Uh, I was tempted to mod you down, but you DO realize that Konfabulator precedes the OS X dashboard?? There was in fact a decently big spat over whether the dashboard was a mere copy of konfabulator or not (see e.g. wikipedia)
Thanks for playing, but both the links I linked to were a Kansas news organization. They didn't claim the attack didn't happen at all. They merely pointed out, as I said, oddities. Such as the fact that the attack was first advertised as a hate crime then not, and that some students said he didn't look hurt, while other people did. What exactly BS am I forwarding? You can spew bile at me personally all you want, but that's all it is, bile.
Who knows? I don't, but I feel sorry for all involved... the militant religious, the militant atheists, and stupids who have to put up with such a politicized anti-Evolution anti-religious crap. Long story short, people are idiots.
yeah, just what's his angle anyway?! I mean, no one should post Microsoft papers that explain Microsoft software and get away with it. Something is DEFINITELY weird here. I would suggest that Microsoft is paying him off to post messages to slashdot, that's really the only answer.
Corruption in much of India is pretty endemic at all government levels. I think it's somewhat different from Western standards of "corruption" though..it's different standards.
As an example, frequently cited is corruption on the local level--ie, if your house gets broken into, you go to police, you get told wait in line (which can be LONG--India has a HUGE bureaucracy, and for the most part, a well running one). However if you slip the person a some money, well there you go, head of the queue. Baksheesh. It's really not seen as corruption (though perhaps increasingly so?). It's almost like a tip--how we in the west tip in restaurants. You want police help, give them a tip. You want to get a cab now, versus waiting for an available one, slip a tip. Baksheesh. Pretty endemic. Doesn't sound terrible...but once it starts happening on the upper govt level, and instead of a "tip" you're getting hundreds of thousands of dollars etc, it becomes much more of a problem.
All in all though, personally I don't think corruption will end up being a huge deal. It's a cost of business in India, and something that is increasingly (at least at upper levels) being cracked down up.
India already has a major and extensive rail system (one of the world's biggest)--the legacy of the Brits. Quite an experience to ride on.
I on the otherhand was somewhat terrified riding on the highways. The driver drove incredibly fast, the car didn't seem to have seatbelts, and given that once you leave the big cities, it gets rural FAST, there were frequently animals in the road (think cows, lots of cows) which the driver didn't appear too concerned about missing. Also dancing bears (ugh)--which he actually swerved towards. An interesting experience for sure:-p
Nice job raging against the bush administration! I wish I had heard about this "Hummer for half price if you own a large enough business" discount! Wow.. How big does the business have to be??
Seems you're not right at all. I'm not a console gamer so I couldn't care less about the Xbox360's HD abilities, but HDTV is great. Almost everything I watch is HDTV (though not all) and there are more channels coming online every day.
Funny you mention it, browsing some of the mentioned blogs, Michelle Malkin actually has a recent post addressing just this point (currently on her frontpage)
Tried 10.4.3? It made a HUGE difference in spotlight speed for me--it looks like they added in code that lets you type a little more before starting to search, and also STOPS searching if you delete (though I have had spotlight freeze up several times...)
Yes, the point was that Microsoft created a new security framework that AV software needed to know about to hook into properly. Old versions of software didn't. New versions do. For what it's worth, IIRC McAfee had patches out before SP2 was officially released that make it show up immediately. What's the problem?
Command+Tab makes me move my hands. Cmd+{Shift/Opt}+Arrows is much quicker for me, and easier to move back and forth (versus adding shift to the cmd+tab).
Asking for app to be exactly as another? well that seems to have motivated the change to command+opt in the first place, and what makes apps on the two major desktop OS's feel, well--standard.
OMG LOLZ!!! Wow, take that CHENEY and Halliburton CORPORATE BASTARDS!! You sure showed the system, what a biting indictment of the American political system.
Wait, you mean Halliburton does construction on Offshore Windfarms too?? Well shoot, that's 6 seconds of googling for you..back to the basement!
Is there a way to make Command+Shift+Arrow switch tabs (like in Safari)?
Lame is it sounds, that is one of the reasons I don't use Firefox more (though I always use it when doing web dev). Cmd+Opt+Arrow IS a lot better than tabbing though.
a Turk can still make himself understood throughout central asia from Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan. The languages have changed very little from proto-Turkic.
Somewhat true but misleading. Proto-Turkic is a different beast from all modern turkic languages which have huge amounts of Persian and Arabic vocab, and even grammar, added in. You're correct though, an educated Turk from Turkey and an educated Uyghur from China will have a fairly high degree of mutual understanding.
The way that these languages almost uniformally have no concept of grammatical gender (no word for he or she),
Neither does Persian, a very Indo-European language. Come to think of it, I'm not sure Latin does either. Not a unique feature. That is IF you're talking about 3rd person pronoun gender. Grammatical gender is different. Latin has grammatical gender, english doesn't, Persian doesn't, Turkish doesn't, etc.
his is absolutely not the case with Indo-European languages where a modern English person can usually not understand their own language from 1200 years ago
Woaaaa now, this is very misleading. The average Turk from Turkey will not be able to read a document from 100 years ago without lots of training. Well ok you say, this is because they changed scripts. They changed a lot more than script too though, so even if you transcribe Ottoman Turkish to modern standards, it will be difficult to understand. Certaintly a text from 400 years ago is very much inaccessible without learning an entirely different script, vocabularly and even grammar. If you're talking Chaghatai Turkish (from Central Asia) or even farther back--say the few Turkic Runic writings we have, again, completely unintelligible.
For a really good question, one should ask oneself how on earth old languages evolved in the first place, since they were alomst uniformly far more complex grammatically than those we speak to day.
I'll make some suggestions--all those languages that we have WRITTEN records of (which goes back at most what--4000-5000 years?) is the first modification I would make. Then I would also note that I don't believe your statement is uniformly true. Thirdly I would say that the earliest writings are often religious in nature, or otherwise official--where the "high language" which is often very different from actual spoken language would often be used.
Forgot to mention in my other reply--it's mention on wikipedia also, but apparently there were movements afoot to pass a dutch law to allow teaching of ID.
Sorry if I was unclear--it's illegal to teach evolution in Pakistan. In Turkey, evolution is not taught in schools, creationism is mandatory. I'm sure MANY other countries are similar to this. The belief in creationism is not limited to the US. Yes, some FEW people in the US are attempting to have Intelligent Design or other theories taught in addition to evolution. I think this is silly, but, it hasn't made much traction either, and judging from numbers, isn't too terribly popular. That's my point.
I've found competing numbers--but ultimately if we want to make this a discussion of numbers--check out Wikipedia. They have numbers and statistics from around the world--for instance creationism is MANDATORY in Pakistan and Turkey. Large percentage of germanspeakers believe in creationist theories as well. It's all in wikipedia.
No you missed the point. The point was the author claimed 100% of Christians in the US did not believe in evolution while 1% of anyone else outside the US agreed with them. I find that viewpoint silly. I would also be willing to bet a substantial sum of money that more than 1% of "Christians" in Europe do not believe in evolution.
I appreciate your comment. I will say that a certain part of my post was deliberate hypocrisy -- this is after all what we get when we make vast generalizations like "100% of Christians in America" and "in Europe..." Thanks for seeing my flaws:)
Though I would also argue that even in countries like Italy the numbers of people identifying themselves as Christians are falling.
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Uh, I was tempted to mod you down, but you DO realize that Konfabulator precedes the OS X dashboard?? There was in fact a decently big spat over whether the dashboard was a mere copy of konfabulator or not (see e.g. wikipedia)
haha, that's great
Thanks for playing, but both the links I linked to were a Kansas news organization. They didn't claim the attack didn't happen at all. They merely pointed out, as I said, oddities. Such as the fact that the attack was first advertised as a hate crime then not, and that some students said he didn't look hurt, while other people did. What exactly BS am I forwarding? You can spew bile at me personally all you want, but that's all it is, bile.
Eh, I'm not going to go so far as to claim the attack didn't happen, but it does seem like there are some oddities involved.
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http://www.kansan.com/stories/2005/dec/08/ne_mire
http://www.kansan.com/stories/2005/dec/07/ne_mire
Who knows? I don't, but I feel sorry for all involved... the militant religious, the militant atheists, and stupids who have to put up with such a politicized anti-Evolution anti-religious crap. Long story short, people are idiots.
yeah, just what's his angle anyway?! I mean, no one should post Microsoft papers that explain Microsoft software and get away with it. Something is DEFINITELY weird here. I would suggest that Microsoft is paying him off to post messages to slashdot, that's really the only answer.
Corruption in much of India is pretty endemic at all government levels. I think it's somewhat different from Western standards of "corruption" though..it's different standards.
As an example, frequently cited is corruption on the local level--ie, if your house gets broken into, you go to police, you get told wait in line (which can be LONG--India has a HUGE bureaucracy, and for the most part, a well running one). However if you slip the person a some money, well there you go, head of the queue. Baksheesh. It's really not seen as corruption (though perhaps increasingly so?). It's almost like a tip--how we in the west tip in restaurants. You want police help, give them a tip. You want to get a cab now, versus waiting for an available one, slip a tip. Baksheesh. Pretty endemic. Doesn't sound terrible...but once it starts happening on the upper govt level, and instead of a "tip" you're getting hundreds of thousands of dollars etc, it becomes much more of a problem.
All in all though, personally I don't think corruption will end up being a huge deal. It's a cost of business in India, and something that is increasingly (at least at upper levels) being cracked down up.
India already has a major and extensive rail system (one of the world's biggest)--the legacy of the Brits. Quite an experience to ride on.
:-p
I on the otherhand was somewhat terrified riding on the highways. The driver drove incredibly fast, the car didn't seem to have seatbelts, and given that once you leave the big cities, it gets rural FAST, there were frequently animals in the road (think cows, lots of cows) which the driver didn't appear too concerned about missing. Also dancing bears (ugh)--which he actually swerved towards. An interesting experience for sure
Yes, I know, you're right--but the parent was an idiot, that was MY point :-p
Nice job raging against the bush administration! I wish I had heard about this "Hummer for half price if you own a large enough business" discount! Wow.. How big does the business have to be??
she is afaik...she was pregnant i believe, thus the short absence
Answered in the FAQ (ie, RTFA).
http://www.google.com/help/faq_clicktocall.html
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6283333.html ?display=Breaking+News
Seems you're not right at all. I'm not a console gamer so I couldn't care less about the Xbox360's HD abilities, but HDTV is great. Almost everything I watch is HDTV (though not all) and there are more channels coming online every day.
Funny you mention it, browsing some of the mentioned blogs, Michelle Malkin actually has a recent post addressing just this point (currently on her frontpage)
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003955.htm
Tried 10.4.3? It made a HUGE difference in spotlight speed for me--it looks like they added in code that lets you type a little more before starting to search, and also STOPS searching if you delete (though I have had spotlight freeze up several times ...)
Yes, the point was that Microsoft created a new security framework that AV software needed to know about to hook into properly. Old versions of software didn't. New versions do. For what it's worth, IIRC McAfee had patches out before SP2 was officially released that make it show up immediately. What's the problem?
Ah, I see you're right. I found myself automatically clicking within the body of a page to move the focus from a textbox before using the shortcut.
and Adium uses just Cmd+Arrow..even more muscle memory.
Either way, cmd+opt+arrows is something I'm happy to see in Firefox. Thanks for the info, it's appreciated.
Command+Tab makes me move my hands. Cmd+{Shift/Opt}+Arrows is much quicker for me, and easier to move back and forth (versus adding shift to the cmd+tab).
Asking for app to be exactly as another? well that seems to have motivated the change to command+opt in the first place, and what makes apps on the two major desktop OS's feel, well--standard.
OMG LOLZ!!! Wow, take that CHENEY and Halliburton CORPORATE BASTARDS!! You sure showed the system, what a biting indictment of the American political system.
w s_011204.jsp
Wait, you mean Halliburton does construction on Offshore Windfarms too?? Well shoot, that's 6 seconds of googling for you..back to the basement!
http://www.halliburton.com/news/archive/2004/kbrn
Is there a way to make Command+Shift+Arrow switch tabs (like in Safari)?
Lame is it sounds, that is one of the reasons I don't use Firefox more (though I always use it when doing web dev). Cmd+Opt+Arrow IS a lot better than tabbing though.
a Turk can still make himself understood throughout central asia from Azerbaijan to Kazakhstan. The languages have changed very little from proto-Turkic.
Somewhat true but misleading. Proto-Turkic is a different beast from all modern turkic languages which have huge amounts of Persian and Arabic vocab, and even grammar, added in. You're correct though, an educated Turk from Turkey and an educated Uyghur from China will have a fairly high degree of mutual understanding.
The way that these languages almost uniformally have no concept of grammatical gender (no word for he or she),
Neither does Persian, a very Indo-European language. Come to think of it, I'm not sure Latin does either. Not a unique feature. That is IF you're talking about 3rd person pronoun gender. Grammatical gender is different. Latin has grammatical gender, english doesn't, Persian doesn't, Turkish doesn't, etc.
his is absolutely not the case with Indo-European languages where a modern English person can usually not understand their own language from 1200 years ago
Woaaaa now, this is very misleading. The average Turk from Turkey will not be able to read a document from 100 years ago without lots of training. Well ok you say, this is because they changed scripts. They changed a lot more than script too though, so even if you transcribe Ottoman Turkish to modern standards, it will be difficult to understand. Certaintly a text from 400 years ago is very much inaccessible without learning an entirely different script, vocabularly and even grammar. If you're talking Chaghatai Turkish (from Central Asia) or even farther back--say the few Turkic Runic writings we have, again, completely unintelligible.
For a really good question, one should ask oneself how on earth old languages evolved in the first place, since they were alomst uniformly far more complex grammatically than those we speak to day.
I'll make some suggestions--all those languages that we have WRITTEN records of (which goes back at most what--4000-5000 years?) is the first modification I would make. Then I would also note that I don't believe your statement is uniformly true. Thirdly I would say that the earliest writings are often religious in nature, or otherwise official--where the "high language" which is often very different from actual spoken language would often be used.
Enjoyed your post!
Forgot to mention in my other reply--it's mention on wikipedia also, but apparently there were movements afoot to pass a dutch law to allow teaching of ID.
Sorry if I was unclear--it's illegal to teach evolution in Pakistan. In Turkey, evolution is not taught in schools, creationism is mandatory. I'm sure MANY other countries are similar to this. The belief in creationism is not limited to the US. Yes, some FEW people in the US are attempting to have Intelligent Design or other theories taught in addition to evolution. I think this is silly, but, it hasn't made much traction either, and judging from numbers, isn't too terribly popular. That's my point.
I've found competing numbers--but ultimately if we want to make this a discussion of numbers--check out Wikipedia. They have numbers and statistics from around the world--for instance creationism is MANDATORY in Pakistan and Turkey. Large percentage of germanspeakers believe in creationist theories as well. It's all in wikipedia.
No you missed the point. The point was the author claimed 100% of Christians in the US did not believe in evolution while 1% of anyone else outside the US agreed with them. I find that viewpoint silly. I would also be willing to bet a substantial sum of money that more than 1% of "Christians" in Europe do not believe in evolution.
I appreciate your comment. I will say that a certain part of my post was deliberate hypocrisy -- this is after all what we get when we make vast generalizations like "100% of Christians in America" and "in Europe..." Thanks for seeing my flaws :)
Though I would also argue that even in countries like Italy the numbers of people identifying themselves as Christians are falling.