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10" e-reader with a note-taking/drawing feature. Supported formats: pdf, epub. pre-order price : $379 availability date : August 2017

I wonder if highlighting and note-taking of pdfs is supported.

$379 is a bit too steep. I'm using a $150 chinese 10" tablet w/ palm rejection to read and annotate pdfs. It does the job.

Stoyanov's "OO JavaScript" is probably one of the best books on advanced programming in JS. It packs quite a punch, includes lots of concise examples and incredibly well structured. It really emphasizes the flexibility and power of prototypes; Stoyanov shows there are dozens ways to skin the proverbial cat. I haven't read the second edition of the book though. But I really liked the first one.

The game is rigged)) this is à textbook catch-22 situation

Damnit! should've requested a Mac when they first announced this initiative

Unfortunately, I wouldn't know :-( I lived in Ontario where people mostly spoke English. A couple buddies of mine were from Quebec. When they spoke French they would never use an anglicism. I suspect they were making a conscious effort to not to. I did say this in my reply above that expats do tend to get very protective of the use of their native language (present company included). Similarly, when they spoke English, you wouldn't know that they were from Quebec since they spoke in an Ontarian accent and used the exact same vocab you expect a native Torontotian to use. For example, they could say to me, could you close the lights please. "Close the lights" is a very common expression in Ontario and yet I've never heard anybody using it beyond that province.

Lol, I always felt jealous of them. They would just blend in with the crowd. In contrast, I have a very pronounced accent in English and don't even get me started on my French.

Russians do this to common nouns too. The short forms of the common nouns are less "common" (sorry for the tautology) in every day speech in English. Exceptions like mommy, daddy, granny, breakie, aside, of course.

"Natalia" would be the name she'd use in official documents like a birth certificate or passport.

"Natasha" is a less formal form of "Natalia". It's indeed a diminutive but I wouldn't call it an affectionate diminutive like "Robert -> Billy". If I'm good friends with "Natalia" I'd probably call her "Natasha".

If you drop the last "a", "Natash" sounds more affectionate.

If you are a 5yo and a neighbour girl from a house across the street hit you with a toy shovel in the head you would probably come back running to your mom/dad, "Mom, Dad "Natashka" ("Natka") hit me with a shovel! She's baaaaaaadddd" :-)

what we really like to do is to append a bunch of affectionate diminutive suffixes to English common and proper nouns. It's just soooo entertaining. You can do it all day. Here's a few examples:

Mr. Obama (Обама) -> Obamushka (Обамушка) Mr. Trump (Трамп) -> Trumpuoshechka (Трампушечка)

My personal favorite: Okay (Окэй) -> Okaayshki (Океюшки)

If you curious you can fire up Google Translate and make it say all these words :-)

my two cents. I took a couple of French classes in Canada and I can vouch that those guys don't mess around; they are like French vocab nazis :-P so it's always "la fin de la semaine" and "courriel electronique". In contrast, one of my friends is "French" French. She got no issues saying "le weekend" or "e-mail."

When the French lost to the british in 177x-ish, people of Quebec were left to fend for themselves. They fought tooth and nail to preserve their culture and language and I think to this day there's still this inertia going on in the way modern French Canadians think.

Moreover, there has been a study/survey showing that isolated culturally homogeneous communities tend to heavy-handedly police (the US style) the use of their native languages. I wish I could find a link to that study :-(

As a native russian speaker living in the US i can actually confirm that the study seems to ring true; i dislike (very much so) when russian speakers start mixing in english words.

Rent a couple servers in Russia, Send a couple of pro-Trump tweets, Publish this finding, Media will happily run with it

Voilà, Trump is now implicated

great job, guys!!!

> 47 different SSD cards used

did they mean hard drives or did i completely miss out on storage tech evolution?

if this news is even partially true. I'd say the US gov is pretty adept at manufacturing any "proof" at will

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/us-government-pentag...

Ontario

5.05% on the first $41,536 of taxable income, +

9.15% on the next $41,539, +

11.16% on the next $66,925, +

12.16% on the next $70,000, +

13.16 % on the amount over $220,000

vs Oregon

Oregon Taxable Income Rate

$0 - $3,350 5.00%

$3,350 - $8,400 7.00%

$8,400 - $125,000 9.00%

$125,000+ 9.90%

this is a good starting point. however, these numbers don't paint a full picture. The provincial taxes in Canada can be pretty steep.

i don't think i'm comfortable enough to share the exact numbers. let me just say that i'm probably a mid-to-upper middle-class guy and i was comparing tax rates in Ontario vs Oregon.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This is exactly how science works. One observes, posits a theory and lastly proves it. Theories are a speculation by default

IMO, real enemies are within... running for President. They dragged the US into numerous and very expensive conflicts all around the globe and make huge profits off the backs of ordinary people. To my biggest dismay, my income tax rate is even bigger in the US than it was in Canada and yet I'm not receiving even a fraction of services.

Your passport is another first world problem. "There are so many visa-free countries I can visit! How do I pick one to go to for my next vacation?"

How much u wanna bet that the guy would shoot at them anyways? Only in twisted US reality can authorities use this incident as an opportunity to advise on the safety of playing a game on a cellphone