And of course, the changes that occurred in American English, Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portguese all reflect the fact that the people in the Americas just didn't give a rat's ass about impressing the British, Spanish or Portugese any more, and they let their language "flatten."
as a brasilian, let me add that another force driving changes in our dialect of portuguese is the presence of natives, africans and other immigrants. this probably happened in US and the spanish america too.
take as example the portuguese "pronoun" você (equivalent to the english "you").
it didnt exist before the american and african colonies were established by portugal in the XVI century. the term became as a form of respectfull treatment "Vossa Mercê" ("Your Mercy" in english). Since the african slaves couldnt speak it correctly, it became "voismecê", then "você".
today it replaced the singular second person noun "Tu" and the plural second person "Vós" and is used in the third person.
Other cases of indigenous and african influences exists, as well as anglicisms (terms from english). examples:
from natives: Jururu (tupi language. means "sad") Oi (means "Hi") Saúva (a kind of ant)
from africa:
cafuné (from iorubá language. means "cudddles") calango (iorubá. means a kind of lizzard) macaco (same. means "monkey") zangado (also iorubá. menas "angry")
some of those made it back to portugal thanks to the success brasilian soap operas enjoy in portugal and emigration of brasilians back to portugal.
BTW, grammar nazis. the official name of the country is "Brasil" with an "s", not with a "z", so my spelling with "s" is on purpose.
ever heard about radiation and what it can do to computers ?
heck, the space station runs on i386s and i486s because the bigger circuits are more resistant to the radiation effects, and even those old suckers need a lot of shielding.
they just found that people are selfish, and will do all they can to save a couple of bucks. duh-uh
wanna stop piracy ? lower the prices. convince the government to slash the taxes in x% in exchange for y% increase in sales, wich will make the tax income at least equal to what it was before. advertise heavilly the lower prices of original goods.
in other words, use mankinds natural selfishness as a sales advantage, works better than strongarming 12yr old girls.
smart, postfix + clam requires postfix to receive the whole body of the message before discarding an infected one. ClamSMTP drops the connection as soon as it recognizes a virus. this saves bandwidth, which is important here in the 3rd world where bandwidth is not as cheap as it is in US. also saves on disk space and IO.
if you want to keep distance from sendmail, theres ClamSmtp.
from their site:
ClamSMTP is an SMTP filter that allows you to check for viruses using the ClamAV anti-virus software. It accepts SMTP connections and forwards the SMTP commands and responses to another SMTP server. The 'DATA' email body is intercepted and scanned before forwarding.
"an ID card can be very usefull. we have them in brasil since... well, my grandmother still had hers RG (Registro Geral = general registry) from 1946..."
Useful for what? BTW, were ID cards introduced in Brasil during a democratic period, or during one of the dictatorships (1930-34, 1937-45, 1964-85).
actually it exists in one form or another since the empire (sept 7 1822-nov 15 1889).
it's usefull to prove i am who i claim to be. everytime someone here issues a check it serves as proof of identity. i know of at least a couple of thieves who were arrested because they tried to issue a check they had stolen from my aunt. the supermarket called us because they didn't had the RG card to prove they were my aunt.
when credit cards are issued or checking accounts are opened, the bank asks for a copy of the RG card. if i receive bills for things i didn't buy with a credit card, i can prove it wasn't me simply by comparing my RG card with the copy the administrator holds. for everything americans use the so called "social security number", we use the RG number. simple as that.
and the information stored along the ID number... well, our governmetn already stores all that. including fingerprints. each state holds a huge archive with the fingerprints of all citizens above 18 years old and everyone less than that who already have an RG card. so what ? the other informations too. they can even cros the data from diferent databases to tell if the property owned by someone matches his/hers tax form. the same laws that imposes penalties if a natural person misuses the RG card can be aplied to government officials who missuses the information about citizens. it's up to the congress and to the attorney general to make sure the executive don't missuse the information.
your fear that UK government will abuse any perceived "power" such database gives only proves your distrust in UK's government. what's the point in having a democratic government that can act pretty much as a dictatorship then ? son't you think that if elected the government, you should trust them a little ?
is not that weird. we use it along with the ID card here in brasil. the card proves you are who you says you are and the utility bill with your name on it proves that you live at that address.
using the bill alone to prove identity AND residency... whell, then its plain stupidity. i can steal a bill from someones mailbox, get lots of credit cards and cash as much as i want on them. rinse, repeat.
the government already knows who you are. you pay taxes dont you ? if you pay taxes the government knows who you are, how much you money you make, how much you spend, if you leave the country they know, when you return the customs records your entry in the country...
an ID card can be very usefull. we have them in brasil since... well, my grandmother still had hers RG (Registro Geral = general registry) from 1946...
when someone have an accident here, the first thing paramedics do is check if the person is carying an RG card to know who he/she is, makes identification in case of death easier, proves that you are who you say you are when using a credit card or check.
a government issued ID only adds to convenience, IMHO.
it helped so much that the only survivors of the batle of yavin were two x-wings, one y-wing and the millenium falcon, the later came only when the battle was almost over and was the one who saved the day. if it wasnt for han solo and chewbacca to show up and fire a few shots on lord vaders fighter, the rebelion wouldve lost and hoth destroyed.
the real function of the TIEs is to atack in group bigger ships like the millenium falcon and when engaging small fighters like the x-wings, to keep them trapped inside the range of a capital ships guns.
this kind of behavior dates back to the PC/XT era when some clever lotus programers used to bypass DOS for a gain in performance.
i dont blame the 3rd party programers here. i blame MS shody work that forces them to this.
see previous examples of "disk intensive" software that installs drivers to compensate for windows lack of performance. you dont see schillys cdrecord package installing drivers in linux, BSD, Solaris, etc. to work properly. and i can still listen to music and surf the web while it burns a CD. and is not that i have some sort of ubermachine. i could do this in a K6 400MHz box...
burning a cd, browse the web and listen to music in a K6 400MHz running windows...
microsoft improved lots of things in the last years, but it _still_ lags behind.
NS directory may be easier to configure when compared to OpenLDAP, but i bet BOTH are madening when you go past the basic setup. LDAP is a sure path to the looney bin. i know. thats why i dont work with it anymore.
contrary to jedi tradition of training padawans since early infancy so they could learn ro supress strong and negative emotions, luke was an adult when he started training, with all the emotional background you get in 20 years.
thanks to this, he can do a thing most of us is capable of, bu a jedi cant. use rage to increase your strenght then return to your senses instead of going insane.
the prophecy was right. anakin did bring balance to the force. he destroyed the dicotomy of "pure good" of the jedi and "pure evil" of the sith and laid the foundations of a new order that acts for good while still using strong emotions to drive the force.
youre right. only C3P0 gets a brain wipe. Senator organa orders this to antilles before taking leia home.
"I figure R2 can only identify people via facial reconignition software, so when he runs into Vadar at a later point, the droid has no idea who he is"
maybe in ep. IV he still doesnt know about, but after ep. V he certainly knows Lord Vader is lukes father. the only reason he doesnt tell he once was anakins is the reason why his memory wasnt erased. the reason is R2 can be trusted. hes smart, hes loyal. maybe even in episode IV he probably knew who luke was, but didnt tell because the problems it would cause.
after Lord Vader himself, R2 is my favorite character. no doubt about it.
watch ep. VI RotJ. whats the first thing he does when he met the ewoks ? he shocks them. not to mention all the insults towards 3P0 and pushing him from jabbas ship.
the badboy atitude in RotS looked to me more like self defense than anything else. after all he was in an enemy ship being harassed by enemy droids. what would YOU do in his place ?
i agree with you that hes the real silent hero in all 6 movies. he saved everybodys arses several times from seemingly desperate situations. the fact that hes mechanical makes the expression "deus ex machina" to fit even better.
now, the jetpacks.... i want to know why he doesnt have them in later episodes.
holywood movies are expensive because theyre adicted to big budgets, actors are adicted to large pays, so they have to spend half the budget of the movie in advertising to make sure enough sreens are showing the movies and that people pay to watch it.
blair witch project was a damn good movie and it was shot with only US$35 thousand and made more than US$200 milion in the box office. OTOH titanic was budgeted in what ? US$ 200 mil ? and made 1 bilion. 5 times the investiment. blair with multiplied the investment by more than 5 THOUSAND times... and blair witch is _good_ movie, titanic is crap...
good movies are not about budget (remember waterworld ?), is about story telling, acting, good and well developed characters. none of these requires a megabucks budget.
since iPods is internal, any safety against overcurrent are probably built into iPods logical board, instead of in the battery itself like in cell phone batteries.
he probably shorted his battery, thats why it exploded.
i was just giving out examples of companies that still sell stand alone versions of the kind of hardware that you can find on-board, their respective cash cows or market segment is irrelevant.
Pinnacle sells firewire cards as part of a digital video capture and editing bundle, small chinese manufacturers make and sell usb cards, you can find find them in any computer store.
"And there is certainly no shortage of web browsers"...
i dare you to install a geko based browser (firefox or the mozilla suite) then open an html message in outlook express in such a way that OE usees geko to render the message instead of embeding an internet explorer. can you do that ?
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MS shure has a damn good medical team to fix them foot after all the times they shot themselves there....
ibm is his vendor. says in TFA. IBM was his mainframe vendor, and he moved to linux after IBM anounced its support to it.
some guy name "bill" called from redmond. he wants to explain you why linux is more expensive...
And of course, the changes that occurred in American English, Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portguese all reflect the fact that the people in the Americas just didn't give a rat's ass about impressing the British, Spanish or Portugese any more, and they let their language "flatten."
as a brasilian, let me add that another force driving changes in our dialect of portuguese is the presence of natives, africans and other immigrants. this probably happened in US and the spanish america too.
take as example the portuguese "pronoun" você (equivalent to the english "you").
it didnt exist before the american and african colonies were established by portugal in the XVI century. the term became as a form of respectfull treatment "Vossa Mercê" ("Your Mercy" in english). Since the african slaves couldnt speak it correctly, it became "voismecê", then "você".
today it replaced the singular second person noun "Tu" and the plural second person "Vós" and is used in the third person.
Other cases of indigenous and african influences exists, as well as anglicisms (terms from english). examples:
from natives:
Jururu (tupi language. means "sad")
Oi (means "Hi")
Saúva (a kind of ant)
from africa:
cafuné (from iorubá language. means "cudddles")
calango (iorubá. means a kind of lizzard)
macaco (same. means "monkey")
zangado (also iorubá. menas "angry")
some of those made it back to portugal thanks to the success brasilian soap operas enjoy in portugal and emigration of brasilians back to portugal.
BTW, grammar nazis. the official name of the country is "Brasil" with an "s", not with a "z", so my spelling with "s" is on purpose.
comments like this makes me wonder why doesnt /. has a "+1 sarcastic" mod...
ever heard about radiation and what it can do to computers ?
heck, the space station runs on i386s and i486s because the bigger circuits are more resistant to the radiation effects, and even those old suckers need a lot of shielding.
they just found that people are selfish, and will do all they can to save a couple of bucks. duh-uh
wanna stop piracy ? lower the prices. convince the government to slash the taxes in x% in exchange for y% increase in sales, wich will make the tax income at least equal to what it was before. advertise heavilly the lower prices of original goods.
in other words, use mankinds natural selfishness as a sales advantage, works better than strongarming 12yr old girls.
didnt know postgrey. ill take a look at it. thanks.
smart, postfix + clam requires postfix to receive the whole body of the message before discarding an infected one. ClamSMTP drops the connection as soon as it recognizes a virus. this saves bandwidth, which is important here in the 3rd world where bandwidth is not as cheap as it is in US. also saves on disk space and IO.
if you want to keep distance from sendmail, theres ClamSmtp.
from their site:
ClamSMTP is an SMTP filter that allows you to check for viruses using the ClamAV anti-virus software. It accepts SMTP connections and forwards the SMTP commands and responses to another SMTP server. The 'DATA' email body is intercepted and scanned before forwarding.
"an ID card can be very usefull. we have them in brasil since... well, my grandmother still had hers RG (Registro Geral = general registry) from 1946..."
Useful for what? BTW, were ID cards introduced in Brasil during a democratic period, or during one of the dictatorships (1930-34, 1937-45, 1964-85).
actually it exists in one form or another since the empire (sept 7 1822-nov 15 1889).
it's usefull to prove i am who i claim to be. everytime someone here issues a check it serves as proof of identity. i know of at least a couple of thieves who were arrested because they tried to issue a check they had stolen from my aunt. the supermarket called us because they didn't had the RG card to prove they were my aunt.
when credit cards are issued or checking accounts are opened, the bank asks for a copy of the RG card. if i receive bills for things i didn't buy with a credit card, i can prove it wasn't me simply by comparing my RG card with the copy the administrator holds. for everything americans use the so called "social security number", we use the RG number. simple as that.
and the information stored along the ID number... well, our governmetn already stores all that. including fingerprints. each state holds a huge archive with the fingerprints of all citizens above 18 years old and everyone less than that who already have an RG card. so what ? the other informations too. they can even cros the data from diferent databases to tell if the property owned by someone matches his/hers tax form. the same laws that imposes penalties if a natural person misuses the RG card can be aplied to government officials who missuses the information about citizens. it's up to the congress and to the attorney general to make sure the executive don't missuse the information.
your fear that UK government will abuse any perceived "power" such database gives only proves your distrust in UK's government. what's the point in having a democratic government that can act pretty much as a dictatorship then ? son't you think that if elected the government, you should trust them a little ?
is not that weird. we use it along with the ID card here in brasil. the card proves you are who you says you are and the utility bill with your name on it proves that you live at that address.
using the bill alone to prove identity AND residency... whell, then its plain stupidity. i can steal a bill from someones mailbox, get lots of credit cards and cash as much as i want on them. rinse, repeat.
the government already knows who you are. you pay taxes dont you ? if you pay taxes the government knows who you are, how much you money you make, how much you spend, if you leave the country they know, when you return the customs records your entry in the country...
an ID card can be very usefull. we have them in brasil since... well, my grandmother still had hers RG (Registro Geral = general registry) from 1946...
when someone have an accident here, the first thing paramedics do is check if the person is carying an RG card to know who he/she is, makes identification in case of death easier, proves that you are who you say you are when using a credit card or check.
a government issued ID only adds to convenience, IMHO.
they patented 'ls *' ('dir *.*' for you windows users) through a wireless connection...
swell!!!
it helped so much that the only survivors of the batle of yavin were two x-wings, one y-wing and the millenium falcon, the later came only when the battle was almost over and was the one who saved the day. if it wasnt for han solo and chewbacca to show up and fire a few shots on lord vaders fighter, the rebelion wouldve lost and hoth destroyed.
the real function of the TIEs is to atack in group bigger ships like the millenium falcon and when engaging small fighters like the x-wings, to keep them trapped inside the range of a capital ships guns.
in yavin they did their job quite well.
this kind of behavior dates back to the PC/XT era when some clever lotus programers used to bypass DOS for a gain in performance.
i dont blame the 3rd party programers here. i blame MS shody work that forces them to this.
see previous examples of "disk intensive" software that installs drivers to compensate for windows lack of performance. you dont see schillys cdrecord package installing drivers in linux, BSD, Solaris, etc. to work properly. and i can still listen to music and surf the web while it burns a CD. and is not that i have some sort of ubermachine. i could do this in a K6 400MHz box...
burning a cd, browse the web and listen to music in a K6 400MHz running windows...
microsoft improved lots of things in the last years, but it _still_ lags behind.
not only extremely easy to configure
"LDAP" and "easy" are oxymorons.
NS directory may be easier to configure when compared to OpenLDAP, but i bet BOTH are madening when you go past the basic setup. LDAP is a sure path to the looney bin. i know. thats why i dont work with it anymore.
contrary to jedi tradition of training padawans since early infancy so they could learn ro supress strong and negative emotions, luke was an adult when he started training, with all the emotional background you get in 20 years.
thanks to this, he can do a thing most of us is capable of, bu a jedi cant. use rage to increase your strenght then return to your senses instead of going insane.
the prophecy was right. anakin did bring balance to the force. he destroyed the dicotomy of "pure good" of the jedi and "pure evil" of the sith and laid the foundations of a new order that acts for good while still using strong emotions to drive the force.
youre right. only C3P0 gets a brain wipe. Senator organa orders this to antilles before taking leia home.
"I figure R2 can only identify people via facial reconignition software, so when he runs into Vadar at a later point, the droid has no idea who he is"
maybe in ep. IV he still doesnt know about, but after ep. V he certainly knows Lord Vader is lukes father. the only reason he doesnt tell he once was anakins is the reason why his memory wasnt erased. the reason is R2 can be trusted. hes smart, hes loyal. maybe even in episode IV he probably knew who luke was, but didnt tell because the problems it would cause.
after Lord Vader himself, R2 is my favorite character. no doubt about it.
R2 always been a quite cinical droid, IMHO.
watch ep. VI RotJ. whats the first thing he does when he met the ewoks ? he shocks them. not to mention all the insults towards 3P0 and pushing him from jabbas ship.
the badboy atitude in RotS looked to me more like self defense than anything else. after all he was in an enemy ship being harassed by enemy droids. what would YOU do in his place ?
i agree with you that hes the real silent hero in all 6 movies. he saved everybodys arses several times from seemingly desperate situations. the fact that hes mechanical makes the expression "deus ex machina" to fit even better.
now, the jetpacks.... i want to know why he doesnt have them in later episodes.
your mom learned to cook with mine ???
holywood movies are expensive because theyre adicted to big budgets, actors are adicted to large pays, so they have to spend half the budget of the movie in advertising to make sure enough sreens are showing the movies and that people pay to watch it.
blair witch project was a damn good movie and it was shot with only US$35 thousand and made more than US$200 milion in the box office. OTOH titanic was budgeted in what ? US$ 200 mil ? and made 1 bilion. 5 times the investiment. blair with multiplied the investment by more than 5 THOUSAND times... and blair witch is _good_ movie, titanic is crap...
good movies are not about budget (remember waterworld ?), is about story telling, acting, good and well developed characters. none of these requires a megabucks budget.
they already did.
its called Gmail.
doesnt they explode when shorted ?
since iPods is internal, any safety against overcurrent are probably built into iPods logical board, instead of in the battery itself like in cell phone batteries.
he probably shorted his battery, thats why it exploded.
the only point that escaped was yours.
i was just giving out examples of companies that still sell stand alone versions of the kind of hardware that you can find on-board, their respective cash cows or market segment is irrelevant.
Pinnacle sells firewire cards as part of a digital video capture and editing bundle, small chinese manufacturers make and sell usb cards, you can find find them in any computer store.
"And there is certainly no shortage of web browsers"...
i dare you to install a geko based browser (firefox or the mozilla suite) then open an html message in outlook express in such a way that OE usees geko to render the message instead of embeding an internet explorer. can you do that ?