Yes, thank you. You have given me legalese for "UR IN MY TRADEMARKZ", which is not a linguistically valid argument. If it were, we could not google stuff. We most certainly could not xerox stuff either, before or after photoshopping it.
Now, if someone could please show me any sort of linguistic argument that the word is singulare tantum, or that the nominalization 'Lego blocks' > 'Legos' is somehow wrong... I'll be delighted.
AFAICT, neither the Danish leg godt nor the Greek and Latin homophonic verb 'lego' have much to do with what any of us are talking about.
In short, may I have some tangible evidence that saying 'Legos' is wrong?
I am a linguist, and a native speaker of a Slavic language (not Czech, though).
I know of no Slavic language that would have such a phoneme. In fact, I don't know a single language with a single phoneme such as this, which may be because it is hard to combine a dental plosive (d) with a labial approximant (v) into a single phoneme (warning: actual phonemes associated with letters may differ, depending on language). While it is conceivable that a letter combination would signify something other than its components (look no further than English, with ghoti as the mock-alternative spelling for fish), Slavic languages all have pretty much phonetic ortography, and 'dv' is not a digraph.
From what I know, it is not a plural form of anything. It may be singulare tantum in English; if that is so, OK. Otherwise... which language are we talking about?
In the beginning, suppose they had a competent CS guy deciding the policies for HD erasure, he probably figures a single zeroing is sufficient. And at the time (perhaps now too) he's correct. Then his successor wants to make in impression and put some bullet points on his resume, so he makes a big stink about "increasing security through a continuing commitment to data erasure" or some buzzword nonsense.
Quite the opposite: with lower density disks of old, it was easier to recover wiped data. Nowadays, with literally a thousand times denser packing, it is much more difficult to read the residual layers.
So it is more like, it used to be necessary, and is now becoming obsolete.
1.21 Jigawatts: the energy output of a man dancing a 1.21 minute jig.
So next time you jig, be very careful to dance either more or less than 1.21 minute, lest you suddenly go back in time to the 1950s where your dad is a spineless wimp.
Oi! Just because he was an embryo is no reason to call him names.
The usual Croatian keyboard layout is pretty much ripped from German, substituting umlauts for Croatian diacritics. Therefore, it is also a QWERTZ layout – except on the Mac.
I find I like Mac's QWERTY layout better even though Y is rarely used in Croatian (it is not even in our alphabet): I have fairly short index fingers, so I have poor control over the middle of the keyboard.
Yes. At least those who have not yet heard of contraception, which I find an amazing concept.
No-one (or at least no-one sane) will decide to have another kid just to get a tax break. However, when funds are tight, that break can mean the difference between another child and an abortion, if it so happened that the contraceptives failed.
The US doesn't do stuff because by golly, someone should. You do it because you profit from it. Even if your government is from the people and for the people (which is a laughable delusion in itself), it does not speak for the rest of the world. The rest of the world did not get to veote. So kindly do sod off.
I wish you could see yourself from my eyes. Americans like you are the reason a good part of the rest of the world despises you.
Your empire will fall. I might live to see it. Your bully face will be stupefied with shock. I'll just watch the fire.
Furthermore, let me just say that we in the rest of the world do not see these things the way you do. Your rhetoric is pathetic, and as long as your army goes on killing people all over the world, please do shut up about the value of human life. I have lived through a war in my own country, which I am willing to bet you have not; kindly do not give me this kind of propaganda-shit. After living through a war, I'm immune.
There is quite a number of issues here, and the more I learn about China, the more I understand that applying the western model would be the wrong thing to do.
You're talking about "applying" the western model, but that is a statement clearly founded upon a western view of applying your worldview to everything. This does make some sense, since the USA's hobby is "applying" its model everywhere.
Since that is precisely what I meant in the first place, I'm left befuddled. Should I now thank Captain Obvious, or am I missing something important?
The Chinese will have a revolution if they can handle one. It has nothing to do with anyone else, nor should it.
Precisely so. If and when the Chinese decide to start a revolution, it will be their own matter. Although should that happen, I cannot imagine the US staying out of it. The US has meddled in almost everything anyway.
To amplify this point, on my Mac, even Safari recognizes Firefox as my default browser. No program opens any link in Safari, ever. And sometimes, even Safari opens a link in Firefox (certain addon upgrades).
When I designated Firefox as the default browser, every program in the system respected it immediately. AidumX even replaced the browser icon with Firefox's, so I know right from the toolbar which browser will run if I click it.
It is a part of the Windows OS. To be more accurate, the underlying technology is an important part of its UI. AFAIK, no Linux distro integrates any kind of browser in that manner, though with some of Mozilla's newer technologies, I don't find it all to improbable.
It is true, though, that now it is much too late for any kind of useful decision to be made. Which is what Microsoft has counted on all along.
My Chinese teacher says China is not yet ready for democracy. For one, it is a huge country, which also means it is inert. Such radical changes, if implemented haphazardly, mostly lead to problems.
The Chinese do not plan in 4-year mandates. They plan in chunks of 20 or 50 years. At the same time, they do not tend to improvise as much.
There is quite a number of issues here, and the more I learn about China, the more I understand that applying the western model would be the wrong thing to do. It is a different culture, with different values. Forcing our values on them, in any way, would meet – and is meeting – much resistance.
No, it really _is_ a coincident that China started targeting porn sites on the twentieth anniversary of 'the June 4th incident'.
You think they looked at the calendar and realized... OMG, this is the year we must start censoring internet porn!
Well, since there are so many important Chinese anniversaries this year, how come the author picked Tian'anmen? Why not the ban of Falun Gong (10th anniversary)? Why not the declaration of The People's Republic (70th anniversary)? Or May 4th Movement (90th anniversary)?
I'm sure there are some more, but I can't think of them off-hand.
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Everything can be done through the GUI.
Ping?
Yes, thank you. You have given me legalese for "UR IN MY TRADEMARKZ", which is not a linguistically valid argument. If it were, we could not google stuff. We most certainly could not xerox stuff either, before or after photoshopping it.
Now, if someone could please show me any sort of linguistic argument that the word is singulare tantum, or that the nominalization 'Lego blocks' > 'Legos' is somehow wrong... I'll be delighted.
AFAICT, neither the Danish leg godt nor the Greek and Latin homophonic verb 'lego' have much to do with what any of us are talking about.
In short, may I have some tangible evidence that saying 'Legos' is wrong?
I am a linguist, and a native speaker of a Slavic language (not Czech, though).
I know of no Slavic language that would have such a phoneme. In fact, I don't know a single language with a single phoneme such as this, which may be because it is hard to combine a dental plosive (d) with a labial approximant (v) into a single phoneme (warning: actual phonemes associated with letters may differ, depending on language). While it is conceivable that a letter combination would signify something other than its components (look no further than English, with ghoti as the mock-alternative spelling for fish), Slavic languages all have pretty much phonetic ortography, and 'dv' is not a digraph.
Source?
From what I know, it is not a plural form of anything. It may be singulare tantum in English; if that is so, OK. Otherwise... which language are we talking about?
In the beginning, suppose they had a competent CS guy deciding the policies for HD erasure, he probably figures a single zeroing is sufficient. And at the time (perhaps now too) he's correct. Then his successor wants to make in impression and put some bullet points on his resume, so he makes a big stink about "increasing security through a continuing commitment to data erasure" or some buzzword nonsense.
Quite the opposite: with lower density disks of old, it was easier to recover wiped data. Nowadays, with literally a thousand times denser packing, it is much more difficult to read the residual layers.
So it is more like, it used to be necessary, and is now becoming obsolete.
Acceleration is the bit which defines who is moving relative to whom.
1.21 Jigawatts: the energy output of a man dancing a 1.21 minute jig. So next time you jig, be very careful to dance either more or less than 1.21 minute, lest you suddenly go back in time to the 1950s where your dad is a spineless wimp.
Oi! Just because he was an embryo is no reason to call him names.
Well, Google is kind enough to let me view PDF files... at least those I get in my e-mails. Haven't tried any others.
I do not know.
However, I would urge moderators to mod the grandparent down; TFA clearly mentions Ubuntu Linux.
AFAICT, those are not Legos.
The usual Croatian keyboard layout is pretty much ripped from German, substituting umlauts for Croatian diacritics. Therefore, it is also a QWERTZ layout – except on the Mac.
I find I like Mac's QWERTY layout better even though Y is rarely used in Croatian (it is not even in our alphabet): I have fairly short index fingers, so I have poor control over the middle of the keyboard.
That's hardly a single phoneme.
Yes. At least those who have not yet heard of contraception, which I find an amazing concept.
No-one (or at least no-one sane) will decide to have another kid just to get a tax break. However, when funds are tight, that break can mean the difference between another child and an abortion, if it so happened that the contraceptives failed.
So then you remove the negative review and draft up a new one.
What? They forgot to mention you weren't to write a new review emphasizing your satisfaction with their customer service?
Oh, drat.
This is Slashdot. Expect a dupe in a strong or two.
Yes. Those are only the short-term plans.
And yet they seem to be keeping with Deng Xiaoping's plans even today.
The US doesn't do stuff because by golly, someone should. You do it because you profit from it. Even if your government is from the people and for the people (which is a laughable delusion in itself), it does not speak for the rest of the world. The rest of the world did not get to veote. So kindly do sod off.
I wish you could see yourself from my eyes. Americans like you are the reason a good part of the rest of the world despises you.
Your empire will fall. I might live to see it. Your bully face will be stupefied with shock. I'll just watch the fire.
First of all, YHBT. YHL. HAND.
Furthermore, let me just say that we in the rest of the world do not see these things the way you do. Your rhetoric is pathetic, and as long as your army goes on killing people all over the world, please do shut up about the value of human life. I have lived through a war in my own country, which I am willing to bet you have not; kindly do not give me this kind of propaganda-shit. After living through a war, I'm immune.
As much as people want to complain about Bush, he didn't use censorship.
As much as people want to complain about China, at least China didn't wage war on the rest of the world.
I guess different things matter to different people.
There is quite a number of issues here, and the more I learn about China, the more I understand that applying the western model would be the wrong thing to do.
You're talking about "applying" the western model, but that is a statement clearly founded upon a western view of applying your worldview to everything. This does make some sense, since the USA's hobby is "applying" its model everywhere.
Since that is precisely what I meant in the first place, I'm left befuddled. Should I now thank Captain Obvious, or am I missing something important?
The Chinese will have a revolution if they can handle one. It has nothing to do with anyone else, nor should it.
Precisely so. If and when the Chinese decide to start a revolution, it will be their own matter. Although should that happen, I cannot imagine the US staying out of it. The US has meddled in almost everything anyway.
Our universe is not a joke.
It is more of a tragedy.
To amplify this point, on my Mac, even Safari recognizes Firefox as my default browser. No program opens any link in Safari, ever. And sometimes, even Safari opens a link in Firefox (certain addon upgrades).
When I designated Firefox as the default browser, every program in the system respected it immediately. AidumX even replaced the browser icon with Firefox's, so I know right from the toolbar which browser will run if I click it.
No such luck on Windows.
No, today the browser is just part of the OS.
No, it is not.
It is a part of the Windows OS. To be more accurate, the underlying technology is an important part of its UI. AFAIK, no Linux distro integrates any kind of browser in that manner, though with some of Mozilla's newer technologies, I don't find it all to improbable.
It is true, though, that now it is much too late for any kind of useful decision to be made. Which is what Microsoft has counted on all along.
My Chinese teacher says China is not yet ready for democracy. For one, it is a huge country, which also means it is inert. Such radical changes, if implemented haphazardly, mostly lead to problems.
The Chinese do not plan in 4-year mandates. They plan in chunks of 20 or 50 years. At the same time, they do not tend to improvise as much.
There is quite a number of issues here, and the more I learn about China, the more I understand that applying the western model would be the wrong thing to do. It is a different culture, with different values. Forcing our values on them, in any way, would meet – and is meeting – much resistance.
Evolution, not revolution. That's the answer.
No, it really _is_ a coincident that China started targeting porn sites on the twentieth anniversary of 'the June 4th incident'.
You think they looked at the calendar and realized... OMG, this is the year we must start censoring internet porn!
Well, since there are so many important Chinese anniversaries this year, how come the author picked Tian'anmen? Why not the ban of Falun Gong (10th anniversary)? Why not the declaration of The People's Republic (70th anniversary)? Or May 4th Movement (90th anniversary)?
I'm sure there are some more, but I can't think of them off-hand.