I prefer WinXP, but of the linux desktops I've messed with, KDE 4.x is the most usable and least annoying. For the first time in the 18 years I've been trying to find a linux I can love, I could probably live with it as a daily desktop.
Then I looked at KDE 5.x... which is apparently starting the slide to copying Gnome. All sorts of annoyances and missing functionality. Won't be going there, nope...
There was a DOS utility that could read CP/M disks too, I suppose it loaded a CP/M emulator, but it let you use CP/M disks in an ordinary DOS PC. At the time you could download it from any decent BBS.
Yeah, I kinda gave up on Moz bugs a long time ago. Occasionally I put in my two cents when I find a serious bug already has an open ticket, but it's just venting, cuz if the ticket is still open that means it will never be fixed. Some of those bugs are now over 10 years old. And all it takes is one person saying "Works for me" and any chance it'll be fixed is permanently hosed.
As I mentioned above, when I saw the chart my first thought was "Mozilla". Tho on second thought, Moz's "fixed" line would be trending downward...
As you say, this is not a male problem; it's an asshole problem. Asshole is not a gendered concept.
It's always been conventional wisdom that testosterone makes men more aggressive, but when it's actually been researched, turns out it's the other way around -- it makes men gentler and more empathic, especially toward -- women! (If you want citations, Karen Straughan can no doubt provide plenty.)
My experience (speaking as a canine professional with 45 years experience) is that female veterinarians are, as a group, bad news, and I say that having watched the field shift from 99% male to 80% female. Individual female vets may be good, but on the whole they're unable to learn from experience, which in medicine is a deal-killer. Nothing to do with assholery, and everything to do with an inflated sense of their own worth. Gee, I wonder if today's feelgood education has anything to do with that. And if it might have anything to do with the *perception* that women in tech are being disproportionately mistreated... cuz that's their feelz.
Most of the Sahara isn't sand; it's rocks -- and not just any rocks; rocks that are more like giant razor blades. Worse to deal with than sand, per what I've read. Basically uncrossable by ordinary means. Not really an improvement over the sand, which as you say will destroy everything in short order. It's not water that carves badlands; it's fine windblown grit. And you should see what desert wind does to plexiglas in very short order, even when there's no visibly blowing sand.
But the real question is -- so now you've got all this power; how do you plan to transmit it? Cables, yeah, betcha certain countries are salivating at the license fees to cross their territory. If you can prevent the locals from carrying off all the metal and selling it for scrap.
We need to stop thinking of solar in terms of GIANT WORLDSIZED SCALE and look more at local scale -- frex, that flat Walmart rooftop that's already fairly sheltered from the scouring wind, and is right where the power will be used, eliminating the entire transmission problem; indeed, no new infrastructure required.
Well, whatever... obviously this is overly open to interpretation when we already can't agree what it means. The question really is... who does the interpreting.
Personally I don't think any of the OMG HateSpeech yadda-yadda qualifies as either violence or incitement. Let idiots yap, I say. That way at least you know who thinks what.
And I say that as a member of a class that certain parties regularly call to be disenfranchised and even killed... and it's not just yap; they mean it. So long as they can yap freely, I know who they are.
Welcome. I still prefer Windows, tho there's starting to be hope of a linux I could live with for everyday (PCLinuxOS full-monty with KDE4 is close, tho if it goes to KDE5, I'm outta there).
Now that I think of it,.reg files usually have the first line commented out with the semicolon: ";REGEDIT5 " or some such, and that never appears in the Registry, so seems they're just ignored.
But I've seen keys that evidently didn't do anything but hold a name for reference -- no value set -- and since you can name a key however you like, that name could be instructions for the adjacent key.
Back a decade and more, I used RegEdit routinely because I found it an easy way to paw through Windows' guts -- but haven't had the need since XP came along. I recently used it to check something on my "new" XP64 box** -- and suddenly realised it had been a good ten years since I used Regedit to *alter* the Registry.
** 'New" because I've tried Win7 and 8, and ran away screaming.
You could add a key immediately below to hold your comment. There's no requirement that registry keys actually DO anything.
Also, if a line in a.reg file begins with a semicolon (;), it is considered a comment. I haven't tested how that gets imported into the registry itself.
I think you are right. And I fear with this mass invasion we are seeing the early stages of WW3, even tho it may take 50 years to heat up to a shooting war.
Makes me glad America has only one indefensible border, rather than being surrounded by indefensible borders as is the case in most of the world.
From the map it appears this is the Aliso Canyon east of Acton, not the one in Orange County. And being familiar with the Acton area -- assuming it's the one in question (and that area is lousy with oil wells) I wonder how much of this is media feeding hysteria. Prevailing wind is from the west/southwest, and there's nothing much to the east/NE of the area but a few ranches and a lot of wilderness. It's kind of an isolated valley, and the nearest schools are in Acton, over the hill and upwind. Not so good if you live in the canyon, but not the widescale disaster that's being implied. (Indeed, I wonder how this compares to the natural gas seeps in the area.)
The big limiter on barter is -- does someone have what you need when you need it, willing to trade for something you've got and don't need? No?? Well then, now we understand how cash became so popular so fast, like about two seconds after cavemen discovered trade.
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I prefer WinXP, but of the linux desktops I've messed with, KDE 4.x is the most usable and least annoying. For the first time in the 18 years I've been trying to find a linux I can love, I could probably live with it as a daily desktop.
Then I looked at KDE 5.x ... which is apparently starting the slide to copying Gnome. All sorts of annoyances and missing functionality. Won't be going there, nope...
There was a DOS utility that could read CP/M disks too, I suppose it loaded a CP/M emulator, but it let you use CP/M disks in an ordinary DOS PC. At the time you could download it from any decent BBS.
A suburban neighborhood, as it were.
Yeah, I kinda gave up on Moz bugs a long time ago. Occasionally I put in my two cents when I find a serious bug already has an open ticket, but it's just venting, cuz if the ticket is still open that means it will never be fixed. Some of those bugs are now over 10 years old. And all it takes is one person saying "Works for me" and any chance it'll be fixed is permanently hosed.
As I mentioned above, when I saw the chart my first thought was "Mozilla". Tho on second thought, Moz's "fixed" line would be trending downward...
Not coincidentally, when I looked at the graph the first thought that came to me was, "Mozilla".
Well then, we better get to building one. The sooner we can start collecting tolls, the better!
There's also the fact that as the galaxy goes, we're kinda out in the middle of nowhere. "Why would we want to stop there? That's flyover country!"
Perhaps it just needed to know you were sincere!
I believe your understanding has reached maximum velocity. :)
Huh. I'd understood it's usually less sensitive to website oddity. Well, not this time!
Huh. Dunno why. Works for me, even without javascript. Just curious, what browser? SeaMonkey 2.39 here.
And there's a great deal of garbage that's not readily distinguishable from the real thing. Witness:
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
All righty, will do. Be warned -- I can break anything. :D
Yeah, except the signs are more likely to say, "Women Only. Entry by men strictly forbidden."
Oh, wait....
What you said. Totally.
And totally OT, your "Universal Data Share" project looks like just what I wanted! will be trying it out. Thanks!
As you say, this is not a male problem; it's an asshole problem. Asshole is not a gendered concept.
It's always been conventional wisdom that testosterone makes men more aggressive, but when it's actually been researched, turns out it's the other way around -- it makes men gentler and more empathic, especially toward -- women! (If you want citations, Karen Straughan can no doubt provide plenty.)
My experience (speaking as a canine professional with 45 years experience) is that female veterinarians are, as a group, bad news, and I say that having watched the field shift from 99% male to 80% female. Individual female vets may be good, but on the whole they're unable to learn from experience, which in medicine is a deal-killer. Nothing to do with assholery, and everything to do with an inflated sense of their own worth. Gee, I wonder if today's feelgood education has anything to do with that. And if it might have anything to do with the *perception* that women in tech are being disproportionately mistreated... cuz that's their feelz.
Most of the Sahara isn't sand; it's rocks -- and not just any rocks; rocks that are more like giant razor blades. Worse to deal with than sand, per what I've read. Basically uncrossable by ordinary means. Not really an improvement over the sand, which as you say will destroy everything in short order. It's not water that carves badlands; it's fine windblown grit. And you should see what desert wind does to plexiglas in very short order, even when there's no visibly blowing sand.
But the real question is -- so now you've got all this power; how do you plan to transmit it? Cables, yeah, betcha certain countries are salivating at the license fees to cross their territory. If you can prevent the locals from carrying off all the metal and selling it for scrap.
We need to stop thinking of solar in terms of GIANT WORLDSIZED SCALE and look more at local scale -- frex, that flat Walmart rooftop that's already fairly sheltered from the scouring wind, and is right where the power will be used, eliminating the entire transmission problem; indeed, no new infrastructure required.
Well, whatever... obviously this is overly open to interpretation when we already can't agree what it means. The question really is... who does the interpreting.
Personally I don't think any of the OMG HateSpeech yadda-yadda qualifies as either violence or incitement. Let idiots yap, I say. That way at least you know who thinks what.
And I say that as a member of a class that certain parties regularly call to be disenfranchised and even killed... and it's not just yap; they mean it. So long as they can yap freely, I know who they are.
Welcome. I still prefer Windows, tho there's starting to be hope of a linux I could live with for everyday (PCLinuxOS full-monty with KDE4 is close, tho if it goes to KDE5, I'm outta there).
Now that I think of it, .reg files usually have the first line commented out with the semicolon: " ;REGEDIT5 " or some such, and that never appears in the Registry, so seems they're just ignored.
But I've seen keys that evidently didn't do anything but hold a name for reference -- no value set -- and since you can name a key however you like, that name could be instructions for the adjacent key.
Back a decade and more, I used RegEdit routinely because I found it an easy way to paw through Windows' guts -- but haven't had the need since XP came along. I recently used it to check something on my "new" XP64 box** -- and suddenly realised it had been a good ten years since I used Regedit to *alter* the Registry.
** 'New" because I've tried Win7 and 8, and ran away screaming.
You could add a key immediately below to hold your comment. There's no requirement that registry keys actually DO anything.
Also, if a line in a .reg file begins with a semicolon (;), it is considered a comment. I haven't tested how that gets imported into the registry itself.
Taking your description at its word, now I could say, "You're an asshole" but I couldn't assert "You're one of those assholes".
Glah... one more reason why I don't use Twitter.
"You don't come here to hunt, do you."
I think you are right. And I fear with this mass invasion we are seeing the early stages of WW3, even tho it may take 50 years to heat up to a shooting war.
Makes me glad America has only one indefensible border, rather than being surrounded by indefensible borders as is the case in most of the world.
There's another Aliso Canyon down in Orange County. They're everywhere!!
Frankly I'd trust the gas company over the city or the media.
From the map it appears this is the Aliso Canyon east of Acton, not the one in Orange County. And being familiar with the Acton area -- assuming it's the one in question (and that area is lousy with oil wells) I wonder how much of this is media feeding hysteria. Prevailing wind is from the west/southwest, and there's nothing much to the east/NE of the area but a few ranches and a lot of wilderness. It's kind of an isolated valley, and the nearest schools are in Acton, over the hill and upwind. Not so good if you live in the canyon, but not the widescale disaster that's being implied. (Indeed, I wonder how this compares to the natural gas seeps in the area.)
Best not move to Sweden, then ;)
The big limiter on barter is -- does someone have what you need when you need it, willing to trade for something you've got and don't need? No?? Well then, now we understand how cash became so popular so fast, like about two seconds after cavemen discovered trade.