Sadly, practically every single time I've seen someone confuse loose/lose, they're/their/there or its/it's, they were American English speakers for whom English is a first language. Foreigners tend to get those things right.
As long as my tax money pays for your kid's education, your kid's education is my problem. Our society thinks that how children are educated is everyone's problem, because if you (hypothetically speaking) are content not to teach your child how to read, write, do arithmetic and not beat up the other children and she grows up to become a burden on society, then she's a burden on society and society thinks that something should be done about it. Like telling you to educate your kids.
While you could make the argument that this is nobody's business but your own, and that YOU don't want to pay for other people's children's education or medical insurance, it seems that enough Americans think otherwise and don't want to change it. As things stand now, society at large takes an interest in how you raise your kids. Deal with it.
I believe we worked together a few years ago, if you're the original Mosch and not some newbie who bought his 3 digit ID. Send me an email, will ya? I tried your old email address, and it bounced.
> There are better things to do than buy $100+ of stuff to win a argument (especially) on/. .
True. But sometimes one must take certain liberties with the truth to try (and, apparently - fail) to be funny. Oh, well... I do appreciate your concern, though.
> Where can you buy Demon Days for less than $15? We're talking mainstream US artists. I'd love to know where you're getting those prices otherwise.
cduniverse.com - $14.25. That's less than $15. Of course, with $3 for shipping ($2.99, actually) it's more than $15. Unless you could order more than one - shipping increases by $1 for each additional copy, up to a maximum of $6.99, it seems. So if you could order 10 copies, you'd spend $149.49 and you'll get each copy for $14.94, which is less than $15.
Now, for some reason, cduniverse.com doesn't allow you to order more than 9 copies of Demon Days, for $128.25 plus %6.99 shipping, which is $15.02 per copy - that's MORE than $15. Not by a lot, but more is more.
So I guess you're right. But I went through the trouble of figuring it all out, and ordering all those copies of Demon Days (which I've never even heard of,) trying to prove you wrong, but I couldn't, so the least I could do was post the figures to Slashdot for posterity. Oh, and if someone needs 9 copies of Demon Days, I can set you up with something.
That's true. However, some selections could get you a kernel that won't compile, or won't work once it compiled. I remember the process as being somewhat more involved than that, but mostly it was just tedious, rather than difficult. And of course, compiling on a 386 took a bit of time.
If this is how Microsoft pronounces it, then great - they screwed that one up, too. If they don't, then it really doesn't sound much like zi-yoon. I guess we need a wav file or Linus Torvalds pronouncing it.
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...and it doesn't even sound that much like it. I've been reading about the Zune for a while now and the similarity never occured to me. And yes, I'm fluent in Hebrew.
Define "charity." You'll be surprised who some of those callers really work for. The magic words to watch out for are "We are calling on behalf of." There are several for-profit companies (some of them are public, and their profits are substantial - I looked them up) who specialize in raising money for charities. They call "on behalf of" some fraternal order of police, ask for some money, give some of it (as little as 3%) to the charity, and pocket the rest. If you ask the person on the phone whether he's a volunteer, he'll tell you that he isn't. He'll gladly give you the name of his employer, and the percentage that goes to the charity. He'll even put you on a do not call list if you ask. I used to get a lot of those calls for a while, and when I started asking to be placed on the do not call list, they slowly stopped. But stop they did.
And what were they comparing it to? Xena:TOS and Buffy:TOS? Let's face it, the article is the best that Entertainment Journalism has to offer - badly written, badly researched drivel, put together by people who could have been doing real news journalism, but couldn't manage even that.
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Have you tried SLUDGE, from http://www.hungrysoftware.com/ ?
It's not open source, but at least it isn't in Japanese. There used to be a pretty active user community around it a few years ago.
Sadly, practically every single time I've seen someone confuse loose/lose, they're/their/there or its/it's, they were American English speakers for whom English is a first language. Foreigners tend to get those things right.
As long as my tax money pays for your kid's education, your kid's education is my problem. Our society thinks that how children are educated is everyone's problem, because if you (hypothetically speaking) are content not to teach your child how to read, write, do arithmetic and not beat up the other children and she grows up to become a burden on society, then she's a burden on society and society thinks that something should be done about it. Like telling you to educate your kids.
While you could make the argument that this is nobody's business but your own, and that YOU don't want to pay for other people's children's education or medical insurance, it seems that enough Americans think otherwise and don't want to change it. As things stand now, society at large takes an interest in how you raise your kids. Deal with it.
Hi there, Mr Mosch!
I believe we worked together a few years ago, if you're the original Mosch and not some newbie who bought his 3 digit ID. Send me an email, will ya? I tried your old email address, and it bounced.
On copper you can't talk upstream and downstream at the same time.
Don't you mean "using the same frequency?" Upstream and downstream don't use the same frequency. The connection IS full duplex.
> There are better things to do than buy $100+ of stuff to win a argument (especially) on /. .
True. But sometimes one must take certain liberties with the truth to try (and, apparently - fail) to be funny. Oh, well... I do appreciate your concern, though.
> Where can you buy Demon Days for less than $15? We're talking mainstream US artists. I'd love to know where you're getting those prices otherwise.
cduniverse.com - $14.25. That's less than $15. Of course, with $3 for shipping ($2.99, actually) it's more than $15. Unless you could order more than one - shipping increases by $1 for each additional copy, up to a maximum of $6.99, it seems. So if you could order 10 copies, you'd spend $149.49 and you'll get each copy for $14.94, which is less than $15.
Now, for some reason, cduniverse.com doesn't allow you to order more than 9 copies of Demon Days, for $128.25 plus %6.99 shipping, which is $15.02 per copy - that's MORE than $15. Not by a lot, but more is more.
So I guess you're right. But I went through the trouble of figuring it all out, and ordering all those copies of Demon Days (which I've never even heard of,) trying to prove you wrong, but I couldn't, so the least I could do was post the figures to Slashdot for posterity. Oh, and if someone needs 9 copies of Demon Days, I can set you up with something.
That's true. However, some selections could get you a kernel that won't compile, or won't work once it compiled. I remember the process as being somewhat more involved than that, but mostly it was just tedious, rather than difficult. And of course, compiling on a 386 took a bit of time.
1999? Bah. I built my first custom kernel (just to get the thing to WORK, mind you) in 1991 or 1992. I don't remember.
If this is how Microsoft pronounces it, then great - they screwed that one up, too. If they don't, then it really doesn't sound much like zi-yoon. I guess we need a wav file or Linus Torvalds pronouncing it.
...and it doesn't even sound that much like it. I've been reading about the Zune for a while now and the similarity never occured to me. And yes, I'm fluent in Hebrew.
Well, it is a server product, targeted at developers. Desktop speech products weren't doing too well the last time I looked.
IBM's ViaVoice technology can still be licensed from Wizzard Software (http://www.wizzardsoftware.com) and they're still selling the Linux SDK.
Define "charity." You'll be surprised who some of those callers really work for. The magic words to watch out for are "We are calling on behalf of." There are several for-profit companies (some of them are public, and their profits are substantial - I looked them up) who specialize in raising money for charities. They call "on behalf of" some fraternal order of police, ask for some money, give some of it (as little as 3%) to the charity, and pocket the rest. If you ask the person on the phone whether he's a volunteer, he'll tell you that he isn't. He'll gladly give you the name of his employer, and the percentage that goes to the charity. He'll even put you on a do not call list if you ask. I used to get a lot of those calls for a while, and when I started asking to be placed on the do not call list, they slowly stopped. But stop they did.
Sasha,
You might want to talk to your attorney before you post public comments about your case. This is always a good idea when you have ongoing litigation.
"Why am I willing to pay more for music than I would for video?"
Because music is the best.
And what were they comparing it to? Xena:TOS and Buffy:TOS? Let's face it, the article is the best that Entertainment Journalism has to offer - badly written, badly researched drivel, put together by people who could have been doing real news journalism, but couldn't manage even that.
"whereas in Star Trek, all the women were either aliens or wore short skirts."
Or were starship captains for a full 7 season run. At least give them points for trying, OK?
8 megs? I had 4. I had to put a swap file on a floppy once to allow Octave to finish calculating something when I ran out of memory and disk space.
Delphi is still pretty popular in some circles - I use it every day. It's a RAD environment based on Pascal. Really nice.
And don't forget to tune in next week for hot tips on how to prevent car theft using nothing more than a can of gasoline and a lighter!
But it does run fine under Wine, and produces a validation code. The code isn't recognized as valid by the MS web page, though. Strange.
Did you refresh the Secunia page before trying again?
At last!
I've seen this exact same post elswhere. Is this the new "BSD is dying" troll?
Moderators - read this carefully. It doesn't make any sense.