How many plastic instruments do these guys really expect me to buy? That's a good point. My wife instantly disliked Mario Kart (while watching the preview on Nintendo Channel on our Wii) because of the wheel. She hated the idea of yet another thing to find a place for. I don't think four Wiimotes, two nunchucks, a zapper, and a guitar are a problem at all. But if I came home adding a plastic drum kit to that collection, I don't think she'd let me in. (At least the balance board that's on preorder will slide under the couch.)
> I actually agree with you. But voting for yourself is voting your conscience.
Only if you actually want the job. And that assumes you believe you could do as good a job as the candidate. I'm sure neither is true for me - I *don't* want the job and I don't have the patience to be good at it. Maybe the parent poster is in a similar position.
Position on issues is important, but there are other things to consider.
Can anybody point me at a utility (Linux or Windows, I have both) that does this without me having to baby step it through 5 different utilities and a hundred command line options?
Try dvd9to5 - it's a handy perl script that takes care of all the individual steps. Here's the Gentoo HOWTO for it. If you don't use Gentoo, it's pretty easy to Google the script. (Not sure how involved it might be to install all the tools it calls - Gentoo manages all that for me.)
I also use a Marble Mouse. I have it configured (under X11) so that holding down one of the scroll buttons (the little darker buttons close to the ball) while moving the ball scrolls. I actually find that much better than a mouse wheel. And you get horizontal scrolling as well.
The only downside is dealing with stupid programs that use left-right scroll for something other than scrolling. (Some web browsers use it for forward/back - I think Firefox might. But it's configurable.) The problem is that it's too easy to scroll horizontally a bit while you're scrolling vertically.
While I appreciate the point you're making about modern society, those applications of science and math are not uniquely modern! Politicians and their ilk have always sucked.
The number one reason we are sticking with Microsoft though is textbooks. The textbooks are written for Microsoft Office. The buisness teachers, for the most part, are not savy enough to explain how to find similar functionality in a different program. If they follow the step by step in the book and it doesn't work, we get a call. Anyone know of any good textbooks for Open Source software?
Sounds like you guys (well, the business department anyway) should be looking for good textbooks period--even if you stick with MS Office. (Though I don't know if any exist in that genre.)
I used to work in the computer lab at a community college. I couldn't stand all those stupid textbooks (they don't really deserve to be called that, BTW) that "taught" the student in terms of step-by-step click at the mouse coordinates kind of lessons. Nobody actually learned anything about computers.
No learning meant that students had questions, which meant less time for me to play Doom. And they were always stupid questions. My favorite was the time when somebody brought the book and told me they didn't know how to do it. I read the book back to them and they walked away contented! If only all problems were so easily solved.
The need for a side channel to serve the voice challenged population presents a (possibly huge) problem. If somebody who legitimately cannot speak can activate a credit card without speaking, then so can the bad guys. That side channel will also need to be secure.
Could it be done properly (so that the bad guys can't get around the system)? Probably. Will it? Probably not. And, like so much so-called security, we'll end up inconvenienced in exchange for little or no benefit.
Not that it should need saying, but security systems such as this will need to cater to everybody, not just those of us with voices.
We have a Pepsi machine and a Coke machine. The Pepsi machine accepts dollar coins. Occassionaly, I'll put a dollar bill in the Pepsi machine and before changing my mind and deciding to get a Coke product. Sometimes the Pepsi machine will give me a dollar coin instead of my dollar bill after I hit the coin return button. The Coke machine doesn't take the dollar coin, so I end up stuck with Pepsi.
A few weeks ago the Pepsi machine decides it can't accept quarters. I put in my dollar bill and then change my mind. This time I still wanted a Pepsi product - I just wanted to use up some loose coins instead of the bill. Instead of the dollar coin, it gives me quarters! So I ended up with a Coke product. Karma, baby.
I'm not sure if this was deliberate (emphasis added)...
...suitable landing
splot.
but I think you've just discovered/created the perfect word for the site of an emergency landing. A delightful combination of splat and spot. I love it!
That's actually the explanation that the Wing Commander games used for the sound effects.
(I'm guessing that's where you got it.)
<nostalgia> Wing Commander II absolutely rocked on my 33 MHz 386DX with a Sound Blaster Pro (8-bit stereo sound)! Ahhh, the good old days. </nostalgia>
I do not have a high school diploma (not even a GED).
I do have an AA from a junior college, a BS from a well-respected major university, a real job, and am starting in a program to get my MS (at the same place as my BS).
Get your parents to support you on it and leave high school. Enroll in a junior college (you'll need your parents to sign some stuff), get an associates degree (or at least look at and take what four-year schools expect you to have from the JC--most JCs will have some relationship with the nearby big schools and will have lots of guidance info about this), do reasonably well, and then transfer to a four-year school for the rest of your undergraduate college education.
If you're really ready to motivate yourself, skip jail (err, high school) and get a real education.
According to m-w.com, rhetorical means (among other things):
1 a : of, relating to, or concerned with rhetoric
So, to "rhetorically clobber" would be to clobber in a manner "of, relating to, or concerned with rhetoric". I guess that could mean "clobber him with rhetoric" (that would be "in a manner of") or clobber him to make a point (which would be the definition you're thinking of--the same one used in the phrase "rhetorical question"). Either would be acceptable, but I intendend the first. And I stand by my usage.
It was kind of boring reading responses from Lessig and then from Oppenheim. I was hoping for more than just hearing them rehash the same old lines.
I would have much preferred hearing them debate. Now that would have been interesting. I'd like to see how each would respond to the other's various arguments. (Okay, so mostly I'd like to see Lessig rhetorically clobber the RIAA guy. But I don't think that invalidates my point about a debate being more interesting.)
LinuxPrinting.org rocks. Lots of good information with quality specifics for just about every printer that works with Linux. It has taken away much of the pain of printer configuration.
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It's Pocahontas / Dances with Wolves, but with really amazing special effects.
> I actually agree with you. But voting for yourself is voting your conscience.
Only if you actually want the job. And that assumes you believe you could do
as good a job as the candidate. I'm sure neither is true for me - I *don't*
want the job and I don't have the patience to be good at it. Maybe the parent
poster is in a similar position.
Position on issues is important, but there are other things to consider.
I also use a Marble Mouse. I have it configured (under X11) so that holding down one of the scroll buttons (the little darker buttons close to the ball) while moving the ball scrolls. I actually find that much better than a mouse wheel. And you get horizontal scrolling as well.
The only downside is dealing with stupid programs that use left-right scroll for something other than scrolling. (Some web browsers use it for forward/back - I think Firefox might. But it's configurable.) The problem is that it's too easy to scroll horizontally a bit while you're scrolling vertically.
But all in all, I'm really happy with it.
While I appreciate the point you're making about modern society, those applications of science and math are not uniquely modern! Politicians and their ilk have always sucked.
You must be new here...
Sounds like you guys (well, the business department anyway) should be looking for good textbooks period--even if you stick with MS Office. (Though I don't know if any exist in that genre.)
I used to work in the computer lab at a community college. I couldn't stand all those stupid textbooks (they don't really deserve to be called that, BTW) that "taught" the student in terms of step-by-step click at the mouse coordinates kind of lessons. Nobody actually learned anything about computers.
No learning meant that students had questions, which meant less time for me to play Doom. And they were always stupid questions. My favorite was the time when somebody brought the book and told me they didn't know how to do it. I read the book back to them and they walked away contented! If only all problems were so easily solved.
The part about uneven application of rules ("no personal pictures"), reduced hours, and layoffs certainly *is* discrimination.
The need for a side channel to serve the voice challenged population presents a (possibly huge) problem. If somebody who legitimately cannot speak can activate a credit card without speaking, then so can the bad guys. That side channel will also need to be secure.
Could it be done properly (so that the bad guys can't get around the system)? Probably. Will it? Probably not. And, like so much so-called security, we'll end up inconvenienced in exchange for little or no benefit.
Not that it should need saying, but security systems such as this will need to cater to everybody, not just those of us with voices.
We have a Pepsi machine and a Coke machine. The Pepsi machine accepts dollar coins. Occassionaly, I'll put a dollar bill in the Pepsi machine and before changing my mind and deciding to get a Coke product. Sometimes the Pepsi machine will give me a dollar coin instead of my dollar bill after I hit the coin return button. The Coke machine doesn't take the dollar coin, so I end up stuck with Pepsi.
A few weeks ago the Pepsi machine decides it can't accept quarters. I put in my dollar bill and then change my mind. This time I still wanted a Pepsi product - I just wanted to use up some loose coins instead of the bill. Instead of the dollar coin, it gives me quarters! So I ended up with a Coke product. Karma, baby.
What is this sun of which you speak?
And, for the record, I do get plenty of natural light!
The "ten times" claim is about development time, not run time. You didn't take it a step further, you took an orthogonal leap.
You just aren't looking at the right forums.
You aren't looking at the right forums.
That's actually the explanation that the Wing Commander games used for the sound effects.
(I'm guessing that's where you got it.)
<nostalgia>
Wing Commander II absolutely rocked on my 33 MHz 386DX with a Sound Blaster Pro (8-bit stereo sound)! Ahhh, the good old days.
</nostalgia>
I do not have a high school diploma (not even a GED).
I do have an AA from a junior college, a BS from a well-respected major university, a real job, and am starting in a program to get my MS (at the same place as my BS).
Get your parents to support you on it and leave high school. Enroll in a junior college (you'll need your parents to sign some stuff), get an associates degree (or at least look at and take what four-year schools expect you to have from the JC--most JCs will have some relationship with the nearby big schools and will have lots of guidance info about this), do reasonably well, and then transfer to a four-year school for the rest of your undergraduate college education.
If you're really ready to motivate yourself, skip jail (err, high school) and get a real education.
It was kind of boring reading responses from Lessig and then from Oppenheim. I was hoping for more than just hearing them rehash the same old lines.
I would have much preferred hearing them debate. Now that would have been interesting. I'd like to see how each would respond to the other's various arguments. (Okay, so mostly I'd like to see Lessig rhetorically clobber the RIAA guy. But I don't think that invalidates my point about a debate being more interesting.)
LinuxPrinting.org rocks. Lots of good information with quality specifics for just about every printer that works with Linux. It has taken away much of the pain of printer configuration.
And it was such a let down! TWO WHOLE MONTHS LONGER. This is the cruelest joke Slashdot has ever played.
(No, I'm not kidding.)