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So I've noticed. Possibly the same shit(s)-for-brains who think(s) that "redundant" means "stupid/wrong" and so entertain(s) us by marking the first post in a thread (*not* one that says 'First Post!', either) that way.
...the "num lock" key is rather pointless for most desktop users - the numeric pad has been an integrated part of most all desktop keyboards since decades...
Do you even know what NumLock is for? It's to allow you to toggle your numeric keypad between numbers and positioning keys (arrows, PgUp, etc.).
As the user of a laptop with a numeric keypad (one of the reasons I bought the unit), I happen to find NumLock extremely useful. If you really don't care for its presence on your keyboard, I'll be happy to loan you a pair of pliers.
Amarok 2 had a major release that consistently failed to build a proper library (randomly missing tracks depending on the phase of the moon during import, ugly problems with extracting metadata), was prone to crash, and relies on Phonon for which there doesn't seem to be a reliable backend (xine can't even seek in FLAC of WavPack, gstreamer integration is sketchy at best).
... which is pretty much it for multimedia...
All the cool kids already know the 2-word answer for this one: "veal" + "sea".
Good to know. I've been doing all my network stuff from an xterm for a long time, but didn't know there was a valid reason for it other than my being too damned lazy to look for a GUI app.
Oh, gee, and I thought it was because every network manager I've tried has sucked arse. I'll stick with ifconfig and friends.
(This from an ex-Windows guy. Lo, how the mighty have fallen.)
You must be confusing ASCII with Unicode. Otherwise, you're basically saying that no language besides English* "matters", and there are only around 3 or 4 billion people who would disagree with you about that.
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*(Well, Dutch, Malay, and Bahasa Indonesia can also be written using ASCII only... but I somehow doubt you were thinking of any of those.)
And this would be a bad thing, assuming that it actually got spent on things like roads and schools and medical care?
I don't have a problem with paying the taxes here, since the Swedish government uses a good part of them on things that are actually beneficial to the country's residents (including me), and hasn't spent anything on waging wars in a couple of centuries.
True, some did. That doesn't mean that the Africans somehow caused or brought on themselves their own wide-scale exploitation at the hands of the European colonial powers, any more than there being a few pickpockets at T-Centralen means that everyone in Stockholm deserves to be thrown in prison.
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Miss the obvious sarcasm of the post to which you're responding, did you?
No need to read any further than parent. EOF.
"every variable is global" in JS
Bzzzzzzzzzzt -- wrong.
Scoping rules in JavaScript are very simple: Global variables are global, local variables are local.
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So I've noticed. Possibly the same shit(s)-for-brains who think(s) that "redundant" means "stupid/wrong" and so entertain(s) us by marking the first post in a thread (*not* one that says 'First Post!', either) that way.
It'll be a while before this 1.0.0 release filters down to users' desktops through their package managers...
Yeah, for me it was about 60 seconds after I saw this article.
Might have been 30, if I'd not typed "vcl" the first time. :)
It is, to us Yakuake users.
...the "num lock" key is rather pointless for most desktop users - the numeric pad has been an integrated part of most all desktop keyboards since decades...
Do you even know what NumLock is for? It's to allow you to toggle your numeric keypad between numbers and positioning keys (arrows, PgUp, etc.).
As the user of a laptop with a numeric keypad (one of the reasons I bought the unit), I happen to find NumLock extremely useful. If you really don't care for its presence on your keyboard, I'll be happy to loan you a pair of pliers.
Nicely said, but GP said absolutely nothing about the Earth's spin.
By "nationalise", you in fact mean "steal back".
TFTFY.
How often do you really boot either XP or Linux?
XP? Once or twice a week, maybe. Linux? 3 or 4 times a day.
So who really cares whether it takes 20 seconds or 10 minutes to boot either operating system?
Those of us using portables and working at multiple locations every day, perhaps?
What if you are German, or want to find German sites containing information on the number six (sex)?
s/German/Swedish/g
AC, you are my new King/Queen/Fido of Whoosh. Brilliant.
Amarok 2 had a major release that consistently failed to build a proper library (randomly missing tracks depending on the phase of the moon during import, ugly problems with extracting metadata), was prone to crash, and relies on Phonon for which there doesn't seem to be a reliable backend (xine can't even seek in FLAC of WavPack, gstreamer integration is sketchy at best).
... which is pretty much it for multimedia...
All the cool kids already know the 2-word answer for this one: "veal" + "sea".
Good to know. I've been doing all my network stuff from an xterm for a long time, but didn't know there was a valid reason for it other than my being too damned lazy to look for a GUI app.
Oh, gee, and I thought it was because every network manager I've tried has sucked arse. I'll stick with ifconfig and friends.
(This from an ex-Windows guy. Lo, how the mighty have fallen.)
...in his quality matrix, interacting with other people has a decidedly positive weight.
Um. Are you trying to say he doesn't want people using his computer but still wants to get laid?
Bought my laptop in Thailand.
The layout's actually standard US, but the extra Thai characters on all the keys freak everybody out. :)
(The next one, however, is quite likely to have a Swedish keyboard and layout. Only freak-out factor will be mine, trying to get used to it.)
wow thats a big icq number, noob :D
2951034
1009212.
Read 'em and weep, sonny boy. :)
So what you're really saying is that Europe will have them 10 years sooner and better than the US, like with what's happened with mobile phones?
... that the reviewer didn't look for 120 Days of Sodom , I guess.
Parent is not off-topic.
It's a quote from Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar .
You must be confusing ASCII with Unicode. Otherwise, you're basically saying that no language besides English* "matters", and there are only around 3 or 4 billion people who would disagree with you about that.
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*(Well, Dutch, Malay, and Bahasa Indonesia can also be written using ASCII only... but I somehow doubt you were thinking of any of those.)
And this would be a bad thing, assuming that it actually got spent on things like roads and schools and medical care?
I don't have a problem with paying the taxes here, since the Swedish government uses a good part of them on things that are actually beneficial to the country's residents (including me), and hasn't spent anything on waging wars in a couple of centuries.
Except freedom to keep most of what we earn, unfortunately.
Move to Sweden, then complain about taxes.
Most Americans wouldn't know real taxation if it came up and bit their faces off.
Are you stoned, or just stupid?
1. This has very little to do with character sets. Ever hear of "semantics" and "presentation"? And yes, Virginia, these do matter.
2. Those items aside, very few languages can be written correctly using only ASCII characters.
True, some did. That doesn't mean that the Africans somehow caused or brought on themselves their own wide-scale exploitation at the hands of the European colonial powers, any more than there being a few pickpockets at T-Centralen means that everyone in Stockholm deserves to be thrown in prison.