Have you ever tried to read Chaucer? That's Middle English. As for Old English - trust me you (nor I) stand a chance! Modern English dialects are much closer together than what might have be termed dialects back then but there is still a huge difference in accents and many terms and words even today across regions. Then throw in Cumbric, Kentish and many other old languages into the mix. Cumbric was still in sporadic use in the 20th C. That's just in England. Then you have Welsh, Irish and Scots with all the same complexities that exist and existed in England with dialects and probably outright different languages in different regions and ages.
The UK and Eire are a small area landwise but a fair diversity in culture still remains - and long may it continue (IMNSHO).
Have a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaucer there's some samples from his writings with translations. I'm a native en_GB speaker and I find it tough going.
The bit in brackets (parenthesis) is why the old abbreviation was "LSD". Obviously we had lots of other weird names for various sub divisions such as a "10 bob note" which was a paper note for 10 shillings or 120d.
Then we got decimalized in 1971, the shilling got dropped as a sub unit and the d suffix replaced with p. £1 = 100p (1 pound = 100 pennies). For a while pennies were known as new pennies but the new was dropped after a few years.
Guess why the US and Canada inter alia call their cents "pennies" 8)
You say what you do and you say what ads do but no conclusion unless we have to take the last phrase of your comment as you feel that's what she thinks.
I feel your pain but apparently parents have been worried for millennia about external influences on their children. If ads is the worst you've got then that's perhaps not too bad. You might like to compare your worries with parents in say the Syrian city of Homs.
Wait until she's around 12-15. You'll really have worries then as she becomes rapidly more sophisticated and "teen"...
Best of luck (OK - enjoy every moment, even when you are shitting yourself with worry)
You have managed to correct Mr 655733's interpretation of Mr 822545's comment with a functionally equivalent interpretation.
As for Mr 822545 - he should have done a better job of underlining. He simply should have typed the words and then used backspace on his typewriter and then put in the underscores. Isn't progress great?
Nice analogy but bollocks I'm afraid. I run several Asterisk systems, including at home.
POTS n ISDN cards - Digium (Asterisk coders) and Sangoma. I'm aware of others. Handsets - there are masses of suppliers of VoIP handsets. The thing itself can run on pretty much any 32 or 64 based Linux system and I believe it can run on Windows There are several specific distros - Digium's own, Trixbox, PIaF, Elastix and many more
On top of that there is FreeSwitch as an alternative software stack for VoIP.
'phone numbers == IP addresses. In telephony your number is your identification. On t'internet your IP address is simply that - a number. Your A record is your identification and that does not really care about your IP address.
Given the length of this thing and its sheer mass, I don't think that the relatively short depth of the sea is likely to make much difference.
Granted that the water will get in the way somewhat. However the construction team that puts up (drops down?) a space elevator link are probably not going to find that a problem.
For a while I actually deliberately allowed stuff from the "Lads from Nigeria" through and put in its own inbox for everyone at the firm to laugh over. I created a second specially trained SA Bayesian classifier in front of the main filter to siphon this stuff off.
It was trained on a hand crafted corpus gleaned from a mailbox of stuff behind a sacrificial Exim daemon on its own connection that strangely runs really slow but not too slow to put off the spammers.
SA can be made to work in very strange ways. Perhaps I ought to get out more...
Have you ever tried it (I can't speak for 2010)? The Intelligent Message Filter is dreadful.
You pretty much only get two knobs to turn: 0-10 for either block or quarantine. On the switches front you get to use someone else's service ie DNSBLs or you can (naively) fill in blocked address lists.
That's why have been doing a roaring trade (10 odd years) in tiny Gentoo (VMs nowadays) machines with Exim 'n' Spam Assassin + Clam AV doing the stuff that Exchange just can't.
So yes his Uni probably did cock up the config of Exch but if they turn the knobs up too far he wont see any mail out side of his Junk folder. Catch 22 matey
Well I played rugby (prop - loose and tight head) for 15 years and I've never thought I was missing something when I watch coverage on TV. I can see exactly what is happening. Also there is plenty of analysis with overhead and "reverse angles" etc.
Look, you can even see their leaders here - they are called Anonymous Coward and if I lookup Coward on that interweb I find a bloke called Noel - but he was a famous homosexual - hmmm something must be wrong.
Everything (just looked at the homepage) looks just like "locate" (slocate, mlocate etc) which is a long standing *nix system tool. Oh and with a GUI frontend. There's plenty of those for locate as well.
As to that sort of metadata based FS, it seems to be really hard to do properly and despite it seeming like a good idea, not many are screaming out for it. If they were we'd all have one by now.
My money is on it being hard to do whilst not sacrificing performance. FSs are bloody hard - watch the development of any of the new breed of FS eg BTRFS, EXT4 etc.
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Have you ever tried to read Chaucer? That's Middle English. As for Old English - trust me you (nor I) stand a chance! Modern English dialects are much closer together than what might have be termed dialects back then but there is still a huge difference in accents and many terms and words even today across regions. Then throw in Cumbric, Kentish and many other old languages into the mix. Cumbric was still in sporadic use in the 20th C. That's just in England. Then you have Welsh, Irish and Scots with all the same complexities that exist and existed in England with dialects and probably outright different languages in different regions and ages.
The UK and Eire are a small area landwise but a fair diversity in culture still remains - and long may it continue (IMNSHO).
Have a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaucer there's some samples from his writings with translations. I'm a native en_GB speaker and I find it tough going.
Well I'm just about old enough to remember the crack addled nonsense that was LSD:
£1 = 20s, 1s=12d, hence £1=240d
£=pound (libra)
s=shilling (solidus)
d=penny (denarius)
The bit in brackets (parenthesis) is why the old abbreviation was "LSD". Obviously we had lots of other weird names for various sub divisions such as a "10 bob note" which was a paper note for 10 shillings or 120d.
Then we got decimalized in 1971, the shilling got dropped as a sub unit and the d suffix replaced with p. £1 = 100p (1 pound = 100 pennies). For a while pennies were known as new pennies but the new was dropped after a few years.
Guess why the US and Canada inter alia call their cents "pennies" 8)
... so who is winning?
You say what you do and you say what ads do but no conclusion unless we have to take the last phrase of your comment as you feel that's what she thinks.
I feel your pain but apparently parents have been worried for millennia about external influences on their children. If ads is the worst you've got then that's perhaps not too bad. You might like to compare your worries with parents in say the Syrian city of Homs.
Wait until she's around 12-15. You'll really have worries then as she becomes rapidly more sophisticated and "teen" ...
Best of luck (OK - enjoy every moment, even when you are shitting yourself with worry)
Cheers
Jon
Gosh, isn't English subtle!
You have managed to correct Mr 655733's interpretation of Mr 822545's comment with a functionally equivalent interpretation.
As for Mr 822545 - he should have done a better job of underlining. He simply should have typed the words and then used backspace on his typewriter and then put in the underscores. Isn't progress great?
Cheers
Jon
Nice analogy but bollocks I'm afraid. I run several Asterisk systems, including at home.
POTS n ISDN cards - Digium (Asterisk coders) and Sangoma. I'm aware of others.
Handsets - there are masses of suppliers of VoIP handsets.
The thing itself can run on pretty much any 32 or 64 based Linux system and I believe it can run on Windows
There are several specific distros - Digium's own, Trixbox, PIaF, Elastix and many more
On top of that there is FreeSwitch as an alternative software stack for VoIP.
I can't think of many more open markets.
I suggest you get someone else to purchase your equipment then.
You seem to keep on buying rubbish.
Cheers
Jon
Wrong 'n' epic fail.
'phone numbers == IP addresses. In telephony your number is your identification. On t'internet your IP address is simply that - a number. Your A record is your identification and that does not really care about your IP address.
IPv6 will happen. Just not overnight.
Why did you bother linking that article?
Cheers
Jon
So your anecdote has become data?
A sample size of one in your study is somehow important?
Hand in your geek card.
The users of FB are the _product_ and not customers. The customers are the advertisers.
Now I think it is unlikely that the number of users is going to increase significantly. Certainly not by say 100%.
So is the amount of advertising revenue going to increase by 100% - I doubt it.
I suggest you apply the term toxic to this beast - you will lose, its well over valued.
Given the length of this thing and its sheer mass, I don't think that the relatively short depth of the sea is likely to make much difference.
Granted that the water will get in the way somewhat. However the construction team that puts up (drops down?) a space elevator link are probably not going to find that a problem.
I suggest that the whole equator is fair game.
Cheers
Jon
Yes, I've seen some classics too.
For a while I actually deliberately allowed stuff from the "Lads from Nigeria" through and put in its own inbox for everyone at the firm to laugh over. I created a second specially trained SA Bayesian classifier in front of the main filter to siphon this stuff off.
It was trained on a hand crafted corpus gleaned from a mailbox of stuff behind a sacrificial Exim daemon on its own connection that strangely runs really slow but not too slow to put off the spammers.
SA can be made to work in very strange ways. Perhaps I ought to get out more ...
Cheers
Jon
Have you ever tried it (I can't speak for 2010)? The Intelligent Message Filter is dreadful.
You pretty much only get two knobs to turn: 0-10 for either block or quarantine. On the switches front you get to use someone else's service ie DNSBLs or you can (naively) fill in blocked address lists.
That's why have been doing a roaring trade (10 odd years) in tiny Gentoo (VMs nowadays) machines with Exim 'n' Spam Assassin + Clam AV doing the stuff that Exchange just can't.
So yes his Uni probably did cock up the config of Exch but if they turn the knobs up too far he wont see any mail out side of his Junk folder. Catch 22 matey
Cheers
Jon
Well I played rugby (prop - loose and tight head) for 15 years and I've never thought I was missing something when I watch coverage on TV. I can see exactly what is happening. Also there is plenty of analysis with overhead and "reverse angles" etc.
Nowadays, I can compile my own distro ...
Cheers
Jon
So what the hell was the (80)287 that I bought for my 286 to run AutoCAD then?
I know it had "Maths Coprocessor" written on the box and it cost ~£120 - bargain!
Also I seem to remember that the SX/DX thing actually came in with the 486 and was back ported.
Cheers
Jon
For goodness sake, you have a seven digit ID here - stop being so insightful.
You should be writing up bollocks under the subject line of "Welcome to 1984" or something.
At the moment this is the MoTD in the /. footer :
"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment. -- Horace"
Cheers
Jon
You have succinctly summed up a large part of /. in a beautifully constructed comment.
It gets my vote for comment of $QUITE_A_LONG_TIME
Shame you can't stamp a comment: _classic_ - >10,000 votes gets it into a hall of fame or similar.
Cheers
Jon
PS It was let down only marginally by the line noise at the end.
Actually that is now EU law. Buy your fags from Poland and never have to worry!
Unless I get my Polish employee to translate - bugger 8)
I'm sure the US or wherever you are from will soon have similar "dis-incentives" that don't do much but placate the lobby.
Cheers
Jon
It is also ironic that you address an entity calling themselves Anonymous as though they should have a consistent approach to politics.
Surely the meme we know as "AC" hasn't escaped your notice?
I come from a land where irony means more than "has less carbon in it than steel" - you?
Cheers
Jon
There's a female singer who learnt that lesson some time ago and gave her name to the "Effect"
Familiar with them are we Sir?
Please step this way ...
I've found Anonymous - they are here on /.
Look, you can even see their leaders here - they are called Anonymous Coward and if I lookup Coward on that interweb I find a bloke called Noel - but he was a famous homosexual - hmmm something must be wrong.
My interweb must be broken or something.
Over here (UKoGB) the anti smoking lobby is pretty strong but even they don't invoke a deity in support.
Sounds catchy - even if I am a confirmed tabber.
Cheers
Jon
Everything (just looked at the homepage) looks just like "locate" (slocate, mlocate etc) which is a long standing *nix system tool. Oh and with a GUI frontend. There's plenty of those for locate as well.
As to that sort of metadata based FS, it seems to be really hard to do properly and despite it seeming like a good idea, not many are screaming out for it. If they were we'd all have one by now.
My money is on it being hard to do whilst not sacrificing performance. FSs are bloody hard - watch the development of any of the new breed of FS eg BTRFS, EXT4 etc.
Is that really the best presentation that can be done?
A huge mass of turgid text.
I'll grant you that its a good^H^H^H^Hfair defence against a /.ing but they probably have more than a modem to connect to the interwebs.
Cheers
Jon