I wouldn't necessarily say so. My boyfriend and I are both 18-year-old shell users. I don't know how many girls my age are into the kinds of things I am, though, but I see he's after a slightly older woman, so that might increase his odds. By a negligible amount.
This isn't the product of intolerance; the scientists in question do not seem to want a religious representative being given a podium within the walls of their educational facility, which is understandable, as I have yet to see a Physicist guest-speaking in church.
I can't find anything useful about this product. XP boots quickly on my PC, though it can't match OSX or Debian in my experience. Still, I don't have to go away and put on some tea whilst waiting for it to get to the "Login" screen, and can't imagine why anyone would be so desperate to browse the internet or connect to Skype that they'd find "Splashtop" an interesting prospect.
Well, this thread has lead me to discover that I lead a double life; I am, by day, a normal eighteen year old and, by night, a champion synchronised swimmer. There is also some possibility that I am a blonde who enjoys shopping, and has a frighteningly spangly Myspace layout.
Luckily, the only actual reference to me is from my old secondary school's website, and is something to do with my GCSE results.
Yes. I've been into Dixons (now renamed Currys Digital) a few times for blank media and, without exception, every time I've gone in a sales assistant has tried to sell me more expensive kinds, simply because I'm a teenage girl and they presume I don't know any better. "Yes, the coloured cases are pretty." "No, they will not enhance my DVD burning experience, and are not worth an extra £5".. etc.
The bill's not even close to becoming law yet; it's not even been debated in parliament. It'll probably have to go through both Houses before being accepted and, if it's ALREADY "sparking rows", then I doubt it will be passed. Your knee-jerk reaction to announce that the UK is worse than America is a pathetic attempt to feel better about your government by falsely criticising another's democracy.
Also, why would the Lib Dems ever supplant Labour? They're distinctly in third place as far as elections go, and I think this proves that you should do a lot more reading before making your "creepiest democratic country" statements in the future.
What happens if you're considered to act like a fangirl regarding Mac OS and GNU/Linux?
Are you now just a Windows anti-fan, or not a fan of anything at all?
I mean, I like both the aforementioned OS's, and talk about them a lot, but they're still technically in opposition, so it makes me wonder whether the fact I support both equally is enough to counter any elitist behaviour I might exhibit when discussing either of them, as putting one thing - and one thing only - on a pedestal seems to be the trademark of the fanboy/girl.
What about voiceovers to describe scenes to the partially sighted? Wouldn't that only be fair, as those who are hard of hearing would be getting assistance?
Then, which language would these captions be in? If they're English, doesn't that discriminate against those who aren't native speakers?
Mine displayed a clear dialog box, containing the message 'The new software requires that you restart your computer now. Click restart to quit all applications and restart. ', so this is hardly a fault with Macs, and more a case of your bride not paying attention.
I prefer it to the Windows 'feature' that automatically shuts down your PC whether you want it to or not, even if you tell it you're going to restart later.
Is that a good selling point, from the perspective of a potential client? Browser-based applications always bring doubts about security with them, and a lot of people would be reassured in using servers owned by well-known companies, but I'm not sure how many would be enthusiastic about connecting to "anyone"'s server.
The kid's actions would be accidental. This guy deliberately parked outside of a house with an open AP inside it, meaning he probably drove around looking for such a place to access, and would have intended to piggyback someone else's wifi. The two situations are not the same.
I find this insulting. I live in the UK, and am considering taking CS, but it's hard to find a course that fits what I want to learn because so many of them have moved away from programming. So, to think that someone would believe this to be the correct way to attract female applicants really pisses me off. I wouldn't be happy to take a course along with a lot of girls who don't care about the subject, but thought it sounded like a good idea because someone tried to coax them into it. I'd be happy with a load of guys who actually give a damn about what they're doing, even if I was the only female in the class.
Just as not all men opt for CS, not all women do, either. It's down to different personalities preferring different pursuits. Changing a course deliberately to attract more women is not attracting them to CS, but to a slightly mutated version of it, and actually accomplishes nothing - it proves that women don't care about CS if they prefer the new course, and puts them off if they don't.
Wy is 'easiest' synonymous with 'most like Windows'?
Spoon-feeding distros that try to look like Windows, but don't, just end up being rejected. This is because they look so close to Windows that users complain when they don't work exactly the same way. A truly easy to use distro needs an individual, intuitive GUI, not one that people can claim is a bad copy of anything Microsoft's put out.
I've never heard anyone say that they hate the absence of a 'Start' menu in OSX.
My HP laptop broke a few weeks ago, so I sent it back to them (still under warranty). I had Debian on at the time. It came back with a load of new parts, and I wasn't charged anything.
Er, sorry, "girlfriend"? Are you implying that Linux is unsuitable for all girls, or just those who people want to date?
I'm someone's girlfriend, and I run Debian, so I don't know what that was meant to mean.
I'm still too young. Guess I'll have to wait until next year.
Out of interest, why do applicants have to be aged 18 or older? This is probably a pretty stupid question, but I can't see an obvious answer.
I recently studied resuscitation in ethics lessons, and the statistics associated with its effectiveness supported the conclusion that "at home" CPR rarely helps the patient at all. In fact, most people whose hearts stop die later in hospital if they're even brought back at all.
I'm not implying that people shouldn't bother helping someone, of course they should, but I think too much hope is placed in the exercise, and too many hospital dramas make it look like a quick push against someone's chest will wake them up right away.
"Maths" is plural because it's short for "Mathematics". If something like psychology were called "psychologies", it'd probably be shorted to "psychs" instead of psych.
Sport is singular because it, as a word, doesn't just refer to a single sport, but can be used to indicate the entire activity group, and is not an abbreviation of "sportmatics".
How old is your son, and do you let him select the topics he wants to learn, or are you imposing this study regime on him regardless of how he feels about it?
The fact that you need to reward him with computer time makes me suspect that this wasn't his idea.
Schools have curriculums set in place for a reason; they match what is expected of the child at that age (or what is expected of the least intelligent child in the class). To compete, and push your child so far ahead of such a curriculum is only going to make school more boring for him.
This will result in you complaining classwork isn't challenging enough, making him study more at home, and leaving you with a genius boy who never had a childhood.
I bought a DS-Xtreme device (http://www.ds-x.com/cgi-bin/dsx/engine.pl?page=ho me) just a few weeks ago, and had never heard of this one.
The "Games 'N' Music" cart looks interesting, though it's hardly an innovation, and these kinds of things have been available for a while now. I haven't heard of homebrew applications being bundled with any other ones, though, and that could be an interesting feature - though I do wonder by what kind of process they select the "best".
I also wonder about the ethical (perhaps even legal) issues of using homebrew games, created by people not affiliated with this product, as a selling point for something that the application developers themselves are very unlikely to get royalties from.
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This is the forum post from their singular IT team member about the incident: http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3715/lushpostuk.jpg
I wouldn't necessarily say so. My boyfriend and I are both 18-year-old shell users. I don't know how many girls my age are into the kinds of things I am, though, but I see he's after a slightly older woman, so that might increase his odds. By a negligible amount.
This isn't the product of intolerance; the scientists in question do not seem to want a religious representative being given a podium within the walls of their educational facility, which is understandable, as I have yet to see a Physicist guest-speaking in church.
I can't find anything useful about this product. XP boots quickly on my PC, though it can't match OSX or Debian in my experience. Still, I don't have to go away and put on some tea whilst waiting for it to get to the "Login" screen, and can't imagine why anyone would be so desperate to browse the internet or connect to Skype that they'd find "Splashtop" an interesting prospect.
Luckily, the only actual reference to me is from my old secondary school's website, and is something to do with my GCSE results.
Yes. I've been into Dixons (now renamed Currys Digital) a few times for blank media and, without exception, every time I've gone in a sales assistant has tried to sell me more expensive kinds, simply because I'm a teenage girl and they presume I don't know any better. "Yes, the coloured cases are pretty." "No, they will not enhance my DVD burning experience, and are not worth an extra £5".. etc.
Also, why would the Lib Dems ever supplant Labour? They're distinctly in third place as far as elections go, and I think this proves that you should do a lot more reading before making your "creepiest democratic country" statements in the future.
They tried that, but everyone was writing their essays in Word and they committed suicide before they could submit them.
Are you now just a Windows anti-fan, or not a fan of anything at all?
I mean, I like both the aforementioned OS's, and talk about them a lot, but they're still technically in opposition, so it makes me wonder whether the fact I support both equally is enough to counter any elitist behaviour I might exhibit when discussing either of them, as putting one thing - and one thing only - on a pedestal seems to be the trademark of the fanboy/girl.
What about voiceovers to describe scenes to the partially sighted? Wouldn't that only be fair, as those who are hard of hearing would be getting assistance? Then, which language would these captions be in? If they're English, doesn't that discriminate against those who aren't native speakers?
I prefer it to the Windows 'feature' that automatically shuts down your PC whether you want it to or not, even if you tell it you're going to restart later.
How would an atheist - someone with no religious idol - possibly define a false one?
Is that a good selling point, from the perspective of a potential client? Browser-based applications always bring doubts about security with them, and a lot of people would be reassured in using servers owned by well-known companies, but I'm not sure how many would be enthusiastic about connecting to "anyone"'s server.
The kid's actions would be accidental. This guy deliberately parked outside of a house with an open AP inside it, meaning he probably drove around looking for such a place to access, and would have intended to piggyback someone else's wifi. The two situations are not the same.
There are other countries besides yours.
Just as not all men opt for CS, not all women do, either. It's down to different personalities preferring different pursuits. Changing a course deliberately to attract more women is not attracting them to CS, but to a slightly mutated version of it, and actually accomplishes nothing - it proves that women don't care about CS if they prefer the new course, and puts them off if they don't.
Spoon-feeding distros that try to look like Windows, but don't, just end up being rejected. This is because they look so close to Windows that users complain when they don't work exactly the same way. A truly easy to use distro needs an individual, intuitive GUI, not one that people can claim is a bad copy of anything Microsoft's put out.
I've never heard anyone say that they hate the absence of a 'Start' menu in OSX.
My HP laptop broke a few weeks ago, so I sent it back to them (still under warranty). I had Debian on at the time. It came back with a load of new parts, and I wasn't charged anything.
Er, sorry, "girlfriend"? Are you implying that Linux is unsuitable for all girls, or just those who people want to date? I'm someone's girlfriend, and I run Debian, so I don't know what that was meant to mean.
I'm still too young. Guess I'll have to wait until next year. Out of interest, why do applicants have to be aged 18 or older? This is probably a pretty stupid question, but I can't see an obvious answer.
You could pour boiling oil out of your window onto them, if they're the wait-outside-your-house-with-a-laptop variety.
I'm not implying that people shouldn't bother helping someone, of course they should, but I think too much hope is placed in the exercise, and too many hospital dramas make it look like a quick push against someone's chest will wake them up right away.
"Maths" is plural because it's short for "Mathematics". If something like psychology were called "psychologies", it'd probably be shorted to "psychs" instead of psych. Sport is singular because it, as a word, doesn't just refer to a single sport, but can be used to indicate the entire activity group, and is not an abbreviation of "sportmatics".
The fact that you need to reward him with computer time makes me suspect that this wasn't his idea.
Schools have curriculums set in place for a reason; they match what is expected of the child at that age (or what is expected of the least intelligent child in the class). To compete, and push your child so far ahead of such a curriculum is only going to make school more boring for him.
This will result in you complaining classwork isn't challenging enough, making him study more at home, and leaving you with a genius boy who never had a childhood.
The "Games 'N' Music" cart looks interesting, though it's hardly an innovation, and these kinds of things have been available for a while now. I haven't heard of homebrew applications being bundled with any other ones, though, and that could be an interesting feature - though I do wonder by what kind of process they select the "best".
I also wonder about the ethical (perhaps even legal) issues of using homebrew games, created by people not affiliated with this product, as a selling point for something that the application developers themselves are very unlikely to get royalties from.