English? Seriously? I didn't learn anything in chemistry in high school that I actually used in any situation other than chemistry in college (and I haven't ever used any of the chemistry I hypothetically learned in college, either). But at least it was interesting, and taught me things about the natural world, even if I've since sadly forgotten most of it due to disuse.
English, on the other hand, was BS. Read a bunch of mostly crappy books that are supposedly important due to the fact mostly that English teachers like them for their unintelligibility, then write a bunch of awful essays on BS prompts, that nobody but a lit prof would want to read even if they were written by other lit profs?
I would argue that history -should- be required, what with the whole "doomed to repeat it" thing (I learned a lot of useful things from at least certain facets of the history curriculum in high school). I'd argue at least some basic physics should be required, other sciences could be electics. Some algebra should definitely required. But English? Luls.
Not implying anything about this particular version of the song, as I haven't listened to it yet, what with being at work, but I feel compelled to quote a great post I read on a forum a number of years ago, on this subject: "Just because someone thinks something isn't good doesn't necessarily mean they think they're better. Just because the guy from Phish can play guitar better than I can doesn't mean they're good."
(For what it's worth, though, even if I do work at a company that doesn't suck, don't really like Fritos, Tab or Mountain Dew, and also have never tended to crush on people who aren't also geeks, which mostly precludes them being office receptionists... I still feel some relation to the protagonist of the song in question, dunno why.)
Mine doesn't either. You could even figure out what it was, if you looked through my slashdot comments enough - someone made a positive post about the company's products some months back, and I said hi on behalf of them.:D
Because Lenovo has never tried to (knowingly or not - I couldn't tell whether it was intentional or just mindboggling incompetence) screw me out of using a warranty I'd purchased by claiming they had no record I'd ever purchased anything from them. Granted, that's because I've never purchased anything from Lenovo, but I don't -yet- have a reason to never purchase anything from them ever again, like I do with HP.
Pretty sure that's how the brain works regardless of whether you're 20, or whether you've "filled up". That's just how it works. You don't use something ever, you forget it, why wouldn't you?
I remember my college frosh physics prof, like 10 years ago, mentioning that this was a possibility. Obviously entirely theoretical how he described it, but then, these guys don't make it sound any less theoretical, either.
My laptop has a 17.4 inch screen, and a full keyboard including number pad. Not really that cramped. Just saying. I certainly wouldn't complain if I could get a better battery in it, though my primary use case for having a laptop is "be able to unplug it while it's on, move it to a different room conveniently, plug it back in and keep using it". Secondary use case is "turn it off, stick it in my backpack, bring it to a friend's house, plug it in, use it." I love the power-to-convenience ratio of desktop replacements, and I can't imagine -those- getting replaced by anything that isn't obviously simply a better, but clearly similar, desktop replacement, anytime soon either.
Minority Report-style UI, as I've generally heard it called the past few years, is a joke. Would be great for games, and perhaps for giving presentations, but who would want it for actually doing work? Stupid people might for a few days, because they imagine it would look cool, until they actually -tried- it and realized what the rest of us already know, that it would suck for actually getting things done quickly. I have nothing against experimental UIs being, well, experimented with, but the mouse and keyboard UI has lasted this long because it -works-.
My best friend from high school is actually working at a little company right now that's trying to exactly that. I tried their beta a few weeks ago and it wasn't that great (their search got me a bunch of crap that wasn't what I searched for mixed in with what I was, and they clearly hadn't indexed the inventories of that many stores in my area), but that -is- basically their goal, and I hope they succeed, because it -would- be a pretty useful thing to have available. I'm blanking on the name of it, sadly.
We are? As far as I've seen, far more people complain about the former, and people complaining about the latter are rarely the same people? Mostly I've just seen people complaining that new Firefox versions the past couple years rarely if ever contain exciting new features, and that as a result it's ridiculous that every minor version update is claimed to be a major version update. The issue is not that it doesn't contain exciting new features, but that its numbering scheme claims that it -does-.
I'm still on Firefox, though, because there are just aren't any good replacements. Yes, Chrome is way faster, but even disregarding Firefox's much better extensibility (if nothing else, Chrome's Greasemonkey is totally crippled, which from what I've heard, is intentional), there are also a large number of things I just don't like about the UI. (Which I suppose also relates to the extensibility; there are things I don't like about FF's UI, too, you can just -fix- them all with various tweaks/addons/etc.)
(Ok, maybe slight exaggeration on 95%. Maybe more like 80%. Powerful enough to play most new games at reasonably good graphics settings, though, which is the primary test for most people.)
As a longtime buyer of devices commonly referred to as "desktop replacement", I would argue that at any given time, you can get laptops that perform at least like 95% as fast as a top of the line desktop - you're just sacrificing some weight and some battery compared to a more standard laptop, and a -tiny- bit of speed compared to an equivalent desktop, and of course the cash. They're still much lighter and infinitely more portable than a real desktop, though.
I'm not arguing your main point, of course, just one of your examples. In fact, if anything it helps your main point: I feel like we'll pretty much always have -all- the various form factors of computing devices we have now, and will just gradually add additional ones. They all have their benefits and drawbacks, from tiny mp3 players to tablets to netbooks to traditional laptops to desktop replacements to desktops to servers to mainframes, and any number of devices in between any of those.
Well, yeah. That's why Leverage is so much fun - after hearing him say that, they set up the guy to commit a bunch of crimes, and think he committed several others, including faking that he killed a guy. Cue ironic echo: "if you or I kill someone, we go to prison? Pretty sure you just killed that guy." (He goes to prison.) Of course, they committed a bunch of crimes in the process, but hey, they're the good guys, they can get away with it* (what with it being fiction and all).
Well, that -is- how it works, sadly... Great quote from this season of Leverage: "I mean, you and I kill a guy, we go to prison... my company kills a guy, we pay a fine."
I -like- the Win95 interface, that's the point. Why should we be forced to use a new interface when the old one, that we're used to, was great? Which is not to say there aren't things that would improve it. I can't live without tabbed file management anymore, for instance, having started using an alternative file manager originally just to get around all the bugs in Win7's native one. But not all changes are improvements, that's the important thing.
I do agree about shutting down, though - unlike file management, I shut down my computer so infrequently that they could make it a huge pain to do, and while I would make fun of them for it, I wouldn't really complain that much.
I was forced into Windows 7 both at home and work. Yes, the Windows 8 not-a-start-menu is dumb, but the Windows 7 start menu is dumb too. Just get classic shell and get on with it. (Well, classic shell, a better file manager, a better search window, a better taskbar... all things that were necessary for Windows 7, too.)
Hm? That's actually a -huge- distinction in the case of evolution or the big bang, if he said that: "all he was taught" about them probably came from his Sunday school and/or ultraconservative pundits, who presumably got all the facts completely wrong. It wouldn't surprise me if "everything he was taught" about evolution and the big bang -was- a lie.
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English? Seriously? I didn't learn anything in chemistry in high school that I actually used in any situation other than chemistry in college (and I haven't ever used any of the chemistry I hypothetically learned in college, either). But at least it was interesting, and taught me things about the natural world, even if I've since sadly forgotten most of it due to disuse.
English, on the other hand, was BS. Read a bunch of mostly crappy books that are supposedly important due to the fact mostly that English teachers like them for their unintelligibility, then write a bunch of awful essays on BS prompts, that nobody but a lit prof would want to read even if they were written by other lit profs?
I would argue that history -should- be required, what with the whole "doomed to repeat it" thing (I learned a lot of useful things from at least certain facets of the history curriculum in high school). I'd argue at least some basic physics should be required, other sciences could be electics. Some algebra should definitely required. But English? Luls.
Did you watch this week's Dexter? A little bit scary to say, but it kind of had a point.
Not implying anything about this particular version of the song, as I haven't listened to it yet, what with being at work, but I feel compelled to quote a great post I read on a forum a number of years ago, on this subject: "Just because someone thinks something isn't good doesn't necessarily mean they think they're better. Just because the guy from Phish can play guitar better than I can doesn't mean they're good."
(For what it's worth, though, even if I do work at a company that doesn't suck, don't really like Fritos, Tab or Mountain Dew, and also have never tended to crush on people who aren't also geeks, which mostly precludes them being office receptionists... I still feel some relation to the protagonist of the song in question, dunno why.)
Mine doesn't either. You could even figure out what it was, if you looked through my slashdot comments enough - someone made a positive post about the company's products some months back, and I said hi on behalf of them. :D
What the frack does that even mean?
No it isn't. It will never get old.
I admit, I'm kinda disappointed in the lack of posts saying things like "those college students are really getting fracked now", etc.
Because Lenovo has never tried to (knowingly or not - I couldn't tell whether it was intentional or just mindboggling incompetence) screw me out of using a warranty I'd purchased by claiming they had no record I'd ever purchased anything from them. Granted, that's because I've never purchased anything from Lenovo, but I don't -yet- have a reason to never purchase anything from them ever again, like I do with HP.
Pretty sure that's how the brain works regardless of whether you're 20, or whether you've "filled up". That's just how it works. You don't use something ever, you forget it, why wouldn't you?
I remember my college frosh physics prof, like 10 years ago, mentioning that this was a possibility. Obviously entirely theoretical how he described it, but then, these guys don't make it sound any less theoretical, either.
My laptop has a 17.4 inch screen, and a full keyboard including number pad. Not really that cramped. Just saying. I certainly wouldn't complain if I could get a better battery in it, though my primary use case for having a laptop is "be able to unplug it while it's on, move it to a different room conveniently, plug it back in and keep using it". Secondary use case is "turn it off, stick it in my backpack, bring it to a friend's house, plug it in, use it." I love the power-to-convenience ratio of desktop replacements, and I can't imagine -those- getting replaced by anything that isn't obviously simply a better, but clearly similar, desktop replacement, anytime soon either.
Minority Report-style UI, as I've generally heard it called the past few years, is a joke. Would be great for games, and perhaps for giving presentations, but who would want it for actually doing work? Stupid people might for a few days, because they imagine it would look cool, until they actually -tried- it and realized what the rest of us already know, that it would suck for actually getting things done quickly. I have nothing against experimental UIs being, well, experimented with, but the mouse and keyboard UI has lasted this long because it -works-.
My best friend from high school is actually working at a little company right now that's trying to exactly that. I tried their beta a few weeks ago and it wasn't that great (their search got me a bunch of crap that wasn't what I searched for mixed in with what I was, and they clearly hadn't indexed the inventories of that many stores in my area), but that -is- basically their goal, and I hope they succeed, because it -would- be a pretty useful thing to have available. I'm blanking on the name of it, sadly.
We are? As far as I've seen, far more people complain about the former, and people complaining about the latter are rarely the same people? Mostly I've just seen people complaining that new Firefox versions the past couple years rarely if ever contain exciting new features, and that as a result it's ridiculous that every minor version update is claimed to be a major version update. The issue is not that it doesn't contain exciting new features, but that its numbering scheme claims that it -does-.
I'm still on Firefox, though, because there are just aren't any good replacements. Yes, Chrome is way faster, but even disregarding Firefox's much better extensibility (if nothing else, Chrome's Greasemonkey is totally crippled, which from what I've heard, is intentional), there are also a large number of things I just don't like about the UI. (Which I suppose also relates to the extensibility; there are things I don't like about FF's UI, too, you can just -fix- them all with various tweaks/addons/etc.)
Neat! I will! Wish I'd learned about that site for their first bundle now...
(Ok, maybe slight exaggeration on 95%. Maybe more like 80%. Powerful enough to play most new games at reasonably good graphics settings, though, which is the primary test for most people.)
As a longtime buyer of devices commonly referred to as "desktop replacement", I would argue that at any given time, you can get laptops that perform at least like 95% as fast as a top of the line desktop - you're just sacrificing some weight and some battery compared to a more standard laptop, and a -tiny- bit of speed compared to an equivalent desktop, and of course the cash. They're still much lighter and infinitely more portable than a real desktop, though.
I'm not arguing your main point, of course, just one of your examples. In fact, if anything it helps your main point: I feel like we'll pretty much always have -all- the various form factors of computing devices we have now, and will just gradually add additional ones. They all have their benefits and drawbacks, from tiny mp3 players to tablets to netbooks to traditional laptops to desktop replacements to desktops to servers to mainframes, and any number of devices in between any of those.
Well, yeah. That's why Leverage is so much fun - after hearing him say that, they set up the guy to commit a bunch of crimes, and think he committed several others, including faking that he killed a guy. Cue ironic echo: "if you or I kill someone, we go to prison? Pretty sure you just killed that guy." (He goes to prison.) Of course, they committed a bunch of crimes in the process, but hey, they're the good guys, they can get away with it* (what with it being fiction and all).
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Well, that -is- how it works, sadly... Great quote from this season of Leverage:
"I mean, you and I kill a guy, we go to prison... my company kills a guy, we pay a fine."
I -like- the Win95 interface, that's the point. Why should we be forced to use a new interface when the old one, that we're used to, was great? Which is not to say there aren't things that would improve it. I can't live without tabbed file management anymore, for instance, having started using an alternative file manager originally just to get around all the bugs in Win7's native one. But not all changes are improvements, that's the important thing.
I do agree about shutting down, though - unlike file management, I shut down my computer so infrequently that they could make it a huge pain to do, and while I would make fun of them for it, I wouldn't really complain that much.
I predict the result of enforcing such a decision would be pigs flying and hell freezing over.
I was forced into Windows 7 both at home and work. Yes, the Windows 8 not-a-start-menu is dumb, but the Windows 7 start menu is dumb too. Just get classic shell and get on with it. (Well, classic shell, a better file manager, a better search window, a better taskbar... all things that were necessary for Windows 7, too.)
Hm? That's actually a -huge- distinction in the case of evolution or the big bang, if he said that: "all he was taught" about them probably came from his Sunday school and/or ultraconservative pundits, who presumably got all the facts completely wrong. It wouldn't surprise me if "everything he was taught" about evolution and the big bang -was- a lie.
But it's been there for a few weeks already.