Long version: it's easier for most children to fudge through something they vaguely remember doing by pictures than it is for them to memorize a set of arcane letter-combinations they vaguely remember. People who do things other than write and learn a language inside and out have all sorts of other random esoteric knowledge buried away, and there's only so much that a single person can keep in their head. These people are called humans, and frankly, if you don't understand why politely asking them to "simply" learn to read is a mind-numbingly stupid proposition, I seriously recommend staying the hell away from child-raising.
.. let me add here that I'm pretty much quoting myself from about 7 years ago in the last bit there, and that having recently installed Slackware, it's come extremely far while maintaining a clarity and sanity that makes it simple to manage and configure, and on my desktop machine at least, it Just Works fine with minimal tweaking (and much less of a configuration jungle than ubuntu.)
And for an even simpler but still sane experience, I've found that Zenwalk, based on Slackware, can't really be beat.
I think you're severely misinformed as to what A Linux is. It's not Gnome nor is it KDE. Growing up with Windows, I had this same problem for a long time. Understanding that various Window-Managers (such as Gnome, KDE, Fluxbox, XFCE4,...) are something like wrappers around the X Windows engine, you start to understand why The Linux is a little bit of an ambiguous term, and why there's so much tinkering and hobbyism (and as a result, endless amounts of support available for free). It just so happens that some tinkerers have been working on some things which try to keep the guts under the hood for users disinterested in tinkering (gnome, kde, aptitude/apt-get/ubuntu in general) and so people come to call those things linux.
Or on the other hand, someone might have tried to install Slackware many years ago and been frustrated with how "you have to be a compsci grad to use The Linux".
KDE 4 is at least sufficient for a large enough set of users that it would be unfair to have held it back until it had enough features for the larger set of users.
And there is definitely something to be said for community involvement, bug reports, feedback, which a project would have more of if it has more users, which would be the case in a x.0 Brand New It's Here !!! type release, rather than an alpha/beta release which many users would pass on until the "finished product" shows up.
I know it's unrealistic, but I really wish there was slightly more standardization in versioning techniques. Above all, I haaaaaaaate.10 versions, ie 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10 asgkljdsflgkjdflgkj.
I'm having trouble thinking up an application that has my personal favorite versioning method, one which could be applied to almost any project, but I know I've come across one or two. A 3 dot system seems like it would be best, 2.1.0, 2.1.4, 2.2.0. But just please please please never 2.10 coming after 2.9
I don't get why Fellini's so known for 8 1/2, it kind of makes me think there's something to be said for the hoity-toity artster. Roma FTW! and La Strada is really nice.
I bet many of those people asking MarsPhoenix questions don't even have proper degrees! How truly far we have fallen...
but of course there's a nonsarcastic part to that, in that you see a lot of repeated questions, whereas in a more formalized Q&A people would be more careful avoiding redundancy (well sometimes). It's not about educated/uneducated or "smart"/"dumb", it's about controlling flow in such a way as to address FAQs before they're asked. You learn letters before you learn verbs and if there's a bottleneck of people confused about what a word is, you insert that between letters and verbs. "omg asparagus on mars??" happens, but the good thing is that they aren't obligated to answer everyone's question.
BitlBee brings IM (instant messaging) to IRC clients. It's a great solution for people who have an IRC client running all the time and don't want to run an additional MSN/AIM/whatever client.
BitlBee currently supports the following IM networks/protocols: XMPP/Jabber (including Google Talk), MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and ICQ.
not to mention that so many of these games are just variations, or outright rehashes on the same old things, which inexplicably get passed off as new. I'd say it was practically a scam if I didn't know that most people making games really like making (or at least playing) games, despite their limited creativity or corporate pressures. but there's probably at least 30 "NEW GAMES" between doom2 and halo5 in the FPS "genre" that I don't really feel like I'm missing out on. [different maps, probably about 10 weapons with predictable range of utility + a couple surprises, some boringass plotline, more and more epic film worst-of-both-worlds cut scenes....] "Side-scroller". "Real-time-strategy". I'm not going to play or buy (most of) these games, but I'm certainly not going to buy them.
Just because something is unknown does not mean it is difficult, necessarily. With 885 million native speakers, I imagine that Mandarin (I'm assuming that's the variety used in code) is not rocket surgery.
> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which acts
> as a sort of regulator for the net as well as overseeing the domain name
> system, has been working towards opening up net addresses for the last three
> years.
>
This is so much bullshit. What happened three years ago is Joe Baptista
went to the Netherlands and terminated an ICANN experiment hereinafter known
as HEX. The experiment involving such entities as INAIC and the Unifiedroot
et al. Now I terminated the experiment in August of 2005. ICANN had been
monitoring their activities for some time. The experiment proved very
successful. It showed anyone can run a root or a tld and furthermore made
it very clear that the market demand for TLDs was there and would be met
with or without ICANNs participation.
As a result there are now thousands of independent TLDs and many countries
participating in providing TLD services. Those people who know ICANN is
nothing more then a smoke screen also known they have no control over the
root.
Turkey is the first country that signed up to my little experiment in the
Netherlands. That rocked ICANNs boat big time. There are now hundreds if
not thousands of new TLDs in Turkey.
When ICANN started up it tried to convince the world it was a monopoly. The
world has poopood that as utter nonsense.
As if com net and org aren't arbitrary or actually represent companies networks and organizations. The terminology is flat, opening up the TLDs makes sense.
I kind of agree with the second part, but ASGKJASFGKJASD does it irk me. Especially with regards to alcohol sales law. Just thinking about the abject humiliation, anger and frustration I felt so often when missing an EXTREMELY VITAL musical event, due to how I wasn't Legally Responsible or soemthing, makes me just want to cry. And it's insane that (here in the U.S.) there are so many countless 18-21 year old voting-aged people who don't feel that they have any way of changing things! And of course, once we turn 21, it's not an issue anymore.
Okay, this does relate. It has to do with responsibility. I was just as, actually probably MORE responsibly at 15 than I was at 18, though midnight on the day of my Turning, I was magickally allowed to stay out a couple hours later without causing serious harm to my self and my neighborhood. I had growed up!
density. I mean...destiny. ahaha! offtopic but I was just thinking of this kind of humor, where in text, you go back and "erase" what you say, but you do it in a verbal way, leaving the trail your brain took
I never trust people who claim any kind of knowledge on the afterlife: theists or atheists or anyone else.
why is it MORE unlikely that amassing the most credits will win you something? cite sources?
we pick our neuroses. collect toys, play war, cops n robbers, husband n wife,... I don't really see one as being particularly worse than another. I personally like to make or collect memorabilia for myself and the sharing with friends, but that's because I think nostalgia is a fun feeling. I wouldn't condemn someone who felt otherwise, but I will always laugh at someone who thinks they have the one right idea.
though I'm much more impressed when peoples' toys really mean something to them, and they can share that with me. that's valuable and can lead quickly to a kind of intimacy or understanding that I find difficult to reach with people who just offhandedly collect things.
Sometimes when people show me stuff I already know about I try to teach them about tangential things. Sometimes they're too slow to catch the shift.
Sometimes I'm wrong (maybe your kid is into Primus and you showed him Mingus and he immediately filed it "jazz; boring") in thinking I know about something, but it's still there for re-evaluation.
This leaves a sour taste in my mouth. He was probably also weird as an infant. So what? He made some very very important discoveries (Schumann Resonance, radio remote control, the first basic radio patent,...)
wikipedia sez: He ripped up a Westinghouse contract that would have made him the world's first billionaire, in part because of the implications it would have on his future vision of free power, and in part because it would run Westinghouse out of business, and Tesla had no desire to deal with the creditors.
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pheromonal synesthasia? sounds great!
Short answer? Grunts and fist-waving.
Long version: it's easier for most children to fudge through something they vaguely remember doing by pictures than it is for them to memorize a set of arcane letter-combinations they vaguely remember. People who do things other than write and learn a language inside and out have all sorts of other random esoteric knowledge buried away, and there's only so much that a single person can keep in their head. These people are called humans, and frankly, if you don't understand why politely asking them to "simply" learn to read is a mind-numbingly stupid proposition, I seriously recommend staying the hell away from child-raising.
.. let me add here that I'm pretty much quoting myself from about 7 years ago in the last bit there, and that having recently installed Slackware, it's come extremely far while maintaining a clarity and sanity that makes it simple to manage and configure, and on my desktop machine at least, it Just Works fine with minimal tweaking (and much less of a configuration jungle than ubuntu.)
And for an even simpler but still sane experience, I've found that Zenwalk, based on Slackware, can't really be beat.
.. the differences between Linux and Windows ..
I think you're severely misinformed as to what A Linux is. It's not Gnome nor is it KDE. Growing up with Windows, I had this same problem for a long time. Understanding that various Window-Managers (such as Gnome, KDE, Fluxbox, XFCE4, ...) are something like wrappers around the X Windows engine, you start to understand why The Linux is a little bit of an ambiguous term, and why there's so much tinkering and hobbyism (and as a result, endless amounts of support available for free). It just so happens that some tinkerers have been working on some things which try to keep the guts under the hood for users disinterested in tinkering (gnome, kde, aptitude/apt-get/ubuntu in general) and so people come to call those things linux.
Or on the other hand, someone might have tried to install Slackware many years ago and been frustrated with how "you have to be a compsci grad to use The Linux".
KDE 4 is at least sufficient for a large enough set of users that it would be unfair to have held it back until it had enough features for the larger set of users.
And there is definitely something to be said for community involvement, bug reports, feedback, which a project would have more of if it has more users, which would be the case in a x.0 Brand New It's Here !!! type release, rather than an alpha/beta release which many users would pass on until the "finished product" shows up.
I know it's unrealistic, but I really wish there was slightly more standardization in versioning techniques. Above all, I haaaaaaaate .10 versions, ie 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10 asgkljdsflgkjdflgkj.
I'm having trouble thinking up an application that has my personal favorite versioning method, one which could be applied to almost any project, but I know I've come across one or two. A 3 dot system seems like it would be best, 2.1.0, 2.1.4, 2.2.0. But just please please please never 2.10 coming after 2.9
but my Home Theater doesn't come equipped with an orchestra!!
I don't get why Fellini's so known for 8 1/2, it kind of makes me think there's something to be said for the hoity-toity artster. Roma FTW! and La Strada is really nice.
I bet many of those people asking MarsPhoenix questions don't even have proper degrees! How truly far we have fallen...
but of course there's a nonsarcastic part to that, in that you see a lot of repeated questions, whereas in a more formalized Q&A people would be more careful avoiding redundancy (well sometimes). It's not about educated/uneducated or "smart"/"dumb", it's about controlling flow in such a way as to address FAQs before they're asked. You learn letters before you learn verbs and if there's a bottleneck of people confused about what a word is, you insert that between letters and verbs. "omg asparagus on mars??" happens, but the good thing is that they aren't obligated to answer everyone's question.
The Future is Now!
n/t
Uh, why would anyone go to a theater
This reminds me of parts of "Meeting Woody Allen" where they talk about how going to the cinema has changed/died.
Considering that some of the best games and movies are less than 10 years old
And some of the best first-person shooters are less than 2 years old. You see how that works?
not to mention that so many of these games are just variations, or outright rehashes on the same old things, which inexplicably get passed off as new. I'd say it was practically a scam if I didn't know that most people making games really like making (or at least playing) games, despite their limited creativity or corporate pressures. but there's probably at least 30 "NEW GAMES" between doom2 and halo5 in the FPS "genre" that I don't really feel like I'm missing out on. [different maps, probably about 10 weapons with predictable range of utility + a couple surprises, some boringass plotline, more and more epic film worst-of-both-worlds cut scenes....] "Side-scroller". "Real-time-strategy". I'm not going to play or buy (most of) these games, but I'm certainly not going to buy them.
Just because something is unknown does not mean it is difficult, necessarily. With 885 million native speakers, I imagine that Mandarin (I'm assuming that's the variety used in code) is not rocket surgery.
Hey I never knew that... http://com http://net http://org
(com redirects to me to cnet, net goes to net.com, and org goes to org.com)
b-b-b-but how will I know if I am visiting a company, a network or an organization??
As if com net and org aren't arbitrary or actually represent companies networks and organizations. The terminology is flat, opening up the TLDs makes sense.
I kind of agree with the second part, but ASGKJASFGKJASD does it irk me. Especially with regards to alcohol sales law. Just thinking about the abject humiliation, anger and frustration I felt so often when missing an EXTREMELY VITAL musical event, due to how I wasn't Legally Responsible or soemthing, makes me just want to cry. And it's insane that (here in the U.S.) there are so many countless 18-21 year old voting-aged people who don't feel that they have any way of changing things! And of course, once we turn 21, it's not an issue anymore.
Okay, this does relate. It has to do with responsibility. I was just as, actually probably MORE responsibly at 15 than I was at 18, though midnight on the day of my Turning, I was magickally allowed to stay out a couple hours later without causing serious harm to my self and my neighborhood. I had growed up!
I never trust people who claim any kind of knowledge on the afterlife: theists or atheists or anyone else. why is it MORE unlikely that amassing the most credits will win you something? cite sources? we pick our neuroses. collect toys, play war, cops n robbers, husband n wife, ... I don't really see one as being particularly worse than another. I personally like to make or collect memorabilia for myself and the sharing with friends, but that's because I think nostalgia is a fun feeling. I wouldn't condemn someone who felt otherwise, but I will always laugh at someone who thinks they have the one right idea.
though I'm much more impressed when peoples' toys really mean something to them, and they can share that with me. that's valuable and can lead quickly to a kind of intimacy or understanding that I find difficult to reach with people who just offhandedly collect things.
Sometimes when people show me stuff I already know about I try to teach them about tangential things. Sometimes they're too slow to catch the shift.
Sometimes I'm wrong (maybe your kid is into Primus and you showed him Mingus and he immediately filed it "jazz; boring") in thinking I know about something, but it's still there for re-evaluation.
Maybe you're a pedant?
This leaves a sour taste in my mouth. He was probably also weird as an infant. So what? He made some very very important discoveries (Schumann Resonance, radio remote control, the first basic radio patent, ...)
wikipedia sez: He ripped up a Westinghouse contract that would have made him the world's first billionaire, in part because of the implications it would have on his future vision of free power, and in part because it would run Westinghouse out of business, and Tesla had no desire to deal with the creditors.