...but I see where the confusion is on the river one.
In this sentence, I find it grammatically correct to describe a mountain river as grand. The following poster makes a good point about context. Why should I assume that the river reference is a proper name?
I think it is unprofessional to judge an answer as correct or incorrect based on a question that admits multiple meanings.
What's wrong with that one? Grand is an adjective.
15. He paid all the interest on the principle.
This is correct? If we assume a loan, then the correct word is principal. Otherwise, we must assume that the principle (fundamental idea) was interesting, and somehow he applied a payment to it. That's a real stretch.
I wouldn't call this a test of grammar, but rather a test of grammar and appropriate word choice. I also wonder what kind of teacher is confortable promoting deception ("...the test was fabricated").
Drug use is not nearly as common as listening to music.
Really? In my life, I have known very few people that did not use drugs.
I use caffeine and ethanol on a regular basis, and occasionally acetylsalicylic acid, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, and others.
Nicotine is still a popular drug, and use of powerful hormones like melatonin are not uncommon.
Aside from the non-prescription drugs most of us use, don't forget all the people taking Prozak, Valium, drugs for cholesterol, drugs for blood pressure, drugs for adjusting other bodily processes, and of course, drugs to slow down our active kids...
Then we have the people using CERTAIN drugs... Is this what you were talking about?:-)
Need a 50GHz scope? HP will propably be on your short list.
Not a chance. From my personal experience, I would put HP scopes at the bottom of my list. In fact, I would choose an unknown brand over HP. But why settle for that? Tektronix scopes are IMHO the absolute best, and many models are available on ebay for peanuts.
I still believe HP calculators are the best in theo world, though. I just wish they still made the 11c/15c/16c models...
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How long will it be before every possible program will be encoded into Perl's executable? Hmmm. Perl and Emacs, together at last! That's an intriguing idea - why not send a proposal to Wall & Stallman?:-)
This sounds like late night TV commercial products. My pet theory is that the "low low price" is actually their net profit, and the "shipping and handling" is actually shipping, handling, and product cost. This means that their "money back" guarantee only assures them that the customer will ALWAYS pay for the product, and if the product returns damaged or unsalable, they can throw it in the trash, and still not lose money on that sale.
Take a close look at these ads sometime and ask yourself if the S&H could also cover the cost of manufacturing...
IIRC, Moon Moth was about an interstellar cop trying to catch a criminal in a society where everyone worn face masks of different design depending of their mood and intent, and spoke in a complex mix of modes to match.
That is correct. And their economy (as it were) was based on strakh (karma/reputation). Why do you contradict me? (Your title is "Not Moon Moth, but some other").
In a Jack Vance story, one world had no use for money. They traded goods based on a person's strakh, roughly similar to personality, prestige, karma, etc. The way to improving one's strakh was to excel in one's craft or trade, and by wisely choosing who received the product of one's labors.
Good trades, that is providing excellent products to "customers" of high strakh, would increase both parties' prestige.
Naturally, to an outsider, this gift economy had rules that were nearly incomprehensible. And breaking those rules, even accidentally, could lead to grave personal danger.
I believe you are refering to Odorama. This was hyped as one of the innovations of the movie Polyester. When you went into the theater, you get a scratch-n-sniff card with about a dozen numbered dots. When you see the dot in the corner of the screen, you are supposed to scratch that dot and smell...
Naturally, to keep the surprise, the dot would show on the screen a few seconds before you knew what it was supposed to be. I remember air freshener, natural gas, natural gas, model airplane glue.
Tungsten means "heavy stone" in swedish. So you would think it's heavy.
No question about that! It is very heavy in fact. I just checked, and the specific gravity figures are tungsten=19.2, gold=19.3, and iridium=21.8 to 22.4
In a surprising turnaround, tungsten was found to be the heaviest metal. In a recent survey, tungsten was found to be heavier than both gold and iridium, which were traditionally thought to be heavier than tungsten.
Physicists and metalurgists are surprised by the recent outcome, but in a spirit of democracy, have announced that they will honor the will of the people, and make the neccessary adjustments to the periodic table of elements.
Poll says 72% of Americans technologically illiterate. Yup. Ten-four, good buddy:-)
I was told over a year ago, that the great domains were already gone. So, to prove a point, I went a grabbed a "good" domain.
There are still plenty of "good" domain names up for grabs. Check out the Peckerheads domain board. for some really, er... interesting possibilities:-)
If you look at the facts, you'll see that they have taken the time to alert their customers
They didn't bother to notify ME. I just found out because I read slashdot. And I have been an Onsale customer for about 4 years.
and give them a chance to OPT OUT [egghead.com] of the information transfer.
Their web form doesn't work. It just pops up a blank "mailto" window. I assume that "user name" also means number, because when I first started, all customers were just numbers:-)
wanna bet we get a suspension of our "inalienable" rights?????
I think the solution to this kind of attack is to short-circuit the kidnap/hijack attempt before it gets going. Some years ago, I have resolved to practice what I preach.
I am not in the practice of picking up hitchhikers, but if I did, and he threatened me, I have resolved to harm him permanently. Preferably with less harm to me, but if I have to hit a concrete overpass column at 80 mph, so be it.
While the danger of a hijacking is exceedingly small, I am a pilot, and would sooner crash into a hill or lake than allow someone to force me to harm even more people.
I have told my wife that if I am ever kidnapped, or held with threat of violence (same thing, I guess), she should assume I will not survive the incident, and concentrate on killing the kidnappers. Call in the snipers. And if I am not bound and gagged, I will be the loudest one there, shouting "KILL THEM! KILL THEM!".
Kidnappers, terrorists, and the like only succeed because of the miserable cowards negotiate with them, and allow them to use violence as if it were currency.
Sony is talking to sell this dog to everyone in China, not US.
I suppose a robotic dog could also be a recording device... Taking this a step further, the "pets" sold in China could have a special party-loyalty module (or firmware) to help keep track of their subjects.
Nobody likes big brother using cold and obtrusive monitoring gear, but a friendly robotic "pal" could be an easy sell.
In the late 60's and early 70's, the auto industry...[insisted]...that it would be impossible to actually improve their engine technology.
I think a large part of this attitude rests with the stockholders that are unwilling to support R&D that may take years to pay off. How the hell can a company improve its produts when the stockholders (through the board and the officers) demand that the company be bled dry just to have a bigger dividend next quarter?
Yes, I know that not all stockholders are so shortsighted, and that it's no secret that a company must spend at least some money on R&D just to be competitive. The actual truth is probably some gray area.
A good part of the problem is those STUPID stockholders that have no business tying their own shoes, let alone influencing our economy, livelihoods, market, and environment. I think we have all seen what kind of turmoil these stupid people have created over the last few years. Putting such insane funding into those crazy ventures was not only a waste of resources, but it makes life difficult for the "honest" ventures.
Not that there's anything wrong with choosing Uruguay, but that seems an unusual place to hold an ICANN meeting. Why go there?
The official answer is probably that it is a symbol of the fact that they represent all nations, blah, blah, blah.
I believe that they just want to keep out the "rifraff" (that's you and me), and that by making the meeting places inconvenient, the representation will have an automatic bias towards the corporations or political entities that don't care about cost.
They may have chosen Uruguay because Easter Island would have been too obvious.
Read between the lines. The cd works fine if you just want to listen to the tunes.
A couple years ago, I bought a used Who CD. I should expect to play it and listen to the music, right? Well, it turns out that there were some scratches, and while most of the tracks were playable, one was not.
The reason that the "standard" CDs have error correction is so that it can tolerate a few minor scratches and still play. Without it, I might not have been able to play any of the songs... And this is the problem - these copy protection nuts want to render this feature useless.
Another interesting possibility is that if the error correction data is reduced, minor scratches or other wear and tear will increase the number of sales to people replacing CDs. I'm sure the recording industry enjoyed the vinyl era where they could depend on albums wearing out, and getting repeat sales due to the limited lifetime "feature". This trick with CDs may be a step back to the "good old days".
1. Context menu (KDE 2.2 and higher) I'm running 2.1.1, so no mystery here.
2. You can put it on a toolbar. From some hints that others have provided, I found the right way to enable this. Problem solved!
3. Simply not true, you can access menus both ways.
It IS true. When I move the mouse over the bookmarks button and press down the left button, the bookmarks menu appears. The mouse pointer is over the "edit" selection. If I release the mouse button now, the bookmarks menu disappears, and in a moment, the bookmark editor screen comes up.
The bookmarks menu disappears when I release the mouse button. How can I make this more plain? When I release the button, whatever was below the pointer is selected.
If you know of a way to change this behavior, you might have the courtesy of giving me a hint instead of suggesting that I am making this up.
Does the escape key work? (Konq doesn't run on my operating system so I can't check.) It doesn't - apparently 2.1.1 does not have an option for stopping those pesky animations, so I'll look forward to my next upgrade. I did find the magic seqence to get my Personal Toolbar Folder up, though (see below).
Thanks for checking though (I can't believe how many helpful replies people have given on this message!)
You have to add them as a bookmark, and then go into Edit Bookmarks and move them to the Toolbar folder.
That was all the hint i needed:-) Actually, I had to go to Bookmarks->Edit Bookmarks, then highlight "Personal Toolbar Folder", then Settings->Set as Toolbar Folder. That did the trick!
5. Mind giving more details about it? I didn't understand u.
On some web sites, Konqueror just dies. The KDE crashlog box thingy comes up telling me it died... Then KDE closes the error box and Konqueror. "It's dead, Jim".
I suspect that this may have something to do with the complexity of the web site, or perhaps with the fact that my x-terminals (I use many) only support 8-bit graphics. Navigator does this occasionally, too, but turning off Javascript helps considerably on these sites (for instance www.shopper.com).
You have to add them as a bookmark, and then go into Edit Bookmarks and move them to the Toolbar folder.
Thanks for the tip - I must have missed the "Toolbar" folder somewhere... I did try adding "bookmarks" to the toolbar, but that just put a down arrow that just brings up the same bookmark list. Thanks!
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...but I see where the confusion is on the river one.
In this sentence, I find it grammatically correct to describe a mountain river as grand. The following poster makes a good point about context. Why should I assume that the river reference is a proper name?
I think it is unprofessional to judge an answer as correct or incorrect based on a question that admits multiple meanings.
10. We rafted down the grand mountain river.
What's wrong with that one? Grand is an adjective.
15. He paid all the interest on the principle.
This is correct? If we assume a loan, then the correct word is principal. Otherwise, we must assume that the principle (fundamental idea) was interesting, and somehow he applied a payment to it. That's a real stretch.
I wouldn't call this a test of grammar, but rather a test of grammar and appropriate word choice. I also wonder what kind of teacher is confortable promoting deception ("...the test was fabricated").
Drug use is not nearly as common as listening to music.
:-)
Really? In my life, I have known very few people that did not use drugs.
I use caffeine and ethanol on a regular basis, and occasionally acetylsalicylic acid, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, and others.
Nicotine is still a popular drug, and use of powerful hormones like melatonin are not uncommon.
Aside from the non-prescription drugs most of us use, don't forget all the people taking Prozak, Valium, drugs for cholesterol, drugs for blood pressure, drugs for adjusting other bodily processes, and of course, drugs to slow down our active kids...
Then we have the people using CERTAIN drugs... Is this what you were talking about?
Need a 50GHz scope? HP will propably be on your short list.
Not a chance. From my personal experience, I would put HP scopes at the bottom of my list. In fact, I would choose an unknown brand over HP. But why settle for that? Tektronix scopes are IMHO the absolute best, and many models are available on ebay for peanuts.
I still believe HP calculators are the best in theo world, though. I just wish they still made the 11c/15c/16c models...
How long will it be before every possible program will be encoded into Perl's executable? :-)
Hmmm. Perl and Emacs, together at last! That's an intriguing idea - why not send a proposal to Wall & Stallman?
Sorry, I just have to post to correct my moderation error - it was supposed to be +1 funny, but somehow came out -1 offtopic. -Sorry
This sounds like late night TV commercial products. My pet theory is that the "low low price" is actually their net profit, and the "shipping and handling" is actually shipping, handling, and product cost. This means that their "money back" guarantee only assures them that the customer will ALWAYS pay for the product, and if the product returns damaged or unsalable, they can throw it in the trash, and still not lose money on that sale.
Take a close look at these ads sometime and ask yourself if the S&H could also cover the cost of manufacturing...
IIRC, Moon Moth was about an interstellar cop trying to catch a criminal in a society where everyone worn face masks of different design depending of their mood and intent, and spoke in a complex mix of modes to match.
That is correct. And their economy (as it were) was based on strakh (karma/reputation). Why do you contradict me? (Your title is "Not Moon Moth, but some other").
In a Jack Vance story, one world had no use for money. They traded goods based on a person's strakh, roughly similar to personality, prestige, karma, etc. The way to improving one's strakh was to excel in one's craft or trade, and by wisely choosing who received the product of one's labors.
Good trades, that is providing excellent products to "customers" of high strakh, would increase both parties' prestige.
Naturally, to an outsider, this gift economy had rules that were nearly incomprehensible. And breaking those rules, even accidentally, could lead to grave personal danger.
Anyway, the name of the story is "Moon Moth".
but it sure beaks smellovision.
I believe you are refering to Odorama. This was hyped as one of the innovations of the movie Polyester. When you went into the theater, you get a scratch-n-sniff card with about a dozen numbered dots. When you see the dot in the corner of the screen, you are supposed to scratch that dot and smell...
Naturally, to keep the surprise, the dot would show on the screen a few seconds before you knew what it was supposed to be. I remember air freshener, natural gas, natural gas, model airplane glue.
By the way, I do not recommend this film.
Tungsten means "heavy stone" in swedish. So you would think it's heavy.
No question about that! It is very heavy in fact. I just checked, and the specific gravity figures are tungsten=19.2, gold=19.3, and iridium=21.8 to 22.4
In a surprising turnaround, tungsten was found to be the heaviest metal. In a recent survey, tungsten was found to be heavier than both gold and iridium, which were traditionally thought to be heavier than tungsten.
:-)
Physicists and metalurgists are surprised by the recent outcome, but in a spirit of democracy, have announced that they will honor the will of the people, and make the neccessary adjustments to the periodic table of elements.
Poll says 72% of Americans technologically illiterate. Yup. Ten-four, good buddy
I was told over a year ago, that the great domains were already gone. So, to prove a point, I went a grabbed a "good" domain.
:-)
There are still plenty of "good" domain names up for grabs. Check out the Peckerheads domain board. for some really, er... interesting possibilities
If you look at the facts, you'll see that they have taken the time to alert their customers
:-)
They didn't bother to notify ME. I just found out because I read slashdot. And I have been an Onsale customer for about 4 years.
and give them a chance to OPT OUT [egghead.com] of the information transfer.
Their web form doesn't work. It just pops up a blank "mailto" window. I assume that "user name" also means number, because when I first started, all customers were just numbers
wanna bet we get a suspension of our "inalienable" rights?????
I think the solution to this kind of attack is to short-circuit the kidnap/hijack attempt before it gets going. Some years ago, I have resolved to practice what I preach.
I am not in the practice of picking up hitchhikers, but if I did, and he threatened me, I have resolved to harm him permanently. Preferably with less harm to me, but if I have to hit a concrete overpass column at 80 mph, so be it.
While the danger of a hijacking is exceedingly small, I am a pilot, and would sooner crash into a hill or lake than allow someone to force me to harm even more people.
I have told my wife that if I am ever kidnapped, or held with threat of violence (same thing, I guess), she should assume I will not survive the incident, and concentrate on killing the kidnappers. Call in the snipers. And if I am not bound and gagged, I will be the loudest one there, shouting "KILL THEM! KILL THEM!".
Kidnappers, terrorists, and the like only succeed because of the miserable cowards negotiate with them, and allow them to use violence as if it were currency.
Sony is talking to sell this dog to everyone in China, not US.
I suppose a robotic dog could also be a recording device... Taking this a step further, the "pets" sold in China could have a special party-loyalty module (or firmware) to help keep track of their subjects.
Nobody likes big brother using cold and obtrusive monitoring gear, but a friendly robotic "pal" could be an easy sell.
In the late 60's and early 70's, the auto industry...[insisted]...that it would be impossible to actually improve their engine technology.
I think a large part of this attitude rests with the stockholders that are unwilling to support R&D that may take years to pay off. How the hell can a company improve its produts when the stockholders (through the board and the officers) demand that the company be bled dry just to have a bigger dividend next quarter?
Yes, I know that not all stockholders are so shortsighted, and that it's no secret that a company must spend at least some money on R&D just to be competitive. The actual truth is probably some gray area.
A good part of the problem is those STUPID stockholders that have no business tying their own shoes, let alone influencing our economy, livelihoods, market, and environment. I think we have all seen what kind of turmoil these stupid people have created over the last few years. Putting such insane funding into those crazy ventures was not only a waste of resources, but it makes life difficult for the "honest" ventures.
Not that there's anything wrong with choosing Uruguay, but that seems an unusual place to hold an ICANN meeting. Why go there?
The official answer is probably that it is a symbol of the fact that they represent all nations, blah, blah, blah.
I believe that they just want to keep out the "rifraff" (that's you and me), and that by making the meeting places inconvenient, the representation will have an automatic bias towards the corporations or political entities that don't care about cost.
They may have chosen Uruguay because Easter Island would have been too obvious.
Read between the lines. The cd works fine if you just want to listen to the tunes.
A couple years ago, I bought a used Who CD. I should expect to play it and listen to the music, right? Well, it turns out that there were some scratches, and while most of the tracks were playable, one was not.
The reason that the "standard" CDs have error correction is so that it can tolerate a few minor scratches and still play. Without it, I might not have been able to play any of the songs... And this is the problem - these copy protection nuts want to render this feature useless.
Another interesting possibility is that if the error correction data is reduced, minor scratches or other wear and tear will increase the number of sales to people replacing CDs. I'm sure the recording industry enjoyed the vinyl era where they could depend on albums wearing out, and getting repeat sales due to the limited lifetime "feature". This trick with CDs may be a step back to the "good old days".
I know this is and old thread now, but...
1. Context menu (KDE 2.2 and higher)
I'm running 2.1.1, so no mystery here.
2. You can put it on a toolbar.
From some hints that others have provided, I found the right way to enable this. Problem solved!
3. Simply not true, you can access menus both ways.
It IS true. When I move the mouse over the bookmarks button and press down the left button, the bookmarks menu appears. The mouse pointer is over the "edit" selection. If I release the mouse button now, the bookmarks menu disappears, and in a moment, the bookmark editor screen comes up.
The bookmarks menu disappears when I release the mouse button. How can I make this more plain? When I release the button, whatever was below the pointer is selected.
If you know of a way to change this behavior, you might have the courtesy of giving me a hint instead of suggesting that I am making this up.
Does the escape key work? (Konq doesn't run on my operating system so I can't check.)
It doesn't - apparently 2.1.1 does not have an option for stopping those pesky animations, so I'll look forward to my next upgrade. I did find the magic seqence to get my Personal Toolbar Folder up, though (see below).
Thanks for checking though (I can't believe how many helpful replies people have given on this message!)
You have to add them as a bookmark, and then go into Edit Bookmarks and move them to the Toolbar folder.
:-) Actually, I had to go to Bookmarks->Edit Bookmarks, then highlight "Personal Toolbar Folder", then Settings->Set as Toolbar Folder. That did the trick!
That was all the hint i needed
5. Mind giving more details about it? I didn't understand u.
On some web sites, Konqueror just dies. The KDE crashlog box thingy comes up telling me it died... Then KDE closes the error box and Konqueror. "It's dead, Jim".
I suspect that this may have something to do with the complexity of the web site, or perhaps with the fact that my x-terminals (I use many) only support 8-bit graphics. Navigator does this occasionally, too, but turning off Javascript helps considerably on these sites (for instance www.shopper.com).
Thanks for the info on "show bookmark toolbar".
You have to add them as a bookmark, and then go into Edit Bookmarks and move them to the Toolbar folder.
Thanks for the tip - I must have missed the "Toolbar" folder somewhere... I did try adding "bookmarks" to the toolbar, but that just put a down arrow that just brings up the same bookmark list. Thanks!
By the way, I'm using Konqueror 2.1.1
To stop animated .gif's, right click on the page and click "Stop Animations."
I thought I already tried that... Well, I will certainly try it out when I get a chance. Thanks for the tip!