Saying "April 1st" feels more natural to English-speaking people
Huh? So why do people say "4th of July"?
That's nice, but here we're not talking about letters to your Congressional representative, we're talking about comments to be filed as part of a formal FCC rulemaking process.
They're both communications with a rule-making body of the government. I fail to see any difference between them.
Here's one such study conducted by the Audio engineering society:
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
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
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.