Have you ever recorded yourself with a webcam while working? You most invariably will look either angry or serious (when too focused) or stupid when you laugh, stare or leave your mouth somewhat open.
Anyway, the apple photos are a bit more extreme, they look like they're in pain. I think it's the price tags. =P
Funny, that's what my dad said when I told him about Windows 7. He wants to stick with what he knows (IE 7/8), Excel 03 (even if he doesn't use 0.003 % of it's features and could easily switch to OpenOffice.
I don't think is so much about the OS and software changes but about people. If you teach your dad how to get his software of choice he should be able to have Ubuntu exactly as he wants.
I understand what you mean though. Considering the target market of Ubuntu, most of those users won't go much further than the default software bundle.
Tsvangirai's position was put in jeopardy because he was allied with the US against Mugabe, and Mugabe was able to use his control of the media to twist it into some anti-Zimbabwe sentiment.
There is no possible way youre going to convince me that the curiosity of some citizens in the US was worth endangering the potential fixing of the disaster that is Zimbabwe.
You're saying that because zimbaweans learned THE TRUTH and Mugabe could use it to his advantage that secrecy was entitled? Tsvangirai engaged in talks with the US and supported sanctions against the country, wether that's a good or bad thing, it's not important in this discussion. The important thing is that it's represents the truth and if people get angry about it, wether there's a media spin or not, it's just how things are supposed to be.
I might be wrong, but you're claiming that secrecy should've been mantained so that Tsangivarai could effectively fight Mugabe while he lied to the people he represented? That's not good, that's not fair. I understand that you're on ONE side and that probably makes it hard to look it from a perspective. But life is not really us vs them. Just because I don't like Mugabe, it doesn't mean I'll blindly pretend all Tsvangirai's actions are ok.
People are supposed to make informed decisions in a democracy but you want your, let's say team, to be able to lie in order to achieve it's goals?
One liners might make someone look like they know more than they do,
Pot calling the kettle black. How many one-liners pop up stating "information wants to be free", nevermind that the founding fathers, the 2 sides in the confederacy, and the WW2 united states would have utterly disagreed with that statement on certain matters? People complaining about the harsh treatment of Manning seem to have lost sight of the fact that during the Civil or Revolutionary wars, he would have already been shot or hung as a traitor.
First off, I didn't say that information wants to be free. I just called you out on a lousy, unexplained and false example which was proven to be a piece of media propaganda a long time ago and it all started with this piece of crap article:
Second, founding fathers, blah, blah... Don't appeal to a mistic authority to try and support your non existent argument. You remind me of people who make a up quotes from the bible. By the way, I'm not a history expert but I think there were compulsory drafts during the civil war too. So does everything that happened then apply now as well? No. Null argument.
This isnt some new thing that is a distortion of the values our country stands for; people have long recognized that once you get back into reality, some secrets are necessary for the functioning of diplomacy and for the waging of military operations.
How successful do you suppose Neptunes Spear would have been if Wikileaks had gotten wind of the operation beforehand, pray tell? In what conceivable way is it a service to US citizens to ensure that its operations are unsuccessful, as such operations will be if such intel is leaked?
Sure, keeps spewing official crap. "Values America stands for"? Really? Fake patriot rhetoric won't help your case. Citizens will be lied to and everything will be kept secret to "protect" them from we-can't-tell-you-what dangers that lurk around.
With full secrecy comes no accountability.
Remember how this all started: He said: "All in all I think all the secrecy, and covert action makes us weaker not stronger." You replied: "Maybe look at the situation in Zimbabwe, and the fallout after the release of several diplomatic wires between Mugabe's opposition and the US, and then repeat that state
heh, I really hope you're not basing yourself in OMGZ, wikileaks endangered Morgan Tsvangirai's life. Please, tell me you're not nitpicking clearly false and biased information to support... er... what was your point again? yeah, whatever that was.
One liners might make someone look like they know more than they do, but some people will research and realize you're saying nothing at all.
if someone reveals the truth, no matter what happens, it's still the truth. Why should people rely on saviours, politicians, leaders, whatever that operate in secret and do not want their actions known?
somehow, I made the mistake of not paying attention to the preview. It said, "insert politician's name here".
I agree with you though. The way in which a law is worded might help avoid the easy misuse but I fear that, in the current climate (lack of accountability and extreme power of the executive branch) the slightest detail will be used to advance their interests.
Firefox is still the most customizable browser (from the popular ones). If you're trying to use it's UI as a means to discredit it that means you don't really know Firefox. It will take one direction for default users (appeal to the majority) but the power users will be able to tweak it to a great extent.
Pretending that it suits your specific tastes is just unrealistic.
Something else I don't understand is why "geeks" can't simply use more than one browser. You DON'T have to set on one for the rest of eternity stop arguing about it and actually go and report a bug or feature request! argghhh!
I'm interested. How do blind people (if they do) usually browse? How do they know what links or buttons are available? If they can recognize other buttons by sound, why wouldn't they be able to recognize the captcha soudn button?
I concur. I use the term Americans to refer to US citizens when I'm speaking, writing in English or French and sometimes in Spanish, although I also use "estadounidense" because all non US citizens I know don' t immediately consider "americano" to be "estadounidense".
That said, the OP told someone to RTFA because Canada is not North America. As far as I know, even in America (USA), people use North America (Canada, USA) or Latin America (The rest), or North (Including Mexico), Central and South. OP was just wrong regardless of what his own education was and, even if he wasn't wrong, one's education doesn't make someone else's education wrong just because the naming conventions differ.
It's like a British and an American arguing over the world Petrol/Gas. They're both right and referring to the same thing.
No. I am NOT an idiot nor am I a bigot. You're incredibly defensive. My post was not an attack. It was just a fact and it's not offensive.
Let's see, "United States of America". Calling yourselves something other than "american" was hard to pronounce. I get it. You have no easy equivalent to the Spanish "estadounidense", for example. So, you settled for American. Understandable.
Still, the continent's name was always America. The whole landmass going from north to south. People in every one of those countries can rightly call themselves american like a Nigerian can call themselves African (and they usually do).
The fact that Americans (yes, I use the term american to refer to united state citizens, I'm such a bigot!) have called themselves that way over the years and have quite a bit of cultural influence over other countries (specially american countries) has made the word catch on. Usability is an important faction for the definiton of a word.
Americans (US) do not use America to refer to the continent but their country. Americans outside the US, might or might not be used to this. So they will go one way or the other. None is wrong but a US citizen will surely fail to understand when it's being referred to differently from what they know.
The same thing happens with Billions, Trillions and long and short scale systems. A Billion is NOT 1,000,000,000. That's just one system. You wouldn't be able to insult someone for using something differently than you do but somewhere along the communication, it would be useful to clarify what you're referring to.
Same happens with Americans. You should respect that it's not set on stone. You can not arrogate the name and pretend a Canadian is wrong if he calls himself American. I get some US citizens, in debate with other people, usually explain how it's central, north and South America, or North America and Latin America (Saying Mexicans are not Americans but Latin Americans). But when it comes to Canada (Which was the problem in this case), the poster sl4shd0rk (755837) has little to no arguments to say Canada is not a part of North America. That's just a wrong appropriation of all-words-america.
The same semantics problem possibly occurs to South Africans and I doubt they start thinking everyone is bigoted and against them just for making a joke. Then again, you might want to read your comment back to yourself and reflect on your poor attitude. I hope you're better IRL.
heh, that's the problem with "americans". They've been calling themselves "americans" for so long they no longer remember it's a whole frigging continent.
Dude, Nico's character both likable and funny. I didn't play past a few first missions and random actions because I never bought nor had much time to get addicted to it (I remember GTA: San Andreas).
But GTA is my definition of a fun game whatever you do. You can just explore the city and interact with it. Watch them react to your violent experiments. When you do want to play the story, you find it''s well thought, funny and sufficiently varied to avoid being bored.
While I'm a OpenOffice user whenever I can, I'm actually quite pleased with MS Office 2010 Ribbon. When I tried the one in 2007 I felt that everything was hard to find, dumbed down and non intuitive. In the case of 2010 (which I think must be different from the 2007 version) I think that it's a great compromise between the quick access and nice design of the ribbon plus the less used capabilities of the old menubar. It seemed customizable too.
I haven't used really used much MS Office 2010 but it's interface didn't feel wrong when compared to 2003 (which I used for a really long time).
And ribbon like interfaces will keep appearing because they come in handy. Latest Autocad and I assume other autodesk software have this kind of interface. Besides, if you can customize it to feel like previous versions, it's good.
By the way, I'm really pleased with the aesthetics of Ubuntu 11.04 as well. It's easier to market it to average users if it's cool.
You're right. While we might enjoy this bullying because we dislike a company there is a larger context than, OMGZ 0WN3D!1!!!!11
I had a gawker account as well and, while it wasn't a problem for me to change my level lame password for that and other sites, it might turn out worse for other people.
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Have you ever recorded yourself with a webcam while working? You most invariably will look either angry or serious (when too focused) or stupid when you laugh, stare or leave your mouth somewhat open.
Anyway, the apple photos are a bit more extreme, they look like they're in pain. I think it's the price tags. =P
Funny, that's what my dad said when I told him about Windows 7. He wants to stick with what he knows (IE 7/8), Excel 03 (even if he doesn't use 0.003 % of it's features and could easily switch to OpenOffice.
I don't think is so much about the OS and software changes but about people. If you teach your dad how to get his software of choice he should be able to have Ubuntu exactly as he wants.
I understand what you mean though. Considering the target market of Ubuntu, most of those users won't go much further than the default software bundle.
Tsvangirai's position was put in jeopardy because he was allied with the US against Mugabe, and Mugabe was able to use his control of the media to twist it into some anti-Zimbabwe sentiment.
There is no possible way youre going to convince me that the curiosity of some citizens in the US was worth endangering the potential fixing of the disaster that is Zimbabwe.
You're saying that because zimbaweans learned THE TRUTH and Mugabe could use it to his advantage that secrecy was entitled? Tsvangirai engaged in talks with the US and supported sanctions against the country, wether that's a good or bad thing, it's not important in this discussion. The important thing is that it's represents the truth and if people get angry about it, wether there's a media spin or not, it's just how things are supposed to be.
I might be wrong, but you're claiming that secrecy should've been mantained so that Tsangivarai could effectively fight Mugabe while he lied to the people he represented? That's not good, that's not fair. I understand that you're on ONE side and that probably makes it hard to look it from a perspective. But life is not really us vs them. Just because I don't like Mugabe, it doesn't mean I'll blindly pretend all Tsvangirai's actions are ok.
People are supposed to make informed decisions in a democracy but you want your, let's say team, to be able to lie in order to achieve it's goals?
One liners might make someone look like they know more than they do,
Pot calling the kettle black. How many one-liners pop up stating "information wants to be free", nevermind that the founding fathers, the 2 sides in the confederacy, and the WW2 united states would have utterly disagreed with that statement on certain matters? People complaining about the harsh treatment of Manning seem to have lost sight of the fact that during the Civil or Revolutionary wars, he would have already been shot or hung as a traitor.
First off, I didn't say that information wants to be free. I just called you out on a lousy, unexplained and false example which was proven to be a piece of media propaganda a long time ago and it all started with this piece of crap article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/03/zimbabwe-morgan-tsvangirai
Second, founding fathers, blah, blah... Don't appeal to a mistic authority to try and support your non existent argument. You remind me of people who make a up quotes from the bible. By the way, I'm not a history expert but I think there were compulsory drafts during the civil war too. So does everything that happened then apply now as well? No. Null argument.
This isnt some new thing that is a distortion of the values our country stands for; people have long recognized that once you get back into reality, some secrets are necessary for the functioning of diplomacy and for the waging of military operations.
How successful do you suppose Neptunes Spear would have been if Wikileaks had gotten wind of the operation beforehand, pray tell? In what conceivable way is it a service to US citizens to ensure that its operations are unsuccessful, as such operations will be if such intel is leaked?
Sure, keeps spewing official crap. "Values America stands for"? Really? Fake patriot rhetoric won't help your case. Citizens will be lied to and everything will be kept secret to "protect" them from we-can't-tell-you-what dangers that lurk around.
With full secrecy comes no accountability.
Remember how this all started:
He said:
"All in all I think all the secrecy, and covert action makes us weaker not stronger."
You replied:
"Maybe look at the situation in Zimbabwe, and the fallout after the release of several diplomatic wires between Mugabe's opposition and the US, and then repeat that state
heh, I really hope you're not basing yourself in OMGZ, wikileaks endangered Morgan Tsvangirai's life. Please, tell me you're not nitpicking clearly false and biased information to support... er... what was your point again? yeah, whatever that was.
One liners might make someone look like they know more than they do, but some people will research and realize you're saying nothing at all.
if someone reveals the truth, no matter what happens, it's still the truth. Why should people rely on saviours, politicians, leaders, whatever that operate in secret and do not want their actions known?
"If you think there are only two candidates, there WILL be only two candidates." - The zen of "Democracy".
somehow, I made the mistake of not paying attention to the preview. It said, "insert politician's name here".
I agree with you though. The way in which a law is worded might help avoid the easy misuse but I fear that, in the current climate (lack of accountability and extreme power of the executive branch) the slightest detail will be used to advance their interests.
The problem is not what law says but how it's interpreted to fit 's needs.
What about the Joes in the world? Don't you think they should be vindicated as well?
Firefox is still the most customizable browser (from the popular ones). If you're trying to use it's UI as a means to discredit it that means you don't really know Firefox. It will take one direction for default users (appeal to the majority) but the power users will be able to tweak it to a great extent.
Pretending that it suits your specific tastes is just unrealistic.
Something else I don't understand is why "geeks" can't simply use more than one browser. You DON'T have to set on one for the rest of eternity stop arguing about it and actually go and report a bug or feature request! argghhh!
No one forces you to update but some of us enjoy new features.
What about Opera, man! I want the analysis of the 5th big browser!
You mean like Canada? Or Switzerland? (and I'm sure there's more)
I'm curious now, what's your attitude? is it optimistic? Victorious? Challenging? Why?
Slashdot, news about hackers, stuff that's stolen.
I'm interested. How do blind people (if they do) usually browse? How do they know what links or buttons are available? If they can recognize other buttons by sound, why wouldn't they be able to recognize the captcha soudn button?
I concur. I use the term Americans to refer to US citizens when I'm speaking, writing in English or French and sometimes in Spanish, although I also use "estadounidense" because all non US citizens I know don' t immediately consider "americano" to be "estadounidense".
That said, the OP told someone to RTFA because Canada is not North America. As far as I know, even in America (USA), people use North America (Canada, USA) or Latin America (The rest), or North (Including Mexico), Central and South. OP was just wrong regardless of what his own education was and, even if he wasn't wrong, one's education doesn't make someone else's education wrong just because the naming conventions differ.
It's like a British and an American arguing over the world Petrol/Gas. They're both right and referring to the same thing.
No. I am NOT an idiot nor am I a bigot. You're incredibly defensive. My post was not an attack. It was just a fact and it's not offensive.
Let's see, "United States of America". Calling yourselves something other than "american" was hard to pronounce. I get it. You have no easy equivalent to the Spanish "estadounidense", for example. So, you settled for American. Understandable.
Still, the continent's name was always America. The whole landmass going from north to south. People in every one of those countries can rightly call themselves american like a Nigerian can call themselves African (and they usually do).
The fact that Americans (yes, I use the term american to refer to united state citizens, I'm such a bigot!) have called themselves that way over the years and have quite a bit of cultural influence over other countries (specially american countries) has made the word catch on. Usability is an important faction for the definiton of a word.
Americans (US) do not use America to refer to the continent but their country.
Americans outside the US, might or might not be used to this. So they will go one way or the other. None is wrong but a US citizen will surely fail to understand when it's being referred to differently from what they know.
The same thing happens with Billions, Trillions and long and short scale systems. A Billion is NOT 1,000,000,000. That's just one system. You wouldn't be able to insult someone for using something differently than you do but somewhere along the communication, it would be useful to clarify what you're referring to.
Same happens with Americans. You should respect that it's not set on stone. You can not arrogate the name and pretend a Canadian is wrong if he calls himself American. I get some US citizens, in debate with other people, usually explain how it's central, north and South America, or North America and Latin America (Saying Mexicans are not Americans but Latin Americans). But when it comes to Canada (Which was the problem in this case), the poster sl4shd0rk (755837) has little to no arguments to say Canada is not a part of North America. That's just a wrong appropriation of all-words-america.
The same semantics problem possibly occurs to South Africans and I doubt they start thinking everyone is bigoted and against them just for making a joke. Then again, you might want to read your comment back to yourself and reflect on your poor attitude. I hope you're better IRL.
fear != respect.
heh, that's the problem with "americans". They've been calling themselves "americans" for so long they no longer remember it's a whole frigging continent.
The reply is simply awesome. Not only is he smart but he delivers his point with comedic style and "shock value" as well.
Dude, Nico's character both likable and funny. I didn't play past a few first missions and random actions because I never bought nor had much time to get addicted to it (I remember GTA: San Andreas).
But GTA is my definition of a fun game whatever you do. You can just explore the city and interact with it. Watch them react to your violent experiments. When you do want to play the story, you find it''s well thought, funny and sufficiently varied to avoid being bored.
You must be growing old and ranty :P
While I'm a OpenOffice user whenever I can, I'm actually quite pleased with MS Office 2010 Ribbon. When I tried the one in 2007 I felt that everything was hard to find, dumbed down and non intuitive. In the case of 2010 (which I think must be different from the 2007 version) I think that it's a great compromise between the quick access and nice design of the ribbon plus the less used capabilities of the old menubar. It seemed customizable too.
I haven't used really used much MS Office 2010 but it's interface didn't feel wrong when compared to 2003 (which I used for a really long time).
And ribbon like interfaces will keep appearing because they come in handy. Latest Autocad and I assume other autodesk software have this kind of interface. Besides, if you can customize it to feel like previous versions, it's good.
By the way, I'm really pleased with the aesthetics of Ubuntu 11.04 as well. It's easier to market it to average users if it's cool.
It definitely sounds like Robert Heinlein's martian names in Double star.
dude... You not only missed the joke but missed the math.
5000 ft - 4990 ft = 10 ft
10 ft ~= 3 mts
You guys made me laugh though, so it's all good ;)
You're right. While we might enjoy this bullying because we dislike a company there is a larger context than, OMGZ 0WN3D!1!!!!11
I had a gawker account as well and, while it wasn't a problem for me to change my level lame password for that and other sites, it might turn out worse for other people.