Do you feel that the way the United States government treated the native inhabitants of North America was justified? Kidnapping their young children, moving them to "boarding schools" where they were beaten if they spoke their native language or used their native-language names? Then once they were "educated" until they no longer spoke their parent's language or knew how to live as their parents lived, they were shipped back home and left to rot on the reservations. But hey, they all spoke English and had good Christian names!
As far as Slashdot supporting Hebrew, I don't see any need for it, obviously this is an English-speaking website. But to presume to tell the people of another nation and culture what language they should or should not speak is typical of Anglo arrogance. Anglo-American history is rife with the "re-education", enslavement, ruin, and downright genocide of the unfortunate native peoples in their path to Empire and Manifest Destiny. Ok, that was a long time ago, and I'm all for letting the dead past bury its dead, but this is an echo of that same arrogant attitude.
Who told you that? All the millions (yes, millions) of Israelis who don't speak English? I guess that you think I should get most of my friends, who don't speak my language, to learn it just so I won't have to learn theirs? I'm neither that lazy nor that arrogant.
True. I worked for a small shop (2 people, the owner and myself) and we would always ask the customer to buy Windows, but it was very rare to have them do so. When you are barely making it, you simply can't afford to have the customer walk out and go to the shop across town because he doesn't even ask, he just always installs the local version of Windows and Office (in fact, he simply ghosts a few different systems and uses the same images for years). But the 1-year warranty is honored, and in case the manufacturer has a longer warranty on the processor or hard drive, that also is honored.
But I always peel those stickers (and the ones saying Intel Inside) off as soon as I get home, and stick them on my toilet.
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I used to deliver newspapers, and I was horrified one day to see the little old hunchback lady I delivered to, who read with a huge magnifying glass, literally crawl into her car, drag her walker in after herself, then drive off peering under the steering wheel. No seat belt. No side mirrors. Big old boat of a car, if she hits yours it's no contest. You couldn't even see that anyone was in the car. Scary.
And I'm 54, no formal education beyond high school, and got the "hang" of it fairly quickly a couple of years ago, thanks to the great online tutorials and Grokking the Gimp.
I must admit I've never even seen Photoshop, it's much too expensive for me to even consider. Free is much more within my budget. My Mac isn't even really mine, just sort of on an extended loan.
I've never even SEEN any of the above mentioned programs, but I have played with gimp, blender, and POV-Ray, enough to confirm my suspicions that while I can learn how to use the software's features, I have the artistic talent of a turnip. (sorry, turnips...) So I use my digital camera, and get friends to send me images from their travels around the world, frequent the NASA, US Fish and Wildlife department, and other free image sites, and use a shareware program for the Mac called GraphicConverter, for which registration cost $30. I don't think I've done too badly. My business clients like having photos from their building or location play a part in their website, and personal site clients love having their site decorated with personally significant "artwork". Fonts also play a large part in my work, I simply set up a test.html page and fiddle with the CSS, using the DigitalColorMeter utility included with OS X, until I'm happy with the colors and size, then use Grab, a screen capture utility included with OS X, to save the file (it only saves in.tiff format), and GraphicConverter to tweak it and save it in the format I want. I get a lot of ideas in layout from A List Apart and css/edge.
Nope. I'm not just a geek grandma, I'm a Uber-geek grandma.
Dual processor Mac G4 500 with OS X 10.3.6., with Apache/PHP/MySQL for playing with web design. After having a Mac for a couple of years, Windows and Linux both are just plain ugly. I'm saving my pennies for a new iMac.
http://www.sottwell.com
Probably looks like crap on IE/Win, but I really don't care. The world looks like crap on IE/Win. After having the Mac for a couple of years, Win looks like crap. I laughed out loud the first time I saw XP. Looks like a kindergardener's crayon drawing I'd put on my refrigerator until I could sneak it into the trash.
Except for the time about 20 years ago when they got slapped down for threatening the chain retailers (there were several more besides Wal-Mart in those days) to not supply them with Nintendo systems and games for the Christmas season if they carried any other systems. At the time I was deciding whether to buy my kids Nintendo or Sega, and when this made the news I got them a Sega.
Actually, that's only what some of his subordinates said he did. Others had a different story.
An investigation was made, and this is what was discovered:
The girl came into a well-known secured military zone, carrying a bag, ran and threw her bag at the soldiers when told to get back, and got shot. When a few soldiers including the commanding officer went out to check, Palestinian snipers started shooting at them. In the resulting confusion and scramble to get back under cover and return fire, the girl's body was hit several more times.
It's not unheard-of for unhappy employees to make accusations of sexual harassment, or unhappy soldiers to make accusations of war crimes. That's why he was reprimanded for having "lost the confidence of his subordinates".
If you are referring to the ComplexSpiral home page, you are not correct. Those are 4 normal image files, all positioned with CSS, each one the same image just lightened or darkened (I used GraphicConverter on my Mac). No transparency, no.png. I used the same code on my site, with a simple Javascript slideshow for fun. The backbround images don't work right in IE (big surprise). Read the ComplexSpiral site for the reason why.
Some apartments include hot water, but not heat or electricity. I know this for a fact because I lived in one like that. I would run the bathtub full of hot water an hour before taking a bath, and the bathroom was nice and warm without running the heater!
When I lived in Connecticut we had a gas hot water heater that heated "on demand"; very inexpensive, like baseboard hot water heat. We were considering hooking the heating system up to it since it was newer than our heating furnace.
Unless you have an electric hot water heater, it's probably cheaper than heating with electricity.
Where I live now most people have solar water heaters. I'm in a particularly dry desert part of the country; the sun shines more than 300 days out of the year, and it's usually only cloudy for one or two days at a time. Last winter I didn't have to use the electric water heater element at all, and the year before that I only used it three times. If I hose off the solar panels from time to time, the water is scalding hot.
I can't find a link, but I remember a case in Afghanistan where a widow had gone into a shop to buy bread, alone, and the shopkeeper sold her a loaf. They were spotted by a gang of "police" and drageed out into the street and beaten.
Actually, at least as far as the civilians hired to work in the Navy base where I was stationed, this was quite true. Instead of rotating through the various positions in the comminucations center as was the policy, they demanded (and received) the easiest, or most interesting, positions and then we had to add backup positions to do their work and catch the errors they were not held responsible for, plus rotating through the harder and more boring positions. So actually we had to maintain the personnel and do the work as if there were no civilian employees, while still providing the best working conditions for them and paying them more than twice what the military personnel were getting..
My father was a State forestry employee, and while the forestry division was pretty good, whenever he had to deal with another government bureau, especially Federal land management, (more often as he got promotions into management positions) he found much the same problem. His secretary spent much of her time correcting and filling out forms that were the Federal bureau's responsibility in order to get anything done, and then it would often take literally years to get a response. So this isn't quite the troll some would like to portray it as, more likely a disgusted military person.
I put in the developer's extension, and since I'm learning to work with the DOM and DHTML, I can't imagine working without it! I am a Mac girl, by the way.
I took some courses from the O'Reilley Learning Lab and consider it a very large waste of the money. I was disappointed in the course material, which was often contradictory, outdated, and sometimes just plain wrong. The certificate I got wasn't even worth framing. I suppose if you are starting from zero it might be useful, but there are far better (and free) lessons and tutorials, and plenty of forums and newsgroups for newbies if you need help, not to mention your local Linux user's group.
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l oads.html (no longer under development, but I like it)
UltimateZip http://www.ultimatezip.com/ for file compression
Crimson Editor http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ for editing code
BadBlue http://www.badblue.com/ for local webserving
LeechFTP http://stud.fh-heilbronn.de/~jdebis/leechftp/down
The "free" version of Opera is Adware.
Do you feel that the way the United States government treated the native inhabitants of North America was justified? Kidnapping their young children, moving them to "boarding schools" where they were beaten if they spoke their native language or used their native-language names? Then once they were "educated" until they no longer spoke their parent's language or knew how to live as their parents lived, they were shipped back home and left to rot on the reservations. But hey, they all spoke English and had good Christian names!
As far as Slashdot supporting Hebrew, I don't see any need for it, obviously this is an English-speaking website. But to presume to tell the people of another nation and culture what language they should or should not speak is typical of Anglo arrogance. Anglo-American history is rife with the "re-education", enslavement, ruin, and downright genocide of the unfortunate native peoples in their path to Empire and Manifest Destiny. Ok, that was a long time ago, and I'm all for letting the dead past bury its dead, but this is an echo of that same arrogant attitude.
Who told you that? All the millions (yes, millions) of Israelis who don't speak English? I guess that you think I should get most of my friends, who don't speak my language, to learn it just so I won't have to learn theirs? I'm neither that lazy nor that arrogant.
Actually, in rural Japan, it is.
True. I worked for a small shop (2 people, the owner and myself) and we would always ask the customer to buy Windows, but it was very rare to have them do so. When you are barely making it, you simply can't afford to have the customer walk out and go to the shop across town because he doesn't even ask, he just always installs the local version of Windows and Office (in fact, he simply ghosts a few different systems and uses the same images for years). But the 1-year warranty is honored, and in case the manufacturer has a longer warranty on the processor or hard drive, that also is honored.
But I always peel those stickers (and the ones saying Intel Inside) off as soon as I get home, and stick them on my toilet.
I used to deliver newspapers, and I was horrified one day to see the little old hunchback lady I delivered to, who read with a huge magnifying glass, literally crawl into her car, drag her walker in after herself, then drive off peering under the steering wheel. No seat belt. No side mirrors. Big old boat of a car, if she hits yours it's no contest. You couldn't even see that anyone was in the car. Scary.
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How we got here is a theory. That we got here is a fact.
Please no! I want a browser that's just a browser, not an all-in-one bloated desktop appliance. If I wanted that I'd be using Mozilla.
Is that legal? I know Microsoft software can't be resold.
And I'm 54, no formal education beyond high school, and got the "hang" of it fairly quickly a couple of years ago, thanks to the great online tutorials and Grokking the Gimp.
I must admit I've never even seen Photoshop, it's much too expensive for me to even consider. Free is much more within my budget. My Mac isn't even really mine, just sort of on an extended loan.
I've never even SEEN any of the above mentioned programs, but I have played with gimp, blender, and POV-Ray, enough to confirm my suspicions that while I can learn how to use the software's features, I have the artistic talent of a turnip. (sorry, turnips...) So I use my digital camera, and get friends to send me images from their travels around the world, frequent the NASA, US Fish and Wildlife department, and other free image sites, and use a shareware program for the Mac called GraphicConverter, for which registration cost $30. I don't think I've done too badly. My business clients like having photos from their building or location play a part in their website, and personal site clients love having their site decorated with personally significant "artwork". Fonts also play a large part in my work, I simply set up a test .html page and fiddle with the CSS, using the DigitalColorMeter utility included with OS X, until I'm happy with the colors and size, then use Grab, a screen capture utility included with OS X, to save the file (it only saves in .tiff format), and GraphicConverter to tweak it and save it in the format I want. I get a lot of ideas in layout from A List Apart and css/edge.
http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/index.htm
http://www.alistapart.com/
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/
Maybe I should write a tutorial. "Great Graphics On The Cheap".
Are you sure that wherever you bought your copy was selling legal copies? There's a booming business in selling "warez" as legal software.
I suspect that they put a 6-year-old in front of Windows Paint and had him design the interface.
Nope. I'm not just a geek grandma, I'm a Uber-geek grandma.
Dual processor Mac G4 500 with OS X 10.3.6., with Apache/PHP/MySQL for playing with web design. After having a Mac for a couple of years, Windows and Linux both are just plain ugly. I'm saving my pennies for a new iMac.
http://www.sottwell.com
Probably looks like crap on IE/Win, but I really don't care. The world looks like crap on IE/Win. After having the Mac for a couple of years, Win looks like crap. I laughed out loud the first time I saw XP. Looks like a kindergardener's crayon drawing I'd put on my refrigerator until I could sneak it into the trash.
Except for the time about 20 years ago when they got slapped down for threatening the chain retailers (there were several more besides Wal-Mart in those days) to not supply them with Nintendo systems and games for the Christmas season if they carried any other systems. At the time I was deciding whether to buy my kids Nintendo or Sega, and when this made the news I got them a Sega.
Actually, that's only what some of his subordinates said he did. Others had a different story.
An investigation was made, and this is what was discovered:
The girl came into a well-known secured military zone, carrying a bag, ran and threw her bag at the soldiers when told to get back, and got shot. When a few soldiers including the commanding officer went out to check, Palestinian snipers started shooting at them. In the resulting confusion and scramble to get back under cover and return fire, the girl's body was hit several more times.
It's not unheard-of for unhappy employees to make accusations of sexual harassment, or unhappy soldiers to make accusations of war crimes. That's why he was reprimanded for having "lost the confidence of his subordinates".
"Get a grip", indeed.
If you are referring to the ComplexSpiral home page, you are not correct. Those are 4 normal image files, all positioned with CSS, each one the same image just lightened or darkened (I used GraphicConverter on my Mac). No transparency, no .png. I used the same code on my site, with a simple Javascript slideshow for fun. The backbround images don't work right in IE (big surprise). Read the ComplexSpiral site for the reason why.
Some apartments include hot water, but not heat or electricity. I know this for a fact because I lived in one like that. I would run the bathtub full of hot water an hour before taking a bath, and the bathroom was nice and warm without running the heater!
When I lived in Connecticut we had a gas hot water heater that heated "on demand"; very inexpensive, like baseboard hot water heat. We were considering hooking the heating system up to it since it was newer than our heating furnace.
Unless you have an electric hot water heater, it's probably cheaper than heating with electricity.
Where I live now most people have solar water heaters. I'm in a particularly dry desert part of the country; the sun shines more than 300 days out of the year, and it's usually only cloudy for one or two days at a time. Last winter I didn't have to use the electric water heater element at all, and the year before that I only used it three times. If I hose off the solar panels from time to time, the water is scalding hot.
And what about the Taliban in Afghanistan?1 /index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9808/05/afghan.0
Or the Jordanians and Palestinians who will murder a woman who has "shamed" her family?
http://www.amanjordan.org/english/daily_news/wmvi
This one was just a few weeks ago, I read about it in a local newspaper:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/00
I can't find a link, but I remember a case in Afghanistan where a widow had gone into a shop to buy bread, alone, and the shopkeeper sold her a loaf. They were spotted by a gang of "police" and drageed out into the street and beaten.
Israel is not doing much better:
http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Israel.htm
So actually it seems this character was a reflection more of modern Middle Eastern attitudes towards women.
Actually, at least as far as the civilians hired to work in the Navy base where I was stationed, this was quite true. Instead of rotating through the various positions in the comminucations center as was the policy, they demanded (and received) the easiest, or most interesting, positions and then we had to add backup positions to do their work and catch the errors they were not held responsible for, plus rotating through the harder and more boring positions. So actually we had to maintain the personnel and do the work as if there were no civilian employees, while still providing the best working conditions for them and paying them more than twice what the military personnel were getting..
My father was a State forestry employee, and while the forestry division was pretty good, whenever he had to deal with another government bureau, especially Federal land management, (more often as he got promotions into management positions) he found much the same problem. His secretary spent much of her time correcting and filling out forms that were the Federal bureau's responsibility in order to get anything done, and then it would often take literally years to get a response. So this isn't quite the troll some would like to portray it as, more likely a disgusted military person.
I put in the developer's extension, and since I'm learning to work with the DOM and DHTML, I can't imagine working without it! I am a Mac girl, by the way.
Install at home, and download the Rute User's Guide.
I took some courses from the O'Reilley Learning Lab and consider it a very large waste of the money. I was disappointed in the course material, which was often contradictory, outdated, and sometimes just plain wrong. The certificate I got wasn't even worth framing. I suppose if you are starting from zero it might be useful, but there are far better (and free) lessons and tutorials, and plenty of forums and newsgroups for newbies if you need help, not to mention your local Linux user's group.