'oe' is entirely contemporary, as is 'ae' and 'ue'. The fact that abbreviations exist in the form of Umlaute doesn't make the unabbreviated spelling wrong.
I would actually not use "abbreviation" the way you do here. The combination "oe" should probably be considered the historical origin of "ö", rather than its equivalent. We Swedes, for example, who also use "ö" and similar letters, wouldn't get away with substituting them for something else on a spelling exam, and my guess is that this is true for Germans aswell.
Here are some examples of real live Germans writing without Umlaute.
It turns out that the messages you have found using "oe" are encoded in ASCII (as opposed to other messages in the same threads), which, as we all know, doesn't include "ö". My hypothesis would be that ASCII was the only encoding available to the authors of "oe", who therefore had to make an approximation. Such an approximation could very well be "oe" (although Swedes would use "o").
Actually, I found some support for this on Wikipedia:
When it is not possible to use the umlauts, e. g. when using a restricted character set, the umlauts Ä, Ö, Ü, ä, ö and ü can be transcribed as Ae, Oe, Ue, ae, oe and ue, respectively.
But then since 'ö' is simply an abbreviation for 'oe' you were correct in the first place...
I definitely prefer to use the contemporary characters. Otherwise I could perhaps use hieroglyphs just aswell, in the cases where they are the origin of a modern letter. Mabye so for M, for example.
Um, I see that I inherited an incorrect spelling from archive.org here... It is of course "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder". (Btw, this "ö" happens to be in ISO Latin-1, otherwise we would have been unlucky since Slashdot is strangely behind and not capable of Unicode. Please fix... please!)
The reason has nothing to do with their age per se, but rather is due to the terrible American (state run) public school systems - many people 18 and younger can not yet sign their own names!
Haha. Having never been to the USA, I wonder, is there really such a big difference between public and private schools? Where I live, the majority of schools are public, but there are private ones too. Anyway, inasmuch as the quality differs from school to school, I don't think that is very strongly correlated with the school being public or private. Me, for example, have been going schools which are considered very fancy, all the way up to university, but they have all been public. Btw, are there public universities in the USA?
Really? I suppose this should be different in different countries, and mabye you're talking about USA, since Slashdot is hosted there (I think). Anyway, in any such country where minors can't sign contracts, how do they get employed? That takes a contract, right?
I litterally couldn't read stories that day because of the pink and white colorscheme, meaning OMG PONIES was the best website I have ever been too.
Oh, there actually _were_ ponies on Slashdot?! (I guess you're talking about that annual, natural disaster we call "1 Apr".) Haha, I use the stripped down version of Slashdot (since the time I had phone modem) so I never saw it.
Open source is not the same thing as free software, right? Open source software could even be much like any proprietary software. Remember, we want free software!
First of all I'd like to thank you for taking time in answering, explaining the issue to me. I too hopped on the train with Firebird 0.7 (as I recall it), but apparently did not pay attention to details the way you did.
No single-window mode, (tabs + windows is ridiculously confusing)
I totally agree! I _don't_ want web pages to fling up windows in my face against my will. Not tabs either, for that matter, but it's better than new windows. I do arrange my tabs in multiple windows sometimes, though, when I have a lot of them. But it's _my_ choice. (And I would like to be able to move tabs between windows.)
find as you type disabled
I've always thought this would be a great feature for new users to accidentally discover by tapping a key by mistake. It's extremely useful, I don't understand either why it's not on by default.
giant IE like buttons
Ah, are they really that giant (in Firefox, that is)? I think it's easier to hit the big ones quickly, actually. However, I remove all buttons anyway -- using mouse gestures for "back" and "forward" and keyboard or menus for everything else.
links underline
Oh, haha, never thought about that.
Even rearranging the buttons.
Really? I'm afraid I didn't notice this either. But does it really matter?
It's not about the freedom of choice GNU but about destroying competition. They'd promote Firefox over any other alternate browser, encouraging sites to support Firefox, not to support standards.
Hmm, yes, I too believe free software in general, and following the standards, are the important things. On the other hand, I think promoting a good candidate (to use instead of a proprietary one) is a good thing too. But of course I don't want to look down on other free browsers! I haven't personally gotten very much in touch with the spreading actions, so I haven't thought much about it.
Do you know animal farm? Or the russian revolution. How we're promised everything, only for values to be sold out, to arrive at hypocrisy, and perhaps no better than what we had before.
Yes I do know it, and this is really funny. Just _yesterday_ I, for some reason, came to think of it and the similarity with the Soviet Union struck me! I, probably for the fist time, though that mabye there was a _specific_ historical event that inspired the book, and mabye it was the forming of the Soviet Union. Haha, stupid of me. I must have been to young to realize it when I read it. It's of course sad if that's what you feel you have to compare Firefox to, and I would like to encourage you by pointing out that it still is free software and even apart from that is much better than Microsoft's competitor.
People who have forgotten COBOL and Binary-Coded Dedimal are doomed to repeat it, poorly.
Would you like to elaborate on that? I _do_ want arbitrary precision and it would be nice to have it built in, instead of using libraries. Is that necessarily bad?
We will adhere to the RFPolicy and request that you do too; please keep security issues private until all sites running Slash have a chance to apply fixes. Thanks.
Personally, I think it's more interesting and exciting if people disclose vulnerabilities immediately. You could, if you want, see it as a way of punishing people for making mistakes or running programs with mistakes. Of course, it's impossible to avoid mistakes, but I think this "punishment" is fun anyway. It makes more of a game of it.
The hive mind mentality is so hard to break away from. All the little slashbots lined up in a row. Try thinking independanty sometime... it is really refreshing.
I developed my disgust for DRM all on my own, thank you very much, before I started to read Slashdot. Sony inpired me to, with their crappy software for transferring music from my computer to my MiniDisc by USB.
It had everything:
- A cartoonish interface (not related to DRM, of course)
- A forest of bloat (not related to DRM)
- It demanded that deleted songs from my MiniDiscs while it was watching, or it wouldn't let me put the same tune on my player again (!!!!!!!!!) (definitely DRM).
- Of course, there was no replacements (due to DRM)
So, I ended up not using it.
But on topic all DRM is a protection method, a system of permissions. A purveyor of goods has every right to sell merchandise in the way he or she sees fit, if they see fit to restrict their offerings so be it, the market will respond in kind. It really isnt that hard to wrap your head around.
Short answer: I don't understand why anyone would be a _fan_ of it. Some people do other perverted stuff too, which one might argue, they should be allowed to do, without understanding why anyone would like it.
People wouldn't want to have their code being simulated in software without their explicit knowledge.
But it's already done! Even if you lower your expectations, not requiring the processor to do 153-bit floating point maths, but settling for, say, 32 bits, not all processors will be able to give that to you. Thus, if you're feeling modern and brave, using floats anyway, the compiler will have to emulate it for you. Anything less, I think, would require knowledge of the instructions present on the target CPU, and that isn't really portable.
Slashdot Mirror
My highly simplistic statistical analysis doesn't get me very far.
Actually, I found some support for this on Wikipedia:
Um, I see that I inherited an incorrect spelling from archive.org here... It is of course "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder". (Btw, this "ö" happens to be in ISO Latin-1, otherwise we would have been unlucky since Slashdot is strangely behind and not capable of Unicode. Please fix... please!)
So put the lights out...
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Moerder
Open source is not the same thing as free software, right? Open source software could even be much like any proprietary software. Remember, we want free software!
It's a bit scary, but just this day our MOTD got changed to "We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.". :-/
*thinking* _A_ zeta function? Not _the_ zeta function? And with a seed?!
Perhaps "layer two" means "second floor", or "second layer in the crust of earth" or something. A third coordinate, the height.
I wish you a nice day!
Please hurry the development of space tech so I can move to another planet, should it be necessary.
It had everything:
- A cartoonish interface (not related to DRM, of course)
- A forest of bloat (not related to DRM)
- It demanded that deleted songs from my MiniDiscs while it was watching, or it wouldn't let me put the same tune on my player again (!!!!!!!!!) (definitely DRM).
- Of course, there was no replacements (due to DRM)
So, I ended up not using it. Short answer: I don't understand why anyone would be a _fan_ of it. Some people do other perverted stuff too, which one might argue, they should be allowed to do, without understanding why anyone would like it.