Actually, linguists say the British accent circa the Elizabethan period would have sounded closes to the American southern accent..
Sorry to break it to you but Lowland Scots is a rhotic accent (as are many regional British accents). The link above seems to assume that because English was rhotic it is more like All American accents than all British accents, which is an invalid assumption. -- ~~~~
American English is the same English that was spoken in England in the 1700s. Modern UK English is the English that changed. They need to get over it and get back to their roots.;)
Rubbish, both have diverged. from what I have read Shakespeare's accent would have been something like a mix of lowland Scots and Appalachian American.
mail servers, for instance, eventually wound up migrating to Microsoft Exchange
Productivity applications specific to local government I can understand, but come on, mail servers are one thing that Linux does easily and scalably. Many Windows organisations user Linux mail servers. This makes me wonder how much of the whole thing is available funded change to advertise Microsoft.
As somebody pointed out in a previous post, to take off a flying taxi needs to generate down-thrust greater than it's mass (including the passengers). This will be very noisy, and blow down anything not fixed down nearby, including bins (trash cans), garden furniture, pets, little old ladies and cyclists. Regulation will undoubtedly mean that they can only go to and from designated landing pads
This is one thing that has improved. All bots now have to have a means of reporting false positives. I believe (though I'm not sure) that the report also has to suspend the bot until the author acknowledges it to avoid making a mistake on multiple pages.
1% signed up with an honest intent to be an editor and with knowledge to back it up.
4% signed up as a lark and to see what it was all about.
5% signed up with good intentions but don't have any knowledge to create pages with.
The other 90% are trolls that signed up to graffiti pages of politicians they don't like, or to edit Taylor Swift's page to talk about how she really has a penis.
You forgot those who signed up with good intentions and the knowledge but gave up in frustration because all of their edits are reverted by trolls or people with an agenda.
There are many roads where driverless cars are going to be a long time coming. Single track roads with a few passing places where cars going on the opposite direction can pass. When cars meet one has to reverse, on one road I have driven with a cliff wall on one side and a drop on the other. Roads where there is a mix of rickshaws, cycles, motor scooters and cars, and if you wait for reasonable clearance you would never move. Roads with broken surface and mud, where you have to zigzag to avoid holes. Ice-covered passes where the correct move is to turn back and find a different route.
Bring able to drive on phoenix doesn't mean it will cope with any road.
Maybe a pro-science country can step up and provide the data. India, China, this is your chance to show the world that you have more sense than Trump's America, though I admit this is a very low bar.
Developers can add assertions and write unit tests that can test conditions that should never reach a particular module. That should be responsible for producing unit tests and running all tests as a regression suite. The best team I worked for had a policy that when a bug was reported you wrote a unit test to reproduce it at the lowest level, then fix it. This test was added to the test site and solid to every future version.
However this is not sufficient, a QA team needs to test the resultant project. It's possible that the developers are not looking at the big picture, or even have misunderstood the requirements and written excellent coffee to do the wrong thing. It's also possible that other chances may interact in unexpected ways, so a whole release needs QA testing.
I second that. Keep "summertime" all year. On the very shortest days nothing would help here(sunset 3:40pm would be 4:40 with summertime) but for a lot of the year you'd get a useful hour of light when you get home.
In the UK reports show that keeping GMT+1 all year round would reduce accidents, reduce burglaries, save on fuel, and be good for health. The counter argument is that some Scottish farmers on the western isles wouldn't see the sun come up while they milked their cows. (They are too stupid to think of getting up at an earlier time on the clock)
Every year the farmers win.
I have seen predictions that in the second half of the century the grain belt will move from USA and Europe to Canada and Russia. That could make things very interesting as countries try to gain food security.
Maybe it's because I only use VBA along with Excel, but I actually really don't mind it... I can do some pretty nifty shit with it. That said, every experience I had with COBOL was fucking trash.
Probably COBOL is less hated because less people use it. And VBA comes into the category where it is often used by non-experts; they've done everything possible with macros and find they have to dip into VBA. This will be an unpleasant experience, because they don't use it regularly and they will already be annoyed that they can't do what they want with macros.
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The fact that one of the world's most powerful companies is being managed by emotional infants,... is pathetic and embarrassing.
It's even more embarrassing that one of the world's most powerful countries is being run by an emotional infant.
Actually, linguists say the British accent circa the Elizabethan period would have sounded closes to the American southern accent..
Sorry to break it to you but Lowland Scots is a rhotic accent (as are many regional British accents). The link above seems to assume that because English was rhotic it is more like All American accents than all British accents, which is an invalid assumption. -- ~~~~
American English is the same English that was spoken in England in the 1700s. Modern UK English is the English that changed. They need to get over it and get back to their roots. ;)
https://www.becomeenglishteachers.com/what-english-is-the-original-english-british-or-american/
Rubbish, both have diverged. from what I have read Shakespeare's accent would have been something like a mix of lowland Scots and Appalachian American.
Go to any of the regions and tha'll be in doubt that nowt threatens English. Even if we wears 'as pants instead of troiusers.
As somebody pointed out in a previous post, to take off a flying taxi needs to generate down-thrust greater than it's mass (including the passengers). This will be very noisy, and blow down anything not fixed down nearby, including bins (trash cans), garden furniture, pets, little old ladies and cyclists. Regulation will undoubtedly mean that they can only go to and from designated landing pads
Let me guess. Science performs a miracle with the pinnacle of current human understanding. Parents thank their god(s).
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Science performs miracles all the time, that doesn't impress me. What would impress me is religion performing science ;-)
This is one thing that has improved. All bots now have to have a means of reporting false positives. I believe (though I'm not sure) that the report also has to suspend the bot until the author acknowledges it to avoid making a mistake on multiple pages.
That's probably because:
1% signed up with an honest intent to be an editor and with knowledge to back it up. 4% signed up as a lark and to see what it was all about. 5% signed up with good intentions but don't have any knowledge to create pages with.
The other 90% are trolls that signed up to graffiti pages of politicians they don't like, or to edit Taylor Swift's page to talk about how she really has a penis.
You forgot those who signed up with good intentions and the knowledge but gave up in frustration because all of their edits are reverted by trolls or people with an agenda.
There are many roads where driverless cars are going to be a long time coming. Single track roads with a few passing places where cars going on the opposite direction can pass. When cars meet one has to reverse, on one road I have driven with a cliff wall on one side and a drop on the other. Roads where there is a mix of rickshaws, cycles, motor scooters and cars, and if you wait for reasonable clearance you would never move. Roads with broken surface and mud, where you have to zigzag to avoid holes. Ice-covered passes where the correct move is to turn back and find a different route. Bring able to drive on phoenix doesn't mean it will cope with any road.
Minix, that's terrible. What I want to know is why they aren't running HURD.
Personally I agree, I like the 16:9 ratio aesthetically, it is close to the ~ 16:10 golden ratio so a lot of artists must agree also.
I love linux, but when my friends try it out they have no idea what to do when a driver doesn't work properly.
Funny, I have the same issue with Uber
Maybe a pro-science country can step up and provide the data. India, China, this is your chance to show the world that you have more sense than Trump's America, though I admit this is a very low bar.
Absolutely! That was the point
Developers can add assertions and write unit tests that can test conditions that should never reach a particular module. That should be responsible for producing unit tests and running all tests as a regression suite. The best team I worked for had a policy that when a bug was reported you wrote a unit test to reproduce it at the lowest level, then fix it. This test was added to the test site and solid to every future version. However this is not sufficient, a QA team needs to test the resultant project. It's possible that the developers are not looking at the big picture, or even have misunderstood the requirements and written excellent coffee to do the wrong thing. It's also possible that other chances may interact in unexpected ways, so a whole release needs QA testing.
I second that. Keep "summertime" all year. On the very shortest days nothing would help here(sunset 3:40pm would be 4:40 with summertime) but for a lot of the year you'd get a useful hour of light when you get home.
In the UK reports show that keeping GMT+1 all year round would reduce accidents, reduce burglaries, save on fuel, and be good for health. The counter argument is that some Scottish farmers on the western isles wouldn't see the sun come up while they milked their cows. (They are too stupid to think of getting up at an earlier time on the clock) Every year the farmers win.
Off-topic, but the end of your comment made me think there's probably an "Ass engineer" at RealDolls.
That job title might make finding another job a little difficult
Destabilised Europe through Brexit. Destabilised the US through trump
We could do with another, to counteract global warming.
I have seen predictions that in the second half of the century the grain belt will move from USA and Europe to Canada and Russia. That could make things very interesting as countries try to gain food security.
Don't get too hot about it, she might suggest that she wants to cool you down with a water pistol. This could cause a serious misunderstanding.
Maybe it's because I only use VBA along with Excel, but I actually really don't mind it... I can do some pretty nifty shit with it. That said, every experience I had with COBOL was fucking trash.
Probably COBOL is less hated because less people use it. And VBA comes into the category where it is often used by non-experts; they've done everything possible with macros and find they have to dip into VBA. This will be an unpleasant experience, because they don't use it regularly and they will already be annoyed that they can't do what they want with macros.
I'm surprised that PHP isn't more hated.