This guy has obviously not eaten at a keyboard, or he is a complete and utter slob. I've never had any - any! - problems with the items he has mentioned. It's a fucking keyboard, for shit's sake! Not a plate! I mean, shit. If he's too poor for a plate (they're made for food, after all!), I'll send the man one of mine.
Here are the items I've personally found are the messiest:
pretzels (specifically the large, hard sourdough ones, but they all suffice): if not crumbs, then salt will fall between the keys. This is definately the worst, as they're my favorite snack and the salt and crumbs really interfere with mechanical functionality.
potato chips: same as above.
anything liquid in an open-top container: you'll probably spill it inadvertantly.
wraps with any liquid or juices: it will dribble out the bottom
finger foods in general: things that leave residue on your fingers = sticky/messy keyboard surfaces.
No, no, no, definitively NO! This is NOT funny. This is insightful. What the hell do you think institutional education is there for, anyway? It's not to shovel money into a gaping corporate mouth; it's to teach students (IE, the future leaders of society) how to think.
Computers are just a tool. They help people get work done more quickly in all manners and fashions. They are also a wonderful tool for teaching - both specifics and general concepts. One of the excellent skills which will be gained by giving students the task of installing/updating/upgrading machines - and not just CS/IT students, though I'm sure many of them could use the hands-on experience as well - is that it will help them conceptually visualize abstract structures. This is basic common sense. If people can recognize abstract structures and work within these confines, they can then apply this information applicably in the rest of their life. They'll learn how to be more organized and more systematic in their every-day approach, potentially making them better citizens and employees in their future lives.
This is very, very good advice, not "funny".
Now, granted, this would probably end up with many lab systems unfunctional for a good period of time, but that might just get them to work more diligently on getting the systems up and running.:)
It might not be the 'evolution' they're looking for, but what do you think interracial breeding is (black and white, asian and white, meditterainian and white, black and asian, etc.)? Sure looks like what scientists call evolution (microevolution, at least) to me. We've got genetic pools which were previously sperate inter-mingling and forming a new 'race'. Keep it up long enough, and most of the western world will be fairly homogenous.
From where I sit, it's resulting in more attractive, healthier, and more intelligent people. Seperating people into exclusional groups will only result in inbreeding. Humans are not dogs, and this has been shown time and time again. We don't "breed" well as a dog would without very significant problems.
Google isn't too good at shooting people. Not too much practice. And they weren't able to predict the 9/11 fiasco or any of the other terrorist attacks. I don't know if Google is up for it.
And yes, except for a few cases like blaster, viruses don't exploit a vulnerability in the OS.
There's a difference between vulnerability due to an intentional mistake, and a vulnerability due to poor design, but in the end they're functionally the same.
An OS which isn't "vulnerable" to viruses is an OS which doesn't obey the user and let them run arbitary programs.
Useless? All the Mac and Linux users would disagree. Anyway, it's not even a matter of running "arbitary" (sic) programs, it's a matter of the user being able to restrict modification access to certain parts of a system; any UNIX-derived system has no problem running or installing a binary to a non-restricted location as well.
Your comments come from your ignorance. I hear you basically saying that there shouldn't be a need to not run as "Administrator". This is a fundamental denial of the reality that there's no practical way to prevent hostile code from being run or installed in such a situation, and it has little to do with "human stupidity or naivity" when it comes to using a computer on the Internet.
I personally find an OS which has to be coddled and needs special treatment (anti-spyware tools, anti-virus tools, careful application selection to avoid such things) is useless. I don't have the time for such menial tasks: I want to get things done.
Long answer: Males serve in the military because, in a pinch, one can be used to replace a large portion of the population - whereas one female is (generally) required for each birth for the entire period of the birth. If people are going to be dying, it makes sense for it to be males.
If that's a "sexist" view to you, go fuck yourself. Seems pretty typically "feminist" to me, to suggest that men be killed.
Also, the women are more than welcome to own such a rifle. They're just not required to be in the military. I don't know if they're allowed to be or not, but I imagine that if they wanted to they could.
Well, almost half of the American populace did vote for Kerry this past election. There's not much fundamentally different between American socialism and communism, philosophically.
Socialism is just a lighter shade of grey than communism; a transitional form of government from democracy to communism, if you will.
Well, Sweden requires all of their male citizens to own and posess their issued service weapon (from their mandatory military service).
I can think of only one such nation in the world, and it's quite the enigma. I doubt it would be the case if it were not for WWII and Nazi invasion, combined with the whole "Swiss bank" thing. They simply wouldn't have the desire or economy for it.
Name one nation that meets your "requirements" other than Sweden. Can you? I'd like to see you try.
Even if you could, that's not the norm by far. With the trend our government is taking (including all the civl rights violations we've seen from the DMCA to the Patriot Act in the last 5 years - to say nothing of how some of our gun laws are more strict than even Britian's), can you honestly say that you don't think this will be abused?
Ok, so when can I get morse code recognition built into my phone?
I've long thought, "Wow, that's useless" when it comes to SMS messaging due to having to basically peck out each key. However, I've known morse code since I was about, oh, 11. You wouldn't have to pick your finger up at all - just alternate between pressing and not pressing - and wouldn't need to look at the phone.
Plus, it has real-life (ie, survival) applicability in many situations. I suspect that most of the armed forces know it as well (not really familiar with their training practices, but I'd sure as help hope at least 90% know it).
It's quite simple: Phantom Menace came out in 1999. That's a full 6 years ago! The kids that saw that when they were 10 and loved it are now 16. Do you really think that a 16-year-old is going to find appeal in the same kind of movie he did when he was 10?
Not bloody likely. No, I suspect that Lucas is a marketing genius and he's trying to pull in the entire younger generation of film goers in much the same way he did 20 years ago. The first two originals were PG, and the 3rd was PG-13 - allowing for more age-appropriate sex (metal bikini!) and violence. The action and whiz-bang, in some respects, made up for lackluster storytelling (much as will be the case this time around), but the PG-13 rating undoubtedly convinced many 12-18 year-olds to go to Jedi because it wasn't necessarily a "children's film" anymore due to the rating.
Sure, they remember the first two being fantastic (or did, with the originals), but they're not going to go to the third one now because they're "too old" for a "kid's film" with their peers. They're "too old" for that stuff - and too socially impressionable.
What, are you daft? This should be bloody fucking obvious to anyone that reads slashdot.
Two words: slashdot effect
Instead of having to manually create a site mirror for everything, google will do it automatically for you - if you have their accelerator plugin. That's pretty nice.
I'm sorry, what? The British government hold us in check?
What exactly does the British nation have to offer the US? Hardly anything militarily. Not their Air Force - our Air Force is the best in the world, and the US Navy has the 2nd best. Not armed forces on the ground - they've made a token commital, at best. Not vehicles or transport assistance - they're all our's anyway.
No, I think it's best we, as Americans, don't pander to the alarmist, pacifistic, self-victimization cries of European countries (which are falling politically to immigrating Islamists quite quickly) but assist with a nation which will be a very valueable ally in the future. We need to look out for ourselves first, as a nation. (However, if anyone in the EU wanted to throw in on the endeavor, we'll gladly take their help defending the free world.)
The visage of Britian (and Europe as a whole) is old, and the state's populace is dying from their socialistic, civil nanny governments. The subjects of these countries have become pacifistic that the concept of defending one's self is completely foreign. This mentality - or the resources it provies - are neither needed or wanted.
Iraq promises to be able to provide us with oil long after the EU states are destroyed by invading Islamic fascists. Their people actually embrace democratic freedom and revile at the thought of further civil oppression. They want self rule. This desire for freedom alone is enough to reinforce them as allies in a bond that will eventually grow stronger than what we have with Britian.
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Hahahahaha
No, really.
Hahahaha
Seriously. Do you browse at a +5 threshold or something? There's stuff moderated at, say, +2 Interesting, or +3 Insightful, etc. all the fucking time that is complete drivel: poorly thought out, patently false, or an outright troll.
Your sentiments are said in other posts here on slashdot, albiet in somewhat less a humorous manner. However...
What, exactly, makes you think that only "rednecks" and fat people on welfare have antiquated TVs?
I'm most certainly not a redneck; I'm probably more hippy than redneck. My wife and I own one TV. It's circa 1995 or so, and still works fine. We don't actually watch TV, but use it mostly for movies. Sometimes I'll sit down and watch an episode of Law and order on monday night or something, but that's about it. I am most certianly not going to shell out $100+ for a new TV when my old one works fine.
Honestly, I doubt this legislation will impact many. Most people don't watch broadcast TV (they watch cable), so cable companies can decide if htey'll continue to send out 'antiquated' signals. For the most part, cable companies have already switched to digital, and have provided people with the appropriate digital cable box. Not an issue: the only people that will be impacted will be those that don't care enough about TV to pay for cable. They'll either get cable, or not watch TV.
Unless this OS is based off of their new Longhorn architecture, it's not going to do a damn thing to help solve the problems people currently run into with a "minimalist" Windows deployment.
- There will still IE, and thus there will still be spyware. - There will still be Outlook, and thus there will still be various other malware. - There will still be MS's shitty SMB implimentation, which means there will still be problems. - If it uses Windows profiles, it will still fuck up and corrupt them. - If it still uses MS software, it will still require a massive disk image. - If any of these things are true, it will require a reimage at every other turn without another 3rd party application - which undoubtedly will not be compatible with this new version of Windows for several years.
What, exactly, is special about it, aside from the fact that it appears to be some sort of morph between WinXP and Windows Embedded?
I'm fairly certain I was using purely 32-bit binaries on my Pentium MMX system back in 1997 under linux. Yes, it was a desktop system and not a server.
I've been doing that just fine for the last 8 years. MS is just behind the curve.
I only recently purchased a DVD player. Like, in the last month.
I still have misc. 4x and 8x CDROM drive which work reliably and consistently.
I've had two CD burners die: a 24x/4x/2x and a 32x/8x/2x (I think).
In general, I don't use either for much. That's why we've got networks. I really don't want a non-electronic data transfer method which gets openly exposed to the outside world on a regular basis.
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Then it's conclusive. Linux is a commmunist operating system afterall.
*cough*
I guess that makes Windows a terrorist operating system, from what I've been hearing about various 'terror network' technologies.
My god, your type are insideous!
No, no! Keep your clothes on and stay away!
The IBM Model M keyboard: the 1st Amendment personification for the 2nd Amendment's AK47*
* In other words, reliable, dependable, and not all that pretty
Here are the items I've personally found are the messiest:
pretzels (specifically the large, hard sourdough ones, but they all suffice): if not crumbs, then salt will fall between the keys. This is definately the worst, as they're my favorite snack and the salt and crumbs really interfere with mechanical functionality.
potato chips: same as above.
anything liquid in an open-top container: you'll probably spill it inadvertantly.
wraps with any liquid or juices: it will dribble out the bottom
finger foods in general: things that leave residue on your fingers = sticky/messy keyboard surfaces.
soups/stews and/or ramen: splatter galore.
No, no, no, definitively NO! This is NOT funny. This is insightful. What the hell do you think institutional education is there for, anyway? It's not to shovel money into a gaping corporate mouth; it's to teach students (IE, the future leaders of society) how to think.
:)
Computers are just a tool. They help people get work done more quickly in all manners and fashions. They are also a wonderful tool for teaching - both specifics and general concepts. One of the excellent skills which will be gained by giving students the task of installing/updating/upgrading machines - and not just CS/IT students, though I'm sure many of them could use the hands-on experience as well - is that it will help them conceptually visualize abstract structures. This is basic common sense. If people can recognize abstract structures and work within these confines, they can then apply this information applicably in the rest of their life. They'll learn how to be more organized and more systematic in their every-day approach, potentially making them better citizens and employees in their future lives.
This is very, very good advice, not "funny".
Now, granted, this would probably end up with many lab systems unfunctional for a good period of time, but that might just get them to work more diligently on getting the systems up and running.
It might not be the 'evolution' they're looking for, but what do you think interracial breeding is (black and white, asian and white, meditterainian and white, black and asian, etc.)? Sure looks like what scientists call evolution (microevolution, at least) to me. We've got genetic pools which were previously sperate inter-mingling and forming a new 'race'. Keep it up long enough, and most of the western world will be fairly homogenous.
From where I sit, it's resulting in more attractive, healthier, and more intelligent people. Seperating people into exclusional groups will only result in inbreeding. Humans are not dogs, and this has been shown time and time again. We don't "breed" well as a dog would without very significant problems.
Well, I don't know.
Google isn't too good at shooting people. Not too much practice. And they weren't able to predict the 9/11 fiasco or any of the other terrorist attacks. I don't know if Google is up for it.
This is why I search slashdot in full tactical gear.
No, I'm serious. Stop laughing!
So explain to me how the core liberal philosophy isn't fundamentally identical to that of communism?
Yes, it's further right than communism, but it continually pushes for moving left.
In America, if you don't vote, you're not an American. Voting is both a fundamental right and priviledge - but also a responsibility of citizenship.
Which isn't to say that they're not still citizens. They're just not real Americans.
What?!
And yes, except for a few cases like blaster, viruses don't exploit a vulnerability in the OS.
There's a difference between vulnerability due to an intentional mistake, and a vulnerability due to poor design, but in the end they're functionally the same.
An OS which isn't "vulnerable" to viruses is an OS which doesn't obey the user and let them run arbitary programs.
Useless? All the Mac and Linux users would disagree. Anyway, it's not even a matter of running "arbitary" (sic) programs, it's a matter of the user being able to restrict modification access to certain parts of a system; any UNIX-derived system has no problem running or installing a binary to a non-restricted location as well.
Your comments come from your ignorance. I hear you basically saying that there shouldn't be a need to not run as "Administrator". This is a fundamental denial of the reality that there's no practical way to prevent hostile code from being run or installed in such a situation, and it has little to do with "human stupidity or naivity" when it comes to using a computer on the Internet.
I personally find an OS which has to be coddled and needs special treatment (anti-spyware tools, anti-virus tools, careful application selection to avoid such things) is useless. I don't have the time for such menial tasks: I want to get things done.
Short answer: So?
Long answer: Males serve in the military because, in a pinch, one can be used to replace a large portion of the population - whereas one female is (generally) required for each birth for the entire period of the birth. If people are going to be dying, it makes sense for it to be males.
If that's a "sexist" view to you, go fuck yourself. Seems pretty typically "feminist" to me, to suggest that men be killed.
Also, the women are more than welcome to own such a rifle. They're just not required to be in the military. I don't know if they're allowed to be or not, but I imagine that if they wanted to they could.
Well, almost half of the American populace did vote for Kerry this past election. There's not much fundamentally different between American socialism and communism, philosophically.
Socialism is just a lighter shade of grey than communism; a transitional form of government from democracy to communism, if you will.
Well, Sweden requires all of their male citizens to own and posess their issued service weapon (from their mandatory military service).
I can think of only one such nation in the world, and it's quite the enigma. I doubt it would be the case if it were not for WWII and Nazi invasion, combined with the whole "Swiss bank" thing. They simply wouldn't have the desire or economy for it.
Lots of nations? Reallly.
Name one nation that meets your "requirements" other than Sweden. Can you? I'd like to see you try.
Even if you could, that's not the norm by far. With the trend our government is taking (including all the civl rights violations we've seen from the DMCA to the Patriot Act in the last 5 years - to say nothing of how some of our gun laws are more strict than even Britian's), can you honestly say that you don't think this will be abused?
Ok, so when can I get morse code recognition built into my phone?
I've long thought, "Wow, that's useless" when it comes to SMS messaging due to having to basically peck out each key. However, I've known morse code since I was about, oh, 11. You wouldn't have to pick your finger up at all - just alternate between pressing and not pressing - and wouldn't need to look at the phone.
Plus, it has real-life (ie, survival) applicability in many situations. I suspect that most of the armed forces know it as well (not really familiar with their training practices, but I'd sure as help hope at least 90% know it).
It's quite simple: Phantom Menace came out in 1999. That's a full 6 years ago! The kids that saw that when they were 10 and loved it are now 16. Do you really think that a 16-year-old is going to find appeal in the same kind of movie he did when he was 10?
Not bloody likely. No, I suspect that Lucas is a marketing genius and he's trying to pull in the entire younger generation of film goers in much the same way he did 20 years ago. The first two originals were PG, and the 3rd was PG-13 - allowing for more age-appropriate sex (metal bikini!) and violence. The action and whiz-bang, in some respects, made up for lackluster storytelling (much as will be the case this time around), but the PG-13 rating undoubtedly convinced many 12-18 year-olds to go to Jedi because it wasn't necessarily a "children's film" anymore due to the rating.
Sure, they remember the first two being fantastic (or did, with the originals), but they're not going to go to the third one now because they're "too old" for a "kid's film" with their peers. They're "too old" for that stuff - and too socially impressionable.
What, are you daft? This should be bloody fucking obvious to anyone that reads slashdot.
Two words: slashdot effect
Instead of having to manually create a site mirror for everything, google will do it automatically for you - if you have their accelerator plugin. That's pretty nice.
I'm sorry, what? The British government hold us in check?
What exactly does the British nation have to offer the US? Hardly anything militarily. Not their Air Force - our Air Force is the best in the world, and the US Navy has the 2nd best. Not armed forces on the ground - they've made a token commital, at best. Not vehicles or transport assistance - they're all our's anyway.
No, I think it's best we, as Americans, don't pander to the alarmist, pacifistic, self-victimization cries of European countries (which are falling politically to immigrating Islamists quite quickly) but assist with a nation which will be a very valueable ally in the future. We need to look out for ourselves first, as a nation. (However, if anyone in the EU wanted to throw in on the endeavor, we'll gladly take their help defending the free world.)
The visage of Britian (and Europe as a whole) is old, and the state's populace is dying from their socialistic, civil nanny governments. The subjects of these countries have become pacifistic that the concept of defending one's self is completely foreign. This mentality - or the resources it provies - are neither needed or wanted.
Iraq promises to be able to provide us with oil long after the EU states are destroyed by invading Islamic fascists. Their people actually embrace democratic freedom and revile at the thought of further civil oppression. They want self rule. This desire for freedom alone is enough to reinforce them as allies in a bond that will eventually grow stronger than what we have with Britian.
You must be from the ACLU.
Slashdot, the biggest connector of intelligent people on the entire Internet
Hahahahaha
No, really.
Hahahaha
Seriously. Do you browse at a +5 threshold or something? There's stuff moderated at, say, +2 Interesting, or +3 Insightful, etc. all the fucking time that is complete drivel: poorly thought out, patently false, or an outright troll.
Your sentiments are said in other posts here on slashdot, albiet in somewhat less a humorous manner. However...
What, exactly, makes you think that only "rednecks" and fat people on welfare have antiquated TVs?
I'm most certainly not a redneck; I'm probably more hippy than redneck. My wife and I own one TV. It's circa 1995 or so, and still works fine. We don't actually watch TV, but use it mostly for movies. Sometimes I'll sit down and watch an episode of Law and order on monday night or something, but that's about it. I am most certianly not going to shell out $100+ for a new TV when my old one works fine.
Honestly, I doubt this legislation will impact many. Most people don't watch broadcast TV (they watch cable), so cable companies can decide if htey'll continue to send out 'antiquated' signals. For the most part, cable companies have already switched to digital, and have provided people with the appropriate digital cable box. Not an issue: the only people that will be impacted will be those that don't care enough about TV to pay for cable. They'll either get cable, or not watch TV.
Unless this OS is based off of their new Longhorn architecture, it's not going to do a damn thing to help solve the problems people currently run into with a "minimalist" Windows deployment.
- There will still IE, and thus there will still be spyware.
- There will still be Outlook, and thus there will still be various other malware.
- There will still be MS's shitty SMB implimentation, which means there will still be problems.
- If it uses Windows profiles, it will still fuck up and corrupt them.
- If it still uses MS software, it will still require a massive disk image.
- If any of these things are true, it will require a reimage at every other turn without another 3rd party application - which undoubtedly will not be compatible with this new version of Windows for several years.
What, exactly, is special about it, aside from the fact that it appears to be some sort of morph between WinXP and Windows Embedded?
I'm fairly certain I was using purely 32-bit binaries on my Pentium MMX system back in 1997 under linux. Yes, it was a desktop system and not a server.
I've been doing that just fine for the last 8 years. MS is just behind the curve.
I only recently purchased a DVD player. Like, in the last month.
I still have misc. 4x and 8x CDROM drive which work reliably and consistently.
I've had two CD burners die: a 24x/4x/2x and a 32x/8x/2x (I think).
In general, I don't use either for much. That's why we've got networks. I really don't want a non-electronic data transfer method which gets openly exposed to the outside world on a regular basis.