Had something similar happen to me about 10 years ago, only in my case, it was a moth. Kept flying around my head and face, I waved it away a couple of times, and then, suddenly, it just flew straight in like Luke Skywalker aiming for that exhaust vent in the Deathstar.
At the ER, the doc -- instead of getting down to business -- decided to be an complete moron and wasted about 15 minutes first, by asking me repeatedly *why* I'd let it get in there....As if I'd invited the little bastard in there for tea or something!
One of the few times I've ever come close to just completely losing the plot and throttling the life out of someone from sheer rage/fear/frustration.
I've long suggested sortition as an alternative to elections.
I've long thought we ought to take this one step further, and make public office unattractive enough that the "winners" of the lottery have to be drug kicking and screaming into it.:)
My point was that 'in future' did not require the 'correction' offered by aceofspades1217, since it was not incorrect to begin with. He said,
cmon how could you think "but in future countries" sounds okay. it should be...
This implies that 'in future' is wrong, and only an unsophisticated American would make such a claim. (If he'd complained about it being ambiguous, that would be a different matter. But he didn't.)
As for the refresher course in General American, I grew up speaking it -- well enough that I spent most of the 1990s working an a radio announcer. (I even still have my copy of the NBC Handbook.)
My point is that you fucked up because you couldn't be arsed to verify your search results -- a mistake made all the more glaring since the change was fairly well publicised -- and you got caught out. Just a little good-natured dig, nothing personal about it.
Your defensiveness (and your sig) just tend to mark you as a fanboi. Why don't you grow up a little, say "Oops, heheh, guessed I messed up there, didn't I?", enjoy the chuckle along with the rest of us, and move on?
Tip: There's this tech news aggregator site called "Slashdot". Makes it really easy to keep up with stuff like this. You should try reading it sometime.
You left out Windows 95 OSR C from the list of versions that you said you were leaving out.:)
Apparently not too many people ever had this (or ever even heard of it), but it's what came with the first PC I ever actually bought for myself. (As opposed to used machines I bought or had given to me by friends/relatives, or machines I used at work.)
(It was a Sony VAIO, BTW. 166MHz MMX CPU, 32 MB RAM, 1 GB disk. A fairly high-end machine for those days, too.)
I don't normally browse websites written in a language I can't understand.
1. The link text in the example I provided was in English.
2. I am not aware of any requirement that only one language may be used on a given website. If there is such a requirement, please inform my contacts on Facebook of this, because they post messages there in about 15 different languages using at least 4 different writing systems. (And I've posted there myself in 4 languages, including English.)
I still see an ignorant american that thinks the whole world should read and write english for people like dhermann.
1. See above.
2. So you are saying that you can read my mind? Perhaps this ability of yours needs some fine-tuning, since I never made any such assertion.
3. It's true that I still carry a US passport, but I've not lived there in many years.
NSFW has nothing to do with supporting more internationalization and it's all a cop out.
Nobody is "copping out", and if you seriously think I am opposed to internationalisation, you're barking up the wrong tree.
Nevertheless, dhermann is voicing what I believe is a legitimate concern, even more so for less sophisticated and experienced Internet users.
The answer to such concerns is, of course, education. Many people are not even aware that services like Google Translate are available.
In the meantime, I suggest you remove the chip from your shoulder. Not all Americans are alike, you know.
Are you really that dense? This has nothing to do with any deception by dhermann. Let me spell it out for you.
His boss may very well have no problem with him reading tech or news sites while he's at work.
Rather dhermann would prefer not to follow a link posted in a discussion at "forums.megaculenewhardwarereviews.com" like this one (yes, this really is NSFW!):
And have the boss red-alerted that dhermann's just paid a visit to PornTube using the company's Net connection.
This is bad enough with URL-shorteners (and one reason why I happen to detest them), but gets even worse when what appears in your status bar uses characters you can't even read.
Speaking of 'international'... FYI, outside the US, 'in future' is perfectly acceptable usage. In the UK and Australia it's generally preferred over 'in the future'.
I say you did it the right way, and should not listen to grammar Nazi trolls. Grammar and spelling only really matter when it would cause someone to misunderstand something.
Translation: "Clear communication doesn't matter. It is perfectly acceptable to expect your audience to burn up cycles performing your error-checking for you. If they get it wrong, what the hell, it's not your problem."
Checkbook? What is this "checkbook" of which you speak?
I haven't written a paper cheque in at least ten years. The only ones I ever see anymore are from my US publisher. Always causes a bit of a stir when I take one of them to my bank.
No, seriously -- invariably, my visit winds up with 3 or 4 tellers gathered round opposite me, saying things to each other like, "Wow, when was the last time you saw one of these?" and "Can you get me the procedures manual? I forget exactly how we're supposed to process these things."
I've worked in the past as a musician and songwriter, and I was in radio for most of a decade. I am a published author and editor, and currently make my living as a writer.
And I say this is utter horseshit.
People do not go to grocery stores to hear Muzak. They go there to buy food.
The radio stations and music services already pay royalties in any case, and places that play recorded music in-house have already paid for those recordings. And that's where it should end.
To take your model to its logical conclusion is to suggest that, because I can hear some kid's iPod on the train because he's got it cranked up loud enough to turn his brains into jelly, either he or I should pay royalties, which is preposterous. You may claim otherwise, but this is *exactly* where it leads.
Next, you'll be telling me I should pay a performance fee whenever I read to my daughter from a copyrighted book.
Disclaimer: 'Muzak' and 'iPod' are registered trademarks of their respective owners, and they are completely welcome to them.
Slashdot Mirror
Whoosh.
Isn't it about time for you to pour some hot grits down your pants, youngster?
Why not have parseable summaries?
Had something similar happen to me about 10 years ago, only in my case, it was a moth. Kept flying around my head and face, I waved it away a couple of times, and then, suddenly, it just flew straight in like Luke Skywalker aiming for that exhaust vent in the Deathstar.
At the ER, the doc -- instead of getting down to business -- decided to be an complete moron and wasted about 15 minutes first, by asking me repeatedly *why* I'd let it get in there. ...As if I'd invited the little bastard in there for tea or something!
One of the few times I've ever come close to just completely losing the plot and throttling the life out of someone from sheer rage/fear/frustration.
The TPB's own trackers have been down since forever, and are not likely to come back up.
Just de-select the TPB's trackers in your BT client and use one of the others; all torrents listed at TPB include alternative trackers.
Or at least this is what I have heard somewhere... ;)
I've long suggested sortition as an alternative to elections.
I've long thought we ought to take this one step further, and make public office unattractive enough that the "winners" of the lottery have to be drug kicking and screaming into it. :)
Perhaps.
But I'm not a coward.
So you're saying that you're also humour-impaired?
(Don't try to put me on the defensive, Quickdraw -- I'm not the one who set himself up for the joke.)
My point was that 'in future' did not require the 'correction' offered by aceofspades1217, since it was not incorrect to begin with. He said,
cmon how could you think "but in future countries" sounds okay. it should be...
This implies that 'in future' is wrong, and only an unsophisticated American would make such a claim. (If he'd complained about it being ambiguous, that would be a different matter. But he didn't.)
As for the refresher course in General American, I grew up speaking it -- well enough that I spent most of the 1990s working an a radio announcer. (I even still have my copy of the NBC Handbook.)
Touchy, aren't we?
"Ad hominem"?: I do not think that term means what you think it does.
My point is that you fucked up because you couldn't be arsed to verify your search results -- a mistake made all the more glaring since the change was fairly well publicised -- and you got caught out. Just a little good-natured dig, nothing personal about it.
Your defensiveness (and your sig) just tend to mark you as a fanboi. Why don't you grow up a little, say "Oops, heheh, guessed I messed up there, didn't I?", enjoy the chuckle along with the rest of us, and move on?
As for me, when I make an incredibly dumb mistake, I try to own up to it.
The White House - http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Oh, did you perhaps mean http://www.whitehouse.gov/index.php?
http://www.whitehouse.gov/index.asp and http://www.whitehouse.gov/index.aspx both return '404 Page Not Found'.
Interesting .Net app, that one. :)
Tip: There's this tech news aggregator site called "Slashdot". Makes it really easy to keep up with stuff like this. You should try reading it sometime.
You left out Windows 95 OSR C from the list of versions that you said you were leaving out. :)
Apparently not too many people ever had this (or ever even heard of it), but it's what came with the first PC I ever actually bought for myself. (As opposed to used machines I bought or had given to me by friends/relatives, or machines I used at work.)
(It was a Sony VAIO, BTW. 166MHz MMX CPU, 32 MB RAM, 1 GB disk. A fairly high-end machine for those days, too.)
I don't normally browse websites written in a language I can't understand.
1. The link text in the example I provided was in English.
2. I am not aware of any requirement that only one language may be used on a given website. If there is such a requirement, please inform my contacts on Facebook of this, because they post messages there in about 15 different languages using at least 4 different writing systems. (And I've posted there myself in 4 languages, including English.)
I still see an ignorant american that thinks the whole world should read and write english for people like dhermann.
1. See above.
2. So you are saying that you can read my mind? Perhaps this ability of yours needs some fine-tuning, since I never made any such assertion.
3. It's true that I still carry a US passport, but I've not lived there in many years.
NSFW has nothing to do with supporting more internationalization and it's all a cop out.
Nobody is "copping out", and if you seriously think I am opposed to internationalisation, you're barking up the wrong tree.
Nevertheless, dhermann is voicing what I believe is a legitimate concern, even more so for less sophisticated and experienced Internet users.
The answer to such concerns is, of course, education. Many people are not even aware that services like Google Translate are available.
In the meantime, I suggest you remove the chip from your shoulder. Not all Americans are alike, you know.
Are you really that dense? This has nothing to do with any deception by dhermann. Let me spell it out for you.
His boss may very well have no problem with him reading tech or news sites while he's at work.
Rather dhermann would prefer not to follow a link posted in a discussion at "forums.megaculenewhardwarereviews.com" like this one (yes, this really is NSFW!):
Here's a post on my blog with some test results I got using the new BrandX SSD.
And have the boss red-alerted that dhermann's just paid a visit to PornTube using the company's Net connection.
This is bad enough with URL-shorteners (and one reason why I happen to detest them), but gets even worse when what appears in your status bar uses characters you can't even read.
*Now* do you get it?
Mod +1 Troll
Apparently you haven't been here long, or you would know that a "troll" mod automatically carries a "-1". A mod of "+1 troll" doesn't make any sense.
Whoosh
Speaking of 'international'... FYI, outside the US, 'in future' is perfectly acceptable usage. In the UK and Australia it's generally preferred over 'in the future'.
100Mbit/s costs $30/month on Telia.
How do you manage that? They always bill me in kronor.
(Okay, I'm actually with B2, but I couldn't resist.)
I say you did it the right way, and should not listen to grammar Nazi trolls. Grammar and spelling only really matter when it would cause someone to misunderstand something.
Translation: "Clear communication doesn't matter. It is perfectly acceptable to expect your audience to burn up cycles performing your error-checking for you. If they get it wrong, what the hell, it's not your problem."
Guess I won't waste your time asking whether you liked David or Sammy better, then. ;)
...and the glorious Meept!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CHbFI2Ovc0
Checkbook? What is this "checkbook" of which you speak?
I haven't written a paper cheque in at least ten years. The only ones I ever see anymore are from my US publisher. Always causes a bit of a stir when I take one of them to my bank.
No, seriously -- invariably, my visit winds up with 3 or 4 tellers gathered round opposite me, saying things to each other like, "Wow, when was the last time you saw one of these?" and "Can you get me the procedures manual? I forget exactly how we're supposed to process these things."
I think there should be a sub-forum for those with UIDs of less than 10^4
There, fixed that for you.
Now get off of my lawn.
And in Soviet Russia, Natalie Portman pours... Oh forget, I never really thought she was all that hot, anyway.
"Good luck with that."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_zapper
I've worked in the past as a musician and songwriter, and I was in radio for most of a decade. I am a published author and editor, and currently make my living as a writer.
And I say this is utter horseshit.
People do not go to grocery stores to hear Muzak. They go there to buy food.
The radio stations and music services already pay royalties in any case, and places that play recorded music in-house have already paid for those recordings. And that's where it should end.
To take your model to its logical conclusion is to suggest that, because I can hear some kid's iPod on the train because he's got it cranked up loud enough to turn his brains into jelly, either he or I should pay royalties, which is preposterous. You may claim otherwise, but this is *exactly* where it leads.
Next, you'll be telling me I should pay a performance fee whenever I read to my daughter from a copyrighted book.
Disclaimer: 'Muzak' and 'iPod' are registered trademarks of their respective owners, and they are completely welcome to them.
False alarm.
The BBC's story has been amended to read, "has promised not to sell off MySQL to get the deal approved".