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Review: KDE 3.2
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· Score: 2, Insightful
This review reads like a lot of fanboy reviews of games, sci-fi flicks, and superhero comics: A bit of hype ("award-winning" - Why is this relevant to your review?), overly-broad praise ("you can configure it in any way you want by right clicking on the desktop" - You mean I can configure it to work just like OS X?), and missing-the-point criticisms ("I don't understand the need for three editors" - Maybe it's provide people with the choice of their favorite?).
September through December are interchangeable in the poem. So it really can't help you until you memorize their position in the poem.
But the thing about poems is that people with the right kind of wiring in their brains do memorize them, verbatim. It's why the oral tradition of storytelling (especially in verse) was so effective. I'd never say "December" instead of "September" simply because that's not how the verse goes. Likewise, the Weather Ball poem is for the people with feeble color-association skills, but good language skills.
a weather beacon that again changes colour to reflect the forecast.
Sounds a lot like the weather ball that glowed from a tower in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich. in the 60's-80's (and now back up, elsewhere in the city). Pretty intuitive, and just in case you didn't get it, there's a bit of verse to explain it: "Weather ball red, warmer weather ahead / Weather ball blue, colder weather in view / Weather ball green, no change foreseen / Color blinking bright, rain or snow in sight." Same old concept, just a different device.
I've come to realize that advertising and computer companies are at least as responsible as the users themselves.
The demise of the internet was caused (yes, past tense) by the capital-driven economics of manufacturing.
Computer manufacturers that started out making kits for hacker hobbyists and systems for geekish businessmen saw the easiest way to bring down their unit costs and increase their profitability was the make and sell more units. The hacker/geek market wasn't big enough, so they pushed the merchandise toward the mass market. The Mac was followed by Windows, making computers just easy enough to use that "anyone" could do it. Prodigy and then AOL did the same for networking. And so on.
In addition to making certain individuals very wealthy, it's been a benefit to hackers and geeks, because the size of that market made lots of R&D possible and drove costs down to where they are now. But now we're paying the price: supporting people who've never learned the stuff we grew up teaching ourselves, and our networks suffering from their clueless behavior.
Please be careful not to project your own tastes on the rest of the world, and assume that nobody watches the shows you hate. Granted, I've never understood the appeal of "Raymond", but I can accept that a lot of people apparently like it. And I've found "Malcolm" one of the most consistently entertaining sitcoms to come along in years (largely because the two-dimensional characters have one more dimension than most sitcom characters).
The thought that TiVo Inc. is tracking my viewing of this show (and even its placement in my Season Pass Manager) would please me more than it would concern me. After all, I've been TiVo-ing the shows I like for years now, and I have yet to get any targetted marketing that suspiciously reflects my viewing habits. So that "anonymizing" that TiVo promises to do seems to be working.
This is quite different from "the greatest part of its sales". All the above phrase means is that sales of lots-of-features phones are increasing faster than sale of just-a-phones. This is practically a truism regarding new product classes vs. old product classes. It doesn't necessarily mean the old product class is vanishing (though of course that's also possible).
I have a lots-of-features phone issued by my employer. If given the choice, I'd trade it in for a just-a-phone on which I can actually understand the other person (and vice versa).
...as far as I can tell, is that they're adding a "gamma testing" phase between the open-beta-test phase of the Cooker process, and the official put-it-in-boxes-and-call-it-done release. Seems like a reasonable move, because it lets users be a little more granular in deciding just how bleeding-edge or risk-averse they want to be with new versions.
TiVo will work, but to my knowledge, you need one specifically for satellite
Your knowledge is incorrect. Every stand-alone TiVo ever sold (mine's a first-generation 14-hour model) will work with satellite (either Dish Network or DirecTV). It will also work with cable (either analog or digital), or with rabbit ears (analog only). It's for this very reason that I recommend the stand-alone for anyone who is not 100% certain that he intends to stick with [insert satellite provider here] for the foreseeable future.
The stand-alone boxes are more easily hacked as well, with room for a couple drives, a network card, etc.
(You do give up any hope of recording two programs at the same time with the stand-alone models... but in most cases you can just use your old VCR to catch a second program.)
... is that he's such a well-preserved specimen of his breed, and his era. This partisan propaganda article of his is a fine example of him reliving the Good Old Days, scolding Americans about the Red Menace, and gloating about the covert harm American "intelligence-gathering" agencies could do to the Godless Commies. The potential loss of innocent lives is irrelevant to him, because we were (in his mind) at war with the Soviet Union, for the very soul of humanity.
Any parallels to contemporary situations are left as an exercise for the reader.
ObDisclaimers: Yes, of course it's "nit-picking", and taken in that context, most of his complaints make sense. Even the harping about Arwin is legitimate nit-picking (or even criticism).
But I understand why Jackson gave Arwen such an expanded role, and I think it was justified. I adore Tolkein as much as the next nerd, but he really had a blind spot for female characters. You could count the number of significant female characters in The Hobbit and The Rings combined on the fingers of one hand. As the article writer himself points out, Arwen only had one line in the books. And the women weren't exactly well-rounded I-can-identify-with-her characters. They were mostly just archetypes. (Yeah, a lot of the men were too, but the key (male) protagonists had some depth to them.)
I'll grant you that getting to see Orlando and Viggo strut about gives the films some female appeal. (They were certainly a treat to these guy-loving eyes.) But having another substantial woman character acting among the men makes it seem less like Middle Earth is a world where not only the dwarves' women look like men, but the other races' as well.
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Isn't that why spam exists in the first place?
This review reads like a lot of fanboy reviews of games, sci-fi flicks, and superhero comics: A bit of hype ("award-winning" - Why is this relevant to your review?), overly-broad praise ("you can configure it in any way you want by right clicking on the desktop" - You mean I can configure it to work just like OS X?), and missing-the-point criticisms ("I don't understand the need for three editors" - Maybe it's provide people with the choice of their favorite?).
But the thing about poems is that people with the right kind of wiring in their brains do memorize them, verbatim. It's why the oral tradition of storytelling (especially in verse) was so effective. I'd never say "December" instead of "September" simply because that's not how the verse goes. Likewise, the Weather Ball poem is for the people with feeble color-association skills, but good language skills.
Sounds a lot like the weather ball that glowed from a tower in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich. in the 60's-80's (and now back up, elsewhere in the city). Pretty intuitive, and just in case you didn't get it, there's a bit of verse to explain it: "Weather ball red, warmer weather ahead / Weather ball blue, colder weather in view / Weather ball green, no change foreseen / Color blinking bright, rain or snow in sight." Same old concept, just a different device.
I get: This command is not supported by the help utility. Try "x
What am I doing wrong?
{sigh} /?
Type: MyDoom
Can't you follow simple instructions?
The demise of the internet was caused (yes, past tense) by the capital-driven economics of manufacturing.
Computer manufacturers that started out making kits for hacker hobbyists and systems for geekish businessmen saw the easiest way to bring down their unit costs and increase their profitability was the make and sell more units. The hacker/geek market wasn't big enough, so they pushed the merchandise toward the mass market. The Mac was followed by Windows, making computers just easy enough to use that "anyone" could do it. Prodigy and then AOL did the same for networking. And so on.
In addition to making certain individuals very wealthy, it's been a benefit to hackers and geeks, because the size of that market made lots of R&D possible and drove costs down to where they are now. But now we're paying the price: supporting people who've never learned the stuff we grew up teaching ourselves, and our networks suffering from their clueless behavior.
The thought that TiVo Inc. is tracking my viewing of this show (and even its placement in my Season Pass Manager) would please me more than it would concern me. After all, I've been TiVo-ing the shows I like for years now, and I have yet to get any targetted marketing that suspiciously reflects my viewing habits. So that "anonymizing" that TiVo promises to do seems to be working.
This is quite different from "the greatest part of its sales". All the above phrase means is that sales of lots-of-features phones are increasing faster than sale of just-a-phones. This is practically a truism regarding new product classes vs. old product classes. It doesn't necessarily mean the old product class is vanishing (though of course that's also possible).
I have a lots-of-features phone issued by my employer. If given the choice, I'd trade it in for a just-a-phone on which I can actually understand the other person (and vice versa).
How did he respond to your suggestion that lowercase letters at the beginning of sentences and for the pronoun "I" should be acceptable?
...as far as I can tell, is that they're adding a "gamma testing" phase between the open-beta-test phase of the Cooker process, and the official put-it-in-boxes-and-call-it-done release. Seems like a reasonable move, because it lets users be a little more granular in deciding just how bleeding-edge or risk-averse they want to be with new versions.
Your knowledge is incorrect. Every stand-alone TiVo ever sold (mine's a first-generation 14-hour model) will work with satellite (either Dish Network or DirecTV). It will also work with cable (either analog or digital), or with rabbit ears (analog only). It's for this very reason that I recommend the stand-alone for anyone who is not 100% certain that he intends to stick with [insert satellite provider here] for the foreseeable future.
The stand-alone boxes are more easily hacked as well, with room for a couple drives, a network card, etc.
(You do give up any hope of recording two programs at the same time with the stand-alone models... but in most cases you can just use your old VCR to catch a second program.)
Any parallels to contemporary situations are left as an exercise for the reader.
But I understand why Jackson gave Arwen such an expanded role, and I think it was justified. I adore Tolkein as much as the next nerd, but he really had a blind spot for female characters. You could count the number of significant female characters in The Hobbit and The Rings combined on the fingers of one hand. As the article writer himself points out, Arwen only had one line in the books. And the women weren't exactly well-rounded I-can-identify-with-her characters. They were mostly just archetypes. (Yeah, a lot of the men were too, but the key (male) protagonists had some depth to them.)
I'll grant you that getting to see Orlando and Viggo strut about gives the films some female appeal. (They were certainly a treat to these guy-loving eyes.) But having another substantial woman character acting among the men makes it seem less like Middle Earth is a world where not only the dwarves' women look like men, but the other races' as well.