went to see if that website had any suggestion for Greek. Books: "not very much, unfortunately". Schools: "again, not very many places offer a course". The forums are simply not loading.
The new (as in literally users that migrated after the owner of the other website stopped doing anything other than keeping the server running) forum is: https://forum.language-learners.org/
Oh thanks, I didn’t realise things had migrated. It’s been years since I was on the forum but I remember it being very helpful and pretty active so I’m glad it’s still going in another form.
For most people, I now recommend the Pimsleur[0] method as it explicitly teaches the “call and response” model, which I find most effective for the reasons I mentioned in my comment.
SBF's claim is that the Republican donations were "dark", meaning is funneled through super PACs. These are famously not public record. He states he did this to hide them from the media.
Public record showed that he is #2 individual donor to Democrats. He claimed that he also donated a similar amount to Repulicans via "dark channel" or something like that, so no record, let alone public.
The HN commenters in question were universally saying that he made up the donations to Republicans to cover up his more extensive connections to Democrats.
“Less than 12 hours before his big announcement, nobody here knows yet about the bombshell to come. In fact, Jobs is still negotiating it here at the Castle--on a cell phone. "Hi, Bill," you hear him say in the echo chamber of the old hall. Then his voice drops, and for nearly an hour he paces the stage, running through last-minute details with Gates. All the while, he leans over his computer, paces, lies down on the stage, paces, lurks in dark corners, paces and talks, paces and talks.
This is the fateful call for the boy titans of the personal-computer revolution, meant to settle the war. At one point, talking about Apple, Jobs says, "There are a lot of good things, happily--and a lot of screwed-up things." Then, to his crew, he yells, "Have we got satellite contact with the other side?" Assured this has been taken care of, he answers a question from Gates about what to wear on the morrow ("I'm just going to wear a white shirt," he assures him), and he finally ends the conversation with a heartfelt "Thank you for your support of this company. I think the world's a better place for it." And so that's how Apple and Microsoft, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, finally seal it--on a cell-phone call.
The deal is vintage Jobs. Amelio began the process of repairing relations between the two longtime rivals. But once he was out the door at Apple, Jobs contacted Gates to try to get talks started again. Gates dispatched his CFO, Gregory Maffei, who met Jobs at his home. Jobs suggested they go for a walk. Grabbing a couple of bottles of mineral water from the fridge, the two took off for a stroll around Palo Alto. Jobs was barefoot. "It was an interesting scene," Maffei recalls. "It was a pretty radical change for the relations between the two companies." The two walked for nearly an hour, through Palo Alto's green university area, as they pounded out the details of a potential deal. Jobs, Maffei says, was "expansive and charming. He said, 'These are things that we care about and that matter.' And that let us cut down the list. We had spent a lot of time with Amelio, and they had a lot of ideas that were nonstarters. Jobs had a lot more ability. He didn't ask for 23,000 terms. He looked at the whole picture, figured about what he needed. And we figured he had the credibility to bring the Apple people around and sell the deal."”
(From: Steve’s Job: Restart Apple by Cathy Booth in Time Magazine Aug 18, 1997)
I thought you made another mistake here, but it turns out it's just my font that is broken. For anyone else who might have this problem: The closing marks are supposed to go from bottom left to top right, whereas they are displayed going from top left to bottom right :(
I think it's «...» in Switzerland, while »...« is widely used in several countries, including Germany, and is the "main" system arguably only in Denmark.
Website: “Use your keyboard arrows to view the story!”
Me, using an iPad: “…”
Edit: their home page for me is a black void. From their about section: “80,000+ people who care about crafting meaningful experiences for their users.”
I feel the same way about many video tutorials and reviews.
"Could this video tutorial have been 3 written commands?"
When reading, it's at my own pace. I can stop and go without extra steps. I can copy and paste.
If it's a video, now I have to listen at their pace (and I seem to listen slower than I read), hit pause/resume, adjust my volume because somebody on my side is making noise, go back and forth because I didn't catch something, etc.
The video 'tutorials', especially on Youtube are often an upsell method for paid video courses. Those tend to have a lot more fluff content to pad out the run time.
The only thing I like about tech tutorial videos is that you see everything they do, including stuff the presenter might not have thought to mention. If you're deep into some unfamiliar territory, this can be very helpful.
Otherwise, I'm with you, but I've had co-workers who loved watching YouTube videos about some language feature or another, or whatever, and did so often. I don't get it, but I guess it worked for them.
Sure; I don't disagree (and perhaps my previous post was less clear about this) that "personal computer" was definitely in common use, particular in advertising aimed at "regular consumers" rather than hobbyists, and well before the IBM PC.
I do disagree with the suggestion that the initialism "PC" was understood to mean "personal computer" in general before the release of the IBM PC. If that's overly pedantic, well, I'm a computer nerd; what can I say...
