"OpenOffice (or whatever it is called today) is IMHO superior to Microsoft Office."
Opinions vary. I write books. Open/Libre *still* have not corrected a number of notable bugs in Writer. Bugs which do not and have not existed in MS Office, Lotus Word Pro and others I have used. Simple, basic shit like auto cap working correctly or not pulling you away from the page you're looking at because the app did a temporary save. (The two I find most annoying).
"Windows is still dominant because Microsoft uses its monopoly to force manufacturers to charge for it and preinstall it. End of story."
You realize none of those are complete sentences, right? You also forgot the comma following "Of course", changing it from a declaration of your opinion or a witticism into a statement of fact, which it is not.
"Most people use facebook to keep up with real life friends and family..."
Probably 95% of the FB pages I've ever visited listed 50+ friends. No one keeps 50 "real life" friends. Fifty acquaintances, sure. I'm not buying it from *my* personal experience.
I enjoy online play and I really enjoy Plants and Zombies. I've played about the same in each. P&Z is beer, the online I play is wine. Beer will never replace wine.
Let's see.... Three solutions presented as the only three, the first calling for quick application of...something... and the last two stated in such a manner that implies anyone disagreeing with opinion number one is doing so only from a point of extreme apathy or self-interest.
"Fighting climate change is actually a very conservative position."
Bzzzzzzt! Incorrect. That is not at all "a conservative position", much less "a very conservative position". You just pulled that straw right out yer ass. A conservative position would be to acknowledge that climate has always changed, and changed radically. Then to investigate the claims that *this time* it's due to human activity instead of the mechanisms that had done it all those times in the past. *That* would be a conservative position.
"But if we can not agree on that we might have to change ourselves rapidly."
You clearly did not watch the video.... Watch the video before continuing this discussion.
Uh, yeah I did. Fuck yourself, son.
It is not about compiling debugging or error checking, it's about realtime feedback of what you're writing so that you can change it (the intended function) as you go.
And, that concept's been called into question for general use. Please explain how you would provide "realtime feedback" on an inter-bank wire exchange module that requires bank clerk entry, supervisor approval and third-party verification when the "realtime" application isn't even real time. Added bonus: no two banks do it exactly alike.
OK. What I'm getting is that you do in depth analysis, which I do too. You generate some form of road plan, whatever combination of analysis presentation floats your boat. Then you approach the coding.
Unless you have some environment that assembles all your stuff into code, aren't you doing the coding? And, being human, aren't you as prone as anyone to making a trivial mistake, or are you ensconced in an environ suitably able to catch those before compilation/assembly/interpretation?
Just for your analogy's sake, carpenters can and do take a blueprint and construct it wrong. Sometimes the blueprint itself is incorrect.
Thank you for this visual. Truly. I shall periodically sit back and run it today. Then I shall smile.
My mind sees it as a cross between the videos of the Chicago Riots and those geek fight clubs where they basically approach each other backwards waving their weapon wildly.
And of course, being an AC, you felt free to attach the current subject directly to the Holocaust. Debate-wise, you just lost all perspective and therefore, the debate.
Besides that point, you went further and proclaimed both the Germans and Christians as not having opposition to the bad influences, but simply having gone along with it at best.
Then lastly, it was inevitable that you extend the false and vile analogy and proclaim that somehow, you AC, know the hearts of current Christians and wish to enlighten us as to their racism and intimidation.
At best, you are an ass. At worst, the very counter-view representation of the rant you just made.
You don't know how to strop and use a straight-edge? There are whole groups of collectors who will help you.
It wasn't rent seeking, men got tired of the blade maintenance. Disposable blades and electric shavers replaced them. Both used blade replacement instead of maintenance and were seen as much more convenient. Convenient enough that both methods are alive and well almost a hundred years later by consumer choice.
Good friend of mine is in a straight-edge collector's group. He swears by them but I just can't handle the idea of putting a razor-sharp blade to my throat. Doesn't geeb me out, it's just not going to happen.
Same reason we like The Three Stooges, it's happening to someone else. And if there's a strong emotion attached to the occurance, you're more likely to remember it.
That doesn't at all mean that I'd take joy in watching someone actually climb up another's front with pole spikes on like Curly did. But it *does* reinforce the idea that someone scaling your dorsal with spikes isn't a good thing.
Hint: People who actually think server names are so much fun they'll use special software to retain them have their own special problems and their own special needs.
A nice, bland statement that really doesn't apply to much. What would you type on if all computer companies sold their 'expertise' and not their products... or eat, or live in?
And frankly, expertise, in and of itself, is worthless. You have to have something to apply it towards, and that always ends up being material... product.
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"OpenOffice (or whatever it is called today) is IMHO superior to Microsoft Office."
Opinions vary. I write books. Open/Libre *still* have not corrected a number of notable bugs in Writer. Bugs which do not and have not existed in MS Office, Lotus Word Pro and others I have used. Simple, basic shit like auto cap working correctly or not pulling you away from the page you're looking at because the app did a temporary save. (The two I find most annoying).
"Windows is still dominant because Microsoft uses its monopoly to force manufacturers to charge for it and preinstall it. End of story."
FUD. EOS.
Three emulations and a sloppy workaround. Not exactly an inspiring endorsement.
Why exactly, if I'm purchasing a machine to run those applications, do I need an OS that puts an interference layer betwixt me and my work?
"They are ok with literal xenocide...."
Some killed Princess Xena? Noooooo.....
Oh. Just saw the 'o'.
Which leaves me free to call you chickenshit because you posted AC. It's more of a recursive loop.
You *do* realize that an abstract proof doesn't prove a damned thing in real life?
From his site:
"This film bridges the gap between God and Science."
Pretty much have to first prove the existence of God, don't you think?
"Never. Mind. Two words."
You realize none of those are complete sentences, right? You also forgot the comma following "Of course", changing it from a declaration of your opinion or a witticism into a statement of fact, which it is not.
"Most people use facebook to keep up with real life friends and family..."
Probably 95% of the FB pages I've ever visited listed 50+ friends. No one keeps 50 "real life" friends. Fifty acquaintances, sure. I'm not buying it from *my* personal experience.
I enjoy online play and I really enjoy Plants and Zombies. I've played about the same in each. P&Z is beer, the online I play is wine. Beer will never replace wine.
Slanted much?
...something... and the last two stated in such a manner that implies anyone disagreeing with opinion number one is doing so only from a point of extreme apathy or self-interest.
Let's see.... Three solutions presented as the only three, the first calling for quick application of
Yep, slanted much.
"Fighting climate change is actually a very conservative position."
Bzzzzzzt! Incorrect. That is not at all "a conservative position", much less "a very conservative position". You just pulled that straw right out yer ass. A conservative position would be to acknowledge that climate has always changed, and changed radically. Then to investigate the claims that *this time* it's due to human activity instead of the mechanisms that had done it all those times in the past. *That* would be a conservative position.
"But if we can not agree on that we might have to change ourselves rapidly."
Hysteria.
You clearly did not watch the video. ... Watch the video before continuing this discussion.
Uh, yeah I did. Fuck yourself, son.
It is not about compiling debugging or error checking, it's about realtime feedback of what you're writing so that you can change it (the intended function) as you go.
And, that concept's been called into question for general use. Please explain how you would provide "realtime feedback" on an inter-bank wire exchange module that requires bank clerk entry, supervisor approval and third-party verification when the "realtime" application isn't even real time. Added bonus: no two banks do it exactly alike.
OK. What I'm getting is that you do in depth analysis, which I do too. You generate some form of road plan, whatever combination of analysis presentation floats your boat. Then you approach the coding.
Unless you have some environment that assembles all your stuff into code, aren't you doing the coding? And, being human, aren't you as prone as anyone to making a trivial mistake, or are you ensconced in an environ suitably able to catch those before compilation/assembly/interpretation?
Just for your analogy's sake, carpenters can and do take a blueprint and construct it wrong. Sometimes the blueprint itself is incorrect.
It sounded as if you were saying that you always write perfect code. You may not have, but that's what it read like.
You understand that you're responding to someone who is apparently deluded and thinks s/he makes no mistakes.
"I know this looks like a joke, but dance & martial arts disguised as a game would do everyone good."
You mean like Ti Bo?
Thank you for this visual. Truly. I shall periodically sit back and run it today. Then I shall smile.
My mind sees it as a cross between the videos of the Chicago Riots and those geek fight clubs where they basically approach each other backwards waving their weapon wildly.
Guess who wins.
And of course, being an AC, you felt free to attach the current subject directly to the Holocaust. Debate-wise, you just lost all perspective and therefore, the debate.
/. jargon: Project much?
Besides that point, you went further and proclaimed both the Germans and Christians as not having opposition to the bad influences, but simply having gone along with it at best.
Then lastly, it was inevitable that you extend the false and vile analogy and proclaim that somehow, you AC, know the hearts of current Christians and wish to enlighten us as to their racism and intimidation.
At best, you are an ass. At worst, the very counter-view representation of the rant you just made.
To boil that down to
You don't know how to strop and use a straight-edge? There are whole groups of collectors who will help you.
It wasn't rent seeking, men got tired of the blade maintenance. Disposable blades and electric shavers replaced them. Both used blade replacement instead of maintenance and were seen as much more convenient. Convenient enough that both methods are alive and well almost a hundred years later by consumer choice.
Good friend of mine is in a straight-edge collector's group. He swears by them but I just can't handle the idea of putting a razor-sharp blade to my throat. Doesn't geeb me out, it's just not going to happen.
Same reason we like The Three Stooges, it's happening to someone else. And if there's a strong emotion attached to the occurance, you're more likely to remember it.
That doesn't at all mean that I'd take joy in watching someone actually climb up another's front with pole spikes on like Curly did. But it *does* reinforce the idea that someone scaling your dorsal with spikes isn't a good thing.
Basically, relief experienced in the extreme.
Hint: People who actually think server names are so much fun they'll use special software to retain them have their own special problems and their own special needs.
I had one prospective employer ask if I had a FB account. "No. That's just too first grade for me."
Interesting reaction. He really wanted to ask something, but he kind of shut down in three of four steps and went on to something else.
No, I didn't take that job anyway. Other reasons. You can always out-wit the PHBs.
Assertion != Fact
"busted a red light, had mounted the sidewalk earlier"
So it wasn't urgent.
"And English, is that any better than another language?"
Esperanto.
A nice, bland statement that really doesn't apply to much. What would you type on if all computer companies sold their 'expertise' and not their products ... or eat, or live in?
And frankly, expertise, in and of itself, is worthless. You have to have something to apply it towards, and that always ends up being material... product.