You invite people to respond and not mod down to your sig, I do on your journal, and you do not respond!
Your sig read that 75% of the palestinians supported the Haifa restaurant attack...
but nearly 75% of Fox news viewers in the U.S. supported the war on Iraq, and thought that Saddam Hussein had access to Nukes and was ready to use them, as well as being behind the 9/11 attacks. Wrong on both counts!
How many Al-Jazeera viewers do you think had those same beliefs as the Fox news folks?
Just food for thought, nothing more... why not check out foriegn sources of news, more impartial sources with less to gain/lose? Please respond, don't mod down:)
Well, technically speaking, nothing is intuitive. Humans learn things based off of relevance to things they already know. So intuitiveness of something is relative to one's life experiences.
I feel you man. and I see where you're coming from. But you've taken us back to the stone age with your comparison... (the "WHEEL"? what am I going to do with THAT???)
Fact of the matter is, the whole of humainity expects to go to "SETTINGS>DISPLAY>" and be able to completely control everything monitor related. WTF about editing your/etc/init.d/inittab file to change something to runlevel 5 instead of runlevel 2
There is intuition, and there is conditioning. Thats exactly what the post I responded to was about. EVERYONE has been conditioned to go to "SETTINGS>DISPLAY" on a windows machine to change everything related to the display. Period. And that is why Linux is not ready for the desktop, hence the relevence to the parent post.
sorry- "get the screen up" = boot to graphical login screen instead of command prompt (and thats what the average user who sees a command line instead of a "Welcome, User!" screen would say.)
The post I was replying to seemed to take the attitude that "the user probably doesn't do it much so task x doesn't have to be intuitive"
something I disagree with, and possibly a reason Linux is not ready for the desktop.
I posted a/c because I am not interested in taking sides or debating on the Israel / Palestine issue on Slashdot at all.. somewhere else maybe but not here, not tonight
the only reason I posted is to illustrate how people of any nationality, and religion, can get so swept up in misguided religious extremism and blind patriotism that they will ignore facts, morality, everything that ever really matters to them.
telling you that (about) 75% of americans supported a war on Iraq that killed thousands of innocent men women and children (and the violence continues today) because they believed (wrongly) that Saddam was behind 9/11 seems like a good way to illustrate that
Even worse, most americans now know the truth (no wmd), and yet they still rationalize to themselves that it was justified.
few (if any) of the people against it have actually read it
even worse, few (if any) of the people who enacted it in to law in the first place ever read it.
"The bill is 342 pages long and makes changes, some large and some small, to over 15 different statutes.... it is a large and complex law that had over four different names and several versions in the five weeks between the introduction of its first predecessor and its final passage into law"
if you are not upset with the patriot act, maybe you should read it closer. some key points:
give vim a point and click ftp menu, and a local directory that maps to the web directory and yeah, sure, vim is almost as good as dreamweaver in what dreamweaver like apps are designed for.
almost.
you can use vim for writing the next great novel, data entry, VB.net development even... that doesn't make it the best tool for the job, which is exactly what IT professionals are paid to know and use.
Can you honestly tell me using vim is a faster and more efficient solution than Textpad / Macromedia / Frontpage / [insert more advanced tool here] or any alternative? If you bothered to learn any of the alternatives to the extent you know vim, I guarantee productivity would increase.
kids play in back yards. dogs dig in back yards. people grow gardens and eat food from their back yards. the dirt gets mixed, contaminated and spread through out the house. care to try again?
I'm certainly no expert on nuclear power, but my understanding is that the amount of waste produced is small compared to what's pumped into the atmosphere by a coal-fired plant.
What kind of logic is that? Lumping all waste in to one category and then comparing it pound for pound? Well, tell you what. you take a half ounce of plutonium and bury it in your back yard. I will take a half ounce carbon dioxide and put it in my back yard.
After a million years, my decendents may have shorter lives, but yours will have become sterile and extinct long ago. And the radio active waste STILL exists to poison the next family that moves in. Neither is an attractive situation.
In addition, if you bury the waste in the desert, in containers that don't corrode, where's the harm?
show me one container that won't corrode over the course of many centuries, adapting for geologic events and a changing environment. please?
I live about 500 feet from one - no access from home, but I haven't done the antenna thing.
Could someone with more better smarts than I explain me this:
I have a monthly hotspot subscription, with my cell phone. I was wondering how hotspot works... I can resolve network names (ping cnn.com will come back allright) before I log in but the web browser always points me to the t-mobile login screen. Also, I don't see anyone else on the network once I log in.
I ran ethereal during a login session, and didn't see anything interesting. But I probably missed something?
to me its not just whats going on now, its what Bush has lined up for the next iteration. The next incarnation iof TIA, the PATRIOT II, etc... and I'm not being a tinfoil hat paranoid about it, these are widely touted programs within the current administration. I agree with posts above- it simply hasn't hit you at a personal level to notice it yet.
Try to check out [insert unapproved book here] at your local library in a couple years, then tell me how much you enjoy not being able to board a plane for your next vacation.
i don't think that matters because they (RIAA) have tons of loot. I honestly think that they believe they are losing like 30% revenues because of p2p... not because they produce overpriced crap. So, to them an "investment" to obliterate p2p users might actually be worthwhile... ugh.
Track down a GSA schedule for a computer programmer- should be around $70-75 dollars. Thats pretty reasonable, and a perfect way to back up your value... (though the fed. govt isn't exactly the pinnacle of cost management and efficiency).
It seems somehow you feel you should charge less because it is an open source application... I don't know why. If they want to hire a programmer, they will have to pay market value for a programmer.
Not to mention you're like, the author of the application and all.
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The monthly rent... will run about $700 per employee... but if it means we can hire from the 99.9 percentile instead of the 99 percentile, it'll be worth it.
not claiming in to be in the 99th percentile, but I suspect those that are and have lived through the dot-bomb implosion are looking at job security, company stability, and good pay. (Things that a 3 year old start up moving out of some guys grandmother's house may not likely be able to provide)... so it may be a good strategy to distract with eye candy... in reality, thats all I see here.
a call placed at 1:40 EST gave me ~30 seconds recorded message, "our next available rep will get to you" and the like, followed by 10 seconds ringing, back to like a minute of the recording, then back to the ringing before I was disconnected... either they're system really sucks (ironic for DMA, eh?) or a lots of people took you up on your idea...
ctrl-z only works for your last mistake - then it just redoes your mistake over
that would totally suck it big time to lose like 250 pages of work becase your pet walked across your keyboard, startin at the lower left corner... "ctrl-a"
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I dont get it.
:)
You invite people to respond and not mod down to your sig, I do on your journal, and you do not respond!
Your sig read that 75% of the palestinians supported the Haifa restaurant attack...
but nearly 75% of Fox news viewers in the U.S. supported the war on Iraq, and thought that Saddam Hussein had access to Nukes and was ready to use them, as well as being behind the 9/11 attacks. Wrong on both counts!
How many Al-Jazeera viewers do you think had those same beliefs as the Fox news folks?
Just food for thought, nothing more... why not check out foriegn sources of news, more impartial sources with less to gain/lose? Please respond, don't mod down
Well, technically speaking, nothing is intuitive. Humans learn things based off of relevance to things they already know. So intuitiveness of something is relative to one's life experiences.
/etc/init.d/inittab file to change something to runlevel 5 instead of runlevel 2
I feel you man. and I see where you're coming from. But you've taken us back to the stone age with your comparison... (the "WHEEL"? what am I going to do with THAT???)
Fact of the matter is, the whole of humainity expects to go to "SETTINGS>DISPLAY>" and be able to completely control everything monitor related. WTF about editing your
There is intuition, and there is conditioning. Thats exactly what the post I responded to was about. EVERYONE has been conditioned to go to "SETTINGS>DISPLAY" on a windows machine to change everything related to the display. Period. And that is why Linux is not ready for the desktop, hence the relevence to the parent post.
sorry- "get the screen up" = boot to graphical login screen instead of command prompt (and thats what the average user who sees a command line instead of a "Welcome, User!" screen would say.)
The post I was replying to seemed to take the attitude that "the user probably doesn't do it much so task x doesn't have to be intuitive"
something I disagree with, and possibly a reason Linux is not ready for the desktop.
okay. tell her to change the /etc/rc.d/inittab file because she wants to get the "screen up" when she "turns the computer on"...
no, my man, COBRA was a godsend to me and most my laid off friends.
Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986
and slightly off topic but there are people trying to end it...
Do textpad, dreamweaver, frontpage work on almost any OS known to man
:)
well, shit. I guess you got me there.
seriously, i am an idiot
I posted a/c because I am not interested in taking sides or debating on the Israel / Palestine issue on Slashdot at all.. somewhere else maybe but not here, not tonight
the only reason I posted is to illustrate how people of any nationality, and religion, can get so swept up in misguided religious extremism and blind patriotism that they will ignore facts, morality, everything that ever really matters to them.
telling you that (about) 75% of americans supported a war on Iraq that killed thousands of innocent men women and children (and the violence continues today) because they believed (wrongly) that Saddam was behind 9/11 seems like a good way to illustrate that
Even worse, most americans now know the truth (no wmd), and yet they still rationalize to themselves that it was justified.
few (if any) of the people against it have actually read it
... it is a large and complex law that had over four different names and several versions in the five weeks between the introduction of its first predecessor and its final passage into law"
even worse, few (if any) of the people who enacted it in to law in the first place ever read it.
"The bill is 342 pages long and makes changes, some large and some small, to over 15 different statutes.
if you are not upset with the patriot act, maybe you should read it closer. some key points:
post911timeline.org
http://www.textpad.com/add-ons/index.html
ftp functionality, and tons of other tools available as Textpad modules are why I included textpad as an alternative to vim.
give vim a point and click ftp menu, and a local directory that maps to the web directory and yeah, sure, vim is almost as good as dreamweaver in what dreamweaver like apps are designed for.
almost.
you can use vim for writing the next great novel, data entry, VB.net development even... that doesn't make it the best tool for the job, which is exactly what IT professionals are paid to know and use.
Can you honestly tell me using vim is a faster and more efficient solution than Textpad / Macromedia / Frontpage / [insert more advanced tool here] or any alternative? If you bothered to learn any of the alternatives to the extent you know vim, I guarantee productivity would increase.
then again, it might be urine as well. ever seen "dumb and dumber"?
I wasn't trying to troll; there's no reason to get nasty
:)
my bad, and as the sibling posts indicate I am not quite an expert either
kids play in back yards. dogs dig in back yards. people grow gardens and eat food from their back yards. the dirt gets mixed, contaminated and spread through out the house. care to try again?
I'm certainly no expert on nuclear power, but my understanding is that the amount of waste produced is small compared to what's pumped into the atmosphere by a coal-fired plant.
What kind of logic is that? Lumping all waste in to one category and then comparing it pound for pound? Well, tell you what. you take a half ounce of plutonium and bury it in your back yard. I will take a half ounce carbon dioxide and put it in my back yard.
After a million years, my decendents may have shorter lives, but yours will have become sterile and extinct long ago. And the radio active waste STILL exists to poison the next family that moves in. Neither is an attractive situation.
In addition, if you bury the waste in the desert, in containers that don't corrode, where's the harm?
show me one container that won't corrode over the course of many centuries, adapting for geologic events and a changing environment. please?
I live about 500 feet from one - no access from home, but I haven't done the antenna thing.
Could someone with more better smarts than I explain me this:
I have a monthly hotspot subscription, with my cell phone. I was wondering how hotspot works... I can resolve network names (ping cnn.com will come back allright) before I log in but the web browser always points me to the t-mobile login screen. Also, I don't see anyone else on the network once I log in.
I ran ethereal during a login session, and didn't see anything interesting. But I probably missed something?
to me its not just whats going on now, its what Bush has lined up for the next iteration. The next incarnation iof TIA, the PATRIOT II, etc... and I'm not being a tinfoil hat paranoid about it, these are widely touted programs within the current administration. I agree with posts above- it simply hasn't hit you at a personal level to notice it yet.
Try to check out [insert unapproved book here] at your local library in a couple years, then tell me how much you enjoy not being able to board a plane for your next vacation.
grenada.
US -- 19 dead, 116 wounded.
Grenada -- 49 dead and 358 wounded.
Cuba -- 29 dead and over a hundred wounded
Civilian -- 24 dead
next?
But that will cost them money
i don't think that matters because they (RIAA) have tons of loot. I honestly think that they believe they are losing like 30% revenues because of p2p... not because they produce overpriced crap. So, to them an "investment" to obliterate p2p users might actually be worthwhile... ugh.
not "funny, haha" but "funny strange".
this is just one of those jet-ski's packed in to a surf board. I see no innovation on the level of the segway.
Track down a GSA schedule for a computer programmer- should be around $70-75 dollars. Thats pretty reasonable, and a perfect way to back up your value... (though the fed. govt isn't exactly the pinnacle of cost management and efficiency).
It seems somehow you feel you should charge less because it is an open source application... I don't know why. If they want to hire a programmer, they will have to pay market value for a programmer.
Not to mention you're like, the author of the application and all.
-only $14.95-
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When not in use, Spider Case Mod should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration...
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Spider Case Mod has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is also being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
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The monthly rent ... will run about $700 per employee... but if it means we can hire from the 99.9 percentile instead of the 99 percentile, it'll be worth it.
not claiming in to be in the 99th percentile, but I suspect those that are and have lived through the dot-bomb implosion are looking at job security, company stability, and good pay. (Things that a 3 year old start up moving out of some guys grandmother's house may not likely be able to provide)... so it may be a good strategy to distract with eye candy... in reality, thats all I see here.
a call placed at 1:40 EST gave me ~30 seconds recorded message, "our next available rep will get to you" and the like, followed by 10 seconds ringing, back to like a minute of the recording, then back to the ringing before I was disconnected... either they're system really sucks (ironic for DMA, eh?) or a lots of people took you up on your idea...
would advise against notepad.
ctrl-z only works for your last mistake - then it just redoes your mistake over
that would totally suck it big time to lose like 250 pages of work becase your pet walked across your keyboard, startin at the lower left corner... "ctrl-a"