I saw that episode. Kinda puts things into perspective. Not everyone masturbates over this stuff. A LOT of people couldn't tell the difference between a Macintosh and a windows laptop, not because they're stupid but because they don't care.
Okay, OO tracks changes, too, and you don't have to have a source control server running... somewhere.
OO's styles are also orthogonal to content so you can change them independently.
If you've ever used the equation editor, in OO--I've had enough experience with it to base my opinion--it does all the same stuff that LaTeX does. You type in the math language and the equation appears above; no mystery about what it's going to look like.
I've done experiments with OO using huge amounts of text > 150k words--no crazy formatting--and it never even hiccuped, so why NOT use a wysiwyg editor?
until the mass media got a hold of it. Then it was cyberthis and cyberthat. Nowadays, every time I see the cyber prefix, I want to find William Gibson and smack him one on the mouth.
I half agree, but just to play devil's advocate, why do you worry/care if someone knows say... what taste your music is like, or what you had for breakfast yesterday
The answer to that is: Because it's none of their fucking business, even if it is their business. We have, I feel, a right to live our lives with having to always be looking over our shoulders. Good God, don't you think people are paranoid enough already without having our meals analyzed by some fucking marketer somewhere who wants to maximize profit off my Fruit Loops?
I, for one, can see this as a stop gap for data that I don't want to degrade. Photos from my childhood, scanned into jpg and stored on a DVD that's intolerant to bitrot? Priceless. Growing up, my mother took countless photos of my siblings and me, and now, some thirty-mumble years later, who knows where the film can be found, or how long they'll last until the yellow overtakes all the other colors? I'd love to be able to scan them and store them semi-permanently. Is this "synthetic stone" resistant to fire? If so, that'd be a real bonus. Can you put a price on your memories? That's how you convince the average computer user.
I find it absolutely amazing that you have to have the president of the United States tell adults that texting while driving is a bad idea. It's bad enough that even in the small city where I live every day is another near crash with some jackass with their effing phone glued to their ear, blithely unaware of their surroundings.
I wish it were just teenagers, but these are adults who should know better. If you get in your car, turn the bitch off. Full stop. What really gets me is the douche bags who rationalize what they're doing because, "it's just for a couple of seconds," or, "I'm good at multitasking." Sure, whatever, you bet. Learn how to use your damn voice mail because nothing is that important.
Or, more likely, they'll spend the next day feeling ill. My wife can tell if someone tries to sneak meat into her meals because it usually makes her sick to her stomach.
But isn't this the kind of goings on we saw in Soviet Russia (or any dictatorial/authoritarian regime, for that matter). When the USSR was the bogeyman, this behavior was what they used to try to scare us with (well, that and nukes).
Seriously, when did the US turn into a society where people have to be afraid to criticize those in power (whether they need it or not)?
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I saw that episode. Kinda puts things into perspective. Not everyone masturbates over this stuff. A LOT of people couldn't tell the difference between a Macintosh and a windows laptop, not because they're stupid but because they don't care.
You've not heard it before. I've seen it are heard it in use since I was a kid in teh 80s.
OO's styles are also orthogonal to content so you can change them independently.
If you've ever used the equation editor, in OO--I've had enough experience with it to base my opinion--it does all the same stuff that LaTeX does. You type in the math language and the equation appears above; no mystery about what it's going to look like.
I've done experiments with OO using huge amounts of text > 150k words--no crazy formatting--and it never even hiccuped, so why NOT use a wysiwyg editor?
Welcome to the present.
I'm putting my money on high except for the last one. Wikipediate "Central Vacuum System".
until the mass media got a hold of it. Then it was cyberthis and cyberthat. Nowadays, every time I see the cyber prefix, I want to find William Gibson and smack him one on the mouth.
I half agree, but just to play devil's advocate, why do you worry/care if someone knows say... what taste your music is like, or what you had for breakfast yesterday
The answer to that is: Because it's none of their fucking business, even if it is their business. We have, I feel, a right to live our lives with having to always be looking over our shoulders. Good God, don't you think people are paranoid enough already without having our meals analyzed by some fucking marketer somewhere who wants to maximize profit off my Fruit Loops?
I, for one, can see this as a stop gap for data that I don't want to degrade. Photos from my childhood, scanned into jpg and stored on a DVD that's intolerant to bitrot? Priceless. Growing up, my mother took countless photos of my siblings and me, and now, some thirty-mumble years later, who knows where the film can be found, or how long they'll last until the yellow overtakes all the other colors? I'd love to be able to scan them and store them semi-permanently. Is this "synthetic stone" resistant to fire? If so, that'd be a real bonus. Can you put a price on your memories? That's how you convince the average computer user.
... but I've long ago decided that I'm stuck on teh tarmac, I'm gonna going to poop my pants. Definitely.
Some cyber-criminal stole my 'need'!
Where's a "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag when you one?
I have been reading Slashdot for far too long.
That's right, now get off my law--oh, never mind...
I wish it were just teenagers, but these are adults who should know better. If you get in your car, turn the bitch off. Full stop. What really gets me is the douche bags who rationalize what they're doing because, "it's just for a couple of seconds," or, "I'm good at multitasking." Sure, whatever, you bet. Learn how to use your damn voice mail because nothing is that important.
Or, more likely, they'll spend the next day feeling ill. My wife can tell if someone tries to sneak meat into her meals because it usually makes her sick to her stomach.
Seriously, when did the US turn into a society where people have to be afraid to criticize those in power (whether they need it or not)?
Pot ... Kettle ... etc. ...
I'm basing my opinion on the script treatment that's been floating around the internet for years, and the junk that he's produced in the past.
Oh, I bet you're a blast on a nice scenic road-trip.
If the movie's good enough, you don't really notice after the first five to ten minutes anyway.
There is no rule in English that says it's improper to end a sentence with a preposition. That is a myth..
Well, duh, that's what makes it funny.
You're one of those people who always have to have jokes explained to you, aren't you?
And sometimes when they're not anonymous, they're still douchebags...
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
There's a masturbation joke in there somewhere ... something about beating it to a video game, but I don't want anything to do with that.
BOOM CHUGGA LUGGA!
It took the Germans a while to come to their final solution, [...]
Actually, it only took about 85 minutes.
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