My sisters are always referring to the monitor as "the computer" and the the computer itself as the "hard drive". It's ridiculous.
It's an improvement, though-- they used to call the 3.5" floppies "hard drives", until I pulled a floppy apart in front of them to explain why it was a "floppy", not a hard drive. I also had a hard drive to show them what it really was.
I think the confusion stemmed from the fact that I pointed out that the hard drive lives in the same box as the actual computer.
How about Canada actually does something of its own that is worth mentioning?
Because "Acting as the 'Arctic Shield' for the Continental United States against the Russians" just doesn't have the ring to it that any of the other claims has, that's why.
You realize your statement is illogical, right? I go to the grocery store for donuts. If I can find the donuts, it makes sense to go to the grocery store. If I can't find the donuts, it doesn't make sense to go to the grocery store. But it doesn't make sense to not go to the grocery store because it has things I don't go there for, e.g. bratwurst. I hate bratwurst, so it makes sense for me to skip it. It doesn't make sense for me to stop going to the grocery store because of it.
Ah, but your anology is irrelevant: bratwurst and doughnuts are both expected items in a grocery store, as both are edible items.
Politics, though occasionally discussed by Geeks, is not the main subject of discussion-- one usually expects Geek sites to talk about iPods vs other music file players, Macs vs PCs, Linux vs Windows, vi vs Emacs, etc. In your analogy, skipping a store because it may carry bratwurst is silly, because most of them do carry it. Most just hide the brats in with the sausages in the meat department at the other end of the store from the bakers, where you're going for the doughnuts. They carry it and you don't even know it.:)
Most Geek sites, however, tend not to discuss politics on their front pages, and so far as I know, most do not force political adverts on their readership. Bruce did seem to force the advert. The advert was fed from his server, so it wasn't a simple matter to have it "skipped". (That was the first thing I tried.)
Weren't there Obama banner ads on this site back in the campaign days?
Not in the same way they were on Technocrat, as Charles has already pointed out. It's one thing to get a banner ad that can be blocked, but it's quite another to get them forced on you.
I'm a subscriber to Slashdot, so I don't get adverts here most of the time. This is an option I have here that I don't recall having there.
There were a few people there that I liked, because they showed that they put thought into their commentary. Their logic was sound, even if I disagreed with them.
One writer seems to have attempted to make the site his personal Blogging page.
I stopped going there around October because Bruce felt the need to put banner adverts up for the Obama campaign. I don't go to "Geek sites" for political adverts.
At least this way, Bruce will be able to focus his energies on more interesting projects.
I was in a class learning how to install and run a network management program (this was mid-1990s), and the class had a set of IRIX systems to work from. There were six systems to work on, so some of the students had to pair-up.
The class was pretty-much done, and we were waiting to be dismissed.
Suddenly, I get a message on the console of my system stating that the system would reboot in five minutes. (This was the system default.) I went in, found and killed the shutdown process, then checked the logs to see who kicked it off. It was the two clowns in front of me. I went into their system (there was no real security here, if you haven't figured that out. The systems weren't on the Internet, so it wasn't a big deal) and set the system to init state 0 (this reboots the system immediately, for you guys that are oblivious to init states).
They looked at each other, they looked at me (I was just sitting there, looking at their reaction), and they looked at each other again. One said, "See? I TOLD you we shouldn't have f*d with him!"
(FWIW, I play in SL and actually enjoy it. Yeah, it's laggy at times, but at least I don't get frequent "Server disconnect" messages, like I got with WoW...)
...for not supporting a proven unreliable setup...
You have a good point here, which is exactly why Apple is so anal about their systems: by limiting what hardware options are available, Apple doesn't have to include a bunch of cruft that could cause problems, the least of which is senseless bloat. Compare Apple's habit against M$, who (because they don't offer systems of their own) has to somehow allow for any combination of sound cards, interface cards, motherboards, video cards, etc...
My OPINION: I have a MacBook issued me by my employer. It's a handy tool, but I don't care enough about Macs in general to actually own one[1]. It's more stable than the Win* systems in my house, and (from a command line) comparable to my Linux systems. The GUI that Apple offers is very well-done, though.
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[1] I may change my mind someday, but that's where I'm at right now.
I'm learning Ruby, even though it's Verboten for use at my place of employment. (It's not guaranteed to be installed on any particular server, and it's probably intentionally removed if it's part of the OS install.)
If I need QnD string manipulation, I use perl. I haven't touched Python since about 1999.
Sadly, it reminds me of the way Microsoft destroyed DR-DOS... It (Microsoft) promised a more robust DOS that would incorporate everything that people were turning to DR-DOS for, but never delivered (in MS-DOS)... Of course, by the time people realized they were duped, the damage was done.
Likewise, Hasbro is doing this in a probable attempt at protecting the "Scrabble" concept, taking down any/all similar projects, while providing a solution that is "beta" at best.
It should be interesting to see how this all pans out.
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onsider Internet Explorer, and all the pain we have to go through to be compatible with that beast.
Let's not forget the drones that, for reasons completely unknown to me, decide to make their websites work only with IE... It annoys me to no end.
Actually, the reasons you listed are probably closer to the reasoning for the "M$" crap than the opening line in your reply...
"M$" has been in use as a childish stab at Microsoft since the heady days of Windows 3.11, if not before.
I'm not sure Apple can be rightly blamed. I don't think anyone in my family has seen an Apple-branded computer since they saw my Apple IIgs.
My sisters are always referring to the monitor as "the computer" and the the computer itself as the "hard drive". It's ridiculous.
It's an improvement, though-- they used to call the 3.5" floppies "hard drives", until I pulled a floppy apart in front of them to explain why it was a "floppy", not a hard drive. I also had a hard drive to show them what it really was.
I think the confusion stemmed from the fact that I pointed out that the hard drive lives in the same box as the actual computer.
How about Canada actually does something of its own that is worth mentioning?
Because "Acting as the 'Arctic Shield' for the Continental United States against the Russians" just doesn't have the ring to it that any of the other claims has, that's why.
Here's a linky: http://www.journey-tribute.com/journey/resources/atari2600/
Enjoy. :)
For THAT matter, Dungeon (which most know as "the Zork series") and Adventure together were more influential than any (or all) of the listed games.
"Journey: Escape" (Atari 2600) didn't make the cut!
You realize your statement is illogical, right? I go to the grocery store for donuts. If I can find the donuts, it makes sense to go to the grocery store. If I can't find the donuts, it doesn't make sense to go to the grocery store. But it doesn't make sense to not go to the grocery store because it has things I don't go there for, e.g. bratwurst. I hate bratwurst, so it makes sense for me to skip it. It doesn't make sense for me to stop going to the grocery store because of it.
Ah, but your anology is irrelevant: bratwurst and doughnuts are both expected items in a grocery store, as both are edible items.
Politics, though occasionally discussed by Geeks, is not the main subject of discussion-- one usually expects Geek sites to talk about iPods vs other music file players, Macs vs PCs, Linux vs Windows, vi vs Emacs, etc. In your analogy, skipping a store because it may carry bratwurst is silly, because most of them do carry it. Most just hide the brats in with the sausages in the meat department at the other end of the store from the bakers, where you're going for the doughnuts. They carry it and you don't even know it. :)
Most Geek sites, however, tend not to discuss politics on their front pages, and so far as I know, most do not force political adverts on their readership. Bruce did seem to force the advert. The advert was fed from his server, so it wasn't a simple matter to have it "skipped". (That was the first thing I tried.)
Weren't there Obama banner ads on this site back in the campaign days?
Not in the same way they were on Technocrat, as Charles has already pointed out. It's one thing to get a banner ad that can be blocked, but it's quite another to get them forced on you.
I'm a subscriber to Slashdot, so I don't get adverts here most of the time. This is an option I have here that I don't recall having there.
There were a few people there that I liked, because they showed that they put thought into their commentary. Their logic was sound, even if I disagreed with them.
One writer seems to have attempted to make the site his personal Blogging page.
I stopped going there around October because Bruce felt the need to put banner adverts up for the Obama campaign. I don't go to "Geek sites" for political adverts.
At least this way, Bruce will be able to focus his energies on more interesting projects.
Massachusetts is the exception, then. There, it is perfectly legal to pass on the right on divided highways.
Of course, this assumes that a Massachusetts driver is aware of the traffic laws...
This:
dupe'd slashdot articles
...or this:
tracking the U.S. deficit in real-time
Which value is larger? It's difficult to say...
You've only been around "too long" when you remember that it was a big deal to be able to NOT get posts pertaining to him... ;)
It was an 8-inch floppy, but yes.
I was greatly amused when the Admin bought a Mac (now known as the "Mac Classic"). The Mac was more powerful than the mainframe! :D
Oddly, I still look back fondly at the days when I trampled through RSTS/E... I think I still have an emulator around here somewhere. :\
Feh.
If you didn't end every command line with "$$", it wasn't TECO. (I first saw it on a DEC PDP 11/70.)
Kids...
If Ruby has something similar to the Perl's '-e' command line option it would probably work just as well.
I believe 'irb' would fit the bill...
True story:
I was in a class learning how to install and run a network management program (this was mid-1990s), and the class had a set of IRIX systems to work from. There were six systems to work on, so some of the students had to pair-up.
The class was pretty-much done, and we were waiting to be dismissed.
Suddenly, I get a message on the console of my system stating that the system would reboot in five minutes. (This was the system default.) I went in, found and killed the shutdown process, then checked the logs to see who kicked it off. It was the two clowns in front of me. I went into their system (there was no real security here, if you haven't figured that out. The systems weren't on the Internet, so it wasn't a big deal) and set the system to init state 0 (this reboots the system immediately, for you guys that are oblivious to init states).
They looked at each other, they looked at me (I was just sitting there, looking at their reaction), and they looked at each other again. One said, "See? I TOLD you we shouldn't have f*d with him!"
Heh. :)
For something like this, I regularly use:
If I'm on a Linux system, I may even put 'x' with the 's' parameter on du(1).
I use Avira AV on the WinDOZE systems at my house.
It's free for personal use, and companies have to get a site license...
You say that like we'd NOTICE on SL...
Lag:SL :: Air:RL ... :D
(FWIW, I play in SL and actually enjoy it. Yeah, it's laggy at times, but at least I don't get frequent "Server disconnect" messages, like I got with WoW...)
...for not supporting a proven unreliable setup...
You have a good point here, which is exactly why Apple is so anal about their systems: by limiting what hardware options are available, Apple doesn't have to include a bunch of cruft that could cause problems, the least of which is senseless bloat. Compare Apple's habit against M$, who (because they don't offer systems of their own) has to somehow allow for any combination of sound cards, interface cards, motherboards, video cards, etc...
My OPINION: I have a MacBook issued me by my employer. It's a handy tool, but I don't care enough about Macs in general to actually own one[1]. It's more stable than the Win* systems in my house, and (from a command line) comparable to my Linux systems. The GUI that Apple offers is very well-done, though.
--
[1] I may change my mind someday, but that's where I'm at right now.
I write perl and bash more often than not.
I'm learning Ruby, even though it's Verboten for use at my place of employment. (It's not guaranteed to be installed on any particular server, and it's probably intentionally removed if it's part of the OS install.)
If I need QnD string manipulation, I use perl. I haven't touched Python since about 1999.
We are fools to have fallen for Vista and by the time we realized, XP was long gone.
Well, as MS is prone to remind us in the EULA, the operating system still belongs to them, and they can do whatever they please with it.
If we don't like the alternatives being offered out of Redmond, there are alternatives... :D
(Yes, I'm a Linux fan.)
Sadly, it reminds me of the way Microsoft destroyed DR-DOS... It (Microsoft) promised a more robust DOS that would incorporate everything that people were turning to DR-DOS for, but never delivered (in MS-DOS)... Of course, by the time people realized they were duped, the damage was done.
Likewise, Hasbro is doing this in a probable attempt at protecting the "Scrabble" concept, taking down any/all similar projects, while providing a solution that is "beta" at best.
It should be interesting to see how this all pans out.