You know why aisle has an 's' in it? It's because isle has an 's' despite being derived from the old English ile because the Latin word isula also means island and it has an 's' in it so ours might as well have one too.
Um, no. The Old English word came from Old French, OF île > Vulgar Latin isle > Latin insula. The circumflex often denotes where an s used to follow the vowel, but later became silent. As in hôtel > hostel, côte > coste ("coast"), château > chastel ("castle"), même > mesme ("same"; cf. Portuguese mesmo, Spanish mismo). The s got added back in the 16th Century in French (which at that time was both becoming standardised in its modern form and was also becoming *the* language of international communication), and due to this as well as confusion with "aisle", the English followed suit.
Accurate info on such matters is as close your friendly neighbourhood etymological dictionary. Now you too can amaze your friends, and be the life of any party.:)
English is basically West Germanic with a Romance verb system tacked onto it. And heaps of vocabulary from all over mixed in. If the Normans hadn't invaded, modern English would likely look and sound a lot like Dutch.
"Old English" is just as accepted as "Anglo-Saxon". In fact, many prefer the former, since it refers exclusively to the language, while the latter also refers to people.
Could someone tell me why we would want to do unpaid labour for Microsoft?
I'm quite prepared to test and help support Linux and open source projects. Microsoft? Not so much....
I'm sure the Linux distro makers (which often are commercial entities) gladly take your free labor, and laugh at their way to bank.
The phrase is actually, "laugh all the way to the bank".
In any event... You imply that I can't use Linux to make money without selling it. That's pretty silly.
I make a pretty good living using Linux, in spite of neither paying nor receiving any money for Linux, and I am quite sure I'm far from being the only one. Why should I care that the maintainers of my distro sell a commercial version of it? They're not taking any money from me, and they've bills to pay same as most folks, including me, so it's all good. I conclude that you're ignorant and/or trolling.
That's the impression I get also (not going to read the whole thing tonight--it's after 1AM here).
I used to drink them avidly, but gave up soft drinks on anything like a regular basis about 10 years ago, mostly in reaction to my dentist's lecture on what an effective combination sugar, carbonation, and the acids formed when they're no longer under pressure make for destroying tooth enamel--not to mention how much it was costing me to get my teeth fixed. I think I'm even more glad now that I did.
(I also recall reading somewhere that warm Coca-Cola is a very effective spermicide. Anybody know whether this is true?)
I seem to recall that it started after an "No Rock But Rock" ad campaign that got turned into "Butt Rock" by various wags because it was being used to push stuff like Nickelback and Seether. That was in '91, IIRC. "Glam" to me means New York Dolls, Roxy Music, and Bowie during his Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane period. KISS were also sort of glam. Not the same thing at all as Glam Metal/Hair Metal which is not the same thing at all as Butt-Rock.
Maybe it depends on who you talk to, or what part of the country you live(d) in.
Bose headphones have always been overpriced, and don't hold up under heavy use.
In my experience, real professionals use Sennheiser. At least, when I worked in radio, about 80% of the DJs and engineers I knew used Sennheisers, and laughed at me when I asked whether Bose was really any good--"on TV, sure".
...no normal phones have the ability to video chat.
Where I live, a "normal phone" is a smartphone.
Lots of smartphones support video calls. Both of mine do, at least. They're both off-the-shelf Samsung Galaxys--one's an S1 and the other's an S3.
Which reminds me, I'm about due to sign another 2-year contract with my telco so I can get a free S5 and catch up with my wife, who already has one. Which also supports video calling.
It's also hella cheaper to use Skype for this than to dial it directly, even for local video calls.
Shit, I've been trying for ten fucking years to get her to quit using HUGE BOLD HTML for her emails. I've explained to her over and over again that she can use plain text, set her mail client to display it at a size that's comfortable for her, and let me view it at a size that's reasonable for me. And failed. Too complicated/scary.
This sounds a lot like my national ID card as well as my permanent resident visa card.
The latter constitutes proof that I'm a legal resident of the EU and is all I need to travel to most if not all EU/Schengen countries (maybe not the UK, I've not bothered to check). Forgot my passport when going on a trip to Budapest for a holiday this summer, and the security and airline folks where perfectly happy to let me fly in both directions without it, since I had the ID and visa cards. I no longer bother taking my passport on trips to the other 3 Nordic countries (I live in Stockholm).
I *do* take my passport when travelling to Germany because they tend to be dicks about it there if you're not actually an EU citizen.
I sort of hope the passport itself doesn't get replaced, though--you can't see the visa stamps on a chip or mag stripe.
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You know why aisle has an 's' in it? It's because isle has an 's' despite being derived from the old English ile because the Latin word isula also means island and it has an 's' in it so ours might as well have one too.
Um, no. The Old English word came from Old French, OF île > Vulgar Latin isle > Latin insula. The circumflex often denotes where an s used to follow the vowel, but later became silent. As in hôtel > hostel, côte > coste ("coast"), château > chastel ("castle"), même > mesme ("same"; cf. Portuguese mesmo, Spanish mismo). The s got added back in the 16th Century in French (which at that time was both becoming standardised in its modern form and was also becoming *the* language of international communication), and due to this as well as confusion with "aisle", the English followed suit.
Accurate info on such matters is as close your friendly neighbourhood etymological dictionary. Now you too can amaze your friends, and be the life of any party. :)
English is basically West Germanic with a Romance verb system tacked onto it. And heaps of vocabulary from all over mixed in. If the Normans hadn't invaded, modern English would likely look and sound a lot like Dutch.
Uh... what?
"Old English" is just as accepted as "Anglo-Saxon". In fact, many prefer the former, since it refers exclusively to the language, while the latter also refers to people.
Could someone tell me why we would want to do unpaid labour for Microsoft?
I'm quite prepared to test and help support Linux and open source projects. Microsoft? Not so much....
I'm sure the Linux distro makers (which often are commercial entities) gladly take your free labor, and laugh at their way to bank.
The phrase is actually, "laugh all the way to the bank".
In any event... You imply that I can't use Linux to make money without selling it. That's pretty silly.
I make a pretty good living using Linux, in spite of neither paying nor receiving any money for Linux, and I am quite sure I'm far from being the only one. Why should I care that the maintainers of my distro sell a commercial version of it? They're not taking any money from me, and they've bills to pay same as most folks, including me, so it's all good. I conclude that you're ignorant and/or trolling.
I've not paid mine in any other way BUT online in years.
That's the impression I get also (not going to read the whole thing tonight--it's after 1AM here).
I used to drink them avidly, but gave up soft drinks on anything like a regular basis about 10 years ago, mostly in reaction to my dentist's lecture on what an effective combination sugar, carbonation, and the acids formed when they're no longer under pressure make for destroying tooth enamel--not to mention how much it was costing me to get my teeth fixed. I think I'm even more glad now that I did.
(I also recall reading somewhere that warm Coca-Cola is a very effective spermicide. Anybody know whether this is true?)
Or maybe you're right. '91 and '01 were both pretty traumatic years for me personally, and I still sometimes get memories of the two periods mixed up.
I seem to recall that it started after an "No Rock But Rock" ad campaign that got turned into "Butt Rock" by various wags because it was being used to push stuff like Nickelback and Seether. That was in '91, IIRC. "Glam" to me means New York Dolls, Roxy Music, and Bowie during his Ziggy Stardust/Aladdin Sane period. KISS were also sort of glam. Not the same thing at all as Glam Metal/Hair Metal which is not the same thing at all as Butt-Rock.
Maybe it depends on who you talk to, or what part of the country you live(d) in.
Uh... what?
Admit it, Jane. You not only inhaled--you drank the bong water afterwards.
I'm not responsible for the Wikipedia article.
I'm not responsible for the fact that he was stupid enough to play with a gun while he was high.
I'm not responsible for the dog-crap his band started putting out after he offed himself.
But he was an excellent and innovative guitarist, composer, and bandleader who deserves heaps more recognition than he got.
I've long since outgrown idols. But I continue to admire him for his music.
Who cares what the man looked like? The point is to listen.
No, it was the 90s/early 00s. I quit listening to US FM radio when it was decided that Nickelback was worthy of airplay.
I left the country just a couple of years later. Coincidence? Perhaps not.
Bose headphones have always been overpriced, and don't hold up under heavy use.
In my experience, real professionals use Sennheiser. At least, when I worked in radio, about 80% of the DJs and engineers I knew used Sennheisers, and laughed at me when I asked whether Bose was really any good--"on TV, sure".
You can't ring POTS phones with it, so it's not a substitute. Please quit spamming.
...no normal phones have the ability to video chat.
Where I live, a "normal phone" is a smartphone.
Lots of smartphones support video calls. Both of mine do, at least. They're both off-the-shelf Samsung Galaxys--one's an S1 and the other's an S3.
Which reminds me, I'm about due to sign another 2-year contract with my telco so I can get a free S5 and catch up with my wife, who already has one. Which also supports video calling.
It's also hella cheaper to use Skype for this than to dial it directly, even for local video calls.
Good luck getting my mom to use it.
Shit, I've been trying for ten fucking years to get her to quit using HUGE BOLD HTML for her emails. I've explained to her over and over again that she can use plain text, set her mail client to display it at a size that's comfortable for her, and let me view it at a size that's reasonable for me. And failed. Too complicated/scary.
Now... You were saying...?
There are no gammas or neutrons because they're all converted to 220 VAC, just waiting to be drawn off.
That's 120 if you're in the Western Hemisphere, of course.
I'll only be 89 in 2050, so I hereby offer to be your second.
Do you even know what a vaccine does?
Saturday afternoon mini-matinee
Let South Korea be an object lesson in why we should not make an ActiveX "security" applet a nationwide requirement for online financial transactions.
TFTFY.
Yes, it's the same here in Sweden.
No, I'm not going to post mine. :)
This sounds a lot like my national ID card as well as my permanent resident visa card.
The latter constitutes proof that I'm a legal resident of the EU and is all I need to travel to most if not all EU/Schengen countries (maybe not the UK, I've not bothered to check). Forgot my passport when going on a trip to Budapest for a holiday this summer, and the security and airline folks where perfectly happy to let me fly in both directions without it, since I had the ID and visa cards. I no longer bother taking my passport on trips to the other 3 Nordic countries (I live in Stockholm).
I *do* take my passport when travelling to Germany because they tend to be dicks about it there if you're not actually an EU citizen.
I sort of hope the passport itself doesn't get replaced, though--you can't see the visa stamps on a chip or mag stripe.
You even provided a car analogy...
Pearls before swine, I guess.
I'm crushing your head! I'm crushing your head, silly little anonymous coward guy!