Color me baffled; I have no idea how you can say multiple desktops don't give you more work space. I'm willing to believe it's just one of those little things I don't understand how anyone could look at it that way.
I'd walk up behind you and smack some sense into you, but apparently you'd see me coming. And creationists say people aren't evolving!
Hasn't Gmail more or less made the problem obsolete? Or am I supposed to shed a tear for people who willfully refuse to use freely-available tools that already do the job they're struggling with?
Wait, Germany's telling us we have a problem with unchecked authoritarian jackbootery? Next thing you know, Ireland's gonna tell us we're broke and drunk.
Oh, the @$$holes who wanted to sound smart would read an article or two a day and constantly refer to it, but it's hardly a coincidence they started a recycling program about the same time. Anyone who actually cared about current events would read one of the local papers that covered stuff like, oh, the school we were going to (despite the fact that I'm not nearly as young as I wish I still were, this was also recently enough that every dorm room on campus had an internet connection).
I'd like to know how many of these are voluntary subscriptions. My first year in college, they made us subscribe to the NYT, despite the fact that there were at least five major cities with well-known papers (at least one, PIttsburgh, having two) nearer to the school than New York. Now, this was a small, private school, but if even one large state school did the same, they could easily make up the lion's share of the subscribers (SUNY alone could nearly quadruple the 100K figure).
AC, you ignorant slut! The irony was in the parent decrying the label of "fascism" then immediately launching into a tirade describing the pædophiliac jackbooted thug as a "bullied" victim, not the syntax.
I started using WordPerfect back in the days before it had GUI elements, when text would show up yellow on the screen to indicate it would print underlined. Despite that, when it acquired a GUI, or when M$Word, StarOffice, OpenOffice, KOffice, etc. came out, I had no "expectations" to "overcome" preventing me from figuring out how to use them—I just looked at what the $!@% I was doing when I did it. The idea that one tool should be any harder to use than another simply because it's not precisely the same as it is nothing more than intellectual laziness (i.e., a polite way of saying you're an illiterate moron).
That said, I actually do find Photoshop infinitely harder to use than GIMP, but mainly because I can't afford the $4000 to buy a Mac and Photoshop. I'd much rather save the money and just learn to read the menus I'm clicking on.
2. Psychiatry an expressed or observed emotional response: Restricted, flat, or blunted affect may be a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia. -source: dictionary.com
Stress would presumably count as an harmful affect.
The firm expects to recover not more than £100,000 in damages.
In the race with a petrol-powered Lotus Elise, the £87,000 electric car was shown having to stop for a recharge
In Soviet Slashdot, that fixes for you!
There's a big difference between "wants them to" and "expects to get less than". I don't know the details of the Beeb's accounting, but it wouldn't surprise me if they got the car free for what Tesla expected would be a fair review and exposure. That'd be nearly 9/10 of the damages sought right there.
Most people are hesitant about jumping out of planes, or climbing mountains, or flying halfway around the world to get shot at, but there's still plenty of folks who do all of those regularly.
Perhaps for records from the 1950s that's true, but there's no excuse for creating any government doc in the last (at least) 20 years non-digitally, and storing them on a public server.
If this were really an alternative to fuel tax, and not an addition to it, I'd say it's awesome that something is finally sticking it to those bastard Prius owners.
There are plenty of reasons banks might want to take advantage of tweeting:
* Letting customers know when they're offering better rates.
* Reminding customers who work in the private sector and don't normally comprehend "Columbus Day" as a non-business-day that they're having a long weekend.
* Wire the alarm to automatically tweet customers that there's a robbery in process. That might be a bad idea if the robber's phone gets the tweet (he'd have to be really paranoid, or just a really meticulous planner to go in prepared for that), but it also might save a customer who was on his way to the bank from walking into the line of fire (oh, I forgot: no criminal in England has a gun, or has even thought about getting one; robberies there consist of politely asking "I say, good chap, would you mind terribly putting all of your shillings into this sack post-haste?").
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Color me baffled; I have no idea how you can say multiple desktops don't give you more work space. I'm willing to believe it's just one of those little things I don't understand how anyone could look at it that way.
I'd walk up behind you and smack some sense into you, but apparently you'd see me coming. And creationists say people aren't evolving!
You get more screen space that way the same way you can fit more words in a whole book than on a single page.
... so the president can find out what's in it!
"They let me sign checks with a rubber stamp!" -H. Simpson.
Because it's smart enough to filter >99% of crap. Actually reading spam -- the first step in falling victim to it -- is so 1997.
Hasn't Gmail more or less made the problem obsolete? Or am I supposed to shed a tear for people who willfully refuse to use freely-available tools that already do the job they're struggling with?
Well, then let's eat all the cows. Problem solved.
Wait, Germany's telling us we have a problem with unchecked authoritarian jackbootery? Next thing you know, Ireland's gonna tell us we're broke and drunk.
The National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes is already working on its appeal.
Oh, the @$$holes who wanted to sound smart would read an article or two a day and constantly refer to it, but it's hardly a coincidence they started a recycling program about the same time. Anyone who actually cared about current events would read one of the local papers that covered stuff like, oh, the school we were going to (despite the fact that I'm not nearly as young as I wish I still were, this was also recently enough that every dorm room on campus had an internet connection).
It was a specific class, but one that all first-semester freshmen had to take.
I'd like to know how many of these are voluntary subscriptions. My first year in college, they made us subscribe to the NYT, despite the fact that there were at least five major cities with well-known papers (at least one, PIttsburgh, having two) nearer to the school than New York. Now, this was a small, private school, but if even one large state school did the same, they could easily make up the lion's share of the subscribers (SUNY alone could nearly quadruple the 100K figure).
Well, thank Jah it's only 1997. Can you imagine a website trying to get away with that, say fourteen years from now?
Especially if you're trying to wear a plaid with pants. That's just WRONG.
AC, you ignorant slut! The irony was in the parent decrying the label of "fascism" then immediately launching into a tirade describing the pædophiliac jackbooted thug as a "bullied" victim, not the syntax.
I started using WordPerfect back in the days before it had GUI elements, when text would show up yellow on the screen to indicate it would print underlined. Despite that, when it acquired a GUI, or when M$Word, StarOffice, OpenOffice, KOffice, etc. came out, I had no "expectations" to "overcome" preventing me from figuring out how to use them—I just looked at what the $!@% I was doing when I did it. The idea that one tool should be any harder to use than another simply because it's not precisely the same as it is nothing more than intellectual laziness (i.e., a polite way of saying you're an illiterate moron).
That said, I actually do find Photoshop infinitely harder to use than GIMP, but mainly because I can't afford the $4000 to buy a Mac and Photoshop. I'd much rather save the money and just learn to read the menus I'm clicking on.
Did it run on Linux?
Sorry, but it is /., so I had to ask.
Is this some sort of affect/effect pedantry?
affect n.
1. Psychology feeling or emotion.
2. Psychiatry an expressed or observed emotional response: Restricted, flat, or blunted affect may be a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia. -source: dictionary.com
Stress would presumably count as an harmful affect.
Actually, so far in FY 2011, they've gotten $530,856.55.
And the old joke is true: they all gave 55 cents.
Sadly, that's not a joke.
In Soviet Slashdot, that fixes for you!
There's a big difference between "wants them to" and "expects to get less than". I don't know the details of the Beeb's accounting, but it wouldn't surprise me if they got the car free for what Tesla expected would be a fair review and exposure. That'd be nearly 9/10 of the damages sought right there.
Most people are hesitant about jumping out of planes, or climbing mountains, or flying halfway around the world to get shot at, but there's still plenty of folks who do all of those regularly.
Perhaps for records from the 1950s that's true, but there's no excuse for creating any government doc in the last (at least) 20 years non-digitally, and storing them on a public server.
Only if you're honest and actually report your vehicles. It might be just the Stimulus Package the black-market auto-theft rings need!
If this were really an alternative to fuel tax, and not an addition to it, I'd say it's awesome that something is finally sticking it to those bastard Prius owners.
There are plenty of reasons banks might want to take advantage of tweeting:
* Letting customers know when they're offering better rates.
* Reminding customers who work in the private sector and don't normally comprehend "Columbus Day" as a non-business-day that they're having a long weekend.
* Wire the alarm to automatically tweet customers that there's a robbery in process. That might be a bad idea if the robber's phone gets the tweet (he'd have to be really paranoid, or just a really meticulous planner to go in prepared for that), but it also might save a customer who was on his way to the bank from walking into the line of fire (oh, I forgot: no criminal in England has a gun, or has even thought about getting one; robberies there consist of politely asking "I say, good chap, would you mind terribly putting all of your shillings into this sack post-haste?").