*ONLY* 100,000$ to wipe out all doubt about accusations relating to underpaying women (if Google's line of reasoning is right) - that's a massive bargain! It would cause tens of millions worth of public relations damage if they didn't do that... lame, transparent excuse.
I got a low-spec cheap-ass Dell for free to start my Computer Engineering course four years ago.
It still works flawlessly, and I've dropped it and taken it apart many times. I've basically abused it as much as possible because it was free and still not managed to break it.
Dells aren't as horribly bad quality as everyone makes them out to be and Macs aren't as indestructible as people say!
... which is one of the strengths of newspaper journalism! CNN, Fox etc. (both t.v. & online) have this mad obsession with serving up "up-to-date, latest developments" that half of what they report gets contradicted half an hour later anyway. They throw out semi-speculation in the hope they'll "get it right" ahead of other stations but in the end it's just noise.
Newspapers can have this problem too, because they're coming up to a deadline, but usually they err on the side of caution and only include what's known to be true. The other good side effect of the deadline is that a certain amount of reflection can be included. You get a sense that it's the "bigger picture". T.V. and the internet just trips over itself with minute-by-minute updates.
Don't get me wrong, sometimes you need to be in the known, like the Olympics 2016 voting (I followed the BBC blog for that) but more often than not I enjoy the distance papers put between the news item and the reader.
Another underrated advantage of the newspaper is the medium itself. Sure, it's awkward flicking through the pages of a broadsheet on a bus but there's big, high-quality photographs and an eye-friendly column size. Too often websites make columns too wide, resulting in eye-strain no matter what way you resize your browser. And please don't tell me a news photograph on your TFT looks as good as in print- if it does you must be a graphic designer with a 2,000$ screen. Besides, we spend most of our lives in front of screens anyway, do I really have to get my news off one?
You North Americans don't know how lucky you have it. When I was in the U.S. on holidays I was amazed by the huge number of satellite stations the rental car had on offer. It was playoff time in the NBA and I spent many a 5+ hour car trip continuously listening to live basketball in excellent quality, no need to worry about tuning when getting out of range like with AM/FM etc.
There's just nothing like that here in Ireland! Then again, we have close to no live basketball here at all - the t.v. official rights holder decides to show one game A WEEK. Having FTA triple headers in HD at playoff time like you do is the stuff of dreams here:(
I have a suspicion that for you it will be like the old saying- you don't know what you have until you lose it!
I care about my newspapers a lot and would really hate it if they went away. I think they definitely bring something else to the table in terms of news and certain papers are consistently of higher standard than ALL web news outlets because of their indepth reporting, (relatively) unbiased opinion and greater, more sensible appreciation of the bigger picture.
Please inform us about the names of these newspapers that have this high standard that you are referring to (or non-U.S.). I assume they are local papers since none of the nationally known newspapers in the U.S. fit this criteria.
Ok, I will admit U.S. papers tend to be fairly awful. Here's an (incomplete) list of good papers available in my neck of the woods (Ireland) that meet these criteria:
Die Welt International Herald Tribune Financial Times (U.K. weekend edition) Die Zeit Tokyo Times (international edition) Frankfurter Rundschau Suedeutsche Zeitung
I'm sure there's more, unfortunately I'm only fluent in English & German so that restricts my selection a bit. Hope that helps;)
I care about my newspapers a lot and would really hate it if they went away. I think they definitely bring something else to the table in terms of news and certain papers are consistently of higher standard than ALL web news outlets because of their indepth reporting, (relatively) unbiased opinion and greater, more sensible appreciation of the bigger picture.
However I don't care about winning over any of you/.ers with this argument- life's too short for that. There is one angle that I can take on this which everyone here will understand: Even if newspapers were just what you get online in paper form, I'd still buy them any day over reading the same stuff online.
Why? Simple- I spend too much time already (in my job) staring at a screen, paper's a refreshing and healthy way of getting the news when you're sick of the TFT.
Full disclosure: I'm 21, so don't give me the he's-stuck-in-his-old-ways argument;)
This really is a milestone in gratuitous complexification that should be morned, not hailed.
Jeez aren't we lucky you at least reduced the complexity of mourned by stripping it of its 'u'? Maybe the linux kernel just needs to have all the 'u's taken out;)
I think this just illustrates that 70% as a passing grade just doesn't make any sense. If people are giving 50% for 0% and marking up students to "give them a chance to catch up" I think the passing grade should just be lowered to something reasonable.
Here in Ireland, 40% is the usual passing grade, in university 35% is usually a compensating fail, i.e. if your grades in other modules are good enough you pass the semester. Noone's ever complained about these passing grades and the standard of students coming out of education is good enough in spite of the low passsing grade relative to what is expected internationally.
When I tell people that the usual passing grade in the U.S. is 70% I get blank stares and disbelief.
Bottom line: a 70% spread for fails and 30% spread for passes doesn't make sense. Here a grade (B1, C2 etc.) has a 5% range, the ranges in the U.S. must be tiny if you squeeze A-D into 30%!
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I can't remember how far back it was introduced (I use opera since version 6) but mouse gestures are definately customisable.
Just go to Preferences > Advanced > Edit (next to mouse setup)
It's also worth noting that a satellite dish doesn't necessarily have to be mounted on the house, at least here in the U.K. it's perfectly legal to put it on a wall in your back yard (as long as it's not surrounded by tall trees of course). This might be an option if you don't want to spoil the look of your house.
... and decisions that were made purely for philosophical reasons (no mp3 support by default? please.) Not true. The mp3 codec isn't included by default because it's illegal to do so in some countries.
Could everyone please stop posting stories about how much data there will be saved on earth in such-and-such a year? Firstly, it's pure speculation/estimation, secondly, who really cares? Most of it is cached google pages and pron anyway...
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Whereabout is this? It wouldn't be in Sydney by any chance, would it?
*ONLY* 100,000$ to wipe out all doubt about accusations relating to underpaying women (if Google's line of reasoning is right) - that's a massive bargain! It would cause tens of millions worth of public relations damage if they didn't do that... lame, transparent excuse.
Get well soon Larry! Although I don't know how realistic that wish is with this condition :(
I assume you mean buggy software, or else Apple really is the modern-day Gestapo like I feared all along!
He left out ME but included Vista - BIAS!
I got a low-spec cheap-ass Dell for free to start my Computer Engineering course four years ago. It still works flawlessly, and I've dropped it and taken it apart many times. I've basically abused it as much as possible because it was free and still not managed to break it. Dells aren't as horribly bad quality as everyone makes them out to be and Macs aren't as indestructible as people say!
It was a U.S. Airways flight, not a United one. Same alliance, different airline!
... which is one of the strengths of newspaper journalism! CNN, Fox etc. (both t.v. & online) have this mad obsession with serving up "up-to-date, latest developments" that half of what they report gets contradicted half an hour later anyway. They throw out semi-speculation in the hope they'll "get it right" ahead of other stations but in the end it's just noise. Newspapers can have this problem too, because they're coming up to a deadline, but usually they err on the side of caution and only include what's known to be true. The other good side effect of the deadline is that a certain amount of reflection can be included. You get a sense that it's the "bigger picture". T.V. and the internet just trips over itself with minute-by-minute updates.
Don't get me wrong, sometimes you need to be in the known, like the Olympics 2016 voting (I followed the BBC blog for that) but more often than not I enjoy the distance papers put between the news item and the reader.
Another underrated advantage of the newspaper is the medium itself. Sure, it's awkward flicking through the pages of a broadsheet on a bus but there's big, high-quality photographs and an eye-friendly column size. Too often websites make columns too wide, resulting in eye-strain no matter what way you resize your browser. And please don't tell me a news photograph on your TFT looks as good as in print- if it does you must be a graphic designer with a 2,000$ screen. Besides, we spend most of our lives in front of screens anyway, do I really have to get my news off one?
You North Americans don't know how lucky you have it.
When I was in the U.S. on holidays I was amazed by the huge number of satellite stations the rental car had on offer. It was playoff time in the NBA and I spent many a 5+ hour car trip continuously listening to live basketball in excellent quality, no need to worry about tuning when getting out of range like with AM/FM etc.
There's just nothing like that here in Ireland! Then again, we have close to no live basketball here at all - the t.v. official rights holder decides to show one game A WEEK. Having FTA triple headers in HD at playoff time like you do is the stuff of dreams here :(
I have a suspicion that for you it will be like the old saying- you don't know what you have until you lose it!
I care about my newspapers a lot and would really hate it if they went away. I think they definitely bring something else to the table in terms of news and certain papers are consistently of higher standard than ALL web news outlets because of their indepth reporting, (relatively) unbiased opinion and greater, more sensible appreciation of the bigger picture.
Please inform us about the names of these newspapers that have this high standard that you are referring to (or non-U.S.). I assume they are local papers since none of the nationally known newspapers in the U.S. fit this criteria.
Ok, I will admit U.S. papers tend to be fairly awful. Here's an (incomplete) list of good papers available in my neck of the woods (Ireland) that meet these criteria:
;)
Die Welt
International Herald Tribune
Financial Times (U.K. weekend edition)
Die Zeit
Tokyo Times (international edition)
Frankfurter Rundschau
Suedeutsche Zeitung
I'm sure there's more, unfortunately I'm only fluent in English & German so that restricts my selection a bit. Hope that helps
I care about my newspapers a lot and would really hate it if they went away. I think they definitely bring something else to the table in terms of news and certain papers are consistently of higher standard than ALL web news outlets because of their indepth reporting, (relatively) unbiased opinion and greater, more sensible appreciation of the bigger picture.
However I don't care about winning over any of you /.ers with this argument- life's too short for that. There is one angle that I can take on this which everyone here will understand: Even if newspapers were just what you get online in paper form, I'd still buy them any day over reading the same stuff online.
;)
Why? Simple- I spend too much time already (in my job) staring at a screen, paper's a refreshing and healthy way of getting the news when you're sick of the TFT.
Full disclosure: I'm 21, so don't give me the he's-stuck-in-his-old-ways argument
How could anyone confuse "sign" with "seen"?
the mind boggles...
This really is a milestone in gratuitous complexification that should be morned, not hailed.
Jeez aren't we lucky you at least reduced the complexity of mourned by stripping it of its 'u'? Maybe the linux kernel just needs to have all the 'u's taken out ;)
The fact that people are still using it regularly despite it being beta should say something at least.
By that reasoning gmail must be the second coming, given that it has even higher market share despit being a beta...
... and this is in YRO why exactly?
I think this just illustrates that 70% as a passing grade just doesn't make any sense. If people are giving 50% for 0% and marking up students to "give them a chance to catch up" I think the passing grade should just be lowered to something reasonable.
Here in Ireland, 40% is the usual passing grade, in university 35% is usually a compensating fail, i.e. if your grades in other modules are good enough you pass the semester. Noone's ever complained about these passing grades and the standard of students coming out of education is good enough in spite of the low passsing grade relative to what is expected internationally.
When I tell people that the usual passing grade in the U.S. is 70% I get blank stares and disbelief.
Bottom line: a 70% spread for fails and 30% spread for passes doesn't make sense. Here a grade (B1, C2 etc.) has a 5% range, the ranges in the U.S. must be tiny if you squeeze A-D into 30%!
I can't remember how far back it was introduced (I use opera since version 6) but mouse gestures are definately customisable.
Just go to Preferences > Advanced > Edit (next to mouse setup)
So, VB, ASP, PHP, Coldfusion, Perl, even C and C++ I have in my belt.
...or maybe you meant "under" instead of "in" your belt? ;)
Jeez, I'd love to see the belt you're wearing, it obviously has pouches in it like batman's!
It's also worth noting that a satellite dish doesn't necessarily have to be mounted on the house, at least here in the U.K. it's perfectly legal to put it on a wall in your back yard (as long as it's not surrounded by tall trees of course). This might be an option if you don't want to spoil the look of your house.
I can just imagine the argument between DOP and focus puller:
D.O.P. - "Check the gate!"
Focus Puller - "There's a HAIR in the gate!"
D.O.P. - "The gate IS a hair, stupid!"
(O.K., maybe only movie buffs will get this but here are a few clues: focus puller / DOP / gate )
... and decisions that were made purely for philosophical reasons (no mp3 support by default? please.) Not true. The mp3 codec isn't included by default because it's illegal to do so in some countries.Is it just me or shouldn't at least some of these earlier slashdot articles be included in the related articles section? http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/17/0354211 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/23/1730251 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/21/1526225 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/15/1536256 http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/12/0013229 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/11/1316209 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/07/1911213 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/04/1958212 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/05/1635221 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/27/0145223 http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/05/1723202 Including all of them may be overkill, but surely the uninitiated should get a taste of /.'s
extensive "unbiased" SP1 coverage ;)
Could everyone please stop posting stories about how much data there will be saved on earth in such-and-such a year? Firstly, it's pure speculation/estimation, secondly, who really cares? Most of it is cached google pages and pron anyway...
Damn it won't install in wine :D
I wonder when the first ies4lin version will come out?
When I read the title I thought, "it's too late for me, I've already migrated to Thunderbird".