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Sorry, buddy, but I'm not going to respond to trollbait any further. If you can't disagree without throwing in every insult you can think of, you're just not worth my time, fuckhead.
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I find it downright amusing that you comment about logical fallacies in my arguments when your entire criticism was based on ad hominem and straw man fallacies. Ad hominem, in that you resort to personal attacks. Straw man, in that I never based my argument on time management, but criticizing people's priorities. Sounds like I hit a nerve, asshole.
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Sounds like these users need a reality check. Don't mod this a troll just because it's harshly critical -- but hey, let's look at this with some perspective: game servers are down for a day or two. In other news, people are dying and others are losing family members in Iraq, or dealing with them coming home either with missing limbs or scarred souls; homeless people in cities all over the country are wondering where their next meal is coming from, and hoping they can stay warm through the night; and that's not even counting the thousands with cancer and other lifethreatening injuries.
Your game network's down? Go pick up a book, and be glad you've got a hand to do it with and aren't facing sniper fire while you do it. Jeez.
Before it does, could an advanced civilisation escape via a "wormhole" into a parallel universe?
Now why would I want to do that? With my luck, I'd wind up in a universe where we had President George W. Bush, instead of Al Gore beginning his second term.
I didn't read it at apple.slashdot.org. I read it at slashdot.org (the front page).
Although I don't discount that as impossible, I find it interesting that I clicked on the "Yesterday's News" link on the front page all the way back to Friday, January 7, and, despite seeing other Apple-related stories (i.e. the cell phone story), I did not see this as featured on the front page.
Furthermore, news stories that appear on the front page have their section before the title, i.e., "Apple: Steve Jobs Burps" or "Your Rights Online: Bush Goes Apeshit," still making the point.
Still, not everything in the Apple category is Apple only. iTunes and QuickTime are both products associated with Apple, but they have Windows versions.
There's such a thing as reasonable assumptions. It's incredibly reasonable to assume that a program featured in the Apple subpage on Slashdot is an application that runs on the Mac. If I go to the Linux subpage on Slashdot, I'm not going to assume that applications described in there run on Windows. Your arguments aren't holding water.
Can anyone advise whether iTunes 4.7.1's AutoFill feature works only for the iPod Shuffle or whether it works for all iPods? It'd be sweet if it took care of my iPod Mini, but given Apple's history of quickly abandoning older generations of iPod users, I wouldn't be surprised if it's not available.
Evidently Apple only offers this feature in association with the iPod Shuffle. Damn it.
I've been happily using their Mailsmith e-mail product for quite some time, and am glad to see this expression of generosity. I'll be able to retire BBEdit Lite now...
I wonder if this will actually be a tsrif tsop or not...
Can anyone advise whether iTunes 4.7.1's AutoFill feature works only for the iPod Shuffle or whether it works for all iPods? It'd be sweet if it took care of my iPod Mini, but given Apple's history of quickly abandoning older generations of iPod users, I wouldn't be surprised if it's not available.
No, given that they're the Fourth Estate's competition, it'd be more like:
"Coming up next: there's a erroneous source of disinformation out on the Internet that could make life dangerous for you, your family and friends. What you need to know, coming up next. But first, reporter Trish Takanawa interviews George Tenet about his new scheme for making the Internet more protected from terrorist attack!"
Wil, I suppose my question for you is: although I recognize that most all of us are prone to it, why does self-doubt seem to still be an especially strong theme in your psyche, at least as I perceive it through your writing?
You seem to doubt yourself a lot, yet you have (at least IMO) strong talents in writing, acting, and comedy, and, most importantly, an extremely loving wife and an amazing relationship with your stepchildren.
As depicted in Dancing Barefoot and Just a Geek, you seem to have already come far in your battle against your inner doubt, yet it seems (again, just through my perception of your writing) that very often minor defeats set you back a considerable ways.
I suppose to those of us who go through life without some of the incredible good fortune you've had (and I speak not of your acting past, but of your loving family and your recognized writing and comedic talents), it is hard to understand why your inner demons appear to still be so strong.
I would like some honest thoughts, and please no "if you vote third party you are throwing away your vote" or "a vote for a third party is really a vote for (insert one of the 2 major party candidates here)" because I just don't believe that.
The way that I have thought about the situation is I don't believe a third party presidency is viable with the current monopoly that the Republicans and Democrats have over the electoral process. When the Commission on Public Debates can exile Nader, Cobb, and Badnarik from the debates and even arrest them as they try to go in and then replace undecided voters with "soft supporters," then unless grassroots efforts are made (and they can indeed be made), we will not see a third-party Presidential candidate win elections in the near future.
So, for the meantime, of course push for approval voting and election reform so that we can vote for third-party candidates without fear of "wasting our vote." But you also must ask yourself: is Bush or Kerry more compatible with the goals of the ______________ Party? And will the absence of your vote help swing the state towards the candidate who is most antithetical to the beliefs of the _________________ Party? That's something you must seriously consider.
Had Nader not run in 2000, for example, it is very possible that a sizeable portion of the Floridians who voted for Nader would have voted for Gore, swinging the state to him. But because they voted third-party, the Presidency swung to someone who is extremely antithetical to Nader's views. (I know that the above statement many will disagree with harshly, and I'm not going to defend it, because others have elsewhere on the 'Net... take it up with them. I don't have the time, sorry.)
I participated in a judicial primary this March in Chicago, trying to help my boss become elected judge. (Republicans choose not to run in the judicial elections, so the primary decided the winner.) Out of 40,000 votes, she won by 57. Especially after 2000, you can't say that single votes don't matter.
So... when the stakes are this high, I am pushing my idealist to the side. For me, I live in Chicago and I (and half a million more) could write in Daffy Duck and not make much difference on our state's electoral votes. But nevertheless, instead of writing in Howard Dean, I'm voting for Kerry, because I just don't feel this is the election to make an idealistic stand with my vote, when the stakes are so very high.
I can respect Republicans. I would have hated the policies of a Dole Presidency from '96 to '00, but I could have nevertheless believed that Dole was an honorable man. Same with McCain. Not with the White House's current occupant.
Also what I find cool are rss feeds of tv listings.
Any you can share?
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At this point, this has become almost as vague a question as asking the Slashdot population if they know of any cool weblogs or cool websites. That slight snark having been made, here's my own blogroll.
That's why you should configure GD to only index your work folders.
How do you do that? I have only seen the ability to exclude directories, and if I could just limit it to certain directories, that'd be incredibly sweet for the purposes I'd like to use it for.
This may be technically correct, but George Washington and John Adams were part of the Federalist party; William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore were Whigs; and John Quincy Adams belonged to no party at all. And let's not forget the Bull Moose Party.
I really think you're pretty far off on this one. On the Republican-mocking side, we've got an obvious sign of a Halliburton-bought presidency, the Supreme Court deciding the 2004 election, a gay John Ashcroft, and a flip-flopping McCain. The folks at Jib Jab seem to really focus much more on the comedy aspects than they do on striking a precisely equal balance of mocking.
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You: Ocean of vitriol.
Me: Dash of ire.
Sorry, buddy, but I'm not going to respond to trollbait any further. If you can't disagree without throwing in every insult you can think of, you're just not worth my time, fuckhead.
I find it downright amusing that you comment about logical fallacies in my arguments when your entire criticism was based on ad hominem and straw man fallacies. Ad hominem, in that you resort to personal attacks. Straw man, in that I never based my argument on time management, but criticizing people's priorities. Sounds like I hit a nerve, asshole.
Sounds like these users need a reality check. Don't mod this a troll just because it's harshly critical -- but hey, let's look at this with some perspective: game servers are down for a day or two. In other news, people are dying and others are losing family members in Iraq, or dealing with them coming home either with missing limbs or scarred souls; homeless people in cities all over the country are wondering where their next meal is coming from, and hoping they can stay warm through the night; and that's not even counting the thousands with cancer and other lifethreatening injuries.
Your game network's down? Go pick up a book, and be glad you've got a hand to do it with and aren't facing sniper fire while you do it. Jeez.
Before it does, could an advanced civilisation escape via a "wormhole" into a parallel universe?
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Now why would I want to do that? With my luck, I'd wind up in a universe where we had President George W. Bush, instead of Al Gore beginning his second term.
Yeesh. What a terrifying concept
I didn't read it at apple.slashdot.org. I read it at slashdot.org (the front page).
Although I don't discount that as impossible, I find it interesting that I clicked on the "Yesterday's News" link on the front page all the way back to Friday, January 7, and, despite seeing other Apple-related stories (i.e. the cell phone story), I did not see this as featured on the front page.
Furthermore, news stories that appear on the front page have their section before the title, i.e., "Apple: Steve Jobs Burps" or "Your Rights Online: Bush Goes Apeshit," still making the point.
Still, not everything in the Apple category is Apple only. iTunes and QuickTime are both products associated with Apple, but they have Windows versions.
There's such a thing as reasonable assumptions. It's incredibly reasonable to assume that a program featured in the Apple subpage on Slashdot is an application that runs on the Mac. If I go to the Linux subpage on Slashdot, I'm not going to assume that applications described in there run on Windows. Your arguments aren't holding water.
The article would have been clearer if the two words "Mac only" had been included.
... finding this news story on http:// APPLE .slashdot.org didn't clue you in?
And, again, I ask you
Evidently Apple only offers this feature in association with the iPod Shuffle. Damn it.
Not exactly a prominent omission for an Apple.Slashdot.Org posting ...
I've been happily using their Mailsmith e-mail product for quite some time, and am glad to see this expression of generosity. I'll be able to retire BBEdit Lite now ...
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I wonder if this will actually be a tsrif tsop or not
Can anyone advise whether iTunes 4.7.1's AutoFill feature works only for the iPod Shuffle or whether it works for all iPods? It'd be sweet if it took care of my iPod Mini, but given Apple's history of quickly abandoning older generations of iPod users, I wouldn't be surprised if it's not available.
(X) Possesses Weapons of Mass Destruction
(X) Possesses 200 Million Man Army
(X) Possesses Cheap/Slave Labor
You forgot the most important one:
( ) Contains Plentiful Oil Reserves
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No, given that they're the Fourth Estate's competition, it'd be more like:
"Coming up next: there's a erroneous source of disinformation out on the Internet that could make life dangerous for you, your family and friends. What you need to know, coming up next. But first, reporter Trish Takanawa interviews George Tenet about his new scheme for making the Internet more protected from terrorist attack!"
Wil, I suppose my question for you is: although I recognize that most all of us are prone to it, why does self-doubt seem to still be an especially strong theme in your psyche, at least as I perceive it through your writing?
You seem to doubt yourself a lot, yet you have (at least IMO) strong talents in writing, acting, and comedy, and, most importantly, an extremely loving wife and an amazing relationship with your stepchildren.
As depicted in Dancing Barefoot and Just a Geek, you seem to have already come far in your battle against your inner doubt, yet it seems (again, just through my perception of your writing) that very often minor defeats set you back a considerable ways.
I suppose to those of us who go through life without some of the incredible good fortune you've had (and I speak not of your acting past, but of your loving family and your recognized writing and comedic talents), it is hard to understand why your inner demons appear to still be so strong.
Is the lone coder dead?
No.
I would like some honest thoughts, and please no "if you vote third party you are throwing away your vote" or "a vote for a third party is really a vote for (insert one of the 2 major party candidates here)" because I just don't believe that.
... take it up with them. I don't have the time, sorry.)
... when the stakes are this high, I am pushing my idealist to the side. For me, I live in Chicago and I (and half a million more) could write in Daffy Duck and not make much difference on our state's electoral votes. But nevertheless, instead of writing in Howard Dean, I'm voting for Kerry, because I just don't feel this is the election to make an idealistic stand with my vote, when the stakes are so very high.
The way that I have thought about the situation is I don't believe a third party presidency is viable with the current monopoly that the Republicans and Democrats have over the electoral process. When the Commission on Public Debates can exile Nader, Cobb, and Badnarik from the debates and even arrest them as they try to go in and then replace undecided voters with "soft supporters," then unless grassroots efforts are made (and they can indeed be made), we will not see a third-party Presidential candidate win elections in the near future.
So, for the meantime, of course push for approval voting and election reform so that we can vote for third-party candidates without fear of "wasting our vote." But you also must ask yourself: is Bush or Kerry more compatible with the goals of the ______________ Party? And will the absence of your vote help swing the state towards the candidate who is most antithetical to the beliefs of the _________________ Party? That's something you must seriously consider.
Had Nader not run in 2000, for example, it is very possible that a sizeable portion of the Floridians who voted for Nader would have voted for Gore, swinging the state to him. But because they voted third-party, the Presidency swung to someone who is extremely antithetical to Nader's views. (I know that the above statement many will disagree with harshly, and I'm not going to defend it, because others have elsewhere on the 'Net
I participated in a judicial primary this March in Chicago, trying to help my boss become elected judge. (Republicans choose not to run in the judicial elections, so the primary decided the winner.) Out of 40,000 votes, she won by 57. Especially after 2000, you can't say that single votes don't matter.
So
I can respect Republicans. I would have hated the policies of a Dole Presidency from '96 to '00, but I could have nevertheless believed that Dole was an honorable man. Same with McCain. Not with the White House's current occupant.
Also what I find cool are rss feeds of tv listings.
Any you can share?
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How do you say Firefox in ASL? And can people really see your hands from so high up?
How do you do that? I have only seen the ability to exclude directories, and if I could just limit it to certain directories, that'd be incredibly sweet for the purposes I'd like to use it for.
RIGHT ON!
A third party has never won.
This may be technically correct, but George Washington and John Adams were part of the Federalist party; William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, and Millard Fillmore were Whigs; and John Quincy Adams belonged to no party at all. And let's not forget the Bull Moose Party.
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I really think you're pretty far off on this one. On the Republican-mocking side, we've got an obvious sign of a Halliburton-bought presidency, the Supreme Court deciding the 2004 election, a gay John Ashcroft, and a flip-flopping McCain. The folks at Jib Jab seem to really focus much more on the comedy aspects than they do on striking a precisely equal balance of mocking.