Puh-lease. I don't wan't to spend a single moment "visually re-configur"ing my UI. I want my friggin' word processor to friggin' word process. I also want it to behave and look similar to my time-line app, my notes app, etc.
Every damn minute I have to spend figuring out what some moron arteest has decided a symbol means (without having a help tag pop-up) is a minute I cannot perform the function I want to perform.
Bullshit. I've seen [fill in the tourist] behave in exactly the same manner here in the U.S. Assholes abound in the world.
Another note. I've personally stepped up and berated said English-speaking assholes for behaving that way. I've never seen other than sniggering fron non-English speakers when the tables were turned.
Do I think that *all* non-English speakers snigger? NO. I'm bright enough to spot an asshole.
"French-speaking Africa has an immense population and a geographical area larger than the United States"
Not relevant. Antarctica is pretty large as well. It's the population stats that count. Why throw in land area (containing a large number of different countries, I might add)? Fine, add up U.S., Canada and Mexico.
No. Care had an older meaning in English. The phrase "I don't care to" currently means that one does not want to do it, but originally meant that one did not care (have a concern about) about
doing it.
"Would you bring ice cream to the picnic?"
"I don't care to." - (I don't mind)
It's still used that way in parts of the midwest US.
"You can exercise the brain just as much as the biceps."
One would think that someone defending a cerebral activity like math would understand that math "exercises" the brain only in an abstract sense.
You should know better than to conflate the two definitions, it indicates a lack of brain exercise.
Keep in mind Ebert is the same guy who couldn't understand the slow pace of "Little Buddha". I loved the moment when Siskel paused, looked at him like looking at a retard and commented, "It's a movie about Buddhaism!"
If the article tells you that he "just sort of fell into the U.S.'s lap", why say it "seems a bit much to chase a chess player player around the world for 12 years"?
Informative, my ass. Morelike Troll. I've personally had great problems salvaging a bunch of manuscripts when I got an XP to replace a dead '85. I had to port all the docs to another computer, save as RTF and then read. At least that's what I planned. Then I simply read them all into Lotus.
Well, yeah. Since that would mean that you were kicking him some 15-30 minutes after the incident started. If, however, you kicked the holy hell out of him before exhaustion set in (1-3 minutes), you're pretty much in the clear (sans witnesses for the mugger).
As for your second suppostion, it is wrong as well. The mugger *instigated* it all. You responded overtly. Temporary insanity. Get a grip.
"I think that Patents / Copyright should never pass completely beyond the control of the creator for that reason. "
They are, when said creator has invested his own time and money into the development of the invention. If he's using someone else's money to live on, he owes that someone the patent/copyright.
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Puh-lease. I don't wan't to spend a single moment "visually re-configur"ing my UI. I want my friggin' word processor to friggin' word process. I also want it to behave and look similar to my time-line app, my notes app, etc.
Every damn minute I have to spend figuring out what some moron arteest has decided a symbol means (without having a help tag pop-up) is a minute I cannot perform the function I want to perform.
"Windows has a rather counter intuitive interface"
Well, well. A rather pompous statement with no supporting argument. Not to mention that I disagree with you.
I don't find it slow, and it can be customized.
I have my desktop organized the way I organize my wooden desktop. Who are you to "guide" me?
Bullshit. I've seen [fill in the tourist] behave in exactly the same manner here in the U.S. Assholes abound in the world.
Another note. I've personally stepped up and berated said English-speaking assholes for behaving that way. I've never seen other than sniggering fron non-English speakers when the tables were turned.
Do I think that *all* non-English speakers snigger? NO. I'm bright enough to spot an asshole.
No. The word is dialect.
"French-speaking Africa has an immense population and a geographical area larger than the United States"
Not relevant. Antarctica is pretty large as well. It's the population stats that count. Why throw in land area (containing a large number of different countries, I might add)? Fine, add up U.S., Canada and Mexico.
I had a friend who would slip into French trying to bug me. I simply dropped into German. It ended quickly.
No. Care had an older meaning in English. The phrase "I don't care to" currently means that one does not want to do it, but originally meant that one did not care (have a concern about) about doing it.
"Would you bring ice cream to the picnic?"
"I don't care to." - (I don't mind)
It's still used that way in parts of the midwest US.
Colloquial. Could care less is also correct.
Right. Like women's gymnastics, women's track, women's .............
"You can exercise the brain just as much as the biceps."
One would think that someone defending a cerebral activity like math would understand that math "exercises" the brain only in an abstract sense.
You should know better than to conflate the two definitions, it indicates a lack of brain exercise.
Spoken like one who can't.
Why can't any of the so-called "journalists" simply pick up a friggin' dictionary?
"...but its not really our place to judge the people who they are now targeting."
Sure it is. Anyone who acts like a cretin should be judged to be a cretin. Anyone who acts like a thug is a thug.
Your namesake got caught, stupid.
Keep in mind Ebert is the same guy who couldn't understand the slow pace of "Little Buddha". I loved the moment when Siskel paused, looked at him like looking at a retard and commented, "It's a movie about Buddhaism!"
If the article tells you that he "just sort of fell into the U.S.'s lap", why say it "seems a bit much to chase a chess player player around the world for 12 years"?
"Now the US can spend its resources on petty topics, such as the economy, drugs, unemployment, invading other countries, etc, etc."
Troll
The U.S. didn't spend resources, he was detained by Japan.
Only for the "We report. You decide." quote. Get real.
What makes anyone think that the applications that we seem to need today will even be useful 200+ years from now?
Society -- and its needs -- changes constantly.
Informative, my ass. Morelike Troll. I've personally had great problems salvaging a bunch of manuscripts when I got an XP to replace a dead '85. I had to port all the docs to another computer, save as RTF and then read. At least that's what I planned. Then I simply read them all into Lotus.
Screw Word and their plethora of docs.
Well, yeah. Since that would mean that you were kicking him some 15-30 minutes after the incident started. If, however, you kicked the holy hell out of him before exhaustion set in (1-3 minutes), you're pretty much in the clear (sans witnesses for the mugger).
As for your second suppostion, it is wrong as well. The mugger *instigated* it all. You responded overtly. Temporary insanity. Get a grip.
Defending yourself from attack, and tackling some 14yr old who is walking away is not synonymous. Your comparison is fallacious.
I disagree. If only you could provide some modicum of legal backup for your supposition.
"The increasing and unfettered commercialisation of the internet is gradually making it unusable."
Bullshit. It's not like the "commercialisation" is removing literature, research, and raw data from the Internet.
Don't blame others because your site isn't interesting enough to go to.
Go to Google and enter "+opsin +bovine".
3,610 hits. Not a commercial site in the first 30 (I didn't go further). All research.
"I think that Patents / Copyright should never pass completely beyond the control of the creator for that reason. "
They are, when said creator has invested his own time and money into the development of the invention. If he's using someone else's money to live on, he owes that someone the patent/copyright.