The many (equivalent) ways to upgrade to Dapper ("Ubuntu 6.06") are detailed at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperUpgrades. This, of course, is assuming you're already running Breezy ("Ubuntu 5.10").
It would be nice if we could search such things on Google, but
You should be looking up such things in a grammar or style book, anyway.
What more people use is not an indication of what's correct.
Anyway, the answer to your question is this: When a noun phrase is used to qualify another noun (i.e, used as an adjective), hyphenate it. Thus, you would say "I have a low income", but "Theirs is a low-income family". (Similarly with 'stainless-steel knife', etc.) This rule isn't very rigorously applied these days, so don't take it very seriously, but when it doesn't hurt to use a hyphen there, why not use it?
Besides, in issues of grammar, my personal preference is to ignore grammar rules and instead pick whatever is logical and leads to the least ambiguity. Thus, 'stainless steel knife' is ambiguous (is the steel stainless or the knife?), so use 'stainless-steel knife'. To delete a line in vi, type "dd." is ambiguous (typing "dd." will delete two lines!), so put the dot (full stop / period) outside the quotation marks — To delete a line in vi, type "dd".
As someone said, think of how stupid the average person is, and remember half the people are even stupid than that. People suck at spotting when they're being cheated or lied to, which is why phishing, advertisers, and politicians merrily thrive.
Ironically, there is also this article from Businessweek about "How undercover FBI agents nab the bootleggers who threaten the movie biz". That article goes into some really unjustified sensationalistic nonsense, seems to be mix up movies and warez, and also refers to movie piraters as "bandits".
~$apt-cache search spaceship freedroid - A clone of Paradroid - a strategic shoot-em up powermanga - vertical shoot 'em up with colourful 3D graphics powermanga-data - graphics and audio data for powermanga rafkill - vertical shoot'em-up similar to Raptor: Call of the Shadows rockdodger - Dodge and blow up rocks with your spaceship tenmado - hard-core shoot 'em up game in blue-or-red world vectoroids - vector-based rock-shooting xoids - Asteroids game with powerups and color graphics ktux - Tux screensaver for KDE ~$ ~$ ~$ ~$ ~$ ~$apt-cache search spaceship shoot game rafkill - vertical shoot'em-up similar to Raptor: Call of the Shadows tenmado - hard-core shoot 'em up game in blue-or-red world vectoroids - vector-based rock-shooting xoids - Asteroids game with powerups and color graphics
Some of the above is not perfect, but you get the idea.
Publishers using (La)TeX include Elsevier, Addison-Wesley, Bartlett Press, Springer Verlag, Prentice Hall, and the American Mathematical Society. And this was in 1992.
Many of them even provide their own style packages (noticed that all Springer's books look alike?); see http://www.tug.org/interest.html#publishers.
You're acting like George Lucas, insisting that one needs an excuse (Lucas's official line is that Han shooting Greedo first makes him seem cold and heartless, nevermind the fact that Greedo had a gun pointed at him, and besides, "cold and heartless" is how we like Han, anyway). To counter that lame line, someone put together this page: Top 10 Other Things that Han Shot that Didn't Shoot at Him First.
To the GP — your thoughts about Han and Greedo might be slightly altered after you see this alternate version;)
it's/its is not an exception. All the pronouns have their own possessive versions: he- his she - her it - its they - their you - your I - my
This should be one of the first things people learn, yet most people can't even spell "your" correctly. I think your confusion is because you're trying to add apostrophes to words that already have possessive forms.
When you see an apostrophe after a pronoun, it's probably "the apostrophe of omission" (I don't think it's called that, but you know what I mean — where an apostrophe is used to indicate that some letters are missing.) For example, "he's" means "he is" (thus, "he's Dick" means "He is Dick", not "his Dick";) "she's" means "she is" "it's" means "it is" (thus, "it's left" means "it is left", not "its left", etc.) "they're" means "they are" "you're" means "you are"
Unfortunately, its, your, and their sound similar to it's, you're and they're, but the least we can do to avoid the confusion is to write them properly.
The "rules" are actually very simple really, it's just that many people don't want to pay even a little bit of attention to how they write. I don't care much for artificial grammar rules (not ending sentences with a preposition? WTF? What does Latin grammar have to do with English? "This is the kind of pedantic nonsense up with which I will not put!", etc), but a lot of confusion can be avoided if everyone uses language correctly.
Have some pity for the tech support people — "life on the other end of the tech support line" usually consists of calls from people to whom nothing is obvious, and often won't listen. Several calls seem to be from hell, and some even try to cheat. Once in a while, the support people might hit back, but they're usually not allowed to.
(It's funny, laugh.)
Quite a few people in India are beginning to switch to Linux. To be honest, I haven't actually tried looking in shops for Linux, but Ubuntu ships free CDs. You can also try linuxbazar.com; I bought some CDs from them, and they say they ship to Pakistan too.
Usually, Linux enthusiasts are more than willing to copy their CDs for just the cost of CD, so unless the dealers are charging only 15 Rs for Windows (that's less than 33 cents in USD!), I think Linux might still be cheaper.
As for open-source in general, it's already widespread — lots of people use Firefox, Gaim, etc on Windows.
Also, the government (NASSCOM, actually) has started to crack down on piracy, but I don't know how much of an effect that has.
All in all, I think open-source can easily become reasonably common here within the next couple of years or so. (Or am I being too optimistic?)
A plug for one of my favourite games — Dink Smallwood. Two years after the game was published, it was "On 10-17-1999 released the game as freeware, no ad-ware, no spyware and no strings attached." Now that's an example to follow!
That was one cool and wicked game, and because they included the source of the original game (the map, etc; not the engine, IIRC), I was able to recompile the game so that I started with 500 Strength, 50000 money, etc and have lots of fun;)
You should check it out, it's the funniest (in a wicked sort of way) RPG I've ever played.
Thanks, that explains everything! Now I know why so many crappy sites are unexpectedly high; they are just the kind of sites people with spyware on their computer might visit.... Is there somewhere else that lists the top sites?
Unfortunately, a megabyte in a file size means 1024*1024 bytes, a megabyte capacity of a hard disk means 1000*1000 bytes, a 1.44 MB floppy has 1024*1000 bytes, and a 1 megabit per second data transfer rate is 1000*1000 bits per second. And of course, there are the usual meanings of kilo-, mega-, and giga- when used with almost all SI units. You may not like the "mebibyte" and "gibibyte" names, but you've got to admit that the whole thing is a mess and something needs to be done to resolve the confusion.
Of course not! India has always been using the dd/mm/yyyy format, and 4/1 means 4th of January.
It is true that in China, 4/1 means 1th of April, but that's because they use the yyyy-mm-dd format, which is a logical order (most significant–least significant), unlike your American mm-dd-yyyy order which makes no sense.
The ISO standard (ISO 8601) is to use yyyy-mm-dd (as you see in dates on Slashdot and all websites that actually realise it's the World Wide Web).
To prevent ambiguity, it is best to spell out the name of the month in full, when you are not specifying the year, and there is no way of telling whether month/date or date/month is being used.
Tab Mix Plus is an extension that has the "Undo Close Tab" feature, as well as many other useful ones. (The extension's page on the mozilla site is here.) If you want only Undo Close Tab, that feature is also available in an extension called (what else?) undoclosetab.
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The many (equivalent) ways to upgrade to Dapper ("Ubuntu 6.06") are detailed at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperUpgrades. This, of course, is assuming you're already running Breezy ("Ubuntu 5.10").
Jackal Jackalope Jackrabbit Jaguar Jellyfish.
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames for all the possible names, such as Irrefutable Ichthyosaur and Kinky Kangaroo.
- You should be looking up such things in a grammar or style book, anyway.
- What more people use is not an indication of what's correct.
Anyway, the answer to your question is this: When a noun phrase is used to qualify another noun (i.e, used as an adjective), hyphenate it. Thus, you would say "I have a low income", but "Theirs is a low-income family". (Similarly with 'stainless-steel knife', etc.) This rule isn't very rigorously applied these days, so don't take it very seriously, but when it doesn't hurt to use a hyphen there, why not use it?Besides, in issues of grammar, my personal preference is to ignore grammar rules and instead pick whatever is logical and leads to the least ambiguity. Thus, 'stainless steel knife' is ambiguous (is the steel stainless or the knife?), so use 'stainless-steel knife'. To delete a line in vi, type "dd." is ambiguous (typing "dd." will delete two lines!), so put the dot (full stop / period) outside the quotation marks — To delete a line in vi, type "dd".
As someone said, think of how stupid the average person is, and remember half the people are even stupid than that. People suck at spotting when they're being cheated or lied to, which is why phishing, advertisers, and politicians merrily thrive.
Ironically, there is also this article from Businessweek about "How undercover FBI agents nab the bootleggers who threaten the movie biz". That article goes into some really unjustified sensationalistic nonsense, seems to be mix up movies and warez, and also refers to movie piraters as "bandits".
Publishers using (La)TeX include Elsevier, Addison-Wesley, Bartlett Press, Springer Verlag, Prentice Hall, and the American Mathematical Society. And this was in 1992.
Many of them even provide their own style packages (noticed that all Springer's books look alike?); see http://www.tug.org/interest.html#publishers.
You're acting like George Lucas, insisting that one needs an excuse (Lucas's official line is that Han shooting Greedo first makes him seem cold and heartless, nevermind the fact that Greedo had a gun pointed at him, and besides, "cold and heartless" is how we like Han, anyway). To counter that lame line, someone put together this page: Top 10 Other Things that Han Shot that Didn't Shoot at Him First.
;)
To the GP — your thoughts about Han and Greedo might be slightly altered after you see this alternate version
Napster indeed wants to help people "get out of the world of 30-second clips" -- see this video (3.4 M). ;)
it's/its is not an exception. All the pronouns have their own possessive versions:
;)
he- his
she - her
it - its
they - their
you - your
I - my
This should be one of the first things people learn, yet most people can't even spell "your" correctly.
I think your confusion is because you're trying to add apostrophes to words that already have possessive forms.
When you see an apostrophe after a pronoun, it's probably "the apostrophe of omission" (I don't think it's called that, but you know what I mean — where an apostrophe is used to indicate that some letters are missing.) For example,
"he's" means "he is" (thus, "he's Dick" means "He is Dick", not "his Dick"
"she's" means "she is"
"it's" means "it is" (thus, "it's left" means "it is left", not "its left", etc.)
"they're" means "they are"
"you're" means "you are"
Unfortunately, its, your, and their sound similar to it's, you're and they're, but the least we can do to avoid the confusion is to write them properly.
The "rules" are actually very simple really, it's just that many people don't want to pay even a little bit of attention to how they write.
I don't care much for artificial grammar rules (not ending sentences with a preposition? WTF? What does Latin grammar have to do with English? "This is the kind of pedantic nonsense up with which I will not put!", etc), but a lot of confusion can be avoided if everyone uses language correctly.
Have some pity for the tech support people — "life on the other end of the tech support line" usually consists of calls from people to whom nothing is obvious, and often won't listen. Several calls seem to be from hell, and some even try to cheat. Once in a while, the support people might hit back, but they're usually not allowed to.
(It's funny, laugh.)
Quite a few people in India are beginning to switch to Linux. To be honest, I haven't actually tried looking in shops for Linux, but Ubuntu ships free CDs. You can also try linuxbazar.com; I bought some CDs from them, and they say they ship to Pakistan too.
Usually, Linux enthusiasts are more than willing to copy their CDs for just the cost of CD, so unless the dealers are charging only 15 Rs for Windows (that's less than 33 cents in USD!), I think Linux might still be cheaper.
As for open-source in general, it's already widespread — lots of people use Firefox, Gaim, etc on Windows.
Also, the government (NASSCOM, actually) has started to crack down on piracy, but I don't know how much of an effect that has.
All in all, I think open-source can easily become reasonably common here within the next couple of years or so. (Or am I being too optimistic?)
A plug for one of my favourite games — Dink Smallwood. Two years after the game was published, it was "On 10-17-1999 released the game as freeware, no ad-ware, no spyware and no strings attached." Now that's an example to follow!
;)
That was one cool and wicked game, and because they included the source of the original game (the map, etc; not the engine, IIRC), I was able to recompile the game so that I started with 500 Strength, 50000 money, etc and have lots of fun
You should check it out, it's the funniest (in a wicked sort of way) RPG I've ever played.
Is this Fred Pfost the brother of the famous "First Pfost" who usually gets the third post in every Slashdot article?
;)
And seriously, we know news on Slashdot is often late by several days or even weeks... but fifty years? This is a new low for Slashdot.
And if all you want to do is use the blasted iPod on Linux without taking any of the firmware-tampering risks, you can simply use gtkpod.
BTW, anyone else noticed that the article says "I'd been familiar with Rockbox through postings about it on Slashdot..." ?
Thanks, that explains everything! Now I know why so many crappy sites are unexpectedly high; they are just the kind of sites people with spyware on their computer might visit.... Is there somewhere else that lists the top sites?
Unbelievably, according to Alexa, Slashdot is only the 301st on the Global top 500. It's not in the top 100 Us sites, nor in the top 100 English sites.
We're talking of Linux here, not Windows CEMENT.
Unfortunately, a megabyte in a file size means 1024*1024 bytes, a megabyte capacity of a hard disk means 1000*1000 bytes, a 1.44 MB floppy has 1024*1000 bytes, and a 1 megabit per second data transfer rate is 1000*1000 bits per second. And of course, there are the usual meanings of kilo-, mega-, and giga- when used with almost all SI units.
You may not like the "mebibyte" and "gibibyte" names, but you've got to admit that the whole thing is a mess and something needs to be done to resolve the confusion.
Of course not! India has always been using the dd/mm/yyyy format, and 4/1 means 4th of January.
It is true that in China, 4/1 means 1th of April, but that's because they use the yyyy-mm-dd format, which is a logical order (most significant–least significant), unlike your American mm-dd-yyyy order which makes no sense.
The ISO standard (ISO 8601) is to use yyyy-mm-dd (as you see in dates on Slashdot and all websites that actually realise it's the World Wide Web).
To prevent ambiguity, it is best to spell out the name of the month in full, when you are not specifying the year, and there is no way of telling whether month/date or date/month is being used.
You should spend more time at the The Daily WTF; it's an inside joke there. Look for "The Brillant Paula Bean".
Tab Mix Plus is an extension that has the "Undo Close Tab" feature, as well as many other useful ones. (The extension's page on the mozilla site is here.)
If you want only Undo Close Tab, that feature is also available in an extension called (what else?) undoclosetab.
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This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes. ...