actually, when we lived in China, sugar cane was a popular snack. You could buy a whole (25 feet long) cane stalk and have it cut into shorter (@10 inches) pieces to snack on. You chew and spit out most of the fiber, but it is yummy, my kids grew up on it and really loved it.
what this is aimed at is a (maybe burgeoning) market in "co-generating" where the homeowner generates their power as a constant stream and feeds back into the grid any extra power (or draws extra power when their banks of high-intensity plant lights come on at 4 in the morning: I'm looking at you oregon and Washinton).
not just that we can do things just as fast without leaving our home, but that the basic idea that doing things fast and faster is broken. I lump it together (probably falsely) with walking across campus (which is full of trees and birds and squirrels) and seeing the students and faculty with their noses buried in their mobes completely oblivious to anything outside their circumscribed circles of electrons injected into their eyes. They look like mind-controlled zombies from the 50s, scurrying to their classes so they can sit in air-conditioning and... stare at their mobe some more.
Slow down, watch the world, wait for things to come to fruition and ripeness.
I went to a tier one US State university fromm 1996-2000, only 15 credits a semester and picked up about 25,000 in debt. Have just this month started to pay back minute amounts of it because I have been overseas doing useful but low paying stuff (called teaching) with a family (wife and three kids). Been doing OK, but coming back to the US, Jesus, you guys (now "we guys") are getting ripped every time we turn around.
OK, just the education part: 1) why do parents pay for the kids education? Why are the loans based on the parent's income? 2) Why are the classrooms shit, the teacher's offices shit, the faculty salaries shit while the sports recruiters, the domes and athletic fields and sport facilities are golden. 3) why do the president's make CEO salaries, along with the top tier of administrators, while there is a huge step down to the people who actually take the heat when somebody screws up. 4)Universities do a tremendous amount for the cities/towns they are in, and get recompensed by the locality in many many ways. They do the same for the state and get nothing but hassle for every penny they get. They get almost nothing from the fed for what they do to propel the national economy (think R&D, ed culture and the level of thought and discussion having risen --in general-- in the last century: those of you who think you are so cool to know and read Ayn Rand, think about who paid for you to have the ability, the time and the access to the books. Your corporate buddies or your federal government that used to fund the schools that educated you, provided the seed money for the libraries where you could get the books for free to read, and gave you the liberty to discuss and learn from others in a public forum. )
Anyway, we could do a lot worse than provide free public education for K-16
And who says they hate Koreans? I used to work for Samsung in China, and they are awesome. The Chinese people I knew there loved the company, especially over Chinese companies but also over LG, who competed for the same skilled workforce. The Chinese also have no love for a company like Apple that is a style maven for the hated rich and vapid elite. Frankly, all the fatcats already bought the iTrash they wanted and the wannabees don't want to keep buying new stuff just because it is new. They ain't stupid ya know. Just sayin'...
Well, here is my 2 cents: On the ground, in my classroom of foreign students from Russia, Ecuador, China and Vietnam this summer (in an expensive three week "summer camp/pre-university" kind of thing), all (as in every single one) of the students had an iPhone, one had an iPad as well. Interestingly, most of my colleagues have dumped their last gen iPhone and replaced it with an Android flavor. Most of the other 45,000 students at our uni.... I can't tell, too hard to guess what the stats would be on that sample.
I do it, and we take the whole thing quite seriously. We have an interesting house, in a neighborhood close to the art, culture and nightlife of our city. We provide bicycles for free to our guests and rides when possible. Our guests have been fantastic, many book again and become friends after staying for a month or more.
We also have two other things going for us: first, we used to be a part of couch-surfing, but left when it went corporate. Second, a lot of our guests are from Europe, and since my wife is European and we have a more European outlook we get a lot of good reviews from our guests, and vice-versa (no problems with unmet expectations).
I, and a small group of other friends, lost one of our group to the police. No, he wasn't killed by them per se, he became a cop himself.
We were all studying, practicing, playing wushu (what you probably call "kung fu") together 3 or 4 times a week and had been for many years. He was a highly skilled young man who had advanced from being an overweight loser from a family of criminals and religious fanatics to a healthy and well-balanced teen-ager with attention and focus.
Then the cops recruited him, partly because his dad was a known criminal "in recovery" (as in just out of jail and trying to stay clean). He started in the sheriff's office, then into the local police force, then the SWAT team. We lost him. One of our number, who works the street corners to try and keep ghetto kids off the bad stuff said he heard rumors that our friend was getting a little rough, and went to talk to him about it. He came back shocked. "You niggers don't know anything but guns and beating. Its all you do to yourself, so how else can I beat any sense into your fuzzy heads?"
But the result of the SWAT promotion was the most interesting to this discussion. He started taking steroids to add muscle mass (bulk up) and blew up like a sausage. Wushu is more focused on tendon training, elasticity rather than strength, whipping power rather than brute force, but this guy left us all far behind and became a muscle-bound brute. Naturally the "Roid rage" followed, and it was the same old, same old. He's gone to the "dark side" but what else could have happened? Once he started on the cop path it was pretty much pre-ordained.
Our teacher retired, it was the last straw for him. We all broke up and went our separate ways. The story came to mind this morning because I am going back there in a few weeks and we have a meet-up planned, but one of us will definitely be missing.
Mod this up. There are many things that it makes sense to have the government do. Making a profit is not one of them, of course, but when it comes to important goods and services, maybe giving that responsibility should not be given to large corps who plan to make a profit, like, say... oh yeah, AT&T. They sucked buckets of cash out of us for long distance because the government was convinced they couldn't do it as well as AT&T, when it fact lots of government teleservices were better all over the world.
The libertarian ideal of the corporatized service sector is, to keep it civil, very mistaken. Look around us, Americans, and see how we are being cheated on a scale that boggles the mind, for services big and small. From the "privitization" of the mail and the trains to education, the telesector and ISPs, we are getting the shaft.
Back up fool, Carter has lots of cred in international circles. He has worked in Africa to save millions of lives from some nasty diseases, gotten involved in the Gaza conflict occasionally and is considered an "elder statesman" by most of the world As if your opinion would matter though, not having done one iota of the things he did on a slow day.
Having worked in shelters for the homeless, the vast majority of them have mental, psychological and emotional problems that make it almost impossible for them to function well in the modern world. They used to get help from social workers in government programs, before that they lived in, or transited into and out of, hospitals. President Carter thought, for good reasons, that the hospital system was more like a prison and they deserved to have a chance at self-determination: thus he supported homes/ group homes/ social service network to help them. It also saved money over the hospital system and gave the mentally disturbed who were functional enough a chance to build living skills. President Ronnie Raygun saw a chance to kill a government program and dumped their support services and subsidies for housing. They crashed onto the streets and the number and size of both the homeless population and the homeless charity services ballooned. But most Americans saw this as a good thing because, while it didn't decrease THEIR taxes, it did "decrease taxes" by an overall matter of cents per year when considered against the increase in cost of support for homeless service charities, police enforcement (my city, like most in the country, has a dedicated police group responsible for helping the homeless people in the city, so we pay for it when we pay for our local police now) and the destruction of public property and loss of property values in areas where homeless people congregate. Thank you Ronnie, you really helped make our world better.
I was at a meeting a few weeks ago, and the head of the police homeless task force was there talking about the initiatives they were pushing: laws to stop people from pissing in public, trying to get homeless people to go to the shelters instead of hanging in the parks, stuff like that. Nobody, absolutely nobody wants to address the roots: these people need help, government help. Government is the only agency powerful enough to provide the services they need. Either the city must do it ( and if they did every fuckin homeless person in the southeast would move here, because no matter what you fools above say, they don't want to be in mental anguish and be the butt of your hatred) or the state (ditto the above paren) or the feds. Which means we need to get a clueful Congress and start to pay some reasonable taxes.
If you want to solve a problem that is systemic, you need to PAY FOR a systemic solution. That requires the government because they operate the system. No, your vote does not operate the system, it influences the government, those are different things.
What kids say and the reality of their world, and the real reality of the world are not always (how about "seldom") the same thing. And that goes for you too, honored P.
Citizens are free to stay or go. Prisoner health, because they are at the mercy of the state, is the responsibility of the state. You could, foolishly, complain about the cost of the buses, but then how much would you complain about the cost of life-long health care for one single inmate who contracted the fungal disease on a bus riding out of the area without air-conditioning? Which would you rather pay?
I think, believe and act on ideas that assume that you are working with a false dichotomy. It is not "be passive-aggressive" or "be rude and mean." (in the same way that it is not "use bad grammar" or "be understood").
Years ago I did a deep and meditative study of the question of honesty and truthfulness. What I found is that I and others had mistakenly bought into the false dichotomy of "be honest and truthful" or "don't hurt people's feelings." In reality, people who hurt others with honesty are usually (normally, in almost all cases) giving incomplete truth. They are also doing this to protect themselves from people losing trust and/or faith and/or affection for them. But, this is just words and needs a good example, let's try one.
A friend asks you for an opinion on their relationship with a romantic partner, a relationship that you think is cooling and is at risk of falling apart. You have an interest in this, since your friend is a good friend while their romantic partner has never interested you very much, and you have occasionally skipped unimportant chances to get together because of that coolness. Instead you started some other project or activity which has now become an important part of your life.
Now (got the picture, in general?), if you are going to answer the question honestly you have to cover all the information above, as well as the fact that initially you had some sense of separation caused by the friend's new attraction to someone you didn't see anything in and the fact that you have now built up an activity relationship that doesn't include them but that you don't want to let go of in order to rebuild the relationship with your old friend and so their is a complex change that has occurred. In order to talk HONESTLY you have to include all the information about how you feel in relation to all the participants and the changes that have happened over time.
Linus might argue that he does that using curses as a shorthand method of passing information. Obviously the new dev doesn't see it that way. Linus, in truth, probably doesn't want to invest the time in giving a full, complete and honest answer to anything, he just wants the job done quickly, completely and correctly. It is important to him and he makes that clear. So, he is being honest in the "other" way without being completely honest.
In truth, I have learned to just shut up and say little rather than tell an incomplete or half-truth. It still is not being completely honest since I often do have something I could say, but just don't want to invest the time and effort into something that I don't feel connected to enough to justify the cost. So, my punchline is that it is possible, but requires more than most (I included) want to invest to be always completely honest. Linus wants to get shit done, and has found a way to achieve that efficiently and effectively. There is real value in that, and we should appreciate it with understanding.
Boys and girls, listen up. If you have never had really fresh veggies (or anything else for that matter) then you are in for a real treat. I spent three years growing organic veggies (and meaties) back in the 70s and it ruined tasteless grocery-store food for me. The taste of fresh celery is amazing, really
Yes friend, the key term in your reply was "intelligent." Most Windows users are only of average abilities, of course, and judging by the desktops that I have seen over the last 15 years they just dump a;ll their shit in a pile on their desktop.
I have had a discussion recently about my colleagues email habits. They keep all their email in their inbox in outlook. So they have to scroll through pages of mail (which they never throw away) to find anything. Even if they know how to search their first move is to the scroll wheel. I showed them how to make folders and put stiuff in folders for organization: "too hard, so confusing" So yeah, while you and I might be happy to organize properly and thoughtfully, the 'pile it on the desktop crowd' is the reality. And the ones that refuse to throw anything away are OCD at least.
"Out of the Box?" Huh? you mean the printer is shipped with a CD that holds the drivers for windows. Oh, the CD is in the box? what if i get it second hand and the cd is broken or lost? Then the box gets a little troublesome.
yeah, but back in 1971,2,3 when I was in high school I took organic chem and the teacher said, "oh, you haven't studied calculus yet? I show you what you need." Then when I did calculus the next year it was a little easier. But, I had the chance to study that stuff, in high school. Why? BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE CURRICULUM! How did I get organic chem in high school, because the chem teacher offered to teach it to the two students who wanted it and the school had the money to allow that to happen.
It doesn't happen today because our fucktard electorate believes that our public schools are bad because Ronald Raygun told them they were, and then George HW repeated it, and so did his idiot children. Our schools are degrading because you want them to be shitty, you tell your representatives that they should take money away from those horrible union and tenure supporting hotbeds of radical democracy: the public schools. You voted to de-fund the schools, or weren't you listening to the "pro-education" BS of the "No child left behind" and the "Charter School" movement and all the rest of that idiocy.
You got just what you wanted, and just what you paid for.
My sister's partner is a high school geometry teacher, union member and tenured. She is also an extremely competent, caring and skilled teacher. She has had fantastic success with students going on to STEM degrees and higher, and with success in the real world. They loved her as a teacher so much that some come back to thank her many years later.
So, my friend, before you use your broad and unknowing brush to paint all the same color, you should think about how the real world works: there are good people and bad people. Those are the only reliable divisions, the rest are "-ism" based and bound to show you as a fool.
Everybody keeps acting like the XP interface was so wonderful, but.... well it is the same interface as 95 and 98 and ME for that matter and of course 2000. So really, what do you mean by that. I fact, 7 had very little change in desktop from XP, certainly not enough to shock the users I saw in my office.
What I appreciated about XP was the fact that it was relatively (in comparison to 98 and 95 and ME) stable and didn't require reformatting and installing the OS semi-annually (although I understand that YMMV on that score). The look, however, was still based on the old idea of the object based desktop: here is your file, your video, your picture, your program right in this place on your desktop. The thing that gave windows that look was the little icons of crap that people saved on their desktop and were always struggling to find again.
It was this failure of the desktop (yes, i called it a failure. It was a success only to OCD people who wanted to have all their shit on their desktop so they could "find" it easily. It was the OCD crowd that went apeshit--well duh, when you have this kind of disorder then apeshittiness is part of the bargain) that spurred designers to try a different approach to desktops. As I recall, the design approach for Gnome 3 was the idea of an "Activities" oriented desktop where the desktop was where you "did" things (rather than where you "had" things), and I think I rem,ember correctly that the early discussions of KDE4 also played with that approach (although I don't really know where they went with it.
Apple OSX has tried to move both toward and away from that idea. Since they were an early advocate of the object based desktop that is not too surprising. They still like to keep their shit on the desktop or in the dock, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them move away also as their desktops clutter up (now that people are actually trying to use their computers instead of just holding them at the Starbucks).
Anyway, my point is (and remains from many other desktop discussions) that once I got my head wrapped around the idea of an action based desktop instead of a crap based desktop I have never looked back. I DO shit on my desktops, and I get stuff done fast and clean and then move on. I have time to type this because I am finished with my work today and it is 3PM, the rest of the office is still waking up from lunch and looking at the cute cat pix they downloaded to their desktops.
mine has simple controls, volume and an "up and down" that will change stations, or song, or album depending on where the main system is set. It is excellent, both minimalist and useful in the places where you want it to be: Hyundai Sonata
Just as we have many examples of the Congress making the world both better and worse, the President making the world both better and worse, corporations making the world.... well skip that, the SCOTUS, the police, the governor, etc. The truth is that anyone who accrues power will us that power for things that are seen as both good and bad. the Mafia don't see a zealous police commissioner as good, now do they?
I'm a union employee, for my local teachers union. From my perspective they are both good and bad. They aren't corrupt enough to have real power to really protect me from things like the precipitous loss of pension benefits (from the gov. paying 9% into my pension fund to me paying 3%) but they do put up a fight to keep the other benefits and get occasional incremental salary increases.
So this might be an example of a "good" union from some perspectives, while I might prefer a more corrup... sorry, activist union.
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actually, when we lived in China, sugar cane was a popular snack. You could buy a whole (25 feet long) cane stalk and have it cut into shorter (@10 inches) pieces to snack on. You chew and spit out most of the fiber, but it is yummy, my kids grew up on it and really loved it.
what this is aimed at is a (maybe burgeoning) market in "co-generating" where the homeowner generates their power as a constant stream and feeds back into the grid any extra power (or draws extra power when their banks of high-intensity plant lights come on at 4 in the morning: I'm looking at you oregon and Washinton).
not just that we can do things just as fast without leaving our home, but that the basic idea that doing things fast and faster is broken. I lump it together (probably falsely) with walking across campus (which is full of trees and birds and squirrels) and seeing the students and faculty with their noses buried in their mobes completely oblivious to anything outside their circumscribed circles of electrons injected into their eyes. They look like mind-controlled zombies from the 50s, scurrying to their classes so they can sit in air-conditioning and ... stare at their mobe some more.
Slow down, watch the world, wait for things to come to fruition and ripeness.
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I went to a tier one US State university fromm 1996-2000, only 15 credits a semester and picked up about 25,000 in debt. Have just this month started to pay back minute amounts of it because I have been overseas doing useful but low paying stuff (called teaching) with a family (wife and three kids). Been doing OK, but coming back to the US, Jesus, you guys (now "we guys") are getting ripped every time we turn around.
OK, just the education part:
1) why do parents pay for the kids education? Why are the loans based on the parent's income?
2) Why are the classrooms shit, the teacher's offices shit, the faculty salaries shit while the sports recruiters, the domes and athletic fields and sport facilities are golden.
3) why do the president's make CEO salaries, along with the top tier of administrators, while there is a huge step down to the people who actually take the heat when somebody screws up.
4)Universities do a tremendous amount for the cities/towns they are in, and get recompensed by the locality in many many ways. They do the same for the state and get nothing but hassle for every penny they get. They get almost nothing from the fed for what they do to propel the national economy (think R&D, ed culture and the level of thought and discussion having risen --in general-- in the last century: those of you who think you are so cool to know and read Ayn Rand, think about who paid for you to have the ability, the time and the access to the books. Your corporate buddies or your federal government that used to fund the schools that educated you, provided the seed money for the libraries where you could get the books for free to read, and gave you the liberty to discuss and learn from others in a public forum. )
Anyway, we could do a lot worse than provide free public education for K-16
And who says they hate Koreans? I used to work for Samsung in China, and they are awesome. The Chinese people I knew there loved the company, especially over Chinese companies but also over LG, who competed for the same skilled workforce. The Chinese also have no love for a company like Apple that is a style maven for the hated rich and vapid elite. Frankly, all the fatcats already bought the iTrash they wanted and the wannabees don't want to keep buying new stuff just because it is new. They ain't stupid ya know. Just sayin'...
Well, here is my 2 cents: On the ground, in my classroom of foreign students from Russia, Ecuador, China and Vietnam this summer (in an expensive three week "summer camp/pre-university" kind of thing), all (as in every single one) of the students had an iPhone, one had an iPad as well.
Interestingly, most of my colleagues have dumped their last gen iPhone and replaced it with an Android flavor. Most of the other 45,000 students at our uni.... I can't tell, too hard to guess what the stats would be on that sample.
I do it, and we take the whole thing quite seriously. We have an interesting house, in a neighborhood close to the art, culture and nightlife of our city. We provide bicycles for free to our guests and rides when possible. Our guests have been fantastic, many book again and become friends after staying for a month or more.
We also have two other things going for us: first, we used to be a part of couch-surfing, but left when it went corporate. Second, a lot of our guests are from Europe, and since my wife is European and we have a more European outlook we get a lot of good reviews from our guests, and vice-versa (no problems with unmet expectations).
I, and a small group of other friends, lost one of our group to the police. No, he wasn't killed by them per se, he became a cop himself.
We were all studying, practicing, playing wushu (what you probably call "kung fu") together 3 or 4 times a week and had been for many years. He was a highly skilled young man who had advanced from being an overweight loser from a family of criminals and religious fanatics to a healthy and well-balanced teen-ager with attention and focus.
Then the cops recruited him, partly because his dad was a known criminal "in recovery" (as in just out of jail and trying to stay clean). He started in the sheriff's office, then into the local police force, then the SWAT team. We lost him. One of our number, who works the street corners to try and keep ghetto kids off the bad stuff said he heard rumors that our friend was getting a little rough, and went to talk to him about it. He came back shocked. "You niggers don't know anything but guns and beating. Its all you do to yourself, so how else can I beat any sense into your fuzzy heads?"
But the result of the SWAT promotion was the most interesting to this discussion. He started taking steroids to add muscle mass (bulk up) and blew up like a sausage. Wushu is more focused on tendon training, elasticity rather than strength, whipping power rather than brute force, but this guy left us all far behind and became a muscle-bound brute. Naturally the "Roid rage" followed, and it was the same old, same old. He's gone to the "dark side" but what else could have happened? Once he started on the cop path it was pretty much pre-ordained.
Our teacher retired, it was the last straw for him. We all broke up and went our separate ways. The story came to mind this morning because I am going back there in a few weeks and we have a meet-up planned, but one of us will definitely be missing.
Mod this up. There are many things that it makes sense to have the government do. Making a profit is not one of them, of course, but when it comes to important goods and services, maybe giving that responsibility should not be given to large corps who plan to make a profit, like, say... oh yeah, AT&T. They sucked buckets of cash out of us for long distance because the government was convinced they couldn't do it as well as AT&T, when it fact lots of government teleservices were better all over the world.
The libertarian ideal of the corporatized service sector is, to keep it civil, very mistaken. Look around us, Americans, and see how we are being cheated on a scale that boggles the mind, for services big and small. From the "privitization" of the mail and the trains to education, the telesector and ISPs, we are getting the shaft.
Back up fool, Carter has lots of cred in international circles. He has worked in Africa to save millions of lives from some nasty diseases, gotten involved in the Gaza conflict occasionally and is considered an "elder statesman" by most of the world As if your opinion would matter though, not having done one iota of the things he did on a slow day.
Having worked in shelters for the homeless, the vast majority of them have mental, psychological and emotional problems that make it almost impossible for them to function well in the modern world. They used to get help from social workers in government programs, before that they lived in, or transited into and out of, hospitals.
President Carter thought, for good reasons, that the hospital system was more like a prison and they deserved to have a chance at self-determination: thus he supported homes/ group homes/ social service network to help them. It also saved money over the hospital system and gave the mentally disturbed who were functional enough a chance to build living skills.
President Ronnie Raygun saw a chance to kill a government program and dumped their support services and subsidies for housing. They crashed onto the streets and the number and size of both the homeless population and the homeless charity services ballooned. But most Americans saw this as a good thing because, while it didn't decrease THEIR taxes, it did "decrease taxes" by an overall matter of cents per year when considered against the increase in cost of support for homeless service charities, police enforcement (my city, like most in the country, has a dedicated police group responsible for helping the homeless people in the city, so we pay for it when we pay for our local police now) and the destruction of public property and loss of property values in areas where homeless people congregate.
Thank you Ronnie, you really helped make our world better.
I was at a meeting a few weeks ago, and the head of the police homeless task force was there talking about the initiatives they were pushing: laws to stop people from pissing in public, trying to get homeless people to go to the shelters instead of hanging in the parks, stuff like that. Nobody, absolutely nobody wants to address the roots: these people need help, government help. Government is the only agency powerful enough to provide the services they need. Either the city must do it ( and if they did every fuckin homeless person in the southeast would move here, because no matter what you fools above say, they don't want to be in mental anguish and be the butt of your hatred) or the state (ditto the above paren) or the feds. Which means we need to get a clueful Congress and start to pay some reasonable taxes.
If you want to solve a problem that is systemic, you need to PAY FOR a systemic solution. That requires the government because they operate the system. No, your vote does not operate the system, it influences the government, those are different things.
What kids say and the reality of their world, and the real reality of the world are not always (how about "seldom") the same thing. And that goes for you too, honored P.
Citizens are free to stay or go. Prisoner health, because they are at the mercy of the state, is the responsibility of the state. You could, foolishly, complain about the cost of the buses, but then how much would you complain about the cost of life-long health care for one single inmate who contracted the fungal disease on a bus riding out of the area without air-conditioning? Which would you rather pay?
I think, believe and act on ideas that assume that you are working with a false dichotomy. It is not "be passive-aggressive" or "be rude and mean." (in the same way that it is not "use bad grammar" or "be understood").
Years ago I did a deep and meditative study of the question of honesty and truthfulness. What I found is that I and others had mistakenly bought into the false dichotomy of "be honest and truthful" or "don't hurt people's feelings." In reality, people who hurt others with honesty are usually (normally, in almost all cases) giving incomplete truth. They are also doing this to protect themselves from people losing trust and/or faith and /or affection for them. But, this is just words and needs a good example, let's try one.
A friend asks you for an opinion on their relationship with a romantic partner, a relationship that you think is cooling and is at risk of falling apart. You have an interest in this, since your friend is a good friend while their romantic partner has never interested you very much, and you have occasionally skipped unimportant chances to get together because of that coolness. Instead you started some other project or activity which has now become an important part of your life.
Now (got the picture, in general?), if you are going to answer the question honestly you have to cover all the information above, as well as the fact that initially you had some sense of separation caused by the friend's new attraction to someone you didn't see anything in and the fact that you have now built up an activity relationship that doesn't include them but that you don't want to let go of in order to rebuild the relationship with your old friend and so their is a complex change that has occurred. In order to talk HONESTLY you have to include all the information about how you feel in relation to all the participants and the changes that have happened over time.
Linus might argue that he does that using curses as a shorthand method of passing information. Obviously the new dev doesn't see it that way. Linus, in truth, probably doesn't want to invest the time in giving a full, complete and honest answer to anything, he just wants the job done quickly, completely and correctly. It is important to him and he makes that clear. So, he is being honest in the "other" way without being completely honest.
In truth, I have learned to just shut up and say little rather than tell an incomplete or half-truth. It still is not being completely honest since I often do have something I could say, but just don't want to invest the time and effort into something that I don't feel connected to enough to justify the cost. So, my punchline is that it is possible, but requires more than most (I included) want to invest to be always completely honest. Linus wants to get shit done, and has found a way to achieve that efficiently and effectively. There is real value in that, and we should appreciate it with understanding.
Boys and girls, listen up.
If you have never had really fresh veggies (or anything else for that matter) then you are in for a real treat. I spent three years growing organic veggies (and meaties) back in the 70s and it ruined tasteless grocery-store food for me. The taste of fresh celery is amazing, really
Yeah, until you have it you just don't know
Yes friend, the key term in your reply was "intelligent." Most Windows users are only of average abilities, of course, and judging by the desktops that I have seen over the last 15 years they just dump a;ll their shit in a pile on their desktop.
I have had a discussion recently about my colleagues email habits. They keep all their email in their inbox in outlook. So they have to scroll through pages of mail (which they never throw away) to find anything. Even if they know how to search their first move is to the scroll wheel. I showed them how to make folders and put stiuff in folders for organization: "too hard, so confusing" So yeah, while you and I might be happy to organize properly and thoughtfully, the 'pile it on the desktop crowd' is the reality. And the ones that refuse to throw anything away are OCD at least.
"Out of the Box?" Huh? you mean the printer is shipped with a CD that holds the drivers for windows. Oh, the CD is in the box? what if i get it second hand and the cd is broken or lost? Then the box gets a little troublesome.
yeah, but back in 1971,2,3 when I was in high school I took organic chem and the teacher said, "oh, you haven't studied calculus yet? I show you what you need." Then when I did calculus the next year it was a little easier. But, I had the chance to study that stuff, in high school. Why? BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE CURRICULUM! How did I get organic chem in high school, because the chem teacher offered to teach it to the two students who wanted it and the school had the money to allow that to happen.
It doesn't happen today because our fucktard electorate believes that our public schools are bad because Ronald Raygun told them they were, and then George HW repeated it, and so did his idiot children. Our schools are degrading because you want them to be shitty, you tell your representatives that they should take money away from those horrible union and tenure supporting hotbeds of radical democracy: the public schools. You voted to de-fund the schools, or weren't you listening to the "pro-education" BS of the "No child left behind" and the "Charter School" movement and all the rest of that idiocy.
You got just what you wanted, and just what you paid for.
My sister's partner is a high school geometry teacher, union member and tenured. She is also an extremely competent, caring and skilled teacher. She has had fantastic success with students going on to STEM degrees and higher, and with success in the real world. They loved her as a teacher so much that some come back to thank her many years later.
So, my friend, before you use your broad and unknowing brush to paint all the same color, you should think about how the real world works: there are good people and bad people. Those are the only reliable divisions, the rest are "-ism" based and bound to show you as a fool.
Well, not goodbye Florida, but my Tampa home on the "heights" would have beach
Everybody keeps acting like the XP interface was so wonderful, but .... well it is the same interface as 95 and 98 and ME for that matter and of course 2000. So really, what do you mean by that. I fact, 7 had very little change in desktop from XP, certainly not enough to shock the users I saw in my office.
What I appreciated about XP was the fact that it was relatively (in comparison to 98 and 95 and ME) stable and didn't require reformatting and installing the OS semi-annually (although I understand that YMMV on that score). The look, however, was still based on the old idea of the object based desktop: here is your file, your video, your picture, your program right in this place on your desktop. The thing that gave windows that look was the little icons of crap that people saved on their desktop and were always struggling to find again.
It was this failure of the desktop (yes, i called it a failure. It was a success only to OCD people who wanted to have all their shit on their desktop so they could "find" it easily. It was the OCD crowd that went apeshit--well duh, when you have this kind of disorder then apeshittiness is part of the bargain) that spurred designers to try a different approach to desktops. As I recall, the design approach for Gnome 3 was the idea of an "Activities" oriented desktop where the desktop was where you "did" things (rather than where you "had" things), and I think I rem,ember correctly that the early discussions of KDE4 also played with that approach (although I don't really know where they went with it.
Apple OSX has tried to move both toward and away from that idea. Since they were an early advocate of the object based desktop that is not too surprising. They still like to keep their shit on the desktop or in the dock, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them move away also as their desktops clutter up (now that people are actually trying to use their computers instead of just holding them at the Starbucks).
Anyway, my point is (and remains from many other desktop discussions) that once I got my head wrapped around the idea of an action based desktop instead of a crap based desktop I have never looked back. I DO shit on my desktops, and I get stuff done fast and clean and then move on. I have time to type this because I am finished with my work today and it is 3PM, the rest of the office is still waking up from lunch and looking at the cute cat pix they downloaded to their desktops.
Ask Trayvon Martin about that shit, although George Zimmerman will say yes, justifiable homicide, he touched me.
mine has simple controls, volume and an "up and down" that will change stations, or song, or album depending on where the main system is set. It is excellent, both minimalist and useful in the places where you want it to be:
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Just as we have many examples of the Congress making the world both better and worse, the President making the world both better and worse, corporations making the world.... well skip that, the SCOTUS, the police, the governor, etc. The truth is that anyone who accrues power will us that power for things that are seen as both good and bad. the Mafia don't see a zealous police commissioner as good, now do they?
I'm a union employee, for my local teachers union. From my perspective they are both good and bad. They aren't corrupt enough to have real power to really protect me from things like the precipitous loss of pension benefits (from the gov. paying 9% into my pension fund to me paying 3%) but they do put up a fight to keep the other benefits and get occasional incremental salary increases.
So this might be an example of a "good" union from some perspectives, while I might prefer a more corrup... sorry, activist union.