You never learned of subjunctive, conditional, imperative, indicative? All native english speakers I talk to said they did.
I didn't. I was in school in the unfortunate period when new math appeared, and it was decided that grammar was too confusing and didn't need to be taught. This made learning French more difficult, and I had to first learn what the tense was in English.
I curse the people who decided to change English teaching to stop being about the language and into making up stuff about what an author could have thought, but maybe didn't - and if you don't agree with your teacher on what the 'correct' made up stuff was, then you were in trouble.
They NEVER match because the subtitles are done in France and the audio dubbing is done in Quebec.
It's same same everywhere. I think it comes down to cost, cheaper costs equals crappy subtitles. Even French TV shows, in French, made in France have subtitles that don't match what's being said. The only times when I've seen good quality subtitles is when it's with an expensive big-budget movie (French or US).
I don't live in France, but I sometimes do my weekly shopping there. Every time when I use a foreign card that only uses a 4 digit pin but the machine accepts 6 digits, I've been able to enter in only the 4 digits, hit ok, and it works.
Professional terrorists are unlikely to use communication that will be intercepted in this way.
Sure they do, just set up pre-known phrases in advance, and you don't even to need encryption e.g. John is starting a new job => Akmed has sourced the fissile material
Jane is expecting the baby in July => The bomb will be on the ship making port in July.
There you go. They're only doing their job. The need to keep track of anyone who is named John or Jane, or anyone who speaks to any John or Jane, anyone who is having a baby, or anyone who knows anyone having a baby.
Everyone can have whatever they want, yes... but it doesn't mean that everything has to be harmonious. No large inter-group disagreement is possible? Maybe some significant section want to break away.....
Ok, I'm not a good writer, but Banks was, and I'm sure that he could have some up with something interesting that exposes more of the workings of the Culture.
It just makes me feel a little sad that there is no chance that there will be any more Culture novels.
I only discovered him about 5 years ago, and I was looking forward for many more years of Culture novels. I thought there was a lot more he could still explore in that universe.
One thing I would have like to have seen is something that was more focused on things happening inside the Culture and their society. Most of the times he spends some setup time in the Culture, then whips off to the edge of their space to deal with some other civilization. I wanted to learn more about the workings of the Culture.
It's given Yahoo exposure everywhere, here on slashdot, and every web media news source I've seen - BBC, CNN, even newspapers down in Australia.
Now, is it $30 million worth of raising their profile? Maybe not, but it does let a lot of people know that Yahoo are going things, and this is far more (positive) exposure than they had before Mayer took control.
For sure, it's responsible to any country that it can be successfully sued from.
After all, it's just a company, being on the internet doesn't make it any different. It's like saying that all of those silly patents that replicate existing procedures are suddenly different and patentable because they do it on the computer.
If the court system in a country can sue and get the ability to enforce a judgement, then the company is responsible to that country. If the share holders don't lose any money, then there's no problem.
I've been on the inside, and I've seen how delays in fixes can happen.
A very low level manager could have put it in the queue to be fixed, but with the best intentions might not have wanted extra attention drawn to it and could have hoped to get the fix out in the next round of patches without a big fuss being made.
So, this time, it didn't work, and the details spread around before the fix was ready.
It's not like Larry is sitting in his volcano, laughing at the exploit while plotting to take over the world (he would probably be laughing at Win 8 while plotting to take over the world).
This is a reasonable thing for a business to do, Google rightly don't want market fragmentation for the term Android.
Of course, this is the same approach Oracle took with Java, but a number of people here reacted as if the gates of hell were opening to unleash Larry onto the world.
Maybe the reaction will be the same later if google turn a little more evil.
the bulk of cars that are older than five years old are being driven by someone who is not a customer of the auto-makers
That may be true, but it's also short sighted. That second had market drives new car sales. If the car doesn't hold its value, then it's less likely to be selected by a new car buyer.
I don't know what it's like in the US, but in my part of the world, car magazines publish depreciation rates for new cars.
Just the other night, before I went to bed, I was trying to work out the solution to a proof by induction involving a combination of Fibonacci numbers.
In my sleep, I worked though some math involving the Fibonacci numbers, taking the gcd(), multiplying sequences of them. I didn't solve the problem, but when I woke up, I had a better understanding of what I could try.
I find this happens a lot when I'm studying subjects like number theory. My best insights are when I'm asleep (or in the shower).
I know you're trying to be funny, but a properly run Oracle installation will give you huge uptimes.
I run two 4-node RAC clusters. I've had 100% uptime all year, the only downtime was when there was work in the data centre. You can perform rolling patching an upgrades to one part of your RAC while the other nodes keep running.
If you look after it, then there's no reason for it to ever go down.
At the moment, he's at 127,692 ft, higher than what was planned. When he was asked if he was ready to do the pre-jump check list, he didn't respond for a number of minutes and had to be asked by Joe K; a number of times.
I wonder if there was something wrong, or just nerves, or too much 02.
As I recall, they didn't just nuke everything as the nuke missiles were easy to identify and shoot apart.
Given the resources to make a nuke, unless you're guaranteed of a hit, then throwing pieces of metal at high speed is probably a better option.
In the Razor episodes, they show the surprise Cylon attack on the other battlestars, and the Cylons did use nukes, since the defenses were down and the hits were almost guaranteed.
it doesn't allow programs (called apps now) to be installed unless it comes from the app store
Sorry, I don't understand that.
I have a MBP Retina with Mountain Lion, and I just installed VMWare Fusion 5, and it installed in the usual way, just like the earlier versions of OSX.
Also, I downloaded it directly from VMWare. I didn't need to go through any app store.
Are you talking about something else, other than normal programs?
Hmm.... check the category that this was posted under, you'll find that it is "hardware".
While of course I'm aware of political discussions taking place here for a number of years, politics used to come under YRO.
These days, it's appearing everywhere, and the ratio of tech/politics is very low for tech.
If you really want to just complain about banking bailouts, surely there are other places than somewhere that the intended discussion was about tech? I mean, I agree, and feel that the banks shouldn't have been able to get away with what they did, but in the context of this submission, it's off-topic.
Well, that does appear to happen more and more these days, instead of discussing the technology aspect, the discussions veer towards pro/negative comments about the companies involved.
Also, discussions are getting hijacked by partisan politics, which I suppose is only to be expected given that election season is ramping up.
To be fair, I did read TFAs, and they really didn't have much about the technology and what they were going to do, other than having some fat pipes and more servers to speed up response time. The articles don't give much to discuss, technology wise, but the socio-political situation around the company involved is quite sensitive, so it's not unreasonable that the discussion heads in that direction.
Well, it's not earth shattering news, but it's interesting..... ok, maybe it's only interesting to people who were reading/. back in '97, but it's still interesting.
If you are looking to try the Discworld novels for the first time, "Guards Guards" is a good place to start.
Guards is a good place to start. I would say that if you get hooked on Terry Pratchett after reading, then start reading his Discworld books in published order. That way you see how his writing and characters develop and change over time. It's well worth the effort.... although I have to say that I'm biased. I too have met him, at the first Discworld convention back in '96 in Manchester. He is just such a nice man, and so available to his fans.
As others have pointed out, northern Europe is having a cooler than average summer so far.
The jet stream that brings warm air from the US over the Atlantic is currently keeping static over London, usually at this time if year, it's over far northern Scotland, 1k km north.
This has the effect of bringing the cooler arctic air south over northern Europe, instead of the normally warmer air from northern Africa.
This is an unusual condition, but it is not possible to say that it is caused by GW or not.
As I mentioned in a previous post (which has probably been downmodded to hell, like most of my other posts), Oracle has already certified RHEL 6 with Oracle 11.2
Here's the info from Oracle support website:
Certification Information for Oracle Database on Linux x86-64 [ID 1304727.1]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - Database 11.2.0.3 and higher
Red Hat kernel 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 or later
Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK R1) 2.6.32-100.28.5.el6.x86_64 or later
Slashdot Mirror
Once the classic interface goes and I'm forced to use beta, then I'd be looking around for another site to read.
So, if you start something up in a few months, I'd have a look.
If slashdot doesn't commit beta suicide, then I'll hang around here.
You never learned of subjunctive, conditional, imperative, indicative? All native english speakers I talk to said they did.
I didn't. I was in school in the unfortunate period when new math appeared, and it was decided that grammar was too confusing and didn't need to be taught. This made learning French more difficult, and I had to first learn what the tense was in English.
I curse the people who decided to change English teaching to stop being about the language and into making up stuff about what an author could have thought, but maybe didn't - and if you don't agree with your teacher on what the 'correct' made up stuff was, then you were in trouble.
They NEVER match because the subtitles are done in France and the audio dubbing is done in Quebec.
It's same same everywhere. I think it comes down to cost, cheaper costs equals crappy subtitles. Even French TV shows, in French, made in France have subtitles that don't match what's being said. The only times when I've seen good quality subtitles is when it's with an expensive big-budget movie (French or US).
I don't live in France, but I sometimes do my weekly shopping there. Every time when I use a foreign card that only uses a 4 digit pin but the machine accepts 6 digits, I've been able to enter in only the 4 digits, hit ok, and it works.
Professional terrorists are unlikely to use communication that will be intercepted in this way.
Sure they do, just set up pre-known phrases in advance, and you don't even to need encryption
e.g.
John is starting a new job => Akmed has sourced the fissile material
Jane is expecting the baby in July => The bomb will be on the ship making port in July.
There you go. They're only doing their job. The need to keep track of anyone who is named John or Jane, or anyone who speaks to any John or Jane, anyone who is having a baby, or anyone who knows anyone having a baby.
Everyone can have whatever they want, yes... but it doesn't mean that everything has to be harmonious. No large inter-group disagreement is possible? Maybe some significant section want to break away.....
Ok, I'm not a good writer, but Banks was, and I'm sure that he could have some up with something interesting that exposes more of the workings of the Culture.
It just makes me feel a little sad that there is no chance that there will be any more Culture novels.
They were my thoughts exactly.
I only discovered him about 5 years ago, and I was looking forward for many more years of Culture novels. I thought there was a lot more he could still explore in that universe.
One thing I would have like to have seen is something that was more focused on things happening inside the Culture and their society. Most of the times he spends some setup time in the Culture, then whips off to the edge of their space to deal with some other civilization. I wanted to learn more about the workings of the Culture.
I guess now I'll never know....
There have been precisely 0 bombing.
Well, I remember the Russell Street bombing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Street_Bombing/
It was back in 1986, so that was quite a while ago. I can't remember any others though, so 1 is pretty close to 0, except for Angela Taylor.
Well, you know what it has done?
It's given Yahoo exposure everywhere, here on slashdot, and every web media news source I've seen - BBC, CNN, even newspapers down in Australia.
Now, is it $30 million worth of raising their profile? Maybe not, but it does let a lot of people know that Yahoo are going things, and this is far more (positive) exposure than they had before Mayer took control.
For sure, it's responsible to any country that it can be successfully sued from.
After all, it's just a company, being on the internet doesn't make it any different. It's like saying that all of those silly patents that replicate existing procedures are suddenly different and patentable because they do it on the computer.
If the court system in a country can sue and get the ability to enforce a judgement, then the company is responsible to that country. If the share holders don't lose any money, then there's no problem.
I've been on the inside, and I've seen how delays in fixes can happen.
A very low level manager could have put it in the queue to be fixed, but with the best intentions might not have wanted extra attention drawn to it and could have hoped to get the fix out in the next round of patches without a big fuss being made.
So, this time, it didn't work, and the details spread around before the fix was ready.
It's not like Larry is sitting in his volcano, laughing at the exploit while plotting to take over the world (he would probably be laughing at Win 8 while plotting to take over the world).
This is a reasonable thing for a business to do, Google rightly don't want market fragmentation for the term Android.
Of course, this is the same approach Oracle took with Java, but a number of people here reacted as if the gates of hell were opening to unleash Larry onto the world.
Maybe the reaction will be the same later if google turn a little more evil.
the bulk of cars that are older than five years old are being driven by someone who is not a customer of the auto-makers
That may be true, but it's also short sighted. That second had market drives new car sales. If the car doesn't hold its value, then it's less likely to be selected by a new car buyer.
I don't know what it's like in the US, but in my part of the world, car magazines publish depreciation rates for new cars.
our "bribe to behave" which is what foreign aid really is
Well, it's cheaper than the alternative way to make a country to what you want - war.
Really, it's more cost effective than what's being spent in Afghanistan.
Just the other night, before I went to bed, I was trying to work out the solution to a proof by induction involving a combination of Fibonacci numbers.
In my sleep, I worked though some math involving the Fibonacci numbers, taking the gcd(), multiplying sequences of them. I didn't solve the problem, but when I woke up, I had a better understanding of what I could try.
I find this happens a lot when I'm studying subjects like number theory. My best insights are when I'm asleep (or in the shower).
I know you're trying to be funny, but a properly run Oracle installation will give you huge uptimes.
I run two 4-node RAC clusters. I've had 100% uptime all year, the only downtime was when there was work in the data centre. You can perform rolling patching an upgrades to one part of your RAC while the other nodes keep running.
If you look after it, then there's no reason for it to ever go down.
At the moment, he's at 127,692 ft, higher than what was planned. When he was asked if he was ready to do the pre-jump check list, he didn't respond for a number of minutes and had to be asked by Joe K; a number of times.
I wonder if there was something wrong, or just nerves, or too much 02.
It looks like everything is ok now.
As I recall, they didn't just nuke everything as the nuke missiles were easy to identify and shoot apart.
Given the resources to make a nuke, unless you're guaranteed of a hit, then throwing pieces of metal at high speed is probably a better option.
In the Razor episodes, they show the surprise Cylon attack on the other battlestars, and the Cylons did use nukes, since the defenses were down and the hits were almost guaranteed.
it doesn't allow programs (called apps now) to be installed unless it comes from the app store
Sorry, I don't understand that.
I have a MBP Retina with Mountain Lion, and I just installed VMWare Fusion 5, and it installed in the usual way, just like the earlier versions of OSX.
Also, I downloaded it directly from VMWare. I didn't need to go through any app store.
Are you talking about something else, other than normal programs?
You shouldn't be creating a new branch ..... no forking in the office!
Hmm.... check the category that this was posted under, you'll find that it is "hardware".
While of course I'm aware of political discussions taking place here for a number of years, politics used to come under YRO.
These days, it's appearing everywhere, and the ratio of tech/politics is very low for tech.
If you really want to just complain about banking bailouts, surely there are other places than somewhere that the intended discussion was about tech? I mean, I agree, and feel that the banks shouldn't have been able to get away with what they did, but in the context of this submission, it's off-topic.
Well, that does appear to happen more and more these days, instead of discussing the technology aspect, the discussions veer towards pro/negative comments about the companies involved.
Also, discussions are getting hijacked by partisan politics, which I suppose is only to be expected given that election season is ramping up.
To be fair, I did read TFAs, and they really didn't have much about the technology and what they were going to do, other than having some fat pipes and more servers to speed up response time. The articles don't give much to discuss, technology wise, but the socio-political situation around the company involved is quite sensitive, so it's not unreasonable that the discussion heads in that direction.
Well, it's not earth shattering news, but it's interesting..... ok, maybe it's only interesting to people who were reading /. back in '97, but it's still interesting.
If you are looking to try the Discworld novels for the first time, "Guards Guards" is a good place to start.
Guards is a good place to start. I would say that if you get hooked on Terry Pratchett after reading, then start reading his Discworld books in published order. That way you see how his writing and characters develop and change over time. It's well worth the effort. ... although I have to say that I'm biased. I too have met him, at the first Discworld convention back in '96 in Manchester. He is just such a nice man, and so available to his fans.
As others have pointed out, northern Europe is having a cooler than average summer so far.
The jet stream that brings warm air from the US over the Atlantic is currently keeping static over London, usually at this time if year, it's over far northern Scotland, 1k km north.
This has the effect of bringing the cooler arctic air south over northern Europe, instead of the normally warmer air from northern Africa.
This is an unusual condition, but it is not possible to say that it is caused by GW or not.
As I mentioned in a previous post (which has probably been downmodded to hell, like most of my other posts), Oracle has already certified RHEL 6 with Oracle 11.2
Here's the info from Oracle support website:
Certification Information for Oracle Database on Linux x86-64 [ID 1304727.1]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - Database 11.2.0.3 and higher
Red Hat kernel 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 or later
Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK R1) 2.6.32-100.28.5.el6.x86_64 or later