It never ceases to amaze me how many incredible, fresh ideas come out of that powerhouse. This is easily the biggest development since the animated paper clip!
However a good portion of people let the church do their thinking.
And a good portion let the government do their thinking. Some let their teachers do their thinking. Most let their lovers do their thinking. Many let the media do their thinking. I agree it would be best if we did our own thinking, but given how people will always seek to dominate others, this will never happen. Not in the US or anywhere else. Even worse are all the emotionaly crippled people out there who glom onto other peoples beliefs, just so they can feel accepted. Go Monkeys! You rule!
iTunes was primarily what I had in mind since it's so often held up as a shining example of all things Mac. The lack of a right-click context menu was what had me hating it the most. I had the first Mac when it came out and I loved it (quite a step up from the Commodore Pet). I think I fell out of love with it when I ran into a network transfer bar that would only inform me "About a minute" instead of an ETA or progress bar. Still, I'm glad they're around. It just ain't my cup of tea anymore.
Things only get that messy if you let them. I agree it's a matter of tastes and I wasn't making a defense of Microsoft's clutter, or even KDEs. I was only making a case against the clandestine Mac interface.
I back KDE in the war, but I do agree that it seems like they've really made certain settings difficult to find. I'm happy to have the choices, I just wish they'd clean that stuff up a LOT. That one-click folder option, should also be accessible through Konqueror. I shouldn't have to google for it's location. When there are four different menu items, leading to four different settings windows, for the same app, you've done screwed.
I thought this was suppose to be a joke until I saw the modding. That's not simplicity, it's just ridiculous. I don't want my UIs to be an exploration, full of hidden rewards. I want the treasure map on every wall, with multiple paths to the clearly marked rewards. I want the app to be clear to understand, without any instruction. Macs have a pretty looking interface, beyond the aesthetics, the interface is way overrated.
It really depends on the person. I was shocked at how much difficulty I had setting up iTunes for my Dad last Christmas. I felt like one of those idiots that's always calling me with their computer problems. I couldn't do the simplest things with it (and I went through EVERY single option, several times). I assume, given Apple's success, that dumbed down interfaces work for dumbed down people. For intelligent people, dumbed down interfaces are difficult and stressful. I stay away from Gnome because it looks like some boring old motif app and I hate any products that try to limit me in any way.
And although it's a GTK issue, I really hate how Gnomes' ok and cancel buttons are reversed compared to the rest of the universe. It still screws me up to this day. I'm about as contrarian as they come, but on this one minor issue, get on the same page already! Or at least make it a freaking system-wide property. I was once a Gnome fan, but they just haven't kept up IMO.
This is it exactly. I've had an HD-ready tv for at least 5 years now. I've never seen an HD signal on it. I am a TV junkie and cost isn't really an issue, but there's so little HD return for the extra money you have to pay to get the signals. I also don't want two satellite dishes. OTA isn't really worth it either, since you only get the big networks that I don't even watch anymore (aside from Lost). The channels that I watch don't even come in HD. I remember when all content was to be HD by 2006. HD just isn't there yet, but I have been for five years now.
Still I love the TV for DVDs and even for psuedo-stretched 4:3 content. People who don't get widescreen, must be blind in one eye. It's much more natural, given our field of view and the layout of our eyes.
So what? By the time businesses actually get around to upgrading, the 3rd parties will have caught up. We are talking office software here. I've never know a business to jump on the latest office suite the day (or even year) it comes out.
Let's not also forget about the advantages for dating. Say there is maybe 1% of the available female population my age that I am attracted to, and probably an even smaller percentage of those for whom the feeling is mutual. I stand a significantly better chance of meeting someone and hitting it off in a town full of thousands of people my age than in some tiny hamlet.
I'd have to say this is true. I moved from NY to Colorado and my jaw drops when I run across a woman, over the age of 18, who isn't married with a kid. And most women I meet out here are so painfully boring that I don't even bother looking anymore. There's just no worthwhile selection. I go back to NY once a year to visit, and every time I do, I usually have one or two women after me, and although they aren't the types I would marry, at least they are interesting. And they're after ME (a novelty in itself), it's like fish jumping out of the water and clonking themselves on the head. It's unreal and completely out of sync with my experiences in Colorado.
Still, it's like you said, it depends on what you're looking for. I've actually adjusted to life out here so much that I can't imagine moving back. I love my alone time. I don't need more stuff to do since I'm too busy as is. NYers are always so busy, broke and commuting around all the time. There's a lot more to do in the city, but I rarely do any of it when I visit my friends because they never have the money. I have (stabily employeed) friends in their 30s, still having to live with roommates, for crying out loud. Everything is run down, taxes are ridiculous, dress codes are more restrictive, laws are crazy(er) -- it's just a depressing place to live (but an oh so fun to visit).
When compared against the sizes of the countries/populations/economies, the only reasonable conclusion is that the US is equipped to absorb vastly more damage than Israel is. It would take a terrorist effort 1000 times more powerful to match the effect of anti-Israeli terrorism.
I find this kind of thinking despicable, even if you voiced it in a more round-about way than I usually hear it. After 9/11, I'd read editorials saying that because of the population disparity, that 30 Israeli lives were the equivalent of 1000 American lives. Now you weren't saying it exactly the same way as some of the articles I've read, but this is racism, pure and simple. We are not some colony organism and the Jews are not the chosen people. Tell it to the family of someone who died on 9/11 that America has the room to "absorb" it. Especially when we're mired in a war that benefits nobody but Israel (and not even them if they stopped to think about it).
I was allowed to carry an closed opaque cup through the metal detector without so much as a second thought.
And let's not forget, you can always snap a CD in two to create a makeshift knife. The regs are ridiculous and TSA is on a powertrip.
I came back from Japan last year and they had to call two separate supervisors over to handle the "situation" when they found out I was traveling alone. Oh my god, RUN FOR THE HILLS! They just could not understand why I would be traveling alone to Japan and they kept trying to get me to change my story to say that I had relatives there. I must have said no to that question about 10 times. It took about 15 minutes, but they finally let me go.
However, in virtually all labs I know of, on a positive test there is a repeat and follow up test done.
Isn't that second test usually done on the same blood sample? That was my understanding and if true, all it would take is for there to be a mix-up in samples.
I think the biggest problem facing us is the inundation of object oriented programming languages. There's very little need to learn the strict mathematics of programming anymore. It is this laziness, and not any particular language, which is the root cause of the problem. Programming environments with sandboxes (ie. Java) are band-aids to a bigger problem.
Spoken like a true C programmer. The problem is with Utopian programmers who think if we were all uber enough, then there'd be no reason not to use punch cards. All I know is whenever I have worked with different groups on a project, and one group is working on a C component and another group is working on a Java or Smalltalk component, it's always the C component group holding things up endlessly. ALWAYS! And once they get their end done, it's always buggy as hell for years. This is an axiom in any company I've ever worked in. But I see it less and less as managers have started to learn and just don't bother with C projects anymore (at least at the enterprise level).
C is great for a very small percentage of projects, but you have to jump through hoops to avoid common problems. Most companies just want their projects coded fast and relatively bug free. Documentation is and always will be rare. Turnover in this industry is high. Nobody has time to get up to speed with whatever C scheme you've come up with to avoid memory leaks or buffer overflows. We need them productive, fast. I'm talking real, practical business here, not some college dorm project. We beat our (very tight) deadlines consistently and then our projects sit around waiting to be deployed as we wait for the C coders (we interface with many different companies, so we deal with quite a variety) to finish their ends. It's a boring old tune and I've seen it almost a dozen times this past year alone. Java is not a language for lazy programmers, it's for those who have a shitload to do and can't waste time figuring our why some random piece of memory got overwritten. Fucking barbaric!
I'm getting dumbasses who know nothing about ripping sending me links about this story. Sony use to be a trusted name and they've been working hard this past year to piss that away. Between quality control and DRM issues, I'll likely never buy anything from Sony again. This dumb move can only result in an increase in piracy.
Remember when corporations were actually interested in making money? Remember when governments were about protecting their citizens? Remember when schools were about educating students? Remember when religions were about the message and not just the word? Remember when the media was suppose to be a watchdog on the rest? It just seems like everything is so ass-backward these days, that it's amazing we still manage to feed ourselves.
How many rights does a democracy have to curtail or eliminate before it ceases to be a democracy?
Some of us believe the problems began when we stopped thinking of ourselves as a constitutional republic and started calling ourselves our democracy. Most of our founding fathers considered democracy to be worse than a monarchy, precisely because people tend to vote to take away other peoples rights, when given the chance, not realizing that this will come back around and bite their freedom in the ass.
Exactly, I was holding out for these and then just gave up and went with AMD. Temperature is almost more important to me than speed though. These things are getting to be fire hazards already. I want cooler chips dammit and so I bought an AMD instead. Good going Intel! I use to be anti-AMD not that long ago. Now Intel will have to come up with something really good to woo me back.
Funny, every AMD I've owned has been a stability nightmare, until my latest dual-core (4200). I use my computer for a wide array of tasks, I run both Gentoo 64 and Windows, and I never shut it down. I haven't had any stability problems (non-motherboard related, and those are fixed now) at all. Granted, that's just one case, but I never understood why people always use to praise AMD. It wasn't just me either, every other AMD owner I knew had similar problems. I decided to try them one more time beacuse I needed a new chip and AMD ran cooler. That's usually the deciding factor for me. AMD will continue to get my money as long as they keep up this trend. I love the dual-core too, perfect for the multitasker in me.
Yeah, and I've read at least one case where the judge used the Bubba phrase while sentencing someone. I remember thinking that that person should have been able to get off if the judge was knowingly sentencing someone to get raped up the ass. Surely rape falls under the "cruel and unusual" prohibitions in the 8th amendment.
It amazes me how some many people in this country smile with glee as they talk about some prisoner getting raped up the ass. People don't even speak of getting sent to prison anymore, they just talk about the butt buddies that person is going to have. Rape has become synonomous with prison, in our society, and in my mind this invalidates the entire legal system.
I don't know, I find foreign workers to be more obsessed with degrees than US-born workers. I think it has to do with bragging rights, for the family, whereas in the US, intellectualism is frowned upon. How many times have you heard, "oh, so you're one of them tech geeks"? That being said, I agree that degrees are pretty much just pieces of paper. College may have been fun, but I think I'd be much better off now if I skipped it.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many incredible, fresh ideas come out of that powerhouse. This is easily the biggest development since the animated paper clip!
However a good portion of people let the church do their thinking.
And a good portion let the government do their thinking. Some let their teachers do their thinking. Most let their lovers do their thinking. Many let the media do their thinking. I agree it would be best if we did our own thinking, but given how people will always seek to dominate others, this will never happen. Not in the US or anywhere else. Even worse are all the emotionaly crippled people out there who glom onto other peoples beliefs, just so they can feel accepted. Go Monkeys! You rule!
iTunes was primarily what I had in mind since it's so often held up as a shining example of all things Mac. The lack of a right-click context menu was what had me hating it the most. I had the first Mac when it came out and I loved it (quite a step up from the Commodore Pet). I think I fell out of love with it when I ran into a network transfer bar that would only inform me "About a minute" instead of an ETA or progress bar. Still, I'm glad they're around. It just ain't my cup of tea anymore.
Things only get that messy if you let them. I agree it's a matter of tastes and I wasn't making a defense of Microsoft's clutter, or even KDEs. I was only making a case against the clandestine Mac interface.
I back KDE in the war, but I do agree that it seems like they've really made certain settings difficult to find. I'm happy to have the choices, I just wish they'd clean that stuff up a LOT. That one-click folder option, should also be accessible through Konqueror. I shouldn't have to google for it's location. When there are four different menu items, leading to four different settings windows, for the same app, you've done screwed.
I thought this was suppose to be a joke until I saw the modding. That's not simplicity, it's just ridiculous. I don't want my UIs to be an exploration, full of hidden rewards. I want the treasure map on every wall, with multiple paths to the clearly marked rewards. I want the app to be clear to understand, without any instruction. Macs have a pretty looking interface, beyond the aesthetics, the interface is way overrated.
It really depends on the person. I was shocked at how much difficulty I had setting up iTunes for my Dad last Christmas. I felt like one of those idiots that's always calling me with their computer problems. I couldn't do the simplest things with it (and I went through EVERY single option, several times). I assume, given Apple's success, that dumbed down interfaces work for dumbed down people. For intelligent people, dumbed down interfaces are difficult and stressful. I stay away from Gnome because it looks like some boring old motif app and I hate any products that try to limit me in any way.
And although it's a GTK issue, I really hate how Gnomes' ok and cancel buttons are reversed compared to the rest of the universe. It still screws me up to this day. I'm about as contrarian as they come, but on this one minor issue, get on the same page already! Or at least make it a freaking system-wide property. I was once a Gnome fan, but they just haven't kept up IMO.
personally avoid it for web browsing and I don't support it on websites I develop. Why? The rendering engine sucks
I use Firefox most of the time, but whenever I find a page that it can't do, Konqueror always does. I'm grateful to it for that alone.
This is it exactly. I've had an HD-ready tv for at least 5 years now. I've never seen an HD signal on it. I am a TV junkie and cost isn't really an issue, but there's so little HD return for the extra money you have to pay to get the signals. I also don't want two satellite dishes. OTA isn't really worth it either, since you only get the big networks that I don't even watch anymore (aside from Lost). The channels that I watch don't even come in HD. I remember when all content was to be HD by 2006. HD just isn't there yet, but I have been for five years now.
Still I love the TV for DVDs and even for psuedo-stretched 4:3 content. People who don't get widescreen, must be blind in one eye. It's much more natural, given our field of view and the layout of our eyes.
So what? By the time businesses actually get around to upgrading, the 3rd parties will have caught up. We are talking office software here. I've never know a business to jump on the latest office suite the day (or even year) it comes out.
Let's not also forget about the advantages for dating. Say there is maybe 1% of the available female population my age that I am attracted to, and probably an even smaller percentage of those for whom the feeling is mutual. I stand a significantly better chance of meeting someone and hitting it off in a town full of thousands of people my age than in some tiny hamlet.
I'd have to say this is true. I moved from NY to Colorado and my jaw drops when I run across a woman, over the age of 18, who isn't married with a kid. And most women I meet out here are so painfully boring that I don't even bother looking anymore. There's just no worthwhile selection. I go back to NY once a year to visit, and every time I do, I usually have one or two women after me, and although they aren't the types I would marry, at least they are interesting. And they're after ME (a novelty in itself), it's like fish jumping out of the water and clonking themselves on the head. It's unreal and completely out of sync with my experiences in Colorado.
Still, it's like you said, it depends on what you're looking for. I've actually adjusted to life out here so much that I can't imagine moving back. I love my alone time. I don't need more stuff to do since I'm too busy as is. NYers are always so busy, broke and commuting around all the time. There's a lot more to do in the city, but I rarely do any of it when I visit my friends because they never have the money. I have (stabily employeed) friends in their 30s, still having to live with roommates, for crying out loud. Everything is run down, taxes are ridiculous, dress codes are more restrictive, laws are crazy(er) -- it's just a depressing place to live (but an oh so fun to visit).
When compared against the sizes of the countries/populations/economies, the only reasonable conclusion is that the US is equipped to absorb vastly more damage than Israel is. It would take a terrorist effort 1000 times more powerful to match the effect of anti-Israeli terrorism.
I find this kind of thinking despicable, even if you voiced it in a more round-about way than I usually hear it. After 9/11, I'd read editorials saying that because of the population disparity, that 30 Israeli lives were the equivalent of 1000 American lives. Now you weren't saying it exactly the same way as some of the articles I've read, but this is racism, pure and simple. We are not some colony organism and the Jews are not the chosen people. Tell it to the family of someone who died on 9/11 that America has the room to "absorb" it. Especially when we're mired in a war that benefits nobody but Israel (and not even them if they stopped to think about it).
I was allowed to carry an closed opaque cup through the metal detector without so much as a second thought.
And let's not forget, you can always snap a CD in two to create a makeshift knife. The regs are ridiculous and TSA is on a powertrip.
I came back from Japan last year and they had to call two separate supervisors over to handle the "situation" when they found out I was traveling alone. Oh my god, RUN FOR THE HILLS! They just could not understand why I would be traveling alone to Japan and they kept trying to get me to change my story to say that I had relatives there. I must have said no to that question about 10 times. It took about 15 minutes, but they finally let me go.
Since it's dead, does this mean that I have to cancel my giganews account? Or will they do that automatically for me?
Somehow, I don't think the people who do that read this site (or read at all for that matter).
However, in virtually all labs I know of, on a positive test there is a repeat and follow up test done.
Isn't that second test usually done on the same blood sample? That was my understanding and if true, all it would take is for there to be a mix-up in samples.
I think the biggest problem facing us is the inundation of object oriented programming languages. There's very little need to learn the strict mathematics of programming anymore. It is this laziness, and not any particular language, which is the root cause of the problem. Programming environments with sandboxes (ie. Java) are band-aids to a bigger problem.
Spoken like a true C programmer. The problem is with Utopian programmers who think if we were all uber enough, then there'd be no reason not to use punch cards. All I know is whenever I have worked with different groups on a project, and one group is working on a C component and another group is working on a Java or Smalltalk component, it's always the C component group holding things up endlessly. ALWAYS! And once they get their end done, it's always buggy as hell for years. This is an axiom in any company I've ever worked in. But I see it less and less as managers have started to learn and just don't bother with C projects anymore (at least at the enterprise level).
C is great for a very small percentage of projects, but you have to jump through hoops to avoid common problems. Most companies just want their projects coded fast and relatively bug free. Documentation is and always will be rare. Turnover in this industry is high. Nobody has time to get up to speed with whatever C scheme you've come up with to avoid memory leaks or buffer overflows. We need them productive, fast. I'm talking real, practical business here, not some college dorm project. We beat our (very tight) deadlines consistently and then our projects sit around waiting to be deployed as we wait for the C coders (we interface with many different companies, so we deal with quite a variety) to finish their ends. It's a boring old tune and I've seen it almost a dozen times this past year alone. Java is not a language for lazy programmers, it's for those who have a shitload to do and can't waste time figuring our why some random piece of memory got overwritten. Fucking barbaric!
I'm getting dumbasses who know nothing about ripping sending me links about this story. Sony use to be a trusted name and they've been working hard this past year to piss that away. Between quality control and DRM issues, I'll likely never buy anything from Sony again. This dumb move can only result in an increase in piracy.
Remember when corporations were actually interested in making money? Remember when governments were about protecting their citizens? Remember when schools were about educating students? Remember when religions were about the message and not just the word? Remember when the media was suppose to be a watchdog on the rest? It just seems like everything is so ass-backward these days, that it's amazing we still manage to feed ourselves.
Bout time they released this, Pan is a piece of garbage. ;-)
Or pretending to send someone to Israel and having Israeli-looking American agents interrogate you.
We didn't pretend.
How many rights does a democracy have to curtail or eliminate before it ceases to be a democracy?
Some of us believe the problems began when we stopped thinking of ourselves as a constitutional republic and started calling ourselves our democracy. Most of our founding fathers considered democracy to be worse than a monarchy, precisely because people tend to vote to take away other peoples rights, when given the chance, not realizing that this will come back around and bite their freedom in the ass.
Where are the Pentium-M based desktop chips?!
Exactly, I was holding out for these and then just gave up and went with AMD. Temperature is almost more important to me than speed though. These things are getting to be fire hazards already. I want cooler chips dammit and so I bought an AMD instead. Good going Intel! I use to be anti-AMD not that long ago. Now Intel will have to come up with something really good to woo me back.
Funny, every AMD I've owned has been a stability nightmare, until my latest dual-core (4200). I use my computer for a wide array of tasks, I run both Gentoo 64 and Windows, and I never shut it down. I haven't had any stability problems (non-motherboard related, and those are fixed now) at all. Granted, that's just one case, but I never understood why people always use to praise AMD. It wasn't just me either, every other AMD owner I knew had similar problems. I decided to try them one more time beacuse I needed a new chip and AMD ran cooler. That's usually the deciding factor for me. AMD will continue to get my money as long as they keep up this trend. I love the dual-core too, perfect for the multitasker in me.
Yeah, and I've read at least one case where the judge used the Bubba phrase while sentencing someone. I remember thinking that that person should have been able to get off if the judge was knowingly sentencing someone to get raped up the ass. Surely rape falls under the "cruel and unusual" prohibitions in the 8th amendment.
It amazes me how some many people in this country smile with glee as they talk about some prisoner getting raped up the ass. People don't even speak of getting sent to prison anymore, they just talk about the butt buddies that person is going to have. Rape has become synonomous with prison, in our society, and in my mind this invalidates the entire legal system.
I don't know, I find foreign workers to be more obsessed with degrees than US-born workers. I think it has to do with bragging rights, for the family, whereas in the US, intellectualism is frowned upon. How many times have you heard, "oh, so you're one of them tech geeks"? That being said, I agree that degrees are pretty much just pieces of paper. College may have been fun, but I think I'd be much better off now if I skipped it.