I expect more people round those times were blogging things like 'I can't wait until we break up for christmas''
a) They put that in their relationship status?
b) You really think the researches didn't at least skim the data to see if there was a huge spike of "break up for the holidays" jamming through the data? I know we like to jump on research methodogy at every chance on/. but as often as not the researchers actually did some of this elementary double checking sort of stuff. The fact that it didn't get mentioned on some 2 paragraph/. summary or even the puff piece that passes as the full article doesn't mean it didn't happen.
To finish off that hopelessly confusing statement, the Dutch (who call themselves Nederlanders) come from a country which English-speaking people call the Netherlands
Nope the confusion isn't remotely finished yet:
Most of the english speaking people I know call the country the Dutch come from Holland. To ratchet up the confusion even further, Holland is a province in the Netherlands.
If your girlfriend/wife/whatever is using Facebook and you are not, you need to get an account. Trust me on this
Sad but true. As much as I personally despise facebook.
The parent doesn't say why... and I don't really know how to elaborate on it without coming off a creepy jealous stalker-boyfriend, but try and imagine all her ex-boyfriends, and all the guys she's ever met that she liked but never dated, and throw in half of their friends too... and then have them all calling to chat and flirt with her on a daily basis...
I'm not saying your girlfriend/wife/fiancee is looking to cheat on you, but there's often a swarm of people on her friends list that would very much like her to.... without being creepy stalker guy I'm just saying its generally for the best if couples are a "couple" online in an environment like that.
Relationships need trust, and people need their own space... but just being there and being part of it makes a difference; it can change the tone of the environment to a more healthy one.
I'd be slightly surprised if the actual rate *you* would be offered for an actual loan changed. It's too easy to use another browser.
I wouldn't be. I applied for a mortgage once at the bank i usually deal with, thought i could do better, and hired a mortgage broker to find me a good deal... ended up going with my original bank, through the broker, at a better rate. Apparently, I'm a better risk for having for having used a broker.
Sounds like a circular argument. If they were brought into court and ordered to remotely kill, and had the capability, they would have to. But if they didn't have the capability, they couldn't be ordered to, because they couldn't do it.
That's exactly right.
And the bootstrap to get it in isn't circular.
As a hypothetical example:
MPAA would like to be able to get court orders to kill-switch apps they think violate their copyright. (Like unathorized movie-fan apps... or matrix themed clocks or whatever...)
Microsoft wants a license to implement HDMI, DVD playback, and so forth.
MPAA makes implementing a remote kill switch on its mobile platform a condition of receiving that license.
Microsoft implements it, gets there license.
MPAA later sues app-maker for infringement, and obtains a court order to kill-switch it, because now Microsoft can.
Seriously, when the hell does anyone need to remotely kill some app on your phone?... Yeah, I thought so.
When a court orders them to do so.
Up until now, they've been able to say that they can't. Now that they can, its only a matter of time before they are compelled to.
So why did they implement this? Probably to gain the support of precisely the people who will take them court to get a court order requiring them to use it. You know what, I don't really even blame Microsoft.
Giving it some real thought I can't come up with a single application the average home user would need that couldn't be run from the cloud right there in a web browser
The average home user would like to sync their ipod to their music libary. I'm willing to bet at least one of you, your father, your mother, or your sister even do this.
You also mentioned you like to "sort out photos"; that's another good example. Even My 8 year old daughters camera does video and has a 4GB card. She likes to sync her camera, and organize her photos and videos too. It takes a few minutes to sync... syncing to 'the cloud' would take hours.
I'd rather user Chrome OS and Google Docs, they are for the average joe functionally identical, except for the benefits that google docs brings of being able to access your documents from anywhere.
We were saving documents to network accessible storage in 1998 too. We didn't need google or chrome for that.
I'm not saying web-accessible stuff is bad. I like having webmail as back up access to my email. That's awesome. I sure as hell don't want to give up my local desktop client though.
You hang on to your computers, I for one look forward to buying one of these document typing / web surfing appliances.
I see the merit in little computing appliances as much as the next person. A webbrowser for sitting on the couch instead of a full laptop makes a lot of sense... but if I am serious about writing a real document (my thesis for example) I find even a laptop restrictive. I want a comfortable keyboard, lots of screen real-estate, and so on.
In 2010-2011, you can write highly functional applications using HTML5 and Javascript, make them installable on your web browser, and have them work offline.
I'd say Windows 98 is more highly functional than html5 and javascript.
This is not 1999.
Quite right, you said it yourself... its almost 2011. Why are you trying to promote a technology that's on not even on par in terms of functionality and user experience with what was available in 1999.
I'm well aware that chromeos will work offline. But if docment editing is the criteria I'd rather use Office 98 on Windows 98 than ChromeOS offline... or even online for that matter.
But fortunately Office98 on Win 98 isn't even the alternative I'm faced with; the actual alternative is Microsoft Office on {Snow Leopard or Windows 7} or LibreOffice on {Windows 7, Snow Leopoard, or Ubuntu.}.
Please stop assuming the Web is as it was when you were in junior high.
Not a problem. In junior high I used a TRS-80. The internet existed, but there was no http yet. You really have to stop pretending the Web is a modern operating system. Its come a long way in the last 15 to 20 years, but its not there yet.
Sometimes letting the body fight off a cold, or small virus is better than trying to beat it. It helps our immune system "buck up" and keep us healthy the next time a little invader hits us. The other thing that just gets me ticked is people NOT WASHING THEIR HANDS when they use the restroom.
To paraphrase:
Its a good for the immune system to get some exposure to disease. Wash your hands to make sure you don't get exposed to disease.
Both points might be valid, but it strikes me that they don't really belong right next to each other like that without some sort of explanation.
Fixed networks worked just fine for the problems that businesses faced and its incorrect to assume that when businesses started to expand and need networks like the US government needed back in the late 60s they wouldn't have created something very similar if not exactly like the ARPANET and eventually expand it to something almost exactly like the internet we have now.
ROFLMAO.
Sorry I disagree. I disagree because its pretty miraculous we got the internet at all,
The internet would not exist if corporations created it.
Under GPL if I add something useful and extend the program, I have to also post those changes under GPL. I may not want to do that. BSD gives me the freedom to do as I wish. BSD is far more free than GPL.
Why would I bother developing something just to keep it to myself? I would only develop something to sell myself, or something my employer could use. GPL doesn't let me do either without giving away how I did it by releasing the source code.
And the canonical counter argument is that the only thing BSD let you do that GPL didn't was to enable you to deprive users of your BSD derived software the VERY FREEDOMS you claim make it superior.
While GPL would enable and ensure that users of software derived from it was still free.
GPL ensures the software STAYS free by restricting your ability to change the license with derived software. BSD gives you the freedom to change the license, and inevitably leads to users of derived software having restricted licenses.
Indeed your desire to deny users of derived software the same freedoms you enjoyed was precisely the reason you prefer BSD. It absurd on its face to argue that something is more free if its principle benefit is to deny freedom to others. Net freedom is clearly harmed by such a system.
I like the BSD license, and it has its place. But the BSD is to freedom as a monarchy is to freedom. The only time its "far more free" is if you happen to be the monarch. For everyone else, well... you better hope the monarch doesn't have it in for you.
Unless they "helpfully" stuck the whole thing into a rar or zip first.:(
PS is there a way to get the 'submit' button back? -- I just have 'preview, quote parent, options, cancel' now when I try to reply. I DO NOT WANT to preview every bloody time I post.:(
Yep, you... and approximately nobody else, so it doesn't matter what you do.
Hey, I'm on your side here, but in the wider world? Nobody cares. I've tried to convince my friends of this and it just doesn't work. It's the trendy thing and they're gonna buy it. Thinking towards the future doesn't matter when you can get that shiny today.
I didn't buy it either, and would have if they'd been more consumer friendly.
And as for the new shiny? Fallout Las Vegas is the new shiny... Starcraft 2 is already a fading memory. I'll pick it up in a discount bin maybe. They missed their chance getting full price out of me. Do they care? Probably not... but the sentiment is mutual.
And WTF is with/. forcing me to preview now? I don't need to preview every post I make. The box I'm typing into right now is preview enough for a plaintext post.
Besides, it's totally impractical. 15 seconds per scan? Useless in open traffic. Useless at a major event (15 sec x 10000 cars = 2 days in line to be searched).
Fortunately its a parallelizable problem.
15 sec x 10000 cars / 48 vans = 1 hour in line to be searched. 15 sec x 10000 cars / 96 vans = 30 minutes in line
Plus they could scan every second car and cut those times in half again. Sure they'll only hit 50% percent of the traffic, but few criminals will tolerate a 50/50 shot of being busted on the spot; so its still an effective deterrent.
Not that I'm defending these things. Advocates of this sort of use of technology ought to doused in gasoline and driven off a cliff... preferably in one of these vans, killing two birds with one stone.
@astrellon what kind of OS allows a userland application to cause a #BSOD?
I wouldn't be surprised if iTunes dug deeper than being a 'userland' application. In fact, I'd actually be surprised if it was. Its got all sorts of OS/driver hooks for DRM (legacy AAC), HDCP, etc), plus of course all the iphone/ipod/ipad sync stuff...
Strictly speaking it might not be itunes causing the bsod, and might be any number of drivers that itunes installs/uses... same difference to the user.
Actually, it often runs SLOWER if you turn off the aero interface. If your GPU can do your desktop rendering, let it. You did say 'older' hardware, and that can mean just about anything, but a lot of what I consider 'older hardware' is better with Aero on.
But I agree with the sentiments that the submission is an apple fanboi. I'm writing this on a macbook pro but itunes is anything but archtypical good design. Its a music library manager, and ipod/iphone sync tool... already the two should be separate. Lets tack on a web browser type thing (iTMs) except its not really the web that it browses, its apples proprietary alternative. What a great idea! How can we make this less appealing? How about a social network!! Hello pointless bloat that makes office look lean and task-focused.
As if that's not enough, lets name it Ping! It rhymes with Bing! from Microsoft and also happens to be named the same as a standard network utility.
Oh, and one more thing, lets violate the user interface standard by making the window control widgets smaller than normal and arrange them vertically instead of horizontally too. Steve Job's would blow a gasket if someone else dared to violate his beloved UI standard.
If Microsoft wrote iTunes people would point at it as a symbol of everything that is wrong with Microsoft.
Say, I have $1000 and there is 100,000 in circulation. That means my share of the total wealth is 1/100. Now if the Fed pumps in another 100,000 my share is suddenly 1/200.
That's why wealthy people don't have a lot of cash. Wealth is measured in dollars, but only a fool would keep his wealth IN actual dollars. Dollars are not a store of wealth, they are convenient for transactions.
A plot of land, a herd of cattle, a gold bar, a factory,... if the fed pumps in another 100,000 the valuation of these assets just goes up in dollars. Your real wealth is unaffected.
Its simple. If you hold the money supply constant while the population quadruples you create a currency shortage. No different than if you held anything else constant... housing for example.
Bottom line, you can't hold currency constant.
You think people benefit because now they have to spend $500 to get a business suit instead of the $5 it cost in 1910? Or ~$200/week on food instead of the ~$2 it used to cost? If you do think that's beneficial, then you're no better than the corporations.
I didn't say this benefits people. I just said holding it constant doesn't. So to sum up: Not expanding it causes problems. Expanding it to much causes problems.
Put another way: If they had held the money supply constant, as they did in the 1800s, then a candybar would still cost just 1 penny. A man's business suit would still be just $5. And so on.
If they'd held the money supply constant, things would be pretty out of whack by now simply due to the population expansion.
76 million people in 1900 with all the currency distributed amongst them... 300+ million people now... that means the currency is going to be distributed a lot more thinly... better hope a business suit doesn't cost $5. Few would be able to afford it.
hahahahahahahahahahaahaha! Hilarious. Look it up in a real dictionary (one with research staff, linguists, historians, etc) and your dog nor any other animal is sentient by their definition.
Perhaps next time you should look it up before you make an ass of yourself.
People always complain that food at weddings is really bland. Of course, you don't want to start with a high baseline of seasoning when cooking for a crowd. And then again, maybe most catering halls just really suck.
I've been to several weddings with simply fantastic food.
And then again, maybe most catering halls just really suck.
Like anything, you get what you pay for. With the caveat that paying a lot doesn't guarantee you get anything good.
But take a reasonable budget and sensible menu choices with a good caterer -- and you get great food.
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I expect more people round those times were blogging things like 'I can't wait until we break up for christmas''
a) They put that in their relationship status?
b) You really think the researches didn't at least skim the data to see if there was a huge spike of "break up for the holidays" jamming through the data? I know we like to jump on research methodogy at every chance on /. but as often as not the researchers actually did some of this elementary double checking sort of stuff. The fact that it didn't get mentioned on some 2 paragraph /. summary or even the puff piece that passes as the full article doesn't mean it didn't happen.
To finish off that hopelessly confusing statement, the Dutch (who call themselves Nederlanders) come from a country which English-speaking people call the Netherlands
Nope the confusion isn't remotely finished yet:
Most of the english speaking people I know call the country the Dutch come from Holland.
To ratchet up the confusion even further, Holland is a province in the Netherlands.
If your girlfriend/wife/whatever is using Facebook and you are not, you need to get an account. Trust me on this
Sad but true. As much as I personally despise facebook.
The parent doesn't say why... and I don't really know how to elaborate on it without coming off a creepy jealous stalker-boyfriend, but try and imagine all her ex-boyfriends, and all the guys she's ever met that she liked but never dated, and throw in half of their friends too... and then have them all calling to chat and flirt with her on a daily basis...
I'm not saying your girlfriend/wife/fiancee is looking to cheat on you, but there's often a swarm of people on her friends list that would very much like her to.... without being creepy stalker guy I'm just saying its generally for the best if couples are a "couple" online in an environment like that.
Relationships need trust, and people need their own space... but just being there and being part of it makes a difference; it can change the tone of the environment to a more healthy one.
I'd be slightly surprised if the actual rate *you* would be offered for an actual loan changed. It's too easy to use another browser.
I wouldn't be. I applied for a mortgage once at the bank i usually deal with, thought i could do better, and hired a mortgage broker to find me a good deal... ended up going with my original bank, through the broker, at a better rate. Apparently, I'm a better risk for having for having used a broker.
This is why one hires a mortgage broken and gets a pre approval before one even starts shopping.
Its not like purchasing a house is an impulse buy, so prepare. Even a quarter point of interest is well worth it on a mortgage.
Sounds like a circular argument. If they were brought into court and ordered to remotely kill, and had the capability, they would have to. But if they didn't have the capability, they couldn't be ordered to, because they couldn't do it.
That's exactly right.
And the bootstrap to get it in isn't circular.
As a hypothetical example:
MPAA would like to be able to get court orders to kill-switch apps they think violate their copyright. (Like unathorized movie-fan apps... or matrix themed clocks or whatever...)
Microsoft wants a license to implement HDMI, DVD playback, and so forth.
MPAA makes implementing a remote kill switch on its mobile platform a condition of receiving that license.
Microsoft implements it, gets there license.
MPAA later sues app-maker for infringement, and obtains a court order to kill-switch it, because now Microsoft can.
Seriously, when the hell does anyone need to remotely kill some app on your phone? ... Yeah, I thought so.
When a court orders them to do so.
Up until now, they've been able to say that they can't. Now that they can, its only a matter of time before they are compelled to.
So why did they implement this? Probably to gain the support of precisely the people who will take them court to get a court order requiring them to use it. You know what, I don't really even blame Microsoft.
Giving it some real thought I can't come up with a single application the average home user would need that couldn't be run from the cloud right there in a web browser
The average home user would like to sync their ipod to their music libary. I'm willing to bet at least one of you, your father, your mother, or your sister even do this.
You also mentioned you like to "sort out photos"; that's another good example. Even My 8 year old daughters camera does video and has a 4GB card. She likes to sync her camera, and organize her photos and videos too. It takes a few minutes to sync... syncing to 'the cloud' would take hours.
I'd rather user Chrome OS and Google Docs, they are for the average joe functionally identical, except for the benefits that google docs brings of being able to access your documents from anywhere.
We were saving documents to network accessible storage in 1998 too. We didn't need google or chrome for that.
I'm not saying web-accessible stuff is bad. I like having webmail as back up access to my email. That's awesome. I sure as hell don't want to give up my local desktop client though.
You hang on to your computers, I for one look forward to buying one of these document typing / web surfing appliances.
I see the merit in little computing appliances as much as the next person. A webbrowser for sitting on the couch instead of a full laptop makes a lot of sense... but if I am serious about writing a real document (my thesis for example) I find even a laptop restrictive. I want a comfortable keyboard, lots of screen real-estate, and so on.
And hire some more lawyers to win a case that was already won?
Yes, that's a way better option... for the lawyers.
In 2010-2011, you can write highly functional applications using HTML5 and Javascript, make them installable on your web browser, and have them work offline.
I'd say Windows 98 is more highly functional than html5 and javascript.
This is not 1999.
Quite right, you said it yourself... its almost 2011. Why are you trying to promote a technology that's on not even on par in terms of functionality and user experience with what was available in 1999.
I'm well aware that chromeos will work offline. But if docment editing is the criteria I'd rather use Office 98 on Windows 98 than ChromeOS offline... or even online for that matter.
But fortunately Office98 on Win 98 isn't even the alternative I'm faced with; the actual alternative is Microsoft Office on {Snow Leopard or Windows 7} or LibreOffice on {Windows 7, Snow Leopoard, or Ubuntu.}.
Please stop assuming the Web is as it was when you were in junior high.
Not a problem. In junior high I used a TRS-80. The internet existed, but there was no http yet. You really have to stop pretending the Web is a modern operating system. Its come a long way in the last 15 to 20 years, but its not there yet.
Sometimes letting the body fight off a cold, or small virus is better than trying to beat it. It helps our immune system "buck up" and keep us healthy the next time a little invader hits us. The other thing that just gets me ticked is people NOT WASHING THEIR HANDS when they use the restroom.
To paraphrase:
Its a good for the immune system to get some exposure to disease.
Wash your hands to make sure you don't get exposed to disease.
Both points might be valid, but it strikes me that they don't really belong right next to each other like that without some sort of explanation.
Fixed networks worked just fine for the problems that businesses faced and its incorrect to assume that when businesses started to expand and need networks like the US government needed back in the late 60s they wouldn't have created something very similar if not exactly like the ARPANET and eventually expand it to something almost exactly like the internet we have now.
ROFLMAO.
Sorry I disagree. I disagree because its pretty miraculous we got the internet at all,
The internet would not exist if corporations created it.
At best we would have AOL.
Under GPL if I add something useful and extend the program, I have to also post those changes under GPL. I may not want to do that. BSD gives me the freedom to do as I wish. BSD is far more free than GPL.
Why would I bother developing something just to keep it to myself? I would only develop something to sell myself, or something my employer could use. GPL doesn't let me do either without giving away how I did it by releasing the source code.
And the canonical counter argument is that the only thing BSD let you do that GPL didn't was to enable you to deprive users of your BSD derived software the VERY FREEDOMS you claim make it superior.
While GPL would enable and ensure that users of software derived from it was still free.
GPL ensures the software STAYS free by restricting your ability to change the license with derived software.
BSD gives you the freedom to change the license, and inevitably leads to users of derived software having restricted licenses.
Indeed your desire to deny users of derived software the same freedoms you enjoyed was precisely the reason you prefer BSD. It absurd on its face to argue that something is more free if its principle benefit is to deny freedom to others. Net freedom is clearly harmed by such a system.
I like the BSD license, and it has its place. But the BSD is to freedom as a monarchy is to freedom. The only time its "far more free" is if you happen to be the monarch. For everyone else, well... you better hope the monarch doesn't have it in for you.
Previewing is where the "Will undo your moderation!!" warning logic is.
I like living on the edge. Thus far my world hasn't imploded for lack of an undo moderation warning. I think I'll cope. ;)
Waiting 10+ seconds for preview (which is what it seems to take randomly) ... however will crush my soul. I can't do it. I won't do it.
Unless they "helpfully" stuck the whole thing into a rar or zip first. :(
PS is there a way to get the 'submit' button back? -- I just have 'preview, quote parent, options, cancel' now when I try to reply. I DO NOT WANT to preview every bloody time I post. :(
Yep, you... and approximately nobody else, so it doesn't matter what you do.
Hey, I'm on your side here, but in the wider world? Nobody cares. I've tried to convince my friends of this and it just doesn't work. It's the trendy thing and they're gonna buy it. Thinking towards the future doesn't matter when you can get that shiny today.
I didn't buy it either, and would have if they'd been more consumer friendly.
And as for the new shiny? Fallout Las Vegas is the new shiny... Starcraft 2 is already a fading memory. I'll pick it up in a discount bin maybe. They missed their chance getting full price out of me. Do they care? Probably not... but the sentiment is mutual.
And WTF is with /. forcing me to preview now? I don't need to preview every post I make. The box I'm typing into right now is preview enough for a plaintext post.
You appear to have not purchased a new iPhone in over two whole years
It certainly wasn't my idea to commit to a 3 year contract, but that was the only option they gave me at the time.
Besides, it's totally impractical. 15 seconds per scan? Useless in open traffic. Useless at a major event (15 sec x 10000 cars = 2 days in line to be searched).
Fortunately its a parallelizable problem.
15 sec x 10000 cars / 48 vans = 1 hour in line to be searched.
15 sec x 10000 cars / 96 vans = 30 minutes in line
Plus they could scan every second car and cut those times in half again. Sure they'll only hit 50% percent of the traffic, but few criminals will tolerate a 50/50 shot of being busted on the spot; so its still an effective deterrent.
Not that I'm defending these things. Advocates of this sort of use of technology ought to doused in gasoline and driven off a cliff... preferably in one of these vans, killing two birds with one stone.
@astrellon what kind of OS allows a userland application to cause a #BSOD?
I wouldn't be surprised if iTunes dug deeper than being a 'userland' application. In fact, I'd actually be surprised if it was. Its got all sorts of OS/driver hooks for DRM (legacy AAC), HDCP, etc), plus of course all the iphone/ipod/ipad sync stuff...
Strictly speaking it might not be itunes causing the bsod, and might be any number of drivers that itunes installs/uses... same difference to the user.
Actually, it often runs SLOWER if you turn off the aero interface. If your GPU can do your desktop rendering, let it. You did say 'older' hardware, and that can mean just about anything, but a lot of what I consider 'older hardware' is better with Aero on.
But I agree with the sentiments that the submission is an apple fanboi. I'm writing this on a macbook pro but itunes is anything but archtypical good design. Its a music library manager, and ipod/iphone sync tool ... already the two should be separate. Lets tack on a web browser type thing (iTMs) except its not really the web that it browses, its apples proprietary alternative. What a great idea! How can we make this less appealing? How about a social network!! Hello pointless bloat that makes office look lean and task-focused.
As if that's not enough, lets name it Ping! It rhymes with Bing! from Microsoft and also happens to be named the same as a standard network utility.
Oh, and one more thing, lets violate the user interface standard by making the window control widgets smaller than normal and arrange them vertically instead of horizontally too. Steve Job's would blow a gasket if someone else dared to violate his beloved UI standard.
If Microsoft wrote iTunes people would point at it as a symbol of everything that is wrong with Microsoft.
Say, I have $1000 and there is 100,000 in circulation. That means my share of the total wealth is 1/100. Now if the Fed pumps in another 100,000 my share is suddenly 1/200.
That's why wealthy people don't have a lot of cash. Wealth is measured in dollars, but only a fool would keep his wealth IN actual dollars. Dollars are not a store of wealth, they are convenient for transactions.
A plot of land, a herd of cattle, a gold bar, a factory,... if the fed pumps in another 100,000 the valuation of these assets just goes up in dollars. Your real wealth is unaffected.
I have no idea what you're talking about
Its simple. If you hold the money supply constant while the population quadruples you create a currency shortage. No different than if you held anything else constant... housing for example.
Bottom line, you can't hold currency constant.
You think people benefit because now they have to spend $500 to get a business suit instead of the $5 it cost in 1910? Or ~$200/week on food instead of the ~$2 it used to cost? If you do think that's beneficial, then you're no better than the corporations.
I didn't say this benefits people. I just said holding it constant doesn't. So to sum up: Not expanding it causes problems. Expanding it to much causes problems.
Put another way: If they had held the money supply constant, as they did in the 1800s, then a candybar would still cost just 1 penny. A man's business suit would still be just $5. And so on.
If they'd held the money supply constant, things would be pretty out of whack by now simply due to the population expansion.
76 million people in 1900 with all the currency distributed amongst them... 300+ million people now... that means the currency is going to be distributed a lot more thinly... better hope a business suit doesn't cost $5. Few would be able to afford it.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentience
SENTIENCE
1 : a sentient quality or state
2 : feeling or sensation as distinguished from perception and thought
Dog qualifies.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/view/entry/m_en_gb0755520#m_en_gb0755520.005
sentient (sen|tient)
Pronunciation:/sn()nt/
adjective
* able to perceive or feel things:
Dog qualifies.
hahahahahahahahahahaahaha! Hilarious. Look it up in a real dictionary (one with research staff, linguists, historians, etc) and your dog nor any other animal is sentient by their definition.
Perhaps next time you should look it up before you make an ass of yourself.
People always complain that food at weddings is really bland. Of course, you don't want to start with a high baseline of seasoning when cooking for a crowd. And then again, maybe most catering halls just really suck.
I've been to several weddings with simply fantastic food.
And then again, maybe most catering halls just really suck.
Like anything, you get what you pay for. With the caveat that paying a lot doesn't guarantee you get anything good.
But take a reasonable budget and sensible menu choices with a good caterer -- and you get great food.