Stop acting so self important about the name of your country in other languages. Do Germans complain that their country is called Germany in English or Allemagne in French instead of Deutschland? Are Russians upset that their capital is called Moscow in English instead of Moskwa? Are Americans upset that you call their country Vereenigde Staaten? No, they couldn't care less. Your collective loathing for / envy towards one of your provinces is your own business, don't expect anyone else to care about it. The English name for your country is Holland, deal with it.
The thing with conspiracies is that the bigger they are, the more likely they are to be true. A conspiracy between two or three wing nuts to blow up a federal building is probably false - how could so few people pull something like that off?
Much more likely is a conspiracy on a vast, globe spanning scale, such as the 9/11 hoax, which require thousands or even tens of thousands of conspirators to work together undetected for years, pulling off vast, logistically challenging operations without leaving a paper trail and committing treason of the worst kind on a massive scale without even one of them breaking rank and then managing to keep their mouths shut for the rest of their lives.
You've heard about Occam's razor? Well throw it out the window. When it comes to conspiracies, the more complicated, far fetched and convoluted a theory, the more probable it is.
I saw proof on youtube that the fire couldn't be hot enough to melt those steel girders. Sick of all these lies, I went to look for myself, and I'll be damned: the WTC is still standing! They faked the 9/11 attacks in the same studio where they faked the moon landing. The real reason why the 9/11 attacks were faked was to provide an excuse for grounding all air planes so they could be retrofitted with tanks of neurotoxins for the chemtrails program, which is needed to keep the public confused and ignorant about CIA, FBI, UN and Freemason involvement in the Kennedy assassinations. The Kennedys were assassinated because they wanted to go public about the aliens that had been captured after the Roswell incident. The Aliens were here to warn us about the imminent threat posed by the passing of the planet Nibiru, which the Freemason/CIA/FBI conspiracy is trying to keep hidden because they intend to use the confusion caused by the upcoming disaster to impose UN law on the united states. The black helicopters have nothing to do with it though, they're an extremely fancy pizza delivery service for the Skull & Bones alumni.
I lost interest at this point. Wake me up when biochemists and medical doctors get a chance to run test case groups about the adverse effects of lithium in their localized atmosphere, typically inhaled into the lungs and later causing one's sense of reality to become skewed.
In order to get lithium chloride vapor in the atmosphere, one would have to raise the temperature to about 1600 Kelvin at normal atmospheric pressure. Under those conditions, I propose blind panic as a suitable coping strategy.
I'm going to throw in my agreement here. Yes, there are people who put numerals in their names, or non-unicode point characters, or various other things, but there just isn't a reason to foist that on other people.
There is frustration about things like, "people have N number of names", and "names don't change" which are good and valid points... but some of the things are just like "dude... seriously..."
And there are immigrants from cultures where it is completely common to have a hyphen or an apostrophe in their surname, or more than one word.
Why is the concept of allowing spaces in a surname so offensive? It's not like it's more work to allow this, you have to write validation rules to reject these otherwise perfectly valid printable ascii characters.
While I know next to nothing about planes or volcanoes, I do know that volcanoes erupt along the pacific rim all the time, without the airspace of an entire continent having to be closed for a week. Apparently the authorities in the US just issue an advisory, and airlines just fly around the worst affected parts. Branson isn't the only airline director who went to the media saying that the flight ban went on far longer than was necessary, and that they fly through some levels of volcanic ash or desert dust every day.
Actually, I think in Dutch it's probably something like waaterbonkenwaapenflaapen. This thread is a case of someone trying to elevate the UK English of TFA to a world standard.
Quite right. Once you build a dike, through capillary action the water behind it will automatically seep out of the land and into the sea, leaving dry land 20 ft below sea level behind it. The same is true for the plentiful fresh water flowing into the hole from the many rivers and the 300 days of rain a year. No powered pumping required at all.
The world renowned Dutch sense of humour will ensure that once the sea reclaims the land, the former occupants will find a generous, warm welcome on dry land
This is a great idea. Sure, it seems like a waste of all the resources and energy put into building those dikes and keeping that land dry, but the madness can't go on forever. Natural selection will eventually take care of a land based species that prefers to live below sea level.
The Netherlands are the most environmentally unfriendly country in the world. Do you have any idea how much water the country displaces? And how much fossil fuel is burned to fuel the pumps needed to keep the sea from flowing back. Giving this country back to the sea would cancel out decades of sea level rise. It would also save the more than 80 gigaton oil equivalent per year in energy that country uses. Inundating the place and turning the entire country into an alternative energy source seems like a nice way to give something back to mother nature.
Not aspect or resolution, but color reproduction should be the next focus. LCD screens don't come close to the old CRT I just discarded, which didn't come close to the color reproduction of a glossy magazine, which in turn is laughable compared to the view out of a window.
The fact that people even argue about this says much about the human psyche...
You are assuming too much. Maybe I'm a bot.
In any case, it's not that I'm the world's greatest games fan, I just despise movies. They have neither the plot depth and character development of a book, nor the rich interactive experience of even the most primitive arcade game.
Movie directors have it easy. You just take a book written by an actual artist, make a very short summary by removing all the thought and development and compress the entire plot into a 90 minute series of highlights. Then add some boobies and an explosion or two.
The director of a game has to create an interactive experience, in which an element will be placed that he cannot control or predict: the player. Consider the number of possibilities in Pacman: you can go up, down, left and right. You can eat a dot or a cherry, you can be eaten by a ghost, or after you've eaten another thingie you can eat a ghost. Now consider the number of possibilities in Citizen Cane: you sit on your butt and watch.
Movies have been completely superseded by TV and games. It's time we stop wasting time and money on this creatively long dead passive mass entertainment of the previous century.
I think Ebert is right, and a lot of people here are just attacking him because they're gamers and want to attach some kind of significant meaning to their World of Warcraft characters or something.
Ebert loves movies. It's his job as well as his hobby I imagine, so naturally he can't imagine anything else being as good. An avid ready may tell him that movies can never be art the way books are and even try to rationally explain this belief. An admirer of the art of story telling might tell the avid reader that books can never be as artistic as true and honest story telling. A synthesizer can never be used to create fine art the way a grand piano can. A piano is just a crude, blunt instrument compared to the ancient dulcimer. Electrically amplified instruments can't really make music. Black Metal can never be true metal the way death metal is.
I see no point in attacking Ebert for his opinion, it's just the result of being passionate about something, but the fact that he's plainly wrong requires no explanation, just some anecdotal evidence will do to show that he's hardly the first or the last to dismiss a new artistic expression as not being up to the standard of the old thing.
Either that or go north of the cloud to Moscow and take the train back. Europeans generally brag about their ground transportation systems and deservedly so, I'm amazed at how much air travel there seems to be. In Germany when I was there it was trivial to catch a short taxi ride to a bus station and ride the bus to a train station and go virtually anywhere in Europe; I guess they've became "americanized" and have to either fly or drive now.
Moscow isn't north of the cloud. Moscow isn't as far north as you think, or rather, the rest of Europe are further north than you think (most Britons live north of most Canadians for example). Besides, the cloud is covering northern Europe. Taking a train to Portugal and catching a flight from there would be an option, if it wasn't for everyone else who really needs to cross the Atlantic having the same idea.
Sigh... cancelling my first vacation in over 2 years. Travel insurance doesn't cover it, because they exclude natural disasters. Ah well, better luck in 2 years.
Furthermore, IBM would surely fuck up Java with endless "enterprise" bloated retardation.
IBM COBOL: 665 reserved words Java: 50 reserved words
And the original EJB standard was IBM's baby
IBM has a history of really listening to their major customers, and then adding their customers' wishes to the standard. IBM has a lot of major customers.
A program written in a garbage collected language can still have memory leaks. GC is there for convenience and speed of development. It's there so you can design and implement a program in a different way; often much quicker to implement, but that doesn't mean you can just stop worrying about making mistakes because the GC will take care of it.
I code in Java for a living, and I'm pretty good at it. Java is not nearly as fast as C. There are a lot of things that Java is more suitable for than C, but (raw) speed is not one of them. Also, if you're relying on the GC to prevent memory leaks, you're using it wrong.
Well, almost paperless. I gradually stopped using printouts and paper note pads when I got a second monitor at work. I just don't seem to need to have the specs on paper, I just need to be able to glance at them while still leaving my workspace open, and having a searchable document is just more convenient than a binder with paper. Ever so occasionally I get a piece of paper to draw a quick design on, for things that are too small to warrant making a proper design but take too long to keep in the back of your head. I type so much faster than I write that using paper for notes doesn't make any sense at all.
The only things I still need to print out are those that for whatever reason need a signature or can only be faxed.
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Stop acting so self important about the name of your country in other languages. Do Germans complain that their country is called Germany in English or Allemagne in French instead of Deutschland? Are Russians upset that their capital is called Moscow in English instead of Moskwa? Are Americans upset that you call their country Vereenigde Staaten? No, they couldn't care less. Your collective loathing for / envy towards one of your provinces is your own business, don't expect anyone else to care about it. The English name for your country is Holland, deal with it.
The thing with conspiracies is that the bigger they are, the more likely they are to be true. A conspiracy between two or three wing nuts to blow up a federal building is probably false - how could so few people pull something like that off?
Much more likely is a conspiracy on a vast, globe spanning scale, such as the 9/11 hoax, which require thousands or even tens of thousands of conspirators to work together undetected for years, pulling off vast, logistically challenging operations without leaving a paper trail and committing treason of the worst kind on a massive scale without even one of them breaking rank and then managing to keep their mouths shut for the rest of their lives.
You've heard about Occam's razor? Well throw it out the window. When it comes to conspiracies, the more complicated, far fetched and convoluted a theory, the more probable it is.
Right on!
I saw proof on youtube that the fire couldn't be hot enough to melt those steel girders. Sick of all these lies, I went to look for myself, and I'll be damned: the WTC is still standing! They faked the 9/11 attacks in the same studio where they faked the moon landing. The real reason why the 9/11 attacks were faked was to provide an excuse for grounding all air planes so they could be retrofitted with tanks of neurotoxins for the chemtrails program, which is needed to keep the public confused and ignorant about CIA, FBI, UN and Freemason involvement in the Kennedy assassinations. The Kennedys were assassinated because they wanted to go public about the aliens that had been captured after the Roswell incident. The Aliens were here to warn us about the imminent threat posed by the passing of the planet Nibiru, which the Freemason/CIA/FBI conspiracy is trying to keep hidden because they intend to use the confusion caused by the upcoming disaster to impose UN law on the united states. The black helicopters have nothing to do with it though, they're an extremely fancy pizza delivery service for the Skull & Bones alumni.
I lost interest at this point. Wake me up when biochemists and medical doctors get a chance to run test case groups about the adverse effects of lithium in their localized atmosphere, typically inhaled into the lungs and later causing one's sense of reality to become skewed.
In order to get lithium chloride vapor in the atmosphere, one would have to raise the temperature to about 1600 Kelvin at normal atmospheric pressure. Under those conditions, I propose blind panic as a suitable coping strategy.
I'm going to throw in my agreement here. Yes, there are people who put numerals in their names, or non-unicode point characters, or various other things, but there just isn't a reason to foist that on other people.
There is frustration about things like, "people have N number of names", and "names don't change" which are good and valid points... but some of the things are just like "dude... seriously..."
And there are immigrants from cultures where it is completely common to have a hyphen or an apostrophe in their surname, or more than one word.
Why is the concept of allowing spaces in a surname so offensive? It's not like it's more work to allow this, you have to write validation rules to reject these otherwise perfectly valid printable ascii characters.
The earth is flat, to claim otherwise is just ignorant and racist
While I know next to nothing about planes or volcanoes, I do know that volcanoes erupt along the pacific rim all the time, without the airspace of an entire continent having to be closed for a week. Apparently the authorities in the US just issue an advisory, and airlines just fly around the worst affected parts. Branson isn't the only airline director who went to the media saying that the flight ban went on far longer than was necessary, and that they fly through some levels of volcanic ash or desert dust every day.
Actually, I think in Dutch it's probably something like waaterbonkenwaapenflaapen. This thread is a case of someone trying to elevate the UK English of TFA to a world standard.
Quite right. Once you build a dike, through capillary action the water behind it will automatically seep out of the land and into the sea, leaving dry land 20 ft below sea level behind it. The same is true for the plentiful fresh water flowing into the hole from the many rivers and the 300 days of rain a year. No powered pumping required at all.
The world renowned Dutch sense of humour will ensure that once the sea reclaims the land, the former occupants will find a generous, warm welcome on dry land
This is a great idea. Sure, it seems like a waste of all the resources and energy put into building those dikes and keeping that land dry, but the madness can't go on forever. Natural selection will eventually take care of a land based species that prefers to live below sea level.
The Netherlands are the most environmentally unfriendly country in the world. Do you have any idea how much water the country displaces? And how much fossil fuel is burned to fuel the pumps needed to keep the sea from flowing back. Giving this country back to the sea would cancel out decades of sea level rise. It would also save the more than 80 gigaton oil equivalent per year in energy that country uses. Inundating the place and turning the entire country into an alternative energy source seems like a nice way to give something back to mother nature.
Not aspect or resolution, but color reproduction should be the next focus. LCD screens don't come close to the old CRT I just discarded, which didn't come close to the color reproduction of a glossy magazine, which in turn is laughable compared to the view out of a window.
They'll call him out by name and make fun of him.
Oh noes! The terrorists will tremble in fear!
Osama Bin Laden has been hiding in a cave in shame ever since the Osama Bin Laden has farty pants episode aired. A martyr of Islam fears nothing, but being mocked on South Park.
The fact that people even argue about this says much about the human psyche...
You are assuming too much. Maybe I'm a bot.
In any case, it's not that I'm the world's greatest games fan, I just despise movies. They have neither the plot depth and character development of a book, nor the rich interactive experience of even the most primitive arcade game.
Movie directors have it easy. You just take a book written by an actual artist, make a very short summary by removing all the thought and development and compress the entire plot into a 90 minute series of highlights. Then add some boobies and an explosion or two.
The director of a game has to create an interactive experience, in which an element will be placed that he cannot control or predict: the player. Consider the number of possibilities in Pacman: you can go up, down, left and right. You can eat a dot or a cherry, you can be eaten by a ghost, or after you've eaten another thingie you can eat a ghost. Now consider the number of possibilities in Citizen Cane: you sit on your butt and watch.
Movies have been completely superseded by TV and games. It's time we stop wasting time and money on this creatively long dead passive mass entertainment of the previous century.
I think Ebert is right, and a lot of people here are just attacking him because they're gamers and want to attach some kind of significant meaning to their World of Warcraft characters or something.
Ebert loves movies. It's his job as well as his hobby I imagine, so naturally he can't imagine anything else being as good.
An avid ready may tell him that movies can never be art the way books are and even try to rationally explain this belief.
An admirer of the art of story telling might tell the avid reader that books can never be as artistic as true and honest story telling.
A synthesizer can never be used to create fine art the way a grand piano can.
A piano is just a crude, blunt instrument compared to the ancient dulcimer.
Electrically amplified instruments can't really make music.
Black Metal can never be true metal the way death metal is.
I see no point in attacking Ebert for his opinion, it's just the result of being passionate about something, but the fact that he's plainly wrong requires no explanation, just some anecdotal evidence will do to show that he's hardly the first or the last to dismiss a new artistic expression as not being up to the standard of the old thing.
Over Greenland is already pretty much the straight line from New York to western Europe...
Also, taking the train from Moscow to London is possible, but probably not a lot faster than waiting a week for the ashes to blow over.
Either that or go north of the cloud to Moscow and take the train back. Europeans generally brag about their ground transportation systems and deservedly so, I'm amazed at how much air travel there seems to be. In Germany when I was there it was trivial to catch a short taxi ride to a bus station and ride the bus to a train station and go virtually anywhere in Europe; I guess they've became "americanized" and have to either fly or drive now.
Moscow isn't north of the cloud. Moscow isn't as far north as you think, or rather, the rest of Europe are further north than you think (most Britons live north of most Canadians for example). Besides, the cloud is covering northern Europe. Taking a train to Portugal and catching a flight from there would be an option, if it wasn't for everyone else who really needs to cross the Atlantic having the same idea.
Sigh... cancelling my first vacation in over 2 years. Travel insurance doesn't cover it, because they exclude natural disasters. Ah well, better luck in 2 years.
Furthermore, IBM would surely fuck up Java with endless "enterprise" bloated retardation.
IBM COBOL: 665 reserved words
Java: 50 reserved words
And the original EJB standard was IBM's baby
IBM has a history of really listening to their major customers, and then adding their customers' wishes to the standard. IBM has a lot of major customers.
A program written in a garbage collected language can still have memory leaks. GC is there for convenience and speed of development. It's there so you can design and implement a program in a different way; often much quicker to implement, but that doesn't mean you can just stop worrying about making mistakes because the GC will take care of it.
I know you're trolling, but I'll bite.
I code in Java for a living, and I'm pretty good at it. Java is not nearly as fast as C. There are a lot of things that Java is more suitable for than C, but (raw) speed is not one of them. Also, if you're relying on the GC to prevent memory leaks, you're using it wrong.
if China were this flexible over Tibet they would be getting a lot of International Brownie points
Tibet wasn't exactly a free market democracy before the PRC took over.
$400 dollar wine is much like gold plated ethernet cables. Only less so.
Gold plated wine is absolutely exquisite
Well, almost paperless. I gradually stopped using printouts and paper note pads when I got a second monitor at work. I just don't seem to need to have the specs on paper, I just need to be able to glance at them while still leaving my workspace open, and having a searchable document is just more convenient than a binder with paper. Ever so occasionally I get a piece of paper to draw a quick design on, for things that are too small to warrant making a proper design but take too long to keep in the back of your head. I type so much faster than I write that using paper for notes doesn't make any sense at all.
The only things I still need to print out are those that for whatever reason need a signature or can only be faxed.
English no longer belongs to native speakers, get used to it.