Really? I thought we liked Trademarks and tolerated Copyrights. At least, I do. I wanna know that the Coca-Cola I bought is from Coca-Cola and not CocaIsUs, just branded Coca-Cola...
It's quite disturbing that only 8 countries are tied for the first place. It's especially disturbing that Australia is in 41. Next year, I'd be surprised if we make even that...... Onya, Liberal Voters! Say bu-buy to anyone but the Government, Murdoch and Packer owning any media. It will be quite disturbing come 2007 when the only news sources that are allowed to say anything but "Vote for whoever you want, as long as it's Howard" will be the Government-owned ABC and SBS...
It's toolkit can be KDE-based, so I imagine it's possible to get it running on Windowns under Cygwin. That probably isn't what you want to hear, but it might be a starting point...
exbi-. The last two letters are always 'bi', for 'binary'.
I really hate the way computer users have usurped and redefined 'mega-', 'giga-' etc, and then complain when hard drive manufacturers use the original/real definitions.
I'll probably be modded down for saying this, but I have a theory that mods automatically mod people up because they've asked to be modded down. As I've never seen a post that says 'Mod me up', it seems likely that saying that automatically gets you modded down (I read at +5 with a complex modification of mod categories). It's very annoying; people shouldn't be able to moderate themselves!
(OT, so you ought to mod me down---I know I have!)
Maybe it was 'smart'... All complimentary words are essentially the same in my books... I'm 95 per cent certain it was you but I don't have the time to look for it now.
Actually, I've started reading it as: These things are leet because I like them, which makes me leet...
Somewhen I think Graham said something like he and Stallman and so forth were great men because they weren't afraid to say they were great. I think Graham's gone a bit too far down that path; I still respect RMS.
With my handwriting, I'm lucky to get 80 per cent recognition from paper a month later:)
(I also have a good, legible handwriting, but I tend to use that more when I'm writing because I want to, rather than to get a message across. It's a bit excentric. Because it's fun.)
What you've described is disociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder), not schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is the one where you hear voices, are paranoid, make unnecessary, stereotype movements and so forth. It does mean 'split mind', but not in the way you think it does.
* I'm being stereotypical here. Not everyone who's schizophrenic experiences all of these, nor is everyone who experiences any of these schizophrenic.
I don't see why they don't just give into to preferential voting (IRV). As an Australian, I can tell you that it doesn't break the two-party system. All they need to do is implement it to keep the masses happy, then if the issue ever comes up again, they just have to say: 'yeah, but we tried fixing it and nothing changed, what else will fix it?'. All will be good and America can go back to being the bastion of democracy we know it is.
In Melbourne, they tend to have one sign indicating what the next exit is so if you miss it, your out of luck.
They have two: One generally a kilometre in front, one at the exit. They're both large enough that if you can't see them in time to be in the left lane, you shouldn't be driving. And I'm serious here. They're massive. Gigantic. And anyway, if you know you want to get out soon, what the heck are you doing in the right lane? (Australians drive on the left, so they exit freeways from the left.)
On three lane roads, they use small signs that you can't read until its too late to indicate and then turn.
I don't get that problem, but in general, I would've thought you knew which side of the road you wanted to be on. But then, I use Linux so maybe I'm abnormal like that:)
If your on a side street you better know the major roads because there won't be any street name signs when you cross larger roads.
Is this abnormal? I know nothing but Melbourne, but it did bug me before I knew the names of the major roads:) This was, of course, before I could reach the pedals.
It's not an issue of not liking your argument; it's an issue of not agreeing with it.
Most of your points have been refuted elsewhere quite well, so I'll let them be.
But you compare Internet Explorer to Notepad and the Media Player. There simply is no comparison. Notepad is not a full-featured text editor. Cardfile sucked. Paintbrush sucks. Wordpad barely lets you put two words on a page. Until they realised they could get away with it, the Media Player sucked. The intergrated tools were basics so that you could use your operating system, but you still had to get other stuff. And so people *do* get alternative text editors; people *do* get alternative PIMs (even if the major on is MS's); people *do* get alternative image editors; people *do* get alternative word processors; people *did* get alternative media players.
Internet Explorer and the new media player are not in the same league as the other tools. The comparison is invalid.
(I acknowledge this doesn't necessarily mean that bundling IE in Windows is wrong, and anyone who takes this argument on its own to mean that probably needs to do critical thinking, but it does mean, AFAICT, that that particular argument of yours is flawed.)
'Then' and 'than' used to be the same word (admittedly with an a rather than an e). They were temporarily given a distinct life, but apparently speakers of the language don't think it's worth the effort to maintain a distinction. Fortunately, there's no Academie Anglais, so if you don't like it, keep them distinct in your own speech and writing.
The thing is, I bought mine a few weeks ago (in Australia). Quite a nice device, apart from the remote. Also, Ogg Vorbis files seem to eat the battery life; I have to charge it after two days.
Oh, it's not so bad. We have an Australian ballot in Australia, inasmuch as we have secret ballots printed by the Government. Our (Commonwealth, Federal) House of Representatives has members from the Liberal/National Coallition (who might as well be one party for this), the Australian Labor [sic] Party, a number of independents, as well as Greens member. The Senate is even better represented, with members of the Coallition, Labor, many minor parties: Greens, Democrats, One Nation, Australian Progressive Alliance, and independents.
Our House of Representatives are elected using instant run-off (which we call preferential voting); our Senate by a non-party-based form of proportional voting (the single transferrable vote) prettified with party-based simplicities. It is these aspects which make the difference, not the nature of the ballot. In fact, votes for major parties in the Senate actually elect minor parties (for instance, a Victorian Senator from the Democrats was elected because the major parties directed preferences to the Democrats before the Greens). Of course, the advantages of proportional voting are not available in single-member electorates like the presidency of the US...
Your sig, Label seen on Tomato Ketchup bottle: Allergy warning - may contain extract of Tomato, does not compare with a warning that there may be traces of nuts or peanuts on a bag of mixed nuts (incl. peanuts). It becomes a bit worrying, when there only may be nuts or peanuts in a bag of nuts and peanuts. I would certainly hope there were...
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Regarding your sig 'The American way of life is vastly overrated; vote for Bush.'
Is it just a coincidence that 'American way of life' acronymises to 'AWOL'?
Really? I thought we liked Trademarks and tolerated Copyrights. At least, I do. I wanna know that the Coca-Cola I bought is from Coca-Cola and not CocaIsUs, just branded Coca-Cola...
And where would the GNU GPL be without Copyright?
It's quite disturbing that only 8 countries are tied for the first place. It's especially disturbing that Australia is in 41. Next year, I'd be surprised if we make even that...... Onya, Liberal Voters! Say bu-buy to anyone but the Government, Murdoch and Packer owning any media. It will be quite disturbing come 2007 when the only news sources that are allowed to say anything but "Vote for whoever you want, as long as it's Howard" will be the Government-owned ABC and SBS...
Hm, well don't I practically do that already? Not for all apps, certainly, but Archive and ROX-Get and other python-based apps at least...
It's toolkit can be KDE-based, so I imagine it's possible to get it running on Windowns under Cygwin. That probably isn't what you want to hear, but it might be a starting point...
In case johnnb's sig is ever changed, I contain here for posterity the sig in full:
New Programmers Click Here
exbi-. The last two letters are always 'bi', for 'binary'.
I really hate the way computer users have usurped and redefined 'mega-', 'giga-' etc, and then complain when hard drive manufacturers use the original/real definitions.
If you stop paying for it, decent governments will spend their taxes on R&D of medicines.
Regarding your sig...
I'll probably be modded down for saying this, but I have a theory that mods automatically mod people up because they've asked to be modded down. As I've never seen a post that says 'Mod me up', it seems likely that saying that automatically gets you modded down (I read at +5 with a complex modification of mod categories). It's very annoying; people shouldn't be able to moderate themselves!
(OT, so you ought to mod me down---I know I have!)
Maybe it was 'smart'... All complimentary words are essentially the same in my books... I'm 95 per cent certain it was you but I don't have the time to look for it now.
elsewise we will have to eat our own offspring and call it meet.
If we was smart, we'd let our offspring eat us and call it servival of our geens.
Actually, I've started reading it as: These things are leet because I like them, which makes me leet...
Somewhen I think Graham said something like he and Stallman and so forth were great men because they weren't afraid to say they were great. I think Graham's gone a bit too far down that path; I still respect RMS.
With my handwriting, I'm lucky to get 80 per cent recognition from paper a month later :)
(I also have a good, legible handwriting, but I tend to use that more when I'm writing because I want to, rather than to get a message across. It's a bit excentric. Because it's fun.)
What you've described is disociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder), not schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is the one where you hear voices, are paranoid, make unnecessary, stereotype movements and so forth. It does mean 'split mind', but not in the way you think it does.
* I'm being stereotypical here. Not everyone who's schizophrenic experiences all of these, nor is everyone who experiences any of these schizophrenic.
I don't see why they don't just give into to preferential voting (IRV). As an Australian, I can tell you that it doesn't break the two-party system. All they need to do is implement it to keep the masses happy, then if the issue ever comes up again, they just have to say: 'yeah, but we tried fixing it and nothing changed, what else will fix it?'. All will be good and America can go back to being the bastion of democracy we know it is.
In Melbourne, they tend to have one sign indicating what the next exit is so if you miss it, your out of luck.
:)
:) This was, of course, before I could reach the pedals.
They have two: One generally a kilometre in front, one at the exit. They're both large enough that if you can't see them in time to be in the left lane, you shouldn't be driving. And I'm serious here. They're massive. Gigantic. And anyway, if you know you want to get out soon, what the heck are you doing in the right lane? (Australians drive on the left, so they exit freeways from the left.)
On three lane roads, they use small signs that you can't read until its too late to indicate and then turn.
I don't get that problem, but in general, I would've thought you knew which side of the road you wanted to be on. But then, I use Linux so maybe I'm abnormal like that
If your on a side street you better know the major roads because there won't be any street name signs when you cross larger roads.
Is this abnormal? I know nothing but Melbourne, but it did bug me before I knew the names of the major roads
I don't get your rant in your last paragraph.
It's not an issue of not liking your argument; it's an issue of not agreeing with it.
Most of your points have been refuted elsewhere quite well, so I'll let them be.
But you compare Internet Explorer to Notepad and the Media Player. There simply is no comparison. Notepad is not a full-featured text editor. Cardfile sucked. Paintbrush sucks. Wordpad barely lets you put two words on a page. Until they realised they could get away with it, the Media Player sucked. The intergrated tools were basics so that you could use your operating system, but you still had to get other stuff. And so people *do* get alternative text editors; people *do* get alternative PIMs (even if the major on is MS's); people *do* get alternative image editors; people *do* get alternative word processors; people *did* get alternative media players.
Internet Explorer and the new media player are not in the same league as the other tools. The comparison is invalid.
(I acknowledge this doesn't necessarily mean that bundling IE in Windows is wrong, and anyone who takes this argument on its own to mean that probably needs to do critical thinking, but it does mean, AFAICT, that that particular argument of yours is flawed.)
'Then' and 'than' used to be the same word (admittedly with an a rather than an e). They were temporarily given a distinct life, but apparently speakers of the language don't think it's worth the effort to maintain a distinction. Fortunately, there's no Academie Anglais, so if you don't like it, keep them distinct in your own speech and writing.
The thing is, I bought mine a few weeks ago (in Australia). Quite a nice device, apart from the remote. Also, Ogg Vorbis files seem to eat the battery life; I have to charge it after two days.
Oh, it's not so bad. We have an Australian ballot in Australia, inasmuch as we have secret ballots printed by the Government. Our (Commonwealth, Federal) House of Representatives has members from the Liberal/National Coallition (who might as well be one party for this), the Australian Labor [sic] Party, a number of independents, as well as Greens member. The Senate is even better represented, with members of the Coallition, Labor, many minor parties: Greens, Democrats, One Nation, Australian Progressive Alliance, and independents.
Our House of Representatives are elected using instant run-off (which we call preferential voting); our Senate by a non-party-based form of proportional voting (the single transferrable vote) prettified with party-based simplicities. It is these aspects which make the difference, not the nature of the ballot. In fact, votes for major parties in the Senate actually elect minor parties (for instance, a Victorian Senator from the Democrats was elected because the major parties directed preferences to the Democrats before the Greens). Of course, the advantages of proportional voting are not available in single-member electorates like the presidency of the US...
but for those too lazy to read the discussion on the mailing list
Please give us a break:
(1) Not everyone is on the mailing list.
(2) No link to the mailing list was (obviously) provided in the article.
Your sig, Label seen on Tomato Ketchup bottle: Allergy warning - may contain extract of Tomato, does not compare with a warning that there may be traces of nuts or peanuts on a bag of mixed nuts (incl. peanuts). It becomes a bit worrying, when there only may be nuts or peanuts in a bag of nuts and peanuts. I would certainly hope there were...
I think your sig ('"A lot" is two words. You wouldn't say "alittle", would you?') says it all.
People don't speak in letters, and I'm yet to hear the person who can pronounce .
Porn.
Two. One: C. S. Lewis is dead. Two: C. S. Lewis is male.