From what I've seen of Civ IV's tech descriptions, they came off as rather pompous. All rambling about the destiny of the human race and stuff...read by Leonard Nimoy. Ack!
There's something to be said for just getting gunpowder and curb-stomping the AI instead of meditating on Hinduism.
You may change your tune once cars become connected to the internet
Sadly, that sounds like such a monumentally stupid idea that I'm sure they're already working on it. Well, beyond GPS data and such, I assume you mean.
Lately I keep running into the viewpoint that the average desktop user is supposedly doing video and audio editing, which justifies beefier hardware. I rather doubt this is the case.
Alt-F4 is also not the only way to do that action! The big red X up in the corner is visible, and even tells you what it does in common language if you hover over it, or go in the File menu and click Exit.
How the fuck am I supposed to know that Charms exist, let alone that that's what they're called? Hilariously, this is about as obvious (i.e. not at all) as emacs keybindings mostly starting with Ctrl+X. But anyone who starts using emacs is a masochist anyway, so they deserve it;)
Didn't they ribbonify Explorer in 8? I'd call that a compelling reason to downgrade.
Using LibreOffice, the only ribbon I'm forced to deal with is Paint's, obviously on a very infrequent basis. I think Wordpad has one in W7 as well, but there's basically no reason to ever use Wordpad (except to fix line endings, which takes all of 3 seconds).
In case it wasn't clear, this was on Linux. I find the idea of opening emacs sans -nw rather heretical and pointless so short of Cygwin, I wouldn't use it on Windows.
By default, the kill ring and clipboard are completely separate, which seems a bit weird. I would think it would be easy enough to just copy the top thing on the ring to the clipboard (although the other way might be a bit more problematic). And the X selection when pasted in truncates after a certain point. And nothing I did short of mouse-selecting text (which has its own formatting problems) could get text out of emacs properly either. After a couple months of fiddling with emacs settings and trying an external utility or two, I finally found xsel, which luckily was installed already on our work machines and is available in the Ubuntu repos.
I would have accepted either the clipboard or X selection working, but they were both broken in different ways and I couldn't find any obvious ways to fix them online *that actually worked* until finally xsel, which is admittedly a kludgy solution as you're spawning a thread every time you make a selection (I assume).
I believe this was emacs 22 or 23. After 20 years on Linux, this still isn't properly supported? Wow.
In this particular case, I almost can't believe that they're using the "infringes my rights" argument to justify denying health care stuff to their employees. Because their right to make more money should outweigh their employees' right to contraception, of course!
I learned (the basics of) emacs when I was hired into a Java development team at my first job out of school 2 years back. Other than me, 9 of the other 12 people were vi-heads, but 2 of the team leads used emacs, and I had seen it used before in a class, so I went with it.
While it took me a long time to get used to it and fix several glaring default-config bugs (I still can't explain why nobody has made the system clipboard interact properly with the kill ring out of the box), the multiple window paradigm and command line inside were the initial draws.
Give me a halfway sane candidate that's not Republican or Democrat and I'll totally vote for him every time from now on. Hell, even the clearly insane ones, I'd still consider.
While the text doesn't condemn Lot's actions in that instance, it also does not endorse them. The overarching story of Lot is that he decided to live in an immoral society and it corrupted him.
In the society at that time, it was also supposed to be a sort of sacred bond that when you had strangers staying with you, they were under your protection. While Lot's actions were obviously not cool, what would you have done in the situation? (And please don't say "get out my guns and blow away the residents of the entire city outside my front door.")
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Cf. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Trill vs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trill_consonant. Does Klingon have trills? Or is that not a sufficiently testosterone-fueled guttural sound?
From what I've seen of Civ IV's tech descriptions, they came off as rather pompous. All rambling about the destiny of the human race and stuff...read by Leonard Nimoy. Ack!
There's something to be said for just getting gunpowder and curb-stomping the AI instead of meditating on Hinduism.
Civ V has hexes. Heresy!
Also, no more Stacks of Doom :(
At least Alt-F4 retains onscreen cues after your initial log-in.
Extinction-Level Event. We might want to survive as a species *when* Earth gets toasted.
You may change your tune once cars become connected to the internet
Sadly, that sounds like such a monumentally stupid idea that I'm sure they're already working on it. Well, beyond GPS data and such, I assume you mean.
Lately I keep running into the viewpoint that the average desktop user is supposedly doing video and audio editing, which justifies beefier hardware. I rather doubt this is the case.
Unless if you need something they only put in the Charms bar...
Yeah, and obviously "Start" means "go back to what I was doing before you hijacked me." It's right there in the name!
Alt-F4 is also not the only way to do that action! The big red X up in the corner is visible, and even tells you what it does in common language if you hover over it, or go in the File menu and click Exit.
How the fuck am I supposed to know that Charms exist, let alone that that's what they're called? Hilariously, this is about as obvious (i.e. not at all) as emacs keybindings mostly starting with Ctrl+X. But anyone who starts using emacs is a masochist anyway, so they deserve it ;)
to the point that most program installers put a shortcut on your desktop whether you want them to or not
FTFY.
My favorite part is when they do it while using elevated permissions so you have to elevate again to delete the damn things.
Strongly seconded. Xubuntu takes all the (obvious) stupid shit out of the "main" version of Ubuntu.
Didn't they ribbonify Explorer in 8? I'd call that a compelling reason to downgrade.
Using LibreOffice, the only ribbon I'm forced to deal with is Paint's, obviously on a very infrequent basis. I think Wordpad has one in W7 as well, but there's basically no reason to ever use Wordpad (except to fix line endings, which takes all of 3 seconds).
In case it wasn't clear, this was on Linux. I find the idea of opening emacs sans -nw rather heretical and pointless so short of Cygwin, I wouldn't use it on Windows.
By default, the kill ring and clipboard are completely separate, which seems a bit weird. I would think it would be easy enough to just copy the top thing on the ring to the clipboard (although the other way might be a bit more problematic). And the X selection when pasted in truncates after a certain point. And nothing I did short of mouse-selecting text (which has its own formatting problems) could get text out of emacs properly either. After a couple months of fiddling with emacs settings and trying an external utility or two, I finally found xsel, which luckily was installed already on our work machines and is available in the Ubuntu repos.
I would have accepted either the clipboard or X selection working, but they were both broken in different ways and I couldn't find any obvious ways to fix them online *that actually worked* until finally xsel, which is admittedly a kludgy solution as you're spawning a thread every time you make a selection (I assume).
I believe this was emacs 22 or 23. After 20 years on Linux, this still isn't properly supported? Wow.
In this particular case, I almost can't believe that they're using the "infringes my rights" argument to justify denying health care stuff to their employees. Because their right to make more money should outweigh their employees' right to contraception, of course!
Yep, sounds about right.
I learned (the basics of) emacs when I was hired into a Java development team at my first job out of school 2 years back. Other than me, 9 of the other 12 people were vi-heads, but 2 of the team leads used emacs, and I had seen it used before in a class, so I went with it.
While it took me a long time to get used to it and fix several glaring default-config bugs (I still can't explain why nobody has made the system clipboard interact properly with the kill ring out of the box), the multiple window paradigm and command line inside were the initial draws.
Or, God forbid, just have sex with people you know don't have HIV/AIDS. If you don't use needles or need blood transfusions, boom: done.
Oh, hey look, I avoided any potential side effects of the vaccination. Isn't that funny.
Give me a halfway sane candidate that's not Republican or Democrat and I'll totally vote for him every time from now on. Hell, even the clearly insane ones, I'd still consider.
Just *turn off* the laptop several minutes before you cross the border. Or does nobody actually do that anymore?
You also mention the ease with which they might infect your system, and then ask why you would want to encrypt your system files. Ummm...
Firmware attacks are obviously a different matter.
dd? Granted, it would take awhile, but so what?
At least we actually have a civil society in the West. Ask some of those sharia-law places about that.
While the text doesn't condemn Lot's actions in that instance, it also does not endorse them. The overarching story of Lot is that he decided to live in an immoral society and it corrupted him.
In the society at that time, it was also supposed to be a sort of sacred bond that when you had strangers staying with you, they were under your protection. While Lot's actions were obviously not cool, what would you have done in the situation? (And please don't say "get out my guns and blow away the residents of the entire city outside my front door.")
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