Wait, the Islamic conquests of Europe pretty much ended with the Battle of Tours in 732. What sort of "response" takes three hundred and fifty years or more to happen? Are you suggesting that the French knights suddenly felt bad for the subjugated Middle Eastern tribes?
Look, I know it fits nicely into the modern "savage Arabs bad!" viewpoint, but you're going to have to back up your "the Crusades were the Arabs' fault!" with something more than "jihad" as an answer.
It's seventy-two houris, according to the Hadith (kinda like the Islamic Talmud--commentary that they take quite seriously, but it's not The Book). On the other hand, "houri" might mean "white raisin" or "juicy fruit". So it's really a hilarious toss-up.
In the Muslim mythology, Ishmael is the legendary ancestor of all Arabs, like Isaac is the legendary ancestor of... well, of Jacob, who's the legendary ancestor of all Jews. And yes, this conflates religion and ethnicity, but I suppose it wasn't such a problem back in the day.
Now, ten thousand Firefox groupies will crawl from the woodwork to explain why standards compliance doesn't really matter, after pissing on IE for years about it.
a) could read English, or whatever language Wikipedia is in
Wikipedia is in plenty of languages. Definitely the popular ones; although Hindi, for instance, is severely underrepresented, it still has over a thousand articles. English, Spanish, Russian and Chinese all have over fifty thousand articles, and that does cover a significant proportion of the world population.
And in response to
d) had someone writing information that was specific to their climate and culture, not Southern California.
Yes, WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias agrees with you. (I would also point out that people working on the non-English Wikipedias are not, in fact, from Southern California, and not from the United States in general.)
But you do make some very good points. I think they'd be interested in what you have to add at WP:CSB.
I haven't heard anything in quite some time about efforts to make a completely vector-based desktop, to work with high-dpi displays and the like. I want fully scalable widgets, hell, fully scalable applications. What ever happened to that? Or to using SVG icons for everything, with the possibility of having parameters in them, so that your trash bin would actually appear x% full instead of 'empty' or 'full'?
Wasn't it named the Dark Ages during the Enlightenment? I mean, for contrast between the new philosophy of "dare to know" and the old philosophy of setting fire to everyone you could, just to be sure? Perhaps someone with a PhD in classical studies would know better than I would.
And how did "literacy surviving" become monks copying old manuscripts, contributing little or nothing of their own? Hell, more of what we got from the ancients was preserved by the Muslims, and recovered when the Moors in Spain fell, and the Dark Age Christians uncharacteristically didn't torch one of their libraries.
Obtaining alcohol from corn/cane sugar (never understood why Americans love getting their sugar from corn, blech!) costs far more in energy to run the harvesting/transport/refining equipment than you get out of the alcohol in the end.
I still think A Fire Upon the Deep would be even more unfilmable. How could you possibly get across the scene where Jefri runs up to Steel and cuddles him?
Background if you haven't read the book: Jefri is a human child, orphaned and taken in by a tribe of Tines, which look sort of like a pile of puppies. Individually, they're about as smart, too, but when gathered into packs of four to six, communicating via short-range ultrasound, they become human-smart. Because it would badly confuse them to hear someone else's thoughts, they only come into close contact with each other for sex or fighting. Steel is the leader of the tribe that Jefri has fallen in with; he's a vicious dictator, but Jefri doesn't know that.
So, on the one hand, you have a cute kid hugging a pile of puppies, and on the other hand, you have the pile of puppies thinking that eww, this is like fucking a corpse. (Since he can't hear any ultrasound from Jefri, see.)
And you'd probably have to subtitle the Tines, anyway. And how can you film a character that has four to six different faces at once? I suppose you could turn the text-only Usenet into some sort of video chat, though that wouldn't be a very good solution. And hell, almost all of the real action takes place far, far offscreen and is incomprehensible to the main characters.
I'd rather have two great artists and a hundred mediocres ones out there, than just one great artist. The idea that "quality as a whole will suffer" is only coherent if you're too lazy to do anything but consume media in an absolutely random fashion.
Indeed! I hope to get some good bug reports filed; even though I don't speak guile (which a great deal of GnuCash is written in), I can definitely file good, repeatable bug reports and do my part to help out the project in that sense. Only a tiny fraction of users actually file bugs, and only some of them file good bugs. And only a very, very small fraction of those actually become developers. Well, at least I've moved from filing bad bugs to filing good bugs.
Funny thing--due to a small change in a header location in a recent release of a package, it won't build on Ubuntu out of the box; if fixed and compiled, it then crashes on startup. This isn't Mandrake 7.2, or Slackware Version Ancient--this is a fully updated version of one of the three most popular desktop distributions out there. I'm a bit disappointed.
So it's a bit less monumental for us Ubuntu users, alas...
You can actually get an EOS body to F lens adapter. It's purely mechanical, so no autofocus or automatic aperture, but since the Canon EF lens mount is shorter and wider, Nikon lenses can be mechanically mounted, and focus to infinity (no extension tube effect). See Wikipedia and Bob Atkins for more information. I've acquired some stunningly cheap manual-focus Nikon F-mount lenses which work quite well with my Digital Rebel.
If you're just doing landscapes that don't jostle with the wind or still lifes, you can stitch together a couple shots using panotools and Hugin to make an arbitrarily big image. It's not for every application, but it can work wonders.
I know it's peripheral to your point, but unless you were packing the data specifically into a char or a short, sizeof(int) on the average machine nowadays is 4 bytes, and sizeof(float)--a float will carry at least that many floating point digits--is also 4 bytes.
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Alan Turing comes to mind. Without him, none of us would be pos[t]ing here.
Because we wouldn't have computers, or because we would all be working in slave labor camps for our Nazi overlords?
Wait, the Islamic conquests of Europe pretty much ended with the Battle of Tours in 732. What sort of "response" takes three hundred and fifty years or more to happen? Are you suggesting that the French knights suddenly felt bad for the subjugated Middle Eastern tribes?
Look, I know it fits nicely into the modern "savage Arabs bad!" viewpoint, but you're going to have to back up your "the Crusades were the Arabs' fault!" with something more than "jihad" as an answer.
The al-jabr operation is subtracting a quantity from one side of the equation and adding it to another.
It's seventy-two houris, according to the Hadith (kinda like the Islamic Talmud--commentary that they take quite seriously, but it's not The Book). On the other hand, "houri" might mean "white raisin" or "juicy fruit". So it's really a hilarious toss-up.
In the Muslim mythology, Ishmael is the legendary ancestor of all Arabs, like Isaac is the legendary ancestor of... well, of Jacob, who's the legendary ancestor of all Jews. And yes, this conflates religion and ethnicity, but I suppose it wasn't such a problem back in the day.
Now, ten thousand Firefox groupies will crawl from the woodwork to explain why standards compliance doesn't really matter, after pissing on IE for years about it.
It also provides the ability to find scads of free-as-in-speech content, some of which is even pretty good.
I went out and bought a pro account, and now you're telling me I could have gotten one for free? Darn.
Could you be a bit more specific? Or is velcro the only thing you can think of?
Ooh, that's going in the quotefile. Thanks!
a) could read English, or whatever language Wikipedia is in
Wikipedia is in plenty of languages. Definitely the popular ones; although Hindi, for instance, is severely underrepresented, it still has over a thousand articles. English, Spanish, Russian and Chinese all have over fifty thousand articles, and that does cover a significant proportion of the world population.
And in response to
d) had someone writing information that was specific to their climate and culture, not Southern California.
Yes, WikiProject Countering Systemic Bias agrees with you. (I would also point out that people working on the non-English Wikipedias are not, in fact, from Southern California, and not from the United States in general.)
But you do make some very good points. I think they'd be interested in what you have to add at WP:CSB.
I haven't heard anything in quite some time about efforts to make a completely vector-based desktop, to work with high-dpi displays and the like. I want fully scalable widgets, hell, fully scalable applications. What ever happened to that? Or to using SVG icons for everything, with the possibility of having parameters in them, so that your trash bin would actually appear x% full instead of 'empty' or 'full'?
Wasn't it named the Dark Ages during the Enlightenment? I mean, for contrast between the new philosophy of "dare to know" and the old philosophy of setting fire to everyone you could, just to be sure? Perhaps someone with a PhD in classical studies would know better than I would.
And how did "literacy surviving" become monks copying old manuscripts, contributing little or nothing of their own? Hell, more of what we got from the ancients was preserved by the Muslims, and recovered when the Moors in Spain fell, and the Dark Age Christians uncharacteristically didn't torch one of their libraries.
Obtaining alcohol from corn/cane sugar (never understood why Americans love getting their sugar from corn, blech!) costs far more in energy to run the harvesting/transport/refining equipment than you get out of the alcohol in the end.
Are you certain about corn?
And cane sugar? Are you saying that Brazil is secretly importing magical free oil or something?
most critics actually LOVED the Hitchiker movie
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I still think A Fire Upon the Deep would be even more unfilmable. How could you possibly get across the scene where Jefri runs up to Steel and cuddles him?
Background if you haven't read the book: Jefri is a human child, orphaned and taken in by a tribe of Tines, which look sort of like a pile of puppies. Individually, they're about as smart, too, but when gathered into packs of four to six, communicating via short-range ultrasound, they become human-smart. Because it would badly confuse them to hear someone else's thoughts, they only come into close contact with each other for sex or fighting. Steel is the leader of the tribe that Jefri has fallen in with; he's a vicious dictator, but Jefri doesn't know that.
So, on the one hand, you have a cute kid hugging a pile of puppies, and on the other hand, you have the pile of puppies thinking that eww, this is like fucking a corpse. (Since he can't hear any ultrasound from Jefri, see.)
And you'd probably have to subtitle the Tines, anyway. And how can you film a character that has four to six different faces at once? I suppose you could turn the text-only Usenet into some sort of video chat, though that wouldn't be a very good solution. And hell, almost all of the real action takes place far, far offscreen and is incomprehensible to the main characters.
I'd rather have two great artists and a hundred mediocres ones out there, than just one great artist. The idea that "quality as a whole will suffer" is only coherent if you're too lazy to do anything but consume media in an absolutely random fashion.
Indeed! I hope to get some good bug reports filed; even though I don't speak guile (which a great deal of GnuCash is written in), I can definitely file good, repeatable bug reports and do my part to help out the project in that sense. Only a tiny fraction of users actually file bugs, and only some of them file good bugs. And only a very, very small fraction of those actually become developers. Well, at least I've moved from filing bad bugs to filing good bugs.
Why don't you wait a couple of months while they make it a bit more stable? ;-)
Or better yet, try it out and bitch loudly but articulately and helpfully on bugzilla about everything you don't like.
Funny thing--due to a small change in a header location in a recent release of a package, it won't build on Ubuntu out of the box; if fixed and compiled, it then crashes on startup. This isn't Mandrake 7.2, or Slackware Version Ancient--this is a fully updated version of one of the three most popular desktop distributions out there. I'm a bit disappointed.
So it's a bit less monumental for us Ubuntu users, alas...
So, if you move these pumps to Europe or Canada, they become more efficient?
You can actually get an EOS body to F lens adapter. It's purely mechanical, so no autofocus or automatic aperture, but since the Canon EF lens mount is shorter and wider, Nikon lenses can be mechanically mounted, and focus to infinity (no extension tube effect). See Wikipedia and Bob Atkins for more information. I've acquired some stunningly cheap manual-focus Nikon F-mount lenses which work quite well with my Digital Rebel.
If you're just doing landscapes that don't jostle with the wind or still lifes, you can stitch together a couple shots using panotools and Hugin to make an arbitrarily big image. It's not for every application, but it can work wonders.
You can also mess up your images if you're using an inferior RAW converter. Check out some comparisons vs dcraw here and here.
Who the crap stores numeric values as ASCII?
I know it's peripheral to your point, but unless you were packing the data specifically into a char or a short, sizeof(int) on the average machine nowadays is 4 bytes, and sizeof(float)--a float will carry at least that many floating point digits--is also 4 bytes.
But that's just nitpicking.