An insecure network is useless to this user (for purposes that I deem to be in need of security), no matter how "convenient" it is.
Generally speaking, I wonder how the numbers of people who would refuse to use a given network because it is inconveniently secure compare to the numbers of people who would start using it if was no longer inconveniently insecure?
If you knew anything about the GTA series you would know that you would need to buy the kittens and flowers -- a process that would involve hours of tedious driving around -- before giving them away.
I am starting to get a bad taste in my mouth about the amount of effort that some of my professors are putting forward in my courses. I feel like some of them are "skating" and all I am paying for is a book, a posted syllabus, and a final exam.
Sounds like they are providing a pretty darn authentic college experience.
I didn't notice that the original poster stated that the idiot in question was in idiot because of his politics.
Furthermore, disagreement about philisophical or political ideology can ideed indicate that someone is an idiot. After all, there are idiots out there, and presumably they have philosophies and political ideologies.
Violence has always been a problem, but it is currently on the decline. No?
Meanwhile, the perception of violence is skyrocketing. Thus we have to waste our time fighting laws that purport to fight a non-contributor to a non-problem.
I think it is pretty obvious to any reasonable person what constitutes a "violent game". Then there is the guy picketing Toys-R-Us. Then there is the guy worried about him.
It's not fiddling with pen and paper it's learning the practical application of the theory.
Again, I beg to differ. Drawing lines on a peice of paper is not a practical application of a theory. It is a method of visualizing an otherwise abstract concept. By saving the wasted on this busy-work, students could be drilling down to get more specific detail about a given information set, or seeing the results of small changes and thus better appreciating the nuances of the underlying theory.
Tell me, what feels like you achieved something, cooking a great meal, or defrosting an oven ready pack?
Would you rather see a play acted out by trained professionals, or read the script aloud yourself in front of a mirror? Form which performance would you gain a better understanding of the playwrights intent?
I disagree. The point is not to draw the things, it is to understand what they represent. Less time spent fiddling with a paper and pen means more time thinking about concepts. I think that many people of the "old school" are just threatened by the fact that freed of these rote tasks, future students are going to accompish much more.
If you rely on Ford or Chevrolet (let alone both), you are going to need a team of mechanics. In addition to not complicating your life with redundancy, pick something reliable in the first place for cripe's sake.
If you rely on Ford or Chevrolet, you are going to need a team of mechanics. Better to pick a resource that you can rely on and not complicate your life needlessly.
No, but wouldn't it be better if during the windows install it gave you a bevy of choices for each component install?
Most certainly. Market research indicates time and again that the major gripe most consumers have with software install processes is that there are far too few questions to answer.
Indeed, when it comes to options and configurations, "More is more" is the attitude most users subscribe too. Give them a pre-installed OS with all applications governed by a unifying design and support paradigm, and they are likely to be frustrated by the lack of freedom and absense of engaging confuguration dilemmas.
Well, in some sense, yeah. That's about the last time Windows was an operating system and just an operating system, as opposed to a forcibly-bundled OS, browser, media player, photo editor, etc., etc., isn't it?
Yeah. Everyone knows that the average computer buyer just wants a bare-bones platform on which they can roll their own browser, media player, photo editor, etc.
Based on the wild-fire spread of alternative OSs that trade in this needless bloat in favor of lower costs, we can safely assume that the "Just the basics, thanks" movement will only continue to build steam.
The continued decline in popularity of full service ISPs such as AOL and MSN, which force features on to users that they would prefer to track down, download, compile, test and de-bug themselves is further evidence that Joe and Jane Average User are saying "Enough is enough!"
Only time will tell whether these withering corporate giants will heed this cry soon enough to save their businesses.
Jar Jar Binks does not sound liek ANY Caribbean accent! Trust me! I KNOW what a caribbean accent sounds like. I HAVE ONE!
That is what makes it all the more an insult. It is a streotype of a Jamaican accent applied to a stereotype of Black person. YOU may no better, but when 99% of the world hears Jar Jar, they think Jamaican.
I'll say it again: What if all the "white" aliens stole everything they had from other races and had tiny penises? What if 99% of movie or television appearances by white people were characterized as such. Might be funny for a while, but how about after 5 or 6 decades?
This is where the difference lies. What if every Scottish character was a re-hash of Groundskeeper Willy? Such that the vast majority of non-Scottish people you met thought that every Scottish person talked/thought/acted the same way? What if you spent your whole life hearing people put you down and laughing at you based on that image of Scottish people? You might be a little "over-sensitive" about it too.
There are many and varied White characters played in movies. Thus, for every villian there is bound to be a hero. For every drunk Irish character, there is a proud tough as nails Irish character. For every primping, cowardly French character, there is a suave, ladies-man French character, and so on for most White ethnic groups and nationalities. And between these extremes are a myriad other representations. This is not so true with black characters. For every dope-slinging gangbanger, for every back alley mugger, for every Steppin Fetchit you do not see a positive Black character. And as you go back in history, the ratio of bad to good grows even worse.
It's no coincidence that among people who are not exposed to Black people on a regular basis there is a very narrow idea of how they act. These people get this idea from the one place that they do see Black people, the media. The reason is that the media presents a vary narrow (and negative) representation of Black people.
Of course, this argument is moot if you think that all Black people are either buffons or thugs, and that Hollywood is merely representing reality.
In any discipline that invloves multiple nationalities, a single language is generally chosen as the common language (and yes, it is usually English). It makes more sense for sysadmins in Spain, France, Japan, etc to learn English than for Programmers to learn Spanish, French, Japanese etc.
As for bilingual sysadmins, my bet is its tough to get a job as a sysadmin in any country if you can't read English.
The racist assumption being made with respect to Jar Jar, is that people who speak a creole language aren't intelligent enough to learn the "proper" version. That's not true in reality, and it's not true in Star Wars, either.
The racist assumption stems from the fact that he speaks with a Jamaican accent and he just so happens to be a bumbling buffoon who sports many negative idiosyncracies attributed to black people by racist, bearded Hollywood types. Coincidence?
An accent is not racist. Using an accent to identify a character with a race of people, and making said character a buffon who exhibits many negative sterotypes about that race of people is racist.
maybe the people were jamaican and japanese that did the accents?
I guess someone who would assume that voice actors who are Jamaican or Japanese would not be able to acheive accents that did not sound like cartoon versions of their own native accents should not be expected to understand this issue.
this is like saying "some of the aliens sounded like white americans! im outraged!"
What if all the aliens stole everything they had from other races and had tiny penises? What if 99% of movie or television appearances by white people were characterized as such. Might be funny for a while, but how about after 5 or 6 decades?
The only significant contribution that he personally made was decades ago while working in his dorm room, and even then Paul Allen probably did most of the tech work (this is a fact, not an inciteful comment).
How can you represent something qualified by the term "probably" as fact?
Well, I don't think that kids are more gullible when it comes to adds, i think that they are more compulsive when it comes to obtaining property, toys. They know its an add, but they decide they want it, and aren't bothered with the fact that its just an add.
You think this might have something to do with the fact that kids aren't doing the buying? I would a lot more acquisitive if I didn't have to worry about my checking account balance.
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There isn't a shred to your argument that does not boil down to anti Microsoft ad-hominem -- though you did manage to agree that MP3 is inferior.
You don't trust Microsoft. Therefore WMA/WMV must not be the superior format. Is this the spirit of the non-Microsoft future?
An insecure network is useless to this user (for purposes that I deem to be in need of security), no matter how "convenient" it is.
Generally speaking, I wonder how the numbers of people who would refuse to use a given network because it is inconveniently secure compare to the numbers of people who would start using it if was no longer inconveniently insecure?
If you knew anything about the GTA series you would know that you would need to buy the kittens and flowers -- a process that would involve hours of tedious driving around -- before giving them away.
I am starting to get a bad taste in my mouth about the amount of effort that some of my professors are putting forward in my courses. I feel like some of them are "skating" and all I am paying for is a book, a posted syllabus, and a final exam.
Sounds like they are providing a pretty darn authentic college experience.
Education is what you make of it.
I didn't notice that the original poster stated that the idiot in question was in idiot because of his politics.
Furthermore, disagreement about philisophical or political ideology can ideed indicate that someone is an idiot. After all, there are idiots out there, and presumably they have philosophies and political ideologies.
Violence has always been a problem, but it is currently on the decline. No?
Meanwhile, the perception of violence is skyrocketing. Thus we have to waste our time fighting laws that purport to fight a non-contributor to a non-problem.
Cynically exploitative? A commercial product!? Those dastards!!
"Though police"? How do you figure that?
I think it is pretty obvious to any reasonable person what constitutes a "violent game". Then there is the guy picketing Toys-R-Us. Then there is the guy worried about him.
It's not fiddling with pen and paper it's learning the practical application of the theory.
Again, I beg to differ. Drawing lines on a peice of paper is not a practical application of a theory. It is a method of visualizing an otherwise abstract concept. By saving the wasted on this busy-work, students could be drilling down to get more specific detail about a given information set, or seeing the results of small changes and thus better appreciating the nuances of the underlying theory.
Tell me, what feels like you achieved something, cooking a great meal, or defrosting an oven ready pack?
Would you rather see a play acted out by trained professionals, or read the script aloud yourself in front of a mirror? Form which performance would you gain a better understanding of the playwrights intent?
I disagree. The point is not to draw the things, it is to understand what they represent. Less time spent fiddling with a paper and pen means more time thinking about concepts. I think that many people of the "old school" are just threatened by the fact that freed of these rote tasks, future students are going to accompish much more.
If you rely on Ford or Chevrolet (let alone both), you are going to need a team of mechanics. In addition to not complicating your life with redundancy, pick something reliable in the first place for cripe's sake.
If you rely on Ford or Chevrolet, you are going to need a team of mechanics. Better to pick a resource that you can rely on and not complicate your life needlessly.
Could go either way. I went with the closest in terms of pronunciation.
Makes me wonder if they have Theomathematics, . . .as well.
Don't forget Theohuxtabology.
No, but wouldn't it be better if during the windows install it gave you a bevy of choices for each component install?
Most certainly. Market research indicates time and again that the major gripe most consumers have with software install processes is that there are far too few questions to answer.
Indeed, when it comes to options and configurations, "More is more" is the attitude most users subscribe too. Give them a pre-installed OS with all applications governed by a unifying design and support paradigm, and they are likely to be frustrated by the lack of freedom and absense of engaging confuguration dilemmas.
Well, in some sense, yeah. That's about the last time Windows was an operating system and just an operating system, as opposed to a forcibly-bundled OS, browser, media player, photo editor, etc., etc., isn't it?
Yeah. Everyone knows that the average computer buyer just wants a bare-bones platform on which they can roll their own browser, media player, photo editor, etc.
Based on the wild-fire spread of alternative OSs that trade in this needless bloat in favor of lower costs, we can safely assume that the "Just the basics, thanks" movement will only continue to build steam.
The continued decline in popularity of full service ISPs such as AOL and MSN, which force features on to users that they would prefer to track down, download, compile, test and de-bug themselves is further evidence that Joe and Jane Average User are saying "Enough is enough!"
Only time will tell whether these withering corporate giants will heed this cry soon enough to save their businesses.
I wasn't directing this comment to people who haven't seen a movie made before 1990.
Thanks for playing.
Jar Jar Binks does not sound liek ANY Caribbean accent! Trust me! I KNOW what a caribbean accent sounds like. I HAVE ONE!
That is what makes it all the more an insult. It is a streotype of a Jamaican accent applied to a stereotype of Black person. YOU may no better, but when 99% of the world hears Jar Jar, they think Jamaican.
I'll say it again: What if all the "white" aliens stole everything they had from other races and had tiny penises? What if 99% of movie or television appearances by white people were characterized as such. Might be funny for a while, but how about after 5 or 6 decades?
This is where the difference lies. What if every Scottish character was a re-hash of Groundskeeper Willy? Such that the vast majority of non-Scottish people you met thought that every Scottish person talked/thought/acted the same way? What if you spent your whole life hearing people put you down and laughing at you based on that image of Scottish people? You might be a little "over-sensitive" about it too.
There are many and varied White characters played in movies. Thus, for every villian there is bound to be a hero. For every drunk Irish character, there is a proud tough as nails Irish character. For every primping, cowardly French character, there is a suave, ladies-man French character, and so on for most White ethnic groups and nationalities. And between these extremes are a myriad other representations. This is not so true with black characters. For every dope-slinging gangbanger, for every back alley mugger, for every Steppin Fetchit you do not see a positive Black character. And as you go back in history, the ratio of bad to good grows even worse.
It's no coincidence that among people who are not exposed to Black people on a regular basis there is a very narrow idea of how they act. These people get this idea from the one place that they do see Black people, the media. The reason is that the media presents a vary narrow (and negative) representation of Black people.
Of course, this argument is moot if you think that all Black people are either buffons or thugs, and that Hollywood is merely representing reality.
In any discipline that invloves multiple nationalities, a single language is generally chosen as the common language (and yes, it is usually English). It makes more sense for sysadmins in Spain, France, Japan, etc to learn English than for Programmers to learn Spanish, French, Japanese etc.
As for bilingual sysadmins, my bet is its tough to get a job as a sysadmin in any country if you can't read English.
The racist assumption being made with respect to Jar Jar, is that people who speak a creole language aren't intelligent enough to learn the "proper" version. That's not true in reality, and it's not true in Star Wars, either.
The racist assumption stems from the fact that he speaks with a Jamaican accent and he just so happens to be a bumbling buffoon who sports many negative idiosyncracies attributed to black people by racist, bearded Hollywood types. Coincidence?
wtf? why is having an accent racist?
An accent is not racist. Using an accent to identify a character with a race of people, and making said character a buffon who exhibits many negative sterotypes about that race of people is racist.
maybe the people were jamaican and japanese that did the accents?
I guess someone who would assume that voice actors who are Jamaican or Japanese would not be able to acheive accents that did not sound like cartoon versions of their own native accents should not be expected to understand this issue.
this is like saying "some of the aliens sounded like white americans! im outraged!"
What if all the aliens stole everything they had from other races and had tiny penises? What if 99% of movie or television appearances by white people were characterized as such. Might be funny for a while, but how about after 5 or 6 decades?
The only significant contribution that he personally made was decades ago while working in his dorm room, and even then Paul Allen probably did most of the tech work (this is a fact, not an inciteful comment).
How can you represent something qualified by the term "probably" as fact?
Score: -1, Inciteful
I have all my phone calls, tv, everything going trough it.
What a great idea! If it goes down you'll know immediately, cause so many things will break! Why aren't more systems set up this way?
Well, I don't think that kids are more gullible when it comes to adds, i think that they are more compulsive when it comes to obtaining property, toys. They know its an add, but they decide they want it, and aren't bothered with the fact that its just an add.
You think this might have something to do with the fact that kids aren't doing the buying? I would a lot more acquisitive if I didn't have to worry about my checking account balance.