still, even in the present tense this verb is used in an abomination of a language construction as a replacement for "to have". "u menya est' (chto-to)" means "i have (something)" but it can literally be translated as "at me/my own there is (something)". Not exactly.
The construction u menya est' implies something different from the construction u menya. The addition of the verb 'to be' emphasizes the existence of something rather than simple possession. For instance, saying u menya est' cobaka mean "I have a dog" (in the sense that the existence of the dog has not, up until this point, been made clear). However saying y menya byelaya cobaka means "I have a white dog" but the only way this can work is if the existence of the dog had been previously determined.
I don't know why you are comparing the literal verb imet' to being fucked in the ass by nihilists, but it's also not that simple and has a completely different usage pattern and is perfectly normal to use. Especially in the written language.
Why would you bother explaining this to him? I bet you he's one of those people who goes on the internet, calls other people 'sheeple' and immediately starts posting pseudo-intellectual discussion on any forum/blog that would have him. He will not be able to understand the concept that NASA isn't run by a bunch of idiots and that people who know what they are doing have already taken all of his useless observations into account and dismissed them.
We can only hope that nothing that is remotely important in this world will ever be touched by a slashdotter.
Most people don't consider their choice of operating system to be a political statement. So no, it isn't a surprise IN THE SLIGHTEST that people in democratic countries choose, by and large, to use Windows. Clean the rocks out of your head with whatever means you have available. Don't ascribe a country's governing ideology to choice of software.
The summary of this article is very informative. Lots of information is redundant and unnecessary. It manages to be heavy on word count but short on content. The summary of this article is very informative.
After taking a look at your linked website I noticed one thing. It's HORRIBLE. It's terribly designed with a laughably bad color scheme. It's nothing that any professional would ever put out or expect to get paid for. You can talk all you want about dreamweaver sucking, which, by the way, it doesn't, but after seeing that crap you put up it is very quickly dawning on me that you are not possessed of the skill or expertise to make that assertion.
Sure, your code is relatively readable (if you hand coded it, shame on you because it sucks), but it could still use some serious improvement. It lacks proper indentation and is therefore made harder to read than it should be.
Web-design professionals mainly use WYSIWYG editors or other content management systems. Why bother to hand code HTML when you can design the page 10x faster in a good editor? It's a waste of time and won't necessarily be standards compliant anyways. Professionals know HTML for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is that occasionally, a WYSIWYG editor doesn't play along with what you want. Occasionally, a form tag, or any other tag for that matter is going to get misplaced or not go where you want it to. When that does happen, quickly switch to code view and copy and paste that where you want it to go.
It's clear that you don't know what you're talking about, so respectfully, quiet down. You aren't going to convince anybody that you're a professional with that kind of crap.
Have you even looked at specs on the more recent plasma and LCD TVs? We aren't talking about panels from 5 years ago here man. Plasma has had contrast ratios and brightness levels higher than DLP for a number of years nows. Additionally, Plasma screen refresh is ultra freaking fast. LCD has not stagnated either. Nowadays, midrange LCD panels are getting extremely respectable and, as with plasmas, have had contrast ratios and brightness levels far higher than DLP.
Get a clue man. DLP, compared to competing technologies, started to fall behind months ago. It is unlikely that it will ever catch up.
After choosing the +50$, a pop up should warn that extra memory is required for the same level of performance. Except, that it's not.
Why does it sometimes take 45 seconds to open a terminal on a dual processor machine with 4 GB of memory in various distributions of linux? You can hate Windows as much as you want, but don't spread misinformation about performance, because windows will easily "outperform" the majority of distributions of linux in a very visible sense. You double click an icon in windows and it'll appear to open a program faster than it does on linux. While the "under the hood" performance may be better, in a large proportion of cases it isn't visibly so.
I sincerely hope that you realize that your bitterness towards the technology doesn't make it any less valuable. The truth of your statements is highly subjective, to the point where you really have no basis for making them at all. First, it doesn't matter *in the slightest* whether you believe that there is nothing worth watching on TV. A lot of people, namely those that willingly pay for cable, would disagree with your assertion.
In my neck of the woods (Calgary, Canada), the local cable company provides access to over 25 HD channels. Some of those channels include things like ShowCase HD, A&E HD, Discovery HD, CBC HD, and many more. Those channels tend to air a lot of movies or good documentaries. I don't watch television for anything else really. Those channels, however, make the small monthly fee to have digital cable totally worth it. Additionally, 1080p movies look freaking amazing. If you ever have a chance, comapre the original DVD version of "A Scanner Darkly" to the HD-DVD or Blu-Ray version. The HD format is superior, even if it is being downscaled from 1080p to 480p.
Look man, the gist of the comment is this: Lots of people, and I mean lots and lots of people, are almost immediately taken with the quality differences between a standard TV broadcast and an HDTV broadcast when they get a chance to see it on decent equipment. You may not be willing to spend the money for that equipment, which is fine, but saying that the image quality doesn't make a discernable difference is a ridiculously stupid, and outright wrong opinion. So, kindly shut the fuck up.
"It's quite funny because he only shows how Microsoft products aren't ready for the business..."
The statement up there sums up everything that is wrong with Slashdot. I suspect that you have no real appreciation for how many businesses (large ones at that) use Windows for "doing stuff." Just because you don't like it, and just because you're afraid to see it, doesn't make that stunning fact any less true. My father owns a Janitorial company and he uses Windows for just about everything. First, windows came pre-installed with his computer, and second, he can send a document to EVERY SINGLE PERSON on his contact list and expect that they'll be able to open it just fine. Granted, my previous example isn't "proof" by any means, it's just an anecdote that's somewhat suited to the context of this situation, but it illustrates one truth that's damn painful for a lot of idiots on this site to appreciate: People and companies use Windows because it's easier to get working than just about any other OS when it comes to many different kinds of collaboration. Even the best distributions of linux can't make a claim even close to that.
Personally, I don't like using MS Word all that much. I find that when I have to write a paper, it wants to limit my options to some kind of more rigidly defined presentation standard that is neither appropriate nor very well liked by various faculties. RTF is not an ideal format for anything that uses "fancy" formatting or embedded support for non-standard fonts (Not many people have, say, variants of Old Church Slavonic fonts installed, for example). Everybody here is using Windows or Mac with MS Office and have never once had a problem getting someone open, read, and comment on my documents. Again, not "proof" but just an anecdote that you should consider.
Pull your head out of your ass, fanboy. Microsoft is all about business, and if NetBSD running a text mode web browser and using LaTeX can't interoperate with it, who fucking cares?
I'm pretty sure that the stunning overwhelming majority of cellphone users will not pass over the iPhone because they cannot get a shell. It'll be a geek's toy in the sense that it'll probably do more than any other cellphone out there today while simultaneously doing it in a more elegant way than has so far been conceived. It'll be a geek's toy in that it has a good web-browser installed from the get-go instead of some barely useable, slapped-together piece of crap that most cellphone users nowadays have come to accept as a "mobile browser." It'll be a geek's toy in the sense that it has some real horsepower behind it to do what many people would like to be able to do with their current phones.
I think what Apple has here is a "digital life manager" first that is incidentally also a cellphone. They will absolutely not miss the market of people who want to open a goddamn shell on their phone.
Which is precisely why you're an idiot. If you stopped supporting companies that traded with "the enemy" you'd very quickly run out of companies to do business with. Naturally, this would include a very large number of american firms.
If you want a successful example of 'the geeks' pushing 'the sheeple' into something, check into Google's history.
Just so you know, you're also one of these people you choose to call "the sheeple." We all are. Some of us in different ways than others, but don't kid yourself there chief, you're just as much a sheep as everybody else.
What I'm wondering is how far the tracking will extend. The second I read the synopsis of this story it occured to me that I frequently forget to sign out of gmail. Instead, I often just close the browser tab and am too lazy to go back to gmail.com to properly sign out. I wonder if google will then consider your logged on to your google account and start tracking searches without your knowledge.
The only reason I'm really concerned about this is that it could lead to a few embarassing situations. For instance, once when we were at university we were using my web-browser to look up, among other things, leper porn (note: we didn't find any). A search like that, or say, "erotic furries" (for legitimate quasi-research) could really ruin a lot of things for a lot of people.
Ahh well, here's to "living dangerously," as it were.
Users are starting to do the bare minimum that tech support tells them to do in order to fix their problem and ignoring everything else. The reason for this is that in a large portion of cases, the tech support doesn't give some of them the benefit of the doubt.
Let me explain:
I've been installing networks and maintaining small networks for years. Not enterprise level networks mind you, but simply the ones found in home offices, small businesses, etc. I know a thing or 10,000 about network configuration. One day, I can't get an IP address from my ISP. I first check my hardware to see if there are any problems. Satisfied that there aren't, I call up the ISP and report the problem. Now, my modem is hooked up to a linksys router and the router is reporting that it cannot get an address. I explain this to the tech and they say "routers aren't supported." So I play along and say I'll call back after I unplug my router. I call back a little while later and say that I can't get an IP address. "What OS are you using" they ask. "OSX" I respond. "We only support windows." "Yes, but this isn't the fault of the OS I'm using." "We only support windows sir."
At this point I get pissed. I tell them that I'll boot up my windows machine and try again. Note that I don't actually boot up my windows machine; I only pretend to on the phone cause I'm getting frustrated as hell. After a requisite amount of time passes, I say that the machine is ready and doesn't have an address. They walk me through a series of steps that I pretend to do, still, no address. Clearly this is their fault.
At this point they say that I have a virus. I say, no, I don't. We argue back and forth for a moment and say that I must have some spyware installed. Again, more arguing.
The story is getting off topic, but the main point is this: Most tech support nowadays has a rudimentary grasp of computers but relies on the screen they are reading off of to actually do anything.
When the tech suggested that I reinstall my network card drivers, do a virus scan, and enable windows firewall I didn't listen. It's not the fault of my computers.
Of course, later in the day I get an e-mail from the ISP apologizing for the unexpected downtime.
Now, a large percentage of users are starting to realize this. Consequently, you're suggestions are getting ignored. Sometimes with good reason, sometimes without.
With support for Apple Lossless now installed on all PCs and Macs with qucktime support, doesn't this effectively make FLAC a competitor to Apple Lossless?
Where are you getting this idea that socialists think information is dangerous? Isn't it you capitalist yanks that are enthusiastically taking away people's basic civil rights and trying to find ways to make "unwanted" information criminal?
Labelling someone a socialist and attacking them on that level doesn't work as well as it used to.
I would believe your post except for a couple of things. First off, I live in Calgary. If you say we have an amazing public transportation system, you obviously haven't ridden it. Calgary Transit came close to dead last in the comparisons of transit systems across the country.
Also this city is conservative up the ass. Unless you're looking to get screaming drunk, all avenues of entertainment are cut off as Calgary closes at 10:00 or 11:00 pm.
We elect conservatives even though they have some of the worst policies on education and just outright don't give a damn about the arts. Also, our Premier is trying to force a two-tiered health system down our throats when most of us are in stark opposition to it.
Alberta is pretty much EXACTLY how it's portraed on TV. You just haven't lived here long enough to realize it. We're the rednecks of Canada unless you go North to Edmonton.
That said, people here are still nice, but boy do they love their religion at times. I don't know if you've noticed how many religious groups have taken out multi-page spreads in local newspapers claiming that the overwhelming majority of people are opposed to gay marriage (the issue du jour here currently) that are just outright lies and misinformation. Our Talk radio shows are littered with hardcore conservatives that oppose any criticism of their policies.
If you're still around here after a year, you'll notice just how bad this place can suck.
Sure, our roads are good, but man, wait till summer comes along and the construction is going to be driving you up the wall. Thanks to some asinine city council manoeuvering, building parking stalls downtown is currently barred in an attempt to get people to use the transit system. This has created nearly catastrophic problems in downtown calgary during rush-hour. Urban sprawl means that 1 hour commutes aren't so uncommon.
Sorry, went off topic and on tonnes of tangents. But I just had to point some of these things out.
Also, I'm irritated that I go to the UofC and am in the Computer Science program. It's irritating as hell how Slashdot and CBC hears about these things before we do.
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The construction u menya est' implies something different from the construction u menya. The addition of the verb 'to be' emphasizes the existence of something rather than simple possession. For instance, saying u menya est' cobaka mean "I have a dog" (in the sense that the existence of the dog has not, up until this point, been made clear). However saying y menya byelaya cobaka means "I have a white dog" but the only way this can work is if the existence of the dog had been previously determined.
I don't know why you are comparing the literal verb imet' to being fucked in the ass by nihilists, but it's also not that simple and has a completely different usage pattern and is perfectly normal to use. Especially in the written language.
It's a damn shame that you're such a nutsack, ain't it?
The individual words in your post make some sort of sense. However, it's pretty damn clear that you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
Why would you bother explaining this to him? I bet you he's one of those people who goes on the internet, calls other people 'sheeple' and immediately starts posting pseudo-intellectual discussion on any forum/blog that would have him. He will not be able to understand the concept that NASA isn't run by a bunch of idiots and that people who know what they are doing have already taken all of his useless observations into account and dismissed them.
We can only hope that nothing that is remotely important in this world will ever be touched by a slashdotter.
Most people don't consider their choice of operating system to be a political statement. So no, it isn't a surprise IN THE SLIGHTEST that people in democratic countries choose, by and large, to use Windows. Clean the rocks out of your head with whatever means you have available. Don't ascribe a country's governing ideology to choice of software.
The summary of this article is very informative. Lots of information is redundant and unnecessary. It manages to be heavy on word count but short on content. The summary of this article is very informative.
No, there is not an IP lawyer in the house. Asking slashdot for legal advice is akin to asking pedophiles for relationship advice.
Where do you get your fucking facts?
Almost ALL of the available HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies are 1080p transfers.
After taking a look at your linked website I noticed one thing. It's HORRIBLE. It's terribly designed with a laughably bad color scheme. It's nothing that any professional would ever put out or expect to get paid for. You can talk all you want about dreamweaver sucking, which, by the way, it doesn't, but after seeing that crap you put up it is very quickly dawning on me that you are not possessed of the skill or expertise to make that assertion.
Sure, your code is relatively readable (if you hand coded it, shame on you because it sucks), but it could still use some serious improvement. It lacks proper indentation and is therefore made harder to read than it should be.
Web-design professionals mainly use WYSIWYG editors or other content management systems. Why bother to hand code HTML when you can design the page 10x faster in a good editor? It's a waste of time and won't necessarily be standards compliant anyways. Professionals know HTML for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is that occasionally, a WYSIWYG editor doesn't play along with what you want. Occasionally, a form tag, or any other tag for that matter is going to get misplaced or not go where you want it to. When that does happen, quickly switch to code view and copy and paste that where you want it to go.
It's clear that you don't know what you're talking about, so respectfully, quiet down. You aren't going to convince anybody that you're a professional with that kind of crap.
What in the hell are you talking about?
Have you even looked at specs on the more recent plasma and LCD TVs? We aren't talking about panels from 5 years ago here man. Plasma has had contrast ratios and brightness levels higher than DLP for a number of years nows. Additionally, Plasma screen refresh is ultra freaking fast. LCD has not stagnated either. Nowadays, midrange LCD panels are getting extremely respectable and, as with plasmas, have had contrast ratios and brightness levels far higher than DLP.
Get a clue man. DLP, compared to competing technologies, started to fall behind months ago. It is unlikely that it will ever catch up.
Why does it sometimes take 45 seconds to open a terminal on a dual processor machine with 4 GB of memory in various distributions of linux?
You can hate Windows as much as you want, but don't spread misinformation about performance, because windows will easily "outperform" the majority of distributions of linux in a very visible sense. You double click an icon in windows and it'll appear to open a program faster than it does on linux. While the "under the hood" performance may be better, in a large proportion of cases it isn't visibly so.
What's the difference between god and bono?
God doesn't think he's bono.
Yes, imagine that...
A review done on software that more than 90% of the personal computing world uses. It's an absolutely useless review.
Fucking retard.
I sincerely hope that you realize that your bitterness towards the technology doesn't make it any less valuable. The truth of your statements is highly subjective, to the point where you really have no basis for making them at all. First, it doesn't matter *in the slightest* whether you believe that there is nothing worth watching on TV. A lot of people, namely those that willingly pay for cable, would disagree with your assertion.
In my neck of the woods (Calgary, Canada), the local cable company provides access to over 25 HD channels. Some of those channels include things like ShowCase HD, A&E HD, Discovery HD, CBC HD, and many more. Those channels tend to air a lot of movies or good documentaries. I don't watch television for anything else really. Those channels, however, make the small monthly fee to have digital cable totally worth it. Additionally, 1080p movies look freaking amazing. If you ever have a chance, comapre the original DVD version of "A Scanner Darkly" to the HD-DVD or Blu-Ray version. The HD format is superior, even if it is being downscaled from 1080p to 480p.
Look man, the gist of the comment is this: Lots of people, and I mean lots and lots of people, are almost immediately taken with the quality differences between a standard TV broadcast and an HDTV broadcast when they get a chance to see it on decent equipment. You may not be willing to spend the money for that equipment, which is fine, but saying that the image quality doesn't make a discernable difference is a ridiculously stupid, and outright wrong opinion. So, kindly shut the fuck up.
"It's quite funny because he only shows how Microsoft products aren't ready for the business..."
The statement up there sums up everything that is wrong with Slashdot. I suspect that you have no real appreciation for how many businesses (large ones at that) use Windows for "doing stuff." Just because you don't like it, and just because you're afraid to see it, doesn't make that stunning fact any less true. My father owns a Janitorial company and he uses Windows for just about everything. First, windows came pre-installed with his computer, and second, he can send a document to EVERY SINGLE PERSON on his contact list and expect that they'll be able to open it just fine. Granted, my previous example isn't "proof" by any means, it's just an anecdote that's somewhat suited to the context of this situation, but it illustrates one truth that's damn painful for a lot of idiots on this site to appreciate: People and companies use Windows because it's easier to get working than just about any other OS when it comes to many different kinds of collaboration. Even the best distributions of linux can't make a claim even close to that.
Personally, I don't like using MS Word all that much. I find that when I have to write a paper, it wants to limit my options to some kind of more rigidly defined presentation standard that is neither appropriate nor very well liked by various faculties. RTF is not an ideal format for anything that uses "fancy" formatting or embedded support for non-standard fonts (Not many people have, say, variants of Old Church Slavonic fonts installed, for example). Everybody here is using Windows or Mac with MS Office and have never once had a problem getting someone open, read, and comment on my documents. Again, not "proof" but just an anecdote that you should consider.
Pull your head out of your ass, fanboy. Microsoft is all about business, and if NetBSD running a text mode web browser and using LaTeX can't interoperate with it, who fucking cares?
I'm pretty sure that the stunning overwhelming majority of cellphone users will not pass over the iPhone because they cannot get a shell. It'll be a geek's toy in the sense that it'll probably do more than any other cellphone out there today while simultaneously doing it in a more elegant way than has so far been conceived. It'll be a geek's toy in that it has a good web-browser installed from the get-go instead of some barely useable, slapped-together piece of crap that most cellphone users nowadays have come to accept as a "mobile browser." It'll be a geek's toy in the sense that it has some real horsepower behind it to do what many people would like to be able to do with their current phones.
I think what Apple has here is a "digital life manager" first that is incidentally also a cellphone. They will absolutely not miss the market of people who want to open a goddamn shell on their phone.
Lightsabers don't exist bub.
but that doesn't mean a patriotic American...
Which is precisely why you're an idiot. If you stopped supporting companies that traded with "the enemy" you'd very quickly run out of companies to do business with. Naturally, this would include a very large number of american firms.
If you want a successful example of 'the geeks' pushing 'the sheeple' into something, check into Google's history.
Just so you know, you're also one of these people you choose to call "the sheeple." We all are. Some of us in different ways than others, but don't kid yourself there chief, you're just as much a sheep as everybody else.
Being a geek hardly frees you from this at all.
What I'm wondering is how far the tracking will extend. The second I read the synopsis of this story it occured to me that I frequently forget to sign out of gmail. Instead, I often just close the browser tab and am too lazy to go back to gmail.com to properly sign out. I wonder if google will then consider your logged on to your google account and start tracking searches without your knowledge.
The only reason I'm really concerned about this is that it could lead to a few embarassing situations. For instance, once when we were at university we were using my web-browser to look up, among other things, leper porn (note: we didn't find any). A search like that, or say, "erotic furries" (for legitimate quasi-research) could really ruin a lot of things for a lot of people.
Ahh well, here's to "living dangerously," as it were.
You don't get it.
Users are starting to do the bare minimum that tech support tells them to do in order to fix their problem and ignoring everything else. The reason for this is that in a large portion of cases, the tech support doesn't give some of them the benefit of the doubt.
Let me explain:
I've been installing networks and maintaining small networks for years. Not enterprise level networks mind you, but simply the ones found in home offices, small businesses, etc. I know a thing or 10,000 about network configuration. One day, I can't get an IP address from my ISP. I first check my hardware to see if there are any problems. Satisfied that there aren't, I call up the ISP and report the problem. Now, my modem is hooked up to a linksys router and the router is reporting that it cannot get an address. I explain this to the tech and they say "routers aren't supported." So I play along and say I'll call back after I unplug my router. I call back a little while later and say that I can't get an IP address. "What OS are you using" they ask. "OSX" I respond. "We only support windows." "Yes, but this isn't the fault of the OS I'm using." "We only support windows sir."
At this point I get pissed.
I tell them that I'll boot up my windows machine and try again. Note that I don't actually boot up my windows machine; I only pretend to on the phone cause I'm getting frustrated as hell. After a requisite amount of time passes, I say that the machine is ready and doesn't have an address. They walk me through a series of steps that I pretend to do, still, no address. Clearly this is their fault.
At this point they say that I have a virus. I say, no, I don't. We argue back and forth for a moment and say that I must have some spyware installed. Again, more arguing.
The story is getting off topic, but the main point is this: Most tech support nowadays has a rudimentary grasp of computers but relies on the screen they are reading off of to actually do anything.
When the tech suggested that I reinstall my network card drivers, do a virus scan, and enable windows firewall I didn't listen. It's not the fault of my computers.
Of course, later in the day I get an e-mail from the ISP apologizing for the unexpected downtime.
Now, a large percentage of users are starting to realize this. Consequently, you're suggestions are getting ignored. Sometimes with good reason, sometimes without.
With support for Apple Lossless now installed on all PCs and Macs with qucktime support, doesn't this effectively make FLAC a competitor to Apple Lossless?
Just something to think about.
Where are you getting this idea that socialists think information is dangerous? Isn't it you capitalist yanks that are enthusiastically taking away people's basic civil rights and trying to find ways to make "unwanted" information criminal?
Labelling someone a socialist and attacking them on that level doesn't work as well as it used to.
I would believe your post except for a couple of things. First off, I live in Calgary. If you say we have an amazing public transportation system, you obviously haven't ridden it. Calgary Transit came close to dead last in the comparisons of transit systems across the country.
Also this city is conservative up the ass. Unless you're looking to get screaming drunk, all avenues of entertainment are cut off as Calgary closes at 10:00 or 11:00 pm.
We elect conservatives even though they have some of the worst policies on education and just outright don't give a damn about the arts. Also, our Premier is trying to force a two-tiered health system down our throats when most of us are in stark opposition to it.
Alberta is pretty much EXACTLY how it's portraed on TV. You just haven't lived here long enough to realize it. We're the rednecks of Canada unless you go North to Edmonton.
That said, people here are still nice, but boy do they love their religion at times. I don't know if you've noticed how many religious groups have taken out multi-page spreads in local newspapers claiming that the overwhelming majority of people are opposed to gay marriage (the issue du jour here currently) that are just outright lies and misinformation. Our Talk radio shows are littered with hardcore conservatives that oppose any criticism of their policies.
If you're still around here after a year, you'll notice just how bad this place can suck.
Sure, our roads are good, but man, wait till summer comes along and the construction is going to be driving you up the wall. Thanks to some asinine city council manoeuvering, building parking stalls downtown is currently barred in an attempt to get people to use the transit system. This has created nearly catastrophic problems in downtown calgary during rush-hour. Urban sprawl means that 1 hour commutes aren't so uncommon.
Sorry, went off topic and on tonnes of tangents. But I just had to point some of these things out.
Also, I'm irritated that I go to the UofC and am in the Computer Science program. It's irritating as hell how Slashdot and CBC hears about these things before we do.
Man, the best fiction I've ever produced is(sic) some of the project plans created using SubEtha
With grammar like that, it would definitely be a privledge and an honour NOT to read your works.