Of course if in your dialect "shoes" and "goose" rhyme, I guess they could be.
Actually, the way most Swedes pronounce those words when speaking English, they rhyme. Swedish doesn't have the "z" sound at all so we never learnt how make it in a natural way. My English is pretty good, but I'm having a very hard time making the s/z-sounds with "voice" at the same time, not just the snake-like hissing (like all s-like sounds are in Swedish). I can do it if I focus, but it doesn't come natural. I guess it's the same thing when English-speaking persons try to speak Swedish (or Spanish/French/German for that matter) and pronounce those rolling "R"s. Most can do it if they really try, but it doesn't sound natural unless you grew up with it.
I'd say that Swedes and others who have English as their second language in general are better on separating homophones than those with English as their first language. I can't remember ever seeing a swede mixing up their/they're/there, your/you're or site/sight. I frequently see Americans and UKians doing that. For some reason, mixing up then/than and lose/loose seems very common though. Furthermore we never use "whom" and "neither...nor" and we always have a problem deciding whether to use "who", "that" or "which".:)
I fully agree with you. I also fully support the Pirate Bay guys (except Carl LundstrÃm, who is just a neonazi, daddy's-money venture capitalist who only wants to make more money).
However, it's a very tricky case. I also don't think it's fair to convict them. Whichever side wins, it will make the society change in ways that are hard to foresee and the only positive thing I can see in this mess is that it will make The Pirate Party stronger.
I'm Swedish and a member of Piratpartiet (The Pirate Party) since the first day it was announced. I have of course been following this sitcom with great interest, but I'm still not sure which outcome is better for the future in a bigger perspective.
The prosecutors play this case so utterly unprofessional that I'm starting to think that they WANT to lose, but make it look like they tried to win. The reason for this is simple. If they lose, they will use this as "evidence" that Sweden need a whole bunch of new draconian surveillence laws and increase the scope of liability for copyright infringements which will kill the internet as we know it.
In a way I want TPB to lose. That will shut up the law mongerers because it will show that current laws are good enough. It will also make them martyrs and will 100-up the public support for the ongoing pirate movement (which actually is very little about filesharing and mostly about the right to privacy, anonymity, freedom of speech and uncensored exchange of information).
They way I see it, the only realistic way to really make a change it steering society away from 1984, which is the direction it's heading in right now, is to vote the Pirate Party into the EU parliament, where they will be able to make a lot of noise where it counts. Only 3 months left to the election...
Are you sure it wasn't Primatech they aquired? That would fit perfectly with their "Don't be evil" motto.
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That reminds me when I was looking at the Programming Python book at Adlibris, another Swedish online bookstore, a couple of years ago. Under "People who bought this book also bought..." was both a "how to lose weight" book and a depression self cure book.
As a Ruby programmer I though that was hilarious.:)
Spotify officially support WINE and it runs with WINE almost as good as running it natively in Windows. When using desktop effects (Compiz/KDE4), maximizing the window is buggy and there are no window shadows but other than that it runs great.
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people pretending they're some amazing app developer because they can grasp how to use *ML.
To be fair though, there are quote a few *ML dialects that aren't exactly trivial to learn...
Its no secret that the majority of/. users Are WINDOWS users.
That depends on how you count. I'm sure the majority of/. users use Windows on a regular basis, like at work or dual booting to play games.
I'm also pretty sure that the majority of/. users are also Linux users in some way. Either as their primary/only desktop OS or as a secondary OS they boot into to play with or learn every now and then.
No filesystem in current Linux is going to save you from silent bitflips. The only way to be protected from that is to use checksumming and parity calculation. Either you implement that in the block device (classic RAID) or in the filesystem (ZFS Z-RAID or similar) or you have to live with the possibility of corrupted data.
That was a long time ago. The purpose of schools is to earn money for the schools. Sometimes it's for brainwashing also, but then there's usually a long-term goal of making more money for a church in the calculation.
First, compression. They use algorithms that are MUCH better suited to PCM audio data than generic data algorithms. Where Zip would give 15% compression, WavPack would give 45% or something on that scale.
Second, seeking. How would you seek two minutes into the song in a "WAV+BZIP" without uncompressing it all up to that point and throwing away what you don't need? How about 4 hours into an audio book? FLAC/WavPack/APE/etc can just seek to the right position in the file and start decoding at the right block.
Third: Progression. Why should we stick to something inferior or non-optimal?
Why? As far as I have heard, IE8 is by far more standards compliant than previous IE-versions. You should be grateful. I long for the day I can finally completely skip shoehorning in IE6 support on public web sites.
Ruby on Rails has a great community, but the only ones (with few exceptions) hanging out on #rubyonrails are newbies and/or fanbois.
It was long ago that the pros left the places where newbies also could hang out and ask questions. There are a couple of half-anonymous invite-only communities where hundreds of already semiprofessional Railsers (including core developers of Rails, major sites and plugins) hang out and help each others and life there is great and very friendly and helpful.
Unfortunately that also means that there aren't very many seasoned devs left to help the newbies, only people who are newbies themselves, and annoying loudmouths who think that platform choice is a war or something.
Ignoring the little detail that java applet support doesn't matter anymore then yes, this is "stuff that matters". The kind of news you seem to be looking for you can find on c|net. Slashdot is the "News for nerds" site.
Yes, if your TV's refresh rate is set to something other than a multiple of 24 you will get choppy panning. Many modern TVs have native 24Hz modes and when watching a 24 FPS movie on a TV in 24 Hz mode, everything is perfectly smooth.
Even worse than 24 FPS video on 50/60 Hz screens are trying to watch 50 FPS video on a 60 Hz screen and vice versa.
Then a tesseradecader must be something which divide things into groups of fourteen and those who make the tesseradecaders are called tesseradecaderers.
I've noticed that besides classical music, the music that is hardest to encode is 70s/80s underground punk music (the hard kind), because it's often recorded on VERY bad equipment with lots of background amplifier humming, distortion, recorded on a cheap cassette 4-track porta studio in someones garage, and no mastering what so ever. The encoder have a very hard time to keep up with all the "extras" that are usually mastered away. At 128 kbps, hihats and cymbals sound like "pssh" instead of "tss" and the guitars get a "digital bee"-like sound. They also often get what sounds like a subtle flanger effect on top of it. At 192 kbps most sound like the original vinyl or cassette but many need even higher bitrates.
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Of course if in your dialect "shoes" and "goose" rhyme, I guess they could be.
Actually, the way most Swedes pronounce those words when speaking English, they rhyme. Swedish doesn't have the "z" sound at all so we never learnt how make it in a natural way. My English is pretty good, but I'm having a very hard time making the s/z-sounds with "voice" at the same time, not just the snake-like hissing (like all s-like sounds are in Swedish). I can do it if I focus, but it doesn't come natural. I guess it's the same thing when English-speaking persons try to speak Swedish (or Spanish/French/German for that matter) and pronounce those rolling "R"s. Most can do it if they really try, but it doesn't sound natural unless you grew up with it.
I'd say that Swedes and others who have English as their second language in general are better on separating homophones than those with English as their first language. I can't remember ever seeing a swede mixing up their/they're/there, your/you're or site/sight. I frequently see Americans and UKians doing that. For some reason, mixing up then/than and lose/loose seems very common though. Furthermore we never use "whom" and "neither...nor" and we always have a problem deciding whether to use "who", "that" or "which". :)
I fully agree with you. I also fully support the Pirate Bay guys (except Carl LundstrÃm, who is just a neonazi, daddy's-money venture capitalist who only wants to make more money).
However, it's a very tricky case. I also don't think it's fair to convict them. Whichever side wins, it will make the society change in ways that are hard to foresee and the only positive thing I can see in this mess is that it will make The Pirate Party stronger.
I'm Swedish and a member of Piratpartiet (The Pirate Party) since the first day it was announced. I have of course been following this sitcom with great interest, but I'm still not sure which outcome is better for the future in a bigger perspective.
The prosecutors play this case so utterly unprofessional that I'm starting to think that they WANT to lose, but make it look like they tried to win. The reason for this is simple. If they lose, they will use this as "evidence" that Sweden need a whole bunch of new draconian surveillence laws and increase the scope of liability for copyright infringements which will kill the internet as we know it.
In a way I want TPB to lose. That will shut up the law mongerers because it will show that current laws are good enough. It will also make them martyrs and will 100-up the public support for the ongoing pirate movement (which actually is very little about filesharing and mostly about the right to privacy, anonymity, freedom of speech and uncensored exchange of information).
They way I see it, the only realistic way to really make a change it steering society away from 1984, which is the direction it's heading in right now, is to vote the Pirate Party into the EU parliament, where they will be able to make a lot of noise where it counts. Only 3 months left to the election...
There is no such thing as a trained cat.
Are you sure about that?
Are you sure it wasn't Primatech they aquired? That would fit perfectly with their "Don't be evil" motto.
That reminds me when I was looking at the Programming Python book at Adlibris, another Swedish online bookstore, a couple of years ago.
Under "People who bought this book also bought..." was both a "how to lose weight" book and a depression self cure book.
As a Ruby programmer I though that was hilarious. :)
Spotify officially support WINE and it runs with WINE almost as good as running it natively in Windows. When using desktop effects (Compiz/KDE4), maximizing the window is buggy and there are no window shadows but other than that it runs great.
people pretending they're some amazing app developer because they can grasp how to use *ML.
To be fair though, there are quote a few *ML dialects that aren't exactly trivial to learn...
Its no secret that the majority of /. users Are WINDOWS users.
That depends on how you count. I'm sure the majority of /. users use Windows on a regular basis, like at work or dual booting to play games.
I'm also pretty sure that the majority of /. users are also Linux users in some way. Either as their primary/only desktop OS or as a secondary OS they boot into to play with or learn every now and then.
No filesystem in current Linux is going to save you from silent bitflips. The only way to be protected from that is to use checksumming and parity calculation. Either you implement that in the block device (classic RAID) or in the filesystem (ZFS Z-RAID or similar) or you have to live with the possibility of corrupted data.
That was a long time ago. The purpose of schools is to earn money for the schools. Sometimes it's for brainwashing also, but then there's usually a long-term goal of making more money for a church in the calculation.
Learning stuff in school? That's just a bonus.
So turn it off the periodical fsck then:
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/foo
It's perfectly safe as long as the underlying blockdevice is safe (RAID).
AFAIK it's only using GTK to graphically draw the widgets, not to do layout or things like that.
Because they were supposed to be common 9 years ago.
First, compression. They use algorithms that are MUCH better suited to PCM audio data than generic data algorithms. Where Zip would give 15% compression, WavPack would give 45% or something on that scale.
Second, seeking. How would you seek two minutes into the song in a "WAV+BZIP" without uncompressing it all up to that point and throwing away what you don't need? How about 4 hours into an audio book? FLAC/WavPack/APE/etc can just seek to the right position in the file and start decoding at the right block.
Third: Progression. Why should we stick to something inferior or non-optimal?
Why? As far as I have heard, IE8 is by far more standards compliant than previous IE-versions. You should be grateful. I long for the day I can finally completely skip shoehorning in IE6 support on public web sites.
Ruby on Rails has a great community, but the only ones (with few exceptions) hanging out on #rubyonrails are newbies and/or fanbois.
It was long ago that the pros left the places where newbies also could hang out and ask questions. There are a couple of half-anonymous invite-only communities where hundreds of already semiprofessional Railsers (including core developers of Rails, major sites and plugins) hang out and help each others and life there is great and very friendly and helpful.
Unfortunately that also means that there aren't very many seasoned devs left to help the newbies, only people who are newbies themselves, and annoying loudmouths who think that platform choice is a war or something.
This is the curse of being hyped.
Ignoring the little detail that java applet support doesn't matter anymore then yes, this is "stuff that matters". The kind of news you seem to be looking for you can find on c|net. Slashdot is the "News for nerds" site.
Opera has had it for yearser.
Duh, that's because of the bidets.
USA's war against terrorism triggers world war 3 and the revenge-thirst of both sides cause the whole planet to be destroyed by nuclear weapons.
Yes, if your TV's refresh rate is set to something other than a multiple of 24 you will get choppy panning. Many modern TVs have native 24Hz modes and when watching a 24 FPS movie on a TV in 24 Hz mode, everything is perfectly smooth.
Even worse than 24 FPS video on 50/60 Hz screens are trying to watch 50 FPS video on a 60 Hz screen and vice versa.
Then a tesseradecader must be something which divide things into groups of fourteen and those who make the tesseradecaders are called tesseradecaderers.
I've noticed that besides classical music, the music that is hardest to encode is 70s/80s underground punk music (the hard kind), because it's often recorded on VERY bad equipment with lots of background amplifier humming, distortion, recorded on a cheap cassette 4-track porta studio in someones garage, and no mastering what so ever. The encoder have a very hard time to keep up with all the "extras" that are usually mastered away. At 128 kbps, hihats and cymbals sound like "pssh" instead of "tss" and the guitars get a "digital bee"-like sound. They also often get what sounds like a subtle flanger effect on top of it. At 192 kbps most sound like the original vinyl or cassette but many need even higher bitrates.