From: Jan Panteltje on 4 Dec 2009 15:42 On a sunny day (Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:48:23 -0800) it happened John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in <8rpih51nt20mugqo9617kr9spekrkus13e(a)4ax.com>: > >It's snowing in Houston: > >http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl//6750042.html > > >John > Ha, I just saw the captain being melted by a sun flare :-) (Movie 'sunshine', spaceship goes to the sun to re-ignite it, to save humanity, makes a wrong course correction...) Have stopped it, no time, movie sucks, will view the end later.
From: Joerg on 4 Dec 2009 15:50 Jon Kirwan wrote: [umlauts] > Oh, just insert the 'e'. I think the key shortcuts are something like > (not all of these are used in German, are they?): > >> : alt+0228 � >> : alt+0196 � >> : alt+0235 � >> : alt+0203 � >> : alt+0239 � >> : alt+0207 � >> : alt+0246 � >> : alt+0214 � >> : alt+0252 � >> : alt+0220 � >> : alt+0255 � >> : alt+0223 � > Umlaut e, i and y would AFAIK only be used in Turkish, plus probably a few other languages (Hungarian?), not in German. > and the umlaut itself is just: > >> : alt+0168 � > > I keep a shorter list of the more useful seven on a piece of tyvek > near the screen. I think there is also free software that will do > this stuff, fancier, on an English keyboard. But it is just another > tool you have to drag around onto other machines, so I don't bother > with the stuff. > I don't do that too often anymore. Once I did it inside some database entry form, IIRC for an address. It shot the application to smittereens. Shouldn't have happened, was probably sloppily programmed but outside my influence. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: ChrisQ on 5 Dec 2009 14:43 Joerg wrote: > > You it can be, the whole sentence would sound like this: Es wird fuer > einige interessant und lehrreich, vielleicht ein wenig unangenehm sein, > wenn zuviel unterlassen als mehr von dem getan wird, was haette getan > werden sollen. > > Ok, can't do the umlauts on this here computation machine. Sounds almost > like an IEEE publication where complicated sentence structures are often > "en vogue". More often than not ... :-) > I don't speak german, so put it through google language tools: "It is for some interesting and instructive, perhaps, be a little uncomfortable when too much is being done more than to refrain from what should have been done" original: It's going to be interesting and educational, if perhaps a bit unpleasant to some if enough less is done than more of what should have been. Throw the baby out of the window an orange, or what :-)... Regards, Chris
From: Joerg on 5 Dec 2009 16:20 ChrisQ wrote: > Joerg wrote: > >> >> You it can be, the whole sentence would sound like this: Es wird fuer >> einige interessant und lehrreich, vielleicht ein wenig unangenehm >> sein, wenn zuviel unterlassen als mehr von dem getan wird, was haette >> getan werden sollen. >> >> Ok, can't do the umlauts on this here computation machine. Sounds >> almost like an IEEE publication where complicated sentence structures >> are often "en vogue". More often than not ... :-) >> > > I don't speak german, so put it through google language tools: > > "It is for some interesting and instructive, perhaps, be a little > uncomfortable when too much is being done more than to refrain from what > should have been done" > > original: > > It's going to be interesting and educational, if perhaps a bit > unpleasant to some if enough less is done than more of what should have > been. > > Throw the baby out of the window an orange, or what :-)... > You should see some of the catalogs that were obviously just chucked into a cyber translator to get them from English to German. They often contain phrases that are completely unintelligible. Can make your toe nails curl ;-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Rich Grise on 5 Dec 2009 16:57
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:54:05 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote: > The global warming hoax revealed: > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/science/earth/21climate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss > > <Quote from that article> > This shows these are people willing to bend rules and go after other > people's reputations in very serious ways,' he said. Spencer R. Weart, a > physicist and historian who is charting the course of research on global > warming, said the hacked material would serve as 'great material for > historians.' > <end quote> > > LOL. > Some science! > > And that in a leftist newspaper! This is sweet: http://www.infowars.com/al-gore-admits-co2-does-not-cause-majority-of-global-warming/ Cheers! Rich |