English has a germanic kernel with lots of borrowings from other (mainly, but not limited to indo-european) languages. The germanic kernel comes from old dutch and english remained very close to dutch until the renaisance brought lots of Latin and some Greek into english. There were already a large amount of latinish words brought via french when the Normans (under Willem the Conqueror, a bunch of french speaking germanics!) invaded Angle-Land (England) in 1066. Under the British Empire many local words from the colonies were absorbed as well (I think pyjama came from India - someone correct me). The Angles (after whom English is named) were cousins of the Batavs (Netherlandic tribe) who crossed the English channel. At that time the Angles and Batavs spoke more or less the same language. (The Batavs are now called the Dutch. Why can't I chose to be the Batavs in Free-Civ?) Then the Saxons went to England and assimilated with the Angles (Hence "Anglo-Saxon"). Then came the Normans.
This is only a rough guide, but more or less true.
For a really easy language grammar wise, try Cantonese
Ah, but Cantonese has all sorts of tones. Easier still is Bahasa Indonesia. No need for tenses etc, and also no rising, falling, high and low tones giving different meanings, as with Cantonese.
But let's not get into a "my language is better than yours" debate./. has enough "my OS is better than yours", "my Desktop is better than yours", etc.
I guess I should change my sig to avoid sounding like a hypocrite. Nahhh, they know it's tongue in cheek.
Yup. IMHO if someone makes her/his IP available under GPL or some such, then that is an optional act of philanthropy, and not an obligation.
I Applaud those who do, but I also understand those who don't. My own dear mother makes her living writing text books. I think she's entitled to remuneration for her efforts.
... is not as bad as it sounds - to a windows user (they're used to it). Even at work I reboot this NT 4 workstation often to prevent bluescreenitis. (If I had UPS for my linbox at home I'd never reboot). Your average win user turns the 'puter on, does some stuff and shuts down.
War may USUALLY be a waste of time and money (oh, yeah, and lives) but it's occasionally justified; see WW2 for an example.
Unfortunately, enough Germans survived to produce the nightmare that is SAP.
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When you register your domain, register common mis-spellings at the same time. Then you own the name and the typos. When I start my own company, I will register as many variations of my domain as I can think of.
I'm sure the lawyer, Daniel R. Harris would love your mail asking any questions / clarification on this and related issues. And why should just one of us ask and report back? I'm sure we all want our own individual replies. Anonymous web-based email.
Now, please keep it civil and try not to flood the poor mail server. That wouldn't be nice.
...not using Staroffice. You can run as many terminals as your little heart could desire in the memory footprint of that behomoth:).
Wanna hear something scary ?...
I use StarOffice on a 486 with only 32Mb of RAM.
And I use KDE.
And it hurts - while most people have time to make a coffee while waiting for StarOffice to load, I have time to fly to Bolivia and pick the beans myself.
I have heard that the easiest way to acutally have a legal copyright is to put the documents in an envelope and mail them to yourself. Go figure.
Actually, you have to seal a copy in an envelope and send it by registered mail to yourself.
Then don't open it. The date on the post-mark, plus the fact that it is unopened, proves that the contents were written on or before that date. This can then be used in court as evidence that you wrote it first.
I am now certain that anyone who does not believe in the devil has never used SAP. SAP is evil. SAP is diabolical. SAP was created by evil beings from another dimension who SAP our life force every time we use it.
Then, once we've all been reduced to zombies they will enter our universe and take over.
Don't believe me, well, then you've never used SAP!
the mouse gets jerky as hell and even seems to register mouse events that aren't happening (sudden erratic movement and clicks). I've never had this problem in the past and it's weirding me out.
Yeah, I've had that prob. Not with deb tho'. With SuSE 6.2. I think it's my old cirrus logic graphics. It hasn't happened so far with the new linbox I'm building with an HIS Rage IIc video card. Mind you, the old box is a 486 and I'm running KDE and StarOffice, which is probably more than that box can handle.
All very well. A useful thing BUT the school is now obliged to provide access to PC's IMHO. It would be seriously disadvantaging the kid's with no PC if the school gives out CDs with the required study info, if not all kids can use it. Even if they also provide a paper copy.
A computer lab on-campus would remedy this inequality.
If you're going to demo GIMP, use the most powerfullestest processor with the mostest RAM and kill all unnecessary daemons. Copy some of the demo files that come with other graphics apps, like photoshop etc, and convert them to GIMP so you have some nice pics to start with. Then just let people play with the image and do funny transformations etc. That would hook me:-)
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I gather from your nick and your sig that you are a christian, no? Imagine if your religion was outlawed. It happens.
Yes, it's usually spelt Koningin but my dear Papa informs me that in the phrase Leve de Konigin it is spelt differently.
This is only a rough guide, but more or less true.
I hope someone finds this as interesting as I do.
Ah, but Cantonese has all sorts of tones. Easier still is Bahasa Indonesia. No need for tenses etc, and also no rising, falling, high and low tones giving different meanings, as with Cantonese.
But let's not get into a "my language is better than yours" debate. /. has enough "my OS is better than yours", "my Desktop is better than yours", etc.
I guess I should change my sig to avoid sounding like a hypocrite. Nahhh, they know it's tongue in cheek.
Wow! Have they open-sourced StarOffice now? Cool!
I Applaud those who do, but I also understand those who don't. My own dear mother makes her living writing text books. I think she's entitled to remuneration for her efforts.
To read it, I type "mail" at the shell prompt.
I have never had to use the letter 'e' for this.
Pasto is an archaic masculine form of the feminine noun Pasta, from a corrupt pronunciation of "Pass the spaghetti, please".
... is not as bad as it sounds - to a windows user (they're used to it). Even at work I reboot this NT 4 workstation often to prevent bluescreenitis. (If I had UPS for my linbox at home I'd never reboot). Your average win user turns the 'puter on, does some stuff and shuts down.
I love the parody site. LOL
Scary, without ever having learned Norwegian, I can easily guess what it means.
Maar kan U dit lezen? Bijna het zelfde taal, zeg!
Unfortunately, enough Germans survived to produce the nightmare that is SAP.
When you register your domain, register common mis-spellings at the same time. Then you own the name and the typos. When I start my own company, I will register as many variations of my domain as I can think of.
How about sending some down under. Send me a ::C:U::E::CA::T: I hope I got those ':'s right to:
PO Box 740
Christchurch
NEW ZEALAND
Thanks.
BTW, I am also collecting foreign currency for a school project. Any foreign notes (ie non NZ$) can be sent to the above address.
I'm sure the lawyer, Daniel R. Harris would love your mail asking any questions / clarification on this and related issues. And why should just one of us ask and report back? I'm sure we all want our own individual replies. Anonymous web-based email.
Now, please keep it civil and try not to flood the poor mail server. That wouldn't be nice.
Wanna hear something scary ? ...
I use StarOffice on a 486 with only 32Mb of RAM.
And I use KDE.
And it hurts - while most people have time to make a coffee while waiting for StarOffice to load, I have time to fly to Bolivia and pick the beans myself.
Show me a fossil of a half evolved eye.
I love the acronym! PMS. Yeah, that sells. When I saw the subject header I thought it was going to be a funny post.
I'm at work. I could be monitored any time.
Links like that are diabolical.
Keep PATH short. It's safer. Ever heard of the old trojan trick of placing a script called ls in one of the dirs in someones PATH?
Actually, you have to seal a copy in an envelope and send it by registered mail to yourself. Then don't open it. The date on the post-mark, plus the fact that it is unopened, proves that the contents were written on or before that date. This can then be used in court as evidence that you wrote it first.
Show me a fossil of a half evolved eye
Then, once we've all been reduced to zombies they will enter our universe and take over.
Don't believe me, well, then you've never used SAP!
Waking up in the middle of the night screaming
Yeah, I've had that prob. Not with deb tho'. With SuSE 6.2. I think it's my old cirrus logic graphics. It hasn't happened so far with the new linbox I'm building with an HIS Rage IIc video card. Mind you, the old box is a 486 and I'm running KDE and StarOffice, which is probably more than that box can handle.
Yuri
Show me a fossil of a half-evolved eye.
All very well. A useful thing BUT the school is now obliged to provide access to PC's IMHO. It would be seriously disadvantaging the kid's with no PC if the school gives out CDs with the required study info, if not all kids can use it. Even if they also provide a paper copy. A computer lab on-campus would remedy this inequality.
If you're going to demo GIMP, use the most powerfullestest processor with the mostest RAM and kill all unnecessary daemons. Copy some of the demo files that come with other graphics apps, like photoshop etc, and convert them to GIMP so you have some nice pics to start with. Then just let people play with the image and do funny transformations etc. That would hook me :-)
I followed your link and the site it took me to is all in some frog language.