I use ubuntu in italian, with a choice of either italian, spanish or english(US) keyboard layouts. Unicode across the board, just by installing as some said, and by a right click on the GNOME bar. How the hell did you manage to miss them is your problem.
I find it not too hard to believe that yet another person has confused (deliberately or unknowingly, I don't know) the "scientific" meaning of theory with the more common one... A scientific theory is something backed up by a lot of facts, not simply speculation (this would perhaps be a hypothesis). It's not "a wild guess on why thermodynamics/evolution/whatever else works". Many, many people have worked very hard to refine it.
Evolution is true, for a very big coefficient of "true". It's the best explanation we have, based on known facts, of the appearance and disappearance of species. Comets and God just don't cut it for me in that respect.
Continuing. The Bible _is_ true. It's a book (or a lot of books, if you will). What's written in it might be true, allegorical, or just hogwash; for some parts of the bible and some values of true, allegorical and hogwash. To say that you believe "the Bible is true" as such makes me think something was right in the remarks of the parent about you checking your brain at the door.
Yeah, I know that all would be a Herculean effort. Probably, it makes more sense to start with a lean and clean codebase like XFCE and just bring its usability to Gnome level, instead of cleaning up a bloated mess...
NIH Syndrome! NIH syndrome!
Seriously, you seem to imply that it's somehow easier, or even possible, to replicate the insane amount of effort the GNOME and KDE desktops have made in all fronts in a short period of time, rather than pruning the bad fruits, as it were. Suuuure. Not to mention that you're assuming also that a clean, lean codebase actually exists and is scalable to this.
The last time someone did that, they were called "Netscape". Rings any bells?
You _must_ have Sun's Java vm installed for Opera to work? Fascinating. Especially since I use it in Linux and Windows without the JVM...
Opera has a downloadable non-java version, usable when you already have the original JVM or when you don't want it at all. And it has been around for a looong time. And also, I haven't ever paid for Opera... The small ad bar at the top has never bothered me.
The imperfect tenses in Spanish (and other latin-derived languages such as Italian and French, I think) describe uncertainty about the current state of the "thing" mentioned, not of its truth value. As you stated, the past imperfect is used when you do not know if the event you speak of has finished happening. It has absolutely no relationship with the truth of the statement.
As a quick example, I cannot think now of a big difference between the past imperfect "Yo comía" and the English "I was eating". As far as I know, they are equivalent.
I love watching art/classic movies and read books... I read other people's views on these, not because I need to understand the films, but to see how other people perceive things. David Lynch's Mulholland Drive point in case... it made no sense, and I don't think Lynch had an idea in mind while making it. (The point of the movie was for people to draw their own conclusions... but then again, that's my view.)
According to what I read about the movie and what I felt when watching it, the first two thirds of it are a dream of the main character in the last third. Lynch has filmed many movies with strong oniric or psichological ideas. Lost highway was (according to him) based on a mental condition that consists in a complete alteration of your personality.
Douglas Adams said through one of his characters in the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy that (paraphrased) "If God didn't want anyone to eat from the tree, he shouldn't have made it possible to do it. Avoid planting the tree, set up a force field, whatever (hey, it's god after all). God was actually out to get them. If Adam and Eve hadn't eaten the fruit, he'd have punished them for something else."
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Except if the proprietary solution is BitKeeper, of course.
UI doesn't mean "3d or 2d". UI doesn't mean "pretty graphics". It's the way the game lets itself be played.
I didn't know a timespan could copyright things...
Hehehe. You don't know how to use the three shells. Man...
Gentleman, how you pronounce dis "Mee-croh-soft" thing? "Veen-do-oos"? "Vin-douse"? How?
I use ubuntu in italian, with a choice of either italian, spanish or english(US) keyboard layouts. Unicode across the board, just by installing as some said, and by a right click on the GNOME bar. How the hell did you manage to miss them is your problem.
I find it not too hard to believe that yet another person has confused (deliberately or unknowingly, I don't know) the "scientific" meaning of theory with the more common one... A scientific theory is something backed up by a lot of facts, not simply speculation (this would perhaps be a hypothesis). It's not "a wild guess on why thermodynamics/evolution/whatever else works". Many, many people have worked very hard to refine it.
Evolution is true, for a very big coefficient of "true". It's the best explanation we have, based on known facts, of the appearance and disappearance of species. Comets and God just don't cut it for me in that respect.
Continuing. The Bible _is_ true. It's a book (or a lot of books, if you will). What's written in it might be true, allegorical, or just hogwash; for some parts of the bible and some values of true, allegorical and hogwash. To say that you believe "the Bible is true" as such makes me think something was right in the remarks of the parent about you checking your brain at the door.
NIH Syndrome! NIH syndrome!
Seriously, you seem to imply that it's somehow easier, or even possible, to replicate the insane amount of effort the GNOME and KDE desktops have made in all fronts in a short period of time, rather than pruning the bad fruits, as it were. Suuuure. Not to mention that you're assuming also that a clean, lean codebase actually exists and is scalable to this.
The last time someone did that, they were called "Netscape". Rings any bells?
So you want him to be killed after his help? :)
And if you don't like realplayer, you can use helix, the open source player on which real is based.
You _must_ have Sun's Java vm installed for Opera to work? Fascinating. Especially since I use it in Linux and Windows without the JVM...
Opera has a downloadable non-java version, usable when you already have the original JVM or when you don't want it at all. And it has been around for a looong time. And also, I haven't ever paid for Opera... The small ad bar at the top has never bothered me.
Comic books already do this. It normally sucks. And of course there's always the Marvel vs Capcom videogames.
Maybe JF Kerry should have shown a bit more tit...
Yes, yes it is. I still re-read it whenever I have time (I have the omnibus edition comprising the five books).
The imperfect tenses in Spanish (and other latin-derived languages such as Italian and French, I think) describe uncertainty about the current state of the "thing" mentioned, not of its truth value. As you stated, the past imperfect is used when you do not know if the event you speak of has finished happening. It has absolutely no relationship with the truth of the statement.
As a quick example, I cannot think now of a big difference between the past imperfect "Yo comía" and the English "I was eating". As far as I know, they are equivalent.
The guardian is an English newspaper. The scientists mentioned are most of them English, too. They are supposed to use the SI already... Go figure.
It's a $400,000 cap, not $40,000, but still it's not too much for a big Linux company.
No, but there'll be one this thursday.
According to what I read about the movie and what I felt when watching it, the first two thirds of it are a dream of the main character in the last third. Lynch has filmed many movies with strong oniric or psichological ideas. Lost highway was (according to him) based on a mental condition that consists in a complete alteration of your personality.
I love his films, anyway.
Acrobat is another great descriptive name. As is Fireworks. Oh, did I mention Opera? And Outlook Express?
If we are schizophrenic, we can do both at once.
Douglas Adams said through one of his characters in the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy that (paraphrased) "If God didn't want anyone to eat from the tree, he shouldn't have made it possible to do it. Avoid planting the tree, set up a force field, whatever (hey, it's god after all). God was actually out to get them. If Adam and Eve hadn't eaten the fruit, he'd have punished them for something else."
BAMF!
You can always go to a cybercafe and buy from an online store like distrowatch or something, for just a couple of bucks.
Or you could buy a PC with Linux preinstalled from Dell online or HP...
He was cannonized (Simpsons, king Homer VIII of England).