You could do that and it'd make a lot of sense. What'd make even more "sense", though, is to not document to format and sell unoffending specialised modules yourself. Or, don't use add-in lexicons at all, that way you get to sell an update every couple months "NOW with expanded lexicon".
3 billion? I knew China and India were up to something.
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Wow, that's pretty intense. I can't understand a word. How long did it take you to get to such a speed? I listen to audio lectures a lot, but they're held by non-digital professors who for the most part... speak... very... slowly.
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And it sure seems like everytime I hear a complaint about KDE 4.x, it is from someone who had a bad experience trying KDE 4.x in *buntu land.
That could also be due to the fact that *buntu is the most popular distribution (I'd guess by a fair margin these days), particularly among newbies who tend to get stuck (and, sometimes, give up) easily.
And as both hand are free, I can read/hold an umbrella.
Okay, with that imagine in mind, I think I'd also smile if you were passing by. Particularly if it weren't raining and you'd still be holding that umbrella.;)
Agreed, but you could make a similar argument about, for instance, the (Holy Roman/German) Emperor, who had a lot of power but problems employing it due to being in a constant struggle with the Church and, perhaps more significantly, his peers within the HRE, not to mention the rest of Europe.;)
Also -- the HRE for some time included parts of Northern Italy, not Southern Italy, right?
I was going to write that maybe they don't care that they sound juvenile, because they're doing this as an internal thing, and not to please the world/the press or whatever. But actually, I disagree. I read TFA and they don't sound juvenile to me at all. They do use phrases like epic fail etc. but these are just part of internet culture at this point -- and they're used here sort of tongue-in-cheek, along with all of TFA, in fact (e.g. "Also known as Pwnie for Breaking the Internet."). On the other hand, the grammar is fairly complex and the spelling seems fine. So, no, it doesn't sound particularly juvenile (maybe a bit goofy -- is that bad?) to me; it's just not a security advisory, that's all. Contrast this to most YouTube comments or a random MySpace page...
Thanks for your help (and sorry for continuing the OT, kinda hard to get in touch with an AC otherwise). I actually want to do the confine/grab with arbitrary windows -- VirtualBox does have that feature, but e.g. Wine does not. Basically I want to tell my window manager/X server/whatever: confine the mouse movement to this box. Sounds simple enough, but I haven't found a way to do it.
Scientific progress didn't stop simply because it largely stopped in Western Europe. The best and brightest minds weren't killed by the church because they didn't live within its reach.
The problem is that more and more sites annoyingly (and uselessly) require these to work. I'm fine not having a draggable map, but ever since GoogleMaps, every map site has become reliant on Javascript.
Google Maps works fine without JavaScript. Reduced functionality, obviously, but definitely usable.
You have got a fairly odd idea of what organic food is about. It's not like organic produce is created like it was in the middle ages. They just take a few more variables into consideration which are more or less irrelevant to normal agriculture: multiple ways of sustainability, a more careful application of pharmaceutics, animal living conditions, human working conditions.
Another odd idea of yours: that non-organic food is not made "in cow-shit". Manure is used as a fertiziler in both organic and non-organic agriculture. And it's certainly preferable to most chemical fertilizers, for starters because you don't have to expend a lot of energy to get it; you typically get it for free. (Of course I'm aware that too much fertilizing with manure is just as dangerous as using too much non-organic fertilizer.)
That would be pretty cool. The original Sim Earth was a stunningly educative game. Too bad I only had the English version and this was years before I spoke the language. Even so I got a lot out of it. Getting the concept of cloud albedo from a game sounds pretty good to me.
Calling the council totalitarian is hyperbole. As you are well aware, it's a body recruited from the EU national governments. All EU governments are democratically elected. However, the council has legislative powers, even though it's designated by the executive -- that's a breach of the seperation of powers, which is very significant in and out of itself, but it's not totalitarian.
That said, I'm not so sure the parliamant would/will do a lot better if/when it gets more power -- I dislike what the council does, but then again I dislike most of the EU countries' governments, very much including my own. The same people who voted for those daft governments get to vote for the EU parliament. And while the parliamant has protested some of the council's decisions in the past, it's easy to protest when you don't get a say, it'll be harder when they get to legislate and get pressured by their local governments and lobbied by corporate interest. You know, just like the national parliaments are.
You're right that ueber would not conventionally be used as a prefix in this situation, but we weren't talking about the German prefix ueber, but about the English prefix uber, which was adopted from German. The fact that you wouldn't say ueberbillig in German doesn't mean that it's improper to use ubercheap. It makes you sound a bit like an ass, but I would argue that it's in line with other conventional uses of the "uber" in English. To put this in a different perspective, English probably uses the Latin prefix super in situations in which it would not have been used in Latin; or at least if it did, nobody would care.
Compounds parse easier with correct parantheses: (herz)(kreislauf)(wiederbelebung) or (heart)(circle-run)(re-activation), where each of the bracketed words is itself a common compound. FWIW, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation has more characters than the German term. German and English aren't very different, in fact, in terms of compounds; English also has a huge number of compound words, even though they are often not spelled as a single word: circuit breaker, for instance. As English compounds get increasingly entrenched, the compounds tend to get hyphenated, and eventually they are written as a single word.
Laughable. Unlike cars, bikes cause close to no wear and tear to the road infrastructure. And your car has a quite frankly absurd amount of externalities involved which you don't pay for -- yet.
I switched from an aging iPod mini to a Sony S638F "walkman", more or less the Sony high-end equivalent of an iPod nano 8GB. I'm not happy. I bought it because the sound quality is superior to the Apple players, and I'm willing to believe that it is. However, the interface is just awful. The scroll wheel is an incredibly awesome interface for things like changing the volume and particularly for skipping withing songs/audio lectures/podcasts. But even apart from that, Sony made so many stupid interface mistakes which are inexcusable for a premium product that's not really cheaper than an iPod.
For instance, there is no sleep timer. There is a clock, which can be accessed cumbersomely and which "pops up" every 10 seconds or so, which means if you want the time all you got to do is take out the player... and stare at it for an average of 5 seconds; what a joke. Apart from that, there is no way to make any use of the clock. You can't use it to wake up at a specific time, you can't use it to shutdown at a certain time, not even "in X minutes". Another thing is that iPods pause when you remove the headphones. Even when locked, you can get your iPod to shut down simply by yanking out the headphones. The Sony player doesn't do this, AND it doesn't have a sleep timer, which means if I fall asleep listening to music chances are it's still running when I wake up, with 20% of the battery gone.
And there are so many more annoyances. For instance, the player has a 4-way control on the front (and an additional 2 way control for volume on the side). In the main playback mode, in other words in the mode people are spending 90% of their time in, the up/down action of the 4-way control is basically useless. You can use it to navigate the library, but not in a very useful way, and certainly not in a way that's important enough to waste a central part of the user interface on.
More? Ok. To find out how long the currently playing song is you have to press OPTION, scroll down 5 times to the "Detailed Informa..." entry, open it and then it displays a pop-up with the song length.
Umm, injecting CO2 into oil wells to enhance recovery has been used for some time, limited primarily by supplies of CO2. Injection into empty gas wells is doable as well, and somewhat more exotic approaches(like bubbling the stuff through algae farms) aren't too far outside the realm of the currently possible.
You're making it sound awfully easy. There are a number of approaches, but AFAIK the tech is not there yet for long-term storage of huge amounts of CO2. There was a huge hoopla about a law passed in Germany about carbon sequestration for coal power plants; companies are experimenting with the technology, but they aren't willing to guarantee the stuff actually stays "down" for more than a couple of decades. After that, it's the governments problem. So, yes, my first reaction to TFA was that it didn't even mention what the hell they were planning to do with all the liquid CO2 they're recovering from the atmosphere.
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You could do that and it'd make a lot of sense. What'd make even more "sense", though, is to not document to format and sell unoffending specialised modules yourself. Or, don't use add-in lexicons at all, that way you get to sell an update every couple months "NOW with expanded lexicon".
That's true. Let's ban some good books to level the field. ;)
3 billion? I knew China and India were up to something.
Wow, that's pretty intense. I can't understand a word. How long did it take you to get to such a speed? I listen to audio lectures a lot, but they're held by non-digital professors who for the most part ... speak ... very ... slowly.
And it sure seems like everytime I hear a complaint about KDE 4.x, it is from someone who had a bad experience trying KDE 4.x in *buntu land.
That could also be due to the fact that *buntu is the most popular distribution (I'd guess by a fair margin these days), particularly among newbies who tend to get stuck (and, sometimes, give up) easily.
And as both hand are free, I can read/hold an umbrella.
Okay, with that imagine in mind, I think I'd also smile if you were passing by. Particularly if it weren't raining and you'd still be holding that umbrella. ;)
a LiveCD that boots into a 68K Mac emulator
Now that is a neat idea. That'd make a really nice gift for some people I know, if you're willing to overlook the fact that the ROM isn't free.
The quadriplegic's hot contortionist sister?
Agreed, but you could make a similar argument about, for instance, the (Holy Roman/German) Emperor, who had a lot of power but problems employing it due to being in a constant struggle with the Church and, perhaps more significantly, his peers within the HRE, not to mention the rest of Europe. ;)
Also -- the HRE for some time included parts of Northern Italy, not Southern Italy, right?
I was going to write that maybe they don't care that they sound juvenile, because they're doing this as an internal thing, and not to please the world/the press or whatever. But actually, I disagree. I read TFA and they don't sound juvenile to me at all. They do use phrases like epic fail etc. but these are just part of internet culture at this point -- and they're used here sort of tongue-in-cheek, along with all of TFA, in fact (e.g. "Also known as Pwnie for Breaking the Internet."). On the other hand, the grammar is fairly complex and the spelling seems fine. So, no, it doesn't sound particularly juvenile (maybe a bit goofy -- is that bad?) to me; it's just not a security advisory, that's all. Contrast this to most YouTube comments or a random MySpace page...
Wow, you take your Slashdot moderations really seriously.
Thanks for your help (and sorry for continuing the OT, kinda hard to get in touch with an AC otherwise). I actually want to do the confine/grab with arbitrary windows -- VirtualBox does have that feature, but e.g. Wine does not. Basically I want to tell my window manager/X server/whatever: confine the mouse movement to this box. Sounds simple enough, but I haven't found a way to do it.
Those in power very much included the church for most of Europe's history.
Scientific progress didn't stop simply because it largely stopped in Western Europe. The best and brightest minds weren't killed by the church because they didn't live within its reach.
Both are EU countries. Not sure if that has any relevance here, IANAL.
The problem is that more and more sites annoyingly (and uselessly) require these to work. I'm fine not having a draggable map, but ever since GoogleMaps, every map site has become reliant on Javascript.
Google Maps works fine without JavaScript. Reduced functionality, obviously, but definitely usable.
You have got a fairly odd idea of what organic food is about. It's not like organic produce is created like it was in the middle ages. They just take a few more variables into consideration which are more or less irrelevant to normal agriculture: multiple ways of sustainability, a more careful application of pharmaceutics, animal living conditions, human working conditions.
Another odd idea of yours: that non-organic food is not made "in cow-shit". Manure is used as a fertiziler in both organic and non-organic agriculture. And it's certainly preferable to most chemical fertilizers, for starters because you don't have to expend a lot of energy to get it; you typically get it for free. (Of course I'm aware that too much fertilizing with manure is just as dangerous as using too much non-organic fertilizer.)
That would be pretty cool. The original Sim Earth was a stunningly educative game. Too bad I only had the English version and this was years before I spoke the language. Even so I got a lot out of it. Getting the concept of cloud albedo from a game sounds pretty good to me.
Calling the council totalitarian is hyperbole. As you are well aware, it's a body recruited from the EU national governments. All EU governments are democratically elected. However, the council has legislative powers, even though it's designated by the executive -- that's a breach of the seperation of powers, which is very significant in and out of itself, but it's not totalitarian.
That said, I'm not so sure the parliamant would/will do a lot better if/when it gets more power -- I dislike what the council does, but then again I dislike most of the EU countries' governments, very much including my own. The same people who voted for those daft governments get to vote for the EU parliament. And while the parliamant has protested some of the council's decisions in the past, it's easy to protest when you don't get a say, it'll be harder when they get to legislate and get pressured by their local governments and lobbied by corporate interest. You know, just like the national parliaments are.
You're right that ueber would not conventionally be used as a prefix in this situation, but we weren't talking about the German prefix ueber, but about the English prefix uber, which was adopted from German. The fact that you wouldn't say ueberbillig in German doesn't mean that it's improper to use ubercheap. It makes you sound a bit like an ass, but I would argue that it's in line with other conventional uses of the "uber" in English. To put this in a different perspective, English probably uses the Latin prefix super in situations in which it would not have been used in Latin; or at least if it did, nobody would care.
Compounds parse easier with correct parantheses: (herz)(kreislauf)(wiederbelebung) or (heart)(circle-run)(re-activation), where each of the bracketed words is itself a common compound. FWIW, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation has more characters than the German term. German and English aren't very different, in fact, in terms of compounds; English also has a huge number of compound words, even though they are often not spelled as a single word: circuit breaker, for instance. As English compounds get increasingly entrenched, the compounds tend to get hyphenated, and eventually they are written as a single word.
Laughable. Unlike cars, bikes cause close to no wear and tear to the road infrastructure. And your car has a quite frankly absurd amount of externalities involved which you don't pay for -- yet.
That's really incredible!! Mind control? How could that work?! What? Oh, it only works on their special wheel chair...
I switched from an aging iPod mini to a Sony S638F "walkman", more or less the Sony high-end equivalent of an iPod nano 8GB. I'm not happy. I bought it because the sound quality is superior to the Apple players, and I'm willing to believe that it is. However, the interface is just awful. The scroll wheel is an incredibly awesome interface for things like changing the volume and particularly for skipping withing songs/audio lectures/podcasts. But even apart from that, Sony made so many stupid interface mistakes which are inexcusable for a premium product that's not really cheaper than an iPod.
For instance, there is no sleep timer. There is a clock, which can be accessed cumbersomely and which "pops up" every 10 seconds or so, which means if you want the time all you got to do is take out the player... and stare at it for an average of 5 seconds; what a joke. Apart from that, there is no way to make any use of the clock. You can't use it to wake up at a specific time, you can't use it to shutdown at a certain time, not even "in X minutes". Another thing is that iPods pause when you remove the headphones. Even when locked, you can get your iPod to shut down simply by yanking out the headphones. The Sony player doesn't do this, AND it doesn't have a sleep timer, which means if I fall asleep listening to music chances are it's still running when I wake up, with 20% of the battery gone.
And there are so many more annoyances. For instance, the player has a 4-way control on the front (and an additional 2 way control for volume on the side). In the main playback mode, in other words in the mode people are spending 90% of their time in, the up/down action of the 4-way control is basically useless. You can use it to navigate the library, but not in a very useful way, and certainly not in a way that's important enough to waste a central part of the user interface on.
More? Ok. To find out how long the currently playing song is you have to press OPTION, scroll down 5 times to the "Detailed Informa..." entry, open it and then it displays a pop-up with the song length.
Umm, injecting CO2 into oil wells to enhance recovery has been used for some time, limited primarily by supplies of CO2. Injection into empty gas wells is doable as well, and somewhat more exotic approaches(like bubbling the stuff through algae farms) aren't too far outside the realm of the currently possible.
You're making it sound awfully easy. There are a number of approaches, but AFAIK the tech is not there yet for long-term storage of huge amounts of CO2. There was a huge hoopla about a law passed in Germany about carbon sequestration for coal power plants; companies are experimenting with the technology, but they aren't willing to guarantee the stuff actually stays "down" for more than a couple of decades. After that, it's the governments problem. So, yes, my first reaction to TFA was that it didn't even mention what the hell they were planning to do with all the liquid CO2 they're recovering from the atmosphere.