I have used http://www.bonusprint.com/ for a few times and I'm very happy with the quality, the options and the promptness of the service. They also ship worlwide for very reasonable fees, IMO.
Doing some research I'm sure one can find similar, cheaper and/or better alternatives out there.
If you're keeping your life savings in a savings account, let me tell you, you're losing a lot of money every year, because inflation is approximately 4%. Check the laughable interest rate that any bank gives you. Don't be surprised if it's something like 0.2%
You should keep your life savings in bonds, funds or stocks, not savings accounts. An indexed fund gives, very roughly, about 10% annually.
The language he claims to have made up, is actually just a rip-off of estonian with some mix of finnish...
So Italian is kind of a rip-off of Latin and Esperanto is a rip-off of many languages... does it matter? The examples given by the article don't give a lot of details about his language, so it's not fair to say he's plagiarizing anything. He could be taking Estonian or Finnish vocabulary but redoing the grammar completely... who knows...
You fail to realize the sensitivity of causality in history. Even a small change, can make the whole world different after 50 years. Even if your mother had met your father just one hour later, it's very likely that you would have been conceived (or not at all) by another sperm cell and hence, you would not exist.
Of course, the most likely thing is that your present mother and father wouldn't exist either...
I believe that information can be arbitrarily well obfuscated and hidden and therefore I find it difficult to imagine that there can be an effective and feasible technique to counter attack stenographic messages.
In other words, if Hitler hadn't invaded Russia, Linux today would be greatly changed because Linus would have been a Soviet citizen in a communist state?
No, Linus Torvalds simply wouldn't exist... and neither you and me. Even a smaller change at that time would have had a drastic impact in the current state of the world.
Where I'm from, Mexico, people watch practically all movies subtitled. I've been living in the US for a few years and I was surprised that many, if not most Americans, really dislike subtitled movies. I've heard that they find it very difficult to watch the movie and read the subtitles at the same time.
Then I realized that my brain does an amazing job at doing both things at the same time because I have no problem whatsoever when I watch subtitled movies.
The funny thing is that in Spain, they also hate subtitled movies. I guess they must have started dubbing the movies instead of subtitling them, so they never got to develop this special ability.
Actually, sometimes when I watch a DVD in English, I like to put the English subtitles too. I hate when in the movie people talk too fast or use strange phrases that could be misinterpreted. Reading the captions help me catch those hard-to-listen slangs and stuff...
Sampling statistical methods can say a lot with small populations if it's done correctly. Maybe you can say a lot about a country surveying only 500 citizens in *some* situations. So this is not necessarily a bad thing.
Nevertheless, my empirical knowledge also makes me doubt that only 5% of the computers out there have spyware. Being optimistic, I bet is more than 50%.
English has a very large number of vowel sounds, but all are represented by just five letters.
Not only that, but the usage of these letters is often inconsistent.
Two examples: "oo" may sound like in cool, or in door or book, three different vowels. Or "ee" as in been or as in sheet.
That's why many English speakers have terrible spelling. The English language could really use either a pronunciation or spelling reform. The former is practically infeasible, of course.
Infact, I wont be surprised if they totally drop the support for MP3
I quote the article: "Mp3 ripping: It's admirable that Microsoft finally listened to their users on this one and gave in. In all of the previous versions of Window's Media Player Microsoft forced you to rip your tunes to WMA. Microsoft sought to justify this by arguing that it was a better format than mp3, etc. They didn't disallow mp3 ripping they just made it inconvenient. You had to buy a $10 add on plug in from a third party vendor or know enough about hacking WMP to figure out how to do it yourself. 180 degree change. Windows Media Player 10 fully supports mp3 ripping and high quality encoding at that. Kudos to Microsoft."
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... Sims 2 with the hope that the micromanagement tasks are optional.
That's why this game sucks. It's micromanagement at the stupidest level. Gosh, I bet there's more in a human being's life than cooking, mopping, sweeping, unclogging toilets...
I found The Sims to be a very addictive, horrible game.
I know other parts of the world don't respect free speach as we 'try' to in the US but this is horrible.
You could have used another country as an example for the respect for freedom of speech and of press.
A current
index places the US in place 17.
I can tell you it's still bad even if you understand Esperanto.
I sometimes listen to Radio Polonia in Esperanto, and I can understand most of what it is said. In contrast, Incubus's pronounciation is terrible!!! Unintelligible!
Many Esperantists are proud because there is already one movie filmed completely in Esperanto. I'm not so happy about it. That movie sucks!
Wow. I just tested the Spanish version. It's incredibly natural. I'm speechless (no pun intented)
The English output still sounds like a robot. The Spanish one is almost humanlike.
For those who don't know, Spanish has a nearly perfect spelling system: by the spelling you know how to pronounce the word exactly. Of course, regional dialects change the pronunciation, but it's always consistent.
The other way around is not true, though. Two words with the same pronunciation may have different spellings, specially because of the V-B, S-C-Z, CC-X, C-K.
Depending on the cost of the material, which is not mentioned in the article, it could be a great way to insulate from heat in the summer, while helping trap heat in winter. Specially for big glass buildings, this could translate into big savings in energy and money.
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I have used http://www.bonusprint.com/ for a few times and I'm very happy with the quality, the options and the promptness of the service. They also ship worlwide for very reasonable fees, IMO.
Doing some research I'm sure one can find similar, cheaper and/or better alternatives out there.
I think it's much riskier to let your savings rot away...
If you're keeping your life savings in a savings account, let me tell you, you're losing a lot of money every year, because inflation is approximately 4%. Check the laughable interest rate that any bank gives you. Don't be surprised if it's something like 0.2%
You should keep your life savings in bonds, funds or stocks, not savings accounts. An indexed fund gives, very roughly, about 10% annually.
There concerned with security because other more secure browsers like firefox are becoming more populer
There? Where? Why not here?
So Italian is kind of a rip-off of Latin and Esperanto is a rip-off of many languages... does it matter? The examples given by the article don't give a lot of details about his language, so it's not fair to say he's plagiarizing anything. He could be taking Estonian or Finnish vocabulary but redoing the grammar completely... who knows...
You fail to realize the sensitivity of causality in history. Even a small change, can make the whole world different after 50 years. Even if your mother had met your father just one hour later, it's very likely that you would have been conceived (or not at all) by another sperm cell and hence, you would not exist.
Of course, the most likely thing is that your present mother and father wouldn't exist either...
I believe that information can be arbitrarily well obfuscated and hidden and therefore I find it difficult to imagine that there can be an effective and feasible technique to counter attack stenographic messages.
In other words, if Hitler hadn't invaded Russia, Linux today would be greatly changed because Linus would have been a Soviet citizen in a communist state?
No, Linus Torvalds simply wouldn't exist... and neither you and me. Even a smaller change at that time would have had a drastic impact in the current state of the world.
No Klingon, Esperanto or Pig Latin????
MSN Search, I've got two words: No thanks!
I mostly program in C, Java,php and C++(and several other languages that I dont use as much)
My brain had a fatal error when it tried to compile your sentence.
A bit off-topic, but I find this interesting...
Where I'm from, Mexico, people watch practically all movies subtitled. I've been living in the US for a few years and I was surprised that many, if not most Americans, really dislike subtitled movies. I've heard that they find it very difficult to watch the movie and read the subtitles at the same time.
Then I realized that my brain does an amazing job at doing both things at the same time because I have no problem whatsoever when I watch subtitled movies.
The funny thing is that in Spain, they also hate subtitled movies. I guess they must have started dubbing the movies instead of subtitling them, so they never got to develop this special ability.
Actually, sometimes when I watch a DVD in English, I like to put the English subtitles too. I hate when in the movie people talk too fast or use strange phrases that could be misinterpreted. Reading the captions help me catch those hard-to-listen slangs and stuff...
How on earth are they going to ship those monsters to their destinations???!!! They must be heavy as shit!
Cringely says that one third of all internet traffic is from torrents.
Is this true? I have a hard time believing it. I know huge files are transferred via bittorrent, but I don't think that many users are using it.
Any links to support this fact?
Sampling statistical methods can say a lot with small populations if it's done correctly. Maybe you can say a lot about a country surveying only 500 citizens in *some* situations. So this is not necessarily a bad thing.
Nevertheless, my empirical knowledge also makes me doubt that only 5% of the computers out there have spyware. Being optimistic, I bet is more than 50%.
Very difficult, and it has been already proposed a few times by important linguists, but is difficult to agree in these sort of reforms.
If memory serves well, German has already had a 'recent' spelling reform. However, I guess it was never of the magnitude that needed for English.
English has a very large number of vowel sounds, but all are represented by just five letters.
Not only that, but the usage of these letters is often inconsistent.
Two examples: "oo" may sound like in cool, or in door or book, three different vowels. Or "ee" as in been or as in sheet.
That's why many English speakers have terrible spelling. The English language could really use either a pronunciation or spelling reform. The former is practically infeasible, of course.
Infact, I wont be surprised if they totally drop the support for MP3
I quote the article: "Mp3 ripping: It's admirable that Microsoft finally listened to their users on this one and gave in. In all of the previous versions of Window's Media Player Microsoft forced you to rip your tunes to WMA. Microsoft sought to justify this by arguing that it was a better format than mp3, etc. They didn't disallow mp3 ripping they just made it inconvenient. You had to buy a $10 add on plug in from a third party vendor or know enough about hacking WMP to figure out how to do it yourself. 180 degree change. Windows Media Player 10 fully supports mp3 ripping and high quality encoding at that. Kudos to Microsoft."
... Sims 2 with the hope that the micromanagement tasks are optional.
That's why this game sucks. It's micromanagement at the stupidest level. Gosh, I bet there's more in a human being's life than cooking, mopping, sweeping, unclogging toilets...
I found The Sims to be a very addictive, horrible game.
IIRC, when the Shoemaker-Levy comet crashed on Jupiter in 1994, NASA's webserver couldn't cope with the traffic.
But then again... it was 1994.
I know other parts of the world don't respect free speach as we 'try' to in the US but this is horrible.
You could have used another country as an example for the respect for freedom of speech and of press.
A current index places the US in place 17.
I usually see and use retpos'to, instead of e-pos'to. Nice story, it must have been very interesting to work at UEA.
Yes, it takes a while to learn the syntax, as in any other language... but with a little geometry notion you can do very nice things.
Here are a few of my POV experiments:
Cut glass
Dice
Three balls
I can tell you it's still bad even if you understand Esperanto.
I sometimes listen to Radio Polonia in Esperanto, and I can understand most of what it is said. In contrast, Incubus's pronounciation is terrible!!! Unintelligible!
Many Esperantists are proud because there is already one movie filmed completely in Esperanto. I'm not so happy about it. That movie sucks!
Wow. I just tested the Spanish version. It's incredibly natural. I'm speechless (no pun intented)
The English output still sounds like a robot. The Spanish one is almost humanlike.
For those who don't know, Spanish has a nearly perfect spelling system: by the spelling you know how to pronounce the word exactly. Of course, regional dialects change the pronunciation, but it's always consistent.
The other way around is not true, though. Two words with the same pronunciation may have different spellings, specially because of the V-B, S-C-Z, CC-X, C-K.
Depending on the cost of the material, which is not mentioned in the article, it could be a great way to insulate from heat in the summer, while helping trap heat in winter. Specially for big glass buildings, this could translate into big savings in energy and money.