Why would the Gargantuan Object from Outer Georgia throw in a towel at any point? aka Would it have killed you to release the shift key three letters earlier and tacked on "le"? PSSGAE. IDHU, which is all writing is really about. ("People should stop gratuitously abbreviating everything"; "it doesn't help help understand".)
Also, Catholics should stop working on science. They advocate nothing but the most unrealistic and unworkable, theology-laden ideas which do not stand up to the evidence. Just two examples of this are Copernicus's heliocentrism and Fr Georges Lemaître's "Big Bang".
If you hate daylight savings, why don't you just operate on winter time the whole year around? Work 9-5 in winter and 10-6 in the summer. You're clearly in the minority if you live somewhere with daylight savings, so it'd be unreasonable to ask everyone to adapt their working hours to suit you; and even if they did, you'd get defacto daylight savings.
But how many people are buying the EEE because they want a tiny computer, versus people who can't afford anything better? I certainly don't know anyone who can't afford anything better, but I do know people who've bought one because it's tinysmall. That's its killer feature.
(Also, I've usually found European prices to be more expensive for computers and related hardware than US or Australian prices; $500 might be a more reasonable conversion.)
Disclaimer: I come from the only western country without protection of speech. The government can and does ban saying certain things, and people can and have been sent for jail for saying these things.
I don't understand why it's an issue of free speech. He's committing vandalism by using other's resources. In order for him to send his spam, he steals my bandwidth and my ISP's bandwidth and bandwidth on the international links. Surely he's no more allowed to send his spam there than he is to graffiti my front door or post bills over a sign that says "post no bills".
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Adobe also uses GTK+ for their port of the Adobe Reader. Also, I'd prefer GTK+ simply because it looks and feels the way an X11 toolkit library should; I've find Qt programs like Opera and Skype have a non-native, ported feel to them. If you're going to settle for a non-native, ported feel, why not just use Wine Lib?
You seem to know a lot about ZFS. Is it a file system suitable for use on home computers or small file servers that just let us access movies and music from any computer in the house? Or is it complete overkill in that situation and I should just stay with whatever filesystem I have at the moment.
FreeBSD isn't used on the desktop as much as GNU/Linux is, obviously because it's hardware support is not as good, but it is used on heaps of high-end servers out there, including most promimantly Yahoo! I suppose if Microsoft do buy Yahoo! there will be some truth to the saying "FreeBSD is dying", but that's not the case yet and MS Yahoo turning down FreeBSD won't be its end, either
That'd be great... if we could buy one. Green PCs are not much use if the only people who can buy them are people who couldn't otherwise get a computer; to make the computer green, it must substitute for existing computers. Otherwise it doesn't matter how low its power consumption is, it's still increasing it.
Woah! As if western countries don't do mining? Australia's only significant exports are sheep and stuff that's come out of the ground! Not that I really know the damage mining causes, but that's because I live in the city. I reckon people from Beijing would have just as hard a time imagining it. Point is: There's no reason to be racist about it. It's distance and experience, not cultural background.
Your country's right to exist hinges on the fact that lots of guys with guns would repel an armed invasion.
This is not necessarily true. I don't know what the situation in Canada is, but neither Australia nor New Zealand would be able to defend a sustained attack on our countries on our own from a determined enemy; if that determined enemy were the United States, we wouldn't even have an ally who could put up a decent fight. (In this context, China might attack the US, but this would be to destroy the US rather than to defend Australia or New Zealand.)
I'm not an American, and I don't understand what the obsession with carrying your own state is. Gore could've one if he'd carried Florida, but that's not his own state. Many people have different opinions from the people in their home state, and that's part of why they move around. Why do you (and others) single out his own state?
Your sig: Everyone clicks the link, because we're not sheeple, we've gotta be different and read the article. No-one actually reads the article tho, because we're too lazy.
You might've missed the main point of the review linked above: You can't type on this thing for long. So the fact that geeks don't look at the keyboard while typing won't stop the sort of person who would buy this (in spite of being unable to type on it) from buying it. (If the cost and the fundamental design failure won't stop you, nothing will.)
... and can be enabled in X.org on any bogstandard laptop with a touchpad supported by the synaptic driver (I have a Dell laptop from 2002 that it works on).
Or just ban porn sites from using IPv4. Everyone's happy then: Think of the Children types will have porn apparently banned, techies will see IPv6 adopted widely, and civil liberties types will have porn available if they want it.
What I wish is that Thunderbird behaved like a normal program on my computer. Compared to Evolution or Balsa, Thunderbird is a lot more polished and useful. But I have given up trying to use it, because it has silly problems like not mixing in completely with my current theme (it seems to be adapting it somehow, treating my computer like it's running Windows and then converting the current theme along those lines, instead of just using my theme), and not obeying my system settings (for instance, for most programs, like Balsa or Evolution or Epiphany or whatever, I can simply change or delete a key binding by pressing the key when I'm on that menu — because I have clumsy fingers I keep typing "Control-Arrows-(release control) Enter-Enter", for instance (to delete a section of the email), but I release control on the other side of pressing enter — this means I accidentally send an unfinished email. But as far as I can tell, there's no way to get rid of that dangerous feature!
It is because of this that I use Balsa at the moment, which mostly works as an email client, but misses a number of features I'd like. It's just, Balsa mightn't be finished, but it never tries to work against me. Thunderbird does. The biggest and best change Thunderbird and Firefox could make is to abandon their ugly, buggy, incomplete and unnecessary proprietry cross-platform toolkits, which are nothing but trouble, and simply use Gtk+ on Linux, Cocoa on the Mac, and whatever it is that Windows uses this week (Windows Forms I think it's called?).
"Haha" (and similar forms) can usually be traced back to a bilabial origin e.g. in Japanese h- comes from f- comes from p- (-f- instead became -w-, which is why the partical spelt "ha" is pronounced "wa"). Something really different is the Turkic and Hebrew forms for mum and dad of roughly the form "ata"
Poetry is actually about utility. Most societies with limited literacy have a lot more popular poetry because by following certain rules e.g. patterns of rhythm it is much easier to remember. In highly literate societies poetry is much less important and so we have people who like it thinking about its beauty, but again that comes from following the rules and knowing when to break them. Haikus that don't follow any rules (or follow the wrong rules like mora-counting in English) aren't beautiful.
And anyway, what's the blooming point of writing one in English? It simply doesn't work very well. I may as well try to write limericks in Japanese -- anyone who's familiar with the language will understand what a silly idea that is. The underlying fundamental phonological structures of the two languages are so different that trying to graft the poetic rules of the one onto the other strikes me a bit like training a penguin to jump through a flaming hoop, or a lion to swim through an underwater obstacle course. While both are theoretically possible, they also both beggar the imagination to find a compelling reason why.
Well, that's the reason I said you should use stressed syllable counting, not mora counting or syllable counting when writing them in English. I've never written a haiku (aside from when I had to in year seven), and they've always seemed stupid in English, because (a) they're written by amateurs and (b) they count moras or syllables, neither of which are salient in English rhythm. You cannot make English poetry by counting moras or syllables, only by counting stressed syllables and interspersing them with (a possibly fixed number of) unstressed syllables.
You say that haiku "simply isn't an English poetic form" but I don't think that's a reasonable objection. Rhyme wasn't an English poetic form until it was introduced by foreign influence; instead, languages which develop rhyme are better-suited to it (having grammatical ways of constructing them). But English has developed its own set of rules for what constitutes a valid rhyme (e.g. identical rhymes are common in French, but strongly dispreferred in English). Likewise, Shakespeare's iambic pentameter was ultimately a borrowing from classical (i.e. Latin and Greek) styles: but whereas in the classical languages the strong syllables were heavy/long and the weak syllables were light/short, in English the strong syllables are stressed and the weak are unstressed.
Even though the language developed on an island, English has never been insular. It has adapted words and grammar and poetry from anyone loud enough to grab its attention. There's nothing wrong with adapting haiku to English, but it needs to be done properly (i.e. by counting stressed syllables, not moras or syllables) or else it will always be thought of as "that dodgy form of Japanese poetry".
I'm not an authority on the subject, but I've always thought the best way to translate the requite for 5-7-5 moras (that's the plural of "mora", unless you want to get classical and say "moræ"—it's a Latin word, not Japanese) is with 5-7-5 stressed syllables. That's traditionally how entity-counting is done in English poetry: For instance, Old English poetry had four stressed syllables per line (with a variable number of unstressed syllables), whereas in Shakespeare's iambic pentameter, there's five feet of unstressed-stressed pairs per line.
This makes logical sense, because in Japanese, each mora has approximately the same length of time when spoken, whereas in English, there's approximately the same length of time from stressed syllable to stressed syllable (hence, if the stressed syllable is long, nearby unstressed syllables will be even shorter; but if the stressed syllable is short, nearby unstresssed syllables will be comparatively longer; and if there's a lot of unstressed syllables in a word, the stressed syllable will be shorter than if there's none at all).
It would of course make English haikus even longer, but they will end up sounding more poetic to English ears.
It's very hard to find out when you reply if you're Anonymous; in general I don't know that they're there.
Any case, I run Opera reluctantly at the moment because it's the only browser I can get to work (due to a temporary problem). Its attempts to integrate into the desktop are so bad that I won't even credit it with a criticism; pretty much everything to do with look, feel or behavior needs changing aside from the very basic fundamentals (like putting "Cut" in the "Edit" menu — they do get some things right). It even is abnormal and strange under Windows — if they can't be bothered caring about their major platform, there is simply no chance of them pretending about minor ones.
Oh indeed; and once it uses Webkit natively (instead of backporting Webkit changes into KHTML) it'll be even better faster. The problem with Konqueror is the user interface; it lacks a lot of features I take for granted, like combining multiple downloads into one window and session saving/restoring functionality, but also it has way too many options, and there's just no integration between it and my desktop (no surprise, it's KDE and I'm not).
I seriously think that Webkit will change all of this and make me a happier person. Already I can run Gtk+-Webkit browsers, although the ones I've played with so far are far from stable.
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Why would the Gargantuan Object from Outer Georgia throw in a towel at any point? aka Would it have killed you to release the shift key three letters earlier and tacked on "le"? PSSGAE. IDHU, which is all writing is really about. ("People should stop gratuitously abbreviating everything"; "it doesn't help help understand".)
I'm a Linux user and a Slashdot karma whore...
Also, Catholics should stop working on science. They advocate nothing but the most unrealistic and unworkable, theology-laden ideas which do not stand up to the evidence. Just two examples of this are Copernicus's heliocentrism and Fr Georges Lemaître's "Big Bang".
If you hate daylight savings, why don't you just operate on winter time the whole year around? Work 9-5 in winter and 10-6 in the summer. You're clearly in the minority if you live somewhere with daylight savings, so it'd be unreasonable to ask everyone to adapt their working hours to suit you; and even if they did, you'd get defacto daylight savings.
But how many people are buying the EEE because they want a tiny computer, versus people who can't afford anything better? I certainly don't know anyone who can't afford anything better, but I do know people who've bought one because it's tinysmall. That's its killer feature.
(Also, I've usually found European prices to be more expensive for computers and related hardware than US or Australian prices; $500 might be a more reasonable conversion.)
Disclaimer: I come from the only western country without protection of speech. The government can and does ban saying certain things, and people can and have been sent for jail for saying these things.
I don't understand why it's an issue of free speech. He's committing vandalism by using other's resources. In order for him to send his spam, he steals my bandwidth and my ISP's bandwidth and bandwidth on the international links. Surely he's no more allowed to send his spam there than he is to graffiti my front door or post bills over a sign that says "post no bills".
Adobe also uses GTK+ for their port of the Adobe Reader. Also, I'd prefer GTK+ simply because it looks and feels the way an X11 toolkit library should; I've find Qt programs like Opera and Skype have a non-native, ported feel to them. If you're going to settle for a non-native, ported feel, why not just use Wine Lib?
You seem to know a lot about ZFS. Is it a file system suitable for use on home computers or small file servers that just let us access movies and music from any computer in the house? Or is it complete overkill in that situation and I should just stay with whatever filesystem I have at the moment.
FreeBSD isn't used on the desktop as much as GNU/Linux is, obviously because it's hardware support is not as good, but it is used on heaps of high-end servers out there, including most promimantly Yahoo! I suppose if Microsoft do buy Yahoo! there will be some truth to the saying "FreeBSD is dying", but that's not the case yet and MS Yahoo turning down FreeBSD won't be its end, either
That'd be great ... if we could buy one. Green PCs are not much use if the only people who can buy them are people who couldn't otherwise get a computer; to make the computer green, it must substitute for existing computers. Otherwise it doesn't matter how low its power consumption is, it's still increasing it.
Woah! As if western countries don't do mining? Australia's only significant exports are sheep and stuff that's come out of the ground! Not that I really know the damage mining causes, but that's because I live in the city. I reckon people from Beijing would have just as hard a time imagining it. Point is: There's no reason to be racist about it. It's distance and experience, not cultural background.
Your country's right to exist hinges on the fact that lots of guys with guns would repel an armed invasion.
This is not necessarily true. I don't know what the situation in Canada is, but neither Australia nor New Zealand would be able to defend a sustained attack on our countries on our own from a determined enemy; if that determined enemy were the United States, we wouldn't even have an ally who could put up a decent fight. (In this context, China might attack the US, but this would be to destroy the US rather than to defend Australia or New Zealand.)
I'm not an American, and I don't understand what the obsession with carrying your own state is. Gore could've one if he'd carried Florida, but that's not his own state. Many people have different opinions from the people in their home state, and that's part of why they move around. Why do you (and others) single out his own state?
Your sig: Everyone clicks the link, because we're not sheeple, we've gotta be different and read the article. No-one actually reads the article tho, because we're too lazy.
You might've missed the main point of the review linked above: You can't type on this thing for long. So the fact that geeks don't look at the keyboard while typing won't stop the sort of person who would buy this (in spite of being unable to type on it) from buying it. (If the cost and the fundamental design failure won't stop you, nothing will.)
... and can be enabled in X.org on any bogstandard laptop with a touchpad supported by the synaptic driver (I have a Dell laptop from 2002 that it works on).
Or just ban porn sites from using IPv4. Everyone's happy then: Think of the Children types will have porn apparently banned, techies will see IPv6 adopted widely, and civil liberties types will have porn available if they want it.
What I wish is that Thunderbird behaved like a normal program on my computer. Compared to Evolution or Balsa, Thunderbird is a lot more polished and useful. But I have given up trying to use it, because it has silly problems like not mixing in completely with my current theme (it seems to be adapting it somehow, treating my computer like it's running Windows and then converting the current theme along those lines, instead of just using my theme), and not obeying my system settings (for instance, for most programs, like Balsa or Evolution or Epiphany or whatever, I can simply change or delete a key binding by pressing the key when I'm on that menu — because I have clumsy fingers I keep typing "Control-Arrows-(release control) Enter-Enter", for instance (to delete a section of the email), but I release control on the other side of pressing enter — this means I accidentally send an unfinished email. But as far as I can tell, there's no way to get rid of that dangerous feature!
It is because of this that I use Balsa at the moment, which mostly works as an email client, but misses a number of features I'd like. It's just, Balsa mightn't be finished, but it never tries to work against me. Thunderbird does. The biggest and best change Thunderbird and Firefox could make is to abandon their ugly, buggy, incomplete and unnecessary proprietry cross-platform toolkits, which are nothing but trouble, and simply use Gtk+ on Linux, Cocoa on the Mac, and whatever it is that Windows uses this week (Windows Forms I think it's called?).
"Haha" (and similar forms) can usually be traced back to a bilabial origin e.g. in Japanese h- comes from f- comes from p- (-f- instead became -w-, which is why the partical spelt "ha" is pronounced "wa"). Something really different is the Turkic and Hebrew forms for mum and dad of roughly the form "ata"
Poetry is actually about utility. Most societies with limited literacy have a lot more popular poetry because by following certain rules e.g. patterns of rhythm it is much easier to remember. In highly literate societies poetry is much less important and so we have people who like it thinking about its beauty, but again that comes from following the rules and knowing when to break them. Haikus that don't follow any rules (or follow the wrong rules like mora-counting in English) aren't beautiful.
And anyway, what's the blooming point of writing one in English? It simply doesn't work very well. I may as well try to write limericks in Japanese -- anyone who's familiar with the language will understand what a silly idea that is. The underlying fundamental phonological structures of the two languages are so different that trying to graft the poetic rules of the one onto the other strikes me a bit like training a penguin to jump through a flaming hoop, or a lion to swim through an underwater obstacle course. While both are theoretically possible, they also both beggar the imagination to find a compelling reason why.
Well, that's the reason I said you should use stressed syllable counting, not mora counting or syllable counting when writing them in English. I've never written a haiku (aside from when I had to in year seven), and they've always seemed stupid in English, because (a) they're written by amateurs and (b) they count moras or syllables, neither of which are salient in English rhythm. You cannot make English poetry by counting moras or syllables, only by counting stressed syllables and interspersing them with (a possibly fixed number of) unstressed syllables.
You say that haiku "simply isn't an English poetic form" but I don't think that's a reasonable objection. Rhyme wasn't an English poetic form until it was introduced by foreign influence; instead, languages which develop rhyme are better-suited to it (having grammatical ways of constructing them). But English has developed its own set of rules for what constitutes a valid rhyme (e.g. identical rhymes are common in French, but strongly dispreferred in English). Likewise, Shakespeare's iambic pentameter was ultimately a borrowing from classical (i.e. Latin and Greek) styles: but whereas in the classical languages the strong syllables were heavy/long and the weak syllables were light/short, in English the strong syllables are stressed and the weak are unstressed.
Even though the language developed on an island, English has never been insular. It has adapted words and grammar and poetry from anyone loud enough to grab its attention. There's nothing wrong with adapting haiku to English, but it needs to be done properly (i.e. by counting stressed syllables, not moras or syllables) or else it will always be thought of as "that dodgy form of Japanese poetry".
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I'm not an authority on the subject, but I've always thought the best way to translate the requite for 5-7-5 moras (that's the plural of "mora", unless you want to get classical and say "moræ"—it's a Latin word, not Japanese) is with 5-7-5 stressed syllables. That's traditionally how entity-counting is done in English poetry: For instance, Old English poetry had four stressed syllables per line (with a variable number of unstressed syllables), whereas in Shakespeare's iambic pentameter, there's five feet of unstressed-stressed pairs per line.
This makes logical sense, because in Japanese, each mora has approximately the same length of time when spoken, whereas in English, there's approximately the same length of time from stressed syllable to stressed syllable (hence, if the stressed syllable is long, nearby unstressed syllables will be even shorter; but if the stressed syllable is short, nearby unstresssed syllables will be comparatively longer; and if there's a lot of unstressed syllables in a word, the stressed syllable will be shorter than if there's none at all).
It would of course make English haikus even longer, but they will end up sounding more poetic to English ears.
It's very hard to find out when you reply if you're Anonymous; in general I don't know that they're there.
Any case, I run Opera reluctantly at the moment because it's the only browser I can get to work (due to a temporary problem). Its attempts to integrate into the desktop are so bad that I won't even credit it with a criticism; pretty much everything to do with look, feel or behavior needs changing aside from the very basic fundamentals (like putting "Cut" in the "Edit" menu — they do get some things right). It even is abnormal and strange under Windows — if they can't be bothered caring about their major platform, there is simply no chance of them pretending about minor ones.
Oh indeed; and once it uses Webkit natively (instead of backporting Webkit changes into KHTML) it'll be even better faster. The problem with Konqueror is the user interface; it lacks a lot of features I take for granted, like combining multiple downloads into one window and session saving/restoring functionality, but also it has way too many options, and there's just no integration between it and my desktop (no surprise, it's KDE and I'm not).
I seriously think that Webkit will change all of this and make me a happier person. Already I can run Gtk+-Webkit browsers, although the ones I've played with so far are far from stable.