Build a bittorrent client into the browser that is intelligent, azureus-esquely configurable, and that can resume downloads effortlessly (as opposed to having to manually reopen.torrent files) after program shutdowns, and I'll probably switch to it.;-)
There is no Google Office, nor does it appear to be planned.
The big huge fantasticalistically amazing announcement is that two big corporation (Sun & Google) have joined forces to bundle more garbage into your Windows installation programs.
Namely, Sun will start offering (or "offering" perhaps) Google Toolbar when people set out to install the Java Runtime Environment.
Can't Java just die already? Pretty please? Along with Google Toolbar?
Konqueror (I suppose with the Apple patches in, thanks guys) now succeeds at rendering the ACID2 Webstandard-Tests (yes, we know that it's not an official standard.
Do you not think that Konqueror developers have the talent and the ingenuity to make their own browser render CSS properly... without the help of (by comparison) newbie developers who quickly littered their fork full of OS-specific code?
Have you missed the whole big thing about Apple's changes not being clean enough to merge back into Konqueror?
I did not misunderstand. I was suggesting that in fact 'optics' is a word with a well established meaning that people have a tendency to misuse to mean "appearances" when they try to (whether intentionally or due to a bad habit) obfuscate their speech or writing. (And for the record, I did not copy one definition out of many from m-w.com. I copied the whole and only definition.)
In fact, with your sentence specifically, I would suggest that ideal english usage would not have even seen the light of "appearances" either.
How about instead of
And this has bad optics for the console that is pushing Hi Def Everything.
this
And this looks bad for the console that is pushing Hi Def Everything.
And this has bad optics for the console that is pushing Hi Def Everything.
Main Entry: optics
Pronunciation: 'äp-tiks
Function: noun plural but singular in construction
: a science that deals with the genesis and propagation of light, the changes that it undergoes and produces, and other phenomena closely associated with it
"A 10-year effort", but by whom? Hans and friends? I have a 10-year effort going on being a millionaire right now, but you know who'd be better at it? Someone with a million dollars. Also, what is he implying by saying this effort is 10-years old? Is there 10-year old code in there? Isn't this what Microsoft gets harangued about every time they release an operating system? Or, is he stating that design work and implementation strategies have been in process for 10 years--hasn't Microsoft been making it's own OS's for 22 years? Should we ignore any expertise garnered? If we do, why not ignore efforts Reiser made for Reiser3?
That comment is remarkably infantile. "If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants--DUMB GIANTS THAT SUCK!"
You are right... obviously you have to be right. I mean you are... well... nobody?
Whereas Hans Reiser is merely the creator of two of the best filesystems that exist.
Thanks for clearing things up for us...
... though admittedly you do give the impression of a pointlessly babbling idiot, truth be told.
I was cheering your post all the way until I read that last sentence. Is the concept of Rapture rational?
For the record, it isn't Biblical either and thus is certainly not pan-christian. It is pure, out-of-the-pontiff's-head, Catholic dogma without foundation.
"American" also refers to the ideas espoused by the Founding Fathers of America. Remember, America is built around those certain concepts. To be "American" is to accept ideals such as democracy, fair justice, but most importantly freedom (be it of the press, faith, speech, expression, etc.).
One who supports censorship, and is henceforth against freedom of expression, cannot be considered an American. That is simply because they do not subscribe to American values.
Under an expansion announced Thursday, the Mountain View-based company opened its ambitious Google Print book-scanning project to publishers in France, Italy, Germany, Netherlands and Spain.
The European Union is made up of 25 countries, only 5 (20%) of which are invited to submit materials. Clearly google was going not for the EU, but for all the countries in Europe that Americans heard about before or would consider vacationing in.
Thank you for reminding us that as far as America is concerned, Europe ends at the German and the Italian borders (and doesn't include a bunch of countries even west of there). It's now officially okay to forget about Poland, Belgium, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Denmark, Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, Hungary, Portugal, Estonia, Cyprus, Slovenia, Malta, Latvia, Sweden, Lithuana, Finland, and Austria.
My experience is that the best way to get relatively fluent in a language is to get a copy of Harry Potter in said language and sit down with a cup of hot choccy and a dictionary.
Oh ho ho... that rumbunctious wizard boy... is there anything his adventures are not the perfect solution for? %)
Imagine a huge database with creative works from every culture in whatever language, available to anyone who desires in their native tongue.
Theoretically, this is already true for English speakers. In practice, of course, anglophones continue to read their own native fare supplemented by occasional forrays into foreign territory--but only if some celebrity with little expertise or taste recommends it, or if it will make you part of an in-crowd.
Greater selection will not heal a culture of ill-literacy (no--not a typo) and cultural isolationism.
For example, I was out with a Japanese woman the other night, and she said "aitakatta". Literally translated, this means "wanted to meet". Translated into native English, it means "I really wanted to see you tonight".
I guess that would be an idiom? Coincidentally Hungarian has the same one: "Találkozni akartam." (To-meet I-wanted. [reversing the word order is no problem, but would emphasizes the "I-wanted" as opposed to "I-did-not-want" part--whereas the current word order emphasizes the "to-meet" as opposed to "to-jump-into-bed" part]). So if you translated it from Japanese to Hungarian literally, it would still make sense quite the same way.
I guess a big part of successfully translating and interpreting languages has to do with knowing the idioms in both the source and the target languages.
Given the considerable semantic ambiguities involved, I think it may take quite some time before we have capable machine translation software... not to mention interpretation, which is more difficult still. (Think incomplete words, redundant 'like's, grammatically non-question intonation based questions, etc.)
You're *NOT* allowed to look at, change, or redistribute the source code of the English word 'Linux'... unless you have specific permission from the author to do so... assuming anyone has copyright on it... so... on second thought... maybe you can tweak the hell out of that 'print "Linux";'
Human minds are fragile, and when they see things that are too frightening, too ghastly, or too wrong, they can start coming unglued in unfunny ways. If the player beholds any unbalancing element, the screen distorts with a number of unique "sanity" effects that not only make everything look more enigmatic and threatening, they also erode the player's ability to coherently aim and properly move about. There will also be distracting auditory hallucinations, taking the form of voices in one's head. And we all know how troubling that can be. Um, right?
If sanity erodes too drastically, the ultimate debilitating penalty may result; if Walters is holding a loaded firearm, he's liable to summarily turn it on himself and blow his own head off from terror, despair, or whatnot. Game over.
Mental damage, like physical damage, is cumulative through a level -- and the only immediate "treatment" for mounting mental instability is to decisively banish, blast, or otherwise stomp some Cthulhoid horror's eldritch ass to death. The temporary (if ultimately empty) physical victory gives our hero a sense of accomplishment, a little world-reordering sanity to set his mind at ease.
We got to see some of the game's sanity effects as Walters starts to see the world through the eyes of his enemies, or starts to feel disoriented and dislocated. We were told that, if Walters gets too in over his head and loses all of his sanity, he may even involuntarily turn his weapons on himself. The sanity effects in the game are not governed by any onscreen meter, so it'll be up to players to try to see through Jack's mental issues.
Sounds incredibly pretentious. And a little funny to see being a ".NET developer" referred to as a "trade". How old is.NET as a serious development platform?
Just thought I'd share. I haven't anything against you; and your post seems perfectly sensible and reasonable. But sure starts kind of weird...
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... from a simple mind.
Thanks for the public service denouncement.
... made enough that you'll literally explode?
Because that'd be cool!
*Obviously* I did not. And feeling a tad bit silly for it...
Is there nothing special about 255 to you?
It is the 256th number, if you include 0 in your count. Coincidentally 256 is also the number of values a single byte can represent.
Each number in the dotted decimal form of an IP address is the a numeric representation of a single byte.
There will not be IPv4 addresses going to 999, there will not even be any going to 256. (seeing as how counting starts from 0).
If only thousands of people around the world had all their various past releases on their PCs...
Build a bittorrent client into the browser that is intelligent, azureus-esquely configurable, and that can resume downloads effortlessly (as opposed to having to manually reopen .torrent files) after program shutdowns, and I'll probably switch to it. ;-)
There is no Google Office, nor does it appear to be planned.
The big huge fantasticalistically amazing announcement is that two big corporation (Sun & Google) have joined forces to bundle more garbage into your Windows installation programs.
Namely, Sun will start offering (or "offering" perhaps) Google Toolbar when people set out to install the Java Runtime Environment.
Can't Java just die already? Pretty please? Along with Google Toolbar?
After all, insolence from the weak is historically frowned upon.
... and the radiation settles to acceptable levels; I will do a happy little dance. ;-)
Have you missed the whole big thing about Apple's changes not being clean enough to merge back into Konqueror?
In fact, with your sentence specifically, I would suggest that ideal english usage would not have even seen the light of "appearances" either.
How about instead of this
Pronunciation: 'äp-tiks
Function: noun plural but singular in construction
: a science that deals with the genesis and propagation of light, the changes that it undergoes and produces, and other phenomena closely associated with it
Whereas Hans Reiser is merely the creator of two of the best filesystems that exist.
Thanks for clearing things up for us...
Thank you for reminding us that as far as America is concerned, Europe ends at the German and the Italian borders (and doesn't include a bunch of countries even west of there). It's now officially okay to forget about Poland, Belgium, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Denmark, Czech Republic, Greece, Ireland, Hungary, Portugal, Estonia, Cyprus, Slovenia, Malta, Latvia, Sweden, Lithuana, Finland, and Austria.
Greater selection will not heal a culture of ill-literacy (no--not a typo) and cultural isolationism.
I guess a big part of successfully translating and interpreting languages has to do with knowing the idioms in both the source and the target languages.
Given the considerable semantic ambiguities involved, I think it may take quite some time before we have capable machine translation software... not to mention interpretation, which is more difficult still. (Think incomplete words, redundant 'like's, grammatically non-question intonation based questions, etc.)
You're *NOT* allowed to look at, change, or redistribute the source code of the English word 'Linux'... unless you have specific permission from the author to do so... assuming anyone has copyright on it... so... on second thought... maybe you can tweak the hell out of that 'print "Linux";'
Go, go, go!!! Do it quickly!!!!!111!!!1ONE!!!
http://gamesdomain.yahoo.com/pc/call_of_cthulhu_da rk_corners_of_the_earth/preview/108608
l hudarkcote/preview_6125712.html
Human minds are fragile, and when they see things that are too frightening, too ghastly, or too wrong, they can start coming unglued in unfunny ways. If the player beholds any unbalancing element, the screen distorts with a number of unique "sanity" effects that not only make everything look more enigmatic and threatening, they also erode the player's ability to coherently aim and properly move about. There will also be distracting auditory hallucinations, taking the form of voices in one's head. And we all know how troubling that can be. Um, right?
If sanity erodes too drastically, the ultimate debilitating penalty may result; if Walters is holding a loaded firearm, he's liable to summarily turn it on himself and blow his own head off from terror, despair, or whatnot. Game over.
Mental damage, like physical damage, is cumulative through a level -- and the only immediate "treatment" for mounting mental instability is to decisively banish, blast, or otherwise stomp some Cthulhoid horror's eldritch ass to death. The temporary (if ultimately empty) physical victory gives our hero a sense of accomplishment, a little world-reordering sanity to set his mind at ease.
http://www.gamespot.com/xbox/adventure/callofcthu
We got to see some of the game's sanity effects as Walters starts to see the world through the eyes of his enemies, or starts to feel disoriented and dislocated. We were told that, if Walters gets too in over his head and loses all of his sanity, he may even involuntarily turn his weapons on himself. The sanity effects in the game are not governed by any onscreen meter, so it'll be up to players to try to see through Jack's mental issues.
Makes sense. :-) I feel your pain... :-/
Just thought I'd share. I haven't anything against you; and your post seems perfectly sensible and reasonable. But sure starts kind of weird...
Do you have a boyfriend, erica_ann?