I haven't seen this login-word-recognizing thing. Or do you mean when you sign up, you have to fill it in? 'Cuz that would make a hell of a lot more sense.
Disclaimer: I know the daughter of the owner of this company. She fixed my hearing aids a few times.
Etymotic Research is one of the more pioneering companies out there in the hearing field, and one of their big things is making custom-fit musician's earplugs. They cost $150-$200, which is slightly cheaper than most similar products.
In addition, there's a societal backlash against the "non-minorities". I am disabled, but many of the people I am with forget it (I'm not in a wheelchair, but I don't have an "invisible disability" like bipolar - my disability is quite obvious to someone meeting me for the first time). I am also an upper-middle class white male.
Because of this, when I say I believe affirmative action is a bad thing, or that it doesn't work, I often get a somewhat aggressive version of the response, "well, yeah, but you're not a minority". Raising my eyebrow gets the person to realize that I am, indeed a "protected minority", at which point awkwardness ensues. Further, it serves to prove my point. While there are areas in which my minority status needs protection, affirmative action is not one of them - as evidenced by my academic and job achievements.
Not true. First, British English and Aussie English (accents and "dialectal differences") are much easier for the majority of Americans to understand than Indian English, simply because we hear more British English.
Second, there are two major "standardized" pronunciations in the world: British Recieved Pronunciation, which is very clear, and Midwestern (which I am so lucky as to speak - it's what most news anchors use). There's also Mid-Atlantic, which, as the name suggests, is somewhere in between. Wikipedia has a reference.
Clarification: they don't get a better wage, per se. It may even be lower. But it is higher as far as purchasing power and standard of living are concerned.
Y'think that's bad? I have a computer from that manufacturer whose name sounds like "hell", and they have these things called Service Tags - basically a serial number - that consists, in my case at least, of 5 letters and 2 digits. One of the letters is "M", yet despite the fact that I always say it ("Ay Bee Cee Dee Em One Two"), then immediately follow up with the official international phonetic spelling ("Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Mike One Two"), it gets heard by the techs as "N" as in "Nancy".
I know the "N as in Nancy" is standard, because I hear it every time. But what is the point of using a phonetic alphabet where you have to hear the first syllable to figure out the word? (Nancy? Fancy?) The phonetic alphabet was created specifically to avoid those situations, so why don't they fucking use it?
[It's the Veep debate between Dick "Grand Vizier" Cheney and John "Aw Shuck's I'm Jes A Country Boy" Edwards that is going to be fun to watch - certainly not the Prez debates.]
Not true. Private folks are going for adult/placental stems cells 'cuz embryonic stem cells are hard to get. And *no* *one* (mainstream, at least) wants fetal stem cells - these are *embryonic* stem cells. The ones that the in vitro docs flush down the toilet 'cuz they've got no other use for 'em. Read up on it sometime.
They wouldn't move. Y'know the little buttons at the top of all these new-fangled keyboards? "mail", "home", "mute", etc? The keyboard would change drivers internally (sending the correct signal) depending on the OS... which, to me, is retarded. Just install the right god damn driver on each OS!
My history teacher did this when he got a wireless webcam in his classroom... he hooked it into his belt, tucked it under his shirt with only the lens poking out, then put it on the classroom's TV screen.
He then told us it was his "ButtCam", and that he was going to the bathroom, which was right next door. Obviously, it was a bluff, but it got the desired "ew!"s from the audience.
Because if you have a PPC you have Mac (probably OS X, now) and thus have Darwin? Or because there's few reasons to go with PPC if you're not using Mac (assuming you're buying a new computer, not reusing an old one), so one would, in our capitalistic, zero-financial-sum society, use the cheaper Intel/AMD/etc. x86 chips?
For the same reason there are 6 different DVD regions?
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I was replying to NineNine, who said that this was a reason to buy a phone without BT, then bemoaned the lack of phones without it. I use a Jabra headset myself; my point was, if you don't want BT, you can turn it off.
Thus, it would be more analogous to someone saying, "I keep getting mugged - I wish I didn't have to carry my wallet with me when I'm not paying for stuff" and replying "Then leave your wallet in the car when you don't need it".
And yes, I do know how pairing works. Or are you saying that there are phones that do the headset BT without the other BT stuff?
I can type faster than a scanner... especially when the scanner's user will probably end up scanning it twice, saying "now where's that file", etc. Makes for a fun bet, eh?
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So buy a BlueTooth phone and TURN THE DAMN BLUETOOTH OFF! You're like a Windows user, whining: "but I can't turn it off, it was enabled by default".
You've never seen a googlewatch post? I can't count the number of times I've reminded someone that the guy who runs google-watch.com has a major conflict of interest, and serious reasons to have a grudge against 'em.
T9 I believe refers to the 9 keys on the phone, and how many cells do predictive (i.e., rather than "777 555 2 777 44 3 666 8" for "slashdot", use "75274368" and hope it gets it right.
On the computer, though, I love OpenOffice's word completion. It starts with a dictionary, and has a "temporary dictionary" of all the words over 4-5 letters that you've typed in the current session. As you type, it guesses what you want to type and inserts it (highlighted) into the doc. If it's wrong, you keep typing; if you see the word you wanted pop up, hit "tab". Very good for papers where you say the same word many times - in this case, for example, "typing", "keyboard", and so on.
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That Hideous Strength was about Merlin? That was in the same series as Perellandra, right? Thank you for that insight.
I haven't seen this login-word-recognizing thing. Or do you mean when you sign up, you have to fill it in? 'Cuz that would make a hell of a lot more sense.
Disclaimer: I know the daughter of the owner of this company. She fixed my hearing aids a few times.
Etymotic Research is one of the more pioneering companies out there in the hearing field, and one of their big things is making custom-fit musician's earplugs. They cost $150-$200, which is slightly cheaper than most similar products.
In addition, there's a societal backlash against the "non-minorities". I am disabled, but many of the people I am with forget it (I'm not in a wheelchair, but I don't have an "invisible disability" like bipolar - my disability is quite obvious to someone meeting me for the first time). I am also an upper-middle class white male.
Because of this, when I say I believe affirmative action is a bad thing, or that it doesn't work, I often get a somewhat aggressive version of the response, "well, yeah, but you're not a minority". Raising my eyebrow gets the person to realize that I am, indeed a "protected minority", at which point awkwardness ensues. Further, it serves to prove my point. While there are areas in which my minority status needs protection, affirmative action is not one of them - as evidenced by my academic and job achievements.
Not true. First, British English and Aussie English (accents and "dialectal differences") are much easier for the majority of Americans to understand than Indian English, simply because we hear more British English.
Second, there are two major "standardized" pronunciations in the world: British Recieved Pronunciation, which is very clear, and Midwestern (which I am so lucky as to speak - it's what most news anchors use). There's also Mid-Atlantic, which, as the name suggests, is somewhere in between. Wikipedia has a reference.
Clarification: they don't get a better wage, per se. It may even be lower. But it is higher as far as purchasing power and standard of living are concerned.
I agree, the GP is stupid, but it's not a friggin' dialect, it's a friggin accent, eh?
And I just figured WTF "chit" and "unchit" mean - checked and unchecked. Woot!
Y'think that's bad? I have a computer from that manufacturer whose name sounds like "hell", and they have these things called Service Tags - basically a serial number - that consists, in my case at least, of 5 letters and 2 digits. One of the letters is "M", yet despite the fact that I always say it ("Ay Bee Cee Dee Em One Two"), then immediately follow up with the official international phonetic spelling ("Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Mike One Two"), it gets heard by the techs as "N" as in "Nancy".
I know the "N as in Nancy" is standard, because I hear it every time. But what is the point of using a phonetic alphabet where you have to hear the first syllable to figure out the word? (Nancy? Fancy?) The phonetic alphabet was created specifically to avoid those situations, so why don't they fucking use it?
[It's the Veep debate between Dick "Grand Vizier" Cheney and John "Aw Shuck's I'm Jes A Country Boy" Edwards that is going to be fun to watch - certainly not the Prez debates.]
Just like last year, eh?
Not true. Private folks are going for adult/placental stems cells 'cuz embryonic stem cells are hard to get. And *no* *one* (mainstream, at least) wants fetal stem cells - these are *embryonic* stem cells. The ones that the in vitro docs flush down the toilet 'cuz they've got no other use for 'em. Read up on it sometime.
But, in addition, it was parodying the original TLIOL's political nature.
Screwed up? Don't you mean knocked up?
They wouldn't move. Y'know the little buttons at the top of all these new-fangled keyboards? "mail", "home", "mute", etc? The keyboard would change drivers internally (sending the correct signal) depending on the OS ... which, to me, is retarded. Just install the right god damn driver on each OS!
You linked to an all-Flash site from /.? You're new here, aren't you?
My history teacher did this when he got a wireless webcam in his classroom ... he hooked it into his belt, tucked it under his shirt with only the lens poking out, then put it on the classroom's TV screen.
He then told us it was his "ButtCam", and that he was going to the bathroom, which was right next door. Obviously, it was a bluff, but it got the desired "ew!"s from the audience.
Because if you have a PPC you have Mac (probably OS X, now) and thus have Darwin? Or because there's few reasons to go with PPC if you're not using Mac (assuming you're buying a new computer, not reusing an old one), so one would, in our capitalistic, zero-financial-sum society, use the cheaper Intel/AMD/etc. x86 chips?
For the same reason there are 6 different DVD regions?
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I was replying to NineNine, who said that this was a reason to buy a phone without BT, then bemoaned the lack of phones without it. I use a Jabra headset myself; my point was, if you don't want BT, you can turn it off.
Thus, it would be more analogous to someone saying, "I keep getting mugged - I wish I didn't have to carry my wallet with me when I'm not paying for stuff" and replying "Then leave your wallet in the car when you don't need it".
And yes, I do know how pairing works. Or are you saying that there are phones that do the headset BT without the other BT stuff?
I can type faster than a scanner ... especially when the scanner's user will probably end up scanning it twice, saying "now where's that file", etc. Makes for a fun bet, eh?
So buy a BlueTooth phone and TURN THE DAMN BLUETOOTH OFF! You're like a Windows user, whining: "but I can't turn it off, it was enabled by default".
His solution does work - he's the only one with the password, and he's (presumably) knowledgeable enough to recognize what is/isn't legit.
You can't vote ... and you don't have dividends. What's the point, except to say, "hey, I own google stock"?
You've never seen a googlewatch post? I can't count the number of times I've reminded someone that the guy who runs google-watch.com has a major conflict of interest, and serious reasons to have a grudge against 'em.
T9 I believe refers to the 9 keys on the phone, and how many cells do predictive (i.e., rather than "777 555 2 777 44 3 666 8" for "slashdot", use "75274368" and hope it gets it right.
On the computer, though, I love OpenOffice's word completion. It starts with a dictionary, and has a "temporary dictionary" of all the words over 4-5 letters that you've typed in the current session. As you type, it guesses what you want to type and inserts it (highlighted) into the doc. If it's wrong, you keep typing; if you see the word you wanted pop up, hit "tab". Very good for papers where you say the same word many times - in this case, for example, "typing", "keyboard", and so on.
I could register McDomalds.com ... in fact, someone already has. Plus, even if I tried to get McDonalds.com, trademark law would apply, not copyright.