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command line vs gui 6984
Well, you have said: and also To me this second comment seems to indicate that you have checkboxes representing things (filters) to be AND'd together. Do you mean to have...
command line vs gui 6985
First let me apologize for the snide tone of "good for you". This whole thread is making me a little cranky, but it's not *you* .... So. Yes, I think that if...
command line vs gui 6986
But still, many HKers who learned English in the same education system and environment as I do, do not learn it that well. Many of them has a very Chinese...
command line vs gui 6987
I have never heard of children not learing their first language "because they are lazy". I once read a statement that children's brains are very rich in cross connections, and much of their learing happens...
command line vs gui 6988
Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but you sound a bit defensive here, so -- I don't mean this as a put-down of non-native speakers. It's just that in my experience there's a clbutt of "mistakes...
command line vs gui 6989
Can you give any examples for English? And how come I don't have such problems NOW? Most people in Hong Kong speak Cantonese (which has no articles at all) all the time...
command line vs gui 6990
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz That's because the idiom itself is a target language-ification of a foreign source-language expression. For example: "(he has...
command line vs gui 6991
Yes, exactly. It's not that foreign speakers make *more* mistakes; it's that they make *different* mistakes. Examples: I frequently hear foreign speakers say "I have a doubt about whatever ," where a native speaker...
command line vs gui 6992
Peter I *do* believe that Semitic languages have influenced IE languages more than most professional linguists have acknowledged. The genetic aspect of that influence is via a Nostratic-like ancestor...
command line vs gui 6993
That would be a great explanation, if only "welsh" rabbit were not one of a set of four similar dishes known in the 18th century. Another is "english rabbit", and...
command line vs gui 6994
mostly pseudo-academic nonsense) There's no "proximity" there! Those are different parts of the world, separated...
command line vs gui 6995
Exactly. Part of what I think makes learning a language difficult is realizing that the...
command line vs gui 6996
I can confirm that I see this quite often on the spanish newsgroups. I can't remember I would express myself...
command line vs gui 6997
OK - that helps. One is for a recently finished action that the story continues to use as an fix for the timepoint, and...
command line vs gui 6998
Re-read the paragraph below, please. I thought I had been doing exactly that. mentioned in another subthread. You've told us that you've put some extra time and attention into learning to speak and write...
command line vs gui 6999
So spreads the rumour. Many Westerners, having lived in Hong Kong for years AND devoted time & effort to learn the local...
command line vs gui 7000
You seem to consistently ignore the weasel words I try so hard to put in -- "often", "most", "many". I'll try not to do the same. I think the point I have been trying to...
command line vs gui 7001
I was paying attention to a bilingual families mailing list for a while, and I learned that there were several cases where the immigrant parent after several...
command line vs gui 7002
Well, all languages are learned by practice. In my case the problem is that I don't internalise a foreign language as well - english resonates throughout my head while...
command line vs gui 7003
Gotta love topic drift, eh? On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:57:42 +0100, Peter T. Breuer staggered into the Black Sun and said...
command line vs gui 7004
The ordinary people don't speak any english. Many don't speak anything intelligible to most people as far as I can tell. Yes, my colleagues...
command line vs gui 7005
Peter T. Breuer I have the same problem when I'm in Russia. I'm usually hanging around with people from the academic circles, then...
command line vs gui 7006
For the benefit of readers, I will explain that in russia finding a taxi is easy: you just flag...
command line vs gui 7007
Lee Sau Dan To learn a language, exposure is extremely important - it's not enough to just learn it, one also have to use it and practice it...
command line vs gui 7008
Lee Sau Dan I think you do have a point, but still - the brain of a newborn is...
command line vs gui 7009
Read the above dialog one more time. I say "four panels for A&B&C&D", and you reply "panels? checkboxes". If you truly...
command line vs gui 7010
They are CHECKBOXES! Not "panels". They are CHECKBOXES. Depending on how you wish to combine them, they will...
command line vs gui 7011
snip Well, that explains it. I meant "&" as shorthand for "AND". I'm not sure that should have been 100% obvious, but (1) if I had simply meant...
command line vs gui 7012
Peter T. Breuer Over the time, I've been building several web-based database query tools - all of them ment for "ordinary users", thus never really making it possible for...
Troubleshooting a runaway process
I had this cgi-bin shell script that ran just fine under solaris. Now I ported it to linux. What the cgi-bin does is: - Parse...
Subject:devdsp could not be opened
I just installed Ubuntu 5.10 on an old pc that I have. This computer has a SoundBlaster AWE64 ISA PnP sound card. I am not sure that the sound card is even installed properly...
Nomination of Linus Torvalds for Internet Samaritan Award
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:24:35 +0000, Woodchuck Bill Though Linus deserves a lot of credit for Linux... how much...
HELP: cgibin script takes 100% CPU strace shows nothing
Here is the minimal script that is not running correctly: --------------- SNIP ---------------------------- #!-bin-sh etc... # Production report DISPLAY=:1.0 # DISPLAY is needed by rwrun60...
Recommended OS for HP Omnibook
On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:51:17 -0600, Pawel Gladki First, I have no first hand experience with the Omnibook, but in my research into buying a used notebook just to...
java problem
I installed the java SDK according to the instructions on the Sun website. I also changed my $PATH to include the...
UPS was: which distro for kernel recompilations
Michael Heiming The 2200 va unit has a fan; the 1000va one does not. The fan seldom runs. It does run on very hot days for a few minutes at a time with fairly long...
Interactive OCR software 7020
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:32:36 -0600, Dances With Crows ahh, yep I'd just downloaded ocrad too in order to try it out. Far as I can tell it currently...
Interactive OCR software 7021
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:20:59 +0000, Jules staggered into the Black Sun and said: Yeah, that's what you're probably going to have to do. Nope. If an ADF is involved, skew happens...
Interactive OCR software 7022
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:49:04 -0600, Dances With Crows Hmm, possibly not too bad. I seem to recall writing some code to do freehand selections a few years ago, which would be...
Interactive OCR software 7023
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:18:01 +0000, Jules staggered into the Black Sun and said: Usually, you don't need total freehand for selecting bits of text...
CLIkiddiesadvocates
Here's one reason why I'd like to kick these CLI-kiddies who refuse menues and say they need the extra control. An...
CLIkiddiesadvocates 7025
spoke the following words to the mbuttes inalt.os.linux.mandrake...: You'd get more help if you were to say what application this might be. Yet you prefer going off on a rant, which is not exactly...
CLIkiddiesadvocates 7026
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:01:55 GMT, Aragorn staggered into the Black Sun and said: Aragorn has hit the nail on the head here. ? Mandrake had an interactive...
Copy with an exclude filter
find, grep, and cpio will help out quite a bit. You can use find to generate a list of files, grep to further winnow the...
can u help me
can anyone help me with my homework? Here is some information about my homework. Revision Control in Multiuser Settings: --------------------------------------- We have seen some facilities of OpenOffice Writer for tracking changes. These features are useful when...
Master Boot Record
I just *know* I'm gonna get flamed for this, but here goes. I'm trying to help my sister-in-law fix her...
Master Boot Record 7030
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:50:11 +0000, Kevin the Drummer Has it occurred to you yet, that the problem may have nothing to do with the MBR? You started this thread by...
Master Boot Record 7031
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 00:29:11 +0000, Kevin the Drummer Now where did I hear that...
Newbie Question
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:17:36 -0600, Greg Smith staggered into the Black Sun and said: Well, that's positively ancient. If you're now responsible...
Decision Point, how to parbreastion 80gb dual boot
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:57:37 -0500, General Schvantzkoph One more thing. ParbreastionMagic is the best way to shrink the NTFS parbreastion. The Mandriva...
Paypal Opportunity
If you want to make easy money, please read on! I'm so not the kind of person that would normally...
Tux Paint 0.9.15 released Summary: Keywords
November 27, 2005, Mountain View, California -- New Breed Software released Tux Paint 0.9.15 last Friday, adding new features, new translations and numerous other improvements to the Open Source drawing program for young children...
New Linux based "OS2" Was: OS2 capacity limitations
Captain's log. On StarDate Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:06:36 -0800 received comm from I think the bottom line is that you and William has two completely different targets with your proposals...
Interrupt context
Hi All, I have been tearing my hair on interrupt architecture of linux. I have gone...
Linux, Windows, fdsik, parted, large disk partionning problem
Hello everybody ! Well I use a 2.6 kernel under debian with an areca SATA Raid card managing...
SVN Subversion diff tools
I've been using GUI based CVS tools for some time now and found that they have become quite...
parbreastioning Dell for linux
It seems my Dell Inspirons come with 3 parbreastions XP system recovery XP itself Dell Diagnostics the best guess is. That leaves, as I understand the Rules, one parbreastion for me to put Linux...
