For the record, Low Saxon is an extant language used every day in parts of Germany and the Netherlands.
Yes, but as a colloquial spoken language, hardly as a written language. For that, standard German and Dutch are used. I doubt that many people from Germany or the Netherlands feel the need to have their software in Low Saxon instead of German or Dutch. Icelandic, being the official language of Iceland, is a different story.
You mean like a poster/moderator/meta-mod system such as implemented right here on/.? Yeah, that's worked wonders for quality assurance on these message boards!
In my opinion, it works quite well. Try reading/. at -1 for a while and see how much fun that is.
This thing is so useful that I wish to high heaven that it was part of the base Firefox distribution. It's like the difference between having the ability to disable animated GIFs and not [...]
Now if only Firefox had the ability to disable animated GIFs. Or has it, and am I missing something?
Viewing the feed any more frequently, even by mistake or for just a day or two, bans your RSS reader permanently.
Yes, that is very annoying. This article inspired me to download the latest version of the excellent Mac OS X RSS reader SlashDock. I had to quit and restart the app to clear up some problem with its preferences window not appearing. Which meant that it reloaded the headlines. There we go again: banned from Slashdot RSS feed for 72 hours. Forget it, I'll just go back to reloading the web page. Which costs Slashdot a lot more bandwith than the RSS feed, I suppose. Oh well.
JP
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That's Dutch.
At the moment our database is undergoing maintainance. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
Zeldman is certainly not a table-shunning XHTML-elitist. He is very pragmatic in that regard and, for now, recommends a 'transitional' technique with light use of tables for page layouts for cross-browser compatibility.
For what it's worth, PHP 5 will have the SQLite embeddable database engine bundled by default. Which means that you won't have to install a separate database engine for lightweight SQL database tasks.
I know this is not a free solution at all, but if you have a.Mac account and use Safari you can have your own bookmarks everywhere. If you synced them before with iSync, you can just go to bookmarks.mac.com, login, and have all your own bookmarks right there. No need to reboot or use USB drives.
The biggest problem is if you are a family doctor who does actually deal with breast enlargement, viagara, and all the other things commonly found in spam:)
There would be enough other characteristics to separate spam from ham. After all, both spam and ham contains "a" and "the" all the time, and yet my Bayesian filter has no problem with that.
I get about 125 spams a day. This is because my main email address is quite old, and it was used unprotected on Usenet long before there was a spam problem. Now it's too late to undo the damage, of course. I don't want to stop using it because I like to have a stable address where people can reliably reach me. Fortunately, with two filter stages in place (POPMonitor deletes about 75% on the server, sight unseen, according to a few simple and safe rules, the rest is Bayes-filtered locally) at most one or two of these actually end up in my inbox.
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I suppose we will have to wait for widespread browser support before we can use them in web applications. And I'm not holding my breath for that to happen, especially with Microsoft putting IE development on hold.
I think we will have to make do with the <form> tag for the foreseeable future.
The proper term for "loaned words" here would be transliterated words.
Thanks for the info. By the way, I said "loanwords" because I literally translated the Dutch term leenwoorden, which is a term that is commonly used in Dutch linguistics.
This is incorrect
In fact Farsi has adopted many arabic words, I think nearly half of the vocabulary is arabic
Yes, but those are 'loanwords' that were adopted after the islamisation of Iran. From a 'language family tree' standpoint, Farsi (an Indo-European language) and Arabic (a Semitic language) are not related.
The power of the one was changing the code of the matrix, what other power does he have that allows him to do things outside the matrix?
You may have noticed that the special powers which Neo has outside the Matrix only work on things from the machine world (ability to stop sentinels, ability to 'see' machines/programs (e.g. Smith) while blind). The explanation must be that Neo has some kind of 'wireless connection' to the Matrix, which allows him to communicate with the Matrix without being plugged in. No magic needed, and the coherence of the storyline is preserved.
My friend working in Amsterdam is encouraging me to go work there, and I declined because I can't speak Dutch, but he said they write all their tech docs in English and English is now (ironically) the Lingua Franca of business.
Note that while you will probably be able to get by with English only in most places here (Netherlands), you will probably also (in more or less subtle ways) be confined to a sort of 'expat bubble' in society if you don't know the native language. It's up to you to decide if that matters to you or not, of course.
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For the record, Low Saxon is an extant language used every day in parts of Germany and the Netherlands.
Yes, but as a colloquial spoken language, hardly as a written language. For that, standard German and Dutch are used. I doubt that many people from Germany or the Netherlands feel the need to have their software in Low Saxon instead of German or Dutch. Icelandic, being the official language of Iceland, is a different story.
JP
You mean like a poster/moderator/meta-mod system such as implemented right here on /.? Yeah, that's worked wonders for quality assurance on these message boards!
In my opinion, it works quite well. Try reading /. at -1 for a while and see how much fun that is.
JP
This thing is so useful that I wish to high heaven that it was part of the base Firefox distribution. It's like the difference between having the ability to disable animated GIFs and not [...]
Now if only Firefox had the ability to disable animated GIFs. Or has it, and am I missing something?
JP
Viewing the feed any more frequently, even by mistake or for just a day or two, bans your RSS reader permanently.
Yes, that is very annoying. This article inspired me to download the latest version of the excellent Mac OS X RSS reader SlashDock. I had to quit and restart the app to clear up some problem with its preferences window not appearing. Which meant that it reloaded the headlines. There we go again: banned from Slashdot RSS feed for 72 hours. Forget it, I'll just go back to reloading the web page. Which costs Slashdot a lot more bandwith than the RSS feed, I suppose. Oh well.
JP
That's Dutch.
At the moment our database is undergoing maintainance. Our apologies for the inconvenience.
JP
I sometimes use WAP to look up (Dutch) train schedules when I don't have a net-connected computer nearby. The interface is clumsy, but it works.
JP
That is actually a Wilson Pickett song that was covered by The Blues Brothers.
JP
Zeldman is certainly not a table-shunning XHTML-elitist. He is very pragmatic in that regard and, for now, recommends a 'transitional' technique with light use of tables for page layouts for cross-browser compatibility.
See his excellent book Designig with web standards.
JP
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Recipe 7.4: Serving a Portion of Your Site via SSL from O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook ?
JP
I just run the following AppleScript:
It worked.
JPFor what it's worth, PHP 5 will have the SQLite embeddable database engine bundled by default. Which means that you won't have to install a separate database engine for lightweight SQL database tasks.
JP
I wonder if orkut is going to become the word for 'dating service' as google has become the word for 'search engine'.
It won't happen in Holland, that's for sure. Kut is Dutch for cunt.
JP
Get a loud alarm clock and put it so far out of reach that you have to get out of bed to shut it off.
(Don't get back into bed after doing that.)
JP
while surfing with my own damn bookmarks
I know this is not a free solution at all, but if you have a .Mac account and use Safari you can have your own bookmarks everywhere. If you synced them before with iSync, you can just go to bookmarks.mac.com, login, and have all your own bookmarks right there. No need to reboot or use USB drives.
JP
There would be enough other characteristics to separate spam from ham. After all, both spam and ham contains "a" and "the" all the time, and yet my Bayesian filter has no problem with that.
JP
I get about 125 spams a day. This is because my main email address is quite old, and it was used unprotected on Usenet long before there was a spam problem. Now it's too late to undo the damage, of course. I don't want to stop using it because I like to have a stable address where people can reliably reach me. Fortunately, with two filter stages in place (POPMonitor deletes about 75% on the server, sight unseen, according to a few simple and safe rules, the rest is Bayes-filtered locally) at most one or two of these actually end up in my inbox.
JP
Open Source Development with CVS by Karl Fogel is a great online CVS manual and reference. I use it all the time.
JP
I suppose we will have to wait for widespread browser support before we can use them in web applications. And I'm not holding my breath for that to happen, especially with Microsoft putting IE development on hold.
I think we will have to make do with the <form> tag for the foreseeable future.
JP
The proper term for "loaned words" here would be transliterated words.
Thanks for the info. By the way, I said "loanwords" because I literally translated the Dutch term leenwoorden, which is a term that is commonly used in Dutch linguistics.
JP
Yes, but those are 'loanwords' that were adopted after the islamisation of Iran. From a 'language family tree' standpoint, Farsi (an Indo-European language) and Arabic (a Semitic language) are not related.
JP
And as far as saying the biggest figures first not all western languages are like that, eg. in German the numbers are spoken like 55="five and fifty".
But this doesn't apply when the numbers are larger than 100, because 155 = "hundred five and fifty". (German and Dutch.)
JP
The power of the one was changing the code of the matrix, what other power does he have that allows him to do things outside the matrix?
You may have noticed that the special powers which Neo has outside the Matrix only work on things from the machine world (ability to stop sentinels, ability to 'see' machines/programs (e.g. Smith) while blind). The explanation must be that Neo has some kind of 'wireless connection' to the Matrix, which allows him to communicate with the Matrix without being plugged in. No magic needed, and the coherence of the storyline is preserved.
JP
Even PHP extensions within MySQL would have been my choice over Java.
Such a thing actually exists: myphp. It's very early in development (version 0.1) and it's not useable for real work yet. But it looks interesting.
JP
My friend working in Amsterdam is encouraging me to go work there, and I declined because I can't speak Dutch, but he said they write all their tech docs in English and English is now (ironically) the Lingua Franca of business.
Note that while you will probably be able to get by with English only in most places here (Netherlands), you will probably also (in more or less subtle ways) be confined to a sort of 'expat bubble' in society if you don't know the native language. It's up to you to decide if that matters to you or not, of course.
JP
Quicktime 6.5 does not fix the No One Lives Forever 2 problem with QT 6.4. I just tried it.
Back to rebooting in 10.2.8/QT 6.3 for Cate Archer action.
JP