I always assumed that Jedi being celibate was just the stupidity of the Jedi Council and the rather wrongheaded philosophy that controlling your emotions means severing every emotional attachment (which might have been wise, considering Anakin's revenge-kill because of his mother...) In the EU this is more or less ignored, and random Force-sensitive kids are generally the children of some great Jedi who had a fling on a backwater planet.
You seem to be confusing "web design" with "website creation". It's the job of the creator of the content to draw people; web design is simply designing the layout of a site in the best way possible. This shouldn't be compromised by having to "dummy down" the website for the slow little brother of web browsing, IE6. It'd be like eliminating the regular English Wikipedia in favour of Simple English, so that everyone could understand.
You know, people might take what you have to say more seriously if you stopped talking about "obsolte" things and "comptuers". Just a tip.
Also, medical science is a fishy thing. Eliminating disease isn't necessarily a good thing; what we're (hopefully) moving towards is a smaller world population with each person better educated and more supported. Eliminating diseases aren't especially useful, since many diseases simply kill people, which is what we want - population reduction. What is more useful in the long run is development of prosthetics and helping long-term ailments, which means that people that would otherwise be housebound can now rejoin society.
I do not blame users. I think that if you checked IPs versus user agents, you'd find most IE6 users are corporate drones.
If you want to lay the blame at anyone's door, go for the bad interactions between IT departments and management in companies. Companies generally employ the worst of IT and pay them cheaply, so they have no incentive to work overtime or do anything other than basic maintenance. Most workstations are just imaged, and the IT drones very seldom change the image for fear of screwing something up, because if they do they will be labelled as incompetent. As a result, companies try to be in some kind of temporal stasis, where they'll never update or change anything for years.
I see a lot of hacking that will be necessary to make something like this work. It doesn't seem like something that would automate easily unless it used some kind of profiles system.
For once, I agree with the AC. One of the highlights of using a minimal WM and customizing everything is that you're adjusting the system to suit your preferences, not adjusting the way you want things to be to the system.
Yeah. There are some great examples of this. Not the usual programs that are ported to the major 3 (Mac, Linux, Windows) but ones that have support for everything, like fbreader, which works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and some Nokia phones.
I honestly can't tell if you're trying to troll or make a point about Windows copying *nix. It's too obvious for a troll, but too unclear to be an interesting point.
You're right. The drug-growing problem in Afghanistan is two-fold: very little will grow there other than desert plants. Opium grows there and is extremely profitable to grow, so if they were to try and grow other crops, they would probably not be sustainable without more infrastructure (such as an irrigation network to grow crops that need more ground water). There have been attempts to cultivate some local plants to extract oils for use in beauty products, but it's a niche market and only a small amount of farmers can do it without over-saturating the market. A crop that would grow in Afghanistan, is in demand, and is rare enough to warrant transportation costs to the rest of the world is the ideal crop, and right now that is opium. Until there is a viable alternative, that is what farmers will grow.
You're absolutely right. Windows fell into this mire years ago. Most of it comes from their target demographic (businesses) who want to set up machines and then try to keep them in some kind of stasis without doing anything more than installing the most basic security patches. This results in a huge load of out-of-date machines that are incredibly susceptible to malware and bog everyone down, both users and IT personnel.
The facts are that if you're really that recalcitrant and aren't willing to upgrade, you should accept the consequences. The fault in this, though, doesn't completely lie with the user - it partially lies with Apple, for not providing a clear upgrade path. The trouble is that people like the Firefox developers are now being burdened with support for a ton of older OS versions because of people who refuse to upgrade.
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"These aren't the DLLs you're looking for."
Obi-Wan Kenobi, hacker to the stars.
I love how it's marked "Funny", personally.
I assume that you've never been on Usenet, then.
Maybe it sounds better in Chinese.
I always assumed that Jedi being celibate was just the stupidity of the Jedi Council and the rather wrongheaded philosophy that controlling your emotions means severing every emotional attachment (which might have been wise, considering Anakin's revenge-kill because of his mother...) In the EU this is more or less ignored, and random Force-sensitive kids are generally the children of some great Jedi who had a fling on a backwater planet.
Wouldn't that be "People's Liberation Navy"? "People's Liberation Army Navy" just sounds awkward...
3, 4, 5? What are you saying?! Remember, THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.
Thank you for saying my point better than I ever could.
You seem to be confusing "web design" with "website creation". It's the job of the creator of the content to draw people; web design is simply designing the layout of a site in the best way possible. This shouldn't be compromised by having to "dummy down" the website for the slow little brother of web browsing, IE6. It'd be like eliminating the regular English Wikipedia in favour of Simple English, so that everyone could understand.
You know, people might take what you have to say more seriously if you stopped talking about "obsolte" things and "comptuers". Just a tip.
Also, medical science is a fishy thing. Eliminating disease isn't necessarily a good thing; what we're (hopefully) moving towards is a smaller world population with each person better educated and more supported. Eliminating diseases aren't especially useful, since many diseases simply kill people, which is what we want - population reduction. What is more useful in the long run is development of prosthetics and helping long-term ailments, which means that people that would otherwise be housebound can now rejoin society.
USA? Data rates from oceania to North America have always been iffy. Asian datacenters are probably a better bet.
Before you know it they all have forgotten what their job is, which is to orchestrate the delivery of content to eyeballs.
... in the best way possible.
Easy - a test. "Quickly as you can, snatch the mouse from my hand."
Seconded.
I'd prefer an OS that has a GPL or BSD license. Why only improve your situation a little bit when you can solve the root problem?
I'd give my kudos to little cousin johnny.
I do not blame users. I think that if you checked IPs versus user agents, you'd find most IE6 users are corporate drones.
If you want to lay the blame at anyone's door, go for the bad interactions between IT departments and management in companies. Companies generally employ the worst of IT and pay them cheaply, so they have no incentive to work overtime or do anything other than basic maintenance. Most workstations are just imaged, and the IT drones very seldom change the image for fear of screwing something up, because if they do they will be labelled as incompetent. As a result, companies try to be in some kind of temporal stasis, where they'll never update or change anything for years.
I'm envisioning a half-dozen new datacenters for VPS hosting being built in Singapore the day that this law actually passes...
Yes, but let me remind you that software that breaks after updates is still better than software that is broken from the beginning.
I see a lot of hacking that will be necessary to make something like this work. It doesn't seem like something that would automate easily unless it used some kind of profiles system.
For once, I agree with the AC. One of the highlights of using a minimal WM and customizing everything is that you're adjusting the system to suit your preferences, not adjusting the way you want things to be to the system.
Yeah. There are some great examples of this. Not the usual programs that are ported to the major 3 (Mac, Linux, Windows) but ones that have support for everything, like fbreader, which works on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and some Nokia phones.
I honestly can't tell if you're trying to troll or make a point about Windows copying *nix. It's too obvious for a troll, but too unclear to be an interesting point.
You're right. The drug-growing problem in Afghanistan is two-fold: very little will grow there other than desert plants. Opium grows there and is extremely profitable to grow, so if they were to try and grow other crops, they would probably not be sustainable without more infrastructure (such as an irrigation network to grow crops that need more ground water). There have been attempts to cultivate some local plants to extract oils for use in beauty products, but it's a niche market and only a small amount of farmers can do it without over-saturating the market. A crop that would grow in Afghanistan, is in demand, and is rare enough to warrant transportation costs to the rest of the world is the ideal crop, and right now that is opium. Until there is a viable alternative, that is what farmers will grow.
You're absolutely right. Windows fell into this mire years ago. Most of it comes from their target demographic (businesses) who want to set up machines and then try to keep them in some kind of stasis without doing anything more than installing the most basic security patches. This results in a huge load of out-of-date machines that are incredibly susceptible to malware and bog everyone down, both users and IT personnel.
The facts are that if you're really that recalcitrant and aren't willing to upgrade, you should accept the consequences. The fault in this, though, doesn't completely lie with the user - it partially lies with Apple, for not providing a clear upgrade path. The trouble is that people like the Firefox developers are now being burdened with support for a ton of older OS versions because of people who refuse to upgrade.