Attention to detail and proper syntax have what all to do with spelling and grammar?
Everything. English has syntax rules just as any other language, and being unable to remember and properly apply them (part of what we call "poor grammar") suggests an inability to properly apply syntax rules in general. Likewise, spelling correctly shows that one has the ability and the desire to pay attention to detail, in this case, the detail of standardizing the way a sequence of symbols is organized to denote specific words. If you can't be arsed to write English correctly why should you be trusted to pay proper attention to write code correctly?
I can't speak for everyone, but personally, I have no problem with fucking other men and have in fact done it myself. But those "incidental characteristics" (i.e. being a flamboyant little fairy) are fucking annoying, and plenty of gay men are nothing like that.
Large datasets over the Lan? Oh ya, for sure. Whether it be moving movies over for when the family is traveling, HD streaming... even backing up the sucker. I love my Gigabit, but I could handle faster.
Yeah, but WiFi is at least sufficient for those tasks, especially 802.11n. Backing up I wouldn't know about from experience (I use a FireWire drive) but the incremental backups Time Machine does aren't necessarily that large. And 802.11n (especially at close range) is fast enough that the tradeoff between speed and not having to string cables about is good enough that leaving out the thickness of the Ethernet port and the size of the associated NIC was worthwhile.
Jobs tried (and failed), twice, to market a cube-shaped computer. Although to be fair one of them was large and black and the other one was small, white, and suspended in lucite.
So basically you're moving large datasets over a LAN for whatever reason, and you have to do so faster than WiFi will allow for? I'm not convinced that's a common use case, to be honest.
But a lot of people use the same PC's for 5 years or more - all their stuff is on them, a lot of that stuff is hard to move, and anyway they still usually work fine after that time.
Macs have a feature that basically lets you connect one Mac to another (even wirelessly, at least in the case of the MacBook Air) and transfer all your stuff over automatically. And a MacBook Air will work fine in five years, although you'll either have to pay for battery replacement (costs the same as getting an extra battery) or keep it hooked up to power all the time like any other old notebook.
Probably--it's even too small for a mini-DVI port to work, so they had to use (invent) a micro-DVI port. Apple does have some interesting patents on collapsable ethernet ports but didn't implement it this time.
I think that description better fits people who demand a 17" notebook with two PC card slots, S-Video, full-size DVI, three USB ports, one of each FireWire port, gigabit ethernet, etc. despite the fact that half these things never get used, just as SUV drivers might use four wheel drive only during the winter, only use one out of the three cupholders, and rarely use the ceiling-mounted storage boxes. MacBook Air is more like an electric car--doesn't carry as much, isn't really self-sufficient if you're gonna use it as your only device, costs more than it's really worth at the moment, but is still pretty cool and well-suited for 80% of tasks.
Because I truly need a gigabit connection to my 5 megabit cable modem? I think for everyday use wireless is fine, although for Serious Business there are always applications for wired.
Name one. Korea was called off in midwar and millions of people groan under the yoke of one of the most repressive regeims on the Earth while the people of South Korea live under the constant threat of attack by a certifiable madman. Vietnamn went into the loss column and millions died throughout the region leading to the US finally taking pity on the poor wretches that managed to escape and taking in the few remaining survivors. But for every one of the lucky boat people who made it to our shores how many died? And the blame goes to gutless worms such as yourself.
Had we stayed in Korea or Vietnam, we would have ended up with the same result, but it would have taken longer with more deaths. Vietnam's even a US trading partner at this point in time, and South Korea was successfully and victoriously defended from its invaders. But I was referring more specifically to Napoleon, imperial Japan, etc.--all of whom would still hold vast empires today if they didn't continue the wars they started as long as they did. We can learn from the histories of other countries.
I'm sure you are just a clueless product of governent education so I'll try not to hold it against you.
I'm sure you're a complete asshole, and I will hold it against you. There's no place for that kind of nonsense, and if that's how you address people who disagree with you you'd be an even worse president than I thought.
BUt if you would care to look for yourself you will find there was a healthy debate before wars that you probably figure didn't require any. Yup, even WWI and WWII had fairly large contengients of ignorant peace at any cost asshole such as yourself sitting in the hallowed halls of Congress.
"Fairly large contingents" sitting in Congress? In World War I the vote to declare war on Germany was 373-50, but seeing what entering that war did for Germany, Russia, France, Britain, etc., I can understand that. In World War II, only Jeannette Rankin voted against the declaration of war against Japan, and no one voted against the war declarations against Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. You bring up World War I, which for most participants was a vivid example of why not to get into a war if you don't absolutely need to. Had the rest of Europe not decided to intervene in what was originally an Austrio-Hungarian crackdown on the Serbs in response to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, millions of people would not have been killed, World War II would most probably have never happened either, and, although nothing is for sure, it's highly possible that without the distraction of the war, imperial Russia may have been better equipped to prevent the rise of the communists in Russia.
The difference was that once the debate was finished and the votes counted they understood that the decision was made and that the country would no longer regard continued argument as constructive debate.
Our involvement in World War I only lasted from April 1917 to November 1918, hardly long enough to even grow war weary, and partially because of our involvement, that's when the stalemate broke. In World War II, a considerable propaganda effort was necessary throughout the war to maintain public involvement. Furthermore, the stakes were higher--no one honestly believed, in contrast, that North Vietnam would ever land on the West Coast like the Japanese were planning to. So honestly, you may be right about those few wars a country should involve itself in, but you can't have it both ways. Either you only get into a war when it's a question of national self-preservation, or you accept the fact that some wars are voluntary and that in a democracy, the people have a right to dissent against continuing such a war.
Wrong. There ARE grey areas where judges are faced with conflicting laws, laws that fail to account for a spe
Working class can be ppl that make a decent living, ie. electricians, plumbers, etc.
"Working class" is usually a euphemism for poor laborers. Skilled trademen are pretty much middle class.
My house is paid off, and I earned every dollar honestly....As for me having a shit job at present I am not even working, I am working on my house, looking for the right job, and spending time with friends and family. I am living off my savings, not unemployment.
Congratulations. You're middle class. I'm sure that, for whatever political reasons, you want to feel some affinity for "the working class" but as that term is usually defined, that ain't you.
The majority of Americans are working class, so I would be representing the majority.
Maybe the way you define it. Not that that's a good argument anyway--the majority of Americans are white, after all. "Most" does not mean "all". And even by your definition, what about people who get paid $100,000/yr+ but aren't really multimillionaires? This includes folks like your doctor. People who get paid $100k+ per year aren't all useless. In fact, many of them are quite necessary and difficult to replace if they start leaving the country.
You mean Article I, Section 8. Section 8 gives Congress the power to declare war, too, but there's nothing that says they have to continuously do so every year. Those are enumerated powers, not obligations.
Anchorage has a population density of 164.2/sq mi. New York City has a population density of 27,083/sq mi. San Francisco has a population density of 15,834/sq mi. Los Angeles has a population density of 8,205/sq mi. Seattle has a population density of 6,901/sq mi. Green Bay, Wisconsin has a population density of 2,332.1/sq mi. Port Angeles, Washington has a population density of 347/sq mi. Even Nome has 279.7/sq mi. Exactly how far are you folks lowering the bar for "packed in"?
3. Third, I would require people receiving child support payments to provide itemized receipts on the money spent to those who paid the monthly payments for at least 85% of each monthly payment. (The IRS requires receipts, so why shouldn't the people paying the money get them?)
Close, but not close enough. Either abolish mandatory child support or ban abortion. If mothers get a right to choose so do fathers.
4. Every American citizen's household should be given an American flag who wants one, providing they explain on a form how they shall display it at their residence and understand proper flag respect.
"Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others"?
8. Every American household gets 5 free halogen light bulbs.
Why? This was just so off the wall (more so than the flags) that I just have to ask.
If I had my way, instead of a bunch of legalese that only lawyers can navigate that's full of loop holes and which tends to become totally out of step with reality when any of it's major presumptions change, laws would basically revolve around a statement of intent.
Then when we had court cases instead of a bunch of lawyers talking about loopholes and out of date assumptions, we'd have a simple decision, does the intent of this law cover this and is the intent something we believe in.
Congratulations, you've just reinvented the English common law. Seriously, the idea is that laws are supposed to be a statement of intent. The problem is, "does the intent of this law cover this" is a really, really difficult question when you deal with vague intentions on one hand, and real situations on the other. Jurisprudence is a lot simpler in countries where laws are written more casuistically.
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Everything. English has syntax rules just as any other language, and being unable to remember and properly apply them (part of what we call "poor grammar") suggests an inability to properly apply syntax rules in general. Likewise, spelling correctly shows that one has the ability and the desire to pay attention to detail, in this case, the detail of standardizing the way a sequence of symbols is organized to denote specific words. If you can't be arsed to write English correctly why should you be trusted to pay proper attention to write code correctly?
I am--I'm referencing Slashdot's April Fools' prank of 2006.
I can't speak for everyone, but personally, I have no problem with fucking other men and have in fact done it myself. But those "incidental characteristics" (i.e. being a flamboyant little fairy) are fucking annoying, and plenty of gay men are nothing like that.
I'm glad you folks have abandoned passing out cheaply photocopied propaganda fliers, but I doubt Slashdot is going to work much better for you.
No, my friend--ironically, the joke is on you. GP post was being facetious.
Yeah, but WiFi is at least sufficient for those tasks, especially 802.11n. Backing up I wouldn't know about from experience (I use a FireWire drive) but the incremental backups Time Machine does aren't necessarily that large. And 802.11n (especially at close range) is fast enough that the tradeoff between speed and not having to string cables about is good enough that leaving out the thickness of the Ethernet port and the size of the associated NIC was worthwhile.
Are you kidding? This will help them get to the Ballmer Peak for sure!
Should we expect the next version of MacBook Air to have pink tinted anodized aluminum and an "OMG! Ponies!"-themed version of Mac OS X?
Jobs tried (and failed), twice, to market a cube-shaped computer. Although to be fair one of them was large and black and the other one was small, white, and suspended in lucite.
So basically you're moving large datasets over a LAN for whatever reason, and you have to do so faster than WiFi will allow for? I'm not convinced that's a common use case, to be honest.
Macs have a feature that basically lets you connect one Mac to another (even wirelessly, at least in the case of the MacBook Air) and transfer all your stuff over automatically. And a MacBook Air will work fine in five years, although you'll either have to pay for battery replacement (costs the same as getting an extra battery) or keep it hooked up to power all the time like any other old notebook.
Probably--it's even too small for a mini-DVI port to work, so they had to use (invent) a micro-DVI port. Apple does have some interesting patents on collapsable ethernet ports but didn't implement it this time.
I think that description better fits people who demand a 17" notebook with two PC card slots, S-Video, full-size DVI, three USB ports, one of each FireWire port, gigabit ethernet, etc. despite the fact that half these things never get used, just as SUV drivers might use four wheel drive only during the winter, only use one out of the three cupholders, and rarely use the ceiling-mounted storage boxes. MacBook Air is more like an electric car--doesn't carry as much, isn't really self-sufficient if you're gonna use it as your only device, costs more than it's really worth at the moment, but is still pretty cool and well-suited for 80% of tasks.
Because I truly need a gigabit connection to my 5 megabit cable modem? I think for everyday use wireless is fine, although for Serious Business there are always applications for wired.
I like to think of it as a luxury item, but like the Power Mac Cube, it's probably not going to sell well because of that.
Aren't CD's formatted in ISO9660?
Name one. Korea was called off in midwar and millions of people groan under the yoke of one of the most repressive regeims on the Earth while the people of South Korea live under the constant threat of attack by a certifiable madman. Vietnamn went into the loss column and millions died throughout the region leading to the US finally taking pity on the poor wretches that managed to escape and taking in the few remaining survivors. But for every one of the lucky boat people who made it to our shores how many died? And the blame goes to gutless worms such as yourself.
Had we stayed in Korea or Vietnam, we would have ended up with the same result, but it would have taken longer with more deaths. Vietnam's even a US trading partner at this point in time, and South Korea was successfully and victoriously defended from its invaders. But I was referring more specifically to Napoleon, imperial Japan, etc.--all of whom would still hold vast empires today if they didn't continue the wars they started as long as they did. We can learn from the histories of other countries.
I'm sure you are just a clueless product of governent education so I'll try not to hold it against you.
I'm sure you're a complete asshole, and I will hold it against you. There's no place for that kind of nonsense, and if that's how you address people who disagree with you you'd be an even worse president than I thought.
BUt if you would care to look for yourself you will find there was a healthy debate before wars that you probably figure didn't require any. Yup, even WWI and WWII had fairly large contengients of ignorant peace at any cost asshole such as yourself sitting in the hallowed halls of Congress.
"Fairly large contingents" sitting in Congress? In World War I the vote to declare war on Germany was 373-50, but seeing what entering that war did for Germany, Russia, France, Britain, etc., I can understand that. In World War II, only Jeannette Rankin voted against the declaration of war against Japan, and no one voted against the war declarations against Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. You bring up World War I, which for most participants was a vivid example of why not to get into a war if you don't absolutely need to. Had the rest of Europe not decided to intervene in what was originally an Austrio-Hungarian crackdown on the Serbs in response to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, millions of people would not have been killed, World War II would most probably have never happened either, and, although nothing is for sure, it's highly possible that without the distraction of the war, imperial Russia may have been better equipped to prevent the rise of the communists in Russia.
The difference was that once the debate was finished and the votes counted they understood that the decision was made and that the country would no longer regard continued argument as constructive debate.
Our involvement in World War I only lasted from April 1917 to November 1918, hardly long enough to even grow war weary, and partially because of our involvement, that's when the stalemate broke. In World War II, a considerable propaganda effort was necessary throughout the war to maintain public involvement. Furthermore, the stakes were higher--no one honestly believed, in contrast, that North Vietnam would ever land on the West Coast like the Japanese were planning to. So honestly, you may be right about those few wars a country should involve itself in, but you can't have it both ways. Either you only get into a war when it's a question of national self-preservation, or you accept the fact that some wars are voluntary and that in a democracy, the people have a right to dissent against continuing such a war.
Wrong. There ARE grey areas where judges are faced with conflicting laws, laws that fail to account for a spe
"Working class" is usually a euphemism for poor laborers. Skilled trademen are pretty much middle class.
My house is paid off, and I earned every dollar honestly....As for me having a shit job at present I am not even working, I am working on my house, looking for the right job, and spending time with friends and family. I am living off my savings, not unemployment.Congratulations. You're middle class. I'm sure that, for whatever political reasons, you want to feel some affinity for "the working class" but as that term is usually defined, that ain't you.
The majority of Americans are working class, so I would be representing the majority.Maybe the way you define it. Not that that's a good argument anyway--the majority of Americans are white, after all. "Most" does not mean "all". And even by your definition, what about people who get paid $100,000/yr+ but aren't really multimillionaires? This includes folks like your doctor. People who get paid $100k+ per year aren't all useless. In fact, many of them are quite necessary and difficult to replace if they start leaving the country.
You would make a phone call to the team that lost the Super Bowl??
You mean Article I, Section 8. Section 8 gives Congress the power to declare war, too, but there's nothing that says they have to continuously do so every year. Those are enumerated powers, not obligations.
If you think US dollars are "worthless paper", may I have yours?
Anchorage has a population density of 164.2/sq mi. New York City has a population density of 27,083/sq mi. San Francisco has a population density of 15,834/sq mi. Los Angeles has a population density of 8,205/sq mi. Seattle has a population density of 6,901/sq mi. Green Bay, Wisconsin has a population density of 2,332.1/sq mi. Port Angeles, Washington has a population density of 347/sq mi. Even Nome has 279.7/sq mi. Exactly how far are you folks lowering the bar for "packed in"?
Close, but not close enough. Either abolish mandatory child support or ban abortion. If mothers get a right to choose so do fathers.
4. Every American citizen's household should be given an American flag who wants one, providing they explain on a form how they shall display it at their residence and understand proper flag respect."Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others"?
8. Every American household gets 5 free halogen light bulbs.Why? This was just so off the wall (more so than the flags) that I just have to ask.
I'd represent the needs of everyone if I were you, but I guess being poor and having a shit job makes you more important than others.
Congratulations, you've just reinvented the English common law. Seriously, the idea is that laws are supposed to be a statement of intent. The problem is, "does the intent of this law cover this" is a really, really difficult question when you deal with vague intentions on one hand, and real situations on the other. Jurisprudence is a lot simpler in countries where laws are written more casuistically.