if their car uses 5l/100km or 12l/100km. (the former is unphysical plainly impossible, the latter contributes to increased global warming with a very high probability (i.e. basically a certanity))
Are you trying to tell me that my wifes car doesn't exist? It's not even an exception these days.
Obviously to hide it during "normal" use you could name it "~/.etc" but I do think that it would be more consistent and far tidier to have all the user level config files in their own subdirectory.
Exactly what I've been thinking for years. I'm with you on that one!
Your approach is still correct. The point and click gives results fast, but doesn't actually teach you anything. If he find the basics, boring, don't even bother anymore. Programming isn't for him.
Heck, I can say that programming for me became boring the day I started doing it professionally. I would rather direct my son in a completely orthogonal direction.
A default Windows SP2 installation, with non-executable buffers (DEP) left enabled for Core windows services, running on supporting hardware will not get owned by just sitting on an infected network.
Absolutely, spot on! I'm no Microsoft fan either, but if you start with a stock SP2 install nothing bad will happen to your machine. Install firefox, surf whatever you want with that while the rest of the patches come in and be happy. I have done it myself, and it's not a problem.
The built-in SP2 firewall is enough for most tasks, even though I still prefer to be behind one of my OpenBSD firewalls.
Also, back in my Win2000 days, I switched two PCI cards from banks (the computer was evidently not powered, just in case you wondered). The one was a NIC, the other a SCSI card. Windows 2000, booted directly into a BSOD. Linux, installed on another partition did launch as if nothing happened.
Switching the PCI cards again, made Windows 2000 boot again. I only wanted to switch the cards to make one plug more accessible: The SCSI external connector blocked my access to the RJ-45 port.
Anyway, this is pretty much a very uncommon situation, so I don't really hold it against Windows 2000
Yes, I posted before reading... Still, that was a pretty damned serious bug and machines installed in medical equipment most likely are not patched correctly.
Still doesn't change my "stick-in-USB-stick-and-BSOD" experience... Of course, I hope USB sticks stay far far away from medical equipment.
You're part of the downward spiral. Any self respecting geek knows about html entities and knows those that he needs commonly by heart. (Especially because they are logically structured) So that would be "gefällt mir" with ä for a-umlaut.
I don't know if they fixed this bug. Can't test now, I'm running Debian. I also have seen BSODs upon inserting a bog standard USB stick in diverse Windows machines. Some of them for which I absolutely know that they use the standard Microsoft USB drivers.
Have you ever considered how "yuck", heterosexual intercourse is? Sure it's fun, but I'm using a thing normally used to dispose of waste fluid, to insert it into the moist hole of a female to inject some gooey stuff into her.
I tell you that as a heterosexual. Tell a small kid the above and you will inevitable get a "yuck"... Or take even simply (french) kissing. Come on! That serious "yuck" in the eyes of small kids.
I bough the 701 4G a few months ago. My father in law liked it so much, and after hearing the price, ordered two for his kids: 4yo and 12yo. (Kids from his second wife: I'm not married to a 4yo or 12yo).
Anyway, I'm surprised to hear the geeks take the XP version. I'm actually quite happy with the default Xandros install. It even has perl, ruby and python for crying out loud!
As others have pointed out: this is the exception rather than the rule. I think the typical engine in the EU is 1.4l to 2.2l...
However, the fact that you think this is entirely due to the American idea that a small engine car is worth nothing. A few years ago, I talked to the head of US sales of VW. He said that the only cars that the US customers were willing to buy were the R32 based engine. That's the top of the line in the EU. Heck, they're little racing beasts. Why? Because you can't sell a 1.6l Golf to a US customer.... They will think of it as underpowered.
So, it's been a few years I talked with that guy, but if anything is changing it's only now the gas prices are rising.
True: a good point remains a good point, but bad spelling truly reduces your credibility. It indicates lack of respect for the reader. That's why a resume or motivation letter with a spelling mistake usually ends up filed vertically. (Oh, and I didn't see the AC post, or I would have abstained from commenting on that same mistake.)
There doesn't pass a day that I see these kind of mistakes (that do pass spell checkers, by the way) and it simply hurts to read those comments. Perhaps it's because I'm not a native speaker, I don't know. You should at least take a look at 100 most often misspelled words in English.
The simple rule with writing is: if you have even the faintest doubt, look it up. Often typing "define: $WORDINDOUBT" into Google will already clear it up.
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Are you trying to tell me that my wifes car doesn't exist? It's not even an exception these days.
Pictures, or it didn't happen! ;-)
Even worse then...
I guess that's what happens if you get into a pound-in-the-ass federal prison. You'd rather die than to ever return there.
Alas, cowards don't like to die alone and bring along the family :-(
Exactly what I've been thinking for years. I'm with you on that one!
What's wrong with orthogonal? English isn't exactly my first language, so I might have misspelled/misused it...
Your approach is still correct. The point and click gives results fast, but doesn't actually teach you anything. If he find the basics, boring, don't even bother anymore. Programming isn't for him.
Heck, I can say that programming for me became boring the day I started doing it professionally. I would rather direct my son in a completely orthogonal direction.
They must be intelligently designed! ;-)
Absolutely, spot on! I'm no Microsoft fan either, but if you start with a stock SP2 install nothing bad will happen to your machine. Install firefox, surf whatever you want with that while the rest of the patches come in and be happy. I have done it myself, and it's not a problem.
The built-in SP2 firewall is enough for most tasks, even though I still prefer to be behind one of my OpenBSD firewalls.
Dare I say: mod parent up...
Well, if you're trying to impress me with that girlfriend.... I'm married to my girlfriend since over 3 years... Of course, that does mean less sex :-(
Switching the PCI cards again, made Windows 2000 boot again. I only wanted to switch the cards to make one plug more accessible: The SCSI external connector blocked my access to the RJ-45 port.
Anyway, this is pretty much a very uncommon situation, so I don't really hold it against Windows 2000
Yes, I posted before reading... Still, that was a pretty damned serious bug and machines installed in medical equipment most likely are not patched correctly.
Still doesn't change my "stick-in-USB-stick-and-BSOD" experience... Of course, I hope USB sticks stay far far away from medical equipment.
You're part of the downward spiral. Any self respecting geek knows about html entities and knows those that he needs commonly by heart. (Especially because they are logically structured) So that would be "gefällt mir" with ä for a-umlaut.
I don't know if they fixed this bug. Can't test now, I'm running Debian. I also have seen BSODs upon inserting a bog standard USB stick in diverse Windows machines. Some of them for which I absolutely know that they use the standard Microsoft USB drivers.
Have you ever considered how "yuck", heterosexual intercourse is? Sure it's fun, but I'm using a thing normally used to dispose of waste fluid, to insert it into the moist hole of a female to inject some gooey stuff into her.
I tell you that as a heterosexual. Tell a small kid the above and you will inevitable get a "yuck"... Or take even simply (french) kissing. Come on! That serious "yuck" in the eyes of small kids.
Frankly for my porn needs I simply go to youporn.com ;-) (Obviously NSFW)
Really?. There are others... The Bobby Tables one is just very very well known.
Excellent! If only I had modpoints....
Exploits of a Mom. XKCD has a comic for everything ;-)
I bough the 701 4G a few months ago. My father in law liked it so much, and after hearing the price, ordered two for his kids: 4yo and 12yo. (Kids from his second wife: I'm not married to a 4yo or 12yo).
Anyway, I'm surprised to hear the geeks take the XP version. I'm actually quite happy with the default Xandros install. It even has perl, ruby and python for crying out loud!
Why do you guys keeps calling it "Volkswagon"? It's called "Volkswagen"...
As others have pointed out: this is the exception rather than the rule. I think the typical engine in the EU is 1.4l to 2.2l...
However, the fact that you think this is entirely due to the American idea that a small engine car is worth nothing. A few years ago, I talked to the head of US sales of VW. He said that the only cars that the US customers were willing to buy were the R32 based engine. That's the top of the line in the EU. Heck, they're little racing beasts. Why? Because you can't sell a 1.6l Golf to a US customer.... They will think of it as underpowered.
So, it's been a few years I talked with that guy, but if anything is changing it's only now the gas prices are rising.
What is this "fule" thing you talk about. It sounds great. We could use it to replace "fuel".
True: a good point remains a good point, but bad spelling truly reduces your credibility. It indicates lack of respect for the reader. That's why a resume or motivation letter with a spelling mistake usually ends up filed vertically. (Oh, and I didn't see the AC post, or I would have abstained from commenting on that same mistake.)
There doesn't pass a day that I see these kind of mistakes (that do pass spell checkers, by the way) and it simply hurts to read those comments. Perhaps it's because I'm not a native speaker, I don't know. You should at least take a look at 100 most often misspelled words in English.
The simple rule with writing is: if you have even the faintest doubt, look it up. Often typing "define: $WORDINDOUBT" into Google will already clear it up.
What does the head of a school have to do with that?
Hint: principle vs. principal