...the US put men on the Moon and developed the Shuttle. The French have fast trains. Whoopee Dooo.
Yes the French have fast trains. They run almost everywhere. Not only are they fast, they are clean, quiet, comfortable, reasonably priced, on time, and have excellent beverage service. This includes all of the SNCF, not just the TGV. An added benefit is that the French are extremely polite about cell phone usage on the trains.
I am certain far more Americans have ridden on French trains than have ever ridden on Apollo or the Shuttle, and probably fewer have been killed.
Hmmm.... Yep, pretty tortured syntax.:-) How about this?
I have watched Canadian television. It already sucks, and I am terrified by the idea that there is television content that Canadian broadcasters find objectionable.
>they can mandate a firewall that blocks all objectionable content from getting into Canada.
Having watched Canadian television, I, for one, find the concept of watching television content that Canadian broadcasters find objectionable terrifying.
Indeed, Young Grasshopper mentions pulling on "the high beam flasher" when everyone knows that real Bugs had a proper floor mounted button to change high-low beams.
Or didn't you read the linked NYT article? That's how science works.
By reading NYT articles? Is that where you get all your scientific facts?
No, but it was linked in the main article and gave a reasonably accurate synopsis of the Nature article. Nature has an abstract of the article on their website, but you must be a paying subscriber to read the full article online, which few/.ers are, I assume. You can read the full text at any university library and at many public libraries. Which of these do you plan to do to confirm your original statement?
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Until the next "re-thinking." Will we ever have hard evidence, or just thought experiments?
Actually, the ideas contained in the Nature article are based on new, hard evidence, not a "rethinking" of thought experiments. Or didn't you read the linked NYT article? That's how science works.
>The way that technology becomes available is that it is first offered to the rich.
Except, of course, the Telcos weasled a huge $200 billion out of the government so they could provide this service to everybody. There is a long standing public utility business model in the US. There is also a free-market capitalism business model. The guys want to have it both ways; switching back and forth depending on which gives them the most money today.
>It is not a "right" to access anything you want on the web.
True enough. However, if I pay for "internet access" I expect to get "to access anything you want on the web." If it is clearly disclosed that Brand X ISP gives me access to the internet "except for websites that our CEO and his pastor think are bad for you," I'll make a decision based on that. They don't get to sell one thing and provide another.
>but I've yet to see one shred of evidence that George Bush, the President of the US lied. And exactly what about, did he supposedly lie?
"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so." GW Bush during the 2004 Presidential campaign.
Keep it simple. I really don't think a laptop is a good idea. If you need bulk storage for digital photos, use an ipod. Having done that in the past, I can say that it works well, but needs really reliable means of recharging. Your ipod and camera need to be fully charged when you start. These days, 2GB chips are so cheap, you should just buy a bunch of them and leave the ipod at home.
If you're going to be in cities a lot, I recommend a cheap pda with MetrO loaded on it. It's a fabulous navigator of bus, train, metro, tube, subway systems.
For the rest, I take a Swiss Army knife with bottle opener and corkscrew. Unlocked GSM phone to use with local SIMs. Go to an engineering or surveying supply house and get a small, sturdy surveyor's book with waterproof pages. Take a pencil to write with. That way you can write in the rain, and it will always be raining when you want to write something really important.
When you're all ready to go, be assured that you're taking too much. Several people have said it, "Take half the clothes and twice the money." Remember, anything you really need, they sell there, wherever "there" is. They also sell the local version that is fine tuned for "there." You probably don't need it anyway.
...I don't see any Transformers in the movie. Look closer. There's one in the first video. It's on the left of the POV just before it flies over the rim of the crater. Fortunately, it doesn't react quickly enough to get a shot off.
Usually, it is fairly obvious when someone is not a native English-speaker. Often, the sentence structure or choice of vocabulary make this apparent, as it is when I speak or write French or German. In those cases, I agree with you. Interestingly, many who use English as their second or third language use better grammar than most Americans.
Grammar and spelling are important for standardization and optimization of communication, but it serves as an aid and are not the essence of human interaction (including written and spoken). Understanding what the other person tried to tell you and processing should your prime focus. I agree that sometimes bad spelling/grammar may result at misunderstanding, but I'm fairly confident that it happens less then you're bitching about spelling.
I agree. However I also think that there should be flogging for Americans saying, "Me and her went to the store," rather than, "She and I went to the store," Come to think of it, when I was a sprout in grade school, there were floggings for that. Maybe that's why people learned it then.
Your's was funny. It just triggered one of my pet peeves, since I am one of the Grammar Nazis, and I too have had plenty of coffee. When I was a TA in the biology department, spelling and grammar counted as well, but that was because my major professor was one of the original Taxonomic Grammar Nazis. You spell Ixonanthaceae correctly or lose points.
This may be flamebait, a troll, or just general bitching, but I've got some karma to burn, so WTF. I am always amazed that computer geeks have such a negative attitude about spelling and grammar, considering that most people here have some knowledge of and experience with programming, and many program for a living. It seems to me that if you can't spell, you can't program.
int main() works, but
innt mayn() doesn't
So why is it that people who are proud of their fluency in C++, or whatever, are proud to sound like a drooling mouth-breather in English?
According to GW Bush, "They hate our freedoms." I guess he figures if we get rid of our freedoms, they'll quit hating us. Nothing else makes much sense.
We used to count the shots. I read somewhere that they were really 30-shooters. Supposedly the blanks loaded were good for 5 shots each. Couldn't get a quick fact check on that, so I have no reference, but I don't recall ever seeing more than that without a scene change. I give the movie wranglers full marks for gun training those horses, though. I ride a lot, and if I ever touched off a shot over my horse's head like that, I'd be in the dirt before I ever got off a second shot.
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...the US put men on the Moon and developed the Shuttle. The French have fast trains. Whoopee Dooo.Yes the French have fast trains. They run almost everywhere. Not only are they fast, they are clean, quiet, comfortable, reasonably priced, on time, and have excellent beverage service. This includes all of the SNCF, not just the TGV. An added benefit is that the French are extremely polite about cell phone usage on the trains.
I am certain far more Americans have ridden on French trains than have ever ridden on Apollo or the Shuttle, and probably fewer have been killed.
I have watched Canadian television. It already sucks, and I am terrified by the idea that there is television content that Canadian broadcasters find objectionable.
>they can mandate a firewall that blocks all objectionable content from getting into Canada.
Having watched Canadian television, I, for one, find the concept of watching television content that Canadian broadcasters find objectionable terrifying.
Indeed, Young Grasshopper mentions pulling on "the high beam flasher" when everyone knows that real Bugs had a proper floor mounted button to change high-low beams.
By reading NYT articles? Is that where you get all your scientific facts?
No, but it was linked in the main article and gave a reasonably accurate synopsis of the Nature article. Nature has an abstract of the article on their website, but you must be a paying subscriber to read the full article online, which few /.ers are, I assume. You can read the full text at any university library and at many public libraries. Which of these do you plan to do to confirm your original statement?
Actually, the ideas contained in the Nature article are based on new, hard evidence, not a "rethinking" of thought experiments. Or didn't you read the linked NYT article? That's how science works.
What about puppy-dog tails?
Nope, you have to go to China for that.
>But wait, I "must be new here", right?
Well, judging by your user id#, you would seem to be relatively new here. :-)
>The way that technology becomes available is that it is first offered to the rich.
Except, of course, the Telcos weasled a huge $200 billion out of the government so they could provide this service to everybody. There is a long standing public utility business model in the US. There is also a free-market capitalism business model. The guys want to have it both ways; switching back and forth depending on which gives them the most money today.
>It is not a "right" to access anything you want on the web.
True enough. However, if I pay for "internet access" I expect to get "to access anything you want on the web." If it is clearly disclosed that Brand X ISP gives me access to the internet "except for websites that our CEO and his pastor think are bad for you," I'll make a decision based on that. They don't get to sell one thing and provide another.
Damn. I read that headline and thought my flying car was almost ready.
>but I've yet to see one shred of evidence that George Bush, the President of the US lied. And exactly what about, did he supposedly lie?
"Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so." GW Bush during the 2004 Presidential campaign.
Keep it simple. I really don't think a laptop is a good idea. If you need bulk storage for digital photos, use an ipod. Having done that in the past, I can say that it works well, but needs really reliable means of recharging. Your ipod and camera need to be fully charged when you start. These days, 2GB chips are so cheap, you should just buy a bunch of them and leave the ipod at home.
If you're going to be in cities a lot, I recommend a cheap pda with MetrO loaded on it. It's a fabulous navigator of bus, train, metro, tube, subway systems.
For the rest, I take a Swiss Army knife with bottle opener and corkscrew. Unlocked GSM phone to use with local SIMs. Go to an engineering or surveying supply house and get a small, sturdy surveyor's book with waterproof pages. Take a pencil to write with. That way you can write in the rain, and it will always be raining when you want to write something really important.
When you're all ready to go, be assured that you're taking too much. Several people have said it, "Take half the clothes and twice the money." Remember, anything you really need, they sell there, wherever "there" is. They also sell the local version that is fine tuned for "there." You probably don't need it anyway.
>'The next step is to produce a safe, compact storage system for the compound that is both lightweight and affordable.'
You want safe, compact, lightweight, and affordable. You can have any three.
...I don't see any Transformers in the movie. Look closer. There's one in the first video. It's on the left of the POV just before it flies over the rim of the crater. Fortunately, it doesn't react quickly enough to get a shot off.Oui, je comprends cela.
Usually, it is fairly obvious when someone is not a native English-speaker. Often, the sentence structure or choice of vocabulary make this apparent, as it is when I speak or write French or German. In those cases, I agree with you. Interestingly, many who use English as their second or third language use better grammar than most Americans.
Grammar and spelling are important for standardization and optimization of communication, but it serves as an aid and are not the essence of human interaction (including written and spoken). Understanding what the other person tried to tell you and processing should your prime focus. I agree that sometimes bad spelling/grammar may result at misunderstanding, but I'm fairly confident that it happens less then you're bitching about spelling.
I agree. However I also think that there should be flogging for Americans saying, "Me and her went to the store," rather than, "She and I went to the store," Come to think of it, when I was a sprout in grade school, there were floggings for that. Maybe that's why people learned it then.
Your's was funny. It just triggered one of my pet peeves, since I am one of the Grammar Nazis, and I too have had plenty of coffee. When I was a TA in the biology department, spelling and grammar counted as well, but that was because my major professor was one of the original Taxonomic Grammar Nazis. You spell Ixonanthaceae correctly or lose points.
This may be flamebait, a troll, or just general bitching, but I've got some karma to burn, so WTF. I am always amazed that computer geeks have such a negative attitude about spelling and grammar, considering that most people here have some knowledge of and experience with programming, and many program for a living. It seems to me that if you can't spell, you can't program.
int main() works, but
innt mayn() doesn't
So why is it that people who are proud of their fluency in C++, or whatever, are proud to sound like a drooling mouth-breather in English?
According to GW Bush, "They hate our freedoms." I guess he figures if we get rid of our freedoms, they'll quit hating us. Nothing else makes much sense.
What's a gay particle? The charm quark or the strange quark?
The diaper thing makes me think she'd be pushing George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic records rather than Elton.
I'd love to see her explain it all on "Larry King Live."
If you don't minds a little heft in your shoulder arm, the late-model BAR is a nice choice for laying down some covering fire. :-)
We used to count the shots. I read somewhere that they were really 30-shooters. Supposedly the blanks loaded were good for 5 shots each. Couldn't get a quick fact check on that, so I have no reference, but I don't recall ever seeing more than that without a scene change. I give the movie wranglers full marks for gun training those horses, though. I ride a lot, and if I ever touched off a shot over my horse's head like that, I'd be in the dirt before I ever got off a second shot.