when you try to install Office, if you have set the machine to Chinese (or whichever) it pops up windows in English to ask you questions.
If English in plain ascii was good enough for Plato, Shakespeare and Jesus Christ it's good enough for you.
Unicode is the devil's own acidic jism. Why should the rest of us have to put up with the bloat and complexity of multibyte characters just so some dork can display Klingon or Tengwarian (ooh, LOTR, shiny!) runes? If you want to write all squiggly stuff, get a freakin crayon.
I am so curious what this could do for so many old movies...
Completely wreck them is the answer, I believe different lighting and makeup techniques were used for B&W film. Whatever the reason actually is, they never look right after being "improved" in this way.
If you live in a country like France where you'll have to vote the constitution, make sure you vote NO to punish the council and the commission for their behaviour.
The French are rabidly pro EU. Not only do they make a huge profit from agricultural subsidies, but they're frightened that without it the krauts will come visting again.
Huh. I thought "Survival of the fittest" was a basic concept of Evoloutionary theory. The organisims with mutations "best" suited to their environment prosper. These mutations become more common and the species "Evolves".
Nice sleight of hand there, changing fittest to best. Close, but no cigar.
Survival of the fittest is in a sense a tautology, since in that context fittest means best able to survive (and reproduce). But it is objective. The lion that's alive is alive, and the zebra it just ate is dead.
This is so clearly not the same as some subjective, human definition that the comparison falls apart simply by drawing attention to it.
In Hitler's case, his definition of "best" wasn't very good - it didn't include some very talented scientists who could have given him weapons that might have won the war.
The Beatles responded, "They won their knighthoods for killing people. We won ours for entertaining people. We think we deserve it more."
Do soldiers get awards for killing people? I thought it was for risking being killed, which probably shows that spoiled ignorant scouse twat musicians should stick to what they know best, which for 75% of the Beatles is music.
Improving Google
Useful/Useless button Have a link/function for the user to click and let you know that this site that you returned was either useful or useless for the string he searched.
Bounder! You pinched that idea from Amazon, no doubt their lawyers will be in touch.
Seriously, fair point, try a google search for $BRAND $MODEL review, and see how many reviews you actually get before reaching the third page.
Is there a newsgroup where you can learn basic English comprehension?
The reason I ask is that complaining that google groups is slow because posts take hours to appear (which is, or at least used to be, true) is so clearly not the same thing as trying to make smtp or nntp an "instaneous [sic] protocol" as to be laughable. What's more, I've never heard anyone making these demands of which you speak.
watched a movie about a poor European boy who stole a warplane to save his country, you'd try to hop in a warplane too if you saw one right down the street.
You couldn't be more wrong. As it happens one of my neighbours has an F16 and I never tried to steal it, although I did piss in the fuel tank because the bloody alarm keeps going off all night. As for the bastard with the Rafale who nearly ran me over on the way back from the pub, he'll be needing a respray sometime soon, the git.
I wonder if any other/. readers live on military airfield runways?
Slashdot Mirror
Unicode is the devil's own acidic jism. Why should the rest of us have to put up with the bloat and complexity of multibyte characters just so some dork can display Klingon or Tengwarian (ooh, LOTR, shiny!) runes? If you want to write all squiggly stuff, get a freakin crayon.
Oh, and your argument is nonesense: argument from popularity. In simple terms, eat shit - billions of flies can't be wrong.
Maybe if we wait long enough your dialect (lower 'tardish) will become the standard. Don't hold your breath. Hmm, on second thoughts, do.internets, LOL! They're called intarwebs, you buffoon.
No, only tivos can do that. And Macs, obviously.
Survival of the fittest is in a sense a tautology, since in that context fittest means best able to survive (and reproduce). But it is objective. The lion that's alive is alive, and the zebra it just ate is dead.
This is so clearly not the same as some subjective, human definition that the comparison falls apart simply by drawing attention to it.
In Hitler's case, his definition of "best" wasn't very good - it didn't include some very talented scientists who could have given him weapons that might have won the war.
Except it's a well known fact that they can't program for toffee.
I mean, if plain old ascii was good enough for Shakespeare, Homer & Jesus Christ, it's good enough for you.
I agree totally. It's Mac users who are incapable, the long haried fops.
Huh huh. Heh heh. You said Trojan . They like, go on wieners. Heh heh.
Ooooh, who are you calling sweet, duckie?
Seriously, fair point, try a google search for $BRAND $MODEL review, and see how many reviews you actually get before reaching the third page.
The reason I ask is that complaining that google groups is slow because posts take hours to appear (which is, or at least used to be, true) is so clearly not the same thing as trying to make smtp or nntp an "instaneous [sic] protocol" as to be laughable. What's more, I've never heard anyone making these demands of which you speak.
I wonder if any other /. readers live on military airfield runways?