>>>So you imply that because European world didn't know other cultures beyond what you see now,
No. I'm saying under the Roman Empire, they had the common tongue of Latin. Whether you were in Rome, or a thousand miles away in Britannia or Spain, you could communicate. AFTER the fall of Rome the single language diverged into dozens of tongues/dialects, and you could no longer communicate with a neighbor a mere hundred miles away. My point: Europe was better-off sharing one language that everyone spoke in 500 A.D. It provided commonality and community.
I'm willing to bet that someone who'd lived all their life in Italia then travelled to Hispania in 500 CE would find the local variant of "lingua Romana" to be virtually incomprehensible.
Much the same way as I discovered at the turn of the 21st century CE that America and Australia are two countries separated by the same language.:)
My distro still supports and maintains KDE3--in fact, it's easier to choose and use it now in openSUSE 12.1 than it was with 11.3, where you had to add the repo and fix the config file for kdm manually--although I decided to give the default KDE 4.7 a try and have been (mostly) pleasantly surprised. The biggest surprise may be that I've not yet had any major inclination to switch back to KDE3.
My biggest beef so far is that the KDE 4 taskbar weather applet always shows "N/A" for the temperature, even though it gets the sky conditions right, which might explain why the temperature's now only available in a tooltip rather than under the taskbar icon showing the current conditions like it did in KDE3.5.
Anyone know more on the specifics of the law here?
I meant to say 'knows'. Gods, the crap I am about to get from my grammar nazi anonymous fans.
Certifiable Grammar Nazi here to inform you that, no, you did *not* mean to say "knows" in this case. It's an infinitive and thus not conjugated.
Here's why: In everyday English, when asking a question, the "Do[es]..." is sometimes omitted, and so something like "Anyone know more...?" is heard/interpreted as "Does anyone know more...?"
As for Europe, what, you think that Europe was always the way it is today? Europe NEVER, not even today had "heavy handed centralized planning", save under the regimes of people like Marco, or the Communists, or the WWII losers. Rampant socialism didn't emerge until AFTER WWII. How do you think they developed BEFORE WWII?...
If you don't care to learn anything about history other than what your second grade homeroom teacher taught you, then fine, but you will always look like an idiot. You know, like you did just there, in your post.
You might try following your own advice. You can start by reading up on a fellow named Otto von Bismarck.
If you go to Dell's website, for example, you might find 10 different models of 15" laptops, and it won't be very clear what the difference is between models
And anything a geek cares about (max ram, HD slots - some come with one drive but hold more, and videocard range, as they show "common" config, usually base to go with the base price shown) is hidden from the comparison. But some details are in there most don't care about (i5 vs i5 where you have to look up processor codes to see what the differences are). And damn if half can be upgraded to "HD+" and a few to "Full HD" and you can't know until you try to configure every single one of them, though some comparison screens do show the difference, but not always, and not easily.
I hate Dell for that. I want to be able to put in some options, get some pull downs for other options, then given a choice of "this one has a numeric keypad, and the others don't" or "this one has 2xUSB 3.0 and the other has 4x USB 2.0" or whatever the difference is between the inspiron and latitude versions is when essentially identical configuration.
Desktops I'll buy online. Laptops I usually won't, for this very reason.
The "@" seems to be a Twitter carryover. It's not really needed on Facebook, as merely typing one of your friends' names is sufficient to have it auto-linked.
Same here. Between friends, colleagues, and relatives, I've got 6 of 7 continents covered.
I have about 230 friends on Facebook. All but about 20 of them I've met in real life. Those I haven't are colleagues with whom I've worked remotely but not yet had the opportunity to meet face to face.
I don't friend anybody who's not a real-life friend, colleague, or relative, or who's not someone I've collaborated with professionally. Nor do I feel the need to do so.
Go FUCK yourself, you anti-american scum! I'm so sick of people who don't like what our government is doing, taking it out on the American people. You're just a retarded, uneducated loser!
Maybe if we did something about our retarded, uneducated government, we wouldn't get flamed for it?
They really ought to consider re-naming it. Try installing it in - say - a junior high school some time. See how that goes over.
They can name it "Love Child Of roman_mir And APK" for all I care. I'm just glad to see they grew a brain cell and adopted single-window mode. Y'know, for human users.
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"There are no rock stars at Oracle".
that you don't have an IKEA?
Fuck IKEA--where does he live that doesn't have a Seven-Eleven?
>>>So you imply that because European world didn't know other cultures beyond what you see now,
No. I'm saying under the Roman Empire, they had the common tongue of Latin. Whether you were in Rome, or a thousand miles away in Britannia or Spain, you could communicate. AFTER the fall of Rome the single language diverged into dozens of tongues/dialects, and you could no longer communicate with a neighbor a mere hundred miles away. My point: Europe was better-off sharing one language that everyone spoke in 500 A.D. It provided commonality and community.
I'm willing to bet that someone who'd lived all their life in Italia then travelled to Hispania in 500 CE would find the local variant of "lingua Romana" to be virtually incomprehensible.
Much the same way as I discovered at the turn of the 21st century CE that America and Australia are two countries separated by the same language. :)
(With apologies to G.B. Shaw.)
...the system refuses to gracefully shut down or hibernate most of the times. Plus, the boot up time has gone up by 1 minute.
I've had almost exactly the opposite experience moving from 11.3 to 12.1. Boots a bit faster, and shutdown is about 3 times as fast.
My distro still supports and maintains KDE3--in fact, it's easier to choose and use it now in openSUSE 12.1 than it was with 11.3, where you had to add the repo and fix the config file for kdm manually--although I decided to give the default KDE 4.7 a try and have been (mostly) pleasantly surprised. The biggest surprise may be that I've not yet had any major inclination to switch back to KDE3.
My biggest beef so far is that the KDE 4 taskbar weather applet always shows "N/A" for the temperature, even though it gets the sky conditions right, which might explain why the temperature's now only available in a tooltip rather than under the taskbar icon showing the current conditions like it did in KDE3.5.
A philosophy degree worked just fine for getting more than one of my classmates into law school. Don't knock it.
Anyone know more on the specifics of the law here?
I meant to say 'knows'. Gods, the crap I am about to get from my grammar nazi anonymous fans.
Certifiable Grammar Nazi here to inform you that, no, you did *not* mean to say "knows" in this case. It's an infinitive and thus not conjugated.
Here's why: In everyday English, when asking a question, the "Do[es]..." is sometimes omitted, and so something like "Anyone know more...?" is heard/interpreted as "Does anyone know more...?"
s/make/sell/
But the part about the free lifetime replacement is true. They don't even ask for a receipt.
Nice theory, but in practice? I have a kid on another continent... and I still get to pay child support.
Try again.
We look forward to reading your book.
Judging what is child unsuitable content is not rocket science and it can be easily crowd sourced.
Ha. Haha. Hahaha. Ha.
You should be careful, people will think you're serious or something.
That's censorship.
So?
You're an idiot if you can't understand why censorship exists...
I am not an idiot and I do understand why censorship exists. It exists so that someone can exert control over me by controlling what I see and hear.
...and what benefits (not just the costs) it brings.
Yet you sidestep the question, "To whom are these benefits brought?"
actually i know of two people who received desktops as a part of an education program that sold them to pawn shops for drugs.
...Where they were later purchased by people who actually wanted to use them.
As for Europe, what, you think that Europe was always the way it is today? Europe NEVER, not even today had "heavy handed centralized planning", save under the regimes of people like Marco, or the Communists, or the WWII losers. Rampant socialism didn't emerge until AFTER WWII. How do you think they developed BEFORE WWII? ...
If you don't care to learn anything about history other than what your second grade homeroom teacher taught you, then fine, but you will always look like an idiot. You know, like you did just there, in your post.
You might try following your own advice. You can start by reading up on a fellow named Otto von Bismarck.
If you go to Dell's website, for example, you might find 10 different models of 15" laptops, and it won't be very clear what the difference is between models
And anything a geek cares about (max ram, HD slots - some come with one drive but hold more, and videocard range, as they show "common" config, usually base to go with the base price shown) is hidden from the comparison. But some details are in there most don't care about (i5 vs i5 where you have to look up processor codes to see what the differences are). And damn if half can be upgraded to "HD+" and a few to "Full HD" and you can't know until you try to configure every single one of them, though some comparison screens do show the difference, but not always, and not easily.
I hate Dell for that. I want to be able to put in some options, get some pull downs for other options, then given a choice of "this one has a numeric keypad, and the others don't" or "this one has 2xUSB 3.0 and the other has 4x USB 2.0" or whatever the difference is between the inspiron and latitude versions is when essentially identical configuration.
Desktops I'll buy online. Laptops I usually won't, for this very reason.
The "@" seems to be a Twitter carryover. It's not really needed on Facebook, as merely typing one of your friends' names is sufficient to have it auto-linked.
Same here. Between friends, colleagues, and relatives, I've got 6 of 7 continents covered.
I have about 230 friends on Facebook. All but about 20 of them I've met in real life. Those I haven't are colleagues with whom I've worked remotely but not yet had the opportunity to meet face to face.
I don't friend anybody who's not a real-life friend, colleague, or relative, or who's not someone I've collaborated with professionally. Nor do I feel the need to do so.
"Old" is often used colloquially to mean "former", "previous", "prior".
And this--even if true--completely absolves the current régime in Damascus of any wrongdoing, right?
Why not sue Elop himself?
Not likely to succeed unless you can persuade a court that he was acting on his own behalf rather than as an officer of the company, which is not very easy to do.
What's even worse is people who can't spell "parentheses". They should get life in the electric chair!
The AC is FUD-mongering on behalf of Oracle, pure and simple.
The AC gives himself completely away with, "If google loses... Certainly anyone invested in java in any way wins."
Huh? I was saying exactly the opposite, IMNSHO.
Go FUCK yourself, you anti-american scum! I'm so sick of people who don't like what our government is doing, taking it out on the American people. You're just a retarded, uneducated loser!
Maybe if we did something about our retarded, uneducated government, we wouldn't get flamed for it?
They really ought to consider re-naming it. Try installing it in - say - a junior high school some time. See how that goes over.
They can name it "Love Child Of roman_mir And APK" for all I care. I'm just glad to see they grew a brain cell and adopted single-window mode. Y'know, for human users.