I"m frankly surprised that he didn't go somewhere else immediately. For me the conversation would have gone something like this:
"We're sorry Mr. Libshitz, but your last name appears to be spelled with the word "shit" in it. For that, we cannot grant you service."
"Seriously? Hey, do you have the number for AT&T then?"
I'm not sure why you would fight this sort of thing with anything other than taking your business elsewhere.
Didn't some asshole try to trademark "You're fired" a few years ago. Sheesh.
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My great-grandfather believed this with all his heart. My dad remembers him saying that he had "been there" while they were watching the footage. Dad said, "Grandpa, that's the moon." He replied, "No that's Arizona."
Yah, he also didn't believe that airplanes could fly, so...
If this is the road we are trudging down, we might as well just add online voting to complicate things. Then maybe the need for security through transparency will be more apparent.
Really, it doesn't matter either way, provided that you preserve scalability. Whether you start at the bare minimum or at max bloat, as long as you can move to someplace in the middle, things work out. One front that could help to get more folks using Linux is education. Old and young are just as capable of learning.
We would just leave Post-it notes reading "Very Dangerous Toxic Waste" on the most dangerous bits, obviously.
Also, make sure that funding is up in the linguistics departments at universities so that when we get around to it, someone will know how to read said notes.
Agreed. I just flashed dd-wrt micro onto a WRT54GS v6 (which doesn't have room for any of the other open firmwares) and it works really well. Even before that, though, the only time that the router ever got restarted was in the instance of a power outage. Try new firmware, if you can. Often it can turn any cheap router into a much better router.
I got my hands on Linksys NSLU2 storage link device a few years ago and only recently installed Debian on it with two 500GB USB disks. It works amazingly well and is also more than just a storage link: it's a fully functional Linux server. I also use it as a print server and to run a couple of webcams as "security" cams.
You can pick one up at Amazon for about 80 bucks. Worth looking into.
A creation myth, or any myth for that matter, should not be taught in a religious studies class even. Teaching it as doctrine should be relegated to Sunday schools and seminaries.
In a "religious studies" setting, myth should be analyzed as a literary or communicative tool instrumentalized by believers in any given set of doctrine. It's a lot more interesting, often, to look at what a myth is used for than what it says.
Are we really that surprised? We've had this in the humanities and social sciences for years. Go to any university in the developing world. Students pay people to write all their papers and exams. I heard a story recently about a political science PhD candidate at Western Michigan University who was discovered to have plagiarized everything that he had ever written.
Mr. Gates' frustration is understandable.
I had a similar experience only recently at MicroSoft.com trying to download and install something for a friend. I had become so accustomed to a package-managed system that I had nearly forgotten about that nightmare.
Maybe Mr. Gates is stepping down from MS so he can install Linux with impunity.
The problem isn't that they applications are too difficult for children to use. The problem is that the application interface is such a departure from what ADULTS are used to. They then map their inability onto kids. Kids are adaptable, after all, and they're not afraid of new things.
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I"m frankly surprised that he didn't go somewhere else immediately. For me the conversation would have gone something like this: "We're sorry Mr. Libshitz, but your last name appears to be spelled with the word "shit" in it. For that, we cannot grant you service." "Seriously? Hey, do you have the number for AT&T then?" I'm not sure why you would fight this sort of thing with anything other than taking your business elsewhere.
Didn't some asshole try to trademark "You're fired" a few years ago. Sheesh.
My great-grandfather believed this with all his heart. My dad remembers him saying that he had "been there" while they were watching the footage. Dad said, "Grandpa, that's the moon." He replied, "No that's Arizona." Yah, he also didn't believe that airplanes could fly, so...
Hear, hear! Testing through using and doing is best. You just have to ask for notes and bug reports.
If this is the road we are trudging down, we might as well just add online voting to complicate things. Then maybe the need for security through transparency will be more apparent.
What a coincidence, I just checked Wikipedia and it seems that China also has the world's largest overall population. How strange.
Really, it doesn't matter either way, provided that you preserve scalability. Whether you start at the bare minimum or at max bloat, as long as you can move to someplace in the middle, things work out. One front that could help to get more folks using Linux is education. Old and young are just as capable of learning.
We would just leave Post-it notes reading "Very Dangerous Toxic Waste" on the most dangerous bits, obviously. Also, make sure that funding is up in the linguistics departments at universities so that when we get around to it, someone will know how to read said notes.
Yah, I think this one might be best left in the "no news" department.
Agreed. I just flashed dd-wrt micro onto a WRT54GS v6 (which doesn't have room for any of the other open firmwares) and it works really well. Even before that, though, the only time that the router ever got restarted was in the instance of a power outage. Try new firmware, if you can. Often it can turn any cheap router into a much better router.
I got my hands on Linksys NSLU2 storage link device a few years ago and only recently installed Debian on it with two 500GB USB disks. It works amazingly well and is also more than just a storage link: it's a fully functional Linux server. I also use it as a print server and to run a couple of webcams as "security" cams. You can pick one up at Amazon for about 80 bucks. Worth looking into.
A creation myth, or any myth for that matter, should not be taught in a religious studies class even. Teaching it as doctrine should be relegated to Sunday schools and seminaries. In a "religious studies" setting, myth should be analyzed as a literary or communicative tool instrumentalized by believers in any given set of doctrine. It's a lot more interesting, often, to look at what a myth is used for than what it says.
It is, after all, very important that we get free internet porn to as many people as we can, the whole world over.
You must have meant "post-colonial."
Are we really that surprised? We've had this in the humanities and social sciences for years. Go to any university in the developing world. Students pay people to write all their papers and exams. I heard a story recently about a political science PhD candidate at Western Michigan University who was discovered to have plagiarized everything that he had ever written.
Mr. Gates' frustration is understandable. I had a similar experience only recently at MicroSoft.com trying to download and install something for a friend. I had become so accustomed to a package-managed system that I had nearly forgotten about that nightmare. Maybe Mr. Gates is stepping down from MS so he can install Linux with impunity.
The problem isn't that they applications are too difficult for children to use. The problem is that the application interface is such a departure from what ADULTS are used to. They then map their inability onto kids. Kids are adaptable, after all, and they're not afraid of new things.