....except that "forte" is pronounced with one syllable.
Merriam-Webster has a lot to say on this subject.
Pronunciation: 'fort; 2 is often 'for-"tA or for-'tA or 'for-tE
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2. one's strong point.
usage In forte we have a word derived from French that in its "strong point" sense has no entirely satisfactory pronunciation. Usage writers have denigrated \'for-"tA\ and \'for-tE\ because they reflect the influence of the Italian-derived 2forte. Their recommended pronunciation \'fort\, however, does not exactly reflect French either: the French would write the word le fort and would rhyme it with English for. So you can take your choice, knowing that someone somewhere will dislike whichever variant you choose. All are standard, however. In British English \'fo-"tA\ and \'fot\ predominate; \'for-"tA\ and \for-'tA\ are probably the most frequent pronunciations in American English
Long answer: FreeBSD defaults to sh. OpenBSD defaults to (pd)ksh. NetBSD defaults to csh, although this can be changed to sh or ksh at install time. Solaris defaults to sh. AIX defaults to ksh. HP-UX defaults to the OSF POSIX shell (whatever that is). SCO Unixware and OpenServer default to the NewKorn (aka ksh-93) Shell.
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You make some very good points, but you managed to miss one.
For instance, in a GUI, it's easy to tell which icon is cut, because it usually has a pair of scissors. On the other hand, you have to know which keyboard shortcut maps to Cut. If you assume Cut is Ctrl-C (as you did), you'll quickly find out that, in most applications, this is wrong. Instead, Ctrl-X (again with the scissors) is Cut.
Paste is another one in which the common keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-V) is not obvious.
I don't have problems remembering them, but here, let me add to your list: "mv" to rename files. "vi" or "emacs" to edit files "rmdir" or "rm -r" to remove directories depending on whether they're empty or not. "find" / "locate" to search for files (and the syntax for each) "iptables" or "ipf" or "ipfw" or "pfctl" to change firewall rules (let alone the syntax to change them, which is different for each tool) "mount" to be able to see CDs in the filesystem "chmod" to change file permissions
That's not even getting into more complex things, such as opening multiple files for editing and switching between them.
Firefox/Thunderbird had this fix applied in 1.5.0.7, released on 2006/09/14. Seamonkey had this fix applied in 1.0.5, released on 2006/09/14. Opera had this fix applied in Opera 9.02, released on 2006/09/21.
As a side note, the Close option is also located in the application menu, along with Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, and Maximize. The application menu being the one that pops up when you click the application's icon in the upper-left corner.
One thing that jumps out at me is your criticism of Microsoft for not following their own Guidelines. However, I don't think you've ever seen new versions of MSFT software running on Vista. There's no reason to think that this behavior, such as shortcut naming, etc, hasn't been brought inline with these reccomendations.
Shortcuts, from what I've seen, have been rebranded.
For instance, the Windows name is now all over Windows applets, even the ones that used to be known with unqualified names, such as Calculator.
How about Quake in software mode and then in GLQuake?
Which, of course, brings up the biggest problem with 3dfx cards prior to the Voodoo 4: OpenGL support. OpenGL was implemented for GLQuake, Quake 2, Half-life, Hexen 2, Heretic 2, and Sin using special "MiniGL" drivers that changed specific OpenGL instructions to their Glide equivalents.
English is known for having more than one meaning for any given word. For example, here's the first two definitions of new from Merriam-Webster.
1 : having recently come into existence : RECENT, MODERN 2 a (1) : having been seen, used, or known for a short time : NOVEL <rice was a new crop for the area> (2) : UNFAMILIAR <visit new places> b : being other than the former or old <a steady flow of new money>
There's several other definitions for new on the same page.
As a long-time Perl teacher, my students are always coming back to me in awe and wonderment wondering why anyone with good Perl knowledge would use a language, PHP, which is "Severely Underpowered Perl for Dummies"??
Perl's performance for CGI is bad without some sort way of increasing its speed. The major options for this are: - Apache and mod_perl - This can work transparently, but if you look at it funny, it breaks. - FastCGI - which isn't transparent by any stretch of the imagination. - SpeedCGI - Same problem as FastCGI. - PPerl - which isn't necessarily written for use in CGI. - Rolling a custom http server using HTTP::Daemon or Socket. Which is a really bad idea.
Why would you recommend coding to a specific database and not code to SQL and not worry what you have on the back end?
Binding yourself to a particular technology to get more speed is just wrong. Write code that is generic to the back end and get your speed inside your code, not the database choice.
The database should optimized by the DBA by adding views/indexes/optimized SQL or more hardware to get the speed.
Please explain how an application can have both generic and optimized SQL.
No, this myth comes from the PHP manual, which says
PHP succeeds an older product, named PHP/FI. PHP/FI was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, initially as a simple set of Perl scripts for tracking accesses to his online resume.
the general consensus was PC games would dominate the market and console systems were doomed."What changed?"
Um a decent video card costs as much as an entire console... PC games with a few notable exceptions, have gone from being able to play them on almost any PC, to now only being truely playable on top of the line machines. Once you reach the pint where The point of entry for a PC game is 1GB of RAM, and a $200 video card it becomes hard to compete with a $200 - $300 console.
So, you're saying that they can't compete with the Wii, but what about the $400 XBox 360 and $600 PS3? I'm aware that I'm ignoring the XBox 360 Core and the cheaper PS3 model, but I refuse to buy a console that intentionally has had features removed. For instance, the XBox 360 Core can't play XBox games.
Other than that, it's possible to get a decent video card for cheaper than $200. For example, NewEgg sells an Sapphire ATI Radeon X1600XT for $112. It's not top of the line, but X1600 isn't that outdated.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't the East Fishkill plant the one that Sony just invested millions of dollars upgrading to support fabricating Cell processors?
While booting to DOS may have been a requirement to Flash BIOSes in the past, it hasn't been for at least a few years now.
My current computer uses Award WinFlash by Phoenix Technologies (which acquired Award a while back), copyrighted in 2002, although the build that came on my motherboard's CD is dated 2005.
My BIOS also has an Upgrade BIOS on the CMOS Setup main menu, but I'm not sure how it works.
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Merriam-Webster has a lot to say on this subject.
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Short answer: Everything that isn't Linux.
Long answer:
FreeBSD defaults to sh.
OpenBSD defaults to (pd)ksh.
NetBSD defaults to csh, although this can be changed to sh or ksh at install time.
Solaris defaults to sh.
AIX defaults to ksh.
HP-UX defaults to the OSF POSIX shell (whatever that is).
SCO Unixware and OpenServer default to the NewKorn (aka ksh-93) Shell.
Shall I continue?
You make some very good points, but you managed to miss one.
For instance, in a GUI, it's easy to tell which icon is cut, because it usually has a pair of scissors. On the other hand, you have to know which keyboard shortcut maps to Cut. If you assume Cut is Ctrl-C (as you did), you'll quickly find out that, in most applications, this is wrong. Instead, Ctrl-X (again with the scissors) is Cut.
Paste is another one in which the common keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-V) is not obvious.
I don't have problems remembering them, but here, let me add to your list:
"mv" to rename files.
"vi" or "emacs" to edit files
"rmdir" or "rm -r" to remove directories depending on whether they're empty or not.
"find" / "locate" to search for files (and the syntax for each)
"iptables" or "ipf" or "ipfw" or "pfctl" to change firewall rules (let alone the syntax to change them, which is different for each tool)
"mount" to be able to see CDs in the filesystem
"chmod" to change file permissions
That's not even getting into more complex things, such as opening multiple files for editing and switching between them.
Firefox/Thunderbird had this fix applied in 1.5.0.7, released on 2006/09/14.
Seamonkey had this fix applied in 1.0.5, released on 2006/09/14.
Opera had this fix applied in Opera 9.02, released on 2006/09/21.
As a side note, the Close option is also located in the application menu, along with Restore, Move, Size, Minimize, and Maximize. The application menu being the one that pops up when you click the application's icon in the upper-left corner.
One thing that jumps out at me is your criticism of Microsoft for not following their own Guidelines. However, I don't think you've ever seen new versions of MSFT software running on Vista. There's no reason to think that this behavior, such as shortcut naming, etc, hasn't been brought inline with these reccomendations.
Shortcuts, from what I've seen, have been rebranded.
For instance, the Windows name is now all over Windows applets, even the ones that used to be known with unqualified names, such as Calculator.
I meant as opposed to buying it locally upon release, where most Europeans would be giving less money to the government in taxes.
It makes me wonder what incentive Europeans would have to pre-order it, then. VAT is cheaper than 21% in 18 of the 25 (PDF) member states.
50euros is 63.57 USD so why does it cost more in Europe ?
Laziness and fondness for round numbers... particularly those that are even multiples of 50.
It's a good thing for you they didn't take the time to figure out how to make XP act like 2k.
Really? I thought racism required you to be talking about a race, not a city (explicit) or country (implicit).
How about Quake in software mode and then in GLQuake?
Which, of course, brings up the biggest problem with 3dfx cards prior to the Voodoo 4: OpenGL support. OpenGL was implemented for GLQuake, Quake 2, Half-life, Hexen 2, Heretic 2, and Sin using special "MiniGL" drivers that changed specific OpenGL instructions to their Glide equivalents.
There's several other definitions for new on the same page.
Even without region lockouts, when taking things from US/Japan to Europe/Australia, you still have to deal with PAL vs. NTSC.
At least that isn't a problem with HDTV, but I don't think the Wii supports HDTV, unlike its contemporaries.
As a long-time Perl teacher, my students are always coming
back to me in awe and wonderment wondering why anyone with
good Perl knowledge would use a language, PHP, which is
"Severely Underpowered Perl for Dummies"??
Perl's performance for CGI is bad without some sort way of increasing its speed. The major options for this are:
- Apache and mod_perl - This can work transparently, but if you look at it funny, it breaks.
- FastCGI - which isn't transparent by any stretch of the imagination.
- SpeedCGI - Same problem as FastCGI.
- PPerl - which isn't necessarily written for use in CGI.
- Rolling a custom http server using HTTP::Daemon or Socket. Which is a really bad idea.
Why would you recommend coding to a specific database and not code to SQL and not worry what you have on the back end?
Binding yourself to a particular technology to get more speed is just wrong. Write code that is generic to the back end and get your speed inside your code, not the database choice.
The database should optimized by the DBA by adding views/indexes/optimized SQL or more hardware to get the speed.
Please explain how an application can have both generic and optimized SQL.
I take it that MSSQL doesn't implement SELECT... FOR UPDATE like Oracle, Postgres, and MySQL's InnoDB?
So, you're saying that they can't compete with the Wii, but what about the $400 XBox 360 and $600 PS3? I'm aware that I'm ignoring the XBox 360 Core and the cheaper PS3 model, but I refuse to buy a console that intentionally has had features removed. For instance, the XBox 360 Core can't play XBox games.
Other than that, it's possible to get a decent video card for cheaper than $200. For example, NewEgg sells an Sapphire ATI Radeon X1600XT for $112. It's not top of the line, but X1600 isn't that outdated.
I don't have AOE3 installed at the moment, but I know that it ran (albeit slowly) on my 6 or so year old Radeon 9000 Pro card.
While I really need to upgrade my video card, that's not the point I'm trying to make. The point is... how old are the cards on that list?
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't the East Fishkill plant the one that Sony just invested millions of dollars upgrading to support fabricating Cell processors?
I smell potential lawsuit!
I thought that was the Dilbert rule of management.
Or was the Dilbert Rule of Management to fire all the smart people...
Yes.
While booting to DOS may have been a requirement to Flash BIOSes in the past, it hasn't been for at least a few years now.
My current computer uses Award WinFlash by Phoenix Technologies (which acquired Award a while back), copyrighted in 2002, although the build that came on my motherboard's CD is dated 2005.
My BIOS also has an Upgrade BIOS on the CMOS Setup main menu, but I'm not sure how it works.