All 14,000 or so RIT students can login to a UNIX shell, and I wish it worked without a problem. I have 'echo "some@address.com" >>.forward' for more people than I can count. People don't like UNIX shells. People don't want UNIX shells. People want eye candy and web interfaces.
I don't think car repair professionals think their customers are idiots because they don't know how to fix a broken transmission (I certainly don't know how). However, they do expect you to know what a transmission is and does, and expect that you can explain the symptoms.
No, but they do think the customer is an idiot when then dump the clutch at the redline to get started and do freeway speeds in first gear because they never bothered to learn to use it properly.
Forget that. I'm waiting for Star Wars - The Broadway Play. I'll be limited only by my own eyes and ears!
Seriously though, don't go see the latest blockbuster movie. It probably sucks. You're probably already going to the nearest city to see it on the bigscreen: you'd be better off going to the city and catching a show. They're not trying to push $10/oz. soda on you, no advertisements, you're supporting the arts and the artists, not the MPAA, and you'll probably see better entertainment.
I've got another theory. My body had built up a resistance to whatever made me sick. I start taking the drug, which purges the source of the sickness from my system. My own built up resistance is no longer resisting against anything, and I lose it. When I come off the drug, the source is back, but I have no resistance.
What was the original topic? Free cable? Funny how the best conversation is off topic.
Taking the pills doesn't make me feel better. NOT taking the pills makes me feel worse. Maybe you're implying that not taking $100 pills will make me feel worse than not taking $1 pills?
The drug dealers know this. My doctor gives me a script and a month of samples. I take the samples for a month. I don't feel any better. When I stop taking them, I feel like crap. So now I'm spending 100USD/month for a VERY common drug that is probably cheaper to produce than sugar pills.
Nobody in your building has assigned desks. You go in and sit at the desk that Big Jim had been sitting in for the previous three weeks. Big Jim can't make you move. Big Jim finds you during lunch hour, beats you up, and takes your lunch money.
I have KDE 3.0.5 running on Debian woody. Just check out qt-copy and kde from anon cvs (http://www.kde.org/anoncvs.html), follow the instructions in README.qt-copy, then compile and install cvs as per instructions on kde's page, with --prefix=/usr/local/kde. It plays nicely with KDE 2 from apt.
I remember my CS1 teacher going on a full lecture rant about how some stupid kids had two classes, a switch and the controlled object, and they stored the state of the object (on/off) in the switch class.
I'm sure you do code better. I'm not a real programmer and have only taken intro to OO programming. I understand what you're doing though, and it does make a lot more sense than mine. Only on slashdot can I learn so much by making a [bad] joke. Thanks for the mini-lesson. (:
I agree. We need to change the constitution. The people (not the government) should decide what they want it to say, and say it. It should be interpretable by anyone fluent in English, not just lawyers and politicians. Unfortunately, the Constitution is seen as sacred, even if it lends to being misinterpreted. My prediction: its going to keep getting worse until we are no longer even a pretend democracy and the people revolt, but US citizens are apathetic so it won't be for quite some time.
IANAP (I am not a patriot. Rational thinking should not be trumped by pride in a country's past)
Cat will never lose vocal cords. "Evolution" through survival of the fittest brings out certain advantageous genetic traits. For example, when the pollution made the trees in London dark colored, the moths with the darker wings became more prevelant, because the lighter ones stood out and were eaten. When London was cleaned up, the lighter ones survived. The moths didn't turn colors. No genetic mutation happened. Just that the ones with more desirable traits (wing color in moths would be analagous to, say, eye color in humans) survived in greater numbers. If the sound of a cat is in fact a genetic trait, this may happen. But some large genetic change, such as lack of a vocal cord, will not happen.
Are they basing this on survival of the fittest? Cats that don't meow well die? I don't think so. Cats learn what sounds get a response, and use them. Kittens learn from their parents, who learned from their parents. . . This is learned behaviour, not evolution.
"users will think Apple is at fault for adhearing to the standards"
Sad but true. Same people who think Mozilla is at fault for adhereing to the standards and breaking sites written for IE. Same people who think Firestone is at fault for sticking to their tire design and breaking when used with a very badly designed product (You didn't hear about those tires blowing on any of the millions of non-Fords they were on). People accuse the most obvious thing. My browser isn't working, must be the browser. The tire blew up, must be the tire. The CD drive got stuck, must be the CD drive.
Then Store B has additional revenue from selling your info. They use that revenue to buy annoying advertizing space to convince the ignorant public that anyone who is anyone shops at Store B, and that Store A is for the people who buy clothes that were in style 2 years ago from discount stores. And then Store A goes down the tubes.
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All 14,000 or so RIT students can login to a UNIX shell, and I wish it worked without a problem. I have 'echo "some@address.com" >> .forward' for more people than I can count. People don't like UNIX shells. People don't want UNIX shells. People want eye candy and web interfaces.
I don't think car repair professionals think their customers are idiots because they don't know how to fix a broken transmission (I certainly don't know how). However, they do expect you to know what a transmission is and does, and expect that you can explain the symptoms.
No, but they do think the customer is an idiot when then dump the clutch at the redline to get started and do freeway speeds in first gear because they never bothered to learn to use it properly.
It is *very* convenient, and people will put up with a ton of shit for convenience.
McDonalds. Microsoft. Government.
Maybe if they just gave the poor tech support people permission to tell the guy who wants to know how to fix his cup holder to READ THE MANUAL!!!!!!!!
only 24fps!? only 1024x768?!
Forget that. I'm waiting for Star Wars - The Broadway Play. I'll be limited only by my own eyes and ears!
Seriously though, don't go see the latest blockbuster movie. It probably sucks. You're probably already going to the nearest city to see it on the bigscreen: you'd be better off going to the city and catching a show. They're not trying to push $10/oz. soda on you, no advertisements, you're supporting the arts and the artists, not the MPAA, and you'll probably see better entertainment.
"If your enemies have a sufficiently large budget"
They do.
I've got another theory. My body had built up a resistance to whatever made me sick. I start taking the drug, which purges the source of the sickness from my system. My own built up resistance is no longer resisting against anything, and I lose it. When I come off the drug, the source is back, but I have no resistance.
What was the original topic? Free cable? Funny how the best conversation is off topic.
Taking the pills doesn't make me feel better. NOT taking the pills makes me feel worse. Maybe you're implying that not taking $100 pills will make me feel worse than not taking $1 pills?
The drug dealers know this. My doctor gives me a script and a month of samples. I take the samples for a month. I don't feel any better. When I stop taking them, I feel like crap. So now I'm spending 100USD/month for a VERY common drug that is probably cheaper to produce than sugar pills.
Nobody in your building has assigned desks. You go in and sit at the desk that Big Jim had been sitting in for the previous three weeks. Big Jim can't make you move. Big Jim finds you during lunch hour, beats you up, and takes your lunch money.
I have KDE 3.0.5 running on Debian woody. Just check out qt-copy and kde from anon cvs (http://www.kde.org/anoncvs.html), follow the instructions in README.qt-copy, then compile and install cvs as per instructions on kde's page, with --prefix=/usr/local/kde. It plays nicely with KDE 2 from apt.
a slow Sunday is a good excuse to catch up.
No. A slow Sunday is a good excuse to go spend time with your loved ones, take a walk, go to church, and enjoy a home cooked meal with your family.
So why am I reading slashdot on a Sunday?
"It is not modular."
Then use Galeon.
I remember my CS1 teacher going on a full lecture rant about how some stupid kids had two classes, a switch and the controlled object, and they stored the state of the object (on/off) in the switch class.
I'm sure you do code better. I'm not a real programmer and have only taken intro to OO programming. I understand what you're doing though, and it does make a lot more sense than mine. Only on slashdot can I learn so much by making a [bad] joke. Thanks for the mini-lesson. (:
if (ThisArticle.about()==Gaming) {
Sony.opinion(like);
Microsoft.opinion(hate);
}
elseif (ThisArticle.about()==Music) {
Sony.opinion(hate);
Microsoft.opinion(neutral);
}
else {
Sony.opinion(like);
Microsoft.opinion(hate);
}
So the thing to watch is: will Microsoft let vendors ship with StarOffice and not MSOffice, or will they add a new Microsoft-Office tax?
I agree. We need to change the constitution. The people (not the government) should decide what they want it to say, and say it. It should be interpretable by anyone fluent in English, not just lawyers and politicians. Unfortunately, the Constitution is seen as sacred, even if it lends to being misinterpreted. My prediction: its going to keep getting worse until we are no longer even a pretend democracy and the people revolt, but US citizens are apathetic so it won't be for quite some time.
IANAP (I am not a patriot. Rational thinking should not be trumped by pride in a country's past)
Taco has made a point to tell us of hit tickets over and over. I say we go jump him and take them. (:
Cat will never lose vocal cords. "Evolution" through survival of the fittest brings out certain advantageous genetic traits. For example, when the pollution made the trees in London dark colored, the moths with the darker wings became more prevelant, because the lighter ones stood out and were eaten. When London was cleaned up, the lighter ones survived. The moths didn't turn colors. No genetic mutation happened. Just that the ones with more desirable traits (wing color in moths would be analagous to, say, eye color in humans) survived in greater numbers. If the sound of a cat is in fact a genetic trait, this may happen. But some large genetic change, such as lack of a vocal cord, will not happen.
Are they basing this on survival of the fittest? Cats that don't meow well die? I don't think so. Cats learn what sounds get a response, and use them. Kittens learn from their parents, who learned from their parents. . . This is learned behaviour, not evolution.
"users will think Apple is at fault for adhearing to the standards"
Sad but true. Same people who think Mozilla is at fault for adhereing to the standards and breaking sites written for IE. Same people who think Firestone is at fault for sticking to their tire design and breaking when used with a very badly designed product (You didn't hear about those tires blowing on any of the millions of non-Fords they were on). People accuse the most obvious thing. My browser isn't working, must be the browser. The tire blew up, must be the tire. The CD drive got stuck, must be the CD drive.
Then Store B has additional revenue from selling your info. They use that revenue to buy annoying advertizing space to convince the ignorant public that anyone who is anyone shops at Store B, and that Store A is for the people who buy clothes that were in style 2 years ago from discount stores. And then Store A goes down the tubes.
None. They just use BSD code.
Natelie Porman petrified in aerogel?