That means quitting your job, or letting your employment contract expire, to book a 90 day return flight to Europe and let the cards fall where they may. Sometimes that means deciding to leave a town at 10am checkout because it just feels time and booking a bus ticket to a random city on a whim. Don't overplan these things because spontaneity is exhilarating fun, whether you're 19 or 35.
Some people prefer guided tours where everything is planned for you but I would find them constraining.
I like the 'Catholic' countries best. I haven't been religious for many a year but in some cities it's impossible to get lost because the Lord is guiding you home.
Literally - Donostia has a yuuuuuuge statue of Jesus on the top of a hill. Stumble out of a bar at 4am and no matter how drunk you are, you can find your way home relative to the position of Jesus in the sky!
Having an active dot on the map serving as a "you are here" is far better than trying to figure it out with paper while driving
Most definitely but not just driving. I have a terrible sense of direction and wouldn't know my north from south. Even a hand drawn map is a challenge when using public transport. You arrive at 8pm, in the dark, and you're lost in a new city because you exited the train station at the wrong exit. Retracing your steps or asking a local who doesn't speak English well... And of course you won't have a map of the city unless you visit a tourist kiosk and in any case they might not have the neighbourhood you need in detail if it's just outside the tourist epicentre. But GPS isn't a cure all if you haven't downloaded the map offline and haven't had a chance to buy a 3G SIM yet! Such is the life of an international traveller:)
I used to like okular but it tends to choke on image-laden PDFs such as 40 page brochures. e.g. viewing a film festival in portrait mode as a presentation.
So unless there's something requiring specific compatibility I use Atril (the mate fork of evince), which has no problem scrolling between images.
The lawsuit seems to be around the "product" of a fan-fic and I think it's entirely reasonable for Star Trek to own the rights to the Star Trek universe, or for lawyers to argue that at least.
Klingon itself, however... If you're defending the language as a standalone concept can the defence cite *any* hearty examples of the language being used outside of the sci-fi universe? I saw one video on youtube of the "to be or not to be" soliloquy. But surely that's a demonstration of the quip in the show about "Hamlet being better in the original Klingon".
What I'm asking therefore, is whether as a test case, someone might film a feature length family drama or rom-com in, say, New York or Berlin as an example of Klingon used as a real-life human language and not as an extension of Trek. Original compositions, i.e. not translating Harry Potter into Klingon for the sake of it.
There was a study on childhood acquisition of language where two parents raised their children as German native speakers despite neither parent being Germanic themselves - all as some bizarre experiment.
Well the advantage of learning German would be that you could travel to Europe and speak with 'real' people, I guess. But then a kid might equally grow up to attend PAX or Comicon and have 'real' conversations in Klingon.
I guess you missed the bit where he answered the question "What are you, nuts?"
He has previously emulated 68k Mac OS and now turns his attention to a 486 PC.
I would suggest another platform of the period, Risc OS. I'm not sure if the SoC used in the watch supports ARM's virtualization extensions but since there's no arch emulation it should still run at lightning speed compared to an Archimedes of the early 90s.
I thought the "fat binary" file format made it trivial to distribute programs that ran on multiple architectures (PPC/Intel). Check a box within Xcode and you're done? There's no Classic/Carbon legacy this time around.
Apollo Lake, as mentioned in the summary, is still around. That's the codename for the desktop Atom architecture, which they brand as Pentium/Celeron just to confuse customers.
So, at this stage, it's only the SoC chips for a non-existent phone market they're cutting (which the Chinese tablet makers bought en masse).
I thought it was referring to budget carriers such as RyanAir that promise you Barcelona but are some distance away in Girona and even then require you to catch a 20 minute bus from town to the airport.
The rest of the industry is adopting hybrid models. Universal apps on Windows, Convergence on Ubuntu, Android apps on Chrome OS, etc.
My parents purchased me a Mac in 1991 before NT4 became a thing, so I missed the resurrection of Jobs. But if Apple aren't interested in a hybrid Surface platform, I guess I ain't cool enough for the 21st century. Oh well...
I spent about $AU1K on one of their business 12" laptops back in 2008. Best machine ever and is still going, albeit handed down to my mother several years back.
Where HP gets a bad reputation, I'm guessing, is at the low end. Our local electronics retailer, jb hifi, always has netbooks on sale for about $299 and they're barely specced better than my aforementioned 8yo friend - 2GB RAM, no SSD, no improvement in screen res, miscellaneous Atom/Pentium/Celeron chip.
At the time I had to execute a command line btsco command just to pair the damn thing using some deprecated ALSA config. I wonder if they still work in 2016 with PulseAudio and systemd!
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You've never backpacked before?
That means quitting your job, or letting your employment contract expire, to book a 90 day return flight to Europe and let the cards fall where they may. Sometimes that means deciding to leave a town at 10am checkout because it just feels time and booking a bus ticket to a random city on a whim. Don't overplan these things because spontaneity is exhilarating fun, whether you're 19 or 35.
Some people prefer guided tours where everything is planned for you but I would find them constraining.
7/10, you only mentioned apps twice. :)
I like the 'Catholic' countries best. I haven't been religious for many a year but in some cities it's impossible to get lost because the Lord is guiding you home.
Literally - Donostia has a yuuuuuuge statue of Jesus on the top of a hill. Stumble out of a bar at 4am and no matter how drunk you are, you can find your way home relative to the position of Jesus in the sky!
Most definitely but not just driving. I have a terrible sense of direction and wouldn't know my north from south. Even a hand drawn map is a challenge when using public transport. You arrive at 8pm, in the dark, and you're lost in a new city because you exited the train station at the wrong exit. Retracing your steps or asking a local who doesn't speak English well... And of course you won't have a map of the city unless you visit a tourist kiosk and in any case they might not have the neighbourhood you need in detail if it's just outside the tourist epicentre. But GPS isn't a cure all if you haven't downloaded the map offline and haven't had a chance to buy a 3G SIM yet! Such is the life of an international traveller :)
I used to like okular but it tends to choke on image-laden PDFs such as 40 page brochures. e.g. viewing a film festival in portrait mode as a presentation.
So unless there's something requiring specific compatibility I use Atril (the mate fork of evince), which has no problem scrolling between images.
The lawsuit seems to be around the "product" of a fan-fic and I think it's entirely reasonable for Star Trek to own the rights to the Star Trek universe, or for lawyers to argue that at least.
Klingon itself, however... If you're defending the language as a standalone concept can the defence cite *any* hearty examples of the language being used outside of the sci-fi universe? I saw one video on youtube of the "to be or not to be" soliloquy. But surely that's a demonstration of the quip in the show about "Hamlet being better in the original Klingon".
What I'm asking therefore, is whether as a test case, someone might film a feature length family drama or rom-com in, say, New York or Berlin as an example of Klingon used as a real-life human language and not as an extension of Trek. Original compositions, i.e. not translating Harry Potter into Klingon for the sake of it.
Aside from nerds, obviously - Linguists.
There was a study on childhood acquisition of language where two parents raised their children as German native speakers despite neither parent being Germanic themselves - all as some bizarre experiment.
Well the advantage of learning German would be that you could travel to Europe and speak with 'real' people, I guess. But then a kid might equally grow up to attend PAX or Comicon and have 'real' conversations in Klingon.
If I had modpoints, I'd 'off-topic' the bit about the bible.
Came to read about Klingon, not scroll through 100 comments about religion.
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I guess you missed the bit where he answered the question "What are you, nuts?"
He has previously emulated 68k Mac OS and now turns his attention to a 486 PC.
I would suggest another platform of the period, Risc OS. I'm not sure if the SoC used in the watch supports ARM's virtualization extensions but since there's no arch emulation it should still run at lightning speed compared to an Archimedes of the early 90s.
I thought the "fat binary" file format made it trivial to distribute programs that ran on multiple architectures (PPC/Intel). Check a box within Xcode and you're done? There's no Classic/Carbon legacy this time around.
Ubuntu convergence, Windows Continuum.
The tech is here, just not on Android and iOS that have the smartphone business sown-up.
Apollo Lake, as mentioned in the summary, is still around. That's the codename for the desktop Atom architecture, which they brand as Pentium/Celeron just to confuse customers.
So, at this stage, it's only the SoC chips for a non-existent phone market they're cutting (which the Chinese tablet makers bought en masse).
Facebook announced an Instagram app in the past day or two.
Not at the price.
TRAY: $281.
The whole computer used to cost less than that.
If you upgrade the CPU is it still the same computer?
I'd hate to be walking around with someone else's ugly head on my body.
Don't worry, in Halifax and Quebec City they fire a cannon once a day to scare off the invading Americans.
I thought it was ST Generations.
Saturday marks the 33rd anniversary of his death, so don't expect youngsters to have ever heard of Muddy.
RIP
I thought it was referring to budget carriers such as RyanAir that promise you Barcelona but are some distance away in Girona and even then require you to catch a 20 minute bus from town to the airport.
The rest of the industry is adopting hybrid models. Universal apps on Windows, Convergence on Ubuntu, Android apps on Chrome OS, etc.
My parents purchased me a Mac in 1991 before NT4 became a thing, so I missed the resurrection of Jobs. But if Apple aren't interested in a hybrid Surface platform, I guess I ain't cool enough for the 21st century. Oh well...
I thought there was some 'developer mode', whence one could flash an entirely new coreboot payload and bypass the protections altogether?
I spent about $AU1K on one of their business 12" laptops back in 2008. Best machine ever and is still going, albeit handed down to my mother several years back.
Where HP gets a bad reputation, I'm guessing, is at the low end. Our local electronics retailer, jb hifi, always has netbooks on sale for about $299 and they're barely specced better than my aforementioned 8yo friend - 2GB RAM, no SSD, no improvement in screen res, miscellaneous Atom/Pentium/Celeron chip.
At the time I had to execute a command line btsco command just to pair the damn thing using some deprecated ALSA config. I wonder if they still work in 2016 with PulseAudio and systemd!
Sure was painful...