And it is the terminal stupidity which you exhibit that forces the average person to vote democrat.
If you want to delude yourself about the here-after, be my guest. But trying to force your values on others results in the sort of backlash which gave Clinton a 8 year term.
Thanks to your efforts, we now all have memories of blow jobs in the white house.
That is just fucking wonderful.
If the republicans could cast off the boat-anchor of brain-dead religion, they could have won those elections. You won't find too many employed people in favor of higer taxes and bigger government.
In this behavior model, the focus is on avoiding the learning process. Vast amounts of time, energy, and ranting are expended to prove that any solution, no matter how incomplete or ultimately limiting, is better if it does not require any "learning" by the user. A bonus is awarded if the non-learning solution is "cute".
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I am eagerly awaiting the moment when schools stop teaching writing and speaking, (both of which are legacy technologies long obsolete) and issue the kids with picture flash cards.
In this clearly superior GUI communication model, kids will hold up a picture of a toilet when they need to use the bathroom, or a picture of a Big Mac when they are hungry. After all, kids are very busy little people, and there is no need to waste their time on obsolete learning!
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Well, here is one..
How about having your mom sit on the board of IBM, and when IBM is looking for an operating system for this new little unit called the "PC", getting your mom to say
Hey, my son owns a software company, he can provide us with an operating system!
For example, a car might have been wrecked and had a salvage title at some point. As for the mileage, it is put on the title at the time of sale, so at each sale point you have some record of mileage.
Obviously, some of this information can be subverted in subtle ways, but it does give you a way to find out ahead of time that the Audi your buddy was thinking of buying is actually made out of the front and back halves of two unrelated cars.
The other way to see this is to look under the carpeting for the recent weld seam done by the junkyard..:^)
Can I have that chip on your shoulder when you are done with it? I need to replace the shakes on my roof...:)
More to the point of your post..
Having spent several years working in Nigeria and Angola, I can confirm that areas of these places are dirty and poor. Sewage runs thur trenches in the street in some areas of Port Harcourt, while Lagos looks like any western city.
Most of the people are friendly and kind to white strangers. The hookers are especially friendly, (much less edgy then French ones, IMHO).
There are the few Nigerians that hate white people and curse at them in public, but this is really rare. The Angolans are much more mellow as a culture, despite years of on and off civil war.
The Nigerian police are totally corrupt, and the numerous roadblocks they create can be gotten thru quickly by giving them a bottle of beer or some smokes and saying "This is a gift for you, my friend". And the Nigerian police generally say "Thank you" when they take your bribe. I've never heard an american cop say "Thank you" or "Please" in my entire life.
So, get off your high horse.. the dirt and poverty are facts...
It does not mean that white people using the Internet are exploiting the third world.
In a sense I find your post hilarious..
You spout the standard type of self-rightous outrage of a minority living and enjoying the western lifestyle..
I have NEVER heard anyone in Angola or Nigera complain that they were being oppressed by white people.. because Angola is run by Angolans, (or Cubans, but that's another story), and Nigeria is run by Nigerians..
And when a white person shows up at a shop, they charge double, we all have a good laugh about it, and they let you haggle the price back down to 1.5 times what is should be.
By the way: Uganda IS in Africa. And Africa is a continent, not a country. Or didn't you know that?
The other funny part of this is that VMS was a stricly CLI operating system. Many VMS commands have unix equivalents with similar names (and visa versa)
The radio on top of the CPU cabinet was just picking up RFI on the AM channel. There is no wired connection into the computer. You could also get music by putting an AM radio next to a HP programable calculator and running a program.
I went to your link using Mozilla on *nix, and nothing happened. I can see that I must give in and upgrade to windows if I want to see the latest cool web stuff.
How can I send and read HTML encoded email if I use pine? Don't you realize that the rich variety of HTML email is vital to the productivity of the nation?
And how will I see embedded graphics, like designer note paper and the other little touches which are needed to elevate email above plain text!
Love,
Martha Stuart.
The above was parody, for those who were wondering.
If you are going to see your display reflected in the windscreen glass, don't you need to have the display on the top surface of the dashboard, pointing upwards?
The only way I can see your "over the shoulder" method working is if you have a mirror on the dash to reflect the image back up to the windscreen glass.
As far as the display goes, I would suggest a small color tv screen (tube style, not lcd), due to the much lower cost and higher brightness. The down side of this is that putting in a tube will be more invasive to the structure of the car.
You might want to visit a cadillac dealer and see how the night vision system which comes with some of the new caddys is set up. They project the night vision image up onto the windscreen, AFIK.
Ok, here is a fact for you. IDG did not invent the dummies phrase. First use I am aware of as a title of a book is "Auto repair for dummies" printed in 1971.
Of course, anyone searching book phrases on alibris.com would have found this out long ago, but I'll give you a link. You CAN figure out how to copy and paste this into you browser window, right?
I was able to gloss over your other 319 posts which completely ignore the real issue, but post 320 got to me.
The people at MS are morons for many reasons. In the ILOVEYOU case, they are morons for reason #43; They have destroyed the distiction between DATA and PROGRAMS in the mind of the user.
Windows users are indoctrinated with the concept that you "click on things to make them go"
The users that clicked on "ILOVEYOU" are not stupid. They are doing what MS trained them to do.
There was a case of bad software design in an X-ray machine killing the patient.
This was presented to us in school as a case study, and I have no source for it, but IIRC, the error occured if the operator of the x-ray machine typed in the wrong value of the radiation dose, and then corrected it (changed the value on-screen). In this case, a bug in the software caused the X-ray machine to put out the maximum power to the tube.
The patient felt a unusual sensation and jumped off the machine. He died a few days later.
What a load of crap. This is just a variant of the "all problems with windows are due to user error/stupidity" line that MS puts out.
If MS made products in meatspace they would have been sued out of existance long ago. I can see it now- the Microsoft weed-wacker company:
"Your weedwacker will explode in a giant ball of blue flame if you cut Kentucky Bluegrass with it. Other grasses may be cut, but Red Fescue should not be cut on Wednesdays as the weed-wacker may wrap the cutting filament around the users left testicle."
It should be obvious to anyone that all sorts of stuff can arrive as email. If MS had any clue what they were doing, Outlook would deal with it.
Now that you have brought it to our attention, we realize the enormity of our gaffe.
Please accept our bowing and scraping as we endevor to correct our appaling mistake. In future we will post no stories without consulting you for approval.
No, that's not enough. We will give you all creative control of slashdot since we are clearly incapable of the intelect needed to properly run this, or any other, site.
Moderators, please moderate this post down as it is unworthy of being seen.
I don't see why ANY govt. outside the US would use non-free software for general (word proc, spreadsheet, etc) use, unless to support a local software industry. It makes no sense for the money of French taxpayers to be exported to the US to pay for something which can be free. Many people don't seem to realize that people were productive with computers before MS appeared, and they will be even more productive when MS disappears.
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If you want to delude yourself about the here-after, be my guest. But trying to force your values on others results in the sort of backlash which gave Clinton a 8 year term.
Thanks to your efforts, we now all have memories of blow jobs in the white house.
That is just fucking wonderful.
If the republicans could cast off the boat-anchor of brain-dead religion, they could have won those elections. You won't find too many employed people in favor of higer taxes and bigger government.
In this behavior model, the focus is on avoiding the learning process. Vast amounts of time, energy, and ranting are expended to prove that any solution, no matter how incomplete or ultimately limiting, is better if it does not require any "learning" by the user. A bonus is awarded if the non-learning solution is "cute".
[set sarcasm = 1]
I am eagerly awaiting the moment when schools stop teaching writing and speaking, (both of which are legacy technologies long obsolete) and issue the kids with picture flash cards.
In this clearly superior GUI communication model, kids will hold up a picture of a toilet when they need to use the bathroom, or a picture of a Big Mac when they are hungry. After all, kids are very busy little people, and there is no need to waste their time on obsolete learning!
[set sarcasm = 0]
On cheap hardware, even :)
How about having your mom sit on the board of IBM, and when IBM is looking for an operating system for this new little unit called the "PC", getting your mom to say
Hey, my son owns a software company, he can provide us with an operating system!
For example, a car might have been wrecked and had a salvage title at some point. As for the mileage, it is put on the title at the time of sale, so at each sale point you have some record of mileage.
Obviously, some of this information can be subverted in subtle ways, but it does give you a way to find out ahead of time that the Audi your buddy was thinking of buying is actually made out of the front and back halves of two unrelated cars.
The other way to see this is to look under the carpeting for the recent weld seam done by the junkyard .. :^)
Want to resume downloads? Suck down entire websites with just a single command? Just use wget.
More to the point of your post..
Having spent several years working in Nigeria and Angola, I can confirm that areas of these places are dirty and poor. Sewage runs thur trenches in the street in some areas of Port Harcourt, while Lagos looks like any western city.
Most of the people are friendly and kind to white strangers. The hookers are especially friendly, (much less edgy then French ones, IMHO).
There are the few Nigerians that hate white people and curse at them in public, but this is really rare. The Angolans are much more mellow as a culture, despite years of on and off civil war.
The Nigerian police are totally corrupt, and the numerous roadblocks they create can be gotten thru quickly by giving them a bottle of beer or some smokes and saying "This is a gift for you, my friend". And the Nigerian police generally say "Thank you" when they take your bribe. I've never heard an american cop say "Thank you" or "Please" in my entire life.
So, get off your high horse.. the dirt and poverty are facts...
It does not mean that white people using the Internet are exploiting the third world.
In a sense I find your post hilarious..
You spout the standard type of self-rightous outrage of a minority living and enjoying the western lifestyle..
I have NEVER heard anyone in Angola or Nigera complain that they were being oppressed by white people.. because Angola is run by Angolans, (or Cubans, but that's another story), and Nigeria is run by Nigerians..
And when a white person shows up at a shop, they charge double, we all have a good laugh about it, and they let you haggle the price back down to 1.5 times what is should be.
By the way: Uganda IS in Africa. And Africa is a continent, not a country. Or didn't you know that?
Unfortunately the syntax is completely different.
The radio on top of the CPU cabinet was just picking up RFI on the AM channel. There is no wired connection into the computer. You could also get music by putting an AM radio next to a HP programable calculator and running a program.
See the partial list of blender features
Ha! You had it easy. We used to play star trek on a teletype machine. Used lots of paper that way.
Thank you for helping me see the light.
Spelled the same way it's said.
Oh, Wait..
How can I send and read HTML encoded email if I use pine? Don't you realize that the rich variety of HTML email is vital to the productivity of the nation?
And how will I see embedded graphics, like designer note paper and the other little touches which are needed to elevate email above plain text!
Love,
Martha Stuart.
The above was parody, for those who were wondering.
I'm a strict pine user myself.
The only way I can see your "over the shoulder" method working is if you have a mirror on the dash to reflect the image back up to the windscreen glass.
As far as the display goes, I would suggest a small color tv screen (tube style, not lcd), due to the much lower cost and higher brightness. The down side of this is that putting in a tube will be more invasive to the structure of the car.
You might want to visit a cadillac dealer and see how the night vision system which comes with some of the new caddys is set up. They project the night vision image up onto the windscreen, AFIK.
Safty catches on guns are a pain in the ass too. You have to disengage them before you shoot.
And don't get me started about parking brakes in cars.
Of course, anyone searching book phrases on alibris.com would have found this out long ago, but I'll give you a link. You CAN figure out how to copy and paste this into you browser window, right?
http://www.alibris.com/cgi-bin/texis/searcher/+xBg eJiGdwwww/results.html
I was able to gloss over your other 319 posts which completely ignore the real issue, but post 320 got to me.
The people at MS are morons for many reasons. In the ILOVEYOU case, they are morons for reason #43; They have destroyed the distiction between DATA and PROGRAMS in the mind of the user.
Windows users are indoctrinated with the concept that you "click on things to make them go"
The users that clicked on "ILOVEYOU" are not stupid. They are doing what MS trained them to do.
But do DO know this, don't you?
This was presented to us in school as a case study, and I have no source for it, but IIRC, the error occured if the operator of the x-ray machine typed in the wrong value of the radiation dose, and then corrected it (changed the value on-screen). In this case, a bug in the software caused the X-ray machine to put out the maximum power to the tube.
The patient felt a unusual sensation and jumped off the machine. He died a few days later.
If MS made products in meatspace they would have been sued out of existance long ago. I can see it now- the Microsoft weed-wacker company:
"Your weedwacker will explode in a giant ball of blue flame if you cut Kentucky Bluegrass with it. Other grasses may be cut, but Red Fescue should not be cut on Wednesdays as the weed-wacker may wrap the cutting filament around the users left testicle."
It should be obvious to anyone that all sorts of stuff can arrive as email. If MS had any clue what they were doing, Outlook would deal with it.
http://www.spitfire-museum.com/pictures/
And here
http://www.netcentral.co.uk/steveb/spitfire/servic e.htm
Now that you have brought it to our attention, we realize the enormity of our gaffe.
Please accept our bowing and scraping as we endevor to correct our appaling mistake. In future we will post no stories without consulting you for approval.
No, that's not enough. We will give you all creative control of slashdot since we are clearly incapable of the intelect needed to properly run this, or any other, site.
Moderators, please moderate this post down as it is unworthy of being seen.
We now go to disembowel ourselves in shame.
With Abject Regret,
The Management.
http://web.mit.edu/w1mx/www/swapfest.html
Last time there I got 3 complete, working Gateway systems, (2x p66, 1x486-66) for a total of 22 dollars, so I'm pretty happy with it!
I don't see why ANY govt. outside the US would use non-free software for general (word proc, spreadsheet, etc) use, unless to support a local software industry. It makes no sense for the money of French taxpayers to be exported to the US to pay for something which can be free. Many people don't seem to realize that people were productive with computers before MS appeared, and they will be even more productive when MS disappears.