Why use Thunderbird if you've got Mozilla? I thought most people used Firefox/Thunderbird or Mozilla, particularly since Mozilla has difficulty interacting with a seperate mail client. Or did you mean Firefox?
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What's the use of burying the useful options that many users would want in a largely meaningless mess of power-user options? There are a hell of a lot of options in Firefox but mos users will never change any but the simplest. What does your mother want with a pipelining option for instance? about:config is a perfectly useable interface for the more esoteric options.
Well obviously. I was trying to point out that people shouldn't just blindly hit the "next" button. What "next" really means is "I agree to these settings". If you hit next when that checkbox is still checked, it could be described as opting in. As long as the box is obvious enough I don't care.
I had three requirements for a word-processor last year: the ability to easily add complex formulae, the ability to save or export to a near-universal file format, and a price tag of 0. Open Office matched all three.
What's new here? We've known for a long time that eukaryotic cells contain bacteria that do most of the interesting chemical work for us. Chloroplasts in plants are seperate organisms that photosynthesise. Mytochondria, which are so useful in tracing animal lineages, are bacteria inside animal cells that extract energy from sugars and oxygen (they metabolise for us). Termites in Darwin, Australia (known as Darwins termites) don't digest their own food. That's done by prokaryotes in their gut, which themselves are crowded with other tiny critters that do most of their work (propulsion is done by one set of bacteria which are powered by another group).
For an accessible introduction to this kind of symbiosis, see The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins.
I often mod funny comments as insightful if there's any way I can justify it to myself. Funny doesn't boost the karma of the poster, so I go for a mod (usually insightful) that does give the karma. Or maybe they just didn't get it.
Given that you seem to know more about this than I do would you care to enlighten the rest of us as to the numbers of people involved, their ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds and any other pertinent information. Note that references to supporting evidence from the medical community would be hugely worthwhile, as would any hard figures relating to the economic impact of the practice. I genuinely would like to see this, as all I saw at the time was spin and question-dodging from Minister McDowell.
Incidentally, I'm neither a first-year nor an arts student.
Oh dear, you seem to have revealed sensitive information about me to the world at large; information so secret it's freely and easily available to anyone who cares, which, not to devalue myself too much, I suspect doesn't include too many slashdotters. You're also wrong: I know asses from all over Ireland who would say such a thing.
Of course there actually wasn't any extra strain on Ireland's health care system (due to the "teeming masses" of pregnant women innvading the country or somesuch) or any significant number of people using this "trick" to gain citizenship. Basically the government decided to make an issue about something that wasn't having any impact, possibly as a way to get on the good side of the country's racists and xenophobes (not a small group, unfortunately) without really offending the rest of the populace. It passed with a disgustingly wide margin if memory serves.
I did read the f--ing article and besides, I know what Camino is. Why would you think a cross-platform Google browser would be any more native-looking than the cross-platform Mozilla and Firefox? Why would it be a blow to Camino any more than to another browser?
I would contend that the majority of the population of this country (or any other) is intelligent enough to know what a dialer is. The problem is that they are not knowledgeable enough to know what it is, nor should they be required to be.
I hadn't even considered home-schooling in my first post. You're right, it's a logical consequence of my observations. I like the idea of home-schooling, but I think it would have been a bad choice for me, thinking about some parts of my primary-school education. I don't know why people get hung up on the issue of social adjustment. If there's a problem there it can be addressed just as any other problem can be. School is not a golden ticket to social capability either.
School goes too slow for half of people and too fast for the other half. If you're even a little bit above average you're going to find some things a lot easier than many other kids do. That's why education shouldn't be limited to the school. Hell it shouldn't even start in school. I learned to read at home. We had word games, puzzle games, a huge collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, National Geographic. When we went to the zoo we read the signs that tell you about the animals--where they come from ("Mom, where's 'af-far-ika'?"), what they eat, how they live--instead of just gawking at them. Even in university I've learned far more outside of classes than in, entirely outside my area of study. People need to realise that education isn't limited to school. It's there, everywhere, for the taking.
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Why use Thunderbird if you've got Mozilla? I thought most people used Firefox/Thunderbird or Mozilla, particularly since Mozilla has difficulty interacting with a seperate mail client. Or did you mean Firefox?
There are only three. See the Wikipedia article on the Book of Mozilla.
What the hell are you spouting? How can a prime number be a Mersenne composite?
What's the use of burying the useful options that many users would want in a largely meaningless mess of power-user options? There are a hell of a lot of options in Firefox but mos users will never change any but the simplest. What does your mother want with a pipelining option for instance? about:config is a perfectly useable interface for the more esoteric options.
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I would imagine the vast majority of the work involved in developing this is platform-specific, mostly due to the differences in file systems.
So? Slashdot doesn't serve XHTML.
Ther are no exceptions to Postel's Law.
Well obviously. I was trying to point out that people shouldn't just blindly hit the "next" button. What "next" really means is "I agree to these settings". If you hit next when that checkbox is still checked, it could be described as opting in. As long as the box is obvious enough I don't care.
Leaving a visible checkbox checked during install is opting in.
I had three requirements for a word-processor last year: the ability to easily add complex formulae, the ability to save or export to a near-universal file format, and a price tag of 0. Open Office matched all three.
For an accessible introduction to this kind of symbiosis, see The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life by Richard Dawkins.
Bravo! That was wonderfully composed. Top marks, that man.
I often mod funny comments as insightful if there's any way I can justify it to myself. Funny doesn't boost the karma of the poster, so I go for a mod (usually insightful) that does give the karma. Or maybe they just didn't get it.
Given that you seem to know more about this than I do would you care to enlighten the rest of us as to the numbers of people involved, their ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds and any other pertinent information. Note that references to supporting evidence from the medical community would be hugely worthwhile, as would any hard figures relating to the economic impact of the practice. I genuinely would like to see this, as all I saw at the time was spin and question-dodging from Minister McDowell.
Incidentally, I'm neither a first-year nor an arts student.
Oh dear, you seem to have revealed sensitive information about me to the world at large; information so secret it's freely and easily available to anyone who cares, which, not to devalue myself too much, I suspect doesn't include too many slashdotters. You're also wrong: I know asses from all over Ireland who would say such a thing.
Of course there actually wasn't any extra strain on Ireland's health care system (due to the "teeming masses" of pregnant women innvading the country or somesuch) or any significant number of people using this "trick" to gain citizenship. Basically the government decided to make an issue about something that wasn't having any impact, possibly as a way to get on the good side of the country's racists and xenophobes (not a small group, unfortunately) without really offending the rest of the populace. It passed with a disgustingly wide margin if memory serves.
I did read the f--ing article and besides, I know what Camino is. Why would you think a cross-platform Google browser would be any more native-looking than the cross-platform Mozilla and Firefox? Why would it be a blow to Camino any more than to another browser?
How so? Mozilla and Firefox are already available on Mac OS.
When I got my new computer I couldn't find Kazaa Lite on the web. So I got LimeWire and used it to get the Kazaa Lite installer.
I would contend that the majority of the population of this country (or any other) is intelligent enough to know what a dialer is. The problem is that they are not knowledgeable enough to know what it is, nor should they be required to be.
Hey! I find that offensive.
I hadn't even considered home-schooling in my first post. You're right, it's a logical consequence of my observations. I like the idea of home-schooling, but I think it would have been a bad choice for me, thinking about some parts of my primary-school education. I don't know why people get hung up on the issue of social adjustment. If there's a problem there it can be addressed just as any other problem can be. School is not a golden ticket to social capability either.
School goes too slow for half of people and too fast for the other half. If you're even a little bit above average you're going to find some things a lot easier than many other kids do. That's why education shouldn't be limited to the school. Hell it shouldn't even start in school. I learned to read at home. We had word games, puzzle games, a huge collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, National Geographic. When we went to the zoo we read the signs that tell you about the animals--where they come from ("Mom, where's 'af-far-ika'?"), what they eat, how they live--instead of just gawking at them. Even in university I've learned far more outside of classes than in, entirely outside my area of study. People need to realise that education isn't limited to school. It's there, everywhere, for the taking.
Well, um, that wasn't the least bit safe for work (or college). I guess I misjudged the LiveJournal crowd. If only he was a chick. :(