Yes, literally. I literally hate it when people use "literally" as an all-purpose intensifier when it actually would literally mean "not literally" just as much as the next guy, but this seems apt: it *would* turn the the modern high-rise quite literally upside-down. I thought it was sort of clever. Unless you're objecting to the word "head" used to describe the tops of inanimate objects that don't literally have heads, but I would claim that "turn on its head" is a fairly common idiom.
The sibling poster above me is entirely incorrect. I'm not viewing it through nostalgia at all (I only learned about DW when the new series started; I tried watching some of the old stuff, I found it mostly slow and dull.) The Eccleston season was fantastic. The Tennant seasons were also fantastic. The Smith seasons so far have been nothing but spectacle, no soul. No characters I actually care about, storylines that make little sense, hardly even any lines of particular wit. I've kind of given up.
Hollywood could hardly frack up the franchise more than it already has been, the past couple years.
Why would you punch question marks? You should be reading them! (Make sure to take off your clothing first, though, if you haven't identified destroy armor yet.)
Perception is a noun formed from a verb. "Mis-" is a prefix that can be attached to such nouns. Therefore, while it may not be a *morpheme*, it is definitely a word. (It may also not be the word the poster was *going* for... but it's still a word. And one that makes equal sense - "perceiving, incorrectly".)
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Does it count if I'm running FF 3.6 (well, Pale Moon 3.6) -and- Aurora? I use Aurora most of the time, it seems they've finally gotten at least some of the memory issues fixed, but each update breaks more of my greasemonkey scripts in more weird ways, so the one web game I play that I use greasemonkey for extensively, I keep 3.6 around for.
I certainly don't use any of the "features" they've been adding, I just appreciate the backend work.
They changed the syntax. Don't ask me why they thought it was a good idea to change the syntax, but they did. For a while they gave you a helpful warning about it, which is the only reason I knew this; that warning does indeed seem to have gone away. Anyway, the functionality is still there, you just instead wrap the words with quotes that you used to prepend with a +.
For the record, yes, other theme parks have implemented something that costs money - specifically, Magic Mountain (and apparently also other Six Flags parks). They even named it the "Flash Pass", so I can never remember which name is Disney's implementation and which one is Six Flags' without googling it. (If you ever go to Magic Mountain, you'll probably want to buy one set of them, to use on Tatsu. They're not bound to a particular person, so you can buy a set of them as a group. Worth spending a few more bucks, totally not worth spending 2+ hours in line.) Disney's implementation is way nicer, of course.
It's certainly a popular type of virtual currency. I'm reminded of this recent languagelog post: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3494 - it is obviously not a popular type of currency, but if you compare it to other *virtual* currencies, it's certainly one of the most popular. (What would beat it? Currencies of a few games, maybe.)
Rigid file systems can also handle more complex organizational methods. Put a file one place, make a symlink to it (or heck, a hard link if you felt like it) in another place, voila, you now have the file in two places. I actually use this occasionally - music folder, for instance, contains a folder (with subdirectories) for mashups, and a folder (with subdirectories) for game tunes. Mashups of game tunes go in the proper subdirectories of both of those. Done.
Of course, I *also* properly id3 tag everything. I have no issue with the concept that files could contain optional metadata and the file system could let us search for those files using that metadata. Just, don't get rid of my hierarchical structure while you're throwing things out. I like my structure intact, thanks.
Meh. Unity's dumb, but I didn't really like old-Gnome either. Or KDE. I tried LXDE recently and it seems far nicer (read: useable, and less bloated). Still, its default file manager is still a mess and missing all kinds of basic features, and I haven't yet found a single replacement Linux file manager I would actually enjoy using. Yes, I know, people would probably tell me "then fix it yourself", but... that isn't really my area of expertise. Or they might say "just use the cli", which I actually probably would sometimes, but there are some things you just want a decent GUI for.
Crazily enough, if there were just one good file manager, I might actually try the experiment of switching to Lubuntu on my primary home computer for a bit, instead of the current experiment, which just involves setting up a personal server. Yes, I do still want a desktop environment on it. Shut up.
That said, Win7's file manager is a piece of garbage, too... if only explorer^2 was multiplatform. Not that explorer^2 doesn't have bugs, also, but at least they're mostly minor ones. Yes, I'm picky.
Why don't you try *not* telling people that they shouldn't stuff beans up their nose? I had never even *considered* pointing a laser pointer at an aircraft before, but now I'm kind of tempted. And I live right under a flight path.
I expect the drones aren't cheap. I understand it depends somewhat on local laws, but certainly, at some point destruction of property becomes a felony, and I bet you most places crashing one of those drones would be on the far side of that point.
Indeed. I clicked on this because I was curious what someone from Opera was saying about CSS, Web Standards and more, that were lies. I was disappointed.
Most apps *are* version specific, or at least that was my experience last time I looked for apps. I have an archos device, I finally got fed up with the crappy default music player and realized it runs Android, so I could just install any of the myriad Android music players? Wrong. I found exactly two Android music players that don't require at least 2.0, and they both stink. And the unofficial 2.x port for the device has been languishing in pre-alpha state since forever, as far as I can tell. Which pretty much tells me, use the default music player and like it.
One problem: duckduckgo's search results are crap. So are bing's. So are, as far as I can tell, the results of every search engine that isn't google. I used duckduckgo for a few weeks because I liked their philosophy, and I loved their UI. After a few weeks I realized that about 75% of the time I ended up re-entering my query with !google at the front of it, and that's when I set my home page back to google. Google may do things I don't like much, but the #1 priority of a good search engine is to actually give me results that match what I was looking for. Google does that, nothing else does, so until that changes, I'm using google.
Notepad is a complete joke of a text editor compared to almost any other text editor made in the past 10 years or more, but nobody complains that M$ uses its monopoly on OSes to steamroller over other text editors (many of which, unlike in the browser "market", aren't even free software). Why is that?
Heck, Windows 7's file manager is a buggy piece of garbage, too, and there are replacements for it as well, but nobody complains that a file manager is bundled, either. Why? Maybe because this whole argument is silly, as far as I can tell.
Dang... they finally decided to make a technically-neutral race? (I'm still bitter that goblins weren't. As you mentioned, goblins are *supposed* to be neutral. I wanted to be an alliance goblin (really, a neutral goblin that could raid with the alliance), but nooo.)
I'd be willing to forgive them if they did make panda-speak cross-faction, that would be extremely cool. Not that there's a chance in hell of it happening...
It's obvious how the other faction knows, though: you have a flag on your head, like everyone else.:p
Brilliant! Next time I have to create a password on some throwaway site I don't care about, I'm totally using "I just lost the game". I'll never forget -that- (downside, every time I log in, or think about the site, I'll lose the game.)
I actually still use yahoo's movie review aggregator occasionally. That's pretty much the only time I visit there, and as I haven't gone to movies in theaters much recently (that would be an entirely different rant), I'd sort of forgotten about the place. But yes, I won't deny, they've pretty much trailed off into pointlessness.
Don't lump bing in with google, though. Bing's results are just as lame as any other search engine that isn't google.
Ok, I won't argue, the first two books *were* utterly brilliant, and the 2nd two books *were* kind of depressingly not good in comparison (especially the last one). I'd say less like he had a stroke, more like he realized he promised a conclusion and had no idea how to deliver one (really, this is a pretty common problem.)
But you want to talk about disappointing. The -Xanth- series made it into the list? Spell for Chameleon was, in fact, pretty excellent. The first handful after that were at least fun. But the whole series? These days (and by that I include the past, say, 10 years), there isn't even an -attempt- at a story. It's like porn-without-plot, except instead of the porn, substitute puns. How'd that make it there? In comparison to that trash, Fall of Endymion is the height of brilliance.
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Yes, literally. I literally hate it when people use "literally" as an all-purpose intensifier when it actually would literally mean "not literally" just as much as the next guy, but this seems apt: it *would* turn the the modern high-rise quite literally upside-down. I thought it was sort of clever. Unless you're objecting to the word "head" used to describe the tops of inanimate objects that don't literally have heads, but I would claim that "turn on its head" is a fairly common idiom.
Funny. Every time I read the word "Maker", I think of Alvin. I would totally visit a MakerSpace if one could teach me the Knack.
Yeah, cause Nethack, being a roguelike, definitely wasn't influenced by, say... rogue.
The sibling poster above me is entirely incorrect. I'm not viewing it through nostalgia at all (I only learned about DW when the new series started; I tried watching some of the old stuff, I found it mostly slow and dull.) The Eccleston season was fantastic. The Tennant seasons were also fantastic. The Smith seasons so far have been nothing but spectacle, no soul. No characters I actually care about, storylines that make little sense, hardly even any lines of particular wit. I've kind of given up.
Hollywood could hardly frack up the franchise more than it already has been, the past couple years.
Why would you punch question marks? You should be reading them! (Make sure to take off your clothing first, though, if you haven't identified destroy armor yet.)
Perception is a noun formed from a verb. "Mis-" is a prefix that can be attached to such nouns. Therefore, while it may not be a *morpheme*, it is definitely a word. (It may also not be the word the poster was *going* for... but it's still a word. And one that makes equal sense - "perceiving, incorrectly".)
Does it count if I'm running FF 3.6 (well, Pale Moon 3.6) -and- Aurora? I use Aurora most of the time, it seems they've finally gotten at least some of the memory issues fixed, but each update breaks more of my greasemonkey scripts in more weird ways, so the one web game I play that I use greasemonkey for extensively, I keep 3.6 around for.
I certainly don't use any of the "features" they've been adding, I just appreciate the backend work.
They changed the syntax. Don't ask me why they thought it was a good idea to change the syntax, but they did. For a while they gave you a helpful warning about it, which is the only reason I knew this; that warning does indeed seem to have gone away. Anyway, the functionality is still there, you just instead wrap the words with quotes that you used to prepend with a +.
For the record, yes, other theme parks have implemented something that costs money - specifically, Magic Mountain (and apparently also other Six Flags parks). They even named it the "Flash Pass", so I can never remember which name is Disney's implementation and which one is Six Flags' without googling it. (If you ever go to Magic Mountain, you'll probably want to buy one set of them, to use on Tatsu. They're not bound to a particular person, so you can buy a set of them as a group. Worth spending a few more bucks, totally not worth spending 2+ hours in line.) Disney's implementation is way nicer, of course.
It's certainly a popular type of virtual currency. I'm reminded of this recent languagelog post: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3494 - it is obviously not a popular type of currency, but if you compare it to other *virtual* currencies, it's certainly one of the most popular. (What would beat it? Currencies of a few games, maybe.)
Rigid file systems can also handle more complex organizational methods. Put a file one place, make a symlink to it (or heck, a hard link if you felt like it) in another place, voila, you now have the file in two places. I actually use this occasionally - music folder, for instance, contains a folder (with subdirectories) for mashups, and a folder (with subdirectories) for game tunes. Mashups of game tunes go in the proper subdirectories of both of those. Done.
Of course, I *also* properly id3 tag everything. I have no issue with the concept that files could contain optional metadata and the file system could let us search for those files using that metadata. Just, don't get rid of my hierarchical structure while you're throwing things out. I like my structure intact, thanks.
Meh. Unity's dumb, but I didn't really like old-Gnome either. Or KDE. I tried LXDE recently and it seems far nicer (read: useable, and less bloated). Still, its default file manager is still a mess and missing all kinds of basic features, and I haven't yet found a single replacement Linux file manager I would actually enjoy using. Yes, I know, people would probably tell me "then fix it yourself", but... that isn't really my area of expertise. Or they might say "just use the cli", which I actually probably would sometimes, but there are some things you just want a decent GUI for.
Crazily enough, if there were just one good file manager, I might actually try the experiment of switching to Lubuntu on my primary home computer for a bit, instead of the current experiment, which just involves setting up a personal server. Yes, I do still want a desktop environment on it. Shut up.
That said, Win7's file manager is a piece of garbage, too... if only explorer^2 was multiplatform. Not that explorer^2 doesn't have bugs, also, but at least they're mostly minor ones. Yes, I'm picky.
Why don't you try *not* telling people that they shouldn't stuff beans up their nose? I had never even *considered* pointing a laser pointer at an aircraft before, but now I'm kind of tempted. And I live right under a flight path.
I call myself a codemonkey. Reclaiming the term! Codemonkey and proud of it! (Mostly because it's an inherently funny word.)
I expect the drones aren't cheap. I understand it depends somewhat on local laws, but certainly, at some point destruction of property becomes a felony, and I bet you most places crashing one of those drones would be on the far side of that point.
Indeed. I clicked on this because I was curious what someone from Opera was saying about CSS, Web Standards and more, that were lies. I was disappointed.
Didn't you read the second part of the thing you quoted? I'd say the real lesson is, "when attempting any sort of scam, study your marks first."
Most apps *are* version specific, or at least that was my experience last time I looked for apps. I have an archos device, I finally got fed up with the crappy default music player and realized it runs Android, so I could just install any of the myriad Android music players? Wrong. I found exactly two Android music players that don't require at least 2.0, and they both stink. And the unofficial 2.x port for the device has been languishing in pre-alpha state since forever, as far as I can tell. Which pretty much tells me, use the default music player and like it.
Angry Birds works on it, though... yay(?)
One problem: duckduckgo's search results are crap. So are bing's. So are, as far as I can tell, the results of every search engine that isn't google. I used duckduckgo for a few weeks because I liked their philosophy, and I loved their UI. After a few weeks I realized that about 75% of the time I ended up re-entering my query with !google at the front of it, and that's when I set my home page back to google. Google may do things I don't like much, but the #1 priority of a good search engine is to actually give me results that match what I was looking for. Google does that, nothing else does, so until that changes, I'm using google.
(By free I meant "as in beer", just to make that clear.)
Notepad is a complete joke of a text editor compared to almost any other text editor made in the past 10 years or more, but nobody complains that M$ uses its monopoly on OSes to steamroller over other text editors (many of which, unlike in the browser "market", aren't even free software). Why is that?
Heck, Windows 7's file manager is a buggy piece of garbage, too, and there are replacements for it as well, but nobody complains that a file manager is bundled, either. Why? Maybe because this whole argument is silly, as far as I can tell.
Dang... they finally decided to make a technically-neutral race? (I'm still bitter that goblins weren't. As you mentioned, goblins are *supposed* to be neutral. I wanted to be an alliance goblin (really, a neutral goblin that could raid with the alliance), but nooo.)
I'd be willing to forgive them if they did make panda-speak cross-faction, that would be extremely cool. Not that there's a chance in hell of it happening...
It's obvious how the other faction knows, though: you have a flag on your head, like everyone else. :p
Brilliant! Next time I have to create a password on some throwaway site I don't care about, I'm totally using "I just lost the game". I'll never forget -that- (downside, every time I log in, or think about the site, I'll lose the game.)
I actually still use yahoo's movie review aggregator occasionally. That's pretty much the only time I visit there, and as I haven't gone to movies in theaters much recently (that would be an entirely different rant), I'd sort of forgotten about the place. But yes, I won't deny, they've pretty much trailed off into pointlessness.
Don't lump bing in with google, though. Bing's results are just as lame as any other search engine that isn't google.
Ok, I won't argue, the first two books *were* utterly brilliant, and the 2nd two books *were* kind of depressingly not good in comparison (especially the last one). I'd say less like he had a stroke, more like he realized he promised a conclusion and had no idea how to deliver one (really, this is a pretty common problem.)
But you want to talk about disappointing. The -Xanth- series made it into the list? Spell for Chameleon was, in fact, pretty excellent. The first handful after that were at least fun. But the whole series? These days (and by that I include the past, say, 10 years), there isn't even an -attempt- at a story. It's like porn-without-plot, except instead of the porn, substitute puns. How'd that make it there? In comparison to that trash, Fall of Endymion is the height of brilliance.