> Those of us who've suffered Slashdot for more than the last decade should be 100% embarrassed that we still come here with shit like this being posted.
As someone who has actually been on here for more than a decade I find your pretense mildly amusing.
> Still trying to drive that message eh? The world has moved to Office ribbon (2007 and greater) and that bit of UI innovation has been incredibly successful. Pretending it isn't true doesn't make it so.
Just relaying the message from actual Windows users.
These are people that see the machine as a tool and don't have some sick brand fixation. They care about stuff being useful and aren't busy fellating Bill Gates or his successor.
I just disassemble them. Yank out the disks themselves and separate them from their housing. If you had disks from more than one drive, I wonder if anyone could ever sort that out again.
> Have some fun with hard drives. AR-15 practice targets.
Despite of all of the hysteria and propaganda, the AR-15 is actually pretty weak. If you're interested in destroying hardware, you probably want something with a bigger slug and better range. Even something with bolt action might be more destructive.
It's not Israel "stealing" territory and imposing perpetual occupation. It's the unwillingess of the so-called allies of the Palestinians to actually end the various wars they have started.
Egypt got it's territory back as soon as they made peace with Israel.
>> Unclear if I can get a copy without all this unwanted bloat. > > Yes, use vi for your documents. There's also a spreadsheet called sc, haven't tried it though.
If it is a simple document, why not?
You also don't need the proprietary network effects and malware vectors associated with more 'feature rich" alternatives.
> Besides the difficulty of dealing with 174 bluray disks instead of 1 tape... You have to wonder about the reliability of those disks sitting around on a shelf for ten years..
Some of us don't have to wonder... at least not for CD or DVD.
As far as BDs go, I will get back to you in a couple years.
> I went a year between my honeymoon and getting pictures off of my 1st gen digital camera, stored in flash memory. About half were corrupt.
I don't even think the cheap floppies from Microcenter back in the day were that bad.
OTOH, I have plenty of optical disks sitting around in various states of neglect. I even use some of them on ocassion. I am sure I am not the only one.
I probably have a DVD burned from stuff taken off of my first digital camera that I could generate my own anecdote from. Although I prefer spinning rust for my "cold storage".
RAM disks were great on the Mac Plus too. Saving directly to floppy disk was gruesome and time consuming. Same goes for the other platforms of the day.
> I'll never understand these antagonistic replies on Slashdot.
You sound like tool, you get called a tool.
This has nothing to do with Slashdot. HELL. It doesn't even have anything to do with the Internet. That's something you should be aware of if you were computing when the PCjr wasn't just a historical footnote.
Long multiplication is as much about confidence as anything else. Sure you're just applying the algorithm from a smaller problem to a larger one. Knowing that is still important. So is not being intimidated by the size of the problem. Realizing that it breaks down into smaller, more manageable parts is an important bit of insight. The concept in general is useful.
> This is basically racist bullshit packaged as folklorish anecdotal "science".
There are plenty of blacks that fit the 3 characteristics. They are a minority though since there is also a cultural pathology that discourages assimilation.
On the other hand, I have seen fat and happy n-th generation white suburbanites complain at the degree to which Asian parents drive their children.
> The main cause of public educational disparity in California and the US is wildly varying school funding.
You are making the classical statistical error. You're confusing correlation with causation.
The real problem is that many parents aren't motivated. They don't care. This also correlates nicely with income and school spending. The parents that care are the ones that prepared themselves better for the world. They valued education as children or had parents that valued their education.
This is the rationale behind self-selected "magnate" schools in less rich school districts. They isolate the children of parents that give a damn from hooligans and thugs at their normal schools.
Throwing money at people who don't care or their children won't accomplish anything.
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> Those of us who've suffered Slashdot for more than the last decade should be 100% embarrassed that we still come here with shit like this being posted.
As someone who has actually been on here for more than a decade I find your pretense mildly amusing.
> Still trying to drive that message eh? The world has moved to Office ribbon (2007 and greater) and that bit of UI innovation has been incredibly successful. Pretending it isn't true doesn't make it so.
Just relaying the message from actual Windows users.
These are people that see the machine as a tool and don't have some sick brand fixation. They care about stuff being useful and aren't busy fellating Bill Gates or his successor.
> Temporal anomaly in your argument. The Mac launched Jan 24th 1984. The Amiga didn't launch till 1985.
I'm not sure you're old enough to even ever have used an original Mac.
The current bastardization of OpenStep is nothing like the original you are trying to cling to there. So it's hardly relevant.
I just disassemble them. Yank out the disks themselves and separate them from their housing. If you had disks from more than one drive, I wonder if anyone could ever sort that out again.
> Have some fun with hard drives. AR-15 practice targets.
Despite of all of the hysteria and propaganda, the AR-15 is actually pretty weak. If you're interested in destroying hardware, you probably want something with a bigger slug and better range. Even something with bolt action might be more destructive.
> Which religion were you referring to?
The one that advocates global jihad and a caliphate.
It's like the Tea Party but with different hats.
It's not Israel "stealing" territory and imposing perpetual occupation. It's the unwillingess of the so-called allies of the Palestinians to actually end the various wars they have started.
Egypt got it's territory back as soon as they made peace with Israel.
> No, there is plenty of mediocre browsers on GNU/Linux.
Sound like the situation on ANY platform.
Also sounds like sour grapes from one of those diehard Opera fanboys.
>> Unclear if I can get a copy without all this unwanted bloat.
>
> Yes, use vi for your documents. There's also a spreadsheet called sc, haven't tried it though.
If it is a simple document, why not?
You also don't need the proprietary network effects and malware vectors associated with more 'feature rich" alternatives.
> True but in Russia (Prepares for BS Barrage) they get six feet of snow and things keep going.
Russia has a lot of mass transit and was (re)built with the idea that the proletariat would not have their own personal vehicles.
Some people that have cars now just give them up for the winter.
...ok. Perhaps not the TNG replicator but the TOS food replicator for sure. A food based 3D printer is probably not far off the TOS food replicator.
This is where the Samurai crab comes from...
> Besides the difficulty of dealing with 174 bluray disks instead of 1 tape... You have to wonder about the reliability of those disks sitting around on a shelf for ten years..
Some of us don't have to wonder... at least not for CD or DVD.
As far as BDs go, I will get back to you in a couple years.
> I went a year between my honeymoon and getting pictures off of my 1st gen digital camera, stored in flash memory. About half were corrupt.
I don't even think the cheap floppies from Microcenter back in the day were that bad.
OTOH, I have plenty of optical disks sitting around in various states of neglect. I even use some of them on ocassion. I am sure I am not the only one.
I probably have a DVD burned from stuff taken off of my first digital camera that I could generate my own anecdote from. Although I prefer spinning rust for my "cold storage".
The Commie already had it's retrospective articles.
It was certainly a much more populist machine, oddly enough given it's nickname.
RAM disks were great on the Mac Plus too. Saving directly to floppy disk was gruesome and time consuming. Same goes for the other platforms of the day.
> I'll never understand these antagonistic replies on Slashdot.
You sound like tool, you get called a tool.
This has nothing to do with Slashdot. HELL. It doesn't even have anything to do with the Internet. That's something you should be aware of if you were computing when the PCjr wasn't just a historical footnote.
Long multiplication is as much about confidence as anything else. Sure you're just applying the algorithm from a smaller problem to a larger one. Knowing that is still important. So is not being intimidated by the size of the problem. Realizing that it breaks down into smaller, more manageable parts is an important bit of insight. The concept in general is useful.
> This is basically racist bullshit packaged as folklorish anecdotal "science".
There are plenty of blacks that fit the 3 characteristics. They are a minority though since there is also a cultural pathology that discourages assimilation.
On the other hand, I have seen fat and happy n-th generation white suburbanites complain at the degree to which Asian parents drive their children.
> Uhm ... most Jews (in America) are white Americans.
Your local Grand Wizard will be surprised to hear it.
> The main cause of public educational disparity in California and the US is wildly varying school funding.
You are making the classical statistical error. You're confusing correlation with causation.
The real problem is that many parents aren't motivated. They don't care. This also correlates nicely with income and school spending. The parents that care are the ones that prepared themselves better for the world. They valued education as children or had parents that valued their education.
This is the rationale behind self-selected "magnate" schools in less rich school districts. They isolate the children of parents that give a damn from hooligans and thugs at their normal schools.
Throwing money at people who don't care or their children won't accomplish anything.
> If you are against "tenure" you oppose the following: the right to bargain, contracts, due process, and property rights.
You need to stop repeating this communist nonsense. It's not helping.
> Who was the last poor president?
Both Obama and Clinton qualify. Reagan might qualify too.
Meritocracy means that you can be born poor and become rich or a member of what currently passes for the aristocracy.
It's the ideal of Andrew Carnegie.
Someone mentioned Truman. Eisenhower also came from a precarious working class background.
Simple version: Tenure allows an exceptional teacher to defy authority and do what needs to be done.
An argument not likely to be employed generally but certainly more compelling than "tenure is property".
Your batshit crazy comments are very illuminating and quite informative if they actually represent the mindset of real teachers.
If true, it's little wonder things are so messed up.