I got rid of Vista a while ago (have to install it again, though, stupid HP not having XP drivers for their laptops, and stupid work requiring me to run Windows apps that are too heavy for VMWare) but IIRC it was eating ~4-6 GB, and that's AFTER I turned off its enormous disk cache (which was taking another 5GB or so, IIRC).
How did the Windows folder get to be multi-GB in size? I can have Ubuntu with BOTH KDE and Gnome installed, full 3d desktop effects, Openoffice, Firefox, The Gimp, Apache, MySQL AND PostgreSQL, PHP, Perl, etc, etc, etc... and still be under the disk usage of Vista. What the hell am I getting for all that extra shit? How did they even manage to waste that much space? XP was, what, 600MB or so? Certainly under 1GB.
Most of Europe has similar "Mutuelles", no profit mutual solidarity additional insurance.
It just provides _additional_ coverage not cared for by the 'normal' one, like free 1st class 1 bed rooms in hospitals (that's the reason I have one), reimbursement of the small percentage that you have to pay personally for certain treatments/operations, free ambulance flights home if you have accidents or sickness in a foreign country, reimbursement for ceramic/gold bridgeworks, treatments in foreign countries and stuff like that.
For all that I pay around 200$ a year for the whole family.
I have no idea how you managed to read this post the way you apparently did.
$20-32,000 is the usual range for starting teachers, depending on the state.
At that level, you get a mix of overqualified people who are essentially doing volunteer work (the smallest slice), people who think kids and bulletin boards and all that are "cute" but who quickly become bitter and worthless, people who couldn't make it in any other degree program (teaching programs are, in general, really damned easy--just ask my wife, she went through one and will be the first to tell you it was mostly busywork and super-easy tests) and who are only in it for the summers off, and people who want to coach a sport and managed to get through a BA in history with a low C average, and no passion for (or real knowledge of) the subject whatsoever.
Then you've got your administrators. Most don't know the difference between anecdote and data, or how to properly control in an experiment, or even that following only half of someone's steps in a set of directions will likely not lead to the same outcome, and they're reading WAY too much of what passes for "research" in the field of education and then trying to apply the "findings", sans scrutiny, in the most convenient (half-assed) way possible, then blaming the teachers for any problems that crop up. Many will shit on the teachers if a kid's parents say "boo" (or, more likely, "RACISM!" or "DISCRIMINATION!") no matter the facts. Nearly all will do what is (or, at least, they believe to be) good for the school's numbers, rather than doing what's best for the kids or teachers.
Then there's the parents. Oooooh the parents.
It's no wonder that true, professional teachers are a rarity. You want professionals, give them decent conditions and high pay. If you can't manage the "decent conditions" part, then that pay better be REALLY high.
It's clear that we don't want professionals. We get exactly what we ask the labor pool to give us, and are then shocked that it's not something else. Rather than addressing that problem, we throw all kinds of reforms at the schools every couple of years, making the job of "teacher" even less desirable. People are weird.
That would require elementary school teachers (who, even if their kids aren't yet writing the journal articles, are providing the foundation for it in later grades) to possess an understanding of science well over the average of the general population. Hell, well over the average for college graduates, for that matter.
WTF is Pulseaudio FOR? All I know is that I stopped having audio problems in Linux 3-4 years ago, and now all of the sudden I'm having to use this buggy-as-fuck Pulseaudio thing to make some stuff work, but it breaks other things, so I have to edit ~/.pulseaudioconf or whatever with blah blah blah.
Maybe there's a reason for it, but from my perspective it looks like a solution looking for a problem (and causing them when it doesn't find them)
10 to 1 the detonators were actually for the ships that they were on, too. I was just waiting for the people on the regular (non-prison) ship to blow themselves up.
I find that style very hard to follow if you've got a lot of conditionals in a row, like an if/elseif(x6)/else situation. I think it's because if I put my first curly on the same line as the if, then any single-character line is always the END of the bit of logic. Putting both on their own line makes it, at a glance, like taking the space out from between sentences and lower-casing the first letter.
Only having the last one on its own line gives the character more meaning when quickly skimming, IMO.
I finally broke down and installed Photoshop CS3 in a VMware XP environment on my Linux laptop, because The Gimp just wasn't handling our designer's.ps files correctly.
I hadn't used it in a few years, and I'd started to doubt my fond memories of it as being so much easier to use than The Gimp. Hell, by now I've probably got 5x the number of hours using The Gimp as I do Photoshop, overall, so I should even have become more acclimated to it than to PS.
Oh, man, BREATH OF FRESH AIR. God, it was so wonderful going back to it. The only, ONLY thing I miss is "paste as new" (ctrl+shift+v), because it's slightly faster than "Ctrl+n,click OK,Ctrl+v". Took me about five minutes to get used to it, and then everything was a breeze.
Fuck The Gimp. The fact that it remains the best FOSS Linux graphics editor says more about the state of FOSS Linux graphics editors than it does about the quality of that program. It's OK for slicing up an image for web, but if I need to do anything more complicated, even just working with simple layers... to hell with it, it's worth it to fire up VMWare for that.
If you're behind a router that's not forwarding ports to your machine (most home users with DSL or Cable these days, if they have more than one computer) then 99.999% of those "infect you the second you connect to the 'net" viruses will be foiled.
A few years ago, when I moved out of my parents' house, I took my router with me and plugged my mom's machine straight in to their provider's modem--I didn't really think about it, and I hadn't installed AV software on any of the computers in the house (all but one of them being mine). The next day I got a phone call. That router had been stopping all of the non-user-initiated viruses.
If I had to choose between a router or some AV software, I'd pick the router every single time.
Or Resident Evil IV, or Metroid Prime (ooh, gonna step on some shoes there).
Jesus, those games suck. I mean suck, suck suck. HARD. And no, I'm not just bitching about the controls; these games would suck on a PC too, though they'd at least be a bit less painful to slog through.
Halo, too, for that matter.
They're some of the stars of console FPS (OK, REIV is an "action shooter" or whatever, but close enough), yet they're on par with mid-level fan-created mods in the PC world. DATED mid-level fan-created mods, at that (Metroid reminds me of The Gunman Chronicles, big time--talk about a blast from the past).
I hadn't realized till I started getting back in to console gaming again recently that the standards for a "blockbuster" FPS or shooter are so low there. Ick.
OTOH, yeah, Zelda kicks ass, and wouldn't be the same on a PC:)
Maybe they should bind "open" to both and make "Cmd-r" or some such "rename", since I would expect "enter" in a file manager to do the most common action, which is to open or run whatever you've got selected.
A lot of its nicer features are absent if you're using mostly GTK programs rather than QT, and QT programs feel far too interconnected to me--interoperability is nice, interDEPENDENCY and a lack of drop-in replacements is NOT nice; feeling like I have to use ONLY a certain set of programs or I'll break the intended workflow is not what I want, and GTK/Gnome apps almost never make me feel that way. I can use VLC as my media player, Firefox as my browser, Openoffice for word processing, Geany for text editing, etc, and not feel like I'm doing things "wrong" like I do in KDE if I use something other than the defaults. Aside from that, I find its interface to be a cluttered, unintuitive mess, and dislike Konqueror so much that I'd put it on the same level as Nautilus (the one thing about Gnome that really, truly, completely sucks, and is too integrated to satisfactorily replace with something else)
I'd be prepared to accept, however, that it was somehow a "freer" user experience (though, as I said above, I find it restrictive in the extreme) but I've never actually wanted to do something and been stopped from doing it by Gnome.
Is this an outdated argument that is perpetuated by KDE users who haven't really used Gnome in years (it was extremely bad for a while, though for entirely different reasons IMO)? Is there actually something (well, it should be SEVERAL somethings for the argument to hold water) there that I just haven't run in to yet? I honestly have NO idea what people are talking about when they say that Gnome restricts users to some unacceptable degree. I've just not found a case where it's not been possible to do what I want, and, as I said in my previous post, I've gone through my fair share of customizing fits:)
LOL, are you serious? That renames instead of opening in OSX? Jesus.
- There's no burden in resizing the window on only one spot and it gives you a nice GUI without window borders.
1. Yes there is. If I've got a window half the height of my monitor and all the way at the bottom, and I want to make it taller, I can just drag the top. If the bottom right corner is my only resize spot, I have to first move the window up, THEN resize. Oops, now I need it just a *bit* taller--move up again, take mouse to bottom right, resize. SO annoying. 2. My Gnome theme has no window borders and I can still resize from any side or corner.
I've never adapted to Gnome, because the philosophy is different there, it seems to be about making it easier to do things, at the expense of configurability. Well, for me the easiest way to do things is to do them the way I find easier, not the way someone else prefers.
You know, people always say this, but after ~9 years using Linux (two of those using Gentoo exclusively, so yeah, I tweak and customize things a lot) and mostly using Gnome during that time (all of my preferred apps are GTK and have been for some time, save for a short period when K3B was the only GUI CD burning program worth using, and Gnome compiled in about 2/3 the time it took KDE when I was using Gentoo, so I stuck with it and XFCE) I still haven't seen what they're talking about. What can't I change on here that I would want to? I've never run in to those sorts of problems.
Thank God several others have jumped on this, I was started to think that my "one month to write usable code, three months to write decent code, six months to write good code, twelve months to write great code" learning rate was behind the curve.
My first thought was the ability to kill children, assuming they kept that bit from the earlier two games.
IIRC, they had to make "no kids" versions for Germany with those. I'll be surprised if they keep that in at all this time, though, considering this is the same Bethesda that gave us child-free Morrowind and Oblivion (and man, once you realize it, it really sticks out)
The Oldbar addon fixes the problem perfectly, by making the correct (yeah, correct, I said it) suggestions first, and only showing "searched for" suggestions if it there are no better options.
Best of both worlds. I do frequently use the history search, but it never gets in my way when I don't want it.
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I want to know how they used so much disk space.
I got rid of Vista a while ago (have to install it again, though, stupid HP not having XP drivers for their laptops, and stupid work requiring me to run Windows apps that are too heavy for VMWare) but IIRC it was eating ~4-6 GB, and that's AFTER I turned off its enormous disk cache (which was taking another 5GB or so, IIRC).
How did the Windows folder get to be multi-GB in size? I can have Ubuntu with BOTH KDE and Gnome installed, full 3d desktop effects, Openoffice, Firefox, The Gimp, Apache, MySQL AND PostgreSQL, PHP, Perl, etc, etc, etc... and still be under the disk usage of Vista. What the hell am I getting for all that extra shit? How did they even manage to waste that much space? XP was, what, 600MB or so? Certainly under 1GB.
I have no idea how you managed to read this post the way you apparently did.
$20-32,000 is the usual range for starting teachers, depending on the state.
At that level, you get a mix of overqualified people who are essentially doing volunteer work (the smallest slice), people who think kids and bulletin boards and all that are "cute" but who quickly become bitter and worthless, people who couldn't make it in any other degree program (teaching programs are, in general, really damned easy--just ask my wife, she went through one and will be the first to tell you it was mostly busywork and super-easy tests) and who are only in it for the summers off, and people who want to coach a sport and managed to get through a BA in history with a low C average, and no passion for (or real knowledge of) the subject whatsoever.
Then you've got your administrators. Most don't know the difference between anecdote and data, or how to properly control in an experiment, or even that following only half of someone's steps in a set of directions will likely not lead to the same outcome, and they're reading WAY too much of what passes for "research" in the field of education and then trying to apply the "findings", sans scrutiny, in the most convenient (half-assed) way possible, then blaming the teachers for any problems that crop up. Many will shit on the teachers if a kid's parents say "boo" (or, more likely, "RACISM!" or "DISCRIMINATION!") no matter the facts. Nearly all will do what is (or, at least, they believe to be) good for the school's numbers, rather than doing what's best for the kids or teachers.
Then there's the parents. Oooooh the parents.
It's no wonder that true, professional teachers are a rarity. You want professionals, give them decent conditions and high pay. If you can't manage the "decent conditions" part, then that pay better be REALLY high.
It's clear that we don't want professionals. We get exactly what we ask the labor pool to give us, and are then shocked that it's not something else. Rather than addressing that problem, we throw all kinds of reforms at the schools every couple of years, making the job of "teacher" even less desirable. People are weird.
No, he doesn't. He pays precisely that much for all of the things he listed, which are additions to the tax-funded healthcare system.
Try reading the post again.
That would require elementary school teachers (who, even if their kids aren't yet writing the journal articles, are providing the foundation for it in later grades) to possess an understanding of science well over the average of the general population. Hell, well over the average for college graduates, for that matter.
Triple the pay and you might get that. Maybe.
Oh, I don't have to imagine.
SELECT * FROM table1,table2 WHERE table1.wall=3 AND table1.wall = table2.wall
Jesus, what he said.
WTF is Pulseaudio FOR? All I know is that I stopped having audio problems in Linux 3-4 years ago, and now all of the sudden I'm having to use this buggy-as-fuck Pulseaudio thing to make some stuff work, but it breaks other things, so I have to edit ~/.pulseaudioconf or whatever with blah blah blah.
Maybe there's a reason for it, but from my perspective it looks like a solution looking for a problem (and causing them when it doesn't find them)
10 to 1 the detonators were actually for the ships that they were on, too. I was just waiting for the people on the regular (non-prison) ship to blow themselves up.
I find that style very hard to follow if you've got a lot of conditionals in a row, like an if/elseif(x6)/else situation. I think it's because if I put my first curly on the same line as the if, then any single-character line is always the END of the bit of logic. Putting both on their own line makes it, at a glance, like taking the space out from between sentences and lower-casing the first letter.
Only having the last one on its own line gives the character more meaning when quickly skimming, IMO.
Tell me about it.
I finally broke down and installed Photoshop CS3 in a VMware XP environment on my Linux laptop, because The Gimp just wasn't handling our designer's .ps files correctly.
I hadn't used it in a few years, and I'd started to doubt my fond memories of it as being so much easier to use than The Gimp. Hell, by now I've probably got 5x the number of hours using The Gimp as I do Photoshop, overall, so I should even have become more acclimated to it than to PS.
Oh, man, BREATH OF FRESH AIR. God, it was so wonderful going back to it. The only, ONLY thing I miss is "paste as new" (ctrl+shift+v), because it's slightly faster than "Ctrl+n,click OK,Ctrl+v". Took me about five minutes to get used to it, and then everything was a breeze.
Fuck The Gimp. The fact that it remains the best FOSS Linux graphics editor says more about the state of FOSS Linux graphics editors than it does about the quality of that program. It's OK for slicing up an image for web, but if I need to do anything more complicated, even just working with simple layers... to hell with it, it's worth it to fire up VMWare for that.
If you're behind a router that's not forwarding ports to your machine (most home users with DSL or Cable these days, if they have more than one computer) then 99.999% of those "infect you the second you connect to the 'net" viruses will be foiled.
A few years ago, when I moved out of my parents' house, I took my router with me and plugged my mom's machine straight in to their provider's modem--I didn't really think about it, and I hadn't installed AV software on any of the computers in the house (all but one of them being mine). The next day I got a phone call. That router had been stopping all of the non-user-initiated viruses.
If I had to choose between a router or some AV software, I'd pick the router every single time.
Or Resident Evil IV, or Metroid Prime (ooh, gonna step on some shoes there).
Jesus, those games suck. I mean suck, suck suck. HARD. And no, I'm not just bitching about the controls; these games would suck on a PC too, though they'd at least be a bit less painful to slog through.
Halo, too, for that matter.
They're some of the stars of console FPS (OK, REIV is an "action shooter" or whatever, but close enough), yet they're on par with mid-level fan-created mods in the PC world. DATED mid-level fan-created mods, at that (Metroid reminds me of The Gunman Chronicles, big time--talk about a blast from the past).
I hadn't realized till I started getting back in to console gaming again recently that the standards for a "blockbuster" FPS or shooter are so low there. Ick.
OTOH, yeah, Zelda kicks ass, and wouldn't be the same on a PC :)
...is the usual function of "enter" to rename?
Maybe they should bind "open" to both and make "Cmd-r" or some such "rename", since I would expect "enter" in a file manager to do the most common action, which is to open or run whatever you've got selected.
Well, I've got my own criticisms of KDE.
A lot of its nicer features are absent if you're using mostly GTK programs rather than QT, and QT programs feel far too interconnected to me--interoperability is nice, interDEPENDENCY and a lack of drop-in replacements is NOT nice; feeling like I have to use ONLY a certain set of programs or I'll break the intended workflow is not what I want, and GTK/Gnome apps almost never make me feel that way. I can use VLC as my media player, Firefox as my browser, Openoffice for word processing, Geany for text editing, etc, and not feel like I'm doing things "wrong" like I do in KDE if I use something other than the defaults. Aside from that, I find its interface to be a cluttered, unintuitive mess, and dislike Konqueror so much that I'd put it on the same level as Nautilus (the one thing about Gnome that really, truly, completely sucks, and is too integrated to satisfactorily replace with something else)
I'd be prepared to accept, however, that it was somehow a "freer" user experience (though, as I said above, I find it restrictive in the extreme) but I've never actually wanted to do something and been stopped from doing it by Gnome.
Is this an outdated argument that is perpetuated by KDE users who haven't really used Gnome in years (it was extremely bad for a while, though for entirely different reasons IMO)? Is there actually something (well, it should be SEVERAL somethings for the argument to hold water) there that I just haven't run in to yet? I honestly have NO idea what people are talking about when they say that Gnome restricts users to some unacceptable degree. I've just not found a case where it's not been possible to do what I want, and, as I said in my previous post, I've gone through my fair share of customizing fits :)
LOL, are you serious? That renames instead of opening in OSX? Jesus.
1. Yes there is. If I've got a window half the height of my monitor and all the way at the bottom, and I want to make it taller, I can just drag the top. If the bottom right corner is my only resize spot, I have to first move the window up, THEN resize. Oops, now I need it just a *bit* taller--move up again, take mouse to bottom right, resize. SO annoying.
2. My Gnome theme has no window borders and I can still resize from any side or corner.
You know, people always say this, but after ~9 years using Linux (two of those using Gentoo exclusively, so yeah, I tweak and customize things a lot) and mostly using Gnome during that time (all of my preferred apps are GTK and have been for some time, save for a short period when K3B was the only GUI CD burning program worth using, and Gnome compiled in about 2/3 the time it took KDE when I was using Gentoo, so I stuck with it and XFCE) I still haven't seen what they're talking about. What can't I change on here that I would want to? I've never run in to those sorts of problems.
Thank God several others have jumped on this, I was started to think that my "one month to write usable code, three months to write decent code, six months to write good code, twelve months to write great code" learning rate was behind the curve.
Yeah, he probably just lost an Iowan vote here. Bad move.
Unless he does something great, no vote from me. No vote for McCain, but no vote for him, either.
Yeah, this has changed my election-day plans from "Go vote for Obama" to "stay home and drink" (formerly my plan if Hillary got the D nomination).
It's likely to stay that way unless Obama does something really spectacular between now and November.
AND I'm in Iowa. Good job, Obama.
My first thought was the ability to kill children, assuming they kept that bit from the earlier two games.
IIRC, they had to make "no kids" versions for Germany with those. I'll be surprised if they keep that in at all this time, though, considering this is the same Bethesda that gave us child-free Morrowind and Oblivion (and man, once you realize it, it really sticks out)
I'd think that there certainly is, and that we already see it in action.
I guarantee I remember less about 10 years ago than I did 9 years ago.
One more here.
I can't think of a benefit that couldn't be replicated through another method with both less hassle for the user AND less work for the developers.
Vodka.
The Oldbar addon fixes the problem perfectly, by making the correct (yeah, correct, I said it) suggestions first, and only showing "searched for" suggestions if it there are no better options.
Best of both worlds. I do frequently use the history search, but it never gets in my way when I don't want it.
Ohhhh... that's what that does. Cool.