I think he should stop being a hypocrite eating salads and other plant-based nutrients then. He could become like this super vegan or something for like a month or so before he dies of starvation =P
They're called "fruitarians", eating only what falls off the plant by itself, rather than a portion of a living, growing plant.
I live in China but don't read Chinese. Last year I brought a netbook here with the intent of running Linux Mint. Because I wanted more than the 2GB RAM limit on the knock-off models I brought a genuine Samsung which came with Windows 7. Having paid for an unwanted copy of Windows I thought I would look at dual booting it. It's been a long time since I used Windows so I had a play to see what Windows was like. I found I could not change the language from Chinese. Some research showed I was expected to pay for an upgrade to get Windows, that I paid for, to actual be usable.
Why single out China? If you bought your computer in the US but didn't speak English (perhaps your native language is Spanish... or even Chinese!), I don't think you can switch Windows to be in Spanish or Chinese without paying for a language pack or a Chinese-language installation CD.
And more to the point: I will fully trust the online tax software if it's free (libre), secure against eavesdroppers, and operated by the tax-collecting government agency itself.
Eh? How is that supposed to work?
Either the online website is operated by the government agency, then you have no way to know that the version of the code they run is the version they make available for download and scrutiny.
Or it's libre, you download and scrutinise it, and run it yourself, in which case it's not operated by the government agency (and isn't particularly online any more).
Also, why would you want libre tax software if you only want a single source to run it?
Isn't the entire point of libre software that it can be modified... by whom, if you won't trust any other service suppliers?
If you want a single, trusted supplier and are only concerned about being allowed to scrutinise the source code, then surely proprietary but gratis and source-available would be sufficient? (Though that still wouldn't solve the problem of proving that the code you see and the code you (implicitly) run bear any relationship one to the other.)
Being understood definitely beats not being, even if you have to slow down to achieve that. And the translation was happening reasonably quickly if you were slow enough.
I was just a bit disappointed since from the "real time" I was expecting the translation to keep up with someone speaking at normal conversational speed. (Like the asker at the information kiosk, for example.)
it is quicker and more convenient for the disabled to send a text message.
I would have thought it would be more convenient for someone to speak/be spoken to in their native language - sign - rather than send/receive a text in a foreign language - English or whatever.
4:3 gets us awesome resolutions like 1400x1050 or 1600x1200.
Word.
I don't spend most of my computer time watching videos (wide-screen or no). I spend much of my time reading web pages or writing code, both of which profit from vertical resolution.
What good is 1920x1080 if I can have 1600x1200? Those extra 120px vertical are of more use to me than the 320px horizontal.
those stickers on everything claiming the product only causes cancer if you live in California.
Do you have a picture of one?
The ones I've heard of say that the product contains chemicals which the State of California knows cause cancer.
So the stickers don't say the chemicals don't cause cancer elsewhere, just that other states have not recognised their carcinogenous properties (or have recognised them but chose not to require a warning to that effect).
Japanese has only like two irregular verbs (one of which only has one irregular form, iirc)
I like to say two-and-a-half; kuru and suru are the really irregular ones and iku is regular except for the fact that its -te form is itte instead of *iite.
Why does it always (not just default) assume that you are using "pages"? I would like to type a dozen chapters or so, each of around 20-30 kB of text. No pages. I don't want it to break my text. Typesetting and page formatting is something I want to leave to the publishers. I don't want to write "documents" for either paper or web. I write novels, not pages.
Word used to have a mode for that, where it displayed things without most formatting.
I believe it was a successor of the times when machines weren't quite fast enough for real-time WYSIWYG, so you would only turn on WYSIWYG mode when you wanted to check the pages... but you could work without.
Sadly, they removed that mode several versions back.
At any rate, I was reminded of SMART for hard drives, which also work by monitoring lots of individual data points over time and trying to detect things which point to a future problem before it occurs.
If the inspector sees a package containing a bunch of plastic cards and something that looks like a passport, they are naturally going to wonder what that's doing being sent via international mail. It's not as if you can accidentally leave your passport at home when leaving the country.
It's not? Worked for me when I went on a school trip to Austria. My teacher was not amused to have to get up at the middle of the night with me (sleeper train) when we crossed the border to fill out paperwork with the border guards. And my passport got sent by express post to follow me.
(Ended up arriving after I had already come back so the school we visited had to send it back home again, but that's another story.)
Most phones, even if you remove the SIM, will allow you to phone the emergency services (999, 911, 112 or whatever). I believe it's a requirement of the GSM standard.
This used to be the case in Germany but is no longer so. If I recall correctly, the number of prank calls (or misdials, or pocket dialling, or whatever) made them decide to remove this feature.
I don't know whether this is the case in all of Europe but wouldn't be surprised.
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I think he should stop being a hypocrite eating salads and other plant-based nutrients then. He could become like this super vegan or something for like a month or so before he dies of starvation =P
They're called "fruitarians", eating only what falls off the plant by itself, rather than a portion of a living, growing plant.
I live in China but don't read Chinese. Last year I brought a netbook here with the intent of running Linux Mint. Because I wanted more than the 2GB RAM limit on the knock-off models I brought a genuine Samsung which came with Windows 7. Having paid for an unwanted copy of Windows I thought I would look at dual booting it. It's been a long time since I used Windows so I had a play to see what Windows was like. I found I could not change the language from Chinese. Some research showed I was expected to pay for an upgrade to get Windows, that I paid for, to actual be usable.
Why single out China? If you bought your computer in the US but didn't speak English (perhaps your native language is Spanish... or even Chinese!), I don't think you can switch Windows to be in Spanish or Chinese without paying for a language pack or a Chinese-language installation CD.
Holy cow - one pound to lock up a shopping cart? In the US those carts typically require 25 cents.
Which, coincidentally, is the largest US coin in common use. (Imagine if they only accepted dollar coins.)
FWIW, in Germany, shopping trollies typically take 50-cent or 1-euro coins.
And with "known tunnel entrance", I suppose you mean "tunnel entrance known fifteen years ago when the car was manufactured".
Or are you proposing free monthly map updates? Or cars that don't last for more than a year or two?
And more to the point: I will fully trust the online tax software if it's free (libre), secure against eavesdroppers, and operated by the tax-collecting government agency itself.
Eh? How is that supposed to work?
Either the online website is operated by the government agency, then you have no way to know that the version of the code they run is the version they make available for download and scrutiny.
Or it's libre, you download and scrutinise it, and run it yourself, in which case it's not operated by the government agency (and isn't particularly online any more).
Also, why would you want libre tax software if you only want a single source to run it?
Isn't the entire point of libre software that it can be modified... by whom, if you won't trust any other service suppliers?
If you want a single, trusted supplier and are only concerned about being allowed to scrutinise the source code, then surely proprietary but gratis and source-available would be sufficient? (Though that still wouldn't solve the problem of proving that the code you see and the code you (implicitly) run bear any relationship one to the other.)
Can anyone tell me how I can contact sweetie? Please provide link. I am interested in for research purposes.
From FTA: "Sweetie will not be used again. She has done her job[.]"
You'll have to find a new sting.
Thank you for the context!
OK, you have a point.
Being understood definitely beats not being, even if you have to slow down to achieve that. And the translation was happening reasonably quickly if you were slow enough.
I was just a bit disappointed since from the "real time" I was expecting the translation to keep up with someone speaking at normal conversational speed. (Like the asker at the information kiosk, for example.)
English cuss words don't cut it anymore. Perkeleen vittupää. (HT: Linus Torvalds)
Linus's native language is Swedish.
Looking at the video in the article, it seems that "in real time" means "at about 1/4 of the speed of regular signing".
Imagine. Having. To. Speak. Like. Kirk.
it is quicker and more convenient for the disabled to send a text message.
I would have thought it would be more convenient for someone to speak/be spoken to in their native language - sign - rather than send/receive a text in a foreign language - English or whatever.
4:3 gets us awesome resolutions like 1400x1050 or 1600x1200.
Word.
I don't spend most of my computer time watching videos (wide-screen or no). I spend much of my time reading web pages or writing code, both of which profit from vertical resolution.
What good is 1920x1080 if I can have 1600x1200? Those extra 120px vertical are of more use to me than the 320px horizontal.
The transcriber made some funny mistakes... Let me tell you about "parody bits" and "pointer D references" :)
The first one should have been "parroty bits", right? :)
those stickers on everything claiming the product only causes cancer if you live in California.
Do you have a picture of one?
The ones I've heard of say that the product contains chemicals which the State of California knows cause cancer.
So the stickers don't say the chemicals don't cause cancer elsewhere, just that other states have not recognised their carcinogenous properties (or have recognised them but chose not to require a warning to that effect).
Japanese has only like two irregular verbs (one of which only has one irregular form, iirc)
I like to say two-and-a-half; kuru and suru are the really irregular ones and iku is regular except for the fact that its -te form is itte instead of *iite.
Bonus points for airports that set up a row of seats in the lobby, so you can compare and decide who NOT to get a ticket from.
Once you're at the airport, you already have the ticket, though - isn't that a bit too late?
(Unless you're one of those people who buys tickets last-minute, one-way, and pays for them in cash?)
This article has a concept drawing of the seats involved
Adding an affiliate ID to the link. Classy.
Ah, thanks. I must not have been looking properly.
If Nokia wants to fix this, they should get together an industry group to design and agree to use such a connector
XKCD tells you about what happens when you promote a new standard to supersede previous ones.
Why does it always (not just default) assume that you are using "pages"? I would like to type a dozen chapters or so, each of around 20-30 kB of text. No pages. I don't want it to break my text.
Typesetting and page formatting is something I want to leave to the publishers. I don't want to write "documents" for either paper or web. I write novels, not pages.
Word used to have a mode for that, where it displayed things without most formatting.
I believe it was a successor of the times when machines weren't quite fast enough for real-time WYSIWYG, so you would only turn on WYSIWYG mode when you wanted to check the pages... but you could work without.
Sadly, they removed that mode several versions back.
...SMART for the heart!
At any rate, I was reminded of SMART for hard drives, which also work by monitoring lots of individual data points over time and trying to detect things which point to a future problem before it occurs.
If we say we have a glass of wine on Friday nights, don't write down the lie "patient is a moderate drinker."
Huh? I don't get it. Is one glass of wine a week not drinking in moderation?
What label would you have used instead?
If the inspector sees a package containing a bunch of plastic cards and something that looks like a passport, they are naturally going to wonder what that's doing being sent via international mail. It's not as if you can accidentally leave your passport at home when leaving the country.
It's not? Worked for me when I went on a school trip to Austria. My teacher was not amused to have to get up at the middle of the night with me (sleeper train) when we crossed the border to fill out paperwork with the border guards. And my passport got sent by express post to follow me.
(Ended up arriving after I had already come back so the school we visited had to send it back home again, but that's another story.)
Most phones, even if you remove the SIM, will allow you to phone the emergency services (999, 911, 112 or whatever). I believe it's a requirement of the GSM standard.
This used to be the case in Germany but is no longer so. If I recall correctly, the number of prank calls (or misdials, or pocket dialling, or whatever) made them decide to remove this feature.
I don't know whether this is the case in all of Europe but wouldn't be surprised.