Speaking of Poisoned... it's incredibly useful, but whoever wrote it really needs to read Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. Honestly.
Acquisition has a much more polished UI (though there are some internationalization issues) that fits much better with the typicaly Aqua UI experience. Poisoned feels like Windows software that's been themed to look like Mac software. I really hope they improve.
Wow... And with rants like yours, you wonder why the rest of the world is so disgusted with the US? Having lived there myself in the past, at least I can find hope in the fact that most Americans aren't raving racist lunatics... Tell me, your neighbours to the north in Canada don't seem to half half the problems you do... yet have a similar racial composition. Why is that?
Yes, but the real question is what happened to pouring hot grits down a petrified Natalie Portman's pants? Seems to have somehow gone out of vogue in recent years...
Felony? Err, since when do we have "felonies" in Canada? We do have indictable offences... and when decriminalization goes through, possession will no longer be an indictable offence. Unless it's for trafficking.
Wow, the grandparent comment really should include the following addendum:
Right-wind Christian nut: Just shut up man. $RACIST_GENERALIZATION1. $UNINFORMED_EXTREMIST_STATEMENT1. $CLUELESS_POLITICAL_COMMENTARY1. $RACIST_GENERALIZATION2. $CLUELESS_POLITICAL_COMMENTARY2. $MORE_EXTREMIST_BABBLING1. $ABSOLUTELY_RETARDED_CONCLUSION1.
Seriously, Christian extremists are just as insane as any other extremist group. It's people like the commenter above -- whether they're Muslim, Jewish, Christian or any other brand of extremist -- that are the cause of half the conflicts and brutality in the world. I mean, really, it's embarrassing to even be from the same species as these nuts.
I remember being curious how babelfish would translate "natsukashii" to English... There isn't really an English word with the same mix of meaning and feeling, but I figured it would come up with "nostalgic" or something. Nope. I got:
The bosom oak, it is.
Adding a few words for context here and there, it came up with the following alternative options:
The handle it did, and applied. Handle abortive grain person. and He does bosom tilting.
I really don't get what you can get out of a single fancy expensive processor when a couple of less expensive chips can do the job.
Except that two fancy expensive processors are going to run faster than a couple of less expensive chips. Those are dual G5s.
Yeah, theoretically you could double the number of machines then... but I doubt you'd have any price advantage at that point, after doubling the number of cases, motherboards, etc. etc. Along with the cost of twice as much real-estate to pay for.
No, he's right. I also used both Macs and NeXT boxes, and the spinning colour-wheel/beach-ball/CD was originally a black and white spinning "colour-wheel" on the Mac. If you ever used HyperCard, it showed up pretty often. On NeXT boxes, it became a spinning CD, but was very similar. But you're right, it wasn't the colourful blob it is now until MacOS 10.1 or 10.2, it was the exact NeXT cursor.
Let me ask you this. Who in Cuba has easy access to the kind of technology required to do this, and has a motive? Go to Cuba and take a look around, the Cubans have nothing, and they have no reason to jam Iranian satellites.
I would guess that that signal came from the maniacs at Guantanamo Bay. It's not like they have a particularly good record to begin with: torture, holding prisonners illegally, surrounding themselves with the biggest minefield in the western hemisphere.
Newsflash: using the command line does not make you elite, but thinking so proves to me that you're a clueless halfwit.
Try doing a global find and replace through over 80 sub-projects in Visual Studio, and you'll find that the command line and sed are your two new best friends.
I try to use the command line as rarely as possible, but I refuse to avoid it if it's the best/fastest solution to a problem. I don't think that makes me "elite", but I do think you'd have to be pretty stubborn to expressly avoid the command line... sometimes it *is* the best tool for the job.
I doubt the parent poster to your comment thought he was "elite" for being able to use a command line, and I doubt he's an ignorant halfwit.
Well, you might not like this, but it comes down to our notion of what plural really means, and it's not quite as simple as you'd expect. Descriptive (as opposed to proscriptive) grammar texts are probably more likely to cover this area.
So is Toshiba singular or plural? Well, according to the grammar we've all been taught in school, Toshiba is probably singular, so to be technically correct the article should start "Toshiba has announced...". Personally, that's how I would have written it.
However, one could argue that Toshiba is plural. For example, it's quite common (and accepted) to hear things like "When a group of people are searching for someone to lead them..." or "a number of people are standing outside". In these cases "a group of people" and "a number of people" are singular from a proscriptive grammar perspective, so some might argue that they should read "When a group of people is searching for someone to lead it" and "a number of people is standing outside". Which versions sound better to you?
So in some innate way, do our minds see some things (such as groups) as being plural, even though our traditional grammar says they're singular? Maybe. Interesting question for linguists, anyway.
So I guess it all comes down to whether you see Toshiba as a singular corporate entity or as a collection of individuals. I hope that answers your question to some degree, but most likely it just points out how mixed up English is.
Now imagine trying to teach English as a second language!
Don't forget, oil is needed for things like plastic too.
Agreed. I would much rather see oil and gas production come from this type of recycling than from the ground. And I'd much rather see old plastics be returned to oil than to a landfill. I don't, however, agree with the original poster that we should "screww H and just use this" (sic). Or that the carbon cycle is closed. There will always be energy loss in the cycle, and I'd rather see a reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to what they were decades ago than have them stay constant.
Mostly my point is that the argument presented in the article that this "closes the carbon cycle" is a little too simplistic. Sounds great, but ultimately amounts to marketing hype.
Hydrogen fuel cells are definitely a preferable energy source, but I still see value in recycling carbon-rich products to oil.
Read over your own comments, genius. Capitalization and spelling, not to mention clear expression of ideas are obviously not your forte. And if you haven't yet figured out why you have no friends, let me give you a hint... take some anger management classes.
You obviously have some more serious issues to deal with than recycling carbon-based materials into oil.
there is a natural carbon cycle dumbass
And we all know that the only thing that comes out of burning refined petroleum products is carbon dioxide... perhaps you simply lack an understanding of what goes on in a car engine, but there's more than carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide that comes out of your car's tailpipe or a gas-fired power plant.
What comes out of hydrogen fuel-cell use? Water. Granted, sulfuric acid is often used in the production of hydrogen gas, but that generally stays in the plant, keeping it out of the system.
Either way, the argument presented in the article is ludicrous.
Course, since they're different in different columns, either Apple screwed up the resources (see Mail.app for a good example of this) or someone faked the screenshots.
Second, the "% Nice" uses a , to seperate the decimals, not a . like the rest of the %'s. This smacks to me of a slip-up by someone European making the fakes.
Or making the screenshots. On a French Canadian system, for example, you'll get commas for decimals in every application that displays decimal numbers. Not that I'm espousing one opinion or another. Just that whoever did these may have been a French or Spanish speaker who temporarily switched their language to English for the screenshots... and numbers and languages are separate control panels.
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Introductions are in order: Good day sig guy, I'm whiny grammar guy. I teach English as a second language (part time now, full time in 2001-2002).
Believe me, the sig is wrong. It has nothing to do with "modding" being a verb. And as for grammar checkers, they're pretty awful, and make mistakes on even simple grammatical constructs. Run your sig through an English major and see if they come out as unscathed... Two possible correct versions are:
Modding This Comment Will Not Alter Its Accuracy or Its Insightfulness
or:
Modding This Comment Will Neither Alter Its Accuracy Nor Its Insightfulness
Honestly. If you don't believe me, drop by an English teacher at your local college/university and get a second opinion. Of course, if I'm gonna get picky the capitals should really go too...:)
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Modding This Comment Will Not Alter Its Accuracy Nor Its Insightfulness
Or its sig's grammar, for that matter... that should be an "or" not a "nor", unless you switch the "not" to a "neither".
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Longhorn: just when you thought it wasn't possible to get uglier than XP.
Speaking of Poisoned... it's incredibly useful, but whoever wrote it really needs to read Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. Honestly.
Acquisition has a much more polished UI (though there are some internationalization issues) that fits much better with the typicaly Aqua UI experience. Poisoned feels like Windows software that's been themed to look like Mac software. I really hope they improve.
OH GOD! My eyes! My eyes are bleeding!
Wow...
And with rants like yours, you wonder why the rest of the world is so disgusted with the US? Having lived there myself in the past, at least I can find hope in the fact that most Americans aren't raving racist lunatics...
Tell me, your neighbours to the north in Canada don't seem to half half the problems you do... yet have a similar racial composition. Why is that?
Yes, but the real question is what happened to pouring hot grits down a petrified Natalie Portman's pants?
Seems to have somehow gone out of vogue in recent years...
About as well as anything else does...
Felony? Err, since when do we have "felonies" in Canada? We do have indictable offences... and when decriminalization goes through, possession will no longer be an indictable offence. Unless it's for trafficking.
you could re-encode the stripe with new information...like you're really over 21...
Why would I want to be over 21? The drinking age in most enlightened countries, including Canada, is 18 or 19 (depending on the province here).
Wow, the grandparent comment really should include the following addendum:
Right-wind Christian nut: Just shut up man. $RACIST_GENERALIZATION1. $UNINFORMED_EXTREMIST_STATEMENT1. $CLUELESS_POLITICAL_COMMENTARY1. $RACIST_GENERALIZATION2. $CLUELESS_POLITICAL_COMMENTARY2. $MORE_EXTREMIST_BABBLING1. $ABSOLUTELY_RETARDED_CONCLUSION1.
Seriously, Christian extremists are just as insane as any other extremist group. It's people like the commenter above -- whether they're Muslim, Jewish, Christian or any other brand of extremist -- that are the cause of half the conflicts and brutality in the world. I mean, really, it's embarrassing to even be from the same species as these nuts.
I remember being curious how babelfish would translate "natsukashii" to English... There isn't really an English word with the same mix of meaning and feeling, but I figured it would come up with "nostalgic" or something. Nope. I got:
The bosom oak, it is.
Adding a few words for context here and there, it came up with the following alternative options:
The handle it did, and applied.
Handle abortive grain person.
and
He does bosom tilting.
Good for hours of entertainment!
I really don't get what you can get out of a single fancy expensive processor when a couple of less expensive chips can do the job .
Except that two fancy expensive processors are going to run faster than a couple of less expensive chips. Those are dual G5s.
Yeah, theoretically you could double the number of machines then... but I doubt you'd have any price advantage at that point, after doubling the number of cases, motherboards, etc. etc. Along with the cost of twice as much real-estate to pay for.
No, he's right. I also used both Macs and NeXT boxes, and the spinning colour-wheel/beach-ball/CD was originally a black and white spinning "colour-wheel" on the Mac. If you ever used HyperCard, it showed up pretty often. On NeXT boxes, it became a spinning CD, but was very similar. But you're right, it wasn't the colourful blob it is now until MacOS 10.1 or 10.2, it was the exact NeXT cursor.
+1 Funny
Let me ask you this. Who in Cuba has easy access to the kind of technology required to do this, and has a motive? Go to Cuba and take a look around, the Cubans have nothing, and they have no reason to jam Iranian satellites.
I would guess that that signal came from the maniacs at Guantanamo Bay. It's not like they have a particularly good record to begin with: torture, holding prisonners illegally, surrounding themselves with the biggest minefield in the western hemisphere.
Bad day for NITV... first their satellite gets jammed, and then we slashdot their site.
Newsflash: using the command line does not make you elite, but thinking so proves to me that you're a clueless halfwit.
Try doing a global find and replace through over 80 sub-projects in Visual Studio, and you'll find that the command line and sed are your two new best friends.
I try to use the command line as rarely as possible, but I refuse to avoid it if it's the best/fastest solution to a problem. I don't think that makes me "elite", but I do think you'd have to be pretty stubborn to expressly avoid the command line... sometimes it *is* the best tool for the job.
I doubt the parent poster to your comment thought he was "elite" for being able to use a command line, and I doubt he's an ignorant halfwit.
Well, you might not like this, but it comes down to our notion of what plural really means, and it's not quite as simple as you'd expect. Descriptive (as opposed to proscriptive) grammar texts are probably more likely to cover this area.
So is Toshiba singular or plural? Well, according to the grammar we've all been taught in school, Toshiba is probably singular, so to be technically correct the article should start "Toshiba has announced...". Personally, that's how I would have written it.
However, one could argue that Toshiba is plural. For example, it's quite common (and accepted) to hear things like "When a group of people are searching for someone to lead them..." or "a number of people are standing outside". In these cases "a group of people" and "a number of people" are singular from a proscriptive grammar perspective, so some might argue that they should read "When a group of people is searching for someone to lead it" and "a number of people is standing outside". Which versions sound better to you?
So in some innate way, do our minds see some things (such as groups) as being plural, even though our traditional grammar says they're singular? Maybe. Interesting question for linguists, anyway.
So I guess it all comes down to whether you see Toshiba as a singular corporate entity or as a collection of individuals. I hope that answers your question to some degree, but most likely it just points out how mixed up English is.
Now imagine trying to teach English as a second language!
Don't forget, oil is needed for things like plastic too.
Agreed. I would much rather see oil and gas production come from this type of recycling than from the ground. And I'd much rather see old plastics be returned to oil than to a landfill. I don't, however, agree with the original poster that we should "screww H and just use this" (sic). Or that the carbon cycle is closed. There will always be energy loss in the cycle, and I'd rather see a reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to what they were decades ago than have them stay constant.
Mostly my point is that the argument presented in the article that this "closes the carbon cycle" is a little too simplistic. Sounds great, but ultimately amounts to marketing hype.
Hydrogen fuel cells are definitely a preferable energy source, but I still see value in recycling carbon-rich products to oil.
god you are stupid
Read over your own comments, genius. Capitalization and spelling, not to mention clear expression of ideas are obviously not your forte. And if you haven't yet figured out why you have no friends, let me give you a hint... take some anger management classes.
You obviously have some more serious issues to deal with than recycling carbon-based materials into oil.
there is a natural carbon cycle dumbass
And we all know that the only thing that comes out of burning refined petroleum products is carbon dioxide... perhaps you simply lack an understanding of what goes on in a car engine, but there's more than carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide that comes out of your car's tailpipe or a gas-fired power plant.
What comes out of hydrogen fuel-cell use? Water. Granted, sulfuric acid is often used in the production of hydrogen gas, but that generally stays in the plant, keeping it out of the system.
Either way, the argument presented in the article is ludicrous.
it closes the carbon cycle
No it doesn't. What do the turkeys eat, exactly? Plants.
Plants -> Turkey -> Oil -> Pollution -> ???
I hope you're not claiming that you eventually recover all your plants, thereby resulting in the biological equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.
Burning oil certainly causes more pollution than burning hydrogen.
It is mostly there to make sure some stupid country doesn't try to invade and fsck everything up.
Funny, the rest of the world is worried about the same thing... only, we know who that stupid country is.
*ducks*
Course, since they're different in different columns, either Apple screwed up the resources (see Mail.app for a good example of this) or someone faked the screenshots.
Second, the "% Nice" uses a , to seperate the decimals, not a . like the rest of the %'s. This smacks to me of a slip-up by someone European making the fakes.
Or making the screenshots. On a French Canadian system, for example, you'll get commas for decimals in every application that displays decimal numbers. Not that I'm espousing one opinion or another. Just that whoever did these may have been a French or Spanish speaker who temporarily switched their language to English for the screenshots... and numbers and languages are separate control panels.
Introductions are in order: Good day sig guy, I'm whiny grammar guy. I teach English as a second language (part time now, full time in 2001-2002).
:)
Believe me, the sig is wrong. It has nothing to do with "modding" being a verb. And as for grammar checkers, they're pretty awful, and make mistakes on even simple grammatical constructs. Run your sig through an English major and see if they come out as unscathed... Two possible correct versions are:
Modding This Comment Will Not Alter Its Accuracy or Its Insightfulness
or:
Modding This Comment Will Neither Alter Its Accuracy Nor Its Insightfulness
Honestly. If you don't believe me, drop by an English teacher at your local college/university and get a second opinion. Of course, if I'm gonna get picky the capitals should really go too...
Modding This Comment Will Not Alter Its Accuracy Nor Its Insightfulness
Or its sig's grammar, for that matter... that should be an "or" not a "nor", unless you switch the "not" to a "neither".
Still... I'm no Grammar Nazi.