Yeah, it's pretty funny. When my kids were learning cursive and I was helping them, I had to do some serious rememberin' to recall all the capital letters.
In this day and age, the ability to write fast is much less important than the ability to write legibly. Cursive may be more efficient for writing quantity, but it sure isn't more readable, unless you write like a schoolteacher. (Funny enough, I was looking back at my senior year high school yearbook and the person with the best handwriting did in fact become a teacher.)
On the other hand, if I'd had any idea how much typing I'd be doing in my life, I would have seriously considered taking typing in high school. Still, I took 3 years of drafting... although it was directly relevant to my career (except for one summer job where I actually did get to draw a bunch of machine parts), I still think it was a valuable experience (as well as being a lot of fun). Plus it significantly helped my printing, which turned out to be quite useful anyway. To this day, I still write all my letters and numbers as I was taught in drafting, except for putting slashes through my zeroes, which I picked up from writing code.
Although I knew the only real possibilities were the original cast returning or the show not being made.
Even though we have the proverbial "500 channels", there's still as much a lack of good creative shows as ever, and Futurama fits that bill perfectly. Newt Minow's "vast wasteland" is alive and strong!
Especially since the #1 show "American Politics" got a whole new set of writers but has still managed to get even dumber than ever... ludicrous plots, inane dialog, stories so far-fetched no one would ever believe them in real life...
The first thing I did after graduating from high school was immediately and gladly stop writing in cursive forever. It's been nearly 30 years, and I've never had a use for it, besides my signature. Even though I wrote a lot of cursive, even when I didn't have to, the moment I didn't have to any more, I stopped using it completely. I was also influenced by taking a lot of drafting in high school.
Of course, nowadays, I write so little more than about 3 lines of text makes my hand hurt. On the other hand, I can type really well, even though I never learned the "right" way to type. If I'd had even the remotest idea how much I would be typing on computers, within a year or two after graduating from high school in 1982, I would have seriously considered typing class when I had the chance. After a year or two in college I was typing papers for folks at a buck a page. I got pretty good fast, but only in the past few years would my typing speed be anywhere near someone who was properly trained. Of course, much of my typing is coding, and I'm seldom typing very fast when doing that.
Cursive? It's just something I have no use for. That seems a shame, but times have changed, and my written communicate is done with a computer 99% of the time.
Actually, a gender and color-blind society, built on freedom and transparency would be one of the worst possible things to happen. Would Obama have been elected if the press hadn't focused on his race?
You mean that it would have been a bad thing if they would have, in fact, focused on his complete and utter lack of qualification for the job?
No, the best thing that happen is that Windows 7 is wonderful in every way.
The most likely good thing that could happen is that Windows 7 is so bad it damages MS more, and as a result they take their users into consideration instead of making their highest priority to maintain their monopoly.
The most likely thing of any kind to happen is that Windows 7 is marginally better than Vista, but XP is no longer available and approaching the end of being supported. Microsoft carries on like they always have. OSX, along with Linux and other Free software continue to make modest gains.
You do realize that C++0x was the name for the new standard where x would represent the year it was finalized (of course, now it will be C++1x). The language would still be C++.
Besides a new name for the language should include some of those wacky new operators. At the rate things are going it could be C++**.
Microsoft has made security a real issue since about 2000, or at least acknowledged it. Since about 2004 they have actually made significant headway solving the problem. Before then, they were pretty much completely negligent on securing their system or making users aware that Windows was like a sieve.
That adds up to about 20 years of ignoring security, the legacy of which is still causing problems today, such as the more than 10 million botted Windows machines across the world.
Which means that the people speaking that incredibly beautiful bird language are probably insulting you in the most grotesque anatomically-improbable terms possible.;-)
He's right, you are an idiot. But I for one would fight to preserve your right to remain an idiot. I may try to convince you that you are wrong, but if you don't want to listen to me, then that's up to you.
Congress more and more wants to make being an idiot illegal. While in theory, that can be a good idea. Being an idiot is often more costly for society at large. However, Congress itself is comprised of idiots. How is that supposed to work? Worse, they are corrupt idiots, which is the most dangerous combination possible out of those combinations that don't contain "overtly evil" in them. And more than a few Congressmen have that trait as well.
The only way to properly legislate against idiocy is for the lawmakers to be collectively smarter than the people they are trying to control. The whole basis of our Republic and the Constitution that created it is that that is impossible.
I was in college at the time and was taking a drawing class. I'd stopped by the art/office supply store on the way to class and the TV was showing the aftermath of the accident. I continued on to class and upon reporting what I had seen, it was about 5 minutes before the jokes started coming. It's a coping mechanism. I don't think people were really that callous.
On the other hand, if it had been a computer science or engineering class, the jokes might have come much sooner.
I'll give you a hint. If that were in any way possible, we'd be seeing it now. At least for some show like "Pokemon" where the dialog tend to be extremely simple.
We'll see truly convincing computer-generated people long before we'll be hearing them.
Now, be honest. How many of us had our first computer experience with MS-DOS or Windows 3.1? Do you think that if computers still consisted on thin-client-server models based on huge VAX mainframes
Um. The microcomputer revolution was going like gangbusters before Microsoft came along. You have heard of the Apple ][ and Commodore 64. Yes, the IBM PC created a microcomputer revolution in the business world, but it's not like Microsoft created the PC world ex nihilo. Mostly they just happened to be at the right place at the right time with an incredibly shrewd person at the helm. That's business-shrewd, not technology-shrewd.
You're right. The real enemy here is Microsoft! If we stopped Windows, we would stop the attacks. I think we should send the military to liberate Redmond.
Why do you want to construct what looks like a coherent discussion out of ramblings made at 4am ? Suppose I did looks at people's random comments you -- what would that mean ? But you are not sure you breaks down in the middle of a post. What answer would please you most ?
What? No "killah cockroaches"?! This post-nuclear-holocaust world is sounding less and less appealing every day.
Besides, I'm not so sure a dozen nukes wouldn't cripple the U.S. Those flatworms in Congress and the White House are doing their best to cripple to U.S. over global warming, the bad economy or the fact that a small percentage of the country doesn't have proper health coverage.
The ironic thing is that the fluorescent bulbs are closer to sunlight in color. Sunlight is not yellowish (unless it's near the horizon). Nevertheless, I know what you're talking about. I've been using CFLs since the early 90s and am very used to them, but I still prefer the warmer light of tungsten.
The saddest thing to me about incandescent bulbs is how cheaply they're made. It's a huge waste. Bulbs can easily (but not as cheaply) be made to last for years, but you don't make as much money when your product is durable. Now that CFLs are so much more popular, the quality of them has dropped precipitously. The first bunch of bulbs I bought lasted for many years. Ones I buy today sometimes burn out within weeks.
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Yeah, it's pretty funny. When my kids were learning cursive and I was helping them, I had to do some serious rememberin' to recall all the capital letters.
In this day and age, the ability to write fast is much less important than the ability to write legibly. Cursive may be more efficient for writing quantity, but it sure isn't more readable, unless you write like a schoolteacher. (Funny enough, I was looking back at my senior year high school yearbook and the person with the best handwriting did in fact become a teacher.)
On the other hand, if I'd had any idea how much typing I'd be doing in my life, I would have seriously considered taking typing in high school. Still, I took 3 years of drafting... although it was directly relevant to my career (except for one summer job where I actually did get to draw a bunch of machine parts), I still think it was a valuable experience (as well as being a lot of fun). Plus it significantly helped my printing, which turned out to be quite useful anyway. To this day, I still write all my letters and numbers as I was taught in drafting, except for putting slashes through my zeroes, which I picked up from writing code.
Although I knew the only real possibilities were the original cast returning or the show not being made.
Even though we have the proverbial "500 channels", there's still as much a lack of good creative shows as ever, and Futurama fits that bill perfectly. Newt Minow's "vast wasteland" is alive and strong!
Especially since the #1 show "American Politics" got a whole new set of writers but has still managed to get even dumber than ever... ludicrous plots, inane dialog, stories so far-fetched no one would ever believe them in real life...
Well, Zaxxon was isometric. While technically that is 3D, perspective is usually considered necessary for something to be considered "3D graphics".
The first thing I did after graduating from high school was immediately and gladly stop writing in cursive forever. It's been nearly 30 years, and I've never had a use for it, besides my signature. Even though I wrote a lot of cursive, even when I didn't have to, the moment I didn't have to any more, I stopped using it completely. I was also influenced by taking a lot of drafting in high school.
Of course, nowadays, I write so little more than about 3 lines of text makes my hand hurt. On the other hand, I can type really well, even though I never learned the "right" way to type. If I'd had even the remotest idea how much I would be typing on computers, within a year or two after graduating from high school in 1982, I would have seriously considered typing class when I had the chance. After a year or two in college I was typing papers for folks at a buck a page. I got pretty good fast, but only in the past few years would my typing speed be anywhere near someone who was properly trained. Of course, much of my typing is coding, and I'm seldom typing very fast when doing that.
Cursive? It's just something I have no use for. That seems a shame, but times have changed, and my written communicate is done with a computer 99% of the time.
Actually, a gender and color-blind society, built on freedom and transparency would be one of the worst possible things to happen. Would Obama have been elected if the press hadn't focused on his race?
You mean that it would have been a bad thing if they would have, in fact, focused on his complete and utter lack of qualification for the job?
No, the best thing that happen is that Windows 7 is wonderful in every way.
The most likely good thing that could happen is that Windows 7 is so bad it damages MS more, and as a result they take their users into consideration instead of making their highest priority to maintain their monopoly.
The most likely thing of any kind to happen is that Windows 7 is marginally better than Vista, but XP is no longer available and approaching the end of being supported. Microsoft carries on like they always have. OSX, along with Linux and other Free software continue to make modest gains.
You do realize that C++0x was the name for the new standard where x would represent the year it was finalized (of course, now it will be C++1x). The language would still be C++.
Besides a new name for the language should include some of those wacky new operators. At the rate things are going it could be C++**.
Microsoft has made security a real issue since about 2000, or at least acknowledged it. Since about 2004 they have actually made significant headway solving the problem. Before then, they were pretty much completely negligent on securing their system or making users aware that Windows was like a sieve.
That adds up to about 20 years of ignoring security, the legacy of which is still causing problems today, such as the more than 10 million botted Windows machines across the world.
People don't go to the mall and leave their car unlocked*, so why do users think security on a computer is not just as important?
20 years of Microsoft trying to convince them security isn't an issue might have something to do with it.
Which means that the people speaking that incredibly beautiful bird language are probably insulting you in the most grotesque anatomically-improbable terms possible. ;-)
He's right, you are an idiot. But I for one would fight to preserve your right to remain an idiot. I may try to convince you that you are wrong, but if you don't want to listen to me, then that's up to you.
Congress more and more wants to make being an idiot illegal. While in theory, that can be a good idea. Being an idiot is often more costly for society at large. However, Congress itself is comprised of idiots. How is that supposed to work? Worse, they are corrupt idiots, which is the most dangerous combination possible out of those combinations that don't contain "overtly evil" in them. And more than a few Congressmen have that trait as well.
The only way to properly legislate against idiocy is for the lawmakers to be collectively smarter than the people they are trying to control. The whole basis of our Republic and the Constitution that created it is that that is impossible.
I was in college at the time and was taking a drawing class. I'd stopped by the art/office supply store on the way to class and the TV was showing the aftermath of the accident. I continued on to class and upon reporting what I had seen, it was about 5 minutes before the jokes started coming. It's a coping mechanism. I don't think people were really that callous.
On the other hand, if it had been a computer science or engineering class, the jokes might have come much sooner.
When is this hoax going to end?
When the per capita GDP of the U.S. is forced down to about $1000.
Wow. The President got hit by a car? I hadn't heard about that.
"Hello... Smithers... You're. quite. good. at. turning. me. on."
I'll give you a hint. If that were in any way possible, we'd be seeing it now. At least for some show like "Pokemon" where the dialog tend to be extremely simple.
We'll see truly convincing computer-generated people long before we'll be hearing them.
I don't have a head, you insensitive clod!
But, why is that in 2009, Microsoft doesn't ship a client (or a server) that does SFTP with their OS?
Because they don't want to compete unfairly against Cygwin?
Fairies have wings, not tails.
Now, be honest. How many of us had our first computer experience with MS-DOS or Windows 3.1? Do you think that if computers still consisted on thin-client-server models based on huge VAX mainframes
Um. The microcomputer revolution was going like gangbusters before Microsoft came along. You have heard of the Apple ][ and Commodore 64. Yes, the IBM PC created a microcomputer revolution in the business world, but it's not like Microsoft created the PC world ex nihilo. Mostly they just happened to be at the right place at the right time with an incredibly shrewd person at the helm. That's business-shrewd, not technology-shrewd.
You're right. The real enemy here is Microsoft! If we stopped Windows, we would stop the attacks. I think we should send the military to liberate Redmond.
Why do you want to construct what looks like a coherent discussion out of ramblings made at 4am ? Suppose I did looks at people's random comments you -- what would that mean ? But you are not sure you breaks down in the middle of a post. What answer would please you most ?
But was it the radiation that killed it or the water in its body boiling?
What? No "killah cockroaches"?! This post-nuclear-holocaust world is sounding less and less appealing every day.
Besides, I'm not so sure a dozen nukes wouldn't cripple the U.S. Those flatworms in Congress and the White House are doing their best to cripple to U.S. over global warming, the bad economy or the fact that a small percentage of the country doesn't have proper health coverage.
p.s. Apologies to flatworms.
Why build more bureaucracy?
Because that's all the government knows how to do.
The ironic thing is that the fluorescent bulbs are closer to sunlight in color. Sunlight is not yellowish (unless it's near the horizon). Nevertheless, I know what you're talking about. I've been using CFLs since the early 90s and am very used to them, but I still prefer the warmer light of tungsten.
The saddest thing to me about incandescent bulbs is how cheaply they're made. It's a huge waste. Bulbs can easily (but not as cheaply) be made to last for years, but you don't make as much money when your product is durable. Now that CFLs are so much more popular, the quality of them has dropped precipitously. The first bunch of bulbs I bought lasted for many years. Ones I buy today sometimes burn out within weeks.