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There is another dating system which aims to get around this, by actually changing the numbers, which is called Before Present (BP). It sets 0 to be January 1, 1950, as an arbitrary date of the present. So, 1500 BP is 450 AD. I see it used most often it dealing with archaeology.

If someone knows how to spoof a useragent, they probably don't need virus protection anyways.

It is *nix, ish. Everything works, ish. Sometimes there are really isoteric workarounds for certain things, and some things plain just don't work. I've been much happier just switching to Linux than if I had continued to struggle with OS X.

Articles are used to distinguish between whether or not you are talking about a specific item, or a general item (which I'm sure you know). This is actually very valuable. I've studied Latin, and sometimes you can't know which is which, because Latin doesn't distinguish. Also, I don't think 'a' and 'an' are fundamentally different. 'An' just has the extra sound to smooth speech over. It doesn't really matter if you write "a apple" or "an apple".

Also, verb conjugation in English is pretty nonexistant, compared to other languages, like Romance languages. There are usually three different verb forms: the standard (write), the past (writed) and the third person singular present (writes). I know there are some irregularities, but generally if you want to say a verb, you use the standard.

Time to encrypt everything!

This is a bit late to the boat. Not sure about on Windows, but on OS X, Transmission is a great torrent client.

Or, individual users can limit how many sources they have, and not make it difficult for users who like more feeds to use more.

It is worth it. It takes time, but it really is worth it.

I'm not the standard user of emacs, but as an arts student in university, I have to write a lot of papers. I write, using LaTeX in emacs, and it has dramatically increased the speed in which I can write. More important is probably the editing portion of it. I don't have to worry about fooling around with font sizes and formatting, that if I make this bold it might make the rest, etc. all those little annoyances that come with a large word processor. I just want to write. Emacs lets me do that.

Of course, I'm not comparing emacs to vim, but to something like Word. I plan to learn vim in the next few months.

I'm a history undergrad. I had to make a decision between going into compsci, or history, and I think I should right. I'm a history student by day, hacker by night.

I came here to post something like this. Too late!

A couple of weeks?

mpd+ncmpcpp!

Yeah, who needs friends?

I didn't know. I actually have it on my shelf. My dad gave it to me when I was just starting C about a year ago. I guess this explains why some of the code didn't run.

How is this relevant? It is my hardware, I can do whatever I want with it.

Yes, so there is nothing wrong with Apple deciding they don't want to sell to someone.

But what I think is the greater good is different to what you think it is. So what if Gizmodo thought they were doing the greater good?

Except of course the engineer that Gizmodo publicly humiliated, of course.

I'm actually not convinced that this is a wrong direction for the App Store. I'm not an Apple apologist or fanboy by any means. What Apple has created with the iPhone and iPad is actually perfect for "regular users". For my mom, for my grandmother. Even for my dad, who is just too busy these days to configure computers and phones, who easily has the knowledge and skill to do so. The ability of these people to do powerful things without having to spend time working on it is actually quite interesting.

I am completely turned off by the direction computing is taking, but people who think this is just a fad are wrong, and aren't looking at the big picture. People buy Apple products because it gives them what they want. Yes, Linux is much superior to OS X and Windows, but the majority of users don't not use it because of some FUD, its because they don't have the time or skill to work with it. Apple is taking that concept to the next level, where anyone can accomplish things in a much easier way.

This won't go away. Apple is being extremely successful, and I see many other companies who are going to jump on the bandwagon. But for us power users, there will always be the hardware that we are used to buying available. Linux is not going to go away. There is just going to be a bigger divide between what your nontechy family and friends use, and what you use. I don't know whether or not this will destroy the next generation of programmers, who won't have had the ability to tinker. I can see that happening. But really, this is not going to be a negotiable thing. This isn't something you can fight against. This is the way technology is moving. We have to adapt to it, not the other way around.

I'm pretty sure it shows Fahrenheit everywhere by default.

Sometimes doing things like that work, re: floppy drives and the iMac.

But then again, wouldn't that prevent PHP from being run as well, since it is server-side?

Well now what I do is store the backups in a folder in my home directory.

I'm a pretty new user to emacs, and this is something that has bugged me for a while. It's one of those things I can't imagine why it would ever be a default, but something I have to live with until my abilities to configure are up to par.

To be honest, I had no idea what Picnik was. Is it very popular?

But how do you reconcile the fact that DRM only affects paying customers, such as AC2's need for a constant internet connection or Spore's original maximum installations, where pirates can easily just install the crack and not worry about the DRM?