Unofficial SmartQ users board.

That would be my mistake. I used SSD as "solid state disk", which would make "SSD drive" perfectly acceptable. It would appear that SSD actually does stand for "solid state drive", though. Thanks for the correction.

French is a useful and underrated language. It's the most predominant language on the European continent in areas without good English speakers. In my experience, native Italians are ok at English, the Spanish and Portuguese are great, but the French are very poor (I'm less sure about Eastern Europe). German is practically English already.

It's also an official language of international diplomacy (it comes *before* Spanish translations on US Passports), and is spoken in a lot of North African and Caribbean nations, so you have more places available to comfortably vacation =)

Ah! Nice setup. The infamous Godwin's check, which often happens to be strategically played to have the law invoked within two more moves, such as the 1931 tournament. Sneaky, but a perfectly valid move.

I had Friday 13 for two days in a row. Fiji to Hawaii.

Saying "April 1st" feels more natural to English-speaking people

Huh? So why do people say "4th of July"?

They're both communications with a rule-making body of the government. I fail to see any difference between them.

Like I said in another post on this topic. Where homosexuality is legally protected, pastors have been hauled to court over their refusal to marry gay couples.

Here's one such study conducted by the Audio engineering society:

http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=14195

Have a look at the Digital Intermediate process. To quote the wikipedia article regarding the process: "The digital master, created during the Digital Intermediate process, is recorded to very stable yellow-cyan-magenta (YCM) separations on black-and-white film with an expected 100-year or longer life." So essentially you are creating a very high resolution analog copy of your digital master. This way, if the digital media craps out, you have a long-life analog way of recreating it. This is a way some Hollywood studios are approaching the problem.

I would ask whether the people with swine flu simply died before they had a chance to have secondary issues. If the 'old' flu couldn't kill on its own yet the newer flu can, and very efficiently, and is spreading rapidly, then I'd have to say that I would be worried.

Mind you, I'm *not* actually worried about it as far as I go; I'm 27 and healthy. However, I do know quite a few elderly people and very young people and they are close to me. That is why I follow this story. There are a ton of posts here on /. along the lines of, "Stay home if you're sick, wash your hands, you'll be alright, etc.", and I have a feeling a lot of those people would change their tune if their much older or much younger relatives became ill.

I realize that this is just a new strain of flu, and not some killer ebola; however, afaik no one has been vaccinated for it at least around my area. And we are just about to enter the 'real' flu season where things will get more interesting.

-b