"Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Well.. that one's more debatable. "I'm used to large
infrastructure" is

I wouldn't say "used to," it's slang. I would say,
"accustomed to."

~db

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"DungBeatle" <dun### [at] moscowcom> wrote in message
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> "Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> > Well.. that one's more debatable. "I'm used to large
> infrastructure" is
>
> I wouldn't say "used to," it's slang. I would say,
> "accustomed to."
>
> ~db

And of course, the proper way is, "to which I am
accustomed."

But that might sound snobbish...
~db

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DungBeatle wrote:
> I wouldn't say "used to," it's slang. I would say,
> "accustomed to."

Huh. I wouldn't have said that. "Accustomed" is more formal, but "used to" 
is just fine I think.  Sometimes one can go too far in being formal, to the 
point where one starts saying "utilize" instead of "use" even when it means 
the wrong thing, etc.

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DungBeatle wrote:
> And of course, the proper way is, "to which I am
> accustomed."

Not really. :-)

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Invisible wrote:
> Don't wages vary depending on which country you work in though?

Yes, but the euro isn't *that* different from the dollar.

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scott wrote:
> Andrew gets free healthcare and probably a lot more paid
> vacation than you did there, not to mention the cost of living, taxes 

Sure. But to be paid 20 years later (after several years of experience) at a 
wholesale rate lower than I was taking home?

(Plus, we do have health care here. It's just not through the government.)

And I suspect his taxes are higher than mine were, too.  I.e., many of those 
considerations are in the wrong direction. :-)

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Warp wrote:
> POSIX doesn't define only system calls.

But once you're posix-compliant enough to compile all the utilities, what 
else is there?  I.e., if all my APIs are posix compliant and all my #include 
files are posix-compliant, what am I missing?

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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> DungBeatle wrote:
> > I wouldn't say "used to," it's slang. I would say,
> > "accustomed to."
>
> Huh. I wouldn't have said that. "Accustomed" is more
formal, but "used to"
> is just fine I think.  Sometimes one can go too far in
being formal, to the
> point where one starts saying "utilize" instead of "use"
even when it means
> the wrong thing, etc.

21 years at a university, just habits... :)
~db

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DungBeatle wrote:
> 21 years at a university, just habits... :)

Sure. As I said, it's much more formal. That doesn't mean "used to" is 
slang. :-)

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On 2-2-2010 10:10, Invisible wrote:
>>> He's asking what city you're in.
>>
>> Because I know he lives in Milton Keynes, I doubt if that counts as a 
>> real city.
> 
> WTF?
> 
> It's a major urban center. Of *course* it counts as a city!
> 
> (It even has its own "cathedral" - although IMHO it's not really worthy 
> of the title.)

Perhaps city is used in a slightly different meaning in English than 
here. Actually I would be surprised if we meant the same thing. For me a 
city needs at least an identifiable center with an active cultural scene 
and a general feeling of being more part of the world than of the county 
it happens to be in.
Where I live has a name that suggest that it is a city , 'Zaanstad' 
where 'stad' means city (and 'Zaan' is the name of our river). Everybody 
understands that that is a joke or at best something we would wish to 
be, though perhaps there are a few people paid to try to suggest to the 
world at large that we are a real city. This is simply a collection of 
small towns and villages.

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