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Poll: I don't know if we've lost our significance, but... 940 Views / 26 Replies  
I don't know if we've lost our significance, but we appear to have lost our monopoly on illiteracy and boorishness.
Posted by brink, on Aug 16, 2006 at 01:04 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Heh. 2,228 Views / 39 Replies  
Heh.
Posted by brink, on Jan 26, 2006 at 07:34 PM, in macOS
Yeah, it will. Check out Apple's developer lists,... 3,477 Views / 116 Replies  
Yeah, it will. Check out Apple's developer lists, where issues with Tiger on Intel are already being reported. The Intel builds of the OS may have been in development as long as the PPC builds, but...
Posted by brink, on Jan 24, 2006 at 07:00 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I think there are too many potential issues with... 3,477 Views / 116 Replies  
I think there are too many potential issues with the Intel Macs right now to make them really attractive. They're bound to have even more than the usual rev. a hardware glitches. Tiger will be...
Posted by brink, on Jan 24, 2006 at 05:46 PM, in MacNN Lounge
That makes sense. Actually, the more I think... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
That makes sense. Actually, the more I think about it, the less certain I am that my r in Danish is never pharyngeal.



I can understand having trouble parsing sounds like these as meaningful...
Posted by brink, on Oct 6, 2005 at 05:22 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Whoa. Cool. Nelson Muntz to python: "Ha... 12,365 Views / 56 Replies  
Whoa. Cool.

Nelson Muntz to python: "Ha ha."
Posted by brink, on Oct 6, 2005 at 04:54 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I looked it up, and apparently 'gate' is the word... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
I looked it up, and apparently 'gate' is the word I was looking for, not 'gata'. Oops. I guess I need to stop trying to guess the Norwegian versions of Danish words by closing my eyes and imaging how...
Posted by brink, on Oct 2, 2005 at 03:52 PM, in MacNN Lounge
That I didn't know. I realize it's not... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
That I didn't know.



I realize it's not a uvular trill, but is it really pronounced that far back? I'm not a native speaker, of course, but I think it's closer to a weak uvular fricative [ʁ]...
Posted by brink, on Oct 2, 2005 at 03:39 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Danish lacks the distinctive tonemes of Norwegian... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
Danish lacks the distinctive tonemes of Norwegian and Swedish and has the same uvular r as German, but I would have thought that, if nothing else, all those ubiquitous glottal stops would make spoken...
Posted by brink, on Oct 1, 2005 at 05:23 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Heh. :) I hadn't heard that before --... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
Heh. :)



I hadn't heard that before -- thanks for pointing it out. I'm aware of the common ground Norwegian (Bokmål) shares with both languages -- lexical with Danish, phonological with Swedish...
Posted by brink, on Oct 1, 2005 at 05:17 PM, in MacNN Lounge
"Norwegian is Danish spoken in Swedish," goes the... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
"Norwegian is Danish spoken in Swedish," goes the joke I've heard. I have no trouble reading reasonably simple Norwegian (or Bokmål, anyway), which mostly just looks like misspelled Danish to me....
Posted by brink, on Oct 1, 2005 at 04:29 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Or you're Igor from Count Duckula (an hotel) or... 6,675 Views / 232 Replies  
Or you're Igor from Count Duckula (an hotel) or Kent Brockman (an heroic hippo).
Posted by brink, on Sep 28, 2005 at 03:30 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Oh my God. I've been told I could consider myself... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
Oh my God. I've been told I could consider myself an honorary Dane if I could say 'rødgrød med fløde' correctly, but I'm not sure I want to know what I'd be considered if I ever managed get my tongue...
Posted by brink, on Sep 28, 2005 at 03:23 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Heh. I hope this doesn't mean I can't hit you up... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
Heh. I hope this doesn't mean I can't hit you up for help with Danish. I promise not to report you to the DSN. I'm sure they wouldn't prosecute anyway, as long as you don't teach me how to pronounce...
Posted by brink, on Sep 27, 2005 at 08:40 PM, in MacNN Lounge
'Høeg' er blot en preciøs stavemåde for det samme... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
'Høeg' er blot en preciøs stavemåde for det samme ord som fuglen og udtales ens, ikke?
Posted by brink, on Sep 27, 2005 at 01:56 PM, in MacNN Lounge
No kidding! Even the giant Politikens only deigns... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
No kidding! Even the giant Politikens only deigns to give the pronunciation for a few words here and there. Can you imagine an English dictionary that didn't bother indicating pronunciation? And...
Posted by brink, on Sep 27, 2005 at 01:53 PM, in MacNN Lounge
It isn't especially common in Britain. Or is it? 6,675 Views / 232 Replies  
It isn't especially common in Britain. Or is it?
Posted by brink, on Sep 27, 2005 at 01:47 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I grew up in New England, so I know how to... 6,675 Views / 232 Replies  
I grew up in New England, so I know how to pronounce Woos-tah. As for the rest, let's make a deal -- we'll stop mispronouncing your place names if you stop mispronouncing ours. Lesson one: the 'Las'...
Posted by brink, on Sep 27, 2005 at 01:43 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I'll have the soylent green with a slice of... 1,821 Views / 60 Replies  
I'll have the soylent green with a slice of soylent orange and some soylent coleslaw.
Posted by brink, on Sep 27, 2005 at 01:02 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Okily dokily! 6,675 Views / 232 Replies  
Okily dokily!
Posted by brink, on Sep 27, 2005 at 12:14 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Simular? :P 6,675 Views / 232 Replies  
Simular? :P
Posted by brink, on Sep 27, 2005 at 12:08 AM, in MacNN Lounge
:confused: 'Gotten' is just as correct as 'got'.... 6,675 Views / 232 Replies  
:confused: 'Gotten' is just as correct as 'got'. Both used to be common in Britain and America as the past participle of 'get', but now only American English still has both forms. They let us make a...
Posted by brink, on Sep 27, 2005 at 12:05 AM, in MacNN Lounge
I wish you'd been around when I was trying to... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
I wish you'd been around when I was trying to figure out how the heck to pronounce Peter Høeg's name, Oisín.
Posted by brink, on Sep 26, 2005 at 05:14 PM, in MacNN Lounge
My dictionary says both 'pled' and 'plead' are... 6,675 Views / 232 Replies  
My dictionary says both 'pled' and 'plead' are correct for the past tense. Gotta love a language whose spelling is so nuts that you can have verbs like 'read' and 'plead' whose vowels change in the...
Posted by brink, on Sep 26, 2005 at 05:06 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Did you mean to write 'Det er jeg' here? I... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
Did you mean to write 'Det er jeg' here?

I qualified what I said about Danish because I wasn't sure how far the phenomenon extended beyond using the oblique forms as subject complements. Well, and...
Posted by brink, on Sep 26, 2005 at 03:00 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Part of the problem is that English pronouns are... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
Part of the problem is that English pronouns are in flux. We still have nominative and oblique case forms, but the choice of forms is no longer governed solely by case. The spoken language has...
Posted by brink, on Sep 26, 2005 at 02:41 PM, in MacNN Lounge
What bugs me is when people pronounce the 't' in... 6,675 Views / 232 Replies  
What bugs me is when people pronounce the 't' in 'often'.
Posted by brink, on Sep 26, 2005 at 02:08 PM, in MacNN Lounge
http://show.imagehosting.us/show/716323/0/nouser_7... 1,938 Views / 38 Replies  
http://show.imagehosting.us/show/716323/0/nouser_716/T0_-1_716323.jpg
Posted by brink, on Sep 25, 2005 at 02:23 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Actually, as an exhortation, "Speak good... 3,940 Views / 143 Replies  
Actually, as an exhortation, "Speak good English!" sounds plainer, catchier, more idiomatic and less fussy than "Speak English well!" to me.
Posted by brink, on Sep 22, 2005 at 11:30 PM, in MacNN Lounge
I just found this suggestion in Apple... 826 Views / 12 Replies  
I just found this suggestion in Apple discussions. I tried it out and it seems to fix the problem, at least for me. Yay! :)
Posted by brink, on Sep 18, 2005 at 05:00 PM, in macOS
Or open this page... 826 Views / 12 Replies  
Or open this page (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3358793) and hit reload a couple of times.
Posted by brink, on Sep 18, 2005 at 01:22 PM, in macOS
The same thing has been happening to me, and it... 826 Views / 12 Replies  
The same thing has been happening to me, and it started before the Java update. It only seems to happen when loading certain pages in Safari.
Posted by brink, on Sep 17, 2005 at 08:08 PM, in macOS
It restarted my computer. Very cute. Thanks a lot. 15,255 Views / 280 Replies  
It restarted my computer. Very cute. Thanks a lot.
Posted by brink, on Aug 30, 2005 at 04:59 PM, in macOS
Jobs wasn't even at Apple for more than a decade... 19,065 Views / 613 Replies  
Jobs wasn't even at Apple for more than a decade after the Mac was released.
Posted by brink, on Aug 20, 2005 at 03:00 PM, in MacNN Lounge
This guy may be a troll and way out of his depth,... 19,065 Views / 613 Replies  
This guy may be a troll and way out of his depth, but I can't bring myself to defend Mighty Mouse too much. It sounded great in theory and I was really enthusiastic about it at first, but after using...
Posted by brink, on Aug 19, 2005 at 01:13 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Plus, it could double as a boat anchor in a... 1,189 Views / 14 Replies  
Plus, it could double as a boat anchor in a pinch! ;)
Posted by brink, on Jan 13, 2005 at 08:51 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Space was the only place that thing was ever... 1,189 Views / 14 Replies  
Space was the only place that thing was ever light... :D
Posted by brink, on Jan 13, 2005 at 06:03 PM, in MacNN Lounge
Mac in space 1,189 Views / 14 Replies  
Mac Portable in space (http://www.old-computers.com/Museum/downloads/Apple/mac_in_space.mov)

:D
Posted by brink, on Jan 13, 2005 at 04:58 PM, in MacNN Lounge
That's exactly what I needed to know. Thanks! ... 718 Views / 3 Replies  
That's exactly what I needed to know. Thanks!

The file started out as an mpg that QuickTime didn't like, so I demuxed it, saved the video/audio in a QT movie, and tossed the original file. I...
Posted by brink, on Jan 13, 2005 at 02:55 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
Extract mpeg from mov? 718 Views / 3 Replies  
Does anyone know of a way to extract mpeg1 video/audio tracks from a .mov file and save them as a proper .mpg?
Posted by brink, on Jan 7, 2005 at 07:40 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
Everything I've read about this movie makes it... 2,093 Views / 72 Replies  
Everything I've read about this movie makes it sound like a colossal stink bomb.
Posted by brink, on Dec 7, 2004 at 09:33 PM, in MacNN Lounge
http://www.cartoonbank.com/assets/1/52975_m.gif 2,383 Views / 126 Replies  
http://www.cartoonbank.com/assets/1/52975_m.gif
Posted by brink, on Nov 19, 2004 at 05:45 PM, in MacNN Lounge
The scrollbar in the popdown list that appears in... 7,695 Views / 102 Replies  
The scrollbar in the popdown list that appears in Safari for autofill choices is translucent.
Posted by brink, on Jun 27, 2004 at 07:01 PM, in macOS
King of the Hill has a different style of humor... 3,366 Views / 52 Replies  
King of the Hill has a different style of humor than the Simpsons or Family Guy, but it's funny in its own way and is a pretty solid show overall.

When Family Guy was first on I used to watch it...
Posted by brink, on Apr 9, 2004 at 02:30 PM, in MacNN Lounge
HANK: It was the dolphin. He attacked me. ... 3,366 Views / 52 Replies  
HANK: It was the dolphin. He attacked me.
PEGGY: M-hm. I see.
HANK: No, it was more than that. He -- you remember in that movie on Lifetime, what Gregory Harrison did to Valerie Bertinelli? ...
Posted by brink, on Apr 9, 2004 at 02:02 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Re: Re: With all of these grim 10.3 threads...how is the upgrade worth it? 5,906 Views / 56 Replies  
Command-Shift-T = Add to Favorites
Posted by brink, on Mar 30, 2004 at 05:34 PM, in macOS
Didn't I.M. Pei do the building in Boston whose... 2,373 Views / 69 Replies  
Didn't I.M. Pei do the building in Boston whose windows fell out?
Posted by brink, on Mar 19, 2004 at 03:58 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Uh oh, lol. Actually, I think it was one of your... 1,074 Views / 17 Replies  
Uh oh, lol. Actually, I think it was one of your posts with that pic that pushed me in the direction of the 172T when I was trying to decide which LCD to get, so thanks for that -- I've been really...
Posted by brink, on Mar 19, 2004 at 01:48 AM, in MacNN Lounge
I'd sell your first born son to have that too.... 1,074 Views / 17 Replies  
I'd sell your first born son to have that too. Very cool.
Posted by brink, on Mar 19, 2004 at 01:17 AM, in MacNN Lounge
Blah. The SyncMaster 172T is better looking. 1,074 Views / 17 Replies  
Blah. The SyncMaster 172T is better looking.
Posted by brink, on Mar 19, 2004 at 01:10 AM, in MacNN Lounge
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