Your translation's a bit off: it's a future participle, not a past participle. So you translate it "which was the thing to be proved" (getting 'thing' from the neuter gender). So it means "which is what I set out to prove in the first place."
(The same -nd- future particple ending is used in the word "agenda", so it means "things to be done".)
"Non enim id agimus ut exerceatur vox, sed ut exerceat."
Well, it's hugely useful on the net, groups like soc.culture.esperanto and sites like gxangalo.com let you interact with users who do not speak English, which can give you a perspective on the world. There are plenty of real audio feeds of shortwave Esperanto radio broadcasts as well.
For practical uses in the real world, it doesn't get much more useful than the Pasporta Servo, a service of Esperanto-speakers who volunteer to welcome travellers from other countries in their homes--in other words, learn to speak Esperanto and you can travel around the world and get FREE room and board! (There are homepages around with the stories of people who've actually gone around the world like this, although I don't have the links handy.) Not only that, but when you visit a country you get to see how the people actually live, and to talk about life there with ordinary people, instead of getting a touristy hotel-centred kind of experience.
Well then, here's some irony for you: the main reason I originally learned Esperanto was to communicate with Chinese people, and become acquainted with Chinese literature. Esperanto is big in China, just check out the Cxina Interreta Informa Centro if you need proof--and there is a great amount of Chinese literature availiable in Esperanto translation. This is better than reading Chinese lit in English or another European language, because in those translations it is a native speaker of the European language who produces the translation, and a lot of interpretation is required to do it (put any two translations of the Tao Te Ching side-by-side to see how divergent they can be!). But Esperanto lit is always translated by a native speaker from his own language into Esperanto, so at least the interpretation that goes into the translation comes from the same cultural context as the work itself.
But the biggest argument is, learning to read a literary work in Esperanto takes as little as a month, whereas if you're going to be reading Laux Sxe's "Kamelo Sxangxi" (to name a Chinese novel I've read in Esperanto) in Mandarin Chinese, and you're a native English speaker, you're going to be studying for years, not weeks. --Not that there's anything wrong with that, but that's a key thing about Esperanto, it's easy, so there's no reason you can't learn it AND Mandarin Chinese, even if you put 95% of your effort into the latter.
Mi tre ofte uzas Esperanton je la interreto. Gxi estas utila lingvo por trovi kaj paroli kun tiuj, kiuj venas ek diversaj kaj ofte ne tre konataj landoj aux kulturoj. Vi devus lerni gxin!
(La sekvaj vortoj ne estas traduko, sed aliaj pensoj).
I often use Esperanto on the net, for which it's very well suited. It's quite the useful language for speaking with people from diverse backgrounds on an equal footing. The threads on soc.culture.esperanto are some of the most interesting I've ever read/participated in. Learn it! It's really not difficult!
Well, I'm posting this on a Zaurus, and a few clicks tell me that the WiFi signal strength of my home network is holding up at 130 to noise 11, with a quality of 52. Switching over to Kismet I can see one other network, which is atypical in my building at this hour.
So, yeah, it's pretty easy on a Zaurus if a guy sitting on his living room couch watching the ballgame can do it while simultaneously posting to Slashdot:)
I think the distinction between PC and RISC is quickly becoming obsolete, and so perhaps one should be including the UltraSparc IIe that's in the SunBlade 100/150, which retail for less than most new PC's.
By all accounts this is not the best of the current 64-bit chips, but I think it was the first to be offered in "PC-priced" systems.
I can understand on one level creating a huge number of categories if it's to show off one's nifty icons, but why have both "Media" and "Movies" if their both going to have the same picture?
That's not the correct algorithm here--IBM split their stock in 1999.
(It would be possible, by way of illustration, for you to own a stock valued at $10 on the ticker when you bought it, and still have it be valued at $10 ten years later, and have increased your fortune ten times over because the shares you owned were split into ten shares over the course of that time.)
This is just FYI of course since I do not disagree that the quote to which you are referring, "everyone's stock fell around 92% in the past three years," is not a factual one. But I think the original poster knew he was exagerating as well:-)
There are a number of sections like this (e.g. Apple, Developpers, Science) some or all of which which one must turn on in one's user preferences in order to see. The different colour schemes are the (relatively) new way of showing these "sections" of slashdot.
I'm also a zsh fan and highly recommend it; but think it's relevant to this discussion to point out that people should be very cautious about tinkering with root's login shell:
A lot of shells are not useable in single-user mode. This means that if you change root's shell, you risk getting yourself an unusable system if a later problem forces you to boot in single user mode. (To check if this is the case on your system, boot into single-user and try to start the shell at the first prompt you get.)
So my advice is zsh for user logins, and leave root at whatever your system's default is.
Of course I realise you're joking, but Emacs actually does come with a built-in shell, eshell.
What rocks about it is that it's written in Emacs lisp, so you can use it on anything Emacs runs on. It's very nice to be able to fire up a Unix-like shell on Windows for those of use who prefer a cli approach and have never adapted to the MS-DOS tradition.
Still though, when I am in a Unix environment I like zsh for my login shell, which still has a more features.
There have been some interesting discussions about this kind of thing on alt.computers.folklore recently; it might be worth checking out for those who want a more hard-core technical discussion. Myself I prefer to use emulators and avoid aging issues entirely, but then my apartment's too small to indulge in antique hardware...
For my part, I use Tcl/Tk for the GUI in my projects, but I don't build the whole thing with Tcl. What's handy about it is you can write your program in whatever language you want to, then start up an inferior wish process and send your GUI commands (generated at runtime) to that.
This gives a lot of easy flexibility, and also lets you use compiled languages as well as ones that don't have an up-to-date set of Tk bindings of their own (in my case, Common Lisp).
So for people who are just sending wish commands generated by another program like myself, it doesn't matter if Tcl itself lags in areas like OO, since you're only issuing commands one line at a time and the details are managed by the calling program.
1. TCL/TK Interview, Part 1
2. TCL/TK Interview, Part 2
3. TCL/TK Interview, Part 3
4. TCL/TK Interview, Part 4
5. TCL/TK Interview, Part 5
6. TCL/TK Interview, Part 6
Actually, advertising is something new! I had a friend who grew up in Soviet Armenia; after Glasnost' and all that they carried the 1990 World Cup on a feed from Europe. It was the first time they had ever seen commercials, and they were all trying to figure out what they were for.
It is kind of silly when you think about it: "Why are they announcing on the TV that if I'm hungry I should go eat? Duh!"
Indeed. The trick is just getting things tweaked to suit your tastes.
For a number of packages and tips that should help you do what you want to do, check out the Display category of the Emacs wiki. There you'll find all the stuff you need to set up more scrolling options, nice fonts, display preferences, even moving the mouse out of the way.
I'll also second the comment made elsewhere here that using a light-on-dark colour theme feels easier on the eyes to me (I like blue-sea).
Isn't that entire TLD predicated on the idea that companies will have to register their sites with them to avoid having them fall into the hands of speculators?
This reminds me of something I saw on the CBC a couple weeks ago, when the anthrax panic was at its height; the city hall of Moncton was evacuated because of an anthrax scare. (For those of you who don't know--almost everybody which is exactly why this was so ridiculous--Moncton is the third biggest town in the Canadian province of New Brunswick).
I mean *HONESTLY*, who on earth would target COMDEX, something that has absolutely no importance to the general (non-technical) public? From a terrorist's point of view (which is what you try to take if your aim is an intelligent security policy) it's obviously of no use to attack a target that people would have to explain why it was that striking it meant something. The WTC and Pentagon were big and well-known. And even if everyone on Slashdot knows who Larry Ellison is, I think it's safe to say that for the general worldwide public he is not a household name.
Let's try concentrating our security efforts on realistic threats and not ridiculous paranoia--otherwise groups or conventions might start deliberately giving the impression that they're a potential threat to terrorists just to seem important (God forbid!).
Sorry, poor choice of words on my part; my main point though was only that GTK currently has more languages supported even though I wish there WERE more projects like PyQT. And that this might be an additional reason why some people will keep using GTK instead of QT, which was the original discussion of the thread. But I am glad to hear that Python users are not in this group thanks to PyQT (and the same for whatever other languages do indeed have bindings, java for instance, but there are still more left over with bindings only in GTK--and hopefully not for ever.)
(I was thinking of language bindings for QT the same way I look at, say, Cygwin on NT; "hack" isn't the right word, but in both cases through the developpers' wonderful efforts they are achieving something that the vendor is not really interested in supporting.)
Slashdot Mirror
but huge enough, I suppose, should it land in your back yard
If your backyard has somehow found its way to the Kuiper belt, you've got problems of your own!
Your translation's a bit off: it's a future participle, not a past participle. So you translate it "which was the thing to be proved" (getting 'thing' from the neuter gender). So it means "which is what I set out to prove in the first place."
(The same -nd- future particple ending is used in the word "agenda", so it means "things to be done".)
"Non enim id agimus ut exerceatur vox, sed ut exerceat."
Well, it's hugely useful on the net, groups like soc.culture.esperanto and sites like gxangalo.com let you interact with users who do not speak English, which can give you a perspective on the world. There are plenty of real audio feeds of shortwave Esperanto radio broadcasts as well.
For practical uses in the real world, it doesn't get much more useful than the Pasporta Servo, a service of Esperanto-speakers who volunteer to welcome travellers from other countries in their homes--in other words, learn to speak Esperanto and you can travel around the world and get FREE room and board! (There are homepages around with the stories of people who've actually gone around the world like this, although I don't have the links handy.) Not only that, but when you visit a country you get to see how the people actually live, and to talk about life there with ordinary people, instead of getting a touristy hotel-centred kind of experience.
This FAQ may answer some of your other questions.
Well then, here's some irony for you: the main reason I originally learned Esperanto was to communicate with Chinese people, and become acquainted with Chinese literature. Esperanto is big in China, just check out the Cxina Interreta Informa Centro if you need proof--and there is a great amount of Chinese literature availiable in Esperanto translation. This is better than reading Chinese lit in English or another European language, because in those translations it is a native speaker of the European language who produces the translation, and a lot of interpretation is required to do it (put any two translations of the Tao Te Ching side-by-side to see how divergent they can be!). But Esperanto lit is always translated by a native speaker from his own language into Esperanto, so at least the interpretation that goes into the translation comes from the same cultural context as the work itself.
But the biggest argument is, learning to read a literary work in Esperanto takes as little as a month, whereas if you're going to be reading Laux Sxe's "Kamelo Sxangxi" (to name a Chinese novel I've read in Esperanto) in Mandarin Chinese, and you're a native English speaker, you're going to be studying for years, not weeks. --Not that there's anything wrong with that, but that's a key thing about Esperanto, it's easy, so there's no reason you can't learn it AND Mandarin Chinese, even if you put 95% of your effort into the latter.
Mi tre ofte uzas Esperanton je la interreto. Gxi estas utila lingvo por trovi kaj paroli kun tiuj, kiuj venas ek diversaj kaj ofte ne tre konataj landoj aux kulturoj. Vi devus lerni gxin!
(La sekvaj vortoj ne estas traduko, sed aliaj pensoj).
I often use Esperanto on the net, for which it's very well suited. It's quite the useful language for speaking with people from diverse backgrounds on an equal footing. The threads on soc.culture.esperanto are some of the most interesting I've ever read/participated in. Learn it! It's really not difficult!
Well, I'm posting this on a Zaurus, and a few clicks tell me that the WiFi signal strength of my home network is holding up at 130 to noise 11, with a quality of 52. Switching over to Kismet I can see one other network, which is atypical in my building at this hour.
:)
So, yeah, it's pretty easy on a Zaurus if a guy sitting on his living room couch watching the ballgame can do it while simultaneously posting to Slashdot
It's not misspelled, it's the subjunctive mood, it changes the weight of the verb a bit so it should be translated something like:
:)
"The commonwealth must not be owned"
And yes, that's very cool
So does anyone know why the shuttle launches do this but not the Russian or ESA rockets?
I think the distinction between PC and RISC is quickly becoming obsolete, and so perhaps one should be including the UltraSparc IIe that's in the SunBlade 100/150, which retail for less than most new PC's.
By all accounts this is not the best of the current 64-bit chips, but I think it was the first to be offered in "PC-priced" systems.
I can understand on one level creating a huge number of categories if it's to show off one's nifty icons, but why have both "Media" and "Movies" if their both going to have the same picture?
(At article heading on top of this page.)
That's not the correct algorithm here--IBM split their stock in 1999.
:-)
(It would be possible, by way of illustration, for you to own a stock valued at $10 on the ticker when you bought it, and still have it be valued at $10 ten years later, and have increased your fortune ten times over because the shares you owned were split into ten shares over the course of that time.)
This is just FYI of course since I do not disagree that the quote to which you are referring, "everyone's stock fell around 92% in the past three years," is not a factual one. But I think the original poster knew he was exagerating as well
There are a number of sections like this (e.g. Apple, Developpers, Science) some or all of which which one must turn on in one's user preferences in order to see. The different colour schemes are the (relatively) new way of showing these "sections" of slashdot.
I'm also a zsh fan and highly recommend it; but think it's relevant to this discussion to point out that people should be very cautious about tinkering with root's login shell:
A lot of shells are not useable in single-user mode. This means that if you change root's shell, you risk getting yourself an unusable system if a later problem forces you to boot in single user mode. (To check if this is the case on your system, boot into single-user and try to start the shell at the first prompt you get.)
So my advice is zsh for user logins, and leave root at whatever your system's default is.
Of course I realise you're joking, but Emacs actually does come with a built-in shell, eshell.
What rocks about it is that it's written in Emacs lisp, so you can use it on anything Emacs runs on. It's very nice to be able to fire up a Unix-like shell on Windows for those of use who prefer a cli approach and have never adapted to the MS-DOS tradition.
Still though, when I am in a Unix environment I like zsh for my login shell, which still has a more features.
There have been some interesting discussions about this kind of thing on alt.computers.folklore recently; it might be worth checking out for those who want a more hard-core technical discussion. Myself I prefer to use emulators and avoid aging issues entirely, but then my apartment's too small to indulge in antique hardware...
o Keeping old hardware alive
o Keeping old CPU's alive
(In addition to this stuff, USENET of course has a number of groups dealing with specific older hardware.)
For my part, I use Tcl/Tk for the GUI in my projects, but I don't build the whole thing with Tcl. What's handy about it is you can write your program in whatever language you want to, then start up an inferior wish process and send your GUI commands (generated at runtime) to that.
This gives a lot of easy flexibility, and also lets you use compiled languages as well as ones that don't have an up-to-date set of Tk bindings of their own (in my case, Common Lisp).
So for people who are just sending wish commands generated by another program like myself, it doesn't matter if Tcl itself lags in areas like OO, since you're only issuing commands one line at a time and the details are managed by the calling program.
From the article:
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Table of contents
1. TCL/TK Interview, Part 1
2. TCL/TK Interview, Part 2
3. TCL/TK Interview, Part 3
4. TCL/TK Interview, Part 4
5. TCL/TK Interview, Part 5
6. TCL/TK Interview, Part 6
Good thing they have it all on one page with the Printer-friendly version
Actually, advertising is something new! I had a friend who grew up in Soviet Armenia; after Glasnost' and all that they carried the 1990 World Cup on a feed from Europe. It was the first time they had ever seen commercials, and they were all trying to figure out what they were for.
It is kind of silly when you think about it: "Why are they announcing on the TV that if I'm hungry I should go eat? Duh!"
Indeed. The trick is just getting things tweaked to suit your tastes.
For a number of packages and tips that should help you do what you want to do, check out the Display category of the Emacs wiki. There you'll find all the stuff you need to set up more scrolling options, nice fonts, display preferences, even moving the mouse out of the way.
I'll also second the comment made elsewhere here that using a light-on-dark colour theme feels easier on the eyes to me (I like blue-sea).
I believe the OP must've meant to say
I have been programming my 7-year-old Mac for years
rather than
I have been programming for Macs for the past 7 years.
They mean to win Wimbledon!
(A reference to a Monty Python's Flying Circus episode where aliens are turning people into Scotsmen, to those of you scratching your heads.)
Isn't that entire TLD predicated on the idea that companies will have to register their sites with them to avoid having them fall into the hands of speculators?
Not that I'm feeling too sorry for them...
Windows and most other operating systems don't have a problem with this.
Hmm, so your argument is that companies should be installing Windows on their AIX servers?
Good luck with that.
This reminds me of something I saw on the CBC a couple weeks ago, when the anthrax panic was at its height; the city hall of Moncton was evacuated because of an anthrax scare. (For those of you who don't know--almost everybody which is exactly why this was so ridiculous--Moncton is the third biggest town in the Canadian province of New Brunswick).
I mean *HONESTLY*, who on earth would target COMDEX, something that has absolutely no importance to the general (non-technical) public? From a terrorist's point of view (which is what you try to take if your aim is an intelligent security policy) it's obviously of no use to attack a target that people would have to explain why it was that striking it meant something. The WTC and Pentagon were big and well-known. And even if everyone on Slashdot knows who Larry Ellison is, I think it's safe to say that for the general worldwide public he is not a household name.
Let's try concentrating our security efforts on realistic threats and not ridiculous paranoia--otherwise groups or conventions might start deliberately giving the impression that they're a potential threat to terrorists just to seem important (God forbid!).
Sorry, poor choice of words on my part; my main point though was only that GTK currently has more languages supported even though I wish there WERE more projects like PyQT. And that this might be an additional reason why some people will keep using GTK instead of QT, which was the original discussion of the thread. But I am glad to hear that Python users are not in this group thanks to PyQT (and the same for whatever other languages do indeed have bindings, java for instance, but there are still more left over with bindings only in GTK--and hopefully not for ever.)
(I was thinking of language bindings for QT the same way I look at, say, Cygwin on NT; "hack" isn't the right word, but in both cases through the developpers' wonderful efforts they are achieving something that the vendor is not really interested in supporting.)
For an incomplete list of GTK's minority language support see the Language bindings for GNOME Matrix.