Leave aside the the privacy and sharing issues for a moment. What difference in my life will it make if I tell the world that I own certain objects? None whatsoever. All it can do is help corporate America by making other people want what I have.
Better yet, drop this stupid notion of ever wanting or getting a job. Then you don't have to obsess about making your future employers (aka owners) happy.
Not all retail space is high-value anymore. There are a lot of old Sears and Kmart stores in completely dead areas that have no traffic. And why would it be better to use the old stores for more retail instead of data centers? Like America needs more plastic shit.
We're really digging the bottom of the barrel as an industry if we're putting energy into doing analytics on vacation photos to identify which ones contain landmarks. The way I see it, we've already accomplished the big things in computing (word processing, spreadsheets, image editing, etc.) and now all that's left is the constant development of minutiae.
If you're interested in programming, learn it and do it. Don't worry about whether you'll make money at it or whether your employers will think you're too old. Do it for yourself because it's fun and interesting. If the money or the job aspect comes later, icing on the cake.
You don't even actually own a Apple computer, you're using a hackintosh. There hasn't been a Mac that couldn't scroll in 10 years.
So pardon me while no one gives a fuck that you're getting a shitty experience on a substandard machine not designed to be used for what you're using it for.
Actually, I own way too many genuine overpriced Apple computers. I just happen to use mice that don't have scrollwheels. I scroll by clicking and holding and moving the mouse. And no, I'm not an old geezer. I'm in my 20s. There is no ideal input device or UI convention that works for everybody. Apple definitely believes in one-size-fits-all, and that's sad, because it generally means dumbing things down and removing options.
Do you need scrollbars eating screen real estate when they aren't needed or you aren't scrolling?
Yes, yes I do. I like to know my position in the page and the relative size of the current screen. Also, I don't use a laptop or a mouse with a scrollwheel, so that whole "pops up when you need it" thing isn't true for me.
Displays are big. A scrollbar on every window is not a big deal. Thankfully I can turn it off under OS X, but I can see the day coming when you can't, because that's the way Apple is.
Kind of odd that the Apple campus is the total opposite, a locked down place where nobody is allowed to talk about what he's working on with anyone outside the project.
To me and everyone I know, we buy organic not because we think it enhances the nutritional value of the produce, but because we want to eat less (maybe a lot less) pesticides with our produce. Why they would study the vitamin content is beyond me. It's never been a concern, claim, or issue.
If you object to circumcision and you're straight, sometimes people will try to insult you by suggesting that only gay people are so concerned with their penises.
There's nothing either gay or straight about wanting bodily integrity for yourself, for wishing that a useful and sensitive part of your body hadn't been mangled in the name of religion, pseudoscience, and social conformity.
I am fucking sick of guys who mock you, call you gay, and don't take this issue seriously.
There's a criminal case going on here in Ohio involving some Amish people who forcibly cut off the beards of some other Amish men. The prosecutors are trying for a hate crimes conviction by proving that the victims suffered willfully inflicted bodily injury. "There is no question that the forcible removal of a person's hair is, in and of itself, disfiguring..." argued the prosecutor.
If the forcible removal of facial hair, a renewable resource, is a disfiguring assault, then why is routine infant circumcision still legal?
People have been prosecuted and convicted of assault for doing far less permanent damage to another human being. By any reasonable standard, infant circumcision should be illegal. It's not a medical procedure. It's a barbaric religious ritual now done for reasons of pointless conformity.
While the Fukushima disaster may have increased the background radiation by a small amount, this isn't the end of the story on radiation exposure from that event. Fukushima also released radioactive particles that, when inhaled or ingested by humans, will expose their tissues to ionizing radiation for the rest of their lives. This is why you can't compare the exposure from events like international flights, which are distributed across your entire body and are transient in nature, to the total effects of a nuclear disaster. Some of the exposures from Fukushima were and will be much more than tolerable, transient increases in the background radiation a la living in Denver. For many people, the hot particles they inhaled or ingested will stay with them forever and will lead to significant cell damage and cancer.
How is it a joke? Day in and day out I'm the only one using my computer. If I share files with someone, it's through a server, and not directly from my computer. The only time I deal with file permissions is when I'm fighting against them blocking my access.
That said, Haiku has plans to adopt multiuser stuff. But the lack of it doesn't impact me in any way.
You have the wrong username, because I don't think you CAN read. Carl Sagan was a code name. I wasn't used in public. And last I checked you have the freedom to express negative opinions about buttheads all you want.
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White light inhibits night vision, not light toward the orange/red end of the spectrum.
Leave aside the the privacy and sharing issues for a moment. What difference in my life will it make if I tell the world that I own certain objects? None whatsoever. All it can do is help corporate America by making other people want what I have.
Better yet, drop this stupid notion of ever wanting or getting a job. Then you don't have to obsess about making your future employers (aka owners) happy.
Not all retail space is high-value anymore. There are a lot of old Sears and Kmart stores in completely dead areas that have no traffic. And why would it be better to use the old stores for more retail instead of data centers? Like America needs more plastic shit.
We're really digging the bottom of the barrel as an industry if we're putting energy into doing analytics on vacation photos to identify which ones contain landmarks. The way I see it, we've already accomplished the big things in computing (word processing, spreadsheets, image editing, etc.) and now all that's left is the constant development of minutiae.
If you're interested in programming, learn it and do it. Don't worry about whether you'll make money at it or whether your employers will think you're too old. Do it for yourself because it's fun and interesting. If the money or the job aspect comes later, icing on the cake.
I didn't realize this at first, but now I get it.
You don't even actually own a Apple computer, you're using a hackintosh. There hasn't been a Mac that couldn't scroll in 10 years.
So pardon me while no one gives a fuck that you're getting a shitty experience on a substandard machine not designed to be used for what you're using it for.
Actually, I own way too many genuine overpriced Apple computers. I just happen to use mice that don't have scrollwheels. I scroll by clicking and holding and moving the mouse. And no, I'm not an old geezer. I'm in my 20s. There is no ideal input device or UI convention that works for everybody. Apple definitely believes in one-size-fits-all, and that's sad, because it generally means dumbing things down and removing options.
Do you need scrollbars eating screen real estate when they aren't needed or you aren't scrolling?
Yes, yes I do. I like to know my position in the page and the relative size of the current screen. Also, I don't use a laptop or a mouse with a scrollwheel, so that whole "pops up when you need it" thing isn't true for me.
Displays are big. A scrollbar on every window is not a big deal. Thankfully I can turn it off under OS X, but I can see the day coming when you can't, because that's the way Apple is.
Kind of odd that the Apple campus is the total opposite, a locked down place where nobody is allowed to talk about what he's working on with anyone outside the project.
To me and everyone I know, we buy organic not because we think it enhances the nutritional value of the produce, but because we want to eat less (maybe a lot less) pesticides with our produce. Why they would study the vitamin content is beyond me. It's never been a concern, claim, or issue.
If you object to circumcision and you're straight, sometimes people will try to insult you by suggesting that only gay people are so concerned with their penises.
There's nothing either gay or straight about wanting bodily integrity for yourself, for wishing that a useful and sensitive part of your body hadn't been mangled in the name of religion, pseudoscience, and social conformity.
I am fucking sick of guys who mock you, call you gay, and don't take this issue seriously.
People say a foreskin gets smelly.
Your armpits get smelly. Should we cut off your arms?
The American Academy of Pediatrics needs to step forward into the 20th century, where we've developed something called regular bathing.
There's a criminal case going on here in Ohio involving some Amish people who forcibly cut off the beards of some other Amish men. The prosecutors are trying for a hate crimes conviction by proving that the victims suffered willfully inflicted bodily injury. "There is no question that the forcible removal of a person's hair is, in and of itself, disfiguring..." argued the prosecutor.
If the forcible removal of facial hair, a renewable resource, is a disfiguring assault, then why is routine infant circumcision still legal?
People have been prosecuted and convicted of assault for doing far less permanent damage to another human being. By any reasonable standard, infant circumcision should be illegal. It's not a medical procedure. It's a barbaric religious ritual now done for reasons of pointless conformity.
While the Fukushima disaster may have increased the background radiation by a small amount, this isn't the end of the story on radiation exposure from that event. Fukushima also released radioactive particles that, when inhaled or ingested by humans, will expose their tissues to ionizing radiation for the rest of their lives. This is why you can't compare the exposure from events like international flights, which are distributed across your entire body and are transient in nature, to the total effects of a nuclear disaster. Some of the exposures from Fukushima were and will be much more than tolerable, transient increases in the background radiation a la living in Denver. For many people, the hot particles they inhaled or ingested will stay with them forever and will lead to significant cell damage and cancer.
How is it a joke? Day in and day out I'm the only one using my computer. If I share files with someone, it's through a server, and not directly from my computer. The only time I deal with file permissions is when I'm fighting against them blocking my access.
That said, Haiku has plans to adopt multiuser stuff. But the lack of it doesn't impact me in any way.
You have the wrong username, because I don't think you CAN read. Carl Sagan was a code name. I wasn't used in public. And last I checked you have the freedom to express negative opinions about buttheads all you want.
Word game == lying
Remember that 1/3 of our nation was against the revolution and 1/3 didn't care. A small, vocal minority can change history.
What about the x-rays penetrating window glass?
I like it. Approval voting is recognition of the fact that all politicians come in varying shades of evil.
...why are you calling from a traffic light?