I don't think its offensive to adopt or imitate an accent...as long as you do it WELL. If you adopt my accent well enough, then I won't see it as faking my accent, I'll see it as losing your accent, and the extent to which I see it as losing your accent depends on how well you adopt mine. However, if your attempt at adopting my accent is based on cliches and generalisations of what my accent sounds like, then it will sound wrong to me, and probably be offensive, as it will seem like you're making fun of it. I would guess that Dick van Dyke did the latter, wheras Terry Gilliam was surrounded by people that would tell him he sounded like a idiot if he got it wrong.
I know...but trust me, you haven't hear abbreviations until you visit Australia. They're not even abbreviations, they're like alternate accepted spellings. You'll even see and hear them in newspapers and radio / TV news reports - even on serious topics, it's scary. When do children get the chance to learn real english, when no one here speaks it?
Actually, New Zealanders as a whole are far more likely to use the full word. We don't tend to go as overboard as Australians when it comes to abbreviations and acronyms. Until moving to Australia, I never believed it possible that anyone would abbreviate so many words and names by taking the first syllable (or sometimes just the first letter) and adding "o" "ie" or "az" (or "azza") to the end.... Arvo, Servo, Garbo, Presie, Daz(za), Shaz(za), Baz(za), Jez, etc...
Though I think you're probabbly right about Aussie though...
A large multi processor machine that supports partitioning and virualisation allowing multiple different operating systems to run simultaneously, and supports dynamic allocation of resources (CPU, Memory, etc) to each partition.
Unisys, for example, have been using Intel processors in their machines for a long long time. They realised that the CPU was not their selling point, it was their archetectural experience. So they stopped making their own CPUs and started using Intel ones instead.
you can already hotplug CPUs on mainframe class machines - even Intel bassed ones.
But it's not a technology you're likely to see on the desktop anytime soon. Most people's PCs are not running anything so critical that they can't shut it down for a minute to add another CPU, and so no one would want to pay the extra for it.
you know, ftp.netscape.com always worked.... I don't know where you were you were trying to get netscape from....yes there were a few subdirectories to go through. but they were named after such obscure things as product name, version number, language, operating system.
I had a similar experience... I was looking at dedicated hosts just yesterday...and I clicked the "find out more" link, expecting to get a nice informative web page, and instead I get this stupid chart window. I closed it before the chat even started and looked elsewhere. I hadn't even been able to find a price yet.
If your product can't stand by itself, but needs a person to sell it to me - taking advantage of the fact that people often find it hard to say no - then I don't want it. I want to browse all the possibilities, and THEN...when i ASK for it, I'll talk to someone. I see these popups as being very similar to the guy going door to door trying to sell you long distance phone service, or vacuum cleaners...
You get an operating system, a windowing system, a media player, a web browser and email client, a SMB client and server, and some small utilities and games.
The 13CDs of Debian contain almost every known piece of software that meets the DFSG and someone can be bothered packaging. And yet the smallest Debian install is still far smaller than the smallest Windows install.
The trouble is, that people see a fork as a dividing of effort that would not occur otherwise, instead. But usualy a serious fork (as opposed to a personal experimentation one like the various linux kernel forks) is the result of a disagreement between developers that would always result in one or more developers leaving.
Without the ability to fork, you either 1. have developers just giving up in frustration - which is a loss for everyone or 2. you have them starting from scratch - which may potentially have benefits, but is most likely to end up with them either never catching up to the state of the original project, or still giving up in frustration.
Forking gives those developers have a chance to just get on with coding, without the wasted effort and with less frustration, and also potientially adds the benefits of competition and sharing between projects.
As for forking being a problem to end users, well, I don't think that's an argument at all. There's always lots of different projects filling the same need whether they be forks or stand alone projects, and there's always a need to be able to sort the good from the bad, but it's not a problem that is specific to Linux or Free Software in general - Try looking for an ftp client, or HTML editor or Text editor on Tucows or download.com and tell me if Windows has suffered due to too much choice?
And in the case of core components that a user shouldn't have to even know about, let alone choose - that's an issue for those putting together the distribution and should never be exposed to the end user in the first place.
The GPL does not prevent forks, and no one at the FSF will claim it does. In fact a large number will probably tell you that one of the benefits is that it allows Free Software forks.
There's nothing wrong with having hundreds of forks - usually it's pretty clear which one you want to go with. A fork started over a minor difference of opinion is unlikely to get much backing...and it's existance does not really affect the main project.
The main difference between Free Software and Proprietry projects is that when a bunch of developers decide they don't like the way a proprietry project is being run - they either leave for good, or leave and start from scratch, with Free Software they can fork the project and carry on from the point they left off.
Yes forking can hurt an existing project if a large number of developers leave, but the alternative is that they leave and don't fork.
And you don't have to deal with stupid restrictions on your phone. At my workplace, those with company phones suddenly got SMS disabled on their accounts, due to a couple of people going nuts with it. That and the regular justifying of calls if the monthly bill goes over a certain threshold mean that personally, I'm quite happy using my personal mobile for work. If I get a month will a bill that I think is a bit excessive, then I can always just claim back the extra. They pay me enough that I'm not going to add irritation into my life over the few dollars a month it costs to have a mobile.
Some music DVDs use it (Metallica's Cunning Stunts for example).
But apart from that, I believe the only place it's used is in porn movies...leading to Multi-Angle Title being a euphamism for porn.
(source The DVD FAQ)
BTW, I have Cunning Stunts, and the multi angle support is pretty lame...the camera angle changes so often anyway, that you barely notice that you've changed it.
Hmmm...some titles also use the feature in their special features - they might show a scene and by selecting different "angles" you can see different levels of production or effects.
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I interpreted it as meaning it had a whole bunch of extra instructions that were irrelevant to normal use.
Which seems to fit with the "Mutually independant, well separated, sometimes irrevelant to" definition.
I don't think its offensive to adopt or imitate an accent...as long as you do it WELL.
If you adopt my accent well enough, then I won't see it as faking my accent, I'll see it as losing your accent, and the extent to which I see it as losing your accent depends on how well you adopt mine.
However, if your attempt at adopting my accent is based on cliches and generalisations of what my accent sounds like, then it will sound wrong to me, and probably be offensive, as it will seem like you're making fun of it.
I would guess that Dick van Dyke did the latter, wheras Terry Gilliam was surrounded by people that would tell him he sounded like a idiot if he got it wrong.
That's milko, not milkie ;)
I know...but trust me, you haven't hear abbreviations until you visit Australia.
They're not even abbreviations, they're like alternate accepted spellings. You'll even see and hear them in newspapers and radio / TV news reports - even on serious topics, it's scary. When do children get the chance to learn real english, when no one here speaks it?
Actually, New Zealanders as a whole are far more likely to use the full word. We don't tend to go as overboard as Australians when it comes to abbreviations and acronyms.
Until moving to Australia, I never believed it possible that anyone would abbreviate so many words and names by taking the first syllable (or sometimes just the first letter) and adding "o" "ie" or "az" (or "azza") to the end....
Arvo, Servo, Garbo, Presie, Daz(za), Shaz(za), Baz(za), Jez, etc...
Though I think you're probabbly right about Aussie though...
A large multi processor machine that supports partitioning and virualisation allowing multiple different operating systems to run simultaneously, and supports dynamic allocation of resources (CPU, Memory, etc) to each partition.
Unisys, for example, have been using Intel processors in their machines for a long long time. They realised that the CPU was not their selling point, it was their archetectural experience. So they stopped making their own CPUs and started using Intel ones instead.
you can already hotplug CPUs on mainframe class machines - even Intel bassed ones.
But it's not a technology you're likely to see on the desktop anytime soon. Most people's PCs are not running anything so critical that they can't shut it down for a minute to add another CPU, and so no one would want to pay the extra for it.
Actually, I most interested in being able to sit on my couch and play games, rather than hunch over myc omputer for hours on end.
I don't care if I can get the same game on PC, If I can get a console version, I'll do that.
Pirce and not having to upgrade has nothing to do with it, it's all about the experience.
no, Joules are a measure of energy, watts are a measure of power, which is energy over time. Specifically, joules per second.
But regardless, the 100 joules per second of energy being produced are not necesarily 100% heat.
lemons are yellow, but that doesn't mean all yellow things are lemons.
you know, ftp.netscape.com always worked....
I don't know where you were you were trying to get netscape from....yes there were a few subdirectories to go through. but they were named after such obscure things as product name, version number, language, operating system.
You do realise that 15% of 1.2 million hits is still 180,000 hits?
15% non IE is obviously not a majority, but it's not insignificant either. Only dealing with IE would piss off 1 in every 7 visitors to your site.
I had a similar experience...
I was looking at dedicated hosts just yesterday...and I clicked the "find out more" link, expecting to get a nice informative web page, and instead I get this stupid chart window.
I closed it before the chat even started and looked elsewhere. I hadn't even been able to find a price yet.
If your product can't stand by itself, but needs a person to sell it to me - taking advantage of the fact that people often find it hard to say no - then I don't want it.
I want to browse all the possibilities, and THEN...when i ASK for it, I'll talk to someone.
I see these popups as being very similar to the guy going door to door trying to sell you long distance phone service, or vacuum cleaners...
Because with windows you get NOTHING.
You get an operating system, a windowing system, a media player, a web browser and email client, a SMB client and server, and some small utilities and games.
The 13CDs of Debian contain almost every known piece of software that meets the DFSG and someone can be bothered packaging. And yet the smallest Debian install is still far smaller than the smallest Windows install.
It was a Music award show..
there were Musicians....
Some musiciains were going to open their mouths to do something other than sing...
If you couldn't follow that thought to it's logical conclusion, then you deserve everything you got.
The trouble is, that people see a fork as a dividing of effort that would not occur otherwise, instead.
But usualy a serious fork (as opposed to a personal experimentation one like the various linux kernel forks) is the result of a disagreement between developers that would always result in one or more developers leaving.
Without the ability to fork, you either 1. have developers just giving up in frustration - which is a loss for everyone or 2. you have them starting from scratch - which may potentially have benefits, but is most likely to end up with them either never catching up to the state of the original project, or still giving up in frustration.
Forking gives those developers have a chance to just get on with coding, without the wasted effort and with less frustration, and also potientially adds the benefits of competition and sharing between projects.
As for forking being a problem to end users, well, I don't think that's an argument at all. There's always lots of different projects filling the same need whether they be forks or stand alone projects, and there's always a need to be able to sort the good from the bad, but it's not a problem that is specific to Linux or Free Software in general - Try looking for an ftp client, or HTML editor or Text editor on Tucows or download.com and tell me if Windows has suffered due to too much choice?
And in the case of core components that a user shouldn't have to even know about, let alone choose - that's an issue for those putting together the distribution and should never be exposed to the end user in the first place.
The GPL does not prevent forks, and no one at the FSF will claim it does. In fact a large number will probably tell you that one of the benefits is that it allows Free Software forks.
What it does do, is prevent non Free forks.
that may well be true...but no one is talking about the Freedesktop.org X Server.
The X Server we're talking about here is from X.org and it _is_ a fork of XFree86.
There's nothing wrong with having hundreds of forks - usually it's pretty clear which one you want to go with.
A fork started over a minor difference of opinion is unlikely to get much backing...and it's existance does not really affect the main project.
The main difference between Free Software and Proprietry projects is that when a bunch of developers decide they don't like the way a proprietry project is being run - they either leave for good, or leave and start from scratch, with Free Software they can fork the project and carry on from the point they left off.
Yes forking can hurt an existing project if a large number of developers leave, but the alternative is that they leave and don't fork.
And you don't have to deal with stupid restrictions on your phone. At my workplace, those with company phones suddenly got SMS disabled on their accounts, due to a couple of people going nuts with it. That and the regular justifying of calls if the monthly bill goes over a certain threshold mean that personally, I'm quite happy using my personal mobile for work. If I get a month will a bill that I think is a bit excessive, then I can always just claim back the extra. They pay me enough that I'm not going to add irritation into my life over the few dollars a month it costs to have a mobile.
I think the point was that the case was acting as a sound board for the noise inside the drive...
Some music DVDs use it (Metallica's Cunning Stunts for example).
But apart from that, I believe the only place it's used is in porn movies...leading to Multi-Angle Title being a euphamism for porn.
(source The DVD FAQ)
BTW, I have Cunning Stunts, and the multi angle support is pretty lame...the camera angle changes so often anyway, that you barely notice that you've changed it.
Hmmm...some titles also use the feature in their special features - they might show a scene and by selecting different "angles" you can see different levels of production or effects.
New Zealand?
at least we know our way around an atlas...
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it's a poor choice of words.
'cannot avoid using' would be better than 'cannot not use'
but that 8K is a real 8K in the hand, which is worth a lot more than 8k extra salary.