. Professors even mocked me for the C# books I was reading when it was still in beta, years later *THAT* pays my bills, in dividends. (We can discuss how bad of a language it is in another thread, just the fact the professors couldn't see through the trees).
You learnt to ignore fools in authority who try to knock you down. You did this in a relatively safe environment. If you were wrong, no one's business project suffered (just your grades). Is that an overpriced lesson? Perhaps, but it's an important one.
After 6 years of college at a somewhat respected research focused school, I no longer believe any of that nonsense and I have successful employment in a good paying job.
Modern usage of the term differs from historical "proper" usage. Language evolves. Deal with it. The fact that pedants have to continually re-state this is a good indicator that modern usage is more intuitive.
First, they were adults, college graduates. And distractions are distractions, no matter what form they come in, whether it be an XBox or posting shit on Slashdot....
Do you realize how stupid you sound?
You use such pathetic weak reductio ad absurdum - the last bastion of a fool who can't argue - and then call me stupid???
The entire story is about this fool lamenting the distraction of high tech. In other words you have a luddite running your country. If he was just talking about distraction in general I'd be fine with that but he's whining about the big bad tech. It's not as if he's talking about one device he hasn't used. He hasn't used any of them.
The president of a superpower better have a THOROUGH understanding of all the topics on which he is making decisions. If he's making decisions on global warming he does not need to be a world class scientist but he better be taking advice from them and be capable of understanding that advice.
If he's passing a law on narcotics suggesting that I'm implying he should take them is RIDICULOUS as I said no such thing, but he better have a good understanding of how addiction works and have experts feeding him knowledge that he once again understands.
That you should use such garbage reductio arguments proves that you are either obtuse or a troll. Equating drug use to gadget use has to be the most idiotic argument I've seen here for some time, and that's saying something. Either way I think you deserve what you get.
Sadly my eloquence doesn't entirely compensate for my poor memory, so instead of quoting fiction at you I took the easier option of calling you a fuckwit.
I stand by that assessment.
On the contrary thanks for demonstrating so eloquently what people who like to quote Shakespeare on a day to day basis are really like.
Your memory is bad? You're just fucking lazy. Have you ever fucking heard of Google. You can find a dozen Shakespeare quotes to fit any occasion if you truly believe that is the way to go. You don't need to memorise them.
You need to grow up and realise the difference between someone disagreeing with your position and singling you out for abuse. There was simply no need for you to get this personal but since you have I'd like to point out that you're a mental deficient with a knack for behaving in a way that contradicts the point you are trying to make, and have nothing but manure between your ears.
OH NO! OBAMA'S NOT A GEEK! Maybe it should be illegal for a politician to pass a law he knows nothing about, but since this has nothing to do with passing a law, how is that relevant?
How is it relevant that a president chooses to lecture kids on avoiding distractions when he knows nothing about those distractions? Are you high??? Yes this story wasn't about passing a law. So what? He's the president and he's involved in law-making you gimboid.
innate personality traits of good software developers that bosses just want to have around.
Have a positive can-do attitude, especially whenever the boss asks you to work evenings and weekends. What bosses love to have around are smart people who get things done and don't mind working 60 hour weeks standard (up from there whenever anything surprising happens or is badly panned) for a 40-hour salary.
Excellent way to wake up in you mid 30s or early 40s and realize life's just passed you buy and you've been reamed.
"According to Obama, 'information becomes a distraction' when it comes to iPads, the Xbox, etc. (All items he admits not knowing how to use.) He's basically saying we are getting too much information too quickly, and from 'unreliable sources.'
More reliable sources include politicians??? I'd much rather learn from a fictional X-Box game. It's much more likely to be based on the truth.
It should be illegal for any politician to pass laws about things he has no fucking idea about. If he hasn't used that class of gadget he should just shut his fucking mouth. I had high hopes for your president, but I have to say they're in ruins.
FYI, it's a very bad idea to try playing a DVD with cracks on it. It can easily shatter in your drive, destroying your player (and less likely, but possibly, throwing knifelike shards of plastic around the room)
Yes I know. The knifelike shards are extremely unlikely. Players are cheap. But it's still inexcuseable for a video rental store to rent out DVDs in this condition.
I have news for you, it was your kids or kids just like yours who scratched and broke the DVDs. Parents allow children to handle DVDs then they bitch about how messed up the rentals are. If you want a perfect condition DVD for your kids to mess up buy it new.
Fuck you. My kids didn't scratch the DVDs and I don't let me kids scratch them. It is the responsibility of the video store to ensure the merchandise they are renting out is fit for purpose. Not mine and not my kids.
If they find that me or mine have damaged the fucking things they can make me pay for the damage, but to penalise me for other people causing damage is inexcusable and your pathetic attitude enables such arseholes to do whatever they like including rip people off and pass draconian laws.
Can it detect me refusing to watch...and finding better things to do with my time than either listen to a bunch of anti-piracy propaganda, or risking 5 years in jail every time I circumvent it?
Keep freaking going. You wanna brainwash my kids? Well every anti-piracy disclaimer I have to sit through with my kids as they grow up, I'm going to explain that uncle Disney is so concerned with his cut that he's calling you a thief and making you wait 10 minutes and watch lies equating crimes to one another that are different. Every time they want to use a tune or video snippet in a school project I'm going to explain that we can't do that because it's not worth risking going to jail or selling our house to explain to a judge that we believed it was fair use or paying thousands of dollars in extortion money. Every time they hear about a film or tv show coming out overseas months before it does here in Australia, I'm going to point out that I'd love to buy them a copy but we can't break the law and the studio refuses to sell it to me until later and for much more money. Every time a DVD store rents us scratched DVDs I'm going to point out that no one is allowed to back up them up and that the reason that we can't have more is that the DVD store is too busy taking advantage of us to care about whether or not we can actually watch the DVDs (Seriously I just had 5 out of 10 childrens DVDs - weekly movies - scratched to hell and some with cracks on their spindle have major glitches, refuse to play etc and all the DVD store would do is buff the CDs and give the same broken DVDs back - of course they didn't play)
Keep going till you have no customers you greedy cheap exploitative pigs.
Tools can be used badly. That's nothing new either. You can use a TV to watch amazing documentaries, or crappy reality TV and "talk" shows like Jerry Springer. Kids can use it to watch garbage, or educational programming.
Interactive books are no different. They can be inert. They can distract from reading, or they can aid the reading process. There are fundamental differences between paper books and ebooks but blaming the format for poor execution is just weak. Since they can be more complex it becomes harder to differentiate, but that's what you have to do as a consumer....and there's nothing like word of mouth in mothers groups and in the school yard to help in that area.
Bullshit. Quoting Shakespeare in context can be unfeasibly intelligent.
I outgrew quoting Shakespeare in highschool. I'm surprised I wasn't beaten up for it even back then. It's not a sign of intelligence and it does not take much skill if you have two braincells to rub together.
Meanwhile you haven't had to explicitly say something's fucked up, so you haven't pissed anybody off, the person that's fucking it up will be too stupid to understand the quotation,
Yeah assuming other people are simpletons is a great technique - best way I know to become a social outcast. Chances are someone that overhears will understand it. You're fooling yourself if you think this makes you clever. It makes you socially fucking inept. If you don't want someone to understand an insult keep your fucking mouth shut.
Learn how to use quotes well. It's a Nineteenth century skill that's sadly passed into disuse, probably because of fuckwits thinking it's emotionally immature.
If you're so goddamn fucking elloquent why the fuck do you have to resort to fucking swearing like the rest of us?
You know what. Keep your head firmly planted inside your own ass. If you want to sound like a tired Star Trek original series parody of Shakespeare, be my guest. I'm foolish trying to teach a cretin social grace. You want an apt Shakespeare quote. How's this: "A fool thinks himself to be wise" There you go. Can I join your fucking club now? Asshole.
Another thing: I've studied a number of Shakespeare plays. They are fucking overrated. In 300 years who knows what crappy soap opera they'll be studying at school. Stick that up your iambic pentameter.
You can quote fictional characters. Your attempt at pedantry is fucking ridiculous. A good example of the sort of stupidity that will get you labelled a loser and an anti-social geek.
Yes quoting Shakespeare is emotionally immature. Good for TV shows and other such melodrama, but unless you are a drama student if you walk around quoting Shakespeare in your day to day life I guarantee you have no life and no concept or understanding of social interaction.
Don't take the advice of someone who quotes it either.
Quoting fictional characters is proof of emotional immaturity, a detachment from reality, and also has escapist overtones (as in "I don't want to fucking be here. I wish I was in my perfect space fantasy world").
Good grief, everything is a "cloud" now. Have some servers on a rack? Those aren't servers, that's a cloud! It's like some retards took a Cisco networking diagram, and went crazy when they realized that everything could be simplified into one of the "clouds"..
Question: I tried to put my boot into the cloud but it just went through. What do I do? Answer: You need our new solid cloud state technology at an additional cost of $3M a year.
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. Professors even mocked me for the C# books I was reading when it was still in beta, years later *THAT* pays my bills, in dividends. (We can discuss how bad of a language it is in another thread, just the fact the professors couldn't see through the trees).
You learnt to ignore fools in authority who try to knock you down. You did this in a relatively safe environment. If you were wrong, no one's business project suffered (just your grades). Is that an overpriced lesson? Perhaps, but it's an important one.
After 6 years of college at a somewhat respected research focused school, I no longer believe any of that nonsense and I have successful employment in a good paying job.
So you weren't an English major then.
You think that more than 20% of the people who finish college courses come out educated? Must be nice to be an optimist.
Thanks to my wonderful college education I can honestly tell you I think it's more like 120%. I'm 110% sure!
MS bludgeons XPSP2 to death like a small defenseless kitten.
...with a chair!
Woooooooooooooooooo! Woooooooooooooooooo! Developers Developers Developers! Woooooooooooooooooo!
No hits. Damn! Lots of porn hits though, so not a total loss.
Seriously? Pepermint OS One? POO? I mean, come on...
Passing on real apps in favour of a link to Google Docs? I'd call that POO too.
Yeah, well... what season is it on Jupiter anyway?
Jupiter only has one season. It is called Crush-To-Death-And-Fry-With-Radiation. Happy CruToDaFrWiRad to you fellow Jovian.
just get married instead?
Doesn't work. I have a 21 month old and a baby due in 5 weeks to prove it.
Transparent, as in not visible. Or at least buried deep in license agreements no one reads.
It may raise the question, but it doesn't beg the question.
Modern usage of the term differs from historical "proper" usage. Language evolves. Deal with it. The fact that pedants have to continually re-state this is a good indicator that modern usage is more intuitive.
First, they were adults, college graduates. And distractions are distractions, no matter what form they come in, whether it be an XBox or posting shit on Slashdot....
Do you realize how stupid you sound?
You use such pathetic weak reductio ad absurdum - the last bastion of a fool who can't argue - and then call me stupid???
The entire story is about this fool lamenting the distraction of high tech. In other words you have a luddite running your country. If he was just talking about distraction in general I'd be fine with that but he's whining about the big bad tech. It's not as if he's talking about one device he hasn't used. He hasn't used any of them.
The president of a superpower better have a THOROUGH understanding of all the topics on which he is making decisions. If he's making decisions on global warming he does not need to be a world class scientist but he better be taking advice from them and be capable of understanding that advice.
If he's passing a law on narcotics suggesting that I'm implying he should take them is RIDICULOUS as I said no such thing, but he better have a good understanding of how addiction works and have experts feeding him knowledge that he once again understands.
That you should use such garbage reductio arguments proves that you are either obtuse or a troll. Equating drug use to gadget use has to be the most idiotic argument I've seen here for some time, and that's saying something. Either way I think you deserve what you get.
Sadly my eloquence doesn't entirely compensate for my poor memory, so instead of quoting fiction at you I took the easier option of calling you a fuckwit.
I stand by that assessment.
On the contrary thanks for demonstrating so eloquently what people who like to quote Shakespeare on a day to day basis are really like.
Your memory is bad? You're just fucking lazy. Have you ever fucking heard of Google. You can find a dozen Shakespeare quotes to fit any occasion if you truly believe that is the way to go. You don't need to memorise them.
You need to grow up and realise the difference between someone disagreeing with your position and singling you out for abuse. There was simply no need for you to get this personal but since you have I'd like to point out that you're a mental deficient with a knack for behaving in a way that contradicts the point you are trying to make, and have nothing but manure between your ears.
OH NO! OBAMA'S NOT A GEEK! Maybe it should be illegal for a politician to pass a law he knows nothing about, but since this has nothing to do with passing a law, how is that relevant?
How is it relevant that a president chooses to lecture kids on avoiding distractions when he knows nothing about those distractions? Are you high??? Yes this story wasn't about passing a law. So what? He's the president and he's involved in law-making you gimboid.
You're so clever and witty. Clearly it's because you don't own an Xbox and didn't allow it to get in the way of your education.
FUCKWIT! It wasn't at all out of context.
innate personality traits of good software developers that bosses just want to have around.
Have a positive can-do attitude, especially whenever the boss asks you to work evenings and weekends. What bosses love to have around are smart people who get things done and don't mind working 60 hour weeks standard (up from there whenever anything surprising happens or is badly panned) for a 40-hour salary.
Excellent way to wake up in you mid 30s or early 40s and realize life's just passed you buy and you've been reamed.
"According to Obama, 'information becomes a distraction' when it comes to iPads, the Xbox, etc. (All items he admits not knowing how to use.) He's basically saying we are getting too much information too quickly, and from 'unreliable sources.'
More reliable sources include politicians??? I'd much rather learn from a fictional X-Box game. It's much more likely to be based on the truth.
It should be illegal for any politician to pass laws about things he has no fucking idea about. If he hasn't used that class of gadget he should just shut his fucking mouth. I had high hopes for your president, but I have to say they're in ruins.
FYI, it's a very bad idea to try playing a DVD with cracks on it. It can easily shatter in your drive, destroying your player (and less likely, but possibly, throwing knifelike shards of plastic around the room)
Yes I know. The knifelike shards are extremely unlikely. Players are cheap. But it's still inexcuseable for a video rental store to rent out DVDs in this condition.
I have news for you, it was your kids or kids just like yours who scratched and broke the DVDs. Parents allow children to handle DVDs then they bitch about how messed up the rentals are. If you want a perfect condition DVD for your kids to mess up buy it new.
Fuck you. My kids didn't scratch the DVDs and I don't let me kids scratch them. It is the responsibility of the video store to ensure the merchandise they are renting out is fit for purpose. Not mine and not my kids.
If they find that me or mine have damaged the fucking things they can make me pay for the damage, but to penalise me for other people causing damage is inexcusable and your pathetic attitude enables such arseholes to do whatever they like including rip people off and pass draconian laws.
Can it detect me refusing to watch...and finding better things to do with my time than either listen to a bunch of anti-piracy propaganda, or risking 5 years in jail every time I circumvent it?
Keep freaking going. You wanna brainwash my kids? Well every anti-piracy disclaimer I have to sit through with my kids as they grow up, I'm going to explain that uncle Disney is so concerned with his cut that he's calling you a thief and making you wait 10 minutes and watch lies equating crimes to one another that are different. Every time they want to use a tune or video snippet in a school project I'm going to explain that we can't do that because it's not worth risking going to jail or selling our house to explain to a judge that we believed it was fair use or paying thousands of dollars in extortion money. Every time they hear about a film or tv show coming out overseas months before it does here in Australia, I'm going to point out that I'd love to buy them a copy but we can't break the law and the studio refuses to sell it to me until later and for much more money. Every time a DVD store rents us scratched DVDs I'm going to point out that no one is allowed to back up them up and that the reason that we can't have more is that the DVD store is too busy taking advantage of us to care about whether or not we can actually watch the DVDs (Seriously I just had 5 out of 10 childrens DVDs - weekly movies - scratched to hell and some with cracks on their spindle have major glitches, refuse to play etc and all the DVD store would do is buff the CDs and give the same broken DVDs back - of course they didn't play)
Keep going till you have no customers you greedy cheap exploitative pigs.
Tools can be used badly. That's nothing new either. You can use a TV to watch amazing documentaries, or crappy reality TV and "talk" shows like Jerry Springer. Kids can use it to watch garbage, or educational programming.
Interactive books are no different. They can be inert. They can distract from reading, or they can aid the reading process. There are fundamental differences between paper books and ebooks but blaming the format for poor execution is just weak. Since they can be more complex it becomes harder to differentiate, but that's what you have to do as a consumer....and there's nothing like word of mouth in mothers groups and in the school yard to help in that area.
Bullshit. Quoting Shakespeare in context can be unfeasibly intelligent.
I outgrew quoting Shakespeare in highschool. I'm surprised I wasn't beaten up for it even back then. It's not a sign of intelligence and it does not take much skill if you have two braincells to rub together.
Meanwhile you haven't had to explicitly say something's fucked up, so you haven't pissed anybody off, the person that's fucking it up will be too stupid to understand the quotation,
Yeah assuming other people are simpletons is a great technique - best way I know to become a social outcast. Chances are someone that overhears will understand it. You're fooling yourself if you think this makes you clever. It makes you socially fucking inept. If you don't want someone to understand an insult keep your fucking mouth shut.
Learn how to use quotes well. It's a Nineteenth century skill that's sadly passed into disuse, probably because of fuckwits thinking it's emotionally immature.
If you're so goddamn fucking elloquent why the fuck do you have to resort to fucking swearing like the rest of us?
You know what. Keep your head firmly planted inside your own ass. If you want to sound like a tired Star Trek original series parody of Shakespeare, be my guest. I'm foolish trying to teach a cretin social grace. You want an apt Shakespeare quote. How's this: "A fool thinks himself to be wise" There you go. Can I join your fucking club now? Asshole.
Another thing: I've studied a number of Shakespeare plays. They are fucking overrated. In 300 years who knows what crappy soap opera they'll be studying at school. Stick that up your iambic pentameter.
You can quote fictional characters. Your attempt at pedantry is fucking ridiculous. A good example of the sort of stupidity that will get you labelled a loser and an anti-social geek.
Yes quoting Shakespeare is emotionally immature. Good for TV shows and other such melodrama, but unless you are a drama student if you walk around quoting Shakespeare in your day to day life I guarantee you have no life and no concept or understanding of social interaction.
To quote the Grand Nagus from DS9
Don't. Quote. Science. Fiction.
Don't take the advice of someone who quotes it either.
Quoting fictional characters is proof of emotional immaturity, a detachment from reality, and also has escapist overtones (as in "I don't want to fucking be here. I wish I was in my perfect space fantasy world").
Good grief, everything is a "cloud" now. Have some servers on a rack? Those aren't servers, that's a cloud! It's like some retards took a Cisco networking diagram, and went crazy when they realized that everything could be simplified into one of the "clouds"..
Question: I tried to put my boot into the cloud but it just went through. What do I do?
Answer: You need our new solid cloud state technology at an additional cost of $3M a year.
Nintendo Takes On Pirates: IN 3D!
Will they be employing Ninjas? Because recent slashdot stories indicate there are a lot of unemployed Ninjas out there.