First of all proponents of adding touch typing need to understand the first rule of school curriculums - in order to add something new you must first remove something else.
Is it going to be science? math? Secondly, most people don't need mad speedz typing skillz. I mostly do my typing in LATEX where the amount of information entering my pc is limited by my brain not my fingers. I'm pretty sure it's also true for software developers. Also, I've noticed that most people will eventually develop a touch typing system of their own, maybe not the most efficient but comfortable. I personally use 2-3 fingers touch typing method.
I usually don't fuck around with custom game profiles like trying to force AA on games that don't support it. But I have a SLI setup so working game profiles (the define sli type and compatability flags) is the difference for me between getting 30 fps and 50 fps. Or here's another recent gem. Crysis DRM stopped working, it was trying to read the disk then spitted a cryptic error and failed. Again, after HOURS of googling and pulling out my hair turned out that DRM is incompatible with a system utility you can download from Microsoft. It's called Process Explorer from sysinternals, a firm used to be run by Windows system programming gurus, got bought by MS a few years back. Fucking DRM appatrently thought it was such kind of circumvension software.
Just for fun visit for instance support forums for any recent AAA game an count the number of posts like "SOUND DOESN'T WORK" or "MAJOR ARTEFACTS WITH VIDEO DRIVERS VERSION XXX" or countless variants of such. There are plenty of problems to be had on the Windows side. 190.xx series Nvidia drivers broke custom game profiles on my (and many other's machines), so I've been spending hours on forums researching a fix. It's exactly the shittiness of windows experience that's driving people towards console gaming.
When our systems go down I can yell at our sysadmins and usually get it fixed ASAP. In this case I would be at the mercy of some faceless coroporatiion.
You don't understand what dignity is. Stephen Hawking is completely dependant on outsiders for every bodily function and probably frequently soils his diper. However he doesn't strike me as a man with no dignity.
He is FREE, you are constrained by stereotypes and stupid meaningless rules drilled into you. You maybe squeky clean and project a "professional image" but it's him gathers large crowds because they respect his opinions even if they disagree with him.
Whatever you think of his philosophy, Emacs and GNU toolchain have earned him respect from programmers all over the world. And purhaps his hygine habits don;t appeal to women and yuppy types. I once lived for three days on crumbs that fell out of my keyboard so it doesn't bother me at all.
FSF's idea of freedom is giving me poorly coded, poorly configured, user unfriendly, ugly as hell looking software and expecting me to LIKE it and THANK them because I also get the source code and can beat and mend this mess of wires into something functional. At the same time they are trying to brainwash me by saying that buying well tested, user-friendly, more functional proprietary software will enslave me. Just read RMS's rants on how choosing software based on better features and technical superiority is consumerism and is BAD for me.
What's your obsession with pseudoscience? Not everything is science. I'm scared to think of what you would do if for instance given free reign to edit an article on Islam or Virgin Mary.
So basically Wikipedia is another Britanica, only it's on the Web? Wait a sec, Britannica is already on the Web, so remind me why do we need Wikipedia if it's limited to what was published in traditional journals? I live in Russia, in south-west Siberia and can contribute to the articles on the nature, geography, climate and people of the area much more than what has been written in some journal. Sure Wikipedia has problems but what they did is analogious to cutting your head of to get rid of the headache. Instead of rejecting, they should embrace the knowledge that common people from all over the world can bring due to the power of the Internet.
You could start with defining the "-" operation. Usually as + (-something) with -something being the opposite of something. Then prove that the neutral element "0" exists such as for any member Fuckwad + (-Fuckwad) = 0. Don't forget to prove uniqueness of "0".
It's your definition that goes against common sense. Applying electricity within certain paremeters is painful but not physically damaging so no torture. Or spinning a drill bit within millimiters of your eye - again not torture.
Well, SCO does have actual products. For instance, overhere the gigantic partially state-owned Sberbank (the one that is buying OPEL from GM) is a big customer. In every little village there is a post-office and a Sberbank office, and in every Sberbank office there is a computer. And it runs SCO OpenServer.
I still dont follow the logic. I'm from Russia where black folks are even rarer than in Poland. Yet I don't find anything "unbelievable" in the original photo. It is rasist and insulting that the Polish suffer from cognitive dissonance upon seeing a black guy in the office setting. It's not like it was a polar bear in a suit.
If you read it more carefully, he later adds "If there are hundreds of thousands of linux users playing Quake Live when we are done with Rage". I believe that while the blob has technical and performance issues, the real meat is still , especially after id losing it's independance to Zenimax, is poor ROI on Linux ports. 100000s Linux users playing QL? He KNEW it wasn't remotely realistic by a factor of 10 when he said it.
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Is it OK to mock religion in general, not focusing on any particualr belief?
Next time, try tattooing your contact info on you arms and legs!
First of all proponents of adding touch typing need to understand the first rule of school curriculums - in order to add something new you must first remove something else. Is it going to be science? math? Secondly, most people don't need mad speedz typing skillz. I mostly do my typing in LATEX where the amount of information entering my pc is limited by my brain not my fingers. I'm pretty sure it's also true for software developers. Also, I've noticed that most people will eventually develop a touch typing system of their own, maybe not the most efficient but comfortable. I personally use 2-3 fingers touch typing method.
Obviously, the only way to be safe is to nuke the whole crater from orbit.
I usually don't fuck around with custom game profiles like trying to force AA on games that don't support it. But I have a SLI setup so working game profiles (the define sli type and compatability flags) is the difference for me between getting 30 fps and 50 fps. Or here's another recent gem. Crysis DRM stopped working, it was trying to read the disk then spitted a cryptic error and failed. Again, after HOURS of googling and pulling out my hair turned out that DRM is incompatible with a system utility you can download from Microsoft. It's called Process Explorer from sysinternals, a firm used to be run by Windows system programming gurus, got bought by MS a few years back. Fucking DRM appatrently thought it was such kind of circumvension software.
Just for fun visit for instance support forums for any recent AAA game an count the number of posts like "SOUND DOESN'T WORK" or "MAJOR ARTEFACTS WITH VIDEO DRIVERS VERSION XXX" or countless variants of such. There are plenty of problems to be had on the Windows side. 190.xx series Nvidia drivers broke custom game profiles on my (and many other's machines), so I've been spending hours on forums researching a fix. It's exactly the shittiness of windows experience that's driving people towards console gaming.
When our systems go down I can yell at our sysadmins and usually get it fixed ASAP. In this case I would be at the mercy of some faceless coroporatiion.
some lubricant would be nice...
You don't understand what dignity is. Stephen Hawking is completely dependant on outsiders for every bodily function and probably frequently soils his diper. However he doesn't strike me as a man with no dignity.
Ok, thanks. Now I know for sure that I'm special!
Or that the WWII was won (by the Western "Allies" of course) because AT cracked the Enigma codez is jsut as bad as FSF 7sins campaign.
I'm sorry we hurt your feelings, you can keep your 5th generation fighters to yourself. From now on SU-30MKI is a 6TH GENERATION stealth fighter.
He is FREE, you are constrained by stereotypes and stupid meaningless rules drilled into you. You maybe squeky clean and project a "professional image" but it's him gathers large crowds because they respect his opinions even if they disagree with him.
Whatever you think of his philosophy, Emacs and GNU toolchain have earned him respect from programmers all over the world. And purhaps his hygine habits don;t appeal to women and yuppy types. I once lived for three days on crumbs that fell out of my keyboard so it doesn't bother me at all.
FSF's idea of freedom is giving me poorly coded, poorly configured, user unfriendly, ugly as hell looking software and expecting me to LIKE it and THANK them because I also get the source code and can beat and mend this mess of wires into something functional. At the same time they are trying to brainwash me by saying that buying well tested, user-friendly, more functional proprietary software will enslave me. Just read RMS's rants on how choosing software based on better features and technical superiority is consumerism and is BAD for me.
GPL's idea of sharing - you give me an apple and expect me to give you my whole crop in return.
And you forgot to add that it is thin ice that can not replace thick multi-year ice.
What's your obsession with pseudoscience? Not everything is science. I'm scared to think of what you would do if for instance given free reign to edit an article on Islam or Virgin Mary.
So basically Wikipedia is another Britanica, only it's on the Web? Wait a sec, Britannica is already on the Web, so remind me why do we need Wikipedia if it's limited to what was published in traditional journals? I live in Russia, in south-west Siberia and can contribute to the articles on the nature, geography, climate and people of the area much more than what has been written in some journal. Sure Wikipedia has problems but what they did is analogious to cutting your head of to get rid of the headache. Instead of rejecting, they should embrace the knowledge that common people from all over the world can bring due to the power of the Internet.
You could start with defining the "-" operation. Usually as + (-something) with -something being the opposite of something. Then prove that the neutral element "0" exists such as for any member Fuckwad + (-Fuckwad) = 0. Don't forget to prove uniqueness of "0".
It's your definition that goes against common sense. Applying electricity within certain paremeters is painful but not physically damaging so no torture. Or spinning a drill bit within millimiters of your eye - again not torture.
Purhaps it's death proof.
Well, SCO does have actual products. For instance, overhere the gigantic partially state-owned Sberbank (the one that is buying OPEL from GM) is a big customer. In every little village there is a post-office and a Sberbank office, and in every Sberbank office there is a computer. And it runs SCO OpenServer.
I still dont follow the logic. I'm from Russia where black folks are even rarer than in Poland. Yet I don't find anything "unbelievable" in the original photo. It is rasist and insulting that the Polish suffer from cognitive dissonance upon seeing a black guy in the office setting. It's not like it was a polar bear in a suit.
If you read it more carefully, he later adds "If there are hundreds of thousands of linux users playing Quake Live when we are done with Rage". I believe that while the blob has technical and performance issues, the real meat is still , especially after id losing it's independance to Zenimax, is poor ROI on Linux ports. 100000s Linux users playing QL? He KNEW it wasn't remotely realistic by a factor of 10 when he said it.