>And you can put it in a thermos flask and carry it about >with you so you can have a nice, hot cup of tea whenever >you want one.
And if you prefer coffee, just dump the coffee, cream and sugar all into the thermos, and give it a quick shake.
Then pour yourself a perfect cup anytime you like. Relaxing bliss... and the thermos cup is just the right (small teacup) size, yet still looks manly;)
>Wow, you're awesome. You should tell your grandkids about how >awesome you were, back in 2006. If you have grandkids.
Hey, don't be too hard on him.
This modern age has taught him that he's just an animal that happened to evolve, with no significance. And he's been taught that there's nothing beyond this life to hold him accountable.
Grandchildren? He's been taught that children are a contraception failure.
Why *should* he care about anything but entertainment? Were you expecting a different outcome to his education?
Since other aspects are sufficiently covered ...
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... I just want you to know that I'm sorry that you and your family are in this situation. It's painful for everybody, and I feel for you.
>It's difficult for modern works to achieve classic status. Just >last week I was reading that many anthology creators pick and >choose their contents based more and more on what rights they can >afford.
Oh no! We won't be able to replace $TIME_HONORED_CLASSIC with $MODERN_TRIPE?
I'm ordering some more genuine Mickey Mouse stuff right now, along with a nice thank you note;)
I'm pretty sure the large number of teanie boppers that register as 99 years old to avoid stalkers, creeps, and weirdos may have thrown the statistics off just a little bit.
Remember, girls, if you try to project a highly sexual image to the world, that only teenaged boys will look and be interested. Anybody over 20 who's attention you catch is a "stalker, creep, and weirdo".
This idea's pretty weird, yet millions of kids seem to believe it...
>Even if you are able to find out some of the tables >and fields in a web-accessible database, you don't have >the password to be able to execute your own queries...
If you can inject SQL, then *you* don't need the password. The web page sends the SQL to the database server.
>Decent folk who don't understand memory management at all.
The problem isn't what it says in Task Manager, the problem is that simply leaving the browser open for a few days makes it slow and unresponsive. This is apprently due to a memory leak or three, but I'm not annoyed by it for some theoretical reason, but rather because of what practically happens.
For some reason I don't need to think about the memory management of my other applications, including the open source ones. Just Firefox.
>If you wrote a program that allocated 600 megs of ram, you'd see firefox's >memory usage shrink by 100 megs.
That's the problem; it *doesn't* go back down. Nothing helps but to exit Firefox.
Hey, I'm living with it, still love and use Firefox. I don't have time to learn to hack on Firefox to fix it; I'm fine with it if the developers want to say that it's a problem they aren't interested in. What's annoying is their sheer denial of the problem.
The situation is: lots of people complain about FF memory usage to this day, including 1.5+, how the memory usage grows over time while the program is open and being used. FF developers say "no it doesn't!" or "it's the extensions' falut!"
My point is, even if it is the fault of extensions, at a minumum FF needs to respond by not listing these extensions on their official list on their website. For many, many users the whole point of using FF is to be able to use various extensions. It does no good to say "the base browser is fine", when it comes to public perception of this problem. Any more than it did MS any good to say "it's the third party drivers causing the blue screens!" So point us to the extensions that *don't *leak. Or at a minimum don't point us to the extensions that *do* leak.
>Maybe we could debunk the Firefox is a memory hog [mozillazine.org] hoax, too.
We could if it *were* a hoax. Since it's reported by decent folk all over the place, I don't think we can.
If the problem really is just extensions, then Mozilla *still* needs to do something about it. Don't list them on the official extensions list until they are fixed. As somebody in the thread you linked to mentioned, what's the point of using FF if you can't use extensions?
[That's what I thought. It was never *cool* to bash string theory. It was never so cool and in to bash it that the late night hosts were bashing it. So you didn't join in...]
>Intelligent design is an anti-scientific ideology.
No, actually it isn't. It's an area of exploration - the possibility that evidence of intelligent design in complex systems may be identifiable by analysis. Life is one (very) complex system.
For example, the concept behind SETI is quite similar - the idea that by analyzing electromagnetic radiation we can determine if a particular stream is from an intelligent source.
But, have fun. The authorities of pop culture say that ID is one of the approved mocking targets for now.
I am not sure at all that the psychological consequences of a full-life recording have been investigated, and I somehow tend to believe they wouldn't be positive.
I tend to think the main effect would be to intesify the awareness of our own wickedness. Unless we could Tivo past all our petty acts of nastiness...
>Another source of wonder for me is the weird UI >design in XP - like menus that have to be clicked >to reveal all their options - what's that all about?
AFAIK, that's just Office, not XP. I don't recall having to deal with that abomination outside of Office.
>It's funny how people will use any excuse to NOT use Macs >when they are obviously much less troublesome, those that >do use them never seem to complain, and manage to get their >work done successfully nevertheless. >There seems to be some sort of mass denial going on >- what is WRONG with you people?!
Hmm... Tools, Options, turn off crazy menus. Save $1000.
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>And you can put it in a thermos flask and carry it about
... and the thermos cup is just the right (small teacup) size, yet still looks manly ;)
>with you so you can have a nice, hot cup of tea whenever
>you want one.
And if you prefer coffee, just dump the coffee, cream and sugar all into the thermos, and give it a quick shake.
Then pour yourself a perfect cup anytime you like. Relaxing bliss
So the Puritans, say, who believed that the earth was created specifically so humans could reside on it, knew nothing about humilty.
While we folks today, believing stuff like in this article, are just such humble folk ...
>There's no point to life, we're just meat sacks.
Then why do you guys care how he wastes his?
I know why *I* care; why do *you*, if you *honestly* believe that there is no point to life?
>as it explains some of the ridiculous arrogance
... like bass speakers in one's car, facing outward ;)
>that seems common on the Internet.
And off the internet
>Wow, you're awesome. You should tell your grandkids about how
>awesome you were, back in 2006. If you have grandkids.
Hey, don't be too hard on him.
This modern age has taught him that he's just an animal that happened to evolve, with no significance. And he's been taught that there's nothing beyond this life to hold him accountable.
Grandchildren? He's been taught that children are a contraception failure.
Why *should* he care about anything but entertainment? Were you expecting a different outcome to his education?
... I just want you to know that I'm sorry that you and your family are in this situation. It's painful for everybody, and I feel for you.
>It's difficult for modern works to achieve classic status. Just
;)
>last week I was reading that many anthology creators pick and
>choose their contents based more and more on what rights they can
>afford.
Oh no! We won't be able to replace $TIME_HONORED_CLASSIC with
$MODERN_TRIPE?
I'm ordering some more genuine Mickey Mouse stuff right now, along
with a nice thank you note
I'm pretty sure the large number of teanie boppers that register as 99 years old to avoid stalkers, creeps, and weirdos may have thrown the statistics off just a little bit.
Remember, girls, if you try to project a highly sexual image to the world, that only teenaged boys will look and be interested. Anybody over 20 who's attention you catch is a "stalker, creep, and weirdo".
This idea's pretty weird, yet millions of kids seem to believe it ...
>Even if you are able to find out some of the tables
>and fields in a web-accessible database, you don't have
>the password to be able to execute your own queries...
If you can inject SQL, then *you* don't need the password. The web page sends the SQL to the database server.
>To answer your second question, you have NO BUSINESS telling
>your local government what software works for them.
Really? In a democracy? No business at all?
>Decent folk who don't understand memory management at all.
The problem isn't what it says in Task Manager, the problem is that simply leaving the browser open for a few days makes it slow and unresponsive. This is apprently due to a memory leak or three, but I'm not annoyed by it for some theoretical reason, but rather because of what practically happens.
For some reason I don't need to think about the memory management of my other applications, including the open source ones. Just Firefox.
>If you wrote a program that allocated 600 megs of ram, you'd see firefox's
>memory usage shrink by 100 megs.
That's the problem; it *doesn't* go back down. Nothing helps but to exit Firefox.
Hey, I'm living with it, still love and use Firefox. I don't have time to learn to hack on Firefox to fix it; I'm fine with it if the developers want to say that it's a problem they aren't interested in. What's annoying is their sheer denial of the problem.
>Hey genius, you replied to his sig ;)
;)
Keeps me humble
>So, I don't understand what the point is,
The point of what?
The situation is: lots of people complain about FF memory usage to this day, including 1.5+, how the memory usage grows over time while the program is open and being used. FF developers say "no it doesn't!" or "it's the extensions' falut!"
My point is, even if it is the fault of extensions, at a minumum FF needs to respond by not listing these extensions on their official list on their website. For many, many users the whole point of using FF is to be able to use various extensions. It does no good to say "the base browser is fine", when it comes to public perception of this problem. Any more than it did MS any good to say "it's the third party drivers causing the blue screens!" So point us to the extensions that *don't *leak. Or at a minimum don't point us to the extensions that *do* leak.
>Maybe we could debunk the Firefox is a memory hog [mozillazine.org] hoax, too.
We could if it *were* a hoax. Since it's reported by decent folk all over the place, I don't think we can.
If the problem really is just extensions, then Mozilla *still* needs to do something about it. Don't list them on the official extensions list until they are fixed. As somebody in the thread you linked to mentioned, what's the point of using FF if you can't use extensions?
... cricket chirp ... cricket chirp ...
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[That's what I thought. It was never *cool* to bash string theory. It was never so cool and in to bash it that the late night hosts were bashing it. So you didn't join in
Where the heck are the system requirements?
... I haven't had any problems. Yet. I send invoices through PayPal, people pay me, I transfer the money out, and everybody's happy.
...)
(whistles nervously, knocks wood
>Intelligent design is an anti-scientific ideology.
No, actually it isn't. It's an area of exploration - the possibility that evidence of intelligent design in complex systems may be identifiable by analysis. Life is one (very) complex system.
For example, the concept behind SETI is quite similar - the idea that by analyzing electromagnetic radiation we can determine if a particular stream is from an intelligent source.
But, have fun. The authorities of pop culture say that ID is one of the approved mocking targets for now.
Cool! They'll be like the N.I.C.E. in C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength!
Oh, wait ...
If that's all we are, I think I'd rather be a goat ... or a rabbit.
I am not sure at all that the psychological consequences of a full-life recording have been investigated, and I somehow tend to believe they wouldn't be positive.
I tend to think the main effect would be to intesify the awareness of our own wickedness. Unless we could Tivo past all our petty acts of nastiness ...
>I don't give Bush much credit, because he didn't start this
...
>legislation,
Oh, like Clinton and welfare reform, then. Except Bush didn't veto this three times before feeling politically compelled to sign it
Just breed me a cat that is irresitably attractive to, yet also fatal to, fleas.
...
I'd pay at least $1000
>Another source of wonder for me is the weird UI
... Tools, Options, turn off crazy menus. Save $1000.
:)
>design in XP - like menus that have to be clicked
>to reveal all their options - what's that all about?
AFAIK, that's just Office, not XP. I don't recall having to deal with that abomination outside of Office.
>It's funny how people will use any excuse to NOT use Macs
>when they are obviously much less troublesome, those that
>do use them never seem to complain, and manage to get their
>work done successfully nevertheless.
>There seems to be some sort of mass denial going on
>- what is WRONG with you people?!
Hmm
I'm OK with it
>It's a pretty familier story, and essential for the advancement of
;)
...
>science.
Sure, just like the ever-changing O.J. defense team theories in response to found evidence were essential to the advancement of justice
Now if you could actually do experiments, that would be pretty cool. I want to don the tinfoil glasses for the first supernova trial in the lab