It's more like the delay that comes along with code switching. I haven't forgotten how to use qwerty, but it takes me a few minutes to warm up to it again
Is "steal" even the right word? The original code still exists whence MS got it, and last time I checked, it's A-OK to use GPL code (it just makes the licensing situation of the code using it a little hairier). I'd say "copy" or "use".
Otherwise, if they fix some bugs in the code and send the patch upstream (*insert canned laughter*), does that mean they returned the borrowed code?
Regarding tones, I recently read that they came about with the loss of final consonants. When a word ended in a voiced consonant, the consonant was dropped and the word took on a lower tone. Similarly, voiceless consonants became higher tones. Now Mandarin only has (I think) the/n/ and/ng/ final consonants (I guess maybe also the retroflexed/r/). The Wikipedia article on tone covers tone history pretty well.
I also read a paper by Olle Kjellin which discussed tones in Tibetan, which, he argues, is at a different (earlier) stage of this transition. Tibetan has both final consonants and tone, and the tone is entirely predictable only using phonological rules given the words (with their consonants, which are not always pronounced). Interesting read.
Common and proper nouns* take 's as the possessive affix, but pronouns do not. It just so happens that the plural form of the pronoun it is the same as if it were a common noun. Similarly, the possessive of "who" is homophonous with the contraction of "who is". Compare:
I, me, my, mine
you, you, your, yours
he, him, his, his
she, her, hers, hers
it, it, its, its
who, who(m), whose, whose
I don't see any apostrophes in that list. So I believe it is logical for the correct spelling of the possessive of "it" to be "its".
* interesting note: it's not just nouns, but noun phrases. Thus we can say "The CEO of Reynholm Industries' office" and mean the office belonging to the CEO, not to "Industries" or to "Reynholm Industries"
"kankoku de ha, sobieto roshia no jyooku ga rojin dake no mono da"
I'm not a native speaker, but that doesn't sound quite so cool. But if you're interested in Soviet Russia jokes in Japanese, this is invaluable. It even has some C code to make Hello World into a Soviet Russia joke.
And that is why I say it "is also a whole lot less" (emphasis added)
Sorry I wasn't being confrontational or anything. I just like pointing out when two opposite statements can truthfully be used for the same thing. Linux < Ubuntu, and at the same time, Ubuntu > Linux.
Ah, i was unclear. I was talking about Japanese words brought into English. In Japanese itself, of course, there's no pluralization like "ninjas". And you're right, most common nouns are numberless. Although you can add "tachi" or "ra" to common nouns sometimes, to force them into being plural, but that's a little uncommon. Also, sometimes reduplication (like "hito" -> "hitobito" or "sore" -> "sorezore") makes things pluralish, but one could argue that they are actually different words with different semantics.
Funny thing is, the plural of many Japanese words is the same as the singular. Eg the plural of "samurai" is "samurai", the plural of "futon" is "futon", and the plural of "sushi" is "sushi". Sometimes people go against this ("ninjas" being a prime example) but this has been the general trend.
For the pedant in all of us, the GP is correct. Etymonline explains how the -pi inflection results from an overgeneralization of the latin -us to -i pluralization (eg. status -> stati, terminus -> termini), but octopus is Greek (oktopous), not Latin, and the plural of pous (foot) is podes.
Unforutunately (of fortunately, depending on your stance), many of these words are losing their original inflectional category and are being "regularized" to the more Englishy -es (octopuses, statuses, terminuses). Many dictionaries (or the one you provided) don't even list "octopodes" as a plural (and they even list "octopi" since it's taken on a kind of folk-correctness). In order of historical correctness, it would be "octopodes" > "octopuses" > "octopi". In order of usage (and general acceptance by the masses) it would be "octopuses" > "octopi" > "octopodes"
Now, if we all spoke Chinese or Japanese, there would almost be no such thing as "plural inflection" (imagine all nouns being like mass nouns... "one octopus", "two octopus").
I also have an x61t, and I, too, happily run Linux (albeit Ubuntu), but I would actually recommend sticking with XP considering your needs. (My tablet came with Vista, and while I wouldn't recommend that to anybody, I think it has the same handwriting recognition software as XP)
Previously-mentioned CellWriter is a grid-entry recognition system, meaning you have to write each letter in a box. Windows has great handwriting recognition that works on whole words. Using the Journal program, I could write notes down, then open up a search box and type in a query and it would find and highlight the handwritten text matching that query. Xournal, while great software, has nothing of the sort (granted, this is not Xournal's fault, but because of the lack of real handwriting rec.)
Also, even with Powertop I never found the battery life to be very good in Ubuntu (this may just be compatibility problems with Thinkpad models). Rather, do as someone else suggested and try a SSD drive. Also, turn off your wireless card when not using it (and while you're at it, other unnecessary services).
In the end though, a tablet is indeed very usable with GNU/Linux, but Windows will give you better handwriting recognition and perhaps more power savings.
it's about time you took advantage of the liberties of being old. Last month I sent a complaint letter to the city because someone down the street had let their hedge overgrow into the sidewalk (completely covered it... I had to walk around it, getting my tweed pants all dirty).
If you need justification, think this way: We're not over the hill yet, because we're still going up it-- both ways!
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I'm not a professional magazine photographer (as in, photographer of magazines), but these tips might help. Whenever I photograph a document or painting, I just use my plain ol' digital camera. A few things:
Do not use flash or direct light. Shiny magazine pages will reflect much of the light and create a glare. Use soft, ambient light (bounce it off a white sheet or something)
Stabilize the camera. Use a tripod or a stack of books. Don't hold it in your hands
Use a shutter release remote. If you don't have one, use the camera's timer feature (so you don't shake the camera by pushing the button)
Use macro-mode, and set your aperture as low as it will go. This will help you focus on something close up.
Use a low ISO. You'll might need a longer exposure time, but it will cut down on graininess.
Maybe this is obvious, but use something to hold the magazine in the right spot (keep the pages as flat as possible to avoid "warping" in the picture)
Try to keep the same distance for each shot, so the digital images are roughly the same scale. Also don't worry about seeing the background around the magazine, you can crop it later (better than zooming too close and missing the page number or something)
Assume they stop or reverse aging and take it to the next step: never dying. Also assuming that we don't kill ourselves by overpopulation, what does that mean for the humans as an evolving species? We would stay the same while the rest of earth's species continue to develop?
Death may be disastrous for the individual, but it allows the species to continue to adapt to changing conditions, no?
I just started riding Amtrak this year, and I love it. I make a 250 mile trip from Seattle, WA to Corvallis, OR (and back) about twice a month. If I drive, it's almost 5 hours of focused attention driving down I-5 (on which I was rear-ended last year). If I fly, I can do homework on the plane (but no electrical outlet for my laptop, unless I want to pay for business class), but it's over $300 for economy seating and I don't really save much time if you count going through security, driving to the airport, etc. If I take the Amtrak Cascades line, I get a comfortable seat with a table and an outlet for my laptop, a lounge and bistro car to get dinner in, no hassles with security clearances, a stop that is close to my destination (may not be the case for everyone, though, as with airports), and a nice view from my seat. Amtrak only takes an hour or so longer than driving, but is well worth it.
I feel I can answer this since it happened to me once.
After the Chinese sub appeared, Mao Tse Tung (sic) came out and called me an untrustworthy leader of the infidels. Then he demanded tribute for his patience, or to hand over the secret of ceremonial burial.
If you take a gander at the IMSLP website, the former project leader listed a couple reasons why (well, kind of the same reason, reiterated several times):
I became painfully aware of the fact that I, a normal college student, has[sic] neither the energy nor the money necessary to deal with this issue in any other way than to agree with the cease and desist, and take down the entire site.
I also understand very well that the cease and desist letter does not call for a take down of the entire site, but, as I said above, I very unfortunately simply do not have the energy or money necessary to implement the terms in the cease and desist in any other way. Prior to this cease and desist I was already overloaded with server maintenance and the implementation of new features
Another major reason behind me taking the server down is the fact...that I can no longer support IMSLP adequately so basically, he doesn't have energy or money to either change what was demanded of him, or to otherwise maintain the site anymore. However, he did preface his entire spiel with this, in big bold letters:
UPDATE: Due to demand, I strongly encourage any organization willing to support a continuation of IMSLP to contact me at imslp@imslp.org
I know in context you're answering a question above about RMS, but I couldn't help but read this as an answer to the comment's subject, "Where is Darl's big mouth now?", and get terrible images in my head
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We already settled this. The Western board members aren't real; they're rented.
It's more like the delay that comes along with code switching. I haven't forgotten how to use qwerty, but it takes me a few minutes to warm up to it again
Is "steal" even the right word? The original code still exists whence MS got it, and last time I checked, it's A-OK to use GPL code (it just makes the licensing situation of the code using it a little hairier). I'd say "copy" or "use". Otherwise, if they fix some bugs in the code and send the patch upstream (*insert canned laughter*), does that mean they returned the borrowed code?
Regarding tones, I recently read that they came about with the loss of final consonants. When a word ended in a voiced consonant, the consonant was dropped and the word took on a lower tone. Similarly, voiceless consonants became higher tones. Now Mandarin only has (I think) the /n/ and /ng/ final consonants (I guess maybe also the retroflexed /r/). The Wikipedia article on tone covers tone history pretty well.
I also read a paper by Olle Kjellin which discussed tones in Tibetan, which, he argues, is at a different (earlier) stage of this transition. Tibetan has both final consonants and tone, and the tone is entirely predictable only using phonological rules given the words (with their consonants, which are not always pronounced). Interesting read.
Common and proper nouns* take 's as the possessive affix, but pronouns do not. It just so happens that the plural form of the pronoun it is the same as if it were a common noun. Similarly, the possessive of "who" is homophonous with the contraction of "who is". Compare:
I don't see any apostrophes in that list. So I believe it is logical for the correct spelling of the possessive of "it" to be "its".
* interesting note: it's not just nouns, but noun phrases. Thus we can say "The CEO of Reynholm Industries' office" and mean the office belonging to the CEO, not to "Industries" or to "Reynholm Industries"
"kankoku de ha, sobieto roshia no jyooku ga rojin dake no mono da"
I'm not a native speaker, but that doesn't sound quite so cool. But if you're interested in Soviet Russia jokes in Japanese, this is invaluable. It even has some C code to make Hello World into a Soviet Russia joke.
And that is why I say it "is also a whole lot less" (emphasis added)
Sorry I wasn't being confrontational or anything. I just like pointing out when two opposite statements can truthfully be used for the same thing. Linux < Ubuntu, and at the same time, Ubuntu > Linux.
Cheers!
To be certain, Linux is also a whole lot less than Ubuntu, given that it's just the kernel.
Ah, i was unclear. I was talking about Japanese words brought into English. In Japanese itself, of course, there's no pluralization like "ninjas". And you're right, most common nouns are numberless. Although you can add "tachi" or "ra" to common nouns sometimes, to force them into being plural, but that's a little uncommon. Also, sometimes reduplication (like "hito" -> "hitobito" or "sore" -> "sorezore") makes things pluralish, but one could argue that they are actually different words with different semantics.
Funny thing is, the plural of many Japanese words is the same as the singular. Eg the plural of "samurai" is "samurai", the plural of "futon" is "futon", and the plural of "sushi" is "sushi". Sometimes people go against this ("ninjas" being a prime example) but this has been the general trend.
For the pedant in all of us, the GP is correct. Etymonline explains how the -pi inflection results from an overgeneralization of the latin -us to -i pluralization (eg. status -> stati, terminus -> termini), but octopus is Greek (oktopous), not Latin, and the plural of pous (foot) is podes.
Unforutunately (of fortunately, depending on your stance), many of these words are losing their original inflectional category and are being "regularized" to the more Englishy -es (octopuses, statuses, terminuses). Many dictionaries (or the one you provided) don't even list "octopodes" as a plural (and they even list "octopi" since it's taken on a kind of folk-correctness). In order of historical correctness, it would be "octopodes" > "octopuses" > "octopi". In order of usage (and general acceptance by the masses) it would be "octopuses" > "octopi" > "octopodes"
Now, if we all spoke Chinese or Japanese, there would almost be no such thing as "plural inflection" (imagine all nouns being like mass nouns... "one octopus", "two octopus").
Except that the judges were from the "medicine, chemistry and physics committees" (note, link is TFA), not the peace committee.
I also have an x61t, and I, too, happily run Linux (albeit Ubuntu), but I would actually recommend sticking with XP considering your needs. (My tablet came with Vista, and while I wouldn't recommend that to anybody, I think it has the same handwriting recognition software as XP)
Previously-mentioned CellWriter is a grid-entry recognition system, meaning you have to write each letter in a box. Windows has great handwriting recognition that works on whole words. Using the Journal program, I could write notes down, then open up a search box and type in a query and it would find and highlight the handwritten text matching that query. Xournal, while great software, has nothing of the sort (granted, this is not Xournal's fault, but because of the lack of real handwriting rec.)
Also, even with Powertop I never found the battery life to be very good in Ubuntu (this may just be compatibility problems with Thinkpad models). Rather, do as someone else suggested and try a SSD drive. Also, turn off your wireless card when not using it (and while you're at it, other unnecessary services).
In the end though, a tablet is indeed very usable with GNU/Linux, but Windows will give you better handwriting recognition and perhaps more power savings.
And ultimately in today's world, your conviction is heavily determined by the public's or more correctly the media's opinion of your guilt.
usually I'd agree with you, but consider the article summary:
local journalists who expressed support for him were warned they would be arrested if they persisted.
(emphases added)
it's about time you took advantage of the liberties of being old. Last month I sent a complaint letter to the city because someone down the street had let their hedge overgrow into the sidewalk (completely covered it... I had to walk around it, getting my tweed pants all dirty).
If you need justification, think this way: We're not over the hill yet, because we're still going up it-- both ways!
A few things:
Ack! My eyes! Damn you Perl!
Assume they stop or reverse aging and take it to the next step: never dying. Also assuming that we don't kill ourselves by overpopulation, what does that mean for the humans as an evolving species? We would stay the same while the rest of earth's species continue to develop? Death may be disastrous for the individual, but it allows the species to continue to adapt to changing conditions, no?
+1 for Calvin and Hobbes reference. eh? I have no mod points left? well.... it was the thought that counts
I just started riding Amtrak this year, and I love it. I make a 250 mile trip from Seattle, WA to Corvallis, OR (and back) about twice a month. If I drive, it's almost 5 hours of focused attention driving down I-5 (on which I was rear-ended last year). If I fly, I can do homework on the plane (but no electrical outlet for my laptop, unless I want to pay for business class), but it's over $300 for economy seating and I don't really save much time if you count going through security, driving to the airport, etc. If I take the Amtrak Cascades line, I get a comfortable seat with a table and an outlet for my laptop, a lounge and bistro car to get dinner in, no hassles with security clearances, a stop that is close to my destination (may not be the case for everyone, though, as with airports), and a nice view from my seat. Amtrak only takes an hour or so longer than driving, but is well worth it.
I feel I can answer this since it happened to me once. After the Chinese sub appeared, Mao Tse Tung (sic) came out and called me an untrustworthy leader of the infidels. Then he demanded tribute for his patience, or to hand over the secret of ceremonial burial.
I know in context you're answering a question above about RMS, but I couldn't help but read this as an answer to the comment's subject, "Where is Darl's big mouth now?", and get terrible images in my head
Emporer Ballmertine to Novell: "Good! Use your aggressive feelings, boy! Let the hate flow through you"