@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 all sorts of people at workplaces where the IT group is to scraed to change (because the existing apps might (and do) fail on the newer OSs/browsers)
@ΜετάEd except that just means we're mutually dated.
@Mitch Except that I know that the IE6 usage is very low and declining fast worldwide, according to Microsoft's own stats. So, yes, workplaces run out of date software, but that's getting absurd. It's like if you told me that your workplace was running Windows 3.11 for workgroups.
The parent company of the company I work for has IE6 as a "standard" and twice a year I have to use a kiosk version to do HR stuff. Really, really primitive.
but on another home screen it's filled with games.
and one another it's filled with apps I use for chinese language, like Google Translate, and Pleco
And you have a widget that I've replaced with an app. Notification Toggle lets you put toggles and shortcuts in the notification area. I think you'd like it.
Actually, that feature is built-in to CyanogenMod, it's pretty good.
I was wondering if someone knew the word that describes a poem where each word begins with the letters of a previous word, of if such a word even exists.
An example of such a poem is this: http://crosswords.net23.net/poems/Joshua.html
(I wrote it)
Someone told me there was a word for this kind ...
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A brougham (pronounced "broom" or "brohm") was a light, four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage built in the 19th century. It was either invented for Scottish jurist Lord Brougham or simply made fashionable by his example. It had an enclosed body with two doors, like the rear section of a coach; it sat two, sometimes with an extra pair of fold-away seats in the front corners, and with a box seat in front for the driver and a footman or passenger. Unlike a coach, the carriage had a glazed front window, so that the occupants could see forward. The forewheels were capable of turning sharply. A v...
@Mitch Wait, how about "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" That's 24 letters right there in one syllable. This game is easy.
The Pope has it but he does not use it.
Your father has it but your mother uses it.
Nuns do not need it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one,
Michael J. Fox's is quite small.
What is it?
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Source
'Central bank securities purchases have provided meaningful support to the economic recovery,' he said adding later that, 'we should not rule out the further use of such policies if economic conditions warrant.'
The verb warrant is transitive. So is a it or that missing after...
@DavidWallace Oh, I totally agree. I wish one of these days that Chrome will incorporate a reasonable virtual keyboard, or compose sequences. We should be able to compose any Unicode codepoint.
The word "meditative":
In one dictionary,the forth letter "i" is pronounced "ə",but in another dic it is pronounced "ɪ".
I am learning british-english by myself. but I don't know which phonetic symbol I can follow with. I listened the dic's voice sample, they all sounds like "ɪ" in each dicti...
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I don't know if it is still in vogue but ten years ago in South Africa the phrase "Is it?" was common. It could be used as a response to almost any statement. Is it (ha ha) unique to South Africa or of Brit origin?
examples:
"I'm going to the movies" - "Is it?"
"Can't find my keys." -"Is it?"
"H...
I found it while googling "Unicode ya", in an attempt to find out how to type the first character of Reg's name. I shall, from now on, add "ya mama" to all of my sentences, ya mama.
I can always open up google translate, choose a language that has ya, open up the little keyboard widget, type it there, then copy paste it, ya mama. But it's really not worth it just to ping Reg, ya mama. He's not that special, ya mama.
@Mahnax That's how he told me. I assume that will work for anyone with unknown characters in their name. I hadn't had a problem with Яeg, because i recognized the character, but MetaEd has a Latin-looking non Latin letter in front, at which I was befuddled.
@Mahnax I know there are people who like to say try pressing "some combination of unknown keys" to get people to erase something. I'm assuming you're not doing that to me, but what will that do? I can take a screen shot, but it's command+shift+3 for full screen and command+shift+4 and I can highlight the part for the screenshot.
@SpareOom cmd+shift+4 gets you the snapshot region selector, pressing space gets you the snapshot window selector, so you don't have to click and drag if you want a whole window
@Mahnax Is the point of pasting the unknown character into the search bar of my character palatte to locate it in the palatte? If it isn't contained in my palatte, will it add it? Or something else?