If they weren't different they'd be called English and wouldn't require special names. The fact they have names that are SO special hints at the fact they've become much more than mere accents.
And that's saying a lot, since here in Europe we're used to accents being so different people from different regions of the same country can hardly understand each other. The fact your accents are so discrepant they need to be called something other than accents could well mean they've become a language in their own right.
And they should, a nation that big really deserves a language of its own.
I for one don't care whether it's natural or not. All I know is we're being rather egotistic in thinking global warming is the end of the world. At worst it will be the end of a civilisation, not even the whole human race. Most probably we'll just lose some cities and adapt our technologies to the new weather.
About fucking time we started building houses to withstand hurricanes and tornadoes anyway.
For the love of god people, Homo Sapiens has lived through several ice ages, in fact thrived right through, do you really think a little increase in storm frequency, some flooding and Europe becoming cold is going to be the end of us all?
Some of it sure looks like it took a legitimate amount of work, but why the fuck can't they spend the 20 minutes to make scrollwheels work with the dropdown selects on their website?
Seriously, I thought this was supposed to be a decent bunch of programmers.
Where could I get one of those laptops with more power than I'll ever need? They'd come in handy every day when I feel like throwing mine out of a window when it won't run twenty windows at a time smoothly...
Agreed. WHY does it take so long for my preview to load? Sure I can understand taking a while for comments to appear on the static page, but when I click Preview I want to see the fucking preview instead of wondering if some javascript somewhere crashed and nothing's about to happen.
Edit: you vile bastards, you've changed the delay on purpose while I was typing that first paragraph didn't you!?
I rather enjoyed that move. Never cared much for backwards compatibility when it comes to a DE as long as everything I need works and guess what, it does. So despite not having lost anything I, the user, have gained a lot of OOO SHINY SPARKLY AWESOME effect. And I like that. As a user that's exactly what I want my desktop to do.
Just, you know, don't ever use KDE's built-in effects library or whatever, Compiz all the way. KDE is great for them desktop widgets, which are far far better than having icons all over the place intermittently sprinkled with the dinosaur that is karamba.
If they aren't going to learn the facts they need on their own then it's best to just shoot them in the head as kids and save everyone the expense of bringing up someone who is no better than a cheap robot. Only worse since they can get tired, aren't accurate and whatnot. Seriously, we are fast moving into a worl, if arguably we aren't already in one, where what you know doesn't matter, only what you know how to learn does.
My point is that isn't really teh content at all. Hell, most people don't even talk so much about what they're doing twitter as they are about more in-depth things, like how they feel for instance. Sharing interesting photos quickly is also quite popular, pasting that awesome link you just saw, but don't have anyone to show... twitter will love it. And so on.
Hell, just earlier this week I got a job offer because I was venting on twitter about how insanely unfair my project manager was being.
It's stupid to teach kids to use Wikipedia for primary research. But it's paramount to teach them just WHY it shouldn't be their only source, because otherwise they'll reach high school and do all their research on wikipedia because it's easier. Hell, I'm in college these days and I still use it as my primary research tool and almost never look at secondary sources. This is mostly because throughout my schooling I have been taught that that one book, The Book, is all I need to pass. Then I found that everything that's in The Book is also on wikipedia, except in more detail.
Similar goes for twitter and other social media. You want to Protect The Children? Don't keep them away from the internets, teach them how to tell foe from friend, teach them how to use it.
No matter what you say or do. The Internets are a paramount part of our everyday lives and primary school was meant to teach people how to deal with their everyday surroundings. Back when we were young that meant learning to read books, now it means knowing how to tell a useful blog from SEO-ed crap.
My understanding has always been that it helped the photo dry quicker so you could show it around without getting everyone covered in developing chemicals.
There are many reasonable nations, there are no reasonable COUNTRIES. Please stop confusing the two structures since one is sociological and the other is political.
In the ten years I've lived at my current apartment I've changed lightbulbs once or twice in the living room. Exactly twice in my room and about five times in the bathroom.
Phenom II's is a singular possesive.
Phenom IIs's is a misspelled plural possesive.
Phenom IIs' is a properly spelled plural possesive.
Phenom II is a singular.
Phenom IIs is a plural.
You are wrong. II's is proper spelling as per the rules of English grammar.
An apostrophe is used to form a plural for abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols where adding just s rather than 's may leave things ambiguous or inelegant
I am honestly not afraid of death, but come on, standing on an edge of any kind is simply exhilarating. It's as fun as racing into a freeway corner at speeds far above the speed limit without holding the wheel because you're drinking water and then grabbing it at the very last moment before swerving off into the truck you're passing! (yes I've done this before)
Approaching death is fun and adrenaline is a healthy reaction that increases our chances of survival, so we can approach it even closer. A rush of adrenaline in a deadly situation is NOT fear of dying, it's fear of injury and pain.
Kasparov had immortality to gain. In fact I'm fairly certain most people today remember him only as The First Person To Lose Against A Computer In Chess and have no idea who deep blue is.
If others declare you a quirky genius you should act surprised and say "Stop messing with me! I just eat my spinach"
Or something you know, never admit to being a quirky genius. Let others bother with labels, because a real quirky genius doesn't have time to care about them.
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If they weren't different they'd be called English and wouldn't require special names. The fact they have names that are SO special hints at the fact they've become much more than mere accents.
And that's saying a lot, since here in Europe we're used to accents being so different people from different regions of the same country can hardly understand each other. The fact your accents are so discrepant they need to be called something other than accents could well mean they've become a language in their own right.
And they should, a nation that big really deserves a language of its own.
But Austrians do speak Austrian. Just like americans don't actually speak real english.
This will of course get modded flamebait because american mods like to think they speak real english.
I for one don't care whether it's natural or not. All I know is we're being rather egotistic in thinking global warming is the end of the world. At worst it will be the end of a civilisation, not even the whole human race. Most probably we'll just lose some cities and adapt our technologies to the new weather.
About fucking time we started building houses to withstand hurricanes and tornadoes anyway.
For the love of god people, Homo Sapiens has lived through several ice ages, in fact thrived right through, do you really think a little increase in storm frequency, some flooding and Europe becoming cold is going to be the end of us all?
Some of it sure looks like it took a legitimate amount of work, but why the fuck can't they spend the 20 minutes to make scrollwheels work with the dropdown selects on their website?
Seriously, I thought this was supposed to be a decent bunch of programmers.
In a lot of Europe we can watch american broadcasts several years in advance with a simple broadband internet connection.
Australia had April fools start a few hours ago. I know it's not very much like Americans to think there's anyone outside america, but there is.
Where could I get one of those laptops with more power than I'll ever need? They'd come in handy every day when I feel like throwing mine out of a window when it won't run twenty windows at a time smoothly ...
Agreed. WHY does it take so long for my preview to load? Sure I can understand taking a while for comments to appear on the static page, but when I click Preview I want to see the fucking preview instead of wondering if some javascript somewhere crashed and nothing's about to happen.
Edit: you vile bastards, you've changed the delay on purpose while I was typing that first paragraph didn't you!?
I rather enjoyed that move. Never cared much for backwards compatibility when it comes to a DE as long as everything I need works and guess what, it does. So despite not having lost anything I, the user, have gained a lot of OOO SHINY SPARKLY AWESOME effect. And I like that. As a user that's exactly what I want my desktop to do.
Just, you know, don't ever use KDE's built-in effects library or whatever, Compiz all the way. KDE is great for them desktop widgets, which are far far better than having icons all over the place intermittently sprinkled with the dinosaur that is karamba.
If they aren't going to learn the facts they need on their own then it's best to just shoot them in the head as kids and save everyone the expense of bringing up someone who is no better than a cheap robot. Only worse since they can get tired, aren't accurate and whatnot. Seriously, we are fast moving into a worl, if arguably we aren't already in one, where what you know doesn't matter, only what you know how to learn does.
My point is that isn't really teh content at all. Hell, most people don't even talk so much about what they're doing twitter as they are about more in-depth things, like how they feel for instance. Sharing interesting photos quickly is also quite popular, pasting that awesome link you just saw, but don't have anyone to show ... twitter will love it. And so on.
Hell, just earlier this week I got a job offer because I was venting on twitter about how insanely unfair my project manager was being.
Twitter is oh so much more than "I just took a dump" It's an Instant Messaging protocol.
It's stupid to teach kids to use Wikipedia for primary research. But it's paramount to teach them just WHY it shouldn't be their only source, because otherwise they'll reach high school and do all their research on wikipedia because it's easier. Hell, I'm in college these days and I still use it as my primary research tool and almost never look at secondary sources. This is mostly because throughout my schooling I have been taught that that one book, The Book, is all I need to pass. Then I found that everything that's in The Book is also on wikipedia, except in more detail.
Similar goes for twitter and other social media. You want to Protect The Children? Don't keep them away from the internets, teach them how to tell foe from friend, teach them how to use it.
No matter what you say or do. The Internets are a paramount part of our everyday lives and primary school was meant to teach people how to deal with their everyday surroundings. Back when we were young that meant learning to read books, now it means knowing how to tell a useful blog from SEO-ed crap.
I've only ever worked with processing real photos and I was under the impression a polaroid would be similarly wet. Oh well, guess I was wrong then :P
My understanding has always been that it helped the photo dry quicker so you could show it around without getting everyone covered in developing chemicals.
FUCKING HELL is that an embedded video I see in the story!? Holy shit, the geek website is ... in step with the times?
There are many reasonable nations, there are no reasonable COUNTRIES. Please stop confusing the two structures since one is sociological and the other is political.
In the ten years I've lived at my current apartment I've changed lightbulbs once or twice in the living room. Exactly twice in my room and about five times in the bathroom.
Go figure.
Phenom II's is a singular possesive. Phenom IIs's is a misspelled plural possesive. Phenom IIs' is a properly spelled plural possesive. Phenom II is a singular. Phenom IIs is a plural.
You are wrong. II's is proper spelling as per the rules of English grammar.
An apostrophe is used to form a plural for abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols where adding just s rather than 's may leave things ambiguous or inelegant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Use_in_forming_certain_plurals
I am honestly not afraid of death, but come on, standing on an edge of any kind is simply exhilarating. It's as fun as racing into a freeway corner at speeds far above the speed limit without holding the wheel because you're drinking water and then grabbing it at the very last moment before swerving off into the truck you're passing! (yes I've done this before)
Approaching death is fun and adrenaline is a healthy reaction that increases our chances of survival, so we can approach it even closer. A rush of adrenaline in a deadly situation is NOT fear of dying, it's fear of injury and pain.
Kasparov had immortality to gain. In fact I'm fairly certain most people today remember him only as The First Person To Lose Against A Computer In Chess and have no idea who deep blue is.
Fuck robots?
... yes please
cylons == robots
fuck cylons
If others declare you a quirky genius you should act surprised and say "Stop messing with me! I just eat my spinach"
Or something you know, never admit to being a quirky genius. Let others bother with labels, because a real quirky genius doesn't have time to care about them.
You stop being a quirky genius soon as you declare yourself as one. Since then you're just a wannabe poser.
See that's why I'm NOT a quirky genius.
I'm glad you find my English good enough to think it was a typo when I'm really just a foreigner. Cheers.