You do know that "Britain" technically refers to a region of France, Brittany/Bretagne or "lesser Britain"? "Great Britain" is a different place, and by your logic the word "British" hijacks a region's name. "The United States of America" has the name "America" and the title "The United States", just like "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" has its latter part as its true name, and the "People's Republic of China" is both the PRC and China (they're hijacking the name of an area including Taiwan, aren't they?).
The meaning of the word "American" should be clear from context. I have rarely seen in usage (and that's the true way of finding a word's meaning) the word "American" for an inhabitant of the Americas, note the 's'. The word "Indian" hijacks a subcontinent's name, too.
the doves would say "well how exactly are we supposed to make the world safe for democracy by invading Iraq. Who did nothing wrong to us or threatned us in any way?"
Iraq was not a democracy, and may not have had much of a chance of becoming close to a democracy for a few decades if Saddam Hussein had remained in power.
Of course, that's true for several countries. Here's why Iraq: 1) They broke the peace treaty from the last war. If we attempt appeasement, we risk the same fate as Europe did after World War I. The statement "they did nothing wrong to us" could've been tenuously applied to Desert Storm; when they break a treaty so blatantly, we have to do something about it. 2) They're strategically important. They may help us get Al-Qaeda, and they have oil. Better (probably) to get a few corporate execs rich than get Saddam Hussein rich.
Basically, Iraq was a strategically important non-democracy that we may have had to fight sooner or later.
And no WMD's explicitly referenced (though those were the main terms of the cease-fire) and only one reference to Al-Qaeda. It would've been equally valid an argument in the Clinton administration (don't know if they would've accepted it, though).
Good point, but we all learned affect/effect in school. The correct verb there, in my opinion, is "effect". To effect, when used as a verb (admittedly rarely), means to cause or create. To affect is to change. In this case, they may have created the artist's bottom line, in which case effect is correct.
To quote Louis the Fifteenth (the Sixteenth was guillotined in the French Revolution): "After me, the deluge."
At any given time, a President will only be in power for eight or less years - four or less if it looks like trouble's coming. There's no incentive for him to set up a long-term stable situation.
Unfortunately, the alternative (increasing terms) is probably much worse.
It pains me that a "News for Nerds" site has people who are proud of not being able to read French (don't give me any political reasons; the language is still the language) and compare what used to be the international lingua franca (hence the term) to Ancient Sumerian and Aramaic.
French, at least in this case, is close enough to English that the phrases "just a screen...retouched...we have acquired...certainty...false" can be picked out in the footnote. Even so, you should be able to use the Babel Fish.
Also, if you can't at least guess at what a Romance language means, it might be a good idea to start learning one now. Even Interlingua counts. My semifluency in French (probably the only area where Louisiana has a better-than-average educational system) has allowed me to get the gist of Spanish and Italian texts.
Also, Florida's on the coast so that an aborted launch can safely plunge into the ocean (and be rescued) instead of colliding into the ground, trying to find the nearest ocean before they run out of speed, or attempting a landing with something gone wrong.
68000 based TI calculators The Motorola 68k-based calculators, the 89, the 92, and the Voyage 200, are unfortunately prohibited most everywhere (ACTs, etc.) due to the onboard computer algebra system. Great calculator on technical merits, though.
Anyone know of a good GCC/other C compiler for the Zilog Z80 TI series (73 and 80 through 86)? I've seen Z80 compilers on the Internet that can output object code linkable into TI programs (using DEVPAC83), but these aren't explicitly designed for TIs: they use their own (strange) font, and they can't reach some calculator features easily from the C libraries.
The Z80 was based on the 8080's design and opcodes, so I'm sure such a compiler could be easily written. Pity is, AFAIK, it's 16-bit, so GCC may not work too well for that.
They're the property of Duke until spring semester; they can't sell it until then. (I'm sure they could hold the auction now and make the sale in Spring, but there's insufficient guarantee [for a sale] the student will stay at Duke until then.)
In truth, it has nothing to do with the object itself. The French don't know why it's "la table" and not "le table", other than to tell you that it doesn't sound right as "le table".
This is somewhat on a tangent, but there is a...guideline (not quite a rule) that French words that end in "e" tend to be feminine. Of the two hundred basic nouns listed on this educational website, only 23, or about ten percent, do not follow this rule (in either direction).
Why's everyone complaining about the colors? They're not harsh or ill-chosen (like brown-on-black or something). Is it just that they're different and you're not used to them? That kind of goes counter to the whole open-source and Linux trend around here....
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That's like "not in my back yard" in reverse...Criminals are OK, just not in my back yard.
You do know that "Britain" technically refers to a region of France, Brittany/Bretagne or "lesser Britain"? "Great Britain" is a different place, and by your logic the word "British" hijacks a region's name. "The United States of America" has the name "America" and the title "The United States", just like "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" has its latter part as its true name, and the "People's Republic of China" is both the PRC and China (they're hijacking the name of an area including Taiwan, aren't they?).
The meaning of the word "American" should be clear from context. I have rarely seen in usage (and that's the true way of finding a word's meaning) the word "American" for an inhabitant of the Americas, note the 's'. The word "Indian" hijacks a subcontinent's name, too.
the doves would say "well how exactly are we supposed to make the world safe for democracy by invading Iraq. Who did nothing wrong to us or threatned us in any way?"
Iraq was not a democracy, and may not have had much of a chance of becoming close to a democracy for a few decades if Saddam Hussein had remained in power.
Of course, that's true for several countries. Here's why Iraq: 1) They broke the peace treaty from the last war. If we attempt appeasement, we risk the same fate as Europe did after World War I. The statement "they did nothing wrong to us" could've been tenuously applied to Desert Storm; when they break a treaty so blatantly, we have to do something about it. 2) They're strategically important. They may help us get Al-Qaeda, and they have oil. Better (probably) to get a few corporate execs rich than get Saddam Hussein rich.
Basically, Iraq was a strategically important non-democracy that we may have had to fight sooner or later.
And no WMD's explicitly referenced (though those were the main terms of the cease-fire) and only one reference to Al-Qaeda. It would've been equally valid an argument in the Clinton administration (don't know if they would've accepted it, though).
Was that sig intentional for that message?
I haven't taken Latin I yet. Sorry. I'm pretty fluent in French (6 years, maybe?), and I can read Latin and figure out what it means.
Except that the entire "I am your father" thing applies better to Bush.
There was a simple motto used once:
"to make the world safe for democracy"
Why can't we use it again? It's ten times easier than any WMD argument.
-1 Uses the term "USAians" as if the politics of Greenland and St. Kitts & Nevis can't be eliminated from context.
duel licensing
How appropriate for what the software enables you to run....
Well, it might be Goat or GNAA...we have to take it down, but can't risk seeing it ourselves....
What happens when the admin's inbox fills up? It adds a notice to the database?
In order to install it, you have to restart Firefox.
(Which leads to an infinite loop somehow....)
Good point, but we all learned affect/effect in school. The correct verb there, in my opinion, is "effect". To effect, when used as a verb (admittedly rarely), means to cause or create. To affect is to change. In this case, they may have created the artist's bottom line, in which case effect is correct.
To quote Louis the Fifteenth (the Sixteenth was guillotined in the French Revolution): "After me, the deluge."
At any given time, a President will only be in power for eight or less years - four or less if it looks like trouble's coming. There's no incentive for him to set up a long-term stable situation.
Unfortunately, the alternative (increasing terms) is probably much worse.
It pains me that a "News for Nerds" site has people who are proud of not being able to read French (don't give me any political reasons; the language is still the language) and compare what used to be the international lingua franca (hence the term) to Ancient Sumerian and Aramaic.
French, at least in this case, is close enough to English that the phrases "just a screen...retouched...we have acquired...certainty...false" can be picked out in the footnote. Even so, you should be able to use the Babel Fish.
Also, if you can't at least guess at what a Romance language means, it might be a good idea to start learning one now. Even Interlingua counts. My semifluency in French (probably the only area where Louisiana has a better-than-average educational system) has allowed me to get the gist of Spanish and Italian texts.
Also, Florida's on the coast so that an aborted launch can safely plunge into the ocean (and be rescued) instead of colliding into the ground, trying to find the nearest ocean before they run out of speed, or attempting a landing with something gone wrong.
burglarized
Honestly, you sound like President Bush. The word is burgled.
"Viri" is, and would be the proper Latin plural of "virus".
Unfortunately, it is also the Latin form of "men".
1. Anyone who has even the slightest network experience has helped others, and has the people skills not to ad-hominem people.
2. This is unique to Halo. There are worlds of network administration and computer knowledge apart from any game.
Eighteen!? I thought the traditional rule was until marriage.
Hey, interesting idea....huh? You didn't hear that.
(Actually, it could be argued that AutoRun copy-protection software on an audio CD may be a virus.)
68000 based TI calculators
The Motorola 68k-based calculators, the 89, the 92, and the Voyage 200, are unfortunately prohibited most everywhere (ACTs, etc.) due to the onboard computer algebra system. Great calculator on technical merits, though.
Anyone know of a good GCC/other C compiler for the Zilog Z80 TI series (73 and 80 through 86)? I've seen Z80 compilers on the Internet that can output object code linkable into TI programs (using DEVPAC83), but these aren't explicitly designed for TIs: they use their own (strange) font, and they can't reach some calculator features easily from the C libraries.
The Z80 was based on the 8080's design and opcodes, so I'm sure such a compiler could be easily written. Pity is, AFAIK, it's 16-bit, so GCC may not work too well for that.
They're the property of Duke until spring semester; they can't sell it until then. (I'm sure they could hold the auction now and make the sale in Spring, but there's insufficient guarantee [for a sale] the student will stay at Duke until then.)
In truth, it has nothing to do with the object itself. The French don't know why it's "la table" and not "le table", other than to tell you that it doesn't sound right as "le table".
This is somewhat on a tangent, but there is a...guideline (not quite a rule) that French words that end in "e" tend to be feminine. Of the two hundred basic nouns listed on this educational website, only 23, or about ten percent, do not follow this rule (in either direction).
Why's everyone complaining about the colors? They're not harsh or ill-chosen (like brown-on-black or something). Is it just that they're different and you're not used to them? That kind of goes counter to the whole open-source and Linux trend around here....