Yet on my Mac, I can just drag an icon and the application is installed, and I can just drag that icon to the trash and the application is uninstalled. The fact that Windows is constructed in a way that makes life hard for its users doesn't mean things have to be that way.
As Larry Wall said, "Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible."
Surely that's the whole point: users shouldn't have to give us ideas; we should make stuff that people can just use. If I had to call Ford every time I wanted to take my car in a different direction, I'd use public transport instead.
Dunno about you, but I always drop my car out of gear and release the clutch when stuck in traffic. No point it using the clutch and two feet when a brake and one foot will do quite fine.
Personally, I always use the handbrake when stuck in traffic. No point using one foot when no feet will do quite fine.
On numerous occasions, the only way I've been able to get anything approximating a seat on our wonderful trains is to lean on somebody's bike saddle in the luggage area. Maybe they were just trying to meet their government targets for available seating?
(If you're wondering how I got into the bike storage area, a tip: be nice to the staff, and they'll be nice to you. This is particularly the case with local services, where the same few crews usually work the same services in rotation. I even used to get called on my mobile by a member of the train crew telling me how late they were running: "We're just leaving New Street, so you'll have time for another pint.")
'Great Britain' is a geographical area including some (but not others) of the islands that are near the main island on which England sits.
Not quite.
Great Britain is, as you say, a geographical term, but it refers to the largest island of the British Isles - the one comprising the majority of the landmass of England, Wales and Scotland. The British Isles also include Ireland, containing Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, as well as all the smaller places like the Isle of Man, the Shetlands, and so forth . The name of the country (i.e. the political entity, or state) often referred to as Great Britain is actually called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Personally, I usually refer to my homeland as Britain, as even though it's the greatest country in the world, that isn't saying very much when you consider the competition in this hellhole of a human-vermin-infested planet. Damned by faint praise about sums it up.
The film Caligula (original title Caligola, apparently) features a scene wherein some bloke that the Emperor deems deserving of punishment has his genitals lashed up with leather thongs (to cut off the urethra) and is then forced to consume vast quantities of wine. When he's finally on the point of bursting, he is run through with a sword or suchlike, releasing a torrent of mingled urine, wine and blood. What a delightful film that is...
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A Google for water torture "Conan Doyle" gives The Leather Funnel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as fourth result, which must be the story you read..
A Google for water torture inquisition will then give you more details than you probably wanted (once you get past the pr0n).
Now, what was I doing...?
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"Exemplar" is indeed a word; however, it is a noun, and I assumed from the context in which you used it ("Its handwriting recognition is exemplar") that you meant the related adjective, "exemplary".
Being English, I'm not sure what words Americans use, although I understand that they spell them in an unusual way.
Ah well, there goes all my karma for being a grammar Nazi. Have a nice day:-)
I just tried it on IE6, and it works there too - should have said "IE5 upwards", I suppose.
(For those who don't know, MS's versioning is so bizarre that IE5 and IE5.5 are different in more than minor version number, while IE6 is pretty much IE5.5.1. No, I don't understand either; but I'm always glad of a reminder of why I use a Mac these days:-)
Presumably he was referring to his being of the Jewish people, not of the Jewish faith. AFAIK, the Nazis didn't persecute the Jews because of their religion but because they were regarded as an inferior race. I don't think anybody escaped the death camps because they never went to the synagogue.
I think you'll find that the Guinness in the States (and in the UK) is pasteurised, while that in the Republic of Ireland is normally still live - like the difference between Watney's Red Barrel and a real ale.
Whether I'm correct or not, I do know that virtually all the Guinness drunk in the UK is brewed at Park Royal in London, while the Republic of Ireland's Guinness is brewed in Dublin. The different waters would definitely have an effect on the flavour, although I doubt the water alone would make the bubbles behave differently:-)
Notice how three separate Mac users have posted about this in the space of two minutes? The first gets modded Offtopic, I get modded Redundant, you get modded Interesting. Looks like the mods are on crack again:-)
Anyway, enough of this OT babble; I've got to get Open Office working...
I downloaded the latest version of OO the other day, but haven't got round to dealing with the installation issues yet. Something to pass the time this afternoon:-)
(For any other Mac users with the same problem, TextEdit, as of Panther (10.3), can open Word docs.)
most of the techs are very much for open source solutions, but are restricted due to internal politics
A few years ago I did some work at TV Centre with BBC News Online. I was told, "The servers run Windows. The person responsible for this mistake has since been removed.":-)
On the other hand, if you want to become a chef, you are definitely going to read quite a few cookbooks. It's only by mastering the basics that you'll become an expert.
The review says that the book contains "all you need to know to get started in the wonderful world of hardware hacking". By following the instructions and having a clear explanation of the rationale behind them, one would quickly gain enough knowledge and understanding to become a hacker in the sense you describe.
Perhaps the title should have been "for Wannabee Geeks" instead.:-)
Although the German cannibalism case has been dragged into this, the UK is currently experiencing a moral panic because of the murder of Jane Longhurst, a teacher who was killed by a man who regularly visited extreme (rape/murder/snuff) sites. Some details here. There are more details accessible from this BBC News search.
I too had vaguely thought that Yahoo! had already switched. From reading this article, I think I probably just assumed, when they bought Inktomi, that they would have made the switch straight away.
Another interesting point is that so far, they have only rolled this out in the US. Looks like we Europeans will have to wait to be Slurped;-)
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Yet on my Mac, I can just drag an icon and the application is installed, and I can just drag that icon to the trash and the application is uninstalled. The fact that Windows is constructed in a way that makes life hard for its users doesn't mean things have to be that way.
As Larry Wall said, "Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible."
Surely that's the whole point: users shouldn't have to give us ideas; we should make stuff that people can just use. If I had to call Ford every time I wanted to take my car in a different direction, I'd use public transport instead.
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One can accurately recount the legend, though.
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Personally, I always use the handbrake when stuck in traffic. No point using one foot when no feet will do quite fine.
Some years ago, I was on a train whose conductor explained in great detail why we were going to sit at Nuneaton for an hour, finishing with:
"Once again, we apologise for this delay, which is due solely to the incompetence of the driver."
On numerous occasions, the only way I've been able to get anything approximating a seat on our wonderful trains is to lean on somebody's bike saddle in the luggage area. Maybe they were just trying to meet their government targets for available seating?
(If you're wondering how I got into the bike storage area, a tip: be nice to the staff, and they'll be nice to you. This is particularly the case with local services, where the same few crews usually work the same services in rotation. I even used to get called on my mobile by a member of the train crew telling me how late they were running: "We're just leaving New Street, so you'll have time for another pint.")
Not quite.
Great Britain is, as you say, a geographical term, but it refers to the largest island of the British Isles - the one comprising the majority of the landmass of England, Wales and Scotland. The British Isles also include Ireland, containing Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, as well as all the smaller places like the Isle of Man, the Shetlands, and so forth . The name of the country (i.e. the political entity, or state) often referred to as Great Britain is actually called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Personally, I usually refer to my homeland as Britain, as even though it's the greatest country in the world, that isn't saying very much when you consider the competition in this hellhole of a human-vermin-infested planet. Damned by faint praise about sums it up.
The film Caligula (original title Caligola, apparently) features a scene wherein some bloke that the Emperor deems deserving of punishment has his genitals lashed up with leather thongs (to cut off the urethra) and is then forced to consume vast quantities of wine. When he's finally on the point of bursting, he is run through with a sword or suchlike, releasing a torrent of mingled urine, wine and blood. What a delightful film that is...
A Google for water torture "Conan Doyle" gives The Leather Funnel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as fourth result, which must be the story you read..
A Google for water torture inquisition will then give you more details than you probably wanted (once you get past the pr0n).
Now, what was I doing...?
Start here and Google onwards :-)
"Exemplar" is indeed a word; however, it is a noun, and I assumed from the context in which you used it ("Its handwriting recognition is exemplar") that you meant the related adjective, "exemplary".
Being English, I'm not sure what words Americans use, although I understand that they spell them in an unusual way.
Ah well, there goes all my karma for being a grammar Nazi. Have a nice day :-)
Except with the words "handwriting" and "exemplary" :-)
I would if I ever used it :-)
The IE/Mac codebase is totally different from the IE/Windows codebase. But, like any sensible Mac user, I use Safari these days.
For those who want to know, I've just tested on IE/Mac v.5.2.2, and it's not vulnerable.
I just tried it on IE6, and it works there too - should have said "IE5 upwards", I suppose.
(For those who don't know, MS's versioning is so bizarre that IE5 and IE5.5 are different in more than minor version number, while IE6 is pretty much IE5.5.1. No, I don't understand either; but I'm always glad of a reminder of why I use a Mac these days :-)
Presumably he was referring to his being of the Jewish people, not of the Jewish faith. AFAIK, the Nazis didn't persecute the Jews because of their religion but because they were regarded as an inferior race. I don't think anybody escaped the death camps because they never went to the synagogue.
I think you'll find that the Guinness in the States (and in the UK) is pasteurised, while that in the Republic of Ireland is normally still live - like the difference between Watney's Red Barrel and a real ale.
Whether I'm correct or not, I do know that virtually all the Guinness drunk in the UK is brewed at Park Royal in London, while the Republic of Ireland's Guinness is brewed in Dublin. The different waters would definitely have an effect on the flavour, although I doubt the water alone would make the bubbles behave differently :-)
Notice how three separate Mac users have posted about this in the space of two minutes? The first gets modded Offtopic, I get modded Redundant, you get modded Interesting. Looks like the mods are on crack again :-)
Anyway, enough of this OT babble; I've got to get Open Office working...
I downloaded the latest version of OO the other day, but haven't got round to dealing with the installation issues yet. Something to pass the time this afternoon :-)
(For any other Mac users with the same problem, TextEdit, as of Panther (10.3), can open Word docs.)
The document here crashes Word on Office X for Mac. Way to go, MS.
A few years ago I did some work at TV Centre with BBC News Online. I was told, "The servers run Windows. The person responsible for this mistake has since been removed." :-)
On the other hand, if you want to become a chef, you are definitely going to read quite a few cookbooks. It's only by mastering the basics that you'll become an expert.
The review says that the book contains "all you need to know to get started in the wonderful world of hardware hacking". By following the instructions and having a clear explanation of the rationale behind them, one would quickly gain enough knowledge and understanding to become a hacker in the sense you describe.
Perhaps the title should have been "for Wannabee Geeks" instead. :-)
Although the German cannibalism case has been dragged into this, the UK is currently experiencing a moral panic because of the murder of Jane Longhurst, a teacher who was killed by a man who regularly visited extreme (rape/murder/snuff) sites. Some details here. There are more details accessible from this BBC News search.
Unfortunately, AT .- - without any space is already taken by W .--
Sorry for being facetious :-)
I too had vaguely thought that Yahoo! had already switched. From reading this article, I think I probably just assumed, when they bought Inktomi, that they would have made the switch straight away.
Another interesting point is that so far, they have only rolled this out in the US. Looks like we Europeans will have to wait to be Slurped ;-)