Paulomus

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by Paulomus 15y ago
Actually, the usability test pretty much replicated my experience with Unity. The dock was fine, but the way it folded was awkward. I wasn't sure what the Ubuntu menu did either and I eventually got sick of never being able to find system s
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by Paulomus 15y ago
Well it's essentially the same problem for actions. The dream appeals to many, but the work is only available for a smaller number. The result is a lot of struggling actors competing for the same work. The same goes for the vast array of co
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by Paulomus 15y ago
The problem is that a university degree has more prestige that a technical school. So employers use it as a measure of the ability of the people they are hiring, and then complain that their new hires don't have enough practical skills. So
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by Paulomus 15y ago
"These are civil liberties that our forefathers fought, bled, and died to give us." The poster is Swedish. Sweden's last war was fought in 1814 to occupy Norway. Before that it fought in the coalition against Napoleon so that it could deman
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by Paulomus 16y ago
This rings true for me. Certainly the courses I struggled in were ones where I had a hard time getting a grip on the concepts. The best lecturers helped by teaching in a way that made the key concepts clear and showed how they developed fro
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by Paulomus 16y ago
From Bing? Presumably Google would put the cake under a microscope to see if the flour came from their own cupboard.
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by Paulomus 16y ago
This Chunichi Shimbun Article: http://www.chunichi.co.jp/article/national/news/CK2011031702... about the increase of looting in Japan following the earthquake uses 略奪 to refer both to armed robberies and taking things from unattended stor
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by Paulomus 16y ago
Really, I always found it pretty useful. I guess this might be because when doing J->E translation I already had context from the source text. Still the WWWJDIC results at least link to ALC (which does give lots of context) or to Japane
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by Paulomus 16y ago
Yes, but he hesitated to say this was sufficient and said the reactors were still "a little more susceptible to an accident that would result in a loss of containment".
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by Paulomus 16y ago
略奪 ryakudatsu edit: link to definition - http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/je2/79721/m1u/%E7%95%A5%E5%...
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by Paulomus 16y ago
NHK World English has an online at http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ so you could listen in. I didn't see any mention of meltdown in the latest news there. NHK's Japanese page reports a declaration of an emergency situation (apparently unde
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by Paulomus 16y ago
I think it is more correct to say that all the typhoon words derive from Greek (or at least a common source). Europeans borrowed a cognate local word (tufan) to describe the cyclones of the Indian Ocean and 'correcred' the spelling to the G
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by Paulomus 16y ago
You can see the etymology of tycoon at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_magnate#Etymology The borrowing pre-dates the Hepburn romanization system which wasn't developed until the 1880's.
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by Paulomus 16y ago
Well the article on the University's web-page states the study was commissioned by the municipality of Alphen aan der Rijn. The municipality's website has two pages about the study: http://www.alphenaandenrijn.nl/Smartsite.shtml?id=75994
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by Paulomus 16y ago
A little more googling and you can find his biographical details with a list of his publications: http://www.pcb.wur.nl/UK/People/Faculty/André+van+Lammeren/ and according to http://www.pcb.wur.nl/UK/Research/ he is the head of a resea
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by Paulomus 16y ago
Interesting. I note that Mark Forstater was the producer of the film. There doesn't seem anything strange to me about him trying to bargain the censors down. What seems odd is that he thought Monty Python would be interested in trying to ge
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by Paulomus 16y ago
You can read the actual contract rider for yourself at: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/van-halens-lege... In my opinion, the document is full of a whole lot of weird stuff and the safety excuse may just be a post-facto ratio
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by Paulomus 16y ago
I think it is significant that both Unix itself and Linux were category killers. Unix succeeded because people kept going "Wow, there's nothing like this!" and writing in to get it, copying it passing it on to other people. When Linux took
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by Paulomus 16y ago
Well, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Back in the early days of the iPod's success, company after company came out with iPod-killers that all basically flopped. Then, after the iPhone became a hit, everyone touted new smartphones
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by Paulomus 16y ago
Yes, GNU Go, the premier open source Go program is implemented exactly like this. Any graphical front ends in use are all written by third parties.
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by Paulomus 16y ago
This reminds me of the concept of "whuffie" in Cory Doctorow's "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" where he posits an entire future society based on these principles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie It did not occur to me at the time
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by Paulomus 16y ago
Yes, Wikipedia would be another example. It is one of the most useful destinations on the web, but does not charge anything. So too are web-comics, just about all of which are free to view, while the creators make their money elsewhere (thr
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by Paulomus 16y ago
The blog did file it under "Apple Fanboyism" and "Microsoft Bashing", so at least they were honest about where they were coming from. I presume that since Android is being touted as an "iPhone Killer", it will have to kill the iPhone first
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by Paulomus 16y ago
An Android fan/wanna-be rather than a user yet, but of the two Android handsets I have played with, I was disappointed with the Nexus One, but really liked my friends HTC Desire (The "Sense" UI seemed to make a lot of difference).
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by Paulomus 16y ago
Their Macintosh products tend to be really great. I really loved IE5 for Mac and was sorry when they discontinued it. MS Word on the Macintosh always seemed well designed too. I assumed this was because their Macintosh division was long est
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by Paulomus 16y ago
Yes, my Uni experience overall has been kind of disappointing, but the good classes with interesting teachers have been amazing. Also the motivation of having to study has got me further than I would myself.
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by Paulomus 16y ago
Australia