Interestingly, in my country, @ is used as the symbol for "alias". As in, when somebody formally changes their name, their identity cards would then show their new name @ their old name.
E.g. Name given at birth: Yawn Philips
New name: John Philips
Shown on identity card: John @ Yawn Philips
So when e-mails came out, we used to pronounce our e-mail addresses as, "FirstName DOT LastName ALIAS Company DOT com".
Google applauded the decision. "As a proponent of open competition on the Internet and in the technology sector in general, we're pleased with the court's decision," the company said in a statement.
Yeah, it's all to do with 'open competition' and has nothing to do with Google's bottom line. I don't fault Google for taking this action, but I do detest condescending remarks such as this.
The grammar nazi in me can't help but find the author's choice of pronouns a little strange:
1. He is disempowered—She feels that she cannot access the people in charge and, as a result, complaining is her only vehicle to get the truth out.
2. He is fundamentally a rebel—She will not be happy unless she is rebelling; this can be a deep personality trait. Sometimes these people actually make better CEOs than employees.
3. He is immature and naïve—She cannot comprehend that the people running the company do not know every minute detail of the operation and therefore they are complicit in everything that’s broken.
Why is the author mixing up he and she ? Is this a common way to write?
It's ironic that HTC, who's not a party to the June 2009 agreement, has long standardised on micro-USB charging, but the other manufacturers are taking their time to catch up.
This goes back to the origin of currency, which is an an intermediary in place of barter trade. For example, imagine that you're a farmer and you have some wheat that you want to exchange for meat. Somebody, let's say he's a fishmonger, comes up to you and say he wants some wheat, but he doesn't have meat to give to you. Since you don't want the fish that he's offering, he gives you instead a piece of paper stating the worth of the wheat he's taking, and that now he owes you the value of that much wheat. Then you take that piece of paper to a butcher and offers it in exchange for some meat. The piece of paper, in itself, has no value, but the butcher then keep it and later go back to the fishmonger and says to him, 'Here's the note you gave to that farmer. You can have it back in exchange for some fish."
So, in essence, cash transactions are in fact debt transactions, since the seller does not receive anything in exchange for what he parts with. All he receives in return is a note that he can later use to redeem for an item that he wants from another seller.
Ability to move apps to the SD card. If I run out of space in memory, and on the SD card, then I can move games to one SD card, serious apps onto another.
I'm guessing you're a developer but not an actual Android phone user. Anyone who owns an Android phone knows that it's very impractical to have more than one SD card and that on most phones, it is tedious to swap out the SD card for another one i.e. you'd need to open the cover and in some cases, remove the battery before removing and inserting the SD card.
We need to get to a point where you can buy a phone from Motorola the same way you buy a PC from Dell, then use it with any carrier the same way you can use a PC with any ISP.
We - and by this I mean people on this side of the globe - are already at this point. It's just you guys on the so-called "land of the free" that are having this carrier lock-in problem.
Just speculation, but maybe this address used to be a legit search portal. The original owner probably ran out of money and sold the domain to a pr0n company.
Surely the Senator didn't create the page himself? He might not even know what the Javascript is for. Sure, if he knew that the webmaster was doing something wrong, and he didn't stop it, then he would be at fault, but there's no proof of that here.
Of course, my opinion above is from a common sense perspective, rather than a legal one.
It might be peer pressure. You know, during coffee break, everybody's drinking coffee. But you don't want to be the only one without a cup in your hand, even though you don't like the caffeine. So you get yourself a cup of decaf. Not because you want it, but because everybody's doing it.
You know, I'm not usually a grammar troll, and I couldn't care less less if someone makes a mistake on a posting. But at least make sure your sig's grammatically correct! Come on, it's going to appear on every one of your post.
The accident investigator calculated his speed was 98 mph. The perp said it was 30. I guess if he had agreed to the 98 then there would have been no need to check the EDR. So his apparent lying was what caused his so called 'privacy' to be compromised.
I checked the links you provided, and except for the third one, none of the others suggested that the attacks were done by Islamic militants, or anyone associated with any Islamic groups. Even in the third one, the German death was collateral damage, the attack was directed at the US.
I agree, terrorism in general is bad, and I would not have minded if the grandparent AC poster had said "Let's continue to fight together terrorism...", but there's no reason to insert the word islam there. Bad English is no excuse. Islam is a specific word. How could he have confused it for militant etc.?
Anyway, we're getting offtopic here. Let's not waste time arguing about the posting of an AC who might or might not be German and might, for some reason, or might not, have some kind of grudge against Islam.
Let's continue to fight together islam terrorism...
You were sounding pretty coherent, up to the point you revealed you blatant bigotry with your last sentence.
Are you really a German? What have you got against Islam? I'd understand if you are American or Jewish, or French, even. But I don't recall any Islamic "terrorist" ever attacking Germany.
I'm curious about the other winning designs. From the file darth.pdf a couple of links from the linked page: "Darth Vader was placed on the northwest tower with the other winning designs: a raccoon, a girl with pigtails and braces and a man with large teeth and an umbrella.
So let's kill all raccoons, stop girls with pigtails from wearing braces, or vice versa, and man with big teeth should never use an umbrella (or have the teeth pulled out)!
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Interestingly, in my country, @ is used as the symbol for "alias". As in, when somebody formally changes their name, their identity cards would then show their new name @ their old name.
E.g. Name given at birth: Yawn Philips
New name: John Philips
Shown on identity card: John @ Yawn Philips
So when e-mails came out, we used to pronounce our e-mail addresses as, "FirstName DOT LastName ALIAS Company DOT com".
Google applauded the decision. "As a proponent of open competition on the Internet and in the technology sector in general, we're pleased with the court's decision," the company said in a statement.
Yeah, it's all to do with 'open competition' and has nothing to do with Google's bottom line.
I don't fault Google for taking this action, but I do detest condescending remarks such as this.
1. He is disempowered—She feels that she cannot access the people in charge and, as a result, complaining is her only vehicle to get the truth out.
2. He is fundamentally a rebel—She will not be happy unless she is rebelling; this can be a deep personality trait. Sometimes these people actually make better CEOs than employees.
3. He is immature and naïve—She cannot comprehend that the people running the company do not know every minute detail of the operation and therefore they are complicit in everything that’s broken.
Why is the author mixing up he and she ? Is this a common way to write?
It's ironic that HTC, who's not a party to the June 2009 agreement, has long standardised on micro-USB charging, but the other manufacturers are taking their time to catch up.
Note that you can easily remove the exif data using jpegtran.
(1) sudo apt-get install jpegtran
(2) jpegtran -copy none whatever.jpg
QED. It's trivial to do it in batch mode across a million pictures if you want.
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>sudo apt-get install jpegtran
'sudo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
C:\>jpegtran -copy none whatever.jpg
'jpegtran' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
This goes back to the origin of currency, which is an an intermediary in place of barter trade. For example, imagine that you're a farmer and you have some wheat that you want to exchange for meat. Somebody, let's say he's a fishmonger, comes up to you and say he wants some wheat, but he doesn't have meat to give to you. Since you don't want the fish that he's offering, he gives you instead a piece of paper stating the worth of the wheat he's taking, and that now he owes you the value of that much wheat. Then you take that piece of paper to a butcher and offers it in exchange for some meat. The piece of paper, in itself, has no value, but the butcher then keep it and later go back to the fishmonger and says to him, 'Here's the note you gave to that farmer. You can have it back in exchange for some fish."
So, in essence, cash transactions are in fact debt transactions, since the seller does not receive anything in exchange for what he parts with. All he receives in return is a note that he can later use to redeem for an item that he wants from another seller.
Ability to move apps to the SD card. If I run out of space in memory, and on the SD card, then I can move games to one SD card, serious apps onto another.
I'm guessing you're a developer but not an actual Android phone user. Anyone who owns an Android phone knows that it's very impractical to have more than one SD card and that on most phones, it is tedious to swap out the SD card for another one i.e. you'd need to open the cover and in some cases, remove the battery before removing and inserting the SD card.
We need to get to a point where you can buy a phone from Motorola the same way you buy a PC from Dell, then use it with any carrier the same way you can use a PC with any ISP.
We - and by this I mean people on this side of the globe - are already at this point. It's just you guys on the so-called "land of the free" that are having this carrier lock-in problem.
Just speculation, but maybe this address used to be a legit search portal. The original owner probably ran out of money and sold the domain to a pr0n company.
Surely the Senator didn't create the page himself? He might not even know what the Javascript is for. Sure, if he knew that the webmaster was doing something wrong, and he didn't stop it, then he would be at fault, but there's no proof of that here.
Of course, my opinion above is from a common sense perspective, rather than a legal one.
It might be peer pressure. You know, during coffee break, everybody's drinking coffee. But you don't want to be the only one without a cup in your hand, even though you don't like the caffeine. So you get yourself a cup of decaf. Not because you want it, but because everybody's doing it.
You know, I'm not usually a grammar troll, and I couldn't care less less if someone makes a mistake on a posting. But at least make sure your sig's grammatically correct! Come on, it's going to appear on every one of your post.
It's = it is
Its = possessive form of it
The accident investigator calculated his speed was 98 mph. The perp said it was 30. I guess if he had agreed to the 98 then there would have been no need to check the EDR. So his apparent lying was what caused his so called 'privacy' to be compromised.
I checked the links you provided, and except for the third one, none of the others suggested that the attacks were done by Islamic militants, or anyone associated with any Islamic groups. Even in the third one, the German death was collateral damage, the attack was directed at the US.
...", but there's no reason to insert the word islam there. Bad English is no excuse. Islam is a specific word. How could he have confused it for militant etc.?
I agree, terrorism in general is bad, and I would not have minded if the grandparent AC poster had said "Let's continue to fight together terrorism
Anyway, we're getting offtopic here. Let's not waste time arguing about the posting of an AC who might or might not be German and might, for some reason, or might not, have some kind of grudge against Islam.
Let's continue to fight together islam terrorism ...
You were sounding pretty coherent, up to the point you revealed you blatant bigotry with your last sentence. Are you really a German? What have you got against Islam? I'd understand if you are American or Jewish, or French, even. But I don't recall any Islamic "terrorist" ever attacking Germany.
I'm curious about the other winning designs.
From the file darth.pdf a couple of links from the linked page:
"Darth Vader was placed on the northwest tower with the other winning designs: a raccoon, a girl with pigtails and braces and a man with large teeth and an umbrella.
So let's kill all raccoons, stop girls with pigtails from wearing braces, or vice versa, and man with big teeth should never use an umbrella (or have the teeth pulled out)!