You were fairly sympathetic until you started to make the absolutely insane claim that teenagers should be treated as adults. I have two sons, 15 and 19. Great kids, and they're probably more mature and responsible than most of their friends. But they are not adults. Treating them as such would substantially hurt their development.
(They can be given responsibilities in doses, to help them grow; that's necessary, good, but clear proof that they are still in the process of maturation.)
It doesn't matter, any more than not yelling means it's ok to talk about hemorrhoids on a cellphone while on a bus. It's blatantly rudes, inconsiderate, and very uncivilized behavior.
I think your complaints are rooted in three years ago. Flash is far better behaved now... and I have to say, the backend scripting language (Actionscript 3) is really nice.
Now, flash developers may not be any better, and so you see flash being abused on websites as much as ever (cursors, menus, etc.), but that's a different issue. If you are locking up on streaming videos, you've probably just got old versions of something installed somewhere.
I would recommend Zen or Sansa to anybody over an iPod. I don't hate iPods, they're decent players, but the other two companies just build better-working players. I've never had to do TECH SUPPORT for a friend to get their Sansa working, or move their music to a new machine, etc; I have had to to that with an iPod.
You can have your favorites, and if you like the iPod better, that's fine; but you're blatantly wrong if you try to can claim as a fact that those other players are "crippling yourself". Reasonable people can disagree.
While I'm not boycotting Apple, I completely understand avoiding their software, at least their Windows versions. All the iTunes/QTime stuff I've seen for Windows has been absolutely terrible. iPods and other product lines they offer are nice, if a little overpriced, though. I wonder... are they bad at programming on windows, or is that some sort of strategem?
I fear, though, that Climatology is more like Economics than it is like physics; it's modeling a chaotic system, and we can't do that very well.. I suspect that the majority of climatologists have an awful understanding of atmospheric dynamics. In some fields, we simply aren't very advanced yet. Look at psychology, for an example; we're barely past the "bloodletting and prayer" phase in that area.
Well, it's greed for the few, a religion for the many. If it wasn't a potent tool to sway the masses, the political and cultural figures leading the movement would look to something else.
But any student with an ounce of common sense OR technical knowledge would have assumed they were. I'm surprised their data retention is as limited as it is. Not every single action needs to be spelled out in a contract with the student. The simple fact that the campus OWNS the networks gives them automatically all sorts of rights.
You're a Windows user though so it's not surprising that you have no taste. I bet you use Windows XP with the fisher price colours enabled and Comic Sans as your preferred font. You probably even have a green and blue Dell to match.
Of course, your suggestions are ridiculously unfounded. You don't know enough about the grandparent poster to make those claims. You would have to wait until he says something you can make an accurate determination of his character from. For instance, if he said something like:
You're a Windows user though so it's not surprising that you have no taste. I bet you use Windows XP with the fisher price colours enabled and Comic Sans as your preferred font. You probably even have a green and blue Dell to match.
You could, with confidence, accuse him of being a juvenile ass.
Why would the design of uppercase letters, which have evolved over thousands of years, have resulted in something hard to read? Especially since lower case letters haven't been around nearly as long. I don't have sources to challenge your statement, so I wouldn't presume to deny it, but it's having a little bit of a problem passing my high-level smell test.
It's a perfectly good font, just overused. I'd place the blame on the fact that it is the only 'non-mechanical' font included with windows... by that I mean, the only font that is somewhat intended to look like casual hand-writing. (The elegant cursive fonts don't really fill that need.) Is there a typographical term for that sort of font?
I have a variety of fonts that replicate hand-writing, some of them based on particular individuals, that I occasionally use them for lettering comics. Comic Sans works ok when it's used sparing.
Ideally, government appointees should have so little power that it doesn't matter to anybody whether they're competent or not. Heck, that was supposed to be our defense against congress.
Even in the comment quoted above, it's obvious that piracy had a large negative impact on the company and the people that purchased the game. Read it. Yes, the company is accepting the blame... for not accurately taking into account the effect of the piracy. Yes, they could have coded around it so that the pirated copies didn't drag the servers down, but the ultimate fault rests with the people illegally downloading copies they didn't pay for.
No, I'm not a plant or "pro-copyright activist". Copyright law is far too draconian. But intellectual dishonesty is worse.
I don't have any intimate network knowledge, but just thinking off the top of my head... would it make sense for the larger networks (Television Networks) to establish some some of 'neighborhood repository' with cached replicas of their programs? That would eliminate congestion except for the 'last mile' connection directly home.
Or does normal network caching already accomplish this, invisibly?
And her replacement, twenty years hence, is an aged fetus. You can't so simplistically assign different worths to different lives. Note the amount of mothers that would gladly die to save their unborn child's life... I'd be surprised if it wasn't a majority of them. Perhaps you'll dismiss that as irrational, emotional... but they are under no obligation to accept your crude social-economical calculation of a person's worth.
In the same sense that Galileo is irrelevant in modern physics. Irrelevant yet fundamentally important in the creation of the modern system of knowledge.
Is it even possible to make a less significant statement?
You just did. Any computer language that wasn't designed randomly has a philosophy behind it; there was some kind of principles behind the design. Flawed or elegant, there were choices about how to arrange abstract concepts.
That would reduce the risk for the mother; I doubt it would reduce it for the child. The child is under far more risk than the mother in most pregnancies.
I'm sure no generalization is 100% correct, but it's pretty close to 99%.
All women grow up with a vagina. That leads to a PROFOUNDLY different experience than any man experiences. Even putting aside physiological differences between the sexes, which I think have major effects on behavior, the fact is that nearly every encounter with another human being from the youngest age on up is significantly altered by the gender of the participants. People can't help but be significantly affected by this. This isn't really good or bad; it's human nature. A certain amount of coercive or deceptive (or indirect, tantalizing, whatever you want to call it) behavior is a natural consequence of the type and nature of gifts that women possess. Men learn different techniques.
(This may sound misogynistic, and I don't mean it to. This has as much to do with men's reaction to women as it has to do with women themselves.)
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You were fairly sympathetic until you started to make the absolutely insane claim that teenagers should be treated as adults. I have two sons, 15 and 19. Great kids, and they're probably more mature and responsible than most of their friends. But they are not adults. Treating them as such would substantially hurt their development.
(They can be given responsibilities in doses, to help them grow; that's necessary, good, but clear proof that they are still in the process of maturation.)
It doesn't matter, any more than not yelling means it's ok to talk about hemorrhoids on a cellphone while on a bus. It's blatantly rudes, inconsiderate, and very uncivilized behavior.
I think your complaints are rooted in three years ago. Flash is far better behaved now... and I have to say, the backend scripting language (Actionscript 3) is really nice.
Now, flash developers may not be any better, and so you see flash being abused on websites as much as ever (cursors, menus, etc.), but that's a different issue. If you are locking up on streaming videos, you've probably just got old versions of something installed somewhere.
Hasn't that been everybody's dream game for the Wii?
Using a Zen or Sansa is crippling yourself.
I would recommend Zen or Sansa to anybody over an iPod. I don't hate iPods, they're decent players, but the other two companies just build better-working players. I've never had to do TECH SUPPORT for a friend to get their Sansa working, or move their music to a new machine, etc; I have had to to that with an iPod.
You can have your favorites, and if you like the iPod better, that's fine; but you're blatantly wrong if you try to can claim as a fact that those other players are "crippling yourself". Reasonable people can disagree.
While I'm not boycotting Apple, I completely understand avoiding their software, at least their Windows versions. All the iTunes/QTime stuff I've seen for Windows has been absolutely terrible. iPods and other product lines they offer are nice, if a little overpriced, though. I wonder... are they bad at programming on windows, or is that some sort of strategem?
I fear, though, that Climatology is more like Economics than it is like physics; it's modeling a chaotic system, and we can't do that very well.. I suspect that the majority of climatologists have an awful understanding of atmospheric dynamics. In some fields, we simply aren't very advanced yet. Look at psychology, for an example; we're barely past the "bloodletting and prayer" phase in that area.
Well, it's greed for the few, a religion for the many. If it wasn't a potent tool to sway the masses, the political and cultural figures leading the movement would look to something else.
Slavery is a lot more appealing to people who envision themselves as masters.
Wow, that was an over-the-top reaction. Far more pissy than anything the GP said, and yet you probably blame them.
But any student with an ounce of common sense OR technical knowledge would have assumed they were. I'm surprised their data retention is as limited as it is. Not every single action needs to be spelled out in a contract with the student. The simple fact that the campus OWNS the networks gives them automatically all sorts of rights.
You're a Windows user though so it's not surprising that you have no taste. I bet you use Windows XP with the fisher price colours enabled and Comic Sans as your preferred font. You probably even have a green and blue Dell to match.
Of course, your suggestions are ridiculously unfounded. You don't know enough about the grandparent poster to make those claims. You would have to wait until he says something you can make an accurate determination of his character from. For instance, if he said something like:
You're a Windows user though so it's not surprising that you have no taste. I bet you use Windows XP with the fisher price colours enabled and Comic Sans as your preferred font. You probably even have a green and blue Dell to match.
You could, with confidence, accuse him of being a juvenile ass.
Why would the design of uppercase letters, which have evolved over thousands of years, have resulted in something hard to read? Especially since lower case letters haven't been around nearly as long. I don't have sources to challenge your statement, so I wouldn't presume to deny it, but it's having a little bit of a problem passing my high-level smell test.
Maybe there were, but by tradition and convention they were never written down?
Hmm.
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It's a perfectly good font, just overused. I'd place the blame on the fact that it is the only 'non-mechanical' font included with windows... by that I mean, the only font that is somewhat intended to look like casual hand-writing. (The elegant cursive fonts don't really fill that need.) Is there a typographical term for that sort of font?
I have a variety of fonts that replicate hand-writing, some of them based on particular individuals, that I occasionally use them for lettering comics. Comic Sans works ok when it's used sparing.
Ideally, government appointees should have so little power that it doesn't matter to anybody whether they're competent or not. Heck, that was supposed to be our defense against congress.
Even in the comment quoted above, it's obvious that piracy had a large negative impact on the company and the people that purchased the game. Read it. Yes, the company is accepting the blame... for not accurately taking into account the effect of the piracy. Yes, they could have coded around it so that the pirated copies didn't drag the servers down, but the ultimate fault rests with the people illegally downloading copies they didn't pay for.
No, I'm not a plant or "pro-copyright activist". Copyright law is far too draconian. But intellectual dishonesty is worse.
That's like saying Google exists to provide porn!
Oh, wait... that's pretty much why it exists...
I don't have any intimate network knowledge, but just thinking off the top of my head... would it make sense for the larger networks (Television Networks) to establish some some of 'neighborhood repository' with cached replicas of their programs? That would eliminate congestion except for the 'last mile' connection directly home.
Or does normal network caching already accomplish this, invisibly?
And her replacement, twenty years hence, is an aged fetus. You can't so simplistically assign different worths to different lives. Note the amount of mothers that would gladly die to save their unborn child's life... I'd be surprised if it wasn't a majority of them. Perhaps you'll dismiss that as irrational, emotional... but they are under no obligation to accept your crude social-economical calculation of a person's worth.
Yeah, 2300 years ago. Plato is irrelevant
In the same sense that Galileo is irrelevant in modern physics. Irrelevant yet fundamentally important in the creation of the modern system of knowledge.
Is it even possible to make a less significant statement?
You just did. Any computer language that wasn't designed randomly has a philosophy behind it; there was some kind of principles behind the design. Flawed or elegant, there were choices about how to arrange abstract concepts.
That would reduce the risk for the mother; I doubt it would reduce it for the child. The child is under far more risk than the mother in most pregnancies.
I'm sure no generalization is 100% correct, but it's pretty close to 99%.
All women grow up with a vagina. That leads to a PROFOUNDLY different experience than any man experiences. Even putting aside physiological differences between the sexes, which I think have major effects on behavior, the fact is that nearly every encounter with another human being from the youngest age on up is significantly altered by the gender of the participants. People can't help but be significantly affected by this. This isn't really good or bad; it's human nature. A certain amount of coercive or deceptive (or indirect, tantalizing, whatever you want to call it) behavior is a natural consequence of the type and nature of gifts that women possess. Men learn different techniques.
(This may sound misogynistic, and I don't mean it to. This has as much to do with men's reaction to women as it has to do with women themselves.)
And then we can turn it off.
Can we get it to work with the Awesomebar?