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Q: Cleaning closed questions

Other than the Greatest Hits issue, there is another one: closed questions. The policy on SE is to delete closed questions that aren't salvageable, spam, illegal, too localized, etc. Only duplicates might be left there, as they serve the useful purpose of directing users to the actual question. ...

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Alenanno

12:47

@kamilstachowski Come here, comments aren't made for chatting. Anyway, I'm not sure about that. You might try asking on MSO directly.

Alenanno

13:02

Hey @Gigili @OtavioMacedo @Cerberus @hippietrail

Cerberus

Hi!

Alenanno

What's up?

Cerberus

Wikipedia is getting a new, better editor!

mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:VisualEditorSandbox

Alenanno

How was the previous one?

Cerberus

Only the right half.

Not only does the new editor have a live preview, like Stackexchange, but you edit the preview directly.

Alenanno

13:16

Oh...

Cerberus

You never edit Wiki articles?

Alenanno

Oh? How? :|

No, never did...

Cerberus

Hmm OK.

Imagine you could just click on the preview as it exists on Stackexchange while you're editing, and directly type words and add links in the preview.

Alenanno

That's weird...

I gotta go now... See y'all later

:)

Otavio Macedo

@Cerberus that's good! Live preview was one of the features I missed on Wikipedia

Cerberus

13:29

@Alenanno Bye!

@OtavioMacedo Yeah I know! Editing a long article, scrolling down to click preview, waiting (for a long time) for the page to load, then scrolling all the way to the right section...

Gigili

18:14

What's the opposite of fully charged?

Not fully charged, of course =\

When it needs to be plugged into a wall outlet via the adapter

I thought you would respond to my questions without force (@YOU)

Otavio Macedo

partially charged?

Gigili

No no, it'll be turned of in a minute or so

Otavio Macedo

18:35

Hmm, I don't know a phrase for this

Gigili

off*

Otavio Macedo

My laptop always warns me: "battery critically low"

hehe

Cerberus

@Gigili Nearly empty?

Gigili

Yes, nearly empty

My mobile phone is nearly empty, makes sense?

@OtavioMacedo I rarely unplug it just because of that warning, gets on my nerves badly

Cerberus

18:52

@Gigili Yes, perfect sense.

Technically it is the battery that is empty, but in casual speech we often say the phone is empty.

Gigili

Right, thank you.

Do you have an iPhone? iPod, iPad ?

Alenanno

Hello!

Otavio Macedo

I don't have any iP*

@Alenanno Hi!

Alenanno

What's up?

Gigili

Hi

Alenanno

18:58

@Gigili I was wondering, is that you in your gravatar?

Gigili

It's my eye, not me!

One of them, of course.

Otavio Macedo

c'est ne une pipe

Alenanno

@Gigili LoL Actually there is one thing, that I don't know how to call in English

Gigili

Excuse me?

Alenanno

where you can refer to a part of something to talk about something else, or similar things.

Otavio Macedo

19:00

@Alenanno Metonymy?

Alenanno

@OtavioMacedo Synecdoche!

I just found it. :D

Otavio Macedo

@Gigili Actually, the sentence is "ceci n'est pas une pipe"

René Magritte

Alenanno

Who??? ... ... joking.

:P

Gigili

@OtavioMacedo Oh nice, I understand nothing.

What does it mean?

Alenanno

"this is not a pipe"

It means that that is not a "pipe", it's the drawing of a "pipe".

Otavio Macedo

19:04

@Alenanno Exactly

Alenanno

Playing with words... :D

Otavio Macedo

@Gigili When you said that it was not you in your gravatar, I remembered that painting

Gigili

What's the relevance?

Never mind

Alenanno

:P

Gigili

(I bet @Alenanno will say "ahahah", @Cerberus will say "haha nice" and I don't care what @OtavioMacedo will say)

@Alenanno Eh, you were supposed to say ahahah

Cerberus

19:09

@Gigili Nope, I hate Apple. If I get a new phone it will be an Android.

You?

Alenanno

@Gigili :D ahah almost... :P

Otavio Macedo

Hey, I was thinking... do you wanna play riddles?

It's been a while

Alenanno

About them... you know, I always played them without any hints.

Cerberus

Good idea. Maybe I'll join you later, I have to do stuff now...

@Gigili giggles

Gigili

@Cerberus I decided to buy one, was wondering if it's worth the money

Otavio Macedo

19:15

@Alenanno Yes, it's more challenging without hints!

Alenanno

@OtavioMacedo :P... But I mean, I never played the ones with hints and actually, I was a bit puzzled at first.

Cerberus

@Gigili Depends on what your needs are.

Alenanno

@Cerberus Exactly what I was thinking.

Gigili

1) Viber 2) apps

Cerberus

What is viber?

And which "apps" do you want?

Gigili

19:22

Adidas miCoach Pacer, for example

Otavio Macedo

@Gigili You're a marathoner?

Cerberus

Hmm well I have no idea, though I would expect there to be equivalent programmes for all the major platforms.

Gigili

Actually, viber is the most important reason but there are many great apps as well

@OtavioMacedo I should run for an hour everyday

Gigili

20:04

What does it mean: all brands and trademarks are properties of their respective owners

The italic part

@Cerberus, when you have a minute

Cerberus

@Gigili A property is something you own, here: a possession.

So it means "each brand has an owner".

"Respective" means here that not all brands together are owned by some people, but one brand is owned by one person, the next brand is owned by another person, etc.

@Gigili I see it also exists for Android. By the way, aren't there many other programmes that do the same thing, like Skype?

Gigili

@Cerberus Thank you so much.

@Cerberus They're not free, I believe?

Cerberus

I think calling from Skype to Skype is free?

There's also Google Voice.

Alenanno

@Cerberus One to one yes.

Cerberus

I don't know, I'm not using them.

@Alenanno OK.

Gigili

20:13

And it's not really easy to run Skype on the phone and make phone calls, at least not for me

Alenanno

From 3 people up, you pay. :P

Cerberus

@Gigili Hmm no?

@Alenanno Ah OK. And if you want to make a call to a real phone number.

Alenanno

@Cerberus Yes.

Gigili

@Cerberus No, and With viber almost everything is free if the other part has it installed on the phone as well , like messaging and so on

Cerberus

@Gigili Well, I'm not up to date on these applications. There are many more, but perhaps Viber is the best one? In any case, it exists for Android too.

Otavio Macedo

20:15

@Gigili, there's whatsapp, as well

Cerberus

Android and Iphone are the two major platforms: most major programmes exist for both.

Gigili

Yes right, I should buy one of them, an Android tablet or an iPhone

Cerberus

Tablet? Why?

I'd just buy an Android phone.

Gigili

Don't they suck?

@OtavioMacedo Aww, interesting.

Cerberus

No!

Why should they suck?

Gigili

20:19

They shouldn't but I've heard they do.

Cerberus

Android is the largest, most popular platform now. It is really the platform of the future.

Gigili

An Android phone like what?

Cerberus

Android is an operating system, like Windows, but on mobile devices.

Android phones are the most popular phones.

Android is a free operating system; Apple tries to restrict and forbid your doing anything.

You can get around that, but still.

Apple uses the operating system Ios on its phones.

Gigili

Um, honestly I didn't think about Android phones.

Cerberus

Really?

Gigili

20:22

@Cerberus Yes, it's fun and all of Apple products are stylish.

Really.

Cerberus

Mobile operating system

A mobile operating system (mobile OS) is the operating system that controls a smartphone, tablet, PDA, or other mobile device. Modern mobile operating systems combine the features of a personal computer operating system with touchscreen, cellular, Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS mobile navigation, camera, video camera, speech recognition, voice recorder, music player, Near field communication, personal digital assistant (PDA), and other features. History Mobile operating system milestones mirror the development of mobile phones and smartphones: * 1979-1992 Mobile phones have embedded systems to co...

@Gigili Android is open and free, and it has by far the largest user base on modern phones, so the chance that a new application will be developed for Android is very large.

Gigili

Oh I see, that's very interesting and informative

Poor Symbian

Cerberus

Yeah, that's Nokia's old OS.

But Nokia is going to use the new Windows Phone.

phonearena.com/phones

This is one of the best phone-comparison sites.

There is a long list of criteria on the left side that you can fill in.

Gigili

@Cerberus Great, thanks a lot.

Cerberus

Like screen size, speed, operating system, keyboard yes/no, etc. etc.

Gigili

20:27

Uhum

Cerberus

Then it will show you all the phones that fit your criteria. They also give a price indication, but it is perhaps better to check that in (web)shops that are available in your country.

Gigili

What I like more about Apple phones is their appearance

Cerberus

Have you seen the latest Android phones?

All modern phones look more or less the same to me.

And don't forget to watch some Youtube videos of the phones you are considering too.

That will give you an impression.

And don't forget that you can put any cover you like on your phone!

Gigili

Wow, nobody could help me as much as you did, thank you. I will.

Cerberus

@Gigili It is a pleasure!

Otavio Macedo

21:19

@Cerberus, is it right to transcribe "Lingua Franca" (as it would be spoken in Latin) as /ˈliŋɡwa fɾaŋka/?

Cerberus

21:45

@OtavioMacedo Yes, most probably.

I'm not entirely sure about the a, though.

Nor the r.

Otavio Macedo

Well, I posted an answer to the question about our room name

Cerberus

Oh!

Cool.

Otavio Macedo

Feel free to correct the IPA if you discover something

Cerberus

That would be a good name.

@OtavioMacedo OK I have voted for your proposal: excellent choice.

And of course we should use the Latin transcription!

Otavio Macedo

@Cerberus Thanks!

Yes, the English pronunciation seems a bit odd to me, honestly

Cerberus

21:54

It's so ugly...

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