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Comment Re:Speak simply (Score 2, Informative) 133

I tried "je n'aime pas du chocolat" and got "I do not like chocolate". It manages to map your incorrect French phrases into incorrect English with similar errors. I'm really impressed by the software...

Just in case you were not being sarcastic, your own sentence is grammatically incorrect. The correct sentence is indeed "Je n'aime pas le chocolat".

(I am a native French speaker.)

Comment Re:Well at this rate (Score 2, Interesting) 438

Actually, I'd put "popcorn" under Cinema/Cons.

In my country, it used to be that food was completely prohibited within movie theaters. I never really understood the obsession with eating popcorn while you watch a movie and thought it was purely an American thing, that it'd never take here.

Then food became allowed (well, food sold within the theater did), and whaddaya know, people did start eating in the theater.

Oh the horror! The noise of opening bags of crisps! THE INFERNAL CRUNCHING EVERYWHERE!

Seriously, it was so much better before that. I wouldn't say theaters were completely silent (you get teenagers and generally rude people in every culture), but the quality of the experience certainly got degraded.

Comment Re:I'm an emacs user! (Score 1) 939

CapsLock+é+CapsLock makes for less typing.

I didn't even know what C-x 8 was for. EmacsWiki says it's for composing characters in latin1, not sure I can use it with UTF-8. Another possibility with my keyboard would be AltGr+ù+E.

Also, sometimes I have to type text in something that isn't emacs :(

Comment Re:I'm an emacs user! (Score 1) 939

He's modded Funny, but he has a point.

Escape -- because Alt+* is often grabbed before it gets to Emacs, I have to use Escape for Meta (so, yeah, Emacs user here). Plus it closes dialogs.

Caps Lock -- because I don't run Windows and don't have to rely on Word's autocorrect to enter uppercase letters with accents. My locale requires uppercase letters to retain their accents. CapsLock+é gives me "É" while Shift+é would give me "2".

Windows Key -- what, you never use Super on any keybinding ?

Scroll Lock -- console, 'nuff said.

That key that opens the context menu -- it opens the main Sawfish menu for me.

F-Lock -- I don't know what that is. Function-lock, for laptops ? I wish mine had that. Can't get used to hjkl for moving around in NetHack.

Pause/Break -- Free custom keybinding, hooray !

One of the Media keys -- I don't have a lot of those. Home, Eject, Previous, Stop, Play/Pause, Next, and volume control are all used (though Stop is bound to "show me what is playing right now".

So I guess I'd say Pause is the *least useful* after all.

Comment Re:Conservatives never learn (Score 3, Insightful) 207

What causes crime? Poverty, lack of prospects for a future, and ignorance.

Setting aside for now the issue of whether downloading copyrighted material is a crime, etc. etc., do you really think that *poverty, lack of prospects for a future, and ignorance* is what drives leechers to download bluray rips ?!

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