Bullshit. Even if you roll your own Mac, it's still more expensive, slower, and has fewer options to upgrade the system. If you're not going to run MacOS, there's no reason to use Mac hardware.
You realize that there are plenty of people who would drop Discovery and your Star Trek channels for a different few channels? Having a multitude of channels you'll never watch ensures that there will always be space for the the channels you do watch. Specialization also means the shows you like are on more often: a broadcast channel might show Star Trek once a week, SciFi shows it once a day, because the broadcast channel caters to different audiences at different times.
Probably thought up by the same group who wants to change the official name of prunes to "dried plums". I kid you not. Some people have way too much time on their hands.
What, like the California Prune Broad? They're the largest group of prune growers in the world, and you know, if anyone has cause to do it, they do. Yeah, it's all about marketing, but what isn't?
You're not teaching the kid to program. The original post mentioned "a student or child that will never have a computer of their own without assistance". Simple things, like typing, working with a GUI, the concept of a desktop, files, and applications are simply more important for someone who's never touched a computer. The other stuff can wait.
Everyone feels compeled to switch from windows on x86, but no one feels the urge on Mac's, isn't that strange?
Not particularly. (And no one said that, anyway.) If 4% of Windows users and 4% of Mac users switch to Linux, there will be more Windows users switching to Linux simply because there are more Windows users to begin with. Also, if you're planning on building or buying a Linux system, there's no need to pay the Apple premium for Mac hardware in the first place.
Uhm, as a computer, the Duo is a piece of shit. Why bother teaching kids about decades old computers? Might as well get them one of those "My First Computer" toys with the mouse with ears and whiskers.
What, you expect him to port it by himself to Windows and MacOS just to fit the OSS mantra? Add "currently available" to that sentence and it's an incontrovertible statement of fact. Understanding has nothing to do with it.
I check the GNUnet homepage, and among the listed requirements are GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD.
(Interesting to note the use of a global view when referring to the moon.. Kinda like in Scifi movies when people who've never been to Earth talk about "the whole world".)
Anyway, because of the conditions on the moon, it'd be pretty hard to screw things up anymore than they are already. Nothing's better at containing biological weapons than a pure vacuum and constant unfiltered irradiation from the sun. Nuclear weapons tests would be almost unnoticable. There's no atmosphere in which to spread radioactive dust, no water supply to contaminate with deadly bacteria.
In the Physics classes I've taken at college, computer generated graphics are not uncommon. I liked them and the profs merged them well into the lectures. A 3D projection system would be nice addition, but nowhere near as cool as the light-emitting pickle.
I hope you don't mind that I p1r8d your vacation photos, but that cross-eyed thing hurt my brain so I converted it into a red/blue stereogram. Now if I only had a pair of 3d glasses...
Granted, "you" was originally the formal form, but given that it's the only form anymore, it is effectively the familar form and the formal form all at once. Frequently used words tend to be the shortest ones. I, am, is, to, etc.
While I didn't expect to be right for every language, I was thinking more along the lines of "tu" in French and Spanish. If we're saying that "you" has is used more often than "tu" (because they have many forms, English only one), then it makes sense that our second person pronoun should be as short or even shorter.
Or perhaps we might revive the distinction between formal and familar, leaving "you" as it is, but introducing "u" as the new version of "thee".
'U' is perfectly fine as a word; it is clear, and does not conflict with existing usages of 'U'.
Which is why I fear it. It just sounds stupid. But from a rational point of view, there's no real reason why it couldn't be accepted, given a few hundred years. What if I wake up from cryogenic sleep (not that I imagine I ever will) and everyone around me sounds like a frickin' moron? and my speech is as odd to them as Shakespeare or even Chaucer?
No! Morons like Prince should be punished for their abuse of the language! Damn language theory all to hell!
Ever wake up at night, covered in a cold sweat, wondering what will happen to the world when a nation of teenagers whose only experience with written English is Instant Messenger grows up?
Language is fluid, and the only spellings that are "correct" are the ones in common use. As lame as it is, I think the spelling most in danger of extinction is "you" vs. "u". Compared to other languages, "you" is pretty long for a second person pronoun.
Well I'd say that my point of view as someone who hasn't read the third book (I'm still working on the second, remember?) is similar to most of the audience of TTT, who probably haven't read any of the books.
Basically, if they introduce Eowyn in the movie like they did in the book, people who have only the first movie for reference will think there's something fishy going on. The enhanced role of Arwen is going to change the story for the next two movies rather significantly, specifically as to how they'll deal with Eowyn.
"Obviously my penis and beard are longer than any of yours'."
Using a plural possessive pronoune like that can imply that he's talking to one person with many penises, or many people with one penis each. Obviously, he meant the latter, but it's not exactly clear.
My University'sSolar Car Club built, well, a solar car, and it's street legal, insured, and they plan to drive it half way across the country some time next year. Of course, there will be a gas-powered car in front of it and one behind it the whole way, using more gas than they would if everyone just stayed at home.
The firewall blocks sites by IP, so sites like yours are collatoral damage when one server hosts a lot of sites (called vhosting), one of which has probably been deemed objectionable.
Other people have said that Geocities is inaccessible, but it looks like your actual siteis still accessible. Just tell all the Chinese Monday Night Football fans to go directly to the Geocities site.
The only things that readily come to mind are: 1) putting Arwen in her proper place
I'm nearly done with The Two Towers, and it looks like there's something planned between Aragorn and Eowyn, Theoden's neice. Arwen's increased role in the movie makes no sense then. (And an Aragorn/Eowyn relationship makes a lot of sense.) Is Aragorn just such a heartless pimp that he can lead on two women at once? How is the second movie going to handle Eowyn?
Harh! I have both the Snatch and Matrix soundtracks. I recognized it but thought they were just re-using music from the Matrix.
I've now been excited into listening to the Snatch soundtrack again.. really good stuff. Didja know Mirwais is half Afghani? I saw a poster at my university asking us to donate textbooks to the Mir-wais school in Kabul. Anyone know what it means?
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Easy: More than 3 PCI slots.
Bullshit. Even if you roll your own Mac, it's still more expensive, slower, and has fewer options to upgrade the system. If you're not going to run MacOS, there's no reason to use Mac hardware.
You realize that there are plenty of people who would drop Discovery and your Star Trek channels for a different few channels? Having a multitude of channels you'll never watch ensures that there will always be space for the the channels you do watch. Specialization also means the shows you like are on more often: a broadcast channel might show Star Trek once a week, SciFi shows it once a day, because the broadcast channel caters to different audiences at different times.
Probably thought up by the same group who wants to change the official name of
prunes to "dried plums". I kid you not. Some people have way too much time on their hands.
What, like the California Prune Broad? They're the largest group of prune growers in the world, and you know, if anyone has cause to do it, they do. Yeah, it's all about marketing, but what isn't?
You're not teaching the kid to program. The original post mentioned "a student or child that will never have a computer of their own without assistance". Simple things, like typing, working with a GUI, the concept of a desktop, files, and applications are simply more important for someone who's never touched a computer. The other stuff can wait.
Everyone feels compeled to switch from windows on x86, but no one feels the urge on Mac's, isn't that strange?
Not particularly. (And no one said that, anyway.) If 4% of Windows users and 4% of Mac users switch to Linux, there will be more Windows users switching to Linux simply because there are more Windows users to begin with. Also, if you're planning on building or buying a Linux system, there's no need to pay the Apple premium for Mac hardware in the first place.
Uhm, as a computer, the Duo is a piece of shit. Why bother teaching kids about decades old computers? Might as well get them one of those "My First Computer" toys with the mouse with ears and whiskers.
What, you expect him to port it by himself to Windows and MacOS just to fit the OSS mantra? Add "currently available" to that sentence and it's an incontrovertible statement of fact. Understanding has nothing to do with it.
I check the GNUnet homepage, and among the listed requirements are GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD or NetBSD.
> Your sig is false.
Actually I think the backdrop is a sheet of silicon atoms and the little dots mark the absence of an atom.
I seriously saw someone on the highway with an alumni license plate frame from Starfleet Academy. I bet the guy reads Slashdot.
I'm now expecting a half dozen replies from people who own such plates...
(Interesting to note the use of a global view when referring to the moon.. Kinda like in Scifi movies when people who've never been to Earth talk about "the whole world".)
Anyway, because of the conditions on the moon, it'd be pretty hard to screw things up anymore than they are already. Nothing's better at containing biological weapons than a pure vacuum and constant unfiltered irradiation from the sun. Nuclear weapons tests would be almost unnoticable. There's no atmosphere in which to spread radioactive dust, no water supply to contaminate with deadly bacteria.
In the Physics classes I've taken at college, computer generated graphics are not uncommon. I liked them and the profs merged them well into the lectures. A 3D projection system would be nice addition, but nowhere near as cool as the light-emitting pickle.
I hope you don't mind that I p1r8d your vacation photos, but that cross-eyed thing hurt my brain so I converted it into a red/blue stereogram. Now if I only had a pair of 3d glasses...
Granted, "you" was originally the formal form, but given that it's the only form anymore, it is effectively the familar form and the formal form all at once. Frequently used words tend to be the shortest ones. I, am, is, to, etc.
While I didn't expect to be right for every language, I was thinking more along the lines of "tu" in French and Spanish. If we're saying that "you" has is used more often than "tu" (because they have many forms, English only one), then it makes sense that our second person pronoun should be as short or even shorter.
Or perhaps we might revive the distinction between formal and familar, leaving "you" as it is, but introducing "u" as the new version of "thee".
Hmmm.. it only shows +3, Insightful to me. Whatever, my karma is "excellent" and probably at 50 anyway.
'U' is perfectly fine as a word; it is clear, and does not conflict with existing usages of 'U'.
Which is why I fear it. It just sounds stupid. But from a rational point of view, there's no real reason why it couldn't be accepted, given a few hundred years. What if I wake up from cryogenic sleep (not that I imagine I ever will) and everyone around me sounds like a frickin' moron? and my speech is as odd to them as Shakespeare or even Chaucer?
No! Morons like Prince should be punished for their abuse of the language! Damn language theory all to hell!
Ever wake up at night, covered in a cold sweat, wondering what will happen to the world when a nation of teenagers whose only experience with written English is Instant Messenger grows up?
Language is fluid, and the only spellings that are "correct" are the ones in common use. As lame as it is, I think the spelling most in danger of extinction is "you" vs. "u". Compared to other languages, "you" is pretty long for a second person pronoun.
Well I'd say that my point of view as someone who hasn't read the third book (I'm still working on the second, remember?) is similar to most of the audience of TTT, who probably haven't read any of the books.
Basically, if they introduce Eowyn in the movie like they did in the book, people who have only the first movie for reference will think there's something fishy going on. The enhanced role of Arwen is going to change the story for the next two movies rather significantly, specifically as to how they'll deal with Eowyn.
"Obviously my penis and beard are longer than any of yours'."
Using a plural possessive pronoune like that can imply that he's talking to one person with many penises, or many people with one penis each. Obviously, he meant the latter, but it's not exactly clear.
Meh, I thought it was funny.
My University's Solar Car Club built, well, a solar car, and it's street legal, insured, and they plan to drive it half way across the country some time next year. Of course, there will be a gas-powered car in front of it and one behind it the whole way, using more gas than they would if everyone just stayed at home.
The firewall blocks sites by IP, so sites like yours are collatoral damage when one server hosts a lot of sites (called vhosting), one of which has probably been deemed objectionable.
Other people have said that Geocities is inaccessible, but it looks like your actual site is still accessible. Just tell all the Chinese Monday Night Football fans to go directly to the Geocities site.
Stile Project (a haven of rather vile material) and Camwhores got around it just by using standard load-balancing techniques.
Meh, if there's any site worth blocking, it's Stile's.
The only things that readily come to mind are: 1) putting Arwen in her proper place
I'm nearly done with The Two Towers, and it looks like there's something planned between Aragorn and Eowyn, Theoden's neice. Arwen's increased role in the movie makes no sense then. (And an Aragorn/Eowyn relationship makes a lot of sense.) Is Aragorn just such a heartless pimp that he can lead on two women at once? How is the second movie going to handle Eowyn?
Harh! I have both the Snatch and Matrix soundtracks. I recognized it but thought they were just re-using music from the Matrix.
I've now been excited into listening to the Snatch soundtrack again.. really good stuff. Didja know Mirwais is half Afghani? I saw a poster at my university asking us to donate textbooks to the Mir-wais school in Kabul. Anyone know what it means?