Just a note: In English, you should use English punctuation, including a fullstop for the decimal point. Secondly, the names of the metric measurements are not capitalised (with the exception of the degree Celsius). Thirdly, you ought not to write the full name of the measurement, but when you do, if it's greater than one, you pluralise it and if it's less than one, you don't (so 0.5 metre). Lastly, one Calorie is one thousand calories. This is entirely stupid and needs to be stopped. Therefore, you meant to say 4.18 J = 1 calorie.
I've often seen disorganised thinking and behavior referred to, but I've never actually seen a definition of what it is. I could be looking in the wrong place, but it seems to be something that everyone's assumed you can understand straight from the words, but I don't. What are they?
Your PS only works if the lower population is due to third causes. The theories I've heard (and remain sceptical of) are that less petroleum -> less people (via inability to access food, wars/battles etc. etc. etc.)
In fact, it's common in some areas and by some people to spell acronyms that are pronounced as words* in lowercase. Sometimes, this is just about universally done, as in laser. Sometimes, it is the most common spelling, as in Anzac (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps). Sometimes, one is done; sometimes the other: Ikea, Gnome. Sometimes, it's almost always capitalised: WHO (World Health Organization). Gnome has always struck me as a name that found an acronym as justification, rather than a long set of words that were condensed, so I think Gnome is a better spelling.
* Some people will claim that acronyms that aren't pronounced as words aren't acronyms. They're wrong. Take a sample of average English speakers who haven't been confused by dictionaries, pedants or European languages.
even though it's been out of print for years, and that they owe back taxes?
If they aren't profiting from it, then either (1) it provides less than the cut off in value, and they wen't be taxt; or (2) they have to pay more in taxes then they receive from it, and by keeping it out of the public domain, they're increasing the chances of it being lost for ever. Release it into the public domain and stop paying taxes.
Opera is not free. This is the second time I've seen something implying it is in this thread. Just because a piece of software runs on Linux doesn't mean it's free.
And personally, I don't understand everyone's complaints about the Gimp's interface. It seems perfectly reasonable to me. Not that it couldn't do with a bit of work, but it's still a lot better than some commercial apps out there (SPSS, a stastical analysis program for Windows, for one).
I stopped using Gentoo because I kept getting dependency hell. I also found the time it took to install everything from source annoying.
I went to Slackware.
No, I'm not sure if I'm trolling either...:) (But no, in all seriousness, I left Gentoo and went to Slackware for the reasons mentioned and because of Eugina Loli-Q. of OSNews's review; it was pretty nice until I upgraded to Dropline Gnome 2.6. I'm now using ROX-Session and Zero-Install and OroboROX.)
Europe has advantages over the US (I understand it's less corporate-dominated); the US has advantages over Europe (you can say Nazies are good if you want).
In some people's view, Europe is the lesser evil. I generally share that view, but I remember that copyright and anti-free speech has mostly been a European innovation.
But the more I learn, the more obvious it seems that soon enough, there won't be a single land of the free people left...
Actually, the chance of physical injury is reasonably high. All the pressure you're putting on your back unless you're sitting just so can cause quite a lot of pain!
LP? How does that contrast with CD? I've only known it to be similar in meaning to 'album' (i.e. refers to a collection of music intended to be distributed on a generally circular medium).
Generalisation of ox -> oxen. -en is descended from an Old English pluralisation, specifically ofthe weak declensions (if 's (apostrophe-s) hadn't been generalised for possessive, you would talk of 'an oxen horns' and 'many oxen horns' as well). It's retained more use in Dutch and German. Unii, though, is an obvious attempt at looking Latinate, so I chose Unices.
Plural of Latinate English words ending in -ix is either -ixes (native) or -ices (pronounced 'iseez') e.g. matrix -> matrixes/matrices, appendix -> appendixes/appendices. I would therefore suggest Unices if you refuse to touch Unixes.
There's a handful of words ending in -ice that were backformed from plurals in -ices, the correct singular of which was -ix. Therefore, a generic word for 'Unix' could be 'Unice' (Youness). (Unfortunately I can't remember the examples I was given.)
Dogpile! I used to do the multi-search thing, then I happened upon Dogpile, then I noticed I always went straight to Google's results and got it from the source...
I actually specifically don't, often as not. If it's a simple page, I'll often (not always) look for mirrors/copy-and-paste here first, and if I can't find them, then sometimes I won't open the source anyway...
... but now Google's results are getting skewed in favor of abusers/googlebombers and such, though they've managed to stear clear of intergrating advertising into the page. You're thinking about using AllTheWeb or Teoma, but they too will succumb to the ever-present abusers. Eventually, you'll return to WebCrawler and wonder why you left...:)
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I quite enjoy using a pen and paper to cast my vote. I still don't understand what the US has against it.
(note: I haven't been paying much attention to microsoft software since my computer stopped being able to run it.)
What's MS's offering in DTP and still graphics?
Just a note: In English, you should use English punctuation, including a fullstop for the decimal point. Secondly, the names of the metric measurements are not capitalised (with the exception of the degree Celsius). Thirdly, you ought not to write the full name of the measurement, but when you do, if it's greater than one, you pluralise it and if it's less than one, you don't (so 0.5 metre). Lastly, one Calorie is one thousand calories. This is entirely stupid and needs to be stopped. Therefore, you meant to say 4.18 J = 1 calorie.
If I had the time :) Maybe over the summer/christmas holidays (which occur at the same time here).
I've often seen disorganised thinking and behavior referred to, but I've never actually seen a definition of what it is. I could be looking in the wrong place, but it seems to be something that everyone's assumed you can understand straight from the words, but I don't. What are they?
Your PS only works if the lower population is due to third causes. The theories I've heard (and remain sceptical of) are that less petroleum -> less people (via inability to access food, wars/battles etc. etc. etc.)
2) In the next election, send a letter to their opponent telling them why the incumbent pissed you off (software patent support), along with a check.
:)
WTH? How does that differ from bribary? (Pardon my naivety.)
Also, your comment about the challenger seems very typically american
Why not? Can't someone file it? I'm sure it'd be economically beneficial to the US. Or is the US Govt unable to patent, like it can't hold copyrights?
In fact, it's common in some areas and by some people to spell acronyms that are pronounced as words* in lowercase. Sometimes, this is just about universally done, as in laser. Sometimes, it is the most common spelling, as in Anzac (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps). Sometimes, one is done; sometimes the other: Ikea, Gnome. Sometimes, it's almost always capitalised: WHO (World Health Organization). Gnome has always struck me as a name that found an acronym as justification, rather than a long set of words that were condensed, so I think Gnome is a better spelling.
* Some people will claim that acronyms that aren't pronounced as words aren't acronyms. They're wrong. Take a sample of average English speakers who haven't been confused by dictionaries, pedants or European languages.
Jorge talks about what the motivation for Gnome is, not what it was. Times change.
even though it's been out of print for years, and that they owe back taxes?
If they aren't profiting from it, then either
(1) it provides less than the cut off in value, and they wen't be taxt; or
(2) they have to pay more in taxes then they receive from it, and by keeping it out of the public domain, they're increasing the chances of it being lost for ever. Release it into the public domain and stop paying taxes.
Apart from GNU Image Manipulation Program, what politically incorrect thing does 'gimp' mean? I've certainly never heard it outside of this context.
Opera is not free. This is the second time I've seen something implying it is in this thread. Just because a piece of software runs on Linux doesn't mean it's free.
And personally, I don't understand everyone's complaints about the Gimp's interface. It seems perfectly reasonable to me. Not that it couldn't do with a bit of work, but it's still a lot better than some commercial apps out there (SPSS, a stastical analysis program for Windows, for one).
I stopped using Gentoo because I kept getting dependency hell. I also found the time it took to install everything from source annoying.
:) (But no, in all seriousness, I left Gentoo and went to Slackware for the reasons mentioned and because of Eugina Loli-Q. of OSNews's review; it was pretty nice until I upgraded to Dropline Gnome 2.6. I'm now using ROX-Session and Zero-Install and OroboROX.)
I went to Slackware.
No, I'm not sure if I'm trolling either...
(1) Sodipodi is made by an Estonian IIUC.
(2) Sodipodi is a vector drawing program, Scribus is a DTP program. Not in the same field.
Europe has advantages over the US (I understand it's less corporate-dominated); the US has advantages over Europe (you can say Nazies are good if you want).
In some people's view, Europe is the lesser evil. I generally share that view, but I remember that copyright and anti-free speech has mostly been a European innovation.
But the more I learn, the more obvious it seems that soon enough, there won't be a single land of the free people left...
(So in short, I didn't actually say anything.)
Actually, the chance of physical injury is reasonably high. All the pressure you're putting on your back unless you're sitting just so can cause quite a lot of pain!
LP? How does that contrast with CD? I've only known it to be similar in meaning to 'album' (i.e. refers to a collection of music intended to be distributed on a generally circular medium).
Generalisation of ox -> oxen. -en is descended from an Old English pluralisation, specifically ofthe weak declensions (if 's (apostrophe-s) hadn't been generalised for possessive, you would talk of 'an oxen horns' and 'many oxen horns' as well). It's retained more use in Dutch and German. Unii, though, is an obvious attempt at looking Latinate, so I chose Unices.
Plural of Latinate English words ending in -ix is either -ixes (native) or -ices (pronounced 'iseez') e.g. matrix -> matrixes/matrices, appendix -> appendixes/appendices. I would therefore suggest Unices if you refuse to touch Unixes.
There's a handful of words ending in -ice that were backformed from plurals in -ices, the correct singular of which was -ix. Therefore, a generic word for 'Unix' could be 'Unice' (Youness). (Unfortunately I can't remember the examples I was given.)
Dogpile! I used to do the multi-search thing, then I happened upon Dogpile, then I noticed I always went straight to Google's results and got it from the source...
I actually specifically don't, often as not. If it's a simple page, I'll often (not always) look for mirrors/copy-and-paste here first, and if I can't find them, then sometimes I won't open the source anyway...
... but now Google's results are getting skewed in favor of abusers/googlebombers and such, though they've managed to stear clear of intergrating advertising into the page. You're thinking about using AllTheWeb or Teoma, but they too will succumb to the ever-present abusers. Eventually, you'll return to WebCrawler and wonder why you left... :)
Oh der... I can see that. /Slaps self.
Is that a half to the power of thirty two or the inverse of two to the power of thirty two?