A few people are sloppy and let couple refer to the "few", meaning, but most people prefer the definition referring to a pair.
In my experience, practically every English speaker I've ever met has used "couple" to mean "few" except in certain usage situations ("They make a lovely couple," for instance, doesn't mean few). This only perpetuates itself, because when other people misuse the word, you can't be sure if they really mean two or if they're using it more generally and thus you can't really use it to mean two and expect people to know you mean two for sure.
I know of a place where you can sit in one Starbucks and look out the window across the street at guess what... Another Starbucks!
You know of ONE place like that? If you've ever been to downtown Seattle, pretty much every place is like that. In some places you can see two or three from one.
What? First of all, Fireworks is a Macromedia product.
Illustrator and Freehand definitely overlap, and are very similar programs. Fireworks and Photoshop have some major differences but the designers here use one or the other for their design work (I actually switch between them based on my mood). Adobe has GoLive, which is supposed to fill the same niche as Dreamweaver.
The markets for the two companies DO overlap quite a bit.
You've obviously not tried Dreamweaver MX 2004 and set a document to XHTML mode then - it does all styling in CSS. What more could you want?
You'd only say that if you weren't very good at XHTML and CSS coding yourself and don't understand the idea of semantic markup. I'll agree that it does a lot better than it used to, but I think I'll continue hand-coding, thanks.
The time: Look at the upper-right of the screen, where there is already a time display.
Lots of people prefer an analog display to a digital one for telling time. I'll agree that a clock isn't super-necessary, but if you don't want it, you can easily turn it off.
What it's like outside: Look out a window. You know, that big glass pane on one wall of your boss's office?
Oh yes, because looking out a window will tell you the temperature and the chance of precipitation later. On top of that, everyone obviously has a huge window right near their computer.
Anything else to say?
Yes: It's hard to believe that you can't see the benefits of the various widgets on the dashboard. Maybe you personally don't have a whole lot of use for two particular ones, but there are tons more and furthermore they're easy to develop (HTML and CSS) and thus there will likely be lots of novel ones. Take second to look outside (no pun intended) your narrow little world and see that everyone is not you.
Sure, I'm just saying that it is jarring to me for someone to say what amounts to "we've done this study and it's really accurate because, well we've done the study." I don't disagree that the study can be the most accurate thing we've got and very possibly even is quite accurate, though. I don't know why I got modded troll for that.
What are you talking about? I'm not saying anything like Intel's processors are better than AMD's because they have more megahertz. I'm just saying that ten times as fast is a pretty big jump in speed.
There have been some studies of human DNA and these have often produced very interesting results, showing accurately how people migrated across the globe.
Well now, how do we know they're accurate? A study can't prove itself accurate. A study can certainly be interesting and can give results which we believe to be accurate, but it would take more than a few to make a conscientious person comfortable with the label accurate. In the end, unless we invent time-travel, we'll probably never know for sure if something like this is truly accurate.
Ok, so you like KDE better than OS X, but you've still missed the point. It's stupid to say that the Mac Mini is the solution to free software on a cheap computer, because part of the price already includes the software. A cheap computer to put linux on could be built for quite a bit less than 500 dollars and getting rid of OS X gets rid of most of the reason to buy a Mini.
So let me get this straight -- if you camp out because you must, you're a "real" nerd, and if you have time to do it out of a sense of nostalgia you're... what, cool?
Not cool, no. I'd say it makes one a dork as opposed to a geek or nerd.
If you had actually looked at the map in satellite view, you know, like this whole story is about, you'd see that the rest of the world is actually included now (only in satellite view). Your joke might have been funny if it weren't for the fact that it was made about a hundred times when the map service first came out and it was actually true that Google's map only showed the US.
Yeah and just yesterday Boingboing picked up the story about the robot alarm clock that was on Slashdot a while ago. So read more than one source and you'll get up-to-date news.
Seriously, if they were legal citizens, I know there are lots of scholarships out there for hispanics particularly, and probably particularly for engineering too. MIT would be well within reach if they were legal citizens.
It says nouns are objects, and adjectives are properties, which makes sense. Verbs are functions, so what are adverbs? Also, how are articles expressed? They're technically adjectives, but they don't work that well as a property (semantically anyway).
I say that the original name was deceptive because it implies that media playback is not as good on the 'full' versions of Windows. Your choice of media is somehow 'reduced'. Of course, this is false: you can put ANY media player you want on it.
That name isn't deceptive AT ALL. It implies that media playback is not as good as on the full version because that's true, seeing as now it doesn't come with any media player at all. You could ALWAYS put any other media player you want on it, but now you have to.
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Thank you. The manual shift vs. automatic is a much better comparison.
I drive a manual shift car too, by the way.
I code much closer to 50 pages a month than 20 per year. Dreamweaver sucks for real professional web production, period.
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A few people are sloppy and let couple refer to the "few", meaning, but most people prefer the definition referring to a pair.
In my experience, practically every English speaker I've ever met has used "couple" to mean "few" except in certain usage situations ("They make a lovely couple," for instance, doesn't mean few). This only perpetuates itself, because when other people misuse the word, you can't be sure if they really mean two or if they're using it more generally and thus you can't really use it to mean two and expect people to know you mean two for sure.
I know of a place where you can sit in one Starbucks and look out the window across the street at guess what... Another Starbucks!
You know of ONE place like that? If you've ever been to downtown Seattle, pretty much every place is like that. In some places you can see two or three from one.
What? First of all, Fireworks is a Macromedia product.
Illustrator and Freehand definitely overlap, and are very similar programs. Fireworks and Photoshop have some major differences but the designers here use one or the other for their design work (I actually switch between them based on my mood). Adobe has GoLive, which is supposed to fill the same niche as Dreamweaver.
The markets for the two companies DO overlap quite a bit.
You've obviously not tried Dreamweaver MX 2004 and set a document to XHTML mode then - it does all styling in CSS. What more could you want?
You'd only say that if you weren't very good at XHTML and CSS coding yourself and don't understand the idea of semantic markup. I'll agree that it does a lot better than it used to, but I think I'll continue hand-coding, thanks.
Huh? I get my Netflix DVDs in 2 days pretty consistently, usually a day before they say I'll get it on the site.
The time: Look at the upper-right of the screen, where there is already a time display.
Lots of people prefer an analog display to a digital one for telling time. I'll agree that a clock isn't super-necessary, but if you don't want it, you can easily turn it off.
What it's like outside: Look out a window. You know, that big glass pane on one wall of your boss's office?
Oh yes, because looking out a window will tell you the temperature and the chance of precipitation later. On top of that, everyone obviously has a huge window right near their computer.
Anything else to say?
Yes: It's hard to believe that you can't see the benefits of the various widgets on the dashboard. Maybe you personally don't have a whole lot of use for two particular ones, but there are tons more and furthermore they're easy to develop (HTML and CSS) and thus there will likely be lots of novel ones. Take second to look outside (no pun intended) your narrow little world and see that everyone is not you.
Sure, I'm just saying that it is jarring to me for someone to say what amounts to "we've done this study and it's really accurate because, well we've done the study." I don't disagree that the study can be the most accurate thing we've got and very possibly even is quite accurate, though. I don't know why I got modded troll for that.
What are you talking about? I'm not saying anything like Intel's processors are better than AMD's because they have more megahertz. I'm just saying that ten times as fast is a pretty big jump in speed.
Floating clocks and weather forcasts? WTF?
Is Dashboard/Kornfabulator really anything more than a pretty toy?
Yeah, who ever needs to know the time or what it's like outside??
I dunno, to me a 40Ghz machine fairly smashes a 4Ghz machine.
There have been some studies of human DNA and these have often produced very interesting results, showing accurately how people migrated across the globe.
Well now, how do we know they're accurate? A study can't prove itself accurate. A study can certainly be interesting and can give results which we believe to be accurate, but it would take more than a few to make a conscientious person comfortable with the label accurate. In the end, unless we invent time-travel, we'll probably never know for sure if something like this is truly accurate.
Have you called Apple? They very well might be willing to give you a free or cheaper upgrade, especially if you tell them your little story.
Ok, so you like KDE better than OS X, but you've still missed the point. It's stupid to say that the Mac Mini is the solution to free software on a cheap computer, because part of the price already includes the software. A cheap computer to put linux on could be built for quite a bit less than 500 dollars and getting rid of OS X gets rid of most of the reason to buy a Mini.
Maybe they just wanted to mix up the vocabulary used in the sentence. "Transformers are robots that transform" sounds kind of redundant.
So let me get this straight -- if you camp out because you must, you're a "real" nerd, and if you have time to do it out of a sense of nostalgia you're... what, cool?
Not cool, no. I'd say it makes one a dork as opposed to a geek or nerd.
If you had actually looked at the map in satellite view, you know, like this whole story is about, you'd see that the rest of the world is actually included now (only in satellite view). Your joke might have been funny if it weren't for the fact that it was made about a hundred times when the map service first came out and it was actually true that Google's map only showed the US.
I'm pretty sure that Dell could add iTunes or Winamp if they wanted to anyway.
Yeah and just yesterday Boingboing picked up the story about the robot alarm clock that was on Slashdot a while ago. So read more than one source and you'll get up-to-date news.
So, why is it they can't apply for citizenship?
Seriously, if they were legal citizens, I know there are lots of scholarships out there for hispanics particularly, and probably particularly for engineering too. MIT would be well within reach if they were legal citizens.
It says nouns are objects, and adjectives are properties, which makes sense. Verbs are functions, so what are adverbs? Also, how are articles expressed? They're technically adjectives, but they don't work that well as a property (semantically anyway).
I say that the original name was deceptive because it implies that media playback is not as good on the 'full' versions of Windows. Your choice of media is somehow 'reduced'. Of course, this is false: you can put ANY media player you want on it.
That name isn't deceptive AT ALL. It implies that media playback is not as good as on the full version because that's true, seeing as now it doesn't come with any media player at all. You could ALWAYS put any other media player you want on it, but now you have to.
I totally agree, and that was going to be my comment. Leave easily parsable languages to computers, ambiguity is the spice of language!