I'm pretty sure he wasn't that dumb. But when your employer has the right to emprison you or kill you if you fail to deliver what you promised, you tend to stick to your story.
"Yup your majesty, that's an indian allright, look at him, all brown and everything!"
I love that thing, I've been missing it when using Firefox. It lets you go back to the last adress you specified to the browser (by typing it in or using a bookmark), quite usefull when you let yourself wander semi-randomly through clicking links.
Well, at least I still have my books. And the best thing is, there's time now... all the time I need. [Picks up a book, but glasses fall off and break.] That's not fair! That's not fair at all! (source)
Not only that, but some of the damage that his nonsense has done to the universe's back-story is irreparable by any means short of completely removing it from the canon, i.e., saying none of it ever happened. (If they want to throw him a bone, they can say his stuff all happened in some kind of alternate reality, via time-travel -- he'll like that, and the rest of us can get back to the real story.)
I say: Fuck canon Trek, the REAL Star Trek ended when Picard got in the Nexus. Everything starting at that point (including his unique ability to get out of the nexus through sheer willpower, and not by being beamed out like the others) is simply a series of horrible Nexus hallucinations.
Seeing software labeled as available for "PC" is particularly irritating, since I'm running a PC, but without windows it's an entirely different platform.
I'm still trying to figure out what makes these people think my mac isn't a Personnal Computer.
Mind bogging incompetance, or mean spirited abuse of power. I'm gonna go with mean spiritted: I don't think someone that incompetant would ever earn the right to make that decision, especially since it happened again to a similar show on the same network not long afterwards.
The War on Terror" is supposed to be just that; Fighting Islamic extremist who wish to do America harm.
No, that's a Crusade.
Unless, off course, you approve of the Oklahoma City bombing (which, btw, was immediatly and erroneously blamed on islamists when it happened). Or the anthrax mailings (internal, and using the strain the U.S. military owns).
Clearly this is the dinstinction that someone was trying to make, but because you were so unwilling to lose the argument you refused to listen to the points he was making.
It is a bad idea to assume the point someone was making without knowledge of the person or of the actual points he tried put forth.
I see you have concocted a complicated reasoning around that bad idea... so... you didn't RTFA, huh?;-)
And, though I agree that E-books seem patently a solution in search of a problem, the consensus was initially otherwise
I know! I got a bad grade in a school paper because I refused to work on their assumption that "off COURSE ebooks will kill the paper book", instead of weighing the good and bad of it I disagreed with the source material and explained quite thouroughly that even though ebooks take up almost no space, they'll never replace paper with a battery powered device that requires special lightng conditions, clean environments and that even under the best of circumstances are hard on the eyes.
The hardest part of software development IMHO is requirements assessment and user interface design, because figuring out *what* should be built is harder than actually building it.
I always follow the interface rule of "never allow unintentional loss of user data". It's a bit more work, but even genius techies get distracted : )
I'm francophone and right in French is "raison". Yes from reason. I prefer the French word for it:) It means that although he might be wrong he at least put some reasoning in it:)
Pas quand ils ne veulent que "gagner" la conversation. Ils le font irrationnelement, et ils veulent "avoir raison"... ça ne peut pas marcher.
P.S. It's frustrating to have to exclusively use words without "special" characters. P.S.S. I know, we shouldn't "orkut" slashdot... but how come Japan has their own slashdot.jp and no other country/language does?
In my younger years, I took this to mean "Do everything, because you can". Now that I'm in college, that entire lesson was bunk, and now I'm stuck with a bunch of what I'd consider useless knowledge. [...] something a lot of us are blessed/cursed with [...] The problem with it is futility [...] Sadly, I don't see an easy solution.
In art, it's known as the "white page syndrome". You have a clean, white canvas, on it your talents enable you to paint anything. So you sit there, awash in the mental miasma of the endless possibilities assailing you.
The way I deal with it is to stop thinking and draw a random line, then based on what this restricts the possibilities to, I can build around it.
And the use I found for my "useless" knowledge is to wait for the conditions under which it will become usefull. Maybe you'll be at a job interview and you'll have knowledge of something the interviewer is passionate about: Bang, you have the edge, you get chosen over the other equally qualified applicants.
My knowledge of all-around trivia actually became usefull when I was employed in a company that did some localisation work, it wasn't what I did there, but whenever the translators were faced with a subject they were unfamiliar with, they came to me. The kids in highschool were hostile to me for being a know-it-all, but at that job it made me quite popular.
Off course, I still feel this... lassitude, sometimes. I haven't found an easy solution, but since in a hundred years' time we'll all be dead, we might as well be ourselves while we can : )
This is a failure of language that I've often wondered about.
We call this "being right", but really, it's not, not if it's done defending something wrong. It's an expression that hides the truth of the behaviour: A dominance game.
Most people who want to be "right" simply want to... "win" the dialog. They want authority, they want the other(s) to submit to them as the dominant primate. They rationalise it, but it's not right to defend something wrong, so why can't we stop calling it that? Aside from the fact that I'm one man against seven billion, I mean.
The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they're wrong.
I've known smart people like that. And fantastically dumb people like that.
I've had someone argue that the queen of England isn't rich, and get this, when I explained that she's the biggest land owner in the U.K. and she made about 27 million a year last time I checked, he argued that she isn't rich because when she dies someone else will inherit her money (unlike Bill Gates, who'll bring it with him to the afterlife?).
Smart people just defend their insanity with more flair.
Slashdot Mirror
Columbus thought he had found India.
I'm pretty sure he wasn't that dumb. But when your employer has the right to emprison you or kill you if you fail to deliver what you promised, you tend to stick to your story.
"Yup your majesty, that's an indian allright, look at him, all brown and everything!"
They are, it's the parent post that got it wrong.
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Not sure if they plan to implement the feature the parent mentioned in safari
Awww... ah well, wishfull thinking. This sounds good too though : )
Thanks for the correction.
Finally an imitation of Safari's SnapBack!
I love that thing, I've been missing it when using Firefox.
It lets you go back to the last adress you specified to the browser (by typing it in or using a bookmark), quite usefull when you let yourself wander semi-randomly through clicking links.
Since the hand of human civilzation is turning up the thermostat on ol' Mother Earth?
Less fat chicks? : )
Well, at least I still have my books. And the best thing is, there's time now... all the time I need.
[Picks up a book, but glasses fall off and break.]
That's not fair! That's not fair at all! (source)
[skips a few lines]
Why should I believe you? You're Hitler!
Not only that, but some of the damage that his nonsense has done to the universe's back-story is irreparable by any means short of completely removing it from the canon, i.e., saying none of it ever happened. (If they want to throw him a bone, they can say his stuff all happened in some kind of alternate reality, via time-travel -- he'll like that, and the rest of us can get back to the real story.)
I say: Fuck canon Trek, the REAL Star Trek ended when Picard got in the Nexus.
Everything starting at that point (including his unique ability to get out of the nexus through sheer willpower, and not by being beamed out like the others) is simply a series of horrible Nexus hallucinations.
Galileo was neither tortured nor killed for saying that the Earth was round
But others were. He got lighter persecution, lucky him.
That has the potential to be very good.
People said the same when they announced Enterprise, and I'll tell you what I told 'em:
No, it doesn't, Not with Berman in charge.
Seeing software labeled as available for "PC" is particularly irritating, since I'm running a PC, but without windows it's an entirely different platform.
I'm still trying to figure out what makes these people think my mac isn't a Personnal Computer.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_J._Hanlon
Notice that I bothered to explained how stupidity does not adequatly explain it.
How's this for the ultimate conundrum: the combination of "Nobody RTFA here" and "the Slashdot Effect" taking down sites?
We don't read the articles, we look at the pretty pictures.
Incidentally, pictures use up way more bandwith than text.
Though some dhave died in war [...] Point is, as over zelous that Christians are, they want to PRESERVE life.
Your logic is as good as your spelling.
There's no point in making already illegal activities even more illegal. If they cared, they wouldn't do it anyway.
The point is to gather more power, not to prevent crimes.
The War on Terror" is supposed to be just that; Fighting Islamic extremist who wish to do America harm.
No, that's a Crusade.
Unless, off course, you approve of the Oklahoma City bombing (which, btw, was immediatly and erroneously blamed on islamists when it happened). Or the anthrax mailings (internal, and using the strain the U.S. military owns).
"Nazi" stands for [...] "National Socialist". Hitler [...] was a socialist.
Right, no politician ever used subterfuge to get elected. Especially Hitler, the paragon of honesty!
If I name my appartment "Jedi Temple", do you think that'll mean I'll be able to use the Force?
Ahh, obviously you did not appreciate the irony in my argument. :-)
;-)
Obviously
Clearly this is the dinstinction that someone was trying to make, but because you were so unwilling to lose the argument you refused to listen to the points he was making.
;-)
It is a bad idea to assume the point someone was making without knowledge of the person or of the actual points he tried put forth.
I see you have concocted a complicated reasoning around that bad idea... so... you didn't RTFA, huh?
And, though I agree that E-books seem patently a solution in search of a problem, the consensus was initially otherwise
I know! I got a bad grade in a school paper because I refused to work on their assumption that "off COURSE ebooks will kill the paper book", instead of weighing the good and bad of it I disagreed with the source material and explained quite thouroughly that even though ebooks take up almost no space, they'll never replace paper with a battery powered device that requires special lightng conditions, clean environments and that even under the best of circumstances are hard on the eyes.
The hardest part of software development IMHO is requirements assessment and user interface design, because figuring out *what* should be built is harder than actually building it.
I always follow the interface rule of "never allow unintentional loss of user data". It's a bit more work, but even genius techies get distracted : )
I'm francophone and right in French is "raison". Yes from reason. I prefer the French word for it :) It means that although he might be wrong he at least put some reasoning in it :)
Pas quand ils ne veulent que "gagner" la conversation. Ils le font irrationnelement, et ils veulent "avoir raison"... ça ne peut pas marcher.
P.S. It's frustrating to have to exclusively use words without "special" characters.
P.S.S. I know, we shouldn't "orkut" slashdot... but how come Japan has their own slashdot.jp and no other country/language does?
In my younger years, I took this to mean "Do everything, because you can". Now that I'm in college, that entire lesson was bunk, and now I'm stuck with a bunch of what I'd consider useless knowledge.
[...] something a lot of us are blessed/cursed with [...]
The problem with it is futility [...]
Sadly, I don't see an easy solution.
In art, it's known as the "white page syndrome".
You have a clean, white canvas, on it your talents enable you to paint anything. So you sit there, awash in the mental miasma of the endless possibilities assailing you.
The way I deal with it is to stop thinking and draw a random line, then based on what this restricts the possibilities to, I can build around it.
And the use I found for my "useless" knowledge is to wait for the conditions under which it will become usefull.
Maybe you'll be at a job interview and you'll have knowledge of something the interviewer is passionate about: Bang, you have the edge, you get chosen over the other equally qualified applicants.
My knowledge of all-around trivia actually became usefull when I was employed in a company that did some localisation work, it wasn't what I did there, but whenever the translators were faced with a subject they were unfamiliar with, they came to me. The kids in highschool were hostile to me for being a know-it-all, but at that job it made me quite popular.
Off course, I still feel this... lassitude, sometimes. I haven't found an easy solution, but since in a hundred years' time we'll all be dead, we might as well be ourselves while we can : )
This is a failure of language that I've often wondered about.
We call this "being right", but really, it's not, not if it's done defending something wrong. It's an expression that hides the truth of the behaviour: A dominance game.
Most people who want to be "right" simply want to... "win" the dialog. They want authority, they want the other(s) to submit to them as the dominant primate. They rationalise it, but it's not right to defend something wrong, so why can't we stop calling it that? Aside from the fact that I'm one man against seven billion, I mean.
Lots of ideas become 'good' or 'bad' only with hindsight. (E.g., pet rocks, E-books...)
Remind me again how those require hindsight to be culled from the goodness department?
Buying a rock? Reading a whole book on something that runs on batteries? Those never seemed like good ideas to me.
I do this not because I actually believe such things, but because I want to find people who are willing to contradict me and justify their positions.
Oh, how I wish you'll be modded both "troll" and "informative"!
The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they're wrong.
I've known smart people like that.
And fantastically dumb people like that.
I've had someone argue that the queen of England isn't rich, and get this, when I explained that she's the biggest land owner in the U.K. and she made about 27 million a year last time I checked, he argued that she isn't rich because when she dies someone else will inherit her money (unlike Bill Gates, who'll bring it with him to the afterlife?).
Smart people just defend their insanity with more flair.