Being from Texas I feel your pain. In situations like you described I just continue using English. Granted spanish isn't spoken in my office other then the call center, but I know where you are coming from.
"In fact, if you take too much interest in English, you could get into some trouble (either social or legal)."
Please expound upon this further. I've been meaning to/attempting to learn French, and have been considering a trip to Montreal. Is this an unwise legally or socially for reasons I am unaware? I'm from the US so not sure if that helps or hurts.
"Poetry is just about the hardest text possible to really *get* in any language, it frequently uses uncommon words and/or depend on fine nuanses of meaning, english poetry, for example, still give me very little, despite my english being perfectly adequate for most other stuff."
Pfft. I am a native english speaker, and english poetry still gives me nothing.:)
You know that's quite intresting, I grew up on the computer (like many here I suppose). However I cannot 'touch type'. I can however simple place my fingers on a keyboard, and almost instinctively know where to move my hands to type, muscle memory I think they call it (No I'm not looking at the keys and all that). I tried taking a college level typing class and just *couldn't* do it. I can get text into the computer as fast as they wanted, but I simply couldn't use 'home row' and all those other things that typists do that are alien to me.
" Way back when money was invented, it represented effort and value. You trade the fruits of your labor for money, which could then by traded for other people's goods and services."
First of all let me say I see your point however I have to take issue with it. This is still what money is. I goto work and use my time, effort, and skills in exchange for a money. I then use that money to buy goods and services. Now Mr.MoneyBags might make more then I do, but that is because someone values his time, effort, or skills more then mine, and thus he gets paid more. What he does with his money, be it giving food to starving kids, saving it for his family, or blowing it all away on fast cars and fast women is his perogative and his choice. He earned the right to spend that money however he chooses (withing the confines of legally, of course)
"To me, the only currency that matters, the only one whose value is fixed and whose purpose is clear, is energy. We are living on a planet with finite resources, yet population is growing out of control. All the money in the world won't help when there's no more oil to power factories, no more heat to cook our food, no more electricity to run our hospitals."
This is exactly why quite a few people buy gold. It will pretty much always be worth something, as it has tangable value rather then just abstract value.
That's exactly my stance, I love the device from what I've seen. Couple problems though, during the ATT/Cingular Mindmeld I got treated really horribly from them, and have thus sworn off AT&T for life. I don't do two year aggrements, One year is plenty long enough, I've been out of contract with T-Mobile for a year and a half now. Another issue I have with it is the prospect of having no third party apps. It's a neat device, love to own one, but don't think I could stomache it.
"How well does it load pages over EDGE, which by all accounts is high-latency, slow, and already outdated? (I guarantee anything Steve did was over Wifi.)"
if EDGE is anything like what verizon has they can keep it. In phoenix and vegas I had 300ms ping responses, on good days.
"So start the translation by putting up kilometer markers on roads, and by teaching metric first to children. Then over time increase the use of metric as a greater percent of the population grew up with it."
bah! My kids will grow up under the imperial system just like God Intended! Why else would there be both 12 inches in a foot and 12 apostles!
(on a more serious note, metric isn't too bad once you get used to it (still trying myself))
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Probably from Apple's PR website. They've got *huge* images of the iphone.
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http://www.apple.com/pr/products/iphone/iphone.ht
Being from Texas I feel your pain. In situations like you described I just continue using English. Granted spanish isn't spoken in my office other then the call center, but I know where you are coming from.
"And "the culture they see on Univision?" Where exactly do people think Univision and Telemundo come from?"
Texas? SoCal?
"In fact, if you take too much interest in English, you could get into some trouble (either social or legal)."
Please expound upon this further. I've been meaning to/attempting to learn French, and have been considering a trip to Montreal. Is this an unwise legally or socially for reasons I am unaware? I'm from the US so not sure if that helps or hurts.
"Poetry is just about the hardest text possible to really *get* in any language, it frequently uses uncommon words and/or depend on fine nuanses of meaning, english poetry, for example, still give me very little, despite my english being perfectly adequate for most other stuff."
:)
Pfft. I am a native english speaker, and english poetry still gives me nothing.
You know that's quite intresting, I grew up on the computer (like many here I suppose). However I cannot 'touch type'. I can however simple place my fingers on a keyboard, and almost instinctively know where to move my hands to type, muscle memory I think they call it (No I'm not looking at the keys and all that). I tried taking a college level typing class and just *couldn't* do it. I can get text into the computer as fast as they wanted, but I simply couldn't use 'home row' and all those other things that typists do that are alien to me.
Let us also note that it was Scully who helped oust steve back in the early 80's
Here's an old saying I heard that kinda echos your post
"Whoever told you life was fair was lying, life sucks, then you die."
" Way back when money was invented, it represented effort and value. You trade the fruits of your labor for money, which could then by traded for other people's goods and services."
First of all let me say I see your point however I have to take issue with it. This is still what money is. I goto work and use my time, effort, and skills in exchange for a money. I then use that money to buy goods and services. Now Mr.MoneyBags might make more then I do, but that is because someone values his time, effort, or skills more then mine, and thus he gets paid more. What he does with his money, be it giving food to starving kids, saving it for his family, or blowing it all away on fast cars and fast women is his perogative and his choice. He earned the right to spend that money however he chooses (withing the confines of legally, of course)
"To me, the only currency that matters, the only one whose value is fixed and whose purpose is clear, is energy. We are living on a planet with finite resources, yet population is growing out of control. All the money in the world won't help when there's no more oil to power factories, no more heat to cook our food, no more electricity to run our hospitals."
This is exactly why quite a few people buy gold. It will pretty much always be worth something, as it has tangable value rather then just abstract value.
That's exactly my stance, I love the device from what I've seen. Couple problems though, during the ATT/Cingular Mindmeld I got treated really horribly from them, and have thus sworn off AT&T for life. I don't do two year aggrements, One year is plenty long enough, I've been out of contract with T-Mobile for a year and a half now. Another issue I have with it is the prospect of having no third party apps. It's a neat device, love to own one, but don't think I could stomache it.
"Also, I hear that you can rip DVDs and add them to iTunes also (just like any other video file)."
Handbrake is the softwae you want. It's fairly simple, and it works quite nicely. It's Open source so it is free too!
"How well does it load pages over EDGE, which by all accounts is high-latency, slow, and already outdated? (I guarantee anything Steve did was over Wifi.)"
if EDGE is anything like what verizon has they can keep it. In phoenix and vegas I had 300ms ping responses, on good days.
Exactly why I propose we just split the difference.
:)
1 yard = 100 Centiyards = 1000 Miliyards
1 pound = 1000 milipounds
you get the idea
you should hear my ideas on how we should change currency
That's just beautiful!
How would you define to go metric?
is "To go Metric" is to cause confusion or what?
"So start the translation by putting up kilometer markers on roads, and by teaching metric first to children. Then over time increase the use of metric as a greater percent of the population grew up with it."
bah! My kids will grow up under the imperial system just like God Intended! Why else would there be both 12 inches in a foot and 12 apostles!
(on a more serious note, metric isn't too bad once you get used to it (still trying myself))
Bah, I'm more of a media-atheist myself
Didn't he rent that truck? (just asking cause I'm not 100% sure)
Just between you and me, I think he's an insensitive clod!
"I guess I'm a bit slow on Thursdays too!"
:)
We're not so different, you and I.
It wouldn't need them. If you've got another machine acting as as the myth backend that is.
That's too bad, I didn't realize they discontinued it.
I think this is pretty much what you were thinking of
http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php
It's a powerpc machine designed to run Linux, OpenSolaris, BSD and assorted OS's like that.
"on long road trips your passengers could chat with friends, look up roads on google.maps, or even check the weather."
:)
Been there done that
Let me tell you google maps + Wireless from Verizon + Tablet PC = never ever having to stop to find your way again.
"I guess what I'm asking is, how many of the recessions have been caused by corporate greed?"
Corporations are not greedy, people are greedy.
"Life Sucks, Then You Die"
about par for the course I'd say, eh?