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trønderen wrote: "There will be fourteen more volumes - start reading now!"
My response to that is "you start writing now". I'll wait until they're done, then go through them. If it turns out the feedback is positive. Otherwise if it starts to suck halfway through the series, then I'll know I won't have wasted my time with any of it.
The other possibility is that it'll never get completed. George R. R. Martin is 72 and not getting any younger. He's still got 2 books to write to finish off his Ice and Fire series (on which HBO's Game of Thrones is based), and there's always been multi-year gaps between each book. I've read the first book after the first season came out, but I'm getting less and less interested in reading the rest of 'em as time goes by. At this rate, if they get completed, it'll probably be something I'll do when I'm finally retired.
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Why do Americans call it an "eggplant" when it's really a chicken?
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Why do Europeans call it "aubergine" when it's not a plum?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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You say courgette, I say zucchini.
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And furthermore, does anyone know why it crossed the road?
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1) To get to the other side.
Or
2) It was stuck to the pervert.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Existential Paradox:
Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?
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The Norwegian name for carrots is yellowroot ("gulrot").
Re. oranges and other fruits:
When I was at year long stay in the US, I was in sharp arguments about those super-red apples, super-yellow bananas and super-orange oranges, all due to artificial coloring. You couldn't possibly argue that those oranges were not orange! To me, it was like biting into plastic models; they were unattractive, unnatural, artificial.
But to the Armericans I argued with, adding that color made the fruit look so fresh and inviting. They simply didn't find naturally colored fruit attractive at all.
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trønderen wrote: But to the Armericans
And people everywhere else. Fruits and vegetables bred to look enticing is done to target natural instincts (bright colors, for example).
Oranges are typically painted orange; apples have been bred to be beautiful but tasteless; there are a of etc.'s - but at the same time, good looking fruits and vegetables aren't bad by nature. It's what the public is willing to accept. Equally important, what they're conditioned to accept.
One of my gastronomical nightmares, as a vegetarian, was being served a "fruit plate" as my food for a dinner. It was a repulsive tasting heap of brightly colored and carved pseudo-fruit with a ball of cottage cheese. Nightmare on a plate.
At the same time, look at what bananas were like; and pineapples, too, before we interfered in their breeding. All but useless. Corn (Maize, to you) is not even a proper natural plant - it was an accidental cross-breed that can only live (reproductively*) in very specific circumstances.
The so-called "red delicious apples" are not delicious in the least - apple farmers will unabashedly admit they taste like sh*t. But that's what's in demand so that's what they'll grow. However, in my experience, just about everyone prefers the more tart, flavorful (and ugly) varieties.
But it's all a matter of taste - and that's surprisingly a heavily acquired perception. I've even heard of places that eat something called "Haggis". And as far as a taste for the tasteless eye-candy? Here's the Euro-Version[^]. No better than here. Quote: * Maize is a cultigen; human intervention is required for it to propagate. - Wikipedia
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: The so-called "red delicious apples" are not delicious in the least - apple farmers will unabashedly admit they taste like sh*t.
Now that you mention it: During the Christmas season, one of the treats I gave myself was several kilograms of traditional "Åkerø" apples (orignially a Swedish sort, but it has been very popular in Norway for generations).
It looks "terrible" - almost grayish, no bright color: Åkerö - Wikipedia[^]. But the taste! That is how an apple is supposed to taste! If you store it much past Christmas time, its skin thickens, but the taste remains. To me, it doesn't matter with the thick skin when there is all that taste underneath.
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Really huge claim, no roast is terrible (12)
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ASTRONOMICAL
is terrible (anag) - claim no roast
Really huge
It goes without saying
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Tag, you're it tomorrow.
Well done 
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Great! That means I don't have to! 
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This one is doing my head in.
I'm running Windows on a Mac. Because I love Mac hardware and evidently am a masochist.
If you plug something like a display into a USB-C port on a Mac things go a little pear shaped when Windows goes into sleep mode. Actually, when the display turns off things go weird. And then sleep makes it even weirder. And then your keyboard stops working. And then your fan goes on so hard the laptop starts hovering. So you reboot, or it reboots.
And you have a black background.
Of all the things one would think would be really easy to persist, why is it nigh impossible for Windows to keep my desktop background colour?
cheers
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Chris Maunder wrote: And you have a black background.
I thought that was the latest fetish! I recall seeing requests for it on this site.
Chris Maunder wrote: why is it nigh impossible for Windows to keep my desktop background colour?
Umm, because you're running it on a Mac?! And the Mac detects it and subverts it?
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Because Microsoft is becoming brain dead is the likely reason. Several years ago I read that they were deprecating screen savers. I run one cause why not? Electric Sheep is beautiful.
But if I change the defaults of the energy saver setup (ie, lengthen the time before my screen or system turns off), Windows will mysteriously STOP THE SCREENSAVER FROM STARTING. Resetting it to defaults will fix the problem, after which I can set it to longer times for awhile, then one of their 'Updates' screws its pooch.
Idjits.
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So, how are the Icons?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Can't picture myself going into an Apple store and complaining it won't run Windows.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I would.
Let the geniuses, as they're so fond of calling themselves, figure it out.
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After they show me how to run IOS on a PC?
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Of all things...the desktop background color?
Somehow I was reminded of an article someone wrote years ago (maybe in the Win8 timeframe?) where the author attempted an experiment testing the in-place upgrade process, starting off with Windows 3.1, customizing the colors (selecting the Hot Dog Stand theme, I believe[*] - of all things...) and trying to upgrade as far as he could just to see where/when his various preferences/customizations would no longer be brought forward.
[*] Seriously, if you're going to google it if you don't remember what it looked like, wear shades. It's horrendous.
I believe his in-place upgrade process went from Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8.
I forget exactly how it went, but at least some of the colors were still being applied to the Windows 8 tiles.
I'm not sure where I was going with that. Probably just meant to say that in the Windows world, some items are persisted rather consistently, to a ridiculous extent. Others will disappear as soon as you look away from the screen.
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I really did my best to stay out of this - especially knowing that both manufacturers have a history of trying to enforce their ownership of your computer(s). Other posts to that effect have been made.
But I can remain silent no longer !
The problem is hidden in plain sight: The device is not designed to retain your "colour" settings but would work properly if you set your "color" settings.
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cheers
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Out of curiosity, does it get fixed if you go to the Task Manager and restart explorer.exe?
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