In a word, no. You could be an academic without being a communist or a KGB agent. You were mostly just not promoted or could not apply for certain posts. Or, if you were Jewish, you were sometimes pretty much forced out of a profession. Read about the famous semiotician Yuri Lotman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Lotman. He was but one Jewish academics of the time that was forced to move from Leningrad (now St Petersburg) to Tartu (then the Estonian SSR) where things were remarkably more laid back than in Russia and there was no anti-semitism. And he was definitely not a KGB agent.
Looking it up turns up old and out-of-date results. Since version 2.2, VT-x and AMD-V are enabled by default and optimisations have been made to Virtualbox. The reason for the switch is outlined in the Virtualbox user manual:
The reason for changing the default with version 2.2 is that the hardware has significantly improved with the latest Intel and AMD processors, and VirtualBox has also fine-tuned its hardware virtualization support to a degree that it is now faster than software virtualization in many situations.
I've seen way too many serious programmers switch to Macs, so it would only be fair to say that if you want to do programming/development (including for the iPhone and iPod), AND you like getting under the hood and tweaking things, then Mac could also be the way to go. You do realise there's a full blown and certified Unix under that hood, plus macports and fink for your enjoyment?
Macs may not come cheap (superficially speaking), but my MBPro is over two years old and its hardware is still better than most new laptops that Wintel shops sell. A friend has a 8 year old Powerbook that may not have teh snappy to run Office 2008, but it still works acceptably and reliably. Some of my co-students are on their third cheap Win laptop in as many years.
A Phenom II X4 is still way cheaper than the equivalent Core i5-750. The same applies to the motherboard. I did the maths a couple of months ago. Had a fixed budget and the Phenom II X4 machine could be squeezed in quite comfortably, whereas the Core i5 ended up approximately 300 to 400 dollars' worth of money out of the range. I don't think the negligible win in performance (if there would have been any) would have been noticeable.
Said drives already have a jumper setting for "XP compatibility". Just bridge pins 7-8 with a regular jumper and you're good to go. I keep wondering why no-one even has even bothered to google it.
This theory may apply to native speakers who are often apathetic enough to not pay attention in class ("I'm a-merkin, I knows me English anyway"), but I've yet to see a non-native speaker who writes "definately" or cannot tell the difference between "they're", "there" and "their".
So far, neither Opera or Chrome support smart cards at all and Safari's support for them is mostly crippled (on OS X) or also nonexistent (on Windows). Around these here parts, those who do their banking/taxes/billing etc online, are pretty much forced to choose between IE and Firefox.
You're contradicting yourself on quite a few levels here. Will the Hungarians get to keep the biro, vitamin C and the A-bomb and let the others invent their own? It's public now, don't claim too much. Whoever laid the wires doesn't get to own the content, see. Maybe just maintain it, but that's what the discussion is about here.
Just some anecdotal evidence. I elected not to fight it and by adapting made myself more productive.
I translate books (i.e create lots and lots of A4s a day) and I find 16:9 extremely helpful. I have divided the screen between the word processor and the browser (with lots of dictionaries and other reference sites open) and it is just so much more convenient than I recall from my 4:3 days. Also, lots of valuable reading material comes in PDFs, so I just click Two-Up in Adobe Reader and that, too, saves me from useless black borders.
Would somebody then explain to me why the cupsddk port cannot be configured to not depend on fltk, which is completely unnecessary? I just want to print with splix, dammit, and I don't want all those xorg-libraries and protos and what not installed just because cupsddk does not do make config. I can edit the Makefile, but the next portupgrade could just mess it up again.
Also, why does every cups update overwrite the mime.convs file? I want my raw stream after every update.
Long distance runners' (even amateurs') daily practice distances are even longer than that. Damage can add up and lots depends on the surface that you run on. Raise your hands, whoever likes to run 20 km barefoot on scorching hot asphalt in midsummer.
My dad used to compete in long distance running, 20 km and marathons and what not. We lived in the Soviet Union, so there were no special running shoes available and he had to run on asphalt in thin tennis shoes. In a few years, he developed massive cartilage growth on both feet, which had to be surgically removed. The same thing has happened to many others. It's adequate shoes for the occasion for me, then.
Easy money, considering that most Vista users most probably use whatever came with the machine. Also, the most popular OEM version tends to be Home that does not come with the downgrade option, at least to my knowledge. Also, whatever downgrading is performed in the business sector, it's done by IT support people (not the end users) who can never outnumber the sheer amount of people who just buy what is on the shelf, shiny and comes with Vista preinstalled. Having observed many of them, it appears that they are quite happy with it, too. (In all honesty, however, it must be said that XP is still most prevalent. Two years old equipment still works.)
So, mostly they don't downgrade or they don't do it themselves. Want my account number? IBAN good?
Well, from what I have heard, Americans do have a happy trigger finger when it comes to packing food in excessive plastic, so maybe the Mormons earn some plus points on that. Who'd've thought that apples should be laminated? What's next, blackberries, one by one? I have never been over the pond, but my fiancée's mom just returned from Boston and complained how she had to fight so that the cashiers wouldn't pack every single item in at least one plastic bag. To an extent it's unavoidable, but hey, socks? toothpaste? wine bottles?
Yugoslavia never re-organised, it just broke up. Quickly at first, gradually in later years. The last of the more or less kosher breakups was a couple of years ago when Montenegro split from Serbia, thus effectively ending Yugoslavia. Kosovo's status is still not set in stone, since its overhasty and unilateral declaration of independence is legally questionable. The last breakup before Montenegro was that of Czechoslovakia on 1 January 1993, when it became the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It's hardly a region in flux, methinks.
As for Moldova, I think there are two main reasons it did not unite with Romania as it had been before the territory was occupied and annexed by the SU. First, Moldovan leaders wanted to remain country leaders, not just play Nth fiddle in a Romanian provincial council. Second, see the wiki article on Moldova, subsection titled "Soviet era". It was said that everybody with brains fled from Moldova over the river Prus when the Russians started coming. So the demographic balance was altered and now it's difficult to achieve something that grandiose.
Just recently I mishappened to see an episode of some American sitcom, where one of the characters said something along the lines of, "Every girl needs to visit Europe at least once in their life, so I bought a ticket to Paris." I moaned. I've been told that quite many people over the pond cannot really tell the relation between Paris, France and Europe. One of those is another's capital, that much they know. "I thought Europe was a country" is something I have heard actually said on TV.
After forking, the last update dates from December 10, 2008 and it is a strong sign that it is, in fact, updated. There are also another fork that specialises in home cinema, hence its name Home Cinema.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli2/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpc-hc/
Also, why hunting for all the codecs when you can just as well download the current ffdshow from, say, afterdawn?
Finnish has many much closer relatives than Hungarian with which it has had no contact for many millennia. Although both are Uralic languages, one of them is from the Finnic and the other from the Ugric branch. As for the relatives, there is the second biggest Finnic language Estonian, then there's Sami and depending on where you draw the line between a language and a dialect, in the geographical area there are at least 10 minor Finno-Ugric languages or dialects that are close to Finnish, often mutually intelligible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic-Finnic_languages for quick reference.
Not really. Both languages do belong into the Finno-Ugric family of the Uralic languages, but Mongolian is an Altaic language and the rare coincidences in vocabulary are nowadays considered accidental and attributed to language contact, not genetic relationship.
The closest living language to Hungarian is Mansi. There is a (to me) pretty sound theory that due to sound shifts, Mansi is actually the same word as Magyar. Try the Wiki for comparison. There is, however, a kind of revisionist history in the making in Hungary, because some Hungarians really don't want to be related to Mansi people who smell of fish and construct elaborate theories about being related to noble warriors like Turks, Scythians and Mongols instead. Those theories are refuted in the scientific community, but the revisionists aren't really keen to listen.
It was? I thought Latin was bastardised into localised forms and after a while it replaced the local native languages. It failed to do so uniformly, see German and other today's Germanic languages, but the creole replaced some Celtic languages and became Old French, Old Spanish (or Castilian), Old Portuguese etc. It also influenced English later on, but only indirectly. Latin was never the universal mother tongue outside Rome. Even Italian, the closest relative, is mostly a mix of many local dialects with some Latin influence thrown in.
The locale should be consulted. I find it extremely irritating that every time I install Adobe Reader, I need to navigate through menus to find out where the Units submenu lies this time, and then set it manually to cm or mm. Ignoring for the moment the fact that most computers are not in USA, software should really consult the system locale for things like default paper sizes, units to be used etc.
It is quite annoying when there is a group assignment at the university, somebody from the group invariably throws a letter-sized document at you and when you try to reformat it, it turns out it completely murders all formatting, thus adding extra work to an already tight schedule.
So you lost all respect for him because of those who are not you, ie those who download Babylon 5 instead of, well, paying for the DVDs? Or you no longer respect him because he does not like his -- and others' -- work being leeched (by people who are not you) and is vocal about it? I am quite at loss here. Torrenting a show can be considered a compliment to the author, but the novelty can wear off after a while. I wonder what the download:purchase ratio for the Futurama films might be. It's mostly over 2:1 seeders to leechers at any given tracker.
In my language, there's a catchy children's song about squirrels up in the tree or on the ground, who do not sleep and play around. Grown-ups can hear the song about squirrels or then again, more likely about whoring up in the tree and on the ground and the whoring never stops. It all depends on how twisted you are.
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In a word, no. You could be an academic without being a communist or a KGB agent. You were mostly just not promoted or could not apply for certain posts. Or, if you were Jewish, you were sometimes pretty much forced out of a profession. Read about the famous semiotician Yuri Lotman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Lotman. He was but one Jewish academics of the time that was forced to move from Leningrad (now St Petersburg) to Tartu (then the Estonian SSR) where things were remarkably more laid back than in Russia and there was no anti-semitism. And he was definitely not a KGB agent.
Looking it up turns up old and out-of-date results. Since version 2.2, VT-x and AMD-V are enabled by default and optimisations have been made to Virtualbox. The reason for the switch is outlined in the Virtualbox user manual:
The reason for changing the default with version 2.2 is that the hardware has significantly improved with the latest Intel and AMD processors, and VirtualBox has also fine-tuned its hardware virtualization support to a degree that it is now faster than software virtualization in many situations.
I've seen way too many serious programmers switch to Macs, so it would only be fair to say that if you want to do programming/development (including for the iPhone and iPod), AND you like getting under the hood and tweaking things, then Mac could also be the way to go. You do realise there's a full blown and certified Unix under that hood, plus macports and fink for your enjoyment?
Macs may not come cheap (superficially speaking), but my MBPro is over two years old and its hardware is still better than most new laptops that Wintel shops sell. A friend has a 8 year old Powerbook that may not have teh snappy to run Office 2008, but it still works acceptably and reliably. Some of my co-students are on their third cheap Win laptop in as many years.
A Phenom II X4 is still way cheaper than the equivalent Core i5-750. The same applies to the motherboard. I did the maths a couple of months ago. Had a fixed budget and the Phenom II X4 machine could be squeezed in quite comfortably, whereas the Core i5 ended up approximately 300 to 400 dollars' worth of money out of the range. I don't think the negligible win in performance (if there would have been any) would have been noticeable.
Plays on any Popcorn Hour device whose spec I cared to check.
Said drives already have a jumper setting for "XP compatibility". Just bridge pins 7-8 with a regular jumper and you're good to go. I keep wondering why no-one even has even bothered to google it.
This theory may apply to native speakers who are often apathetic enough to not pay attention in class ("I'm a-merkin, I knows me English anyway"), but I've yet to see a non-native speaker who writes "definately" or cannot tell the difference between "they're", "there" and "their".
So far, neither Opera or Chrome support smart cards at all and Safari's support for them is mostly crippled (on OS X) or also nonexistent (on Windows). Around these here parts, those who do their banking/taxes/billing etc online, are pretty much forced to choose between IE and Firefox.
Last time I checked, FreeBSD's bootloader was not quite up to snuff with zfs, yet.
I don't know about the cost of your limbs. I've had to replace at least 4 SE chargers and I never paid any more than 4 euros for the item.
There is also the date of publication to be considered: April 1, 2009 2:26 PM PDT.
You're contradicting yourself on quite a few levels here. Will the Hungarians get to keep the biro, vitamin C and the A-bomb and let the others invent their own? It's public now, don't claim too much. Whoever laid the wires doesn't get to own the content, see. Maybe just maintain it, but that's what the discussion is about here.
Also, there can be quite a few things wrong with being a nationalist. People in Sarajevo, Rwanda, many other places and yes, the US have lived to tell the tale, or not. Nationalism comes in many forms, some of which declare liberté, egalité, fraternité, others declare Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer etc caetera. Worthy authors to check out: Ernest Gellner, Rogers Brubaker, Adam Smith, Will Kymlicka, Sammy Smooha.
I haven't been to the US and I cannot really comment on how messed up your system is. It's hit and miss, based on what I have read.
Just some anecdotal evidence. I elected not to fight it and by adapting made myself more productive.
I translate books (i.e create lots and lots of A4s a day) and I find 16:9 extremely helpful. I have divided the screen between the word processor and the browser (with lots of dictionaries and other reference sites open) and it is just so much more convenient than I recall from my 4:3 days. Also, lots of valuable reading material comes in PDFs, so I just click Two-Up in Adobe Reader and that, too, saves me from useless black borders.
Would somebody then explain to me why the cupsddk port cannot be configured to not depend on fltk, which is completely unnecessary? I just want to print with splix, dammit, and I don't want all those xorg-libraries and protos and what not installed just because cupsddk does not do make config. I can edit the Makefile, but the next portupgrade could just mess it up again.
Also, why does every cups update overwrite the mime.convs file? I want my raw stream after every update.
Otherwise, tip-top.
Long distance runners' (even amateurs') daily practice distances are even longer than that. Damage can add up and lots depends on the surface that you run on. Raise your hands, whoever likes to run 20 km barefoot on scorching hot asphalt in midsummer.
My dad used to compete in long distance running, 20 km and marathons and what not. We lived in the Soviet Union, so there were no special running shoes available and he had to run on asphalt in thin tennis shoes. In a few years, he developed massive cartilage growth on both feet, which had to be surgically removed. The same thing has happened to many others. It's adequate shoes for the occasion for me, then.
Easy money, considering that most Vista users most probably use whatever came with the machine. Also, the most popular OEM version tends to be Home that does not come with the downgrade option, at least to my knowledge. Also, whatever downgrading is performed in the business sector, it's done by IT support people (not the end users) who can never outnumber the sheer amount of people who just buy what is on the shelf, shiny and comes with Vista preinstalled. Having observed many of them, it appears that they are quite happy with it, too. (In all honesty, however, it must be said that XP is still most prevalent. Two years old equipment still works.)
So, mostly they don't downgrade or they don't do it themselves. Want my account number? IBAN good?
Well, from what I have heard, Americans do have a happy trigger finger when it comes to packing food in excessive plastic, so maybe the Mormons earn some plus points on that. Who'd've thought that apples should be laminated? What's next, blackberries, one by one? I have never been over the pond, but my fiancée's mom just returned from Boston and complained how she had to fight so that the cashiers wouldn't pack every single item in at least one plastic bag. To an extent it's unavoidable, but hey, socks? toothpaste? wine bottles?
Yugoslavia never re-organised, it just broke up. Quickly at first, gradually in later years. The last of the more or less kosher breakups was a couple of years ago when Montenegro split from Serbia, thus effectively ending Yugoslavia. Kosovo's status is still not set in stone, since its overhasty and unilateral declaration of independence is legally questionable. The last breakup before Montenegro was that of Czechoslovakia on 1 January 1993, when it became the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It's hardly a region in flux, methinks.
As for Moldova, I think there are two main reasons it did not unite with Romania as it had been before the territory was occupied and annexed by the SU. First, Moldovan leaders wanted to remain country leaders, not just play Nth fiddle in a Romanian provincial council. Second, see the wiki article on Moldova, subsection titled "Soviet era". It was said that everybody with brains fled from Moldova over the river Prus when the Russians started coming. So the demographic balance was altered and now it's difficult to achieve something that grandiose.
Just recently I mishappened to see an episode of some American sitcom, where one of the characters said something along the lines of, "Every girl needs to visit Europe at least once in their life, so I bought a ticket to Paris." I moaned. I've been told that quite many people over the pond cannot really tell the relation between Paris, France and Europe. One of those is another's capital, that much they know. "I thought Europe was a country" is something I have heard actually said on TV.
After forking, the last update dates from December 10, 2008 and it is a strong sign that it is, in fact, updated. There are also another fork that specialises in home cinema, hence its name Home Cinema.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli2/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpc-hc/
Also, why hunting for all the codecs when you can just as well download the current ffdshow from, say, afterdawn?
Finnish has many much closer relatives than Hungarian with which it has had no contact for many millennia. Although both are Uralic languages, one of them is from the Finnic and the other from the Ugric branch. As for the relatives, there is the second biggest Finnic language Estonian, then there's Sami and depending on where you draw the line between a language and a dialect, in the geographical area there are at least 10 minor Finno-Ugric languages or dialects that are close to Finnish, often mutually intelligible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic-Finnic_languages for quick reference.
Not really. Both languages do belong into the Finno-Ugric family of the Uralic languages, but Mongolian is an Altaic language and the rare coincidences in vocabulary are nowadays considered accidental and attributed to language contact, not genetic relationship.
The closest living language to Hungarian is Mansi. There is a (to me) pretty sound theory that due to sound shifts, Mansi is actually the same word as Magyar. Try the Wiki for comparison. There is, however, a kind of revisionist history in the making in Hungary, because some Hungarians really don't want to be related to Mansi people who smell of fish and construct elaborate theories about being related to noble warriors like Turks, Scythians and Mongols instead. Those theories are refuted in the scientific community, but the revisionists aren't really keen to listen.
It was? I thought Latin was bastardised into localised forms and after a while it replaced the local native languages. It failed to do so uniformly, see German and other today's Germanic languages, but the creole replaced some Celtic languages and became Old French, Old Spanish (or Castilian), Old Portuguese etc. It also influenced English later on, but only indirectly. Latin was never the universal mother tongue outside Rome. Even Italian, the closest relative, is mostly a mix of many local dialects with some Latin influence thrown in.
The locale should be consulted. I find it extremely irritating that every time I install Adobe Reader, I need to navigate through menus to find out where the Units submenu lies this time, and then set it manually to cm or mm. Ignoring for the moment the fact that most computers are not in USA, software should really consult the system locale for things like default paper sizes, units to be used etc.
It is quite annoying when there is a group assignment at the university, somebody from the group invariably throws a letter-sized document at you and when you try to reformat it, it turns out it completely murders all formatting, thus adding extra work to an already tight schedule.
So you lost all respect for him because of those who are not you, ie those who download Babylon 5 instead of, well, paying for the DVDs? Or you no longer respect him because he does not like his -- and others' -- work being leeched (by people who are not you) and is vocal about it? I am quite at loss here. Torrenting a show can be considered a compliment to the author, but the novelty can wear off after a while. I wonder what the download:purchase ratio for the Futurama films might be. It's mostly over 2:1 seeders to leechers at any given tracker.
In my language, there's a catchy children's song about squirrels up in the tree or on the ground, who do not sleep and play around. Grown-ups can hear the song about squirrels or then again, more likely about whoring up in the tree and on the ground and the whoring never stops. It all depends on how twisted you are.