Well, as long as you invent a definition of "rhyming" that allows what you want it to allow... and as long as you ignore the fact that vowels don't necessarily match either... and you assume that your local accent is how "most people" pronounce them... sure, they "rhyme".
Dialects and accents differ, but lots of people pronounce the "h" (with a brief hesitation in front of it) in "door-hinge", and also enunciate the "i" (rather than the schwa in "orange"). So, no... they don't.
I seriously thought this was commonly understood among Physics majors who occasionally smoked pot. At least that's who I learned it from about 20 years ago. Seemed pretty obvious-once-you-think-about-it to me (and that's coming from a guy who flunked Infinite Series the first time he took it).
I was in high school from 1979-1983. My junior or senior year I took a couple of elective computer classes offered for advanced high school students through the junior college downtown. We mostly learned BASIC, which we ran on the motley assortment of equipment the instructor could get his hands on: a TRS-80 Model 1, an Apple ][ plus, and a couple of dumb terminals that logged into the college's DEC PDP via acoustic-coupled modems. Since we didn't have enough terminals/computers for each student, we wrote out our programs on notebook paper and took turns typing them in, then printing them for the teacher to look over and grade. We did a project with punch cards (I think it might have been a Fortran program), mostly because the equipment was available, and some shops still used them. It wasn't until I saved up my money to buy an Atari 400, and then went to college to study Computer Science that I had regular access to a computer. So I was a member of the last generation to first learn to use computers as an "adult" (or near enough).
Yes, if you set up a Win8 computer for a computer-illiterate person who doesn't really use the computer for anything except web browsing and card games, so that all they have to do is click on the icon they want, Metro will be just fine. I've been doing this with computer labs since Windows 2.0. But people who actually sorta know how to use a computer already will have problems, because they'll have to forget what they know... and it will be totally non-obvious what the new way of doing things is.
"...make sure that my recent investment in an Acer laptop will last me a good long while"
Huh? Please don't tell me that you're one of those people who think that once a computer gets infected with malware that it has to be thrown out. Wipe the hard drive (or replace it if you want to be super-thorough) and reload the OS, apps, and data. Presto: investment salvaged.
In fact, you might want to do this from time to time even if your computer doesn't get properly infected, because Windows (and to a lesser extent other OSes) build up performance-sucking cruft over time as you use them. I refurb the "retired" laptops before my employer sells them off, and the people who buy their old ones are often surprised at how fast they run after a clean reinstall of Windows.
Looking at the stats for Steam users and assuming that this represents home/consumer use is a major error. I know that this will come as a surprise to many/.ers, but there are huge numbers of people (especially the older half, but also a lot of under-40s) who don't use their home computers for gaming. For them it's a machine for running office apps, visiting web sites, sending e-mail, storing their photos, and filing their taxes once a year. And in this context, that's an important segment of the population, because those kinds of users are more likely to keep using older hardware.... with Windows XP. Gamers, by contrast, are heavily interested in having the fastest hardware, which comes with Windows 7 by default.
I'm a hardcore defendant of free speech, but I see YouTube's action as an example of yelling "fire" in crowded theater. How much more of a "clear and present danger" can you get?
And I've got karma to burn, so I'll repeat that down-modding my comment as "troll" is just some petty tyrants showing their contempt for free speech.
I'm a hardcore defendant of free speech, but I see this as an example of yelling "fire" in crowded theater. How much more of a "clear and present danger" can you get?
7 seems a bit young to me to actually mess around with the hardware, but if that's a goal for this... instead of a laptop, get him an old desktop that you and he can pop the hood on, and pretend to fix things inside with your supervision. Without supervision, I'm sure he'd learn quickly what not to mess with on the inside (e.g. don't poke a screwdriver at random parts of the system board), but by that time he'll have a dead computer, which neither you nor he can repair yourselves, and that will just be frustrating. A desktop is also easier to keep from being dropped, spilled on, left outside in the rain, or taken into the basement to disassemble the power transformer and see if he can make it spark. A used Pentium 4 box with 1GB RAM and a 40GB hard drive are almost literally a dime a dozen, and all he needs.
As for software, put a fresh copy of Windows XP (Fisher-Price desktop theme) on it, apply all 187 updates, and there will be oodles of cheap age-appropriate edutainment programs available to keep him happy with it until you finally hook the computer up to the internet. When he's 25.:) Yeah, yeah, Linux has more "educational value", but the point-and-click UI of Windows was designed for a 7-year-old's level of brain development, and furthermore what he learns with it is more likely to apply to what he can do with the computers at school. Upgrade him to Edubuntu (on a newer used computer) when he's 11.
Do you have stats to demonstrate this bias, or are you just pulling it out of your ass? Tanenbaum isn't judging Rasmussen as "biased" because he thinks they're prejudiced. He's saying they have a bias because they get the results wrong.
It's worth noting that this analysis includes data from Rasmussen, a pollster whose track record at predicting election outcomes is marred by a persistent, consistent bias. Not that they're faking the results (as some overtly partisan pollsters do), but their methodology appears to over-represent demographics that are more likely to vote Republican. According to one analysis, they overestimated votes for Republicans by 3.9%. Andrew Tanenbam's web site has a concise explanation of what's wrong with Rasmussen's numbers, and why he maintains a separate map that omits them from his own Electoral College projections. So if a system that includes Rasmussen data projects that a Democrat is going to win the presidency... that's a pretty strong indicator of which way the wind is blowing.
I was active in Wikitravel at the time Internet Brands bought the site. They knew damn well that the content was CC-BY-SA licensed and what that meant (that the content was not theirs, and could be taken and reproduced anywhere), and they explicitly promised the community that they would abide by the terms of that license. Obviously they have no intention of doing so, as demonstrated by the fact that they have spent the last several years dragging their feet about their promises to make the content easily portable.
Suing volunteer contributors for casually using the name "wikitravel" in reference to a community of contributors which existed long before IB bought the trademark rights to the web site, is unconscionable. Trademark rights are intended to prevent customers from being ripped off by other companies, not to squelch the free-speech rights of individuals to talk about the company. This is fundamentally no different from if employees of Widget Corp identified themselves as "employees of Widget Corp" and talked about why they were organizing a strike, or calling for a boycott, or threatening to quit.
IB owns a domain name and the exclusive rights to use the mark "Wikitravel" in trade. That is all. They do not control the right to say "Wikitravel" or to talk about "the Wikitravel community" in reference to the people who use the web site that IB hosts.
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Well, as long as you invent a definition of "rhyming" that allows what you want it to allow... and as long as you ignore the fact that vowels don't necessarily match either... and you assume that your local accent is how "most people" pronounce them... sure, they "rhyme".
Dialects and accents differ, but lots of people pronounce the "h" (with a brief hesitation in front of it) in "door-hinge", and also enunciate the "i" (rather than the schwa in "orange"). So, no... they don't.
I seriously thought this was commonly understood among Physics majors who occasionally smoked pot. At least that's who I learned it from about 20 years ago. Seemed pretty obvious-once-you-think-about-it to me (and that's coming from a guy who flunked Infinite Series the first time he took it).
I was in high school from 1979-1983. My junior or senior year I took a couple of elective computer classes offered for advanced high school students through the junior college downtown. We mostly learned BASIC, which we ran on the motley assortment of equipment the instructor could get his hands on: a TRS-80 Model 1, an Apple ][ plus, and a couple of dumb terminals that logged into the college's DEC PDP via acoustic-coupled modems. Since we didn't have enough terminals/computers for each student, we wrote out our programs on notebook paper and took turns typing them in, then printing them for the teacher to look over and grade. We did a project with punch cards (I think it might have been a Fortran program), mostly because the equipment was available, and some shops still used them. It wasn't until I saved up my money to buy an Atari 400, and then went to college to study Computer Science that I had regular access to a computer. So I was a member of the last generation to first learn to use computers as an "adult" (or near enough).
A homodontosaur might not be any more attractive, but at least he'd be more stylish.
"Embrace, Extend, Extinguish."
Exactly.
Yes, if you set up a Win8 computer for a computer-illiterate person who doesn't really use the computer for anything except web browsing and card games, so that all they have to do is click on the icon they want, Metro will be just fine. I've been doing this with computer labs since Windows 2.0. But people who actually sorta know how to use a computer already will have problems, because they'll have to forget what they know... and it will be totally non-obvious what the new way of doing things is.
The main flaw with the scenario you describe is that no one ever pays attention to things like that intro you're talking about.
Apparently the Start Menu isn't working yet. I can't even find the Start Button.
I'd volunteer to stop eating bacon for the benefit of all mankind, but I've pretty much already done that to benefit my own health.
"...make sure that my recent investment in an Acer laptop will last me a good long while"
Huh? Please don't tell me that you're one of those people who think that once a computer gets infected with malware that it has to be thrown out. Wipe the hard drive (or replace it if you want to be super-thorough) and reload the OS, apps, and data. Presto: investment salvaged.
In fact, you might want to do this from time to time even if your computer doesn't get properly infected, because Windows (and to a lesser extent other OSes) build up performance-sucking cruft over time as you use them. I refurb the "retired" laptops before my employer sells them off, and the people who buy their old ones are often surprised at how fast they run after a clean reinstall of Windows.
That's what turning Turbo mode "off" was for.
If this "Turbo" mode is enabled by pressing a square red button on the front of the computer, I will kiss the person responsible.
Looking at the stats for Steam users and assuming that this represents home/consumer use is a major error. I know that this will come as a surprise to many /.ers, but there are huge numbers of people (especially the older half, but also a lot of under-40s) who don't use their home computers for gaming. For them it's a machine for running office apps, visiting web sites, sending e-mail, storing their photos, and filing their taxes once a year. And in this context, that's an important segment of the population, because those kinds of users are more likely to keep using older hardware.... with Windows XP. Gamers, by contrast, are heavily interested in having the fastest hardware, which comes with Windows 7 by default.
Once you've seen one suburban shopping mall, you've seen them all.
It's probably the future of movies and Monkey Cam. I weep for the future.
I'm a hardcore defendant of free speech, but I see YouTube's action as an example of yelling "fire" in crowded theater. How much more of a "clear and present danger" can you get?
And I've got karma to burn, so I'll repeat that down-modding my comment as "troll" is just some petty tyrants showing their contempt for free speech.
Sure would be nice if there were a way to stop trolls from moderating.
And whoever modded my comment "Troll" to make it less visible is obvious one of the enemies of free speech.
I'm a hardcore defendant of free speech, but I see this as an example of yelling "fire" in crowded theater. How much more of a "clear and present danger" can you get?
7 seems a bit young to me to actually mess around with the hardware, but if that's a goal for this... instead of a laptop, get him an old desktop that you and he can pop the hood on, and pretend to fix things inside with your supervision. Without supervision, I'm sure he'd learn quickly what not to mess with on the inside (e.g. don't poke a screwdriver at random parts of the system board), but by that time he'll have a dead computer, which neither you nor he can repair yourselves, and that will just be frustrating. A desktop is also easier to keep from being dropped, spilled on, left outside in the rain, or taken into the basement to disassemble the power transformer and see if he can make it spark. A used Pentium 4 box with 1GB RAM and a 40GB hard drive are almost literally a dime a dozen, and all he needs.
As for software, put a fresh copy of Windows XP (Fisher-Price desktop theme) on it, apply all 187 updates, and there will be oodles of cheap age-appropriate edutainment programs available to keep him happy with it until you finally hook the computer up to the internet. When he's 25. :) Yeah, yeah, Linux has more "educational value", but the point-and-click UI of Windows was designed for a 7-year-old's level of brain development, and furthermore what he learns with it is more likely to apply to what he can do with the computers at school. Upgrade him to Edubuntu (on a newer used computer) when he's 11.
Do you have stats to demonstrate this bias, or are you just pulling it out of your ass? Tanenbaum isn't judging Rasmussen as "biased" because he thinks they're prejudiced. He's saying they have a bias because they get the results wrong.
It's worth noting that this analysis includes data from Rasmussen, a pollster whose track record at predicting election outcomes is marred by a persistent, consistent bias. Not that they're faking the results (as some overtly partisan pollsters do), but their methodology appears to over-represent demographics that are more likely to vote Republican. According to one analysis, they overestimated votes for Republicans by 3.9%. Andrew Tanenbam's web site has a concise explanation of what's wrong with Rasmussen's numbers, and why he maintains a separate map that omits them from his own Electoral College projections. So if a system that includes Rasmussen data projects that a Democrat is going to win the presidency... that's a pretty strong indicator of which way the wind is blowing.
I was active in Wikitravel at the time Internet Brands bought the site. They knew damn well that the content was CC-BY-SA licensed and what that meant (that the content was not theirs, and could be taken and reproduced anywhere), and they explicitly promised the community that they would abide by the terms of that license. Obviously they have no intention of doing so, as demonstrated by the fact that they have spent the last several years dragging their feet about their promises to make the content easily portable.
Suing volunteer contributors for casually using the name "wikitravel" in reference to a community of contributors which existed long before IB bought the trademark rights to the web site, is unconscionable. Trademark rights are intended to prevent customers from being ripped off by other companies, not to squelch the free-speech rights of individuals to talk about the company. This is fundamentally no different from if employees of Widget Corp identified themselves as "employees of Widget Corp" and talked about why they were organizing a strike, or calling for a boycott, or threatening to quit.
IB owns a domain name and the exclusive rights to use the mark "Wikitravel" in trade. That is all. They do not control the right to say "Wikitravel" or to talk about "the Wikitravel community" in reference to the people who use the web site that IB hosts.
"Thanks, I put in a lot of effort to sh1t on both sides roughly equally,"
Ah, so the same way the infotainment media approach science vs. pseudoscience.