I've yet to see Vista come up as a net negative for me, after install. Copying files is an atrocity, there's no doubt about it, but the minor upgrades to damn near everything else means Vista is a definite improvement over XP, at least for the ways in which I use it. I can understand other people have different problems. I also understand and accept that people like to bitch about things for twice the amount of time it would take to find their workarounds. Yes, this is a new OS, and yes, you will have to learn how to do things differently. Anyone expecting otherwise is a fool or a moron. And compared to its competition, the question is simple: can you be a hardcore gamer on any other OS than Windows? Not unless you want to spend half your time configuring Cedega or Wine to do your bidding. And as far as I'm concerned, that's the only question that needs answered.
Other people, however, are different, and want different things. They prioritize things differently, and I can accept that. To some, the change in work flow and the requirement on a decent video card and processor may seem like something that should be prosecuted by the World Court as a Crime against Humanity. To me, I expected the former and my computer always has a decent video card and processor, so the bumped up graphics doesn't show any noticeable signs of slowdown at all over XP. After a certain tipping point, you just can't tell which one is faster, though you know it has to be XP as it doesn't have nearly the eye candy or nearly the bloat. There may be a few operations Vista does faster, but again, after a certain point, you don't even notice. Unless you're trying to copy files across your network.
In that case, make your time. All your base are belong to slow copy speeds.
That's fine. Then we fork before the new code goes to that license and we "start" from there.
Yes, it would be an unfortunate situation, but when it comes down to GNU tools (FSF managed) and once-were-GNU-tools (broader Linux community managed), I'm not too terribly concerned.
At the same time, I'd hope it wouldn't come to that.
Why does it have to be all gambling? Why can't it be some gambling?
If you equate gambling with smoking, and you refer to types of gambling (lotteries, horse racing, etc) akin to smoking tobacco, pot, or crack, then isn't it more "gambling on horses" and "gambling on high stakes poker, casino royale style"? Clearly there are degrees here, and it doesn't *always* have to be an all-or-nothing approach. The social universe is rarely all black or all white, but rather a gradient betwixt the two.
All of this is moot, however, as the argument I'm making may, itself, make sense, but let's face it: when do rules, regulations, laws, and treaties ever bother to focus on making sense? We're in the WTO, the WTO says we made a boo boo, so be it.
I still question how you can punish record companies and movie studios for the legislative actions of our government. I don't know how else they would punish the United States of America (state), but it seems very wrong to be punishing a third party. It's like there's a trust with ownership of an apartment building, and since that trust doesn't play fairly with its neighboring apartment complexes, another organization has decided that it's okay for neighboring complex A and neighboring complex B to just go into a tenants apartment and take 21m$ worth of stuff.
Right you are - in my latest reply to the GGP, I changed it to "advertising services or other 3rd party services". It's more accurate anyway. The problem isn't advertisers using it, necessarily, aside from the fact that they're so prevalent. The problem is that *somebody* is using a method that has some pretty serious limitations.
All the same, I was wrong when I called Google Analytics an advertising service. My bad:]
I'm sorry, we must be using different definitions of the word bottleneck, then. My definition says something like "anything that causes the task at hand to slow down or halt". You claim it's the webmasters' fault for not having said JS at the bottom of the page. I claim it's the advertising (or other 3rd party service)'s fault for using JavaScript entirely. One is clearly a limited technology in this particular regard, the other is, you know, standard web design practice (ie: all 's go in the tag and whatnot). How dare those crazy webdevelopers not use a hack to fix a broken delivery method! THEY SHOULD NEVER EXPECT THE SERVICE TO WORK THE WAY IT'S ADVERTISED! for shame!)
Wrong. Ads *are* the bottle neck, especially on vanilla FF. How? Because these calls, made to google analytics from *my* computer, don't get responses. So the whole browser sits and waits, while I stare at a completely blank screen, watching the little bar at the bottom tell me what it's waiting on and where it's trying to get it from.
So, no. JavaScript enhanced advertisement services -do- slow the page rendering down, sometimes bringing it to a screeching halt. The only option is a: AdBlock + filter for google analytics or b: clicking refresh every 30 seconds or so, waiting for google analytics to come back (or a switch somewhere on my route to come back to life).
Although someone mentioned http pipelining turned on in FF. I just did that right now, hopefully it helps:]
Actually, those religious bible bangers just formed their own colony.
Their descendants, however, decided it would be a better idea to form their own country *without* religious requirements enshrined in laws. It was good in theory, but people can never leave well enough alone.
Don't, for a second, think I'm claiming that the only crazies we have are in the south. Believe me, I've got more than a few neighbors who are trying to outdo anything at all many in the south find acceptable. I'm not claiming that.
I am, however, claiming that evangelical christianity, which overwhelmingly (on a congregation by congregation level - i'm sure there are exceptions within each (or even most) congregations) supports the illegalization of immoral acts - is primarily located in the Southern and Midwest states.
I think this image shows something of the breakdown: http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/maps/Largest _Group.jpg
Unfortunately, the majority of crazies I've run across have always been crazy on a religious level. There are a few that are just flat out crazy for non faith-based reasons, but the vast majority I've had to experience are not.
That image is one of the overriding reasons why those of us in the North thinks the "South" is fucking wacko, as a whole. It's not as if we honestly believe *everyone* in the South is batshitfuckingloco, but enough of them are there (relative to other locales) that we want as little to do with the area as possible.
I'm not agreeing with the GP at all, I want to make that clear. However, it's called the bible belt for a reason; that's where a majority of the people who bitch and whine and moan come from.
With that said, anyone who thinks everyone in the south is the same is, without fail, an idiot. It's one thing to be wary of it - to possibly expect it more than you would, say, someone from Japan - but it's quite another to write them all off all up front.
I'm wary of people from Texas. I've never had a good experience with someone from Texas. But Texas is quite a large state, and it would be irresponsible to write the entire state off due to previous bad experiences.
With that said - those people who *are* religious bible bangers can go form their own country. They can split it off, even if it means they get where I live now, and I have to pack up shop and get the fuck out. I'm okay with that. I don't hate them, but I can't see us living together peacefully for very long if they're so hellbent on legislating morality. I'm not saying I don't like religious people - I think they're fine. Sometimes hypocritical, sometimes delightfully *not* hypocritical. I just object to having said religious rules and regulations enforced upon me without any reasonable reason. I thought we were founded on *freedom*, letting people do as they wish provided they're not hurting others or directly costing others money. That's the only principle my countrymen and I need to agree on. Outside of that, they can do whatever they want, whether it's praying 95% of every day and telling me I'm going to hell, or never praying at all, having promiscuous sex, drinking, doing drugs, playing video games, listening to marilyn manson, and reading the aforementioned comic books. If they want to attempt to socially change me, ie: through coercion, then all the best luck to them. Just don't get the government involved, mmkay?
P.S. I was all over the fucking map on that comment. I'm not sure whether it should be modded off topic or not!
I think you fail to realize how really, amazingly, staggeringly huge our *galaxy* is, much less our universe. It is very possible to miss out on being found. Take the modern flu season every year; it passes from person to person very easily and quickly, colonizes the new host, reproduces, and ventures out to new worlds. Yet, even with its extremely quick reproduction rates, not everybody in the US gets the flu every year. Some people don't get it because their immune system manages to whip the snot out of it, but most who don't get it, don't get it because someone who has it doesn't come into contact with them to transfer it.
Clearly this is not the best analogy to make, but the point is there are vast quantities of stars and (assumedly) planetary systems around said stars. We're pretty far out on one of the arms far away from the center of the galaxy. It is still very possible than a civilization with FTL has not yet found us.
Further, "FTL", by the actual phrase, does allow time travel. However, what FTL implies is the transportation of solid matter from one point to another in spacetime. If "FTL" is to exist, it cannot (or so we strongly believe) be related to motion/velocity. It will have to be based upon the bending of spacetime, wormholes, or some other sort of greater-than-4dimensional travel.
Unless, of course, Einstein was "wrong" from an even larger perspective, just as Newton was "wrong". That's the fun of advancing science - even our dearest laws and theories could be lacking if we're able to test them from hitherto unknown perspectives or methods.
However, *relying* on any of this is clearly quite silly. Hypothesizing that "FTL" travel exists and merely waiting for it to happen is a lazy, dangerous approach to advancing colonization of other star systems (much less other galaxies).
That's when you take the brat by the throat and drag him out to the car or ground him for a few months. It's not so hard. Just go into his or her room, remove absolutely everything in that room except for their bed and some clothes, leave them with a non-fiction book or two, and shut the door.
Don't blame me saying "fuck" for your inability to punish your children. This is not a result of society gone awry, it's a result of parents not doing their fucking job.
If you don't feel up to throwing down like this and making your kid "hate" you, then you don't have what it takes to be a parent.
Things don't work that way in the business world. If I'm on the hook to deliver software by a certain date, and I don't, merely saying "it isn't working right now" is not going to make the client go "oh, well, in that case, I WON'T demand my money back / sue you for damages caused to my company." It looks even worse when I'm releasing other COTS software directly linked to the contract in question that is flawless - it can be reasonably deduced that I spent more time working on my COTS solution than working on what I was contractually obligated to provide. Thus, I get raped straight up the ass. Fin.
Look, you're lucky enough that you have choices. Good for you. The overwhelming majority of the US does not. We're not going to all try to fix things on a local level when the majority has a problem all over the US. If this means you get screwed, then so be it; it's for the greater good.
Don't like it? Well... argue about it, by all means. But your words are falling on deaf ears, at best. I'm sorry this upsets you, but overall, frankly, I don't give a fuck.
I enjoy building my computers, and what's more, I love knowing I can build a computer with the same specs and performance of a Mac Pro and it'll cost me half as much to do it. Hell, the best part about getting a new computer is putting all of it together:]
If it weren't for the required hardware purchase, I'd *love* to move to OS X. Unfortunately, I'm not worth the effort to Apple, so my money will stay firmly wedged in my pocket:D
I have no problem with the look and feel, the widgets themselves are fine, and I also have no major problem with the floating windows. I'd prefer that I could toggle between floating and something on the side *in* the canvas window, yes, but it's hardly anything I'd stop using the application for. Complain about, yes, but if it never got changed, it'd be one of those "I wish it were different, but oh well" sorts of things. Like how I wish my washing machine gets blech stuff around the top and I have to scrub it. I complain, yes, but I'm not going to stop washing my clothes because of it.
The UI I'm talking about is not the way it looks, per se. It's the way it is laid out. It is the fact that the tool palette is considered the "main window". It spawns, and it is the key of all the world. It would be like having floating formatting toolbars in a word processor opening, closing, and exporting documents, rather than the window the document appears in. That one tiny, seemingly insignificant thing is huge. It feels wrong. It feels like a binary abomination.
There's something to be said for "doing your own thing". There are legitimate reasons to sometimes "buck the trend", flip off standards, and do it how it makes sense. I'll be honest with you; logically speaking, from a developers' standpoint, putting image manipulation functions (menubar) on the image window makes perfect sense. Allowing your tool palette to free-float makes sense. Making the tool palette the center of the GIMPs existence also makes sense from one perspective (i.e. what's the point in opening an image or some canvas if you're not going to use some tools on it to make it different in some way?) However, if that is the case, why are not ALL image manipulation functions (from the image window menubar) on the tool palette toolbar? What's good for the goose is good for the gander, after all. Unless the image window is open, there is absolutely no reason for you to be selecting tools. What are you going to do with them, draw on your application launcher? That would be appropriate if it worked, but, well, that sort of functionality isn't there (nor am I saying it should be).
It's something so small, but so fundamentally wrong (to me) that it makes everything else feel... off-kilter. Again, I want to make it clear: it's not the look and feel, or theme, or widgets (buttons and the like), or even the dialogs (though I think the file dialogs are a bit too "click happy" to get anything meaningful done, but again, that is minor) - including button placement. It's the menubar layout, and which window is considered the primary one that bugs the shit out of me.
(Offtopic: Also, I swear alot in general; you can't really judge my demeanor (online) by my language. As Lewis Black says, "Fuck isn't even a word to me, it's a comma". Depending on the setting, I may cut it out, or I may not, depending on a: the maturity of the audience and b: said audience's bearing on my life. I don't say it to offend, I don't say it because I think it's cool, nor do I say it because I lack a deeper vocabulary. I say it because it flows. I say it because, in the giant scheme of things, it means nothing more to me than the words "the" or "it". Obviously it *does* mean something when I use it, but just using it (or other words that some consider dirty) does not necessarily mean I'm really, really, really distraught/pissed off about something. It just means I wanted to use it, just like one moment I may decide to say "distraught" instead of "upset". That's all it means to me.:) )
But when you're NOT using a multimonitor display, it's a fucking nightmare trying to arrange things in a useable, friendly manner.
My main "this is fucking stupid" remark is the irritation at having menus for each of the little sub windows. I can handle saying "File->New" on the tool palette, if I absolutely must, but everything fucking else is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Gimp is the ONLY application that EVER does things this way; the only reason I want "Gimp to be like Photoshop" is because at least Photoshop follows the same fucking UI paradigm as the rest of the god damned operating system (or desktop environment). From my novice->intermediate usage of Linux over the years (i.e. I feel comfortable I can install and get Linux to do whatever I want, but it still takes a while sometimes), I haven't found a single fucking program that does similar things to Gimp. I'm not saying they don't exist - I'd be astonished if they didn't, but I am saying the fact that MOST don't work that way is an utterly confusing lack of consistency. If Gimp is so tightly coupled with GTK, and one would assume, Gnome is pretty tightly related to GTK, then you would THINK that consistency across Gnome applications (at least those that come bundled with the vanilla Gnome release) would be pretty in tune with each other. I've not yet seen that to be the case.
That is what irritates me. Gimp will always be an easter egg hunt for me; I only use it at work since I don't have a ripped off version of Photoshop there. I would be okay with that if the UI were at least similar to other UIs on the Gnome DE. But they're not. Not even close.
This is exacerbated even more when you consider the fact that I primarily use GIMP on Windows. I realize the GIMP is targeted primarily for Linux distributions, but to expect people to be happy with a UI paradigm that is utterly foreign to their OS of choice (whether Windows or OSX) is at best silly and ignorant.
Why is it somehow bad to call out a company for a stupid business decision?
I mean, I don't have to buy for them, but I sure as hell don't have to hold back my "they're stupid monkey fucking gutter slut" comments, either.
Plus, it's nice to know for the rest of us. It's nice to know what businesses to avoid if the situation ever comes up.
It's pretty pathetic that you complain about the right to free speech. American Consumers are dumb? I'd say the idiot who bitches about free speech is dumb. But hey, far be it from me to stop you. Even retards are allowed to get their say in. Freedom of speech and all.
I agree with you, but we can't forget... the children.
Jesus Christ I feel dirty just typing that. But for serious this time; there are goinna be some relatively screwed kids out there because of these idiotic bureaucrats. At the same time, however, I didn't elect those idiotic bureaucrats or otherwise make it easy for them to be put in power, so why should me or my kids be punished because of this?
So, under the official guise of not forgetting the children, I say we kill each member of the school system who had a hand in this debacle and harvest their organs. We should at least be able to get the 5 million debt down to some tolerable level, I'd say. Plus we'd all feel really good doing it. It's a public service in more ways than one! Bailing out a school by helping to pay off debts, helping people who require transplants to survive, getting IBM their 5m fee for all the work they've done (maybe we should kill some of the bureaucrats' families and take their organs too, just so we can up the 5m to something larger - you know, account for interest, just in a good faith sort of way), and on top of all that, you have the unparalleled terror for all other officious pricks who can't do their fucking jobs and somehow "lose" and somehow manage not to pay for 5 million dollars worth of equipment. People everywhere will be dropping out of the running for the school board once they find out their fucking lives are on the line.
Sure, it's a little violent and messy, but it's for the greater good, no?
Well, terror implies a much more dramatic occurrence of mere "fear", so how about "fearorist?"
Okay, you're right. I don't like it either. But god dammit, they use terrorist to describe hanging up some mooninite posters, we should at least be able to stretch it THIS far. After all, the word "terrorist" is alot like a prostitute's vagina; it's so stretchy by now you could park your Camry inside and still have room for your passengers to get out.
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I've yet to see Vista come up as a net negative for me, after install. Copying files is an atrocity, there's no doubt about it, but the minor upgrades to damn near everything else means Vista is a definite improvement over XP, at least for the ways in which I use it. I can understand other people have different problems. I also understand and accept that people like to bitch about things for twice the amount of time it would take to find their workarounds. Yes, this is a new OS, and yes, you will have to learn how to do things differently. Anyone expecting otherwise is a fool or a moron. And compared to its competition, the question is simple: can you be a hardcore gamer on any other OS than Windows? Not unless you want to spend half your time configuring Cedega or Wine to do your bidding. And as far as I'm concerned, that's the only question that needs answered. Other people, however, are different, and want different things. They prioritize things differently, and I can accept that. To some, the change in work flow and the requirement on a decent video card and processor may seem like something that should be prosecuted by the World Court as a Crime against Humanity. To me, I expected the former and my computer always has a decent video card and processor, so the bumped up graphics doesn't show any noticeable signs of slowdown at all over XP. After a certain tipping point, you just can't tell which one is faster, though you know it has to be XP as it doesn't have nearly the eye candy or nearly the bloat. There may be a few operations Vista does faster, but again, after a certain point, you don't even notice. Unless you're trying to copy files across your network. In that case, make your time. All your base are belong to slow copy speeds.
But to deny that it wouldn't put a major damper in being able to fund research is naive at best.
That's fine. Then we fork before the new code goes to that license and we "start" from there.
Yes, it would be an unfortunate situation, but when it comes down to GNU tools (FSF managed) and once-were-GNU-tools (broader Linux community managed), I'm not too terribly concerned.
At the same time, I'd hope it wouldn't come to that.
Why does it have to be all gambling? Why can't it be some gambling?
If you equate gambling with smoking, and you refer to types of gambling (lotteries, horse racing, etc) akin to smoking tobacco, pot, or crack, then isn't it more "gambling on horses" and "gambling on high stakes poker, casino royale style"? Clearly there are degrees here, and it doesn't *always* have to be an all-or-nothing approach. The social universe is rarely all black or all white, but rather a gradient betwixt the two.
All of this is moot, however, as the argument I'm making may, itself, make sense, but let's face it: when do rules, regulations, laws, and treaties ever bother to focus on making sense? We're in the WTO, the WTO says we made a boo boo, so be it.
I still question how you can punish record companies and movie studios for the legislative actions of our government. I don't know how else they would punish the United States of America (state), but it seems very wrong to be punishing a third party. It's like there's a trust with ownership of an apartment building, and since that trust doesn't play fairly with its neighboring apartment complexes, another organization has decided that it's okay for neighboring complex A and neighboring complex B to just go into a tenants apartment and take 21m$ worth of stuff.
It just seems to be ridiculously sketchy, to me.
World of Warcraft users who are trying to get the latest patch, for example?
Right you are - in my latest reply to the GGP, I changed it to "advertising services or other 3rd party services". It's more accurate anyway. The problem isn't advertisers using it, necessarily, aside from the fact that they're so prevalent. The problem is that *somebody* is using a method that has some pretty serious limitations.
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All the same, I was wrong when I called Google Analytics an advertising service. My bad
I'm sorry, we must be using different definitions of the word bottleneck, then. My definition says something like "anything that causes the task at hand to slow down or halt". You claim it's the webmasters' fault for not having said JS at the bottom of the page. I claim it's the advertising (or other 3rd party service)'s fault for using JavaScript entirely. One is clearly a limited technology in this particular regard, the other is, you know, standard web design practice (ie: all 's go in the tag and whatnot). How dare those crazy webdevelopers not use a hack to fix a broken delivery method! THEY SHOULD NEVER EXPECT THE SERVICE TO WORK THE WAY IT'S ADVERTISED! for shame!)
Wrong. Ads *are* the bottle neck, especially on vanilla FF. How? Because these calls, made to google analytics from *my* computer, don't get responses. So the whole browser sits and waits, while I stare at a completely blank screen, watching the little bar at the bottom tell me what it's waiting on and where it's trying to get it from.
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So, no. JavaScript enhanced advertisement services -do- slow the page rendering down, sometimes bringing it to a screeching halt. The only option is a: AdBlock + filter for google analytics or b: clicking refresh every 30 seconds or so, waiting for google analytics to come back (or a switch somewhere on my route to come back to life).
Although someone mentioned http pipelining turned on in FF. I just did that right now, hopefully it helps
Actually, those religious bible bangers just formed their own colony.
Their descendants, however, decided it would be a better idea to form their own country *without* religious requirements enshrined in laws. It was good in theory, but people can never leave well enough alone.
Don't, for a second, think I'm claiming that the only crazies we have are in the south. Believe me, I've got more than a few neighbors who are trying to outdo anything at all many in the south find acceptable. I'm not claiming that. I am, however, claiming that evangelical christianity, which overwhelmingly (on a congregation by congregation level - i'm sure there are exceptions within each (or even most) congregations) supports the illegalization of immoral acts - is primarily located in the Southern and Midwest states. I think this image shows something of the breakdown: http://www.glenmary.org/grc/RCMS_2000/maps/Largest _Group.jpg
Unfortunately, the majority of crazies I've run across have always been crazy on a religious level. There are a few that are just flat out crazy for non faith-based reasons, but the vast majority I've had to experience are not.
That image is one of the overriding reasons why those of us in the North thinks the "South" is fucking wacko, as a whole. It's not as if we honestly believe *everyone* in the South is batshitfuckingloco, but enough of them are there (relative to other locales) that we want as little to do with the area as possible.
I'm not agreeing with the GP at all, I want to make that clear. However, it's called the bible belt for a reason; that's where a majority of the people who bitch and whine and moan come from.
With that said, anyone who thinks everyone in the south is the same is, without fail, an idiot. It's one thing to be wary of it - to possibly expect it more than you would, say, someone from Japan - but it's quite another to write them all off all up front.
I'm wary of people from Texas. I've never had a good experience with someone from Texas. But Texas is quite a large state, and it would be irresponsible to write the entire state off due to previous bad experiences.
With that said - those people who *are* religious bible bangers can go form their own country. They can split it off, even if it means they get where I live now, and I have to pack up shop and get the fuck out. I'm okay with that. I don't hate them, but I can't see us living together peacefully for very long if they're so hellbent on legislating morality. I'm not saying I don't like religious people - I think they're fine. Sometimes hypocritical, sometimes delightfully *not* hypocritical. I just object to having said religious rules and regulations enforced upon me without any reasonable reason. I thought we were founded on *freedom*, letting people do as they wish provided they're not hurting others or directly costing others money. That's the only principle my countrymen and I need to agree on. Outside of that, they can do whatever they want, whether it's praying 95% of every day and telling me I'm going to hell, or never praying at all, having promiscuous sex, drinking, doing drugs, playing video games, listening to marilyn manson, and reading the aforementioned comic books. If they want to attempt to socially change me, ie: through coercion, then all the best luck to them. Just don't get the government involved, mmkay?
P.S. I was all over the fucking map on that comment. I'm not sure whether it should be modded off topic or not!
I disconcur on a few points:
I think you fail to realize how really, amazingly, staggeringly huge our *galaxy* is, much less our universe. It is very possible to miss out on being found. Take the modern flu season every year; it passes from person to person very easily and quickly, colonizes the new host, reproduces, and ventures out to new worlds. Yet, even with its extremely quick reproduction rates, not everybody in the US gets the flu every year. Some people don't get it because their immune system manages to whip the snot out of it, but most who don't get it, don't get it because someone who has it doesn't come into contact with them to transfer it.
Clearly this is not the best analogy to make, but the point is there are vast quantities of stars and (assumedly) planetary systems around said stars. We're pretty far out on one of the arms far away from the center of the galaxy. It is still very possible than a civilization with FTL has not yet found us.
Further, "FTL", by the actual phrase, does allow time travel. However, what FTL implies is the transportation of solid matter from one point to another in spacetime. If "FTL" is to exist, it cannot (or so we strongly believe) be related to motion/velocity. It will have to be based upon the bending of spacetime, wormholes, or some other sort of greater-than-4dimensional travel.
Unless, of course, Einstein was "wrong" from an even larger perspective, just as Newton was "wrong". That's the fun of advancing science - even our dearest laws and theories could be lacking if we're able to test them from hitherto unknown perspectives or methods.
However, *relying* on any of this is clearly quite silly. Hypothesizing that "FTL" travel exists and merely waiting for it to happen is a lazy, dangerous approach to advancing colonization of other star systems (much less other galaxies).
Dinner and a movie, for starters.
That's when you take the brat by the throat and drag him out to the car or ground him for a few months. It's not so hard. Just go into his or her room, remove absolutely everything in that room except for their bed and some clothes, leave them with a non-fiction book or two, and shut the door.
Don't blame me saying "fuck" for your inability to punish your children. This is not a result of society gone awry, it's a result of parents not doing their fucking job.
If you don't feel up to throwing down like this and making your kid "hate" you, then you don't have what it takes to be a parent.
Things don't work that way in the business world. If I'm on the hook to deliver software by a certain date, and I don't, merely saying "it isn't working right now" is not going to make the client go "oh, well, in that case, I WON'T demand my money back / sue you for damages caused to my company." It looks even worse when I'm releasing other COTS software directly linked to the contract in question that is flawless - it can be reasonably deduced that I spent more time working on my COTS solution than working on what I was contractually obligated to provide. Thus, I get raped straight up the ass. Fin.
Look, you're lucky enough that you have choices. Good for you. The overwhelming majority of the US does not. We're not going to all try to fix things on a local level when the majority has a problem all over the US. If this means you get screwed, then so be it; it's for the greater good.
Don't like it? Well... argue about it, by all means. But your words are falling on deaf ears, at best. I'm sorry this upsets you, but overall, frankly, I don't give a fuck.
I enjoy building my computers, and what's more, I love knowing I can build a computer with the same specs and performance of a Mac Pro and it'll cost me half as much to do it. Hell, the best part about getting a new computer is putting all of it together :]
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If it weren't for the required hardware purchase, I'd *love* to move to OS X. Unfortunately, I'm not worth the effort to Apple, so my money will stay firmly wedged in my pocket
I have no problem with the look and feel, the widgets themselves are fine, and I also have no major problem with the floating windows. I'd prefer that I could toggle between floating and something on the side *in* the canvas window, yes, but it's hardly anything I'd stop using the application for. Complain about, yes, but if it never got changed, it'd be one of those "I wish it were different, but oh well" sorts of things. Like how I wish my washing machine gets blech stuff around the top and I have to scrub it. I complain, yes, but I'm not going to stop washing my clothes because of it.
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The UI I'm talking about is not the way it looks, per se. It's the way it is laid out. It is the fact that the tool palette is considered the "main window". It spawns, and it is the key of all the world. It would be like having floating formatting toolbars in a word processor opening, closing, and exporting documents, rather than the window the document appears in. That one tiny, seemingly insignificant thing is huge. It feels wrong. It feels like a binary abomination.
There's something to be said for "doing your own thing". There are legitimate reasons to sometimes "buck the trend", flip off standards, and do it how it makes sense. I'll be honest with you; logically speaking, from a developers' standpoint, putting image manipulation functions (menubar) on the image window makes perfect sense. Allowing your tool palette to free-float makes sense. Making the tool palette the center of the GIMPs existence also makes sense from one perspective (i.e. what's the point in opening an image or some canvas if you're not going to use some tools on it to make it different in some way?) However, if that is the case, why are not ALL image manipulation functions (from the image window menubar) on the tool palette toolbar? What's good for the goose is good for the gander, after all. Unless the image window is open, there is absolutely no reason for you to be selecting tools. What are you going to do with them, draw on your application launcher? That would be appropriate if it worked, but, well, that sort of functionality isn't there (nor am I saying it should be).
It's something so small, but so fundamentally wrong (to me) that it makes everything else feel... off-kilter. Again, I want to make it clear: it's not the look and feel, or theme, or widgets (buttons and the like), or even the dialogs (though I think the file dialogs are a bit too "click happy" to get anything meaningful done, but again, that is minor) - including button placement. It's the menubar layout, and which window is considered the primary one that bugs the shit out of me.
(Offtopic: Also, I swear alot in general; you can't really judge my demeanor (online) by my language. As Lewis Black says, "Fuck isn't even a word to me, it's a comma". Depending on the setting, I may cut it out, or I may not, depending on a: the maturity of the audience and b: said audience's bearing on my life. I don't say it to offend, I don't say it because I think it's cool, nor do I say it because I lack a deeper vocabulary. I say it because it flows. I say it because, in the giant scheme of things, it means nothing more to me than the words "the" or "it". Obviously it *does* mean something when I use it, but just using it (or other words that some consider dirty) does not necessarily mean I'm really, really, really distraught/pissed off about something. It just means I wanted to use it, just like one moment I may decide to say "distraught" instead of "upset". That's all it means to me.
But when you're NOT using a multimonitor display, it's a fucking nightmare trying to arrange things in a useable, friendly manner.
My main "this is fucking stupid" remark is the irritation at having menus for each of the little sub windows. I can handle saying "File->New" on the tool palette, if I absolutely must, but everything fucking else is just wrong, wrong, wrong. Gimp is the ONLY application that EVER does things this way; the only reason I want "Gimp to be like Photoshop" is because at least Photoshop follows the same fucking UI paradigm as the rest of the god damned operating system (or desktop environment). From my novice->intermediate usage of Linux over the years (i.e. I feel comfortable I can install and get Linux to do whatever I want, but it still takes a while sometimes), I haven't found a single fucking program that does similar things to Gimp. I'm not saying they don't exist - I'd be astonished if they didn't, but I am saying the fact that MOST don't work that way is an utterly confusing lack of consistency. If Gimp is so tightly coupled with GTK, and one would assume, Gnome is pretty tightly related to GTK, then you would THINK that consistency across Gnome applications (at least those that come bundled with the vanilla Gnome release) would be pretty in tune with each other. I've not yet seen that to be the case.
That is what irritates me. Gimp will always be an easter egg hunt for me; I only use it at work since I don't have a ripped off version of Photoshop there. I would be okay with that if the UI were at least similar to other UIs on the Gnome DE. But they're not. Not even close.
This is exacerbated even more when you consider the fact that I primarily use GIMP on Windows. I realize the GIMP is targeted primarily for Linux distributions, but to expect people to be happy with a UI paradigm that is utterly foreign to their OS of choice (whether Windows or OSX) is at best silly and ignorant.
Maybe he thought that meant they were going to castrate it?
Just a thought...
14.
The minimum age, in some states, is 14. But only then with people no more than 2 years your senior.
IE: A 14 year old can fuck a 16 year old, but a 17 year old? Negatory.
At least, that's how it was in PA a few years ago. I rarely pay attention, but that was the last I heard.
Just an FYI.
Why is it somehow bad to call out a company for a stupid business decision?
I mean, I don't have to buy for them, but I sure as hell don't have to hold back my "they're stupid monkey fucking gutter slut" comments, either.
Plus, it's nice to know for the rest of us. It's nice to know what businesses to avoid if the situation ever comes up.
It's pretty pathetic that you complain about the right to free speech. American Consumers are dumb? I'd say the idiot who bitches about free speech is dumb. But hey, far be it from me to stop you. Even retards are allowed to get their say in. Freedom of speech and all.
I agree with you, but we can't forget ... the children.
Jesus Christ I feel dirty just typing that. But for serious this time; there are goinna be some relatively screwed kids out there because of these idiotic bureaucrats. At the same time, however, I didn't elect those idiotic bureaucrats or otherwise make it easy for them to be put in power, so why should me or my kids be punished because of this?
So, under the official guise of not forgetting the children, I say we kill each member of the school system who had a hand in this debacle and harvest their organs. We should at least be able to get the 5 million debt down to some tolerable level, I'd say. Plus we'd all feel really good doing it. It's a public service in more ways than one! Bailing out a school by helping to pay off debts, helping people who require transplants to survive, getting IBM their 5m fee for all the work they've done (maybe we should kill some of the bureaucrats' families and take their organs too, just so we can up the 5m to something larger - you know, account for interest, just in a good faith sort of way), and on top of all that, you have the unparalleled terror for all other officious pricks who can't do their fucking jobs and somehow "lose" and somehow manage not to pay for 5 million dollars worth of equipment. People everywhere will be dropping out of the running for the school board once they find out their fucking lives are on the line.
Sure, it's a little violent and messy, but it's for the greater good, no?
Well, terror implies a much more dramatic occurrence of mere "fear", so how about "fearorist?"
Okay, you're right. I don't like it either. But god dammit, they use terrorist to describe hanging up some mooninite posters, we should at least be able to stretch it THIS far. After all, the word "terrorist" is alot like a prostitute's vagina; it's so stretchy by now you could park your Camry inside and still have room for your passengers to get out.
I highly doubted Jesus hated anyone. He may have been upset with them and disappointed in their actions, but hatred? Piffleposh.
Hell, I'm an Atheist and even I don't buy the Biggest Hippie Ever didn't hate anyone.