On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:58:13AM +, h...@crypt.org wrote:
As far as I remember, they used not so long ago to list -ise as the primary
form and -ize as a US English variant. (Though I'm not sure the OED ever
did that: see the mention of OUP in the first reference below.)
The OED's entry
So since we're applying it to a French root, it should be caponise.
On 2008-02-09 at 09:55 -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
On 2008-02-09, at 04:39, Philip Newton wrote:
I installed Adobe Reader
God that's a hateful program, in so many ways.
At one point I was running xpdf remotely and copying all my files to UNIX
because I refused to install Adobe Reader on
On 2008-02-09, at 17:07, Phil Pennock wrote:
For Firefox, there's the PDF Download extension to reduce the
pain here.
I also found out that you could just remove the bloody plugin
component and still use Adobe Reader. Which is better, because it's
so fucking hateful that even having to do
Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com wrote:
:Is that caponizing or caponising? Spelling is hateful too. :)
It's both, or either. The dictionaries disagree.
For this and similar verbs, most UK English dictionaries seem these days
to show both spellings as equal variants, but list -ize forms first to
there.
So why, dear Adobe Updater, do you want to upgrade my reader to 8.1.2
_German_? How could this possibly be a reasonably decision, given that
I installed the English version and my application interface language
is specifically English? (I double-checked just be sure.)
I mean, new versions
On 2008-02-09, at 04:39, Philip Newton wrote:
I installed Adobe Reader
God that's a hateful program, in so many ways.
At one point I was running xpdf remotely and copying all my files to
UNIX because I refused to install Adobe Reader on Windows because
EVERY time I ran it it went and
Why does it take 100% of the CPU for 10 minutes to download an 85MB
update? That's not even installing it – just downloading it. I'm
pretty sure wget doesn't use 100% of the CPU. Safari might use 100%
of physical memory doing that, but still not 100% of the CPU.
What the hell, Adobe?
It's converting the bits into beautifully rendered PDF images of bits
for downloading them?
On Dec 19, 2007 3:05 PM, Darrell Fuhriman darr...@garnix.org wrote:
Why does it take 100% of the CPU for 10 minutes to download an 85MB
update? That's not even installing it – just downloading it. I'm
