Speaking as a person who (like many who others read/.) has lost someone close through cancer, I find the suggestion that drinking '8 cups of water' a day will prevent it highly offensive.
In addition, the notion that '8 cups of water a day' is of therapeutic benefit to any extent is also completely bunk.
"Name the files correctly" That's exactly what he *doesn't* want to have to do. We don't have to do that with cds, and it's about time that a similar solution for dvds showed up.
Do you see a lot of gamers who like to click on large palettes of dozens of icons during their games, or do they generally prefer pressing buttons on the keyboard to change functions when they need it?
That's keyboard vs. Mouse. I bet they'd be even happier with a specially designed keyboard with icons to represent the actions those keys invoke.
You know your mouse pointer? You know, the one that changes to indicate what actions are available depending on what you're pointing at? They're icons too. Icons also take up significantly less space in a toolbar than text, and are much faster for the human eye to recognise. The world of icons is not restricted to what litters your desktop.
Also real work does not always == coding. Icons indicating which tool you have selected in photoshop (for instance) are most definitely used for 'real work'.
Incinerating the patient kills all of the bacteria too. I think it's not so much the killing the bacteria part that's tricky, it's more the keeping the patient alive afterwards that represents the challenge.
It is nothing short of a bald-faced lie to suggest that the police were prevented from leaving. The officer who sprays the line of students sitting (unmoving, peaceful) on the ground steps over them first. He could have simply walked away, left them to their own devices, problem (not that I could see an actual problem) solved.
I mean, how long are those kids going to sit there on the path? And in any case, how is it a problem to sit down in protest? Let them sit, let them chant, let them have their say.
They do have a legitimate point to make in any case, the rich *are* too rich. And the poor *are* to poor. However you think that this situation came about, there can be no position taken other than that this disparity represents a huge problem. Pepper spray will not solve it.
Unrelated, but thanks for finally giving a name to the data structure that a friend and I came up with at Uni to generate anagrams quickly. We both knew that it wasn't anything earth-shattering, but neither of us knew what to call it either. I think we ended up calling it an alphabet tree or something.
Coming from an Apple supporter, that's hilarious. Apple's development process is notoriously complex, and then Apple can slam the lid on your project at their whim.
No it isn't. We're talking about a macbook pro here, not an iPhone. You can release whatever you please for OSX.
You owe me a keyboard; I had to grab a different one to post this because I sprayed coffee all over the one I was using.
I know, it's weird though. Is there something intrinsically incredibly hard about writing a good word-processor? Or have they just failed to throw enough resources at it?
I'm going with the first possibility myself, because all the competition's offerings in the area seem to be terrible.
Well I don't know the details, but we get to choose here in Christchurch NZ. And yes, it's completely bonkers.
You don't get multiple sets of physical infrastructure, the actual lines are owned by some other company that the end-user electricity companies rent from.
So when you change your provider, nothing much happens except that their pricing structure is different (making it nigh impossible to correctly compare the prices) and you get a different logo on your monthly bill.
Bonkers.
Whenever one of the companies rings me up & tries to get me to change over to their 'service' I reply that critical infrastructure shouldn't be the domain of private enterprise and usually that's the end of the conversation.
I'm old enough to remember Visual Studio 1.51, although it was called Visual C++ 1.51. Now that loaded fast, which was a good thing because developing on windows 3.1 did tend to get quite crashy.
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Speaking as a person who (like many who others read /.) has lost someone close through cancer, I find the suggestion that drinking '8 cups of water' a day will prevent it highly offensive.
In addition, the notion that '8 cups of water a day' is of therapeutic benefit to any extent is also completely bunk.
"Name the files correctly"
That's exactly what he *doesn't* want to have to do. We don't have to do that with cds, and it's about time that a similar solution for dvds showed up.
Do you see a lot of gamers who like to click on large palettes of dozens of icons during their games, or do they generally prefer pressing buttons on the keyboard to change functions when they need it?
That's keyboard vs. Mouse. I bet they'd be even happier with a specially designed keyboard with icons to represent the actions those keys invoke.
You know your mouse pointer? You know, the one that changes to indicate what actions are available depending on what you're pointing at? They're icons too. Icons also take up significantly less space in a toolbar than text, and are much faster for the human eye to recognise. The world of icons is not restricted to what litters your desktop.
Also real work does not always == coding. Icons indicating which tool you have selected in photoshop (for instance) are most definitely used for 'real work'.
Well, an anti-shark. Otherwise there'll just a big bang and a big hole where your evil anti-lair used to be.
I think getting hit by an electric car would kill you just as dead.
Incinerating the patient kills all of the bacteria too. I think it's not so much the killing the bacteria part that's tricky, it's more the keeping the patient alive afterwards that represents the challenge.
From their parents.
Yes. Except me.
It is nothing short of a bald-faced lie to suggest that the police were prevented from leaving. The officer who sprays the line of students sitting (unmoving, peaceful) on the ground steps over them first. He could have simply walked away, left them to their own devices, problem (not that I could see an actual problem) solved.
I mean, how long are those kids going to sit there on the path? And in any case, how is it a problem to sit down in protest? Let them sit, let them chant, let them have their say.
They do have a legitimate point to make in any case, the rich *are* too rich. And the poor *are* to poor. However you think that this situation came about, there can be no position taken other than that this disparity represents a huge problem. Pepper spray will not solve it.
Unrelated, but thanks for finally giving a name to the data structure that a friend and I came up with at Uni to generate anagrams quickly. We both knew that it wasn't anything earth-shattering, but neither of us knew what to call it either. I think we ended up calling it an alphabet tree or something.
That's nothing, I don't even own a computer.
Coming from an Apple supporter, that's hilarious. Apple's development process is notoriously complex, and then Apple can slam the lid on your project at their whim.
No it isn't. We're talking about a macbook pro here, not an iPhone. You can release whatever you please for OSX.
You owe me a keyboard; I had to grab a different one to post this because I sprayed coffee all over the one I was using.
No you didn't.
I know, it's weird though. Is there something intrinsically incredibly hard about writing a good word-processor? Or have they just failed to throw enough resources at it?
I'm going with the first possibility myself, because all the competition's offerings in the area seem to be terrible.
True, but it remains doubtful that the wallpaper will eat your parents.
What, that they're mostly in their thirties?
http://perspect.siuc.edu/06_sp/car_talk.html
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If this is so easy, why has no-one quite managed to do it?
I wasn't aware of that actually - and in some ways it makes it all even more bonkers.
Anyway, if National do get in it certainly won't be due to my vote.
Or maybe to the Greeks, they seem in need of a bob or two...
Well I don't know the details, but we get to choose here in Christchurch NZ. And yes, it's completely bonkers.
You don't get multiple sets of physical infrastructure, the actual lines are owned by some other company that the end-user electricity companies rent from.
So when you change your provider, nothing much happens except that their pricing structure is different (making it nigh impossible to correctly compare the prices) and you get a different logo on your monthly bill.
Bonkers.
Whenever one of the companies rings me up & tries to get me to change over to their 'service' I reply that critical infrastructure shouldn't be the domain of private enterprise and usually that's the end of the conversation.
Yes. When you chop words out of a sentence you can change its meaning.
Indeed Indeed.
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I'm old enough to remember Visual Studio 1.51, although it was called Visual C++ 1.51. Now that loaded fast, which was a good thing because developing on windows 3.1 did tend to get quite crashy.
Most audiophiles use FLAC, and they would not usually be considered "nerds"
Actually I'd have thought that audiophiles were most definitely considered "nerds".
Lossless makes (some) sense for your music collection on your PC - it makes no sense for your portable device whatsoever.