No. The OP said that languages died out because older people refused to learn new ones. That's not true; in all the cases where a language is near extinction, the remaining speakers also know and use other languages. I'm saying that they die out because the children don't or won't learn them, leaving only the elderly to remember them.
It's not a matter of older people being unwilling to learn a new language. What happens is that the younger generation no longer sees a need to learn it, except for a few words that they pick up. After a while, the only people who remember the old tongue are elderly folks who grew up before things started to change. When they die, so does the language.
From what I've read, it doesn't exactly render the soldier naked. Instead of making him invisible, it just makes his clothing invisible, making him look naked. Now, if we only had enough women using it...
The summary says that customers will be able to download music "until October 19th or the time their next payment comes due, whichever comes first." The article itself (Yes, I really did RTFM) says:
"If you are a current Club member you will be able to continue using the service until the date that your next payment is due, after which the service will no longer be accessible to you."
Nothing about it stopping before your subscription runs out.
I'm not sure, but I think they're only preventing a manufacturer or reseller from forcing you to buy a copy of Windows by only offering them with it pre-installed. Even if they don't sell them with other OSen installed, you should be able to buy one with a blank hard disk if that's what you want. Most people who not only don't want Windows, but know exactly what system and version they want will know how to install it anyway, or know somebody does.
And believe me, MILITARY health care sucks worse than civilian health care. Ask any vet.
Hahahahahah! Boy, are you ever wrong! I'm a 'Nam vet, and get all my medical coverage through the VA. That includes prescriptions, doctor visits, free hearing aids and a new set of glasses once a year if my eyes change enough to need them. Right now, I'm unemployed because my job's been outsourced, so all of that -- all of that, mind you -- is free. Not even a copay, which I'd be billed for if I had a job. Given the choice, I'd rather have the job and copay, but until I get back on my feet the medicines (like metformin for the type II diabetes that might be agent orange related) won't be cut off because I'm broke.
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There should never be a settled issue in science. Science is about observation and theory not orthodoxy.
Tell that to all the people on/. who keep saying that Global Warming is a settled question and that no more research on anything except fixing it needs to be done.
It's called "security theater," and that's all most airports provide. All those metal detectors at government buildings, courts and so on only prevent two things: stupid criminals and honest people from going about their business without let or hindrance.
There was an incident at the VA hospital on Wilshire Blvd in LA once, over twenty years ago. From then on, until about a year ago, you had to go through metal detectors to get into the waiting room for the main clinic, even though there was no evidence that there was any threat. However, you didn't have to go through them to get into any other part of the hospital; just the waiting room for the clinic. It took years of time, and numerous people complaining, but they were eventually deactivated. Not removed; just deactivated. They're still there, wasting space, doing nothing, having no more effect now than they did when they were in use. A perfect example of security theater in action.
I know what you mean. The best night sky I ever saw was late at night on Tonkin Gulf while my ship was on patrol back in '72. The LA sky was probably just as good just after the Northrige Quake, but I had other things to think about at the moment and didn't really get a good look.
Non-Americans have little rights in an American Court of law.
Actually, that's not true. The Bill of Rights applies to all persons living in the USA, even undocumented aliens. They have the same right to a fair and impartial trial, the same right to confront their accuser, the same right to counsel and so on. Not just in theory, but in practice, too. (Except for impartial trials, because that's not always easy to enforce, and partiality can't always be proven. But the courts do try to be as fair as they can.)
I don't think this is the same thing. It's not something people are required to have installed on their machines, it's something running on the webserver and adding these images to the pages they serve. Unless all the images come from certain special servers, even adblock won't help.
I can remember about fifteen years ago having a connection that didn't allow ftp. After a little bit of experiment, I learned how to send an email message to a site that would use the body as the instructions for an ftp session and send me back the file uuencoded.
I don't think "Distinguished Alum Award" means what either you or your school think it does. Alum is a mineral, mostly used as an astringent (as in a styptic pencil) or in pickling. The word you want is "Alumnus."
Of course not. I was just using this one, unfortunate example to show how even here in the USofA there's a lot of variation in the amount of bandwidth available.
This Ask Slashdot question makes the false assumption that there is one, and only one Internet backbone, and that the only way to upgrade is to replace it. As Foldoc shows, the so-called backbone is composed of a number of large-scale networks that interconnect. If you need more bandwidth, all that's needed is to add as much as you need and can afford.
I know what you mean. I use ADSL here, and get about 1200KBPS download or so. I've house-sat for a friend a few times who's on cable, and I was appalled by the poor service he gets: about a third of what I get at home. Now, I'm not saying all cable is like that; I know better, and he's just stuck on a busy segment. I can imagine that coming here from Korea is to you like hooking up at my friend's is for me, if not worse.
Granted, I've *only ONE GIGABYTE of RAM* and not TWO - but should the OS need that much?
Y'know, I looked at that and suddenly I began to wonder: how did Microsoft go from "640K should be enough for anybody" to "1 Gigabyte of RAM for proper operation, preferably 2?"
Why bother installing MS Office? Open Office reads and writes all the office file formats just fine, so there's no need to waste time, money or disk space on the Microsoft program.
I'm not so sure. A friend of mine has been using vista on one of his machines since before release. He tells me that it will sometimes decide that one of the other machines on his LAN isn't there any more and won't see it again until he reboots. XP never did that. I wouldn't be too surprised if they did rewrite networking and mucked it up.
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No. The OP said that languages died out because older people refused to learn new ones. That's not true; in all the cases where a language is near extinction, the remaining speakers also know and use other languages. I'm saying that they die out because the children don't or won't learn them, leaving only the elderly to remember them.
It's not a matter of older people being unwilling to learn a new language. What happens is that the younger generation no longer sees a need to learn it, except for a few words that they pick up. After a while, the only people who remember the old tongue are elderly folks who grew up before things started to change. When they die, so does the language.
From what I've read, it doesn't exactly render the soldier naked. Instead of making him invisible, it just makes his clothing invisible, making him look naked. Now, if we only had enough women using it...
"If you are a current Club member you will be able to continue using the service until the date that your next payment is due, after which the service will no longer be accessible to you."
Nothing about it stopping before your subscription runs out.
That's a wonderful idea, and not just to level the playing field, either. Alas, I see no possible way to enforce it.
I'm not sure, but I think they're only preventing a manufacturer or reseller from forcing you to buy a copy of Windows by only offering them with it pre-installed. Even if they don't sell them with other OSen installed, you should be able to buy one with a blank hard disk if that's what you want. Most people who not only don't want Windows, but know exactly what system and version they want will know how to install it anyway, or know somebody does.
That's just what we need: a way to create even more webpages that have no original content whatsoever.
Hahahahahah! Boy, are you ever wrong! I'm a 'Nam vet, and get all my medical coverage through the VA. That includes prescriptions, doctor visits, free hearing aids and a new set of glasses once a year if my eyes change enough to need them. Right now, I'm unemployed because my job's been outsourced, so all of that -- all of that, mind you -- is free. Not even a copay, which I'd be billed for if I had a job. Given the choice, I'd rather have the job and copay, but until I get back on my feet the medicines (like metformin for the type II diabetes that might be agent orange related) won't be cut off because I'm broke.
Tell that to all the people on
I've heard of one doctor who routinely prescribed Obecalp because his patients knew what a placebo was but never thought of spelling it backwards.
There was an incident at the VA hospital on Wilshire Blvd in LA once, over twenty years ago. From then on, until about a year ago, you had to go through metal detectors to get into the waiting room for the main clinic, even though there was no evidence that there was any threat. However, you didn't have to go through them to get into any other part of the hospital; just the waiting room for the clinic. It took years of time, and numerous people complaining, but they were eventually deactivated. Not removed; just deactivated. They're still there, wasting space, doing nothing, having no more effect now than they did when they were in use. A perfect example of security theater in action.
I know what you mean. The best night sky I ever saw was late at night on Tonkin Gulf while my ship was on patrol back in '72. The LA sky was probably just as good just after the Northrige Quake, but I had other things to think about at the moment and didn't really get a good look.
Actually, that's not true. The Bill of Rights applies to all persons living in the USA, even undocumented aliens. They have the same right to a fair and impartial trial, the same right to confront their accuser, the same right to counsel and so on. Not just in theory, but in practice, too. (Except for impartial trials, because that's not always easy to enforce, and partiality can't always be proven. But the courts do try to be as fair as they can.)
I don't think this is the same thing. It's not something people are required to have installed on their machines, it's something running on the webserver and adding these images to the pages they serve. Unless all the images come from certain special servers, even adblock won't help.
I can remember about fifteen years ago having a connection that didn't allow ftp. After a little bit of experiment, I learned how to send an email message to a site that would use the body as the instructions for an ftp session and send me back the file uuencoded.
I don't think "Distinguished Alum Award" means what either you or your school think it does. Alum is a mineral, mostly used as an astringent (as in a styptic pencil) or in pickling. The word you want is "Alumnus."
What do you think powers the lasers?
I think that "How much would it cost to expand the US backbone and provide more bandwidth?" would be best, but YMMV.
Of course not. I was just using this one, unfortunate example to show how even here in the USofA there's a lot of variation in the amount of bandwidth available.
This Ask Slashdot question makes the false assumption that there is one, and only one Internet backbone, and that the only way to upgrade is to replace it. As Foldoc shows, the so-called backbone is composed of a number of large-scale networks that interconnect. If you need more bandwidth, all that's needed is to add as much as you need and can afford.
I know what you mean. I use ADSL here, and get about 1200KBPS download or so. I've house-sat for a friend a few times who's on cable, and I was appalled by the poor service he gets: about a third of what I get at home. Now, I'm not saying all cable is like that; I know better, and he's just stuck on a busy segment. I can imagine that coming here from Korea is to you like hooking up at my friend's is for me, if not worse.
Why? It's never stopped bubbles from forming or bursting in the past, going all the way back to the famous South Sea Bubble.
Y'know, I looked at that and suddenly I began to wonder: how did Microsoft go from "640K should be enough for anybody" to "1 Gigabyte of RAM for proper operation, preferably 2?"
Why bother installing MS Office? Open Office reads and writes all the office file formats just fine, so there's no need to waste time, money or disk space on the Microsoft program.
I'm not so sure. A friend of mine has been using vista on one of his machines since before release. He tells me that it will sometimes decide that one of the other machines on his LAN isn't there any more and won't see it again until he reboots. XP never did that. I wouldn't be too surprised if they did rewrite networking and mucked it up.