Pretty much the type of off-topic post I'd expect from someone that uses the word USian. Why that anyways? Why not USish? USAish? USAn?
Well, I guess when you try to copy and use a made up word enough to get people to think it's a real word, you can use whatever you want to.
Per a former Spanish teacher of mine, if you take the word for "citizen of the United States" and translate it to English as a literal word, you get United Statesian. I agree that it's not valid English and sounds dumb, but after hearing it all those times, it sounds almost right to me.
One of my college professors would give us study guides that were a superset of the actual exam. He would simply delete chunks of the study guide and hit print. All tests were primarily, often exclusively, multiple choice. Upon discovering this, I'd organize a group effort to fill out the study guide; I do the first 20, you do the next 20, she does the 20 after that, , email me your finished answers. At least a couple of days before the tests, we'd all have completed copies of the study guide.
When it came time for the final in the first class I had with him, we split up the study guide as usual. I knew if I could glance at two or four of the available options and know which letter matches, I could quickly take the test. I finished the multiple choice in about 10 minutes. He hadn't given us any essay questions on the study guide, but I made it through those in about 5 minutes. I then sat in my seat for a while, not wanting to be "that guy" who finishes their final and leaves after 15 minutes.
Does anybody actually say "Kleenex" instead of "tissue" anymore?
Yes. While I don't think I ever buy Kleenex brand, it throws me when someone asks for "tissue." I, and it appears quite a few people I know, grew up using "Kleenex" as the generic term.
I would hate for a list of every dirty website I went to in open court only to be deemed innocent in the end. But if you're deemed guilty in the end, it's okay?;)
Florida is one of the top five textbook markets in the USA, so its move could lead to the development of other free materials that might someday challenge the dominance of a handful of big educational publishers.
While I'm not in Florida, I am both a college student and a fan of free learning materials. Having to pay for text books every semester (even if I buy the international editions) hurts. I agree with #21302639; there should be a place somewhere (dmoz, "List of..." article on Wikipedia, a completely separate wiki) to list, maybe even host, all of these resources. Everything from learning to read through higher level, just an all-encompassing (as near as can be attained, of course) collection of these materials.
Personally, I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Macbook (a core duo with 32 Megs of RAM)...
My pentium 3 with 256 megs of ram runs faster than this machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Well, yes, a Core Duo may be capable of outperforming a Pentium 3, but when the P3 has 8 times the ram (and the CDuo has so little that you can't install OS X on it...I've actually tried to install OS X with 32mb ram. It's not happy when you try that), it's sure to outperform the Mac!
Anyway, I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro. I go with Mac because (1) it/is/ more stable for me (a combination of what I've done to this computer and my desktop and what sort of stuff I run, I'm sure; it's not a guarantee that it's more stable for everyone) and (2) I don't want to deal with virtualization or emulation to run things like MS Word and Photoshop. Sure, alternatives exist for these that can claim full support for the formats, yadda yadda, but we all know that they aren't able to perfectly open every file. A lot of the apps I run have perfectly working free alternatives that I could run from, say, FreeBSD. All of them have some alternative, but dealing with their shortcomings or running Windows (or OSx86 or whatever) on top of $other_OS isn't worth it. Oh yes, and (3), Cygwin/Services for UNIX/etc are all awkward to use. This is why (2) cannot be defeated by simply running Windows.
You may feel completely different about those (you being a general person, not the parent), fine. I'll run OS X, you run $something_else. This fits my needs, so I'll continue to use it.
And, without big labels it's impossible for the bands to really invest in paying a decent studio to record, mix and master their CD and hire engineers by themselves. I just don't see how there can be a mega-band without a major record label company.
Note: This is all based on what I've heard and the very little that I know. I could be way off on some of the details, but the idea stands.
Mega's a relative term; after all, is a megabyte all that big?
Bands could do the recording themselves. I have a few instruments and some recording hardware (now I just need talent). All said, under $1500. Sure, the quality isn't nearly as good as using a professional studio and hiring people who know what they're doing, but it's possible.
If we drop the idea of record labels completely (as there'd be a "major" label or two even if they were all tiny relative to what's there now), advertising and distribution could be word of mouth, online advertising, and so forth. It'd be very possible for a band to gain a huge following. Note that just because we hypothetically go back a century or two to the idea of no record labels doesn't mean we can't use everything else (such as Google ads, personal web sites, MySpace and its Flash audio streamer, and so forth) that's around today.
Just because the massive support structure behind the bands disappears doesn't mean that we'd have no mega-bands. We'd just have many fewer and they'd have to work a lot harder, spend a lot more of their own/borrowed money, and/or have friends with the right know-how on various topics.
Would it be easy? Of course not. But it'd be possible with what we have these days. I'm not saying it should/shouldn't be this way, but it'd be possible. Of course, if every record label shut down overnight for whatever reason and the next day brought self-relient bands, sooner or later we'd end up back at the same place we are now. A dedicated (as in sole function) group of marketing people, lawyers, and the like provide bands with much more time to do the things that actually require their talent.
Yes, I know I'm at the wrong place to suggest this, and I'm aware it's not the greatest idea (good old security), but it's handy.
One of the extensions I have on Firefox on my Windows desktop is IE Tab, that allows a link or blank tab to be rendered with IE rather than Gecko. While the Identify As Internet Explorer and Mask As Internet Explorer are good enough for most sites, some of them still use horrible JavaScript that won't work in Opera. I'm looking at you MSDN!
It gets annoying at work (software development for a major scoreboard and electronic sign manufacturer) to be using Opera and find a search result for MSDN, open it, and have about a 50% chance of it working. It's not the fact that opening IE and viewing the article is an annoyance, it's being so used to just clicking on Opera for an open web site and then wondering where the article went -- the reason I first used Opera, aside from it being the only web browser I knew of for Windows 3 way back when, was that it supported tabs. That advantage is a bit lost when I have 5 IE windows open along with Opera.
And, yes, I'm aware that I'm complaining from a user point of view as well. This, however, would be useful to web developers (who are testing under Windows) to have pages in one window for comparison rather than many.
While there's no question the greenhouse effect is something we'd be better off without...
Something tells me you haven't spent the last 21 or so years in South Dakota before.:)
It's 30F/-1C right now at 8:07 AM in January, and I can see a lot of grass on the ground. There are still somes piles of snow out there, but they're slowly melting. Hooray El Niño, hooray Global Warming!
As a student, I've seen this quite a bit. At SDSU, wifi is still fairly limited. Only a few specific majors require (or use it to the point where it's almost a requirement) a network connection, so students play single-player games during class on their laptops if they don't want to pay attention.
In my smaller CS classes where I take notes, I tend to sit in the back or at an angle against the wall to avoid distracting everyone else. In one of the larger rooms on campus, which seats somewhere in the neighborhood of 415 people, students sometimes bring a laptop to take notes (or view them, if they're PPT or PDF). The problem is, the room's usually dimly lit and incredibly crowded; one little laptop can attract the attention of so many students.
What I really like is the insurance commercial which shows the insurance company airlifting people and supplies to build your house in the 30 second commercial. I say we switch to $that_insurance and sue for false advertising in the event that our house starts on fire.:D
Stewie Griffin: Now listen to me, we've got five days left. Stewie Griffin: I'll not lose my wager. Now repeat after me. Stewie Griffin: "Hello, Mother. Have you hidden my hatchet?" Eliza Pinchley: "'Allo, Mother. 'Ave you 'idden my 'atchet?" Stewie Griffin: God, no! It's an "H" sound, you moron!
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Who wants to waste RAM and CPU cycles running an OS within an OS?
Emacs users?
Pretty much the type of off-topic post I'd expect from someone that uses the word USian. Why that anyways? Why not USish? USAish? USAn? Well, I guess when you try to copy and use a made up word enough to get people to think it's a real word, you can use whatever you want to.
(Apparently I made a similar comment years ago. Interesting.)
Per a former Spanish teacher of mine, if you take the word for "citizen of the United States" and translate it to English as a literal word, you get United Statesian. I agree that it's not valid English and sounds dumb, but after hearing it all those times, it sounds almost right to me.
One of my college professors would give us study guides that were a superset of the actual exam. He would simply delete chunks of the study guide and hit print. All tests were primarily, often exclusively, multiple choice. Upon discovering this, I'd organize a group effort to fill out the study guide; I do the first 20, you do the next 20, she does the 20 after that, , email me your finished answers. At least a couple of days before the tests, we'd all have completed copies of the study guide.
When it came time for the final in the first class I had with him, we split up the study guide as usual. I knew if I could glance at two or four of the available options and know which letter matches, I could quickly take the test. I finished the multiple choice in about 10 minutes. He hadn't given us any essay questions on the study guide, but I made it through those in about 5 minutes. I then sat in my seat for a while, not wanting to be "that guy" who finishes their final and leaves after 15 minutes.
There was an Ask Slashdot thread on this a couple of months ago with various suggestions from people.
Does it support ABP? And NoScript?
Yes. I have SeaMonkey running with both of them.
Does anybody actually say "Kleenex" instead of "tissue" anymore?
Yes. While I don't think I ever buy Kleenex brand, it throws me when someone asks for "tissue." I, and it appears quite a few people I know, grew up using "Kleenex" as the generic term.
"Estados Unidos (de América)" = United States (of America)
"estadounidense" = citizen thereof
A rough translation of the word for a citizen of the US, Spanish to English, is "United Statesian."
My it? What about my it?
> Qtpfsgui Holy crap, how does one spell that? o_0
Off the top of my head, I'd guess q-t-p-f-s-g-u-i.
Florida is one of the top five textbook markets in the USA, so its move could lead to the development of other free materials that might someday challenge the dominance of a handful of big educational publishers.
While I'm not in Florida, I am both a college student and a fan of free learning materials. Having to pay for text books every semester (even if I buy the international editions) hurts. I agree with #21302639; there should be a place somewhere (dmoz, "List of..." article on Wikipedia, a completely separate wiki) to list, maybe even host, all of these resources. Everything from learning to read through higher level, just an all-encompassing (as near as can be attained, of course) collection of these materials.
Personally, I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Macbook (a core duo with 32 Megs of RAM)...
My pentium 3 with 256 megs of ram runs faster than this machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Well, yes, a Core Duo may be capable of outperforming a Pentium 3, but when the P3 has 8 times the ram (and the CDuo has so little that you can't install OS X on it...I've actually tried to install OS X with 32mb ram. It's not happy when you try that), it's sure to outperform the Mac!
Anyway, I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro. I go with Mac because (1) it /is/ more stable for me (a combination of what I've done to this computer and my desktop and what sort of stuff I run, I'm sure; it's not a guarantee that it's more stable for everyone) and (2) I don't want to deal with virtualization or emulation to run things like MS Word and Photoshop. Sure, alternatives exist for these that can claim full support for the formats, yadda yadda, but we all know that they aren't able to perfectly open every file. A lot of the apps I run have perfectly working free alternatives that I could run from, say, FreeBSD. All of them have some alternative, but dealing with their shortcomings or running Windows (or OSx86 or whatever) on top of $other_OS isn't worth it. Oh yes, and (3), Cygwin/Services for UNIX/etc are all awkward to use. This is why (2) cannot be defeated by simply running Windows.
You may feel completely different about those (you being a general person, not the parent), fine. I'll run OS X, you run $something_else. This fits my needs, so I'll continue to use it.
And, without big labels it's impossible for the bands to really invest in paying a decent studio to record, mix and master their CD and hire engineers by themselves. I just don't see how there can be a mega-band without a major record label company.
Note: This is all based on what I've heard and the very little that I know. I could be way off on some of the details, but the idea stands.
Mega's a relative term; after all, is a megabyte all that big?
Bands could do the recording themselves. I have a few instruments and some recording hardware (now I just need talent). All said, under $1500. Sure, the quality isn't nearly as good as using a professional studio and hiring people who know what they're doing, but it's possible.
If we drop the idea of record labels completely (as there'd be a "major" label or two even if they were all tiny relative to what's there now), advertising and distribution could be word of mouth, online advertising, and so forth. It'd be very possible for a band to gain a huge following. Note that just because we hypothetically go back a century or two to the idea of no record labels doesn't mean we can't use everything else (such as Google ads, personal web sites, MySpace and its Flash audio streamer, and so forth) that's around today.
Just because the massive support structure behind the bands disappears doesn't mean that we'd have no mega-bands. We'd just have many fewer and they'd have to work a lot harder, spend a lot more of their own/borrowed money, and/or have friends with the right know-how on various topics.
Would it be easy? Of course not. But it'd be possible with what we have these days. I'm not saying it should/shouldn't be this way, but it'd be possible. Of course, if every record label shut down overnight for whatever reason and the next day brought self-relient bands, sooner or later we'd end up back at the same place we are now. A dedicated (as in sole function) group of marketing people, lawyers, and the like provide bands with much more time to do the things that actually require their talent.
Yes, I know I'm at the wrong place to suggest this, and I'm aware it's not the greatest idea (good old security), but it's handy.
One of the extensions I have on Firefox on my Windows desktop is IE Tab, that allows a link or blank tab to be rendered with IE rather than Gecko. While the Identify As Internet Explorer and Mask As Internet Explorer are good enough for most sites, some of them still use horrible JavaScript that won't work in Opera. I'm looking at you MSDN!
It gets annoying at work (software development for a major scoreboard and electronic sign manufacturer) to be using Opera and find a search result for MSDN, open it, and have about a 50% chance of it working. It's not the fact that opening IE and viewing the article is an annoyance, it's being so used to just clicking on Opera for an open web site and then wondering where the article went -- the reason I first used Opera, aside from it being the only web browser I knew of for Windows 3 way back when, was that it supported tabs. That advantage is a bit lost when I have 5 IE windows open along with Opera.
And, yes, I'm aware that I'm complaining from a user point of view as well. This, however, would be useful to web developers (who are testing under Windows) to have pages in one window for comparison rather than many.
It was intended as a joke. :-) Nonetheless, whatever is giving us the nice temperatures is surely appreciated.
While there's no question the greenhouse effect is something we'd be better off without...
Something tells me you haven't spent the last 21 or so years in South Dakota before. :)
It's 30F/-1C right now at 8:07 AM in January, and I can see a lot of grass on the ground. There are still somes piles of snow out there, but they're slowly melting. Hooray El Niño, hooray Global Warming!
As a student, I've seen this quite a bit. At SDSU, wifi is still fairly limited. Only a few specific majors require (or use it to the point where it's almost a requirement) a network connection, so students play single-player games during class on their laptops if they don't want to pay attention.
In my smaller CS classes where I take notes, I tend to sit in the back or at an angle against the wall to avoid distracting everyone else. In one of the larger rooms on campus, which seats somewhere in the neighborhood of 415 people, students sometimes bring a laptop to take notes (or view them, if they're PPT or PDF). The problem is, the room's usually dimly lit and incredibly crowded; one little laptop can attract the attention of so many students.
Yeah, I think that's them.
:D
What I really like is the insurance commercial which shows the insurance company airlifting people and supplies to build your house in the 30 second commercial. I say we switch to $that_insurance and sue for false advertising in the event that our house starts on fire.
...and a great episode it was. :)
From the article: "INTEL'S Itanium processor will only be partly supported by Microsofts forthcoming Longhorn Server."
The future server (post-2003 R2, I believe) is still under the name Longhorn from what I know.
Stewie Griffin: Now listen to me, we've got five days left.
Stewie Griffin: I'll not lose my wager. Now repeat after me.
Stewie Griffin: "Hello, Mother. Have you hidden my hatchet?"
Eliza Pinchley: "'Allo, Mother. 'Ave you 'idden my 'atchet?"
Stewie Griffin: God, no! It's an "H" sound, you moron!
Apples and a billion apples. There are many more trolls than existing wiretaps, so while 19% is 19%, a 19% in trolls is a much higher number.
Why put a fake one when a real one will work as well? :)
erm, it /is/ in them...can I blame that on lack of caffeine?
And it's not in the /. comment if anything scans those for emails.