gallon of gas? It costs more in California than in the midwest. Supply and demand, availibility, pipelines, etc can account for this. If the same company is selling gas in multiple locations, should they be forced to sell at the same cost, regardless of anything else?
It seems a very, VERY slippery slope and yet another example of an area where governments should just keep their noses out.
Are you sure? It has been a long time, but wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_%28video_game %29) seems to backup my memory about godly plate of the whale.
It's more complicated than you think even--and I'm laughing that I remember this from what, 10 years ago?--Godly Plate of the Whale didn't exist in the game--you could never find it. Somebody hacked the game to create that item, and then thanks to the duping bug, everyone got one! The duping bug was big!
The reality of America today is that the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class finds the "middle" slowly drifting to the bottom.
Ok, back that up. Let's see something empirical... hell, even anecdotal will do, becuase I've got nothing.
Are you claiming that the poor of today are worse off than the poor of 25 years ago? 50 years ago? 100 years ago? What are you claiming? By what metric are the poor getting poorer?
Are you claiming that the middle class is worse off than 25 years ago?
I mean good lord, all you need to do is look at cable tv penetration rates to tell something weird is up.
That's nice to hear about fios creating competition there. I hope the highspeed EVDO connections start having the same impact.
FWIW, it hasn't hit me yet, but in northern VA they're starting to rollout fios to apartment complexes as well as houses. It's too bad fios is fairly limited in scope still--I spoke with an NC/RTP Verizon engineer (family friend) who said they were years out from rolling out fios there.
I'm shocked at how you describe the costs etc in New York...I had no idea it was like that. Why is DSL so slow there for one thing??
I guess I'm spoiled--it seems like Northern Virginia has one of the better / competitive broadband markets in the US. Fios definitely has WIDE rollout here too--friend of mine has it, gets fios cable+internet for ~$50/60 a month together i believe.
Re: NC--prices are worse there than in Nova or Chicago i would say. Also, you're correct that that was in RTP area--we had to get DSL for an warehouse location just outside of RTP and I think that DSL line runs like...$60-70 month for 1.5/768 (I forget the exact down speed, but we did pay more for 768 up). That is in a very rural town of about 8000 people though.
I'm not really sure I get this...my experience is somewhat limited, but my family in NC has had broadband for at least, 8 years i believe, over two years when I lived in Chicago I had cable modem one year for about $40/month (3mbps/512kbps i believe), DSL one year for ~$30/month (including the stupid phone line you had to get also), and now I live in Virginia, and have cox cable at roughly 15mbps down, 2mbps up for $25/month. I could also get DSL if I wanted, Verizon FIOS, Verizon EVDO, and some other local area wireless offering which I know nothing about right now. All offer broadband for fairly cheap.
Is it that much different in NYC and other big cities?
I consider myself a fairly heavy internet user. I run servers locally, I administer several networks remotely, download the occasional movie / what not from itunes / what not.. it's to the point where I really don't NEED more speed. Web browsing is instantaneous. I can use voice chat programs with no problem. Movie downloads are snappy and can stream. For me, at this time, there's not a lot of usage I'm missing out on at 15/2 broadband...then again, I felt pretty much the same way at 5/512kbps, whatever else.
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I think pidgins a pretty obscure word. I did some linguistics in school, so I my be biased, but I do NOT agree that most people would know what a pidgin is. I would hope a creole would be more known, but even that I have my doubts about...
I saw at least one or two posts here saying that had no idea how to pronounce pidgin even.
I more or less agree with you--I use FreeBSD over linux myself, and am not a huge GPL fan, but the situation is a bit different from the cookies example.
I'd say it's more like "here you can have this cookie recipe, you can do whatever you want with it (make cookies, sell them, etc) but if you change the recipe AND distribute the cookies to anyone else, you have to be willing to share the recipe too"
"confirms that it's AACS key has been possibly revoked"
Well, I'm glad that's been confirmed...
Interesting, looks nice. Looks rather small (I guess, unsurprising)--wonder if I could even fit in it (I'm about 6'4 / 193cm). I find a lot of smaller sedans uncomfortable, mainly in terms of leg room and my knees hitting the steering wheel etc. I'm not even THAT tall either.. oh well.
Do you have any links about these cars?
I did a quick google for skoda turbo diesel and mpg, and didn't see any sites that claimed above ~50mpg.
just curious.
Speaking of which, a little know but IMHO awesome keyboard shortcut in OSX is to put your cursor over a word and press Cmd+Ctrl+D -- pops up a dictionary/thesaures lookup box for that word.. very nifty. (works in Cocoa apps)
I've tried Quicksilver before... I don't know why, but for whatever reason, it's just not my cup of my tea. I've actually tried it several times because it SEEMS like something I would love, but, oh well.
It's kind of interesting, when I first switched to 10.4 I used the dashboard aLL the time, and I used spotlight ALL the time.
now, however many months later, I don't use dashboard ever, and I use spotlight for 1) typing in application names to start them 2) in File Open dialogs occasionally.
Yes, because of the tens of millions of wokers in the US, all of them get to arbitrarily decide their schedules. Likewise schools arbitrarily let students come in whenever they want.
Besides which, how does a one hour naming shift "screw up" your schedule? I don't get that either. It's over in one day...
Oh, one other thing I was going to ask...
If you don't approve of DST, do you also not approve of time zones? Both are an attempt to "standardize" day/night conditions to the hours of the day. Some countries--huge ones like China--don't have timezones, so it's obviously possible.
Are you advocating that the US gets rid of timezones too? As you say, it WOULD be easier (for programmers primarily!) to standardize on GMT/UTC.
I don't really understand--all the posts that are in a similar vein with yours--that is, "wtf is the point of DST, there's the same amount of daylight!"
Well of COURSE there's the same amount of daylight, does anyone think differently? The difference is for those people--ie, most of us--who have fixed schedules like 8-5, can experience more of the daylight in the afternoon/evening, as opposed to in the mornings when people are typically asleep.
What I don't understand is, are you missing this point--I mean, is that not something you realized? Or is it just that you don't care about the evening light?
I think DST makes perfect sense..
Ok, let me get this is straight... Let's say Dell sells a computer in the US for $1,000 US. Are you telling me that if Dell were to sell that same computer anywhere else in the world they should be FORCED to sell it for the same price? So if they sell it in an poor African country...$1,000 US. Sell it in a rich country with very high taxes, transport, and sales cost--$1000 US.
What about a gallon of gas? It costs more in California than in the midwest. Supply and demand, availibility, pipelines, etc can account for this. If the same company is selling gas in multiple locations, should they be forced to sell at the same cost, regardless of anything else?
It seems a very, VERY slippery slope and yet another example of an area where governments should just keep their noses out.
Are you sure? It has been a long time, but wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_%28video_game %29) seems to backup my memory about godly plate of the whale.
It's more complicated than you think even--and I'm laughing that I remember this from what, 10 years ago?--Godly Plate of the Whale didn't exist in the game--you could never find it. Somebody hacked the game to create that item, and then thanks to the duping bug, everyone got one! The duping bug was big!
Ahh, good times...
Hmm.. I would have thought that layoffs sohuld target the least effective and worst workers.
That's probably too discriminatory, somehow, though...
The reality of America today is that the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class finds the "middle" slowly drifting to the bottom.
Ok, back that up. Let's see something empirical... hell, even anecdotal will do, becuase I've got nothing.
Are you claiming that the poor of today are worse off than the poor of 25 years ago? 50 years ago? 100 years ago? What are you claiming? By what metric are the poor getting poorer?
Are you claiming that the middle class is worse off than 25 years ago?
I mean good lord, all you need to do is look at cable tv penetration rates to tell something weird is up.
That's nice to hear about fios creating competition there. I hope the highspeed EVDO connections start having the same impact.
FWIW, it hasn't hit me yet, but in northern VA they're starting to rollout fios to apartment complexes as well as houses. It's too bad fios is fairly limited in scope still--I spoke with an NC/RTP Verizon engineer (family friend) who said they were years out from rolling out fios there.
I'm shocked at how you describe the costs etc in New York...I had no idea it was like that. Why is DSL so slow there for one thing??
I guess I'm spoiled--it seems like Northern Virginia has one of the better / competitive broadband markets in the US. Fios definitely has WIDE rollout here too--friend of mine has it, gets fios cable+internet for ~$50/60 a month together i believe.
Re: NC--prices are worse there than in Nova or Chicago i would say. Also, you're correct that that was in RTP area--we had to get DSL for an warehouse location just outside of RTP and I think that DSL line runs like...$60-70 month for 1.5/768 (I forget the exact down speed, but we did pay more for 768 up). That is in a very rural town of about 8000 people though.
I'm not really sure I get this...my experience is somewhat limited, but my family in NC has had broadband for at least, 8 years i believe, over two years when I lived in Chicago I had cable modem one year for about $40/month (3mbps/512kbps i believe), DSL one year for ~$30/month (including the stupid phone line you had to get also), and now I live in Virginia, and have cox cable at roughly 15mbps down, 2mbps up for $25/month. I could also get DSL if I wanted, Verizon FIOS, Verizon EVDO, and some other local area wireless offering which I know nothing about right now. All offer broadband for fairly cheap.
Is it that much different in NYC and other big cities?
I consider myself a fairly heavy internet user. I run servers locally, I administer several networks remotely, download the occasional movie / what not from itunes / what not.. it's to the point where I really don't NEED more speed. Web browsing is instantaneous. I can use voice chat programs with no problem. Movie downloads are snappy and can stream. For me, at this time, there's not a lot of usage I'm missing out on at 15/2 broadband...then again, I felt pretty much the same way at 5/512kbps, whatever else.
I don't actually like coffee or donuts particularly :-)
no, what i meant is, I have no problem with their stores, but I DO have a problem with their services which I have not at all been impressed with.
I felt like I had been punched when I saw the email this morning.
silly to feel like that over an ISP, but dang, speakeasy was awesome, and best buy--well...not so much a fan. Like their stores, but that's about it.
Although I'll let Slashdot's default complete-hiding of subreplies shoulder some of the blame.
It's true, it's happened to me before too.
Well, Guy Gavriel Kay--an awesome author in his own right--also helped out with the Silmarillion.
In case you missed it / didn't understand, I responded to:
Yes, it would be called "any computer prior to Windows 98".
AKA, not a console.
omfg are you an idiot??
I don't think so--jury could still be out on your response though.
In case you forgot / didn't understand, I replied to:
Yes, it would be called "any computer prior to Windows 98".
AKA, NOT a console.