I don't know. I think I'd rather go out with a Simulant than watch the US remake. Generally, gelfs are only ugly. Simulants are both ugly and deadly.
Seriously, though, they got the Dave Lister part all wrong; instead of a slobby, generally ignorant lowlife, they had the role cast as a preppy, generally well-read goof off. The only thing they got right was Kryton, and that's only because they brought Robert Llewellyn in to do the part.
No joke. Despite having a predominantly common language, every state in the US has it's own unique set of cultures (I am not even remotely arrogant enough to assume any state, including Utah, my home state, has a single culture, in part because I've seen loads of evidence to the contrary). Each of the cultures I've been exposed to in Utah alone is unique, as are the many cultures I've encountered in other states. Despite this, however, very few of these cultures has attempted to isolate itself completely from the rest of the nation, or the world, and those that do are usually isolated cultures attempted to exist within a larger culture.
Hell, with Quicken, couldn't a VM handle that perfectly well? I use a Windows VM for the only program I have that requires Windows and won't work in Wine (WordPerfect), and I can't imagine why Quicken would require so much more processing power that it wouldn't perform in a VM.
It used to be the mothers taught their daughters, but times have changed.
Very true, though that's not entirely universal. I have the good fortune of knowing many mothers who have taught their daughters how to parent, and many fathers who have done likewise with their sons. Of course, I'm in my thirties, and many of the mothers and fathers I'm referring to are now senior citizens, or will become so soon. My point, though, is that we shouldn't loose all hope, just because most parents don't teach their children proper principles.
When the search involves stripping a girl to her underwear, it becomes a criminal action, but on the school's part, not the student's. Schools do not have that authority; they are not the police, and cannot make arrests. Furthermore, any violation of a policy that is not directly tied to the student's education, or might involve the psychological mindset of the child, should require the presence of at least one parent/guardian. Punishing a student for disrupting class is one thing, punishing a student based on a flimsy accusation regarding a zero-tolerance drug policy is quite another.
I wasn't referring to punishments that directly affect the child's education, I was referring to potentially criminal behavior, such as possession of drugs; I should have made myself more clear on that point.
I won't argue your point, I agree. But in my opinion, the school should never be given more authority over the child than the child's parents or legal guardians have. It is one thing for the school to contact the parents of a student whose behavior has been brought into question, and allowing the parent to determine the most reasonable course of action. It is another issue entirely for the school to supersede the parent's rights in a matter and take on the responsibility for punishing the child themselves.
. . . that's besides the point that no one abuses ibuprofen because it's not fun and makes you sick.
My thoughts exactly. As you said, ibuprofen is a medication. Of course, the girl's 'friend' who turned her in might be stupid enough to think an extra strength medication would be a great way to get a buzz, but I still don't see how that could possibly be used an excuse to justify a strip search in violation of multiple laws. All too often, a Zero Tolerance policy, such as this, becomes an excuse to get students to snitch on each other, and this becomes a particular problem when, inevitably, the criminals use the policy to abuse the innocent; from what I read of the article, it seems this girl was subjected to multiple false accusations based on this policy.
I'm with commodore64_love on this; tailored or not, the average difference of about 0.05 seconds is irrelevant. This isn't a race. You would have to be loading over twenty pages before the difference began to become noticeable, and how often is it that you do so in rapid succession? Basically, my argument is saving a few seconds over the course of a day isn't worth the time to argue over.
I feel for you. My work allows us to use Firefox, but doesn't retain any of my settings (I know there's a word for that, but I can't remember what it is). Fortunately, they also give me a generous amount of server space, so I have Portable Firefox installed on my desktop so I can use that and keep my settings between sessions.
I looked at these statistics, and I think it's ridiculous. We're talking about the difference of ~0.05 seconds between Firefox3 and IE8.
My thoughts exactly. Sounds more like Microsoft pandering to the foolish to me. Personally, I can't imagine choosing a browser based on the speed it loads pages at. What I find important is that the browser is secure, friendly, compliant, and easy to learn, which is why I use Firefox.
I second that; I've not noticed a marked difference in Firefox operation from before installing NoScript to after, except a possible improvement, since there aren't anywhere near as many scripts, hazardous or otherwise, running by default anymore.
Even if it's more in the 18% margin, that's still more than 1/6; one sixth is a huge number where market share is concerned. I agree with you; to say Firefox isn't being hit by black hats is disingenuous.
I have had similar luck; on my Mac, I'm only using two extensions (Ad Block Plus and No-Script), and at the moment I have 34 windows open in Firefox alone, a number of which have multiple tabs (I even have a couple that have YouTube movies, about eighteen or so). It I'm pretty sure there aren't quite 100 tabs open total, but I usually leave Firefox open for weeks at a time, and rarely notice excessive memory usage. At the moment, only a little more than 1GB is in use on my 2GB machine, with 116 MB of VM in use, and while Firefox is certainly the biggest running app (top says it's using 1.18 GB total at this moment, I think, after three days of use since the last restart), it's certainly not eating hoards of memory and not releasing it when it's finished with it. My memory usage tends to float around the 1 GB mark unless I open loads of windows and tabs.
Forgot to mention one other point in my previous response; this problem only occurs for me when I'm using my Mac's touch pad, not when I'm using my mouse (one of the very, very few MS products I actually like).
Actually, I've had this problem on my Mac, but not my Linux machine. Then again, my Mac is a laptop, while my Linux machine (running Ubuntu) is a desktop. They're both running the same version.
I can't back my statement up like NYCL can (since I'm not a lawyer), but I agree with him completely; this was a very well written, well thought out response.
Besides, spending money to do nothing was used during the Great Depression, and it did absolutely nothing to help the economy; we (The United States) didn't get out of the depression until after WWII started and we began loaning money and building supplies for the United Kingdom.
From the brief on Wikipedia, I'm not sure it's what I'm looking for; I need an arbitrary timing device.
If you think about a kitchen timer, it isn't designed to signal you at a specific time, it's designed to signal you at the end of a specific period of time. I'm looking for something that I can say "signal me in so many minutes/seconds" with, not something I have to say "signal me when it's such and such a time" with.
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I don't know. I think I'd rather go out with a Simulant than watch the US remake. Generally, gelfs are only ugly. Simulants are both ugly and deadly.
Seriously, though, they got the Dave Lister part all wrong; instead of a slobby, generally ignorant lowlife, they had the role cast as a preppy, generally well-read goof off. The only thing they got right was Kryton, and that's only because they brought Robert Llewellyn in to do the part.
Hmm. Reminds me of traditional Windows security.
If I ever saw any of those ads, I'm thankful I forgot about them.
Then again, maybe that's another sign about how bad that campaign was.
No joke. Despite having a predominantly common language, every state in the US has it's own unique set of cultures (I am not even remotely arrogant enough to assume any state, including Utah, my home state, has a single culture, in part because I've seen loads of evidence to the contrary). Each of the cultures I've been exposed to in Utah alone is unique, as are the many cultures I've encountered in other states. Despite this, however, very few of these cultures has attempted to isolate itself completely from the rest of the nation, or the world, and those that do are usually isolated cultures attempted to exist within a larger culture.
I very much agree. As I've pointed out to a few friends, the Balmer quote sounds very much like something I'd expect him to say.
Hell, with Quicken, couldn't a VM handle that perfectly well? I use a Windows VM for the only program I have that requires Windows and won't work in Wine (WordPerfect), and I can't imagine why Quicken would require so much more processing power that it wouldn't perform in a VM.
Very true, though that's not entirely universal. I have the good fortune of knowing many mothers who have taught their daughters how to parent, and many fathers who have done likewise with their sons. Of course, I'm in my thirties, and many of the mothers and fathers I'm referring to are now senior citizens, or will become so soon. My point, though, is that we shouldn't loose all hope, just because most parents don't teach their children proper principles.
When the search involves stripping a girl to her underwear, it becomes a criminal action, but on the school's part, not the student's. Schools do not have that authority; they are not the police, and cannot make arrests. Furthermore, any violation of a policy that is not directly tied to the student's education, or might involve the psychological mindset of the child, should require the presence of at least one parent/guardian. Punishing a student for disrupting class is one thing, punishing a student based on a flimsy accusation regarding a zero-tolerance drug policy is quite another.
I wasn't referring to punishments that directly affect the child's education, I was referring to potentially criminal behavior, such as possession of drugs; I should have made myself more clear on that point.
I won't argue your point, I agree. But in my opinion, the school should never be given more authority over the child than the child's parents or legal guardians have. It is one thing for the school to contact the parents of a student whose behavior has been brought into question, and allowing the parent to determine the most reasonable course of action. It is another issue entirely for the school to supersede the parent's rights in a matter and take on the responsibility for punishing the child themselves.
My thoughts exactly. As you said, ibuprofen is a medication. Of course, the girl's 'friend' who turned her in might be stupid enough to think an extra strength medication would be a great way to get a buzz, but I still don't see how that could possibly be used an excuse to justify a strip search in violation of multiple laws. All too often, a Zero Tolerance policy, such as this, becomes an excuse to get students to snitch on each other, and this becomes a particular problem when, inevitably, the criminals use the policy to abuse the innocent; from what I read of the article, it seems this girl was subjected to multiple false accusations based on this policy.
Because that would be efficient and it would make sense. (a line from M*A*S*H: The Incubator). We can't have any of that, can we?
I'm with commodore64_love on this; tailored or not, the average difference of about 0.05 seconds is irrelevant. This isn't a race. You would have to be loading over twenty pages before the difference began to become noticeable, and how often is it that you do so in rapid succession? Basically, my argument is saving a few seconds over the course of a day isn't worth the time to argue over.
I feel for you. My work allows us to use Firefox, but doesn't retain any of my settings (I know there's a word for that, but I can't remember what it is). Fortunately, they also give me a generous amount of server space, so I have Portable Firefox installed on my desktop so I can use that and keep my settings between sessions.
My thoughts exactly. Sounds more like Microsoft pandering to the foolish to me. Personally, I can't imagine choosing a browser based on the speed it loads pages at. What I find important is that the browser is secure, friendly, compliant, and easy to learn, which is why I use Firefox.
I second that; I've not noticed a marked difference in Firefox operation from before installing NoScript to after, except a possible improvement, since there aren't anywhere near as many scripts, hazardous or otherwise, running by default anymore.
Even if it's more in the 18% margin, that's still more than 1/6; one sixth is a huge number where market share is concerned. I agree with you; to say Firefox isn't being hit by black hats is disingenuous.
I have had similar luck; on my Mac, I'm only using two extensions (Ad Block Plus and No-Script), and at the moment I have 34 windows open in Firefox alone, a number of which have multiple tabs (I even have a couple that have YouTube movies, about eighteen or so). It I'm pretty sure there aren't quite 100 tabs open total, but I usually leave Firefox open for weeks at a time, and rarely notice excessive memory usage. At the moment, only a little more than 1GB is in use on my 2GB machine, with 116 MB of VM in use, and while Firefox is certainly the biggest running app (top says it's using 1.18 GB total at this moment, I think, after three days of use since the last restart), it's certainly not eating hoards of memory and not releasing it when it's finished with it. My memory usage tends to float around the 1 GB mark unless I open loads of windows and tabs.
Forgot to mention one other point in my previous response; this problem only occurs for me when I'm using my Mac's touch pad, not when I'm using my mouse (one of the very, very few MS products I actually like).
Actually, I've had this problem on my Mac, but not my Linux machine. Then again, my Mac is a laptop, while my Linux machine (running Ubuntu) is a desktop. They're both running the same version.
You're thinking Isengard. Mordor was destroyed by melting a ring.
I can't back my statement up like NYCL can (since I'm not a lawyer), but I agree with him completely; this was a very well written, well thought out response.
Besides, spending money to do nothing was used during the Great Depression, and it did absolutely nothing to help the economy; we (The United States) didn't get out of the depression until after WWII started and we began loaning money and building supplies for the United Kingdom.
From the brief on Wikipedia, I'm not sure it's what I'm looking for; I need an arbitrary timing device.
If you think about a kitchen timer, it isn't designed to signal you at a specific time, it's designed to signal you at the end of a specific period of time. I'm looking for something that I can say "signal me in so many minutes/seconds" with, not something I have to say "signal me when it's such and such a time" with.
Out of curiosity, when was Nautilus a browser? I thought it was just a file manager.