Indeed. Up till recently this year, I'd always bought Samsung TVs. But this time I was looking for something I could plug into headphones or an external speaker and Samsung no longer offers that. I picked up a TCL with Roku built-in for a good price and I couldn't be happier. I was one of those "I like my dumb tv thank you very much" people before, but this software interface just works and does it well.
As with many others here, I don't want results from sites that I can't visit. I understand that Google wants the data, but there's no reason that I need to see that mixed in. Google currently has a feature for Chrome users that not many people seem to be aware of called the Personal Blocklist. You can get the extension from Google here:
After you've installed it, when you're on a google search results page, you'll see a small link to "block example.com" under each result. No more articles from Forbes or pictures from pinterest that you can't browse through. Hope that helps someone!
I would highly recommend Julian May's Intervention, Saga of Pliocene Exile, and Galactic Milieu from the 80s-90s. These interrelated series stretch from the far past to our space-faring future and combine science fiction, technology, and fantasy into one grand vision. Intervention is my favorite and works very well as a stand alone novel... Ah, Oncle Rogi...
My other recommendation would be Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis (aka Lilith's Brood) from the late 80s, a series of novels with an interesting take on the future of humanity and what it means to be human. A bit less Sci-Fi, but also highly recommended, is her powerful Parable series from the 90s (Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents). In it she explores issues of race, freedom, religion, violence, and more through extrapolating a dark but all too possible vision of the future based on current trends in American society.
Last week I was working heavily on some graphic materials for my company. Last night, probably due to having a slight fever, I had this seemingly endless dream about color matching. In it I was matching from pantone books to our printer to the screen over and over again... PMS 541, no not right, let's try PMS 540...
I know you're looking for something comprehensive, but you may want to consider learning conversation using the Pimsleur series. It's basically an audio only method of learning language which works great on my hour-long commute each morning and evening.
I find that as you learn more and more, you subconsciously start to learn grammar. For example, I'm currently learning German, and though I can't tell you the rule for where to put time and place in a sentence, I know which one "sounds right."
I rent them using my Recorded Books Unlimited subscription, but you might be able to find them at your local library.
(I personally speak Spanish and English fluently. I used the Pimsleur series to pick up quite a bit of Italian, French and German).
Hope that helps.
-Paul
P.S. The way I personally became fluent in Spanish was to grow up in Southern California to learn the accent, take French in middle school to learn some basic non-English grammar, take a freshman Spanish class in college, meet and marry a wonderful woman from Guatemala, then practice for 11 years.
While I agree with the majority here that this is not a good idea for rental DVDs, I think it would be a good thing for awards show screeners (i.e., Oscars, Golden Globes, etc).
I don't know if it's the academy members that do the ripping or the people they loan them out to after screening it, but if it's the latter, this would help reduce the problem.
5) php developers are heartlessy disgarding every kind of
backward compatibility with every new minor version they
write, e.g. your old scripts which worked finely for 4-5
months may be buggy without you even knowing it after 1
mysterious update.
Thank you for bringing that up. That's been my biggest complaint with PHP. Some examples include:
redefining the way that strtok works
changing the syntax for the deleting cookies without mentioning it in the change log or documentation (for 3.1 - 4.someting you could just call setcookie('variablename','') to unset the cookie. They switched it so you needed to add all the parameters to the function call, date, server, path, etc.)
breaking the error_reporting() function for several versions, forcing users to rewrite their calls using ini_set() instead.
It seems that any time there is an update for PHP, something else gets broken. I cringe when my sys admin tells me he wants to update it, because I know it's going to lead to hours of debugging work that I shouldn't need to do.
The best feature of Moz 1.4, though, is type-ahead-find, or whatever they call it now. Just start typing to have the typed text highlighted and that part of the page jumped to. Great for pages you come to from a search engine.
Making the naming consistent seems like a good idea. It seems obvious that you could save a few bits by removing those extra "u" characters, so the American spelling should be used. The smaller the better, right?
It has nothing to do with the fact that I live on the Western side of "the pond.":-)
Anyone else think from the headline that the story was about Linus Torvalds not being able to find his way out from a meeting at Apple headquarters....
As an old timer, I use the option+ keyboard shortcuts mentioned by others. However, OS X includes a nice, easily accessible Character Palette for those who don't want to type key combos.
Go to the International Preference Pane, click on input menu at the right side and check on the character palette item. Now you'll see a little menu next to the last option in the menu bar. Click it to get a bunch of key entry options. The one for accents is "accented latin."
If you really like typing accented characters, try a software called PopChar Pro. I used to use it in OS 9 and I know there is an OS X version.
The diet you refer to doesn't offer many suggestions about which foods to eat (focusing mostly on total calories), but I urge you do avoid the USDA pyramid you may have learned about in school.
The current USDA pyramid is flawed and promotes many unhealthy habits. Like much of the field of "nutrition", the pyramid isn't based on scientific facts, but rather conjecture and speculation.
Some of the main flaws with the current pyramid are the recommended amounts of complex carbohydrates per day, the dubious inclusion of potato as a vegetable, and the absence of "good" fats from the pyramid.
There is also a nice picture of the proposed new pyramid. For those using Lynx, the base contains whole grain foods and plant oils. The next tiers contain vegetables and fruit, with the emphasis on vegetables. The middle tiers consist of nuts, legumes, fish, poultry and eggs and dairy. At the top, under "use sparingly" are red meat and the hacker diet, white rice/white bread/potatoes/pasta and sweets.
Now for the fun part. Every time you click an Overture result, you cause the advertiser to pay Overture. As mentioned at SpamBattle [spambattle.com], this is a great way to screw companies that sell spam software or services...
I've been thinking about this for a while. They do checking so that you can't just keep clicking the link and costing the company more money.
While the slashdot effect would be good for a few URL's, it wouldn't be pervasive enough. It sounds to me like the perfect opportunity for a distributed client. Maybe something like SETI@Home that would trawl through results for undesirables and "click-through".
Actually, I'm hoping this gets modded up and some script kiddie puts it in the next version of Nimda/CodeRed/Slammer/Whatever.
The skeleton they found isn't technically a dinosaur. My background is Physics, not Biology, but it has something to do with which Order or Class these creatures fit into.
I only found this out when my daughter was studying dinosaurs in school. I told her that there were dinosaurs that lived in the oceans and she told me they weren't really dinosaurs! I
google'd it and sure enough, she was right. Doh!
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed. Up till recently this year, I'd always bought Samsung TVs. But this time I was looking for something I could plug into headphones or an external speaker and Samsung no longer offers that. I picked up a TCL with Roku built-in for a good price and I couldn't be happier. I was one of those "I like my dumb tv thank you very much" people before, but this software interface just works and does it well.
As with many others here, I don't want results from sites that I can't visit. I understand that Google wants the data, but there's no reason that I need to see that mixed in. Google currently has a feature for Chrome users that not many people seem to be aware of called the Personal Blocklist. You can get the extension from Google here:
https://chrome.google.com/webs...
After you've installed it, when you're on a google search results page, you'll see a small link to "block example.com" under each result. No more articles from Forbes or pictures from pinterest that you can't browse through. Hope that helps someone!
I think that's generally true, but Star Trek? If there were a new series, I'd subscribe to a separate service in a heartbeat.
I would highly recommend Julian May's Intervention, Saga of Pliocene Exile, and Galactic Milieu from the 80s-90s. These interrelated series stretch from the far past to our space-faring future and combine science fiction, technology, and fantasy into one grand vision. Intervention is my favorite and works very well as a stand alone novel... Ah, Oncle Rogi...
My other recommendation would be Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis (aka Lilith's Brood) from the late 80s, a series of novels with an interesting take on the future of humanity and what it means to be human. A bit less Sci-Fi, but also highly recommended, is her powerful Parable series from the 90s (Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents). In it she explores issues of race, freedom, religion, violence, and more through extrapolating a dark but all too possible vision of the future based on current trends in American society.
My bill does no such thing, in fact I don't even have a bill... Oh, b-A-rney, not b-U-rney. Never mind.
-Paul Burney
Here's the essay that Aasimov quote comes from. It's excellent:
http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
although C3PO never seemed especially useful
Dude... He was a protocol droid, conversant in over six million forms of communication. Who else was going to talk to the Ewoks. ;-)
Sometimes I wish I didn't dream in color...
Last week I was working heavily on some graphic materials for my company. Last night, probably due to having a slight fever, I had this seemingly endless dream about color matching. In it I was matching from pantone books to our printer to the screen over and over again... PMS 541, no not right, let's try PMS 540...
Arrghhhh.....
I also thought Nick Frost would have been a good Scotty... Of course, Scotty didn't plump up till the movies, so I guess this makes sense.
I'd love to see Nick Frost with a red-shirt cameo. Give him maybe one line and have him get blasted first when they land on the alien planet.
I know you're looking for something comprehensive, but you may want to consider learning conversation using the Pimsleur series. It's basically an audio only method of learning language which works great on my hour-long commute each morning and evening.
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Wikipedia has more information here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimsleur_language_le
I find that as you learn more and more, you subconsciously start to learn grammar. For example, I'm currently learning German, and though I can't tell you the rule for where to put time and place in a sentence, I know which one "sounds right."
I rent them using my Recorded Books Unlimited subscription, but you might be able to find them at your local library.
(I personally speak Spanish and English fluently. I used the Pimsleur series to pick up quite a bit of Italian, French and German).
Hope that helps.
-Paul
P.S. The way I personally became fluent in Spanish was to grow up in Southern California to learn the accent, take French in middle school to learn some basic non-English grammar, take a freshman Spanish class in college, meet and marry a wonderful woman from Guatemala, then practice for 11 years.
The above may or may not work in your situation.
My 9-year-old daughter got one of those Namco 5-in-1 games from Santa this year (hooks up directly to the TV) and she thinks Pole Position rocks.
Santa's never given her a console to try though...
While I agree with the majority here that this is not a good idea for rental DVDs, I think it would be a good thing for awards show screeners (i.e., Oscars, Golden Globes, etc).
I don't know if it's the academy members that do the ripping or the people they loan them out to after screening it, but if it's the latter, this would help reduce the problem.
You said...
Thank you for bringing that up. That's been my biggest complaint with PHP. Some examples include:
It seems that any time there is an update for PHP, something else gets broken. I cringe when my sys admin tells me he wants to update it, because I know it's going to lead to hours of debugging work that I shouldn't need to do.
The book is a buck and change cheaper at amazon.com:
/ 104-5039843-6646308
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596005660
I wish the slashdot editors would just put a little disclaimer before the "You can purchase..." part.
Something like:
We get an x% kickback from BN each time you buy from them.
- or -
We don't like Amazon because of software patents and thus support BN instead.
- or -
We think computer geeks have too much money and should waste it to help dubya improve the economy.
For those who don't know who the Start Wars Kid is, check Everything2:
o de_id=1479019
http://everything2.net/index.pl?lastnode_id=124&n
Installing the pinstripe theme would make the reviewer's opinion of Mozilla/Netscape better, I think. It gives the browser an aqua look.
It is available at:
http://kmgerich.com/pinstripe/pinstripe.html
The best feature of Moz 1.4, though, is type-ahead-find, or whatever they call it now. Just start typing to have the typed text highlighted and that part of the page jumped to. Great for pages you come to from a search engine.
Making the naming consistent seems like a good idea. It seems obvious that you could save a few bits by removing those extra "u" characters, so the American spelling should be used. The smaller the better, right?
:-)
It has nothing to do with the fact that I live on the Western side of "the pond."
Anyone else think from the headline that the story was about Linus Torvalds not being able to find his way out from a meeting at Apple headquarters....
G - O - O - G - L - E
well, only four distinct letters...
As an old timer, I use the option+ keyboard shortcuts mentioned by others. However, OS X includes a nice, easily accessible Character Palette for those who don't want to type key combos.
Go to the International Preference Pane, click on input menu at the right side and check on the character palette item. Now you'll see a little menu next to the last option in the menu bar. Click it to get a bunch of key entry options. The one for accents is "accented latin."
If you really like typing accented characters, try a software called PopChar Pro. I used to use it in OS 9 and I know there is an OS X version.
The diet you refer to doesn't offer many suggestions about which foods to eat (focusing mostly on total calories), but I urge you do avoid the USDA pyramid you may have learned about in school.
The current USDA pyramid is flawed and promotes many unhealthy habits. Like much of the field of "nutrition", the pyramid isn't based on scientific facts, but rather conjecture and speculation.
Some of the main flaws with the current pyramid are the recommended amounts of complex carbohydrates per day, the dubious inclusion of potato as a vegetable, and the absence of "good" fats from the pyramid.
There was a very nice article with real scientific/medial data behind it in Scientific American a few months ago. Take a look before heading into that new diet.
There is also a nice picture of the proposed new pyramid. For those using Lynx, the base contains whole grain foods and plant oils. The next tiers contain vegetables and fruit, with the emphasis on vegetables. The middle tiers consist of nuts, legumes, fish, poultry and eggs and dairy. At the top, under "use sparingly" are red meat and the hacker diet, white rice/white bread/potatoes/pasta and sweets.
Good luck. I hope you can keep the pounds off.
I was looking for some tax forms the other day and stumbled on this (first link at mass.gov). Enjoy.
https://www.madonotcall.govconnect.com/
Supposed to start on July 1, 2003
I've been thinking about this for a while. They do checking so that you can't just keep clicking the link and costing the company more money.
While the slashdot effect would be good for a few URL's, it wouldn't be pervasive enough. It sounds to me like the perfect opportunity for a distributed client. Maybe something like SETI@Home that would trawl through results for undesirables and "click-through".
Actually, I'm hoping this gets modded up and some script kiddie puts it in the next version of Nimda/CodeRed/Slammer/Whatever.
It wasn't mentioned in the Press Release, but a while back I saw this on the page that shows the updates to the strategy guide:
http://www.battle.net/war3/pandaren/
The screen shots make them look like Furbolgs with different texture, but they don't show any of the heros.
The Editor said:
The skeleton they found isn't technically a dinosaur. My background is Physics, not Biology, but it has something to do with which Order or Class these creatures fit into.
I only found this out when my daughter was studying dinosaurs in school. I told her that there were dinosaurs that lived in the oceans and she told me they weren't really dinosaurs! I google'd it and sure enough, she was right. Doh!