Alas, Samantha has to pop out now.. she's off to see the tower blocks in Canary Wharf. It's only her second visit there, but she's always impressed by tall buildings. The first time she saw all those bankers emerging, her mouth was agape at their huge erections.
I just looked it up. My god, reading this, Bill Gates actually sounds like a great guy. I guess that's what's so evil about him:-)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
Funny as it is, the 640k thing is a myth. Asked about the subject, Mr Gates replied "I've said some pretty stupid things in my time, but not that". Sorry to ruin that for you:-(
Plausible (including the Napoleon bit..), but the Napoleon bit seems more and more like urban myth. Certainly, as a British guy, it's a nice story to tell to people who claim WE drive on the wrong side of the road, and it was some sick Napoleon joke, but I doubt it ever got that political. I'm sure it was more of practicality and circumstance.
I guess it depends on the roundabout and the volume of traffic. If someone is hogging the outside lane with no intention of turning off at the next exit and it turned to road rage, then you're the one with the momentum, and he's the one who's side-on on the outside:-)
You also have to bare in mind that England doesn't have vast tracts of desert to build on, or orthoganal cities that were designed from scratch only a few hundred years ago (then again, we don't get grid-lock as a result). Most of the trunk routes were built by the romans and have barely moved today.
Sometimes roundabouts are at an intersection area where there's a grade 1 listed building or a massive rock in the middle right where the roads intersect. If you haven't got the space, you have to go around it.
The approach lane to a roundabout (in left-hand driving countries) first bares left, then after giving way to traffic on the right, you pull out and start turning right in a clockwise circle, picking an appropriate lane dependent on which exit you want.
What people who've never used roundabouts (or just lame drivers) don't get is that if everyone always uses the correct lane and always gives way to the right, nobody ever gets trapped, and traffic continues pretty smoothly. Unfortunately, people get confused, especially on 3 lane roundabouts, and start wandering into the wrong lane, pulling out in front of people trying to turn off, or overtaking on the outside past slower moving traffic in the middle lanes (a serious crime, damn those bastards when I'm on my bike) trapping people in. Should be a capital offence, that.
There's a good animated gif on wikipedia on how it's supposed to work for any prospective tourists who fancy attempting to drive in a former British colony.
Actually, originally, more people drove on the left than the right. Many countries switched later on, and saw an increase in accident rates due to the majority of drivers having a dominant right eye:
I must confess, as someone proficient in both vi and emacs (I prefer emacs, but it's not always installed), when left to my devices, I've gone the way of the IDE. I'm using kdevelop for my coding now.
Just for little things like pressing shift-F9 to compile my code, show the errors in a box below, allow me to jump to an error with a single keypress, or if it compiled, run the thing, with barely any input from me. Ok, you can script emacs to do that stuff, but why do I have to bother? Why can't it just *do* this basic task which I've come to expect from an IDE since my Amiga days?
kdevelop isn't brilliant - it's buggy as hell, and don't get me started on its code formatting tools, but it provides me with 8 or 9 basic features I would consider fundamental to working on a large programming project. vi and emacs are just text editors.
Cleaner maybe, but more confusing to linguists as it loses its roots as a greek word (and 'colour', french). The spelling also gives clues as to how to conjugate and pluralise words based on their origin.
Incidentally, octopus is a GREEK word, not a latin word, so a pedantic pluralisation would be "octopedae", but "octopuses" is the accepted plural, NOT octopi!
and the way we pronounce color over here, sounds nothing like colour.
I beg to differ. It sounds nothing like color. The first half of the word is pronounced with a completely different vowel sound to the second, which is quite nicely distinguished by the 'u'.
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Perhaps, but Syllable isn't. Might help if he looked at more than one open source operating system.
It's not the size, it's the giger that counts!
I'll get my coat.
i guess it would make a good chatup line.
lets hope they don't get any smaller. I'm not entirely confident about having a nuclear powered mp3 player in my pocket.
Alas, Samantha has to pop out now.. she's off to see the tower blocks in Canary Wharf. It's only her second visit there, but she's always impressed by tall buildings. The first time she saw all those bankers emerging, her mouth was agape at their huge erections.
I just looked it up. My god, reading this, Bill Gates actually sounds like a great guy. I guess that's what's so evil about him :-)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
Funny as it is, the 640k thing is a myth. Asked about the subject, Mr Gates replied "I've said some pretty stupid things in my time, but not that". Sorry to ruin that for you :-(
Plausible (including the Napoleon bit..), but the Napoleon bit seems more and more like urban myth. Certainly, as a British guy, it's a nice story to tell to people who claim WE drive on the wrong side of the road, and it was some sick Napoleon joke, but I doubt it ever got that political. I'm sure it was more of practicality and circumstance.
I guess it depends on the roundabout and the volume of traffic. If someone is hogging the outside lane with no intention of turning off at the next exit and it turned to road rage, then you're the one with the momentum, and he's the one who's side-on on the outside :-)
You also have to bare in mind that England doesn't have vast tracts of desert to build on, or orthoganal cities that were designed from scratch only a few hundred years ago (then again, we don't get grid-lock as a result). Most of the trunk routes were built by the romans and have barely moved today.
Sometimes roundabouts are at an intersection area where there's a grade 1 listed building or a massive rock in the middle right where the roads intersect. If you haven't got the space, you have to go around it.
The approach lane to a roundabout (in left-hand driving countries) first bares left, then after giving way to traffic on the right, you pull out and start turning right in a clockwise circle, picking an appropriate lane dependent on which exit you want.
What people who've never used roundabouts (or just lame drivers) don't get is that if everyone always uses the correct lane and always gives way to the right, nobody ever gets trapped, and traffic continues pretty smoothly. Unfortunately, people get confused, especially on 3 lane roundabouts, and start wandering into the wrong lane, pulling out in front of people trying to turn off, or overtaking on the outside past slower moving traffic in the middle lanes (a serious crime, damn those bastards when I'm on my bike) trapping people in. Should be a capital offence, that.
There's a good animated gif on wikipedia on how it's supposed to work for any prospective tourists who fancy attempting to drive in a former British colony.
Actually, originally, more people drove on the left than the right. Many countries switched later on, and saw an increase in accident rates due to the majority of drivers having a dominant right eye:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_on_the_left_or_right#Myths_and_miscellaneous_facts
As an analogy, it's like smoking. You're breathing particles at up to 6000 degrees C, but it doesn't do (much) damage.
Look how people with higher chance of hemophilia are less likely to suffer from malaria.
Surely you mean sickle cell anemia?
(feeds 30)
Place ingredients into bucket, use an electric hand whisk to turn into an emulsion, bring to the boil, and then vomit in it. Delicious.
1) What is a "more decent tool"?
I must confess, as someone proficient in both vi and emacs (I prefer emacs, but it's not always installed), when left to my devices, I've gone the way of the IDE. I'm using kdevelop for my coding now.
Just for little things like pressing shift-F9 to compile my code, show the errors in a box below, allow me to jump to an error with a single keypress, or if it compiled, run the thing, with barely any input from me. Ok, you can script emacs to do that stuff, but why do I have to bother? Why can't it just *do* this basic task which I've come to expect from an IDE since my Amiga days?
kdevelop isn't brilliant - it's buggy as hell, and don't get me started on its code formatting tools, but it provides me with 8 or 9 basic features I would consider fundamental to working on a large programming project. vi and emacs are just text editors.
that used to be me, but I couldn't cope with the irony. So I became a turtle
Right on. I mean, who the fuck is John Dvorak, and why does he think I'm interested in one word he has to say?
You guys are such sheep. I don't follow the norm, I listen to /dev/random.
But how COOL are these things? I want one as a pet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bambiraptor
I'll answer this question when I'm ready.
Right on. I make music, I don't charge a penny for it, and I have no intention of ever getting "signed", no matter how good people think my music is.
Anybody who thinks music is about money can fuck off. It isn't. The definition of art is something that people create solely for its own purpose.
No, he was right with ancestors. I mean, look how old Dick Cheney is..
It'd be so much cleaner to have: (snipped)
Cleaner maybe, but more confusing to linguists as it loses its roots as a greek word (and 'colour', french). The spelling also gives clues as to how to conjugate and pluralise words based on their origin.
Incidentally, octopus is a GREEK word, not a latin word, so a pedantic pluralisation would be "octopedae", but "octopuses" is the accepted plural, NOT octopi!
and the way we pronounce color over here, sounds nothing like colour.
I beg to differ. It sounds nothing like color. The first half of the word is pronounced with a completely different vowel sound to the second, which is quite nicely distinguished by the 'u'.
The way SETI works is it scans random noise for non-random data.
But surely a race advanced enough to create transmissions that can reach us from across the galaxy would have discovered compression by now.
Compressed data is pretty indistinguishable from random noise.
So it was probably a waste of time.