Stupider and stupidest are legitimate comparative and superlative forms of the adjective stupid.
The general rule in English for comparatives and superlatives is -er and -est. If it creates a word that is difficult to read, to pronounce, or to otherwise understand, then resorting to more and most is appropriate.
But you probably just cringed at my split infinitive and beginning a sentence with but and will just crawl back into your pedantic hole in the ground.
I attribute the decline in the U.S. primary education system to the following ills:
Don't forget:
(related to your #1) Teacher's salaries are so low that smart college students won't even consider majoring in education. Our children are, therefore, educated by the mediocre instead of the smartest Americans.
Conservatives in this country are well aware of the problems mentioned, but they do not want to fix them. If they are fixed, then it shows that public education works; conservatives want to convince everyone that public education doesn't work, so they can get rid of it. Once public education is abolished:
The poorest kids in the country will get stupider and poorer, since their parents won't be able to send them to school. Home schooling? Ha! I've met one set of parents in my life that were truly qualified to home-educate kids.
The religious kids will get weirder and wackier since they will go to parochial schools that won't teach proper science and the kids won't learn to deal with people with conflicting beliefs.
The rich will still be smart, since they can afford good schooling.
Dude, congratulations for being one of the 5%* of Americans smart enough to plan for your own future! To the 95% of Americans too stupid to do so: that's right, "f*ck 'em!!"
Ahh, the American Way: don't educate your populace well enough to prepare them for real life, then piss on them for being so stupid.
I estimate the vast majority Americans would choose short-term happiness (spending their whole paycheck every week on crap they don't need) to long-term happiness (saving for returement) any day of the week. And what do poor, destitute old people create: a greater burden on society!!
Wake me up when that vast majority has been educated well enough to make important decisions on their own.
*note: all statistics made up, but probably pretty accurate
It is "standard." In Windows, prefs should be under "Tools, Options." In Gnome, prefs should be under "Edit, Preferences." In MacOSX, it's supposed to be somewhere else (can't remember off the top of my head).
For the few people out there who constantly switch between platforms, it's a little inconvenient. For the majority of users, it's most convenient to put prefs where prefs are supposed to be.
all but the most religious/technical will be calling it "DuNG" in a short while.
Come on, PNG is pronounced "PiNG" so DNG will be pronounced "DiNG." Unless, of course, the format fails miserably, in which case "DuNG" will probably catch on.
First, I would like to know why people would want to listen to studio performances. Most often these are songs sung in a lifeless recording studio, with the singer screaming into a microphone in a tiny room. On top of that, acoustics are dead and lifeless and have to be recreated in postprocessing! There's also the problem with many singers not being all that great of singers, and peforming pretty poorly inside the studio (postprocessing fixing the problems, of course), but that's not true for every singer.
Second, are most studios recordings from the mic mix, or from an actual listener's vantage point? If it was the completely fabricated and unnatural mic mix, I ask again, why would anyone want these things?
Personally, I don't know why studio recordings are sold. I don't think they're worth the money.
Wouldn't that be illegal? Former IE developers recalling knowledge of MS-owned IE code for use in a non-MS product. Only from Microsoft's cold, dead hands....
Each extension must set a "maxVersion," the maximum version the extension is known to be compatible with. Since you can't reliably set a maxVersion higher than the current version, there will always be a period of time when new versions are released that extension authors need to update the maxVersion on their extension.
This does cause a problem if an extension's author abandons the extension. Luckily it's not too hard to edit an extension to change the maxVersion.
And based on other comments, it looks like the option to enable disabled extensions from the Extension Manager has been turned off recently. D'oh! Luckily I re-enabled mine sometime between the 0.10 version push and whenever they disabled re-enabling.
I've kept the same profile since something like 0.7. Just wipe the install folder and reinstall Firefox (takes maybe 2 minutes). All your settings and extensions are still there from the old profile. If an extension gets disabled, go into the extension manager and enable it; if the extension is still compatible (most simple extensions are), nothing will break.
When the phone says "Withheld," hit the button that rejects the call and send it to voicemail.
Yes, it would be nice if it were automatic, but it's not near the importance of your listed #1.
why not find a decent long-distance service that doesn't charge a monthly fee and doesn't rip you off with highly inflated taxes. Not to mention rates that are probably less than your pet 10-10 number.
Something like bigredwire.
And I don't work for them, and I won't get any kickbacks for a referral. How often do you see an unsolicited referral like that?
Actually, important security bugs are not revealed to the public. They are only available to a handful of trusted developers. For some reason, they decided to "unhide" this bug after the fix was checked in for some reason.
Nvu is a standalone WYSIWYG web authoring system based on Mozilla Composer and may become an official Mozilla project in the future. Downloads are available for Linux and Windows. It's still young, but it gets better with every version.
Actually, if you can create a GOOD presentation on transparencies or a chalkboard, you probably would be better off putting the same presentation on a slide show like PowerPoint. That way you can easily edit the presentation without making more transparencies, screwing up pagination, etc. You also don't have to fiddle with loose transparencies or rewriting everything with chalk.
The best notes from teachers I had growing up were the ones who used the spinning roll of transparency film mounted on a projector. In a way this was the "low-tech version" of PowerPoint: premade slides, easily scrollable between pages.
Of course, if you don't have the right type of projector whereever you're giving a presentation it's mostly a moot point anyway. Although you could always just print out transparencies of your PowerPoint presentation slide by slide.
By the way, no one ever said PowerPoint presentation *must* be visually interesting. Focus on making the presentation equal to the hand-made one. If you can make them more visually interesting, however, they will be more memorble and your audience might retain more of the information.
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Doctors have to spend the first 12 years of their life, particularly the senior high ones working their fingers to the bone to achieve high enough results to get into the tertiary institute of their choice.
So do professional musicians.
They then have to spend the next 3 years working their fingers to the bone of theory, the next 4 in practice and field training, the next year in finalisation and then blame!, they are doctors. (not including any refresher courses and various types of experience they need to gain) That's roughly the first 20 years of their life studying and working so they are qualified.
Sounds a lot like what musicians have to go through. Have you ever sat through a music theory course? Then the real world: having to take a couple dozen auditions (if you're lucky) before you ever get a steady job that pays less than a teacher's salary.
You are saying that the relative few who have the intelligence, motivation and resources to help others, spend a good quater of their life studying, the next 60 making decisions daily that decide wether a person lives or dies, and constantly cop flak from pathetic ingrates like you is frivolous and they should get no reward?! Maybe they should all become engineers and make millions, while at the same time let everyone else die, suffer and live a miserable existence?
My post was primarily satire (I wasn't *really* bashing doctors), but the same could be said again about musicians. For the amount of hard work that goes into being able to produce good music, musicians are very underpaid. I realize that not all musicians are college-educated classical musicians whose story matches the descriptions above, but it still requires a lot of work. Even Britney Spears didn't just get up one morning and say "hey! I think I'll be a multi-million dollar pop starlet." And popular music is an exceptional case as far as the money goes. Do you know how much the orchestra musicians that record soundtracks make? How about that clarinet player in all the Zoloft commercials? Did you also know that if they make a mistake they will likely never be hired again in the same town (at least not for quite a while)? At least doctors have malpractice insurance; there's no "wrong-note" insurance for studio musicians.
Just as if all doctors stopped working the world be a much worse place, if all musicians stopped working the world would become less desirable (at least quite boring). If all firefighters stopped working, the world become less desirable. Who decides that doctors make more money than firefighters? Is it training? (No, since musicians require at least as much training) Is it the fact that they save lives? (No, because firefighters also save lives) A lot to ponder....
Notice I didn't comment on any of your rude banter. You seem to be smart enough to figure out what I am not going to say.
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The only way I can get the music business model to adapt to technology is to throw out the recording part and only bother with live music:
As an artist, I could give concerts for a price, and then let everyone have free legal reign over recording the concert and distributing the recordings (for free, of course, because a recording has no value anymore).
If someone wants to pay me more money to record me in a studio setting, that's fine as long as I get paid. They can do what they want with the whiz-bang recording, but they certainly won't get any return on their investment distributing the recording since it has no value.
So my only incentive to make my own recordings is to spur interest in my music enough for people to want to see me live.
So who loses here? Professional recording engineers and record companies. People whose music is not interesting or not performable live (e.g., some electronic music) And me, since most people don't have the time to give a rat's ass about live music.
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Doctors should treat patients because it is helpful and it brings wellness to peoples lives, not for money. Doctors should have real jobs to make money, or make there money entirely from practices. The fact doctors want many for there treatment is a form of prostitution, not of women, but of medical science. I don't charge people when I make them laugh or they have a good time this me. My reward, being more valuable then money, is the knowledge that I elevated this this persons level wellness.
I never said the 14-17 year-olds shouldn't revolt! You'd have a pretty good argument that anyone who is paying taxes should get to vote, regardless of age. It's a hard group, however, to get taken seriously.
The residents of the District of Columbia make a constant murmur about taxation without representation.
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Now was that so hard?
(know thy character entitities: €)
Tantek was a MS employee.
Stupider and stupidest are legitimate comparative and superlative forms of the adjective stupid.
The general rule in English for comparatives and superlatives is -er and -est. If it creates a word that is difficult to read, to pronounce, or to otherwise understand, then resorting to more and most is appropriate.
But you probably just cringed at my split infinitive and beginning a sentence with but and will just crawl back into your pedantic hole in the ground.
Don't forget:
Conservatives in this country are well aware of the problems mentioned, but they do not want to fix them. If they are fixed, then it shows that public education works; conservatives want to convince everyone that public education doesn't work, so they can get rid of it. Once public education is abolished:
Dude, congratulations for being one of the 5%* of Americans smart enough to plan for your own future! To the 95% of Americans too stupid to do so: that's right, "f*ck 'em!!"
Ahh, the American Way: don't educate your populace well enough to prepare them for real life, then piss on them for being so stupid.
I estimate the vast majority Americans would choose short-term happiness (spending their whole paycheck every week on crap they don't need) to long-term happiness (saving for returement) any day of the week. And what do poor, destitute old people create: a greater burden on society!!
Wake me up when that vast majority has been educated well enough to make important decisions on their own.
*note: all statistics made up, but probably pretty accurate
For the few people out there who constantly switch between platforms, it's a little inconvenient. For the majority of users, it's most convenient to put prefs where prefs are supposed to be.
Come on, PNG is pronounced "PiNG" so DNG will be pronounced "DiNG." Unless, of course, the format fails miserably, in which case "DuNG" will probably catch on.
Second, are most studios recordings from the mic mix, or from an actual listener's vantage point? If it was the completely fabricated and unnatural mic mix, I ask again, why would anyone want these things?
Personally, I don't know why studio recordings are sold. I don't think they're worth the money.
This does cause a problem if an extension's author abandons the extension. Luckily it's not too hard to edit an extension to change the maxVersion.
And based on other comments, it looks like the option to enable disabled extensions from the Extension Manager has been turned off recently. D'oh! Luckily I re-enabled mine sometime between the 0.10 version push and whenever they disabled re-enabling.
I've kept the same profile since something like 0.7. Just wipe the install folder and reinstall Firefox (takes maybe 2 minutes). All your settings and extensions are still there from the old profile. If an extension gets disabled, go into the extension manager and enable it; if the extension is still compatible (most simple extensions are), nothing will break.
Why is this so hard for people:
Upgrade Firefox.
Your extensions will get disabled because they have a MaxVersion lower than the Firefox version.
Let it happen. DON'T FREAK OUT.
Go to the extension manager.
Right click all the disabled extensions and select Enable.
Restart Firefox.
Woo hoo. Barring any changes in the code that genuinely make your old extensions incompatible, your world keeps on turning.
Hey! That's the same method I use to measure my penis!
why not find a decent long-distance service that doesn't charge a monthly fee and doesn't rip you off with highly inflated taxes. Not to mention rates that are probably less than your pet 10-10 number. Something like bigredwire. And I don't work for them, and I won't get any kickbacks for a referral. How often do you see an unsolicited referral like that?
Actually, important security bugs are not revealed to the public. They are only available to a handful of trusted developers. For some reason, they decided to "unhide" this bug after the fix was checked in for some reason.
Nvu is a standalone WYSIWYG web authoring system based on Mozilla Composer and may become an official Mozilla project in the future. Downloads are available for Linux and Windows. It's still young, but it gets better with every version.
Actually, a ream was traditionally 480 sheets. A printer's ream is 516 sheets. A 500-sheet ream is pretty much a "metricized" ream.
The best notes from teachers I had growing up were the ones who used the spinning roll of transparency film mounted on a projector. In a way this was the "low-tech version" of PowerPoint: premade slides, easily scrollable between pages.
Of course, if you don't have the right type of projector whereever you're giving a presentation it's mostly a moot point anyway. Although you could always just print out transparencies of your PowerPoint presentation slide by slide.
By the way, no one ever said PowerPoint presentation *must* be visually interesting. Focus on making the presentation equal to the hand-made one. If you can make them more visually interesting, however, they will be more memorble and your audience might retain more of the information.
Go to this site to test the vulnerability.
Just as if all doctors stopped working the world be a much worse place, if all musicians stopped working the world would become less desirable (at least quite boring). If all firefighters stopped working, the world become less desirable. Who decides that doctors make more money than firefighters? Is it training? (No, since musicians require at least as much training) Is it the fact that they save lives? (No, because firefighters also save lives) A lot to ponder....
Notice I didn't comment on any of your rude banter. You seem to be smart enough to figure out what I am not going to say.
The only way I can get the music business model to adapt to technology is to throw out the recording part and only bother with live music:
As an artist, I could give concerts for a price, and then let everyone have free legal reign over recording the concert and distributing the recordings (for free, of course, because a recording has no value anymore).
If someone wants to pay me more money to record me in a studio setting, that's fine as long as I get paid. They can do what they want with the whiz-bang recording, but they certainly won't get any return on their investment distributing the recording since it has no value.
So my only incentive to make my own recordings is to spur interest in my music enough for people to want to see me live.
So who loses here? Professional recording engineers and record companies. People whose music is not interesting or not performable live (e.g., some electronic music) And me, since most people don't have the time to give a rat's ass about live music.
Doctors should treat patients because it is helpful and it brings wellness to peoples lives, not for money. Doctors should have real jobs to make money, or make there money entirely from practices. The fact doctors want many for there treatment is a form of prostitution, not of women, but of medical science. I don't charge people when I make them laugh or they have a good time this me. My reward, being more valuable then money, is the knowledge that I elevated this this persons level wellness.
The residents of the District of Columbia make a constant murmur about taxation without representation.