Oh come on, you know just as well as I do that George Orwell has been hijacked as strictly anti-Commie propaganda since the Cold War days. I expect that half of the teenage libertarian crowd here doesn't even know Orwell was a Socialist.
Yeah, that was what got me: the man is acknowledged by the connoisseurs as having written two genuine classics, yet in every SF discussion online he almost never gets mentioned.
I had been wondering about this for some time, and yesterday was a bit of a clincher: if Brunner doesn't get mentioned in depressing SF, despite having written such gems as 'The Sheep Look Up' (brilliant, but oh so dark), who else gets short shrift?
Actually, it's a fairly typical Microsoft attempt at a derivative: a copy of the superficial features on top of an unholy mess that shows that they don't understand the deeper concepts.
Well, it appears that you are a fairly typical troll: a teen with no knowledge, but lots of talk anyway.
Here's a hint, boy: the definition of trolling from the Usenet days is a lot more comprehensive, and not a lot like your definition. Talk about dilution.
You're posting inflammatory messages obviously to rile people into reacting. That's trolling, nothing diluted about it.
I just buy the CD, rip it myself, put the CD on a shelf as it's own backup, copy the rips onto a portable hard disk and put the hard disk in my coat pocket.
That's right, be old school and have a HD in your pocket which you can drop and lose all your shit (because we know you don't have backups)
(emphasis mine)
How about being even more old school, and learn how to read?
being an asshole isn't (or at least SHOULDN'T be) illegal.
What, like being an asshole by making threats of violence?
Or being an asshole by stalking someone?
Sorry, but there is a definite limit to how assholish you can be before you start actually infringing on other people's rights. In a civil society, this is the point where the law steps in.
Being an asshole beyond a certain point SHOULD certainly be illegal. I don't want to spend my entire day punching assholes in the face; I pay taxes to let law enforcement take care of that (not that they do a particularly good job, but that's another rant. The principle stands).
Oh yes, Bernie Madoff, who stole 65 billion dollars, who is currently in a medium-security prison where he is, quoted "treated like a Mafia don" by the other inmates.
While young guys in risk of a drug charge are told to be scared of 'pound-em-in-the-ass' prison to keep 'em on the straight and narrow.
Yes, it is hard to see that a culture that promotes those values has a two-tier justice system.
Eh, that's close enough to count as a founder to me, even if not the actual founder. I don't remember seeing much MMP activity until 1995 anyway.
And you're still selling him short. Curt was fairly active in the day-to-day activities of the company, he did not just bring in the cash.
Note, for the slow among us, I'm not saying he's a good businessman. Just that 38 Studios is not his first venture. And veteran ASLers will not be surprised at the failure mode of 38 Studios, Curt's been enthousiastic about more projects that didn't quite pan out or had a heavy delay; and neither was the way he handled licensing and third-party publishers for ASL worthy of a prize.
Erm, hate to burst your bubble, but Curt already has experience running a business, he's the founder of Multi Man Publishing, who produce boardgames and started out as a hobby project of his when he bought a license for some Avalon Hill properties after the Hill was bought up by Hasbro.
They're actually not all that bone-headed. Version 3.4 fixed your complaint.
Since I had never used this style of launching much before, I was hit fairly hard by that change, because I had already retrained myself to use up/down instead of left-right in 3.0 and 3.2.
Spoken by someone who has never used Gnome-Shell, obviously.
There's a huge, highly visible 'Applications' tab on the Activities screen, right next to the 'Windows' tab that's highlighted by default. Hit that, and you have all the discoverability you want.
I like Gnome-Shell. I had a few minor usability complaints, but they've been either addressed by the core team or an extension developer, and given that extendibility is a core goal for Gnome3, I count that extensions as solving a problem on an equal footing as the core team solving it.
The only complaint I have left is the way they've twice gratuitously broke the userland tools to set configuration, that, amongst others, lead to the 3.4 upgrade killing my custom window-manager config and replacing it with a default. The fix was easy, and the devs were helpful in pointing out what had changed, but it's still a sign of a developer-centric culture, not a user-centric one.
Geez, you admit that you know it makes people uncomfortable. Are you really so self-absorbed that you can't even bring up the patience to look around before you start thinking of things?
It might surprise you, but a fairly objective standard exists: respecting your fellow human beings.
It goes under different names sometimes, you may have heard of them: professionalism, politeness, inclusiveness. Or, if you want to show just how little you care about your fellow humans: political correctness.
It's not about off-the-cuff remarks. Contrary to what popular (right-wing) culture wants to tell you, not every woman is a raging man-hating bitch for not wanting a consistent stream of sexist remarks directed at her.
Mature women can handle the occasional off-the-cuff remark as long as there is no pattern of consistent misogyny. If you want to see what such a pattern looks like, try reading this discussion, or any Slashdot discussion that touches on feminism, at -1.
When someone calls your intelligence into question, it is usually not smart to confirm that you are that stupid. Of course, you being stupid, do exactly that.
It is irrelevant that the parents make the choice for the kids whether or not home-schooled (and private schooled, for that matter) children are a self-selected sample or not.
Given that home-schooled kids consistently outperform their public school counterparts
Bzzzzt.
Well, at least you show as much intelligence as Alex the talking parrot in your ability to parrot talking points, but aside from that you prove that you are a moron if you think that comparing a self-selected sample with essentially a random sample proves anything.
In fact, thanks to the existence of self-selected samples of higher achievers, it is quite possible that the public school population isn't even random, but skewed in the other direction.
But of course in your ideologically tinted fog of moronicity, that thought never came to you, now did it?
As a couple of others have noted, there is no reason to posit a false dichotomy - that one must use either Kahn Academy (or similar) or a "live" teacher.
And I will gladly point out that they are guilty of the fallacy of not reading the article (The RTFA fallacy).
The article's author is judicious in giving Khan credit for what he does right. Khan is not the target of the author's ire, and neither is Khan Academy, it's the unrealistic expectations being created by the hype surrounding Khan Academy, and the complete unwillingness of both Khan and his 'rah-rah' supporters to face the deficiencies in the Khan lectures.
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Oh come on, you know just as well as I do that George Orwell has been hijacked as strictly anti-Commie propaganda since the Cold War days. I expect that half of the teenage libertarian crowd here doesn't even know Orwell was a Socialist.
Yeah, that was what got me: the man is acknowledged by the connoisseurs as having written two genuine classics, yet in every SF discussion online he almost never gets mentioned.
I had been wondering about this for some time, and yesterday was a bit of a clincher: if Brunner doesn't get mentioned in depressing SF, despite having written such gems as 'The Sheep Look Up' (brilliant, but oh so dark), who else gets short shrift?
Actually, it's a fairly typical Microsoft attempt at a derivative: a copy of the superficial features on top of an unholy mess that shows that they don't understand the deeper concepts.
Typical racist douchebag dodging of the question noted.
When has Apple ever done anything else?
Well, it appears that you are a fairly typical troll: a teen with no knowledge, but lots of talk anyway.
Here's a hint, boy: the definition of trolling from the Usenet days is a lot more comprehensive, and not a lot like your definition. Talk about dilution.
You're posting inflammatory messages obviously to rile people into reacting. That's trolling, nothing diluted about it.
(emphasis mine)
How about being even more old school, and learn how to read?
Mart
Yeah, and posting inflammatory horsepuckey on Slashdot makes you a troll. One of the most lame kinds there is, but there you are.
What, like being an asshole by making threats of violence?
Or being an asshole by stalking someone?
Sorry, but there is a definite limit to how assholish you can be before you start actually infringing on other people's rights. In a civil society, this is the point where the law steps in.
Being an asshole beyond a certain point SHOULD certainly be illegal. I don't want to spend my entire day punching assholes in the face; I pay taxes to let law enforcement take care of that (not that they do a particularly good job, but that's another rant. The principle stands).
Oh yes, Bernie Madoff, who stole 65 billion dollars, who is currently in a medium-security prison where he is, quoted "treated like a Mafia don" by the other inmates.
While young guys in risk of a drug charge are told to be scared of 'pound-em-in-the-ass' prison to keep 'em on the straight and narrow.
Yes, it is hard to see that a culture that promotes those values has a two-tier justice system.
Eh, that's close enough to count as a founder to me, even if not the actual founder. I don't remember seeing much MMP activity until 1995 anyway.
And you're still selling him short. Curt was fairly active in the day-to-day activities of the company, he did not just bring in the cash.
Note, for the slow among us, I'm not saying he's a good businessman. Just that 38 Studios is not his first venture. And veteran ASLers will not be surprised at the failure mode of 38 Studios, Curt's been enthousiastic about more projects that didn't quite pan out or had a heavy delay; and neither was the way he handled licensing and third-party publishers for ASL worthy of a prize.
Erm, hate to burst your bubble, but Curt already has experience running a business, he's the founder of Multi Man Publishing, who produce boardgames and started out as a hobby project of his when he bought a license for some Avalon Hill properties after the Hill was bought up by Hasbro.
Mart
Some moderator with an obvious Gnome-hate hardon needs to be smacked hard for modding this up.
Gnome-Shell is not Ubuntu Unity. Gnome-Shell does not maximize windows by default, and works perfectly fine with multiple windows open.
They're actually not all that bone-headed. Version 3.4 fixed your complaint.
Since I had never used this style of launching much before, I was hit fairly hard by that change, because I had already retrained myself to use up/down instead of left-right in 3.0 and 3.2.
Spoken by someone who has never used Gnome-Shell, obviously.
There's a huge, highly visible 'Applications' tab on the Activities screen, right next to the 'Windows' tab that's highlighted by default. Hit that, and you have all the discoverability you want.
I like Gnome-Shell. I had a few minor usability complaints, but they've been either addressed by the core team or an extension developer, and given that extendibility is a core goal for Gnome3, I count that extensions as solving a problem on an equal footing as the core team solving it.
The only complaint I have left is the way they've twice gratuitously broke the userland tools to set configuration, that, amongst others, lead to the 3.4 upgrade killing my custom window-manager config and replacing it with a default. The fix was easy, and the devs were helpful in pointing out what had changed, but it's still a sign of a developer-centric culture, not a user-centric one.
As I said, it might surprise you.
Thank you for demonstrating your douchery.
Mart
So don't stare at people.
Geez, you admit that you know it makes people uncomfortable. Are you really so self-absorbed that you can't even bring up the patience to look around before you start thinking of things?
Mart
It might surprise you, but a fairly objective standard exists: respecting your fellow human beings.
It goes under different names sometimes, you may have heard of them: professionalism, politeness, inclusiveness. Or, if you want to show just how little you care about your fellow humans: political correctness.
Marr
No, it shows that you know jack shit about statistics.
Here's a cracker 'top 50% income'-Polly.
Mart
Oh gosh, that's the first time I've seen fully half of the human population defined as 'magical entities'.
Grow up.
Mart
Here's a hint: leering is more than 'just looking'.
Mart
It's not about off-the-cuff remarks. Contrary to what popular (right-wing) culture wants to tell you, not every woman is a raging man-hating bitch for not wanting a consistent stream of sexist remarks directed at her.
Mature women can handle the occasional off-the-cuff remark as long as there is no pattern of consistent misogyny. If you want to see what such a pattern looks like, try reading this discussion, or any Slashdot discussion that touches on feminism, at -1.
Mart
When someone calls your intelligence into question, it is usually not smart to confirm that you are that stupid. Of course, you being stupid, do exactly that.
It is irrelevant that the parents make the choice for the kids whether or not home-schooled (and private schooled, for that matter) children are a self-selected sample or not.
Mart
Bzzzzt.
Well, at least you show as much intelligence as Alex the talking parrot in your ability to parrot talking points, but aside from that you prove that you are a moron if you think that comparing a self-selected sample with essentially a random sample proves anything.
In fact, thanks to the existence of self-selected samples of higher achievers, it is quite possible that the public school population isn't even random, but skewed in the other direction.
But of course in your ideologically tinted fog of moronicity, that thought never came to you, now did it?
And I will gladly point out that they are guilty of the fallacy of not reading the article (The RTFA fallacy).
The article's author is judicious in giving Khan credit for what he does right. Khan is not the target of the author's ire, and neither is Khan Academy, it's the unrealistic expectations being created by the hype surrounding Khan Academy, and the complete unwillingness of both Khan and his 'rah-rah' supporters to face the deficiencies in the Khan lectures.