if you homeschool your kids make sure you allow for social interaction. going to church once a week and talking to the old lady with Alzheimers doesnt count. neither does going to some kids church group that they outgrew forever ago. actual social activities like maybe not telling your kids that you already asked the entire neighborhood and nobody wants to be their friend so they shouldnt try. i guess im blowing steam here but homeschooling really fucked me up so be careful if you do it. dont just say you have an education degree so you know what youre doing. talk to successful homeschooling parents first and ask for what they did any how their kids ended up alright. homeschooling screwed me up and to all of you that say that theres no studies that say its bad, maybe you should have been locked away from society for the prime of your teenage years and some early grade school years and see how you turn out. it is probably one of the worst things one could do to their children if not executed correctly.
do you seriously think that we dont even try to figure out how to be social or lose sleep on it like we do other things. unlike the rest of life, being social isnt easy shit. it took me almost twenty years to figure out how to interact with a normal person and even then i do it poorly, not knowing when its appropriate to say certain things like good morning or you look amazing. maybe if it were possible for you to go back in time and somehow have parents that tried to shield you from society you'd have an idea what its like. of course, then you would lose the ability to properly interact with people and that would suck. but then you could just go back in time and maybe be able bo straighten yourself back out.
I find tasks I can do simply and quickly, and with a fair amount of transparency with the "classic" UI, to be made highly opaque by the Vista (for lack of a better word) UI and involving much more effort, often MORE clicking, MORE bullshitting around.
Come on. If you want to do something fast you can't use a GUI anyway. Any clicking is too much clicking. Thats what the command shell is for.
Seriously tho, the main point is to appear more user friendly. If stuff takes longer than necessary, oh well (not my viewpoint). Take Vista for an example (yes, MSW7 is supposed to be "better" than Vista): It looked cool and so people thought it was cool (i'm not referring to the slashdot crowd here, i know people that like vista). Vista was so big because of aero. MS office 2007: a few extra clicks to double space than there used to be (yes people originally complained about office 2007) but there are lots that love it. I don't like a bunch of extra clicks to do stuff (carpel tunnel is no fun) and so i dont use stuff with a lot of clicks, but it looks cool and thats what people will care about. And, people will write windows software that will make it less painful eventually. Or, you could just use linux (CTRL-ALT-Fx, login, bash, no unnessary clicks.) Better yet, turn off the display manager and xinit when you need a GUI. Or ratpoison like I do (I don't recommend ratpoison to joe sixpack tho.)
yes we could, but remember, this is america youre talking about. we have cell phone recycling programs where you can make a dollar or two from donating your old phone, and we have thrift stores to donate your old computer to, (not to mention churches and charities) all of which are easily contactable. but people will still just throw their stuff in the garbage to save thirty seconds of their time (even tho "being green" is in right now many people still throw away a ridiculous amount of garbage.)
I left shaking my head after a report surfaced that the my grandmother was using a rotary phone at her house instead of a touch tone. So why would gas stove user grandma be rotar-ing out? Could be one of those special-edition telephones that ma bell bestowed on all their customers at one time, suggests myself, nixing the idea that the grandmother in my family would waste time turning a wheel on a telephone just to call someone.
What? It's about as valuable information to the world as the fact that Obama is using a Zune. It really doesn't matter that much. Next thing we'll be finding out that he takes showers in the evening instead of the morning. Why would the president-elect ever take an evening shower? We should impeach him now. It's almost as bad as that one time when he used a Zune instead of an iPod, thus breaking the law made when the government was sold to Apple.
Interesting that Chrome will now be known as the fastest browser. I never imagined that a browser that requires a gui, wastes time displaying flash animations, and runs only on the windows platform could ever be faster than my favored choice: links2. Wait, links2 is still the fastest, at least in my tests. But then I do use Firefox for YouTube and The Onion every now and then. Oh, and idle doesn't look near as horrible on links2.
I don't even know how this works out so well but I've noticed that sometimes it's okay to just start walking to the front of the line while repeatedly saying, "I'm just getting a salad." It doesnt seem to work for porta-john lines though.
painlessly provided you can get to the recovery console. my moms computer only comes with a "recovery disk" that wipes the hard drive clean and reinstalls everything including all the hp crapware that you have to waste time deleting afterward. she uses avg. i sure hope that she doesn't install the update.
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All the obscureness of vim combined with the bloat of emacs. Then I have lots of fun letting people borrow my computer and watch them get mad at my custom xmodmap while trying to figure out how to get to the "Start" menu because they don't know ratpoison.
I can see several versions down the road that it will run on only a single computer, the one in the museum (hey, remember that one company, what's it called, um um, right, micro um microsomething.)
I would have *never* suspected that dirty tricks would happen this year or start anytime soon. Dirty tricks when it comes to political matters' what is this world coming to anyway?
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if you homeschool your kids make sure you allow for social interaction. going to church once a week and talking to the old lady with Alzheimers doesnt count. neither does going to some kids church group that they outgrew forever ago. actual social activities like maybe not telling your kids that you already asked the entire neighborhood and nobody wants to be their friend so they shouldnt try. i guess im blowing steam here but homeschooling really fucked me up so be careful if you do it. dont just say you have an education degree so you know what youre doing. talk to successful homeschooling parents first and ask for what they did any how their kids ended up alright. homeschooling screwed me up and to all of you that say that theres no studies that say its bad, maybe you should have been locked away from society for the prime of your teenage years and some early grade school years and see how you turn out. it is probably one of the worst things one could do to their children if not executed correctly.
do you seriously think that we dont even try to figure out how to be social or lose sleep on it like we do other things. unlike the rest of life, being social isnt easy shit. it took me almost twenty years to figure out how to interact with a normal person and even then i do it poorly, not knowing when its appropriate to say certain things like good morning or you look amazing. maybe if it were possible for you to go back in time and somehow have parents that tried to shield you from society you'd have an idea what its like. of course, then you would lose the ability to properly interact with people and that would suck. but then you could just go back in time and maybe be able bo straighten yourself back out.
I find tasks I can do simply and quickly, and with a fair amount of transparency with the "classic" UI, to be made highly opaque by the Vista (for lack of a better word) UI and involving much more effort, often MORE clicking, MORE bullshitting around.
Come on. If you want to do something fast you can't use a GUI anyway. Any clicking is too much clicking. Thats what the command shell is for.
Seriously tho, the main point is to appear more user friendly. If stuff takes longer than necessary, oh well (not my viewpoint). Take Vista for an example (yes, MSW7 is supposed to be "better" than Vista): It looked cool and so people thought it was cool (i'm not referring to the slashdot crowd here, i know people that like vista). Vista was so big because of aero. MS office 2007: a few extra clicks to double space than there used to be (yes people originally complained about office 2007) but there are lots that love it. I don't like a bunch of extra clicks to do stuff (carpel tunnel is no fun) and so i dont use stuff with a lot of clicks, but it looks cool and thats what people will care about. And, people will write windows software that will make it less painful eventually. Or, you could just use linux (CTRL-ALT-Fx, login, bash, no unnessary clicks.) Better yet, turn off the display manager and xinit when you need a GUI. Or ratpoison like I do (I don't recommend ratpoison to joe sixpack tho.)
yes we could, but remember, this is america youre talking about. we have cell phone recycling programs where you can make a dollar or two from donating your old phone, and we have thrift stores to donate your old computer to, (not to mention churches and charities) all of which are easily contactable. but people will still just throw their stuff in the garbage to save thirty seconds of their time (even tho "being green" is in right now many people still throw away a ridiculous amount of garbage.)
Why have a Linux distro focused solely on wine when you could have an operating system based off of it? http://reactos.org/
I left shaking my head after a report surfaced that the my grandmother was using a rotary phone at her house instead of a touch tone. So why would gas stove user grandma be rotar-ing out? Could be one of those special-edition telephones that ma bell bestowed on all their customers at one time, suggests myself, nixing the idea that the grandmother in my family would waste time turning a wheel on a telephone just to call someone. What? It's about as valuable information to the world as the fact that Obama is using a Zune. It really doesn't matter that much. Next thing we'll be finding out that he takes showers in the evening instead of the morning. Why would the president-elect ever take an evening shower? We should impeach him now. It's almost as bad as that one time when he used a Zune instead of an iPod, thus breaking the law made when the government was sold to Apple.
Believe it or not i actually have seen one outside the store. One fell out of the truck on the way to the store.
iRobot by Isaac Asimov is definitely the book you need. It has the three laws so it should help get you started.
Looks like McDonalds might be infringing on my patent of making food.
Interesting that Chrome will now be known as the fastest browser. I never imagined that a browser that requires a gui, wastes time displaying flash animations, and runs only on the windows platform could ever be faster than my favored choice: links2. Wait, links2 is still the fastest, at least in my tests. But then I do use Firefox for YouTube and The Onion every now and then. Oh, and idle doesn't look near as horrible on links2.
Is there any reason to think silverlight will become widely used?
We've learned a lot about how users interact in rich social environments,
It was all just a test so that the hardcore geeks there could learn how to go to clubs and bars and not be completely awkward.
This isn't a car analogy. I come to slashdot because that's all I understand you insensitive clod.
I don't even know how this works out so well but I've noticed that sometimes it's okay to just start walking to the front of the line while repeatedly saying, "I'm just getting a salad." It doesnt seem to work for porta-john lines though.
outside? wheres that? i dont think ive ever been there before. could you send me the url plz?
painlessly provided you can get to the recovery console. my moms computer only comes with a "recovery disk" that wipes the hard drive clean and reinstalls everything including all the hp crapware that you have to waste time deleting afterward. she uses avg. i sure hope that she doesn't install the update.
is M-x Viper \[esc]x eshell All the obscureness of vim combined with the bloat of emacs. Then I have lots of fun letting people borrow my computer and watch them get mad at my custom xmodmap while trying to figure out how to get to the "Start" menu because they don't know ratpoison.
I can see several versions down the road that it will run on only a single computer, the one in the museum (hey, remember that one company, what's it called, um um, right, micro um microsomething.)
I would have *never* suspected that dirty tricks would happen this year or start anytime soon. Dirty tricks when it comes to political matters' what is this world coming to anyway?
Aha! There is your problem. It's: call center == help desk, otherwise your test will always return true; a self fulfilling test, if you will.
but of couse, call center is help desk now that call center = help desk has been written. you can't take words back now that they've been said.