Furthermore, file management doesn't work well anymore - I was used to being able to move icons in windows but now they all align to a grid no matter what, which sort of defeats the purpose of a graphical file manager.
And, maybe it might not be popular mentioning Windows 7 on/., but I really like the feature in Windows 7 beta where you can drag a window to a screen border and it resizes to the screen height and 1/2 the screen width. I imagine that this would be easy to do as a plugin for KDE, but (so far) I haven't been able to find one.
What I find really weird is that on Windows, the default paper size is always "letter", when most people use A4.
Not in the U.S.
"Most people" don't live in the US. I think somewhere around 94% of the world's population live elsewhere. But even in local Windows versions (in Israel, at least) the system is set for "letter" paper.
Many dogs are run over by texi drivers, but that does not mean that it is the taxi driver's job to run over dogs.
But I see your point, may atrocoties have been commited by soldiers. I don't deny that. I should be more specific: in the army were I served and still perform reserve duty, it is a soldier's job to protect civilians. I have had many friends seriously injured and a few dead to protect the "other side"'s civilians. That's what we are there for.
The barstools are "potential" grenades too. Better check those next, and you look uncomfortable. There could "potentially" be a grenade up your ass, better check that too.
I'll spell it out nicely for you. A bomb exploded in the shopping mall where my wife and two daughters were yesterday. Fortunately, only a few kilograms of the 40 kilo explosive actually detonated. So you just be grateful that you have two big oceans isolating you from your enemies, and understand that here in the real world we have neighbors who value their 72 virgins in heaven more than the commandment "thou shall not kill".
If you think there is a grenade in your bar about to go off, throw it in a bucket of water or move away. If it doesn't go off.... get a bigger bucket of water and knock/string pull it in there.
You do that, I can't wait to read about your Darwin award. There is a reason that there is a team of trained professionals called a "bomb squad". And there is a reason that they dress all funny and don't show up with just a bucket of water and a shoestring.
2) I am sure that there are people who work hard for their degrees in Texas. I am not disputing the difficulty of their work. I am contesting the value of a Texas-accredited university. If I have to sift through 500 applications for 3 openings, I will be very liberal when it comes to cutting down on the applicants.
What's in an advanced degree? It's a piece of paper that says you're willing to swallow whatever the professor says and regurgitate it on to paper.
I have had science teachers that were very liberal and very conservative. Neither should be the basis of a science class. But if you agree with them and don't argue, you have a degree.
Personally, I don't think it's wrong to *believe* the world was created by God, or that the world evolved from a puddle of slime. Either way, there's no solid proof.
For one thing, I believe almost every word of the Old Testament, I see very little contradiction with science. However, the point I was making is that these schools are trying to pass off one thing as another. I cannot trust them.
If you think I'm harsh, then write to the Texas legislators and let them know that us harshies will be harsh on their graduates. It's them that will suffer.
A soldier's job is first and foremost to protect civilians, whether those civilians be your own people or the other guy's.
I don't know what makes you think this is how wars are fought. Despite romantic notions of chivalry, wars have never been fought this way.
Not where I serve. I am currently a reserve soldier, but I've fought in Jenin, Ramallah, Gaza, and Lebanon. The civilians there are our neighbors. They happen to be infected with a cancer (Hamas, Hezbollah) but that does not make the civilians any less human.
The sad reality of history is that wars are fought to accomplish the political and economic ends of those in control of military force. It has always been the norm for civilians to be harmed in the course of warfare. People who believe that war is a legitimate means of accomplishing political and/or economic goals (not just defense of one's own people and territory) are quite comfortable with the notion that civilians will be killed or have their lives ripped apart.
I'm sure glad that I did not serve in whatever army you represent.
The reality of our situation is to protect civilians. We know that they get hurt often enough, on both sides, but we try to minimize that. Actually, in my army there is now a controversy over soldiers who claim to have fired on civilians during "relaxed rules of engagement" during an operation two months ago. They will likely be tried for murder, and rightly so, assuming that they were not just talking out of their ass.
To you who does not specialize in the field, I'm sure that everything is still a potential bomb. Those with a bit of experience can make informed decisions.
What schools give degrees in pottery and basket weaving?
And I would not hire a pottery specialist either, sorry.
For that matter, I am not going to start making a blacklist of individual schools, I will simply blacklist all Texas universities. Sorry, but I cannot trust your educational systems. If this passes and someone comes to me with a degree from a Texas university, they will have an uphill battle to fight.
If this spreads to other US states, then I won't blacklist individual states, I will blacklist American universities in general. There are enough qualified applicants from all over the world where I don't have to worry about issues like this.
Actually, I know that Levis does this, and the 'bad' ones are sold in outlet stores for about half the price of regular jeans. You can go in to those outlet stores and if you can spot the flaw, then you've got great eyes. I usually can't. Anytime someone travels to the US, I ask them to pick me up a pair.
If you're in a war, and you're close enough to throw a grenade at them, you're doing it wrong. In the Land Of The Free, you sit home and bitch about the government while watching the news.
Not at all! The only way to "get the terrorists" and not hurt their brother or sister is to go in there and pull him out manually. I'm sorry, but the US-style of just bombing everyone and everything is murder. A soldier's job is first and foremost to protect civilians, whether those civilians be your own people or the other guy's. Yes, soldiers daily risk their own lives to protect the "other side"'s civilians. That is exactly what the job is about.
You jest, but I once threw a stun grenade at some idiot because I didn't have a flak grenade (or what ever you call them in English) on me. The genius lowered his rifle and _picked_it_up_! I saw it blow up in his hand, but I didn't get to see what happened to him because we were a bit busy in the other direction as well. I wonder what he thought it was, as stun grenades are bright orange and don't look like flak grenades. I wonder if, had I thrown a flak grenade, the end result would have been as effective.
i took a quick look at the blacklist and found some porn sites that i didn't know about. awesome! it's like a pre-filtered list of quality porn links! they saved me a lot of surfing time!
Actually, be careful. It looks like there is a lot of kiddie porn in there. There are certainly illegal websites on that list, that could get you in a world of trouble.
I'm going through the sites now, and finding that about half are throwing either 404 or other errors. I am certain that there are honeypot sites on that list.
Or, you know, you could just not go to sites that are sketchy. Don't allow anything to install when asked, unless you knew/want it to do so. Are you really missing anything by not going to those sites?
I don't want to learn what a sketchy site is, and I don't want to learn what every little thing that Windows wants to install is. How am I, an end user, supposed to know all about security? Windows makes the user responsible by asking all these complex questions that I don't know the answer to. Ubuntu takes responsibility for it's security, it doesn't push that onto the user.
And what do you think "those sites" are? Should Youtube be off limits? Because Youtube wants to install this flash thing. Is that good or bad? Is it dangerous? Should I as an end user be expected to know that?
Before you get to write any filesystem code, you should have to study how other people have done it...
No. Being innovative means being original, and that means taking new and different paths. Once you have seen somebody else's path, it is difficult to go out on your own original path. That is why there are alpha nad beta stages to a project, so that watchful eyes can find the mistakes that you will undoubtedly make, even those that have been made before you.
Is that the part right before she stabs herself in the throat with her bare hand while unbuttoning her blouse and making airplane noises? I love that trick!
I'm sorry, which one of IE8 and Chrome run in Ubuntu? Or should I go pay $$$ for Windows, so that I can pay $$$ for anti-virus/spy/adware/malware, so that I can update it every other day and still be paranoid about where I click, all so that I run one of those browsers? Oh, and learn all about definitions and exploits and security bulletins?
No, thanks, for browsing the web Windows is way too much hassle and too much money. I want simple, I don't want to make a hobby out of using the computer. I'll stick with Ubuntu.
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Furthermore, file management doesn't work well anymore - I was used to being able to move icons in windows but now they all align to a grid no matter what, which sort of defeats the purpose of a graphical file manager.
Here is the feature request for that issue:
Option to not align icons to grid
And, maybe it might not be popular mentioning Windows 7 on /., but I really like the feature in Windows 7 beta where you can drag a window to a screen border and it resizes to the screen height and 1/2 the screen width. I imagine that this would be easy to do as a plugin for KDE, but (so far) I haven't been able to find one.
Here is the feature request for that very feature on KDE's Bugzilla:
Resize windows based on drag location
What I find really weird is that on Windows, the default paper size is always "letter", when most people use A4.
Not in the U.S.
"Most people" don't live in the US. I think somewhere around 94% of the world's population live elsewhere. But even in local Windows versions (in Israel, at least) the system is set for "letter" paper.
Of course, you can't run Linux on a toaster until you remove the Thetans.
Install Linux On Your Toaster
www.umlug.umd.edu/meetings/notes/linux_on_devices_10_14_04.ps
Many dogs are run over by texi drivers, but that does not mean that it is the taxi driver's job to run over dogs.
But I see your point, may atrocoties have been commited by soldiers. I don't deny that. I should be more specific: in the army were I served and still perform reserve duty, it is a soldier's job to protect civilians. I have had many friends seriously injured and a few dead to protect the "other side"'s civilians. That's what we are there for.
The barstools are "potential" grenades too. Better check those next, and you look uncomfortable. There could "potentially" be a grenade up your ass, better check that too.
I'll spell it out nicely for you. A bomb exploded in the shopping mall where my wife and two daughters were yesterday. Fortunately, only a few kilograms of the 40 kilo explosive actually detonated. So you just be grateful that you have two big oceans isolating you from your enemies, and understand that here in the real world we have neighbors who value their 72 virgins in heaven more than the commandment "thou shall not kill".
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3690090,00.html
If you think there is a grenade in your bar about to go off, throw it in a bucket of water or move away. If it doesn't go off.... get a bigger bucket of water and knock/string pull it in there.
You do that, I can't wait to read about your Darwin award. There is a reason that there is a team of trained professionals called a "bomb squad". And there is a reason that they dress all funny and don't show up with just a bucket of water and a shoestring.
1) I am a person of faith.
2) I am sure that there are people who work hard for their degrees in Texas. I am not disputing the difficulty of their work. I am contesting the value of a Texas-accredited university. If I have to sift through 500 applications for 3 openings, I will be very liberal when it comes to cutting down on the applicants.
What's in an advanced degree? It's a piece of paper that says you're willing to swallow whatever the professor says and regurgitate it on to paper.
I have had science teachers that were very liberal and very conservative. Neither should be the basis of a science class. But if you agree with them and don't argue, you have a degree.
Personally, I don't think it's wrong to *believe* the world was created by God, or that the world evolved from a puddle of slime. Either way, there's no solid proof.
For one thing, I believe almost every word of the Old Testament, I see very little contradiction with science. However, the point I was making is that these schools are trying to pass off one thing as another. I cannot trust them.
If you think I'm harsh, then write to the Texas legislators and let them know that us harshies will be harsh on their graduates. It's them that will suffer.
A soldier's job is first and foremost to protect civilians, whether those civilians be your own people or the other guy's.
I don't know what makes you think this is how wars are fought. Despite romantic notions of chivalry, wars have never been fought this way.
Not where I serve. I am currently a reserve soldier, but I've fought in Jenin, Ramallah, Gaza, and Lebanon. The civilians there are our neighbors. They happen to be infected with a cancer (Hamas, Hezbollah) but that does not make the civilians any less human.
The sad reality of history is that wars are fought to accomplish the political and economic ends of those in control of military force. It has always been the norm for civilians to be harmed in the course of warfare. People who believe that war is a legitimate means of accomplishing political and/or economic goals (not just defense of one's own people and territory) are quite comfortable with the notion that civilians will be killed or have their lives ripped apart.
I'm sure glad that I did not serve in whatever army you represent.
The reality of our situation is to protect civilians. We know that they get hurt often enough, on both sides, but we try to minimize that. Actually, in my army there is now a controversy over soldiers who claim to have fired on civilians during "relaxed rules of engagement" during an operation two months ago. They will likely be tried for murder, and rightly so, assuming that they were not just talking out of their ass.
And? Everything is STILL a potential bomb.
To you who does not specialize in the field, I'm sure that everything is still a potential bomb. Those with a bit of experience can make informed decisions.
What schools give degrees in pottery and basket weaving?
And I would not hire a pottery specialist either, sorry.
For that matter, I am not going to start making a blacklist of individual schools, I will simply blacklist all Texas universities. Sorry, but I cannot trust your educational systems. If this passes and someone comes to me with a degree from a Texas university, they will have an uphill battle to fight.
If this spreads to other US states, then I won't blacklist individual states, I will blacklist American universities in general. There are enough qualified applicants from all over the world where I don't have to worry about issues like this.
I suppose that you live in a place where bombs have not yet been known to explode at random. London has had bomb attacks in the recent past.
Thanks.
Actually, I know that Levis does this, and the 'bad' ones are sold in outlet stores for about half the price of regular jeans. You can go in to those outlet stores and if you can spot the flaw, then you've got great eyes. I usually can't. Anytime someone travels to the US, I ask them to pick me up a pair.
I can imagine. Just think of all the lives they'd have put at risk by not taking every precaution necessary in disabling a potential grenade.
There, fixed that for you.
If you're in a war, and you're close enough to throw a grenade at them, you're doing it wrong. In the Land Of The Free, you sit home and bitch about the government while watching the news.
Not at all! The only way to "get the terrorists" and not hurt their brother or sister is to go in there and pull him out manually. I'm sorry, but the US-style of just bombing everyone and everything is murder. A soldier's job is first and foremost to protect civilians, whether those civilians be your own people or the other guy's. Yes, soldiers daily risk their own lives to protect the "other side"'s civilians. That is exactly what the job is about.
You jest, but I once threw a stun grenade at some idiot because I didn't have a flak grenade (or what ever you call them in English) on me. The genius lowered his rifle and _picked_it_up_! I saw it blow up in his hand, but I didn't get to see what happened to him because we were a bit busy in the other direction as well. I wonder what he thought it was, as stun grenades are bright orange and don't look like flak grenades. I wonder if, had I thrown a flak grenade, the end result would have been as effective.
i took a quick look at the blacklist and found some porn sites that i didn't know about. awesome! it's like a pre-filtered list of quality porn links! they saved me a lot of surfing time!
Actually, be careful. It looks like there is a lot of kiddie porn in there. There are certainly illegal websites on that list, that could get you in a world of trouble.
I'm going through the sites now, and finding that about half are throwing either 404 or other errors. I am certain that there are honeypot sites on that list.
Or, you know, you could just not go to sites that are sketchy. Don't allow anything to install when asked, unless you knew/want it to do so. Are you really missing anything by not going to those sites?
I don't want to learn what a sketchy site is, and I don't want to learn what every little thing that Windows wants to install is. How am I, an end user, supposed to know all about security? Windows makes the user responsible by asking all these complex questions that I don't know the answer to. Ubuntu takes responsibility for it's security, it doesn't push that onto the user.
And what do you think "those sites" are? Should Youtube be off limits? Because Youtube wants to install this flash thing. Is that good or bad? Is it dangerous? Should I as an end user be expected to know that?
Before you get to write any filesystem code, you should have to study how other people have done it...
No. Being innovative means being original, and that means taking new and different paths. Once you have seen somebody else's path, it is difficult to go out on your own original path. That is why there are alpha nad beta stages to a project, so that watchful eyes can find the mistakes that you will undoubtedly make, even those that have been made before you.
Is that the part right before she stabs herself in the throat with her bare hand while unbuttoning her blouse and making airplane noises? I love that trick!
I think some of you people haven't been outside in so long that you've degenerated into finding ANY woman attractive.
Hole and a heartbeat. It's never failed me.
I'm sorry, which one of IE8 and Chrome run in Ubuntu? Or should I go pay $$$ for Windows, so that I can pay $$$ for anti-virus/spy/adware/malware, so that I can update it every other day and still be paranoid about where I click, all so that I run one of those browsers? Oh, and learn all about definitions and exploits and security bulletins?
No, thanks, for browsing the web Windows is way too much hassle and too much money. I want simple, I don't want to make a hobby out of using the computer. I'll stick with Ubuntu.
Try the other side.
Maybe one of my extensions is interfering, then. Thanks.