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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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This guy should be “wallowing” in no votes the next time he comes up for election.
In earlier times, I wished that the President would do an event in this fool’s district just to squash him like a bug. Heaven knows King deserves it in spades.
This is for Hurria:
The iPhone 3.0 software upgrade has the system-level langage pack for Arabic line what we were talking about a fre weeks ago. When I get home, l’ll gin up some screen caps for you.
No WAAAAAAY! WOW! That is really major for me, and I hadn’t heard about that at all, even though I did upgrade. Thanks so much, and I look forward to the screen shots.
By the way, I just bought my first MAC, and am not loving it. No doubt part of it is that I have a very strong technical knowledge of how Windows works, and am used to being able to do pretty much anything I want to with it, whereas on the MAC I am not even clear about how stuff is organized so I have to work just to find things, which is annoying. That’s probably just a matter of learning a new system, which is a matter of time, but the biggest disappointment is the Arabic capabilities. I work with some sophisticated spreadsheets and tables that I designed in Word and Excel, and I need to be able to switch easily between Arabic and English within the same table or spreadsheet. Imagine my horror at discovering that Office 2008 does not support Arabic AT ALL. I have played around with Open Office, which does support Arabic, but switching between Arabic and English is a pain compared to Windows, and that’s going to be frustrating and slow my work down a lot.
I have experimented with various virtualization approaches that would allow me to run Office 2007, but have not found anything really satisfactory yet. For one thing, Office 2007 does not seem to know how to do Arabic at all without Windows, so application virtualization within the MAC OS appears to be out of the question. I have not been satisfied with the VM products I have tried so far, though I admit I have not tried VM Fusion yet, and it seems to me there is something wrong with paying all that money for a MAC and ending up having to install Windows on it to get what you need.
It was an adventure trying to figure out how to reset the system into English after switching to Arabic. Made me nervous for a bit, lol.
Hurria,
I have a friend who is pretty up on Mac apps.
I will ask him tomorrow if he knows something about your problem. There has to be a way around your problem.
I know only Mac computers, though I am a neophyte, but do not despair yet.
I would appreciate that. I have done a bit of research online, but have not found anything satisfactory.
And they told me the MAC is intuitive and easier to use than Windows – yeah right!
Hurria,
You can look at this & find out if Arabic is supported.
http://store.vmware.com/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayPage&Env=BASE&Locale=en_US&a
mp;SiteID=vmware&id=ProductDetailsPage&productID=82532200&urlcode=PaidSearch_Google_AMER
-US_AMER-US_VDI_Fusion_Brand_Search_WWW_fusion&src=PaidSearch_Google_AMER-US_AMER-US_VDI_Fusion_
Brand_Search_WWW_fusion&ossrc=PaidSearch_Google_AMER-US_AMER-US_VDI_Fusion_Brand_Search_WWW_fusi
on&CMP=KNC-google&HBX_OU=50&HBX_PK=WWW_fusion&gclid=CP_nreCdyJsCFRYiagodQylfLA&r
esid=3BOR-AoBAkcAAHADjPUAAAAc&rests=1247129050789
Here’s what I’ve got:
Arabic on the iPhone.
Thanks! It looks like I can mix Arabic and English, which is what I need to be able to do. I will check it out.
Even better, there’s an option for keeping multiple langages at hand for the keyboard while retaining the system in one language. To illustrate, my language is English, but by pressing a button on the keyboard, I can switch to Arabic and type:
نتعلفقصضرمج
Neat. More examples:
Hebrew: ףלפםטביו
Russian: эшесьлпехйв
Chinese Pinyin： 喝棵棵锕古
Hawt.
Thanks. VM Fusion will let me install and run Windows in the same session with the MAC OS, which will give me all the capabilities of Windows on my MAC. That may turn out to be the best solution. It does seem a shame that in order to get the MAC to do what I need done I have to go back to Microsoft!
Right now I have a virtual machine on the MAC with Windows 7 installed using a virtualization program called Virtual Box, but I am not satisfied with that due to the poor way it uses the display. I have also tried application virtualization which allows me to use Office 2007 without installing Windows, but as I said, without Windows Office loses its multi-language capabilities in that environment because those capabilities reside in the OS, not the application.
Sigh!
How about this?
The Earth is only 6000 years old!
Haha.
I saw that nut job, proving how stupid she is, in front of god, & the morans who “date” carbon.
she’s wrong though, the Sumerians did have environmental laws, at least environmental awareness and practices to mitigate human-caused environmental destruction. They over built their irrigation systems and experienced crop diminishment and crop failure due to irrigation system induced salinization (Harvard scholar Thorkild Jacobsen wrote on this). Other problems also from marshland (wetlands) destruction. They traced the problem to overpopulation, and concluded control of population growth must ensue (decreed by their gods of course). It’s in the Sumerian text Atrahasis. and btw the mesopotamian civilizations lived to tell the tale, unlike other civs discussed in Diamond’s book Collapse brought down by their environmental mismanagement.
Salinization has been and remains a problem in Iraq until today. In some places you can see the salt glistening on the surface of the soil. Bedouins collect the salt and then go up and down the city streets selling it. I am told that practice has continued until now. In my day we had guys with camels selling it. Recently someone told me his “abu milleh” (salt seller) had a donkey. We never bought the salt because it is not exactly clean, but got ours from a store. Don’t know who bought it or for what purpose, but someone must have.
guess there’s no need for salting the streets after an ice storm (not an ecologically sound idea anyway). How wonderful that you recall the actual place though it would be sad to see the destruction now. I would love to see especially the marsh region which I under stand, evokes vividly much of Sumerian life. What few united statesians realize is that aside from their minor inventions like cities, writing and irrigation (also independently invented by the mesoamericans), the Sumerians invented beer and the beer hall.
We went down to the marshes from time to time. Deep in the marshes the houses were built of reeds on reed mats that would float when the water was high, and you got from house to house by a canoe-like boat called a mashoof.
The people who lived in those kinds of houses would keep chickens, goats, and sheep right there with them. Don’t know how they kept them or the little kids from falling in the water and drowning. It felt weird to walk around on those mats. I guess you never knew for sure who your neighbors would be from one day to the next since the mats the houses were on just floated freely most of the time.
The sheikhs built guest houses out of reeds called a mudhif. We sat in those places and had coffee and sometimes music, and conversation.
It’s really difficult to describe how it was to take a boat into the marshes where sometimes you would be going down a lane surrounded by very high reeds, and you wondered how on earth they knew their way, and then suddenly you would come upon a village, or a large bit of open water. Parts of the movie African Queen are reminiscent in a way.
There is a very nice French film called “Zaman Man from the Reeds” It’s mostly in Arabic with English subtitles. Part of it takes place in the marshes. Netflix has it, and I recommend it.
so fascinating. Thank you!
Thank you for your description and beautiful pictures!!! and the movie rec – I will sign up for it right now. The pictures are marvelous!! how wonderful to have experienced that way of life!
Hurria,
How fascinating is that!!
You notice that you have new neighbors, but that is how it is.
The possibility of learning from new friends “next door” is limitless.
Thanks for the little pictorial also.
i recently found that the “they want special treatment” line wingers use to justify discrimination and oppose equal rights acts was used as early as the 1880s.