My father, I think, is like most people: he says he's for progress and change, but really just tenaciously sticks with what was installed on his Windows laptop, theorizing, "Microsoft is a huge, successful company, so they must hire great programmers who create great software."
I've given up trying to even convert him to FF & Tbird, although I think he occasionally uses OOo, since the laptop only came with Works, and he sometimes needs to read docx files.
The TSA is required to: 1) enact stricter standards for the screening of airline passengers and baggage; 2) conduct extensive background checks on all airport security personnel; 3) provide the training for and testing of all airport security personnel; and 4) provide uniformed federal officials to supervise the screening of all passengers and baggage at airports.
Next time we conservatives say that government control isn't going to make things any better, please listen!
Imagine if you paid $400 for Photoshop for Linux, but next year it was worthless because the latest kernel wouldn't run it? Wouldn't be very happy then, would you?
You're right: I'd be sorely peeved.
However, Linux strives for userland consistency, so any problems with old programs (like WordPerfect 8) not running are to be blamed on incompatible (glibc, for example) or non-existent (GNOME 1.4, Gtk 1.3) libraries. Gtk2, GNOME2 and glibc6 (is that a Debianism?) have been out long enough, though, that there aren't too many issues like that anymore.
Not that any non-geek would care about the real reason, so "blame it on Linux" is good enough!
I am more likely to trust a peer review from the guys at the LHC, when they talk about their research, than the IPCC folks, when they talk about theirs.
Both cause me puzzlement, since how can a (necessarily imperfect and incomplete) computer model conclusively prove anything???
Either the scientists have too much faith in their own genius, or the Science Now "journalist" doesn't know how to critically think.
Despite all the idiotic yammering about getting sent to Gitmo, Americans can still say the same things they said on 9/10, and travel is but slightly more onerous (now I wear slip-on shoes instead of steel-insert lace-ups). God, that is soooooo fscking inconvenient!!!!
Our government attacked.... Afghanistan, which had nothing to do with the attack on us.
Ummm, yes, it did.
Our liberties are in tatters.
10s of thousands of protestors shouted horrible insults at GWB, and carried signs accusing him of doing and being unspeakable things, but they aren't in Gitmo, or even in jail, beaten up, etc.
Unless you live in Boston, where the police & gov't are idiots, what can't I do now that I couldn't do on 9/10? Not much that I can think of...
Oh, wait: I can't eat decent fried food in NYC, or put up a Christmas decoration in Seattle. Blame that on liberal do-gooders, though, and anti-religionist Governors, not GWB.
Then there's Gilbert Arenas: 6 months in jail for having a gun in his locker??? I'm a middle-class white guy from The South, and thus am supposed to hate blacks, but this is outrageous! That is shredding liberty, and it has nothing to do with GWB.
No, no, no, I'm on the corporal punishment side! (Hopefully, it's just a stinging hand-slap or diapered butt-whack.)
There must be, though, How To books and web sites from the anti-CP crowd with advice...
(This might be a good time to mention why I think Americans are more sensitive to not wanting their children to watching "sex" on TV/movies/games than "violence": kids are born knowing and acting violently, but don't get into the whole "sex" thing until their early/mid-teens. Well, that's how it was until Big Media and Big Fashion hypersexualized society while so many parents abdicated complete control.)
Because the terminal window on your monitor takes less energy to display? Nope, thats not true without using an LED display (not LED backlight, the entire thing has to be LED or it doesn't make a difference).
I've always wondered if a black background uses less energy on an LCD monitor than white.
Not that it would make much difference in my case, since all of my urxvt windows are bg white.
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in a different way, as School Boards denying Evolution.
My father, I think, is like most people: he says he's for progress and change, but really just tenaciously sticks with what was installed on his Windows laptop, theorizing, "Microsoft is a huge, successful company, so they must hire great programmers who create great software."
I've given up trying to even convert him to FF & Tbird, although I think he occasionally uses OOo, since the laptop only came with Works, and he sometimes needs to read docx files.
1) The Eee is hardly a "decently equipped" laptop
It's CPU/RAM/Flash were/are Good Enough for a whole lot of tasks.
2) Windows won't run on ARM
People don't care. They want "familiar".
with around 15 hour real world battery life, anyone who's not a gamer would say "Screw Windows" real quick.
Not likely. "We" had this conversation back when the Eee was first released. Now most netbooks run Windows.
Just a netbook.
I don't see how anyone can effectively word process or net surf on those tiny screens, especially geezers like me.
AbiWord, Gnumeric, FireFox, Thunderbird 2, xterm/ssh, cups, nethack-x11 & WiFi all running on a dual-core ARM with 1GB RAM and an 8GB SSD.
I'd even get them for my (youngish) kids, for their rooms.
Really? Honestly? Or is it just media hype?
After all, most people want their Windows (and I want a 17" 4:3 monitor).
Did you know that pope Joseph Ratzinger was a member of Hitler's Youth Party.
Even if he willingly and gladly joined, so what?
(Some) people grow mentally and morally, realizing the folly of their youth.
But then again why did the Chatholic Church tell the German to vote for Hitler?
Proof? If true, then probably through guile and the hiding of true intentions.
(Once in power, the Nazis disbanded the Catholic Center Party on 5 July 1933.)
No shit, and I have to live here!
I perfectly remember when Democrats and other left-wing idiots brayed continuously that federalizing airport security would make us so much safer because http://www.house.gov/platts/opeds/op_airportsecurity.shtml
Next time we conservatives say that government control isn't going to make things any better, please listen!
meanwhile the real build engineers have to deal with serious shit.
Real Engineers use conditional compilation so they don't have to recompile every single stinking row of code every night.
The left-rear quarter of a medium-height salt-and-pepper hair white guy who, for all we know,
Ah... but perhaps they already have, and it's already out there- it's just that no-one has realised it yet.
400 images have "location of the camera at the time the image was taken" out of 15300. 100 of 15300 have the photographer's name.
You're all getting lathered up over 2.6% and 0.65%????? That's serious overreaction!
Imagine if you paid $400 for Photoshop for Linux, but next year it was worthless because the latest kernel wouldn't run it? Wouldn't be very happy then, would you?
You're right: I'd be sorely peeved.
However, Linux strives for userland consistency, so any problems with old programs (like WordPerfect 8) not running are to be blamed on incompatible (glibc, for example) or non-existent (GNOME 1.4, Gtk 1.3) libraries. Gtk2, GNOME2 and glibc6 (is that a Debianism?) have been out long enough, though, that there aren't too many issues like that anymore.
Not that any non-geek would care about the real reason, so "blame it on Linux" is good enough!
which require more knowledge and abstract thinking than merely knowing what's going in petty party politics in the US.
I think you need to re-watch those MP skits. Many reference events and people from the UK in that time period. In strong accents, to boot.
I am more likely to trust a peer review from the guys at the LHC, when they talk about their research, than the IPCC folks, when they talk about theirs.
Both cause me puzzlement, since how can a (necessarily imperfect and incomplete) computer model conclusively prove anything???
Either the scientists have too much faith in their own genius, or the Science Now "journalist" doesn't know how to critically think.
There are a lot of people complaining, they just have no focus point.
Flash mobs seems pretty effective.
And I'm fairly sure whatever organisation would pop up would immediately be silenced and labeled a terror group.
Unless and until you give evidence of some sort of currently-running COINTELPRO, these are just conspracy rantings.
You're not silenced because you can't say what you want, you're silenced by taking away any possible audience that might hear you.
If your possible audience can't hear you, how do we and millions of others know about it?
Travel, speech, (...) all hit hard.
Despite all the idiotic yammering about getting sent to Gitmo, Americans can still say the same things they said on 9/10, and travel is but slightly more onerous (now I wear slip-on shoes instead of steel-insert lace-ups). God, that is soooooo fscking inconvenient!!!!
Our government attacked.... Afghanistan, which had nothing to do with the attack on us.
Ummm, yes, it did.
Our liberties are in tatters.
10s of thousands of protestors shouted horrible insults at GWB, and carried signs accusing him of doing and being unspeakable things, but they aren't in Gitmo, or even in jail, beaten up, etc.
Unless you live in Boston, where the police & gov't are idiots, what can't I do now that I couldn't do on 9/10? Not much that I can think of...
Oh, wait: I can't eat decent fried food in NYC, or put up a Christmas decoration in Seattle. Blame that on liberal do-gooders, though, and anti-religionist Governors, not GWB.
Then there's Gilbert Arenas: 6 months in jail for having a gun in his locker??? I'm a middle-class white guy from The South, and thus am supposed to hate blacks, but this is outrageous! That is shredding liberty, and it has nothing to do with GWB.
probably just got done
When you finish picking the shit from between your toes, go back to a decent school and learn proper grammar.
The car comes in several colours: white, red, green, black and white.
If you're going to lecture us on grammar, don't make obvious grammatical mistakes. A colon goes after "colours".
TUI isn't otherwise I would have known about it (I've been doing this shit since early 70s)
I've "only" been doing it (academically and professionally) for 25 years.
No, no, no, I'm on the corporal punishment side! (Hopefully, it's just a stinging hand-slap or diapered butt-whack.)
There must be, though, How To books and web sites from the anti-CP crowd with advice...
(This might be a good time to mention why I think Americans are more sensitive to not wanting their children to watching "sex" on TV/movies/games than "violence": kids are born knowing and acting violently, but don't get into the whole "sex" thing until their early/mid-teens. Well, that's how it was until Big Media and Big Fashion hypersexualized society while so many parents abdicated complete control.)
recently invented retronym
For what value of "recent"? 10 years, at least.
CUI, console user interface.
I'm trying to remember what we called the TurboPascal interface, when comparing it to GUIs like the early Macs.
Because the terminal window on your monitor takes less energy to display? Nope, thats not true without using an LED display (not LED backlight, the entire thing has to be LED or it doesn't make a difference).
I've always wondered if a black background uses less energy on an LCD monitor than white.
Not that it would make much difference in my case, since all of my urxvt windows are bg white.
Python/Perl/Ruby would (probably) make your job easier.
Google is still reachable from the CLI
But are the web sites linked to by Google readable using lynx/links2/w3c?