Oh good, so the only good music is the one you like? This is a very dificult problem, how can one tell a good piece of art of another that "sucks"? It is my perception that all points are in the deep derived from taste, maybe not my taste or yours, but someone that made the rules taste.
I disagree with you, many of the music that are considered classics were in some time popular and the elite laughthed at it. Shure i don't think that everything that is playing in the radio today is going to be considered a classic music someday in the future, but some of the music will survive. I am all for pop music, and other pop stuff like chesee movies with obvious plots. A movie like "Charlie's Angels" for instance have little to do with acting, and much to do with correct lighting and camera movements and just right music, and off course butts.:-)
I happen to have read math books and actually am a bacharelor in math. Math texts usualy have a few words like 'therefore', 'then', 'and', 'or' a lot of special notation (that can be translated directly with the use of a specialised dictionary) and a lot of math simbols and equations that do not require any translation. So my guess is that they are usualy easier to translate.
I've been in Paris last april, I myself am Brasilian and speak a fair english. when I needed directions or something I would aproach people and ask politely "Bonjur" ou "excusez-moi" (The only two words I knew in French) after that I would ask "english?". Usualy my answer was "a little" and I would ask what what ever I needed to know in english. The direction usualy came out in a mix of bad english and french, but with a little of gestures added it usualy helped.
Is my understand that when dealing with french people you must always be polite, when starting a conversation (we Brasilians usualy don't require these formalities). Otherwise they think you are being rude, and treat you rudely.
Anyway for all that I was told about the French people, I was expecting to be treaded with public humiliations or beatings. But my experience was the oposite. People were not as friendly as we are here. But none of them were rude or unwinlling to help when I needed.
I doubt computers will ever get near a good translator, shure it can make some people lose their jobs translating math thesis, but a book, play, movies or even conversation have to use humans. Humans are the only thing that can realy understand what is going on, human translator (good ones) knows about the culture of both countries that it is translating. It can understand the subtext and change the words so they have the same subtext in the other language.
A good book has many things to be learned that are not written in words.
And before that every one that was anyone knew french. Before that latin. This didn't make the need for translation. Basic english may be enouth to find out where the bathroom is or how much a bigmac costs, but many people don't go much ahead of this. You are forgetting that there are countries with many, many people who are not literate in their own language.
And if you are trying to get to know a culture, you MUST know the language. So for works of art, and even for not so artistic content such as movies, a good translation or knowledge of the language of the original country is needed.
Banks in brasil are using virtual keyboards, they are a numeric pad that apear in the screen with the numbers in a random order and/or in a random position. You must then click the password with a mouse. Of course if you own the machine you can save the HTML and mouse clicks to analise it latter, but it makes the life of keyloggers harder.
This makes more sense, and can happen. But I did not yet seen it goes into his knees, yet. The only time I get it to consume all my CPU cicles is when I open a collection of 7 tabs I have bookmarked and it try to render all seven comics sites at once.
To go into the bugzilla you must not be comming from slashdot. So to use the above link just copy the link location and middle click in the mozilla window you want it to load (be careful to not middle click a link)
Why in the name of god would any one make a page with 15 flash animations??? If this person consider those animations so important, I would sujest makeing one larger animation that wuold cover all the detais that needed to be animated.
in one month in Europe I collected 1.6 Gb of pictures. Using a 2 megapixels camera. 5 Gb is not that much if think about, if you have a relatively highres digital camera and use it much it would be easy to fill this up. My entire collection is 2.3 Gb bu it tends to grow more and more.
Here in Brasil there is a poster of some nationalist movement trying to convince people to use alternate words. like instead of "mouse" use "rato".
I don't think there is nothing wrong in adopting foreing words, I just think that the word should be incorporated using the gramatical and phonetical of thr national language, for instance one would write "mause" for "mouse" in portuguese. This would make more sense and would help people to write the words coming from other languages easier.
English is the easiest language to learn.:-) You don't have to worry about verb conjugation or accented characters. I am Brasilian, and I speak portuguese and I learned english quite easily, in fact I never needed any classes at all.
Now I'm trying to learn french, witch is a nightmare, all the verb conjugation (I never liked those in portuguese), and words with accents, and in french they can have more then one (portuguese just have one or none).
I believe the muttabilitty is to allow you to import code from perl5 and even other parrot based languages without the need to worry about gluing them together.
There may be no such thing as a hack proof system, but there are multiple redundant systems, that can be over-ridden manually if needed. Systems that have fail-safe mechanics so they will never go into an undesireble position.
All those things make a hard hit from crackers into a system that many people need and trust very hard. You could hack into the main eletric system, it would cause a blackout, but it would be rerouted to a secondary system in minutes or even seconds so it would not be a real big hit.
My experience is that pages designed with css standards in mind almost never look ok in explorer.:-/ After my pages look ok under mozilla I always have to ask a friend to see it under explorer, and tell me what didn't work so I can work arround looking for ie problems.
In that efect this list will improve telemarketing efficiency, since the percentage of idiots that did not sign up the list seems to be bigger than the whole universe. In other words, I would expect that the "customers" that sign a no-call list would not buy anything from the companies that did call them before the list. What the goverment is doing is pre-selecting a group of people that would buy more easily from them, and they are complaining??? Targeted marketing is aways better then not.
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I think big business, care mutch about the warranty (even if the EULA say the program is guaranteed to do nothing) and support (+2 hours of phone menus) then anything else. That is why we need big companies to suport and warranty linux, like IBM and redhat. Small business and home offices should be more confortable with using linux, if they had a little push like those reviews and introductions arround.
This is not fair unless the machine with the "top uptimes" have the same load. As the ones that do not appear in this top 10.
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In fact I think the standard look, from the screenshot, would be more similar to the macs then to windows. The default setting from ximian does not have a "start", instead it have a system menu. It also have a finder like icon on the right of the top menu. The bottom panel functions mainly for quick selection of running programs and switch desktops.
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Oh good, so the only good music is the one you like? This is a very dificult problem, how can one tell a good piece of art of another that "sucks"? It is my perception that all points are in the deep derived from taste, maybe not my taste or yours, but someone that made the rules taste.
I disagree with you, many of the music that are considered classics were in some time popular and the elite laughthed at it. Shure i don't think that everything that is playing in the radio today is going to be considered a classic music someday in the future, but some of the music will survive. I am all for pop music, and other pop stuff like chesee movies with obvious plots. A movie like "Charlie's Angels" for instance have little to do with acting, and much to do with correct lighting and camera movements and just right music, and off course butts. :-)
I happen to have read math books and actually am a bacharelor in math. Math texts usualy have a few words like 'therefore', 'then', 'and', 'or' a lot of special notation (that can be translated directly with the use of a specialised dictionary) and a lot of math simbols and equations that do not require any translation. So my guess is that they are usualy easier to translate.
From typo-english for sure. :-)
Then you would be talking about a machine that is sentient. :-/
I've been in Paris last april, I myself am Brasilian and speak a fair english. when I needed directions or something I would aproach people and ask politely "Bonjur" ou "excusez-moi" (The only two words I knew in French) after that I would ask "english?". Usualy my answer was "a little" and I would ask what what ever I needed to know in english. The direction usualy came out in a mix of bad english and french, but with a little of gestures added it usualy helped.
Is my understand that when dealing with french people you must always be polite, when starting a conversation (we Brasilians usualy don't require these formalities). Otherwise they think you are being rude, and treat you rudely.
Anyway for all that I was told about the French people, I was expecting to be treaded with public humiliations or beatings. But my experience was the oposite. People were not as friendly as we are here. But none of them were rude or unwinlling to help when I needed.
I doubt computers will ever get near a good translator, shure it can make some people lose their jobs translating math thesis, but a book, play, movies or even conversation have to use humans. Humans are the only thing that can realy understand what is going on, human translator (good ones) knows about the culture of both countries that it is translating. It can understand the subtext and change the words so they have the same subtext in the other language.
A good book has many things to be learned that are not written in words.
And before that every one that was anyone knew french. Before that latin. This didn't make the need for translation. Basic english may be enouth to find out where the bathroom is or how much a bigmac costs, but many people don't go much ahead of this. You are forgetting that there are countries with many, many people who are not literate in their own language.
And if you are trying to get to know a culture, you MUST know the language. So for works of art, and even for not so artistic content such as movies, a good translation or knowledge of the language of the original country is needed.
Banks in brasil are using virtual keyboards, they are a numeric pad that apear in the screen with the numbers in a random order and/or in a random position. You must then click the password with a mouse. Of course if you own the machine you can save the HTML and mouse clicks to analise it latter, but it makes the life of keyloggers harder.
This makes more sense, and can happen. But I did not yet seen it goes into his knees, yet. The only time I get it to consume all my CPU cicles is when I open a collection of 7 tabs I have bookmarked and it try to render all seven comics sites at once.
To go into the bugzilla you must not be comming from slashdot. So to use the above link just copy the link location and middle click in the mozilla window you want it to load (be careful to not middle click a link)
Why in the name of god would any one make a page with 15 flash animations??? If this person consider those animations so important, I would sujest makeing one larger animation that wuold cover all the detais that needed to be animated.
in one month in Europe I collected 1.6 Gb of pictures. Using a 2 megapixels camera. 5 Gb is not that much if think about, if you have a relatively highres digital camera and use it much it would be easy to fill this up. My entire collection is 2.3 Gb bu it tends to grow more and more.
Here in Brasil there is a poster of some nationalist movement trying to convince people to use alternate words. like instead of "mouse" use "rato".
I don't think there is nothing wrong in adopting foreing words, I just think that the word should be incorporated using the gramatical and phonetical of thr national language, for instance one would write "mause" for "mouse" in portuguese. This would make more sense and would help people to write the words coming from other languages easier.
English is the easiest language to learn. :-) You don't have to worry about verb conjugation or accented characters. I am Brasilian, and I speak portuguese and I learned english quite easily, in fact I never needed any classes at all.
Now I'm trying to learn french, witch is a nightmare, all the verb conjugation (I never liked those in portuguese), and words with accents, and in french they can have more then one (portuguese just have one or none).
I believe the muttabilitty is to allow you to import code from perl5 and even other parrot based languages without the need to worry about gluing them together.
There may be no such thing as a hack proof system, but there are multiple redundant systems, that can be over-ridden manually if needed. Systems that have fail-safe mechanics so they will never go into an undesireble position.
All those things make a hard hit from crackers into a system that many people need and trust very hard. You could hack into the main eletric system, it would cause a blackout, but it would be rerouted to a secondary system in minutes or even seconds so it would not be a real big hit.
When you say standard do you mean those bellow?
CSS2
HTML
Unless you're in england. :-)
My experience is that pages designed with css standards in mind almost never look ok in explorer. :-/ After my pages look ok under mozilla I always have to ask a friend to see it under explorer, and tell me what didn't work so I can work arround looking for ie problems.
You assume to much, they are complaining about exactly the same type of "please remove me" list, only for phone numbers.
In that efect this list will improve telemarketing efficiency, since the percentage of idiots that did not sign up the list seems to be bigger than the whole universe. In other words, I would expect that the "customers" that sign a no-call list would not buy anything from the companies that did call them before the list. What the goverment is doing is pre-selecting a group of people that would buy more easily from them, and they are complaining??? Targeted marketing is aways better then not.
I think big business, care mutch about the warranty (even if the EULA say the program is guaranteed to do nothing) and support (+2 hours of phone menus) then anything else. That is why we need big companies to suport and warranty linux, like IBM and redhat. Small business and home offices should be more confortable with using linux, if they had a little push like those reviews and introductions arround.
This is not fair unless the machine with the "top uptimes" have the same load. As the ones that do not appear in this top 10.
In fact I think the standard look, from the screenshot, would be more similar to the macs then to windows. The default setting from ximian does not have a "start", instead it have a system menu. It also have a finder like icon on the right of the top menu. The bottom panel functions mainly for quick selection of running programs and switch desktops.