What Worries? Big Tech Companies Post Glowing Quarterly Profits
There is plenty to smile or snigger at on a map of the UK.
"We may still cling to the myth of the solitary creator, toiling in a garret awaiting a visit from the muse, but the reality of creation has always been much more interactive"
"We may still cling to the myth of the solitary creator, toiling in a garret awaiting a visit from the muse, but the reality of creation has always been much more interactive"
Commenting on the gaffe, developer Dr Matthew Garrett noted that the first version of the Microsoft code used a similar string of 0x0B00B135 -- a form of letters that roughly translates to "boobies".
開發人員馬修．賈瑞特博士評論這起烏龍時，提到這個微軟程式碼的第一個版本，使用類似字串0x0B00B135，這串字大致地翻譯後是「胸部」。
"Puerile sniggering at breasts contributes to the continuing impression that software development is a boys’ club where girls aren’t welcome," Dr Garrett wrote.
「幼稚地拿胸部當嘲笑題材，更增加軟體開發是不歡迎女性的男生俱樂部的既定印象」，賈瑞特博士寫道。
3. World: No Snickering: That Road Signs Means Something Else
At a School in Kansas, a Moment Resonates
By DAN BARRY
At Junction City Middle School, students watching the inauguration never snickered, but watched wide-eyed.
George Garrett, 78, Southern Novelist, Is Dead
Mr. Garrett was a highly regarded Southern novelist who never received the wide literary renown that his decades of glowing reviews would suggest.
Cross-eyed opossum, play possum
Cross-eyed opossum Heidi dies in German zoo
The Leipzig Zoo announced Wednesday that Heidi's keepers had decided to put the three-and-a-half year-old animal to sleep to "spare her further pain and suffering." They had been treating her for weeks for arthritis and other symptoms of old age.
"The cross-eyed opossum Heidi has closed her eyes for ever," the zoo said.
Heidi's distinctive eye problem was thought to be a result of a poor diet before she was abandoned earlier in life, or because she was overweight, leading to fatty deposits behind her eyes.
The marsupial first attracted attention at the end of last year after she was featured on a local television report. A clip from that report went viral on the Internet.
Heidi has more than three times more Facebook admirers than German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Author: Joanna Impey (AFP, AP)
Editor: Martin Kuebler
opossum 負鼠
(ə-pŏs'əm, pŏs'əm)
n., pl., opossum, or -sums.
- Any of various nocturnal, usually arboreal marsupials of the family Didelphidae, especially Didelphis marsupialis of the Western Hemisphere, having a thick coat of hair, a long snout, and a long prehensile tail. See Regional Note at possum.
- Any of several similar marsupials of Australia belonging to the family Phalangeridae.
[Virginia Algonquian.]
WORD HISTORY The word opossum takes us back to the earliest days of the American colonies. The settlement of Jamestown, Virginia, was founded in 1607 by the London Company, chartered for the planting of colonies. Even though the first years were difficult, promotional literature was glowing. In one such piece, A True Declaration of the Estate of the Colonie in Virginia, published in 1610, we find this passage: "There are ... Apossouns, in shape like to pigges." This is the first recorded use of opossum, although in a spelling that differs from the one later settled on to reproduce the sound of the Virginia Algonquian word from which our word came. The word opossum and its shortened form possum, first recorded in 1613 in more promotional literature, remind us of a time when the New World was still very new, settlers were few, and the inhabitants for whom the New World was not new were plentiful.
play possum
Pretend to be dead or asleep, as in Max always plays possum when it's time to clean up his room. This expression alludes to the fact that the opossum falls into an apparent coma when caught, giving the appearance of death. [1820s]
opossum[o・pos・sum]
- 発音記号[əpɑ'səm | əpɔ's-]
[名]（複 〜s, ((集合的))〜）《動物》キタオポッサム：米国東部産；子を腹の袋に入れて育て, 危険にあうと死んだふりをする.
play opossum
((米俗))死んだふりをする.garret
NOUN
Origin
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- ‘Watchtower’ was the first meaning recorded for garret. It comes from Old French garite, which (like MEgarrison) is from garir ‘to defend, provide’. The word's use for a room on the top floor of a house arose early in its history, in the late 15th century.
Words that rhyme with garret
renowned
adj.
Having renown; famous. See synonyms at noted.renown
n.
- The quality of being widely honored and acclaimed; fame.
- Obsolete. Report; rumor.
[Middle English renoun, from Anglo-Norman, from renomer, to make famous : re-, repeatedly (from Latin; see re–) + nomer, to name (from Latin nōmināre, from nōmen, nōmin-, name).]
glowing
adjective
praising with enthusiasm:
In her speech, she paid a glowing tribute to her predecessor.
His latest book has received glowing reviews.
adjective
praising with enthusiasm:
In her speech, she paid a glowing tribute to her predecessor.
His latest book has received glowing reviews.
snigger
verb [I] (US ALSO snicker)
to laugh at someone or something childishly and often unkindly:
They spent half the time sniggering at the clothes people were wearing.
What are you two sniggering at/about?
snigger
noun [C]
We were having a snigger at the bride who was rather large and dressed in a tight pale pink dress.
puerile[pu・er・ile]
- 発音記号[pjúːəril | pjúərail]
[形]((形式))
1 子供っぽい, 幼稚な, 浅薄な, たわいない.
2 子供の.
pu・er・ile・ly
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