Oh the irony of a debate about alternate spellings on Slashdot, where the editorial content, all six paragraphs a day, is NEVER spelled correctly under any rule.
'aluminum' or 'aluminium'. I declared that americans had invented it
Aluminium is an element, it was discovered, not "invented", and not by an American.
Aluminium history
"In 1809 [Sir Humphrey] Davy [English] fused iron in contact with alumina in an electric arc to produce an iron Aluminium alloy; for a split instant, before it joined the iron, Aluminium existed in its free metallic state for perhaps the first time since the world was formed"
Sir Humphrey Davy
"In 1825, Hans Christian Oersted [Danish] first successfully isolated aluminum in a pure form."
In fact, color/colour, humor/humour, etc. all seem to show American English winning 4 to 1.
Google samples the Internet, which is still massively dominated by the US. For instance, "USA" has twice the number of hits as "China". You can't extrapolate much in the real world from that.
The UK is fairly well wired, but other countries, like India, where English is a major language, are not.
This was all covered in an excellent treatise that was released in the '70's itself. I understand it has something to do with an ancient extinct civilisation which carefully mated gorillas who later evolved their own language
It would be cool if there was some other species that slightly filled that gap bewteen us and the animals.
There were, but we killed them. Most recently the Neanderthals, which we (Homo Sapiens sapiens) wiped out in the last Ice Age (recent DNA studies ruled out the theory that we interbred).
I think everyone could tell the difference between reading the original book and a pirated version on paper from a laser printer!
Unless you print it at your office, and get your boos to pay for it,a laserprinted copy of a book will be more expensive, and rather more unwieldy than the paperback.
Personally, I hardly ever buy new books. I get them from the library (free, large selection, though not everything I want), or jumble sales (10-50c each -- some gems of serendipity), or used book shops. Unless you want a specific brand-new book, you don't have to buy them retail, let alone go to the hassle of bootlegging them or trying to read them on your monitor (how much power is tht drawing, anyway?). I've got a few dozen good books stacked up here now that I haven't had tme to read...
Your solution, while admirable, will not work because of FAKE SPAM. For example, some random luser might FAKE a post from M$, getting M$ into trouble.
MS could undoubtedly defend itself, most likely by finding the real source, and he would be in very deep shit -- aside from spam penalties, stuff like forgery, and civil suits from MS. In any case, as no one could make money from spam, or supplying spam services, it would disappear in those regions where the law was enforced. You'd still get some random stuff from overseas (really from overseas, not some prick in Florida bouncing spam off Korea), but the volume would be much less.
After all, homosexual anal sex has had a big impact (read: financial drag) just like smoking, passing costly disease, killing people by the millions. Wanna see if you can get away with making that illegal? It's the same damned argument.
No, it's a stupid damned "argument".
Anal sex affects only those who indulge in it, and there are few jobs (sailors, gay hookers) that make it unavoidable. Like I said earlier, if nicotine addicts shot up with needles or pills, that would be fine with me, just don't share you poison with everyone in the vicinity.
Citing labor laws as a reason to disallow smoking in a workplace is ridiculous because people can simply choose to work for smoking or non-smoking establishments.
Hardly any restaurant owners want to exclude paying customers who smoke. If you work in the restaurant business you therefore had no choice but to inhale second hand smoke.
In every city that has brought in non-smoking reataurants the owners have put up a bitter battle, claiming they would go out of business, because they know that non-smoking restaurants, in competition with smoking ones, will. But, they don't whe ALL restaurants are non-smoking. People still want to eat, and when forced to choose between that and smoking, gave up smoking, at least for a while. If smokers could inject their drugs, that would be fine, but they pollute the whole room they're in. Their right to smoke conflicts with the rights of others to breathe.
There is definitely a market for one-person medium-speed transportation systems, but this is not the solution.
Maybe unicycles? Or more seriously, small-wheel, possibly folding bikes, such as Bikefriday or the Moulton. These have the advantage over Segways and conventional bikes of being portable, in the sense that youl can carry them inside, on an elevator, or a train to complete your journey.
I'm surprised at all the negative reaction to the Segway,
Because it's just a toy. If you want to stand up while rolling along the pavement, use roller skates, a scooter, or a scateboard. All of which are much, much cheaper and more maneuvrable than the Segway. To go any distance, or carry luggage, use a bicycle.
About as useful as the neon light case mods. Cute to look at, but when you come down to it, a waste of time and money.
Just imagine if someone like Adobe showed this much community support with open source.
They don't do it with their software, but they have documented the PostScript, PDF and Type 1 font formats so anyone (eg Ghostscript) can use them.
Meanwhile Real comes down hard on anyone who tries to make a player for their Real encoded streams; which wasn't a big deal when they had
a simple unobtrusive player, say back in RealPlayer 5, but the monstrously bloated and annoyingly obtrusive versions you are forced to use now make it an ordeal.
there's a difference between "criticizing the system" and advocating the violent overthrow of the government and providing instructions on how to create weapons that will help you accomplish that goal.
Why isn't Charlton Heston in jail then?
Isn't that exactly the justification the gun nuts use when talking about why they should be allowed to keep artillery in their homes: to overthrow the government should it step out of line?
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it is Not Good Enough when missing a legit email could get you sued for millions.
Email can fail to arrive, or be read, for any number of reasons. It passes through several servers, each of which could fail and lose mail. Same for snail mail -- you require assurance/proof snail mail was delivered, you use registered mail, and get a receipt. There are few if any circumstances you could claim in court someone was liable for not receiving an email that you had sent and not verified had been received.
If something is in the "millions" category, you fly there and do it in person.
No contest. Tolkien was a language expert. Elvish has all the structure of a real language (loosely based on Finnish, I seem to remember). From a brief look Aurebesh looks like just a substitution code for English (or am I wrong?). There's a lot more to a language than an alphabet. Also, the Elvish scripts are beautiful; and if you like more angular characters, look at his Dwarvish runes.
Too bad the other fonts are not available for Mac.
Which fonts aren't available? There are several tools for cross-platform conversion. For Truetype, use TTconverter. But I'd be amazed if they weren't already in Mac format.
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The reason doesn't matter, it's not representative of the real world. So you are actually supporting my point.
you $%&!# dolt.
Either flame, or discuss.
Well, one tends to think when an American is sounding like an arrogant ignorant prick that actually he is. Sorry I missed that you aren't.
Oh the irony of a debate about alternate spellings on Slashdot, where the editorial content, all six paragraphs a day, is NEVER spelled correctly under any rule.
Aluminium is an element, it was discovered, not "invented", and not by an American.
Aluminium history
"In 1809 [Sir Humphrey] Davy [English] fused iron in contact with alumina in an electric arc to produce an iron Aluminium alloy; for a split instant, before it joined the iron, Aluminium existed in its free metallic state for perhaps the first time since the world was formed"
Sir Humphrey Davy
"In 1825, Hans Christian Oersted [Danish] first successfully isolated aluminum in a pure form."
American chemists industrialised the process.
Google samples the Internet, which is still massively dominated by the US. For instance, "USA" has twice the number of hits as "China". You can't extrapolate much in the real world from that.
The UK is fairly well wired, but other countries, like India, where English is a major language, are not.
Wrong. RTFDictionary
Obviously plagiarised from this work of 1916, filmed in 1929, (and remade in 1998).
There were, but we killed them. Most recently the Neanderthals, which we (Homo Sapiens sapiens) wiped out in the last Ice Age (recent DNA studies ruled out the theory that we interbred).
Unless you print it at your office, and get your boos to pay for it,a laserprinted copy of a book will be more expensive, and rather more unwieldy than the paperback.
Personally, I hardly ever buy new books. I get them from the library (free, large selection, though not everything I want), or jumble sales (10-50c each -- some gems of serendipity), or used book shops. Unless you want a specific brand-new book, you don't have to buy them retail, let alone go to the hassle of bootlegging them or trying to read them on your monitor (how much power is tht drawing, anyway?). I've got a few dozen good books stacked up here now that I haven't had tme to read...
MS could undoubtedly defend itself, most likely by finding the real source, and he would be in very deep shit -- aside from spam penalties, stuff like forgery, and civil suits from MS. In any case, as no one could make money from spam, or supplying spam services, it would disappear in those regions where the law was enforced. You'd still get some random stuff from overseas (really from overseas, not some prick in Florida bouncing spam off Korea), but the volume would be much less.
No, it's a stupid damned "argument".
Anal sex affects only those who indulge in it, and there are few jobs (sailors, gay hookers) that make it unavoidable. Like I said earlier, if nicotine addicts shot up with needles or pills, that would be fine with me, just don't share you poison with everyone in the vicinity.
And what exactly was the "adult comic"? Scans, anyone, anywhere?
Hardly any restaurant owners want to exclude paying customers who smoke. If you work in the restaurant business you therefore had no choice but to inhale second hand smoke.
In every city that has brought in non-smoking reataurants the owners have put up a bitter battle, claiming they would go out of business, because they know that non-smoking restaurants, in competition with smoking ones, will. But, they don't whe ALL restaurants are non-smoking. People still want to eat, and when forced to choose between that and smoking, gave up smoking, at least for a while. If smokers could inject their drugs, that would be fine, but they pollute the whole room they're in. Their right to smoke conflicts with the rights of others to breathe.
Okay, I was unaware of all the accessories.
Maybe unicycles? Or more seriously, small-wheel, possibly folding bikes, such as Bikefriday or the Moulton. These have the advantage over Segways and conventional bikes of being portable, in the sense that youl can carry them inside, on an elevator, or a train to complete your journey.
Notice you said "love to have". Not "find it useful".
Because it's just a toy. If you want to stand up while rolling along the pavement, use roller skates, a scooter, or a scateboard. All of which are much, much cheaper and more maneuvrable than the Segway. To go any distance, or carry luggage, use a bicycle.
About as useful as the neon light case mods. Cute to look at, but when you come down to it, a waste of time and money.
And because the pills are "herbal", the FDA doesn't have anything to say about their effects, or whether they work at all.
They don't do it with their software, but they have documented the PostScript, PDF and Type 1 font formats so anyone (eg Ghostscript) can use them.
Meanwhile Real comes down hard on anyone who tries to make a player for their Real encoded streams; which wasn't a big deal when they had a simple unobtrusive player, say back in RealPlayer 5, but the monstrously bloated and annoyingly obtrusive versions you are forced to use now make it an ordeal.
RTFA: "An RS-232 (serial) card or Ethernet connection is required for Internet connectivity" so it should be fast enough.
Why isn't Charlton Heston in jail then?
Isn't that exactly the justification the gun nuts use when talking about why they should be allowed to keep artillery in their homes: to overthrow the government should it step out of line?
Email can fail to arrive, or be read, for any number of reasons. It passes through several servers, each of which could fail and lose mail. Same for snail mail -- you require assurance/proof snail mail was delivered, you use registered mail, and get a receipt. There are few if any circumstances you could claim in court someone was liable for not receiving an email that you had sent and not verified had been received.
If something is in the "millions" category, you fly there and do it in person.
No, they've been around on Macs and PCs at least as long. (One minute of Google finds some dated 1991.) Must be a slow day at Slashdot.
No contest. Tolkien was a language expert. Elvish has all the structure of a real language (loosely based on Finnish, I seem to remember). From a brief look Aurebesh looks like just a substitution code for English (or am I wrong?). There's a lot more to a language than an alphabet. Also, the Elvish scripts are beautiful; and if you like more angular characters, look at his Dwarvish runes.
Which fonts aren't available? There are several tools for cross-platform conversion. For Truetype, use TTconverter. But I'd be amazed if they weren't already in Mac format.