Sex, in nearly every species on this earth, most definitely including humans, has the underlying motive of domination.
Funny, I always thought it had the underlying motivation of getting off. Or ultimately, generating offspring, though likely no animal but us consciously thinks of that. However, Slashdot is possibly the worst place ever to argue about sex.
You'd pay a lot more. Even if the pieces are painted by near-slaves in China, you'd probably pay $.50 more per piece and they'd still look like hell. But it would have been nice if they'd been molded in a more subdued palette, I agree.
The developing world will still be living in the past if they try to "cover the basics" in old-fashioned ways before they try anything new. Look at India's nascent space program, either they can pour that money into feeding the countless poverty-stricken masses for a few more days or they can try to leapfrog ahead, and perhaps generate more innovation, jobs, and capital with which to solve those old problems in new ways.
I never thought I'd agree with any form of trickle-down economics, but if the developing world chooses to operate at a medieval subsistence level they'll NEVER be anything more than poor and underfed. I think most progressive, honest leaders in these countries know that. In this case, benefits CAN "trickle down" in the form of improved agricultural science, health care etc.
I mouse ambidextrously, in a vain attempt to stave off RSI in my good hand. I don't swap the mouse button functions when I switch hands - my brain prefers "right/left" to keeping the same task for the same finger. If a left-handed person learns to use a mouse with the default setup, they'll learn to use their middle finger for left-clicking, and their index for right-clicking.
Now... your average basic user may not know how to swap the buttons' functions, and may be using either finger to press either button depending on their handedness, understanding of mouse setup, and preference. I'd stick with the left/right terminology.
I recognize that "internal" names are not really intended for general consumption. Longhorn is the first non-OSS one I thought of as well (as well as other MS ones like "Klamath" which I had to look in an atlas for). And I know that most of the OSS projects with truly baffling names are targeted at a very technical user base. I just wanted to make a semi-serious reply to the humorous parent.
You raise a good point about OSS project acceptance and naming. Basically, I (a highly literate user) find a lot of OSS project names to be rather off-putting. I'm not a hacker or programmer or OSS zealot, I don't get all the in-jokes and recursive acronyms. I can deal; after all, what's not to love about The Gimp*? However, a lot of techno-idiot bosses and laypeople are NOT going to accept software with a weird-sounding name. I know this sounds daft but it's true. Until naming is more user-oriented, OSS will probably have a very hard time in the wider world.
* yeah the GUI is very odd, but ultimately anyone who can use PS at a half-decent level can handle it
I want the porn on my computer to be HARD to find. That way nobody but me will find it.
I don't really want a visiting friend clicking on the wrong icon in my Start menu and having my midget bukkake collection spread out before them (neatly catalogued).
We could use a few good men like you over at Fark.com. Of course, the knee-jerking fifteen-year-old armchair laissez-faire capitalists there don't listen any better than the ones here...
Corporations are the rightful pinnacle of human development, which is why we let them get away with almost anything. We exist at *their* leisure now, pray that you remain useful.
Perhaps we need an option added to e-mail accounts. Like a checkbox that says, "Check here if you wish to let __________ inherit this e-mail account when you end up dead." The blank line would be either another person's e-mail address to receive the password, or a real life name and address.
Of course some concrete proof of your death would be needed from the named party. Your e-mail provider would have no other way of knowing you actually had died, after all. They'd have to know ahead of time that you had made them your "e-mail inheritor", and at that point, it's easier to just give them a sealed envelope with the URL, username and password, to be opened in the event of your death.
(so, in your example: if no one can have 5 years of.NET experience - then no one will, unless they are lying), then the resumes will go to the hiring manager who will make further cullings to get an interview list. If you are the best candidate, you will get an interview.
Your faith in the process is impressive. I would personally assume that a few of the applicants would just lie, they'd get interviews, all the honest people would go into the circular file, and a lying weasel would then get hired to make everyone else's lives difficult for a few years until they weaseled their way out of a job, or into a management position.
Camping for weeks or months on end for your mob to spawn is a "challange" only in respect of trying to hold your eyelids open. In reality, it's simply player hardship for its own sake.
... or player hardship for the sake of stringing your gameplay out so you keep paying for that account.
They already do their best to recruit Counter-Strike players on Gamespy! (I am not kidding!)
So we'll have an army of guys trying to bunny hop across the battlefield, and getting shot up because they ran out into the middle of an open area to retrieve an RPG dropped by the enemy? Johnny's dying words? "See you in three minutes, sarge".
I sincerely doubt the new robosapien will be a success though. For $200 it's no longer in the upper range of toys - it's entering the price range of video game systems, televisions... the feature set is impressibe but most will likely never really use them.
Early adopters always pay more. The price will come down after a while as they figure out what the optimal "priced-to-buy" price point is.
Who'd do that? You'd miss part of the movie if you went to the bathroom, and the sound would probably be WAY too loud for half the audience, and the room would probably be kept freezing cold in the summer. Plus you couldn't watch the dirty parts five times in a row. It'll never fly.
I used to go to a coffee house that has large, heavy ceramic mugs which seem to be generally cold due to the weather or air conditioning. They pour hot coffee into them, and the coffee ultimately turns out lukewarm. I can't digest lukewarm coffee, and I find it disgusting, so they lost a customer.
Instead of asking them to warm up your cup (some hot water in it for 30 sec would do it), you stopped going there? That's pretty silly. Unless asking for that seems embarrassing to you (which is also silly - you are the customer, I'm sure they'd be happy to do it).
Yeah, but can you use your kettle with one hand while driving? That's the kind of life-is-one-big-commute consumer this is aimed at. To them, quality is secondary to convenience, god help them.
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Sex, in nearly every species on this earth, most definitely including humans, has the underlying motive of domination.
Funny, I always thought it had the underlying motivation of getting off. Or ultimately, generating offspring, though likely no animal but us consciously thinks of that. However, Slashdot is possibly the worst place ever to argue about sex.
Hey, if they have CPU's and want venison, and you have venison and need CPU's, isn't that how capitalism is supposed to work?
I think they send people to Cuba just for having a name like "Saeed al-Sahaf" these days :^( So he really has nothing to lose by trying this out...
You'd pay a lot more. Even if the pieces are painted by near-slaves in China, you'd probably pay $.50 more per piece and they'd still look like hell. But it would have been nice if they'd been molded in a more subdued palette, I agree.
The developing world will still be living in the past if they try to "cover the basics" in old-fashioned ways before they try anything new. Look at India's nascent space program, either they can pour that money into feeding the countless poverty-stricken masses for a few more days or they can try to leapfrog ahead, and perhaps generate more innovation, jobs, and capital with which to solve those old problems in new ways.
I never thought I'd agree with any form of trickle-down economics, but if the developing world chooses to operate at a medieval subsistence level they'll NEVER be anything more than poor and underfed. I think most progressive, honest leaders in these countries know that. In this case, benefits CAN "trickle down" in the form of improved agricultural science, health care etc.
I mouse ambidextrously, in a vain attempt to stave off RSI in my good hand. I don't swap the mouse button functions when I switch hands - my brain prefers "right/left" to keeping the same task for the same finger. If a left-handed person learns to use a mouse with the default setup, they'll learn to use their middle finger for left-clicking, and their index for right-clicking.
Now... your average basic user may not know how to swap the buttons' functions, and may be using either finger to press either button depending on their handedness, understanding of mouse setup, and preference. I'd stick with the left/right terminology.
I recognize that "internal" names are not really intended for general consumption. Longhorn is the first non-OSS one I thought of as well (as well as other MS ones like "Klamath" which I had to look in an atlas for). And I know that most of the OSS projects with truly baffling names are targeted at a very technical user base. I just wanted to make a semi-serious reply to the humorous parent.
You raise a good point about OSS project acceptance and naming. Basically, I (a highly literate user) find a lot of OSS project names to be rather off-putting. I'm not a hacker or programmer or OSS zealot, I don't get all the in-jokes and recursive acronyms. I can deal; after all, what's not to love about The Gimp*? However, a lot of techno-idiot bosses and laypeople are NOT going to accept software with a weird-sounding name. I know this sounds daft but it's true. Until naming is more user-oriented, OSS will probably have a very hard time in the wider world.
* yeah the GUI is very odd, but ultimately anyone who can use PS at a half-decent level can handle it
I assume that if it was a physical keylogger on the keyboard cable you pocketed it, and if it was software you deleted it, right?
is it because guns hurt puny, worthless individuals and P2P hurts large, rich corporations that the congress-critters care?
Maybe guns should start hurting large, rich corporations.
I want the porn on my computer to be HARD to find. That way nobody but me will find it.
I don't really want a visiting friend clicking on the wrong icon in my Start menu and having my midget bukkake collection spread out before them (neatly catalogued).
We could use a few good men like you over at Fark.com. Of course, the knee-jerking fifteen-year-old armchair laissez-faire capitalists there don't listen any better than the ones here...
Corporations are the rightful pinnacle of human development, which is why we let them get away with almost anything. We exist at *their* leisure now, pray that you remain useful.
But not becuase I am 1337 and "they" are LUSERS with PEBCAK problems.
Am I 1337 for independently deriving what PEBCAK stands for?
That's only hacking in the same sense that my roommate turning on my computer and messing with it while I'm at work is "hacking".
Perhaps we need an option added to e-mail accounts. Like a checkbox that says, "Check here if you wish to let __________ inherit this e-mail account when you end up dead." The blank line would be either another person's e-mail address to receive the password, or a real life name and address.
Of course some concrete proof of your death would be needed from the named party. Your e-mail provider would have no other way of knowing you actually had died, after all. They'd have to know ahead of time that you had made them your "e-mail inheritor", and at that point, it's easier to just give them a sealed envelope with the URL, username and password, to be opened in the event of your death.
(so, in your example: if no one can have 5 years of .NET experience - then no one will, unless they are lying), then the resumes will go to the hiring manager who will make further cullings to get an interview list. If you are the best candidate, you will get an interview.
Your faith in the process is impressive. I would personally assume that a few of the applicants would just lie, they'd get interviews, all the honest people would go into the circular file, and a lying weasel would then get hired to make everyone else's lives difficult for a few years until they weaseled their way out of a job, or into a management position.
Camping for weeks or months on end for your mob to spawn is a "challange" only in respect of trying to hold your eyelids open. In reality, it's simply player hardship for its own sake.
... or player hardship for the sake of stringing your gameplay out so you keep paying for that account.
They already do their best to recruit Counter-Strike players on Gamespy! (I am not kidding!)
So we'll have an army of guys trying to bunny hop across the battlefield, and getting shot up because they ran out into the middle of an open area to retrieve an RPG dropped by the enemy? Johnny's dying words? "See you in three minutes, sarge".
I sincerely doubt the new robosapien will be a success though. For $200 it's no longer in the upper range of toys - it's entering the price range of video game systems, televisions... the feature set is impressibe but most will likely never really use them.
Early adopters always pay more. The price will come down after a while as they figure out what the optimal "priced-to-buy" price point is.
Who'd do that? You'd miss part of the movie if you went to the bathroom, and the sound would probably be WAY too loud for half the audience, and the room would probably be kept freezing cold in the summer. Plus you couldn't watch the dirty parts five times in a row. It'll never fly.
...make your quotas of public beatings...
Barney, is that you?
I used to go to a coffee house that has large, heavy ceramic mugs which seem to be generally cold due to the weather or air conditioning. They pour hot coffee into them, and the coffee ultimately turns out lukewarm. I can't digest lukewarm coffee, and I find it disgusting, so they lost a customer.
Instead of asking them to warm up your cup (some hot water in it for 30 sec would do it), you stopped going there? That's pretty silly. Unless asking for that seems embarrassing to you (which is also silly - you are the customer, I'm sure they'd be happy to do it).
Yeah, but can you use your kettle with one hand while driving? That's the kind of life-is-one-big-commute consumer this is aimed at. To them, quality is secondary to convenience, god help them.
You've never seen a Gentoo compile-fest have you?
Is that like when Furries have sex?