Well, now they've gone and pissed in the pool for the rest of us. Gee, thanks. I couldn't give two shits about their petty litigation, but now they're fouling up a utility that has helped me out on innumerable occasions. Frickin' hell.
I spent years in school robotically parroting the pledge of allegiance every day. It wasnt until I had joined the Army that I even thought about what it meant.
I know! Every time I hear someone nominally knowledgeable about our system of government talk about rights being granted by the government, it sets my teeth on edge. You can read them That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, but it just doesn't seem to stick. The idea that we already have our rights, and government exists to preserve them---well, I didn't learn about that until after I left high school.
These are not small things. These are great big important issues, and they get lost in the minutiae used to keep us busy.
Don't give kids calculators. It serves no imaginable purpose. When my sister asked me for help with her math in high school, she had gotten to the point where she was using the calculator to figure percents out of a hundred. (Since the college she attends doesn't require anything more than a "problem solving" course for BA degrees, she's that's all the math she'll ever get.)
Take out the fucking soda machines. What sort of system winds kids up with pound after pound of refined sugars, then makes them sits still, and drugs them if they can't?
Make sure they can read. It's honestly not that hard to teach kids to read. They make it harder than it has to be. This is a goddamn criminal shame.
Honestly, I can't think of a way to make it a less terrible place in the social sense. Kids are horrible, beastly animals. At least, I remember them that way.
They haven't had a release in nearly two months, though their CVS has activity in it as little as four days old. I wonder when it'll be usable. Sure hope it's soon.
They have icon themes, there's talk of Cairo, and all that Luminocity good stuff, but when, oh when, will we actually have a fully scalable desktop?
Hell, I'd be happy if I could just have a file manager, console, and calculator that were resolution-independent. How far off is that? There seems to be no central clearinghouse for this sort of information.
I thought it was just me! I run icewm, and have for some time because I'm terribly, terribly lazy---there's probably something better, but I prefer to not even use the menus, and launch everything from the little type-in box.
Nifty virtual desktop management, too. [Windows key]-left and right switch desktops. [Windows-key]-Shift-left and right pull the current window onto that desktop. I can rearrange my apps quickly and easily. Do newer WMs have that? I haven't used one in quite some time.
Back to the point---the whole point of the desktop is that we put things on top of it. Windows, applications, that sort of thing. Just because a destop full of icons looks nice when we start up, it doesn't mean that that should be taken as the primary use case. Sheesh...
why is the CD-ROM in red? Because you can't write to it? Doesn't red strike you as being a color that should indicate that something is wrong?
That is a terrible idea. Gray seems like a much more obvious choice, but perhaps that's just me. I wonder if there's any good human-interface text to read about designing this sort of thing.
I suppose you could say that the Normans integrated with the Anglo-Saxons, and that the Anglo-Saxons before them integrated with the Picts, but the Han? They retain nothing of the culture that was there before them. Or the Bantu-speaking peoples of most of Sub-Saharan Africa, who displaced or isolated most of the previously extant Khoisan peoples?
So, as I was saying. Han out of China! Bantu out of South Africa!
If a man were to say to you, "your house is on fire!", your analogous response would be, "shut up, it's not like yours isn't smoldering too---you hate fire, that's what, and I bet you wear a tinfoil hat, too," as opposed to the more reasonable "no, it isn't".
Oh, but feel free to call me a TV-watching consumer. I mean, without strawmen, we'd have to actually address each others' arguments and ideas, and who knows where that could lead?
Goddamnit, that's why the last two months of resume-filing has felt like pissing into the wind. At least I have my medium-yecchy helpdesking job, for now.
So how do I find people who are actually looking to hire?
Or they could, y'know, not offer the frickin' thing for download until its release date. Or, alternatively, provide the download, but in an locked format (say, a password-protected zip file), finally displaying the password on the website at the fateful hour.
What's all this crap about time zones and atomic clocks?
Thank you. If I had learned to associate crucifix pendants and church attendance with people being particularly hardworking, honorable and all-around good, perhaps I'd have a better attitude toward Christians today.
I haven't read the article yet, but if your system of morality forbids pointing out widespread, epidemic child abuse, no matter what your own society does, then your system of morality is fucked up.
So how long do you have to live somewhere before you become "indigenous"? The Han chinese swept out of Mongolia not too long ago---the areas where people now speak Sino-Tibetan languages used to be populated by people speaking Austronesian, who look very little like the Han. So---Han out of China! Normans out of England! Etc!
So you're saying that neither the Clinton administration nor the Bush administration had any evidence that the Sudanese claim was legit. So you're saying that I was right, and you were wrong.
That, or you're saying that the 9/11 commission was fed only what the Clinton administration---which was no longer in office at the time---wanted it to hear, in which case... what the hell was it there for, if it only acted as a glorified press release?
Malaria kills about a million Africans a year, but we hear less about it and more about HIV, despite the massive funding gap for malaria. Especially since there are cheap and effective measures against malaria which are not used because of a simple lack of funding.
Hey hippies---are you happy you got DDT banned now? All those dead Africans say thank you!
But seriously, there are some moderately effective drugs, and treated mosquito nets (covered in a bug-eating fungus, apparently) have been used to great effect.
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I'd just be happy if I could get a copy of James Burke's Connections. Man, that was a good series.
--grendel drago
Shouldn't this be accomplished by styling form elements via some sort of CSS thingy? Isn't that why we have CSS?
--grendel drago
Well, now they've gone and pissed in the pool for the rest of us. Gee, thanks. I couldn't give two shits about their petty litigation, but now they're fouling up a utility that has helped me out on innumerable occasions. Frickin' hell.
--grendel drago
Remember when the news appeared that self-esteem isn't necessarily good for you? That bullies and bad people have high self-esteem? Yeah.
--grendel drago
I spent years in school robotically parroting the pledge of allegiance every day. It wasnt until I had joined the Army that I even thought about what it meant.
I know! Every time I hear someone nominally knowledgeable about our system of government talk about rights being granted by the government, it sets my teeth on edge. You can read them That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, but it just doesn't seem to stick. The idea that we already have our rights, and government exists to preserve them---well, I didn't learn about that until after I left high school.
These are not small things. These are great big important issues, and they get lost in the minutiae used to keep us busy.
--grendel drago
Don't give kids calculators. It serves no imaginable purpose. When my sister asked me for help with her math in high school, she had gotten to the point where she was using the calculator to figure percents out of a hundred. (Since the college she attends doesn't require anything more than a "problem solving" course for BA degrees, she's that's all the math she'll ever get.)
Take out the fucking soda machines. What sort of system winds kids up with pound after pound of refined sugars, then makes them sits still, and drugs them if they can't?
Make sure they can read. It's honestly not that hard to teach kids to read. They make it harder than it has to be. This is a goddamn criminal shame.
Honestly, I can't think of a way to make it a less terrible place in the social sense. Kids are horrible, beastly animals. At least, I remember them that way.
--grendel drago
They haven't had a release in nearly two months, though their CVS has activity in it as little as four days old. I wonder when it'll be usable. Sure hope it's soon.
--grendel drago
When will we get a vector-based Linux desktop?
They have icon themes, there's talk of Cairo, and all that Luminocity good stuff, but when, oh when, will we actually have a fully scalable desktop?
Hell, I'd be happy if I could just have a file manager, console, and calculator that were resolution-independent. How far off is that? There seems to be no central clearinghouse for this sort of information.
--grendel drago
Have you ever seen 256-color porn! I shudder....
--grendel drago
Bing!
Installed it once, played around with it a bit, didn't see the point.
--grendel drago
I thought it was just me! I run icewm, and have for some time because I'm terribly, terribly lazy---there's probably something better, but I prefer to not even use the menus, and launch everything from the little type-in box.
Nifty virtual desktop management, too. [Windows key]-left and right switch desktops. [Windows-key]-Shift-left and right pull the current window onto that desktop. I can rearrange my apps quickly and easily. Do newer WMs have that? I haven't used one in quite some time.
Back to the point---the whole point of the desktop is that we put things on top of it. Windows, applications, that sort of thing. Just because a destop full of icons looks nice when we start up, it doesn't mean that that should be taken as the primary use case. Sheesh...
--grendel drago
Well, yeah. A commercial web host can take the hit from any traffic spike short of 9/11. Free, no. Cheap, no. Budgetable, sure.
--grendel drago
why is the CD-ROM in red? Because you can't write to it? Doesn't red strike you as being a color that should indicate that something is wrong?
That is a terrible idea. Gray seems like a much more obvious choice, but perhaps that's just me. I wonder if there's any good human-interface text to read about designing this sort of thing.
--grendel drago
I suppose you could say that the Normans integrated with the Anglo-Saxons, and that the Anglo-Saxons before them integrated with the Picts, but the Han? They retain nothing of the culture that was there before them. Or the Bantu-speaking peoples of most of Sub-Saharan Africa, who displaced or isolated most of the previously extant Khoisan peoples?
So, as I was saying. Han out of China! Bantu out of South Africa!
--grendel drago
If a man were to say to you, "your house is on fire!", your analogous response would be, "shut up, it's not like yours isn't smoldering too---you hate fire, that's what, and I bet you wear a tinfoil hat, too," as opposed to the more reasonable "no, it isn't".
Oh, but feel free to call me a TV-watching consumer. I mean, without strawmen, we'd have to actually address each others' arguments and ideas, and who knows where that could lead?
--grendel drago
Goddamnit, that's why the last two months of resume-filing has felt like pissing into the wind. At least I have my medium-yecchy helpdesking job, for now.
So how do I find people who are actually looking to hire?
--grendel drago
Or they could, y'know, not offer the frickin' thing for download until its release date. Or, alternatively, provide the download, but in an locked format (say, a password-protected zip file), finally displaying the password on the website at the fateful hour.
What's all this crap about time zones and atomic clocks?
--grendel drago
Go make some tea from a hemlock tree. Drink it and tell me that stuff is good for the environment.
Go to a beach where the seawater is as clean as it could possbily be. Drink it and tell me that stuff is good for the environment.
Of course, you're right, but "stick it in your body" isn't a valid litmus test for environmental safety.
--grendel drago
Thank you. If I had learned to associate crucifix pendants and church attendance with people being particularly hardworking, honorable and all-around good, perhaps I'd have a better attitude toward Christians today.
--grendel drago
I haven't read the article yet, but if your system of morality forbids pointing out widespread, epidemic child abuse, no matter what your own society does, then your system of morality is fucked up.
--grendel drago
So how long do you have to live somewhere before you become "indigenous"? The Han chinese swept out of Mongolia not too long ago---the areas where people now speak Sino-Tibetan languages used to be populated by people speaking Austronesian, who look very little like the Han. So---Han out of China! Normans out of England! Etc!
--grendel drago
I suppose we'll either revert to a batch of loincloth-wearing savages, or transcend our boundaries and become gods ourselves. Y'know, one of the two.
--grendel drago
Eyem gwad yoo cud unnerstam dis. Kno kneed too trie annd speel rite, becuz yoole ghet wot eye meen. Afftr al, das wot kownts, rite?
--grendel drago
So you're saying that neither the Clinton administration nor the Bush administration had any evidence that the Sudanese claim was legit. So you're saying that I was right, and you were wrong.
That, or you're saying that the 9/11 commission was fed only what the Clinton administration---which was no longer in office at the time---wanted it to hear, in which case... what the hell was it there for, if it only acted as a glorified press release?
--grendel drago
Malaria kills about a million Africans a year, but we hear less about it and more about HIV, despite the massive funding gap for malaria. Especially since there are cheap and effective measures against malaria which are not used because of a simple lack of funding.
Hey hippies---are you happy you got DDT banned now? All those dead Africans say thank you!
But seriously, there are some moderately effective drugs, and treated mosquito nets (covered in a bug-eating fungus, apparently) have been used to great effect.
--grendel drago