English difficult to use correctly? Well, yes, it is rife with all kinds of exceptions and traditions that throw you out of kilter (for instance, why would I omit the definite article in front of ‘kilter’?). English difficult to learn? No, sir. Memorising the 1000 basic words and spouting them out in almost the right order for somebody else to understand is not difficult at all. I myself was able to converse in a semi-meaningful way in about six months since I started to learn it.
Well, this guy who came up with Ogg Vorbis seems to disagree – sampling rates that high are a liability and introduce all kinds of unwanted side effects both at DAC and playback level. Taking that into account, a losslessy compressed 16/44.1 track makes way more sense than the other one.
The Commission *is* a technical institution. Its business is to draw up legislation based on general principles and guidelines agreed upon in the European Council (consisting of democratically elected heads of state). Said legislation is usually amended or shot down in either the Council of the European Union (consisting of democratically elected ministers from member states) or the European Parliament (consisting of democratically elected representatives from member states), the latter of which has a final say. It is a damn shame that the European people do not realise how much power the Parliament really has and therefore do not participate at its election nearly as enthusiastically as they should, participation hovering around the 30% mark and if you ask me, such detachment from the matters of the continent is borderline autistic.
The Commission does not decide anything. All it can do in that regard is present its case well enough in front of the Council of the EU and the EP. All those controversial EU regulations that domestic governments sell their people as coming from the Commission (‘and sorry, there's nothing we can do, Barroso told us to stick our heads in the oven’) have actually been then ratified by the governments themselves and by consensus, often because they would not dare pass such legislation at home because it would render them unelectable for quite some time. And most of them have also been called into life by the same local elected officials.
I realise that there is no direct counterpart for the Commission in any of the member states for a direct comparison, but I liken them to the technical and unelected staff at the ministries who nowadays provide most of the legislation in most countries according to the guidelines from elected officials. You don't elect all the administrators and the various specialists and the lawyers who work at ministries. Likewise, you don't elect the Commission. It should remain an independent technical tool to provide legislative proposals that the elected officials could then shoot down if necessary.
You're forgetting the European Council and the Council of the European Union, both consisting of democratically elected individuals, both even more directly responsible to the domestic electorate (as the electorate doesn't usually bother with EP election very much) and both yielding enormous power.
I disagree with your idea that word processing is better done in portrait mode. I work as a translator and I regularly have four windows open side by side: the source material, the target file, a browser for background information, and another browser for a dictionary. (Yes, it works better that way.) And that's just the virtual desktop number three. My laptop is 16:10 and the secondary screen is 16:9. These are very good aspect ratios for this kind of work. Sometimes I wish I had more screen estate, widthwise, although I must admit that it would probably make my neck hurt by the time it's time to clock off. I've tried 4:3 and it was not very good, 5:4 was even worse: not enough room to view windows side by side, too much room for a single window.
I've been wearing rigid lenses for about 24 years now, as I have a cylindrical vision defect that could not be corrected with soft lenses. I did not have lense conditioner solutions available back then, so I had to apply the lenses dry and therefore experienced slight discomfort at the beginning and they took a bit (about a week) of getting used to. There would have been no discomfort with the correct solutions. I have found rigid lenses cheaper, way more practical, useful, comfortable and easier to use and care for than soft lenses that I have also tried. Properly cared for, they can last forever – my personal best is nine years per lens and I only had to replace it because I lost it on a windy day – and by proper care I mean washing them once or twice a week. You don't have to worry about them absorbing some agent or preservative present in eye drops etc etc. All in all, much less crap to be dealt with day by day, with many times less money spent on upkeep.
If i can't find an album there, it's probably not available for digital distribution at all.
True, if you only look for recent American pop music. If your taste also includes, say, Estonian stoner metal, Hungarian fusion, Macedonian folk, Moldovan drone, Tatar punk or King Crimson, you're shit out of luck on iTunes, although you will find the music distributed in FLAC elsewhere, legally. Just bought a bunch.
If posting about crazies' overreactions about films is what you do on Facebook, then fine, that's your choice, but then, that's not necessarily the case for other people who might just use the medium to get in touch with and keep track of long (and not necessarily so long) lost friends. As a social platform, so to speak. I am one of those idiots who use their real names on Facebook and I kind of hope that when I look up a friend who moved to some other continent 20+ years ago, or just another city last year, that they don't hide their identity behind some StinkyP007, either. There are approximately three friends in my contact list who use pseudonyms, and damn was it hard to find them. Usually it involved phonecalls to various people to find out who's hiding behind the ever changing alias this week. Phonecalls to find out somebody's Facebook handle. Nice.
For you, a pseudonym may be a convenient flame retardant suit, but for me, it's another level of unnecessary inconvenience laid on top of blocked telephone numbers that change every week. Sure, nobody can find out it's you, but then, you can also use a different account for those inflammatory comments and not make it overly complicated for those who give a shit about you on a personal level. Besides, if you're so worried about somebody coming after you over a freaking comment, then why not turn it up a notch and worry about whether they would come after your friends, because you're not available because of the anonymising pseudonym. You know, to make things more interesting.
There were tons of motivated people involved in saving the species, but they managed to mess it up through personal conflicts, excessive bureaucracy and some sheer incompetence. "Let's do this." - "No, let's do that." - "That will never work, you're stupid." - "Let's write more petitions, cos petitions are a safe way to look as if you're doing something, while you are actually doing zip." Mark Carwardine touches the subject in the new version of "Last Chance to See" (the original having been written by Douglas Adams). The species was on the way out 20 years ago already, people knew about it, tried doing something about it and failed miserably.
I do real work with text, and a lot of it. I've written an unwholy amount of home assignments, translated about 15 books, maybe more, and I find 16:10 to be a very nice ratio for having two documents (source and output) side by side at all times. I've tried working with 4:3 and it's not really comfortable, so I've had to delegate the 22 inch CRT to secondary screen status.
Who modded this insightful? Studying political science is not about becoming a politician. There are few politicians among political scientists. (There are, of course, some notable exception, but they remain exceptions.) People with a PolSci education tend to become foreign policy analysts, journalists, civil servants and the like, or they stick around in the academia. Politicians mostly come from the ranks of economists and lawyers.
Even though you can't tell the difference between 300 and 600 dpi black text on white paper, you sure as hell can tell the difference between 85 lpi (laser printer halftones) and 175 lpi (glossy magazine halftones). And you cannot pull off said 175 lpi (even 150 lpi) with less than 1200 dpi, 2400 dpi being recommended. The 600 dpi printer just isn't exact enough.
The Olympics was supposed to be an event promoting amateur sports competition to solidify friendship and peace between nations.
In all honesty, the concept of amateur sports was originally introduced to keep out the working class. Amateur sports were to be performed by gentlemen of leisure, i.e. people with no training, thus without an advantage. Being a working joe was considered being a professional, because they got paid to train, sometimes paid to play (to compensate for having to skip work) and had an unfair advantage of being in shape. I don't know how that idea solidifies friendship and peace between nations, or within nations, come to think of it.
Is there anything inherent to batteries that requires you to be able to change them without tools? Don't be such an arse. You need a tool to change your car battery. You need a tool to change your desktop computer's PSU. The new MB battery can be larger without that mechanism and last longer (and it is, and does) and quite frankly the one time one needs to perform such an operation in the computer's lifetime one can take the five minutes and make use use his/her opposable thumbs and that Philips-00 screwdriver.
So instead of turning our clocks forward, we would have to adjust to a completely new set of rules (8/12 shops?) without any of the benefits, i.e. we would still have to wake up an hour earlier upon the start of the period and would still be a bit woozy and accident-prone? Am I not getting anything? This is the very same idea, only instead of clocks you would be turning everything else. Nothing gained. Might as well turn clocks, it's easier and nowadays mostly done automatically anyway.
The "Death Magnetic" wiki page states that according to the mastering engineer, the mixes had already been brickwalled before they were delivered to him, so he had little say in it. Blame Rick Rubin and Lars Ulrich.
Older versions of Office can read and write docx, xlsx etc just fine. Head to microsoft.com/downloads and fetch the free Office Compatibility Pack. Done and done. Docx for me has time and again proven more robust than doc, which is why I've started to use it more or less exclusively. I'd use odt, but nobody else does, and I must work with others, so tough luck.
They actually knew something was coming. Geological records show that there have been great tsunamis every 800 to 1000 years in the area for at least the last 3000 years. The last one had struck 1100 years previously, so one was imminent in all likelihood. They just did not know how massive it was going to be, for they had made their measurements based on some other, lesser tsunamis from the 1960s. All the seawalls were up to 6 metres high, but the eventual tsunami was up to 20 metres high.
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English difficult to use correctly? Well, yes, it is rife with all kinds of exceptions and traditions that throw you out of kilter (for instance, why would I omit the definite article in front of ‘kilter’?). English difficult to learn? No, sir. Memorising the 1000 basic words and spouting them out in almost the right order for somebody else to understand is not difficult at all. I myself was able to converse in a semi-meaningful way in about six months since I started to learn it.
Well, this guy who came up with Ogg Vorbis seems to disagree – sampling rates that high are a liability and introduce all kinds of unwanted side effects both at DAC and playback level. Taking that into account, a losslessy compressed 16/44.1 track makes way more sense than the other one.
I would mod you up, but I already commented slightly less eloquently than yourself, so I must just applaud a bit here.
The Commission *is* a technical institution. Its business is to draw up legislation based on general principles and guidelines agreed upon in the European Council (consisting of democratically elected heads of state). Said legislation is usually amended or shot down in either the Council of the European Union (consisting of democratically elected ministers from member states) or the European Parliament (consisting of democratically elected representatives from member states), the latter of which has a final say. It is a damn shame that the European people do not realise how much power the Parliament really has and therefore do not participate at its election nearly as enthusiastically as they should, participation hovering around the 30% mark and if you ask me, such detachment from the matters of the continent is borderline autistic.
The Commission does not decide anything. All it can do in that regard is present its case well enough in front of the Council of the EU and the EP. All those controversial EU regulations that domestic governments sell their people as coming from the Commission (‘and sorry, there's nothing we can do, Barroso told us to stick our heads in the oven’) have actually been then ratified by the governments themselves and by consensus, often because they would not dare pass such legislation at home because it would render them unelectable for quite some time. And most of them have also been called into life by the same local elected officials.
I realise that there is no direct counterpart for the Commission in any of the member states for a direct comparison, but I liken them to the technical and unelected staff at the ministries who nowadays provide most of the legislation in most countries according to the guidelines from elected officials. You don't elect all the administrators and the various specialists and the lawyers who work at ministries. Likewise, you don't elect the Commission. It should remain an independent technical tool to provide legislative proposals that the elected officials could then shoot down if necessary.
You're forgetting the European Council and the Council of the European Union, both consisting of democratically elected individuals, both even more directly responsible to the domestic electorate (as the electorate doesn't usually bother with EP election very much) and both yielding enormous power.
How? Easily and routinely.
I disagree with your idea that word processing is better done in portrait mode. I work as a translator and I regularly have four windows open side by side: the source material, the target file, a browser for background information, and another browser for a dictionary. (Yes, it works better that way.) And that's just the virtual desktop number three. My laptop is 16:10 and the secondary screen is 16:9. These are very good aspect ratios for this kind of work. Sometimes I wish I had more screen estate, widthwise, although I must admit that it would probably make my neck hurt by the time it's time to clock off. I've tried 4:3 and it was not very good, 5:4 was even worse: not enough room to view windows side by side, too much room for a single window.
I've been wearing rigid lenses for about 24 years now, as I have a cylindrical vision defect that could not be corrected with soft lenses. I did not have lense conditioner solutions available back then, so I had to apply the lenses dry and therefore experienced slight discomfort at the beginning and they took a bit (about a week) of getting used to. There would have been no discomfort with the correct solutions. I have found rigid lenses cheaper, way more practical, useful, comfortable and easier to use and care for than soft lenses that I have also tried. Properly cared for, they can last forever – my personal best is nine years per lens and I only had to replace it because I lost it on a windy day – and by proper care I mean washing them once or twice a week. You don't have to worry about them absorbing some agent or preservative present in eye drops etc etc. All in all, much less crap to be dealt with day by day, with many times less money spent on upkeep.
If i can't find an album there, it's probably not available for digital distribution at all.
True, if you only look for recent American pop music. If your taste also includes, say, Estonian stoner metal, Hungarian fusion, Macedonian folk, Moldovan drone, Tatar punk or King Crimson, you're shit out of luck on iTunes, although you will find the music distributed in FLAC elsewhere, legally. Just bought a bunch.
If posting about crazies' overreactions about films is what you do on Facebook, then fine, that's your choice, but then, that's not necessarily the case for other people who might just use the medium to get in touch with and keep track of long (and not necessarily so long) lost friends. As a social platform, so to speak. I am one of those idiots who use their real names on Facebook and I kind of hope that when I look up a friend who moved to some other continent 20+ years ago, or just another city last year, that they don't hide their identity behind some StinkyP007, either. There are approximately three friends in my contact list who use pseudonyms, and damn was it hard to find them. Usually it involved phonecalls to various people to find out who's hiding behind the ever changing alias this week. Phonecalls to find out somebody's Facebook handle. Nice.
For you, a pseudonym may be a convenient flame retardant suit, but for me, it's another level of unnecessary inconvenience laid on top of blocked telephone numbers that change every week. Sure, nobody can find out it's you, but then, you can also use a different account for those inflammatory comments and not make it overly complicated for those who give a shit about you on a personal level. Besides, if you're so worried about somebody coming after you over a freaking comment, then why not turn it up a notch and worry about whether they would come after your friends, because you're not available because of the anonymising pseudonym. You know, to make things more interesting.
There were tons of motivated people involved in saving the species, but they managed to mess it up through personal conflicts, excessive bureaucracy and some sheer incompetence. "Let's do this." - "No, let's do that." - "That will never work, you're stupid." - "Let's write more petitions, cos petitions are a safe way to look as if you're doing something, while you are actually doing zip." Mark Carwardine touches the subject in the new version of "Last Chance to See" (the original having been written by Douglas Adams). The species was on the way out 20 years ago already, people knew about it, tried doing something about it and failed miserably.
I do real work with text, and a lot of it. I've written an unwholy amount of home assignments, translated about 15 books, maybe more, and I find 16:10 to be a very nice ratio for having two documents (source and output) side by side at all times. I've tried working with 4:3 and it's not really comfortable, so I've had to delegate the 22 inch CRT to secondary screen status.
Who modded this insightful? Studying political science is not about becoming a politician. There are few politicians among political scientists. (There are, of course, some notable exception, but they remain exceptions.) People with a PolSci education tend to become foreign policy analysts, journalists, civil servants and the like, or they stick around in the academia. Politicians mostly come from the ranks of economists and lawyers.
Are you daft? Even the supported devices list from 2009 proves you wrong: http://manuals.opensound.com/devlists/Linux.html. In case you haven't been paying attention and are just trolling.
This reminded me of something I saw on Faszbook the other day (safe for work).
Even though you can't tell the difference between 300 and 600 dpi black text on white paper, you sure as hell can tell the difference between 85 lpi (laser printer halftones) and 175 lpi (glossy magazine halftones). And you cannot pull off said 175 lpi (even 150 lpi) with less than 1200 dpi, 2400 dpi being recommended. The 600 dpi printer just isn't exact enough.
The Olympics was supposed to be an event promoting amateur sports competition to solidify friendship and peace between nations.
In all honesty, the concept of amateur sports was originally introduced to keep out the working class. Amateur sports were to be performed by gentlemen of leisure, i.e. people with no training, thus without an advantage. Being a working joe was considered being a professional, because they got paid to train, sometimes paid to play (to compensate for having to skip work) and had an unfair advantage of being in shape. I don't know how that idea solidifies friendship and peace between nations, or within nations, come to think of it.
Some banks need it for smartcard based authentication. (Do not ask me why.) Also, me like this nice chromatic guitar tuner at www.seventhstring.com.
Is there anything inherent to batteries that requires you to be able to change them without tools? Don't be such an arse. You need a tool to change your car battery. You need a tool to change your desktop computer's PSU. The new MB battery can be larger without that mechanism and last longer (and it is, and does) and quite frankly the one time one needs to perform such an operation in the computer's lifetime one can take the five minutes and make use use his/her opposable thumbs and that Philips-00 screwdriver.
So instead of turning our clocks forward, we would have to adjust to a completely new set of rules (8/12 shops?) without any of the benefits, i.e. we would still have to wake up an hour earlier upon the start of the period and would still be a bit woozy and accident-prone? Am I not getting anything? This is the very same idea, only instead of clocks you would be turning everything else. Nothing gained. Might as well turn clocks, it's easier and nowadays mostly done automatically anyway.
The "Death Magnetic" wiki page states that according to the mastering engineer, the mixes had already been brickwalled before they were delivered to him, so he had little say in it. Blame Rick Rubin and Lars Ulrich.
Older versions of Office can read and write docx, xlsx etc just fine. Head to microsoft.com/downloads and fetch the free Office Compatibility Pack. Done and done. Docx for me has time and again proven more robust than doc, which is why I've started to use it more or less exclusively. I'd use odt, but nobody else does, and I must work with others, so tough luck.
Socrates knew damn well what he was drinking. Copious amounts of beer, that's what. And he was great.
They actually knew something was coming. Geological records show that there have been great tsunamis every 800 to 1000 years in the area for at least the last 3000 years. The last one had struck 1100 years previously, so one was imminent in all likelihood. They just did not know how massive it was going to be, for they had made their measurements based on some other, lesser tsunamis from the 1960s. All the seawalls were up to 6 metres high, but the eventual tsunami was up to 20 metres high.
So for now, let's not use compression on write-heavy volumes, where it adds next to benefit anyway. Problem solved or at least circumvented, no?