I think you are confused about active vs passive. Active is when the syntactic and thematic subject are the same: "I brought the laptop to work.", while passive is when the thematic object is the syntactic subject and a form of 'to be' is used, and if the thematic subject appears it is in a 'by' phrase: "The laptop was brought to work (by me)." 'bring' and 'take' are both transitive verbs, so they can passivize, unlike intransitives. (Try making "I ran to the store." passive.)
Not to mention that what prepositional phrases a verb subcategorizes for can vary by dialect.
And I highly doubt that the average vocabularly size has gone down in the past 100 years. I'd go as far as to say it has probably increased. It seems like the size has gone down because people with less education have greater access to creating media than 100 years ago thanks to things like mimeography/xerography and the Internet, so you see a lot more writing that hasn't been filtered through a copy editor.
Winona State University in Minnesota has been a "laptop university" for at least 5 years. All incoming students get a laptop (currently a Gateway Tablet PC or Apple iBook G4), which they can trade in after two years. They're actually just paying to lease it with their fees, but when they graduate they can pay the balance and keep it.
"Korea" derives from the Goryeo period of Korean history, which in turn referred to the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo. In the Korean language, Korea as a whole is referred to as Choson by North Korea and Hanguk ("Han Nation") by South Korea.
If I recall correctly, Zaphod had two heads side by side.
To the best of my recollection, never in the book or radio show do they ever say how his heads are arranged. I think the only reference at all in the radio show (and the books?) is when Ford says something like, "The second head really suits you.". The BBC TV version had that radio controlled second head that was broken more than it worked, but that isn't necessarily canon, just an attempt to interpret that one throwaway line that fans would expect them to do something with.
Also, as of Dec. 30th, there was a bill on Gov. Bill Taft's desk, called the Ohio Patriot Act which would require citizens to show ID upon request or face being arrested.
Well, Bob (not Bill) Taft also has the lowest approval rating of any governor in the country. It's 6.5%. He wouldn't be governor at all if he weren't a Taft.
Every car I've ever owned in the USA had the gas tank under the trunk/boot. Several feet BEHIND the passenfer.
I had (well, have, but it no longer runs) an '86 Audi 4000 Quattro. The gas tank was between the backseat and the trunk (basically in the trunk, in fact, yielding a very tiny trunk for the size of car it was) to make room for the rear drivetrain. (For those not in the know, Quattro is the name for Audi's AWD cars.)
where are you getting packages from? amd64.debian.net doesn't like "unstable", "testing" or "sid". In fact, it likes nothing but "etch".
What I said was just based on what the Debian QA page I linked to said. I'm considering buying an amd64 system, so I've been looking to see how well Debian supports it so far. "etch" is just testing (as you probably know). I've encountered i386 repositories that just have "sarge", "etch", "sid" and not "stable", "testing", "unstable". It's kind of irksome.
I guess the top schools aren't taking very many bright students these days, sigh.
On the website for Russel and Norvig's AI textbook they have a list of schools that use their book, and at the bottom is a list of the top 40 CS programs in the US. (Their point being that 39 of the 40 use their book, and the one that doesn't also doesn't teach AI. But that's beside the point here.) Rockhust College is not on the top 40 list.
Unstable has 1.5.dfsg-4 for amd64. See here. Give it a little while and it ought to filter down into testing. If you're using stable, then who knows. But testing is as stable as any other distro's release.
MSDNAA is not free by any stretch of the imagination. It comes out of your major fees or tuition. It costs the school money, so they pass the price on to you. But it gets advertised to the students like, "Hey, wow! Free MS software!" It's only free in that you don't pay when you pick it up. Based on the percentage of eligible students who check out the MSDNAA software in my department, I would wager that MS gets the same amount per copy as they do retail, or at the least, damned close to it.
No, they are not. Let me quote the first paragraph from the Wikipedia article on atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of god(s). That is, all who do not have such a belief - whether they think of themselves as nontheists, agnostics or even Buddhists - are covered under this term. Atheism can also be defined more narrowly as the active denial of the existence of god(s), either of a specific or general kind, or even that god(s) can exist. Thus, even Christians can be considered atheists with respect to the question of the existence of Zeus or Odin. But, generally speaking, atheism refers to a lack of belief in all deities for any reason(s).
The article lost me when it degenerated into text message territory.
Those terms (i18n and i10n at least) have been used by the people involved in those areas for a long time. Before text messaging became big, I'm sure. Professionals in any area start abreviating terms that they have to use a lot. It's a pain not to. Plus, text messaging terms do things like abreviate a word or sound with a letter or number that sounds like it, whereas these give you the first and last letter and the length of the word. It's a different method altogether.
I suppose. I don't own "it" though; just something very much like it. Plus, I then wonder if I'm going to have the opposite problem of what I feared about "Not Interested", i.e. they might overestimate my love for that particular band/author/whatever.
I think my overarching problem is overanalyzing how the system might work. If I turned my brain off to some degree I would stop coming up with scenarios like that.;)
Having experience with the "Not Interested" button, it is not factored into your preferences. Well, that's a shame too. I'd really like to be able to specify "I really hate this band" sometimes. Some of their suggestions are just plain bad.
It's even worse with CD's. I'll buy a CD and then they'll recommend the Clean version and the Import version and the Special Edition version, ad nauseum. And I fear clicking "Not Interested", because I don't want them to think I don't like that band. "Not Interested" needs to have a thing where you can specify *why* you aren't interested, like "I own another version", "I have it in a box set already", as well as stuff like "I hate this band/author/whatever".
Meanwhile, Apple hardware kicks the butt of Dell's "break in nine months" el cheapo crap.
To back that up with a number, I'm a student employee in Ohio State's computer science department, and the department bought several hundred Dell Optiplex GX270's for the supported grad students and for the labs. In the first year we had a 70% failure rate on the motherboards. Eventually Dell came out and replaced the rest as a preemptive measure. The service techs said that on the previous model (which we never had) they had to do a replacement of all the optical drives.
I kind of miss the dead ass slow but reliable diskless workstations. At least they didn't ever break.
There are four ballot issues coming up this election that would (among other things) take responsiblity for elections away from the secretary of state (while not eliminating the position nor the salary for it) and put it in the hands of an independent committee, as well as taking redistricting away from the majority party in the state legislature and putting it in the hands of another committee composed of an equal number of Republicans and Democrats plus an independent.
Parts of it seem kind of extreme, but lots of people want some change. I bet this November's election will be one of the biggest midterm elections in a long time here.
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When you compile an ap in xcode as a universal binary, how does a PPC chip compile code for x86 and vice versa?
GCC has the ability to cross compile.
I think you are confused about active vs passive. Active is when the syntactic and thematic subject are the same: "I brought the laptop to work.", while passive is when the thematic object is the syntactic subject and a form of 'to be' is used, and if the thematic subject appears it is in a 'by' phrase: "The laptop was brought to work (by me)." 'bring' and 'take' are both transitive verbs, so they can passivize, unlike intransitives. (Try making "I ran to the store." passive.)
Not to mention that what prepositional phrases a verb subcategorizes for can vary by dialect.
And I highly doubt that the average vocabularly size has gone down in the past 100 years. I'd go as far as to say it has probably increased. It seems like the size has gone down because people with less education have greater access to creating media than 100 years ago thanks to things like mimeography/xerography and the Internet, so you see a lot more writing that hasn't been filtered through a copy editor.
Winona State University in Minnesota has been a "laptop university" for at least 5 years. All incoming students get a laptop (currently a Gateway Tablet PC or Apple iBook G4), which they can trade in after two years. They're actually just paying to lease it with their fees, but when they graduate they can pay the balance and keep it.
From the Wikipedia article on Korea:
"Korea" derives from the Goryeo period of Korean history, which in turn referred to the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo. In the Korean language, Korea as a whole is referred to as Choson by North Korea and Hanguk ("Han Nation") by South Korea.
If I recall correctly, Zaphod had two heads side by side.
To the best of my recollection, never in the book or radio show do they ever say how his heads are arranged. I think the only reference at all in the radio show (and the books?) is when Ford says something like, "The second head really suits you.". The BBC TV version had that radio controlled second head that was broken more than it worked, but that isn't necessarily canon, just an attempt to interpret that one throwaway line that fans would expect them to do something with.
Also, as of Dec. 30th, there was a bill on Gov. Bill Taft's desk, called the Ohio Patriot Act which would require citizens to show ID upon request or face being arrested.
Well, Bob (not Bill) Taft also has the lowest approval rating of any governor in the country. It's 6.5%. He wouldn't be governor at all if he weren't a Taft.
Every car I've ever owned in the USA had the gas tank under the trunk/boot. Several feet BEHIND the passenfer.
I had (well, have, but it no longer runs) an '86 Audi 4000 Quattro. The gas tank was between the backseat and the trunk (basically in the trunk, in fact, yielding a very tiny trunk for the size of car it was) to make room for the rear drivetrain. (For those not in the know, Quattro is the name for Audi's AWD cars.)
where are you getting packages from? amd64.debian.net doesn't like "unstable", "testing" or "sid". In fact, it likes nothing but "etch".
What I said was just based on what the Debian QA page I linked to said. I'm considering buying an amd64 system, so I've been looking to see how well Debian supports it so far. "etch" is just testing (as you probably know). I've encountered i386 repositories that just have "sarge", "etch", "sid" and not "stable", "testing", "unstable". It's kind of irksome.
I guess the top schools aren't taking very many bright students these days, sigh.
On the website for Russel and Norvig's AI textbook they have a list of schools that use their book, and at the bottom is a list of the top 40 CS programs in the US. (Their point being that 39 of the 40 use their book, and the one that doesn't also doesn't teach AI. But that's beside the point here.) Rockhust College is not on the top 40 list.
Plus yeah, way off base about OS X. Wow.
p.s. I went to #39. (Not that it matters.)
Unstable has 1.5.dfsg-4 for amd64. See here. Give it a little while and it ought to filter down into testing. If you're using stable, then who knows. But testing is as stable as any other distro's release.
MSDNAA is not free by any stretch of the imagination. It comes out of your major fees or tuition. It costs the school money, so they pass the price on to you. But it gets advertised to the students like, "Hey, wow! Free MS software!" It's only free in that you don't pay when you pick it up. Based on the percentage of eligible students who check out the MSDNAA software in my department, I would wager that MS gets the same amount per copy as they do retail, or at the least, damned close to it.
The two headquarters are within 10 miles of each other (Sco in Lindon, Utah and Novell in Provo, Utah)
From Novell's Fast Facts page:
"Corporate headquarters are in Waltham, Mass., with key facilities located in Provo, Utah and Nürmberg, Germany."
I suppose the people at the Provo facility could duke it out with SCO mano a mano, but the Novell bigwigs are on the other side of the country now.
No, they are not. Let me quote the first paragraph from the Wikipedia article on atheism
The article lost me when it degenerated into text message territory.
Those terms (i18n and i10n at least) have been used by the people involved in those areas for a long time. Before text messaging became big, I'm sure. Professionals in any area start abreviating terms that they have to use a lot. It's a pain not to. Plus, text messaging terms do things like abreviate a word or sound with a letter or number that sounds like it, whereas these give you the first and last letter and the length of the word. It's a different method altogether.
My favorite has always been "British Left Waffles On Falklands". I'll leave it to the reader to figure out what it means.
Isn't that what the "I own it" checkbox is for?
;)
I suppose. I don't own "it" though; just something very much like it. Plus, I then wonder if I'm going to have the opposite problem of what I feared about "Not Interested", i.e. they might overestimate my love for that particular band/author/whatever.
I think my overarching problem is overanalyzing how the system might work. If I turned my brain off to some degree I would stop coming up with scenarios like that.
Having experience with the "Not Interested" button, it is not factored into your preferences.
Well, that's a shame too. I'd really like to be able to specify "I really hate this band" sometimes. Some of their suggestions are just plain bad.
It's even worse with CD's. I'll buy a CD and then they'll recommend the Clean version and the Import version and the Special Edition version, ad nauseum. And I fear clicking "Not Interested", because I don't want them to think I don't like that band. "Not Interested" needs to have a thing where you can specify *why* you aren't interested, like "I own another version", "I have it in a box set already", as well as stuff like "I hate this band/author/whatever".
FYI, his real name is John Cheese, he adopted the professional name John Cleese.
No. His father changed his family name from Cheese to Cleese in 1915, and so it already had been changed when John was born in 1939.
Agreed. It's not a dialect, it's called a register.
Meanwhile, Apple hardware kicks the butt of Dell's "break in nine months" el cheapo crap.
To back that up with a number, I'm a student employee in Ohio State's computer science department, and the department bought several hundred Dell Optiplex GX270's for the supported grad students and for the labs. In the first year we had a 70% failure rate on the motherboards. Eventually Dell came out and replaced the rest as a preemptive measure. The service techs said that on the previous model (which we never had) they had to do a replacement of all the optical drives.
I kind of miss the dead ass slow but reliable diskless workstations. At least they didn't ever break.
rely on closed source management tools like Yast
Yast has been GPL for a while now. Here's a news.com.com.com.com.bork.bork.bork article from March 2004 about it.
Peter Norvig has a nice comparison of Python and Lisp.
These people who want to remove violence from culture and ban guns and ban even remotely violent sports like (American) football...
Can I want to ban it because it's boring and always runs over onto shows I want to see?
There are four ballot issues coming up this election that would (among other things) take responsiblity for elections away from the secretary of state (while not eliminating the position nor the salary for it) and put it in the hands of an independent committee, as well as taking redistricting away from the majority party in the state legislature and putting it in the hands of another committee composed of an equal number of Republicans and Democrats plus an independent.
Parts of it seem kind of extreme, but lots of people want some change. I bet this November's election will be one of the biggest midterm elections in a long time here.