Yes, I agree. He should have put the items from the bottom left of the page to the top right, diagonally. That would be the most productive solution. I can't believe the OP didn't think of this.
I didn't know tang meant seaweed - to be honest, looking at the dictionary sites, most of them didn't either. I'd wager if most dictionaries don't list it, translator doesn't either, though I may be wrong. Besides, I think using a meaning of word that all dictionaries class as uncommonly used in a sentence which is ambiguous (tang could mean nearly anything there) is slightly disingenuous.
The odd bit, and what is weird that is going on is that translator does not translate tang in English to something more resembling its meaning in German. But, like I said before it could well have just balked on it. If that was your original point, so be it.
So, what would you do with liquid on the ground where you are? Drink it? Urine is not that dangerous either generally, at least not compared to just about any other bodily excretion, and loads of other things that aren't. And anyway, go out in London in the evening and you'll get the same effect... I'm doing that tomorrow - I'll be sure to note that it's just like being in Manila when I step over a puddle of piss.
It looks like what happened is that it just balked at tang, and didn't attempt to translate it to German at all. It does that when it doesn't have any clue what a word is. Since tang actually means something in German, it translated it back as that.
I do not trust ANYONE on the internet that I have not personally met in the flesh.
Like the previous poster said, what on earth do you do on the internet? I personally have never met _anyone_ in the flesh from computer suppliers I've bought from. The trust that I give them is because of their reputation and because of previous dealings, no more. I don't honestly understand why meeting them in the flesh would make a difference to that.
If there is a brand new start up company you are willing to take a chance on, it may be helpful to see their premises, estimate their revenues etc. Meeting sales reps from established companies is usually absolutely useless though.
I didn't actually say you were American, just that it seemed an American standpoint.
And arguing that Americans will be treated worse because of Gitmo and Abu Ghraib is rather silly. US soldiers have been tortured whenever they are captured because the governments they have been fighting have no problem with torture - they use it routinely against their domestic opponents.
Who use it routinely? Which governments use torture routinely on US soldiers?
Aside from that, it is most definately _not_ silly. _I_ am scared of a state which has places like Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, and I've done nothing wrong. I'm scared because some other people who have done nothing wrong have been put there. If you're not scared of that, I'm not sure what you would be scared of.
The rules on how we treat people only apply to citizens, if the US captures Taliban in Afghanistan they aren't covered by the US Constitution.
But the rules on how we treat people _are_ governed by the Geneva convention, and the US has been flouting that. If we start ignoring multinational treaties, soon all governments will have biological and/or nuclear weapons.
Claiming a war on terror _does not count_. Terror is an abstract... it's like claiming a war on clarity, or hopelessness.
What the hell does "Where's the perceptive?" mean? I'm not going grammar Nazi really here... I don't know if you mean "Where are the perceptive" or "Where is the perception". They mean different things.
So long as they only do it to foreigners I'm not too worried.
This worries me so much... it seems to be a particularly US view. You should care how your government treats others because other's governments may treat you the same. World trade is a fact of life, and Americans are foreigners everywhere but America.
But if the enemies of freedom won, we would literally live in a state under attack by own immune system as happened in Russian
Who were the enemies of freedom to Russia? And who are the enemies of freedom?
The major point of living in a modern democracy, as I see it, is that we treat people better. We have standards to live up to if we want to convert others to democracies. We _cannot_ point fingers at extremists and say "they did it first", then do the same things.
If you must be a grammar Nazi, please try to be an accurate grammar Nazi. Unless you really were try to say that Google loosed a billion. If so, why wasn't I informed?
(I assumed you were trying to be a grammar Nazi because of your use of quotation marks. On second reading, that could be just for emphasis. Anyway, my grammar Nazi point still stands;P)
the elections of Merkel in Germany, Sarkozy in France, and Gordon Brown in the UK
Gordon Brown wasn't elected in. Blair just resigned and Brown was the only person to stand for Labour Leader. I'm not certain where you get the idea he's less socialist than those before him either. I can't think of a Prime Minister in more than the last quarter a century more socialist than Brown
It's not about pronunciation, it's about spelling and grammar. "Here here" is pronounced identically to "Hear hear". Pronunciation is the main problem in my opinion, especially with a word like "lose". For example, how do you pronounce "nose", "pose" and just about every other "ose" word? They all follow that pronunciation, except for lose. If you want to get onto pronunciation, buoy has one syllable, and Aluminium has four. However, English has been taken over, and Firefox is telling me that Aluminium was spelt wrong. It's even telling me I spelt spelt wrong now. I know I'm fighting a "loosing" battle, but "its" tough to take.
The two things that annoy me most now are "walla" and "noone". I did actually make the latter mistake when I was 11 or so, but I was corrected.
far too many ambiguous ones where you have no idea what they're advertising
I like playing a game with these adverts - the game is to see how long they can last without the viewer having any idea of what they're advertising. I've played the game with my family, and we've come up with as diverse things as tampons, a car, or glasses, for the same ad. Some ads are literally entirely unrelated to the company they're advertising - it's amazing. It is worth doing for ads the first time you see them - unfortunately, you'll see the same ad 3000 times again.
But if 8-year-old Billy or 8-year-old Jenny is exposed to graphic, overt sexual content (violent pornography, adults attempting to sexualize them), I do care, because the last time I checked the data, the consensus was that said exposure could be traumatizing.
Sorry, I know this is an old discussion, but I couldn't let this pass.
Violent pornography was not what we were talking about at all. I'm all for people doing what they do in their own homes, and having the freedom to do it, but this is not what is being talked about. Sex is what is being talked about, and equating sex to violence in any way is worrying.
I don't know what you are getting at with adults trying to "sexualize" kids, it seems like an Oprah title. It doesn't mean anything - kids know of sex to some degree or another all through their lives wherever they are.
I'm sorry... but where do you think people used to have sex instead of their houses? Parents have been starting to find creative ways to not expose children to sex only for the last couple of hundred years, like I said.
I don't know why I'm replying to someone completely OT who was replying to two trolling Anonymous cowards...
Firstly, don't feed the trolls.
Secondly, people who just drop cigarette butts sometimes have nowhere else to put them. I know that when I smoked, I didn't just drop them - I looked for a bin, or one of those smoking things, and would actively search out somewhere to get rid of my cigarette butt. Others thought me stupid, but I find littering in all it's forms offensive. I often ended up with butts in pockets so that I could throw them away later. More bins are very useful for people who just drop otherwise. Some people will be inconsiderate with litter whether they are smokers or not, it's just easy to blame smokers and categorise them all for their obvious debris, whereas it's not as easy to pinpoint the general litterer.
I bet Slashdot wouldn't be prepared for all of its users connecting at the same time, either. But it needs not to. It is never going to happen (why should it?)
I believe you are discounting the possibility of the actuality of Natalie Portman and Hot Grits.
That's funny - most power gamers I've _ever_ known did their own hardware. People who just wanted a decent gaming system without any hassle went to places like Alienware.
I'm kind of a power gamer, but I wouldn't touch a pre-made system because I know and enjoy the hardware. If you don't know what you've got and don't know how to manipulate it to your advantage, you lose a bit, and thus lose a bit as a power gamer.
If you've got money to burn, and are a power gamer, by all means grab an Alienware system every 6 months. If not, look into the hardware, and have a great system for a lot longer than that, like all true power gamers do.
I actually just created the system I would like on a UK website. It came to £1100 or so (excluding building, I think they charge £100 or so for that). I checked the same system (with options, making them lower categorically except for their windows install) at Alienware, and it came to £1700 or so. I'm not going to accused of shilling for this website, so I'm not going to say the name.
Alienware are expensive, but what they do do is important, I think. They emphasize the importance of getting a decent graphics card if you do now or ever will play a game other than solitaire on your computer. Most PC's sold now will play modern games very poorly. This makes people think that everything's progressing so fast, that they can't keep up, and have to buy a new PC every year. What is generally the case is that they're sold a decent computer with a crap graphics card.
I'm still currently using my AMD 2100+, with my ti4200. I'm not a luddite, I know it's old and obsolete, that is why I am getting a new computer soon. However, I did some research on which card and processor to buy _years_ ago, and now I still can play lots of modern games (my old 64mb ti4200 performs better than some 7x series cards in some games). Like I said, I am getting with the times now, but I'm making sure I buy sensibly.
Anyway, I'm going to build my PC - Firstly, because I can't get the exact configuration I want with pre-built systems (eg Alienware don't offer a RAID 5 system that I know of). Secondly, because I can get the system I want cheaper than a close approximation to my system. And thirdly, because I enjoy building cool systems.
otherwise, the chinese deserve international sanctions for losing some of our shared world species diversity. it should be a un mandate with economic consequences that countries are responsible for the lifeblood of the species in their territories
I absolutely agree - see, for example this list of animals made extinct. Sanctions are too good for them.
Sexualizing children at an early age is outright abuse, and it is profoundly harmful. (By "sexualizing children", I mean graphic pornography, or direct sexual contact; not "birds and bees" discussions.)
You do know how people used to (and in some cases still do) live, right? Entire families in one room. This means that kids were usually exposed directly to sex (of their parents) for their entire childhoods. And this was the case for most of humanity over our entire history, up until a couple of hundred years ago or so. Funnily enough, it's only really in the last couple of hundred years we've become so uptight about sex and children's proximity to it too. Claiming what humanity has done habitually for most of its existence is abuse is plain wrong.
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Yes, I agree. He should have put the items from the bottom left of the page to the top right, diagonally. That would be the most productive solution. I can't believe the OP didn't think of this.
I didn't know tang meant seaweed - to be honest, looking at the dictionary sites, most of them didn't either. I'd wager if most dictionaries don't list it, translator doesn't either, though I may be wrong. Besides, I think using a meaning of word that all dictionaries class as uncommonly used in a sentence which is ambiguous (tang could mean nearly anything there) is slightly disingenuous.
The odd bit, and what is weird that is going on is that translator does not translate tang in English to something more resembling its meaning in German. But, like I said before it could well have just balked on it. If that was your original point, so be it.
So, what would you do with liquid on the ground where you are? Drink it? Urine is not that dangerous either generally, at least not compared to just about any other bodily excretion, and loads of other things that aren't. And anyway, go out in London in the evening and you'll get the same effect... I'm doing that tomorrow - I'll be sure to note that it's just like being in Manila when I step over a puddle of piss.
It looks like what happened is that it just balked at tang, and didn't attempt to translate it to German at all. It does that when it doesn't have any clue what a word is. Since tang actually means something in German, it translated it back as that.
Grammar nazi alert
It's affected in that context. Generally it is very simple - effect = noun*, affect = verb.
*Yes you can use effect as a verb, but it means something else.
A true LOL... Well done, sir.
I do not trust ANYONE on the internet that I have not personally met in the flesh.
Like the previous poster said, what on earth do you do on the internet? I personally have never met _anyone_ in the flesh from computer suppliers I've bought from. The trust that I give them is because of their reputation and because of previous dealings, no more. I don't honestly understand why meeting them in the flesh would make a difference to that.
If there is a brand new start up company you are willing to take a chance on, it may be helpful to see their premises, estimate their revenues etc. Meeting sales reps from established companies is usually absolutely useless though.
I didn't actually say you were American, just that it seemed an American standpoint.
And arguing that Americans will be treated worse because of Gitmo and Abu Ghraib is rather silly. US soldiers have been tortured whenever they are captured because the governments they have been fighting have no problem with torture - they use it routinely against their domestic opponents.
Who use it routinely? Which governments use torture routinely on US soldiers?
Aside from that, it is most definately _not_ silly. _I_ am scared of a state which has places like Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, and I've done nothing wrong. I'm scared because some other people who have done nothing wrong have been put there. If you're not scared of that, I'm not sure what you would be scared of.
The rules on how we treat people only apply to citizens, if the US captures Taliban in Afghanistan they aren't covered by the US Constitution.
But the rules on how we treat people _are_ governed by the Geneva convention, and the US has been flouting that. If we start ignoring multinational treaties, soon all governments will have biological and/or nuclear weapons.
Claiming a war on terror _does not count_. Terror is an abstract... it's like claiming a war on clarity, or hopelessness.
In my haste I missed the fact it was just a misspelling of perspective rather than perceptive. Mod me down if you like.
What the hell does "Where's the perceptive?" mean? I'm not going grammar Nazi really here... I don't know if you mean "Where are the perceptive" or "Where is the perception". They mean different things.
So long as they only do it to foreigners I'm not too worried.
This worries me so much... it seems to be a particularly US view. You should care how your government treats others because other's governments may treat you the same. World trade is a fact of life, and Americans are foreigners everywhere but America.
But if the enemies of freedom won, we would literally live in a state under attack by own immune system as happened in Russian
Who were the enemies of freedom to Russia? And who are the enemies of freedom?
The major point of living in a modern democracy, as I see it, is that we treat people better. We have standards to live up to if we want to convert others to democracies. We _cannot_ point fingers at extremists and say "they did it first", then do the same things.
If you must be a grammar Nazi, please try to be an accurate grammar Nazi. Unless you really were try to say that Google loosed a billion. If so, why wasn't I informed?
(I assumed you were trying to be a grammar Nazi because of your use of quotation marks. On second reading, that could be just for emphasis. Anyway, my grammar Nazi point still stands ;P)
the elections of Merkel in Germany, Sarkozy in France, and Gordon Brown in the UK
Gordon Brown wasn't elected in. Blair just resigned and Brown was the only person to stand for Labour Leader. I'm not certain where you get the idea he's less socialist than those before him either. I can't think of a Prime Minister in more than the last quarter a century more socialist than Brown
It's not about pronunciation, it's about spelling and grammar. "Here here" is pronounced identically to "Hear hear". Pronunciation is the main problem in my opinion, especially with a word like "lose". For example, how do you pronounce "nose", "pose" and just about every other "ose" word? They all follow that pronunciation, except for lose. If you want to get onto pronunciation, buoy has one syllable, and Aluminium has four. However, English has been taken over, and Firefox is telling me that Aluminium was spelt wrong. It's even telling me I spelt spelt wrong now. I know I'm fighting a "loosing" battle, but "its" tough to take.
The two things that annoy me most now are "walla" and "noone". I did actually make the latter mistake when I was 11 or so, but I was corrected.
far too many ambiguous ones where you have no idea what they're advertising
I like playing a game with these adverts - the game is to see how long they can last without the viewer having any idea of what they're advertising. I've played the game with my family, and we've come up with as diverse things as tampons, a car, or glasses, for the same ad. Some ads are literally entirely unrelated to the company they're advertising - it's amazing. It is worth doing for ads the first time you see them - unfortunately, you'll see the same ad 3000 times again.
But if 8-year-old Billy or 8-year-old Jenny is exposed to graphic, overt sexual content (violent pornography, adults attempting to sexualize them), I do care, because the last time I checked the data, the consensus was that said exposure could be traumatizing.
Sorry, I know this is an old discussion, but I couldn't let this pass.
Violent pornography was not what we were talking about at all. I'm all for people doing what they do in their own homes, and having the freedom to do it, but this is not what is being talked about. Sex is what is being talked about, and equating sex to violence in any way is worrying.
I don't know what you are getting at with adults trying to "sexualize" kids, it seems like an Oprah title. It doesn't mean anything - kids know of sex to some degree or another all through their lives wherever they are.
I'm sorry... but where do you think people used to have sex instead of their houses? Parents have been starting to find creative ways to not expose children to sex only for the last couple of hundred years, like I said.
I don't know why I'm replying to someone completely OT who was replying to two trolling Anonymous cowards...
Firstly, don't feed the trolls.
Secondly, people who just drop cigarette butts sometimes have nowhere else to put them. I know that when I smoked, I didn't just drop them - I looked for a bin, or one of those smoking things, and would actively search out somewhere to get rid of my cigarette butt. Others thought me stupid, but I find littering in all it's forms offensive. I often ended up with butts in pockets so that I could throw them away later. More bins are very useful for people who just drop otherwise. Some people will be inconsiderate with litter whether they are smokers or not, it's just easy to blame smokers and categorise them all for their obvious debris, whereas it's not as easy to pinpoint the general litterer.
I bet Slashdot wouldn't be prepared for all of its users connecting at the same time, either. But it needs not to. It is never going to happen (why should it?)
I believe you are discounting the possibility of the actuality of Natalie Portman and Hot Grits.
That's funny - most power gamers I've _ever_ known did their own hardware. People who just wanted a decent gaming system without any hassle went to places like Alienware.
I'm kind of a power gamer, but I wouldn't touch a pre-made system because I know and enjoy the hardware. If you don't know what you've got and don't know how to manipulate it to your advantage, you lose a bit, and thus lose a bit as a power gamer.
If you've got money to burn, and are a power gamer, by all means grab an Alienware system every 6 months. If not, look into the hardware, and have a great system for a lot longer than that, like all true power gamers do.
I actually just created the system I would like on a UK website. It came to £1100 or so (excluding building, I think they charge £100 or so for that). I checked the same system (with options, making them lower categorically except for their windows install) at Alienware, and it came to £1700 or so. I'm not going to accused of shilling for this website, so I'm not going to say the name.
Alienware are expensive, but what they do do is important, I think. They emphasize the importance of getting a decent graphics card if you do now or ever will play a game other than solitaire on your computer. Most PC's sold now will play modern games very poorly. This makes people think that everything's progressing so fast, that they can't keep up, and have to buy a new PC every year. What is generally the case is that they're sold a decent computer with a crap graphics card.
I'm still currently using my AMD 2100+, with my ti4200. I'm not a luddite, I know it's old and obsolete, that is why I am getting a new computer soon. However, I did some research on which card and processor to buy _years_ ago, and now I still can play lots of modern games (my old 64mb ti4200 performs better than some 7x series cards in some games). Like I said, I am getting with the times now, but I'm making sure I buy sensibly.
Anyway, I'm going to build my PC - Firstly, because I can't get the exact configuration I want with pre-built systems (eg Alienware don't offer a RAID 5 system that I know of). Secondly, because I can get the system I want cheaper than a close approximation to my system. And thirdly, because I enjoy building cool systems.
Each to their own, anyway.
otherwise, the chinese deserve international sanctions for losing some of our shared world species diversity. it should be a un mandate with economic consequences that countries are responsible for the lifeblood of the species in their territories
I absolutely agree - see, for example this list of animals made extinct. Sanctions are too good for them.
Sexualizing children at an early age is outright abuse, and it is profoundly harmful. (By "sexualizing children", I mean graphic pornography, or direct sexual contact; not "birds and bees" discussions.)
You do know how people used to (and in some cases still do) live, right? Entire families in one room. This means that kids were usually exposed directly to sex (of their parents) for their entire childhoods. And this was the case for most of humanity over our entire history, up until a couple of hundred years ago or so. Funnily enough, it's only really in the last couple of hundred years we've become so uptight about sex and children's proximity to it too. Claiming what humanity has done habitually for most of its existence is abuse is plain wrong.
"I don't trust no one" means you trust everyone.
Technically, no it doesn't. It means you trust someone, not necessarily everyone.
As has previosly been mentioned : http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/04/04 23_030423_crowtools.html