Because naturally, in the event of a cataclysmic event destroying civilisation as we know it, the Mendelevian table will be more popular than ever!
And of course, the fact that not everyone knows the periodic table, not everyone who knows it knows uranium's atomic number and pretty much everyone who does wouldn't really think to add up prime numbers and then cross-check it against a periodic table... is all pretty trivial really.
That's a rather broad definition of a religious order you have there.
You do know that fanaticism can exist with something that's NOT a religion, don't you?
You know, you don't have to always get the new version...
There's no reason why you need to get Star Wars for the (presumably third) time on HD-DVD or Blu-ray, when they come out on there, at the end of the day, they're the same set of movies, and why would you want to buy it again twice, even if it is in higher definition? I'm sure as hell not upgrading to HD-DVD for all my DVDs! I'm hoping that HD-DVD/Blu-ray adoption is slow actually, I don't think that we need the exodus to a new format that we had from VHS to DVD again, the improvements simply aren't as dramatic.
Then again, some people actually bought UMDs so, I suppose that people will buy the same product any number of times...
Incidentally, the same applies with the DS, though the DS Lite is cool, anyone who already has a DS who buys it is a tool.
in the right direction, IMO, it'll mean that there'll be some legal BT content out there, which, quite frankly, is almost non-existant atm.
However, once it starts advertising larger companies, with copyrights... bad news.
Erm... actually, the fact that English is such a prevelent language is partially due to it being the linguistic equivilent of an open source product - there's never been a central body to regulate the English language, and thus it can take in a foreign word whenever it doesn't have a good word for what it is describing.
Contrast to French, which is like a proprietry language, regulated, kept French, as it were - I'm unsure about where the term "ordinateur" came from, but I'm sure that it's from the same body that one day decided that "email" wasn't an appopriate word for the French lanuage.
I'm sure that the inflexibility of French in these matters because of that, is part of why it isn't more popular internationally than it is now (granted, it's not exactly an obscure language and is rather widely used anyway, but we can all agree that it's been less sucessful than English!).
That was just a thought I was having, thinking about it again, the fact that English was the language of the British Empire and then America (who basically inherited world dominance) and English's verbal elasticity (can pronounce lots of sounds, and most words don't have inflections - so a word doesn't have to end in "um" or "a" or... whatever... or that weird thing that Japanese have where every word ends in a vowel.) probably has a lot more to do with its success than what I have been saying, but... still.
Make of this what you will, a rather heavy deviation from the topic but... eh.
It is a good thing, the idea of a US state type system for the EU is the only way I can see the EU countries remaining world powers.
Of course, I don't like how the EU's centre is in a basically Gallic country, but... eh.
I'm from the UK and I can assure you that we don't look down on you if you need to drive over a long distance - we have that issue here, and we're a much smaller country!
What people don't like, is the buying of SUVs when there is no need for them, using a car for ridiculously short trips down the street etc. etc.
I believe there's a book by Bill Bryson, I think it's A Walk in the Woods, where he talks of Americans not walking, mentioning a story where a man stops outside a shop, leaves his car running on the side of the road, walks in, gets something, and then drives along to the next shop along! It is stories like these, that get Europeans' gall up - we understand when a car is necessary, we're not thick as two planks - but most of us get a bit angry when we see people driving in an SUV with no passengers to go to the local corner shop, to pick up a bottle of milk and some cigarettes.
Similarly, we can understand that long distance train travel costs a lot and is likely pretty imprecise about where you end up, I'd imagine that most of the states in the middle don't have rail connections to every town. However, when someone drives from one end of Manhattan Island to the other, that's bad.
Doing so gives me a ton of unrelated articles, American news sites and sites selling printer cartridges.
Try again.
And for the record I get out plenty, I simply have never seen this term used, ever, by anyone, in conversation, in a newspaper, in an article. Hell, even on the internet before.
I, however, have seen "in the red" used hundreds of times.
I agree with you, but can I'd appreciate it if you could find some sources for this historical opposition to antibiotics, x-rays etc. etc.
Personal interest more than anything else.
Why did this post get a +5?
Red ink is not part of Commonwealth English, it appears in dictionary.com, yes, but that just means the phrase exists in AMERICAN English.
The equivilent is "red tape" which means exactly the same thing. Now, the Chambers online dictionary, geared more to Commonwealth English than American, contains an entry for red tape, but none for red ink, implying, naturally, that the term "red ink" is American-only.
It's not as if we don't have a phrase for it, it's just a different one, Americans are not ignorant and uneducated because they use the word "aluminum" instead of "aluminium" or "zuchinni" instead of "courgette" or "eggplant" instead of "aubergine", so I resent your comment.
I'm also English and I have never heard the term red ink used, ever.
I've heard red tape and "in the red" more times than I can count however, maybe it's in common use locally where you are, but in England as a whole, it most certainly is not.
It was all good until the last paragraph.
There isn't a lot to be said for the existence of a Christian church, some people are just religious, even when Stalin was actively persecuting Christians, just over half of peasants in the countryside publically identified themselves as Christians. Besides which, Christians tend to teach their children about Christianity - so those kids are Christian unless something makes them question their faith heavily...
What do you mean by militantly secular? And what do you mean by Christian states? It seems to me as if you're simply just dressing up "West versus Communism" - there is no such thing as a militantly secular state - there are secular states - ones that have no official religion, yes, (such as the USA) or ones where religion isn't a contentious issue and there are a lot of atheists in high positions, despite there being an official religion (such as the UK). Militantly secular implies active persecution of all religions, the only states that do this tend to be communist states, and they usually have some kind of a personality cult going on, where the leader is all-knowing and always correct. Essentially, they're not secular, they're merely replacing the worship of God with the worship of the head of the state.
Similarly, what do you mean by Christian states, ones where there are large proportion of practicing Christians or one that has an official state religion of Christianity? Because, America, for example, could be Christian or secular depending on which definition you use. I'm assuming that "Christian states" means developed countries that were founded by Christians here, and quite frankly, I think that the fact that they have respect for the individual has more to do with democracy and free speech than Christianity.
"Christian humanists" - are we working under the same definition of humanist here? Very few Christians would be humanist in the way that atheists are, unless they're a Quaker, I might be completely off and be thinking of one of the other ten or twelve definitions of humanism. And why wouldn't atheists believe in their humanism? I believe strongly in my views, and I'm an atheist. In fact, I've yet to meet a Christian humanist.
And of course the USSR was founded on humanist principles - it started as a popularist revolution against society, so moral absolutism wouldn't do, as that was the status quo at the time, and given how authoritarian the USSR needed to be in the early years in order to even set up the nation, relativism wouldn't really work as an ideology. However, I wouldn't really say that it stayed humanist, but rather became absolutist very quickly...
CLIFFNOTES: Christian state can be used, in its vaguest sense, as any western state. Militantly secular means communist. Perhaps it's the communism rather than the secularism that causes the disrespect of the individual in "militantly secular states".
Well, to be fair, the University of East Anglia isn't exactly a prestigous university, in fact, it's one of the worst in the country, so they'd need to do whatever they can to get people to take them seriously.
That being said, it'd be interesting to see how this turns out - the symptoms of poisoning are often quite vague, but there are a lot of toxins, and presumably these indicators are specific to certain toxins - will the fact that you'd have to do about half a million tests to ensure that someone HASN'T been poisoned (and gold ain't cheap) or the fact that this provides a definitive way of proving that someone has been poisoned... you know, before they're dead, win out?
... Microsoft not getting a good grade isn't surprising, but Dell and Sony getting good ones?... well, actually, by my experience, Dell is good for a computer company, certainly better than Time, who I had before... Not that that's saying much. Yeah, building my own machine next time I need a new one.
As for Sony... fragile.
... I'm a beginner programmer, I've been teaching myself a bit of VB and a bit of Ruby (actually, I'm too busy to do either really - but php comes into my classwork at some point so...).
I must say that I feel that Ruby is a better language for beginners.
I haven't even bothered to set up internet access with my phone, just use my PC to check any picture messages I get.
However, within the context of a Nintendo DS and a Wi-fi enabled game, this is very...:)
State that there are often superior, free alternatives out on the web for various programs, direct them to Opera and Firefox, OpenOffice, Foobar, Thunderbird, GAIM, Gimp et cetera.
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No format is unrippable, it may take a while, but someone at some point will figure out how to rip it. Similarly, no DRM is fool-proof.
Because naturally, in the event of a cataclysmic event destroying civilisation as we know it, the Mendelevian table will be more popular than ever! And of course, the fact that not everyone knows the periodic table, not everyone who knows it knows uranium's atomic number and pretty much everyone who does wouldn't really think to add up prime numbers and then cross-check it against a periodic table ... is all pretty trivial really.
That's a rather broad definition of a religious order you have there. You do know that fanaticism can exist with something that's NOT a religion, don't you?
You know, you don't have to always get the new version... There's no reason why you need to get Star Wars for the (presumably third) time on HD-DVD or Blu-ray, when they come out on there, at the end of the day, they're the same set of movies, and why would you want to buy it again twice, even if it is in higher definition? I'm sure as hell not upgrading to HD-DVD for all my DVDs! I'm hoping that HD-DVD/Blu-ray adoption is slow actually, I don't think that we need the exodus to a new format that we had from VHS to DVD again, the improvements simply aren't as dramatic. Then again, some people actually bought UMDs so, I suppose that people will buy the same product any number of times... Incidentally, the same applies with the DS, though the DS Lite is cool, anyone who already has a DS who buys it is a tool.
in the right direction, IMO, it'll mean that there'll be some legal BT content out there, which, quite frankly, is almost non-existant atm. However, once it starts advertising larger companies, with copyrights ... bad news.
Erm ... actually, the fact that English is such a prevelent language is partially due to it being the linguistic equivilent of an open source product - there's never been a central body to regulate the English language, and thus it can take in a foreign word whenever it doesn't have a good word for what it is describing.
Contrast to French, which is like a proprietry language, regulated, kept French, as it were - I'm unsure about where the term "ordinateur" came from, but I'm sure that it's from the same body that one day decided that "email" wasn't an appopriate word for the French lanuage.
I'm sure that the inflexibility of French in these matters because of that, is part of why it isn't more popular internationally than it is now (granted, it's not exactly an obscure language and is rather widely used anyway, but we can all agree that it's been less sucessful than English!).
That was just a thought I was having, thinking about it again, the fact that English was the language of the British Empire and then America (who basically inherited world dominance) and English's verbal elasticity (can pronounce lots of sounds, and most words don't have inflections - so a word doesn't have to end in "um" or "a" or ... whatever ... or that weird thing that Japanese have where every word ends in a vowel.) probably has a lot more to do with its success than what I have been saying, but ... still.
Make of this what you will, a rather heavy deviation from the topic but ... eh.
I fail to see how UMDs "did good" in any sense of the phrase - I also fail to see the advantages of UMD over DVD and a portable DVD player.
It is a good thing, the idea of a US state type system for the EU is the only way I can see the EU countries remaining world powers. Of course, I don't like how the EU's centre is in a basically Gallic country, but ... eh.
I'm from the UK and I can assure you that we don't look down on you if you need to drive over a long distance - we have that issue here, and we're a much smaller country! What people don't like, is the buying of SUVs when there is no need for them, using a car for ridiculously short trips down the street etc. etc. I believe there's a book by Bill Bryson, I think it's A Walk in the Woods, where he talks of Americans not walking, mentioning a story where a man stops outside a shop, leaves his car running on the side of the road, walks in, gets something, and then drives along to the next shop along! It is stories like these, that get Europeans' gall up - we understand when a car is necessary, we're not thick as two planks - but most of us get a bit angry when we see people driving in an SUV with no passengers to go to the local corner shop, to pick up a bottle of milk and some cigarettes. Similarly, we can understand that long distance train travel costs a lot and is likely pretty imprecise about where you end up, I'd imagine that most of the states in the middle don't have rail connections to every town. However, when someone drives from one end of Manhattan Island to the other, that's bad.
Doing so gives me a ton of unrelated articles, American news sites and sites selling printer cartridges. Try again. And for the record I get out plenty, I simply have never seen this term used, ever, by anyone, in conversation, in a newspaper, in an article. Hell, even on the internet before. I, however, have seen "in the red" used hundreds of times.
I agree with you, but can I'd appreciate it if you could find some sources for this historical opposition to antibiotics, x-rays etc. etc. Personal interest more than anything else.
My bad, for some reason I put in "red tape" instead of "in the red". Replace every instance of "red tape" with "in the red" please.
Why did this post get a +5? Red ink is not part of Commonwealth English, it appears in dictionary.com, yes, but that just means the phrase exists in AMERICAN English. The equivilent is "red tape" which means exactly the same thing. Now, the Chambers online dictionary, geared more to Commonwealth English than American, contains an entry for red tape, but none for red ink, implying, naturally, that the term "red ink" is American-only. It's not as if we don't have a phrase for it, it's just a different one, Americans are not ignorant and uneducated because they use the word "aluminum" instead of "aluminium" or "zuchinni" instead of "courgette" or "eggplant" instead of "aubergine", so I resent your comment.
I'm also English and I have never heard the term red ink used, ever. I've heard red tape and "in the red" more times than I can count however, maybe it's in common use locally where you are, but in England as a whole, it most certainly is not.
It was all good until the last paragraph. There isn't a lot to be said for the existence of a Christian church, some people are just religious, even when Stalin was actively persecuting Christians, just over half of peasants in the countryside publically identified themselves as Christians. Besides which, Christians tend to teach their children about Christianity - so those kids are Christian unless something makes them question their faith heavily... What do you mean by militantly secular? And what do you mean by Christian states? It seems to me as if you're simply just dressing up "West versus Communism" - there is no such thing as a militantly secular state - there are secular states - ones that have no official religion, yes, (such as the USA) or ones where religion isn't a contentious issue and there are a lot of atheists in high positions, despite there being an official religion (such as the UK). Militantly secular implies active persecution of all religions, the only states that do this tend to be communist states, and they usually have some kind of a personality cult going on, where the leader is all-knowing and always correct. Essentially, they're not secular, they're merely replacing the worship of God with the worship of the head of the state. Similarly, what do you mean by Christian states, ones where there are large proportion of practicing Christians or one that has an official state religion of Christianity? Because, America, for example, could be Christian or secular depending on which definition you use. I'm assuming that "Christian states" means developed countries that were founded by Christians here, and quite frankly, I think that the fact that they have respect for the individual has more to do with democracy and free speech than Christianity. "Christian humanists" - are we working under the same definition of humanist here? Very few Christians would be humanist in the way that atheists are, unless they're a Quaker, I might be completely off and be thinking of one of the other ten or twelve definitions of humanism. And why wouldn't atheists believe in their humanism? I believe strongly in my views, and I'm an atheist. In fact, I've yet to meet a Christian humanist. And of course the USSR was founded on humanist principles - it started as a popularist revolution against society, so moral absolutism wouldn't do, as that was the status quo at the time, and given how authoritarian the USSR needed to be in the early years in order to even set up the nation, relativism wouldn't really work as an ideology. However, I wouldn't really say that it stayed humanist, but rather became absolutist very quickly... CLIFFNOTES: Christian state can be used, in its vaguest sense, as any western state. Militantly secular means communist. Perhaps it's the communism rather than the secularism that causes the disrespect of the individual in "militantly secular states".
Well, to be fair, the University of East Anglia isn't exactly a prestigous university, in fact, it's one of the worst in the country, so they'd need to do whatever they can to get people to take them seriously. That being said, it'd be interesting to see how this turns out - the symptoms of poisoning are often quite vague, but there are a lot of toxins, and presumably these indicators are specific to certain toxins - will the fact that you'd have to do about half a million tests to ensure that someone HASN'T been poisoned (and gold ain't cheap) or the fact that this provides a definitive way of proving that someone has been poisoned ... you know, before they're dead, win out?
... Microsoft not getting a good grade isn't surprising, but Dell and Sony getting good ones? ... well, actually, by my experience, Dell is good for a computer company, certainly better than Time, who I had before... Not that that's saying much. Yeah, building my own machine next time I need a new one.
As for Sony ... fragile.
KILL IT WITH FIRE!
Shame that only one of those games is notable in any way :P
I'm using about 630GB right now. And I'm a home user.
... I'm a beginner programmer, I've been teaching myself a bit of VB and a bit of Ruby (actually, I'm too busy to do either really - but php comes into my classwork at some point so...). I must say that I feel that Ruby is a better language for beginners.
... that Microsoft Access is infinitely better than OoO Base. After all, who needs mySQL? :rolleyes:
I haven't even bothered to set up internet access with my phone, just use my PC to check any picture messages I get. However, within the context of a Nintendo DS and a Wi-fi enabled game, this is very ... :)
State that there are often superior, free alternatives out on the web for various programs, direct them to Opera and Firefox, OpenOffice, Foobar, Thunderbird, GAIM, Gimp et cetera.
... that technology is expanding, to meat the needs of the expanding technology.