Exactly. I've got nearly 20 years' experience of Windows - 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, 7. I know where everything is. What I haven't known on upgrading, I've been able to figure out, easily. And it does Just Work.
In contrast, I recently tried to put Ubuntu on a three year old Toshiba laptop. Everything was a struggle - like why have I got so many text editors, which one should I use? - and I never did get the sound working. I'd tried Linux ten years before that, and I'd expected ten years' worth of improvement to have happened in the meantime, but for me, as a regular old user, it was as if nothing had changed, except for the worse. No sound, spotty networking (only now it's wirelessly spotty!), and every so often still being presented with a box to type some command-line crap into (GUI my arse); yes, that's the application not the OS, but no Windows app has ever asked me to type any DOS switches. Not to mention the graphics driver(?) occasionally falling over and dumping the contents of my clipboard across the screen in what different fonts and sizes like a ransom note, that never happened last time. Oh, and no driver for my printer.
Don't get me wrong, I love Ubuntu Server, and the fact that I can throw a CD in, boot up, reboot, and have a working LAMP server is bloody impressive to me. And I don't mind hacking around on the command line to administer it. But for my desktop machine, Linux just isn't there yet. I'm certainly not going to ditch 20 years' worth of familiarity to venture into something that I know I'll need to become way too familiar with in the first week, just to get sound or something equally fundamental.
tl;dr: I use my computer to get things done, not to tinker with my computer.
Very pretty, very functional. Now, rig this thing to fall off and smash when there's movement in the room in the small hours, and we've got a perfect burglar alarm. If you were attacked in the dark by a swarm of angry bees, the whole street would hear you screaming!
And then there are the health benefits. Even if it didn't dissuade any burglars, it'd make you think long and hard about those 3am fridge raids...
Seals seemed to work well enough when I was hanging around gliders. I distinctly remember someone going for a height achievement, and the barograph (old-school, pen on paper drum) being started and wrapped in tape, which was then signed across the joins by several witnesses. The barograph was completely inaccessible in flight anyway, but the simple ideas are often the best.
I don't recall any such precautions for the (film) cameras they used to photograph waypoints on distance attempts, but I suppose it would be significantly harder to fake. With a digital camera, maybe sealing the card slot would be a good idea, but even then you're going to have to get above all the checkpoints somehow, or collude with someone who already has.
Of course, this was all five years before I'd even seen a GPS unit (and that one weighed more than the barograph did), so I've got now idea how it's done now.:)
Curmudgeon maybe, although I'm happy enough to let the neighbours' kids (aged 3 and 5) come round with their dad and "scare" me before they get packed off to bed. Nor do I mind a good prank... and the kids I saw in Glasgow a few Halloweens back, riding the trains - without tickets, naturally - back and forth past their mates' house, shooting bottle rockets from the window while their mates fired back, made me want to join in.:D
But this isn't your typical firecrackers, TP, and dog shit Halloween. We're talking marine distress flares, buses being pelted with bricks, torched cars, every year. And for the commenter who said it must be because I'm so miserable, well, it wasn't my house that got the distress flares last year, my car wasn't among those torched, and I don't own a bus either. It's mindless and random savagery and, in our neighbourhood anyway. a lot of it is by people from outside the area who have no idea who's been a bastard all year. "Other people's good time", around here on Halloween, involves arson and criminal damage. So if I sounded like I was bitching about it, well, I probably was.
Best policy is to hunker down in the dark, keep an eye out, and hope like hell you don't need the fire brigade, because they'll have their hands full. I'm far from the only one on the street who does the same. Actually, we should probably make sure we all have each other's phone numbers, because if something serious does go down none of us will answer the door...
It gets a bit wild around here now and then. But Halloween in the UK, certainly this part of it, is... interesting. I'm so glad I'm moving to a civilised country.:)
...hunkered down in the darkness so the little scrotes don't know I'm here, wishing I had a shotgun to poke through the letterbox.
Halloween seems to give every little thug in the neighbourhood carte blanche to terrorise it, and the ready availability of fireworks thanks to Guy Fawkes' only makes it even more "fun".
When I started getting wrist pains, I got a Comfort 4000, the split one - best thing I've ever done, and it soon taught me which hand I was supposed to type those middle letters with! It was weird and awkward for a couple of weeks, but never painful; after that, it's really helped. I certainly wouldn't bother with the really weird stuff, though; I've seen some truly perverse keyboards out there.
I'm typing this with my laptop on the dining table, and my neck hurts like hell from looking down for as long as I have been. Wrists are hurting too. Really must get this sorted out.
Right now, the Comfort is in work, because the laptop they gave me there has a Finnish keyboard and I can't code on it worth a damn...
Aha, that's it. I moved from the UK to Finland and took my AP with me; ever since I've got here, one of my apps has insisted on putting me at my UK address. I only ever use it at home, under two concrete floors... must try it somewhere else and see what it does.
I'm outside the US and haven't got the time to experiment right now. But from TFA (I know I know) and the screenshot, it just looks like pretty much everything else out there. I don't really see what they've done that's new, other than integrating with their search box.
Personally, I think I'm going to stick with Hipmunk for the moment unless Google can somehow get Ryanair, Easyjet and company in there. Hipmunk's chart-style presentation of the flight results really does work for me, even if it does occasionally trigger MS Project flashbacks.;)
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I'll just come back in a while, when there are more comments bitching about the answer choices. Then I can go over there and ace the thing :D
Exactly. I've got nearly 20 years' experience of Windows - 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, XP, 7. I know where everything is. What I haven't known on upgrading, I've been able to figure out, easily. And it does Just Work.
In contrast, I recently tried to put Ubuntu on a three year old Toshiba laptop. Everything was a struggle - like why have I got so many text editors, which one should I use? - and I never did get the sound working. I'd tried Linux ten years before that, and I'd expected ten years' worth of improvement to have happened in the meantime, but for me, as a regular old user, it was as if nothing had changed, except for the worse. No sound, spotty networking (only now it's wirelessly spotty!), and every so often still being presented with a box to type some command-line crap into (GUI my arse); yes, that's the application not the OS, but no Windows app has ever asked me to type any DOS switches. Not to mention the graphics driver(?) occasionally falling over and dumping the contents of my clipboard across the screen in what different fonts and sizes like a ransom note, that never happened last time. Oh, and no driver for my printer.
Don't get me wrong, I love Ubuntu Server, and the fact that I can throw a CD in, boot up, reboot, and have a working LAMP server is bloody impressive to me. And I don't mind hacking around on the command line to administer it. But for my desktop machine, Linux just isn't there yet. I'm certainly not going to ditch 20 years' worth of familiarity to venture into something that I know I'll need to become way too familiar with in the first week, just to get sound or something equally fundamental.
tl;dr: I use my computer to get things done, not to tinker with my computer.
Very pretty, very functional. Now, rig this thing to fall off and smash when there's movement in the room in the small hours, and we've got a perfect burglar alarm. If you were attacked in the dark by a swarm of angry bees, the whole street would hear you screaming!
And then there are the health benefits. Even if it didn't dissuade any burglars, it'd make you think long and hard about those 3am fridge raids...
The two prisoners and I could see cars freaking driving on the road next door.
SCADA - Several Criminals Are Driving Away
Under TFA: "Amazon Kindle review: the e-reader for the mass market"
Seals seemed to work well enough when I was hanging around gliders. I distinctly remember someone going for a height achievement, and the barograph (old-school, pen on paper drum) being started and wrapped in tape, which was then signed across the joins by several witnesses. The barograph was completely inaccessible in flight anyway, but the simple ideas are often the best.
I don't recall any such precautions for the (film) cameras they used to photograph waypoints on distance attempts, but I suppose it would be significantly harder to fake. With a digital camera, maybe sealing the card slot would be a good idea, but even then you're going to have to get above all the checkpoints somehow, or collude with someone who already has.
Of course, this was all five years before I'd even seen a GPS unit (and that one weighed more than the barograph did), so I've got now idea how it's done now. :)
Ha! :) Actually not far from Liverpool, and moving to Finland.
Curmudgeon maybe, although I'm happy enough to let the neighbours' kids (aged 3 and 5) come round with their dad and "scare" me before they get packed off to bed. Nor do I mind a good prank... and the kids I saw in Glasgow a few Halloweens back, riding the trains - without tickets, naturally - back and forth past their mates' house, shooting bottle rockets from the window while their mates fired back, made me want to join in. :D
But this isn't your typical firecrackers, TP, and dog shit Halloween. We're talking marine distress flares, buses being pelted with bricks, torched cars, every year. And for the commenter who said it must be because I'm so miserable, well, it wasn't my house that got the distress flares last year, my car wasn't among those torched, and I don't own a bus either. It's mindless and random savagery and, in our neighbourhood anyway. a lot of it is by people from outside the area who have no idea who's been a bastard all year. "Other people's good time", around here on Halloween, involves arson and criminal damage. So if I sounded like I was bitching about it, well, I probably was.
Best policy is to hunker down in the dark, keep an eye out, and hope like hell you don't need the fire brigade, because they'll have their hands full. I'm far from the only one on the street who does the same. Actually, we should probably make sure we all have each other's phone numbers, because if something serious does go down none of us will answer the door...
It gets a bit wild around here now and then. But Halloween in the UK, certainly this part of it, is... interesting. I'm so glad I'm moving to a civilised country. :)
...hunkered down in the darkness so the little scrotes don't know I'm here, wishing I had a shotgun to poke through the letterbox.
Halloween seems to give every little thug in the neighbourhood carte blanche to terrorise it, and the ready availability of fireworks thanks to Guy Fawkes' only makes it even more "fun".
Lost what? The video, his mind, his virginity to Steve, what?
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Sorry folks, we're first to file now... you snooze you lose.
Especially now I've patented hitting the snooze button!
...as everyone tries to grab their free apps at once.
the setup that i had at ISS was a swivel chair that had a split keyboard, with a mouse track-pad on one half.
I'm intrigued as to how you managed even to stay in it, what with the weightlessness and all... Duct tape?
When I started getting wrist pains, I got a Comfort 4000, the split one - best thing I've ever done, and it soon taught me which hand I was supposed to type those middle letters with! It was weird and awkward for a couple of weeks, but never painful; after that, it's really helped. I certainly wouldn't bother with the really weird stuff, though; I've seen some truly perverse keyboards out there.
I'm typing this with my laptop on the dining table, and my neck hurts like hell from looking down for as long as I have been. Wrists are hurting too. Really must get this sorted out.
Right now, the Comfort is in work, because the laptop they gave me there has a Finnish keyboard and I can't code on it worth a damn...
I'd just like to see WBC come out...
If the submitter had given the name, the comments would be full of people bitching about slashvertisments.
With bacon from a gay pig!
Meanwhile, here in Oulu it was 8/8 cloud cover and lashing it down...
If the charging point is at my home, it's (probably) my car that's plugged in. But a public point at the railway station or the office?
Are all the charging points now going to have to recognise my car or take a swipe card if I want to be paid? (Cue the 1984 posts.)
This being /., I think he meant to say "ambidextrous". *ducks*
I hand-crafted this comment all by myself and it's worth more than any other on the page. Of course, all the other commenters will disagree...
I seriously doubt that they would have an 18 meter bust
Absolutely! They're meant to be doing science, not wasting my taxes on giant statues!
Aha, that's it. I moved from the UK to Finland and took my AP with me; ever since I've got here, one of my apps has insisted on putting me at my UK address. I only ever use it at home, under two concrete floors... must try it somewhere else and see what it does.
I'm outside the US and haven't got the time to experiment right now. But from TFA (I know I know) and the screenshot, it just looks like pretty much everything else out there. I don't really see what they've done that's new, other than integrating with their search box.
Personally, I think I'm going to stick with Hipmunk for the moment unless Google can somehow get Ryanair, Easyjet and company in there. Hipmunk's chart-style presentation of the flight results really does work for me, even if it does occasionally trigger MS Project flashbacks. ;)
Surely you want nosql in there? New paradigm and all that.