It's finally getting ot the point where I literally can't help people with their Windows machines, because I'm forgetting how Windows does things. At long last, thank $$__DEITY__.
The Nouveau drivers frequently lock up my desktop on 3 different machines with 3 different Nvidia cards, usually when I'm running VirtualBox. No thanks. Useless to me.
(I use OSS when it's viable. However, I also need to get work done.)
Right. Since it's a well-known fact that children of most travelling parents are transported via shipping container to join Mom and Dad at their destination.
It's doing nothing of the sort. The linked story appears to be a Pravda op-ed piece quoting Foreign Minister (?) Alexei Pushkov to the effect that Russia isn't really isolated internationally despite the efforts and claims of President Obama to this effect. A native speaker could provide more detail, but that's the gist of it. As for the missing plane, I don't see a single mention of it anywhere on Pravda's main or Asian news pages.
One nitpick: The hyphenation thing is a Westernism and somewhat antiquated at that. None of the Chinese I know (including my wife and her relatives) use it when writing their names in Latin characters or Hanzi. Generally they just write their given name as one word. According to Wikipedia, this is standard and you should write "Wang Xuiying" and not "Wang Xiu-Ying" for a member of the Wang family named Xiuying when rendering his name in Latin characters.
Chinese who travel generally give their family name last when speaking to Westerners, and many if not most of those who do so often or who live abroad adopt Western given names. Sometimes this is one that resembles their Chinese given name, sometimes not.
I was referring to the regional trains. Cross-country takes longer, e.g. Stockholm to Malmö is 4-5 hours. Last time I took that route (something like 6-7 months ago), they'd just started including wifi with a paid ticket. I can't recall whether or not it was unlimited. The free wifi on the regional trains just started a couple of months ago.
For me, Stockholm to Malmö or Copenhagen takes about the same amount of time by train or by plane. I'm about a 20 minute subway ride from Stockholm Central, I only need to be there maybe 10 minutes before departure, and the other end of the journey is the central station in the destination city. Whereas Arlanda airport is about 90 minutes away for me, I have to be there at least an hour before takeoff, and it's 30 to 45 minutes from Kastrup into the downtown area of either city, which pretty well cancels out any speed advantage from flying.
And when I go by train, I don't have to worry about my bag being overweight or containing anything I'm not allowed to take on an aircraft.
There are many vacuum-cleaner use cases and maximum power is not necessarily a requirement in all of them. I have a 2-in-1 floor/handheld Electrolux cordless that I'm rather partial to. No it's as powerful as the corded one, but I don't need something that big to nab a few stray bits of whatever from my desk top.
I also vastly prefer train travel to air travel within Europe.
Dunno about other parts of Europe, but at least here in Sweden, SJ have started providing free wifi on most of their regional and cross-country trains. You're limited to 200 MB on the regional trains, but that's plenty to surf and do email with for 1-2 hours, and hey, it's free.
It's also available for rent on YouTube, so you can pay for the questionable privilege of viewing this film if you happen to live in the US and you're so inclined.
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In Australia, if a cop sees you cruising in the overtaking (passing) lane, he will pull you over, and he will ticket you for it.
There are ways around the alphas' imagined right to fence us in.
So just stay segregated. Doesn't have to be race it can just mean that you want to live only near people who share your points of view.
My, what a boring world you'd like me to live in, just so you can.
Where I live, everyone's national ID number is a matter of public record.
Wrong. One of these is happenstance. One of them is not.
I see titties nearly every night and morning. If that's warping me in some horrid fashion, I say "Bring it on".
No, 2015 caps the Decade of the Linux Desktop.
It's finally getting ot the point where I literally can't help people with their Windows machines, because I'm forgetting how Windows does things. At long last, thank $$__DEITY__.
The Nouveau drivers frequently lock up my desktop on 3 different machines with 3 different Nvidia cards, usually when I'm running VirtualBox. No thanks. Useless to me.
(I use OSS when it's viable. However, I also need to get work done.)
Right. Since it's a well-known fact that children of most travelling parents are transported via shipping container to join Mom and Dad at their destination.
What does that have to do with the price of borshcht in Belgorod? The AC made an easily refuted false claim, end of story.
Looks to me more like she transliterated her English name using Chinese characters. Maybe you should ask her.
You can see this done by lots of folks from lots of different countries, and it's not confined to the 'Net.
It's not a matter of what *I* think. Pinyin is a standard.
It's doing nothing of the sort. The linked story appears to be a Pravda op-ed piece quoting Foreign Minister (?) Alexei Pushkov to the effect that Russia isn't really isolated internationally despite the efforts and claims of President Obama to this effect. A native speaker could provide more detail, but that's the gist of it. As for the missing plane, I don't see a single mention of it anywhere on Pravda's main or Asian news pages.
Hi! Is there a reason why you posted this twice?
There's no space between "13," and "000". Fail.
How does it feel to be the only one in the room who managed not to get the joke?
4chan is over there --->>
One nitpick: The hyphenation thing is a Westernism and somewhat antiquated at that. None of the Chinese I know (including my wife and her relatives) use it when writing their names in Latin characters or Hanzi. Generally they just write their given name as one word. According to Wikipedia, this is standard and you should write "Wang Xuiying" and not "Wang Xiu-Ying" for a member of the Wang family named Xiuying when rendering his name in Latin characters.
Chinese who travel generally give their family name last when speaking to Westerners, and many if not most of those who do so often or who live abroad adopt Western given names. Sometimes this is one that resembles their Chinese given name, sometimes not.
I was referring to the regional trains. Cross-country takes longer, e.g. Stockholm to Malmö is 4-5 hours. Last time I took that route (something like 6-7 months ago), they'd just started including wifi with a paid ticket. I can't recall whether or not it was unlimited. The free wifi on the regional trains just started a couple of months ago.
For me, Stockholm to Malmö or Copenhagen takes about the same amount of time by train or by plane. I'm about a 20 minute subway ride from Stockholm Central, I only need to be there maybe 10 minutes before departure, and the other end of the journey is the central station in the destination city. Whereas Arlanda airport is about 90 minutes away for me, I have to be there at least an hour before takeoff, and it's 30 to 45 minutes from Kastrup into the downtown area of either city, which pretty well cancels out any speed advantage from flying.
And when I go by train, I don't have to worry about my bag being overweight or containing anything I'm not allowed to take on an aircraft.
There are many vacuum-cleaner use cases and maximum power is not necessarily a requirement in all of them. I have a 2-in-1 floor/handheld Electrolux cordless that I'm rather partial to. No it's as powerful as the corded one, but I don't need something that big to nab a few stray bits of whatever from my desk top.
I also vastly prefer train travel to air travel within Europe.
Dunno about other parts of Europe, but at least here in Sweden, SJ have started providing free wifi on most of their regional and cross-country trains. You're limited to 200 MB on the regional trains, but that's plenty to surf and do email with for 1-2 hours, and hey, it's free.
"I live outside the US, so I can't rent or buy it even if I wanted to."
It's also available for rent on YouTube, so you can pay for the questionable privilege of viewing this film if you happen to live in the US and you're so inclined.
TFTFY.
My sarcasm detector is intact. Alas, that doesn't always guarantee that I've mod points when I see that someone else's is disabled.