We used VBScript for our code, and we wish it had try/catch keywords; without these, writing error-handling logic was more cumbersome because we had to do manual checks in the code to see if errors had occurred. (ASP also supports JScript, which has try/catch keywords.)
Doesn't On Error statement in VB Script work like try/catch? At least you don't have to do so many manual checks. __
Now it just returns stories on how if you enter 'more evil than satan himself' into google, you get the microsoft homepage.
This is fascinating, because the story has invalidated itself
Actually this story is about how a site that shouldn't be linked to from "trustable" pages appears as such. Google denies it because irrelevant sites are not linked from trustable pages.
And now, GeekPress and Slashdot have linked to this site. So they are making it worthy of appearing in Google!
Actually, it's all a plot. The celeb site managed to get traffic from GeekPress and the celeb site and GeekPress managed to get traffic from Slashdot.
These porn sites are really ahead of the rest in promotion. Hofstadter marketing! __
friends a few years older than them who partied hard in high school, went to college and partied hard, and still ended up with normal jobs, normal families, and the whole bit. No-one has given a good enough reason not to do it
Isn't that reason enough? If you take drugs, you will be like your parents! __
i dont think ive seen a spanish or french command yet!
You don't know QueSO (from "Qué Sistema Operativo"), a tool for finding what operating system is running just by sending non-standard packets to the machine.
And 'email' is a French word.
And haven't you used a "neko" (JP "cat"), one of those cats running on your screen? __
I think English is closer to Friesish (Frison, Frieslander?), the language of Friesland, spoken by the descendants of the Anglosaxons who didn't cross the sea. __
Esperanto is easy to learn if you know one Anglo-Saxon language and one Romance language. Otherwise, it's just as hard as anything else.
Of course, for speakers of Hungarian, Finnish, Japanese or Farsi, it's harder than for you, but English is even harder. But they can be more motivated. __
Churchill was an advocate of a restricted 500-word vocabulary English language
From memory, "BASIC English" had 850 words plus proper nouns and some appendices. There was a Bible translated into it.
Anohter problem was that merely restricting the number of words didn't work. E.g. instead of "to tolerate" you would use "to put up with". Is it easier for a foreigner to remember that idiom than a new word. Basic English had to recourse to lots of idioms.
Anyway, variations of the theme of reduced vocabulary have been used as first steps to learning of the fully-bloated English language. __
If you work around computers, you simply HAVE TO learn english.
Maybe in Czech Rep. What about Germany? I guess that Germany has a big enough market to produce enough learning material to be a proficient worker with just a little English.
On the other hand, German-language computer talk seems to have lots of Capitalized English Words.
there are no special symbols, special characters, just all the basic latin characters and thats it.
Depending on the definition. Romans need no w and mixed v and u, and i and j. And having q,w,y,x,j,c and z in the same character set, points heavily to it being the American SCII. __
Remember where most chinese speakers live...in China. The language is way too concentrated currently. Additionally, by that rational, Hindi has a high likelihood of becoming the global language as well.
How many Chinese (Cantonese?) are overseas? How many Hindi-speakers?
I'm really asking?
I think that it is very important to ascertain the worldness of these languages to think about the emigrants. I guess that there are Chinese all over East Asia, and in Europe and North America, and Indians/Pakistanis in Britain, the Caribbean, the Pacific and black Africa. __
This kind of reminds me of attitudes I've seen in America, with regards to the seatbelt laws. I've seen plenty of people who do not wear seatbelts. Not because they don't want to, not because they don't think they're a good idea, but because someone ELSE had the nerve to tell them they should.
Slashdot Mirror
Has somebody established one of those Freenet-to-HTTP proxies? Where?
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actavista? Aliavista? autavista? antavista? Take a look at a keyboard, folks.
What about AZERTY, Dvorak, WAP phones?
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We used VBScript for our code, and we wish it had try/catch keywords; without these, writing error-handling logic was more cumbersome because we had to do manual checks in the code to see if errors had occurred. (ASP also supports JScript, which has try/catch keywords.)
Doesn't On Error statement in VB Script work like try/catch? At least you don't have to do so many manual checks.
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Now it just returns stories on how if you enter 'more evil than satan himself' into google, you get the microsoft homepage.
This is fascinating, because the story has invalidated itself
Actually this story is about how a site that shouldn't be linked to from "trustable" pages appears as such. Google denies it because irrelevant sites are not linked from trustable pages.
And now, GeekPress and Slashdot have linked to this site. So they are making it worthy of appearing in Google!
Actually, it's all a plot. The celeb site managed to get traffic from GeekPress and the celeb site and GeekPress managed to get traffic from Slashdot.
These porn sites are really ahead of the rest in promotion. Hofstadter marketing!
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friends a few years older than them who partied hard in high school, went to college and partied hard, and still ended up with normal jobs, normal families, and the whole bit. No-one has given a good enough reason not to do it
Isn't that reason enough? If you take drugs, you will be like your parents!
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You are probably dutch, considering your nick that is very close to Hyronimus Bosch a dutch poet.
Actually, it's from Hyeronimus Bosch, the Flemish? painter, a surrealist from the 17th or 16th century.
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Pity humans can't speak it fluently.
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i dont think ive seen a spanish or french command yet!
You don't know QueSO (from "Qué Sistema Operativo"), a tool for finding what operating system is running just by sending non-standard packets to the machine.
And 'email' is a French word.
And haven't you used a "neko" (JP "cat"), one of those cats running on your screen?
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Isn't UNL (It was a Slashdot story) supposed to be that machine interlanguage?
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Isn't the spelling Letzeburgisch? Seriously!
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English is just a corrupt form of Dutch.
I think English is closer to Friesish (Frison, Frieslander?), the language of Friesland, spoken by the descendants of the Anglosaxons who didn't cross the sea.
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Esperanto is easy to learn if you know one Anglo-Saxon language and one Romance language. Otherwise, it's just as hard as anything else.
Of course, for speakers of Hungarian, Finnish, Japanese or Farsi, it's harder than for you, but English is even harder. But they can be more motivated.
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Churchill was an advocate of a restricted 500-word vocabulary English language
From memory, "BASIC English" had 850 words plus proper nouns and some appendices. There was a Bible translated into it.
Anohter problem was that merely restricting the number of words didn't work. E.g. instead of "to tolerate" you would use "to put up with". Is it easier for a foreigner to remember that idiom than a new word. Basic English had to recourse to lots of idioms.
Anyway, variations of the theme of reduced vocabulary have been used as first steps to learning of the fully-bloated English language.
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If you work around computers, you simply HAVE TO learn english.
Maybe in Czech Rep. What about Germany? I guess that Germany has a big enough market to produce enough learning material to be a proficient worker with just a little English.
On the other hand, German-language computer talk seems to have lots of Capitalized English Words.
there are no special symbols, special characters, just all the basic latin characters and thats it.
Depending on the definition. Romans need no w and mixed v and u, and i and j. And having q,w,y,x,j,c and z in the same character set, points heavily to it being the American SCII.
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Remember where most chinese speakers live...in China. The language is way too concentrated currently. Additionally, by that rational, Hindi has a high likelihood of becoming the global language as well.
How many Chinese (Cantonese?) are overseas? How many Hindi-speakers?
I'm really asking?
I think that it is very important to ascertain the worldness of these languages to think about the emigrants. I guess that there are Chinese all over East Asia, and in Europe and North America, and Indians/Pakistanis in Britain, the Caribbean, the Pacific and black Africa.
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aliens speak perfect English too
Klaatu barada nikto!
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Our company, gruborg
Tsk, tsk.
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but Ben Franklin did.
What? I don't remember that quote.
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the information wants to be book?
Yeah, I find it funny.
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has none of the thermal inertia issues associated with tungsten filaments (ie., look at a car with tungsten tail lights and an LED third brake light),
I don't understand. Do you mean that hot things stay hot?
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I've always thought it's the fault of those fucking American puritans.
Isn't the problem that they weren't fucking enough?
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This kind of reminds me of attitudes I've seen in America, with regards to the seatbelt laws. I've seen plenty of people who do not wear seatbelts. Not because they don't want to, not because they don't think they're a good idea, but because someone ELSE had the nerve to tell them they should.
Darwin said something about this, didn't he?
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Suicide is wrong
So what should the punishment be? Death?
Only for successful reincidents.
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That was the best of the trying-to-be-funny posts :)
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Why not epost or E-post?
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