I couldn't find it, but I know I read this here last week. The article stated that by switching the gene they went from procrastinators to workaholics.
Unless they're different genes, in which case we could go from being procrastinating couch potatoes to workaholic super-athletes.
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So you say now. Just wait until this whole thing spins out of control and the process begins making flesh-eating zombies out of millions of innocent people who just wanted some cold Bawlz.
DA da DA da DEE dut da duta da dit da da da dit da...
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or 6 player. There was a hack floating around for MAME, and I think even Nebula and Kawaks that allowed for this over the net. Oh happy day to do that in a theater.
*drool*
(meanwhile, elsewhere geeks drool over doing other erm...'things' in a theater, but I digress)
Oh for crying out loud...did you even READ my post?
Yawn... another European pseudo-intellectual, posting about how stupid Americans are. Did you even read your own post? Do you not see how stupid YOU appear, based on what you wrote?
Pot, kettle, black? Hello? I'm an AMERICAN. I work with a foreign exchange BULGARIAN. He's given me first hand accounts of life back home in eastern europe.
It's nice to know, however, that Japan teaches singing the way you hungarians do. That explains why all those Japanese acts are selling out arenas across Europe and into the US. Impressive, that.
WTF?
"It is said in every third Nobel Price you will find a Hungarian contribution..." Said? By whom? Hungarians? That's nice. Present some bona-fide statistics, and your assertion will be more interesting.
And...I see the crack they sell where you live is pretty good!
Curious how you mention the presence of American army bases, and then tell us how awful those Americans were. Sounds to me like a hatred borne of resentment; you resent the fact that you can't defend your own (1,100 year old!) country, know that you ought to be grateful that another country is willing to do it for you, and resent that country for providing what you can't. Because you resent them, you wish to de-humanize them by calling them "talking monkeys". Nice. Good to see that 1,100 year old culture shining through. Here's an interesting bit of trivia for you, see if you can work it in to one of your "intellectual" conversations sometime: that characteristic measured by "IQ" is generally not a product of education. It's intended as a measure of innate cognitive ability, not as a measure of one's level of knowledge. Accordingly, you really can't "educate your solders so they have a higher IQ than their boots", any more than Americans can.
Oh, and now you live in America, and you see firsthand that every single American is an uneducated (and apparently uneducatable) religious fanatic. I'm guessing that they refuse to bow down and worship you for being from an 1,100 year old country? They persist in holding their own opinions, even after you told them how wrong they were? What savages they be! But yet, you stay in the US... why?
I'm guessing, here... are your mommy and/or daddy Hungarian academics of some kind? They moved here so they could actually do some research in a well-funded, advanced lab of some type? They won't let you move out of the house until you turn 18, and you chafe at the thought of 6 more years in a place where your obvious superiority goes unappreciated?
Yay...perhaps you were repsonding to some sort of flamebait that I didn't see, but listen. Americans blasting people from other countries doesn't exactly help the case at hand....
Usually, I'm an american that makes every effort to be understanding of cultures different than my own, and to try to understand why it is that the US is frowned upon by other cultures. We have a foreign exchange intern here from Europe right now, and we've had long conversations about why and how americans take their relative wealth for granted (even our citizens on welfare tend to be wealthier than many in smaller european countries!)
But this...this isn't a lack of sensitivity on Microsoft's part. It's a lack of toleration on the part of other cultures. Knowing full-well that this software was written by programmers of another culture, there should be a degree of toleration and patience that goes along with the process. Make the developer aware of the issue and give them a chance to fix it.
Honestly, if someone in another culture (India perhaps?) that wasn't sufficiently versed in US geography made a map that, oh...I don't know, put St. Louis in Illinois rather than Missouri, or show the Arch crossing the Mississippi River or something equally stupid, I suppose some might be offended (I can think of other, more controversial examples...), but more than likely we'd give them the chance to fix it first.
Americans may be stuck up, take a WHOLE lot of freedoms for granted, have lots of money, and think too highly of themselves at times to bother learning about other cultures, but I'll give you one thing:
Even some of the most annoying pricks I know seem to be more tolerant than some other cultures are to the average Joe. How pathetic is that?
I could find some uses for that. My brother in law would like to rsync music collections for backup purposes for example.:D
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So what do you do in a corporate environment of hundreds of machines, all of which want a 'root' password to run windows update, and even automatic update requires manual authentication before updating?
I'm *STILL* hacked off about the fact that while all the other builds and platforms got cool cars, the mac users got stuck with a sawed-off station wagon.
Alas, at least we have since gotten a native build of firefox.;)
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Except for one minor detail...
You see, there's a whole load of software out there that will simply NOT function without admin privs.
What would you do if most of the software on linux required you to edit/etc/group and add your uid to group 0? You'd think it was nuts and stupid, right?
Well, a HUGE amount of windows software requires the user to have local admin privelages to run reliably. You just added yourself to group 0 to make your computer more user-friendly.
I've seen companies where every user has to have local admin privs to do anything.
Let's throw another iron in the fire.
Windows Update requires local admin rights. Won't run without it.
1. Said non-technical user understands how a windows/x-windows style UI operates. Despite being 'native', instead of the menu being overlayed in the menubar, each window has it's own menu.
2. User isn't scared off by the said application loading a bit slowly.
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I couldn't find it, but I know I read this here last week. The article stated that by switching the gene they went from procrastinators to workaholics.
Unless they're different genes, in which case we could go from being procrastinating couch potatoes to workaholic super-athletes.
Yikes.
I'm tired. It's early.
:)
Morning M$ bashing article.
Microsoft did something stupid. *sip*
Ooh. Megatokyo has a pretty cool DPD up!
^^^Life with AADD. Gotta love it.
I wish I had linux on a mainframe!
www.bawls.com
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So you say now. Just wait until this whole thing spins out of control and the process begins making flesh-eating zombies out of millions of innocent people who just wanted some cold Bawlz.
"The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand."
Need I say more? Hmmph!
This one's got a big mouth!
Should's I cut off his thumbs?
Do you know how to count in negative numbers?
Heck, do you know how to click the links in the article? In fact, the very last word?
Cue the Final Fantasy battle victory music!
da-da-da-da da da dit-duh-da!
DA da DA da DEE dut da duta da dit da da da dit da...
or 6 player. There was a hack floating around for MAME, and I think even Nebula and Kawaks that allowed for this over the net. Oh happy day to do that in a theater.
*drool*
(meanwhile, elsewhere geeks drool over doing other erm...'things' in a theater, but I digress)
Oh for crying out loud...did you even READ my post?
Yawn... another European pseudo-intellectual, posting about how stupid Americans are. Did you even read your own post? Do you not see how stupid YOU appear, based on what you wrote?
Pot, kettle, black? Hello? I'm an AMERICAN. I work with a foreign exchange BULGARIAN. He's given me first hand accounts of life back home in eastern europe.
It's nice to know, however, that Japan teaches singing the way you hungarians do. That explains why all those Japanese acts are selling out arenas across Europe and into the US. Impressive, that.
WTF?
"It is said in every third Nobel Price you will find a Hungarian contribution..." Said? By whom? Hungarians? That's nice. Present some bona-fide statistics, and your assertion will be more interesting.
And...I see the crack they sell where you live is pretty good!
Curious how you mention the presence of American army bases, and then tell us how awful those Americans were. Sounds to me like a hatred borne of resentment; you resent the fact that you can't defend your own (1,100 year old!) country, know that you ought to be grateful that another country is willing to do it for you, and resent that country for providing what you can't. Because you resent them, you wish to de-humanize them by calling them "talking monkeys". Nice. Good to see that 1,100 year old culture shining through. Here's an interesting bit of trivia for you, see if you can work it in to one of your "intellectual" conversations sometime: that characteristic measured by "IQ" is generally not a product of education. It's intended as a measure of innate cognitive ability, not as a measure of one's level of knowledge. Accordingly, you really can't "educate your solders so they have a higher IQ than their boots", any more than Americans can.
Oh, and now you live in America, and you see firsthand that every single American is an uneducated (and apparently uneducatable) religious fanatic. I'm guessing that they refuse to bow down and worship you for being from an 1,100 year old country? They persist in holding their own opinions, even after you told them how wrong they were? What savages they be! But yet, you stay in the US... why?
I'm guessing, here... are your mommy and/or daddy Hungarian academics of some kind? They moved here so they could actually do some research in a well-funded, advanced lab of some type? They won't let you move out of the house until you turn 18, and you chafe at the thought of 6 more years in a place where your obvious superiority goes unappreciated?
Yay...perhaps you were repsonding to some sort of flamebait that I didn't see, but listen. Americans blasting people from other countries doesn't exactly help the case at hand....
However I think you're trying to insult me, but I'm not following the logic.
I'm a christian, a geek, a husband, not neccessarily in that order.
Listen, as an above poster corrected me, I should have said smaller eastern european countries.
Sheesh.
I am. Our intern is from Bulgaria.
Piss someone off at work.
:P
Does the word 'telefrag' mean anything to you?
...I'm going to rant. :P
Usually, I'm an american that makes every effort to be understanding of cultures different than my own, and to try to understand why it is that the US is frowned upon by other cultures. We have a foreign exchange intern here from Europe right now, and we've had long conversations about why and how americans take their relative wealth for granted (even our citizens on welfare tend to be wealthier than many in smaller european countries!)
But this...this isn't a lack of sensitivity on Microsoft's part. It's a lack of toleration on the part of other cultures. Knowing full-well that this software was written by programmers of another culture, there should be a degree of toleration and patience that goes along with the process. Make the developer aware of the issue and give them a chance to fix it.
Honestly, if someone in another culture (India perhaps?) that wasn't sufficiently versed in US geography made a map that, oh...I don't know, put St. Louis in Illinois rather than Missouri, or show the Arch crossing the Mississippi River or something equally stupid, I suppose some might be offended (I can think of other, more controversial examples...), but more than likely we'd give them the chance to fix it first.
Americans may be stuck up, take a WHOLE lot of freedoms for granted, have lots of money, and think too highly of themselves at times to bother learning about other cultures, but I'll give you one thing:
Even some of the most annoying pricks I know seem to be more tolerant than some other cultures are to the average Joe. How pathetic is that?
rsync at the speed of light. ;)
:D
I could find some uses for that. My brother in law would like to rsync music collections for backup purposes for example.
So what do you do in a corporate environment of hundreds of machines, all of which want a 'root' password to run windows update, and even automatic update requires manual authentication before updating?
I'm *STILL* hacked off about the fact that while all the other builds and platforms got cool cars, the mac users got stuck with a sawed-off station wagon.
;)
Alas, at least we have since gotten a native build of firefox.
Ah, but you see a little script kiddie work...
/etc/heisenberg/comp1 /etc/heisenberg/comp2 >heisenberg /etc/heisenberg /etc/heisenberg-old /etc
/dev/null/chair ~ :)
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mv
mv heisenberg
heisenberg-reload
cp
ls -als chair
Except for one minor detail...
/etc/group and add your uid to group 0? You'd think it was nuts and stupid, right?
You see, there's a whole load of software out there that will simply NOT function without admin privs.
What would you do if most of the software on linux required you to edit
Well, a HUGE amount of windows software requires the user to have local admin privelages to run reliably. You just added yourself to group 0 to make your computer more user-friendly.
I've seen companies where every user has to have local admin privs to do anything.
Let's throw another iron in the fire.
Windows Update requires local admin rights. Won't run without it.
Yeast, LOAF...
Taco, what are you trying to tell us exactly?
They're just the ESA now. Same argument, different acronym. Nothing else has changed. :P
Exactly WHY does the IDSA have squat to do with this?
IDSA == Interactive Digital Software Association
It's essentially a watchdog group paid by various software publishers to be a piracy watchdog group, amongst a few other things.
Therefore, why on earth would they be censoring ANYTHING, if they draw a paycheck from those who would rather not be censored to begin with?
IDSA is a huge racket to begin with.
I think so, given a couple of things:
1. Said non-technical user understands how a windows/x-windows style UI operates. Despite being 'native', instead of the menu being overlayed in the menubar, each window has it's own menu.
2. User isn't scared off by the said application loading a bit slowly.
http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php
Take a look. It works beautifully here. Takes a little longer than MS Office to load, but once it's loaded, it's wonderful.
Only little girlie men wouldn't learn to use FOSS.
Jah.
Jah.
And VOIP be ooh so sexy.
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