The 'purists' who spend their time harping on The True Rules, or replying purely to note that somebody has used 'there' instead of 'their' or the reverse, are an utter waste of time.
Yep, because spending a few minutes learning some basic grammar rules is too damn difficult.
Seriously, in what other domain is ignorance of a subject celebrated as much as with a language's grammar? Can you name even one?
For example, on the economic situation, this guy was made the US's top accountant for over a decade, and appointed to posts by both R and D presidents and yet he makes videos that can barely garner 2k views about the situation (since September): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... [youtube.com]
I'd have voted it up if they hadn't disabled comments.
XFCE may look superficially like XP but actually has all sorts of differences that make it irritating as hell to use. Just off the top of my head:
- No decent file explorer. Thunar is abysmal compared to XP's. - Window borders too small, like 1px. Resizing windows is a pain. - Window maximize behaviour is annoying, because you can still drag the window out of fullscreen after it's been maximized, yet dragging it to the top of the screen doesn't automatically fullscreen the window again. - The 2 clipboards, one of which is a "mouse buffer", is so unintuative I would classify it as a bug. Linux desperately needs a unified clipboard. - The start menu (yeah Win8 did away with it but it's bringing it back) is a nightmare. On Windows, its contents can be organized by easily drag/dropping, and generally the programs listing reflects somewhere on the file system. On Linux, no drag/drop,.desktop files all over the place to edit if you want to modify stuff, and the menu editor is broken (like "move up" and "move down" don't work)
Actually, I think the low point was the final episode. The idea of the Borg, a massive hive mind responsible for the destruction of hundreds of civilizations, being defeated by one fucking human woman by infecting them with some virus? What complete and utter BS. Nobody in any of the other civilizations had that idea?
Then stop buying computer monitors that are designed for viewing Hollywood movies and start buying ones that are designed for general-purpose computing.
Weird... I don't understand the problem they're describing in that blog post. Surely JS code can detect when viewport size is modified, and change images accordingly.
Or, future generations will be even lazier than we are and won't think of privacy and true freedom as really desirable things, so they won't mind what we did(n't) do.
I highly doubt Obama evolved his actual attitude on gay marriage. As with most things, we'll never know what Obama really thinks about it. What he evolved was, as you said, his position on it after seeing the way the political wind was blowing. Eich was merely more honest and stuck to his guns instead of pretending he now believed the popular thing.
Yeah but say you build a new PC and install Windows on that, it's a whole new set of hardware talking to MS's servers for updates. Aren't they going to complain about that?
Does that apply if you've already activated on one PC, and want to install it on a new PC? Presumably you have revoke the install on the old PC or something?
Except that it isn't the lifetime of a decade, is it? Microsoft will want you to "upgrade" and pay them more in a year's time, like they did with Vista -> 7 -> 8. And as I mentioned elsewhere, changing my PC hardware means I have to go through some stupid reactivation process.
Well there's also the issue of having to "activate" Windows now. What happens if I build a new PC? I have to go through some crappy procedure to "transfer" my licence onto the new machine... or maybe MS don't even allow that?
I stick with XP for one of my desktops because I put my own hardware together (no OS preinstalled), and I don't want to pay horrific sums of money (£135) for a new operating system - Windows 8 is even more expensive to buy a worthwhile edition of. It's behind my free Debian install which acts as a router+firewall. Works for me.
In Britain, MEP is a very widely-understood initialism so I'm not really finding this joke funny.:-) You Yanks use acronyms all the time anyway, don'tcha?
And now let's take a trip to reality: he doesn't. Most of this lynch mob had probably never even heard of Eich before this shitstorm happened, and if asked what Mozilla's stance on inclusiveness was, would've looked at the attitudes that most Mozilla employees had, and/or looked at their stated stance on their website.
Maybe one of the official responsibilities of a CEO is to represent the values of theri whole company, I'm not sure. If so, it's an idiotic one, and not at all reflective of how in fact sensible people morally judge a company (angry lynchmobs excepted).
Should God wait upon you hand and foot, serving your every whim and desire, preventing any pain of any kind because not to, you would consider evil?
Yes. If got is omnipotent, he can do this for everyone and still do infinitely more. And why would you need to "grow" and "mature" in the ways you describe if there were no evil to worry about? It would be a waste of time, and good riddance. As for learning, that can still be done in a utopia.
Of course, we have yet to see where the religious backlash will lead Britain. Government support of modern faith schools - centres of open indoctrination of children at the same time as their educattion - as well as cretins like Warsi spouting claims that "fundamentalist secularists" are trying to "kick religion out of the public sphere" may result in a misguided widespread sympathy for religion, as if it were being unfairly persecuted instead of frankly still being given far too much credence and privilege.
It's about judgement and respect. You need to be overflowing with both qualities if you want to be a CEO.
Hahahahahahaha. You think Jobs had a lot of respect for other people? You think Ballmer had lots of respect and good judgment??? If anything, these are qualities that American CEOs tend NOT to have, which is why they got to the top of the greasy pole.
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The 'purists' who spend their time harping on The True Rules, or replying purely to note that somebody has used 'there' instead of 'their' or the reverse, are an utter waste of time.
Yep, because spending a few minutes learning some basic grammar rules is too damn difficult.
Seriously, in what other domain is ignorance of a subject celebrated as much as with a language's grammar? Can you name even one?
For example, on the economic situation, this guy was made the US's top accountant for over a decade, and appointed to posts by both R and D presidents and yet he makes videos that can barely garner 2k views about the situation (since September):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... [youtube.com]
I'd have voted it up if they hadn't disabled comments.
Their broke what?
XFCE may look superficially like XP but actually has all sorts of differences that make it irritating as hell to use. Just off the top of my head:
- No decent file explorer. Thunar is abysmal compared to XP's. .desktop files all over the place to edit if you want to modify stuff, and the menu editor is broken (like "move up" and "move down" don't work)
- Window borders too small, like 1px. Resizing windows is a pain.
- Window maximize behaviour is annoying, because you can still drag the window out of fullscreen after it's been maximized, yet dragging it to the top of the screen doesn't automatically fullscreen the window again.
- The 2 clipboards, one of which is a "mouse buffer", is so unintuative I would classify it as a bug. Linux desperately needs a unified clipboard.
- The start menu (yeah Win8 did away with it but it's bringing it back) is a nightmare. On Windows, its contents can be organized by easily drag/dropping, and generally the programs listing reflects somewhere on the file system. On Linux, no drag/drop,
Cinnamon or KDE might be better.
Actually, I think the low point was the final episode. The idea of the Borg, a massive hive mind responsible for the destruction of hundreds of civilizations, being defeated by one fucking human woman by infecting them with some virus? What complete and utter BS. Nobody in any of the other civilizations had that idea?
Then stop buying computer monitors that are designed for viewing Hollywood movies and start buying ones that are designed for general-purpose computing.
Weird... I don't understand the problem they're describing in that blog post. Surely JS code can detect when viewport size is modified, and change images accordingly.
Or, future generations will be even lazier than we are and won't think of privacy and true freedom as really desirable things, so they won't mind what we did(n't) do.
So you're saying they may have been dying out from our gun bullets before we met them?
I highly doubt Obama evolved his actual attitude on gay marriage. As with most things, we'll never know what Obama really thinks about it. What he evolved was, as you said, his position on it after seeing the way the political wind was blowing. Eich was merely more honest and stuck to his guns instead of pretending he now believed the popular thing.
Yeah but say you build a new PC and install Windows on that, it's a whole new set of hardware talking to MS's servers for updates. Aren't they going to complain about that?
How does that work, though? How does MS know you've removed it from the old drive, or do they just trust you?
Yeah but Vista and 8 are such a POS you probably won't want to keep them for 10 years.
Does that apply if you've already activated on one PC, and want to install it on a new PC? Presumably you have revoke the install on the old PC or something?
Except that it isn't the lifetime of a decade, is it? Microsoft will want you to "upgrade" and pay them more in a year's time, like they did with Vista -> 7 -> 8. And as I mentioned elsewhere, changing my PC hardware means I have to go through some stupid reactivation process.
Well there's also the issue of having to "activate" Windows now. What happens if I build a new PC? I have to go through some crappy procedure to "transfer" my licence onto the new machine... or maybe MS don't even allow that?
I stick with XP for one of my desktops because I put my own hardware together (no OS preinstalled), and I don't want to pay horrific sums of money (£135) for a new operating system - Windows 8 is even more expensive to buy a worthwhile edition of. It's behind my free Debian install which acts as a router+firewall. Works for me.
In Britain, MEP is a very widely-understood initialism so I'm not really finding this joke funny. :-) You Yanks use acronyms all the time anyway, don'tcha?
Hahahahahahaha, how do Japanese cut things then? Shinto willpower?
No, but you can pump it up your colon with a garden hose...
And now let's take a trip to reality: he doesn't. Most of this lynch mob had probably never even heard of Eich before this shitstorm happened, and if asked what Mozilla's stance on inclusiveness was, would've looked at the attitudes that most Mozilla employees had, and/or looked at their stated stance on their website.
Maybe one of the official responsibilities of a CEO is to represent the values of theri whole company, I'm not sure. If so, it's an idiotic one, and not at all reflective of how in fact sensible people morally judge a company (angry lynchmobs excepted).
Should God wait upon you hand and foot, serving your every whim and desire, preventing any pain of any kind because not to, you would consider evil?
Yes. If got is omnipotent, he can do this for everyone and still do infinitely more. And why would you need to "grow" and "mature" in the ways you describe if there were no evil to worry about? It would be a waste of time, and good riddance. As for learning, that can still be done in a utopia.
Of course, we have yet to see where the religious backlash will lead Britain. Government support of modern faith schools - centres of open indoctrination of children at the same time as their educattion - as well as cretins like Warsi spouting claims that "fundamentalist secularists" are trying to "kick religion out of the public sphere" may result in a misguided widespread sympathy for religion, as if it were being unfairly persecuted instead of frankly still being given far too much credence and privilege.
It happened to me when I first started visiting Japan and realized that there is a completely different way to look at the world.
Out of interest, what is this "completely different way"? I wasn't aware that Japan's world outlook was THAT different.
It's about judgement and respect. You need to be overflowing with both qualities if you want to be a CEO.
Hahahahahahaha. You think Jobs had a lot of respect for other people? You think Ballmer had lots of respect and good judgment??? If anything, these are qualities that American CEOs tend NOT to have, which is why they got to the top of the greasy pole.